Speaker 1: Yes, who's back back again? Miles and Jack bred bandaging
Speaker 1: and okay, yeah, we see we worked on that was
Speaker 1: paws together. The dynamic tool has returned. And guess what,
Speaker 1: we can't wait for the playoffs. We're salivating like the
Speaker 1: cartoons because the playoffs are here, and we'll discuss some
Speaker 1: of the exciting matchup the regular season awards. Got a
Speaker 1: hand to feel those out and plentymore with comedian, writer
Speaker 1: and podcaster Sean Keene on today's episode. I'm Miles Gray
Speaker 1: and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is us driving Spinning Curry,
Speaker 1: a three parter stuff curry from town again. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: we're back back. I didn't hold my breath since the
Speaker 1: last time I was on with you. I know it's
Speaker 1: not gone. Well, yeah, you still look pretty grayish blue. Oh,
Speaker 1: I will say it's not the most flattering skin tone
Speaker 1: on you. But yeah, we did nail the intro as
Speaker 1: usual as usual. But let's bring in our guests today. Hilarious.
Speaker 1: Guess one of our favorites to come on the show.
Speaker 1: You probably know him from his podcast Roundball Rock, and
Speaker 1: you might know him even better because he's got a
Speaker 1: new comedy album coming out called America's Uncle Dad. Okay,
Speaker 1: daddast big Uncle Dad energy today. Yes, please welcome to
Speaker 1: the microphone, mister Sharkane, thanks so much from downtown. Nailed it,
Speaker 1: nailed it good man. I'm good. I'm excited about the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I think we got some good uh playing games too.
Speaker 1: And uh I like that, uh even in advance. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna I don't want to jinx anything, but I
Speaker 1: like that the Lakers and Grizzlies are already feuding even
Speaker 1: before their matchup set up, so that so the game
Speaker 1: will the games will be over. But we are explicitly
Speaker 1: uh this this podcast is set before the Minnesota Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Lakers, like the tip off is like hours like
Speaker 1: two hours away, hours away. Um Miles to explain why
Speaker 1: the Lakers should be the championship favorite. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean look at that path, you know, just I
Speaker 1: love the seating. You know, we'll eat them all up.
Speaker 1: Super producer Jabari was like, I don't know about the Grizzlies, man, Yes,
Speaker 1: they are the roaches of the league and that they
Speaker 1: are an indestructible force that defy all reason. That does
Speaker 1: scare me because that is the kind of team that
Speaker 1: would probably do us in. But as I look at it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, well, I guess you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to get through it to get to it. So you know,
Speaker 1: bring them, bring them, as we say, I mean, I
Speaker 1: want to. I want to. Just this is I feel
Speaker 1: like the most the West is the most wide open
Speaker 1: we've seen a conference, like in years that that I
Speaker 1: can remember. It just feels completely wide open. We went
Speaker 1: on fan duel to look at the NBA Finals odds
Speaker 1: and like they're really just all over the place. Like
Speaker 1: the Suns the Warriors are the two. They have the
Speaker 1: best odds to make it out of the West. The
Speaker 1: Suns the fourth seed, which for understandable reasons, the Warriors,
Speaker 1: your team shone Suddenly everybody was it was it just
Speaker 1: the Clay quote being like, what when we're healthy, I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone could beat us, And everyone's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: good point, all right, Yeah they're the favorite. Um, the
Speaker 1: Nuggets are the third favorite coming out. The Lakers, who
Speaker 1: are in the play in are the fourth favorite coming
Speaker 1: out of the West. The Grizzlies, the Clippers. Are they
Speaker 1: doing that because they know Lakers fans are just like
Speaker 1: rabid enough to put massive amounts of cash down maybe yea,
Speaker 1: like a public team. Yeah, I don't know. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, so this is how they have it ranked,
Speaker 1: just in terms of this is how the gamblers haven't ranked.
Speaker 1: The public markets have the Bucks as the top favorite,
Speaker 1: the Celtics as the second favorite, the Sons, the Warriors,
Speaker 1: the Sixers in fifth place, the Nuggets, the Lakers, the
Speaker 1: grizz and the Clippers. So here I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: through and tell you where I think the public is wrong.
Speaker 1: I think the Celtics should absolutely be number one over
Speaker 1: the Bucks after the thrashing that they gave them. Just generally,
Speaker 1: they've been the best team all season. They were consistently
Speaker 1: the most dominant team other than you know, they had
Speaker 1: their swoons, but it always felt like when they were
Speaker 1: falling off, it was because there was like a focus,
Speaker 1: and then when it was a game that they needed
Speaker 1: to win, they would like win by fourteen, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: even be close. So I don't under the Bucks over
Speaker 1: the Celtics is confounding to me. Is it anything to
Speaker 1: do with like no one coming back to the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference finals and that they think that might be like
Speaker 1: a disadvantage. I mean, I know that most people most
Speaker 1: of America are boost these listeners, so they probably aren't
Speaker 1: know that fact. But now, but I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe they just you know, yannis or disrespect because even
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm not a Celtics fans, but they
Speaker 1: seem like the best team heading in like kind of
Speaker 1: a clear best team to me, right, I think it's
Speaker 1: only because they have to play the Sixers before they
Speaker 1: play the Bucks. I think the Celtics would be favored
Speaker 1: against the Bucks, but no one really respects the calf
Speaker 1: the Knicks maybe, so that's my thought. I see this
Speaker 1: like if they were the top seed, they'd be like
Speaker 1: easily to favor. So I think fans, when you're pulling
Speaker 1: for a team all season, you have a little bit
Speaker 1: of like a sixth sense that you develop about that team.
Speaker 1: And I will say I think the Sixers should not
Speaker 1: be ranked as as high as they are on the
Speaker 1: I like, barring injury, like beyond just the like Robert
Speaker 1: Williams being unreliable and you know, maybe being hurt. I
Speaker 1: don't like, even with Robert Williams in or out, barring injury,
Speaker 1: the Sixers are not getting past the Celtics in the
Speaker 1: second round, like that's that's it's a rat as far
Speaker 1: as i'm because like, unless one of their like main
Speaker 1: three perimeter players, it's just the worst matchup. Nothing against
Speaker 1: the sixers. It's just like and you have I don't know,
Speaker 1: sometimes maybe maybe being a fan, like I'm overly cynical
Speaker 1: about this, but it just feels like they don't have
Speaker 1: like that matchup does not work in their favor, Like
Speaker 1: I don't but you know, maybe maybe their fifth because
Speaker 1: the Celtics could get injured or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't know how you could feel like you're
Speaker 1: going to be disappointed by Doc Rivers or James Harden
Speaker 1: or Joel Embiid in the playoffs, especially a series the
Speaker 1: first two points grant I grant you with enthusiasm. Uh,
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid has been like concussed or had his face
Speaker 1: broken and everyone like he's a joke. He's choken on
Speaker 1: pieces of his face, He's had his face broken multiple times.
Speaker 1: Um So I don't know, I expect big playoffs from him.
Speaker 1: I expect a big you know, second round from him.
Speaker 1: I just don't know that it's gonna be enough. It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it's enough to uh come close to
Speaker 1: beating the Celtics, all right, But I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you guys about your teams because the Lakers, they've
Speaker 1: been like the second team that I'm pulling for, and
Speaker 1: I have a similar feeling, like even with the game
Speaker 1: against Utah, which they needed it right like the eighty
Speaker 1: second game of the season, like they were trying to
Speaker 1: win that game. The other games that determined seating weren't
Speaker 1: wrapped up up as of yet, and even in that game,
Speaker 1: like having rooted for this Lakers team all season, I
Speaker 1: wanted to see them put the stomp on Utah. I
Speaker 1: watched your Warriors put the stomp on Portland, and as
Speaker 1: I was checking the score, I was like, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be like a two point game. But I just
Speaker 1: knew it heading into the fourth, Like there's just something
Speaker 1: about this team where when they most need it, when
Speaker 1: you're most like, well, they're they're gonna show up and
Speaker 1: put the stomp down on Like now they just don't
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, you know, and what you said is
Speaker 1: all true and valid, But my thing is I'm not
Speaker 1: living in the same reality as most NBA fans right
Speaker 1: where you are a Lakers fan. I'm a Lakers No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm a sovereign citizen of Laker Nation, and whenever I
Speaker 1: interact with the police, they don't like it. But I
Speaker 1: gotta say, man, like, it's one of those things where like,
Speaker 1: I just feel the only thing that gives me hope
Speaker 1: is just a weird run and a little bit of
Speaker 1: momentum that we can carry from game to game. Because
Speaker 1: there were moments before we're like I was telling Jabar,
Speaker 1: We're like, yo, okay, we got something here. We got okay,
Speaker 1: I could I can get behind this. But then you'd
Speaker 1: have some performances where you're like, I really would have
Speaker 1: liked to see a little bit more dominance there, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't happened, which shows that I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: Jabar was saying this before, and I agree with him completely.
Speaker 1: It's going to be feast or famine. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But I haven't seen that much feast
Speaker 1: in this season. I haven't seen that much feast. Oh
Speaker 1: you should have seen it against their food. You see
Speaker 1: it against Chic with Austin Reeves hit Pat Bev with
Speaker 1: that too small. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna I think it's gonna be tough. I'm
Speaker 1: not I think I said last week. I'm I'm very realistic.
Speaker 1: If we get to the second round, I'm going to
Speaker 1: have a party for myself. I have to know expectation. However,
Speaker 1: I will say this without the game being played against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: we are going to absolutely destroy them. Okay, yeah, you
Speaker 1: could put this on a plaque and we'll visit this
Speaker 1: next week when I know the Lakers have done what
Speaker 1: they're going to do to the Wolves. And if they don't,
Speaker 1: guess what, I don't care. Ray Jas though, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: guess and I'll put on my Grizzlies jersey they have.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy that this game that the Lakers have
Speaker 1: basically every advantage imaginable, it's shaping out to be a
Speaker 1: blowout win for the Wolves. Yeah that's what. That's what,
Speaker 1: And maybe they take care of business and the matchup
Speaker 1: with the Grizzlies, like it feels like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of narrative of the Laker. You know, this is a
Speaker 1: great matchup for the Lakers, but like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: Grizzlies have that last season, they have that experience from
Speaker 1: last season. I feel like that people are ignoring it
Speaker 1: because they like don't really like the griz Like the
Speaker 1: Grizzlies kind of became on cool at some point this season,
Speaker 1: and like they feel underrated to me at this point
Speaker 1: heading into the playoffs, Like the Grizzlies feel like they
Speaker 1: could play really well throughout the playoffs and you know,
Speaker 1: surprise a lot of the people. Yeah, no, I could
Speaker 1: totally see that, I ainka. I mean just based on
Speaker 1: how they even figure out how to do it without
Speaker 1: like Jaw or Adams or anything like that. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: somehow there's like a squad there that that pulls for
Speaker 1: each other. They can get it. I mean they have.
Speaker 1: They have this weird thing where Jaw is the biggest star,
Speaker 1: like one of the biggest stars in the league, but
Speaker 1: they play just as well or better without him. So
Speaker 1: I think that also like doesn't compute with like the
Speaker 1: fan brain of like how you're supposed to think about
Speaker 1: an NBA team, So like that probably also takes away
Speaker 1: from their narrative momentum. But I don't know that the
Speaker 1: narrative momentum actually matters that much in a playoff series.
Speaker 1: Joh probably dropped an interesting stat which is they were
Speaker 1: twenty and five without jaw last year, and then seven
Speaker 1: and seven without him this season. Okay, so you know,
Speaker 1: and then it just seems like the most movement I've
Speaker 1: seen in the last couple of weeks as the season's
Speaker 1: coming to an end, there's been a big movement to
Speaker 1: the Warriors bandwagon. Sean, I have not watched the Warriors
Speaker 1: with a rooting interest this season. I don't have a
Speaker 1: gut about where this is coming from or like whether
Speaker 1: it's earned. Well as a Warriors fan, what are you feeling.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not really earned, except that they're playing
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings in the first round, and that's like,
Speaker 1: you know, they have a lot of injuries, like Andrew
Speaker 1: Wiggins played like forty five games this year, Steph Curry
Speaker 1: played fifty something games, and now they have Gary Payton's back.
Speaker 1: But mainly, I mean, they've just kind of been messing
Speaker 1: around all season, like like even in the games where
Speaker 1: you know, they played the Kings on Friday Night, like
Speaker 1: they had to win to stay out of the plan,
Speaker 1: and the Kings benched like four starters and they got
Speaker 1: a big lead and then they just they like run
Speaker 1: out of bounce more than any NBA team I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: and you know, just row ridiculous fast break path. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they're they're constantly trying to fast break and like
Speaker 1: throwing it over the backboard. And I guess like last
Speaker 1: year they were also kind of doing that and then
Speaker 1: they stopped doing that mostly in the playoffs. But they
Speaker 1: have not been very good. They don't they also don't
Speaker 1: really blow out teams like you would maybe expect, and
Speaker 1: I guess maybe they have a little bit more of
Speaker 1: a bench now. But the only reason I feel confident
Speaker 1: is that they get to play the Sacramento Kings while
Speaker 1: the second round opponent is going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: a bloodbath between the Grizzlies and Lakers right now. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this and then they're gonna lose in
Speaker 1: five games to the King, But just you know, they've
Speaker 1: beat in the Kings like ten out of eleven, and
Speaker 1: just I feel like the Kings always get a lot
Speaker 1: of former Warriors, and I don't know, I mean, we've
Speaker 1: the last time Harrison Barnes was in a Warrior's jersey,
Speaker 1: he was just breaking threes in the NBA Finals. So
Speaker 1: I just feel like the Warriors have a big confidence
Speaker 1: advantage in this series coming up. Other than that, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't pick him against the Suns, right, Maybe not the Nuggets,
Speaker 1: maybe not the Lakers, but I think that I think
Speaker 1: they might just kind of luck out because of the bracket. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Suns seem impossible to pick for me, but I
Speaker 1: mean with the Warriors going against the Kings, they've been
Speaker 1: bad on the road, like real bad on the road,
Speaker 1: and they don't they don't have home court advantage, Like
Speaker 1: it just it's weird to me that everyone's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but they're getting Wiggins back, and like just this thing
Speaker 1: where it seemed like all season everyone was just waiting
Speaker 1: for them. They're like, yeah, but here, okay, here come
Speaker 1: the Warriors, and they're putting them together now and they're
Speaker 1: doing it again with the playoffs, and I just I
Speaker 1: don't know, we've seen it happen before where the team
Speaker 1: that was, you know, the defending champ just kind of
Speaker 1: is like, all right, now it's on switch time. But
Speaker 1: it just feels like they would have done it a
Speaker 1: couple of times in the regular season, like him gone
Speaker 1: on a run of like ten and a row without
Speaker 1: everyone being like, what the what is happening with the Ward.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I personally think Celtics, Nuggets, and
Speaker 1: grizz are being underrated probably the most for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then their reward is going to be playing the
Speaker 1: Lakers in the second round the first round. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: maybe we'll see yeah, or maybe we got take down
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. That's right. So you guys showing you're off
Speaker 1: nug off the Nuggets. You feel like they're no. I
Speaker 1: like them. I think they're I think they're gonna play.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I just feel like the Suns
Speaker 1: are impossible to predict because they haven't played together that much.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've lost with Kevin Durant. But also, um,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's been a playoffs where either Chris
Speaker 1: Paul or Kevin Durant hasn't got hurt in like five years, right, So,
Speaker 1: and you know, I mean they're It was weird watching
Speaker 1: them against the Clippers because they had their their bench
Speaker 1: guys were really giving the full strength, totally trying Clippers
Speaker 1: a real battle. So maybe people are kind of sleeping
Speaker 1: on the Suns and uh. But but yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: the top pick, They're the number one coming out of
Speaker 1: the West, the top pick for on FanDuel, a sponsor
Speaker 1: of this show. Oh oh, FanDuel, great site. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna been a lot right on that with a promo code,
Speaker 1: probably i'll hear on this episode. Um yeah, but the Nugget,
Speaker 1: I think the Nuggets are a little discounted because of well, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's two things. I kind of slumped when they
Speaker 1: had the top seed locked up, and then the MVP
Speaker 1: debate was so crazy this year, Like I can't remember
Speaker 1: there ever being players basically like organizations running like attack
Speaker 1: ads against CITs, and so every time Yogis you know,
Speaker 1: miss some shots, you just see like everybody everywhere's like,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's why I'm being it's better or like
Speaker 1: you know, embiid sits out a back to back in Denverness,
Speaker 1: like that guy is a coward. He's afraid to play
Speaker 1: Nicola Yoki and so uh, people sort of like forgot
Speaker 1: that the Nuggets basically clinched the top seed with a
Speaker 1: month ago, you know. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, we'll see, Um,
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see the Lakers just do their thing.
Speaker 1: Although oh man, so it's so nerve wracking. Part of
Speaker 1: it is like it's the perfect way to lose for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Yeah, like, for all the reasons Sean planning,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is the exact way that it's exactly
Speaker 1: how they lose, and it's exactly how the other fans derived.
Speaker 1: There a little bit of life force from watching all
Speaker 1: of us go like, what the heck happened over there?
Speaker 1: By the way, can you imagine how much Patrick Beverley
Speaker 1: is going to enjoy just watching the TV and hating
Speaker 1: both teams? Seriously, I hate the Wolves for leaving. I
Speaker 1: hate the Lakers. Let's take a quick break. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back, and it's time to go
Speaker 1: on an award tour with Miles my Man. I wish,
Speaker 1: I wish you could have just played that. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: on award tour with Miles my Man. Count and eat
Speaker 1: your and every vote with the votes in our hand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's we've we've we've had a
Speaker 1: few things to wrap our heads around this season, and
Speaker 1: I think we could. I think I think it is
Speaker 1: time for us to hand out some awards along with
Speaker 1: Sean Kane. Um, shall we just go down category by category?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah? I mean the big one is MV
Speaker 1: POI move, POI boy. Most Valuable Player of the Year. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna give it to my man and
Speaker 1: be person. Just seems like the narrative turned on that
Speaker 1: Celtics game and let's do it. Yeah. I mean, at
Speaker 1: this point it almost feels like Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar you
Speaker 1: know where It's like, man, he's getting close, he's getting closer.
Speaker 1: We can't we can't do him like that another year. Okay,
Speaker 1: here it is even though you only fought a bear
Speaker 1: in this movie. Yeah, it simply he was actually trying
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, like like Jannis and
Speaker 1: Yogis were just taking games off and Embiid was just
Speaker 1: dominating all his opponents. Great, yeah, yeah, you know I
Speaker 1: have a theory too that why he was especially dominant
Speaker 1: this year. She remember when he was first trying to
Speaker 1: make the All Star team and he asked if he
Speaker 1: made the All Star Team, if Rihanna would give him
Speaker 1: her number. Yeah. Well now she's had a child, you know,
Speaker 1: she's pregnant again at the Super Bowl and that was
Speaker 1: like enough he had he was able to leave the
Speaker 1: boy behind to become the man now, right, He just
Speaker 1: so he took the Rihanna poster from his wall down basically,
Speaker 1: single giant tier rolling down his face. Just chug one file,
Speaker 1: Shirley Temple and pour it down. What do you think
Speaker 1: one tier? What the fluid volume is of one embid tier? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's Yeah, it's like, yeah, all right, we
Speaker 1: got the coy coach of the year. The main candidates
Speaker 1: Mike Brown, Mark Dagnault, who I'm obviously a big fan.
Speaker 1: He's the coach of the NBA franchise that really surprised
Speaker 1: a lot of us. Um, oh yeah, okay, see all right, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's good that he did a great job. He did
Speaker 1: a great job. Also my age, that guy, Mark Mark
Speaker 1: Mark Dagnoli. Yeah. Joe Mazzola, who's probably younger than I know.
Speaker 1: He actually he's probab rh yeah yeah, yeah, he's thirty four.
Speaker 1: He's thirty four. Yeah, he's younger than good for him,
Speaker 1: younger than anyone I know. Um, he's the youngest person
Speaker 1: I've ever heard of, and yet he's got that old
Speaker 1: man sense of humor. Yeah, I think. Yeah, Joe Mazzilla
Speaker 1: is definitely I think, God a great shout for that,
Speaker 1: purely based I think like you touched on it, Jack
Speaker 1: purely based on the sense of humor alone. Yes, one
Speaker 1: of then we've ever seen delivered to a room full
Speaker 1: of media so funny it stunned them to silence. Um
Speaker 1: the royal family. Yeah, that's only one of those that
Speaker 1: I'm aware. Jesus married Joseph. Remember when he demonstrated some
Speaker 1: kind of martial arts role. That's amazing that that was
Speaker 1: because that was that was very funny. Jesus mary Joseph
Speaker 1: one not that funny, And then the martial arts thing
Speaker 1: was legitimately funny. I was like, wait, was the other
Speaker 1: thing that we were making fun of him about, like
Speaker 1: actually him playing four D chess comedy? Didn't he miss
Speaker 1: a couple of games this year because he heard his
Speaker 1: eye playing pickup basketball and then was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: played like ninety minutes to pick up basketball every single day.
Speaker 1: The media is like whattball team, and like you're playing
Speaker 1: hard enough that someone could scratch your cordial like just
Speaker 1: down there, scratch guy into scrums for the loose balls.
Speaker 1: He's a coach for like forty years. Oh yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been a delightful experience. Mike Brown seems like I would
Speaker 1: love to see him win for what he did. In Sacramento. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think the Mazzola, like everybody counting the Celtics
Speaker 1: out at the last minute in the off season because
Speaker 1: he was the coach, and then them being one of
Speaker 1: the best teams, if not the best team all season.
Speaker 1: If only someone had predicted that in their preseason episode.
Speaker 1: One of those of the things Mike Brown did this
Speaker 1: year that was kind of great was he um managed
Speaker 1: in a year where people yelled at refs probably more
Speaker 1: than I can ever remember, and just like cursing out
Speaker 1: officials by name in press conferences. Mike Graham managed to
Speaker 1: make some speech about the King's getting screwed on calls
Speaker 1: late and the NBA's respond He was like so measured
Speaker 1: that the NBA was like, yeah, we are actually messing
Speaker 1: up these calls. We gotta we gotta do better. Tared
Speaker 1: Fox here, it's h yeah, that's we thought the gigs
Speaker 1: we didn't respect the gigs. He was right, he was
Speaker 1: right about us. No guilty. Hey, we're mature enough to
Speaker 1: We're mature enough to own that. Yeah. Polo bunk Caro's
Speaker 1: probably rookie of the Year. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: Jaylen Williams mathurin both strong candidates, but it feels like, yeah, yeah, Carols,
Speaker 1: I think I wish it was looking more interesting. There's
Speaker 1: a bank kare, Oh yeah that yeah. If you're if
Speaker 1: you're like the number one pick and you square were
Speaker 1: the most points, and I think maybe you get the
Speaker 1: most rebounds of all the rookies. Like he just didn't
Speaker 1: blow it at any point, you know, yeah, No, he's awesome.
Speaker 1: Six six moy What were you thinking, Russell Westbrook? I
Speaker 1: think Quickly is gonna win. But I actually like Bobbyportis.
Speaker 1: I think he's just like he's so good for the
Speaker 1: Bucks and shoots threes and plays defense. But I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna give it to Quickly. Yeah, and Brock Good's great.
Speaker 1: It's like this is a weird year where there's this
Speaker 1: many good six man candidates, six moys, six moys. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, I've been saying to me, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Russell Westbrook. You're gonna see it. You're gonna see
Speaker 1: it happen, folks, It's gonna be right there, it's right
Speaker 1: in front of us. But also Norman Powell though, I
Speaker 1: when I look at that name too, I when that
Speaker 1: game when we played the Clippers, I was absolutely. I
Speaker 1: was devastated by that. Man. Uh so I don't know nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm like and I'm I have Stockholm syndrome now, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I was definitely impressed, definitely impressed with him. Also great
Speaker 1: World War two general. Yea love work there. Um my boy.
Speaker 1: Uh Most Improved Player of the Year. It's the weirdest
Speaker 1: award in the world, right yeah? Is it gonna be
Speaker 1: like what what are we? What's your what's the logic
Speaker 1: being applied this year? Is it like a guy who
Speaker 1: became superstar from really good player or like, hey, hey
Speaker 1: where do you come from? Hey how about that? Huh?
Speaker 1: It market in right when? Yeah? Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: was so John Rand's the weirdest one. This happens like
Speaker 1: every other time. It's like Kevin loves the most improved
Speaker 1: player and you're like, let's leave a number three pick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: John Rant was already the rookie of the year and
Speaker 1: he was picked second and then they're like, yeah, most improved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't believe it. That was my argument going in
Speaker 1: that it seems like that that that seems to be
Speaker 1: the trend for the past five six is that like
Speaker 1: they give it to somebody who went superstar, like what
Speaker 1: took it up to being like a perennial All Star
Speaker 1: like All NBA candidate. But both of these guys feel
Speaker 1: like they are in that, Like Marketing's probably you would
Speaker 1: be surprised if he wasn't a All Star or like
Speaker 1: a you know, in the conversation for All Star next season,
Speaker 1: SGA would be the most joli pick this year, But
Speaker 1: Marketing feels like the most like nobody was counting on
Speaker 1: this this season, right, So no, absolutely not, especially too
Speaker 1: when we were like, yeah, man, they're they're gonna tank
Speaker 1: so hard and you're like, whoop, And now the only
Speaker 1: tank he's messing with is a finished tank when he
Speaker 1: goes to do his military service this year. Wait, the
Speaker 1: last three were jobs, Julius Randall and Brandon Ingram. What
Speaker 1: is it about leaving the Los Angeles Lakers that allows
Speaker 1: teams to players to get there again? Because it's not
Speaker 1: a good place to be for young players because we
Speaker 1: don't understand the concept of improving over time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good to be young in Hollywood unless you're on
Speaker 1: the Lakers roster. It's a dangerous place either. Yeah, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're making mistakes you're young player, get him out of
Speaker 1: here and then when they leave, or like we miss you,
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma, we miss you. I don't know either great candidates.
Speaker 1: But Jay feels a little weird, like like it's in
Speaker 1: that job category of like it's a little weird. We
Speaker 1: knew this dude was amazing. Yeah. Lorie feels more in
Speaker 1: the spirit of the award of like of like, hey kid,
Speaker 1: you really wow. We weren't expecting that from you. Wa
Speaker 1: way to prove us wrong and take it to another level.
Speaker 1: And jaylen Brunson any other year feels like easy win.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, like he's been like a bunch of
Speaker 1: amazing candidates. Haliburton also has been amazing, but I feel
Speaker 1: like that was also something that people expected. Deepois seems
Speaker 1: to be between Brook Lopez and Triple j Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think either good candidates. Evan Mobley is even being
Speaker 1: tossed around, which is wild since he's in his second
Speaker 1: year still. But yeah, I think I don't know. I
Speaker 1: might go Brooke just because it feels like it's kind
Speaker 1: of runoff most improved player type thing where it's like
Speaker 1: he's always been good defensively, but he really like stepped
Speaker 1: it up and anchored it and started getting some attention
Speaker 1: this year. But yeah, and it's kind of cool that
Speaker 1: he went from being this just like bucket getter on
Speaker 1: a bad team, Yeah, being like a three and D
Speaker 1: seven footer for a really good team. Yeah, but adva
Speaker 1: mobili Like when you look at their defensive stats as
Speaker 1: a team, like, he's anchoring the best defense in the league,
Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. And then yeah, MBID winning back
Speaker 1: to back scoring titles. He's my pick for the boy
Speaker 1: of the mbid P. I think, as Brian said in
Speaker 1: the chat, good one, good pun there. I mean, enough
Speaker 1: of those lesser awards. Should we be giving out our
Speaker 1: our own awards. I think it's time for the boost
Speaker 1: these awards. Yes, sir, here we go, folks. This is uh,
Speaker 1: this isum forgot about Dre? Oh yeah, who's the forgot
Speaker 1: about Dre? Comeback Player of the Year for you? Jack
Speaker 1: we got? I mean I think Jabbar was narrowing it
Speaker 1: down to a few people, but where does your heart life?
Speaker 1: You had to just speak a name for this, I
Speaker 1: mean it's gotta be my man, James Harden. M I
Speaker 1: think I think Harden makes most sense here. Yeah that
Speaker 1: they certainly forgot about James h Heading into the season,
Speaker 1: people were, um, but so here's the thing. This tends
Speaker 1: to happen with him after he plays badly in the
Speaker 1: playoffs and people are like, yeah, that guy might not
Speaker 1: be anymore. Oh we forgot about that part. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go Bosti's dunk of the year. Okay, boost He's
Speaker 1: dunk of the year. I think for I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we can go through a couple. Uh. We can start
Speaker 1: off with, um, who Donovan Mitchell over Utah. Let's see
Speaker 1: that move over Johnny Utah, get me too? What about
Speaker 1: drawn by in the fourth Mitchell violent poster? Yeah, that's poster.
Speaker 1: It does feel like, all right, so Donovan Mitchell had
Speaker 1: an incredible season. I think maybe he could have been
Speaker 1: a recipient of the Forgot About Drey Award. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it feels like he's not getting enough attention in the
Speaker 1: awards conversation, and he had such an amazing season. I
Speaker 1: feel like this would mean a lot to him to
Speaker 1: get the boosts Yeah the year. I think I think
Speaker 1: we are kind enough gods to bestow that honor upon him,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I mean that that's although I
Speaker 1: do feel like Utah kind of did this thing where
Speaker 1: like he's like, okay, I'm long enough, and at a
Speaker 1: certain point he was just like actually like arms down
Speaker 1: and then you can just do whatever you'd like, sir,
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna inbound the ball and hopefully the
Speaker 1: play call will my attention will be on the oh, fantastic,
Speaker 1: fantastic the U I am actually because this is not
Speaker 1: my pick for boost these doy I'm actually gonna change
Speaker 1: my pick for the Forgot About Drey Award to Donovan
Speaker 1: Mitchell from James Harden. Okay, mine's gonna be Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick Clay Thompson for that one. Okay, although
Speaker 1: people talk about Clay Thompson all the time, it just yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we forgot about that captain's hat. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: You know, I certainly did. Next one, Shaden Sharp on
Speaker 1: Draymond Green. Let's check this one out the inside shut Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a this is a narrative
Speaker 1: one where people wanted to see some payback for the
Speaker 1: Draymond Jordan Peel video or Jordan Pool video, and this
Speaker 1: is this is getting votes because of that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not that spectacular if I'm being honest. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's violence, but it's not that spectac But yeah, like
Speaker 1: part of a good dunk, though, is you need someone,
Speaker 1: You need the defender to truly be vanquished in the
Speaker 1: sense that there is a belief on their side too
Speaker 1: when they go up like utah, he at the last second,
Speaker 1: he's like, I lost. I lost. Draymond basically is like
Speaker 1: he barely jumps. Yeah, he's sort of like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: get in the way, but like, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: give you the satisfaction here, which felt like a tremendous
Speaker 1: business decision on Draymond Green's part. He jumps with both
Speaker 1: Maybe he's just I'm not just jump he just doesn't
Speaker 1: he jumps as hard as he can. Yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: not a big jumper. I think he's just not used
Speaker 1: to this kind of Vertically, this one's pretty fun in
Speaker 1: slow motion. Miles is giving us a slow mo look,
Speaker 1: and Draymond's legs they're flying out like an action figure
Speaker 1: that just got rag dolled. Uh it's pretty that's his Yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: like a like a soccer goalkeeper. Yeah, okay, that's in
Speaker 1: the conversation. How about Aaron Gordon over Landry Shammon. How
Speaker 1: about this one. This one was pretty violent and like
Speaker 1: the landing of the dump has never landing could have
Speaker 1: ended his life. Yea comes ag sir, laying it on
Speaker 1: your head, sir. Well and he does it in ot
Speaker 1: up one. Yeah. Yeah, Landry Shammont miss catches his rebound
Speaker 1: and then comes down and yeah, and they called it
Speaker 1: a chart and then they reverse the call. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean because look, he's basically trying to be like
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna jump, but I'm gonna lean into it
Speaker 1: as and this is where you're like, oh, sir, like
Speaker 1: that one point looks like Landry Shammont is doing the
Speaker 1: high jump and he's trying to arch over the bar.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's doing yeah, yeah exactly. And then right here
Speaker 1: the coming down from Aaron Gordon, this moment right here,
Speaker 1: like there's this moment where he's like, where are my
Speaker 1: feet gonna go? Right now? Your skulls underneath me? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's where the new parent in me is like, no,
Speaker 1: watch out, but it works out. So one thing I
Speaker 1: like about it, Yeah, Aaron Gordon as a dunker this
Speaker 1: year is that he had a pretty good year and uh,
Speaker 1: near the end of January, he made this statement that
Speaker 1: if he made the All Star team, he would do
Speaker 1: the dunk contest, and the league was like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: good actually, and then a G leaguer won the dunk
Speaker 1: contests eluded Aaron Gordon in three or four taps at
Speaker 1: this point, man, so he needs he kind of needs
Speaker 1: this dunk of the year. Yeah, yeah, le score in
Speaker 1: one of the Sixers final games of the season, Mac McClung, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I put up to Delaware Blue. Yeah, but he he
Speaker 1: was in there in garbage time, or I mean, it
Speaker 1: wasn't garbage time. It was the starters were mostly sitting
Speaker 1: and he he came in and got buckets. So do
Speaker 1: we think there was a lot of pressure for the
Speaker 1: Sixers to give him a two way, like right before
Speaker 1: they All Star game, so he wouldn't be dunking into
Speaker 1: G League Jersey the whole time? Right? And fine, I
Speaker 1: think I think we know the Dunk of the Year
Speaker 1: is gone too. Yeah. I think so those are all great.
Speaker 1: Candles were good. But and then we have Jah against
Speaker 1: the Pacers, against the laws of physics, against against everything
Speaker 1: we believed in scientifically, here we call shove the count
Speaker 1: ran against jump with me if you want to go
Speaker 1: holy cow, oh, my partner. Didn't you just see that? Partner? Partner, Hey, partner,
Speaker 1: did we see that? He also does it? Cool? So okay,
Speaker 1: pulls it all the way back. Yeah. When he lands,
Speaker 1: he does like a James Brown faint ye back into
Speaker 1: Steven Adams, which is really cool. I thought like Adams
Speaker 1: was gonna put like a KF on him, like yeah,
Speaker 1: James Brown. Yeah. It is like if NBA two K
Speaker 1: designed like a job Morant dunk for like the commercial,
Speaker 1: like this is what it would be, and you would
Speaker 1: be like, that's not realistic. How far the ball back?
Speaker 1: It's like below his shoulder even like usual, I'd be like, okay,
Speaker 1: you get it behind your head. But it's like this
Speaker 1: thing's like a four thirty. Yeah. If I'm using like
Speaker 1: lock time, like how far this thing is? I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm why do you ever see like that swing
Speaker 1: portrait of Tiger Woods so you can like actually understand
Speaker 1: like the mechanics of his swing is like no normal
Speaker 1: person can keep that arm straight as much as Tiger
Speaker 1: Woods does. Like in this sense, I'm like I want
Speaker 1: to see this dunk portrait because so how far back
Speaker 1: he has it I'm like, I'm tearing my own like
Speaker 1: I tore my labor um like watching watching. Um so
Speaker 1: that's my uh boost he's dooy for yeah and yeahs
Speaker 1: find and said he just said these are literally from
Speaker 1: NBA Street the video game. And I'm like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think so. Uh. I can already hear Bobbito doing the
Speaker 1: play by pie. You know, we also have next up
Speaker 1: boost these ballers for next year breakout year expected. Um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna hold off on that one. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do that at the end of the playoffs. Okay,
Speaker 1: see see how Yeah, because obviously Austin Reeves is gonna
Speaker 1: just do his thing. Some candidates we have Tyrese Maxee,
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, Al Shingon. You know, these are all players
Speaker 1: who had big years this year. Hal Shinguen also wins
Speaker 1: my pick for boost. These El toy longest Torso of
Speaker 1: the year, all Torso, a lot of Torso right there.
Speaker 1: Uh and Kate Cunningham also on the list. But well, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's give him, let's let him cook a
Speaker 1: little bit before we start before we go there. And
Speaker 1: of course James Wiseman, of course, yes, I think the
Speaker 1: wise man cometh, you know, we could see something from him.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving up on the wise. That makes me
Speaker 1: that honestly makes me think that the Pistons are going
Speaker 1: to get the top pick and get wimpon just because
Speaker 1: of Wiseman's luck. You know that's right. Yeah, um, it's
Speaker 1: someone we're rooting for. For sure. Everybody loves that Dad's
Speaker 1: a bad luck. But yeah, it seems like a really
Speaker 1: good dude. Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back for the fastest segment in podcasting.
Speaker 1: And we're back, Sean, Sean, I don't know if you remember,
Speaker 1: like this is your return. Guests have often said they
Speaker 1: blacked out for because the pressure the speed. So to
Speaker 1: remind you to get you back up up to speed,
Speaker 1: because the segments all about speed. We're getting these questions,
Speaker 1: they're gonna come fast and furious. You are responsible for
Speaker 1: keeping things rapid fire. We will be doing our part
Speaker 1: by just doing long rambling meandering. Well, no, I think
Speaker 1: we're being pretty concise. Yeah, you know, somebody described us
Speaker 1: as succinct the other day and almost fell over in
Speaker 1: my chair. But yeah, you know, you know the rules,
Speaker 1: so don't mess about. Okay, don't end our streak we
Speaker 1: have going of this continuing to be the fastest segment
Speaker 1: sports podcasting. I wanted to be spinning around. Okay, like
Speaker 1: it's a carton and you're having to pull your collar
Speaker 1: to the side, So step pull out. Um, but get
Speaker 1: ready because this is the rapid fire round of questioning. Bryan,
Speaker 1: start the claw. It's been a while, Jack, what do
Speaker 1: you think us? Yeah? Why not? I'll go You're the
Speaker 1: older one. The kids should go first. Here we go, Chunky,
Speaker 1: can I ask you a question? Yeah? Here we go.
Speaker 1: Is there a single NBA player you would take right
Speaker 1: now over the chance of taking wemban Yama with the
Speaker 1: first pick this summer? Um, I think I'd still take
Speaker 1: your honest m Now, why is that? What is it about? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he just it just seems like he is the most
Speaker 1: like force of nature player. And is it because he's
Speaker 1: from Europe too? Is that from Europe? Like he likes
Speaker 1: he likes weird foods, He got into a few. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: would I still have to one boy, at least one
Speaker 1: of his brothers? That might be tough. It kind of
Speaker 1: comes with it, you know what I mean? Comes with
Speaker 1: it And don't call them a nepo baby. They know.
Speaker 1: I'd just be like, could he be a broadcaster, like
Speaker 1: could he just be employed by the team in some
Speaker 1: other capacity or does he have to be on the rock?
Speaker 1: I think he has to be on the roster though, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah today. Look I love when there's like a duo
Speaker 1: like that in like European soccer, like you gotta get Also,
Speaker 1: my kid brothers also coming and they're like, well they
Speaker 1: don't have them money, like fine, but he's coming. My
Speaker 1: mom doesn't let me leave without him. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: He's gonna be here, so you might as well might
Speaker 1: a uniform or else it's gonna look weird. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be on the court at the end of games. So
Speaker 1: please all right with air coming out, I want you
Speaker 1: to pitch me another NBA movie taking place around a
Speaker 1: star without anyone playing the star. Just contextual NBA movie
Speaker 1: that you want to see the story told. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I think I think this is about the nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: five draft lottery, and it's basically an Ocean's eleven style
Speaker 1: heist featuring members of the New York's Knicks organization rigging
Speaker 1: the lottery. In my version, it's like Old Nicks all
Speaker 1: getting together to freeze that envelope. Yeah yeah, and anytime
Speaker 1: you can get the movie star magnetism of a character
Speaker 1: like James Dolan, Yeah you want oh yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 1: I think somebody would want to play Walt Frazier. That's
Speaker 1: like a good you could get a you gotta costume design,
Speaker 1: Oscar Nod or just his hot or do you do
Speaker 1: the thing where it's just larger in life where you
Speaker 1: only see the back of him. Oh yeah, and like
Speaker 1: but it's always doing fun stuff, fly with his hand.
Speaker 1: Every they're like a door opens an amazing music's playing.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, you got it, Walt, you know? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh man, that guy's a card, isn't he? Obviously JD
Speaker 1: and the Strange soundtrack though, yeah, yeah, of course, of
Speaker 1: course my favorite band. Have you ever seen them live? Though?
Speaker 1: They're really like once you see them live, you'll really
Speaker 1: like start to appreciate. Yeah, because the albums recently Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: can Out Street. Yeah I remember too. I mean like
Speaker 1: I went to go see Radiohead, but then this other
Speaker 1: band came on before, not really a esthetic match, but
Speaker 1: I was like all right, fine, huh cool, okay, alright, Sean.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, you're really de ran in the show.
Speaker 1: We got to keep this thing going. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. Well, here's the next question. You
Speaker 1: can go back in history and attend any single game
Speaker 1: in NBA history. Which game are you choosing? I'm watching
Speaker 1: the Kareem Finals MPP because I'm not a Laker fan,
Speaker 1: but I don't hate any team in the NBA as
Speaker 1: much as the Boston Celtics. And wow, just that like
Speaker 1: moment of release for because they lost like seven finals
Speaker 1: and the Celtics or something like that. Whatever, the clinching
Speaker 1: game is an eighty five. I want to see that, Okay,
Speaker 1: just for the the experience, but it's the magic of
Speaker 1: lager Nation and then it ruined everybody from that point
Speaker 1: now that can't feel joy, real joy anymore. Oh No,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, we need we need like
Speaker 1: the methodone equivalent of winning constantly or else it's it's
Speaker 1: a it's bad news. We get the sweats. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: like seeing how sad Danny Ainge would be. That would
Speaker 1: be great, that the tears off his cheeks like a
Speaker 1: red hour back breaking a cigar in half. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know what I'm making the aid later. Yeah, uh Sean.
Speaker 1: What's the best thing to eat at the Chase Arena?
Speaker 1: Oh oh h they have these chicken bake sale Betty
Speaker 1: chicken sandwiches. They're really fred chicken sandwiches. They're great. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: what's bakesale Betty? And the brand little Oakland Place? The
Speaker 1: next pies and fried chicken really good? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: the real locations also bad. Bet I love that entire
Speaker 1: combination of words. And I'm gonna go with this next question.
Speaker 1: You can take any former Warrior and pair him with
Speaker 1: Steph clay Andre. Which former dub would you like to
Speaker 1: see them play with? I really think he was a
Speaker 1: man at a time. He was in the wrong era.
Speaker 1: Chris Anthony Randolph. Anthony Randolph gets there, the things he
Speaker 1: could do with Steve Kerr as his coach. I thought
Speaker 1: you were gonna pick Chris Gatling, but I like they had,
Speaker 1: you know how he his nickname was the Gatling Gun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Warrior's announcer at the time was Steve Albert, like
Speaker 1: a lesser like lesser than Kenny Albert. And he would
Speaker 1: always call him the Energizer and pronounce it like that,
Speaker 1: and everyone's like he has the most obvious name. He
Speaker 1: just comes in and shoots all the the Gatling gun.
Speaker 1: The energizer is in it, Like, no, he's Datling, and
Speaker 1: Gatling wasn't. Gatling wasn't like he was a starter that
Speaker 1: played all the time either. He played like short spurts.
Speaker 1: It was like, right, so frustrating. Um yeah, maybe he
Speaker 1: was just you know, pro gun control. Yeah that's what
Speaker 1: it was. I like that. I like that. What is
Speaker 1: your boldest postseason prediction for this year? Oh? Um, I
Speaker 1: guess okay, So my boldest prediction is gonna be that, uh,
Speaker 1: at least two low seeds win in the Western Conference
Speaker 1: in the first round. M yeah, okay, yeah, to look,
Speaker 1: two five through tens are gonna look so you think
Speaker 1: Lakers and think as think the Clippers have eight more
Speaker 1: decent chance against the Suns than it seems like just yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe a lot of dudes I don't think coming back.
Speaker 1: But Clide is just now that he's playing like forty
Speaker 1: five minutes a game, like yeah, back to robotic. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't tell. I had the Clippers on my like
Speaker 1: team that I think is being underrated in the odds
Speaker 1: in the bedding, but I took him off just because
Speaker 1: I feel like I might still just have that old man,
Speaker 1: like you know when Doc Rivers trades for a player
Speaker 1: that beat him up in the playoffs six years before, right, Yo, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not still that dude. Like I'm wondering if that's
Speaker 1: what I got with Kawahi. I mean, he looks really
Speaker 1: good this season, but like you just see him stepping
Speaker 1: all over your boy. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm getting still
Speaker 1: like it. I can't turn your back on that guy
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, tell you that much. What I would
Speaker 1: love to see is I mean, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: very likely, but you could see a Clippers Warriors conference finals,
Speaker 1: and I think the Warriors would just have front office
Speaker 1: executive Zaza Pachulia and just stand him courtside, yeah at
Speaker 1: all times, like like remember that Kawai, remember that? Remember
Speaker 1: him back? Uh And finally Sean the most important of
Speaker 1: them all when you come on this show, Miles or Jack,
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I gotta pick Jabari again. I think he's
Speaker 1: he did such a good job today. He's really he
Speaker 1: got picked even when I was co hosted. Did he
Speaker 1: get picked all the time when you were out or
Speaker 1: when I was he got picked all the time. When
Speaker 1: you this is he's fired a conspiracy. I mean, we
Speaker 1: can't fire him, but if we had that kind of power,
Speaker 1: yeah we will, we wouldn't. This show would be absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing without him. But he does not deserve to be
Speaker 1: picked just because he is the absolute bones of this
Speaker 1: show and we're merely like a toe callous every word
Speaker 1: that I said, what I'm saying right now. He's just
Speaker 1: been texting me jokes and insights, and he's actually been
Speaker 1: facetiming me on my other lap off, just like yeah,
Speaker 1: holding up two cards. But the eyes like wow, well okay,
Speaker 1: well look we got it. That's fair enough and a
Speaker 1: diplomatic choice as well. Um, but Shan King, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us on this edition. Before we
Speaker 1: get your information, we do want to tell people about
Speaker 1: the boosty suits of the week. Well, we asked the
Speaker 1: listeners out there for their own play in tournament predictions,
Speaker 1: and let's look at the results. Sixty four percent of
Speaker 1: y'all said a playing team would eventually win a first
Speaker 1: round series, and it seems a majority of them believe
Speaker 1: it will be the Lakers. Oh wow, I hope you're right,
Speaker 1: and if you're not, then shame on you for getting
Speaker 1: my hopes up and our boost. These listeners of the
Speaker 1: week were at Michael Underscore Loris and predicted the Lakers
Speaker 1: would eventually smash the Grizzlies. Okay, I'll stick around for that.
Speaker 1: At Baby eighty four predicted a conference finals run from
Speaker 1: the Lakers wow. And at ched Earthling, who is a
Speaker 1: Celtics fan, predicts a Celtics verse Lakers finals That would
Speaker 1: really be interesting, but so make sure you give us
Speaker 1: a follow on Twitter at mad Boosty's double O S
Speaker 1: t I E S. And also before we go, Jack,
Speaker 1: who are in your conference finals and who are in
Speaker 1: your finals? Conference Finals? East, Celtics, Bucks, I know, little
Speaker 1: a little Edgy Wests. We can go Nuggets. Can it
Speaker 1: be Nuggets, Suns? No? No, they're second round um Kings, Warriors,
Speaker 1: Grizzlies potentially or Lakers, Timberwolves. Who knows Nuggets, Griz Nugs,
Speaker 1: grizz Yeah okay, and then the final grizz Celtics. I
Speaker 1: like that, okay, Sean Keen. Who are in your conference
Speaker 1: finals and who are in your finals? I'm going with Warriors, Sons, Bucks, Celtics.
Speaker 1: And then I gotta pick the rema. I'm picking the
Speaker 1: rematch Warriors Celtics. Wow, okay, he's back. This is this
Speaker 1: is gonna be thrown in my face in about a
Speaker 1: week when the Warriors go down too in Sacramento. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get Obviously, the Western Conference finals are gonna
Speaker 1: be you know what, I think. I just want to
Speaker 1: I need a little bit of revenge on my way
Speaker 1: to the finals. So it's gonna be the Lakers and
Speaker 1: the Suns. Uh. And then the Eastern Conference is gonna
Speaker 1: be Bucks six, and then it's going to be Jaggers,
Speaker 1: then Jack and Miles. Wow, that would be this show. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: that thought like the fourth time they this is the Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they gotta get some revenge for eighty three. Hey, if
Speaker 1: the NBA, I mean, we've already given you credit for
Speaker 1: saying that you could fix the nineteen eighty five draft,
Speaker 1: let's make this happen for the ratings of Miles and
Speaker 1: Jack got mat boost. He's obviously your number one priority
Speaker 1: as a league. Yeah, this would be huge for us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, come on for the little guy. Please in
Speaker 1: the Lakers for the little guy. Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling I will be wildly inaccurate, but
Speaker 1: ANOI can dream Kenny Sean, Where can people find you
Speaker 1: and support you? And all that? Man? Okay, my album's
Speaker 1: gonna be called America's Uncle Dad will be out at
Speaker 1: the beginning of this summer. You can go to Blonde
Speaker 1: Medicine Records. That's Blonde Medicine dot com, ron Ball Rock
Speaker 1: is My Basket podcast, Twitter dot com, at round Rock
Speaker 1: cod Patreon slash round rock Pod. And you can also
Speaker 1: read me at Yard Parker and Giants Baseball in Center
Speaker 1: because it's baseball season. Love that, love that, so check
Speaker 1: that out. Oh and I'll be at the San Francisco
Speaker 1: Punchline on April twenty fifth. I love it there. I
Speaker 1: love it there. Do they still have that weird mural
Speaker 1: on the wall? They use Sacramento Ones amazing because it's
Speaker 1: there's not really a skyline and yeah, one of the
Speaker 1: biggest buildings is actually a jail, so wow wow. Or
Speaker 1: like that one weird like train yard out of nowhere
Speaker 1: that I always feel like I'm like passing by the
Speaker 1: way to the airport and like what is that like
Speaker 1: trains used to go through there. Yeah, it's a really
Speaker 1: weird pyramid. There's a zigarat in West Sacramento actually, and
Speaker 1: some crazy designer made it and no one wanted to
Speaker 1: use it. So now it's a government building in a
Speaker 1: zigarrette in West Love it. I love it, Love it
Speaker 1: as well. But may they light the beam from now
Speaker 1: unto eternity? All right, well, that's gonna do it for
Speaker 1: us this week. You know we're gonna be back next week,
Speaker 1: where I will be basking in the accuracy of my take, obviously,
Speaker 1: and if I'm wrong, I don't care. I keep it
Speaker 1: moving anyway. We'll see you next time. Thanks for tuning in,
Speaker 1: check you later, Bye bye.