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Speaker 1: Sir any thoughts on the Academy Awards. This okay, thank

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Sweeld and welcome to the Not Damps podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network. It's Monday, March third, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic Factory alone at

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Speaker 2: the Big Desk today but over yonder making the magic happen.

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Speaker 2: Super producer JD. Hello, there he is and paying off

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Speaker 2: last month's pick Them loss all week long, joining us

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Speaker 2: live from the can. It's Task mellus.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's already flushing.

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Speaker 4: Here I am. At first the Pickham payoff was just

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Speaker 4: a man wearing a toilet hat.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Then it just got worse and worse over the weekend,

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Speaker 4: where JD just wanted to get creative. You started wiring

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Speaker 4: the bathroom and here I am, here, I am.

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Speaker 2: That's right for our podcast listeners, going to encourage you

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Speaker 2: to check out the YouTube stream today because Task is

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Speaker 2: not only wearing well, there's going to be so many

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Speaker 2: references to the bathroom this week. Not only is Task

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Speaker 2: wearing a look, let's be honest, a pretty incredible toilet hat.

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Speaker 2: It is very now, yeah, that is amazing. But he

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Speaker 2: is sitting on the can as he podcasts all week long.

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Speaker 2: Do you have that little potty stool that you guys

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Speaker 2: like squatty potty?

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Speaker 4: Ye oh, I would love a footstool.

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Speaker 3: We'll get what we'll get you.

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, because I've got potential hemorrhoids this week, But

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Speaker 4: otherwise everything is great in here. We call it a

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Speaker 4: pick and payoff for January February. February I should say, yeah,

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Speaker 4: for like twenty years. I mean, this is a payoff

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Speaker 4: of big depth.

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Speaker 2: So unfortunately, no TK here today. He'll be joining us

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday. But yeah, this is going to be an

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Speaker 2: interesting week with tests. See what happens sharing his takes

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Speaker 2: from the bathroom I do. I mean, look, we got

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Speaker 2: a long week here. A very bad take by one

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Speaker 2: of us, be it myself or when Trade joins us,

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Speaker 3: That's your call.

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Speaker 2: Use the studio space in there. Oh God, JD's got

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Speaker 2: sound effects. God, JD's really enjoying this. Yeah all right,

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Speaker 2: So on today's show, we're going to go through some

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Speaker 2: NBA weekend winners and we'll touch on the latest news.

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Speaker 2: But first, we had a weggie. Weggie number thirty three.

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Speaker 2: It was in Boston nationally televised game. Al Horford and

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Speaker 4: Al Horford doing it for us. I appreciate it, Al.

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Speaker 2: All right, tasks so much to talk about from a

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Speaker 2: very busy NBA weekend. Let's do a couple rounds of

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Speaker 4: But Donovan Mitchell went to the huddle and said, listen,

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Speaker 3: Think, Skeez, I don't know, you're the one in the bath.

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Speaker 4: Who's smelling what? Yeah, I think I think the Cavs

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Speaker 4: Yeah. A tip of the toilet seat to both.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, very nice. Oh man, I didn't know the

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Speaker 4: It does doesn't stick?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 4: Drops? Wow?

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Speaker 3: Hats?

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Speaker 2: All right, let's keep it moving here. My big winner

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Speaker 4: Got to give it to the Lakers. Obviously, six wins

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Speaker 2: dwell Embiid was shut down for the season, Quinton Grimes

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Speaker 2: game before, so there's that. And he only had one

431
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Speaker 2: game ever where he scored at least thirty points this

432
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 2: season before Saturday, so just out of nowhere, Grimes was

433
00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,440
Speaker 2: on fire. That was just wild to see forty four.

434
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,000
Speaker 2: He also had like a clutch hoop in this game.

435
00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 2: He got by on drov On Santos put the Sixers

436
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,240
Speaker 2: up two, and then Yabaselli hit a corner three the

437
00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,280
Speaker 2: next time down and that gave him enough space. So

438
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,919
Speaker 2: that was wild. Though you have any quick thoughts on

439
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 2: on Quinton Grimes, there.

440
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,119
Speaker 4: Always been a Quentin Grimes fan. You didn't know a

441
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 4: forty four spot was happening in an NBA game. But

442
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 4: the smile he's got, he's got great teeth. This huge

443
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 4: smile he had. It reminds me of Trey's had that

444
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,919
Speaker 4: maniacal laugh on our show last week where he had

445
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,160
Speaker 4: those big teeth. Lots of compliments on his teeth, lots

446
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,280
Speaker 4: comments on Q's teeth. I mean, Quentin Grimes looks looks great.

447
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 4: And this whole Paul George thing, I'm not going to

448
00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 4: podcast anymore, that has to be a benefit for the

449
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 4: team in some weird way that there at least he

450
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 4: knows that despite Joel and b being up for the season,

451
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,440
Speaker 4: which we'll get to, at least Paul's dedicated. It's a

452
00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 4: weird race in the Eastern Conference for the ten seed.

453
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,720
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean those games are interesting. They're playing

454
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,200
Speaker 4: Portland today. That'll be our Pickham game. I'll be picking

455
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,719
Speaker 4: it from the toilet later in the show. But that

456
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,360
Speaker 4: don't pick it out of the toilet. No, Okay, I don't.

457
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,600
Speaker 4: It's not there, don'tkay.

458
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Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say, shouldn't Quentin Grimes be upset

459
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 2: that Paul George isn't podcasting anymore?

460
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:40,879
Speaker 3: This would be awesome.

461
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:41,920
Speaker 4: Shouldn't get more minutes?

462
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 2: Heah, he might go on, he might have him on

463
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,639
Speaker 2: the show talk to him about four point game. He's like,

464
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,119
Speaker 2: come on, man, bring it back, give me some more buzz.

465
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Speaker 4: Hey, listen, just like us, there's offseason shows to phill

466
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:52,680
Speaker 4: come on in the off season.

467
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Speaker 2: Okay. So that was one of the career high boys.

468
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 2: And then Jalen Williams, like I said, Jay Dubbed, he

469
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 2: had a career high forty one points. Surprised me a

470
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 2: little bit, like, oh wow, that's his career high. Okay,

471
00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 2: awesome for OKC as they beat the Spurs one forty

472
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 2: six to one thirty two. This is on Sunday. They

473
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 2: spoiled the Spurs' homecoming there following a very long ass

474
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 2: road trip. They had been gone forever. But Jdubb dominated

475
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 2: the second half. This guy was mustling his way to

476
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 2: the rim time and time again, and he was hitting

477
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,360
Speaker 2: crazy little circus shots and ones left and right by

478
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 2: That dude is a bulldozer and he was the reason

479
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 2: they won this game because okay, se was leading by

480
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,159
Speaker 2: two with like fourteen minutes to go, and then you know,

481
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 2: he just went off and they ripped off another one

482
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 2: of these crazy runs. Because the Spurs couldn't miss a

483
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 2: three pointer in the first half. They gave up another

484
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 2: seventy seven point first half, okay, see did, but then

485
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,160
Speaker 2: they scored thirty eight fourth quarter points and Jay Dubb

486
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,880
Speaker 2: scored more than half of those. So he added to

487
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 2: the forty one six rebounds, seven assists, four made threes,

488
00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 2: and zero turnovers. Tast so pretty damn impressive game from

489
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 2: him and getting his career high.

490
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 4: Always tough coming back from a long road trip like that.

491
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 4: Charlotte Hornets also coming back from a long road trip.

492
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Speaker 4: That's my excuse for them stinking at home. They because

493
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 4: of the All Star Break. They were not home since

494
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 4: before the All Star Break. That's a nine game road trip,

495
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 4: just like the Spurs had a ridiculously long one. And yeah,

496
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 4: we we'll talk about that later. I don't want to

497
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,160
Speaker 4: talk about the nut Dust Bowl and the Hornets losing again. No, no, no, not.

498
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 2: Now, No, this is all about the career high boys.

499
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 2: But fun stat from the Oklahoma so j Dub and

500
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 2: then Shake Gildess Alexander who finished with thirty one points,

501
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 2: eight assists, and zero turnovers. Those two became just the

502
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 2: second duo in NBA history to tally forty points and

503
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 2: thirty points respectively with zero turnovers each only happened one

504
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 2: other time. You want to take a crack at it,

505
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 2: you got to go back to the nineties. The two teammates,

506
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 2: teammates that scored forty and thirty in a game but

507
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 2: both had zero turnovers.

508
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 4: Could have just maybe because I said to Charlotte Horns,

509
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 4: it's not that but Del Curry and Glenn Rice. No, no, uh,

510
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 4: guys who don't pass.

511
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 2: But a nineties team that was super popular and everyone

512
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 2: had their starter jackets.

513
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 3: And you know the one.

514
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Speaker 2: I mean, we both well, both of these guys have

515
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,400
Speaker 2: been on our show in the past. One loved wedgies,

516
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 2: one loved grilling.

517
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 4: So Dennis Scott obviously loved grilling. Yeah, and Shack loved Shack.

518
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,120
Speaker 2: Dennis Scott the only other duo to do that forty

519
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 2: and thirty and then zero turnovers. So now it's SGA

520
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 2: or I guess I should say j Dub and SGA respectively.

521
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,199
Speaker 2: Crazy also had a little ejection in that game, little scuffle,

522
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 2: I should say, I don't know if you saw that. Okay,

523
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 2: see in San Antonio, Champenni, Kenrich Williams and then Lou

524
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 2: Dork got tossed too because he came sort of screaming

525
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 2: in and got into it with so hand. But it

526
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 2: was really Champagne and Kenrich Williams. Kenrich did not like that.

527
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 2: He took sort of a bow to the face when

528
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 2: Champagne was throwing it though, like Kendrick Williams was like

529
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 2: in his shorts, so I don't really know what he expected.

530
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 2: It's like he's trying to get rid of the ball man.

531
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Speaker 2: His album might hit your face because you're right up

532
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 2: against him. But anyway, no, no punch is thrown.

533
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 4: Right, I did not see that. Oh yeah, that mud

534
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 4: flat battle.

535
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 2: All right, one more round of weekend winners. Who else

536
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:19,479
Speaker 2: you got?

537
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to the Western Conference and I just

538
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,479
Speaker 4: deem anybody who's going to watch Western Conference playoff games

539
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 4: a winner, because it is going to be a scrap.

540
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 4: Just think of these standings below the OKC Thunder. It

541
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 4: is incredible. Two through five, there's only a game and

542
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 4: a half separating those four teams. It's pretty phenomenal. And

543
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 4: then even deeper, six through ten are separated by half

544
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 4: a game. They essentially all have the same records. It's

545
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 4: a thirty two and twenty eight for the Clippers, a

546
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 4: thirty two and twenty eight for the Warriors, a thirty

547
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 4: three and twenty nine for the Wolves, a thirty one

548
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,239
Speaker 4: and twenty eight for the Kings, and a thirty two

549
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 4: and twenty nine for the MAVs. It is going to

550
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 4: be a blood battle. And those are the teams along

551
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 4: with okay see, that are going to make the Western

552
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 4: Conference playoffs. Because the Sun's lost to the Timberwolves on

553
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 4: Sunday night, it is officially over. They're done done.

554
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,959
Speaker 3: Flush them, flush them, flush them.

555
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 4: This is for you, Phoenix.

556
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 5: Oh oh, do we have a sound effect? Yes, flushing

557
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 5: in a real toilet plushing. Wow, we doubled down Dolby sound. Yes,

558
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 5: that's a six point oh baby, Suns are done. Mathematically,

559
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 5: they're still alive.

560
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 4: I think they're only four games back, but they are

561
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 4: absolutely done. I think it's more likely that they finish

562
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 4: eleventh than they even finished. Excuse me, excuse me. It's

563
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 4: more likely they finish twelfth then they finish eleventh. The

564
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 4: Blazers are right on top of them. The Suns have

565
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 4: the toughest schedule the rest of the way. The Blazers

566
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 4: are only one game back to them. They have a

567
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 4: pretty tough schedule too. All right, water is filled up.

568
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 2: I's going to say the sound effect goes a little

569
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 2: quicker than the real flush, but it feels like the

570
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 2: players are going to catch the Suns that the Suns

571
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 2: are just absolutely done.

572
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 4: Either way, the Western Conference playoffs with the Suns out

573
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 4: of there are going to be fun. All those teams

574
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 4: I just mentioned are going to be fun playoffs series,

575
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 4: fun play in games to get in there. They're going

576
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 4: to be real tough, real tough. All five of those teams,

577
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 4: the Clippers, Warriors, Wolves, Kings, MAVs are going to be ridiculously,

578
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 4: ridiculously tough. It's good for the MAVs with all these

579
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 4: injuries that are happening. If there is some sort of

580
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 4: bright spot on their season, it's that they've survived because

581
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 4: it's highly highly unlikely that the Sons are going to

582
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 4: be able to recover and beat them despite all those injuries.

583
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 4: They'll still be alright and they'll still make it at

584
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 4: least to the play because we'll have guys be coming

585
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 4: back for them. But anyways, a fun, fun time if

586
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 4: you watch Western Conference playoff basketball, oh for sure.

587
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 2: I mean it is crazy how close it is. We'll

588
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: get into the whole Phoenix Suns and what they need

589
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 2: to do this offseason. Are they going to trade Kevin

590
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 2: Durant Probably Where will he be traded? That's interesting. I

591
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: think we can do that on tomorrow show when t

592
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 2: Kane joins us and we have a little more time.

593
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm with you, like, yeah, flush them, they're done.

594
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 2: It's so they like this would if we were doing

595
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 2: losers today as we usually do winners and losers, I mean,

596
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 2: it would be suns for like the third or four

597
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 2: straight weekend. I feels like, did you see Anthony Edwards

598
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: scored forty four points against them and then tried a

599
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 2: pretty audacious alley oop attempt that Bradley Beal was not

600
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 2: having any of and he like literally pushed him in

601
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 2: the air. We were gonna have one of the great

602
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 2: nut I mean, at least one of the best alley

603
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 2: oops in the season off the bounce from Dante DiVincenzo,

604
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 2: I mean, definitely clowning them a little bit, but h

605
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 2: Beale said no, and it got upgraded to a flagrant

606
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 2: one because he's completely exposed in the air, and then

607
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 2: Ant was upset about that.

608
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 4: But yeah, a bounce past Ali up that doesn't happen.

609
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 4: Happened in the All Star Game. Was that a Stephen

610
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 4: Yannis a couple of years ago? Yet? That was fun,

611
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 4: But it would have been fun to see ant.

612
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 2: Dude, don't see it in a game all that off? Yeah,

613
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 2: I mean it was skying too. He really like grazed

614
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 2: his head off the backboard. It would have been crazy,

615
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 2: all right. A couple other honorable mentions for winner of

616
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 2: the Weekend the Raptors Task. They executed the ethical tank

617
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 2: job versus the Bulls on Friday.

618
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 4: Do you think that was on purpose?

619
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 5: Uh?

620
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit because when they sit yaka Pearl,

621
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 2: they stink worse than the bathroom you're in right now.

622
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 2: I mean, it's pretty amazing. They nearly did it again

623
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 2: against the Magic. You'll take Pearl out and suddenly there

624
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 2: goes the lead. But they held on. They got that win.

625
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean like yes and no.

626
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 4: They were up in the fourth. Yeah, they looked like

627
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,239
Speaker 4: it was over. I looked like they were going to win,

628
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 4: but they somehow just gave it a bad offensive possession

629
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 4: after bad offensive possession. These are the things they need

630
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 4: to work out. This is great for them. This is

631
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 4: great for them.

632
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 2: And maybe don't follow the three point shooter you are

633
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 2: up four like they did to Kobe White. That Darren

634
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 2: Fox honorable mention hit a game winner for the Spurs.

635
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 2: That was big. I mean we had like sort of

636
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 2: pointed out Dearn Fox was brutal for like the last

637
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 2: week or so, but he had that game winner. That's

638
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: why you get a guy like that. Moving forward, with

639
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 2: Wemby's back, you know you're gonna see probably a couple

640
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 2: more of those, I would assume next year. Steph Curry

641
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 2: notched his first slam dunk since twenty nineteen. He said

642
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 2: it's his last dunk. Yeah as well, like I will

643
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 2: not be doing that.

644
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 4: Again, he said, I'm calling it.

645
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 2: He barely got it in, really, I mean it sort

646
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 2: of grazed over the room. He said. It took a

647
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,719
Speaker 2: lot out of them in that in that loss. That

648
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: was in that loss to the Quentin Gras game.

649
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 4: That maybe why he doesn't want to do it again

650
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 4: because he barely got over. Yeah.

651
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like, that's the last one, so enjoy it.

652
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 2: So that's pretty crazy. And then you already slipped it

653
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: in a little bit. But the Pelicans defeated the Jazz

654
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 2: on Sunday. That's huge in the nut dust Bowl standings

655
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 2: because I have the Pelicans, they improved to seventeen and

656
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 2: forty four. Trey has the Jazz, they fell to fifteen

657
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 2: and forty five.

658
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, big swing.

659
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 2: That's like any of these games you're talking about in

660
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 2: the Western Conference right now. You know these two teams

661
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: play each other. It's a huge swing in the standings.

662
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 2: That's one there in the nut Dust Bowl standings.

663
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 4: Yes, you're safe. It looks like you're not going to

664
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 4: have the worst record of the three teams. The Utah

665
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 4: Jazz are trays you're lucky. You got the Pelicans. You're good.

666
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 4: You're good. I call the Charlotte Hornets. Now they have

667
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 4: lost all four games to the Washington Wizards this season.

668
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 4: Saw that's a weird one. Wizards have eleven wins, and

669
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 4: four of them against Charlotte. Charlotte coming home after a

670
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 4: nine game road trip, I say, it's all right to

671
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 4: lose your first game. It's always a little tough. And again,

672
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 4: they haven't been home since before the All Star Game,

673
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 4: so it's a long time, and then it takes you

674
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 4: a while to get used to it. It was a

675
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 4: weird road trip where they beat the Lakers on the

676
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 4: road trip, so we'll see I'm one back of Trey.

677
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm just doing stupid poopy things here at

678
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 4: the end of the season. So I'll be eating something.

679
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 2: So we'll keep our eye on that. I am feeling

680
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: pretty good having a colored games clear you guys. But

681
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: my final winner of the weekend, I'm going to give

682
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 2: it to the Milwaukee Bucks because on Saturday, Jannis and

683
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 2: Damian Lillard combined for fifty seven points to lead the

684
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 2: Bucks over the MAVs. What am I hearing?

685
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 4: Right? I was hearing something in the studio, so I

686
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 4: had to stop talking for a second. There's some weird noises.

687
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, Gene, is not you or what's

688
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 3: going on?

689
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 4: It's not me, okay, I just picked up my paper.

690
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 4: Oh okay, just just a second. My knee cracked as well.

691
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 4: I don't know if you heard my knee cracked that.

692
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 4: It's g there's that. I was plopping something, plopping something, Yes, okay.

693
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 3: Stop plopping. That's a professional.

694
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 2: Basketball podcast under the Athletic Umbrella owned by the New

695
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 2: York Times. Jesus man.

696
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 4: I just had to close my legs because I saw

697
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 4: them open up there.

698
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jannis and Dame fifty seven points.

699
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, as the Bucks beat the Mavericks and Gary Trent

700
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 2: Junior out of twenty points. He's on a bit of

701
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 2: a run right now, like the streaky guy. We've seen

702
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: it with the Raptors, We've seen it with his previous teams.

703
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 2: Right now, he's on a little bit of a hot streak.

704
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 2: But the Bucks won for their sixth time in seven games,

705
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: and they have now sort of gotten up into fourth

706
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: place in the Eastern Conference. I wanted to show Milwaukee

707
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 2: some love even though they only played that one game

708
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 2: there over the weekend, because Bucks fans tasks were upset

709
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 2: that we didn't discuss their team beating the Nuggets late

710
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 2: last week on the Drop podcast because they beat them

711
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 2: on Thursday night. We had a bunch of other things

712
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: going on the Drop podcast. So this is a nice

713
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: way to like give them a little love from that win.

714
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 2: And they continued it there on the road where they

715
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 2: haven't been great. They've been very bad on the road,

716
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 2: but got that win in Dallas.

717
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a win. It's nothing really to write home about. Okay,

718
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 4: we give Jannis is like the brother I never had. Okay,

719
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 4: that's too far, but I give what I'm trying to say,

720
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 4: is I've showed him plenty of.

721
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: Blood just to your actual brothers.

722
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 4: That's true, but really, yeah, it's a love relationship with

723
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 4: you as we talk about him all the time. Yeah. Yeah,

724
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 4: you can't ridicule us. You can ridicule steven A for

725
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 4: not talking about Jason Tatum you want to talk about

726
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 4: But now we talk about Yani's plenty and so they

727
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 4: beat the mass Yeah.

728
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 2: So obviously shorting a mass sem but I like this.

729
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 2: Giannis was brutal this year once again from the free

730
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 2: throw line. I think he was shooting fifty eight percent

731
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 2: when he entered that game on Saturday, but he went

732
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 2: eleven for thirteen at the free throw line. So you're

733
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 2: gonna need to have some of those in the playoff

734
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 2: games if they're going to advance. And he had a

735
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 2: good one. But him and Dame, he talked about it too.

736
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 2: He's like, like, they're the leading duo in the league

737
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: when it comes to scoring, honest and Dame right, And

738
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 2: he's like, so you know he's being asked about that,

739
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 2: and he's like, well, we're number like, we're the best.

740
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 2: So things are obviously working and you are seeing a

741
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 2: little more like Doc Rivers is like he is focusing

742
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 2: on like Dame and y honest action, like let's go

743
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 2: more and more and more. So that's a good sign.

744
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 2: And Dame had a good game as well.

745
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 4: Yes, we'll see if they can take that over to

746
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 4: the last six minutes of a fourth quarter in the playoffs.

747
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 4: You definitely see the chemistry working. And yeah, that's why

748
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,879
Speaker 4: I start to think that is the brother I never

749
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 4: had my brothers. My brother could score. There's no doubt

750
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 4: when I played with him. But you know, he's not Yania,

751
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 4: I assume not. I'm just looking at my phone. See

752
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 4: if he's listening, See if he texted me yet not yet, Okay, phone,

753
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 4: phone fell in the toilet, so I'll get it later.

754
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to some NBA weekend news. We'll

755
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 2: start with the injuries here. Seventy six Ers star Jewel

756
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 2: Embiid's season it's donezo A team announced late last week

757
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 2: that Embiid has been ruled out for the remainder of

758
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 2: the season because he is quote medically unable to play. Previously,

759
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 2: Embiid and the Sixers had been trying to sort of

760
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 2: manage the pain and the swelling there in that left knee,

761
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 2: which did require surgery in February twenty twenty four. But

762
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,320
Speaker 2: they officially have shut him down. Not a surprise task.

763
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 2: We'd been really basically calling for this. I know you

764
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 2: had been for weeks now, and they're going through on

765
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 2: it and shutting them down.

766
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 4: Yes, And they came out and said he and his

767
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 4: doctors don't know how his knee will be fixed. And

768
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 4: that is obviously very scary to hear because this isn't

769
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 4: an injury that he just sustained. This is something that

770
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 4: happened after last year's playoffs when he had to undergo surgery,

771
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 4: and right, excuse me, he had to undergo surgery after

772
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 4: he was landed on and this is just rolling into

773
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 4: this year. That was last year. That was almost a

774
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 4: full calendar year ago. He's played a lot of basketball since.

775
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,720
Speaker 4: But for them to come out and say this quote,

776
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 4: he's unable to play and we'll miss the remainder of

777
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 4: the season to focus on treatment and rehabilitation. He's working

778
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 4: on a treatment plan. He told Lisa Assaulters a few

779
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 4: weeks ago, I might need surgery. What we're trying to

780
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 4: say here is there isn't an answer. And you know

781
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 4: from the positive side of things, The doctors have said,

782
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 4: maybe he can get closer to one hundred percent at

783
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 4: some point if we remedy him some way. But it

784
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,399
Speaker 4: just sure feels like, without a clear answer, without a hey,

785
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 4: he's going under the scapula for this type of surgery,

786
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 4: it's really just a hope that this surgery again. After

787
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 4: early twenty twenty four, he hasn't been able to recover

788
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 4: and the medical team has said there's no conventional operation

789
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 4: to improve him. Yes, this is something we don't really

790
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 4: go through here in the NBA. I mean, we've obviously

791
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 4: had guys that haven't been the same. You're Grego and

792
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 4: you're Brandon Roy and that kind of thing. But this

793
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 4: sure feels, unfortunately like he's not going to be anywhere

794
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 4: close to that guy that carried a team and won

795
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 4: an MVP.

796
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, he experienced pain and swelling in his knee throughout

797
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 2: the season by all reports, and it was very unpredictable,

798
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 2: like when it would come and go, like it would

799
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 2: suddenly just flare up, like after a good game, after

800
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 2: a good practice or workout. So it's like what do

801
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 2: you do? But it's got to be a concern here

802
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 2: for the Sixers. Moving forward tests, Right, He's thirty one

803
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 2: this month, so given his age, his overall physical condition,

804
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 2: his track record, of course with these knees, it feels

805
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 2: a little weird or maybe even to think he can

806
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 2: regain his MVP form. I don't know if we're ever

807
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 2: gonna see that peak embid, right, because of all this,

808
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 2: which sucks, and especially when you consider he's owed nearly

809
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty million dollars over the next four seasons,

810
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 2: all of which is guaranteed money. So man, you gotta

811
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,280
Speaker 2: pray and hope that whether it's rehabilitation, whether it's another surgery,

812
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 2: whatever it is, that it works to some extent where

813
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 2: the guy can just even play and get to eighty

814
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 2: percent or eighty five percent of MVP embid. Otherwise this

815
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 2: is bad.

816
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, It's unlike that first contract that he's signed

817
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 4: that required him to remain and shape. This one is

818
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 4: guaranteed the rest of the way. I guess if, again

819
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 4: Rose colored glasses, you say, well the guy will play again,

820
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 4: it sure feels.

821
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 3: Out, okay, And I believe that, right, yeah.

822
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 4: Because he could be playing now. I know they've deemed

823
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 4: him unfit to play and that he's had to undergo

824
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 4: things every single game, every single day, and.

825
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,879
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, they want to lean into being bad. Yeah,

826
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 2: they want to keep their pick and they're not going

827
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 2: anywhere this year whether he plays or not. Yeah.

828
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, And as you said, he's getting older. The reason

829
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 4: why I think it's even a little late that they

830
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 4: shut it down because you want a longer roadway here

831
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 4: to next season. That's you just want this guy who's

832
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 4: into his thirties to be back and playing as well

833
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 4: as possible and everything to be all happy as possible,

834
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 4: and podcasts recording interviews with Joel Embiid about him coming back,

835
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 4: it just seems like a very long time. As he

836
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 4: totally assaulters, it may require surgery, may take a long time,

837
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 4: so he's going to slow play going into next season,

838
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 4: which she did for this season. It is just such

839
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 4: an up and down and you combine that with all

840
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 4: the fines for the Philadelphia seventy six ers, the suspension

841
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 4: that Embid had when he was frustrated with the writer

842
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 4: there in Philadelphia. There is there's a lot that happened

843
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 4: this season. It's it is. It is a terrible season.

844
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, period, Oh my god. Embiid's career scoring average is

845
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 2: twenty seven point seven points per game. That's behind only

846
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 2: Jordan Wilt Chamberlain and Luka Doncic. Career scoring averages is

847
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 2: pretty crazy. He obviously won an MVP, two scoring titles,

848
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: seven time All Star, five All NBA teams. I guess

849
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 2: what I'm getting out here. If embiand never plays another game,

850
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 2: he's still a Hall of Famer, like he would go

851
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: into the Hall of Fame, I believe with those accolades,

852
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 2: despite being the only NBA MVP who has never let

853
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: his team be on the second round, like he has

854
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 2: that sort of against him, that playoff success, that sort

855
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 2: of has failed him. And he's never played in more

856
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 2: than sixty eight games in a season. He's only top

857
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 2: sixty three other times, so that's that's always been the

858
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 2: knock on him, unfortunately. But he's a giant dude, and

859
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 2: this isn't the first time we've seen a giant, talented

860
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 2: big man whose career is maybe shortened or derailed because

861
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,040
Speaker 2: of injuries. Because I keep thinking, task now, if this

862
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,760
Speaker 2: is the beginning of the end, Let's say for Joel Embiid,

863
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: how is he remembered in NBA history moving forward? And

864
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 2: I think It's like sort of a combo of a

865
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 2: couple guys because on one hand, other talented big men like

866
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 2: Yao Ming, Ralph Sampson, they had injury shortened careers, right

867
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 2: that kept them from potentially even higher levels of success

868
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,959
Speaker 2: both individually and team success and trying to win a title.

869
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 2: So they come to mind. Then another one is maybe

870
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 2: like a little Tracy McGrady Joel Embiid comparison. Incredible peak

871
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 2: for both those guys, scoring titles for both those guys,

872
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 2: but some banged up years obviously, and then very little

873
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 2: playoff success, you know, McGrady, like Embiid is there and

874
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 2: then just finally and this is a bit of a

875
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 2: weird one, but Patrick Ewing, I think is going to

876
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 2: come to mind when we talk about Embiid twenty thirty

877
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 2: forty years from now. Both men Hall of Fame worthy centers, beloved,

878
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 2: I believe, more by their fan bases than maybe the

879
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 2: general public. And I think a part of that is

880
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 2: is because of the elite contemporaries that they were battling

881
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 2: at their position for their career. Patrick Ewing, It's like

882
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: Shack and a chem Elijah Wan, maybe even David Robinson.

883
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 2: And then it's sort of Patrick Ewing right there, whereas

884
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 2: Embiid will have battled and is battling Yokich and Yannis,

885
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 2: and it's like he's always gonna slot I think, behind

886
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 2: them at the end of the day. And a big

887
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,399
Speaker 2: part of that, of course his titles and lack of them.

888
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 2: So I don't know if you want to add anyone

889
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 2: or agree with those disagree, But that's sort of like

890
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,919
Speaker 2: where I'm thinking of Embiid and I know I'm talking

891
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 2: about it like he's done.

892
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 3: I don't think he is.

893
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 2: I don't think he is, but MVP Embiid probably, I

894
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 2: do believe that.

895
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 4: To me, the tam Mac comparison is the best one.

896
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 4: It was flying around in our chats and I thought

897
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 4: that was the most accurate one. We've got to get

898
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,479
Speaker 4: that chat available for our fans to take part. Why

899
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,240
Speaker 4: the heck not people are doing it. It's a modern

900
00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 4: day email threat. I mean, it's fun. It's I think

901
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 4: the most accurate comparison strictly because all that scoring, not

902
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 4: a lot of playoffs success at the top of the game.

903
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 3: Still Hall of Fame player.

904
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, yeah, it feels like the requirements for

905
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame are definitely changing altering. What are they

906
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 4: It is difficult to tell, but I think Embiata is

907
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 4: gayer and teed to get in. I mean, if the

908
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 4: Choi doesn't get the bounce bounce, bounce bounce. Embiat is

909
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 4: in his first conference finals because he hasn't reached the

910
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 4: conference finals. So that's why the t MAC is perfect

911
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 4: to me. Obviously, a different type of player, like you're

912
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 4: you're Ewing. Comparison is is good in that light, that's

913
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 4: for sure. Yeah, but Ewing gotta finals. Oh yeah, yeah,

914
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 4: I mean you can, yeah, you can. We can go

915
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 4: all day, that's for.

916
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 2: Sure, but hopefully comes back. Other injury news, Magic guard

917
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,280
Speaker 2: gell And Suggs is going to undergo surgery to remove

918
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 2: a cartilage fragment in his left knee and he's out indefinitely.

919
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 2: A team announced a Sunday afternoon, so suggs return will

920
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 2: be based on how his rehab go. He's expected to

921
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 2: make a full recovery. But I don't know if we'll

922
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 2: see Sucks this regular season at all, maybe playoffs or

923
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 2: maybe we don't see him till next year. But this

924
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 2: really sucks obviously for the Magic because this guy, it's

925
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 2: pretty obvious. He's the heart and soul of this team. Like,

926
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 2: without him, they're a different team and we're not gonna

927
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: have him here for a long time.

928
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been following this closely because when he goes down, Yeah,

929
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 4: this team is so different. And so he was deemed

930
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,959
Speaker 4: to have a quad injury when he left the game

931
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 4: against the Pistons on January twenty fifth. He's been out

932
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 4: five weeks. It was a quad injury. So I was

933
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 4: just confused. I got into it and I'm looking down here,

934
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 4: and I know JD. You had to get off my

935
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,280
Speaker 4: camera because he saw me looking down in my notes

936
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 4: because I need the pronunciation, the proper pronunciation of this

937
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 4: injury that he has. The troclia injury, I believe is

938
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 4: what they're calling it. The trocli is. It isn't a ligament,

939
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 4: it's not a muscle. Well, it's not a tendon. That's

940
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 4: the weird part. It's part of the fever bone. It's

941
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 4: it's the bottom of the femur bone, the fember connected

942
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 4: from the hip to the knee. It's the part that's

943
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 4: sort of underneath the patella. It's right at the bottom.

944
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 4: But it's part of the bone. And so it's odd

945
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 4: to call it that. I did the doctor Brian suitor

946
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 4: or check in and to see what he had to

947
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 4: say about the trocholia. But you've got the patella just

948
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 4: basically it slides over the trocolate. It's just the thing

949
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 4: that's underneath the patella. And when he went out with

950
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 4: that injury, he grabbed the back sort of like kind

951
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 4: of his hamstring. Yeah, and then yea, he put his

952
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 4: hand sort of over his knee and he kind of

953
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 4: ran into Kate Cummingham. And now they're thinking that it's

954
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 4: well there. I don't know what they're thinking, but to

955
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 4: say it's the trocolia. There's some cartilage behind the trocholia,

956
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 4: and that's what it could be. But it is just

957
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 4: a part of the bone where the patella slides up

958
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 4: and down. And it was Tuesday after a workout they said, okay,

959
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 4: it's not that quad injury he's got. There's a discomfort.

960
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,760
Speaker 4: We got to do an MRI and the MRI revealed

961
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 4: that it's a chocolate injury.

962
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 2: So yeah, he was close to returning. Like he was

963
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 2: playing like two on two. He's doing defensive like drills

964
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,959
Speaker 2: and slides I read like, so he was probably ramping

965
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 2: up to come back, but then yeah, still had that discomfort,

966
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 2: still had the swelling. I guess in that knee area.

967
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 2: They're like, we better take a look at this again.

968
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 2: And this is where they found this out. I mean,

969
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 2: no better podcast right now could be explaining a knee

970
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 2: injury than a man sitting exposed on a toilet. I mean,

971
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 2: this is perfect. Yeah, you were breaking it down there,

972
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 2: you're the new doctor.

973
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 4: I don't realize that. As soon as I start breaking down,

974
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 4: it feels like I'm at a speakeasy. I open up

975
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 4: my legs and I shouldn't be doing that on a toilet,

976
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 4: Like I'm really digging in here to knowing what's going on.

977
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 4: I just forget sometimes I'm on a toilet and working

978
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 4: for the New York Times. The Athletic Anyway, it's a

979
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 4: shame because he had back spasms earlier season. He left

980
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 4: that Raptors game, was out early January for weeks, comes

981
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 4: back for one game, sustained what was deemed a quad injury,

982
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 4: and now it's the old troclia. So Brian's suitor MD

983
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 4: he was confused by what this trocholia injury is and

984
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 4: it just seems like it's something that's hopefully they found

985
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 4: out what's going on, but it just seems like the again,

986
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 4: the back spasms. It just seems like things are rolling here.

987
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 4: For Jalen Suggs, who said I hope to be back

988
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 4: later this season, and I knowpe guys say that all

989
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 4: the time. But with this guy who just plays through

990
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 4: injuries and you see him hobbling, I wouldn't be surprised

991
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 4: to see him back, hoping helping the magic in a

992
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,879
Speaker 4: play in game, because that's what it seems like they're

993
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 4: destined to be.

994
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 2: They are sliding. Paolo Franz Wagner and Suggs appeared in

995
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 2: six games together this year. They played like one hundred

996
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 2: minutes together.

997
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:54,399
Speaker 4: That's nuts.

998
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 2: They played pretty well like they were four and two.

999
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 2: Their minutes together were good, but just obviously one of

1000
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 2: them was always being up. It was Pallo first, and

1001
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 2: it was Fronds and then unfortunately of course it Sugs.

1002
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 2: You know, you say he plays through injury. I'm with you,

1003
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 2: because he is a you know, a hard nosed player,

1004
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 2: but unfortunately for him, because he is so extreme and

1005
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 2: so locked in defensively, he picks up a lot of injuries.

1006
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 2: Like this is now This is really the third out

1007
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 2: of four seasons where he doesn't play a majority of

1008
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 2: games because he's always banged up because he plays so

1009
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 2: balls to the wall. Like last year was a good year.

1010
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 2: Last year was a pretty healthyer. I think he played

1011
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 2: seventy five games those first two years, and now this

1012
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 2: year where he's going to finish like easily under forty

1013
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 2: games played. That's sort of the thing with Sugs, Like

1014
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 2: it's the blessing in the curse with some of these guys, right,

1015
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 2: That's like they play so hard that they're prone to

1016
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,399
Speaker 2: pick up a lot of these injuries and a lot

1017
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 2: of like knees and backs and stuff like that because

1018
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 2: they're always hitting the floor and locked in on the

1019
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 2: defensive end.

1020
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 4: Sucks, Yes, that's the very good Sugs. It does sucks, Suggs.

1021
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 4: But yeah, he ran into Kate Counningham and it looked

1022
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 4: just like sort of a random maybe a knee on

1023
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 4: knee that he started grabbing his leg. But you're right,

1024
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 4: he plays extremely hard. I didn't think of here in

1025
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 4: year four the number of games that he's really missed,

1026
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 4: maybe because I just deem him as this hard nosed player.

1027
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 4: I think he plays a lot but this year obviously

1028
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 4: not so much.

1029
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, just to back up what I thought was true,

1030
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 2: and it is forty eight games played in his rookie season,

1031
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 2: fifty three, the next year seventy five, like I said,

1032
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,439
Speaker 2: in year three, and then this year's he's at thirty five.

1033
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 2: So it might be thirty five to forty if he

1034
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 2: somehow comes back at the end of the regular season.

1035
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 2: But yeah, the way they're playing right now, you know,

1036
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,919
Speaker 2: they might just have to be like, Okay, this was

1037
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 2: not really our year in terms of, you know, good health,

1038
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 2: and we have fallen and fallen. Maybe it's a play

1039
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 2: in battle or whatever, but maybe you just rest him

1040
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 2: and bring him back next year. We'll see, all right.

1041
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 2: Final piece of news we've been alluding to it all

1042
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 2: show steven A Smith. He spent a significant portion of

1043
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 2: screen time on Friday discussing Lebron james recent criticisms against

1044
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 2: how the league is covered across the major networks. Now

1045
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 2: have been watching because he fired some tweets off in

1046
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 2: response to steven A. But the back and forth started

1047
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 2: when Lebron spoke about the state of the NBA media

1048
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 2: following Thursday's game, outlining how there's like this weird energy

1049
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 2: amongst media members, and that's exactly why players like Anthony

1050
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 2: Edwards doesn't want to be considered the next face of

1051
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 2: the NBA. So that was Lebron's sort of reasoning, No,

1052
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 2: wonder Ant doesn't want to be face of the league.

1053
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:28,760
Speaker 2: All you do is crap on the NBA. He's talking

1054
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,760
Speaker 2: about you sort of your major networks in the NBA media. Naturally,

1055
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 2: this prompted Steven A to discuss Lebron's comments, and here

1056
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 2: we are tasked. I mean, this has been going on

1057
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 2: for a couple of days. Now, do you have any

1058
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 2: thoughts on all of this? I guess, And whether you

1059
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 2: think there's some truth to what Lebron was saying or not,

1060
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 2: what do you think?

1061
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 4: Well, Lebron is one of the greats simply saying too

1062
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 4: much of the talk about the NBA is negative. He

1063
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 4: just wants more positive about an incredible sport. I think

1064
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 4: that's what he's implying. Now. It's it's definitely different in

1065
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 4: proportion social media versus TV, because I don't think TV

1066
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 4: is as much as social media and social media, we

1067
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 4: know what gets amplified. It's the negative stuff. So that

1068
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 4: has become more popular. Yeah, to speak negatively about it.

1069
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 4: I would say it is a higher portion on social media.

1070
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 4: So for steven A to say, hey, he's talking about me,

1071
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 4: and he didn't address Stephen A. Smith. And I know

1072
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,720
Speaker 4: Stephen A. Smith has made a very very popular show

1073
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 4: because of the takes, because of a lot of negativity,

1074
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 4: and that's how you get people coming back on first take.

1075
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 4: And I am I promoting it now? I guess so. But

1076
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 4: there is a lot of that talk on his show

1077
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,280
Speaker 4: and he's made it more popular because of it. So yes,

1078
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 4: I will say, though you know he went on to

1079
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 4: say Lebron has a media company too, doesn't mean he

1080
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 4: speaks negatively about the sport. His media is all about

1081
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 4: breaking down plays. It's all about pinned downs, double screens,

1082
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 4: the way the game is played, the positivity about it.

1083
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 4: Which when I say that, you might think, oh, that's

1084
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 4: not going to get anybody watching shows. And that's the

1085
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 4: unfortunate part. And I think that's what Lebron was saying,

1086
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 4: is that those beautiful parts of the game should be

1087
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 4: talked about more. I think it's as simple as that.

1088
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 4: Because I heard that on Thursday night, I came back

1089
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 4: into our Friday show. I didn't think a thing of it.

1090
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 4: When Lebron had that interview, Maybe it's because our show

1091
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 4: doesn't do what Steven A. Smith does and doesn't do

1092
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,280
Speaker 4: what a lot of the negativity out there is about.

1093
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 4: That's partly, you know, me patting myself on the back.

1094
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 4: But I just think that that's all he's saying, and

1095
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 4: it is unfortunate. That's the whole picture, I think. And

1096
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 4: when he went on and talked with Scott Van Pelt

1097
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 4: after the Clippers game, he was interviewed about it, he

1098
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 4: really respected Scott Van Pelt. He said he knows that

1099
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 4: Scott Van Pelt just talks about the cool things about

1100
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 4: the game, and he'll talk about things off the court,

1101
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 4: but he will Now now I'm deeming SVP. I'm a

1102
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 4: great broadcaster because he is, yes, and he just not

1103
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 4: only talks about the game, but he talks about things

1104
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:10,760
Speaker 4: off the court. But he doesn't really get negative about stuff.

1105
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 4: And so that's all Lebron's saying. I don't think that's

1106
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 4: there's really any harm in what he said.

1107
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, we usually avoid this stuff because it very quickly

1108
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 2: becomes an echo chamber, this shit because it's like it's like,

1109
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 2: I mean, you see it, how it happens here like

1110
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 2: this is like this is everything for steven A. He

1111
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 2: wants to hear this criticism because then he can just

1112
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 2: do another twenty minutes.

1113
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 4: On it and then you get because it really wasn't

1114
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 4: yeah right right.

1115
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 2: I mean, like I think we can infer that Lebron

1116
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 2: when he was saying these comments, he did mean probably

1117
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:42,919
Speaker 2: stephen A, probably ESPN to some extent. The hot take

1118
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 2: shows probably inside the NBA because there's always been like, ah,

1119
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 2: these guys don't actually like the game. I'm talking about

1120
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,919
Speaker 2: Barkley and Shaq and Kenny, and it feels like they're

1121
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 2: the ones always crapping on today's game. Like Okay, it's

1122
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 2: all this stuff that's been said a million times. But

1123
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 2: the other part of this is like, Okay, the NBA media.

1124
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 2: It's not the entirety of the NBA media that hates

1125
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 2: the NBA. It's like what you're saying, it's just what

1126
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 2: gets like amplified because unfortunately that's what people care about

1127
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 2: and like them to share. I guess that negative sort

1128
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 2: of connotation, but you know, this is also the classic

1129
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 2: like I wrote a blog for a long time, man,

1130
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 2: I get it. You write something or like we do

1131
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 2: a podcast. I mean, just use that as an example.

1132
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 2: You'll get a hundred to you know, a thousand people

1133
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 2: say I like this take, I like this blog post,

1134
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 2: I like this podcast. That's a great take. Task in

1135
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 2: a toilet hat. You get a thousand of those, right,

1136
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,760
Speaker 2: but you get one comment that it's like I hate

1137
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 2: that you suck whatever, and like that is like just

1138
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 2: the human nature is like you're like focus on that

1139
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 2: and for whatever reason you disregard the thousand of compliments

1140
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 2: or positive things. And I think that happened. That happens

1141
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 2: with everything in today's society, with today's internet and social media.

1142
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 2: Like that's just that's just the way it is. But

1143
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 2: I will say the Lebron the one thing I don't

1144
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,240
Speaker 2: like about Lebron comments is like I think this whole

1145
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 2: face of the league thing, these are really two separate things,

1146
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 2: like the crapping on the league and crapping on the

1147
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 2: NBA and then the face of the league. And that's

1148
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 2: why Ant doesn't want it. I don't. I don't think

1149
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 2: those are actually one and the same, Like you don't,

1150
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:19,359
Speaker 2: don't you don't get to pick who is the face

1151
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 2: of the league, right, Like that does sort of happen organically,

1152
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 2: and it's been Lebron. Maybe you believe it's Steph Curry,

1153
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 2: but really it's been Lebron for the last like twenty years.

1154
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna see who it's gonna become. After

1155
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 2: Lebron is finally done kicking ass at basketball, he's still amazing.

1156
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 2: But like, you don't really pick. That's how it works,

1157
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 2: Like we don't say that's the guy now, Like it

1158
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 2: might be women Yama, it might be Anthony Edwards, it

1159
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 2: might be somebody else. Hell might be the Thompson Twins

1160
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 2: for all we know, Like we don't know, and it

1161
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 2: just sort of happens organically. Big part of course is

1162
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 2: playoff success in championships. I think you have to have

1163
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 2: to have those, but then you have to have something

1164
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 2: else about you that people click with, be it your

1165
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 2: personality or whatever. Yeah, so that that part was a

1166
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 2: little straight to me that Lebron was trying to sort

1167
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 2: of jam in there.

1168
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, hear what you're saying. I think if

1169
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 4: he was to specify when you are ridiculed by the

1170
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 4: media and when that's fades away, I think it's when

1171
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 4: you don't win at the first part of your career.

1172
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 4: People were all over Lebron getting swept in the finals

1173
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 4: and seven, and.

1174
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 2: People were all over Michael Jordan and people were all

1175
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 2: over doctor J Like, I mean.

1176
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's nothing new.

1177
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, So you just have to win. I don't think

1178
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 4: you really have to have a ton of personality even

1179
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 4: or you change the game. I mean Steph, I don't

1180
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 4: think he's really extremely well known about everything he does

1181
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 4: off the floor, but he changed the way that the

1182
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 4: shot is made, the way three point shots are done.

1183
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:44,439
Speaker 4: So there's that. I mean, you just have to win

1184
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 4: and then you get the limelight and then people stop

1185
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 4: ridiculing you, people stop hating you, and yeah, Lebron just

1186
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 4: needs I think Lebron should say that. I think they

1187
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,439
Speaker 4: should have a breakdown. I mean, that's what his media

1188
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:57,919
Speaker 4: company is great for, break it down.

1189
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 2: He started his own podcast to at least address what

1190
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 2: he thought was a vacuum in the space.

1191
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 4: Right Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's like what Kobe

1192
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 4: did with ESPN when he was doing the details. It

1193
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 4: was called detail right, miss mis remembering when he was

1194
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 4: getting into just breaking down footage, breaking down each play.

1195
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 4: But it's hard work.

1196
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 3: It's hard work.

1197
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 4: To do that.

1198
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 2: It's hard work and it's not going to be for everyone. Yeah,

1199
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 2: and that's fair too, Like this is the whole point.

1200
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,919
Speaker 2: There's going to be all these lanes for people. There's

1201
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 2: going to be a podcast where a guy can sit

1202
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 2: on a toilet wearing a toilet hat, breaking it down,

1203
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 2: breaking down the knee structure and the groove of the trocolia.

1204
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 4: Yes, it is so interesting.

1205
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 3: Then there's that may not be for you. Guess what

1206
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 3: there's The good thing is there's basketball.

1207
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 4: There's that type of stuff, and yes there is both.

1208
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 4: And I get why people are all over and here.

1209
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 4: Before he finishes or before he wins, I'm already deeming

1210
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:58,919
Speaker 4: him as a winner. But you know, if he gets

1211
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 4: to that point, then I think people stop and just

1212
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 4: all right, everybody here is saying he's great, then I

1213
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 4: got to say it too, and so there's less of

1214
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 4: the oh this guy sucks that part of it. But yeah,

1215
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 4: I think Lebron yes, calling it just a weird vibe,

1216
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 4: a weird energy energy. Yeah, I mean it really has changed,

1217
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 4: you know since we started potting this. I do you

1218
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 4: know it's weird. I guess you can call it weird.

1219
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 4: But there's it's just what's amplified since Lebron because our

1220
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 4: careers here are kind of like in the same era

1221
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 4: as Lebron since we started. Yeah, people weren't like this,

1222
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 4: but the game has changed, you know midway through is

1223
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 4: well I guess I wasn't midway through his career, but yeah,

1224
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 4: people started to hate Lebron, but then they had to

1225
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 4: like him.

1226
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 3: But there's still people, Oh there are.

1227
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 2: But when you're the best, you're gonna have vaters for sure,

1228
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 2: at least one of the best. All right, let's tell

1229
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 2: what everybody thinks out there in the stream team, in

1230
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 2: the YouTube, comments, on Twitter, on all those social media channels.

1231
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 2: Let us know, okay, pick them. We start with a

1232
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 2: clean slate, like you just wipe that ass tasks. Maybe

1233
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 2: you got a bidet in there for all I know,

1234
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, did you install the JD in there? No?

1235
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 4: No, not yet, not yet.

1236
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 2: What's it called the Tushy?

1237
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 4: Is that one of them popular one the brand name?

1238
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something I think there is one called Tushy. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway,

1239
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 2: we're zero and zero is my point tasks for the

1240
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 2: month of March. So what's our game here today?

1241
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to Portland visiting Philadelphia. Now we got

1242
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 4: some other good ones. We've got a Rockets game, Rockets Thundering,

1243
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 4: Rockets thunder. But Portland visiting Philly is interesting to me.

1244
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 4: Philly's favored by three and a half. I actually think

1245
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 4: that's a big line. It feels too big for me

1246
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 4: because Portland is kicking. But they just had a great

1247
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 4: game against the Cleveland Cavaliers where they almost won. Yep,

1248
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 4: they're playing extremely Shade and sharp is playing out at

1249
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 4: this world right now. They're looking to make the play

1250
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 4: in their five games out. It seems like it's a

1251
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 4: little too far, but I think the race for eleventh

1252
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 4: is real them in Phoenix.

1253
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 2: I think they it's for eleventh Haang the banner.

1254
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 4: They could easily pass Phoenix. So I'm taking them tonight,

1255
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 4: as are U Stats and Trey and Esh. They're taking

1256
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 4: the Sixers to win by four or more while we've

1257
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 4: got a few points to play with.

1258
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 2: Yep, we're split on this one. Makes sense. I think

1259
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 2: you can talk yourself into either of these teams, either

1260
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 2: covering in Philly's case or Portland getting it done because

1261
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 2: they have played really, really well over this last couple

1262
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 2: of weeks. So I'm with you, which I'm a little

1263
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 2: afraid of because you had a really rough Oh that

1264
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 2: that was a very rough February.

1265
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I've I've now lost two months this season.

1266
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 4: You've lost one. Trey has lost.

1267
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 2: No, I lost too, didn't they?

1268
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 3: Yeah a pumpkin pot. Yeah, and I was in the bookshelf.

1269
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Yeah, we did one for October. We weren't

1270
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 4: messing around.

1271
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 2: We've all lost except Esh. He hasn't lost one yet.

1272
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we got to get Esh in there.

1273
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get Esh. Come on, let's get them, Let's

1274
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 2: get him an ol. You mentioned that game, you mentioned

1275
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 2: the Rockets Thunder game. Some good ones on tonight. Decent schedule,

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Speaker 2: and you never know it, right, you look at it

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Speaker 2: and that's not the most exciting. Then we get good

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Speaker 2: games or good performances and suddenly all we're all hyped

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Speaker 2: on tomorrow show. But we're gonna be on playback tonight

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Speaker 2: for an hour or so, probably starting around probably nine

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Speaker 2: pm Eastern, let's call it tonight. Might jump on a

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Speaker 2: little earlier than that, but that link is in the

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Speaker 2: show notes. If you want to calm, hang out with

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Speaker 2: the Nodunk's crew and watch some games seven games on Total,

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Speaker 2: but we'll probably catch the ending, a lot of the

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Speaker 2: first games, maybe catch some of the Rockets, thunder Kings,

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Speaker 2: Maths and so on. So hopefully you'll join us on

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Speaker 2: playback tonight. If not, we will see you here tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Some of us from the Classic Factory, some of us

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Speaker 2: from the John Like tasses right now, still got feeling

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Speaker 2: in your legs.

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Speaker 3: No, sir, I'm gonna fall over what he stands on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was gonna stand mid show, just loosen the legs,

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Speaker 4: but I didn't really want to show everything to the camera.

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Speaker 3: How's the how's your neck too?

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Speaker 2: Because I've tried on the toilet hat and it's you know,

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Speaker 2: it's made a foam, but it's I don't know if

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Speaker 2: it's it's like because of the tank.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's a little heavy at the back.

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Speaker 4: I feel like, Yeah, I literally I just came from

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Speaker 4: the gym. I pick up this toilet. I just think, oh,

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Speaker 4: that's this light, and I put it on my head

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Speaker 4: and I need to go for a neck workout today. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: strengthen it. It seems so light when you pick it up,

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Speaker 4: but on ahead it's very quite different. Yeah, I guess

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Speaker 4: it is. It looks so good, as you said, the

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Speaker 4: basin at the back, Yeah, it's it's way too back heavy.

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Speaker 2: It's back heavy for sure. So yeah, painful.

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Speaker 3: We care for tests well.

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Speaker 2: Sitting on the can talking about the NBA.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's tough.

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Speaker 2: It's tough, all right. Guys, Thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: joining us until tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Comeer bro, you heard it here first, have a great time,

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Speaker 3: turn up.

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Speaker 2: Love you guys, awesome.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us. And remember the trocolia is where

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Speaker 4: the kneecap moves onto the femur. It just slides back

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Speaker 4: and forth, and this is the sound it makes. I

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Speaker 4: just I just think that my is going to crack.

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Speaker 4: So it's not the tropolate, but it's a knee cracking.

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Speaker 4: I think. Here we go. Oh man, need to come

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Speaker 4: this week.

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Speaker 3: Embrace the tap of Holy Crown.