Stacey King

Yes, sir. Thank you. Rob Dillingham, our guest. Give me the hot sauce. We'll get you some Stacy's signature hot sauce as well. We'll get it out. Yes. Yes. I bet. Thank you. Enjoy your summer. Looking forward to seeing Rob Dillingham full season with the Chicago Bulls, new head coaching staff, and a lot of excitement coming as people are really looking forward to seeing what the Bulls do in the draft, what they do in free agency. And Rob's going to be a big part of the future. Got lots more coming up and give me the hot sauce. voice-verified

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But Byron looks like he's being held hostage in that picture. Like blink three times if you need help, Byron. He's crunching the numbers. We just lost another sponsor. I'm sorry, Byron. I'm sorry, baby. We're going to get help, baby. Wherever they got you in the basement, we're going to find you. We're going to find you, Byron. You know, he hasn't been to the show in a while. Maybe you're on to something. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He hasn't been here, so I'm assuming.

that he's been kidnapped somewhere, and he's in somebody's basement. And you saw his face. He looked kind of scary in that picture. Like, help me. You know, blink three times. You know how they make you say, like, I'm eating, everything's great. And then you see somebody go like that. I think they call that a proof of life selfie. But you send a subtle message to the people. You just blink a couple times, and they go, he's in trouble. We got to get there. So Byron didn't blink, so we're going to leave him where he's at.

And back to insurance, Stacey did Rob Dillingham a solid by getting to pull over. He was going to do the driving in Los Angeles. Listen. Real dicey. Listen. We had Zach Levine on one time, you know, and he was driving. I was like, yo, man, Chicago. And I was like, yo, man, pull over because I don't want nothing to happen to you and I don't want it to be on my watch. And then Bull be calling me up. You got it, Zach.

In a car accident, we see Rob in one of the busiest highways in L.A., and Rob's seeing semis flying by. I'm like, are you driving? Oh, yeah, I do this all the time. I'm like, man, if you don't pull that car over and find a shopping mall, a strip mall somewhere, I don't care if it's a Jack in the Box, a Carl's Jr.,

You know, what was it? In-N-Out Burger. Just pull over somewhere because I don't want it to be on my conscience if something happens to him where he's sitting there talking to give me the hot sauce podcast. Your favorite podcast is favorite podcast show. Yeah, we hope you enjoyed the interview. Rob was great. Really nice young man. And, you know, he's one of the quickest guards in the NBA. You talked about the comparison with his speed, like a legend like Allen Iverson. How do you envision him fitting in with this Bulls team? Because we don't know who's coaching. We don't know the new players are going to be added. But a player like that, how can he help this team? voice-verified

Well, again, last year to me was his rookie year. So in year two of him actually playing, I think the key for him is to come in healthy, number one. He just had wrist surgery, so the wrist was bothering me. I had a cyst in his wrist that really hampered his shooting. So we didn't really get to see what kind of shooter he was. I thought he shot the ball very well at the end of the season.

But I think with a new coach, new system, we don't know what it's going to be. Is it going to be, you know, pace? Speed always translates, though. But I'm going to tell you something. The gift that he has of being able to put fear in a defender's eyes, whether he's isolated or whether he's in a pick and roll, he can get to where he wants to on the floor. Now the point is just get stronger in being able to finish defensively

through contact at 6'2". And he's slight in the frame. He's slight in the frame. He's still young. Both modest. You look at modest. You look at him. You look at all the young players. Noah. You look at all these guys. They're not into their adult bodies yet. So that's something he's got to work on. But I think his future is bright. And like I said, with his ability to break defenders down,

Also, you heard him talk about making his teammates better, you know, getting to spots where they want the ball. I think with that mindset, Mark, that's going to really help him get into the rotation this year and be a solid rotational player for this young team going forward. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to watching Rob Dillingham play in the upcoming season as he's going to be part

of whatever system the new head coach wants to run. You know, Stacy is very much a baseball prognosticator. We were talking about the Cubs and their hot streak last couple of shows. Well, kind of gone the other way. The Cubs, as we tape on Wednesday afternoon, have lost. voice-verified

Ten in a row. If you're just listening on one of the audio formats, Stacy's got his red-white Sox cap. The Sox are doing a lot better than the Cubs. Cubs are in last place now, and the Sox are on the rise. It's amazing how things have flipped. This is why it's hard to go all in early. You have to wait and see. Anything can happen. When they played in the Sox series, were they coming in winning? Were they winning at that time? Oh, yeah.

No, they had started struggling a little bit. That started the loss. Yeah, that started the loss. That was the beginning of their losing streak. Yeah. And then, you know, you got PCA running into the wall. Cursing out that lady. Well, she was a lady. She was a girl. She was a woman. She was cursing her out. And it just seemed like that just all kind of snowballed. Yeah.

He dropped a couple fly balls that day. Definitely that weighed on his mind. Yeah, I mean, listen. We talked about this last week. Fans have the right to say whatever they want. I just wish they'd be more respectful and understand that players are human. You pay money, you say whatever you want. But when it gets a little bit, crosses the line,

you got to pull back a little bit because these players are human too. It doesn't matter how much money they make. At the end of the day, they'll smack you. Some of these guys will. They won't hesitate. I just saw where Kendrick Perkins got into it in an AAU game. And I'm like, dude, really? Like, you know, you can't do that. I don't know what the situation was as I kind of caught it in passing. You said some big kid on the other team, Body Slam, one of their guys, and the other coach was –

Instead of trying to help out the situation, he escalated. That's why. Oh, OK. That's a good reason to throw hands in. But at the same time, you know, you when you're in your players, you have to understand that that just comes with the territory. Fans are going to say things that, you know, they say something about your mother who might have passed away, you know, just to get some kind of advantage mentally to throw you off your game. You have to understand that. You know, I would say that the athletes in today's game, their skin is not as tough as it used to be.

Because you see guys in the NBA right now getting people thrown out of games. You've seen LeBron walk, oh, get that person right there. They said this. Well, first of all, there's 25,000 people there. How do you necessarily know that they said what they said? It could have been anybody in that road that said it. But you just happened to look at that person. He gave you a look like he said it. You know what I'm saying? Just like when you remember the Malice in the Palace. They jumped up in the stands beating up on the wrong dude.

And I mean, you're up in the stands beating up on somebody who was just innocent bystander catching hands. I mean, we're getting two pieces all over the place. He asked for him. And so you just got to understand that. Like, I mean, when I was in college, you know, we played Missouri and Missouri had this this student body group called the Antlers. If anybody went to Missouri, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

They were cruel. They were crude. They were just like mean. And they would send you letters. We were on play. We were on play on a Saturday. We would get letters every day leading up to that game. And it was like talking about your mama, your daddy, your grandma. You're going to die when you get off that plane. I mean, all kind of things. And it would even go so far, Mark, we'd be in the hotel and some of the antlers would be working in the hotel.

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