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Speaker 3: So I took out a fourth credit card to pay

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Speaker 5: A girl who thought it would be a good idea

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Speaker 5: I'm the Vet.

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Speaker 1: our nine hundredth episode with the Athletic, we got a lot.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna debate the worst of the week. We got

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Speaker 1: a few nominees. We'll hand that out. We're gonna hit

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Speaker 1: whether trade requests are actually good for the NBA. We

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Speaker 1: got tweetd the night we got rapid fire fun. But

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Speaker 1: first we had a Weggie and lucky for us, we

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Speaker 1: Mavericks broadcast. They should be tracked on Basketball Reference. Lucky

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Speaker 1: for us, we have Weggie Tracker dot Com number thirty

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Speaker 6: That was more impressive how he blocked Moran. As he

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's totally fair to say. The Yeah,

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Speaker 6: One, it's true. But and Beida said over and over

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Speaker 1: It must just be my selective memory, but it feels

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Speaker 1: let's keep it going. Wild endings across the board. Last

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Speaker 2: What you got? I gotta go Jazz over Thunder because

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Speaker 2: I thought marking In was like the most impressive player

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Speaker 2: Walker Kessler made a bunch of big plays down the stretch,

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Speaker 2: He listens to no dunks. It's quite obvious, but you

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Speaker 2: They really gutted out that win, which is pretty impressive

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Speaker 2: since this is a team they're probably gonna be viying

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Speaker 2: There After, they traded away a bunch of rotation guys.

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Speaker 2: They just picked up a bunch of rotation guys, threw

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Speaker 6: But you know, we were talking about it yesterday on playback.

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Speaker 6: So great learning experiences for this team. Will Hardy's got

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all of these were crazy endings, like really fun games.

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Speaker 2: started marketing Kessler and Kelly Olynnock together. It's honestly ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Uh, and any other thoughts on on the Celtics win

434
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Speaker 1: or or Wendell Carter Junior with the perfectly time put

435
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Speaker 1: back dunk and even he did the thing where you're like,

436
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Speaker 1: he didn't he like got his hands off the ball. Yeah,

437
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Speaker 1: it was really really smart.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, if he didn't get it, I think it

439
00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,520
Speaker 2: was Markel Fults right behind it. Pretty poor box out

440
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Speaker 2: by the Pistons there, giving up two guys at the rim.

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Speaker 2: I kind of got jobbed on this one though. I

442
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Speaker 2: was looking on the app seeing like I think I

443
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Speaker 2: think Celtics Pacers had just ended. So I was like, Okay,

444
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Speaker 2: what's the next game I'm gonna look at. So it

445
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Speaker 2: was a tie game. Piston's magic, Yeah, no time left

446
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Speaker 2: on the clock, one six, one o six. Then I

447
00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,840
Speaker 2: flipped on Twitter. I was like, what Wendell Carter Junior

448
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Speaker 2: hit a game winner?

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Speaker 1: They were confirming and I confirm, I suppose And it

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Speaker 1: was Banks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a bang bang.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, but it took him a while to say

453
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Speaker 6: that it was offensive. They made the business decision that

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Speaker 6: let's go, we can review it, even though it was

455
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Speaker 6: clear it was off the rim, right, but they went

456
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Speaker 6: and called it. So it can't be the wildest finish

457
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Speaker 6: if it ends in a review. But everybody knew and

458
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Speaker 6: it was wild. Yeah. If you look at one replay,

459
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Speaker 6: you see Mark l Foltz like looking up at the

460
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Speaker 6: face of Wendell Carter junior because he could have got

461
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Speaker 6: the tip in if if Wendell Carter Junior didn't finish it.

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Speaker 6: But Wendle Carter Junior doesn't feel like a Wendell Carter

463
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Speaker 6: junior until you say junior. Doesn't feel like a junior

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Speaker 6: until you say.

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Speaker 2: Junior, right, doesn't feel like a junior until junior.

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Speaker 6: Like he feels like he's a Wendell Carter is a junior.

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Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I always thought of him as a junior.

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Speaker 6: Tough to shake that he's a senior to me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and final one here we had a Yaka Pearl

471
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Speaker 1: grabbing a career high eighteen rebounds. Raptors beat the Pelicans

472
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Speaker 1: Big win for them. They held on and Malik Beasley

473
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Speaker 1: scored twenty five points as the new look Lakers here

474
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Speaker 1: beat the Warriors one twenty four, one to eleven on

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Speaker 1: a night where Lebron and Ad did not play well.

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Speaker 1: So I'm asking you guys better trade deadline addition, Purdle

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Speaker 1: or Malik Beasley what you do.

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Speaker 6: Of course, I'm gonna believe in Massi. That's what we

479
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Speaker 6: sat here and said. Did we really believe in Massaies

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Speaker 6: when we said believe in Massi? No, It just felt

481
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Speaker 6: like such an up and down season with the reps.

482
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Speaker 6: It felt like this team should be playing harder defensively,

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Speaker 6: insert a center, and they are. They feel like they

484
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Speaker 6: are super comfortable getting after the ball handler like Nick

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Speaker 6: Nurse teams have done because they've got a guy who's

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Speaker 6: at the back line who's ready to help apply that pressure.

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Speaker 6: That guy is there. That's why they Pelicans couldn't score

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Speaker 6: in the first half. But it's not just the defense

489
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Speaker 6: with this dude, I think you sealed the game really

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Speaker 6: with four consecutive bass kts in the fourth quarter, a

491
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Speaker 6: lot of them on the offensive glass. The career high

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Speaker 6: in boards, he said, twenty one points. First time he

493
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Speaker 6: scored fifty in a two games stretch in his career,

494
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Speaker 6: according to the Murph Dog Blake Murphy, and that's I mean,

495
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Speaker 6: it was a full The guy's got a game. I mean,

496
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Speaker 6: he's just really really good. And they lost the three

497
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Speaker 6: ball battle, which we know the Raps do, that's what

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Speaker 6: they're gonna do. But they're still able to win this

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Speaker 6: game because they've got a guy like Pearl. But I

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Speaker 6: would I will say it's a good sign that Barnes,

501
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Speaker 6: Siakam and Og who's back who helped a lot, are

502
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Speaker 6: getting the shots up. That's what they need to do

503
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Speaker 6: to stretch out that offense a little bit. And they've

504
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Speaker 6: just been bad defensively. So to see this team eleventh

505
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Speaker 6: in offense and eighteenth in defense coming in, if they

506
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Speaker 6: could get anywhere close to the top ten defensively, that's all.

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Speaker 6: We expected this team to be a really really good

508
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Speaker 6: defensive team, a sort of a mediocre offensive team, and

509
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Speaker 6: be a tough out and they look like they're that

510
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Speaker 6: right now.

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Speaker 1: People expected Pearl to help the Raptors, like you said,

512
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Speaker 1: because they needed a center, but it was more like, ah,

513
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Speaker 1: somebody to set some screens, do the dirty work. You know,

514
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Speaker 1: protect the rim a little bit. I don't think Raps fans,

515
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Speaker 1: even those that were very high on teenage mutant Nintal

516
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 1: Pearl coming in, we're like, he's gonna give us thirty

517
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Speaker 1: in one game, then he's gonna go twenty one and

518
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Speaker 1: eighteen win us games down the stretch. You see the

519
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: block he had on I think it was Herb Jones.

520
00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 1: It drove baseline. He just erased that all of those

521
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Speaker 1: offensive putbacks seven of his offensive seven of his eighteen

522
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Speaker 1: offensive rebounds, and that was huge to help score New

523
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Speaker 1: Orleans and second chance points. I mean, this was this

524
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Speaker 1: is best case scenario, Like what in him coming in

525
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Speaker 1: and like giving the defense some life and now they

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Speaker 1: have a little bit more of an identity. But Beasley

527
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Speaker 1: also good last night hitting seven to three. So where

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Speaker 1: are you going?

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Speaker 2: I actually think both teams got exactly what they needed

530
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Speaker 2: and then kind of completely opposite ways, Like the Raptors

531
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Speaker 2: got more sturdy and steady, getting pertle. Their team makes sense,

532
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Speaker 2: like they're playing an NBA lineup now, not just a

533
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Speaker 2: playoff lineup. Not to mention he's bringing good vibes from

534
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Speaker 2: being there before his relationship with Pascal Siakam and the

535
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Speaker 2: other guys that he came up with. Clearly, the Raptors

536
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Speaker 2: are happier now having Yaka Purl back after years of

537
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Speaker 2: wanting him to come back. For the Lakers, they got

538
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Speaker 2: Malik Beasley, which actually makes them a little bit more volatile.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot more variance for the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: Beasley's played four games in LA led him in scoring

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Speaker 2: twice awesome. The other two games he scored four in

542
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Speaker 2: a That's just how it is with Nelik Beasley, as

543
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 2: somebody in the stream team is saying, sometimes he'll miss

544
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Speaker 2: nine threes, sometimes he'll make ten threes. Yep. They kind

545
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Speaker 2: of need that. They just need somebody to let it fly.

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Speaker 2: He was letting it fly last night. If the Lakers

547
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 2: can have games where neither Lebron or ad is their

548
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 2: leading score, that's a win. Even though they did lose

549
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Speaker 2: one of these games where Beasley let them in scoring,

550
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Speaker 2: it's still a win that there is more talent out there,

551
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Speaker 2: that the pieces fit better from a court geometry standpoint.

552
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I kind of think that, you know, I mean,

553
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Speaker 2: Pearl and Beasley, neither of these guys will probably make

554
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Speaker 2: an All Star team in their career, but It's the

555
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Speaker 2: exact kind of role player you want to add at

556
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Speaker 2: the trade deadline, somebody who fills a need for you

557
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Speaker 2: and just changes the team five or ten percent.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the Bes is volatile for sure. On the other side.

559
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Speaker 6: In that game, Jordan Poole extremely volatile. It was a

560
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Speaker 6: close game going into the third quarter, and Pool just

561
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 6: got pretty shot happy, bad shots and then bad fouls

562
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Speaker 6: from the Warriors. There wasn't the same old turnover thing.

563
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Speaker 6: They were just playing bad defense and reaching, and they're

564
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Speaker 6: doing this small thing where they go incredibly small. Kevon

565
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Speaker 6: Looney is on the bench, but they can't get it

566
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Speaker 6: together defensively. So I just wonder if Looney ever gets

567
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Speaker 6: back out there in the starting lineup. They obviously need

568
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Speaker 6: Curry to come back, so you can just say, oh, Curry,

569
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Speaker 6: I'll come back and fix this, and it's possible, but

570
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Speaker 6: he needs to come back and put everything in order

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Speaker 6: on that team.

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Speaker 1: Lakers had a very good night too with that win

573
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Speaker 1: and easily going off for twenty five and hitting all

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Speaker 1: those threes. Because they win, you get the Blazers losing

575
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Speaker 1: to the Kings, you get the Thunder losing to the Jazz,

576
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: so they're chasing both of those teams. You get the

577
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Speaker 1: Warriors losing of course to them, Pelicans losing to the Raptors.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are all teams. You know. Again, the

579
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Speaker 1: Jazz won because they were playing one of the other

580
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Speaker 1: teams there. But all those other teams, they all picked

581
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Speaker 1: up els last night. So big night for the Lakers

582
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Speaker 1: as they try and get into the plan and you know,

583
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Speaker 1: maybe even trying to get into that top six, although

584
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: that's a lot of work to do on that front.

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Speaker 1: I guess they're three and a half games back. It's crazy.

586
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Speaker 1: So we only have twenty games left, which is also.

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Speaker 2: Playoffs every night in the Western Conference right now. You

588
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 2: gotta win and hope that the teams you're competing with lose.

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Speaker 1: It's funny you say that. I mean, I'm watching the

590
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: Raptors game last night. The playoffs have started for the

591
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: Raptors too. It's like every game now it's like, oh,

592
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Speaker 1: here we go. Like they almost blew this game last

593
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Speaker 1: night too, Like holy crap. Brandan ingram Man, Oh god,

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Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best guys in the

595
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Speaker 1: league when he's on when he gets cooking to like

596
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Speaker 1: watch even though he's going against my team. He's like,

597
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Speaker 1: oh my god, He's like Kevin Durant.

598
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Speaker 2: He's like, how do you stop that?

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Speaker 1: He shoots it so high, he's so long, you can't

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Speaker 1: stop it. He was finding a rhythm. But anyway, every

601
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Speaker 1: game now feels like that because you know, the Rapts

602
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Speaker 1: are the ninth they're trying to catch obviously, the Knicks,

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Speaker 1: the heat, the Hawks above them. Buckle up tasks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it started in our life.

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Speaker 6: Oh, Nick Nurse knows he's only playing eight guys. Yeah,

606
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Speaker 6: he's cutting that lineup shirt.

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Speaker 2: How's that different?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not much.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, Van Fleet last night too. I hope everything's okay.

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Speaker 1: It was like a last minute scratch for personal reasons.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the issue was. But yeah, not

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys played. No, how about Chris bouchet Is.

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Speaker 6: Don't though, Oh it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Get that guy in a triple jump competition. Holy crap, Like.

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Speaker 6: Mike Conley Junior. Yeah, Mike Conley, I just wanted to say,

616
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Speaker 6: but yeah, they're they're cutting malachif Lynn Jeff Dowton's playing.

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Speaker 6: That means it's it's defense time. So it's yeah, it's

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Speaker 6: buckle up.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's take our.

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Speaker 1: First break here on what I think is going to

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Speaker 1: be a very long edition of the Drop Podcast when

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Speaker 1: we come back. We got Worse of the Week nominees

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Speaker 1: and we'll hit the beach, answer a few of your questions, ok, anywhere?

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Speaker 1: All right back with your boys here in the Classic Factory.

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Speaker 1: Thousand of you watching live. We love to see that,

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Speaker 1: but only one hundred and forty five thumbs up fourteen

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Speaker 1: it's pathetic.

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Speaker 2: We want to be at least four point eighty eight percent.

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Speaker 6: Yeah well yeah, yeah, yeah, he was right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you want how much you want?

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Speaker 2: Eighty eight percent conversion rate on the thumbs? Holy, I

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Speaker 2: like it. Yeah, we want to see at least eight

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Speaker 2: and eighty likes on this video. Al right, work, we

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Speaker 2: don't ask for a lot.

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Speaker 1: Hit that thumbs up if you're joining us live. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's get two worst of the week ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: The worst of the week.

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Speaker 6: It's the stream team's thumbs. They get worse of the

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Speaker 6: week those thumbs. Now, we got a few nominies. First

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Speaker 6: nominee is Rockets owner Tilman for Tita, because if you

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Speaker 6: didn't know that the Rockets were tanking, well it's absolutely

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Speaker 6: clear because he told a reporter at Galveston, Texas's Marty Gras,

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Speaker 6: We're not going to top business.

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Speaker 1: So I want to say, go Rockets. Hey, absolutely we

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Speaker 1: got that guy.

646
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Speaker 2: We got ten days off, thanks right for Victor?

647
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: Yes, happy Marti Gras.

648
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 6: I hate our team. Thank god we got ten days off.

649
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 6: In pray for Victor, just a pray for Victor.

650
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: Idn't see this club. There's a lot going on.

651
00:28:58,720 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 2: It looks like Mardi Gras.

652
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the owner is saying, I hope we get

653
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 6: the number one pick. Let's keep losing, baby, that's unfortunate.

654
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: Doing a good job.

655
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he may be telling the truth.

656
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, at the very least, you could say

657
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 2: that all facets of the franchise are aligned right now.

658
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: The problem is the Spurs Man Spurs lost fifteen straight.

659
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: Who but the Rockets still have the worst record.

660
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 6: But they flat in the odds Skeetsy they're in the

661
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,239
Speaker 6: second worst or third worst. Still got that fourteen percent, right,

662
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 6: So good luck to Tillman, Fertita or bad luck whatever

663
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 6: you want.

664
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: What's crazy about it is like he wasn't prompted, he

665
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: wasn't asked about that, right, It was just like he's

666
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: having a good time at Martin.

667
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like it's got the styrofoam cup.

668
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 6: It looks like he's having fun.

669
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even have known that was him until you.

670
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he's got the face paint

671
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: and all that. It's like that guy's a billionaire. I

672
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: could have been anybody. But yeah, good luck to the

673
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: Rockets fans, Spurs fans, the Pistons fans, and I guess

674
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: the Hornets fans.

675
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 2: Got me to a quick as a bit of the

676
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 2: old tankathon here. Just see how it's going. Give it

677
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 2: a spin, one spin only, one spin only. Congratulations to

678
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 2: the Houston rock you did it ten days off. Oh

679
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 2: and congratulations to the Bulls dropping up the number four.

680
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 2: That's huge your pig time. Yeah, all right, just go

681
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 2: with this one.

682
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 6: Please send it top four protected. All right. Second nominee,

683
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 6: good friend of the show, Matt Devil. Now, Maddie d

684
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 6: did nothing wrong. I'm just really saying this because I

685
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 6: want to point out that it was Caribbean Heritage Night

686
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 6: in Toronto and Matt Devlin and everybody else on the

687
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 6: broadcast was asked to eat this triny treat called doubles

688
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 6: and it just sucks to eat on TV. And this

689
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 6: thing is just flopping and falling apart on Maddy Dan.

690
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 6: He's having trouble eating it, although he took he took

691
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 6: care of it. I think amongst all the broadcast crew

692
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 6: who was asked to eat it, he was the only

693
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 6: one who ate it on camera. They asked everybody. They

694
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 6: asked Leo, they asked Ball or Keia nurse, they asked,

695
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 6: they asked Jack Armstrong. Armstrong is off camera.

696
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: Sand you take a bite for sure because you can

697
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: see it holds.

698
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, it just sucks to eat on camera.

699
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 6: But I wanted to just point out this Caribbean Heritage

700
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 6: Night because it was a blast in Toronto. Surprisingly, the

701
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 6: first Caribbean Heritage Night in team history. Very surprising with

702
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 6: the influence that the Caribbean has on't Toronto. Yeah, surprising,

703
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 6: is surprising.

704
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: Okay, they should do it every night. They should because

705
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: it was bumping in there last night.

706
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 6: It was because Kevin Little was performing Turn me on.

707
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 6: Between the first and second quarters. They got a delay

708
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 6: of game because Kevin Little was performing. Worth it, absolutely

709
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 6: worth it. I saw Eric kreen Uh on the Athletic

710
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 6: talking about the the Craft Services table for media, and

711
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 6: he said he can only do that please, he asked.

712
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 2: He begged only.

713
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 6: Once a year, please for his waistline's sake, because he

714
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 6: was going it down. It was far better than the

715
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,959
Speaker 6: usual media spread. But it was a blasting there. If

716
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 6: it felt like old times, yeah, it felt like probably

717
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 6: the loudest it was this season.

718
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean I haven't been to any

719
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: games like in person of in Toronto, but watching it

720
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: came through on the screen for sure. I was double

721
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: checking Randy's patties.

722
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 6: I closed, right, I do believe.

723
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: Patties, but then didn't Drake okay, I swore like Drake

724
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: thought about buying it, and so is it coming back?

725
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,239
Speaker 1: I mean I checked it is closed now, but there

726
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: was something with Drake. I remember that was our oo

727
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: shout out to our guy. Darryl loved the Randy patties.

728
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: Doesn't Jay have a shirt?

729
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 2: Wow? Exactly one year ago today, February twenty fourth, twenty

730
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 2: twenty two. I'll buy Randy's right now, commented d I

731
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 2: don't think he has well what happened?

732
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully it comes back, mink.

733
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 2: Instead, I bought all these wrap things. Yeah, instead of

734
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 2: a patty shot.

735
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: You've come shot, man, Jeez, get your priorities straight.

736
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 6: Okay, Eric Korean did say there were beef patties.

737
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: I can just now I know right now love.

738
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 2: It bought some frozen ones recently. Horrible, Yeah, just terrible.

739
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 2: I see Matt Devlon eating that crumbly crust.

740
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 6: Yeah. Wicked carib was the suppliers. Last they supplied the doubles.

741
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: Uh.

742
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 6: Patrice Roberts performed.

743
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 2: Just looked like a great time. I look like a

744
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 2: great little turned me on. That's a good song.

745
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know.

746
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 2: What that sosol. That's a good song.

747
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 6: You had me anyway? Yeah, he does the turning on

748
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 6: all right. Last one. You guys wanted it out there.

749
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 6: It's the NBA All Star Game. It has to be.

750
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 6: It's unfortunate that we have to be talking about this now. Listen.

751
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 6: This part was actually the best part. If you're with

752
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 6: us on YouTube, there was a one in one battle.

753
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 6: I know someone brought that up amongst our fans, amongst everybody.

754
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 6: Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum are playing. The other eight

755
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 6: guys are watching. Who cares? At least there was defense

756
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 6: on this play.

757
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards pose is pretty funny though.

758
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, double double tea pot. No one tried. There was

759
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 6: a lot of trying on this play if you're watching

760
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 6: with us here, but no one tried. On the basketball floor.

761
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 6: There was no defense played. In fact, Shake Gilders Alexander

762
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 6: complained about Lebron James playing defense on him. I mean

763
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 6: it's kind of warranted. He said, Lebron James didn't play

764
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 6: defense all night. Then he came and blocked me. What

765
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 6: the hell, What the hell?

766
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 2: Man?

767
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 6: But the fact is people didn't watch this game. Four

768
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 6: point nine million viewers, a record low for the NBA's

769
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 6: midseason classic, and the Live Draft got three point four

770
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 6: million viewers, so people were tuned in for that. That's

771
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 6: a pretty good number, way higher than when they pre

772
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 6: recorded it. JD and I were talking about on playback.

773
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 6: He said, Wow, the number went up for the All

774
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 6: Star Game from the Live Draft. Well, you know, they

775
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 6: want to do want to watch the stars play, but

776
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 6: that's an incredibly low number. And you know, we're at

777
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 6: this point here where literally we just saw one possession

778
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,959
Speaker 6: where there was a defensive play. Lebron had a defensive play.

779
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 6: I don't know, I can't even think of another play

780
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 6: where there was actual defense and intensity, and that was

781
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 6: the problem. Everybody started turning it off. It was obviously

782
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 6: too long. There was a pregame concert, there was a middle,

783
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 6: there's a concert in the middle, there's a there was

784
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 6: commercials in between rounds of the draft. It was extremely long.

785
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 6: Now the NBA will say, across our digital media channels,

786
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 6: we generated one point seventy five billion views. Is that

787
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 6: a lot? I guess that's a record, So it sounds

788
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 6: like a lot. One point seventy five billion. I'm not

789
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 6: sure that those numbers kind of wash over me. And

790
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 6: the game is changed in terms of TV. Obviously the streaming, right,

791
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 6: this streaming doesn't factor into that.

792
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 2: But still the game was bad. I think we can

793
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 2: all say that, right, but how are you how are

794
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 2: you going to fix that? Somebody's got We can't get

795
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 2: fucking players.

796
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: To play in regular season games, okay, in all of them,

797
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: So why are we expecting them to play like balls

798
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: to the wall in an All star game, an expistion game.

799
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: We're not.

800
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,800
Speaker 6: A little harder, a little harder somebody just one of

801
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 6: the leaders has to do it like in the past.

802
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, that's what it takes.

803
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: It takes a Kobe or it takes a particular player

804
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: to rally the troops and say it, guys, let's play

805
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: defense for finans.

806
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 6: I agree with that.

807
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: No one's it ain't gonna take money, it ain't gonna

808
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: take anything else or whatever.

809
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 6: It's not exactly what do you think fixes it, Trey anyway?

810
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 2: I mean, I do think a lot of the competitiveness

811
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 2: fell off when Kobe Bryant retired. I think that's a

812
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: big factor here. No Chris Paul in this game. No

813
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 2: Kyle Lowry in this game. Giannis played one play. We're

814
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 2: talking about guys who are like competitors who are going

815
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 2: to be dogging each other trying to win this game.

816
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 2: It would have been nice to see him a least

817
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 2: care in the fourth quarter. I mean, the game was

818
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 2: out of hand at that point, which is the kind

819
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 2: of double edged sword of the elam ending. It's like,

820
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 2: it's close, it's gonna be cool, they're gonna be competing,

821
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 2: but if it's really far away, we're just trying to

822
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 2: bomb threes from as far as possible. So I don't know,

823
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 2: every All Star game sucks. NFL All Star Game brutal.

824
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 2: They don't even play real football. Anymore. Yeah, NLB All

825
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 2: Star Game, they had to go to like awarding the

826
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 2: winter home field advantage. Now they don't even do that.

827
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 2: I don't know about the NHL thing, but I know

828
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 2: that the skills is more important. Nobody cares because the

829
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 2: game doesn't matter, So how do you make it matter?

830
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 2: Go back to the nineties, there ain't no way to

831
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 2: make it matter.

832
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's interesting because now if you're a League Pass subscriber,

833
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 6: you can watch the Stars every single night, So that's gone.

834
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 6: You know, when you used to be able to you

835
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 6: could only tune in to see MJ you know, a

836
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 6: handful of times in the NBA. So that's why there

837
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 6: was you know, it was in the tens of millions

838
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 6: back then, ninety three was the highest, so things have

839
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 6: obviously changed. At the same time, it just feels like

840
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 6: I don't I don't really have a solution. The elam

841
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 6: ending is really interesting. Do you just do an elamending

842
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 6: every single quarter because you're just playing to a number,

843
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 6: Then it's like four different games, and that doesn't feel

844
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 6: like one All Star game. It just feels like these

845
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 6: these four different parts. It just takes a couple of guys.

846
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 6: I do agree if it's a guy, yeah, not playing.

847
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: It's not the scoring system, it's not money to charity,

848
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: it's not money for the players, it's none of that.

849
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: It's the guys. That's all it comes down to. That

850
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: they decide we're actually going to compete and play some

851
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: real basketball for at least a portion of it. That's

852
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: that's it.

853
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 2: And it shouldn't be a marathon. It shouldn't be a

854
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: five hour marathon. That No, you're very long.

855
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, Like they put on their jackets and are

856
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 6: listening to the national anthems by Julie Black and like it.

857
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 6: I don't know, eight fifteen the game ends that Like

858
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 6: it was long. I'm not to give them an excuse,

859
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 6: but it was super long from that time to the

860
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 6: fourth quarter, when, like Trey said, if there was an

861
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 6: effort in that fourth quarter, would be cool with it,

862
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 6: because that's what's happened a lot of the times they

863
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 6: turn it on in the fourth quarter.

864
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: A lot, I think, I wouldn't say a lot Kobe years, Well,

865
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 1: I mean we had two, I mean and then and

866
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: forty minutes of the game was basically what we saw

867
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: this weekend.

868
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 6: Yeah.

869
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 1: The fourth quarters bomb, you bomb, yeah, Yeah.

870
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 6: The fourth quarters just is all we're asking.

871
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people are willing to overlook forty minutes

872
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 2: of pick up basketball as long as the like final

873
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 2: eight minutes have a little bit of intensity. Like it

874
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 2: was a joke that Kyle Lowry was flopping in the

875
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 2: All Star Game, but you could tell he cared.

876
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's only a couple of years ago.

877
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I think the best thing is if you

878
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: don't like the All Star Game or the weekend or whatever, yeah,

879
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: just don't watch it. And maybe that's going to happen here,

880
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: and then maybe the NBA will be forced to get

881
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: creative and and maybe the players will take some pride

882
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,439
Speaker 1: and wanting to compete a little bit. But I also

883
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: think it's silly to expect an NBA All Star Game

884
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: to have the competition level of a game seven in

885
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 1: a playoffs.

886
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 6: No one's expecting that.

887
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: Well, I feel like some people are, and I think

888
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 1: they've lost the plot when it comes this weekend. It's

889
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: for sponsors, it's sort of for the it's for the

890
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: fans or even particularly kids. It's it's not this like, oh,

891
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:04,479
Speaker 1: I mean.

892
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 2: I get it led with sponsors, Yeah, but it is

893
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 2: that it did to be for fans. It used to

894
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 2: be yeah, you know, like that was the main thing.

895
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: Show up, play hard. This is the only time we

896
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 2: see everybody actually together doing this. Nowadays, you're gonna see

897
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 2: more competitive footage from these guys getting together for a

898
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 2: summer run at Rico Hines because they're trying to get

899
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 2: better for things that matter going forward.

900
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 6: It has lost the luster again the last couple of years.

901
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: I mean sure, you know what's going to happen unfortunately,

902
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 1: is someone's going to compete hard in one of these

903
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: and someone's gonna break an ankle, and then everybody's gonna

904
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: say the exact hurt in an All Star game. Uh, Kobe,

905
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: he got hit in the face. Yeah, he did get

906
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: in the face, broke his nose, wehed. I think it

907
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: was It's like, well, did Lebron get hurt or not hurt?

908
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 2: It nicked his finger. That's another one. You can cross

909
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 2: him out as well. I only played a half of

910
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 2: the game. But people don't really get hurt in the

911
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 2: All Star Game. People don't really get hurt in the

912
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 2: dunk contest. It's an excuse.

913
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, it just takes the grade of the grades were

914
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 6: talking about. You mentioned the ron if he's out there

915
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 6: in the fourth quarter at least giving it some sort

916
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 6: of effort. People will follow. If he's played in this

917
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 6: game other than the first position, for sure, it could

918
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 6: have changed.

919
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: I thought Westbrook, Yeah, you listed a lot of guys

920
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: that actually the most competitive would play the hardss.

921
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 2: But why don't they care? Though?

922
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 6: Like that's cool, that's the reason to not care.

923
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, because like all these people that's in the league

924
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 4: right now, they're all talking about Mumba mentality all the time.

925
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 2: But like, he would play hard.

926
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 4: Like you know, when I was a kid, they always

927
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 4: playing hard. Vince Carter, Kobe, Tracey McGrady, all those guys

928
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 4: were playing hard. So what's the reason to not care.

929
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:38,760
Speaker 6: I don't want to have a revisionist history here because

930
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 6: they didn't play hard all that.

931
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: No, they didn't know. But I'm glad you said because

932
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: they did this at all.

933
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 6: You know, they were kind of compet having.

934
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 2: But then when you get to the fourth quarter and

935
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 2: that that was the whole point of the you.

936
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, right, yeah, So I don't know.

937
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 2: It bothers me.

938
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 6: Yes, I think Tom Diller put it pretty well. He said,

939
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,760
Speaker 6: let's not get player empowerment mixed up with player entitlement,

940
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 6: because that's what it felt like. I'm here, I'm one

941
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 6: of the best. I don't have to try, and it

942
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 6: just didn't feel didn't feel right, felt wrong. That's it.

943
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 6: I mean, that's there's there's Yeah, it does start with

944
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 6: the peers. Get it done. Somebody's got to try, and

945
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 6: then it'll it'll happen.

946
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: And you know, you know, now I think about it too.

947
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: The league has done a good job of like giving

948
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: these guys time off after the All Star Game, like

949
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: that not used to be. That was not a thing, right,

950
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: It was like basically right back into the second half

951
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: of the season. So it's not like you don't have

952
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: much of an excuse to like compete for a couple

953
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: of minutes.

954
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 6: For sure.

955
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: You know, I guess he's despite not I wanted to

956
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: get injured. Sure, but yeah, these guys sit out a

957
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: lot of games in the regular season, so that's an

958
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,760
Speaker 1: issue as of itself. But yeah, an All Star Game whatever.

959
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 6: Anyway, the fans, it had to be on the list.

960
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 6: The fans were asking for it. When I went out

961
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 6: there throughout the tweet, it was like eighty percent All

962
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 6: Star Game or the fans who complain about the All

963
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 6: Star Game, which is all which is good as well,

964
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 6: there was there's some complaint. Yeah, just shorten it a

965
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 6: little bit. Anthems. Fine, we'll do We'll do the anthems. Uh,

966
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 6: you know'll post Malone post the game. Maybe he was good,

967
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 6: but we don't need him pregame.

968
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 7: You know, just one quarter, Just do it, Just play

969
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 7: one quarter.

970
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:17,959
Speaker 1: It's okay.

971
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 6: Why not?

972
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: So now we don't think they're playing hard because, like, damn, it's.

973
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 2: A lot basket.

974
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 7: I watched four hours of it. In the game that

975
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 7: hadn't even started yet, they had like two anthems and

976
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 7: then twenty minutes of post Malone. Yeah yeah, man, Yeah,

977
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 7: what treata like the celebrity game, Like, just lean into

978
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 7: the goofiness of it, spend most of your time on

979
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 7: the sidelines, you know with celebrities, and you know, just

980
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 7: the goofball ness of it. It's a celebration of basketball. Right,

981
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 7: If they're not going to play hard.

982
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 6: Which is what the NFL has resorted, right, so let's

983
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 6: play dodgeball. You know, the biggest sport in America has

984
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 6: nothing to do with the All Star Game. But they

985
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 6: don't even play a game, right, they don't play the

986
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 6: pro Bowl anymore.

987
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: It's literally they black and then all these other fun

988
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: events or whatever. Yeah, and sweetest catch and and no

989
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: one cares. I don't think like our NFL fans, like,

990
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: you know, going nuts that there's no real competitive anyways.

991
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 6: I guess no matter what the XFL is doing numbers.

992
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 2: Who's your right?

993
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 1: What's your XFL team? I picked what?

994
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 6: Never?

995
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 3: No?

996
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:22,720
Speaker 6: Please?

997
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: No got Chicago team or no?

998
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 2: Man? I like the Revengers, the Renegades, isn't it?

999
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 1: Is there Renegades? Maybe the Vipers. There is the Vipers. Okay,

1000
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: we've had some good names. The Saint Louis BattleHawks, the

1001
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: Seattle Sea Dragons, the Arlington Renegades, the Houston Roughnecks, the

1002
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: DC Defenders, the San Antonio Brahmas, Vegas Vipers, and the

1003
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: New York Guardians. I believe that's all the teams. I

1004
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: think I just listed them all. So what's your team?

1005
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 6: Arlington Renegades because I had to confirm there in Arlington confirmed? Yeah,

1006
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 6: you never know. That's where the Rangers play.

1007
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 2: I do like Vipers, Vegas Viper sounds cool.

1008
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, although Sea Dragons, that's cool.

1009
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,760
Speaker 2: All right, let's speaking of the sea. Let's hit the beach.

1010
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 2: Let's do it. Yeah, two questions here.

1011
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: The first one actually was not emailed in or tweeted in.

1012
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: It was sort of a leftover Q from our NBA

1013
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: Reddit podcast or a leftover thread I should say. It's

1014
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: from Pizza Chomper eight seven to four again by way

1015
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: of NBA Reddit check out yesterday's podcast. We had a

1016
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: blast going through some of our favorite NBA Reddit threads.

1017
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: So this is what Pizza Chomper eights on four. Right,

1018
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: So what do you and the guys think about Kelly

1019
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: Eco's seven out of ten possibility of Hardened coming back

1020
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: to Houston this off season? Do you think it's a

1021
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: good move? Should the Rockets even be happy about that possibility?

1022
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: And let's go live to the Rockets owner Tillman for

1023
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: tita from Marty gra Well, you slipped this into the

1024
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: podcast yesterday, this seven out of ten comment from our

1025
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 1: guy Kelly Ego at the Athletic about the possibility of

1026
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: Harden coming back.

1027
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 2: Well, what do you think of all this?

1028
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, it sounds it sounds too strange to me. He's

1029
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,399
Speaker 6: gonna be thirty four this offseason. I can see James

1030
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 6: Harden somewhere down the line saying I love Houston. I'm

1031
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 6: going back, but now with it to the with the

1032
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 6: state of the team, it's too soon. Like maybe, okay,

1033
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,240
Speaker 6: like you know, if I let's let's let's let's configure

1034
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 6: this scenario, construct this weird, weird scenario where let's say

1035
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 6: the Sixers win the title. Oh wow, I think it's

1036
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 6: more likely that he would go back to Houston. I

1037
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 6: got done. I got it. Yeah, I got it. I

1038
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 6: got the thing. I got the thing. But he just

1039
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 6: took a fifteen million dollars pay cut to try and win,

1040
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 6: to try and allow the Sixers to add some guys.

1041
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 6: So I think he'll give that a chance. But I

1042
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 6: kind of see him retiring a rocket oh at the end. End.

1043
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 2: Okay, that's he's thirty four.

1044
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 6: I don't know how long for he will be four

1045
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 6: to thirty four of this offseason, I don't know, Harden,

1046
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 6: don't seem like you guys are gonna play nill forty.

1047
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 2: So I agree, a few years from now.

1048
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you think.

1049
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 6: It's still being able to play? So maybe two years

1050
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 6: from now, give me two two years, yeah, man, I

1051
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 6: don't know. Maybe you're right, test.

1052
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 2: I was thinking, if the Sixers have a successful postseason, Like,

1053
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 2: there's no way he's gonna leave when they're that close

1054
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 2: to a championship. But if they locked down the championship,

1055
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 2: why not go back home and party? Yeah, but for

1056
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 2: the end of your career. Maybe he's a big Roughnecks fan.

1057
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 2: Yeahs to see them taking a down the San Antonio

1058
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 2: Brahmas at Tadeku Stadium. Uh. Perhaps Harden is waiting to

1059
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 2: see if Tillman Furtida will be celebrating the Victor Wembin

1060
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 2: Yama lottery. Yeah, And then he says, hey, that's a

1061
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 2: nice guy to attach to going forward, a pick and

1062
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 2: roll como of James Harden and Victor Wembin. That's good

1063
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 2: if you're the Houston Rockets. And I don't know, should

1064
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 2: the Rockets be happy about it? It's tough to say.

1065
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 2: It is tough to say. Clearly they are in rebuild

1066
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 2: mode right now. But if you win the lottery and

1067
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:18,479
Speaker 2: sign James Harden instantly, you're back in contention mode, trying

1068
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 2: to win mode at the very least. I do think

1069
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 2: the Rockets need some veteranship. I don't know if Harden

1070
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 2: is necessarily the guy for it, but you hear more

1071
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 2: and more about Harden possibly going back to Houston to

1072
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 2: the point where I'm like seven out of ten, that's

1073
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 2: a really high number. But for how many podcasts that

1074
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 2: we listen to to hear the smoke of it, it

1075
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 2: could be true.

1076
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 6: And yeah, James arn is a different cat. So this

1077
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 6: may sounds like it may sound like an oddball thing,

1078
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 6: but Eco's got his finger on the pulse. We gotta

1079
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 6: get him on the show. There's there's smoke. I guess

1080
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 6: you think there's a chance.

1081
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: I don't think it's happening this offseason. I think what

1082
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: you're saying is much more likely a couple of years

1083
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:03,800
Speaker 1: from now and end of his career. Sure, but Embiid,

1084
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 1: like Harden, I mean, whether or not he cares, I

1085
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: don't know. You would imagine he cares a little bit

1086
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: to try and get those playoff demons off his back

1087
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: a little bit and go very far and maybe even

1088
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: win a championship. Being paired with Embiid is his best chance.

1089
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: I mean, of course, he played with Kevin Durant Westbrook early, early, early,

1090
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: as in the thunder Days, but like this is you know,

1091
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: and he went really far with Chris Paul, don't get

1092
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: me wrong, but like embiid at the level he's playing

1093
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: at MVP level. That's that's a hell of a twosome

1094
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: that got going on right now. Harden's playing great. So

1095
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: I don't think it's happening in this offseason. And I

1096
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 1: think even Kelly I saw I did like some like

1097
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: Twitter investigation. Kelly even almost was like, well, I just

1098
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: jokingly threw out a number, you know, like.

1099
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 2: Seven sounded good, you know, so probably not this offseason.

1100
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: In the future, maybe that was.

1101
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 6: Good good number to throw out there, because six wouldn't

1102
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 6: have got the juice.

1103
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 2: No. Seven tread for sure. All right.

1104
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: This next one, by way of emails from Finn overall

1105
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: Star weekend, Kevin Durant said that Star movement shouldn't be

1106
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: viewed as a disruptive influence, but instead as a major

1107
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: driver of interest and revenue. So it sounds a little

1108
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: crazy at first, but is can he write our trade

1109
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: requests like he did or has done like Kyrie did?

1110
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: Good for the NBA? Again, this is from Finn key

1111
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: k Does Katie have a point? This is good for business?

1112
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 2: He has a point, But I'm a little conflicted here.

1113
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 2: There's no doubt that slop carries the NBA from January

1114
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 2: to mid February, the games are at their most boring.

1115
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,959
Speaker 2: People care the least, players sit out all the time,

1116
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 2: and more and more people tune in to our show,

1117
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 2: included when we're talking about trade rumors. So he is

1118
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 2: absolutely right that it drives interest, but it drives interest

1119
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 2: away from watching people play basketball. So I don't know.

1120
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 6: He's right.

1121
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 2: It could be even more of a slog though, if

1122
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 2: we didn't have trade rumors during the middle of trade season.

1123
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 2: But also like it definitely takes away from what's actually

1124
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 2: happening on the court to the point where you're looking

1125
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 2: at teams and saying, I can't wait to see what

1126
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 2: this team looks like when they make a move. I

1127
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 2: don't even care who's here right now. We'll see what

1128
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 2: it looks like in six weeks. Yeah, it's a strange

1129
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 2: thing because he's right, more interest, But does it convert

1130
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 2: to people actually watching basketball? Doesn't necessarily seem like it.

1131
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think so. I think it it plays

1132
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 6: for the fans that will always watch basketball, but I

1133
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 6: don't think it turns people on by any means. You know,

1134
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 6: trade requests don't convert potential fans, and they could it

1135
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 6: could push fringe fans away. So I don't think it

1136
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 6: makes the league better. I think he's speaking from a

1137
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 6: place of a business person number one and number two

1138
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 6: a die hard, you know, a guy who's always going

1139
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 6: to watch the league, Guys who cares about this league

1140
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,879
Speaker 6: a lot and like from us. Yeah, of course it's

1141
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 6: great and slop season is trade called. It is good

1142
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 6: for the business, as as Kad said, but it's not

1143
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 6: it's not good for fans who are thinking about watching basketball.

1144
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 6: You know, there's there's a reputation amongst amongst NBA fans

1145
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 6: that say that this league quite often has guys who

1146
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,280
Speaker 6: just don't you know, will demand out because it happens

1147
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 6: more than every other league. As unless I'm mistaken, as

1148
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 6: it happened. It obviously happens in football fut Bowl, but

1149
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 6: it doesn't really happen in North American sports very much

1150
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 6: to the extent that it happens in basketball. So it's

1151
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 6: a turnoff for some. But it's a good business move

1152
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 6: as well.

1153
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 2: Well.

1154
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: You know, kid can see it from both sides. Ben

1155
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: Golliver had a great article in the Washington Post built it.

1156
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: You know, some some do argue that a star has

1157
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: an obligation. I throw that in air quotes to his

1158
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: team once he receives that fat ass long term contract, right, like,

1159
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: you got to be the face of the franchise. You

1160
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: gotta lead, you gotta lock in. That's why you're paid

1161
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars plus. But on the other side,

1162
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: as players get more comfortable exerting their influence over team

1163
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: to say you get this right, the players think, well,

1164
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: owners do this with us. You know, they move us around,

1165
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: they put pressure on obviously, you know who they're going

1166
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: to bring in and out. Why can't we do the

1167
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 1: exact same, exiting through trade requests and stuff like that. Sure, yeah,

1168
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: they canon, they've proven and it's a and Katie is

1169
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: absolutely right. I mean, you cannot argue that I'm not

1170
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:21,720
Speaker 1: a fan of it because I love to watch basketball.

1171
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 1: But more people care about this stuff, the trade rumors,

1172
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: the deals, who won the deal. Everybody gets to play

1173
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 1: GM a little bit. Everybody gets to have an opinion

1174
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: on something that you know hasn't even occurred yet, so like, oh,

1175
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: this will work, this won't work, and then nobody cares

1176
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: what you said, you know, two weeks later then watching basketball.

1177
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 2: That's not good.

1178
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: But Katie's right that it gets more people interested I

1179
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 1: guess in the sport, so but it's weird. It's like

1180
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: you want to translate those people more interested in the

1181
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: sports actually watching the sport and caring about it. But

1182
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: I don't know, Thanks Katie for getting traded. It's good

1183
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: for good for the numbers this year.

1184
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 2: Do it every every interim season, right, Like that's the

1185
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 2: other thing that happens in the summer too, Like it

1186
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,839
Speaker 2: was dead times August summaris making some kind of news,

1187
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 2: and I mean, like.

1188
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: My opinion on this is like I want there to

1189
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: be Kadi's and Kyries of the world, and I also

1190
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: want there to be Damian Lillard's of the world, right, Like,

1191
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: I that's part of the fun.

1192
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 6: To me.

1193
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, the guy that digs in his heels

1194
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: and is like a Dirk, like, you know, I'm gonna

1195
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: get it done here, and then that championship that he

1196
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:31,280
Speaker 1: eventually wins feels bigger. Then, let's be honest, any of Kadi's.

1197
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 1: But I also like players that are like I'm just

1198
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: as much like, why am I not in control here?

1199
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: I'm the real reason why people are watching these games

1200
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: or even tuning in or talking about it, and I

1201
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: want to help my chances of winning a title or

1202
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: whoever I want to play with, Like, you know, I'm

1203
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:46,240
Speaker 1: gonna influence.

1204
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 2: That's stuff.

1205
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: That's stuff you can go too far, probably both ways, right.

1206
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, the public demands versus you know, when you're you know,

1207
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 6: sign the contract and you're able to move on, you

1208
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 6: move on.

1209
00:54:59,640 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1210
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 2: Where's Aaron Rodgers gonna go?

1211
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 6: I don't know?

1212
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? I heard he ended his darkness retreat two

1213
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 2: days early soft four days. He went two days? And

1214
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 2: how can you make a decision after two days? And

1215
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 2: what does this mean?

1216
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,439
Speaker 1: Darkness retreat? Like what happens? Just pitch black?

1217
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 2: Pure darkness, sensory deprivation.

1218
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: So what blinds and curtains? Like you're in a house

1219
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: like I.

1220
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 2: Don't know where they put him exactly, but man, it's

1221
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 2: it's a tough call. Do I do I want to

1222
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 2: play and make fifty million dollars or no? Where he's going? Yeah? Yeah?

1223
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1224
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1225
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: Where's he going?

1226
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 2: Back to Green Bay?

1227
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 6: Yeah?

1228
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: Could they trade him?

1229
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 2: They could? They traded Brett Farv. His career's going the

1230
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 2: exact same way as Brett.

1231
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: Fars Okay, okay, uh is this as big a deal

1232
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL world. It is it obviously is when

1233
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: you're a player of his caliber. I guess or final

1234
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: one here from David l Hey, no donkeys. I saw

1235
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: this fun question via real GM. Who's the biggest X

1236
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: factor now that we're post All Star Break? Put it

1237
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: another way, which players can swing championship expectations or impact

1238
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,240
Speaker 1: the shape of the league the most? Is it KD

1239
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 1: with the Suns? Who else is in the running championship

1240
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:13,240
Speaker 1: X factors?

1241
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 6: I mean, is it Katie kt is a great one?

1242
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1243
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean he's Kevin Durant. He's an MVP

1244
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 6: candidate who just went to the Phoenix Suns. So yeah,

1245
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 6: that's not playing tonight. By the way, I don't think

1246
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 6: March first goal.

1247
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: Okay, that's early next week.

1248
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 6: It's a short month, I heard.

1249
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, february' is done, yes, so it's.

1250
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 6: Starting pretty soon. Okay, he will be playing pretty soon.

1251
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:38,879
Speaker 6: Russell Westbrook's playing tonight, both in a positive and negative way.

1252
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 6: Could he sway the Clippers in one direction or the other?

1253
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 6: But all is good and clipper Land can't wait to

1254
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 6: watch him play Sacramento tonight and hopefully it'll stay good.

1255
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: About Kawhi Leonard. Then I mean as a championship X factor.

1256
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,839
Speaker 6: Just taking it to that Kawhi level. I wasn't thinking him,

1257
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:56,319
Speaker 6: but at.

1258
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 2: The KD level already. Yeah, we're talking about some of

1259
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 2: the best players in the league with all those X

1260
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 2: factors championship excly see, I think more of an X

1261
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 2: factor as a guy like Michael Porter junior great one.

1262
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 2: Nuggets have big time championship aspirations. He's one of their

1263
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 2: five best shooting forty one percent from three, hit some

1264
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 2: big ones last night. But also he is going to

1265
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 2: be the number one target in the Western Conference on defense.

1266
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: Yea.

1267
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 2: They are going to put him into every sort of

1268
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 2: action and challenge him to defend his position and stay

1269
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 2: on the court. And then Nuggets absolutely need him to

1270
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 2: stay on the court. He contributes on the glass a

1271
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 2: little bit as well. He's got good size and he's

1272
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 2: a really good scorer. But come playoff time, that guy

1273
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 2: is going to be in the crosshairs and if he

1274
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 2: is not able to stay on the court, that will

1275
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 2: be a problem for Denver. Yeah.

1276
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: I thought the same thing watching that game last night.

1277
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 1: You're like, Oh, if this guy can stay on the court,

1278
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: is a big part of it. Play a little bit

1279
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: of defense, not get too exploit on that end, but

1280
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: like have those games where he hits four, five, six threes, whatever,

1281
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: he's got to do that. He's got to do that

1282
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: four times out of seven games in four series, and

1283
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: they could easily win a title. Like with Yokichaz your

1284
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: star guy, whi Jamalm Ray is your second guy with

1285
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: that team around him, He's a good one. I guess

1286
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: this article on real Gym was more like that upper

1287
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: echelon level. Katie. Obviously, like the Sons were what a

1288
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: fringe contender at best. He moves to their squad and

1289
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: you're like, they're the favorite suddenly in the Western Conference,

1290
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: whether you believe that or not, but yeah, him cool.

1291
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: I like Anthony Davis is a weird one too. It's like,

1292
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: my god, remember before he got injured, He's like putting

1293
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: up like thirties and fifteens and you're like, oh, yeah,

1294
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: he is one of the best players in league. And

1295
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: then obviously gets hurt like he does all the time.

1296
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 6: I guess when phrases just stick around for a long time,

1297
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 6: the meaning changes because the trays right, yeah, extract It's

1298
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 6: like you don't interpret it however the hell you want,

1299
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 6: we're talking about the best of the best with these guys.

1300
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 6: But yeah, I had Katie down at rust down, at

1301
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 6: hardened down because if hard and take to another level one. Yeah,

1302
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 6: I mean because it's like, like, you know, like Russ

1303
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 6: a few years ago, look good good Heart and bad

1304
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 6: Harden very different players. And I just wanted to say

1305
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 6: all the members of the OKC thunder years ago, but uh,

1306
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 6: I'll throw Chris Middleton in there, because the Bucks are

1307
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 6: continuously winning here, but when it comes to playoff time,

1308
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 6: they are gonna need a guy that can rely on

1309
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 6: his second score, and Drew does that at times, Brooke

1310
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 6: does that at times, and they're bringing along Middleton slowly,

1311
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 6: and he's showing that he can go on runs and

1312
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 6: he can do that, and that Eastern Conference is a

1313
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 6: wide open It's it's exciting times. I mean, you mentioned

1314
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 6: Jokic setting up Porter. The guy's won two MVPs. He

1315
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 6: was asked that All Star weekend, do you think that

1316
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 6: the first round should be a best of five shorten

1317
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 6: it shortened these playoffs? He said, no, No, I like

1318
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 6: the seven game series proves the better team. So I'm like,

1319
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 6: I'm just already in playoff mode. Like, yok, A'll right, baby,

1320
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 6: let's go on a run. I mean, he needs to

1321
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,959
Speaker 6: prove that, you know, he that that he's MVP worthy,

1322
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 6: Like it will be a bad look if he gets

1323
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 6: this third MVP and the Nuggets are bounced obviously, you know,

1324
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 6: first or second round. So I'm just looking forward to yok.

1325
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 6: The confidence is there if he gets the support. Aaron

1326
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 6: Gordon wasn't even there last night, and they've shown they've

1327
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 6: got the best offense in the league. It's it is

1328
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 6: on that defense to just hold it together, to just

1329
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 6: be pretty good because the offense is great.

1330
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: Just back to the Bucks for a second. Do you

1331
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 1: think come Monday morning, when we're here doing winners and

1332
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: losers of the NBA weekend, will the Bucks winning streak

1333
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: still be intact? They play the Heat tonight that's on ESPN,

1334
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: and then they play the Suns on ABC that one

1335
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: pm Eastern slot. Fortunate Katie's not playing, But will the

1336
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: Bucks extend that streak to fourteen?

1337
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 2: Yea, they should not be playing an either game.

1338
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: Probably not. No, no, no, so unlikely. They're two good teams,

1339
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: very good in Miami and Phoenix, but they won twelve straight.

1340
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 6: Don't they own?

1341
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 2: Do they own the heat or the heat on them?

1342
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,479
Speaker 1: I always they've taken care of business since they.

1343
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 6: Swept Jimmy when Bryn Forbes out scored Jimmy that one year.

1344
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: They just beat them recently in early February. I know

1345
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: that for a fact.

1346
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 2: Lost twice in January.

1347
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is for the series, I mean the

1348
01:00:56,720 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: possibly tie break at least ye all right? Us there

1349
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: keep sending them in no dunks at the Athletic dot Com.

1350
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: Tweet them in at No dunk Sinc. That's I n C.

1351
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: On the end, you can leave them in the YouTube

1352
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 1: comment says, well, we can take our final break when

1353
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: we come back, pick them results tweet in the night

1354
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: and rapid firefund when it comes to pick them.

1355
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 2: Trey Kirby stays hot. We do not.

1356
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: You took Denver. You had some points to play with

1357
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, straight up win hit the money line on

1358
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 1: that one way to go TK.

1359
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:25,439
Speaker 2: You're eight and five.

1360
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 1: We had Cleveland to cover. Look good for a second

1361
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: and they fell apart. So I'm four nine, you're five

1362
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 1: and eight. What's tonight's game?

1363
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 6: We mentioned it in the last segment there, Clippers and

1364
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 6: the Russell Westbrook era. Beginning tonight, they're six and a

1365
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 6: half point favorites against the Sacramento Kings. Feels like I

1366
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 6: can't pick wrong with this music behind us here, and

1367
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 6: I'm glad I'm picking with Trey because we got the

1368
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 6: Clippers to cover mine seven at home. Oh wow, that's big.

1369
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: Although the King's played last night, Yeah they did, but

1370
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: they blew them out too.

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01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 6: Yeah so yeah, clips are fresh, sure, but you're right,

1372
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 6: they blew them out. So what is going to happen?

1373
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 6: And I can't wait? Is Russ is starting? Has that

1374
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 6: been declared?

1375
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 2: Now? Tyler's going to keep that a secret?

1376
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 6: Secret? Man, He's got a plan. Clippers have a plan

1377
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 6: for the Westbrook man.

1378
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: Well, then we shouldn't even be allowed to bet on

1379
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: this game without knowing if Westbrook starting or nothing.

1380
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 6: That's why he took the Kings.

1381
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I took the Kings because fund like I got

1382
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 1: some points there. It feels like a big line has

1383
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:26,439
Speaker 1: a big lie.

1384
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 2: It's a big line.

1385
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: Friday Night boys back from the All Star play. Come

1386
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: on a lot of games last night.

1387
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 2: We're close. It's a great point. A lot of games

1388
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 2: last night points and only I mean like only twenty

1389
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 2: five minutes for like all the Sacramento s. Yeah, they

1390
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 2: killed me, which is big time.

1391
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: Oh I meant to bring this up. Did you consider

1392
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 1: the Blazers maybe a worst of the week, particularly Damian

1393
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 1: Lillard not playing last night? Oh yeah, because he sat

1394
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 1: on an airplane for a long time over two days.

1395
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 1: Like the Blazers got hose sitting on the airplane like

1396
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 1: seven hours one day and then like four hours the next.

1397
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: But then they decided we're resting. Jeremy Grant, now he

1398
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: was like concussion protocols, so that made a little more sense.

1399
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: But Damian Lillard, I'm pretty sure was resting because the

1400
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:12,959
Speaker 1: guy had been stuck on a plane for twelve hours

1401
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 1: over two.

1402
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 6: Days, it said Lillard bracket, chilling on playing.

1403
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 2: It said rest Well, it's like a little weird. These

1404
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 2: games matter, plain legs.

1405
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, give me a walk.

1406
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: I know, I'm a little confused unless somebody in the

1407
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 1: stream team correct me, like there's an injury, I don't

1408
01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 1: know about it. That's what I think they did, because

1409
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: it was like it was a long ordeal getting there.

1410
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I get it.

1411
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 2: That sucks, but like that's the.

1412
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: Reason, not the play, but stop writing, stop writing fire

1413
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: bars man get some sleep.

1414
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 2: Exhausted from all of these rhymes. But man, what a

1415
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 2: starting lineup for the Blazers last night, Cam Reddish, Ryan Archie, Diakano, Nass,

1416
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 2: your little Matist, Bible, Drew U Banks. That might be

1417
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 2: the most random starting lineup we see in the NBA

1418
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 2: this season.

1419
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:00,439
Speaker 6: Wow? Yeah, have they have they the tank?

1420
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 2: Well?

1421
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 6: I mean that's I mean I saw like they can't

1422
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:06,760
Speaker 6: get to the bottom four. There's no possible way, but

1423
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 6: you can increase your chances to get from that, you know,

1424
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 6: the ten, eleven, twelve spots that they're in to like

1425
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 6: the you know seven eight spots.

1426
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1427
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: I saw a Blazers fan tweet just that, you know,

1428
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 1: are we leaning into the tank? And I'm checking right now.

1429
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I saw Damian Lillard respond like with

1430
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: a basically no, no way or something like that. I'm

1431
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: trying to find. Yeah, no way to quote no.

1432
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 2: Way quote Damian Lillard.

1433
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 1: Chad in Portland tweeted he's verified with twenty four games remaining.

1434
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: I am all about the Blazers doing whatever is necessary

1435
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: to increase their odds to land to land when Yama

1436
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 1: are a top four pick, Damian lower with the retweet

1437
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: no way, no way, but not playing less than fascinating.

1438
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:49,439
Speaker 2: I got the ninth best odds right now, their pick

1439
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 2: is protected one through fourteen to the Chicago Bulls. So

1440
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 2: let's spin the lottery one. Oh for the Portland trail Blazers,

1441
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 2: they move down one spot ten to keep the pick. Nice.

1442
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:03,240
Speaker 1: Let's get to tweet of the night.

1443
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 6: Tweet of the Knight.

1444
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 2: Wow oh, big tweet coming to us from William Payne

1445
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 2: at tweets by Coach P who says, okay, Hoopers, you're

1446
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 2: gonna have two of these basketballs? Which two of these

1447
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 2: balls are you taking? And then he listed six classic basketballs,

1448
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 2: the Wilson Evolution, the Spalding Legacy TF one thousand, the

1449
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 2: Nike Elite, the Wilson n CUAA Official Game Ball, a

1450
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 2: Bodden Elite, and the new Wilson Evo n x T

1451
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 2: skeets Which two balls are men?

1452
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 1: Gotta pick two balls? I was like the only thing

1453
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: I could, John Everrockey pick one. It was like maybe

1454
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:51,440
Speaker 1: he met, like which one you want for indoors? Which

1455
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:53,080
Speaker 1: one do you want for odors? And I was like,

1456
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 1: I mean, why two? You take one? Look a real

1457
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 1: hooper can hoop with any of these. But if I

1458
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 1: have to pick the I'm taking the Wilson Evolution. Yeah,

1459
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 1: that's my favorite.

1460
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 2: That is the standard, the gold standards basketball is just

1461
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 2: love the feel number one.

1462
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 6: That's why it's in the number one spot here. You're

1463
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 6: just picking it. Can't talk yourself, foreign balls, No, thank you.

1464
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 2: I feel like you have a spalding basketball, though I'm

1465
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 2: pretty sure I do. It's a rough yeah, yeah, that's

1466
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 2: that just means it's well loved, of course it is.

1467
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 2: That's what I mean.

1468
01:06:24,560 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: I can play with any of these. Man, I've played with.

1469
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 2: This Wilson Evo n x T that's the new one.

1470
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 2: It is like crazy neon orange. It is so orange

1471
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 2: and honestly a little bit too soft. But I feel

1472
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 2: so old because, like I mean, I check the quote tweets.

1473
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 2: I checked all of the responses, and people are like

1474
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 2: real ones. No, number one got to be number one,

1475
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 2: got to be number one. I remember when they came out,

1476
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 2: it used to just be the Wilson Jet. Then it

1477
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,560
Speaker 2: was the Wilson Jet Evolution. Then they put did it

1478
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 2: like this the olden days? Man, So you would say

1479
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 2: that got the most votes. Oh okay, that's good.

1480
01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: Definitely, which one got the like least like number five? Yeah,

1481
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 1: I don't I've ever played with the.

1482
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 2: Ball I've I don't know if I've dribbled that one specifically.

1483
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 2: I've never liked the bottom ball, and honestly, I've never

1484
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 2: really liked a Nike ball either. The ones I ever

1485
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 2: played with were very, very hard.

1486
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: Yeah see, I see. Like again, I feel like I

1487
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: could be convinced that maybe it's more of an outdoor

1488
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:22,160
Speaker 1: ball than I would like. Maybe like that little that

1489
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 1: that harder leather. Okay, so we're going Wilson Evolution, clean

1490
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: sweep ash.

1491
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 6: You got a preference here?

1492
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1493
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,919
Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta go with the og ebo for sure.

1494
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, good, I love it. Not that is the

1495
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 2: league ball. I like the league ball. But oh I'm

1496
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 2: interested to hear that because I've got like an official

1497
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 2: league ball pretty well broken in now. But if I

1498
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 2: take it to a run, people are like, what is

1499
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:48,480
Speaker 2: this thing?

1500
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:49,560
Speaker 6: It's so hard?

1501
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 2: They don't like the luxury feel.

1502
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: We we hooped on Wednesday night. It was my first

1503
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 1: time out in a long time. A part of it

1504
01:07:57,920 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: because we're finally back to the two hour run that

1505
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 1: it's nice, but my ball it's it's old, like it

1506
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: needs to be retired. I need a new ball, I

1507
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 1: said to someone in there. I was like, I mean,

1508
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: you know, I'm looking for a new ball. This is

1509
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: made very helpful to me. Just don't overthink it. Just

1510
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 1: go with the Wilson.

1511
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 2: They got a lot of new colors out.

1512
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 6: The ball.

1513
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 2: Still orange classic, yeah, honestly, like one of the greatest

1514
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 2: colors of orange, a Wilson Evolution basketball orange, but now

1515
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 2: it says evolution and outside of the word evolution the

1516
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 2: border of it. You can get a gold one kind

1517
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:33,559
Speaker 2: of the classic. But then they have like purple blue,

1518
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 2: bright green, bright yellow, wild.

1519
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 1: So just the accents on the ball.

1520
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, like purple, yeah, purple.

1521
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:45,960
Speaker 1: What's the basketball going for nowadays?

1522
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 2: Like eighty five nine? So actually I gotta go return

1523
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:52,759
Speaker 2: mine from dis Yeah, I gotta take my ball to Dix.

1524
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 2: They sold me a lemon Man. Really, Yes, the first

1525
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 2: basketball I've ever had that loses air.

1526
01:08:58,280 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 1: So there's maybe like somewhere.

1527
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:02,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, played Wednesday, pumped it up beforehand, played this morning,

1528
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 2: still fine, but by next Wednesday it will be flat

1529
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 2: enough that I have to pump it together. And that

1530
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 2: ain't right.

1531
01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:12,439
Speaker 6: No, sick. No, sir, I will throw a pump. You

1532
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 6: always lose a pump. Dick has plenty of Keep a.

1533
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 1: Pump in a car, that's what you should do, or

1534
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 1: in a gump spot in the garage. Yeah, it pumps

1535
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 1: a bag. That's even better.

1536
01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:20,720
Speaker 6: Call. You're right.

1537
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: I'll say what about Wednesday Nights run? Though there was

1538
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:26,320
Speaker 1: a lot of great basketballs, we had too many options.

1539
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:28,559
Speaker 1: We had so many balls. Usually there's like one there

1540
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 1: was like okay, it's that one, and the rest are

1541
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:30,719
Speaker 1: sort of garbage.

1542
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 6: We had like four.

1543
01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: I think we were switching game balls because they were

1544
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 1: all that great. So maybe everybody got new basketballs, don't.

1545
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:37,760
Speaker 6: It's good.

1546
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 1: Good to be back out there. All right, let's wrap

1547
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 1: up this Drop podcast with some rapid fire fun. All right,

1548
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 1: I got the questions cast tray. I believe jd answering

1549
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:53,560
Speaker 1: over yonder first one. Recently, Damian Lillard, he wrote and

1550
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:55,599
Speaker 1: performed a new rap song while the Blazers were stuck

1551
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: on a plane for seven hours due to snow. His

1552
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 1: best line talked about yesterday shooters in the locker room

1553
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:02,639
Speaker 1: like we the Wizards.

1554
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 2: Oh solid use of.

1555
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 1: Time, dam I don't know why you couldn't play the

1556
01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:12,639
Speaker 1: next day. But anyway, guys, besides sleeping, what's something you'd

1557
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: like to try and accomplish if you were stuck on

1558
01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 1: the tarmac for an ungodly amount of time.

1559
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 6: I am giving you an honest answer.

1560
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:21,280
Speaker 2: It's a boring answer.

1561
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 6: It's quite boring. I would finish a book. I would

1562
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 6: read a book. Back to the wall is when I

1563
01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 6: read my books.

1564
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:30,520
Speaker 2: Like we're stuck on a tursh.

1565
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 6: Like I brought one to Salt Lake City. I read

1566
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:38,000
Speaker 6: a few pagess with that book. I got at least

1567
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 6: four pages. But you know, I got into the book.

1568
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 6: But if I was on the tour for seven hours,

1569
01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 6: I'd get that thing done.

1570
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:47,680
Speaker 1: I think, what hour would it take for you to

1571
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 1: then to really crack into that book?

1572
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been cracked. It was a good time. I

1573
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 6: was reading it to Trey while he had his bandan

1574
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 6: over his eyes sleeping on the plane. You remember that

1575
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 6: I read a good couple pages too. It was a

1576
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 6: good book.

1577
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: Okay, reading j reading a book, Trey, what are you doing?

1578
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 2: I'm putting all of my efforts in to convincing the

1579
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:13,759
Speaker 2: airline personnel and the flight attendants to let down the slide.

1580
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:17,200
Speaker 2: You're never going to see that slide out for the

1581
01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:21,000
Speaker 2: most part, like seven hours. You can pop that thing open.

1582
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 2: We can slide around for two and a half three hours,

1583
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 2: depending on how many people are having fun, and then

1584
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 2: you've got a nice enough time to get it back

1585
01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 2: in the plane, put the door back on, and take off.

1586
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 6: It's a good one.

1587
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 2: Okay. Remember when that like, uh, that guy was getting

1588
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:39,160
Speaker 2: fired or something like that, so it was his last

1589
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 2: day at the airline. He popped the door, slid out

1590
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 2: of the air airplane. So jealous of that guy makes

1591
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 2: me want to work for an airline, just to quit

1592
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 2: an airline that way.

1593
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, and j D, what are you doing?

1594
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:58,680
Speaker 7: Taz stole my answer? I scrambling here to come up

1595
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 7: with anybody will I never get to read. I got

1596
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:04,680
Speaker 7: two kids, I do this show. I've got so much

1597
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:07,840
Speaker 7: going on to actually read a book, like, I don't

1598
01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 7: get to do it. I didn't even turn on my

1599
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 7: screen both ways back and forth from Salt Lake City,

1600
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 7: was reading the book.

1601
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 6: Good for you?

1602
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 2: What are you reading right now? I got I got

1603
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 2: two on the go.

1604
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:22,640
Speaker 7: Always always nonfiction and fiction right now if the the

1605
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 7: nonfiction is a history of Bloody Sunday nine produce paratroopers

1606
01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:30,280
Speaker 7: open fire on Irish protesters. And then the other one

1607
01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 7: is called, uh the Anomaly, which has a terrible plane

1608
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,639
Speaker 7: scene in it, like awful, sort of like a Bermuda

1609
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 7: triangle type of thing, but like people like people get

1610
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 7: into this terrible turbulence and then they start dropping like

1611
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:48,600
Speaker 7: flies after like months after Oh again, I put that

1612
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:52,320
Speaker 7: one down and I read about the innocent protesters getting

1613
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 7: shot something.

1614
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Okay, all right, next one here. Last week,

1615
01:12:57,280 --> 01:13:01,360
Speaker 1: at the NBA's annual Text Summit Chrimish, Adam Silver unveiled

1616
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:04,439
Speaker 1: several new features to become part of the future live

1617
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 1: gaming experience, especially through streaming. The most note early moment

1618
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: was probably the integration of augmented reality. Silver brought out

1619
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:19,559
Speaker 1: a maudrashod, scanned his body, and then inserted him into

1620
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 1: a tail in Horton Tucker highlight. I can't stop thinking

1621
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 1: about it. In fact, I can't look at Horton Tucker

1622
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 1: the same ever again. To me, it's a madra shot

1623
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 1: from here on.

1624
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:29,600
Speaker 3: No.

1625
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 2: But anyway, my question off of this seek out this clip.

1626
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 1: It's really wild, really weird.

1627
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 2: What show and character would you like to be beamed

1628
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 2: into tasks.

1629
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 6: A cliche answer here, I am going into the wire.

1630
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,639
Speaker 6: That's the cliche part. I'm gonna be Poot. You remember Poots.

1631
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 6: I definitely thought it was Pooh for the first couple

1632
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 6: of seasons. But anyways, Yeah, so he and Body got

1633
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:58,799
Speaker 6: to take out Wallace Michael B. Jordan, Right, Michael B. Jordan.

1634
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 6: While it's this character is labeled as the snitch, they

1635
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:03,120
Speaker 6: got to take him out. I'm going to convince Body

1636
01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 6: that we're we ain't killing Michael B.

1637
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:04,760
Speaker 2: Jordan.

1638
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 6: We're keeping Michael B. Jordan alive. He's not a number one,

1639
01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 6: he's not a snitch number two. He's Michael B. Jordan,

1640
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 6: and we're gonna take care of that guy. I mean,

1641
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:16,120
Speaker 6: that was heart wrenching. I said, first couple seasons. That

1642
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:18,760
Speaker 6: was just the first season. It was Trey Cheney's character Poot.

1643
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 6: I followed Trey. We're friends on Twitter.

1644
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: I'm looking up Poot. I remember Poot?

1645
01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, how doesn't he go on to work at a

1646
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:27,760
Speaker 2: shoe store. By the end of he absolutely works out

1647
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 2: of the shoe store.

1648
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: Perfect Jacob's Athletic Shoes and Sportswear, teaching everybody about the

1649
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 1: heel lock I'll probably a flavor to this one.

1650
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 2: Guys.

1651
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 1: Actually, all right, good answer, Trey. What about you? What

1652
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: are you beating yourself into?

1653
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:46,759
Speaker 2: I want to be Tom Green's co host on MTV's

1654
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:49,200
Speaker 2: Tom Green Show. His name was Glenn Humplick. Yeah, yeah,

1655
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 2: guy despised pennies, had like a phobia to pennies. So

1656
01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 2: Tom Green dropped like thousands of pennies on the desk,

1657
01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:59,040
Speaker 2: putting him in his mouth, all kinds of stuff, and

1658
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 2: Glenn's just dry heating the whole time. What a great clip.

1659
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 2: If there's any show that I want on streaming more

1660
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:09,479
Speaker 2: than this one, I haven't seen it.

1661
01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, great answer.

1662
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:14,640
Speaker 2: What would be the phobia for you?

1663
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:15,719
Speaker 1: Like, what would.

1664
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:17,720
Speaker 6: Phobia?

1665
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 2: Is it?

1666
01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: Dimes Nicolay?

1667
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:22,720
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1668
01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 3: For me?

1669
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:30,200
Speaker 2: For me, it's like like touching, touching things, touching slide slimy.

1670
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't do that. So maybe you play like

1671
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 6: that that blind game where you have to touch stuff,

1672
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 6: like you know constantly on social media.

1673
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 2: Seal to put your hands into a box is.

1674
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:45,839
Speaker 6: Like grapes insects.

1675
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:48,120
Speaker 2: We used to do that like Halloween, right, like you

1676
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 2: like it's brains or whatever.

1677
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:51,639
Speaker 1: They always said grapes were.

1678
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:56,560
Speaker 2: Grape all right, j D.

1679
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: What do you do in augmented reality? What are you

1680
01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 1: putting JD's body onto what character?

1681
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:05,320
Speaker 7: What's very simple? Kramer and Seinfeld. The guy's got the

1682
01:16:05,360 --> 01:16:08,200
Speaker 7: best life on television, right, Like, he's got a great

1683
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 7: neighbor who feeds him constantly. You can just go in,

1684
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:15,719
Speaker 7: come and go as he pleases. He does whatever he wants,

1685
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:17,559
Speaker 7: whenever he wants. Doesn't seem to have to work right.

1686
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:21,479
Speaker 7: One time he set up a whole talk show studio

1687
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 7: in his apartment. I've literally done that.

1688
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: Sort of yeah, I mean didn't. It was the merv Griffin, the.

1689
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:33,520
Speaker 7: Nerv Griffin set that he found thrown out classic episode.

1690
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 2: Do you have a hot tub?

1691
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:38,200
Speaker 7: I don't have a hot tub, but I would put

1692
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 7: a hot tub in my house and fall asleep and

1693
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 7: get hypothermia or whatever.

1694
01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 6: But you know, he's got like.

1695
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 7: Harmless adventures task going into the wire is insane, Like honestly, like,

1696
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 7: I know you want to say, Michael B. Jordan, but

1697
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:57,840
Speaker 7: my god, no, it's too traumatic. I just want like simple, yeah,

1698
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:01,640
Speaker 7: twenty two minutes one of the coffee shop, crack some

1699
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:03,160
Speaker 7: jokes and call it a day.

1700
01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:05,280
Speaker 6: Well, that's the fiction nonfiction balance.

1701
01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:05,559
Speaker 2: JD.

1702
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, you're right, you're.

1703
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 1: At final one again. We brought this up on yesterday's

1704
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 1: NBA Reddit podcast LaMelo Ball is driving very dangerous. We

1705
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:18,000
Speaker 1: showed you a clip on that podcast him ripping out

1706
01:17:18,040 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 1: of the arena's loading dock and blasting through red lights.

1707
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 1: We do not condone this reckless driving.

1708
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 2: But he is just twenty one years old.

1709
01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: You make dumb mistakes when you're a kid. You do

1710
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:32,080
Speaker 1: dumb things when you're a kid. So I want to

1711
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: know what's the dumbest thing you did as a you know,

1712
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 1: let's call it a teenager.

1713
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:37,879
Speaker 2: Well, the bike driving, for sure, I shouldn't.

1714
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 6: I should not be here. I was a wild bike driver.

1715
01:17:41,080 --> 01:17:43,639
Speaker 6: I would fly out of my call to sack blind

1716
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 6: as hard as I could. I hit. I would just

1717
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 6: fly a pedal as fast as I could. I hit

1718
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:51,720
Speaker 6: a moving van. A van was driving past and I

1719
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 6: hit the back of it. Luckily stayed on my bike. Wow,

1720
01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 6: driver got out. It was like, how the hell are

1721
01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 6: you on your bike? I just managed to bounce. It

1722
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 6: was blind. I've hit a parked car.

1723
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 2: I've fall I've fallen all over the place.

1724
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:08,360
Speaker 6: I mean, I was a I was a wild man.

1725
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 6: I fell off my bike so many I showed up

1726
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 6: at my man Thorpe Plaxton's house with a bloody face

1727
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 6: because I fell on my face. I was like, what

1728
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 6: the hell happened to you? I literally just lost control

1729
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:20,200
Speaker 6: my bike and I fell in my face. So yeah,

1730
01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 6: I mean I followed my bike so many times and

1731
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 6: I have to ask, no helmet backing might exactly? And

1732
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:33,640
Speaker 6: now now there's cool ones at Dick's, great ones with mohawks.

1733
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 6: Those are cool.

1734
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:36,599
Speaker 1: I like to be the reason I didn't wear a helmet.

1735
01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:40,719
Speaker 1: I looked like a big dick. We are your helmets

1736
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:41,479
Speaker 1: through on your bikes.

1737
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 2: Okay, what about you? T K, Come on, you did

1738
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:44,799
Speaker 2: some dumb things.

1739
01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:46,200
Speaker 1: Named four Plax.

1740
01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 2: I wrote down some names from high school, Chad Humbers

1741
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 2: and Craig Peter. I thought I was gonna be four

1742
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:59,320
Speaker 2: Gila given name thor Or Plaxton. Did a lot of

1743
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:01,840
Speaker 2: dumb things. A friend convinced me that hot glue on

1744
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,160
Speaker 2: the back of my hand wouldn't hurt it does. I

1745
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 2: poured a bunch of gasoline into a creek set on fire,

1746
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 2: called it firewater. Dumb. We've heard that one.

1747
01:19:08,479 --> 01:19:08,840
Speaker 6: That's dumb.

1748
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, smashing mailboxes heard it? Fired a potato gun in

1749
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:14,519
Speaker 2: the van heard it, But I think the dumbest thing

1750
01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 2: I did in all of high school wearing tear Away pants.

1751
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 1: Come on, pull your shorts off me too.

1752
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 2: It saw here and suddenly you just walk around your

1753
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:28,160
Speaker 2: underwear your box. Yeah, they were everywhere, like every brand

1754
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 2: made tear Away whatever. Yeah, ridiculous tear away.

1755
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 6: You gotta wear two pants pants just because you have

1756
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 6: a Tearoway. Oh god, those are fun?

1757
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 1: Uh JD.

1758
01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:41,720
Speaker 7: Dumbest thing you did as a teen, I mean, wasn't

1759
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:44,800
Speaker 7: a teen. I was the same age as Lamello, and

1760
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 7: I brought this up on the the is this good?

1761
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 7: But and it's the same answer as task But it's

1762
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:52,360
Speaker 7: riding a bike, but it was a motorcycle. Oh yeah,

1763
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 7: oh yeah, both me and my girlfriend just bombing around

1764
01:19:58,240 --> 01:20:03,559
Speaker 7: a core fu grease, very slippery roads, just literally olive

1765
01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 7: oil on those roads. And this is a rare photo

1766
01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:11,080
Speaker 7: that I'm actually wearing shoes riding this motorcycle. Sometimes I'd

1767
01:20:11,160 --> 01:20:15,839
Speaker 7: go with no shoes, like so incredibly stupid.

1768
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:16,679
Speaker 2: Those are Jordan's.

1769
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:17,519
Speaker 6: Those are Jordan's.

1770
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:25,240
Speaker 2: Jesus, you look awesome, dangerous, but that's why it's awesome.

1771
01:20:25,439 --> 01:20:27,600
Speaker 6: It almost looks photoshop I mean, the quality of the

1772
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 6: photo is just that's good.

1773
01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:32,400
Speaker 7: This is just me taking a picture with my iPhone

1774
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:33,759
Speaker 7: of the photo.

1775
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, Oh I can see on the side, Yeah yeah,

1776
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:39,320
Speaker 6: I guess that's probably an olive tree dropping all of them.

1777
01:20:39,439 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. And as we asked, what is this good? Who's who?

1778
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:46,120
Speaker 2: Who's you? And who's your girlfriend?

1779
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 6: I guess I'm driving. I kidding, look at the light

1780
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:52,639
Speaker 6: on that bike.

1781
01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 1: Yes, nice, great answers.

1782
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:54,599
Speaker 2: Guys.

1783
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 1: Let's hear from everybody out there. Love to know the

1784
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: dumbest thing you did as a teenagerpping in the stream,

1785
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: team dropping in the comments, tweet them in at no dunks.

1786
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 2: That's it for us.

1787
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: Here fairly lengthy edition of the Drop podcast, but why not,

1788
01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:10,560
Speaker 1: we didn't have a few pods this week. We'll be

1789
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:13,679
Speaker 1: back on Monday, though, winners and losers of the NBA Weekend,

1790
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:16,240
Speaker 1: so we'll see you here from the Classic Factory live

1791
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: at ten am Eastern.

1792
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 2: Until then, Clipper Bros. You heard it here first, have

1793
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,679
Speaker 2: a great time, turn up, Love you guys, awesome, thanks

1794
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:24,360
Speaker 2: for joining us.

1795
01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:27,640
Speaker 6: Folks get ready for the rest of the season, so

1796
01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:28,719
Speaker 6: I got nothing.

1797
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 1: Brace the weekend people,