Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 2: It's the real component of the NBA vacation time. It's
Speaker 2: not off season, it's not free agency, it's not summer league.
Speaker 2: It's now the dead period end of July till the
Speaker 2: end of August when training camp opens.
Speaker 1: But guess what, we still need to give you some
Speaker 1: updates on everything that's popping around the league. The Olympics
Speaker 1: are starting.
Speaker 2: I'm not particularly excited about the direction that things are going.
Speaker 2: Why the fuck are we still talking about Klay Thompson?
Speaker 1: Why? I don't know, but we are me included.
Speaker 2: TNT also gets booted and absolutely left out in the
Speaker 2: cold by the NBA, and Russ finally finds a new home.
Speaker 1: So much to get into. Let's get into it, Anthony.
Speaker 1: There's actually not that much to get into.
Speaker 2: So I don't know why we are saying so much
Speaker 2: to get into some stuff to get into, Anthony, So
Speaker 2: let's get right into it and drop that beat.
Speaker 1: That motherfucker beat.
Speaker 3: It should be re honed.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm on vacation.
Speaker 2: But NBA podcasters, it's kind of kind of a quiet
Speaker 2: period right now. It's kind of a we'll just put
Speaker 2: stuff out when thing's surface and then I got food poisoning.
Speaker 2: But you only really if you have an NBA podcast
Speaker 2: of like four weeks off a year post Summer League
Speaker 2: to about the end of August. It's why podcasts right
Speaker 2: now are on vacation or on hiatus.
Speaker 1: Stephen A.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's been gone for two months, zach Low,
Speaker 2: I don't know when he's dropping.
Speaker 1: Another podcast, but it may be. It may be September first.
Speaker 2: So right now I'm out in Portland with Moms dropping
Speaker 2: in the guest.
Speaker 1: Host It is what it is.
Speaker 2: By the way, Hey, if you didn't see those episodes,
Speaker 2: I was on three of them. H check it out
Speaker 2: if you can. I'm also trying to recuperate from the
Speaker 2: food poisoning that I got. So it's been kind of
Speaker 2: a rough stretch for your girl outside of hosting It
Speaker 2: is what it is, which was not a rough stretch
Speaker 2: that was awesome. But that doesn't mean that Hoops is
Speaker 2: all the way did Hoops is still kind of like
Speaker 2: Hoops is kind of where I am right now in
Speaker 2: my stage of getting over Sigutara probably about forty five
Speaker 2: percent of what maybe we want it to be. It's
Speaker 2: not dead, but it's not like quite popping either. Not
Speaker 2: a lot going on, but it is enough for me
Speaker 2: to come out of vacation and drop at least an
Speaker 2: episode to catch you up on what's going on. First
Speaker 2: of all, Team USA basketball is currently underway. Opening ceremony
Speaker 2: was last night.
Speaker 1: We'll give you an update on that.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there'll be some scares, right Like Team USA
Speaker 2: almost lost to South Sudan.
Speaker 1: That became a huge deal.
Speaker 2: Gilbert Reinez was really in sense to what's popping out
Speaker 2: in that country, talking shit about the fact that they
Speaker 2: don't have any indoor chords, talking shit about the fact
Speaker 2: that the Luel Dang has these boys playing better than
Speaker 2: Team USA, and how poor of a country is, and
Speaker 2: like just negating to tell folks that they are a
Speaker 2: country field of refugees.
Speaker 1: So like maybe you want to chill fuck out a
Speaker 1: little bit. No chill gill, Like maybe just chill the
Speaker 1: fuck out a little bit.
Speaker 2: Anyway, they're forty three and a half point favorites and
Speaker 2: Team USA almost lost that game.
Speaker 1: They only won one O one one hundred.
Speaker 2: They then needed more late game heroics from Braun to escape.
Speaker 1: Germany as well in the final tune.
Speaker 2: Up game, so things could be a little more smooth
Speaker 2: for what seems like the Dream Team.
Speaker 1: Here's a fascinating stat for you.
Speaker 2: The Dream Team faced nine NBA players nine Team USA.
Speaker 2: The Dream Team with Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson and
Speaker 2: all Team USA in twenty twenty four will face eighty
Speaker 2: one NBA players in Paris. That goes to show you
Speaker 2: how things have changed in international basketball, in the talent
Speaker 2: pool that the NBA is drawing from in order to
Speaker 2: gather the elite talent that they have, and it shows
Speaker 2: how the rest of the world has caught up to
Speaker 2: the USA. Do I think the Team USA is going
Speaker 2: to lose the gold?
Speaker 1: No? Do I think they're in trouble kind of? Do
Speaker 1: I think that the road will be easy? Definitely No.
Speaker 1: The only thing, though, that's current that I have to
Speaker 1: say is.
Speaker 2: That the Team USA are all of them every sport,
Speaker 2: not just basketball. They may have had the worst uniforms.
Speaker 1: In Olympic history.
Speaker 2: It was so much like watching something from two thousand
Speaker 2: and six, like it just gave you a prep school
Speaker 2: casual Friday vibes. The Blazers weren't working for me. The
Speaker 2: acid washed jeans weren't working for me. I know, I said,
Speaker 2: they look.
Speaker 1: Stained Apparently that was rain.
Speaker 2: The Paris opening ceremony had some weather that they had
Speaker 2: issues with, hence the reason that Derek White was rocking
Speaker 2: a puncho. But it did look like they came from
Speaker 2: the Polo outlet mall and they were just there, like
Speaker 2: like if Polo had a wedding, what would the bridesmaids
Speaker 2: and groomsman be in? That just an awful look, especially
Speaker 2: considering the fact that Paris is the mecca of fashion
Speaker 2: avant garde pushed the envelope? All that shit were they put?
Speaker 2: Where was Team USA pushing the envelope? Or was it?
Speaker 2: Was it like, how do we look as stereotypical American
Speaker 2: as humanly possible?
Speaker 1: More on Team USA next week onto the rest of
Speaker 1: the league.
Speaker 2: So, the biggest news in the NBA that I am
Speaker 2: so sick of talking about is this media rights deal, Like,
Speaker 2: are we done fucking dissecting where we're gonna watch the games?
Speaker 1: Does anyone actually care that much? Does an average NBA
Speaker 1: fan Are they losing sleep about Amazon getting some games?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I know that we love Shaq, Kenny Ernie, all them
Speaker 2: boys chuck, but outside of inside the NBA, outside of that,
Speaker 2: does anyone give a fuck that's not on TNT anymore,
Speaker 2: and that you don't have to suffer through CSI Miami
Speaker 2: for the two hours before the pregame comes on.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so at all.
Speaker 2: Outside of the fact that I really find this to
Speaker 2: be in irrelevant detail for the average consumer. Could anybody
Speaker 2: who's been paying attention to what TNT does with their
Speaker 2: NBA coverage even be surprised that they would want.
Speaker 1: To say, uh, dipset like real? Does anybody? Does anybody care?
Speaker 2: I love inside the NBA, but outside of inside the NBA,
Speaker 2: nothing that TNT does.
Speaker 1: With the NBA is relevant at all.
Speaker 2: John Skipper was on Pablo Torres's show earlier this week
Speaker 2: and he said that pre and post game NBA shows
Speaker 2: bring exactly zero dollars to the company that has the rights.
Speaker 1: It's only the rights, and that's it. He was TNT.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't have even bid for the NBA.
Speaker 2: So not even a particularly profitable situation, just something you
Speaker 2: kind of have to do in order to maintain your
Speaker 2: status as an actual television channel. So let's face it,
Speaker 2: why would the league decide to stay with an aging.
Speaker 1: Cable company with no wall to wall coverage.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't they have one show that they can shit
Speaker 2: on players anytime they want. The hosts don't follow the
Speaker 2: league very closely, especially Chuck. They have a whole segment
Speaker 2: called who He playfote And then you got another international
Speaker 2: media giant that wants to take this shit seriously? Who
Speaker 2: can get them eyeballs in places that they like Nepal
Speaker 2: that they've never gotten eyeballs before, more homes than TNT
Speaker 2: could ever dream of being into.
Speaker 1: So why would they stay?
Speaker 2: Especially if Amazon says, well, all right, NBA, you like
Speaker 2: inside the NBA so much, let's just buy them.
Speaker 1: Let's just buy that show. What do we need TNT for.
Speaker 2: We like the show, we like the producers, we like
Speaker 2: the host, But fuck TNT. Fuck this Zaslov guy that
Speaker 2: said essentially we don't need the NBA.
Speaker 1: Fuck him.
Speaker 2: I like Shaq, I like Kenny, I like Charles, I
Speaker 2: think I said, Chuck and Charles.
Speaker 1: They're part of the fabric of the NBA.
Speaker 2: But who you should actually be pissed off at is
Speaker 2: the guy who said we don't need the NBA. And
Speaker 2: Adam Silverer was like, Okay, then you don't need the NBA.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna get the NBA short of a modern
Speaker 2: miracle of you giving us seven billion dollars per year,
Speaker 2: you're not.
Speaker 1: Getting the NBA.
Speaker 2: So and then you take into a count that TNTTBS
Speaker 2: is one of the most significant chunks of the cable bill.
Speaker 2: That you have three dollars of your cable bill, and
Speaker 2: probably these cable.
Speaker 1: Providers are like, well, what do we need TNT for.
Speaker 2: We'll just take the three dollars off, or we'll take
Speaker 2: a dollar fifty off and we'll pocket another dollar fifty
Speaker 2: and fuck TNT, We're not gonna cable We're not gonna
Speaker 2: carry him anymore. The only thing the TBS says well
Speaker 2: right now is the March menace, and who knows about
Speaker 2: that in the long term.
Speaker 1: Obviously, Chuck is not happy. He's He's out there spitting
Speaker 1: all kinds of rhymes. He's out here dissing everybody.
Speaker 2: He's got fucking serious beef that he's willing to spew
Speaker 2: out to whoeveryone will listen.
Speaker 1: He's pissed at Warner Brothers, He's mad at the league.
Speaker 2: He's released a statement he said clearly the NBA has
Speaker 2: wanted to break up with us from the beginning, oh,
Speaker 2: conspiracy theory. I'm not sure TNT ever had a chance
Speaker 2: TNT match the money, but the league knows Amazon and
Speaker 2: these tech companies are the only ones willing to pay
Speaker 2: for the.
Speaker 1: Rights when they double it in the future. The NBA
Speaker 1: didn't want to piss him off. And then he goes
Speaker 1: and then he says he's gonna retire. Okay, fine, that's
Speaker 1: his right, We'll miss you.
Speaker 2: Then he goes on Dan Patrick and is like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure if they pay me thirty million dollars,
Speaker 2: I'm open to wherever I've talked and by the way,
Speaker 2: I've already talked to everybody. I've talked to Amazon, I've
Speaker 2: talked to NBC, I've talked to ESPN. So retirement not
Speaker 2: really solid. I am officially done discussing this. Like we're
Speaker 2: talking about the channel the game is played on. That's
Speaker 2: what we're talking about right now. That's how you know
Speaker 2: we should all be on vacation. In addition, Warner Brothers
Speaker 2: is now suing the NBA.
Speaker 1: So are we gonna get like a full C Span situation?
Speaker 2: Are we getting the inside text messages between Zaslob I
Speaker 2: want the inside t I want the shit that happened
Speaker 2: behind closed doors and nobody knows about. But when this
Speaker 2: meteorites done, this deal is done and the lawsuit has settled.
Speaker 2: Now we can just.
Speaker 1: Buckle up, download a million apps and then like google.
Speaker 2: What games are on what channel, just like we kind
Speaker 2: of always do unless you stream, you know. And this
Speaker 2: is what Camon makes when I went on the show
Speaker 2: shit and said, who cares.
Speaker 1: Where it is? I stream this shit illegally. You know
Speaker 1: what this means for all of us fans.
Speaker 2: Get out your checkbook because watching the NBA is now
Speaker 2: gonna get even more expensive. All right, Moving on, Clay
Speaker 2: Thompson is still in the news. Klay Thompson signed with
Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks four days in a free agency and.
Speaker 1: He's still in the news. He's still being talked about.
Speaker 2: There have been so many stories that have dropped, think pieces, analyzations, opinions,
Speaker 2: all kinds of different angles since he signed in Dallas.
Speaker 2: You would think that everyone had already exhausted what they
Speaker 2: had to say. But then a couple of things came
Speaker 2: out this week that I found fascinating. First and foremost,
Speaker 2: Joe Lacub, owner of the Golden State Warriors, kind of
Speaker 2: a certified blowhard, spouted off on Clay's departure and said
Speaker 2: this and what an all I can only think of
Speaker 2: as an incredibly arrogant, bitchy voice.
Speaker 1: He said, we made an offer to him.
Speaker 2: It's well chronicled in the fall, substantially higher than what
Speaker 2: he ultimately did sign up for.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was.
Speaker 2: Very fair, very fair, if not more fair, more than fair.
Speaker 2: At the time, we're trying to anticipate what the market
Speaker 2: is for him.
Speaker 1: We're trying to be really fair to him and recognize
Speaker 1: him for who he is.
Speaker 2: And so we did that and that was not acceptable
Speaker 2: to him and to them, and that's their choice.
Speaker 1: But you know, to be frank and honest.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, right here, right here, haven't even read
Speaker 2: the statement yet fully, but right here is where the
Speaker 2: shade is coming.
Speaker 1: I promise you to be frank and honest.
Speaker 2: Something Shadey's coming. Clay made the decision prior to the
Speaker 2: beginning of free agency, and he informed us that his
Speaker 2: intention was not to come back.
Speaker 1: He called me and said the same things you heard
Speaker 1: at Clay's Dallas news conference. Clay is an open book.
Speaker 2: He felt he needed for a variety of reasons to
Speaker 2: have a fresh start, less shady than I thought.
Speaker 1: Actually, I don't know.
Speaker 2: For Steph's sake, because this is all really revolving around Steph.
Speaker 2: Everything that all the Warriors do now is all designed
Speaker 2: to keep Steph engaged, happy add E's and not thinking
Speaker 2: about asking how to get the fuck out of there.
Speaker 2: But I don't think anything really good comes out of like, Hey,
Speaker 2: we tried to do right by Clay and Clay was
Speaker 2: being a bitch, you know.
Speaker 1: Like, I don't think we should do that. I don't
Speaker 1: think we should be like, oh, Clay is just a
Speaker 1: sensitive pussy, you know.
Speaker 2: I don't think he wanted to get up out of
Speaker 2: here because he couldn't handle.
Speaker 1: Being in Golden statey boars.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that was a good idea, Dallas,
Speaker 2: Golden State's gotta be the first game of the year.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be or like Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: It may not rise to the level of Christmas Day,
Speaker 2: but we are now witnessing the beginning of a Clay Thompson.
Speaker 1: Arc that may be like.
Speaker 2: Not villain, but like villain adjacent. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: Draymond Green broke his silence on Clay leaving. He said,
Speaker 2: I'm happy as hell he's gone. The reason I'm happy
Speaker 2: he's gone is because he wasn't happy anymore as a brother.
Speaker 2: I only want what's best for you, what's best for me,
Speaker 2: and not what's best for this team.
Speaker 1: Draymond Green. Good teammate.
Speaker 2: Actually that was a good teammate thing to say. If
Speaker 2: this team doesn't get Lori Markinen and like keep everyone,
Speaker 2: like you still need to have all the guys that
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to give up for Lori, which obviously
Speaker 2: is not possible. Like, this is a team that is
Speaker 2: looking at a high lottery pick next year, and if
Speaker 2: they're like where Dame was two seasons ago, Steph might
Speaker 2: just fuck around and be like an LA Laker before
Speaker 2: you know it.
Speaker 1: So good luck for that, houred Ups. Moving on to
Speaker 1: some news.
Speaker 2: From around the league. So, Russell Westbrook has now a
Speaker 2: new home. He has signed what we thought was gonna
Speaker 2: be a one year deal, but it is not. It
Speaker 2: is a two year deal in Denver, which means Calvin Booth,
Speaker 2: Calvin Booth, Calvin Booth loves himself Russell Westbrook and Michael
Speaker 2: Malone must like him too. Two year, six point eight
Speaker 2: million dollars player option for twenty twenty five, twenty six.
Speaker 2: Now you have Russ with a more or less permanent home.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets get a defensive stopper off the bench. A
Speaker 2: lot of people are big time haters of Russ. I
Speaker 2: personally think he's washed. But if he's not washed, there's
Speaker 2: some things that maybe Denver can do to at least
Speaker 2: soak up as much of the powers that he still
Speaker 2: has left in him. Because you look at him when
Speaker 2: he's doing well, and you can't help but.
Speaker 1: To be pretty excited.
Speaker 2: It's like the ups and downs of Russ kind of
Speaker 2: make you feel a little queasy. But when Russ is
Speaker 2: on ten, when Russ is like really good, Russ can
Speaker 2: still play. Let's talk about statistics. The defensive rating statistic
Speaker 2: is always tricky. He's statistic for defensive rating last year
Speaker 2: was one thirteen point one, which in the grand scheme
Speaker 2: of the NBA is not great. His career defensive rating
Speaker 2: is one oh six point six. But remember last year,
Speaker 2: offenses were going crazy. Refs were like calling fouls like
Speaker 2: insane amounts. Things were just.
Speaker 1: We're getting guys scored seventy eight points.
Speaker 2: So when you look at it being a historic year
Speaker 2: in the beginning of the year before the All Star Break,
Speaker 2: and that it was a historic Here for offenses, you
Speaker 2: realize that Kentavious Callwell Pope, the guy that he's replacing,
Speaker 2: actually had a worse defensive rating than Russ, and KCP
Speaker 2: is known as a three and D guy. Russ's defensive
Speaker 2: rating for the year was better than Jalen Williams, is
Speaker 2: better than Lou Dort's.
Speaker 1: And better than Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 2: Now, for the eye test, Jalen Williams, Lolue Dort much
Speaker 2: better defenders than Russ.
Speaker 1: Maybe not Dylan Brooks, maybe not.
Speaker 2: Now you kind of have to have take this with
Speaker 2: a grain assault in terms of these defensive and offensive ratings,
Speaker 2: but in terms of like something I can get behind
Speaker 2: Steel's per minute sixteenth in the NBA last year, that's
Speaker 2: nothing to sneeze at, and that's something that gets you
Speaker 2: quick easy buckets and Russ out in transition, which is
Speaker 2: exactly what you want Russ in transition office Steel for
Speaker 2: a dunk. Is he gonna be able to sell wat
Speaker 2: right in and be KCP?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: This is like a guy that's not shooting corner threes
Speaker 2: well in any capacity, can he be a valuable player
Speaker 2: off the bench, absolutely, especially at the three.
Speaker 1: Million dollars a year that they're gonna pay him.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets are in trouble though, dog like the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets are. I think the Nuggets are like really
Speaker 2: close to fucked. Truthfully, Jamal Murray has to have an
Speaker 2: incredibly healthy year and you need one of those young
Speaker 2: guys to step up and be something like. You need
Speaker 2: a huge year from Christian Brown, you need a huge
Speaker 2: year from Peyton Watson. Somebody, somebody needs to be good.
Speaker 2: There's another player on Denver, I forget his name.
Speaker 1: That also, they're high on.
Speaker 2: Julian Strawther. That's who I thought it was. Julian Strather
Speaker 2: was ballin in summer league. So he's got a step up.
Speaker 2: Somebody's got a step up.
Speaker 1: I really like Russ.
Speaker 2: I'm happy he's in Denver. I'm happy if that all
Speaker 2: my hope. I'm happy he's wanted. And maybe he just
Speaker 2: maybe he's not even replacing KCP. Maybe he's replacing Reggie Jackson,
Speaker 2: and for that I actually like that. Next up, we'll
Speaker 2: talk about Killian Hayes. Oh, one of my favorite players in.
Speaker 1: The NBA to talk about. Oh my god, he's just
Speaker 1: it's just so easy. Number seventh pick in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty twenty draft.
Speaker 2: Isn't that hard to say twenty twenty and not like
Speaker 2: say another number after because it kind of is for me.
Speaker 2: Halliburton was in that draft. Tyrese Maxey was in that
Speaker 2: draft below him. A lot of people feel like this
Speaker 2: was the nail in the coffin for Detroit Pistons GM
Speaker 2: Troy Weaver. The time that he had in Detroit was puzzling.
Speaker 2: He had a lot of trouble adapting.
Speaker 1: To the NBA game. Actually, his college stuff, you thought
Speaker 1: he was going to be a really nice player.
Speaker 2: Actually, rookie year was okay, got much worse the second year.
Speaker 2: Third year he was a dead man walking. And then
Speaker 2: last year he was just getting thrown.
Speaker 1: Out there out of spite.
Speaker 2: Manti Williams was putting Killian Hayes out there to say
Speaker 2: fuck you to.
Speaker 1: Our guy, and.
Speaker 2: Jaden Ivy was coming off the bench for Killian Hayes,
Speaker 2: and it was so egregious that Calvin that the way
Speaker 2: Weaver had to cut Killian Hayes to keep him off
Speaker 2: the floor. The numbers for Killian Hayes are brutal eight
Speaker 2: points per game career thirty eight percent from the field,
Speaker 2: twenty eight percent from three, a career defensive rating of
Speaker 2: one eighteen points out. Ah, he's a cone as well.
Speaker 2: He got cut because he's not just an awful score.
Speaker 2: His numbers in the pain are terrible. Forty seven and
Speaker 2: a half percent conversion rate is so much worse than
Speaker 2: the late league average of like close to sixty percent.
Speaker 1: He what, This man can't.
Speaker 2: Make bunnies, and he's not making up for it by
Speaker 2: being like some sort of sniper from deep either. His
Speaker 2: three point percentage was one of the worst in the
Speaker 2: fucking NBA. No one picked him up after getting cut,
Speaker 2: which is why to me, it's curious, it's peculiar. It's
Speaker 2: fascinating that the Brooklyn Nets picked up Killian Hayes. That
Speaker 2: is a telltale sign that the Nets are tanking for
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag.
Speaker 1: That's what they want. They signed a guy who was
Speaker 1: consistently a losing.
Speaker 2: Player on a team that was the worst team in
Speaker 2: basketball for the last three years straight and got cut
Speaker 2: by that same team. The Pistons set an NBA record
Speaker 2: for consecutive losses. Consecutive losses. He was part of a
Speaker 2: team with exactly seven wins last year in the fifty
Speaker 2: games that he played.
Speaker 1: So if you're the Brooklyn Nets, you're thinking should be good.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what we want, full on tank mode.
Speaker 1: The only negative is that during his time, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think Killian Ays had more than one of those
Speaker 2: instances where the team had the number.
Speaker 1: One over I think they had the fifth overall pick
Speaker 1: like three straight times.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if that's a good sign for
Speaker 2: the Brooklyn Nets. But we move on with a very
Speaker 2: interesting story from Jeff Teague, who I think might be
Speaker 2: like low key one of the funniest NBA players in
Speaker 2: the podcast game. A lot of people, a lot of
Speaker 2: people continue to talk shit about the NASAs and Tokoumpo.
Speaker 1: They call him the human victory cigar.
Speaker 2: Some say he's not an NBA guy, not an NBA
Speaker 2: quality player. They say he is the exact same as
Speaker 2: Brownie James Nepotism reincarnated. But I thought this was fascinating
Speaker 2: because Jeff Teak said this about him.
Speaker 3: Gianni's brother when we went down two, he had COVID
Speaker 3: so he couldn't come to the plane. That's why we
Speaker 3: went down to Giannis was messed up like him and
Speaker 3: his brother, Bro they got some different kind of connection.
Speaker 3: He can't function or play if you don't see his brother.
Speaker 3: I'm being for real, it's not even it's different, Bro.
Speaker 3: He was like where t A? Where tat? We in
Speaker 3: the middle of the game, I'm like, bro we in
Speaker 3: the finals, Bro played like where ta where Ta? So
Speaker 3: t A makes this magical like COVID recovery. I know
Speaker 3: he still had it. No way, Bro, it's fourteen day, Bro,
Speaker 3: he's back in thirty He's back then when he see him,
Speaker 3: tunnel tunnel vision back on him. They started hooping, but
Speaker 3: his energy was like contagious, like he running in the
Speaker 3: locker room COVID everything he got, yelling, screaming, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he matters, like he makes a difference for our team.
Speaker 3: When he's not here, something's not clicking. But when t
Speaker 3: A was there, he made it like he mattered. And
Speaker 3: then somehow he's in the locker room he does all that.
Speaker 3: When the parade come, he has a rob by himself
Speaker 3: because he got COVID. Uh Joanna's brother. When we went
Speaker 3: down oh two, he had COVID so he couldn't come
Speaker 3: to the plane. That's why we went down to Nice
Speaker 3: was messed up like him and his brother. Bro, they
Speaker 3: got some different kind of connection. He can't function or
Speaker 3: play if you don't see his brother. I'm being for real,
Speaker 3: it's not even it's different, Bro. He was like where
Speaker 3: t where tat We in the middle of the game.
Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, we in a finals. Bro played like
Speaker 3: where T where Ta? So t A makes this magical
Speaker 3: like COVID recovery. I know he still had it. No way, Bro,
Speaker 3: it's fourteen days, Bro, he's back in thirty He's back
Speaker 3: then when he see him, tunnel tunnel vision back on him.
Speaker 3: They started hooping, but his energy was like contagious, like
Speaker 3: he running in the locker room COVID everything you got, yelling, screaming,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, yeah, he matters, like he makes a
Speaker 3: difference for our team. When he's not here, something's not clicking.
Speaker 3: But when t A was there, he made it like
Speaker 3: he mattered. And then somehow he's in the locker room,
Speaker 3: he does all that. When a parade come, he has
Speaker 3: a ride by himself because he got COVID.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. That is hilarious.
Speaker 2: Some players say they bring a lot to the table
Speaker 2: outside of their on court play, but actually, I think
Speaker 2: this is real. I think keeping Yannis happy as well
Speaker 2: as keeping the vibes up matter. You can tell when
Speaker 2: the vibes are off in any scenario. That can change
Speaker 2: the entire outcome of whatever it is that you're doing.
Speaker 2: It can change a show. I've been there for good
Speaker 2: or for bad. That can change a game. That can
Speaker 2: change how the top players perform. Like if Jannis is
Speaker 2: stressing and unfocused and doesn't know where his ridered eye
Speaker 2: is and he's worried and is unfocused, like he's not
Speaker 2: gonna play as well, especially considering the fact the teams
Speaker 2: use their fifteenth rosters fought.
Speaker 1: For like random reasons.
Speaker 2: Indiana just resigned James Jones because or James Johnson, excuse me,
Speaker 2: because they needed some guy who could rough up players
Speaker 2: when Tyrese Haliburton was talking crazy. Eudnnis has them had
Speaker 2: that spot for five of the last six years because
Speaker 2: he was like a assistant coach that played on the
Speaker 2: court rarely.
Speaker 1: So I kind of think I'm done talking about the NASAs.
Speaker 2: Because he's not going anywhere, first of all, and number two,
Speaker 2: if he does go somewhere, so probably with Giannis, all right,
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