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Speaker 1: My girlfriend thinks I'm a poser, and I'm not a poser.

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Speaker 1: I am a real emo. Emo is who I am.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Swirl and welcome to the Note Dumps podcast

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Speaker 2: on the Athletic Network. It's Wednesday, April twenty eighth. Happy

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Speaker 2: Bump Nope, not Bump Hump day. I was thinking about Bump.

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Speaker 2: Remember Bump. We used to work with him. I was

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Speaker 2: talking about I think because Lee was showing his pencils

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Speaker 2: bumped something out of my head. But it's actually a

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Speaker 2: day anyway. I J Skeid so along with me my

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Speaker 2: top shot hot boy Trey Kirby. Heyo, hey oh, we

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Speaker 2: got the international man of mystery taking it to the max.

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Speaker 2: Le Ellis friend Leally, last but not least to making

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Speaker 2: before I get into What's on today show, Lee, I

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Speaker 2: can't believe I didn't say this over the last couple

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Speaker 2: of days. Unbelievable, very solid play last Friday with Bosts,

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Speaker 2: the guy that is the voice the goatmentator of the

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Speaker 2: NBA and NBL Top ten plays. So yeah, John, that

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Speaker 2: was fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun. I was just trying to spice

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Speaker 3: he responded straight away and then just all came together.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it was a lot of fun with the

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Speaker 3: big boat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you were dropping bars in your cell for him

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Speaker 2: and like a lot of you. He wanted to know,

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Speaker 2: did you rate the VSP like rhymes for him? Or

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Speaker 2: was that all cool?

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Speaker 3: You know, I like to outsource my work anyway. I'll

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Speaker 3: give him the plays and he can do whatever he

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Speaker 3: perfect job. But I wrote my own intro and surprised myself.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, I can tell you're a good rapper

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Speaker 2: when there's absolutely no music behind there. That's the key

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Speaker 4: I spoke in the genius.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think I'm lagging here. So I don't

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Speaker 3: know if you guys are seeing this or not, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: I just, you know, just started writing it out and

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Speaker 3: then it just grew and grew and grew, and now

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Speaker 3: I've got a frog in my throat. What a great

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Speaker 3: start to the day this is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I be bumped to everyone everyone. I really got

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Speaker 2: us off too great. Sorry, you know what. I blame

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Speaker 2: that stupid cold open for this rough start. You know,

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Speaker 2: it was too quick. I wasn't ready to go, you know. Okay,

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Speaker 2: he's emo, I get it, jeez, discombobulated here on a Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: It's okay. We got tweeted the night we got pick

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Speaker 2: them results Trey. You do have a fun top five

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Speaker 2: But first guys, let's play a little what you got?

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Speaker 4: What you got?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to drop some bars over this league.

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Speaker 2: It's a nice beat there for you.

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Speaker 3: The top short shut boys are hot. We're about to play.

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Speaker 3: What you got to tell me? Oh you got? I

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Speaker 3: want to hit a lot?

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know what. I'm not bad right on the

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Speaker 2: spot off the top of the dome nearly also, okay,

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Speaker 2: first one. We had some wild outcomes in the Association

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday in Boston. Lou Dort don't drop your dorts

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Speaker 2: in the stream team score twenty four as OKC upset

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that. That was bad. This might be worse.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. The Warriors were stuck on twelve points

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Speaker 2: for over nine minutes, the NBA's longest scoring drought in

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Speaker 2: one to oh three loss to Dallas. The visiting Maps

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Speaker 4: What you got, Skates, It's gotta be the Beantown blowout.

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Speaker 4: you can't deny it. But then but then the Celtics lost,

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Speaker 4: Gilgess Alexander, Shay, we're winning today. That's a Dorton tea

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Speaker 4: right there. But still embarrassing stuff for the Celtics. No Tatum,

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Speaker 4: wide open lanes. For the Thunder to get dunks, you

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Speaker 4: supposed to beat. Okasee turned the ball over twenty seven times.

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Speaker 4: They tried to give this thing away. Boston still couldn't

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Speaker 4: had to see this in person. Celtics now tied with

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Speaker 4: that was an ugly one last night. It's only a

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was bad. Was that more embarrassing though,

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Warrior is losing to the Mavericks is

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Speaker 3: Therefore the Golden State worries. But yeah, the Boston Celtics

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Speaker 3: I think just decided they were going to win this

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Speaker 3: thunder lighting them up from outside and inside. And that's

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Speaker 3: the thing with the Celtics. They've had some wins recently

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Speaker 3: over the Warriors and the Phoenix Suns, and then they

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Speaker 3: They tried to make it close, but the thunderheld firm

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Speaker 2: Got the wife by signal. Oh really, yeah, you're oh man, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I've got the Wi Fi signal up here on the

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Speaker 3: stream yard and you know, when it's down to just

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Speaker 3: keep going, just plow through because it goes through still

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Speaker 3: okay on the garage band. But yeah, this is the

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Speaker 3: one that the Celtics I think probably just came into

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Speaker 3: this game complacent and thought the Thunder a tanking, We're

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Speaker 3: got spanked in the end. I know it again, it's

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Speaker 3: only four points, but that's one of the worst teams

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Speaker 2: You said it was a stinker. Was it a stinker

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Speaker 2: in the sense of a stinky burper, a stinky firt?

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Speaker 3: That was a burt for sure. Yeah, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: the Warriors lost was a fark because it was like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we just couldn't you know, we couldn't get a going.

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Speaker 3: But that's one of those ones you just like, and

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Speaker 3: Scalabrini and Mike Gorman on the broadcast, they're just kind

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Speaker 3: thunder last night looked like a team, You're like, wow,

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Speaker 3: how are they bad? Because they moved that ball, hit

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Speaker 3: they just went inside and scored without any resistance from Boston.

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Speaker 3: So there's a good win for Okay, see what does

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Speaker 3: it mean? Absolutely nothing really for them. It's you know,

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Speaker 3: they're they're not trying to win, but they just stumbled

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like Trey said, Celtics Heat tied for sixth, Charlotte

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Speaker 2: Heat and Charlotte, they're going to be in the playing game.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna probably be there a in a seven to

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Speaker 2: the winner of the nine to ten matchup there whoever

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Speaker 2: that is? If it's still the Pacers, if it's the Wizards,

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Speaker 2: is the Bulls? Is the zombie Raps? Who knows?

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 2: Tough, tough loss, Both pretty ugly though again the Warriors

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Speaker 2: game was over very quickly. But yeah, losing to the

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Speaker 2: Thunder on a fourteen game losing streak, that's bad, especially

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Speaker 2: at home.

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Speaker 4: That's bad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I have to agree. That's more embarrassing. All right,

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Speaker 2: Our next one, guys, Afrety Simons made his first nine

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Speaker 2: to three pointers to help the Blazers snap a season

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Speaker 2: high five game losing streak one thirty three to one

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Speaker 2: to twelve win over the Pacers. Good news for me

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Speaker 2: and the pick them. We'll get to that later. Also

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Speaker 2: last night, Karl Anthony Towns scored thirty one points as

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Speaker 2: the wol beat the Rockets one fourteen one or seven

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Speaker 2: for their third street victory. First time Mini has won

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Speaker 2: three in a row since starting three to zero in

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Speaker 2: bit weird, but lee get us started, hopefully you can

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Speaker 2: hear us. Still more surprising Anthony hit nine straight three

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Speaker 2: pointers or the Wolves putting together a three game win

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Speaker 3: Which I have to go with. I have to go

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Speaker 3: reason why one of them would be convincingly ahead of

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Speaker 3: the other end of the two guards there, the back

431
00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,760
Speaker 3: court players. But I just went with Luca because I thought,

432
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Speaker 3: if the playoffs started today, that great word there, that

433
00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,560
Speaker 3: great cliche. The Mavericks are in and the Blazers are

434
00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,040
Speaker 3: not necessarily in.

435
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,600
Speaker 2: Okay, Trey most likely not at this MVP table Jannis,

436
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,440
Speaker 2: Luca or Lillard who's being kicked aside?

437
00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,720
Speaker 4: I think Lee nailed that. That's exactly my pick as well. Yiannis,

438
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 4: he's in. He's at the James Harden level right now

439
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,520
Speaker 4: where you're gonna have to find a reason to keep

440
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 4: him out of your top five, because, I mean, the

441
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 4: stats are crazy. He's putting up the same kind of

442
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,760
Speaker 4: numbers he put up last year as an MVP and

443
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,159
Speaker 4: Defensive Player of the Year. But the Bucks seem to

444
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,640
Speaker 4: have a little bit less desire to be the best

445
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,800
Speaker 4: team in the league during the regular season. But i

446
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,200
Speaker 4: still think Giannis is there, and I'm going with Luca

447
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,440
Speaker 4: over Lillard there for the last spot at my table

448
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 4: because of the rebounds. Lee mentioned it. You know, he's

449
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,359
Speaker 4: so far ahead on rebounds. I'm kidding. I'm kidding to me.

450
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 4: If you ask this question in February, you got lowered

451
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 4: over Doncic. But Doncic has been playing a little bit

452
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 4: better than Lillard during the stretch run of the season here,

453
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:13,879
Speaker 4: whereas Luca kind of struggled out of the gate. He

454
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 4: wasn't shooting a great percentage from three, But obviously that

455
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,880
Speaker 4: has turned around over the course of the season. It's

456
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Speaker 4: probably gonna come down to that last number, though. Lead

457
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,640
Speaker 4: the wins. Right now, the Mavericks are ahead, so I've

458
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 4: got Luca ahead as well.

459
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, bad timing here for Lillard in having his worst

460
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,920
Speaker 2: stretch of the season, no doubt again, decent game last

461
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,520
Speaker 2: night against the Pacers, but prior to that had not

462
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,720
Speaker 2: been shooting the ball well, had been really, really really

463
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 2: struggling for him. You know, he was, like you said, Lee,

464
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,679
Speaker 2: what's the average like twenty eight per game? Basically it

465
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Speaker 2: was over the last little stretch he was averaging like

466
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Speaker 2: twenty two. Yeah for Lillard, that's like, oh, that's not good.

467
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,399
Speaker 2: So I think you guys got this one right. I

468
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,679
Speaker 2: think Gianness is in there. I think Luca is just

469
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Speaker 2: ahead of Lillard right now. But damn, leagu's looking pretty good.

470
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Speaker 2: When Lillard having the season he had, very likely well

471
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Speaker 2: I don't even know. Yes, the Lord's gonna still be

472
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Speaker 2: top ten when it's all said and done in terms

473
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 2: of votes, he probably slips in there. But like we

474
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Speaker 2: like Booker and Chris Pauler in the mix here and

475
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 2: you know who knows. I think a lot of the

476
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 2: net skies have missed too many games to maybe warrant

477
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 2: enough votes. Same with Lebron of course. But we'll see here,

478
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 2: all right. Final one. This one's a weird one, guys,

479
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 2: but just stick with me. The Golden State Warriors have

480
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Speaker 2: become the first professional sports team to launch an NFT collection.

481
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Speaker 2: They decided to create digital championship rings to commemorate each

482
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Speaker 2: of the team's six NBA titles, as well as digital

483
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 2: ticket stubs from some of their most iconic games. If

484
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Speaker 2: you're joining us on the stream team or you're watching

485
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Speaker 2: this on YouTube. We're showing you this pretty slick website.

486
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Speaker 2: If I'm being honest here, that you're gonna be able

487
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Speaker 2: to go bid on this stuff, these NFTs non fungible tokens.

488
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Speaker 2: The rings there spinning away. Oh what that one's opening?

489
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Speaker 4: I forgot about that part. Yes, warriors ring comes apart

490
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 4: and turns into a spaceship.

491
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So and then there's like a weird super ring

492
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 2: there with all of them. My goodness, so there's this,

493
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 2: there's this. Okay, that's good enough JD. And then, in

494
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 2: completely unrelated news, Josh Giddy, a six foot eight Australian

495
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 2: playmaking guard, is entering the twenty twenty one NBA draft.

496
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Speaker 2: Giddy is the I believe it's the number thirteenth prospect

497
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 2: right now according to ESPN's Top one hundred rankings, could

498
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Speaker 2: climb higher in the lottery.

499
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Speaker 4: Here.

500
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Speaker 2: A lot of people are in love with this game

501
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 2: gifted passing guard Lelee. He's got a got a flare

502
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 2: for the spectacular. Woh wrote so just like a mate, Yeah,

503
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 2: this is weird, right, We got these warriors NFTs, we

504
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 2: got an Australian going into the draft. What's what's the

505
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 2: tie that brings all together. Well, come on, look, Trey's

506
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 2: always talking about NFTs. Lee's always talking about his Ozzie guys.

507
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 2: So what's the bigger No Dunk's news the Warriors launching

508
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Speaker 2: an NFT collection, or Australian Josh Giddy entering the NBA

509
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Speaker 2: Draft what you got TK gets started.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure Lee is giddy about Josh. But these Warriors

511
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 4: NFTs are fire skeets, the first digital championship ring. They

512
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 4: actually look cool, like you're saying, I love seeing it

513
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 4: spinning there. You actually get to see the old tiny rings.

514
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,400
Speaker 4: I was flipping through these on my phone earlier. Isla

515
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 4: was looking, She's like, what's that one? It was the

516
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 4: first championship that's just like a basketball with a tiny

517
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 4: little diamond on the top. Quite the glow up for

518
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 4: the NBA over the past seventy years. I love the

519
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 4: utility with these though. The number ones get actual replicas

520
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 4: of the championship ring, and we saw it earlier. There's

521
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 4: the fanous ring that's there, combines all six Warriors rings.

522
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 4: You put it in snap, they win another championship and

523
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 4: you get a one of one actual ring. Right now,

524
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 4: the bid is at ten eighth, which is about twenty

525
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Speaker 4: seven thousand dollars. Wow, I hope that's Guy PIEDI getting

526
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Speaker 4: in on that one. Personally, it gotta be a Warrior

527
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 4: super fan to be rocking the fan house ring. But

528
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 4: the real reason I love these there's another NBA team

529
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 4: out there with six titles. I've got a little bit

530
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 4: of interest here in the Warriors rings. I was there

531
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 4: for the clincher in twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen, so

532
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 4: I could be tempted there. But I would have immense

533
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 4: interest in a Bulls version of this should they ever

534
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 4: come out with something similar. So I'm happy to see

535
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 4: somebody blazing the trail here.

536
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and doing in style I believe too. It

537
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 2: really it looks cool. I like the ticket stubs too.

538
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't remember I shared this before. I

539
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 2: went on a weird eBay run about a decade ago

540
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 2: where I was like purchasing old NBA ticket stubs. I'm

541
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 2: not really sure why, but I have them all and

542
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 2: like they're just really random. But I just thought they

543
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 2: looked cool. I was going to like do something with them,

544
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 2: like turn them into an art piece. I never did,

545
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 2: but anyway, these are showing you again. Here, These virtual

546
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 2: ticket stubs. I did notice they didn't have a They

547
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 2: had the final regular season game played in the Arcle,

548
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 2: but I couldn't find the final playoff game played in

549
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Speaker 2: the Oracle.

550
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Speaker 4: That sounds rising to me.

551
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to that as a Raptress fan,

552
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 2: but I couldn't look at it on the website. Maybe

553
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 2: that you have to unlock it somehow. Anyway, Lee Treysa

554
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 2: going with the NFT collection here from the Warriors. What

555
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 2: about you, though, Bigger New Dunk's News, You're going with

556
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 2: your eyesy meet.

557
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Speaker 3: Well, just before I get to that, I think if

558
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 3: people see what the Warriors do, I think the Bulls

559
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 3: are absolutely going to do it as well. I mean,

560
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 3: it seems like it's money for nothing for teams to

561
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 3: produce this stuff, so I think they're going to do

562
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 3: it and then everyone will start producing it. But yeah,

563
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 3: I'm going with Josh Giddy because his dad is another

564
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 3: guy who I watched as a kid playing for the

565
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 3: Melbourne Tigers with Andrew Gayes. Warrick Giddy was his dad,

566
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 3: and geez who could forget Yeah, well Giddy was he.

567
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 4: Was.

568
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 3: He was the guy, the junk yard dog of the

569
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Speaker 3: Melvine Tigers. Team, you know, scrappy guy, you know. So

570
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 3: I have to be honest, I haven't seen much of Josh.

571
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 3: I've seen the odd highlight here and this, so I

572
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 3: have no idea if he's going to be a good

573
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 3: player or not. But the fact that he's projected to

574
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 3: go fairly high tells me that he's got some game

575
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 3: out there. So it's incredible when I see so many

576
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 3: of these guys going back, you know, to Dante Exam,

577
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 3: you know Ben Simmons, Jared Utah, he had a cup

578
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 3: of coffe in the league. I don't know where he

579
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 3: is these days. So many of these guys I watched

580
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 3: their dad's playing, and now they're much better than their dads.

581
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 3: They're playing in the NBA. It's it's incredib Jonah Bolden

582
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 3: was another one who was there with the Sixers there

583
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 3: for a while, So it's wild man, It's just it's

584
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 3: like and the thing is worried. He like, he played

585
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 3: thirty years ago, so he must have waited, I guess,

586
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 3: until the end of his playing career to have any kids,

587
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 3: because you know, Josh must only be eighteen or nineteen.

588
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 3: And Warwick he hasn't played in twenty years. I'm sure

589
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 3: in the NBL, So I guess he just was like, yeah,

590
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 3: I'm getting my playing career done and then I'm going

591
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,199
Speaker 3: to start a found out of man. Maybe he's got

592
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 3: some brothers. I don't know, but it's just wild man,

593
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 3: Like the the NBL had a hooon time in the

594
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 3: early nineties in Australia and now we're seeing you know,

595
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 3: like Brett Brown was the coach of one of the teams.

596
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, it's wild stuff.

597
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 2: Well, just think people are going to be saying something

598
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 2: similar in thirty years when little old when Oscar has

599
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 2: got his own podcast talking about it hops. Oh my god,

600
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 2: the son that's the son of Leos, that's the gall pencils. Yeah.

601
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 3: Well he started shooting on the big hoop here too

602
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 3: at home. So yeah, he knocked in the.

603
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: Well.

604
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 3: It needs a little bit of work, but he knocked

605
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 3: in a career high. He had a career high sixteen

606
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 3: makes the other day in one day, so you know,

607
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 3: you shot like four hundred times, but volume he had two. Yeah,

608
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 3: he had two in a row. And and like his

609
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 3: big brother said, but when they have a swish, they

610
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 3: call them fresh as. So he had a couple of

611
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 3: freshes there that he was pretty excited for. So yeah,

612
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 3: maybe something's on this way there.

613
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 4: Who knows.

614
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 3: It'd be funny if one represents Canada and the other

615
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 3: represents America at the Olympics and they go against each other.

616
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 2: It'd be fantastic. We want what would Dicky even do?

617
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 2: What would Grandpa?

618
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 3: He would just be on the side.

619
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Speaker 2: He'd be like, wasn't it the Curries did that when

620
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 2: the Blazers played the Warriors in the in a playoff series.

621
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Speaker 2: That that's right. Dad wore the one jersey, Mom wore

622
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 2: the other jersey. I think that's right.

623
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Dad would probably he would probably coach one for

624
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 3: the first half and the other one for the second half.

625
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 3: Just say, just pass it round. That's what I remember

626
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 3: when Dad used to coaches. Just pass it round. Everyone,

627
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 3: just pass it round, everyone involved.

628
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 2: Okay, excellent, All right, Well that's uh, that's what you

629
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 2: got again. Weird one there to end with. But let's

630
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: hear from everybody out there in the stream. Team. Drop

631
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 2: your answers in the YouTube comments. Heck, tweet at us

632
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 2: if you want. If you're listening to the podcast, what

633
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: you got there with all four of those? Okay? I

634
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 2: pitched to it earlier. It's been a while time for

635
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 2: some top five.

636
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 4: Top five, top five, top by.

637
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Speaker 2: Top five, top five, Yeah, top five, TK, What are

638
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 2: we what are we working with here today?

639
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, it's been a minute, skeets. I don't even

640
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 4: remember the last top five. But what are we working

641
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 4: with today? We're working off of a tweet from Antoine

642
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 4: Azarod who tweeted us and said, you guys talked about

643
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Speaker 4: the different Porter juniors on yesterday's Daily show. Otto Porter junior,

644
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 4: Kevin Porter junior, Michael Porter junior. Every Porter in the

645
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 4: league right now is a junior. So Antoine says, how

646
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 4: about a junior top five who in the history of

647
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 4: the league has been the best junior? The name has

648
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 4: to include junior, no former player sons. I will be

649
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 4: skirting that part of the rule a little bit, but

650
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 4: I think you guys will agree that it's legit. But

651
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 4: these will be your top five juniors. But first we

652
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 4: will start wearing junior on the jersey is a pretty

653
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 4: recent phenomenon. As far as I can tell, there are

654
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 4: seventeen players who have ever actually had junior on the

655
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 4: back of their jerseys per Basketball Reference. Take, for instance,

656
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 4: Mike Conley. He's Mike Conley junior. We remember his dad

657
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,479
Speaker 4: from the Olympics. He came into the league as Mike

658
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 4: Conley junior. But he's worn Mike Conley on his jersey.

659
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 4: Well he's just worn Conley actually, but you get it. Nonetheless,

660
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 4: you guys want to try and name the seventeen players

661
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 4: who have had junior on the back of their jersey.

662
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 4: I'll give you the ones that you certainly won't get.

663
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 4: Walt Lemon Junior. Only bolls fans will get that one

664
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 4: had three twenty point games. Vernon Carry Junior is the

665
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 4: only active guy that I think would be a tough one.

666
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 4: He's played, you know, almost twenty games, I think for

667
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 4: the Charlotte Hornets. But sure, give me, give me a

668
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 4: quick run through here.

669
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 2: We're okay.

670
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 3: Well, Jaron Jackson, Yeah, good.

671
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 4: So Porter Junior, Yeah, all of them?

672
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: Yeah? All three?

673
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 3: Yeah?

674
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 4: Well four?

675
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 2: Well, is there a John Tape John Tape Porter, he's

676
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 2: not a junior. He's the one that's not.

677
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 4: Never mind, right, so three Gary Trent, Gary Trent Junior?

678
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 3: Good one yeah?

679
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: Yeah?

680
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 2: Oh Man, Skeets.

681
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 4: You love this guy, You love this guy. You think

682
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 4: he's gonna go for fifty every time we asked the question,

683
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 4: Tim Hardaway, there you go. How about this guy maybe

684
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 4: the most handsome guy in the league, but not a

685
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 4: great three point shooter. He's got his own oasis. And

686
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 4: this is a guy who came into the league with

687
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 4: a junior. You don't hear it as much these days, Kelly, Kelly, Okay,

688
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 4: so the junior is maybe not as memorable as I

689
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,239
Speaker 4: was hoping for you guys. There's a lot of them

690
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 4: out there though, So I'm gonna I'm gonna skip this.

691
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 4: I'm gonna skip this. We're gonna go straight to our

692
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 4: top five juniors because you guys are letting me down

693
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 4: a little bit. To be completely honest, like, where are

694
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 4: you with Wendell Carter juniors? Skeets? Come on, Deren Jones Junior.

695
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 4: You love Darren Jones Junior, Troy Brown junior TVJ Come on,

696
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 4: come on, guys.

697
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 2: Any good one your top five juniors here they are

698
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: at number five. Jr.

699
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 4: Rider drafted as a JR, eventually started going by Isaiah.

700
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 4: His name was Isaiah Ryder Junior. A good scorer, eventually

701
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 4: got a ring with the Lakers, even though he wasn't

702
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 4: on the playoff roster. Pretty troubled guy off the court,

703
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 4: but he makes this list solely because of timing. We

704
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 4: saw that crazy near miss from Joel Embiid a week

705
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 4: ago would have been an all time legendary make.

706
00:32:59,120 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: Jr.

707
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 4: Rider has one of the league's best random makes in history.

708
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 4: This is on his Wikipedia page, just chucking the ball

709
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 4: over his shoulder, freshy, so fresh on bump day. Look

710
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 4: at this does a switch from what thirty five feet?

711
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 4: I think somebody called this the play of the decade,

712
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 4: Like if this is the play of the decade in

713
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 4: the nineteen nineties, I will disagree with that, but it

714
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 4: was certainly a memorable shot. And that's the kind of

715
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 4: thing where it's like, we've got the Devin Harris half quarter,

716
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 4: we've got that crazy shot from Isaiah Jr. Rider and

717
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 4: beads would have fit in perfectly there. Rex Chapman. Rex

718
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 4: Chapman's got well, I think as well, that's that's crazy

719
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,479
Speaker 4: make like that. So that is why Jr. Writer is

720
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 4: making the list here.

721
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 2: I didn't know he was Isaiah Ryder Junior. I'd never

722
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 2: had put that together that that's where the Jr. Rider

723
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 2: came from. Didn't know that. Okay, learning things.

724
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 4: Here all right. At number four, Antoine said, no NBA song,

725
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 4: but I gotta include one at number four, Jaren Jackson Junior.

726
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 4: I'm going with JJJ for a couple of reasons here.

727
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 4: Number One, when the J becomes part of your nickname,

728
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 4: I think that's big yep. And Jjj's got it twice

729
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 4: because people call him JJJ, people call him Triple J,

730
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,439
Speaker 4: and he ain't Jeff Jarrett. I love it. Number Two,

731
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 4: I think he is the junior in the league right now.

732
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 4: Who is the this sounds weird. Who is the most

733
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 4: better than his dad? Tim Hardaway, Larry Nance Kenyan, Martin

734
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 4: Glen Rice. You're taking the dads in those scenarios at

735
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 4: this point, I think Gary Trent Junior kind of debatable.

736
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 4: That's close still just his second season as a known

737
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 4: guy in the league. Really, Gary Trent Junior. Gary Trent

738
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 4: started more games still at this point than Gary Trent

739
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 4: Junior has I think junior will catch senior eventually, but

740
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 4: right now, Jaron Jackson Junior has already caught his dad.

741
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 4: He started more games than journeyman Jaron Jackson. There's another

742
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 4: Triple J for you, and that's what Jaron Jackson Junior

743
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 4: missing a huge chunk of this season as well, so

744
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 4: as your number four JJJ awesome.

745
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 2: I love it at number three.

746
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 4: J R. Reid, akadn't Reid Junior?

747
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: Why?

748
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 4: No reason? Literally no reason. I just thought JR. Reid

749
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,280
Speaker 4: was very cool back in the day, played for UNC,

750
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 4: played for the Hornets, had a flat top. He's like

751
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 4: just a nineties guy who I always thought was cool.

752
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember every once in a while when when

753
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 2: you're popping packs ley you would get a Reid. We

754
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 2: would always get very excite for no reason. Yeah.

755
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, he definitely was one of those early nineties

756
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 3: like ship fit the Charlotte Hornets, sort of like cool

757
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 3: guy style. Didn't really have the career that I thought

758
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 3: he's gonna have that because he was a big college prospect.

759
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,479
Speaker 3: I think I think he got drop to fairly high

760
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 3: if I remember correctly, JR.

761
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: Reid.

762
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, he went fifth overall in the eighty nine draft.

763
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, and I think he's like eleven points a

764
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 4: game over his first three seasons, because I went back

765
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 4: in luck and I was thinking, I don't know, he

766
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 4: must have scored twenty a game for me to have

767
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 4: this image of JR. Reid in my head no, but

768
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 4: he was very cool. So he comes in at number three.

769
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: I thought his name was Herman Herman Reid Junior. Now

770
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.

771
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 4: And if I'm not mistaken, his dad is a former

772
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 4: NFL player.

773
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: Actually, oh, okay there, I can't fact check you for

774
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 2: that one, but yeah, I'll take your word. Yeah.

775
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 4: At number two, Michael Porter Junior. He comes in at

776
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 4: number two because the junior has become part of his

777
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 4: nickname as well, mp J. I almost called him MP

778
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 4: B and J, but it's just MPJ is the nickname.

779
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 4: We're living in the age of juniors on the Jersey,

780
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 4: and since he's the best one right now, I got

781
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 4: him ranked highest amongst active players. Y'all think that's fair?

782
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I think so. I have no problem with that.

783
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,959
Speaker 4: All right, all right, excellent At number one. I'm sure

784
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 4: you've already guessed it at this point. J R. Smith, Jr. Smith,

785
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 4: I know what you're thinking. Wait a second, here, isn't

786
00:36:55,640 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 4: he Earl Smith the third not even a junior? Well

787
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 4: I disagree, JD.

788
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 2: Junior, Smiris Junior SMIs. It's been a while.

789
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 4: It's been a while. I hope you're listening. Maddio, my

790
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 4: man loved run for the Cube or whatever it was

791
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 4: called back in the day. What a way back, playback

792
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 4: Junior SMI. But that's who all the people wanted to come,

793
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 4: wanted to come in number one on the top five

794
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 4: juniors list, So we had to give it to him,

795
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 4: even if he's not technically a junior. Close enough, roll

796
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 4: it one more time, please, JD.

797
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 2: Junior Smiris Junior Smiris still perfect, Yeah, still so good.

798
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,399
Speaker 4: Early basketball Internet was a little different. You can get,

799
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 4: you know, five hundred thousand views just from saying a name. Hilariously,

800
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 4: I'm trying. I feel like Mike Dunleavy had a really

801
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 4: good he was too.

802
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 2: Good one and the same team are saying, where the

803
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 2: hell is Steph Curry? Isn't he a junior? Ordell? But

804
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 2: he's not a junior. I don't think. Isn't he goes

805
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 2: by number two? I think he is.

806
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 4: He's a second.

807
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a second. So yeah, there's technicality.

808
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,720
Speaker 4: Well that's the thing. If you throw junior into Basketball Reference,

809
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 4: which was my first stop on this journey, you get

810
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 4: all the juniors out there. The most surprising to me,

811
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 4: I would say, probably the best junior in NBA history,

812
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 4: Irvin Johnson junior. You may know him better as Magic, So,

813
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 4: I mean there's a lot of juniors out there. It's

814
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 4: also very funny if you search for Jr. Period in

815
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 4: Basketball Reference, what do you think is the very first

816
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 4: name that comes up?

817
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 2: Jr. Period? Actually?

818
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, like on the back of a jersey you would see,

819
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 4: you know.

820
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 2: Well, JR. Reid or something like that.

821
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 4: I don't know, you would think it would be somebody

822
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 4: who's a junior, but it's actually Rodney Stucky because one

823
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 4: of his nicknames is Curtis Junior because everybody thought he

824
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 4: looked like fifty.

825
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 2: Yeah right, right right, okay, man just dropping mad facts

826
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 2: here with this top five. Here's the question, who's the

827
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 2: greatest junior in all of sports?

828
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 4: Lely?

829
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: Who gets that on her? Ken Griffy Junior's gotta be

830
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 2: high on that list. Is there anyone in the tennis

831
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 2: world or cricket world or race Carler drive in world?

832
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 4: Yeah?

833
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 3: I mean they don't instantly come to min because I

834
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 3: just don't think of any I mean I don't like

835
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 3: this person at all, but Floyd Mayweather is a junior.

836
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, yeah, okay. By the way, Ken Griffy is good.

837
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 4: I was actually a little nervous to do this. I

838
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 4: was watching a baseball game over the weekend and Tim

839
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 4: Kirkjin did his top juniors in baseball history, because you know,

840
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 4: like you're saying, Ken Griffy junior, Fernando Tatis junior, Ronald

841
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,240
Speaker 4: Acuna junior, like some of the biggest stars in baseball

842
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 4: are juniors. But I continued watching this game, and just

843
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,959
Speaker 4: like I'm seeing in the stream, team here, the suggestions

844
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 4: for juniors are ridiculous. Like this guy, Tim Kirkchin is like, oh,

845
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 4: and now I got junior Felix texting me saying, where's

846
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 4: junior Felix on your Felix? Oh, Blue Jays come on.

847
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 4: And now we got people suggesting Dale Earnhardt junior, Carlos

848
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 4: Signs junior. Somebody hit you with an al Unser junior

849
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 4: to really make me feel great. There are a lot

850
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 4: of juniors out there. As it turns out, if your

851
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 4: dad was a professional athlete, you might get some good

852
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 4: jeans here. You might be able to make it to

853
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 4: the league as well.

854
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 2: A lot of people saying, uh, Lee, I can't believe

855
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 2: you didn't say this. Neymar is a junior Brasilian.

856
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah he is. Again it's it, but he doesn't

857
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 3: really go no, not really, not like there was a

858
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 3: junior Murray who played cricket for the West Indies, but

859
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,879
Speaker 3: that was his name. He wasn't a junior. He wasn't

860
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 3: Junior Murray, junior.

861
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 4: Right Jones junior.

862
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 2: Wasn't there a Canadian baseball player named Stubby?

863
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Stubby?

864
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah that I'll ever beat that to men because like, uh,

865
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 2: you know, I immediately think of the Stubby beer bar.

866
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

867
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 2: You had those in Australia for sure.

868
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

869
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a we had an Australians football play

870
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 3: called Willie Dick.

871
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 4: Dick.

872
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 2: Was he good?

873
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 3: Not that good?

874
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 4: No?

875
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 3: Great? Yeah? He played with Shay Cockatoo Collins.

876
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, okay, awesome, the facts keep coming here. Great

877
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 2: top five. Let t k know though, who he missed,

878
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 2: either in the NBA world of juniors or just the

879
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 2: entire sports world. Let us know in the comments below.

880
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 2: Help us defeat the algorithm as we do. So, Lee,

881
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 2: it's time for tweeting the night.

882
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 4: Treed out the night.

883
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 2: Wow, what do you got, Lily?

884
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I've got a video to play, but it

885
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 3: actually works okay for the audio fans, as well the

886
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 3: audio listeners because it is just audio, you don't really

887
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 3: have to see it. And it comes from Chris Hayes

888
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 3: from All In with Chris. Last night on NBC, he

889
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 3: had doctor Anthony Fauci on Okay, and they were talking

890
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 3: a little hoops out there.

891
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 5: You and I have talked about a timeline before, specifically

892
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 5: around the thing that I missed probably the most of

893
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,720
Speaker 5: pre COVID life, which is playing pickup basketball indoors with people,

894
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 5: and we talked about the safety of that. You had

895
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 5: at one point said, look, we're looking a winter of

896
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, sometime in that November December range that

897
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 5: you know, we could you and I can maybe play

898
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 5: a little pickup or you know, I could play pick up.

899
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 5: I don't know, it depends up your still game point being,

900
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 5: are we closer now given the rate that we've been

901
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 5: vaccinating at If you're vaccinated and I'm vaccinated, we can

902
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 5: play a pickup game tomorrow.

903
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 2: I'll probably destroy you, but that's okay. We could play

904
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 2: a pickup game.

905
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,919
Speaker 3: So you know, Anthony Fauci has done a great job

906
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 3: there guiding America out of this chaos. I mean, there's

907
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 3: still a long way to go. But you know, when

908
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 3: there's a little bit of trash talk, that means we

909
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 3: might be a little bit closer to running again on

910
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 3: Wednesday night.

911
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,399
Speaker 4: So that's great.

912
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 3: Isn't everyone just lost bust? Well, they love talking the

913
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 3: smack more than even getting out on the court. Very

914
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 3: close culture is Yeah, Chris, I think he's a Knicks

915
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 3: fan as well. I think Chris so he's If he is,

916
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 3: he's probably riding high right. I'd have to fact check that,

917
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:36,959
Speaker 3: but I think I've seen him tweet about the Knicks before.

918
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 3: But yeah, so.

919
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 2: Important part there, Doctor Fauci says, if we're vaxed to

920
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 2: the max, that's a key part. Like, Okay, if I've

921
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 2: got both my doses, you got yours, treys got here.

922
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 2: So like, do you think we're going to be going

923
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 2: to pick up runs here in the near future, but

924
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to show your vaccination code.

925
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind doing that. I'd be happy to do that.

926
00:43:59,280 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 3: I mean I wouldn't.

927
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I guess if you're playing with friends, you

928
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: either just like can take them out their word. But

929
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 2: you know, you pick up runs, you get a bunch

930
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 2: of strangers showing up or friends or friends and stuff

931
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 2: like that. I'm just like, I'm literally wondering out loud,

932
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 2: is that where we're going to get with this?

933
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I noticed the caught up the road from

934
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 3: my place. They've actually got the hoops back up on

935
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 3: the outside court, So you know, I think that's probably

936
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 3: where I would start first. But yeah, I mean it's

937
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 3: one of those things like I wouldn't I wouldn't be

938
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 3: offended if someone said you can come and play. You

939
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 3: just got to bring your vaccination. Okay, no worries, that's fine,

940
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 3: but you know there'll be people out there you're infringing

941
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 3: on my civil rights, Like, come on, man, just get vaccinated,

942
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 3: then you can go and play.

943
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 2: That's all Wight, Who do you have in a one

944
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 2: on one game?

945
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 4: Though?

946
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 2: You were fauci, that's what I wanted.

947
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 3: Well, I hope it's fauci. I mean, if he's talking

948
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 3: trash in prime time, he's got to back it up.

949
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 3: So yeah, let's get him on the show.

950
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 2: Let's just see just how good. I mean, I don't

951
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,919
Speaker 2: know what's for sure. I feel like he's a tiny gay, right, Yeah,

952
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 2: I think so. But hey, that's all right, Shuman. Shuman's

953
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 2: a tiny guy.

954
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 3: But Shuman gets inside. Hey, you're played against human. He

955
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 3: throws these bodies around.

956
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:09,959
Speaker 4: Good.

957
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Call him tiny, I guess

958
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 3: he shout big shs five noine, yeah, exactly, like a

959
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 3: short I guess.

960
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean tiny, though, I think tiny. I thought

961
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 2: Felcher was like maybe five four or something like that. Mike,

962
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 2: Mike going crazy now with that. I'm looking up Felchi's height.

963
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 2: How tall are you?

964
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 4: You're looking at some Alchie's height. I'm scrolling Chris Hayes's

965
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 4: timeline because I saw a tweet about I don't know

966
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 4: he had some NBA tweet recently that I wanted a reference,

967
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 4: but I can't find it here. Oh, here we go,

968
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 4: Here we go from last night. Important question, is Kelly

969
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 4: youu Bray Junior the best looking player in the NBA?

970
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 2: Discuss? Wow, maybe he's very very handsome. Al Horford is

971
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 2: still a sexy man. He's not playing anymore, unfortunately, Feuchi.

972
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 2: First thing that came up lely five seven, Okay, so

973
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 2: it means he's five to six. We all know that.

974
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 2: And apparently he led his high school basketball team. So

975
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:08,399
Speaker 2: this the heat and hoop.

976
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 3: He's got a bucket. Man, he's a.

977
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 2: Really good basketball player. I'm reading some article right now.

978
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,479
Speaker 2: I'm scrolling it obviously from like twenty twenty, so oh yeah, yeah.

979
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 2: It says right here, five to seven listed, but he's

980
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 2: more like five to five. Okay, he's tiny, that's my point.

981
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 4: Listen, where's this listening, Tony?

982
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 2: Wow? Oh there we go, fifty Eat your book?

983
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 4: All right?

984
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 2: Okay, everybody get vaccinates. We can all play hoops.

985
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 4: All right.

986
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 2: I want to see you out on the court soon.

987
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 2: We're vax to the max. Let's do it soon here, right.

988
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm done. I'm ready, man, ready to go.

989
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 4: All right. What do you think are the odds that

990
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 4: we have Chris Hayes versus Doctor Fauci at halftime on

991
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,240
Speaker 4: the next All Star Game. You know that the NBA

992
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 4: loves to bring in some celebs that love to do

993
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 4: something interesting during an All Star weekend. We've seen Charles

994
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 4: Barkley race Dick Bavetta. We've seen a three point contest

995
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 4: where Kevin Hart shoot on a tiny hoop. It sounds ridiculous,

996
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 4: but I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility

997
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 4: that you could see a one on one game between

998
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 4: Chris Hayes and doctor Anthony Fauci.

999
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it's that far fetched.

1000
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 3: I'm giving Yeah, I think how he should win, but

1001
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 3: because fat but maybe fat she just got the outside

1002
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 3: old manga.

1003
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think so.

1004
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 3: Man.

1005
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 2: He was leading his high school teams.

1006
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 3: Fantastic, but they probably didn't have the three point when.

1007
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 2: He gets basically this guy the big olds of his

1008
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 2: all right, good good tweet as a fantastic tweet to night,

1009
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 2: especially for even all you big fans of audio out there.

1010
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 2: Works for them too. They can get in on this,

1011
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 2: they said. Pitching to it. Okay, picking results from last night,

1012
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 2: it was the Blazers in Indiana Portland favored by five

1013
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 2: and a half, had to win by six or more

1014
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 2: despite being on that five game losing streak, and they

1015
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 2: came through Pick A results brought to you by Bett MGM.

1016
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 2: I forgot to say that part. So I needed it

1017
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 2: and I got it, and I'm trying to get back

1018
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 2: into this thing as we run out of time here.

1019
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 2: In April, I had Portland winning big, Trey had Portland

1020
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 2: winning big. So I'm eight and eleven. I'm in last

1021
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 2: place right now. But Lee took the l task took

1022
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 2: the l So Tass is eleven and eight. He's fine,

1023
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 2: he's in the clear. Trey those ten and nine now,

1024
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 2: and Lee are ten and nine. I'm two games back

1025
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 2: from both of you, guys. It's Wednesday here. We got Wednesday, Thursday,

1026
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 2: Friday to pick from here for the month of April,

1027
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 2: so I am technically still live. Tonight's game, Task picked

1028
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 2: it Hornets Celtics Woo. Two teams there trying to stay

1029
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 2: out of the play in tournament. Both a back to

1030
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 2: back situation because the Hornets lost to the Bucks last night.

1031
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:49,320
Speaker 2: Celtics obviously lost to OKC Dork Boston's favored by seven

1032
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 2: and a half gentlemen seven and a half points the

1033
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 2: Boston Celtics, so Vegas expects something to bounce back. Let's

1034
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 2: find know who tast has first.

1035
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 4: Here, Jad, I've got the Celtics in this one. For

1036
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 4: all the reasons you guys said or didn't say if

1037
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 4: you're taking the Hornets or are about to say if

1038
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 4: you haven't talked about.

1039
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 2: Them yet, we had to cover all the places the

1040
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 2: tasks smart okay, so Boston for tasks by eight or more. Lee,

1041
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 2: go ahead, Yeah, well, I.

1042
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 3: Do expect a bounce back, and I expect Jason Taitum

1043
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 3: to play. Kimball won't. But I think the Celtics are

1044
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 3: going to come out and they've also got the revenge

1045
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 3: fact that they lost a pretty big one to the

1046
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,400
Speaker 3: Hornets week ago, I don't know, Friday or something like that,

1047
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 3: so I expect Boston to cover that eight points.

1048
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, TK, this is obviously huge here. Where do

1049
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 2: you want to go in this Hornet Celtics game? You

1050
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 2: got Boston win him by eight or more. I mean

1051
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:41,240
Speaker 2: that's a huge line.

1052
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 4: That's a huge line for a team that has been

1053
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 4: seriously struggling. What's the deal with Boston, Rob Williams? That

1054
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 4: guy gonna play that? To me is the biggest question.

1055
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,800
Speaker 4: Because the Celtics we don't put pressure pressure on the

1056
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 4: rim without him out there. Nonetheless, I'm gonna go with

1057
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 4: the Bean Town boys as well. You don't lose, I mean,

1058
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 4: you don't lose by thirty and then lay a dud

1059
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 4: the next time out.

1060
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I mean I almost have to take

1061
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 2: the Hornets if you guys are all taking the Celtics.

1062
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm getting a big line here against the

1063
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 2: team in Boston. Like you said, that is not playing

1064
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 2: phenomenal basketball. The Hornets are a scrappy bunch, you know.

1065
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 2: Like I guess what did they end up losing by

1066
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 2: last night to the Box It was a round eight

1067
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 2: points or something like that, so it could be one

1068
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 2: of these close ones. Give me the Charlotte Hornets, though,

1069
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,399
Speaker 2: I'll take them here. I gotta swerve this basically will

1070
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 2: decide it. This will be big here. I need the

1071
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 2: Hornets to cover. They only got to lose by seven

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