Speaker 1: Welcome back to Unplugged, brought to you by DraftKings Man.
Speaker 1: A crazy week and weekend and hoops were down to
Speaker 1: the Eastern and Western Conference finals with a lot of
Speaker 1: young new faces. Before we jump into that, though, I
Speaker 1: want to welcome my brothers, Vernon Maxwell, who just had
Speaker 1: Ashley elbows and I kind of lotion in his elbows
Speaker 1: before we started, and my dog Duly Fellas, what up, everybody?
Speaker 2: What's going on? Man?
Speaker 1: What's going on? How's everybody doing? Man? Everybody? Good? Man?
Speaker 2: Man less man?
Speaker 1: Yes, all time, hey, fellas. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: new young faces in the conference finals. The NBA will
Speaker 1: have a seventh different champion in seven years, first time
Speaker 1: in NBA history that's happened. Three out of the four
Speaker 1: teams have never tasted that. Larry O'Brien and the Knicks
Speaker 1: last title was in nineteen seventy three, so that was
Speaker 1: a lifetime ago. Let's start thunder Wolves first game on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: The series split was two to two. The Thundered are
Speaker 1: favored minus three seventy in this series. Some of the
Speaker 1: key thunder guys have been struggling, though, Fellows, So let's
Speaker 1: jump into this series.
Speaker 2: I started off man I tell you I love you know,
Speaker 2: the thunder Many. That's my squad, man, I say, they
Speaker 2: gonna that's the team I got to win it all.
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be a great series, man. And Man,
Speaker 2: you know they're playing they're playing good at the right time.
Speaker 2: You know they're playing real good at the right time.
Speaker 2: So but I think it's gonna be a great series.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see this ship. And I liked
Speaker 2: what the league's doing now. Like we were talking about
Speaker 2: before the show, we think it was a memo sent
Speaker 2: out to these motherfuckers. Let me to the referees, to
Speaker 2: let these motherfuckers play. The motherfuckers play, man. So and
Speaker 2: but that's the part I really love about all this
Speaker 2: shit though. The referees is really letting this motherfuckers play.
Speaker 2: And so I look forward to that part. But it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a great series. But oksee, I think of
Speaker 2: winning in seven.
Speaker 1: Kad excuse me before you get into your Segon. Just
Speaker 1: want to get some stats. Sga and Williams are shooting
Speaker 1: under thirty percent from the three point line in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Chats at sixteen and ten and two and a half
Speaker 1: blocks and gets a chance to go home and play
Speaker 1: in front of his home crowd. Wolves ant is twenty
Speaker 1: six eight and six on forty five and thirty five splits,
Speaker 1: and Randall, who I think has been one of the
Speaker 1: best players in the playoffs and will be a key
Speaker 1: in this series, is at twenty four, six and six,
Speaker 1: shooting fifty thirty five and nearly ninety percent from the
Speaker 1: free throw line. Katie thoughts on this series.
Speaker 3: I love this series. I think that it's very balanced.
Speaker 3: I think both teams have great benches. You know, Minnesota
Speaker 3: plays three great guys off the bench, you know when Walker,
Speaker 3: Alexander nas reed and then Devincenza right, and so they
Speaker 3: have depth, right, So I don't think it's just a
Speaker 3: mismatch from the depth standpoint. Though Oklahoma City their guys
Speaker 3: do have depth, they can't impact the game, especially on
Speaker 3: the defensive end with Caruso, who's approven champion and those
Speaker 3: young guys as well. Man, they come in and they
Speaker 3: play their role. But I like oka See in this series.
Speaker 3: I think they have the best closer in the game,
Speaker 3: at least the top two closers in the game. So
Speaker 3: I still like okay See in this series. And I
Speaker 3: think really the difference of this series will be you know,
Speaker 3: lou Dort, you know kind of garden, you know, Anthony Ews.
Speaker 3: I believe that lou Dort is one of the top three,
Speaker 3: if not the best on ball defender those Sometimes he
Speaker 3: might not get the most steals or blocks, like just
Speaker 3: standing in front of somebody and playing them with physicality. Offensively,
Speaker 3: all he does is pretty much shoot threes, and so
Speaker 3: he doesn't need his legs for that. He spends all
Speaker 3: his energy on the defensive end, and I think he'll
Speaker 3: make it really tough on Ant.
Speaker 4: And so I like the OKC Thunder.
Speaker 3: I won't say how many games I like them in,
Speaker 3: but I like that I like them to be the
Speaker 3: first to four.
Speaker 1: I said, I said had early on that this could
Speaker 1: be the year that we see, okay, see you get
Speaker 1: popped in the second round, and that nearly happened. Or
Speaker 1: it could be the year that they get over the
Speaker 1: hump and represent the Western Conference in the finals. And
Speaker 1: this is you know, they've extended their chances. Obviously Game
Speaker 1: seven this past weekend, they showed that they were the
Speaker 1: better team and never had some issues. But hey, they
Speaker 1: showed that they were the better team. They're on to
Speaker 1: the final or Western Conference Finals. Now, I love okac's depth.
Speaker 1: I love their camaraderie. Like I've said this, I fuck
Speaker 1: with what kind of team that they really mess with
Speaker 1: each other, really on the same page. And we've all
Speaker 1: played on teams where either there was like that or
Speaker 1: there was some islands, And you can definitely tell the
Speaker 1: energy when players are on islands. Those guys are all
Speaker 1: on the same page. And I absolutely love that. And
Speaker 1: if you look at it, I mean, arguably, once the
Speaker 1: wave passes of the greatness and still that's still here
Speaker 1: with Steph Lebron and KD. These two guys SGA and
Speaker 1: Ant are right in the mix of you know, the
Speaker 1: face of the league. So I mean, obviously we'll get
Speaker 1: into the other side, but we have all young who brunts.
Speaker 1: It I want to say is twenty eight. We got
Speaker 1: all mid and young twenty somethings that are in these
Speaker 1: conference finals. I'm gonna say, I like, I like Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City too, but I really like Ant and Randol and
Speaker 1: I feel like still still they haven't they haven't got
Speaker 1: the chemistry they're gonna have still. But like I said,
Speaker 1: I think last week or two weeks ago, it's two
Speaker 1: dogs that meet up and they're playing good basketball at
Speaker 1: the right time. Those guys play hard as hell, So
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a great series. I'm really excited for.
Speaker 1: But I would agree I definitely have Oklahoma City too
Speaker 1: going to the Eastern Conference. Fellows, we are in some
Speaker 1: dangerous motherfucking water right now, because if the Knicks get
Speaker 1: to the finals and happen to win the finals, We're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to tell no One from New
Speaker 1: York nothing for the next twenty years. Yeah, the next
Speaker 1: twenty years. U can't say shit to nobody from New
Speaker 1: York if their boys are able to slide to the
Speaker 1: Lils and make it happen. Man, So let's talk about this.
Speaker 1: This is really exciting. Obviously, these guys linked up. Last year,
Speaker 1: the Knicks were a little shorthanded, Randall was out and
Speaker 1: then they lost OG I think after Game two. But hey,
Speaker 1: everyone looks it seems to be healthy again. Pacers with
Speaker 1: their depth, same thing we talked about with Oka. See,
Speaker 1: Pacers are a very deep team hot at the right time.
Speaker 1: The Knicks are very top heavy and there guys have
Speaker 1: logged a lot of minutes. But their guys are playing
Speaker 1: a lot of good basketball right now. So let's let's
Speaker 1: let's take a look at this series and KD y'all
Speaker 1: start with you. The Knicks started a minus one for
Speaker 1: they're favored with home court advantage. They're two and one
Speaker 1: versus the Pacers. This year, Indy has six players averaging
Speaker 1: double figures. This is gonna be really fun. What do
Speaker 1: you see and who do you like? Wow?
Speaker 3: Man, I think this is one of the more balanced
Speaker 3: series that we're gonna see in some time. Right the Pacers, man,
Speaker 3: they play with pace, they're well co Like, you know,
Speaker 3: Rick Carlile doesn't get enough credit. Right, Remember he coached
Speaker 3: Dirk Lewinsky and Steve Nash back in the days before
Speaker 3: they won their championship. He coached the Detroit Pistons before
Speaker 3: Larry Brown took over and you know, got them a championship.
Speaker 3: So like he's one of those old school coaches that
Speaker 3: skill set has like transcended, you know, through the generations.
Speaker 3: And so I tipped my hat to him. They say
Speaker 3: he used to get taped before the game, so like,
Speaker 3: you know, he's.
Speaker 4: A hooper to the core.
Speaker 3: Like their depth, I like, you know, their continuity, But
Speaker 3: like I just think that the Knicks.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like with that that that top five players that they play.
Speaker 4: They don't play a lot of people off the bench.
Speaker 3: I think McBride comes in and he's kind of an
Speaker 3: X factor. But I just think that the Knicks, it's
Speaker 3: their time. They got the best closer in the game analytically,
Speaker 3: and the eye test kind of proves to us that
Speaker 3: Jellen Bronson is that guy during the clutch time. I
Speaker 3: think their fans need this. And it's about time, man,
Speaker 3: that New York does something. Man, they've been living off
Speaker 3: the eighties and the seventies for so long, man, like
Speaker 3: so much shi it does coming up, Man, when we
Speaker 3: used to go to a B C. D camp and
Speaker 3: things like thatn But you know, it's time. You know,
Speaker 3: it's time for them boys to you know, like show
Speaker 3: up and show out. And then also, you know, the
Speaker 3: other three teams in the playoffs right now, a small
Speaker 3: market teams, right and so the the the impressions and
Speaker 3: the Nielsen you know factor. Uh, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I think it'll be good for the game if the
Speaker 3: Knicks get to the finals. I think it'll bring basketball,
Speaker 3: you know, back to what you know, quote unquote it's
Speaker 3: called the Mecca.
Speaker 4: So I'm mixing this series.
Speaker 2: Wow, man, I can't stand the motherfuckers. Man. They act
Speaker 2: like they don't won the motherfucker Championship all. I like, God, Damn,
Speaker 2: I can't stand them, man. But it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: great series. Like you said, man, it's very balancing ship.
Speaker 2: I'm pulling for Indiana. Uh well, you know, I love
Speaker 2: Bronson and what they what he's about and all this
Speaker 2: ship and his dad over there. Shit, I don't think
Speaker 2: they made it this far until when his damn daddy
Speaker 2: was playing like like twenty some years ago. Whatever the
Speaker 2: puff that was. So yeah, man, So but I'm pulling
Speaker 2: for brunts and to have a good series. And but
Speaker 2: I like Indiana in the series because New York those guys,
Speaker 2: motherfucker's gone lost a lot of minutes on them legs. Man,
Speaker 2: it's late to see, you know. I mean you got
Speaker 2: to you gotta think about that man. And Tom he
Speaker 2: he ain't doing a lot of fucking subbing man, So
Speaker 2: you know, I mean it's I think it's going to
Speaker 2: start to show up sometime coming up in this next series.
Speaker 2: I mean so, but pay attention to the ship now.
Speaker 2: Them legs be gone now. So yeah, I like, I
Speaker 2: like Indiana. I like Indiana.
Speaker 1: Hey, that was gonna be my main question at some point.
Speaker 1: Are these minutes going to catch up or is it
Speaker 1: drin or is adrenaline going to prevail? Like Katie, you've
Speaker 1: been to the conference finals right three times? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so the conference finals. I mean it's you're almost there.
Speaker 1: You see the finish line. Yeah, so obviously my question
Speaker 1: is that fatim he gonna set in or is that
Speaker 1: adrenaline gonna carry them with? You know, a few days
Speaker 1: off in between games, Max, you got to play in
Speaker 1: the garden for the finals. What was that crowd like?
Speaker 1: Although y'all handed them with what you needed to handle
Speaker 1: them to get you a ring, what was that crowd
Speaker 1: in that energy? Like in Madison Square during the finals.
Speaker 2: A lot of ship talking, you know, we motherfucker was
Speaker 2: talking so much ship outside the arena. I said, God, damn,
Speaker 2: I'm glad we ain't playing against all them motherfuckers. We
Speaker 2: just playing five on five. You know, motherfuckers act like
Speaker 2: they was gonna all play against us.
Speaker 1: You know, in their mind they was.
Speaker 2: Motherfuckers go crazy. Man. I just can't stand the motherfuckers.
Speaker 2: But it was. I loved it was. It's one of
Speaker 2: my best places to play in the NBA. I love
Speaker 2: playing and UH and THEMN in New York, and like
Speaker 2: they said, it's the mecca. So it's like it's definitely
Speaker 2: a drilling flow. I mean to get to going and UH.
Speaker 2: I love playing in New York.
Speaker 3: But let me say this, they the ultimate gas lighter.
Speaker 3: Whoever that is up there on the organ like a
Speaker 3: gas lighter, get the crowd off the chains. He is underrated.
Speaker 1: Whoever the active. I don't even need to go to
Speaker 1: the game. I just might want to be in the
Speaker 1: city and feel the energy outside because like you said,
Speaker 1: I mean they was whooping people's ass after the last game.
Speaker 1: We're going to get to that. I'm like, hey, there's
Speaker 1: some matchups in this game with Brunson and and Halliburton
Speaker 1: and Og and Siakam and Miles Turner and Kat and
Speaker 1: then Nie Smith and and nev Hart and then you
Speaker 1: look on the flip you look you look on the
Speaker 1: flip side of Heart and and and McBride and although
Speaker 1: you don't want to put you know, uh, Bridges is
Speaker 1: kind of in that in that category too, So I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of cool little matchups within this series.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested and excited about this series. To your point, KD,
Speaker 1: I completely agree. This is probably the most balanced series.
Speaker 1: And and and remember last year the w W kind
Speaker 1: of played this up too with Halliburton and and and
Speaker 1: runs in at an event and they stirred each other down.
Speaker 1: Know what the fuck? Haliburt was wearing some tight jean
Speaker 1: shorts and some combat boots. But I'm excited about this.
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a great series. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I want to go with the Knicks, not because
Speaker 1: of I just think it'll be great for basketball. And
Speaker 1: I think New York. New York needs a little bit
Speaker 1: of love on the basketball side, because I think California
Speaker 1: has passed them as far as the mecca of basketball
Speaker 1: in Florida. To oh you started to ship, I just
Speaker 1: say all that. I just said, Callie, it's been admitted.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you all right now, we're not
Speaker 1: we might in our lifetime, we might not be able
Speaker 1: to say nothing to anybody from New York. If these
Speaker 1: motherfuckers finds goodness.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 1: They're gonna ride this ship for man. But other news,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, I mean the city is going
Speaker 1: crazy right now. They jumped a fan. They had a
Speaker 1: Halliburton jersey on. Let's take a look at that.
Speaker 2: Trash back, huh.
Speaker 1: They just said. They also said this guy that hey,
Speaker 1: this guy that guy jumped is Halliburton is flying him
Speaker 1: out for these games, so he'll probably be have some
Speaker 1: security on it. This is wild. He got didn't want
Speaker 1: to hurt him. That's crazy, Max. I know they wouldn't
Speaker 1: catch you slipping like that.
Speaker 2: Max throwing hands out that motherfucker looking off and looking off.
Speaker 1: They also they also said something to Brian Windhorse and
Speaker 1: I didn't get to see this, so I want to
Speaker 1: actually see this video. I just saw. I couldn't listen
Speaker 1: to the commentary, so let let's watch this video too.
Speaker 1: They got they got on Wendy's ass a little bit.
Speaker 4: How did you feel about to lose it?
Speaker 2: I don't give a fuck say.
Speaker 1: To say, hey, hey, Wendy, be safe, bro safe.
Speaker 2: It's a some damn security.
Speaker 1: Man. It's wild in New York and it's a great
Speaker 1: conference final on both sides. Man, So I think is
Speaker 1: it safe to say that we are in the next
Speaker 1: phase of basketball? Who knows what Katie is gonna do?
Speaker 1: If you He'll have a chance to kind of get
Speaker 1: one more sniff at this. If he goes to Houston
Speaker 1: or something. Lebron ain't going nowhere, They're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to ask some help for him and Luca Deaf. You know,
Speaker 1: it has the door shut on Steph hardened with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: I mean, all these guys that are obviously first about
Speaker 1: Hall of famers and some of the greatest players, uh
Speaker 1: in my generation. It's it's there's a lot of nut
Speaker 1: young new blood man. So I'm excited about that moving
Speaker 1: forward the future for the Boston Celtics. What does that
Speaker 1: look like? There was conversation I caught a little bit
Speaker 1: as I was getting ready this morning about obviously Tatum
Speaker 1: being gone all next season and is Brown someone that
Speaker 1: could be in that driver's seat And a lot of
Speaker 1: people were riding the train last year he's the Finals MVP.
Speaker 1: This is that. I love Jalen Brown, but he has
Speaker 1: always been respectfully either one A or excuse me, one
Speaker 1: B or Robin has always been the best players in
Speaker 1: the game. Plan is always focused, has been always focused
Speaker 1: on stopping Tatum. And that's just what it is. Whether
Speaker 1: fans like to say it or not, that's what it's
Speaker 1: been so is he ready to step into that one
Speaker 1: a roll next season? Will this team come back? Porzingis
Speaker 1: has thirty million expiring, Holiday still has three years one
Speaker 1: hundred million. I don't want to overreact. I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask the question to ask it. Do you bust a
Speaker 1: move if something crazy comes across the table for Jalen Brown?
Speaker 1: Or do you just stay set, let your superstar get
Speaker 1: healthy and make a push in two years. Obviously, new
Speaker 1: owners over there with the Celtics, and we talked about
Speaker 1: this for we liked it. They've kept the infrastructure and
Speaker 1: in the training wheels on, so to speak, letting the
Speaker 1: former group kind of help them do this process. But
Speaker 1: as Nate said, at the end of the day, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be in the luxury tax, you know with this roster.
Speaker 1: Do they want to start that way? They gonna what
Speaker 1: are they gonna do? So, you know, our eyes are
Speaker 1: going to be on the Celtics. But what do you
Speaker 1: guys think, Max, what do you think this team does?
Speaker 1: Obviously not gonna have Tatum next year, coming off a
Speaker 1: championship last year, a lot of money owed to a
Speaker 1: lot of players. Uh, what's the future look like for Boston?
Speaker 2: I feel like they're gonna have to bust and move,
Speaker 2: get some trades, got to be involved in this ship
Speaker 2: this summer, get some guys out of there, man. And
Speaker 2: I think that's what's gonna happen. Like love Jalen Brown,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he can do it. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's a guy can can carry a team, you know,
Speaker 2: and force. You know, I think he's he's capable. So
Speaker 2: I mean just I mean, Drew Holliday, I mean, you
Speaker 2: got them. He's making a lot of money, you know,
Speaker 2: old too. You know, That's what I'm saying over the
Speaker 2: next three years, and so I mean they got to
Speaker 2: think about that, you know, and you know, but I
Speaker 2: just feel like in fra zingis, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's just got to get healthy. But I think Boston,
Speaker 2: I mean, Tatum's not going to be there all next year.
Speaker 2: But I think Jaylen Brown can carry a team and
Speaker 2: you know, he's very capable of doing that. And I mean, so,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know about how good they'll be,
Speaker 2: but I think, you know, Jalen Brown can handle his
Speaker 2: thing and carry a team.
Speaker 3: Though absolutely one of the things, like with the Collective
Speaker 3: Bargaining Agreement and the new television deal, there'll be an
Speaker 3: influx of money coming in, and so I know that
Speaker 3: they're over the tax, but there'll be some kind of
Speaker 3: compensation with this new TV deal coming in. But when
Speaker 3: you're a new ownership and you don't have an opportunity
Speaker 3: to win a championship, because I don't think they can
Speaker 3: win one without Tatum as history has shown us, you know,
Speaker 3: I think you gotta try, and you know, take a
Speaker 3: page out of Sam Presty's book, go back to Danny
Speaker 3: Ainge and how he kind of you know, quarterback. You
Speaker 3: know that whole situation and getting assets while guys still
Speaker 3: have value to be able to you know, build for
Speaker 3: the future, and then talent retainment. Al Horford is getting older,
Speaker 3: Tatum won't be with you next year. You still have
Speaker 3: some value with Drew this year, so you know, he's
Speaker 3: a piece that a championship team could really desire, or
Speaker 3: even Derek White for that matter. And por Singus has
Speaker 3: an Inspire an expiring contract, so that is valuable as well.
Speaker 3: And so I think they got to dive on the
Speaker 3: motherfucking sword this year. They got to dive on that
Speaker 3: motherfucker right and draft capital, try and retain like Pritchett
Speaker 3: because I think he's a young guy who could be
Speaker 3: a pointed for the future. And then they got to
Speaker 3: kind of reassemble and get that talent. But what you
Speaker 3: want to do is you really want to keep JB
Speaker 3: and Jason Tatum together, right, you know, because like it's
Speaker 3: rare that you can get that kind of talent, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, in their primes together. And like
Speaker 3: I said, those guys are getting older, and so I
Speaker 3: think they should make some moves. They should, you know,
Speaker 3: take a step back in order to like, you know, reload,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, not next season, but the
Speaker 3: season after next, and that'll give the new ownership group
Speaker 3: of you know, an opportunity to you know, kind of
Speaker 3: find their way, kind of go through some hardships so
Speaker 3: they can appreciate, you know, the value of winning in
Speaker 3: the league, because if you inherit the team and you
Speaker 3: only win and you're competing for a championships, you don't
Speaker 3: know about the hardships and there's always a recalibration period.
Speaker 3: So I would say they should dive on the sword
Speaker 3: and try and recalibrate.
Speaker 1: It to be interesting to see. First and foremost, my
Speaker 1: brother Jason Tatumn get well, yeah, chance, this would be
Speaker 1: a big I got a chance to talk to him
Speaker 1: last week and was just kind of talking about me.
Speaker 1: This is physically draining, but the mental is going to
Speaker 1: be the strongest part, and that's what he said he
Speaker 1: was having the hardest time with at the moment. It
Speaker 1: was just like this mental right now is tough. Og
Speaker 1: so so definitely send him some love to the little
Speaker 1: bro and get back strong, get back okay. Joker didn't
Speaker 1: hold his tongue after seven games. Let's ask could the
Speaker 1: Nuggets win a championship with this roster? He said, we didn't,
Speaker 1: so obviously we can't. If you could, we would have.
Speaker 1: And he said he's gonna be drinking a lot of
Speaker 1: beer in the next week and a half. Unbelievable season.
Speaker 1: Most likely Sga will be the MVP, but it'll it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: Then when we look back, we're gonna forget what kind
Speaker 1: of season jokichad because he won't be the MVP. But
Speaker 1: his numbers across the board have been absolutely incredible. From
Speaker 1: the Olympics to this season to the playoffs, he's been incredible.
Speaker 1: Jokich is fifty five million a season. Murray is forty
Speaker 1: six million a season. Michael Porter Junior is owed thirty
Speaker 1: eight million dollars next season. He's someone who's been injury
Speaker 1: plagued and try to tough it out and play through
Speaker 1: the injuries. But at the end of the day, this
Speaker 1: man is making over thirty million. He's only giving you
Speaker 1: nine points a game in the playoff. Hots off to
Speaker 1: my little homie. It's definitely the Missouri tie with with
Speaker 1: the Kronky tie. Yeah, yeah, Katie was there with Kronky.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Aaron Gordon man for for for coming
Speaker 1: out in Game seven knowing he couldn't really move and
Speaker 1: trying to give them something. He's a warrior. And he
Speaker 1: brought up a point too, you know, saying that the
Speaker 1: NBA needs to start giving more time off in between games,
Speaker 1: I think after the first round, which is which I'm
Speaker 1: not mad at, because like we've all said, I mean,
Speaker 1: the season is a motherfucker and then when you get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, man, it turns the intensity up a
Speaker 1: whole another level. Man. So he was saying some stuff
Speaker 1: that I really like, you know, what does this team do?
Speaker 1: This team let go? I think they underestimated the Bruce
Speaker 1: Browns and the Jeff Greens and those smaller role players
Speaker 1: that really helped them secure KCP, helped them secure their
Speaker 1: first championship in a long time. Can you trade Michael Porter?
Speaker 1: Is Murray? The guy? I mean? Murray has been up
Speaker 1: and down. He's making nearly fifty million dollars a year.
Speaker 1: Next year, what are they going to do a new coach?
Speaker 1: Is Adaman gonna go from intern two head? Are they
Speaker 1: going to go find a big name? There's a lot
Speaker 1: of questions over there. They don't have a GM. I
Speaker 1: don't know who the GM is going to be, So
Speaker 1: a lot of questions over there. And with Jokic, you
Speaker 1: don't have too much time because there's always that talk
Speaker 1: of pairing him with somebody out here in LA which
Speaker 1: will be absolutely insane. So what do you think Denver's
Speaker 1: off saton is going to look like? Katie?
Speaker 3: The first thing is that, like, at some point, I
Speaker 3: think you're gonna start seeing some more criticism of Jokic, right,
Speaker 3: because at the end of the day, man statistically and analytically,
Speaker 3: during the regular season, he puts up numbers, right, and
Speaker 3: he has more MVPs than championships, right, And so there's
Speaker 3: been several players who have been minimized, you know, for
Speaker 3: having that kind of dynamic, right And at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, you're, like judge off of winning. If
Speaker 3: you're supposed to be the best player at the best
Speaker 3: time in the league, at some point your resume has
Speaker 3: to reflect that. So at some point, I think he's
Speaker 3: going to start getting criticism about not winning championships and
Speaker 3: just being you know what I mean, a guy who
Speaker 3: gets statistics, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Now, I know that's tough to digest, but.
Speaker 3: That's the reality that Russell Westbrook had the experience.
Speaker 4: That's something that.
Speaker 3: A lot of guys who had to experience that kind
Speaker 3: of criticism. So I think, luka, it's fair because of
Speaker 3: his pedigree. So I think that the Nuggets definitely have
Speaker 3: to make some changes. I don't think Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 3: is one of those guys who has a lot of
Speaker 3: trade value because, like one of his legs are longer
Speaker 3: than the other. You know, he's kind of injury prone.
Speaker 3: But he's also showed some toughness. Though his numbers were down,
Speaker 3: he has played you know with the throw it.
Speaker 1: I like him. I like him, man, I like him
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: He's a good third option, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna hate on him. He is a
Speaker 3: champion and he has brought some into that city, but
Speaker 3: that's an extreme number, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: To be getting in the playoffs. So I think they
Speaker 4: have to make some moves. I think they have to
Speaker 4: define who their coach will be.
Speaker 3: I think they have to get you know, a general
Speaker 3: manager in there, and then they're gonna have at some
Speaker 3: point they're gonna have to deal with the Jokic issue
Speaker 3: because he's gonna say that, Hey, you know what, maybe
Speaker 3: I can't win here, maybe I have to go take,
Speaker 3: you know, the same path that a lot of superstars,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: He'll start thinking.
Speaker 1: That's where Nis, that's where Gianni's is right now, you
Speaker 1: don't want to get there. They get there.
Speaker 3: That loyalty, and then they get to that point where
Speaker 3: it's about legacy because we start judging them differently after
Speaker 3: you have all the individual accolades and then it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: we're your championships. How do those things line up?
Speaker 1: Let's not forget to before you go vern Dylan, what
Speaker 1: was the GM's name in Denver? Who's in Minnesota now? Connolly?
Speaker 1: The guy that built that roster, that that Denver roster
Speaker 1: that won a championship. Boy is in Minnesota pulling them
Speaker 1: strings right now. So it's to be very interesting offseason
Speaker 1: for Denver. They are up against the clock from a
Speaker 1: standpoint of these days, superstars aren't gonna sit by and
Speaker 1: waitt seasons, so they got to figure it out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So jokicch has two more seasons under contract with an
Speaker 1: option for sixty two million dollars. The twenty seven twenty
Speaker 1: eight season outstanding out of it, Yeah, he could definitely
Speaker 1: get on. Yes, moving on to the Cavs. Three straight
Speaker 1: years with the Corps not getting past the second round?
Speaker 1: Can this offensive minded small guard combination of Mitchell and
Speaker 1: Garland survive in the playoffs? And when I saw this question,
Speaker 1: I had them pull the stats of another small guard
Speaker 1: combination that I really loved that I think had really
Speaker 1: good teams but just kept running into the Warriors when
Speaker 1: the Warriors were the shit. And that's that Portland back
Speaker 1: court of Dame Lillard and CJ McCollum. Their numbers in
Speaker 1: the playoffs were Dames were twenty six four and six,
Speaker 1: forty one and thirty seven from the three point line,
Speaker 1: and then CJ was twenty points, four rebounds, three assists,
Speaker 1: forty three percent from the field in thirty eight from
Speaker 1: the three point line. In contrast, in three seasons in
Speaker 1: the playoffs with with Donovan Mitchell and Garland, Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: twenty eight, five and five on forty five and thirty
Speaker 1: four from the three and Garlands seventeen three and five
Speaker 1: with forty three and thirty four. Something that was interesting.
Speaker 1: Who said it? Simmons just threw a crazy idea out
Speaker 1: there about straight up Mobley for Giannis. Obviously there would
Speaker 1: be some more stuff in there, but I think Fellas
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. They need to make some
Speaker 1: moves in Cleveland. Is Donovan Mitchell gonna sit there? And
Speaker 1: obviously I think he did? He sign another deal there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he read up. Garland had a lot of potential.
Speaker 1: Obviously is hit by the injury bug Mobley and their
Speaker 1: other pieces Defensive player of the Year. I don't see
Speaker 1: this team. And I said at the very beginning, got
Speaker 1: in trust Cleveland. What does this team need to do? Max,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with you to get over the hunt.
Speaker 1: Do they need to press reset on this team? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mobley's new contract. Nate just told me kicks in next year,
Speaker 1: So how much forty six next year?
Speaker 2: They gottat they gotta reset. You got two little guards.
Speaker 2: Gotta tell you got those two little guards. Man, you
Speaker 2: gotta reset, man. And and uh uh that that's that's
Speaker 2: not gonna win. That's not a winning pedigree to me.
Speaker 2: With the two small guards. Man, that shit don't work. Man. So,
Speaker 2: but you gotta break that up first. And then damn,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of money being paid to some motherfuckers.
Speaker 2: That's really that.
Speaker 1: You know that.
Speaker 2: I think you know, they gotta they gotta they got
Speaker 2: to break it up, man, the team up. And uh
Speaker 2: I mean donovd Mitchell Man. I love his I love
Speaker 2: his playing what he's about. I mean they need some help,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean he's basically out there playing by hisself.
Speaker 2: This man in the second round against and I mean Indiana,
Speaker 2: that shit was crazy. I mean I thought, you know,
Speaker 2: other guys will step up and give them a hand.
Speaker 2: You know, those guys in the regular seasons easy, but you.
Speaker 1: Know the playoff lights is different.
Speaker 2: Later you get into them playoffs, man, that shit started
Speaker 2: to change for you, you know, and a lot of nerves.
Speaker 2: So but I just think they need to break it up, man,
Speaker 2: because I'm small ball guard ship. That shit ain't gonna work.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I feel you on that og obviously, you know,
Speaker 3: Donovan and Garland are a smaller backcourt, but like they
Speaker 3: are productive. What I was more concerned about is that
Speaker 3: like Evan Mobley and Garland missed games in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: but then they were able to play in some games.
Speaker 3: So for me, like old school guys, like it was
Speaker 3: a difference between being hurt and injured, right and even
Speaker 3: if you could go out and give twenty minutes and
Speaker 3: make them game playing for you and then let the
Speaker 3: adrenaline kick in and let the tour do all and
Speaker 3: the quarter zone kick.
Speaker 4: In, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like the difference of like them losing at the buzzer,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like they could have made
Speaker 3: a difference and if your go up, you know, if
Speaker 3: you're down, you know, if you're up to one, and
Speaker 3: things like that, like the series could go a little
Speaker 3: bit differently, and so I sometimes, like you know, I
Speaker 3: question this younger generation's like true commitment to the game
Speaker 3: and doing everything that they have to do, because if
Speaker 3: you can play, you know, miss one game and then
Speaker 3: come and play the next two games.
Speaker 1: Well maybe you.
Speaker 3: Could have given a little bit more during that time.
Speaker 3: With Evan Mobley, like, you know, he is coming in.
Speaker 3: You know, he was what defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 3: He has shown growth and improvement every year. Milwaukee is
Speaker 3: a place that can't get a lot of free agency,
Speaker 3: so they have to do deals through trades. And so
Speaker 3: if Giannis is thinking about leaving, you know, Houston and
Speaker 3: Cleveland are two locations that have some assets, some young
Speaker 3: you know assets that they could potentially you know, plug
Speaker 3: in there. But I think it's gonna be hard to
Speaker 3: you know, win for the Cavs if you only have
Speaker 3: Donovan and Garland in that backcourt. You need more size
Speaker 3: and I think could you know, kind of you know,
Speaker 3: suppress some of those flaws. But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, like you know, they got to be healthy,
Speaker 3: and those guys weren't healthy enough.
Speaker 4: They didn't given up, you know, they didn't given up.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Yannis, he said his favorite place to play
Speaker 1: is in New York and is the city he has
Speaker 1: the funnest in it or or the Florida cities. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if that means anything. I'm just we
Speaker 1: could use him down here, he said, he can come
Speaker 1: on down the Warriors. The Warriors, I mean the sun
Speaker 1: is setting over there. They've had a great run. Guys
Speaker 1: are getting older at the end of the day. Can
Speaker 1: you get what can you get for kaminga signing trade?
Speaker 1: It was always a mystery to me, like how what
Speaker 1: happened with him and Steve Kerr, what happened off the
Speaker 1: quarridor what happened with him just mentally for him not
Speaker 1: to be able to consistently get minutes. But when they
Speaker 1: did give him minutes, the boy played some good basketball. Yes,
Speaker 1: the boy played some really good basketball. Numbers could be
Speaker 1: deceiving at times, and sometimes numbers don't add up to wins.
Speaker 1: We've seen guys in the past have crazy numbers that
Speaker 1: don't add up to much. But I really think he's young.
Speaker 1: He's what twenty three, twenty four hours is kminga He's
Speaker 1: a baby, So what can you get twenty two? What
Speaker 1: can you get in the sign and trade for him?
Speaker 1: Janni's Steph We talk about Giannis again. Is there a
Speaker 1: pairing there in the future. You'd probably have to get
Speaker 1: rid of Draymond plus Kaminga and some a few. First
Speaker 1: highly unlikely, but you know, you never know. What does
Speaker 1: Golden State have to do? Curry is due to make
Speaker 1: fifty nine million next year, Butler is due to make
Speaker 1: fifty four million next year, and our brother Draymond Green
Speaker 1: is due to make twenty five million next year. So
Speaker 1: what do the Warriors do with that kind of payroll
Speaker 1: and the roster they have?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 2: I think they got to sign a trade with the
Speaker 2: young kid Kaminga first of all, I mean, he need
Speaker 2: to be He got to get to a new environment,
Speaker 2: another place, you know, because I mean I heard some
Speaker 2: weird shit that happens.
Speaker 1: He hurt.
Speaker 2: Didn't like him because he was a guy that liked
Speaker 2: to be in the clubs or ship, ship like that
Speaker 2: to that nature. But ship I ain't give. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: give a damn what he do. If he came out
Speaker 2: and played like that boy plays hard man.
Speaker 1: He playsah man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just Harm's way man and he plays hard man.
Speaker 2: But you can get a lot for him. I signed
Speaker 2: in trade. You can get something for him. And then
Speaker 2: with the Draymond deal, you know, I love Draymond to death.
Speaker 2: That's my guy, man. So I mean I think it's
Speaker 2: about time for that marriage to end, you know, with
Speaker 2: Draymond and and and the Golden State Warriors. You know, yeah,
Speaker 2: they need to part their ways with each other. But
Speaker 2: I think, uh, and Steph. You know, Steph's gonna be Steph.
Speaker 2: I mean, he needs some more help. They need to
Speaker 2: get him some help. But I just feel like they
Speaker 2: got to break it up, man, and and make some
Speaker 2: moves and and and good luck to the young guy
Speaker 2: cominga man. I love his style. I love his game.
Speaker 2: He plays hard, you know, so hopefully he can get
Speaker 2: somewhere where somebody with flaming and love him the way
Speaker 2: he's supposed to be loved.
Speaker 3: Thanks Og for me. I feel like, you know, you
Speaker 3: got to bet on the youngsters at this point. I think, man,
Speaker 3: Draymond has served his purpose in Golden State.
Speaker 1: You know, they.
Speaker 3: Maximize like his potential. You know, he's a champion. He's
Speaker 3: going to be forever in all of our hearts, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, as the heart and soul in
Speaker 3: the spirit of that Warriors dynasty. And so I think
Speaker 3: like he can go and like imprint somewhere else and
Speaker 3: give that to a whole different demographic of people. You
Speaker 3: know what I mean and youngsters that could benefit from that,
Speaker 3: and his number is twenty five million. I think you
Speaker 3: got to bet on the young boy, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like, you know, instead of doing a sign
Speaker 3: and trade with Kaminga, you will find more minutes for
Speaker 3: him if Draymon is not on that team, right, and
Speaker 3: you will change kind of the way that you play.
Speaker 3: And I think scoring is something that they need. And
Speaker 3: this guy averaged fourteen to fifteen points in limited minutes
Speaker 3: and when he gets the opportunity, he can score the basketball.
Speaker 3: But with Draymond on that team, it takes a difference identity.
Speaker 3: And so I think, like, but Steph getting older, with
Speaker 3: Jimmy getting older, I think you bet on the young
Speaker 3: guys because you can't just draft talent like that. It
Speaker 3: just doesn't come up every day in the draft. They
Speaker 3: developed the talent, they culptivated the talent. And like, I
Speaker 3: think he's right now. If you trade him, he'll be
Speaker 3: like how Tracy McGrady was when he got traded from
Speaker 3: the Raptors, and he'll be like on the CUSP. If
Speaker 3: not an All Star, he'll be a very very talented
Speaker 3: lead scorer in the NBA type guy.
Speaker 4: He's that talent.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm not mad. What I'll say to that is
Speaker 1: I think the bridge has been burned between him and
Speaker 1: Kerr because I heard some of what Max said and
Speaker 1: I heard some other shit that we don't need to
Speaker 1: get into. So I don't know if there's light at
Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel. But to your point, KD,
Speaker 1: if he is able to get out to a new
Speaker 1: situation and spread his wings, he's gonna be a problem. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's a twenty. He's a twenty twenty plus point a
Speaker 1: game score in this league. He's freakishly athletic. You know,
Speaker 1: if he will listen to some people or just maybe
Speaker 1: a change of environment to be able to listen to
Speaker 1: some new voices, I think there's definitely his talent is
Speaker 1: not in question here. I just think it's his mentality.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see, you know,
Speaker 1: you know it? Do we live in an air now
Speaker 1: where greats Draymond was a great for the Warriors. They
Speaker 1: don't really get to ride off into the sunset with
Speaker 1: their teams unless anymore, you know Clay perfect example, Clay,
Speaker 1: they had to have Clay bust to move. I think
Speaker 1: Steph is the one guy that will most likely retire
Speaker 1: there he'll be probably the last of the three amigos,
Speaker 1: but it'll be interesting to see if Golden State decides
Speaker 1: to go in another direction. Mike Duneley being that ownership
Speaker 1: over there, have a lot of a lot of figuring
Speaker 1: out to do before we get out of here. Fellas.
Speaker 1: The w NBA season has kicked off. This segment, which
Speaker 1: is crazy, is brought to you by Rose Sparks, long lasting,
Speaker 1: it's fast acting, ed three. Whoever did that is a maniac.
Speaker 1: But Angel Rees and Caitlyn Clark, the beef is reunited.
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to see the game because
Speaker 1: I was coaching this weekend, but for what I did see,
Speaker 1: Angreur Rees pushed someone in the back. They didn't call it.
Speaker 1: She got the offensive rebound. Kaitlyn Clark gave her a
Speaker 1: hard take foul. I definitely didn't think it was. I
Speaker 1: think Angel dramatized it a little bit and flailed, but
Speaker 1: then she got up ready for smoke. And now the
Speaker 1: talk is is this does she hate? I don't give
Speaker 1: a shit if they like each other or not, Who cares.
Speaker 1: I think what has grown this game is the storyline
Speaker 1: and the rivalry that started back in college. Dare I
Speaker 1: mention that Kaitlyn Clark came out the game or came
Speaker 1: out with the twenty ten and ten triple double to
Speaker 1: start the season Sparks or fire fellas Angel rees and
Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Clark? Is it beef? Is it competitiveness? Does Angel
Speaker 1: not like her? Or does it not even matter because
Speaker 1: it's still good basketball?
Speaker 2: Well? I love the ship, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: When I saw when I saw the ship, man, I
Speaker 2: was like, goddamn, that's what it needs. We need this ship.
Speaker 2: But the only thing I didn't like about that ship, man,
Speaker 2: the racism part, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 2: just I just don't think that ship should be a
Speaker 2: part of these girls the girls game and the boys
Speaker 2: get the men game either, And so uh, the fans
Speaker 2: got to do better, man, I mean, because I mean
Speaker 2: the same kind of ship what happened to me. You know,
Speaker 2: got to watch what the fuck you're saying in them stands,
Speaker 2: you know, and and then security got to do better too.
Speaker 2: You know, when you when you identify that person, you
Speaker 2: got to go up to that person, You got to
Speaker 2: handle that person. You gotta do something about that, you know.
Speaker 2: But I just think that Angelies really don't like this motherfucker, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and that's fine, and that's fine whether she doesn't,
Speaker 1: that's fine, Right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love that part that about the game. The girls
Speaker 2: game need to have some shit like that in it,
Speaker 2: you know. So I look forward. I mean I can't.
Speaker 2: I think they played like four or five more time.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to it, man. So but it's
Speaker 2: none to that. I think it's just sparks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: No, man, I think it's dope.
Speaker 3: Man, Like, they have a rivalry that kind of goes back,
Speaker 3: you know, to their days that I went LSU, and
Speaker 3: they've always been competing against them each other for national championships.
Speaker 4: They've always been you know, first team All Americans. Like
Speaker 4: they are rivals on the basketball court.
Speaker 3: Right this time it was a little bit switched, right
Speaker 3: because like Caitlyn, I think she got seventeen percent of
Speaker 3: all flagrant files were against her last year in the
Speaker 3: w NBA.
Speaker 1: That's a crazy stuff.
Speaker 3: Her to go to the weight room. So her has changed,
Speaker 3: her mentality has changed. She's got a better team this year,
Speaker 3: and so she took she wasn't on the receiving end.
Speaker 4: Of the hard foule. She gave the hard foul, right,
Speaker 4: and so like, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That to me, that said, like, okay, she coming in
Speaker 3: with a different disposition this year, Like right, she ready
Speaker 3: for the shit, she ready for the smoke.
Speaker 4: So I like to see that. But for every action,
Speaker 4: there's a reaction.
Speaker 3: Now, one thing we know about that little Barbie from Baltimore, Maryland,
Speaker 3: Like she got right, and so she reacted if it
Speaker 3: was Angel Reese, if it was somebody else, she was
Speaker 3: gonna react like that because that's how miss Reese conducts
Speaker 3: herself on the court.
Speaker 4: She's a junk yard dog.
Speaker 3: When you talk about the race element and things like that,
Speaker 3: it does come out in situations like that. Because if
Speaker 3: Angel Reese would have made that foul on her right,
Speaker 3: I mean a different you know, like we wouldn't be
Speaker 3: talking about, you know, the reaction. We'd have been talking
Speaker 3: about the infraction, you know what I mean. And so
Speaker 3: like it does play a part in it. That's a
Speaker 3: place where you know, society we have to get better.
Speaker 3: But for me as a competitor, as a hooper, I
Speaker 3: love it because this guys like you and me, Matt,
Speaker 3: who loved each other. But if we fouled each other
Speaker 3: or whatever, and we work for whatever, like we're gonna
Speaker 3: go hug it out afterwards, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like it's good for the game.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Those sisters are playing their heart out, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. They're putting up points. You know, KP is
Speaker 3: putting up points in her new situation and things like that.
Speaker 3: So I love to see, you know, the females getting
Speaker 3: that attention for their game.
Speaker 1: It's great for the game. Again, outside of the racism
Speaker 1: and Max, You've told your stories and and and we've
Speaker 1: had I've had incidents in Utah where I've been called
Speaker 1: nigger in Boston, So there's definitely and I think these
Speaker 1: leagues need to do. Yeah, you've been there, A lot
Speaker 1: of guys have been there. I think they needed to
Speaker 1: start doing, like whether it be undercover cops or undercover security,
Speaker 1: just dressed in civilian clothes, sitting in the stands in areas.
Speaker 1: And if you catch these clown ass motherfucker's saying some
Speaker 1: pul racist shit, get them and then it's a lifetime
Speaker 1: band for them and everybody in their family. And put
Speaker 1: their name and face on TV and just make an
Speaker 1: example out of people because for us to ask people.
Speaker 1: Hate will always be in this world and it's very unfortunate,
Speaker 1: but forever us to ask the fans to do better.
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen if you have hate in
Speaker 1: your heart at some point with a couple of drinks
Speaker 1: in you not that shit is going to come out regardless.
Speaker 1: So we just need to have playing clothes. I'm not
Speaker 1: asking for other fans to snitch. I'm not on that,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying these leads can pit people in the crowd.
Speaker 1: I think in the lower bowl where these athletes are,
Speaker 1: where we're at and ketseys, motherfuckers that are on this
Speaker 1: hateful shit. Because that's the thing that discussed me. The
Speaker 1: flake whether I don't definitely don't think it was a
Speaker 1: flakir foul, but the hard foul and the interaction and
Speaker 1: the reaction I don't care about that. I think that's
Speaker 1: great for the game. The shit has been happened. Women
Speaker 1: are more caddy and been getting in smoke more than
Speaker 1: men do, so this ship has always happened. It just
Speaker 1: happens to be these too young, these two young stars
Speaker 1: in the league. Man. So I'm really again excited for
Speaker 1: this season. I'm really gonna make an asserted effort not
Speaker 1: to just watch the season. I'm gonna get out and
Speaker 1: show my face and get to some games. On the
Speaker 1: flip side, I'm most likely to be going to Sparks games.
Speaker 1: And our girl, Kelsey Plumb, welcome to LA. She came
Speaker 1: out and dropped a thirty seven ball in the season
Speaker 1: opener versus the new expansion teams, the Valkyrie out of
Speaker 1: they're playing in Oakland, right or they're playing in San Francisco, Oakland. Okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, the new Bay Area team, the Valkyrie. Shout
Speaker 1: out our girl Natalie. We went to UCLA with her,
Speaker 1: the head coach over there of the Valkyries. But Kelsey Plump,
Speaker 1: let's not forget she was a bucket in college, a
Speaker 1: twenty five five and five girl at Washington. I think
Speaker 1: she averaged fifteen and six. She's gonna get a chance
Speaker 1: to score this year. You know, the Sparks aren't how
Speaker 1: do we say it. Obviously they got Cameron Brinks back,
Speaker 1: but I still think are a few years away, and
Speaker 1: I think what needs to happen the same way things
Speaker 1: happen in the NBA is obviously our girl Juju is
Speaker 1: recovering for what she needs to recover from. But I
Speaker 1: think in two years something needs to happen where the
Speaker 1: Sparks and get the magic man, get the loaded get
Speaker 1: they need to get the They need to get the
Speaker 1: loaded dice KD. They need to loaded dice, loaded dice
Speaker 1: and get it. Obviously, Barrell went out with the big injury.
Speaker 1: She'll be gone what six to eight weeks. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be some time for this Sparks team. But I definitely
Speaker 1: think the future with the core pieces they have and
Speaker 1: adding someone like a Juju down the line can definitely
Speaker 1: bring Sparks basketball right where it needs to be. Yes
Speaker 1: Au Fellas, I was out in Memphis, tenne Key this
Speaker 1: weekend and ran into a bunch of our brothers from
Speaker 1: Penny to a chem to who else, Bonzie Wells, Chris Paul,
Speaker 1: Raymond Felton, who else. A lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: dads were out there, man, it was great to see everyone.
Speaker 1: We took. We took some on the chin this weekend. Man.
Speaker 1: We lost to Jermaine O'Neil. So we lost to Marcus Spears.
Speaker 1: Shout out my homeboy Barkers Spears over there at ESPN.
Speaker 1: His son is I think top three in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seventh class. They beat us at the buzzer on
Speaker 1: a bullshit ass call that one of their kids, a
Speaker 1: white boy. He was nice, super athletic, but this kid
Speaker 1: euro step from the three point line without a dribble,
Speaker 1: travel like a motherfucker, and they called a foul at
Speaker 1: the buzzer. He hit one free throw. Uh, and they
Speaker 1: beat us, but we missed fifteen free throws. Max, we
Speaker 1: can't miss fifteen free throws. That that was definitely on us,
Speaker 1: but fucking refs. But we were able to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: two and two. We lost to it. We also lost
Speaker 1: to Jail three John John Lucas's program. Another game we
Speaker 1: didn't shoot well, but we'll definitely be ready.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Next stop is Augusta, right before Peach Jam. But Fellas,
Speaker 1: what do you guys remember best about your AAU journeys? Obviously, Katie,
Speaker 1: we ran into each other in AU, Max, I don't
Speaker 1: even know if they had AU with your old as.
Speaker 1: But what was your uh? What what? What? What do
Speaker 1: you guys remember real quick most about your AU time? Oh?
Speaker 2: Man, Mine I was just I was just killing every
Speaker 2: motherfucking boy they put in front of me. That was
Speaker 2: That's what. That's what the I remember ever, god damn
Speaker 2: thing they put in front of me.
Speaker 1: It was different back then, Max, because again, and not
Speaker 1: to cut you off, like I don't like it, but
Speaker 1: I understand it. These generate all the kids are friends,
Speaker 1: and I don't like that shit. Because we were playing
Speaker 1: we didn't know who who was who until we got
Speaker 1: to square up against someone. I already told the story
Speaker 1: where we didn't know who the hell Tracy McGrady was
Speaker 1: and KD he was on that team, Like we had
Speaker 1: no idea who this Florida Flash Team was until they
Speaker 1: beat us by thirty Like that shit was we KD?
Speaker 1: What do you What do you remember most about Au?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 1: I think?
Speaker 3: What I remember most is that, like one the first
Speaker 3: time I got on the scene and I went to
Speaker 3: ABCD camp, is that I realized that, like, boy, I
Speaker 3: gotta step my shit up. Well you're hooping down here strong,
Speaker 3: like yo, I got the lock in if I want
Speaker 3: to get to another level. The second thing I learned
Speaker 3: how to do is like compete right and like you know,
Speaker 3: bring that dog from Florida to that situation. And then
Speaker 3: the gear that we got, the ability to travel. We
Speaker 3: met some transformational people like SONNYE. Vicerol, Brett Barrow and
Speaker 3: like so many people who you know, imparted good things
Speaker 3: into our lives that it was a blessing. But the
Speaker 3: friendships and the relationships and the Late Knights talking shit
Speaker 3: and the Late Knights playing one and you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, like experiencing things for the first time, Like
Speaker 3: just getting that human experience outside of basketball was something
Speaker 3: that I like that really sticks with me to this day.
Speaker 3: And a lot of those guys we still talk to
Speaker 3: this day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that and I almost get to relive
Speaker 1: it obviously being a coach and seeing these young boys
Speaker 1: now and allowing them to have some fun and doing
Speaker 1: shit with them and letting them know, man, enjoy this time.
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Speaker 1: all throughout the NBA playoffs. The Conference Finals are finally here,
Speaker 1: kicking off Tuesday night Wolves at Oklahoma City and Wednesday
Speaker 1: Pacers at the next I'm gonna start with the first
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Speaker 1: feel Julius Randall will have more points than DK Pick
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Speaker 1: versus the Knicks. I feel like Pascal Siakn will have
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Speaker 1: at anyway, Fellas, that's a rap for unplugged man. We
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