Speaker 1: Welcome to Unplugged two point zho. I guess I want
Speaker 1: to call it as you guys can see. Man, we're
Speaker 1: in our new all the Smoke offices, so we're a
Speaker 1: little naked in here right now.
Speaker 2: But we will.
Speaker 1: Continue to build the set as we continue to build
Speaker 1: this new show. This is a show that I've been
Speaker 1: thinking about for a little while and We're going to
Speaker 1: touch an array of topics from sports, culture, entertainment, fatherhood,
Speaker 1: life in general. So I hope you guys sit back
Speaker 1: and enjoy the next I mean I will keep you long,
Speaker 1: maybe twenty to thirty minutes, if you can give me
Speaker 1: a little bit of your time and man, enjoy this
Speaker 1: spand with us. First off, I got an opportunity to
Speaker 1: play in the Reggie Jackson Celebrity Softball Classy yesterday in
Speaker 1: the historic Oakland Coliseem.
Speaker 3: Great time.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: They had obviously mister October, Reggie Jackson, Ricky Henderson, Barry Bonds,
Speaker 1: jose canseco H. The list goes on of legendary guys.
Speaker 1: Dennis Eckersley, Quick Story, J T. Snow and Taro Owens
Speaker 1: almost got in a fight first inning, you know, competitive
Speaker 1: t o is and j T. Snow is playing first,
Speaker 1: and someone threw the ball way over JT's head and
Speaker 1: JT didn't chase that ship at all. He's like, I'm
Speaker 1: come on, man, it's a celebrity game. So the right
Speaker 1: fielder had to come get it. We got a triple
Speaker 1: out of it, so to go.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if to was serious at first, but
Speaker 1: Ti I's like, what the fuck, why did you get it?
Speaker 1: And they start going back and forth. You know me,
Speaker 1: I'm an ass, so I start gassing a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I'm walking back to my side, so they really
Speaker 1: starting to go at it. Two batters later, To at
Speaker 1: shortstop gets the ball and throws it way over JT's head,
Speaker 1: way over JT's head, and JT, like half ass jogs
Speaker 1: to go get it.
Speaker 3: So I'm laughing.
Speaker 2: They're like and then.
Speaker 1: JT starts talking back to t O Karla's motherfuckers like
Speaker 1: they're really going at it, so that the inning splits.
Speaker 1: They go back in the in the day they had
Speaker 1: to be separated. I'm over on the other side laugh
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, this is a charity game, but
Speaker 1: these motherfuckers about to fight. I say all that to say,
Speaker 1: our team won Jose Canseego hit the most home runs,
Speaker 1: astronomical moonshots. But it got me thinking to a bigger
Speaker 1: piece of Oakland history in what Oakland's kind of going
Speaker 1: through right now. Man, In the last five years, the Oakland,
Speaker 1: the city of Oakland, the town has lost the Raiders,
Speaker 1: the Warriors, and now the Oakland A's. And as someone
Speaker 1: who was born an hour from there in San Jose
Speaker 1: and grew up an hour from there in Sacramento, Oakland
Speaker 1: has been a kind of historical spot for sports. And
Speaker 1: you know, through those three teams, there's been ten championships,
Speaker 1: starting in the early sixties and obviously as late as
Speaker 1: now with the A's departing to Sacramento for a couple
Speaker 1: of years before they finalized their situation in Vegas. But
Speaker 1: as a sports fan, as someone who played in the Oracle,
Speaker 1: this is a hard this is a hard situation.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: And my brother Ray Young, who was with me yesterday,
Speaker 1: grew up in Oakland, and although we had a great
Speaker 1: time at the game, it was kind of bittersweet from
Speaker 1: a standpoint of used to find the Warriors, the Raiders
Speaker 1: in the Oakland A's all in the same parking lot
Speaker 1: and whether the team was good or bad, the fan
Speaker 1: base never waivered. Some of the best fans in the
Speaker 1: world are from the Bay Area. Sending my love out
Speaker 1: to the Bay Area, man, particularly Oakland. Something good has
Speaker 1: got to be coming because a lot of bad shit
Speaker 1: has been happening lately. I talked to the security guards
Speaker 1: there that were there at the Oracle, and you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's optimistic about what may come there or not. And
Speaker 1: one of the guys like, you know, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what chemistry, but the crime has to subside, like it's
Speaker 1: just it's it's it's it's crazy out there right now.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: So send a lot of love out to Oakland and
Speaker 1: the Barrier in general, and man, something good to come
Speaker 1: to you guys. Let me introduce one of my young homies,
Speaker 1: one of my brothers, Trevor Resa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, shoot, young homie. Man, I'm down there forty.
Speaker 3: But I'm about to be forty five. He's still my
Speaker 3: young home.
Speaker 4: I feel you though.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's a big dog, all right.
Speaker 1: So, trev we're a week in the NBA season. You know,
Speaker 1: some teams have have come out the gate strong, some
Speaker 1: teams have sputtered.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but before we actually get into what's going on
Speaker 1: in the NBA. I think we got uh, I think
Speaker 1: we got the mail bag coming in.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Normally he has dope, but today today he has mail.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this first mail bag is to Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: from Back to Backs.
Speaker 3: Let's see what's happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dear Joel, I hear you're done with You're done
Speaker 1: with me forever. I've had some long standing relationships with
Speaker 1: your contemporaries. This is the first time I've ever been
Speaker 1: told I'm ugly. Back to back seems a little salty
Speaker 1: right now. Maybe put down the Shirley Temple and hit
Speaker 1: the track. Oh bag is out here tripping, with all
Speaker 1: due respect, back to.
Speaker 5: Back, back to back. One's get back, Trev.
Speaker 3: Back to back death. He wants to get back, Trev.
Speaker 1: I heard, you know, Joel NB came out very early
Speaker 1: on a couple of weeks ago and said he will
Speaker 1: not be playing in back to backs, not only this
Speaker 1: season but forever. I think that rubbed a lot of
Speaker 1: the older rog's the wrong way. You know, KG has
Speaker 1: spoke on it at length. Shaq didn't like it. You
Speaker 1: hear the rumblings on all the networks. What was your
Speaker 1: thought when you heard Joel come out very early and
Speaker 1: say that he's done with back to backs, and before
Speaker 1: you go, so him not playing back to backs would
Speaker 1: eliminate him from fifteen games off the rip. So fifteen
Speaker 1: times they have back to backs, he wonn't play in those.
Speaker 1: He's already sat out what two of the three first
Speaker 1: three games they've had When you initially heard this statement,
Speaker 1: what did you.
Speaker 5: Think initially when I first heard that he's already backed
Speaker 5: out of back to backs? It just where's your mental
Speaker 5: toughness in first? How much do you let a game? Second?
Speaker 5: And you know, what kind of message are you sending
Speaker 5: to the people coming in? You know, where are you
Speaker 5: taking our league? You know, as one of the best
Speaker 5: players in our league, where are you taking this?
Speaker 1: There's no question about how talented he is. I mean
Speaker 1: his skill set, he's arguably one of the most skilled,
Speaker 1: if not the most skilled big on the offensive end
Speaker 1: we've ever seen, you know, played in the Olympics. But
Speaker 1: the knock on him is he's never really been able
Speaker 1: to get through a season. And you know, we've seen
Speaker 1: this talent where he'll drop seventy or have a you know,
Speaker 1: could have been possibly a two time MVP, a one
Speaker 1: time MVP, but it always looks like he's almost dragging
Speaker 1: the leg or playing on one leg. So I understand,
Speaker 1: how do I preserve this? And do you guys, you
Speaker 1: motherfuckers want it now or do you want in the playoffs?
Speaker 1: I think regardless, people are gonna, you know, uh complain
Speaker 1: and you know, you know whether their reasons are just
Speaker 1: or not. But if I'm management, I'm thinking, well, obviously,
Speaker 1: I want you to play as much as you can
Speaker 1: during the season, but the most important part now is
Speaker 1: we need you in the playoffs. You know, we add PG,
Speaker 1: we add Caleb Martin. I think they have a pretty
Speaker 1: solid roster. Resigned Kelly oubre Tyrese Maxey just dropped forty
Speaker 1: five although on thirty seven shots, as you pointed out earlier,
Speaker 1: what is your thought obviously.
Speaker 4: On the shoot off?
Speaker 1: Absolutely every you know, you know the big guns are down,
Speaker 1: but you know, can this team with Joelle not playing
Speaker 1: in back to backs? Obviously, to this eliminates him from
Speaker 1: all awards, right, he won't be able to make any
Speaker 1: award MVP, Defense, offense, all NBA.
Speaker 3: He will be eliminated.
Speaker 1: But at this point in his career, what does he
Speaker 1: make ten years in about Yeah, it's about ten years
Speaker 1: in treving your opinion. I mean, did the accolades mean
Speaker 1: short or now is championship or nothing?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: I think again, as a competitor, you play the game
Speaker 5: to do all of those things the other players, Right,
Speaker 5: that's a super talent. So you know we want to
Speaker 5: see that on a nightly basis. The only time we
Speaker 5: don't want to, you know, see it if it's you're
Speaker 5: injured or you know, you you have something like really
Speaker 5: really really wrong with you, but to just sit out
Speaker 5: or just completely like cancel out back the backs, that
Speaker 5: kind of.
Speaker 1: If you're in the locker room, I mean you you
Speaker 1: would be a you know, if you this is one
Speaker 1: of your final stops on your twenty year career and
Speaker 1: you hear your your you know, your your your best player,
Speaker 1: say this, like, what's your mind set in the locker room?
Speaker 5: He's not here for us for real. It's just that's
Speaker 5: to me, it's just selfish, you know. And uh, players
Speaker 5: understand that that played for a long time and that
Speaker 5: maybe on their last contract or they actually are competitors,
Speaker 5: they're gonna feel the same way. How do you build chemistry?
Speaker 5: How am I gonna listen to you telling me what
Speaker 5: they're doing, you know, not even fucking playing on the
Speaker 5: back to.
Speaker 4: Back or like, how does that?
Speaker 5: It fucks the locker room up too, you know, if
Speaker 5: you have vets that are you know, strong and understand
Speaker 5: what it takes to win, or come you know, come
Speaker 5: from playing with other players that actually fucking cared about
Speaker 5: practice and getting better. How can I listen to you
Speaker 5: if you telling me one thing but you sitting on
Speaker 5: sideline half the time.
Speaker 1: Let me be the devil's advocate. Obviously the knock on
Speaker 1: him has always been tremendously talented, but doesn't really work
Speaker 1: in the off season. But I will say there were
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was whispers, but they said that,
Speaker 1: you know, he dropped twenty pounds if I'm not mistaken
Speaker 1: coming into this season. So my question is, maybe did
Speaker 1: he hurt himself getting himself in shape? And that's the
Speaker 1: thing whatever at the end of the day, trip, this
Speaker 1: motherfucker just can't stay healthy and I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: play through pain regardless. But do you really want me
Speaker 1: to go through this shit during the season or do
Speaker 1: you want it in the playoffs?
Speaker 5: Right now, everybody's DNA or physical makeup is different. But
Speaker 5: we can't really say that because we're seeing somebody playing
Speaker 5: the game for twenty two years and take care of
Speaker 5: his body like no others, you know.
Speaker 4: What I mean.
Speaker 5: So if we're comparing somebody's talent to somebody that grey
Speaker 5: who actually has the work ethic and all the things
Speaker 5: that come with it, you feel cheated a little bit.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine like an embiid with the Lebron taking
Speaker 1: care of his body, or a Kobe off season where
Speaker 1: like he could be the greatest player of all time
Speaker 1: if he put that work in before the season, if
Speaker 1: his body was able to put that work in before
Speaker 1: the season and then have that carryover in the season.
Speaker 4: Seven for a two guard for real?
Speaker 1: For now, So before we get out of this topic trail,
Speaker 1: I mean this team healthy or him being as healthy
Speaker 1: as he can be, Paul George coming back as healthy
Speaker 1: as he can be, Caleb Martin, Tyrese Maxi Oubre some
Speaker 1: good pieces. Where do they fit in the Eastern Conference landscape?
Speaker 5: Again, it depends on how far your leaders can take you.
Speaker 5: If their leaders are stepping up to the plate showing
Speaker 5: them that it's a mental thing to get into game
Speaker 5: fifty six don't feel well.
Speaker 2: Not a sprint, right, you know.
Speaker 5: So it's the long game and it all depends on
Speaker 5: what their two big guns or you know, their core players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that'll be interesting. Man.
Speaker 1: I think healthy this team is the top three team
Speaker 1: in the East. But you know, pg's healthy health has
Speaker 1: been definitely better than it's been in the past. But
Speaker 1: Embeid is obviously the key to that team, next to
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler from h Town, Jimmy from A So I
Speaker 1: think this is I missed it, but I heard that
Speaker 1: there was some shit about the Rockets wanting Jimmy.
Speaker 3: Obviously.
Speaker 1: We had a conversation with Zoe this past offseason and
Speaker 1: Tim hard Away and they both said there was a
Speaker 1: little bit of friction between Pat and Jimmy. You know,
Speaker 1: Jimmy came out and spoke talking shit during the playoffs
Speaker 1: to a playoff. I don't remember exactly who it was,
Speaker 1: but Pat came out and said, like you, basically, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't even be talking if.
Speaker 3: You're not in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I think Jimmy has antics about him that probably rubbed
Speaker 1: people the wrong way at times, as we all do.
Speaker 1: Pat had goddamn had enough. So you know, Obviously they're
Speaker 1: going into this season with the uncertainty of whether, you know,
Speaker 1: Jimmy being thirty five, his final year of his deal,
Speaker 1: is he someone they're going to lock up for the
Speaker 1: remainder of his career or does he float out to Houston.
Speaker 1: Let me read this real quick. Dear Jimmy, I remember
Speaker 1: like it was yesterday you growing up in Tomball. That
Speaker 1: what it was you growing up in Tomball, just down
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 3: The weather is good, the food is fire. As Trevor Reza,
Speaker 3: come on home, this kid misses you. Always love h Town.
Speaker 3: Love a lot of love. Trevy, you had you had
Speaker 3: a nice run in.
Speaker 1: Before we get to this Jimmy ship, talk us about
Speaker 1: I never I mean I played on a lot of teams.
Speaker 1: Houston wasn't one of them. Talk to us about what
Speaker 1: did I you missed?
Speaker 5: Missed out on a real real good time man. Just
Speaker 5: great people, loving people. You know, they gonna let your
Speaker 5: ask know when you're not doing what you're supposed to do,
Speaker 5: but they always don't treat you with respect and love.
Speaker 5: You know, the food is great, like that young person said,
Speaker 5: and you know to me, it was a.
Speaker 4: I loved it, great time, great time.
Speaker 1: So this Houston team, man, the young team built for
Speaker 1: a big move. You know, uh, Jalen Green got an
Speaker 1: extension sengoon to me a top three or four center
Speaker 1: in the NBA for sure right now. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: argue with whoever wants to argue once I look at
Speaker 1: his stats. But just off pure youngster talent, mean down low,
Speaker 1: Jabari Smith who was a top pick, Tarry Easton, Cam Whitmore,
Speaker 1: I mean, Thompson van flu. They just picked up the
Speaker 1: white boy from Kentucky Shepherd read Shepherd, nice, very nice.
Speaker 1: If this, if this Houston thing starts to get some
Speaker 1: more legs on it, who would be someone you'd be willing.
Speaker 3: To part ways with?
Speaker 1: They also have a twenty twenty seven pick swap from
Speaker 1: the Nets in the James Harden deal. So who would
Speaker 1: you who can you package up?
Speaker 3: Plus is.
Speaker 1: Jimmy but Yeah, it is Jimmy Butler. Good, great point, Dylan,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler's thirty five traff, still a leader, still a star.
Speaker 1: Are you packaging up young talent and draft picks for
Speaker 1: him to try to make a run in this this
Speaker 1: this tough young Western conference?
Speaker 5: Man, I would, honestly if I'm if I'm Houston, especially
Speaker 5: because what Jimmy brings to the game, the mentality that
Speaker 5: he brings to the to the game. I feel like
Speaker 5: it mirraged their coach with just how tough.
Speaker 4: And hard knows he is.
Speaker 5: You know, no bullshit type dude, want to get wins,
Speaker 5: will win at all costs, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But I feel like it would be a good move
Speaker 5: for all the players involved, especially because Houston has that
Speaker 5: young talent.
Speaker 1: Who would you put you speak about all players involved
Speaker 1: with would would you put Jalen Green in that?
Speaker 3: In that trade? For what?
Speaker 1: Jalen Green twenty two twenty three? Would you put him
Speaker 1: in that? Obviously he has to wait a little while
Speaker 1: because he just got his extension, but would you wrap
Speaker 1: him up and and maybe him someone else in a pick?
Speaker 3: Would you give up?
Speaker 1: I mean, young, very talented, But like you said on
Speaker 1: the flip side, and I think you made a great
Speaker 1: point earlier, him going into that pat Riley Eric's Spolster
Speaker 1: system could be the best thing that ever would be.
Speaker 5: Best thing for him for sure, especially because they have
Speaker 5: a program that they've been running for before he was
Speaker 5: born for sure, So him going into what they do,
Speaker 5: I think it matches perfectly because again, it's a beautiful
Speaker 5: place to be South Beach.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 5: You know, the heat culture and what they have and
Speaker 5: his talent match together. It would send his game and
Speaker 5: his career into completely different I.
Speaker 1: Think it would tighten his mental for being around that.
Speaker 1: Not to say what Houston has around him isn't right.
Speaker 1: It's proven what Miami puts around their talent and the
Speaker 1: way they buy in and understand how to take them
Speaker 1: to the next level mentally as players, Jaden Green in
Speaker 1: a Eric Sposter pat Riley system would be he would
Speaker 1: go to ano level. I would completely agree with you.
Speaker 1: So let's keep an eye on that to see. You know,
Speaker 1: it's very early on, but let's see if if Jimmy
Speaker 1: coming home grow some legs, more letters, some more ship
Speaker 1: came in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, okay, let me see. Okay, let's go trauble
Speaker 6: you Yeah, who's it from?
Speaker 4: Ain't chient Rome from?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 4: There's two ancient room from d Wade?
Speaker 2: Oh shit?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, y'all just gonna have me out here cold Turkey. Okay.
Speaker 5: Dear Julius Julius Caesar, I need to get with you
Speaker 5: and your people a sap. I just had a statue
Speaker 5: unveilain and they mixed me up with Laurence Fishburn, Miami's
Speaker 5: best d Wade.
Speaker 3: Trav This was crazy.
Speaker 1: This is crazy, and it's crazy because you know, I've
Speaker 1: got to know d Wade a little better post career,
Speaker 1: and I hit one of his closest people last night
Speaker 1: and we were kind of talking about that. I told her,
Speaker 1: I was like, who do I got to slap over
Speaker 1: this d Wade statue? And she started busting up. You know, obviously,
Speaker 1: we look at the video now and first and foremost,
Speaker 1: congratulations to our brother d Wade.
Speaker 4: One of the Yeah, deserve it well does that?
Speaker 1: One of the greatest, one of the greatest players of
Speaker 1: all time, top three two guards of all time. Argue
Speaker 1: with your mom, one of the greatest to ever do
Speaker 1: a competitor, uh and even better person. But you can
Speaker 1: see Trevor when he's kind of looking at this statue.
Speaker 1: Obviously this is a moment to shed a tear and
Speaker 1: kind of reminisce. But then he saw the facial structure.
Speaker 1: This motherfucker right here. He's like, that's not.
Speaker 4: Me, man, that's a strong job, crazy man.
Speaker 1: That's my question is can they can they cut the
Speaker 1: head off and keep the body man and redo the
Speaker 1: face and whoever did this this statue, I'm sorry, bro.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say nothing crazy because he might have
Speaker 1: known the artist, and I don't want to offend nobody,
Speaker 1: but that that that that needed some work.
Speaker 4: I mean, I would agree to me personally.
Speaker 5: I'm just happy that the statue moment when he hit
Speaker 5: the game winner on me at point four in the garden, So.
Speaker 3: That wasn't the one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just you.
Speaker 5: Know, you could do a little bit better with the
Speaker 5: with the facial features and you know the jar line,
Speaker 5: just cup him out a little bite.
Speaker 3: He deserved better, definitely deserve better.
Speaker 1: But again that doesn't take away from obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: getting this is the first statue. If I'm not mistaken
Speaker 1: in front of that arena, no better person to represent
Speaker 1: that than him. When you speak heat culture, Dwayne Wade
Speaker 1: comes to mind. So salute to our brother, two time champion,
Speaker 1: three times, three times, the NBA champion, NBA Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: Wade County. You got your statue, bro, but let's see
Speaker 1: if we can chop that head off and let's get
Speaker 1: second team All American on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so obviously again, salute to our brother d Wade
Speaker 1: for the statue, but right now we got to put
Speaker 1: you in probably the top three worse.
Speaker 3: And this is with love, bro, I love you, I
Speaker 3: love you.
Speaker 1: It's not your fault, right but you know, tra have
Speaker 1: some other statues to come to mine. Or David Beckham,
Speaker 1: he had a rough one, Ronaldo rough one. So right
Speaker 1: now we gonna take it to the streets, y'all tell
Speaker 1: us d Waye, Ronald or Beckham? Who needs to do over?
Speaker 1: Who needs to do over?
Speaker 5: The next one? To Nicola Jokice from floor spacing, Oh damn,
Speaker 5: coming out players heads.
Speaker 4: They saying, ain't no snipers over there.
Speaker 3: That's what they're saying. That's what he said.
Speaker 5: Okay, dear Nicola, you've been getting all the praise three
Speaker 5: m VPS championship. But something's a little bit different about
Speaker 5: this season, isn't it. You think floor spacing grows on trees.
Speaker 5: Good luck this year. You'll need it warmest regards floor spacing.
Speaker 1: You know obviously kcp out russ In, but I want
Speaker 1: to back it up a little bit further to Tim Conley,
Speaker 1: someone you knew well you had in Washington. Bill this
Speaker 1: roster with Denver the championship roster, and he left the
Speaker 1: year they won, and since then, Calvin Booth came in
Speaker 1: and they've declined. They lost Bruce Brown, they've lost Jeff Green,
Speaker 1: They've lost KCP. I know they lost someone else too.
Speaker 1: There was one more guy I want to say they
Speaker 1: lost now I mentioned Jeff Graham, welly more another was
Speaker 1: a shooter, you know. But you know, obviously our young
Speaker 1: boy Peyton Watson is getting more minutes over there now.
Speaker 1: The Brown kid what's his name? From Kansas? I like
Speaker 1: Christian Brown. You add someone like Russ you know, who
Speaker 1: is an ultimate ultimate team player, but not a shooter.
Speaker 1: They're packed in right now, you know, they're packed in
Speaker 1: right now. The only guys that are really shooting in
Speaker 1: is Jamal Murray is a shooter. Uh, Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 1: is one of the streakiest shooters in the game. Someone
Speaker 1: he can knock it down. But there's not a ton
Speaker 1: of space out there for Jokics to operate. They've got
Speaker 1: off to a zero to two start. Trepp thought, just
Speaker 1: the way this roster would you say, it's gotten better
Speaker 1: since the championship, but.
Speaker 5: The worst it's gotten better and again every year I
Speaker 5: feel like in the NBA, you can't take steps backwards,
Speaker 5: and shooting comes out of premium. So if you don't
Speaker 5: have shooting, you don't have spacing. And like you said,
Speaker 5: it's early in the season, but without the space and yo,
Speaker 5: kids really can't be who he is for real. So
Speaker 5: you got to get some shooting over there in Denver,
Speaker 5: and you gotta get it fast or else you know,
Speaker 5: it's going to be a regression.
Speaker 1: You know, Denver was number four in the league in
Speaker 1: three point shooting the year they won the title. They
Speaker 1: finished tenth in three point percentage last year. Currently they're
Speaker 1: twenty fifth in three point percentage and last in field
Speaker 1: goal percentage. So they're just not putting the ball in
Speaker 1: the basket. So this's gonna be some interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: Strev Obviously, you know Murray hasn't been playing well. Came
Speaker 1: out the gates SEC. He's playing well to start this season,
Speaker 1: but hasn't necessarily played well last year, didn't play well
Speaker 1: in the Olympics.
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of him, but we will have
Speaker 3: to keep an eye on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely gotta play better.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you, bro see. We'll talk to you next week,
Speaker 3: all right, buddy.
Speaker 1: Now, we'd like to welcome in the neighborhood hater my
Speaker 1: brother Gino David.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, that.
Speaker 1: Got a cheer from downstairs from Christina with so Gino
Speaker 1: one of the heaviest LA representers I've ever met. Uh
Speaker 1: you mean you got your flag, you're flying your flag today,
Speaker 1: you got your Dodger hat. You look good in the
Speaker 1: Legends versus Barnes bunch, and now it's unplugged.
Speaker 3: I mean, bro, you're moving up.
Speaker 2: I've been on man.
Speaker 1: They just told me this morning. I didn't even know
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in the state. Said you want a
Speaker 1: drawing for a boner pill, like your name drawing, and
Speaker 1: that's how you got on the show today.
Speaker 4: I need.
Speaker 2: I definitely need that.
Speaker 3: Bro Rose him.
Speaker 1: You do you prefer one viagra? I mean I could
Speaker 1: try to make some calls. I just need some free yeah.
Speaker 2: So whatever you have on.
Speaker 3: The other they got gummies now too, and it works too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, it works. Okay. I'll save yours when you
Speaker 2: ask me for him later.
Speaker 1: Wes west Coast hating at his finance before we get
Speaker 1: into the Dodgers ice Cube performance to open up game two.
Speaker 3: I watched it.
Speaker 1: You know you see Super Bowl performances, and they're all
Speaker 1: backstage lights and ice Cumic came came in there and
Speaker 1: wraps just so today was a good day.
Speaker 3: And and and what was it? What was the other song?
Speaker 1: And about down when I come to and he switched
Speaker 1: the words up. Thoughts on that, I mean, that gave
Speaker 1: me chills. I watched it on the next day on
Speaker 1: social media. I was like, oh, this is dope.
Speaker 7: I mean from an l A perspective, who else could
Speaker 7: have come in and nobody right, like, who were going
Speaker 7: to get you know what I mean, He's one of the.
Speaker 2: Greatest to do it. The crowd was epic.
Speaker 3: Did you go that game?
Speaker 7: I didn't go out, didn't make it. I couldn't afford it.
Speaker 7: I had to sell my body to get tickets for it.
Speaker 7: But you're not that.
Speaker 2: No, but I'm but I'm with it. But I didn't
Speaker 2: get you didn't get enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't sell enough.
Speaker 7: But but but when he came out, man, the crowd
Speaker 7: with crazy and the Lakers performed, So I.
Speaker 3: Think it was good. Dodgers performed. We're going to get
Speaker 3: to the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So big news coming out of Game two, obviously, Freddie
Speaker 1: Freeman Grand Slam. Game one, came out hit a home run.
Speaker 1: Game two a lot of home runs left and right.
Speaker 1: But Otani's injury was kind of the topic out of
Speaker 1: game two. Do you have any inside information? Will he
Speaker 1: be back game three?
Speaker 2: No, he is.
Speaker 7: He actually didn't get as hurt as bad as we thought.
Speaker 7: I mean, the whole city panicked for a minute, But
Speaker 7: I mean, what for seven hundred million, you got to
Speaker 7: come out with one arm one r Yeah, you got
Speaker 7: to come out of with one arm and play for it.
Speaker 7: So he's in the game. I think the Yankees gonna
Speaker 7: have a big problem tonight.
Speaker 1: Thoughts on just you know, Dodgers have been at the
Speaker 1: top of the you know, the top of the league
Speaker 1: the entire season, but getting hot at the right time
Speaker 1: is essential. And you know, the way their bats have
Speaker 1: been going, and then they're pitching has been shown up
Speaker 1: as well. But they've just been hitting the shit out
Speaker 1: of the ball. Home Runs are flying out of the park,
Speaker 1: left and right, all through the order are hitting the ball.
Speaker 1: So your thoughts going into Game three confident?
Speaker 7: I mean one through nine, I mean, I think we're
Speaker 7: the best in the business right now. If the top
Speaker 7: of the lineup doesn't get you. The bottom of the
Speaker 7: lineup is gonna get you. The bottom doesn't get you.
Speaker 7: The people on the bench are gonna get you. So yeah,
Speaker 7: we're we're in a place where they have to start
Speaker 7: hitting and not us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Judge's been struggling. I expect Judge to bounce out
Speaker 1: of his slump. Some other guys have been picking up
Speaker 1: the slack. But they're definitely gonna need Aaron Judd if
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a chance to come back in this year.
Speaker 7: Yes, and he's been playing well all year. So baseball
Speaker 7: is a funny sport.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 7: It can break your heart. You know, one day you're up,
Speaker 7: the next day you're sitting on top of the world.
Speaker 7: It really only takes one hit from him. So if
Speaker 7: we pitch, if we pitched the way we know to
Speaker 7: pitch to him, we'll be all right.
Speaker 1: I played a little baseball my day, and they used
Speaker 1: to have slump busters. What would be your slump buster
Speaker 1: right now? If you're Aaron Judd to get you back
Speaker 1: on track.
Speaker 3: And it could be anything.
Speaker 7: I am actually sitting on off speed pitches to get
Speaker 7: out of slumps. That's what you're supposed to do, Okay,
Speaker 7: supposed to sit on off speed to get out of slumps.
Speaker 1: Speaking of pitches and off speed, you and Ray are
Speaker 1: full of shit, first and foremost. Let me just start
Speaker 1: by that. So I'm gonna talk to you guys, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna get this on camera. These dudes said that
Speaker 1: they can hit a ninety mile an hour fastball, which
Speaker 1: probably one percent of the population can, and they think
Speaker 1: they're in that one percent. So we got to bet.
Speaker 1: What do we say? If you lose, you gotta paint
Speaker 1: Nate Nate's nail. You you have to pain and you
Speaker 1: have to scrub Rais back.
Speaker 2: No, I don't get out like that, but I know
Speaker 2: I'm hitting.
Speaker 1: So you really think you can hit an absolute and
Speaker 1: Ray does to like you guys are saying this so confident,
Speaker 1: like I'm laughing, Like.
Speaker 3: There's no way in hell you can hit a ninety
Speaker 3: mile hour fastball.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you a thousand dollars and then
Speaker 1: turn you guys owned a hundred push ups if you lose,
Speaker 1: and we could break them hundred help wherever you want it.
Speaker 3: I won't make you paint nail.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I need this on video.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's definitely gonna be on video.
Speaker 2: Okay, and I need to get paid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll bring the money to the game.
Speaker 2: It's no doubt for me.
Speaker 3: It's five.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna hit a ninety nine fast off? Why
Speaker 1: is the hell don't start that ship? So five pitches,
Speaker 1: five pitches, and all you gotta do is hit one.
Speaker 7: I can't hit off live pitching, obviously, so it has
Speaker 7: to be like a batty cage.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: Okay, what what?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Minor league picture?
Speaker 3: Dylan's got home with the pictures for the dog.
Speaker 2: No, and he can pay millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: So all, yeah, we'll get a pitchure. I'll get us
Speaker 1: a pitching machine. You know u c l A stadium
Speaker 1: just got taken over. Maybe they're throwing some ship away.
Speaker 1: I'll find a pitching machine that we could tune up
Speaker 1: to ninety miles an hour, and I'm willing to bet.
Speaker 3: I'm willing to bet a.
Speaker 1: Thousand dollars with it. Let's get it going. We'll see
Speaker 1: this is becoming you guys, get it moving ahead?
Speaker 3: Uh you O? JJ Reddick an apology? Hold on, he dropped?
Speaker 3: Who's this? From man.
Speaker 1: To JJ from Laker Nation? I think this is more
Speaker 1: just a geno. But a lot of people, a lot
Speaker 1: of you motherfuckers, was hating on my man JJ, and
Speaker 1: I was the only one. Even Jeloney wants to say
Speaker 1: he was rooting for JJ. I was the only one
Speaker 1: in that chat that was saying, you gotta see dear JJ.
Speaker 1: When I first saw the podcast you did with Lebron,
Speaker 1: I was sick to my stomach.
Speaker 3: I was a hater. Did you write this?
Speaker 2: It sounds like a little.
Speaker 1: But now I realized it might have been the best
Speaker 1: thing that's ever happened to me. We love you, Jonathan
Speaker 1: Clay Reddick, your rd or die Laker Nation geno. Three
Speaker 1: games out the gate? First of all, can you.
Speaker 3: JJ is going to see this? Although he doesn't give
Speaker 3: a fuck.
Speaker 1: When no one says I know my dog, everyone says,
Speaker 1: can you just apologize?
Speaker 2: Qu JJ.
Speaker 7: You're doing a good job, baby, keep it up. You
Speaker 7: know how we are. We're kind of finicky here. I
Speaker 7: see you lose a couple of games, jass to be
Speaker 7: out of here. Okay, so right now you're doing well?
Speaker 7: Just a kind of yeah, be out of here, man. Okay,
Speaker 7: So you're doing well. I'm happy to see it. It
Speaker 7: is only three games.
Speaker 2: It is so. But what I'm seeing so far, the
Speaker 2: players look like they respect him, which is what I
Speaker 2: first foremost.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think everybody thought wasn't going to be, that
Speaker 7: wasn't gonna happen. But he's here now, he's part of us.
Speaker 7: He's one of us. We have to get behind him
Speaker 7: and until otherwise, I'm gonna give him a pass.
Speaker 3: Okay right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, paid you a lot of money, JJ.
Speaker 1: I knew he would be successful. Obviously we're three games in.
Speaker 1: We don't want to jump off the bridge already. But
Speaker 1: JJ moves around with an arrogance and a confidence because
Speaker 1: he does the work.
Speaker 3: He moved that way as a player.
Speaker 1: You know, a quick story, and I've told this JJ
Speaker 1: would be the one guy thought I would never fuck
Speaker 1: with and play with them twice in one of my
Speaker 1: closest basketball friends.
Speaker 3: To this day.
Speaker 1: So JJ is someone that comes off a certain way
Speaker 1: into but when you know him, I mean, the dude
Speaker 1: is always a consummate professional, beautiful mind when it comes
Speaker 1: to X and o's. But you know, I think what
Speaker 1: you said is the most important is getting that respect.
Speaker 1: No one's been able to crack the code with that
Speaker 1: locker room, that they've had. Although they won a championship,
Speaker 1: it's always just kind of been some shit after that.
Speaker 1: And I think he came in with the respect of
Speaker 1: the guys. But I think more than anything, he's empowered
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis is at what about thirty four
Speaker 1: right now in twelve, and we're not saying he's gonna
Speaker 1: stay at that number all though. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna dip much lower. I think he'll be a twenty
Speaker 1: nine or thirty point a game score if he can
Speaker 1: stay healthy this year. Broun is able to kind of
Speaker 1: pick and choose his spots. He doesn't have to be Superman,
Speaker 1: and I think this is what the fan base have
Speaker 1: been asking for for a while, that Ad has to
Speaker 1: step up and be the best player on this team,
Speaker 1: and bron can be Braun. I loved what Broun did
Speaker 1: in the Olympics. Obviously, with a little bit more scoring,
Speaker 1: I think if he can be that Swiss Army Knight
Speaker 1: for this team, the Lakers are gonna have a chance
Speaker 1: to I don't want to jump out and stay championship yet,
Speaker 1: but I definitely think they're gonna be a really strong team,
Speaker 1: and there's no telling you know, maybe at some point
Speaker 1: you guys will make a trade and add another piece.
Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts of, you know, early three games,
Speaker 1: end of the season, but just what you're seeing from
Speaker 1: that team, the execution on the offensive end, the way
Speaker 1: ads playing, the way Bron's playing, Austin Reeves eighteen six
Speaker 1: and six, Hachi Morris being been solid. Got some guys
Speaker 1: on the bench that are hurt, They're going to be
Speaker 1: coming back soon. So thoughts on your Lake show.
Speaker 7: You know, for me, I expect everybody to do their
Speaker 7: job like Lebron and Ad expect them to do their job.
Speaker 7: Now for us the real Laker fans, who is the
Speaker 7: new guys that's going to be our new X factor?
Speaker 7: Who's off the bench. What is our second team going
Speaker 7: to look like this year? And so far some of
Speaker 7: the guys are looking pretty good. You talk about connecting,
Speaker 7: you talk about Austin Reeves, We're talking about all these guys,
Speaker 7: but we need them to step up consistent. Yes, because
Speaker 7: a D and Lebron they're getting paid millions of dollars
Speaker 7: to play the way they play.
Speaker 2: But who's going to help us?
Speaker 1: So normally you feel like you need that third option.
Speaker 1: I think Julania mentioned that earlier when we were kind
Speaker 1: of prepping for this, who's that third option? And to me,
Speaker 1: until they bust a move, I think the third option
Speaker 1: could be by committee. You know, d Loo is very streaky,
Speaker 1: someone that can get hot, Austin res is averaging eighteen
Speaker 1: six and six, and then the role players being the
Speaker 1: role players they gave Vincent's the connect. I like the
Speaker 1: young boy from Tennessee. Obviously, Browny went down to the
Speaker 1: G League, but kind of finding out who else is
Speaker 1: gonna round out that bench. You know you they got
Speaker 1: some guys that are injured right now that'll come back,
Speaker 1: but I mean three games in, it's early. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna go crazy. But I love what jj JJ is
Speaker 1: giving that team an identity. Absolutely and shout out our
Speaker 1: man Baron Davis. He said he caught JJ at the
Speaker 1: car wash the other day this weekend and he was
Speaker 1: watching film.
Speaker 3: He's a student.
Speaker 2: What's the backup center for us? Name Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 3: I like him.
Speaker 2: I think he's the guy.
Speaker 1: That like I like him because that can slide a
Speaker 1: D to the five. But he's really he reminds me
Speaker 1: of a is it. I don't want to say, Tyson Chandler,
Speaker 1: maybe like a young DeAndre just really bouncy rebound block shot,
Speaker 1: rim threat runs hard player, not a crash dummy in
Speaker 1: a bad way, but it'll run through a fucking wall
Speaker 1: for you, tough kid.
Speaker 2: Yes, we need a fow. We need him to file somebody.
Speaker 2: I like him.
Speaker 3: I like him a lot so Laker fans. Man, there's
Speaker 3: some hope this year.
Speaker 2: It is early.
Speaker 1: The guys thought it was over this summer when they
Speaker 1: signed that. Everyone was, fuck, what the fuck? This is
Speaker 1: White Rising. She don't deserve this ship. Although JJ did
Speaker 1: go Jay's Smooth. You went from coaching your son to
Speaker 1: the fucking Lakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is.
Speaker 1: Amazing and unheard of. But man, I'm really happy for you, bro.
Speaker 1: You know we've already talked and good luck this year.
Speaker 1: We're gonna need you to pull up on us one
Speaker 1: of these mornings, though. But man, Gina, we appreciate you
Speaker 1: our weekly LA check in from the most notorious LA
Speaker 1: hater of them all, David.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you not showing your ankles while I'm up here.
Speaker 7: Sorry, okay, all today, man, we appreciate you coming in
Speaker 7: man absolutely for.
Speaker 1: The final segment of the show, we got a Draftking
Speaker 1: segment my weekly NFL picks. You guys, I'm a huge
Speaker 1: NFL fan, and as long as I'm allowed to lone
Speaker 1: my girl doesn't bully me, I'm gonna watch NFL all Sunday,
Speaker 1: watch a Thursday night, Monday night.
Speaker 3: I'm a big NFL fan.
Speaker 1: So we wanted to start doing our weekly picks, and
Speaker 1: I don't really know too much about the plus minus
Speaker 1: all that shit.
Speaker 3: What does Shaq call it? Shaq called what what? Yeah?
Speaker 1: BPB and w B yeah w WPB. We're gonna start
Speaker 1: doing our weekly picks. The teams I'm rolling with this
Speaker 1: week obviously, you know I'm a die hard Niner, so
Speaker 1: ten out of ten times I'm probably gonna pick them,
Speaker 1: but they're not on our list this week. So let's
Speaker 1: see who we got. First off, we got the Broncos
Speaker 1: at the Ravens Ravens minus eight. I think both teams
Speaker 1: are five and two, but I really like the Ravens man.
Speaker 1: I like what big fellas brought, what's his name running
Speaker 1: back Derrick Henry, what he's been able to do leading
Speaker 1: the league, and rush I'm not mistaken. Lamar Jackson is
Speaker 1: one of the best in the game. Two time MVP,
Speaker 1: so I really like where they're going. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the Ravens at home minus eight. Next pick Lions
Speaker 1: at the Packers. Lions have been playing well. Green Bay's
Speaker 1: at home. Packers are minus.
Speaker 3: Four Lions is four and a half.
Speaker 1: Oh, so Lions are minus four lions going into Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna take I'm gonna take the Lions
Speaker 1: minus four and a half going into green Bay. I
Speaker 1: like green Bay young quarterback over there, very bright future.
Speaker 1: I think Jared Goss got these guys playing really well
Speaker 1: right now. So I'm gonna take the Lions minus four
Speaker 1: and a half. Next up, Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Going into Atlanta.
Speaker 1: It's the Falcons are minus two and a half points.
Speaker 1: Although I feel like Dak might have a bounce back game,
Speaker 1: I just have too many friends that swear by the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and I like fucking with them, and I love when
Speaker 1: they lose.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Say that's you, Data, that you's Jack, that's you. Nello Kobe,
Speaker 1: our office manager, he's a Cowboy fan. So there's too
Speaker 1: many Cowboy fans that I like to fuck with. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and take Atlanta minus two and
Speaker 1: a half.
Speaker 3: To hold it down.
Speaker 1: And to round out the week the NFC West. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you guys know, right now, it will
Speaker 1: be the forty nine ers once we get healthy, as
Speaker 1: Nate shakes his bald head over there. But we have
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Seahawks. The Seahawks are minus one
Speaker 1: Rams going into a tough place, Seattle. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and stick with the LA team. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stick with the LA team. I'm gonna take the Rams
Speaker 1: plus one to go into Seattle and.
Speaker 3: Get the dub.
Speaker 1: So that's my weekly picks, brought to you by DraftKings. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you guys for joining us today for our first
Speaker 1: version of the new version of Unplugged, which will be
Speaker 1: a weekly run around life. Today we touched on some
Speaker 1: cool topics. Thank you to my people that came in,
Speaker 1: Trev and Gino. You can catch this weekly on DraftKings
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Speaker 3: See y'all next week.