Speaker 1: Well, hell well, well it's that time again. Then we're
Speaker 1: talking My sixers. Joel Embiad and James Harden are playing
Speaker 1: good basketball together. The Nuggets have hit a rough patch.
Speaker 1: Jannis still looks absolutely unstoppable when he gets it going.
Speaker 1: We're gonna discuss that much more with comedian podcaster Blake
Speaker 1: Wexler on today's episode. I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm Jabari Davis,
Speaker 1: and this is Miles and Jack. Jack sometimes got mad
Speaker 1: boost sometimes well you know, Davis indeed driving spinning Curry
Speaker 1: a three potter, stop Curry from the toil again, be
Speaker 1: honest the time. Wow, wow, Wow, listen to that new intro.
Speaker 1: We're almost a year in and we finally sound like
Speaker 1: a real NBA podcast. We are prosed. I mean I
Speaker 1: feel like that kind of sets too high a bar. Actually,
Speaker 1: if I had one note, that's like, Man, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be an exciting podcast. Nobody who's stupid is going
Speaker 1: to talk at all. Hello, don't you are incorrect? Right
Speaker 1: off the bat? Hello, I'm Jack, I'm an idiot, and uh,
Speaker 1: Blake Waxler, what's happening? What's up? Guys? Thanks for having me?
Speaker 1: I too, am a moron who knows nothing at all,
Speaker 1: So yeah, it psych I fit in perfectly. And this
Speaker 1: was not a coincidental booking. This was because of my
Speaker 1: lack of intellect and inability to be articulate about the
Speaker 1: NBA that I was booked on the show. So thank
Speaker 1: you for having me making me look better. And we
Speaker 1: did say that specifically, we need somebody to make me
Speaker 1: look articulate. By comparison, Blake is one of our favorite
Speaker 1: guests on The Daily Zeitgeist, one of our favorite comedians,
Speaker 1: and he has this quote that I'd like to read.
Speaker 1: I have been following the Sixers season closely this year,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it's going too soon burst into flames
Speaker 1: in a freshly devastating way, and that is very close
Speaker 1: to my heart. That is how I feel as a
Speaker 1: Sixers fan at all times. So I as a fan,
Speaker 1: I want to preface this episode where I think this
Speaker 1: is going to be a great episode. And I also
Speaker 1: want to preface this by saying as a sports fan,
Speaker 1: I am a diehard sports fan to the point where
Speaker 1: sports did in some way figure back into the fact
Speaker 1: of me moving to my hometown to Philadelphia after living
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles for ten years. Yeah, when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Philadelphia Eagles, when it comes to the Phillies,
Speaker 1: when it comes to even the Philadelphia Flyers at the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Union, I would say that I am an anxious
Speaker 1: but generally extremely positive fan. When it comes to the Sixers,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I want them to win, but they do
Speaker 1: make me sick, both morally and physically, and I think
Speaker 1: they're as an overall thing bad for the world, for society.
Speaker 1: They hurt my friends, they hurt my family, they hurt me.
Speaker 1: I don't see a reason why they I remember when
Speaker 1: there was these rumors that Josh Harris might move the
Speaker 1: team to New Jersey or something, because he also homes
Speaker 1: the New Jersey Devils. I think he's also putting in
Speaker 1: a bid for the Washington Commanders. I almost felt relief
Speaker 1: where I was like, just get this specter this way,
Speaker 1: this awful, awful force in my life away from me
Speaker 1: and my family. That being, and they do horrible things
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. I am going to
Speaker 1: stop talking in a few seconds, just as a matter
Speaker 1: of mental health. But they are universally, I would say,
Speaker 1: without any merit, and there's no reason to cheer for them.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me, and that's that's
Speaker 1: that's all I really need or can say at the moment.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you guys. Having to Philly
Speaker 1: fans to have the conversation with this is beautiful because
Speaker 1: nook La fans have been accused of being toxic at times,
Speaker 1: and we certainly are. I'll cop to that personally as
Speaker 1: well as for other teams. There you go not to ourselves.
Speaker 1: So while we expect and you know, hope or you're
Speaker 1: at least, you know, somewhat costly optimistic about winning every year.
Speaker 1: I love Philly fans because, y'all, it doesn't matter like this.
Speaker 1: It can be a great stretch, it can it can
Speaker 1: look incredible. And you know Joel Embide, who will talk
Speaker 1: about here shortly, can you know, can be playing some
Speaker 1: of the best basketball of his career. You know, Harden
Speaker 1: looks the most comfortable he's looked in uniform. And you
Speaker 1: guys will sit here and say, yeah, but no, yeah,
Speaker 1: but no, I think this is I think Blake and
Speaker 1: I are like specifically neurotic people and neurotic about the Sixers,
Speaker 1: and like mine is built on like I've been a
Speaker 1: living and dying with basketball teams since I was a
Speaker 1: child because my dad coached basketball, and so my relationship
Speaker 1: to the basketball teams that I love the most was
Speaker 1: formed at a time when my brain like did not
Speaker 1: have object permanence, you know, And so it's just very dumb.
Speaker 1: It believes my basketball brain believes in magical spirits and
Speaker 1: magical forces, and there's not much I can do about it.
Speaker 1: And then, yeah, I have always just felt a certain
Speaker 1: darkness around the Sixers, in particular because it's been a
Speaker 1: steady rhythm of getting very excited having a player that
Speaker 1: I would have like when I was playing on my
Speaker 1: little hoop in the driveway when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: I invented a seven foot three person with like amazing
Speaker 1: touch who like played like a guard and just you know,
Speaker 1: could do anything on the bat. And he has arrived,
Speaker 1: and like they're there. The highs are so high, but
Speaker 1: then there has been this steady rhythm of them not
Speaker 1: being able to get it out of the second round.
Speaker 1: So I think it is I think it's hard for
Speaker 1: the for the pessimistic Sixer fan out there, and I
Speaker 1: think Blake and I are both both that for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really like the fact that you use the word
Speaker 1: beautiful Jabari to describe our Sixers fandom, and I would
Speaker 1: imagine you're using that phrase in the same way people
Speaker 1: use the word beautiful to describe Guernica, the painting by
Speaker 1: where there is just a just just dead everywhere, there's
Speaker 1: this funnier body. We've gotten to Guernica and the Sixers
Speaker 1: have won five in a row, and exactly right here
Speaker 1: is why it's beautiful. There was a little bit of
Speaker 1: bless your heart in there in that beautiful, but minute
Speaker 1: we felt it and like a Lakers fan cannot talk
Speaker 1: about another team without being insufferable. It's just kind of important, impossible,
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't blame you at all. It's
Speaker 1: it is the most into a Lakers fan describe the
Speaker 1: Clippers is unbelievable. It's just a master class and passive
Speaker 1: aggression and backhanded compliments that are just devastating and cut
Speaker 1: right to the heart. So Um, but we're not here
Speaker 1: to talk about the Lakers. We're here to just worry
Speaker 1: about the Sixers for people puke about the Sixers. Um,
Speaker 1: we won't be talking about the Sixers the whole time, though,
Speaker 1: thank you who you read my request? Can we stop
Speaker 1: this right now? Um? Yeah, I mean, so these are
Speaker 1: some things Jubari wrote down. He wrote, hottest team in
Speaker 1: the league, winners of five straight, third, best point differential
Speaker 1: in the league, fifteen games left, five home, ten away.
Speaker 1: Not great. Team is currently nineteen and twelve on the road,
Speaker 1: which doesn't seem that great until you realize that, like
Speaker 1: nobody has a winning record on the road this season
Speaker 1: for something good for some reason. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to catch either the Celtics
Speaker 1: or Milwaukee. They're doing much better than I was expecting
Speaker 1: them to be doing it at this point because they've
Speaker 1: had a lot of really difficult games over the past
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and they're hanging tough and winning close games.
Speaker 1: And the thing Blake that I was saying last week,
Speaker 1: I think was that this team, the thing that they've
Speaker 1: done this year to trick me into believing that they're
Speaker 1: different from teams in the past, is that they come back.
Speaker 1: Like remember for the past five years, how even when
Speaker 1: they had a lead going into the fourth quarter, you
Speaker 1: were like they going into the last five minutes, it
Speaker 1: was always like they're they're going to find a way
Speaker 1: to lose the And it feels reversed like it does
Speaker 1: feel like they're closing this season pretty well in a
Speaker 1: way that they haven't before. So that's the thing that
Speaker 1: I'm going to be holding on to until they exit
Speaker 1: the second round. What about you? Yes, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: Where that is probably the most alarming thing that's going
Speaker 1: on with them right now is that they for the
Speaker 1: first time have a semblance of a soul. And for
Speaker 1: so long this team was just a machine of finding
Speaker 1: new ways to shred you and to torture you. And okay,
Speaker 1: that this number one pick didn't work out because he
Speaker 1: didn't he forgot how to shoot. This one before that
Speaker 1: didn't work out because he never knew how to shoot.
Speaker 1: This guy had. There's so many things where that should
Speaker 1: be the most devastating thing about this team that isn't
Speaker 1: even in the top fifteen. Of like the fact that
Speaker 1: they drafted Mikail Bridges, who was from Philadelphia, his mother
Speaker 1: worked for the team, and then they immediately just traded
Speaker 1: him right after that, right after they drafted him, and
Speaker 1: he had to put on the little hat and everything,
Speaker 1: and he thought he was going to play for his
Speaker 1: hometown team. That is won a championship with Villanova. I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: great Valley High School. Yeah, and which which which I
Speaker 1: had to bring up. I didn't go there, but you
Speaker 1: know which high school he went to. And then he
Speaker 1: was traded for a guy who we draft in said
Speaker 1: of him, who was nearly killed by sesame seeds because
Speaker 1: the team cook didn't know that he had teleg h Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's number nineteen and twenty of the most horrible things.
Speaker 1: So you now have a You got rid of Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons and that was also all sorts of sad where
Speaker 1: you want things to work out, and you now have
Speaker 1: this team where James Harden who I thought best case
Speaker 1: scenario Andre Miller at the beginning of the year, and
Speaker 1: he is all Andre Miller and much much more so.
Speaker 1: He has been great. They're coming back from twenty point
Speaker 1: like I think twice in the past week or two
Speaker 1: they came back from twenty point deficits, and Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: who is the only person on this team that you
Speaker 1: could possibly have any love in your heart for, was
Speaker 1: leading those those comebacks. And I am going to try
Speaker 1: to stop being so negative. I am going to try
Speaker 1: to put it so now you have this team that
Speaker 1: you do feel oh, Wow, like there is some magic
Speaker 1: to them where I think before it was a lot
Speaker 1: of this, it was why you can't pair the two
Speaker 1: stars together, and you were so preoccupied with that, And
Speaker 1: now you actually have a team where oh I actually
Speaker 1: you have a player who's capable of putting a smile
Speaker 1: on your face in Tyrese Maxie. And it is a
Speaker 1: very it's and this is why it's gonna be so
Speaker 1: much worse when I'm falling into it myself, just like
Speaker 1: you said, Jack, where it's yeah, I'm pulling for them
Speaker 1: and they have a heartbeat now and that should be
Speaker 1: very exciting in a vacuum, in a vacuum. The MBIAD
Speaker 1: game winner against Portland was it this past week? It
Speaker 1: was very fun. Paps he gets not to the floor,
Speaker 1: now whistle and it comes to Joel five seconds to
Speaker 1: go driving spinning. Absolutely yeah again, comebacks are really fun
Speaker 1: to watch. Um there's I don't know. The MVP conversation
Speaker 1: is so weird at this point, but Jabari did put
Speaker 1: together a compilation of people just scoring on Yokich Lady's
Speaker 1: not there. That really warmed my heart, warmed my cold
Speaker 1: broken heart. Like the one thing I will say is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite moments of the season was when
Speaker 1: you know, the Sixers played in Milwaukee, sixteen game winning
Speaker 1: streak on the line, and Jannis kept going at mbid
Speaker 1: and every time he would run into Embiad's body, he
Speaker 1: would lose the ball because he just like didn't. He
Speaker 1: was like, what wall did I just run into? Embat
Speaker 1: is a fourth like that? Like, I think he has
Speaker 1: a gravitate like they talk about, well, this guy's a
Speaker 1: good shooter. He has his own gravity on the on
Speaker 1: the court. I think Embiad has gravitational pool from physics
Speaker 1: because he's that much bigger than everybody, So that that
Speaker 1: was exciting. He's immovable, like even for Jannis, who's the
Speaker 1: best at scoring, when he gets to the rim and
Speaker 1: like gets his body into somebody and Yokich is not. No,
Speaker 1: And I didn't expect to use this sentence today, but
Speaker 1: Jannie does. You're talking about someone who has the best
Speaker 1: body in the world, Like Yannis has the best body
Speaker 1: out of any human being in the entire world, and
Speaker 1: his best body ran into Joel's body and bounced off
Speaker 1: of it, which is saying a lot. And I wonder
Speaker 1: with the MVP thing, just another just just another issue
Speaker 1: in the scheme of the Sixers, But what do you
Speaker 1: guys think about the fact where a lot of people,
Speaker 1: whether you're on it or I'm sorry, whether Jokich deserves
Speaker 1: it or not, people have compared it to the Steve
Speaker 1: Nash MVPs often where if you're a voter, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys are or not. Yeah, but if
Speaker 1: you are a voter, they give us votes. They're smart,
Speaker 1: they've heard, they heard, they're fans of the show, and
Speaker 1: that's why they will not give you a vote, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: How much should that figure in two? As a voter,
Speaker 1: It's like, can we give this guy three MVPs or
Speaker 1: should that not figure in at all? I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you. That's the part that bothers me the most.
Speaker 1: And the reason is is you know, what has happened
Speaker 1: in the past or what has not happened in the
Speaker 1: past shouldn't impact this. It's kind of the same conversation
Speaker 1: that we were having, was it six It's crazy to
Speaker 1: think seven years ago now when Steph was just about
Speaker 1: to win his unanimous MVP and people were like, well,
Speaker 1: Jordan never won a unitimous MVP and Kim never and
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, well all those things may be true,
Speaker 1: but that has nothing to do with how Steph played
Speaker 1: in that individual year. I get it, you know, on
Speaker 1: the yokis naing if people want to say, well, last year,
Speaker 1: you know, or whenever it was when they were like
Speaker 1: a five seed or whatever, you know, he shouldn't have
Speaker 1: gotten at the end. And you know, if you want
Speaker 1: to have that debate, that's fine, but I don't think
Speaker 1: it's fair to Yok if that is the reason why
Speaker 1: you're not going to give it to him. I'm not saying,
Speaker 1: you know that he's the you know, he's a clear
Speaker 1: cut guy and you have to vote for him. But
Speaker 1: if that is your reasoning that that just seems unfair
Speaker 1: to I think it's fine to not give it to
Speaker 1: him for any number of reasons. Yeah, I agree, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you make a lot of sense. All right,
Speaker 1: Yeah Jove already just gave a long thought out answer,
Speaker 1: But you're just saying that. I seem to connect with
Speaker 1: what you're saying. Or for some reason, I think his
Speaker 1: performance against MBIAD when MBA dominated him. I think this
Speaker 1: compilation of people scoring like he's not there and in
Speaker 1: fact seeming to design their offense to attack him. Um
Speaker 1: that I have sent to the league office every day
Speaker 1: for the past three days. Um, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think it's all fine. I think the MVP Award is
Speaker 1: like a sports right is like narrative award. And everyone's
Speaker 1: like when we're talking about this with our grandkids from
Speaker 1: like years from now, and I'm like, I won't I
Speaker 1: won't be that's with my grand grandly you're showing your
Speaker 1: grandkids your old timeline, like your archived timeline. Like look,
Speaker 1: he I was on the right side of history with this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a tweet subwhere after we drafted jalil Oka
Speaker 1: four or I was like, we're so big. It was
Speaker 1: factual jelil Ok, we're so big. Yeah. And then and
Speaker 1: Bead was a draft pick around there. They were just
Speaker 1: we had all three. We were big. Yeah. We anticipated
Speaker 1: the really anticipate in the future of the league. There
Speaker 1: light years light years a hit. What we need is
Speaker 1: a center who can score with his back to the basket.
Speaker 1: We need Neurland's Noel at the three, we need jalil
Speaker 1: Oka four at the four, Dwell at the five, and
Speaker 1: we'll have Dario Sarich at the two. Ten Croatian you
Speaker 1: can't move, and then whoever and Michael Carter Williams at
Speaker 1: the one you know yeah, also can't move. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think if we had kept that team together, we would
Speaker 1: have won two three titles all right. In terms of
Speaker 1: playoff matchups, Jabar was asking me, do I have a
Speaker 1: preferred matchup? My only like, I feel good about anyone
Speaker 1: except the Celtics. Like even like if we could get
Speaker 1: the Bucks in the second round, I would feel better
Speaker 1: about that than I would getting the Celtics in the
Speaker 1: second round. I just don't they the Sixers don't match
Speaker 1: up well with the Celtics, but it's they will lose
Speaker 1: a seven game series. Everyone else, I feel like the
Speaker 1: Sixers have a chance. Personally, I completely agree with you
Speaker 1: and the Celtics not even matchup wise, which is also
Speaker 1: why we would lose with points how they count points? Right,
Speaker 1: just mentally, any nationally televised game that the Sixers are
Speaker 1: the Celtics, I will not go near because there's just
Speaker 1: no right, there's no parts. Yeah, I know, I'm on
Speaker 1: no parts of it, so yeah, hopefully, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think the seeding is going to work out this way,
Speaker 1: Like there's no way they'll get knocked out. We because
Speaker 1: right now we would face the Bucks right in the
Speaker 1: second round. Is that we place the face the Celtics
Speaker 1: in the second round Jesus yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: would have to drop to the four seed. Be careful
Speaker 1: trying to get cute exactly. I don't like And probably
Speaker 1: the Bucks would also beat the Sixers, but I just
Speaker 1: the Celtics. I have no hope personally out West. The
Speaker 1: matchups are interesting currently. It would be the Kings hosting
Speaker 1: the Clippers and the three six give which, um, give
Speaker 1: that to me hungry and a little bit a little
Speaker 1: bit of both. Remember I'm horngry for that matchup, okay,
Speaker 1: and then Sons of Warriors in the first round. Is
Speaker 1: that one too bonkers? Yeah? I feel like Kings Clippers.
Speaker 1: A lot of the talking heads, not the most important
Speaker 1: talking heads like us on this show, the ones, you know,
Speaker 1: we're the ones that everybody pays attention to them, will
Speaker 1: sway the Vegas line once they hear our take on this.
Speaker 1: But uh like, I feel like a lot of the
Speaker 1: ESPN talking heads will have the Clippers in that series,
Speaker 1: just because you know, the playoffs typically go half court
Speaker 1: and determined by defense, and the Kings are one of
Speaker 1: the worst defenses in the league. But jabbar, you're you're
Speaker 1: saying you'd go Kings on that. Yeah, I would go
Speaker 1: Kings there. And you know this isn't I promise you
Speaker 1: this is not in you know, Lakers Clipper stuff. This
Speaker 1: is this is actual analysis, not fans crisis. For this
Speaker 1: one moment, you were saying you would go Kings because
Speaker 1: they're a real franchise because I think that helps stadium clearly, yea,
Speaker 1: their own city, their own stadium. But no, look, I
Speaker 1: I recognize, you know, you're kind of to the point
Speaker 1: that you're making a lot of people are gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: the Kings haven't been there before, right, you know. And
Speaker 1: and while yeah, you know, experience does factor in, you know,
Speaker 1: of course I look at the Clippers and say, well,
Speaker 1: neither have they you know, like yes they yes they
Speaker 1: have Kauhi. But I mean like as a group, as
Speaker 1: a group, it's not like they've done you know, like
Speaker 1: all of this winning together. And from the King's side
Speaker 1: of things, I hear you in terms of whomever they
Speaker 1: match up against, that team's gonna score a lot of
Speaker 1: points because teams play with pace, they get up down
Speaker 1: the court. Uh, they like to push the ball. But
Speaker 1: I look at this King's team as I honestly think
Speaker 1: they're gonna hurt somebody's feelings in that first round, specifically
Speaker 1: because they can attack you from all over the court,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, you know, anchoring Domas in the
Speaker 1: block and letting him go to work, having him up
Speaker 1: at the high post, and you know kind of operating
Speaker 1: and and moving, you know, moving the ball around that way. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, Darren Fox has taken his game to another
Speaker 1: level this year. They've got all types of other pieces.
Speaker 1: It's you know, the thing that makes them so dangerous
Speaker 1: is basically they can get you in the fasken you're like,
Speaker 1: you're like in the uptempo game, but they can also
Speaker 1: like attack you in the half court set. Like you know,
Speaker 1: for example, Darren Fox is mister fourth quarter this year.
Speaker 1: There have been other guys that have done well, but
Speaker 1: when you know, when the games get down to it
Speaker 1: and it gets close, he's already worn you down to
Speaker 1: the point where more often than that the Kings have
Speaker 1: pulled it out. So I say all of that to say,
Speaker 1: if they lose, we're gonna scratch this from the record
Speaker 1: and this never you know, this never happened, this conversation
Speaker 1: never existed. But if they win, I will absolutely be
Speaker 1: the guy that says, hey, look pat myself on the back,
Speaker 1: because I told you that's interesting that they also are
Speaker 1: calling him mister fourth quarter, because I'm more familiar with
Speaker 1: that nickname for myself, but I've heard that with you predominantly.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I think it's one of those Superman
Speaker 1: situations where like Shack was Superman and then Dwight Howard
Speaker 1: was Superman, where you're the shock in this case obviously.
Speaker 1: So of course, of course I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1: All right, it's all right, all right, I just on that,
Speaker 1: all right, that's funny. Yeah, I really really really like
Speaker 1: this King's team. I've always loved Daron Fox. I think
Speaker 1: he had a year or two down and I remember
Speaker 1: they were on the radar for possible Ben Simmons landing spots.
Speaker 1: I was Haliburton with them at I Forget and it
Speaker 1: was either Fox or Haliburton, and I even I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how well this is going to age,
Speaker 1: but I just really have loved Darren Fox so much,
Speaker 1: and Sabonus is of who knew that he would be
Speaker 1: able to put up numbers kind of similar to his dad's.
Speaker 1: Like his game. Obviously it's not as behind the iron
Speaker 1: curtains rest, but it is like an americanized Arvidus Sabonis's game.
Speaker 1: And I was just looking at the team in my mind.
Speaker 1: Malik Monk is thirty eight years old, he's twenty five,
Speaker 1: and he's another guy who I got. I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be so good. Kentucky connection and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Kentucky connection exactly. And he's he's kind of had
Speaker 1: a rebound year also, but not because of Malik Monk.
Speaker 1: Do I think this team can go a little bit
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, But I do think that they're that
Speaker 1: they're a little bit flying under the radar for how
Speaker 1: good they are. Blake did tell me that he was
Speaker 1: going to use rebound figuratively at some point, because this
Speaker 1: is a basketball podcast, so swish on that one could work. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you for the assist. Let's take a quick break,
Speaker 1: And that wasn't assist. I did help that by pointing
Speaker 1: it out after the fact. That's right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back to talk about some
Speaker 1: great performances from the week and we're back, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to only talk about the nickname controversy having
Speaker 1: to do with mister fourth quarter changing hands a little
Speaker 1: too soon maybe for some people's tastes, but um so, Jabar,
Speaker 1: you pointed out that Donovan Mitchell has scored forty or
Speaker 1: more five times over the last month. Last week joined
Speaker 1: Lebron James is the only player in franchise history score
Speaker 1: forty or more in a game nine times in the
Speaker 1: same season. But you called him Spider, and I just
Speaker 1: this is a nickname that I've been having problems with
Speaker 1: since I started hearing it. You looked up Jabari how
Speaker 1: he got it, and it was because he had during college,
Speaker 1: you know, incredibly long arms and was able to steal
Speaker 1: the ball from all these different positions. And I think
Speaker 1: every time you go to a new level in your game,
Speaker 1: at least this was true for me, you know, like,
Speaker 1: because everybody in the NBA has such long arms, he
Speaker 1: doesn't stand out as having long arms, and so it's
Speaker 1: just it's not working. I think we need to come
Speaker 1: up with a better nickname for Donnie, which also not
Speaker 1: a great nickname. Let me ask this had KD accepted Durantula,
Speaker 1: would you would you have Okay, that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: So I bet you wouldn't have as much of a
Speaker 1: problem with it because the real Durantula or you know,
Speaker 1: spider like individuals, it's still it's still Katie. But also
Speaker 1: Slim Reaper also was a fantastic one that he said
Speaker 1: no to. He said he wanted the servant and that's
Speaker 1: neither here nor there. M M night. They've not show
Speaker 1: that Durantula is an incredible nickname, bit Slim Reaper is
Speaker 1: somehow an even better nickname. It's just an embarrassment of
Speaker 1: Ridges and too. I was trying to think of a
Speaker 1: team with more than one Rich on it and to
Speaker 1: say they were also an embarrassed Ridges, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: couldn't cut Rich. Buker was the only and I think
Speaker 1: his name's Rick, So yeah, David work. But I was
Speaker 1: thinking about how in terms of oh, this guy was
Speaker 1: obviously a spider in college, like you just said, Jack,
Speaker 1: that worked there. But now when you get to the NBA,
Speaker 1: it's kind of standard across you know, like massive wingspans
Speaker 1: where it would be like if when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: we would haul my best friend Jeff's dad pool Shack
Speaker 1: when we would play pool basketball with him. But then
Speaker 1: it would be like if we brought him to an
Speaker 1: actual basketball court, not playing with children and called him Pulshack. Also, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're very, very strange. Yeah, shout out, shout out to
Speaker 1: pull Shack of us to ever do it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Like I love a dad who like just uses his
Speaker 1: physical size to dominate the pool basketball game and agree
Speaker 1: that just like, just pull up, take the shot. I
Speaker 1: don't care. I gotta get away from it, all right.
Speaker 1: Some highlights from this week. Clay Thompson, We love a
Speaker 1: good Clay game. Clay locked in Clay eighteen in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, just that quick trigger release, thirty three at
Speaker 1: the half, wound up with thirty eight because Jabari texted
Speaker 1: us all almost like Clay's gotta going, and so we
Speaker 1: all come on TV and immediately he was like, oh
Speaker 1: we do. We don't need to do this tonight. It's
Speaker 1: not game six yet. Um. Warriors rounding into shape. Like
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people suspected they might heading
Speaker 1: towards the postseason, but they seem to be the team
Speaker 1: that is getting the hottest at the right time, right
Speaker 1: now they're so scary, like they're always just so scary.
Speaker 1: It's a team that you can't ever that's they're the
Speaker 1: one team where their seed doesn't matter and the playoffs
Speaker 1: as long as they're you know, they get passed. I
Speaker 1: don't think they'd be in the play in game right
Speaker 1: or are they in the play in tournament right now?
Speaker 1: Where are they thirty six and thirty three? But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: right now they are in Okay? Cool that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just a team you have to be afraid of, no
Speaker 1: matter what. The Suns you know, obviously wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: see Golden State in the playoffs also, so yeah, Also
Speaker 1: shout out to Dante di Vincenzo, the Big Ragou, one
Speaker 1: of the one of the finest players to ever come
Speaker 1: out of Delaware. For my money, yeah, I love it,
Speaker 1: and you do have a lot of money on that.
Speaker 1: I have so much money related to that statement because
Speaker 1: it's tax free. Gee. Uh so just really quickly on
Speaker 1: the Warriors. Look, I've been I try it all year
Speaker 1: to can you convince myself no, No, someone else is
Speaker 1: coming out someone else Denver or we at one point
Speaker 1: we were hiding the Pelicans. At one point we were
Speaker 1: hid in the Grizzlies, the Warriors, or the team out
Speaker 1: of the West where you know, even though my heart
Speaker 1: might not be in it, I don't have to squint,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, very hard for them to make it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like departure there, they've been
Speaker 1: there before, they've done it. If Andrew Wiggins is there,
Speaker 1: and you know, they can apply some pressure on something
Speaker 1: on some of the scores that they would conceivably match
Speaker 1: up against, I have no reason to count them out.
Speaker 1: So shout out to last week's guests that claimed that
Speaker 1: they were absolutely going to come out of the West
Speaker 1: or no, we're going to represent the West at the
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals. Yeah, Western Conference Finals. Because the longer
Speaker 1: we go, the more that feels probably accurate. I still
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be the Nuggets coming out of the West.
Speaker 1: Take the team that's first, but they have been struggling. Um.
Speaker 1: It does feel like for the past couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: every time I say I like a team or I'm
Speaker 1: impressed by how well a team is doing, they then
Speaker 1: proceed to lose multiple games before the episode comes out
Speaker 1: that did happen? And Nuggets, Yeah, yeah, so glad that
Speaker 1: we're doing a six or episode this time. Yeah, Sabonis
Speaker 1: first Jannis was super fun matchup Bucks and Kings, and
Speaker 1: it feels like this is one of those games where
Speaker 1: the Bucks are just like, yeah, but we're still the
Speaker 1: best team in the league, right, like everybody knows that, right,
Speaker 1: Oh you don't, Okay, I'm going to prove it to you.
Speaker 1: And Jannie looked unstoppable, as he does every time he's
Speaker 1: playing someone who's not Joel EMBIID forty six and twelve.
Speaker 1: He still has that gear where like, you know, like
Speaker 1: I said, when he puts his head down and just goes,
Speaker 1: there is nothing that you can do if your name
Speaker 1: isn't Joel Embead. Yes, and he definitely shielled that in
Speaker 1: that game. That matchup was a lot of fun all throughout.
Speaker 1: You know, Sa Bonus almost had a triple double at
Speaker 1: half time and then Yannie just came out and saying, no,
Speaker 1: that'll be enough. Yeah, it is different in the playoffs
Speaker 1: as great as Joe because and be looked amazing in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter against Yannis. You can't and not that
Speaker 1: you were saying that you could, but to have himbied
Speaker 1: on him the entire game because obviously, yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: do it either. That's why you pay PJ. Tucker all
Speaker 1: that money. That's good to have, because it is good.
Speaker 1: He's spent five of his paychecks on the greatest sneaker
Speaker 1: collection of all time. I do have to give that
Speaker 1: up for him. I do wonder when at his because
Speaker 1: I remember even wearing Jordan ones. Now, if I'm walking
Speaker 1: around my feet without an insert in them, beat are
Speaker 1: killing me. And he wears these shoes that don't have
Speaker 1: He plays basketball at the highest level in non tea doctor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: antiques are right, there's the lost flying off his feet. No,
Speaker 1: he is Uh, He's been a treat to have on
Speaker 1: the team. Doesn't score, but I think in the playoffs
Speaker 1: will be a valuable valuable asset for the Sixers. And
Speaker 1: the Knicks got right against your Lakers, Jabariat, you watched
Speaker 1: the game, What was it like rooting against them? Would
Speaker 1: you notice about the Knicks? And the Knicks are tough
Speaker 1: man like. I know that there's always going to be
Speaker 1: people that doubt Julius Randall, and Julius will give you
Speaker 1: reasons too at times. But he you know, this is
Speaker 1: one of those bounced back years. I think we discussed
Speaker 1: it last week on the show. Uh, he was great
Speaker 1: in that first half. The Lakers were slow to adjust
Speaker 1: and you know then when they decided, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: we do have an Anthony Davis. You know, he was
Speaker 1: able to slow him down in the second half. But
Speaker 1: by that point R. J. Barrett got to go in
Speaker 1: and they just they just outlasted the Lakers in a
Speaker 1: game we're quite frankly the Lakers absolutely needed. So it's
Speaker 1: a little bit embarrassing. But you know, good on them,
Speaker 1: Good on the Knicks. Yeah, and where where are we
Speaker 1: at and the standings Lakers are in the play? Okay,
Speaker 1: back in the nine. Back in the nine, baby, that's
Speaker 1: where you want to be. Every loss is going to
Speaker 1: be like, okay, they're out, and then if you know,
Speaker 1: when they win, okay, you know they're in. It truly
Speaker 1: is and you know what our listener of the week,
Speaker 1: you know, he kind of alluded to this. It truly
Speaker 1: is going to be a matter of who's healthy at
Speaker 1: the end, like who has who has enough of their
Speaker 1: guys left at the end for the you know, bottom
Speaker 1: half of the West bracket. What am I watching the
Speaker 1: hokey pokey here? Yeah, you put your whole team in,
Speaker 1: ye put your whole team out out, put your whole
Speaker 1: team and shake the trade deadline. They did shake things
Speaker 1: all all, chook things up. All right, let's do our
Speaker 1: broadcast call of the week from Mike Breen. We've got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a streak of a Mike Breen
Speaker 1: appreciation Society happening with Mike Breen banging his way across
Speaker 1: the league with this shot from Steph Perry. To tie
Speaker 1: things up with a backscreen by Thompson on Green Curry
Speaker 1: a three quinter Steph Curry from Downtown Again, We're tied
Speaker 1: with fifteen seconds from me and then Billy Mack on
Speaker 1: the Lakers broadcast on a D doing it on both ends.
Speaker 1: This is an awesome highlight and got me excited banging
Speaker 1: on both ends on that one as well. Be on
Speaker 1: the yard Stock fuck By gave us good play by
Speaker 1: a D Now he's one of the floor Diaglo Russell
Speaker 1: now finds a D there he is TI fuck your
Speaker 1: one end, throw it down at the other. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break when we come back. Blake,
Speaker 1: you know you have a show called Blake's Takes for
Speaker 1: god sakes, and we're about to get your takes fast
Speaker 1: and furious in the fastest segment and podcasting the rapid
Speaker 1: Fire segment of Miles and Jacot Matt Boosts. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna give you fifteen minutes to stretch out, get a
Speaker 1: nice like pre work out in, and then we'll be
Speaker 1: back to make you work sir. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. Jabari told me during the break that
Speaker 1: he's disappointed at me for not making a fast and
Speaker 1: furious family reference at the end there, because I did
Speaker 1: say that the segment is fast and furious. Anyways, that
Speaker 1: digression right there is exactly as fast and quick paste
Speaker 1: as this segment is. It's the rapid fire segment of
Speaker 1: Miles and jack I'm mad Boosties. It's good that we
Speaker 1: have like such a just concise way of introducing it
Speaker 1: that it conveys how fast it's going to be. I
Speaker 1: still don't understand the whole speed situation that's going on here.
Speaker 1: I relate to the fury, yeah, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: go more into the fastness and the quickness. If you
Speaker 1: had a hat on your your head, it would be
Speaker 1: spinning around right now in the air. Does that put
Speaker 1: things in perspective for you? Well, thanks for telegraphing my
Speaker 1: closer when I do stand up, well you can you
Speaker 1: can always switch to the arrow through the head, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, but you know how lititious Steve and
Speaker 1: his team is. Yeah, that has turning all about. What
Speaker 1: is this the hooky pokey? That's another one for you,
Speaker 1: free one if you want to, if you want to
Speaker 1: use that in your stand up set. A lot of
Speaker 1: hoky pokey references. Somebody told me they didn't even know
Speaker 1: what like, I guess not everybody grew up with a
Speaker 1: hookie pokey. Um. Yeah, the younger, younger audience is gonna say,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, sarah. Um. Anyways, well we should tell them
Speaker 1: to get up off their butts and get jobs. Right,
Speaker 1: you go, buy, yes, invest All right? Should we start
Speaker 1: the clock? Alright? Alright? Catch phrase? There there it is.
Speaker 1: There's the catch phrase. It is all ours and nobody original? Jabar,
Speaker 1: Do you want to start? You want me to start?
Speaker 1: Why don't you start this time? Okay? Sounds good. Blake.
Speaker 1: You can take any former six or impair him with
Speaker 1: Joel embiid. Which former six or would you like to
Speaker 1: see play with Joel Embiid. Todd mccolla, Next question, Todd McCullough,
Speaker 1: next question. That is fantastic, And we're not going Barkley,
Speaker 1: We're not going doctor Jay. I might go with Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: actually if only that was wow him. If I think
Speaker 1: that might be the best answer, I know, the most
Speaker 1: confident of the people that we could put with him
Speaker 1: heading into the playoffs, it might. I think it might
Speaker 1: have to because here's the thing. As cool as it
Speaker 1: would be to see Allen iverson with Joel, that's obviously
Speaker 1: not an option, right, Yeah, not enough shots to go
Speaker 1: around mo cheeks problems. To be completely honest, if I'm
Speaker 1: if I'm talking about that for a long time, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't. It's destroyed relationships from and romantic Um. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I think it might be all I did say Butler
Speaker 1: to be a little a little shyster there, but I
Speaker 1: think it is. It might actually be Jimmy Butler. I
Speaker 1: kind of like that answer. Yeah, Now, Blake, we didn't
Speaker 1: fully explain what the situation is here. It's it's really
Speaker 1: incumbent upon you to keep us on pace. We are
Speaker 1: going to keep us going, all right, I'll name more
Speaker 1: Eric snow. I think he could really blossom with Joel embiid.
Speaker 1: I think Matt to whole vibe. What did I did
Speaker 1: I tell you this is a bad idea? Thomas? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tim Thomas wouldn't honestly, probably wouldn't be that bad of
Speaker 1: a one because he's you know, dangerous from three Who
Speaker 1: else would I? Oh, doctor, I told you it would
Speaker 1: be very cool jumping a little bit clogging in the way.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you don't mind. Okay. So, if you
Speaker 1: were watching poetic about Jaylen earlier in the show and
Speaker 1: we're going to continue our blood feud with him, is
Speaker 1: Jalen Rose his hair too good to be true? And
Speaker 1: I asked that as a follically challenged man, I'm losing
Speaker 1: my hair at a rapid rate. A lot of it
Speaker 1: it comes from watching this team over years. I believe
Speaker 1: Jalen Rose had a quote that if you're not spending
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars on your haircut or it wasn't a
Speaker 1: hundred was the number at least undred, excuse me. His
Speaker 1: hair is a distraction and it really is too good.
Speaker 1: I agree, and I do believe what they're trying to
Speaker 1: do at ESPN with Get Up trying to modernize and
Speaker 1: you know, really bring the Disney Walt Disney Company into
Speaker 1: the twenty century. I think that his hair, none of
Speaker 1: these things can happen while he's giving that level of
Speaker 1: detail and attention to his hair. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that you're going to see Bob Iger step aside again
Speaker 1: because of the until this hair situation rectifies itself. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's too good to be true, for sure. I
Speaker 1: am truly distracted every time he's on camera how great
Speaker 1: his hair is. You were saying, you you read Jalen
Speaker 1: Rosa's biography, autobiography, I told you that inconfidence. I told
Speaker 1: you that in confidence. If he released um, all right, Blake,
Speaker 1: try and try and say on track. I know that's
Speaker 1: an impossibility, but let's just yeah, let's just pretend we're trying.
Speaker 1: Could we pretend we're trying. That would be great. You
Speaker 1: can pick any player from throughout history two star opposite
Speaker 1: you in a buddy cop movie. Which player or we'll
Speaker 1: even throw coach in? Which of them are you picking?
Speaker 1: I The first player who came to mind, and this
Speaker 1: is actually going to be my answer is Rick Smits
Speaker 1: because he looks the most like a cop it's the
Speaker 1: It's mostly a casting decision more than onstream chemistry between
Speaker 1: the two of us. I think another option could be,
Speaker 1: you know what, whatever joke I was going to make
Speaker 1: there would not have been approate appropriate. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: was going through like the bat. Actually, oh, you know
Speaker 1: who it would be would be like Bill lamb Beer
Speaker 1: because I would be the good cop obviously in that situation,
Speaker 1: and he would be the horrific cop and everyone would
Speaker 1: hate him. And I think I could rise up the
Speaker 1: ranks quicker that way, just by the juxtaposition of how
Speaker 1: much easier I am to get along with. So I'll
Speaker 1: go with I know I said Rick Smiths at first,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go with the only other white player
Speaker 1: I could. They are afficial and you guys are aficial
Speaker 1: the bad boys, So I'm not mad at that. All
Speaker 1: who we are who we are very bad. Keep it going.
Speaker 1: If you could bet on any fan base to make
Speaker 1: the inn Arena challenge shots, you know, the lay up,
Speaker 1: the free throw, the three point or half court which
Speaker 1: fan base coort fan bases? Are you betting on it?
Speaker 1: I'm so there's different ways to think of this. Here
Speaker 1: where you could go, where are the basketball hot, and
Speaker 1: where where are the players from? I would this is interesting.
Speaker 1: I actually think before they move, I might go with
Speaker 1: the New Jersey Nets, because you just have guys from Newark,
Speaker 1: you know, just in the stadium. And it's not the
Speaker 1: Nets in their current state. Yea, just bloggers, A sunch
Speaker 1: guy's named Zander. Yeah, yeah, there are little wrists. So
Speaker 1: I might actually have to go with what is the
Speaker 1: fittest city in the NBA, and that would be Denver.
Speaker 1: I would actually go with because I believe you think
Speaker 1: of what people look like in Denver, most of them
Speaker 1: are probably working on jump shots. So I would go
Speaker 1: with the good folks in Denver for that one. Put
Speaker 1: yeah I can't yeah, like it, love it. So I
Speaker 1: have this persistent nightmare. This has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the show. I just want to tell you about my
Speaker 1: dream that's basically a reverse like Mike, where I suddenly
Speaker 1: switched bodies with an NBA player and but I have
Speaker 1: my skills still. Um. Yes, what would you do in
Speaker 1: that situation if you suddenly switched and you were in
Speaker 1: hardened body in the fourth quarter with your skills, I
Speaker 1: would carry myself in a way that would that would
Speaker 1: be more confident than anyone in the entire world. And
Speaker 1: also defensively, there would be no difference between it by
Speaker 1: so I do want to say that. I would also
Speaker 1: I would insist upond inbounding the basketball, so say so
Speaker 1: the other team scores, because it really to answer this truthfully,
Speaker 1: you want to hide who you are. So yes, I
Speaker 1: would insist on inbounding the basketball. And then right after
Speaker 1: I do that, I would start tying my shoe and
Speaker 1: I'd be like, you take it, and then exasperated, keep
Speaker 1: it just I can't believe it. So and and here's
Speaker 1: the thing too. One benefit about Harden is that the
Speaker 1: guy sometimes has not maybe hustled as much as people.
Speaker 1: So I think I could pass the barrier of reasonable
Speaker 1: doubt that oh James is just loaf in it the
Speaker 1: script where I think I would just go from top
Speaker 1: of the key to maybe top of the key, like
Speaker 1: that's going to be the entire and if I passed,
Speaker 1: it would just immediately pass it away. I think that's
Speaker 1: what I would do, all right. I like that, But
Speaker 1: I've always said that I would take an injury. Um,
Speaker 1: but that's there's you're braver. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I had a dream I always have laughed at the
Speaker 1: scenario where when you have such bad self esteem as
Speaker 1: a person that in a video game, when you create yourself,
Speaker 1: you give all yourself all really really bad by ratings.
Speaker 1: You know which is gonna be. It's the whole purpose
Speaker 1: of doing it. And then I would make the popular
Speaker 1: kid that I grew up with in the game, and
Speaker 1: then she'd have amazing ratings and just beat down on that.
Speaker 1: Anything else is just unrealistic. You know, I agree, I
Speaker 1: agree one hundred percent. Yeah, And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta go to therapy. I was gonna say, I
Speaker 1: feel like we could spend the next thirty minutes unpacking that.
Speaker 1: But what I will say, what I will say in
Speaker 1: response is, guys, we have solved the mystery. We now
Speaker 1: know why traditionally Jim Harden has turned into a pumpkin.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, has been because people have been switching.
Speaker 1: It's guys like me going, yeah, that's good enough, that's
Speaker 1: good enough. Have you had that thought while watching him?
Speaker 1: That is there a body switching? Is there a body
Speaker 1: switchero comedy happening right now? Yeah, that's why I feel
Speaker 1: good heading into the playoffs. That's all right. Last last
Speaker 1: one here for you, and this is the most important one,
Speaker 1: just so you know, uh, you know, some people get
Speaker 1: this wrong, some people get it right. Let's let's hope
Speaker 1: that you're on the right side of things. To Jack
Speaker 1: that or Jabari, Damn, Jabari gets like close to the
Speaker 1: camera after he asks it makes a cute face. When
Speaker 1: he was coming out of Duke and was drafted so
Speaker 1: highly that Jabari I thought he was going to have
Speaker 1: his career takeoff again when he went to his hometown
Speaker 1: of Chicago. Yeah, oh, it's between you two. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with sometimes Jack. When I do the Daily Zeitgeist
Speaker 1: is not there and I don't know what other commitments
Speaker 1: you could have In those situations, I sometimes get paired
Speaker 1: with a guest host, which I think is disrespectful. So
Speaker 1: I would never do that to you. Record No, and
Speaker 1: I every time by the time you've ever been on
Speaker 1: this And guess who was one for one with Jabaria
Speaker 1: is better? Yeah? Yeah, cool? So I'm going Jabari and Jack.
Speaker 1: That's that's not a knock on you, definitely not. It's
Speaker 1: a one one a situation. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to have you back on Daily's like Geist. Man. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm definitely going to happen. Jack, someone's gonna
Speaker 1: be pipping. Okay, you know he's got he's got six
Speaker 1: of them things too. Yeah, any easy and easy. That's
Speaker 1: where that phrase came from. Actually it is all right, Jabari,
Speaker 1: Why don't you close the episode? Okay? Yeah, man, why
Speaker 1: don't you do it? Since you're a you know, clearly
Speaker 1: the most important part of the show. See see what
Speaker 1: you've done, See what you've done? All right, I will
Speaker 1: be sorry. I don't know that's my crying noise. Um.
Speaker 1: We went polling this week on Twitter, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, some of these results don't
Speaker 1: really make sense, but you know what, they were a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot of fun. Like Brion went polling
Speaker 1: this week. There you go. Sorry. Fifty two listeners responded
Speaker 1: to the polls. Think that the Lakers are going to
Speaker 1: make a conference finals run if they into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: All right, So this is where I'm This is where
Speaker 1: I'm not laughing at like that that being impossible, but
Speaker 1: the fact that and this is where I am with this.
Speaker 1: I love you guys, I appreciate you guys. We'll come on, man, hey,
Speaker 1: look it might be, It might be, it could happen.
Speaker 1: We'll just say that. I just we might have a
Speaker 1: sampled sampling bias because we have a podcast that is
Speaker 1: basically a Laker sixers podcast. But this is true. Six
Speaker 1: percent of you guys think the Kings win around then
Speaker 1: lose in the second round. That is definitive. Wow, it's seriously.
Speaker 1: Seventy three percent of you guys think the Suns will
Speaker 1: make a conference finals run. Okay, this is gonna this
Speaker 1: is starting to be uh mathematically impossible. Oh no, it will.
Speaker 1: It will officially be mathematically impossible when I get to
Speaker 1: the end of this. U. Seventy percent think the Clippers
Speaker 1: went around then bow out in the second We don't
Speaker 1: really need comment there because it's probably gonna be true.
Speaker 1: Eighty two of you guys think the MAVs barely sneak
Speaker 1: in but lose either in the plan or the first round. Okay,
Speaker 1: and here's the part where that math ain't math thin
Speaker 1: because thirty eight percent of you guys think the Nuggets
Speaker 1: will rep the Western Conference from the finals. I think
Speaker 1: all of those things are true. Yeah, yeah, true, church church, church, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: fair enough, all right, our Boosti's listener of the week
Speaker 1: was at NBA Loverboy because he said, and you know,
Speaker 1: we kind of alluded to this earlier Mike Breen. Here
Speaker 1: we are h You know that is Mike Breen's alter ego.
Speaker 1: So yeah, shout out to you, Mike Breen. Think you
Speaker 1: were making your second appearance on the same episode. But
Speaker 1: NBA Loverboy says, there's so little separation between the Western
Speaker 1: Conference teams that is really going to come down to
Speaker 1: whoever is healthiest, And to be honest, that's probably the case.
Speaker 1: You know, we can talk back and forth over these
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, but that's in all likelihood that's
Speaker 1: how it's gonna shape up. Yeah, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: something mean, but I won't. I'll go for it because
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about how much I hate the
Speaker 1: take of like, well, I think if healthy the and
Speaker 1: like if it all comes down to health, because it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's obviously true. That's a piece of randomness that we
Speaker 1: bake into the conversation and don't necessarily get anything out
Speaker 1: of being Like I think, if Jannis gets hurt, the
Speaker 1: Bucks are in trouble. But yes, this is not that
Speaker 1: NBA Loverboy, I don't know why MBA mean to you.
Speaker 1: I think I just we don't put a microphone in
Speaker 1: front of Kyrie Irving's face until the end of the year.
Speaker 1: I think they might be able to pick up a
Speaker 1: win in the plane for it. Fair enough, But for
Speaker 1: the listeners out there, make sure you give us a
Speaker 1: follow on Twitter at mad Boostise Blake, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joining us today aside from catching you in
Speaker 1: stand up where can the folks followe course, thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. This was so much fun. And then
Speaker 1: false pleasure is all mine and give me that pleasure. Sorry,
Speaker 1: that was just took. I took my microphone. But yeah,
Speaker 1: no at Blake Wexler on all social media, Blake sakes.
Speaker 1: For God's sakes, I've recently come into possession of a
Speaker 1: Twitter account. No, I'm in a think dot account, which
Speaker 1: also is not true. But yeah, I'm on TikTok as well,
Speaker 1: and uh that's very anyway before the government takes it
Speaker 1: away from me. You can check me out on there
Speaker 1: and yeah, and if you just look up Blake Wexler
Speaker 1: wherever you listen to music, all my stand up albums
Speaker 1: that aren't in the middle of a lawsuit will come up.
Speaker 1: So you can listen to those and yeah, but serious,
Speaker 1: I could not have enjoyed this more. Jabara, You're awesome. Jack.
Speaker 1: I've always adored you, so thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me. Thank you you guys. You guys heard it.
Speaker 1: He'd say that was awesome. Man, I'm just gonna take that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take that and run with it. Jabbar, you
Speaker 1: are awesome. I'm standing here in front of God and
Speaker 1: everyone telling you you're awesome. And on that note, it
Speaker 1: has been another fantastic episode of Miles and Jack got mad.
Speaker 1: I'm in a weird place. So while we unpacked all
Speaker 1: of this, your teeth are bleeding, not your gums, your
Speaker 1: actual teeth, out of your teeth. It's been a lot
Speaker 1: of clenching happening, you know, the six or seasons really
Speaker 1: and then you picking me at the end that that
Speaker 1: was just the straw, that was it, and I'd just
Speaker 1: fall apart. It's over now. One of my eyebrows just
Speaker 1: fell off my face. He's got clump head right now,
Speaker 1: all right back next week. Bye bye. The murtherer is
Speaker 1: the murcher, the courser