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Speaker 1: Good mornings, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks

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Speaker 1: podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Tuesday, January seventeenth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. I'm Jaskids here in the Classic Factory and

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Speaker 3: Tass Mellis Podcast listeners, this is for you.

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Speaker 1: Next to Tassie, it's the Beard One, Tasha Hot Boy,

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Speaker 1: live show Salt Lake City All Star Weekend. We have

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Speaker 1: playing a little jazz bring your pork pie hat. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's all again. Tickets are gonna go on sale tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: If you're in Salt Lake City for All Star Weekend,

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Speaker 1: Definitely gonna be fun. I mean, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: and there will be We'll get into it in more

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Speaker 1: party on Playback January eighteenth, that is Wednesday, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: There you go, Jazz Wolves your favorite game of mlkada. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And we would definitely be focusing on the Fred boneheaded

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Speaker 2: Gave him fifty one points, got MVP chance in Charlotte,

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Speaker 3: And then, as he said, those three shots in a row,

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Speaker 3: it just made that noise. He was hot, and he

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Speaker 1: Don't you think we have selective memory with these things?

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Speaker 1: fans or at least maybe Wizards fans cheering for Steph

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Speaker 1: Curry a couple of the bombs he hit, and you

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Speaker 1: know they were showing up for them too on the road.

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Speaker 3: A lot of them. Yeah, Steph has done some work

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Speaker 3: in Washington before. Isn't that where he had his monstrous

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Speaker 3: is it eleven three game twelve? It felt like he

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Speaker 3: was going for the record in Washington. I feel like

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Speaker 3: this a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: They just respect him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, he's the greatest.

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Speaker 1: Come out to see him there. I'm gonna go with

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Speaker 1: a weird best play from yesterday. It was in a

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Speaker 1: blowout game. The Grizzlies extended their season high wind streak

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Speaker 1: to ten games. I feel like this has like gone

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Speaker 1: completely under the radar at the grizz of one ten straight.

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Speaker 1: They're right there with the Nuggets still at the top

444
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Speaker 1: of the West, one thirty six, one six win over

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Speaker 1: the very short handed Phoenix Suns. Noebook are still no

446
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Speaker 1: Chris Paul all that, but did you see the play

447
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Speaker 1: where Jamorant he went off in the third quarter as

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Speaker 1: a nationally televised game. He's gonna show out. He takes

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Speaker 1: over in the third quarter, and then after a pull

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Speaker 1: up jumper over Sun's guard saban Lee John Morant, he

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Speaker 1: fell to the floor. He sort of bounced up like

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Speaker 1: on onto his ass, pointed with his right arm, and

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Speaker 1: then he started pumping his arms back and forth, talking

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Speaker 1: to the camera basically saying he can't guard me, He

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Speaker 1: can't guard me, which is very true. Saban Lee doesn't

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Speaker 1: have much of a chance against Ja Morant. But just

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Speaker 1: you know, this guy's a showman. And some people hate

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Speaker 1: the Grizzlies for all the dancing pregame and the way

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Speaker 1: they carry themselves. Not having won a title yet and

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Speaker 1: all that, But I mean, I don't care. I love it.

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Speaker 1: At least he's making like a thirty point blowout game,

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Speaker 1: somewhat entertaining, giving us a highlight, giving us a clip

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Speaker 1: on a m just telling the world he can't guard it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this was the one game I didn't

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Speaker 2: really have a take on.

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Speaker 3: I saw that as well.

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Speaker 2: It's like John Moran is awesome and he's a highlight

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Speaker 2: a minute. Both him and Desmond Bain had more points

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Speaker 2: than minutes played yesterday. The Phoenix Suns are cooked.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they've got some Uh well, they may have

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Speaker 1: some decision making here as we get closer to the deadline.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm still trying to trade trade Crowder. But

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Speaker 1: when is Booker back? Is where we're at with this season,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know at this point this guy comes back,

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Speaker 1: could he save them and get their season back on track?

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Speaker 2: Ask a lot from right now? That's wild.

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Speaker 1: I know they dropped in a hurry in a ten.

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Speaker 1: Now there they're twelveth, but aren't they probably? Yeah, handful

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Speaker 1: of right now. But I don't know what the update

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Speaker 1: is on Booker. It's not he ain't coming back next week.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe being reassessed.

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Speaker 2: I think it's another reevaluated reevaluated. But I also liked

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Speaker 2: the highlight from job where he was going left. It

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Speaker 2: looked like he tripped and fell down and still somehow

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Speaker 2: finished with the left laugh. Yeah, just cool. The body

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Speaker 2: all over fell over and they couldn't do anything about it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that you know the schedulers one flub didn't work out.

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Speaker 3: Booker was out, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: That looks great on paper?

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Speaker 2: Great on paper?

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Speaker 3: And you mentioned the Grizzlies ten game win streak, the

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Speaker 3: Nuggets a six game win streak atop the Western Conference.

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Speaker 3: Those two teams, although there's a glut further down, are

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Speaker 3: separating themselves from third full four and a half games

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Speaker 3: five and the lost column over the third place pell.

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Speaker 1: And there you go. I think the Celtics are the

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Speaker 1: same in the East too, right there, four and a

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Speaker 1: half now up on the Nets and Bucks that are

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Speaker 1: still trying to chase the name. So some separation happening

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Speaker 1: here in the standings, at least at the top. Final

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Speaker 1: question from NBA MLK Day, what was the biggest question

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Speaker 1: mark for you after watching all the games, watching maybe

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Speaker 1: a particular team, a player or whatever started.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I got a weird one. Okay, Kevin Love, during

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Speaker 3: a break in play, slapped the butt of Larry Nance

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Speaker 3: as hard as he possibly could, and Larry Nants complained

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Speaker 3: to the ref. Hey that's a foul. Literally, Hey, that's

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Speaker 3: a foul. Twice. And my biggest question mark is guy

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Speaker 3: did not enjoy the butts butt slap?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but number one was a hard butt slap, very

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Speaker 3: hard butt slap. They are former teammates, so there is

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Speaker 3: some love there. But the third thing is he didn't

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Speaker 3: like it. He definitely did not like it.

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Speaker 1: You imagine they went and checked that out with Caucus

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Speaker 1: and talking to It's not Borges anymore, but whoever is

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Speaker 1: there in the center, Monty and his bow tie. We

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Speaker 1: got a breakdown how hard the slap is, whether the

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Speaker 1: player receiving the slap actually liked it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you like it, it's fine. Really yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he hated it, So that's my question.

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Speaker 1: But it wasn't current me if I'm wrong. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: like the ball was not live yet, right, it was

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Speaker 1: before the inbounds.

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Speaker 3: No, they're waiting.

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Speaker 1: So what happens if I playfully slap your ass during

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Speaker 1: gameplay while you're dunking.

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Speaker 2: Too dangerous in that scenario. Okay, it sounds like it

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Speaker 2: seems like a flagrant one to me sportsman on sports, reckless, reckless.

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Speaker 3: Excessive in today's NBA, I agree.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's how soft we are. We can't

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Speaker 1: slap each other in the ass half. If you get both,

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Speaker 1: you are as the one who gets slapped. You were

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Speaker 1: entitled to slap back, like Reggie Evans and Grant Hill

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Speaker 1: back in the day.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you should be a lot.

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Speaker 2: If somebody slaps you too hard on the butt, you

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Speaker 2: should be able to slap them back.

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Speaker 1: We have now that you say that, we have seen

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Speaker 1: text handed out, or at least text right handed out

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Speaker 1: for playful slapy. Wasn't there a Vince Carter mope?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it got tossed right, a playful slap.

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Speaker 1: That was a playful slap.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, alright.

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Speaker 1: The officials need to know the history between the players

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Speaker 1: and what's been happening, you know place prior to the

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Speaker 1: build up to the butt slap.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think it was a very aggressive butt slap from Devil.

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Speaker 3: The referee knew that on the scouting report. He knows

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Speaker 3: these guys are former teammates. So you gotta know. So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's no Kevin Love lost, but you got a that

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Speaker 3: was flagrant. I think that, Wow, he was really mad.

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Speaker 1: What's the question mark you got from yesterday's action?

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Speaker 2: I gotta set you a scene here first before I

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Speaker 2: can ask you a question. Guess what it's already two questions.

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Speaker 2: Jabari Smith Junior came up to Lebron James in the

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Speaker 2: middle of Lakers versus Rockets and told Lebron that his father,

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Speaker 2: Jamari Smith Senior, now played against Lebron in his first game.

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Speaker 2: Both Lebron and JBJ I think they'll catch on for

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Speaker 2: jam Junior JSJA. I guess they both said. It made

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Speaker 2: Lebron feel old. Lebron then went out and scored forty

563
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Speaker 2: eight points against the Rockets, which is hilarious. So here's

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Speaker 2: the biggest question marks to me. First, Jabari Smith Senior

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Speaker 2: didn't actually.

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Speaker 1: Get in the game, right right?

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Speaker 2: He was a d MP. He was a d MP

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Speaker 2: for the Kings way back when in two thousand and three,

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Speaker 2: so does that count? And second of all, should you

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Speaker 2: just wait till after the game to tell Lebron that

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Speaker 2: you play that his dad, that your dad played against him?

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Speaker 3: Say? I say you go for it when you have

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Speaker 3: the opportunity, because you never know, postgame Lebron's being yanked everywhere,

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Speaker 3: you may not have an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's cool ass moment. I mean, that's now

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Speaker 1: the part where his dad actually didn't play in the game.

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Speaker 1: I want to know if dad just didn't tell the

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Speaker 1: full details to son, because it's like, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's like it's a bit of a lie. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: there's some truth to it. I mean, I assume he suited.

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Speaker 1: I assume he was in uniform for that game, just

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Speaker 1: never got onto the floor there back in Lebron's first game,

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Speaker 1: but that he didn't play, he didn't play against him

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Speaker 1: in his first game. I think he did play against

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Speaker 1: him later in.

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Speaker 3: His That makes it better. I think it's fine. I

587
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Speaker 3: think it's fine.

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Speaker 1: I think it's fine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he was on the bench, he warmed up. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think it's okay.

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Speaker 1: But it's no different than saying I guess if like

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Speaker 1: you were sitting courtside, like, come on, well, what what

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Speaker 1: do you mean that he was on the team.

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Speaker 2: He's not a fan.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's so different than an assistant coach then saying

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Speaker 1: it he's on the team, the.

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Speaker 3: Team or a ball boy. Okay, so what's the Let's

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Speaker 3: say Jabari Smith got in in crunch time, I'm sorry

599
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 3: and garbage time, the game was over.

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Speaker 1: And Lebron wasn't on the floor.

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Speaker 3: Did he play against him?

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Speaker 1: Well, that's really technicality.

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Speaker 3: Then the team, it's okay, and he played against him

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Speaker 3: later in his career or later in the season. Totally cool, Okay,

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Speaker 3: nice fib was nice.

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Speaker 1: I like that we caught that was caught on Mike

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Speaker 1: at least a cooler and Lebron's response was pretty funny too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like the got him a.

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Speaker 2: Old legitimately old. But he also had forty eight points,

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Speaker 2: eight rebounds, nine assists on the second night of a

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Speaker 2: back to back after he had thirty five against the Sixers.

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Speaker 2: That's a tough loss for LA against Philadelphia. Yeah, a

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Speaker 2: nice bounce back for Lebron. And if he's playing, let

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Speaker 2: me do some math here. Eighty three points and back

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Speaker 2: to back nights. Yeah, act rights, he just joined the

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Speaker 2: thirty eight thousand point club. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well after this week over the weekend, well, I had

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Speaker 1: as my biggest question mark, it's a it's a much

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Speaker 1: I guess, a bigger picture question than you had there

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Speaker 1: with the Jabbari incident, But like, how much longer can

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Speaker 1: Lebron keep doing this? Because this this is oddly an

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Speaker 1: overlooks story, and I know it's gonna start ramping up

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Speaker 1: here as he gets closer and closer to beating Kareem's record.

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Speaker 1: He's only three hundred and sixteen points shy of surpassing

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Speaker 1: Kareem now. And if he keeps up his like basically

626
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Speaker 1: thirty points per game average, and he doesn't miss any

627
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Speaker 1: time due to injury or taking rest, he'll break it

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Speaker 1: in like February seventh, or like ninth or something like that,

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Speaker 1: like probably that little home stretch there against Oka See

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Speaker 1: or Milwaukee. If he keeps up this pace and he

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Speaker 1: doesn't miss games, if he misses some games, maybe it

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00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: comes a little bit later. But my point is, like

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Speaker 1: I think Chris Branch wrote about this in The Athletic Pulse,

634
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: that great newsletter that goes out get to Yourself an

635
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: athletic subscription, the Athletic dot com slash no Dunks. He wrote,

636
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: Christen we tire of the Lebron news cycle. I get it.

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Speaker 1: It's even more excruciating when his team isn't great, which

638
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: the Lakers are still pretty low there in the standings,

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Speaker 1: but Lebron is thirty eight years old and playing like

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Speaker 1: a top ten player in the league right now. I mean,

641
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Speaker 1: you could probably even go higher than top ten. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't lose sight of how absurd that is. Just

643
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Speaker 1: because he makes it look normal doesn't mean it is normal.

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Speaker 1: Forty eight points, like this is his third forty point

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00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: performance since turning thirty eight, like a week ago or

646
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Speaker 1: three weeks ago. Excuse me, this is I know it's Lebron,

647
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: so it just all washes over us at this point.

648
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: But this is nuts, really what he's doing here. Yeah,

649
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: forty eight points.

650
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's one of the greats. What can

651
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 2: you say, Compare him to Chris Paul, Like Chris Paul

652
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 2: has fallen apart as he's gotten to be at exactly.

653
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 2: Lebron's a as everybody else does exactly. So yeah, it's

654
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 2: gonna be a special month of watching Lebron try to

655
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: score forty plus every single night, keep doing it.

656
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Speaker 3: It also gets a little diminished just because we're in

657
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 3: this scoring influx here.

658
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I.

659
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 3: Think that's part of it. It's just these the numbers

660
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 3: wash over us because the numbers are just washing over us.

661
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 3: But he's the best thirty eight year old ever. That's it. Yeah, yeah,

662
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 3: I think with it people who start comparing the Jordan

663
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 3: Jordan came back and the Kareem and the Karl Malone. Yeah,

664
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 3: but it ain't true. He's rocking it. And good reports

665
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 3: that Anthony Davis is starting to smell the possibility of

666
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 3: coming back on the court. Yeah, not quite there, but

667
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 3: he snipping it.

668
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: This was just to slip this in here. Fun tweet

669
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: from our guy from the Score Days, Drew Fairservice baseball guy. Wow,

670
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: writing about basketball last night. We're tweeting Lebron's first game

671
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: was so long ago. Just four players attempted a three

672
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: that night and only two hit one. Last night's Lakers

673
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: Rockets game, eighteen different players registered a three point attempt.

674
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: It's so long this guy's been playing.

675
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, I saw I saw the list of father

676
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 2: sons he's played against. Did you guys see it?

677
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 3: Oh? No, I didn't.

678
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: He's played against well J I mean kJ Martin and

679
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: then Kenyon's one of them. Yeah, and then obviously.

680
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 2: Is one of them. So there's another one, two, three, three, hardaway.

681
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 2: I don't see Tim Hardaway on the list.

682
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 3: Did get the curries?

683
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 2: I don't think he played against Dell. Two of them.

684
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 2: Two of these father sons share a first name with

685
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,479
Speaker 2: tasks alter Ego, Gary, we got a gear double garys

686
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 2: Gary Trent, Gary Trent, Gary Trent Senior, Gary Trent Jr.

687
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: We have another set of Gary's.

688
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,959
Speaker 2: Yes, holy crap, Yeah, Gary Harris Hall of Famer is

689
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 2: the day and the Gary Gary's Peyton Wow. Jaron Jackson's

690
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: uh not no, but close on the name for the

691
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 2: son for the other player could be an All Star.

692
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: It'd be between him and byl Jalen and Rick Jalen.

693
00:32:55,040 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: He's played some Gary's Rick Wow. All the old names. Yeah,

694
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one.

695
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 3: That's a good one, very good. Yeah.

696
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: He's played a lot of time, twenty seasons. It's wild

697
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: that he still looks like Lebron of like I mean,

698
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: it looks like Lebron of seven.

699
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: Six doesn't look what do you mean?

700
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: I mean throws down?

701
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: He does, he doesn't jump as high, he's not as fast.

702
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: I means like the Lebron of past.

703
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: He looks like a thirty eight year old version of Lebron.

704
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 2: We haven't seen a version.

705
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: I don't think he looks that much different than a

706
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: thirty three year old version of Lebron, is my point,

707
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: not the twenty five year old. But all right, dude

708
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: could high in the heat days. Still, let's take our

709
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: first break. That was our NBA MLK date recap. When

710
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: we come back, some trade rumors and a little dunk

711
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: contest talk.

712
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Still here in the Classic Factory. Hit the like

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Speaker 1: button if you haven't already subscribed to No Dunks on YouTube,

715
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: to everybody joining us live here in the stream. Team. Okay,

716
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: before we get to trade rumors, we did have some

717
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: more dunk contest participant news over the weekend. Delaware Blue

718
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: Coats guard Mac McClung, who some of you might say,

719
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: has accepted an invitation to be in the Slam Dunk

720
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: Contest at All Star Weekend in Salt Lake City. This

721
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: is from our guy, Shams Sharanya at the Athletic. Here's

722
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: what you need to know about Mac. He's gonna be

723
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: the first ever g League player in the dunk contest

724
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: in the NBA Dunk Contest. He's six foot two. His

725
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: dunks have been attracting some attention at least since his

726
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 1: college days, and if you're a real dunk sicico maybe

727
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: even his high school mixtape guy can throw down despite

728
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: being pretty small. He now joins Rockets forward kJ Martin

729
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: and Blazer's rookie Shaden Sharp in the contest. So we're

730
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: still looking for our fourth at least official word of

731
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: our fourth guy. But what was your reaction to Mac McClung,

732
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,760
Speaker 1: a G League guy going in the NBA dunk Contest.

733
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: I see some people are like, oh, great, cool, Like,

734
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, we obviously know we can dunk. Who knows

735
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: what we can do in a contest. We'll see, But

736
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: like other people like, what it's gotten this? We've gotten

737
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: this desperate? We can't you can find NBA players are

738
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: going this things. We now got to go to the

739
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: G League. Like I feel like there's two camps to this.

740
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 2: Well, he can fly. I'm familiar with this high school

741
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 2: mixtape and I've been a Mac McClung nowhere ever since

742
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 2: Riffraff said they were cousins. Turns out they're not. No,

743
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 2: It's one of the many things Riffraff has lied used

744
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 2: to play for the Lakers, as it turns out, or

745
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 2: the Mavericks never made it to the NBA. YEA, yeah,

746
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 2: he's always lying.

747
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 3: But mac McClung, he's a former ball I believe that I'll.

748
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 2: Give him my jacket. He can be a Delaware blue Coat.

749
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: But my main reaction was the Sixers should be forced

750
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 2: to call him up if he's going to be in

751
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 2: the dunk contest.

752
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the weird part.

753
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 2: It's like when the Sun's brought up Derek Jones Junior

754
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 2: two weeks before the dunk contest, so they could have

755
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 2: a representative there doing sweet dunks. Go do some sweet dunks,

756
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 2: but doing a Sixers UNI.

757
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 3: That was my first reaction. The G League is minor

758
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 3: league of the NBA. He could be called up. He

759
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 3: could be purchased by anybody if the Sixers don't want him,

760
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 3: traded or whatever. But the NBA wants this. The NBA

761
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 3: wants a little spot light on the G League. The

762
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 3: NBA wants to make G League more well known. I

763
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 3: can't decide if this is a good thing or bad.

764
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 3: What if he comes in and wins the thing? Is

765
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 3: that a good thing or a bad thing? Because the

766
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 3: conversation about a G leagueer beats the NBA players in

767
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 3: a dunk contest. But at the same time, does that

768
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 3: motivate NBA players to go in and I doubt it.

769
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 3: I doubt it. The guy can fly. I don't think

770
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 3: this is a James White situation where it's too late

771
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 3: for him to win a dunk contest. I can't I

772
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 3: can't decide if this is good or bad. It goes

773
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 3: both ways. I think we're the biggest G League fans

774
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 3: in Atlanta down here. We've all gone to a game.

775
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 3: It's been exciting. We're hoping to see Scoot in a

776
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:47,479
Speaker 3: couple months. But I don't like it. There's a fourth

777
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 3: NBA player that could do it and do it fine,

778
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 3: So I just I just don't really get it. There's

779
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 3: a G League dunk contest, there's a G League All

780
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 3: Star Game happening before the NBA All Star Game. You're

781
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 3: just kind of giving up.

782
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: I guess I know that that's what some people think

783
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: is happening here. It's like, Wow, we can't even get NBA.

784
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: We can't even find four NBA guys to actually go

785
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: in this. Now, maybe that's not the case. Maybe the

786
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: NBA like they, yeah, they want to promote the GE

787
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: League little more mac McClung has made it clear he

788
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: wants to go in whatever it is, like they want

789
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: to showcase, Like if he puts on a show, like

790
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: nobody will really care. I think is the thing like

791
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: if he goes on to win it in a great

792
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 1: contest like Battling Sharp or Kaye Martin whoever. The fourth

793
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: is like if there's at least two or three guys

794
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,959
Speaker 1: like putting on a show that night in Salt Lake City,

795
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: then I think it's fine. If it's a dudlight last year,

796
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: let's be honest, that was really disappointing and people struggling

797
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: with dunks and it was a bore and he would

798
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: and he would go on to win it, then that

799
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: would be bad. Then I think it looks really really bad.

800
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: But then the other part of me is like a

801
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: lot of people are like, let's get professional dunkers in

802
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: this too, Like let's just put on a show. Does

803
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: this like is this one step for us to getting

804
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: to those professional dunkers that do this for a living,

805
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: to maybe having one of them in it too? That

806
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: good or bad? I don't know. So it's sort of

807
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: like a wait and see here and we just pray,

808
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: Like any dunk contest. Two guys are putting down their

809
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: dunks on that particular night and are sort of going

810
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: at it, and gets the arena into it in the fans.

811
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Speaker 2: This is the closest we've seen so far to professional

812
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,439
Speaker 2: dunkers in the dunk contest. I agree on that one,

813
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 2: but I don't want to see that personally. H G

814
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 2: League is a lot closer to the NBA than professional dunkers,

815
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 2: So I prefer this than you know, Jordan Kilgannon or whatever.

816
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll and we'll wait to find out who

817
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: the fourth is. I know there are some rumblings that

818
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: it could be Obi Toppin defending his dunk title. Yes,

819
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: he did win last year. You may have forgotten that

820
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: we were sitting right at this table watching it, were

821
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: we not? Yeah, live with everybody hopefully that joined us

822
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: on YouTube. There's a lot of push for his teammate

823
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: Jericho Sims to be the fourth guy. And I don't

824
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: know if there's anyone else's name out the I mean,

825
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: everybody wants John Rant, but now it's not happening, not now,

826
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: especially with the G League guy.

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00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, wearing off course, I think I know we

828
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 3: every year that we have a bad year, we just say, well,

829
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 3: the dunk contest is done. But if we go on

830
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 3: the G League group, I'm concerned if Mac mclung wins it,

831
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 3: that this just becomes the best dunkers between both leagues.

832
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 3: Like maybe NBA players just don't want to do it anymore.

833
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 3: This is this is we're at a point here where

834
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 3: NBA players don't really want to do it.

835
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: Now, any stars don't want to do it. We know

836
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: that that's been about five years running.

837
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's almost the last time that we

838
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 3: had a good dunk contest. It was twenty sixteen that

839
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 3: we had a great one great show. But now we

840
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 3: may be saying, okay, the pool is now G leaguers

841
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 3: in a couple of years and NBA players who might

842
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 3: want to go in it.

843
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: Okay, Well here's the question. Would you rather there is

844
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: no dunk contest on that Saturday night at All Star

845
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 1: weekend or would you rather at least we have some dunkers,

846
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: be it G League or professional dunkers whoever. We have to,

847
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 1: like dwitdle down to which one do you want no dunks.

848
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 2: Or some dunks?

849
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: Oddly I want dunks even though we have a podcast

850
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:07,479
Speaker 1: called Dough Ducks.

851
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 3: As much as I hate the time we've had since

852
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 3: Zach Lavine's show against Daron Gordon, I think we just

853
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 3: got to grin and bear it and just deal with

854
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 3: NBA players who want to do it, and one day

855
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 3: there will be a great doctor. Of course, I think

856
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 3: Sharp could do it this year as an NBA player,

857
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 3: And if mac mclung was just called up, then we'd

858
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 3: have four NBA players up.

859
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll maybe we'll all right, uh, let's get into

860
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: some trade rumors. Our guy Champs at the Athletic he

861
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: just dropped his uh you know, classic inside pass a

862
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,959
Speaker 1: couple hours before we went live here. We won't get into, uh,

863
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: some of the details in Champ's article just quite yet.

864
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: Maybe tomorrow, maybe later this week. But it's a lot

865
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: of the same names. Let's just say that, right, Okay,

866
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: it's your Yaka Pearls and your Van Vleets and stuff

867
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: like that. But we did have some rumors from Mark Stein,

868
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: very plugged in NBA Reporter. First one is the Calves

869
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: weighing a three way trade with the Hawks and the

870
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: Jazz from Malik Beasley and so, according to Stein, the

871
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 1: Calves are weighing this three way trade that could send

872
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: Hawks forward John Collins there's that name again to the Jazz,

873
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 1: Malik Beasley to the Calves, and then from Stein's reporting,

874
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: Karslaburt and that expiring basically nineteen million dollars deal that

875
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: would be moving away from Cleveland sort of as the

876
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: obvious trade chip. So I guess probably making its way

877
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: to the Hawks in this scenario. All right, John Collins

878
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 1: to Utah, Malik Beasley to Cleveland, Karslivert to Atlanta. That's

879
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: you know, that's the idea of this three way trade

880
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: being reported from Mike Mark Stein. Any thoughts?

881
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 3: Love it for the Calves. Malik Beasley and his eight

882
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 3: threes per game? Yeah you want that on your roster? Yeah,

883
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 3: eight three is per game?

884
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: Yeah? Anyway shoots about a decent clip, Like I mean,

885
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: is he I thought.

886
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 3: He was, but I think he's a forty man. You

887
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 3: want guys to spread the floor. They've had question marks

888
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 3: with a small forward spot. I'm still an Isaaca Coro fan.

889
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:23,760
Speaker 3: Great move, though, Jazz, John Collins, great move the Hawk. Yeah,

890
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 3: give it a shot. Why the heck not? You've you've

891
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 3: got a runway here of a couple of years where

892
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 3: you can just try things out because your salary cap

893
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 3: is so low, why not give it a whirl. He's

894
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,240
Speaker 3: under contract. They seem to be doing some marvelous things

895
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 3: with Mark and and obviously Malik Beasley is great. Right now,

896
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 3: Jordan Clarkson things are working out pretty well. The Hawk situation.

897
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 3: I just don't really get Karaslvert is a very very

898
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 3: talented guy, but it's an expiring deal and you'd basically

899
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 3: be getting a rental for John Collins. I think it

900
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,280
Speaker 3: would turn from a rental to a long term deal,

901
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:03,479
Speaker 3: and who knows how it's gonna work out. The front

902
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 3: office here with the Hawks is is under much scrutiny.

903
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,720
Speaker 3: Great articles on The Athletic about what's happening there. Tony Wrestler,

904
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 3: the owner has given a lot of power to his

905
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 3: twenty seven year old son, Nick Wrestler, who does not

906
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 3: have any NBA experience in terms of management. Landry Field's

907
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 3: thirty four year old GM has come in. They're just

908
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 3: hiring guys left and right that don't have a lot

909
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 3: of experience. I don't know what's happening, and I think

910
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 3: this would be a move seemingly that would start would

911
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 3: fit in with what they're doing, and that's not a

912
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 3: good one. I don't think I love carrosel Urt, but

913
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 3: I think you're just you're signing up for years of

914
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 3: question marks, like you just don't After this Dejonte Murray deal,

915
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 3: he gave away all these picks.

916
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: So maybe some draft capital would come back in this hypothetical.

917
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 3: Maybe, and maybe we make a little too much about

918
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 3: the draft picks that went out for de Jontay Murray

919
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 3: because one was a Charlotte pick and all that. But

920
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 3: still I'm worried about this team. This team is not

921
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 3: playing well, and you're just gonna add another long term

922
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 3: deal and I'm just not sure. Again it's a rental,

923
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 3: it could turn into a long term deal. It seems

924
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 3: like a hawksy move.

925
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: What do you think, Trey, of this reported Stein three

926
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: team deal.

927
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 2: Hawks would have to get picks back, I do believe,

928
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 2: because the entire reason they would be doing this is

929
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 2: not a rental for Lavert. It would be to get

930
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 2: off the deal for John Collins, so you don't have

931
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 2: to pay him long term, but for this season, they

932
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 2: would be getting of the three guys we're talking about here, Beasley, Collins,

933
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,280
Speaker 2: and Lavert for me, Karris Lavert is probably the worst.

934
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 2: He's certainly the oldest, and he doesn't have a contract

935
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 2: after this year. So if you're moving John Collins, like

936
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 2: your most movable piece who's been in trade rumors for

937
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: the past three seasons, I think the Hawks could do

938
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 2: a little bit better than that to help them on

939
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: the court. I like John Collins on the Jazz, marking

940
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 2: In and Collins similar type players. They can play inside,

941
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 2: they can play outside. The Jazz have really found something

942
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 2: having a ton of space, basically running five out every

943
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 2: single possession. Down there are the good inside outside duo.

944
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 2: But to those two and the Calves are targeting a

945
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 2: shooter here, it is weird. Malik Beasley. I thought he

946
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 2: was a forty percent shooter, forty percent from the field,

947
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 2: unfortunate thirty six thirty six.

948
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: But he shoots, he shoots a lot. Yeah, he shoots him.

949
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 2: The Calves need shooting right now. They're a middle of

950
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,760
Speaker 2: the road team. But it's between Milik Beasley. They're targeting

951
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 2: Tim Hardaway, Junior, Doug McDermott boy and Bogdanovic. Clearly they

952
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 2: want somebody who's going to stretch the floor. Yeah, on

953
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 2: the outside and I think Beasley would be fine, would

954
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 2: probably be a platoon with Isaac Accoro. Acorro was great

955
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 2: Garden CJ. McCollum in the fourth quarter of the Calves

956
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 2: win over the Pelicans. But that guy can't shoot. You

957
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 2: can use him defensively if you've got a guy who

958
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 2: can shoot when you need him.

959
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I like this makes some sense, especially

960
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: for the Calves and the Jazz. Maybe less so for

961
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: the Hawks, but I think there would be some some

962
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: picks of some sort coming back their way if this

963
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: were to happen.

964
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 3: I guess I was. You're right at thirty five percent.

965
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 3: He was great to start season, last ten games, he's

966
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 3: at twenty eight percent from three drop off.

967
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: But he like but again that idea, you know, just

968
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: being a threat, like the guy. The guy's gonna let

969
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: it fly like a touns per game. There's no joke.

970
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: A next one here from also from Stein, Tess, I

971
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: think you're gonna like this one. Clippers are interested in

972
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: a trade for Mike Conley.

973
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 3: You're right, Skates, Yeah, yeah, what do.

974
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 1: You think about this? And Stein says, you know the idea.

975
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: John Wall's injured right now, you know, hasn't played all that.

976
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: Great there, he's got this. I believe it's an ab injury.

977
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: He's gonna be out for a couple of weeks. Yeah,

978
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: could Conley be a smooth play here by the clips

979
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 1: trying to get.

980
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 3: Him abs osolutely. They've also been, you know, contemplating whether

981
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 3: Reggie Jackson is going to be in the starting lineup.

982
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 3: He's played the gone to the bench a couple of times. Yes,

983
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 3: I'm a Mike Conley lover. He's a stabilizer. I know

984
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 3: he's not had the best season with Utah, but it

985
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 3: would be a perfect fit. And I do think the

986
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 3: Clippers kind of have to go for it. And going

987
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 3: for it doesn't mean trading Kawhi or Paul George. But

988
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 3: here in year four of this experiment, you got to

989
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 3: try and get better. So I think that would help

990
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 3: them get better. It would stabilize that point guard position

991
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 3: for sure. It doesn't, you know, make them better in

992
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 3: what in terms of exactly what they need. They need

993
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 3: a guy who can get to the rim. But at

994
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 3: least he would get the ball to the right guys.

995
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 3: And you know he is a guy who will organize

996
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,919
Speaker 3: extremely well when you have the injury. As he said

997
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 3: to John wall and the Reggie Jackson situation there, So yeah,

998
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 3: this is the kind of move that is going for

999
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 3: it for them. They would they also need a backup big,

1000
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 3: but they also have Moses Brown playing again a seven

1001
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 3: to two wonder in that backup role, but Conley would

1002
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 3: be an improvement.

1003
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: Conley is having a rough season shooting the ball, shooting

1004
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent, which really when you look at just

1005
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 1: full seasons he's played, there was that one year we

1006
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: didn't play a lot and shot worse than that with Memphis,

1007
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: but otherwise this is his worst when it comes to

1008
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: shooting the ball. But do you think he could help

1009
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: the Clippers as that sort of like just vet point

1010
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: guard in playoff series, you know, just running the offense,

1011
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: taking care of him and he's still scratch be enough

1012
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: on the defense, and what do you think.

1013
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 2: He would help the Clippers because they need a point

1014
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 2: guard with John Walhert and Reggie Jackson struggling. But Conley's

1015
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 2: older than both of those guys, He's more expensive than

1016
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 2: both of those guys. He's on a longer deal. So

1017
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 2: to me, the Clippers should not use their limited assets

1018
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,479
Speaker 2: that they actually have to go after Mike Conley He's

1019
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 2: not going to really move the needle for him, just

1020
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 2: another old guy who misses a lot of time, and

1021
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 2: the Clippers have enough of that. I think they need

1022
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 2: more size. They've just got so many wings, They've got

1023
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 2: so many guys who all play the same positions that

1024
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 2: they need to figure out some sort of balance here.

1025
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 2: And I don't think that making a move to bring

1026
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 2: in another thirty five year old is the way to go.

1027
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 3: I didn't know Mike Conley was signed through next year.

1028
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,959
Speaker 3: It's a real Kyle Lowry got your money situation here.

1029
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:45,320
Speaker 3: Good move Conley.

1030
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the idea would be though he's not

1031
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: even close to the level of player that Drew Halidy is.

1032
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: Is like when the Bucks made that move for Drew Holliday,

1033
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: get that point guard. I mean again, he's just so

1034
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: much better than Conley at this point of his career,

1035
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: and Drew Hallidy was much much younger. Even still, he

1036
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: was like maybe just knocking on thirty when that deal

1037
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: goes down, when he goes from the Pelicans to the Bucks.

1038
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: That's the thinking though, Yeah, Lowry, like I guess, but

1039
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: depends how much would be going back to the Jazz

1040
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 1: and well and will the Jazz you know now that

1041
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: they've fallen a little bit in the standings, like they're

1042
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 1: gonna be a team to watch here, Like just what

1043
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: they do? What route they go? Trading Conley, trading Clarkson

1044
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: and just leaning into really the marketing and Kessler front

1045
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: court of the future. Will they do that final one here?

1046
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: I teased it off the top. CJ McCollum foreshadowed on

1047
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: his podcast that the Raptors trade or excuse me, that

1048
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: the Raptors there's a lot of rumblings around trading potential guys. Now,

1049
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 1: he didn't want to name names, but then everybody started

1050
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: like going, hold on, hold on. He used to play

1051
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: with Gary Trent Junior in Portland. Oh, he knows Fred

1052
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: van Vliet. Oh so well, he's the president of the

1053
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: Players Association. He knows all these guys. Who's he talking about?

1054
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: Should he be allowed to say this? I mean, I

1055
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: think it got made into a bigger story than it

1056
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 1: was because he didn't really say anything that that nobody

1057
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: already didn't know, right that, Hey, the Raptors might trade

1058
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: some of their core pieces here because they've been pretty

1059
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: disappointed in this season. But do you have thoughts on CJ.

1060
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,479
Speaker 1: Adding a little fuel to the fire here in Raptors Land.

1061
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 3: He's a calculated individual. I don't think he would just

1062
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 3: let that out if there wasn't some meaty substance to it.

1063
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 3: Something tangible. Gonna is definitely gonna happen, I think, and

1064
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 3: he knows that that's all who it is. I don't know.

1065
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 3: I think he wouldn't have let it slip because he

1066
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 3: knows what tampering is he and he's doing it. Yeah,

1067
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 3: I suppose, But he's a player and they can get

1068
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 3: away with it, that's right.

1069
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, Gary Trent Junior is getting traded, that's.

1070
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: What you think.

1071
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 2: Absolutely, they were teammates and it feels like Gary Trent

1072
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 2: Junior isn't going to get paid by the Raptors, right.

1073
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 2: I can see you being upset about that, especially being

1074
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 2: the guy who's in trade rumors all the time. So

1075
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 2: I imagine is tied in with the Raptors because him and

1076
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 2: Gary Trent Junior probably still have each other's phone numbers.

1077
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 2: So Gary on the move would be my guess.

1078
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: I think I believe it was Bobby Marks throughout a

1079
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: hypothetical trade that could have a Gary Trent Junior going

1080
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: to the Pelicans team up there with CJ once again,

1081
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: DeVante Graham, Jackson Hayes and a future pick for Gary

1082
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: Trent Junior is what Bobby marks throughout. I believe in

1083
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: his latest article when he was going through all the

1084
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference teams and a trade he would like to see.

1085
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: If that wasn't reporting or anything, it was just like

1086
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: him looking at the pieces here.

1087
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 3: That's the hottest type of package from the Pelicans. Those

1088
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 3: guys that are barely in the rotation, right, trade them

1089
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 3: improve a slight a little bit, just a little bit.

1090
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,959
Speaker 3: I mean, Gary's a good offensive player. Yeah, I wonder

1091
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 3: where he finds the minutes in that rotation. Yeah, yeah,

1092
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 3: because there's just they're so deep. So I don't know

1093
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 3: if they mess with that, I get the move, but

1094
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 3: I'm not sure they would. They would, they would mess

1095
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 3: with that. We throw out the Eric Gordon to the

1096
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 3: Pelicans hypothetical for a similar type pack. The Raps could

1097
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 3: use that Jackson Hayes, Jackson with an X. They need

1098
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 3: a center, absolutely, they need a center. But I don't know.

1099
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: I don't think you just believe CJ here that he

1100
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: does know somebody on the Raps are getting is getting

1101
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: moved here in the next couple of weeks because we

1102
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: get closer and closer to the deadline. Sounded like, what.

1103
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 3: Does he what does he know?

1104
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: You talk to somebody on the wraps like I probably

1105
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: getn't moved, man, it's probably gonna happen.

1106
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 3: You think it happens when they're on the court. Blazers

1107
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 3: just or not the Blazers Pels play the raps and

1108
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:35,919
Speaker 3: they just say it on the court like we hate

1109
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 3: each other. I don't know somebody's getting moved, well, so

1110
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 3: so Gary just tells him, Yeah, they're gonna trade me.

1111
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: They know probably how it works. Friends talk to friends

1112
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: and agents obviously might I don't know who. I don't

1113
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: know who's repping both those guys or whatever. Stuff like that,

1114
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 1: Like they know stuff for sure. We know it's being discussed.

1115
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: That's just whether they can whoever the two parties are

1116
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: going to agree on the deal that make everybody seem

1117
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: like they're the winner. He's always the tough part here. Yeah,

1118
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: we'll wait to find out. All right, more trade rumors

1119
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: later this week. If I'm being honest, there's nothing like

1120
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: really all that new and juicy. I guess Perle in

1121
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: the latest Sham's article. Shawan's is saying it's feeling more

1122
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: and more likely that the Spurs and the Hornets are

1123
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: going to be your active sellers here at the deadline.

1124
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: I mean, two of the worst teams in the league,

1125
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: the two worst team teams that should lean into obviously

1126
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: continuing to be bad and trying to get anything back

1127
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: and picks or young players that makes sense, you know.

1128
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: And does that mean it's Kelly Oubray junior, or it's

1129
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: a plumb Dog, or it's Pearl or Doug McDermott or Richardson.

1130
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably what's gonna be. It's gonna be one,

1131
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:43,360
Speaker 1: two or three of those guys being moved here in

1132
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: some of these deadline deals.

1133
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 2: That's why every report is that teams are monitoring the

1134
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 2: Raptors and Bulls to see if they're gonna tank because

1135
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:51,760
Speaker 2: they want actually good players.

1136
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: They're better players. Yes, yes, they.

1137
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 2: Don't want to plumb Lee. Nobody wants a.

1138
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: Plumber plum Dog anymore.

1139
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 2: Man, if the Raptors can get a first round pick

1140
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 2: though for Gary Trent Junie, that'd be nice.

1141
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: Get one back. That's what it cost them, right, did

1142
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: they norm pell plus the first who got the pick

1143
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: in that.

1144
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 2: I don't think there was a pick exchange, was there?

1145
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 3: Oh wow?

1146
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: I thought there was a pick attachment there somewhere, But

1147
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:14,839
Speaker 1: there was a raptors have al there, so the other

1148
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: thing loss sense? Yeah, maybe it was the other way.

1149
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: Let's take our final break when we come back. Pick

1150
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: the results from a long long time ago. And a

1151
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 1: couple tweeted the Knights, all right, pick the results from

1152
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: Friday night, which was an eternity ago. It was that

1153
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: Warrior Spurs game in the alum the Dome.

1154
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 2: They did it.

1155
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: Congrats on the record breaking attendance. What was it in

1156
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: the end over sixty eight thousand? I think they said

1157
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: I was gonna say sixty three, but I think it got.

1158
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1159
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,879
Speaker 1: Did you see some of the photos where people were

1160
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: sitting pretty far?

1161
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 3: Wow, you could.

1162
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: Barely see like the Jumbo's screen that they had multiple screens.

1163
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: You got a number there, what was it?

1164
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:58,479
Speaker 2: I'm saying sixty eight three two three?

1165
00:54:58,600 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 3: There you go.

1166
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,720
Speaker 1: That's a lot of people. Yeah, And I thought because

1167
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: of that, the Spurs are going to keep this close

1168
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: for all sixty eight thousand attens. Instead they got wallet,

1169
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: they got hammered to nell. For me, I'm three and

1170
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 1: seven here in January, just brutal. You guys took the Warriors.

1171
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: They covered that eight and a half point spread by

1172
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: like twenty five plus task is five and five? Trade

1173
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 1: a very nice eight and two here in January? Only

1174
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: four games on tonight? Where are we going?

1175
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, TNT doubleheader tonight starts off with Toronto Milwaukee and

1176
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:35,399
Speaker 3: ends with Philly and the Clippers. Philly is a one

1177
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:39,359
Speaker 3: point five favorite on the road in LA. This LA

1178
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 3: team that was picked by the majority of the media

1179
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 3: in the media survey to represent the Western Conference in

1180
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 3: the NBA Finals recently. This LA team, if they're gonna

1181
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 3: do that, then they got to start doing it now.

1182
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 3: The Sixers, well, they could win and not cover this

1183
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 3: line because they win by one point a lot. They

1184
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 3: beat the Lakers just recently there by that one point

1185
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,399
Speaker 3: went also against the Jazz back to back one point

1186
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,839
Speaker 3: wins there, so they could cover skeets. All I'm sorry,

1187
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:16,240
Speaker 3: Trey thinks that they will win by two or more. Well,

1188
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 3: we think the Clippers will cover or win skeets. Why

1189
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 3: why you got the Clippers no clue?

1190
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: Man, I got no feel on this one at all.

1191
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: I would just confused you said the Bucks.

1192
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 3: Raptors, Yeah, start off night.

1193
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't they just play on a national televise game?

1194
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: Was it maybe an ESPN game?

1195
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 3: But it was a long ago, right, that was an

1196
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 3: spin Yeah that was likely.

1197
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, thirteen to eleven first quarters?

1198
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,839
Speaker 3: Yeah like that right, Yeah that everyone turned it off

1199
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 3: long ago.

1200
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:43,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, could come back at the end.

1201
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: So we got another taste of that tonight. Maybe is

1202
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:46,479
Speaker 1: honest playing?

1203
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so very very much that I

1204
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 3: think he's missing his third straight game to the Nie

1205
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 3: hornis I'm pretty sure?

1206
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:56,360
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, good luck to everybody in that

1207
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,800
Speaker 1: Clippers Sixers game. Let's get to tweet the night.

1208
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 3: Tweet over night? Wow, excuse me?

1209
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: Voices going here? A couple tweet of the nights. First

1210
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: one from at Brax, the creator who tweeted at us

1211
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 1: on the weekend. Guys here I was. I made a

1212
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: pizza and everything ready to bask in the OKAC glory

1213
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: of the best of the weekend, and to my surprise,

1214
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: alas no episode. I've been crying on my couch for

1215
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: the last hour. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves. Yeah,

1216
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: we replying to me there, and then the no Dunks

1217
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: Twitter account because we didn't have a show yesterday on

1218
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: MLK Day, took day off. Usually would do our Monday

1219
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: winners and losers of the NBA weekend, and Brax the

1220
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: creator was like, for sure, you would have had Okac

1221
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: as a winner of the weekend. And he's right, and

1222
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: this is unfortunate timing on Okac's part. They finished out

1223
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: their four game road trip with two more wins over

1224
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: that weekend. They beat the Bulls by fourteen on Friday night,

1225
00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: then they beat the Nets in Brooklyn by ten on Sunday. Josh,

1226
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: he's on one right now. Offensively, something has clicked for

1227
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: that guy. He's talied at least twenty points in eight

1228
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 1: of his last twelve games, including three straight games to

1229
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: finish that Thunder road trip. You know, Sga is still

1230
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: balling out. These guys are putting up a lot of points.

1231
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: He had a career high Giddy did twenty eight on

1232
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Nets as he flirted with a triple double. Okay,

1233
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: se he's won five of their last six games and

1234
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: they are right there knocking on the play indoor. And

1235
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: thank god we had him in playing potential when we

1236
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 1: did our tiers boys what we bumped them up one tier. Yeah,

1237
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: they're a game and a half out of the sixth

1238
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: spot in the Western Conference.

1239
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 3: Okay, those dudes are throwbacks. The ball handler's giddeyon SGA.

1240
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 3: They don't shoot threes. They want to get in the paint.

1241
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.

1242
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:41,959
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.

1243
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: Giddy's a big boy too. I think he even talked

1244
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: about like he's like trying to cut out the floater

1245
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: that he was like trying to do early in his

1246
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: NBA career. Here he's like, I'm a big dude. I

1247
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: can take the contact that they could finish a you know,

1248
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: not over these guys because he's not, you know, putting

1249
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: anyone on a poster, but at least take that contact

1250
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: and finish inside with that touch. He's got that Australian strength.

1251
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: I'm convinced every Australian person is.

1252
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 3: Very very strong. I agree.

1253
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: They don't know it.

1254
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 2: And they got to fight kangaroos, yeah, exact. Yeah, maybe

1255
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 2: that's what I have the strong arms for that. I

1256
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 2: saw also that the bulls call them Timothy Shallow may

1257
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 2: so now he's calling himself Himothy Shallow, which is awesome.

1258
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:19,439
Speaker 1: That's pretty funny.

1259
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Shay Gilgess, Alexander.

1260
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: Her, him and her. Yeah correctly, Okay, I'm in her

1261
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: bosses too, man, So there you go, brash. Just want

1262
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: to show a little love to Okasee. Who are they're

1263
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: clicking right now? But the second tweet of the night

1264
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:38,320
Speaker 1: from at w Slam, Maya Moore over the weekend officially

1265
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: announced her retirement. Look at some of the accolades here.

1266
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: Four time WNBA Champ, twenty thirteen Finals, MVP two fourteen

1267
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: w NBA MVV, six time WNBA All Star, three time

1268
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: All Star of the MVP, excuse me of the game itself.

1269
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: She also won two titles in college. Just a winner,

1270
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 1: Maya Moore and says, there, thank you, Maya for what

1271
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: you've done for this game, of more importantly, what you've

1272
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: done for this world. And case forgot. She walked away

1273
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: from the WNBA in twenty eighteen to fight for a

1274
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: wrongly convicted man's freedom and one and all she does

1275
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: the married him Amazing stuff And there was a tweet

1276
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: going around, I forgot to grab it like her, like

1277
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: her record in any basketball games she's ever played, and

1278
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's like something like she's won like

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Speaker 1: at every level, right, Like I forgot it was eighty

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Speaker 1: five percent of her game. Something stupid just wins.

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Speaker 2: I mean, she's one of the greatest players ever. So

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Speaker 2: obviously at high school her teams were awesome. But I

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Speaker 2: feel like she won four state titles in high school

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Speaker 2: or something like that, and just kept winning, winning, winning,

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Speaker 2: to the point where it got boring. She had to

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Speaker 2: go fight legal battles and well, so yeah, Maya Moore

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Speaker 2: one of the goats, yep, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Off the court. She kicked ass. It wasn't just freeing

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Speaker 3: that wrongfully prison manned but as the aces. Sidney Colson

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Speaker 3: tweeted at a great tweet from her, I love how

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Speaker 3: Mayamore took off six years unannounced, had five kids, in

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Speaker 3: four law firms worldwide, and three local daycares, all while

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Speaker 3: working to free one man from prison, whom she would

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Speaker 3: later marry and write a book with. And then she

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Speaker 3: says she's retiring go behavior on her sched Yeah done, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's it for today's show. Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: seventy thousand subs on YouTube. Reminder to check out Is

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Speaker 1: This Good. It went up yesterday the Ringers Waws joining

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Speaker 1: Mattio and JD to talk about a number of topics.

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Speaker 1: I guess Jad you talked a lot about your your

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Speaker 1: travel fun over the holidays.

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Speaker 2: Is that correct?

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Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to listen.

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Speaker 3: To this yet. Yeah, we only had WAZ for about

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Speaker 3: a half hour. Okay, so the second half of the

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Speaker 3: show is just me and Matt shooting the shit about Europe. Oh.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to listen to that. That's all I

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Speaker 1: need to dig into Is This Good. That's available on

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Speaker 1: YouTube if you want to watch that as well, or

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Speaker 1: download and let's into it wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: We're up back tomorrow ten am Eastern here from the

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Speaker 1: Class Factory here for the remainder of the week. So

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Speaker 1: we'll hope you join us till then.

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Speaker 2: Clipper Bros. You heard it here first, have a great

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Speaker 2: time turn up. Love you guys awesome.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, and remember, I feel like this

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Speaker 3: could be a topic on Is This Good. I think

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Speaker 3: it's the branching at Matt, Matt Brandon, JD are branching

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Speaker 3: up just Europe is good. I think they would do

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Speaker 3: encompassing topic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's pretty much what you did for the

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Speaker 3: second segment. J. Yeah, pretty much. Europe is it good?

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Speaker 3: Tune in to find

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Speaker 1: Alright, brace today people,