Speaker 1: The All Star reserves in the East and West are out,
Speaker 1: Who made it, who got snubbed, and reaction to the
Speaker 1: foremost headline in this league as we speak, Joe l
Speaker 1: Embiid's sideline in Philadelphia by a meniscus injury in his
Speaker 1: left knee. We get to all of that next here
Speaker 1: on This League Uncut.
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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome in to a Thursday night taping Friday
Speaker 1: morning drop for the This League Uncut podcast.
Speaker 2: Mark Stein here with Chris Hanyes.
Speaker 1: It was always going to be a crazy time because
Speaker 1: this Thursday, at three pm Eastern, on this Thursday, that
Speaker 1: officially marked one week to go until the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: So it was going to be busy anyway. But on
Speaker 1: this Thursday, seemingly in the space of an hour and change,
Speaker 1: we had a trade. The Houston Rockets made a trade
Speaker 1: for next season, but still a significant trade. The Houston
Speaker 1: Rockets swung a deal with Memphis to acquire Steven Adams.
Speaker 1: That was right before TNT rolled out its scheduled announcement
Speaker 1: of the All Star reserves in both conferences, and in
Speaker 1: the middle of that revelation finding out the coaches seven
Speaker 1: selections in both the East and the West, we get
Speaker 1: an injury update from the seventy six.
Speaker 2: Ers that the Sixers are not.
Speaker 1: Outright declaring the severity of the injury yet. The Sixers
Speaker 1: say they're going to need the rest of the week
Speaker 1: to make that determination, But the Sixers do acknowledge that
Speaker 1: an MRI has revealed a meniscous injury in Joe L.
Speaker 1: Embiid's left knee that is obviously going to sideline him
Speaker 1: for what, at this point is an undetermined amount of time,
Speaker 1: but it's obviously not gonna be measured in days. And
Speaker 1: the level of what a blow that is to the
Speaker 1: Sixers given the way Embiid has played this season, after
Speaker 1: all this discourse all week long about the sixty five
Speaker 1: game rule and how many games Embiid has already missed,
Speaker 1: I mean, all of that gets shoved to the side
Speaker 1: right now, because this is just a massive hit the
Speaker 1: Sixers when Embiid, I mean, even after that Golden State game,
Speaker 1: when Joel Embiid clearly did not look right even before
Speaker 1: the unfortunate loose ball scramble that caused this more severe
Speaker 1: knee injury this season, in the thirty four games he
Speaker 1: has played, Joel Embiid has scored twelve hundred and one
Speaker 1: points in only eleven hundred and fifty seven minutes. Absolutely
Speaker 1: ridiculous Wilt esque production. And so the level of alarm
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia is obviously super high. As we speak, as
Speaker 1: we're recording this, the Sixers are trying to win a
Speaker 1: game in Utah without Joel Embid.
Speaker 2: So look, we're gonna get to Embiid.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the All Star stuff, and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to Embiid. Chris Haynes, I'm sure you
Speaker 1: were dialed in this evening when the All Star reserves
Speaker 1: were announced.
Speaker 2: I actually wrote.
Speaker 1: A column on Tuesday trying to pick my fourteen reserves.
Speaker 1: Had I had a ballot or had I been advising
Speaker 1: a coach with a vote, I knew how I was
Speaker 1: gonna go and vote my fourteen. I got twelve out
Speaker 1: of fourteen, right, I got them all right. In the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference. Jalen Brown, Donovan Mitchell of course, Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 1: who was a Locke to make his first All Star
Speaker 1: team after he narrowly missed out on being named a starter,
Speaker 1: bam At a Bio, Julius Randall, Tyrese Maxi, And yes,
Speaker 1: I had Palo Bancaro getting a spot and he did so.
Speaker 1: I did well in the I did well in the East.
Speaker 1: You can tell me, Chris, if you think anybody in
Speaker 1: the East got snub at the West Man kawhi Ad,
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, Anthony Edward Stephen Curry. Those five all made it.
Speaker 1: But I would have gone with Rudy Gobert and Demontes
Speaker 1: Sabonis for the other two spots. The coaches, what with
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns over Gobert. That one really surprised me.
Speaker 1: And then Paul George much less of a surprise because
Speaker 1: the Clippers have been fantastic and you can certainly make
Speaker 1: the argument that the Clippers should have two All Stars.
Speaker 1: But the Clippers have two, the Sacramento Kings have none.
Speaker 1: The Kings didn't get Sabonis or Deer and Fox in
Speaker 1: and that genuinely did surprise me.
Speaker 3: Christianes, Yeah, I mean the East was pretty this this
Speaker 3: in recent memory. The East, that was pretty that was
Speaker 3: probably one of the most easiest seven guys to pick
Speaker 3: in the conference in recent memory. That's that's pretty much
Speaker 3: the roster that everybody pretty much predicted. The West, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we knew that was going to be pretty much up
Speaker 3: for grabs. You know, definitely some controversy there the Sacramento
Speaker 3: Kings not getting one. I think you can make a
Speaker 3: case that they should have two. But then who are
Speaker 3: you taking off? Who are you taking off? Minnesota, number
Speaker 3: one team in the Western Conference. You can say that
Speaker 3: they deserve too if you look at typically when you
Speaker 3: have a team that is number one in the conference
Speaker 3: or even number one in the entire league, that comes
Speaker 3: with multiple All Star bursts, and so you know, it's
Speaker 3: interesting you would have picked go Bear over Karl Anthony Towns,
Speaker 3: who's having a pretty good season. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: Minnesota they would make the case that they deserve three
Speaker 3: with that being not.
Speaker 2: Getting three in the West.
Speaker 1: The West, Man, the West is the West is so
Speaker 1: stacked you literally could come up with a list of
Speaker 1: fifteen worthy candidates for the seven spots.
Speaker 2: I mean, guys like shne Goot.
Speaker 1: Can't even get close to being considered.
Speaker 2: James James Harden is not even going to be considered.
Speaker 1: And you know it's uh, it's just no Pelicans are
Speaker 1: you know, on this Western Conference roster.
Speaker 2: It's just super competitive. But no, I have to Minnesota's rise.
Speaker 1: Obviously, Anthony Edwards is a huge part of it, becoming
Speaker 1: the guy there, becoming really the centerpiece of this team.
Speaker 1: But the other transformation in Minneapolis has been defense. This
Speaker 1: has been the best defensive team in the league, a
Speaker 1: top three defensive team all season. That starts with Gobert.
Speaker 1: I mean in a huge, huge way. So it's not
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to slight cat, but to me, Gobert
Speaker 1: should be the Wolf's second All Star.
Speaker 2: But I mean, if you disagree.
Speaker 3: Will disagree. Let's let's talk about it, don't. I don't
Speaker 3: know if I disagree or not, But I think they're
Speaker 3: a compelling chase for others, for others. But you know,
Speaker 3: we talked about this. Was it a month ago when
Speaker 3: I was talking about the guards, how it was just
Speaker 3: so many guards that were deserving of an All Star
Speaker 3: birth in the Western Conference and I was, you know,
Speaker 3: I was talking about Steph. I was talking about the
Speaker 3: season the Golden State is having I believe Steph is
Speaker 3: on on a team with the lowest record who made
Speaker 3: an All Star team. I believe Steph is the lowest.
Speaker 3: So with that being said, I remember we were talking
Speaker 3: about three weeks ago. I was talking about, is there
Speaker 3: a scenario where Steph will be left off for the
Speaker 3: roster because Dearon Fox, Shae Gillis, Alexander, Devin Booker, Anthony Edwards,
Speaker 3: it's loaded, and you can make a case that they're
Speaker 3: probably more deserving than Steph, and then Dearon, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's it's tough, it's tough, but but stin this this
Speaker 3: is funny though, because uh, I was just say ironic
Speaker 3: because Steph makes it, and you know, there's Kings fans
Speaker 3: and saying, hey, what's going on? The Kings are fifth
Speaker 3: place in the West, the Aaron having a good year, sabonus.
Speaker 3: But look y'all, the NBA announced, what was it two
Speaker 3: three days ago, that Steph is going to compete in
Speaker 3: a three point contest with Sabrina. Did you actually think
Speaker 3: that Steph, if he didn't make it, he was still
Speaker 3: going to show up to Indianapolis during an All Star break?
Speaker 3: Did you really think that you know that was your
Speaker 3: hands up.
Speaker 1: It's funny you bring that up, because I totally didn't
Speaker 1: even think about that. But the reason I didn't even
Speaker 1: think about that is because I don't care what the
Speaker 1: Warriors record is. The thought of Western Conference coaches not
Speaker 1: selecting Stephan Curry no freaking chance. Coaches love Stephan Curry
Speaker 1: and what a leader or his leadership style the way
Speaker 1: I mean, there is no way the Western Conference coaches
Speaker 1: were going to leave Stephan Curry off. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I didn't even do the math. But what you just
Speaker 1: said about the league arranging a three point contest a
Speaker 1: showdown between Stephan Curry and Sabrini and Escu for charity,
Speaker 1: absolutely right, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna have Steph fly in for that. And
Speaker 2: sorry you didn't make the game.
Speaker 1: But look, the King Kings fans should rightly be pissed.
Speaker 1: I they deserve one All Star. Now again, I don't
Speaker 1: I struggled with this huge when I wrote about it.
Speaker 1: I think Sabonis has been the most consistent force for
Speaker 1: this team this season. I mean, the guy shooting better
Speaker 1: than sixty percent from the field. But we could have
Speaker 1: a long argument about who should get one spot between
Speaker 1: the two Kings, if that's all there could have been
Speaker 1: room for.
Speaker 2: But we haven't even mentioned Jamal Murray. I think Jamal
Speaker 2: Murray has All Star numbers.
Speaker 1: And after you know, that was the big question after
Speaker 1: the finals, after he played so well on the final stage.
Speaker 1: Was this the year that Jamal Murray was going to
Speaker 1: break through and make the All Star team? And it
Speaker 1: still hasn't happened. Jamal Murray is still not an NBA
Speaker 1: All Star. Lowry Markinen another guy we I mean he
Speaker 1: with the way Utah has turned their season around, he
Speaker 1: should be considered. Again, We're not even looking at Pelicans
Speaker 1: like Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but star San you mentioned, you mentioned these guys.
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 2: There's no room?
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 2: There's no room the West, there's no room.
Speaker 1: The West has fifteen guys for seven reserved spots. And look,
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs are miles under five hundred.
Speaker 2: But and a rookie.
Speaker 1: We have not seen a rookie make the All Star
Speaker 1: Game since Blake Griffin in twenty ten. So Victor Wenmanyama
Speaker 1: was never getting an All Star birth in his first season.
Speaker 1: But is he a candidate. Did he deserve consideration, Yes,
Speaker 1: I think he deserved consideration. So to me, the West
Speaker 1: was an app salute nightmare. My list of snubs in
Speaker 1: the East is much shorter. Obviously, Trey Young as a soloist.
Speaker 1: If you just look at Trey Young's individual production, you know,
Speaker 1: for the second straight year he has been left off
Speaker 1: the East reserves. But you know the Hawks are well
Speaker 1: under five hundred and that's the reason.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 1: Is that all Trey Young's fault? Of course not, but
Speaker 1: he's the one who's paying the price for Atlanta's very
Speaker 1: disappointing season. People talked about Porzingis and Derek White in Boston.
Speaker 1: Not for me, I would have had Jared Allen or
Speaker 1: Scottie Barnes ahead of the two other Celtics. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Celtics need four All Stars in the East.
Speaker 1: I think having Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown is plenty.
Speaker 1: I really felt like Orlando had to have someone in
Speaker 1: the East. I'm really glad to see that the coach
Speaker 1: is voted bn Carowin because I I do think that
Speaker 1: they deserved one. Now it's gonna be interesting. Julius Rand
Speaker 1: was selected as an Eastern Conference reserve. Obviously he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play with the dislocated shoulder.
Speaker 3: He's just sustained, like Trey might. My Trey might get
Speaker 3: that he was second.
Speaker 1: Because I think something people need to remember in recent years,
Speaker 1: the league doesn't choose those injury replacements typically based on position.
Speaker 1: What they usually do is they go to whoever was
Speaker 1: closest to earning one of the seven slots from the coaches.
Speaker 1: So I don't we obviously don't know was that Trey Young,
Speaker 1: Was that Scottie Barnes?
Speaker 3: Was that from the coaches? Oh? I thought I thought
Speaker 3: he did. I thought it was off the fan votes.
Speaker 1: As far as now as I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to sit here and say that I'm one hundred percent sure,
Speaker 1: But as I understood it, what they usually do on
Speaker 1: reserves is go to who the coaches would have had next.
Speaker 1: So they don't come out right and say that. But
Speaker 1: I think when we hear the injury selection for Randall,
Speaker 1: that that will that that is how it will play out.
Speaker 1: But now you got me second guess myself. So first
Speaker 1: thing in the morning, I will go back to the
Speaker 1: league and see if I don't have my facts straight.
Speaker 1: But I I think in general that's how they've done
Speaker 1: it in recent years that whoever was whoever, whoever finished
Speaker 1: eighth in the coach balloting is the most likely person
Speaker 1: to get that that replacements line.
Speaker 3: So as a right now, as a right now, we
Speaker 3: know Adam Silver has to replace one, but it could
Speaker 3: potentially be too depending on Joel and bid situation.
Speaker 1: And you'd have to think Embiid's not going to be
Speaker 1: able to play. So there will be two slots, likely
Speaker 1: in the East. And that's that's why what I wrote
Speaker 1: about this on Tuesday, just my instinct is one way
Speaker 1: or the other, Trey Young will end up in Indy.
Speaker 2: But but I guess we'll see. We'll have to wait
Speaker 2: and see.
Speaker 3: What do you think if if it goes by the coaches,
Speaker 3: who they had next up on the list. I don't
Speaker 3: know that Trey is that high up. I would be concerned,
Speaker 3: you know, think about so East. There's not, like I said,
Speaker 3: I can't really think of any real snubs. Definitely Trey
Speaker 3: has a case. Who else has a real legitimate case?
Speaker 2: I think Jared. I think Jared Allen has a case.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's been so good although he got
Speaker 2: hurt tonight. We don't know how serious it is, but.
Speaker 1: I think given all the injury problems that the Calves
Speaker 1: have had, I mean, I think Alan I put him
Speaker 1: ahead of Porzingis or Derek White or even Scotty Barnes.
Speaker 1: Scotty Barnes has a very nice statistical line. He's taken
Speaker 1: a step forward, no question. But the Raptors they're even
Speaker 1: further adrift in the East than the Hawks. So if
Speaker 1: the Raptors are seventeen and thirty, it's to help Scottie
Speaker 1: Barnes's All Star case.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let me just throw since we're naming names
Speaker 3: and given shoutouts here about potential snubs, Miles Turner from Indiana,
Speaker 3: Indiana believes that he has a case. Uh you said,
Speaker 3: Jared Allen, nobody else on Phoenix Jimmy Butler as I mean.
Speaker 2: You know, I am.
Speaker 1: I am the biggest Jimmy fan there is. But I
Speaker 1: think this season, given the time he's missed and given
Speaker 1: Miami struggles, I don't know that the heat would be
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 2: Market for two All Stars. They got bam At a
Speaker 2: bio in.
Speaker 1: I mean, look again, these are not my snubs per se,
Speaker 1: but you just can't you know, people love to say
Speaker 1: that that Derek White and Porzingis were candidates, but I I.
Speaker 2: Really don't see it. In the East.
Speaker 1: To me, the most significant snubs were Trey and Jared
Speaker 1: Allen on my scorecard.
Speaker 3: I cann't argue with that. I'll throw mckill bridges in
Speaker 3: there as well.
Speaker 2: The East is.
Speaker 1: Likely looking at two injury replacements. And that's because again,
Speaker 1: the biggest story of the night in the NBA the Sixers.
Speaker 1: In the midst of all of those All Star unveilings
Speaker 1: earlier tonight on TNT, the Sixers announced that an MRI
Speaker 1: revealed that Embiid has sustained quote an injury to the
Speaker 1: lateral meniscus in his left knee end quote. No formal
Speaker 1: timetable has yet been established, but the Sixers say Embiid
Speaker 1: at the minimum out through the weekend while a treatment
Speaker 1: plan is finalized. You covered that game Tuesday night for TNT.
Speaker 2: What did you see? I mean it sure didn't.
Speaker 1: Even before the the scramble that left him hobbled and.
Speaker 2: Forced to leave the game for good. He he did
Speaker 2: not look good, did he.
Speaker 3: I watched him workout pregame, so this would be It's
Speaker 3: be about thirty five minutes before thirty five to forty
Speaker 3: minutes before they took the court for the game. He
Speaker 3: did not look good. I was he he warmed up
Speaker 3: for about fifteen minutes. Based off of that, I was like,
Speaker 3: he's not playing, He's not playing, and then I ended
Speaker 3: up walking him to I need. I ended up walking
Speaker 3: behind him back to the locker room after his pregame
Speaker 3: warm up, and then I can see him telling people, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to give it a go. I was surprised.
Speaker 3: He did not look good. He was not moving good.
Speaker 3: So I know he's hearing about how he's ducking smoke
Speaker 3: ducked the Denver game. And you know, the Philly they were,
Speaker 3: they were fine recently for how they handled not you know,
Speaker 3: not reporting in a timely fashion uh MB's injury which
Speaker 3: caused him to not play that game. It was the
Speaker 3: last weekend against the Denver Nuggets, late scratch. I know
Speaker 3: he's hearing everything. I know he's hearing the criticism. I
Speaker 3: felt like the way he looked, I felt like he
Speaker 3: was really trying to like give it a go, to
Speaker 3: show everybody that he can play through pain. I just
Speaker 3: don't think that was the time to do it. But
Speaker 3: what I will say is about you know, you know,
Speaker 3: we talked about the sixty five game rule to become
Speaker 3: MB excuse me, to be eligible for the MVP and
Speaker 3: to be eligible for First Team All NBA. This is
Speaker 3: sources close to MB told me this. They said he
Speaker 3: had two goals going into this season. Number one was
Speaker 3: to try to become the best player in the NBA.
Speaker 3: He wanted to establish himself as the best player, and
Speaker 3: I think he was in line of doing that. You
Speaker 3: pointed out his points, His point stats aligned with his minutes.
Speaker 3: You know, he's playing at a historical pace, so he
Speaker 3: was on pace of doing that. And number two was
Speaker 3: to go into the playoffs healthy and it was not.
Speaker 3: There was no goal of winning any individual awards, and
Speaker 3: so he was going to make sure this season, if
Speaker 3: there was anything bothering him, he might be able to play.
Speaker 3: You know, he might be able to play through it.
Speaker 3: But he's taking a cautious approach because he felt like
Speaker 3: he really hurt the team going into the playoffs, hurt
Speaker 3: last year, and that's what he wants to accomplish. He
Speaker 3: wants to win a championship, and so those are his goals.
Speaker 3: So this whole sixty five. It's not happening. Even before
Speaker 3: this injury, it wasn't happening. He wasn't going to reach
Speaker 3: that goal. He was going to play it safe, play
Speaker 3: when he feels pretty damn close to one hundred percent
Speaker 3: and give us best. But if there's any concern, he
Speaker 3: was going to err on the side of caution and
Speaker 3: sit out because he wants to be healthy for his
Speaker 3: team in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So it sounds though, like he violated his own agenda
Speaker 1: by playing in the Golden State game. I mean, because
Speaker 1: now I think he took so much cheat for not
Speaker 1: playing in Denver. But like when you saw how he
Speaker 1: looked first half against the Warriors.
Speaker 2: He shouldn't have been playing.
Speaker 1: I mean, he you know, he wasn't on the injury
Speaker 1: report by all accounts, at his insistence. He told the Sixers,
Speaker 1: by all accounts, don't put me on there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play in Denver. Shouldn't have played in that game. He
Speaker 1: shouldn't have played in the Warriors game. And now the
Speaker 1: question will be is this injury so serious that he
Speaker 1: can't be healthy for the playoffs. That's obviously that is
Speaker 1: the only thing that matters at this point. Doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how much time he misses for the rest of the
Speaker 1: regular season, with Maxie an All Star named an All
Speaker 1: Star tonight for the first time with MAXI, you have
Speaker 1: to believe that the Sixers will make the playoffs even
Speaker 1: if they're missing Embiid for a mess of games, but
Speaker 1: just having him healthy for the playoffs. I mean, we
Speaker 1: obviously don't know much at this point. It's just hard
Speaker 1: to see that right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to your point, I do think Philly they will
Speaker 3: be okay with missing mb with chunks of games of
Speaker 3: being sidelined. I think they'll be fine because you know,
Speaker 3: if they're they're tough, If they are a team that
Speaker 3: finishes in the top five in the conference, I still
Speaker 3: feel like they believe that they would still like their chances.
Speaker 3: But that that's that's where his head is at. That's
Speaker 3: that's what it was told. That's what was told to me.
Speaker 3: His head is on, you know, trying to maximize and
Speaker 3: take his game to the next level. But he's going
Speaker 3: to err on the side of caution all throughout the
Speaker 3: season to make sure that he is he's as healthy
Speaker 3: as possible going into into the playoffs because he understands
Speaker 3: that's where he's going to be That's where he's going
Speaker 3: to be greater at. You know, that's what it is
Speaker 3: really going to matter the postseason. And uh and like
Speaker 3: to your point, Yeah, I mean, for whatever reason playing
Speaker 3: in that Golden State game. I think the fact that
Speaker 3: it was that Denver game that was a national televised game,
Speaker 3: right Philly Denver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Saturday night, and so they were both national Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so I can see the pressure there that
Speaker 3: he might have felt. But remember Stein, even that game,
Speaker 3: he was just shooting jumpers. You know, he did not
Speaker 3: want to get physically. He had Draymond Green guard and him.
Speaker 3: You know, Draymond is going to hack and fil and
Speaker 3: do whatever to try to muck the game up, and
Speaker 3: b you can tell he wasn't ready for that type
Speaker 3: of a contact. And so he you know, here it
Speaker 3: was steady diets of elbow jumpers top of the key
Speaker 3: three pointers. You know, rarely did he mix it up
Speaker 3: and try to get in there. And then like and
Speaker 3: then to see that happen. It was just a fluke accident.
Speaker 3: Johnathan kuminga landing right on that left knee, that very
Speaker 3: left knee, just a fluke accident. Towards the end of
Speaker 3: the game, and so it sucks to see that. And
Speaker 3: you know, he was you know, I was right there.
Speaker 3: He he was in serious pain. And they even like
Speaker 3: when they when he walked off and then when he
Speaker 3: got to the tunnel area that leads to going to
Speaker 3: the locker room, there was a wheelchair waiting for him,
Speaker 3: and he declined to get in the wheelchair. He walked
Speaker 3: it off all the way to the locker room. So
Speaker 3: you never want to see that. But I hope, you know,
Speaker 3: I hope that he can get back as soon as possible.
Speaker 3: He's having an outstanding year, and you know, it's just
Speaker 3: tough to see something like that.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, you were with the Sixers all day Tuesday,
Speaker 1: pre game, during the game, post game. How funky was
Speaker 1: the mood around the team given all this stuff going on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean okay, he said, I think about that game.
Speaker 3: It was Marcus Morrison was out that game, Tyrese Maxey
Speaker 3: was out that game. Nicholas Petune was out that game.
Speaker 3: Who am I missing? I'm I'm missing somebody there was
Speaker 3: There was five six guys that would be in that
Speaker 3: would in the rotation. You know, it's just a the move.
Speaker 3: You know, I spoke with Nixon Patoon a little bit,
Speaker 3: and you know, he told me, he was like, man,
Speaker 3: as long as we're healthy at the right time, we're good.
Speaker 3: They're not sweating it. But obviously it's you know, you
Speaker 3: can tell it's they're in a little state of shock
Speaker 3: just with everything that's going on. But as tonight, Tyrese Maxie,
Speaker 3: he came, he came back and had a tremendous first half.
Speaker 3: He's actually killing. He got twenty something points in the
Speaker 3: first half of this game against Utah, exactly amount of
Speaker 3: points he had. Well, excuse me, twenty something. Pardon me.
Speaker 3: He has thirty two points a half and Philly is
Speaker 3: up ten at halftime in Utah. So Maxi's okay, So
Speaker 3: Maxie's okay. That little spray, that's that's what happens when
Speaker 3: you're young. Stein Spraying's they last today when you get
Speaker 3: my age, Stein at your age, spray might as well
Speaker 3: be a broken foot. You're going to be sidelined for
Speaker 3: a while. Hey, one another thing on Maxie Stein And
Speaker 3: I hate what he does this, but you just have
Speaker 3: to take it in. You know, he calls me sir
Speaker 3: all the time, all the time, and I hate it.
Speaker 3: Like kid, don't you respect talking about No, No, don't
Speaker 3: be don't be respectful to them. I don't. I'm not
Speaker 3: ready to be of an age where i'm sir. You
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Say that respect for the you know,
Speaker 3: go a decade older.
Speaker 2: Realize he is. He is only a couple of years
Speaker 2: older than your oldest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know. Yeah, he could be dating.
Speaker 2: You know what. Here's the thing I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: My best tyres MAXI story is that when I write
Speaker 1: about the Sixers on my BlackBerry, Maxie gets changed to
Speaker 1: max I spelled my act. And I think it's accurate
Speaker 1: because I think the Sixers are going to have to
Speaker 1: maxim this summer, and I think.
Speaker 2: So he's Tyrese Max on my BlackBerry.
Speaker 1: All right, listen, this has been a chaotic week for
Speaker 1: us as well. We had hoped to tape Monday Night
Speaker 1: because Tuesday, this past Tuesday, January thirtieth, was the one
Speaker 1: year anniversary of this show. The very first episode of
Speaker 1: This League, Uncut ran on January thirtieth, twenty twenty three. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: due to a wave of circumstances beyond our control, we
Speaker 1: had to postpone Monday's get together, so we were not
Speaker 1: able to tape the January thirtieth one year anniversary pod
Speaker 1: that we were planning. However, the way we're going to
Speaker 1: make up for that is we are going to stop
Speaker 1: right here and we are going to record a second
Speaker 1: episode that deals with the Bucks. Because after Chris covered
Speaker 1: six ers at Warriors on Tuesday Night for TNT, he
Speaker 1: immediately proceeded to Portland for the Damian Lillard homecoming. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk some Bucks, we'll see, maybe we talk
Speaker 1: some Lakers, and we will eventually bring it all the
Speaker 1: way back to the trade deadline, which again is now
Speaker 1: less than one week away Thursday, February eighth, three pm
Speaker 1: Eastern time. The trade buzzer sounds, so we're going to
Speaker 1: get into all that into the second half the part
Speaker 1: two of this edition of This League uncut As always, everyone,
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