Speaker 1: Well, well, well, welcome back to the NBA's only podcast.
Speaker 2: Don't fact check us on that one.
Speaker 1: Uh, Calves and Thunder still leading their respective conferences, but
Speaker 1: several teams are kind of making some moves behind them.
Speaker 1: We'll touch on the latest from around the league, discuss
Speaker 1: what teams need to make moves ahead of the February
Speaker 1: sixth deadline. We'll get into all of that with SB
Speaker 1: Nations Harrison Fagan on today's episode. I'm Jack O'Brien and
Speaker 1: I'm producer JABORI in for months.
Speaker 2: And this is Miles jacksontime.
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Speaker 2: Paris and Fagan, what's going on? Man? Welcome back, returning champion.
Speaker 3: Always happy to be here, guys up top.
Speaker 2: I'm in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I do just want to give a shout out to
Speaker 1: all the people who are being affected by the fire
Speaker 1: and acknowledge that Miles and his family did lose their
Speaker 1: home in the fire last week. Uh So we will
Speaker 1: be linking off to their GoFundMe in the show notes
Speaker 1: of this episode and some fundraiser from one of the
Speaker 1: Zeke Daily Zeke's listeners, so that you can go contribute
Speaker 1: there and or if you have.
Speaker 2: Something to give.
Speaker 1: If not, you know, just let him know you're thinking
Speaker 1: about him.
Speaker 2: But the NBA has pressed on.
Speaker 1: The Lakers took took a week and are back to
Speaker 1: being fairly mediocre, got the ranks beat off them by
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. But well we'll get into that,
Speaker 1: but first we do want to check in with the
Speaker 1: two teams that I don't think. I guess people knew
Speaker 1: okay See was going to be one of the best
Speaker 1: teams in the league, but I don't know that the
Speaker 1: Calves were necessarily there.
Speaker 2: Harrison.
Speaker 1: Before we get into any of this, I do just
Speaker 1: I like to ask all of our smart people who
Speaker 1: know stuff about basketball, how are you feeling. Is this
Speaker 1: the Calves Eastern Conference to lose? Or is are we
Speaker 1: all just waiting to see if the Celtics decide to
Speaker 1: give it to them?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Is it the.
Speaker 3: Calves in no disrespect to the Calves, who have obviously
Speaker 3: been incredible this year. They're just like a buzz saw
Speaker 3: every single night. They just it Like, I don't I
Speaker 3: have not looked this up, but I feel like they
Speaker 3: have to have the highest point differential in the league
Speaker 3: and if it's not, I guess if it's not them,
Speaker 3: it's maybe okay. See, but it just feels like they
Speaker 3: blow everyone out just with their consistency. But for me,
Speaker 3: it's still the Celtics just because of what we saw
Speaker 3: them do last year and we know that teams are
Speaker 3: it's sort of prone to these title hangovers. It's hard
Speaker 3: to keep up that level of intensity that you have
Speaker 3: when going after your first ring for that whole next
Speaker 3: year when it's like, okay, wait, we got to do
Speaker 3: the whole eighty two games again before we get to
Speaker 3: the playoffs and defend the title. So I do think
Speaker 3: that there's some natural like we've seen that throughout NBA history,
Speaker 3: and I think now that the league is as deep
Speaker 3: as it is that you just feel that more on
Speaker 3: a night to night basis because there are more talented
Speaker 3: teams that you know, if you're only bring your BEEP
Speaker 3: minus game, like, they can beat you. And the Celtics.
Speaker 3: They have a target on their back because of the
Speaker 3: defending championship thing and because they sort of ran through
Speaker 3: the playoffs last year. So I still think they're really good,
Speaker 3: and as much as it pains me to say, like,
Speaker 3: but I do think that they should still be considered
Speaker 3: the favorites to come out of the East, despite how
Speaker 3: good Cleveland has been.
Speaker 1: I guess part of me is like in those times
Speaker 1: in the past when it's like we're just waiting for
Speaker 1: Shack to play himself into shape and then like the
Speaker 1: Lakers are gonna do it, or you know, teams. I
Speaker 1: think the second year that the Rockets won the title,
Speaker 1: they were like not good during the regular season and
Speaker 1: then turned it on they were like, yeah they were,
Speaker 1: they were sick, so I think they were six. But
Speaker 1: those were years when I think people were looking around
Speaker 1: being like yeah, but like they's not a team. There's
Speaker 1: not a team that's like stormed in and been like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is actually our league. Whereas the Calves are like
Speaker 1: on pace to win seventy one games. Whether that happens,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but like they definitely seem capable of it.
Speaker 1: Like there's nothing about what they're doing to this point
Speaker 1: that seems fluky. So it is intriguing. Like I'm as
Speaker 1: somebody who's like a pessimistic Celtic hater, I'm always loath
Speaker 1: to like have any hope that they're not going to
Speaker 1: win the title, but like, this is more hopeful than
Speaker 1: I was at this.
Speaker 2: Stage last year.
Speaker 1: I'll say, as somebody who just roots for the field
Speaker 1: against the Celtics.
Speaker 6: As as your partner in crime in that regard, No, like, seriously,
Speaker 6: the deeper we get, I think.
Speaker 3: It's all three of us. I think it's no one.
Speaker 3: There's no podcast in the NBA sphere that wants the
Speaker 3: Celtics to be bad more than this these three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is we're all pulling in the same direction here.
Speaker 6: But but I genuinely do believe in these caves, like
Speaker 6: the deeper we get the first ten games, I said, Okay,
Speaker 6: you know what, that's cute, that's cool. You know, then
Speaker 6: we you know, we get to twenty games, and you
Speaker 6: get to thirty games, you get to forty games. End
Speaker 6: of the year, it's like, no, unless something catastrophic takes place,
Speaker 6: this is going to be the one of the Okay,
Speaker 6: maybe not the team, but one of the teams to
Speaker 6: be in a very difficult out and when it comes,
Speaker 6: you know, from the Boston side of things, just to
Speaker 6: kind of you know, uh, touching on what you know,
Speaker 6: what you reference, it's a lot more you know, it's
Speaker 6: that old boxing addage. It's a lot more difficult to
Speaker 6: get up and run those miles when you're getting up
Speaker 6: in silk pajamas, you know what I mean, Like every
Speaker 6: everybody's got the grind that first time before.
Speaker 3: That's incredible.
Speaker 4: Oh no, but it's Muhammad Ali said it. Uh uh.
Speaker 6: The late marvelous Marvin Hagler, one of my favorite boxes
Speaker 6: in the eighties, showing my age, he used to say
Speaker 6: it as well. But yeah, you said, basically, the initial grind.
Speaker 6: Everybody has that within them. But once you know, once
Speaker 6: you reach the top, it's like all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: you know, you went to bend and silk pajamas or
Speaker 6: do you really feel like getting up at three am?
Speaker 6: You know, to run those minds? And I'm not saying
Speaker 6: that Boston is taking it easy, but you know, kind
Speaker 6: of to your point, Jack, everyone is going after them
Speaker 6: because now you know, now you're the tight, now you're
Speaker 6: the you know, the defending champs. And you're not going
Speaker 6: to get a night off in this league.
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell wakes up every morning in a hair suit
Speaker 1: and exactly Isonna's grind right away, Yeah, all right, I do.
Speaker 1: I'm just checking in. We're not going to make everything
Speaker 1: about the Caves versus the Celtics. Uh, and we do. So.
Speaker 1: The Calves did beat okay see in their head to
Speaker 1: have matchup ok see, then promptly beat the Brakes off
Speaker 1: the Knicks and our game of the week one twenty
Speaker 1: six to one oh one. Shay put up thirty nine
Speaker 1: on twenty one shots. Jalen Williams was solid. The story
Speaker 1: of the game was Isaiah Joe going eight for eleven
Speaker 1: from three off the bench on the way to I
Speaker 1: think he had thirty one. He's apparently the best player
Speaker 1: in the league based on what I saw in this game.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, is that the story of the
Speaker 3: game or just the story of like your sadness because
Speaker 3: the Sixers cut him in training camp? Yeah two years ago.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's not great. And thank you Harrison for
Speaker 1: bringing that up, because.
Speaker 4: Did you even remember that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I remember drafting him and.
Speaker 3: This is this is like core sixers trauma over the
Speaker 3: couple years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's just guys who come off
Speaker 1: the bench in the league are better at basketball then
Speaker 1: I can even possibly imagine, Like so many of them
Speaker 1: are just waiting for their opportunity to be like I
Speaker 1: have superpowers too. And yeah, he was just so good
Speaker 1: in this in this game, just a lot of back
Speaker 1: cuts and then just knocking down every.
Speaker 2: Open three that he got. Did you guys watch this game?
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts on h on this one?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 6: I mean, like, and it's kind of where I think
Speaker 6: you're going to go with Shaye, Like I look at
Speaker 6: Shae and you know, we mentioned it in the you know,
Speaker 6: ahead of the show, like he's got like the perfect
Speaker 6: old man's game, but like not slow. I'm not saying,
Speaker 6: you know, but he's just everything is deliberate everything, you know,
Speaker 6: there's no wasted energy. It just looks so easy out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like what if the old man was also
Speaker 3: the fastest guy in the gym. You know, he has
Speaker 3: all his trickery, but he's still in his complete athletic
Speaker 3: prime and able to stop on a dime and has
Speaker 3: all these turkey jerky moves and it is just like that,
Speaker 3: you know, start stop, sort of like it's a little
Speaker 3: bit like hardened during those MVP years where he just
Speaker 3: was like he wasn't the fastest guy in the league,
Speaker 3: but he was the quickest at hitting the brakes, and
Speaker 3: very few guys Luca does this as well, and like
Speaker 3: Shaye has mastered sort of the dark arts of that
Speaker 3: mid range, you know, the sort of area where he
Speaker 3: is able to get in there and he's able to
Speaker 3: go back forth, back forth, back forth, and then before
Speaker 3: you know, eventually his defenders was running off in the
Speaker 3: other direction and he's getting a shot off and yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just yeah, he's He's incredible, And it's the remarkable
Speaker 3: thing about Okay, see is at least with the Calves
Speaker 3: are like, Okay, they've had their whole team for the
Speaker 3: most part droughoup most of the year, and so of
Speaker 3: course you know they're they're playing firing on all cylinders.
Speaker 3: The thunder are missing a guy or two like almost
Speaker 3: every single night, and they're still managing this. It's just
Speaker 3: incredible how deep they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Shay makes buckets look easier than anyone. He's as
Speaker 1: good at getting buckets and makes them look easier than anyone.
Speaker 2: It is really like.
Speaker 1: Something to behold. I can't think of somebody who ever
Speaker 1: like made it look that easy in my time where
Speaker 1: it's just like it really like it if you're trying.
Speaker 1: You know, people like to like cross someone up and
Speaker 1: have them like fall over as they hit a three
Speaker 1: on them. But like making it look this easy as
Speaker 1: you score on someone has to be also like a
Speaker 1: new kind of dispiriting where you're just like maybe.
Speaker 3: From a guard. But I would say that there have
Speaker 3: been I would say there have been big men who
Speaker 3: make it look like if you watch them for the
Speaker 3: first time, you would just set like Anthony Davis, you know,
Speaker 3: like uh yeah in Nikola Jokic, Victor Wembin Yama, like
Speaker 3: these guys. Like sometimes if you were to just show
Speaker 3: someone who had never watched basketball before, just like Anthony
Speaker 3: Davis getting thirty points, they'd be like, Okay, that guy's
Speaker 3: getting lucky, right, that's falling all over the plate, like
Speaker 3: throwing stuff up, like it doesn't look like he's played before.
Speaker 3: And it's like, now, that's just sort of what his
Speaker 3: game looks like at his height, and you know, that's
Speaker 3: what a tall person with that level of coordination looks
Speaker 3: like they still look not that coordinated, and so you
Speaker 3: know it's but yeah, among guards that he's truly unique
Speaker 3: with how effortless he can make it look. I guess
Speaker 3: Steph during his prime it was different, but you know,
Speaker 3: he would just sort of come off of a screen
Speaker 3: and just like like toss up a prayer and it
Speaker 3: was just going in every time.
Speaker 1: That one shot from right before the break where he
Speaker 1: was like running to the left and like did a
Speaker 1: spin move and then threw it up like and just
Speaker 1: kept running was one of the coolest things.
Speaker 3: There's got to be nobody more demoralizing the guard in
Speaker 3: NBA history. It's just like, yeah, he's just like taking
Speaker 3: the shots you want him to take and they're going in.
Speaker 3: It's just yeah, but he looked.
Speaker 1: It's like he I always bring back Like during that
Speaker 1: one game against Okay, see that was like I think
Speaker 1: kind of his big call. It was a regular season game,
Speaker 1: but he was just going off and then he hit
Speaker 1: the game winner from half court and somebody tweeted, Steph's
Speaker 1: got a demon.
Speaker 2: That's all there is to it.
Speaker 1: Steph's just got a and like that's always he he
Speaker 1: seems like he has some manner of like uh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, it's just like yeah yeah, whereas uh Sha
Speaker 1: just looks like he's moving a different like speed or
Speaker 1: it's like it it kind of boggles the mind, like
Speaker 1: how he's doing that real quick. Going back to the
Speaker 1: Isaiah Joe thing, because I'm just curious if you guys
Speaker 1: have ever had an experience with us where you played
Speaker 1: against or witnessed a guy who like came off the
Speaker 1: bench in the league in person, and like I once,
Speaker 1: I went to the Kentucky Basketball camp a lot as
Speaker 1: a kid. My dad was an assistant coach there, and
Speaker 1: you know this is probably like as good as I got.
Speaker 1: Was like my sophomore year and Tony Delk was there,
Speaker 1: and you know he knew me from my dad, and
Speaker 1: he was like handed me the ball was like let
Speaker 1: me see, Like what what have you been working on?
Speaker 1: Let me see you like dribble it. And the ease
Speaker 1: with which to so Tony Delk, for people who don't know,
Speaker 1: like not a consistent starter ever in the league. He
Speaker 1: did have one game where he put up fifty great
Speaker 1: three point shooter in college, won the championship in college,
Speaker 1: but the ease with which he took the ball every time,
Speaker 1: like like I was in slow motion or let like
Speaker 1: it was almost like having the magician do the like
Speaker 1: pull a coin from behind your ear where you're just
Speaker 1: like wait, how did that get How did the ball
Speaker 1: get in his hand? Like every single time was just
Speaker 1: like I was like, Oh, we're playing like different games.
Speaker 1: This person who is going to be like scoffed at
Speaker 1: by an NBA fans. Yeah, he's so incredibly good at basketball.
Speaker 1: It's like again like it, yeah, it's like watching a
Speaker 1: magic show.
Speaker 2: It's like I can't wrap my mind around that.
Speaker 6: I mean it for me, it really boils down to
Speaker 6: the worst player in the league, the guy that everybody
Speaker 6: will say like, oh that guy sninks.
Speaker 4: Will dog you.
Speaker 1: It doesn't.
Speaker 4: It does not matter who you are.
Speaker 3: Brian Scalabrini actually did that. He hosted like a tournament
Speaker 3: for guys to come and play against him who had
Speaker 3: like trash talked him on Twitter and just like destroyed them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Scalabrini anecdote is a is a really good
Speaker 1: one for anybody. I think you can still find that.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's on YouTube somewhere. Yeah, I'd never I
Speaker 3: was not a good basketball player, so I was not
Speaker 3: in like high level games against future NBA players, But
Speaker 3: I played like pick up a couple times with like
Speaker 3: guys that had played overseas in Europe or something, and
Speaker 3: we're still in the area and like that kind and
Speaker 3: it's just like even those level guys like they're not
Speaker 3: they weren't anywhere near the NBA, and they're just like
Speaker 3: it's just like a different level of human being. You know,
Speaker 3: it's not it's not fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this guy I played against an eighth grade who
Speaker 1: would like put it between his legs with one hand,
Speaker 1: like he would do right hand in and out, dribble
Speaker 1: through his legs and then like dunk on you. I
Speaker 1: was like, well, clearly this guy is going to be
Speaker 1: the best player of all time. And he ended up
Speaker 1: like playing mid mid division one.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's just yeah, yeah, you have to be an alien
Speaker 3: to make it.
Speaker 1: It's truly unbelievable. Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll talk about our two teams. You know,
Speaker 1: both struggling. But I think we're in the same boat here, guys,
Speaker 1: And I know that makes you feel good, feeling like
Speaker 1: you're in the same boat as the seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: this season.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break, we'll.
Speaker 1: Be right back, and we're back. So the Lakers took
Speaker 1: a week off following the start of the Southern California Fires,
Speaker 1: return to action on Monday versus the Spurs, and it
Speaker 1: didn't go so well. I was pulling for them. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was pulled for the Lakers when it's not the Sixers.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the addition of Shake DFS, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not quite what we needed at least thus far.
Speaker 2: Well, how are you guys, as unrealistic Lakers fans feeling
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I first of all, I love that you led
Speaker 3: with shake there instead off. That was to a former
Speaker 3: Sixers fan, that's trade.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, as a fan of cool names, that's the
Speaker 1: ship it is.
Speaker 3: It is incredible, just basketball player name, Like it's I
Speaker 3: wish he was better because it would be really exciting,
Speaker 3: it would be really fun, you know. Yeah. Yeah, No,
Speaker 3: from what I've been told from the people who followed
Speaker 3: his career, like he's gonna have some games in March
Speaker 3: where you're going to be like, this guy is ready
Speaker 3: to go playoff rotation. You know, he just dropped thirty
Speaker 3: because just like two, there's two starters out, you know,
Speaker 3: Shake Milton is ready to go cook. Yeah again, speaking
Speaker 3: of like how deep the league is, is like he's
Speaker 3: a guy that can go out and you know, get
Speaker 3: some buckets and is probably not really going to be
Speaker 3: a consistent rotation player for the Lakers. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: think the team is the biggest issue to me and Jabaria,
Speaker 3: I don't know, you can weigh in here as well.
Speaker 3: Has been that I think that how much they want
Speaker 3: to switch ever since it was pointed out to me
Speaker 3: by Darius Soriano, longtime form Blue and Gold, longtime silver
Speaker 3: screen role as well. Yeah, one of the best like
Speaker 3: Lakers pundits, Like he pointed out like the ease with
Speaker 3: which they're giving up switching, And once you have that
Speaker 3: in your head, you can't unsee it. It's just like
Speaker 3: it is effortless switching. You know, they are not you know,
Speaker 3: they'll just sort of hand you Austin Reeves on a
Speaker 3: platter to go and hunt. It's like, I'm not saying
Speaker 3: Austin Reeves, you know, I expect him to do really
Speaker 3: well on defense and stuff, but you should so if
Speaker 3: that's true, you should be trying harder to not give
Speaker 3: up that matchup. You should have plans in place to
Speaker 3: help Austin, you know, but they're just letting teams sort
Speaker 3: of pick on him. And you know, again, I'm not
Speaker 3: saying that he's like some defensive stopper that I think,
Speaker 3: you know, I think he's got to step it up whatever.
Speaker 3: It's like, no, if you're the Lakers, used to come
Speaker 3: help him, Like you can't just allow for this to
Speaker 3: be happening, you know, and just like there's like a
Speaker 3: simple brush screen and you're just sort of like, okay,
Speaker 3: well all right, I guess you get often now, and
Speaker 3: that it sort of plays into I think some of
Speaker 3: the lazier tendencies of this team, where they're very much
Speaker 3: you know, there are a lot of vets on this team,
Speaker 3: most primarily Lebron and ad Are. They're sort of like
Speaker 3: veteran core, and they're two guys who are happy to
Speaker 3: sort of, you know, coast through a night on the
Speaker 3: regular season, like they want to see if they can
Speaker 3: put the foot down for one quarter and sort of
Speaker 3: eliminate it. And I think that all the switching that
Speaker 3: the Lakers do sort of plays into some of those
Speaker 3: tendencies like ah, you know, Austin's got it. We'll let
Speaker 3: really make that back line rotation.
Speaker 6: It's fine, Yeah, Darius is exactly right. But the one
Speaker 6: thing that I'll say, it's just straight out Offensively, they
Speaker 6: have looked better at times. Defensively, they still look every
Speaker 6: bit as lost as what Ad described in the you know,
Speaker 6: like a down the stretch of the season last year
Speaker 6: when they were laying for him. I'm no longer the
Speaker 6: type person he just goes like, okay, get him out
Speaker 6: of here. Look you can't. You can't keep going getting
Speaker 6: rid of coaches. You know what you shout out to Frank.
Speaker 6: Still I still feel strd for you.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Look, man, I think we've all seen now that the
Speaker 1: Sons got rid of Frank and solved all their problems.
Speaker 2: Everything's better now.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, clearly the guy you want clearly the problem.
Speaker 1: Same with the Lakers. When you guys got rid of him,
Speaker 1: you went from winning a.
Speaker 2: Title, uh, to.
Speaker 1: Forget Oh yeah yeah the plan, that's right.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I think of the playoffs. So the
Speaker 3: year he got fired, but that was the fault.
Speaker 1: Nah, I think it was.
Speaker 2: I think we got that uh the vocal effect.
Speaker 6: But what it feels like to me is, look, we
Speaker 6: know what Lebron is at this stage. He can still
Speaker 6: you know, wrapped it up offensively in a lot of games. Defensively,
Speaker 6: it's hit or miss, and it's going to be hit
Speaker 6: or miss even you know, like from one, you know,
Speaker 6: from one time down to the Knicks. That's fine, you're
Speaker 6: forty something years old, Like I get it. You know,
Speaker 6: a d when he's properly utilized, you know he can.
Speaker 6: He still looks great. Reeves has been good for them,
Speaker 6: but beyond that, look, they got a few style of
Speaker 6: players left, but it's not enough, like you know, and
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I'm gonna do shameless Kendrick drops no matter what,
Speaker 6: even if it fits into the conversation or not. But
Speaker 6: I feel like, you know, the debate about like whether
Speaker 6: this team can turn it on or you'll figure it out,
Speaker 6: like we need to stop having net and it's either
Speaker 6: go ahead and sell out for the field, you know,
Speaker 6: sell out your future, or stop lying and just acknowledge, Okay,
Speaker 6: we're just gonna play this, you know, play this out.
Speaker 4: Where do you think they're gonna go with?
Speaker 3: You know, I've been saying sort of a similar thing
Speaker 3: and that like you know, if you're just trying to
Speaker 3: sell tickets around Lebron and ad and you know that
Speaker 3: that's that's sort of the goal for this team, and
Speaker 3: you don't want to mortgage anymore of the future, Like
Speaker 3: that's fine, but you also well, actually, no, it's not fine,
Speaker 3: Like you should be trading off pieces and trying to
Speaker 3: rebuild for the future, like no, no half measures. You know,
Speaker 3: it's the breaking badism, like you should either be going
Speaker 3: all in and use some of these picks to go
Speaker 3: get better at the trade deadline or you or you're
Speaker 3: just continuing to waste every one's time. And so I
Speaker 3: also think that you know not to commit like the
Speaker 3: I'm not saying the Lakers are better without Lebron, but
Speaker 3: I will say that there were moments when he was
Speaker 3: out emissively where it looked like they were not lazily
Speaker 3: switching as often and they were a little bit more intact.
Speaker 3: And I still think, you know, obviously, this team is
Speaker 3: not going to be able to reach like its highest
Speaker 3: heights without Lebron on the roster, Like there's just a
Speaker 3: level of like athletic dynamism and playmaking that he gives
Speaker 3: them that no one else on the roster has, Like
Speaker 3: this team would be bad if Lebron just sat out
Speaker 3: the rest of the season. This is not what I'm
Speaker 3: trying to say, but I think that someone needs to
Speaker 3: let him know that it's like, you know, even if
Speaker 3: you have to take ten percent of your offense, you know,
Speaker 3: a ratchet down your offensive effort a little bit, like
Speaker 3: you've got to give a little bit more on defense
Speaker 3: than you're giving. Because we've seen this year after year,
Speaker 3: roster after roster, that it trickles down to the rest
Speaker 3: of the guys. When you know, when he is sort
Speaker 3: of yelling at you for getting that cut, well he
Speaker 3: was just standing there.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like that is going to sap morale a little bit,
Speaker 3: and it's good. You're not gonna see guys sell out
Speaker 3: as hard to you know, stop their own man. And
Speaker 3: you can't just have like someone just sort of getting
Speaker 3: you know, just allowing players to you know, get loose
Speaker 3: on the weak side. And so I do think that
Speaker 3: there's a little bit of he's going to lock in
Speaker 3: more once they get closer to the playoffs, like that's
Speaker 3: what we've seen him do. And so I think that
Speaker 3: to some degree, they just got to get through this
Speaker 3: right now, and I expect that like that effort will
Speaker 3: ratchet up once it gets closer to you know, the
Speaker 3: Promised Land. But yeah, it's kind of rough right now,
Speaker 3: and it's it's not helping, you know, the rest of
Speaker 3: the guys sort of find their footing.
Speaker 1: I don't think I think we just solve each other's problems.
Speaker 1: You take mb, we take Lebron and be for Lebron.
Speaker 2: Who says that straight up?
Speaker 6: Teams say no to that, say both both teams cuss
Speaker 6: each other out and then yeah, screaming it one another.
Speaker 1: Like maybe that would have been anyway. I do just
Speaker 1: want to raise is it too late to just all
Speaker 1: out tank for both franchises because Cooper Flag put up
Speaker 1: forty two points in a game.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say yes because the Sixers, isn't the Sixers
Speaker 3: pick only top six protected?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yet I don't know that they're going to out
Speaker 3: tank some of the other teams that are down there
Speaker 3: at this point. It's good enough odds and the Lakers
Speaker 3: straight up don't have their pick, so there's no benefit
Speaker 3: for them in louzed like unless they unless they just
Speaker 3: really want to do Atlanta favor and just send Cooper
Speaker 3: Flag to Atlanta and help out Tray Young then yeah,
Speaker 3: there's no incentive for them to tank this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to be bottom six to get there.
Speaker 1: I mean, Embiid has been hurt. Now, Maxi's hurt. And
Speaker 1: we were just talking about the Paul George draft before
Speaker 1: you got on Harrison. Paul George, the other people in
Speaker 1: that draft are long gone from the league.
Speaker 3: Like he was fourteen, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, Paul Dredge is twenty ten, twenty ten. Yeah, John Walla,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Cousins, Gordon Hayward is like the most recent person
Speaker 1: who was like still playing excuse me, Jack.
Speaker 4: That's education reform, as we.
Speaker 2: Will always know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I didn't think Paul Paul George is like
Speaker 1: one of the elder states man. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's on the older side of his career. He is
Speaker 1: all like he is up there, man.
Speaker 3: I mean we should have guessed when he tried to
Speaker 3: sort of like come for our jobs as a podcaster.
Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, he is like like he's preparing for
Speaker 3: that to be his primary source of income after the
Speaker 3: Sixers contract.
Speaker 4: You know, so next Lakers coach after JJ, is that
Speaker 4: what you're saying?
Speaker 3: Look, the podcaster to a Lakers coach pipeline is it's
Speaker 3: it's it bore stronger results earlier in the year, I
Speaker 3: would say, but I think JJ solid. So yeah, maybe
Speaker 3: Paul George was that. That's that's what's next for him.
Speaker 3: He's gonna he's gonna be the next great podcaster turn coach.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna let JJ stay. You're gonna trade Lebron.
Speaker 3: One team should have to hire a podcaster every offseason, every.
Speaker 1: And then they keep their show going though.
Speaker 3: It's like the NFL has the has the show that
Speaker 3: goes around a training camp that rotates around the league.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, we spun the wheel, and like this
Speaker 3: year it's okay, see sorry, you got to hire a podcaster.
Speaker 4: Coach Bill Simmons taking over the Celtics.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't be like he know, like he'd actually be
Speaker 1: an okay, maybe GM. He does like tend to have
Speaker 1: a good sense of when the Celtics are good.
Speaker 2: That's what.
Speaker 1: Compared to other like basketball talking heads. As much as
Speaker 1: we like to make fun of him, he does seem.
Speaker 2: To like have a pretty good eye for the NBA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there would be worst podcasters to hire
Speaker 3: as a head coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not me. Though I'm number one.
Speaker 3: I think I would lose the locker rip like I
Speaker 3: would make Adrian Griffin look like he was like in
Speaker 3: the running for Coach of the Year early on with
Speaker 3: the Bucks last year. Well, he kind of was, really,
Speaker 3: he kind of was.
Speaker 4: He was twenty twenty plus games over five up dred and.
Speaker 1: They said, then, what's it like if they've been matched
Speaker 1: that pool?
Speaker 3: Once again? It was another team that changed the coach
Speaker 3: and fixed all their problems, you know, as he solved
Speaker 3: it as he has in all of his uh, all
Speaker 3: the places he's gone.
Speaker 1: I'd come in and inspire them with a tale of
Speaker 1: Tony Delk picking my pocket repeatedly, and they'd be like,
Speaker 1: this guy, here's what believe.
Speaker 3: Me that I was meant to be a coach.
Speaker 4: Right there you go.
Speaker 1: Elsewhere around the league, the Pacers ended the Cavs winning
Speaker 1: streak at twelve, find themselves up in the fifth seed
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference. If everybody stays kind of where
Speaker 1: they're at right now, that four or five six with
Speaker 1: the you know, Pacers Orlando Milwaukee fighting it out, UH,
Speaker 1: could be could be interesting. What are you feeling about?
Speaker 1: Just is the East basically Boston and Cleveland. Is there
Speaker 1: anybody else there who has got your eye a glimmering?
Speaker 3: I mean, I would say the Knicks their result against
Speaker 3: the Thunder notwithstanding, you know, I know that they've they've
Speaker 3: had sort of like a rougher you know, last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. I know they haven't been as good. But
Speaker 3: I do still believe largely in that core. And I
Speaker 3: also think that again, like that's a team that if
Speaker 3: they can get to the playoffs healthy, which has been
Speaker 3: a big if for Tibbs teams, you know, but he
Speaker 3: is a guy that has them ready to go all
Speaker 3: out for those playoff level minutes over the course of
Speaker 3: a playoff series because he's already playing the playoff level
Speaker 3: minutes the entire regular season. And so you know, guys
Speaker 3: like Josh Hart, Guy's like whoever, Like they're in shape
Speaker 3: for that. They're ready. They're not getting winded, you know
Speaker 3: at the beginning at the start of playoff games. They're
Speaker 3: ready for that intensity. So I do I like the Knicks.
Speaker 3: And also, you know, like their top six is just
Speaker 3: like incredible. So the Knicks in the East, I think
Speaker 3: that's probably the only one other than the Cavs or self,
Speaker 3: that like I don't know that I could see any
Speaker 3: teams coming out of the East to the other than
Speaker 3: those three.
Speaker 2: Not Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: You're not believe I'm not in on Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean they're okay, you know, respect to the NBA
Speaker 3: Cup winners, but yeah, I don't. I don't see it.
Speaker 3: Winning three rounds to get to the finals is a
Speaker 3: tough It's just tough to see with that roster.
Speaker 1: Or Land is intriguing to me because they have like
Speaker 1: such an incredible weapon and their defense, but you have
Speaker 1: to make so many shots to make it to like
Speaker 1: win the title like that, the ball has to go
Speaker 1: in so many times.
Speaker 3: The Rtlantos is a team that theoretically could get better
Speaker 3: at the deadline because not only have they been like
Speaker 3: really like really really banged up for the first half
Speaker 3: of this year, but they have basically all of their
Speaker 3: own draft picks, if not all of their own draft picks,
Speaker 3: And so if there was a team that was like, hey,
Speaker 3: poised to be a buyer and had a real reason
Speaker 3: to because they have a really solid cores already and
Speaker 3: they're like, hey, we're one super ball handling point guard
Speaker 3: away from you know, being able to really compete here,
Speaker 3: then you know, the magic could justify making an all
Speaker 3: in push.
Speaker 6: All right, here's here's my one crazy thing that I
Speaker 6: say in each episode.
Speaker 1: Jabari is one crazy thing, one crazy thing by some medication.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's say something that you can you just drop
Speaker 3: a sponsor name just for the what about Jimmy to
Speaker 3: world and just go all in on being the guttiest
Speaker 3: just filthiest team that like like like an inn a series.
Speaker 1: You watch them play, you go, I feel sick to
Speaker 1: my stomach watching that team play. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: like it. It would just be I actually don't like.
Speaker 3: It, to be honest, So you can be real, that's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like every time we're like yeah, what if
Speaker 1: they just like steer into their identity. What if they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get even bigger and everyone's.
Speaker 2: A big guy. I feel like it like doesn't always
Speaker 2: work out that well.
Speaker 3: You know what if we had another guy who wants
Speaker 3: the ball and can't shoot, you know, yeah, and then
Speaker 3: it's gonna yell at all of our good vibes players
Speaker 3: if things are going well yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, meh, what if the vibes were bad?
Speaker 4: We're really bad on this team that has really good vibes.
Speaker 3: If the Kings were not streaking right now, I would say,
Speaker 3: like the you know, Vespiana. We wrote a story for
Speaker 3: Espionation about how dearon Fox would be a great target
Speaker 3: for them, and you know, obviously it seems unlikely that
Speaker 3: that's going to happen.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: It seems like the Kings have sort of righted the
Speaker 3: ship and probably.
Speaker 1: Want to be like I have won seven in a row,
Speaker 1: since they're not going to blow it up at the
Speaker 1: deadline anymore.
Speaker 3: But you know, someone like that, if they could get
Speaker 3: like a quick point guard or someone at some shooting,
Speaker 3: you know, I think that would help them a lot.
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Speaker 2: Don't look now.
Speaker 1: The Pistons are now above five hundred at twenty one
Speaker 1: and nineteen after going eight and two over the last
Speaker 1: ten games.
Speaker 2: That's incredible for them.
Speaker 1: Like I'm sad to say, I'm incredibly jealous of the Pistons,
Speaker 1: And I don't know, do we think they should be
Speaker 1: buyers or do we think they should just be like
Speaker 1: this is so fun, let's just like see where we
Speaker 1: take it.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 3: If I were them, I would stick with what they
Speaker 3: have because I don't think that you're gonna I don't
Speaker 3: think that whatever you add at this deadline is going
Speaker 3: to be enough to sort of like push you towards
Speaker 3: any meaningful playoff run this year. Like I would continue
Speaker 3: to evaluate. I would actually see, you know, if not
Speaker 3: necessarily be sellers, but see if you can you know,
Speaker 3: because they they're one of the teams that they're They're
Speaker 3: part of the reason why the trade deadline probably is
Speaker 3: not going to be like that crazy active is because
Speaker 3: they were originally a team with cap space that you
Speaker 3: would have pinpointed is like, Okay, they're that third team
Speaker 3: that's gonna help facilitate some of these deals between contenders.
Speaker 3: They'll take on some draft picks, take on some money,
Speaker 3: you know, sort of make the financial stuff work. But
Speaker 3: I don't know, like they could still do something like that,
Speaker 3: but they may not be as inclined to just like
Speaker 3: sort of take dead salary and so that might mess
Speaker 3: up the trade deadline for know a number of other teams,
Speaker 3: which you know isn't the Pistons prerogative, but you know
Speaker 3: it sort of does sort of throw a wrench in
Speaker 3: some of these scenarios because of the new Apron rules
Speaker 3: around like first second Apron and you know how much
Speaker 3: teams can take back in the trade. You a lot
Speaker 3: of times need that third facilitating partner, and you know,
Speaker 3: they can run it back or I guess continue to
Speaker 3: run it with this roster. Yeah, because it's not running
Speaker 3: it back. They're still in this season, but they can
Speaker 3: continue to sort of run with this roster and then
Speaker 3: potentially they're going to be like good players available, you know,
Speaker 3: this off season in sort of salary dumps because teams
Speaker 3: are going to be dealing with these like honorous tax
Speaker 3: penalties and onerous honorous So I think that they should
Speaker 3: I would say the course if I was them, I
Speaker 3: think that you know, you're in the middle of a
Speaker 3: fun season. You're you're in the most fun type of
Speaker 3: NBA season, arguably like a team that wasn't expected to
Speaker 3: be that good and it's now like really fun for
Speaker 3: their fans if they can like chase a play in
Speaker 3: birth playoff birth, Like, I think that's enough, and then
Speaker 3: you continue to build on that strong young core.
Speaker 6: So say they do this, Say they go that route
Speaker 6: and shout out to j B Biggest for the job
Speaker 6: that he's done there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, say say they go.
Speaker 6: That route and you know, they get a play in
Speaker 6: you know situation where they lose, and you know, but
Speaker 6: they was it was a good experience. What type of
Speaker 6: player would you like to pair with Kate?
Speaker 3: That's a good question, you know. I think you probably
Speaker 3: need like like another guard that can handle a little
Speaker 3: bit and can also like relieve some of the pressure
Speaker 3: on him by being able to shoot. You know. I
Speaker 3: think that's probably what they need the money, because he's
Speaker 3: like he's a point guard but sort of you know,
Speaker 3: like he's a guy that could probably he's a little
Speaker 3: bit combo GUARDI and I don't mean that it's like
Speaker 3: the insult that a lot of people mean it as
Speaker 3: when they're like basically saying you're a bench guard a
Speaker 3: combo guard. That just means you're a bench guard. You know,
Speaker 3: you're not good enough to start at shooting guard or
Speaker 3: point guard. No, like he's clearly above that level. He's
Speaker 3: a playmaker. But I think that they could use like,
Speaker 3: probably you know, a point guard that can, you know it,
Speaker 3: take a little bit more gravity off of him and
Speaker 3: pull some of those defenders away, like Jade and Ivy's good,
Speaker 3: but he's just not that level of shooter yet, and
Speaker 3: so I think the like adding like a point guard
Speaker 3: with a little bit more shooting ability would probably be
Speaker 3: the ideal backcourt partner for him.
Speaker 4: I can see it.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 3: Listen up, just gonna try and trade him to every
Speaker 3: team everyone, even though they're good.
Speaker 1: A trade between our two don't look now teams. And finally,
Speaker 1: don't look now. Zion's finally back. And he did a
Speaker 1: sick windmill three sixty that I don't know, seemed like
Speaker 1: he was inadvertently revealing that he has superpowers. Like it's
Speaker 1: just incredible. It's just like, oh, yeah, I was I
Speaker 1: was hurt in quotes, but watch me do this. But anyways,
Speaker 1: very excited about that. I think he was suspended like
Speaker 1: a game, but uh from missing a team flight. But
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we're back, and it is the rapid
Speaker 1: fire out of questioning, Harrison, you're gonna want to give
Speaker 1: us first answer that comes to mind. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: firing shots at you and you just gotta come back
Speaker 1: bounce them back right at us.
Speaker 3: As longtime listeners know, I always do really great at
Speaker 3: the segment to giving you a break.
Speaker 1: One of the best, one of the best world. All right, Jabari,
Speaker 1: you want to start?
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I did throw that silly one in there,
Speaker 6: and I will probably proudly.
Speaker 1: Ask Brian start the clock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Brian, start the clock? All right?
Speaker 6: This or that scenario, which would be the more dominant player?
Speaker 4: You got fun?
Speaker 6: You got three of them coming out, Shack with free
Speaker 6: throw touch or Kobe with Curry's shot.
Speaker 3: Oh, Pat, I'm going Shock with free throw touch. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll do respect to Kobe. You see, Shack with free
Speaker 3: throw touch is an unstoppable player that wins like eight
Speaker 3: titles in a row.
Speaker 1: Yes, what are we talking? Free throw percenter is like
Speaker 1: we're talking MBID.
Speaker 3: Seventy five to eighty, you know, not like ninety, but
Speaker 3: you know a good I thought we were giving him
Speaker 3: like Steve Nash level free throws, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: you can get likenight perc.
Speaker 4: Let's say eighty, let's say.
Speaker 1: Eight Eightyes, MB, that would be nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Embi, it is still going.
Speaker 1: It's so nice having somebody who's that big and can
Speaker 1: get to the line in his area.
Speaker 3: Definitely going shot in today's era. I think you can
Speaker 3: make an argument for Kobe with Curry's shot, just because
Speaker 3: shooting is so valuable now and just being able to
Speaker 3: get up that number threes is huge. But I also
Speaker 3: don't know if that like takes away from what made
Speaker 3: Kobe great, which is like sort of a lot of
Speaker 3: the mid range footwork stuff, you know whatever, Like are
Speaker 3: you taking him out of some of the positions that
Speaker 3: sort of made him special.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing with that is that you would need
Speaker 1: Kobe to like actually take those shots, and like I
Speaker 1: don't know that he'd want to get you know, always
Speaker 1: take the shots if he had that kind of stroke.
Speaker 3: Oh actually told Kobe, They're like, you have the green light,
Speaker 3: launch as soon as you cross half court.
Speaker 1: Twenty a game, twenty a game, twenty three is a
Speaker 1: game he would be.
Speaker 4: Shooting twenty a game.
Speaker 3: Do you think it would average like thirty shots a game?
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, probably would be unprecedent. It would be will Emberlain,
Speaker 1: like it would be just like nobody touches this thing.
Speaker 3: He actually he finally would crack the one hundred, you
Speaker 3: know he would he would get you know, just on
Speaker 3: shooting variants one night.
Speaker 1: Like cracked it with not a great three point shot
Speaker 1: close Like imagine.
Speaker 6: Magic with Jordan's athleticism or Wimby with Shack strength while
Speaker 6: maintaining his flexibility.
Speaker 3: I gotta got I'm shack pilled. I guess is what
Speaker 3: we're finding out. I gotta go Wemby with Shack. I'm
Speaker 3: sorry that that that is an unstoppable player to me.
Speaker 1: I mean is checked strength. But does he have Shack's body.
Speaker 4: Like that's current body.
Speaker 1: Wemby's current body, but somehow like he would just be
Speaker 1: like exploding off of his body.
Speaker 3: How does he hit so hard?
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, man, Magic with Jordan's athleticism would be
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. I mean it's not like Magic was a
Speaker 1: bad athlete or anything, but.
Speaker 3: Oh no, he wasn't great by NBA standards. Posted Yeah,
Speaker 3: like if you.
Speaker 6: Were taking off from the free throw line and it's
Speaker 6: like this is a different conversation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's right, yeah, and still has the same
Speaker 3: playmaking vision and whatever.
Speaker 1: So not probably, he's probably like Lebron, right, just Lebron.
Speaker 3: It's funny you mentioned that Lebron. Yeah, because the.
Speaker 6: Last one I got here for you is Kareem with
Speaker 6: AIS handle or Lebron.
Speaker 4: It's seven foot.
Speaker 3: I can't believe that we're debating whether or not a
Speaker 3: I would enhance Kareem at this point. Is there's nothing
Speaker 3: that this that it's not that, it's not going to touch.
Speaker 3: There's no industry a slap Lebron aka Jokic.
Speaker 2: Come on, man, that's not Joic. What are you talking about.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, it's Lebron. He stills Lebron's speed and yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it's got to be Lebron. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh so Lebron's speed like Jokic got it?
Speaker 6: Just like it exactly. Yeah, the guy that was beating
Speaker 6: my guy, Anthony Davis down the court.
Speaker 3: Sometimes when I'm watching Lebron highlights and Yokic highlights, I
Speaker 3: get the mixed up. Yeah, it's just I got I'm like,
Speaker 3: hold on rewinding.
Speaker 4: Was that that was light skin Lebron? That was light skin.
Speaker 1: Labrun And finally you have to help us pick the
Speaker 1: game of the week. Our last guest did a bad job.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say it. They they picked Thunder at
Speaker 1: the Knicks and it was a snoozefest.
Speaker 2: The Thunder destroyed them.
Speaker 1: Uh, you can't let that happen, Harrison. Are our fans,
Speaker 1: our listeners are counting on you. The NBA is counting
Speaker 1: on you. All right, here are your candidates coming up
Speaker 1: Thursday tonight. For many of the people listening to this,
Speaker 1: you got the Calves of the Thunder.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a tough one to compete with.
Speaker 1: That. What I was gonna pick very quickly Friday Magic
Speaker 1: at Celtics on ESPN or Grizzlies at Spurs also on ESPN.
Speaker 1: Calves at Wolves on Saturday or Sunday, And this one's
Speaker 1: gonna be not that hard to compete with Lakers at
Speaker 1: Clippers or Nuggets at Magic, both local games.
Speaker 2: Gets the magic? All right?
Speaker 1: Which one are you picking?
Speaker 3: I Calves Thunder I think is the obvious case.
Speaker 2: You know that way, let's not get let's just do
Speaker 2: the right one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll say that. Second up, though, I think pretty
Speaker 3: clearly is Spurs Grizzlies, because that is one of those
Speaker 3: games where it's like you have an opportunity to see
Speaker 3: two of like the sort of one of one athletes
Speaker 3: in today's game, like that that that game I'm willing
Speaker 3: to predict will be maybe Calf's Thunder will be a
Speaker 3: better game, but that game will probably produce the most
Speaker 3: TikTok highlights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, fun God, just still so fun to watch.
Speaker 3: It's like John Wemby trying to just like out TikTok
Speaker 3: each other, you know, just like with the like we're
Speaker 3: we're not playing for the winner of the game. We're
Speaker 3: playing for who is going to be the Sports Center
Speaker 3: Top ten play tonight?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's two people who appear to be Marvel
Speaker 1: characters in most highlights. Like it doesn't make sense, all right,
Speaker 1: Harrison Fagan, you have u successfully completed the gauntlet. You've
Speaker 1: made it through the rabbit fire round of questions, you
Speaker 1: got all the answers correct somehow. Congratulations. Where can people
Speaker 1: find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 3: So you can find me on Twitter at hm Fagan
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Speaker 3: Sky at fake News f A I g N E
Speaker 3: w f at that. I wish I had been clever
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Speaker 3: only thought of like later on in college, so I
Speaker 3: use it for other platforms, but unfortunately it was already
Speaker 3: claimed on Twitter, so that's messed up. I use it.
Speaker 2: Should we follow them anyways? No?
Speaker 3: No, it was like it was. I'm pretty sure it
Speaker 3: was somebody who was a listener of our old podcast
Speaker 3: who did it as a rank and then forgot they
Speaker 3: made the account. It's just like they're and dead now. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, good bit though, and uh yeah, you can
Speaker 3: check me out on spnation dot com. You know, I
Speaker 3: oversee all of our men's and women's basketball coverage we've
Speaker 3: been doing. Yeah, we're gonna be having some fun stuff
Speaker 3: on unrivaled coming up, you know, the women new women's
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Speaker 3: that you'd expect from SB Nation and our wide range
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Speaker 1: One big prediction, who do you think gets moved? If
Speaker 1: you had to think like, okay, there is going to
Speaker 1: be I'm telling you now, there's gonna be a trade
Speaker 1: that everybody's gonna be like wow about uh what what
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 3: I mean? Okay, if I was gonna produce joke.
Speaker 1: When I said, you made it through the rapid fire
Speaker 1: around a questioning you still have one.
Speaker 3: Like apparently we did it earlier this seventh it's Jimmy
Speaker 3: Butler to the Magic, you know, Yeah, Jimmy Butler, Sam
Speaker 3: Bacon with all those picks, you know. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler sixth Man of the Year campaign with Okay, see, do.
Speaker 1: We ever get your ans are on Jimmy Butler, Zach
Speaker 1: Levine or KD? Which would you pull for the Lakers?
Speaker 4: Who's b for you? In eriting?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's KD, KD?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's that's the right answer, although Jimmy might
Speaker 1: be interesting. Yeah, Katy, Katy's Jimmy is like it's it's.
Speaker 3: It's just doubling down on the type of player of
Speaker 3: the Lakers already happened, just like that can't shoot that well.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, it's like KD. At least it's like
Speaker 3: would all of a sudden, you know, instead of like
Speaker 3: Cam Reddish spacing the four for Lebron It's KD.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, you know what you sold me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always like by the way, Jabari was saying,
Speaker 1: it was Zach Levine said final answer before we start.
Speaker 1: Before Zach Levine's final answer. All right, Harris and Pagan,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Jabari, where can
Speaker 1: people find you?
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