Speaker 1: Fairy tales do come true. They can happen to you,
Speaker 1: but only if you're the Lakers. What what what? Well, well,
Speaker 1: well we are back. Miles is back. Probably next week,
Speaker 1: definitely next week, Miles will be back and I'll be out.
Speaker 1: But we're not feuding. But Miles is back, and he
Speaker 1: appreciates all you all his messages, and he appreciates the
Speaker 1: fact that the Lakers straighted for Luca Dodget. So there's
Speaker 1: a scene in this kid's movie, Mitchell's Versus the Machines
Speaker 1: where the little kid is going through the phone book
Speaker 1: and just calling every line, every person in the phone
Speaker 1: book and be like, Hi, do you want to talk
Speaker 1: to me about dinosaurs? And no, okay, thank you, and
Speaker 1: then just crosses it off calls the next one. That's
Speaker 1: how I've been going through my life about the Luca trade.
Speaker 1: I'm just going up to other adults being like, Hi,
Speaker 1: do you want to talk about the Luca trade.
Speaker 2: That's same here.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't stop talking about the Luca trade.
Speaker 1: But then when I get somebody who's like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: what that's crazy? Then I don't have anything to say
Speaker 1: besides what like wait, what how?
Speaker 3: Wow? Did what huh.
Speaker 1: So that's those are the questions we're gonna answer on
Speaker 1: today's episode with comedian and NBA podcaster Sean Keen. On
Speaker 1: today's episode, I'm Jack O'Brien.
Speaker 2: And I'm Jabari Davis. Inform my probably one more.
Speaker 1: Time, and this is yeah, next time you're gonna be
Speaker 1: in for me, and this is Miles and Jack.
Speaker 3: We all get mad busby.
Speaker 1: Dog, Sorry guy, Luka, hitch okay, driving spinning. I don't know, night, Geane.
Speaker 1: That's been so sure.
Speaker 4: The cultics are NBA champions over the couple teams, n.
Speaker 1: No show time what you yes? Well, well, well, welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. Sean Keen, how you doing? Comedian, co
Speaker 1: host of the Roundball Rock podcast alongside Joey Devine. What's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 2: Man? Uh, I'm good.
Speaker 3: I had just returned to America right before the Luca
Speaker 3: deal happened. Welcome and what a well turn right back around.
Speaker 3: It was definitely the craziest thing that happened in America
Speaker 3: while I was gone.
Speaker 2: Nothing else absolutely close.
Speaker 1: It is wild because all right, so you know, my
Speaker 1: co host Miles Gray just got back from being out
Speaker 1: for three weeks and I was like, you know, all right,
Speaker 1: so like all these things I have to like tell
Speaker 1: him about that happened while he was out. The government
Speaker 1: has been taken over that you know, every everything, like
Speaker 1: a literal coup is happening, but like orchestrated by nineteen
Speaker 1: year olds who like haven't even graduated from college. But man,
Speaker 1: the Luca trade, though, like that really does feel the
Speaker 1: most is definitely the most unlikely of all those things.
Speaker 1: I will say based on my pessimistic outlook of on
Speaker 1: politics over the past few years. So yeah, I'll ask
Speaker 1: the various two questions that I've been asking everybody who
Speaker 1: I talk to about this trade? What what? Like wait,
Speaker 1: but like how did you know?
Speaker 3: Like huh why?
Speaker 1: Like why would you know?
Speaker 3: Why would they so?
Speaker 1: All right, the question on everybody's mind. Ant put it
Speaker 1: best like in his reaction to this when he was
Speaker 1: being interviewed, it's basically like they traded the best in
Speaker 1: the league at twenty five like that, I mean that's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's and then and then he does some like I get,
Speaker 1: I mean, huh, like what why'd they do that? There's
Speaker 1: been rumors that it had to do with his conditioning,
Speaker 1: a number of different factors being thrown into that.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: I guess like weight partying, complaining about the refs, like
Speaker 1: it just it just is so confounding that like the
Speaker 1: reasons they gave, Like I was, I was like, so
Speaker 1: there go, there's going to be some story that comes
Speaker 1: out that's gonna be like okay, like I still that
Speaker 1: very bad decision, but okay, I can kind of see
Speaker 1: it and that I've yet to hear that story. Have
Speaker 1: you have you guys, like gotten any any clarity.
Speaker 4: My first thought was that he must have had something
Speaker 4: he did that pissed off the Adelson family somehow, like
Speaker 4: he hates gambling or casinos right like one he was
Speaker 4: mad Mark Cuban for abandoning.
Speaker 1: His existential like yeah, like things like somebody literally was
Speaker 1: like he must. The only way this makes sense is
Speaker 1: if he has a terminal disease. And even then it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense because you still have to do a
Speaker 1: physical so like it doesn't it doesn't make sense, like
Speaker 1: that would just validate the trade. So it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 6: None of the reasons they gave or deal breakers. None
Speaker 6: of the reasons they gave. Not only are they not
Speaker 6: deal breakers, they're not even that bad when you're getting
Speaker 6: what he's what he's providing.
Speaker 1: Sure, I just don't understand it, Like the if the
Speaker 1: condition if it's like the level of conditioning is so
Speaker 1: bad that they're like his achilles heel is like hanging
Speaker 1: on by a single strand because it's pushing around too
Speaker 1: much weight or something like. That's the only thing. But again,
Speaker 1: these are things that would come up in a physical
Speaker 1: and would invalidate the trade, like if they're doing like
Speaker 1: five like five D chess where they're just like all right,
Speaker 1: but people are gonna be too excited by how lopsided.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 1: That's why we kept it a secret, was so that
Speaker 1: everybody would be like amazed, too excited, and then by
Speaker 1: the time the physical rolls around, they can't go back
Speaker 1: on it. Like that would be that would actually be impressive.
Speaker 1: I've just written the fan fiction of this trade. That
Speaker 1: makes sense. That's the only explanation I've been able to
Speaker 1: come up to for the The secrecy is really it, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the secret you could have gotten every pick in like
Speaker 1: five years worth of drafts. You could like drafting third
Speaker 1: also of the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2: No, no, ask me for anything. I am Rob Lincoln,
Speaker 2: ask me for anything.
Speaker 1: Ask you for anything?
Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: Ask could I have lebron jaus?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Could you give us your last championship?
Speaker 4: Like just.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to, but yes, because I'll
Speaker 2: take it. I'll take a three for one.
Speaker 1: Could we call ourselves the Lakers?
Speaker 2: You add something in the middle, but yeah, sure, if that's.
Speaker 1: What you need, and you have to be named after
Speaker 1: not the Mavericks but a different Mel Gibson movie.
Speaker 6: Okay, the Weapons, the Risks, the Bird on the Wire, whatever,
Speaker 6: what you need whatever.
Speaker 1: The Beavers with the yellow jersey would be giving teen
Speaker 1: Wolf in a way that I think would be fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it's It's truly again, I can't. I
Speaker 1: don't have a lot to say about it, but it's
Speaker 1: all I want to talk and think about. That's the same,
Speaker 1: But I don't remember anything like this.
Speaker 3: It just feels like he drinks and he's too fat,
Speaker 3: but it's kind of like he's still twenty five, Like
Speaker 3: I'm not going to catch up. That's right, Even Sean
Speaker 3: Kemp was not ridiculously fat until he turned thirty, Like right,
Speaker 3: I just don't I think he still has the metabolism now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if he's if he is giving you thirty four
Speaker 6: twelve and nine, which is something like that you did
Speaker 6: something like that last year and he's fat.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I will take it. I will absolutely take it.
Speaker 1: He already looks like our Vitas the Bonus when he
Speaker 1: was in his like late thirties, So like he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to play when he's in his late thirties,
Speaker 1: Like just get buckets. Also, you don't want like somebody
Speaker 1: who has a thing like that, like a handicap like
Speaker 1: that that La like everybody stops drinking when they moved
Speaker 1: to La.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which just sent him to like if you just
Speaker 1: sent him to Boston, like I mean you know that,
Speaker 1: I can see that, or he sent him to Philly
Speaker 1: like he yeah, but La, man, you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: like trim in shake Luka doncic Like who's mad at everything?
Speaker 1: He's already mad all the time. Yeah, like this it's
Speaker 1: gonna be so wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just gonna add a couple like arawon smoothies
Speaker 3: to his dady. He's going to realize stuff just isn't
Speaker 3: open late enough to really get a fad amount of
Speaker 3: shape there. It's it's it's not that possible to have
Speaker 3: that same kind of like Midwestern Texas kind of lifestyle.
Speaker 6: I think, yeah, got got at your beach body ready.
Speaker 6: But Jack, I just want to quickly say, you referenced
Speaker 6: the secrecy of it. That's that's part of this thing
Speaker 6: that makes me the happiest is because according to reports
Speaker 6: that came out today, uh, the Utah Jazz were not
Speaker 6: aware of the deal that they were actually.
Speaker 5: In, the.
Speaker 2: Like the fact that Danny Ainge had to come out
Speaker 2: and say, I did not.
Speaker 6: Realize I was giving the Los Angeles Los Angeles Lakers
Speaker 6: the next franchise guy.
Speaker 1: For the for the foreseeable future until like thirty minutes
Speaker 1: before he still could have put the brakes on.
Speaker 2: But even he it was too late. And thank you,
Speaker 2: Thank you, Danny. I truly appreciate I truly appreciate your support.
Speaker 3: You know he did it again helping them with Westbrook too.
Speaker 1: Did he did? I mean the thing that I've heard
Speaker 1: a lot of Celtics fans being like, this is so
Speaker 1: not fair. This is what That is exactly how I
Speaker 1: felt when the Celtics got KG and y Rail and
Speaker 1: the same officer like that, That is how everybody felt.
Speaker 1: That is exactly what happened to you. It might not
Speaker 1: have been through a trade, but it.
Speaker 2: Was Michale hooked that up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that exactly as unfair as this. I'm also
Speaker 1: not a Lakers fan. This is just so fun though,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah really as a Sixers fan who's just
Speaker 1: been like, well, I guess I'm out for this season. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I like this. This is so entertaining,
Speaker 1: Like I can't wait to watch Luca next to Lebron.
Speaker 1: And I am also like, even though I'm not a
Speaker 1: Lakers fan, I have rooted for every Lebron James team
Speaker 1: since he's been in the league, and so I do,
Speaker 1: you know, passively root for the Lakers. And this is exciting.
Speaker 1: Like we've we've seen him with a lot of different
Speaker 1: types of players, but there's not another player like Luca,
Speaker 1: so it's it's going to be interesting. And I did
Speaker 1: enjoy my time rooting for Luca last year against the Celtics,
Speaker 1: even though it was only one game that they got
Speaker 1: off them. That was a fun game.
Speaker 3: I'm just very excited for Luca in LA for the
Speaker 3: lifestyle stuff, like the paparazzi Lucas stuff. He's genuinely a
Speaker 3: weird guy, like the Lakers have never had Targasol was
Speaker 3: you know, European, but he was from Barcelona, so it
Speaker 3: kind of transferred more.
Speaker 1: He was going to be if Paugasol hadn't gotten drafted,
Speaker 1: he was going to be a Spanish doctor.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was like a surgeon. He was like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I guess I will play basketball. Yeah, put my surgeon
Speaker 1: career on hold, like very smooth, very continental, and Luca's yeah,
Speaker 1: Luca just gives like, I don't know. He if he
Speaker 1: was from America, he'd be like mudding on a farm
Speaker 1: in West Virginia. Yeah, absolutely, with a cut off tea.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, un ironically wearing an eastbounded down shirt.
Speaker 1: I mean I was wrong with that. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Do you have a problem with he's bounding down?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Do we want to look at people's reactions? I mean,
Speaker 1: aunt was just taken aback. There's footage of So this
Speaker 1: is a wrinkle that I guess I'd seen this before
Speaker 1: that someone like passes someone their phone real quick while
Speaker 1: they're on the bench. But they're just like on the
Speaker 1: bench during the Sun's game, looking like passing their phones
Speaker 1: back and forth, looking at the news. Katie and Bale
Speaker 1: just like have their mouths open. Katie's like looking into
Speaker 1: the middle distance like it's that is My favorite thing
Speaker 1: about KD is like he's such a basketball fan and
Speaker 1: he's honest. Yeah, he's honest too. All Right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll come back. We'll probably just
Speaker 1: keep talking about this the whole show. But I mean,
Speaker 1: Darren Fox got traded to the Spurs, that would be
Speaker 1: a whole episode in and of itself. With this one,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's yeah, seismic. We'll take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, and let's see
Speaker 1: how other people are dealing. Let's continue to look at
Speaker 1: how other people are dealing with the news. Like we
Speaker 1: mentioned Katie and Beale, we're looking at their phones on
Speaker 1: the bench being like what wait what wait huh. But Katie,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things about him always the consummate
Speaker 1: basketball fan. Here's his response.
Speaker 5: Yeah, would have never thought Luca don just get traded
Speaker 5: this age, you know, yeah, in mid season. It's the
Speaker 5: NBA's little house place, man, And if he can get traded,
Speaker 5: then anybody's up, you know, for grabs, you know, so yes,
Speaker 5: so fans is pretty on somebody spectator it's pretty fun.
Speaker 5: I know it's kind of nerve wrecking, no, probably, but
Speaker 5: Luca and everybody in Dallas's la a D so everybody involved.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the head is spending right now.
Speaker 1: And just as a players just kind of underscore the
Speaker 1: transactional nature of this business.
Speaker 2: Uh, It's always been transactional, you know. You Uh, there's
Speaker 2: the players are held to.
Speaker 5: A different standard of loyalty and commitment to a program,
Speaker 5: but the organizations don't get held to that same standard
Speaker 5: from the outside. What ll either whether it's from media
Speaker 5: members and chains. Uh, and we all should get held
Speaker 5: to that same stand like actual game. There's a lot
Speaker 5: of money involved, a lot of business and law too,
Speaker 5: so I mean it just goes on and on.
Speaker 2: But that was that WASI just of it.
Speaker 1: Some great fan reactions to Uh. I watched like there's
Speaker 1: a Denver podcast I think with a former guest on
Speaker 1: this show where the trade broke as they were recording,
Speaker 1: and they're just like so confident that Chams was hacked
Speaker 1: that they just they just like sit there for tenants
Speaker 1: being like that's so funny, how like look at these
Speaker 1: people they actually believe that this trade happened. This trade
Speaker 1: trade is not real. It's obviously not real. Like the
Speaker 1: guy who like same, who's like kind of willing to
Speaker 1: believe it, is being shamed by the guy who's like, dude,
Speaker 1: what like that's fiction? How how could that possibly be real?
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they have chopped him around? Why would we
Speaker 1: all just be finding out about this right now? So
Speaker 1: the results are that Luka Doncic is on the Lakers
Speaker 1: with lebron Ja. They have some defensive question marks. Let's
Speaker 1: say they also have the best or second best offensive
Speaker 1: player of all time and the best or second best
Speaker 1: scorer in the league currently at the age of twenty
Speaker 1: five on their team. Like, what what is this going
Speaker 1: to look like? I'm excited to find out, But do
Speaker 1: you guys have any predictions?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's awesome that they're just gonna
Speaker 3: try to outscore everyboddy, Like that's probably not the way
Speaker 3: to win an NBA title, but it's going to be
Speaker 3: incredibly entertaining, I think because they kind of feel like
Speaker 3: they're going to have to play lebron at center, which
Speaker 3: is terrible defensively but awesome for scoring and weirdness, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: That'll be so interesting.
Speaker 6: The funniest thing that I saw was, you know, the
Speaker 6: immediate reaction. And I recognize, you know, like the talking
Speaker 6: head shows, like that's what they're there for. But the
Speaker 6: first thing that people were saying was like, oh, well, hey,
Speaker 6: that's not gonna work. You know, Lebron needs the ball
Speaker 6: in his hand to do his business and old, uh,
Speaker 6: you know, Luca obviously needs the ball in his hand
Speaker 6: to do his business.
Speaker 3: Like we didn't all just.
Speaker 2: See it work with Luca and Kyrie, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 6: I would I would venture to say that two of
Speaker 6: the smartest basketball minds that we've seen, like probably ever,
Speaker 6: but especially of this generation, they can figure it out together.
Speaker 6: They can figure out how to work off one another.
Speaker 6: They can figure out how they can figure out that
Speaker 6: two man game that pick and roll.
Speaker 2: My god, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: I mean, it worked pretty well with Lebron James and
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving and Lebron James and Dwayne Wade, like that
Speaker 3: was a pretty successful pairing.
Speaker 1: I felt like, oh, yeah, he was on those teams.
Speaker 1: I forget how they did. Yeah, And it's not like
Speaker 1: Luca is just a pure scorer. He's a great passer,
Speaker 1: a great like just a great offensive you know, chess
Speaker 1: piece historically great.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna and no one's gonna run back on
Speaker 3: defense on the entire team, so it'll be.
Speaker 1: Like then just a dunk contest at the other end.
Speaker 2: No, but honestly, just like just quickly on that.
Speaker 6: Like Lebron has been playing off ball for the you know,
Speaker 6: like a lot more over the last few years, Austin
Speaker 6: Reeves has been the primary ball handler in the Initiator
Speaker 6: because like, again, even though it's incredible that Lebron is
Speaker 6: doing this at forty, he is forty.
Speaker 2: He is forty years old. So like, I like, to me,
Speaker 2: that initial reaction is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's actually probably something that the talking hat should
Speaker 1: be talking about, is this cuts into Austin Reeves's touches,
Speaker 1: and that's you don't you don't want that, right, Like
Speaker 1: he's Luca's going to have to figure out how to
Speaker 1: fit in with Austin Reeves' team. You know, he's not
Speaker 1: they're not adapting to him.
Speaker 3: Bill Billy Kobe has to eat, you know, Cob he.
Speaker 1: Uh just talked about the weird and like his first
Speaker 1: picture holding the jersey up with his he just looks
Speaker 1: like a high school kid like on picture Day, like
Speaker 1: everything about him. Anyways, Ad Kyrie Clay could be interesting
Speaker 1: for the rest of this year. We'll see Ad is
Speaker 1: very good. Like the lopsidedness of the trade has people
Speaker 1: ignoring how good Ad is. He's very good. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to help them in the short term. He's
Speaker 1: an incredible defensive weapon, defensive stopper, and again, Kyrie is
Speaker 1: one of the most creative and gifted offensive players in
Speaker 1: the world, So that's gonna be fun too. The maps
Speaker 1: are going to be They're going up against the Sixers
Speaker 1: pretty soon as we're recording this, although I don't think
Speaker 1: AD's there yet.
Speaker 3: I think playing a game. Yeah, they made it. They
Speaker 3: made a trade that was like just to save plane tickets. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's right, just like you brought your stuff.
Speaker 2: You're fine. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Looking at odds, the Lakers went from forty to one
Speaker 1: to win the title to sixteen to one to win
Speaker 1: the title. So still not like the FA by any means,
Speaker 1: but that's pretty significant improvement. Dallas now has the same
Speaker 1: odds as the Clippers and had previously been twenty five
Speaker 1: to one. Now they're going in the other direction. It
Speaker 1: would seem yeah, thirty three to one. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about I mean, dearon Fox to join Wemby in
Speaker 1: San Antonio is super interesting, super exciting. I am like
Speaker 1: interested to see like how that is going to fit.
Speaker 1: But I do think like that that could be lightning
Speaker 1: And also, well I don't know what Wemby is in
Speaker 1: a weather metaphor, but you know, like someone who's super
Speaker 1: fast and then having Wemby as the stopper and you know,
Speaker 1: being able to do so much on offense could be
Speaker 1: could be interesting. What are you guys' thoughts on that trade?
Speaker 3: It's funny that somebody's dream destination was the San Antonio Spurs. Now,
Speaker 3: I mean it made sense. But usually when you hear
Speaker 3: that trade demand and he's got one team in mind,
Speaker 3: it's like South Beach, Los Angeles, New York, and he
Speaker 3: was like, get me the River Walk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got one job.
Speaker 3: But I think he fits really well because the Spurs
Speaker 3: actually have a bunch of guys to shoot threes, but
Speaker 3: they basically have no one who shoots mid range shots,
Speaker 3: and so it feels like it's gonna be like basically
Speaker 3: like no one was getting to the line except Wemby,
Speaker 3: and no one was shooting mid range shots. So suddenly
Speaker 3: they have like a functional offensive basketball team overnight. It
Speaker 3: feels like, I.
Speaker 6: Mean, and not only that, and the fact that they
Speaker 6: were able to do it without giving up you know,
Speaker 6: you know, Devin Vassal without giving up you know, so hand,
Speaker 6: without giving up you know, Stephan Castle like.
Speaker 2: Being able to do that, being able to get like.
Speaker 6: Your point guard of the of the present and future
Speaker 6: to pair with Wimby, and keeping all of those other assets,
Speaker 6: whether they're continuing to build around them or they eventually
Speaker 6: use them.
Speaker 2: That's just incredible.
Speaker 6: Like I'm not saying it's it's on the level of,
Speaker 6: you know, of a steel like the Lucas situation. And
Speaker 6: again that's mean intending no disrespect to Anthony Davis as
Speaker 6: you mentioned, is great, no disrespective Max Christy, you know
Speaker 6: that's my awkward adult son. But it is pretty significant
Speaker 6: to be able to do that, and you know, the
Speaker 6: Spurs are kind of in the driver's seat go hading
Speaker 6: into the off season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: Uh. A big part of what they gave up was
Speaker 3: just stuff they got for helping DeMar Juros and sign
Speaker 3: other places as an unrestricted free agent. It was like
Speaker 3: three of the picks they traded they just sent back
Speaker 3: to the Kings and Balls because they were so excited
Speaker 3: to get DeMar Right.
Speaker 5: Here you go.
Speaker 1: So Dallas fans like, who are going through a Like
Speaker 1: I really do feel for Dallas fans, Like watching on
Speaker 1: YouTube video. It gives me no joy to watch the
Speaker 1: videos where the one you have in here Jabari where.
Speaker 2: The dad is just going nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, get me every piece of Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: gear and I'm gonna burn it. I never never going
Speaker 1: to any Dallas sporting event ever. I do kind of
Speaker 1: understand how you feel because I was excited about Caleb
Speaker 1: Martin coming to the Sixers this offseason and they just
Speaker 1: traded him to Dallas. So that doesn't feel great. So
Speaker 1: I get it, you got I guess right, kind of
Speaker 1: similar like we we thought he was going to be
Speaker 1: big for us this year.
Speaker 2: I was in the wondering where's he going with?
Speaker 1: I do like that was what a weird season for
Speaker 1: the Sixers. Like heading into the season, I was like,
Speaker 1: Caleb Martin is gonna be a piece. We're gonna like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be nice, and it is just I would
Speaker 1: I would throw them all back.
Speaker 2: Real question for you. We weren't planning on discussing this,
Speaker 2: but I just have to ask.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have taken Luca probably that too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, would it stunn you if MBAs somehow moved before
Speaker 6: this deadline, Like if they go ahead and say, let's
Speaker 6: go ahead and press reset.
Speaker 1: Would anything stun me at this point?
Speaker 2: No, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: I would be disappointed because I just think whatever you're
Speaker 1: getting for him right now after this season is probably
Speaker 1: not what he's worth, like assuming that there is a
Speaker 1: future where he can play basketball again. So I'd be
Speaker 1: disappointed personally. But what are you hearing?
Speaker 2: No, it isn't even that I'm hearing anything.
Speaker 6: It's just like, and it it kind of to the
Speaker 6: point that you just made once that Luca deal went down,
Speaker 6: I'm like, Okay, anything could happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I I.
Speaker 6: Anything as possible, But that those are gms now screaming
Speaker 6: that instead of kg's you know, screaming that. But I
Speaker 6: just look at I look at what they're doing. I
Speaker 6: look at the fact that they took another swing at it.
Speaker 6: They you know, they brought in Paul George, all of
Speaker 6: the all of the hopes and expectations that everybody had
Speaker 6: and it simply did not work. Part of me is like,
Speaker 6: you probably should have sold high on him a couple
Speaker 6: of years back, but since you didn't, you know, I
Speaker 6: don't know what playing him another half of the season,
Speaker 6: only for him to potentially get hurt would do for
Speaker 6: his stock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know either. The other the other rumors
Speaker 1: that are getting spread around, someone called them ridiculous rumors,
Speaker 1: or would have called them that about four days ago,
Speaker 1: Jimmy to Phoenix, KD back to Golden State, Parts and
Speaker 1: Picks heading to Miami. Now, in the past, you would say, okay,
Speaker 1: you just kind of like YadA YadA past the last
Speaker 1: part where like Miami doesn't get anything like and just
Speaker 1: so that you could like make this rumor make sense,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't. Why would Miami do that? And yet
Speaker 1: here we are talking about a trade where Luca is
Speaker 1: on the Lakers, a team that was like uniquely stuck
Speaker 1: like heading into the season, everyone was like, well, the
Speaker 1: problem with the Lakers is they don't have any assets,
Speaker 1: so like you can't like get a big piece you can,
Speaker 1: and you know, the Lakers have been good at like
Speaker 1: doing the little like oh little niptop little like, oh little,
Speaker 1: this is a nice trade. This is a little yeah,
Speaker 1: rue little pieces. It makes sense and they get like
Speaker 1: three games better than they would have been otherwise.
Speaker 7: Well, they never thought it was gonna happen because they
Speaker 7: traded Dangelo Russell two months ago, you know, and we're
Speaker 7: just like, yep, there's nothing more than this eighteen million
Speaker 7: dollar expiring contract can help us with. Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 7: Dorian Phinney Smith is the best we can do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Jabari, Were you excited that Rob Polka
Speaker 3: managed to pull Dalton Connect back from that trade? Gaes,
Speaker 3: Rob Polinka apparently like bad mouth Lucas fitness too much.
Speaker 6: That's the craziest part. Okay, let's be honest. I was
Speaker 6: not being hyperbolic earlier. When I said Jack asked me
Speaker 6: for anything within reason, I would have said yes, and
Speaker 6: you you can have it.
Speaker 2: If and I like Dalton Connect, I like him a lot.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be good. Jack knows.
Speaker 6: I was praising him to the I Heaven's especially in
Speaker 6: the early season when it looked like he was like, Okay,
Speaker 6: we got one of those.
Speaker 2: If they wanted him, they could have had him and
Speaker 2: the fact for.
Speaker 6: The fact that the fact exactly connect four dunches, that's
Speaker 6: actually damn good. I would I would have given him
Speaker 6: a ride to the you know, to the airport myself
Speaker 6: if they wanted.
Speaker 1: And he doesn't say that lightly. By the way, there's
Speaker 1: a chance the Lakers would have asked to drive to
Speaker 1: the airport about seven hours.
Speaker 3: I'll take me about seven hours to drive back to
Speaker 3: l A.
Speaker 2: And I got you, big dog, I got you.
Speaker 1: I'd like to make this trade. But who's going to
Speaker 1: drive into the airport.
Speaker 2: Recording? No, But you know, like whatever, it would have taken.
Speaker 6: But the fact that they were able to do that,
Speaker 6: the fact that Rob Lincoln was able to get this done,
Speaker 6: I will double back and say and give credit words
Speaker 6: due because I went into this, like I went into
Speaker 6: the off season saying, hey, look, I'm not happy with
Speaker 6: the direction. We doesn't look like they have any plan whatsoever.
Speaker 6: It doesn't look like they know anything beyond you know,
Speaker 6: Clutch Mafia and all of that stuff. And that it
Speaker 6: has been great, you know, to a point. But the
Speaker 6: fact that he answered with this deal, the fact that
Speaker 6: it's like, yeah, so now what you know what, Rob,
Speaker 6: You're probably going to get your statue. You're probably going
Speaker 6: to get your statue because you've been a part of it.
Speaker 6: You've been part of the organization. They brought in a
Speaker 6: d won a title, and in you know, within the
Speaker 6: next five years, found a way to bring in Luka.
Speaker 1: So man degenitive nerve condition. That's the only thing that
Speaker 1: like I can put like that.
Speaker 3: Don't put that evil on me.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about you say the only way that Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I like something in elementary school that was I was
Speaker 3: informed that was very a big threat like that.
Speaker 1: They somehow know about it, but nobody, like the doctors
Speaker 1: aren't able to later. It's truly like I have to
Speaker 1: resort to magic or like curses of some sort to
Speaker 1: make sense of it. All right, it's time for the
Speaker 1: don't look now rundown of the week. This was my
Speaker 1: catchphrase earlier in the year. Every time the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers won a game, I would say, Jabbari, don't look now.
Speaker 1: But the seventy six ers now have four wins. They're
Speaker 1: now four and nineteen. But the true don't look now
Speaker 1: teams of the year of the moment, the Memphis Grizzlies
Speaker 1: have won nine of ten. They're now the two seed
Speaker 1: in the West. Jaw was hurt for part of that time.
Speaker 1: They're still They're just ball Memphis, you know, everybody. It
Speaker 1: seemed almost too easy to be like, they're my sleeper.
Speaker 1: They were bad last year, they're gonna be good this
Speaker 1: year now that they got Jamerant back. But it was
Speaker 1: easy for a reason. It made sense. Milwaukee has dropped
Speaker 1: four straight. They're back down to the fifth seed. It's
Speaker 1: called the Jacks Don't Look Now curse because I gave
Speaker 1: them a don't look now highlight last week or the
Speaker 1: week before, and now they are plummeting four in a row.
Speaker 1: Fifth seed. I can't imagine what that must be like
Speaker 1: to have a team underperforming in the East. Orlando got
Speaker 1: Polo and Franz back uh and has dropped nine of ten.
Speaker 1: What is happening Orlando? This guys need to learn to
Speaker 1: get along. Or they could trade Paolo to the Sixers
Speaker 1: for I'm not gonna give him am bead, but you.
Speaker 3: Know, okay, maybe that's cool, Nah, maybe he's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I Thinkubra might be a might be a
Speaker 1: piece that makes sense in that trade. And then we
Speaker 1: just want to read through. Kate Cunningham over the last
Speaker 1: eight games thirty point six boards, fourteen assists, twenty two
Speaker 1: points three boards, fifteen assists, forty points six boards for
Speaker 1: assists thirty two five and nine. Uh, twenty two, three
Speaker 1: and seven, thirty five five and eleven, twenty nine six
Speaker 1: and eleven, thirty two, nine and seven. Dude is absolutely balling.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Booker became The Sun's franchise leader in points
Speaker 1: in his tenth season, which is wild, Like, first of all,
Speaker 1: that he's in his tenth season as wild because he
Speaker 1: just I don't know if it's like the babyface or
Speaker 1: what or just me being old as hell, but I still.
Speaker 2: Think, yeah, yeah, I mean that doesn't know, that doesn't hurt.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like three years older than Luca Dodge.
Speaker 2: It they got him at twenty five.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't. All right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and then we'll come back and do the rapid fire
Speaker 1: round of questioning. And we're back and it's a wrap
Speaker 1: fire round of questioning, Sean Keen, you stepped into the
Speaker 1: danger zone is what seismologists call it. This is the
Speaker 1: fast round of questioning and podcast his We're gonna throw
Speaker 1: some questions at you. You have to make up your
Speaker 1: mind real fast, don't even think about it. But when
Speaker 1: we ask you to justify your reasoning, you have to
Speaker 1: have crystal clear logic. We are gonna move like the wind,
Speaker 1: and you just have to try and keep up, all right.
Speaker 1: And also you're gonna help us pick the game of
Speaker 1: the week, give it a week? Are you ready?
Speaker 3: And I don't really care.
Speaker 1: About your answer, to be honest, because that's the kind
Speaker 1: of energy of this thing. I don't really care if
Speaker 1: you're ready.
Speaker 2: You understand whatever's got you, and you talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Brian, start the clock. Hey, all right,
Speaker 1: you want to go first?
Speaker 2: Sure? I got you, I got you, all right.
Speaker 6: All right, first one for you. It's a this or
Speaker 6: that scenario. Which player or duo would you choose for
Speaker 6: the next three years? A six foot six step at
Speaker 6: his current age or Wimby?
Speaker 3: Wait? Wait, which one do I want?
Speaker 2: Which one do you want? For the next three years?
Speaker 3: I'm staying hometown with Steph.
Speaker 2: Step They're going to six sixth Step is scary?
Speaker 1: Do you think Steph is really six three? Because he no,
Speaker 1: he's like six one. So this is a true six
Speaker 1: foot six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, taller than Draymond Green. Yeah, there you go that
Speaker 3: would be interesting.
Speaker 1: Or Wemby and possibly the only person who would have
Speaker 1: been a bigger surprise for the Lakers to get in
Speaker 1: Wemby and you picked and you picked six foot six
Speaker 1: steps good, good choice. In no way, by Its all right.
Speaker 1: You got Joker with a d's defensive capabilities or Yannie
Speaker 1: with Embiid's knees and feet. No, sorry with it, Janie
Speaker 1: with Embiid's offensive game and touch.
Speaker 3: I want I want the defense Joker, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: After after I was like, yeah, that's an obvious I
Speaker 2: love I love Jabari just.
Speaker 1: Like stacks these so that they're embarrassing and demoralizing to
Speaker 1: me as an Embiid fan, just like you want the
Speaker 1: best offensive player of all time with the defensive skills
Speaker 1: of one of the best defenders in the league. Or
Speaker 1: a guy who's good at offense with Jack's favorite players
Speaker 1: offensive game. Okay, good one. Really really it was a thinker.
Speaker 2: Here for the chape last one for you, and this one.
Speaker 6: It could come to fruition Luca and Lebron as a
Speaker 6: duo or Steph and Jimmy as a duo.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm still taking Lucan Lebron. I can't ride that
Speaker 3: bar with Steph Curry. I do think the Warriors are
Speaker 3: approaching the trade deadline like it's last call at a bar,
Speaker 3: so to be a rumor about them and literally anyone
Speaker 3: in the NBA, and they're just they're just throwing themselves
Speaker 3: at every vaguely attractive star in the league right now.
Speaker 1: And it's still going to be like, well, thanks, it's cool,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's not. No, No, Jimmy is awesome
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, what he did three years ago was
Speaker 1: so cool. Yeah, how old is Luca? He's like twenty five,
Speaker 1: so he's probably like SMA three years worse. Whereas Luca
Speaker 1: probably this year better than last year when he took
Speaker 1: his team to the finals by himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you need him, if you need him.
Speaker 1: All right, it's time to decide on game of the week.
Speaker 1: Game of the week. On Thursday, we've got the MAVs
Speaker 1: at the Celtics or your Warriors at the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 1: Luca Downtrish will not be playing yet as far as
Speaker 1: we know. Those are both. On TNT Saturday, we've got
Speaker 1: the Celtics at the Knicks on ABC or the Pacers
Speaker 1: at the Lakers. Luka Doncic is expected to suit up
Speaker 1: for this game. This is a tough one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't figure out which would be the best game here,
Speaker 1: most interesting game.
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm look. I know Sunday might be Lucas
Speaker 3: home debut with the Lakers, but I'm picking that one
Speaker 3: because of the bad blood from the n Season tournament
Speaker 3: last year. The Pacers want they didn't get to drink
Speaker 3: champagne in Vegas last year. They've had a chip on
Speaker 3: their shoulders since then. You were going to see Andrew nemhard.
Speaker 1: Uh. I'm tuning in form.
Speaker 3: They are gonna be. They are gonna be all t
Speaker 3: TJ McConnell is gonna have in this one.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, I can't I can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: the call on this one where they're just like TJ
Speaker 1: McConnell has come to he said, not so fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's the right pick for those reasons. And
Speaker 1: that has been the rapid fire out of questioning, and
Speaker 1: despite me making fun of one of your answers, you
Speaker 1: actually did get everything correct somehow is that do we
Speaker 1: have that correct? That's weird anyway, Sean Keen, it's been
Speaker 1: a pleasure having you where can people find you?
Speaker 3: Follow you, hear you all that good stuff at Sean
Speaker 3: Keen on Twitter. You can listen to the round Ball
Speaker 3: Rock podcast. You can hear me at Golden Stead of
Speaker 3: Mind and Yard Barker and I'll be at the Sacramento
Speaker 3: the San Francisco Punchline in a week and a half
Speaker 3: with Catherine Blanford.
Speaker 1: Awesome, amazing Jabari. Where can people find you?
Speaker 6: Mainly on Blue Sky Jabori Davis NBA. You can probably
Speaker 6: find me on Twitter as well, lurking in the shadows
Speaker 6: a Davis like a creep.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien
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Speaker 1: my boosties. And that's gonna do it For this week's episode,
Speaker 1: I wonder if, like, what what could happen this week?
Speaker 1: You know who knows the sky is the limit? Apparently
Speaker 1: looking forward to joining again in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: When Jokic is on the seventy six ers untill then yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, why not. They're just like, we don't like
Speaker 1: how much he's into horse racing. It's it's just like weird.
Speaker 1: It's like annoying, you know, Like their explanations for the
Speaker 1: trade like are like a person who's been in a
Speaker 1: related who's just like tired of their ex you know,
Speaker 1: and they're like, it's just like, I don't know. The
Speaker 1: way he talks about horse racing is just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we get like you talk about all you know and
Speaker 1: then makes a catastrophic decision. Yeah. Anyways, Uh, more of
Speaker 1: me just trying to wrap my mind around this trade
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. On future episodes of
Speaker 1: Matt Bous Season, we'll talk to y'all then bye bye,