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Speaker 1: And welcome to No Dunks, the original basketball podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host for today, Trey Kirby and joining me here

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Speaker 1: in the yard. It's tas Mellis.

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Speaker 2: What's going on, Trey?

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Speaker 1: Oh, we got some stuff to talk about. Teams are

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Speaker 1: getting back to their cities. They're showing up at their arenas,

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Speaker 1: they're putting on jerseys, they're putting on shorts, they're talking

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Speaker 1: to the press. They're saying some interesting stuff. And we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about the most interesting things we've heard from

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Speaker 1: what I don't know six teams. Maybe ye had their

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Speaker 1: media day or something like that.

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Speaker 2: M m. They're talking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna hit We're gonna hit the updown Report

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Speaker 1: and talk about our favorite stuff that has come out

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Speaker 1: this week. And yeah, chime in on the stream team,

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Speaker 1: let us know if you're up or down on all

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Speaker 1: these things. Definitely the buzziest story from media day thus far,

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Speaker 1: Zion Williamson. He's looking he is looking skinny.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, got that photo. We got that photo. We've got

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Speaker 2: to show with you if you're here on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a this is a good Zion photo

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Speaker 1: in the red T shirt looking cut. There was also

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Speaker 1: the one that the Pelicans put out just like a

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Speaker 1: like a glamour shot basically of Zion looked great and

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Speaker 1: that one as well. Zion said he's been boxing, he's

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Speaker 1: been doing some working out on a football field and

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Speaker 1: just different random workouts. Said he hasn't felt like this

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Speaker 1: since college. So tess up or down on skinny Zion Williamson.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm saying this. I am up. I'm

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Speaker 2: buying it because this isn't just about him losing weight

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Speaker 2: in the off season. Try. This is about a couple

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Speaker 2: of things. This is about him getting right during last season.

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Speaker 2: Those comments he was making about those workouts were about

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Speaker 2: when he came back from that hamstring injury, talking to

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Speaker 2: his trainer, getting his trainer working out differently, like you said,

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Speaker 2: on the football field and all that, and he it

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Speaker 2: felt good to feel good, as he said.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't just about the offseason. This was last year.

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Speaker 2: He played six games, he came back and was getting

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Speaker 2: right with his trainer, and then at the end of

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Speaker 2: the year he's kind of on and off. The Pelicans

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Speaker 2: were just dead. So I think this is about him

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Speaker 2: getting into different mindset, and it's also about a new

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Speaker 2: leadership in the front office that is going to hold

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Speaker 2: him accountable. That he was. I watched every single minute

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Speaker 2: of this press conference tray, so none of you had to.

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Speaker 2: I would say Zion Williamson smiled more than he's ever smiled,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of it was because he was talking

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Speaker 2: about Joe Dumars leading that front office and him holding

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Speaker 2: Zion accountable. His first comment about Joe Dumars was I

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Speaker 2: like Joe, and he kept saying he's going to hold

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Speaker 2: me accountable. Slip up, He'll be right there to make

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Speaker 2: sure I get right back on the path. And you

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Speaker 2: might say, come on, Zion has done this before. But

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Speaker 2: I do think it is a change here, and why

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Speaker 2: can't it happen here when he's twenty five years old.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be his seventh year in the NBA,

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Speaker 2: although his only his sixth year playing. Can he not change?

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Speaker 1: I mean?

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Speaker 2: Going on in that press conference, he was asked about

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Speaker 2: c J. McCollum and how he left, and he gave

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Speaker 2: the CJ McCollum a lot of love and he said, quote,

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Speaker 2: you know, he helped me where I am and all that,

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Speaker 2: and then he said, quote making this transition easier. Who says,

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Speaker 2: making this transition, I mean I found that going to

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Speaker 2: think though that finally, at some point he's learned to

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Speaker 2: and here he is, oh yeah, same thing. I think

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Speaker 2: this was a whole year process. He played six games,

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Speaker 2: he came back after a while after months in that year.

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Speaker 2: Here he is injured. So I don't see him getting

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Speaker 2: injured like that. Again, Am I doing this a little

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Speaker 2: too early?

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Speaker 1: Tray?

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Speaker 2: What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Well? I'm with Andrew Williams here in the stream team

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Speaker 1: and then follows it up by saying, I am people.

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Speaker 1: Guess what we're people too. I'll take the Fell FOURD

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Speaker 1: Award for skinny Zion. He looks great. Uh. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if the Pelicans are gonna be good this season.

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Speaker 1: They got a really weird mix of players. They obviously

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play a lot. It kind of

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Speaker 1: don't know if this is gonna happen, but Zion has

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Speaker 1: played more than thirty games in a season twice in

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Speaker 1: those six seasons he's played. Obviously, he missed an entire

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Speaker 1: I think this is going to be the third season

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Speaker 1: So if I'm looking like a fool when he goes

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Speaker 1: down with a hamstring injury in the middle of December,

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Speaker 1: so be it. I'm rooting for the guy. When he's

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Speaker 1: he looks the most fit he ever has. If you're

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Speaker 1: it's like the guy grew cheekbones. Oh, it does sound

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Speaker 1: like he's been working for quite some time. And then,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I did love that quote. It feels

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Speaker 1: good to feel good. That's so right. So hopefully he's

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Speaker 1: Ion is a real thing. He is easy to talk

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt. And that Pals trainer gave him

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Speaker 2: some workouts where it's not just ol come in and lift,

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Speaker 2: And we all know how it is. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: just a little more fun. And I don't know how

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Speaker 2: there's guys like Jeff tu great podcast, he'll go who

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Speaker 2: he went out and said, come on, man, you're trying

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Speaker 2: now and he he said, like, I'm just not a

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Speaker 2: do think Zion just developed a different way of working

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Speaker 2: out again last season. I think that's that's important. That

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Speaker 2: that was literally in November October or November December, January February.

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Speaker 2: So this isn't just like the standard summer thing. This

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Speaker 2: just don't think he'll get injured again. As you said,

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Speaker 2: those numbers there of how many games he's played, I'm

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Speaker 2: Talent is natural, greatness is every day. Now, Okay, it's

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Speaker 2: just a quote. But is at some point Zion Williamson

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Speaker 2: going to be a different guy to lead this team?

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of what he is saying. Joe Dumars

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Speaker 2: we shall see. It is an interesting roster. You're totally

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Speaker 2: there are like, there are guys that are just getting

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Speaker 2: Why can't they get back there again? Wasn't that long

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Speaker 2: just had that one crappy year last year when he

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Speaker 2: learned workouts are fun. So here we are one more time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess he's been rehabbing injuries so often that

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Speaker 1: A little distressing though they didn't mention playing basketball at all.

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Speaker 1: I think that map might be something he would want

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Speaker 1: maybe that one is just a given. The other question

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Speaker 1: I had was what do you think of the goatee

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Speaker 1: the guy was rocking?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that I feel like received the most ridicule

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Speaker 2: of anything, right, Like.

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Speaker 1: You, well, you look like an evil twin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I guess not. We'll get into how old

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Speaker 2: an NBA player has to be to be called unk. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we'll get into that layer that is. That's what an

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Speaker 1: His face, right, Yeah, that's that's a young guy to

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Speaker 1: have a go tee like that. When's the last time

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Speaker 1: a beard?

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Speaker 2: Since when? Actually? When I was Zion Williamson's age, like

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Speaker 1: as well, you're you gonna pull it back? No, No,

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Speaker 1: I mean I look old enough with all the gray

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, I hear you. Yeah, yeah, the

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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to jump into the go tee pool yet,

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Speaker 1: but I'm glad to see some guys are bringing it back.

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Speaker 1: Moving on, Jason Tatum went on First Take this week

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Speaker 1: when he was asked by Steven A about all the

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Speaker 1: different changes for the Celtics this season. He responded, first

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Speaker 1: of all, I haven't said I'm not playing this season.

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Speaker 1: Tatum also said he's not rushing back, but also that

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Speaker 1: he doesn't rehab six days a week for nothing. So

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Speaker 1: task are you up or down on Jason Tatum coming

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Speaker 2: I gotta say it, I'm down. I want him to

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Speaker 2: take his time. I don't know how long he's going

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Speaker 2: It's super duper serious when it comes to NBA injuries.

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Speaker 2: in January, or you're gonna be more like a Durant,

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Speaker 1: him at the trade deadline, and he had some good moments.

430
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 1: For sure, was more of a bench guy for him

431
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 1: last year. But uh, the more you ask from DeAndre Hunter,

432
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 1: the more chances you are getting being disappointed. But I

433
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 1: think he's a good player and there's definitely an opportunity

434
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,159
Speaker 1: for him now with Strus out. I do think the

435
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: three point shooting with the Cavs last year was a

436
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,960
Speaker 1: huge part of their success, So maybe Struce is able

437
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 1: to win that spot back whenever he's healthy. But ye,

438
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,720
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how Kenny gets the most

439
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 1: out of DeAndre Hunter going forward. I can't believe you're

440
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,680
Speaker 1: saying Yabu is going to be starting for the Knicks though.

441
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: That's crazy.

442
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,160
Speaker 2: I think it was a weird team in that they

443
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 2: weren't a good defensive team the entire season, really, and

444
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,399
Speaker 2: moving Cat to the four would help. Oh with a

445
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 2: guy who's gritty. Now, Mitchell Robinson can be that guy.

446
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 2: He came along in the second half the season, didn't

447
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,160
Speaker 2: play the first half, so yeah, it could be Mitch.

448
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 2: But I don't know. He's got these new legs happening

449
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 2: because he gets injured every year.

450
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 1: That's a worry for sure. The more he's playing, the

451
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 1: better chance of injury. Though. The Knick's worth their best

452
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: when it was him as the five and Towns as

453
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,439
Speaker 1: the four. Then they become like a huge lineup, and

454
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: they still have enough shooting because Towns is such a

455
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 1: good outside shooter. Let's stick in New York have some

456
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: fun here. Michael Porter Junior was asked about New York

457
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 1: City traffic by the Yes Network. He said he shipped

458
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: a car out to Brooklyn, but the traffic has been

459
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: so bad that instead he's spending two hundred to two

460
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars a day on ubers so that

461
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to do the driving himself test. Are

462
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: you up or down on spending two hundred and fifty

463
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: dollars a day on an uber?

464
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 2: Big down? I understand parking in New York sounds horrendous,

465
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 2: but first of all, they're practicing in Brooklyn. It ain't

466
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 2: the same as Manhattan, very very different. Second, you got

467
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 2: a car, they're going to give you a parking spot.

468
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 2: Why do you need to take it an uber? I

469
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 2: don't I really truly understand it. I know parking ain't fun,

470
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 2: but when it comes to being an NBA player, they're

471
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: going to give you a spot. Dude, it ain't that bad.

472
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 2: Like you're going to go from getting dropped off at

473
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: the front door and an uber to yeah, you got

474
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 2: to go in your parking deck and walk in. I

475
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 2: don't get it. It's Brooklyn. It's it's not that bad.

476
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 2: It's it's totally fine. It's in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It's

477
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 2: time to get live.

478
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,160
Speaker 1: It's time to represent.

479
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is time to get live. It's time to represent.

480
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 2: Michael Porter, drive your car. I think that's I.

481
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: Guess that's the question. It's like, you're gonna be sitting

482
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: in traffic regardless, right. I think Frank I Soola was

483
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 1: backing him up on this point. He's like, Yeah, it's

484
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: bad having a car in Brooklyn. He didn't like it.

485
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, you say New York, I don't. It

486
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 2: doesn't really.

487
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't doubt him. But if you're riding, you

488
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: can do stuff. If you're riding, if you're driving, you

489
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: got to be locked in. How's Michael Porter Junior gonna

490
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: get his tweets off, gonna watch his Instagram videos? If

491
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: he's in the front seat. It's so much more chill

492
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,919
Speaker 1: riding in the backseat. You do the math as well.

493
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 1: Two two hundred and fifty dollars a day on an

494
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: uber if he does it every single day for a year,

495
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 1: that's ninety one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars. Michael

496
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: Porter Junior is making thirty eight million this year. That's

497
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: zero point two percent of his salary, which means if

498
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: you were the equivalent of somebody making one hundred thousand dollars,

499
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 1: that's two hundred and forty dollars a year on ubers.

500
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 1: According to literally one Reddit post that I read, private

501
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: drivers in New York City make between eighty and one

502
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thousand dollars. So maybe Michael Porter Juniors

503
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 1: being smart here by taking more and more ubers.

504
00:25:54,560 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was with that at first, but it ain't Manhattan.

505
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 2: It ain't the same. I think what happened is he

506
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 2: got his car, he drove into Manhattan. Parking in Manhattan

507
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 2: is horrendous. It is absolutely the worst thing. You're going

508
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 2: underground into these tight little spots. It's tough. You're bumping

509
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 2: some car. I'm sure Michael Porter Jr. Would be Maybe

510
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 2: he's already had an accident since he got to Brooklyn.

511
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 2: But I also I was confused. I thought, does he

512
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 2: even have his car yet? Because he said he got

513
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 2: his car towed. But to me, I was like, oh,

514
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 2: you know, this is a guy who just doesn't plan

515
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 2: all that much. His car is probably just not there.

516
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 2: He didn't do it early enough. He doesn't even have

517
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 2: his car, so that's why he's taken ubers. But dude,

518
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 2: I don't think it's that tough. This is not Manhattan.

519
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 2: This is friggin Brooklyn. You get to drive in and

520
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 2: it's fun. I think he had one bad experience when

521
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 2: he went into Manhattan one day and now it's forever

522
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,120
Speaker 2: an Uber guy.

523
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 1: Forever an Uber guy. I just got to agree with

524
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: Gustavo here in the stream team that says MPG being

525
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 1: a franchise best player is pure comedy. It honestly feels

526
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: to me like early twenty ten's Washington Wizards when they're

527
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 1: like star players were Nick Young and JaVale McGee, and

528
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: it just felt like everything they did was extra funny

529
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: because you know, your workout the math for this Michael

530
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: Porter Junior thing, and maybe it makes sense for him.

531
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: He's not really worried about the money of it. We

532
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 1: see two hundred and fifty dollars per day on Uber

533
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like only Michael Porter Junior would

534
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: do that. Then they dropped the little video of him

535
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 1: like putting on his nets jersey, getting his photo taken

536
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: for the first time. The guy's just like cheese into

537
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: the Max Wall dribbling. It looks hilarious. We will see

538
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: how the rest of the season goes for the Brooklyn

539
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: Nets and YMPJ.

540
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do want to see him as a number

541
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 2: one guy. We talked about it on our last show,

542
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 2: Who is the Best Player On the Brooklyn Nets. Now,

543
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 2: he talked a lot in that press conference. Man, I

544
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 2: watched every freaking press conference.

545
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: What else is there to do? You know?

546
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we got to see if those Toronto Blue

547
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 2: Jays can win that division this weekend. Oh it's like

548
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 2: they're back dut Dalton var Show getting on top of

549
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 2: that high heat yesterday. Uh, they got to win that division.

550
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 2: Lots of w NBA games. Will the Lynks bounce back tonight?

551
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 2: TVD The Michael Port Junior thing, he was basically basically

552
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 2: he kind of implied that his injury and how poorly

553
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 2: he played because of that injury got him traded in

554
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: part because like he just kind of implied, like, Okay,

555
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 2: I wasn't playing to my capabilities. They saw that, They're like, okay,

556
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 2: we gotta get rid of this guy. So I was like,

557
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 2: it's probably the whole season. Man, it's probably your ability

558
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 2: to defend or lack of ability to defend and put

559
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 2: it on the floor like Cam Johnson can. But anyway,

560
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 2: him as the best player in Brooklyn is full of questions.

561
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: I think he mostly got traded because of his gigantic contract.

562
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: That's the main reason that happened. But that's why he's

563
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: able to afford these ubers. I actually kind of think

564
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior has become underrated as a player. I

565
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: don't think he should be a number one guy, but

566
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: like the dude six three point shooter, and you don't

567
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: see that all that often, but he is the number

568
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: one guy, and he's apparently the number one Uber customer

569
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: in the New York City area. New Old unis alert.

570
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: The Sixers unveiled their classic edition throwbacks in honor of

571
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: the twenty five year anniversary of the two thousand and

572
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: one Finals team led by Alan Iverson. These are the

573
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: black Sixers jerseys with the swooshing basketball across the front.

574
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: They look great. They got the court to match tasks.

575
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: You up or down on these Sixers throwbacks? Oh?

576
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: Big time down? I can't do it. I can't do it,

577
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 2: Trey this.

578
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: You're down.

579
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 2: I am totally totally down on these. Give me nightmares. Yeah,

580
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 2: this is personal. Here they were wearing.

581
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

582
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: Two thousand and one, when it looked like Vince Carter

583
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 2: was just ascending, it seemed like everything was great. He

584
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 2: met Alvin Alan Iverson in round two. They're both dropping

585
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 2: fifties and yeah, Alan Iverson eliminated the Toronto Raptors, which

586
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: was fine, and that was understandable. Yeah, Vince went and

587
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 2: graduated before Game seven. All that was cool, that was

588
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 2: totally acceptable. At that point, me and my homie Dave

589
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 2: Setton and all our friends, we decided, Wow, I mean,

590
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 2: this is just the beginning. There was the offer going

591
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 2: on for season seats for the following season. That's when

592
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: we jumped in. But literally, that was the only playoff

593
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 2: series that Vince Carter won with the Toronto Raptors going

594
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 2: into that second round against Allen Iverson, and I just

595
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: haven't recovered. I mean I saw these a few weeks

596
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 2: ago and I still haven't recovered. I just don't like

597
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 2: seeing them. I mean, was this was Peke Iverson? Oh yeah,

598
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 2: this was the MVP season and so they're cool. But

599
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,239
Speaker 2: to me, they just they just bring me back too

600
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 2: many flashbacks. Don't like them.

601
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: That's something I'd never really considered with throwback jerseys, is ya.

602
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: The classic moments for one team have to be like

603
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: the worst moments for another fan base. So understandable the

604
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: Raptors fans will be like, oh no, I hate to

605
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: see these. For everybody else though they look awesome, I

606
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: do wish they had the wider sleeves that they had

607
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: back in the two thousands when the NBA was trying

608
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: for like a more street ball look. These were also

609
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: very shiny. I remember the Sixers having like the shiniest

610
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: jerseys ever during the Iverson era. I do hope that

611
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: their players. It doesn't look like it from all the

612
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: different photos they're released, but I think of that team

613
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: wearing some of the baggiest jersey in NBA history. Like

614
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: Iverson probably wore a medium jersey and in these it

615
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: looked like he was wearing a triple X. They were

616
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: just gigantic. The shorts were so long. These are a

617
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: lot more fitted for the current Sixers team, but they

618
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: look sweet.

619
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: It looks like it's snug on Joel Embiid in the

620
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 2: photo show and you hear you're you're right, and yeah,

621
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 2: you can see Paul George making his little snarl while

622
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: pulling out his jersey a little bit. Yeah, you're right,

623
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 2: they're right. They aren't as baggy. I mean, everybody's doing

624
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 2: it though, you got to bring it back.

625
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, everybody is doing it right now. There's quite

626
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: a few, uh classic conditions that we will be seeing.

627
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: We'll talk about another one in a second, but these

628
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: did get Sixers fans very excited. I think even the

629
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: photos of Joel Embiid kind of got Sixers fans excited

630
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: because you know, if it weren't weren't for Zion and Luca,

631
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: we'd be saying, hey, look at skinny Joel Embiid. I

632
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: know people are excited. He has been wearing a knee

633
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: brace when he practiced. But the day after these Sixers

634
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: jerseys were finally unveiled, Sham's reported that second year guard

635
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: Jared McCain had a torn ligament in his right thumb.

636
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: He's gonna miss the start of the season. These UCLAs

637
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: or you see l surgeries, the timeframe is usually like

638
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: four to six weeks for a return. So when you

639
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: think about Jared McCain going down with an injury before

640
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: the season even starts.

641
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 2: Well, did you see the photos of Jared McCain in

642
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 2: the throwbacks?

643
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, hitting the weights.

644
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 2: He was literally sitting on a weight bench with a

645
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 2: huge barbell behind him that had two and a half

646
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 2: pounders on there. Maybe they're five pounders. They're a little

647
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,959
Speaker 2: tiny ones. So people were making fun of me. Tiny, Yeah,

648
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 2: and then he jumped on I guess it was his

649
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: TikTok lifting tiny weights as a joke, making fun of

650
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 2: himself lifting eight pounders. You know, those colorful plastic exterior

651
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: eight pounders, So he was making fun of that. Then the

652
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 2: next day like he jumped on it.

653
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: Man.

654
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,479
Speaker 2: I think those were videos were up the same day.

655
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 2: Then the next day he tears that UCL so horrible,

656
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: horrible for them. For Yeah, you mentioned Joelle Embiid. We'll

657
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 2: see how he comes back. Paul George had off season surgery.

658
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 2: He's supposed to be back. This seems to be the

659
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 2: start of something negative. But you know, you can sort

660
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 2: of be positive for Embiid, Like you said, they've got

661
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 2: young guys, but then one goes and gets hurt, so

662
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 2: obviously it's it's terrible to start with here.

663
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Embiid and Paul George's both supposed to

664
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: speak at media day for the Sixers today. They haven't

665
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: really made any sort of appearances since having surgery. They're

666
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: both coming off in these surgeries, which you don't like

667
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: that if you're a Sixers fan, and if you're a

668
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: Sixers fan, you're like, there's no way we have another

669
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: great player getting injured before the start of season. Once again.

670
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 1: I wonder how many straight years that's happened where there's

671
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: been some sort of disruption during media day during training camp.

672
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: You know, it was Harden a few years back with

673
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 1: his contract disputes, the EMBID stuff last year. I'm sure

674
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,439
Speaker 1: we can go and look time after time and see

675
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: these problems with the Sixers. I guess on the good side,

676
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: they have guard depth. They got Tyrese Maxi, good player

677
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 1: drafted VJ. Edgecomb looks sweet wearing number seventy seven on

678
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: these jerseys. They haven't yet signed Quentin Grimes, but it

679
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 1: feels like he's still going to be on the team,

680
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: So I don't think this necessarily changes the prospects for

681
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: the Sixers to be losing Jared McCain for the first

682
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: fifteen games of the season or something like that. The

683
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: problem will be as if Embiid isn't ready for the

684
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: start of the season, same with Paul George, and if

685
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: these things continue to pile up like they did for

686
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 1: Philadelphia last season. Did you see the news that Kyle

687
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: Lowry is going to be joining Amazon as an analyst

688
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: for the NBA season this season?

689
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 2: Is that only the second NBA player in history who've

690
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 2: been part of an NBA partner in another NBA media

691
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 2: source while they play, like Draymond Green with Turner last year,

692
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 2: it feels like there hasn't been anybody else active and

693
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 2: having a job.

694
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's like Kyle Lowry. We saw Kyle Lowry

695
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: modeling the Sixers jerseys and then we saw Kyle Lowery

696
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: modeling a suit for Amazon. Pretty unusual. Definitely, Draymond is

697
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: the first guy I thought of. I thought maybe the

698
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: OG Charles Barkley started working with Turner inside the NBA

699
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: while he was still playing. I think he made some appearances,

700
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: but his first full time season was definitely the very

701
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: first season after he retired. But you know, we had

702
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: Lowry on the starters on NBA TV in the middle

703
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 1: of the season or towards the end of the season

704
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: way back in the day. So guys do do media

705
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: appearances quite regularly, but it was weird to see it

706
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: come across as this guy's like a full time member

707
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: of our crew. Going forward. Makes you realize how elderly

708
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry is in the grand scheme.

709
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 2: Of things, ReSpectacle he's already playing in his post career life. Yeah,

710
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 2: he'll be. He'll be sitting on that chair, no doubt.

711
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 2: The first question I'm going to have for him is

712
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 2: when he did an interview in the NBA Finals, he

713
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 2: walked into the arena and walked up the stairs without showering.

714
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 2: He had a towel around his his butt. He was

715
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 2: wearing like okay, he was wearing it waist down. It

716
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 2: was one of those that had like an elastic waistband

717
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 2: on it, so it wasn't gonna fall off. But I

718
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 2: just wonder, like, as he walked into the arena, he

719
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,399
Speaker 2: walked up the stairs after sweating, what's he wearing underneath there?

720
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 2: Like he is? I'm just I'm just curious. So like

721
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:05,919
Speaker 2: he's got a tanked up on top, he didn't shower. Yeah,

722
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 2: that's all. That's all I gotta say. I was just curious.

723
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're hoping spandex but quite likely the answer is

724
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: nothing exactly exactly.

725
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 2: I literally I was standing behind him and it's one

726
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 2: of those towels that, like, you know, you could see

727
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 2: it separate a little bit obviously, and so like you said,

728
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 2: who knows how far it separates what I was going

729
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 2: to see there? That's my first question for this guy

730
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 2: who will be asking questions.

731
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: I think he'll be pretty good on the broadcast because

732
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: Lowry A has had a super long career and he's

733
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: also been kind of like a different player in a

734
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: lot of spots, right like when he was a young

735
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: guy with the Grizzlies and the Rockets, he was stuck

736
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,879
Speaker 1: behind other point guards, kind of had a reputation as

737
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: a guy who beats with coaches. He comes to the Raptors,

738
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 1: turns the team around, wins a championship, becomes an All

739
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: Star All NBA player, builds his whole of Fame case,

740
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: and now with the Sixers at the end of his career,

741
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: he's the vet who's helping out. So he's got a

742
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: lot of experience and just different perspectives. So I think

743
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: that'll be pretty interesting. I like the team the Amazon

744
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: has put around him and look pretty good. Point here

745
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 1: by rap Stallion. CJ McCollum has been with ESPN for years.

746
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: That's a forget a guy I forget who is doing

747
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: quite a bit of media and he's he was like

748
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: lining up a media career when he was still in college.

749
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: It felt like CJ. McCollums, So it does happen.

750
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that is forgettable? How that? Heck? Did I

751
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 2: forget that? I mean, is what was he doing for ESPN?

752
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 2: Is he on the games? Or is he in studio?

753
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: Why can't I I think he's a studio guy, an

754
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:43,879
Speaker 1: occasional studio guy.

755
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, So I got another quick question

756
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 2: for Kyle Lowry because I heard this on a podcast.

757
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 2: This is the off season taking all this sort of

758
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 2: stuff in. I heard Terrence Ross on his podcast talking

759
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,240
Speaker 2: about a season when he was with the Toronto Raptors

760
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 2: and Andrea Barniani did an interview in Italian, and then

761
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 2: after he left the locker room, you know, nobody knew

762
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 2: what he was saying during the press conference obviously, or

763
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 2: the interview obviously he left the locker room. Then all

764
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 2: these publications start releasing what he said, and Barnianni apparently

765
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: said like, I'm not happy here. We got to get

766
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 2: some better players. Lowry was there that year when apparently

767
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 2: the next day Aaron Gray, of all people you know,

768
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 2: deep on the roster, went up to Andrea Barniani and said, hey, man,

769
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 2: would you say to that Italian team what the he

770
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 2: or the Italian reporter, what's going on here, and Barnie

771
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 2: it's like, I tell you, it's taking out of contact.

772
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah. And Terrence Ross was like

773
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 2: looking left, looking right. He's a rookie, He's left looking right.

774
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 2: What is going on here? So I want to I

775
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 2: want some more deats on that story that Aaron Gray

776
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 2: versus Andrea Barniani in the locker room. Would love to

777
00:40:58,760 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 2: hear about them.

778
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: That what you got versus Andrea Barnianni. I think you.

779
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: I hope we get a full uh one on one

780
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: interview task Melis and Kyle Lowry because the first two

781
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: questions are going to ask them are hilarious. Number one,

782
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: what was underneath your towel? Number two, what was happening

783
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: between Andrea Barnianni and Aaron Gray. Nobody else is going

784
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: to ask him those questions.

785
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 2: What you're wearing under that towel? What you got under

786
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 2: that towel? Let us know, Kyle, Yeah.

787
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: Let's hear what's underneath Kyle Lowry's towel. Actually, don't let

788
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: us know that.

789
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 2: No, no need to know that.

790
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: Back to the uniform department, the Timberwolves are also bringing

791
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: back some early two thousands looked going with the black

792
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: trees jersey from the KG era. They got a match

793
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: in court as well. Task you up and down on

794
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves throwbacks.

795
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 2: I'm looking at him here in front of me. How

796
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 2: could I not be excited about this? Look at that thing?

797
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 2: What that thing? Just guess just far less painful moments

798
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 2: for me with these jerseys. These are just just nice classics,

799
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: simple as that. The KG ones, as you said, they

800
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: go way back to their way back to their nineties.

801
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 2: So yeah, loving them.

802
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it was Young or Om Young Masook

803
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: who said who wrote that the Timberwolves last war these

804
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. They bring him back from time to time,

805
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: but this is always the one that people want to

806
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: see from Minnesota. I think mL hit it on the head.

807
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: This is the best Wolves jersey by far. Vice res agrees.

808
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: I do like the blue and green original look that

809
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: Minnesota had when they had like Tom Googliata as their

810
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: best player, but these are pretty sweet as well. I

811
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: was laughing when I was reading Ohm's piece over at ESPN.

812
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: There's a line in it that says Minnesota first introduced

813
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: the popular uniform with tree trim and a Timberwolve's font

814
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: that looks similar to the Count Chocula one back in

815
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six ninety seven. I've never really thought of

816
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: these as chalk yellow uniforms, but it's kind of true.

817
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 2: No, I've never thought of that at all. I totally

818
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 2: thought that they'd be just kge Jersey's period. I guess.

819
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 2: I guess they weren't there for his rookie year in

820
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,240
Speaker 2: ninety five ninety six, which, yeah.

821
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: He wore those blues back in the day as well.

822
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are those are when you say blue man,

823
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 2: that was a blue. It was one of those Brady

824
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: Those are bright blues. Listen, here's another weird idea we had.

825
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 2: We had Sam Mitchell where these when he was a player.

826
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 2: He I assume still lives in the Georgia area close

827
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 2: to us. There was that weird thing that happened when

828
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 2: he was on NBA TV. Do you remember he had

829
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 2: that bit of a yeah, a little brew haha on

830
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 2: camera while they're you know, doing standard stuff, They're going

831
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 2: to a game, they get into this little fight and

832
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 2: then Chris Miles goes to sam Mitchell's house and they

833
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 2: film him in front of sam Mitchell's house. And saying,

834
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 2: look where buddies and sam Mitchell opens the door and

835
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 2: they're like they're shaking hands and stuff. I just want

836
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 2: to go to his house. Never want to see his house.

837
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 2: That'd be cool. Second to ask him about these jerseys.

838
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 2: Put it on. Let's have an interview with sam Mitchell

839
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 2: in his jersey. Because sam Mitchell is just great on

840
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 2: camera period. I wonder what's going to happen with him

841
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,760
Speaker 2: in NBA TV. Is NBA TV looks to be moving

842
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 2: off Yeah, yeah, winding down definitely in Atlanta, although they

843
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 2: should be having new offices and a new studio somewhere

844
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 2: else to bed very very soon though. So give sam

845
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 2: Mitchell some some cam time he deserves.

846
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: Get him on, Get Sam on cam. He's got a

847
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: cutting sense of humor.

848
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 2: Tests he does, yeah, which.

849
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: Is why I think the fig with Chris Miles played

850
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: out way it did. But I agree with Icy here

851
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: who says the Wolves should retire twenty one in this season.

852
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: Kevin Garnett's number hasn't yet been retired by Minnesota, even

853
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: though he is clearly the greatest player in their franchise history.

854
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: There was a lot of beef between him and their

855
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: former owner Glenn Taylor. So I think now that Mark

856
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: Laurie and a Rod have completed their purchase of the team,

857
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: it would make sense to do that in a season

858
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: when they're bringing back the KG jerseys.

859
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and Kevin Garnett can come on our show and

860
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 2: talk about how he tried to purchase the Minnesota Timberwollives and,

861
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 2: as you said, had that beef with Glenn Taylor because

862
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 2: he was literally trying to be the guy to lead

863
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 2: a group to own the Minnesota Timberwolves. So I don't

864
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 2: know if he's just bitter in general about not being

865
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 2: able to own the squad that he tried to own,

866
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 2: because he's just He's just a guy who wears his

867
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 2: heart on his sleeve, obviously, and he wanted it so

868
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 2: fricking bad. I don't know how painful it is for

869
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 2: him to be still a part of the team, but hopefully, Yeah,

870
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,280
Speaker 2: the lori Ara era of this team is definitely different,

871
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 2: and they should, yes, put a jersey up there for KG,

872
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: no doubt.

873
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: Get him back in the fold. Everybody would be excited

874
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 1: to see that. I don't know if you saw this task.

875
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: Memphis also brought back some early two thousands era uniforms

876
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: to celebrate their twenty fifth anniversary of being in Memphis.

877
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 1: Definitely less hype around these ones.

878
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 2: They're less memorable.

879
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're wearing like they're black ones that like pau

880
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 1: Gasol War early in his career. Jason Williams, White Chocolate,

881
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 1: Jason Williams. That's a really good video. For their release

882
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: of this, they brought back Hub Brown, who was their

883
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: coach at the time. They filmed in front of the

884
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: Bass Pro Shops pyramid, which is pretty funny. And I

885
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: also noticed that Jaron Jackson Junior seems to be switching

886
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: his number from thirteen to eight. I don't know why.

887
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 2: Really, as the first the first thing that I googled

888
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 2: and saw was Jaron Jackson in his thirteen throwback jersey.

889
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 2: Of these is that you're talking about, so I guess

890
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 2: you guess they didn't have an eight printed. Yeah, that

891
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 2: sounds like a good video though. Yeah, you just made

892
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 2: me get a flashback to pow Gasol when, Yeah, that

893
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 2: guy was playing in a fricking pyramid. They used to

894
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 2: play in that arena that was literally a pyramid, which

895
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 2: is now a best bro shops. Have you ever been

896
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 2: there to the bathroom?

897
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 1: No, I really need to go there. Yeah, I would

898
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: love to go to the pyramid. It's just so funny

899
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: that we've got like one pyramid in the United States

900
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,479
Speaker 1: and it's a fishing shop. But it must be good.

901
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: You know, they must have a lot of these bass

902
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: pro shops have a tank that has all kinds of

903
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: different freshwater fish. You know, your bass, your bluegill, your perch.

904
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: If you've got that much floor space to have an

905
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: entire pyramid, they better have some funky fish in there,

906
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: and I would like.

907
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 2: To see them. Just a follow up to fish and

908
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 2: did you see the monsters that Ben Simmons has caught?

909
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 2: I think this summer.

910
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's out there still.

911
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 2: Those are big fish. I mean those are giant.

912
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking like sixty seventy pound tunas. Oh, this

913
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: guy's My next career might be deep sea fishermen, because

914
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: I don't know what team's gonna end up on. Somebody's

915
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: gonna take a chance on Ben Simmons.

916
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, there was a really good team rumor to

917
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 2: be wanting him now the next.

918
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: Didn't he like turn down to the Knicks or something

919
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: like that?

920
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, why is that?

921
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't know, all right, yeah, but we'll see.

922
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: I don't think he is done getting chances.

923
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 2: I don't care. He's too young for that.

924
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: I like this from Rob and the stream team who

925
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: says these are all unis that I remember when I

926
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: was a teenager suddenly feeling very old with the Timberwolves

927
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: and the Sixers. One. That's great because we're talking about unks.

928
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: New Pelican center kavan Looney was asked at Media Day,

929
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: what age do you consider unk? And cavan Looney responded

930
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: in an NBA locker room, thirty to four to thirty

931
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 1: five is the unk age. So, tass are you up

932
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: or down? I'm thirty four to thirty five being the

933
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 1: start of when you can call somebody unk.

934
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 2: I think that is absolutely correct. Up on that when

935
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 2: it comes to NBA rosters, as kevon Looney said.

936
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: How old is? How old is kavan Looney?

937
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: Probably that probably? Now?

938
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 1: How old do you think he is?

939
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 2: How old do you think thirty four nine?

940
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: Younger? Yeah, he's twenty nine years old? Man.

941
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 2: That is incredible.

942
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: That's literally why they asked him. They're like, you're not old,

943
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 1: but twenty nine is that old? But uh, they call

944
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 1: you unk? So how old really is unk? That was

945
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:47,760
Speaker 1: hilarious to me. He's one of the biggest gap between

946
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: how old you think he is because he's been around

947
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: and been a big part of the Warriors, or was

948
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: a big part of the Warriors for basically the entirety

949
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: of his career. It felt like he had a good

950
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: start to his run with the Warriors, then kind of

951
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: fell out of favor, but then came back as like

952
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 1: a franchise legend. And he's still not even thirty years old. Unbelievable.

953
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he looks old. He does looks old. He

954
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 2: doesn't look like a young twenty nine. Yeah, because he

955
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 2: came into the league at nineteen, right, he just yeah,

956
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 2: he was a one year guy, one year of college.

957
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 2: So yeah, it feels like he's super old. He also plays,

958
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 2: you know, like an old school basketball.

959
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: Setting screens, hitting the glass.

960
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:31,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, Zion loves him, I will say he does.

961
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: Likeon loves him. He I mean, he's a great teammate

962
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 1: to have. I saw Jordan Poole was like, I can't

963
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: wait to play with him again. I haven't had a

964
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: good screen in two years. In your face, Marvin Bagley,

965
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: watch out Tristan Vucevich. But yeah, I thought that was

966
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: a pretty funny clip with Looney.

967
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 2: So he must be angry if anybody calls him an unk.

968
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 2: I would automatically think that guys would call him unk.

969
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: Oh, definitely. And I think that's what he was saying,

970
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: was like, look where I come from. I was the

971
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: young guy on the team. I'm only twenty nine years old.

972
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 1: I played with andre Iguidale. He said he was forty

973
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: five when he played with them. I don't think that's true.

974
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: But you know, Steph Curry is an unk to Kevan Looney.

975
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler would be unk for Kevon Looney as well.

976
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: Have you ever been called unk? Yeah?

977
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 2: No, uh never unk uncle, always an uncle.

978
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: Uncle task Yeah sure, yeah, I've heard my kids call

979
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: you that. But you know they're not They're not doing

980
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: it as a This is a sage, older man who

981
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get some wisdom from.

982
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 2: Unk feels it feels like that's a pretty accurate number,

983
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 2: maybe because I'm older than thirty four or thirty five.

984
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 2: I said, this is a great term for a locker

985
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 2: room and not for actual life, because I don't want

986
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 2: to feel old.

987
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: But you don't think I feel I don't think he

988
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: feels right, Okay, you don't think Bodovine is right, that

989
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: he's dodging the real answer, which is thirty years old,

990
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 1: because he's going to be thirty years old. He could

991
00:51:59,320 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: be unk.

992
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:03,760
Speaker 2: Nah, thirty is too young, man.

993
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: Thirties young? I agree, thirty is young. I got called

994
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,439
Speaker 1: unk for the first time at a No Dunk's Live show,

995
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: the last one we did in Vegas. One of the

996
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: guys that was there, I think I was talking about

997
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: the nineties Bowl, the nineties Bulls, and he's like, oh,

998
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: that's unk, and that is pretty youngk. That was literally

999
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 1: thirty years ago that the Bulls were doing anything in

1000
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: the NBA.

1001
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 2: But that's just a term for old things.

1002
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: Old head. Yeah, yeah, I mean I think you know,

1003
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess in the NBA podcast game,

1004
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: we're probably yunk tests you you.

1005
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 2: Know, the new unks every yunk. Yeah, no problem. I

1006
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 2: got no problem embracing that for sure. Yeah, here we are.

1007
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: I got two guys on I'm playing on a men's

1008
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: league team. We had some changeover for our roster due

1009
00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: to injuries and people living far away to twenty two

1010
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 1: year olds. On my men's league team, I've got an

1011
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 1: eleven year old. They are much closer in age than

1012
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: they are.

1013
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 2: To me, well, do you play against twenty two year olds,

1014
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 2: because that would be the painful part like playing as

1015
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 2: I do.

1016
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm definitely the oldest guy in the entire league.

1017
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 1: I am for my men's league. I'm probably grandpa for

1018
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: my men's league.

1019
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 2: So that's that's great.

1020
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: I know, I'm actually kind of proud of it. They

1021
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: call some guy on the other team called me Biggins

1022
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: on Tuesday.

1023
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 2: Excuse me.

1024
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: I was like, what, Biggins, I'll.

1025
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 2: Take Biggins just because you're a big guy.

1026
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'm tall.

1027
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 2: Your position. Biggins. That's a good that's Biggins. That's a

1028
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,280
Speaker 2: really good term. Playing with the young guys, that's fun.

1029
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 2: I mean, in fact, you got two new guys. That's cool. Well,

1030
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 2: it's it's good for you because they're obviously agile and

1031
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 2: will never stop moving. But it's when you have to

1032
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 2: guard somebody that's twenty two or twenty three and you

1033
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 2: got to be able to hang left to right, right

1034
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 2: to left, front to back with somebody that you know.

1035
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right. That's not encouraging. But shout out to

1036
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: be GiMA here in the Scream team, who says Biggins

1037
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: is better than Oldin's I do play in a jersey

1038
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: that on the back it says old Mud. That's what

1039
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: the girls call me as a nickname is Old Mud.

1040
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: So I'm running out there, grayest hair in the entire league,

1041
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: rocking in old Mud jersey and literally just playing like

1042
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: Cavan Looney offensive rebounds, screens, defense and making layups. So

1043
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: I'm unk. Maybe I'll go by unk this.

1044
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 2: Year on the show. I guess that's who we are.

1045
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 2: We are the NBA unk podcasters used to call this

1046
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 2: the the og podcasters to start the show. I guess

1047
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 2: we're we can embrace the NBA anks. I think we

1048
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 2: could the.

1049
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: Unk of the NBA P podcasting world. That is us,

1050
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: the unk of the reality television show. It's No Buff's

1051
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: Survivor season forty nine, forty nine seasons. That's unk when

1052
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: it comes to television. We recap the show JD and

1053
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: I yesterday over on the No Buff Speed Task. I

1054
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: know we've sucked you into the world of Survivor. Would

1055
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: you think of episode one?

1056
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 2: Oh, not to be all mundane like you guys sort

1057
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 2: of described it like this. The first episode is never

1058
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 2: bank bank Bank. It really gets the end. I will

1059
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 2: say though, I think they because usually it's just okay, here,

1060
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 2: get to know these people, and there's never really a

1061
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 2: high or low. Uh, it's not all super exciting. I

1062
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:47,320
Speaker 2: will say though, the beginning opening cut of a sharp line,

1063
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 2: like a fun piffy line from everybody like hey, I'm

1064
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 2: I'm winning this thing, or this is gonna be the

1065
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 2: easiest million dollars in my life, or you know something

1066
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 2: other random like that got me into it.

1067
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: That was on.

1068
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 2: I was a good cut, I thought.

1069
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: For I like that too. I thought was pretty sweet.

1070
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was solid, and I mean the cast is

1071
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 2: it's picked very well. You got Yeah, I'm excited.

1072
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 1: It takes me literally one two hour episode to be like, okay,

1073
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: we are one hundred percent back. Yeah, exciting times. What

1074
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: else you got going on this weekend? Man?

1075
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 2: You doing anything exciting this weekend? Uh?

1076
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: You know.

1077
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 2: I will be watching for some sports. I'm sure the

1078
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,879
Speaker 2: Bills are going to stay undefeated unless this is their

1079
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 2: bye week.

1080
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:39,359
Speaker 1: I don't know, they play somebody, I don't know who

1081
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: it is.

1082
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 2: Next week. Going to the art show in the city,

1083
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 2: Danielle wants to go to I say in the city

1084
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 2: because I'm outside the city now. It's fun to say

1085
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 2: in the city, like Michael Porter Junior should say the

1086
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 2: city as a city. That's what the that's what they

1087
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:56,959
Speaker 2: call it in New York. Yeah, the art show should

1088
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 2: be good. I think that's it.

1089
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: What do you got, Ah, I'm gonna go see one

1090
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: battle after another today that new Leonardo DiCaprio movie. People

1091
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: are mentioning w NBA Playoffs return tonight. I think we

1092
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 1: got game three fever Aces and Mercury Links. That should

1093
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: be exciting. And then look, it's the first day of fall,

1094
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: or that's the first week of fall, and that has

1095
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: been accurate for the leaves on my trees. So I'm

1096
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: getting out the leaf blower. I'm going getting out the

1097
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 1: leaf blower. But it's that time of year, tasks when

1098
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: you got to start leaf blowing for months straight lest

1099
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: they pile up on you.

1100
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, finally, finally, this is the week where well it's

1101
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 2: finally because finally it's the week where the leaf blowers

1102
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 2: are actually doing something because here down south we just

1103
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 2: we're here throughout the summer. Why are you using why

1104
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 2: are you pulling those out to blow?

1105
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: You don't need it yet, but now you do.

1106
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 2: Nah, this is the week Yeah, the change of the colors.

1107
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 2: I can't wait to go see them. I'm going to

1108
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 2: Northern Georgia in a couple of weeks. Hey, you get

1109
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 2: close to you know, West Virginia.

1110
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: Oh man, look at those leaves.

1111
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 2: The colors are are gorgeous.

1112
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 1: It's time, it is time, and it's time for us

1113
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: to get out of here. So let me introduce you

1114
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: to my nephew, the Clipper. Bro. You heard it here first.

1115
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: Have a great time, turn up. Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, and remember No Dunks is the

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00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 2: original Unks of NBA podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Embrace the weekend.