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Pardon the interruption, but I'm like, "Well, Bon, it was just national be-homble dates, only." How do you stay humble? I'm Tony Cornheiser, perspective.

Sometimes you're on top of the world, other times you're on ESPN2 for the second straight day.

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'Cause I love seeing pros hit a ball into a bed sheet. I do, you don't. I do. I really like it. Welcome to PTI Boys and Girls.

In today's episode, Kansas beats Houston. Kirk Cousins will be looking for a new team in Brian Windor's joins us for five minutes. But we begin today. With the San Antonio spurs going into Detroit last night,

and beating the team with the best record in the NBA, 114-103.

Victor Wemben-Yama had 21.17 rebounds and six blocks for San Antonio. On the other side, Cade Cunningham had one of his worst shooting nights of the season, finishing five for 26 from the field for the pistons. Will bond, what does this win mean for your spurs?

“Tony, I think the spurs are showing themselves every night.”

With every one of these games, and they got a great record against the top teams in the league this season. Hey, forget what these people are saying about, we're too young. We're not. Let's do this now.

And Wemben-Yama has certain-- I mean, it's a certain maturity about him that seems to sprint throughout that team, by the way. A name nobody mentions, talk about mature and sensible, and just they really bright light to have on your team to hear in Fox.

He didn't have a great game as I didn't need to.

But they seem to know how to play, you know, just together. And one person, one part of that team picks up another, the next night. They're playing Detroit. The Detroit, a lot of us think can win the East Tony. I will say this quickly about the pistons.

We saw last night their weakness. They need another score to go with Kate Cunningham. Jalen Durin is fine, but they need another score. Or they're going to struggle in the playoffs. One game's a different deal.

But Wemben-Yama, tone. It's Wemben-Yama's world right now. I know you make fun of me rightfully so, 'cause I fall in love with him last night's one last night's one last night. Yeah, I mean, you slipped out like you might as well be on the payroll.

I mean, you may as well like go everywhere with him and be on the payroll. So have we understand it? Look, my tendency, as you know, is to try not to get carried away with isolated games, to try to say that none of these single matchups really means much. But piggybacking on what you said, the San Antonio spurs are now eight and one against

the best teams in each conference in the east that is Detroit, New York, and Boston, and in the west that is Oklahoma City, and Denver. Eight and one, it is hard to minimize eight and one. It's hard to knock eight and one against these teams. They are four and one against Oklahoma City, which is the reigning NBA Champions.

So what happened last night, just adds to their resume and in fact, for most casual lawmakers, alerts them to the fact that San Antonio could win the whole thing. I think, look, they are that good.

“And Tony, that goes against everything you and I believe in philosophically, that's”

some new children's block could win. We don't believe that, but yet, those numbers you just mentioned are they're making us at least pay attention in that direction. Yeah, I don't want to go on forever about this, because you could say that Kate Cunningham was not going to have a bad night like that again.

But he was three for 16 once, he was 14 for 45 in another. Again, the defense is to find Castle put on him. You know, limited him to three for 17 from two point shots. So I mean, and I'll, I'll just, I'll finish by saying this. And I respect women, yam, a lot does this mean that San Antonio is necessarily better than

Detroit. It does not mean that, but they have a leg to stand on now. They have a leg to stand. We, we, we agree, still slurping, but we agree, let's move to last night's big college game where eighth rank Kansas got a 13 point win over number five Houston.

Tray White let all scores with 23 points and Darren Peterson actually played 30 minutes and Kansas rebounded from Saturdays disappointing defeat to unrank Cincinnati tone, what's

three straight by far. The biggest news is that Houston has lost three straight by far. It started out, started out at number, with number six Iowa State, they lost at Iowa State by three. Then they were home against then number four Arizona and they lost by seven last night,

at number eight Kansas and in lose by 13. Now Houston for much of this was ranked two, two in a country. You have to put that in perspective. Yes, they lost to very good teams ranked teams, but the number that they lost by God progressively higher from three to seven to 13, which tells me that if they are in the

first tier still used and they are at the bottom of the first tier.

They don't feel like a two-seater or one seed anymore. They feel more like a three seed to me because as the season goes on, now is where they are stumbling. It's not big news that Kansas won and it was very predictable. Kansas got bombed at home by unranked Cincinnati.

It was the worst home defeat Kansas has had to win unranked team in build selves 23 years, which is motivation kids to win the next thing as in hello Houston, you've got a problem. I mean, that's what happened. That had to happen. No, Tony had to happen.

Kansas had to come back like that because of the condition. And again, you just set up. They had to. And they did. Houston, I will say this, you know, coaches, a lot of coaches have been behaving badly.

Kelvin Samson's not wonderful. He sat there in a microphone year the night after his team lost.

“I think the second of those three games.”

And he said, you know what, I'm not going to go over react to go crazy about this. This league, he's talking about the big eight or whatever they're called to have a big four team. Big 12. Big 12.

He said, here's what we know about every game.

A really good team is going to win and a really good team is going to lose. And he's talking about Iowa State and he's talking about Kansas. And he's talking about Arizona, you know, relatively still freshly in from the Pac 12. He's talking about this, this unbelievable glut of teams at the top of that conference. Really good team going to win.

Really good team going to lose. That's some perspective. And I know he's agitated about losing three straight. Kelvin Samson's trying to win a championship. Houston will be fine.

They got, they'll be fine this week. Watch. We mentioned this yesterday that it seems like all the good teams. Are playing all the good teams all the time. Yeah.

That's because the big 12 and the big 10 are very good. I'll go east. I'll go to i95. I believe it's tomorrow night. Number six, you con against number 15, St. John's with a 13 game winning state.

Good. Later on over the weekend, Kansas Arizona. So they're out there. They're out there. Let's move to the NFL and the confirmation by the Atlanta Falcons that they plan to release

quarterback Kirk Cousins on March 11, the first day of the new NFL calendar.

This will provide Atlanta with salary cap relief. More importantly, it once again makes the 37 year old Cousins of free agent.

“Well, by the way, do you see Cousins starting for an NFL team next season?”

Yeah. Yeah. He'll start some games. I think it's unavoidable. I mean, half the backups play anyway because you get injuries and you get underperforming

players who are then benched. And so Cousins. Yeah. I mean, there are places where you don't even know where the quarterback's going to be. Now.

Here, Pittsburgh, they don't have a starter. I'm not calling Aaron Rogers his start. Cleveland. I don't know what they have. And you can just, I think there's six or 17s that are in that situation.

Miami doesn't appear to want the starter they have. So can Kirk Cousins go there and be at least a bridge starter. Yes, temporary and whatever form. Yes, a couple of more years. Yes.

So yeah, and he's got his money. The Cousins got his money without us going over it like that press got, you know, every single day for like nine years. Kirk Cousins got a hundred mil or what close to it. And so he can go play for anything he wants essentially wherever he wants if he thinks

gives him a chance to either start or contribute to him team that matters. Yeah. Yeah.

“If the question is, do I see Kirk Cousins starting for an NFL team this year?”

I saw him starting for Atlanta this year ahead of Michael Panic's junior. Kirk Cousins finished last year for and oh, he had seven touchdown passes and two interceptions in those games. One of the teams he beat was the Rams, one of the teams he beat was Tampa Bay. He got his team at Atlanta to where they tied for the division.

They were eliminated on a match of cards, you know, like, however that works. But he got them. He got them that far at the end of the season, Panics was hurt. He was better than Panics. So I, you know, I saw him starting there.

All the teams you mentioned, I could see him starting, I see him starting. I was zoned out to know what it wants to do with this. That's right. But most of all, I can see him starting at Minnesota.

Because, well, why do you make that face?

What exactly? I can't keep him apart. The proof is to. They got a point. Nothing.

Nothing. No, they got a plan because they took you know how teams cover their own butts when they select somebody in the left round. And that's what they're doing. Yeah.

That's what they plan is doing. They're covering themselves. You know, the other thing they could do, he could go to the Raiders. Raiders have the number one pick for Nando Mendoza. Okay.

Do you want to start him in game one or do you want to say watch this older veteran and try to learn something? It's just feels like another dumb move by Atlanta to me. Let's take a break.

“Coming up, why is Adam Silver suddenly so focused on tanking?”

We're going to ask Brian Windhorst. We'll also ask him which team he sees winning the Eastern. Why does he have to know the last time, do you know the last time that Kansas lost consecutive home games to unrank team? It was 1989.

They're not going to do it. Consecret of home games. They're not going to do it. They're not going to win at home. Part of the interruption is brought to you by Coca-Cola.

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Listen now. The NBA is entering the stretch run for both the winners and the tankers, which makes it a perfect time. For a visit from our great friend, ESPN, Senior NBA writer, Brian Windhorse, who's in LA.

Let's start with this.

“Ryan, I think tanking is a much bigger deal than Will Bond does.”

Why do you think Adam Silver is taking tanking so seriously now and how do the teams feel about this? Three reasons. Number one, it's happening much earlier in the calendar than it ever has before. Number two, the number of teams that are doing it, you could debate maybe there is eight,

maybe there is ten, it depends on who wants to be honest. Number three, it's the way that they're tanking. It used to be that they would just deactivate players. And this started in the last couple of years, but it's now very prevalent where there are players who are in games, who are being taken out of games, which makes it now within

the four lines, which before was outside the four lines. Obviously, if you look at the San Antonio spurs, look at how great they are, look at how their future is so amazing. They were built by tanking through the draft, the thunder. They tanked, you know, a year or two, they didn't tank for five years, they tank the year

two, dynasty teams are often built this way. And if you're a small market team, like Memphis, like Salt Lake City, you know, one of these other small market teams, this is how to go forward with that anybody would say

“this is the way to go, and that's what these teams are doing.”

I'm so glad that you approached that way, Brian, let's follow up.

By asking you this, there's always been there's now been a reveal of anti-tanking measures

at least potentially, I don't believe any of them work worth a damn, do you? Because you've been around for a while with all due respect, the first tanking anti-tanking measure was a lottery, that was in the early eights, since then there have been five adjustments to the lottery, then there was the play in tournament. So that's seven adjustments.

So whatever adjustment this is, even if it's inspired, we'll be the eighth. And guess what? It may work in the short term, but there will be a ninth, there will be a tenth. And as long as you incentivize teams to move to a certain part of the standing, to get better players, they will do so.

And that is why what they're looking at is to try to incentivize winning, whether or not they can get a system that actually works, that's another story. Hey, man, that's not the most concise and likable answer I've heard. Tony's probably frowning. Let's talk about the Eastern Conference in the NBA Bryant, which I heard you talking about

a little earlier today on NBA today. So the pistons lose last night, the calves and nicks play tonight.

It's Tony pointed out very early on. He was on that horse early playing so well with Jalen Brown. Do you see a favorite?

“What do you make of the East as we start this Bell Lab?”

My 20 years plus of covering the NBA, all of the conversations that I have with the scouts and executives and coaches and all the games I watch, I can honestly say, I do not know any of these top four teams. I can make a case for, I can make a case against. I think the one big thing is the one team that is going to completely get better is obviously

the Celtics.

If they get Jason Tatum, that's a game changer, but just because they get him, I don't

know how he's going to be. Tonight, Dejonte Murray is coming back from his Achilles Terre with the New Orleans Pelicans. He is 13 months off the injury. Jason Tatum is nine months and three weeks, he's less than 10 months off of it.

Just to assume he's going to come back and be ready to go, I think is not fair to him. So I do think that is a huge, huge thing that could change the whole Eastern Conference. But I have no idea what actually is going to take place. I think it's exciting, but it's also going to be hard to project, which I think is a good thing.

All right, I will get you out of here on this and I will make not a large reference to tanking, which I think is dastardly.

“I think everyone should think it is dastardly, but let's go to this.”

Why Leonard is averaging a career high, 28 points per game? What if anything have you heard about the status of the NBA's investigation into Pablo Torrey's story about possible cap circumvention by the clippers, you know, when a no-show job? Yeah.

So first off, as far as I am aware, the investigation is ongoing.

That is an unsatisfying answer, but that is what I believe is the case. When they complete the investigation, what is the process going to be? I don't think anybody knows. I know the reason the people are focused on this is that there's a concept that, oh my gosh, what if Kawai is punished, and his contract is voided, and all of a sudden he becomes

a free agent? I know that that is the thing that's out there. We'll couple of things. I don't know what's going to happen. I wish I could say, I've got all of the information here's going to happen.

I don't have it. So I think the NBA is still trying to get it. The second thing is, people have continued to compare this to Joe Smith way back 25 years ago. Joe Smith was not punished.

His contract was, indeed, voided, but he was not punished. So that's, if you're looking at precedent, I just want to point that out.

The third thing is, any NBA free agent, no matter how he becomes a free agent, what have to

be a free agent and by March 1st, for him to be eligible to sign with another team. I find that very unlikely, we're going to get any final on this by March 1st, whether it's punishing Kawai Clippers, anybody or not.

“So I think as far as Kawai goes, I think this is going to be a next year thing as far”

as the Clippers go. I think there's serious concern that they're facing repercussions, how serious we're going to have to wait and see. Yeah, it doesn't really feel like an aggressive investigation, but maybe it is. Thank you, Brian.

Brian. Appreciate you, dude. You know, let's take one last break, still to come as the UFL, Wilbon Strava Football League. Yeah, open the door to making long NFL field goes worth four. Four.

What is the time really now for rematch between May Weather and Pacquiao? What is this? The first week of PTI revisited it? What? What?

Yeah. Well, it's not like they're both in their late 40s or 50s. Oh, wait. I think you don't wait. I think it is.

All right. You don't want to happen to quiet the Clippers, not a damn thing. You heard it here first. Nothing. No.

The interview does not want to investigate or punish. Does investigate that? I want to. Nothing's happening. Happy time.

People happy 79th birthday, Mike Fratello. Fratello has one of the all-time great nicknames the Zarr or the Teller Strader. I'll be still on my mark, Albert. Fratello got to the Teller Strader early before most people saw the possibilities. Fratello had dub tailing careers as a coach and a broadcaster.

His first head coaching job in the NBA was in Atlanta, beginning in 1983. He was there for seven years, was coach of the year in 1986. Fratello then coached in Cleveland where he still lives in an Memphis. He was in the booth at NBC and TNT and on broadcast crews for the Clippers, the next the Heat and the Cavaliers.

We'll about tell the people why we love Fratello. Because it's on a short list of greatest guy in the world. For years, Tony and I and others, we call on Fratello for his basketball acumen to help us do our jobs. And then we came to realize that anywhere Mike Fratello is coach, he knows better restaurants

than you know.

And once you can't get in, he can get you in.

Did I miss her? Present that. This is art. That's good.

“Happy anniversary John stopped and on this day 33 years ago, the future Hall of Fame point”

card picked up seven assists in Utah's loss to use them to become only the fourth player with 8,000 career assists joining Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson and Isaiah Thomas. They're now 13 players with 8,000 more assists. Stockton has left them all in the dust. Stockton's total of 15,866 is more than 3,000 clear of Chris Paul's, 12,552, the current

active leader is LeBron James, 11,854, like LeBron, all the active current leaders are aging veterans until you get the 31 year old Nicole Yokech sitting on 5,825 and he's a center.

Let's talk about Stockton's toughness for a second, 6162, John stopped and played 19 seasons and

16 of those seasons. He played all 82 games and in a 17 season, he played all 50 because that's all the league played.

“I keep hearing about how today's athletes are bigger, stronger tougher than they used to”

be back in the day 11 dudes played 82 games last year in the league. John stocked it did it by himself, 16 times. Happy trails to Floyd Mayweather's retirement. The unbeaten box says he'll enter the ring once more in a September 19th, 3 match against Manipackia.

It's been 11 years since the now 49-year-old Mayweather beat the now 47-year-old Pacquiao

and Mayweather says this time the result will be the same. Pacquiao looks surprisingly good last year when he earned a draw against 30-year-old Walter White champ Mario Barrios. I don't know whether either these fighters needs money or just want some money. Like how do you feel about this?

Tony is frightening to me. I mean, the talk is out there, particularly about Mayweather and I know it's been a lot of time in Southern California and a place where Mayweather used to live that the building would change the days they work to be there to wait for the tips coming from Mayweather. I hope that's not that extreme and, by the way, they should have fought 20 years ago.

I don't want to see it now. Big finish really quick.

“I think it's been for years, Lisa, SNAP, their 16-game losing streak, are you impressed?”

No. The Dolphins, GM says everything's on the table with Tua and Nick Serriani says he wants AJ Proud back, but he's not going to try to guarantee it. What's the bigger deal, Tom? Right now, it's the fact that Tua is probably going to leave leaving in no quarterback.

It's happening to curb cousins. The Raiders say they expect Max Proud to be to stay, play for the team this season to you. No, I don't. And that might be just wishful thinking, but that's not what I expect.

The UFC was making field goals of 60-plus yards worth four points. Do you like that? I do like that. As long as you go minus one, if you miss, there's got to be a penalty. Last one, unbeaten Miami of Ohio, at Eastern Michigan tonight, you're smelling upset.

And no, Tony, they're playing a 10-18 team, quarter-level in the top, and they've got something big on the line to stay under feet. We're out of time. We were trying to be better than next time, I'm Tony Cornhardt. I'm Mike Wilbond.

We're back on the mothership tomorrow, local heads. Tony, I'm sure that's going to make you smile and now you're sports. No TGL tomorrow night? What?