Speaker 1: Hey, guys, it's Jack from Miles and Jack. I'm at Boostis.
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Speaker 1: Josiah Johnson. On today's episode, I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm
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Speaker 1: jab boostes Josiah Johnson, what's happening? Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us. Where's Miles at I are? What's happening? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's on the IR. Yeah, Yeah, what's up? Everybody appreciate
Speaker 1: you happing? Thank You'll be reevaluated in three. Yeah. That's
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Speaker 1: guy did it. We held a big ceremony, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: they made us cut it out of the episode Josiah
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Speaker 1: to go for the guys who win a lot personally,
Speaker 1: but I'm an underdog guy. Now you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You find the value? All right, we have to talk
Speaker 1: about I mean, we recorded last week's episode a couple
Speaker 1: of days before the biggest event of the season, the
Speaker 1: biggest trade in a decade. Babe, I guess right, Kadie
Speaker 1: got traded to the Suns, blew up the league. What
Speaker 1: are you guys thinking? How do you feel about this?
Speaker 1: It's a little disappointing him, to be honest, you know,
Speaker 1: as a lifelong lebron fan, and as the result of that,
Speaker 1: a Lakers fan, they made some great moves, didn't have
Speaker 1: to come up off of both first round picks, got
Speaker 1: Ruey a couple of weeks ago, came through with the
Speaker 1: Agelo Malik Russell and Jared Vanderbilt. So we were feeling
Speaker 1: good about ourselves and that that feel good lasted all
Speaker 1: of about forty five seconds because next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: Katie on the way to the Phoenix Suns. Very disappointing
Speaker 1: that don't think the trade should have happened. I was
Speaker 1: really hoping that that Katie and Kyprie and Josie could
Speaker 1: have figured it out kept them in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: But it seemed like that was, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the main destinations you wanted to go to this offseason.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's like, what's the point, you know,
Speaker 1: we sit here and wasted all this time. The Nets
Speaker 1: basically got him on loan to the trade deadline, and
Speaker 1: now Katy and Kyrie are both gone, which is a
Speaker 1: wild thing to think. You know, they were on like
Speaker 1: what a crazy run after they fired Steve Nash and
Speaker 1: brought Jacqueline and winning games, looking like they were gonna
Speaker 1: compete and contend in the Eastern Conference. Had the Bucks
Speaker 1: in the Celtics a little nervous and now, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are down on that next squad.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not as down because Cam Thomas has come
Speaker 1: in and really done its duck dizzel. Yeah, but for
Speaker 1: the West's happening with Cam talent, like the it's really
Speaker 1: I think I heard somebody compared to Lyn sanity, which
Speaker 1: is the last time I can remember somebody just all
Speaker 1: of the sudden being unstoppable mid season for the first
Speaker 1: time in their career, Like just game to game is
Speaker 1: a walking bucket, all of a sudden. Hopefully that's something
Speaker 1: to smile about now, not even dropping those forty pieces,
Speaker 1: but right, Yeah, But do we think the Suns are
Speaker 1: now the favorite at West? I don't know. Look, I
Speaker 1: think after what happened to them last season with Luca
Speaker 1: coming in Game seven and just completely embarrassing them, I
Speaker 1: think with if Katie stays healthy, d Book stays healthy,
Speaker 1: CP three stays healthy, Aidan stays healthy, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a hard team to beat. But I would not be
Speaker 1: shocked if somebody's able to do it. Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, Jack, you know, to answer
Speaker 1: you directly, you guys know that clip of Skip Bayless
Speaker 1: where he's like, it's my turn, It's my turn. That's
Speaker 1: how I felt when this trick, when that trade went down,
Speaker 1: you know, to Josiah's point, all of it, you know,
Speaker 1: we're all feeling good about the Lakers refused. They finally
Speaker 1: they made a move, finally they did something, Finally they
Speaker 1: were ready to go, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the sun just came in and stole everybody's thunder just
Speaker 1: stole it. And like you, Josiah, I'm still skeptical, but
Speaker 1: I want that rematch. I want Dallas and I want Phoenix.
Speaker 1: I want those two going against one another, and I
Speaker 1: want Luca just sitting there waiting to play spoiler. It
Speaker 1: is funny. We we've talked before about how Kad was
Speaker 1: like one of the first people on the Devin Booker
Speaker 1: like trail, like when Devin Booker was a rookie, and
Speaker 1: you know, not like a he wasn't top ten pick
Speaker 1: or anything. Kad was a Devin Booker appreciate tour. It
Speaker 1: makes sense that he wanted to be there. It'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to watch them play together. I think Katie's coming
Speaker 1: back after the All Star break out East's Celtics most
Speaker 1: likely team to get out of there. How's everybody feeling.
Speaker 1: I'm a Bucks pander, obviously, Pops work for the Bucks.
Speaker 1: They've been great to me anytime I pull up Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Surprising to get more love in Milwaukee than I do
Speaker 1: in LA, which is a little unfortunate. The Lakers are
Speaker 1: are hopefully gonna do their best to try to rectify
Speaker 1: that and just improve that situation. But I think you
Speaker 1: can't count out that Buck squad. You know, if Middleton
Speaker 1: to stay is healthy, Yannis is absolute beasts. I was
Speaker 1: at that Lakers Bucks game right after Lebron broke the record,
Speaker 1: so it was little disappointed thought I was gonna get
Speaker 1: to see him do it, or at least set the
Speaker 1: new record. Lebron sat out, obviously, but after eighty I
Speaker 1: think game like forty. In the first game, Jannis was
Speaker 1: on a tear and really doing a bunch of crazy work.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't discount that Buck squad. I think the
Speaker 1: Celtics obviously are the favorite to come out of the
Speaker 1: East right now, but I would not be surprised. You know,
Speaker 1: we look at the playoffs last season without Middleton, Bucks
Speaker 1: still put up a fight. So I think if Middleton
Speaker 1: and Yanni's bringing Drew Holiday obviously gonna do what he does.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if the Bucks go ahead and
Speaker 1: go back to the finals. Yeah, as of this recording,
Speaker 1: they still haven't lost, right they got Look, Jack, I'll
Speaker 1: do it for you. I have to bring up the
Speaker 1: team who we haven't mentioned yet. If we're being honest
Speaker 1: out east, I think Cleveland. Cleveland does look good. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about I'm talking about Joel NBA and Jim
Speaker 1: Harden playing the best basketball I've seen him play in
Speaker 1: a couple of years. You know, Ti Maxie, you know,
Speaker 1: healthy playing well all of a sudden. The Sixers, in
Speaker 1: my estimation, year after year after year, it was always like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll get they'll make it in, but you know, second
Speaker 1: round out, that's what it's been for the first time
Speaker 1: in a long time. It doesn't feel that way for
Speaker 1: me at least. Am I crazy or you know, is
Speaker 1: this a you know, we don't believe you need more
Speaker 1: people situation? Philly, Philly got to get that streak going.
Speaker 1: They lost lost in the final every major sport round. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the one thing that's making me believe this year
Speaker 1: is different, but I don't seem like destiny. After they
Speaker 1: lost to the Heat last year in the second round,
Speaker 1: I was like, this just seems to be their level.
Speaker 1: This is where they want to be, They want to
Speaker 1: be in the second round, getting everybody excited heading into
Speaker 1: the second round, and then flaming out in the second round.
Speaker 1: I have been a fan of the Sixers for enough
Speaker 1: years now to just be like, this is It seems
Speaker 1: like it's what it is unless there's some massive change,
Speaker 1: unless Harden comes in in like amazing shape and he
Speaker 1: has come in much better shape and he looks better.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't. I'm also completely It's
Speaker 1: the one team that I can't be objective about. It
Speaker 1: feels to me like they are a first or second
Speaker 1: round out personally, but well, we'll see, man. It really
Speaker 1: it really does feel like the Bucks, though to me,
Speaker 1: having watched them play, having won Jannie, feels like there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of dominant performances this season. Watching Jannis
Speaker 1: these past couple of weeks feels like the most dominance
Speaker 1: I've seen on a basketball court this year. He was
Speaker 1: scoring at will on the Lakers and it was literally
Speaker 1: like whenever he felt like going in funny store for
Speaker 1: you guys quick one. So my dad works with the Bucks.
Speaker 1: They were out in Atlanta not too long ago. He's
Speaker 1: on the elevator with Jannis, and you know, he tried
Speaker 1: to strike up a little convo and he's like, man,
Speaker 1: it's great to have all these guys coming back, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to score fifty every night. He's like,
Speaker 1: yannest a sis there, doesn't say anything. Then as they're
Speaker 1: walking out of the elevator, Yannis turns to him and
Speaker 1: just says, I like scoring fifty, but he looks like
Speaker 1: he likes scoring fifty. Just the moral of that story,
Speaker 1: and he's with it, you know, and obviously do the
Speaker 1: show with Gil. Gil had some some some interesting opinions.
Speaker 1: I think people a lot of people took the wrong way.
Speaker 1: But I think the main gist in point of it is,
Speaker 1: if your honest had become that three level score, he
Speaker 1: may be the most unstoppable player that we've ever seen. Look,
Speaker 1: he may never have to get to that third level,
Speaker 1: you know, the three ball may not never have to
Speaker 1: really be his thing, but if he can get to
Speaker 1: that point, there's literally no way you can stop this man.
Speaker 1: I mean, the amount of improvement on every part of
Speaker 1: his game like from when he started is pretty wild.
Speaker 1: Like I would not be surprised if he just comes
Speaker 1: to them one year and he's like shooting forty three
Speaker 1: from And that's the thing when you look at him,
Speaker 1: he's only been playing since he's like fourteen or fifteen
Speaker 1: years old. So this is the thing people have to remember.
Speaker 1: Now he's only in his like twelfth year of actual basketball. Yea,
Speaker 1: And for those of us that have hooped a long time, like,
Speaker 1: you know how valuable it is as a I got
Speaker 1: them coaching my five year old now and even seeing that,
Speaker 1: but adding the skill set and where he's where he's
Speaker 1: growing over the past couple of months, So you know,
Speaker 1: you create that to Jannis, and he still has time
Speaker 1: in his game. He's got another good, what seven to
Speaker 1: ten years, right, He's still he's still kind of just
Speaker 1: barely stretched the surface of his prime. So it's not
Speaker 1: like this dude's not gonna put in the work and
Speaker 1: adding new layers every single year, which he's already done.
Speaker 1: We've already seen. So if like I said, if he
Speaker 1: can get that, and even I compare him to he
Speaker 1: looks like a bigger Lebron than me. Obviously not not
Speaker 1: as much bag and handling skill set, but the way
Speaker 1: Lebron's jumper was a little shaky early on in his career, right,
Speaker 1: it was you know, during those heat years he was
Speaker 1: pulling threes and it was definitely like these are not
Speaker 1: going in. Where now he's at that he's added that
Speaker 1: a solid three ball to his game, So it's not
Speaker 1: to say that it's unheard of. And he's done that
Speaker 1: from like year thirty four on, so it's not to
Speaker 1: say that Jannis can't do that now in his mid twenties. Like,
Speaker 1: it's very possible. He's ahead of where I he's ahead
Speaker 1: of schedule where I had him at this point point.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought he'd have uh, you know, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just joking. Yeah, he's he's incredible, all right. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of like underrated, Like it seemed like
Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of teams were just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, let's let's try something here. There's just
Speaker 1: everybody got traded. There are so many trades that I
Speaker 1: feel like we're still realizing people are on a different team.
Speaker 1: So just I'm gonna go through some of the ones
Speaker 1: that weren't Kevin Durant and you guys stop me when
Speaker 1: you know you have something to say. But so, Josh
Speaker 1: hard is now a nick uh Luke Kennard now plays
Speaker 1: for the Grizzlies, Josh Richardson is on the Pelicans. Um
Speaker 1: Jay Crowder Bucks, Mike Mascala to the Celtics, Like, that's interesting, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, to have a to have a five
Speaker 1: that can shoot coming off the bench, it's definitely interesting.
Speaker 1: That's great pickup for them. Bones Highland, Eric Gordon, and
Speaker 1: Mason Plumley to the Clippers. I'm a big Bones fan, man.
Speaker 1: I love Bones his demeanor, I love his pettiness. Obviously
Speaker 1: the interview recently, they asked him about, you know, playing
Speaker 1: with two stars of the Nuggets verse, playing with two
Speaker 1: stars on the Clippers, and he completely did not acknowledge
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray at all, and that so that almost that
Speaker 1: that's troublesome to me, just from the standpoint when you
Speaker 1: have guys like that. I've interviewed Bones a few times.
Speaker 1: If those those older VET guys, you know, they're not
Speaker 1: taking in the younger guys, kind of showing them the ropes.
Speaker 1: But Bones has been killing. He was bawling out in
Speaker 1: January shooting Gray from three and I think you know
Speaker 1: he's coming in now trying to show he's a point guard.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much we're gonna see that, but
Speaker 1: just them having him now as an option, and I
Speaker 1: know they're kind of Reggie Jackson and fell out of
Speaker 1: favor over there, So seeing Bones with that, Clippers, Scott
Speaker 1: Mason Plumbley is gonna be a great addition too. And
Speaker 1: even Eric Gordon where you know, now guys have something
Speaker 1: to play for, you know, you know, playing with the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets, you know they're in the rebuilding phase. They
Speaker 1: got a bunch of young guys obviously not as concerned
Speaker 1: about winning as they are about stacking these these draft picks.
Speaker 1: But hopefully Eric Gordon even not get revitalized, come out
Speaker 1: to LA you know, playing the same area, but it's
Speaker 1: not the same field I've seen when the Lakers and
Speaker 1: Clippers playing. Gotta be honest, I was I was kind
Speaker 1: of shocked that Bones was available, Like I you know,
Speaker 1: I think his timeline is different, uh than you know,
Speaker 1: the championship aspirations or I guess you know, Yokich and
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray. But part of me, you know, still feels
Speaker 1: a little bit weird about that. Yeah. Look, and maybe
Speaker 1: I'm hating from the outside of the club because the
Speaker 1: Clippers of the but yeah, I was a little bit
Speaker 1: surprised that he became available. Good on the Clippers for
Speaker 1: making a hip. Yeah you said that with your whole body.
Speaker 1: You seem to really mean it. Good on the even
Speaker 1: the Nuggas getting Thomas Bryant though, which you know he
Speaker 1: was falling out for the Lakers, you know, a little
Speaker 1: salty for me. It was like, all right, man, Like
Speaker 1: you know, Ad doesn't really like playing the five. This
Speaker 1: was a great option on the defensive side, obviously not
Speaker 1: as great, but offensively he was really locking in and
Speaker 1: doing something that he had like a thirty point game
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago while Adi was out. Was really helping,
Speaker 1: you know, keep that squad in the hunt for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So for the Nuggas to be able to pick him up,
Speaker 1: that's a little a little concerned. Obviously not gonna pay
Speaker 1: too much with Joker, but if the off chance, which
Speaker 1: obviously don't hope for, but if Joker ends up being
Speaker 1: hurt anything like that, now he's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: at least come in and help out a little bit
Speaker 1: to fill that void. All right, we've held off long enough.
Speaker 1: The Lakers also made a couple of trades that Lakers
Speaker 1: fans are very optimistic about. I'm sitting back in reserving judgment,
Speaker 1: but how do you guys, feeld Low obviously coming home,
Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt, Malik Beasley, and then losing Thomas Bryant, Like,
Speaker 1: where do you feel like the Lakers are in the mix?
Speaker 1: I think, look, if that squad can get it together
Speaker 1: and Darvenham can lock in. But even the Ruey pick
Speaker 1: up for Kendrick Nunn, you know, none was pretty much chilling.
Speaker 1: He was just back finessing, which I never knock command
Speaker 1: for finesting his bag, but you know, didn't didn't play
Speaker 1: at all last year, kind of you know, just posted chilling,
Speaker 1: wearing nice fifths on the bench. Did a little bit
Speaker 1: this year when he was called upon. But to get
Speaker 1: Ruey in there now to ask him deed, to ask
Speaker 1: him shooting. He's kind of still figuring it out. And
Speaker 1: he seems like a guy that the problem when you
Speaker 1: when you come to Lakers that you gotta be able
Speaker 1: to adjust the playing in the bright lights, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, every arena ain't the same. So you come
Speaker 1: in a stable center, which some may call crypto. We're
Speaker 1: not really running with crypto right now, so it'd always
Speaker 1: be the staple Center to me. But the bright lights,
Speaker 1: the stars, everybody just courtside, all the stuff going on
Speaker 1: doesn't seem too phase by it. I like Dil Dilo
Speaker 1: coming back home. You know, I never understood even the
Speaker 1: Gobaron cat situation with Minnesota, but for him to now
Speaker 1: be able to come back now now the Timberwolves are
Speaker 1: really really locking in when aunt and basically let him
Speaker 1: know at the guard position, that's his squad. But I
Speaker 1: think del is gonna be a great pickup. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see how this plays out. And I'm an U
Speaker 1: sae it. Like guys, so I love Russell Westbrook. It
Speaker 1: was a tough you know, two seasons for Russ, you know,
Speaker 1: season and a half whatever it was. But just see
Speaker 1: the way that the fans, you know, knowing how much
Speaker 1: Russ loves La would it means to him. Kobe's his
Speaker 1: favorite player, and to see he had a toughier last year.
Speaker 1: I won't say it was all bad, but the problem is,
Speaker 1: especially in a city like this, you know, the negatives
Speaker 1: are gonna always outweigh the positive. So you know, it's
Speaker 1: a guy who had a negative reputation wise with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: which is unfortunate, but for for us to now be
Speaker 1: able to move on hopefully getting a situation and man,
Speaker 1: if he goes to the Clippers or the Bulls or
Speaker 1: wherever he ends up, I think he's gonna be a vital,
Speaker 1: vital asset. And you're getting a great guy, great locker
Speaker 1: room guy. And that's the other stuff too. You heard,
Speaker 1: you know, conflicting reports about he's this, he's that in
Speaker 1: the locker room. But I've talked to several of his
Speaker 1: former teammates and they do nothing but seeing his praise.
Speaker 1: And he's a guy that works hard, is always available,
Speaker 1: always trying to help the team win. And you know,
Speaker 1: it just didn't work out in LA And I wasn't
Speaker 1: the biggest fan of that trade when it happened. Had
Speaker 1: to pretend like it for social obviously to get these
Speaker 1: jokes and these memes off, but just just didn't see
Speaker 1: how him and Lebron were really gonna be able to
Speaker 1: be effective. So now bringing Delo in, have another another
Speaker 1: option to get some buckets, take some of the pressure
Speaker 1: off of Lebron and a d It's it's you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think this squad and this is a crazy
Speaker 1: thing about the West Man when you look at the
Speaker 1: West top the bottom, there were like four or five
Speaker 1: games out from like a fourth or fifth seed like this.
Speaker 1: This back end of the season after the All Star
Speaker 1: break is going to be wild And wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they'll at least make the play
Speaker 1: but wouldn't be surprised if they're actually in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: don't have to play one of these playing games, they
Speaker 1: can finish six, they're better. But if they can lock in,
Speaker 1: you know, Lebron knows he's getting old father time. You know,
Speaker 1: it's creeping, creeping around the corner. Even even despite all
Speaker 1: the numbers and all that other stuff. You know it,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pressure put on Lebron early in
Speaker 1: the season, especially when Ad went down. And for me,
Speaker 1: like Lebron should only really have to be played sixty
Speaker 1: to sixty five games the regular season. Looks like he'll
Speaker 1: be a little bit above that. But you know, if
Speaker 1: the team can got a great win on the Warriors
Speaker 1: with them Brown was out got smacked by the Blazers.
Speaker 1: Obviously them out. But if the team team could do
Speaker 1: something and a d can kind of finally step into
Speaker 1: that role as the feature player, at least in the
Speaker 1: regular season, Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see them
Speaker 1: fIF six seed. Wow, five six seed, Like you said,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's wild how close things are, but they
Speaker 1: are five games out from the four seed. So yeah,
Speaker 1: allow me to be the pessimistier. I like the moves
Speaker 1: they made, the pieces finally fit on the situation. I
Speaker 1: thought it was time for both sides. I think it was.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great idea for both sides
Speaker 1: to move on. I hated seeing you know, like you, Josi,
Speaker 1: I had to bite my tongue because I simply didn't
Speaker 1: want to just crap all over a guy that I've
Speaker 1: been a fan of for you for such a long time.
Speaker 1: But you know from the very start that was not
Speaker 1: going to be a situation that worked out. I will say,
Speaker 1: I recognize that the Clippers have been thrown out there.
Speaker 1: I recognized that, you know, Chicago has been thrown out there.
Speaker 1: I'm still holding out hope for him to go to
Speaker 1: Miami because I think that he can make a you know,
Speaker 1: make a fun run, you know, you know with that
Speaker 1: Miami squad. But in terms of the Lakers, the reason
Speaker 1: why I'm I'm going to play the pessimist is I
Speaker 1: know that they're still within range. But look, we're at
Speaker 1: twenty five games man, at a certain point, you're just
Speaker 1: gonna you're just going to run out of time. So
Speaker 1: if you had to put your money on it, not
Speaker 1: the ifs and the ifs and all of that, you're
Speaker 1: putting your money on it. What's more likely they make
Speaker 1: it in and make some noise or build towards next year.
Speaker 1: I'll say it like that, Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well it
Speaker 1: was the same thing last year when I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, they still got hope, all right, they still
Speaker 1: got hope, And then it was a high can coon
Speaker 1: on three end of the day. That's what it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break, we'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk MVP uh and a couple other things, and
Speaker 1: we're back, And when it comes to the MVP race,
Speaker 1: it feels like yo, Kitch is going to get it.
Speaker 1: Is that something you can do on the fantasy sites?
Speaker 1: You you put a little act on MVP, I mean
Speaker 1: higher or lower. So will he end the season with
Speaker 1: point five MVPs higher or lower? Uh? Yeah, yeah, Like
Speaker 1: I'm I think you know what you're seeing from Joker.
Speaker 1: And again, the knock from Joker last season was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like a sixth seed and he's not getting
Speaker 1: it done, and he's kind of doing this stuff because
Speaker 1: all the guys are out now just this is team
Speaker 1: is a you know, the best in the West. He's
Speaker 1: still doing what he's doing. But I'm a Yannist guy man,
Speaker 1: and and I know knock to I love his game,
Speaker 1: but I've also seen Joker get just just just you know,
Speaker 1: mentally clamped up by Dwight Howard in the bubble, like
Speaker 1: there's just players that can get to him. And offensively,
Speaker 1: probably one of the greatest offensive big, if not the
Speaker 1: best offensive big. It's tough to say that with Will Chamberlain,
Speaker 1: but that I've seen with my own eyes best offensive
Speaker 1: big I think in the history of post Will Chamberlain era.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll see how it pans out. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, you've got to kind of have to give
Speaker 1: it to him. But the problem is that if you've
Speaker 1: you've had a lot of voter. You know, they talk
Speaker 1: about the voter fatigue with guys like Michael Jordan Kobe
Speaker 1: only getting one I think in his career when obviously
Speaker 1: he deserved several more. Lebron situation where there is periods
Speaker 1: where people were just tired of voting for him. Curious
Speaker 1: to see if it plays out the same way with Joker.
Speaker 1: Got a feeling that since he's a lighter shade of skin,
Speaker 1: did it may not, It may not gravitate that way.
Speaker 1: They may they may roll with giving him the three
Speaker 1: MVPs Larry Bird exactly. So, yeah, people don't get tired
Speaker 1: voting for them. Weird. Yeah, it's weird. It's a weird
Speaker 1: that you're but uh, wouldn't be surprised, wouldn't wouldn't nock
Speaker 1: it if it happened. I mean, I think you've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. I think Nb's gonna make a
Speaker 1: big push towards the end. He's another guy who's you know,
Speaker 1: elevated his game. It looks phenomenon there. I mean, it
Speaker 1: would just be good to see and beat and your
Speaker 1: kids like play against each other. I feel like once
Speaker 1: we see them play against each other, we'll have a
Speaker 1: better Oh wait they did Oh how did it go
Speaker 1: when they played against each other? Who who did better when?
Speaker 1: And I'm not mistaken and be destroyed them? So oh right,
Speaker 1: we're right, we're right, right, right right? Um, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like so three and three in a
Speaker 1: row is like we we haven't seen it since, like
Speaker 1: I said, Larry Bird, and you're still having to overlook
Speaker 1: the like he's not a defensive zero, but he's not
Speaker 1: like all the people that are overlooking. We're also like
Speaker 1: that that they got tired of voting for, like Jordan
Speaker 1: and Lebron, and you know, they were also among the
Speaker 1: most dominant defenders in the league when they did that,
Speaker 1: and that's not the case. And then you look at
Speaker 1: his competition. Jannis and Embiid are both top five like
Speaker 1: defenders in the league, like both in terms of analytics
Speaker 1: and like if you just like ask people who watch
Speaker 1: basketball like they are like, yeah, those are among the
Speaker 1: most dominant defenders who like change the offense when they're
Speaker 1: in there. So I don't know, he's he's ranked thirtieth
Speaker 1: defensive analytics, but like, I don't know, it did just
Speaker 1: doesn't it doesn't feel It feels like that we need
Speaker 1: to we need to move on this year. That's my argument.
Speaker 1: Let me ask Josie of this when who's who's an
Speaker 1: next American born player that's gonna win it? It's tough
Speaker 1: maybe Lebron honestly the way you keep playing like he's playing,
Speaker 1: which is you know Ad was playing at a high
Speaker 1: level or in the season before you got hurt. But
Speaker 1: you know, definitely, you know kind of that foot booted
Speaker 1: him from that that competition. But yeah, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe step Surgeons, Tatum, those guys all it doesn't feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, those guys are still they haven't They're superstars,
Speaker 1: aren't gonna be wrong, but they haven't cracked that now
Speaker 1: that MVP level that that the best of the best.
Speaker 1: But would not be surprised when I was looking at
Speaker 1: the defensive analytics to make my argument, because I knew
Speaker 1: I had to do something I can't. I can't just
Speaker 1: let Jabari sit here and say Yokich is the best
Speaker 1: player he's ever seen, like you were saying yesterday when
Speaker 1: we were prepping, saying that, like he definitely deserves the
Speaker 1: third MVP in a row, like he was saying yesterday
Speaker 1: when we were prepping. Um, No, I'm just playing, but
Speaker 1: I was looking at the analytics. I also just have
Speaker 1: to call out top defenders. This year, five of the
Speaker 1: top eleven are Cleveland Cavaliers. That's crazy, that's like the
Speaker 1: top defensive players, like according to the analytics in terms
Speaker 1: of wind chair the reason why they're thirty eight and
Speaker 1: twenty two. Yeah, and have the best point differential other
Speaker 1: than the Celtics. KND just say something about analytics real quick,
Speaker 1: like I support them, but I feel like it was
Speaker 1: a lot of dudes who never got a bucket at
Speaker 1: any level of basketball now come up with these calculations
Speaker 1: and formulations and all that other good stuff. I'll just
Speaker 1: say that again. I support it, no knock to it.
Speaker 1: I think it definitely helps in a lot of regards.
Speaker 1: I love numbers. I'm heavy on analytics myself, my own
Speaker 1: personal life. But it just feels like, now we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of dudes, and I think Charles Barker somebody
Speaker 1: made this point, but you know a lot of dudes
Speaker 1: who could never hoop that are now trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: with all but I crushed the numbers and did these calculations,
Speaker 1: suggests whatever, And for me, there's so much more that
Speaker 1: goes into the analytics that that's deeper in kind of
Speaker 1: terms of just how you evaluate and analyze things. And
Speaker 1: you know, the eye test is the eye tests, and
Speaker 1: believe me, I don't I don't stand and live by
Speaker 1: that as well. But I think some mix of both,
Speaker 1: like you know, darn Haam Dartingham and the post game
Speaker 1: I think press Ra after they got smacked by the
Speaker 1: Blazers was, oh, the analytics said that these threes weren't
Speaker 1: weren't bad shots. When I'm thinking, like, analytics, dude might
Speaker 1: need to go on hiatus brought because y'all was getting cooked.
Speaker 1: We saw you, we saw the team man, we I
Speaker 1: saw what took place, you know, the numbers at the
Speaker 1: bottom of his net. I feel like the analytics are
Speaker 1: most helpful for me on defense, just because that's like
Speaker 1: when I'm watching the game, I just don't naturally watch defense,
Speaker 1: you know, so like it's just harder for me to track.
Speaker 1: So like that's probably where they need to improve the most.
Speaker 1: But that is the most that I rely on analytics.
Speaker 1: But it's it's tough when it's a team game. You
Speaker 1: got five guys out there, so you know, analytics if
Speaker 1: it's a misshot doesn't mean that it was a you know,
Speaker 1: a bad shot, good shot. There's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that goes into that. So it's just if the analytics
Speaker 1: haven't told you, don't let a guy just go for
Speaker 1: thirty in the first half. Maybe Glitzo maybe do some things.
Speaker 1: You'll do some things different, all right. This is a
Speaker 1: reference to the Blazers game. I played Pat Badford that though,
Speaker 1: and he's not a Laker anymore, but he got them
Speaker 1: fired up the last time they played. To leave that
Speaker 1: man alone. Oh right, I'm not joking with you. As
Speaker 1: soon as I saw him come out the way, I
Speaker 1: thought the exact same thing. I was like, Pat bad
Speaker 1: you got him fired up the last time y'all played them,
Speaker 1: And now you're not even here to take this and
Speaker 1: you got to see this man again. I'm just never
Speaker 1: a fan of you know. Then you can do the
Speaker 1: boasting like like the Chiefs after they beat the Eagles.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to beat Juju and do
Speaker 1: all that, because you're the ring is sewed up, can't
Speaker 1: change the game. Now we got the parade coming. But
Speaker 1: it's a little you know, it's a little different. Now
Speaker 1: I got to play this dude, again. But that's just
Speaker 1: my two cents. Yea. The men are ground, they get
Speaker 1: paid much more than me. They're gonna do what they want,
Speaker 1: all right. Just a couple performances we wanted to highlight
Speaker 1: one of them, you know, Jalen Brunson with forty, Josh
Speaker 1: Hart with twenty seven off the bench and a blowout
Speaker 1: over the over the nets. So this is a new
Speaker 1: duo who we're seeing interesting things from immediately. Um, but
Speaker 1: how are we feeling about the Knicks? Everyone? I'm not
Speaker 1: down on the Knicks. The Knicks are are back to
Speaker 1: being the premier team in New York after the KD
Speaker 1: and Kyrie trade. Solid squad. I think they're starting to
Speaker 1: figure it out. Jaylen Brunson for me, big pickup. I
Speaker 1: know when he first came everybody thought, well, maybe we're
Speaker 1: overpaying him with that four year, one hundred million dollars deal.
Speaker 1: I think he's earned all of that bread and really
Speaker 1: got this squad, you know, looking looking side, I think
Speaker 1: that Josh Harp pickup's gonna be great for them. And
Speaker 1: this is a team again, they're not you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think they can win a chip, but they could
Speaker 1: definitely make some noise. In the Eastern Conference and maybe
Speaker 1: upset somebody too in the process. Just fire stretch and
Speaker 1: nothing too. When you got college guys that you know,
Speaker 1: you rock with and you row with, and now you're
Speaker 1: playing in the league together, it does a little something
Speaker 1: for you because you're going through those things together. Yeah. Absolutely, Uh.
Speaker 1: And then we wanted to look at this defense from
Speaker 1: the Wolves. Perimeter defense at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Class of twenty twenty. Yeah, no, they're a class of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty draft. Yeah, forty three years old combined, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of years younger than Lebron I combined.
Speaker 1: All right, And then we wanted to look at this
Speaker 1: d from the Wolves. Just locking down down the stretch
Speaker 1: of a game was pretty darg gone good a challenge there,
Speaker 1: just good defense. I wonder this about And let me
Speaker 1: ask Josiah this Luke and Kyrie. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: be incredibly exciting. But in particular in a series. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, when the opposing team has, you know, has
Speaker 1: a lot of guys to throw at them, I wonder
Speaker 1: if they have enough or if anybody else is going
Speaker 1: to be able to step up. Well. Look, I think
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, at least
Speaker 1: one of those two guys are gonna be locked in
Speaker 1: and be able to get buckets and hopefully in the
Speaker 1: postseason both of them. Well, the thing is gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see, is you know Kyrie is a supreme
Speaker 1: level bucket get or sells Luca. The MAVs are Lucas team.
Speaker 1: How much Kyrie is gonna be willing to sacrifice come
Speaker 1: that time? You know, Kyrie has a little bit more
Speaker 1: playoff experience than Luca, has actually won a championship and
Speaker 1: done it at the highest level. Dotting steps eyeball with
Speaker 1: the three you know, to give that twenty sixteen cap
Speaker 1: squad the chip? Yeah where where? That's kind of gonna
Speaker 1: be the knock on Luca until you can at least
Speaker 1: get to that finals type of level. So will it
Speaker 1: be a situation we saw with like Lebron and d
Speaker 1: Wade back with Bron's I think first year with the
Speaker 1: heat when it's like, all right, I've done this before,
Speaker 1: let me, let me, let me take the show. And
Speaker 1: how's Lucas gonna step upor how's he gonna react in
Speaker 1: that situation? I think Kyrie, you know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: coming in with the understanding like this is Luca squad.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to defer if necessary. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, if Luca's not delivering or
Speaker 1: bringing it, you have a guy in Kyrie that can
Speaker 1: step up. It's gonna be interesting to see how the
Speaker 1: rest of the team kind of rallies around him. But
Speaker 1: that was the knock for Luca previously, right, Like he's
Speaker 1: one superstar, you know he needs another one to be
Speaker 1: able to get to that next level. I think you'll see,
Speaker 1: especially the way this league is now with these high
Speaker 1: scoring games, it benefits both of them to have two
Speaker 1: guys that can get buckets at will whenever they feel
Speaker 1: like it. And you like to think that if the
Speaker 1: rest of the team could just be proficient enough and
Speaker 1: knock down shots where they can. But now here's two guys.
Speaker 1: It makes it really hard to double because you're leaving
Speaker 1: at least one of them open. But now if you
Speaker 1: do have to lock in on both of them, there
Speaker 1: should be at least one more guy who'll be able
Speaker 1: to step up and knock down some shots. Wouldn't need it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the most relevant thing for the postseason is just that
Speaker 1: both of them. You know, when when things break down
Speaker 1: when they figure out your offense and all the scheming
Speaker 1: that you know your coach was to put in that
Speaker 1: you still have two people who who are just walking buckets,
Speaker 1: like you know, no matter what, Like that's the one
Speaker 1: thing that you can't game plan for. So, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like they're kind of more intriguing
Speaker 1: in the postseason then I did before the Kyrie trade.
Speaker 1: For sure, Yeah, for sure. No, you guys are exactly right.
Speaker 1: And look, I'm not trying to come across as a
Speaker 1: hater and I'm not wishing anything bad upon it. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see them make a deep run together. All
Speaker 1: I'm saying is I've seen two man teams before the
Speaker 1: past where it was just okay, your turn, Miter and
Speaker 1: your turn Michur. Now, hey, look, it's fantastic when those
Speaker 1: are the two guys doing it. All I'm saying is
Speaker 1: against a team that has multiple big wings that can
Speaker 1: at least make life difficult for those two, or a
Speaker 1: team like say Sacramento. Say they get matched up with Sacramento,
Speaker 1: where yeah, of course you know you're going to You're
Speaker 1: going to score some points against him. But it makes
Speaker 1: me concerned that you know that those other guys aren't
Speaker 1: going to have you. But you know, I guess we'll
Speaker 1: let We'll let it play out, see how it goes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll do the fastest segment in podcasting. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and it is time for the fastest
Speaker 1: segment in podcasting. This is the rapid Fire segment of
Speaker 1: Miles and Jack got Mad Boosties with Jabari Davis. Uh
Speaker 1: oh no, who got the most boosties of the crew?
Speaker 1: Fore we get to this rapper fire And what is
Speaker 1: that cumulative boosty? Is it over forty and combined? Combined? Maybe? Okay,
Speaker 1: what do we got? I could get net the last
Speaker 1: time I tried, which was like ten years ago. So
Speaker 1: I add my fifteen to it. I'm gonna have my fifteen.
Speaker 1: There we got We'll get us over the home. I
Speaker 1: think I can still get the back. Wow. Okay, it's sad.
Speaker 1: My sixty seven year old dad is gonna gonna do
Speaker 1: his birthday dunk next week. Um and uh he could
Speaker 1: jump higher than me. So wow, y'all shouldn't feel bad. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, pop still got it though, I actually look
Speaker 1: forward to those birthday dunk posts each year, so every
Speaker 1: year it's the same thing. Around this time, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh man, this year. I talked him a couple weeks.
Speaker 1: They're like, look, you're gonna do it. My hips are junkie.
Speaker 1: I don't I can't do it. I've been I've been
Speaker 1: working with the buckstaff though, the medical team to try
Speaker 1: and get them right. And then I saw him on
Speaker 1: his birthday last week. It's like, yeah, we're doing the dunk.
Speaker 1: Like I'm ready, I'm locked in. I'm like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: see like, you know, be humble, all right, just be humble,
Speaker 1: get it in. I do have to admit that the
Speaker 1: net that I could reach was extremely long. It was.
Speaker 1: It was one of the longest nets. Basket. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know I made sure of it. I'm banging out
Speaker 1: on the eighth foot though. I don't even Yeah, my
Speaker 1: kid at my kids school, they have a little a
Speaker 1: low basket that I just go there. I'm goaltending dunking
Speaker 1: on kids. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, all right, Josiah, you've been
Speaker 1: here before. It's the fastest moment in podcast thing. Uh
Speaker 1: no thought whatsoever given to these, just your instinct. We're
Speaker 1: going off instinct here. You're trying to get me packed up,
Speaker 1: but I'm ready you let's go. What do you mean?
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, okay, I didn't have time to think
Speaker 1: about all that. Let's just get it all right, Jabari,
Speaker 1: you start off all yeah, Josiah, if you wait, are
Speaker 1: you sure you want me to go first? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, I desperately want you to go first. Joe,
Speaker 1: who would you like to go for? I? We just
Speaker 1: have to make sure you know you got it? Jabari,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Oh all right, let's do it. Let's do Josia,
Speaker 1: if you could bet on any fan base to make
Speaker 1: the in Arena challenge shots, you know, the lay up,
Speaker 1: the free throw, the three pointer, and a half court
Speaker 1: which fan base or fan bases would you bet on.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Lakers because I've seen it
Speaker 1: happen several times now. You know why is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: They're so good. Every time you can see Jeanie's face
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, we don't have this bag to
Speaker 1: give y'all, Like he's like, oh damn, Matt Ryan gonna
Speaker 1: get booted, or every time you know, somebody somebody on
Speaker 1: the like no, you know, he's smiling, but he's like, damn,
Speaker 1: all right, there's my walking papers. But I think the
Speaker 1: Lakers fan base I probably seen the most hit the
Speaker 1: half quarters. And I forget what team it was, but
Speaker 1: they had the Jankie one where like they hit a
Speaker 1: half quarter and won like five hundred those of the
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers. That's what made us come up with this question.
Speaker 1: That was that was our question, is like, is it
Speaker 1: so commonplace? Is everybody just so pure born with a
Speaker 1: basketball in their hand in Indiana that like it's they're
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, we'll give you five hundred bucks whatever,
Speaker 1: that's fair state. It is, um all right, dream scripted
Speaker 1: basketball movie took him. You know, we just found out
Speaker 1: about Air, the movie starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
Speaker 1: somehow about the invention of the Air Jordan shoe. Uh,
Speaker 1: that they didn't even cast anyone as Michael Jordan. He's
Speaker 1: just like a presence, a gravitational black hole in the
Speaker 1: middle of a yeah, like the back of the head,
Speaker 1: at least the back of the head. Yeah, Like there's
Speaker 1: a shot in the trailer of the back of the
Speaker 1: head with him walking into the Nike offices. And then
Speaker 1: I so I was like who'd they get to play Jordan?
Speaker 1: Because you that that seems impossible, right, He's just like
Speaker 1: so iconic, you can't get anybody. You can't cast anybody
Speaker 1: to play him. And they said they specifically didn't cast anyone.
Speaker 1: He's just this presence. But they should have gotten Never
Speaker 1: start to play Larry Jordan. It's gonna be flex Alexander. Hey,
Speaker 1: the Michael Jordan Lifetime movie was one of the greatest things.
Speaker 1: No names on the joy. I mean, come on, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you not appreciate that beautifulness? Do
Speaker 1: you have a dream scripted basketball movie you want? You
Speaker 1: want to pitch? I would love to see a movie
Speaker 1: on h He's my favorite basketball player in the league
Speaker 1: right now, representing the South Sudan, a man who has
Speaker 1: gone through trying to tribulations walking in the shadow of
Speaker 1: his father. Was another great baller, none of them than
Speaker 1: bowl Ball. I love to see a bowl ball movie. Yo,
Speaker 1: this is a great yeah, or the I mean the
Speaker 1: minut Ball store, like you could use the perspective like
Speaker 1: stuff that they use for Lord of the Rings, so
Speaker 1: you know that that would be very cinematic, very amazing
Speaker 1: flashbacks the bow ball like that latest screen movie, but
Speaker 1: obviously done in a tasteful way. Right a right, good Europe.
Speaker 1: All right, keeping it going, we're gonna play, getting in
Speaker 1: or heading home? In mid April, the Brooklyn Nets, the
Speaker 1: team is still nine games over five hundred. They hold
Speaker 1: a seven game leading the lost column over the current
Speaker 1: ten seed with under twenty five games left. Are they
Speaker 1: getting in or they going home? Yeah, they're they're getting in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're getting in fair enough. All right, here's one the
Speaker 1: Pelicans because many of us, you know, we anticipated a
Speaker 1: big year from New Orleans. Some were a little bit
Speaker 1: higher on them than the others. But the team finds
Speaker 1: itself currently just a game and a half up on
Speaker 1: the eleven seed out West, and reports are that Zion
Speaker 1: can miss a good chunk in the remaining schedule due
Speaker 1: to reaggravating this hamstring. Are they getting in or they
Speaker 1: going home? Oh? They might be at the crib. But
Speaker 1: you know, I love Zion, loved by I love that crew,
Speaker 1: love seeds at McCollum and uh, you know even what
Speaker 1: they did last year trying to you know, sneaking into
Speaker 1: the plan. But I might I think I might be
Speaker 1: at that the crib because the Lakers are getting in.
Speaker 1: Someone's gotta go, Someone's gotta you know, look around it,
Speaker 1: Look to your left, look to your right. One of
Speaker 1: one of them can't be there, maybe both of them.
Speaker 1: So they gotta they gotta leaf frog, the Thunder, the Blazers,
Speaker 1: the Jazz, which I think the Jazz are probably on
Speaker 1: their way out, the Warriors, the Wolves New Orleans. I mean,
Speaker 1: who who's gone? I can't figure it out, Like it
Speaker 1: is gonna be tough. Um, I hate speaking of the Wolves.
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards recently acknowledged a three bag per day habit
Speaker 1: of hot cheetos fries. What was your wildest eating habit
Speaker 1: when you were a young athlete like myself? So I
Speaker 1: think about this often and uh and just what we
Speaker 1: were able to accomplish back in those days. But a
Speaker 1: bag of chili cheese fritos. And this is a regional thing.
Speaker 1: They do it like in the South. They do it,
Speaker 1: but they turn the bag the wrong way. We like
Speaker 1: the bag straight up. But you can you do with
Speaker 1: the ritos too, but take the free dogs. You actually
Speaker 1: put some cheddar cheese from Chiliy in there if it's
Speaker 1: a nice snack. Check those some onions in there too.
Speaker 1: But you could you could eat one of those in
Speaker 1: a tiki punch and have enough energy to play like
Speaker 1: four or five games. You were doing that for four tournaments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the amount of basketball I played with just hot dogs
Speaker 1: in my sis just nothing, but like you know those
Speaker 1: concession stand hot dogs, like the no water anal jankie.
Speaker 1: You know you get like one hundred bucks of hot dogs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: five bucks, like yeah, no water drinking all day? Yeah, chips.
Speaker 1: What was the wildest thing you witnessed diet wise? Did
Speaker 1: you ever like play with someone who was just like,
Speaker 1: you know, an amazing athlete despite the fact that they
Speaker 1: were surviving off of gummy candies. So my college teammate
Speaker 1: TJ Cummings, uh sonit Terry Commings. But TJ could eat
Speaker 1: like a whole BJ's pizza, And I'm talking about like
Speaker 1: the bigger like you know, big whole pizza, like two
Speaker 1: two big puzukis, you know what I mean, within like
Speaker 1: the puzuki with but like the big you know. We
Speaker 1: used to face Jason Westwood back in the day. It
Speaker 1: was my birthday to day, like you know, my birthday
Speaker 1: sixty five times every time You're going to be ja
Speaker 1: because they had to give you a free pazuki. Then
Speaker 1: he would put a p zuki on top of that,
Speaker 1: but he could take that down and still you know,
Speaker 1: go out and drop twenty like like it was not Wow, amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm impressed by that of that alone, two pazukis beyond
Speaker 1: before the even without the pizza, the two pazukis would
Speaker 1: have me done. Yeah, like you know, I've never seen
Speaker 1: him and being able to eat like that. Like if
Speaker 1: I ate those two pazukis, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: If if I looked at those two pazukis, I was
Speaker 1: gaining five pounds. So all right, Josiah, we ask everybody.
Speaker 1: I think I believe you've been here for one of
Speaker 1: these questions in the past. But Jack or Jabari went
Speaker 1: one on one. You gotta pick. It's it's up to
Speaker 1: your interpretation. Jack got the NBA lined Jabari, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be wow. Yes, yes, a feather. He's getting you, okay. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was reading he was reading the Almanacs back in
Speaker 1: the day, recalling colleges, looking at play. She's making corrections.
Speaker 1: But if you slide him over here, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, it'd be your own. But I forgot
Speaker 1: I forgot. I forgot I went by through typing this thing.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I gotta give it to you. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I can't, you know, I gotta. I gotta be able
Speaker 1: to keep the car. You already know. But March first.
Speaker 1: You asked me again March first, and the answer may
Speaker 1: be different. There we go, all right, We'll have to
Speaker 1: have you, guys. I appreciate the reparations. Also, I was
Speaker 1: as a kid, I skipped Doctor Jay's last game playing
Speaker 1: against my grandfather Jack Ramsey. I skipped his last game
Speaker 1: because Jaws two was on TV. So you had me wrong,
Speaker 1: by the way, that was stolen valor when I was
Speaker 1: like six or seven years old. That's that's what I
Speaker 1: was about. I was just, uh, I was not. I
Speaker 1: was not a basketball head one Jaws Jaws too on
Speaker 1: cable game. But back in the day though, we didn't
Speaker 1: really have access like that. We didn't have you, meaning
Speaker 1: all that. We had to get it when we could
Speaker 1: get it, and I mean they electrocute the dang shark.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool, just high, such a pleasure having you
Speaker 1: on the show. Where can people find you? Follow you?
Speaker 1: Hear you all that good stuff? I said, I feel
Speaker 1: like I have enough people that can find me, so
Speaker 1: I don't really want them too. But if you feel
Speaker 1: so inclined, go on Twitter, Instagram, King Josie fifty four.
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Speaker 1: February twenty First, I appreciate you to the crew Underdog Fantasy.
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Speaker 1: Gil Gil. Gil does not care about much and he
Speaker 1: will speak his mind. It does not care about getting
Speaker 1: packed up or if you disagree. And I got to
Speaker 1: admire that because you know, if I gave Kobe sixty,
Speaker 1: if I gave Steve Nash fifty four, if I you know,
Speaker 1: three times all NBA and all that other good stuff
Speaker 1: he has in his resume, I'd probably be saying the
Speaker 1: same things in addition to the stacks on stacks on
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Speaker 1: thank you so much, Josiah. That is gonna, that is
Speaker 1: gonna do it for us for this episode. Back next
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