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Speaker 4: Thank you, Sarah. I'm good, pretty good. Can't complain. How
Speaker 4: you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing well. So I have funny thing that Demonse
Speaker 2: doesn't know. Last night, during halftime of the Knicks game,
Speaker 2: It's like it's halftime. I've been on a bit of
Speaker 2: a fortnight kick lately. I'm like, I think I have
Speaker 2: just enough time during halftime to get a quick four
Speaker 2: night game in in my office and I'll know when
Speaker 2: the game's angs. I'll put it on the upper TVs
Speaker 2: and like one minute after logging on, I get a
Speaker 2: little alert, says DeMont. Your friend demands a bird is
Speaker 2: I'm like, I wonder if he did the same thing.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I wonder if he was like, all right, halftime,
Speaker 2: let me get a little call of duty. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're not a Fortnite guy. You're more of a call
Speaker 2: of duty guy. But I even thought.
Speaker 3: Of texting you.
Speaker 4: Past halftime the.
Speaker 2: Yeah and well right, Well, the thing is Fortnite can
Speaker 2: be real fast, you can get the you can get
Speaker 2: killed quickly.
Speaker 3: Whatever. Good to see you. We have a ton to do.
Speaker 2: We have a new three time MVP h Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 2: The legend just grows. We'll get into all of that. Uh,
Speaker 2: but first, here's what missed the cut. What missed the
Speaker 2: cut for today's show is Charles Barkley says New York
Speaker 2: City is overrated. However, he does love the as he
Speaker 2: calls it, street meat. I'll tell you when I first
Speaker 2: before I moved to New York. When I first I
Speaker 2: did an internship for ESPN Radio in New York City
Speaker 2: one summer of college, and coming from the Midwest, the
Speaker 2: fact that I could just walk down the street and
Speaker 2: get a hot dog or a kebab or a kinish
Speaker 2: was one of my absolute favorite things about the city.
Speaker 2: So I get white people who don't live here love
Speaker 2: the food carts and just the hot you know, fresh
Speaker 2: is maybe not the right word, but any food that
Speaker 2: you are eating seconds after it was prepared is delicious.
Speaker 2: That's like the entire key to Benni, Hannah and Habachi. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know that that is as great as it
Speaker 2: tastes in any setting other than moments after it's on
Speaker 2: the grill you're eating it. Travis Kelsey's gonna appear in
Speaker 2: a new horror series, and there's officially an Office spin
Speaker 2: off in the work. I think I'd love the Office,
Speaker 2: but I've never seen a single episode of the English
Speaker 2: version or the American version. All right, demanse, let's get
Speaker 2: to the MVP news. Then we'll get to the playoff
Speaker 2: MVP Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, Jokers won his third MVP in four years.
Speaker 4: So you started off off Jokich's bandwagon, then you jumped on,
Speaker 4: and then it seems like you've jumped off after his
Speaker 4: two bad games to Minnesota. And you said that you
Speaker 4: would have voted Luca this year. So does that mean
Speaker 4: in your eyes that Joker should be a zero time MVP.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: So here's the So.
Speaker 2: If you look at how I say I would have
Speaker 2: voted each of the last four years, it would appear
Speaker 2: that I would have never voted for Joker, because what
Speaker 2: I have said on TV is that CP three was
Speaker 2: my MVP three years ago, Luca was my MVP two
Speaker 2: years ago, Embiid was my MVP last year, and Luca
Speaker 2: was my MVP this year. But had any of those
Speaker 2: previous MVPs gone the way I thought they should have,
Speaker 2: then my future MVP feelings would have changed. And I
Speaker 2: know to some people that seems against the rules, like no,
Speaker 2: it's this season in a vacuum only, but that is
Speaker 2: simply not how it's ever been done. So if I,
Speaker 2: if I were able to change history, so to speak,
Speaker 2: the last four MVPs would have been Chris Paul, Luca, Joker, Joker.
Speaker 2: So I one of the reasons that I did not think,
Speaker 2: and Embiid would be the one, you know, without a
Speaker 2: chair unfortunately. But the the reason that I did not
Speaker 2: think Joker should have been the MVP last year was
Speaker 2: because of the president about guy winning three in a row,
Speaker 2: particularly who had at that point in time had done nothing. However,
Speaker 2: if coming off last year where he was the dominant
Speaker 2: postseason force he was, and he had only had one
Speaker 2: MVP to his name up to that point and Luca
Speaker 2: already had one, then this year, I probably would have
Speaker 2: vote voting voting voted for Joker. But here is what
Speaker 2: I'm going to say about Joker and winning his third MVP. Okay,
Speaker 2: the guys with two Giannis, Steph Duncan, Nash, Malone, Pettitt,
Speaker 2: He's now ascended past them. He is in this group.
Speaker 2: Here are the guys with three, Him, Magic, Larry, and Moses.
Speaker 2: The guys with four Wilton Lebron, the guys with five
Speaker 2: Russell and Michael, and the only guy with six. So
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. He right now is a very
Speaker 2: similar career of Moses, by the way, three MVPs Moses
Speaker 2: went to two finals, one to one championship. But we
Speaker 2: must also then reevaluate as we get new information. We
Speaker 2: are going to talk about Jalen Brunson in a moment.
Speaker 2: If your feelings on Jalen Brunson are the same today
Speaker 2: as they were a month ago, well then why even
Speaker 2: have the games? If what he has done in this
Speaker 2: postseason does not allow you to reevaluate and upgrade how
Speaker 2: great of a player you think he is, then what
Speaker 2: are the point of the games that works in both directions?
Speaker 2: And if all of a sudden, when Joker for the
Speaker 2: first time in a few years, is playing a fifty
Speaker 2: plus win, well built, healthy team in the playoffs, is
Speaker 2: struggling mightily. If that doesn't then allow you to reevaluate
Speaker 2: certain assumptions we had about where he's ending in the pantheon,
Speaker 2: then why have the games? Because going into this postseason,
Speaker 2: the question with Joker was fairly and I was having it.
Speaker 2: Is he going to run down Shack? Is he going
Speaker 2: to end this postseason already ahead of a team? Could
Speaker 2: he catch Bird though in the all time historical pantheon?
Speaker 2: That's what and by the way, still is available to
Speaker 2: him if they turn this around and win the championship.
Speaker 2: But the flip side to that coin is if they
Speaker 2: get rolled in round two by a twenty two year
Speaker 2: old and by a guy who, previous to this moment
Speaker 2: has always been considered a bad postseason performer, then we
Speaker 2: must ask the question, did we anoint him ahead of
Speaker 2: Yannis prematurely.
Speaker 4: Put the resume side?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Right, Well, then then we recalibrate again, right, exactly right.
Speaker 2: But we had the conversation around Jokic was head and
Speaker 2: shoulders clear best player in the league. That is coming
Speaker 2: into some question. I think because of what Ant and
Speaker 2: Shay are doing to at least in question and the
Speaker 2: guy of his era hands down. If you're Yannis, you're like, well,
Speaker 2: if they get rolled this round, can we have the discussion?
Speaker 2: He has three MVPs, now I have two. I have
Speaker 2: a defensive.
Speaker 3: Player of the Year award.
Speaker 2: Though he has one legendary postseason run, I have one
Speaker 2: legendary postseason run that arguably was not only as good,
Speaker 2: but maybe better. Why are we sure he is the
Speaker 2: alpha of this mini era?
Speaker 3: That thing?
Speaker 2: Those questions come into play, just like for Yannis when
Speaker 2: he won his title with a fifty piece in Game
Speaker 2: six and at that point had two MVPs, a into
Speaker 2: Player of the Year and look totally unstoppable. The conversations
Speaker 2: we were having were could this guy end up being
Speaker 2: one of the five greatest players of all time?
Speaker 3: But since then.
Speaker 2: He hasn't been out of Round two and he has
Speaker 2: back to back Round one exits, so you recalibrate, that
Speaker 2: is why. And this is the Jokic folks that have
Speaker 2: gotten mad at me in the past when they're like,
Speaker 2: you know, killed me for saying I needed to see
Speaker 2: him do it on a postseason run and acted like
Speaker 2: that was an unfair standard. It's the standard. It's always
Speaker 2: been the standard. And now again, if we are just
Speaker 2: being historically fair, we then also let's just assume, not
Speaker 2: even assume, let's just say for the sake of argument,
Speaker 2: that minnesot Of sweeps them. Okay, we now have some
Speaker 2: really uncomfortable lists. You would have fewest wins in a
Speaker 2: playoffs in a season you won MVP. Here would be
Speaker 2: the full list of guys who have four or less.
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan once, Magic Johnson once, Tim Duncan wants, Dirk once,
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook once, Nikola Jokic three times. He already is
Speaker 2: tied with Westbrook for fewest playoff wins in the season
Speaker 2: you won an MVP with one.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have another question.
Speaker 2: The list of last forty years guy who got swept
Speaker 2: out of the playoffs in the season he won league MVP.
Speaker 2: That list right now is two names long, Magic Johnson,
Speaker 2: and there's a semi asterisk on that little by his
Speaker 2: name there. Because he got swept in the finals when
Speaker 2: he got hurt five minutes into Game three and did
Speaker 2: not play the rest of that game or the next game,
Speaker 2: it still counts as him getting swept they were going
Speaker 2: for a third straight title and the Pistons beat him,
Speaker 2: swept him in the finals, but he got hurt. The
Speaker 2: only other name on that list already is Joker's a
Speaker 2: couple games away from that happening again, Does that mean
Speaker 2: he's not neck and neck with Moses Malone for let
Speaker 2: me do the greatest centers of all time? What's that list?
Speaker 3: So for the am I leaving anyone out? Yeah? Uh?
Speaker 2: Neck and neck with Moses Malone for the sixth greatest
Speaker 2: center ever. No, he's already established that. But does that
Speaker 2: set him back on cracking that top five greatest sinners ever?
Speaker 2: Kareem Russell Wilt a team shack. Yeah, of course it does.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 2: These games matter in every direction. They turn Anthony Edwards
Speaker 2: into maybe the face of the league. They make Jalen
Speaker 2: Brunson a folk hero in a legend right. They make
Speaker 2: you recalibrate what the hell you're going to do if
Speaker 2: you're the Phoenix Suns. That's what this postseason is and
Speaker 2: for Joker and I'm listen, i am not the.
Speaker 3: A big thing that has.
Speaker 2: Gone around this week on the internet is Wow, the
Speaker 2: Nuggets with Joker have never beaten a.
Speaker 3: Fifty win team in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I have not proliferated that because I actually don't am
Speaker 2: not that interested in that because I watched them last
Speaker 2: year and I think they were going to Like, he
Speaker 2: shouldn't be penalized for the fact that Miami clipped Boston
Speaker 2: in the conference finals and he didn't get an opportunity
Speaker 2: to beat Boston because they would have rolled Boston. That
Speaker 2: Nuggets team last year was a well oiled, healthy juggernaut,
Speaker 2: and I give him full credit for that. So I'm
Speaker 2: not I am not at all being like, oh, last
Speaker 2: year's championship, what is it?
Speaker 3: That's not how I feel.
Speaker 2: I am saying it is not unfair to hold the
Speaker 2: guy who just became one, two, three four, the ninth
Speaker 2: player in league history to be named the MVP of
Speaker 2: the league three or more times, to a high standard.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm going to hold him to. The
Speaker 2: standard is the standard. It was not set by me.
Speaker 2: It was set by history. And I just spent a
Speaker 2: week hearing about how Lebron James missed box outs or
Speaker 2: why Darvin Ham doesn't have a job. Because the standards
Speaker 2: the standard for Lebron even in year twenty one, age
Speaker 2: thirty nine, be better, find a way. Okay, peak of
Speaker 2: your powers. Third MVP in four years. These kids in
Speaker 2: Minnesota are making you look slow, are making you look
Speaker 2: like you.
Speaker 3: Don't have answers.
Speaker 2: And so does that change how I feel about him historically?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Does it pump the brakes on where he was being
Speaker 2: elevated to historically? Of course it has to. And so
Speaker 2: That's where I'm at on this. I don't think Demonse.
Speaker 2: I know you think I'm a bit of a hater
Speaker 2: on this. That's okay, tell like you just heard me
Speaker 2: go for fifteen minutes, your thoughts on anything or everything
Speaker 2: I just said.
Speaker 4: I wonder how Daniel feels about this.
Speaker 2: But Daniel, can I tell you real quick before you go,
Speaker 2: Here's how I think Daniel feels. I don't think Daniel
Speaker 2: actually right now, maybe I'm wrong, has the luxury of
Speaker 2: caring about the Jokis historic debate. He's right now in
Speaker 2: the midst of a war for what he thought was
Speaker 2: going to be a dynastic run he through hell or
Speaker 2: high water. Daniel just needs the Nuggets to find a
Speaker 2: way to win tomorrow night, and they win tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: and he is all the way back. Like but right
Speaker 2: now he has massive unease about where we're at because
Speaker 2: here and sorry, I asked your thoughts, and now I'm
Speaker 2: gonna talk again.
Speaker 3: But then I'll get your talk.
Speaker 2: Because here's the other uncomfortable thing about if not if
Speaker 2: they lose this series, but if Denver gets swept. If
Speaker 2: Denver gets swept, do they make a knee jerk change.
Speaker 2: Do they try to retool something or do they just
Speaker 2: say next year will be different. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the right answer would be, But there's a world that exists.
Speaker 2: This is what is so again interesting about the playoffs.
Speaker 2: The Lakers, I think for a few days were like, well,
Speaker 2: I know we lost in five, but those games were close.
Speaker 2: Two came down to buzzer beaters, and the Nuggets are
Speaker 2: gonna win the whole thing, so you know, we might
Speaker 2: end up beating Maybe we were the third best team
Speaker 2: in the league, right, But then now the Nuggets are
Speaker 2: getting annihilated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a.
Speaker 3: World that exists where the Timberwolves sweep the Nuggets. The
Speaker 3: Timberwolves then lose to the winner of OKC Dallas, and
Speaker 3: that team then loses to Boston. And if you're Denver,
Speaker 3: you're like, wait a minute, the team that beat US
Speaker 3: got beat by a team that then got beat How
Speaker 3: close were we that? Right?
Speaker 2: Like, it's now if the Timberwolves beat the Nuggets in
Speaker 2: six and then go on to win the championship, you
Speaker 2: feel differently. That's where all of this stuff matters.
Speaker 4: But god, that's how that's how I feel about it.
Speaker 4: I think that I think the Timberwolves are gonna take
Speaker 4: it pretty far. And I hate saying that because they're
Speaker 4: gonna end up dealing with the Celtics. But I think
Speaker 4: when you look back at it, it'll just be a
Speaker 4: story of like this, this dominant Timberwolves team and not
Speaker 4: the Denver choke job. I think that the Timberwolves are
Speaker 4: just legit, and I think that if they keep that
Speaker 4: team together even next year, I think you'll still see
Speaker 4: that it's a very real team. I mean, they've been
Speaker 4: doing everything basically without Rigo Bert. I get it was
Speaker 4: only it's only been two games, but but yeah, dude,
Speaker 4: I think that I think the team's just scary. It's
Speaker 4: a different beast.
Speaker 2: Well, so here is So here's another thing I love
Speaker 2: about the NBA playoffs. No, I'm not saying anything you're
Speaker 2: saying is wrong, but the NBA playoffs the way it
Speaker 2: works is when your team, or when a team wins
Speaker 2: a single game, let alone what Minnesota's done where they
Speaker 2: haven't lost yet, you feel after the game like, I
Speaker 2: don't think they're ever gonna lose again. I not just
Speaker 2: this year but next year either, like why could.
Speaker 3: Anyone beat them?
Speaker 2: And then right and then whenever your team loses a game,
Speaker 2: you're like, I mean this team is just broken, like
Speaker 2: I don't know what and so it's a it, but
Speaker 2: just the.
Speaker 4: Fashion in which they've done this, I mean it's it's
Speaker 4: two games and the second game was worse than the
Speaker 4: first one. They're in Denver, they haven't lost yet.
Speaker 3: Out go bear no correct all that's all.
Speaker 2: That's very fair, all right? Do you want to well,
Speaker 2: just real quick, do you think anything said about the
Speaker 2: Jokic is there anything else you want to talk about it?
Speaker 2: That was unfair for you to move on to Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: I do think you're slightly unfair to Jokic. I mean,
Speaker 4: especially if you was given the fact that the guys
Speaker 4: that you said should have gotten MVP over him the
Speaker 4: years that they did, Jokic went further than them. If
Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken, no, you are mistaken. No, you are mistaken, Okay,
Speaker 4: which he wanted.
Speaker 2: The first year he won MVP, I was the only
Speaker 2: person in America who said it should have been Chris Paul.
Speaker 2: They then played Chris Paul in round two and Chris
Speaker 2: Paul swept them in the playoffs. Okay, that was the
Speaker 2: first year. The second year that he won MVP, and
Speaker 2: I said Luca should have won it. Luca went to
Speaker 2: the conference finals and Joker lost five in round one. Now,
Speaker 2: in fairness, the team that beat Joker was Golden State,
Speaker 2: the same team that beat Luca last year. So no,
Speaker 2: so that is not accurate about those years. Like I
Speaker 2: just the it was now you vote before the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I understand all of that, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I guess that's fair. Well, I think
Speaker 4: we'll see. We'll see how it pans out with the
Speaker 4: Timberwolves and and and Lay in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I I think that right
Speaker 2: now they look unbelievable. And right now you also ask
Speaker 2: yourself how different would last season's postseason have been had
Speaker 2: Minnesota not been without Jaden McDaniels Because he punched a
Speaker 2: wall and broke his hand right before the playoffs and
Speaker 2: without nas reed because he was hurt. Like Jade McDaniels
Speaker 2: and nos reed right now, critical.
Speaker 4: Piece, huge players, huge pieces for them now.
Speaker 2: Also, Anthony Edwards is better than he was. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of other factors, but yeah, okay, all right, let's
Speaker 2: move on to Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 4: Uh. Yes, So the Knicks came back, came back from
Speaker 4: a down ten despite Brunson and Ogianinovi getting hurt. Jen
Speaker 4: Jalen hurt, not Jalen hurts. Jalen brunts was able to
Speaker 4: come back later, but he still doesn't look one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: But that foot injury, it seems like the workload would
Speaker 4: be getting to them at this point. Have you ever
Speaker 4: seen have you ever seen a team with as much heart?
Speaker 3: Sorry, no, you're fine.
Speaker 2: Uh, I mean it's almost impossible not to root for
Speaker 2: the Knicks in my opinion if you're neutral.
Speaker 3: Just the way they play.
Speaker 2: The Villanova piece is amazing. Brunson at his size, doing
Speaker 2: what he's doing, which is why now allow me to
Speaker 2: complain for a moment. I've never been more infuriated watching
Speaker 2: a broadcast than I was watching last night.
Speaker 3: Okay, I get that.
Speaker 2: Reggie Miller came back to New York and we have
Speaker 2: to still just make a big deal about I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but one of the most historically overrated players of any era,
Speaker 2: like Reggie, was a very good player who had some
Speaker 2: great moments. He also Latrell Spreewell was there. He and
Speaker 2: Spree played the same position in the same era. Spree
Speaker 2: actually made a first or second team All NBA. Reggie
Speaker 2: his whole career never did. And we're treating Reggie Miller
Speaker 2: like this golden God. Fine, so be it. You look
Speaker 2: up the numbers. It's like he was really good and
Speaker 2: it was a clutch shooter and had some nice moments.
Speaker 3: He was also eighteen three and three for his career,
Speaker 3: so he can pump the brakes on a little of
Speaker 3: the hey giography on him. But set that aside. And
Speaker 3: I never pronounced that word properly. Uh, But.
Speaker 2: Whatever said, whatever your plan on making this broadcast about
Speaker 2: Reggie and Spike and the Knicks in the Garden has
Speaker 2: to go out the window. When Jalen Brunson goes out
Speaker 2: with a mysterious injury for a quarter and a half
Speaker 2: and no one knows anything. I there was no updates.
Speaker 2: They couldn't they weren't. They made no effort, it seemed,
Speaker 2: to find the video of when the injury happened. They
Speaker 2: just kept showing us the video of when they thought
Speaker 2: the injury happened.
Speaker 3: But it didn't.
Speaker 2: He got hit in the groin on a play and
Speaker 2: then played another four or five plays, then asked out
Speaker 2: and then was gone and we got nothing on it.
Speaker 2: Then later in the game, Og and Nanobi is on
Speaker 2: a fast break, comes up, lame throws, the ball up
Speaker 2: falls out of bounds. They don't acknowledge that that has
Speaker 2: happened for two possessions. The Knicks are playing five on four.
Speaker 2: They haven't said anything, and then they immediately diagnose Og. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's just cramps. He'll be fine, Na Bro, he heard
Speaker 2: his hamstring. Og might be done for the playoff. I
Speaker 2: have no idea, but hamstrings are tricky. I have no
Speaker 2: inside information there.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't cramps, Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Jalen brunts in Then after a foot injury that to
Speaker 2: this moment, we got no.
Speaker 3: Like, Oh, here's where it could have happened.
Speaker 2: All you have is time scour every every piece of
Speaker 2: footage you have of jailing from the beginning of the
Speaker 2: game to the three minute mark of the first quarter
Speaker 2: when he went out and see when he reacted to
Speaker 2: something with his foot, like, what are we doing? So
Speaker 2: that was maddening, maddening from a viewer perspective. Now to
Speaker 2: Jalen I, he would have had another forty What did
Speaker 2: he end with? How many points did he end with?
Speaker 2: Thirty two? The it might be, it might have been
Speaker 2: twenty eight, might be thirty two. I'm gonna I'll pull
Speaker 2: it up right now. Okay, neither twenty nine twenty nine,
Speaker 2: but in thirty two minutes, because he so he usually
Speaker 2: plays forty five, he had twenty nine to eighteen shots
Speaker 2: made every key three and those three Villanova guys. Man
Speaker 2: Heart is just an unbelievable winning player, just a total winner.
Speaker 3: Can I demand?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make Demonte laugh here because obviously the skill,
Speaker 2: the size, all this stuff is.
Speaker 3: Not on the part. But you know, Josh Hart reminds
Speaker 3: me of.
Speaker 2: Angs, Yes, exactly right, Like I don't know how you
Speaker 2: do it, but you're just Angus was a guy, a
Speaker 2: wonderful young man that Demonse played high school basketball with.
Speaker 2: But Angus was not that tall, was not that like skilled,
Speaker 2: but just outworked everybody on every possession and what's just
Speaker 2: a winner, you know, strong and tough, never complained in
Speaker 2: a winner.
Speaker 4: And he he hasn't are he hasn't seen the bench
Speaker 4: since his Villanova days. Do you think that he's killing
Speaker 4: the whole load management debate?
Speaker 2: Well, so here's the thing I know that there is.
Speaker 2: Folks are like, wow, you know Tibbs really putting load
Speaker 2: management to shame? Yes and no, because he also now
Speaker 2: has had five guys get hurt. So Randall is out
Speaker 2: and has been out, Bogdanovich got injured during the playoffs,
Speaker 2: Mitchell Robinson has a stress fracture. He's out og as
Speaker 2: a hamstring we'll see on him. And Jalen Brunson's got
Speaker 2: a mysterious foot thing. So I don't know actually that
Speaker 2: he's killing the load management thing because his players do
Speaker 2: are unfortunately dropping. But I the and the Pacers complaining
Speaker 2: after the game they sent to the league go ahead.
Speaker 4: No, I just think if you're the Pacers in your
Speaker 4: at this point in the postseason, I don't. I mean,
Speaker 4: they're not here often. I just think that you'd want
Speaker 4: to be able to say at the end of everything
Speaker 4: that you did everything in your power to advance and
Speaker 4: like complaining to the refs when you're at this stage,
Speaker 4: when you're not here often, I just think is a waste.
Speaker 2: And also sending seventy nine plays that you think they
Speaker 2: got wrong in the first two games. Shut up, that's
Speaker 2: too many the and it's just too seventy nine.
Speaker 3: I mean, what are you doing? I mean, what are
Speaker 3: we talking about?
Speaker 2: Also Carlisle doing the small market blues when Okacs undefeated.
Speaker 2: Minneapolis isn't exactly you know, Los Angeles they're undefeated. Denver
Speaker 2: is medium sized market. They won the championship, like miss me.
Speaker 2: With that, I think it's impossible to analyze this series
Speaker 2: moving forward until we know more about OG and Jalen's injuries.
Speaker 2: But I do not think it is impossible to say this.
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson has been the best player in this postseason.
Speaker 2: With respect to Anthony Edwards, he has been the best
Speaker 2: player in this postseason with the heaviest load, and he is,
Speaker 2: to me now a minted superstar.
Speaker 3: What I I'll give you.
Speaker 2: We can go back and forth on names, but I
Speaker 2: would rather have Jalen Brunson than Devin Booker. I would
Speaker 2: rather have Jalen Brunson than Donovan Mitchell. I would rather
Speaker 2: have Jalen Brunson right now than Jimmy Butler. I would
Speaker 2: rather have Jalen Brunson than Damian Lillard. I would I
Speaker 2: just that is what this regular season and then postseason
Speaker 2: has done, in my opinion for his standing. All right, Demonse,
Speaker 2: let's move on.
Speaker 4: All right, So demonte Bird lookalike Byron Scott went on
Speaker 4: Undisputed and took a shot at Lebron yesterday. So we're
Speaker 4: gonna take a look at what he said. For those
Speaker 4: watching on YouTube, he.
Speaker 3: Said, Yeah, I got it. Make Lebron the coach.
Speaker 2: It's obvious to me, at least the He's making a
Speaker 2: lot of decisions that are going on in this organization,
Speaker 2: from a coaching standpoint to a player standpoint. So if
Speaker 2: you're gonna allow him make those decisions, sit on the
Speaker 2: bench and make those decisions as well, beat the head coach.
Speaker 4: Go ahead. Yeah. So, in his saltiness, do you think
Speaker 4: he actually provided the Lakers with their answer?
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the only thing I'm gonna ask. If
Speaker 2: Lebron's always been the coach and the GM for the Lakers,
Speaker 2: then I guess he does have six rings, just like
Speaker 2: Michael because he gets one for playing and winning the championship,
Speaker 2: one for building the team, and one for being the
Speaker 2: head coach. This if Lebron's making all the decisions, then
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving would be a Laker and Tyler would be.
Speaker 3: The head coach.
Speaker 2: So again, I know folks love to do this math
Speaker 2: of the things that work out for the Lakers. The
Speaker 2: Lakers did and the things that don't, like the Westbrook
Speaker 2: trade Lebron did, and when they that Lebron somehow has
Speaker 2: firing power of coaches but not hiring power. All of
Speaker 2: this self serving nonsense is fine. Uh do I think Lebron.
Speaker 3: Here? Do I think he's going to be player coach? No?
Speaker 3: Do I think that would have worked over the course
Speaker 3: of a season.
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Do I think unequivocally that if Lebron were a player
Speaker 2: coach for that Nugget series that the Lakers would have
Speaker 2: fared better.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: Do I think Lebron is better, would be a better
Speaker 2: player coach, was an actual coach?
Speaker 4: Yes? Go ahead? Could you walking back? You said if
Speaker 4: Lebron were the player coach and the Denver series it
Speaker 4: would have went better?
Speaker 2: As what you said, Yeah, I mean, if Lebron were
Speaker 2: the player coach in the Denver series. I think that
Speaker 2: when the multiple times in the third quarters when Denver
Speaker 2: is going on their game changing runs, Lebron would have
Speaker 2: called a timeout. I do think that. I don't think
Speaker 2: against Denver Lebron would have trotted out the three guard
Speaker 2: lineup that Darvin was obsessed with all year that never worked.
Speaker 3: I do think that.
Speaker 2: Now, do I think it? What are in between them
Speaker 2: winning and losing the series? I? Probably not? But do
Speaker 2: I think they would have been better coached in that
Speaker 2: series with Lebron as the player coach?
Speaker 3: Yes? Do I think he could do it? Anyone could
Speaker 3: do it over the course of a year. No, I
Speaker 3: think the.
Speaker 2: Leagues two different Bill Russell did it. I understand different league,
Speaker 2: different film study, different responsibilities, all of that. All right, Uh,
Speaker 2: let's go on to the MAVs thunder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, your lard Slovenian son looks like he needs to
Speaker 4: stay off the SIGs and hookah. Two questions for you,
Speaker 4: is Luca abound to have a bounce back game? I
Speaker 4: kind of feeling to know what your great answer is
Speaker 4: to that one? And of the MAVs screwed if he doesn't.
Speaker 2: Yes, and yes, I do think he'll bounce back. And
Speaker 2: I also think they their only path is He's gotta
Speaker 2: be vintage playoff Luca go ahead to Monsey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I don't think that for the Mavericks
Speaker 4: to be successful. I think what is a Kyrie and
Speaker 4: Luca had to combine like thirty nine. I don't think
Speaker 4: that type. I don't think that can happen.
Speaker 2: No, it has to be closer to seven seventy honestly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: for real.
Speaker 3: Like this is that.
Speaker 2: Luca's Kyrie's gotta get is gonna give you twenty five
Speaker 2: to thirty and Luca's got to give you thirty plus
Speaker 2: with double digit assists and good Rebound's the only way
Speaker 2: they don't have a good enough and Luca, by the way,
Speaker 2: Game one was maybe the worst playoff game of his career.
Speaker 2: It was the second fewest points the I think third,
Speaker 2: it was one of his third worst shooting percentage, fewest threes.
Speaker 3: He's ever made.
Speaker 2: It was terrible, Like it wasn't just like bad by
Speaker 2: Lucas standards, he was actually bad.
Speaker 3: Uh, And so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they the the through line for this MAVs team
Speaker 2: is Luca's gotta be lebron with the Caps. Kyrie's there,
Speaker 2: Kyrie's gotta be Kyrie, and Luca's gotta be controlling everything
Speaker 2: and then hitting open three point shooters, and they got
Speaker 2: to hit the shots. Now, I believe in Luca, and
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do what people want to do for
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray, which is Jamal Murray. When he's brilliant in
Speaker 2: Game five against the Lakers, he's brilliant. And when he's
Speaker 2: bad in Game one and two against the Thunder or
Speaker 2: against the Tea Wolves, he's hurt. I've been down that
Speaker 2: road in twenty sixteen with Steph Curry, and it was
Speaker 2: one of the most annoying storylines I'd ever seen. In
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, Steph did get dinged and missed time, and
Speaker 2: then he came back and in his first game back
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, he had forty points, including a record
Speaker 2: that stands to this day, seventeen points in overtime and
Speaker 2: literally screamed, I'm back. And then the very next game
Speaker 2: was awesome. And then the beginning of the series against OKC,
Speaker 2: he really struggled and everyone's like, oh, Steph's hurt. You can't, guys, guys,
Speaker 2: we all know he's hurt. And then in Game seven
Speaker 2: against Okay, see was brilliant. They're like, oh, Steph's back,
Speaker 2: he's great. And then in the beginning of the finals
Speaker 2: against the Calves, Steph was or the game four, the
Speaker 2: big game to go up three one against the Calves,
Speaker 2: he was great. We were like, man, Steph Curry's back.
Speaker 2: And then the final three games against the Calves, he's struggling,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 3: Was like, oh, he's hurt.
Speaker 2: You can't do that. We can't do though. When he's great,
Speaker 2: he's great, and when he's not he's hurt. Is Luca
Speaker 2: one hundred percent? Probably not, But Luca was kicked ass
Speaker 2: in Game six against the Clippers. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: sit here and be like, oh, but now he's not
Speaker 2: playing well, it's because he's hurt.
Speaker 3: And people are trying to do the same thing with
Speaker 3: Jamal Murray. I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Uh, Luca's gotta be better. If he's not awesome, they
Speaker 2: can't win. If he is awesome, they can. I think
Speaker 2: he'll be awesome. Quick break right back, what's right?
Speaker 3: All right? Welcome back in what's right? With Nick? Right
Speaker 3: real quick? I'm just seeing on my timeline Jadon Daniels
Speaker 3: and Malik neighbors the LSU quarterback and wide receiver who
Speaker 3: are now Washington's quarterback and the Giants wide receiver. We're
Speaker 3: on Keyshawn's pod and all facts. No breaks is what
Speaker 3: it's called.
Speaker 2: And we just put out the clip of them saying
Speaker 2: they have a ten thousand dollars bet between them on
Speaker 2: who wins Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: I don't, guys, I don't think that's allowed. I think
Speaker 3: that's considered gambling on the NFL. I think it's totally
Speaker 3: fine and not a problem. But I also, like I
Speaker 3: wouldn't say that publicly, and I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's allowed, guys.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I mean, it's been up for eighteen hours,
Speaker 2: so like.
Speaker 3: I I don't for the camera, Yeah, that's I think
Speaker 3: what you gotta say. I just don't think that's allowed.
Speaker 3: I'd yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to get anyone, and I can't imagine
Speaker 2: they would actually get in trouble. But I don't think
Speaker 2: you're I don't think anything involving.
Speaker 3: For professional football. They want your betting on if you're
Speaker 3: playing professional football. I'm just I just I just think
Speaker 3: that all right to Mona.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, so Uh. Historically for a team to win
Speaker 4: a finals, they have to take their playoff slumps. Uh.
Speaker 4: But Minnesota and Okasee are both undefeated and look like
Speaker 4: the real deal despite being inexperience and young. Uh. Do
Speaker 4: you think this is the year that that historical mold
Speaker 4: is broken?
Speaker 2: So it would be more broken from a team standpoint
Speaker 2: of OKC does it? OKC is the youngest team to
Speaker 2: ever win a single game in Round two. They're the
Speaker 2: second youngest team to ever win a single series. That
Speaker 2: team winning a title seems impossible, but we talked about
Speaker 2: this on the TV show yesterday. The only thing, the
Speaker 2: only argument against them is the experience argument. Top five offense,
Speaker 2: top five defense. They don't turn the ball over, they
Speaker 2: have the best three point shooting in basketball.
Speaker 3: The only thing they do.
Speaker 2: Poorly is rebound. I don't think they're gonna win the title.
Speaker 2: Like the way this should work, Demons is Boston should
Speaker 2: win the title if Denver gets popped. This is all
Speaker 2: on a silver platter for Boston. You're either playing a
Speaker 2: MAVs team.
Speaker 4: That is that end of how easy it was for
Speaker 4: the Celtics though, Oh nobody cares about that.
Speaker 3: Nobody cares about that the title. You win the title.
Speaker 2: The only time people I think care about that is
Speaker 2: if in the finals the other team's best players suffered
Speaker 2: debilitating injury. Yeah, like the I do look at that
Speaker 2: Raptors Championship as good for them for getting there and surviving.
Speaker 2: But when Klay Thompson blows out his knee and Kevin
Speaker 2: Durant plays eleven minutes in the series and Pops's achilles.
Speaker 3: Do I think they were the best team?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like the I don't, But nobody cares about path like
Speaker 2: the and the Celtics earned the path might be in
Speaker 2: the one seede being so the the the That's the
Speaker 2: way it should work this year because if you play
Speaker 2: the MAVs, you have six of the eight best.
Speaker 3: Players in the series.
Speaker 2: If you play the Timberwolves you have the ability to
Speaker 2: kind of play five out in a way that could
Speaker 2: really give them trouble and maybe play Rudy off the floor.
Speaker 2: And if you play the Thunder you have all the experience.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I wouldn't look.
Speaker 3: At it as that is.
Speaker 4: The Celtics don't win, it just opens up a whole
Speaker 4: new like can for the NBA I just feel like
Speaker 4: everything will just be recalibrated.
Speaker 2: One right, and the only the only world where the
Speaker 2: Celtics could have not won the title given the playoff
Speaker 2: bracket and felt good about their season was if Denver
Speaker 2: beat them, If you're playing the defending champs, if Jokic
Speaker 2: is there, if he just elevates to another level, it's like,
Speaker 2: all right, like you know what I mean, we're playing
Speaker 2: an all time great player and at the peak of
Speaker 2: his powers. But if twenty two year old Anthony Edwards dust,
Speaker 2: you gotta.
Speaker 4: The argument with this Cltics the entire time. Like when
Speaker 4: they I mean when they got to the finals, it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: they're not experienced. They've been here yep and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now they have exactly And it's a weird
Speaker 2: spot because, like, I like, the Celtics are your team.
Speaker 3: They play a playoff game tonight.
Speaker 2: My guess is you're not even that excited for it
Speaker 2: because it feels.
Speaker 4: Like I'm way more doubt into other series than I
Speaker 4: am the Celtics. I mean this, this whole if I'm
Speaker 4: being honest, this whole playoff runt. I've been watching more
Speaker 4: of other teams watched the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because right, because it's like, all right, they're obviously
Speaker 2: gonna beat Miami without Jimmy, They're obviously gonna beat Cleveland.
Speaker 2: And then you know what I mean, next round they
Speaker 2: could be playing a Knicks team that has nobody left
Speaker 2: or a Pacers Like I.
Speaker 4: Mean, like if it is exactly rather it or not be.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and so I the so it's a weird
Speaker 2: spot the Okay, all right, let's move on to a game.
Speaker 2: It's a new game we're playing called Moving the Needle
Speaker 2: Dog Edition dog Ometer.
Speaker 3: Okay, try, this is a real test.
Speaker 4: Oh so Yeah. Everybody likes to say their favorite players
Speaker 4: have that dog in them, but if we're being honest,
Speaker 4: some players are more toy poodle than pitbull. So, in
Speaker 4: honor of the Westminster Dog Show coming to Fox early
Speaker 4: next week, let's take a look at how much dog
Speaker 4: these playoffs starts have inside of them. First off, we
Speaker 4: got we got my guy, Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum has
Speaker 4: led the Celtics to the conference finals in four of
Speaker 4: the last six years, but Tatum has has bad, bad
Speaker 4: shooting Knights and has only scored twenty four points once
Speaker 4: in these playoffs. On a scale of pup to hound,
Speaker 4: how much does Tatum? How much dog does Jason Tatum
Speaker 4: have inside of him?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Look, demon say the the the hound is Dexter. Yeah,
Speaker 2: our dog on the far right. But so here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put him like a squirrel over the left,
Speaker 2: put him right in the middle, because we have seen.
Speaker 2: Listen Tatum's Game six against Giannis, Yeah is all time?
Speaker 2: His Game seven against Philly last year?
Speaker 3: Was it Philly?
Speaker 2: I think it was, Yeah is all time. But here's
Speaker 2: the other thing. The And this is where Celtic Celtics
Speaker 2: fans get so mad at Colin Cowherd because he's like
Speaker 2: he basically calls Tatum a B plus a minus and
Speaker 2: that he'll never be in A plus. He'll never be
Speaker 2: like that guy. But I think he's right. And the
Speaker 2: evidence I would bring you is this, even the best
Speaker 2: player in the world, joker can be bad, downright bad
Speaker 2: in a playoff game like he was Game two. Everybody
Speaker 2: has bad games, but the best guys when they're in
Speaker 2: their prime, never have a string of them in a
Speaker 2: row in the postseason. And Tatum, you could argue, he's
Speaker 2: played six playoff games this year, he's played up to
Speaker 2: his standard in one of them the last four he's
Speaker 2: six of sixteen, five of fourteen, four of nine, seven
Speaker 2: of nineteen, and he's averaging less than twenty points. That's
Speaker 2: a four game stretch.
Speaker 4: You say he's the guy with the best supporting cast ever,
Speaker 4: though like it's more.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, but he's got the best supporting cast
Speaker 2: of everybody. But so here's the thing that doesn't explain
Speaker 2: the inefficiency, that would explain low point totals. But when
Speaker 2: he's taking shots, he's trying to make them. And so
Speaker 2: I just the worry I would have if I were you, Demonse,
Speaker 2: is this, no matter who comes out of the West,
Speaker 2: they're gonna have the best player in the series.
Speaker 3: And say, Luca Joker.
Speaker 2: There's only like five six guys in the league that
Speaker 2: are hands down better than Tatum, but they're all left
Speaker 2: in the Western Conference, And so you're not you can
Speaker 2: win without.
Speaker 4: Having all those players are better? Right you said all
Speaker 4: those players are Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. One of those four guys
Speaker 2: is going to be in the finals. Aunt, Shae, Luca Joker.
Speaker 2: They're all better than Tatum.
Speaker 3: They just are.
Speaker 4: So I think that's a little recency bias right there.
Speaker 4: But Uh, you on you saying that all of them
Speaker 4: are okay except for except for a joker, but an
Speaker 4: in Shae and who's the other one you mentioned? Luca
Speaker 4: okay fair.
Speaker 2: Better than Tatum his whole career. The I know you don't,
Speaker 2: but that's fine. I mean, An just finished second in
Speaker 2: MVP voting. I'm sorry, Shae just finished second MVP voting.
Speaker 3: And Ant is.
Speaker 2: Been light in the world on fire that you're right
Speaker 2: that this year people thought Tatum was better than Ant,
Speaker 2: not than Shay, but then Ant.
Speaker 3: But I don't think that.
Speaker 2: I don't. I think Ants a killer in away. Tatum's
Speaker 2: not sorry, I just do.
Speaker 4: All right? Next? All right, Secondly, we'll go with Jamal Murray,
Speaker 4: whose pockets are one hundred thousand lighter. After throwing that
Speaker 4: hot pack on the on the court, you called him
Speaker 4: a baby, but let's not forget he's also arguably the
Speaker 4: greatest playoff riser ever on a scale of pupp to hound.
Speaker 4: How much dog does Jamal Murray having him.
Speaker 2: Well, were about to find out right now. I'll put
Speaker 2: him in the yellow so, you know, closer to hound
Speaker 2: than pup for people that are listening. Uh, but let's
Speaker 2: go see how he looks. In Game three, the guy
Speaker 2: won't I have been really uh disenchanted, I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's the right word, but disappointed with his antics
Speaker 2: and his comments and lack of accountability, uh for that
Speaker 2: nonsense in game too.
Speaker 3: And he hasn't been very good flatly.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The Lakers series bizarre because he was only great in
Speaker 2: one game. He didn't play a good series, but he
Speaker 2: had two game wins, and so right, I mean the
Speaker 2: two game winners, like you just wipe everything away. But
Speaker 2: then in these two games he's been whiny, he's been complaining,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, we'll see, let's see. I reserve the
Speaker 2: right to change that opinion.
Speaker 3: All right, is this the most?
Speaker 4: Like? How often is this not the most that players
Speaker 4: and coaches have have whined about reffing in the postseason?
Speaker 4: Is it? Is it at a high or is it
Speaker 4: just about the standard?
Speaker 2: I would say it's most, but it's more than usual.
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers is an all time you know, ref complainer guy.
Speaker 2: There are certain coaches that try to work the refs.
Speaker 3: In the media. I do. I do think that there
Speaker 3: is higher more than usual, but not the most.
Speaker 4: You think it has anything to do with the new
Speaker 4: rule changes?
Speaker 2: That im, well, that aren't official rule changes. Yes, I
Speaker 2: do think that, like that they change the rules mid
Speaker 2: season without actually changing the rules and started letting people
Speaker 2: play more physical. I also think what is frustrating guys
Speaker 2: is if you watch Dallas OKC, it was officiated like
Speaker 2: how games were officiated the first week of the regular season,
Speaker 2: and if you had just watched Minnesota Denver, it was
Speaker 2: officiated like it was happening in a prison, And so
Speaker 2: it's like, well, do we know like what rules we're
Speaker 2: going to be playing by now? The reason I actually
Speaker 2: thought both games were fine was because they were officiated
Speaker 2: consistently within the game, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 2: Dallas OKAC had a very tight whistle from the very
Speaker 2: beginning to the very end, and Minnesota Denver had no whistle.
Speaker 3: From the very beginning to the very end.
Speaker 2: The all right, that is also the other concern for
Speaker 2: OKAC is what if they don't get the whistle. So
Speaker 2: Shae Shay this year, this is an unbelievable stat. Shay
Speaker 2: this year shot the exact same number of free throws
Speaker 2: as Lebron and Paul George combined. Those two guys played
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five games. Between the two of them,
Speaker 2: Shay played seventy five. I think he shot the exactly
Speaker 2: so he.
Speaker 4: Hands down better than Tatum. By the way, I.
Speaker 2: Think he is better than Tatum, but I'm just saying
Speaker 2: a lot of that is relying on his ability to
Speaker 2: get to the line, and if he's not getting the whistle,
Speaker 2: I wonder how that's gonna impact him all right.
Speaker 4: Next, most people may associate Donovan Mitchell with more with
Speaker 4: an Iraq name than a dog. Stopped him from becoming
Speaker 4: a top ten point points per game score over the
Speaker 4: playoffs on a scale of Scooby Doo to air Bud?
Speaker 4: How much dog is a ton of Mitchell have inside
Speaker 4: of him?
Speaker 3: Why is hold on? Why so air Bud's the best?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm confused on Scooby Doo w being not dog?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I terrible ranking system guys, he's cowardly. Shut up, Daniel,
Speaker 2: what do you know about Scooby Doo? You're too young?
Speaker 2: They called Scooby do How many crimes have you solved?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2: On offense, he's ultimate dog and on defense even in
Speaker 2: the playoffs, he's a total pop. And it's why I
Speaker 2: can't totally get on board with Donovan Mitchell the superstar.
Speaker 2: But on offense, he's unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable and has been
Speaker 2: his whole career. All right, let's go to Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 4: Uh, former Georgia Bulldog. Anthony Edwards taking the league by storm.
Speaker 4: He's talking to that talk and he's also backing it
Speaker 4: up on a scale of cats. A Georgia bulldog. How
Speaker 4: much dog does Anthony Edwards having side of him?
Speaker 3: Is this even a question?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Full blown bulldog. This guy is so much fun.
Speaker 4: Malonaise or something?
Speaker 3: What what did you say?
Speaker 4: A malonnaise melaniese?
Speaker 3: Oh? Is that like a big, strong dog?
Speaker 4: You know? More do? It's like a German shepherd, but
Speaker 4: like their faces are more blacked out. I think cops
Speaker 4: use him?
Speaker 2: Oh a Belgian shepherd? Yeah, Belgian MALANOI malanois melani.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Oh yeah, well let's not let's not
Speaker 3: do that to him. Let's not call him a cop dog.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but but yeah, tough, like a angry Doberman
Speaker 2: Junkyard dog.
Speaker 3: I love god, I love watching him. All right, let's go.
Speaker 4: Last year, you said Dexter has no place that the
Speaker 4: Dog Show.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, no, you're skipping the Thunder.
Speaker 4: Hold on, hold on, crap, no, no disrespect. After every
Speaker 4: win the Thunder do their own core interviewed together and
Speaker 4: ended by barking such dorks on a scale of cat
Speaker 4: to Michael J. Fox and teen Wolves, how much dog
Speaker 4: does the Thunder have inside of them?
Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, this is a little unfair to
Speaker 2: Cat now Karl Anthony Towns because he is showing some
Speaker 2: real fight here. But yeah, the Thunders grouping or I
Speaker 2: got it on. I'm going to sound like a bit
Speaker 2: of a hater and I kind of want someone.
Speaker 3: To beat them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hope it's Luca. It's just a little
Speaker 2: too high schooling. And I know they're young, and I
Speaker 2: know lot of fun. Man, they are having a lot
Speaker 2: of fun with it. And I know that's why he said.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm being a bit of a hater here.
Speaker 4: I mean I saw him or like a quote from
Speaker 4: one of the guys, but it's like they are the only,
Speaker 4: like the only group of guys that are aware of
Speaker 4: what they're doing. Like, dude, you're making millions of dollars
Speaker 4: to play basketball?
Speaker 2: Uh? J Williams is quote No, so Jalen Williams Is
Speaker 2: quote is a great one where he's like he was
Speaker 2: asked about something and he was like, man, I get
Speaker 2: paid millions of dollars to play basketball. And also you
Speaker 2: got to keep in mind Jalen Williams' career, Demanse, Jalen Williams,
Speaker 2: three star kid. His only offers were Nevada, Hofstra and
Speaker 2: Santa Clara. He went to Santa Clara and you know,
Speaker 2: was not on a lot of people's radar until the
Speaker 2: very end of his collegiate career. And now he's, uh,
Speaker 2: the second best player on the number one seed, you know,
Speaker 2: the Oklahoma City Thunder. And so he is, I think,
Speaker 2: really over the moon at what's happened. And that is
Speaker 2: great scouting by them, by the way, Sam Thrusting and company.
Speaker 3: All right, last one, Demanse.
Speaker 4: All right, so last year you said Dexter has no
Speaker 4: place at the dog show. Well, let's let's take a look.
Speaker 3: Here's why my client was not invited to Westminster. He's
Speaker 3: one of the dumbest animals ever to live.
Speaker 4: He's really he's not great.
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand no dogs are brilliant, but our
Speaker 3: dog is cartoonishly stupid. Oh yeah, go ahead, demanse.
Speaker 4: So, do you think he's improved his draft stock since
Speaker 4: last year?
Speaker 2: No, I mean he's he's he's sweeter now than he
Speaker 2: used to be. He's a little less like insane, but
Speaker 2: he's still pretty nuts and he is just real. I
Speaker 2: don't know if I've told this story on the air
Speaker 2: or not, but I'll tell it real quick and then
Speaker 2: we'll move on when I say he's dumb. Every morning,
Speaker 2: every morning, I get up and.
Speaker 3: I take him out, and I give.
Speaker 2: Him fresh water and fresh food, and he hangs out
Speaker 2: until I go to work, and then every day when
Speaker 2: I get home from work, that water and food are
Speaker 2: sitting there untouched, no matter if I get home at
Speaker 2: four forty five or seven thirty at night.
Speaker 3: And then the moment I walk in the.
Speaker 2: Door, I take him out, and then he ravenously eats
Speaker 2: and drinks everything he had, and I give him more
Speaker 2: water and he drinks it up because he is starving
Speaker 2: and so thirsty. And I think it is because if
Speaker 2: I'm not there, he hasn't yet figured out that I
Speaker 2: always come back. And I think he's like, this might
Speaker 2: have to last me the rest of my life, so
Speaker 2: I can't no matter how hungry or thirsty, I am,
Speaker 2: I can't eat it or well, so that does involve
Speaker 2: a level of thinking. But also after three years, you
Speaker 2: haven't realized, buddy, I'm always coming back. I mean, this
Speaker 2: poor guy is just sitting there so thirsty and hungry
Speaker 2: and won't touch the food.
Speaker 3: And that's just I mean, he's just, I mean he's
Speaker 3: I love him. I love him, But I know it's
Speaker 3: been a while. You haven't seen him since Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a while. All right, quick break, right back,
Speaker 2: we answer listener questions. Next, What's right?
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in What's right with Nick? Right, demonse,
Speaker 3: Let's get some of these listener questions.
Speaker 4: Bradley Hammond asked, are this year's playoff showing that the
Speaker 4: regular season matters more than the narrative would say Denver
Speaker 4: versus Okacs pat to the finals as prime example, Knicks
Speaker 4: culture proving wise because of the Nuggets won that Spurs game,
Speaker 4: they wouldn't even been in the position.
Speaker 3: Correct? Correct?
Speaker 2: And also if the Nuggets the the Nuggets played okay
Speaker 2: see late in the year and SGA hit a game
Speaker 2: winner with a second left, Yeah, like, there are a
Speaker 2: lot of ways for the Nuggets to be the one
Speaker 2: seed and not be dealing with this. And by the way,
Speaker 2: shout out to Bradley Hammond, who was on our stream
Speaker 2: before we went live, so we wanted to let his
Speaker 2: question be up first. I Yeah, I mean, I do
Speaker 2: think there is some redemption here. Demons for the regular
Speaker 2: season and the Lakers screwing around the first fifty games
Speaker 2: and starts well, yeah, I mean they didn't start their
Speaker 2: best lineup until game fifty.
Speaker 3: Just seems dumb.
Speaker 2: But you guys, people can ask darbnham about it and
Speaker 2: end up having to fight for their lives just to
Speaker 2: you know, get out of the ten spot all year.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, there's a lot of a lot of the
Speaker 2: regular season and the Knicks fighting for that two seed
Speaker 2: getting it dealing with Philly. Yes, I agree with that entirely.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Next, Caleb w asked which player currently which player currently
Speaker 4: remaining will have the biggest legacy legacy boost if they
Speaker 4: were to win the championship. Brunson. Huh, it's like just
Speaker 4: considering with what I mean.
Speaker 3: No, I mean it is Brunson.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't think they can win the title,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean it would be Brunson that I
Speaker 2: think second place would be Luca. If Luca wins the title,
Speaker 2: then he's twenty five. You're you start looking at him
Speaker 2: as does he have a claim that he's the best
Speaker 2: player in the league.
Speaker 3: It's the only you know what I mean, Well, he's
Speaker 3: twenty two?
Speaker 4: Are you saying because he?
Speaker 3: I mean, I I guess so, Ant. I feel like
Speaker 3: Ant and say are younger than Luca.
Speaker 2: I feel like, right now, Luca is almost old enough
Speaker 2: to a point to where he starts to catch some
Speaker 2: shrapnel for not having been to a finals, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? So it is Luca winning the title.
Speaker 2: Dead's all that, and he has acclaimed best player in
Speaker 2: the league. Ant already is like he's found money. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, Ant, we've never seen a guy aunt's age
Speaker 2: be the best player on a champion. The best twenty
Speaker 2: two year old season we ever saw was Lebron and No.
Speaker 2: Seven getting that team to the finals. Kobe was awesome
Speaker 2: at twenty two and won a title, but he obviously.
Speaker 4: Was the beloe An age. He's like barely a year older.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because Luca, Luca came in so young. That's
Speaker 2: a good point as well. Uh so they're oh so gosh,
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 4: I think for Luca, it's just his legacy, but I
Speaker 4: think would have the bigger legacy boost.
Speaker 2: You know what, I think you're right, you know what,
Speaker 2: You're you're right about that about what it would do.
Speaker 2: The other guy sneaky, what it is Tatum? Yeah, if
Speaker 2: Tatum gets a finals MVP, like what you know what?
Speaker 2: Now they win the title and Derek White gets the
Speaker 2: finals MVP, it's it doesn't hurt Tatum obviously still.
Speaker 4: Channel, but it's a different story.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's go to the next one.
Speaker 4: Kyle, Kyle, nuts and ass Nick, what do you think
Speaker 4: the biggest immediate impacts of the new TV deal will
Speaker 4: be impact on the players, networks, organizations, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think the biggest impact is going to be people
Speaker 2: getting really mad on TV when the guy first guy
Speaker 2: signs an that's more than eighty two million dollars a year.
Speaker 4: It is gonna be so obnoxious.
Speaker 3: Get more than a million dollars a game.
Speaker 2: That's there's gonna be no real impact other than the
Speaker 2: superstar salaries are gonna be bananas.
Speaker 3: But they earned it. Guys. People are like, why do
Speaker 3: they make so much more than football players? Because there's
Speaker 3: less of them guys, these twelve man teams a fifteen
Speaker 3: man team. It's not complicated. It's just they play a
Speaker 3: bunch of games and there's not a lot of players.
Speaker 3: All right, next change d these two together. Chain P said,
Speaker 3: let's play Fortnite. Where are we dropping in? Craig Barnett
Speaker 3: question for Nick? What skin do you use on Fortnite?
Speaker 3: Whicheveryone Dee put on before correct?
Speaker 2: So I think right now, like I'm kind of like
Speaker 2: a young hipster black girl on Fortnite because it's what
Speaker 2: Deanna built out for me. And as far as where
Speaker 2: I drop, I almost always drop, so demons, I've totally
Speaker 2: changed in how I play for the record ever sent
Speaker 2: and this is why I play a lot now these
Speaker 2: days because for a long time you couldn't do ranked solo.
Speaker 3: You had to be on duos or whatever. But now
Speaker 3: ranked solo is a thing.
Speaker 2: And I'm I mean, I'm trying to pat myself on
Speaker 2: the back, but I'm platinum too. It's only like six rankings.
Speaker 4: Oh so you like doing the rank thing? You just
Speaker 4: like that system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you play the back you play better people
Speaker 2: Like yeah, it's way harder because you play people within
Speaker 2: your rank.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, it's skill based mattery. I'm like, why do
Speaker 4: you want to play better? People?
Speaker 2: You're bad because I've gotten awesome at the game, Demons,
Speaker 2: because I'm actually great at it now. Demise laughs because
Speaker 2: when he lived with me, the way I played Fortnite
Speaker 2: is I would drop at the very edge of the
Speaker 2: map and then hide.
Speaker 3: I would just like get in a car and get
Speaker 3: the passenger seat and.
Speaker 2: Just tried it and just try to just get to
Speaker 2: where there are like two or three people left and
Speaker 2: hope one killed the other one the storm killed that one.
Speaker 2: But now I'm in the streets, man, I'm in there
Speaker 2: the So I'll tell you where I tend. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you where I tend to drop. There is on I
Speaker 2: guess the bottom of the map. There's a little island
Speaker 2: with a house on it, and that island has a
Speaker 2: bunch of bots in it, and one of them has
Speaker 2: a key card into a safe that has like really
Speaker 2: good weapons. So I try to drop there to kill
Speaker 2: that guy immediately so I can be weaponed up. Or
Speaker 2: at the very top of the map, there's an island,
Speaker 2: but a lot of people drop there because the Star
Speaker 2: Wars guys are there, and if you can kill those
Speaker 2: guys you get these sick weapons. So I go one
Speaker 2: of those two places usually to get the weapons situation,
Speaker 2: and then I crush fools. This is the first I'm
Speaker 2: almost forty years old. I've never played any video game
Speaker 2: other than sports games until this. I never played Halo,
Speaker 2: I never played any of the I guess. I played
Speaker 2: GoldenEye against friends in college, but I never was like
Speaker 2: the first person shooter game ever. But I've gotten into Fortnite.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm glad you love it, Pops, and I'm happy
Speaker 4: you found that he's landed in a game with one hundred,
Speaker 4: one hundred live players and he's like, let me go
Speaker 4: to the bot and kill it real quick.
Speaker 2: But well, yeah, hit the weapons so I can then
Speaker 2: fight with everyone else.
Speaker 3: Smart. It's just good Stratgy.
Speaker 4: Your Slovenian son has ranked five hundredth in an Overwatch
Speaker 4: five hundreds in the world.
Speaker 3: Okay, by the.
Speaker 2: Way, okay, so I saw that. I need like a
Speaker 2: better fact check on that. But if he's top five
Speaker 2: hundred in.
Speaker 4: The world, that would be crazy, right, Also in the.
Speaker 3: Playoffs, a little bit of a red flag.
Speaker 2: I love him, but that's a bit of a I
Speaker 2: think Overwatch is too popular to be top five hundred
Speaker 2: in the world at.
Speaker 3: It as a side gig. All right, The go to
Speaker 3: Anthony Adams.
Speaker 4: Anthony Adams said, I know you're a great person to
Speaker 4: invite to a wedding, but does the same apply to
Speaker 4: a couple's first baby shower? All right, So we've been
Speaker 4: invite me of these things in substitution, if you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so this is a great take, all right.
Speaker 3: So two things. One is.
Speaker 2: We've been too busy with the NBA playoffs for me
Speaker 2: to update everyone on this. The whole invite me to
Speaker 2: a wedding because I won't show up and I'll send
Speaker 2: a gift thing. In the last two weeks to Monsey,
Speaker 2: nine invitations have shown up.
Speaker 3: It's now becoming like.
Speaker 2: A potential problem because I don't want to go to
Speaker 2: the registry and some people's stuff on the registry sucks.
Speaker 2: It's like, we need this spatula, and I'm like, what
Speaker 2: type of jerk is getting.
Speaker 4: You a three dollars spatula?
Speaker 2: Like I'm not saying it sucks, like I under standard's like, oh,
Speaker 2: we need this wheel whatever. But I don't want to
Speaker 2: be I don't want to buy a bad gift but
Speaker 2: I also I didn't budget out for so many people
Speaker 2: to be inviting me to their weddings, so we might
Speaker 2: have to do like an NBA lottery style, like I
Speaker 2: draw from all the invitations. I don't know what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do, but I've got invitations, I bet right now.
Speaker 3: Hold on, let me look, I bet.
Speaker 2: I have an unopened invitation just in my bag right here.
Speaker 4: Let me draft draft lotteries on Sunday. We could do
Speaker 4: it on Tuesday, right, Let's see fifteen.
Speaker 3: This might not this is This is from Leannexa, Kansas.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I mean that's not yeah, oh oh wait,
Speaker 2: hold on, uh oh. This is a thank you for
Speaker 2: a wedding I didn't go to. I'm gonna read this
Speaker 2: on the air. I thought I hadn't even opened this
Speaker 2: because I didn't want to have guilt about not sending
Speaker 2: a gift.
Speaker 3: Nick.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I got married before. You claim to be the
Speaker 2: best person invite to a wedding, so this will have
Speaker 2: to do. I'm your biggest fan since your days on
Speaker 2: six ten in Kansas City, shout out. I may be
Speaker 2: the only person who loves the draft more than you,
Speaker 2: as I've done multiple mock drafts. My entire life every year.
Speaker 2: This even helped me plan out my career path where
Speaker 2: I became the Oh wow. I don't know if he
Speaker 2: wants me to say what he does, but he was
Speaker 2: the director of recruiting for a big time university and
Speaker 2: now he's the director of player personnel for another big
Speaker 2: time university. Regardless, I'm a big fan of everything you do.
Speaker 2: Take care, Eric. Shout out to Eric and Mariah. Good
Speaker 2: for them. That's awesome. That wasn't even a wedding invite.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a wedding invite. Let me see
Speaker 2: if I have more in here, Danielle. Are there any
Speaker 2: on the desk over there? I don't know, but they're
Speaker 2: at my job. They're all over the place. So I
Speaker 2: gotta figure that out of what I'm gonna do with that.
Speaker 2: But but Demonse said something accurate. If you're getting married
Speaker 2: in the Los Angeles area, send an invite here for
Speaker 2: Demanse and he'll go.
Speaker 4: I'll go.
Speaker 3: The weddings are fun.
Speaker 2: Demanse was a star at me and his mom's wedding
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago. Some of those pictures are trickling
Speaker 2: in now.
Speaker 3: They're great.
Speaker 2: Demonse will actually attend and be a life of the party.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know that he'll travel far.
Speaker 2: But if you're getting married in the southern California area,
Speaker 2: all right, let's do Gabe's question and then we'll move on.
Speaker 4: Gabe says Nick. Do you really think school played a
Speaker 4: meaningful role, meaningful rolling in the investigation in solving crimes?
Speaker 4: That was all Fred, Velma and Daphne, Scooby and Shaggy.
Speaker 4: Weren't that dialed in. We're not exactly a dialed in amen.
Speaker 3: I you know what I'm gonna disagree. I think it's
Speaker 3: a team effort.
Speaker 2: I think that the I think the fact that they
Speaker 2: had a high on in Shaggy and and a seemingly
Speaker 2: dumb dog in Scooby made the criminals put their let
Speaker 2: their guard down. They're like, these guys aren't gonna get
Speaker 2: or else. You just have a bunch of industrious nerds
Speaker 2: chasing you because they just thought they were a bunch
Speaker 2: of stoners and so they that's how they got caught
Speaker 2: all the time. Obviously, Scooby was a huge part of
Speaker 2: their success. And you guys, you know, defaming the name
Speaker 2: of an all time dog exactly right, And uh, I
Speaker 2: mean it's just ridiculous, Like I don't know how the
Speaker 2: how much was Batman important to the What are we
Speaker 2: talking about? The That would be a fun thing during
Speaker 2: August and all time dog ranking all dogs from all
Speaker 2: forms of media.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we really could. I mean, I'm just
Speaker 3: I'm right now, just like on top five and bottom five.
Speaker 4: Who's the first pick in the draft. Let's do a
Speaker 4: quick one first first pick in the.
Speaker 2: Draft, first pick of the draft. I mean, there's so
Speaker 2: many I'm gonna I don't want to snubb any one.
Speaker 2: I haven't studied this well enough. Your mom just said Snoopy.
Speaker 2: Snoopy is iconic.
Speaker 4: But not that We're going like like all dogs, like
Speaker 4: every dog.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing like breed dog dog from the sandlot.
Speaker 4: I feel like he's got to be. He's one of
Speaker 4: those dogs. Man actually scared of that dog.
Speaker 3: What about Lassie? I mean last he saved a lot
Speaker 3: of lives. You know who Lastie is? The old time
Speaker 3: saved a lot of lives, a lot of kids.
Speaker 4: There's a dog that fought off eight coyotes for his
Speaker 4: herd of sheep. I don't remember the dog's name, but
Speaker 4: an he killed him.
Speaker 2: You know what? Faking that's kind of just doing your job.
Speaker 2: Oh right, I mean it's probably like the I mean
Speaker 2: there's Ren ten ten, the old Yeller, a little overrated
Speaker 2: if we're being honest. Toto, oh Kujo's tough one. Beethoven,
Speaker 2: Beethoven's a great dog.
Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot. I don't even know. The
Speaker 3: Marley for Marley and Me. Full on your heartstrings.
Speaker 2: Uh bingjive too many. This is again we're blowing content here.
Speaker 2: We got too much to do. All right, I gotta
Speaker 2: get to work.
Speaker 3: I'll see you guys later. What's right?
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