Speaker 1: The Lakers are making moves that make this Plasian man
Speaker 1: very happy, and Philly has jumped into the Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: standings with after a wonderful road trip. The Celtics are
Speaker 1: still the league's best team. We knew that. And we'll
Speaker 1: get into all of that and plenty more with the
Speaker 1: host of the Baseline NBA and Don't Interview podcast, Warren
Speaker 1: Shaw on today's episode, I'm Miles Gray, then I'm Jack O'Brien,
Speaker 1: and this is Miles and yeah, we were. We did
Speaker 1: steal that from sixty Minutes, where they say and this
Speaker 1: is and then everybody says sixty minutes over top of
Speaker 1: one another, or or did Barbara Walters? Alright, alright stands
Speaker 1: for peace. I just want to clarify. I gotta say,
Speaker 1: Warren Shaw up the Baseline Don't Interviews and a Celtics
Speaker 1: fan to the Celtics Belief podcast. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: How are you man, My dude, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: having me man. Really excited to be where. I love
Speaker 1: y'all what you've been doing over here to last year.
Speaker 1: So excited to be here on Mad Boost. That's all Jabari,
Speaker 1: that's all. We're merely He's the conductor. Literally all of
Speaker 1: this is scripted. This like this next sentence. Jabari is
Speaker 1: one of the most potent producers in podcasting is my
Speaker 1: own personal belief. I don't know, he wrote, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. But more so, let
Speaker 1: me get a little bit of your background. You grew
Speaker 1: up in New York. Correct, you're from New York. I
Speaker 1: was born in New York and raising the South Florida
Speaker 1: area and show the country unfortunately, yes, and you are
Speaker 1: a Celtics but then you are, but you are a
Speaker 1: Celtics fan. I am a Celtics fan. That is correct.
Speaker 1: What's what's that journey? To take us on that journey?
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's quite the past. So I
Speaker 1: won't bore you or trying to, you know, give you
Speaker 1: the cliff notes version. But I think, like most basketball fans,
Speaker 1: I was probably a Jordan fan. When I got introduced
Speaker 1: to um So, I was kind of in that space.
Speaker 1: Um So Jabari, you know, super producer. As I know
Speaker 1: you call and would hate this, but I had a
Speaker 1: second favorite team and that second favorite team was kind
Speaker 1: of Boston because of my co host on the baseline,
Speaker 1: he was a big Celtics fan. I think to begin with,
Speaker 1: so I was a Jordan guy. Then it was actually
Speaker 1: a big Chris Webber guy and Sacramento. Um, so I'm
Speaker 1: actually always hating the Lakers, um. And then I think
Speaker 1: I really kind of got into the Celtic situation, like
Speaker 1: even just right before even KG got there, so when
Speaker 1: they were struggling in the Anton Walker days and things
Speaker 1: like that as well too. I yeah, I worked for
Speaker 1: the Next for a little while as an intern, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, it was really interesting because I saw Walker
Speaker 1: play and MSG and it was one of those games
Speaker 1: he just like he was just dancing and like like
Speaker 1: he had like forty five points or whatever, and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this squad is hot. So I just
Speaker 1: kind of kind of rock up with him from then on.
Speaker 1: And then obviously the guy KG, etceter excetera, etcetera, and
Speaker 1: that's Bro I've been ever since. Man. Wow, so he's
Speaker 1: stuck with them even after Ange came and uh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just playing all right. Yeah. I mean that you
Speaker 1: you paid your dues if you were there for the
Speaker 1: Antoine Walker era all the way through the you know,
Speaker 1: there was some ark years in the desert in between
Speaker 1: that and Drew's arrival, and now they're doing all right.
Speaker 1: It seems like they're okay. Yeah, I have a question.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite Chris Weber signature shoe that he
Speaker 1: made with dot do? So I would be lying to
Speaker 1: you if I was like, Oh, I was a big
Speaker 1: dot dot guy. So you know I couldn't. Anybody can't
Speaker 1: even in front of you on that. I know. They
Speaker 1: had some black joints, um the wood grains, the sea dubs.
Speaker 1: Remember the one that had the spinners in. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't. I can't rock with those, like
Speaker 1: I can't do it. Yeah, you don't, man, he only
Speaker 1: had wood grain. This one had wood grain. Jack that
Speaker 1: is live though, yeah live. He was a dot dot guy.
Speaker 1: He started off Nike. No, no, he was with Nike
Speaker 1: first and then but then like they gave him a
Speaker 1: they gave him with a sea dub like du a
Speaker 1: deep cut though. I'm a I'm a big sneaker. I'm
Speaker 1: a big sneaker head. And I just remember these were
Speaker 1: like such unique moments because I remember in like reading
Speaker 1: Slam magazine, I'm like, wow, I really did a full
Speaker 1: page ad for this shoe that has wood cream on it. Famously,
Speaker 1: Webber met with some Nike executives about re upping and
Speaker 1: they pronounced his name tris uh Weber. And that's the
Speaker 1: that's of course the backstory of how Steph ended up
Speaker 1: with Uh. Yes, that they were like, hey, Stephen, we're
Speaker 1: big things Nike said that. He was like, oh cool,
Speaker 1: so not signing with you guys. This is a Nike
Speaker 1: documentary coming out like on Amazon right now or soon.
Speaker 1: I just saw a bunch of stuff on that too.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out like how deep they're going
Speaker 1: to go and are they like trash and Niking that
Speaker 1: do we know? Or kind of like what's the situation
Speaker 1: for that. I mean, I think any global brand is
Speaker 1: going to have its dark sides to it, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I mean, it's it's a monolith at this point,
Speaker 1: but I disagree. I actually only trust a documentary that
Speaker 1: has made with the cooperation of the global brand that
Speaker 1: it's about at another truth. Thank you. Here's the thing, Stefan,
Speaker 1: we want to here's the thing, Stevens. If we want, Hey,
Speaker 1: we want to do an ad with it's you and
Speaker 1: you're long lost relative with the same last name, Marie Curie,
Speaker 1: and we think that's going to be just a fantastic
Speaker 1: conversation between past and president. But anyway, um, we digress.
Speaker 1: The Celtics, yes, yes, yes, the best record in the
Speaker 1: league right now, nine straight before the loss of the Magic.
Speaker 1: I have a serious question for you, So who are
Speaker 1: you more afraid of facing in a seven game series,
Speaker 1: the streaking, the surging Philadelphia seventy six or short now
Speaker 1: in second or the Orlando Magic, who really seem to
Speaker 1: have your number according to Magic fan. So I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna front with you, honestly, So taking to a
Speaker 1: serious basketball conversation, Boston struggles with size, and that's really
Speaker 1: what it boils down to. Orlando was kind of big
Speaker 1: at every position, so to speak. And those are things
Speaker 1: like Chicago beat us, you know, be us twice as
Speaker 1: well too. Um, you know, they have a lot of
Speaker 1: size and pretty much you know, one through five for
Speaker 1: the most part, and that's really where Boston hasn't really
Speaker 1: been able to figure some of those things out. So, Um,
Speaker 1: while Philadelphia is obviously more talented team than Orlando, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, I would be definitely afraid of the Magic.
Speaker 1: I think at this stage, especially with Jonathan Isay coming back,
Speaker 1: he look good in the little ten minutes he played.
Speaker 1: And you know what they've been doing with Boncio and
Speaker 1: obviously Folds and anybody else will too. Like it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wild. Like I said, they just some teams just
Speaker 1: have your number, like you alluded to. And I think
Speaker 1: that's where it is with Orlando and Boston. For so
Speaker 1: you would rather face the seventy sixers then or later.
Speaker 1: I just want to like make sure that I get
Speaker 1: it crystal clear for the bulletin board material for because yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go. I'd rather I'd rather face the seventies sixers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Warren did just make the little man sign with
Speaker 1: his hand about and be uh too small, too small,
Speaker 1: too small. Um, it is wild though, Yeah, the Celtics
Speaker 1: definitely have the seventy sixers number, like even even though
Speaker 1: beat as a big man and you know, pretty big team. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But the thing that I just love is with the
Speaker 1: magic the energy of the magic fans or like the
Speaker 1: Celtics are over, you know what I mean. The Warriors
Speaker 1: we cooked them, Okay, the Celtics mostly was it. I
Speaker 1: think three and one as a record, they're like we
Speaker 1: we're through, We're through. Uh, and I just love that
Speaker 1: excitement that happens from like those those like like those
Speaker 1: winds of great emotional value to a fandom without it
Speaker 1: actually maybe reflecting, you know, because the playoffs is obviously
Speaker 1: a completely different, uh proposition. But you know, shout out
Speaker 1: to my fans over there in Orlando, were getting very excited.
Speaker 1: Can can I just say this one thing? So I
Speaker 1: think as when you take your your fandom, so to speak,
Speaker 1: there's times where it's like, listen, I need to stay
Speaker 1: the f off of Twitter, off of Instagram because people
Speaker 1: are just they've lost their complete minds. And I think
Speaker 1: it was like Basketball Forever or some aggregate account whatever
Speaker 1: put that exact same thing that you said, Miles, you know,
Speaker 1: the Orlando magic with the championship East did like, you know,
Speaker 1: Wagner and bon Caro and Curry and Clay and and
Speaker 1: Tatum and Brown and your heads like an in deference
Speaker 1: to them, I was like, what do we do? You know,
Speaker 1: as a Laker fan, We're only like, watch if we
Speaker 1: beat the Clippers tonight, the memes are going to be ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We're holding onto ashes at the moment, So we'll we'll,
Speaker 1: we'll find a way to make that nourish our souls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as I just said, and yet plan the parade even
Speaker 1: at the All Star break. But Miles, I do I
Speaker 1: do have to ask you. You're a fan of Ruey,
Speaker 1: You're a fan of the Lakers. Two great loves of
Speaker 1: viewers have come together. As Los Angeles is most famous
Speaker 1: black and these person I have to say, I would
Speaker 1: like to welcome my brother Okay to the Lake show.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I met him and I pretended to
Speaker 1: say come to the Lakers, but instead I just said,
Speaker 1: it's really nice to meet um. Wow, you're talk like
Speaker 1: whoa no way? And I did the thing was like,
Speaker 1: hold on, let's see go back to back and I'll
Speaker 1: just put my hands straight up. But I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm excited about it, you know. The sentimentality aside. I
Speaker 1: just I think as a player, I think there's a
Speaker 1: good environment to go into because Ruey is like he listens,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have an ego, like he will absorb the
Speaker 1: wisdom that is collectively around him at the Lakers, and
Speaker 1: I think that will only help him. And Jabarri and
Speaker 1: I were talking before the show whether or not that means,
Speaker 1: you know, what the what the heights were going to
Speaker 1: reach I think our t b D But I definitely
Speaker 1: have a good feeling about it because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, he's not another guard. Okay, it's not
Speaker 1: another guard. He is a big man who can shoot.
Speaker 1: He's an analytics guy. Like the analytics people seem to
Speaker 1: enjoy his work. So I'm happy because I am. I have,
Speaker 1: like through osmosis, through spent a lot of time talking
Speaker 1: to NBA with you and superroducer Jabari. I am now
Speaker 1: I checked this six or score first, Lakers next. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am poor and obviously lifelong Lebron lover. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Warren Lebron. What do you think that though he's as
Speaker 1: like the super an ass to say he's very good
Speaker 1: at basketball, yea. I think the ruly thing though, is
Speaker 1: is super dope for them um as you alluded to,
Speaker 1: you know, shooting I love for you, like thirty four
Speaker 1: percent from the people are not not necessarily in volume,
Speaker 1: But I think just a change of scenery is gonna
Speaker 1: be helpful for him from being in Washington. You know,
Speaker 1: they got a diva and and obviously COO's came as
Speaker 1: well too, and he ended up just kind of not
Speaker 1: really getting to the opportunities that he wanted to get,
Speaker 1: you know, his last game of watching you put up
Speaker 1: a thirty piece, right, So I think the Lakers like, yeah,
Speaker 1: sign me up, and you know what I mean, get
Speaker 1: get cattured one all the way hell up out here,
Speaker 1: you know for a couple of second rounders. Was it
Speaker 1: three second rounders? And I think that the Ruy Ruey
Speaker 1: situation in l a will be actually really really great,
Speaker 1: especially with a d coming back. Um, I'm excited for
Speaker 1: you all, I really am. I think it's a nice
Speaker 1: move and you can read up on him and see
Speaker 1: where he takes you in the future. So yeah, solid
Speaker 1: moved by Lakers. There was a there was a quote
Speaker 1: from Donte Sabonis who was saying, like when they were
Speaker 1: at the Staples Center when they were Gonzaga, like like
Speaker 1: when he was like, this is where I want to play,
Speaker 1: He's like I feel a connection here and he said
Speaker 1: that like many years ago. So there's part of me
Speaker 1: that like, I just like the energy around it. And
Speaker 1: I think also just culturally, like Japanese people, there's a
Speaker 1: huge respect for your elders and people who have more
Speaker 1: knowledge than you. Like. There are a few clips circulating
Speaker 1: from when him and Russ were playing on the Wizards,
Speaker 1: of like Russ really trying to like coach him with
Speaker 1: some certain things like in the post, and he's like
Speaker 1: and you could tell the way he's like he's like listening,
Speaker 1: He's not like yea, all right, man, like like it's
Speaker 1: time to play. So I think all that combined with
Speaker 1: the amount of like collective like wisdom that is there,
Speaker 1: I think it's just gonna be just fantastic. So but again,
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see if the will and the talent
Speaker 1: all combined at the right moment. They're they're basically Washington
Speaker 1: Wizards West not right, and don't they have like four
Speaker 1: formal Wizards team now? After get in Rood past guest
Speaker 1: Tray Kirby tweeted a meme of like Nathan Fielder from
Speaker 1: Nathan for You, and he said the plan if Lebron
Speaker 1: James can win an NBA championship with Wizards. So yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that's where it's head. Yeah, it'll be It'll be
Speaker 1: cool anytime somebody joins the Lebron James team. They're joining
Speaker 1: you know, they they have the opportunity to learn from
Speaker 1: the best basketball mind to ever do it. I think
Speaker 1: so will be interesting. I will be watching everybody, so
Speaker 1: you know, keep that in mind. Anymore moves. I know
Speaker 1: super producer Jabari. I can trust him on a lot
Speaker 1: of basketball things. One thing I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can trust him on is potential Lakers trades because the
Speaker 1: hope springs eternal. Um, but he's got some things out here. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Bogdan Bogdanovich. Uh. You know. Still there's still
Speaker 1: us of the Pacers trade bringing Miles Turner and Buddy Healed,
Speaker 1: And that's the only one that really feels like it
Speaker 1: moves the needle to me for the Lakers because you
Speaker 1: get another defensive stopper and uh, a laser as. I
Speaker 1: will only refer to Lakers shooters as because Lebron osen
Speaker 1: this season by saying, not a lot of lasers out there.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, but some more like a rave, but we
Speaker 1: don't have them. Yeah, I don't know. It seems like
Speaker 1: those are the things you need the most helping is
Speaker 1: shooting and defense, which are important parts of basketball in
Speaker 1: my opinion. Yeah, I agree. And you know, if he
Speaker 1: was asking earlier, what you know, what do the Lakers
Speaker 1: need to solidify this roster? I think it's a time
Speaker 1: machine to make that move a little bit earlier. But okay,
Speaker 1: I'll deal with it. Oh just a side note for
Speaker 1: all the Laker fans out there, did you see the
Speaker 1: McDonald's All Americans and it was it was Pages Pages
Speaker 1: to Yakovitch's kid is also in there with like Brawnie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just like wow, Pages, So okay, like this again,
Speaker 1: this is when he's name mentioned ever? Yeah, yeah, Pages,
Speaker 1: attention Stoyakovitch bomb and three um one of my favorite
Speaker 1: sports center calls. Um. Also, Jabari had changed it so
Speaker 1: that it's actually Bojan Bogdanovich, not bogged On. But he
Speaker 1: when I started saying that you can't trust Jabari about
Speaker 1: about Lakers things, he's uh sabotaged me in the dock
Speaker 1: and changed the name. So it was wrong, but I
Speaker 1: caught it all good. We can move forward any other
Speaker 1: big trades. You guys are kind of keeping an eye on,
Speaker 1: not me personally. I'm once I saw my my fellow
Speaker 1: black and ees man, I was like, okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a breath a second, but yeah, Warren, what are
Speaker 1: you looking at with the with the deadline coming up?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, with the deadline, you know, I'll keep
Speaker 1: it Laker specific really quickly. If they find a way
Speaker 1: to get the Turner situation done, then that really thrust
Speaker 1: them back into the Western Conference conversation like tremendously. That
Speaker 1: that defensive president, that and the guy who could shoot
Speaker 1: the three, assuming you're not giving up Thomas Bryan or
Speaker 1: whatever it is as well to you know, to kind
Speaker 1: of solidify that bench, then you're really really really great there.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest name I would imagine to be
Speaker 1: moved is probably Bogdanovitch from Detroit. They did such a
Speaker 1: smart thing by acquiring him from a bagage just from Utah.
Speaker 1: I have no idea why Age just kind of gave
Speaker 1: him up just to get his you know, his old
Speaker 1: his old friend Kelly old Nick back over in Utah.
Speaker 1: They immediately signed Bogdanovits to a two year deal, so
Speaker 1: now any acquiring team doesn't have to be hey, where
Speaker 1: he's a rental. They know they can at least keep
Speaker 1: him on for another two years that are are decent
Speaker 1: and affordable salary. A guy who can give you a
Speaker 1: twenty game, plays decent enough defense, and it's really really
Speaker 1: helpful usually stay as healthy as well too. I think
Speaker 1: he's probably the biggest name that actually does get moved.
Speaker 1: The other names John Collins. They've been talking about moving
Speaker 1: him for you know, four years now, it seems like
Speaker 1: so if that were to happen, i'd, you know, it'd
Speaker 1: be be kind of surprised. And the other big name
Speaker 1: is actually another name from Washington's Kyle Kuzma, And I
Speaker 1: just don't know who has the assets to kind to
Speaker 1: make that happen. I love to see Dallas maybe try
Speaker 1: to make that happen for them, so so to speak, um,
Speaker 1: I think he'd be great alongside Luca and even Christian
Speaker 1: Wood at the center position. But I think every all
Speaker 1: the other moves out there are going to be minor tweaks,
Speaker 1: uh that that I've heard and kind of the rumors
Speaker 1: that I've been seeing out there as well too. But
Speaker 1: those are the three biggest names that I can see
Speaker 1: potentially getting moved this deadline. Does Kuzma have too much
Speaker 1: swag for the city of Dallas a question that's been asked.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not asking it because I wouldn't wanna
Speaker 1: antagonize the city of Dallas. It's gone bad for Catholics
Speaker 1: before they say his drip is deadly so what better
Speaker 1: place than to be in Daly Plaza. Yeah, that could
Speaker 1: be a big vibe, but really good. I don't know what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's he's uh, he's very fashionable. And
Speaker 1: I mean I'll never forget that one outfit with the
Speaker 1: really long sleeves. How could you and then head out
Speaker 1: of it? Yes, I'll never that will always just be like, wow,
Speaker 1: did his eyebrows at one point like go with the
Speaker 1: bleached cybrows? I feel like he did. I think he
Speaker 1: plattied out the whole face, like he's got that, he's
Speaker 1: got that in his bag. Man, we're such in a
Speaker 1: weird place and I think society now where I think
Speaker 1: almost anything is acceptable. So that sweater was it was ridiculous,
Speaker 1: so the top, but some people like, yo, that's so swag,
Speaker 1: you know. I was like, is it though? Really like
Speaker 1: we're just gonna accept anything now? Yeah? I rest my case. Bro,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's all good. You don't want to wear
Speaker 1: like a gigantic overside coojie sweater like was I feel
Speaker 1: like the nip of that thing and you look like
Speaker 1: a nightmare from like beetlejuice or something, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like I get, like, you know, I get
Speaker 1: the one dimension of like, whoa, that's a fashion, that's
Speaker 1: a move, that's something different. It's just so hard to
Speaker 1: see how that's functional, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: it's like, well, where your hands and head heavy, just heavy,
Speaker 1: and it's like you can't you can't eat it. You
Speaker 1: can't eat a chili dog with that sweater on. And
Speaker 1: that's the way I look at it. Some it has
Speaker 1: to be some function. But again, you can slap somebody
Speaker 1: across the room, though, I guess you have the chili
Speaker 1: dog fed to you because that's how hard you flex
Speaker 1: me on every um. All right. The Wemby race is
Speaker 1: getting interesting. Houston had lost thirteen straight before beating the
Speaker 1: Wolves on Monday, so they were they were eleven and
Speaker 1: twenty three and then lost thirteen in a row or
Speaker 1: maybe it was ten and twenty three, ten and thirty
Speaker 1: six and then they beat the Wolves. But pretty pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: Pretty feel like, yeah, I feel like it could be
Speaker 1: could be an interesting place for him. The Spurs to
Speaker 1: and eight over the last ten, fourteen and thirty three
Speaker 1: overall Pistons we we've always their support for in the past.
Speaker 1: That would be a fun team to see him. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I'm rooting for the city
Speaker 1: of Detroit in general. So even though I hear that,
Speaker 1: you know the the Great Lakes hair because like its
Speaker 1: own thing. Yeah, I mean, they do have that built
Speaker 1: in advantage that you live near the Great Lakes, you
Speaker 1: have a strong hairline. Yeah, so I'll go, I'll go
Speaker 1: just for that, just for that. What's that Robevic the
Speaker 1: oh yeah of Illinois, the governor of Illinois, The governor
Speaker 1: of Illinois. Yeah, yeah, Lego, yeah, Lego. Many appreciate absolutely
Speaker 1: shout out the Lego man hairlines out there. Um, how
Speaker 1: how are you feeling warring? Like is there? Do you
Speaker 1: have any sentimental feelings about where you'd like to see
Speaker 1: when Binyama go or you're just kind of like whatever,
Speaker 1: we'll see what, we'll see where it goes. No, I
Speaker 1: I love to see him to Charlotte. Actually, Wow, the
Speaker 1: hornets are unintentionally like they didn't know they were going
Speaker 1: to be this bad. But I think now that you
Speaker 1: this is now your reality. You go all in, so
Speaker 1: trade Deadline, you try to get rid of Fobre, you
Speaker 1: try to get Gordon Hayward, maybe keep PJ Washington or
Speaker 1: whatever the case and be plumbly, etcetera, etcetera. And you say, nah,
Speaker 1: Ball has been hurt most of the season, ankle, whatever, whatever.
Speaker 1: Imagine pairing him alongside you know, eNB next year, Like
Speaker 1: that's that's all the vibes. So I think now that
Speaker 1: Charlotte is at this stage, you know what, let's go
Speaker 1: all in and see if we can make that happen,
Speaker 1: because that could be apparent in the duo that could
Speaker 1: really be one of the more amazing ones in the
Speaker 1: NBA for years to come. In While Houston and Detroit
Speaker 1: or all those things, like I think those are great fits,
Speaker 1: San Antonio is the one place I'd hate to see
Speaker 1: him go, which is kind of boring for me. You know,
Speaker 1: that's probably what will end up at it, right, um,
Speaker 1: but I think Charlotte would be the most exciting for
Speaker 1: the short term and long term future of the NBA.
Speaker 1: That is gonna be wild. Like the lottery this year
Speaker 1: is going to be just appointment television. Like I'm going
Speaker 1: to be glued to that like I usually am, but
Speaker 1: like this is, I'm gonna be nervous before that. Even
Speaker 1: though I don't like you know, the Sixers, you know,
Speaker 1: the Lakers aren't gonna really have a chance at it,
Speaker 1: but just like this is gonna dictate the future the
Speaker 1: next you know, however years the Hornets, I'm on board
Speaker 1: if they just go full all branding, all uniform design,
Speaker 1: everything is that early nineties Hornets look okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be a lot of fun. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: LaMelo is one of the most fun players to watch
Speaker 1: in the league. So and then like a Muggsy Bogs
Speaker 1: type guy just for good measure, yeah, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: just like just to fill out the visual landscape of
Speaker 1: that roster. I would love to see Wemby. And then
Speaker 1: like also the short like you gotta have the biggest
Speaker 1: dude and the shortest dude on the team too. I
Speaker 1: would just for the media day ops, I feel you, Abo,
Speaker 1: And then you can get rid of you know, just
Speaker 1: bring Muggsy Bogs back on like a two day contract
Speaker 1: or something for media day, just for the just for
Speaker 1: the lolls, okay, Michael, and still like put up thirteen assists. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back and talk about some great performances from the week.
Speaker 1: And we're back. We are, and this is the segment
Speaker 1: where we highlight some big time performances over the past week.
Speaker 1: I don't know where do we want to start. Jalen
Speaker 1: Green put up a career high forty four and a
Speaker 1: win over the Wolves, breaking that thirteen game losing streak.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun. One of the most
Speaker 1: exciting finishers to come along in a in a while.
Speaker 1: Super fast, super just a lot of fun, super dangerous
Speaker 1: coming going at the rack. Also, he had like this
Speaker 1: one fade away, like fading to his left. Uh just
Speaker 1: rainbow just one of one of the highest arcing shots
Speaker 1: that I've seen where it was like, did that happen
Speaker 1: on purpose? But I mean it dropped through the center
Speaker 1: of the rim. But I feel like I've been seeing
Speaker 1: a little bit more of that, like the real the
Speaker 1: rainbow shot might be making a comeback. We'll see. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see that. Yeah, Look, it's always good to
Speaker 1: see my fellow Blazons out there achieving. By the way,
Speaker 1: we got to talk about the thunder Shay with thirty
Speaker 1: four or five and five in a game winner and
Speaker 1: a win over the Nuggets. Okay, so he's just behind
Speaker 1: Golden State and a play an opportunity. That's the question
Speaker 1: I have about the Lakers when I look at the
Speaker 1: West standings. You know, I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: have made the comment that like the top five six
Speaker 1: in the East looks really dangerous compared to the top
Speaker 1: five in the in the West. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I agree with that, but the West is just like, so,
Speaker 1: who who do you replace in this playoff race? If
Speaker 1: if things come together, if Ruy like really starts contributing,
Speaker 1: you got to replace the Warriors, the Timberwolves, the Sons,
Speaker 1: the Jazz, like I can see, you know, the Clippers,
Speaker 1: the MAVs, the Pelicans, the Kings, the Grizzlies, and the Nuggets.
Speaker 1: The Kings are in third place right now by themselves.
Speaker 1: I love to see it. Somehow, I don't have no will,
Speaker 1: you know. Even even they were even saying screaming light
Speaker 1: the beam in l A and I was like the
Speaker 1: tear went down my face and I was like, go ahead,
Speaker 1: but even okay, right now, yeah, they seem like they're
Speaker 1: coming on. I was watching or saw something on Instagram
Speaker 1: earlier today as well too, you know, you know, because
Speaker 1: I can't help myself, I guess, and somebody had put like, okay,
Speaker 1: see in their top ten, and I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: in top ten the NBA there were number ten, and
Speaker 1: I was like, you've you've gone too far. But this
Speaker 1: is the nice season, right, like it really is. It
Speaker 1: really is great to see what they've done, especially without
Speaker 1: chat SoC having like this magical season definitely has got
Speaker 1: to be an All Star. But you're just kind of
Speaker 1: figuring out, was is this the plan for them? Like
Speaker 1: will Charlotte didn't expect to be as bad? Did okay
Speaker 1: see it? Expect to be this good at any capacity?
Speaker 1: And now that they're here, did you just say screw it,
Speaker 1: let's go for it and try to get in, you know,
Speaker 1: because they are clearly too far removed from the Wemby
Speaker 1: sweepstakes for at this point. Now let's they're just kind
Speaker 1: of lose every single single game. But it's it's been
Speaker 1: a magical season for for the Oklahoma City Thunder, and
Speaker 1: I just I love to see it. And I went
Speaker 1: to the season saying, at least I hope they stopped tanking.
Speaker 1: I really, I really did, because I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: they have they have enough pieces and they have enough
Speaker 1: draft equity as well too. That's gonna last time a
Speaker 1: lifetime and they get check back next year too, Like
Speaker 1: this is really gonna be a formable team. So, um,
Speaker 1: with the Sun's not being as great as we thought
Speaker 1: they were going to be, the timber Wolves not being
Speaker 1: as great as they're gonna be that we thought they
Speaker 1: were going to be, there's a chance. Okay, so he
Speaker 1: can get into plane and that would just be one
Speaker 1: of the wildest, wildest stories I think of this NBA season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. It's it's really interesting because I've just been
Speaker 1: kind of assuming the Warriors are gonna end up in
Speaker 1: like top four, but like that doesn't look like that's
Speaker 1: happening at least, like they still don't seem to be
Speaker 1: able to like fully put it together, you know, any
Speaker 1: anything consistent. The Wolves still kind of going back and
Speaker 1: forth struggling the Sun's. I feel like the Sons and
Speaker 1: the Jazz are probably the most catchable maybe the Wolves
Speaker 1: Wolves in there. Um, but that's still just puts you
Speaker 1: in the play in you know exactly. I think I
Speaker 1: think with the Wolves, you're right though, um, because cat
Speaker 1: he came out and said, I think a week or
Speaker 1: so ago to like, yeah, there was no there's not
Speaker 1: a chance in hell. I was gonna be back in January.
Speaker 1: So with even that kind of in so and the
Speaker 1: Gobert fitting has been weird, you just don't know if
Speaker 1: that's going to be something that they're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to hold on and mean two and then build a chemistry.
Speaker 1: I told my co host on the baseline, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: dance to listen, they just had. They had so much
Speaker 1: roster turnover that it was kind of fool hardy for
Speaker 1: them to expect them just to ascend to a top four. See,
Speaker 1: there was just too many things that needed to blend together.
Speaker 1: Now you throw injury on top of it, they do
Speaker 1: become extremely I think he was just super producer. Gavard say,
Speaker 1: they're one of the more catchable teams out there, and Utah,
Speaker 1: they're still not settled and what they want to do.
Speaker 1: They maybe they may be sellers at the deadline. While
Speaker 1: marking In is my most improved player I think of
Speaker 1: the of the NBA season. Um, I didn't see him
Speaker 1: averaging nine like, not a chance in hell. And I'm
Speaker 1: really proud to see that he's he's been hooping in
Speaker 1: the way that he is. But they ain't just not
Speaker 1: gonna let this fly. Connie Clarkson and guys like that
Speaker 1: to you're probably not going to finish in the year
Speaker 1: on that team. Interesting. Lebron did it again, continues to
Speaker 1: do it father Time, looking like it might be a
Speaker 1: good nickname for him. Uh. He's almost averaging a game
Speaker 1: right now this season on the season, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: watching that Blazers game, like I see it, I see
Speaker 1: a twenty five point deficit. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's see you guys tomorrow on the funny pages. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it was such a I had to end up
Speaker 1: like I tuned out. But a few people text me
Speaker 1: like it's it's actually that's something's happening. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: missed it, but I watched the highlights and just watching, man,
Speaker 1: it's the I just loved towards the end of the game,
Speaker 1: Lebron just headhunting Damian Lillard and just kind of getting
Speaker 1: back to like, you know what, I'm still I'm feeling
Speaker 1: a little. I feel like I got some fuel in
Speaker 1: the tank to still head on downhill and get to
Speaker 1: the rim off of Damien. I just it wasn't I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm glad to see that he's still like he's
Speaker 1: just operating at such a high level that everybody's just like,
Speaker 1: what are we how do we analyze this? What do
Speaker 1: we say about this? Because it's not ending. It doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to have occurred to him that he wouldn't have
Speaker 1: fuel in the tank, you know, like it's just I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that's not true because he's like one of
Speaker 1: the best that like resting while playing, you know, resting,
Speaker 1: but he's yeah, he's so good at it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what he was expecting would be happening at
Speaker 1: this point. What either if you bet against him at
Speaker 1: like age forty s will be like a per game,
Speaker 1: would you. I mean yeah, like it's hard to even
Speaker 1: remember like three, like when he signed with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: are like, well, let's see, let's see how many more
Speaker 1: years he's got. Yeah, you know, we're like, oh no,
Speaker 1: so yeah, in a way, like there's more. The fool's
Speaker 1: bet would be to bet against him at this point,
Speaker 1: especially when you're looking at the data set you have
Speaker 1: of him up to the age thirty eight, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, barring some kind of injury, which doesn't you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: then he will play with his son probably. It's amazing,
Speaker 1: it really is. It's amazing and that the Barie Smith thing.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, you play with my dad, Like for
Speaker 1: he's going to see a couple more sun is coming
Speaker 1: to the league, including his own crazy Yeah. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be like telling Pages Stoyakovitch his son. He's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had I had something for your dad too wild
Speaker 1: and You're like, wow, okay. I feel like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to when he retires because you know, unlike
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, I feel like he wouldn't tell us what
Speaker 1: the Lebron diet is. That's keeping him, you know, what
Speaker 1: what his workout is. But maybe maybe once he's retired
Speaker 1: he started sharing it with us. But whatever his equivalent
Speaker 1: of TV twelve taco taco, I need to know what
Speaker 1: he's eating and what does his workout routine is. And
Speaker 1: I'm in taco chicken soft tacos. That's about it. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I go bold to get it with the fries inside. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just some some great performances like Evan Mobley. I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for him to like go off to see what
Speaker 1: his game might look like one day when he's got
Speaker 1: his offensive fundamentals and place. Uh. He put up thirty
Speaker 1: eight against the Bucks Um looking really good. Maxie had
Speaker 1: the Keys against the Kings. He put up a thirty
Speaker 1: two and six against the Kings in a in a
Speaker 1: road win for the Sixers without Embiid and Harden, which
Speaker 1: was pretty cool to see one points down. Yeah, came
Speaker 1: back from twenty one points down. Uh, and then the
Speaker 1: ant man came with forty four six and four versus
Speaker 1: the Rockets. And this brings us to our best and
Speaker 1: worst business decision of the week. Some real business decisions
Speaker 1: were made. We also have to go back in December
Speaker 1: to analyze another poor business decision or great business decision.
Speaker 1: But who would you like to start with? Mr Anthony Edwards?
Speaker 1: He uh, he dunked on al Shanon in a way
Speaker 1: that seemed premeditated. Um, I think I think it would
Speaker 1: qualify as a first degree I gotta say, schngers, my man,
Speaker 1: you gotta jump a little bit more than that, Just
Speaker 1: a little bit more. You're going you're trying to you're
Speaker 1: trying to rise up with Anthony Edwards. You gotta give
Speaker 1: me a little more than like a very light like
Speaker 1: volleyball block type elevation. But I get it. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: you know what I like. I like his attempt at
Speaker 1: verticality there. It was that and he got used. Anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards used him to like you know, he was like
Speaker 1: it was like a pommel horse a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: and just pushed up a little bit because you see
Speaker 1: like the start of his jump, he's jumping from like
Speaker 1: inside the circle, like under the free throw line, and
Speaker 1: then just like kind of grabs him and like pushes
Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh, and then violence Ensu's Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just yeah, when you saw it down like that, just
Speaker 1: that like right when it's about to go in, you're like, shanars,
Speaker 1: my man, poor business decision there. It's not caught twice right,
Speaker 1: it was twice yeah, yeah, and then the second one
Speaker 1: was with both hands, and it just seemed, um yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just like he was like, oh, I now
Speaker 1: recognized that this man is not functionally. This man is
Speaker 1: not here, so I can just do this. I can
Speaker 1: just go through him with the ball and dunk on him.
Speaker 1: And sure enough, as it needs to be defensively, sangars
Speaker 1: big Shan my man, sir, you got you gotta look
Speaker 1: out below. You know this man though he floated on that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the two hands, look at that it's body and yeah, shangars,
Speaker 1: you gotta get up, my man, and he's looking back like,
Speaker 1: wait did he make that? Did it go in? Ah? Man,
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna good highlight for him. And look at
Speaker 1: Anthony Edward's body position on the rim when his leg
Speaker 1: all up, He's like he he just had a party
Speaker 1: in your in your house right there. But you know again,
Speaker 1: but you love to see it, like you know he
Speaker 1: wasn't shying away. Uh, yeah, I do love to see it,
Speaker 1: Miles I. I. Also, we're still looking for nominations for
Speaker 1: the person who could be known as business decision, the
Speaker 1: way that like you know, some people call a d
Speaker 1: street clothes with this is somebody we want to call
Speaker 1: business decision because they're very smart about the way they
Speaker 1: get out of the way when someone's about to dunk
Speaker 1: on them. Who who has the best moves when it
Speaker 1: comes to making a smart business decision? We have the
Speaker 1: opposite of that in in a from last month with
Speaker 1: Landry shamming. Landry, look, it was a tough go. He
Speaker 1: goes for a game winner, it's not to be and
Speaker 1: then Aaron Gordon he's coming, he's he's coming for you, sir,
Speaker 1: and you got to decide you gotta make a business decision.
Speaker 1: Do you want to be on a poster? Do you
Speaker 1: go up possibly injure yourself terribly. We'll just see how
Speaker 1: this one played out. Didn't come down and oh shamon
Speaker 1: sham it. You could have got real hurt there and
Speaker 1: are like calling that and off that's there, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: It ended up counting. Yeah, they got challenged and reversed.
Speaker 1: My man, he got dunked on then landed on twice
Speaker 1: somehow like a wrestling move, like off the top roof.
Speaker 1: That was just like whole colden leg dropped him or
Speaker 1: that was wow. I mean, look at the way he
Speaker 1: tries it. He tries to absorb this. He's like, you
Speaker 1: know what this is screen, But the way his spine
Speaker 1: curves when it makes contact with Aaron God, I thought
Speaker 1: he was high jumping right here. The way he's arching
Speaker 1: that back is yeah, he is horizontal to the court.
Speaker 1: Then on the way down his head is right underneath
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon's feet, where like he could have arrently just
Speaker 1: landed and I used that pun very intentionally, uh like
Speaker 1: straight on man's skull. But you're like, luckily was like,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, he's like a young man. You gotta be careful. Man.
Speaker 1: When I go up like that, I could have really
Speaker 1: hurt you. It's a poor business decision. He had to
Speaker 1: do it right. So the context of the game is
Speaker 1: there's less than have been the left over time. There's
Speaker 1: mere seconds cham it had just missed a shot down one.
Speaker 1: Then he comes down and it's a breakaway. You have
Speaker 1: to put your body on the line. What we are
Speaker 1: looking for from our candidate for the NBA Award of
Speaker 1: Business Decision uh nickname award winner is somebody who in
Speaker 1: a moment like that, was like, it's not worth it,
Speaker 1: We're out, Like you know, that would have been the
Speaker 1: ultimate business decision. Games on the line and he's like,
Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna dunk on me. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want that. So do you want them to run
Speaker 1: away or is it when they jump in their like no,
Speaker 1: when they kind of just turned and what is more?
Speaker 1: What would be more like I guess you know you'll
Speaker 1: know when you see the the ultimate business decision, Like
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court says, what do you think is it?
Speaker 1: Is it just a back turn to be like no,
Speaker 1: I never I never wanted a part of this, or
Speaker 1: is it a full on vacating the premises. I'm not theatricality,
Speaker 1: Like if they build an excuse in where they like
Speaker 1: go down to tie their shoe, you know they're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I've slipped right or something like that. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna get somebody who's going to full on
Speaker 1: for as sump out at that point and out of
Speaker 1: the pain, Like yeah, just keep running right into the right,
Speaker 1: right right, or someone's gonna pretend to like you know
Speaker 1: when you see sprinters and like qualifying heats and stuff like,
Speaker 1: sometimes they pull up lame when they know they're not
Speaker 1: going to have race. Listen ahead and be like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get cooked right now. Someone's no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's just like limps away to be like a second
Speaker 1: handstring pool. Yeah, but again, let us know. If you
Speaker 1: have a famous business decision from years past, please put
Speaker 1: that on our radar, because these are the kinds of things.
Speaker 1: These are kinds of issues we tackle on this show.
Speaker 1: Important issues, all right, should we do it? Go to
Speaker 1: more important issues, take a break and go to even
Speaker 1: more important issues as in the rapid fire the most
Speaker 1: important issues in NBA. Yeah that all right, we'll be
Speaker 1: right back and we're back, and Warren Shaw, you're in
Speaker 1: the hot seat. My man, good name, that's my uncle
Speaker 1: and my grandfather's name. Classic. But I gotta say it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be friendly here because you are now in
Speaker 1: the hot seat, and it's time for the rapid fire
Speaker 1: round of questioning, the most fast paced round of questioning
Speaker 1: you've ever heard in podcasting actually NBA podcasting, actually more specifically,
Speaker 1: any NBA pod that's done in conjunction with the league
Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio we have flex the flex like that.
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean. Other podcasts too slow,
Speaker 1: we too fast. Be fast. We're gonna ask you a question.
Speaker 1: Just try not to labor on the answer. Just give
Speaker 1: it right back, chest past that thing, right back to us. Okay,
Speaker 1: no tricks involved. And if we start bloviating and expanding
Speaker 1: on answer, it's up to you. Warren. Please keep us
Speaker 1: going because we want to be able to keep this
Speaker 1: title of the fastest podcast. With most podcasts, it is
Speaker 1: the guests job to keep the hosts on track as
Speaker 1: or not. Have you ever been in one of those
Speaker 1: cars with the seat warmer. Imagine if instead of three
Speaker 1: levels of hot, there is a fourth level of hot.
Speaker 1: That's how hot your hot seat is about to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready, But I think that
Speaker 1: puts it in a nice perspective. So I'm I'm proud
Speaker 1: of that. I've been working on that all week. Also,
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, you're your car seatwarmers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to get like you. You simply must, Mile,
Speaker 1: I simply must, because yeah, we all I do now
Speaker 1: is I get like just those heating pads that, like
Speaker 1: those chemical ones that yeah, yeah, check them up a
Speaker 1: little bit. But I'm on the inside of my underwear.
Speaker 1: You know you have cold versions of that too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like the hot ones, my dermatologist says, if they
Speaker 1: are causing chemical burns on my skin, But that's for
Speaker 1: me to worry about. Start the clock. Here we go.
Speaker 1: We gotta say, please keep this moving man, Yeah, please
Speaker 1: keep this moving on, especially when I start talking about
Speaker 1: my dermatological business man. I don't know. I didn't know
Speaker 1: if I was being tested about it, I jump in.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, we're we're You're always being tested, my man. Uh, Jack,
Speaker 1: you want to go first, or you can go first?
Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Warren Shaw tell me
Speaker 1: this is Jalen Rose's hairline too good to be true?
Speaker 1: Uh you said people from that area keep good hairlines,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say it's not too good to be true.
Speaker 1: He's he's he's keeping a rocket. He's good, he's good money.
Speaker 1: It's like that is Lego man here. Though he got
Speaker 1: Lego man here. That hairline is Lego man. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta get best hair in the current NBA. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with my guy, Jayson Tatum. Oh, come on, he
Speaker 1: does have I have noticed that though he has very
Speaker 1: strong hairline, he's got that good hair, that good hair.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean his hair, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's it's like it was just painted ones,
Speaker 1: painted on by a master. And his beard as a
Speaker 1: as a bald dude who can't grow a beard and
Speaker 1: a Lakers fan, Jayson Tatum is an affront to my
Speaker 1: existence as Paul George has got a really good beard
Speaker 1: and a really good hairline. Surprise the future Laker guy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep it moving, I mean all right,
Speaker 1: that is my question for you, though, when when is
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum available to become a Laker Because it does
Speaker 1: feel like he's got he's got that flirtation with the
Speaker 1: Kobe thing happening. I don't know, No, I want to
Speaker 1: ask that, all right, give me a contender verse pretender
Speaker 1: for a title. Um, I think we've already heard your
Speaker 1: thoughts on the Sixers that you know they're not being
Speaker 1: the dang Celtics. So as long as Orlando doesn't get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, I think we can cross the Sixers
Speaker 1: off Cats pretender straight up, just pretender their solid just
Speaker 1: this and not they're not ready just yet. Just give
Speaker 1: him another year and then they'll be right up in
Speaker 1: the mix. What do they need to become an experience
Speaker 1: experience more than anything else. I think, you know, experience
Speaker 1: and health, so they can keep that going. I think
Speaker 1: next year they're going to be a scary, scary good team.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I like them. I just think
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna take the lumps in this playoffs.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get there, but I think a second round
Speaker 1: is probably the most likely. But they're very, very good.
Speaker 1: I'm not disrespecting them in anyway, Okay, but you're putting
Speaker 1: them in the on the waterfront category because they could
Speaker 1: have been a contender. Are not Celtics contender for sure, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, son, do you feel like they've made that
Speaker 1: leap mentally? The like Tatum having watched more Celtics games
Speaker 1: than me, I've watched them, you know, a fair number
Speaker 1: of times. I've watched what he's done to my six ers.
Speaker 1: I did not watch any of the swoon where they
Speaker 1: lost like three games and the rest of the league
Speaker 1: got excited. How real is it? So so Boston has
Speaker 1: addressed a lot of their needs in the offseason, especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to their bench, and you know, the
Speaker 1: addition of Broaden has been so immense for them. Uh
Speaker 1: the Timelord being healthy is emense for them as well too.
Speaker 1: And they may still make another movie. They clear they
Speaker 1: cleared a ross the spot about a week or so ago,
Speaker 1: getting rid of Avonley to San Antonio. So they're live
Speaker 1: in the market for probably another stretch for maybe another
Speaker 1: front court big that can spell Horford or Williams either way.
Speaker 1: But to me, I think this is a team that
Speaker 1: really just believes mentally and and and what they have
Speaker 1: in terms of talent and was looked in a great job.
Speaker 1: I think on the sidelines as a coach of the
Speaker 1: first year coach to spite all the bs that they
Speaker 1: walked into the season with. It's really been great to
Speaker 1: see them kind of overcome some of those demons. But
Speaker 1: they got do in the playoffs. But they're taking this
Speaker 1: regular season seriously and you know, they may not get
Speaker 1: sixty wins, but fifty seven wins or whatever that can
Speaker 1: still probably get them number one season the East. Speaking
Speaker 1: of overcoming demons, Mozilla is also my favorite stand up comedian.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I was gonna say. I was like,
Speaker 1: is it the humor of Joe Mazilla repowering? It must
Speaker 1: be the only royal family I know? Um, all right,
Speaker 1: Clippers my last contender verse pretender, uh, pretender. They can't
Speaker 1: stay healthy. They can't still healthy. And you know, Jack,
Speaker 1: you were on our show in the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year and I had a lot of faith and hope
Speaker 1: that the Clippers were going to be one of the
Speaker 1: great contenders in the Western Conference. But I don't trust them.
Speaker 1: Twice playing great, he's been averaging like twenty something in
Speaker 1: the last couple of games, etceter etcetera. But I just
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to be healthy when it's all
Speaker 1: that said and done, And they cannot do it without
Speaker 1: both those guys. I'm sorry, like they got to prove
Speaker 1: it to me. Yeah, all right, I think that's it
Speaker 1: for me. My but further questions, your honor, just you
Speaker 1: just let this guy at a Celtics question warrant that
Speaker 1: that's that's ridiculous man witness moment. Yes, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: my honor. Uh, Mr Shaw, you have the chance to
Speaker 1: win ten thousand dollars to make a lay up with
Speaker 1: each chance twenty five thousand dollars to make five or
Speaker 1: five free throws, or one hundred thousand to make at
Speaker 1: least four of five from the depths of the court.
Speaker 1: Which challenge? Are you taking a hundred? I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to easy money because I didn't get to play, you know,
Speaker 1: past my high school. But I'm so old. I was
Speaker 1: around when the mike and drills were right hand left hand.
Speaker 1: I feel confident that I can walk over ten k
Speaker 1: on that. So, you know, my wife would kill me
Speaker 1: if I did, you know, try to take the big
Speaker 1: money and missed. I'm taking that easy ten k man
Speaker 1: mike and drills for the win. And are you are
Speaker 1: you right hand or left handed? I'm right handed and
Speaker 1: so on the left side. You're going up with the
Speaker 1: left too, like you're you're doing it to the letter
Speaker 1: the okay, because I'll do okay. Past guests they when
Speaker 1: they do the layup challenge, when I say, well, okay,
Speaker 1: on your left too, and they're like, well, I mean
Speaker 1: I'll make a lay up from the left side. No
Speaker 1: one doing it. Well, now you're faking the funk. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't get that. You shouldn't get the tank cake if
Speaker 1: you do it that way. Okay, you know what we
Speaker 1: gotta I think we should add that. So we might
Speaker 1: need to adjust this down. The prize money based on
Speaker 1: the fact that Pacers fan made a free throw, a
Speaker 1: three pointer, and a half court shot and won a
Speaker 1: grand total of five hundred dollars. That had a next game.
Speaker 1: I was at the next game and it was giving
Speaker 1: out like a thousand dollars for like just running around
Speaker 1: or doing like a like a random I was like, yeo,
Speaker 1: the cheese out there in New York. So Indiana, all right,
Speaker 1: they need to step their game up, could you edge?
Speaker 1: And I don't know, like I guess, I guess they
Speaker 1: probably said, like this is for an opportunity to win,
Speaker 1: win five hundred dollars but that is what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do as a very low probability. I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: not a professional, who's your state. They got some people
Speaker 1: who grew up with basketball, like you think that's what
Speaker 1: there's too many of these people. Can We almost bankrupted
Speaker 1: ourselves two seasons ago by doing this at the stop
Speaker 1: people were smaller mid market team. I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: New York was given out cash and I've seen l
Speaker 1: A give out cash. So that's why in l A
Speaker 1: it was so bad. They'd let you come off the
Speaker 1: bench in some games. What's your ultimate NBA jam duo?
Speaker 1: If you could mix match across eras post snap kind
Speaker 1: of question? Is that? So? But they had all right,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go with the arcade version. So it
Speaker 1: didn't even come out at home before and I'm happen
Speaker 1: to be a big draws and petrovits fan, uh so
Speaker 1: draws in and Derrek Coleman he would they were in
Speaker 1: like the arcade version, but um but not like the
Speaker 1: home version like for your for your game consoles, and
Speaker 1: I think draws that had passed away or something like
Speaker 1: that for the real version got released. But to me,
Speaker 1: when I remain my friends used to go, Uh, I was,
Speaker 1: I'm just a big draws and fan man, So we're
Speaker 1: just a lot of time. It was a lot of
Speaker 1: fun playing with them. And then d C as well too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they got shooting because they can both you know,
Speaker 1: stroke it, and then also what they got that Yeah,
Speaker 1: he could just throw across the court and then you
Speaker 1: know when they slapped the ball, Yeah that's yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would have been dope. Is it worth the NBA
Speaker 1: doing an NBA gym like real tournament? Probably a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries would happen. But like NBA jam rules and
Speaker 1: two on two, but you're allowed to just like chuck
Speaker 1: people across the court. Might be interesting. Nineties style playoff basketball, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: bring nine playing basketball rules. Just bring the nineties play
Speaker 1: just bring back the nineties playoff basketball that the refs
Speaker 1: used to call. Uh warm man, you did so good
Speaker 1: on the last time, but you really should have kept
Speaker 1: this one moving. But that's all right. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: hold it against you. You can put together in all
Speaker 1: time for man dunk contest. Who is getting an invite
Speaker 1: from you warrant? All right, I'm gonna go m J
Speaker 1: dr J Vince Zach Levine Zach Levine interesting. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a quick story. I wasn't. I was
Speaker 1: in Toronto during that All Star break. I was feeling
Speaker 1: like how I caught like some sort of crazy bug
Speaker 1: or whatever the case it be, and literally watching that
Speaker 1: dunk contest made me feel there. I was like puke
Speaker 1: and I was like yo, but it just it lifted
Speaker 1: my spirits. I think Zach Zack has some really some
Speaker 1: really big hops at that time. So he doesn't he
Speaker 1: does not he's not a Hall of Famer. He doesn't
Speaker 1: meet the mesh of all those other guys I mentioned.
Speaker 1: But I really enjoyed that dunk contest. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: just like that. It really made you feel better. Like
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know what, woman, You're like, Nah, Doc,
Speaker 1: I don't need the vaccine. Just pull up the All
Speaker 1: sor contest or Toronto Zach with lights bring me back
Speaker 1: to life. That was it was, It was. It was
Speaker 1: a while back. Uh. You can go back in time
Speaker 1: and watching any single be a game gam from throughout history.
Speaker 1: Which game are you choose him or gam or gam? Uh?
Speaker 1: Jordan's first chip against the Lakers, so that something Game
Speaker 1: five clincher? Yeah, because I thought it was done. Zo
Speaker 1: Um after a game one a hand over his mouth.
Speaker 1: That's probably the most angry I've ever been at an
Speaker 1: NBA player in my life. Because I was young, I
Speaker 1: was not regulating my emotions very well. When he hit
Speaker 1: that game winner and then put his hand over his
Speaker 1: mouth like I don't I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: It really just made me mad as a child on
Speaker 1: the other side of that equation. I loved it, and
Speaker 1: then I cried when we lost that. I was devastated.
Speaker 1: And then after that I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I like Michael Jordan's That's what turned me. I was like,
Speaker 1: you have vanquished my team and I'm I'm but a
Speaker 1: seven year old boy. Uh. And then I fully gave
Speaker 1: myself to the Jordan hype. But yeah, I remember them
Speaker 1: so vividly. It was like so upsetting because it was
Speaker 1: always raised to be like lake or magic and everything,
Speaker 1: and it was changing in the guard came to Pip
Speaker 1: Indeed up magic m hm, he did, he did, he didn't.
Speaker 1: Man Again, it brings those bringing back to some of
Speaker 1: the great memories, you know, for me and especially when
Speaker 1: you're thinking about it in hindsight, like the lore of
Speaker 1: it like you know, hey, that was the first of
Speaker 1: six and what it meant for for MJ especially at
Speaker 1: that time, overcoming the Pistons, etcetera, etce, etcetera. Yeah again
Speaker 1: that that was a whole That would have been a
Speaker 1: whole vibe to go back and see that and have
Speaker 1: that at that moment live or to see like those
Speaker 1: games against the Pistons, knowing that this dude hit the
Speaker 1: weight room off the strength of them just throwing him about.
Speaker 1: I would like to see that that sort of grudge
Speaker 1: match energy too, because I just love hearing that those
Speaker 1: stories about it, Like, yeah, man, he realized he had
Speaker 1: to start lifting weights. Michael Jordans beautifully put. But you
Speaker 1: really got to keep things moving in you guys are
Speaker 1: so you guys it is your that's good look and
Speaker 1: all the compliments aren't gonna get you very far. But
Speaker 1: here's the final question, Warren Jack or Miles Jack. That
Speaker 1: was that wasn't even like there was was fun. Was
Speaker 1: barely started crying. That was a chest pas. That was
Speaker 1: a chest pass right now you're on a run. Now
Speaker 1: run I had barely even started crying, and he picked me. Warrant.
Speaker 1: You are an absolute legend, man, tastes absolute legend, mate,
Speaker 1: Gotta thank you so much, Warren, massive mate, legend s mate.
Speaker 1: I wish we would see your face you go, oh
Speaker 1: my god, thank you brother. I appreciate it. Yeah, in it,
Speaker 1: I mean massive man. Yeah, shout out and obviously shout
Speaker 1: out the NBA Baseline podcast, mandam for joining us. But Warren,
Speaker 1: where can people hot boy? Right? Yeah? I know? Hey yeah, man, Hey,
Speaker 1: what might be is? Bro? You're a wasteman. Where's the food?
Speaker 1: Where's the food? Brove? I'm a rule of man. You're
Speaker 1: a wasteman, not my my yod bro. But anyway, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. Where can people check
Speaker 1: you out and listen to you and and support you
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff? I fell as, I
Speaker 1: really do appreciate. You can definitely follow me on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: at Dope Interviews and my great co host kyl lea
Speaker 1: cal Game basically and that's the man and I T
Speaker 1: Media Group, etcetera, etcetera. Man, this has been a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Man, truly truly honored and blessed. Man. Appreciate
Speaker 1: it so much. You're fantastic and you've you've touched our
Speaker 1: hearts even though you picked Jack, you truly have you
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Speaker 1: ease that's be double O S t I E S.
Speaker 1: We asked the listeners which NBA star they'd want for
Speaker 1: the next five years and our boost These listeners of
Speaker 1: the week are at Lakers DS eight two said Yann's
Speaker 1: Yoki Luka and then Tatum x X large Popcorn tweeted Yoki, Janice, Luca,
Speaker 1: then Cury okay, Steven, Stephen, Stephen Cury. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's something. There is something. It's gonna be really interesting
Speaker 1: to see how Stephen Curry ages because he doesn't appear
Speaker 1: to be slowing down and his game is is built
Speaker 1: for it. So we'll see. And uh Adam capelan uh
Speaker 1: six tweeted Janice, Yoki and then Luca. I've never heard
Speaker 1: of them. It's wild to me and nobody picked them
Speaker 1: beat but okay, um interesting, Hey, shout on my shout
Speaker 1: out my NBA gooner's Joel and Beat and Dwight Howard,
Speaker 1: who are representing Arsenal this weekend as they defeated Manchester United.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll watch I'll watch some Janice games and Jocketch,
Speaker 1: but you guys need to You guys need to check
Speaker 1: out this and beat guy. He's pretty good. I'm telling you, hey, Jock,
Speaker 1: get your free coach on. All right, y'all, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We'll see you next week.
Speaker 1: Take care of yourselfs. Bye bye