Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much for bringing bringing some form
Speaker 1: of basketball back to our eyes.
Speaker 2: Jack was turning purple and blue Man.
Speaker 1: We got a fantastic taste Wemby versus check preseason showdown,
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the Lakers looking pretty good
Speaker 1: as well, some preseason player rankings and some really interesting
Speaker 1: win predictions from ESPN uh breaking it down by conference,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do that today with the Athletics Jason
Speaker 1: Jones on today's episode, I am Miles.
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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome Jason Jones, write them Batcher the Athletic. You're
Speaker 1: a La native, LBC raised, you know, becovering the NBA
Speaker 1: for for many years now.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show. Thank you for thank you
Speaker 2: for stopping buying.
Speaker 5: Again, thanks for letting me join you before things get
Speaker 5: too crazy. I mean, I juggle about a million sports now,
Speaker 5: but I think if someone like The Athletic told me
Speaker 5: I'm still an NBA writer, whether I like it or not.
Speaker 6: At heart, the NBA writers coming, are you? Are you excited,
Speaker 6: like that first night of preseason action. Really, I don't
Speaker 6: know if it was the first night, but it was
Speaker 6: the first one that I was paying attention.
Speaker 1: I guess technically it would have been what the Nixon
Speaker 1: Celtics was that the first showdown. Yeah, I'm exactly what
Speaker 1: the wise Kevin Garnett said in a tweet when he
Speaker 1: said Wemby and Chet looked like two created players last night.
Speaker 2: Future is bright I part with but yeah, yeah, which, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I did. Chet Holmgren had something to say.
Speaker 1: I mean these every clip I saw I was I
Speaker 1: was like cheering, which is wild. I've never done that
Speaker 1: to like going like okay, like stuff like that.
Speaker 6: It's been watching YouTube highlights on oh Twitter, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And being like okay, okay, so I see what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Now that's just me talking to my cell phone in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night. But yeah, every single every
Speaker 1: single highlight was was was out of this world. Jason,
Speaker 1: How did how did you feel? What were your expectations
Speaker 1: going into watching this Wenby.
Speaker 2: Versus Chet showdown? And how did it? How did you
Speaker 2: how did you take it in?
Speaker 5: See, I have zero expectations about preseason anything.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's why, you know, I just I'm.
Speaker 5: More so just kind of you know, you peek in
Speaker 5: and see, Okay, well how do they look comfortable? And
Speaker 5: for me, you know, check gave us really teased us
Speaker 5: for like a minute last year before you for the injury.
Speaker 7: M hm, And now I was just more so.
Speaker 5: Wow, it's like you much about how long and athletic
Speaker 5: Wemby is, Like, well, Chet's like like like two career
Speaker 5: like there, Chet's not that far off.
Speaker 7: Wise, You're like, wow, this is crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're entering at the same time.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Two guy, like two just wildly skilled guys over seven
Speaker 5: feet tall. Yeah, it's like like watching two video game guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, truly.
Speaker 1: I mean like this one play just Wenby with the
Speaker 1: steal to a perfect alleop.
Speaker 6: Yeah, came through scoops, it throws it behind his back,
Speaker 6: perfect value that his teammate managers to couldn't finish.
Speaker 2: Okay, a little bit of a bummer there.
Speaker 1: And then this one too, I look real right, especially
Speaker 1: this play when he gets crossed up. I'm using like
Speaker 1: every other player is left for dead and then he
Speaker 1: recovers and then it's a block.
Speaker 6: So this was this was the key one for me
Speaker 6: because I I saw this he gets completely beat defensively
Speaker 6: and then recover for a block, and I was like,
Speaker 6: all right, let's dig in. I picked I picked him
Speaker 6: preseason for Defensive Player of the Year just watching him
Speaker 6: in the Summer League, and like how nobody wants to
Speaker 6: shoot when he's on the court. Everybody like within a
Speaker 6: six foot radius of him is just trying to get
Speaker 6: away from being in a six foot radius of him,
Speaker 6: and he like changes shots that he's not even close to.
Speaker 6: So I was like, all right, let's see how many
Speaker 6: blocks he got. And that was the only block he
Speaker 6: got in the whole game, which maybe at first I
Speaker 6: was like, that's weird, but we think about it the
Speaker 6: only that that might have been the only time anyone
Speaker 6: was willing to shoot around him, and it was after
Speaker 6: somebody like blew past him and was like, well, surely
Speaker 6: he can't block this, Like he's he has like trick
Speaker 6: people into shooting in his vicinity in order to actually
Speaker 6: get a block, so that I don't know that that
Speaker 6: was wild to me.
Speaker 2: I think overall too.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, we saw when we were in Vegas
Speaker 1: for NBA, we got to see Wemby's first, you know,
Speaker 1: Summer League game, and that was it's completely different, but
Speaker 1: it was like night and day like he when I
Speaker 1: look at the performance from against the Thunder first of
Speaker 1: what we saw against Portland, it felt like he was
Speaker 1: probably like I guess, nervous or something. In the summer
Speaker 1: he looked so much more like secure in his physicality
Speaker 1: and his movements and things than just like a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago that I was like, Oh, wow, like
Speaker 1: he's he's coming into it.
Speaker 5: I think summer league can be some of the worst
Speaker 5: ways to gauge a big guy, especially, Yeah, you know
Speaker 5: those teams are you've got guys on the floor which
Speaker 5: you're trying to get jobs elsewhere. You know, he just
Speaker 5: got off a plane and been in the States for like,
Speaker 5: you know, a month, and he really hasn't played yet.
Speaker 7: So I always kind of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Britney Spears is bothering him in the casino.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I I never put too much into what I see,
Speaker 5: especially from a big guy in Summer League, because it's
Speaker 5: just that's not conducive to them, that that you can
Speaker 5: tell watching that you know he's with the with the
Speaker 5: actual team NBA players, they've got a system that he
Speaker 5: can run. It's still crazy, like watching him dribble like
Speaker 5: that go but he goes on in the back. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you're not supposed to be able to do it that high.
Speaker 6: His handle is real legit like it with like just
Speaker 6: watching him play in you know, in the internet, like
Speaker 6: before Summer League, you know last year, his hand like
Speaker 6: that he can put the ball. He's so tall that
Speaker 6: it is like sort of a liability for him to
Speaker 6: put the ball on the floor, but he really can
Speaker 6: do it, like when he has to.
Speaker 4: He really is a is a great ball handler.
Speaker 1: For I should I should take your wisdom into account, Jason,
Speaker 1: because after that match, I remember walking out of the
Speaker 1: Thomas and Maximum like this guy's cooked.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is your.
Speaker 1: King, Okay, I see, And then you know, I realized,
Speaker 1: not the best place to assess somebody, especially someone that
Speaker 1: is seemingly some one of these generational talents who's changed,
Speaker 1: like about to change sort of the way we view basketball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, never forget Anthony Randolph cooked everyone in Summer League
Speaker 5: one year and then never saw no shade to Anthony Randolph.
Speaker 5: But you get points exactly, can't you know what? There's
Speaker 5: like a list of Summer League all like Hall of
Speaker 5: famers who just didn't get any traction in the league.
Speaker 2: Right, right, right?
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you what are your expectations now
Speaker 1: for Wemby. I get it you're not taking much stock
Speaker 1: in terms of what you've seen so far preseason, summer league,
Speaker 1: et cetera. But what what what are what? What are
Speaker 1: you expecting? What do you think we the most we
Speaker 1: can expect from Wemby in this first team?
Speaker 5: I think, you know, I don't know about the team.
Speaker 5: I think he'll probably you know, he's almost he'll probably
Speaker 5: win Rookie of the Year because they will get plenty
Speaker 5: of opportunities on that team. And usually I always go
Speaker 5: with a smaller player for Rookie of the Year. It's
Speaker 5: because they they're going to have the ball, right, you know.
Speaker 5: But I think him being in San Antonio, you know
Speaker 5: they're going to run. You know, you're not going to
Speaker 5: get a rogue. You no Devin Vassel going to say,
Speaker 5: you know what, I'm giving him the ball. You know
Speaker 5: you're not going to have you and they're not going
Speaker 5: to freeze him out do anything crazy.
Speaker 7: They're going to run stuff.
Speaker 5: At highlights what he does well, he'll make an impact
Speaker 5: on defense, just because you know what is he seven
Speaker 5: to five seven whatever?
Speaker 7: You know, it's right, and he's young.
Speaker 5: He might be longer than you last remember, Yeah, you
Speaker 5: know he'll make an impact. I don't know if the
Speaker 5: team will be any good in the sense of like
Speaker 5: being a playoff team. But you know, I mean someone's
Speaker 5: saying he'll be an All Star. I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 5: going to put that on him. You know, this is
Speaker 5: just you know, he's he's still got to have a
Speaker 5: learning curve. I'm interested to see what happens when he
Speaker 5: plays against guys going to be physical with him, right.
Speaker 6: I think the highlight that I was most impressed by
Speaker 6: was like Wemby coming across the lane like scoop shot
Speaker 6: was something I don't think i'd seen from him like that.
Speaker 4: That was I don't know that was good.
Speaker 1: I think we've seen everything that's like, Okay, this guy's big,
Speaker 1: Like we get it. But then when you see these
Speaker 1: sort of like other finesse elements, you're like, I think
Speaker 1: the ball moved like fourteen sinse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really doesn't make any sense, and I don't
Speaker 4: like it.
Speaker 5: He could like be on one side of the restricted
Speaker 5: circle and go around someone with a scoop shot to
Speaker 5: the other side of the circle.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, never touch them exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I mean, yeah, this is I'm I'm very
Speaker 1: I'm very excited.
Speaker 2: I mean, like what, okay, So Jason, who are you thinking? Where?
Speaker 1: What do you think the first test is going to
Speaker 1: be for Wenby in terms of like who who You're
Speaker 1: really going to be? Like, that's a matchup. I want
Speaker 1: to see that. I'll begin to really draw some data from.
Speaker 7: Uh, I don't know what I'll get.
Speaker 5: I want to see him go against Giannis mm hmmm,
Speaker 5: just to see it, I think. And I think obviously
Speaker 5: Joker is going to be so he's going to be
Speaker 5: physical with him. But I also think that Spurs are
Speaker 5: smart enough to say, you know what, you know, if
Speaker 5: it's a physical thing, well, you know, remember you know
Speaker 5: they called Tim Duncan a power forward for twenty years
Speaker 5: even though he was playing center, right Bill, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: they'll do something to make sure he doesn't get you know,
Speaker 5: they're not going to let him like get in the
Speaker 5: pain and let you know, these guys just go right
Speaker 5: at his chest all the time. But I think I
Speaker 5: would love to see him out on the perimeter, you know.
Speaker 5: Joanna is coming up the court trying to go buy
Speaker 5: him for a dunk and to see how just to
Speaker 5: see how that.
Speaker 6: Looks, right right right, yeah, yeah, Like guarding perimeter players
Speaker 6: might might be interesting because as we saw, even though
Speaker 6: they will get past him, that doesn't really matter because
Speaker 6: getting past him unless you're like he's at the other
Speaker 6: end of the court, then you're not really past him
Speaker 6: because he can still block your shot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for nickname, I just want to put.
Speaker 6: Monsieur Fantastic, like mister Fantastic on the table. We you know,
Speaker 6: there's been a lot of a lot of nickname ideas
Speaker 6: thrown out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm still gonna go with doll Slim from
Speaker 2: Dollpher okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or dal Sleazy, just to give it a little
Speaker 1: bit of just a little bit of you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, yeah, I know if he wants to be sleep,
Speaker 2: but yeah.
Speaker 4: Video games are superheroes like that.
Speaker 6: That is what I'm getting that, Like it feels like
Speaker 6: we're seeing something that is c g I of some sort.
Speaker 5: Right right right right, yeah, when you were watching them,
Speaker 5: like yeah, this is back when I was a kid,
Speaker 5: I'd like, you know what I'm gonna do on Live
Speaker 5: or two k I'm gonna create a player who's seventy
Speaker 5: five who can handle Yeah, exactly, and you go, you
Speaker 5: would never see a player like this. You know, he's
Speaker 5: going to be the same height as Yao Ming, but
Speaker 5: he's gonna dribble like a guard.
Speaker 1: Yeah he has he's ai in Yao Ming's body. Okay, right,
Speaker 1: are you all ready for this? We'll see, we will see.
Speaker 1: What about I mean, are you feeling about Oklahoma City Jack?
Speaker 2: That's your you know you got got some money on them.
Speaker 4: You know, I got one hundred large on that because
Speaker 4: that's what I got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll say one largest. You go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Man got something that.
Speaker 6: It was a flyer. It was a wild, a wild pick.
Speaker 6: But that's that's what I was interested in doing. And
Speaker 6: they look interesting. I mean, if check can check and
Speaker 6: come right in and play. I like that he had
Speaker 6: a little chip on his shoulder when he was like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that move's called a head butt. Uh you know
Speaker 4: legal thinks a lot. Yeah, reference, he's illegal, thanks.
Speaker 6: A lot, dude. But I don't know why that's his voice.
Speaker 6: I'm sure he's much cooler than that.
Speaker 1: His party just like, come on, man, just play so
Speaker 1: I had to feel like the guy at like twenty
Speaker 1: four hour Fitness who's calling a foul all the time, Like,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 2: Man, we're just playing. What about you, Jason? How do
Speaker 2: you think that?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: Your opinion? What's your opinion of Oklahoma? Now you've chets here,
Speaker 1: this is something we got it. We got some kind
Speaker 1: of outlier contender. Where do you think they're gonna end up?
Speaker 5: I think they're in that kind of where they were
Speaker 5: last year. They're in that top ten, top eight range.
Speaker 5: I mean, they got an young school. I mean, you
Speaker 5: threw you dropped Chet in there with Shae Giddy. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's that's a nice core of you know, with talent,
Speaker 5: and they I think Shay elevated them to a level
Speaker 5: that most people didn't expect last season. You know, yeah, right,
Speaker 5: they do have every Williams in the NBA.
Speaker 7: That's probably they're consolidated.
Speaker 4: They're hoarding Williams.
Speaker 5: You know, if you got one, you know, Robert Williams
Speaker 5: better not get comfortable in Portland.
Speaker 7: You know, Okay, they got him.
Speaker 2: They just trade Chet for him.
Speaker 1: They're like, sorry, man, we just have to consolidate all.
Speaker 7: You I mean, you know, but I like, I like
Speaker 7: what they've got.
Speaker 5: I just I wonder how I'm interesting, how chat does
Speaker 5: over the course of the year. I like Giddy, you know,
Speaker 5: and I think in today's NBA you got to have playmakers,
Speaker 5: and with with with Shae and with Giddy, you got
Speaker 5: to legit playmakers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, well, shall we move on to one of
Speaker 1: the other matchups.
Speaker 2: Let's all that.
Speaker 4: Money in the bank.
Speaker 6: I think we can say, Okay, I see that, that's
Speaker 6: money in the bag. They're going to win the title.
Speaker 6: I think we're Yeah, we're all bond right now. You're
Speaker 6: gonna like that. You're gonna like the interest on that one.
Speaker 2: So take your breame, come back and look around the league.
Speaker 1: Sorry, you know me, I'm eager to watch the league,
Speaker 1: even if it is Yeah, the Lakers won.
Speaker 4: A preseason game, that's right, Yeah, all.
Speaker 6: Right, we will talk about that and other things around
Speaker 6: the league, including ESPN's somewhat confounding win predictions.
Speaker 2: All yeah, help me understand this.
Speaker 4: And we're back.
Speaker 6: We're back, and the Lakers Austin Reeves coming through with
Speaker 6: some you know, big boy shots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, squeaked it out against the nets.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, like we gotta we got a
Speaker 1: little a d blockage, we got some Lebron, a little
Speaker 1: bit of Bron. But yeah, I was like, it was
Speaker 1: nice to see Reeves and Thomas just trading threes.
Speaker 2: I love to see that. But yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm I need to see more before
Speaker 1: I go full Laker mode and you know, completely disconnect
Speaker 1: from reality and say that we're winning it all.
Speaker 2: But I like that. I'm not as panicked as I
Speaker 2: was going into this season as last year.
Speaker 1: Uh, Jason, how do you feel as a so calm
Speaker 1: native someone from the area.
Speaker 2: Do you did you? Did you? Did you catch the
Speaker 2: game at all?
Speaker 7: Not? Really?
Speaker 5: But I always start by Sam Lakers in six no
Speaker 5: matter what, I have no idea what the matchup is,
Speaker 5: I would just say Lakers and six. I know, even
Speaker 5: when they lost every preseason game last year, I was like.
Speaker 2: Lakers and six, we'll get there. I like.
Speaker 5: I like this Laker team, I really do. I just
Speaker 5: think I like them adding some shooting. I like the
Speaker 5: idea that maybe they'll be healthy, you know. I like
Speaker 5: having DeAngelo Russell and gay Vincent from the start of
Speaker 5: the season. I like not having to switch full gear,
Speaker 5: you know in February.
Speaker 7: So I like this team.
Speaker 5: I think in a lot of ways, maybe people are
Speaker 5: kind of underestimating them, you know, talking about Denver obviously,
Speaker 5: people are talking about what Phoenix might be.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: I think every year we get the Clippers are going
Speaker 5: to do it, and I won't believe that until ever
Speaker 5: to actually see it. You know, it's you know, I
Speaker 5: think this Laker team is going to make some noise.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean looks we look deep and just
Speaker 1: seeing everything come together. Christian would still a bit of
Speaker 1: a question mark there, you know, but time will tell,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 5: To have I mean, you know, last season, they had
Speaker 5: guys playing when you're going I mean, if he's on
Speaker 5: the court, ever, we're probably in trouble and those guys
Speaker 5: are all you have three guys that got on the
Speaker 5: court together at the same time last year with the Lakers,
Speaker 5: right right. I swore they went and got every guard
Speaker 5: couldn't shoot and said let's go put them all on
Speaker 5: the same team and.
Speaker 2: Just let's just see. I feel like this is a
Speaker 2: good one. I think this is going to start clicking.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the question mark, so I think, yeah, for
Speaker 1: US fans last season, I felt like the Nick Young
Speaker 1: meme would just question marks over meeting, like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: well I guess that's where we're going.
Speaker 6: When you said Lakers and six heading into last season,
Speaker 6: did you know that that was going to be seventeen
Speaker 6: games that it was going to take them to get
Speaker 6: to six wins?
Speaker 7: No, I did not know that.
Speaker 5: I was thinking a big picture. I was picking yeah,
Speaker 5: first round of the playoffs, still winning six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you were right about that. I mean they went les.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I wasn't thinking. I mean, yeah, that was
Speaker 5: one of the more brutal starts of my lifetime for
Speaker 5: the Lakers. It's like that was that was just bad.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, yeah, well they went again. I was like,
Speaker 5: they're going to beat anybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Took years off super producer Jabari's life, and I get it.
Speaker 1: We were texting each other through that whole time, just
Speaker 1: being like do you see this, and like I just
Speaker 1: let's just think about it brighter tomorrow, and it feels
Speaker 1: like maybe this where we're at.
Speaker 5: I don't think Darvinham gets enough credit for the job
Speaker 5: he did keeping that thing quasi even remotely afloat. I mean,
Speaker 5: go into a season with you know, Pat Bev and
Speaker 5: Russell Westbrook as your guards, yeah, you know and say, Okay,
Speaker 5: we're gonna somehow eke out enough wins to when you
Speaker 5: do make all these deals, you're not completely You're not
Speaker 5: like port you know, you're not really out of it
Speaker 5: right because another injuries hit. That was a bad, unwatchable team,
Speaker 5: especially Ad and Lebron. That was just bad basketball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 6: I'm sure everybody's gonna be motivated to get off to
Speaker 6: a better start this season.
Speaker 4: Not that they were trying to lose last year, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think that added benefit of knowing what
Speaker 1: a strong start means down the road, being like, look,
Speaker 1: if we can just correct that mess too, we're putting
Speaker 1: we're setting ourselves up in a much better you know,
Speaker 1: result at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So the one thing I'll say, so, I'm still shopping
Speaker 6: around for my team now that the Sixers just fill
Speaker 6: me with nothing but dread. You know, Sons are probably
Speaker 6: at the top just because of uh, you know, knowing
Speaker 6: Frank Vogel, really liking him as a person than being exciting.
Speaker 2: You got to check them out a little bit too,
Speaker 2: Can you go to me?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I got to.
Speaker 6: My dad was at their training camp just kind of
Speaker 6: observing giving Frank some feedback because they've worked together for
Speaker 6: a number of years and I got to go down
Speaker 6: for twenty four hours and sit in on one of
Speaker 6: their practices. Kevin Durant is tall, so he's not lying.
Speaker 6: And they got Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. So those
Speaker 6: are my big scoops from training camp.
Speaker 2: And how many points did you score?
Speaker 6: You said it was a zero, but it was not
Speaker 6: for of putting up shots before security dragged me out
Speaker 6: of there, right right right.
Speaker 4: But it was pretty cool. It was a pretty cool experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because for your point about Darvin, like
Speaker 1: even the mention of Frank.
Speaker 2: Vogel, I was like, oh man, yeah, what a time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do completely, I really do underrate the
Speaker 1: fact that he kept this thing together when that, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think in retrospect is like an impossible proposition.
Speaker 2: But he did it. So I've never successful.
Speaker 6: He rooted against a lebron team for a whole season,
Speaker 6: so it's always going to come back to me kind
Speaker 6: of pulling.
Speaker 4: For the Lakers a little bit.
Speaker 2: So sure, we'd love to have love to have you.
Speaker 2: Shall we talk about some of these ESPN rankings D
Speaker 2: have me.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 7: I mean, rankings are always great for engagement in our business.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's like I feel like the same way,
Speaker 1: like we always on our other show, we always get
Speaker 1: incense when people put out like like the top like
Speaker 1: nineties hip hop albums, like numbers one through fifteen, We're like,
Speaker 1: what are they doing?
Speaker 2: Like Sanconi is not even on.
Speaker 1: Here, And that's what sort of these I feel like too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're good. They're good outrage bait for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean so on the players.
Speaker 6: So they put out players there, They put out one
Speaker 6: hundred through fifty one rankings of players, and I think
Speaker 6: the only things that really jumped out to me was
Speaker 6: how bad their rankings.
Speaker 4: Were last year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like they had Chris Paul at number twenty one,
Speaker 6: the twenty first best player in the league last season,
Speaker 6: which seems.
Speaker 4: Very strong for him.
Speaker 1: A lot of optimism, I think in that one way,
Speaker 1: too much optimism because now he's fallen with fifty five spots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's he should have been seventy six.
Speaker 2: He should have been seventy six.
Speaker 6: I don't know, but I mean I guess he had
Speaker 6: been really good, like through long stretches, but he just
Speaker 6: like felt like he was didn't have enough gas in
Speaker 6: the tank to be twenty one last year.
Speaker 4: That seemed like it was.
Speaker 6: Based on, you know, just priors, right, So like what, well,
Speaker 6: Chris Paul's got to be one of the best players
Speaker 6: in league. But the other big thing, Franz Wagner is
Speaker 6: fifty two this year, which feels about right. He wasn't
Speaker 6: ranked at all last season, which is wild. That feels
Speaker 6: like a like they just forgot that he played in
Speaker 6: the NBA or something, because yeah, yeah, when he should
Speaker 6: have been at the top hundred Zion's at fifty seven,
Speaker 6: he was forty last year.
Speaker 4: That feels too low to me. But I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess if you're taking health into it,
Speaker 6: then maybe maybe that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Right right right?
Speaker 4: What's jumping out me? You guys?
Speaker 1: I mean no, that honestly, that the going from twenty
Speaker 1: one to seventy six for Chris Paul, I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean that that feels a little bit more like
Speaker 1: a real reasonable correction. I love seeing Austin Reeves getting
Speaker 1: in there from going from not at all to sixty six.
Speaker 1: I like the continued uh resaissance that we're witnessing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, like that.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I mean, it's I'm just sort
Speaker 1: of like, Okay, we'll see, you know if if any
Speaker 1: of this makes sense. These are kind of like the
Speaker 1: things like to Jason's point, where like I've I remember
Speaker 1: it in the moment I see it, but I'm never
Speaker 1: coming back to this information like in the season, like
Speaker 1: they had.
Speaker 2: Reeves at a sixty six? Can you believe it? Like
Speaker 2: no one, no one's talking about.
Speaker 4: Well, well, well yeah.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 5: You know, Kevon Looney was the eighty eighth best player
Speaker 5: and he shut down the bonus whatever numbers the bonus.
Speaker 2: Is right right right, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's wild.
Speaker 1: What about these win project I think the wind projections
Speaker 1: were something that were I'm completely lost with, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know how how these win totals are.
Speaker 2: Being adjudicated or predicted. Do what do what? Huh?
Speaker 1: It's just all stats basically that we're going like, it
Speaker 1: feels like such a there's some aggressive departures from even
Speaker 1: what the money people are saying in Vegas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 6: So the Western Conference predictions they have landing in first
Speaker 6: place in the Western Conference. The Memphis Grizzlies with a
Speaker 6: whopping forty eight wins. That's the best record in the
Speaker 6: Western Conference. Yeah, forty eight at number two, the Timberwolves
Speaker 6: at forty seven. It just it feels like they just
Speaker 6: did a math equation and like we're like, all the
Speaker 6: teams will have about the same number of wins, and
Speaker 6: that's that is what we're looking.
Speaker 2: At, and then arrange them how you like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, then published the Nuggets at forty six, the Warriors
Speaker 6: and in fourth at forty three. The Suns don't show
Speaker 6: up until fifth place, and they are barely five hundred
Speaker 6: at forty three and a half wins. The Pelicans come
Speaker 6: in sixth, the Kings and seventh the Lakers squeaking into
Speaker 6: the play in eight with forty one and a half wins,
Speaker 6: the MAVs at nine with also forty one and a
Speaker 6: half wins. First of all, I don't think any of
Speaker 6: these teams are going to have half a win. That
Speaker 6: would be my fu.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do you have a point two win, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So this is already the math doesn't
Speaker 1: check out, but.
Speaker 2: Your point.
Speaker 1: Because like so last season's last season's edition of these
Speaker 1: projections they said were sixty percent accurate with the over
Speaker 1: under totals, and like, I don't know, like to your point,
Speaker 1: Jack if just if it does feel like they just
Speaker 1: had like chat gpt to it. They're like, use these
Speaker 1: stats now, tell me what the rankings are going to be.
Speaker 1: And they're like, yeah, you got Memphis in there, number one,
Speaker 1: Minnesota two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there it is. Jason, what are you thinking?
Speaker 7: This is hilarious. I just think it's hilarious.
Speaker 5: I mean you look at it like the Warriors are
Speaker 5: going to the Warriors who got older and smaller.
Speaker 6: They're gonna be the stats four spots ahead of the Lakers,
Speaker 6: but only two games in front of the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean I'm just like, I guess they don't care
Speaker 5: that job's gonna miss how many games. I know they
Speaker 5: have a good record without him, you know, but you're
Speaker 5: gonna miss twenty five and you know it isn't tighest
Speaker 5: going now. So it's like maybe they think Marcus Smart
Speaker 5: and Derek Derek Rose will have a you know, a renaissance,
Speaker 5: and I don't know, I said, this is no, it.
Speaker 6: Feels like Marcus Smart getting a lot of a lot
Speaker 6: of love. But then when you go over to the
Speaker 6: Eastern Conference, right, the Celtics are are the only team
Speaker 6: that they predict will get over fifty wins this season,
Speaker 6: which I has that ever happened?
Speaker 4: Has there been such parody in.
Speaker 6: The league that nobody gets only one team gets to
Speaker 6: fifty wins? That feels I don't think so it feels
Speaker 6: weird to me if that, if that happened.
Speaker 7: All the rankings are weird to me.
Speaker 5: How does how does Minnesota, which couldn't figure out how
Speaker 5: Townsend go bear even play together?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right?
Speaker 7: The second in the West?
Speaker 6: Yeah, second, because they figured it out, like the I
Speaker 6: feel like they haven't figured out how to do defense. Yeah,
Speaker 6: And so Gobert, being a defensive stopper who like affects
Speaker 6: a lot around the rim, gets over indexed and and
Speaker 6: things like these, you know, and then he's like, it
Speaker 6: turns out the fact that he makes your offense kind
Speaker 6: of stagnant and makes it so the cat can't be
Speaker 6: on the floor because he can't guard the fours in
Speaker 6: the league. Like, you know, it's just these sorts of things.
Speaker 6: I used to put more stock in them than I
Speaker 6: do these days.
Speaker 1: Well, what they jack, they got so to round it up,
Speaker 1: they have the Calves in second, forty eight point six wins,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I didn't I was expecting that forty eight
Speaker 1: and a half jack the Sixers fourth, forty six point nine.
Speaker 2: Are you feeling that you can see the MBM?
Speaker 4: Fine? I can see them in fourth for sure. I
Speaker 4: mean they're all right.
Speaker 2: I wonder what the what was the Vegas prediction that
Speaker 2: was it around this? Was it around forty six?
Speaker 4: Is they dropped off? I think they were like forty four?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so they dropped off.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, the Knicks forty four point six, that's
Speaker 1: at fifth and six. The Hawks almost forty four wins
Speaker 1: seventh heat with forty two point seven eight Raptors a
Speaker 1: simp same thing, almost forty three wins, the Nets forty,
Speaker 1: and then the Pacers thirty eight, just almost thirty nine
Speaker 1: wins in tenth.
Speaker 2: So we shall see will the ais come for our jobs?
Speaker 1: I think that's what we will really find out depending
Speaker 1: on these rankings, in which might was the only ones.
Speaker 6: Who are gonna have a actually normal win total because
Speaker 6: they've got forty forty point zero wins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, right right.
Speaker 4: You don't want fractions, which is a first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll talk about statistics later. It's kind of complicated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 6: I would be really surprised if the Grizzlies and the
Speaker 6: Timberwolves were one and two in the West.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm crazy, Jason, who's your one and two
Speaker 1: in the West and one and two in the East?
Speaker 1: Just from you know, just from what you're what you're feeling,
Speaker 1: what you're observing.
Speaker 2: What would you say, how would you correct this list? Well?
Speaker 5: I just think in the East is going to be
Speaker 5: the two best teams are going to be Boston and Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: To me, that yeah, that feels that seems easy.
Speaker 7: Uh see.
Speaker 5: The West is trickier because I want to say the
Speaker 5: Lakers will be up there, and I want to say Denver,
Speaker 5: you know. But then again because I also take into
Speaker 5: account the fact that I don't think that it's based
Speaker 5: on recent history that Phoenix. I don't think Kdi plays
Speaker 5: you know, eighty games, so that'll probably knock them down
Speaker 5: a pick. I can't see the Clippers having those guys
Speaker 5: all together for an entire season.
Speaker 7: This has never happened.
Speaker 5: I don't think the war Warriors are as good as
Speaker 5: that projection is. You know, and I just think Memphis.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's gonna I think Memphis will
Speaker 5: be around there. But I just can't. I think I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go lean on the two teams that were in
Speaker 5: the conference finals, right, you know, I think I wouldn't
Speaker 5: be surprised to say if Denver went down to three,
Speaker 5: wouldn't shock me. I mean, I think, you know, them losing.
Speaker 5: I think losing Brown was a big It's gonna be
Speaker 5: a that's not something that gloss over kind of the
Speaker 5: role he played on that team. I've always been at
Speaker 5: the kind of the downside. When you win, everyone overpays
Speaker 5: your role players, right, Yeah, I've always been a firm
Speaker 5: believer in the one of the worst things you can
Speaker 5: do as a GM is overpay a role player from
Speaker 5: a winning team.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: That guy looked that good because of the team he
Speaker 5: was on. Like, not that he's a bad player, but
Speaker 5: if you're expecting him to be the guy you saw
Speaker 5: playing next to Steph and Clay or whoever was Shack whatever,
Speaker 5: you know, you end up with a guy making a
Speaker 5: gang of money and you're like, well, how come he's
Speaker 5: not as good as he was? Well, you don't have
Speaker 5: Jokic next to him.
Speaker 1: That's why, right, right right, Yeah, It's the context they
Speaker 1: were in. It's like, oh man, well now there goes
Speaker 1: a ton of my cap space.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I think I'm going Spurs Thunder one and two based.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm just I don't know if
Speaker 6: I got money on.
Speaker 4: Recency bias or what. But Spurs the number one, the
Speaker 4: number one.
Speaker 2: Okay, see a number two?
Speaker 1: Yeah for you, I'm gonna say, okay, see number one,
Speaker 1: Lakers two.
Speaker 4: Okay, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just just just so I can one for you,
Speaker 2: one for me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, let's take another break and we'll come back
Speaker 1: to close this thing out with the rapid fire round
Speaker 1: of questioning.
Speaker 4: Would this thing out with extreme prejudice?
Speaker 1: Exactly right after this, put your helmets and seat belts on, folks.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be wild.
Speaker 1: We'll be back, and we are back, Jason Jones. You're
Speaker 1: back on the show, and that means obviously you are
Speaker 1: back in the hottest seat in sports podcasting. It's time
Speaker 1: for the rapid fire round of questioning. Okay, so you
Speaker 1: know how this goes. I'm just gonna ask you a question,
Speaker 1: just give us instinctively your answer right back. Don't don't
Speaker 1: think too long about it, don't hold up the segment
Speaker 1: because we'd like to go at lightning speed, and if
Speaker 1: you go slow, we're gonna get mad at you and
Speaker 1: we might be rude, but because I respect you, I
Speaker 1: will just be passive aggressive, not so aggressively rude.
Speaker 2: Okay, sound good?
Speaker 7: That was good?
Speaker 2: Okay, good. I think we're ready for this. Jack, you're
Speaker 2: ready to yeah?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 6: Do you feel like Jason knows the temperature of the seat, Like,
Speaker 6: do we need to do some metaphors of like how
Speaker 6: hot the seed is?
Speaker 4: I feel like the seat is like.
Speaker 6: You know, the car's been parked outside for an entire
Speaker 6: afternoon three point.
Speaker 4: Thirty in August.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, leather interior.
Speaker 4: You're wearing the shortest of shorts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some will call them daisy dukes.
Speaker 4: Even yeah, and a man shorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think we're made of metal for some reason. Yeah,
Speaker 4: m hm mm hmm.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So why I in case you're wondering how hot
Speaker 6: this seed is?
Speaker 1: Okay, and Jason, again, you've got to keep this segment
Speaker 1: moving and we haven't even started. But again, just a warning,
Speaker 1: you have to keep this movie.
Speaker 7: Brian, start the clock. Okay, all right, Jack.
Speaker 2: Going first, going first, going first?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, let's I think I should go first. It
Speaker 6: feels this feels like one that needs to come from me. Okay,
Speaker 6: I just feel like, don't you think it should come
Speaker 6: for me? Like I Yeah, and looking at just how
Speaker 6: complex the just the whole question is, of course, I
Speaker 6: can barely wrap my head around the question.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it's it's probably better.
Speaker 6: For you to Jason listen. Uh, thanks for thanks for
Speaker 6: coming here today. Thanks youving time. Uh yeah, the seat,
Speaker 6: the seed is very hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, I am gonna ask you to sit
Speaker 4: down in it.
Speaker 6: I want to ask you what's your boldest prediction for
Speaker 6: the upcoming NBA season?
Speaker 7: The boldest prediction. Oh, that's a tough one.
Speaker 5: Uh, I'm like something crazy. Yeah, the Kings want to
Speaker 5: around the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Wow? Okay, does that is that bold?
Speaker 2: I feel that's bold one more round than the last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah they I mean they haven't won a playoff round
Speaker 5: in what seventeen eighteen years?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know that's not really even bold, though.
Speaker 5: I think a bold one would be I'm gonna say, okay, see,
Speaker 5: definitely makes the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Wow, now we're talking and now I'm making money.
Speaker 7: I've warmed up. Okay, see definitely gets in there.
Speaker 2: We go. Okay, he's warmed up. Get ready for the
Speaker 2: Dallas does not Dallas man.
Speaker 6: I don't understand the Dallas thing that people people being
Speaker 6: like they they've got it this year. They figured it
Speaker 6: out this year. I don't know how they feel like
Speaker 6: a team that should have made a coaching change maybe
Speaker 6: and it should have maybe made a couple more changes.
Speaker 6: But people are really the Grant Williams thing. They're like,
Speaker 6: this is gonna it's gonna make some changes. Everything around
Speaker 6: him put them over the top.
Speaker 7: That was the issue last year they didn't have Grant Williams.
Speaker 6: My main thing is that the players on that team
Speaker 6: didn't seem annoyed.
Speaker 4: Enough they you know, I feel like they would.
Speaker 6: Play better if they were super annoyed. It's the white
Speaker 6: man can't jump logic of who plays the best. You
Speaker 6: have to be annoyed by your teammate.
Speaker 2: You find that extra gear.
Speaker 1: And Jason, we got to keep this segment moving and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you know, obviously the answer.
Speaker 2: But we got to move to this next question.
Speaker 1: Jason Jones, who is the best player you've ever witnessed
Speaker 1: in person? And what did they do as you bore
Speaker 1: witness to that event?
Speaker 5: Best player in person? Shack and he just destroyed the
Speaker 5: entire Golden State Warriors front line and made them look
Speaker 5: like children.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, cried, Yeah they go here, Oh Eric, damn Pier,
Speaker 2: Oh man, I hope he's okay. I hope he's okay.
Speaker 6: Is it would Shack be the same answer for a
Speaker 6: player you feel like you need to see in person
Speaker 6: to fully appreciate.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, how big race, how big athletic Shack really is?
Speaker 4: That's the thing. It's like what he's known for.
Speaker 6: And yet everybody I know who has met him in
Speaker 6: person is like, yeah, but like he's like really, he's
Speaker 6: bigger than you think. He's bigger than your mind can
Speaker 6: make sense of.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah, because you go, yeah, like the
Speaker 1: people on the TV screen are big and tall, and
Speaker 1: then you're in the presence of someone who like, is
Speaker 1: you know, feet taller than you, Then yeah, you're it's
Speaker 1: a whole other thing.
Speaker 2: It's a whole other thing.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 6: What is the most underrated NBA city to visit? And
Speaker 6: also what is your must have meal? In that town.
Speaker 5: I'd say Portland, and there's a there's a restaurant now
Speaker 5: with truck now. It is called La Montage Bistro. They're
Speaker 5: like occasion food and they have like this macaroni and cheese.
Speaker 7: It is amazing.
Speaker 5: I get the I would get the macaroni and cheese
Speaker 5: with like buffalo hot sauce and chicken in it.
Speaker 7: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh, I appreciate the thorough answer. So many times you
Speaker 1: were just like, oh, you got to try the food
Speaker 1: everywhere in one town, but you gave me a real dish.
Speaker 1: Where is it macar Sorry say that again.
Speaker 5: You just got some macaroni and cheese with like like
Speaker 5: they have like they have like all these different options.
Speaker 5: But the one I would get is the macaroni and
Speaker 5: cheese with the chicken and the hot sauce and the
Speaker 5: blue cheese crumbles. Oh yeah, and they were a food
Speaker 5: truck now having in the food truck, but it was
Speaker 5: a restaurant. I'd always hits post game in Portland.
Speaker 4: Yeah okay, I love on that sucker and took it mobile.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, how about this, Jason, because I got
Speaker 1: to keep this thing moving.
Speaker 2: If you could have any player's skill set for a day.
Speaker 2: Whose skill set is it? And what is it? What
Speaker 2: skills specifically? And where are you using it? La Fitness
Speaker 2: twenty four fitness the local directly.
Speaker 7: I would take steff shooting.
Speaker 4: And where are you taking it?
Speaker 2: Where you taking it?
Speaker 7: I'm up first, I'm taking it to the playground, the
Speaker 7: hustle people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, how would you do it? Would you?
Speaker 1: Would you put money on individual shots? Would you say like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's run some twos real quick?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I got it. I got three hundred
Speaker 2: bucks on me.
Speaker 5: Anybody else I'd run some twos because you look at me,
Speaker 5: I don't like a football player, no one, and pull
Speaker 5: up from thirty five and hit shot.
Speaker 7: So yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: This is the first time actually that anyone has used
Speaker 1: the skill set to then articulate.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, then I'm gonna hustle people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I would commit fraud. That's not fraud.
Speaker 1: Could you take someone to court, they'd be like, you're
Speaker 1: on heor this guy said he had no jumper and
Speaker 1: then he was just it was splash City from like
Speaker 1: forty I couldn't believe what I was seeing so I
Speaker 1: do want my thirty five dollars back.
Speaker 2: I feel that. I that's why I came to small
Speaker 2: claims court. I don't know if you can claim that,
Speaker 2: but you only have.
Speaker 6: A skill set for a day. So the judge is like,
Speaker 6: all right, let's see the jumper. Let's see it, and
Speaker 6: then it's no longer wet.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I'm like, come on, I just had a good day.
Speaker 7: You're on.
Speaker 2: I just dismissed.
Speaker 1: Please take your Please take your thirty five dollars and go,
Speaker 1: mister Jones.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Speaker 4: Sam to get thirty five dollars.
Speaker 6: This one comes from the mind and fingertips nimble fingertips
Speaker 6: super producer Jabbari, who says you can go back in
Speaker 6: time and permit either Nick van Exel or Eddie Jones
Speaker 6: to stick with the Shaq Kobe squads for those title runs.
Speaker 6: Which one are you choosing to take that ride?
Speaker 7: I'm keeping Eddie, Eddie.
Speaker 5: He didn't need a point guard Relina triangle like that,
Speaker 5: so I'm thinking I'm keeping Eddie Eddie.
Speaker 1: I think we have CJ Toldonald and I think he
Speaker 1: picks Saint Nick van Excellent at the time, and I was.
Speaker 2: I was heartbroken.
Speaker 1: As Eddie Jones fan, I was like, it's got to
Speaker 1: be Eddie, got to be.
Speaker 7: Eddie is the guy I always say, Man, I wish
Speaker 7: he could have got a ring with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah for sure that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was my favorite player in that era
Speaker 1: and I was.
Speaker 2: Was heartbroken that he wasn't there for that.
Speaker 1: Okay, next question and final question, Justin Jones, you got
Speaker 1: to pick one, ready, jack Er Miles.
Speaker 2: Wow, mm hmmm mm hmmm jack.
Speaker 6: Yeah, barely any hesitation, Miles, Oh.
Speaker 2: Wow, that was wow. Yep, you got that. That was
Speaker 2: a fair one.
Speaker 4: That's wrong and that was wrong.
Speaker 2: That was a fair one. That was a fair one.
Speaker 4: You made the wrong choice, But I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Anyone anyone who probably who will still claim the Sixers,
Speaker 5: I gotta respect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, jeez, Okay, we love.
Speaker 7: More so for the amusement of it because I have
Speaker 7: a future.
Speaker 5: And I just enjoy watching their like utter misery and
Speaker 5: just they it's like the most angry, just fan base
Speaker 5: of all my NBA fan friends.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, just like broken down emotionally just yeah, not
Speaker 6: not not feeling great.
Speaker 1: Bruck up as they say. Well, Jason Jones, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. For joining us on Miles and jackot mad
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Speaker 7: All that?
Speaker 5: You can find me on at the Athletic dot Com.
Speaker 5: I'm the league culture writer there and whatever it's called
Speaker 5: now whatever ex Twitter, I'm mister Underscore. Jason Jones on Instagram,
Speaker 5: I'm mister Jones LBC and the LBC stands for Longbach, California.
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Speaker 1: Uh. And also before we go out, we want to
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Speaker 4: But hey, I get Raul Duke cell.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're right, So maybe I forgive my ignorance Raoul
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 6: Just how you can, Like, I usually tweet from my
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Speaker 4: This is Raoul Duke cell How can I help you?
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Speaker 6: Sorry real quick? What what is your answer? What is
Speaker 6: your My number? One is going to be the Spurs.
Speaker 6: I can't I can't get enough of this one. But
Speaker 6: I'm a kid. Do you guys have answers? You're I
Speaker 6: can get enough of this Grady Dick kid. So it's
Speaker 6: going to be the Toronto l Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I can't get enough of his draft day suit,
Speaker 1: although you know the TBD of how much how much
Speaker 1: I'll actually be able to see him. So I think
Speaker 1: for me it's probably Wemby And as I was saying
Speaker 1: before we record did and the Kings too, you know
Speaker 1: you got a little I got a little, a little
Speaker 1: corner in my heart right like to see those the
Speaker 1: boys in Purple do something.
Speaker 6: You know, you can't be nice to another NBA team
Speaker 6: without being so condescended.
Speaker 2: I am being nice. I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 4: I think it's it would be cute, you know before.
Speaker 5: It's a very la thing. How a Laker nation refers
Speaker 5: to every other team in California. Yeah, like when the
Speaker 5: Warriors going on, like we were like, oh, we're still
Speaker 5: happy for you, little brother.
Speaker 7: You did something.
Speaker 2: Oh y'all got to go. That's cool. Oh hey man,
Speaker 2: help help me with this. I'm kind of old. Can
Speaker 2: you help me hang number eighteen up? Okay, so much,
Speaker 2: Thank you, so much.
Speaker 5: Gratuations you're you guys can stop wearing our Laker jerseys
Speaker 5: and where you're grown off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can put the Kobe jersey away.
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Speaker 2: Uh, that's gonna do it for us. This week.
Speaker 1: Obviously, we're going to be back with even more fun
Speaker 1: because we can talk about people playing the game again.
Speaker 2: So we'll see then.
Speaker 1: Alright, piece and blessings, Bye bye,