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Speaker 2: Did you see what Lil Wayne did? This? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 3: The tweet? Yeah, not great. I thought it was a
Speaker 3: type of what do you mean he thought it was?
Speaker 2: He definitely meant it.
Speaker 3: Like you know how they say, like mission as a go. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but he doesn't like hold on, Luca's a go.
Speaker 2: All right. Here's how we know this wasn't a type.
Speaker 2: I sent it to him. It is from low Wayne
Speaker 2: cep got the tricks because he's a pimp. Lucas the
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Speaker 2: But before we get to what we will be talking
Speaker 2: about after an absolutely glorious weekend of NBA Playoffs, let's
Speaker 2: discuss what we won't be talking about. What is not
Speaker 2: on the show today is rich Strike winning the Kentucky
Speaker 2: Derby and eighty to one shot blew up all my
Speaker 2: trifectas and superfectas and exact is how the hell does
Speaker 2: it get horse that was not even in the race
Speaker 2: Friday morning when the Kentucky Derby. So I guess we
Speaker 2: are talking about Missy Elliott retweeted us multiple times. Shout
Speaker 2: out to Missy Elliott, shout out to Lil Wayne, and
Speaker 2: well hold on, put me on the camera. Please, What
Speaker 2: do you mean we're not talking about Jokic winning the
Speaker 2: MVP hours ago? It was you guys are seeing this
Speaker 2: Tuesday morning. We are recording this Monday afternoon hours ago,
Speaker 2: Adrian Wadrinarowski release that he has been told Nikoli Jokich
Speaker 2: is gonna win the MVP. Now, we all knew this
Speaker 2: was going to happen, but there was still I was
Speaker 2: still holding out slight hope that maybe it wouldn't.
Speaker 3: But it has.
Speaker 2: So they say, we're not talking about it. We are
Speaker 2: going to talk about it for just a moment. I
Speaker 2: know you're sick of the Joki stuff, demons, I don't care.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal, guys, it is just impossible to me
Speaker 2: to believe that people could be watching these playoffs and
Speaker 2: watch what Yiannis is doing, Watch what the Sixers looked
Speaker 2: like the two games without Embiid and the two games
Speaker 2: with Embiid and this series, watch what Luka is doing
Speaker 2: on a nightly basis, and still be like, Yeah, Nikola Jokic,
Speaker 2: he's the best player in basketball. So I would have
Speaker 2: less of an issue with Jokic winning the MVP if
Speaker 2: the folks who voted for him overwhelmingly. We're gonna see
Speaker 2: when the votes come out that it was overwhelming, if
Speaker 2: they had some shame, if they had some humility, But
Speaker 2: they won't. So instead, here's what I request triple down
Speaker 2: on it. Guys, He's gonna put up these same numbers
Speaker 2: next year. Let's go three in a row. I am
Speaker 2: now rooting for Nikola Jokic to win MVP again because
Speaker 2: folks tell me it's a regular season award. Playoff success
Speaker 2: doesn't matter at all, all time historical standing doesn't matter
Speaker 2: at all, and what happened the year before shouldn't matter
Speaker 2: at all. So if Jokic has unbelievable BPM plus and
Speaker 2: VORP and PR next year, let's just give it to
Speaker 2: him again because by the way, he will. And last
Speaker 2: little point, those precious advanced analytics that folks act like
Speaker 2: are infallible.
Speaker 3: You do realize that.
Speaker 2: A big part of his case was defensively, he was
Speaker 2: better than Embiid this year. He was better than Giannis
Speaker 2: this year. You watching these playoffs, is that you still
Speaker 2: think that or you think maybe it's a little embarrassing
Speaker 2: for the league. Then for the second straight year they're
Speaker 2: gonna have to award the MVP via Skype. I think
Speaker 2: it is all right, Demanse got that out of the way.
Speaker 2: What are we starting with? Because I have a feeling
Speaker 2: it is something I'm much more excited to talk about
Speaker 2: than Nikolea Joki's winning another silly MVP.
Speaker 4: He sounded pretty excited to talk about him that or
Speaker 4: winning the Okay, fair enough, but we all know you
Speaker 4: started your celebration with Luca and the MAVs. Oh they
Speaker 4: took game four to tie this series. Yeah, what's going
Speaker 4: on here? Are the Suns just overrated? Is Luca unstoppable?
Speaker 4: Or is this just another CP three playoff curse?
Speaker 2: All right, a little bit of everything. I want to
Speaker 2: start with Chris Paul.
Speaker 3: Now, all right, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna explain something to you because I think it's fair
Speaker 2: to say you know nothing about tennis, right, about the
Speaker 2: rules of tennis.
Speaker 3: So the numbers, they go about fifteen and thirties at.
Speaker 2: Fifteen thirty, okay, you know that, but they in general,
Speaker 2: you don't know a lot about tennis. So here's so
Speaker 2: in men's tennis, it does. It goes fifteen thirty forty game.
Speaker 2: So you need to win four points to win a game, okay,
Speaker 2: And you need to win six games to win a set,
Speaker 2: and you need to win three sets to win a match.
Speaker 2: It's best three out of five sets. Okay, this this,
Speaker 2: this will make sense in just a moment and in fact,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm so confident this will make sense
Speaker 2: for our social team. Put this out there, starting right
Speaker 2: about now. Where Chris Paul is in his career is
Speaker 2: like an aging great tennis player who will go into
Speaker 2: a match and say, I can't be excellent every set,
Speaker 2: and in fact, I'm going to need to take a
Speaker 2: game or multiple games or a set off just forfeiting,
Speaker 2: essentially not try to fight and claw. So I lose
Speaker 2: the set six to four. But if I know I
Speaker 2: can't win the set, lose it six love, save my
Speaker 2: energy so I can win the next one because I
Speaker 2: only need to win three out of five. That's where
Speaker 2: Chris Paul is right now in these series. Watch him
Speaker 2: in the Pelican series unbelievable nineteen points in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: thirty points in the game, zero turnovers than a four
Speaker 2: point game, whereas in the Sun series unbelievable tortures Luke
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter of Game two, seven turnovers, awful
Speaker 2: in game three, fouls, fouls out of game four. So
Speaker 2: Chris Paul can't be great every night at this point,
Speaker 2: just turn thirty seven. The question is can he be
Speaker 2: great four out of seven times?
Speaker 3: Thus far?
Speaker 2: As in this series he's been great two out of seven.
Speaker 2: I think he has determined that if he tries to
Speaker 2: be above average to very good every single night, he
Speaker 2: won't have any great performances. So I think he is sacrificing.
Speaker 2: He's just taking the out on certain management within the game.
Speaker 2: Exactly right. So he's thirty seven. He's been excellent or
Speaker 2: awful in almost every playoff game this year. I think
Speaker 2: he's like an aging tennis player. I think it makes
Speaker 2: sense the Sun's being overrated. I don't know that they're overrated.
Speaker 2: I do know what they did the first two games
Speaker 2: was not sustainable. They were shooting like sixty five percent
Speaker 2: on long tubes. And the reason the Sun should be
Speaker 2: nervous is this, it's two to two in the series.
Speaker 2: They are as a team, as a team shooting fifty
Speaker 2: forty ninety. For this series, you shoot, they're fifty one
Speaker 2: percent from the field, forty three percent from three and
Speaker 2: ninety percent from the line. You go fifty forty ninety.
Speaker 2: As a team that's going to regress a bit, that's
Speaker 2: going to water's going to find its level that you
Speaker 2: need to be up three to one, they're not. I
Speaker 2: love where the MAVs are at and of course Luca
Speaker 2: is one of the greatest players ever. He's flatly simply
Speaker 2: one of the greatest players ever. Eventually everyone will recognize it.
Speaker 2: All right, what's next?
Speaker 4: Okay Taving for Game four of Warriors Grizzlies. Yep, John
Speaker 4: I missed the next game due to injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said on Twitter that Pool broke the code.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it didn't seem like Jordan Poole that hurting
Speaker 4: it was intentional.
Speaker 3: Did do you think he did anything wrong here?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think Jordan Poole did anything wrong. And
Speaker 2: I actually don't even think John Morant was that angry
Speaker 2: at Jordan Poole. I think John Morant was angry at
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr for what he said about Dylan Brooks. I
Speaker 2: think Steve Kerr up to the ante on all of
Speaker 2: this by saying Dylan Brooks broke the code, By essentially
Speaker 2: saying Dylan Brooks intentionally hurt. Gary Payton Jr. Went in
Speaker 2: it was a dangerous play, it was a reckless play.
Speaker 2: It was not an intentionally dirty play. That's utter nonsense.
Speaker 2: And so now I watched the replay a thousand times,
Speaker 2: I'm not even certain that's where Jah hurt his knee.
Speaker 2: And again, there's a chance Jah is gonna play Game four.
Speaker 2: You guys are gonna hear and see this after Game
Speaker 2: four as we are recording, it looks like he's not
Speaker 2: gonna play. I'm not even sure that's where he hurt
Speaker 2: his knee, first of all. Second of all, I absolutely
Speaker 2: don't think that was intentional, nor do I think it
Speaker 2: was dirty.
Speaker 4: And when you put things in slow mo like that,
Speaker 4: it can make things look a certain.
Speaker 2: One absolutely right, right the idea that Jordan poole. And
Speaker 2: by the way, even if he was grabbing at his
Speaker 2: leg on purpose, I don't think it would be to
Speaker 2: hurt the guy. I think it would be to regain
Speaker 2: his balance, try to not jaw a balance that's not dirty.
Speaker 2: You want to see dirty in these playoffs, watch Jay
Speaker 2: Crowder on a nightly basis, like what Jay's doing. And so,
Speaker 2: but I think that we're in a weird spot where
Speaker 2: you know, hard fouls are now flagrant ones, flagrant ones
Speaker 2: are now flagrant twos. Flagrant twos now get you suspended,
Speaker 2: And so I don't think anything that happened with Jordan
Speaker 2: Pool's bad. By the way, I try to not cross
Speaker 2: pollinate the podcast and the TV show. But I had
Speaker 2: such a great take from the TV show I want
Speaker 2: to debut it with you right here.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's start.
Speaker 2: So Dylan Brooks got suspended, right, but he kind of
Speaker 2: got suspended for two games because he committed that foul
Speaker 2: and Gary Payton Junior less than three minutes into game one,
Speaker 2: so he got or game two, he got kicked out
Speaker 2: of that game and then suspended. Here is what I propose,
Speaker 2: and there is context and present for this. In college football,
Speaker 2: if you get a targeting penalty like helmet to helmet intentional,
Speaker 2: you get kicked out of the game. If you get
Speaker 2: that targeting penalty in the second half, you get kicked
Speaker 2: out of that game and you miss the first half
Speaker 2: of the next game. So I propose that the NBA
Speaker 2: create and it can only be applied after the game,
Speaker 2: a flagrant three, and it is instead of a suspension,
Speaker 2: it is a forty eight minute penalty. So if you
Speaker 2: get because if Dylan Brooks had committed that exact same
Speaker 2: Llungary Payton Junior with two minutes left in game three
Speaker 2: or game two, pardon me, he would have missed those
Speaker 2: two minutes and then the next game instead, he committed
Speaker 2: it two minutes in the game two he misses all.
Speaker 2: So here's how a flagrant three would work. If you
Speaker 2: commit a flagrant two that is harsh enough to be suspended,
Speaker 2: but not harsh enough to where you're like, you know,
Speaker 2: kicked out of the league for ten games something ridiculous.
Speaker 2: You are out for forty eight minutes. So if you
Speaker 2: committed it with six minutes left in the second quarter,
Speaker 2: you are kicked out, and you can come back the
Speaker 2: following game with six minutes left in the second quarter,
Speaker 2: you are suspended, so enough time to where it is.
Speaker 2: So for Dylan Brooks, he would have been eligible to
Speaker 2: come back in with two minutes and fifty two seconds
Speaker 2: into the first quarter of the next game because that's
Speaker 2: when he committed the penalty. It's like a hockey penalty
Speaker 2: box type of things called a flagrant three. It wouldn't
Speaker 2: be called in the game. It could just be applied
Speaker 2: after the game. It because he deserved a harsher punishment
Speaker 2: than Drama Aymon got a flagrant two, got kicked out,
Speaker 2: but he did not deserve essentially a two game ban,
Speaker 2: flagrant three forty eight minute penalty. Send it in Adam.
Speaker 4: Solber One don't think he deserved to be suspended for
Speaker 4: any time?
Speaker 2: Well, I would have agreed with you if not. Two
Speaker 2: things change that, and then we move.
Speaker 3: On to one he didn't pick him up or like.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not worried about that. One is the guy
Speaker 2: got hurt, right, and that I think maybe should matter.
Speaker 2: And the other is they set the precedent on flagrant
Speaker 2: to no suspension was Draymond's and you can't say what
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks and Draymond did are the same severity. So
Speaker 2: once they overreacted to Draymond's thing, they you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, you almost have to al right, what's.
Speaker 3: That makes sense? The big story of the playoffs so
Speaker 3: far as officiated, it's been terrible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Chris Faull found out in twenty three minutes against
Speaker 4: Dallas on Sunday he can't win a game officiated by
Speaker 4: Scott Foster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: The Celtics lost due to a crazy no call. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they lost because Tatum was terrible. No, they lost
Speaker 2: because Tatum was terrible. And if they you think Marcus
Speaker 2: Smart's gonna make all three free throws.
Speaker 3: I mean they lost what was it two points?
Speaker 2: They lost? My two. Do you think Marcus Smart's going
Speaker 2: to make all three free throws?
Speaker 3: Because I don't he'll make two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they were down three. He's shooting the three.
Speaker 2: He needs to make all three, all right.
Speaker 3: But go ahead.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and there were two huge Jackson's already in
Speaker 4: the Memphis Warriors series. After all these great playoff games,
Speaker 4: how is the conversation about officiating?
Speaker 2: The NBA has got an officiating problem. Yeah, And I
Speaker 2: think it was Miles Brown who suggested this on Twitter,
Speaker 2: and I tend to agree with him. They need to
Speaker 2: recalibrate and air on letting the games get way more physical,
Speaker 2: meaning call it looser than tighter. That way, stars aren't
Speaker 2: in foul trouble. The players can figure out kind of
Speaker 2: how the game is being allowed to be called and
Speaker 2: then move on from there. With that said, for the
Speaker 2: Celtics game, the Marcus Smart thing was close, But they're
Speaker 2: really mad that Yannis keeps bullying them. But Yannis either
Speaker 2: gets fout or commits a foul every play. We've seen
Speaker 2: it with Shaq, we've seen it with Lebron. Part of
Speaker 2: being the biggest, strongest guy on the court and sports
Speaker 2: is supposed to be an advantage.
Speaker 3: The go ahead fouls are one thing. Goaltending is another.
Speaker 2: They missed a goaltending call, that's fair. They were also
Speaker 2: down by thirteen in the fourth quarter, and Jason Tatum
Speaker 2: try not to be terrible again the Chris Paul thing,
Speaker 2: And we're gonna go a little overtime because we have
Speaker 2: to talk Giannis, but not way overtime. Chris Paul. I
Speaker 2: have no sympathy for him in this spot. First of all,
Speaker 2: let's just go through out. Chris Paul foul out. He
Speaker 2: got three fouls early, goes to the bench. Manti Williams
Speaker 2: then takes a risk with forty five seconds left in
Speaker 2: the second quarter, puts Chris Paul back in the game
Speaker 2: to try to steal a couple of possessions. Yeah, you've
Speaker 2: been in the league fifteen years, you gotta know the
Speaker 2: one thing I can't do is foul. With two seconds
Speaker 2: left in the half, he fights for a rebounds fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty. Call foul. That's foul number four. Then early
Speaker 2: in the second half, Chris Paul did a thing that
Speaker 2: the NBA officially specifically changed the rules on because of
Speaker 2: Chris Paul, which is I'm dribbling the ball up court.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 2: You are just trying to run up quart as a defender.
Speaker 2: I swerve in your path and stop, so you run
Speaker 2: into me and I fall down. The NBA changed the
Speaker 2: rule this year to call that an offensive foul. He's
Speaker 2: got to know that. And then the six to one
Speaker 2: he grab dude's arm like I just don't have simp
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson's arm. And if anybody should not be able
Speaker 2: to be like ah, I got screwed by a judgment call,
Speaker 2: it's not Chris. Paul has been tricking officials whole Career's
Speaker 2: great butler. Give me a breath, all right, we mentioned Gianis.
Speaker 2: Let's do Yanis quickly because we're a little overtime.
Speaker 4: As much as me and the Celtics would like to
Speaker 4: blame the losses on the officiating, yeah, we gotta admit.
Speaker 4: You know, Jannis has been beating us alone. But you know,
Speaker 4: if if Giannis doesn't take over.
Speaker 3: The Bucks are losing.
Speaker 4: And you always talk about how Lebron is held to
Speaker 4: a super high standard in the playoffs, isn't Gianni's held
Speaker 4: to that same standard, if not higher, well not higher.
Speaker 2: I've never seen an athlete hell do a more unfair
Speaker 2: or higher standard than Lebron. But yeah, Johannis, he'll do
Speaker 2: a crazy I sand best player in the league should
Speaker 2: be I mean, the the fact of the matter is
Speaker 2: Yiannis was like twenty five, ten and eight in the
Speaker 2: first two games. I don't think you played great. When
Speaker 2: you are the best player in the league, you have
Speaker 2: an expectation to be dominant more often than you're very good,
Speaker 2: and to once or twice a playoffs be bat That's
Speaker 2: why Yannis is on a different level than everyone else
Speaker 2: right now. And I've been saying Yiannis won Luca two
Speaker 2: folks killed me for it. I'm yet to see Luca
Speaker 2: one game, much less multiple games like we saw Kadie.
Speaker 2: You see Luca one game less, much less multiple games
Speaker 2: like Chris Paul has had or Jason Tatum has had.
Speaker 2: But Joel Embiid's been very good in these playoffs and
Speaker 2: he got hurt. I think that's gonna age really well.
Speaker 2: But the I think we're gonna we have a bet
Speaker 2: on Buck Celtics. It's not looking good for you now.
Speaker 2: By the time people see this, maybe the Celtics will
Speaker 2: have won Game four prediction for something that will have
Speaker 2: already happened. I think Tonight is the night, meaning yesterday
Speaker 2: when you guys hear this game, four is the night
Speaker 2: the box go crazy from three. The Bucks are up
Speaker 2: in this series and they're shooting twenty eight percent from three.
Speaker 2: That is bad news for Boston. When you guys are
Speaker 2: hearing or seeing this, I think it's three to one Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: It's a risky thing for me to do because I'm
Speaker 2: saying this before a game that will have actually already
Speaker 2: happened by the time you guys hear and see this
Speaker 2: or all look like a genius. Bucks hit at least
Speaker 2: sixteen threes, win easily, and it's three one Milwaukee. We'll
Speaker 2: be right back.
Speaker 3: We'll see about that champ.
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Speaker 2: I can't believe the arrogance of these alleged journalists that
Speaker 2: cover the Nuggets, who might as well just have Yo
Speaker 2: Kicch tattoos, who are trying to take a victory lap
Speaker 2: about their MVP who got washed in Round one.
Speaker 4: Wait and you were you were saying in a segment
Speaker 4: that the postseason stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: What it's just, it's just a regular season award.
Speaker 4: If like the postseason I know you're honest. Is like,
Speaker 4: you know, he's carrying, he's beating the Celtics and stuff.
Speaker 2: But I feel like when you see what the correlations,
Speaker 2: when you see what they look like with them or
Speaker 2: without them, of course, but it's just this and this
Speaker 2: guy says, you notice how silent Nick Right was when
Speaker 2: Yo Kicch was balling on Games four and five. I
Speaker 2: have a goddamn two hour television show every day, I
Speaker 2: do a podcast twice. I'm never silent about anything. Just
Speaker 2: here's the thing, folks, And I'm gonna sound real arrogant here. Okay,
Speaker 2: folks whose entire platform is Twitter, don't understand that people
Speaker 2: with an actual platform might be saying things about something
Speaker 2: without tweeting about Oh, tweets from Game four? No, just
Speaker 2: two hours on TV about it? You ready go love that?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in Welcome Nick Wright podcast. We are an episode.
Speaker 2: This is unbelievable that we are an episode. I'm seventeen already,
Speaker 2: Demond's a it's a B block. What are we starting with?
Speaker 4: Hard net is best game as a seventy six are
Speaker 4: on Sunday? Yeah, since Embeat has come back, Philly hasn't
Speaker 4: lost a game.
Speaker 3: It's with Sunday. What we should expect from Harden and
Speaker 3: Beat or was this all just a mirage?
Speaker 2: It's not what you can expect from Harden and the
Speaker 2: thirty one, seven and nine. He might put up those
Speaker 2: similar numbers again, but the way he did it. So
Speaker 2: I tweeted this in real time, but that I said,
Speaker 2: I think this might be one of the best playoff
Speaker 2: fourth quarters of Harden's career. And then we checked this
Speaker 2: morning for the TV show and this was sixteen to
Speaker 2: the fourth was literally the most points Harden has ever
Speaker 2: scored in a playoff fourth quarter in a close win.
Speaker 2: He scored seventeen once in a blowout, but this was
Speaker 2: so it was the best fourth quarter because even vintage Harden,
Speaker 2: great James Harden struggled in the playoffs and the fourth
Speaker 2: quarter in close games. So you can't expect him to
Speaker 2: be this dominant as he was in the fourth quarter yesterday,
Speaker 2: but you should be able to expect him to occasionally
Speaker 2: pop for thirty points, but more importantly, even if they don't.
Speaker 2: And the reason I felt so strongly about Philly in
Speaker 2: this series was Miami has no answer for Mbi and
Speaker 2: Embiid was at sixty percent in Game three in Philly one.
Speaker 2: He was probably seventy five percent in Game four, and
Speaker 2: Philly won. I don't think Philly's gonna lose again this series.
Speaker 2: I think that Philly is in a spot right now
Speaker 2: where there's no answer for Embiid. He causes so much
Speaker 2: pressure because Miami is a great defensive team, but they're short.
Speaker 3: Bam is awesome, but.
Speaker 2: Bam is six ' eight Embiid seven to one, he's
Speaker 2: got to be close to three hundred pounds, and he's
Speaker 2: just so physically dominant that I think this is a
Speaker 2: bad matchup for Miami. I I have a real shot
Speaker 2: to be undefeated through two rounds of the playoffs. As
Speaker 2: far as series predictions I have for this round, I
Speaker 2: have I have the Bucks, Sixers, MAVs, and I have
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies one is on life support with
Speaker 2: Joab being injured, but so maybe three out of four.
Speaker 2: But if Joss hurt, then I feel like I'm off
Speaker 2: the hook, right if you have best player that's hurt.
Speaker 2: But I didn't even back down on the Philly thing
Speaker 2: when we found that Embid was missing the first two games,
Speaker 2: I said the same thing that I said about Luke
Speaker 2: in round one. If Embiid's back by game three, I
Speaker 2: think they can win. I don't think Miami has an answer.
Speaker 2: One other weird thing to watch with the Heat. Duncan
Speaker 2: Robinson signed a five year, ninety million dollars deal a
Speaker 2: year ago. Duncan Robinson made eight three pointers in the
Speaker 2: first game of the playoffs.
Speaker 3: He's played what a minute?
Speaker 2: He's played one minute, and he's not hurt. Since Game
Speaker 2: one of the playoffs, he has played a total The
Speaker 2: Heat have played eight games. He has played a total
Speaker 2: of forty four minutes. Now, I understand he's a defensive liability,
Speaker 2: but you you're supposed to be a great defensive team,
Speaker 2: and you are you need to be able to have
Speaker 2: a defensive liability out there when they're like fourteen of
Speaker 2: fifty from three in the last two games, when he
Speaker 2: can shoot like that, Duncan Robinson being thrown to the bench,
Speaker 2: glued to the bench, I should say, when he's an
Speaker 2: eighteen million year for the next three years is baffling
Speaker 2: to me. All Right, what's next?
Speaker 3: They need you in the they need you in the move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, a lot of these teams do. But
Speaker 2: the Heat are well coached. I just don't get it,
Speaker 2: all right, what's you know? Who? We did see yesterday though,
Speaker 2: real quick for the first time in forever, Markeith Morris.
Speaker 2: He made an appearance for the Heat, which was good
Speaker 2: for him because he did have to miss fifty games
Speaker 2: this year because the back to back MVP shoved him
Speaker 2: in the back when he wasn't looking and he got whiplashed.
Speaker 3: But nobody wants to talk about that on himself. We're
Speaker 3: not about this.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big mor Swins fan. He didn't get
Speaker 2: shoved in the back while he wasn't looking, all right,
Speaker 2: what's next?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: A few weeks ago on Twitter, you jokingly put out
Speaker 4: a tweet for US for Kyrie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, strangely enough, when Kyrie had the whole
Speaker 4: COVID thing going on, so there were rumors of Kyrie
Speaker 4: being traded for US.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So what do you think the chances that Lebron ever
Speaker 4: gets his old teammate back.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think Kyrie and Lebron are teaming up again.
Speaker 2: I think that it would be great for both parties.
Speaker 2: I think that Kyrie listen. Kyrie in his career, in
Speaker 2: his career, has played nine games in the playoffs after
Speaker 2: Round one without Lebron alongside. He has played zero Conference
Speaker 2: finals games without Lebron alongside him, zero NBA Finals game
Speaker 2: without Lebron alongside him. Now, Kyrie's out here talking about
Speaker 2: a four year dynasty in Brooklyn. I think it'd be
Speaker 2: better if they could put together four good weeks of basketball.
Speaker 2: But the problem with Kyrie and KD is neither one
Speaker 2: of being your two best players. You need somebody who
Speaker 2: knows how to lead a group of men, which in
Speaker 2: sports matters. And Kyrie and Katie, for how brilliant they are,
Speaker 2: is how brilliant Katie is a player, and how brilliant
Speaker 2: Kyrie is as an offensive player when he can be
Speaker 2: bothered to play. They've never been leaders. But yeah, I listen,
Speaker 2: the folks will at some point recognize that I know
Speaker 2: what the hell I'm talking about that I of course
Speaker 2: the Nets were shopping Kyrie, and of course Kyrie threatened
Speaker 2: to retire if he was traded. Like I said, all
Speaker 2: of this a long time ago, and of course there
Speaker 2: was There weren't a lot of teams that would are
Speaker 2: that interested in Kyrie with everything that goes along with him.
Speaker 2: The Lakers would be one of them. He had shooting,
Speaker 2: Lebron has won with him. So yeah, I mean, if
Speaker 2: the question is do I want to take a victory lap?
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 2: I am honestly a little exhausted, and I have a
Speaker 2: side stitch from all the victory laps I'm having to
Speaker 2: take recently. I mean, just nailed the Nets, I'm nailing
Speaker 2: the Suns and the MAVs. I nailed Buck Celtics, like
Speaker 2: a lot of victory laps. But okay, we can keep going,
Speaker 2: or we're gonna play a game now. This or that
Speaker 2: can make me more obnoxious than that, we'll find out.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, it is time for this or that, which
Speaker 4: fan base should be more upset Seahawks fans hearing Pete
Speaker 4: Carroll kpe up for Drew Locke, or Raiders fans watching
Speaker 4: Tom Brady admit.
Speaker 3: He fumbled in the Tuck Rule game.
Speaker 2: Oh, the answers, Seahawks fans. Everybody knew Tom Brady fumbled
Speaker 2: in the Tuck Rule game. And listen, Tom Brady, I
Speaker 2: get it. You know, he had gone third six hours
Speaker 2: without being a topic on talk shows, and he was like,
Speaker 2: I need to get my name back in the news
Speaker 2: cycle here. So he did some TikTok trend with Justin Bieber.
Speaker 2: But Pete Carroll acting like Drew Lock is anything other
Speaker 2: than one of the very worst quarterbacks in football is
Speaker 2: just a disaster. Why they haven't bit the bullet and
Speaker 2: traded for Baker Mayfield, I don't understand. Unless the answer
Speaker 2: is because they want to be terrible. If it's that
Speaker 2: they want to be terrible and try to get the
Speaker 2: number one pick.
Speaker 3: So be it, okay.
Speaker 2: But if they think they can actually compete with Drew Lock,
Speaker 2: they got another thing coming.
Speaker 3: All right. Baker Mayfield situation is what right now?
Speaker 2: Is he just no, they haven't released him, they haven't
Speaker 2: traded him. He's still on the Browns. I think the
Speaker 2: Browns might be quietly a little concerned about Wait, how
Speaker 2: long is Deshaun Watson going to be suspended? Is it
Speaker 2: possible he's suspended the whole year and we need a quarterback?
Speaker 3: That makes sense, But that's.
Speaker 2: Not what they're saying. What they're saying is they're going
Speaker 2: to move on from him, just nobody wants to pay
Speaker 2: him the eighteen million. All right, what's next?
Speaker 4: Odell went to the Sun's game in a Booker jersey. Yeah,
Speaker 4: which NFC contender should sign him, Arizona or Dallas?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: I don't know if we have a picture of what
Speaker 2: Odell was wearing. And I know this isn't the answer
Speaker 2: or the question, but the Dallas isn't going to sign him.
Speaker 2: I don't think they have the money. Arizona has spent
Speaker 2: so much on white They just made a first round
Speaker 2: for Hollywood Brown DeAndre Hopkins only going to miss six weeks.
Speaker 2: They've spent they have wide receivers, not what they need
Speaker 2: in Arizona. So I don't think either. My answer to
Speaker 2: that is neither. But I do. Odell's my buddy. I
Speaker 2: like him once point a time of his company, No,
Speaker 2: not his company. No, no, no, that's in the post
Speaker 2: show pod with de Monse. Odell once pon a time
Speaker 2: when you had hair similar to what he had, he
Speaker 2: facetimed you and told you what to do to keep
Speaker 2: it nice, like what products put in there? I like Odell.
Speaker 2: I can't say Tom Brady was like thirty six hours
Speaker 2: without getting attention without mentioning that Odell Beckham Junior wearing
Speaker 2: what he wore to that Sun's game, sitting where he sat.
Speaker 2: It's a little little attention start. Don't put this on
Speaker 2: social guys. This is a podcast exclusive for people who
Speaker 2: are watching and listening. But Odell Odell wearing the jersey
Speaker 2: and the shorts and the like multi colored jewelry.
Speaker 3: This is the same game where we have the do
Speaker 3: rag one right he just listen.
Speaker 2: There are certain folks that really really need in every
Speaker 2: instance to be the center of attention, even when they
Speaker 2: are literally not the center of attention, and listen. I
Speaker 2: have a little bit of that in me, you know,
Speaker 2: I talk into a camera and on my phone for
Speaker 2: a living. I get it. But it was I didn't
Speaker 2: think it was the best look imaginable. I thought it
Speaker 2: was a better court side look than Ben Simmons court
Speaker 2: side outfits when he wasn't playing, but not much. All right,
Speaker 2: what's last?
Speaker 3: What's worse? Michelson losing forty million dollars on gambling over
Speaker 3: four years. Yeah, or my breath? Okay, well your breath
Speaker 3: on the plane?
Speaker 2: On the plane, So can we show Demonse's tweet. Demanse
Speaker 2: took a trip to California this weekend and sent out
Speaker 2: what I thought was a very funny tweet. Dude, I'm
Speaker 2: sitting next on the plane. Gave me a piece of gum.
Speaker 2: I started eating the piece he gave me, and then
Speaker 2: he slid another one my way. He speaks no English,
Speaker 2: which made it even funnier. Breath must be mollow, and
Speaker 2: then a bunch of laughing emojis. First of all, props,
Speaker 2: I think that might be the first time you've ever
Speaker 2: properly used a Spanish term. I'll give you a fist bump.
Speaker 2: That's my fault, you know what. Hold on, let's have it.
Speaker 2: Let's have a parenting moment, you and me, because I
Speaker 2: can talk about a regret. We're gonna go just one
Speaker 2: minute overtime here. We maybe need to adjust the clocks.
Speaker 2: By the way, we're at seventeen episodes, and I think
Speaker 2: we need to adjust the clocks to twelve minutes twelve minutes,
Speaker 2: since we've literally never hit him except for once.
Speaker 3: He's about to get somebody fired.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not getting anybody fired. I blame myself for
Speaker 2: Demand's lack of a second language, because is I'm not
Speaker 2: proud of this. I once helped you cheat on a
Speaker 2: take home Spanish test. Do you remember you had like
Speaker 2: answer into a camera and I was holding up a
Speaker 2: camera with the words you needed to be able to
Speaker 2: say because I so badly wanted you to pass. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And then despite that, you didn't pass, and you were
Speaker 2: going to be ineligible for basketball that semester.
Speaker 3: And then we doubled down, and then I went to the.
Speaker 2: I went to the school and like begged the teacher
Speaker 2: to up his grade to make him eligible for the
Speaker 2: basketball team. And she did.
Speaker 3: It was like five point five needed to be like
Speaker 3: she needed to give me.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, yeah, but it was It's not like you
Speaker 2: needed like point five to get an a lead, a
Speaker 2: point five to pass and so and I look back
Speaker 2: and I'm like, ah, maybe if he had just you know,
Speaker 2: all suffer the pain of being ineligible that semestery, he
Speaker 2: would have actually learned some Spanish. But you know what,
Speaker 2: we live and we learn, and that's the curse of
Speaker 2: being the oldest is we make mistakes with you and
Speaker 2: then we don't make him with the with the girls. Uh.
Speaker 3: But the point.
Speaker 2: Of this was talk about Demanse's breath. Demse Demanse has
Speaker 2: amazing hydiate, the best hygiene of like any young man
Speaker 2: I've ever met, used to like refuse to go to
Speaker 2: dinner after basketball games. We go to your game and
Speaker 2: then want to go to dinner as a family, Like, no,
Speaker 2: I feel disgusting. I need to shower. It's gross. I'm like,
Speaker 2: can you just sit at dinner? No?
Speaker 3: All of that.
Speaker 2: With that said, when Demanse has bad breath, you think
Speaker 2: he's dying. No, for real, you really think like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, like do you have do you have a diase?
Speaker 2: Is something is that is? Is there something rotten somewhere?
Speaker 2: I don't know what the issue is. So you're not
Speaker 2: a bad breath guy, but when it is you had
Speaker 2: an early morning flight, my guess is you were hustling
Speaker 2: out of the house.
Speaker 3: I definitely brush well, you didn't brush him far.
Speaker 4: Noough, I had a really bad obelet at the sports
Speaker 4: bar at the airport.
Speaker 2: Okay, So whatever it was, I'm telling you, I know
Speaker 2: that poor gentleman sitting next to you was like, this
Speaker 2: is a six hour flight and he's going to burn
Speaker 2: through my man Like it's so I feel for that guy.
Speaker 2: As far as Mickelson, word on the street is that
Speaker 2: forty million dollar and gambling losses over four years is waylow.
Speaker 3: It's way lower.
Speaker 2: What No, forty million is lower than what.
Speaker 3: It actually is.
Speaker 2: Oh, that word on the street is that Phil Cheese,
Speaker 2: what big, big time problem gambling? That's just the word.
Speaker 2: There might even be an all time great gambler that's
Speaker 2: in jail now maybe the greatest sports game or whatever.
Speaker 2: Just google Phil Micholson Billy Walters and then figure out
Speaker 2: if wait, was Phil placing some of Billy's bets for
Speaker 2: him so he could get a lot of money down
Speaker 2: And if he was, those are winning bets usually, so
Speaker 2: if you are, if you win bets for someone else,
Speaker 2: they get that money. So if that forty million was it,
Speaker 2: maybe more than that possibly And now and you know
Speaker 2: too long didn't read version is wait, why is Phil
Speaker 2: Micholson teaming up with Saudi Arabia in a golf league.
Speaker 2: Oh that's what, because they might need the cash. We'll
Speaker 2: be right back. Welcome back. In last segment, What's Right
Speaker 2: with the Great podcast and YouTube show like rate subscribe review,
Speaker 2: Please do so kindly. Did you talk to your mom
Speaker 2: on Mother's Day?
Speaker 3: No, you're lying?
Speaker 2: I am you are lying.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just figured you'd give it a benefit of
Speaker 3: the doubt.
Speaker 2: Well, you were out of town. She was out of town.
Speaker 2: I didn't like it's you know what I mean? You
Speaker 2: might forget it was Mother's Day.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was just checking on you. I almost Do you
Speaker 2: remember a little backup? Do you remember four years ago
Speaker 2: when me and Bamani drove to Boston on Mother's Day?
Speaker 3: I was out here?
Speaker 2: Oh you might.
Speaker 3: No, No, you weren't. You were in schools.
Speaker 2: You were none of those four years ago. You were
Speaker 2: in California. No. So Mother's Day twenty eighteen, Game one
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference Finals Celtics Cavs. Bamani and I drove to
Speaker 2: Boston on Mother's Day to watch that game and then
Speaker 2: drove back that day. I missed the whole Bay.
Speaker 3: And still came back the same day.
Speaker 2: And it was the only game that entire playoff run.
Speaker 2: Lebron was bad and I just got heckled by Celtics
Speaker 2: fans the whole time. It was not an enjoyable experience,
Speaker 2: and none of it was good, none of it was worthwhile,
Speaker 2: and it cost me with your mom, But your mom
Speaker 2: is in Belize with your auntie for her birthday. Bleep,
Speaker 2: the age for her birth start for your auntie's birthday.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, oh, your mom's not here, So I
Speaker 2: really wanted to go. I had a plan because I
Speaker 2: had tickets waiting for me for the Sixers game, and
Speaker 2: I found great tickets for the MAVs game. And my
Speaker 2: plan was I was going to early Sunday morning, fly
Speaker 2: fly to Dallas for the game. The moment the game
Speaker 2: was over, fly to Philly, get there about mid second quarter,
Speaker 2: and then watch the end of that game, and then
Speaker 2: drive back here. And then I realized that it was
Speaker 2: going to be amazing. It's just going to be his
Speaker 2: epic day, and it was going to be expensive. But
Speaker 2: I have gotten so many speaking of bizarro film wicals
Speaker 2: and so many bets right in these playoffs. I've got
Speaker 2: money to spend on these playoff games. And then like
Speaker 2: literally Saturday night, you know who reached out to me,
Speaker 2: my sister, and she was like, so what are we doing? Like,
Speaker 2: are you coming over for Mom's thing tomorrow? I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my mom. I'm like, oh my mom for Mother's Day.
Speaker 2: Not just my wife. My mom lives a half hour away.
Speaker 2: I almost I almost just just totally to do a
Speaker 2: multi NBA tour instead of seeing my own mother. My
Speaker 2: poor mother, who's gonna hear this and be super pissed.
Speaker 3: So how close did you get to going through with it?
Speaker 3: Before you?
Speaker 2: I was looking at flights, I was figuring out I
Speaker 2: was the flight. I had already decided I was doing
Speaker 2: the Dallas thing. The question was how far is it
Speaker 2: from the airline to the because there's two airports in Dallas,
Speaker 2: how how far is it from the arena to the
Speaker 2: airport in Dallas and in Philly to where? Did I
Speaker 2: have any chance of getting to Philly before the game
Speaker 2: was over because there was only like two hours between games.
Speaker 2: But it's not that long of a flight. I thought
Speaker 2: I was gonna be able to do it. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be historic. It was gonna be like a parent who
Speaker 2: says two kids playing in two different you see in
Speaker 2: the NFL sometimes, but instead I ate bagels and locks
Speaker 2: with my mother.
Speaker 3: Did you go to our house? Yeah?
Speaker 2: We did a whole thing. Yeah, you were out of town,
Speaker 2: your sister, older sisters working, your youngest sister was at
Speaker 2: a roller skating thing. It was just yeah, so I went.
Speaker 2: So I was almost terrible, son, Mom. Who is the
Speaker 2: most loyal viewer and listener of this? Just so you know,
Speaker 2: like I used to with my radio career, I'm a performer.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is obviously for entertainment. It's like an
Speaker 2: actor on TV. You can't really believe what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I love you, Happy Mother's Day. Talk to you guys
Speaker 2: in a few days.