Speaker 1: If you haven't pop problem SoC with Babu Son, I
Speaker 1: got ninety nine, but a boosy ain't what well well
Speaker 1: well episode ninety nine, guess what we are here?
Speaker 2: The doctor said it couldn't be done.
Speaker 3: I think it's just funny how the listeners they were
Speaker 3: all talking to each other about how we'd never make
Speaker 3: it to ninety nine. They said, never made it and.
Speaker 2: We're about using to me is yeah, but here we are.
Speaker 1: Buckle up because Benjamin will be in town for the
Speaker 1: next one. But anyway, we're here to talk to the
Speaker 1: NBA trade deadline.
Speaker 3: The Calves just.
Speaker 2: They're the They're the hottest thing in town. And by town,
Speaker 2: I mean the league h and also some NBO really
Speaker 2: gritting those teams.
Speaker 1: MTB talk and we got to talk about the Suns
Speaker 1: with today's guest Lina Washington.
Speaker 2: On today's episode, I'm Miles Gregg and.
Speaker 3: I'm Jack O'Brien and this sees Jack done do three?
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 3: Look at.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you god driving spinning.
Speaker 5: Katie got it with five.
Speaker 3: He's gonna try another three, mister, Look on, James, be honest,
Speaker 3: we look out little show time.
Speaker 5: What you go?
Speaker 2: Yes, Lena Washington, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: You're here. Look you you're classing the joint up.
Speaker 1: Like I said last time, Emmy Award winning waker and
Speaker 1: reporter for twelve news listeners in your face.
Speaker 3: You said she couldn't do it. You said we couldn't
Speaker 3: have an Emmy Award winning sports and.
Speaker 2: We just did.
Speaker 3: And look we did that.
Speaker 5: Look at you now, you look like they said, I
Speaker 5: wonder what would happen if y'all never made it to
Speaker 5: one hundred podcasts?
Speaker 3: Yeah we still might not. Well that's right now, Well.
Speaker 5: We better anfest the one hundred, the big wow.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thanks amazing.
Speaker 5: So because after this one you have to come back a.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, or do we just put the mices down.
Speaker 1: We're like, hey, we did it. Yeah, what do you say, Jack?
Speaker 5: The way to go out?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just they're like in the middle of this season, they
Speaker 1: didn't even talk like they weren't even in the they didn't.
Speaker 2: Get to the All Star break.
Speaker 5: Andrew Loucke and just hang Outah, in the middle of everything.
Speaker 3: My inner seventy six ers fan is having trouble getting
Speaker 3: out of bed right now. But as an NBA fan,
Speaker 3: I'm excited. There's a lot of big teams, you're doing
Speaker 3: some fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I mean, since we have you, Lena,
Speaker 1: you know, the Phoenix Suns, you know, I would give
Speaker 1: us some insight.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, your West Coast team obviously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean twenty nine and twenty one, you know,
Speaker 1: looking pretty good.
Speaker 3: For seven in the last ten. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as a Laker fan, those are numbers. I wish
Speaker 1: I was saying out loud about my team, but they're not.
Speaker 3: So I'm the championships.
Speaker 5: You guys have to your name is a number that
Speaker 5: we would like to say all.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean it's fine, it's fine. I mean
Speaker 1: it's only it's look, we don't have to get into that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but it's seventeen. So just make sure everybody
Speaker 1: knows just for.
Speaker 2: The top, okay, yeah, I mean to talk to us.
Speaker 1: I mean, like Bradley Beal recently put in apparently the
Speaker 1: one of like, I guess, the most points a player
Speaker 1: has scored in his first meeting against his former team.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, what better way to show up and have your
Speaker 5: best game in a son's uniform than when you're going
Speaker 5: back to your old stomping grounds In DC, it was
Speaker 5: a homecoming for Kevin Durant as well. But right now,
Speaker 5: the Big three seems to be humming. I mean, this
Speaker 5: last stretch of about mid December, when Bradley got healthy
Speaker 5: and back into the lineup consistently, this team is starting
Speaker 5: to find its rhythm, its flow, and they're still trying
Speaker 5: to work through some fourth quarter struggles. I don't know
Speaker 5: if it's fatigue, if it's a loss of focus, just
Speaker 5: not as much effort on the defensive end. But we've
Speaker 5: seen some games get away from them against some teams
Speaker 5: that they should have gotten wins. Again, so that twenty
Speaker 5: nine and twenty one record could be better. But right now,
Speaker 5: as long as the Suns are out of late in
Speaker 5: tournament position, I think everyone can be satisfied.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, we thought that defense was going to
Speaker 3: be a struggle for them coming in. It's still kind
Speaker 3: of the question mark. But again, when you've got these
Speaker 3: three playing this well, it's pretty exciting to see.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you have Grayson Allen showing up in
Speaker 5: a big way. He was like the auxiliary member of
Speaker 5: the Big three when either KD, your Book or feel
Speaker 5: were out. And we'll see if he gets a shot
Speaker 5: at the three point contest in Indianapolis. But it's a
Speaker 5: fun time to be a Suns fan. The last several years,
Speaker 5: didn't think we'd be here. So every win, we're coming
Speaker 5: up on the one year anniversary of Kevin Durant being traded,
Speaker 5: So just to see that as a reality is something
Speaker 5: that I think we're still trying to fully grasp. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it's good vibes in the.
Speaker 2: Valley right now, for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember just remembering like, wait, who ended up?
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, I remember that's my son was just born.
Speaker 1: So I was like in and out of keeping up
Speaker 1: with the news as I was like sleep deprived, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm hallucinating. I'm like Kevin Durant is
Speaker 1: why am I seeing Kevin Durant Sun's jerseys happening right now?
Speaker 1: It's been a year already.
Speaker 2: Is Grayson Allen leading the league in three point percent
Speaker 2: of shooting?
Speaker 5: He is? He is like he should be getting some
Speaker 5: for real looks to represent the Suns in the All
Speaker 5: Star Game and see if you can bring back a title,
Speaker 5: some kind of title.
Speaker 2: Right, But he's not going to be in the three
Speaker 2: point contest, right I.
Speaker 5: Think they're still considering participation he would be interested, right,
Speaker 5: and he would be capable.
Speaker 1: I also saw a quote that felt very like mature
Speaker 1: in the event that he he wasn't selected. He was like,
Speaker 1: I actually, you know, I have a vacation plan with
Speaker 1: my wife, so you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna enjoy
Speaker 1: that time off.
Speaker 2: It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Think he would also. I think wife, he would understand
Speaker 5: if they had to cancel those plans.
Speaker 1: And your man, can you imagine in our game, just
Speaker 1: like we said, we're gonna go to the Wizarding World
Speaker 1: of Harry Potter pretty soon.
Speaker 2: Like, I'm sorry, it.
Speaker 1: Can work, Yeah, exactly, you know, while you were right
Speaker 1: right right.
Speaker 3: Uh, hot players right now, I think I feel like
Speaker 3: nobody's hotter than Brandon Miller his last five games thirty three,
Speaker 3: thirty five, twenty eight, twenty one, twenty nine. I don't know,
Speaker 3: He's he's looking like a real one. He's looking like
Speaker 3: he might be U. He might be another really consequential
Speaker 3: player coming out of this draft.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I just remember watching I mean I saw him
Speaker 1: against up close, uh, in his game against the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and I mean, yeah, thirty three against the Lakers and just.
Speaker 2: He looks he looks real good.
Speaker 3: He looks really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's got He's got it. All I think
Speaker 1: is the is the phrase that they say. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean looking at a lot of the other rookies.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Wemby's leading the pack in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, the points he's putting up, but the performance
Speaker 1: is that b Millie is putting in. I'm also very
Speaker 1: very keen to see if that changes you. What are
Speaker 1: your feelings on that Rookie of the Year race, Lena
Speaker 1: and how that's shapen up or just Brandon in general.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, Brandon Miller is showing up in a
Speaker 5: big way. I think it is probably Wemby's or Chet's
Speaker 5: award to lose at this point. But I'm curious how
Speaker 5: you guys think Wemby has lived up to the expectations
Speaker 5: that were pressed upon him, because I remember last time
Speaker 5: we were here, we were talking about if there's anything
Speaker 5: worth giving up for him or if you go with
Speaker 5: him as the number one pick. So I was all
Speaker 5: about Wemby media back then. I think it's it's manifested
Speaker 5: in a really special way, even though the record isn't
Speaker 5: there for the Spurs, But I think he's running away
Speaker 5: with this and his charisma and personality too, showing and
Speaker 5: shining in big moments as well as also special to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good idea to revisit that question, like
Speaker 3: is there anyone so prior to his draft, we were
Speaker 3: asking the question, would you trade any single player in
Speaker 3: the league for the right to draft Victor Webb Yama?
Speaker 3: And now that we're, you know, approaching the All Star break, like,
Speaker 3: would people trade any player for web Biyama at this point?
Speaker 3: I think they probably would At this point, I think
Speaker 3: Jokic probably, I think maybe Yannis probably Yannis, and but
Speaker 3: maybe not much more than like those two. It's yeah,
Speaker 3: is that.
Speaker 5: Just because of the miles that the the other pieces
Speaker 5: have on them versus a younger body.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe even not those two. Maybe even not
Speaker 3: those two to be honest, Shay, maybe because he's so
Speaker 3: young and he's just able to lead a team. Shae
Speaker 3: might be the answer at this point because also, like
Speaker 3: he's not on a bad contract, is he Like he's
Speaker 3: on a pretty crazy good contract.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's it's like one of those things too, where it
Speaker 1: it's like hard to even conceptualize what it looks like
Speaker 1: because looking at those sort of highlights from France in
Speaker 1: a vacuum, you're like, oh yeah, But then like when
Speaker 1: seeing in an NBA too, and like seeing just the
Speaker 1: effect that his like length has on people psychologically that
Speaker 1: I couldn't quite like account for just in like sort
Speaker 1: of like a thought experiment. Yeah, I mean, but I
Speaker 1: but like after seeing everything and like between his skill
Speaker 1: set and like to your point, like his his like
Speaker 1: will as a competitor, he seems like so mature mentally
Speaker 1: in this way that I like, I think that's one
Speaker 1: of his like really underrated traits too, just to see
Speaker 1: how like he well, you know, we saw that first
Speaker 1: game in Summer League, and I remember joking.
Speaker 2: We're like, okay, all right, we're out on this guy.
Speaker 3: What a hoax? Sell sell, yeah, get rid.
Speaker 2: Of them, dump it now.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, but now you see how much
Speaker 1: like he is just in the zone and just unafraid
Speaker 1: to compete.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, yeah, I feel like everybody, anybody
Speaker 2: would be lucky to have him, to incorporate him in
Speaker 2: their team.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like the Thunder, they already have a someone
Speaker 1: very similar, so I think, yeah, they think.
Speaker 2: That they think they probably they will sit tight.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, but yeah, I mean and also, like
Speaker 1: Haimi Hakas, I'm very pleasantly surprised with how he's.
Speaker 5: Been playing to what a perfect opportunity for him, just
Speaker 5: from the swagger to the work ethic, heat culture, you know,
Speaker 5: just the way that he was able to make a
Speaker 5: career out of his time at U c l A
Speaker 5: and then propelled himself to a championship franchise and get
Speaker 5: valuable minutes is really impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's heartening for me as a as a bruin myself,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, looking at those teams, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can see some of these guys doing it, but
Speaker 1: like he's truly a god above and beyond, so well done,
Speaker 1: well done.
Speaker 5: Watching him in the PAC twelve tournament in the finals
Speaker 5: the last two years, his will in those battles with
Speaker 5: U of A. Those were two classic games, and it
Speaker 5: was so fun to watch him and Tiger compete with
Speaker 5: again a Tommy Lloyd led team that's just been you know,
Speaker 5: crushing the PAC twelve. But yeah, Hi Mayhawk is on
Speaker 5: the heat. That's another guy to watch for some end
Speaker 5: of the awards perhaps, Yeah, yeah, hopefully.
Speaker 3: I think you'd have Wembing Yama if you redrafted today,
Speaker 3: I think you'd have Wembing alma one. Probably Brandon Miller too,
Speaker 3: and then him Hawks who was at eighteen getting drafted
Speaker 3: third at this point, Yeah, for real, what else is
Speaker 3: happening around the league? What do we got from from
Speaker 3: the Lakers side? I know listeners are look, as.
Speaker 2: You saw we beat the Celtics, is nothing, just some
Speaker 2: just some light work.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Wow, Lebron and Ad must have had a good game.
Speaker 1: Whoa you thought, well, well, well, well, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, we're so up and down.
Speaker 1: Like even then, I was just like, oh my, we'll
Speaker 1: see though, that shoe was gonna drop the whole time.
Speaker 1: I kept like watching the game like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was nice to see.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, Ad.
Speaker 1: Put up his third career triple double against the Hornets
Speaker 1: in that game against Brandon Miller. Uh, and he's yeah,
Speaker 1: he's doing He's doing pretty good.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: Also, Van Do going out is also not welcome news.
Speaker 1: But let's let's let's focus on other things. You know,
Speaker 1: I think there's bigger things to talk about than the
Speaker 1: Lakers just being you know, I think twenty seven and
Speaker 1: twenty five at this point.
Speaker 5: Yea.
Speaker 3: The Calves though, the Calves hot hot.
Speaker 2: They're so hot.
Speaker 3: They're so hot, right, They're so hot right now.
Speaker 1: These Cavaliers, their cavalier attitude towards the game, their performances,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, what are they fifteen of fourteen and.
Speaker 3: One over the past fifteen Wow.
Speaker 2: That's wild, because I think they're one.
Speaker 1: That one loss was against the Bucks, who they played
Speaker 1: the very next day and then beat like like responded
Speaker 1: pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, that's an impressive run. I know that.
Speaker 1: I know the schedule is gonna get a little bit
Speaker 1: tighter come March, but so far, I think, like they're
Speaker 1: so exciting to watch.
Speaker 2: And I know a couple of people who are Cavs
Speaker 2: fans just like I knew. It's like I never thought
Speaker 2: it could be like this, but it's happening.
Speaker 1: And to get it to this level, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is like the what I think is the record I
Speaker 1: think the best for a non Bronz Caves team.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Far, this street yeah, so yeah, this fifteen game span
Speaker 1: is the best record in franchise history.
Speaker 2: So you know, the thirty two and sixteen.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I mean, like I think a lot of
Speaker 1: the question was sort of looking at with like the
Speaker 1: people coming back from injury, with Mobiley and Garland. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like figuring out because before I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Jackie were saying like it's addition by subtraction. But as
Speaker 1: they get slowly worked back in, do we think they
Speaker 1: they're going to fully embrace their full health squad or
Speaker 1: just keep it to you know, being like if it
Speaker 1: ain't it's literally not broken, so there's no need to
Speaker 1: fix it.
Speaker 2: But is there a need to tinker at all?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're so deep now, Like with those
Speaker 3: guys coming back, I feel like, I don't know, it
Speaker 3: always makes more sense to me than it ends up,
Speaker 3: like working on the court. But if you you're just
Speaker 3: like all right, so have Garland be like just stagger him,
Speaker 3: like never have him on the court at the same
Speaker 3: time as you know Donovan and just have like the
Speaker 3: best second unit. But I feel like that then you
Speaker 3: get you know, egos and just like personalities involved, and
Speaker 3: it never ends up being that clean. But that seems
Speaker 3: I don't know, it seems like it's working so far. Obviously, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's just back, but they seem tough to be their
Speaker 3: second in the East. Nobody saw this come in a
Speaker 3: few weeks ago, because nobody knows anything in the NBA
Speaker 3: media except us, because we're always right.
Speaker 1: Accept us and we talked about the same five teams
Speaker 1: over and over. Lena, what about you, how you think
Speaker 1: in the Calves are looking, especially with the players coming
Speaker 1: back that they have. Were they missing them? Are they
Speaker 1: not missing them? Or they stumbled upon something a new
Speaker 1: balance that works for them.
Speaker 5: I mean, what a surprise out of the East. And
Speaker 5: we've seen a couple of surprises in both conferences in
Speaker 5: terms of the teams that have propelled themselves to the
Speaker 5: top of the standings at this point of the season.
Speaker 5: But I'm kind of in the same boat of if
Speaker 5: it ain't broke, don't fix it. I think if you
Speaker 5: found the continuity right now and you need to incorporate
Speaker 5: some guys, now is not the time to add in
Speaker 5: new pieces to kind of mess up the chemistry even more.
Speaker 5: I think trying to focus in and hone in and
Speaker 5: not make too many big moves or tinker too much
Speaker 5: is what we'll set the Calves up for success at
Speaker 5: this stage. Right I don't know if I don't know
Speaker 5: if we'll see any real big splash trades in these
Speaker 5: final couple of days. I don't know what you guys think.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it feels like things are dying down in
Speaker 1: terms of the deadline. Uh yeah, I mean is it?
Speaker 1: Does that seem like the it like for the Suns too.
Speaker 1: It seems like Miles Bridges is probably the loudest the
Speaker 1: possibility or the.
Speaker 5: Most potential the name I keep hearing floated and that
Speaker 5: we're pulling the footage of. But don't I don't know
Speaker 5: if there are any other big kind of KD big
Speaker 5: moves splash trades that we can anticipate or prepare for
Speaker 5: or get a you know, notification for in the middle
Speaker 5: of the night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Wojes bombs in that department. I can't. I
Speaker 2: don't know. What do you think, Maybe that the Sixers
Speaker 2: go for someone Jack?
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think it makes sense
Speaker 3: now that this season might be a rite off. You know,
Speaker 3: we just don't know if indeed's injury, if it does,
Speaker 3: if it with the possibility that it is, it's just
Speaker 3: so much is in the air, right like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: with his knee it's you know, they're they're saying revisit
Speaker 3: in four weeks, but that you know a lot of
Speaker 3: people went when you see surgery on the meniscus in season,
Speaker 3: that usually means the end of the season. So I
Speaker 3: don't know. It seems like we just don't know. But
Speaker 3: he's also somebody who needs to play himself back into
Speaker 3: shape and is like a little unsteady because he's incredibly strong,
Speaker 3: but he's also moving an incredible amount of weight. I
Speaker 3: feel like the most since Shack. So it's yeah, I
Speaker 3: just I feel like we're very lucky to have the
Speaker 3: first half of the season be as fun as it was,
Speaker 3: and on it it's just eulogizing the air is all
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: We were all I can't back you.
Speaker 3: We gotta believe in games, and we gotta believe in
Speaker 3: fourteen games until they revisit the staff, his names, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know me, I'm not. I'm like the biggest pessimist period,
Speaker 3: Like when they're winning, when they were at their best
Speaker 3: this year, I'm like, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I know, You're like, I don't even know them. I
Speaker 1: guess I guess he's putting up just ridiculous numbers. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean he's what there. You guys are
Speaker 1: four and eleven without him, so that obviously doesn't bode well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but who knows. I mean, like Wosh said, quote Jack,
Speaker 2: the door isn't closed.
Speaker 3: Just mentioning. Just hearing woj bombs hurt my heart a
Speaker 3: little bit. So that's where I'm at as an NBA fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah right now, Yeah exactly, But yeah, I wouldn't go
Speaker 3: in on a trade right now because it just doesn't
Speaker 3: it doesn't feel like you want, you know where you're
Speaker 3: going to be this season compared to early next season.
Speaker 3: So it might be it might makes sense to keep
Speaker 3: your powder dry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and and yeah, producer Jabari was telling us
Speaker 1: too here in our little sidebar about like the type
Speaker 1: of procedure he did where you know embiide is having
Speaker 1: like the one that has like quicker recovery time just
Speaker 1: to kind of touch up the meniscus.
Speaker 3: Got a little touch up, Yeah, a little touch up trimsky.
Speaker 1: But then you got you know, people like Dwayne Wade
Speaker 1: and Ron Artest saying like when they were in the
Speaker 1: similar situation, They're like, I wish I just.
Speaker 2: Went for the full on repair.
Speaker 3: The full monisk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a tough one.
Speaker 3: You just want to you want him to do what
Speaker 3: is best for his career long run, like as a
Speaker 3: Sisors fan or just like a fan of the NBA.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess that does make that sort of
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. It does put a different tinge
Speaker 1: on it, like I can't believe what he's doing, Like
Speaker 1: he's really chickening out.
Speaker 5: Of course. Yeah, that will be the narrative, whether we
Speaker 5: like it or not. Someone's going to, you know, come
Speaker 5: up with that. Take that one of the top competitors
Speaker 5: in the league, one of the guys who has the
Speaker 5: most prove and it's tried to prove year after year
Speaker 5: in spite of injuries, isn't trying to work his way
Speaker 5: back to take his team on a deep playoff run.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and then despite that was potentially maybe doing
Speaker 1: some damage while trying to overcome those sort of accusations
Speaker 1: and that narrative, and then it's a bit of a tragedy.
Speaker 2: Jack, the door is still open. The door is still open.
Speaker 1: I choose to see the door still open in the
Speaker 1: universe exactly, and the universe.
Speaker 5: Staff, so.
Speaker 2: Gotta get your yarling in.
Speaker 3: Can you take this team higher.
Speaker 4: Tyres Maxie, please help me.
Speaker 2: I think it's possible.
Speaker 1: Creed, please don't send us another cease and desist, because
Speaker 1: I felt like that was enough of a parody that
Speaker 1: falls under.
Speaker 2: Fair use.
Speaker 1: Seconds right, yeah, yeah, yeah, and that was clearly a parody.
Speaker 1: Clearly a parody, clearly a parody. I think I don't
Speaker 1: have to say that, but yeah, I think you know, stay,
Speaker 1: you're the universe will beckon you at least through to
Speaker 1: the second round.
Speaker 3: You know that that means a lot. I don't know
Speaker 3: if that's true, but we will your energy.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever, that's what you guys think. That's great, you
Speaker 1: guys think glad. You guys so positive.
Speaker 3: Some of us really really tough. The Knicks look incredible,
Speaker 3: the Calves look incredible. I'm sure the Bucks are going
Speaker 3: to get it together. Magic coming out of nowhere. So well,
Speaker 3: we shall see. I've enjoyed. Thank you, Joe el Embiid
Speaker 3: for your service up to this point. You let's take
Speaker 3: a quick break. We'll come back. We'll check in around
Speaker 3: the week. We'll dring that and we're back. We're back,
Speaker 3: And I don't know why we have to keep telling
Speaker 3: these guys.
Speaker 2: It's the law. It's a lot physics.
Speaker 3: Score sixty points, your team is going to lose. Exactly.
Speaker 3: If you score seventy, your team will win. So if
Speaker 3: you think you can get to seventy, fine, go for it.
Speaker 3: But if you get in the sixties, your team's gonna lose.
Speaker 3: Steph proved it again. You know we had Cat who
Speaker 3: else do we have go for sixty in the past
Speaker 3: weeks and lose and now we got Steph go for sixty.
Speaker 5: Devin Booker drops Devin Booker.
Speaker 2: Book Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was seventy and a loss before.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't guaranteed drop seventy and win.
Speaker 3: Okay, well this is a new rule. This like that
Speaker 3: just started the past word Yeah, the NBA just instituted
Speaker 3: it in the past yea a couple of weeks. But anyway,
Speaker 3: Steph still incredibly fun to watch, Still one of the
Speaker 3: funnest people to see when he's locked in sixty point
Speaker 3: out burst Saturday versus the Hawks. The Hawk and the
Speaker 3: Wizards seemed to be the two teams that people are
Speaker 3: uh just feasting upon. Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think they call that food bro in the UK. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean, look, or I say, a team
Speaker 1: that inspires greatness, that's right, that's I think that's one
Speaker 1: way to look at that coin. And it's inspirational for sure.
Speaker 1: But you know, just as we talk about Steph putting
Speaker 1: up sixty, this Klay Thompson, he's been I'm worried about Clay.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I know he's going to be okay.
Speaker 1: It's more the it's more the process in which an athlete,
Speaker 1: a human being comes to grips with that things.
Speaker 2: Aren't just happening the way they used to be.
Speaker 1: There's like an era. There's like an air of confusion
Speaker 1: about it. I think that's what kind of bums me
Speaker 1: out because like he's like kind of scratching his head.
Speaker 2: He's like, you know, like you go from like one
Speaker 2: of the best to like he couldn't even find the
Speaker 2: working meat.
Speaker 5: Injuries would do that to a place, I think.
Speaker 3: Totally the Achilles that's we've seen it before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a tough it's just a tough, tough thing.
Speaker 1: But I mean like but just like he wears he
Speaker 1: you know, he wears his heart on his sleeve, and
Speaker 1: it's just like recently, like, hey, is it hard you know, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I have been closing out the games and
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, you're kidding me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the way he said you're kidding me, I
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 1: Oh, Clay, Clay, Clay, please baby. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know it's different now, but yeah, there's just a
Speaker 1: there's just a little bit, you know, mortalic. We all
Speaker 1: have to accept our mortality, and I guess in this
Speaker 1: case athletic mortality. Am I the only one who feels
Speaker 1: somewhat I'm like, I see that. I'm like, oh ow
Speaker 1: ow wow wow yow YOWI or you or Jack, you're
Speaker 1: kind of like you're gonna be fine, brood go crying
Speaker 1: your cat money.
Speaker 4: Uh oh, it was like I did close Game five.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter who remembers that kind of stuff, sir.
Speaker 4: You just now No, I mean it's painful.
Speaker 3: It's painful because he is, like like you said, he
Speaker 3: just you know, he doesn't have a poker face, so no,
Speaker 3: you just get to see what his feelings are like
Speaker 3: on his face, and he's so honest. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It just made me really like Clay Thompson more. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's it's tough to see correct.
Speaker 5: It's it's a bummer when any of you know, these
Speaker 5: prolific scorers, athletes, these players part of dynasty teams start
Speaker 5: to fade and Father Time is largely undefeated, unless you are,
Speaker 5: of course, like Terena Williams, Lebron, James, Tom Brady, right,
Speaker 5: a couple a handful of other athletes in the history
Speaker 5: of all sports to play at a high level past
Speaker 5: your thirties. I mean you're thirty four, you're like geriatric.
Speaker 5: In the NBA, I mean, Kevin Rant is like considered
Speaker 5: a senior citizen and he's still playing at a high level,
Speaker 5: which is considered an anomaly. So when you think of
Speaker 5: a guy like Klay Thompson and what he's had to overcome,
Speaker 5: it's not necessarily surprising. But yeah, it's a bummer. He's
Speaker 5: one of those guys you want to root for. Just
Speaker 5: his personality, his charisma, his love for the Bay and
Speaker 5: the fan, his openness and vulnerability throughout all of his
Speaker 5: rehab and the mental that comes with that has been
Speaker 5: really you know, encouraging as a fan to see you know,
Speaker 5: players open up about that.
Speaker 1: But right, yeah, it feels like because we are in
Speaker 1: this sort of in a bit of a different era,
Speaker 1: you know, where players are more vulnerable and open about
Speaker 1: what their feelings are and how whatever's happening is affecting them.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that honesty. It's like, I think maybe that's
Speaker 1: what it is too. I'm not used to seeing that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean from an athlete. Like usually
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, we'll get him next year, and then
Speaker 1: they cry behind the scenes, right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and then you hear about it in the biograph. It's
Speaker 1: like that was the darkest interview actually ever gave. And
Speaker 1: I know, look, I have my chin up, but it
Speaker 1: was actually the saddest moment of my life where he
Speaker 1: is really sort of giving it to us in real time,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what. Yeah, I think like it's
Speaker 1: endearing in this way, but then I'm also realizing, like,
Speaker 1: oh right, I'm also used to this very like specific
Speaker 1: way of like never communicating weakness, especially for a professional
Speaker 1: athlete like in a public setting. So yeah, the honest,
Speaker 1: radical honesty, radical acceptance, that's.
Speaker 2: What it's all about.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, his career has like had
Speaker 3: tremendous longevity, and he came back from that injury and
Speaker 3: won a title and got to uh you know, drive
Speaker 3: his boat to the parade and uh, you know, all
Speaker 3: sorts of the great Clay Thompson stuff.
Speaker 1: So totally totally, Yeah, it's not it's not an entire
Speaker 1: let's not still not say the whole thing's been tragic.
Speaker 2: It's just more like these moments where it's like, uh.
Speaker 1: You realize it's like, just yank, it's not you're gonna
Speaker 1: be just starting to saying stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, your old man used to.
Speaker 1: Be able to do this, and that's when, Yeah, the washed,
Speaker 1: the washed Reaper comes for all of us, the washed river.
Speaker 3: I can still see him because he's still shooting well
Speaker 3: from three. It's just that people have to respect his
Speaker 3: drive left. But I can still see him getting hot
Speaker 3: for a quarter and like having an outburst here and there.
Speaker 3: Like I don't think he's completely cooked or anything.
Speaker 1: But there's also been some you know, some pretty eye
Speaker 1: opening performances in the sense you're.
Speaker 2: Like, oh no, those some of the things.
Speaker 1: The pieces that used to click together for him, like
Speaker 1: are kind of jumbled at times. So it's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's definitely a balancing act as we go into the
Speaker 1: third act on Careers.
Speaker 3: By the way, Shams is reporting six to eight weeks
Speaker 3: following the surgery for Joel Embiid, so by the end
Speaker 3: of the episode, we should finally have confirmation he's out
Speaker 3: for the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we're gonna be We're gonna be playing with
Speaker 1: church organ music, and you're gonna be up there with
Speaker 1: a handkerchief being like, I just thank you everything you've
Speaker 1: done it.
Speaker 2: Beautiful man, beautiful.
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about who's hot, because yeah, so
Speaker 3: Clippers just hit number one on the Athletic and NBA
Speaker 3: dot COM's NBA Power Rank News or I guess they've
Speaker 3: been number one for the past couple of weeks, which
Speaker 3: is kind of wild. The Knicks are number seven, while
Speaker 3: teams like the Bucks have fallen to number eight. Mm hmm,
Speaker 3: and I think the cab Yeah, the Cavs are now
Speaker 3: second in the East. Sixers are at thirteen and ten
Speaker 3: on the Athletic and NBA dot Com. But the Knicks
Speaker 3: are are on a tear right. Yeah, like they just
Speaker 3: have They've got like that heat culture thing going where
Speaker 3: it's just like everybody knows how to defend. Everybody's kind
Speaker 3: of on the same page about like what it means
Speaker 3: to play for this team. They're a lot of fun. Okay,
Speaker 3: see he remains hot the Clippers out West. I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's it's fun because it's not the teams that everybody
Speaker 3: was talking about heading in other than like Denver is
Speaker 3: still southd lay there obviously, and Boston is still absolutely
Speaker 3: you know, scorching.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, playing Lebron.
Speaker 3: And if anyone is going to knock off the Celtics
Speaker 3: or the Nuggets, Lena, who do you think who who
Speaker 3: do you think has the best shot?
Speaker 5: Well, I have to say with confidence the Suns. You know,
Speaker 5: just you know, I would get probably eviscerated if I
Speaker 5: didn't say that on this podcast. But I mean, the
Speaker 5: timber Wolves are surprising. I think that would be an
Speaker 5: interesting matchup. I don't know, it would just be interesting
Speaker 5: to watch those two teams, you know, a surprise out
Speaker 5: of the West and then the defending chance going up
Speaker 5: against each other. But the Knicks are the surprise in
Speaker 5: the East. It was cool to see Jalen Brunson getting
Speaker 5: emotional too. He's just kind of taken on this identity,
Speaker 5: the heart and soul of this franchise in the you know,
Speaker 5: biggest basketball arena in the world, the most heralded, so
Speaker 5: I'm interested to see if the Celtics can even keep
Speaker 5: it together in the postseason because it was a challenge
Speaker 5: last year, it's been a challenge in recent seasons. So
Speaker 5: you know, I think the Suns that they can stay healthy,
Speaker 5: they can rival with Denver. Last season, things fell off
Speaker 5: in the postseason after their run with the Clippers with
Speaker 5: Chris Paul's injury and all that. So of course health
Speaker 5: is the magic Elick sur for every team to be
Speaker 5: successful at this time of year. But you know, I
Speaker 5: like that the standings are a little bit different from
Speaker 5: what we've seen recently. And then of course the play
Speaker 5: in I've been all in on the plane since the
Speaker 5: first season. So whatever teams are going to be competing
Speaker 5: those final four, I think those games are going to
Speaker 5: be spicy, competitive and then once you're in, it's anyone's game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it feels like, honestly, right now, it's like
Speaker 1: rise of the teams that don't have the added pressure
Speaker 1: of media scrutiny or a time and not say that
Speaker 1: like as a dig, but it's like it's like like
Speaker 1: every every Nicks, Clippers and Calves fan is basically like.
Speaker 2: Ain't what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Us?
Speaker 1: At all, and we are solidly up there, and it's
Speaker 1: like and everyone's kind of like referencing, like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously they're they're they're a hot team right now.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's I think just that lack of expectation too,
Speaker 1: and the outside expectation on maybe some other teams this
Speaker 1: year is I don't know, created a nice opportunity.
Speaker 2: And on top of that, all their pieces are just
Speaker 2: humming along in a way that makes you.
Speaker 5: Promise and over deliver is kind of the theme for
Speaker 5: some of this season. The Calves, the Timberwolves, Thunder, uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then looking at just like the MVP talk Kawhi Yeah,
Speaker 2: is it.
Speaker 3: Time to start talking Kawhi Leonard for m VP. He's
Speaker 3: never won it. He's probably like has the body of work, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, best career of anybody in the league who
Speaker 3: has never won MVP before. I mean two finals MVPs.
Speaker 3: He's coming second, I think once and yeah Steph, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah to Steph. But you know that it would make
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's the best player in the
Speaker 3: league a lot of the time, you know, on any
Speaker 3: given night, and this team is twenty four and three
Speaker 3: over the last twenty seven games he's played one. That's
Speaker 3: pretty good. I'd say that's like Duke in the nineties,
Speaker 3: Like that's like, you know, like that record is not
Speaker 3: an NBA record. Twenty four and three is like yeah, powerhouse.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, we were just like hypothesizing, like assume
Speaker 1: they the Clippers went all the way and then Kawhi
Speaker 1: gets finals MVP. That's three different teams, three different times
Speaker 1: to get finals MVP. That would like you'd have to
Speaker 1: have some serious discussions in general about looking about like okay,
Speaker 1: now where do we place this guy?
Speaker 3: Well, now what yeah, yeah, same.
Speaker 5: Thing with Jokic. Right, those are two guys. It's crazy
Speaker 5: to think that in this generation are kind of mounting
Speaker 5: and positioning themselves in a top ten twenty all time
Speaker 5: conversation when you look at the accolades, if we're judging
Speaker 5: on that, the hardware, the trophies, the awards, they have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like elsewhere, I mean, I think you got your
Speaker 1: usual suspects that everyone's talking about, Shay Jalen Brunson, Jason Tatum, Jokic,
Speaker 1: who will never not be in that conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Denver is probably going to have to stay
Speaker 3: pretty competitive for the rest of the season because it's
Speaker 3: such a logjam at the top up in the West, like,
Speaker 3: so it's not like last season where they had like
Speaker 3: a five game So I think he's gonna have to stay,
Speaker 3: you know, putting up big numbers. So I could definitely
Speaker 3: see it being Jokic just playing out of his mind
Speaker 3: down the stretch, pulling away from everybody, and you know,
Speaker 3: they're just being a lot of energy for Yokic should
Speaker 3: have won anyway last year. But I think like the
Speaker 3: Kawhi story is starting to make a lot of sense
Speaker 3: to me. Shay makes a lot of sense to me,
Speaker 3: but I feel like they probably won't give it to
Speaker 3: him at this point because he's kind of still not
Speaker 3: a proven commodity. But yeah, that like Shay, Kawhi, and
Speaker 3: Yokic feel like the top three that makes the most
Speaker 3: sense to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a man even rivalries aside.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I I like to see.
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard playing at his best because he's it's so
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch so attack minded. And then if
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, do you want me to just lock
Speaker 1: you up and take you away? Because I can do
Speaker 1: that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always fun to see.
Speaker 5: It was good to you know, it was good to
Speaker 5: watch him in full force last year during the playoffs
Speaker 5: and having Rustle there and seeing them rise to the occasion. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and to see the Suns pull pull it out against
Speaker 5: that team. But yeah, I mean, Kawhi Leonard Healthy is
Speaker 5: one of the greatest to watch and enjoy. And if
Speaker 5: he can stay off the bench and out of street
Speaker 5: clothes for the rest of the season, there's a good
Speaker 5: argument for him the MVP.
Speaker 1: How come Jason Tatum is always just kind of you know,
Speaker 1: on the on the periphery because you know, Jabari brings
Speaker 1: up a good pint producer, Jabi. He's like, is he
Speaker 1: always going to be the best man and never the
Speaker 1: groom even with the best record year after year.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe, maybe maybe I just feel like even Celtics
Speaker 3: fans aren't like he's the m VY, like you guys should,
Speaker 3: you know, they're always like a little disappointed in how
Speaker 3: he's performing. Yeah, because yeah, he ends up shooting a
Speaker 3: lot of threes and like I feel like could be
Speaker 3: like more assertive, more like taking people to the rack,
Speaker 3: Like he just doesn't. He still hasn't like fully developed
Speaker 3: into the person that I think a lot of Celtics
Speaker 3: fans want to see him become and they feel like
Speaker 3: that is maybe not getting them where they need to
Speaker 3: be to win a title with.
Speaker 5: Killer instinct from the jump right every minute that you're
Speaker 5: on the floor. I think maybe that just falling short
Speaker 5: or letting up a little bit is is maybe the
Speaker 5: the right that fans have in n you're not taking
Speaker 5: it to your maximum potential.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is wild too, because even with him not
Speaker 1: maxing out, you're like, sir, okay, that's that's that's what
Speaker 1: I would call a good performance. But yeah, I get
Speaker 1: that too. I think it was you when you're when
Speaker 1: you're ceiling is that high? Then it feels like it's
Speaker 1: it feels like you're just not quite getting hot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a difference between the ninety seventh and
Speaker 3: like one hundredth percentile. It's like feels like splitting hairs.
Speaker 3: But it does. Right, Like when you listen to Celtics
Speaker 3: fans like they like you hear you know, they're just
Speaker 3: kind of like, ah, I's so good, I just want
Speaker 3: him to do that like one.
Speaker 2: Extra little bit better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because if it's also just like a PTSD kind
Speaker 5: of effect with them where it's accumulated in big moments,
Speaker 5: maybe he doesn't rise to the occasion or the moment,
Speaker 5: and so just all of that, Yeah, it's built up
Speaker 5: over time to create this narrative or feeling towards Tatum.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: It kind of reminds me of like I was a
Speaker 3: big Lebron fan his whole his whole career, and there
Speaker 3: was that period in his career where it felt like
Speaker 3: he didn't always have a killer instinct and it was
Speaker 3: it was a big narrative that was kind of overblown,
Speaker 3: but they were like he'll like pass it all off
Speaker 3: at the end. But and then there was that game
Speaker 3: against the Celtics when during the heats like run to
Speaker 3: the finals to their first championship, I think it was
Speaker 3: where he just like locked in and really just annihilated them,
Speaker 3: like had the best game I'd seen him have and
Speaker 3: just it was like the game that he had to
Speaker 3: do that for them to win, for his legacy, and
Speaker 3: he just did it. And like, I feel like that's
Speaker 3: what people are waiting for from Tatum, Like that game
Speaker 3: where it's just like he puts it all together and
Speaker 3: it's just like, no, I'm not letting my team lose,
Speaker 3: and like's a lot of task for though. I mean,
Speaker 3: Lebron James is maybe the best player to ever play, I.
Speaker 1: Feel like he could be doing a little bit more, honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, as a Lakers fan.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, I just feel like, you know, just.
Speaker 1: He could just go a little just a little bit more,
Speaker 1: just a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe never satisfied, Never satisfied.
Speaker 3: And fans are realistic and that's the thing that we
Speaker 3: can always come back to them.
Speaker 2: Because look, Lebron to Earth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lebron, I also graduated high school in two thousand
Speaker 1: and three. And it's someone that's three months older than you.
Speaker 1: We gotta recognize when it's just time, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 5: Son Lebron James on your podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my son. That's my son in a in
Speaker 1: a very high school way. That's how I would never
Speaker 1: let him forget that, even though he's the go. I
Speaker 1: would be like, you know, I'm three months older than you, right, like,
Speaker 1: because that's how you always that's your currency when you're
Speaker 1: like a younger person, you're like, well, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not two weeks older than them, like obviously, so like
Speaker 1: they gotta listen to what I said.
Speaker 3: It's a noticeable two months. Yeah, oh yeah, it's a noticeable.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like there's a maturity to you, like Lebron.
Speaker 1: Bringing the picture of Well, Lebron and I are in
Speaker 1: third grade.
Speaker 2: Look how much bigger I am than him?
Speaker 3: And I'm standing on an apple cart, yeah, apple box.
Speaker 2: And he's on his knees and he's only two inches shorter.
Speaker 3: Grade. He was like, already bigger than me.
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, for sure. Yeah, take a break and
Speaker 2: come back for the rapid fire a round a question.
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this, and we are back
Speaker 2: Lina Washington, Well, you may have forgotten.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're in the Valley of the Sun,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely getting hot in there because you're in
Speaker 1: the hot seat, and it's time for the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: rapid fire around questioning the hottest question answer, I said, the.
Speaker 3: Hottest, hottest, and the fast person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, answering session in podcasting history.
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes it's like really hot, and sometimes like
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, I'll notice that you can see
Speaker 3: the guest's breath because it gets so cold, like it
Speaker 3: soldier drops thirty degrees in the room. Back there in.
Speaker 3: It really depends on kind of the energy the questions
Speaker 3: we've prepared.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and what's fun is I can write my answer
Speaker 5: on like the fogged up window near exactly slowly but
Speaker 5: surely you'll be able to understand my response to the
Speaker 5: question that it's kind of so quickly to me that
Speaker 5: I have to really think quickly.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, there's nothing slowly but surely about this segment. It
Speaker 3: is quickly and just rapidly random. Uh, you know, surely?
Speaker 1: And yeah, Lena, we obviously know that it's clear that
Speaker 1: you're an honor student because you understood the assignment.
Speaker 2: But are you ready now to come through with it?
Speaker 3: Ready?
Speaker 5: I think I'm prepared, Okay, as sure as I'm going
Speaker 5: to be sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep it quick, keep it quick, don't don't don't
Speaker 1: drag it along?
Speaker 2: Why start the clock? The clock started, right? I just
Speaker 2: want to confirm, okay, for like.
Speaker 5: A friend is there like a fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3: Almost seems like she's stalling, doesn't it? Miles doesn't stall
Speaker 3: in the fastest segment in podcasting. What's going on?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: You can't no cheat sheets, no phone, a friend, no
Speaker 1: open notes here, You're just going straight off the dome.
Speaker 2: Okay, and it's fast. The count, the clock's already starting.
Speaker 3: Friends on that, I was like, oh, you got a
Speaker 3: friend you think you're better than me. Okay, that's how
Speaker 3: I take it.
Speaker 2: Wow, Oh you didn't. You didn't.
Speaker 1: You didn't alienate yourself from your friend Lebron James because
Speaker 1: you kept harping on about how you're three months older
Speaker 1: than him.
Speaker 2: Weird, could have been my.
Speaker 5: Friend Lebron right now.
Speaker 2: No, Lebron, you know who. Guess what he said. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we gotta keep this thing going. Who's who's first? Jack?
Speaker 2: You or me?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Why don't you go first? Miles, I'll go first.
Speaker 1: Lena Washington, All Star Weekend is coming up, just very
Speaker 1: very soon.
Speaker 2: Give me you're.
Speaker 1: All time Fantasy Dunk Contest lineup. You're picking four dunkers anytime, anytime.
Speaker 5: Time, anytime. Well, I have to go Vince Carter, just
Speaker 5: because it's Vince Carter. Well, he existed, he graced a
Speaker 5: basketball court. He has a pretty decent vertical, so I
Speaker 5: would assume he would be able to add some.
Speaker 2: Vince Carter. Yeah, okay, harder, but not Prince Harder.
Speaker 3: He was passing around some highlights from his rookie season
Speaker 3: and just like some of the dunks, like he was
Speaker 3: doing some of the dunks that he did in that
Speaker 3: dunk contest, like in game.
Speaker 1: Game as a rookie is like wild as he should.
Speaker 1: We have to keep this segment moving.
Speaker 5: So Okay, so number two of four, I guess maybe
Speaker 5: Aaron Gordon, so that he could prepair of super elaborate
Speaker 5: dunk contests like performance where it's like the drone goes
Speaker 5: from Lucas Oil Stadium and then drops the basketball into
Speaker 5: the or you know, right to the arena, and then
Speaker 5: the led court lights up and all this stuff, and
Speaker 5: then you know, the Pacers mascot comes in and he
Speaker 5: jumps over him while doing a full three sixty like
Speaker 5: access turn and then losing again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think that'd be for these dunks designed
Speaker 3: by Doc Brown from you know that.
Speaker 2: Recent that recent hit film from the nineteen Goldberg. Okay,
Speaker 2: you got to Who's four two?
Speaker 5: Feel obligated to say, Lebron James just because Miles you
Speaker 5: could be a part of it. He could just like
Speaker 5: walk up to and over.
Speaker 1: You and then just see yeah, or hold me like
Speaker 1: a baby and be like and be like you're my yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he rocks the cradle, but it's me in
Speaker 1: his arms and then throws me through the hoop and
Speaker 1: I don't have serious injury from it.
Speaker 5: Let's how the medics are involved. But this is again
Speaker 5: just like envisioning this mountains of dunks specifically, and like
Speaker 5: who would be able to execute them best? And then
Speaker 5: maybe if there's some backstory or context that would add
Speaker 5: to the zad of the show. So only if files
Speaker 5: is involved in Lebron's dunk what I want you?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: And the fourth before uh, you know, how about what
Speaker 5: was his name? Was? It? Was it? Uh Mac McClung,
Speaker 5: who wanted the other?
Speaker 3: Was that his name?
Speaker 5: Mac? How can.
Speaker 3: Ye was that last time? Shoot?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was it.
Speaker 3: I feel like it was.
Speaker 5: A flies when you're you're sipping the mac mcclunk kool aid.
Speaker 2: I know you know that.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know what happened, and I haven't
Speaker 3: followed his career, Uh, Lena, Unfortunately, you did not specify
Speaker 3: years for Vince Carter, so it will be modern day
Speaker 3: Vince Carter and the dunk contest. Unfortunately, So it's still
Speaker 3: you'd still be good.
Speaker 5: You still got it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So Yeah, that was good. You know,
Speaker 3: it was not fast enough, but you nailed it. Anyways,
Speaker 3: it was it was highly entertaining. What school yard game
Speaker 3: do you want to see added to the All Star weekend?
Speaker 3: It can be you know, I think we said we
Speaker 3: were saying the Pro Bowl, we've we've seen due dodgeball
Speaker 3: and a tug of war. What game would you like
Speaker 3: to see NBA players compete against one another?
Speaker 5: I'll give I'll give three, Okay, speak as I can't choose,
Speaker 5: and I know, I know this is like a really
Speaker 5: like I have to answer quickly, but I just wanted
Speaker 5: to be really thorough. So the first of the four
Speaker 5: square because I know athletes can be very competitive.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, boollyard.
Speaker 5: Games and you got to play house rules your cherry popcorn?
Speaker 3: Popcorn? What are we talking that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so so that Red Rover. Just see the pure
Speaker 5: violence of being clotheslined by running at full speed into
Speaker 5: your friends, maybe some broken maybe you know, on bones
Speaker 5: popping out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be like that Last Survivor show where
Speaker 3: all of the like most powerful people in the government
Speaker 3: get blown up and Keeper Sutherland is like the guy
Speaker 3: who is designated survivor, and like it would be the
Speaker 3: NBA version that where all the best players just have
Speaker 3: their arms like ripped out of their sockets. And so
Speaker 3: it's Mac McClung from long Is leading the league in
Speaker 3: scoring in the playoffs with their team.
Speaker 5: And then the third I would probably want to see
Speaker 5: is teather ball. Oh wow, more of a controlled environment. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so it really takes skill focus. I would liken it
Speaker 5: to like a tennis match. So it's just you and
Speaker 5: no coaching allowed, and it's just a ball on a
Speaker 5: string and your opponent and you're just trying to see
Speaker 5: who's going to of wind that rode around that hole faster.
Speaker 5: So I would say those three red, rovert, coursequare and
Speaker 5: tetherball need to become Olympic sports by twenty eight.
Speaker 1: We just have this from the judges. You got two
Speaker 1: of the three right. Unfortunately we can't tell you which
Speaker 1: one was wrong. But I do have to ask you
Speaker 1: this question, which I think you can get right. Who's
Speaker 1: the greatest Sons player ever and who's the most underrated
Speaker 1: Sons player of your fandom.
Speaker 5: I mean, I have to say Charles Berkley is my
Speaker 5: favorite Sons player ever, from what he meant to the city,
Speaker 5: what he did when he was part of the team
Speaker 5: to now, you know, actually claiming the valley and claiming
Speaker 5: this team underrated.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 5: You know, in line of his retirement, Goran Dragic the
Speaker 5: dragon himself. I will say he didn't get a lot
Speaker 5: of love, but he was an instrumental figure and some
Speaker 5: some fun teams to watch out here. So maybe that's
Speaker 5: recency biased, but just thinking about him hanging it up
Speaker 5: and then just remembering his times here and you know,
Speaker 5: bringing his twin brother along also for some of those rides.
Speaker 5: Those will be my two.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna get the throwback a drug when.
Speaker 5: I have a Sean Marion throwback Jersey. So that was
Speaker 5: pretty cool.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 5: Yeah, his his number in Jersey retired in the Ring
Speaker 5: of Honor. So yeah, a Rry Sottomeyer's net. So, oh
Speaker 5: you're in Phoenix, come check it out.
Speaker 2: I'll bring my goggles.
Speaker 3: Amazing as you should. Well, Lena Washington, you have made
Speaker 3: it through the gauntlet.
Speaker 2: That was the right answer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the great answer. It was so hot.
Speaker 3: My question, I know a mid thing.
Speaker 1: You were wearing athletic material that's breathing and sweat wicking,
Speaker 1: because it's not apparent you look immaculate, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Where do the people find you and follow you, listen
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Speaker 5: You can find me on social I really only use
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Speaker 5: Washington TV. If you live in the Phoenix to Flagstaff
Speaker 5: area in Arizona, you can find me on twelve News,
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Speaker 5: the playoff run, the Sun Devils and Wildcats the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 5: We have the Final four coming up in the valley.
Speaker 5: So a lot of fun things to look forward to,
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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2: You know, Touch and Go.
Speaker 5: You canceled after this, so I mean I'm Touch and
Speaker 5: Go commemorating ninety.
Speaker 2: Nine this Touch and Go. That's what we say.
Speaker 3: You can make sure you've canceled for saying pizzas this
Speaker 3: supposed to pronounce pizza like that? Man?
Speaker 2: What was that?
Speaker 3: What are you even really? Man?
Speaker 2: But I can't believe we let this guy near a microphone.
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Speaker 3: Can you follow me at Jack Underscore Bryan and shout
Speaker 3: out to listener at Farren l E for predicting the
Speaker 3: first time All Star Scottie Barnes. Yeah, yeah, back in
Speaker 3: back in October, we got we got the smart listeners.
Speaker 2: I mean it was that.
Speaker 1: I mean not to rain on that parade, but that's
Speaker 1: because indeed went out right.
Speaker 3: What Yeah, he actually predicted that. He said, you know,
Speaker 3: Embeid is going to go down with an injury. And
Speaker 3: I like the ring of Scottie Barnes All Star, so
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: And yeah, he was getting risky with the minisky and
Speaker 1: the story rights itself.
Speaker 2: You already know, all right, y'all, we will see you.
Speaker 2: Don't be Minsky disrepair it, y'all.
Speaker 3: Until next time, don't be risky with the minisky