Speaker 1: Well well, and another well, the MAVs are off to
Speaker 1: a great start, a blinding start, some would say, so
Speaker 1: are the Timberwolves. And meanwhile we have the ascension of
Speaker 1: one Tyreese Maxi of the seventy six ers. And we'll
Speaker 1: also talk about some bad businesses decisions almost stumbled over
Speaker 1: that because some of these decisions were questionable. And we
Speaker 1: have even more with comedian Blacks what did I just say?
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 1: And even more with comedian Fudy Weestler on today's episode.
Speaker 1: Leave that in Brian. I'm Miles Gray, non producer Jabari
Speaker 1: and this is Miles and Joe Barby.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we got mad Boosty.
Speaker 1: Davis.
Speaker 3: God, here you be.
Speaker 1: Driving spinning curry, a three quarter stop corry from the
Speaker 1: town again honest territy, Hello, Bles Wakeler, good to have
Speaker 1: you on.
Speaker 4: Hi so good here as tres Lester is Yeah, trials play.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I ble blexed that one, Davis.
Speaker 2: You know why.
Speaker 1: It's because I know you well enough that I don't
Speaker 1: even have to look at the script and then I
Speaker 1: can just get hungue tied, just with all my excitement
Speaker 1: for having you on the show. Blake, you have your
Speaker 1: first hour, your hour comedy special on the YouTube Daddy
Speaker 1: Long Legs. People should check into that. I think for
Speaker 1: people who listen to the other podcast that Jack and
Speaker 1: I do, the Daily Gust, they've seen, they've heard, they
Speaker 1: know how hilarious you are. But this one is good
Speaker 1: and you want people to go check it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just came out about a month ago. A
Speaker 4: bunch of people have watched it, A lot of people
Speaker 4: from the Zeitgeist family have watched it, and yeah, it
Speaker 4: is very proud of it, incredibly proud of it. I
Speaker 4: I stand behind that comedy Okay, so yeah, yeah, check
Speaker 4: it out.
Speaker 5: Check it out. You'll love You'll you will like it.
Speaker 5: You will like it or you're wrong.
Speaker 2: What would make you more proud that comedy special or
Speaker 2: a Sixers title this year?
Speaker 4: And it's not even close. It's a thing where I've
Speaker 4: turned my back in a way and I am a
Speaker 4: very positive person, so it to be negative like this
Speaker 4: is so it's not like me and it's their fault
Speaker 4: because I now am like, oh, okay, I'm negative. It's like, no,
Speaker 4: you're not. They did this. The Sixers did this to you.
Speaker 4: They fundamentally altered your personality for the worst and not
Speaker 4: even talking about my life.
Speaker 5: It's just my what do I have?
Speaker 4: Not my personality? So yet it is I it's just
Speaker 4: it makes me sick. And now they're doing the thing.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll get to it, but I know so
Speaker 4: many people who are saying, Blake, let's go to a
Speaker 4: Sixers game, Blake, do this, and I go no, because
Speaker 4: I'm not stupid, I'm not dumb. Will only make the
Speaker 4: same mistake nine years in a row, and I'm done
Speaker 4: doing It's so I'm not doing ten. I'm not doing
Speaker 4: But how are you? I mean, I know that that
Speaker 4: come back. Look, we know we.
Speaker 1: Know Sixers fans well, they're part of our lives. We
Speaker 1: care about them deeply, and this always happens. We're like,
Speaker 1: I mean, look at where Look at the state of
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers currently eight straight at the time
Speaker 1: of this recording. Okay, we have Tyrese Maxi putting up
Speaker 1: fifty points, okay, and be putting up thirty seven as
Speaker 1: a duo. They're dynamic. What what what? What could you
Speaker 1: be upset about? Who's been playing like this? That's well, Chamberlain,
Speaker 1: You're right, that's that's this little the dipper.
Speaker 4: I think he's one of the biggest dippers I've ever
Speaker 4: seen by the way people have challenged me on that,
Speaker 4: but I would say, as dippers go, one of the
Speaker 4: biggest and if not the biggest. So this is the
Speaker 4: problem with this team, is that the torture that I
Speaker 4: and my six Ers family and by that I mean
Speaker 4: the O'Brien family have been through during since the process
Speaker 4: is they are eight and one and they also have
Speaker 4: it's a fun in theory, it's a fun core. And
Speaker 4: here's the thing with I'm the biggest Embiid fan. I
Speaker 4: love Embiid throughout this journey. Embiid personality wise, love him,
Speaker 4: not his fault that he would get hurt, but he
Speaker 4: is complicit and part of through no fault or of
Speaker 4: his own sometimes and his fault directly a part of
Speaker 4: the torture where you know he would get sick. He
Speaker 4: got elbowed in the face, like there's just been bad
Speaker 4: luck associated with Embid, even when he won the MVP.
Speaker 4: So now we have this team Satan won and there's
Speaker 4: Tyres Maxi, which is so close to drawing me back
Speaker 4: in because he's a guy so close where we weren't
Speaker 4: even gonna get So he is the Marquel Folts.
Speaker 5: That was promised, you know.
Speaker 4: And he is so good and he's he's something that
Speaker 4: the seventy six ers team has never been, which is
Speaker 4: pure joy and happiness. And he's young, and the way
Speaker 4: he plays, he's having fun. He always has a smile
Speaker 4: on his face, and his game is so perfectly complimentary
Speaker 4: to Joel Embiide and the way that he has grown.
Speaker 4: Where I can't remember, there was this first overall pick
Speaker 4: that we had who just refused to play and practice
Speaker 4: with the cell phone in his pocket.
Speaker 5: Went to Brooklin. Then thank thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: So he did not evolve his game, he didn't learn
Speaker 4: to to shoot. And then you have Maxi who has
Speaker 4: worked on improving his game and look how great he's been.
Speaker 4: I'm so close to being drawn back in, and we
Speaker 4: almost didn't get him. Literally, it was like a pick
Speaker 4: that if Oklahoma City had lost the final game of
Speaker 4: the year, that pick would have turned into a second
Speaker 4: round pick. And yet somehow we got that pick for
Speaker 4: of Tyrese Maxy and he fell in the draft after
Speaker 4: he went to Kentucky. So I'm I'm getting close to
Speaker 4: being drawn back in, but I am proud of myself
Speaker 4: I'm going I'm not going back in though I do
Speaker 4: love Tyrae Maxty and I'm cheering for him and Embiid obviously,
Speaker 4: but I hope the Sixers get moved to Newark.
Speaker 2: But okay, so with all of that, you just said
Speaker 2: eight games literally unlocked, being if you know, if you will,
Speaker 2: Tobias Harris playing well, Nick Nurse, the new system, everything
Speaker 2: looks great. Embiid honestly, every every bit as good, if
Speaker 2: not better than his MVP year. Yeah, Yet I don't
Speaker 2: know if I believe that.
Speaker 1: I feel like I know you're back. You don't want
Speaker 1: to admit your back because I feel deep down you
Speaker 1: know you're going to meet your best friend in the
Speaker 1: second round, and then if you start the timer all
Speaker 1: over again, I know that's what's going on. There's no
Speaker 1: way I look at this and not be like yes
Speaker 1: and know that it's it's obviously doing harm to you.
Speaker 1: But that's just how addiction works. Sometimes you're like, honey,
Speaker 1: but it's okay, let's just do one more ride.
Speaker 5: Can I tell you something?
Speaker 4: All of my comedic and wanting to be a good
Speaker 4: guest sensibilities right now want to yes and you and
Speaker 4: be like you're right, I'm back in. I can't even
Speaker 4: do it. I honestly, I'm so far out I can't
Speaker 4: even be on it. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: You are watching.
Speaker 4: I'm dabb I. I'm watching because it's just in there exactly.
Speaker 1: That's what I know. But it's but you're not back
Speaker 1: I get. But you are beholding You're beholding the.
Speaker 4: Psch the vision. I'm not even ducking my head around
Speaker 4: a corner. I'm doing one of those things in a
Speaker 4: war movie where I have like that mirror that doesn't
Speaker 4: exist anywhere, but these people have for some reason in
Speaker 4: war where the angle man it like around the corner
Speaker 4: and look to see if there's like a person poknon
Speaker 4: trying to shoot you. That what I'm doing where I
Speaker 4: don't I don't want. It's a meduce the situation. When
Speaker 4: you're not watching the Sixers straight on and watching them
Speaker 4: through a mirror in my.
Speaker 1: Just to make just to give some distance. You're like, well,
Speaker 1: this is actually the play happened in the reverse visually
Speaker 1: of what I actually saw, because it's.
Speaker 4: Being mirror exactly exactly and real quick as good as
Speaker 4: the vibes are right now, Kelly Ubray, who's having his
Speaker 4: best season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just got hit by a car. I know, that's great.
Speaker 4: Just the Philadelphia driver hit him, hit and run and
Speaker 4: he's fine, thank god, Like he has a fractured rip.
Speaker 4: But I think and also just period, thank god he's
Speaker 4: okay full stop. And then also he should be playing
Speaker 4: I think again probably in a couple of weeks. Like
Speaker 4: he's it's not a season ending thing, which is.
Speaker 1: Said that he came to practice that as we record this,
Speaker 1: it said he like rode the bike and was, you know,
Speaker 1: on on his way. So that's good. So it's not
Speaker 1: it's not too too messed up.
Speaker 4: But I get flies in the league. First team, all eyes,
Speaker 4: all eyes the list again.
Speaker 2: Okay, Max great, Joel Embi great, Nick Nurse, Hey, welcome,
Speaker 2: welcome here, Welcome to the city of brotherly love. Tobias
Speaker 2: is playing well, eight and one start, you know, leading
Speaker 2: the Eastern Conference. Kelly Ubray, you know, having a great year,
Speaker 2: and you know, knock on back, you know, playing well,
Speaker 2: and Kelly Oubray's eyes and we still can't get you
Speaker 2: to go there.
Speaker 5: It's the eyes.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a combination of his eyes and
Speaker 4: when Maxi, Maxi's the bridge back in and obviously embid. Two,
Speaker 4: it's now Here's God, I I really need It's I'm
Speaker 4: in therapy. So it is like it's a thing that
Speaker 4: I hope my therapist doesn't listen to, as she's gonna
Speaker 4: be like, oh, he doesn't listen to a word I say.
Speaker 4: But yeah, if I do get dragged back in, it's
Speaker 4: obviously going to be first and foremost Maxie, Nick Nurse.
Speaker 4: It's hard to even acknowledge that there's a coach on
Speaker 4: this team ever. So you know, like Brett Brown when
Speaker 4: he was there, he didn't deliver really, but he was
Speaker 4: such a likable I see watching this guy get tortured
Speaker 4: by this ridiculous even that. You know, Doc Rivers has shortcomings.
Speaker 4: Of course, I think he's a little underrated. I think
Speaker 4: Doc Rivers takes more crap than he deserves. But and
Speaker 4: now you have Nick Nurse, who seems like he's like, uh,
Speaker 4: he plays acoustic guitar and he's interesting, I guess, And
Speaker 4: we're full closed. But yeah, it'll it'll be I think
Speaker 4: MAXI will probably end up bringing me back in until
Speaker 4: he retires midseason, probably for no reason.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm actually I want good things for you, you know,
Speaker 1: because I don't want people to get caught in their cynicism,
Speaker 1: you know, unless you know, maybe you have the misfortune
Speaker 1: of liking the Clippers or something. But I don't want
Speaker 1: somebody to get caught in this cycle of underachieving and frustration.
Speaker 1: I want you to have belief, you know, because I
Speaker 1: think it's a beautiful thing, and I certainly like watching
Speaker 1: it's so funny because even though I see it happen
Speaker 1: every year, I'm like, oh, yeah, they're they're cooking, let's go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then but it's just so funny. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's more people, like maybe all the Philly fans are
Speaker 1: just willing it into distance with their negative like yeah,
Speaker 1: wait till the second round and.
Speaker 5: Then we're right back. But hey, it's so buddy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see they are on paper more fun and
Speaker 4: we'll see they'll probably add a like a third person
Speaker 4: where I know a lot of fans. Sixers fans want
Speaker 4: like a Zach Lavigne, you take them, should take them.
Speaker 2: Lakers fans are also saying the same exact thing, and funny, they're.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, maybe maybe him. I'm like, let's let's not
Speaker 1: get too caught up in the recency bias. Here, let's
Speaker 1: take a let's take an expanded view of what we're
Speaker 1: talking about here.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, yeah, I think it's more that he's gettable
Speaker 4: for those reasons that you're just saying. I think you're
Speaker 4: alluding to. But right, yeah, who knows. We'll see, Yeah,
Speaker 4: we'll see, We'll see. I'm so damaged.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2: Time in on this one. Are they playing like the
Speaker 2: best duo in the league right now? I recognize it
Speaker 2: on paper?
Speaker 1: Now you don't have to say they're gonna win ever,
Speaker 1: you know, win at all, but best duo in the league.
Speaker 5: Thank you for handling me with pig glove.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I do believe they are playing that way. And also,
Speaker 4: you know, Embiid does get moody. You can't blame him,
Speaker 4: and it's he's had difficulty in the past connecting with,
Speaker 4: say like a Ben Simmons, and he seemed to get
Speaker 4: along well enough with Harden, But it does seem like
Speaker 4: there's I think he used the phrase big brother little
Speaker 4: brother situation with him and MAXI, And I think if
Speaker 4: you have a guy that much younger than Embiid is
Speaker 4: and who does not divert but defer to embiid when
Speaker 4: the time's right, and also helps his game spreads the floor.
Speaker 4: It is a really special combo, right, So yeah, I
Speaker 4: think right now they're incredibly Who would you have in
Speaker 4: that conversation other like Jalen Brunson and Joshuard who else?
Speaker 5: But you put in as the di bad to us?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, like the obvious ones are the
Speaker 2: big names, or like Brown and yeah, yeah, yeah, Jayleen
Speaker 2: Brown and Dylan Brooks clearly or no, excuse me, dumb,
Speaker 2: Jalen Green and Dylan Brooks clearly, No, Tatum and uh
Speaker 2: and and jay and Jayalen Brown. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I threw you a whole bunch of names that have
Speaker 5: and jumbled and you're doing great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's It's like, if we talk about the most
Speaker 1: popular name in the league.
Speaker 2: They've got like seven jalens on Okac's roster. I don't
Speaker 2: know how that's possible, but yeah, looking Katie Giannis and
Speaker 2: Dame right now, those names are bigger. But I think
Speaker 2: I actually think that those are those that combo was
Speaker 2: playing the best so far.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so. Through nine, Yeah, through the night.
Speaker 1: It felt like sure at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: like everybody was pointing at the numbers of book and
Speaker 1: KD and like yeah. That was like yeah, and then
Speaker 1: there I get that the Giannis and Dame thing, the
Speaker 1: excitement there. But I was just asking Jabari before recording,
Speaker 1: I'm like, but what is Dame actually doing? Because I
Speaker 1: remember in the beginning I saw some great moments and
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, they're off to something. But then
Speaker 1: I'd like then it maybe two weeks ago I was
Speaker 1: catching again. I'm like, okay, is he does he like
Speaker 1: playing defense? And now I was asking job I'm like,
Speaker 1: where where are the numbers there to support it? Or
Speaker 1: is it? Does he seem a little deflated? I think
Speaker 1: it's three.
Speaker 4: I've heard that his three point or that he hasn't
Speaker 4: been shooting threes as well, But I may have seen
Speaker 4: that on the ESPN bottom line four weeks ago. And
Speaker 4: now I'm repeating it as if it's fact.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, Jabari, where are we at?
Speaker 2: It's still facts. He's he's shooting in the twenties and
Speaker 2: you know from from deep shooting like thirty seven percent
Speaker 2: from the floor. He's never you know, he's never shot
Speaker 2: an incredible percentage from the floor because he shot so
Speaker 2: many threes.
Speaker 1: Right, well, really what you know, and look like this is.
Speaker 2: Me from the outside looking in. What it appears is
Speaker 2: is that they're still going to have to figure that
Speaker 2: roster out around him, whether that means bringing in complimentary
Speaker 2: players to actually help him out. You know, you're honest,
Speaker 2: you know what you're going to get. And and he's
Speaker 2: and he's he's still been playing incredibly well. You know,
Speaker 2: he had a fifty four point night the other night.
Speaker 2: And I do think that Dame will eventually settle into
Speaker 2: his own but part of me does think that it
Speaker 2: it really is a bigger adjustment than a lot of us,
Speaker 2: you know, anticipated, in terms of going from being like
Speaker 2: the big fish in a small pond all of a sudden, No,
Speaker 2: you're expected to win a title this year alongside you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels a little bit like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like just the perceived slump in his performance, like there's
Speaker 1: no way the not going to Miami thing isn't affecting him.
Speaker 1: Like I just it's hard for me to believe that
Speaker 1: because that was like that was like me Christmas of
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two with the Super Nintendo.
Speaker 2: I was like I need that.
Speaker 1: It's like Smeiegele with it. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: he shout out to my parents for not letting me
Speaker 1: go full gollum and giving me the console of my choice.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel like that there's no way that
Speaker 1: isn't affecting you as as a like your performances. I know,
Speaker 1: obviously as a professional you should be able to switch gears.
Speaker 1: And I know there were the rumors are like, dude,
Speaker 1: he will not play if it is not Miami. And
Speaker 1: I bet obviously some of that is hyperbole to try
Speaker 1: and further a deal, but I'm sure on some level
Speaker 1: that is rooted in some kind of truth for him personally,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe, I don't know, Hopefully it's just
Speaker 1: a matter of time and you can figure it out,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't know. It does seem like it's
Speaker 1: not quite clicking.
Speaker 4: He is also a six to thirty three year old,
Speaker 4: you know where it's like he has his game like
Speaker 4: an insult.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it is al but like just in general,
Speaker 1: like you're not even the context of basketball if you're
Speaker 1: just like, dude, you're a six to thirty three year old.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that.
Speaker 5: Get out of my face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like gen Z, it's like, yeah, gen Z, insults
Speaker 1: that just cuts you to your core, like, wow, that
Speaker 1: was very cool. Anyway, sorry, anyway, he's a six foot
Speaker 1: two thirty.
Speaker 4: Three year old six foot two thirty three year old
Speaker 4: ed which I would, you know, tear an arm off
Speaker 4: to have someone say something like that about me.
Speaker 5: But it's his body has put like he does have
Speaker 5: kind of some.
Speaker 4: Rough mileage on his body carrying those teams, and you
Speaker 4: know it's I think like in later in this season,
Speaker 4: I'm sure there'll be like in a ten game stretch
Speaker 4: where he's like, I have a sore knee or whatever,
Speaker 4: and then he'll recover and then they'll be like the
Speaker 4: most dangerous team in the league. But you know, it
Speaker 4: is there is also a point to be made, like
Speaker 4: it's it's he's put hard Miles on his body and
Speaker 4: now he's like in a new situation. To Miles's point,
Speaker 4: he didn't get to go to the team that he
Speaker 4: wanted to go to, and he's not the star anymore. Yes, yeah, yeah, obviously.
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, let's take a break and we'll
Speaker 1: come back and we'll talk a little bit more. Maybe
Speaker 1: some Luca, maybe some joker who knows to grab bag.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're are back. I said,
Speaker 1: we're are That's uh, that's not proper English. How about
Speaker 1: this one and we're back? Aha, got it. Let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit, Uh, Luca and the MAVs. They're doing
Speaker 1: pretty well. I'd say they're doing pretty well. Although it's
Speaker 1: funny because a lot of our guests over the like
Speaker 1: off season, they were doing a lot of there were
Speaker 1: a lot of their hot takes. We're like, watch the
Speaker 1: MAVs not even get a whiff of the postseason, or like,
Speaker 1: or it's gonna be, you know, early lights out for
Speaker 1: them in the postseason. But and I get obviously it's
Speaker 1: so early, but they're they're starting from a decent place.
Speaker 1: I'd say, yeah, Look I was.
Speaker 2: I was on the opposite end of that, and I'll
Speaker 2: be honest with you. I thought I might be wrong
Speaker 2: about this, and then might I might be going out
Speaker 2: on a limb. But I felt like they had a
Speaker 2: great offseason. You know, obviously, you know, if you've been
Speaker 2: paying attention to the Mavericks over the last like say
Speaker 2: or probably in their entire existence, but over the last decade,
Speaker 2: they hadn't had a lot of productive offseasons. It was
Speaker 2: always like Oh, they went after this guy didn't quite
Speaker 2: get them. Oh, they went after the guy didn't quite
Speaker 2: get them. But you know, they've solidified the roster. It
Speaker 2: looks significantly better. Luca may finally be the MVP that
Speaker 2: a lot of people have been begging for him to
Speaker 2: be for the last like seemingly three four years. You know,
Speaker 2: he's only been in the league five to sixty eight years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you know what, the Kyrie thing, While I personally
Speaker 2: may have had reservations or questions about it, at the
Speaker 2: very least right now it's working. So yeah, the things
Speaker 2: look good for them, especially when you know when Luca
Speaker 2: himself personally plays the Clippers.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the Clippers had the misfortune of intersecting with this
Speaker 1: MAVs team recently, and Luca has a bit of he
Speaker 1: kind of has their number, Like he likes to turn
Speaker 1: up against the Clippers. So in that game, he had
Speaker 1: forty four points on seventeen from seventeen to twenty one
Speaker 1: from the floor. They went on a thirty four to
Speaker 1: thirty five to four run in the second quarter, and like,
Speaker 1: what's the Like he's always going like above his average,
Speaker 1: Like he's overperforming right against the Clippers. Davari.
Speaker 2: Yeah, against them in the regular season, he's a thirty
Speaker 2: three nine and eight guy. It gets even worse than
Speaker 2: the postseason thirty four, nine and ten. You know, he
Speaker 2: scored forty or more against them eleven times in a
Speaker 2: regular season in postseason combined, and he even went for
Speaker 2: fifty one last you know, last February. It's one of
Speaker 2: those things where when this Clippers you know, team was
Speaker 2: put together, and not to take it away from you know,
Speaker 2: not to take it away from Luca, but when this
Speaker 2: Clippers team was put together, they were you know, respected
Speaker 2: journalists and analysts asking questions like who's going to score
Speaker 2: on this team? Who on the perimeter is going to
Speaker 2: score with it? Well, I'll tell you it might be
Speaker 2: a few years later, but it doesn't matter. Luca is
Speaker 2: the answer to that question.
Speaker 4: This is interesting too, where like I have this weird boy,
Speaker 4: this Tim Hardaway bias where he's stuck in my head
Speaker 4: as the guy who is a part of that wild
Speaker 4: Porzingis trade in twenty nineteen as kind of a throw in.
Speaker 4: But now there's players like that where they have a
Speaker 4: lot of hype around them and they don't meet that hype.
Speaker 4: But then after time you can kind of reset that
Speaker 4: hype where now they're not being paid in that way anymore,
Speaker 4: and they now like their role changes and become like
Speaker 4: a complimentary player. And I think this version of I'm
Speaker 4: also laughing where you sorry you have Lukatags is one
Speaker 4: of the like objectively the most interesting player in the league.
Speaker 4: And I'm rambling about Tim Hardaway right now, but this
Speaker 4: is a good complimentary player version of him where he
Speaker 4: comes off the bench, he's giving you, like whatever pass
Speaker 4: view is like fourteen to seventeen points. His three point
Speaker 4: percentage is like pretty good. And obviously Kyrie Irving he's
Speaker 4: just such a hard guy to even acknowledge, but he
Speaker 4: is very like, you know, they still have a Kyrie Irvings.
Speaker 4: So yeah, they're an exciting I think like a lot
Speaker 4: of bias in the off season was Kyrie's gonna blow
Speaker 4: up and then you know, Luca, as amazing as he is,
Speaker 4: hasn't put it all together yet and that which is
Speaker 4: scary because he's still like one of the best players
Speaker 4: in the league.
Speaker 5: But now they are clicking in a crazy way, right Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just also the Clippers, we saw you know, former
Speaker 1: seventy six er James Harden come come home, you know,
Speaker 1: to Southern California, and I think, I mean a lot
Speaker 1: of people were like, how, what's what's how is this
Speaker 1: gonna go? It seems to be going not good at all.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to make jokes because they're literally
Speaker 1: on and four with him.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I'm like I was telling Jack before even we recorded.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, don't know what's going on. Jack
Speaker 1: was like, ah, just I feel bad for him, feel
Speaker 1: bad for him. I'm curious, how do you what? What's
Speaker 1: your how you know from Blake from Black's Wakeler from
Speaker 1: what how are you? How are you looking at?
Speaker 3: What is happening with with Harden and the Clippers right now?
Speaker 3: They're my new favorite team. That's who I cheered for now. No,
Speaker 3: it's so I always loved James Harden. Where I had
Speaker 3: an Arizona State James Harden jersey. Yeah yeah, And I
Speaker 3: also it was the year it was him and Oj Mayo.
Speaker 4: I think was like that, like I I scooped up
Speaker 4: a bunch of weird college jerseys that year where I
Speaker 4: had Arizona State James Harden, I had Oj Mayo Southern
Speaker 4: California and then Michael Beasley Kansas State, and I really
Speaker 4: really blew through my allowance that year. But so with
Speaker 4: James Harden, I was psyched for him to become a
Speaker 4: sixer because I thought he could become because on paper,
Speaker 4: the guy led the league in the sists last year,
Speaker 4: which is I think he had over eleven assists per game,
Speaker 4: over twenty two point or over twenty points whatever he scored.
Speaker 4: And you're like, oh, this guy seems like on paper
Speaker 4: the perfect running mate, or it seems as if he's
Speaker 4: accepted his role now as an aging guy who can't
Speaker 4: like get off the ground anymore and but still can
Speaker 4: be a very useful player. But he hasn't accepted that role.
Speaker 4: He still thinks that he's a top at worst a
Speaker 4: top four player in the league, and he wants to
Speaker 4: be paid like it, and that is that's why he's
Speaker 4: not in Philadelphia anymore. So now you put him on
Speaker 4: a team, and it's I do want him to do it,
Speaker 4: because I've always cheered for Harden, like when he, like
Speaker 4: in his prime, was one of the most fun players
Speaker 4: I think to watch. It was also infuriating how he
Speaker 4: would go like foul fishing, but like, still I didn't
Speaker 4: mind that, and I.
Speaker 5: Would love to see this Clippers team.
Speaker 4: It's classic, this Clippers team where it's all based on
Speaker 4: p and Shoal rather than what is where you know,
Speaker 4: it was the same thing with Paul George. He hasn't
Speaker 4: just hasn't been healthy. And then you have James Harden
Speaker 4: who thinks that he should still be the number one
Speaker 4: option on any team. And it's not that surprising. I
Speaker 4: don't it'll even out, but it's been weird to watch
Speaker 4: for sure them be this bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as a fan of a team that started two
Speaker 2: and ten last season and then we're able to pick
Speaker 2: themselves out of the gutter, I do. I'm with you
Speaker 2: in terms of it doesn't have to stay this way,
Speaker 2: but part of me and I'm and you know what
Speaker 2: Clippers fans, you know, like all twelve of you guys
Speaker 2: out there. I'm not I'm not ragging when I say this,
Speaker 2: but what I will say is the only way this
Speaker 2: changes is if one of either James Harden or Russell
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook accepts coming off the bench and accepts a
Speaker 2: significantly lesser role. And I'm gonna be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I just don't see that taking place. Now. Maybe they
Speaker 2: can have some players players meetings, and you know, Kawhi
Speaker 2: can sit there and not say anything, and you know,
Speaker 2: Paul George can you know, maybe you know, maybe chime
Speaker 2: in and you know whatever. But honesty, guy James Harden
Speaker 2: came in and said, I am not just a player.
Speaker 2: I am a system. I am the system. That's not
Speaker 2: a guy that's going to adjust anytime soon. And while
Speaker 2: I don't have any personal beef with him, part of
Speaker 2: me will continue to enjoy the sadness that Clippers fans
Speaker 2: are experiencing.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, I mean the system itis. You know you
Speaker 1: can't you saw that clip that was going on Twitter
Speaker 1: when they were playing Memphis, right oh, when he now, sir, sir,
Speaker 1: this is a family show. This is a family show.
Speaker 1: Like when he was the way he was, the way
Speaker 1: he was wiping his souls, like this was like high school,
Speaker 1: like man, watch this because you know the camera's only
Speaker 1: here to watch me, right, kind of energy to only
Speaker 1: get reject did twice because was that an airball or
Speaker 1: was a blocked.
Speaker 2: I think it was a block. He goes, he gets
Speaker 2: the rebound and he gets blocked again.
Speaker 1: Then he got blocked again, and you're like, well that's well, hey,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's hard. It's it's hard to acknowledge, you know
Speaker 1: it kind of the reality of the situation. But hey,
Speaker 1: I think I'm sure something will occur. I've heard the rumor,
Speaker 1: like their rumors, you know, flying that like, you know,
Speaker 1: Kawhi is really not not really not enjoying what's happening.
Speaker 1: I think, to put it lightly, which understandably.
Speaker 2: So all I know is when Kawhi, when you know,
Speaker 2: chose to go there rather than accepting the Lakers offer,
Speaker 2: he said, I don't want the silly basically, I'll paraphrase,
Speaker 2: because like I'm just basing his own the eyes that
Speaker 2: you know that he made, But I don't want that nonsense.
Speaker 2: I don't want the you know, all of the stuff
Speaker 2: that comes along with super teams just trying to get
Speaker 2: thrown together. Yeah, that's exactly what he's got now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, my mother always said, if you don't
Speaker 1: have something positive to say on a podcast, go to
Speaker 1: commercial break. And that's what we're gonna do. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back and we're back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, difficult, Yeah, yeah, it's difficult. It's difficult,
Speaker 1: but hey, when you get specific, they love it. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get to the fourth quarter of Rabbit Rapid Fire
Speaker 1: Rounders questioning. We are going to ask you a question.
Speaker 1: Don't think about it, you just respond, don't show boat.
Speaker 1: Keep it quick, keep it right, keep it tight. Are
Speaker 1: you ready? Brian?
Speaker 2: Start the claw? Bright? I'm sorry he yielded you you too.
Speaker 1: Brian's okay, he's he played in a lot of bands,
Speaker 1: so his his hearing isn't great. That's why I do it.
Speaker 1: It's it's not anger. It's a volume thing.
Speaker 4: Okay for a rapid round. You sure are waiting into
Speaker 4: this slowly? Wait, we're gonna get to this at some point. Lord,
Speaker 4: what is happening?
Speaker 2: You know what? Okay? No, you know what.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, I respect, I respect your game. I
Speaker 1: wasn't not familiar with your game. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go, question number the first, HM, why
Speaker 1: you go? Actually? Are you all right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Blake? Are you ready?
Speaker 5: I just want to make sure already?
Speaker 1: Thank you for asking Brian.
Speaker 2: You're ready, Brian, Let's hold.
Speaker 1: Let's get a confirmation. Are you with us? Can just
Speaker 1: put in the chat?
Speaker 2: Sorry? Sorry? Sorry, sorry, okay, Blake coming up first.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Brian's ready, hold on, Oh please
Speaker 1: keep this okay, this is the whole show. This has
Speaker 1: always been the show. All right, So we're good, We're good,
Speaker 1: We're good.
Speaker 2: Let's go all right, Blake, Yeah, give us your best
Speaker 2: hot take for this NBA season. I know it's already started,
Speaker 2: and you can kind of get away with sheeting and
Speaker 2: acting like you made it at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, give it to fire it off.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: The Wemby will not win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: Oh hm, I like that.
Speaker 4: I don't think that body is gonna hold up. I
Speaker 4: think he's gonna miss some gay. I hope he doesn't.
Speaker 4: I hope he's healthy the whole season. Yeah, I think
Speaker 4: who's winning? I'm not going to be chat. Uh, it's
Speaker 4: I can't I can't think because a lot of people
Speaker 4: are pitting picking. I I guess chet Homeroom is probably
Speaker 4: the second most favored. But the kid not Barn Scotty Miller. Yeah, yea, yeah,
Speaker 4: yeh yeah, yah yeah yeah yeah, I got you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, you're here for is winning?
Speaker 1: Okay? Like you know Philadelphia pretty well, don't you?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 5: How Why why I'm from I'm from I'm also living
Speaker 5: here currently.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, fine, fine, I guess I'll take that as
Speaker 1: I guess I'll take that as evidence that you know,
Speaker 1: something's kind of you. How about this, one of these
Speaker 1: gotta go the Philly cheese steak, Tasty Cakes for Rita's
Speaker 1: water ice.
Speaker 5: He stuck the landing on the water too. I want
Speaker 5: tasty cakes out.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you just don't like to taste for me.
Speaker 4: I just think it's just what they almost killed Bill Clinton,
Speaker 4: and that's why. And I don't want to elaborate, but
Speaker 4: I will. He had I think he would have them
Speaker 4: flown into uh DC, and that's obviously not why. I
Speaker 4: just like the other things a lot more. For me,
Speaker 4: it's cheese steaks, Rita's, and then tasty cakes.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, I didn't know what else
Speaker 1: to put, to be honest, if I was, if I
Speaker 1: just can be transparent about how I was forming this question,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if to put like a HOGI also
Speaker 1: because obviously that's a that's a staple thing or like
Speaker 1: a like one of like a roast pork, you know,
Speaker 1: I know that's another that's another thing you guys like
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 4: But I okay, I'm glad unwarranted aggression. Yeah, if you
Speaker 4: want I wanted to go, or hostility.
Speaker 1: Towards the members of your sports teams, one of the
Speaker 1: one of these Philadelphia stables has to go. Okay, okay, like.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate your thorough answer there, but I gotta
Speaker 2: be honest. This is the rapid that's right.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm sorry, it's not Blake's breaking down.
Speaker 2: Okay, not the breakdown, even though that's you know what,
Speaker 2: Let's pitch that.
Speaker 5: That's happening off Mike, I'm around.
Speaker 2: You can go back in time. You can permit either
Speaker 2: A there's a there's one right answer here, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can permit either AI for Philly Chuck to make
Speaker 2: a run with this particular squad, which one are you
Speaker 2: choosing to take that ride? And don't get this.
Speaker 5: Wrong, it has to be a I.
Speaker 1: That has to Brian.
Speaker 2: Brian cut his Mike, Let's get the hell out of here.
Speaker 5: You're going with Barkley.
Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a Barkley.
Speaker 1: Stand so that I'm telling you, I'm I'm with you, Blake.
Speaker 4: I'm a Barkley stands. Just no one can touch AI. Also,
Speaker 4: Bubba Chuck is one of AI's many nicknames, so I thought,
Speaker 4: I'm like, wait, it's Philly Chuck.
Speaker 5: Do you want to call him Billy Chuck? Or Ai?
Speaker 2: You got of Chuck when he was in fil Rebound?
Speaker 2: If you will?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and I will and and
Speaker 1: and why Ai? Why this? I believe his name is
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson?
Speaker 5: Sure for sure? Sure to me he is.
Speaker 4: He's now, Yes, the vice president of Rebok Basketball Alan Iverson.
Speaker 4: Congrat congratulations to him, which that is a cool story.
Speaker 4: I really like that a lot. But Ai is one
Speaker 4: of the most I would say it's hard to find
Speaker 4: a more interesting athlete, not even just in basketball than
Speaker 4: he is. Where what he did bringing like like to
Speaker 4: the culture in the NBA and how people hold him
Speaker 4: on a pedestal where I've never seen when you see him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, okay, more on that later. We got to
Speaker 1: really keep this moving, Blake. So the next question, so
Speaker 1: if you go back.
Speaker 5: In history, no, I don't believe, not genesis of this was.
Speaker 1: We have to keep this moving because you are you're
Speaker 1: putting this. The lawyers are calling you right now. They're like,
Speaker 1: this is not rap.
Speaker 5: I don't want to get you in trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay. The next one.
Speaker 2: Next one.
Speaker 1: If an alien came down, m h right up to
Speaker 1: your door, knock knocked, guess who you open the door,
Speaker 1: and the aliens like you need to prove you are
Speaker 1: a Sixers fan. I don't know how you prove this
Speaker 1: to me, But prove to me you are a Sixers fan,
Speaker 1: or I am taking you away in this yere spaceship.
Speaker 1: What do you do or say to show them? Prove
Speaker 1: to them that you are in fact a Philadelphia six
Speaker 1: Ers fan And they go, oh okay, I.
Speaker 5: Like you fluff off.
Speaker 4: I would open my robe to reveal the fact that
Speaker 4: I'm wearing an Eric snow jersey, and then I'd say
Speaker 4: good day, sir, and I'd shut the door.
Speaker 2: That the alien would say, all right, yeah you got it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have a trip to go on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Second time the Philly Freezer.
Speaker 1: Second though, you want my spaceship. I realized I'm not
Speaker 1: built for any of this anymore. Shift to my core.
Speaker 5: It tosses me the keys. They have keys.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's the Mazda.
Speaker 2: Wait what all right? You're doing? You can take two
Speaker 2: players from all of history to create your special edition
Speaker 2: Mad Boosti's NBA Jam Team. Which two players are you
Speaker 2: taking beyond you know, Charles Markley, of.
Speaker 5: Course beyond Barkley.
Speaker 4: I'm taking the glove Gary Paide because he will get
Speaker 4: you the ball back, the swipe, his ability to get steals,
Speaker 4: swipe from half court. They called him the glove. I
Speaker 4: called him the swipe. I would go iverson and then wait,
Speaker 4: is there an I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I meant, I
Speaker 4: meant Gary paid, Gary paid. And you know what, I'm
Speaker 4: going camp too. I'm going to keep it in the family.
Speaker 4: I'm going to keep it on the nineties that they
Speaker 4: were so much fun to play with. What if I
Speaker 4: was like a debt left Shrimp and Dirk Navitsky to
Speaker 4: be too.
Speaker 2: I would say, oh, I see what I see what
Speaker 2: time it is?
Speaker 1: Smiths?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yes, oh man okay. And last question, Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: important man. I want you to look us dead in
Speaker 1: our eyes when you answer this. Pick one Jabari or Miles.
Speaker 1: Go right now, go Miles. What does that mean?
Speaker 5: I'm going I'm going Jabbari because he books this.
Speaker 2: Here it is I mean, it makes this to me.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: Jack still catches raise out here.
Speaker 4: Look, look how replaceable this show is. Like people on
Speaker 4: this show? Jack, you can just have anyone come in,
Speaker 4: you know whereas like your bar.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, anyways strange, everybody's kind of straight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one's safe when the street sweepers out here.
Speaker 5: Miles was just available.
Speaker 1: Yeah wow, oh my gosh. Well, Blake Wexler, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us on this edition of Mad Boosties.
Speaker 1: Where do people find you? See you, follow you, hear
Speaker 1: you all that kind of fantastic stuff.
Speaker 5: Thank you. This was so this was an absolute blast.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. I would love to do
Speaker 5: it again.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's always good happen. And my our special Blake
Speaker 4: Wexler Daddy long Legs is streaming on YouTube. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be in Ashville December first doing stand up and I
Speaker 4: have a new show, weekly show in Brooklyn, New York
Speaker 4: where first one December sixteenth at Gowannis and go on
Speaker 4: as at Strong Rope Breweries. So December sixteenth, eight pm
Speaker 4: free the first one, So come out.
Speaker 1: Nice, yeah, enjoy some comedy and some SuDS while you
Speaker 1: do that, and you can find us. First of all,
Speaker 1: you can follow the show on at hashtag mad not
Speaker 1: at hashtag but hashtag Matt Busky's thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Where you know you can. You can. You can stay
Speaker 1: you know, abreast with all the findings and developments that
Speaker 1: we have on the show, including new episodes things of
Speaker 1: that nature. And then you can find me on Twitter
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff at Miles of Gray,
Speaker 1: Jabui where they find you.
Speaker 2: I'm at Jubori Davis, NBA. Make sure you find Jack
Speaker 2: at Jack Underscore.
Speaker 1: Brad all right, all right, and yeah, that'll do it
Speaker 1: for us this week. We're going to be back next
Speaker 1: week because so is the NBA, so you can guarantee
Speaker 1: that we'll see you. Then take care, Bye, Yer.