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Rookie Rainmaker, Report‑Card Reckoning, and a Crimson Curveball

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Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser break down Kon Knueppel’s rookie three‑point milestone, the latest NFLPA team report cards, and Alabama potentially dropping Ohio State from next year’s schedule....

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The key to this case. It's Before he died he was on a phone argue what's about this might be I hit you want to truth They just want a conviction in place. We were asked We had a killer molks this murder at the you listen now Part of the interruption but I'm Mike Willobon is national polar bear gates only you have a favorite bear

I'm telling you cornheiser Pretty parking. Okay. You got to be bad. No, he just played golf like to offer them I forgive him for double going. I do not know about really

I really let it go. You got the pictures that I sent to you again. How yes, yeah

But I got it better than that. No, it's a nice kid. I don't know. Did the

You played golf the kid will say that's what I don't want to greatest at the whole time

I'll tell you about that. Welcome to T.I. Boys and girls at today's episode and if they'll play his right-fear teams Ohio State dares Alabama to drop it from his schedule and Charles Barkley joins us the five good minutes But we begin today with con canip the Charlotte Hornets rookie wing who last night made eight three pointers Giving him 209 threes made this season best in the NBA and a record ever for rookies The old-working record was 206 by Keegan Murray of Sacramento four years ago who took 80 games to get there

Caniple has played 59 will bond con caniple's milestone big deal riddle deal low deal The milestone itself is is a deal mid deal But what Kirk and I was doing this season as a rookie is a big deal It's such a big deal to me one like a lot of people I've started paying attention and then even watching the Charlotte Hornets play Because of the way they play yes the hell in the little ball who's exciting

But he was exciting in just a empty calories way before Now 20 with caniple out there. I'm taking this. You know, I've vote for postseason where regular season awards Right now he would be my rookie of the year ahead of his Duke teammate Who I know is a bigger deal has numbers in lots of categories, and it's not been a disappointment not all It always starts

But no nipple does not have the ball in his hands. Yeah, cuz ball has it in his hands and yet When he touches it, he is fire. He shoot in 44% from three that team is viable and he's the difference So well, yes, he appears to be the difference last year Charlotte was nineteen and sixty three they already have 29 wins And they have twenty two games left to go. He is a bigger He cannot make a judgment as to how big a deal is his right now

You have to wait for a few years for example the guy will held the record

Kicking Murray right now. We average is 14 points again for Sacramento. That's fine. That's but it's not all storm level Right and he has not made 200 threes in any season since that he doesn't really have an impact on the game This kid does like you. I was fixated last year on On Duke on Cooper flag and and look when can Apple went fourth overall on the draft I was surprised and I thought that was maybe too high

But look as as we're saying what he has done look at the wins and the losses I'm gonna say something. I don't need it to be sacrilegious. I don't Because Cooper flag is going to be a great great player What if this kid ends up being Jerry West what if he ends up being Mr. Quest and what if he shoots that well? This is he is leading the NBA in made threes right now

He's ahead of step Curry. It's the only name I want to mention and I want to mention it for a reason and by the way 44 point two percent he can shoot on Mike nobody's gonna tell him not right He's the next generation step Curry He's the child of step Curry. The game has changed step Curry chase a ball and more than anybody This kid reminds me of a young Chris Mullin. Okay, okay

We've been in cranges deeper for everybody now. Now we have a commitment. I saw him play like like a new or something It was at you and that's just what we're thinking when you can shoot like this Don't tell me that everybody says good is you are better than you what? Are the anybody's better than him not this year? Let's move to this year's NFL P.A. team report cards An arbitrator ruled the union couldn't publish him, but the arbitrator couldn't stop ESPN from getting our hands on

more than 17 hundred players rated teams in various categories including ownership

Facilities and coaches my amy rated first that must surprise you surprise me does his work right

That's what you do yeah the NFL claims the survey isn't

Scientific or something all the question not what with that said What result intrigued you wonder you survey all the this is the thing that the court said could not be published

Here's the Pentagon paper.

The NFL P.A. wants in public because they want to shame the teams at the bottom

That's what they write. Okay, so my amy is first Minnesota is second

Washington is third and you know what they have in common besides good snacks and family friendly activities

They have this in common they didn't make the playoffs the guy who is the general manager at my amy got an A General manager of Minnesota got an A. You know what they have in common. They got fired first place You're fired now Pittsburgh is last They say that Pittsburgh has an F minus on the locker room Round the room in this in the field for silly mean the field. Then feel what they need to be layoffs

Yes, they meant what you're playing is any attention. Well, let me every coach got an A or A plus except like two of them Yeah, our ball Because she's got an A got an A. The jets have no wins the guy in Washington

Dan Quinn guy was because he wears his hat backwards. They were five and twelve

It's nonsense the whole thing is nonsense. Do you even want to out there and that his was not nonsense?

The part about how they treat the families because when you look at free agency Right, that's important that's the one. It is how that's the fact that he was rated 27th and they got an F on locker room Kansas City in the last seven years We're going to five times to the Super Bowl three wins. You think the locker rooms killin them because I don't I bet you this though I'll bet you the chiefs as a club

You let the locker room go to hell so it helps you get the new stadium. You've demanded. Okay, I'll stay alive But it's not you know, the win-win was rated 26 win-win. Wait, like a plane was a so easy D in food D in food F on team travel. It is a good great chowder. Where did they go crash here? They went to the Super Bowl this year. So again Fun dismiss at the expense of what was good to talk about good television. Let's move to college football in the story about two of the great powers Alabama and Ohio State there are scheduled to meet in

2027 and

2028 but Alabama has also recently scheduled Georgia State in

2028 a fourth non-conference opponent and the SEC only allows three this has led speculation that Alabama could drop Ohio State or Ohio State's athletic director told the Columbus to spat quote

We expect the two games series to be played. We should never be afraid to play anybody

We're Ohio state a few on quote We'll burn a few were Alabama, which keep Ohio State on your schedule. I'll know No, no now that the SEC teams are playing nine SEC games No, he just added a schedule a team on your schedule. That is probably like 50% chance of being a top 10 or 12 team

There you go I'm glad you could get by if you get it one of the bottom. It's a conference schedule. So it could be top five So you don't need another one of those people go crazy. They overreact to every loss. You have no No, it doesn't mean you get to play waffered four or five times like every SEC scene seemed to do it one point But you don't have to add Ohio State. You don't. Sorry. So look. I'm not going to put myself in Alabama shoes because obviously

You don't agree that playing Georgia state is very very very very easy compared to Ohio State of course It's right, but I also think that if Alabama opened again so Ohio State and won that game They'd be almost assured of getting into playoffs because there's no Ohio State opening and Texas It is usually one to being a three-point team. Oh, because you got that tough I don't know. I'm not sure about that and I mean from a fan standpoint, I want to see Alabama in Ohio State and I also

To Tuscaloose and nobody really wants to see Georgia state and Alabama. Right. Here's my sense because here's the notes that I took If Alabama Ducks this game to go look like cowards that statement whether Ohio State athletic director is flowing It was we are on a parade and it looks like Alabama is afraid at that point. I am hoping that they went into this with their eyes open I am hoping both school. No, but they don't get those right years in advance. How many I guarantee that

What was made but for the SEC mandated okay nine not the Alabama and Ohio State know who the other one is and they wanted that game They wanted that way you know what this one's I'm a big ting guy Well, I got a big 10 news for you I'm I'm inclined as you know to favor my conference. Yeah There's one school that often too often

There's a word I want to use three letters, but I won't do it Ryan's with donkey There's one school that acts above all the others all the state and it's re Ohio State University and by the way They've earned a lot of that particularly on the football side not everything else let me get nothing

Let me give you another big 10 school

Indiana national champions. You know they played out of conference this year old Dominion can a source state and Indiana state Out Larry bird needs to be far, you know who they got next year North Texas Howard and Western Kentucky now they are working They are is the Howard game here in Washington. I doubt that they earned it on the field They'd be Oregon they beat Ohio State

Never listen to Ohio State doesn't earn it on the field because they always do

But they know what the situation is in the SEC they know that year that guy the AD there He can stand behind that statement forever. Let's take a break coming up. I think tanking

You should get the issue the load management and we'll bond the series

Yes Charles partly to decide we'll also ask a whether he thinks Victor one by Neama He's to go through 12 hard break or whether he can go straight through okay see in Denver You want to tighten what word rhymes? We don't key that's three letters I want to tell you off the air monkey or that's more than three letters. That's six letters Don't do you say yeah, don't do it. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you

We're not sure if you have this feeling of the street on a bench and you can't stand it No, not like this story. It's like the story with you I don't really know how to do it Wow, that's it. That's it. That's all right. Yeah, exactly like the story is the story of the I understand, because the story is about the whole life, but you can't do it. No, I don't feel like I'm going to do it. For no $2.99 or cool tour Heidel Beeren 125 gram for no $1.99 in your Aldi Northfield

Yale and weiter gehts einfach lauschen and genießen Aldi good is for all Inside the NBA is moved to ESPN which means Charles Barkley is now our colleague Our first ever guest with you to have him back in the show and before we went on the air We were talking about golf courses, of course, and the fact that Chuck is wearing his 70 Citrus the team that ran after them. Yeah, everything is good. Let's start with this

I think tanking is the big issue for the NBA wolf on things. It's load management. Who is right?

I'm got to go up my brother-wheel-bonne because Tony there's always been tankin and NBA

There's always been tankin. I think we have to address it. I don't think we show what we're war losing Honestly everybody in the lottery should get one ball and whatever happens happen

But when you start saying you're gonna get extra ping-pong balls to lose it. I think that's what a problem is

I think every team in the lottery should get one ping-pong ball and take their chances But as you said load management, I know load management has to just annoy the hell out of you, Chuck Well, what bothers me is from the fans make because Obviously, I don't hate on these young guys. They're making 50 60 million dollars and with this new TV deal They're gonna be making 70 80 90 a hundred million dollars. I think it's unfair to the game and to the fans

For you to make $80 90 million dollars and say I can't I can't play basketball two days in the world

That's what that's a travesty You said the other day you'd prevent tanking teams from raising ticket prices We're kind of reaction did you get to that? Mike, I've been saying this for years. I don't think not just basketball. I don't think in a sports team

If you're a record is below 500 you should not be able to raise your ticket prices

I'm not saying you got to win the championship. I'm not even saying you got to go deep in the playoffs But when your team is 500 Or less you should not be able to raise ticket prices. I've been saying that for many years now We'll love for all sports to adopt that Tell us what else we love these sessions where we get to pick your brain about the league and what's going on?

You and I do this more frequently now we're gonna let Tony in on it What else would you do? What other stuff that you see about the game you say if I was commissioner today? I do this Well, I think We've got to find a way to make sure of fans Mike you've been beating this drum for a long time It is so difficult for fans to find the games now

I think we've done a disservice to the fans until the game We've got to find a way to let the fans know because the fans on a backbone and we want to support these network I'm so honored to be on ESPN now because it's a greatest sports network ever

People don't even know when NBC games own NBC when they own peacock

They don't know when the game is own Amazon and we got to be very careful because you know

We got 11 year deal and it's a team deal the players have gone to be success

But we want the networks to be successful also. I think the number one thing we got to do is make sure we let the fans know when exactly when the games are on here

Said you want to say you done with questions can I ask off an off-book question let you in? What do you weigh now you look great what do you weigh now? I weigh 270 I started doing what road that cold you and zip out and I started at 355 I'm at 270 and I want to get to 265 so I'm right while I want to be but what's gonna happen Tony and Mike when I get to 265 I'm gonna get off the drug because I don't think it about it want to be on drugs their entire life

I'm gonna take a month off and see what happens with my body because even though I'm taking a shot

I've changed my eating habits and I'm working out

That's to me that's the biggest misconception the notion that you can just take a shot and lose weight I have to change my eating habits and I had to store it working out But I'm very excited where my body is now

265 shouldn't be that hard you only have five to go you could do that by next Thursday if you wanted to you could do that

Well, I'm gonna try but you know that's the thing You know, because I tell people I mean you gotta eat. Oh, because you need I didn't get fat not eat Do I like me? All right, let me go back to be asking people apparently or inside people saying that you have switched from the mix to the caps and the Eastern conference Why not the pistons

Well, I watched the pistons play to spurs the other night and my criticism of the pistons has been K couldn't have a durin have to play great and one of them didn't play great and they lost The reason I like the calves there's really nobody on the calves who have to play great James can have a bad game. None of the Mitchell can make up for it Move it can have a bad game

Allen can make up for it. So that's the I think they got more room for error

So I my personal pick right now is to cows in the East because the margin of error Of course you have great players. They're gonna have a bad game here and there But the pistons is greatest season they have can kind of have a durin have to play great if they're gonna beat go deep in the playoffs I'm glad you mentioned San Antonio Because you know from personal experience that team's historically

Have to experience heartbreak in the playoffs before they're able to win Do you think the Victor Rimbaniama and the spurs? Are the exception can they can they go that far in the playoffs? Charles without having had that personal playoff hardbreak I love Victor Rimbaniama. I think what they're doing in San Antonio and I very listen The most underrated player in the league now is probably step on a castle that kid is a flat-out beast

But I still like okay C and Denver I do I like I like those two teeth in the West, but hey listen when the yama what that young man is doing It's great for the league. It's great for San Antonio, but I still like okay C and Denver in the West It's great for us to join ESPN. Thank you Chuck. Thank you. Appreciate it. See you soon Thank you brothers

You can catch Charles and Ernie and Kenny and Shack on NBA Tipple off immediately following this High quality program let's take one last break still to come there are at least three big men's college whoop scheme this weekend Which is the biggest and shake you just Alexander makes it return from injury tonight against the nuts Two teams Charles mentioned big deal. How does Charles look? It looks great. It looks great. Yeah, it looks great Every time people have the 30th birthday Chris Godwin Godwin is one of two premier wide receivers in Tampa

They are wrong with Mike Evans, but as a free agent Evans could be leaving Godwin has two years left on his contract with the box Both were injured missed a lot of games last season Godwin played in nine games at just 33 catches 360 yards and two touchdowns He has gone over a thousand yards receiving four different times and has 41 career receiving touchdowns

Godwin was a third round pick by the box in 2017 out of Penn State

It was a pro ball in 2019 when he had 86 catches 1333 yards and nine touchdowns great while in Tampa Godwin has court passes from high school winters James Winston and Baker Lakefield, but he won a super ball with Tom right what a tandem You would think a team would really try to try to figure out a way to keep those two

Together on their own roster Evans is only going to something called a hall o...

Yeah, and yet it's like they're both just going to be vapor. It's what it likes Cincinnati

Well, you're trying to go like you quarterback happy anniversary Mike Conley senior on this day 39 years ago

The great long jumper in triple jumper set the world into our record in the triple jump going 58 feet three and a quarter inches in a meet at Madison Square guard Conley said he knew he nailed it because quote my toes were almost coming out of a pit Unquote Conley won the gold medal in the triple jump in Barcelona in 1992 the silver medal in Los Angeles in 1984

Conley son Mike Junior while not in Lincoln has been a steady valued NDA point guard for the past 19 seasons

If you're being traded twice and weighed this season Conley recently resigned with Minnesota originally drafted by Memphis and remains That franchise is leading score

Mike Conley is a Chicago kid. It's a Luther South high school. I win my best games pitching as Luther South

I would have Mike Conley who's right about you know, I know he played baseball and such a great athlete and a time where people played everything

Yeah, Mike Conley senior do you think great welcome out you think you struck? I'd like to think I had some success

Happy trails for the final minute of last night's game to Philip Gustavson Minnesota's goal tend to stop 44 shots as the wild BT NHL leading Colorado Avalanche five to two in Denver Gustavson left it all on the ice including whatever was in his belly Yeah, he'll just let him to vomit in about a minute remaining and he was replaced for the finish Wild coach John Heinz called the quote a real gutty performance on quote. You get that the moment that happens the referee

Should have the power to come in print the bold bitches and say he's gone Will they took him if you can do it? No, no, no you forced out like concussion protocol It was a vomit protocol that would be great Big finish quickly shake your salads and the furniture turns from his abstract tonight against a nuggets as out of big deal Yes, the thunder was just five and four without him even back in a lineup

He wants me and BPM maybe again time to get back. You can't win and beat Georgetown by 32 To move to 30 and old undefeated still on the season as that's a difference with the best team in the country right now And it's without page vectors and there were championship team lands here this spurs you're spurs You haven't been on 30 right you boys all in 11 bigger headline in real bond world the boys are Wizard level irrelevant so nice the spurs college troops this weekend Michigan Illinois Virginia Duke

Kansas at Arizona, what's the biggest game? I'm gonna say Kansas that Arizona, but all three will really be games last one cabs

This is the night are you intrigued? I am, but it's not a new joke if I think the family is right

Just as at the pisses at all out of witness convincing the pissons should have be I don't know how I'm gonna see them I don't try to hate tonight. Don't think a lot of time trying to bet it the next time I'm telling me corn. I might work on it for a great weekend local hands, and now is NBA tip off

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