Speaker 1: Good mornings, sweet world, and welcome to the Not Dungks Podcast,
Speaker 1: presented by Fan Duel. It's Tuesday, August fourth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic Factory and alongside
Speaker 1: me as always, task Melis.
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Speaker 1: Next to him, it's my top shot, hot Boy, Trey Kirbye,
Speaker 1: Hey heyo, and over yonder making the magic happen. Super
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Speaker 1: and reviews. On today's show, we're hitting the beach to
Speaker 1: answer your NBA questions that you guys emailed in or
Speaker 1: dropped in YouTube. We got questions about Kevin Durant, questions
Speaker 1: about NBA parody, questions about obscure NBA players, and a
Speaker 1: whole lot more. But before we get to the beach,
Speaker 1: and before we get to some minor transactions, I want
Speaker 1: to know how spider Man brand New Day one? Oh,
Speaker 1: spider Man Brand New Day. Yeah. People are saying Marvel's back, Okay,
Speaker 1: it was entertaining. It was really really good.
Speaker 3: There's a great needle drop in the first five minutes
Speaker 3: that if you were born prior to nineteen ninety, like,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be one of the best moments of any
Speaker 3: movie this summer.
Speaker 1: Come.
Speaker 3: I had some quibbles for sure, like I feel like
Speaker 3: there was some emcy units just shoehorned into this movie.
Speaker 1: But in general, high quality entertainment. Okay, so TK saw it.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming JD that you saw it once or night.
Speaker 4: Okay, I've seen it once.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I have zero quibbles with it. It was perfect,
Speaker 5: better than the Odyssey. Give it all the oscars?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, wow? Okay, and task did you see this one?
Speaker 6: It seems like you like movies more in the off
Speaker 6: season or is that just.
Speaker 3: Me J.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see when we start Pirates.
Speaker 1: But oh yes, yes, our Pirates of the Caribbeans series
Speaker 1: coming soon. Some of us have started watching them because
Speaker 1: we're gonna start recording those and start dropping them a
Speaker 1: little bit later this month. Have you started the Pirates series?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yes, oh yeah, I've had one pirate show
Speaker 2: up at my door. Yeah. I don't know why I
Speaker 2: would say you show up, but yeah, I've watched the
Speaker 2: first Okay, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, the first one. The first one is awesome. They
Speaker 3: don't they literally don't make blockbusters like this anymore.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're talking about it all. They can't literally to
Speaker 1: unpack it. But let's get into some minor NBA news here.
Speaker 1: It is pretty minor, but I guess the biggest news
Speaker 1: from the last couple of days. Nausei Marshall signed a
Speaker 1: three year, fifty two point two million dollar contract extension
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Mavericks, so he's staying there for now.
Speaker 1: I think it is a declining contract structure that's from Stein,
Speaker 1: you know, starts off a little higher and then sort
Speaker 1: of decreases. Some people were a little shocked by the number,
Speaker 1: But do you think about Naji Marshall here three years,
Speaker 1: fifty two point two mil.
Speaker 6: I think the Knife is worth every dollar. Listen.
Speaker 2: I love that nickname, and we just did a basketball
Speaker 2: reference the Nickname Show where we talked about terrible nicknames.
Speaker 2: I think the Knife is a great nickname for him
Speaker 2: and the way he plays and how he's gotten better
Speaker 2: over the last two years doing that, just cutting and
Speaker 2: finishing at the basket. He wasn't good for a long time,
Speaker 2: but now entering his prime is perfect. He was seventy
Speaker 2: seven percent at the rim this past season. It's a
Speaker 2: damn good percentage. And then fifty five percent in that
Speaker 2: three to ten feet range hitting floaters and.
Speaker 6: That kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter that he's not a good three point per center,
Speaker 2: a three point shooter, I don't think so. I don't
Speaker 2: think it matters because he's that good in there, especially
Speaker 2: with Cooper flag evolving, I think that combination will be
Speaker 2: even better this next season.
Speaker 6: That being said, the mat has got so many bigs
Speaker 6: and so many wings, oh.
Speaker 1: My god, swingmen for sure. They have like eight nine
Speaker 1: swing men on this roster right.
Speaker 2: Now we're here in August fourth. A couple of those
Speaker 2: have to be moved in the next couple months. We're
Speaker 2: talking flag leading the way. Then a PJ. Washington, Aldama
Speaker 2: reesa che Caleb Martin Clay if you put him in
Speaker 2: that area.
Speaker 1: Be Bearovich who's coming over from.
Speaker 2: Europe, Max Christie, I guess if you want to call
Speaker 2: him that, And then Gafford Lively, Maries Johnson who is
Speaker 2: you know, both uh and then Musa Sise who's going
Speaker 2: to be back, so he's got it all man.
Speaker 3: Masia likes tall, long guys, and look, Naji Marshall high
Speaker 3: approval rating for a random dude in the NBA. Find
Speaker 3: a nerd who likes basketball that doesn't like Naji Marshall.
Speaker 3: Maybe somebody will bring up the three point percentage. I
Speaker 3: think he should be a better shooter, but whatever, he
Speaker 3: is the knife, he gets to the rim, he finishes inside.
Speaker 3: But I still think he is a guy that could
Speaker 3: be traded by the Dallas Mavericks because, like you're saying,
Speaker 3: the crunch, everybody plays forward on this team. We know
Speaker 3: that's a Massai Ujii kind of trade, but it also
Speaker 3: means that Naji Marshall, on a contract like this that
Speaker 3: is descending at a low per percentage of the cap,
Speaker 3: still eligible to be traded, depending on if you want
Speaker 3: a guy who's more like I guess Naji Marshall's like
Speaker 3: a two slash three, you would say PJ. Washington's like
Speaker 3: a three slash four, maybe even throwing a little five
Speaker 3: slash in there as well. If you're more interested in
Speaker 3: the perimeter style of wing, maybe you're going to the
Speaker 3: Mavericks and saying, can we talk about Naji Marshall. Maybe
Speaker 3: you're saying, can we talk about PJ. Washington. I just
Speaker 3: don't think it's a guarantee that Marshall sticks around, because
Speaker 3: I don't think it's a guarantee that hardly any of
Speaker 3: these guys on the maps stick around outside of Cooper Flag.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Good for him though, to have a career year
Speaker 1: there where he averaged like fifteen points per game, shot
Speaker 1: really good percentages except from three, like you said, and
Speaker 1: then to parlay that into a good contract here that
Speaker 1: is doubling his annual salary, So good for him. Love
Speaker 1: that stat from ESPN in their little rite up sort
Speaker 1: of caught me by surprise that just how adept he
Speaker 1: is with the floater. It's like Donovan Mitchell, Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 1: and then Naji Marshall when it comes to hitting just
Speaker 1: a high number, total volume of floaters this past season
Speaker 1: just sort of you wouldn't think you think of those
Speaker 1: first two guys, absolutely, those guys come to mind, Brunson, Mitchell,
Speaker 1: all NBA players, and then you're like Naji Marshall, Right there,
Speaker 1: it's a shot though, and that's why he has those
Speaker 1: high percentages. Like you're saying, closer to the rim as
Speaker 1: he gets. So he has turned it into a really
Speaker 1: nice contract here. But yeah, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: just like I don't think Klay Thompson is going to
Speaker 1: be there. I mean, if we're including him, the PJ Washington,
Speaker 1: he's been in a lot of trade rumors. Could he
Speaker 1: be moved, Yeah, so maybe they consolidate a little bit here.
Speaker 1: I think a big part of it is this idea
Speaker 1: that Cooper Flight does seem to really like playing with him,
Speaker 1: the knife Pig. Yeah, yeah, so and probably a reason
Speaker 1: also you got to think about that in terms of
Speaker 1: like your cornerstone building around him. So he's there for now,
Speaker 1: and he'll be there obviously at the start of the season.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Clay, You're right, last year of his contract seems
Speaker 2: like he's inevitably going to go somewhere with PJ. Walhington
Speaker 2: has been so many rumors, But that's a big contract
Speaker 2: that PJ signed a long time ago, so way bigger
Speaker 2: than Nauji Marshall if you're looking at dollar per dollar.
Speaker 2: Also makes some money, but he's only signed through this
Speaker 2: season until they have to start picking up options there
Speaker 2: and number one picks make some money. He'll be making
Speaker 2: seventeen mill next season. So yeah, Messiah's got to get
Speaker 2: h got to get snipping here. Uh pretty soon, He's
Speaker 2: kind of make some cuts, I think.
Speaker 3: So got to schedule the bris Huh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll say to he was a knife pine. You
Speaker 6: can chop in, you know.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: But yeah, the briss get the brisk.
Speaker 3: Be a funny nickname for him. Mass under on FanDuel
Speaker 3: thirty two and a half.
Speaker 1: Lo Wow, very low. Oh my goodness, it's done a lot. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's done a lot this summer.
Speaker 3: Massaia, jeri In obviously, Jason kidd out, Dusty may In,
Speaker 3: whereas Johnson their draft pick they signed or are traded
Speaker 3: for al Dama. Kyrie Irving's coming back. He hasn't played
Speaker 3: in nineteen months, thirty four years old. Derek Lively remember him, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's coming back. And then all these other guys that
Speaker 3: task mentioned. Sasser's there, Babarovich, deala Rea who they drafted
Speaker 3: Resa che after the trade. I've heard people speculating that
Speaker 3: the MAVs could be a play and contention team.
Speaker 1: You know, say things go.
Speaker 3: Poorly for the Warriors, curries out for thirty games, they
Speaker 3: fall off there's a spot available in the Western Conference.
Speaker 3: That seems a little far fetched to me, but it
Speaker 3: seems like it should be a more normal team. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for Mavericks, assuming Kyrie Irving comes back and is playing,
Speaker 3: they need some shooting on the court.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good line. Thirty two and a half,
Speaker 1: he said. I like it. It's like like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: going to be right there. It feels like it's going
Speaker 1: to be a thirty to thirty six winning team. So
Speaker 1: they sort of got it spot on in my mind.
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's a tough one. We'll have to
Speaker 1: save that for our over under podcasts at some point,
Speaker 1: which I guess they all all are. All the lines
Speaker 1: don't now on fandom for every team. Yeah, you just
Speaker 1: gotta scroll. It's always like how early do we want
Speaker 1: to do it? Yeah, you know, people get at it
Speaker 1: right away. Can't blame them. We need content. But you're like,
Speaker 1: I could wait until we get actually close to see
Speaker 1: but you can just do it twice too. You do
Speaker 1: one now initial reactions as we just do, and then
Speaker 1: actually think it out as we get closer.
Speaker 3: You can definitely still bet it right now. But I'm
Speaker 3: like the Piston's second best player isn't on the team
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably should Wait, Yeah, there are some situations like that,
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. All right. The Warriors did some moves
Speaker 1: the retaining the Anthony Melton and Gary Payton the second,
Speaker 1: So those guys are both coming back to your guys
Speaker 1: that are tast smell us. I think the Warriors will
Speaker 1: now have ten of the twelve players who had their
Speaker 1: most playing time last season back here for twenty six
Speaker 1: twenty seven. On one hand, you're like, hell, yeah, continuity,
Speaker 1: and then on the other hand, you're like, hold on,
Speaker 1: they were very good last year, thirty seven and forty
Speaker 1: five last year and missing the playoffs entirely as they
Speaker 1: fall into play in So your reaction to bring these
Speaker 1: guys back.
Speaker 6: I thought they signed to Anthony Melton a month ago.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was in headlines, but he wasn't officially
Speaker 2: signed until just now. I guess they're waiting for Braun.
Speaker 2: If that has any implications. You said Gary Payton the
Speaker 2: second is also my guy. I don't know he was
Speaker 2: also he was one of your guys. I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: my Guyton definitely. Yeah, Well, you're right, ten of twelve
Speaker 2: guys they're waiting for Brown. But now you've got essentially
Speaker 2: the exact same team plus a Yaxel Lendenborg who they drafted,
Speaker 2: minus a Pat Spencer, the lacrosse genius. I mean, otherwise,
Speaker 2: post the QP, Moses Moody out out. Yeah he's hanging
Speaker 2: out golfing with Steph Curry. Yeah, Steph showed up in
Speaker 2: Arkansas for Moses Moody's event as they bond. They got
Speaker 2: to do some connection. But as you said, I think
Speaker 2: that's the interesting thing. Trey brought up whether Steph Curry
Speaker 2: will be playing a ton That's my end. I'm interested
Speaker 2: in that because if you're looking at the exact same
Speaker 2: team essentially minus Jimmy Butler, I guess you could say
Speaker 2: minus him for the entire start of the season, how
Speaker 2: much do they just roll out Steph every single game.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious. I'm just curious what he's thinking, because
Speaker 2: it is Steph and he's gonna want to play, But
Speaker 2: I just want to know how he looks at this season.
Speaker 2: I see, you know, I I reluctantly bring up Jimmy
Speaker 2: Butler not being there because.
Speaker 1: He could be back.
Speaker 6: That's oh yeah, eventually, just what point of the season
Speaker 6: is I.
Speaker 1: Think it'll be like, you know, I know we have
Speaker 1: a question about the Christmas Day schedule. It's like I
Speaker 1: feel like that's going to be quickly become like will
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler be back by Christmas. Let's say the Warriors
Speaker 1: have a Christmas Day game. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: will or not, but like it'll be around there, and
Speaker 1: you know, like the buzz will build, like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: too early. Maybe it depends on how the team looks
Speaker 1: too and it's doing so all that. But do you
Speaker 1: have any thoughts on Melton and GP and just the
Speaker 1: Warriors basically running it back. I'm it's not basically running
Speaker 1: it back.
Speaker 3: They're running it back on thirty seven win team and
Speaker 3: lost three of their top ten guys, so they're worse.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler is going to be out like Steph Curry.
Speaker 3: The goal is going to have to be playing more
Speaker 3: than forty three games. Unfortunately for him, he's going to
Speaker 3: want to play every single game and it's going to
Speaker 3: be a huge load on Steph Curry, which has been
Speaker 3: the case for the Warriors for the past four seasons,
Speaker 3: and every season they end up in the playing tournament.
Speaker 3: So I assume the same thing will happen here. Anybody
Speaker 3: could assigned to Anthony Meltain and Gary Payton up until now,
Speaker 3: and nobody else wanted.
Speaker 6: To guys, Yeah, they're guys.
Speaker 1: I was shocked to see. It just shocked me that
Speaker 1: he'd been there this long. Gary Payton the Second has
Speaker 1: played with the Warriors for each of the past six seasons. Now, ye,
Speaker 1: I was like, what how did we get to six? Already?
Speaker 1: Here at that weird trade season where he left and
Speaker 1: came back. That's right. He played for the Blazers for
Speaker 1: like a cup of coffee in twenty two to twenty three,
Speaker 1: and then yeah he was right back. But oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I just couldn't believe that. It's like, wow, it's been
Speaker 1: that long. As Golden State of Mind noted, despite Gary
Speaker 1: Payton the Second's long injury history, he was quietly one
Speaker 1: of their healthiest role players last season. Like that was
Speaker 1: actually a really healthy season for GP two, played a
Speaker 1: majority of the games. Again, he's been injured and banged
Speaker 1: up a lot through his career, but he was good
Speaker 1: last year and then of course couldn't need him out
Speaker 1: there to contribute as a good player, a good role player.
Speaker 1: You're right, TK, other people could have had him wanted him. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there was always some sort of agreement to like, hey,
Speaker 1: like Draymond doing his whole thing with his qualifying offer,
Speaker 1: like hey, let's go try and get Lebron. Everybody just
Speaker 1: wait right now, but don't worry about, you know, your
Speaker 1: status here with the team. And so once that was
Speaker 1: done and he went to Philly, it was like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get these guys back. What else are we going
Speaker 1: to do? What else we're we gonna do?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And as far as Jimmy Butler goes injured on
Speaker 2: January nineteenth, timing wise, it seems like Christmas could be
Speaker 2: the day I think he should be. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: full eleven months. You imagine he would be back and
Speaker 2: playing what that's you know, fifty over fifty games of
Speaker 2: the season, if yeah, if, if you know, if he
Speaker 2: can come back and be healthy'll be thirty seven.
Speaker 1: These guys are not getting obviously.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The one guy that we thought, oh man, is he
Speaker 2: gonna be able to play through all that? He has
Speaker 2: been essentially and you know, most of the time, not
Speaker 2: all the time. But now now this is serious, this
Speaker 2: is very serious.
Speaker 1: Some other minor news here. Blazer signed Jeremy so Han
Speaker 1: to a one year deal, though I don't believe it's guaranteed,
Speaker 1: so it's like it's not he's got to make the roster.
Speaker 1: It's like a training camp. Basically, invite world champion Jeremy
Speaker 1: so Yeah to think about it for a second. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: His highlights from last year was, well, he got in
Speaker 2: Victor wemen Yama's face, right, that's it after playing with Victor,
Speaker 2: after playing with him, Yeah, and Verjev situation.
Speaker 1: You've shared your thoughts on Jeremy Sohan before. You're not
Speaker 1: a biggest fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing left to say. If he doesn't make the
Speaker 3: team this year, he's probably done.
Speaker 1: Could be done. Yeah, yeah, just sort of crazy. He's
Speaker 1: not old by any means, is he How long has
Speaker 1: he been around?
Speaker 3: This is gonna be what year four, hits maybe year five,
Speaker 3: I don't know. But there's only two forwards on the
Speaker 3: Blazers right now, so he's got a chance to make
Speaker 3: the team.
Speaker 1: Yep. And then former Heat guard Josh Richardson announced his retirement,
Speaker 1: so he's done. Ten year NBA vet now. He didn't
Speaker 1: play it all last year. Most known with the Miami Heat,
Speaker 1: played a majority of his career there, right, six of
Speaker 1: his ten seasons had some you know time with the
Speaker 1: Sixers and the MAVs and the Celtics and the Spurs,
Speaker 1: I think, and the Pelicans. He ended, Uh, but Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson was a classic Heat guy there for a couple
Speaker 1: of years. He won't really really good year where he
Speaker 1: averaged like sixteen seventeen points per game. He was part
Speaker 1: of the Jimmy Butler signing trade. He was so his
Speaker 1: claim to fame because he was a solid player, decent
Speaker 1: role player for sure.
Speaker 2: He was solid. Yeah, you know, he kept trying hard
Speaker 2: for Miami. He wanted to be known as a hard
Speaker 2: playing guy. And he was a heart playing guy. Speaking
Speaker 2: of Miami and guys who are near retiring, Victor Oladipo
Speaker 2: is trying to come back. Yeah, a former Miami Heat player.
Speaker 2: He was doing the Las Vegas workouts at Summer League,
Speaker 2: getting these private workouts, guys coming in. T Jass was
Speaker 2: working out with him, balling against him and he.
Speaker 1: He's playing with the honest and now he's playing. Yeah
Speaker 1: that all that, Yeah, the Victor olidepen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can see u on TJ's YouTube channel.
Speaker 2: Pretty sure him versus A la Depot.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I'd be a weird guy to play against.
Speaker 1: All he does is he's up in the upper bowl
Speaker 1: jumping off something doing a three six. See that's what
Speaker 1: you think about Tjka. I'm sure he's good. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's talented enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yan has said to him, you should play in Europe.
Speaker 2: Why haven't you played in Europe? Because he's got some game.
Speaker 2: It's like five, 't six. That's why he doesn't play.
Speaker 6: He's smaller.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Josh Richardson is two years younger than Victor ola Depot.
Speaker 3: I don't think I would have guessed that.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Josh Richardson is is young for a lot.
Speaker 2: It feels like he's been around. Yeah exactly, so was
Speaker 2: thirty four. Yeah, yeah, almost thirty five.
Speaker 1: So you're making one last girl.
Speaker 3: Not almost thirty five, just turned thirty four. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: making him one last goal of it. And apparently the
Speaker 3: Kings are interested in Victor O la Depot to be
Speaker 3: like a mentor for Darius A cuff h.
Speaker 1: Yes, right, and there's now I guess rumors too, and
Speaker 1: maybe it was Stein Westbrook could be back.
Speaker 3: With one old guy. We don't want to learn it
Speaker 3: from Zach Lavine, is what they're saying.
Speaker 1: But who's going to be there? It sounds like because
Speaker 1: they don't want to do buy it? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: so yes, we don't want to learn. We'll see the
Speaker 1: old people.
Speaker 2: A tiny thing before move one. You mentioned, uh, Jeremy Sohan.
Speaker 2: The Blazers made me think of Delano Banton. Where's he had?
Speaker 2: He was playing with the Blazers for a while. Yeah
Speaker 2: he was, and he did with the Celtics last year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they waved him just this past July. But way younger,
Speaker 2: well not way younger, I mean young in terms of
Speaker 2: an NBA career's it's not It's not somebody's going Somebody
Speaker 2: is gonna bring from Scarborough, isn't he? I think born
Speaker 2: in Toronto wherever that was.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's a Scarborough kid. But yeah, sure
Speaker 1: I could. And I guess the only other thing this
Speaker 1: weekend was everybody got married. I see all this footage
Speaker 1: of like Donovan Mitchell, Mitchell got married. I think Tyree's Haliburton.
Speaker 1: I think Kenny Smith, what, yeah, are Kenny Smith really?
Speaker 1: I think you got remarried obviously on his reality show.
Speaker 1: I don't know bring we were cameras showed up in
Speaker 1: a room that we were in. Hell was going on
Speaker 1: Kenny's filming a reality show? Okay, did need be a
Speaker 1: side a waiver? Don't worry, this will probably never air
Speaker 1: that t Yeah, I don't know. You may not have
Speaker 1: been in the room, but we were in that weird
Speaker 1: control room that we're never in. They just like he
Speaker 1: came in and all the cameras. It was like a
Speaker 1: reality show.
Speaker 6: Why were you in the controller?
Speaker 1: I don't know why. We were in the one by
Speaker 1: the treehouse, that one off the treehouse, like the main one.
Speaker 4: We went in there periodic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we would like remember what we would practice our
Speaker 3: end of the year musical performances in that room.
Speaker 1: Sometimes yeah, we would like we would prep for shows
Speaker 1: in there. Sometimes maybe we just got bumped out of
Speaker 1: the treehouse. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Anyway, we never
Speaker 1: made the.
Speaker 3: Cut for the Kenny Smith the reality show Kenny Smith,
Speaker 3: Mary's Croatian influencer in stunning ceremony, new sentence to me.
Speaker 3: The only reason I saw this was because our former
Speaker 3: one of our former makeup artists was invited to the wedding.
Speaker 1: God she was there. That's how I saw it. I
Speaker 1: was like, and then I was like.
Speaker 7: Married.
Speaker 2: Everybody got a JBL speaker as they came into the wedding. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what we got once.
Speaker 1: I love that speaker. Nothing wrong with that speaker.
Speaker 6: Nope.
Speaker 1: I was a Kenny Smith party in New Orleans. Walk
Speaker 1: in and get a bag.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, mine's dad too.
Speaker 1: Oh really on me? Lasts so long, I guess all right, Well,
Speaker 1: congrats all the love birds. Man loved nuptials. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: a lot of weddings. Okay, let's hit the beach. Let's
Speaker 1: answer some of your I got the rockets.
Speaker 8: I got the chocolate, we got that ship shuck down,
Speaker 8: blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: You put that.
Speaker 7: Special reading your emails and your tweets and your comments,
Speaker 7: your questions that you had, NBA NBA ish questions.
Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody that sent one in. Apologies if we
Speaker 1: didn't get to yours. We do keep sort of like
Speaker 1: a I don't know, like a bank of the ones
Speaker 1: that we don't get to the best of the best.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 1: We'll try and get to that later, so maybe you'll
Speaker 1: hear it on a later show. First one from Pixel
Speaker 1: Pete's up Dunks. Interested to hear your thoughts on Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant comparing Lebron joining the seventy six ers to his
Speaker 1: moves earlier in his career. The money quote. I saw
Speaker 1: this quote by way of Ben Gulliver who was talking
Speaker 1: to Katie. Quote, the last time they put three twenty
Speaker 1: point scorers on a team, they said it was unfair,
Speaker 1: which was the Warriors team I was on. The seventy
Speaker 1: six ers have got four to twenty five point scorers
Speaker 1: on this team, so hell yeah, I think they're going
Speaker 1: to be a contender. What do you guys think?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: Again that's from Pixel p TKO's start with you any
Speaker 1: comment or any reaction to Katie's comments that you know,
Speaker 1: we are in the dog days of here in the
Speaker 1: NBA summer, so this sort of got a buzz. Some
Speaker 1: people clowning them, some people saying this is not a
Speaker 1: big deal. Why are we making this a big deal?
Speaker 3: Do you think? I mean, Katie has been doubling down
Speaker 3: on it, basically saying that this year's seventy six Ers
Speaker 3: are way better than the twenty seventeen Warriors and then
Speaker 3: literally comparing Joel Embiid as an MVP player to Steph
Speaker 3: Curry as.
Speaker 1: An MVP player.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, that's weird.
Speaker 3: He's trying to make his rings look better, is what
Speaker 3: I think is happening with Kevin Durant here. I also
Speaker 3: think he's not being completely honest because he's played on
Speaker 3: three more teams that have three twenty point scorers since
Speaker 3: being in Golden State. The Knicks had four twenty point
Speaker 3: scorers last year, Brunson, Towns, Bridges, and of course Jordan Clarkson,
Speaker 3: who averaged over twenty points per game for an entire season.
Speaker 3: Who remembers that that happened. Though four twenty point scores
Speaker 3: on the Knicks last year, the Lakers had Luca Reeves
Speaker 3: and Lebron. That's three twenty point per game scores. Twenty
Speaker 3: five thunder SGA JDub and Chat averaged nineteen point seven.
Speaker 3: The Celtics in twenty four had Tatum, Brown and Porzingis
Speaker 3: average over twenty. They also had Drew Holliday, who had
Speaker 3: a twenty point per game season in his career up
Speaker 3: to that point. So this happens a lot. I don't
Speaker 3: think that Lebron joining up with the seventy six ers
Speaker 3: is the same as Kevin Durant joining up with the
Speaker 3: Warriors after they won seventy three games.
Speaker 1: I do not.
Speaker 6: I think it's that's accurate.
Speaker 3: But I agree with Katie that the Sixers are contenders
Speaker 3: right off dollar alone.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I thought of first hearing the actual clip,
Speaker 2: he doesn't say the Warriors, I joint, he doesn't say
Speaker 2: the team name, and I thought, okay, maybe he's talking
Speaker 2: about Brooklyn hard And and Kyrie scoring together. But after
Speaker 2: seeing like you're mentioning Trey, he's been defending it. Since
Speaker 2: the guy is on threads defending it. You know, he
Speaker 2: used to have burner Twitter accounts, but now it doesn't
Speaker 2: feel like he's on Twitter. Where did you see him
Speaker 2: defending it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, literally, I don't know. I think it
Speaker 1: was an Instagram comments.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, but I think he's done with Twitter.
Speaker 2: He's now on threads and Instagram, I guess. Ah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: he was defendant on threads. People are saying, you're delusional.
Speaker 2: You joined a seventy three win team. Well, everyone was
Speaker 2: in their prime. The Sixers, well they're certainly contenders. Blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. He responds. He goes, so you agree they
Speaker 2: are contenders? Lol A and then he'll say.
Speaker 1: So he's just trying to boil it down to superstar player.
Speaker 1: Leaves goes to another team that is considered a contender.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. Yeah, they're all equal.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's how think.
Speaker 1: He doesn't.
Speaker 2: He doesn't, even though he goes on to say, I know,
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen Finals, MVP seventy three nine, all
Speaker 2: that triggers y'all, please pay attention and listen to what
Speaker 2: was asking what I said. He does understand that people
Speaker 2: interpret it differently, but not really. You know that people
Speaker 2: interpret that era him going to a team that literally
Speaker 2: just won seventy three games, a team that literally beat
Speaker 2: him in the conference finals when he was up on
Speaker 2: them three just before going there. He sees it as
Speaker 2: a relationship.
Speaker 6: He understands it, but not really.
Speaker 2: He doesn't understand how deep this is with NBA fans
Speaker 2: because he's comparing four twenty five points scores, which you know,
Speaker 2: Lebron hasn't scored twenty five in a while. It's been
Speaker 2: it's been a minute. But anyway, he just doesn't get it.
Speaker 1: But when he was talking to the media at this
Speaker 1: whatever was it a USA basketball thing? Ye? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: three three on three thing, right, He's smiling while he's
Speaker 1: saying this, Like he had almost like a little back
Speaker 1: and forth with Ben all over our guy, Like it
Speaker 1: was like yeah, it was like he's asked, like, do
Speaker 1: you think they're gonna be contenders or Lebron going there,
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, of course they're gonna be contenders. Like
Speaker 1: he literally says like you don't to Ben, and Ben's like,
Speaker 1: I'm asking you the question, you know, he smiles through it,
Speaker 1: Like he adds like they're gonna be a fun team
Speaker 1: to watch, They're gonna be league passworthy, like and Kate
Speaker 1: Even's like this was good for the league. Like Lebron's
Speaker 1: like decision, his final decision here, dragging it out obviously,
Speaker 1: all the buzz, all the eyeballs now, all these big
Speaker 1: marquee games, Like he recognizes that, and yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be good. But then to like try to slyly, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like say, it's no different than when I
Speaker 1: joined the seventy three and nine team that had the
Speaker 1: back to back MVP stuff like come on, it's not
Speaker 1: the sat Man, it's not the same lost those six
Speaker 1: ers did other moves and Jaylen Brown's coming in and
Speaker 1: like you got to try and make it all work.
Speaker 1: Like they lost in the second round. They haven't won
Speaker 1: a title since nineteen eighties. Yeah, like, what are we talking?
Speaker 2: What the good comparison would have been? Yeah, when I
Speaker 2: joined Kyrie and James Harden in Brooklyn, we had three
Speaker 2: twenty one point scores.
Speaker 6: Then guys got injured.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that first playoffs when the Bucks went and won
Speaker 2: the championship. James Harden got hurt game one against the
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Bucks, like twenty forty seconds into the game, and
Speaker 2: then Kyrie got hurt in Game four when we were
Speaker 2: up to one.
Speaker 6: Guys get injured. The Sixers, they're old, they're going to
Speaker 6: get injured. Two. That would have been a good comparison.
Speaker 2: He then you could have talk about stepping on the
Speaker 2: three point line and how they almost won. They're up
Speaker 2: three to two on the Bucks in that playoff series. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: well there you go.
Speaker 1: There's our there's our thoughts. Axel Pete on Katie comparing
Speaker 1: Lebron joined the Sixers to.
Speaker 2: His early so into it. He's on threads, he's on Instagram,
Speaker 2: he said. When he was talking about Lebron, he said,
Speaker 2: this is so good. All these eyeballs on the Lebron.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just he bleeds basketball in July.
Speaker 1: He does, he does.
Speaker 3: He does love basketball, which is I laughed because he
Speaker 3: said it's TNT worthy. It's not not anymore. There used
Speaker 3: to be for a long long time. He's tnt worthy.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he's saying this should he's really the dunk
Speaker 1: man right now. Yeah, maybe that's it. That's tybe.
Speaker 6: So yeah, oh we need a review on dunk Man. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I know that's why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had three twenty point per game scores. No,
Speaker 3: they didn't. It was Shaq, Dwight Howard, and Draymond. Draymond
Speaker 3: never got to twenty points per game.
Speaker 1: Damn. Those were the judges.
Speaker 3: Those were man, No, I don't know who the judges were.
Speaker 3: Those were the commentators, other commentators. Jack wasn't even a commentator.
Speaker 3: Shaq was just sitting there. He's the godfather of you.
Speaker 3: He's just overseeing everything. Raymond and a guy named Cash
Speaker 3: are on the desk along with left Co and then
Speaker 3: it was just five dudes. Who are the judges, and
Speaker 3: they're harsh judges.
Speaker 1: I guess there were some pretty I saw some of
Speaker 1: the dunks that you were at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jesus, yeah, I was. I was like, oh, this
Speaker 3: is this is dunk contest judging. This is not NBA
Speaker 3: dunk judging totally.
Speaker 2: Okay, I guess you got to be hard here in
Speaker 2: Atlanta from those I don't know, Yeah, you gotta be harsh.
Speaker 2: The winner gets five hundred ky.
Speaker 1: This is a big standards for sure. Yeah, god, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, dunk man, he can jump though. He's got
Speaker 1: their good dunkers. A lot of good dunkers out there. Okay,
Speaker 1: next question, friends.
Speaker 2: The NBA's parody era continued last season, when the Knicks
Speaker 2: became the eighth different team to win the championship in
Speaker 2: the past eight years. This is Adam Silver's wet dream.
Speaker 2: If you had to guess which team is best positioned
Speaker 2: to become the ninth different champion. That's from Tom in Vermont.
Speaker 1: Do you think Silver sleeps in his skims just in
Speaker 1: case he gets too excited thinking about all the different
Speaker 1: champions Interesting, you never thought you're gonna be asked that today.
Speaker 1: I think Adam Silver wears matching set PJS and a
Speaker 1: hat because yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yes, he was a warm.
Speaker 6: So you think it's a loose fitting bottom and top.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's like like Ebenezer Scrooge es, Yeah, cool, James,
Speaker 1: he gets up, he lights a candle when he's gonna
Speaker 1: go take a pisto in the middle of night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because as far as skims go, are they synthetic material?
Speaker 2: Because you want you don't want synthetic material when you're
Speaker 2: sleeping that's going to get super hot. Like all I
Speaker 2: think is boxer briefs, and I think if they're yeah,
Speaker 2: Pauly Ester really, So that's what I'm concerned about for
Speaker 2: Adam Silver when you're asking this specific question, especially when
Speaker 2: they're wet and not going to soak. Well, yes, okay.
Speaker 1: So the question from Tom though is, yeah, like we're
Speaker 1: looking for a ninth different consecutive champions, so we have
Speaker 1: to take all the teams that have already won one
Speaker 1: in the last eight years off the board. TK. But
Speaker 1: there are there's probably what four or five I don't
Speaker 1: know how many of your long your list is of
Speaker 1: like potentially realistic new to put it that way, champions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my list is seven deep realistic. Well it's too deep, okay, Okay, Well,
Speaker 3: Spurs made the finals last year and the seventy six
Speaker 3: ers just had a great offseason. Those are the two
Speaker 3: teams I can most realistically seeing winning.
Speaker 1: The championship this year. Yep.
Speaker 3: The other teams I threw into the mix, the Calves
Speaker 3: and the Pistons. They could make it to the finals.
Speaker 3: I don't think that would be a surprise. You make
Speaker 3: it to the finals, who knows what happens. Same thing
Speaker 3: for the timber Wolves and the Rockets, and then the
Speaker 3: last team. I just don't know what to expect from
Speaker 3: the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 1: Last time we saw.
Speaker 3: Tyre's Halliburton, the Pacers had a lead in Game seven
Speaker 3: of the NBA Finals at halftime. They're right now on
Speaker 3: fan plus five thousand for the championship. That's the same
Speaker 3: as the Hawks and the Lakers. That seems crazy to me.
Speaker 3: They're behind the Magic odds wise, that seems unusual to me.
Speaker 3: But Halliburton's coming off in an achilles tear. He also
Speaker 3: had to deal with shingles during his recovery. They added
Speaker 3: zobots in for Miles Turner. That changes the speed of
Speaker 3: the team, and the speed of the team was kind
Speaker 3: of like the superpower for the Pacers when they made
Speaker 3: it to the finals. So I have to include them
Speaker 3: in my long list, which like I said it's seven teams.
Speaker 1: Realistically it's only two.
Speaker 3: Teams, but I could It wouldn't shock me if the
Speaker 3: Pacers somehow pulled it off.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the East is so fun because I guess in
Speaker 2: part it's because we just saw the Knicks win fifty
Speaker 2: three games and get there. There's just a lot of
Speaker 2: teams that you could throw in there. Obviously, Philly is
Speaker 2: the one beside the Knicks that you think. I am
Speaker 2: concerned about Philly's defense though. It's gotta be a thing
Speaker 2: because these eight champs that we have just seen, seven
Speaker 2: of the eight have been top ten defenses. Now, maybe
Speaker 2: Philly can replicate what the Denver Nuggets did in twenty
Speaker 2: three and get there as a non top ten defense
Speaker 2: and just do it with all offense. Maybe Jalen Maxi,
Speaker 2: Lebron and them beat are good enough for that. But
Speaker 2: that is somewhat of a concern. The answer is the Spurs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: simple as that.
Speaker 1: They most likely to make it nine in a row.
Speaker 1: Would do the Spurs.
Speaker 2: They got better and they led the NBA Finals seventy
Speaker 2: five percent of the minutes. They got better because they
Speaker 2: got Tobias Harris and Victor wee. Binyama is a year older,
Speaker 2: so you know they didn't change.
Speaker 6: That's got to be the favorite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Pacers just to go back to them. FanDuel
Speaker 1: has their over under at forty three and a half wins.
Speaker 1: So they even seem like confused of like where are
Speaker 1: we putting this team? Are they a part of the
Speaker 1: like elite Eastern Conference teams or are they more of
Speaker 1: a five hundred like team, which is where they have them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd be a tough one, I think.
Speaker 2: And it's hard not to throw in a couple teams
Speaker 2: because it's fun to be optimistic here in the summer.
Speaker 2: But I'll throw it in the Nuggets because Peyton Watson
Speaker 2: is gaining gaining weight. Is he going to be on
Speaker 2: that team? I don't know, But he threw up a
Speaker 2: photo of him on the scale at two twenty when
Speaker 2: he was a two hundred guy last year, and he
Speaker 2: says instead he's getting big. I don't know who he's
Speaker 2: going to play for. But then Nugets our No's.
Speaker 1: Title contender maybe but or not, but not in this
Speaker 1: the pair they're not they'renety one one.
Speaker 6: They're not. Yeah, they're not. They're not.
Speaker 2: I just had to get them in there, and I
Speaker 2: had to get that Peyton Watson photo in there because
Speaker 2: it's I know, the restricted free agents go on for
Speaker 2: a while here in the summer, but that one's an
Speaker 2: really interesting one to me, aside from you know, the
Speaker 2: Jaalen Duran one that we're waiting for and the Benedict
Speaker 2: matherin Payton Watson is interesting.
Speaker 6: Sorry, go ahead, no going.
Speaker 1: No, no, I was my list to keep is a little
Speaker 1: shorter than Trays. I mean, you really did say yours
Speaker 1: is too, and I hear you. I have four teams.
Speaker 1: I think it's only the potential to like extend the streak,
Speaker 1: make it nine different champions over nine seasons. It's Spurs
Speaker 1: seventy six ers. Of course is the huge like wow,
Speaker 1: I mean they could win a title, or you could
Speaker 1: also convince me they're like in the play and sort
Speaker 1: of area if everybody gets injured. Timberwolves, and I think
Speaker 1: I have the Rockets there just because the Rockets were
Speaker 1: a good team last year. They were top ten on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Now you add Fred van Vliet,
Speaker 1: who missed the entire season back to try and orchestrate
Speaker 1: that things. Now Durant missed a bunch of games in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Two part of the reason why they lost
Speaker 1: I think in six there to the Lakers, and they
Speaker 1: also botch some games at the end. They just need
Speaker 1: to be better in clutch time. They were like a
Speaker 1: sub five hundred team in games that were close. I
Speaker 1: think a big part of it is just not having
Speaker 1: Van Vliet out there. So yeah, if that flips a
Speaker 1: little bit, why not could they not see themselves as
Speaker 1: one of the better teams in the Western Conference and
Speaker 1: things make their right right, they can maybe get there,
Speaker 1: but you gotta go through the spurs and the thunder
Speaker 1: is the problem. So maybe it's wiser to have a
Speaker 1: Calvs or Epistons because you don't have to see them
Speaker 1: until the finals. Next question. In Star Wars fandom and JAD,
Speaker 1: I might need your help here, there's a term called
Speaker 1: gloop shitdow. Yeah you got it, okay, glop shitdow. It's
Speaker 1: basically mocking how some Star Wars fans will become big
Speaker 1: fans of random minor characters in the series, and how
Speaker 1: the characters have weird names. Sometimes. Who is your group
Speaker 1: shadow NBA player? In other words, who's an obscure NBA
Speaker 1: player that you were randomly huge fans of minus Mirza Taledovich. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a name. I had not thought about it in
Speaker 1: a long time. That's from Adam Parsons nineteen forty seven,
Speaker 1: by way of YouTube. Before we get into the NBA angle,
Speaker 1: do you have any JD Group Shadows, Star Wars characters.
Speaker 5: Sure, there's a give me one Quadronero, the Podracer, dude,
Speaker 5: there's there's a lot of of course. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 5: know that one, the winged sort of what is he like?
Speaker 5: A tech dealer on tattooing, A bit of a scumbag.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that has Anakin.
Speaker 4: Yeah he owns yeah, yeah, lazy.
Speaker 1: Boys something like that. Okay, So NBA gloops, Cheetos, obscure
Speaker 1: NBA players that you loved or continue to love. They
Speaker 1: could be current for all week here.
Speaker 2: You know what's obscure. You chose to stay awake during
Speaker 2: a surgery. That's obscure. And that's what former raptor Jorge
Speaker 2: Garbajosa did. Do you remember when he broke his leg? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he broke his leg and he decided I'm not getting
Speaker 2: general anesthesia. I'm literally going to stay awake. He got
Speaker 2: spinal anesthetic. Instead, and he watched himself get a displaced
Speaker 2: left ankle, joined fixed prepair a torn ligament, and pinned
Speaker 2: a fractured fibula.
Speaker 6: Now that's obscure. That's a man he'll always love.
Speaker 2: They would have won that playoff series against the New
Speaker 2: Jersey Nets if he was there anyway, that doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: but uh yeah, I always loved my Jorge Garbajosa, always, always,
Speaker 2: always yeah.
Speaker 3: I like a question like this, and then I like
Speaker 3: when I go to look at Basketball Reference and the
Speaker 3: player I want to pick is one of the head
Speaker 3: shots up there, and it was just WHOA WHOA Carrie Kittles, Oh,
Speaker 3: Carrie carry Kittles. I think Danielle's a big carry Kittles.
Speaker 3: Fans shouldn't be one sock up, one sock down. That's
Speaker 3: how I learned about him playing at Villanova. Had cool shorts,
Speaker 3: tiny head, cool shaped body. I was a guy that
Speaker 3: wanted to wear tall socks as well. So I just
Speaker 3: started liking carry Kittles. And he was just like, he's
Speaker 3: just a fine player. Yeah, you're like fifteen points per game.
Speaker 3: He can make an open three pointer.
Speaker 1: He was fast.
Speaker 3: He was part of like the famous nineteen ninety six draft,
Speaker 3: But did carry Kittles get any accolades in his career. No,
Speaker 3: he finished fifth and Rookie of the Year voting pretty
Speaker 3: good for that season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he was just a dude. But Carrie Kittles
Speaker 1: cool name.
Speaker 7: Cool.
Speaker 1: Look, I was gonna say he's helped out by as
Speaker 1: like an awesome name. Yes, Carrie Kittles cariatname.
Speaker 2: So he was one sock up in college and then
Speaker 2: had to pull them both up first.
Speaker 1: They must have not allowed it in the NBA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he went all the way to the knees
Speaker 2: essentially with both of them.
Speaker 1: Good pick a long time podcast listeners or YouTube viewers know,
Speaker 1: Jason Max was my guy who was a big believer
Speaker 1: in Jason Max seal a little too much. Leonard Miller
Speaker 1: is the future. Everybody knows that. But I'll give you
Speaker 1: another one that I don't talk about a lot. Uh
Speaker 1: Linis Klasa Remember him played for the Raptors, played for
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. Lithuanian. Was he a shooter? They say he was,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't that great a shoot. But he was
Speaker 1: European exactly, But like he shot thirty three percent from
Speaker 1: three his entire career. He thought he was a lot
Speaker 1: better than that. But uh, yeah, he was a big
Speaker 1: fan and he had the thing like he would have
Speaker 1: like big games in like nationally televised games, so maybe
Speaker 1: that was a part of his lore. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you only saw if you only saw him in these
Speaker 1: big games, like this guy's awesome, but then not all
Speaker 1: that great for the rest of it. But yeah, he
Speaker 1: always been up playing for two teams only Nuggets and Raptors.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: Really Yeah, must have had a shorter career than them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he only played seven NBA seasons because he after Denver,
Speaker 1: he left. See. I think he must played overseas for
Speaker 1: a you and then he came back to the Raptors
Speaker 1: for three years. That's it. And the number forty three
Speaker 1: is that right? Think forty three and then eleven on
Speaker 1: the Raps. That's an obscure number that I like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: forty three. I think it's just a cool looking number.
Speaker 3: For some reason with that, so there you go. He
Speaker 3: consider Andre Drummond an obscure NBA player. Not really, I
Speaker 3: mean neither.
Speaker 1: But I like him. It's just funny to watch.
Speaker 3: He looks like he could roll around, like he would
Speaker 3: be pleasant just rolling around rather than walking and jumping.
Speaker 1: He's like Sonic the Hedgehog kind of alright, great question,
Speaker 1: great question there, You'll see you the next one. Howdy
Speaker 1: dooty no dung garuskis.
Speaker 2: On a recent classic podcast, the Mount Rushmore of Raptors
Speaker 2: was discussed. It was interesting to consider how, despite only
Speaker 2: playing one season for them, Kawhi already qualifies as one
Speaker 2: of the best four best Raptors of all time. It
Speaker 2: had me thinking about what other Mount Rushmore's contained head scratchers.
Speaker 2: Take My Brooklyn nets Jason Kidd and Vince Carter are
Speaker 2: no brainers. But then it gets tricky. Perhaps Julius who
Speaker 2: only played for the franchise while in the ABA, and
Speaker 2: maybe brook Lopez, who is the current franchise leader in
Speaker 2: total points and total blocks. What do you guys think
Speaker 2: any other strange Mount Rushmore is out there? That's from
Speaker 2: John in South Jersey.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I would say you're going to
Speaker 1: start with the nets there, like it is a bit
Speaker 1: of a weird one when you think about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess I had doctor j Yes, yeah, like immediately there,
Speaker 1: whether he played for the AB or not.
Speaker 2: After I look through it, there's no question. I think
Speaker 2: the question is Brook or Buck Buck Williams Buck Williams Brook. Yes,
Speaker 2: I mean he was an All Star as a rookie
Speaker 2: with the Nets when he won Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: That's rare, a rookie All Star then three time All
Speaker 2: Star with the Nets versus Brook just a one time Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, non memorable eras either way for both of
Speaker 2: those players. Fortunately, you know Brook played in the Azod.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of the thing that I remember is
Speaker 2: when they oh god, what a ship that place was.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, god.
Speaker 2: Bad.
Speaker 1: I went to a Raptor's Nets playoff game. I drove
Speaker 1: down there. Yeah, I was in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: I remember too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh did you ever go to the is on no.
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: He felt like it was like a the Stratford Colisseum.
Speaker 1: To me, it was like a little bit bigger. It's
Speaker 1: like just a hockey rink in my hometown.
Speaker 2: It's the vibe of to me, if only Jorge played
Speaker 2: that series, they would have wanted. Oh yes, he would
Speaker 2: have been playing in the Eyes.
Speaker 6: Odd what a name.
Speaker 1: I have another strange one. I want to hear your
Speaker 1: guys thoughts on. I think the Wizard's Mount Rushmore is
Speaker 1: a weird one because here's why, Like it's generally old guys.
Speaker 1: I think it's sort of like a no brainer two
Speaker 1: or three guys. It's West Unseldes, It's Elvin Hayes, It's
Speaker 1: potentially Walt Bellamy, he's more of Baltimore days, but I
Speaker 1: think he's probably there. But then it's like, who's the
Speaker 1: fourth guy? Is it Bradley Beal? Is it John Wall?
Speaker 1: Is it Anton Jamison?
Speaker 6: Gil?
Speaker 1: I mean, none of those are You're like, yeah, guaranteed,
Speaker 1: Like I think it's a debate between those sort of
Speaker 1: four probably the three guards. I would take Anton jameson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would probably pick would you?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Those I know, I mean you can't put Arenas on there.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately for the way it ended, and it was a
Speaker 3: John Wall team before it was a Bradley deal team.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's Wall from those guys.
Speaker 1: I agree, that's that's a tough one. Yeah, that's just
Speaker 1: a weird one to me. Any other ones.
Speaker 3: I think that there's actually a lot, Like the Pacers
Speaker 3: have two ABA guys on theirs, George mckinnis and Mel Daniels.
Speaker 3: For sure, they're making it. Reggie Miller obviously is on there.
Speaker 3: Mount Rushmore. But then who's the fourth guy, Paul George,
Speaker 3: Danny Granger, Germaine, O'Neil Tyrese Haliburt and Rick Smith's they
Speaker 3: all have chances to make it.
Speaker 1: Trey Young might be.
Speaker 3: On the Hawks, Mount Rushmore, whoa Bob Pettitt, it's Dominique Wilkins. Ye,
Speaker 3: it's the kembe Matamba. Then you're probably getting an argument
Speaker 3: for Lou Hudson. But I ain't making a Lou Hudson.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the argument there, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, hmm. Could And then I think maybe the
Speaker 3: weirdest is the Grizzlies.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a really weird.
Speaker 1: Because is it four guys from the Grit and Grind team?
Speaker 1: Is it comedy? Gasol Randolph and Tony Allen?
Speaker 6: Or you got to throw in a job taking any of.
Speaker 3: Those guys off for John A. Ramp You probably thought
Speaker 3: you were, Yeah, Jaron Jackson Junior.
Speaker 4: Maybe right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just four fifths of the starting no Vancouver guys
Speaker 1: cracking it. No big country.
Speaker 6: Was damn good, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would contemplate putting Gasol on there. Marco, Yeah,
Speaker 2: each other, both of them. How long was Grizzly to
Speaker 2: double check. Uh sick, I don't know, I got I
Speaker 2: gotta check that.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was even that long. I gotta
Speaker 1: check that.
Speaker 6: I gotta check that it's a five and five and
Speaker 6: a half.
Speaker 1: That's a fun one. Do you have any other strange ones?
Speaker 2: I mean, going to the top of the Miami Heat,
Speaker 2: alter you have to put I'm definitely not Lebron and
Speaker 2: Wade of course. Then I think there's a debate for
Speaker 2: the last two spots. It's I think you'd put Alonso
Speaker 2: Morning on there. Okay, then it's it's Bosh or Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Butler, Tim Hardaway.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, it's tired.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a good bit. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: good debate.
Speaker 6: It's a good debate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like Jimmy was the guy who took him two
Speaker 2: finals long enough. I mean, definitely more playoff success than
Speaker 2: Tim Hardaway, even though they threw up Timmy's jersey up there.
Speaker 2: And Chris Bosh, you know, a very good player, two NBA,
Speaker 2: two time NBA champions.
Speaker 3: So you don't want to throw Ronnie Cyclic on there.
Speaker 3: Sherman Douglas and there are guys I think of his
Speaker 3: heat in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who else? Bimbo Coles. Bimbo Coles.
Speaker 3: Absolutely Glenn Rice, like not really Glenn Rice maybe is
Speaker 3: on the Hornets Mount rushmore.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think of it more definitely.
Speaker 1: I think of it was the Hornet first for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, great question. Next one here, yo yo, yo, boys,
Speaker 1: a Nike Wemby one signature shoe is officially on the horizon,
Speaker 1: and it appears as though he has a new alien logo.
Speaker 1: What do you all think? Thumbs up or thumbs down
Speaker 1: for the stylized V and W. That's from William from
Speaker 1: the Scooshe here's a look for everybody on YouTube. We're
Speaker 1: showing you, uh screen grab and a nice enhancer from
Speaker 1: JD on the new What we think at least Wemby
Speaker 1: logo here with Nike because he's got a signature shoe
Speaker 1: coming tk. I mean you see the V in the W,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. Also, what else do you see?
Speaker 3: Scorpion get over here? To me, it does not look
Speaker 3: like an alien. It looks more like I Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 1: It looks nothing like an alien to me. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're going for the negative space of the eyes.
Speaker 1: I don't hate it. I don't think it's great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: having to get the v W it means that they
Speaker 1: had to do something along the Why do we have
Speaker 1: to do that? Why do your initial initials must have
Speaker 1: to be in your look? Like? What do the guys
Speaker 1: name the alien? They're like, I like this the older
Speaker 1: one more.
Speaker 2: Anyway, is there another dimension idea there?
Speaker 6: Like you're entering a portal kind of.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, the pulsar of it all there I see
Speaker 8: like a like a like a cat's face too, like right,
Speaker 8: like the nose in the mouth of a cat.
Speaker 1: I mean what you're saying, the V is kind of
Speaker 1: the nose. I'm saying the v's the nose. And then
Speaker 1: the more the bottom part is more of the cat's mouth.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And now they think about it. I have always
Speaker 1: said that if aliens are here, they're probably cats.
Speaker 3: So true.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're thinking ahead here, what do you think the
Speaker 1: task overall?
Speaker 2: I'm thinking that might be a banana hammock on the
Speaker 2: bottom there you're saying the cat's mouth. That kind of
Speaker 2: looks like tidy whities or banana hammock. However you look
Speaker 2: at it, Maybe it's the off season and maybe we
Speaker 2: talk about uh, male Genitalia and.
Speaker 1: A little bit six.
Speaker 2: Does this happen every year? And no dunks, the slash,
Speaker 2: the start slash, the basketball Jones. We talk more about
Speaker 2: male junk in the off season. I don't know, it
Speaker 2: looks like so true that it looks.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, or you love that or you hate that
Speaker 1: or different.
Speaker 2: I think this is this is I don't know. I
Speaker 2: think it will be totally different on a shoe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this will be on the tongue or at the
Speaker 1: back maybe or something.
Speaker 7: Yah.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and you won't have all this stuff around it,
Speaker 2: you know, like you won't have you won't have this
Speaker 2: purple space sky thing happening.
Speaker 1: You don't know, shoes will be that. I am intrigued
Speaker 1: to see if Wemby, as a big guy can move shoes.
Speaker 1: This will be a you know, it's he's a different
Speaker 1: type of big guy. So yeah, previously it's tough for
Speaker 1: you your shacks and dwights and who for whom else
Speaker 1: am I forgetting when it comes to big, big guys,
Speaker 1: like it's tough for them to move product like this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no big guys. But Web seemed like he could be
Speaker 1: the anomaly. Yeah, I guess depends on how the shoe looks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see he wore like, uh, he wore like
Speaker 3: a mid cut shoe his past two years.
Speaker 1: Most people don't anymore. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, see
Speaker 1: what they come up with. I mean, was that something
Speaker 1: they're going to want to drop before at the start
Speaker 1: of the season, during the season at least, think yeah,
Speaker 1: for All Star weekend at the very least. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: couple of months here.
Speaker 2: No, I was going to say, you know, Jokic has
Speaker 2: a shoe that nobody really talks about.
Speaker 1: T K, where is it? I got a player, Trey
Speaker 1: Kirby goes to Batford these, she gets asked a lot
Speaker 1: about them. I've noticed that our pick up run like,
Speaker 1: what are those? And you're like, yeah, these are the ookches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Joker gt too. Yeah, it's a mid cut.
Speaker 3: It's a love it's actually pretty low. Yeah, the ones
Speaker 3: I have. But you're a fan, Yeah they are really
Speaker 3: really good.
Speaker 6: Yeah see there low.
Speaker 1: But you don't know a lot of people buy it.
Speaker 1: I don't see them. You're the only person I've ever
Speaker 1: seen wearing them.
Speaker 6: Maybe they selling Europe out there. I don't know they're
Speaker 6: getting out there.
Speaker 1: Maybe they sell it right, all right, Next one ask
Speaker 1: what you got here?
Speaker 6: I got the right one, Yes, I do.
Speaker 2: Just Wash skeets short on predicting the NBA Christmas Day slate.
Speaker 2: While I agreed with most of his matchups, I was
Speaker 2: a little shocked to see the Warriors still in the mix.
Speaker 6: I think their time has passed. But what to task
Speaker 6: and trade? Think?
Speaker 2: What's their exmus Day lineup look like? Thanks for all
Speaker 2: the summer content content turn up and all that jazz
Speaker 2: that's from JJ. So Christmas Day lineup?
Speaker 1: Well, for those that didn't see the short, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I had, because he JJ didn't like that.
Speaker 1: I had the Warriors there, but I had six Ers
Speaker 1: Nicks in Madison Square Garden, obviously starting it off at
Speaker 1: noon Celtic's heat. I had thunder Spurs. Got to run
Speaker 1: that back this time. I had it in San Antonio
Speaker 1: the last played an ok S last year Warriors Lakers
Speaker 1: is where I had the Warriors, and then I finished
Speaker 1: with Wolves Nuggets because they always played batchit crazy games
Speaker 1: and obviously have the ant Andokich. That was my five TK.
Speaker 1: How would you tweak it or did I nail it
Speaker 1: or what do you think? I think you did a
Speaker 1: very good job.
Speaker 3: It does feel a little light on Eastern Conference teams.
Speaker 3: To me, only four teams made it. You can make
Speaker 3: an argument that the Caves, or the Pistons or the
Speaker 3: Pacers deserve a game. I'm personally not too enthused on
Speaker 3: the Heat, Warriors, Lakers, and Nuggets because if they pick
Speaker 3: up an injury to one player, the game instantly sucks.
Speaker 1: It could.
Speaker 3: It's a long time from now, so I would only
Speaker 3: change a few things. I try and get as many
Speaker 3: rivalries as possible. I'm starting with Nicks Pacers good morning
Speaker 3: or noon, whatever time you may be, six or Celtics.
Speaker 3: We obviously have the Jalen Brown trade of it all,
Speaker 3: not to mention a classic rivalry between the two teams.
Speaker 3: Thunder Spurs is my middle day game. Just like you
Speaker 3: had Skeets. That one seems perfect to me. I got
Speaker 3: one interconference matchup the Pistons versus the Rockets, two teams
Speaker 3: that seem most.
Speaker 1: Likely to fight against each other, the Thompson Twins.
Speaker 3: The Thompson Twins also two good teams, and then I'm
Speaker 3: ending with Wolves Nuggets as well.
Speaker 1: Good rivalry, it's a good one.
Speaker 6: I do want to start with six Ers Nicks as
Speaker 6: you had it, in.
Speaker 1: There like it like that. I mean Lebron in Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden will be fun.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And we just had Jalen Brown and in Jalen
Speaker 2: Bronson at Donovan Mitchell's wedding and Jalen Brunson was staring
Speaker 2: down Jalen Brown.
Speaker 6: Come on, bring it on.
Speaker 2: I would sub out from all these ten teams the
Speaker 2: Celtics get out of here for the Detroit Pistons. I
Speaker 2: think the Pistons belonging there. Out of all of the
Speaker 2: players who got MVP votes, Kate Cunningham, he deserves an
Speaker 2: MVP spot. I think, you know it is going back
Speaker 2: to last season, maybe they'll be.
Speaker 1: Kate's gonna finish higher than Tatum on MVP balls coming
Speaker 1: up this season, quite possibly. I think it's a fun debate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean him and Jalen Brown were super close
Speaker 2: year in MVP ballots. But I think it's a very
Speaker 2: different team. The Pistons with sixty wins, they deserve a
Speaker 2: Christmas Day. They haven't had one since oh five was
Speaker 2: a long time ago.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Do you know, do you know the only franchise that's
Speaker 1: never played on Christmas?
Speaker 6: I saw it. Yeah, Charlotte, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably not getting it any time.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 1: Definitely not this year. Yeah, they need a bit, they
Speaker 1: need a sixty win season with Konka Nipple and Brandon
Speaker 1: Miller and you know, leading them that to maybe then
Speaker 1: finally get one.
Speaker 2: Steph goes and ends his career there, then he gets
Speaker 2: one and then they get it. But uh, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. The Celtics played a time on Christmas Day,
Speaker 2: so I'm okay subthing them up. They didn't play last year,
Speaker 2: which I think with the NBA was their mentality was, Okay,
Speaker 2: Jason TAM's not going to be there. This team is
Speaker 2: not going to be as good, And that's kind of
Speaker 2: advice for the same a similar situation to me. They
Speaker 2: had played, you know, year after year after year after year.
Speaker 2: Was it like eight or nine straight and they took
Speaker 2: one off. They can take another one off. But I
Speaker 2: could see the Pacers getting in there too. So Tyree
Speaker 2: Halburn can go on the Pat McAfee show and talk
Speaker 2: about it. I guess he loves being on the Pat
Speaker 2: McAfee show.
Speaker 3: That's actually good for the Pacers that they could make it.
Speaker 1: Yet, how do you feel about the Warriors still being
Speaker 1: in the mix because brings up a good point we
Speaker 1: talked about, like they could be bad. If Curry is injured,
Speaker 1: then they will be bad. I feel pretty confident saying that.
Speaker 1: But also it's Steph Curry, and it's like you should
Speaker 1: be playing on Christmas and they might be still decent
Speaker 1: by this point.
Speaker 2: I would keep hanging on to Steph wanting to play
Speaker 2: basketball whenever he wants. It's all yeah, it's all dependent
Speaker 2: on if he's healthy or not. So I hear what
Speaker 2: you're saying.
Speaker 1: Put him on there. Let Jimmy have a date to
Speaker 1: circle there to get back for Christmas. It'd be good.
Speaker 3: Packers Bears is also on Christmas, all right, right, Chicago, Right,
Speaker 3: you got it?
Speaker 1: Packers. I haven't looked at tickets yet, but that would
Speaker 1: be really, really awesome. It would be awesome. Yeah, would
Speaker 1: be awesome.
Speaker 3: NFL trying to take that day sounds like a great
Speaker 3: anniversary gift.
Speaker 1: We should. We should get the NBA schedule.
Speaker 6: Are you listening this week? Right?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a lot of early around August. Second week
Speaker 1: of August. I think I think we'll get at least
Speaker 1: the leaks. Here's the opening night, here's maybe christ we
Speaker 1: might get those like in the next couple of days,
Speaker 1: I would say, maybe even today. Who knows. How about
Speaker 1: Opening night schedule? I mean a lot like playing obviously,
Speaker 1: yeah night, Yeah, the six That's the thing. If six
Speaker 1: Ers Nick isn't on Christmas, then it needs to be
Speaker 1: Opening Night. I mean you could just do it both too,
Speaker 1: but it definitely has to be one of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the what's the late game?
Speaker 3: Though? I would personally like Wolves Lakers as the late game? Okay,
Speaker 3: just a bunch of young faces of the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, having fun, not against it at all. Trying to
Speaker 1: think who else? I mean, I guess Stephen the Warriors
Speaker 1: could be all as thunder Spurs. That might be fun
Speaker 1: to start to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we might get next. We might have best schedule
Speaker 2: release next week as next week, Yeah, well just before
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame ceremony, which is next weekend. I think
Speaker 2: it'll all line up next week. Stein points out our
Speaker 2: man Mark Stein said it could be August tenth that week.
Speaker 1: Put me down though, that leaks happened this week, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: leak it. Somebody's leaking. Some Shan's will be saying something
Speaker 1: final one here on the beach, good morning, No dunk's longtime,
Speaker 1: fourth time I'm always amused whenever you or anyone else
Speaker 1: raves about BUCkies. My wife is from Lake Jackson, Texas,
Speaker 1: the original home of BUCkies, and while I have since
Speaker 1: been to some of the giant ones that we definitely
Speaker 1: have talked about, my first and most frequent BUCkies experience
Speaker 1: is one down the street from her childhood home. That's
Speaker 1: the size of a normal gas station. My question is,
Speaker 1: what is some hype NBA related or otherwise that you
Speaker 1: never got caught up in. Turn up. It's from Josh
Speaker 1: in Denver. This is a funny. I like this email
Speaker 1: because its like it is like we talk a lot
Speaker 1: about Buddies, are like, oh, this huge giant Walmart like
Speaker 1: gas station. It's crazy. All you gotta go. It's worse
Speaker 1: stopping at. But like if the original one is just
Speaker 1: a normal gas station, that's like us going. You gotta
Speaker 1: go to seven eleven, man, you gotta check it out.
Speaker 1: They got a Slurpe's and stuff. It's wild. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's a fun question. The some hype again NBA
Speaker 1: related otherwise that you didn't really get caught up in.
Speaker 2: My answer is not good. I gotta be completely honest.
Speaker 2: I just never got into energy drinks, and I just
Speaker 2: see them everywhere right now. Every answer, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's not good hype around energy drinks. It's not It
Speaker 2: doesn't fit the answer for Josh's question. But everybody everybody
Speaker 2: drinking Celsius out.
Speaker 6: There, I mean, yeah, sure, I'm a fairrenheit guy.
Speaker 2: Sorry sorry sorry sorry change change what's in where they're
Speaker 2: putting JD I think I saw Jackson drinking. What did
Speaker 2: they putting protein in Celsius drinks too?
Speaker 4: My Son drinking?
Speaker 1: Maybe not? Yea, you might, I think you did. I
Speaker 1: think I saw them in there once.
Speaker 4: Oh, we've definitely had them in there.
Speaker 1: Yes. So it's a zero sugar functional fitness energy drink.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I see fit people doing it. It's just
Speaker 2: so much caffeine.
Speaker 4: It's not good for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah. You started to see.
Speaker 1: Two hundred milligrams per standard twelve ounce can of caffeine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're you know, it's like over two coffees,
Speaker 6: just suck.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But they throw protein in there too, I think.
Speaker 4: Maybe sometimes different ones they got it?
Speaker 1: Do that? Are they putting in all this to the
Speaker 1: zero calories? I've never had one of these.
Speaker 2: Look fine, they look like an ergy drink. I would
Speaker 2: rather have that than your standard. What are the ones
Speaker 2: with the lightning bolt on them? Like the monsters monsters,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking monsters.
Speaker 3: I'd rather have a Celsia for whatever. Recently monsters. I
Speaker 3: gotta throwback energy drink. It feels like at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been around for a month.
Speaker 2: People still do I see people doing Yeah?
Speaker 1: You always like you. I mean, it ties well with
Speaker 1: this question, Like go to a gas station. Just wait,
Speaker 1: maybe it'll take you five or six people to walk
Speaker 1: out of a gas station until you see one holding
Speaker 1: a Monster Energy. You know what I mean. That's where
Speaker 1: I see them the that's that's where they're mostly people.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying when I stopped doing gas that's
Speaker 1: the only time I see people drinking Monster energy or
Speaker 1: We're not a monster. Keep your eyes running, Okay, it.
Speaker 2: Is a fun it's an interesting person watching experience going
Speaker 2: into a gas station and are going through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's different there so much like so many uh
Speaker 1: so many people betting like tickets, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's like it is wild.
Speaker 2: I used to scratch tickets. The vending machines with scratch tickets.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's crazy. I mean, those are those are
Speaker 1: grocery stores.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's wild all right?
Speaker 1: What is some hype? And be realated? Otherwise you never
Speaker 1: got caught up in mood Dang. Remember mood Dang got
Speaker 1: the hippo? How was that? Dumb hippo? Never thought it
Speaker 1: was cute.
Speaker 4: I've never heard of this moon Dang.
Speaker 1: You never heard of mood Dang. You did a good job.
Speaker 1: You didn't miss anything. What did moon Dang do?
Speaker 3: It wasn't just cute exactly. The dwarf wasn't cute. Oh
Speaker 3: I mean people thought it was. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you. It was a pygmy hippo. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: So it's like a is it cute?
Speaker 1: Is it ugly? Look at it? It's pretty cute. Oh,
Speaker 1: you guys are buying You guys are buying the hype.
Speaker 3: I never get into a cute animal like this, like
Speaker 3: a famous cute animal.
Speaker 1: Jimothy is the big one right now, bad raccoon? Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is that's cute? I don't care. Freak show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, jimmithy yea good name, great name, yeah, exactly, But
Speaker 3: I'm never in on the viral cute animal.
Speaker 1: Where does jimmithy you live? Probably right the Mariners are
Speaker 1: doing things around.
Speaker 4: Okay, kay, raccoon, what's the big deal.
Speaker 1: No, it's more than his legs are all jacked up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it has some disease. I couldn't believe it wasn't in
Speaker 1: Toronto though, because that's raccoon capital.
Speaker 3: Baby, Yep, maybe that's it. You see enough raccoons he
Speaker 3: cares about a Jimothy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've seen a million, Jimothy, I've I've told
Speaker 1: you the story for George George Cooney as we called him,
Speaker 1: Ken invited raccoons into his house when we lived on Bathurst.
Speaker 4: George Cooney, he called him George Coon.
Speaker 1: I walked into the kitchen once door was opened to
Speaker 1: the back. There was a raccoon sitting standing, just standing there.
Speaker 1: I said, Ken, there's a raccoon in your kidding. Oh
Speaker 1: that's George Cooney comes in all the time, something to eat.
Speaker 1: Then he took off, crazy crazy. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I actually don't like raccoons. That creep the hell out
Speaker 1: of the They're too smart there, gross like human ishi.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Mattie Austin when he lived on Spaniina, I think when
Speaker 1: he lived on that weird like crescent. He they like
Speaker 1: they broke in and he came home. They were all
Speaker 1: in there just going through everything. That's scary as hell
Speaker 1: man like he said. He says it like he walked
Speaker 1: in and like he caught them by surprise. They're like, whoa,
Speaker 1: I didn't. It's like I told you party like that.
Speaker 2: There's they feel so smart. My friend had one coming
Speaker 2: in his backyard. He put a camera up in his
Speaker 2: backyard and he checked out, how do you deter?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Uh and and a lot of the time you can
Speaker 2: record screaming, he asked. He's like, hey, do you want
Speaker 2: to scream into a microphone? Literally, so when the camera
Speaker 2: picks it up and the sensor picks it up, the
Speaker 2: sensor picks up it.
Speaker 6: Literally you can deter by screaming.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I literally yelled into a phone which he put
Speaker 2: up there. So I literally go ah and a phone.
Speaker 2: And the first time that raccoon God ran away as
Speaker 2: soon as it heard me screaming over and over.
Speaker 1: But the second time they're like, hold on, that voice
Speaker 1: sounds familiar? Is that from the basketball gets Well?
Speaker 2: The second time they're too smart. They just hang out.
Speaker 2: It's like I'll pick some stuff. You don't scare me, Yeah, guy.
Speaker 1: It's just a voice. Yeah, they're too smart. But you've
Speaker 1: looked at gymas now now you understand the allure of.
Speaker 8: This.
Speaker 4: Looks like a weird creature as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I feel to me, I feel like copy
Speaker 2: barros are the new mood.
Speaker 1: Dangs uh okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, somebody in the stream team ask how do I
Speaker 3: feel about copy barras, And to me, they're a little
Speaker 3: bit too popular right now. And I would throw axel
Speaker 3: lottles into there as well. These are two random animals
Speaker 3: that big animal decided to make cute for our generation,
Speaker 3: our children's generation.
Speaker 1: Right, you never.
Speaker 3: Were excited about a kapy bar or an axle lottle.
Speaker 3: But I guarantee your kids are right, Like every kid
Speaker 3: loves these.
Speaker 1: Where they come from. They they get a hamster, you.
Speaker 2: Know, don't worry, be cappy, get a copy bar you
Speaker 2: don't copy bar Surprise how big they.
Speaker 1: They're bigger than you would pay. Yeah, seventy and fifty pounds.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a that's pretty big. That's a very
Speaker 1: big dog. That's a huge dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're right, Yeah, they'll be gone soon.
Speaker 3: The animals these aren't These aren't real animals that people.
Speaker 1: Are excited about like dogs and tasks. I'm not going anywhere. Well, JD,
Speaker 1: do you have an answer to this, like something, you know,
Speaker 1: the hype that you missed out on.
Speaker 4: Sure, Harry Potter really never got into it.
Speaker 1: Well, now perfect time, HBO Max. Don't they have a
Speaker 1: new series coming or something like that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Rachel wants me to go, like watch them all?
Speaker 5: Do them on our pod?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I can't stay awake during them.
Speaker 1: Really Yeah, not bad, j D. I'm not even the
Speaker 1: biggest Harry Potter film. I've seen them and they're fine.
Speaker 4: I hate magic, hate magic, Yeah, damn.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's gonna be a problem, a problem.
Speaker 3: Here's a little magic in these. Do you think somebody
Speaker 3: out there is like you?
Speaker 1: So they've taken the Harry Potter series and edited out
Speaker 1: anytime there's a magic part of it?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 5: Like ultimately, I mean I've seen them all. I think
Speaker 5: it ends up being a blue beam against a red
Speaker 5: beam and that's it, right, That's what the whole thing
Speaker 5: culminates in.
Speaker 1: There's some more layers to it, I would say than that.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's the whole coming of age and all that,
Speaker 5: and the chosen One and then they reluctant hero Yeah yeah, classic, Yeah,
Speaker 5: never got into the books, not into the movies, not into.
Speaker 1: The series, not into it. Hey, I gotta, I gotta
Speaker 1: while we're talking HBO Max here because I heard you
Speaker 1: hyping up House of the Dragon the latest season. Sure, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this thing is falling off the cliff here these last
Speaker 1: couple episodes of sucked Ass. It started okay, it started
Speaker 1: strong this season, but yeah, I don't know, I'm bored
Speaker 1: out of my mind the last couple episodes, you know,
Speaker 1: like Political Entry, Jesus Man, Like this guy always sniffing.
Speaker 1: He's like tast mellows, sniff of his shirt. You'd like
Speaker 1: this character. Actually, yeah, he's great. Yeah, yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: good character. Yeah, but I've just been boring the last
Speaker 1: couple My answer for this hype that I missed out
Speaker 1: on it's probably just my age. But Pokemon, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: like this thing is like one of the biggest things
Speaker 1: in the world, has been for what twenty years? Yea,
Speaker 1: And I couldn't really tell you much about it. I
Speaker 1: of course Pikachu. Of course, Pikachu know that chars are Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you know him? But I always just go back
Speaker 1: to when you or we, I guess, but you were
Speaker 1: doing the Pokemon go like trying to collect them on
Speaker 1: our set. Yep, when we were at Summer League, and
Speaker 1: I did see on your phone and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's right there. That was very exciting. I never still
Speaker 1: understood how it all worked and what was the point
Speaker 1: of it all. But there's there's leveling up to be done.
Speaker 3: You can make your your pocket monster very deadly or faintly.
Speaker 1: I guess they don't actually die, they just faint you Okay,
Speaker 1: could you can you tell me though, very simply like like, okay,
Speaker 1: what is actually Pokemon?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Are these good people? These good creatures?
Speaker 3: I don't know the story, Okay, see no idea As
Speaker 3: a trainer, yes, trying to work his way up in
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 1: I believe he's training these little guys. Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: to train for fights. So then you go into the battlegrounds.
Speaker 1: You sometimes they get humongous. Oh what do they call that?
Speaker 1: Super max? No, that's that's an NBA contract. I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear Bobby Mark's thoughts on getting charge under the
Speaker 1: new CBA Marcus art.
Speaker 4: Tough.
Speaker 6: Do they even use the term maxing?
Speaker 1: And Pokemon something. Somebody's gonna say what it is. It's something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't know.
Speaker 3: They place shield, they play Pokemon Shield, I think is
Speaker 3: the one they have.
Speaker 1: People must just be yelling at their podcast right now.
Speaker 1: It's all about timing. I know exactly became like popular
Speaker 1: right after we were probably done with high school total
Speaker 1: I think, and it's just like, yeah, I'm aware of it,
Speaker 1: of course, but I don't know how any of it were.
Speaker 1: Giganta Max, Gigantic Max and Dyna Max. There we go go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if anything, it's just incredible. It's still popular to me.
Speaker 1: It's still a thing, big time, big huge. It is
Speaker 1: a very long running thing. So good on Pokemon. They
Speaker 1: figured it out with that, all right. That's beached up in.
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Speaker 1: So we'll be back on Friday unless there's breaking news
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Speaker 1: We are getting ready, as I teased earlier, for our
Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean summer series, where we're gonna watch
Speaker 1: and recap every one of them. That'll start on August fourteenth.
Speaker 1: We'll be dropping them on Friday. Every Friday, we'll drop
Speaker 1: a new one. You have time to sort of watch
Speaker 1: those if you want to and follow along. So that'll
Speaker 1: go for five weeks starting Hougest fourteenth, So get ready
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 3: There's a cute monkey, yeah, in the Pirates of the
Speaker 3: Caribbean series. Love a monkey, circus monkey, who's a rascal.
Speaker 1: These people are saying, oh, you hate animals, moo dang,
Speaker 1: I hate moodang, I hate mood and I hope that
Speaker 1: moodang has suffered some terrible things. Wow Jesus. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: you're going too far. Okay, okay, living a fine life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, the monkey in the first Pirates is cute.
Speaker 2: But even he does a little too much.
Speaker 1: Don't you think he does too much?
Speaker 2: He does next to she does one thing that's quite important. Well,
Speaker 2: he does one thing yeah, well that's important.
Speaker 1: Damn monkey. I mean, I'm definitely spoiling here. Also, you
Speaker 1: can't kill that monkey. Well that's well, you couldn't kill
Speaker 1: that monkey. I guess you could now.
Speaker 6: Question.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's a little little, you know, reason to
Speaker 1: get excited for the Pirates Caribbean series that we'll be
Speaker 1: doing later until Friday, though, Clipper Rose you heard it
Speaker 1: here first. Have a great time, turn up. Love you
Speaker 1: guys awesome.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, and remember monkeys are cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Praise the Day people,