Speaker 1: Well, everybody, the NBA season is officially bad.
Speaker 2: Media days and some camp starting.
Speaker 1: And we're talking bold listener predictions plus a CBS Hot
Speaker 1: County under twenty five list that we're gonna maybe just
Speaker 1: make our own picks from there, The latest rumors heading
Speaker 1: into camp and more with comedian and legendary hid pastor
Speaker 1: Matt Leaves on today's episode.
Speaker 3: Oh, Miles, Greg, and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is
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Speaker 1: Achie if but is it Matt Leeb, comedian writer now
Speaker 1: that the strike is over, hopefully writing again.
Speaker 2: Podcaster, Well, yes, yes, go about him later, Jack, Do
Speaker 2: you do you.
Speaker 1: Want to ask him the question we used to start
Speaker 1: off the podcast.
Speaker 5: Uh, Matt Leeb, comedian writer, podcaster not bigger, We have
Speaker 5: to ask do you like the NBA?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: I love it?
Speaker 2: What's some music.
Speaker 6: Over that or something?
Speaker 5: Man Or said joke, Yeah, has killed my five and
Speaker 5: seven year old for like a year straight. Now they
Speaker 5: still they still love the I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I love it. I still remember when I first saw
Speaker 2: Ralph Macchio use that and waday kid.
Speaker 6: But yes, to answer your question, I I do love
Speaker 6: the NBA.
Speaker 7: If I'm being completely honest with you, From about nineteen
Speaker 7: ninety six to I would say around twenty twelve was
Speaker 7: me at the height of my NBA love. And then
Speaker 7: over the course of the last like however many years,
Speaker 7: eleven years, I've started watching it less and less. But
Speaker 7: I have for the last you know, a few years,
Speaker 7: been tuning in again to my Lakers once I once
Speaker 7: I got over the whole you know, Lebron James joining
Speaker 7: the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 6: You know, are you Lebron hater? Big time original Hayter Wow,
Speaker 6: hated him from the beginning.
Speaker 1: Wow, since the Saint Vincent Saint Mary days.
Speaker 2: I remember that, that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I used to just planted outside the high school saying.
Speaker 2: Oooo, they're like, this guy's younger.
Speaker 6: He wasn't even playing basketball, he was just in math class.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well you're a you're you're a Lakers fan.
Speaker 6: Lakers fan, that's right.
Speaker 1: From ninety six to twenty twelve, you were Lakers and
Speaker 1: then you kind of were like, okay, yeah.
Speaker 7: Well so I think what had happened. So first nineteen
Speaker 7: ninety six, why was I Lakers fan? Simply because Jack
Speaker 7: showed up? And it was like at the time where
Speaker 7: there were two players that everyone was like, these are
Speaker 7: the best players. It was Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neil.
Speaker 7: Everyone was like, these are the two guys. It's you know,
Speaker 7: it's Rebok first is you know ninety At least as
Speaker 7: a kid, that's what I thought.
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 6: It was like, there's two people who are great.
Speaker 7: There's two people who have silhouette logos of them doing
Speaker 7: something cool with a basketball.
Speaker 2: And one of them raps, yeah, are you gonna and.
Speaker 6: One of them is a gene.
Speaker 7: So as soon as we got Shaquille O'Neal, I decided
Speaker 7: to stop, you know, being because as a kid, you're
Speaker 7: a Bulls fan in the nineties. If you were a
Speaker 7: kid in the nineties, you were a Bulls fan unless
Speaker 7: your parents like really instilled like home team love for
Speaker 7: you for whatever, and my parents were not huge sports people.
Speaker 7: But yeah, as soon as we got Check, I was like, okay,
Speaker 7: I'm a bandwagon Lakers fan. And then I stuck with
Speaker 7: them all the way until I think it was twenty
Speaker 7: eleven that I mean winning in Game seven against the
Speaker 7: Boston and it was nine and ten, nine and ten,
Speaker 7: nine and ten. Yeah, yeah, it's right, because yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7: Oh eight, that was a bad year for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: There was something about them winning and I was at
Speaker 7: Staples Center, not in the actual arena. I was outside
Speaker 7: at LA Live watching it, and it was like a
Speaker 7: really close gime.
Speaker 2: I think it was.
Speaker 7: It went to overtime and run our test hit that
Speaker 7: you know, that shot, and it was just beautiful and
Speaker 7: there was something about it where I felt like this journey,
Speaker 7: you know, I'd gone through this journey with the Lakers,
Speaker 7: and I felt like such a beautiful bookend and like
Speaker 7: here I go. Yeah, and I kept watching, but just
Speaker 7: I got less and less inter rested, and uh and yeah.
Speaker 7: So so I'm really glad to be on this basketball podcast.
Speaker 7: We are going to be talking about like two thousand
Speaker 7: and three Lakers.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Only I got some thoughts about Chris Webber. First of all,
Speaker 7: let's all like him, all right, John Weather. I don't
Speaker 7: think Sacramento Kings are any good.
Speaker 1: I think a j and Benga needed more love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing about.
Speaker 6: Him and you know on that page of Soyakovich, he's
Speaker 6: all right, he can stay.
Speaker 1: I mean so yeah, right now, it's still it's very light.
Speaker 1: You know, we're waiting for news to emerge. I think
Speaker 1: all we're right right now. The biggest thing that everyone's
Speaker 1: holding their breath over is like, where does Damian Lillard
Speaker 1: end up?
Speaker 2: Right right now?
Speaker 1: The most alarming rumor is that the Celtics might be
Speaker 1: putting together a package that's good enough for him to
Speaker 1: go that way to break my little Laker heart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean there's there's so many things flying around.
Speaker 1: It's like one minute's like, yeah, he's going, He's not,
Speaker 1: He's not.
Speaker 2: Who knows? It's this team.
Speaker 5: It's Charlotte, Raptors, Heat and Celtics seem to be the
Speaker 5: three leading candidates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there are two of those that I'd be
Speaker 2: okay with. Yeah, wasn't There also.
Speaker 5: Like some some rumor that Phoenix might get involved and
Speaker 5: try and pull him in in exchange for Eton.
Speaker 2: Is that am I making that?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, if you look at like Portland would get Ayton,
Speaker 1: this is like if Phoenix got involved they would get Nurkic,
Speaker 1: Robert Williams, Peyton Pritchard and Luke Cornett.
Speaker 2: It would be that's what that's what that would be
Speaker 2: like wild if they just went all offense.
Speaker 5: The Suns were just like, yeah, you've got Dame Beale
Speaker 5: book and Katie like, and that's just where we're just
Speaker 5: going to try and outscore you straight up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the sense of my youth where they were all
Speaker 7: just running and gunning, that's all they did. It will
Speaker 7: put up you know, one hundred and twenty points, but
Speaker 7: they would lose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, yeah, ultimately they would. It's wonderful to what
Speaker 2: good to a point? Good to a point? Yeah? I
Speaker 2: mean what else?
Speaker 1: Speaking of kind of Laker adjacent things, Dwight Howard apparently
Speaker 1: was working out with the Warriors, but they decided to
Speaker 1: pass on that one.
Speaker 6: They're passing on Twine. Yeah, I don't know, just give
Speaker 6: it a few more years. I think he's the next check.
Speaker 2: He might have something. He might have that.
Speaker 1: And then he had this like very interesting tweet where
Speaker 1: he just said, only as a warrior can one withstand
Speaker 1: the path of knowledge.
Speaker 2: A warrior cannot change or.
Speaker 1: Cannot complain or regret anything his life is an endless challenge,
Speaker 1: and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad.
Speaker 2: Challenges are simply challenges. And the Warriors were like, actually,
Speaker 2: you know what.
Speaker 1: Really cool that Carlos castan YadA quote We're back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, We're back, sir. We didn't realize you were so
Speaker 2: well read. Yeah, it's a great quote. It's a great I.
Speaker 6: Mean, it's it's you.
Speaker 7: What if he had, like really just wanted to be
Speaker 7: on the jazz and wrote the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: A jazz, But it's a jazz only as a jazz
Speaker 1: can one wistand the path of nuts, a jazz cannot
Speaker 1: complain regret.
Speaker 6: I have the jazz spirit in my heart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he loves Oh my gosh, he was was he on?
Speaker 2: Oh Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you see him on Never Have I Ever?
Speaker 2: On Netflix?
Speaker 1: He actually had a pretty decent comedic performance in that.
Speaker 6: I love when basketball players can be funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like he has a cameo in the in a
Speaker 1: gym scene and like the guy's a Clippers fan that
Speaker 1: he's talking to and he kind of like gives him
Speaker 1: a little ribbing, but it's I was he got chopped.
Speaker 2: He has some chops.
Speaker 6: Not gonna lie.
Speaker 7: That's the thing though, I always like, you know, I
Speaker 7: always hope that that is going to translate into like
Speaker 7: actual basketball greatness, but it doesn't always. Like for me,
Speaker 7: I was always like Blake Griffin guy, and because I
Speaker 7: would watch him and stuff, and I'd be like, he's funny,
Speaker 7: He's so funny. I would be I feel like I
Speaker 7: would be friends with Blake Griffin, right yeah, and then
Speaker 7: h but then, you know, nothing really.
Speaker 2: Doesn't translate apparently. No, that was like, yeah, like Anthony Edwards,
Speaker 2: I'm like, this guy is great.
Speaker 1: This guys guys acting's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it does that turn the rings? I don't know.
Speaker 5: I can see like I was just watching Moneyball fairly
Speaker 5: recently and like the scenes with like the old school
Speaker 5: scouts being like, he's a five tool athlete, he's got
Speaker 5: he's got the look, he looks great.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I could see like school NBA scouts being like he's funny,
Speaker 5: but is he too funny?
Speaker 2: You know? To the funniness doesn't always work out? You
Speaker 2: know what happens these guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if they're performing too much, they're not focused on
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's real.
Speaker 1: Another thing another thing that was a fun update.
Speaker 2: We you know in the early during the season.
Speaker 1: We like to bring up poor business decisions, as we
Speaker 1: call it when someone tries to contest to dunk and realizes, sir,
Speaker 1: you've just won the contest to end up on a post.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Last year we gave one of the one of our
Speaker 1: favorite poor business decisions to Landry Shammitt, as Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: quite literally now immortalized him in the form of a
Speaker 1: like a necklace pendant.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's criminals, criminal this was a Christmas game.
Speaker 6: Yeah maybe, yeah, that's crazy. It's well, I guess you
Speaker 6: got that goal and it's.
Speaker 2: Not on Christmas, man, That's what he said to him.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 5: It is one of the bravest charges I've ever seen
Speaker 5: somebody take. He totally gives up his body to the
Speaker 5: dunk and then it is what one of the most
Speaker 5: gruesome things I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: But it is funny because like it's it's no one
Speaker 1: remembers that it was a charge. No, They're just like, no,
Speaker 1: that's the thing, that is the charge that time, oh
Speaker 1: right right, right, right right right. Oh oh, so it
Speaker 1: was actually called a charge of them and.
Speaker 5: Then they look back and they were like, sorry, man,
Speaker 5: that was too sick. You we got to give it
Speaker 5: to him. We need this highlight for like posterity for
Speaker 5: our grandchild.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's really it's the risk that you take every
Speaker 7: time you're just like, you know, defensively, my team needs this,
Speaker 7: but also I could be immortalized, as you know, just
Speaker 7: get completely posterized.
Speaker 2: It's a really nice piece. So he made so Aaron
Speaker 2: Gordon made a chain out of like there's like tone.
Speaker 5: Jewels on it, like it's it's like a drawing of
Speaker 5: it and then just like diamonds. It's it's like a
Speaker 5: Jesus piece. But of the moment with Landry Shammitt, Uh
Speaker 5: just falling backwards as Baron Gordon rises over him, but
Speaker 5: he is holding the championship trophy in his hand what
Speaker 5: looks like a microphone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does look like a big microphone.
Speaker 1: Like he's trying to let God have the last word
Speaker 1: on Yeah, care to comment.
Speaker 2: Man sending him on up.
Speaker 5: It's it's a strong it's a strong decision. It would
Speaker 5: be it would also be a nice piece of jewelry
Speaker 5: without Landry Shammit underneath. But the Landry Shammitt is absolutely
Speaker 5: necessary for it's.
Speaker 2: The whole point. Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when You're like, actually, bro, I'm taking your You're
Speaker 1: part of this, just so you know you are inextricably
Speaker 1: tied to this part of history.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, like the two guys next to Jesus
Speaker 7: on the cross were also being crusal.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You never see a Jesus piece with Ponchos pilot on right,
Speaker 1: Yeah why not? Why not the main antagonal? But yeah,
Speaker 1: and then uh, just some just in some fun news
Speaker 1: about wild growth spurts. Apparently our forward the Lakers Vanderbilt,
Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt. Uh, he basically was seemed to confirm that
Speaker 1: he grew about two inches.
Speaker 5: This, I don't know that he confirmed it, he said it.
Speaker 5: And then the street last thing.
Speaker 2: He said that he plays at the people streets. This
Speaker 2: rumor is being spread.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's definitely interesting, Like he started his high
Speaker 5: school career very short, like in the low fives, and
Speaker 5: then had like two massive growth spurts.
Speaker 2: This is all courtesy.
Speaker 5: There was like a Reddit thread that then got turned
Speaker 5: into a YouTube video that is basically him working out
Speaker 5: with Rui, And it's like Ruey's supposed to be six '
Speaker 5: ten and Jared Vanderbilt appears to have an inch on
Speaker 5: him all of of a sudden. Jared Vanderbilt has been
Speaker 5: listed at six ' nine or six eight.
Speaker 2: Up to this point. Yeah, and I don't know I
Speaker 2: could see it. He he says it jokingly.
Speaker 5: Maybe Rui's been, you know, overshooting his height a little bit,
Speaker 5: but it didn't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it has been done before, it has.
Speaker 5: Like I was trying to remember if there had been
Speaker 5: I know that there have been rumors that like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I grew three inches over the summer about NBA players,
Speaker 5: but I couldn't find. Like, all I could find is like,
Speaker 5: you know, this article craziest gross Spurts in NBA History,
Speaker 5: and it's all gross spurts that happened like in high
Speaker 5: school or college. Right, nobody grows during their NBA career.
Speaker 7: It would appear, yeah, at twenty four years old or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's like getting an extra two inches. Although I have
Speaker 7: seen there's like this surgery now that people are getting
Speaker 7: two inches long game. Yeah, the elongating their you know,
Speaker 7: their shins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so it looks very painful.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's that's painful and probably not good for you know,
Speaker 7: if you're in a job that makes you run and jump.
Speaker 8: No, no, yeah, I don't know if that's testing the
Speaker 8: structural integrity of the sure. Sure, But at the same time,
Speaker 8: you know, exactly now you can wear sandals and feel
Speaker 8: secure about your height exactly.
Speaker 2: Timberland's to the beach all the time, Like.
Speaker 7: Right, That's why I always wear shoes because I say
Speaker 7: I'm six ft six, but really I'm like six foot
Speaker 7: five and a quarter and a quarter of a quarter, yeah,
Speaker 7: and which is basically six foot five and a half,
Speaker 7: which rounded up is six foot six. But if I
Speaker 7: wear shoes, then I'm six ft six just so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: So I just don't take.
Speaker 6: My shoes off, and then the lie isn't a lie anymore.
Speaker 1: And your secret's safe here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, listen to this one right.
Speaker 2: There. So there's there is.
Speaker 1: One of the of the wildest like mid career growth spurts.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the one that Jack you pulled up was
Speaker 1: CJ McCullum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a picture in this article of c J. McCollum.
Speaker 5: I think mainly it's just a wild visual because it
Speaker 5: is him. Yeah, we will wake off to the image
Speaker 5: in the in the show notes that's it appears.
Speaker 2: To be real.
Speaker 5: It is him as a high school freshman before he
Speaker 5: grew fourteen inches.
Speaker 2: He is five foot two.
Speaker 6: It's like at least like a baby.
Speaker 2: He truly.
Speaker 5: Looks eight years old. And he's on the court with
Speaker 5: because he's so good at basketball. He is on the
Speaker 5: court with a bunch of white guys who just shaped
Speaker 5: their like mustaches and uh look yeah, look like they
Speaker 5: could be in their mid twenties.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, that is wild. That's a real picture.
Speaker 2: That is a real, real pair of CJ.
Speaker 6: McColl That is one of them photoshops. You put your
Speaker 6: baby's face on that.
Speaker 1: I mean all right, dude, that was like one of
Speaker 1: the that's like the kind of gross spurt you you
Speaker 1: like prayed for, yeah as a teenager because you heard
Speaker 1: tell of these kinds that they was like, you know,
Speaker 1: someone so up the street he were six inches this summer.
Speaker 2: And you're like, what's going on? Yeah? Man, to go
Speaker 2: from five to two to what is that? Like? Let
Speaker 2: me do some quick SMATs six four? Yeah, he he
Speaker 2: went from five to two to six four. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Between his freshman year high school. I went from five
Speaker 7: to two to six four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you?
Speaker 7: I mean sure over time at some point, Yeah, that happened.
Speaker 7: I was definitely five to two, probably my freshman year.
Speaker 7: I don't know how tall I was freshman year, were you?
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I mean I wasn't that late of a bloomer.
Speaker 6: It wasn't like it wasn't that you.
Speaker 2: Know, right, You weren't known as like the shortest guy
Speaker 2: in town.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: No, I was.
Speaker 7: The size of a baby and then grew up to
Speaker 7: the size of a giant. But uh no, Yeah, I
Speaker 7: remember it was like, uh, summer between tenth and eleventh grade,
Speaker 7: that's when I had my big one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I came back school the next here, and I was
Speaker 7: just like I was still a nerd, but I was
Speaker 7: like a really tall man.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So people didn't know what to make of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, do I tease? Yeah, he's way taller,
Speaker 2: hard to give.
Speaker 6: Him a swirl. The lockers aren't big enough to stuff.
Speaker 2: He's going to have to cooperate with this one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's just let's just leave him alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think the remarkable thing about this is that he
Speaker 5: is on the court is really like at five foot
Speaker 5: two with zero muscle on his body. He's on the
Speaker 5: court with full grown men and they in a packed arena,
Speaker 5: so they're clearly like doing well enough that they're like,
Speaker 5: you know, a.
Speaker 2: Watch, yeah, and everybody except.
Speaker 5: Him looks completely exhausted, just like running circles around them.
Speaker 5: And then he grew to be six foot four. So
Speaker 5: this is what makes you a very good player in
Speaker 5: the NBA, is you know, being awesome at five foot too.
Speaker 7: You were talking earlier about you know, growth spurts that
Speaker 7: you wished you had. I did the same thing as
Speaker 7: I prayed, you know, and I would at night. I
Speaker 7: would just stretch my legs to try to get taller.
Speaker 1: Oh, just like extend them as far as you could
Speaker 1: I could, and just.
Speaker 7: Like point my toe and then try to use my
Speaker 7: heel to like, you know, just stretch to come on,
Speaker 7: come on, long story short, it.
Speaker 6: Worked, So that's what you should have done.
Speaker 2: That does seem like a thing like I didn't. I
Speaker 2: never prayed or like asked for it officially.
Speaker 5: I was just like, man, it would be nice if
Speaker 5: I was six foot six, I'd be better at basketball.
Speaker 2: But I never asked for it.
Speaker 5: And it feels like all you have to do is ask,
Speaker 5: Like you imagine how much CJ. McCollum was asking to
Speaker 5: be fourteen inches taller.
Speaker 2: Oh yeaheah. And now look at you.
Speaker 1: I heard he went to a like a fortune telling
Speaker 1: machine and Coney Island.
Speaker 2: And he came sick.
Speaker 5: He said, I want to be a six foot four shoe.
Speaker 5: Didn't guard in the NBA, He just said I want
Speaker 5: to be big. And then the next morning turns into
Speaker 5: Tom Hanks and is wanted for kidnapping himself.
Speaker 2: He's like, why is my Why is everyone calling me?
Speaker 7: Josh?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Why did my mom arrest me? It's me. I'm just
Speaker 2: Tom Hanks. Now that's right. All right, let's take a
Speaker 2: quick break and we'll come back, and we're back. We're back.
Speaker 2: We did we did skip.
Speaker 5: David Robinson is Yeah, he went from five foot nine
Speaker 5: between his his junior year of high school, he is
Speaker 5: five foot nine. His senior year of high school he
Speaker 5: enters at six foot seven.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, at seven.
Speaker 7: One right, yeah, so senior year too, what like when
Speaker 7: did he finish growing in the navy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Okay, so he was six more inches Navy so much
Speaker 7: that at one point probably someone saw it happen. You know,
Speaker 7: I was just standing there, he's talking. You know, it's
Speaker 7: just like, oh man, you know the food here in
Speaker 7: this boat is.
Speaker 2: You're doing your like Navy.
Speaker 6: It's okay, David just grew another.
Speaker 2: Two and he's like military physical.
Speaker 1: The doctors like stand here, all right, let me put
Speaker 1: the little thing on your head.
Speaker 2: Stand still. It's like, hold on, hey, don't get on
Speaker 2: your toes. Wait, what the heck?
Speaker 6: Who has a slide with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: In the picture where he's five foot two, his legs
Speaker 5: look really long, and we were saying that we think
Speaker 5: this picture was taken like as like as a gross
Speaker 5: burt was happening. His legs grew first, and like like
Speaker 5: this is two seconds after his legs grew two inches
Speaker 5: and one second before his torso grew two inches.
Speaker 1: Minu Ginobli also grew thirteen Yeah.
Speaker 2: Some wild stuff.
Speaker 5: Dennis Rodman is the one that a lot of people
Speaker 5: talk about because he grew super late in life and
Speaker 5: like wasn't really like on a basketball court.
Speaker 2: He just like came back.
Speaker 5: He was five foot nine and then went to six
Speaker 5: foot seven and like everyone almost like, who's this six
Speaker 5: foot seven person We've literally never seen on a basketball
Speaker 5: court before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and became he's like I haven't seen a year
Speaker 2: and one of the greats. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Shall we take a look at this list of the
Speaker 1: top twenty players under twenty five?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. Any thoughts on this, Jack, I want,
Speaker 2: I want to talk about it.
Speaker 5: I do, just want to get it out of the
Speaker 5: way up top, because Celtics fans are going to have
Speaker 5: where's the disrespect of leaving Jason Tatum off this list?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 6: Oh, I thought it would be just besides Jason Tates right.
Speaker 5: Well, actually, Jason Tatum's over twenty five, but we we
Speaker 5: always joked on here that he's prepared actually nineteen years old.
Speaker 2: Every time people are like Jason, how old is he?
Speaker 2: I think, wait, nineteen, I think he's nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you look like a baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to look it up and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do the math. That's right, But he's nineteen.
Speaker 6: He's a nineteen year old boy.
Speaker 1: I mean they say he's twenty a man, he's twenty five.
Speaker 5: He is twenty five. So he only doesn't because it's
Speaker 5: under twenty five instead of.
Speaker 6: Made twenty players under, put under in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: I was like doing it as a joke because it
Speaker 5: does seem like he's been in the league for like
Speaker 5: he was going against Lebron when he was with the
Speaker 5: Calves in the Eastern Conference finals, like multiple times. It
Speaker 5: seems seems like decades ago, but it's still twenty five,
Speaker 5: still barely doesn't qualify for this list.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like yeah, Jasmine Wimbish just decided to pick
Speaker 1: the top twenty under twenty five. I'll just go out
Speaker 1: real quick. It's Luca Jah, Anthony Edwards, Tyrese Halliburton, Zion,
Speaker 1: Jared Jackson, Junior, Darius Garland, Evan Mobley, Kate Cunningham, Franz
Speaker 1: Paolo from Tog, Maxie, Josh Gibby, Scottie Barnes, Jaylen Williams,
Speaker 1: not that Jaylen Williams, the other Williams, chet Holmgren, Tyler
Speaker 1: Harro and Nick Claxton. Yeah, Lucas number one, Oh you did?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sorry, Luker Luker Don Luker the joke.
Speaker 6: What about the other guy, the joker he's over.
Speaker 2: Twenty Yeah, yeah, yeah she is. He's so he looks
Speaker 2: so young. Any top five jack for you?
Speaker 1: I think we were kind of we're all kind of
Speaker 1: looking at the same.
Speaker 2: Five here, are we?
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know, it depends like I would
Speaker 5: put twenty players under twenty five, So we're talking about
Speaker 5: them being there already, So yeah, I guess I guess
Speaker 5: that that's a pretty good top five. Paolo, Yeah, feels
Speaker 5: like stas right.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, look, I guess said the expectations are high,
Speaker 1: heavy lies the crown.
Speaker 2: Right, that's wild.
Speaker 5: The thing that I most noticed from this is that
Speaker 5: Jason Tatum is one year away from being on this list. Like,
Speaker 5: he seems to be in such a different category than
Speaker 5: everybody on this list, doesn't he Like, yeah, he seems.
Speaker 2: Like a veteran.
Speaker 5: These people are all like, man, the promise of these guys' career,
Speaker 5: and he's one year removed.
Speaker 2: That is wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like, yeah, Luker is kind of close
Speaker 1: in terms of perception, Yeah, Luker, but it's not quite
Speaker 1: there yet since uh Man's been to the finals.
Speaker 5: So Anthony Edwards, yeah, I can see him at three.
Speaker 5: That feels That feels about right. Luca is perennially MVP candidate,
Speaker 5: joh one of the most exciting players.
Speaker 2: It feels like a real fall off off after those three.
Speaker 5: Like then it gets into a category of like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you could you could make an argument for a.
Speaker 2: Lot of guys in the four or five position.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: For me, it's like, you you know, you list the
Speaker 7: top five, and I'm like, I've heard of them and
Speaker 7: I know and I know them. And then after a
Speaker 7: while you're just naming people are like, yeah, this could
Speaker 7: be guys. They could not be guys. Oh yeah, how
Speaker 7: could I know?
Speaker 1: Well, we're not lying, so I mean, trust us, Just
Speaker 1: trust us, just trust us, all.
Speaker 6: Right, I believe you.
Speaker 7: You like Moby h you mean like the house guy?
Speaker 7: He says house music. Yeah, yeah, you can get stopped
Speaker 7: by Obi.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's my only reference.
Speaker 6: That is an eminem lyric.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I mean I guess, like, who would
Speaker 1: you because I know you were talking maybe Scoots should
Speaker 1: be on here?
Speaker 2: Jack, who would you? I mean, if you're.
Speaker 5: Gonna put Chet on, I would put Scoot on, Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: both their their claims to being on the list is
Speaker 5: they've looked cool in uh summer League games. So I
Speaker 5: feel like it is going to be kind of immediately good. Right,
Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't know, man, It's like you either
Speaker 5: put I feel like Wemby Yama, you either put them
Speaker 5: like all the way near the top.
Speaker 2: Five or not on here at all?
Speaker 1: Right right right, Well, yeah, I guess it's just that's
Speaker 1: just the expectation. I mean, I think both Paolo and
Speaker 1: Wemby kind of right there in the same same area.
Speaker 5: Is time, Maxie, are we doing? Is that the thing
Speaker 5: that's happened is that we're calling him tie instead of Tyrese.
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen that on the streets, on the
Speaker 1: on on the posts, but I don't know. We'll call
Speaker 1: them mad MAXI MAXI Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm good with that.
Speaker 2: I'm good with that. Okay. Well, Also we also got
Speaker 2: to get to this.
Speaker 1: We were asking listeners for boldest predictions, you know, in
Speaker 1: terms of talking about like what's your bold this prediction,
Speaker 1: who thinks is gonna be MVP this year, Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year, Rookie of the Year, six man most improved,
Speaker 1: who were the surprise teams?
Speaker 2: It was wild.
Speaker 1: At least fifty percent of y'all said that chet was
Speaker 1: going to be the Rookie of the year, which is
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I don't don't. I don't think that's impossible,
Speaker 1: but I was surprised how like it really got a
Speaker 1: majority of votes or you know, submissions.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 5: That's our demographic Boosty's listeners. You know, they're they're attracted
Speaker 5: to like people who are just like incredible athletes who
Speaker 5: can really sky, and so obviously we're gonna have some
Speaker 5: big chet fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there for sure. And also knowing that, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you did you have money on the thunder?
Speaker 2: I got money on the thunder. That's right, thunder in
Speaker 2: the Suns. Right thunder in the Suns. I did. I did? Okay,
Speaker 2: split my roulette winnings on the thunder in the Suns.
Speaker 6: Do you want some money in roulette?
Speaker 2: I did?
Speaker 6: Accidentally, Oh, like, how much money did you make?
Speaker 2: Two hundred something dollars? I think? And then you made
Speaker 2: more than two hundred I thought it was two hundred something.
Speaker 2: It was two hundred change.
Speaker 7: And then and you put it directly on the thunder. Yeah,
Speaker 7: take it all, Take it all? Because I had just
Speaker 7: all the way.
Speaker 5: The last highlight I had seen was chedd Holmgren looking
Speaker 5: good in a summer League game. I was like, well,
Speaker 5: these guys are going to take it all the way.
Speaker 5: I was just looking for one team that was like
Speaker 5: long odds and one team that was a favorite who
Speaker 5: might be interested.
Speaker 2: Who's whose odds? I like, let me let me see
Speaker 2: if I can find my tickets here? See you like
Speaker 2: you lost them?
Speaker 1: You're like, oh no, no, I thought they were I
Speaker 1: thought they were parking receipts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so two hundred something. I put one hundred on
Speaker 2: okay See to win it, and one hundred on these
Speaker 2: Suns to win it during summer league. A right, so
Speaker 2: all right, we shall see it. They're looking good and
Speaker 2: you get back in the streets, people are are there.
Speaker 6: You say, to win it? Do you mean the NBA Championship?
Speaker 6: I yeah, have the best record in the.
Speaker 5: Summer seems like it's money that I stand to win.
Speaker 5: To be honest with you, like, if I like, I
Speaker 5: think I should get all the money. If if I
Speaker 5: meant that okay See wins in the off season and
Speaker 5: then that somehow happens, I should get all the money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and a job in Washington.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: The government should be like, all right, well we have
Speaker 6: a psychic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, weird.
Speaker 7: He watches one Summer League highlight of Chet Holmgren and
Speaker 7: he gets the whole Dang.
Speaker 1: He knows people put him in charge of Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services exactly.
Speaker 5: So we should I think we should go through some
Speaker 5: of these boldest predictions, and then Matt, you should make
Speaker 5: your boldest prediction. Miles and I can chime in with
Speaker 5: a couple of ours.
Speaker 2: Yep, So, so who do we got first?
Speaker 5: Dad Sham Dad shamm dad on Blue Sky Blue Ski
Speaker 5: boldest prediction. Miami gets dam and wins it all. I
Speaker 5: mean that feels bold at the Yeah, it feels bold
Speaker 5: at the moment.
Speaker 1: I just don't as as as this saga drags on
Speaker 1: the less, I'm like, oh, yeah, he's gonna be in Miami,
Speaker 1: but who knows, who knows what happens? And then to
Speaker 1: cut to he's in the Celtics uniform.
Speaker 5: Is his MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, having mobiley,
Speaker 5: Rookie of the Year, Wemby six Man of the Year,
Speaker 5: Chris Paul most Improved, McHale Bridges surprise teams Okay see Brooklyn, Okay, yeah, some.
Speaker 2: Nick Claxton, Ben Simmons duo right there it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, nobody's ever gotten poor, underestimating Ben Simmons.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. Paul Garaventa, m V p PG.
Speaker 5: Deepoy A d interesting, Rookie of the Year, Scoot six
Speaker 5: Man of the Year, Brogdam brogday coming back.
Speaker 2: When when do we make this.
Speaker 5: They've been just trying to trade him repeatedly. They're like,
Speaker 5: get him right, off our team out, what are you
Speaker 5: doing here? Most improved players shouldn't charp prize teams, Bulls
Speaker 5: make the playan, MAVs missed the playan.
Speaker 2: So some of this feel like Paul was making this
Speaker 2: prediction a year ago.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Paul, I'm just saying those are the MAVs that
Speaker 5: that surprise thing is what happened last year.
Speaker 2: Man, Come on, yeah, yeah, we'll jump shot Bacula. I
Speaker 2: knew you were going to go for this one.
Speaker 1: First boldest prediction Lakers missed playoffs, straight to my locker room.
Speaker 5: That's locker room material right there from Miles and Jackie.
Speaker 1: Don't say that out loud, super rude MVP Zion, that's bold. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, man, that's also a bold one. Defensive player
Speaker 1: Evan Mobley, Rookie of the Year, Chetty Chetty bang bang
Speaker 1: uh huh, six man cares and then most improved Player
Speaker 1: Nikhil uh So. I don't know, I mean, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the Eastern surprise. Calves make the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 1: Western surprise. MAVs finished top four in the West regular season.
Speaker 5: The MAVs are really a lot of variability, and truly
Speaker 5: they're divisive. I cannot blame anybody for that. I have
Speaker 5: no idea what they're going to be like this year.
Speaker 1: Right like, because you can see it happening either way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like you could be like, oh, okay, they've figured it out,
Speaker 1: or oh okay, Lucas Luker's leaving, and then Cole san
Speaker 1: Dick said right now, as of right now, boldest prediction,
Speaker 1: the MAVs will not merely miss the playoffs, but absolutely
Speaker 1: sting MVP, Nicola Jokic, defensive player Jaron Jackson, Junior Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year, Victor Wemby, I'm six Man, Benedict Mathern,
Speaker 1: and then most Improved Cade Cunningham. Surprise teams, Pistons and
Speaker 1: Rockets is another one I could say.
Speaker 7: Am I had to understand that is it is a
Speaker 7: bold prediction to think that Jokic will be the MVP.
Speaker 1: Well, I think people were just saying that they had
Speaker 1: their one boldest prediction and then the old.
Speaker 5: Prediction and then they're allowed to get their boring predictions
Speaker 5: for everything else. Okay, yeah, but they're close to each other,
Speaker 5: so I kept having the same thing. Yeah, I was like,
Speaker 5: they we give their bold and then we go right
Speaker 5: to MVP, and I'm like, well, that's not bold cold, Yeah,
Speaker 5: you loan it bold.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Those aren't the rules that we made up. Matt. What's
Speaker 2: your boldest prediction? What's the wildest thing? You know, just
Speaker 2: just put it on.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 7: Uh san Antonio Spurs win it all? Whoa, I love it,
Speaker 7: you know, because uh, I don't know. They still got
Speaker 7: Greg Popovich, right, yeah, Okay, so I don't know who's
Speaker 7: on the team necessarily, but I do feel like as
Speaker 7: long as you got Greg Papovich, chances are always good.
Speaker 7: And then the rest of the predictions. Okay, so MVP,
Speaker 7: uh Anthony Davis.
Speaker 6: Wow, that's right. Most of improved, Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Okay, most improved? Yeah, interesting, Yeah, I did not see
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 6: Well, he's been really bad for a lot of years.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this could be the season where he finally, you know,
Speaker 7: decides to play basketball.
Speaker 2: Good, you know what I mean? Most improved in your heart.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sixth Man of the Year Lebron James. I think that,
Speaker 7: you know, he will be on the bench, being that
Speaker 7: this is a d's team. Now, okay, let's see what else.
Speaker 7: Defensive Player of the Year Christian would Okay.
Speaker 5: Now that one I didn't see of all the I
Speaker 5: could have seen Vanderbilt, I could have seen an argument
Speaker 5: for him, but no, Christian would going to win Defensive
Speaker 5: Player of the Year without being the most improved player,
Speaker 5: even though he's traditionally been a bad defensive player.
Speaker 2: Is shot in the world?
Speaker 7: No, listen, I mean bad to you. These are subjective
Speaker 7: of like your opinion, man, sports. Uh, let's see what
Speaker 7: are what are the other categories?
Speaker 2: We got six?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 2: You said, Rookie of the Year, Rookie the Year, Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year.
Speaker 6: Uh you know, chat hold Grin because he's uh, he's
Speaker 6: a guy, just I know.
Speaker 2: Now check him out. You're gonna love this stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's see who else is?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 6: Is Devin George still in the league?
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yep, Devin George. You could have picked Sean
Speaker 1: Elliott too.
Speaker 2: Who's on the Spurs? Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Those are all on the table.
Speaker 6: And then who who will make the playoffs prediction?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, the Sons won't.
Speaker 2: The Sons won't make the playoff.
Speaker 6: The Thunder won't. Okay, the Celtics won't. I mean he won't. Wow, wow,
Speaker 6: the Nets won't.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 7: Basically, They're all just gonna give up because like eighties,
Speaker 7: Spurs are dominant. No, that's right, Yeah, wells are going
Speaker 7: to wait. The Spurs will move to the Eastern Conference
Speaker 7: so that the finals will be Lakers versus Spurs.
Speaker 2: I could see it all. I think I like this.
Speaker 2: I don't think we can I thought.
Speaker 6: It was supposed to just be everything bold, So I
Speaker 6: went everything bold.
Speaker 2: I love that. Amazing. What about you, Jack, can't? I mean,
Speaker 2: how much? What do you do after that? Am I
Speaker 2: going to go after? He just gave all of my picks? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm picking.
Speaker 1: I'm picking Ruey for everything, including Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 5: All right, wow, our boy rookie player of the Year. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think my bold prediction is Wemby Defensive Player of
Speaker 5: the Year.
Speaker 2: Still still feel good about that prize team being the
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder. Okay, and those the only ones I've
Speaker 2: made up my mind about, Those only ones I've made
Speaker 2: bets on.
Speaker 1: So wait, you didn't actually you didn't pick Wemby. You
Speaker 1: you thought Wenby, right.
Speaker 2: And that's how I know that's the one that's actually
Speaker 2: going to happen. And tried.
Speaker 5: I literally went on the apps to try and make
Speaker 5: that a reality and couldn't figure out how to do
Speaker 5: it and then I fell asleep.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I honestly I think the boldest prediction I
Speaker 1: think I don't I don't know why, but there's something
Speaker 1: about Damian Lillard playing on the Celtics.
Speaker 2: I would do my head in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I want to do my head in,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I want that. I just you know how
Speaker 1: sometimes when you're just so cynical, you're.
Speaker 2: Like, of course, it's couldn't happen.
Speaker 1: I kind of it's like simmering under the surface. But
Speaker 1: that would be wild, and I would just start throwing
Speaker 1: my arms, I know, because God hates me.
Speaker 2: They always they always get they always get those players.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we never get anything in LA.
Speaker 5: Like the name Portland. He will be traded between New
Speaker 5: England and Oregon. Ah ye, little historical facts for people.
Speaker 2: Aha, this isn't just a show full of bold most
Speaker 2: annoying person at the sports bar.
Speaker 7: One prediction, mm hm, the Seattle SuperSonics will come back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, we need that. Yeah, is it possible. Probably
Speaker 2: by the end of this season. Yeah, by the end
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 1: By the end of the season, you should actual say
Speaker 1: the Spurs will become the Sonics.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the Spurs are going to move to Seattle and
Speaker 7: become the Seattle Spurs.
Speaker 5: The Sonics love that, love that, and to make room
Speaker 5: for them, they will switch the Eastern Conference for some reason.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Well, there's a far west, it might as well
Speaker 2: there it is. All right, Well, you heard it here first,
Speaker 2: and I mean that.
Speaker 5: We say we're not a gambling podcast, but I mean
Speaker 5: you you heard the confidence with which we made those predictions.
Speaker 1: We're pretending to not know.
Speaker 6: But we know, we know that, we know it's happened.
Speaker 6: Christian what don't let me down. Don't let me down.
Speaker 1: And we're going to be right back after this quick
Speaker 1: break to put Matt Leeb through the rapid fire round
Speaker 1: of questioning right after this, and we're back.
Speaker 2: Matt Leeb. You have entered the fourth quarter. Enter the
Speaker 2: rapid fire round of questioning, and one Matt will leave.
Speaker 2: That's right, you knew, you knew.
Speaker 6: I'm read with that. It's very exciting for me.
Speaker 2: That was a sick jack.
Speaker 7: Now, first question I have before you ask the questions,
Speaker 7: are these going to be about the NBA circa two
Speaker 7: thousand and two.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, don't worry about it, all right,
Speaker 1: you're just going to react, because that's the whole point
Speaker 1: of this. This is the fastest question to answer segment
Speaker 1: in podcasting history. We're going to ask you a question.
Speaker 1: Just give your answer, don't think about it, don't ruminate,
Speaker 1: just chest pass it right back, and we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: keep it moving.
Speaker 2: If you start.
Speaker 1: Lagging and drawing out the answers, we're gonna get upset.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 1: It's actually on you to keep these answers short. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 2: You ready's really mad?
Speaker 7: An?
Speaker 2: I get it? Yeah, you should be scary. You should be.
Speaker 1: I've been through five computer monitors this summer, mostly because
Speaker 1: I spit all over them and they shot out. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's neither here nor there. We're asking you the questions.
Speaker 2: Jackie.
Speaker 1: Ready, you want to go, Let's just let's get let's
Speaker 1: just get this thing going.
Speaker 2: Keeps telling me it makes them so sad when we go.
Speaker 2: Who's going first? You're going first? I'll go first, all right, Matt, Matt,
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 5: If you could have any players skill set for a day,
Speaker 5: what player you take and what skill set.
Speaker 2: Is it that you take from them?
Speaker 6: Mark mad saying free throws.
Speaker 2: You know, man, I didn't think there was a perfect answer,
Speaker 2: but there it was.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, Well, I mean I saw him airball too
Speaker 6: in a row one time. I was like, I want
Speaker 6: to have the confidence of this guy.
Speaker 1: Yep, you gotta go to Stanford. You got to go
Speaker 1: to Stanford for that kind of confidence.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: Okay, how about this one.
Speaker 1: You can take three former players and put them on
Speaker 1: rosters for next season. So let's say you could take
Speaker 1: three former Laker players. Okay, who are you, like, like
Speaker 1: like from yesterdyear, who are you choosing to put on
Speaker 1: this team this year?
Speaker 7: Eldon Campbell, Nick van Axel and Eldon Campbell's brother, who
Speaker 7: was my middle.
Speaker 6: School summer school teacher.
Speaker 2: Wow, are you for real?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was a weirdo. Man, My brother was in
Speaker 7: the NBA. He talked exactly like that.
Speaker 1: It was very strange, like he was like like Grey Gardens, like.
Speaker 6: Like like he was doing more Oregon Freeman in ye,
Speaker 6: like weirder. Like people would like clown on him all
Speaker 6: the time and he would go teacha abuse, teacher abuse.
Speaker 6: It was guy, it was wild. I didn't know why
Speaker 6: he talked like that.
Speaker 7: Uh, but I thought, oh, you know, this guy is
Speaker 7: he was like six eight, and I was like, this
Speaker 7: guy's probably really good at basketball too.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, So those are just three shout out at.
Speaker 1: Him, shout out to all substitute teachers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, all right, Jalen Roses hair.
Speaker 7: Uh Anti anti anti Yeah, take it, take it, take
Speaker 7: it off.
Speaker 6: Oh, don't need it.
Speaker 1: How about this, If you had to give a letter
Speaker 1: grade that would represent your excitement for the upcoming season
Speaker 1: of NBA basketball, be honest, now, what would.
Speaker 2: You give it?
Speaker 6: Solid?
Speaker 2: B plus? Okay?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like I am.
Speaker 7: I'm very excited to see who is playing basketball these days.
Speaker 7: Like I've heard a lot of great things about this,
Speaker 7: uh this Chet Holmgren Fellah, you heard there's a new
Speaker 7: guy named Scoot out there. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm hearing
Speaker 7: that h JaVale McGhee's still in the league.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I can neither confirm nor deny that, Okay.
Speaker 7: I mean it's just like it's I'm very excited, but
Speaker 7: not so excited that I you know, it's a big
Speaker 7: a you know, it's like it's a B plus. I mean,
Speaker 7: you know, I'm excited enough to uh, you know, watch
Speaker 7: it at some point after the All Star break.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, mistakes get high.
Speaker 5: And finally the most important question, Matt Lee, Jack or Miles, Oh, Mac.
Speaker 2: The Giles.
Speaker 7: That's if you guys got stuck in a sort of
Speaker 7: a rat king situation where tails got knotted together and
Speaker 7: you were stuck together.
Speaker 1: Giles does kind of seem like a pretty interesting basketball player.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right with Mac Giles, if there was Giles Giles. Sorry,
Speaker 9: but yeah, you know that's uh.
Speaker 2: So you're not gonna You're really not to pick man,
Speaker 2: You're not gonna really pick.
Speaker 7: It's a coward's answer. But I'm gonna have to go
Speaker 7: with producer Jabarie Davis because you know, he's, uh he's
Speaker 7: a good dude and honestly, I think he's one of.
Speaker 6: The better producers out there.
Speaker 2: Wow, a couple of things about him after the show.
Speaker 2: But cool about Matt Lee. You have survived the rapid
Speaker 2: fire round question? Yeah, Miles of Jack.
Speaker 6: Whole Mister Campbell wasn't listening. He was We're writing abuse
Speaker 6: in the reddit.
Speaker 2: Where can people find you? Follow you? All that good stuff?
Speaker 7: I do a basketball podcast about the Lakers circuits two
Speaker 7: thousand and one.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 7: I do a The wire Rewatch podcast called pod Yourself
Speaker 7: the Wire.
Speaker 6: It is, well, it's called pod Yourself a Gun.
Speaker 2: It is both a.
Speaker 7: Sopranos uh rewatch podcast and a the wire Rewatch podcast.
Speaker 2: And we've had both Jack and Miles on.
Speaker 6: It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: So Church out Last True Joy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And you know what I make this promise to you guys,
Speaker 6: I because I used to listen. I was a league
Speaker 6: pass guy, you know, to watch every Laker game art
Speaker 6: humble brag, humble brag. I don't want to brag, but
Speaker 6: I had our league past.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The truth.
Speaker 7: I will watch eighty two games this season. Wow wow Okay,
Speaker 7: and they it probably won't all be from the same team. Sure,
Speaker 7: because at some point I'm gonna I want to watch
Speaker 7: a different thing, not watch the Lakers. But and once
Speaker 7: I've watched all eighty two games, then you guys have
Speaker 7: me back.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna I think what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: is we're gonna do like a mid term exam.
Speaker 7: Oh do that, cat, Cat, We'll just yeah, show up
Speaker 7: at your house, Just show up at my house and
Speaker 7: just start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you in there time for the mid term.
Speaker 6: Have to watch eighty two games real fast.
Speaker 2: Give me like, give me eighty two games. I'll be
Speaker 2: there in a second.
Speaker 6: Room just trying to watch it on three x speed.
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, make sure you follow us on Twitter.
Speaker 5: I'm at Miles of Gray, I'm at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and follow a hashtag mad Boosties for show links
Speaker 1: and updates.
Speaker 2: That is going to do it for us this week.
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week as we inch closer to
Speaker 1: the start of the season.
Speaker 2: Uh and we can't wait to see you. Then, okay,
Speaker 2: take care, bye bye,