Speaker 1: I don't see brown going out in that first round.
Speaker 2: You know what my body told me when I was forded,
Speaker 2: when I turned for it on my Forday's birthday.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, don't you start tripping.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to Unplugged, our weekly go around, Jackie, fresh
Speaker 4: out the dinnist chair. You got them pearly whites.
Speaker 3: Pearlin. Yeah, they hurting no right now, so I ain't
Speaker 3: a little sore now.
Speaker 2: But when we on all the smoke that show, you're
Speaker 2: gonna see they're gonna be shining.
Speaker 3: They hurt the shining.
Speaker 4: You got them by you got them by Cuspets, taking
Speaker 4: care of by cuspots. Jack Today we got a good one.
Speaker 4: Our brother DeMarcus Cousins will be joining us. But before
Speaker 4: we get to boogie, we got an announcement. We got
Speaker 4: in a big bouncement coming on Thursday. We listen to y'all,
Speaker 4: where does this tour need to start? We've picked two cities. Okay,
Speaker 4: We're coming to two cities near you this summer. We
Speaker 4: will announce on Thursday what those two cities are.
Speaker 1: And it's just the beginning.
Speaker 4: So if we didn't mention your city on Thursday, we're
Speaker 4: still gonna get and see y'all. But Jack definitely excited.
Speaker 4: It's not just a podcast taping. We're gonna have music,
Speaker 4: We're gonna have drink, we're gonna have something to smoke on,
Speaker 4: we're gonna have merch, We're gonna have a good time.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be an experience, man. So stay tuned Thursday,
Speaker 4: we'll let you guys know what two cities were coming to.
Speaker 4: And again, if it wasn't your city this time, doesn't
Speaker 4: mean it won't be next time. So you know, keep
Speaker 4: the comments coming, keep throwing your city up there, and
Speaker 4: we're gonna try to come see you. So Jack, finally
Speaker 4: live tour. Jack, you know, I've been on this ship
Speaker 4: for about three years now. I've been trying to get
Speaker 4: us on the live tour for like three years and
Speaker 4: now we finally doing our own thing and we can
Speaker 4: do it now. Shout out our squad and we're gonna
Speaker 4: be on the road.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: What you think about that? Stay locked in?
Speaker 2: It could be your city, could be your city, you knows.
Speaker 2: But we're trying to pop up everywhere, man. So a
Speaker 2: lot of our fans have been next for this. It
Speaker 2: was finally put together by a teen and everybody, so
Speaker 2: We're super excited because there's a lot of people that
Speaker 2: we want to go out there and touch. You know,
Speaker 2: we always been those guys that like to interact with
Speaker 2: people and and untouchable, So this is gonna be exciting.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: I'm ready cool.
Speaker 4: Y'all stay locked in Thursday to a see where we
Speaker 4: will be this summer. Hey man, we want to welcome
Speaker 4: back one of our brothers, a friend of the program.
Speaker 3: Little big Brother.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, Buggie, we appreciate you hopping on with us today.
Speaker 4: You actually on your way out right, You're on your
Speaker 4: wedd to Taiwan, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I fly out a little later today. I mean
Speaker 6: a fan about to take this twelve hour flight to time.
Speaker 6: So yeah, we got an adventure in front of us.
Speaker 4: Sam prass'all for you, go Broha Travels, show yourself, do
Speaker 4: your thing. You just came off of three on three
Speaker 4: House of Highlights Championship. We saw some of the matchups
Speaker 4: on the internet. Uh, tougher matchup for you, Cam Newton
Speaker 4: or Big Paul Pierce.
Speaker 5: Was starting this ship this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you Paul the booth, Piers, He's not the truth,
Speaker 3: He's the booth. He's the booth.
Speaker 6: Now, no, shout out to Paul Man, but Cam Cam
Speaker 6: Newton was definitely a better matchup, a tougher matchup. Man,
Speaker 6: I didn't I didn't realize how like big that motherfucker was.
Speaker 6: Bro Like, so I've seen Cam in person before, but
Speaker 6: like to actually like see him being the athlete. Like
Speaker 6: I'm I was thoroughly impressed. But you know I'm sizing
Speaker 6: him up. I'm like, damn, bro, like, how much do
Speaker 6: you wait? He was like, bro to be honest. No,
Speaker 6: he was like, bro, to be honest, Bro, to be honest.
Speaker 6: In the Super Bowl, I weighed to eighty.
Speaker 3: Damn he cares. We guessed it.
Speaker 5: It's not an area on this dude. Bro with speed
Speaker 5: to two eighty at quarterback. Brother, So now I was.
Speaker 6: I was thoroughly impressed, and you know him, he actually,
Speaker 6: you know, really really try to compete and I can
Speaker 6: feel the strength his size definitely worked on his on
Speaker 6: his behalf.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it just wasn't enough.
Speaker 3: They said you was out there like shack with a
Speaker 3: three point ball. I shot a.
Speaker 5: Lot of jumpers.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 6: You know, I ain't want to go too hard because
Speaker 6: you know, it's it's levels to this ship. So I
Speaker 6: wanted to keep it, you know, entertaining. I want everybody
Speaker 6: to have fun. But yeah, you know what happens when
Speaker 6: it's time of it's time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you only what thirty two, thirty three held, are you?
Speaker 5: I'm thirty three?
Speaker 1: Bro Oh, he's still a baby. Still a baby.
Speaker 4: You know what's crazy though, is like me and Paul
Speaker 4: started playing again. We you know, we trained together and
Speaker 4: we started playing. But shit, I'm seven, I'm seven years
Speaker 4: from move I Paul's probably are you nasty? Maybe I'm
Speaker 4: actually starting to warm up a little bit. I was
Speaker 4: nasty the first couple of times. I was really just
Speaker 4: out there on some cardio ball, just running up and down.
Speaker 1: Even if we lost, I'm on the side running just
Speaker 1: to run.
Speaker 4: But it's crazy because Boogie is still in real bast
Speaker 4: caball shape, you know what I mean. So there's a
Speaker 4: big difference between Hey, I used to play and I'm
Speaker 4: still kind of I'm still in it.
Speaker 1: It's night and day.
Speaker 6: I think I think that's what kind of caught Paul off,
Speaker 6: because I like coming in. I think Paul thought in
Speaker 6: his mind like this, this is gonna be easy. I'm
Speaker 6: playing against you know, these young guys. And then Paul
Speaker 6: realized how these dudes was running around and I think
Speaker 6: he just kind of got shocked in the moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we caught we cood, bro.
Speaker 5: He was stuck in the mud.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 5: It was it was crazy.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, shout out p Square before we get to some
Speaker 4: ANBA topics, boogie. Obviously your former alma mater. A lot
Speaker 4: of transpired since we last talked to you. Coach Cal
Speaker 4: is out. Former captain of the nineteen ninety six Untouchable
Speaker 4: National Championship team, Mark Pope is in. I was actually
Speaker 4: read an article last night about some political infiltration in
Speaker 4: the Kentucky system and how they wanted Cal to get
Speaker 4: on that political training.
Speaker 1: He wasn't happening now of it.
Speaker 4: So, uh, buggy talk to us Cals in Arkansas now,
Speaker 4: Mark Pope is in.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts? Man?
Speaker 5: You kind of hit it on the head with that matter.
Speaker 6: It is a lot of you know, political behind us,
Speaker 6: seeing things going on that you know, the average fan
Speaker 6: will never know about, and uh, you know, for the
Speaker 6: most part, players won't really know about unless you know,
Speaker 6: they're able to get that information from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 5: But it's a lot of things that happened.
Speaker 6: You know that you know I'm not happy with but uh,
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, I think it's best
Speaker 6: for both sides. Obviously, once the politics get involved, it's
Speaker 6: going to become a really really messy situation and everybody
Speaker 6: in the situation becomes a losive.
Speaker 4: So real quick, not to cut you off book real quick,
Speaker 4: but because when we say politics normally there's politics to
Speaker 4: college basketball policy.
Speaker 3: We're talking real politics, real politics, like we're talking real like.
Speaker 4: They wanted they wanted Cal to jump on this this
Speaker 4: Trump train and and and support someone who's in his
Speaker 4: cabinet who was running for governor. So there was a
Speaker 4: lot of hands in the pot. And to me, from
Speaker 4: what I read, Cal wanted to protect his players at
Speaker 4: all costs. He wouldn't allow his players to be involved
Speaker 4: in it, and he don't want himself involved in it.
Speaker 4: And once they kind of put his foot down with that,
Speaker 4: as powerful as he's outside, NTS are as great as
Speaker 4: Cal is, that was almost kind of like the sign
Speaker 4: of Okay, something, something's got to change here.
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, you're definitely, you're definitely on the right
Speaker 6: path when it comes to, you know, the behind the
Speaker 6: scenes actions, and you know, I'm not really comfortable speaking
Speaker 6: on it too much because I don't even want to
Speaker 6: get involved.
Speaker 3: With that type of respect shit like respect.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm not a guy that's in the politics.
Speaker 6: I don't want to be. Politics always messy, it's always
Speaker 6: a loser on politics. So, like I said, I don't
Speaker 6: want nothing to do with that shit. But and I
Speaker 6: really don't want to speak on it. But I do
Speaker 6: know the truth. I do know the ugliness of what
Speaker 6: happened behind the scenes. And like I said, at the
Speaker 6: end of the day, everybody loses in this situation. So
Speaker 6: them going their separate ways was the best way to
Speaker 6: move in a positive direction.
Speaker 5: I think. I think Kyle is gonna, you know, go
Speaker 5: off and be Kyle.
Speaker 6: I don't think that has ever changed Kyle's impact on basketball,
Speaker 6: this young generation, these young kids' lives, it'll never change.
Speaker 5: That's just who Kyle is.
Speaker 6: That's that's his calling, that's that's what makes him the
Speaker 6: legend and the icon that he is. And when it
Speaker 6: comes to UK, it's the same thing. It's a legendary spot,
Speaker 6: it's a legendary university. I don't know much about Mark Pope,
Speaker 6: you know, nineteen ninety six, I was six years old,
Speaker 6: so I'm gonna keep it a buck. I don't know
Speaker 6: much about him, but I do know he's UK family,
Speaker 6: and I'm always support family.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
Speaker 6: I wish him the best. I wish him nothing but success.
Speaker 6: I wish the university success. But when you really think
Speaker 6: about the situation and the guys that are kind of
Speaker 6: stuck in between it, it's almost like a child in.
Speaker 5: A nasty divorce. He loves both parents.
Speaker 6: He loves both his parents, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: And at the end of the day, the child is
Speaker 6: the one that kind of ends up getting the bad
Speaker 6: end of the stick. So it's a tough situation and
Speaker 6: I'm definitely like stuck in the middle because, like I
Speaker 6: love for both sides, but you know, I wish both
Speaker 6: sides success, and I just hope everything can now move
Speaker 6: in a positive direction.
Speaker 2: One thing I do know about Mark Pope is he
Speaker 2: was on that team when I was at Okay and
Speaker 2: we scrimmaged the UK when I was a senior.
Speaker 3: We beat them niggas, So I do remember that.
Speaker 1: Of course, you gotta bring that up.
Speaker 4: One thing that's fresh off the press is, you know
Speaker 4: five star recruit k J. Wagner has jumped in the
Speaker 4: transfer portal. It's gonna be interesting for me boogie on
Speaker 4: the outside looking in, because obviously UCLA has had kind
Speaker 4: of had a coaching marathon where they haven't been able
Speaker 4: to get the kids they should be able to get.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna take UK a minute to recover
Speaker 4: from this. I don't think kids are just gonna jump
Speaker 4: to Kentucky because to me, obviously you always want to
Speaker 4: think the university is bigger than the coach. But this
Speaker 4: particular instance is many great players he's turned out. Kyl
Speaker 4: was Kentucky. You know, coach Kyl was Kentucky. So I
Speaker 4: think it's gonna take them a minute to kind of
Speaker 4: find their right way and find the money you need
Speaker 4: to get these kids, because you know that Arkansas is
Speaker 4: that they already said the Tyson family is doing what
Speaker 4: five million dollars towards nil, so you know they're gonna
Speaker 4: be able to get some of the top kids. And
Speaker 4: I think Col's gonna fit in seamless over there.
Speaker 6: I just I just I don't think, you know, as
Speaker 6: a basketball fan, and you know Kentucky's legendary all the
Speaker 6: way back, you know, to the thirty So it's a
Speaker 6: tradition there where you know what I'm saying, The name
Speaker 6: on the front of the jersey is what you know
Speaker 6: it's all about. But that's from a standard of back
Speaker 6: in the day. Like you, kids just don't care about
Speaker 6: that anymore. Kids are literally going wherever they can get
Speaker 6: the money, wherever it's the coolest, wherever it's the hot.
Speaker 6: It's just it's a different era of basketball. These kids
Speaker 6: that are growing up don't have the same standards and
Speaker 6: and and ambition and goal and drive as we did
Speaker 6: when we were younger coming up. It's just a different
Speaker 6: time and life evolves, the game evolves, everything evolves, and
Speaker 6: you have to evolve with time or you're going to
Speaker 6: get left out. I've made comments about it before and
Speaker 6: it's kind of been taken as you know, I'm disrespecting
Speaker 6: the university.
Speaker 5: That's not my purpose and.
Speaker 6: That's not my intentions, and that's not what I mean
Speaker 6: by it. I'm only speaking on the current time and
Speaker 6: how times have changed. And if you're not aware of that,
Speaker 6: or you're not going to embrace the change, then you're
Speaker 6: gonna get left behind. And as simple as that, it's
Speaker 6: no knocks in the universe. It's legendary. If it stopped today,
Speaker 6: it's still going to be a legendary university. But at
Speaker 6: the end of the day, if you want to continue
Speaker 6: to find success in this program, you want to continue
Speaker 6: to you know, strive for greatness and more banners. You
Speaker 6: have to evolve with time and you have to embrace
Speaker 6: the evolution of time and in the game. And that's
Speaker 6: all my comments were really about. So, you know, a
Speaker 6: lot of people took it as disrespect when I said
Speaker 6: Kentucky won't be on TV. Look, man, I understand both
Speaker 6: sides of this shit. It can be a fan and
Speaker 6: I understand the business. I understand the business of basketball.
Speaker 6: I understand the business of media.
Speaker 3: The only way.
Speaker 6: I don't think it's a right. I just don't think
Speaker 6: it'll ever be the same when it comes to the hype.
Speaker 5: The media and the push.
Speaker 6: You know, being a nationally televised team. Will they find success?
Speaker 6: I absolutely think so. It's done over there. The one
Speaker 6: that done air is over with and.
Speaker 5: I think they're okay with that.
Speaker 6: I think they want a different college understanding, they want
Speaker 6: a different change. But all I'm saying is you have
Speaker 6: to be up to date with what's going on in
Speaker 6: the now I think.
Speaker 4: You you hit the key bug. And it's not only Kentucky.
Speaker 4: It's all these major university that have a historical tradition
Speaker 4: such as UCLA, that think the kids care about the
Speaker 4: four letters across the chest or the Kentucky across the
Speaker 4: chest or these big pro The kids don't care about
Speaker 4: that shit at all. Kids don't, even with all due respect,
Speaker 4: don't even know what John Wooden meant to you say.
Speaker 5: They don't even know who John Wooden is, thank you.
Speaker 4: So all these older schools that have decision makers who
Speaker 4: are a little bit ripe, a little bit older, that
Speaker 4: don't understand the kids do not care about history. They
Speaker 4: don't care about tradition. All they care about is where
Speaker 4: can I get a lot of money? Yet, what coach
Speaker 4: is going to prepare me to get in and out
Speaker 4: of this program in a year or two at most?
Speaker 3: And what play most and dope gear?
Speaker 4: Dope gear? We got some dope gear. While I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be here a year or two, I'm gonna get some bread.
Speaker 4: A coach is going to get me in and out
Speaker 4: of this program. So again to your point, Boogie, they
Speaker 4: do want that change. They don't because if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4: I couldn't mistake it. I think if you give a
Speaker 4: kid a scholarship and he leaves after one year, that
Speaker 4: money is still gone for four If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 4: someone maybe in our background produce it.
Speaker 3: But I know colleges do not like that.
Speaker 4: Cal made that acceptable and okay, and and and you
Speaker 4: know won a championship with it and turned a lot
Speaker 4: of NBA pros out, But schools don't necessarily like that.
Speaker 4: So I do think again, I think you'll get back
Speaker 4: on their feet, but it's going to take a while.
Speaker 4: But I think the realationship you said is kids don't
Speaker 4: care about history or tradition anymore.
Speaker 3: Period.
Speaker 6: Just don't. That's the that's that's the facts behind it.
Speaker 6: They just don't. Yep.
Speaker 4: Moving on, transitioning to the end. This regular season is
Speaker 4: over play and start tomorrow. Really excited about this, but
Speaker 4: we're gonna touch on something we all know was a
Speaker 4: part of the game when we were coming up.
Speaker 3: The Calves bench their.
Speaker 4: Starters, I think in the fourth quarter last night against
Speaker 4: the Hornets to intentionally get out of that second seed.
Speaker 4: So now that they're gonna put them in the four seed,
Speaker 4: they'll play Orlando instead of playing the winner of Miami Philly. Thoughts,
Speaker 4: People don't know this ship's been going on for a
Speaker 4: long time. I mean, I'm jack, I remember, are we
Speaker 4: believe team? I think Dallas tried to dodge us. Remember
Speaker 4: they didn't play their starters at the end, and it
Speaker 4: ended up coming back and biting them in the ass.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's a long line of teams that
Speaker 4: have kind of been able to strategically see themselves for
Speaker 4: their first round matchups. Thoughts on this and thoughts on
Speaker 4: what you know what the Calves did to avoid Miami
Speaker 4: or Philly.
Speaker 2: I mean you just, I mean basically just avoided Miami
Speaker 2: Philly to have somebody else beat you.
Speaker 3: In the round. That's all you did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it ain't like you you trying to play somebody
Speaker 2: in different.
Speaker 3: That you know you can beat to advance. You gonna
Speaker 3: lose anyway. I don't. I don't like to losing mentality.
Speaker 3: I don't mean you already in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: That's going into the playoffs with a bad feeling, the
Speaker 2: bad mentality with just saying I'm arrest my guys so
Speaker 2: we can play certain guys and what that's saying about
Speaker 2: your coach. I ain't confident against you, I ain't confident
Speaker 2: with y'all playing against these motherfuckers. See, I don't like that.
Speaker 2: It says a lot of things. People can say, it's
Speaker 2: strategic and you got to do this, and not that.
Speaker 2: I never was a guy that appreciated tanking. If we're
Speaker 2: gonna have a bad season, we're gonna go out on
Speaker 2: our We're gonna go out on our shield having a
Speaker 2: bad season, not just laying down. That's how I always been,
Speaker 2: and I've been on bad teams. But what people can
Speaker 2: say about when I'm on bad teams, I'm still playing
Speaker 2: one hundred ten percent like I'm on the championship team.
Speaker 3: So I can never respect that Madden book. I can
Speaker 3: never respect that.
Speaker 5: I agree with Stack.
Speaker 6: It's definitely a soft mentality, especially going into the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Going into the playoffs, you want your confidt is how
Speaker 6: you want, you want your ego in front, you want,
Speaker 6: you want all these things showing that I'm ready for
Speaker 6: this moment. I'm here to dominate. So that's definitely not
Speaker 6: what you know. This type of move definitely doesn't show that.
Speaker 6: It's showing that there is a fear that we're not
Speaker 6: good enough, which is a horrible mentality, and I.
Speaker 5: Don't know, it's just a bad look.
Speaker 6: But in a way, you can sit here and say
Speaker 6: it's strategic because when you look at these standards, Miami
Speaker 6: is Miami will always be longest, Jimmy Butler and Bam
Speaker 6: it's on that squad. Miami will always be the most
Speaker 6: dangerous team once it comes to the playoffs. That's just
Speaker 6: the facts simple. So I know every team in the
Speaker 6: East is ship. I believe every team in the East
Speaker 6: is thinking this way. Maybe outside of Boston especially absolutely,
Speaker 6: but I think every team in the East is thinking
Speaker 6: that way because Miami this is their time of year,
Speaker 6: and we all know what they do once it comes
Speaker 6: to you know, Philly and and and then MB I
Speaker 6: think the Calves, No, it's no with that. Then you
Speaker 6: know front court they have and I don't think they
Speaker 6: have the confidence and are we able to contain or
Speaker 6: even really go to battle with Embiid and Post.
Speaker 5: I don't think they have that type of mentality or
Speaker 5: that type of confidence.
Speaker 6: So I think it's shown and you know, I think
Speaker 6: they like that chances better against Orlando, but I don't
Speaker 6: necessarily feel that Orlando beat. Yeah, they're not sweet, but
Speaker 6: it's two young teams trying to find their way. I
Speaker 6: think this is actually going to be a really, really
Speaker 6: good fucking series. So I'm still excited about it. Two teams,
Speaker 6: two young teams trying to figure it out, trying to
Speaker 6: get to that next step, make that next jump, and
Speaker 6: you know, becoming a championship caliber team. So it will
Speaker 6: be an exciting series. But I'm with Stack. I just
Speaker 6: can't agree with that mindset or mentality going into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: So while we're on Cleveland, I mean, obviously it's about
Speaker 4: who's hot at the right time. Cleveland heading into the
Speaker 4: playoffs is four and six in their last ten and
Speaker 4: then Orlando five and five, so they're playing similar basketball.
Speaker 4: But when I think about Cleveland, I think there's there's
Speaker 4: going to be a move this summer. If they don't
Speaker 4: make a move, if they don't make a run, I
Speaker 4: think they're kind of stuck in the Damian Lillard, CJ McCullum.
Speaker 4: Can these small guards work together. They haven't been able to.
Speaker 4: Although Garland's been hurt a lot, these guys just haven't
Speaker 4: been able to put it together. So I think if
Speaker 4: they don't make a move, which I mean if they
Speaker 4: don't make a run, which I don't really think they will.
Speaker 1: I think Donovan Mitchell's gone.
Speaker 4: I think the Riotings are already on the wall that
Speaker 4: he's out of there. Also another thing I wanted to
Speaker 4: touch on real quick too. Both these shit Phillies won
Speaker 4: eight straight, eight and two in their last ten and
Speaker 4: then Miami's seven and three in their last hand. So
Speaker 4: both these lower seeds are hungry and going to be scary,
Speaker 4: particularly you know that second seed. But then also you
Speaker 4: look at Milwaukee and I just read something this morning
Speaker 4: that Giannis is doing everything he can to rehab his calf.
Speaker 4: But calves are tricky, especially just like the season, the
Speaker 4: calf are really as as as as much as he
Speaker 4: used his stride and his athleticism and his length. If
Speaker 4: Jannis isn't healthy, they're gone in the first round.
Speaker 6: And it can all that calf strain can always lead
Speaker 6: to worse, if you know what I mean. So so
Speaker 6: you have fortunately have to be have to protect that
Speaker 6: very sensitive he is injured. Bro, this isn't something you
Speaker 6: can just rush back from. Kevin Durantz, calf strain turned.
Speaker 4: Into an ad calf strain turned into an achilles and
Speaker 4: and like I said, Giannis is one of these guys
Speaker 4: that needs to be fully healthy on his lower half
Speaker 4: to to get going. So you look at that that
Speaker 4: that uh that Indie Milwaukee, uh and and and and
Speaker 4: Indie's playing good basketball right now.
Speaker 3: These young guys are hungry.
Speaker 4: Pascal and these boys and and Halliburtons, So it's gonna
Speaker 4: be interesting. One thing Mike Greenberg said too, as we
Speaker 4: switched to the Western coronfheence is that the Lakers should
Speaker 4: rest Lebron James and Anthony Davis to tank. First the
Speaker 4: Pelicans the winner that place Denver, and then they figured
Speaker 4: the Lakers would win.
Speaker 1: Between that.
Speaker 4: They think the Lakers are going to beat Sacramento Golden
Speaker 4: State to get that eight seed and play Oklahoma City.
Speaker 4: So again, strategic scared thoughts. What do you guys think
Speaker 4: about that? How is that even an option to even
Speaker 4: think about?
Speaker 2: When you're talking about you have the so say, best
Speaker 2: player of all time and you're gonna tank with him
Speaker 2: like that?
Speaker 3: It don't even sound.
Speaker 2: Right like the people who some people just shut up, bro,
Speaker 2: that's just frustrating.
Speaker 1: Tell him, are you mad Son?
Speaker 4: But on the flip side, Jack, can the Laker? I mean,
Speaker 4: if I'm trying to make a run. They know bronze
Speaker 4: windows closed, and we all know bronze windows closing. If
Speaker 4: I'm trying to make a run, I'm definitely not trying
Speaker 4: to see Denver in the first round. I would rather
Speaker 4: see one of them other two young teams in the
Speaker 4: first round if I possibly could.
Speaker 2: We didn't want to see Dallas in the first round either,
Speaker 2: but we did, no, I thought we did want to
Speaker 2: see Dallas. I'm just saying, like, nobody wants to play
Speaker 2: the one seed, bro nobody.
Speaker 4: Now, somebody's different, different in this in this okay, see
Speaker 4: is the one seed. People aren't tripping off the one seed,
Speaker 4: off the two seed.
Speaker 2: But my point is, regardless who the team one or
Speaker 2: two you're playing, dever, it don't matter. This is the
Speaker 2: playoffs you gotta go through. You gotta play three rounds regardless.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, and trying to try to
Speaker 2: pick your team, and I just don't like that suit
Speaker 2: up whoever whoever won and two I mean one in
Speaker 2: eight y'all play. I don't give a who it is.
Speaker 2: If we got a chance to get in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: that's what we need to be worrying about, not who
Speaker 2: were playing. Once we get in, let's get in first,
Speaker 2: then we worry about that ship.
Speaker 3: That's the attitude. That's how it should be.
Speaker 5: I feel you on that stack.
Speaker 6: But at the same time, I feel like you're only
Speaker 6: viewing it from a player's perspective.
Speaker 3: That's all I am. I can never beat them cornballs.
Speaker 6: I understand when you think about these coaches, I don't think.
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't think every coach is a cornball.
Speaker 6: We got some formal players that's actually been through the
Speaker 6: trenches and now in that position, so I can't say
Speaker 6: every coach is Darvingham.
Speaker 5: I don't feel like it's a cornball.
Speaker 3: He's He's not a cornball.
Speaker 5: You want it out, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So it is, But when you think about it from
Speaker 6: their perspective, it's a big difference between having a first
Speaker 6: round exit and say second or third round exit, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So what's the difference.
Speaker 5: A couple of dollars ship an extension.
Speaker 6: Darvinham get his ass sent out in the first round
Speaker 6: and he's on the chopping block. He make it to
Speaker 6: the third or second round, it's more chance for him,
Speaker 6: a little more life with the with the Lakers, organization.
Speaker 3: So I think it's I think it's championship or bus
Speaker 3: at l a man.
Speaker 5: Well ship. The closer you all, the better, in my opinion.
Speaker 3: I agree, I agree, So I.
Speaker 6: Think about it from that standpoint too. I think once,
Speaker 6: I think, once you know, you start seeing teams do
Speaker 6: these strategic moves to you know, let's lose here or
Speaker 6: make sure we win here so we can play this team.
Speaker 6: I don't think that's necessarily a player's mindset, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. I think, and we all know how
Speaker 6: this shit go. We don't make the decisions. We just
Speaker 6: got to go out and point at the end of
Speaker 6: the day, though the coach pulled Cleveland starting five, not
Speaker 6: the players didn't say they wanted to come out.
Speaker 5: The coach didn't that.
Speaker 6: So at the end of the day, some things are
Speaker 6: in control for us and some are not. And I
Speaker 6: think this is an instance where it's not. I think
Speaker 6: every player, for the most part, has that mindset, or
Speaker 6: at least wants to have that mindset going into the playoffs.
Speaker 6: We topped all we confident this fucking we ain't worry
Speaker 6: about who in front of him.
Speaker 5: We running through a wall on these motherfuckers. I think
Speaker 5: that's two of the.
Speaker 3: Best players in the league.
Speaker 6: And oh, I'm pretty sure that bron don't give a
Speaker 6: fuck COOLi fact, Brun has seen every type monster in
Speaker 6: this league since he stopped putting this shit. I don't
Speaker 6: think he gives a fuck about Denver bro But at
Speaker 6: the end of the day, Rob Polinka, do Darvin Ham
Speaker 6: does Jeanie Bust?
Speaker 5: They care? They care shit. I want to make it
Speaker 5: look like we had a successful season.
Speaker 6: Hey, let's avoid them for the first round.
Speaker 5: Slider to the second. Possibly see him in the conference.
Speaker 6: It makes think it till you make it go on
Speaker 6: fake absolutely absolutely, but.
Speaker 1: We gotta make it.
Speaker 4: Another team that's playing really good basketball right now. Shout
Speaker 4: out Grayson Allen and his new deal just came across
Speaker 4: the wire, shouting for just got a four year, seventy
Speaker 4: million dollar deal, could be seventy nine with incentives. Had
Speaker 4: a career year, shot the shit out of the ball
Speaker 4: from the three point line and has been an integral
Speaker 4: part for this Phoenix team who's kind of been up
Speaker 4: and down with Bradley Beal not really playing a lot,
Speaker 4: you know, in and out. But Phoenix over their last
Speaker 4: ten and seven and three they had the hardest remaining
Speaker 4: schedule in the league to close out the season, and
Speaker 4: they beat the Wolves twice. They beat Denver, they beat
Speaker 4: the Clippers, they beat the Kings. Phoenix will play Minnesota
Speaker 4: in this first round. They've dominated over the last two
Speaker 4: seasons six and one first Minnesota. Are we buying that
Speaker 4: Phoenix can get hot at the right time and make
Speaker 4: a run in this Western Conference playoffs?
Speaker 2: Only way you're not buying that is if you ain't
Speaker 2: got no money so.
Speaker 4: You're writing so you don't you think they have the
Speaker 4: depth Jack and and you know obviously they got the
Speaker 4: star power up top.
Speaker 1: You think they have the depth to make a run
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2: Man, when you got KD and Booker and Bill and
Speaker 2: a team like that, dog, I like my chances going
Speaker 2: to the playoffs against anybody.
Speaker 3: They can get high.
Speaker 2: You see they getting high right now, they're getting hurt
Speaker 2: at the right time. You want to play like this
Speaker 2: going into the playoffs, right you just gave or bought
Speaker 2: the money.
Speaker 3: Now you got another player on the team happy.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, bro, if you want to worry about
Speaker 2: any tam in the playoffs, like were talking about Miami,
Speaker 2: you better worry about KD.
Speaker 3: And Booker.
Speaker 1: Bookie, you agree, I do.
Speaker 6: On paper, I think they got the talent. They obviously
Speaker 6: had the person there. They got legendary players on the team,
Speaker 6: uh you know, one solid Hall of Famer and KD
Speaker 6: two guys potentially I think book would be one Bill
Speaker 6: will see what happens, potentially another Hall of Famer. So
Speaker 6: on paper, they got that. But uh, you know, this
Speaker 6: has been a very inconsistent team all year. They just
Speaker 6: now kind of found their stride. You know, I've heard
Speaker 6: rumblings where it's not as you know, peachy and clean
Speaker 6: over there as you think, and for the most part,
Speaker 6: the big three that they have aren't really on the
Speaker 6: same page. So I've gotten that information. But you know,
Speaker 6: maybe they played good basketball down the stretch. Maybe they
Speaker 6: have found that chemistry. Maybe they have, you know, finally
Speaker 6: sat down and got on the same page. And I
Speaker 6: think it would be the right time going into the playoffs. So,
Speaker 6: like I said, this team has been very inconsistent. Minnesota
Speaker 6: ain't no hole. Kat will be returning for the playoffs,
Speaker 6: so that's that's a plus for Minnesota. And I think
Speaker 6: that young team is hungy. I'm a huge fan of
Speaker 6: Anthony Edwards. He got that dogmin tyler that you know
Speaker 6: Stack has spoke about, Matt, you play with myself. He's
Speaker 6: that old school style type of player, which which I
Speaker 6: enjoy to watch. So I don't think you know, Minnesota
Speaker 6: is a pushover a hole, So this would be a
Speaker 6: great series.
Speaker 5: I love the J McDaniels KD matchup.
Speaker 6: Sixt eleven offensive force of it's a sixty eleven defensive dynamite.
Speaker 6: So this is gonna be great for TV, great for
Speaker 6: the sport. I think these guys gonna really go out
Speaker 6: there in battle. You got a ship, a big ship
Speaker 6: talking and Edwards you got a big ship talking and
Speaker 6: Devin Booker. Katie can get in that mode as well.
Speaker 6: So shit, the last game they got a little chippy
Speaker 6: between Bill and Edwards. So I think this is gonna
Speaker 6: be a good series. It's gonna be a lot of fireworks,
Speaker 6: and I think at the end of the day, the
Speaker 6: best team will win.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, Matt, do you think
Speaker 2: when they asked Katie doing the season what his future
Speaker 2: looked like in Phoenix, he said, I'm not sure you
Speaker 2: think that started up some ship.
Speaker 3: It could It couldn't have.
Speaker 4: I mean, you look at his track record, he's not
Speaker 4: He's someone who's not scared to make a move. So
Speaker 4: I think, you know, I think him and Lebron are
Speaker 4: very Strachichi as far as not you know, promising the world.
Speaker 4: I'm not guaranteeing shit and.
Speaker 1: See what happens.
Speaker 4: But I think at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 4: they've had success against Minnesota. Minuneso is one of these
Speaker 4: younger teams still trying to find their identity. But regardless,
Speaker 4: second round, you're gonna see them boys from Colorado. So
Speaker 4: I could see. I could definitely see this being a
Speaker 4: great series. As you said, book, I can see Phoenix
Speaker 4: coming out of it. But the bus could stop in
Speaker 4: that second round because you know, I just think this
Speaker 4: Denver team has been playing their role. They haven't been
Speaker 4: too high, they haven't been too low, they haven't been
Speaker 4: really worried about their seed, and they found themselves with
Speaker 4: the first tied for the first best record in the
Speaker 4: Western Conference, so they've kind of they're saving everything for now,
Speaker 4: so they ordered the fifthy champs. So you know, I
Speaker 4: love this first round matchup of Minnesota and Phoenix for
Speaker 4: everything you said, Boogie, but I think the train is
Speaker 4: going to stop for both these teams in the second round.
Speaker 4: Moving on, we want to hand out some flowers first
Speaker 4: and foremost to our brother Russell Rustbrook, just for what
Speaker 4: he's been able to do man someone of his caliber.
Speaker 4: And it's not easy, you know, Boogie, you're a superstar
Speaker 4: to humble yourself and buy into something at the end
Speaker 4: of a Hall of Fame career, when everyone said this
Speaker 4: dude is stubborn. He can't do this, he can't do that.
Speaker 4: You know, Steven A. Smith said, this is the beginning
Speaker 4: of the end. I think that fat that fat fuck.
Speaker 4: What's his name? Jason Whitlock called eight. Yeah, Jason Shitlock
Speaker 4: called him. Called Russ the ab of the of the NBA,
Speaker 4: the Antonio Brown of the NBA. So just a lot
Speaker 4: of disrespect has gone out to Russ. But all he's
Speaker 4: done is made the Clippers better. They're forty five and
Speaker 4: twenty three when he's on the court, six and eight
Speaker 4: without him. Although he has career lows and in statistical categories,
Speaker 4: I think that's obviously just just due to opportunity him
Speaker 4: buying in and then the minutes. You know, he's also
Speaker 4: got career low in minutes, but you know, still explosives,
Speaker 4: still a double digit score, someone that can explode in
Speaker 4: the playoffs, he always plays well. So thoughts on just
Speaker 4: Russ and and and the way he's been able to
Speaker 4: kind of buy in and recreated self and and still
Speaker 4: be very effective coming off the bench for the Clippers.
Speaker 6: Well, for me, I think Russ's impact on any team
Speaker 6: is way bigger than you know, just what he does
Speaker 6: on the floor. It has been well documented that Russ
Speaker 6: is one of the best leaders to be in the
Speaker 6: league and actually lead teams. We saw what he did
Speaker 6: when you know, Kevin Durant left, Okay, See, we saw
Speaker 6: how he led that organization to and they still found
Speaker 6: ways to find success. We saw how he reacted to
Speaker 6: that with the MVP season. So this is who Russ is.
Speaker 6: He's a natural born leader. He's he's a positive energy
Speaker 6: on any team. And I think that energy that that
Speaker 6: he brings to the team is just contagious. It puts
Speaker 6: batteries in everybody's back. So, and it's evident with how
Speaker 6: you know the clip. Once once Russ went down the Clippers,
Speaker 6: they started struggling. They start they could, they became very inconsistent.
Speaker 6: So I think Russ just his presence alone uplifts any
Speaker 6: team and you know that's just credit to him. That's
Speaker 6: like I said, that's the sign of a natural born leader,
Speaker 6: and he's shown it time and time again.
Speaker 4: And before real quick Jack, I want to say too,
Speaker 4: I just don't think he's eleven five and five. The
Speaker 4: numbers don't represent his full impact. As you said, Buck,
Speaker 4: it's a leadership, it's a mentorship, it's stuff he gives
Speaker 4: people the juice that I think sometimes they don't have
Speaker 4: that they need from Russ, because you know, Russ is
Speaker 4: a ball of energy and we all know that energy
Speaker 4: is contagious. You know, I just think having him around
Speaker 4: this big. But Jack thoughts. I know you're a big
Speaker 4: fan of Rush. You've been actually in contact with him
Speaker 4: trying to get him on the show. But give him
Speaker 4: his flowers, bro.
Speaker 2: Man, you know I'm a big time Rush fan, And
Speaker 2: just think about that. You add five, you give him
Speaker 2: two more minutes a game. That's fifteen five and five.
Speaker 2: That's six man at a year, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: you just just think about that. Fifteen five and five
Speaker 2: off the bench, Bro, that's crazy. That's not nothing that
Speaker 2: every bench player is doing. You got bench players that.
Speaker 3: Come off the bench and finished games.
Speaker 2: Matt played the whole full quarters and they don't finish
Speaker 2: with fifteen five and five.
Speaker 3: So as an average off the bench, that's the pressed
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 2: But just but not not only what you talking about Matt,
Speaker 2: the fact that he could just switch it to becoming
Speaker 2: coming off the bench and still be a professional, but
Speaker 2: just knowing that you have more on the tank, just
Speaker 2: knowing that you're over there watching guys that you better than,
Speaker 2: just knowing that you're going to the Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: for something.
Speaker 3: You might not be the player.
Speaker 2: That you was when you came to the league, but
Speaker 2: you can still go out there and be a better
Speaker 2: player than eighty percent of the guys in the league
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Just knowing that and still be able to go out
Speaker 3: there and and and and and and put.
Speaker 2: Your pride aside and go out there when you're a
Speaker 2: player like Russell Westbrook all time triple double leader, like
Speaker 2: it's crazy to be that person and and to put
Speaker 2: yourself all of a sudden as a bench player coming
Speaker 2: off the bench not being respected. I was never that athlete.
Speaker 2: I was never Russell Westbrook, not even close. But I
Speaker 2: couldn't get I didn't want to come out the game
Speaker 2: and being disrespected because I felt like I was better
Speaker 2: than the niggas out there. So for Russman, I give
Speaker 2: him all the flowers in the world, all the respect
Speaker 2: in the world. And I guarantee you, Matt, and I
Speaker 2: say this with confidence of the people that play basketball
Speaker 2: in the NBA are in the NBA respect russ the
Speaker 2: same way we do. They just might not say.
Speaker 1: It, no question. I agree one and really happy for him. Again.
Speaker 4: The Clippers have kind of been my pick at the
Speaker 4: very beginning of the season and I'm still kind of
Speaker 4: hanging my hat on them. If they can get hot
Speaker 4: at the right time. I would love to see Russ
Speaker 4: and and and James and Kawhi and PG and the boys,
Speaker 4: t Lou the homie you know, see them, see them through.
Speaker 2: So hey, hey, hey, one more thing to give Russell's flowers. Ay,
Speaker 2: I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, facts, he couldn't. He couldn't coming off the bench
Speaker 4: wasn't for I couldn't do it. I respect it, and
Speaker 4: I respect it. But that first round matchup of Boogie,
Speaker 4: that first round matchup with the members in Dallas, Kyrie,
Speaker 4: Kyrie and Luka are on the right page at the
Speaker 4: right time.
Speaker 3: Getting hot, the wrong players are playing.
Speaker 1: Well, this is going to be.
Speaker 3: This is going to be.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be live, Baby, don't be live. I'm looking
Speaker 4: forward to it.
Speaker 3: One last.
Speaker 4: This is more kind of just on the mental side,
Speaker 4: you know, salute young fellow Kai Jones, who you know,
Speaker 4: went through some you know, some mental health issues. Was
Speaker 4: cut by the Hornets two years after being the nineteenth
Speaker 4: overall pick. You know, we kind of saw him lose
Speaker 4: it online and you know, I reached out to him.
Speaker 4: We went back and forth a little bit on the DMS,
Speaker 4: but happy to see that the Clippers picked him up,
Speaker 4: signed him to a multi year deal, and he was
Speaker 4: very thankful of the MVPA to reaching out, helping him
Speaker 4: off the court and kind of getting his ducks in order.
Speaker 4: He was able to get into therapy twice a week
Speaker 4: and kind of clear his head. I got a chance
Speaker 4: to see him playing the summer and although you don't
Speaker 4: really judge talent in the summer league, you could or
Speaker 4: you don't judge numbers in the summer league, some of
Speaker 4: the shit this kid was doing, man, it was in
Speaker 4: super freak athlete.
Speaker 3: It's definitely going to.
Speaker 4: Be able to help the Clippers, and I just think
Speaker 4: more than anything, fucked the basketball sign. I'm glad he
Speaker 4: was able to get back on track as a young
Speaker 4: man and you know, continuing this journey because you know
Speaker 4: that that this NBA is a blessing to be able
Speaker 4: to play in and you know, once it's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 4: So I was glad he was able to, you know,
Speaker 4: get back on his feeding and get back in the league.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the MVP A man for helping him
Speaker 2: out too, because I've seen so many situations where guys
Speaker 2: go through a little submit.
Speaker 3: It ain't no help there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: The media portrayal kids a certain way, then people feel
Speaker 2: like they just back up because they've already downplayed him.
Speaker 2: But shout out to the NBPA for not letting this
Speaker 2: kid fall to the waistside being and not waste his talent.
Speaker 3: Salute to them. Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: I'm actually a bit confused as to how this outside
Speaker 6: of him, you know, having you know, his health, his
Speaker 6: mental health issues. What exactly did he do to get cut?
Speaker 6: Was it because he was on social media? I never
Speaker 6: should understood this situation, the situation like what exactly was
Speaker 6: the crime he did to get to the point where
Speaker 6: he just got released and cut.
Speaker 2: I think I think the things he was talking about
Speaker 2: as far as the team and uh, like, I don't
Speaker 2: think it was worth of him to get cut. They
Speaker 2: could have suspended him for a game or find things
Speaker 2: he was saying about the team, Yeah, the meaning of
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 3: But you right, book, it was not worth of being cut.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I never understood. I'm like, like, what did he
Speaker 6: fail a drug test? Or like, what was it that
Speaker 6: you know what we're done with him? Like it's too
Speaker 6: much And I never really understood.
Speaker 4: But let's be honest, man, getting getting cut by Charlotte
Speaker 4: could be a blessing in disguise because you know, ain't
Speaker 4: no action going on out there, so he's out of here.
Speaker 6: And it doesn't make sense for Charlotte. Do you already
Speaker 6: struggle to get talent? Like you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Why not help him go through that hard time. He's
Speaker 6: a talented young kid's full of potential. Why not help
Speaker 6: him get through that time so you can keep drafted
Speaker 6: at home?
Speaker 2: Like y'all, y'all, y'all helped, y'all help y'all, y'all stood
Speaker 2: by the other kid that had the trouble brought him back.
Speaker 3: Bridges. Bridges, y'all stood by.
Speaker 6: Him and his was way more severe.
Speaker 3: I mean, not even in the same classroom.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I I agree that didn't That never really
Speaker 6: made sense for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, glad he's back on track, and best of
Speaker 4: luck for him moving forward. Moving on to one of
Speaker 4: our brothers from another mother, chet holgrin Man for you know,
Speaker 4: being a top pick lad two years ago, missing his
Speaker 4: whole first year and then coming back this year and
Speaker 4: playing eighty two games.
Speaker 1: Eighty two games. Obviously he had a great run.
Speaker 4: It's been overshadowed by Winby's greatness, and I'm sure everyone
Speaker 4: is in agreeance that Winby will win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 4: But you know, for Honger and to come back his
Speaker 4: first year and put up sixteen to seven two and
Speaker 4: a half blocks a game, one of only four rookies
Speaker 4: since two thousand to have those numbers. Winby being the
Speaker 4: other Embiid and Palgosola the other two. But you know,
Speaker 4: this guy is an integral part of that team, one
Speaker 4: of the main reasons why they're sitting up in that
Speaker 4: one seed, and just really happy for them and a
Speaker 4: little piece of history. Okay, see is the youngest number
Speaker 4: one one seed in NBA history. Do you guys see,
Speaker 4: as great as the season's been, they got their feet
Speaker 4: wet now.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Obviously Sga is in the MVP conversation. I don't know
Speaker 4: if he'll get it, but he very well should win it.
Speaker 4: He Barry Belle should win it.
Speaker 1: Can you see them making noise in this Western Conference?
Speaker 2: The only reason I can mad because the game slow
Speaker 2: down in the playoffs, And I think when the game
Speaker 2: slow down, that benefits the shit out of Shy. You
Speaker 2: already can't speed him up, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: the game slow down. I think I think he's one
Speaker 2: of the smartest basketball players at taking advantage of each
Speaker 2: possession when he got the ball.
Speaker 3: So I think that's gonna benefit them.
Speaker 2: They definitely can make some noise being at home all
Speaker 2: the playoffs, their young teams will being at home is
Speaker 2: gonna benefit them. Uh, and then you're more confident at
Speaker 2: home being in your first playoffs, So I love it.
Speaker 2: I think I think they can make some noise. Not
Speaker 2: saying they gonna win it, but they got a good chance.
Speaker 5: I think they got a great chance as well. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's it.
Speaker 6: One thing that stands out to me the most about
Speaker 6: this young team is just the chemistry and the way
Speaker 6: they enjoy being teammates.
Speaker 1: And they look like they really fuck with each other.
Speaker 6: That can't go unnoiced, Bro, Like that type of chemistry
Speaker 6: can take you so fucking far in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 6: That closeness, that can togetherness can really, you know, elevate
Speaker 6: this team to a new height. And it kind of
Speaker 6: reminds me of that young OK team James Harden and Rush.
Speaker 6: They have that same type viob, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So uh, I think Chess is a big part of that.
Speaker 5: Ship.
Speaker 6: I can potentially, as of right now, you can say
Speaker 6: he's the third best player on the team. Long term,
Speaker 6: I could potentially see him being a one or two
Speaker 6: on that team, you know what I mean. I think
Speaker 6: he's got that much talent. And I still don't think
Speaker 6: he necessarily has found his game as of right now.
Speaker 6: He's fitting in. Yeah, I still don't think he's necessarily
Speaker 6: found his game.
Speaker 5: Like he's wrong.
Speaker 6: Absolutely. So I think that kid is full of potential.
Speaker 6: As great as Winby is. I think this kid can
Speaker 6: be just as great and it's.
Speaker 3: Just a time.
Speaker 4: I really like you, and I think obviously Wenby's greatness
Speaker 4: of what he's been able to do kind of overshadow
Speaker 4: what Chet's been doing.
Speaker 1: But Chet's was neck and neck. It's been having a
Speaker 1: great year.
Speaker 4: This young and I don't want to knock either of these,
Speaker 4: whether it be OKAC or Minnesota who both had great years.
Speaker 1: I just have to see it.
Speaker 4: I have to see it in the playoffs because these
Speaker 4: are young teams and we all know that veteran, veteran
Speaker 4: experience always kind of is the trump card when it
Speaker 4: comes to the playoffs. But yeah, I mean, okay, see
Speaker 4: behind Shay and this young crew. But sometimes on the
Speaker 4: flip side, being young and dumb, and I don't mean
Speaker 4: dumb in a bad way, you don't really know what
Speaker 4: you're supposed to do or not that you just start
Speaker 4: going out there and playing hard basketball. So sometimes being
Speaker 4: young and work in your favorite because you're not worried
Speaker 4: about history, you're not worried about shit but getting out
Speaker 4: there and hooping. So I'm excited to see yeah, But
Speaker 4: also on the flip side, you think about it, fellas
Speaker 4: if it is they do play the Lakers or they
Speaker 4: do play a Golden State in the first round. I
Speaker 4: think there's gonna be a lot of teams that, maybe
Speaker 4: not against Golden State, but I think if it's a
Speaker 4: one eight matchup with ok seeing the Lakers, it'll be
Speaker 4: it's gonna be interesting. So I'm excited to see with this,
Speaker 4: you know, with these planes get started, but you know
Speaker 4: what comes out of it, because there's two of the
Speaker 4: top three teams in the Western Conference are young, very talented,
Speaker 4: but young, and the two teams that are trying to
Speaker 4: get to where they're at or experienced teams with Hall
Speaker 4: of Famers on them. So I think it's gonna be
Speaker 4: really interesting.
Speaker 2: I don't care who the Lakers played in the first round.
Speaker 2: I don't see Braun getting to be about the first round.
Speaker 2: I don't give who they played that. I just can't
Speaker 2: see it. Not the first round. He ain't trying to
Speaker 2: deal with that. He ain't nah. I just don't see
Speaker 2: Braun letting himself go out the first round. I don't
Speaker 2: give fuck how old he is. He's still better than
Speaker 2: all the motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: Fu fucker's burn.
Speaker 4: As we you know, as you bring up bron we
Speaker 4: wanted to you know, year twenty one, I mean, we
Speaker 4: look back on the year that Lebron James has had
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five point seven points a game, eight point
Speaker 4: three assists a game, seven point three reb a game.
Speaker 3: At ninety at how old is he fifty?
Speaker 4: This dude is this dude is about to you know,
Speaker 4: is it about to be forty years old at the
Speaker 4: end of this year? If I'm not mistaken, h Man,
Speaker 4: just salute year twenty one. And I wish we had
Speaker 4: these comparisons because I saw him a few weeks back
Speaker 4: at guys in their twenty first year and what they
Speaker 4: averaged it was ugly. It wasn't even close. I think
Speaker 4: Lebron averages more than all them put together. So salute
Speaker 4: to the king what he's been able to do. He
Speaker 4: just had a monster triple double the other day. But
Speaker 4: I agree with you, Jack. If the Lakers get in,
Speaker 4: which I think they will, I don't see Bron going
Speaker 4: out in that first round. I just don't unless they
Speaker 4: play Denver.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, you know what my body told
Speaker 2: me when I was forwarded. When I turned forward it
Speaker 2: on my forded birthday.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Don't you start tripping, don't you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, motherfucker?
Speaker 4: You Oh years over, there is old right, his own
Speaker 4: nigga for everybody but him. Everybody was still doing it.
Speaker 4: Bro is still doing it at the highest level. Right, So, man,
Speaker 4: before we get out of here, hip hop is back.
Speaker 3: Hip hop is back.
Speaker 4: I feel like hip hop's been struggling for a while
Speaker 4: in this audue respect to the younger you know, these
Speaker 4: younger artists, but these old heads started making it competitive again.
Speaker 4: And and Drake versus everyone has kind of taken over
Speaker 4: our airwaves the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: So Kendrick threw the first shot.
Speaker 4: Cole threw a shot, said it was a lameing shit
Speaker 4: he ever did, and apologized. Drake came back versus everybody
Speaker 4: and did his thing. Obviously, Metro in Future did their thing.
Speaker 4: The Weekend jumped on, even John Morant jumped on because
Speaker 4: I guess they was fucking with the same.
Speaker 2: Chick your ass down some what nobody want to hear
Speaker 2: No bars from you, Bro, sit down.
Speaker 3: The best thing ever happened to you was Rianna stop it.
Speaker 4: Sit Metro threw a beat back at him yesday. I
Speaker 4: don't know if you guys saw a Metro came back
Speaker 4: with a fire beat. That's really a Metro go do
Speaker 4: because he ain't gonna get on there and talk no shit.
Speaker 3: But I liked Ross's ship. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 4: Ross has a way of putting words together and melodies
Speaker 4: together and just making it, whether the dish track or not,
Speaker 4: making ship a great song. But I don't know, did
Speaker 4: you guys hear Kendricks this morning? Kendrick came back with
Speaker 4: some more shit this morning. I don't know if y'all heard. Oh,
Speaker 4: they said it was a I.
Speaker 3: That they said Drake shit was AI too.
Speaker 2: But this is my thing though, Matt, as a black man,
Speaker 2: when somebody call you a white boy.
Speaker 4: It can't get no worse than that. It's tough out
Speaker 4: here for us. US have breeze. I've been called white
Speaker 4: boy before and I wanted to fight, So it'd be
Speaker 4: tough out here for us for us US US cross
Speaker 4: breeze out here, they be calling us white boys when
Speaker 4: when Ross did that shit. But you saw Drake, you know,
Speaker 4: Drake being as petty as Drake is. He shared his
Speaker 4: little ship with his mom, shared this story.
Speaker 3: With his mom.
Speaker 4: But I love whords at right now, and if it
Speaker 4: could just stay competitive and stay here, I think this
Speaker 4: ship is bringing life to the game. You got these
Speaker 4: guys with their competitive juices. They're back and forth at
Speaker 4: each other, and you could talk all the shit you want,
Speaker 4: enslave the second shit you want. But if it stays here,
Speaker 4: I think it's good for music here. If it spills
Speaker 4: over and and shit starts having because everyone always wants
Speaker 4: to prove how tough they are.
Speaker 1: Now, if it gets to that, I'm not a fan
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 4: But if it could stay here, if it stays on
Speaker 4: wax back and forth, I think it's good for the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm somebody to make a song. I'm not tough, bro,
Speaker 2: I just want to rap. I think I make that.
Speaker 2: I'm not tough either, you know. People just want to
Speaker 2: make me get good music. I don't want to see
Speaker 2: none of them niggas fight. I don't want to see
Speaker 2: none of their cruise fight, but I do want to
Speaker 2: see them compete and rap.
Speaker 3: I like it. I like it.
Speaker 2: But it's always one dude that's not rapping, that don't
Speaker 2: have nothing to do with it. That's part of the
Speaker 2: click that want to make itself famous and do some
Speaker 2: dumb shit.
Speaker 3: It's never the rappers, it's always the hang alongs.
Speaker 5: That's true. That's true.
Speaker 6: But I mean, I pickyback off both of you guys.
Speaker 6: I think I think it's great for hip hop. I mean,
Speaker 6: as a fan of hip hop, this is what I
Speaker 6: want to see. I think the fact that we got
Speaker 6: all the top dogs in the game outside of you know,
Speaker 6: Jay and Yay, we got the top dogs currently in
Speaker 6: the game right now, all in competition. Like that's great
Speaker 6: for the fans, it's great for music. And like you said,
Speaker 6: I hope it remains on Wax, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: And I think it will because we're dealing with a
Speaker 6: different caliber of rappers. These are guys that have been
Speaker 6: in the game a long time. They understand the ups
Speaker 6: and downs of the business. They understand competition. They understand
Speaker 6: how to turn a bad situation into a good one,
Speaker 6: which I think all these rappers are doing right now.
Speaker 6: They're gonna keep us entertained, they're gonna think, they're gonna
Speaker 6: make us think they don't, you know, get along. But
Speaker 6: I think at the end of the day, they know
Speaker 6: they're all gonna benefit from this situation, which is, you know,
Speaker 6: a dope thing. So, like I said, keep it on
Speaker 6: Wax and keep this ship going. I want to hear
Speaker 6: more baars. I want to hear more dishes.
Speaker 5: I want to keep going. I think it's dope.
Speaker 3: It's good thing. It's a good thing. They all three
Speaker 3: of them got a lot to lose.
Speaker 2: You ain't dealing You ain't dealing with a big name
Speaker 2: rapping somebody who coming in the game and try to
Speaker 2: make a name for usself. The best thing about it
Speaker 2: all these rappers at the top, So it should be
Speaker 2: just fast rap.
Speaker 5: Yeah this this ain't drill music. This real music, So
Speaker 5: cool with it.
Speaker 4: Who do you got? Do you guys have someone right
Speaker 4: now winning? Is anybody winning in your guys' eyes right now?
Speaker 4: Or just hip hop?
Speaker 1: As a hole is winning?
Speaker 2: I think as a hole, I ain't no none of
Speaker 2: them niggas squad. I ain't with not down none of
Speaker 2: them niggas. Like so, I ain't finna just jump on
Speaker 2: one of the nias. I'm not in that they all jam.
Speaker 4: What I will say is benefit I got a lot
Speaker 4: of respect for because Drake is taking on all these
Speaker 4: niggas by yourself. Nobody ain't nobody on Drake's side. Drake
Speaker 4: is shooting at all the times by himself. So again,
Speaker 4: I like what Ross said that if Kendrick ship this
Speaker 4: morning was real. I like what Kendrick said both times,
Speaker 4: obviously fucking with what Drake said.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of Future Metro, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: Future is them kind of like a beef, Like a
Speaker 4: beef type that just makes good music.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know if he's like a beef. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I the Future Future.
Speaker 3: Future PUTU ain't finna jump out there like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he gonna keep it playing as all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So again I agree.
Speaker 4: I think it's good for hip hop, and I hope
Speaker 4: it stays competitive and keeps it over the airwaves and
Speaker 4: not in the streets. Before we get out of here, fellas,
Speaker 4: Hani Garcia, stack what you got for us?
Speaker 3: Hey man?
Speaker 2: Should I got my brother or her Boogey coming into
Speaker 2: the boxing space too, Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia. You
Speaker 2: got Ryan Garcia, a social media star, somebody that's shown
Speaker 2: he's willing to fight anybody, to take all the big fights.
Speaker 3: And one thing you have to give Ryan props for.
Speaker 2: You got guys like Devin Haney who is definitely top two,
Speaker 2: top three in his class, but Ryan is selling this
Speaker 2: fight and it's just the truth.
Speaker 3: Ryan is the big star.
Speaker 2: Ryan is selling his fight even though he's not the
Speaker 2: better box I see Ryan losing this fight, might get
Speaker 2: knocked out. He has a chance because you got because
Speaker 2: of those quick hands, and he's still a big boxer
Speaker 2: and he's always confident. But I just respect Ryan for
Speaker 2: taking the big fights and making the fights that we
Speaker 2: want to see. Devin Haney could be the best in
Speaker 2: his division, got the best job in his division.
Speaker 3: He's like Floyd. He's locked in, don't don't drink, don't smoke.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a Muslim, so he prays five times
Speaker 2: that he's super locked into his craft.
Speaker 3: Is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2: He's somebody that takes box real serious and he don't
Speaker 2: see anybody taking him off the path he going to
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: And I agree with I agree with He looks good
Speaker 3: right now. I see it.
Speaker 2: I see him beating Ryan. But it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: great fight. It's what we want to see. So, like
Speaker 2: I said, I salute both of these guys for making
Speaker 2: this fight what you got.
Speaker 6: But I agree with you. Ran is definitely selling his fight.
Speaker 6: He is a social media star. He understands how to,
Speaker 6: you know, make guys engage, make fans engage with what's
Speaker 6: going on.
Speaker 5: He's going a little off the wire with something that
Speaker 5: was my cut.
Speaker 6: I mean, right at this point, I don't even know
Speaker 6: if the motherfucker is still acting. You know, it's a
Speaker 6: lot going on with Bro. It's something every day, but
Speaker 6: it is entertaining. It does, you know, make you want
Speaker 6: to keep up with the fight and what's going on.
Speaker 6: But when it comes to Devin Hainey, Bro, like, like
Speaker 6: you said, his discipline, his his work ethic, his dedication
Speaker 6: to the sport, his dedication to being great, that's something
Speaker 6: you don't see a lot in any sport any anymore. Right,
Speaker 6: Like right, a young kid being dedicated to being great.
Speaker 6: So I don't think that can go unnoticed. And I
Speaker 6: got Hani simple. I think Haynes is just a better
Speaker 6: boxer all around. And you can't, like I said, you
Speaker 6: can't ignore that discipline and that work ethic.
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