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Speaker 1: read and react. Let's just read something and talk about it.
Speaker 1: Task has Worst of the Week nominees. We got rapid fire,
Speaker 1: fun but let's touch on last night's games quickly. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lump two of them together. Here. We had a
Speaker 1: Coros three pointer to send the Cavs pass the Nets
Speaker 1: once team one fourteen, and then Pello Bancaro and the
Speaker 1: Magic turn back the Knicks one to eleven, one oh six.
Speaker 1: This is important, of course, Calves win, Nets lose, Nicks
Speaker 1: lose because of where these teams are jockeying for playoff
Speaker 1: position tasks. But I don't know if you have thoughts
Speaker 1: specifically on either of those games.
Speaker 3: Who needs March madness. We had a great ending in
Speaker 3: Brooklyn there. It was a wild race on didn't seem
Speaker 3: like the Cavs were going to pull this thing out.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how it happened. They're down eight with
Speaker 3: two minutes left, and they're still down two twenty four seconds
Speaker 3: left to pull up the press. Somehow they got a
Speaker 3: turnover on that press. Donovan Mitchell driving to the hoop
Speaker 3: to try and tie the game fouled by Spencer Dinwiddie
Speaker 3: intentionally and they were out of foul, so he goes
Speaker 3: to the line. Donovan Mitchell wanted a continuation. The ref
Speaker 3: said no, can we review that thankfully.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 3: So he goes to the line, hits one, misses the second,
Speaker 3: the best, the best misser in the world. I thought
Speaker 3: for a second after he went after that second one
Speaker 3: that maybe he missed because he's so good at missing,
Speaker 3: but he maybe mispurpose. But he missed on accident. He
Speaker 3: went after it, missed twice in trying to finish it
Speaker 3: off there and it came out to Karroslovert. And this
Speaker 3: is where the play started. What a play by carrislverta
Speaker 3: seven seconds left, just calmly, calmly found Isaaca Carro in
Speaker 3: the corner. Usually you'd think Carrosilvert's going to fire that thing.
Speaker 3: That's his reputation, He's going to shoot that ball with
Speaker 3: seven seconds left, but he took his time. This is
Speaker 3: the best version of Karislvert we've ever seen. He's grown
Speaker 3: a lot as a player, even though his points per
Speaker 3: game are way down then his earlier in his career
Speaker 3: in Brooklyn. Find a Caro who buried that shot from three,
Speaker 3: and he's got the confidence. He's got three straight months
Speaker 3: of shooting forty percent over three. He does not shoot
Speaker 3: a lot right, not by any means, but he'll hit
Speaker 3: won a game he'll hit one and a half a
Speaker 3: game in this one his first game winner and he
Speaker 3: knew it. He said after the game, Oh yeah, that's
Speaker 3: my first one. And he felt good shooting that ball,
Speaker 3: and he felt good having the confidence of his teammates.
Speaker 3: But bad loss for the Nets, dropping them into the
Speaker 3: play in tournament picture, because they should have won this thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're now half a game behind the Miami Heat
Speaker 1: for that conference's final guaranteed playoff spot. They're in seventh,
Speaker 1: and the Knicks, after losing three in a row, they're
Speaker 1: only one and a half up. Awesome night for the Heat, Yes,
Speaker 1: very good night. Fit. Nothing New York has seven games left,
Speaker 1: Miami has eight. The winner that race is gonna get
Speaker 1: Cleveland in the first round. Loser will get Boston or
Speaker 1: Philly fairly likely. So yeah, any thoughts on the on
Speaker 1: that Madness game In the NBA, there were some great
Speaker 1: games and obviously the Sweet sixteen last night too, but
Speaker 1: this was pretty.
Speaker 4: Wild ending task nailed it.
Speaker 6: That was March Madness because in eight pointly with two minutes,
Speaker 6: you should probably win that game unless you turn the
Speaker 6: ball over three times in the last couple of minutes,
Speaker 6: which you see all the time in a March Madness game,
Speaker 6: maybe not always in an NBA game, but that's what
Speaker 6: happened for the Nets. It allowed Cleveland to start playing downhill,
Speaker 6: get some easy baskets and semi transition, and then task
Speaker 6: is totally right. Good poised by Carris Lavert to not
Speaker 6: panic and just chuck up a three, cause you never
Speaker 6: know how much time is actually gonna be left on
Speaker 6: the clock. After two offensive rebounds, after Mitchell's miss, you
Speaker 6: could just be scrambling thing. I got one second left
Speaker 6: to chuck it up. Nah, he found a corro there
Speaker 6: in the corner. Biggest shot of his career. I heard
Speaker 6: on the Daily Ding this morning. They were saying maybe
Speaker 6: the best pass of Karris Lavert's career. Great stuff regardless,
Speaker 6: And man, Donovan Mitchell, this guy is just a clutch
Speaker 6: lane violator.
Speaker 1: I know to get ahead.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they ain't watching the shooter. They were watching for
Speaker 6: fouls underneath, so get in early. It worked out for him. Man,
Speaker 6: He was focused though, trying to shoot that free throw,
Speaker 6: calming hisself down, and he missed three shots.
Speaker 1: You weren't the only one like confused, if you want
Speaker 1: to call it that, whether or not he actually meant
Speaker 1: to miss it on purpose. I think House of Highlights
Speaker 1: had the YouTube short and they labeled it as like
Speaker 1: intentionally miss his free throw to set up game winner.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, he didn't. I'm pretty sure he wanted
Speaker 1: to hit the second and tie the game up, but
Speaker 1: it came up short and he timed it perfectly again
Speaker 1: helped out by the lane violation. Missed sort of the
Speaker 1: easy bunny at first, somehow goes back to him again,
Speaker 1: and then he sort of botched the second one within
Speaker 1: the traffic and then nets player there was like two
Speaker 1: or three of them around the ball and it just
Speaker 1: like squirt it out to LeVert, who made a million
Speaker 1: great plays down the stretch. Like you said, they were
Speaker 1: down eight, he got it going right. He scored in
Speaker 1: transition to cut it to six. Well, actually he was fouled,
Speaker 1: went to the line, hit both free throws. Then he
Speaker 1: got one of those steals off of bridges that went
Speaker 1: the other way where he set up another basket, and
Speaker 1: then he had that one where yeah, great trap from
Speaker 1: Mitchell and Garland on DINWITTI I believe it was in
Speaker 1: the back court, kicked ahead to Dorian Phinney Smith, but
Speaker 1: he's sort of like falling out of bounds on the
Speaker 1: sideline and he sort of trucks it behind him. And
Speaker 1: that was LeVert and he's just got a nose for
Speaker 1: knows for the ball in these situations and he was
Speaker 1: a big reason why they won this game. But rough
Speaker 1: loss from the nets here, especially as they fall into
Speaker 1: the plane.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they've really been struggling basically. I mean their
Speaker 6: season turned when Kevin Durant went down and they're I
Speaker 6: think twelve and twenty two or something along those lines.
Speaker 6: Since then, obviously the team has completely changed over. But
Speaker 6: they had this win. I will say I loved all
Speaker 6: the sea foam green accessories. Yeah, but they were wearing
Speaker 6: last night. Apparently it was for Women's Impact Night, a
Speaker 6: nod to the New York Liberty, who also play in
Speaker 6: the Barclay Center. It looks sweet black and white all
Speaker 6: the time.
Speaker 4: It looked really really cool.
Speaker 5: It's not pop of color there.
Speaker 1: And anything from the next game there. Losing there to
Speaker 1: the Magic and like I said, took you through the
Speaker 1: sort of standings. It's a tough loss. They're still in
Speaker 1: the driver's seat, but not good here to the Rotlanto Magic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Knicks seems like they peaked at the wrong time,
Speaker 3: getting their winning streak a couple of weeks ago, ending
Speaker 3: at nine, and then Jalen Brunson went out and he
Speaker 3: wasn't in this game, so you could easily just attribute
Speaker 3: it to that. You could just say Julius Randall sort
Speaker 3: of sped up and Manual quickly sort of sped up.
Speaker 3: You put in that rock in Jalen Brunson. That slows
Speaker 3: things down, and maybe all is right in the world.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, they haven't been shooting well
Speaker 3: for a long time. They haven't shot well the last
Speaker 3: nine games. They're shooting about thirty three percent from three,
Speaker 3: and I wonder if the Jalen Brunson injury is serious
Speaker 3: or not. They have seven games to really find their
Speaker 3: flow with Jalen Brunson. A news Day is Steve Popper
Speaker 3: said he had a hard plastic brace on his right wrist,
Speaker 3: which is sprained. Does that mean it's bad, I don't know,
Speaker 3: But hard, I guess, is worse than soft, so so
Speaker 3: I would think that it's It's slightly worrisome that they
Speaker 3: had that role a few weeks ago when they won
Speaker 3: nine in a row, and they haven't found that groove whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Who played well last night for them, Quentin Grimes. But
Speaker 3: that's right. Other than that, Julius Randall extremely peeved again,
Speaker 3: Ban Carrol getting under his skin, Magic getting under his skin,
Speaker 3: and they were poised down the stretch, the Magic super
Speaker 3: poised down the stretch and you had Wendell Carter being
Speaker 3: the calm one, you had Gary Harris being the calm
Speaker 3: one in the fourth quarter. Well, the Knicks didn't have that,
Speaker 3: So let's it is worry time. I think for the
Speaker 3: nixt seven games is not a lot. And yeah, they
Speaker 3: need Brunson back, yes, clearly.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on the Knicks in the Magic.
Speaker 6: Game, I totally agree about Brunson and Randall because I
Speaker 6: just feel like when Randall plays in these games without Brunson,
Speaker 6: and he is the unquestioned number one guy, the pressure
Speaker 6: like overloads him sometimes. I think like he was on
Speaker 6: tilt after he got a technical thing in the first half, right,
Speaker 6: and then he was just completely completely fired up, and
Speaker 6: you know, they screaming on his own teammates exactly. And
Speaker 6: I feel like when Brunson plays, the vibes are just
Speaker 6: a little more chill and a little more steady for
Speaker 6: the entire team. But I also thought that this was
Speaker 6: kind of the schedule catching up to the Knicks. They
Speaker 6: likely overlooked the Magic to begin with. It was also
Speaker 6: the third game in four nights, and you could tell
Speaker 6: it in the fourth quarter the Magic looked a lot fresher.
Speaker 6: They hit seven threes in the fourth quarter, which is
Speaker 6: tough stuff. And like tas said, when Dell Carter Junior
Speaker 6: completely outplayed Mitchell Robinson last night, it was all effort
Speaker 6: and just being in the right place. Nicks looked a
Speaker 6: step slow, so they're probably hoping the playoffs start soon.
Speaker 1: And they did this thing where they got down a
Speaker 1: ton the Knicks did, got it all back in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, and then still a quarter to play. Magic
Speaker 1: took care of business down the stretch. And markol Foltz
Speaker 1: I like to see him getting a lot of love recently.
Speaker 1: It feels like from some of the Sicko bloggers out there.
Speaker 1: He didn't have an amazing game shooting the ball in
Speaker 1: this one, but he is playing really well for Orlando,
Speaker 1: and he had an incredible sort of dropping it over
Speaker 1: his shoulder dime in traffic right at the net. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys saw that it was a
Speaker 1: Beauty assist and he's just playing really well. So it's
Speaker 1: nice to see him like finding his footing here in
Speaker 1: the league. Going over to the Western Conference, wins just
Speaker 1: quickly here, brandon ingram first career triple double for Bi
Speaker 1: lifted the Pelicans past to Hornets, and Kawhi scored thirty
Speaker 1: two as the Clippers beat the Thunder without Paul George.
Speaker 1: It was close for about three quarters as well, and
Speaker 1: then the Clippers just hammered them in the fourth. Any
Speaker 1: thoughts on either of those two games, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Trey said yesterday, it's tough to beat a team twice
Speaker 3: in a row, especially a good team. So a Thunder
Speaker 3: took him on Tuesday night. And then Kawhi was angry
Speaker 3: at the way that game ended, that long possession. So
Speaker 3: we had Robot Kawhi. That was a sequel, Kawhi. I
Speaker 3: was RoboCop too. I was eye Robot to look like Megan.
Speaker 1: Out maybe Terminator.
Speaker 3: I'll go with Meghan. I mean we went to two
Speaker 3: old ones. Let's stick somewhat modern. Megan technically a robot.
Speaker 4: No, no, just Meghan, Well, they give it time.
Speaker 3: Meghan is Chucky too, Let's be honest. Chucky eight. Yes,
Speaker 3: there was a lot of checks, but he was thirteen
Speaker 3: to fifteen. He was a robot out there. He just
Speaker 3: rolled over them. And that's why I think every series
Speaker 3: that the Clippers are going to play in the postseason,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a seven game series. However many they play,
Speaker 3: I don't think. I don't think they're going to be
Speaker 3: good enough to rop teams, but they ain't losing either.
Speaker 3: You see teams guys like Batoom yesterday with four threes.
Speaker 3: Those type of guys maybe not great night in and
Speaker 3: night out, but great every second night. So I think
Speaker 3: we're gonna have some long ones with with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Two weeks remain in the regular season. Basically just over
Speaker 1: two weeks, six teams in the Western Conference are tied
Speaker 1: with thirty seven losses. Six teams with the the exact
Speaker 1: same amount of losses at this point, with less than
Speaker 1: ten games to go for a lot of these squads,
Speaker 1: or all these squads at this point, j D, I
Speaker 1: think you got the playoff picture. We can show everyone
Speaker 1: here on YouTube, at least Pelicans now in there in
Speaker 1: the tenth seed. You see the movement there in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference. Anything jump out at you, TK.
Speaker 6: I mean That was a huge win for New Orleans,
Speaker 6: taking on a team like the Hornets that they need
Speaker 6: to beat. Go it because they're heading out on a
Speaker 6: four game road trip starting tomorrow and it's basically against
Speaker 6: good teams. They got the Blazers thrown in there. That's
Speaker 6: kind of their only gimme for the rest of the season.
Speaker 6: So I thought, pretty good stuff for Brandon Ingram to
Speaker 6: actually put the team on his back. Yeah, coming out
Speaker 6: really strong in the first half. And then I thought
Speaker 6: Yonis valen Jun has had a massive impact in the
Speaker 6: fourth quarter. They're just posting them up every single time.
Speaker 6: It looked like nineteen ninety eight all over again. But
Speaker 6: the ball was moving, it was going into the post,
Speaker 6: it was coming back out, it was finding guys for shots.
Speaker 6: And then like the tast take, Kwie was so good
Speaker 6: last night, seven for seven in the first half. But
Speaker 6: I was almost more impressed with his player. He was
Speaker 6: passing the ball so well, very contagious. I thought they
Speaker 6: finished with thirty four assists.
Speaker 4: They look great.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our brand new segment here
Speaker 1: on the No Dunks Drop podcast. It's called Read and Reacts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, read it reacts.
Speaker 1: Shared some articles we read them, we react to them.
Speaker 1: It's as simple as that, but you had to have
Speaker 1: read it on a kindle like that. Guy.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I gotta go home quick. I'll be
Speaker 4: back in thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 1: Okay. First one, it's from ESPN's Dave Mcmanhamon and woj
Speaker 1: Lebron James could play final week of the regular season. Now,
Speaker 1: they wrote, Lebron is progressing toward a comeback from his
Speaker 1: right foot injury, and there is increasing optimism that the
Speaker 1: Lakers star could return to play a few games in
Speaker 1: the final week of the regular season. Now here's the
Speaker 1: interesting part. Lebron tweeted soon after this article he read
Speaker 1: and reacted. This is what Lebron said, quote, there wasn't
Speaker 1: an evaluation today and there hasn't been any target date
Speaker 1: for my return. I'm just working around the clock every day,
Speaker 1: three times a day, to give myself the best chance
Speaker 1: of coming back full strength whenever that is God bless
Speaker 1: y'all sources. Face palm emoji. I speak for myself. That
Speaker 1: was Lebron countering two of the most plugged in guys
Speaker 1: when it comes specially to the Lakers, mcmannimon and whoach
Speaker 1: so react.
Speaker 3: We said he's working out three times a day. All
Speaker 3: I know is when we're leading up to the play
Speaker 3: in tournament or the playoffs wherever they may land, start
Speaker 3: releasing some footage from those workouts. That's what I think.
Speaker 3: Start intimidating your opponent. This guy, the best of this era,
Speaker 3: working out hard three times a day, shirt off, I'm sure, yelling,
Speaker 3: screaming tight bands on the arms and making them look
Speaker 3: uh super jacked. Let's do it. You just want to
Speaker 3: see some footage advantage Lebron. I mean that part of
Speaker 3: the game is intimidation. That's all I'm thinking. When he's
Speaker 3: saying he's working out three times a day, I believe
Speaker 3: him puts a lot of money into his bod, and
Speaker 3: especially this time of year, I think he is this
Speaker 3: is his I don't know if it's his, you know,
Speaker 3: plast run as a number one guy, whatever it is,
Speaker 3: it's he's taking it seriously. Why did he tweet this though?
Speaker 1: Like this was this is strange, this part of it,
Speaker 1: All these guys saying looks like he's probably gonna come
Speaker 1: back in the final week of the regular season, and
Speaker 1: he's like, I speak for myself, Well, tell me when
Speaker 1: I'm coming back, there's no evaluation.
Speaker 4: Sources practicing so hard that I might be back. I
Speaker 4: will be back eventually. Oh yeah, very weird.
Speaker 6: I guess we were just kind of expecting a Lebron
Speaker 6: update at about this time we got a Lebron update.
Speaker 6: But he says that's not completely the right update. But
Speaker 6: then you look at their schedule and you see that
Speaker 6: they've got the Clippers, Sons, and Jazz their last three games. Yea,
Speaker 6: all of them are in LA because the last two
Speaker 6: are home games, the other ones in away game in
Speaker 6: Crypto dot Com Arena.
Speaker 4: So I look at that.
Speaker 6: And think, yeah, Lebron could play in the final week
Speaker 6: of the regular season. Those games are going to be
Speaker 6: super important. They'll have a chance perhaps at being to
Speaker 6: the number six seed, depending on how things shake out
Speaker 6: in this next week here. So I think, if it matters,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprised to see Lebron out there, because
Speaker 6: ain't nobody want to go into the play in tournament,
Speaker 6: especially Lebron.
Speaker 4: He's trying to get that guy fired that.
Speaker 1: Came up with them.
Speaker 6: He's like, no way, but actually, you know what, it's okay,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Be in it, but it'll be all right, could you
Speaker 1: give me a chance? So the Lakers have stayed afloat
Speaker 1: here without Lebron. I mean, they've gone seven to five
Speaker 1: since he was sidelined. They've won their last two. That trade,
Speaker 1: that three team deal with the deadline with Minnesota and Utah,
Speaker 1: it saved their season. I think that's fair to say
Speaker 1: because they turned it around. They turned Westbrook Jta Damian Jones,
Speaker 1: the twenty seven first round pick, and then a twenty
Speaker 1: four second round pick into D'Angel Russell, who's played pretty
Speaker 1: solid for them after coming back from injury, Jared Vanderbilt,
Speaker 1: guy that plays defense, gives them some energy. And then
Speaker 1: Malie Beasley, a three point shooter. You pair that with
Speaker 1: eighty at center, Austin Reeves playing incredibly as a point guard, playmaking,
Speaker 1: putting pressure on the rim. And then those other guys,
Speaker 1: like I said, D'Angel Russell's shock creation, some defense from Vanderbilt,
Speaker 1: some three point shooting from Beasley, shooter off the bench.
Speaker 1: You add Lebron to this team, can you convince yourself? Damn?
Speaker 1: Why couldn't they make a run or is it just
Speaker 1: so far back? Such a struggle even maybe getting into
Speaker 1: the play in or out of the play and into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, like it's just like too far, It's just
Speaker 1: too much to ask. Even if Lebron is back putting
Speaker 1: up thirty and tents.
Speaker 4: What do you think nobody's gonna want to play the Lakers?
Speaker 6: That will be the go to line when we're talking
Speaker 6: about Lakers playoff previews. I think they can win with
Speaker 6: a healthy Lebron playing to his capabilities, they can win
Speaker 6: any series in the Western Conference, but it'll be hard
Speaker 6: to win three straight series in the Western Conference, even
Speaker 6: though their team clearly makes a lot more sense. We
Speaker 6: just haven't really seen him playing altogether the games. Did
Speaker 6: Lebron even get to play with all of these new
Speaker 6: guys two or three something like that.
Speaker 4: We saw a huge.
Speaker 6: Malik Beasley game once upon a time, We saw Jared
Speaker 6: Vanderbilt's defense once upon a time, But we haven't seen
Speaker 6: what their actual playoff rotation is gonna look like, which
Speaker 6: is why Lebron will likely come back to get a
Speaker 6: little bit of a run with these guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good point about them not having played together,
Speaker 3: because the first thing people will say if they make
Speaker 3: the play in tournament is these guys have experience. You
Speaker 3: don't want to play them, but they do have to
Speaker 3: have chemistry going into the playoffs somewhere.
Speaker 1: But there's so many other teams like that too in
Speaker 1: the Western Conference, with the Suns and Durant, even the
Speaker 1: Mavericks to some extent, they don't played a ton of
Speaker 1: games Kyrie and Luga together. Yeah, Like it's wild how
Speaker 1: many teams are like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the strongest teams in the Nuggets, the Grizzlies
Speaker 3: some degree there they've played together. And you know with
Speaker 3: the Suns that sure, that's a decent example. They're not
Speaker 3: gonna have played that many games. They're not as old
Speaker 3: as as as the Lakers, I think. I think the
Speaker 3: other point is theym played a lot together. And the
Speaker 3: second thing is it's hard to win all these series
Speaker 3: over and over and over again. Can they go on
Speaker 3: a run? Yeah, how long is this run? Is it
Speaker 3: a quick sprint? We're running one hundred meters? They can
Speaker 3: win one series if that's one hundred meters, but we're
Speaker 3: we're running a fifteen hundred meter. You got to take
Speaker 3: all those other teams I mentioned there, you're taking the Nuggets,
Speaker 3: you're taking the Suns. But yeah, it is it is
Speaker 3: still somewhat open. There's no doubt, but it's hard to
Speaker 3: do two months. You're asking them to run for two months.
Speaker 1: I don't know our next article, This was a great
Speaker 1: one from the Ringers Logan Murdoch. Encourage you to go
Speaker 1: read it. Seek it out if you haven't. It's titled
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown is trying to find a balance and there
Speaker 1: was a lot of intrigue from this article TK, especially
Speaker 1: around Jalen Brown being a little non committal to his
Speaker 1: future with the Boston Celtics. I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: stretch for me to say, you know, really in his words,
Speaker 1: what were your thoughts on this article?
Speaker 6: The quote I will stay where I'm needed and treated
Speaker 6: correct to me, sounds like saying you better pay up, buddy,
Speaker 6: because he's going to be eligible for an extension here
Speaker 6: pretty soon. It could be a super duper max contract
Speaker 6: depending on how things shake out with all NBA at
Speaker 6: the end of the season. And reading it, it feels
Speaker 6: like Jalen Brown doesn't totally trust the front office because
Speaker 6: he knows that Jason Tatum is their number one guy,
Speaker 6: and it's been made quite obvious the fact that he
Speaker 6: was in Kevin Durant trade rumors over the summer, that
Speaker 6: the team and Wick Grusbeck come right to him and
Speaker 6: talk about, you're not in trade rumors right now. When
Speaker 6: KD became available again at the trade deadline.
Speaker 4: He just is like, I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 6: They tell me what they're saying, but I don't necessarily
Speaker 6: know if it's true, because I think Jalen Brown knows
Speaker 6: deep down in his heart if they could have traded
Speaker 6: me for Kevin Durant, they probably would have done it
Speaker 6: if the price wasn't too high.
Speaker 4: So I don't know.
Speaker 6: It feels a little bit like he's making sure that
Speaker 6: the Celtics know that he is a quality player.
Speaker 4: The guy's awesome, and he's really.
Speaker 6: Grown since he's come to Boston as well, So he
Speaker 6: wants to get paid the way he should be paid
Speaker 6: come summertime. But also I don't think he's gonna be
Speaker 6: a lifelong Celtic. I mean, I don't necessarily know that
Speaker 6: this means he's asking out in the summer if they
Speaker 6: don't come with a super duper max contract, But just
Speaker 6: seems like he's got a lot of interests, a lot
Speaker 6: of ideas that he wants to explore in places that
Speaker 6: likely will not be Boston.
Speaker 3: After reading this one, I thought, have I already read
Speaker 3: this article? I thought, have I been doing a lot
Speaker 3: of reading and reacting because there was another article by
Speaker 3: Soapin deb on The New York Times which wasn't all
Speaker 3: that dissimilar. He was talking this week. I mean, he
Speaker 3: went on a short media run of two different authors
Speaker 3: and Murdoch and deb and basically telling it like it
Speaker 3: is to me reading these two articles, maybe like him more,
Speaker 3: I thought he was just he's just real, really, I mean,
Speaker 3: he said he's about something. He said, he's about the
Speaker 3: players getting more of the league profits. I said, he's
Speaker 3: about kids getting education, and he's looking out for himself.
Speaker 3: And he also he said stuff smart stuff like to
Speaker 3: The New York Times. He said, listen, maybe if I
Speaker 3: don't see eye to eye with Celtics owners, but doesn't
Speaker 3: mean we can't win a championship together. And he also
Speaker 3: called out part of the Celtics fan base for getting
Speaker 3: after him, which is true. And he just said I'm
Speaker 3: a Max dude without saying I'm a Max dude. He's
Speaker 3: a Max dude. He is, Yes, he deserves it, so.
Speaker 1: He's amazed if he is not an All NBA selection
Speaker 1: this year. Now, the problem might be and the voters
Speaker 1: need to get on the same page with this one.
Speaker 1: Are we voting for him for a guard or are
Speaker 1: we voting him for a forward? Because I believe you
Speaker 1: know you'll be given that option as a voter. But
Speaker 1: if let's say forty people put them all NBA forward
Speaker 1: and thirty eight put them all NBA guard, they don't
Speaker 1: jam the two together and say, well, okay, that's seventy
Speaker 1: eight votes for a forward. They say, nope, you only
Speaker 1: got forty as a forward. Like it could screw him here.
Speaker 1: I hope that's not the case.
Speaker 3: His next contract, yes, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: That's super super max. We're talking two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million ish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so, just to be clear, he signed through
Speaker 3: next year. He signed, You'll be a free agent in
Speaker 3: the summer of twenty any four unless they extend him
Speaker 3: this offseason, which why the hell wouldn't they. It's up
Speaker 3: to him if he wants to sign it.
Speaker 1: But he might be silly to do that because of
Speaker 1: increase in what he could eventually make, so he probably
Speaker 1: will not, depending again on this All NBA.
Speaker 3: Thing, Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the All NBA thing. He could
Speaker 3: sign a big, big max this offseason and be paid
Speaker 3: more than Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1: Do you think he'll be a busting Celtic then, like
Speaker 1: his next contract, you think he's just gonna sign a
Speaker 1: max contract they've given the White why wouldn't they? Or yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean they've had so much success as a
Speaker 6: team and as a duo, Like that's what everybody's looking for,
Speaker 6: its big wings who can play on both ends of
Speaker 6: the court. The Celtics have two of them, and they're young.
Speaker 6: But I can foresee a future like if the Celtics
Speaker 6: don't win a championship, things will change eventually, right Jalen Brown,
Speaker 6: I could see him wanting his own team, wanting to
Speaker 6: be the number one guy. He gets to be the
Speaker 6: number one guy a lot with Boston, but he's behind
Speaker 6: Tatum in the pecking order, So maybe he sets his
Speaker 6: site somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Like for instance, his hometown of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which I said. There's a lot of Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: rumors too with the Jason Kidd cal connection, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of talk about him and Kyrie sort of
Speaker 1: like uh, you know, fixing if you want to say,
Speaker 1: their relationship who knows if he's going to be in Dallas.
Speaker 1: There was one line in this that stuck out to
Speaker 1: me from Logan. Quote Brown generally doesn't trust easily, and
Speaker 1: now that extends to his relationship with the Celtics end
Speaker 1: quote on that and that, I mean, you can sort
Speaker 1: of sense that from this guy. And also, you know
Speaker 1: I heard Bill Simmons talking to Logan about this article,
Speaker 1: this idea of like all these rumors coming up. Did
Speaker 1: the Celtics not do a great enough job in saying, dude,
Speaker 1: we're not trading you. Man, we don't want to trade you. Like,
Speaker 1: don't don't believe any of this, don't believe these like
Speaker 1: teams probably leaking this till.
Speaker 3: And then they had it out there as a rumor,
Speaker 3: right right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, if you're the Celtic's like, well,
Speaker 1: what can we do. It's like if it's the Nets
Speaker 1: leaking this rumor to report X, like we can come
Speaker 1: out and say it all we want, but still it's
Speaker 1: like out there and it's like, also it's Kevin Durant exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like he knows that he would be traded for
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, right, Yeah, I guess he would still take
Speaker 1: offense to it. Yeah, when you're a top fifteen play.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess they could have gone to him
Speaker 3: afterward and said we didn't want to trade you. That
Speaker 3: would probably be a lie because it did seem like
Speaker 3: they were in talks for Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: Any other thoughts on this. It is a great article.
Speaker 1: Again to go check this one out from Logan. He
Speaker 1: put a lot of work into this. It is funny
Speaker 1: that both of those came out because these were like,
Speaker 1: these weren't done in three days, you know, these were
Speaker 1: months of at least in Logan's case. Can't speak for
Speaker 1: the other one, but I'm sure it took a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seemed to be timed. It seemed to be this.
Speaker 3: This is clearly his way of saying I want to
Speaker 3: be paid. I don't think it's an accident that these
Speaker 3: two happened to come out, and there's a media tour
Speaker 3: which had two stops. You know, maybe Murdock writs QUI
Speaker 3: I don't know, because I think Dev's he's a quick writer.
Speaker 3: The man writes books. So I feel like it's just
Speaker 3: Jayleen Brown voicing his his his business. And I like
Speaker 3: that he called out in the New York Times article,
Speaker 3: he called out the Celtics fan base. He said, if
Speaker 3: you have a bad game, they tied to your personal character.
Speaker 3: He's he's been a good player for them, a good
Speaker 3: role model for them. He hasn't complained about being the
Speaker 3: number two guy. There's controversy, but in terms of his
Speaker 3: you know, his relationship to Kanye and and and the
Speaker 3: Kyrie comments afterwards. But he's made it clear that he
Speaker 3: supports Kyrie and and he has also made it clear
Speaker 3: that we can disagree and I and I enjoy that
Speaker 3: about him. We can disagree, but at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, he is he is focused on winning a
Speaker 3: championship and focused on the right thing.
Speaker 1: There is this whole part of whether or not he
Speaker 1: just doesn't want to be Imposton because he wants to
Speaker 1: be somewhere else. Yep, for whatever his personal reasons, either
Speaker 1: with the organization, fan base, city all that.
Speaker 4: This is an.
Speaker 1: Underlying part to all of these articles. I think and
Speaker 1: we don't really know. You's not come up said that,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, especially like even like, all right,
Speaker 1: here's two hundred and fifty million dollars, man, Like, are
Speaker 1: you gonna say, eh, No, I don't really like it here,
Speaker 1: I'd rather go x jeezus. I mean I doubt he
Speaker 1: would do that. Be a little wild for anyone to
Speaker 1: turn down that type of money, generational money. But maybe we.
Speaker 6: Haven't seen him make a choice to be in Boston. Yes, right,
Speaker 6: Like it's like when your first contract comes up, your
Speaker 6: original team, not only can they match, they can pay
Speaker 6: the most. That's also going to be the case here.
Speaker 6: And when you finally get a chance to like get
Speaker 6: your huge contract, you look around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, final one here in read and reacts the Athletics
Speaker 1: John Hollinger interesting article titled you thought MVP, Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year and other races were settled? Not so fast? Okay,
Speaker 1: So Hollinger points out that if you had taken a
Speaker 1: survey around the All Star Break, voting for at least
Speaker 1: three of the major awards would have looked like slam
Speaker 1: dunks around the All Star Break, MVP, Jokic, Pallo, Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year, and Mike Brown Coach of the Year. Done,
Speaker 1: done and done. But Johnny Holly says, we've seen a
Speaker 1: giant sea change, and then he goes through each race.
Speaker 1: So I guess the question off this is of those
Speaker 1: three MVP Rookie of the Year coach, which one, in
Speaker 1: your opinion tray is the most settled. Which one do
Speaker 1: you think is the most locked up.
Speaker 6: Ball not MVP, MVP that's super upper grabs right now.
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 6: I would lean Rookie of the Year. A lot of
Speaker 6: people talking up Jalen Williams, no doubt about it. He
Speaker 6: has been incredible since the All Star Break. Was great
Speaker 6: before the All Star Break, but it's definitely taken it
Speaker 6: to another level. Scottie Barnes did steal the Rookie of
Speaker 6: the Year from Evan Mobley in the second half of
Speaker 6: last season, but I still think it's Polo Poncaro. The
Speaker 6: guy is the number one player on the Magic and
Speaker 6: he's been the number one guy the entire season. Jalen Williams,
Speaker 6: maybe he is the number two guy for OKAC right now.
Speaker 6: It's between him and Giddy for sure, but he's not
Speaker 6: seeing the number one defender every single night though cool
Speaker 6: I was on him for a huge chunk of the game.
Speaker 4: Last night, so I don't know.
Speaker 6: I definitely think that as the Magic have fallen in
Speaker 6: the standings, despite the fact that they're playing pretty well
Speaker 6: right now, got a chance to make some noise the
Speaker 6: last couple of weeks of the season. The fact that
Speaker 6: Okac is still in the play and race, maybe even
Speaker 6: in the playoff race, and that Jalen Williams is making
Speaker 6: these strides in the last quarter of the season. Definitely
Speaker 6: he's getting more votes than he would have at All
Speaker 6: Star break.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like it was unanimous at the All
Speaker 1: Star Break, like everybody was like, Yeah, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: every single first place vote. Palla bank Carroll. Now there's
Speaker 1: might there's very likely going to be some first place
Speaker 1: votes for for Jalen Williams. I think it could happen,
Speaker 1: and maybe even Walker Kessler in the just maybe how many.
Speaker 3: I think this Holger's article is all about the MVP
Speaker 3: not being as settled as it was a couple months ago.
Speaker 3: Bank Carroll still the number one guy. This is how
Speaker 3: people vote for a rookie of the Year, who had
Speaker 3: the best season and who has the best outlook in
Speaker 3: the future. And he's got both. He had the best
Speaker 3: season and he's got the big brightest outlook out of
Speaker 3: all of those guys. As good as Jade has been
Speaker 3: and Kessler has been, I think he's he's got botes
Speaker 3: so maybe he's not unanimous, and maybe maybe it's nine votes,
Speaker 3: but it's freaking I okay, so I wouldn't worry about that.
Speaker 3: And Coach of the Year, maybe Michael Burton Brown doesn't
Speaker 3: have it as much as he did a couple of
Speaker 3: months ago.
Speaker 1: I still think he ultimately is going to sure.
Speaker 3: I just don't know. At first. I don't know, and
Speaker 3: I don't want to know how how voters think about
Speaker 3: Coach of the Year because it.
Speaker 1: Could be it's I'll tell you how they do. It's
Speaker 1: just it's all based off expectations. Yeah, exactly, based off
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 3: But Willie Hardy's got some votes. Yeah, to be had.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, what's Mark?
Speaker 4: What's Mark's d name? I can't find it? Great art well,
Speaker 4: I don't know it's middle name.
Speaker 3: Yea good good Are a good line by John Hollinger
Speaker 3: in this article, he said Mark Digno has done so well.
Speaker 3: I finally learned or tried to learn how to pronounce
Speaker 3: his name. Just kidding. It's Mark good wine good anyway. Okay,
Speaker 3: So is the one MVP is the one that is
Speaker 3: not settled And it's totally true. At All Star weekend,
Speaker 3: we were in Utah and the struppole was done by
Speaker 3: our man, Tim Vontepsen. It was basically it was high
Speaker 3: and so, yeah, it feels loud like Joel Embiid. It
Speaker 3: feels like the argument for Joel Embiid is very very
Speaker 3: loud right now. But I think it's pretty even between
Speaker 3: those two. I would say, Yoki Chin Embid, I think
Speaker 3: it could. It's a seesaw. So people yelled, were yelling
Speaker 3: at Jokich a month ago, people are yelling Embid right
Speaker 3: now and there's still time. I think it's definitely not settled.
Speaker 3: And that's the exciting part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's an awesome line in this from Hollinger that
Speaker 1: talking about the MVP. Of course, once again, Jannis and
Speaker 1: Beat and Yokich or each having seasons that historically are
Speaker 1: usually good enough to win somebody an MVP trophy. So
Speaker 1: this is happening again. Consider that of the top thirteen
Speaker 1: all time seasons in per player efficiency rating since individual
Speaker 1: turnovers started being tracked in seventy seven and seventy eight,
Speaker 1: there have been seven such instances by these three guys
Speaker 1: in the past four seasons. They have more than half
Speaker 1: between the three of them of the greatest player efficiency
Speaker 1: rating seasons of all time. That is that is wild.
Speaker 1: There's the three best players in the league right now
Speaker 1: by significant margin. Yeah, and that's why it's coming down
Speaker 1: to the wire and everybody's making their case for each guy.
Speaker 1: But the thing that changed at the All Star break
Speaker 1: with Jokich was the Nuggets hit a slump and then
Speaker 1: the Sixers went on a massive, massive run, and then
Speaker 1: oh yeah, there's just gianis always lurking the entire time
Speaker 1: because everybody he's probably the best player, and we don't
Speaker 1: talk enough about like they missed Chris Middleton basically all
Speaker 1: season long, so that was like always an excuse or
Speaker 1: a good, like a positive for Yokic winning previous seasons,
Speaker 1: Like he's missing his best, second best guy in these
Speaker 1: guys that were injured at the time in Jamal and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. We don't really talk about that with
Speaker 1: Johannis at all. And maybe it's because they have Drew
Speaker 1: and Brooke and they still have great counted team. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's the reason. But it's still impressive. But I love this,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I know it gets a little toxic,
Speaker 1: this debate, but this is way better than somebody just
Speaker 1: running away with an MVP. We have three elite bigment
Speaker 1: of all time, hands down, with ten days to go,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, like who's gonna eke it out?
Speaker 1: Like this could be one of the closest MVP votes
Speaker 1: we ever get? Is the other play? Other thing in play?
Speaker 6: I should say, Yeah, people remember that, right, Like, isn't
Speaker 6: it Charles Barkley and Magic Johnson is the closest one
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety People like me remember that on an accident.
Speaker 6: I didn't even know it was in there, but yeah,
Speaker 6: the MVP race is awesome, and I don't know Doc
Speaker 6: Rivers now.
Speaker 4: Dad, He's like, we don't have to diss other guys
Speaker 4: to big up the guy.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, that's exactly what starts happening once you talk about it,
Speaker 6: because you gotta come when it comes down, when it
Speaker 6: comes down to it. As long as we're just quoting
Speaker 6: lines here that we read, I would like to hear
Speaker 6: JD's reaction to this. Johnny Holly writes he can still
Speaker 6: have his foibles.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 6: Sixers fans have made a new sport out of zaprudering
Speaker 6: Yokic's defensive failings. Hey, it's still better than pickleball and
Speaker 6: Bead's own defensive effort can fluctuate sharply from play by
Speaker 6: Wow play pickleball stray it didn't.
Speaker 8: Exist, A stray from the Zapruda film Yeah Wow Wow.
Speaker 8: Yeah listen, I was watching pickleball yesterday. Major League Pickleball
Speaker 8: Daytona started this weekend. It's on right now. A very
Speaker 8: pregnant woman playing in a major league pickleball.
Speaker 5: It's like, it's odd to see.
Speaker 1: You don't see. It's incredible.
Speaker 5: She's good. Yes, it's great.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but the you know, Rachel Ira having a debate
Speaker 8: is this good for the sport or is it bad
Speaker 8: for the sport?
Speaker 5: You know, like.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: And then there's a there's another like a forty seven
Speaker 8: year old woman and she doesn't look like she's in.
Speaker 5: The best shape, but she's an elite player. Is it
Speaker 5: good for the sport or not good? But she's like,
Speaker 5: that's great for this. I would say it's good for this.
Speaker 3: Yeah. How many weeks pregnant are we talking?
Speaker 4: I'm talking like very right.
Speaker 5: I'm going to guess between seven and eight months.
Speaker 3: Pr Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Whoa.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And at one point she kind of dove like not
Speaker 8: she didn't died, but she was like wan forward to
Speaker 8: to grab a dink, but.
Speaker 1: Rachel so she grabbed a dig seven or eight months ago. Yes,
Speaker 1: possibly possibly closest races in MVP history. Just Star Magic Johnson,
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, and Michael Jordan was in that one. We
Speaker 1: had a Karl Malone, Michael Jordan in ninety six ninety seven.
Speaker 1: We had a Malone, Duncan Alonso Morning in ninety eight
Speaker 1: ninety nine, Nash and Shack four oh five, and then
Speaker 1: uh the Westbrook Harden and Kawhi in sixteen seventeen.
Speaker 4: That was a good one. One that was quite the race.
Speaker 1: I mean, I it's feeling like it's going to crack
Speaker 1: one of the like that top five lists this, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's like the crazy part is like you have
Speaker 1: to decide the order of the three. So it's not like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, and maybe it is just yokicchen Biid,
Speaker 1: but you were like.
Speaker 3: No, it's not.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get first place team in the league and
Speaker 1: you're taken the defense and all that. Like it's close, close, close.
Speaker 4: Yeah, tell me if this is true.
Speaker 6: Yeah, first twenty games of the season and the last
Speaker 6: twenty games of the season are the most important, have
Speaker 6: the biggest impact for voting hands down, like Jason Tatum
Speaker 6: is still going to probably finish top five in MVP
Speaker 6: voting because he was on fire for the first twenty
Speaker 6: games of the season. Like Tatum, for the last half
Speaker 6: of the season has been pretty average. Jill And has
Speaker 6: been more consistent. Absolutely correct, But we remember those first
Speaker 6: twenty TATA games. Even when it comes to like Embiid's case,
Speaker 6: people are like, yeah, but remember his very first three
Speaker 6: games of the season, he was slacking.
Speaker 1: Set the tone. Whatever happens, set the tone in the rency.
Speaker 1: It's those Yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 3: People like making up their mind early for sure. I
Speaker 3: mean this is it was a week ago. Embiid was
Speaker 3: the leader by far. People yell in the moment.
Speaker 1: Well that big the game on March twenty seventh, might
Speaker 1: it could in some people, in some voters' minds determine,
Speaker 1: like where they lean to if Yo Kicch dominates a
Speaker 1: bead or Embiid once again dominates Yo Kitch in that
Speaker 1: particular matchup.
Speaker 3: We'll be watching on playback join us Monday night, Monday Night,
Speaker 3: Monday Night. We'll try not to turn to Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 3: As long as the game is good. We won't go
Speaker 3: to WWE Raw, but we like we jump.
Speaker 1: Over to it for like literally thirty seconds and we're like,
Speaker 1: who's that Max Nic splash?
Speaker 3: Otis can't help it, can't help it. I see that
Speaker 3: option WWE. Do you want to watch this?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 3: I like what I Rather than the wrestling, I just
Speaker 3: want to walk ins. That's the most entertaining part to me. Sure, Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a splash. There was a large man. He did
Speaker 3: a splash. Last Who was that?
Speaker 1: Again, it wasn't Otis.
Speaker 3: It was a shoe.
Speaker 4: Who was the man?
Speaker 1: Who didn't that guy's name? It doesn't matter, no, no, anyway.
Speaker 3: I thought.
Speaker 1: He's a fairly new guy. He's newish. We'll figure it
Speaker 1: out during the break when we come back, Tass mellis
Speaker 1: with the worst of the Week nominees. Don't go anywhere, Okay.
Speaker 1: The wrestler that we saw do a big old splash
Speaker 1: on our last playback when we watched thirty seconds of
Speaker 1: Raw was Bronson Reed, But we also saw shout out
Speaker 1: to Jerome for reminding us on slack. Ricochet did a
Speaker 1: shooting star press and we gave a shout out to
Speaker 1: Billy Kidman. It was our thirty seconds Raw review there
Speaker 1: from playback, so we'll do it again. Maybe we'll jump
Speaker 1: over you never know. Okay, let's get.
Speaker 3: Too big men going at it. Yokchin em beat. Hopefully
Speaker 3: we see a big man match.
Speaker 1: Like Otis versus Bronson Reid or something. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: let's get to words.
Speaker 5: The ladies and gentlemen. The worst of the week.
Speaker 3: Us for talking about WWE perhaps, but we do have
Speaker 3: a repeat. I knew I love fifteen seconds. I love
Speaker 3: tuning into the forty eight hour bonanza that is WrestleMania
Speaker 3: for fifteen seconds. I can't believe they still they do
Speaker 3: that for two days anyway. The Grizzlies Dylan Brooks, two days,
Speaker 3: two weeks, back to back weeks for this guy. This week,
Speaker 3: after playing the MAVs, Dylan Brooks, he was asking for
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving's jersey. Kyrie said, nah, Dylan, Well he got
Speaker 3: Kyrie's jersey, but Kyrie just decided now I don't want
Speaker 3: your jersey. I'm just moving on. He played it off
Speaker 3: really well, played it off really smoothly. When he was
Speaker 3: asked about afterwards, he said he was just moving on
Speaker 3: to the next thing. That's where my mind was. Maybe
Speaker 3: I'll get it from him next time, but he just
Speaker 3: didn't want his jersey. Played it well, so sorry, Dylan,
Speaker 3: got you gotta be nominated for that. And then his
Speaker 3: rival Draymond Green was prodded by his producer on his
Speaker 3: podcast to talk about this, and we have the clip
Speaker 3: of Draymond talking about it.
Speaker 7: By the way, dude, Jackson wanted me to talk about
Speaker 7: Kyrie not not taking Dylan Brooks jersey. Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 3: That's it. Just a good laugh. So Dylan Brooks he
Speaker 3: received his eighteenth technical foul in that game as well,
Speaker 3: meaning he's suspended for the second time this season. Too
Speaker 3: many texts, you suspended for one more game. So that's
Speaker 3: back to back weeks here. He is a Worst of
Speaker 3: the Week nominee. Last week he pushed a camera person.
Speaker 3: If you remember that, I remember that he was fined
Speaker 3: thirty five thousand dollars over the weekend for that push
Speaker 3: on the court. Otherwise, things are going all right for
Speaker 3: Dylan Brooks. Actually they won beat the Warriors, doing all right.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, do you think you can do
Speaker 1: it next week? You think back to back to back,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very difficult to threepeat. It's true, and
Speaker 1: worse of the week, especially if anyone could do it,
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 3: Kind of what kind of performance you've got Dylan easily,
Speaker 3: you know, some attire or something, because we mentioned that
Speaker 3: last week.
Speaker 1: So this is probably his third worst of the week.
Speaker 1: Did he get it for the Dick punch on?
Speaker 5: Is that a Mitchell?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: He didn't get it for that.
Speaker 4: Did he get it for fighting with Shannon Sharp?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, you didn't get it for that. He's got
Speaker 1: to have three or four by this point.
Speaker 4: What a season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he would get the banner in the All Starter
Speaker 1: studio Brooks o his mug on. It would be great.
Speaker 4: Just got to keep it going. Grizzlies have won seven
Speaker 4: of eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's playing better.
Speaker 1: That's Dylan Dylan.
Speaker 3: This is I checked because he's got eighteen texts leading
Speaker 3: the NBA. I checked. If he was a serial technical
Speaker 3: foul getter, if he was up there the last few years. No,
Speaker 3: it's not. So you's got to keep it up. You're right,
Speaker 3: Just just keep getting well.
Speaker 1: There was a huge conspiracy going around that he's actually
Speaker 1: the greatest teammate of all time, and Dylan Brooks his
Speaker 1: behavior over the last couple of weeks was all like
Speaker 1: a smoke screen to draw attention away from John Morant
Speaker 1: and his struggles and what was going on in his life,
Speaker 1: to get all of us just focusing on Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 3: Being a weirdough, no focus on John Moran. At worked,
Speaker 3: there was less.
Speaker 1: I mean we did talk a lot of them, Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 3: Man, yeahhole lot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he's a great teammate. I'm sure he is
Speaker 1: best of the week.
Speaker 4: He was wearing a cardigan with nothing underneath.
Speaker 3: Oh I missed that.
Speaker 6: That's crazy. That seems itchy to me. But I'm sure
Speaker 6: he has luxurious fabrics.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing. It's like, that's not even that
Speaker 1: crazy for him, Like, oh, he had a shirt on.
Speaker 5: Nice all right, I turned, I've changed my mind.
Speaker 4: I've been on Dylan.
Speaker 6: I was out on Dylan Brooks for the entirety of
Speaker 6: his career until March, basically an event he started talking trash,
Speaker 6: getting technicals and playing better.
Speaker 1: And sure, I'm excited for the series where he loses
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies a game going for a twenty one and
Speaker 1: then wins them a game in the same series because
Speaker 1: he locks somebody up at the end or hits six
Speaker 1: threes and hits a game winner or something like that,
Speaker 1: Like that'll happen within like a four day window, and
Speaker 1: I'm here for it, So go on, Dylan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's interesting that he's turning into Draymond Green
Speaker 3: in some degree, you know, just being loud, talking a lot,
Speaker 3: backing up his teammates, getting tax it's working, and he's
Speaker 3: the clip came out recently when he was with Oregon
Speaker 3: that he said he wanted to beat Draymond Green right essentially,
Speaker 3: and now it's working. So keep it up for sure,
Speaker 3: all right. Second nominee the MAVs and the referees. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: the Mavericks allowed the easiest basket in the history of
Speaker 3: the NBA. Talked about it. It was an inbound under
Speaker 3: their defensive hoop. They stood on the other side of
Speaker 3: the floor. There's five warriors under their hoop. How do
Speaker 3: you explain that? So it's mostly on them. But after
Speaker 3: thinking about a little bit more over the last twenty
Speaker 3: four hours, I think the refs should be held a
Speaker 3: little bit more culpable. I still think it's seventy five
Speaker 3: to twenty five, okay, but maybe I was swayed by
Speaker 3: Mark Cuban tweeting.
Speaker 1: At me, that's what happened.
Speaker 3: Well, it's still a mass fault, there's no doubt. But
Speaker 3: I tweeted a video of Jordan Poole hanging out with
Speaker 3: the referee literally for fifteen seconds before he inbounded the ball,
Speaker 3: and the MAVs were on the other side of the
Speaker 3: floor scratching themselves. Essentially, they were just hanging out on
Speaker 3: the other side of the floor. Cuban replied, said, then
Speaker 3: why was the ref who said it was our ball
Speaker 3: lined up by our baseline and not on the other
Speaker 3: side of the court. I can answer that. And why
Speaker 3: did they blow the whistle after the play to clarify
Speaker 3: rather than before because the ref knew he had made
Speaker 3: a mistake. They have to all give the thumbs up
Speaker 3: to start, okay, So I do think there's a little
Speaker 3: point in this unwritten referee rule that they have to
Speaker 3: give a thumbs up to each other.
Speaker 1: Okay. So he's saying there's miscommunication the officials, right, That's
Speaker 1: what Cuban's really saying here that maybe some of them
Speaker 1: knew it was of course the Warrior's ball, but this
Speaker 1: one particular referee thought it was Dallas Mavericks ball.
Speaker 3: That's what he's saying, well, he's saying the one guy
Speaker 3: was on our side. You're referring to the he said
Speaker 3: a few things. He's saying the one guy was on
Speaker 3: our side, but he was. The referee just goes where
Speaker 3: the players are. I mean, he's he has to be
Speaker 3: where he was outside the baseline. It's not that's where
Speaker 3: the referees go. The referee goes where the players are.
Speaker 3: They officiate where the players are. Where do you want
Speaker 3: the referee to be on the other side, like he's
Speaker 3: behind the player. You always have to have a referee
Speaker 3: behind all the players. So that part, I don't really care.
Speaker 3: The whole thumbs up thing again, we said it yesterday.
Speaker 3: There could have been better communication, of course, Yeah, the
Speaker 3: rest could have said, okay, before I give the ball
Speaker 3: to your pool, here's my thumb do you want to
Speaker 3: tell these guys that they should be coming down here?
Speaker 3: But also the MAVs didn't pipe up.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of confusion. You have a lot of confusion.
Speaker 4: I'm with you.
Speaker 6: In the ensuing days, I've become more anti ref pill
Speaker 6: though on this one. I heard Jeff Van Gundy talking
Speaker 6: on Zach Lowe's podcast basically just saying this is complete
Speaker 6: mismanagement by the referees. This kind of thing doesn't happen
Speaker 6: in other games, and similar confusion could have happened.
Speaker 4: The way everybody is set up.
Speaker 6: It looks like the Warriors should be bringing the ball
Speaker 6: to play deep, to play against the MAVs playing defense.
Speaker 6: But that's completely flipped for literally everything should have been
Speaker 6: some thumbs up, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, think a mass watch it.
Speaker 4: The refs botched it. Yeah, and you know, suck it right.
Speaker 1: The MAVs watched it. The ball is down at that end.
Speaker 1: You thought you were inbounding the ball. Why is there
Speaker 1: no one inbounding the ball?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Done? Like, what did they say, think that the ball
Speaker 1: was coming to the other end, which would have been
Speaker 1: the opposite way they were going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't ask what did they think because they were
Speaker 3: not thinking, that's clear. They were not thinking. Why did
Speaker 3: the ref blow the whistle after the play to clarify
Speaker 3: rather than before? Well, because it was the most confusing
Speaker 3: play in NBA history, So there was going to be
Speaker 3: a whistle. They were going to talk about it, and
Speaker 3: again they may have been. They may have made the
Speaker 3: mistake of not talking a little bit more and saying, hey,
Speaker 3: team in blue, you know where the ball is. The
Speaker 3: ball is over there. Why not go near the ball again?
Speaker 3: I showed the clip of Jordan Pool sitting there for
Speaker 3: fifteen seconds.
Speaker 4: I was a lone.
Speaker 1: If we get into this idea, should there have been
Speaker 1: like sportsmanship displayed by the referees, because you could argue like, okay,
Speaker 1: they don't know, they have no idea that it's actually
Speaker 1: Warriors ball. They're on the wrong end of the floor.
Speaker 1: The official in theory could be like, just hold on, Pool,
Speaker 1: just hold on, guys, you're down here. Yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: what we do when we coach gratings or eight year olds.
Speaker 3: Pool was trying to confuse them. Pool was talking about
Speaker 3: something else, and all of a sudden he said.
Speaker 1: Well, Pool realized on holding our ball, and he's like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's your ball for sure. Yeah. Yeah. He is demanding
Speaker 1: the ball, and the officials like, well, I guess it
Speaker 1: is your ball, so here you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the ref the ref and watching it again,
Speaker 3: the ref says we're here, here's your ball. And I
Speaker 3: guess his thumb was in his fist or whatever.
Speaker 1: Cuban actually filed the protests. Did it really happen or
Speaker 1: was that all him talking up Gabe because I think
Speaker 1: he's the window is getting smaller here. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything that it's officially been protested.
Speaker 3: As cubes come on the show, we'll talk about refereeing
Speaker 3: some more. Why don't we do it now? With our
Speaker 3: third nominee for Worst of the Week, it's the referees
Speaker 3: again again. This one's going to be short. This one's
Speaker 3: going to be short, but week to week to week,
Speaker 3: we got to talk about the referees on this show.
Speaker 3: Thunder Clippers Tuesday, near the end of the first half,
Speaker 3: Kawhi wasn't happy with a non call. He clapped, ref
Speaker 3: teed him up. Teammate Terrence Man comes over and says,
Speaker 3: come on, that was a fat where was the call?
Speaker 3: Gave another clap. Referee did not like that, gone Terrence,
Speaker 3: so Qui just got one tech Terrence Man got two.
Speaker 3: In the second half, the referee came back and told
Speaker 3: Kawhi apparently quote Kai said, he came back in the
Speaker 3: second half and said, that was my bad. I made
Speaker 3: a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. I appreciate that. Appreciate that
Speaker 3: a little too late though, you tossed the guy for
Speaker 3: no reason, and they did end up losing the game,
Speaker 3: not just because Man was out, but they did end
Speaker 3: up losing the game, and the League officially rescinded Man's
Speaker 3: second tech foul, which was not deserved. The game won, though.
Speaker 3: No clapping in basketball. So it's just like we can't
Speaker 3: go a few days without talking about the rest unfortunately
Speaker 3: and in its. But you brought up earlier why Lebron
Speaker 3: called out the media. It just seems like players are
Speaker 3: calling out every person who has any sort of say,
Speaker 3: the media, the refs, They're just calling everything out there,
Speaker 3: just being empowered.
Speaker 4: And that's fine.
Speaker 3: I think that's totally fine. Just has a little bit
Speaker 3: of spice. Nobody likes this ref player stuff overall. But
Speaker 3: we just know too many rest names. They called too
Speaker 3: many things. Put away the whistles.
Speaker 1: The official was a little too emotional last night. But
Speaker 1: you know what's interesting where we don't point out it
Speaker 1: was what's his name? Was it Leon Wood? Last night?
Speaker 3: I don't want to know.
Speaker 1: It was Leon Wood with Julius randall right, we were
Speaker 1: talking about him going crazy and getting the technical at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half, but he was going nuts.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and leon Wood, to his credit, he eventually
Speaker 1: had to give him a technical, but he took a
Speaker 1: lot of Randall being pissed off, frustrated they're getting hammered
Speaker 1: by the magic. He thought he got hit, you know,
Speaker 1: right at the end of the half, and he let
Speaker 1: him get away with a ton and like, we don't
Speaker 1: really illustrate or point these instances out where that's good officiating.
Speaker 1: He knows the guy's hot headed and he's got a
Speaker 1: temper right now, and like, all right, I'll give you
Speaker 1: a tech. I could have easily tossed you. You're coming
Speaker 1: at me. You're probably yelling things. It's a former player
Speaker 1: maybe in leon Wood. I don't know. He just handled
Speaker 1: it a lot better than some of these other officials
Speaker 1: would have. I would love to see refstats ex players
Speaker 1: to technicals. Oh, I bet they give less. I bet
Speaker 1: there is a longer leash for players with uh. The
Speaker 1: referees who used to play in the NBA realize and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to kick you out for yelling at me.
Speaker 1: I remember what it was like to get mad at referees.
Speaker 1: I guarantee they gave less text that's probably true.
Speaker 3: I also want to see how fast they give it
Speaker 3: time per tech. Let's get that long.
Speaker 1: Last night so long, and even that's why I think
Speaker 1: quickly he's like, all right, man, like you are going
Speaker 1: to get tossed from this game, like it's incredible you
Speaker 1: haven't yet. And then that's why they get into it
Speaker 1: as he's trying to pull him wing, get them in
Speaker 1: the locker room. But best of the week to Leon Wood.
Speaker 1: I believe that's his name. Yep, yeah, all right, so
Speaker 1: who gets it? I mean, it's not a good week
Speaker 1: for the officials. It's never a good week for Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 1: But what do the people think worst of the week?
Speaker 4: Put it to a vote it okay, So.
Speaker 1: Who are you going? You gotta go. You're going Dylan Brooks,
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban and the MAVs and then just official.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll doom MAVs referee controversy all right, then just
Speaker 6: straight up refs, but not Leon Wood. Please note that.
Speaker 6: Get your votes in.
Speaker 1: Okay, we gotta take our final break here the Drop
Speaker 1: Podcast when we come back, picking results and rapid fire
Speaker 1: fund don't go anywhere. Last night's game was once again
Speaker 1: the Clippers Lakers. Excuse me, clip, let me try that again.
Speaker 1: Last night's game was Thunder Clippers, and the Clippers won.
Speaker 1: They were the favorites. I saw that line move from
Speaker 1: two and a half to four and a half, but
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. They got it done. You guys got
Speaker 1: it right. Tray ten and seven, Task five and twelve.
Speaker 1: It bumped me down below five eight nine for the
Speaker 1: month of March.
Speaker 5: What's tonight's game distance Raps.
Speaker 3: Does Dwayne Casey still have it over the Toronto Raptors?
Speaker 3: WHOA all they have to do is lose by twelve
Speaker 3: or less because the is twelve and a half. The
Speaker 3: Reps favored by twelve and a half. Heats myself, think
Speaker 3: they're gonna cover that big, big, big line. Trey are
Speaker 3: going with Dwayne the Dwayne If I understand.
Speaker 4: When it Duane's it pours, it's hard.
Speaker 3: It's hard for the Reps to beat their former definitely Trip.
Speaker 3: He just gets them to play for them. They beat
Speaker 3: them last time, though, didn't they Yeah it.
Speaker 1: Was close it No, it was like a five point game,
Speaker 1: four point game. So yeah, this is a big line.
Speaker 4: But this is the only way the picks could go.
Speaker 6: It has to has to has to do Homer picks
Speaker 6: and I gotta take the switch up and that's how
Speaker 6: it goes.
Speaker 1: That's a you have to serve and you're in a
Speaker 1: pretty good spot with the way the pistons in Casey
Speaker 1: play the raps very fair. We will find out tonight. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's end this Drop podcast with some rapid fire fun.
Speaker 1: I got the questions this week. You guys got the answers.
Speaker 1: First one we learned this week that Will Hardy's Utah
Speaker 1: Jazz are winning thanks to cheeseburgers, carrot top and fun.
Speaker 1: I think the NBA turns a lot of these dudes
Speaker 1: into little old men. Hardy told the Saint Lake Lake Tribune,
Speaker 1: like they're so worried about doing everything perfect that we
Speaker 1: got twenty two year olds eat fucking salmon and keela
Speaker 1: for every much end quote. Well, Hardy, that's a great line.
Speaker 1: What are we doing? So my question off of this,
Speaker 1: what's something you do to feel young again?
Speaker 3: What's Will complaining about?
Speaker 4: Due the boys eat?
Speaker 1: Let the boys have some fun.
Speaker 3: You want him to have cheetoes. They're playing so well,
Speaker 3: you will, They're gonna win you this coy, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: win the Coach of the year man. Let him eat
Speaker 3: salmon and fucking Greenway anyway. Everything that's just great stuff
Speaker 3: from Will.
Speaker 1: What's something you do to feel young?
Speaker 3: Well? I listened to new music, okay, just tough tough
Speaker 3: out there finding new music. I've never pronounced it young ma. Never,
Speaker 3: it's young m a. That's what it's pronounced like. I
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I go in, I go out and fade in a
Speaker 3: fade out. Yeah. I want to listen to music. Nah,
Speaker 3: I don't, Yeah, I do. I don't. Sometimes I feel young.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I feel like e Salmon and keen one.
Speaker 1: How do you do it? Do you?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: Do you get your suggestions from your music service or
Speaker 1: do you turn to someone younger in your life, a
Speaker 1: young cousin.
Speaker 3: Or something like that. I look at my keyboard, I
Speaker 3: type in a letter into the search bar.
Speaker 4: Oh b, I'm just too It comes up bad Bunny Beatles. Yes,
Speaker 4: younger old either way? All right?
Speaker 6: What about you Trey argue about Disney characters? Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: it felt so good. I haven't thought about Aladdin er
Speaker 6: Simba that much in like twenty years. Having opinions on
Speaker 6: it felt very much like being I don't know, twelve
Speaker 6: years old.
Speaker 4: Aladdin could definitely beat up scarm if they.
Speaker 6: Thought felt great. You know, I said some things I regret.
Speaker 6: Aladdin was a good guy.
Speaker 4: He's a fine guy.
Speaker 6: Did you say he was a bad guy, said he
Speaker 6: was nothing until the genie showed up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you did say.
Speaker 4: That's not true. Yeah he was a liar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a thief.
Speaker 6: He was power hungry, doing everything he could to get
Speaker 6: into the royal family. And meanwhile Simba just wanted his
Speaker 6: dad back. But you guys are right, Aladdin's a better character.
Speaker 1: Well, you also said something wrong about the Lion King.
Speaker 6: The Lion Experience was based on King Lear, It's really
Speaker 6: loosely based on Hamlet.
Speaker 4: But for sure the Lion King has a better soundtrack.
Speaker 6: That was a debate that a lot of That got
Speaker 6: a lot of people going, who's a better musician, Elton
Speaker 6: John or Robin Williams.
Speaker 3: They didn't. They didn't make a new movie about the
Speaker 3: Lion King because they didn't have a will Smith.
Speaker 4: They didn't make a new Lion King.
Speaker 3: Well, who cares all these?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 3: But I got rush music.
Speaker 5: I think like this is there is a live action
Speaker 5: Lion King.
Speaker 1: Is there now?
Speaker 3: Yes, but it's not worth anything. And compared to Aladdin,
Speaker 3: I agree, Guy Ritchie directed that one that was beautifully shot.
Speaker 1: The one with Will Smith. Yeah, I've never watched it.
Speaker 1: That's good, all right, Sure, Okay, what's something sorry? You've
Speaker 1: done any more on the Aladdin symbol?
Speaker 4: You got? Okay?
Speaker 1: Still he still believes that's fair that the Lion King
Speaker 1: has better soundtrack. That was the thing that was better
Speaker 1: music overall than Aladdin.
Speaker 5: I think there's too many lyrics.
Speaker 8: Like this is Elton John sometimes this this is a
Speaker 8: problem because he doesn't write the lyrics. So you got
Speaker 8: Tim Rice writing the lyrics, and he just tries to
Speaker 8: jam him all in like can you feel love tonight?
Speaker 8: If you listen to that, just listen to it tonight.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of lyrics just jammed in those verses.
Speaker 8: But can you feel the love tonight?
Speaker 3: Is great? Hook?
Speaker 5: I cannot deny it.
Speaker 8: It's a great soundtrack, Trey, it's a great soundtrack. I
Speaker 8: think I like Aladdin better Desert Island.
Speaker 5: I'm picking Aladdin open.
Speaker 1: To repeat, listen. Yes, what's something you do to feel
Speaker 1: young again?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: It's play pickleball?
Speaker 8: Because I'm by far the youngest person out there other
Speaker 8: than Rachel. Like Rachel in there now they refer to
Speaker 8: her as the kid.
Speaker 1: Old one.
Speaker 5: She's like, here's the kid for the kid.
Speaker 1: So you are, yeah, you're young and my.
Speaker 5: Young guy out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, do they know you got a podcast to
Speaker 1: know pickleball? No dinks? Get these people.
Speaker 9: On right, probably should whoever has the highest super rating
Speaker 9: of the next guest.
Speaker 4: I got a cramp crump. I knew what bad guys
Speaker 4: leaving today.
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm gonna cramp this this morning. I
Speaker 6: hoop night ate a banana as I was leaving.
Speaker 1: But bullet, it.
Speaker 4: Couldn't It's a big one.
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell. I couldn't tell if you were committing
Speaker 3: to the bit of calling pickleball people old, I pretending
Speaker 3: you were cramping.
Speaker 8: Cramp, you need a Sara gun Man, I got you
Speaker 8: need a friend, Like ask the next question.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna grab aar Okay, he'll survive, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it up, gets an elevation.
Speaker 3: Okay, you played, you played through pregnancy. Serena Williams sider.
Speaker 3: This guy's this guy's podcasting through a cramp.
Speaker 1: Well it helps. That probably helps, though. There you go.
Speaker 1: Gd's gone to get him with Sarah gun I bet
Speaker 1: Rachel's using it right now. She probably played pickleball this morning,
Speaker 1: probably in the other room, right in the back of
Speaker 1: the back of the leg, back of the hammer root.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, here he comes my right handy last night.
Speaker 1: Is alright? Fire, fire it up. You never used one
Speaker 1: of those?
Speaker 6: Yeah, not regularly or not not for more than like
Speaker 6: a tryout, Like is this cool?
Speaker 4: How does it work? But man, I'm loving it right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna really loosen. Yeah, okay, let's keep it going.
Speaker 1: According to Nick Depaula, Curry brand is relaunching the white
Speaker 1: Chef Curry twos on April Fool's Day with a twist.
Speaker 1: The updated design features a charred toe, which is a
Speaker 1: nod to Twitter roasting the original shoe if you remember that,
Speaker 1: and then also Steph writing straight fire emoji on his
Speaker 1: pair after I think we have a photo there it is.
Speaker 1: This was this set Twitter ablaze when those Chef Curry
Speaker 1: twos came out, So they're re releasing them on April
Speaker 1: Fools Day. So that's pretty funny. So my question is,
Speaker 1: what's the ugliest shoe you've ever worn.
Speaker 3: It's gonna sound weird, but the Jordan eleven patent leather
Speaker 3: because I purchased it. It's you know, it's the classic
Speaker 3: some call the best shoe in the history of shoes, ok,
Speaker 3: the pat and leather. But I bought a fake. I
Speaker 3: bought actually from a shop in China, and it was
Speaker 3: not real whatsoever. So the fact that it's such a gorgeous, beautiful,
Speaker 3: pristine shoe as a real one, one of the best
Speaker 3: ever with all these little imperfections stitching off here, this
Speaker 3: color here, makes it so much more disgusting. Good deal though, probably.
Speaker 1: Okay, I should have.
Speaker 3: Just been in Aladdin stole that thing.
Speaker 1: But anyway, what about you, Trey, what's the ugliest shoe
Speaker 1: you've ever worn?
Speaker 6: It was the mid two thousands was the era. I
Speaker 6: don't know if y'all had these, but they were very
Speaker 6: popular back in the day. Steve Madden is the brand
Speaker 6: I think of that makes them. And it's like, what
Speaker 6: is this like a damn bullying It's like a bowling shoe,
Speaker 6: but a dress bowling shoe. I had like a similar
Speaker 6: to this look was like a beige with like a blue.
Speaker 5: Backwards h on it. Everybody likely that duck feet, but.
Speaker 3: Like I don't know time everyone was doing.
Speaker 4: It about square feet.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I had a pair of sn not white.
Speaker 4: I mean that is the next level. They were bad, Oh,
Speaker 4: they were bad.
Speaker 3: They looked big though it looked bigger than that.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, gus, these are in give me
Speaker 4: a fourteen.
Speaker 1: These clown shoes. What about you, jd ugly shoes you've
Speaker 1: ever worn?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I mean I bought myself a pair of Birkenstocks over
Speaker 8: the pandemic, said I would never ever. But you know,
Speaker 8: here's a picture of my feet this morning.
Speaker 3: Cool so cool. Look man, I guess this socks and stocks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, socks and Birkenstocks.
Speaker 8: It's a classic Canadian wool sock with the you know
Speaker 8: this is this is camp weare?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's tramp ware.
Speaker 8: A fine, But I also I have sunk to a
Speaker 8: new level because coming today, according to my tre are
Speaker 8: these babies. It's a powder blue croc I ordered.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 8: Okay, now this is because you know, my backyard is
Speaker 8: a mess. I have a new dog, Hazel. She's tearing
Speaker 8: up the place, and I need to wear something out
Speaker 8: there that isn't the birkenstars.
Speaker 1: Oh, these are outdoor slippers.
Speaker 5: They're outdoor slippers. Yeah, and this.
Speaker 8: Color because they were the cheapest ones, so oh they
Speaker 8: were on sale, so I.
Speaker 3: Was like, screw it.
Speaker 1: What did those go for?
Speaker 8: What was those ones on sale were like thirty bucks?
Speaker 8: They're normally fifty bucks.
Speaker 5: All the kids at Jackson's High School wear cross What
Speaker 5: a run. Crocs have had, incredible.
Speaker 4: Crazy run.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. You thought they'd be here for a year
Speaker 1: and gone.
Speaker 8: I remember people wearing them seventeen years ago, like the
Speaker 8: nurses at the hospital.
Speaker 1: Well they were told not to wear them.
Speaker 8: I remember, oh, yes, exactly, but they were still wearing them.
Speaker 8: Like I don't know when when Lincoln was was being born,
Speaker 8: the nurses in the hospital were wearing craps. Wow, and
Speaker 8: like people were wearing guys were wearing them in the
Speaker 8: kitchens working.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And they were just all the rage and.
Speaker 5: They're still going.
Speaker 1: They're just so comfortable.
Speaker 3: What amazing are they comfortable? You'll find out a photo
Speaker 3: of you.
Speaker 1: And they're on everybody's feet because only look final one here.
Speaker 1: A reality star Larsa Pippen got frank about her sex
Speaker 1: life during the recent reunion episode of the Real Housewives
Speaker 1: of Miami, claiming bragging, definitely lying that she and her
Speaker 1: ex husband Scottie Pippen had sex four times every single
Speaker 1: night until they're divorced in twenty twenty one. Yes, Larsa
Speaker 1: Pippen claims to have had sex with Scottie Pippen over
Speaker 1: thirty three thousand times?
Speaker 4: Is that where we wor thirty three? I got a
Speaker 4: goal to hit?
Speaker 1: So I want to know what's something that you've maybe
Speaker 1: exaggerated before tests.
Speaker 3: I believe them first four times every night?
Speaker 8: Yeah, about four times right up until the divorce. That
Speaker 8: seems also.
Speaker 1: And Cole was like he was an NBA player that
Speaker 1: traveled a ton every night. And she's like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: traveled with him everywhere. Wow, that's what she said. Anyway,
Speaker 1: what do you exaggerate? Exaggerating?
Speaker 3: Well, I exaggerate my shoe size for sure, and eleven
Speaker 3: we're not going ten and a half. Eleven sounds bigger,
Speaker 3: but isn't it more comfortable?
Speaker 1: Like the shoe like a tag shoe.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 3: Steve's twelve.
Speaker 1: I like Steve Madden's extra baby, extra clunky. I made
Speaker 1: the the change to a half sized up though in
Speaker 1: my basketball shoe because you guys, remember I kept like
Speaker 1: every time we play hoops, i'd like have a bloody
Speaker 1: toe in. Yeah, like Jesus, like I need more room
Speaker 1: down there. It turns out you do.
Speaker 3: It's you had a small shoe.
Speaker 1: I don't know they weren't. It wasn't small in any
Speaker 1: of my other shoes. That's the part don't make sense.
Speaker 1: I think it's the cutting in the moving.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not a lot of toe space.
Speaker 6: You can maybe try a pair of Steve Maddens.
Speaker 4: Run up and down the court wearing Steve Maddens.
Speaker 1: We should have a game where we could only wear
Speaker 1: Steve Madden's.
Speaker 4: Everybody has air. I'm sure. Go in your closet, dig
Speaker 4: out your fifteen year old pair of Steve man I
Speaker 4: don't run.
Speaker 1: You've got to bring a pair of black Steve Maddens
Speaker 1: and white Steve Maddens. All right, so your shoe size,
Speaker 1: you've exaggerated. What about you, Trey.
Speaker 6: I went on a podcast and compare myself to Nicola.
Speaker 4: Yosh, he's better. He's a little better than me. That's
Speaker 4: a good one.
Speaker 6: But Meate Jones did say that prime Tray Kirby at
Speaker 6: a media run is Drew Timmy. Yeah, like a crazy
Speaker 6: game last night. He's not very athletic at all. It's
Speaker 6: all spin moves in little dinks and dumps.
Speaker 4: I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny and JD take us home. Something you've exaggerated.
Speaker 8: Before, Yeah, I always exaggerated how long we've been doing
Speaker 8: the show. For some reason, I always say seventeen years.
Speaker 8: Like this year, I've been saying been doing the show
Speaker 8: for seventeen years, but that's actually not it's.
Speaker 1: Seventeen NBA season.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, but it's sixteen years. I don't I don't
Speaker 5: know why I feel the need to.
Speaker 1: An exaggeration would be like, yeah, I've been podcasting producing
Speaker 1: podcasts for two.
Speaker 3: Decades, right, yeah, yeah, but it's literally seventeen years now,
Speaker 3: well is it seventy Yeah, seventeen years plus two months
Speaker 3: May starting six, it's seventeen years. Wait a minute, because oh,
Speaker 3: you're right earlier this season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the early.
Speaker 3: You can round up a couple of months. You don't
Speaker 3: need to.
Speaker 5: Sixteen years is enough.
Speaker 1: Enough, it's twenty many years.
Speaker 3: I've heard some other exaggerations.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely drunk. I exaggerated a total number of podcasts.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I think I was recently on a podcast where I
Speaker 1: just dropped like a yeah, we've done like five thousand podcasts. Like, what,
Speaker 1: what what?
Speaker 4: What we've done?
Speaker 1: Five thousand?
Speaker 4: I would call that more of an estimation than an exaggeration.
Speaker 4: We're closing in on five thousand. At least.
Speaker 1: It all gets into like which ones are we counting?
Speaker 1: You know, the spinoffs? You start adding all those up,
Speaker 1: I mean, are you counting other just social not not
Speaker 1: YouTube shorts, but other videos we've made before?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, five thousand pieces of media content. Maybe that's not
Speaker 1: that much of an exaggeration. Podcast.
Speaker 8: I guess the question is when do you start rounding down?
Speaker 8: Because it's like, I've been doing this for twenty five years.
Speaker 3: I don't want almost ashamed.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know what I mean, like, you've been doing
Speaker 8: this for twenty five.
Speaker 4: Years, shame.
Speaker 3: Years.
Speaker 1: When you say twenty years, that does sound correct.
Speaker 8: I mean that's that's soon, that's soon, twenty years.
Speaker 3: We'll be doing it's yesterday pretty much.
Speaker 1: We're nearing a thousand podcasts of No Dunks, just with
Speaker 1: the athletics. What you got on you it's right there.
Speaker 1: We did over one thousand as the basketball Jones, over
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred as the starters, seven as the free agents.
Speaker 4: Let's not forget those.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget those two weeks or whatever it was,
Speaker 1: and then yeah, another thousand coming up.
Speaker 3: Crazy, it's a lot.
Speaker 1: That's a lot, all right. That's the rapid fire, so rapid,
Speaker 1: so fire. That's the drop. Thanks for joining us. Leave
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Speaker 1: by Neutral at the White Oak Music Hall doors at five,
Speaker 1: show at six. Special guests Kelly Eco of the Athletic
Speaker 1: covers the Rockets. He's going to join us on stage
Speaker 1: for a little bit, so that'll be a blast. And
Speaker 1: then if you want to stick around after the live show,
Speaker 1: they are going to show the NCAA Championship game on
Speaker 1: the ginormous big screen that Jad says is potentially a
Speaker 1: led screen, not even a projector. Thank god those although
Speaker 1: I guess we're in the basement. It's not going to
Speaker 1: be an issue with sun. Oh yeah, and I ever
Speaker 1: watched a trim watch a projector and it's like too
Speaker 1: much lights. I can't see anything. So there will be
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Speaker 5: All neutral will flow, man, I.
Speaker 1: Tell you they better have the BlackBerry lemonade. I will
Speaker 1: say this, No mango for us.
Speaker 5: Okay, you know what.
Speaker 1: I think it's my least favorite, and I love all
Speaker 1: the other ones. But I had a mango last night,
Speaker 1: sitting on the porch. Beautiful day here in Atlanta, great
Speaker 1: day for a mango flaps sitting beside me.
Speaker 4: But just I think it's me.
Speaker 1: It's I'm not a mango mango juice. So you never
Speaker 1: really want a mango like the actual fruit. You like
Speaker 1: mango like light light, You.
Speaker 4: Do mangoes, fire juice, fruit, mango, anything, mango. Mango. Mango
Speaker 4: is a top.
Speaker 1: Tier fruit in my book. Doesn't doesn't pair nicely with
Speaker 1: my my real Seltzer and my real vodka.
Speaker 8: Fair fair, plenty of other flavors, flavors, most fun.
Speaker 3: Mango has the most fun pit of them all.
Speaker 4: That seed that crazy.
Speaker 8: I don't even know.
Speaker 5: What that thing is.
Speaker 1: Oh man.
Speaker 6: I love to slice the cheeks off a mango, feed
Speaker 6: it to the kids. You can do the cool thing
Speaker 6: where you like cross slice it, flip it out.
Speaker 4: And then you just get the nona on that seed.
Speaker 4: Disgusting but so good, pure juice all in your teeth.
Speaker 1: That's a mango.
Speaker 4: I bet that's a juicy Yeah, he would hate that.
Speaker 3: He hates all juicy fruit gum.
Speaker 5: He loves the gum iron locome.
Speaker 1: It's all real fruit.
Speaker 4: Is this good?
Speaker 1: New one coming up there? Early start up next week,
Speaker 1: so make sure you subscribe to that as well, and
Speaker 1: get on the Patreon. Maybe he could rank his fruits
Speaker 1: or something like that. You should, he should. Here's what
Speaker 1: you should do. This is good Patreo material on camera.
Speaker 1: Have Maddio have to eat allD the fruits?
Speaker 4: Is it good? Nope? All right?
Speaker 5: Next b five fruits and he just has it.
Speaker 3: He eats them all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, getting a mess, so messy like make yeah, make
Speaker 1: them do it nude for sure. Okay, guys, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us on the job. Shout out to everybody joining us, Lie,
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Speaker 1: Until then, Clipper bros.
Speaker 4: You heard it here first. Have a great time, turn up.
Speaker 4: Love you guys awesome.
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us I remember Scottie pippin War thirty
Speaker 3: three because you heard it here.
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