WEBVTT - Anthony Edwards literally bruised a dude's skull with a dunk 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.760 On this episode of the eight check We've got a 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:17.560 loaded midweek show. Baby, We get into the looming disaster 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:23.560 in Lakerland. Yeah, it's disappointing and delightful to say at 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.320 the same time, Rob Plank, are you to blame? We 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:32.080 talk about Tyrese Halliburton's recent thirty games slump. Aunt Edwards, 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.800 is that the best dunk we've ever seen in our 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:39.280 goddamn lights? In game he literally dislocated his finger and 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.479 broke John Collins his brain, all with the swoop of 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.680 one ridiculous dunk. Speaking of injuries, we get into more 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.879 of those from around the league. We also must on 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:56.440 the show talk about DeAndre Ayden's air mattress confession a debacle. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.800 It was, Anthony, let's get into it. Drop that motherfucker 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:15.600 beat the should be Rhana crash, boom boom. What's that sound? 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.679 That is the Lakers hitting squarely into a wall at 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.760 the worst possible time of the season. Not only are 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.400 the Lakers seven and six and the last thirteen and 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.120 one and two in their last three, but here's where 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.480 it gets better, folks. The Houston Rockets, who we talked about. Actually, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.240 I think last show still hot, still very very hot 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.520 seven and one in their last day and breathing down 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:43.000 their necks for that ten spot, that final play in appearance. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:45.720 But that is not why we're talking about them today. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.639 No friend to show Bill Ryder dropped this bombshell this morning. 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:55.800 Sources tell CBS Sports that Los Angeles Lakers players Christian Wood, 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.920 Jared Venerable, and Gabe Benson will miss the rest of 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:02.920 the season, while Jared Vanderbilt still could return. Sots of 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:08.480 say the expectation is that that will not happen. Oh boy, 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.519 that is awful news for a team that is reeling 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.120 right now, a team that could use these players at 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.080 some point, and with ad just coming back from a scratch, Cornya, 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.720 things are not amazing. The crazy thing is that the 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.760 Lakers have basically been just bread crumbing up pretty much 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:30.600 all season. Like remember who was it last year? We 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:38.600 can't fully judge this Laker team until until Kendrick Nunn plays. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.960 We can't judge this team until we see what Kendrick 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.920 Nunn is like in the lineup. Gave Vincent is the 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.160 new Kendrick Nun of the LA light Lakers. It became 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.640 a joke. Can't judge this team till Kendrick Nunn is 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.120 in the lineup here we are and they were just 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.600 being cagey. Oh, Gay Vincent's coming back return is imminent. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.440 We kept hearing the return is right around the corner. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.160 They kept showing us videos at practice of Gabe Vincent 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:13.240 somehow getting upset shots from eighteen feet. The truth is 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.000 Christian was as several weeks of rehab after getting surgery 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.800 on his left knee before he can hit the court again. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:25.480 Van Doh may return, just like he likes to return 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.240 all of his clothes that he gets from his private shopper, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.280 but there's no certainty to it whether just like there's 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.240 no certainty as to whether he'll pay. And they have 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.800 seemed to be teasing Gabe Vincent coming back for months, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.280 and he does not seem to be close to seeing 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.880 the court in a game situation, even though they keep 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.160 telling us he's cleared for on court work. He has 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.160 played all of five games this year. Honestly, that's five 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.320 games more than I remember. Not gonna lie to you 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.520 all this underscore is just how awful the trade deadline 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.920 was for the Lakers, which brings me around relate to 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:07.320 my point, why is Rob Polenka just unscathed at the 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.920 job that he has done for the Lakers. He pulled 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.960 a rabbit out of his hat last deadline, got the 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.440 Western Conference Finals appearance out of it by being a 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.320 very banged up Grizzlies team and then taking out a 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.400 Golden State team on their last legs. They were literally 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.919 coughing dust before getting swept to the Denver Nuggets in 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:29.360 what they call the most respectable sweep in NBA history history, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.320 the most competitive sweep in NBA history. And then this 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.200 year the Lakers Big three of Braun Ad and d Low. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.359 Do you know, you know what this team reminds me 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.640 of The Lakers sort of remind me of what the 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:46.000 Warriors did after they somehow won the title. Right, they 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.640 knew Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins like and the rest 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:56.279 of these like schmucks shouldn't be extended, right, You shouldn't 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.520 be rolling these dudes back out. You knew midway through 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.600 that season and they weren't the ones, but then they 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.680 had to pay them. They're the Eastern Conference Finals team 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:09.080 for the Atlanta Hawks, where it's like John Collins, DeAndre Hunter, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.080 bog Don Bogdanovich, and it's like we know these dudes 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.239 are not the ones, but we went to the Eastern 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:16.960 Conference finals, so we kind of had to pay them. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.640 So then they roll out the same team the Lakers 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.920 ruey Hachi Mura they paid, uh d Lo gets paid, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:30.200 Tory and Prince comes back and you're like, still no shooters, 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.160 but I guess, and they still refuse to go out 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.120 and get a buddy Healed who could have opened up 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.280 spacing for Lebron James three years ago and they didn't 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.840 do it. Then they haven't done it now. All of 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.880 this is Rob Polinka's fault. Here's the nail in the 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.880 scouting coffin, because we could use some guys that could 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.159 play some basketball right now, some young legs, some cheap legs. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.039 According to our very own Anthony Irwin. Shout out to 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.279 my guy, Anthony Irwin for basically writing this segment for 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:02.000 me of the Lakers lounge. Polenka whiffed on the draft 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:07.279 not once, but twice. Here is what Anthony Irwin said, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:12.360 love him. According to sources, a consensus pick for the 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.760 Lakers was Kobe Buffkin. When he was selected fifteenth by 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.760 the Atlanta Hawks. The Lakers had to scramble so as 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.640 to say, the scouting department preferred Whitmore once Buffkin was 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.839 off the board, but Polenkas and others higher up in 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:33.200 the organization Akay Linda Rambis and Kurt Rambas and probably 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.400 Genie Buss, we're concerned about his medicals. Polenka having seen 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.920 this is my favorite part. Polinka having seen Hood Chaffino 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:47.080 play well in the Big Ten Conference tournament, saw something 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:53.960 special and made his final decision. There's just so much 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:59.279 to unpack here. First of all, Kobe Buffkin at the 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.080 top of your big board was a choice when you're 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:08.760 drafting seventeenth. That is mal Feastins. He has been not 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.000 very good for the for the Hawks since he arrived, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.200 and some people might even call him a bust. He 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.920 is just chucking down in the G League. His his 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:25.360 literal upside ceiling comp is a man that is considered 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:30.840 the most overpaid player and the lowest net rating player 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.520 in the NBA right now. Jordan Poole, that was his 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:39.200 absolute upside. Jordan Poole. Kobe Buffkin. He is chucking to 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.800 the tune of twenty three point six per game on 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.960 twenty shots per game, one point one eight points per shot. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.120 The league average is one point one five. This is 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.240 the G League that we're talking about, So this is 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.400 like hitting two point fifty. It's like right above the 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.880 Mendoza line in the minors. Fam you're not good enough 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.200 right now, You're not good enough. Buffkins played all nine 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.600 games this season, despite the fact that Trey Young has 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.960 been gone for the year. Since the All Star break, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:18.200 the tanking Hawks brought in fucking Paddy Mills over Kobe Buffkin. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.280 They said, this man's been sitting on the bench in 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.760 his no, this man, Paddy Mills been sitting on the 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:30.120 couch in his tube socks, eating lace. And they said, 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.400 we'd rather have him anyway. It's not like other people 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.040 didn't see the flaws in Kobe Buffkin. John Hollings, your 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:38.760 friend of the show, said this at the Summer League. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.320 Buffkin having to run the offense every place seemed to 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.240 really slow him down. You could almost hear the gears 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.920 cranking at times as he got and thought through the 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.880 pick and roll. Read Buffkins stats also took a blow, 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.880 shooting four for twenty nine from three. He needs to 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.080 improve as a shooter, but mostly his numbers are bad 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.560 due to small sample vary. I'd be more troubled by 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.720 the multiple finishes that were swatted at the rim, again 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:09.240 caused by him seeming to cruise through an opening too slowly. 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.640 He was so bad that an anonymous Hawks executive told 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.640 Friends of Show, we had a lot of friends of show. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:20.640 Ye know, a lot of fucking big ball NBA expert 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.200 friends of show. Keith Smith from Spo Trek, somebody told 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.640 him Kobe Buffkin needs to settle his ass down. The 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.160 ass part was me, I bring all of this up 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:35.880 because this was the dude that you were salivating at 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:42.800 at seventeen on your big board, Rob, Rob. And to 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.520 compound problems, when the Hawks reached for Buffkin at fifteen, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.000 not exactly the most stellar front office the Atlanta Hawks. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.000 As soon as Buffkin was taken by the Hawks, you 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.080 knew you fucked up. You knew, oh, we're not seeing 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:05.439 this entire board well. And then you don't have an 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:10.760 answer immediately when your guy is taken, and your your 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.079 answer is to take a guy you saw in the 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:18.199 conference tournament play well once in the Big ten for Indiana, 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.320 and we're like, yep, that's our guy, that's the kid 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.520 we like. We saw him play well at the conference tournament. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:29.679 So yep, I like that Hood Shaffino kid hoo Chiafino 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.439 currently averaging one point six points per game in twenty 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.640 one games. Much of those games are in garbage time 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.959 where even he looks overmatched there, folks, I don't know. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:45.599 I liked me also, Tristaicrik non GM non player evaluation 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.640 expert like Hood Shaffino as well. I liked the band 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.480 workout that they put a hit and put out of 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.160 him on Bleacher Report. I was like, oh yeah, maybe 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.000 like Tom Brady's got the plasticity down. I like the 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.960 fact that he could do a nice little downward face 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.320 sing dog he had it down. Look at his look 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.480 at his crow pos hoot Shafino. How does that translate 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.760 into buckets for the LA Lakers. It doesn't. It doesn't. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.439 You know who would have been valuable at seventeen who 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.400 was actually there? Heimi Hawkes, who went with the very 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.800 next pick the Miami Heat, saw the Lakers right above 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.960 them and said, there's no way this team is going 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.040 to take who we want. That's you know, who cares 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.120 that they got to the Western Conference finals. They don't 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:35.200 know what they're fucking doing. They're over there just literally 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.960 grabbing the wall blind, just trying to touch whatever comes 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.400 their way. By the way, Jimi Hawk has played who 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:47.640 do you play for? A again? Checks notes the UCLA Bruins. Uh, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.720 just a mere fifteen minutes from Rob Polinka's office, and 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.000 he was like, Nah, I'm good on this guy. He's 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.199 a senior. He was there for four years. You had 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.320 him up close and personal for four years. He will 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.760 make All rookie years the first year. He's probably gonna 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.880 be an All Star at some point, and you missed him. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.400 You know what? Who else have helped Brandon Pajemski who 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.760 just played up the five from the forum in I 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:22.360 don't know, Santa Clara, Saint Mary's excuse me? He will 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.520 also make the All Rookie team? Who else would have 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.240 helped you? A guy that was actually slotted to go 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.559 fourth at one point, Cam Whitmore and his medicals slid 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.920 him to the same team that liked him at four 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.640 with the twentieth pick. That Cam Whitmore is averaging twelve 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.920 four to one in seventeen minutes a game, who is 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:47.760 widely seen as an absolute steal. Palinka, what the fuck 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:53.440 are you doing? Baby? If you miss the plan or 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.559 you flame out without making the playoffs. Heads are gonna 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.160 have the role and it won't start stop with Darvin 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:06.040 uncured Ham, No, it will not. Polinka hired him. Polinka. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.120 I don't know if he'll be fired, but like the 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:14.520 roars of the firing will be loud as they've ever 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:23.760 been about. We move on to Tyrese Halliburton, all star 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.240 point guard from the Indiana Pacers. Who is I have 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.600 to say, and I don't really want to say it 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.280 out loud, and I don't think anyone else wants to either, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.720 is that Tyrese Haliburton is going through it right now. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.440 And I don't mean going through defenders, I mean going 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:43.880 through a slump. And it has been a fucking bismal 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.280 to watch. Really, the numbers you don't want me to 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.280 read them to you, six for thirty six from deep 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.480 in his last five games, and that puts him in 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:57.920 Jordan Poole territory, Miles Bridges territory is the only players 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.199 to make six or a few threes on thirty six 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.439 attempts or more during any five game span this season. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:13.920 I scalled what's colder than being called Hella Burton? Fuck dude. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.880 I hate saying it out loud. I really do. In 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.400 his last twelve games, Haliburton has put up fifteen four 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.080 and ten on forty percent from the field and nineteen 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:30.080 percent from three. I'm sorry, guys, those are bad numbers. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.240 He was asked in the postgame presser after a five 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.840 point loss to the mitchell Less Calves, where he went 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.240 four for fourteen and one for nine from three. Hey, 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.960 is something amiss? He said this. I'm just trying to 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.680 figure it out right now. Obviously it's frustrating. I've never 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.840 went through a slump like this in my entire life, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.920 but it's all part of it figuring it out. It sucks. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.440 Everybody's got the answer, but it's about me figuring it out. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:54.960 So I've got to be better and I will be 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.640 better moving forward. I just gotta be better. Point blank. 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:05.440 It's clearly the delineation is the hamstring injury. Before it, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:12.640 Tyrese Haliburton was stacking up MVP level stats twenty four 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:17.000 for four and fourteen on fifty forty and eighty seven 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.240 After it, sixteen four and nine on forty four, twenty eight, 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.640 oh my god, and eighty six from the free throw line. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.320 Getting worse actually, as a season winds down, slump city 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:31.080 population Haliburton two different players. He was asked again about 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.360 the slump and how he's been seeing a psychologist for 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:38.040 some time, and he said this, not everybody cares how 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.680 we feel taff the world. I'm just helping them make 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.640 money on DraftKings. That's what my social media mostly consists of. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.560 I think it can be funny. Sometimes someone will tweet, Hey, 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.800 I lost a thousand dollars because of you, and I'll 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.560 give a fuck about that. That's why it's important for 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.600 us to have conversations with people who value us as 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.240 human beings. Can it be both? I'm sure he'll shoot 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.760 his way out of this slump soon. Too good of 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.400 a player, not too We've ben Mathron out for the season. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.840 Even more falls on Halle's shoulders offensively. He needs to 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.080 figure out this shooting slum. Oh, it's gonna be a 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.920 quick exit in the postseason. I mean, this is not 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.480 a great team right now, I'll say the Pacers a 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.840 sad end to what was an incredible beginning of the 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.680 year for our Indiana Pacers. We move on to some 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:27.160 news from around the league, and that begins with Anthony Michael, Jeffrey, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.880 Jordan Edwards, who had one of the most incredible dunks 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.920 in NBA history last night. So this is what happened. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.080 Ant swords down, soars down the lane, just ripping through 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.600 John Collins. Doesn't make a business decision. He rises up 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.800 to block Ant. That's a mistake. Maybe the most violent 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.720 dunk I have ever seen with my own two eyes. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:59.040 Aunt slammed the ball down on the way down, dislocates 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:04.920 his finger, dislocates John Collins's face, and puts Collins out 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:09.560 for the game in what was thought to be a concussion. Dude, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.679 I've never seen anyone dunk on another human being that 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.800 they needed to be removed from game action. Sham's tweeted 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.520 this Utah's John Collins has suffered a head contusion from 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:24.720 a play contesting Anthony edwards poster dunk tonight. Did he 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.760 have to say? Hey, like, John Collins may not return 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:37.560 dnp posterized sources say head injury but no concussion for Collins. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.399 Someone broke down the numbers on An Edwards's dunk. Here's 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.439 what we got. This is it is crazy. Aunt Edward's 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.480 vertical forty three point nine inches. It's the largest I've 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:54.639 ever seen. Max ball height eleven point three nine feet. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.040 The hoop is ten feet and he was almost two 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:03.760 feet higher than that. Take off distance ten point six 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.560 feet away, ball speed through the rim, Here's where the 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.120 concussion comes in twenty three point six miles per hour. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.280 Have you ever been hit with a basketball or a 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.920 person going twenty three miles an hour? Maybe the funniest 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.399 thing was set after the game. And it's not the 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.639 part that I can't say out loud. You gotta google 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:29.760 that yourself. When Aunt Edwards watched his own footage on 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:34.600 TV and had to be bleeped out from YouTube, he 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.480 said to a kid. Kid was like, hey, and I 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.520 want your jersey, eh, And he goes, no, I gotta 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.840 give it to John Collins. I love it. Edwards never 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.040 changed lost in the absolute chaos of the dunk is 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:47.800 that the fact that Aunt led the Wolves to a 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.560 massive victory, going out for twenty five in the second 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.879 half on thirty two, seven and seven with three stocks. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.280 He also set a Minnesota record for most three dy 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:01.040 point games in a season with twenty seven. Oh boy, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.800 Minnesota could have had Steph Curry, but you took Johnny Flynn. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.520 Pretty damn good though he got it. Whatever's now. He 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.439 immediately rose to sixth in the MVP betting conversation. If 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.920 he continues to play like this, the Wolves are gonna 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:21.159 be a problem in the playoffs. Even without contact. We 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.720 had to get to some injury up dut Jake Well 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:31.560 out in Philadelphia, Oh watch out. Jojo is thinking about 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.640 returning second week of April at the latest. The hope 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.120 is that he will be able to put a couple 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.359 of games under his belt before he plays in the playoffs. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.879 If that's the case, folks, the Sixers are gonna be 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.400 a devastating team for almost anyone six seven, eight seed. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.000 You don't want to see that. No one wants to 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:53.200 see Nick Nurse and Jojo and my man Tyrese Maxi 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.320 right now, and also Kelly Oubre It's now been six 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.600 weeks since his surgery. He's tracking for a play off return. 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.400 Encouraging news and very encouraging news for Philly. No such 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.880 good news right now for the Knicks. Og and Andobi's 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.040 comeback has been cut short. And I went against the 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.199 Dubs that saw Brunson Strapp staph to the tune of 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.040 four for thirteen from three, pretty damn good. Og went 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.439 to the locker room with elbow discomfort, no reinjury, just inflammation. 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.520 This is what the quote says. I'm told that Ognobi 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.040 is going to be out more than just tonight. That 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.600 right elbows flared up again. They need to calm it down. 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:35.000 How long he's out is unclear, but certainly it's a 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.480 concern for this next team. They don't know the status 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:42.520 also of Julius Randall moving forward. The team is pretty 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.960 much unbeatable with og on Nb on the court, fifteen 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.439 to two, that's about as good as anybody splits are 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.320 are they not like fifteen to two? And without Randall 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.159 and Mitchell Robinson, we know what it is like. The 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.600 Knicks struggle to defend the rim. They struggle to defend 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:03.000 anything there, even though without Ogannoby they were holding teams 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.600 like eighty points per game. The Knicks need to rest 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:09.360 them though, until that elbow is completely healed and solid 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:14.520 and no more inflammation. Also, there are some real bullshit 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.719 reports going on. There are reports that he doesn't want 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:21.199 to play through pain. The truth is Ognobi against the 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.080 Blazers and against the Warriors and against the Kings was 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.439 playing with like one arm, really, and he wants to play. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.480 But the knickstaff is being very cautious about it because 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.040 why because they're fifteen and two with him in the lineup. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.439 Maybe you want to save those fifteen games for the playoffs. 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.199 Out in Cleveland, Donovan Mitchell has missed ten of the 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:42.360 last fifteen games. He will miss another week after having 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:47.320 a procedure for a broken nose nasal fracture the calves. 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:50.760 This is pretty much Jalen Brunson's status right here. The 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:54.040 Calves are four and six in games he's missed. They're 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.400 twenty one and four in the last twenty five games 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.479 he's played, so they need to figure out a way 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:01.480 to get him back. It is imperative that he gets 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:05.040 back healthy for the playoffs, especially considering that they might 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.560 end up playing the Sixers in the first round with 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:11.040 Joe l Embiid fresh off of a nice eight to 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:15.600 ten week stint of rest, which is when Joel Embiid 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:21.320 is his best and finally, speak of health, DeAndre Ayton 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:24.680 is finally healthy and is bawling out for the first 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.959 time this year. DeAndre Aiden, you know who is partly 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:32.440 to blame for his early season woes. Guess just guess 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.800 what it is? Is it like I don't know, just 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:39.679 mental transitions with the plan from the suns of the 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:44.000 Portland was rain no, no, guess again it was air 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:49.760 air mattress. He was banged up because of the mental 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:53.639 toll of poor sleep, given the fact that for many 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:57.160 weeks who knows how long he did not specify DeAndre 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.920 Ayden was sleeping on an air mattress. Many people in 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:03.919 my Instagram comments are saying, I've made this up, and 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.720 that just shows you how ludicrous the story is. Considering 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:10.000 that as one hundred percent fact. He said. This quote 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.360 is actually like bonkers the more you read into it, 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.760 because he says, I've got all the money in the world, 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:20.160 but at the same time, this is an inhumane where 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.679 money don't matter, having people around you and the support 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:29.440 you need. I was adjusting to everything, just being comfortable 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:31.919 waking up. I didn't have a bed. I was on 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:37.080 an air mattress, trying to figure this out. Having all 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:40.080 the money in the world, sleeping on an air mattress. 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:42.440 You can delete all the middle parts, but how do 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.840 those two things happen together? I have so many questions. 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:53.040 Was he like taking some sort of stoic vow of 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:59.120 like discomfort and like pain that he wanted to punish 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.359 himself for things I'm not working out in Phoenix. I 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:04.240 don't know why. I don't know the reason that someone 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:06.040 with thirty million dollars a year is sleeping on an 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:10.520 air mattress. I've yet to hear a good explanation. I've 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:13.920 heard that NBA players are not allowed to sleep in hotels. 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:16.920 I know that is incorrect, considering the Demonisa Bonis when 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:19.800 he was traded to the Sacramento Kings, slept at the 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:23.199 hotel just outside of the Golden One Arena for the 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:26.919 duration of his first season in Sacramento. I've heard that 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:30.439 NBA teams put you up in an Airbnb, where that 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:32.800 would be an organ I don't know. I've heard that 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:37.200 maybe he was waiting for a seven foot size mattress 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.680 to come in the mail. But why an air mattress 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:44.359 instead of a regular small mattress. Do you is it 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:49.000 preferable to sleep on a long, extra long air mattress 0:24:49.080 --> 0:24:54.040 over two mattresses back to back, don't I don't know 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:57.800 these answers, But I slept on an air mattress for 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:00.320 twelve hours one time, No six hours one time, and 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:02.439 it was six hours too many I'm one hundred and 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:06.600 fifteen pounds. It deflated before I could fall asleep. Before 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:09.040 I could fall asleep. DeAndre eight and is seven feet 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:11.000 tall and two hundred and fifty pounds. There is no 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:14.679 way there's an air mattress supplier in the world with 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:19.720 a modicum of lumbar support. So just an absurd story. 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:21.439 I would not have believed this if it didn't come 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:25.199 straight from DeAndre Ayton's mouth. I just I don't know 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:26.879