Richard Jefferson

This is one of the times where I'm going to take a harder line than you on this specific idea, Pete.

I was listening to Richard Jefferson talk the other day, and I don't know if it was an older clip or if it was something that was more recent.

But he said, I'm still the all time leader in minutes played in a season for the Nets.

And he was like, there was a season where I played all 82 games and I averaged almost 40 minutes a night.

We had some good guests on as well.

One of my favourites was Richard Jefferson, and you told him to – call his show something else.

Did I? Yeah, you said obviously you got JB and he's called The Riz.

Oh, JB's The Riz.

They have an incredible podcast.

Um, Richard Jefferson, Ali Clifton, Shannon Fry, uh, Kendrick Perkins, they have an incredible podcast called Road Trippin' that they started back when those guys was with the Cavs.

They've kept it going.

It's funny.

First of all, with the Pacers, it's really sad about Tyrese Halliburton as well because I was looking forward to seeing him play, even though he'll be back, just having a cool year.

But I heard Richard Jefferson say this, and this was interesting when I heard him say that.

He's saying that you're only playing two pre-season games a year, and not only are you playing two pre-season games a year, you're only playing a superstar half of one of those games.

So you get them out of training camp, which they go to training camp, and then basically throw them into the full season, telling them to play 32 to 40 minutes a night, or whatever it is, and your body is in condition for it.

It was interesting when he told me that because he said he played 82 games a lot of times because he trained his body to play 82 games.

And also what came with that was pre-season games.

So, you know, a former NBA player who played at a high level like Richard Jefferson, I have no choice but to take that into consideration because he would know better than anybody else that I'm around anyway, having the longevity he played.

Not only that, high flyer, high jumper, et cetera, et cetera.

But if you saw an old one, Kerry Kittles, Lucius Harris, Kenyon Martin.

You know, I'll go with Richard Jefferson.

Richard Jefferson, Jason Kidd.

Should I keep going or should I? I think I'm done.

You haven't said Keith Van Horn.

So

when he plays like that, I mean, how many times I could have played the shot game and drank some tequila from Texas Cheer Liquor with how many times Richard Jefferson said, well, you weren't watching the ESPN feed, but Richard Jefferson all night was like, there's nothing you can do.

There's nothing you can do.

There's nothing you can do.

Um, and unfortunately you might have to have to short, you might have to shorten the season to eliminate back-to-backs if you want to keep it in a certain window, but back-to-backs are more the issue than 82.

Um, in my opinion, um, and Richard Jefferson, I said, I think I said this the last show or some saw that, you know, Guys are just not being prepared properly.

You know, you play 18 minutes in a couple of preseason games, you sit out three more, and then you're expected to go hard for 35, 40 minutes.

Like, no wonder your body's going to break down.

But now, for both of y'all, PJ, you first.

What do you think is contributing to this injury? I know Richard Jefferson said it's like guys might not play a lot in the preseason.

He was kind of criticizing guys for that.

He grumpy because he bald.