Speaker 1: On this episode weed Check trying to put a little
Speaker 1: pretty little bow on the NBA season, talking about our
Speaker 1: biggest surprises, the least surprising moments and things that ended
Speaker 1: up coming to fruition, biggest disappointments, things we saw coming,
Speaker 1: and of course our favorite moments from the past. NBA
Speaker 1: season always one of my favorite shows to look forward to,
Speaker 1: just recapping kind of getting the overarching sort of bow
Speaker 1: on it. That makes sense, all right, Brock, do me
Speaker 1: a favor and get me out of this word vomits
Speaker 1: and drop that beat. Welcome to the busy season of
Speaker 1: the NBA. There is no busier time where more shoe
Speaker 1: is constantly popping than right now. Nothing nothing more popping
Speaker 1: than the week of the draft. Free agency kicks off
Speaker 1: on June thirtieth. We rolled directly into Summer League where
Speaker 1: we get to see all of those rookies and has
Speaker 1: been trying to show themselves to the world. Also betting
Speaker 1: the Summer League second year gonna be electric. Let's just
Speaker 1: say that me up in Thomas and Mack Center on
Speaker 1: my little bet mgm app Degeneracy. All games of the
Speaker 1: Summer League are televised this year, every single one. I
Speaker 1: don't even know how that's possible. But TNT and ESPN
Speaker 1: made that, or NBA TV and t N ESPN made
Speaker 1: that shit happen. TNT would have been wild. I will
Speaker 1: be on the ground from Summer League the entire time.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing some live shows.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about first and foremost, the biggest surprise for
Speaker 1: me this NBA season. Boston got good out of nowhere. Addition,
Speaker 1: by subtraction, they got rid of Fournier, they got rid
Speaker 1: of Kemba, and we said, yeah, that makes sense. Those
Speaker 1: pieces didn't really work there. They didn't really add anyone
Speaker 1: of note until you know the trade deadline, but it
Speaker 1: was Derek White. So they did everything that they did
Speaker 1: with the same core that they've had for many years,
Speaker 1: and they got to the finals and it looked like
Speaker 1: they could have had an opportunity to become NBA champs.
Speaker 1: Emay Udoka finally got his team to buy into defense
Speaker 1: after ditching the guys who didn't want to play defense,
Speaker 1: and Josh Richardson and Dennis Shrewder and Nnis cant time.
Speaker 1: Lord was a massive surprise with how good he ended
Speaker 1: up being very important piece to this team. He was
Speaker 1: leading blocks, lead the leader in blocks in every location
Speaker 1: on the court this season, every single location, threes, every part.
Speaker 2: Rob Williams held it down.
Speaker 1: The two J's showed the world that they could play together.
Speaker 1: Marcus Smart found his way into the bedroom of an
Speaker 1: NBA reporter so that he could so that he could
Speaker 1: propagandize himself into a DPOY Defensive Player of the Year trophy.
Speaker 1: Good for Marcus Smart. So that's probably the biggest, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest surprises. Another one, the Nets went from
Speaker 1: I went back and listened to me and your first episode, Brock,
Speaker 1: and I said something crazy. I said, if the Nets
Speaker 1: can be healthy, fully healthy, they will be stratospheres above
Speaker 1: everyone else. And I was like, yee. I listened back,
Speaker 1: and I go, yee, that's me. Three minutes into our
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference preview. We did also say that the Nets
Speaker 1: were in more turmoil than any other team in the NBA,
Speaker 1: and that ended up being the case. But scary hours
Speaker 1: never happened. Hard never ended up being in shape. Kyrie
Speaker 1: never ended up being there full time. Blake Griffin regressed
Speaker 1: to Detroit Blake Griffin, LaMarcus regressed to San Antonio LaMarcus.
Speaker 1: All eyes were on the Nets and all eyes said, God, no,
Speaker 1: please let me get this off my television. Turns out
Speaker 1: we never really got to see the Nets fully healthy.
Speaker 1: Katie Hard and Kyrie only played sixteen games together. Sixteen
Speaker 1: games they were a seven seed, not a one seed
Speaker 1: like we thought that they should be got swept. Now
Speaker 1: that there are rumors that the Nets and Kyrie are
Speaker 1: at an impasse with their contract negotiations and so he
Speaker 1: might be looking for another destination as well, which means, folks,
Speaker 1: if Kyrie goes, then you have to imagine that Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant will go, and then you have to imagine that
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons will go and we'll go fully into rebuild
Speaker 1: mode again. So you're talking about a team that had Kyrie, Kady,
Speaker 1: had Harden at one point, had Jared Allen before Harden
Speaker 1: had Karris Lavert, had Joe Harris. This team is now
Speaker 1: it's like a radioactive nuclear warhead went off into this
Speaker 1: franchise because you look around and it's just it's just everything,
Speaker 1: all signs of life are gone. So that is that
Speaker 1: is wild because everyone thought that this team was going
Speaker 1: to be the leader in the clubhouse to win it
Speaker 1: off for the next three to five years with these
Speaker 1: these three talents on the same squad. Crazy least surprising
Speaker 1: thing Philly not being a contender truthfully, and beide, I said,
Speaker 1: is going to have to show me he can play
Speaker 1: more than seventy five percent of the game. The bench
Speaker 1: is shaky. I do not think this team is contending.
Speaker 1: And yes, that all came to fruition. Except for that
Speaker 1: they ended up finding a way to get James Harden.
Speaker 1: Wild turn of events that did not help them in
Speaker 1: any actually probably hurt them. Daryl Morey told the world
Speaker 1: he was gonna get multiple first rounders for Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: It turns out he had to give up multiple first
Speaker 1: rounders to get rid of Ben Simmons and acquire James Harden.
Speaker 1: So there was that. Now there's a lot of speculation
Speaker 1: about James Harden, how long his extension would be for
Speaker 1: Some people are saying it's only going to be three
Speaker 1: year deal instead of a max five year deal. Philly,
Speaker 1: as you know, is now looking to trade everyone. Two
Speaker 1: franchises with high hopes, two franchises that are now literally
Speaker 1: decimating their roster to do what I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Probably the Warriors winning a title is the most the
Speaker 1: most surprising thing for me, but that was that was
Speaker 1: wild biggest disappointment. Lakers and the Nets. Lakers we knew
Speaker 1: weren't gonna be much. The Lakers we knew were gonna
Speaker 1: have spacing issues with Russell Westbrook. The Nets were disappointment,
Speaker 1: as I've said, but they're kind of tied. They're kind
Speaker 1: of tied, and the Lakers now have gotten rid of
Speaker 1: Frank Vogel. They've got a new head coach, Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 1: showing up to his press conferences standing in the room
Speaker 1: like a mob boss waiting to collect the money that
Speaker 1: you owe. And I'm not sure that they get any
Speaker 1: better moving forward. Worst prediction of the year two two
Speaker 1: of them Golden State being a seven seed and getting
Speaker 1: bounced out of the first round of the playoffs. They
Speaker 1: are a champion. They are champions. Nothing that needs to
Speaker 1: be said. I watched all of the Warriors parade today
Speaker 1: and I ingested it all and I was like, they're
Speaker 1: talking about me. Draymond was like, shut the fuck up,
Speaker 1: shut up, shut up. We hate all y'all except for
Speaker 1: Warriors fans. It's like yo, yikes. Also Bucks versus Suns,
Speaker 1: I thought they would go to the finals again, I
Speaker 1: lost a smooth one hundred and fifty dollars on that prediction.
Speaker 1: So wild, not exactly something. They looked both good and
Speaker 1: let's just be honest, the Suns all had COVID. They
Speaker 1: all had COVID for Game seven. That's now been widely reported.
Speaker 1: I've known this for months. I've been keeping it to
Speaker 1: myself like a little canary, wanting to share, wanting to share,
Speaker 1: wanting to share.
Speaker 2: But they all had COVID.
Speaker 1: They did hard to play basketball when you can barely
Speaker 1: breathe and keep your head on straight. And the Bucks
Speaker 1: lost Chris Middleton, So I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: One team has COVID, the other one loses their second
Speaker 1: option on offense. So that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes, folks.
Speaker 1: That's why it's a hard and arduous path to get
Speaker 1: to a championship. Things I could not see coming Eighten
Speaker 1: and the turmoil with the Suns. What this guy was
Speaker 1: a key piece. Chris Paul's been simping and standing for
Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton for since he got there. DA needs to
Speaker 1: get paid. It's only a matter of time. Be patient, DA,
Speaker 1: Your time will come. Everything's happening, No he's just gonna
Speaker 1: walk now. The writing is now on the wall. I
Speaker 1: never thought it would get to the point where the
Speaker 1: sons were like, we will take h We'll take Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert and a first round pick for Adon. Like. I
Speaker 1: never thought it would get to the point where it's like, hmm,
Speaker 1: what do we need? What do we need? Just give
Speaker 1: us a couple of Give us a random Jeff Green,
Speaker 1: Give us a Joe Harris. We just want to get
Speaker 1: rid of him for something. Give us a couple of
Speaker 1: first round picks. We'll use JaVale McGee. It's like what
Speaker 1: I thought. You guys loved DA number one overall pick
Speaker 1: good had Luca, but you didn't you have Da.
Speaker 2: What's happening? And then the whole quitting on his.
Speaker 1: Team thing, YadA, YadA, various. A shocker situation for me
Speaker 1: from a team that has said nothing but positives. If
Speaker 1: you look back at their finals run last year, all
Speaker 1: they talked about is how DA was the guy that
Speaker 1: did all the dirty work. DA doesn't want any credit.
Speaker 1: DA doesn't want any praise. He just goes out there
Speaker 1: and he does his job. He plays his role. He
Speaker 1: could have a bigger role other places. But he knows
Speaker 1: what it takes to win a championship. And now it's like, no,
Speaker 1: he's lazy, he's lazy, he's not that good. Like WHOA,
Speaker 1: what a turn of events. He's now the number one
Speaker 1: free agent name in all the NBA teams like Utah, Toronto,
Speaker 1: Atlanta just frothing at the mouth, Portland frothing at the
Speaker 1: mouth to get da do it, Portland do it. Another thing,
Speaker 1: speaking of Portland, I did not see this happening is
Speaker 1: Dame having season ending surgery on his abdomen. The man
Speaker 1: couldn't even stand up without being in pain, couldn't sit
Speaker 1: down without being in pain. Portland then actively tanking. Team's
Speaker 1: never done that in the history of the team. When
Speaker 1: you're sitting guys like Calgan Blevins, you're sitting on because
Speaker 1: he's too good. Trend in Watford, our guy, our cleaning
Speaker 1: lady at five point fifteen PM as as she normally does.
Speaker 1: And Drew and.
Speaker 2: Drew not blood celt Drew U Banks.
Speaker 1: That's it, Yes, Drew U Banks and this team with
Speaker 1: a new GM INTERIMGM just clearing the entire decks, getting.
Speaker 2: Rid of you know, they're like, this is the house
Speaker 2: that Neil built.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, let's take a bulldozer to everything that
Speaker 1: Neil ever did except for Damian Lillard. All things must go.
Speaker 1: Let's try to get the number one pick. That was
Speaker 1: a shocker to me New Orleans Pelicans. Was it a
Speaker 1: shocker they went one in thirteen? No? Was it a
Speaker 1: shocker that Zion set out in the full season? No,
Speaker 1: not to me. But after one in thirteen, they made
Speaker 1: the playoffs and they gave the Suns the business. They
Speaker 1: gave him hell and I did also not see this.
Speaker 1: HEJ McCollum would be the centerpiece of that team. CJ
Speaker 1: and Brandon Ingram, so many Portland connections upon these surprises.
Speaker 1: But oh my god, another thing, Atlanta becoming a dumpster fire.
Speaker 1: I thought they build on their Eastern Conference finals run.
Speaker 1: I thought, listen, they got a lot of long guys
Speaker 1: that can defend and shoot threes. Trey Young is out there,
Speaker 1: you know, he's like a little baby Steph Curry out there.
Speaker 1: Let me just say this really fast because it just
Speaker 1: came to my mind, so why not blurt it out.
Speaker 1: Trey Young's not even close to Steph Curry like this,
Speaker 1: not even at all the same thing. You can't get
Speaker 1: the ball out of Trey Young's hand, like you can't.
Speaker 2: He's not passing the ball.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry will pass the ball in one possession like
Speaker 1: ten fifteen times. He's really good passer and he's a
Speaker 1: willing passer. Trey Young.
Speaker 2: No one's ever said he's a willing passer, No one
Speaker 2: that I just.
Speaker 1: Thought of that. Demartin Rosen two weeks to Martin Rosen
Speaker 1: was like maybe the best player on planet Earth. He
Speaker 1: was a forty. He's hitting game winners from three. It
Speaker 1: was just amazing moment after amazing moment when everybody slandered
Speaker 1: him and said he was the worst free agent signing
Speaker 1: in all of the NBA, And oh my god, was
Speaker 1: that a terrible take. I'm glad I never wrote that.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I never said that. Another thing, Cavaliers, Cavaliers
Speaker 1: making the playoffs, ish Cavaliers making the play in at
Speaker 1: least Ricky Rubio injury definitely helped or hurt them. But
Speaker 1: like no telling, they were a one seed at one point.
Speaker 1: What nobody saw that? A one seed? They were atop
Speaker 1: the East for most of the year. Another thing, this
Speaker 1: draft class was deep. I don't think anyone really realized
Speaker 1: how good some of these guys like Herb Jones would
Speaker 1: have been. A lot of people thought this drop wasn't
Speaker 1: even gonna be very good at all, and it may
Speaker 1: go down as one of the better draft classes in
Speaker 1: a decade. Things that we saw coming. Like I said,
Speaker 1: Sixers being a disappointment, no brainer, not a roster bill
Speaker 1: for a title run. But we knew that last year
Speaker 1: they had hardened at the deadline. Like we said, it lasted,
Speaker 1: all the fanfare lasted about a week. Ben Simmons not
Speaker 1: playing a single game of basketball, we saw that no way.
Speaker 1: Like his talk last summer about never playing for the
Speaker 1: Sixers again, What are we talking about If he says
Speaker 1: that I'm never playing for this team again, he doesn't
Speaker 1: ever get to another team until the trade deadline. Do
Speaker 1: you think he's just gonna snap back into action. No,
Speaker 1: all of those grueling practices he had with Kyle Korver,
Speaker 1: you didn't think those were gonna get him ready for
Speaker 1: an NBA season. Like all those corner threes he was
Speaker 1: hitting uncontested, taking videos of probably the only makes. He
Speaker 1: only took fun videos of the makes. So yeah, like
Speaker 1: you gotta listen to these people when They're like, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to I'm willing to risk whatever. I don't
Speaker 1: need to get paid. Come find me, garnish my game.
Speaker 1: I'll see you for mental health in fractions like it
Speaker 1: is what it is. The only question really now is
Speaker 1: if he'll play a game next year and where, because,
Speaker 1: like we said, if the Nets are a dumpster fire,
Speaker 1: do we think they're keeping Ben Ben see a therapist?
Speaker 1: Simmons like no, I don't think so. Maybe he'll end
Speaker 1: up in Sacramento, like where he belongs. That would be
Speaker 1: a great place for Ben Simmons. If you could trade
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons for the number four overall pick, would you
Speaker 1: do it? Would you do it like Ben Simmons for
Speaker 1: the number four pick and maybe Rashaun Holmes and Harrison Barnes.
Speaker 1: Would you do it? That's a good trade for both sides.
Speaker 1: The Knicks returning to Earth, we had to have seen coming.
Speaker 1: I know, Brock, you're a Knicks fan. You knew, you
Speaker 1: knew while it was Nicks Mania, was it real? We
Speaker 1: knew I was slandering the Knicks two seasons ago, like
Speaker 1: you guys are fake fake. People were so mad then
Speaker 1: when they had the four seed, I had to eat
Speaker 1: crow and it was like, no, it was that was
Speaker 1: the case. You weren't real. You are shopping, Julius Randall,
Speaker 1: you are shopping, Mitchell Robinson, you are shopping. Tom Tibodeau,
Speaker 1: you are shopping Obie Tompin. Like all of these things.
Speaker 1: They were an awesome story. Tims had him whipped into shape.
Speaker 1: They were running like they were the National Guard and
Speaker 1: getting ready for battle. Trey cut their throats and it
Speaker 1: was like the Red Wedding all over again. No one
Speaker 1: has ever been seen or heard from again. Then they
Speaker 1: decided to sign Kemba and Fourgnier like that was a
Speaker 1: good idea. That was like an arranged marriage and it
Speaker 1: made no damn sense. Now Rose was out for most
Speaker 1: of the year. No point guard. Pretty inevitable that the
Speaker 1: Knicks and Tom Tibdau wouldn't want to play any of
Speaker 1: the young guys to get him some juice. Now Tims
Speaker 1: is probably on the shore leash. We don't know how
Speaker 1: this ends. They're gonna say he's not gonna be fired,
Speaker 1: and we know most likely he's gonna be fired. Kenny Atkinson,
Speaker 1: backing out of the Hornets shop, did not see that coming.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why. I still
Speaker 1: need to know why. I know it's Michael Jordan related.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there's some whispers that Steve Kerr is
Speaker 1: gonna retire, that Kenny Atkinson's gonna take over the Warriors.
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. This is a team I
Speaker 1: know they don't have ego, but they're established stars. So
Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson's windsprint method, I don't think it's gonna work
Speaker 1: out for me. Dog.
Speaker 2: That's a sidebar though.
Speaker 1: Grizzlies. We saw the Grizzlies making a deepish run right.
Speaker 1: We saw them being probably a top three team in
Speaker 1: the West even in the offseason. Just how well they
Speaker 1: played against Utah, how they bounced Golden stayed out in
Speaker 1: the playing game. Barring bad injuries, they could have gone
Speaker 1: to the finals if it wasn't for Jaw going down
Speaker 1: with a knee injury. They came very close even without Jaw.
Speaker 1: They've got a bunch of guys with Sharon Jackson and
Speaker 1: Desmond Baine and Tias Jones. Like this team should be
Speaker 1: good next year. They should be good for a lot
Speaker 1: of time. Utah not hard to see them being a disappointment.
Speaker 1: Was it not rock and science. When you get smoked
Speaker 1: by the Clippers, and before that's the year before smoked
Speaker 1: by the Nuggets, when you were up three to one
Speaker 1: in both of those series, and you've done nothing to
Speaker 1: add to your defensive wing presence, to your three point shooting.
Speaker 2: What else is gonna have?
Speaker 1: Other teams get better, you regress, teams figure you out
Speaker 1: thenevitability as you get bounced. That's it. Like you didn't
Speaker 1: even weren't even able to be a number one seed
Speaker 1: like you were last year to get your home court.
Speaker 1: So yeah, now you got Quinn Snyder quitting for what
Speaker 1: we don't even know, just to step away get some sleep.
Speaker 2: He's got severe sleep deficit.
Speaker 1: We already know that. You can see it in his
Speaker 1: under his eyes. And now it's like don Mitchell and
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert, are they gonna split up? Are? The best
Speaker 1: thing is like, will they still force him to play together?
Speaker 1: Because that's gonna be a nightmare if that happens. So
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be asking about it all season long. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up with you and Rudy? Hey at that, Rudy,
Speaker 1: I thought you wanted a trade out of Utah. Hey,
Speaker 1: Donovan did you know that you were going to Did
Speaker 1: you know that we counted how many New York Sports
Speaker 1: games you went to this summer. It's up to thirty seven.
Speaker 1: It's not thirty seven. Do you know that Donovan Mitchell's
Speaker 1: dad works for the Mets. That's an interesting, interesting little
Speaker 1: nugget to file away. Another one that we saw coming
Speaker 1: is Zion Zion being so injury prone he couldn't even
Speaker 1: play a game, not one, not one NBA game. I
Speaker 1: told the world. It's one of the very first things
Speaker 1: I shared with you, Brock in Octoberion is it's a
Speaker 1: rap for Zion. Sorry Richard Jefferson, but like he hasn't
Speaker 1: played eighty two full games.
Speaker 2: He did not play overweight. We knew that was the case.
Speaker 1: We knew the whole emotional eating through injury was the case.
Speaker 1: And like that has become a stain on his reputation.
Speaker 1: But not only that it people killed me for it
Speaker 1: and turned out to be one hundred percent true. Turned
Speaker 1: out to be one hundred percent true. People killed me.
Speaker 1: And all of this brings up the question, are the
Speaker 1: Pels actually better off trading Zion than playing him? Could
Speaker 1: be an interesting thing with him on the roster, but.
Speaker 2: It also could be a disaster.
Speaker 1: I remember brandon Ingram and his happiness level when Zion
Speaker 1: was on the court, and it was lower than it
Speaker 1: is right now. I remember brandon Ingram's efficacy on the
Speaker 1: court when Zion was there, and it was lower than
Speaker 1: it is right now. I'm not so sure that Zion
Speaker 1: and brandon Ingram.
Speaker 2: Work well together.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that Zion contributes to a good
Speaker 1: defensive team. Doesn't like to run back on defense because
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't like to run. Russell Westbrook not
Speaker 1: working that. Speaking of guys who don't like to run
Speaker 1: when they don't have the ball, like this guy, this guy.
Speaker 1: We've known this for years now, but for some reason,
Speaker 1: they always try it. There's always one trade where they
Speaker 1: try to finesse you. They try to make you feel
Speaker 1: they try to Martha Mitchell, you like they beat you
Speaker 1: up in the hotel room, they lock you back, and
Speaker 1: when you come out, they're like, yeah, that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: We always knew Russell Westbrook wouldn't work.
Speaker 2: Wait hold on here, No, I.
Speaker 1: Said he would, And you're like, yeah, no, we said
Speaker 1: that too, Yeah, yeah, no. It was a total experiment.
Speaker 2: We also knew, So why'd you do the trade?
Speaker 1: Why'd you get well, things were working with KPJ and
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma Casey p excuse me, No, they were working.
Speaker 1: What are you saying? So we knew a d Russ
Speaker 1: and Lebron weren't gonna be able to coexist. The truth
Speaker 1: of the matter is, why are they still trying to
Speaker 1: make it exist now? It's like it's like a mean girls.
Speaker 1: Stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook will never move without the ball. Never. Lebron
Speaker 1: James needs the ball in his hands surrounded by shooters.
Speaker 1: That's it. Those two things don't go together. Russell.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Thirdly, Russell Westbrook can't shoot threes. He's a horrible jump shot.
Speaker 1: He has a horrible, horrible jump shot. There's and lamps. Now,
Speaker 1: the montages that we've seen of Russell Westbrook hitting the
Speaker 1: ball on the side, it's a skill hitting the ball
Speaker 1: on the side of the backboard.
Speaker 2: It's almost impossible.
Speaker 1: It's like when you miss, like when you hit a
Speaker 1: golf shot and it goes through all of the branches
Speaker 1: of the tree and it through the air unscathed. It's
Speaker 1: like that, but the opposite, like there's air everywhere except
Speaker 1: for this little tiny sliver of the side of a backboard,
Speaker 1: and somehow he's hit it hundreds of times. I don't
Speaker 1: understand it. Frank Vogel fired. Now we have Darvin Ham.
Speaker 1: We'll see how this goes. Some of the favorite moments
Speaker 1: one my favorite number one moment. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: chronological mostly. Do you guys remember when Ben Simmons reported
Speaker 1: back to the Sixers and he actually went to practice
Speaker 1: and they filmed it, and they filmed him looking at
Speaker 1: his cell phone while the practice was going on, stoic
Speaker 1: face in all Sixers gear and you're like, oh, and
Speaker 1: then Doc Rivers kicked him out of practice and he's
Speaker 1: never been seen or heard from him again. Yeah, that happened.
Speaker 1: That was an early one. That was an early great
Speaker 1: moment that was meant for comedy. Kyrie Irving. How about
Speaker 1: another one, Kyrie Irving. You guys remember this one, Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving showing up to Barclay Center as a spectator to
Speaker 1: a Nets game on the team that he plays for.
Speaker 1: Just the show. He could be inside of a building,
Speaker 1: unvaccinated and unmasked, and he showed up late just so
Speaker 1: everyone would see him. That happened. That that happened. Remember
Speaker 1: when Steph was was breaking or on his way to
Speaker 1: breaking the three point record, but because he was about
Speaker 1: to break the record, it created a shooting slump the
Speaker 1: word shooting slump of Steph's career.
Speaker 2: That was amazing. That was amazing Harden.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember when Harden was lying to the
Speaker 1: nets and he told the nets that he wanted to
Speaker 1: be there, And then Steve Nash told us that James
Speaker 1: Harden promised him that he wanted to be there and
Speaker 1: that he wasn't going to be traded. Meanwhile, James Harden
Speaker 1: was missing games, not traveling with the team, and when
Speaker 1: he was traveling with the team, was partying in the
Speaker 1: hotel all night long while he was still fat.
Speaker 2: That was that happened.
Speaker 1: He do you know that he has someone that travel
Speaker 1: like that takes his hookah around everywhere with him.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Do you know how many parts.
Speaker 1: A hookah is? It's like thousands of parts. You have
Speaker 1: to set up a hookah on a like a back
Speaker 1: to back. How much like hookahs are trash, It's just
Speaker 1: flavored cigarette smoke. And he has his own hookah and
Speaker 1: he travels with it. I need if I ever meet him,
Speaker 1: I have to know what's up with that, like I
Speaker 1: need to know. So that happened. That was funny. Remember
Speaker 1: Remember another one after they traded Harden that was like
Speaker 1: two days later, was when the All Star Draft was
Speaker 1: and it was Lebron James and Kevin Durant, and Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant was sitting up there explaining why he wasn't drafting
Speaker 1: Harden and why he was gonna take Rudy Gobert over Harden,
Speaker 1: and his stoic face about needing a rim protector because
Speaker 1: Lebron James was playing five now and then and then
Speaker 1: Lebron with the clipboard put the clipboard over his face
Speaker 1: and then Lebron was like, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: I can draft James, like is Dre James healthy? And
Speaker 1: then Kenny was like, obviously he's now on the sixers,
Speaker 1: he's healthy now. That happened. That happened. Man, do you
Speaker 1: remember when the Lakers became the the league wide punching
Speaker 1: bag for every other young and up and coming team
Speaker 1: and team in the league, like Sacramento clowning clowning the
Speaker 1: Lakers on the court, Karl Anthony Towns. Do you remember
Speaker 1: when when Russell Westbrook hit the side of the backboard again,
Speaker 1: Actually I think he airballed, and Patrick Beverly and Carl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns looked around to see if there was a
Speaker 1: bird in the arena, but it wasn't a bird. It
Speaker 1: was the airball. Yeah, that was amazing. Do you remember
Speaker 1: when Pat Beverly cried like he had won the title
Speaker 1: because they won a playing game to make the playoffs?
Speaker 1: He cried like he was Kevin Garnett, Anything's possible. Ugly
Speaker 1: cry too, like the ugliest cry. And he stood up
Speaker 1: on the table like his name was Jalen Suggs because
Speaker 1: he took the Minnesota Timberwolves to the playoffs. That was amazing.
Speaker 1: Remember when Wiggins got captivated? This is backwards, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna get there. Remember when K pop made Andrew Wiggins
Speaker 1: an All Star because every retweet was worth like six
Speaker 1: votes and k pop is insane. So the K pop
Speaker 1: star had like millions of followers and he's like, please
Speaker 1: retweet this for Andrew Wiggins, Like I need to know
Speaker 1: about how that went down. How is this K pop
Speaker 1: star connected to Andrew Wiggins?
Speaker 2: But do you guys.
Speaker 1: Also remember that since Andrew Wiggins has become an All
Speaker 1: Star because of this pop k pop star, he's actually
Speaker 1: like become good. Andrew Wiggins dunked on Luca. Dunked on
Speaker 1: Luca in the middle of a playoff game and stole
Speaker 1: his soul. I think Luca tried to get out of
Speaker 1: the way. And he went from being asked in the
Speaker 1: play in game last year to becoming an All Star
Speaker 1: to becoming the second best player on a championship team.
Speaker 1: Those are not words I ever thought I would say
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins is the second best play on a championship team.
Speaker 1: Remember when Draymond started a podcast and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he couldn't play basketball anymore, and everyone, including
Speaker 1: his own mom, couldn't figure out what was going on
Speaker 1: with them, And his mom said, I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: I don't ask me. This is not anything I'm used
Speaker 1: to seeing. I'm not sure if this is a clone
Speaker 1: of my son. Please stop asking me what's wrong with Draymond.
Speaker 1: I've never seen this version of him either. Yep, that happened.
Speaker 2: The NBA is the best.
Speaker 1: Remember, Clay Thompson just recently decided to come after Jaron
Speaker 1: Jackson for a tweet that's three and a half months old,
Speaker 1: just because he wrote strengthen numbers, and Clay just decided
Speaker 1: he was gonna to go off and call Jaron Jackson
Speaker 1: Junior a clown and a bum. And then that turned
Speaker 1: into a full Twitter war between John Morant and Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: where like, I think Jaw's going to fight Draymond on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. Now, I'm not sure they're promising to see
Speaker 1: each other on Christmas Day. I don't think it's to
Speaker 1: open up presents. What a way to end the season.
Speaker 1: What a way Today he was running Clay running in
Speaker 1: front of the bus, carrying the Ilary O'Brien trophy in
Speaker 1: one hand and high fiving with the other. And then
Speaker 1: also one final thing, Steve Kerr said in his speech
Speaker 1: at the championship parade today, when we started trending camp,
Speaker 1: I thought we could be pretty good, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know we could win the whole thing. Steve Kerr is
Speaker 1: the only one I like right now because all the
Speaker 1: other ones, all the other ones are like what like
Speaker 1: Draymond Greens?
Speaker 2: Like what you want me to say? We're better than
Speaker 2: everybody else.
Speaker 1: We already knew that it's like, yo, hold on, you
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs two straight years, dog, bless your heart.
Speaker 1: All I know is this, we had some moments. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be chronicling them all throughout next year so that
Speaker 1: we have a better idea of where we've gone and
Speaker 1: where we will go. But this has been one hell
Speaker 1: of an NBA season, one hell of a ride. Thank
Speaker 1: you to my producer, Brock aka the Goat aka the
Speaker 1: King of Sound. And that's all the time that we have.
Speaker 1: That's all the time that we have the heat Check.
Speaker 1: We will be back Wednesday. We're gonna be doing a
Speaker 1: live draft episode on Wednesday previewing the draft that is
Speaker 1: coming this Thursday, and then we will also be doing
Speaker 1: an episode Friday post draft recapping that. So make sure
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