Show Notes
Robert Horry, Rob Jenners, and B-Dog are coming off a Summer League week that didn't go the way anybody in Vegas planned, and they've got a full show sheet to prove it. They open by picking apart the Wizards shutting down rookie AJ Johnson, detour into an actual geography lesson about where you can find a Piggly Wiggly in Georgia, and Rob gets reminded that talking trash on this show always finds its way back to him — this time from Wizards fans after he named Washington his League Pass dark horse.
From there it's a real basketball conversation. Horry breaks down training his son Christian in the gym for the first time in two years, and the guys dig into Jonathan Kuminga's stalled free agency before getting into the biggest story of the summer: Victor Wembanyama turning down the supermax to keep his young Spurs core paid. Horry explains why that move says more about Wemby's character than any stat line could, and the three of them go back and forth on whether he could become the first basketball billionaire — just not off American endorsement deals.
The Bam Adebayo–Tyler Herro dust-up gets the full breakdown, including Tim Hardaway's comments about Heat culture and what it actually means to have your guy's back in a locker room. Then it's LeBron for the better part of twenty minutes — who's really leading the sweepstakes between Cleveland, Golden State, Philly, and Miami, why Draymond Green opting into free agency might be a tell, and how weird it is that people are treating LeBron's every move at Fanatics Fest like a decision-day clue. They close out the trade talk with where things stand on Kawhi Leonard, the ongoing NBA investigation, and why the Clippers front office has more explaining to do than Adam Silver let on.
Once the basketball talk wraps, Avery Woolery — an 11-year-old kid from Kentucky who jumped in a pool to save a drowning man when the adults around him didn't — gets this week's Big Shot. And then the guys close out with a wild round of Black Crime or White Crime, headlined by maybe the strangest arson story any of them have ever read on air.
00:00 Cold Open: Vegas Summer League Fallout
01:00 AJ Johnson Shut Down & Rookie Development
03:00 Piggly Wiggly Rabbit Hole
04:30 Wizards Dark Horse Pick Comes Back to Bite Rob
06:00 Horry's Week: Disney Trip & Training Christian
08:00 Kuminga Free Agency & Lakers Buzz
09:30 Wemby Turns Down the Supermax
14:00 Could Wemby Be Basketball's Next Billionaire?
16:00 Bam vs. Tyler Herro: What Really Happened
18:30 Heat Culture Debate & Tim Hardaway's Comments
22:00 LeBron Sweepstakes: Who's Really In the Mix
26:30 LeBron and Draymond's Unlikely Friendship
27:30 Decoding LeBron's Decision Timeline
29:00 Cleveland, Philly, or Golden State?
33:00 Weighing Miami's Case in a Loaded East
37:00 Kawhi Trade Stuck in NBA Investigation Limbo
41:00 Free Agency Roundup: Trent Jr. & Clarkson
42:00 Big Shot of the Week: 11-Year-Old Pool Hero
43:00 Black Crime or White Crime
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