Speaker 1: Guess who's back. It's me and he didn't know who
Speaker 1: that was. It's Miles. But the Grizzlies and Pelicans are
Speaker 1: also back, and they're trending in the right direction again
Speaker 1: out West. And meanwhile, Celtics appear to have gotten back
Speaker 1: to playing at their elite level. And we'll get into
Speaker 1: all of that and plenty. Moore with writer, creative producer,
Speaker 1: video maker of US sixty second Classics Mike Camra Lengo
Speaker 1: on today's episode. I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jabari Davis
Speaker 1: and this is Miles, Miles and Jabbar God. Hey, I'll
Speaker 1: know I'm doing it. Got bad boosts three on one
Speaker 1: Davis job driving Spinney Curry A three punters stop Curry
Speaker 1: from Gold Tell again hit the tests. All right, Mike
Speaker 1: Camera Lengo, Welcome through the show man. Really good to
Speaker 1: have you have, really great to have it. Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. I was I was wondering if I should
Speaker 1: I did a podcast once where I'd like jumped into
Speaker 1: the intro by accident like that, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: don't do it. It's not your turn yet, don't wait
Speaker 1: wait wait, So Mike, man, you're a big Boston fan.
Speaker 1: I know what I heard from the Boston area, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: grew up in Massachusetts. It's kind of just like what
Speaker 1: you do around here. Are you watched Boston sports and
Speaker 1: trying not to get into fistfights outside of bars and stuff? No?
Speaker 1: I was never a fighter. Um oh, but are you
Speaker 1: really from Massachusetts? I mean, can you really claim that
Speaker 1: you're from that area if you weren't a fighter? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm you can. There are guys that stand back with
Speaker 1: their arms crossed and kind of go, yeah, get them,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, yeah, got you right? So, yeah, I
Speaker 1: grew up you know, we're talking before big Celtics run
Speaker 1: Antoine Walker Paul Pierce in the nineties. Yeah. If you
Speaker 1: if you grew up in you're a Celtics fan, you
Speaker 1: never tried the Antoine Walker shimmy, then what were you
Speaker 1: even doing? Right? You know, even as a degenerate Lakers fan,
Speaker 1: I did the shm me a couple of times. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to try it at a moment for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, it was very good. It was very good.
Speaker 1: And again, like, you know, how are you feeling just
Speaker 1: overall this season of basketball, not not necessarily about the Celtics,
Speaker 1: but how have you you know, been engaging a lot.
Speaker 1: Are you are are you still very Celtics focused or
Speaker 1: what's how you kind of taking it in? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: feel good. I mean there's always a point in this
Speaker 1: season where my brain kind of lolls and kind of
Speaker 1: it's just like is it the playoffs yet? Like, because
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know kind of what you have
Speaker 1: in these teams and then like, let's just get to it.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what's happening now. Mark the whole month
Speaker 1: of March. I'm kind of like, because you know, teams
Speaker 1: have ups and downs, the Celtics but we can talk
Speaker 1: about whatever you want. But you know, they started out
Speaker 1: real hot and then they were like wait are they
Speaker 1: that good? And it's like they're good, Like let's just
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs and see the Bucks and the
Speaker 1: Celtics and the East. I love that I heard the
Speaker 1: Boston come out when you said it hot. Yep, like
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, I have myself trained and
Speaker 1: then every now and then I'll bet rips up like
Speaker 1: I'll just you know, yeah, hey, what park do you
Speaker 1: like to go to? Which park would you say you
Speaker 1: like to go to? When I went to college many
Speaker 1: many years ago, freshman year. They were like, uh that
Speaker 1: you had to go around and say, like what you
Speaker 1: did over the summer or something. And I worked at
Speaker 1: a park. I was like a park instructor. And I
Speaker 1: didn't even realize at the time. My accent was so deep.
Speaker 1: I was going I was going to pack instruct and
Speaker 1: they were like, what do you talk like? Nobody could
Speaker 1: understand me? Right, So that's a real that's a real moment.
Speaker 1: When you look back, you go, jeez, what was I doing? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then also you're saying you lived in New York
Speaker 1: during the Lynn Sanity years. Did you catch that way
Speaker 1: where you just watched respectfully as a Celtics respectfully watched.
Speaker 1: I was entertained. I was there for a while. I
Speaker 1: was in New York for fourteen years, so I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, there weren't that many ups, no offense to
Speaker 1: Knicks fans, but Lynn Sanity was crazy because at the
Speaker 1: time there was some kind of fight going on with
Speaker 1: like the one of the cable companies, so a lot
Speaker 1: of people weren't getting the Knicks games on their TV.
Speaker 1: So it like brought even more people out. You gotta
Speaker 1: go to the bar, you gotta check it out, and
Speaker 1: it seemed like everybody was just watching this like, can
Speaker 1: you believe this again? Right? Two or three weeks stretch
Speaker 1: was unreal? Yeah? And where you living now? I'm back
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts' outside of Boston. Yeah. Yeah, so I had
Speaker 1: a kid. I fully embraced being washed up, you know,
Speaker 1: living that suburb life from take it back to where
Speaker 1: it all started, just faking in my backyard with a ball,
Speaker 1: you know. Oh and again for I do know some
Speaker 1: people don't realize the reason I wasn't on this show
Speaker 1: is I was on parental leave myself. I just had
Speaker 1: my first child. Shout out to my son, who is
Speaker 1: almost eight weeks old. So this is a very new
Speaker 1: time for me, one in which, like everything I saw
Speaker 1: of the NBA felt like a fever dream. But I'm
Speaker 1: glad I'm back with everybody to catch up and Jabbari,
Speaker 1: you know, to help me realize, make you know, separate
Speaker 1: what I thought was a dream and what is actually
Speaker 1: reality because it all blends together. But yeah, let's kick
Speaker 1: it off first, looking at none other than the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: I mean it looks, you know, look like you're locked
Speaker 1: in there. The two seed. Um you know, I it,
Speaker 1: you had it there. Like you said, there's been some
Speaker 1: ups and downs. You're up, you're down, you're up, you're down.
Speaker 1: But as of this recording seven and ten doing pretty well. Um,
Speaker 1: but for you, what's the biggest difference that you're seeing?
Speaker 1: You know, like we casually talk about the Celtics and look,
Speaker 1: as Laker fans, we casually are just basically like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see if they're that good forever and then we're crying.
Speaker 1: You're like, but for you as a fan, like, how
Speaker 1: you know, what's what's the biggest difference for you guys
Speaker 1: this year with the fantastic comedian Joe Missoula, who I
Speaker 1: would love to touch on after this sing, well, I
Speaker 1: think they're shooting as much better. I mean, obviously when
Speaker 1: they I'm not a stats guy, so if you're actually,
Speaker 1: if you're like, actually it's down, I'm gonna be like,
Speaker 1: oh my bad. But the style of place seems like
Speaker 1: they're just chucking them up a bit more. And especially
Speaker 1: in the beginning to the mid season, they were just
Speaker 1: going on runs where they were hitting threes. I went
Speaker 1: to a game where they won by forty. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: So I think that's what plagued them last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously they were in into Golden State in the finals,
Speaker 1: but like they needed that, you know, extra shooter, whether
Speaker 1: that's broggedon or not. I mean, I think he really helps.
Speaker 1: But I think that's the difference. They have a little
Speaker 1: more shooting help and hopefully they don't kind of get
Speaker 1: stuck in the playoffs. I feel like the last couple
Speaker 1: of years they've had that thing where it's it's three
Speaker 1: four minutes left and you know who's going to take
Speaker 1: the shot. Obviously Tatum's the guy, and I think he's continued.
Speaker 1: He's gotten better again every year he gets better. But
Speaker 1: I just think having like another option and Derek White,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Derek White's really good, and so
Speaker 1: I think they have the pieces. I know, during like
Speaker 1: the trade deadline, there was some talking around here of like,
Speaker 1: you know, are they going to add anybody and you
Speaker 1: know they're going to add another wing or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I think they have enough talent. It's just you
Speaker 1: know what they can do with it. To that point,
Speaker 1: I was wondering, because you know, I can be honest
Speaker 1: about it, when you guys got brogged in, I was,
Speaker 1: you know, I was hating from the outside of the
Speaker 1: club and yeah and acknowledging like yeah, that's kind of
Speaker 1: like the they need. But I'm just interesting, what is
Speaker 1: your level of confidence heading into the postseason? Obviously you
Speaker 1: know we're not quite there yet, but if everything stays
Speaker 1: relatively the same and you guys are relatively healthy, him
Speaker 1: heading in, what you know, what's your level of confidence?
Speaker 1: I think I like it feels it sounds like an
Speaker 1: insidious question from a laker. Yeah, your confidence? That sounds
Speaker 1: view him later on down the road, like a month
Speaker 1: from now, if the Celtics are out, I'm going to
Speaker 1: absolutely hit him on the timeline with remember when you
Speaker 1: said this. By the way, thank you for your time
Speaker 1: and everything. We really appreciate you bringing it, but this
Speaker 1: is you. So also don't but don't don't mention we
Speaker 1: crashed out of the plane either, But I don't worry
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah yeah, but yeah, so yeah, well how
Speaker 1: are you doing? I think they should with the team
Speaker 1: they have, they should get to the Eastern Conference Finals. Now,
Speaker 1: if they lose to the Bus, they lose to the box.
Speaker 1: I mean last year they were able to get by
Speaker 1: the Bucks, but they h what's his name wasn't it
Speaker 1: got hurt? Um, Middleton wasn't playing, so there was that
Speaker 1: little bit of like, well, what would it have been
Speaker 1: different if he was there? Obviously he's a great player.
Speaker 1: So I think if they get to the Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: Finals and lose to the Bucks, that's disappointing, but not
Speaker 1: like crazy, like the Bucks are a great team. But
Speaker 1: if they if they lose before that, if they lose
Speaker 1: in the second round, that's a bummer because I think
Speaker 1: they have a lot of talent and I think there's
Speaker 1: no reason why they shouldn't get to the Eastern Conference Finals. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then that's not a prediction, but I think they should.
Speaker 1: Why not that's your assessment that you that you feel
Speaker 1: it's a fair Uh, I mean they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: two seed. They should. I don't think that's a hot
Speaker 1: take at all. I mean that's not a hot take. No.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's why my career is going nowhere.
Speaker 1: I don't have hot takes. I need to get better ones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he got hot takes. Thought I should. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: should start some kind of that commercial. I think for
Speaker 1: a Dish Network when it was like that Boston Family,
Speaker 1: it was like the thing and I remember there's one
Speaker 1: where the guy comes out with like a dip from
Speaker 1: the oven. He's like hot, hot, hot, hot hot, and
Speaker 1: always I think that's why my ear is so dialed
Speaker 1: into that campaign. But what we can say to Bart, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say shout out to our guy, you know,
Speaker 1: former guests Ben Goliver for pointing this out. And I'm
Speaker 1: I promise I'm not going to be a wet blanket here.
Speaker 1: But if they do make the conference finals, it would
Speaker 1: be the first time in if I'm not mistaken, the
Speaker 1: last four seasons where we had to repeat conference final
Speaker 1: appear all right, So yeah, that in itself would be
Speaker 1: an accomplishment. Yeah. And I mean, look, you got right
Speaker 1: now your match up with the Bucks. You split two
Speaker 1: games on the final matchup going up as you know
Speaker 1: tonight Thursday. Uh So, how like with that game coming up,
Speaker 1: you know, do you think do you think it's that
Speaker 1: important or do you feel it's time you can make
Speaker 1: you know, kind of put a sort of put a
Speaker 1: stamp on it by taking this game, or you just
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, look, there's there's there's plenty of
Speaker 1: opportunities ahead, or how you looking at it in terms
Speaker 1: of seating or like future like mental, yeah, mental, every Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wouldn't hurt obviously to win, but I
Speaker 1: don't think. I think the Bucks know they can play
Speaker 1: with the Celtics, and I think if they lost, if
Speaker 1: they lost the season series two to one or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, um, they wouldn't be intimidated going in like,
Speaker 1: oh we can't just we just can't beat these guys.
Speaker 1: Like I think they're pretty confident against the Celtics, as
Speaker 1: they should be, and so social to the Celtics. So
Speaker 1: it would help, um, sure, give it a little bit
Speaker 1: of a boost, especially if you can kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: keep your honest under control. But that was the thing
Speaker 1: with the playoffs last year. I mean, he was unreal
Speaker 1: and that's in that series against the Celtics, and it
Speaker 1: was one of those things where it was, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it was a series where you go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: thank god, we don't have to play him anymore. Whatever whatever.
Speaker 1: Golden State, Yeah, whatever, Golden State, Scott, Let's have it.
Speaker 1: And they just you know, they put the beat down
Speaker 1: on a butt. Sure. Yeah, man, they're tough. The Bucks
Speaker 1: are tough. So yeah, I mean, and they're playing really well,
Speaker 1: we'll get to them and a bit later in the episode.
Speaker 1: You know the sixers three and oh looking pretty good,
Speaker 1: Jack would ard time accepting that part, especially with your
Speaker 1: love of the Patino Celtics or lack of love for
Speaker 1: that era. Um and then against the Calves one in three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but but is this do you think that's
Speaker 1: the toughest matchup? Yeah? I think, you know, they have
Speaker 1: shown that they have problems against them. But I think
Speaker 1: with any of these things that with a seven game series,
Speaker 1: unless it's a huge matchup problem, I think that your
Speaker 1: best team is going to come out. And I still think,
Speaker 1: you know, in a seven game series against the Calves
Speaker 1: or you know whoever, Philly, even if it's a tough series,
Speaker 1: you know they'll they'll be able to play them. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I look at that, you know, it's the
Speaker 1: old uh what I don't even know what the word is.
Speaker 1: But the Celtics fans always looking back to seven eight, right,
Speaker 1: we always bring up that championship. It was like three
Speaker 1: years ago. But anyway, that's the team. The team was
Speaker 1: so good, but they play I'm pretty sure the first
Speaker 1: first round series was seven game series against the Bulls.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of seven game series where teams are
Speaker 1: pushing them. So my point is just because like some
Speaker 1: of these teams could push you, yeah, you know you can.
Speaker 1: They can, they have the team to do it. So
Speaker 1: we'll just prove out over the seven, right, like if
Speaker 1: you can figure if they can figure out how to
Speaker 1: score late in the fourth quarter and not turn the
Speaker 1: ball over. That was another thing last year in the
Speaker 1: playoffs they had they had just a couple of stretches
Speaker 1: where they would run into the middle of the lane.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jalen Brown obviously has gotten so much
Speaker 1: better as a player each year as Tatum has, but
Speaker 1: his ball handling last year he would drive into the
Speaker 1: middle and kind of a lot of guys are doing it.
Speaker 1: They were, I think they were pressing, and I think
Speaker 1: they've gotten better with that this year. But we'll see
Speaker 1: because the playoffs, obviously everything goes up ten. Speaking of Tatum,
Speaker 1: that's actually where I was going to go with it.
Speaker 1: You know, like I've thoroughly enjoyed the MVP conversation up
Speaker 1: until the time when I didn't, but it's it's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, you know, as as someone that you know,
Speaker 1: kind of always appreciated Biggs. Don't get me wrong, you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm a guarded heart, but I've always appreciated big.
Speaker 1: It's nice to see this, you know, this conversation. But
Speaker 1: I will ask you, why do you think Tatum, especially
Speaker 1: when you consider that it's generally the best player on
Speaker 1: one of the best teams, if not the best seam
Speaker 1: by record, is going to be in the conversation for MVP.
Speaker 1: Why do you think Tatum hasn't been getting any more
Speaker 1: love in this discussion? I think because there's a guy
Speaker 1: and Jaylen Brown who's right there with him. I mean,
Speaker 1: Tatum's better, but Jaylen Brown. It's like when I feel
Speaker 1: like when there's a one two punch like that, people
Speaker 1: take away from the one. So you know, if some
Speaker 1: of those other guys had a guy right there with him,
Speaker 1: they'd be like, well he has so and so right.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if that happened to Jordan
Speaker 1: at all, Not to compare Tatum to Jordan, but like,
Speaker 1: you know, you have that guy Pippen or something with
Speaker 1: you that's like, I guess, yeah, exactly where you go,
Speaker 1: Well he's got he's got that thing. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: Tatum's been great, He's at a great year, and I
Speaker 1: don't know what the MVP thing is. Yeah, is it
Speaker 1: just best player on the best team? Is that like
Speaker 1: if you take that person off the team, is it
Speaker 1: a completely different conversation. What's gonna have like the Yeah,
Speaker 1: like if you take you know, Embid off the sixers,
Speaker 1: are they just gonna crumble who's more valuable to their team?
Speaker 1: Or is it just like best player best team, which
Speaker 1: is fine. I just like you said, the conversation around
Speaker 1: it has been about two months old, and I'm like, jeez,
Speaker 1: let's talking about the playoffs. Yeah, Okay, let's put a
Speaker 1: pin in that because they're gonna come back because I
Speaker 1: do want to ask you something about your coach, Joe Massoula,
Speaker 1: But that'll be right after this break. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back and we're back, and I gotta ask you, Mike, like,
Speaker 1: ever since Joe Missoula's comment about the royal family and
Speaker 1: you know, he was talking about Jesus, Marion Joseph with
Speaker 1: a straight face, and then we've seen like this very
Speaker 1: dry kind of comedy style from him, what's your assessment
Speaker 1: of Joe Missoula's like comedy stylings as somebody who's into
Speaker 1: comedy and brings a performer themselves. Well, I think it's
Speaker 1: great because for most of the time, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's being serious or not. I know me so much.
Speaker 1: It's like a it's like it's like, uh, what's the
Speaker 1: guy like Andy Kaufman. Yes, where it's like you're like,
Speaker 1: are you doing some kind of performance art. I thought
Speaker 1: at first he was dead serious on everything, and then
Speaker 1: recently I was like, oh, I think he's messing. It's
Speaker 1: almost like, uh, Mike McDaniel the coach of the the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: the NFL team, but he is he has a little
Speaker 1: more of like a wink and a nod, right, whereas
Speaker 1: this is like this straight faced like so I like it.
Speaker 1: It makes me want to like watch every press conference.
Speaker 1: It makes me want people to ask him questions. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so um, if it's a bit, it's a it's an
Speaker 1: awesome bit. And if he's like being dead serious, then
Speaker 1: like I don't know, dude, then it just kind of
Speaker 1: feels like, oh, he's like one of these singular He's like,
Speaker 1: you have time to be funny because I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: ball all the time, and you're like, oh, okay, go ahead,
Speaker 1: you're like coaching. Yeah, you'd be like coach would you
Speaker 1: do this weekend? He's like, uh, nothing, just got up jumpers.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, but did you go out? He's like no,
Speaker 1: and you're like, all right, we can't talk. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the right. So I feel like he's got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a man. He's kind of messing
Speaker 1: with people. But yeah, there's definitely there is. There's a
Speaker 1: bit of a wink to it all because especially like
Speaker 1: I feel like he's always kind of has a thinly
Speaker 1: cracked smile with a lot of the things he says.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we're waiting to hear from you, Joe. Is
Speaker 1: this in Andy Kaufman, you know kind of bit you're
Speaker 1: doing or are we just we're just basking in your genius. Well,
Speaker 1: let's take things out West West, y'all Dallas. Before I
Speaker 1: had my baby, they were doing really well. Just about
Speaker 1: a week after my son was born, on you know,
Speaker 1: around mid February, they were the four seat and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay, uh and then I remember it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: Kyrie's heading over there, and I was like, okay. Now
Speaker 1: I'm in the midst of parenting, like my first child.
Speaker 1: So it kind of like I would start checking in
Speaker 1: every few days, things have not been going very well,
Speaker 1: to the point that they are now out of the postseason,
Speaker 1: including the play on As of this recording, Jabari, what
Speaker 1: did I miss what happened? Because I mean, I get
Speaker 1: that it's not all Kyrie, but what's what is going on?
Speaker 1: Exactly that? And I'll be honest with you. And it's
Speaker 1: interesting that we have a Boston fan on with us, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, for this conversation. But in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: you know, you know how I feel about it, like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Kyrie is a singular as an individual talent, isn't you know?
Speaker 1: It's still incredible, still incredible to watch till a heck
Speaker 1: of a lot of fun. But like when they made
Speaker 1: that move, it was a desperation move. It just, you know,
Speaker 1: there's really no other way to describe it. I know
Speaker 1: that you're recently they've been coming out and kind of
Speaker 1: acknowledging that you know, behind the scenes, But the reality is,
Speaker 1: you know, this is not a Kyrie issue. This is
Speaker 1: a Dallas Mavericks issue, and it has been an issue
Speaker 1: for quite some time in my estimation. But I'm interested
Speaker 1: in Mike if you see anything different, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't been. I didn't just have a child, so
Speaker 1: I don't have an excuse. But I also haven't really
Speaker 1: been paying attention to the Mavericks. But I recently was like, oh,
Speaker 1: because when Luca did that thing at his press conference
Speaker 1: where he's like I'm not having fun like whatever he
Speaker 1: was saying, I was like, wait, what's going on in
Speaker 1: the MAVs? And yeah, they're just not doing well. They're
Speaker 1: not having fun. Is it Kyrie's fault? You know? I
Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, I'm a salty Celtics fan. I guess.
Speaker 1: Even though it was funny when he when he tried
Speaker 1: to step on the everyone got that funny, but I
Speaker 1: was so ridiculous. But uh yeah, I mean, like you said, Jabari,
Speaker 1: that's like kind of a desperation move to just throw
Speaker 1: him in the mix. He's obviously an awesome player, but
Speaker 1: does he match up well with the team, does he
Speaker 1: work with Luca? I don't know how any of that
Speaker 1: stuff's going. I don't is he playing well? Is is
Speaker 1: Kyrie playing well? He's playing well individually? Book and Luca
Speaker 1: have missed a couple of games here and there, like
Speaker 1: like during the stretch. If I'm not mistaken, the team
Speaker 1: is three and one in the games where it's just
Speaker 1: Kyrie and that Luca. That's not that's a very small
Speaker 1: uh you know, a sample size, so you don't read
Speaker 1: anything to do that. But it really is a matter
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, the thought of Luca playing off ball.
Speaker 1: Whoever thought that was gonna work? Yeah? Right, And in
Speaker 1: order for Kyry to be as effective as you want
Speaker 1: him to be, especially like in a series type situation,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're projecting out to the postseason, Like
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to be like, yeah, I told you,
Speaker 1: I told you, I told y'all. But when the move
Speaker 1: was you know, took place, that was my first thought.
Speaker 1: Like that on paper doesn't even make sense, let alone
Speaker 1: like in you know, in practice. Yeah. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's funny because when I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that could be interesting, but part of me, now i'm
Speaker 1: looking back, I'm like it was more fun when Luca
Speaker 1: had to put the whole team on him back no
Speaker 1: matter what, because that was at least he was like
Speaker 1: highlight tape every time. I mean, we could actually just
Speaker 1: talk about it, like just a second goal when they
Speaker 1: played the Pacers. Uh, that pass that Luca through the baseline. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like an illegal water polo p asks or something that
Speaker 1: he did like the body control to be stuck in
Speaker 1: the corner and be like, okay, so y'all got me
Speaker 1: jammed up? Okay in his mind being like I have
Speaker 1: to elevate and then basically rotate my whole body and
Speaker 1: whip this ball around. Uh. And then you know, thank
Speaker 1: god Jaden Hardy hit that three, because that like truly
Speaker 1: made it like the highlight worth talking about a really
Speaker 1: cool angle from behind Luca and you see him jump
Speaker 1: and throw it. And when he throws it, you're like,
Speaker 1: where's this ball going because there's the people on the way,
Speaker 1: And even when he's doing it, you're like, there are
Speaker 1: easier options, I think to throw this too, but he
Speaker 1: jumps in the ball. It's beautiful. Yeah, and he's hitting
Speaker 1: the three. Obviously helps would the pass Luca able to
Speaker 1: chase it down? They got it trapped on the sideline,
Speaker 1: They fouled in a situation like a little more, how
Speaker 1: hard did he find Hardy? He found him had more importantly,
Speaker 1: Hardy hit the shot after they did find him. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's also crazy to think, you know, you look at
Speaker 1: guys like you know, whether it's Luca or like any
Speaker 1: of the guys that are commonly stated as oh they're
Speaker 1: not the most athletic, right, and that type of play
Speaker 1: offers perspective. They may not be as athletic as some
Speaker 1: of the crazy athletes in the league, but you still
Speaker 1: have to have such a tremendous amount of athleticism and
Speaker 1: strength to be able to do that. It's not even funny.
Speaker 1: It basically just reminds me of how washed I am
Speaker 1: when I see a guy like lukea do it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I threw my back out watching Yeah, like that kind
Speaker 1: of trunk rotation. I was like, oh no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: amongst seven to ten day you'll reevaluation. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of muscles being pulled right there. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: think it kind of goes back to like how you
Speaker 1: even define athleticism because that's clearly athletic. I mean, sure,
Speaker 1: he's not the most explosive person, like he's not going
Speaker 1: zero to sixty like like some players, but you can't
Speaker 1: you can't take that away. Um. Let's also touched on
Speaker 1: Portland because the Blazers I was, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe some may maybe, but they have also appeared to
Speaker 1: have bowed out. They they've only won one game in
Speaker 1: their last ten and they look like their head to
Speaker 1: the lottery. Um, yeah, what what? We asked this question
Speaker 1: all the time. But is this going to be the
Speaker 1: same I'm asking you, Mike, is this gonna be the
Speaker 1: summer where we finally get some move? You know, you
Speaker 1: know the move finally goes down of no, no, no, man, no,
Speaker 1: it's about the loyathin. And when I do that, I'm
Speaker 1: not clowning, Dame. I'm just clowning in the conversation around it. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say I think, yes, this is the summer.
Speaker 1: But I thought that the last couple I always think
Speaker 1: that he's gonna he's gonna be gone. And it's just
Speaker 1: I don't know. They shut him down for the year, right.
Speaker 1: I think it looks like they're about like they if
Speaker 1: I'm not saying to didn't play a couple of nights
Speaker 1: ago and they they kind of shut everybody down. It
Speaker 1: looked like, man, all he would be so fun on
Speaker 1: a team making a run like he is so good,
Speaker 1: And I think, yeah, I mean he's getting old. I
Speaker 1: think it's time. Yeah, but I don't know he likes
Speaker 1: He just likes playing ball. I saw a cool video
Speaker 1: with him where he was like talking about I forget
Speaker 1: where it was cast or something, where they're asking about
Speaker 1: like winning rings and stuff. He's like, that's not all
Speaker 1: there is to playing basketball, He's like, And I thought
Speaker 1: it was cool. It's kind of a fresh perspective because
Speaker 1: we all think about like, oh, your career glory and
Speaker 1: glory glory. Yeah. Yeah, your career is like a failure
Speaker 1: quote unquote if you don't have a ring. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're happy with life and you're crushing
Speaker 1: it and making a lot of money and playing basketball,
Speaker 1: good for you. But obviously, if you make it to
Speaker 1: that level, there is a competitor in you that you
Speaker 1: see other guys who you're like, I'm way better than
Speaker 1: these guys. I can't for a second believe that he's
Speaker 1: not like that it doesn't matter to win like a ring.
Speaker 1: But I get that he probably has a healthy mentality
Speaker 1: to say, but even if I don't, that's not to
Speaker 1: say that I'm not blessed to be even make it
Speaker 1: to the NBA and play at this level that I am.
Speaker 1: So I get objectively, But but you know, every single
Speaker 1: person who's in that league. Those are competitor. There's not
Speaker 1: a single person who does not dream of that. So
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm a little bit dupe. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's a little dubious to be like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But I get though, too. You don't, don't You don't
Speaker 1: have to have like the toxic mentality to say, well, then, Mike,
Speaker 1: there's no there's nothing except yeah in two Mike's point
Speaker 1: in that. In that same interview, he you know, he
Speaker 1: was very matter of fact about it. He said like, yeah, like,
Speaker 1: of course he's a competitor. Of course he wants to win.
Speaker 1: But the way he's able to keep himself balanced is
Speaker 1: he goes home. He's got a kid, he's got kids,
Speaker 1: he's got a family, he lives a normal life outside
Speaker 1: of the basketball courts, And you know what, I aspire
Speaker 1: to have that sort of balance and the bank It
Speaker 1: would be nice. It would be nice. My podcaster who's
Speaker 1: jumped the jumper just looks nothing like his. But I
Speaker 1: try and keep it simple too, you know, And I've
Speaker 1: had a bad recording. You know, I'll go home, look
Speaker 1: at my son and just remind myself it's about more
Speaker 1: than that. Mike out there and the retweets. It's not
Speaker 1: all about the download numbers unless the network's asking it.
Speaker 1: Which James were working and then moving along, Denver had
Speaker 1: a seven game lead in the West and that's been
Speaker 1: reduced to three. It's so tight in the West. It
Speaker 1: is so tight. That's like, that's why it's so frustrating.
Speaker 1: Even wats like being a Laker fan and we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it could have been how many were what was the
Speaker 1: math tobar that we could have jumped? Like how many
Speaker 1: places if there have been easily ten games this season
Speaker 1: that they have it where either they didn't show up
Speaker 1: or they simply played down to the level competition, which
Speaker 1: sounds crazy for a team that just finally made it
Speaker 1: to five hundred, you know, just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: But if they just win half of those games, they're
Speaker 1: in the five seas. I know, that's how frustrating it.
Speaker 1: And now we're in the nine and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to play these monsters up top. That's not
Speaker 1: how we eke our way into some kind of a run,
Speaker 1: but I mean it is. What's the So I know
Speaker 1: you say you don't want to talk about it, but
Speaker 1: what do you guys feel like the Lakers have the
Speaker 1: talent to like make a little bit of a run.
Speaker 1: They're just a frustrating team to watch. I mean, the
Speaker 1: completely deluded fan in me believes we're hanging number eighteen up,
Speaker 1: you know, But the realistic, objective person who you hear
Speaker 1: when I go, I don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 1: It's because there is obviously a crisis of confidence on
Speaker 1: my side. On my part of looking at it and
Speaker 1: just seeing some of the things we've done, like sitting
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis against the rockets, I was like, that's a
Speaker 1: prime example where you need to hit the pedal, put
Speaker 1: the pedal to the metal to try and get these done.
Speaker 1: And I get the risk to him, but you look
Speaker 1: at it in the long term, it's like, well, then
Speaker 1: where does that put us in terms of seating and
Speaker 1: then who do we have to get through to do something?
Speaker 1: But you know, I'll be glad if we get in
Speaker 1: there and I see something that feels like a respectable,
Speaker 1: respectable performance. I'm not expecting much else from that. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly where I am with it. Like the reality
Speaker 1: is this, you get even a relatively healthy Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: and Lebron James in the series. It's a fun conversation
Speaker 1: no matter how no matter how it plays out, that
Speaker 1: you have an absolute chance. That's all I'm hoping for. Like,
Speaker 1: like I've given up on the Yeah we're hanging eighteen.
Speaker 1: I don't give a hanging it. Just get in, have
Speaker 1: some fun, you know, the Westbrook class. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I'll say this now, but you know, you know, fast
Speaker 1: forward two and a half weeks from now and they're
Speaker 1: in and I'm gonna be sitting there like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: damn right, we're gonna win this. Yeah, you'd like, get
Speaker 1: it ready, get it ready. They don't want to. They
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to see us. They
Speaker 1: don't want to see when Yan gay reel definitely how
Speaker 1: I feel for sure. So I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about a team that I believe is very scary when
Speaker 1: just one player is doing well, Yannis, but the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton led the Bucks with thirty four in a
Speaker 1: win over the Pistons, And okay, this is this is
Speaker 1: about the depth because Yannis and Drew were both they
Speaker 1: were sitting. They were sitting pretty but you get thirty
Speaker 1: four from Middleton, then you got twenty four and fourteen
Speaker 1: from Brook Lopez, another twenty one and fourteen from Bobby Portis,
Speaker 1: and twenty two points on six of eight from deep
Speaker 1: from Javon Carter And my take always about the Bucks,
Speaker 1: It's like, well, if they got Chris Middleton going to
Speaker 1: then they got something. And now you're like, yeah, Chris Middleton,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and Brook and Bob and Javon and then
Speaker 1: Drewianness are just waiting in the wings. I'm like that
Speaker 1: is kind of nightmare fuel for sure. I feel like
Speaker 1: if you're happy to go up against that car has
Speaker 1: its carder rocking that dribble, get to the base line,
Speaker 1: ring boat gutting' got it? Yeah? They I mean they
Speaker 1: have the guys where if a couple of them get going,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of it's all you wrote, like, you
Speaker 1: can't you know all of them. I know you can't.
Speaker 1: Like the more you go down the line, you're like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah him to him too, and then you're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, this isn't good, and that's just leaving out
Speaker 1: the honest part. Yeah. So I feel like you honest
Speaker 1: is such a big vocal point obviously where you're like,
Speaker 1: gotta stop him, gotta stop got something but if those
Speaker 1: other guys are spotting up or like dishing and kicking
Speaker 1: for three, they just have they have enough guys who
Speaker 1: can turn it on. So if three or four of
Speaker 1: them do, that's a real tough out. And then when
Speaker 1: the Celtics are going to be up against in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference finals, you know you have a question coming
Speaker 1: up later for boldest predictions. I appreciate that you keep
Speaker 1: throwing that particular prediction out there on the way you
Speaker 1: speaking to exist. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And then, uh,
Speaker 1: you know another thing. I haven't been able to talk
Speaker 1: about the Phoenix Suns with Kevin Durant because that was
Speaker 1: another thing. I was like, what what this is? Watching
Speaker 1: that trade deadline was wild? But right now, Jabari, where
Speaker 1: are we at with them? How are they? How have
Speaker 1: they been performing? Bring me up to speed with them,
Speaker 1: because I know Katie has been not he hasn't been
Speaker 1: playing recently, right, go, yeah, he's been out with a
Speaker 1: foot injury. But the reality is this, And it's kind
Speaker 1: of like with the Lakers. And I know that people
Speaker 1: may hear this initially and say like, oh, no, you're
Speaker 1: just lumping them in, but no, like you look at
Speaker 1: the reality of Katie. You look at the reality of
Speaker 1: CP three, you look at even the reality of Devin Booker.
Speaker 1: They need to be healthy. If they're healthy, I feel
Speaker 1: like it's going to be a hell of a run
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to see it, you know, especially if,
Speaker 1: in particular, if it doesn't come with the Lakers. Man.
Speaker 1: But no, I think it's gonna be a hell of
Speaker 1: a run. But it really is a matter of if
Speaker 1: that's a big if you know, you're dealing with guys
Speaker 1: that are you know, especially with you know, with Katie uh,
Speaker 1: you know, returning from injury and CP three, you know,
Speaker 1: just traditionally that you know, for whatever reason, especially at
Speaker 1: this time of year, they may, you know, they maybe
Speaker 1: have some questions about their body. I'm hopeful and and
Speaker 1: and this is you know, tieing the sky admittedly, but
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that we at least get a somewhat healthy
Speaker 1: first round out of these guys. Beyond that, all bets
Speaker 1: are off. But it would be nice to see them
Speaker 1: make a run or at least see what they can
Speaker 1: do together. It is interesting to watch. I mean, as
Speaker 1: much as I like to your point, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go through them. I'm just like you know all
Speaker 1: three of them are injured, but also it'd be interesting
Speaker 1: to see all those three pieces clicking together and humming along,
Speaker 1: because I would definitely it's that. That's a fun basketball
Speaker 1: one hundred per cent. Uh. And you know the bulls
Speaker 1: are back in the conversation. You know it's the playing Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, but I mean just still just don't
Speaker 1: because it comes on the heels of Zach Levine just
Speaker 1: violating us at the crypt I do not want to.
Speaker 1: And then that whole game from that to just Pat
Speaker 1: Bev hitting Lebron with the too small it was just
Speaker 1: just just a it was a hard, hard experience to
Speaker 1: witness while holding a young child in your arms. I
Speaker 1: will say that. All right, let's take another break and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back with the most coveted segment in
Speaker 1: all of sports podcasts in the hot seat right after this,
Speaker 1: and we're back and to close out the show like
Speaker 1: we always do, it's good to be back here. We
Speaker 1: got to bring it into the rapid fire round of questioning. Now, Mike,
Speaker 1: I gotta warn you, this is the fastest segment in
Speaker 1: sports podcasting that is an official NBA product in collaboration
Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio okay, and this whole whole point of this
Speaker 1: segment is we're gonna hit you with some questions. Don't think,
Speaker 1: don't elaborate, not just I'm passing you chest right just chest,
Speaker 1: pass it right back. Don't don't do any finger spins
Speaker 1: or nothing like that. I'm just looking for an instant reaction.
Speaker 1: And it is on you to keep the show moving.
Speaker 1: So if I start, you know, bloviating or going on
Speaker 1: some tangent, you need to guy to steer this ship again. Okay,
Speaker 1: like right now, thank you, jabari, okay, um, it's everybody ready?
Speaker 1: Okay um, I heard you know I was listening back.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not sure. The other rapid fire around
Speaker 1: is a questioning count because I never heard anybody start
Speaker 1: the clock, or at least a couple of them. Nobody did.
Speaker 1: So we were waiting for your triumph return. Oh are
Speaker 1: you well? It's not a rapid fire around a question
Speaker 1: unless we start there we go? Is this for both
Speaker 1: of us? Is that? No? For you? This is just
Speaker 1: for our exalted guest. Okay, are you ready? I'm ready?
Speaker 1: Mike Cameron Lingo in the hot seat. Question number the first,
Speaker 1: is there a single NBA player you would take right
Speaker 1: now over the chance of taking wembin Yama with the
Speaker 1: first pick this summer. Um uh uh, Luca is too tall?
Speaker 1: Ok wow, Luca? Okay, we're just talking about him in
Speaker 1: that passage in my head. He's still young enough. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Yeahwa is awesome, by the way, but he did you know,
Speaker 1: he seems kind of tall. It's hard to know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know Chad too, You're like, are we going in
Speaker 1: on another big guy? Who? Anyway? All that to say,
Speaker 1: it feels like Luca too. His head might be turning,
Speaker 1: you know, he might. Let's see where here because we
Speaker 1: might be fighting over him, at least emotionally. Um. Yeah, okay, Mike,
Speaker 1: a better answers, I'm sure, but I didn't. I didn't think.
Speaker 1: I tried not to use my brain. Well, a better
Speaker 1: answer would have been a quicker, shorter answer that kept
Speaker 1: the second going. But Jabari, please go on, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll keep this going. All right, Mike, you can go
Speaker 1: back in history and attaining any single game throughout NBA
Speaker 1: an outside of Game four, nineteen eighty seven finals, which
Speaker 1: one would you choose? Um? Uh? Can I do? Olympics?
Speaker 1: When Vince Carter jumped over the French. Yeah, yeah, disrespect.
Speaker 1: I was just talking about that too with Jack, but
Speaker 1: I think it was in the context of a deep
Speaker 1: fake where it was Trump or something. Uh yeah that
Speaker 1: oh man, does anybody know anybody who is even at
Speaker 1: I mean why might even ask somebody who was in
Speaker 1: the Olympics. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good times. Even though I
Speaker 1: don't even know really what happened the rest of the game,
Speaker 1: but just that one moment I think would be worth it.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it is like one of those those moments
Speaker 1: where you're like your jaw falls on the floor. I remember,
Speaker 1: like this was like pre YouTube era, and I had
Speaker 1: like the gift of that dunk that I would just
Speaker 1: like open on my computer be like, do you all
Speaker 1: remember this back when gifts were YouTube? That's how old
Speaker 1: I am. Uh, Mike, you can take any former Celtic
Speaker 1: and pair him with the Jays. Which former Celtic are
Speaker 1: you bringing out of the cryo freeze to play with them?
Speaker 1: You know, I gotta go, Larry Bird. Look at that?
Speaker 1: Look at that? You got Bird in the corner, Tatum
Speaker 1: in the other cornerball ma'am. Yeah. That was a small
Speaker 1: lineup keeping it going. What is your boldest postseason or
Speaker 1: even play in Predictions for this year bold, go bold,
Speaker 1: like we're at Del Taco, Go Bigger, go home. The
Speaker 1: Lakers are gonna win their first round ploffs. They're gonna
Speaker 1: make it to the second round of the playoffs. Stop
Speaker 1: the show, stop the count. Stop. We're good. At the
Speaker 1: count stopping we are good. That's number eighteen right there. Spiritually,
Speaker 1: you heard it here first, you heard it here. We
Speaker 1: are so delusional and desperate that that's all we needed
Speaker 1: to feel better. I can see you, guys, I can
Speaker 1: see it in your eyes. You say, give me something
Speaker 1: about the Lakers, Mike, And as much as I like
Speaker 1: that answer, it wasn't fast enough. But I do have
Speaker 1: to keep the segment of going. Here's the question. You
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Speaker 1: basketball movies of all time? Um, white Man Can't Chump? Yes,
Speaker 1: Above the Rim, Yes, and I know there's another one
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting. No, I'm not up to you. This is this.
Speaker 1: There's no wrong answers Blue Chips, boot Chips, Yes, I'll
Speaker 1: say Sunset Park a park park, what time is it?
Speaker 1: Definitely number one? And uh and Above the Rooms a
Speaker 1: close second. I love them, and then the other ones
Speaker 1: are kind of interchangeable. I think I like boot Chips,
Speaker 1: but I boot Chips the movie I've only seen a
Speaker 1: couple of times, whereas White Men Can't chump above the rim,
Speaker 1: I'll watch if I come across it by just really quickly.
Speaker 1: The original cast that they had in mind for The
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Speaker 1: in those roles for Billy Hoe and and in Sydney
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Speaker 1: what do harrise? I could really play a little bit
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Speaker 1: I guess that Westley thing with Wesley and so much
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Speaker 1: And that washed reference brought to you by Draftking. Uh.
Speaker 1: And finally, Mike the most important question of the entire show,
Speaker 1: Miles or Jabari Miles, because uh, new dad so much,
Speaker 1: thanks so much, thank you so much. I will tell
Speaker 1: my son that even though he will not understand, Jabar,
Speaker 1: you can't look, you can't personally all right, you know honestly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what's good school? You know what next episode,
Speaker 1: next episode, we're gonna tell the guests we both just
Speaker 1: had kids. Just we can do a year and then
Speaker 1: we see, yeah, we'll disarm the guest of that whole
Speaker 1: personal way to get people on your side right away.
Speaker 1: If you're like, yeah, I just had a kid, and
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, I'm sorry, it's cool. It is wild
Speaker 1: how much like it's so weird how in past instance
Speaker 1: in my life I've had family members pass away, people
Speaker 1: like you all right, like and then you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just had a something like oh really, how you doing?
Speaker 1: Is everything good? And like it's immediately the instant sort
Speaker 1: of understanding that is extended. I'm like, this is kind
Speaker 1: of addictive. I might have a newborn for seventeen years
Speaker 1: part honestly, other than you know, loving your kid and
Speaker 1: all that. Yeah, going it's like going into like a
Speaker 1: coffee shop with your kid or something. You get. You
Speaker 1: walk down the street by yourself, people are like yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: like they don't look at you. Whatever I'm walking. I like,
Speaker 1: got the stroller at people are like smiling. Coffee shop.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh hey, They're like wave. You're like you're
Speaker 1: the king of the town. So yeah, enjoy it. It
Speaker 1: was wild. I was out eating when my wife we
Speaker 1: had the stroller, and like these three middle aged white
Speaker 1: dudes were like pulling up and they all had like
Speaker 1: matching hats, like like they were at a bachelor party
Speaker 1: or something, and like they were like they clocked us
Speaker 1: from across this like restaurant patio and made a bee line.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is about to go? All right off?
Speaker 1: Yeah I was, and they just said, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: just want to say, you guys are doing a great job.
Speaker 1: It's not easy. We're all dads, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You guys are out here. Don't get down on yourselves.
Speaker 1: It's hard, but it's great. And I was like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, it's wild. How again the
Speaker 1: well wishes that come from people like that are other
Speaker 1: parents on the street. All that to say, I will
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Speaker 1: It is fun to go back and watch all this
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Speaker 1: So it's right trying to make like jokes but also
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Speaker 1: because well and because all the things you point out,
Speaker 1: like you could only really be clocking them if you
Speaker 1: didn't love it so much that you like, you know,
Speaker 1: every background movement of every shot. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what makes these is. I'm like, no, dude, look how
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Speaker 1: get to our tweet of the week. We were asking
Speaker 1: polling again, jabari, where are we asking people? Who? Who
Speaker 1: are we shouting out? All right, so we went polling again.
Speaker 1: We wanted their final Player Award predictions and the you know,
Speaker 1: the results are in. I'm not gonna live y'as a
Speaker 1: little bit. Marlins. Yeah, who are Marvel Spurts? First of all,
Speaker 1: obviously they're just as good as we are. Huh. Look,
Speaker 1: they should have votes, just like anybody else that has
Speaker 1: a vote right now, yes, and uh, you know, if
Speaker 1: the League office is listening to this, which they actually will, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just kidding and you should give those folks okay,
Speaker 1: but also but also bring down the fifty point basket
Speaker 1: from Rock and Jock that hit. Can't keep. You can't
Speaker 1: keep telling y'all this, I can't keep. I keep asking
Speaker 1: our liaison at the league. I say, get Adam Silver
Speaker 1: on the phone right now with me, and they say
Speaker 1: that can't happen, and put Dan Cortez on a roster
Speaker 1: now every time, it's as simple as that. I want
Speaker 1: Queen Latifa stealing the ball at half court. Yeah, I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember one I used to go because it used
Speaker 1: to be at UC Irvine for a while. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I remember Method Man was wearing the Barry Sanders air
Speaker 1: Zoom turf shoes during a basketball game. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's tough, even though that is the absolute wrong shoot
Speaker 1: for a basketball court. But anyway, what were so what
Speaker 1: were the results? MVP? You ask deep the defensive player
Speaker 1: six man, et cetera. What do we got? I'll go
Speaker 1: through quickly, MVP. Forty eight percent of you guys now
Speaker 1: say it is MBI. That is very different from earlier
Speaker 1: and you know a little bit earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: Just twenty eight percent for Yoki Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Fifty four percent of you guys now say Brook thirty
Speaker 1: two percent for Triple j Okay six man, this was
Speaker 1: an interesting one because there's kind of you know, even
Speaker 1: evenly distributed, but thirty five percent at least, said Brogden,
Speaker 1: with twenty eight percent coming in for Portis. I still
Speaker 1: think it's to be Russ. I'm not mad at it.
Speaker 1: I'm not mad it's still gonna be rust I'm not
Speaker 1: backing down from that prediction from the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year six May. That's where the money was, all right,
Speaker 1: Brook of the year eighty one percent Bank Carroll. We did.
Speaker 1: Really don't have to go there, but I will say
Speaker 1: shout out to Jalen Williams because he has been fantastic.
Speaker 1: While he's not going to get the award, it's good
Speaker 1: to see him, you know, developing there in ok see,
Speaker 1: most Improved. This is the one that actually surprised me. Look,
Speaker 1: I said earlier in the year, it wouldn't shock me
Speaker 1: if market and won it. But that's you know, specifically
Speaker 1: because of the circumstances or whatever. But the reason why
Speaker 1: this surprised him is because sixty two percent, you know,
Speaker 1: said Marketing, and only twenty percent for SGA. Traditionally, I
Speaker 1: recognize what the what we think the award should mean,
Speaker 1: but like, let's say the last ten, they've pretty much
Speaker 1: gone to guys that were good, that went from the
Speaker 1: most star to all you know, all NBA and beyond
Speaker 1: the elite level superstar level. So that's you know that,
Speaker 1: That to me is the reason why I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: shocked if you know SGA got it. Uh neither here
Speaker 1: nor there. Yeah, but I think marking in fits more
Speaker 1: like the spirit or at least how or like when
Speaker 1: you're playing organized sports and most Improved were like remember
Speaker 1: that scrub he hit every point or that one game
Speaker 1: and you're like yeah. And last, but not least Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year Mike Brown runaway seventy two percent. If
Speaker 1: you guys think he's gonna be the coach of the Year,
Speaker 1: and I think he will be too. Okay, and Boostie's
Speaker 1: listener the week goes to at Bucks Hoholigan, who thinks, okay,
Speaker 1: see's Mark Dagoneau deserves some wow Coach of the Year love. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, you're supposed to be a tanking team and
Speaker 1: they're right there, and a lot of tankinis that just
Speaker 1: did not come out that we thought we would this year.
Speaker 1: So that's why I say shout out to him, to
Speaker 1: old boy marking in. All Right, y'all, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for listening. We'll be right back, I mean right
Speaker 1: back in a week for the next episode. Sorry, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm still rusty. I'm just getting back into the swing
Speaker 1: of things because I am a new dad and you
Speaker 1: can't go hard on me because I said that. But
Speaker 1: we'll be back next week with a new episode and
Speaker 1: hopefully maybe an entirely new looking you know, standings table.
Speaker 1: We'll see, well, we'll see where we're at, but I'm
Speaker 1: hoping for the best, preparing for the best too. All Right,
Speaker 1: we'll see you later. Bye bye.