Speaker 1: Well, I guess what, I'm Miles, but I do that later,
Speaker 1: usually in the intro.
Speaker 2: But Team USA got off to a pretty good start
Speaker 2: at the Paris Olympics.
Speaker 1: It did well with an impressive win over Serbia in.
Speaker 2: The first game.
Speaker 3: So we we haven't seen the second one. You have
Speaker 3: you have played against.
Speaker 1: On what we saw prior to the Olympics when they
Speaker 1: face off against South dude, and maybe a bit of
Speaker 1: a nail bier, But we'll see. But we'll get into
Speaker 1: plenty of early tournament talk and continue our nineties nostalgia
Speaker 1: series with the median and podcast host Matt Leeb.
Speaker 2: On today's episode, I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien
Speaker 2: and this is Jack Dodd. Sorry, got it?
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Speaker 3: Uh, Matt, I just found out about the NBA from
Speaker 3: the Olympic basketball.
Speaker 2: They were just wandering by.
Speaker 3: They were like, wow, it sounds like a lot of
Speaker 3: people in there went in saw Lebron James and we're like,
Speaker 3: where's this guy from?
Speaker 2: And now they're turning into our podcast and now they say,
Speaker 2: Matt Boosti's.
Speaker 3: And we were flying through the roof right now.
Speaker 2: Flying through the roof, flying through the stratosphere.
Speaker 1: Matt Leeb, you are also flying through the stratosphere up
Speaker 1: and down the state, traveling comedian podcast host by yourself,
Speaker 1: a gun by yourself, a wire proadcast Bat Hasbara. You've
Speaker 1: got many shows, many things you talked about, but day
Speaker 1: we're talking Olympics and some nineties nostalgia.
Speaker 2: I know you were like the Olympics started. Well, I
Speaker 2: heard that.
Speaker 5: I know that it started because I saw clips of
Speaker 5: the opening ceremony in which there was a death metal
Speaker 5: band playing that year.
Speaker 2: Was that was super cool?
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, I didn't know that the
Speaker 5: Olympics was sick like that. I know it was sick.
Speaker 5: I'd have been into it years ago. Yeah, pretty metal.
Speaker 1: Actually, I thought like when they talked about medals, them
Speaker 1: in like gold medal, silver.
Speaker 2: Medal and alloys it and al Yeah, pretty sick? Do
Speaker 2: you so? How much have you?
Speaker 1: Did you see any highlights of Team USA or should
Speaker 1: we describe to you what's happening.
Speaker 5: I you know what, I have not seen a highlight.
Speaker 5: Didn't know that they started playing. I thought after the
Speaker 5: ceremony everyone just kind of like took a two week
Speaker 5: breather and said, like, Okay, you know now we got
Speaker 5: to get people. We got to start promoting the show
Speaker 5: like fringe festival. We got to get an audience.
Speaker 2: You have that first big thing, but then you want
Speaker 2: to like give it some room to breathe. You don't
Speaker 2: want to seem too eager. Look at me. We're doing
Speaker 2: it an Olympic. I mean, it's like they're doing it
Speaker 2: all at the same time.
Speaker 5: Like some people want to see shot put, some people
Speaker 5: want to see javelin, some people want to see you know, basketball, yeaheah.
Speaker 2: Gun shooting is an event. They've got it all. Is
Speaker 2: that an Olympic sports? Shooting guns?
Speaker 5: Yeah, shooting guns, and we should win. Team I say
Speaker 5: wins that a lot, right.
Speaker 3: They don't. We're not good with accuracy. I don't know
Speaker 3: if I guess that's true. We're just all about firing
Speaker 3: it off. But the moment my eight year old found
Speaker 3: out shooting was an Olympic event, that's all he can
Speaker 3: talk about when when shooting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were the cool goggles too, likeever enhances your aim?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that South Korean like pistol person.
Speaker 1: That woman who just broke the world record was so
Speaker 1: wild to what records were.
Speaker 2: Like just like accuracy at twenty five Okay.
Speaker 5: How many times you can spin it around and then
Speaker 5: put it back like an old West person has.
Speaker 2: Very little in common with the quick and the dead.
Speaker 5: Sharon Stone vehicle. Yes, I feel like that should have
Speaker 5: at least be one of the events. Is how fast
Speaker 5: you can twirl it around? Yeah, yeah, yeah, quick draw,
Speaker 5: I'm just talking whirlingls just it, yeah, spinning it and
Speaker 5: putting it back in the holster.
Speaker 2: And if you can get it like perfectly in the
Speaker 2: hulster each.
Speaker 1: Time, then you get a metal like they finally remember
Speaker 1: the skip it toy You used to put it around
Speaker 1: your ankle and skip around and had the little counter
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, twirling where like you're like skipping over the guns.
Speaker 5: Super nice gun twirling. Everyone's doing a dance at the
Speaker 5: same time. I feel like I saw this in when
Speaker 5: I watched Hamilton on Broadway.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of like people dancing with muskets.
Speaker 3: And I was like, okay, all right, yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 3: when they let a West Virginia host of the Olympics,
Speaker 3: maybe we'll get this right they Kentucky. I've lived in
Speaker 3: both those places, so I can say it, all right,
Speaker 3: Yeah that's true.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't say it. I'm you're not allowed of
Speaker 5: Culver City. Yes, I am a pacific post liberal elite.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of which, I found out that you are
Speaker 3: born and raised Angelino. For your choices of the nineties
Speaker 3: players that you would like to go over, I get
Speaker 3: there's like something that they all had in common. I
Speaker 3: couldn't quite figure it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they all Campbell, Campbell.
Speaker 1: To giveaway Bryant and our friend of the show, Robert or.
Speaker 2: Haven't Yeah, my best friend Robert Or Yeah, well no,
Speaker 2: actually my best friend Robert and also my best friend
Speaker 2: Vince Carter, my best.
Speaker 5: Restaurants Yeah, yeah, my friend publicly. Yeah, I went to Campbell,
Speaker 5: big shot Rob. If you're out here listening to.
Speaker 2: Right, oh, you'd love Rod. That's that's will say.
Speaker 3: When you know a celebrity, You're like, oh, you you should,
Speaker 3: you should meetbe you would love you.
Speaker 2: Bob talk about can't because he's famous. That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I call him Babo, but me and him from
Speaker 1: way downtown Babo. So, uh, Mattri, I'm guessing you know
Speaker 1: we're a similar age, both raised in the city of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I love that you have Elden Campbell here
Speaker 1: from an era a frustration for a Lakers fans. Lakers
Speaker 1: fan Del Harris years, the Randy Funders, there were some
Speaker 1: lean years as a Lakers fan in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like Eldon Campbell, what I think he.
Speaker 1: Was our twenty seventh pick, Yes, in the nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: NBA draft.
Speaker 2: That's because I look did up in preparation for this.
Speaker 1: Is like, wait, why so why did you tell me
Speaker 1: why Elden Campbell has a sacred spot in your fanheart?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: So Elden Campbell for me, uh became my favorite basketball player.
Speaker 5: Not because of basketball, okay, but because Uh. In middle school,
Speaker 5: I had a summer school teacher named mister Campbell who
Speaker 5: was the strangest teacher.
Speaker 2: He sounded like.
Speaker 5: Morgan Freeman and and the students were not nice.
Speaker 2: To him.
Speaker 5: He would say like Teacha abuse, Teacha abuse. Like it
Speaker 5: was very strange the way he would speak. But then
Speaker 5: he at one point he was like, my brother Eldon
Speaker 5: plays for the Lakers, and wow, whoa And I liked, wait,
Speaker 5: Elden Campbell is your brother.
Speaker 3: And he's like, you have told the story before, maybe
Speaker 3: on Daily Zeist.
Speaker 2: Maybe did I tell?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's okay, I want to I want to know
Speaker 3: it again. It's very importan and for what we're talking
Speaker 3: about to.
Speaker 5: Be to be completely honest. You know, when you're a
Speaker 5: kid that age, you just believe everything. And now you know,
Speaker 5: I've like rethought, I've never thought to like google it.
Speaker 5: Does he have a brother who was a middle school
Speaker 5: teacher in Los Angeles or middle school summer school teacher
Speaker 5: in Los Angeles? And uh, you know, I I hope
Speaker 5: it wasn't a lie. He didn't seem like the type
Speaker 5: of guy who lied. He in fact, you know, his
Speaker 5: trans Atlantic accent did seem real. I don't think he
Speaker 5: was putting it on, but just him saying his brother
Speaker 5: was uh, you know.
Speaker 2: What's that? And that was all I needed, no exactly,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh man, that's cool.
Speaker 5: And then I just you know, started started watching, uh,
Speaker 5: the Lakers more more so than ever because I felt
Speaker 5: like I had a connection to them because of the tables.
Speaker 1: You's weird brother, even though he had this like Kennedy
Speaker 1: esque accent. It's because Eldon Campbell is from Inglewood.
Speaker 2: Are you speaking in Inglewood? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Like maybe they just maybe that's just like a you
Speaker 5: know somewhere in Inglewood there's like a just a one
Speaker 5: hood in which everyone's like we speak like Mulgan Freeman Gardens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm from the wood, the seven Acre Wood. It's
Speaker 2: a blesstery day. It's a blustery day in the Christopher Robin. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I also actually, you know, if you look at like
Speaker 5: career stats for Elton Campbell, like he's not bad, you know,
Speaker 5: he just was. He didn't get respect because you know,
Speaker 5: eventually they had a better center.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but he was.
Speaker 3: A standout in Bulls versus Lakers the Sega Genesis game.
Speaker 3: He had like a signature move. There were a handful
Speaker 3: of players who had signature moves. Jordan would go down
Speaker 3: the lane, do the right hand to left hand layup.
Speaker 3: Magic would go down the lane. It was always going
Speaker 3: down the lane. It was just like you get in
Speaker 3: one position, headed towards the basket, hit the right combination
Speaker 3: of buttons and they would get one. But his was
Speaker 3: just like a reverse dunk near the basket. I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: If you look closely, like in the background of the game,
Speaker 5: in the crowd, you can see his brother the middle,
Speaker 5: mister Campbell going teja abuse abuse.
Speaker 3: He sounds like somebody who would be like, oh, you
Speaker 3: did a sports ball Tevin Eldon.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've had the line. I've had the line saying
Speaker 3: goodbye like Tevin Campbell in my head since we started
Speaker 3: talking about Elden Campbell for some reason.
Speaker 2: It's a wood tang layer.
Speaker 1: I remember though, too, when Eldon went to the Pistons
Speaker 1: and we faced them off in the two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: Finals, which we did not win unfortunately. I know.
Speaker 1: I remember he put in quite a shift against our deer, Shakiel,
Speaker 1: and that was a bit of a bitter pill to
Speaker 1: swallow also, but I.
Speaker 5: Was glad to see Eldon get a get a ring, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, and not not on the lake, you know,
Speaker 5: just like be like, hey, take that shack.
Speaker 2: I think you're so good, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Do you think he's so so so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we traded away for him. But in ninety
Speaker 1: nine and that's when, like, is that when Glenn Rice.
Speaker 5: Came Yeah ninety nine, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. He
Speaker 5: was on that first Lakers championship team and I was like, yeah.
Speaker 2: We go, you're the reason baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we shipped out Eddie Jones and Eldon Campbell, which
Speaker 1: was very very difficult for me as a big Eddie
Speaker 1: Jones fan to see.
Speaker 5: But yeah, and Eddie Jones was another one. He was
Speaker 5: almost on the list too, But I felt like, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe too many Lakers. Yeah, you know, we can't have
Speaker 5: every single Laker Laker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know Kurt Rambis del Harris, he's the coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I want to talk about him too. Look,
Speaker 2: can we just talk about Dell?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what great, great gray hair. Yet Shack, I think
Speaker 1: is an obvious choice.
Speaker 2: Obvious choice.
Speaker 3: You're also getting too Shaq and Kobe before anybody else.
Speaker 3: This is our second nineties player run through, so.
Speaker 2: No one else did check and Kobe just well we've
Speaker 2: only done one week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, worth of the nineties player look back.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad because I feel like those two are
Speaker 5: obscure choices you know, like, yeah, for sure, people really remember,
Speaker 5: you know, back in the day, there was this you know,
Speaker 5: yeah three peat championship team called the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 3: But the Eldon Campbell competition is out of control.
Speaker 2: Everyone. Everyone's people are canceling.
Speaker 3: Now that they've heard that Eldon Campbell is off the board.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, they want to talk about Eldon Biggie the
Speaker 1: big baby Lakers, Shaq. I mean what, so between Shaq
Speaker 1: and Kobe did like a Kobe guy, you're a Kobe guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I always felt like because Kobe, you know, uh, he
Speaker 5: never he didn't get no respect.
Speaker 1: That's what I felt about Kobe Rodney Dangerfield of the NBA.
Speaker 5: He was, he really was, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 5: felt like Shaq was such a you know, uh he
Speaker 5: was a behemoth. You know, he was like, uh, not
Speaker 5: just a franchise player, but like an NBA superstar. And
Speaker 5: Kobe was too, of course obviously, but they were always,
Speaker 5: uh you know, it was always like Shack greatest you know,
Speaker 5: center of all time. And uh this is like early on,
Speaker 5: before you know, Kobe proved himself to be one of
Speaker 5: the greatest basketball players of all time.
Speaker 3: I feel like Shaq was as famous when he was
Speaker 3: with the Magic as he was when he was with
Speaker 3: the Like he was so famous already, like he like
Speaker 3: he had he had the movies already by the time
Speaker 3: he got to the Lakers, where it was.
Speaker 2: Like he was already soling albums, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Where he had an audio game called shack Fo you
Speaker 5: know what, he had Kazam, he had Steel, he had
Speaker 5: the albums.
Speaker 1: He had like the clothing brand Twism. Let's not forget
Speaker 1: that either, That's right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Forgot about Twism. Yeah, I had a Twism.
Speaker 1: I had one of the jankiest Twism jerseys you've ever
Speaker 1: seen because my mom found it at ross because I
Speaker 1: was begging for Twism gear. Yeah, and you couldn't find
Speaker 1: it anywhere, and my momus you could.
Speaker 2: Get the irregular ones that yeah.
Speaker 1: Like this one had, you know how, Like remember that,
Speaker 1: like get a regular Twism. Yeah, it can be a
Speaker 1: B grade, a B grade, a B grade Twism shirt.
Speaker 1: You remember that shim Ma machine material that all the
Speaker 1: basketball shorts are made of in the nineties, that like
Speaker 1: if you had a cat and it arrently scratched it
Speaker 1: like ruined, the entire was like one thread and the
Speaker 1: whole thing is dead. It's like scrunched on the side.
Speaker 1: I remember when she brought it back for it had
Speaker 1: one of those scratches in it, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so this is why I was at ross. But I
Speaker 1: was like so in love with it because I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: I am part of the world is mine, which is
Speaker 1: what I stood for the Twism movement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had.
Speaker 1: I mean, Shaq was is such a like you know,
Speaker 1: like in the era of the big superstars, like with
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan taking up all the oxygen, like having a
Speaker 1: big guy like Shaq who felt like a fun, lovable
Speaker 1: kid whose gigantic shoe was in every mall in America
Speaker 1: for some reason because.
Speaker 2: Everyone's like get a loaded of this guy's foot.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and became like the number one novelty in America,
Speaker 3: like yeah, surpassing Giant Ball of String.
Speaker 2: It was like shack shoe. Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: It was like roadside attraction famous, like people were just like,
Speaker 5: look look at this freak. And it was crazy too
Speaker 5: because like in the era of Michael Jordan, which he
Speaker 5: is taking up all of the space to even have
Speaker 5: another superstar who also you know, had uh you know,
Speaker 5: he was a Rebok guy. So you know, he had
Speaker 5: his silhouette on there. They tried to make that bad hacken. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but you know, and and he's he hadn't he hadn't
Speaker 5: even won a championship yet, you know, it took him,
Speaker 5: you know a few years. He had gone to the
Speaker 5: finals with the Magic but he had not won a ring.
Speaker 5: He was beaten by uh you know, like better centers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: and still he was like this big superstar. So when
Speaker 5: he went to the Lakers, I was like, this is cool.
Speaker 5: But also, you know, all y'all are bandwagon. I've loved
Speaker 5: the Lakers ever since. My middle school teacher. Teacher was
Speaker 5: Elton Campbell's brother.
Speaker 2: He was tall, Yeah, very tall. That was the other
Speaker 2: thing that I believe that. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 2: believe it.
Speaker 5: And I also was like, Eldon is a is you know,
Speaker 5: this guy is a weird accent. But Eldon does seem
Speaker 5: like the type of name you would have if your
Speaker 5: whole fans would name yeah, yes, like a transit Atlantic accent.
Speaker 5: Family would name their kid elder, right and so yeah,
Speaker 5: so I was always like, you know, Kobe doesn't get respect,
Speaker 5: Like everyone's buying shock albums. Nobody's buying thug poetry. And
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, he's a he's not a
Speaker 5: great rapper, but he can rap an Italian?
Speaker 2: Why do people not respect this guy? Whe that he
Speaker 2: won the dunk contest? You know? Uh?
Speaker 3: And then when the dunk contest did, did.
Speaker 2: Kobe not win the dunk contest? And crazy? I thought
Speaker 2: he did? That was like his second or first?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I thought he did, like the first first year?
Speaker 5: How is that more? Nyen that he it was iconic?
Speaker 5: He he uh, he has like his what was his move?
Speaker 5: It was oh man, it's been so long, but it
Speaker 5: was like, he definitely dunked the ball good.
Speaker 3: I remember, all right, to make sure he dunked the
Speaker 3: ball good.
Speaker 2: Here's a refresher for Kobe's dunk contest in ninety ninety.
Speaker 1: So the thing that I remember was that he wore
Speaker 1: his shooting shirt for it, which was very like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: we like that.
Speaker 2: And I remember wanting a shooting shirts. Eighteen years old
Speaker 2: six six yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: It's eighteen years old. Here's this but us he got
Speaker 3: second year.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, eighteen years old, his second year exactly. Ooh
Speaker 2: went down between.
Speaker 3: His legs and got them were his shooting shirt the
Speaker 3: whole time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like that casual casual casual.
Speaker 3: Also kind of a mistake because why why is this
Speaker 3: not more iconic?
Speaker 2: You say, a mistake, but you know, but he didn't win.
Speaker 2: The shooting shirt comes off. Oh dude, then they'll do
Speaker 2: it one more time.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and then flext No, but the show, his
Speaker 5: last one I think was, oh yeah, Brandy's in the audience.
Speaker 2: Is important. That's what.
Speaker 3: He took Brandy to the prom right, he did take that.
Speaker 2: He did, he took Brandy to the prompt. And then
Speaker 2: what was this one? He tried to go for a
Speaker 2: bounce between the legs.
Speaker 5: That's a good gab him.
Speaker 2: That that was I don't want to see that replay
Speaker 2: is not nice. First all right, so here's the last
Speaker 2: one we saw. We saw Michael Finley.
Speaker 5: Already definitely like the most iconic one and yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: this is like pumped back.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. So he he.
Speaker 5: Proved himself to be athletically like one of the greatest.
Speaker 5: And then you know, everyone just called him a ballhog
Speaker 5: for his first like three four years in the NBA,
Speaker 5: which was true. You know, he averaged five steals from
Speaker 5: his teammates. Yeah it's not just brow, Yeah, but it was.
Speaker 2: But no, but you could see that belief in him too.
Speaker 1: I remember like one of the playoff series against the
Speaker 1: Jazz and he was throwing up so many shots that
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, relax, like, yeah, you aren't the
Speaker 1: answer to this right now. But you could tell that,
Speaker 1: like that turned into what Kobe then became, which is
Speaker 1: like that real self belief in himself and be like
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not serious.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not joking.
Speaker 1: I will I will negate every contribution from this other
Speaker 1: team by myself if I had to.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that was a thing that was a little bit.
Speaker 1: I remember being frustrated as a young fan because it
Speaker 1: just didn't feel like it his belief was matching what
Speaker 1: was showing up on the court.
Speaker 2: But then when those things were reconciled, Yeah, and once.
Speaker 5: Everything started to come together, once they were running the triangle,
Speaker 5: once they you know, got uh Phil Jackson immediately were
Speaker 5: winning championships, and he was still you know, people were
Speaker 5: still you know, talking track and I was like, you're wrong,
Speaker 5: Kobe's Jordan. And then like Lebron James came out in
Speaker 5: two thousand and three and I was like.
Speaker 2: Whoa Kobe?
Speaker 1: I still hate Jordans, I still don't like Lebron from
Speaker 1: just that, because.
Speaker 5: From people trying to shift the focus away from my
Speaker 5: man Kobe.
Speaker 3: And this is a this is for people who don't
Speaker 3: live in La. This is how most Lakers fans at least.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: A sickness that most Lakers fans have is they are
Speaker 3: they resent that Lebron came to the Lakers and won
Speaker 3: a championship.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, hurt.
Speaker 3: They're like, I hate this guy, like he's just here,
Speaker 3: he just wants to win one with our jersey on
Speaker 3: they Yeah. Lakers fans coined the term Mickey Mouse branding
Speaker 3: for Disneyland.
Speaker 2: All we don't like this guy.
Speaker 3: A question that just occurred to me about Shack because
Speaker 3: arguably he went into the profession where the thing that
Speaker 3: is most notable about him is the least remarkable, which
Speaker 3: is like he's around other people who are huge and
Speaker 3: he like makes them look small by comparison, like Shack is.
Speaker 3: I don't think people understand how big Shack is and
Speaker 3: you're just huge in every direction. Do we think he
Speaker 3: would have had a like he would have been world
Speaker 3: famous if he just like never picked up a basketball,
Speaker 3: because look at this big guy. He would be a
Speaker 3: big guy who's like incredibly like charismatic and cool and like.
Speaker 1: Yes, wait so in this alternate universe, where where does
Speaker 1: he what's his path?
Speaker 3: You still I don't know if he goes to LSU,
Speaker 3: but like, wwe maybe, oh.
Speaker 5: Interesting, I could see him being like a Andre the Giant.
Speaker 5: The Giant people by the way, forget how big Andre
Speaker 5: the Giant was. He's another one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It was like you when you think he's a giant,
Speaker 5: he's just like, ah, there's giants in the NBA.
Speaker 2: No, He's like Jack.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, watch hold can coke and have your
Speaker 3: mind blown.
Speaker 5: Right Yeah yeah, I'm just every finger is the size
Speaker 5: of a two liter bot.
Speaker 2: You know, you're just like what the hell? Yeah?
Speaker 5: But yeah no, he was like always uh, one of
Speaker 5: those guys who I think people you know, you saw
Speaker 5: him as kind of freak, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: It was just like damn, this guy is huge. But
Speaker 5: what made him amazing was the quick dude.
Speaker 2: He was fast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, crazy. Yeah, he would have wanted you would
Speaker 3: have wanted him doing something athletic. Maybe maybe in this scenario,
Speaker 3: he's just like the world's greatest NFL something or other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, did you imagine someone like that?
Speaker 3: All he played center in the NFL like whatever team,
Speaker 3: like the people rushing behind him. Yeah, but you think
Speaker 3: the push push is effective with with.
Speaker 1: Like normal people, like an actual linebacker. You're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't throw it to me over over the middle. But alone,
Speaker 1: you would literally kill people. Yeah, people would have died.
Speaker 2: Oh shake heel, how she adore you? All right? Shall
Speaker 2: we take a quick break?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's take a quick break and then we're gonna
Speaker 3: tilt our eyes over toward Uh that's where the Olympic
Speaker 3: is happening.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back and we're back. I've tilted my eyes.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: I was running through what my inner monologue is going
Speaker 3: to be tonight as I'm trying to go to sleep.
Speaker 2: Our eyes, our eyes, How do you even do that?
Speaker 2: Why do I do this? Such an idiot? Honey, honey?
Speaker 2: Does this make sense? Let's chilt our eyes over this way?
Speaker 2: What not getting out of never mind saying something?
Speaker 5: Everyone says, it's actually super poetic normal it was poet
Speaker 5: Kobet's album.
Speaker 3: Was that really the name of his album. All right,
Speaker 3: that's what we need to do for one of our
Speaker 3: summer episodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's not great, man, I mean because that's
Speaker 2: description of you.
Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant, I know, I know neither ig nor poet
Speaker 3: much projections of things he like wanted to be. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's like, it would be a good Tupac album name.
Speaker 2: Why didn't I just do it? I just make that
Speaker 2: the name of my album? What about this thug mansion?
Speaker 2: That's a man. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Tismos shout out to him though, for what what he
Speaker 3: did for Lebron's game in the Olympics by being on
Speaker 3: the same team with him and just showing them how
Speaker 3: hard you have to work to be like a evolutionary
Speaker 3: player and then like, you know, like somebody who's like
Speaker 3: it moves the game forward.
Speaker 2: Right, And Lebron and a.
Speaker 3: Lot of the players from that generation talk about being
Speaker 3: on the same Olympics with him and being like, oh,
Speaker 3: he wakes up at five every morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, he's the O G grindset mindset guy
Speaker 5: and kind of like ruined. He accidentally ruins the generation
Speaker 5: of men.
Speaker 2: But I think that was YouTube, But I don't think. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't blame that.
Speaker 1: But mamba mentality became so synonymous with so many things
Speaker 1: I think because yeah, like it it worked for him.
Speaker 1: Now does that work for your budding business of doing
Speaker 1: decals on automobiles? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it work for your all meat, you know.
Speaker 3: Maybe see all right, we're gonna talk about the USA's
Speaker 3: first game against Serbia, but first I want to talk
Speaker 3: about my man victorama, my man our man victory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what a what an outing.
Speaker 3: He's had two victories for France so far, and he's
Speaker 3: been controversial.
Speaker 2: I will say controversial win against Japan.
Speaker 3: Against Japan, that was a close one.
Speaker 2: Oh I missed it. So why was it controversial?
Speaker 1: Because Ruy Hachimura was playing in a way that was
Speaker 1: bringing tears to my eyes in the good way, and
Speaker 1: he just got so hot that like they really were
Speaker 1: starting to close the game down against France. He was
Speaker 1: hitting back to back threes and then suddenly he was
Speaker 1: ejected for some like not truly ejectable offenses based on
Speaker 1: what we've seen across the Olympics, which raised a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, people were like, this is a this
Speaker 1: is a sham or whatever. But it was a bit
Speaker 1: I feel like France was a little bit lucky in
Speaker 1: that second game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they I mean they were a lot that lucky.
Speaker 3: I think it was under a minute they were down
Speaker 3: four against Japan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and got a soft four point play call. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know the guy. I might I might have
Speaker 2: missed the replay.
Speaker 5: But it sounds like a scandal, you guys. It is
Speaker 5: like one of those Olympic scans.
Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately, we know that Olympic refereeing has never done
Speaker 3: anything shady.
Speaker 2: So we're we're good here, yes, yeah, yeah, but playing
Speaker 2: quite well. I got it.
Speaker 3: So he played great in their first win against Brazil.
Speaker 3: It was just a lot of highlights, a lot of blocks,
Speaker 3: just a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Everyone was like, oh, this is a new world watching
Speaker 3: him play.
Speaker 2: There's not much you can do about it.
Speaker 3: It's it's interest because they still like, don't play like
Speaker 3: he still like feels like he hasn't been unleashed. He
Speaker 3: feels leashed. Yeah, by in this setting, which is weird.
Speaker 3: I feel like this is us getting to see what
Speaker 3: it would look like if he had gone to college.
Speaker 3: Like the Olympic basketball feels like the best players in
Speaker 3: the world playing college basketball.
Speaker 2: To me, like the stacing is.
Speaker 3: Weird, the style is weird, and yeah, it's all just
Speaker 3: but he he still has been incredible in the game
Speaker 3: against Japan, Like one of the headlines was like Japan
Speaker 3: keeps wembing Yama like under control or you know, holds
Speaker 3: holds Wemby Aama like keeps him from going wild. He
Speaker 3: had eighteen eleven six with two blocks and true shields
Speaker 3: and like basically took over in over time.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, that headline is sort of like, well,
Speaker 1: he didn't score twenty points, right, so they kept him
Speaker 1: under control like those other stats. Yeah, sure, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I really took one jump like I have this
Speaker 1: one jumps out early in the game over him, and
Speaker 1: I was like, brave, brave, But yeah, Wemby's just truly
Speaker 1: continues like to evolve and gets stronger and it's.
Speaker 2: Turning into a young man before our eyes.
Speaker 3: Every France game, Like that's just a deal I've made
Speaker 3: with myself. Who's the last like, uh, you know Tony Parker, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Tony Parker.
Speaker 2: Is he the last franchise France man.
Speaker 3: Like franchise franchise player? Yeah, you know, Like I mean, really,
Speaker 3: Gobert if you ask Minnesota is based on what they
Speaker 3: paid for him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but for talking rings, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Tony Parker's got to be the only man, I think,
Speaker 5: all of France who's ever won.
Speaker 3: He's never the best player on a single one of
Speaker 3: those teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, yeah, sure, but he was pretty good.
Speaker 5: I mean, when it comes to that era of basketball
Speaker 5: and all of the different point guards that Derek Fisher
Speaker 5: made famous, you know, he's one of them, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank that's right, that's that's a historical fact. Shout
Speaker 2: out to Derek. I love you.
Speaker 1: If you listen to this podcast, be my friend, Derek.
Speaker 2: Be my friend. Invite me over to a cookout with
Speaker 2: Robert or.
Speaker 3: Please one compliment I have to pay to our partners
Speaker 3: of this podcast. The NBA is their smart, forward thinking
Speaker 3: position on allowing people to share social media clips, yeah,
Speaker 3: plays from NBA games. Yeah, Like you get about twenty
Speaker 3: minutes to watch a highlight of Olympic basketball on Twitter
Speaker 3: before NBC is taking it down. And it's truly it
Speaker 3: just like makes the impact of these plays and all
Speaker 3: these games like less. It just like penetrates less in
Speaker 3: the culture. And it's a bummer, Like I just wish
Speaker 3: they'd be like no, this is awesome. We're excited to
Speaker 3: be here and uh yeah, watch watch the best players
Speaker 3: in the world do awesome things.
Speaker 2: Almost great point.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it feels like it feels like a snapchat
Speaker 1: or something. We're like, oh, well, you didn't you didn't
Speaker 1: see it. Yeah, I'm like, ah, but I like the highlights, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I probably would have known the Olympics started.
Speaker 1: They allowed the highlights on Twitter. Enough right right right
Speaker 1: on Twitter, waiting for highlight, right right right.
Speaker 3: So Team USA's next game is Wednesday VERSUSU Sudan, so
Speaker 3: it may have already happened as you listen to this.
Speaker 3: The US is favored by thirty. This seems incorrect. Like
Speaker 3: just across the board, looking at how good all the
Speaker 3: teams are. That's the other My other takeaway from the
Speaker 3: Olympics is like, all of these teams look really good. Again,
Speaker 3: the spacing is such that it's it's cluttered in there.
Speaker 3: I don't think the US is like noticeably so far
Speaker 3: superior this time around. I will I think they'll be
Speaker 3: lucky to win a gold medal, whereas in the past disappointment.
Speaker 3: I really do like that there's just so many good teams.
Speaker 3: I think they are the best team, but it's you know,
Speaker 3: it gets to a point where it's single elimination. They're
Speaker 3: playing really good teams who have played a long time
Speaker 3: together and they're just getting still getting used to each
Speaker 3: other and it shows.
Speaker 5: But yeah, on Olympic Olympic basketball last last Olympics, but.
Speaker 3: They didn't win the world title last last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like they didn't they weren't really close at
Speaker 3: that time. So yeah, but we do have Lebron James
Speaker 3: and uh, most importantly, I mean most importantly probably Lebron.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to say, Matt, but KD was KD always
Speaker 3: comes to play in the Olympics. Uh, and he still
Speaker 3: feels like the one player who you see out there
Speaker 3: and he follows through on the promise that like, oh
Speaker 3: we have an NBA player, we have against non NBA
Speaker 3: players out there like that.
Speaker 2: He just he looked like.
Speaker 3: It was on easy mode for him and like nobody else.
Speaker 3: He went eight for eight in the first quarter, five
Speaker 3: for five from three and just was just looked like
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant playing against people who were not up to
Speaker 3: his level. And then like also was hitting impossible shots. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like he was just so hot.
Speaker 2: The opponent level aside, he was just so dialed in.
Speaker 2: It was just freaky that like it felt like when's.
Speaker 1: I they got a ringer, who's the guy?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, hold on check his credentials from But he's
Speaker 6: going against Jokic, the best player in the world by
Speaker 6: a lot of people standards, and you know, the rotation
Speaker 6: is interesting, like they I mean, I think it's gonna
Speaker 6: be different game to game, but yeah, like Ad still
Speaker 6: not playing that much, even though when he played in
Speaker 6: the qualifying and like tune up matches, he would looked
Speaker 6: like the best player a lot of times, or at
Speaker 6: least the best big man.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: They still they like we're doing big man by committee
Speaker 3: type like just like they treated a d Joel Embiid
Speaker 3: and Bam like they were just like big bodies that
Speaker 3: you're like throwing at people to collect fouls like twenty
Speaker 3: minutes each. We're just like, I don't know, go out
Speaker 3: there and collect some fouls against Jokic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't fully foul out, but like they get two
Speaker 2: or three in there, all right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, Brom was awesome. Steph looked really uh solid
Speaker 3: in his minutes.
Speaker 2: Booker.
Speaker 3: I wanted to call out super producer Jabbari was noting
Speaker 3: that like somebody in twenty twenty three tweeted, oh, Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 2: Somebody, Hey, hey, some fan, some fan.
Speaker 3: Some basketball fan named Kyle Kuzma. Cosma tweeted, USA basketball
Speaker 3: better get some NBA stars that know how to play
Speaker 3: a role. Anybody can be nice with the ball in
Speaker 3: their hands, but can you be cool with defending and
Speaker 3: going to the corner for a few possessions?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: And Devin Booker said I'll do it, and he has
Speaker 3: been true. He was true to his word in this
Speaker 3: first game. He was just like out there, you know
Speaker 3: too many people who think they're the best player in
Speaker 3: the world or the best player on the court, and like,
Speaker 3: things don't always work out. So you need people who
Speaker 3: are still going to be like, all right, it's Lebron James.
Speaker 1: We're gonna yeah, or even regardless of being like, well,
Speaker 1: I'll acknowledge this guy's better than me.
Speaker 2: Is just more of like, we all have to play
Speaker 2: a role for.
Speaker 1: The team to defeat the other teams because the you know,
Speaker 1: solo hero stuff.
Speaker 2: Isn't always gonna work out for us in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but that.
Speaker 1: Was interesting to see because Jason Tatum and Tyrese Halliburn
Speaker 1: did not play in that game, and people were doing
Speaker 1: like flippant highlight reels of like you're like, yo, check
Speaker 1: out Tyree's Tatum's like mixtape from the highlight tape.
Speaker 2: And it's just all the steering from the bench.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But like Halliburton, you could tell it was like
Speaker 1: this is great, Like I'm I'm with this, this is
Speaker 1: all okay. Jason Tatum, though I understand you just came
Speaker 1: off of an NBA championship, he was a little bit
Speaker 1: more sulky.
Speaker 3: I mean, Derek White is playing and he's not playing
Speaker 3: in that game. Derek White is, you know, coming into
Speaker 3: last season, was probably seen as the fourth best player
Speaker 3: on their team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: And and also Drew Holliday is playing the third best
Speaker 3: player on that team, and he is supposed to be
Speaker 3: the best player on that team. But I think it
Speaker 3: speaks to what Jabari was calling out with the Devin
Speaker 3: Booker thing, is like you need people who are willing
Speaker 3: to be the other guy on the court, like energetically
Speaker 3: and in terms of the role you're filling.
Speaker 5: And if I'm if I'm any of these guys, I'm
Speaker 5: like please bench me. I do not want to be injured.
Speaker 5: And I played basketball.
Speaker 2: For I paid.
Speaker 3: You don't understand, Steve, I get paid so much money
Speaker 3: to play basketball in the NBA.
Speaker 2: I love America, but not like hold my job for free,
Speaker 2: love America. Leep? Are you eating a bag at sandwich
Speaker 2: right now? Yeah? I'm trying to enjoy myself. Yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about me. Look, I'm just here for the
Speaker 1: metal man. I'm just happy to be honestly, just so
Speaker 1: happy to be here.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm just having before Yeah, just stuffing pastries into
Speaker 5: my mouth like I'm just happy to help my team
Speaker 5: or anywhere.
Speaker 2: Like that Russell Westbrook clip when he was like looking
Speaker 2: over he's eating a sandwich.
Speaker 3: But Kerr said he specifically like had multiple conversations with
Speaker 3: Tatum before the game and after the game to be
Speaker 3: like this is what's happening. Sorry, we're gonna need you
Speaker 3: against South Sudan. But like in terms of our you know,
Speaker 3: game plan for this game, like we need to just
Speaker 3: cycle in big bodies. I guess was their game plan
Speaker 3: and it worked. I mean, say what you will about
Speaker 3: like how tight the tune up game against South Sudan
Speaker 3: was in Germany. But the US seems to have Serbia's number,
Speaker 3: at least because they waxed them in the tune up
Speaker 3: and then again in the Olympics. Good and Jokic sticks.
Speaker 3: We can all agree on that, right. Oh, this guy's
Speaker 3: not good a basketball anymore.
Speaker 1: Look, he was playing in the sport heat. That's not
Speaker 1: really his preferred sport.
Speaker 2: In the Olympics.
Speaker 1: He would have liked to been in the dressage or
Speaker 1: some of the equestrian events.
Speaker 2: Sound but he is kind of a dance the dancing
Speaker 2: horse of the NBA, that's right.
Speaker 1: But I mean, like I look at those like Sudan odds,
Speaker 1: we're favored, but like by thirty what we beat Serbia
Speaker 1: by twenty six? Okay, so Jabari, thank you. We were
Speaker 1: twelve and a half point favorites over Serbia.
Speaker 2: We beat him by two. I mean, I guess you
Speaker 2: just South Sudan is just interesting, just.
Speaker 3: Doing like NBA, like put the number of NBA guys
Speaker 3: on the team on one side of the scale and
Speaker 3: like whoever has the most. But that doesn't seem to
Speaker 3: be how things work in this modern version of international basketball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think, I mean that's why the South
Speaker 1: Sudan game will be interesting to be like, Okay, was
Speaker 1: what we saw in those tune up matches a bit
Speaker 1: of a fluke or you know South? I mean South
Speaker 1: Sudan was really performing well and they have a really
Speaker 1: like I didn't realize lou All Deng was personally financing
Speaker 1: the South Sudan basketball team for the last four years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was like, Okay, well, Shady, we need
Speaker 2: to look into that. We look into this.
Speaker 1: Man is helping out his fellow countrymen achieve new heights.
Speaker 2: Shoot it was us, the Lakers, Yeah exactly. I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: we did a good thing with that contract at least.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I am that'll be a really really fun
Speaker 1: one to watch and look as it's happening, who knows
Speaker 1: they the US may have absolutely just run rough shot
Speaker 1: over them.
Speaker 3: But I don't because there This is the thing that
Speaker 3: I feel like we saw in the playoffs and the
Speaker 3: NBA this year is like when you have a lot
Speaker 3: of speed, like really fast guards and then you're going
Speaker 3: up against thirty eight thirty nine year old Lebron James, Like,
Speaker 3: it's like and I saw it with like cheering for
Speaker 3: a team that has embiid on it is like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's a stopper in the middle, but he's also like
Speaker 3: there's just so many ways to get those guys out
Speaker 3: away from the basket now and in space that I
Speaker 3: don't know. South Sudan, I think is a problem for
Speaker 3: the US.
Speaker 2: Are they fast? They're fast and they can shoot. They
Speaker 2: got fast fast.
Speaker 5: They because can sometimes win game exactly if there's one
Speaker 5: thing I know about basketball.
Speaker 2: Stuffs and shoot can win game. Yes.
Speaker 5: No Ken defense, yeah, no, Ken defense against fast guy
Speaker 5: who can shoot.
Speaker 3: Yannis has been incredible and Grease is own two. Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: he's He's got sixty one points through two games.
Speaker 2: Pretty good.
Speaker 3: It's funny because I had temporarily forgotten about Giannis and
Speaker 3: I was like, is Webbing I'm the person that I
Speaker 3: would like put on the US if I could like
Speaker 3: pull a player from an international team. Yeah, it's probably
Speaker 3: still y honest, But.
Speaker 2: In that conversation too, I feel like I told you
Speaker 2: on this this guy stinks. I like the horse guy.
Speaker 2: He's my one favorite bad guy from.
Speaker 3: The actually be the answer probably because yeah, he would
Speaker 3: distribute the ball.
Speaker 5: You were doing it based on who's the best of basketball,
Speaker 5: and yeah, objective metric all right.
Speaker 2: We're talking doing it based on who you like the most.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, sorry losers. Anyways, I'm enjoying the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: It's good to have some fun basketball to watch, and
Speaker 1: especially with such a such a high concentration of NBA players,
Speaker 1: it makes it so much more enjoyable.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna turn it on.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start watching it. Does it start in two weeks?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, check back a few weeks.
Speaker 5: All about it. I need some lead up time. I
Speaker 5: can't just go directly into it, you know, I get it.
Speaker 5: I get Peacock, and then I gotta go get a
Speaker 5: TV and then I gotta.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a whole lot.
Speaker 3: And then just the the opportunity to see Anthony Edwards
Speaker 3: interacting with the world off court is fun.
Speaker 5: He's you know, what is he doing in the world
Speaker 5: as the like just walking through the streets of Paris?
Speaker 2: Is he doing the revolution to team? You know? This game.
Speaker 3: Just adorable and we love him. Yeah, all right, all right,
Speaker 3: let's take a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back.
Speaker 3: We'll rapid fire through the rapid fire round a question.
Speaker 2: And we're back. We're back, back.
Speaker 1: We oh doing the fastestest question and answer segment of
Speaker 1: podcast history. Leave Are you ready to be in the
Speaker 1: hot seat? Because it's in the hot seat already. My
Speaker 1: wife's yeah, I'm in the doghouse. Whoa to this podcast?
Speaker 2: Under the door tonight? I'm getting no respect like Bobe Bryan.
Speaker 1: What does a guy gotta do? It's time for the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter rapid fire round of questioning. You already know
Speaker 1: what time and is Matt? We asked you a question.
Speaker 2: Just respond quickly. You've got to keep it moving. We
Speaker 2: have some questions, some from our discord, some from our brains.
Speaker 2: Some we ask all of our guests, are you ready? Uh? Yes, already? Man? Sorry,
Speaker 2: he's already starting the clock.
Speaker 3: He's already, Brian, You've got to hurry up, Man, got.
Speaker 2: To hurry up. What's your answer? You're ready? Sorry? The
Speaker 2: clock started? The rapid fire? Okay, fire, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: It's a rappit. Okay, who goes first? Question?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: I want to go first. It's me Jack. I want
Speaker 2: to ask Hey, Matt, Hey, Matt, first time? Long time? Wait?
Speaker 2: Sorry that's ronning.
Speaker 3: But uh they were all right, So from our discord,
Speaker 3: they're debating, Yes, perfect on to you miles back. Okay, Discord,
Speaker 3: they were debating Katie's best nickname. We've got easy Money Sniper,
Speaker 3: we got Durantela, we got the Slim Reaper. So, first
Speaker 3: of all, which of those nicknames? And he he has
Speaker 3: a very specific choice of the Kevin durant does.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, first of.
Speaker 3: All, I want to hear your pick, and then second
Speaker 3: of all, I want to hear your pick for the
Speaker 3: best player nicknames of all time.
Speaker 1: Okay, so my pick for what for Kate Money, Sniper,
Speaker 1: Durantela or Slim Reaper.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I mean I love Durantela.
Speaker 5: I think that to me describes him perfectly because I
Speaker 5: remember first time seeing Kevin Durant I was like, this
Speaker 5: guy's like a spider.
Speaker 3: That is Caitlin Dorante's nickname. That yeah, rules, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, and best nickname? Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh Anthony Peeler the Iceman. Now you may be wondering,
Speaker 5: what what do you mean he's not the Iceman. Well,
Speaker 5: one time my friend got his autograph and he signed
Speaker 5: it Anthony the Iceman Peeler. He went what and he
Speaker 5: was confused by it because Anthony Peeler, that's not his name. Uh,
Speaker 5: so yeah, the Iceman Campbell. Everyone's just the soupman Campbell.
Speaker 1: Anthony Durantela Miller like, oh, man, do you do did
Speaker 1: you ever figure out why he signed that? Was?
Speaker 2: He like? Yeah, right, guy?
Speaker 5: Do you think he was trying to get He was
Speaker 5: just trying to make the iceman happen. He was like,
Speaker 5: you know, what would be a cool nickname, the iceman.
Speaker 5: And the way I'll started is slowly, I'll just sign
Speaker 5: children's autographs and you know, put the iceman.
Speaker 2: See if it's stick. But that was George Gervin's nickname.
Speaker 2: She was George is in the past.
Speaker 3: That's the past. Why are you going to keep focusing
Speaker 3: on the past, you know, living in the air Jordan's.
Speaker 2: That was the last.
Speaker 1: Jordan Air air Peeler Yeah, yeah, I'm Jorge.
Speaker 2: What you can do with peeler though, you know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, yeah, potato, you know, you know, get
Speaker 1: skinned by the peeler.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't have that's all. Actually the peeler
Speaker 3: is like it goes too dark. I think, yeah, a little,
Speaker 3: it's a little horror film. It does yet Bill Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: wait a second, Bill Peeler.
Speaker 2: She big, great, big, tall person.
Speaker 3: Pretty.
Speaker 1: All right, here's another one, Mattan, specifically from your playing
Speaker 1: career ever, from childhood on, what was your what was
Speaker 1: your personal highlight for you as a basketball player?
Speaker 2: What is the greatest thing? The great big I'm a
Speaker 2: great big tall.
Speaker 5: Man, six foot six, two hundred and forty pounds, all fat,
Speaker 5: no mo u uh So my highlight of my career
Speaker 5: is half court pickup game, in which I at this
Speaker 5: point had been exercising a lot, so I had.
Speaker 2: A little I was a little bit okay at.
Speaker 5: Basketball, okay, And for the first time ever, I saw
Speaker 5: a lane open and I ran with the ball and
Speaker 5: I thunk it. What I did in a pickup game
Speaker 5: in a in a pickup game. Now everyone of basketball.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: As soon as I did it, everyone started laughing, and
Speaker 5: I was like, well, I don't know you're laughing. I
Speaker 5: just dunked the ball, and you're like, you just traveled
Speaker 5: eight steps. I have forgotten about dribbling because I was
Speaker 5: scared that if I dribbled they'd steal it.
Speaker 2: So I just started running.
Speaker 5: But they were like rugby dunk, yeah exactly. But you know,
Speaker 5: I didn't think people. I was like, you know, it
Speaker 5: doesn't count. Pickup game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's no traveling on the streets. You complete
Speaker 2: the dunk. Yeah, the dunk. I thought everyone forget that
Speaker 2: and just be like, oh, you know, well we dunked it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it handed.
Speaker 5: It didn't like look good, but I was like, I
Speaker 5: saw a lane. You're like, you're like, yeah it was.
Speaker 5: I pulled my arm pit muscle, my arms too long.
Speaker 2: I ran you go one handy on it hand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my arm straight up, and I just went as
Speaker 5: I saw the lane, And apparently people just love like thinking.
Speaker 1: About it, like from your perspective, and then like in
Speaker 1: a comedy film, and then cut to what actually happened,
Speaker 1: where you're like, you got the ball, you see defender shift,
Speaker 1: You're like, there it is, baby, I'm going for it.
Speaker 1: Then hard cut to you like running from half court, like.
Speaker 5: Taking little steps, extra little steps as I got closer.
Speaker 3: And then bending your knees so low that your butt
Speaker 3: touches the ground.
Speaker 5: It was not as graceful irl as it was in
Speaker 5: my mind. But yeah, I did slow down when I
Speaker 5: saw that lane.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Okay, next question, and I might have an idea who
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick based on what you've said about your
Speaker 1: favorite player and who doesn't get respect. But between the
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight team USA team or the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four USA team, who do you select as your
Speaker 1: better team?
Speaker 2: Who is your champion? Who are you riding with? So
Speaker 2: you were there two thousand and eight, man a better team?
Speaker 5: I mean, listen, you're talking about who would I pick
Speaker 5: between twenty and eight and twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's zero question. You know, I'm picking two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight. There it is. And the reason I'm picking
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight and is.
Speaker 5: I believe that that team what was it? It was
Speaker 5: either like four years earlier or what not, Like there
Speaker 5: was a year where we didn't win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, four years earlier, two thousand and four.
Speaker 5: And I remember being like, that's its great, you know,
Speaker 5: we're America and we didn't even win. And uh, I
Speaker 5: don't know if Kobe was even on that team in
Speaker 5: two thousand four.
Speaker 3: Yeah I think he was. Yeah, Nope, no, yeah, he wasn't.
Speaker 3: I'm glad Jabari is here to just you know, and
Speaker 3: I remember he keep the misinformation from never Wanted Done
Speaker 3: contaest and he was on the two thousand and four team.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You obviously you're biased against Toby. So everything good that
Speaker 5: ever happened. You're like, no, But the truth of it
Speaker 5: is is that he wasn't on that team in two
Speaker 5: thousand and four. And I said, well that's why, that's why.
Speaker 5: And then two thousand and eight, Oh, it was great.
Speaker 5: It was like American team win, like, yeah, the redeemed team,
Speaker 5: that's right, and and yeah, so two thousand and eight,
Speaker 5: whereas like this team, I don't, honestly, I don't think
Speaker 5: they have it in them.
Speaker 2: You don't think so yeah, yeah, maybe look look I
Speaker 2: look at that.
Speaker 5: I look at that, this you know, USA basketball team,
Speaker 5: and I'm just like.
Speaker 2: Who never heard of these guys? I've never heard these guys.
Speaker 5: Now, it could be because I haven't watched basketball since
Speaker 5: twenty twelve, but I don't think it's that. I think
Speaker 5: it's honestly, like, I think it's the what who's that?
Speaker 2: You know? Joel Embiida, What do you mean Lebron Joel?
Speaker 2: Never heard of Lebron James?
Speaker 3: So wow, that's amazing for somebody to watch basketball all
Speaker 3: the way up to twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: Tim, Yeah, never heard of them, heard me? But yeah,
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight all the way baby readeem team
Speaker 2: all right, last thing.
Speaker 3: You have to replenish our list of nineties basketball players
Speaker 3: that we are talking about in the off season. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we need we need a few more names of people
Speaker 3: that our our future guests can pick from.
Speaker 1: Where we've taken Kobe off the board, We've taken Shack
Speaker 1: off the board. We've taken heldon Cable and Heldon Campbell
Speaker 1: off the board. So can you add Replaytory.
Speaker 3: We'll leave because we didn't really spend a lot of
Speaker 3: time talking about it.
Speaker 5: I'm on there because there should be a whole podcast.
Speaker 5: It's just the ory.
Speaker 2: Podcast, just where we are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, So three more nineties era basketball.
Speaker 1: Players that we can our guests can pick from the
Speaker 1: trail spree? Well okay, ooh good one spree love that.
Speaker 5: I mean Blotty Devoc, you know, a very good.
Speaker 2: And Who's fun? Who's fun?
Speaker 3: Is it true that Vlotty like smoked his whole NBA career?
Speaker 2: That's everything I've read is true?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I mean rules, Yeah, yeah, no, he definitely
Speaker 3: looks like it. But it's almost like, is it just
Speaker 3: because he looked like that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, it might be who knows, I could just
Speaker 5: be you know, projecting because he looks like a guy
Speaker 5: who smokes fat like a Denny right right.
Speaker 1: Right, and he's daring someone to be like that guy
Speaker 1: is smoking a cigarette again, he's huge.
Speaker 3: Let's just ask, is it cool if I smoke in
Speaker 3: here in every room he enters?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Cool if I smoking?
Speaker 3: Here's twenty twenty four?
Speaker 5: So no, okay, last spree lat and uh, let's let's
Speaker 5: make it someone fun. Let's make it someone everybody enjoy
Speaker 5: Sam Cassell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sam Cassell, this is a great list. I'm loving
Speaker 3: on guys. You know those are like Sam Cassell. I
Speaker 3: like Sam amazing. Well, if you have answered every one
Speaker 3: of the questions, I'm sorry it does there needs to
Speaker 3: be more Halloween masks of Sam's face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we will.
Speaker 3: Also we're gonna just for good measure at Anthony the Ice.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Uh Matt, you did it.
Speaker 2: You nailed it. It's been a pleasure, a pleasure, haven't you.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm French.
Speaker 3: Olympics because I slipper very from the France.
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Speaker 5: Find me on Instagram at matt leib jokes and follow
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Speaker 2: And Jack Got Mad.
Speaker 1: Until next time, we will have even more developments with
Speaker 1: Olympic basketball and even more nineties nostalgia.
Speaker 2: As we enjoy our summer, and we hope you do too.
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