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Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What do you think Ashley had a little.
Speaker 5: Nervous nervous for being on right now? Yeah, man, this
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Speaker 2: I was built for this. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: Busy night last night in the NBA. A lot of
Speaker 2: fun stuff to talk about. So we're gonna play a
Speaker 2: little bit of what you Got, what you Get? All right?
Speaker 2: This is usually where I freestyle over the hot beat,
Speaker 2: So take it away, what you got? I got nothing, Barge. Luckily, though,
Speaker 2: we did have something in the NBA last night. Kevin
Speaker 2: Durant returned and finally made his home debut in a
Speaker 2: nice win over the Timberwolves for the Phoenix Suns. The
Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings smoked the Rockets one twenty to eighty. They
Speaker 2: lit the beam and clinched a playoff spot for the
Speaker 2: first time since two thousand and six, and both Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid and James Harden returned to the lineup as the
Speaker 2: Sixer beat the Mavericks in Philadelphia. So, guys, what was
Speaker 2: last night's best win? The Suns, the Kings or the Sixers?
Speaker 3: What you got, Jerome, I mean, only one of these
Speaker 3: wins was seventeen years in the makings. So I think
Speaker 3: it's gotta be the Kings. I mean, huge for the
Speaker 3: Sons and the Sixers, if anything, for them to just
Speaker 3: round out their rosters and look at it looked like
Speaker 3: full just going into the playoffs. But no, it's it's
Speaker 3: all about the Kings. I feel like we're gonna be
Speaker 3: talking about that a lot during this We already had
Speaker 3: a short drop this morning, A shout out Skeets for
Speaker 3: having that on deck for us. But no, I mean
Speaker 3: we saw it. You know, iPhone didn't exist, Facebook was
Speaker 3: in its infancy. Daniel Powder, you know, had a bad day.
Speaker 3: What was like top of the charts, you know, So
Speaker 3: Brad Miller shoutow, Brad Miller, Miller, big shadow, Brad Miller.
Speaker 3: There's really no other option in my opinion, Like, everything
Speaker 3: looks good on the horizon for the other two, but
Speaker 3: it's all about the Kings. Baby, Yeah, what'd you think?
Speaker 2: Asha pretty cool seeing the Kings actually clinched their playoff berth.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the last time they did it, I was in
Speaker 5: the sixth grade.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask what everybody was doing back in
Speaker 2: two thousand and six. I was drawing blood at a
Speaker 2: blood bank. Man. Sixth grade.
Speaker 5: Sixth grade, man, I was eleven years old last time
Speaker 5: they were in the playoffs. So yeah, to me, it's
Speaker 5: the Kings too. That's definitely the win, the big win.
Speaker 5: The Suns them getting to win. It didn't really move
Speaker 5: anything the Sixers. They kind of just moved up an
Speaker 5: extra game on the calves. But for the Kings to
Speaker 5: be back in the playoffs again for the first time
Speaker 5: in forever. Like I said, I was eleven, it's a
Speaker 5: big deal. It's a big deal.
Speaker 2: So like that, Beam, what were you into when you
Speaker 2: were eleven?
Speaker 5: When I was eleven, the same stuff I'm into now, basketball,
Speaker 5: Dragon Ball, and Star Wars. I haven't changed much at all.
Speaker 2: Neither of live to be quite honest, I don't draw
Speaker 2: blood anymore, but I do still like Needles. What about you, Jeroma?
Speaker 2: Were you doing back in six.
Speaker 3: I was in university hanging out super late at Tim
Speaker 3: Horden's with all of my classmates and friends. I do
Speaker 3: remember one time, like middle of the night, two in
Speaker 3: the morning, just a long day and bad day came
Speaker 3: on and we just sat there listening, you know, contemplating life,
Speaker 3: thinking it. You know, the Kings are so consistent. We'll
Speaker 3: just keep on doing this for the next seventeen years.
Speaker 3: But here we are. We actually made it around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a pretty special moment last night in Houston.
Speaker 2: Obviously the clinch didn't go well in Sacramento, but they
Speaker 2: looked at the schedules, how they had the rockets coming
Speaker 2: up and knew they were gonna get it done. There
Speaker 2: was a massive light the beam chant in Houston, which
Speaker 2: was pretty cool. Also, Keegan Murray hit three three pointers
Speaker 2: last night to pass Donovan Mitchell for the most three
Speaker 2: pointers ever in a rookie season. He's at one eighty
Speaker 2: eight now still has time to add to that, could
Speaker 2: possibly get to two hundred, I suppose. But man, what
Speaker 2: a story for the Kings to actually be able to
Speaker 2: clinch this playoff birth I remember back when Dearon Fox
Speaker 2: was entering the draft. I had to do this thing
Speaker 2: for NBA TV where I rode on the bus and
Speaker 2: just like walked down the aisle, sitting down and talking
Speaker 2: to all of the draft prospects. First of all, Darren
Speaker 2: Fox was just taking pictures of his watch the entire time,
Speaker 2: like he'd just gotten a sweet new Tisa watch or
Speaker 2: something because he was gonna get drafted. Just had like
Speaker 2: a thousand pictures. I thought that was cool. We also
Speaker 2: had him on Summer League a little bit later that year,
Speaker 2: and the guy just had so much charisma and you
Speaker 2: could tell he was going to be a leader for
Speaker 2: this Kings team. It didn't happen for them for the
Speaker 2: first few seasons of his career. There were definitely some
Speaker 2: dark moments where it kind of seemed like Fox had
Speaker 2: lost the light in his eyes compared to how he
Speaker 2: was when he came back into the league. But to
Speaker 2: see them succeed after the SA Bonus trade last year,
Speaker 2: very very cool for the Kings. Very cool to see
Speaker 2: Brad Miller getting a lot of love. There's a great
Speaker 2: piece on The Athletic Today from Anthony Slater. He can
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Speaker 2: only a dollar a month. You know, I'm loving the
Speaker 2: brad assance here in Zach er Medo because the guy
Speaker 2: was an all star way back when. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: got to talk to him now. But we'll see what
Speaker 2: the Kings do in the playoffs. Other big news in
Speaker 2: these games, of course, was Kevin Durant returning to the
Speaker 2: Suns for the first time in about three weeks after
Speaker 2: suffering that injury to his ankle during pregame warmups. One
Speaker 2: of the weirdest things We've talked so many times since
Speaker 2: the Kevin Durant trade, since his injury, how every time
Speaker 2: this guy comes back, it looks like he's never missed
Speaker 2: any time. No rust ever keeping Durant, and we completely
Speaker 2: jinxed him. He went five for eighteen from the field,
Speaker 2: finished with sixteen points.
Speaker 3: He was rusty, he was a little just what just
Speaker 3: wasn't until just over five minutes left in the second Yeah,
Speaker 3: that he actually hit his first bucket. But I just
Speaker 3: remember watching through just like, oh, it's all these like
Speaker 3: bunnies for Kevin Durant mid range, like this is just
Speaker 3: bound to happen. But then he got to the free
Speaker 3: throw line to miss one at a two, and that's
Speaker 3: when I'm just like, you know, we're in a situation
Speaker 3: now where it's just like, oh, Katie's really got to
Speaker 3: get back into it. I guess sometimes you actually do
Speaker 3: need to shake off the rest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes you need to turn on the Daniel
Speaker 2: powder because you just had a bad day from the field.
Speaker 2: Sometimes that happens. A lot of credit I do think
Speaker 2: goes to Jaden McDaniels, a good player to be guarding
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant because they are shaped very similar, very quick,
Speaker 2: very long. Obviously, but I did think Katie was still
Speaker 2: getting to his spots. He was just missing. They had
Speaker 2: that little Wired segment with him and Monny Williams where
Speaker 2: Moni comes over, He's like, greatness doesn't shake his head,
Speaker 2: they're just missing shots, man, And that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 2: Once he is back to getting his rhythm, he'll be
Speaker 2: doing all right. And the important thing I would say
Speaker 2: for the Suns is that they won with Kevin Durant
Speaker 2: not playing very well, because don't forget, they still got
Speaker 2: an incredible team around this guy. Chris Paul I thought
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter was awesome. The way he was
Speaker 2: orchestrating a good shot every single time down for Phoenix.
Speaker 2: He finished with eight points in the quarter had two assists.
Speaker 2: Devin Booker only had five points, but it felt like
Speaker 2: he was scoring a lot more. They just played with
Speaker 2: more execution on the offensive end. Their defense was solid
Speaker 2: as well. And for Minnesota, they've had a couple of
Speaker 2: nice wins here. Apparently there's an intestinal flu kind of
Speaker 2: like ripping through their entire team, so I don't blame
Speaker 2: them for being a little fatigued down the stretch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the flu definitely got to him on that.
Speaker 5: But like you said, though, it's it's really good for
Speaker 5: the Suns to have like their team be good when
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant is coming back, because whenever Kevin Durant is
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant again, they're gonna be scary in the West,
Speaker 5: and I think nobody wants to see him. And his
Speaker 5: win is really good, so they could keep the four seed.
Speaker 5: Don't fall down or actually they're to the fifty right
Speaker 5: so right behind the Clippers, but they're right there under
Speaker 5: them and they'll be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The win actually, well, the Clippers ended up winning
Speaker 2: last night too. They had a nice win. But Phoenix
Speaker 2: is in the fourth seed right now, they're a half
Speaker 2: game up, and that's gonna be I mean, they're so
Speaker 2: close right now, Phoenix in LA the Clippers, they're gonna
Speaker 2: be probably switching back and forth, and like you're saying,
Speaker 2: Kevin Duran ain't gonna shoot five for eighteen. No, So
Speaker 2: that's a problem for the rest of the league. As
Speaker 2: for the Sixers, I thought that was a pretty solid win.
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid back in the lineup, James Harden back in
Speaker 2: the lineup. Embiid went for twenty five points, nine rebounds.
Speaker 2: Harden had fifteen and twelve assists, just making sure they
Speaker 2: got great shots. I didn't think Embiid was dominant offensively.
Speaker 2: He played a good game, had a couple of big
Speaker 2: baskets in the fourth quarter, but I thought he was
Speaker 2: truly showing his impact defensively. Had that monster block on
Speaker 2: Luka Doncic late, basically a defensive dagger. He was guarding
Speaker 2: Reggie Bullock for a big part of the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: and in the second half, just basically standing in the
Speaker 2: middle of the lane daring the Mavericks to take open
Speaker 2: threes and they could not hit him. Sixers did a
Speaker 2: good job of running them off the line and making
Speaker 2: the MAVs think about it. But the MAVs really went cold.
Speaker 2: Three of twelve from three in the fourth quarter for Dallas,
Speaker 2: which just ain't gonna cut it. But the play of
Speaker 2: the game to me was two minutes left in the game.
Speaker 2: James Harden almost fumbles the ball trying to grift a foul,
Speaker 2: so it looks like he has an open jumper, could
Speaker 2: have easily taken it, but he doesn't. He passes it
Speaker 2: to him Bead, and Bead has the ball in the
Speaker 2: at the elbow the high post he's thinking about attacking.
Speaker 2: The shot isn't necessarily there, so he moves it. It
Speaker 2: passes two more times, the ball ends up with Tobias
Speaker 2: Harris on the post. Luca too small on him, an
Speaker 2: easy floater for Tobias Harris to give him the bucket.
Speaker 2: And that to me was just like the Sixers giving
Speaker 2: up so many good shots, so many shots you would
Speaker 2: be okay with with stars taking, whether it be Harden
Speaker 2: or Embiid, but instead they just worked the ball, got
Speaker 2: the best shot. They were playing for each other out there.
Speaker 2: That was a grinded out kind of win for Philly.
Speaker 2: I was super impressed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, disappointing for the mass for sure. And you know,
Speaker 5: I was watching the game. I think in the final
Speaker 5: four minutes of the game there was a couple of
Speaker 5: bad whistles and not necessarily bad whistles, but whistles that
Speaker 5: didn't go their way. They had the offensive for k
Speaker 5: kleeber Bullock fouled and then Tim Hardway Junior had a
Speaker 5: loose ball foul on a box out and that just
Speaker 5: kind of like killed all of the momentum that they
Speaker 5: had because I think right before that thing is when
Speaker 5: Luca came down and hit the three, and it just
Speaker 5: it just killed it. The whole game was over and
Speaker 5: the maps are really sliding right now. They look awful,
Speaker 5: and they're sitting outside to play in tournament. I don't know,
Speaker 5: I don't know what's gonna happen with them, man, they
Speaker 5: just what can you say about the MAVs.
Speaker 2: Well, the weird thing to me, I mean, a tough
Speaker 2: loss for the MAVs. They played really well through three
Speaker 2: quarters and then fell apart in the fourth quarter. I
Speaker 2: think it's the thirteenth time this year they've blown a
Speaker 2: lead of tiny or more points. I actually thought they
Speaker 2: played pretty hard. Yeah, all things considered, I thought they
Speaker 2: did some nice stuff in the third quarter. They went
Speaker 2: zone completely took Philly out of the game. Embiid was
Speaker 2: out of rhythm. Luka Doncic was smiling quite a bit
Speaker 2: in this game, exactly after he had said that he
Speaker 2: hasn't been playing with the kind of joy that he has.
Speaker 2: But the fourth quarter was bad. Kyrie irving. His last
Speaker 2: basket was with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: His last shot attempt was with six and a half
Speaker 2: minutes left. It was the only time he took a
Speaker 2: shot with Luca on the court in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Philadelphia was doing a great job of forcing the ball
Speaker 2: out of Kyrie's hands, out of Luca's hands, trying to
Speaker 2: make any of those Mavericks role players beat him, which
Speaker 2: they could not. But also, it doesn't feel like Luca
Speaker 2: and Kyrie are interacting with each other enough on the court.
Speaker 2: You're never seeing Luca set a screen for Kyrie. You're
Speaker 2: rarely seeing Kyrie set a screen for Luca. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of possession where Kyrie's just kind of hanging out
Speaker 2: in the corner waiting for a kickout pass. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It does not look perfect right now. And then you
Speaker 2: see the postgame comments from Kyrie Irving. He says, it's
Speaker 2: kind of a cluster right now. Fighting for the play
Speaker 2: in is not what I expected. They're nine to fourteen
Speaker 2: since the trade for him, I was probably the biggest
Speaker 2: backer of this trade of all of us here on
Speaker 2: the show. There was certainly a risk, but I thought
Speaker 2: it was like a further down the road risk right
Speaker 2: the way I was anticipating Kyrie and Luca getting worse
Speaker 2: being worse. Obviously the defense is a problem, but uh yeah,
Speaker 2: bad stuff for Dallas right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the chemistry is not there. And like you described
Speaker 3: that final play or that key play with the Sixers
Speaker 3: that ended into the Pius Harris short like mini hook
Speaker 3: at the end there, like you were seeing the exact
Speaker 3: opposite like you guys are describing on the other end
Speaker 3: with the MAVs, where it just seemed like it just
Speaker 3: lived or died on whether Luca would hit the big shot,
Speaker 3: which he did one of the times. But then you know,
Speaker 3: you see the next time he gets that, like Joe
Speaker 3: el embiid gets that big block, and it's just you know,
Speaker 3: two teams with championship aspirations, one looks way better he
Speaker 3: quit for playing in the clutch than the other you.
Speaker 2: Guys killed it. I mean, that was an incredible first question,
Speaker 2: straight up sicko mode. Moving on, we saw a fall
Speaker 2: career highs last night. Drew Holliday became the fourteenth player
Speaker 2: this season to score fifty or more points, putting up
Speaker 2: a career high fifty one in a blowout win against
Speaker 2: the Pace, one notch down on the scoring explosion chart.
Speaker 2: Taylor Horton Tucker became the fifty fifth player to score
Speaker 2: forty or more this season. He put up a career
Speaker 2: high forty one in the Jazz win over the Spurs. Esh,
Speaker 2: what was more surprising Drew's fifty one or thht's forty one?
Speaker 5: What you got more surprising? I think it's tc ye Drew.
Speaker 5: He was giving everybody buckets last night, like all over
Speaker 5: the four post ups, mid range, whatever. But we see
Speaker 5: him do stuff like this on occasion, like this happens
Speaker 5: every once in a while. We know he's pretty we
Speaker 5: know he's pretty consistent. Tha is t though. I mean
Speaker 5: he only averages ten points a game for his career,
Speaker 5: really right.
Speaker 2: Under the top.
Speaker 5: Actually, yeah, So he goes out there drops forty one
Speaker 5: last night. He did it last year almost to the day,
Speaker 5: like a week week away from there, dropped forty against
Speaker 5: the Warriors. So he does it every once in a while,
Speaker 5: might drop a forty piece, you know, close to forty,
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's the most surprising for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the time to do it. End of
Speaker 2: the season, you are always going to see the usual
Speaker 2: player put up a huge stat line. Who can forget
Speaker 2: ben Uzo with a triple double the very last game
Speaker 2: for the Toronto Raptors. But yeah, THHD he had six
Speaker 2: threes last night, which I guess was the key to
Speaker 2: getting to forty points. Not necessarily a three point shooter,
Speaker 2: but when he's hitting and when he's finishing the way
Speaker 2: he was inside, I guess that's how you get up
Speaker 2: to forty one. And like you're saying, forty in a
Speaker 2: game last year for the Lakers around the same time.
Speaker 2: This is when you get weird numbers in the NBA
Speaker 2: right at the end of the season. But man, some
Speaker 2: of the finishes he had. He had like a righty
Speaker 2: on the left side where he kind of turned back
Speaker 2: his body, which I thought was nice to see that
Speaker 2: from THHT a lot, But even more impressive I thought
Speaker 2: was he was finishing with his left hand. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: one of the main concerns I remember Lakers fans having
Speaker 2: with thhds. He never used his left hand. It was
Speaker 2: good to see last night, though, what'd you think Jerome
Speaker 2: Drew's fifty one thht forty one.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Drew's fifty one because, like like
Speaker 3: Esh said, for sure, it's not something that is foreign
Speaker 3: to Drew to do. But it's just when you look
Speaker 3: at the game itself, you would think, if Drew Holliy
Speaker 3: is gonna have a fifty point game, that is probably
Speaker 3: gonna be really quiet for the rest of the team.
Speaker 3: But no, Janni Santa to Compo has a thirty eight
Speaker 3: point triple double, Brook Lopez still goes for twenty one points,
Speaker 3: and then you mention how teach he does it on
Speaker 3: six threes, Drew Hallidy does it on only three. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and so if anything like it felt like the quietest
Speaker 3: fifty one point game I've seen. If you watch the
Speaker 3: uh like the NBA highlight recap for the game last night,
Speaker 3: you're gonna see Jannis get a number of poster dunks
Speaker 3: in big plays. You're gonna see Grayson Allen with one
Speaker 3: of the Dunk of the Year candidates potentially, and then
Speaker 3: from an editor's perspective, knowing, I'd like, if I had
Speaker 3: to put this together, this package, it's just so funny.
Speaker 3: You need to mention that a player on your team
Speaker 3: got fifty one points, so you have to fit in,
Speaker 3: you know, a couple of hook shots, a couple of floaters,
Speaker 3: just very quiet things, and then at some point just
Speaker 3: point out, oh yeah, and Drew Holiday got fifty one points,
Speaker 3: a career high, and so on that end. No, it's
Speaker 3: not surprising for Drew to get it, but it feels
Speaker 3: like if you list, if you were told that Drew
Speaker 3: Holly was gonna get a fifty point everything else feels
Speaker 3: so surprising that happens around it. It's almost like a
Speaker 3: microcosm of the Bucks the season that they could quietly
Speaker 3: run up these numbers, be the have the best record
Speaker 3: in the league, and uh, we don't really talk about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolutely right. Jannis had thirty eight points, seventeen rebounds,
Speaker 2: and twelve assists and didn't have the best game on
Speaker 2: his team. That's that's crazy, man, watch you.
Speaker 3: Had fifty one and eight assists, it's not even like
Speaker 3: he was just gunning.
Speaker 5: He's had fifty one eight and eight, right, eight and eight,
Speaker 5: so he almost had a triple double. Two a fifty
Speaker 5: one point triple double, very close, just right there with
Speaker 5: Jannis having a triple double, and like you said, everything
Speaker 5: it was quiet. He was just giving them buckets. So
Speaker 5: it is. It is weird like it is. It is
Speaker 5: a weird thing. Droom, You're not You're not wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they have two players go for thirty
Speaker 2: eight and eight, which I think is probably the first
Speaker 2: time in NBA history that that's happening. But watching both
Speaker 2: Giannis Andrew Holliday, it looked like they were the two
Speaker 2: strongest men on earth, like youngest might actually be the
Speaker 2: strongest man on earth, at least maybe in the NBA.
Speaker 2: And obviously the Pacers didn't have anybody who could really
Speaker 2: check him. He didn't get a foul call at one point,
Speaker 2: so we just completely we're gonna go and we're gonna
Speaker 2: be dalking anime here.
Speaker 3: Super cyan mode Is that a thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, okay, good. I wasn't actually sure how to
Speaker 2: pronounce it. I've read it so many times, so I
Speaker 2: wasn't sure how to be saying sane, but he went
Speaker 2: super saying mode and he was just dunking all over everybody,
Speaker 2: including Jalen Smith, who took a tough one on the face.
Speaker 2: And then you mentioned that Grayson Allen dunk as well,
Speaker 2: where he just fell so hard. I wasn't sad, but
Speaker 2: nonetheless it was funny watching because Jiannis you expect him
Speaker 2: to be the strongest guy out there, but you mentioned
Speaker 2: it Jerome only three threes for Drew Holiday last night.
Speaker 2: He took one long two and everything else was in
Speaker 2: the lane. It almost kind of felt like the Bucks
Speaker 2: were going at Jordan Warra. I don't know why. Like
Speaker 2: former Buck Jordan Warra, they wanted to prove a point,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of like Michael Jordany to me,
Speaker 2: where it's like, there's not a lot of motivation to
Speaker 2: beat the Pacers this late in the season for the Bucks.
Speaker 2: But how about a guy we used to play with,
Speaker 2: Let's take on him to make some bits.
Speaker 3: Jordan war was their bj Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're exactly right, great call, and uh, it looked
Speaker 2: like Michael Jordan versus bj Armstrong out there. The way
Speaker 2: that Drew was just like anytime he would touch a
Speaker 2: pacer with his shoulder or with his forearm. They would
Speaker 2: go flying. It was like the easiest way to create space.
Speaker 2: And then you're just saying dinking and dumping getting his
Speaker 2: way to fifty one points. That was an awesome performance
Speaker 2: for Milwaukee on the night. They scored one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty nine points. They gave up one hundred and thirty six.
Speaker 2: But kind of everybody just agreed, we're all playing defense
Speaker 2: this game. We played defense every other game.
Speaker 3: Say the Bucks the shot like fifty plus percent and
Speaker 3: the Bucks like countered with sixty four percent.
Speaker 5: It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Boks made ten threes last night,
Speaker 2: that's hardly anything. They turned the ball over eighteen times
Speaker 2: and they still scored one hundred and fifty because they
Speaker 2: got the two strongest men on earth moving on. My
Speaker 2: worst fears were realized last night as the Lakers used
Speaker 2: their loss on Sunday as inspiration for revenge against the Bulls.
Speaker 2: Last night, even worse, the Lakers got multiple taunts in
Speaker 2: on Patrick Beverley. Let's take a look.
Speaker 5: Price, and that is indeed the case for Reeves. Beverlys
Speaker 5: pumped fakes, he could not get Lebron in the year.
Speaker 2: Now, we'll take a long one bebound Vander. That's Lebron
Speaker 2: yelling hell no, hell no, hell no, that Patrick Beverley
Speaker 2: as he pumped fakes. A little bit later on the
Speaker 2: dagger from Austin, Reeves hits the floater and Reeves hits
Speaker 2: Patrick Beverly with the too small taunt after Beverly did
Speaker 2: it to Lebron and their last matchup in La so Jerome.
Speaker 2: What you got which is the or Patrick Beverly tout
Speaker 2: hell no.
Speaker 3: It seems like it seems like it should be obvious
Speaker 3: that it's the too small retort. But it just that
Speaker 3: that was gonna happen. You knew it had to happen,
Speaker 3: especially if they get the revenge win. It's the hell no.
Speaker 3: For me. If I was on the court and I
Speaker 3: had the ball in hand and someone just looked at
Speaker 3: me and said, shoot, it's fine, I don't need to
Speaker 3: do anything about this, it was destroying my confidence at
Speaker 3: that point. There's no like to just yell hell no,
Speaker 3: hell no on pump fakes. You know that that's actually
Speaker 3: that's the verbal too small. Wow, that's the verbal too small. Yeah,
Speaker 3: It's just it's just like there's no like you got
Speaker 3: no shot, there's nothing going on. It's just it's minimizing
Speaker 3: a person at that moment. Yeah, No, for me, it's
Speaker 3: the hell no. It's it's almost like again, Lebron plays
Speaker 3: chess while everyone plays checkers. He knows they probably expect
Speaker 3: him to hit him back with some sort of too small.
Speaker 3: But Lebron's way bigger than Patrick Beverly. There's no point
Speaker 3: to doing the too small, So he's just gonna could
Speaker 3: Pat Beverly and say, you never bothered me to begin.
Speaker 2: With, Yeah, Lebron did, I guess? I guess, Papa, I've
Speaker 2: already had his too small And he had a little
Speaker 2: bit of a comeback and Lebron, like Lebron went to
Speaker 2: throw a pass and definitely knocked it out and he
Speaker 2: hit him with the Mtumbo finger. It's hilarious. You knew
Speaker 2: the too small was coming though, Even Patrick Beverly said afterward,
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, I knew somebody was going to too small. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just glad it was Austin Breeves. It sounded like
Speaker 2: a dad who was proud of his kid or something.
Speaker 2: What's you think ash the hell no or the too small?
Speaker 5: To be honest with you. I was going to go
Speaker 5: with the too small, mostly because of the clip where
Speaker 5: he was doing the Shannon Sharp impersonation afterwards, but I
Speaker 5: think Jerome you kind of convinced me. Man, the hell
Speaker 5: no is that's the one for sure, because if I'm
Speaker 5: playing pickup, I know that there's guys at the gym
Speaker 5: that I do this to all the time, like literally,
Speaker 5: But I think Lebron should have waited till the shot
Speaker 5: in the corner on pat oh, yeah, because like to
Speaker 5: do it on a pump bake that's ultimate disrespect. Like
Speaker 5: he's like, you don't even jumping, Yeah, don't even try,
Speaker 5: Like I'm gonna block you. I'm not gonna do anything.
Speaker 5: But if he was in the corner and he hits
Speaker 5: them with the hell nah and just turns right, hell
Speaker 5: Na just turns, then you're.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, it's odd.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Steph Curry's like, turnaround.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: When he looks away, it's that it's to look away
Speaker 3: because I know it's not going in. Yes, I'm not
Speaker 3: even looking the basket. I'm gonna go for the rebound.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There were some more great moments in this game
Speaker 2: as well. Basically, like Lebron I think he was maybe
Speaker 2: being guarded by Io Desumu or something like that, and
Speaker 2: he just happened to be right over by the Bulls bench.
Speaker 2: He's basically like Pet pointing out Patrick Beverer. He's like,
Speaker 2: he's in it, You're not. You're sitting on the bench.
Speaker 2: He's playing me right now. So I thought that was hilarious.
Speaker 2: There was a basketball game here as well. The Lakers
Speaker 2: completely smoked the Bulls thirty eight and ten for Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: Lebron went for a mere twenty five points, hitting that
Speaker 2: over just barely. But basically, the Lakers starters dominated every
Speaker 2: single moment that they were in the game. The bench
Speaker 2: would come in, the Bulls would come back, but then
Speaker 2: unfortunately the Lakers would put their starters back in. The
Speaker 2: Austin Reeves the too small. He just did it at
Speaker 2: the inopportunity time. We saw the peak of the too small.
Speaker 2: But it was cool that he hit him back. There's
Speaker 2: a hilarious clip of Lebron talking about it postgame in
Speaker 2: the locker room. We're in just a towel. He says,
Speaker 2: they asked him what it meant that Austin Reeves hit
Speaker 2: the too small on Patrick Beverly. He says that ar
Speaker 2: always got my back always, even though we loved Kobe
Speaker 2: back in the day more than me, I forgive him.
Speaker 2: They dug them an old Austin River or Austin Reeves
Speaker 2: tweet where he basically says Kobe is better than Lebron.
Speaker 2: Lebron obviously is familiar with that. But I think once
Speaker 2: you too small on behalf of your teammate. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: all good.
Speaker 5: Ultimately, I got your back moment. What a great teammate
Speaker 5: Austin Reeves is to make sure that he gets revenge
Speaker 5: for Lebron too small because you know Lebron can't handle
Speaker 5: himself apparently.
Speaker 2: Exactly so you're telling me your hell knowing people at
Speaker 2: the pickup joke.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a little disrespectful in that, for sure.
Speaker 2: You gotta be a too small guy too.
Speaker 5: No, I've never hit anybody with a too small though.
Speaker 2: No, never, what about this week? Maybe, Yeah, we're get in, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you gotta get it in before it's completely just shark. Yeah.
Speaker 2: In the other East Action, Nicks pulled away late to
Speaker 2: beat the heat despite losing Julius Randall to a sprained
Speaker 2: ankle in the second quarter, and the Nets beat the
Speaker 2: Rockets thanks to thirty one from Cam Johnson twenty seven
Speaker 2: from Mikale Bridges. So let's take a quick look here
Speaker 2: at the Eastern Conference standings. They are changing all the time,
Speaker 2: but a win for Philadelphia last night, a win for
Speaker 2: New York last night, a win for Brooklyn last night
Speaker 2: means things basically stay the same in the top six
Speaker 2: of the Eastern Conference. Three straight losses, though for Miami
Speaker 2: right now. If they're gonna make a run at actually
Speaker 2: making the playoffs rather than having to go through the
Speaker 2: play in you gotta figure out something pretty soon because
Speaker 2: they have been looking pretty poor. Nick's feeling kind of
Speaker 2: bad for these guys. Little snake bit, I think ever
Speaker 2: since they went on that wind streak. Jalen Brnson is
Speaker 2: in and out of the lineup. He finally came back
Speaker 2: last night, only to lose Randall to an ankle roll
Speaker 2: which poorly timed, but twenty four points from Emmanual quickly
Speaker 2: off the bench. Hope this guy wins sixth Man of
Speaker 2: the Year. He'll probably be my pick at the end
Speaker 2: of the season. Also saw that Tom Thibodeaux played five
Speaker 2: guys the entire fourth quarter last night. Classic stuff any thoughts.
Speaker 5: On these games. Just at the Knicks losing Julius Randall,
Speaker 5: that's a big deal. You don't want the Knicks to
Speaker 5: Nicks when they go into the playoffs. You want them
Speaker 5: to be as healthy as possible and one hundred percent
Speaker 5: as possible so they can get everything together. So that's tough.
Speaker 5: That's a big blow for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Randall's played every game this season. Obviously
Speaker 2: played last night but only got in a handful of
Speaker 2: minutes before he went out, So we will see the
Speaker 2: diagnosis today. Hopefully he's able to get back on the
Speaker 2: court as well. Out West, though, the Thunder beat the
Speaker 2: Pistons just barely on Jalen Williams game winning put back,
Speaker 2: a near buzzer beater. Think there was point five seconds
Speaker 2: left on the clock after you can set out a bus,
Speaker 2: what do'd you think.
Speaker 3: It? Honestly, we talked about the Kings earlier. If the
Speaker 3: Kings didn't have the season that they had, like the
Speaker 3: feel good story of the season would be the Thunder opinion.
Speaker 3: And you know, you would think a team that loses
Speaker 3: a top pick in Chet Holmgren wouldn't be making any noise.
Speaker 3: But then you got Jay dub here, who's like in
Speaker 3: the mix for Rookie of the Year. And beyond having
Speaker 3: like such a good season, having like really good moments
Speaker 3: like that, I think that's the kind of thing that
Speaker 3: you need, like a game winner like this. I don't know,
Speaker 3: things feel good in Thunderland. We did that short a
Speaker 3: few weeks back, where it's like it must be feel
Speaker 3: good to feel good to be a thunder fan. And
Speaker 3: you know, it's things like this that's happening this season
Speaker 3: that's like showing it time and time again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Jalen Williams another great game we obviously had
Speaker 2: the game winner, finished with twenty seven points, eight rebounds,
Speaker 2: and six assists. He just scores from all over. Takes
Speaker 2: all kinds of different shots, a lot of dunks this season,
Speaker 2: a lot of three pointers. I've been trying to come
Speaker 2: up with like my comparison for who he reminds me of.
Speaker 2: Here's what I've come up with so far. Lou all
Speaker 2: Dang with Swag. Like, I think they're kind of similar
Speaker 2: players in that they can guard a lot of positions.
Speaker 2: They score from three, they score from the mid range,
Speaker 2: they score at the rim. But Jalen Williams, I think
Speaker 2: has a little bit more uh, just a little more
Speaker 2: verb than lu All Dang does. Luell Dang more of a.
Speaker 5: Workman like player. I agree with that, all right.
Speaker 2: Here's another one I'll throw at you. Best possible version
Speaker 2: of James Posey, Like James Posey more of a role guy,
Speaker 2: but you know, h versus defender three point shooter. But
Speaker 2: imagine if you had a handle and could go to
Speaker 2: the rim like Jalen Williams. Yeah, not selling you as
Speaker 2: much on that one up.
Speaker 5: No, Actually I might like that one better. I don't
Speaker 5: know why, but I think I like that one better.
Speaker 2: All right, final possible comparison here Andrew Wiggins if his
Speaker 2: best skill was savvy instead of athleticism. No to know.
Speaker 2: I feel like Andrew Wiggins is a very good big
Speaker 2: wing who kind of does it all. He's he's a
Speaker 2: good three point shooter, He's obviously a great dunker. He's
Speaker 2: kind of cut out the mid range of his game,
Speaker 2: but he still got it there. He can score in
Speaker 2: the post. I feel very similar about Jalen Williams. Also,
Speaker 2: they're both very versatile defenders. They hit the glass. But
Speaker 2: Wiggins is a much better athlete than jadab Is whereas
Speaker 2: I think Jadab just knows how to play the game
Speaker 2: like a ten year veteran, despite the fact that he's
Speaker 2: only a rookie this season. So if savvy is your
Speaker 2: calling card like it is for Jalen Williams, I kind
Speaker 2: of think and athleticism is for Wiggins. What if you
Speaker 2: just flipped them really makes you think, really makes you okay?
Speaker 2: In the comments, obviously Smack was the best one, but
Speaker 2: it also the Clippers beat the Grizzlies, no Kawhi, no
Speaker 2: Paul George. They snapped Memphis seven game win streak. So
Speaker 2: let's take quick look at the Western Conference standings. That
Speaker 2: was a bad loss for the Mavericks last night, cause,
Speaker 2: coupled with the Oka See win, a full one game
Speaker 2: lead for the Thunder, the tenth seed in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2: Westbrook was awesome last night. Thirty six points, ten assists.
Speaker 2: There's an incredible picture of this guy flexing on the court.
Speaker 2: I think he got an and one maybe on jaw
Speaker 2: and the picture is taken from above. He's flexing in
Speaker 2: the middle of the lane and somehow he's looking right
Speaker 2: at the camera even though it's in the ceiling. I
Speaker 2: don't know how he did it, but Westbrook five from
Speaker 2: three to last night. You're not counting on that every night.
Speaker 2: But the way he's pushing the pace, the way he
Speaker 2: is in the lane all the time, has really really
Speaker 2: worked out for the Clippers. I didn't expect that to
Speaker 2: be the case. So I'll take an L on that
Speaker 2: one because Westbrook definitely won them this game, and with
Speaker 2: Paul George down with injury, with Kawhi doing his load management,
Speaker 2: this is a nice win for the Clippers because we
Speaker 2: mentioned earlier they are still in a race for potentially
Speaker 2: getting home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: We shall see, Jero. I was wanting to get your take.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw Dylan Brooks's pregame outfit
Speaker 2: last night. Black bucket hat, white dresser, blackmailman, shorts at
Speaker 2: one's point, shoes.
Speaker 3: Right at this point, with all the different Dylan Brooks looks,
Speaker 3: it's almost just like a silhouette that, like, I'm not
Speaker 3: able to decipher anymore. He is just trying a new
Speaker 3: thing each time. I don't know any of them particularly hit,
Speaker 3: but I guess I should rep as the Canadian on
Speaker 3: the podcast looks great, honestly, killing the game, like, do
Speaker 3: your thig, Dylan, Yeah, I think the other thing. I
Speaker 3: also want to mention just it's so funny. We talked
Speaker 3: about the Drew Holiday game earlier. It's like jew Holiday
Speaker 3: fifty one points on three three pointers, Russell Westbrook thirty
Speaker 3: one points on five three pointers. Like they took each
Speaker 3: other's stat line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they kind of did. And hey, Dylan Brooks thirty
Speaker 2: points last night, twelve to twenty four shooting, you'll take that.
Speaker 2: I also saw that my main man, Chuck Anderson at
Speaker 2: no pattern on Twitter. He said that Dylan Brooks his
Speaker 2: fit looked like Beavis and butt Head from the waist,
Speaker 2: which I thought was awesome. JD. Let's see this playoff
Speaker 2: picture real quick. Things are changing every night, so we're
Speaker 2: looking at the matchups here. Play in tournament is staying
Speaker 2: the same. In the Eastern Conference right now, would be
Speaker 2: the Heat versus the Hawks, and the seven eight matchup
Speaker 2: Raptors Bulls. In nine ten. Out West, it would be
Speaker 2: the timber Wolves after their loss last night, would be
Speaker 2: playing against the Lakers, who moved up a slot. That's
Speaker 2: the seven eight matchup. Nine ten would be Pelicans versus Thunder,
Speaker 2: and then we've got some four or fives, some three sixes. Ash,
Speaker 2: you're looking at the playoff picture. If the playoffs started today,
Speaker 2: which they do not, we still got a week left
Speaker 2: of the regular season. What kind of first round matchups
Speaker 2: are you interested in here?
Speaker 5: If the playoffs started today, I think the Warriors Kings
Speaker 5: series would be pretty Oh yeah, I think it'd be
Speaker 5: a test, obviously to see where the Warriors are, see
Speaker 5: if they are back to being the Warriors or not,
Speaker 5: or if they're just going to be this mediocre Warrior
Speaker 5: team that we've seen, and especially starting on the road,
Speaker 5: see if they could even take one on the road.
Speaker 5: They always do, right, since they've always taken.
Speaker 2: One, Yeah, they always have at least.
Speaker 5: So that matchup would be pretty good just to see.
Speaker 2: I think what you think, Jerome, what you're looking at here,
Speaker 2: it is Warriors Kings.
Speaker 3: Also for me, I kind of wish that the rankings
Speaker 3: reverse that, like the Warriors were in the three spot,
Speaker 3: because it would almost feel like the Sacramento Kings were
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty three we believe Warriors going against the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three Golden State Warriors. Just there's just like
Speaker 3: an element there that like it's such a great story,
Speaker 3: and yeah, like it's such an interesting like this juncture
Speaker 3: if the playoffs are today or even in a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, like where both of these teams are at,
Speaker 3: Like where the Golden State Warriors are. They're defending champions,
Speaker 3: but like do they have enough in the tank? Will
Speaker 3: they be healthy enough to carry through? It seems like
Speaker 3: they should be able to handle the Kings, but you
Speaker 3: never know at this point. And so yeah, that's really
Speaker 3: the one, Like you want to follow the Kings as
Speaker 3: far as they go, and the fact that they're going
Speaker 3: against the defending champs is going to be such an
Speaker 3: interesting test in the first round.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a spicy time. Can't wait to see. But
Speaker 2: I mean we got five or six games left for
Speaker 2: every team. That's can all completely change. Yes, we shall see.
Speaker 2: We talked games, we'll talk news after the break. Stick
Speaker 2: around back with no dunks during the break as she
Speaker 2: came clean. Yeah you told me, Yes, indeed I have
Speaker 2: too small to someone once upon a time, but in
Speaker 2: a different way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in a whole different way, because I always hit
Speaker 5: people with the oh you're too small, Tom and Jerry,
Speaker 5: Tom and Jerry, or even if you're too big, Tom
Speaker 5: and Jerry, that's the mismatch, and that's what we're working with.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to work that into my lexicon as well,
Speaker 2: cause Stacy King on the Balls broadcast, he's always calling
Speaker 2: out mouse in the house. Yeah, that's a classic Tom
Speaker 2: and Jerry takes it to the next level. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: about you, Jerome? You e were too small somebody.
Speaker 3: It's very rare that I am bigger than someone on
Speaker 3: the basketball.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: I do remember one time I had to guard someone
Speaker 3: just far bigger than me and and they were posting
Speaker 3: me up NonStop, and I really had no shot at
Speaker 3: doing anything. So the only thing I could do was
Speaker 3: really play the mind game, and I just every time
Speaker 3: you started backing in, I just started singing Love in
Speaker 3: this club. By sure, I'm very uncomfortable with that. It
Speaker 3: really threw him off his game and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: not not getting no bunnies for them at that point.
Speaker 5: Mind games, Jerome, I love it.
Speaker 4: Mind games.
Speaker 2: I would start thinking about not basketball. If someone's singing
Speaker 2: I want to make love in the club and the
Speaker 2: post up, well, that's in the updown report. A lot
Speaker 2: of news, some topics that you guys and we will
Speaker 2: say if they're good or bad upper down. According to
Speaker 2: ESPN's Adrian Wojanowski, Dwayne Wade, Dirk Novitsky, Pau Gasol, Tony Parker,
Speaker 2: Becky Hammond, and Greg Popovich have all been elected into
Speaker 2: the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: with a formal announcement expected to come with the Final
Speaker 2: Four in Houston this weekend. Pretty good class, but is
Speaker 2: it the best ever? Up or down? Twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame class is the best ever? What you think?
Speaker 5: Esh, I'll god out, m down, I'll go down.
Speaker 2: Okay? Why is that?
Speaker 5: Okay? I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's a good reason. I mean, these are great players, Yes,
Speaker 2: these are all great players. Dwayne Wade three titles, Dirk
Speaker 2: one title, Pow two titles, Tony Parker four, Pop five,
Speaker 2: Becky Hammond defending w NBA Champion coach. But we're not
Speaker 2: talking about any of the top five player of all times.
Speaker 2: That's really why I like holding you back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really why, because I came here wanting to
Speaker 5: say uh, but then I got to thinking, I'm like,
Speaker 5: I mean, I just feel like when Jordan went in,
Speaker 5: That's that's kind of is Michael Jordan, you know, is like.
Speaker 3: The Jordan year. I do have it. So two thousand
Speaker 3: and nine we have Jordan, David Robinson, Jerry Sloan and
Speaker 3: John Stockton as like four of the big names in there.
Speaker 5: And you see what I'm.
Speaker 3: Saying, that is a good one. I also have the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty Kobe Tamika Catchings, Tim Duncan, KG and Rugi
Speaker 3: Tom Johanovic class, which I feel that's stacked.
Speaker 5: That's the best one right there.
Speaker 3: I think that's the best one in my opinion.
Speaker 5: See that's the reason I went down Jerome, have my back.
Speaker 5: Thanks man, I got you.
Speaker 2: Because you like the twenty twenty class doesn't mean you
Speaker 2: can't like the twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: I like three classes as well. To me, a lot
Speaker 2: of my personal favorites and this one, like I've got Dirk,
Speaker 2: Wade and Pole probably all in like my top ten
Speaker 2: favorite players to ever watch in the NBA. So I
Speaker 2: love this class. But if you're talk talking about like
Speaker 2: career achievements rankings on the all time list, it probably
Speaker 2: is more so similar to twenty eighteen, which was Jason Kidd,
Speaker 2: Steve Nash, Ray Allen and Grant Hill. A lot of
Speaker 2: incredible players some MVPs, but you know, like we're saying,
Speaker 2: not a Michael Jordan or a Shack making the list
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. But should be a really fun class, uh,
Speaker 2: really looking forward to the speeches. Wade should be interesting.
Speaker 2: I'm sure pau Gasol will be a tear jerker, and
Speaker 2: Dirk probably will be one of the funnier speeches we've
Speaker 2: seen in a long time. Yash, who do you think
Speaker 2: they let give the final speech of the night. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be between Wade, Dirk and Powell. You would think
Speaker 2: who's like the biggest name of those?
Speaker 5: Hmmm, probably Dwayne Wade. Yeah, probably so I probably probably
Speaker 5: be Dwayne Wade getting the last one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dwayne Wade is probably the biggest name. How we'll
Speaker 3: always have the Kobe Association, so there's a chance that
Speaker 3: we cloth zone on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let us know down below in the comments. Tweet
Speaker 2: at us what's the best Hall of Fame class of
Speaker 2: all time? And who do you think is going to
Speaker 2: actually give the keynote address of the evening? Because that's
Speaker 2: always interesting to see. Moving on, Variety reported this week
Speaker 2: that Charles Barkley and the world's most famous Gail Gail
Speaker 2: King or finalizing a deal that could see the pair
Speaker 2: co hosting a weekly primetime show on CNN. Nothing's finalized yet,
Speaker 2: but it seems like something could get done in time
Speaker 2: for the False Slate Jerome, are you up or down
Speaker 2: on Charles Barkley hosting a primetime CNN show?
Speaker 3: I'm love for Charles Barkley hosting anything, but then CNN show.
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm here, like.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't secret option with U.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just you gotta imagine, like Charles Barkley and media,
Speaker 3: it just feels like a ringer in any situation. But
Speaker 3: I need more information at what's going on here. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I really just don't know what it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But I believe in Chuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw some reporting that it might be like
Speaker 2: a Larry King Live sort of deal where it's like Chuck,
Speaker 2: Chuck and Gail old friends for Winfrey Show back in
Speaker 2: the day. Literally they met on the show like in
Speaker 2: two thousand and five or something like that, and they've
Speaker 2: become friends ever since. And Charles says, I'm only even
Speaker 2: considering this because of my respect for Gail King. But
Speaker 2: they might do like celebrity interviews or something like that.
Speaker 2: I saw they ask Barkley if he would ever do
Speaker 2: like a daily news show. He said, that is never
Speaker 2: gonna happen. You will never get me working every single day,
Speaker 2: which one hundred percent respect. What about you, Ashley? Up
Speaker 2: or down on this Chuck Show? Tune in?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, just because it's Chuck, Just because it's Chuck
Speaker 5: worth checking out, you know. He just says whatever he
Speaker 5: wants to do all the time.
Speaker 2: Yes, and.
Speaker 5: Everybody either loves their hate day and he's like, I
Speaker 5: don't care and he keeps going and just I think
Speaker 5: you guys talked about it yesterday, right, So absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm always up on Chuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if he shoots from
Speaker 2: the hip quite as often as he does with regards
Speaker 2: you know, to pop culture politics as much as he
Speaker 2: does about basketball. We shall see you, JD. Are you
Speaker 2: interested at all in Charles Barkley's non basketball takes?
Speaker 4: Very very interested? I like you guys, I'm a huge
Speaker 4: fan of Chuck. He was my favorite, he still is
Speaker 4: my favorite inside guy. He was probably the nicest to
Speaker 4: us outside of Ernie Sure, and he's just he's just great.
Speaker 4: I'm curious to see the chemistry between him and Gail King, like, uh,
Speaker 4: just trying her trying to rein him in and corral him.
Speaker 4: It's going to be just great television, I think so.
Speaker 4: I'm one hundred percent up.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I message Kevin Durant, he said he was down
Speaker 2: on this.
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant, Scott a goal on this show. That's the key.
Speaker 3: Like for this to be like a real up, Katie
Speaker 3: needs to get on and then Jordan needs to get
Speaker 3: on for two sit downs. That's that's the premiere.
Speaker 2: This part cop bad cop thing. Gail is super kind
Speaker 2: to everybody, you know, Barnes riling them up. I can
Speaker 2: see it happening. On a recent episode of All the Smoke,
Speaker 2: Isaiah Thomas called out his longtime nemesis Michael Jordan, as
Speaker 2: he said to Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. Quote, you
Speaker 2: got on national television and you called me an asshole,
Speaker 2: and then you said you hated me. That's what Isaiah
Speaker 2: Thomas said of Michael Jordan. You said that on national television,
Speaker 2: Zeke continued. Now if you didn't mean it, get on
Speaker 2: national television and apologize for it. Now, if you meant it,
Speaker 2: let it ride as it is. Jerome up or down
Speaker 2: on Michael Jordan ever apologizing to Isaiah Thomas.
Speaker 3: Wait up on never apologizing?
Speaker 2: Do you think he will apologize?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do believe you.
Speaker 3: Will Let this one ride it As we talked about
Speaker 3: best Hall of Fame class ever, best Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: speech ever, Michael Jordan, what about that speech? Told you
Speaker 3: he was ever going to apologize for anything?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly right. I mean maybe you get it.
Speaker 2: Maybe you get them both on the gale.
Speaker 5: So there you go.
Speaker 2: It's a soft landing spot, right. Yeah, what do you
Speaker 2: think as you think Michael Jordan will ever apologize?
Speaker 5: That will never happen. That will never happen, and he
Speaker 5: shouldn't either, by the way.
Speaker 2: No, yeah you don't think enough time is past?
Speaker 5: No, I mean I mean yes, but like Jordan is Jordan,
Speaker 5: and if you don't like him, that's fine. Like they
Speaker 5: are grown old man grown, like there's no reason he's Isaiah's.
Speaker 5: Isaiah Thomas is still talking about I need an apology,
Speaker 5: quit being in an asshole to me and like for
Speaker 5: what like you know, like they if they don't like
Speaker 5: each other, you don't have to like each other. Just
Speaker 5: because you both played in the NBA does not mean
Speaker 5: that you have to be cool with each other. So
Speaker 5: shut up.
Speaker 2: People have enemies out there, that's not true. You ever
Speaker 2: held a grudge like this?
Speaker 5: No, I'm a forgiver, man. I forgive everybody like you
Speaker 5: could do the worst thing to me and I'm like,
Speaker 5: come on, man, let's go grab lunch. That's that's me.
Speaker 2: I like that. That's maturity right there. And that's why
Speaker 2: we're talking about basketball instead of playing it professionally. Well
Speaker 2: about you, Jeremi. All of the grudge like.
Speaker 3: This, No, not at all, not even closed. If someone
Speaker 3: too small on me, I'd be like, you know what,
Speaker 3: you are taller?
Speaker 2: It's me personally. Yeah. I hold grudges like this all
Speaker 2: the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just can't reveal who
Speaker 2: they are because someday they may hire us BacT. Anyways,
Speaker 2: let's talk food because there's a new restaurant opening in Toronto.
Speaker 2: NBA court Side literally a basketball themed restaurant run by
Speaker 2: the NBA. There's basketball art and memorabilia all over the place,
Speaker 2: a merch store, tables made from courts, basically all the
Speaker 2: stuff that makes NBA court Side quote kind of like
Speaker 2: a hard Rock Cafe for the NBA as Blog to
Speaker 2: put it in their preview of the restaurant. Jerrell, you
Speaker 2: up or down on the NBA court side restaurant?
Speaker 3: I have to be up. I live in a country
Speaker 3: that is predominantly based in hockey. I have struggles throughout
Speaker 3: my entire life going to bars and asking them to
Speaker 3: put on the Raptor game, let alone an NBA games.
Speaker 3: So if you're going to give me any dedicated space
Speaker 3: for the sport that I love, I'm going to have
Speaker 3: to be up on that.
Speaker 5: What do you think, Ash, Yeah, I think it's really cool.
Speaker 5: I'm up on it. It looked awesome, it looks pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I would love to go. I love stuff like that. Obviously,
Speaker 5: in Orlando, they used to have something called NBA City Restaurant,
Speaker 5: and it was not as cool as this one on Toronto,
Speaker 5: but it was pretty cool. They always had They had
Speaker 5: like a core outside you could shoot on, had all
Speaker 5: the merchandise, and it was a restaurant to you go
Speaker 5: in there and watch games. See. NBA TV was always on,
Speaker 5: so it was cool. Yeah, I would love it. I'm
Speaker 5: up on it.
Speaker 2: NBA TV they used to have a great show. I
Speaker 2: remember a really good show from twenty thirteen to twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5: I used to watch it every day.
Speaker 2: That was a great show. I love that show. Show
Speaker 2: a lot better to be quitted on us. So I
Speaker 2: don't know if they are going to be live streaming
Speaker 2: from YouTube, but I know they got YouTube up there.
Speaker 2: Feel free to throw it on. Jerome. I think you
Speaker 2: said that you had a friend who actually got to
Speaker 2: check out.
Speaker 3: I knew some people who got to get the early
Speaker 3: look at it, and so up on the environment, in
Speaker 3: the atmosphere, middle to down maybe on the food, but
Speaker 3: I guess like maybe that's not what you're really going
Speaker 3: to a sports themed bar for, so you're not worried
Speaker 3: too much. But no, they said the experience is really cool.
Speaker 3: The retail areas up in the front, and then as
Speaker 3: you move back, it's kind of going through like the
Speaker 3: player journey, So they have like college artifacts in one section,
Speaker 3: moving to the league itself. Some of the tables are
Speaker 3: made out of like actual courts from like previous like
Speaker 3: historical games, and then I think they have a lounge area,
Speaker 3: like a ninety plus lounge area afterwards, so it is
Speaker 3: like a real like journey through the NBA. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I think, like just all the easter eggs that you're
Speaker 3: gonna have when you're like going to it, like they're opening,
Speaker 3: I think about the playoffs, So it couldn't be better timing,
Speaker 3: and so yeah, I'll probably have to check it out
Speaker 3: at some point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we absolutely need a Jerome report. I think said
Speaker 2: on the website that reservations and walk ins are available
Speaker 2: as of April third, which is Monday. And you mentioned, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's like cool little NBA Easter eggs all over the place.
Speaker 2: Coolest one I saw looking at the previews and stuff
Speaker 2: was this piece of art that's modeled on the Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard four bounced game winner. It's got the ball kind
Speaker 2: of tracing the path way up into the air, rattling
Speaker 2: around the rim and dropping through. I think that looks
Speaker 2: really cool. And yeah, I was actually kind of surprised
Speaker 2: by the menu. Jerome. I guess Top Chief Canada slash
Speaker 2: Chopped Canada winner Erica Carbelnick did the menu. There's some
Speaker 2: interesting looking stuff on there, but not a lot of
Speaker 2: NBA puns, you know what. I'm what I'm looking at
Speaker 2: an NBA run restaurant. I'm expecting there to be I don't.
Speaker 3: Know Stepan Marbury.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, like something like Ye there was like a
Speaker 2: Mavericks Margarita or something like that. It was like the
Speaker 2: Magations or something like that. But uh, yeah, I'm struggling
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: For it's a compo boy exactly.
Speaker 2: They don't have that, yes, yeah, but maybe they will.
Speaker 2: We shall see. I'm looking forward to your report, Jerome.
Speaker 2: Question I had for you, j D. If this is
Speaker 2: the hard rock cafe for the NBA, I know you're
Speaker 2: a big time hard rock cafe.
Speaker 4: Definitely not a fan.
Speaker 2: Speaking of grudges, Yeah, you absolutely first one in Toronto,
Speaker 2: I get it. That's where they played the first NBA
Speaker 2: game back in the day. I saw there was a
Speaker 2: lot of memorabilia for that. Where will the next one be?
Speaker 4: Oh that's a good question. The next so the let's
Speaker 4: assume that it's successful, which it will be because Toronto
Speaker 4: is a big basketball town. Now, uh, New York City
Speaker 4: has to be. Yeah, right next to the Garden, that's
Speaker 4: where the next one to go.
Speaker 2: It's a great call. They also had that property like
Speaker 2: for their NBA store on Fifth Avenue or whatever like that,
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 4: That is fair. Is that closed down? Then the NBA
Speaker 4: star on fifth.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm unsure on that. It definitely could be. Nonetheless,
Speaker 2: we'll definitely go to one of these at some point
Speaker 2: and probably make a short out of it. I want
Speaker 2: to ask you one more thing about Toronto, Jerome. I
Speaker 2: know you went to Will Lou and Alex Wong's live
Speaker 2: show with Bobby Webster yesterday. How was it?
Speaker 3: It was really good? Yeah, shout out to the guys
Speaker 3: the Raptors Show, friends of the show. They put on
Speaker 3: an awesome live show, had Raptors GM Bobby Webster on
Speaker 3: with them and surprisingly candid for a GM like we
Speaker 3: weren't given anything that was like leak worthy or anything
Speaker 3: that way, but they talked a lot about like draft process,
Speaker 3: a little bit about the Kauhi trade, a little bit
Speaker 3: about all their thought process of Vision six to nine,
Speaker 3: things like that. My favorite takeaway was during the Raptor's bubble,
Speaker 3: Bobby Webster became the Fecto Espresso person. He brought his
Speaker 3: own machine. He made coffee for everyone, and so the
Speaker 3: guys asked him, who are like the coffee freaks of
Speaker 3: the Raptors And he had Marcus sol up there a
Speaker 3: big like double espresso bitter black coffee guy. Uh, But
Speaker 3: the one that I really loved and took away was
Speaker 3: Tyler hansbro Psycho t two espresso shots pre game. Every
Speaker 3: game explains a time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that explains why I never blinked. Yeah, he never
Speaker 2: closed his eyes for forty eight minutes.
Speaker 3: Incapable of closing eyes?
Speaker 2: Yes, so what I mean? I don't know. I guess
Speaker 2: once he got into the NBA he was kind of
Speaker 2: a grown man. Yeah, he was dominant college player. He
Speaker 2: must have been doing like four or five shots before
Speaker 2: of those ones going completely wild. Great report. Love those guys.
Speaker 2: Got one last little piece of news to talk about here.
Speaker 2: Stephen no Over at the Sporting News put out a
Speaker 2: great piece this week titled the NBA is all in
Speaker 2: on Anime. Why Basketball's biggest stars are obsessed with dragon ball, Z,
Speaker 2: Narudo and more. Jerome, I know you know Anime. I
Speaker 2: know you know Anime A little bit. I know basically nothing.
Speaker 2: I just learned how to pronounce sand Wait. I'm watching out.
Speaker 3: Yah.
Speaker 2: I gotta learn. I gotta learn so I can understand
Speaker 2: these references and know how to pronounce these names when
Speaker 2: I see them on tweets, because I see them on
Speaker 2: tweets all the time. So, Jerome, I need you to
Speaker 2: hit me with your top five animes for NBA siccos
Speaker 2: top five, top five, top five, top five, top five,
Speaker 2: top five top All right, let's.
Speaker 3: Talk anime, buddy, let's talk anime now. I got to say,
Speaker 3: when it comes to top five anime, it might be
Speaker 3: even more hotly debated than top five all time NBA
Speaker 3: because there are so many options you can go with.
Speaker 3: There's so many directions you can go into. I actually
Speaker 3: wanted to start off very quickly. I mean, it seems
Speaker 3: like Ben Simmons knew that we were like got a
Speaker 3: hand of in our doc because last night I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if JD has the full screen night, but he
Speaker 3: wore a Gundam shirt court side during the Brooklyn Nets game.
Speaker 3: So shout out to him for promoting us. But yeah,
Speaker 3: when it comes to watch, thanks for watching. When it
Speaker 3: comes to this list, I had to go in a
Speaker 3: couple of different directions, a couple of different considerations. Shout
Speaker 3: out Stephen Steve no for his article and sharing all
Speaker 3: the different interests for the NBA players and what they
Speaker 3: like in anime. I had to go, obviously with some
Speaker 3: personal fames. I'm gonna start off with my honorable mention.
Speaker 3: It's actually my favorite anime. It's Samurai Champloo. It is
Speaker 3: just like one of the most beautiful animes you can
Speaker 3: come across. It's very like, the art is beautiful, the
Speaker 3: music by New Jobs is incredible, the hip off on
Speaker 3: it just I feel if more NBA players got into
Speaker 3: the show, they would really love it. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go there, all right, sleeper people, I love that sleeper
Speaker 3: pick number five. We're going to start here. This is
Speaker 3: arguably the anime of no dunks. It's called Attack on Titan.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: We have a clip. We have a clip that we're
Speaker 3: gonna pull up right now, resurface.
Speaker 2: We absolutely have a clip.
Speaker 5: Shot stap.
Speaker 2: The Titan.
Speaker 3: That is Trey as a colossal Titan. Although he had
Speaker 3: re knew he was a class star. He thought he
Speaker 3: was the big the big meat man. The whole time.
Speaker 3: You thought you were meat man, but you were actually
Speaker 3: colossal Titan. I pulled up from Wikipedia because I just
Speaker 3: realized when I started thinking about animes, it's actually really
Speaker 3: hard to come up with a synopsis, like a one
Speaker 3: line or for them. But this is what Attack of
Speaker 3: Titan is. It is set in a world where humanity
Speaker 3: is forced to live in cities surrounded by three enormous
Speaker 3: walls that protect them from gigantic men eating humanoids referred
Speaker 3: to as Titans or Trey Kirby's. The story follows Aaron Yeager,
Speaker 3: who has to exterminate all the Titans after they bring
Speaker 3: about destruction of his hometown. So this is like one
Speaker 3: of the I would don't know if we'll call it
Speaker 3: more recent picks, but it is an incredible show. The drama, action, art,
Speaker 3: everything about it is so so good. Uniclode just dropped off,
Speaker 3: dropped a big attack on Titan, then collaboration set movies
Speaker 3: coming out soon. No, no, that's an exclusive one on
Speaker 3: one unfortunately. But but yeah, no, no, it is a
Speaker 3: really good show.
Speaker 2: Is it scary?
Speaker 3: I feel like I heard people saying it was a
Speaker 3: little scary, It could get graphic, it's a little it
Speaker 3: gets on the like scary side. I guess you can
Speaker 3: call it that, but yeah, like gory your daughters. It's
Speaker 3: not for children, Yeah yeah, this is pure grown man
Speaker 3: knowledge here. Yeah yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: But I want to watch an anime on a trip
Speaker 2: of this list.
Speaker 4: It's weirdly, this is the most normal one.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Is that fair to say like it's it's pretty I mean,
Speaker 4: it's it's crazy grounded.
Speaker 3: I see what you mean. I get what you mean
Speaker 3: by it.
Speaker 4: It's it's there's the least amount of what is going
Speaker 4: on here, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Actually actually is going to be our most grounded of him.
Speaker 3: Number four. It's kind of like you can't talk about
Speaker 3: a basketball anime without mentioning slam dunk. So there's slam
Speaker 3: Dunk there. I'm to give myself that I have not
Speaker 3: actually seen slam dunk, but I have obviously been very
Speaker 3: aware of its lore. We'll hold on this shot right here,
Speaker 3: just because one thing I love about this if you
Speaker 3: look at all the art, like look at their shoes
Speaker 3: that they have, they actually give them all like real
Speaker 3: Nike shoes. Jordan's all that. It is really like such
Speaker 3: a great capture of its time. Rated one of their
Speaker 3: best animes in history. You really can't do a NBA
Speaker 3: Siko list without mentioning the basketball anime that's slam Dunk
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 2: It's all about a basketball team.
Speaker 3: It's all about a basketball team. The one liner that
Speaker 3: I haven't had it tells the story of a basketball
Speaker 3: team from Shohuku High School in the show in an
Speaker 3: area of Japan. That is the one liner for slam Dunk.
Speaker 5: I think I've seen like a clip of this before
Speaker 5: and it was crazy. Yeah, you know when you anime eyes,
Speaker 5: I'm just going to make up a verb there an
Speaker 5: animi basketball. This is exactly what you would think it
Speaker 5: would look like, honestly, like it's just so. But it
Speaker 5: was interesting. I saw, like, I don't know, a couple
Speaker 5: of minutes of it.
Speaker 2: Uh, kind of surprising. It doesn't come up at all
Speaker 2: in Steven's peace over what the Sporting News Really.
Speaker 3: It's an older one, so I think like in some ways, uh,
Speaker 3: it kind of falls a little bit under the radar. Also,
Speaker 3: like when you think about anime, you're thinking about like
Speaker 3: maybe more fantastical situations like you know we have with
Speaker 3: Attack on Titan you name on here, So slam dunk
Speaker 3: is almost it is a slam dunk. It is so
Speaker 3: obvious to be a basketball anime put it on, so
Speaker 3: it has to be on there. Number three. I love
Speaker 3: this one so much. It is One punch Man, One
Speaker 3: punch Man. What Jad mentioned ridiculous premises. One punch Man
Speaker 3: tells the story of Saitama, a superhero who can because
Speaker 3: he can defeat any opponent with a single punch, grows
Speaker 3: bored from a lack of a challenge. So honestly, if
Speaker 3: I was recommending something that is light, short to watch,
Speaker 3: easy to consume, and very silly, I think One punch
Speaker 3: Man is gonna be up there as one of my options.
Speaker 3: It is like, it's the kind of thing that also
Speaker 3: kind of works as like anyone who's into Marvel superhero movies,
Speaker 3: like DC anything like that, because it does tackle the
Speaker 3: notion of it's essentially Saitama is like Superman, who Superman
Speaker 3: was super bored because nobody can defeat Superman except Saitama
Speaker 3: is like so powerful and you'll see not spoiling too much.
Speaker 3: He literally does throw one punch at any given villain
Speaker 3: or adversary and takes them out completely. And so for
Speaker 3: someone that powerful, how do you deal with it? It
Speaker 3: is also its own kind of like self referential on
Speaker 3: the like tropes of anime where you know characters are
Speaker 3: constantly powering up. He is well the most powerful and unstoppable.
Speaker 3: So One punch Man fantastic is a funny one, Like
Speaker 3: it's funny we're talking. It's funny.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Esh, have you seen One punch Man? You might have.
Speaker 3: You must have heard of it, though I've heard of it.
Speaker 5: I've seen like an episode maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: All all of my family and friends they love One
Speaker 5: punch Man. They love all these animes that you said
Speaker 5: so far as well. Yeah, all of them actually so,
Speaker 5: but I have not dove in yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big hit in our house. One punch Man, for sure.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, number two, number two. It may be
Speaker 3: considered the goat of animes. It is dragon Ball.
Speaker 5: Is the guy.
Speaker 3: It is this one. It's it's such a long running
Speaker 3: series that like it is actually very difficult to like
Speaker 3: give you the one liner, but shout out again Wikipedia.
Speaker 3: The series follows the adventures of protagonist's son Goku, from
Speaker 3: his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts.
Speaker 3: He spends his childhood far from civilization until he meets
Speaker 3: a teen girl named Bolma, who encourages him to join
Speaker 3: her quest in exploring the world in search of seven
Speaker 3: orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which summon a wish
Speaker 3: granting dragon when gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several
Speaker 3: other friends, becomes a family man that's questionable. Piccolo's real
Speaker 3: father discovers his alien heritage and battles a wide variety
Speaker 3: of villains, many of whom also seek the dragon Balls. Now,
Speaker 3: this is arguably like the Jordan of animes. When it
Speaker 3: comes to anyone mentioning anime, I think you can't mention
Speaker 3: anime without mentioning this one. Early days of the internet
Speaker 3: big like anime music videos, I personally loved the jidas
Speaker 3: at am to the tune of Blank Two's Animal song.
Speaker 3: It's an incredible banger. May have inspired me to become
Speaker 3: the editor and producer that I today, But it is Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: like Ash, I'm gonna let I'm gonna toss the rock
Speaker 3: to you taught to me a little bit about dragon Ball.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I think you said like it's
Speaker 5: it's the Jordan of uh Okay. I would even compare
Speaker 5: it to like what Magic and Bird did for the NBA.
Speaker 5: So what dragon Ball did for anime the game? Yeah,
Speaker 5: because like I think they tried to port dragon Ball
Speaker 5: over one time and it didn't work. And then too Nummi,
Speaker 5: which is like something that happened on Cartoon Network back
Speaker 5: in the day, brought it back again found the right
Speaker 5: voice actors, and then it took off and then like
Speaker 5: anime is now what it is over here?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: So, Uhmison, I guess real quick, Jerome. My question is,
Speaker 5: if Trey's never watched any like dragon Ball or anything,
Speaker 5: would you start him on the og dragon Ball? Would
Speaker 5: you start him at Z?
Speaker 3: I think you started at Z.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, that's the thing that's difficult about getting into dragon
Speaker 3: Ball is there's so much dragon Ball.
Speaker 2: Like starting to watch the soap opera.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, watch fifty seasons.
Speaker 2: It's like Survivor. I guess.
Speaker 4: Because it's the Coronation Street.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's obviously dragon Ball is huge because
Speaker 2: it even filtered down to me all through college. One
Speaker 2: of my good friends was Pat Murphy. At one point
Speaker 2: in time, he had bleach blonde hair that he like
Speaker 2: slicked back, gigantic hair, So all through college we call
Speaker 2: them dragon Ball Murph. Really yeah, that was the closest
Speaker 2: that anime crossover. He went super Saiyan he s yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he told it. He called it getting totally ridiculous or
Speaker 2: totally sideways. But I think the same general vibe for
Speaker 2: dragon Ball MURF and dragon Ball Z.
Speaker 3: And Number one It is one of my personal favorites.
Speaker 3: It is one that seems to be such a hit
Speaker 3: for a lot of NBA players. So you'll see a
Speaker 3: bit of a clause here, but we're gonna go with
Speaker 3: Nearrudo Nerudo also in this jump series right there, let
Speaker 3: me pull up my I love these one miners so much.
Speaker 3: These are great. It tells a story of Naruto Uzumaki,
Speaker 3: a young ninja who seeks recognition from his peers and
Speaker 3: dreams of becoming hokkage, the leader of his village. And
Speaker 3: we're gonna hold on this. Here you see two players
Speaker 3: who absolutely love it, Zion Williamson on the left. He
Speaker 3: has a couple of collaborations with Nike Rudo and Jordan
Speaker 3: Naruto that honestly, if anyone from Nike is listening to this,
Speaker 3: I'm a size ten point five men anywhere between a
Speaker 3: large extra large like just I will take any amount
Speaker 3: of Naruto Zion where and then on the right that
Speaker 3: is Jaren Jackson Junior, a man and in this case
Speaker 3: a hokage as he described to the room there a
Speaker 3: hokagi being the chief of his village. After coming off
Speaker 3: a huge game, he said, I'm feeling like a Hokage.
Speaker 3: He's going to on the top of the world world.
Speaker 3: If you see him over there. If you look at
Speaker 3: that Naruto photo in the middle, you can see the
Speaker 3: Hokage on the right there, and you can see where
Speaker 3: the likeness is. He's not doing some sort of play
Speaker 3: on Tyler the Creator with an oversized hat. He is
Speaker 3: being a Hookagi. Naruto is one of like, if not
Speaker 3: Dragon Ball, I think that's also up there is one
Speaker 3: of like the real greats out there, incredible stories stuff
Speaker 3: that I think, Yeah, a lot of NBA players kind
Speaker 3: of take from. I was thinking about it this morning.
Speaker 3: Game six Lebron who lost his head man, that's rock
Speaker 3: Lee who drops his training weights and becomes like superpowered
Speaker 3: against Gara. I see Esh there smirking at that, and
Speaker 3: then Esh I'd be like, talked to me about Naruto.
Speaker 5: Okay. So I tried to watch Naruto back in the
Speaker 5: day when it was to know me so I was
Speaker 5: a child, and I was like, Wow, this is pretty good.
Speaker 5: I got to like the first season, but then I
Speaker 5: I just had to go back to dragon Ball. Dragon
Speaker 5: Ball I'll probably finish at some point. My sister is
Speaker 5: always getting on me because.
Speaker 3: I have you ever got into the tune in exams,
Speaker 3: Like once you get there, everything takes off.
Speaker 5: I don't even remember. Like my cousin is the biggest
Speaker 5: Ruto fan I think, ever, he's always he's he's the
Speaker 5: guy that always corrects me when I say Rudo and
Speaker 5: he's like, no, it's not. I'm like, dude, I'm I'm
Speaker 5: from Georgia. I'm gonna pronounce it how I want to
Speaker 5: pronounce it. But I don't know. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 5: obviously they took a lot of inspiration from dragon Ball,
Speaker 5: but uh.
Speaker 3: And are they the Magic and Bird? Maybe? Are they?
Speaker 3: Are they Jordan and Isaiah? Like the Blood rivalry? He knows, No,
Speaker 3: it's it is. It is one of the greats. That
Speaker 3: is our number one. There are again, like I said
Speaker 3: so many, Like I did not mention one.
Speaker 2: Piece the stream team saying one piece, it's got like
Speaker 2: a million episodes though death.
Speaker 3: Note a huge one two Unyasha, like there's so many
Speaker 3: animes Gundam we mentioned at the top there, Uh Hunter
Speaker 3: hunter ex Hunter like just Demon Slayer is that the one? Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's like so many. I think part of like the
Speaker 3: list here was like inspired by Steph knows article just
Speaker 3: because there had been so many references we mentioned dragon
Speaker 3: Ball before Rudy Gobert once. Uh, I'm not here for
Speaker 3: fat shaming, but I suppose if you compare them to
Speaker 3: the character imagine Boo, I suppose that's kind of a
Speaker 3: funny take on it. But no, there are a lot
Speaker 3: of different options here. Esh, I know you took exception
Speaker 3: to this list. I want to know, is it is
Speaker 3: it the listing? Are we missing something here? What's going
Speaker 3: on your Your.
Speaker 5: List is ninety It's just the dragon Balls should be
Speaker 5: number one. It was my only quome. That's it. I've
Speaker 5: swept up.
Speaker 3: I'll give you that. I think. I think the fat
Speaker 3: are in in terms of NBA Secoast is just that
Speaker 3: Narudo seems to be having more of an in with
Speaker 3: NBA players, and it might just be that it's slightly newer,
Speaker 3: it was still running a little more recently. That allowed
Speaker 3: a lot of the current crop of the generation of
Speaker 3: NBA players to get into it. But beyond that, No,
Speaker 3: it's it's hard to deny dragon Ball is like one
Speaker 3: of the best, if not the best, and still I
Speaker 3: mean like dragon Ball super Heroes that just came out recently.
Speaker 3: Incredible movie. Yeah, like, so, uh no, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of things to go into here, Trey, I don't even
Speaker 3: know where to get you started. I think I think
Speaker 3: Attack on Titan or One punch Man might be good
Speaker 3: in the sense that they're more digestible. Just because a lot.
Speaker 2: Of hearing the list, those were top of mind for
Speaker 2: me to sure find one episode each for the flights
Speaker 2: like to you know, to Houston and that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: like I have a chance to watch it, then I
Speaker 2: want to. I wouldn't mind checking one of these out,
Speaker 2: maybe an episode of each one of them. I got
Speaker 2: to know about Attack of Titan after you put me
Speaker 2: into it. I gotta know what's going on there. That's
Speaker 2: the one I like, A light fun one. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's true, but yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 2: about a guy punching people. So yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Well that's the.
Speaker 2: Great top five Jerome stream team's going crazy for it.
Speaker 2: H He's gonna fight you next week, I do believe.
Speaker 2: But I think we can somehow, right like you guys
Speaker 2: are gonna go Super Saiyan, yeah versus right there.
Speaker 3: I'll come in next week. I'll be in the studio
Speaker 3: black Hair on Wednesday, Thursday, All Bleach it O. Bleach
Speaker 3: also is an anime is actually one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: Uh that I did not put on there. But Bleach
Speaker 3: is incredible. They have a current arc that's completing that
Speaker 3: the thousand year Blood Feud. I think it is, Oh
Speaker 3: my god, so good. But yeah, we can go on
Speaker 3: and on about anime on basketball podcast.
Speaker 2: Yes we can, but appreciate the top five lest We're
Speaker 2: gonna take one last break here and when we get back.
Speaker 2: We got pick and payoff, we got rapid fire back
Speaker 2: with no dumps, super sized show today. I thought it
Speaker 2: was gonna be We're going two hours straight. Hopefully not
Speaker 2: because we do have another podcast come a little bit later. Today.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the pick them payoff. People were hating
Speaker 2: on us for the pick them payoffs and ever since
Speaker 2: somebody eight arbis they stopped doing it. No, we just
Speaker 2: don't have any good ideas right now, but someday we will.
Speaker 2: This one is brought to you by bet MGM. The
Speaker 2: results from last night, Skeets and Tass had the Lakers
Speaker 2: to cover a one and a half point spread, and
Speaker 2: they certainly covered. That gave me a loss, so that
Speaker 2: moves Skeets's record to eleven and ten. I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: very excited to be over five hundred right now. Tasks
Speaker 2: is at seven and fourteen, and I am still atop
Speaker 2: the leaderboard at twelve and nine. Here are tonight's picks.
Speaker 2: Only two games on the schedule. This is the spiciest one.
Speaker 2: The Boston Celtics traveled to Milwaukee to play against the Bucks,
Speaker 2: who just had a huge win last night. Skeets and
Speaker 2: I think the Bucks will cover a two and a
Speaker 2: half point spread. Task gets the Celtics because I think
Speaker 2: he was probably still asleep when we made these pairs.
Speaker 2: And we can't have three of the same deer head
Speaker 2: on the graphic. That would be ridiculous. What do you think, Ash,
Speaker 2: Who's going to win this game?
Speaker 5: I gotta go with Boston because you know I'm a
Speaker 5: Celtics fan.
Speaker 2: I do know you're a fake Celtics fan. How are
Speaker 2: you a fake Celtics fan anyways?
Speaker 5: A fake Celtics fan.
Speaker 2: Well, I know you're a Hawks fan. You're a Hawks.
Speaker 5: Look like I put it the other day, I am
Speaker 5: a Celtics fan who cheers for the hometown Hawks.
Speaker 2: Respect.
Speaker 5: It's because when I was getting into watching NBA basketball
Speaker 5: when I was in seventh grade. Yeah, this when they
Speaker 5: just got KG they just got Ray Allen, and I
Speaker 5: was like, man, I gotta find a team that I
Speaker 5: want to win, and that was the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Oh, you made a good choice back then. That's pretty
Speaker 2: crazy though. So you said sixth grade, you were eleven
Speaker 2: years old. That was the last time the Kings made
Speaker 2: the playoffs. You really got into basketball in seventh grade.
Speaker 2: You've never seen the Kings in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: I mean, I watched basketball, but I just didn't follow
Speaker 5: it like the way I follow basketball now. Is I
Speaker 5: started that in like seventh grade?
Speaker 2: Yes, I get you. All right, let's answer some rapid
Speaker 2: fire questions. This should be nice and quick. Yesterday's tweet
Speaker 2: of the night seemed to show former WNBA player in
Speaker 2: Atlanta legend Rene Montgomery at a Hawks game totally alone.
Speaker 2: No other fans can be seen. You can't see anyone
Speaker 2: at the scorer's table. Looks like there's nobody but her
Speaker 2: watching Donovan Mitchell shoot free throws. Great way to see
Speaker 2: a game. What is something you'd like to see as
Speaker 2: a private solo show? Jerome?
Speaker 5: What you got?
Speaker 3: First off? I want to start this by saying when
Speaker 3: you ask, when you said private solo show. I was
Speaker 3: incredibly uneasy with this in so many different ways. I
Speaker 3: don't even know if I want because, like if it's
Speaker 3: a concert or performance or anything like that, Like it's
Speaker 3: just so awkward to be like the one person watching them.
Speaker 3: What is my angle to go in? And I think
Speaker 3: my angle is like, what was the place where you know,
Speaker 3: normally people weren't able to go and I could be
Speaker 3: the solo person who got to view it? And I
Speaker 3: chose with a time machine the nineteen ninety two Dream
Speaker 3: Team Scrimmages. I want to sit there as the solo
Speaker 3: person in there. I'm gonna call it my show. I know,
Speaker 3: I get to get really get to the bottom of
Speaker 3: not just like everything that they said to each other,
Speaker 3: but probably all the ship talking that Jordan apparently might
Speaker 3: have said about Isaiah Thomas even though he wasn't there, so.
Speaker 2: Guaranteed, I think he'll talk trash.
Speaker 3: Even though he wasn't, he was definitely talking trash about it.
Speaker 3: So that's my pick.
Speaker 5: Great answer, what about you asked, even though Jermees just
Speaker 5: said like no to concerts because I'd be weird, I
Speaker 5: would definitely go to a Paramore concert just because Hailee
Speaker 5: Williams And sorry Courtney, but you know, Hayley Williams is like,
Speaker 5: you know, so I just get to sit there and
Speaker 5: watch her. She probably put me on stage. I get
Speaker 5: to be up there with her. It'd be great.
Speaker 2: What song would you want her slash them to play?
Speaker 3: Section? It has to be only Yeah, that's that's the one.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, she was sinking it to man if she
Speaker 5: was singing that to me, like just singing that while
Speaker 5: we were right there. I'm just playing I'll Love you, Courtney.
Speaker 2: JD. What private solo show are you seeing?
Speaker 4: I'm the same as Jerome, So just the idea of
Speaker 4: being alone and getting a musical performance, to me, it
Speaker 4: would just be so creepy and weird. So but I
Speaker 4: did pick a music thing, and I sort of I'm
Speaker 4: kind of taking Jerome's answer and making it musical. And
Speaker 4: I'm now listen, I just sat through fifteen minutes of
Speaker 4: you guys doing anime talk. So I'm going to geek
Speaker 4: out for just a second, and I'm going to show
Speaker 4: you a clip of basically what I mean. And as
Speaker 4: John Williams composing, it's him composing the score to empire
Speaker 4: strikes back, and it's him talking to the composed the
Speaker 4: You may have seen this clip as Shit's it's uh,
Speaker 4: he's talking to the I guess the composed the actual
Speaker 4: conductor or the orchestra liaison, and it's from basically going
Speaker 4: from his head to the actual orchestra, and when he
Speaker 4: hears it for the first time played back to him,
Speaker 4: it's it's an incredible moment. I got to play for
Speaker 4: you now.
Speaker 1: So here it is so here twenty five seconds point one.
Speaker 1: Some little objects float by the window, and the strings
Speaker 1: would be sustained here. But it's a Celeste sounding logo,
Speaker 1: I think her sounding logo here like that, but exactly
Speaker 1: twenty five seconds point one. That way, with two clarinets,
Speaker 1: they are leaving the flutes free to play piccolo. Three
Speaker 1: piccolos at thirty six seconds as we see these bats
Speaker 1: and it's suddenly presto with four piccolos doing sex tuple's
Speaker 1: about as fast as they can do them.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, this is officially the dorkiest episode of NODONK ever.
Speaker 4: But that's what I want to be. I want to be,
Speaker 4: I want to be. It could be present day John Williams.
Speaker 4: Guy's over ninety now and he's still a legend. And
Speaker 4: just to see him create from writing it on the page,
Speaker 4: which he probably still does to the orchestra. I just
Speaker 4: want to be in the room. I want to be
Speaker 4: in the room.
Speaker 3: I'm with you, j I think this one of the
Speaker 3: things was like to be flying the wall as like
Speaker 3: something truly spectacular or iconic was being made.
Speaker 2: So yeah, watching musicians create something is just like incredible.
Speaker 2: There's that scene in that Beatles documentary when they're writing
Speaker 2: get Back and it comes from messing about and suddenly
Speaker 2: it's a hit song. Incredible stuff. Wild to see him
Speaker 2: doing it for a movie, talking about like the plot
Speaker 2: points of the movie as well. But I'll say four
Speaker 2: Piccolo's doing sex tuplet sounds like a different kind of
Speaker 2: private solo show JD.
Speaker 4: And then either way, I'm rock hard.
Speaker 2: All right. Here's a real thing I read this week.
Speaker 2: A giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA
Speaker 2: of an extinct wooly mammoth has been unveiled at a
Speaker 2: science museum in the Netherlands. Apparently, the meatball was made
Speaker 2: of sheep cells inserted in a with a singular mammoth gene.
Speaker 2: Called myoglobin. As we all know when it comes to meet,
Speaker 2: myoglobin is responsible for the aroma, the color, and the taste. Guys.
Speaker 2: One is a time that science went too far. Jerome
Speaker 2: green ketchup. That's the thing.
Speaker 3: When I think it was the thing. I don't know
Speaker 3: if it made it across the border, but I know
Speaker 3: one time I can't exactly recall when they decided, you
Speaker 3: know what, let's make the ketchup green.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3: No science, you've gone to science. I will not accept
Speaker 3: this condiment that is on the opposite end of the
Speaker 3: spectrum of Christmas colors. This is not the thing to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, green tomatoes.
Speaker 5: I know, but it looks the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And also green tomatoes aren't as good as red.
Speaker 4: But it's so stupid too, because kids already love ketchup,
Speaker 4: and that's what it's for, right, So it's like, wow,
Speaker 4: we want to encourage kids to eat more ketchup.
Speaker 2: They love it already, they absolutely love it.
Speaker 4: So it's the stupidest marketing thing, I agree.
Speaker 2: Ash. One's a time that science went too far. Jada,
Speaker 2: you got the video. Oh yeah, let's see this right here.
Speaker 5: This is what I'm talking about. This is a time
Speaker 5: that science went too far.
Speaker 4: I forgot my tools again.
Speaker 5: All right, for those listening, this robot right, well, now
Speaker 5: this robot is can jump and walk and has his
Speaker 5: own mind, Like this is ridiculous. And the people that
Speaker 5: are making these robots and the new ais that help
Speaker 5: us do everything, have they ever seen terminator? Have they
Speaker 5: ever seen robot that's exactly right? Have you seen any
Speaker 5: science fiction movie ever made? Because look like this robot
Speaker 5: is going up the stairs carrying the tools to this guy.
Speaker 5: And there's like a billion videos of this, Like we're
Speaker 5: not gonna watch the whole thing, but he flipping awful
Speaker 5: things and jumping out. You can do a Ninja warrior course.
Speaker 5: That's that's insane. That's insane. They're too smart.
Speaker 2: I agree. Every what is this Boston Dynamics. Every video
Speaker 2: is a little bit scary. And I don't know why
Speaker 2: they made the robot android walk with like a slightly
Speaker 2: sneaky gait.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's strolling, its like sneaking at all times, like it's
Speaker 2: trying to make no noise because it's coming for you.
Speaker 2: You're right, that hasn't gone too far yet, but it's
Speaker 2: just a matter of time.
Speaker 3: I would like these robots to perform any number of
Speaker 3: draft combine exercise.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Yeah, yeah, that just like pushed the limits of science.
Speaker 3: Just like you know, a robot with one hundred foot
Speaker 3: for girls next All Star weekend.
Speaker 5: We should have that. Do the skills.
Speaker 2: Challenge teams have to enter their own robots.
Speaker 3: Did we just fix the NBA?
Speaker 2: Also the.
Speaker 3: Robots robots versus humans NBA skills contest?
Speaker 2: I love it, JD? When did science go too far?
Speaker 4: It's a shake weight, just plain, I'm sure it works,
Speaker 4: but you look ridiculous.
Speaker 2: The oscillations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's getting those the muscles you never
Speaker 4: knew you had. But the wanky wanky motion is it's
Speaker 4: too much. You've gone too far science.
Speaker 2: You think they came up with the motion or the
Speaker 2: weight first? Hard to say?
Speaker 4: It's great question, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Final rapid fire question. The New York Times recently reported
Speaker 2: on the enduring popularity of crocs. According to the Times,
Speaker 2: people started buying crocs during the pandemic and now they
Speaker 2: can't stop. Even JD got his pair that he was
Speaker 2: talking about last week. So Fellas, what's something you started
Speaker 2: during the pandemic that you haven't stopped.
Speaker 3: Drum trash reality television. I avoided it for the longest time,
Speaker 3: and then the pandemic happened. I was temporary furloughed from
Speaker 3: my job and I watched, over the course of forty
Speaker 3: eight hours back to back Tiger King and Love is
Speaker 3: Blind Classic, And I've never been the same person since.
Speaker 4: So you haven't been a You're still on the trash TV.
Speaker 3: I'm still Yeah, So like there's been a like Love
Speaker 3: is Blind, Love Island? Are you the one?
Speaker 5: Just?
Speaker 3: I had a couple of seasons of The Bachelor during
Speaker 3: the pandemic in there or.
Speaker 2: How many dating shows?
Speaker 3: It sounds like it was heavy on the dating shows.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize I was such a spicy person. You
Speaker 3: really figured out a lot about yourself during the pandemic.
Speaker 3: You look at yourself in the mirror and like, you
Speaker 3: just want to see relationships be their most toxic apparently,
Speaker 3: And so yeah, that's definitely what happened to me during
Speaker 3: that time, and I haven't been the same since.
Speaker 2: Great answer, Ash, what about you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this was an easy one for me. Eating over
Speaker 5: eating the pandemic. Just stop it is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: That was my second answer.
Speaker 5: I got married right at the beginning of the pandemic,
Speaker 5: and then you know, right after that, my wife got
Speaker 5: pregnant and then we had the no no gems, can't
Speaker 5: go work out, can't go play ball, none of that.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I gained like thirty pounds. Now I haven't
Speaker 5: gained anymore. I've maintained it allre we go, but I
Speaker 5: haven't lost any either.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's all right. You still got the Tom
Speaker 2: and Jerry.
Speaker 5: Yeah the great part.
Speaker 2: You still got the mouse in the house, JD.
Speaker 4: How about your Yeah, mine's food related as well. I've
Speaker 4: rediscovered it during the pandemic and now it's a major
Speaker 4: part of my life still. Hence the wait that before
Speaker 4: this episode there's no bed. That's like a death row
Speaker 4: item for me, right, like a final meal coissant, like
Speaker 4: a like a toaster cssant with nitella. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah sounds good and you know it's healthy because they
Speaker 2: put an orange on the front.
Speaker 3: Well, it's easy when they say like it's like hazel
Speaker 3: that bass, so you just assume, like, oh, you know, nuts,
Speaker 3: it's a trail mix protein.
Speaker 4: Packed with protein, nuts, vitamins, minerals.
Speaker 2: Amazing, It's delicious, delicious, delicious spread well, and those were
Speaker 2: some delicious answers. What a show? What do you think?
Speaker 5: I think it went pretty good. I hope it went good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I rate yourself right now and a half way higher. Buddy, Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks seven point six about you? I think you did.
Speaker 3: It's over nine thousand.
Speaker 5: Oh that's a great answer.
Speaker 2: That's a great answer. Great stuff, great show. This is
Speaker 2: actually our last no Dunks episode of the week. We
Speaker 2: have No Buffs a little bit later today with Jason
Speaker 2: Concepsio and we're gonna try and go live at one
Speaker 2: pm Eastern. If you watch Survivor last night. Should be
Speaker 2: fun to talk to him kind of at a dorky
Speaker 2: show today. Might have no buffs as well. They were
Speaker 2: talking Star Wars, they were talking Lord of the Rings,
Speaker 2: they were talking Pokemon last night on Survivor. Really, so
Speaker 2: we got to get Jason's take on that, because you
Speaker 2: know he's deep. He's deep in the game as well. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: no no no dunks tomorrow morning. But I hear there
Speaker 2: may be a no Dinks dropping in the feed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we might drop a no Dinks. There was a
Speaker 4: big tournament over the weekend Daytona MLP twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: very exciting. Rachel's been bothering me to do a podcast,
Speaker 4: so we will be. And there's nothing happening tomorrow, so
Speaker 4: we might drop that in the feed.
Speaker 2: Excellent, Stay tuned for that one. On Saturday, we'll be
Speaker 2: re releasing Fast Friends four from Fast and Furious, not
Speaker 2: the Fast and the Furious, which was the first one
Speaker 2: of those movies, but the fourth one where things really
Speaker 2: turn into an action franchise, I would say, and we
Speaker 2: hit a new era in the Fast franchise. So that
Speaker 2: will come on Saturday. If you are in Houston or
Speaker 2: somewhere in Texas, or you want to make the trip out.
Speaker 2: We've got a live show Monday, April third, at six
Speaker 2: pm Houston time. That will be our show on Monday.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have no daily show the morning of Monday,
Speaker 2: but we're hoping to stream that one.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, right here, Yeah, that's the plan. We will
Speaker 4: be live streaming it. But you gotta come. You gotta
Speaker 4: come and drinking Neutral.
Speaker 2: You gotta come, have a neutral.
Speaker 4: I think it will be flowing. I think they're actually given.
Speaker 2: Some out so the neutral will be flowing.
Speaker 4: L Neutral will flow awesome.
Speaker 2: Laura was having a strawberry lemonade one last night. She's like,
Speaker 2: these are good. Yeah, I said, would you drink it
Speaker 2: outside at a pool? She said absolutely. So there's a
Speaker 2: recommendation that will be my contribution to the Neutral throw
Speaker 2: Down when we're talking at it. So that'll be I
Speaker 2: guess what seven pm Eastern will be when it's going
Speaker 2: live on YouTube, though we'll probably be a little bit
Speaker 2: late to you know, get the crowd fired up. No
Speaker 2: show next Tuesday, and then the bros Are back in
Speaker 2: town on Wednesday. Drum, you're gonna be here in Atlanta, right.
Speaker 3: I'm joining you in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be sitting in this very seat. I will
Speaker 2: be in Florida. You're gonna use my hoop while.
Speaker 3: I'm going, I mean, sendy address. I'll definitely make sure
Speaker 3: that messes hot. Yeah, all right, sounds good.
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Speaker 2: like a cool anime related quote to send us out?
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