Speaker 1: Guess what, everybody.
Speaker 2: We are two weeks away from pre season basketball, I know,
Speaker 2: and about a week away from the start of training camps,
Speaker 2: and we'll get into some pre camp news as well
Speaker 2: as the latest rumor surrounding Dame and Harden and plenty
Speaker 2: more with podcaster and founder of follow Through CJ.
Speaker 3: Tola Dono. On today's episode, I'm Miles Gray.
Speaker 1: And I'm Jack O'Brien, and this is Jack Davis.
Speaker 4: D drive Me, Spinny Curry a three Porter, Steph Curry
Speaker 4: from the Tell Again.
Speaker 5: Be Honest, Super look Out, Little Shot Time.
Speaker 1: Yes, CJ.
Speaker 4: Tol Dono, both of the new show Casuals and founder of
Speaker 4: follow Through, You have blessed us with yet an Their
Speaker 4: guest appearance on was Jack on Mad Boostb's how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm good? It's it's a good time to be on
Speaker 5: here during the dead. It's like, literally, this is I'm
Speaker 5: tired of there not being any news, but people like
Speaker 5: pump fake in where they're going. So yeah, hopefully this
Speaker 5: stuff is figured out in a couple of weeks. But
Speaker 5: I've been counting down to my family, really just my
Speaker 5: wife and my baby, the days until Lakers basketball is back.
Speaker 5: And I made the same mistake as a lot of
Speaker 5: people were. Pep were like twenty more days and then
Speaker 5: found out it's the media and so like that, like
Speaker 5: it's it would be would have been pathetic if I
Speaker 5: didn't realize that when the countdown was over, and then
Speaker 5: it was just like me looking at photos of the
Speaker 5: same Lakers in Lakers uniforms that haven't changed.
Speaker 1: That's what all fans are really in it for, is
Speaker 1: Media Day. You get to see them in their uniforms.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we'll get another Jimmy Butler pair.
Speaker 2: I was saying, he made Media Day worth tuning into,
Speaker 2: I think with the with the wig, But yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll see what kind of what kind of
Speaker 2: spirit he's in now. Is the Laker uniform going to
Speaker 2: change any bit this year? I feel like every of
Speaker 2: those things like it's going to be a little more
Speaker 2: gold than last year, and actually.
Speaker 5: They've got less and less gold.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: I think they got some alternates that are fine. You know,
Speaker 5: the alternates are interesting every year. But yeah, they got
Speaker 5: some alternates. But other than that, you know, kind of
Speaker 5: classic like the Kobe little rug jersey they got behind
Speaker 5: me that, you know, right, they still have the classic
Speaker 5: uniform that like it. It is a different yellow, but
Speaker 5: it's still iconic in many ways.
Speaker 3: Right right, right, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't mess with the yellow.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I mean it's been a big thing with
Speaker 2: Laker fans.
Speaker 5: I was making. I was making like Lakers merch as
Speaker 5: you guys know, and like people are like, better print
Speaker 5: that on gold, that better be on gold, And I'm like,
Speaker 5: I thought gold and yellow were the same thing, and
Speaker 5: so like that was my initiat part of my initiation
Speaker 5: into Lakers fandom as a you know, somewhat recent fan
Speaker 5: of the Lakers. But yeah, learned everything on gold.
Speaker 3: Wait did you say that jersey behind you is a rug?
Speaker 5: This is a rug? Yeah, from a slow Jams He
Speaker 5: makes some really dope stuff Lakers fan. Yeah, this is
Speaker 5: a rug. So I was like, you don't put this
Speaker 5: on the ground. You don't put a jersey on the
Speaker 5: ground to clean your shoes.
Speaker 3: You no, no, no, exactly if you start off.
Speaker 5: With a podcast just to show it off.
Speaker 2: Exactly, that's a prayer Matt for some people, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the leak Lakers City Edition jersey is like it's
Speaker 1: got a pyramid thing.
Speaker 5: Going on like it's spelled out, like they just like
Speaker 5: put the whole name.
Speaker 1: Right, Los Angeles is spelled in a rooftop.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the end is at the top and everything descends
Speaker 1: down from there. Yes, yes, I'm not sure what they're
Speaker 1: trying to say, but hey.
Speaker 3: You know it's the Lakers. He starts at the top.
Speaker 3: So where are we at? Oh?
Speaker 1: At a certain point, you know they've been doing the
Speaker 1: city edition jerseys for a while. Ye, at a certain point,
Speaker 1: it's like it feels like they're they're just being like
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Like what if we like put
Speaker 1: the letters in like kind of a weird pattern, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what if we like scattered the normal text all
Speaker 5: over the jersey, but.
Speaker 1: If it was like kind of a word jumble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like it's a throwback to like how
Speaker 2: some of this like team staff had like stuff that
Speaker 2: was printed like that. But like, come on, give me
Speaker 2: like a Randy's Donuts type thing like that.
Speaker 5: I've seen like some in and Out photo shops where
Speaker 5: they did like you know, like the cup. That would
Speaker 5: be like that's real. Everyone when they come to LA
Speaker 5: they want to go to In and Out. That that's
Speaker 5: something that represents whether or not you like in and out.
Speaker 5: It is a part of our city.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It is.
Speaker 5: It'd be sick, it'd be sick to see them rock
Speaker 5: in that uniform.
Speaker 2: But we can't have like white and red because then
Speaker 2: we're Stralippers.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean that, right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I should do that. I'm not the biggest that's.
Speaker 3: Ready for them. That's perfect, you know, perfect.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's so nice for them. It'd be
Speaker 1: like a little religious like Bible verse on the back
Speaker 1: of the jersey somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, on the inside.
Speaker 2: If you look at the reverse side of the jersey,
Speaker 2: underneath where the little player tag is, it'll say.
Speaker 3: John three to sixteen.
Speaker 1: Baby, there you go.
Speaker 3: You already know we do, already know.
Speaker 1: Well what the last time we we talked, Miles, But
Speaker 1: what were we talking about the the US had lost?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we just we talked about how they lost
Speaker 2: and how some people were just in true disbelief and
Speaker 2: getting angry when it's not real. You're saying the feet
Speaker 2: of the World Cup isn't real.
Speaker 5: Well, the US team that we set out there is
Speaker 5: not the real representative of US basketball. He's not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not the team that we say this, we're
Speaker 2: giving it are all, so to speak. But that's still
Speaker 2: a good We were still saying, that's still a good team.
Speaker 2: And you would expect I think I would expect slightly
Speaker 2: more than what we.
Speaker 1: Did with that team. Was an NBA team this season?
Speaker 3: How many?
Speaker 1: How many wins?
Speaker 5: At best? Forty five?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: No one is, no one likes this team?
Speaker 5: I think. Really the thing is, like forty five wins
Speaker 5: is actually not that bad in the current NBA. You know,
Speaker 5: like you're you're making the playoffs a little bit, right.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I thought they'd get like say, I thought
Speaker 1: they'd be the best team in the league.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't think so. I think, like
Speaker 5: think about it. Austin Reeves, who was starting for them,
Speaker 5: like like ant was the best player on the team
Speaker 5: and is the best player on a current team and
Speaker 5: they got knocked out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You know, the rest of his team is not that Britain.
Speaker 5: They had one good center, they have a one yet
Speaker 5: they had one great center, Jaron Jackson junior, and he's
Speaker 5: you know, mostly not mostly defense, but he can't he
Speaker 5: can't stack up against some of these other centers, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like, I don't know, Wow, if
Speaker 5: they're the best NBA team.
Speaker 1: Coached by Steve Kerr with an assistant being come on.
Speaker 5: But then it wasn't. He had like quotes saying like
Speaker 5: go coach yourselves, Like these guys want to enjoy the Philippines.
Speaker 5: We all know that's why they were right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, coach was.
Speaker 5: Seeing some friends and family. I don't I'm not mad,
Speaker 5: but and we did. We like, Okay, this is where
Speaker 5: it's a little interesting. It's like we've we've woken the
Speaker 5: beasts of lebron KD and these other guys where they're
Speaker 5: trying to do redeem team again. But now it's like
Speaker 5: twelve years later. Yeah, so that hopefully that doesn't backfire.
Speaker 3: You know, it's giving space cowboys.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm getting.
Speaker 2: And I know disrespect to them, but I feel like
Speaker 2: there's plenty of the youth, uh that could step into
Speaker 2: the fray that would do just as well, just as well.
Speaker 1: So you think because ant won how many games last season? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know with with Gobert, he won like forty two.
Speaker 1: So you think you think this team, this supporting cast
Speaker 1: is a three game improvement over.
Speaker 5: Okay, maybe I'll get in the fifties. But you think
Speaker 5: about like I mean Tyree's haliburt Is on the Pacers,
Speaker 5: they didn't do anything like who else on the squad
Speaker 5: cal Bridges like overrun the net, like they these guys
Speaker 5: didn't really make a debt and you do got to
Speaker 5: you gotta take away some from them in that they're
Speaker 5: not so like they weren't really playing the role, not
Speaker 5: fitting the roles, right really right, So I think like
Speaker 5: they're they're absolutely not a bad team. They're not like
Speaker 5: the the best team.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know interesting, interesting, I love it. I want
Speaker 1: I want to run this experiment now. I'm like very interesting.
Speaker 1: Two k Yeah, yeah, it'd be fun to say.
Speaker 5: But I mean like we stacked like there have been
Speaker 5: some Lakers teams not to just keep talking with Lakers
Speaker 5: and some Lakers team that we stacked them with names
Speaker 5: that would have made up a FEBA team and it
Speaker 5: just totally backfire.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, we have Malone, Carl Malone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you were like Carl Malone, Gary Payton, Shaq,
Speaker 5: Kobe weren't the best team in the NBA, You're insane.
Speaker 5: It's like, well, they they made the final zone is
Speaker 5: totally fine too.
Speaker 1: And caught him one year after they turned after after
Speaker 1: the expiration date, and superroducer Jabari of course says Carl
Speaker 1: doesn't hurt that they went. They weren't titled. We're not
Speaker 1: even having this conversation right now. Jack is probably not
Speaker 1: even born Sladden door situation, you know. Anyways, So despite
Speaker 1: failing to medal in the FOBA Games, uh team you
Speaker 1: say is atop the Feber rankings now their ranked number one.
Speaker 1: They entered the tournament ranked number two. I don't are
Speaker 1: they just like looking at the fact that but when
Speaker 1: that once they lose, they seem to bounce back and
Speaker 1: get all their talent together and therefore their number one.
Speaker 2: Their greatest strength is to be publicly humiliated. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then they come back with a vengeance.
Speaker 3: So interesting.
Speaker 2: That is just a great example of failing up though,
Speaker 2: like literally yeah, it's like, yeah, man, we couldn't even
Speaker 2: get in the top three, but you know what climb
Speaker 2: those climb the charts baby to the top spot.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, they've the world should have known. They've
Speaker 5: gotten USA angry enough to now recruit Joel embiid A.
Speaker 5: I don't even think like clear American to probably play
Speaker 5: on Team USA right right the next time around?
Speaker 3: How how long has he spent in the States?
Speaker 2: Even are they going for the pure like naturalized, you know,
Speaker 2: citizen route to be like yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5: I mean it was like kind of like how I
Speaker 5: think Kakeem played for Team USA? Who else? There are
Speaker 5: some other guys? I feel like that just made the Cup?
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean the thing is like Joelle can
Speaker 5: play for France, but you know, why would he play
Speaker 5: on the sixers and come up short every season? Then go, hey,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to be the star on my Olympic team. Right,
Speaker 6: maybe the bronze right right?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: I guess talking to also, you know, we're in that
Speaker 2: period where there's a lot of movers, maybe movers, not
Speaker 2: full on movers. Jannie was recently on The forty eight
Speaker 2: Minutes Podcast and was saying, you know that as long
Speaker 2: as Milwaukee remains committed to winning another.
Speaker 3: Title, he could see himself playing there the rest of
Speaker 3: his career.
Speaker 1: That doesn't exist, doesn't however, the forty eight Minutes Podcast, Okay, yeah, sure.
Speaker 5: We're running out of thank you. I've ha like a
Speaker 5: word bank and they've all been.
Speaker 2: Used, right, like any wordplay on like par k done,
Speaker 2: It's done, Yeah exactly. But then he said, however, if
Speaker 2: there is a better situation for me to win another ring,
Speaker 2: I'll have to take that better situation.
Speaker 3: And this is the second time this, like the last couple.
Speaker 2: Of months, the last month Thatianis has been you know,
Speaker 2: sending a message.
Speaker 3: Now is he doing the gentlemanly deuces here? Is that
Speaker 3: what we're watching him do?
Speaker 2: Because I don't think if you're fully committed to something,
Speaker 2: you don't really have to say that, right.
Speaker 5: I yeah, I think he could definitely leave. Like the
Speaker 5: thing is, I think he he is saying all this.
Speaker 5: I don't think he is like convinced he can leave,
Speaker 5: but he is going to put everything out there to
Speaker 5: force that organization to get it together, like Promis has
Speaker 5: run out of brothers to sign on the box and
Speaker 5: then you know, keep him on the roster and put
Speaker 5: him down in the G League like there's no more.
Speaker 5: There's no more. Brothers are all in the league in
Speaker 5: some way connected. So you gotta get some real players
Speaker 5: in there that aren't Joe Lingles and aren't Grayson at
Speaker 5: like Chris Middleton's got to be healthy all year. But
Speaker 5: if not, Giannis is gonna he's gonna see what suitors
Speaker 5: are out there. But the thing is, I'm almost having
Speaker 5: a hard time to like thinking where does where does
Speaker 5: Giannicis go that It's like not like, you know, he
Speaker 5: doesn't become a Katie the Worrist situation where he's a
Speaker 5: villain and it's an automatic championship. Yeah, is it the Knicks.
Speaker 5: But then is that a guaranteed championship or is that
Speaker 5: just hey, he's the Milwaukee Bucks. Put in a bigger mark.
Speaker 1: Whoever does the nixt thing and gets them back to
Speaker 1: a championship like that, that is legend legend status and
Speaker 1: of course completely overshadows his Bucks championship. It would be
Speaker 1: like when Kareem went to LA and suddenly we remember
Speaker 1: him as a Laker instead of that would be rough
Speaker 1: guy for Bucks fans. This doesn't feel like he's sending
Speaker 1: a message. He's just straight up saying like I will lead,
Speaker 1: Like he's not like and b like takes takes the
Speaker 1: sixers off his like Twitter bio or whatever, like you
Speaker 1: know he's doing all this cryptic stuff, you honest is
Speaker 1: just like, uh yeah, I would leave if I found
Speaker 1: a better situation. I mean, I don't know. He's being
Speaker 1: pretty clear.
Speaker 2: I feel Yeah, I guess, so, I guess, but really
Speaker 2: like making sure of him sending.
Speaker 3: The table for fans to understand why.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, look, I want to be here, but
Speaker 2: if they're messing around and I don't have the right
Speaker 2: pieces around me, then I have to go.
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry to you all.
Speaker 1: But that's sorry list man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I guess we'll see, we'll know more
Speaker 2: by the by this next season.
Speaker 5: He should go to the Knicks and he should live
Speaker 5: in the Eminem's World Store.
Speaker 1: You know, like really really live in Times Square, like
Speaker 1: at the TGI Fridays in the Olive Garden, the Red
Speaker 1: Lobster there. Yeah, that would be it. That would actually
Speaker 1: be like that. That's the human endurance feet that I
Speaker 1: want to see David Blaine try and take on. Is
Speaker 1: like live for a full year in Times Square just
Speaker 1: you have to only eat in Times Square. You only
Speaker 1: see people. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: But the rules are but you can't have blinds on
Speaker 3: your windows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like square has to be. It's like when that
Speaker 2: when Kramer lived next to the Kenny Rogers Roasters yeah exactly,
Speaker 2: and it's just like like it does something to you
Speaker 2: with all that light coming.
Speaker 1: In and you need to you can't order pizza from
Speaker 1: outside of Times Square. You have to eat sparrow, like
Speaker 1: that's the only type of pizza you're allowed to have.
Speaker 1: Whatever Times Square.
Speaker 2: I could see like Giannis with like a Halal truck,
Speaker 2: you know or something, or like you know, Greek diner
Speaker 2: and Yonkers or you know, was it Queen's who who
Speaker 2: got the Greek diners out there?
Speaker 3: Is the queens?
Speaker 1: I mean they're everywhere. The historia is like a story
Speaker 1: got all the Greek diner They have some good yeah,
Speaker 1: really good Greek.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so then you can I can already see the
Speaker 2: promo materials with Yannis at the Greek diner in a story,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, just just doing the whole
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's let's take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: come back. We'll keep talking NBA news. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back. We're back, and just as I predicted. Okay, Miles, yep,
Speaker 1: we were in Vegas for a mere twenty four hours.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't make many bets that I know. I bet
Speaker 1: once on roulette hit my numbers, dude.
Speaker 2: That I can't even how much the way you thought
Speaker 2: you messed up when you.
Speaker 1: Were betting on roulette, You're like, oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 1: So I put on the eleven to one green, which
Speaker 1: I thought meant that I was betting that it would
Speaker 1: fall on numbers one to eleven, but it was actually
Speaker 1: just either zero or double zero. But it hit double zero.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that you know, had a couple hundred
Speaker 1: dollars to my name all of a sudden, went directly
Speaker 1: to the sports book and put it all on the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns to win the title and the Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: Thunder to win the title. And the reason I put
Speaker 1: it on the Oklahoma City Thunder is I was like,
Speaker 1: what if Dame went to the Thunder. That's not true.
Speaker 1: I had just seen Chet play in the Summer League
Speaker 1: and I thought he looked cool. But there are rumors
Speaker 1: all of a sudden that I might be a genius
Speaker 1: and that Dame might be going to Okay seem a
Speaker 1: lot of ifs, but that would be very interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he literally said he will not play, he won't
Speaker 5: report to training camp.
Speaker 1: If it's not the heat, this is I think it's
Speaker 1: implied that the Oklahoma City Thunder are an exception to that,
Speaker 1: but they're basically the Miami Heat of the Midwest.
Speaker 2: Where it's still this is where it still works, right
Speaker 2: because as I think it was Chris Mannicks who said
Speaker 2: it on the NBA podcast was on the Crossover, said
Speaker 2: that if it's January, come January, if Dame is still
Speaker 2: on the Blazers, and if okay See is overachieving, then
Speaker 2: maybe you could see them go for Dame. Yeah, which
Speaker 2: it'll still it all still works. Like in that scenario, Jack,
Speaker 2: You're still winning.
Speaker 1: I'm still winning. Yeah. So I don't know that that's intriguing.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: It's just fun to think of. Is there a dark
Speaker 1: horse team that could jump in the mix here that
Speaker 1: is not the Heat, that is not the Blazers, that
Speaker 1: could have Damian Lillard on their team.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah. I just the thing is is that, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I can't believe it's taken so long for Dame to
Speaker 5: get his way that I at this point, I am
Speaker 5: like someone has something up their sleep, even if it's like,
Speaker 5: you know, I think Dame's representation, like I think Dame
Speaker 5: is like one of the most like straightforward, nice guys
Speaker 5: like loyal. So I don't think he's like, you know,
Speaker 5: really just been like I'm only gonna play for the
Speaker 5: Miami Heat. Like I think he's like open to a
Speaker 5: good situation. I think his management is going, you gotta
Speaker 5: go Miami Heat. Only say Miami Heat, let's hold out,
Speaker 5: and Dames like, okay, I trust you guys. And so
Speaker 5: I do feel like if a team like okay, see
Speaker 5: or whoever, the Knicks or any or the Bucks were like, hey,
Speaker 5: here's a good like if the Bucks put it together
Speaker 5: a package where they kept together someone of their team
Speaker 5: and Dame was to go over there with Giannis, like,
Speaker 5: there's no way you got to say no, or you're
Speaker 5: gonna say no, right yeah, right. The thing is to me,
Speaker 5: the Heat situation isn't an automatic championship, So it's like,
Speaker 5: if a good situation arises, put your name in the hat,
Speaker 5: go after. So yeah, I'm with it. I think like
Speaker 5: otherwise we would have seen Dame to Miami body, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, what's I guess what's the wildest
Speaker 2: place you think you could see him going? If we're
Speaker 2: being just in a fantastic world.
Speaker 1: Right now, the wildest place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like where do you think he would just I mean,
Speaker 3: like I for I mean the.
Speaker 1: Globe Comers, Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Speaker 3: Oh d d C.
Speaker 1: Is so dang like for him to like make the
Speaker 1: leap into a fixal world. But then it's DC like.
Speaker 5: James Gone really sells like he's like, hey, I've taken over.
Speaker 7: It's different, you know, Okay, yeah, like super loyal fans,
Speaker 7: like the Portland Trailblazers fans, you know, like super loyal,
Speaker 7: but like there's something a little off.
Speaker 1: They all have beards and you know, the they ride
Speaker 1: for that product, even though the product is pretty inconsistently.
Speaker 2: Seeing him and how him how like well he did
Speaker 2: on Cameron's podcast, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, you're not open to New York So cool man?
Speaker 1: He really is. Like every time I see him, like
Speaker 1: interviewed or just like talking, I'm like, he might not
Speaker 1: be the best player in the NBA, but he is
Speaker 1: the coolest player in the NBA and maybe like one
Speaker 1: of the cooler human beings on the plane.
Speaker 3: How you like it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just rapping. I don't know much about rap, but
Speaker 5: it's not cringe worthy like some of the players. True,
Speaker 5: you know, I would I agree. Jacket's like you round
Speaker 5: out you get averages on like him as a person
Speaker 5: player cool, also like good dad from what we've seen,
Speaker 5: and also his like side hustles like wrapping and stuff
Speaker 5: like decent to great on all. And that's like there
Speaker 5: are some big name players who I would like they
Speaker 5: bring themselves down with what they what they their hobbies.
Speaker 3: Are, right right right?
Speaker 5: I like I liked him a lot, and this thing
Speaker 5: is like I think we all truly just want what
Speaker 5: is best.
Speaker 3: For ucking truly truly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want what's best for him. I want what's
Speaker 1: best for just the like it would be. I just
Speaker 1: want him to like go to the right situation and
Speaker 1: like that team to be competitive. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see him like go somewhere and it's like, oh it's
Speaker 1: like didn't work out, you know. Like that's why that's
Speaker 1: how I feel about, you know, the Suns this year,
Speaker 1: Like I want them to be super competitive because I
Speaker 1: want KD to like be in the mix. Like those
Speaker 1: are these are all players. That's the other that's the
Speaker 1: other team I put money on. So that's really why
Speaker 1: I care about this story at all. This is a
Speaker 1: gambling player, Okay, I see what you did here. Producer
Speaker 1: Jabari snuck in it after we started recording Snuck in
Speaker 1: a little story, Welcome back to Philly, Jim. So, James
Speaker 1: Harden's doesn't look like it's going to work out for
Speaker 1: him with the Clippers. So he's going to do what
Speaker 1: just like play for Philadelphia after he said, let me
Speaker 1: repeat myself. I'm not sure what happens here, but it does.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like it seemed like he wanted to
Speaker 1: play for the Clippers and now that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's been super clear about like I
Speaker 1: must play in these specific locations other than not for
Speaker 1: the So he's like an inverted Dame in that in
Speaker 1: both he is and also, uh, you know, he's just
Speaker 1: saying I don't want to play for the one team
Speaker 1: anywhere else stick me anywhere, which makes me wonder. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe we even that equation out and them to Portland
Speaker 1: per Dame game Philly.
Speaker 5: That's the thing is, like I don't know how good
Speaker 5: of a plan it is to be like, hey, I
Speaker 5: want to I want the most money and I'm not
Speaker 5: going to win you a championship, which is what James
Speaker 5: Harden is now saying. You know, like at a certain point,
Speaker 5: it was like, hey, we can win a championship with him,
Speaker 5: but he's not won a championship with four teams. Like,
Speaker 5: uh yeah, I don't know how much more you can do.
Speaker 1: This Chames interesting to see. I can't wait to I
Speaker 1: can't wait to watch so many teams this season, the Spurs,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch it. Okay, see, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to watch I'm really looking forward to seeing my
Speaker 1: tall Boys player Stevens.
Speaker 3: All the teams you have money.
Speaker 1: On the son you're also in there.
Speaker 5: I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to put my webbing. I'm a
Speaker 1: defensive Player of the Year bet down. How lots have
Speaker 1: moved on that, but I I think that would be interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was like really like long odds on that, and
Speaker 1: he did. It. Feels like there's a world where he
Speaker 1: averages like four or five blocks a game.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways, our listeners have heard me say this truly a
Speaker 1: thousand times. It's my one good idea about the NBA
Speaker 1: this year. My mixers me winning money. The seventy six
Speaker 1: ers are not one of the teams that I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see.
Speaker 5: I just I don't know Pat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Pat is fun.
Speaker 8: Yeah, oh man, we have a like less excited to
Speaker 8: be there Joe l Embiid, and a like miserable to
Speaker 8: be there James Harden What what could be more fun
Speaker 8: to watch?
Speaker 2: He's going to be Paul Rudd and what hot American
Speaker 2: summer every time he has to go into the game.
Speaker 1: Nick see how Nurses Nurse concerts released. But like, their
Speaker 1: problem was never how good they looked in the regular season,
Speaker 1: like Doc truly one of the great regular season coaches
Speaker 1: of all time. It was just like, how do you
Speaker 1: coach your way out of the second round and like
Speaker 1: figure some things out in a seven game series? And
Speaker 1: that's just what they were unable to do. So like
Speaker 1: the Nick Nurse experience would only be like, yes, here
Speaker 1: we are entering the playoffs in a good position, and
Speaker 1: now I'm excited that Nick Nurse is here. But that's
Speaker 1: not that there's a lot of ifs to get to
Speaker 1: that point.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you know, if you need a team
Speaker 2: to get excited about, Jackie, you can always just look
Speaker 2: in the city you're in.
Speaker 3: You know, the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Lakers, I mean, the Lakers are my Lebron's always like whoever,
Speaker 1: whatever team Lebron's on like has unofficially been the team
Speaker 1: that I'm always pulling or you know, throughout his career.
Speaker 1: So I am still excited about the Lakers, and I
Speaker 1: get reminded every time they make a move yeah by
Speaker 1: Miles and Jabbari Yep, yep. So this is what do
Speaker 1: we do this this week?
Speaker 3: In Lakers Update Extended, we extended Van Doll and.
Speaker 1: That was one of my top questions heading into the
Speaker 1: off season. I was like, but what about vand do
Speaker 1: right right right? Exactly? Thank you, Jack.
Speaker 2: But I think the bigger question that we were talking
Speaker 2: off Mike was with Christian Wood. What Jabari is like,
Speaker 2: if it's all or none. If he plays well, it's
Speaker 2: it's number eighteen, hang it up, that's where he was at.
Speaker 2: And if he doesn't, it's going to be like watching
Speaker 2: a like a a shoddy spacecraft re enter Earth's atmosphere
Speaker 2: and it's going to break apart and be like a
Speaker 2: flame ball mess type of thing.
Speaker 1: The whole team. That's what you're putting all that on
Speaker 1: Christian Wood.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, but his performance, like he's either going
Speaker 2: to play so well that he's a vital part of
Speaker 2: us winning a championship, or he's going, it's just going
Speaker 2: to be like a just disastrous from him.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, he definitely like he's supposed to be a
Speaker 5: big man, right, he was like our big center we're
Speaker 5: looking for, and everyone's all like, he can shoot the three,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, god, no, he could shoot the three.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, all right, stop, we got a lot
Speaker 5: of guys who can shoot the three. Now we have
Speaker 5: pikeeen guards, like we I just need a center. Like
Speaker 5: That's why I was like open to Tristan, Like I
Speaker 5: was like Tristan, Dwight Howard, who else was out there?
Speaker 5: Like I just want a guy who just is big
Speaker 5: and will play defense and just like stop the other
Speaker 5: team from scoring a ton of points while a d
Speaker 5: is out. And the fact that did Christian would move
Speaker 5: into the starting lineup already, so Rui's.
Speaker 3: In there, No no, no, yeah, Well.
Speaker 5: That's the thing is people are talking about Christian Wood
Speaker 5: is starting moving already in the starting while I'm like,
Speaker 5: the thing is Lakers fans are insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's like it's it's funny too when
Speaker 2: I say some things that are completely I should be
Speaker 2: wearing a straight jacket as I say them. But it's
Speaker 2: also funny when you start people saying like you hear
Speaker 2: people say stuff like that, You're like, well, well hold on,
Speaker 2: come on now, let's not go all the way there.
Speaker 1: So we have his career averages, like right here, Jabari
Speaker 1: put him unto the dock and first thing that jumps
Speaker 1: out at me. You know, he starts three, he starts.
Speaker 1: He starts like four seasons ago when he's with the Pelicans,
Speaker 1: I guess it's only eight games, but he puts up
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen points, eight rebounds a game in eight games.
Speaker 1: Next season he's with the Pistons. The Pelicans are like,
Speaker 1: well that was interesting, but no, thank you, uh Pistons.
Speaker 1: Over the course of sixty two games, he's putting up
Speaker 1: thirteen points six rebounds. Next year with the Rockets, just
Speaker 1: like everybody is immediately they're like, wow, he really progressing,
Speaker 1: and we're out things are really looking up and just
Speaker 1: not here.
Speaker 5: Realizes that they're not playing fantasy basketball, Like is he
Speaker 5: are those stats doing anything? I think? Is like the question?
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, like I don't.
Speaker 5: The thing is I watched basketball. I don't remember Christian
Speaker 5: Wood storylines, Like I don't remember any of those. I
Speaker 5: forgot about him. On New Orleans, Like, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a time when we were not really
Speaker 1: checking for New Orleans.
Speaker 5: The thing is, does it it might not matter whether
Speaker 5: Christian Wood is good at which is the opposite of
Speaker 5: what what Miles is saying. It might not matter as
Speaker 5: long because we were good good before that signing, right besides, like,
Speaker 5: but yeah, do we ah man? It kind of also
Speaker 5: does feel like the year after they won the champ
Speaker 5: the twenty twenty Championship, where we felt so good about.
Speaker 3: The roster, oh man, and.
Speaker 5: We did feel good up until the first round and
Speaker 5: Ad got hurt. Like, but it's I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 5: We don't know how good Gabe Vincent is not on the.
Speaker 3: Heat, Yeah, yeah, true, true.
Speaker 5: We don't know if Jackson Hayes is is good. They're
Speaker 5: saying he can play like a Dwight twenty twenty role.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I've never seen that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because a lot of it is like looking at
Speaker 2: it through like rose tinted glasses, where you're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's Gabe Vincent from the playoffs that we just saw.
Speaker 3: That's the guy who's going to be there the entire season.
Speaker 2: Even though the story there was like where did this
Speaker 2: guy come from.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that we've never heard of regular season Gabe Vincent.
Speaker 5: Yess what, like he's going to have to be that way.
Speaker 2: He may have to go back to his home planet
Speaker 2: during the regular season. Yeah, until he's called upon in
Speaker 2: the postseason. But yeah, I think it's also on the
Speaker 2: stats there how many blocks does my man get?
Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, the center stats are not included found the
Speaker 1: blocks of behind to pay wall. Uh And and the
Speaker 1: Piston stats from the season with the Pistons are actually
Speaker 1: just rumored. Nobody actually watched the Pistons, so we can't.
Speaker 5: Actually, yeah, I'm going to go eat a deep dish pizza,
Speaker 5: that's right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean he was eighteen points ten boards
Speaker 1: two seasons ago. It's yeah, pretty for over sixty eight games,
Speaker 1: like they're you know. And then with the Mavericks they
Speaker 1: were like no thank you and played him less and
Speaker 1: he still got like sixteen sixteen points, seven boards. But
Speaker 1: we'll see, man, we'll see. This does not feel I
Speaker 1: truly do think like Vanderbilt is my guy. Like there
Speaker 1: there were moments in the playoffs and in the like
Speaker 1: towards the end of the regular season where he truly
Speaker 1: got in people's shorts. Yeah yeah, and really like is
Speaker 1: is like a and he ate them eat up their shorts.
Speaker 3: They were having cows left and right.
Speaker 1: If you can start like consistently knocking down the three,
Speaker 1: he is truly like he's going to be such a
Speaker 1: such a valuable player.
Speaker 2: I mean, but I'm just looking at these this there's
Speaker 2: a three point percentage from Christian wood Man.
Speaker 1: But what I in my eye over on this side is, uh,
Speaker 1: this man shooting in the high there we've.
Speaker 2: Been clamoring for exactly man, Well we shall sy. How
Speaker 2: you feeling though about the Lakers in general?
Speaker 3: CJ, I'm excited.
Speaker 5: Like I it wasn't the craziest summer, and that's I
Speaker 5: wanted it to be. I didn't realize how quiet of
Speaker 5: a summer I wanted to have after that run in
Speaker 5: the playoffs. Like it's good they got Austin Reeves an
Speaker 5: incredible deal. I like insant RUI is is in Like
Speaker 5: they got those guys they needed to sign, and then
Speaker 5: they have these new guys who I think, like I
Speaker 5: hope they buy into the system they got. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm like even down with seeing Dilo, like let's see
Speaker 5: what happens there. I'm miss shrewder but I uh, and
Speaker 5: a lot of like some of my trusted Lakers fans,
Speaker 5: like we fought over Shooter all season, but when he
Speaker 5: was gone, everyone's like, oh, did we make a mistake?
Speaker 5: Like what what player has left twice? And and you asked,
Speaker 5: do we make a mistake letting him go again? But yeah,
Speaker 5: the the question is is, like, who's going to stop
Speaker 5: the Nuggets. I think that if you're just to isolate
Speaker 5: the Lakers and the Nuggets, we have a we have
Speaker 5: a great case of beating like we could beat them.
Speaker 5: That's all. Like, that's the only question I'm asking myself.
Speaker 5: And I'm going to try to enjoy the hell of
Speaker 5: this regular season because I put myself through torture last season.
Speaker 5: I was like, but I'm watching every game and I
Speaker 5: was rewarded with that run. But like this year, I
Speaker 5: want to have like a nice steady have a beer
Speaker 5: and not go to bed angry, just like you know, yeah,
Speaker 5: I just want to have.
Speaker 1: A nice eighty two and oh season. Yeah exactly, that's
Speaker 1: all right, No suspense, nothing, yeah, nothing spectacular.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We need to be ahead forty by the end
Speaker 3: of the first quarter. That's pretty much. And then we're good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the kids just shared a tweet from Lakers
Speaker 1: Guru at Guru Lakers trusted.
Speaker 5: No one ever has any issues with him.
Speaker 1: Never never, I don't know. Guru Lakers is history, but
Speaker 1: testing one two is this thing on twenty three, twenty
Speaker 1: four salaries, Fred van Vliet forty million, Tobias Harris a
Speaker 1: cool thirty nine million. Nobody has ever doubted or thought
Speaker 1: that was not worth it. Beans de means thirty eight million.
Speaker 1: So both two of those coming from your boys in Philly. CJ.
Speaker 1: McCollum thirty six million, Austin Ruy Van doh Christian Wood
Speaker 1: thirty five million. Total.
Speaker 5: Incredible, Rob. I've never also never changed my mind on
Speaker 5: a person more quickly. Yeah, like yeah, how he was
Speaker 5: ready to like send squad, a squad or a squat
Speaker 5: team to like shut me down from the tweets that
Speaker 5: had Roblinka, and then they all turned into this is
Speaker 5: this is gone. He's on.
Speaker 2: You're like, Saint Rob, thank you so much for all
Speaker 2: that you have bestowed upon me. You've got somehow got
Speaker 2: Austin Reeves with a promo code.
Speaker 3: For that.
Speaker 1: He did scan the QR code on that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like what do you think he figured out. Do you
Speaker 1: think he just started trying. He was like, I guess
Speaker 1: I could try and be good at this, like being
Speaker 1: a GM.
Speaker 9: Like what happened, there was no way really like I've
Speaker 9: never seen a turn like playoff Jimmy like that kind
Speaker 9: of thing. It was like, you know what, playoff Jimmy,
Speaker 9: but from a GM, think about all crazy.
Speaker 5: This is where he's like, I got to actually do
Speaker 5: a good job. Let me get those two guys that
Speaker 5: went from the Timberwolves to the Jazz and weren't being
Speaker 5: played like yeah, you know it was, let's start playing
Speaker 5: Austin Reeves. Hey, yeah, a little bit of luck in
Speaker 5: and Rob is the goat. I don't know what. I
Speaker 5: don't know how to hell that happened.
Speaker 1: It was insane, Yeah, crazy, Well, good for you guys,
Speaker 1: that's great. I'm happy for the Lakers and very excited
Speaker 1: for my seventy six ers. All right, all right, we'll be.
Speaker 3: Right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back stretching out folks. You ready, all right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You ready?
Speaker 2: Right, yep for the fastest question and answer segment in
Speaker 2: all podcasting history. You're ready, Okay, this is the rapid
Speaker 2: fire round questioning. CJ toldano I hope you are ready. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know the deal.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: We're gonna ask a question. Just fire it right back,
Speaker 2: don't don't give like some s A T two answer. Okay,
Speaker 2: just in the bubble. Okay, that's what we're trying to do,
Speaker 2: ri ip scantrons. I just realized they're not using scantrons anymore.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, that's for all the old people to remember.
Speaker 3: It's all digital, man, it's all digital, folks. It's all
Speaker 3: going digital.
Speaker 1: And I'm probably all in the cloud exactly.
Speaker 3: It's all the cloud. Man.
Speaker 1: My parents love talking about blue.
Speaker 2: But here we are, fourth quarter rapid fire. CJ toil
Speaker 2: a dono ma boo. Hi, because we're about to go in, Brian.
Speaker 5: Start the claw.
Speaker 1: Brian's cowering in the corner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he should be, because this is serious business. Okay,
Speaker 3: this is quick too, this is fat man.
Speaker 2: I already asked fourteen questions. You didn't even hear him, bro,
Speaker 2: Maybe I should slow it down, Jack, Should you want
Speaker 2: to go?
Speaker 3: Where should I go?
Speaker 5: That's just deeper?
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, yeah, you got me there, you got me there.
Speaker 2: Hey man, let me take He's really good. He's really good, man.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go first.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll go first, yourj Tola Dono. This is
Speaker 1: the rapid Oh you already covered all that, CJ. You
Speaker 1: could take two players from all of history to create
Speaker 1: your Mad Boosti's edition NBA Jam Team. Which two players
Speaker 1: are you taking?
Speaker 5: Jason Williams and Shack.
Speaker 1: Jason Williams in Shack yep, okay wait, NBA Jam games.
Speaker 5: Those are NBA Jam skill sets. Yeah, handles, dishes, dunks.
Speaker 2: CJ Toldonald, next question, who was the best player you
Speaker 2: have ever witnessed in person?
Speaker 3: And what did they do?
Speaker 5: It was shoot best player in person. I saw Shack.
Speaker 5: I saw Shack at the Orlando Airport right after I
Speaker 5: was trying to buy a Batman Forever book and he
Speaker 5: was just autographing and not saying no to anybody like
Speaker 5: height of it was ninety four.
Speaker 1: He whoa, you know, not flying private like wow?
Speaker 5: What like just audio playing anywhere.
Speaker 1: He just liked to go public pla sign autographs in Hudson.
Speaker 5: News, cleaning out Hudson News and buying everyone everything.
Speaker 2: You know, this is right when he was Neon Boudreaux. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in Blue Chips ninety four. That's serious business. Now I've
Speaker 2: heard from you. I don't think I've ever encountered check
Speaker 2: in person, is it. I've heard that it's like another
Speaker 2: level of big.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes, oh he pulled up.
Speaker 2: I remember in the Shack's edition to Jenesta Park once
Speaker 2: Jabari was there. He used to pull up to that
Speaker 2: park on the valley and that was the first time
Speaker 2: I had seen him like not like very far away
Speaker 2: at a Laker game, and I was like, this is
Speaker 2: kind of spooky.
Speaker 5: No, he is.
Speaker 9: To me.
Speaker 5: He is like like the one of the greatest humans,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, like in stature and what
Speaker 5: he's done, Like it's hard. Shack is hard to beat.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like so you'd say, like of your all time cool people,
Speaker 2: like Dame is maybe like number five on that list,
Speaker 2: and like Shack is that what like dish like.
Speaker 5: The regular homie like we said earlier, you know, he's
Speaker 5: just I'm not going to freak out even though I
Speaker 5: do love him. I'm I'm backing him up, and I'm
Speaker 5: just like, Okay, we had lunch today.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 1: May's edition NBA jam would be pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm constrained the chat saying is this rapid fire?
Speaker 3: Yeah, CJ, come on, we got to keep this moving.
Speaker 2: Follow up question, though, who is the person you would
Speaker 2: pay most to see in person.
Speaker 1: Play like play basket player?
Speaker 3: They had to play? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean unless it's someone a basketball player doing something
Speaker 2: in person.
Speaker 1: But what are you paying to see him?
Speaker 5: Honestly? Magic Johnson? Yeah, I never got to see Magic
Speaker 5: playing person.
Speaker 1: What would you would you be paying to see him
Speaker 1: play basketball or tweet?
Speaker 5: Our host a talk show? Yeah, because I'd probably pay
Speaker 5: the most. I would love to write on the Magic
Speaker 5: out is what I can pay for that? That would Magic.
Speaker 5: I would love to see Magic. And you know they canceled,
Speaker 5: you know, winning time, so I won't be able to
Speaker 5: watch it through that. Yeah, but yeah, I'd love to
Speaker 5: see live.
Speaker 3: Who is?
Speaker 1: What do we like His writing processes for his tweets
Speaker 1: straight right off the dome? But like it sometimes like
Speaker 1: yeah first thought first, but like two hours later sometimes
Speaker 1: like just watched the you know. Anyways, he just has.
Speaker 5: A Twitter that he doesn't follow anyone. He didn't doesn't
Speaker 5: think anyone follows him, and it's just only his thing
Speaker 5: pops up and so he's like, I'm ground I'm groundbreaking tweets, right, groundbreaking?
Speaker 5: I know what the rest of Twitter looks like that's
Speaker 5: Johnson's life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, Jabia has a point. It is voice
Speaker 2: to text no matter where he is.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 2: I just saw the new Indiana Jones movie Harrison Ford.
Speaker 3: He will always be a star. Y'all must check it out.
Speaker 3: Five stars.
Speaker 5: That's the total Magic Johnson Theaters show times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2: Little known fact Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert turned down
Speaker 2: the role to be Magic Johnson's sidekick on The Magic Hour.
Speaker 5: No yeah, wow, whoa. Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 2: And look at where their careers are now in shambles
Speaker 2: blew podcast like us, Yeah, exactly idiots.
Speaker 1: All right, CJ. You like vintage gear, clothes, shoes with
Speaker 1: a piece of NBA gear or a shoe that you
Speaker 1: would like to see.
Speaker 3: Make a comeback, like the shooting shirt, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like that kind of stuff that we always
Speaker 3: used to see back in the day.
Speaker 5: They're I mean, let's see here. Yeah, I think the
Speaker 5: NBA shooting jackets were great, like the wind breaker type,
Speaker 5: because now Nike they do some variations and it just
Speaker 5: nothing is like a big get swing or a big
Speaker 5: gamble like that wind break, you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean?
Speaker 5: The matching pants. Yeah, like the ones that like the
Speaker 5: guys would come out during the All Star Game over
Speaker 5: their All Star uniform. Yeah, and like where Jordan would
Speaker 5: like whole Pennies Hard or Penny Hardways tear aways away, right,
Speaker 5: those are iconic to me. We don't have now. Guys
Speaker 5: come out and like the practice shirt they come out
Speaker 5: in like you know, T shirts or whatever. We got
Speaker 5: to bring back a whole just.
Speaker 3: Like the layers.
Speaker 5: The layers, ye know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It became very efficient with like the hoodie, you know,
Speaker 2: because they want to do like the hoodie mellow kind
Speaker 2: of esthetic for every team now to have their people.
Speaker 2: But I remember when it was the shooting jacket. Then
Speaker 2: there was the shooting shirt, like another thick piece of
Speaker 2: poly like.
Speaker 3: Nylon you were wearing underneath. Then your jersey.
Speaker 2: And I remember like the kids who had like a
Speaker 2: lot of money, like yo, he had the jacket.
Speaker 1: And the shooting shit.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: I remember at a North Carolina like UNC one that
Speaker 2: was like an in between like a button up shooting
Speaker 2: shirt slash jacket. Yeah, and I always thought that was
Speaker 2: like the height of my baller aesthetic.
Speaker 5: But yeah, like no, that is I remember I used
Speaker 5: to wear the Chicago Bulls shooting jacket over my uniform
Speaker 5: Catholic school, and that was it didn't go with it
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, our colors were green and gold.
Speaker 5: It's like there's a windbreaker. I could just wrap it
Speaker 5: off and then go to you know, theology class. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I miss those days. There's like there's kids out
Speaker 5: there that need that.
Speaker 2: But let's not remember the reason for the season. And
Speaker 2: that is a rapid fire round of questions. So we
Speaker 2: are going to have to move on.
Speaker 3: CJ.
Speaker 2: You can go back in time and permit either Saint
Speaker 2: Nick Van Excellent or Eddie Jones just Nick with the
Speaker 2: Shack and.
Speaker 3: Kobe squads for those title runs. Who do you want
Speaker 3: in there?
Speaker 5: I mean, you gotta go Nick. The thing is, I
Speaker 5: love Eddie, but Nick is more complimentary to Jack and Kobe.
Speaker 5: Yeah you know, yeah, I mean Eddie did he had
Speaker 5: some decent years with the heat afterwards, right, Yeah. I
Speaker 5: think yeah, it's Nick is I mean, they're both forever Lakers.
Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, and now I'm just imagine I'm just
Speaker 5: running through my head what that would have looked like.
Speaker 5: Things we probably would have lost with like Derek Fisher
Speaker 5: out there. Yeah, yeah, I'm cool. Okay like that, Thank Eddie.
Speaker 1: All Right, you have an l A background ranked these
Speaker 1: Los Angeles chains in and out, Fat Berger, Tommy.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be honestly, Yeah, fat Burger in and out Thomas.
Speaker 3: Wow, everybody hits Tommy's last.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's the wrong locations that I've been to.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, it's just it's not great for.
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever Tommy Sober? Yes, that me all the time.
Speaker 2: Yes, when in junior high because I was there was
Speaker 2: a Tommy's up the street from my school. I would
Speaker 2: go there and just calorie load like I was trying
Speaker 2: to I'm about to be in the NFL combiners and
Speaker 2: then just.
Speaker 5: There's nothing special about it. But yeah, it gets the job,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I guess that's what it is.
Speaker 1: And it was a chili burger though, right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the chili.
Speaker 3: It's the chili. Yeah, the chill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you put fat burger over in?
Speaker 3: Now? What's your metric there?
Speaker 5: Slightly because it can go back like uh there, the
Speaker 5: I can't get a craving for Internet in and out
Speaker 5: to me is kind of like it tastes like at
Speaker 5: this point it tastes kind of like a pastry. It
Speaker 5: tastes like sweet to me, it tastes like, I don't know,
Speaker 5: it's like.
Speaker 1: Like a you want burger burger itself.
Speaker 5: The burger itself, like nothing else is to be talked about.
Speaker 5: I mean maybe the milkshake a little bit, but like
Speaker 5: the burger is small. It's not going to make me
Speaker 5: feel ill. No, it's like it's a nice little treat
Speaker 5: if I don't have too much fat burger is like
Speaker 5: I'm I'm eating because my wife is out of town. Yeah,
Speaker 5: like trying to like my couch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to not be able to look at
Speaker 1: yourself in the mirror.
Speaker 2: And I think as a Magic fan, you are obligated
Speaker 2: to pick fat burger over in and obviously yes.
Speaker 3: Why yeah, of course I don't know. Yeah I should
Speaker 3: get it. I should get a double double fat or
Speaker 3: no double king with eggs.
Speaker 5: And bacon and that what I'm saying, the egg is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want to have a how weird.
Speaker 5: Is that work? On in and out?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Like it's strange how that how that works?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, And I'm sorry, CJ. We really have to
Speaker 3: keep this thing going.
Speaker 2: I would like to talk to this y yeah, Jack,
Speaker 2: come on, man, your boy, come.
Speaker 3: Get your You know where I live, I know you
Speaker 3: know where you stay at. Now this is the final
Speaker 3: question and the most important CJ Jack, not Shock, Jack
Speaker 3: or Mile. So you know, split hairs.
Speaker 5: I need I need you guys both. I'm gonna I
Speaker 5: just can't pick. I'm sorry, guys, Shock.
Speaker 3: Okay, how do we alter this?
Speaker 5: Okay, that's comprovising skills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 2: Okay, how about you honor us by saying that which
Speaker 2: which laker great are Jack and I?
Speaker 3: Respectively?
Speaker 5: Oh? I think you guys are Kobe and.
Speaker 3: I always wanted to? Yeah? Yeah, cool?
Speaker 2: And we knew that because you knew I wanted to
Speaker 2: because I like his soccer styles, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Okay, like that, I think we have a clear answer.
Speaker 1: Then yeah who he actually say Eldon?
Speaker 3: But uh no, I think Seddie. Yeah yeah, I'll pull
Speaker 3: my head up, my jersey over my head.
Speaker 2: But yeah, DJ told Donald. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: joining us on Miles and Jack got man?
Speaker 3: Boost is man? Where can people find you and follow you?
Speaker 3: Support you? Listen to you all.
Speaker 5: That one of the great follow through. We're doing a
Speaker 5: huge push on hal follow through. I mean, you've seen
Speaker 5: it before if you know me, casuals show him putting
Speaker 5: out it's not serious basketball talk with comedians and whatnot.
Speaker 5: You like some of this conversation? Going to like what
Speaker 5: you see on there? But at follow through merch videos
Speaker 5: do some nice commercial work. You're a big business with
Speaker 5: millions of dollars. Please do do business with us, but
Speaker 5: we're out there.
Speaker 3: Send your ad dollars to follow through his way, please
Speaker 3: will please?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: And where can they find you? Jack?
Speaker 1: I'm at Jack Underscore, Obrian, as long as Twitter is
Speaker 1: not a paid thing, right becomes the paid thing. I'm
Speaker 1: no longer there. I'll be on threads. I guess at
Speaker 1: the underscore, Oh underscore, Brian were blue Ski Yeah with
Speaker 1: the with the boys.
Speaker 2: Exactly find me at Miles of Gray wherever they do
Speaker 2: at the at simple you know what I mean. Shout
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Speaker 3: That's going to do it for us. We'll see you
Speaker 3: next time. As we inch just one more week closer
Speaker 3: to media day.
Speaker 1: Will slowly What is the media going to ask them?
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly what's your plan to win this season?
Speaker 2: The questions will be riveting and groundbreaking. All right, we'll
Speaker 2: see it soon.
Speaker 1: Bye bye,