Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. The league continues to squabble
Speaker 1: up as December quickly approaches. Ogn Andop has been the
Speaker 1: man at the Garden of Blade playing Peekaboo with all
Speaker 1: his different skills that's coming out and emerging. But we're
Speaker 1: here to see if the Sixers can't be reincardinated or
Speaker 1: if it's time to turn the TV off. And we'll
Speaker 1: get into all of that and more with comedian and
Speaker 1: close personal friends Lake Western on today's episode. I'm Miles
Speaker 1: Grand and now I'm producer Jabarian for Jack O'Brien. Man,
Speaker 1: you know what you could just say, you should produce
Speaker 1: a drugs. They know, they know, they know.
Speaker 2: I always want to shout him out.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, Peekaboo, guess what? Hey hey, hey, hey, this
Speaker 1: is Miles and producers Jam got mad boods dot you sorry?
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Speaker 1: Ben Blake Wexler, you are in the building. You are
Speaker 1: a friend of the pod, you are a comedian, you
Speaker 1: are a fantastic person. You have a Subaru and you
Speaker 1: are now here to talk about the NBA with us.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Miles and producer debarka man who's Tez.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Peekaboo, thank you for having me, and then
Speaker 3: Peekaboo to you too, Peekaboo You.
Speaker 1: Then thout that's AKA eight.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They talk about none. I guess. Look, you're when you
Speaker 1: when you're normally on and Jack is on the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: seventy six ers. Do come up. You are a Philadelphian,
Speaker 1: you are a fan of the Philly teams. Let's get
Speaker 1: into the sixers are three and thirteen and sure, sure, sure, sure. Jack,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure called out sick because he didn't want
Speaker 1: to combine like Philly energy on this podcast. And I
Speaker 1: think he was just trying to get prepared for his
Speaker 1: family holiday. But I'm here for it. But I guess broadly,
Speaker 1: I just want to get I remember last time, I
Speaker 1: think we were talking early in the season, you were
Speaker 1: doing anything. You're like, I'm in, I'm in, baby, We're
Speaker 1: there and I'm not getting off. Jack was always like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, and
Speaker 1: we're like, you don't think there's something there? Where are
Speaker 1: you at right now with your Philadelphia seventy six Ers.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: I think this is I think where we're at is
Speaker 3: where we need to be, and it's just nights that
Speaker 3: they're finally losing in a normal way, you know, like
Speaker 3: not in a way that is so just like you know,
Speaker 3: just gut you know, like gut wrenching where it's like right.
Speaker 3: The weirdness that got the weirdness out of the way
Speaker 3: was Joel embiid gonna play did he lose forty pounds?
Speaker 3: And they off season who knows? So that was a
Speaker 3: little strange. But now they're they're hurt, they're bad, and
Speaker 3: I this is familiar and now it's almost hearkening. May
Speaker 3: I do you mind if he used the H word
Speaker 3: on this podcast Dune reference. Yeah, it might have been
Speaker 3: the heart that's the different group heart and it's going
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of the Disney Plus show Agatha Harkless, hearthless.
Speaker 1: Huh and people. Okay, you got me back, I meant
Speaker 1: peak that, Sorry, I meant people.
Speaker 3: And but yeah, it's Jared McCain is now normally it's
Speaker 3: Tyrese Maxi, who has been the sole source of joy
Speaker 3: with the Sixers, and now you have him and Jared
Speaker 3: McCain Jared McCain is such a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3: It's almost mitigating the fact that we are half a
Speaker 3: game in front of the Wizards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you do have. I think what as
Speaker 1: of right now, isn't McCain the favorite for Rocky of
Speaker 1: the Year?
Speaker 3: I believe so, And if he's not, I don't know
Speaker 3: how he couldn't be. He's the numbers that he's been putting.
Speaker 3: This has been great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, look, I think we're both in similars. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, like Lesbee, we're not a semi position then
Speaker 1: we got seventeen rings, but we do have the bright
Speaker 1: spots are is that we do have fantastic rookies that
Speaker 1: are are are helping alleviate some of the pain. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just do you do you think? I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess just to move on, Jabari, you did put something
Speaker 1: here in the script that is a positive, just to
Speaker 1: move on from the reality of this season, and as
Speaker 1: you said, only I'm sorry, how what's the difference between
Speaker 1: you and the Washington Wizards record?
Speaker 3: Again, it's cool, So we've lost the same amount of games,
Speaker 3: We've just played one more games. So we had the
Speaker 3: opportunity to win three games where they and by the way,
Speaker 3: two games is not nothing. Having won two games is
Speaker 3: not nothing. In this league, every win is a hard victory.
Speaker 3: So shout out to the Wizards, and there are two wins.
Speaker 3: And by the time this comes out, maybe they will
Speaker 3: have two wins. Okay, yeah, probably not Yeah, maybe they'll
Speaker 3: still have two What.
Speaker 2: Miles gonna ask this question? So the reason why I'm
Speaker 2: asking is.
Speaker 1: Because I think I'm going to say yes, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: So I felt guilty last week when I mentioned this
Speaker 2: to Jack because he gave me the look of like, wait,
Speaker 2: what at what point are you in the Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and press reset again? Now?
Speaker 1: Is that this year?
Speaker 2: Is that if it doesn't work out again next year?
Speaker 2: Or is it just are you just along for the
Speaker 2: ride regards.
Speaker 1: If I'm the Wealhi, He's like, sell at the high
Speaker 1: point that's Jabari's and I agree, again, get what you
Speaker 1: can for what you got when you got it.
Speaker 3: So there is no high point, and I think that
Speaker 3: is So Here's here's the thing. The and this is
Speaker 3: the confusing part with the team is that nobody's been
Speaker 3: we haven't had the healthy team together for more than
Speaker 3: maybe six quarters at at most so. But the issue
Speaker 3: now is we are so far, we are losing so
Speaker 3: many games, and you know, it's not like we are
Speaker 3: two stars and I'm well obviously Maxi being the third,
Speaker 3: but this is the problem when you have two stars
Speaker 3: who are have a ton of injuries throughout their history.
Speaker 3: It's like the goal now is to sneak into the playoffs.
Speaker 3: And that's right, Like that's now this early in the
Speaker 3: season to have that goal when you're having a like
Speaker 3: a maxed out Paul George, a maxed out and extended
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid, an extended Tyrese Maxi. But it should be
Speaker 3: on paper a good supporting cast. But you know, fifteen
Speaker 3: games is not nothing, and you have this great rookie
Speaker 3: who should fit in perfectly with the team, So you're right,
Speaker 3: what's the the question is is there enough time for
Speaker 3: them to get healthy and then sneak in as like
Speaker 3: an eighth seed or you know, like or sneaking through
Speaker 3: the play in and then they could be a dangerous
Speaker 3: team if they're healthy, But like, why would you expect
Speaker 3: that to be true? And if that's the case, why
Speaker 3: would you put this team together? So it's real, it
Speaker 3: really messes with your mind. But I think keep them together,
Speaker 3: keep them together for a year.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean what like Max Embid and
Speaker 1: George have only played six minutes together as this recording.
Speaker 1: It was a great six minutes. It was six minutes.
Speaker 1: You'll better times six minutes in Heaven. I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it. But yeah, I get it. When you
Speaker 1: haven't really seen the actual product function the way it
Speaker 1: was meant to, I can see why you'd hold out
Speaker 1: to be like, can we at least see what happens here?
Speaker 1: But I think Jabbari, you and I have a much
Speaker 1: lower threshold for pain because we need to be hanging
Speaker 1: up banners or else. What is it for? What is
Speaker 1: it for? What is This is the thing though, that
Speaker 1: Paul George did say about his injury. He was saying, like,
Speaker 1: you know, as a freak accident, it's like, it's tough
Speaker 1: when this kind of stuff happens. And this is what
Speaker 1: he did say in a positive note. He said, quote
Speaker 1: just our effort and energy. I think that's one thing
Speaker 1: that we can control. Obviously, with Big Fello out myself,
Speaker 1: Tyreee just joining back, getting his rhythm, I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: we're a little limited, but I think what we can
Speaker 1: can control is just our effort, our energy and just
Speaker 1: doing things a little harder. But will change this, will
Speaker 1: change this around. I'm one hundred percent betting down on
Speaker 1: that that will change this. It's on us. We got
Speaker 1: to control what we can.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's and it's good to have a look
Speaker 3: in the room too, where that's been a big knock
Speaker 3: on Embiid, and I do think Embiid gets a lot
Speaker 3: of unfair knocks, especially for seeing what he's done in
Speaker 3: the community and what he's been through also, like not
Speaker 3: just on the court, but off the court, he has
Speaker 3: been through a lot. And also he's not a leader,
Speaker 3: which is fine, you know, like people say like, oh,
Speaker 3: he's not a leader, Like that doesn't mean he's a zero.
Speaker 3: It's just he does a ton of things. Great lead
Speaker 3: doesn't have to be one of them. So I think now,
Speaker 3: you know, Max, he's a little young to do it,
Speaker 3: but he's taken a leadership. You know, he's he's shown
Speaker 3: he's given Embiids some notes as well. So it is
Speaker 3: good to have a guy like Paul George who is
Speaker 3: so personally accomplished, in addition to like a Kyle Lowry,
Speaker 3: who I think is completely mentally checked out. But like
Speaker 3: everybody else, you know, it's it is good to have
Speaker 3: that veteran on the team.
Speaker 1: Once the effort comes in, it'll turn and turn it around.
Speaker 2: Kyle's like, this is not what I came here for.
Speaker 2: What are we doing now?
Speaker 1: All right? He's my favorite.
Speaker 3: He's the only player I enjoy watching other than Maxi
Speaker 3: and McCain on the team I love. I was a
Speaker 3: huge Villanova fan. Yeah, I can't believe I have n't
Speaker 3: become a full blown Knicks fan with the amount of
Speaker 3: Villanova players they have on there. So anyway, but you're right,
Speaker 3: it's there's some reason for positivity. It's not like every
Speaker 3: team in the East is you know, fifteen and oh
Speaker 3: so there's still time to make up some oscround.
Speaker 1: I mean, look you what the Chicago the Pacers or eight,
Speaker 1: and look there's there's there's Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, let's be rude. You win, you got
Speaker 2: three games, and you're you're back into playing conversations.
Speaker 1: So like even with that start, Yeah, yeah, that is true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I guess that's the thing is like, at
Speaker 1: what point do you think the players look at him? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, bro, maybe we just need to like,
Speaker 1: like how much do the players actually think about this
Speaker 1: when they're just kind of doing their own calculus, and
Speaker 1: like is it better to just kind of let this
Speaker 1: thing happen?
Speaker 2: I think to Blake's point, that's where the leadership step.
Speaker 2: That's where the leadership really comes in the play. You know, like,
Speaker 2: you know, if you've got a shaky locker room where
Speaker 2: you have a you know, a questionable roster with nobody,
Speaker 2: you know, no one in there to lead them, it's
Speaker 2: probably now where you're like you're already looking at like okay,
Speaker 2: what are what are we going to be doing over
Speaker 2: the All Star break?
Speaker 1: But you know, if you got some leadership in there,
Speaker 1: and and it's it's funny too.
Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna kind of step on my point a
Speaker 3: little by optimism a little bit, because that's that's what
Speaker 3: it's like being a Sixers fan, or the moment you
Speaker 3: see a glimmer of hope, it quickly disappears where it's
Speaker 3: there's a difference between Okay, there are veterans which should
Speaker 3: be which has the opportunity to be a leadership point
Speaker 3: position of leadership to get you through these tough times.
Speaker 3: But there are some older guys to your points who
Speaker 3: might be like, I'm in my mid to late thirties,
Speaker 3: why why am I going to am I going to
Speaker 3: dive after that ball? You know, to get into the
Speaker 3: playing tournament. So I don't know, like the young guys
Speaker 3: seem like they're still optimistic. It's it's it's a little early,
Speaker 3: but it's not that early anymore. Yeah, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think once we're healthy.
Speaker 1: Let's see what the team looks like. Yeah, but let's
Speaker 1: stop playing people with tanking, you know people, Let's figure out,
Speaker 1: let's figure people. Okay, I just do want to say
Speaker 1: Jared McCann, though, is truly a bright spot. Like that's
Speaker 1: I'm I'm watching him and I'm like, oh, you got
Speaker 1: you got a good one. You got a great one
Speaker 1: over there. Yeah wait, what what number did he go
Speaker 1: Jared McCain, Uh, early twenties maybe yeah he was late,
Speaker 1: like it was yeah. Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: He's also a funny player to be in Philly sixteen.
Speaker 1: Oh so he was right before okay yeah yeah, wow yo,
Speaker 1: so somebody was eaten in that moment. Yeah you either
Speaker 1: got or you got. Yeah, it's great and it's such
Speaker 1: a good I'm glad it's us. I'm glad it's us.
Speaker 1: I'm glad it's hey, because we disserve. Yeah, you really do.
Speaker 1: I mean that is the one thing that I think
Speaker 1: is really hard as a Sixers fan is like you
Speaker 1: do get these players. They're like, man, this guy's given.
Speaker 1: This guy's doing it though. You know, if he believes,
Speaker 1: it's easier for me to believe that this thing can
Speaker 1: go in the right direction. I honestly hope it does,
Speaker 1: because I I just think every everybody's too talented on
Speaker 1: that team for it to just go this way. But hey, yeah, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: stranger things have happened. Okay, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back, and we can talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about our own suffering because Denver absolutely has
Speaker 1: us on a leash and I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that right when we get back. And
Speaker 1: we're back. So we told y'all last week.
Speaker 4: We're saying, hey, the game of the week, everybody tune
Speaker 4: in for this matchup when the Nuggets play the Lakers,
Speaker 4: and guests, just looking at the trajectories of the teams
Speaker 4: right now, this looks like this might be a nice
Speaker 4: a nice time, potentially a less traumatic time for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Oh what a shock and surprise that was. I mean,
Speaker 1: i've I started off. I was like, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we're doing something this It was such a I feel
Speaker 1: like I wish I had a heart rate monitor on
Speaker 1: like during watching that, because in the beginning it was
Speaker 1: like and I was like yes, yes, yes, and then
Speaker 1: I think my heart flat lined along with like the
Speaker 1: team's effort. In the second half. I was just like this, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't even react. I was like, I think, out
Speaker 1: of self preservation, went into a place where I had
Speaker 1: to just sort of turn off my senses although I
Speaker 1: was watching it happen in real time. To me, I
Speaker 1: just couldn't be bothered to have a like a a
Speaker 1: nervous my nervous system to respond to that.
Speaker 3: Well, you sleep with a defibrillator on for that reason,
Speaker 3: right like before you go to bed. It's like a
Speaker 3: mouthguard to you. But yeah, sticky electricity, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: Whenever I go into a feb or something, yeah, I
Speaker 1: need something like that. It happens a lot.
Speaker 2: For further context, at the beginning of the season, when
Speaker 2: the Lakers were ten and four, it was you know,
Speaker 2: we would text during the games, Jack would reach out, Hey, guys,
Speaker 2: are looking good. We don't even talk anymore, Like this
Speaker 2: is our first time speaking since last you know, since
Speaker 2: the last episode.
Speaker 1: The predictable arc of being a Lakers fan is happening,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like we'll gas ourselves up
Speaker 1: even though it's so early in the season and act
Speaker 1: like it's a rap. Then at the slightest sign of trouble,
Speaker 1: we will absolutely spike our beliefs onto the floor and
Speaker 1: go into some dark place. And then you and then
Speaker 1: you do this pretty much like you cycle through this
Speaker 1: every three weeks. Is kind of how it feels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But honestly, when it comes when it comes to
Speaker 2: this matchup, like sometimes the team just has.
Speaker 1: Your number that's winning. Yeah, you go.
Speaker 2: Thirteen and two against a team that's also competitive and
Speaker 2: you have their number. It's just that simple. The Lakers
Speaker 2: were up ten points in the first half of that game.
Speaker 2: Danver goes on a fifth fifty to seventeen run in
Speaker 2: the second half like.
Speaker 1: Tough to win thows, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they hadn't quite built up enough of a lead
Speaker 2: to overcome that fifty to seventeen run.
Speaker 1: It's a momentum game. You know, it was not in
Speaker 1: our favor at all. I mean, what was JJ saying
Speaker 1: at the end? I saw that he had some harsh words,
Speaker 1: but I part of me was like, JJ, I don't
Speaker 1: I know, I know what I'm looking at. But was
Speaker 1: heis he seemed a little bit.
Speaker 2: It was a little bit of both. He initially said like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's an aberration, like this is not you know, this
Speaker 2: is not who we've been all year, and it's like
Speaker 2: a true Hey, but JJ, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: This is who we have been since against the Denver
Speaker 2: Nuggets over the years or years to be like this
Speaker 2: ain't new. But he basically acknowledged like it looked like
Speaker 2: the team stopped competing in the second half, particularly in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. And he's exactly right, like there's really
Speaker 2: not much else to say there.
Speaker 1: They're a bit of a sustainability issue, you know, when
Speaker 1: you're when we when we look at our record, and
Speaker 1: he's point differentially, I thought we were fine. I didn't
Speaker 1: even realize this, Jamar, until you put this into the rundown.
Speaker 1: Were so I guess it's us in the Spurs are
Speaker 1: somehow like the two teams over five hundreds with negative
Speaker 1: point differences. We're a half minus point five but still yeah,
Speaker 1: us and the Suns Yeah yeah company. And as if
Speaker 1: this recording, we will be playing moments from now, so
Speaker 1: we shall see how that goes. What do you think there?
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the will know what happened, But is
Speaker 1: this gonna be an L tonight?
Speaker 2: You think it's about to be an L? I don't
Speaker 2: know if you're asking Blaker.
Speaker 1: Yeah or me, but I'm asking then I'll ask Blake.
Speaker 1: I know he'll say it's an L because he likes
Speaker 1: to make me feel great. They they've got.
Speaker 2: Kadi coming back, They've got Katie and you know coming
Speaker 2: back into the lineup tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What's some status saw is that he hasn't heaved
Speaker 1: a shot in like seven years or something like that,
Speaker 1: like at half to or like as the Kevin Durm
Speaker 1: just does not He just he doesn't like it affecting
Speaker 1: his stats. He is not down with the heave. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe changes.
Speaker 3: Didn't they change that rule where now it doesn't count
Speaker 3: against your stats anymore if you're doing like a full
Speaker 3: court shot at the end of the Did I read that?
Speaker 2: I may have heard something either. I saw that on
Speaker 2: Twitter or something. But yeah, I do remember hearing that,
Speaker 2: and if that's the case, yeah, why are we not
Speaker 2: even anymore? Because that I used to be the one
Speaker 2: yelling at the yelling at the TV when the guy
Speaker 2: took the extra dribble just because like what, Yeah, look man,
Speaker 2: if that that could have made a difference, that could
Speaker 2: have made.
Speaker 1: A different exactly. Yeah, twenty seventeen eighteen season was the
Speaker 1: last way you would catch Kevin Durant good for messing
Speaker 1: with his stats like he knows, he knows the middle.
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, Lakers, whatever, I'll check back on you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess tonight where we're at. So the other thing
Speaker 1: we do have to talk about is that there are
Speaker 1: teams that are doing undeniably well. Unfortunately, there are two
Speaker 1: teams that are diametrically opposed to my fandom. But nonetheless
Speaker 1: we try to be objective in saying that they are
Speaker 1: doing well and it's scary, and I can be objective
Speaker 1: in saying I don't like it, those teams being the
Speaker 1: Clippers and the Celtics. Chris Stabs persingis is back, why
Speaker 1: do's not You don't get to do that, You don't
Speaker 1: get to do that, You don't need that. Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: is so angry about this summer improving us just trying
Speaker 1: to be like you think it's not clearly but yeah,
Speaker 1: I I just can't. I mean, they are they are
Speaker 1: looking unbelievably good still the Celtics, and and sort and
Speaker 1: sort of the Clippers. I gotta say, they're doing all right.
Speaker 1: They're doing all right despite the the motions, uh in
Speaker 1: terms of like the roster, but yeah, I are are
Speaker 1: we It's it's the Celtics is gonna win again? All right?
Speaker 1: That's the question.
Speaker 2: I mean, Blake here, maybe maybe he's gonna.
Speaker 1: Disagree, say something different real quickly, like, yeah, come on,
Speaker 1: Celtics is gonna win this thing again, not if.
Speaker 3: James Harden has anything to say about it. I think
Speaker 3: speaking of consistency and discipline, I think that the Clippers.
Speaker 3: I think the Clippers will be able to get in
Speaker 3: the way. Have you been to the new stadium, by
Speaker 3: the way yet, I am into it, you know, into it,
Speaker 3: I really go.
Speaker 1: When I heard that there were USB chargers and every seat,
Speaker 1: I was like, I know where I'm charging my phone.
Speaker 1: I'm oh, I'm coming in with zero percentage. I mean,
Speaker 1: it makes sense. You got Microsoft background. You're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna be thinking about the tech in there. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like a beautiful, beautiful stadium and the wall
Speaker 1: looks pretty uh formidable, I must see. That's what they
Speaker 1: call it, right, the wall.
Speaker 2: Durant even commented on Eddie said, like, yeah, it adds
Speaker 2: to the you know, you know, to the overall.
Speaker 1: Intimidation for sure, because that's the thing. Like it's not
Speaker 1: because ticket prices can be so high, you know, like
Speaker 1: it affects the energy like in the arena, so like
Speaker 1: to have something that is really emphasizing. It's like, bro,
Speaker 1: if we catch you in here with the wrong colors on,
Speaker 1: it's a wrap for you, get out. I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is I can get done with that. But you say
Speaker 1: you so South because you said argum when Blake or
Speaker 1: what do you think he just said? Oh not if
Speaker 1: James Harden has anything to do with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's gonna be. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be the Celtics. I feel like, yeah, it sucks to say,
Speaker 3: but it's it's funny because they've been so like you said,
Speaker 3: they've been doing so well without poor Zengis and they'll
Speaker 3: need to because he's another guy who you don't know
Speaker 3: if he's gonna play or not. Like we saw it
Speaker 3: last year in the playoffs, he came back like late
Speaker 3: in the playoffs and and on like made an impact.
Speaker 3: But I don't know who beats them, I really, I
Speaker 3: know they're in your conference. But I would love to see, okay,
Speaker 3: see take a step. But they're just one of those
Speaker 3: teams where I have no personal vendetta against them for
Speaker 3: some reason, and I would love to see I would
Speaker 3: love to see them take a step. But I don't
Speaker 3: know who stops them in the East. Like obviously the
Speaker 3: Cavs are playing well, but I don't think that's a
Speaker 3: real team.
Speaker 1: You don't think that's you think it's gonna flame out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no It's gotta be nice for the first eighteen
Speaker 1: game games or you'll win games one. But then but
Speaker 1: I mean, they've looked the way they were finishing last season.
Speaker 1: You're like, if this is the case, then they might
Speaker 1: they might have something to say. But I mean you
Speaker 1: look at the Eastern Conference. Celtics are in first, or
Speaker 1: Cleveland's and first, Celtics in second, the Magic are in
Speaker 1: the third, and then Knicks are and fourth. I cannot
Speaker 1: believe the the Orlando Magic are doing so well without Paolo.
Speaker 1: But I do gotta say the one team personally I
Speaker 1: would hope that could dethrone the Celtics would be the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I just I love the Knicks as a franchise. I
Speaker 1: love their history and og Andobi is, what did Kendrick
Speaker 1: Perkins say? Was he saying that he looked like Scottie Pippen,
Speaker 1: Like they got a Scottie Pippen region right now? And
Speaker 1: other people I've heard be like, it's more like Spurs
Speaker 1: Era Kawhi, maybe there's.
Speaker 2: Something who incredibly players like.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a that's a hot take. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, og Ananoby is definitely like the I'm
Speaker 1: looking at that team and I'm like, this is this
Speaker 1: is this was such a great move.
Speaker 2: Look coming into here. You know, I jumped out the
Speaker 2: window with it saying the yeah that Knicks are going
Speaker 2: to throw them them. They came in the opening night
Speaker 2: and that was it was. It was a parent that
Speaker 2: that was not.
Speaker 1: Going to be the case.
Speaker 2: But I'm starting to believe again, now do I believe that?
Speaker 2: You know, would I take the Knicks against them in
Speaker 2: the series, No, but what I would like to see is,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe it's a death by a thousand cuts situation.
Speaker 2: Maybe it isn't just a cake a total cake walk
Speaker 2: to the finals, and that's you know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna know relitigate. They just want a title.
Speaker 1: And they deserved it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I would like to see them at least
Speaker 2: struggle a little bit, because you know, the reality is,
Speaker 2: it's not fun to just say, yeah, you gave a
Speaker 2: team that was always pretty good to really good. You
Speaker 2: gave them in an eighteen month period. Derek White, Drew
Speaker 2: Holliday and Christaph Porzingis because the reality is that's a
Speaker 2: stack squad that plays, you know, all play together. You know,
Speaker 2: it's it's the Celtics. But it's very difficult for me
Speaker 2: to actually hate them, even though.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to maintain that bit. No, it is one
Speaker 1: of the things like for me, my beef as will
Speaker 1: like past individual Celtics players as a franchise obviously because
Speaker 1: of the rivalry. But I think we've been saying this
Speaker 1: last year. I'm like, but I like, I don't dislike
Speaker 1: a lot of the players like they're at individuals. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like I think they're cool, Like, I don't hate
Speaker 1: on them, but yeah, just the jersey I just can't
Speaker 1: kind of get down with. But yeah, I'm I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that the Knicks will maybe level things out just a bit.
Speaker 1: But we'll see. We will see game of the week.
Speaker 1: Should we talk about what we think the game of
Speaker 1: the week should be this week? And and and Blake,
Speaker 1: this is where I will let you decide. We will.
Speaker 1: This is where we want the guest to pick as well.
Speaker 1: We got the Emirates NBA Cup on Friday night. Here
Speaker 1: are the three matches that we're considering. Thunder at Lakers,
Speaker 1: Nicks at Hornets with look LaMelo and b Miller looking
Speaker 1: really fun together. That could be a fun one. Clippers
Speaker 1: at Wolves. Then Saturday we have the Warriors at Suns
Speaker 1: and then Sunday we get a little we can test
Speaker 1: some theories out a little bit because we are going
Speaker 1: to see the Celtics at the Calves and Nuggets at
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Between all of those, what are you saying,
Speaker 1: what's the homework for all of our mad Boosti's listeners
Speaker 1: that we're going to check back in on. Obviously, let's
Speaker 1: just I'm gonna just say we don't need to ever
Speaker 1: even we don't need to put the Lakers and Thunder
Speaker 1: in contention because I want to have a nice weekend,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to joy myself. I want to
Speaker 1: join my obvious. But for you, Blake, what do you
Speaker 1: think do? What are you excited about and what do
Speaker 1: you think we should keep eye on?
Speaker 3: I think it's Calves Celtics, like we were just talking about, Like,
Speaker 3: I think that's when you see a young team that's
Speaker 3: racking up so many wins and a hot team, especially
Speaker 3: with this, and then when they run into the who
Speaker 3: the like what the incumbent is, you know, like which
Speaker 3: are the Celtics, especially after they got prizingis because it's
Speaker 3: gonna be interesting watching the Celtics too. Is zinc is
Speaker 3: just going to be able to be put right back
Speaker 3: into the fold. And I think that's that's definitely the
Speaker 3: game for me. And then a very close second Thunder
Speaker 3: and Lakers. But I know we're not allowed to and
Speaker 3: I know you're one to enjoy your weekend, So yeah, Celtics.
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows, the knowing, the just the irony
Speaker 1: of the universe, like it might end up being a
Speaker 1: fantastic Lakers when but it's also very possible it won't be.
Speaker 1: I say it, so I will be.
Speaker 2: I'm reverse. That's why I said they were gonna lose
Speaker 2: with the Sun tonight.
Speaker 1: I'm guarantee they're gonna be yes. But yeah, well who
Speaker 1: was it was no, we didn't have the magic in
Speaker 1: any of those the magic though, I'm I need to
Speaker 1: watch a little bit. We need to start at to them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was always a thing like I remember in the
Speaker 1: off season like, oh, they're adding some pieces and you know,
Speaker 1: like the defenses together, and now they are they're they're
Speaker 1: eking them out. I mean, for the longest time, I
Speaker 1: was like, what about k CP, But well, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he'll check in in the season like he always does.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, they scrap. They you know, you know
Speaker 2: you played them. They're as physical as any other different
Speaker 2: defenst that's out there.
Speaker 1: Have the marks on your body after playing.
Speaker 2: The fact that they've only had polo for like four
Speaker 2: games and are still in third place and you know,
Speaker 2: like yeah, and they are playing this well it kind
Speaker 2: of it kind of negates a lot of our a
Speaker 2: lot of our excuses for our squads when we're missing people,
Speaker 2: and that's that's not a shot at you, Blake, I
Speaker 2: promised that I.
Speaker 1: Didn't even pick up that.
Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't even pick up on I was
Speaker 3: just counting all the Fosters that were on the Magic
Speaker 3: and I'm met to Wagners so far, and I don't
Speaker 3: know if there's more. But yeah, that's that's as far
Speaker 3: as I've gotten so far.
Speaker 2: Versus the US.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which you take?
Speaker 2: Who's winning?
Speaker 1: Who do you take? I mean, it's not how I
Speaker 1: had question.
Speaker 2: Might be I think I think, I think I think
Speaker 2: Gianni will put both of those books.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, yeah, yeah, no matter, his brother Janice will
Speaker 1: find another.
Speaker 3: Giannie's mother could play with him and it wouldn't matter. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just spot up just about the hangover.
Speaker 1: There, All right, Shall we take another break and come
Speaker 1: back with the Fastest Question Answer? Segment All Podcasting History,
Speaker 1: Sports Podcasting History. I heard Podcasting History. Yes, I think
Speaker 1: we shall. We'll be right back, and we're back. Blake Wexler,
Speaker 1: you are a great guy. We'd love having you on
Speaker 1: the show. But you know you messed up because we
Speaker 1: come into the final act of the show, which is
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter rapid fire round the question the best
Speaker 1: question Next segment All Podcasting history. I hope you're ready
Speaker 1: because we're gonna be extra rude with you today because
Speaker 1: I don't like being Pika bood. I love Peekaboo. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: And obviously for the listeners who are being annoyed by
Speaker 1: our constant references to the Kendrick Lamar album gn X,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Is West West coast y'all over here? And
Speaker 1: that's just what happens.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I got a pop album.
Speaker 1: Show is what it is. Sometimes you do, some times
Speaker 1: you do. Sometimes you gotta do a pop shoven on
Speaker 1: a skateboard by Okay Blake. Here's the first question, question
Speaker 1: number the first. We're playing pick up basketball with the
Speaker 1: cast of Full House, but not the actors, the characters
Speaker 1: from Full House. We just got the first pick and
Speaker 1: took Michelle Tanner aka the Olsen Fnce because technically that
Speaker 1: might be an ex that might be a man advantage. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking outside. Well, you get two, Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: get two. It's a two for one. That's a two
Speaker 1: for one. There's a two way player, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's a human snake draft exactly. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: our pick. Who are you taking next?
Speaker 3: I am taking Uncle Jesse, but in the bald cap
Speaker 3: from today. So he put the bald cap on. So
Speaker 3: now he clearly he's a little bit more aerodynamic, he's
Speaker 3: a little faster, he's been around the block.
Speaker 1: So I'm going that's actually no, no, no, you fundamentally misundertood
Speaker 1: the question. And I will stop you right there, because
Speaker 1: this is about that is your you are. You're referencing
Speaker 1: John Stamos, the bald cap and solidarity with Dave Coolier
Speaker 1: a ka Uncle Joey. Now I will allow you one
Speaker 1: more time to not completely botch the segment. But who
Speaker 1: which Herrick der are you picking within the reality of
Speaker 1: the full House Tanner verse?
Speaker 2: Miles, can we give him? Can we give him another up?
Speaker 2: Can he take John Stamos? But only if he's the
Speaker 2: sore loser version for Entourage, the one that could.
Speaker 1: No, No, we're not We talked about Talke. We're not intersecting.
Speaker 1: We're not intersecting television universes. We did that a while
Speaker 1: back and it went completely blew up on us. Right,
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 3: I generally pushed back on rules, but I think you
Speaker 3: can tell when someone's on the verge of snapping if
Speaker 3: you do that, And Miles is definitely in that category
Speaker 3: right now. So I'm just gonna play by the rules here.
Speaker 3: They're like you had nose bleed right now, No, slow
Speaker 3: dress something, slowly back out of the room. Don't turn
Speaker 3: your back because you will be attacked. All right, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go. Honestly, I'm going Kimmy Gibbler. I think there's
Speaker 3: something there. I think they might have a frenetic style,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, like a good distributor and
Speaker 3: a lot of energy. I think kim bring the energy,
Speaker 3: Yeah she will.
Speaker 1: I feel like, wow, that's really good because I can
Speaker 1: immediately see Kimmy Gibler just laying fully out to get
Speaker 1: just anything, just to be like no, no, no, I
Speaker 1: will chase down any you know what. I'm picturing horizontal
Speaker 1: like this again Superman with the ball. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I only attribute that to Kimmy gil Maybe because
Speaker 1: she has like one of the more interesting personalities of
Speaker 1: all those characters.
Speaker 3: Like Gary Payton's son energy. That's what I'm looking GP
Speaker 3: two or GP three, whichever number three or three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think that's I think that was it.
Speaker 1: I think that was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But you know, I don't I don't mean to
Speaker 2: be a jerk about this, but you know you really
Speaker 2: got to keep this gold. So, I mean, you've been
Speaker 2: on the show many times. We called you a friend
Speaker 2: of the show at the beginning. You we really appreciate,
Speaker 2: We really look forward. Don't don't make exactly so chance? Sorry,
Speaker 2: here you go again?
Speaker 1: Can you interrupt?
Speaker 2: Did you not hear me?
Speaker 3: Okay, so real good? The plugs in, the plugs in
Speaker 3: the into it dumb? Now does that work as like
Speaker 3: a firetable for apple parts or is it purely a
Speaker 3: us beauty lug?
Speaker 1: Do you have to bring your own? It's USBC obviously.
Speaker 1: Can we move on? I've answered the question.
Speaker 2: A chance of happening Sixers turn it around and get
Speaker 2: to the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 1: Scored the Lakers? When a title the season, It's the Lakers.
Speaker 1: It's not close. Are you serious? Yeah, it's not even close?
Speaker 1: All right? No, nothing good?
Speaker 3: That would mean something Blake, something good as all happening
Speaker 3: to the Philadelphia seventy six ers or something that happens
Speaker 3: fairly frequently in NBA circle.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's definitely the Lakers. It's not close, all right,
Speaker 1: that's okay? Like, are you a native Philadelphia? I'm from there. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: then this question is very important. Okay, you are taking
Speaker 1: me out to one restaurant in Philly to prove that
Speaker 1: you are a true Philadelphian, not this stuff that they
Speaker 1: show you on the Food Network, something that real salt
Speaker 1: of the earth. Philadelphians a restaurant, they know that it
Speaker 1: is just they guard that. They're like, bro if okay, okay,
Speaker 1: if you're really from Philly, you know about this spot.
Speaker 1: Where are you taking me? And what are we eating?
Speaker 3: This is the easiest question I've ever had to answer.
Speaker 3: There is a place in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: There's a McDonald's on the corner. It's actually underneath. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's this Irish restaurant. Yeah. No, it's called the Place.
Speaker 3: The restaurant I would recommend over any restaurant in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: It's called Bad Brother, and it's in the Fairmount neighborhood
Speaker 3: of Philadelphia. The only reason why I'm not gate gate
Speaker 3: keeping it is I live in New York now and
Speaker 3: they deserve all. They're already getting like a ton of
Speaker 3: business there. But it's in a neighborhood. So in Philly
Speaker 3: there's no zoning, so you can just have any business
Speaker 3: you want in a neighborhood. So it's nestled amongst residences
Speaker 3: like cool, old rot like brick row homes, and you
Speaker 3: walk in you could have like a gourmet duck meal
Speaker 3: or the best burger you'll ever have. But the food,
Speaker 3: great beer selection, great drinks. The people who work there
Speaker 3: are all awesome. But the meal that I would get,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, the best sandwich in Philadelphia. It's the
Speaker 3: sausage roll that they have there, and it's essentially a
Speaker 3: cheese steak, but instead of cheese steak, they use chrezo
Speaker 3: and they put like this delicious onion pepper, like homemade
Speaker 3: Queso mixture over it, and it is so good. I
Speaker 3: honestly I wouldn't be able to get there in time.
Speaker 3: I want to just leave and go there right now
Speaker 3: and eat it like I would. It's it's unreal. So wow,
Speaker 3: bad brother.
Speaker 1: This is that if you tell someone from Philadelphia, like, oh,
Speaker 1: don't bob that brother. Oh okay, okay, you are now knowing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give people are now knowing about it because it's
Speaker 3: just started getting written up and it's it's great. It's
Speaker 3: the best. It's great. They have this really like to
Speaker 3: bring the NBA into it. They have this art there
Speaker 3: that I have drunkenly tried to buy on six occasions
Speaker 3: of Mike Scott the basketball player, Mike Scott roaring in
Speaker 3: a black and white photo, and I keep trying.
Speaker 1: They would never sell it to me. They would.
Speaker 3: They were just like, yeah, you can't obviously have that.
Speaker 3: We're not selling the art. I also probably couldn't afford it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a bad brother the best, It's the best.
Speaker 3: It's the best.
Speaker 2: Oh, we're gonna keep the positivity going. We know about
Speaker 2: the nagatives. What is your dopest memory as a Sixers fan?
Speaker 3: Dopest memory, I mean, it's hard not to say the
Speaker 3: step over it was and by yeah, it's don't be
Speaker 3: too devastated by that. It's not like you had too
Speaker 3: much trouble with us after for that in the two.
Speaker 1: Thousand I was okay with yeah, yeah, yeah, but he was.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think because now watching Saquon Barkley play
Speaker 3: for the Eagles, I'm like, have I ever seen a
Speaker 3: Philly athlete like this? And Iverson's own during my lifetime?
Speaker 3: Iverson is the closest one. So the two thousand and
Speaker 3: one team before you swept us for the rest of
Speaker 3: the playoffs in the finals was.
Speaker 1: Blemish in the postseason two. Yes, yes, yes, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was one. Yeah, the way that shook me to my
Speaker 1: core though, Yeah, I was like, oh, y'all, I'm going
Speaker 1: to sleep through these finals. I don't even care. And
Speaker 1: after that I was like at.
Speaker 3: Home and then yeah, yeah yeah, and then the weirdest
Speaker 3: team like and in that year because we had a
Speaker 3: lot of accolades that year, where it was Iverson m VP,
Speaker 3: Aaron McKee, sixth man, Matumbo, rest In Peace was a
Speaker 3: Defensive Player of the Year, and I believe Larry Brown
Speaker 3: might have been Coach of the Year or two. And yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a really fun year and also the only
Speaker 3: finals I've ever seen and probably the last finals they'll
Speaker 3: ever make.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, they'll do it. We'll run it back.
Speaker 1: We'll run it back. We'll run it back. We'll run
Speaker 1: it back. See in the finals this year.
Speaker 2: There's always the one in season, you know.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Yes, we can already got out of that. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know, we're the owners, so we got it. We
Speaker 1: have to defend the cup. We have to defend the
Speaker 1: cup obviously, and we will starting tonight with the Suns. Oops.
Speaker 1: Who knows what happened in that game? And we will
Speaker 1: find out later on. But there you have it, Blake,
Speaker 1: somehow you hit us with every single correct answer. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you did that? How'd you do that?
Speaker 1: How did I do that? Can I can? I tell
Speaker 1: you a secret? Yeah? Pick a boot all right? So
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. That one got me, Okay, Blake Wexler,
Speaker 1: You're the best in the business for a reason. Blake,
Speaker 1: Where do they find you? Follow you, hear your albums
Speaker 1: even and see you live? Well, you can see me live.
Speaker 3: December fifth, I'm going to be a Helium Comedy club
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia, and then another big date March fifteenth. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be in LA at the Ice House over
Speaker 3: in Pasadena, So not La technically, but Pasadena near near.
Speaker 3: I believe there's a bowl over there. I know you
Speaker 3: have the cup. This rowle's filled with roses and my
Speaker 3: stand up comedy special. Blake Wexler Daddy Long Legs is
Speaker 3: streaming for free on YouTube and afflet Wexler on all social.
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Speaker 2: Then me I'm at Jori David A. Davis on Twitter
Speaker 2: and JABORI Davis NBA to keep it old.
Speaker 1: School on Blue School Nice. I love when I love
Speaker 1: how like those the NBA like NBA Twitter, Like everyone
Speaker 1: who has like their specific NBA Twitter handle. You know
Speaker 1: that's a sign of a professional. Yeah, made up a
Speaker 1: weird name, like I was like a knight of some
Speaker 1: kind of kingdom called Gray. Anyway, that'll do it for
Speaker 1: us today. You got your homework. You are going to
Speaker 1: be watching the Celtics at Calves on Sunday, three pm
Speaker 1: Pacific time on NBA TV because maybe it's it's going
Speaker 1: to be a clash of Titans for sure at this
Speaker 1: point in the season, so we shall see how that
Speaker 1: ends up. Hopefully a bit different from the NBA Cup game.
Speaker 1: For those of us who would like to see the
Speaker 1: Cavs win, all right, the next time we will see you. Then, okay,
Speaker 1: speak about
Speaker 2: You're sure, you're sure s