Speaker 1: Let's move on, Let's get him this news from around
Speaker 1: the league. While we have the chance, we gotta talk
Speaker 1: about Joel Embii. We gotta talk about Jojoe. This man
Speaker 1: is single handedly giving me any bit of love and
Speaker 1: any bit of excitement and warm feelings for the city
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: That's how good Joel Embiid is.
Speaker 1: So Joel Embii, facing off against one of the stingiest
Speaker 1: defenses in the league, went absolutely berserk. Quick side note,
Speaker 1: there was this guy on Twitter gambling Twitter, sports betting Twitter,
Speaker 1: his walk, his whale play, which is essentially like way
Speaker 1: more money than you probably can afford. His whale play
Speaker 1: that he gave out to the masses to take to
Speaker 1: put your hard earned I work at the local target
Speaker 1: for twelve dollars an hour. That money you should put
Speaker 1: probably a week's pay. According to him on betting against
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid, hazardous to your health play is what I
Speaker 1: would like to call that. It's killer will play, because
Speaker 1: that will absolutely destroy you once you I had no
Speaker 1: idea why he decided to put that out. I actually decided,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not going to do that. I'm
Speaker 1: going to do the opposite. I love watching Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: and fading him aka betting against him. Maybe one of
Speaker 1: the most disrespectfully horrible decisions for your own health. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was incredible. They threw three legit All Star centers
Speaker 1: at Joel Embiid. You had Rudy Gobert, presumptive defensive player
Speaker 1: of the year. You had Karl Anthony Towns, a legit
Speaker 1: All Star, and Nazrie who's probably six Man of the
Speaker 1: Year at least in my book. And he chewed them
Speaker 1: up all like a meat grinder, like it was immediate
Speaker 1: to the tune of fifty one, twelve and three on
Speaker 1: seventeen for twenty five shooting and seventeen for eighteen from
Speaker 1: the free throw line, and he was actually mad that
Speaker 1: he didn't hit eighteen of eighteen.
Speaker 2: They had. The Big three for Minnesota had eleven fouls.
Speaker 1: Eleven fouls. I think Rudy Gobert was on the bench
Speaker 1: with two fouls. Within the first two minutes of the game.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid was hitting him on the elbow.
Speaker 2: With the jab.
Speaker 1: Jab. Put your body into them, cause them to swipe
Speaker 1: down at you. Do not fade away, fade forward, cause
Speaker 1: the contact middy swish. This man will never miss. It
Speaker 1: felt like he was never gonna miss from mid range.
Speaker 1: They even put Luca Garza up in there.
Speaker 2: That was how bad it was. Luca Garza, Let's put
Speaker 2: you into the meat grinder. See how you do. See
Speaker 2: if you can get chewed up.
Speaker 1: Chew up some minutes, chew up some fouls to the
Speaker 1: tune of two minutes, and they were like, oh, yep, quick, quick,
Speaker 1: little hook for you. Oh my goodness, here you go.
Speaker 1: Let's yep, two quick fouls, two quick fouls. Thirteen fouls
Speaker 1: from the center position. Chris Finch, the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timber, was so pissed.
Speaker 2: He's yelling at the rest this man.
Speaker 1: He's yelling, stop protecting Joel MBI, stop protecting up.
Speaker 2: They will not stop protecting him. Good luck, and now.
Speaker 1: He is the favorite to win MVP because he has
Speaker 1: been a cheat code so fun to watch, averaging more
Speaker 1: points than minutes played. In his last eight games, Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid has averaged forty one points, thirteen rebounds, and four
Speaker 1: assists with three and a half stocks per game. He
Speaker 1: is the model of consistency. He has box office right now,
Speaker 1: box office shooting splits. In those eight games, ridiculous, sixty
Speaker 1: two from the field, thirty eight from three, and ninety
Speaker 1: three from the free throw line. What big man, what center?
Speaker 1: Do you know shooting thirty eight percent from three and
Speaker 1: ninety three percent seven footer seven footer shoot in the
Speaker 1: sixties from the free throw line if they're lucky in
Speaker 1: the seventies or eighty never from the nineties. Even Rudy
Speaker 1: was like, yo, he was incredible. He's MVP for a reason.
Speaker 1: Very tough matchup. Let's hear what Anthony Edwards had to say.
Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: My brother was me and my brother was texting like,
Speaker 4: brou I've never seen like, yeah, he's gonna stop.
Speaker 3: Man, I don't. I don't see how he lose a game, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't see how you lose. What what
Speaker 3: impress me the most?
Speaker 4: And this is after Also, I don't want to talk
Speaker 4: about you, but I just love the game of basketball.
Speaker 3: I like watching him play. Besides the files, I don't
Speaker 3: think you getting all that. But he just comes handles
Speaker 3: his business.
Speaker 4: And get them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, comes handles his business and gets the fuck on,
Speaker 1: Yes he does. I don't know how they ever lose
Speaker 1: a game Philadelphia, right now is a problem. They are deep.
Speaker 1: They've got Nick. But Tom, I know you guys make
Speaker 1: fun of me. I'm su talking about the ghost of
Speaker 1: Nick Batoom.
Speaker 2: But he's been incredible.
Speaker 1: He has a I think a strained hamstring right now,
Speaker 1: so he's not playing. Anthony Meltain just went down.
Speaker 2: With an injury. But outside of these injuries, when they
Speaker 2: come back healthy, they've got dudes. They've got dudes.
Speaker 1: He is gonna end up making Philly go as far
Speaker 1: as they've ever gone and the end the process ERA.
Speaker 2: If he keeps this up, if he.
Speaker 1: Stays healthy, he's gonna go this take this team to
Speaker 1: the finals, and he's gonna be the regular season MVP.
Speaker 2: That's what we've got.
Speaker 1: We've got a Nuggets Nuggets Sixers Finals December twenty one.
Speaker 2: Book it all right, Let's move on sad news out
Speaker 2: of New York.
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson had ankle surgery. We didn't know how long
Speaker 1: he was gonna be out what people thought like maybe
Speaker 1: eight weeks. It's actually gonna be the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Terrible.
Speaker 1: Mitchell having an incredible season all accounts. When the good
Speaker 1: guys in the league, everybody likes watching him. Everybody thinks
Speaker 1: he's a great teammate, especially harsh blow because he's been.
Speaker 2: Playing really well, really well.
Speaker 1: I think he's like almost about to go into a
Speaker 1: contract year. I didn't look at this up, but I
Speaker 1: think he's almost right there.
Speaker 2: So that's tough. That's tough.
Speaker 1: He was averaging over ten rebounds a game three stocks.
Speaker 1: He was absolutely electric defensively, and that comes on the
Speaker 1: heels of another injury plague season that he had missed
Speaker 1: twenty three games. This year, He's going to miss another
Speaker 1: sixty one. Tough quote from Mitchell Robinson, like heart wrenching,
Speaker 1: tear jerker quote. He said, I just don't get it.
Speaker 1: I do everything I'm asked too when it comes to
Speaker 1: my body, and this shit, shit still happens.
Speaker 2: Like what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Just another year, another disappointment. Breakout the kleenex, folks. That
Speaker 1: one hurt me. Heartbreaking good news. Mitchell Robinson is only
Speaker 1: twenty five years old. I speak for all I think
Speaker 1: I speak for all NBA mans when I say come
Speaker 1: back soon, Mitchell Robinson play the next five seasons without
Speaker 1: an incident. He has had a lot of years where
Speaker 1: he's been injured. I want to say maybe three or
Speaker 1: four where he's had injuries.
Speaker 2: The Knicks now are in a market for a center.
Speaker 2: They need one.
Speaker 1: Bet Hertenstein can't be the only one they got. They've
Speaker 1: applied to the NBA for the disabled player exception worth
Speaker 1: seven point eight million. Daniel Tice probably would have been
Speaker 1: an intriguing option, maybe a plumb Lee, but both those guys,
Speaker 1: I think they're both on the Clippers. Some unsigned free
Speaker 1: agents include Kem Birch, no Grgia Jang, No probably Nerleans Noel.
Speaker 1: He worked under Tibeau in the past. Keith Smith actually
Speaker 1: mentioned this.
Speaker 2: On the show the other night.
Speaker 1: Clint Capella for the Atlanta Hawks, he might be on
Speaker 1: the trade block. That would be a nice little piece.
Speaker 1: He fits what they want to do in New York.
Speaker 1: Definitely does not fit what Atlanta's trying to do. You
Speaker 1: have Anyuka Kungu, who's now more in favor in terms
Speaker 1: of stylistic play and how this roster is constructed. We
Speaker 1: got to stay tuned on what's gonna happen next. But
Speaker 1: sad stuff for Mitchell Robinson and the Knicks. Let's move on.
Speaker 2: Big news out of.
Speaker 1: New Orleans and Zion Williamson. According to the Athletic, who
Speaker 1: first reported it, then verified it by reading the contractself.
Speaker 1: Zion's contract with the Pelicans is no longer fully guaranteed.
Speaker 1: This is the first big moneymax extension in recent NBA
Speaker 1: history to not be fully guaranteed. Holy NFL Zion, Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. The last three years of the deal now
Speaker 1: became non guaranteed when he missed more than twenty two
Speaker 1: games last year.
Speaker 2: He missed fifty three, by the way.
Speaker 1: According to Mike Vorkanoff, that means the Pelicans have a
Speaker 1: contractual power to wave Williamson after the twenty four to
Speaker 1: twenty five season with no financial ramifications, though rival team
Speaker 1: execs believes that that would only happen in extreme circumstances
Speaker 1: with the with the Pelicans waves Zion waves no. But
Speaker 1: if he gets like a crazy injury again, maybe that clause,
Speaker 1: what that did for New Orleans makes his contract just
Speaker 1: so much easier to move.
Speaker 2: You're worried about Zion, You're worried about having him on
Speaker 2: the books.
Speaker 1: If he's a bust, and if he's not beeph you
Speaker 1: can wave them at any time. Don't worry about it, baby,
Speaker 1: like it's no problem. It's crazy that his agent allowed
Speaker 1: this sin. That's how bad things were for Zion, just
Speaker 1: give us the money. We'll figure it out later. Like
Speaker 1: part of the contracts not guarantee if he miss his times,
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take my ten percent. Regardless.
Speaker 1: Zion could have played out his contract and gone full
Speaker 1: free agent, and that probably would not have happened. If
Speaker 1: I were Zion, I'd be looking into www. Dot WeightWatchers
Speaker 1: dot com asap rocky and start counting my points, get
Speaker 1: my conditioning up, stay on the floor as much as
Speaker 1: I can, because he is one blown out knee from
Speaker 1: having one hundred and fifty million dollars wiped off the books,
Speaker 1: wiped off his wallet, and boy, oh boy, gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to get the batties when you're a fatty and
Speaker 1: you're broke.
Speaker 2: Let's move on.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows about game Ball Gazzie with Yannis and the
Speaker 1: Pacers this last week. What a lot of people do
Speaker 1: not know is that the next day Chad you Cannon,
Speaker 1: the criminally underrated GM went out sign James Johnson. A
Speaker 1: lot of people call him blood Sport because this fucker
Speaker 1: has a black belt and moonlights as an undefeated MMA fighter.
Speaker 1: He's the baddest motherfucker in the league right now. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's not what I'm trying to say. This is what
Speaker 1: James Johnson had to say about the postgame scrum with
Speaker 1: the Bucks. All those people they don't know what transpired
Speaker 1: before all that. When the scrum with the Bucks happened,
Speaker 1: I was upset. I called Tyrese Halliburton right away. I
Speaker 1: was upset. I did not like it. I thought it
Speaker 1: was cheap. Ooh, you didn't like it. Ooh. James Johnson
Speaker 1: on the team didn't like it. He's coming after the Bucks.
Speaker 1: He's coming after Bobby portis. Oh boy, Apparently he and
Speaker 1: Halley are boys. And let me tell you, no one
Speaker 1: is coming for any Pacers when James Johnson is around.
Speaker 1: There's a reason that he's anonymously and unanimously voted for
Speaker 1: biggest badass in the league.
Speaker 2: After all, he is a guy who.
Speaker 1: Will round house you. He will roundhouse you in your
Speaker 1: murder eyes. Bobby portis, yes, you were, and he's also
Speaker 1: intensely loyal. Here's a clip from nas Reed, who said
Speaker 1: this recently about his interaction as a rookie for the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves when James Johnson's still a dreamman was there
Speaker 1: and they went shopping.
Speaker 3: We had Houston.
Speaker 4: We in Houston whatever, and he takes me in jail
Speaker 4: and the world shopping or we go with him shoping.
Speaker 3: We know, we're not thinking, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm about to go swim a little thoughtsand dollars though,
Speaker 4: like you're from me all moots, Like I'm gonna do
Speaker 4: some d R shit or whatever. So I pay We
Speaker 4: had the Webster. They gotta pay at the y want
Speaker 4: to pay for him. He's like, don't ever take out
Speaker 4: your wallet when I'm around you, Like what you mean?
Speaker 4: Like he's like, I'm like, I'm like what you mean,
Speaker 4: Like I ain't want to overstep you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Like what you mean?
Speaker 3: He's like a little pick up whatever you want? Blah blah.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, all right, I come back and I
Speaker 3: got back another doubt. He's like that's it. I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: what do you want me to do? Like long?
Speaker 1: Bro?
Speaker 4: So like we end up leaving, Like bro, I swear
Speaker 4: it's like thirty bands, forty bands, like just.
Speaker 3: Between all three of us.
Speaker 4: Like it's just crazy because it's like I know you,
Speaker 4: but I don't even know you like that, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You know me, I'm come from loyalty.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, damn, like Johnson, you are really yeah,
Speaker 4: like so like every time I'm seeing it's like really
Speaker 4: all up, Like.
Speaker 3: He had no reason to do that, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying exactly.
Speaker 4: You don't even know me like that, Like I'm just
Speaker 4: some young I'm to him, I'm like that time, young rookie,
Speaker 4: I'm coming in you know what. I So like, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was just that was definitely like some under that
Speaker 4: a lot of as he can.
Speaker 3: He probably saw the hunger and what you strive.
Speaker 1: James Johnson is like my favorite guy, and I think
Speaker 1: I love Nasred too.
Speaker 2: This dude there is a reason that they call him blood.
Speaker 1: Sport, loyal and tough. Hard to find that combo with
Speaker 1: these days. Happy he's back in the league for another year.
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