Speaker 1: Man. The final day of the season might have been
Speaker 1: one of the strangest craziest days in league history. Strange
Speaker 1: because one game left in the season, we had no
Speaker 1: idea what the playoff schedule was gonna look like. None zero,
Speaker 1: Crazy because the games themselves were a combination of tanking
Speaker 1: teams sitting everyone, and other teams fighting like angry hornets
Speaker 1: to preserve their place in either the play in or
Speaker 1: the playoffs themselves, and sometimes trying to thread that line
Speaker 1: between avoiding the suns and avoiding the plan. Their very
Speaker 1: tenuous line. That is. Day ended with not one but
Speaker 1: two fights between players on the same team, a forty
Speaker 1: two year old who scored more points than he has
Speaker 1: since two thousand and nine, a pair of coaches getting fired,
Speaker 1: two NBA team records getting broken, a ton of chaos
Speaker 1: going on in the apt for math and a partridge
Speaker 1: and a pear tree. The weekend we had a weekend, folks.
Speaker 1: Let's quickly recap the play in as it is officially here.
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference. We've got the number eight Hawks versus the
Speaker 1: number seven Heat on Tuesday. We've got the number ten
Speaker 1: Bulls versus the Raptors in Toronto. On Wednesday, Western Conference.
Speaker 1: We've got the Tea Wolves taking on the Lakers on
Speaker 1: Tuesday and ten seed Oka see Thunder taking on the
Speaker 1: nine seed Pelicans on Wednesday. If you don't already know,
Speaker 1: here's the breakdown. Loser of the seven to eight game
Speaker 1: plays the winner of the nine to ten game on
Speaker 1: Friday to determined who is the eight seed and plays
Speaker 1: the number one seed in each conference. Back to the games,
Speaker 1: we are one hundred percent, completely, totally absolutely have to
Speaker 1: start with the batshit team, the Minnesota Timberwolve versus the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans. Ah wow, I don't even really know
Speaker 1: what to say. The Pelicans start of the day with
Speaker 1: an outside chance to make the number five seed if
Speaker 1: everything fell their way. The Wolves could have also won
Speaker 1: and tried to avoid the plan if a disaster hit
Speaker 1: where the Lakers, Clippers, and Warriors all lost. Is the
Speaker 1: only game on Sunday where both teams equally wanted to
Speaker 1: win a lot. There was a ton on the line,
Speaker 1: and by god was it one of the strangest, most
Speaker 1: dramatic games in memory. Here is what happened. The Wolves.
Speaker 1: The Wolves play Timberwolves, but basketball typical Timberwolves basketball, which
Speaker 1: means when you think they're gonna lose, they win. When
Speaker 1: you think they're gonna win, they lose. And sometimes all
Speaker 1: of those emotions happen in one game super inconsistent. The
Speaker 1: leader of this erratic play, the leader of what the
Speaker 1: fuck is going on is, of course Rudy Gobert. Of course,
Speaker 1: of course it's Hime. Why else wouldn't it be. He's
Speaker 1: always up to something? What was he up to? Well
Speaker 1: before the game, Rudy Gobert didn't even want to play.
Speaker 1: He was quote suffering from back spasms, and so he
Speaker 1: was going to sit himself out in an essential, very
Speaker 1: critical game between two teams trying to make it out
Speaker 1: of the mud, and Kyle Anderson aka Sloma, was like, no,
Speaker 1: fuck that noise. I got back spasms too. You're playing.
Speaker 1: You are playing. That's what we're doing. I don't care
Speaker 1: what you're going through. You're on this court. That's the
Speaker 1: first sign of problems is Kyle Anderson telling Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: what Rudy Gobert should do. Rudy Gobert did end up playing,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it playing, because he was
Speaker 1: on the court in body, but not in mind or spirit.
Speaker 1: Two points that he made in the middle of the
Speaker 1: second quarter, completely ineffective, playing absolutely zero defense, just loafing.
Speaker 1: Pelicans open up a double digit lead. It looks like
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert wants to be any place, but there. Valentunas
Speaker 1: put up seven points and seven rebounds on the first
Speaker 1: quarter alone on Rudy Gobert, so it was not very good.
Speaker 1: Things are not going well. So then Rudy Gobert loafed
Speaker 1: a couple more plays in the second quarter. He was
Speaker 1: a disgusting minus fourteen in the short amount of time
Speaker 1: that he played. And Anderson was like, yo, they have
Speaker 1: a time out. He comes up to Rudy and he's like, yo,
Speaker 1: you need according to the reporting, yo, you need to
Speaker 1: play some fucking defense. You need to try now. And
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert responded like, oh, bojou, you need to rebound.
Speaker 1: And then Kyle Anderson's like, verbatim, this is verbatim, this
Speaker 1: is not my summation. He says, shut the fuck up, bitch.
Speaker 1: And what did Rudy Gobert do? Very out of character
Speaker 1: for Rudy Gobert. He punched his own teammate, full closed
Speaker 1: fist in the chest, full stop. I believe nas reed
Speaker 1: Or Torreon Prince got into the middle of it, started
Speaker 1: bum rushing Rudy Gobert. Kyle Anderson went after him. They
Speaker 1: had to be separated. The whole thing was a melee,
Speaker 1: of course. Then Rudy Gobert had to be removed from
Speaker 1: the scene. Got to get Rudy Gobert away from all
Speaker 1: of these men who want to kill him. And that's
Speaker 1: not the end. Surprisingly halftime, Kyle Anderson, who of course
Speaker 1: was still furious at Rudy Gobert because he just got
Speaker 1: punched in the chest by seven footer, went to the
Speaker 1: locker room where Rudy Bert was finishing changing because he
Speaker 1: was not gonna play anymore, and proceeded to threaten Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert that he would knock his ass out. According to reporting, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a recording was leaked which I posted of Kyle Anderson
Speaker 1: at halftime cussing the Restive his team out for protecting
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert because Rudy Gobert, according to Kylie Anderson obviously
Speaker 1: because that's what the reporting says, he called him a bitch,
Speaker 1: So the reporting is probably accurate that he's why are
Speaker 1: you protecting this bitch? The quote what the fuck is
Speaker 1: wrong with y'all. Y'all guys are kissing Rudy's ass way
Speaker 1: too much, telling me to focus. Y'all got some decisions
Speaker 1: to make this summer. What are those decisions? What are
Speaker 1: those decisions that they've gotta make? It a is it
Speaker 1: a him or me? Scenario? It took GM Tim Connolly
Speaker 1: and assistant GM Dell Demps coming into the locker room
Speaker 1: to intervene before we got some sort of Roman reign's
Speaker 1: chair on head scenario going down. They had to send
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert home, had to remove him away from the arena.
Speaker 1: It was so bad because he would have got knocked
Speaker 1: out by someone. If you think that that was the end,
Speaker 1: that on its own right would have been plenty. But
Speaker 1: there's more and more impactful things actually happened, literally impact
Speaker 1: before the scuffle that was one hundred percent Rudy Gobart's fault.
Speaker 1: We have wing defender Jaden McDaniel's young stud that Minnesota
Speaker 1: did not want to trade to Utah so much so
Speaker 1: that they added an additional first round pick to the
Speaker 1: deal so they did not have to move Jada McDaniels,
Speaker 1: one of the best perimeter wings in the league, averaging
Speaker 1: sixteen to four to one in the last fifteen games,
Speaker 1: picked up two quick fouls in the second quarter, and
Speaker 1: was so mad at himself that he stormed into the
Speaker 1: tunnel in a fit like Tasmanian devil and let loose
Speaker 1: a haymaker on a brick wall to no one. What
Speaker 1: do you think happened? Do you think he was fine?
Speaker 1: Do you think everything's good? You think he went out
Speaker 1: and played the rest of the game like the Wolves
Speaker 1: ended up winning the game because Jaden McDaniels had a
Speaker 1: phenomenal second half. No, Jade McDaniel's broke his fucking hand.
Speaker 1: That's what happened. Jade McDaniels is done, done zero times.
Speaker 1: Remember that MLB player who was so excited that he
Speaker 1: broke his own hand after the team made the postseason
Speaker 1: and he didn't play another postseason game, and I think
Speaker 1: they got eliminated. I think the kid was for the Brewers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is Jade McDaniels in the middle of a crucial
Speaker 1: game to decide playing seating. That's Jade McDill. No more
Speaker 1: time spending playing basketball this year for Jade McDaniels. He
Speaker 1: fractured a bone in his shooting hand night Night sleep
Speaker 1: mask for you maybe one of the dumbest things I've
Speaker 1: ever heard. Crazy. Uh. Jake Fisher, friend of the show, I think,
Speaker 1: three days ago, published a piece why the Timberwolves Jaden
Speaker 1: McDaniels is the elite defender you need to know more
Speaker 1: about Oh, I think we know about him now. I
Speaker 1: think he's a part of the national zeitgeist. At this point,
Speaker 1: the loss of Jaden McDaniels cannot be overestimated. He's one
Speaker 1: of six players in the league to defend a thousand
Speaker 1: plus minutes against NBA All Stars the season, and now
Speaker 1: he's gone for the year. I mean, in the history
Speaker 1: of the world, if you're looking at the battle between
Speaker 1: Cement and Fist, Cement wins every time. Cement, I think,
Speaker 1: is undefeated. And guess what. All of this happened And
Speaker 1: we didn't even reach the third quarter yet, So things
Speaker 1: were happening. And then because the Wolves are the Wolves,
Speaker 1: they lost their center, they lost their perimeter defender, their
Speaker 1: down double digits to the Pelicans who are trying to
Speaker 1: make it into the sixth seed or better, what do
Speaker 1: they do? Somehow, Karl Anthony Towns goes crazy. Somehow, Aunt
Speaker 1: Edwards goes crazy. Aunt Edwards had five blocks and five
Speaker 1: steals in the game, most of that was in the
Speaker 1: second half. The things that happen with the Wolves are
Speaker 1: just truly unimaginable. They end up winning that game. Remember
Speaker 1: there's a possibility now that they could end up playing
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies in the first round if they win their
Speaker 1: playing game against the Lakers, who they now play in
Speaker 1: the first round, which is gonna hear first playing game,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be wild. But man, the Grizzlies versus
Speaker 1: the Wolves would be one hell of a doozy. Also
Speaker 1: breaking news, of course, Wolves suspended Rudy Gobert for the
Speaker 1: playing game. He's suspended, He's done, which is I think
Speaker 1: a blessing in disguise because they're eight and four when
Speaker 1: Rudy does not play nine to four if you count
Speaker 1: yesterday and then out West, the Clippers were in a
Speaker 1: dogfight with the s squad of the Phoenix, Suns, Saban Lee,
Speaker 1: Darius Baisley just putting up buckets. It was like an
Speaker 1: AAU tournament game. Nobody was playing any defense. They were
Speaker 1: giving it to the Clippers. At one point they were
Speaker 1: up ten anyway, Suns at a four point lead at
Speaker 1: the start of the fourth quarter, and then plum and
Speaker 1: Bones Island, both newcomers at the trade deadline, had words
Speaker 1: then ended up also getting physical. What Yeah, it didn't
Speaker 1: get past shoving, and it immediately intervened. And let's be honest,
Speaker 1: Plumbly's not probably gonna punch anyone because it's Plumbly, And
Speaker 1: then they had to be separated where they were sitting
Speaker 1: at the opposite ends of the bench for the rest of
Speaker 1: the game. So Beat writer Andrew Greff spoke with Plumbly
Speaker 1: after the game. Apparently he was pissed because Bones was
Speaker 1: missing assignments, which is not shocking because Bones has been
Speaker 1: missing assignments since he's been at a VCU, So he
Speaker 1: missed assignments in Denver and that was one of the
Speaker 1: reasons that he was traded. As for the Clippers, it
Speaker 1: was Kawhi Leonard. It was Russell Westbrook that brought them
Speaker 1: back to the Promised Land where now they get a
Speaker 1: date with the Phoenix Suns full a squad, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, Chris Paul DeAndre Ayton, who you barely beat
Speaker 1: without them when they were sitting in street cloths so
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to see how that goes. After the game,
Speaker 1: Tylo says, if you ain't getting it right, fight then.
Speaker 1: And after that we took off and we played better.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should do it aka fight more often. They
Speaker 1: worked it out. Everything is good. The rest of the
Speaker 1: what are we talking about? He said, maybe we should
Speaker 1: fight more often. The rest of the day. The Lakers
Speaker 1: held off Utah to win Golden State, put up fifty
Speaker 1: five points in the first quarter alone to the Portland
Speaker 1: Trail Blazers, which is an NBA record, and beat the
Speaker 1: Blazers by fifty, which we'll get to in a bit,
Speaker 1: because there's ramifications of all of the losses that the
Speaker 1: Blazers have had, I think, which we'll get to as well.
Speaker 1: I think the Blazers have had seven combined wins in
Speaker 1: the last two years. After the trade deadline down in Miami,
Speaker 1: forty two year old Eudonnas HASLM Yes that's his real
Speaker 1: age aka walking dnp CD had played only sixty four
Speaker 1: games in the last seven years combined. He put up
Speaker 1: twenty four points yesterday in a game Eudonnas HASLM Miami
Speaker 1: bench as a whole put up one hundred and eleven points,
Speaker 1: which broke the NBA record held by Toronto of one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty twenty. Eudonis Aslam had thirty two points
Speaker 1: all last season in thirteen games. Eudonis aslam last game
Speaker 1: of his career puts up twenty four. What an end
Speaker 1: of the season and we still have the second season
Speaker 1: left to go, which is the playoffs. Bring in the
Speaker 1: play in. I need it, I want it. Give it
Speaker 1: to this