Speaker 1: All right, let's start the podcast by saying this, and
Speaker 1: this is a message for all the NBA haters out there,
Speaker 1: people who are saying that the NBA product isn't good,
Speaker 1: people are saying that it's lame that the NFL is
Speaker 1: still king, YadA, YadA, YadA. In the last three days, folks,
Speaker 1: we've had one of the greatest regular season performances of
Speaker 1: all time, with Damian Lillard going off for seventy one points.
Speaker 1: You've got one of the largest comebacks in NBA history,
Speaker 1: the Lakers claw back against Luca and the MAVs after
Speaker 1: being down twenty seven points. And then you add, my opinion,
Speaker 1: the best game of them all, the second highest scoring
Speaker 1: game of all time would have been possibly the highest
Speaker 1: scoring game of all time if their legs didn't give
Speaker 1: out in the second overtime when the Kings beat the
Speaker 1: Clippers won seventy six till one seventy five in double
Speaker 1: ot which is, in my opinion, the greatest regular season
Speaker 1: game I've ever seen in my life. That we was
Speaker 1: that good. All of that happened in seventy two hours.
Speaker 1: So let's start out in my hometown Portland, Oregon, because, folks,
Speaker 1: we've got to talk about something that's not being discussed.
Speaker 1: People are talking about Dame. They are Dame Lamont Lillard.
Speaker 1: But in my view, I do not think they are
Speaker 1: talking about Dame in the right context. We know Dame
Speaker 1: is special, We know that Dame time seems to be
Speaker 1: all four quarters now. But what if I told you
Speaker 1: that Dame is actually closer to a unicorn, to a
Speaker 1: mythical figure that we only know in history and in
Speaker 1: the record books and just by his name alone. What
Speaker 1: if I told you Dame Lollard is actually closer to
Speaker 1: Wilt Chamberlain, then we think we are seeing something right
Speaker 1: now we have not seen since the nineteen sixties, since
Speaker 1: the age of Wilt Chamberlain, when he was putting up
Speaker 1: fifty with ease. Wilt has always been, and I think
Speaker 1: always will be, some sort of creature that we are
Speaker 1: not sure is of this planet. We are not sure
Speaker 1: if any NBA player will ever do anything close to
Speaker 1: what he has done. He has the most fifty point
Speaker 1: games in NBA history, the highest point scored in NBA history.
Speaker 1: The list goes on and on. Right, he was too
Speaker 1: big for the era, you know, six eleven with a
Speaker 1: fifty inch vertical right, and Dame right now is putting
Speaker 1: himself in Wilt territory in the Wilt stratosphere. The level
Speaker 1: of sustained excellence we are seeing from Dame is absolutely unparalleled.
Speaker 1: He's averaging in his last ten games, Dames forty three
Speaker 1: points per game, forty three in his last ten. In
Speaker 1: his last twenty, he's averaging almost forty thirty nine point
Speaker 1: four points per game, seven and a half assists and
Speaker 1: five and a half rebounds, and to steal a game
Speaker 1: and less than three turnovers per game, which when you
Speaker 1: think about his usage rate, which is pretty much only
Speaker 1: it's like you could just say only usage only Dame
Speaker 1: on the Blazers. Uh for only three turnovers, folks, that's absurd.
Speaker 1: Since he came back from injury, which is even longer
Speaker 1: than twenty games, he's averaging just under thirty five points
Speaker 1: per game. So the level of dominance and excellence and
Speaker 1: scoring and unstoppability and infallibility and like lightning, thunder, crash boom,
Speaker 1: just things you don't even have words for, is absurd.
Speaker 1: And if you want to hear something crazy, will only
Speaker 1: average thirty nine points in his career twice season. Only
Speaker 1: one of these players is six' eleven with a fifty inch,
Speaker 1: vertical and the other is just a shade over six
Speaker 1: to one In Damon lollard with not a fifty inch.
Speaker 1: Vertical for an undersized guard to be doing What dame
Speaker 1: is doing right now is. Crazy he's. Absurd and it's
Speaker 1: not just because he's My Portland trailbazers, guard the Greatest
Speaker 1: blazer in. History but if he continues to do this
Speaker 1: for the rest of the, season the word's gonna get.
Speaker 1: Around just, remember, FOLKS tk said at, First, wilt we
Speaker 1: will not have seen a back half of a season
Speaker 1: like this since well for. Sure let's break Down sunday.
Speaker 1: Night seventy one points for our Guy, dame a career
Speaker 1: high seventy, one twenty two for thirty eight from the,
Speaker 1: field fifty eight, percent fifty nine percent from, three six
Speaker 1: rebound six. Sisters he was so. Good how good Was?
Speaker 1: Dame he was so good that he comes off the
Speaker 1: floor and is feeling the highest of the, highs and
Speaker 1: THE nba, says we think you're in the highest of
Speaker 1: the highs. Too we're gonna blood test your ass FOR
Speaker 1: hgh or super serum or, something because this is not fucking.
Speaker 1: Normal he had a urine test FOR hgh the day
Speaker 1: before and pasted it and they're, Like, Noah, noah, no
Speaker 1: we're gonna need to have some of that blood in.
Speaker 1: Us we're gonna need to test this. Again you could
Speaker 1: have some horse pee in there that you're hiding underneath
Speaker 1: your thigh bone and like just using. It, No like
Speaker 1: they're Like Adam siler's, like, LISTEN i Think Dave Dame
Speaker 1: lillard has taking that super, serum that Super soldier. Serum
Speaker 1: he's stopping hydra bombs by day and is bombing from
Speaker 1: the logo by. Night that's What dame is on right,
Speaker 1: now Some Marvel universe type shit like this guy is
Speaker 1: in THE. Mcu we gotta make, sure uh that we
Speaker 1: get some of that blood to figure out what's going.
Speaker 1: On this is what he said direct after the game.
Speaker 2: Day we're, alma thank. You we're starting off this interview
Speaker 2: with a.
Speaker 1: Splash literally an absolutely legendary.
Speaker 2: Performance career high seventy one, points thirteen to three.
Speaker 1: Pointers can you.
Speaker 2: Try to, describe but we just witnessed from you. TONIGHT i,
Speaker 2: mean we GOT i think twenty three twenty two games
Speaker 2: left after, this and we need to win as many as,
Speaker 2: possible and you, know obviously being short, HANDED i know
Speaker 2: that it's gonna be a team, effort BUT i feel
Speaker 2: LIKE i, gotta you, know do my best to be
Speaker 2: aggressive and just try to do WHAT i can to
Speaker 2: make sure that we get some. Wins and you know
Speaker 2: that's all the case was last. TONIGHT i wanted to
Speaker 2: be in attack. MODE i got it going AND i
Speaker 2: just stayed.
Speaker 1: Aggressive, YEAH i, mean this team's not. Good we Need
Speaker 1: dame time all the. Time it's basically. Right if you
Speaker 1: haven't seen the, Video dame is just mobbed by his.
Speaker 1: Team they're just pouring everything on, them probably some sort
Speaker 1: of neutralizer for the super sierrum he's been taking to
Speaker 1: Prevent Adam silver from finding out with the blood. Test
Speaker 1: nobody was more excited For dame than the rest of the, team,
Speaker 1: Right and the reason why is the first words out
Speaker 1: of his mouth was, like, listen this team has to.
Speaker 1: Win we only got twenty something games left in the.
Speaker 1: Season we are in squarely and play in tournament. Zone
Speaker 1: we are outside the play in tournament and so Thus
Speaker 1: i've got to carry the. Load and we should have
Speaker 1: probably seen it coming this, performance BECAUSE i don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw it happen during the. Weekend it got went.
Speaker 1: VIRAL a little bit is That Dame luller joined Andre
Speaker 1: iguodala And Evan, turner who's maybe got the worst voice
Speaker 1: IN nba, history joined them on their, podcast and this
Speaker 1: is what he had to say about the, critics the
Speaker 1: people who are basically sleeping On dame no matter what he, does.
Speaker 2: They never they'll never give me credit for What i've
Speaker 2: actually done UNLESS i just come out here and win
Speaker 2: the championship In, portland and they better HOPE i don't.
Speaker 2: Have they better pray THAT i don't win the championship
Speaker 2: for The. Blazers and that's very. True don't pray because
Speaker 2: the same way you, like they don't know that.
Speaker 1: Side, yeah, no that's that's big. Facts and following that,
Speaker 1: Game lillard now has more sixty point, games which is
Speaker 1: Five he has five in his, career or more Then Steph,
Speaker 1: Curry Lebron, James shaquille, O'Neill Larry, Bird Magic, Johnson Tim,
Speaker 1: Duncan Bill, russell And Kevin durants. Combined dame has more
Speaker 1: sixty point games than those legends. Combined of, course we
Speaker 1: Know will has thirty two games where he scored sixty or,
Speaker 1: more which sort of drives home my earlier, Point Like
Speaker 1: dame is on in another level right. Now he is
Speaker 1: the oldest sixty point scorer IN nba history at thirty.
Speaker 1: Two AND i guess the nice thing About dame getting
Speaker 1: injured for three or four years where he had an
Speaker 1: abdominal injury he didn't tell anybody about that was keeping
Speaker 1: him from doing all activities pain. Free he said that
Speaker 1: he's fully healthy now he feels like he's twenty six.
Speaker 1: Again SO i feel LIKE i turned back the tape
Speaker 1: a little. Bit twenty six year Old dame in the,
Speaker 1: body thirty two year old mind Of. Dame that is
Speaker 1: trouble for the rest of the. League AND i said it,
Speaker 1: earlier maybe a few episodes, ago And i'll say it.
Speaker 1: AGAIN i don't care if The blazers win. GAMES i
Speaker 1: do not. Care this Is Dame lillard on the, Map
Speaker 1: this Is Dame lillard in rarefied. Air blazers are gonna
Speaker 1: win games If dame keeps doing, this don't you worry about.
Speaker 1: It dame keeps scoring seventy, Sixty dude is on fire
Speaker 1: forty three point two points per game in his last.
Speaker 1: Ten LIKE i said this is. Ridiculous he should be
Speaker 1: in THE mvp. Category if The blazers were doing anything
Speaker 1: but sitting there at the bottom of the, standings he
Speaker 1: would be top, five top THREE. Mvp, again these Are wilt, numbers,
Speaker 1: folks and not SOMETHING i THOUGHT i would ever. SAY
Speaker 1: i never THOUGHT i would Put dame And wilt in
Speaker 1: the same, Sentence but here we. Are we have twenty
Speaker 1: games left for The. Blazers dame is now can't MISS.
Speaker 1: TV i don't care if you're on The East, COAST
Speaker 1: i don't care if you're IN BALI i think you
Speaker 1: need to just set your fucking alarm clock Because dame
Speaker 1: time is now all the. Time and as a Lifelong blazer,
Speaker 1: fan that's all that we can hope, for is being
Speaker 1: relevant and exciting and something That NATIONAL tv wants to
Speaker 1: discuss on a daily. Basis