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Speaker 3: Welcome in episode one thirty one, What's Right with Nick Right?
Speaker 3: The podcast and the YouTube show you can watch us
Speaker 3: live on YouTube.
Speaker 4: If you are doing that right now, we appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Today's show is a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of graphical stuff that'll be cool for the people
Speaker 3: who are watching instead of just listening to the show.
Speaker 3: You can also obviously check us out on the YouTube page.
Speaker 3: By the way, I've been meaning to bring this up
Speaker 3: off the air. I will now bring it up on
Speaker 3: the air. But if the folks at YouTube or the
Speaker 3: folks at Fox, whoever's in charge here, we need that
Speaker 3: damn plaque. We got to one hundred thousand subscribers. I
Speaker 3: have not yet given Demons as cash bonus because I
Speaker 3: want to present it to him along with the plaque.
Speaker 3: But the clock is ticking on that we need that
Speaker 3: plaque forgetting to one hundred thousand subscribers, you know what,
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 5: Let's get I'm getting worried that we ordered it.
Speaker 3: We ordered it. It shouldn't have had to order it.
Speaker 3: It should be sent to us as an honor.
Speaker 5: I think they sent in an order, did.
Speaker 3: Like a request, like, hey, we've gotten there, and send
Speaker 3: us our damn plaque.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: By the way, speaking of, let's.
Speaker 3: Just do this here, because the show's schedule is gonna
Speaker 3: be a little off the next ten days or so,
Speaker 3: and so I am doing the show, and I'm going
Speaker 3: doing TV today, and then I am shortly thereafter flying
Speaker 3: to Brazil. If you guys, remember I said Brazil's gonna
Speaker 3: win the World Cup. I was gonna spend the money
Speaker 3: I made betting on Brazil to win the World Cup
Speaker 3: on a trip to Brazil. Brazil did not win the
Speaker 3: World Cup and I lost money betting on Brazil in
Speaker 3: the World Cup. But the trip is happening nonetheless, So
Speaker 3: I am out all of next week and then back
Speaker 3: on TV a week from Monday. This podcast might be
Speaker 3: back on a week from Monday, or it might be
Speaker 3: back two weeks from today, so we're definitely off next week.
Speaker 3: Demanse will be with us next week, and then Demanse
Speaker 3: is gonna be in and out for a bit because
Speaker 3: he's taking a trip to Los Angeles to find an apartment,
Speaker 3: figure get his life set up out there, and then
Speaker 3: eventually he's moving out there. Our plan as of now
Speaker 3: is as follows that, starting mid March ish, Demanse is
Speaker 3: going to be on leave from the podcast as he
Speaker 3: gets set up in Los Angeles. The podcast will still
Speaker 3: be going two or three times a week as it
Speaker 3: has you know, for the better part of the year
Speaker 3: now and it is a family business.
Speaker 4: And sitting in for Demanse will be his.
Speaker 3: Mother, his little sister you guys haven't seen on the show,
Speaker 3: the senior in high school, and maybe occasionally the youngest
Speaker 3: sister who you have seen on the show, Deanna.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so that that'll be the process for call it
Speaker 3: the next few months, a couple months, and then come
Speaker 3: in you know, conference finals, NBA playoffs, NBA finals, demone
Speaker 3: will pop back in and then post finals, pre football
Speaker 3: we take usually some vacation, not sure exactly what the
Speaker 3: schedule is going to be like there, and then in August,
Speaker 3: when we are turning the page fully to football, Demons
Speaker 3: will be back. Is our playing in a full time
Speaker 3: capacity from Los Angeles, so like a split screen thing
Speaker 3: similar to I think we've done one pod like that
Speaker 3: with me in La Well yeah, but it was when
Speaker 3: we were at home.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was for a different setup, but we've done
Speaker 4: it before.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so because after this year of betting on football
Speaker 4: and talking football and.
Speaker 3: So much of sports media, as much as we both
Speaker 3: love the NBA, is football with this shows at its
Speaker 3: best with me and him together, and so prior to
Speaker 3: football season, he'll be back in the co host chair
Speaker 3: full time. And then when football season's over, you know,
Speaker 3: we'll reevaluate and we'll see and see and see everything
Speaker 3: that's going.
Speaker 4: But that is the play in tentatively moving forward.
Speaker 3: So we're going this is not like Demanday's last show
Speaker 3: here sitting with me, but pretty soon he's moving to
Speaker 3: Los Angeles and he has a real job with Fox
Speaker 3: in addition to this that he's got to be in
Speaker 3: person for and all of that. So we're gonna be
Speaker 3: off next week, and that's the plan. Demonsey and I
Speaker 3: had a good dinner talking about that and talking about
Speaker 3: life and everything as he's getting ready to move cross coast,
Speaker 3: and then also his little sister, Diora, pretty soon's getting
Speaker 3: ready to move.
Speaker 4: Somewhere for college.
Speaker 3: We don't yet nowhere, and so so a lot of
Speaker 3: changes in the right household. But this show will keep
Speaker 3: going with again a week off coming up and then
Speaker 3: some time off.
Speaker 4: After the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3: So now that that has been dealt with, we can
Speaker 3: get into today's show, which is a very NBA heavy show.
Speaker 3: We must start with what missed the cut for today's show.
Speaker 3: Here's what is not on today's show. Aaron Rodgers emerges
Speaker 3: from Darkness. I have now seen pictures of the place.
Speaker 4: Have you that?
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers was like, I'm spending four days in a
Speaker 3: darkness retreat and it seemed all weird. Let me just
Speaker 3: show you real quick the place he stayed at, because
Speaker 3: it's actually pretty dope. It's called a skycave in Oregon.
Speaker 3: There are some of the pictures. Kevin Wilds had a
Speaker 3: great tweet saying, I went from this is incredibly weird
Speaker 3: to do you have any availability after three days? On
Speaker 3: the website Now it doesn't look like he made it
Speaker 3: the full four days, but such as life, Hi, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff going on. The room he was
Speaker 3: in was evan three hundred square feet with a meditation area,
Speaker 3: a queen size bed, a bathroom when they brought him food,
Speaker 3: but it was total, complete darkness.
Speaker 4: To be with your own thoughts, all right.
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota gonna be in
Speaker 3: a Netflix show And this picture a photoshop thanks to
Speaker 3: points bet of Luka Doncic.
Speaker 4: With long hair and a beard.
Speaker 3: That I gotta say, does make him look a lot
Speaker 3: like me, a lot like me. Yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: just the hair and the beard they gave him is
Speaker 3: my hair and beard. So I don't know if points
Speaker 3: Bet did that on purpose, but that is what happened here,
Speaker 3: my large adult Slovenian son. He unfortunately, his schedule will
Speaker 3: not allow him to fill in for you, as we
Speaker 3: keep this a family operation. All right, let's get to
Speaker 3: the actual show, demonse, Go ahead.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: So we obviously talked a lot of NFL yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 5: let's take a break from the riveting Derek Carr sweepstakes
Speaker 5: to finally get to some NBA.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Magic Johnson said that nobody wants to see the Lakers
Speaker 5: in the playoffs, including the Lakers, to be honest. Okay,
Speaker 5: a few days ago, Lebron said the next twenty three
Speaker 5: games are the most important of his career, of.
Speaker 3: His regular season career, that is what he said. He's
Speaker 3: not including the playoffs, and we're here to start the pot.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5: He got banged up in the All Star Game, but
Speaker 5: as we know, he's indestructible.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, are we about to see the best Lebron? We've
Speaker 5: ever seen or is his team.
Speaker 3: Toast, Well, we're definitely not suit pardon me, seeing the
Speaker 3: best Lebron we've ever seen. That ship is sale. There
Speaker 3: was and we can start the clock. There was a
Speaker 3: point in time that the twenty what would it have
Speaker 3: been thirteen Miami Heat, the team that won their second
Speaker 3: straight title, the Ray Allen year, the team that had
Speaker 3: twenty seven game winning streak, the year that Lebron was
Speaker 3: one vote away from being unanimous MVP and also should
Speaker 3: have won Defensive Player of the Year. That was This
Speaker 3: is one of those things that just kills me because
Speaker 3: the guys who have won MVP and Defensive Player of
Speaker 3: the Year, it's Jordan Akeem Giannis, Lebron not on that list.
Speaker 3: And the guy who won Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 3: that year, Mark Gasol, was not even first team All Defense,
Speaker 3: so he won Defensive Player of the Year, but when
Speaker 3: they voted for the all defensive teams, he wasn't the
Speaker 3: starting center, and in fact, he tied for second team
Speaker 3: All Defense.
Speaker 4: He almost was third team, which doesn't even exist.
Speaker 5: But so it'd be crazy.
Speaker 4: It's bizarre.
Speaker 3: It's almost like voters some of them had a little,
Speaker 3: you know, grudge against Lebron, But that's neither here or there.
Speaker 3: That year, not only was Lebron basically sixty percent from
Speaker 3: the field as a perimeter player, Zach Low had an
Speaker 3: amazing article about how some NBA team had developed a
Speaker 3: computer program that.
Speaker 4: Could overlay.
Speaker 3: On the court and have instead of like so you
Speaker 3: would be watching the game and then they would have
Speaker 3: ghost avatars essentially playing defense, and it would show you
Speaker 3: where the perfect defensive positioning was, where you should go
Speaker 3: when the ball moves, so you could judge how good
Speaker 3: your defenders are. Okay, and that that team, the person
Speaker 3: who ran that program set for him said, when we
Speaker 3: do it with Miami Heat games, Lebron beats the ghost
Speaker 3: to the spot. That whatever program they had made, Lebron
Speaker 3: got there faster than what the algorithm said the perfect
Speaker 3: defender could get there.
Speaker 4: That was peak Lebron.
Speaker 3: Peak Lebron was the best athlete in the league, the
Speaker 3: most unstopable offensive force in the league, and the most
Speaker 3: destructive defensive player in the league. That player is long gone.
Speaker 3: Now what we get from Lebron is a top eight
Speaker 3: ish guy in the league who can still control a
Speaker 3: game offensively and has to really pick his spots defensively,
Speaker 3: like four minutes left in a close game. I still
Speaker 3: think he's one of the best defenders in basketball. Over
Speaker 3: the course of an entire game, he's an average defender.
Speaker 3: That's where age is caught up to him. Okay, so
Speaker 3: that's the Lebron part of it. Now, are the Lakers
Speaker 3: topes They might be. A lot of that has to
Speaker 3: do with Anthony Davis. Lebron can't suffer another injury. But
Speaker 3: here's what is so frustrating, and here's what I talked
Speaker 3: about on TV yesterday.
Speaker 5: A bit.
Speaker 3: Lebron has played forty five games this year. Okay, he's
Speaker 3: played about seventy five percent of his team's games. The
Speaker 3: Lakers are five games under five hundred. Steph Curry has
Speaker 3: played thirty nine games. The Warriors are at five hundred.
Speaker 3: Durant has played thirty eight games. The Nets are ten
Speaker 3: over five hundred. Kawhi has and I know he's on
Speaker 3: the Nets anymore, but that's the team he was with.
Speaker 3: Kawhi has played thirty thirty four games. The Clippers are
Speaker 3: five or six games above five hundred. The fact that
Speaker 3: the Lakers have not been able to field a competent
Speaker 3: team when Lebron's either sits or misses a game is
Speaker 3: all on the front office, and the concern a lot
Speaker 3: of us had when they went into the season with
Speaker 3: Russ was you might dig yourself too big of a hole.
Speaker 3: First twelve games, the Lakers were two to ten. Since
Speaker 3: then they're twenty five and twenty two, which that win
Speaker 3: percentage would.
Speaker 4: Be the five seed.
Speaker 3: But you started off so terribly that you are now
Speaker 3: you have to dig yourself out of a hole and
Speaker 3: then play single elimination play so they have. It is
Speaker 3: a massive uphill climb and it starts tonight with a
Speaker 3: game against the Warriors. With that said, I don't think
Speaker 3: Denver wants to see him in Round one. If the
Speaker 3: Lakers end up the nine seed and get into the
Speaker 3: playing get into the playoffs as the eight seed, they
Speaker 3: win a couple playing games.
Speaker 4: Denver win.
Speaker 3: Denver the best they've ever done in the postseason with
Speaker 3: Yokic just make a conference finals and Anthony Davis severely
Speaker 3: outplayed him. And that was a Denver team that was
Speaker 3: fully healthy. That is a team that I so. I
Speaker 3: think it's a weird spot because the Lakers and I
Speaker 3: got to see them play with Lebron and all these
Speaker 3: new pieces, they could be dangerous.
Speaker 5: And I suppose this all a ploy to come at Jokic.
Speaker 3: No, it's just Denver's the one seed and if you're
Speaker 3: the Niner the ten the highest you can get is
Speaker 3: the eight seed.
Speaker 4: Well, who's the two seed right now?
Speaker 3: I don't think Memphis would be thrilled with the Lakers
Speaker 3: making the postseason. I like, let's just look at who
Speaker 3: the other teams could be and let's just be honest here. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: Memphis is going to be the two, Sacramentos the three.
Speaker 3: So right now, seven through thirteen is the following New Orleans, Minnesota,
Speaker 3: Golden State, ok See, and then eleven through thirteen Utah, Portland.
Speaker 3: The Lakers, Denver, and Memphis are rooting to play anyone
Speaker 3: in the first round other than the Lakers or the Warriors.
Speaker 3: The Warriors with Steph back would be terrifying in round one,
Speaker 3: and the Lakers because the Lebron and ad I don't
Speaker 3: care what Minnesota's record is. You would way rather play Minnesota. Yeah,
Speaker 3: New Orleans because it looks like Zion's done for the year.
Speaker 3: Maybe New Orleans with Zion would be petrifying, but without him,
Speaker 3: they ca can't win games. So for Memphis or Denver,
Speaker 3: neither of Boom have won anything.
Speaker 4: You are not.
Speaker 3: Rooting to play the Lakers or the Warriors in round one?
Speaker 3: All right, go ahead, next?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: Everyone is talking about the other Lebron James this week.
Speaker 5: This is crazy what whereabouts possibility? Yeah, because in ESPN
Speaker 5: mock draft had Bronni going into the top ten in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four. Ron has already said he wants to
Speaker 5: finish his career playing with Bronnie. What does this mean
Speaker 5: for the twenty twenty four Lebron's Bronnie Sweepstakes?
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is fascinating on a million levels. The
Speaker 3: first one is this Jonathan Gavoni wrote this, and Jonathan Gavoni.
Speaker 4: Is great at this specific thing, like.
Speaker 3: Is analysis of the high school player, the young college
Speaker 3: player and where they fit in the draft. When I
Speaker 3: saw they had Bronnie at ten, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 3: they're saying he's saying he's gonna get way overdrafted because
Speaker 3: Lebron's going to sign up to play with him. That
Speaker 3: was not the analysis. The analysis was that Bronnie, independent
Speaker 3: of Lebron, could be the tenth pick of this draft,
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 4: A draft a year from now. That's wild.
Speaker 3: That is a testament to what the young man's done.
Speaker 3: And at six to two, it's crazy.
Speaker 5: It seems like the best defender.
Speaker 3: They said, his defense is amazing. His instincts are amazing.
Speaker 3: That part's not surprising. The way his body is filled out,
Speaker 3: and his athleticism. It's not a good shooter, you know,
Speaker 3: on the on at on that level as far as
Speaker 3: you know, be a top ten pick. That's as big
Speaker 3: as weakness. I think this is put is so fascinating
Speaker 3: because I truly believe Lebron's initial I'm gonna sign with
Speaker 3: whoever drafts Bron was Lebron's attempt to make sure Bronni
Speaker 3: got drafted at all.
Speaker 4: And we've talked about this before that.
Speaker 3: The Knicks once upon a time signed j R. Smith's brother.
Speaker 3: It's a you know, as a solid to JR. Now
Speaker 3: he didn't work out in the NBA, Chris, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: that was Chris Smith. Seth Curry kept getting chances because
Speaker 3: of staph eventually turned himself into a really good player. Hell,
Speaker 3: how many Onpo brothers are in the league, you know.
Speaker 3: And so the my thought process was Lebron was feeling
Speaker 3: his feeling was, Bronni might not be right out of
Speaker 3: college an NBA guy. But if I get a team
Speaker 3: to invest a first round pick and a guaranteed contract
Speaker 3: in him, and then he gets to watch me work,
Speaker 3: get that development, they the team has a vested interest,
Speaker 3: and in succeeding three four years into it, he'll be
Speaker 3: an NBA guy. But if Bronnie is a lottery pick
Speaker 3: on his own merits, that then also changes this. What
Speaker 3: if a terrible team takes it? What if Detroit drafts
Speaker 3: Bronnie with the ninth pick, not because they want Lebron,
Speaker 3: but because Bronni they want Bronni? Does Lebron want to
Speaker 3: then spend the last two years of his career on
Speaker 3: an awful team. It's a really weird spot. It's a
Speaker 3: really weird spot. It would be fascinating. And let me
Speaker 3: ask you this.
Speaker 4: If you were Bronni Okay.
Speaker 3: And you were a lottery pick on your own merit,
Speaker 3: now this is not I'm getting drafted because of my dad.
Speaker 3: Would you want your dad to come play with you
Speaker 3: or would you not want it? Again, keep in mind,
Speaker 3: in this situation, your dad's the most famous player ever.
Speaker 5: I think i'd want the chance to play against him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or even not only that, like to not have
Speaker 3: it seem like you're here because of it. Now, if
Speaker 3: you are here because of him, it's different. And so
Speaker 3: I think it's a fascinating thing. I also think I
Speaker 3: gotta tell you, man, I am really really impressed with
Speaker 3: how this kid has worked and how he's conducted himself.
Speaker 3: That rich, that famous, that much attention in LA has
Speaker 3: never and again he's young, and a lot can happen.
Speaker 4: But and I hate to sound.
Speaker 3: Cliche in the social media world, but in a social
Speaker 3: media world doesn't have any like oh boy, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, like the.
Speaker 4: I I think it is. I know we listen, we talked.
Speaker 5: A couple of years ago. People were saying that like
Speaker 5: Ronnie wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Was not even close brother over him. Well now, yeah,
Speaker 4: but because his brother grew so much.
Speaker 3: But six ' two in the NBA is a tough
Speaker 3: putt and it is. It's wild. Said something really funny
Speaker 3: on the TV show when we talking about the dunk contest,
Speaker 3: which was Isaiah Ryder won a dunk contest in the
Speaker 3: early nineties for the between the Like Legs dunk the
Speaker 3: East Bay Funk and that when that happened. We said
Speaker 3: that was the greatest dunk that's ever happened, and now
Speaker 3: Lebron James Junior is doing it. But I I find
Speaker 3: this to be really fascinating.
Speaker 4: And I do.
Speaker 3: I I also don't want to overlook as you know,
Speaker 3: this is a family enterprise and this you know, we
Speaker 3: talk a lot about family on this show. That part
Speaker 3: of the story of Lebron James, the not basketball player,
Speaker 3: but like American dream story is, man, this guy got
Speaker 3: with Savannah when they were both kids. They have stayed
Speaker 3: together and they have raised what appears to be three
Speaker 3: super well adjusted, hard working, sharp kids. And I mean
Speaker 3: the littlest, the girl, Zuri, is a baby baby, which
Speaker 3: just five. But my point is like, and that would
Speaker 3: be really really hard, man, really hard that that level
Speaker 3: of fame and the kid who didn't earn the fame
Speaker 3: and and has all the money, has all of that
Speaker 3: to work hard is would be difficult, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, to be like why you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like I am I'm a billionaire with doing nothing.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know what I mean? But you know the
Speaker 4: and it is.
Speaker 3: It's a testament to them. It's something I'm really curious
Speaker 3: to watch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mean it's it's a story no matter what.
Speaker 4: All right next? Uh?
Speaker 5: So Katie is now in Phoenix with part time Devin
Speaker 5: Booker and declining aging c P three ok Kyrie and
Speaker 5: Luca have played two games together in the MAVs let
Speaker 5: up one hundred and twenty and a half points per
Speaker 5: game in those losses.
Speaker 4: Yah.
Speaker 5: Did those big trades blow up in the faces of
Speaker 5: the Suns and the MAVs?
Speaker 4: Oh? They absolutely could.
Speaker 3: The weird thing about KD is we found out today
Speaker 3: he's playing to make his debut on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: So he's not ready to play yet.
Speaker 5: What's it's been three two weeks? No three?
Speaker 4: He last played January eighth. Oh since the trade?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Since the trade?
Speaker 3: Yeah no, it's been a couple of weeks since the
Speaker 3: trade in January January eight, not twenty eight. So he's
Speaker 3: gonna play on March first. So it's gonna be almost
Speaker 3: a two month injury. I he had talked during the
Speaker 3: injury about how much he wanted to play in the
Speaker 3: All Star So I just assumed their first game is Friday.
Speaker 3: I just assumed he was playing Friday.
Speaker 4: But they don't. They play Oklahoma City in.
Speaker 3: Phoenix on Friday, they play Milwaukee on National TV in
Speaker 3: Milwaukee on Sunday, and then they play Wednesday. That's when
Speaker 3: he's gonna make his debut. I think the trade was
Speaker 3: a no brainer for the Suns. I think the trade
Speaker 3: was very risky for the MAVs. But neither one or
Speaker 3: anywhere close to sure things. Neither one is anywhere close
Speaker 3: to a sure thing. And for the MAVs, it's more
Speaker 3: about it's about defense, and it's about is Kyrie gonna
Speaker 3: burn the building? Now for the Suns, they're really to me,
Speaker 3: are not basketball questions. There are a lot of health
Speaker 3: questions though that Chris Paul. The only player in the
Speaker 3: league older than Chris Paul that gets minutes is Lebron
Speaker 3: and Chris Paul.
Speaker 4: I think he is, but.
Speaker 3: They're the only two guys in the league, uh, that
Speaker 3: are over thirty five that are playing real minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Lebron's older than Chris Paul by.
Speaker 4: A few months.
Speaker 5: Katie is injury he didn't seem to know was as
Speaker 5: bad as it was.
Speaker 4: Dude, and Katie, listen, this sucks.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about how skinny is.
Speaker 4: No, I'm just post Achilles.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's been hurt a lot the I mean
Speaker 3: the and I understand guys don't play.
Speaker 4: Guys don't play.
Speaker 3: Demont's computer's yelling at him. Guys don't play as many
Speaker 3: games as they used to. I understand that. But here's
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant's career games played. Okay, by season eighty seventy four,
Speaker 3: eighty two, seventy eight, sixty six that was in a lockout.
Speaker 3: Year sixty six was how many games? The year was
Speaker 3: eighty one point eighty one, twenty seven. He broke his
Speaker 3: foot in Oklahoma City at the Jones fracture seventy two,
Speaker 3: sixty two, sixty eight, seventy eight achilles thirty five fifty five,
Speaker 3: thirty nine.
Speaker 4: That's in the thirty nine. He's gonna play more. But
Speaker 4: t twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: Since since tearing his achilles, and think about how long
Speaker 3: ago that feels, he has played one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: nine regular season games, and he's played in sixteen playoff games,
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty five games total since tearing his
Speaker 3: achilles in four seasons now, one season he missed entirely.
Speaker 3: That's concerning. And obviously the Chris Paul thing. We know
Speaker 3: Chris Paul's history, so that is concerned as well. All right, next, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Speaking of the Suns, they're the favorite to win
Speaker 5: the title, which means Chris Paul could finally get his ring.
Speaker 5: You could argue there are a few other big names
Speaker 5: chasing the same goal, like your guy, joke It, Jokic
Speaker 5: and James Harden come to mind. Who do you think
Speaker 5: is under the most pressure to get a ring this year?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's without question, it's Jokic.
Speaker 5: It has to be you.
Speaker 3: No, because Harden is no, not the best player on
Speaker 3: his own team. Harden's team is not the one seed. Harden,
Speaker 3: I think people look at it is in a slightly
Speaker 3: different phase of his career.
Speaker 4: He's under a lot of pressure. Go ahead.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, so he had those playoff runs with
Speaker 5: the rockets. He was he was, he was the best player. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So you don't think since he didn't get them, then
Speaker 5: there's no pressure for him.
Speaker 4: No, I think that, Listen. I think her.
Speaker 3: I think Harden's top five. I think you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. I think he. I think Harden's under Embad's
Speaker 3: never been to a conference finals, bringing the NBA finals,
Speaker 3: Harden and beat have a ton of pressure. I think
Speaker 3: Luke and Kyrie of a ton of pressure. I think
Speaker 3: there's new pressure on Durant, but because he's on such
Speaker 3: a good team there, I think there's sneaky pressure on Tatum. Yeah,
Speaker 3: made the finals last year. Everyone was like, like Tatum,
Speaker 3: I thought was gonna get in the conversation of like
Speaker 3: is he the best player in the league. People won't
Speaker 3: seem to be having that conversation, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: like the But there is no one under more pressure
Speaker 3: than Yoki Yo Kic.
Speaker 4: It would appear as gonna win his third straight MVP.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's minus money minus huge one five MVP.
Speaker 4: So for you three straight.
Speaker 3: The guys who have three MVPs at any point in
Speaker 3: their career, this is, I think, blow your mind. So
Speaker 3: it is Wilt Russell, Kareem, Moses, Bird, Magic, Lebron. There's
Speaker 3: some I'm obviously leaving out. Oh did I not say MJ.
Speaker 3: I don't think I said MJ, MJ. So there's the eight,
Speaker 3: those eight guys. How many championships do you think they
Speaker 3: have between them?
Speaker 4: A lot? Give it a guess. Thirty eight, yeah, thirty eight?
Speaker 4: They have three times crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the numbers are this, Moses has won, Bird has three,
Speaker 3: Lebron has four, Magic has five, uh, Wilt has two,
Speaker 3: Kareem has six, Jordan has six.
Speaker 4: Russell has eleven. So even if you take Russell out.
Speaker 5: Of Sorry about that, guest, guys, that was really bad.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, that's alright. It is so bad. No, that's
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 3: They average a little over four and a half championships each. Okay,
Speaker 3: we go to two time MVPs. There are three two
Speaker 3: time MVPs if we do all the truth, No, just
Speaker 3: just have won two. Ever, it's those eight guys plus
Speaker 3: got dog it, Bob Pettitt, Steve Nash, Yeah, but I
Speaker 3: have to go chronologically or else I won't. Bob Pettitt,
Speaker 3: Karl Malone, Steve Nash, Duncan, Jannie, Steph Jokic.
Speaker 4: Those are those are those guys.
Speaker 3: All of them have at least one championship except Steve Nash,
Speaker 3: Karl Malone and Jokic.
Speaker 4: You can't.
Speaker 3: I know, nick Y yogis nick you can change the
Speaker 3: rules on everything for him. And there was massive pressure
Speaker 3: on Giannis to get it done in the postseason once
Speaker 3: he won his second MVP, and then he did. There
Speaker 3: there have been Matt there's Carl Malone got labeled a
Speaker 3: Choker in the playoffs because he lost to Michael Jordan,
Speaker 3: and back to back years in the finals, Steve Nash
Speaker 3: stopped being considered an MVP candidate because his team couldn't
Speaker 3: get to the finals. None of those guys won three
Speaker 3: in a row. None of those guys that I just
Speaker 3: mentioned one have won three at all. If he's gonna
Speaker 3: win his third straight MVP with the one seed, that
Speaker 3: this is the part that kills me about the voters.
Speaker 3: The voters also, a lot of them are talking had
Speaker 3: folks or writers and they make predictions. None of them,
Speaker 3: I shouldn't say none, very few are picking the Nuggets
Speaker 3: to win the title.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 3: The West is wide open, they have the best player,
Speaker 3: they have home court. Shouldn't they be the title pick?
Speaker 3: Unless you actually, deep down don't think he's the best player,
Speaker 3: in which case, stop giving him the MVP every year.
Speaker 3: It's the answers Jokic, and if I have to single
Speaker 3: handedly be the one to up that pressure, I'll do it.
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Speaker 5: All right, demon's let's get right to it, all right,
Speaker 5: without the NFL to gamble on getting a little answer.
Speaker 5: I know you are, but thankfully we've got the NBA.
Speaker 5: So let's put some bets on the table between MVP
Speaker 5: conference or title winners. Yeah, let's lock in some futures here.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the MVP odds are that they're showing me?
Speaker 3: Are Is Jokic minus two seventy five? Embiid five to one,
Speaker 3: Giannis six to one, Luca twelve to one, Tatum fourteen
Speaker 3: to one, Lebron sixty six to one.
Speaker 5: I think money's on Tatum. So I think they're gonna
Speaker 5: win the finals, but they're gonna go to the I
Speaker 5: know it's preest like regular season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they vote on it when this regular
Speaker 4: season's over.
Speaker 5: So that's take that back, Yeah, I take that back
Speaker 5: that Tate.
Speaker 3: You could bet Tatum to win Finals MVP if you
Speaker 3: could find those odds. Yeah, that'd be better odds than
Speaker 3: you'd get to It's like Celtics to win the title,
Speaker 3: but you'd get better odds than that.
Speaker 4: Listen, I'm resigned to the fact that Joki is probably
Speaker 4: gonna win this award.
Speaker 3: However, minus two seventy five is way too much to bet.
Speaker 3: So Jokic at plus two to seventy and minus two
Speaker 3: seventy five is not good value. Joel Embiid over the list.
Speaker 3: So Joel Embiid has finished back to back second in
Speaker 3: MVP voting. The Sixers over the last forty games have
Speaker 3: I think the best record in basketball. They have a
Speaker 3: very tough schedule down the stretch. However, Embiid's numbers this year,
Speaker 3: He's averaging thirty three, ten and four on fifty four
Speaker 3: percent shooting and eighty six percent from the line with
Speaker 3: all world caliber defense. Embid at five to one.
Speaker 5: Sounds great, especially considering that my eyebrow raise when you
Speaker 5: said the back to back snubs the runner up. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and Jokic is I don't think Jokic it can get
Speaker 5: at thirty get three in a row.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, not if I have anything to say about it,
Speaker 3: but but I'm not so listen. I think Jokic is
Speaker 3: probably gonna win. But embid at five to one to
Speaker 3: me as value all right? In the East? Uh, the
Speaker 3: Celtics are plus one fifteen, the Bucks are plus two
Speaker 3: to twenty five. The Sixers are plus five point fifty.
Speaker 3: None of the other teams matter, right, The Calves aren't
Speaker 3: ready yet. I respect the heat, They're not gonna win.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go along the same lines there. Five and
Speaker 3: a half to one on the Sixers, to me, there
Speaker 3: is value there.
Speaker 4: They were my.
Speaker 3: Preseason pick, and I'm not gonna act like I feel
Speaker 3: great about it. But with Yanni's banged up a bit,
Speaker 3: here would be my real question for Philly. It's probably
Speaker 3: not gonna happen, but could Philly. They're three games back
Speaker 3: of Boston for the one seed, two and a half
Speaker 3: game back of Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: Can Philly move up to the one line.
Speaker 3: The reason Boston right now is such a heavy favorite
Speaker 3: is because with Giannis injuring his wrist and then currently
Speaker 3: being the one seed.
Speaker 4: The value of.
Speaker 3: Philly, Milwaukee, Boston being the one seed is to make
Speaker 3: the finals, you only got to beat one of the
Speaker 3: other three. If you're the two or the three seed,
Speaker 3: you gotta beat them both. So it's a huge difference there.
Speaker 3: But Philly at five and a half to one, I
Speaker 3: don't hate out West, the Sundrad two to one.
Speaker 4: We'll go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 5: You said, Phi, Sorry, No, is it philiate five and
Speaker 5: a half to one? I was confused.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what they are.
Speaker 3: Philly's five and a half to one to win the East,
Speaker 3: I'm saying, I think there's decent value there.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, So out West.
Speaker 3: The Suns are two to one, the Nuggets are three
Speaker 3: to one, the Clippers are five to one, the Warriors
Speaker 3: seven and a half to one, the MAVs eight and
Speaker 3: a half to one, the Grizzlies all the way down
Speaker 3: at eight and a half to one, the Pelicans and
Speaker 3: the Lakers at eighteen to one.
Speaker 4: Fine in the West, though, what'd you say?
Speaker 5: Nothing?
Speaker 4: Oh about job that will find in the West.
Speaker 3: Uh, I'd like to say the MAVs, I don't think
Speaker 3: you can win three straight rounds in the playoffs with
Speaker 3: the defense that they have, So.
Speaker 4: I'm very worried about them.
Speaker 3: The Warriors to me, are a sucker bet. It would
Speaker 3: be shocking if the Suns don't win the West to me,
Speaker 3: now if they get hurt and you're not getting great
Speaker 3: odds there, if they get hurt, there's a real level
Speaker 3: of concern. Yeah, but I don't believe in the Nuggets
Speaker 3: in the playoffs. I don't believe in the Clippers' ability
Speaker 3: to stay healthy.
Speaker 5: I believe in Curry. I'd go with the seventy five
Speaker 5: to one, not half seven, A half to one. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the Warriors come out of the West.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's interesting. I'm worried about the Warriors, Like.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's very very hard if you they're gonna
Speaker 3: be like the seventh seed to you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: On the way they've been so bad on the road
Speaker 3: this year. Now you're starting every playoff series on the road.
Speaker 3: That would concern me. I think the Sons are the
Speaker 3: bet there, uh title Celtics three to one, Sons and
Speaker 3: Bucks four to one, Nuggets seven to one, Clippers ten
Speaker 3: to one, Warriors twelve to one, Maps sixteen to one,
Speaker 3: Lakers thirty.
Speaker 4: Three to one.
Speaker 3: If I worry about Chris Paul's ability to be healthy
Speaker 3: for four rounds. As far as value there, I think
Speaker 3: the Bucks. I think if you can get the team
Speaker 3: with the best player at four to one, I think
Speaker 3: that's real value. Where are you thinking on this? Curry again,
Speaker 3: the Warriors again, or the Celtics.
Speaker 5: The Celtics.
Speaker 4: It's just not enough. I know.
Speaker 5: It's not the value.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just the You're just.
Speaker 5: It's valuable when you feel like you know they're gonna win. Though.
Speaker 3: Well listen, they say, you know, losing bets have no value,
Speaker 3: so they if they win, there is some value. I
Speaker 3: just feel like it should be a little better. All right,
Speaker 3: Let's go to our game.
Speaker 4: Moving the needle.
Speaker 5: All right, So, in case folks haven't been dialed into
Speaker 5: the NBA, tell me what direction the needle is going
Speaker 5: for the following teams. Yeah, we've got like a little
Speaker 5: graphic up there for you.
Speaker 3: So the graphic for the audience is from worst to
Speaker 3: best five Beverly's tank for wimby a play in team
Speaker 3: one and done second round at best championship or dynasty.
Speaker 3: Now our producers instead of you know, evidently we only
Speaker 3: had room for seven spots on here, and they thought
Speaker 3: it was more valuable to include Dynasty and five pat
Speaker 3: BEVs rather than have somewhere in between second round or championship.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna have to adjust that on the fly,
Speaker 3: But go ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: First off, we got the Warriors.
Speaker 5: Steph Curry is making progress, but it's going to miss
Speaker 5: at least another week. Everyone assumes they'll turn it on eventually,
Speaker 5: because you know, they're the Warriors, but they're sixty games.
Speaker 5: They're fighting the thunder for a play in spot. Where
Speaker 5: is the Warriors needle movie?
Speaker 3: Oh listen, I think they're going to be a play
Speaker 3: in team, But I yeah, I think they're gonna be
Speaker 3: a play in team that will will have a chance
Speaker 3: at winning a round. So a play in team that
Speaker 3: is also second round at best, does that make sense?
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna land in the play in and
Speaker 3: then they could win that first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that that I think.
Speaker 3: But also let's keep in mind that we have seen
Speaker 3: the Warriors be in the play in and get knocked
Speaker 3: out with Steph Lebron hit a three in his eye
Speaker 3: to beat him in the first game, and then job
Speaker 3: beat him in the second game.
Speaker 4: Next, next off, we got the Celts.
Speaker 5: Celtics didn't make much noise the deadline, but arguably are
Speaker 5: the scariest team in the league. I second that Tatum
Speaker 5: is fresh off in All Star Game MVP and Jalen
Speaker 5: Brown made an appearance as well. Where's the Celtics needle movie?
Speaker 3: So demonte says championship. This is where I would say
Speaker 3: we need something between second round and championship. To me,
Speaker 3: they're an Eastern Conference finals team, and I think that
Speaker 3: either Philly or Milwalk if either of those teams at
Speaker 3: full strength, I don't think they would have an answer
Speaker 3: on the inside for Embead or Yannis.
Speaker 4: They didn't last year the.
Speaker 5: Time or wouldn't really, wouldn't really act.
Speaker 4: You love time, Lord, all right? Next us?
Speaker 5: Next we got the Bucks. You never discount the Bucks
Speaker 5: as long as they have Giannis, But now the Greek
Speaker 5: freak is dealing with hand injuries unfortunately, and Chris Middleton
Speaker 5: still is fighting his injuries. Geez dude, where's the Bucks
Speaker 5: needle movie?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 3: I picked the Sixers to win the East beginning of
Speaker 3: the year, so I can't move off it, but feels
Speaker 3: like Yannis should probably win the title again.
Speaker 4: I think they would have ramshackled the Warriors in the
Speaker 4: finals if they had gotten there last year. And I
Speaker 4: don't love the roster. The Middleton thing scares me. But
Speaker 4: Yannis is going to go down as one of the
Speaker 4: twelve greatest players ever.
Speaker 3: And this is the time for him to start racking
Speaker 3: up titles. And I, you know, in a fair not
Speaker 3: a dynasty. I'm not saying a dynasty because I don't
Speaker 3: think they have the overall roster for that. But I
Speaker 3: think that they they should feel like they are championship
Speaker 3: or bust.
Speaker 5: Next my guy Grizzlies John Morana. City's fine in the West,
Speaker 5: but the Grizzlies have lost nine of their last thirteen games.
Speaker 4: Where's the Grizzlies needle moving? You know?
Speaker 3: I think they absolutely could be one and done. I
Speaker 3: think that I think the Grizzlies are.
Speaker 5: Not ready for the postseason. I just don't think that
Speaker 5: they're built for it.
Speaker 3: I don't like how much talking they've done. I think
Speaker 3: that it might be good for them to have a
Speaker 3: bit of a humbling. They also haven't been the same
Speaker 3: team since the stuff was Shannon. They just haven't You
Speaker 3: can call that coincidental but they just haven't been. And
Speaker 3: then there was that crazy story about the Placers team
Speaker 3: boss and the oh yeah yeah to me, this is
Speaker 3: a team that kind of believed its own headlines a
Speaker 3: little bit too much, too quickly and has a humbling
Speaker 3: coming to him.
Speaker 5: Ever since Dylan Brooks called Shannon Sharp a casual or
Speaker 5: a pedestrian.
Speaker 8: Yeah well, all right, next, all right, so next Cvilion
Speaker 8: the civilian. Yeah, Clippers, as you predicted, Russell Wilson was traded.
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson, Sorry, guys, Russell Westbrook was traded after a
Speaker 5: bio he is officially an LA Clipper. Where's the Clippers?
Speaker 5: Needle moving?
Speaker 3: The second rounded best the you just this team is
Speaker 3: not going to be able to stay healthy for six weeks.
Speaker 3: Kawhi can't listen. I feel terribly for Kawhi, but the
Speaker 3: guy's body won't allow for him to play consistently and
Speaker 3: the rust thing is a disaster.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, he can't be a part of winning basketball.
Speaker 5: The Clippers somehow come out of the West wow, and
Speaker 5: go like if that means somebody else don't making I
Speaker 5: really want the Clippers. I don't think that they will,
Speaker 5: but I would love if they like spitefully won listen
Speaker 5: just because of how Westbrook has been done all the players.
Speaker 5: I feel like Pg's always gotten bs from everybody.
Speaker 3: That's all fair, But they have a major health concerning
Speaker 3: Kawhi and I. Russ was once upon a time one
Speaker 3: of my favorite players in the league. He's broken. Well,
Speaker 3: he's still in LA.
Speaker 4: The Lakers.
Speaker 3: He's broken as a bat. He can't be a part
Speaker 3: of winning basketball. He just can't be sorry. I I
Speaker 3: I don't understand why the Clippers made that move, and
Speaker 3: I think they're second round at best. I don't think
Speaker 3: he helps them next.
Speaker 4: All right, So I got the Bulls here.
Speaker 5: Lonzo is out for the season in Chicago, so they
Speaker 5: brought in a savior at point guard, Patrick Beverley. It's
Speaker 5: a new goal to knock the Lakers out of the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Good news, Bulls fans. Where's the Bulls needle moving?
Speaker 3: They should totally turn the ship around, try to tank
Speaker 3: for Windy. So they their first round pick this year
Speaker 3: goes to Orlando unless it's in the top four. So
Speaker 3: they desperately need it to be in the top four.
Speaker 3: And we haven't talked about it.
Speaker 5: I know I could do that.
Speaker 3: What protect picks Yeah, that's how a lot of these
Speaker 3: trades work. So it's like, we will trade you our
Speaker 3: first rounder, but it's lottery.
Speaker 4: So's the way. Sometimes it hit eleven lottery protected.
Speaker 3: And then if we don't if you don't get it,
Speaker 3: then the next year it's top eight protected. And then
Speaker 3: if the next year you still don't get it, the
Speaker 3: next year it's top three protected, and then it's unprotected.
Speaker 3: You know what, I can do these types of things.
Speaker 3: The Lakers in the trade where they got off Us,
Speaker 3: they traded Utah their twenty twenty seven first round or
Speaker 3: top four protected, and if it is in the top four,
Speaker 3: it just turns into a second round pick. So the
Speaker 3: so that's them between unprotected picks protected picks because teams
Speaker 3: are afraid that they're gonna lose out win a lottery
Speaker 3: and lose out on a Wimby or something in one
Speaker 3: of the steals. That's why, like when the Suns traded
Speaker 3: for Durant, all those picks are unprotected. So if Chris
Speaker 3: Paul retires and Durant gets fickle and leaves and whatever,
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, that could be really bad for him.
Speaker 3: That's how your Celtics got Brown and Tatum they traded
Speaker 3: KG and Pierce to the Nets and got unprotected picks.
Speaker 4: The Nets are like.
Speaker 3: Who cares, We're gonna be awesome. The Nets at the time,
Speaker 3: we're owned by this Russian oligar to Kail Prokoff, and
Speaker 3: he was spending all this money and then like something happened,
Speaker 3: like to his actual industry like oil or copper or
Speaker 3: whatever he had. He's like, I don't want to spend
Speaker 3: his money on this team anymore. Get rid of all
Speaker 3: the players. So they were terrible and they didn't have
Speaker 3: their own picks, and they went to Boston. You guys
Speaker 3: got Brown and Tatum out of it. It's pretty unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's all, so the Bulls should try to get a
Speaker 3: top four pick. The other thing is this Lonzo's career
Speaker 3: might be over. It's really sad.
Speaker 4: Man. I'm glad he got paid.
Speaker 3: He got the four years eighty million, so good for him,
Speaker 3: but he is a degenerative knee issue and his career
Speaker 3: might be over. It's really sad. All right, your questions
Speaker 3: in your comments next?
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Speaker 3: the questions now, demonse, go right ahead.
Speaker 5: All right, bravo Sierra seven double O seven. Sorry, buddy,
Speaker 5: do you have any hilarious pheel help you stories?
Speaker 3: I mean the the fact that after we played for
Speaker 3: six hours and he coolered me in the last hand
Speaker 3: out of fifty thousand dollars, he then suggested we all
Speaker 3: go to dinner together, and then he just rehashed the
Speaker 3: mistakes I made, totally like not aware of how painful
Speaker 3: it was for me. Was you know, I guess somewhat hilarious.
Speaker 4: He's not a bad guy.
Speaker 3: He's not like as socially aware as I think a
Speaker 3: lot of other people are.
Speaker 4: But he's not. He means well and his heart's in
Speaker 4: the right place. He's just like a different type of cat.
Speaker 5: It's like almost like a speck.
Speaker 3: He's just he's a different He's a different type of cat.
Speaker 4: Get is how I would put it. And listen, I
Speaker 4: mean he mother fed me up and down.
Speaker 3: On one hand that he misplayed, but everybody has seen
Speaker 3: that clip all right.
Speaker 5: Next, Foach Mystic said, do you think Lebron and Bronny
Speaker 5: are on the same bad team would be enough to
Speaker 5: make them a contender?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Of course not.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, like no, listen, Lebron the first of all,
Speaker 3: Bronni no rookies help you with initially in the NBA
Speaker 3: much less.
Speaker 4: Than it's not like he's women Yama is.
Speaker 3: So no, and Lebron is no longer. The difference between
Speaker 3: Lebron where Lebron is in his career and where Giannie
Speaker 3: is in his career is put Giannis on any team
Speaker 3: in the league and they're a contender, right, not the favorite,
Speaker 3: but a contender. Lebron's not that. He's showing you that
Speaker 3: right now with the Lakers. He's not that player anymore.
Speaker 3: He's in your twenty He's not that player.
Speaker 4: Anymore. Next, all right, Kurt brawl.
Speaker 5: He said, do you think that if Jokich loses in
Speaker 5: the first round, people will finally realize that he isn't
Speaker 5: the caliber of player the league is making him out
Speaker 5: to be.
Speaker 3: He lost in the first round last year. Two years ago,
Speaker 3: he got swept in round two. Last year he lost
Speaker 3: in round one.
Speaker 4: Nobody cares.
Speaker 3: Everybody dogs out his box score plus minus and his
Speaker 3: field goal percentage. The dumbest shit I ever seen my
Speaker 3: life watching the NBA.
Speaker 5: So we only care about stats when they come to Lebron.
Speaker 3: No, it's again, and this is what is so frustrating.
Speaker 3: Everyone's like, oh, Nick, you think Jokic sucks. No, I don't.
Speaker 3: What I do think is this. I think Giannis is
Speaker 3: better than him. I think Luke is better than him.
Speaker 3: I think Kevin Durantz better than him. I think Steph
Speaker 3: Curry's better than him. I think joellen bead and Jason
Speaker 3: Tatum have very strong arguments. I think he is, at
Speaker 3: best the fifth best player in the league, at worst
Speaker 3: the seventh or eighth.
Speaker 4: Best player in the league.
Speaker 3: I noticed I didn't say Lebron's better than him, because
Speaker 3: Jokis plays every night and is available. All that stuff matters,
Speaker 3: But we're treating him. We're giving him more credit than
Speaker 3: we gave Michael Jordan or Lebron in the regular season.
Speaker 3: It's banana next.
Speaker 5: All right, Clark never Nebreeze said would you would you
Speaker 5: do the Kyrie for eighty trade? The Brussard mentioned on
Speaker 5: the first thing on first things first.
Speaker 3: Well, if I were the MAVs in a heartbeat, Anthony
Speaker 3: Davis is the perfect teammate for Luca, Like the actual perfect.
Speaker 4: Teammate for Luca.
Speaker 3: If you go on a time machine, is a vintage
Speaker 3: Kevin Garnett. That Diak the ball, amazing defender. Yeah, can
Speaker 3: give you twenty anyway, Tim Dunk, you know what I mean. Uh,
Speaker 3: A gig who doesn't need the ball will dominate on
Speaker 3: the defensive end. So Anthony Davis checks a lot of
Speaker 3: those similar boxes. The Lakers would be out of their
Speaker 3: mind to do that. You might be able to get
Speaker 3: Kyrie for nothing trade and bring all right?
Speaker 4: Next? All right.
Speaker 5: Austin tap asked if Demondzi played an individual sport, what
Speaker 5: sport would he be would he be best at?
Speaker 3: So Demonde was a really really good basketball player, A
Speaker 3: college level basketball player played at some small colleges out
Speaker 3: in California. Uh, and so, I mean, I aside from basketball,
Speaker 3: do you ever think about what sport you could be
Speaker 3: good at, Like you'd be really good at.
Speaker 5: I think i'd be pretty good at football at this
Speaker 5: point in my life. Now I think I understand it,
Speaker 5: and like I'm probably a lot more physical than I
Speaker 5: was at the time that.
Speaker 3: I played football, which Demandi never really played foot didn't
Speaker 3: play football past.
Speaker 4: Seventh grade or something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh, I think that I can jump. I
Speaker 5: think i'd be a pretty tough wide receiver.
Speaker 4: I do too. I actually do too.
Speaker 3: I think that I always football. You'll never I don't
Speaker 3: shouldn't say you'll never do it. Maybe when you move
Speaker 3: to la you will.
Speaker 5: No, I do want to get involved in some type
Speaker 5: of flag football or whatever.
Speaker 4: Oh that's all I was going to say though.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that there's two sports that you've never played
Speaker 3: that maybe when you go out to l A you will.
Speaker 5: Golf's one of them.
Speaker 3: Golf's one of them, I think, because you're I think
Speaker 3: you'd be a natural golf. But I don't think you'll
Speaker 3: do that. Beach volleyball, I think you.
Speaker 5: Will be de Yeah, I've played I've played volleyball games
Speaker 5: like it, but.
Speaker 4: Like it's so big in l A.
Speaker 3: And because of your height and your leaping ability, I
Speaker 3: think you would with after a couple times playing, once
Speaker 3: you pick up on it, I think you would be
Speaker 3: a crushing in.
Speaker 5: Saying I feel like that takes a little bit of
Speaker 5: the bounce off like volleyball on a court.
Speaker 3: Well that well, so that's how collegiate volleyball is played
Speaker 3: played on basketball court, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like that's six on six beach volleyball.
Speaker 3: Typically it's more two on two. Yeah, but yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I think you'd crush it that. But Demante was a great,
Speaker 3: great basketball player. Uh, and that that was really the
Speaker 3: only sport you played. You could have done track at
Speaker 3: track les long legs and fast and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah. I, on the other hand, played basketball on track.
Speaker 3: Was decent at track, tried hard at basketball. Was not
Speaker 3: as good as I would like to be. Uh, Gabe,
Speaker 3: tex In d join my pickup run. I'm the oldest
Speaker 3: and worst, but I never guessed, and these young guys
Speaker 3: get tired.
Speaker 4: We can be teammates. That would be great for you
Speaker 4: to meet people in LA.
Speaker 5: No, I'm down, Gabe, is gonna be one of those
Speaker 5: winded that you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mont hasn't necessarily treated his body as well as
Speaker 3: he showed up, but yeah, but yeah that would be great.
Speaker 4: Uh so A right you know who also at least
Speaker 4: used to.
Speaker 3: But maybe still plays a lot of basketball and is
Speaker 3: good gabe and probably attests to this. Kevin Wilds for real,
Speaker 3: any Wilds is my height, so he's good enough size.
Speaker 3: He's actually stockier than me, like he's uh, he's in
Speaker 3: really good shape. And Kevin Wild's played a lot of basketball.
Speaker 3: Really Yeah, and you know Brew played college basketball. Now
Speaker 3: he played it Oberlin, so I don't know if that
Speaker 3: really but but yeah Brew played college basketball.
Speaker 4: All right, good show again.
Speaker 3: Reminder off all of next week, potentially back Monday morning,
Speaker 3: if not definitely back two weeks from today. Uh and
Speaker 3: DEMONSI will be here for whatever our next show show
Speaker 3: or a couple shows are, and then we'll start the
Speaker 3: transition to Los Angeles, or he will.
Speaker 4: I should say, all right, there's the show, see you
Speaker 4: guys on TV at three o'clock Eastern. What's right, sho