Will LeBron James become a PACER?! Tyrese Haliburton on his text with LBJ 👀 — The Pat McAfee Show

[0:00] he has massive respect so maybe strictly because he knows what coach carlisle and the pacers are [0:04] about to bring next year and if they tricky ricky if we did add a lebron james to our team oh yeah [0:11] all of a sudden you know are we winning the title ladies and gentlemen joining us now [0:15] is a man who uh is an olympic gold medalist he's an nba all-star he's the man who interviewed [0:23] lebron james last week straight from goofball fest ladies and gentlemen our favorite iowa [0:31] state cyclone indiana pacer tyrese howberts here yeah baby tyree he is moving very good isn't he [0:46] yeah you like the mismatch yeah yeah hey there we go yeah see i told you you get some adult versions [0:52] i'll wear them i need some of those too yeah those look brilliant are those yours as well or [0:56] those just other pumas those guys are sick you started walking out here i said he's wearing nikes [1:01] that's why i say in my head this guy's wearing nikes i would never do something like that i know [1:06] that's why i was so confused that thing will get you you don't have to move it okay okay it'll get [1:09] you if you're out there no problem no problem how are you doing brother you look incredible you walked [1:13] over here there was no uh hitching your giddy up at all how's the achilles feel how's the body feel [1:19] i feel great i feel great shingles is basically beyond me now well yeah congratulations for the most [1:24] part i've lost the weight i feel i feel great it's the best i've felt in a long time okay so shingles [1:29] coming in the middle of your rehab i'd say at the tail end of your rehab right off your achilles you're [1:33] starting to really get after it yeah and then shingles said why don't you go ahead and uh experience [1:37] one of the worst things you could ever experience you're gonna have some nerve stuff it's gonna [1:40] make you think you're itchy you're not itchy but you are itchy and uh all day every day you're gonna [1:44] have to deal with it oh yeah it's gonna get in your eyeball uh can't really sweat sometimes either [1:48] so the working out's gonna have to pause for a bit you're gonna be uncomfortable for you to [1:51] fight through that get to this side how do you feel and are we all systems go for next season and [1:56] lebron james gonna be a teammate uh uh you were with him first part of the question i feel great [2:02] uh body feels great i still kind of i'd be lying if said all the shingles is gone like i still have [2:07] some nerve stuff going on in my eye sometimes where i'm really itching my eye but for the most part [2:12] like all the everything else is gone lebron being my teammate it's not looking good it's not looking [2:17] good damn i texted him during before this and i but not this before fanatics fest and i said hey [2:28] come you should come be a pacer and he uh responded with six laughing cry faces i thought it was two [2:35] thanks i thought it was two i i said out during our interview that it was two then i went back and [2:39] looked at the text it was six is that two lines or is that just one straight across one you know when [2:45] you send one or two emojis it comes big but when you send so many it goes back to normal size yeah [2:50] it was six in a line so it took up a majority of screening him just laughing your face yeah yeah [2:55] where's he laughing like obviously yeah dude yeah yeah and did you not interview him good over there [3:02] it's not called that i think i think i did a pretty i think i did a pretty good job i like to think i did a [3:08] pretty good job you do good enough to sway him to play for the basers or yeah that didn't [3:12] no i wouldn't say that he we he tried to avoid every free agent question for the most part but [3:17] you know that was the first time i felt like he publicly acknowledged like i got a big decision [3:21] these are the things that i'm concerned about and i will make it soon can you riddle me this every [3:26] team would want lebron james on their team like if he was to come to the pacers obviously we'd be [3:30] excited because you're a true point guard so in spicy p obviously a-okay with whatever the case is the [3:36] whole team right it feels like he would be a great match for our particular team but are there [3:40] certain teams that you look at and you're like yeah i don't think that would be a good place [3:44] strictly because a play style if that makes no i don't believe that everywhere i think if he said [3:49] he wanted to go to any of the 30 nba teams that everybody would say please are you guys are you [3:54] sending them voice memos too i saw lou cornet send him a voice yeah great one cornet sent him a voice [3:59] memo yeah comedy oh he posted the voice memo please report that i don't know who let it out but [4:04] somebody let it out yeah i have not seen it well it's good well for the good of the city let's get in the [4:10] voice my most let's start recruiting here a little bit you're having a good time i was in person i [4:15] one-on-one conversation high five and let's not talk about you coming to the pacers i like you [4:19] being that hospitable because maybe he'll appreciate that in the end let's talk about [4:22] this pacers team shall we how do we feel because i saw you at saturday night main event good appearance [4:28] by you yeah thank you i appreciate that you did really good and i appreciated your angle in which [4:32] you were talking you said you ain't beat me is that the way we're going all year for sure [4:37] is that is that wow for sure that's our angle i'm very i'm very thankful to wb for continuing to [4:43] allowing me to show up and uh it was pretty cool because i think there's you know there's some [4:47] parallels between what seth and roman got going on and what me and jaylen got going on too at the same [4:52] time so i thought it was pretty cool i had a lot of fun with it yeah a couple midwestern guys coming [4:56] out there and just you know kind of stealing a big city guys uh kind of limelight i like what you're [5:00] doing there yeah the angle though of you ain't beat me i like that we're saying that all year like the [5:06] nicks didn't have to play the pacers though you know they won you know give them their flowers [5:10] yeah give them their flowers congratulations to them uh but the team that did the gardening last [5:14] year didn't have an opportunity to do it do you feel like we should be as confident in this pacers [5:18] team as we were two years ago 100 100 okay so we should blindly be coming in super duper confident [5:24] i don't think you you don't need to do it why are you blind you don't have to do it blindly i'm [5:27] right here i'm telling you yes you need to be very confident in us that was extreme i'm gonna let [5:33] that slide because you know you got the shoes on so that's love two different yeah that's fire we [5:37] worked out together that morning actually and yes he is very tall and very yeah why is he wearing a [5:45] tank top uh do you see his shoulders there uh he's the size of a barn and of course that's why he's [5:50] doing that he was very kind obviously very tall he's uh his recovery from achilles made us all excited [5:56] about you is that an accurate thing we should be thinking about that like how are the workouts going in [6:00] the gym are we making shots still are we missing shots what's going how are we are we feeling [6:05] explosive i know you're thinking about putting on a little bit more weight is that still something [6:09] we're thinking about at this moment yeah for sure i mean i've lost all the i mean fully transparent [6:13] here from shingles i probably gained like a cool 15 20. we saw it we saw it yeah that's why you know [6:19] the internet is a good place in time tyrese halla tyrese he's yeah yeah you know that's all part of it but [6:26] i've lost all i've lost most of it but i feel like i've gained what i've gained before that like [6:31] the good weight i feel like i still have so i feel great yeah because you're just you're in bulking [6:35] season yeah and then bulking season came like bulking season you know shingles on top of that yeah [6:41] yeah and then now you're in cutting season yeah shredding season yep because you got to get ready [6:46] for a big softball game yep why didn't you invite darius playing your softball game yours you can come to [6:51] my softball game you can't oh yeah whoa no i want you to come to my side see it wasn't because you [6:57] invited the toxic table out there yeah and the boys are super excited we are and all d-butt was doing [7:01] is i'm not why am i all up yeah i did shoot one of d-butt you are more than welcome to come my [7:06] softball game i want you to play in the softball game hey here we go hey he's bringing back that softball [7:12] game uh when george or yeah roy hibber paul george robert yeah it hasn't been a thing that since [7:18] since paul was there and then he got traded like that was a week later so yeah i'm bringing it back [7:25] okay we love that who's all going to be a part of it uh we're working on it right now obviously a lot [7:29] of pacers and fever of members of course but uh we got some names in the in the works i don't want [7:34] to tell everything right now it used to be colts verse it was like oh we got we got a lot of colts [7:38] guys coming too but then we're just working on you know getting some more celebrities outside of indiana [7:44] what are we doing home run derby or how's it how's it gonna go just a game i think just a game [7:48] i don't i don't i don't think we're doing a home run derby should we it's still still work in [7:53] progress right now it's tough the home run derby does steal clips early like jj watt does a softball [7:58] game and i think he does a home run derby before it um who else there was just one bills and the [8:04] patriots in their own respective ones did a home run derby yeah drake may had a home run derby at his [8:09] very recently here everybody does home run derby beforehand i think you obviously don't make everybody sign [8:12] up but it's just a moment to you sure will be off that day he's on the colts team for sure if that's [8:18] going to happen i don't think sure both sign up to play into many uh charity softball games in season [8:23] yeah but he's got to beat the pacers the colts come on sure just give him a call [8:29] that's up to tyrese if he wants to put that call in are you the commissioner of the game or what are you [8:34] uh i'm the captain of my team nice and i'm the host yes are you playing i am playing yes sir we don't need [8:40] you doing are we on your team um i don't know yet i kind of do are you do you guys have to be on the [8:47] same team yeah i would i would appreciate it if we were on the same okay yeah i think you're [8:52] drafting the toxic table to it you're drafting them together yeah as a tag team yeah we'll be [8:58] interviewing together duo okay it's august 24th so we got we got some time till we get there august 24th [9:04] you know what's happening on august 14th what's august 14th it's coming it's a big day what's august [9:11] work thanks for being a friend dude just wait thanks for being a friend when august 14th comes [9:17] and it happens you're going to think back to this moment you're going to say i'm worst friend of [9:21] all time what's august 14th he's just been in the lab yeah he's been so much no because i've seen him [9:28] over uh goof troop fest he was uh no no fanatics everybody calm down what's going on august 14th [9:35] fill me in please no don't worry about it i i you know i've been zero no the boys got questions you [9:40] haven't been we've seen you yeah you've been absolutely everywhere it's unbelievable yeah [9:47] you have been cool i have been everywhere literally all right you're the man uh connor has a question [9:52] i have to ask you about the jalen brown trade obviously the way that whole thing panned out [9:56] like in lamella to minnesota and yannis to miami like things have changed but how do you feel about [10:01] that entire thing because people were pissed tatum didn't come out and say anything and then eventually [10:06] he did and like people also acting like wise and tatum like defending jalen brown telling brad [10:11] stevens how to do his job also a very interesting angle what do you think about is it more so like [10:15] the second apron and how that works yeah i think that's obviously a big part of it our the second [10:20] apron is something that will have to be i think discussed is when we get to our next cba because i [10:24] think that it's hurting good teams from continuing to be good obviously the celtics championship team [10:30] comes back for one year and then they kind of go away even with the knicks not being able to run back that [10:34] same exact roster the following year so i hope it's something that we fix eventually but i think [10:39] the idea of it was good you know wanting to create parity and more teams can compete but i think it's [10:45] something that has to be discussed i think as far as the jb trade um i think like you saw brad stevens [10:50] kind of say it had a lot to do with freeing up more money to keep adding depth to the team which i [10:55] think is important i think it also creates more intrigue and more interest in the east like this is probably [11:00] the first time in the last however long that the east has been just as if not more interesting than [11:06] the west you know and i think that's exciting because we have a lot of teams that could come [11:10] out of our conference which i think is really exciting you got traded i did get traded did that [11:14] just feel how do you find out about that how do you feel about that because obviously you're a [11:18] superstar you go on to become olympic gold medals face of our city we're very thankful that for that and [11:23] lead the pacers to game seven of the nba finals where you're going to score 50 points and win it all [11:29] yeah in sacramento so get that guy out of here so whenever you find out about it probably the [11:34] first time in your life you've been told in basketball that somebody didn't want you on [11:37] their team yeah how is that personally and professionally in an nba i feel like it does [11:41] happen yeah i feel like it's a little different though because i got i got traded in the middle [11:45] of my second year you know you're kind of young and naive to the business and you still think it's like [11:49] family on three one two three but you still you still kind of view it that way but i feel like the more [11:55] time that you're in especially after that it's allowed me to understand that this is a business you kind of [12:00] everybody is like you're competing you're in the locker room your brothers of course but i think [12:05] in a day everybody understands the business anybody can be traded at any time and in the case of boston [12:09] like with jaylen is kind of was talked about all summer so some that i'm sure that he was aware that [12:15] was a real possibility and ultimately did happen so i think my viewpoint on it was very different [12:21] at that time versus if i i'm i don't think i'm gonna get traded anytime soon but if i were to get traded [12:27] today my view on it would be a lot different than it was in year two [12:30] and what did jaylen say to you anything did he say i'll tell you what i'll give you one of these [12:34] any of those well when when i was walking away yeah when i was walking away he was like i you have to [12:39] see me i can't wait for you to be back oh is that what he said yeah and then you said you ain't beat me [12:44] yeah i like that you guys are actually talking in there yeah that's some real it was fun it was fun [12:51] we had a good time with it yeah for sure yeah we had a good time and jaylen would say i told tyrese [12:55] the truth yeah he's gonna have to come to me and you said i told the truth too they didn't beat us on [13:00] the way to the run a lot of people did beat the pacers now this past year yeah basically a lot [13:05] of points it was a rough it was a tough year growing paints all part of it and they still [13:10] made a move and got zubach or zubat you're gonna love zoo he's a doubt you are going to love [13:16] zoo i can already tell i love him he's like a big tj mcconnell i've been told he's a double machine [13:36] what's that that's just a lot of pressure because the move that was made to get him [13:40] should have had the fifth overall can i say something let's think about it though right we [13:44] don't need a guard the fifth pick was a guard the sixth pick was a guard you couldn't you could [13:50] have used mo johnson mo johnson morris johnson the guy that oh oh the dude in dallas yeah yeah yeah [13:57] i'm i like zoo we're trying to win right now double double machine what if it would [14:01] what if it worked out that we got zoo and a top four pick you ought to be like oh yeah jean you guys are [14:06] genius it just didn't work out we took a gamble we i guess we lost because we didn't get the pick but we [14:10] got zoo who's one of the best centers and we got you back that's all that really matters that seems like a [14:15] pretty good off season for the pacers it feels like a great office oh yeah we got kelly uber [14:19] coming what kelly he's got a jumper there great hair he can guard canadian guy he's not canadian is [14:25] he i think so kelly uber is not canadian lefty isn't he that would make him canadian because he's [14:31] left-handed i'm almost 100 sure he's not canadian i'm pretty sure i'm from uh don't think the states [14:37] yeah yeah yeah he's american he's american you're thinking of olenic maybe you are thinking of kelly [14:44] olenic maybe we don't have him we do not he plays the spurs guy it'd be great to get him on our team [14:48] i like him not that i don't like this other kelly that certainly showed up in a great way i love that [14:52] he's here i can't wait to watch you like him too trust me carlo gonna have you guys running or no [14:56] of course spurs are gonna be tough the tires are good thunder good knicks are good thunderstorm the nba [15:03] is in a great place right now it's gonna be fun yeah but what if what if we get lebron why don't [15:07] you fire off another text can we craft one let's abuse i left my phone out there but we could [15:13] definitely craft up a text here text from my phone all right uh let's get to a break uh we'll come [15:21] back on the other side wrap up everything from the weekend and also uh tyrus what else should we have [15:26] asked you about anything puma got new shoes out you excited to get married i am excited to get [15:32] married to get married in a couple weeks i signed kelsey mitchell to puma congratulations [15:36] oh speaking of kelsey mitchell she becomes uh all-time leading scorer for the fever i believe [15:40] or did she i think maybe second highest scoring yeah probably that would make sense yeah and then [15:45] caitlin goes absolutely crazy yeah 45 points 10 assists uh i think that's the most that ever has [15:50] happened for uh the entire league first 40 and 10 ever in w history there was people saying she shouldn't [15:57] it'd be better for a league she wasn't in a league i'm still saying that come on well you gotta be a [16:01] better hoover she wasn't what top 10 player top 10 guard or something like that yeah you heard it [16:07] people talking about trading her it's like if they can't do that foolishness it's great that she is [16:12] playing like that though i think in the middle of this whole thing tells us a lot about not only her [16:15] but the fever are the feet you're at every game are the fever gonna win this thing are they uh we got [16:18] a team that can go on a run uh offensively we're the best offense in the w no we can score on anybody [16:24] we're gonna have to get some stops if we want to we want to win big we defensively gotta get a lot better [16:29] we're not smacking wood done we're not where we where we need to be right now but that's okay we [16:33] got some time to get there what is it effort or is it scheme or is it personnel uh i don't know that [16:40] answer that's a great question i think we just have to overall be better like we give up too many [16:46] points right now we we're like first or second in the w and points per game but probably the [16:51] worst defense in basketball is probably a bad combination can't be the best at everything you know [16:58] you know but we started locking down on a defense delivery to 88 on saturday night i mean and we [17:03] know that the libs are really good at scoring up a lot of points hey what do you say the liberty [17:08] 88 yeah held the libs 88 on a on a back-to-back which is impressive yeah especially with the way [17:14] that liberty team scores yeah peace too because i watch them live we're talking like no looks from [17:18] sabrina you know a good team i didn't know sophie cunningham also scoring i thought she was just [17:26] there to fight people no she's got a jumper she could shoot it she does definitely and she's in [17:31] the middle of it all you know with this stumper here she's taking photos of people oh yeah good [17:35] internet meme that is how they're taking pictures now did you take one i have not taken a picture [17:40] doing that that was probably actually just now my first point ever that's a pretty cool point [17:44] you're gonna think about doing it maybe next year you make a big time three just right to it boom bang [17:57] that'd be cool you know the funny part about this where she's taking all the pictures with the kids [18:00] doing the point is like you don't understand in the moment the things that you do that are going [18:04] to affect that kids are going to think is the coolest thing ever we got it's a great great point [18:11] thank you all right let's take a break anything to say the team tyrese team on me i appreciate you [18:17] guys having me it's good to see you guys congratulations thank you you stood the point [18:22] i did do the point again sorry cool take that back anything to say to people watching appreciate you [18:27] guys tuning in to pat mcafee show we'll be back tomorrow or is this just a break or is this the end of the [18:32] the show i think it's i think you should be on this show okay we'll see you guys tomorrow what is it [18:37] be you got it you got it you got it be a friend tell a friend something nice be a good person hell [18:43] yeah there you go what i missed it might change your life here at the end but you're close enough [18:49] don't worry about it you you put your own little on that okay you like that i like what you did there [18:54] perfect cheers to you bro yeah cheers 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