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It 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.360 is our first episode that from start to finish, my 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:25.240 soon to be eighteen year old high school graduate daughter, 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:30.120 Diora is in for Demonse. Demonse officially moves to LA 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:34.319 on Friday. Now he will be for those Demanse stands 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.440 out there. It's really just one guy with a Twitter account. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:37.040 Uh. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.480 He will be back on the show from Los Angeles 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:45.759 before football season resumes. But in the meantime, the star 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.600 of stage and screen one, do Youora right? Is gonna 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:49.920 join me? You excited for this? 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:51.040 Yeah? 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.520 Okay, that seems sarcastic, but she is. This is a 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.960 great opportunity for her and any casting agents out there. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.200 Keep in mind, again, as we mentioned last, the college 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.680 fund isn't quite as robust as it once was. So 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.680 if she gets maybe an opportunity, a professional opportunity to 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.640 go along with college or maybe replace college. You know, 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.560 we are listening, and she is, you know, accepting auditions. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.200 Here is what is not on today's show. Not on 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.080 the show. Paul George gonna miss the start of the playoffs. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.440 That's on the show because we already knew it. Aliah 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:27.720 Boston goes number one overall in the WNBA draft and 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.560 sidebar on that. With name, image and likeness being a 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.600 big thing in college sports now, and with the women's 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.280 tournament rating the way it did, I think you're going 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:43.320 to see the best female basketball players trying to stay 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.240 as long in college, maybe fifth year of eligibility, because 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.239 I think there is more money to be made right 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:53.760 now for a college women's basketball player than in the WNBA. 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:58.079 And Carson Palmer, with the worst sports take of twenty 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.119 twenty three, close the book on it. We're in April. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.919 No one's gonna beat it. He says, Joe Burrow is 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.920 better than Patrick Mahomes. Now do Youorra? You're not what 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.040 I would call a diehard football fan, but in your 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.560 you know, somewhat amateur opinion, is there anyone in the 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.240 league better than Patrick Mahomes? 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.399 I wouldn't say even she knows that yet. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.440 Garzon Balmber, Oh, because he's a Bengal, is gonna cape 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.920 for Joe Burrow. Give me a break, all right, Doorra, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.079 It's gonna be really hard for me not to call 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.480 you Scooter. Throughout today's show. I keep I keep wanting 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.800 to say, all right, Scoot, All right, Dora, what are 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:36.760 we starting with today? 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.440 Okay? So your NBA champion pick, the Lakers are in 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.200 the play in. Yeah, and you've predicted that the Warriors 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.640 won't make it out a round one. Yes, So what 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.960 happens when La gets bounced and the Warriors go go 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.080 on to defend their titles? 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:51.840 Okay, well that's not gonna happen, but that would be 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.120 disastrous for me, right, So I do have a bit 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.520 of a tortured history involving my picks and the Warriors. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.680 So it dates back to twenty six you know, really, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:09.800 my first big day on television was filling in for 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:16.960 Colin Cowherd July fourth, twenty sixteen. What what do you make? 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.279 What you think? It's sweet that I remember the day 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.560 and it was the biggest day of my professional life 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:26.080 up to that point. I was hosting my professional idols 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.039 radio show. I was getting to host it because it 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.600 was a holiday. He was with his family, and ten 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:37.320 minutes before we went on the air, Kevin Durant shocked 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.680 me and a lot of the sports world by leaving 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:45.320 the Oklahoma City Thunder to go to the Golden State Warriors. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.680 And I said that day and then throughout that season 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:56.080 that the Warriors had made a mistake that they should 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.279 have just run it back. And I know now it 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:04.240 seems re ridiculous, but in the moment, my argument I 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.920 think was sound. That was the best team I had 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.039 ever seen, the twenty sixteen Warriors. They had just won 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.600 seventy three games. Steph Curry had the best offensive season, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.839 arguably in the history of the sport. Now they're massively 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.880 changing their team because they were overreacting to Lebron ripping 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.599 off the greatest three games stretch in the history of 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:29.040 basketball to beat them. That if one shot had gone differently, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.320 they would have won back to back championships and not 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:36.520 changed anything. So why massively remake their team. I said 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.200 they'd be worse than they lost to the Lebron and 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.920 the Calves on Christmas, and I said the Calves were 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.040 gonna win the title and the Caves would beat them 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.479 in five games for to one. The Lakers went on 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.239 to win the next two championships. They won in five 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.920 that year. The next year they swept Lebron and many 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.880 people consider it the greatest team in the history of 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.640 the sport. Then Durant got hurt, Durant Draymond get an argument, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:06.080 Durant leaves, and then the Warriors are seemingly, you know, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.600 flailing about. They get D'Angelo Russell and the Durant trade. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.240 They then trade D'Angelo Russell for Andrew Wiggins and draft picks. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.640 Andrew Wiggins, at the time was on a horrible contract 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.880 and a very inefficient player. And I went on TV 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.839 and said, this trade is gonna be the reason why 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:29.640 Steph Curry never plays in another NBA finals. And then 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.279 two years later, the Warriors made the NBA Finals and 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.360 I was I was, oh, I was very wrong, and 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.440 the Warriors players talked about it and Draymond Green said, Nick, right, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.080 when are you gonna apologize Andrew Wiggins. There's the whole thing. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.440 Was very wrong. So the Warriors make the finals against 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.600 another team I don't have a great history with Boston, 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.680 and I picked the Warriors to win the title, and 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:59.960 then the Warriors win. It's one one in the series. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.200 I picked the Warriors to win the title, and I 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.960 switched my pick to the Celtics, and then guess what 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.960 happened to your I thought you were never wrong, though, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.880 well you know, I'm very rarely, if ever wrong on facts, 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.320 as I do not have the ability to see the future, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.200 so occasionally my predictions are incorrect. But so I picked 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.280 the I finally, for the first time ever, picked the 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.400 Warriors and then switched it to the Celtics. And then 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.760 what happened in that series? Do you think the Warriors one? 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.640 And then Draymond Green again podcasted about me and saying 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.680 that I have to stand on it. You of course 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.960 you would too. So that then brings us to this 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:44.880 year where the Golden State Warriors were a historically bad 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:50.240 road team. Yeah, exactly, because they haven't been that good 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:55.720 and they are playing the frisky Sacramento Kings. The Kings 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.120 had a great season. They're the three seed. The Warriors 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.320 had a disappointing season. They're the sixth seed. The Warriors 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.560 are huge favorites in the series. I am picking the Kings. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.960 I do not believe this Warriors team is going to 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.360 be able to just it's not great for me. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.560 If they win, it's gonna be the funniest thing ever. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.200 Well, so here is the So then let me give 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.000 you the context of the Lakers. Lakers obviously had a 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.960 terrible start to the season. They had a broken roster, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.240 then they made massive trades. Since the trade deadline, they've 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.160 been the best team in the West. I am picking 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.440 the Lakers to win the title in part. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.520 Just because of Lebron though Is that just because when 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.000 you have him. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:39.480 Not to stick by him, but because he's still one 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.920 of the eight best players in the sport. Anthony Davis 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.560 is playing great, and you guys want to know something 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.240 real funny, just quickly here and then I'll get back 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.920 to the analysis. I told Diora before the show that, like, hey, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.040 feel free. People like it when you you know, when 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.760 you were demons or whomever. Just wait, just wait a second, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.600 poke fun at me about the Lebron stuff. So I 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.680 encourage her to do it. And yet right when she 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.679 did it, I got very angry, Like I was like, well, no, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.880 that is not why it's not state. Even though I 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.720 told you to do it, I get very angry. So 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.120 I picked the Lakers. We could have a Lakers Warriors 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.520 Round two series if the Lakers win tonight and then 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.800 beat the Grizzlies, and if the Warriors beat the Kings. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.360 I don't think the Warriors are beating the Kings. I don't. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:30.680 I think the Warriors are emotionally spent after last year 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.520 Andrew Wiggins, who is very important to them. I was 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.120 wrong about him, but he has missed two months of 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.559 basketball attending to a family matter. Now he's going to 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.920 be thrust into the playoff cauldron and have to be 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:48.280 a critical player for them. The Kings statistically have the 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.520 best offense in NBA history on a points per one 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.920 hundred posessions basis. They're all NBA level point guard is 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.200 a guy that actually played against your brother in high school, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:03.920 Daron Fox Houston kid, He's unbelievable. Demontes Sabonis is the 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.080 exact type of center that gives Draymond trouble. So I 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.240 believe the Kings will beat the Warriors. If the Kings 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.520 don't beat the Warriors, the Lakers certainly will dispatch up 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:19.959 the Warriors in round two. Now, to answer the question, okay, 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:27.360 if the Lakers were to get bounced early, maybe even 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.240 in the play in which they want, and the Warriors 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:36.680 were to win the title, I've got some hard choices 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:36.880 to me. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:37.840 Mm hm. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.280 I might have to just become a football guy, because 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.880 my football predictions for multiple years have been spot on. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.440 But everyone kind of views me as an NBA guy 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.120 just because of the Lebron stuff, because I was first 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:56.760 to market. No, we're not best No, I don't think 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.040 we're best friends. I don't even think Lebron and are friends. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:04.960 Were friendly, but I don't think we're close. It's not 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.120 like he and I text or chat. I just recognize 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:13.040 what I'm seeing and so on the Lebron thing. You 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.840 know what, I'm gonna save this for Thursday show. Remind 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.240 me to have a Lebron best case worst case discussion 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:24.000 on Thursday show. Okay, well, someone that takes their job seriously. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.400 You know what, I'm gonna trust Victor with it, because 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.520 Victor one of our producers, even though I take shots 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.839 at his you know, headwear occasionally, vict No, Victor, you're 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.840 my guy. Victor's shaking his head a. Victor is also 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.320 not wearing the skull cap today. He switched it up. 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.760 I bullied him out of it a little bit. Uh speak. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.120 Oh he's got it right next to him. Victor. Remind 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.040 me to do a Lebron best case worst case thing. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.800 But short version is as I give a ten minute answer. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:53.319 It's terribly bad for me. If the my worst case 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:57.520 scenario of these playoffs is the Warriors beating the Lakers 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.280 in Round two and then the Warriors going on to 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:04.199 win the title. Luckily, we're going to get Lakers Kings 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.080 in round two, and I am going to some of 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.000 those games. We are I'm going to Sacramento to watch 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.400 some of those games. I'm going to Los Angeles to 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.480 watch some of those games. I don't know how I'm 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.000 doing it, but I'm doing it. Do you know where 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.599 the Sacramento Kings. The Sacramento Kings in the Sacramento Well, 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.880 that's another question. In the early eighties they moved from 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.680 a city to Sacramento. What city do you think it was? 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:29.559 Oh? 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.400 No, where where were you born? Where was I born? 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.160 They were the Kansas City Kings. Tiny knaded archibald, only 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.120 guy ever to lead the league in points and assist 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.320 for Kansas City. I know they left us. We haven't 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:42.360 had a team in forty years. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.120 But it's because it's Kansas City. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:45.200 Oh what does that mean? 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.400 I mean like they can have the chiefs like. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.080 It's all like Sacramento is a bustling metropolis. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.400 It's better than Kansas City. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.800 Okay, shot like fire, shots fired in our hometown. I 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.000 don't I don't like that. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:58.079 I don't like that. 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.360 We have a You and me of our five members 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.439 of our family were the only people born in Kansas. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:08.680 In California and one is in Kansas and Missouri, which 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:09.480 doesn't really help. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.960 Okay, next topic, I'm not gonna have you take shots 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.120 at our hometown. What type of law? Who did I raise? 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.000 You have no hometown loyalty? It's outrageous. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.640 Next, I wouldn't really call it my hometown. 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:20.400 It is your hometown. 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.120 I don't claim it's where. I don't claim it. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:22.760 Where do you claim? 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.720 I don't claim it. I claim I'm from Houston. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:26.319 You claim your but you're not. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.480 But I claim that I moved there when I was 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.280 going into the second grade. I don't claim Kansas City. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.960 Okay. Next, I don't like that at all. I don't 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:35.800 like that at all. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.960 Moving on, The MAVs pulled off the biggest collapse possible, 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.960 but Lucas says he's happy in Dallas right, and the 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:48.280 Hawks are shopping chick Tray young even though they're not 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:49.719 even eliminated yet. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:50.360 Yeah. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.680 Crazy idea. What if the Hawks and the MAVs did 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.640 the Luca for Trey trade again? 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.000 Okay, so they were traded on Draft Day for each other. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.760 That would be the biggest disaster in ever its history. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.600 That trade could never happen, would never happened? Have I 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:05.360 been saying it a lot? 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:05.920 Yeah? 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.679 Okay, Well I don't mean oh because I grasty. Oh yeah, okay, 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.320 Well you know what, This is why it's good to 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.120 have you here. No, no, this is why it's good 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.880 to have you here because you will keep me up 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.000 on those types of things. You're right, I need to 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.320 expand my vocabulary a bit, and I will try to 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.480 do that, So thank you for that. I am a wordsmith. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:32.720 This so Luca for Trey would be a debacle for 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:37.480 the Map back and it can't happen. So we've listened. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.800 This year went as poorly as a season can go 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.760 for the Maps, and next year, all of a sudden, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:52.760 becomes maybe the biggest year on franchise history, because next 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:57.280 year we'll determine whether we look at this season where 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.920 they missed the playoffs as the aberration or last season 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:06.480 when they made the conference finals as the aberration. And 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:12.360 for Luca, legacy wise, this is a tough one. Now, 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:17.440 it's not a legacy ender missing the playoffs. Kobe missed 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.480 the playoffs in his prime. A Kem missed the playoffs 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:24.520 in his prime. Kareem missed the playoffs in his prime. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.120 You can miss the playoffs in your prime and still 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:32.400 be one of the greatest players. Ever, however, it does 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:37.120 go on the ledger. You should not have a fully 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:41.040 healthy Luka Doncic season and not even make the play 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.200 in to be eligible for the playoffs, and the team 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.560 against Luca's best wishes quit the final couple games of 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.160 the year. We'll see how that works out for him. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.680 Maybe they end up with an awesome draft pick, maybe 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.800 they move up in the lottery and they get scooted, 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:01.520 or amazingly somehow get Winmbanyama. But you're talking about a 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:06.840 seven foot five French kid that plays guard. You've never 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:07.760 seen anyone like him? 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.080 Seven foot five, that's insane. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.040 No, we've never seen anyone like him. The concern is 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:15.040 he just tall, though? 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.480 Is he actually like No, that's. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.000 What I'm saying. He plays guard, he shoots threes, he 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:20.840 plays out on the perimeter, he brings the ball up. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.400 Never seen an athlete like him ever, So a lot 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.520 of teams are trying to be bad this year because 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.080 the worst teams have the best chance of getting the 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.400 number one pick. The concern with him is health because 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.680 guys that tall usually aren't healthy. But for context, for that, 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:37.080 Lebron is six ' eight, so he's nine inches taller 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.840 than Lebron Dwight Howard. Dwight Howard is not even seven 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.160 ft tall seven to one, so this guy's seven five. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:46.480 Wow. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.240 Do you remember do you remember yew Ming, the Asian 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:55.160 guy played for Houston? Yeah, Yeoming some four. This guy's 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.560 seven five and plays guard. He's unbelievable. So listen, if 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.520 the MAVs get him, then it was so they all 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.480 worked out, but they're probably not gonna get him. They're 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.560 probably getting up with Grady Dick from Kansas, the tenth 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.919 pick of the draft, and that's not exactly a world changer. 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.840 So some of this though, Luca needs to get in 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:17.879 better shape. Luca is reportedly oddly loves sweet tea and 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.960 drinks a ton of them, like a lot a day. Yeah, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.399 something like that, and it puts on weight. He also 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.840 smokes hookah, which again he's a pro athlete. He's now 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.760 in his defense because he plays from Slovenia. He plays 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.320 for their Olympic team and their World championship team during 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.920 the summers, so he has had like three straight years 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.120 or nothing but basketball. You had the Bubble playoffs, then 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.880 you had the Olympics, then you had a season, then 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.159 you have the World Championships, then you had another season. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.120 So he needs a break, but he needs to get 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:52.520 in better shape. They got to figure out what they're 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:57.360 doing with Kyrie. They are teetering on disaster. The MAVs. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:02.480 I'm sorry, the Hawks are full blown disaster. Yeah. Ah, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:08.800 and listen, Trey Young's dad gets mad at me about 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.880 this stuff. I really like Trey coming out of Oklahoma. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.440 He is an offense unto himself. We have seen him 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.400 be the engine of a team that made a conference finals. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.320 You can't take that away from him. Here's what you 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.520 can say, though, he seems to be a coach killer. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.600 He kills you defensively, and he doesn't seem to be 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.560 the best organizational leader. So if you're Trey and you're 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:40.199 hearing you're already being shopped, it's less about will the 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.440 Hawks actually trade you, and more about whether you get 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.760 traded or not. Are you going to adjust some of 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:53.120 your leadership and personality issues to be a winning player. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.159 You're gonna have defensive issues no matter what because of 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.400 your size, but you're so great offensively. If you're a 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.360 better leader and better with teammates and coaches. You could 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.520 be one of the great players in this league right now. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.600 He is, as Bill Simmons would say, a good stats, 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.719 bad team guy. That's just what he is. And his 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.840 trade market's gonna be very interesting this offseason if they 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:18.000 actually do shopp him. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.280 All right, Next, okay, you picture all NBA team. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.280 Yeah, we're gonna You can keep reading the question, but 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.359 we're gonna show you guys that on the screen. Go ahead. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.760 You don't really have a real vote though. I don't 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.280 know where you got the idea that you did. But 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.680 you put on Luca even though he missed the playoffs 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:43.680 in no Jalen Brunson. Yeah, okay, how is that possible? 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.320 Okay, So I'll be very listen. So here's my all 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.919 NBA teams. If you're not watching, I'll give it to 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.960 you for the podcast listeners. I actually believe and leave 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.560 this up for a while, guys, I believe in true 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:02.600 positional designation. So I know the All NBA actual ballot. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:06.240 They let you call Yannis I'm sorry, Embiid a forward. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.239 They let you call Luca a guard. They let you 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:13.360 call Tatum a guard. That's nonsense. We know what positions 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.119 these guys play, and I stayed true to it. Next year, 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.960 they're getting rid of the positional designations altogether. I hate that, 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:23.119 but set that aside. So my first team is very 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:28.000 easy at the top and then gets complicated. Embiid, Yannis Tatum, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.600 Diaron Fox, and Steph Curry. So Embiid is my MVP, 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.240 he's got to be first team. Yan is still the 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.320 best player in the league. He's my second in MVP voting. 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.560 He's got to be first team. Tatum has been unbelievable. 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.320 He had a bit of a slow post All Star Break, 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.160 you know, spell, but that's fine. He's a no doubt 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.480 first teamer. The guard spots are tough. I went de 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:54.080 Aaron Fox because his clutch numbers this year have been 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.000 out of this world. The Kings of the three seed. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.560 No one saw that coming. And then my other guard 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.119 spot to Steph. Now, he didn't play as many games 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:05.480 as other guys. I get it, but he to me, 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.520 my minimum threshold games is right about two thirds of 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.400 the season. You've got to play at least about fifty 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:17.679 four games to be eligible. Steph hit that mark. I 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.440 don't think this Warriors team is very good. He got 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:22.800 them to the sixth seed. He gets the last guard 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:29.320 spot second team Jokic, obvious center forward Lebron, Jimmy Butler, Donovan, Mitchell, Luca. 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:34.800 So let's deal with the guards and the forwards. Lucas 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.199 still was thirty eight, thirty two to eight to eight 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:39.640 this year. There's thirty two, eight and seven. This year. 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.800 They were the four seed before they traded for Kyrie. 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:50.400 I can't knock him off the All NBA teams all together? Now? 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.280 Could I knock him down to the third team? 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.520 But you couldn't technically. 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:57.480 Do anything, you know you mean, because I don't. 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.520 You don't really have the power to do that. 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:03.119 But you want to know something tragic that happened to me. 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:05.120 I don't know if I should reveal this, but I'm 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:09.360 going to Adam left go. He was at our Halloween 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:13.520 party dressed as Zach Morris and Oh from Saved by 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:16.560 the Bell, and my wife was Lisa Turner. You remember them. 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:20.680 He and I went to college together. Uh. He's a 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:24.439 dear friend of mine and works for TNT hosting inside 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:30.640 the NBA. He text me like two weeks ago, check 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:34.920