Billy King

Whereas this team you will get several different players thinking that they should be the Iverson of the team, and I think it's an interesting contrast and an interesting challenge for the organization with, with these players even though they're very talented.

And Spike, look what happened in that year of 2001, and I totally agree with Iverson being the sun and these other stars circulating, and that was the brilliance of Larry Brown and Billy King.

Aaron McKie, Sixth Man Award.

Dikembe Mutombo, Defensive Player of the Year.

Yes

... and I remember Tony DeLeo, the director of player personnel, wanted Paul Pierce bad.

But that was Larry Brown and, um, Billy King's...

They wanted, um...

I mean, he's tripped over his feet nonstop.

He m- he's starting to make, um, Billy King look smart.

And let's not forget Billy King.

Now, for those of you who can't remember him, Billy King was the Nets general manager who traded for Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Jason Terry, basically giving up Jaylen Brown and, um, and Jason Tatum Yeah, it's hard to make that guy look smart, yet Dunleavy does an amazing job of doing that.

'Cause at least, at least Billy King, he had a plan.

I mean, his goal was to build like...

They had five all-stars on that team.

Because look, Mike Dunleavy, another dumb decision, and this just attributes to Duke, to guys who went to Duke, that work out well or, excuse me, either play in the NBA or work in the NBA in high levels.

Outside of Trage Langdon, we think of Elton Brand, Billy King, and Mike Dunleavy.

They don't exactly have the best track record.

So we're just going to shift the blame on that and then see how this contract ends up.

So here's what the funny thing is, is so yeah, you know, we buried people all the time, but those same people we buried and I will give them credit for it.

You know, you know, Billy became part of our show, but we buried Billy King.

We buried Joe Banner on a daily basis, okay? They would come, they would be a guest.

We would get them as guests.

Derek Jeter.

Wooden Post have more movement than he did on that show.

George Steinbrenner, right? Billy Martin, awful.

Those are just the bad Yankees that have done that show.

Or, and I got this from Matty Cord.

Matt Cord said this yesterday, and him and I had talked previously about it, that Billy King had told him, told Matt Cord, LeBron's going to go somewhere where he could play golf all year.

And I was saying that on the air as well.

I was like, listen, if you got the golf bug, you can't play golf in December and January.

Pat said, I'll pay it.

Pat and Billy King both said, don't worry, Matt.

Keep doing this.

We'll take care of it.