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Speaker 3: October twenty second, It's Opening Night and the marquee game
Speaker 3: on the schedule is Ring Night.
Speaker 2: For the defending world champion Giro Rectors.
Speaker 3: The Battle for Los Angeles. The first time anyone gets
Speaker 3: to see Anthony Davis alongside Lebron James and Lakers goal.
Speaker 3: The first time Kawhi Leonard will wear a Clippers jersey,
Speaker 3: the first time Lakers versus Clippers might actually be the
Speaker 3: two best teams in the league. Squaring off, the Clippers
Speaker 3: win one twenty two, one to twelve. Kawhi leads all
Speaker 3: scores with thirty in his LA debut, while Anthony Davis
Speaker 3: goes for twenty five, nine and five in the loss.
Speaker 3: Paul George is still on the shelf after getting what
Speaker 3: he calls new shoulders. But this is the kind of
Speaker 3: victory people were expecting to see, as defense and depth
Speaker 3: leads the Clips to a victory in their technical home opener,
Speaker 3: the two teams would go their separate ways for a while.
Speaker 1: For the first time in a decade, Lebron. James had
Speaker 1: a long rest after playing in the finals from twenty
Speaker 1: eleven to twenty eighteen, and injured groin halted Lebron's eighteen
Speaker 1: nineteen season early, and for once he actually got to chill.
Speaker 2: It paid off right away.
Speaker 1: Stinging from that opening night loss to the Clippers, the
Speaker 1: Lakers went on a tear, with Lebron looking like the
Speaker 1: best player in the world again and leading the league
Speaker 1: and assists at thirty five years old. The Lake Show
Speaker 1: would go on to win twenty five four of their
Speaker 1: next twenty six games. Lebron relished the challenges, like in
Speaker 1: a Game of the Year candidate against the MAVs and
Speaker 1: Luka Doncic thirty nine, twelve and sixteen for Lebron, thirty one,
Speaker 1: thirteen and fifteen for Doncic, As Justin Kubatko tweeted, Luca
Speaker 1: became the youngest player in NBA history with thirty ten
Speaker 1: and fifteen of the game and Lebron became the oldest
Speaker 1: player in the same game. That was incredible just seeing
Speaker 1: them after the game, the way that Lebron was like, man,
Speaker 1: it's awesome, how much you like me and how good
Speaker 1: you are. Yeah, that was a special moment that was
Speaker 1: cool to see how long Davis was brilliant as expected
Speaker 1: next to Lebron, easily piling up points and rebounds while
Speaker 1: generating dpoy buzz as La built a fearsome defense on
Speaker 1: the strength of ad new edition Danny Green and a
Speaker 1: resurgent Dwight Howard, tied with the Bucks at twenty four
Speaker 1: and three for best in the league. The Lakers finally
Speaker 1: faltered at the end of December, first the perhaps understandable
Speaker 1: loss in Indiana just days before a marquee matchup with Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Then the Bucks wouldn't fall, and Giannis kinged himself.
Speaker 3: Giannis putting on the crown. He hits a shot, he
Speaker 3: goes back the other way and puts on the per
Speaker 3: ten crown nine minutes left in the fourth. I think
Speaker 3: he's saying, it's my turn.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what he's saying.
Speaker 1: I wear this now, he's saying as he is putting
Speaker 1: it on. Lebron sat a couple of nights later against
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, and the Lakers lost their third straight, tallying
Speaker 1: as many losses in a week as they had in
Speaker 1: the season's first two and a half months. A Christmas
Speaker 1: Day matchup with the Clippers was next on the schedule.
Speaker 4: The Lakers had Lebron, but the Clippers had Kawhi except
Speaker 4: well when they didn't have them, just like he did
Speaker 4: during his sixty game championship season for the Raptors. Comer, Okay,
Speaker 4: come out, We're not going to do this again, all right,
Speaker 4: I'm just saying what happened. Kawhi Leonard played for the Raptors,
Speaker 4: he sat out games for load management, and he continued
Speaker 4: to do so.
Speaker 2: For the Clippers, at least until the league told them
Speaker 2: to hide others Kwi Leonard.
Speaker 4: He sat out that loss last night, missing the front
Speaker 4: end of a back to back set as part of
Speaker 4: load management. Many derided the Clipper's decision to sit Kawhi
Speaker 4: against the Honest with the poll quote of the day,
Speaker 4: it's probably coming from Doris Burke, who said, why not
Speaker 4: playing to me is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: The memo said quote.
Speaker 4: Load management is not an injury or an appropriate description
Speaker 4: of an injury under the injury reporting procedures.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So like what the reason you're resting is? Is
Speaker 4: it because of your legs? Is it because you're just
Speaker 4: got it?
Speaker 2: Your eyelids are heavy?
Speaker 4: Injured eyelids yeah.
Speaker 2: This is the thing.
Speaker 1: It's basically saying, be good about lying or be honest.
Speaker 1: I don't know which it is.
Speaker 5: Be honest about lying, Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2: It's important to be good at lying.
Speaker 4: Since the reprimand, Kawhi has continued to rest when he
Speaker 4: and the team decides if necessary, just like before one
Speaker 4: game he didn't skip. However, was that return to Toronto?
Speaker 5: What a video though, What a tribute video there from
Speaker 5: the Raptors. I thought that was perfect.
Speaker 2: Bomer, you just homered yourself. That's really weird, that's true.
Speaker 5: Paul George and his brand new shoulders returned midway through November.
Speaker 5: Ironically enough, in a game Kawhi was resting. PG immediately
Speaker 5: returned to a high level, splashing threes and fitting perfectly
Speaker 5: next to Kawaii when they both took the court. But
Speaker 5: as the winds piled up, the drama continued, and this time,
Speaker 5: rather than loads being managed, it was into family relations.
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers is at mid court right now, Tony.
Speaker 6: Brothers look at the sunseting call him for a tea tea.
Speaker 2: Uh my dad, he's on the other team in there.
Speaker 2: Its Doc's son.
Speaker 4: Begging for his dad to get a technical. And now
Speaker 4: waving for him.
Speaker 2: Past have just looked at us.
Speaker 5: He's I get a listens to the Bulls and the
Speaker 5: Suns confused, just as much as wins against the Celtics
Speaker 5: and Rockets reassured the Clippers were obviously good. They just
Speaker 5: didn't have the pedal to the medal. Christmas Day against
Speaker 5: the Lakers was a chance to prove what they are.
Speaker 3: December twenty fifth, the Lakers are down three, They're twenty
Speaker 3: seconds left and the ball is in Lebron's hands. He's
Speaker 3: struggling tonight, but he hit a couple threes earlier in
Speaker 3: the fourth. And come on, it's Lebron James. Of course,
Speaker 3: he has the ball in his hands. He's guarded by
Speaker 3: Kawhi to start. Then after a screen it's Montres Harrel.
Speaker 3: Then after another screen it's Patrick Beverly. Yeah, these Clippers
Speaker 3: are deep. The ball banks to the corner. Then back
Speaker 3: to Lebron on the right wing, with Beverly all up
Speaker 3: in his shorts. Now there's eight seconds left on the clock.
Speaker 3: Lebron jabs dribbles once steps back to his right, rising
Speaker 3: for three over the much shorter Beverly.
Speaker 6: Knocked out of his hands to flickt it out of bounds.
Speaker 7: Patrick Beverlely bought a spectacular defensive.
Speaker 3: Player strips it clean, so clean the refs go to
Speaker 3: replay and see that not only did he block lebron
Speaker 3: shot on the way up, it also hit bronze hands
Speaker 3: on the way out of bounds. After an interminable amount
Speaker 3: of time at the scorers table and a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of that would be the Lakers ball if we were
Speaker 3: playing pick up, the Clippers got the ball back. Day
Speaker 3: won one hundred and eleven to one oh six. It's
Speaker 3: two oh Clippers. They're scheduled to play again in a month.
Speaker 1: Having proven themselves with their Christmas Day victory, the Clips
Speaker 1: take it easy. The winds still come, but they're often uninspiring.
Speaker 1: In an odd stretch, they give up one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty and a loss to the Grizzlies, then barely beat
Speaker 1: the Nixon Warriors.
Speaker 2: A couple weeks later.
Speaker 1: A surprise loss to the Lowly Hawks leads to our
Speaker 1: first real drama from either of the Hollywood squads. Montres
Speaker 1: Harral his quotes after losing to the Grizzlies. We're not good,
Speaker 1: he said, We're not a great team. We're not a
Speaker 1: great team. I think it's that we need to realize
Speaker 1: and wake up. We're a team that has to figure
Speaker 1: things out to win night in and night out. Somebody
Speaker 1: else ath him, what's the vibe like in the Clippers'
Speaker 1: locker room after this Grizzlies loss? He says, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That might be another problem right there. Doc Rivers says
Speaker 1: that he doesn't think the Clippers have an identity the Clippers.
Speaker 3: They like to lay an agger to the Clippers.
Speaker 1: They can lose as many games as they want to
Speaker 1: bad teams and nobody cares.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 1: Look, you beat the Lakers twice and it's okay to
Speaker 1: drop a stinker here and there.
Speaker 2: We'll let it slide.
Speaker 1: But just like after Opening Night, the loss ignites the Lakers.
Speaker 1: They immediately peel off nine straight wins. Kyle Kuzma dies
Speaker 1: his hair blonde, and Lebron keep playing so well that
Speaker 1: we start wondering how he might do under different circumstances.
Speaker 4: At Troy likes stuff. He tweeted in he wanted to
Speaker 4: dig a little deeper into the hole. Lebron versus a
Speaker 4: horse at the Olympics thing. Lebron and a horse if
Speaker 4: they were competing in the Olympics. How that might shake out?
Speaker 4: He hit us with a great thread, scoring who would
Speaker 4: win each particular Olympic event between the two? Okay, aquatics,
Speaker 4: horses per Google.
Speaker 2: They can barely swim. What I always thought a horse
Speaker 2: was good in water? I really did, so did everybody.
Speaker 3: Horses like to have their hooves on the ground, That's
Speaker 3: what they say.
Speaker 4: So Lebron won horse zero archery hooves, No good here,
Speaker 4: Lebron two horse zero athletics. Finally we get to run
Speaker 4: and run fast. Lebron two horse one. Yeah, horse wins
Speaker 4: that one. Badminton hooves Lebron three horse one. Baseball slash
Speaker 4: softball technically a team sport which cannot be played solo,
Speaker 4: so both forfeit that one. Okay, basketball Lebron's day job.
Speaker 4: Lebron four horse one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but horses a whole game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, we might have to think about this. Okay, boxing,
Speaker 4: imagine a Lebron and a horse boxing.
Speaker 2: He scores it Lebron five horse one.
Speaker 1: This is gonna sound crazy. A horse could take unlimited
Speaker 1: punches to the face from Drona and all a horse
Speaker 1: needs is one rear up, boxing gloves on front hoofs
Speaker 1: and one strike, Lebron is not going to be able
Speaker 1: to hang with a horse.
Speaker 4: On January twenty sixth, tragedy strikes.
Speaker 2: Well, we have our emergency podcast.
Speaker 4: It's for the worst possible reason. This late Sunday night.
Speaker 4: We just got into the now Dunks studio here.
Speaker 2: I'm sure all you know.
Speaker 4: Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash today with its
Speaker 4: thirteen year old daughter Gianna. Also killed nine people in
Speaker 4: total in the helicopter. With the league in morning, the
Speaker 4: January twenty eighth matchup between the Lakers and Clippers is postponed.
Speaker 2: It's rescheduled for April.
Speaker 4: All around the Association, teams take eight and twenty four
Speaker 4: second violations to honor Kobe Dreon.
Speaker 8: Number eight gonna hold it for eight seconds, and there
Speaker 8: is an eight second violation for a turnover. The fans
Speaker 8: here now chanting for Kobe and the Wizards. They're gonna
Speaker 8: hold this for twenty four seconds. Number eight and number twenty.
Speaker 9: Four here in Atlanta, and this has been happening all
Speaker 9: around the league. Every team's first possession taking a twenty
Speaker 9: four second shot clock violation as an homage to Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 9: Number twenty four.
Speaker 4: When the team returns to Staples Center in late January,
Speaker 4: Lebron gives a stirring speech in tribute to the fallen legend.
Speaker 10: Non At some point we will have a memorial forkbe
Speaker 10: but I look at this, I'll look at this as
Speaker 10: a celebration of night. This is a celebration of the
Speaker 10: twenty years of the blood, the sweat, the tears, the
Speaker 10: broken down body that getting up to send down to
Speaker 10: everything in the countless hours, the determination to be as
Speaker 10: great as.
Speaker 11: He could be.
Speaker 12: Tonight we celebrate the kid that came here at eighteen
Speaker 12: years of age, retired at thirty age, and became probably
Speaker 12: the past that that we've seen over the past three years.
Speaker 4: Man the MEBA announces that all players will wear Kobe's
Speaker 4: number twenty four or Gianna's number two in the All
Speaker 4: Star Game. The game will feature a Kobe inspired twenty
Speaker 4: four point added target score, and the All Star MVP
Speaker 4: Trophy will be renamed in Mamba's honor. Later in February,
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan speaks at the Lakers tribute.
Speaker 13: Maybe it surprives people that Kobe and I were very
Speaker 13: close friends, But we were very close friends. Kobe's was
Speaker 13: my dear friend. He was like a little brother. Everyone
Speaker 13: always wanted to talk about the comparisons between he and I.
Speaker 13: I just wanted to talk about Kobe. You know, all
Speaker 13: of us have brothers and sisters, little brothers, little sisters who,
Speaker 13: for whatever reason, I always tend to get in your stuff,
Speaker 13: your closet, your shoes, everything. It was a nuisance, if
Speaker 13: I can say that word. But that nuisance turn into love.
Speaker 5: It's not just on the court that the Lakers and
Speaker 5: Clippers are competing. Every ring chasing vet is rumored to
Speaker 5: go to the Clippers or the Lakers. Both teams tried
Speaker 5: to bring Darren Colson out of retirement. Both teams make
Speaker 5: trade offers for the same players, with the Clippers finally
Speaker 5: landing the trade deadline's biggest fish, Mark Keith Morris.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, the Lakers got Markith Morris on the
Speaker 1: buyout market. The Clippers traded for Marcus Morris. Are you sure, no,
Speaker 1: not at all.
Speaker 5: Nevertheless, both teams add a Morris and keep bringing people in.
Speaker 5: Reggie Jackson and Joe kim Noah for the Clips, Dion
Speaker 5: Waiters for the Lakers. With a March eight matchup looming,
Speaker 5: the Lakers played some of their best basketball of the season.
Speaker 5: Lebron scores forty and each Red vines on the bench
Speaker 5: during his first game versus Zion Williamson. LA smashes a
Speaker 5: style of sixers squad, then avenges a loss against the
Speaker 5: Bucks in a game between each conference's number one seed.
Speaker 5: The Clippers head into the game riding a six game
Speaker 5: win streak of their.
Speaker 3: Own March eighth. Here it is. It was a playoff
Speaker 3: atmosphere from the tip, and the Hollywood Stars didn't disappoint
Speaker 3: in Miss Twizzler. Thirty for ad and twenty eight for Lebron,
Speaker 3: thirty one for Paul George and twenty seven for Kawhi
Speaker 3: sterling performances from the leading men, but it was Avery
Speaker 3: Bradley who was cast as the hero. His twenty four
Speaker 3: points were a season high, and so were his six threes,
Speaker 3: four of which came during a massive third quarter for
Speaker 3: the Purple and Gold. Lakers went one to twelve, one
Speaker 3: to oh three. Just like that, the Lakers become title favorites.
Speaker 3: What yep, They just beat the Bucks and Clippers in
Speaker 3: consecutive games, doing it pretty convincingly.
Speaker 4: The Bucks had the best record in the league the
Speaker 4: entire year. They beat the Lakers earlier this season, Jannie
Speaker 4: snatched Lebron's crown right, and the Clippers beat the Lakers twice.
Speaker 3: Too true, but at least the Lakers haven't been caught
Speaker 3: at Magic City.
Speaker 2: No, they've just got an anti vaxxer on the squad.
Speaker 3: Okay, so co favorites.
Speaker 11: Meanwhile, in no dunks January thirty.
Speaker 4: First, what's your uh, what's your favorite snack at a
Speaker 4: Super Bowl party?
Speaker 3: Mm?
Speaker 2: I like something healthy?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I like uh uncooked carrots and uh
Speaker 5: oh my red pep and red pepper.
Speaker 3: We walk them all.
Speaker 4: I've never heard someone called them uncooked parents, but not
Speaker 4: baby carrots.
Speaker 5: Feeling itself all sides, fel carrots, organic, uncooked. Don't use
Speaker 5: it as an excuse to just gorge yourself on all
Speaker 5: sorts of junk. Have a little bit of junk, not
Speaker 5: all die with.
Speaker 2: Balance it out a little bit.
Speaker 4: James Harden, Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook have weaved a
Speaker 4: tangled web across the Western Conference. Harden and Westbrook knew
Speaker 4: each other decades ago, then were teammates on the Thunder,
Speaker 4: Then they weren't. Westbrook won an MVP with Harden finishing second.
Speaker 4: In the vote. The next year, Harden won the MVP.
Speaker 4: All three guys played on the same All Star team.
Speaker 4: Four times. Harden has bounced Westbrook from the playoffs. Westbrook
Speaker 4: has bounced Hardened from the playoffs. They've both bounced CP
Speaker 4: three from the playoffs. And eventually he became teammates with Harden,
Speaker 4: and then they weren't, because now Westbrook is teammates with
Speaker 4: Harden again, this time in Houston, after being traded for
Speaker 4: wait for it, Chris Paul. The circle is complete is the.
Speaker 3: If you've hurt a good Space Shuttle failure to launch joke.
Speaker 3: Now is the time, Houston we have a problem. Because
Speaker 3: the beginning of this season was a problem for Houston.
Speaker 3: With the China controversy hanging over their heads and the
Speaker 3: team figuring out how to swap one all start guard
Speaker 3: for another, it was a disjointed start for the Rockets.
Speaker 3: The early frustration was never more evident than when James
Speaker 3: Harden smashed a ball into his own face. This guy
Speaker 3: is a master with the basketball, and he was unaware
Speaker 3: of simple physics that you just when you when you
Speaker 3: slam a ball, it's gonna come back up. And maybe
Speaker 3: I think he mistakenly put a little bit of English
Speaker 3: on the ball because he kind of bounced in slightly
Speaker 3: in front of him and came back and hit him
Speaker 3: right in the face. But I mean, this is again
Speaker 3: the guy can do everything with the ball, everything with
Speaker 3: his feet, and somehow, some way he hit his face
Speaker 3: with a ball. I was astonished when I saw it,
Speaker 3: and so was Josh Hart, who was playing for the
Speaker 3: Pelicans at the time, because he was right there and
Speaker 3: saw it happen. And the great Josh Hart reaction. If
Speaker 3: you have seeing that that video, that gift hilarious. Slam
Speaker 3: a ball hit yourself in the face unless you're four
Speaker 3: years old. And this is one of the best basketball
Speaker 3: players in the World Cup. When Eric Gordon suffered a
Speaker 3: knee injury, questions had to be asked.
Speaker 4: Records very respectable for the Rockets seven to three, but
Speaker 4: with the aeric Gordon injury, some sluggish performances. Is anyone
Speaker 4: ready to hit the panic button on the Houston Rocket season,
Speaker 4: especially when you consider their expectations. Anybody reaching for that
Speaker 4: big old red button.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit a mild panic button, oh a little,
Speaker 1: just a little tipped up.
Speaker 3: But soon after Harding caught fire, forty seven, forty four,
Speaker 3: and forty nine and three straight games, a few pedestrian
Speaker 3: thirty point outings, then sixty, followed by fifty a week later,
Speaker 3: fifty five and fifty four in consecutive games. How do
Speaker 3: you like that? Lee Ellis?
Speaker 2: How do you like that? Lee Ellis?
Speaker 3: Pretty quickly the question it wasn't about whether or not
Speaker 3: to panic, It was whether or not hard and averaged
Speaker 3: forty For a season, the points were accumulating so fast
Speaker 3: that sometimes it was hard to keep up, not just
Speaker 3: for fans but even for the rests.
Speaker 7: We're inside eight minutes to go hard and the.
Speaker 9: Steel and then.
Speaker 2: That was really you know, they're couldn't miss it. The
Speaker 2: ball was clearly good.
Speaker 14: I mean I thought we picked up completely wrong.
Speaker 4: It's two points.
Speaker 3: Despite their pre existing relationship, fitting Westbrook next to Harden
Speaker 3: still took time. The very idea of a career thirty
Speaker 3: three point shooter playing off the ball in a three
Speaker 3: point heavy system just didn't make sense, and when Westbrook
Speaker 3: came out of the gate shooting twenty three percent from
Speaker 3: deep during the season's first three months, the pairing seemed
Speaker 3: even more suspect. But with hardened lighting, the league on
Speaker 3: fire and Westbrook struggling from deep, opponents got bold with
Speaker 3: their game plans, often doubling the Beard as crossed half court.
Speaker 3: And that's when it clicked, as Westbrook feasted on four
Speaker 3: on threes, taking advantage of the kind of open lanes
Speaker 3: he'd never seen playing with the Thunder, especially when all
Speaker 3: the tall guys.
Speaker 2: Weren't in So what if the tall guys were never in?
Speaker 3: Aha? On January thirty first, Clint Capella sat with a
Speaker 3: heel injury, so Mike D'Antoni decided to roll with all smallies,
Speaker 3: moving Daniel House into the starting lineup and beating the
Speaker 3: Mavericks while playing No. One over six foot six. The
Speaker 3: team never looked back, winning their first four games playing tiny.
Speaker 3: With Westbrook unlocked, Capella became expendable and was soon shipped
Speaker 3: to Atlanta in a three team deal that landed Houston
Speaker 3: Robert Covington. The Rockets had officially embraced ultra small ball.
Speaker 3: All they needed now was a nickname.
Speaker 1: But my winner is the Houston Rockets because they are
Speaker 1: all in on small, in all in on small, and
Speaker 1: they're ball and small, and they.
Speaker 2: Were calling micro ball on the ding today.
Speaker 4: Obviously a lot of people just going with the simple
Speaker 4: super small ball. I saw the dream Shake suggest pocket rockets,
Speaker 4: which I really really like it.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: And I was in the shower this morning and I
Speaker 4: was thinking, pocket rockets is pretty funny. And then I
Speaker 4: was like, well, is there something off of d'antoni's seven
Speaker 4: seconds or less that we could do with the rockets?
Speaker 2: So I did the math quickly. I could be wrong,
Speaker 2: but what about seventy nine inches or less?
Speaker 4: Sure? Six seven and under. I think the math checks out.
Speaker 3: Houston won eleven and six playing with their pocket rockets,
Speaker 3: beating the Lakers in LA, the Celtics in Houston, and
Speaker 3: then the Celtics again in a Game of the Year
Speaker 3: candidate in Boston. Maybe it's just a regular season gimmick,
Speaker 3: but it might be rockets science. Oh Dad.
Speaker 1: After eleven years with some of the best players in
Speaker 1: the league, this season looked like it might be the
Speaker 1: first time since their debut season, Oklahoma City thunder fans
Speaker 1: might have to cheer for a bad team.
Speaker 2: Sure, Chris Paul was in town, but for how long?
Speaker 1: Same with de Nilo Gallinari. Longest tenured Thunder Steven Adams,
Speaker 1: was even in trade rumors.
Speaker 2: Instead, the Thunder turned into one.
Speaker 1: Of the seasons best surprises and even got a hater
Speaker 1: like myself to enjoy Chris Paul.
Speaker 2: But there were still some bumps along the way.
Speaker 1: First, Okase played under five hundred basketball for the season's
Speaker 1: first couple of months, lending credence to the idea that
Speaker 1: this would be a step back for the Thunder. Then
Speaker 1: Chris Paul called.
Speaker 2: The Fashion Police loser of the weekend. To Chris Paul
Speaker 2: and to the referees, because what a bunch of losers is?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: The guy's a tattletale. I'm trying to teach my five
Speaker 1: year old not to tell on her sister all the time.
Speaker 1: This guy is literally telling on Jordan Bell for not
Speaker 1: having his jersey touched. In having mastered the rule book,
Speaker 1: the Thunder started rolling. CP three reclaimed the point god
Speaker 1: status that some thought had passed him by getting teammates involved,
Speaker 1: then taking over down the stretch with clutch baskets when
Speaker 1: okc needed them. He even got Steven Adams to wear
Speaker 1: a suit, even if Adams did say the next time
Speaker 1: he'd wear one would be at his own funeral. Aside
Speaker 1: from the sartorial splendor and knack for closing. Paul's mentorship
Speaker 1: also proved invaluable for OKC. Dennis Shrewder had the most
Speaker 1: impactful season of his career, coming off the bench and
Speaker 1: embracing the role on his way to becoming a leading
Speaker 1: candidate for.
Speaker 2: Sixth Man of the Year.
Speaker 1: But sophomore shay Gilles Alexander's growth was even more impressive
Speaker 1: as he led the team in scoring and inspired an
Speaker 1: incredibly silly bet, why would not make the All Star
Speaker 1: Game this year? Over Chris Paul?
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm saying he won't. He's in the conversation.
Speaker 4: He has to be.
Speaker 2: He's averaging twenty. He doesn't have to three. He doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be shooting forty seven percent. Okay, in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty he's gotten even better. So timing matters. We talk
Speaker 2: about it all the time. He's not gonna make it.
Speaker 4: I'm with you. He's gonna make it in the future,
Speaker 4: immediate future probably, or is that too far for the
Speaker 4: next season, next two seasons, he makes it.
Speaker 1: I'll take that bet, all right, I'll say no, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fair. Stay tuned until twenty twenty two for the results.
Speaker 1: The Three Guards ran things. Gallinari stayed healthy and Steven
Speaker 1: Adams stayed hilarious. Not only did he bust out a
Speaker 1: shimmy after hitting his first career three pointer with a
Speaker 1: casual toss from fifty six feet, he also let everybody
Speaker 1: know just how much pressure he was feeling during some
Speaker 1: late game free throws.
Speaker 2: Steven, how did this feel?
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Speaker 5: The Nuggets go as Nikolay Yokitch goes, and he usually
Speaker 5: goes slow to start. Same with the Nuggets. To the
Speaker 5: surprise of absolutely no one, Jokisch was in chill mode
Speaker 5: of the season's inception. He often floated through games, generating
Speaker 5: that he's out of shape, talk that has followed him
Speaker 5: throughout his career. But while Yokitch worked up a lather,
Speaker 5: denverded up, putting together a top ten defense early on.
Speaker 5: Soon Yokisch rounded into shape.
Speaker 2: Shape thanks on man round is a shape, that's right.
Speaker 5: Jokich rounded into form as the hyper skilled big man
Speaker 5: put his boose to good use inside and picking opponents
Speaker 5: apart with his passing, and he consistently came up clutch,
Speaker 5: becoming one of the league's top late game scorers while
Speaker 5: hitting game winners in consecutive games in November, another in January,
Speaker 5: and yet another in February.
Speaker 2: They weren't always pretty.
Speaker 5: It's the Dirk, but it's like it's a it's a
Speaker 5: new age Dirk.
Speaker 4: Because he just turns around.
Speaker 5: He's got that one leg and he's so slow, but
Speaker 5: he still gets it away and defenders can't get up
Speaker 5: and contest that.
Speaker 2: It's incredible.
Speaker 4: That is the driveway, Dad Dirk. All right, here's what
Speaker 4: I mean by that current. That is dad playing his
Speaker 4: young kid in the driveway and mom's yelling and that
Speaker 4: dinner's ready. So Dad says, next point wins, And yeah,
Speaker 4: he's a giant man. So he could take his son
Speaker 4: down into the block and score an easy little hook shop.
Speaker 4: But come on, Dad's gonna make it a little interesting.
Speaker 4: So Dad's gonna put a little laught on and flick
Speaker 4: it up there. That is the driveway, Dad Dirk. That
Speaker 4: is what I'm calling those Joker game winners that he
Speaker 4: hits like every two weeks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jokich was back to an all star level, and
Speaker 5: while the defense started to slip, the team started to click.
Speaker 5: Jamal Murray quietly had a career best season New Edition,
Speaker 5: Jeremy Grant stepped in ably when Paul Millsatt went out
Speaker 5: with a wrist injury. Will Barton thrilled, and the emergence
Speaker 5: of Michael Porter Junior raised Denver ceiling and looked good.
Speaker 2: At doing it.
Speaker 3: I think MPJ, I'm gonna call him that Michael Porter
Speaker 3: Junior rocks it. You know, he's just a cool looking guy,
Speaker 3: a bit of a heart throbbed look. I think, I
Speaker 3: don't know, I'm buying the look. I'm buying the game.
Speaker 3: That athleticism is real. There's a lot of cool looking
Speaker 3: dudes out there. MPJ is one of them.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 3: He came onto the scene with the big sort of
Speaker 3: rock I'd call them the rock sunglasses or that was
Speaker 3: his look, right, like the big windows, like the huge,
Speaker 3: huge chunkers. I'm not into it, but you know, I
Speaker 3: always give everybody second chance. I wore sunglasses like that
Speaker 3: once upon a time. They're ugly, they're gross, but he
Speaker 3: deserves a second chance.
Speaker 5: Everybody wears ugly sunglasses sometimes and sometimes it was ugly
Speaker 5: for Denver this season, but they wanted a high clip
Speaker 5: this year, then last, and they're third in the West
Speaker 5: even after a sluggish start. You've got to give people
Speaker 5: a second chance with their glasses and their basketball.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, in No Ducks February, Nora gets so upset with
Speaker 4: me if I make popcorn.
Speaker 2: And I do not like to leave any kernel behind
Speaker 2: Colonel behind. Yeah, sure, I like to push it.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt on that in a couple ten or
Speaker 4: fifteen seconds morecause I want everybody to join in the party.
Speaker 4: But then you risk that little burnt popcorn swell. But
Speaker 4: I can burn one colonel and Nora can smell it
Speaker 4: instantly and be like, well, the whole bag's ruined.
Speaker 5: I come on, I just wish that arenas they wouldn't
Speaker 5: make the one bag size only for popcorn.
Speaker 4: Just make it smaller, make it small and allow us
Speaker 4: to come back and get more popcorn.
Speaker 5: It's not that hard because you try to stop a
Speaker 5: seven year old when he's just like it's just like
Speaker 5: a machine, non stock. I said, right, that's enough, you've
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Speaker 4: That's enough. We're getting non cooked carrots.
Speaker 5: I tell you, they could be a little market for that.
Speaker 5: You know, have a you know, buy some popcorn, get
Speaker 5: a couple of carrots with you as.
Speaker 4: Well, basically like French fries. Yeah, wouldn't feel so bad.
Speaker 1: It's a small market.
Speaker 4: Salt Lake City is situated in a valley between a
Speaker 4: few different mountain ranges. It's beautiful for a city, and
Speaker 4: it was that kind of season for the jazz high highs,
Speaker 4: low lows, peaks and valleys. Utah excelled early, pushing to
Speaker 4: the top of the West and beating the Bucks on
Speaker 4: a game winner from new acquisition Boyon bogdanovitch.
Speaker 3: Why don't they pump.
Speaker 15: Bar beautiful in inbound by Joe easily down with two
Speaker 15: chants on the clock as a horn sound, the Jazz went.
Speaker 3: It all the celebration.
Speaker 4: Bogdanovic, whose season recently ended after wrist surgery, slotted it
Speaker 4: nicely alongside Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, but integrating Mike
Speaker 4: Conley proved to be trickier as the former grizz Vet
Speaker 4: struggled to adapt to Utah system. Calls for Joe Ingalls
Speaker 4: to replace Conley in the starting lineup soon came, and
Speaker 4: they were answered when a hamstring injury put the Vet
Speaker 4: on the shelf for a month. The Jazz peaked with
Speaker 4: their new starting five, winning ten in a row during
Speaker 4: an impressive twenty to three stretch. Preseason, chatter had been
Speaker 4: about which of Utah's two stars would make their All
Speaker 4: Star Game debut.
Speaker 2: Come February, it was both of them.
Speaker 4: The Descent, though mmmm uneven Conley returned from injury and
Speaker 4: eventually to the starting lineup, as Utah struggled to recreate
Speaker 4: the every night consistency on display during their best span.
Speaker 2: Win four, lose five, repeat.
Speaker 7: One point six left to play angles, trying to get
Speaker 7: it in, having trouble back Ganovich tough shot, he went down,
Speaker 7: Are you talk?
Speaker 3: Jazz here?
Speaker 13: Got it?
Speaker 7: Jan Bogdanovich, We're only his second three pointer of the game.
Speaker 13: And to the.
Speaker 7: Wa shot by back Ganovich. Wow, and what a fitter finish?
Speaker 7: Or the Houston Rock gets fire.
Speaker 4: The defense is good, if not always great, as extra
Speaker 4: small teams proved a challenge for a team increasingly reliant
Speaker 4: on Gobaar to solve most problems. Mitchell was often sensational
Speaker 4: when he wasn't, making things a bit too hard. Then
Speaker 4: March eleventh hit and the Jazz became the biggest story
Speaker 4: in America. Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus, so
Speaker 4: the league released a statement quote the NBA suspending gameplay,
Speaker 4: allowing the conclusion of Wednesday's schedule of games until further notice.
Speaker 4: The NBA will use this hiatus to determine next steps
Speaker 4: for moving forward in regard to the coronavirus. Pandemic, Rudy
Speaker 4: Gobert and Tom Hanks forever linked.
Speaker 3: Here is every time Luka Doncic or Ja Morant was
Speaker 3: a winner of the weekend.
Speaker 4: My first winner Guys of the Weekend Grizzlies rookie Ja Morant.
Speaker 2: This guy's a real one. This guy is something else.
Speaker 4: One of my winners from the NBA Weekend, Luka Doncic.
Speaker 4: He's been unreal to start this season.
Speaker 3: Grizzlies have won five in a row. Why should you
Speaker 3: cheer for them? While they're a small market, they're young,
Speaker 3: They're led by John Morant, a man who will win
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year and who is must watch television.
Speaker 4: Uh your league pass, Luca there, your donk Lee has
Speaker 4: been has been so much fun to watch. The mas
Speaker 4: are one of the most exciting teams to watch right
Speaker 4: now and Luca is it like a stretch to say
Speaker 4: he's like already a top ten player in this league.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm going crazy by.
Speaker 1: Seeing John Morant got a loss to the Kings on Friday,
Speaker 1: tough twenty points, eleven assists, three rebounds, but then brooke
Speaker 1: the losing streak by game losing streak.
Speaker 4: I'll I'll show a little love to Luca Luka Doncic
Speaker 4: another winner of the weekend. This must be what is
Speaker 4: third or fourth one here? While we were doing no
Speaker 4: dunks early in the season, John Morant is a winner
Speaker 4: of the weekend Grizzlies.
Speaker 5: Yes again, what an incredible rum he's on right now?
Speaker 13: Don't chinch.
Speaker 5: He is just bowling every single time he gets on
Speaker 5: the floor.
Speaker 2: Saturday was the John Moran Show.
Speaker 4: That was awesome. Harden esque Lou Williams. You see how
Speaker 4: Lou is even loving it. John Morans must watch TV.
Speaker 4: He's has to be on the short list of guys
Speaker 4: you want to like. Either go see live or just
Speaker 4: fire up League Pass to see what he's doing. He's
Speaker 4: that exciting.
Speaker 2: Jay Murant, we know he's good gamey see it again?
Speaker 5: What did I say, Jays Jamaran.
Speaker 2: J Yeah, we know it's good.
Speaker 3: But to put it on your notes as JH yeah cool.
Speaker 3: Both also maintained their excellence during the week becoming critical
Speaker 3: darlings while leading their respective teams to surprising seasons.
Speaker 5: Luca had a special season, butting his way into MVP
Speaker 5: talks early, then staying there the entire season as the
Speaker 5: Mavericks posted the single highest offensive rating in NBA history.
Speaker 5: He finished second only to Lebron in All Star voting,
Speaker 5: fitting after the two joint forces for our most rewatchable
Speaker 5: game of the season.
Speaker 4: November one, twenty nineteen, Lebron and Luca's triple double duel
Speaker 4: in Dallas.
Speaker 8: Here is Bradley James.
Speaker 3: James going to the rim.
Speaker 2: Kicks to the corner, three to three to time.
Speaker 13: He got it.
Speaker 2: We have overtime.
Speaker 5: It wasn't just Doncic, though, making his Dallas debut after
Speaker 5: twenty months recovering from a knee injury, Christaps Pausing has
Speaker 5: found the form that made him such a promising fit
Speaker 5: next to Doncic. Dwight Palace torn Achilles was certainly a blow,
Speaker 5: but Porzingis found himself comfortable at the five. By season's end,
Speaker 5: Kristats was posting twenty and ten's regularly. The sporting players
Speaker 5: were so good they got a coveted bench nickname. Shout
Speaker 5: out to the mild Stallions. Just About the only thing
Speaker 5: Dallas got drastically wrong this year was a uniform extreme.
Speaker 1: Okay, these made me want to do the deal. This
Speaker 1: looks like Martain Dew marketing. Between the color and the
Speaker 1: graffiti font that they're using on the front pop open
Speaker 1: a bottle of popping guzzle ite cap being kicking three
Speaker 1: your cysts.
Speaker 3: It's toone squad for.
Speaker 5: Me, ugly ish need to see them on a player first.
Speaker 5: That I'm trying to imagine a player running around, I'm
Speaker 5: trying to imagine the shorts and they don't looked great on.
Speaker 4: Luca was at the table for the MVP. Ja Moran
Speaker 4: hosted the Rookie of the Year at dinner.
Speaker 2: I believe that's J one percent. It's Jah. You're the
Speaker 2: only one that says change.
Speaker 4: Led all rookies in scoring and assists and so dominated
Speaker 4: his class that nineteen games from Zion is the only
Speaker 4: last ditch argument against the highlights piled up the best
Speaker 4: Ja Morant assist from Tuesday night against the Rockets. Was
Speaker 4: it the behind the back dish to triple J on
Speaker 4: the move? Was it that little drop off that he
Speaker 4: had to triple J who then hammered it home. Or
Speaker 4: was it the no look lob to Brandon Clark.
Speaker 1: Best dime for me was the alley oop I thought
Speaker 1: the best highlight overall was the one Lee's talking about,
Speaker 1: the one that he meant to be talking about. The
Speaker 1: fast break right the behind the back, basically just to
Speaker 1: kill a little time until JJJ was there to throw
Speaker 1: down a monster dunk. But I thought that the dunk
Speaker 1: was the best part of that one. If you're talking
Speaker 1: strictly pass the behind the back in the half court
Speaker 1: to the no look oop in a half court set
Speaker 1: for a monster dunk that was wicked. Team success is
Speaker 1: another check on Job's resume. Led by their rookie point guard,
Speaker 1: Memphis exceeded expectations as a collection of hungry youngsters and
Speaker 1: savvy vetts hit their stride mid season. Jaron Jackson Junior
Speaker 1: splashed from outside while Jonas Valanciunas mashed inside. Brandon Clark
Speaker 1: might have been the best rookie after Jaw and don't.
Speaker 2: Forget about Canadian Dylan Brooks. Don't even say it, Leade
Speaker 2: don't oh.
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, back in the preseason, Vegas bought in Memphis would
Speaker 1: be one of the five worst teams in the league.
Speaker 1: But an unproven team with a little known coach and
Speaker 1: a rookie throwing his body around proved the haters wrong
Speaker 1: and put together a playoff season.
Speaker 5: Whoa in this corner.
Speaker 11: They made the playoffs in each of the past six seasons.
Speaker 11: They got a video game season from Damian Lillard and CJ.
Speaker 11: McCollum averaged that career high and scoring. They were decimated
Speaker 11: by injuries, but they brought back Carmelo needs to help
Speaker 11: and he was actually pretty good. They're twenty nine and
Speaker 11: thirty seven. Ladies and gentlemen. It's a fourth laden Trailblazer
Speaker 11: to two and a half.
Speaker 16: Second skin clock and shot clock. Willard work on books, dancing,
Speaker 16: three up three Day, got the Clare Marie then times
Speaker 16: the game and loved mans fifty four and he's got
Speaker 16: ten threes.
Speaker 2: He'll twy to tight fifty seven, parts sixty seven, LOLd.
Speaker 16: Sixty one points firteen and Loward just a marvelous parts.
Speaker 2: In this corner.
Speaker 11: They turned Brandon Ingram into an All Star and don
Speaker 11: Lonzo Ball making three. They got solid performances from Vett's Crew, Holiday,
Speaker 11: Derrick Favors and JJ Reddick, but had trouble keeping everybody
Speaker 11: on the court. They only got nineteen games from Zion
Speaker 11: Williamson and that was enough to put the league on notice.
Speaker 11: They're twenty eight and thirty six the New Orleans Pagans.
Speaker 11: Here's Zion stepping back pulling the trigger ten head half there, there's.
Speaker 8: A lot of Zion and he finishes over.
Speaker 2: The Longson Wive Stray.
Speaker 4: Put a rookie here, Zion between put it again.
Speaker 2: Zion's got eight points in the last minute.
Speaker 3: They want Zion to get it here he is and.
Speaker 14: Brdle planted at time, gives it and finishes.
Speaker 15: Ten points in difficult for a minute where Zion Williamson
Speaker 15: My bar is best spread of the night.
Speaker 3: Zion gives it up, gets it back in.
Speaker 14: Airon Zion against Alder and this is back Zion.
Speaker 3: For four for.
Speaker 2: In this corner a triple threat match.
Speaker 11: They too battled injuries, as Tieron Fox and Marvin Bagley
Speaker 11: both missed significant chunks of time. Buddy Hill was firing
Speaker 11: off the court and on fire on it, shooting the
Speaker 11: lights out after getting benched, then winning the three point context.
Speaker 11: Harris and Barnes said he wouldn't shave till this season
Speaker 11: was over, and that was when he thought it ended.
Speaker 11: In June, They're twenty eight thirty six the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 11: The free throw where fox Line drives it off the
Speaker 11: front of the rim to himself may have been there
Speaker 11: highlight of the season.
Speaker 7: Kings have Fedman and the elitza down low for a
Speaker 7: potential offensive rebound.
Speaker 11: Wh this guy shit, Oh dude.
Speaker 2: Just see that gun?
Speaker 10: Oh fly?
Speaker 3: If we are all time?
Speaker 17: That one they came.
Speaker 3: Whats happened?
Speaker 14: Granny fear deer fox lightning across the line.
Speaker 1: And in this corner, this is a fatal four way.
Speaker 11: They've made it to the playoffs twenty two straight seasons.
Speaker 11: When Greg Popovich's and cracking wise Tim Duncan steps into
Speaker 11: coach from time to time. They don't shoot threes and
Speaker 11: they don't play d They're twenty seven and thirty six.
Speaker 11: It's the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 3: Co's here.
Speaker 4: Oh wow to the Spurs have it.
Speaker 2: They don't fall toot and the spur is not gonna
Speaker 2: let it.
Speaker 8: Oh father off.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Timmy Donkan.
Speaker 17: Getting that win.
Speaker 3: And in this corner is this cricket?
Speaker 11: No, maybe they haven't been to the postseason since twenty ten.
Speaker 11: They got off to a hot start, but then they
Speaker 11: flamed out. Devin Booker was an All Star and Kelly
Speaker 11: Ubrey's game was as pretty as he was. DeAndre Ayden
Speaker 11: was good but also suspender. They're twenty second, thirty nine.
Speaker 11: They're de fete.
Speaker 2: Sound Devin Booker, who's got it again? Chase you back?
Speaker 2: Conveins goes in with the left hand and what Wow?
Speaker 6: That was an angry move by Devin hookerble.
Speaker 13: Is that it? So?
Speaker 4: Here are some other things that happened in the Western Conference.
Speaker 4: For the fifteenth time in the past sixteen season, the
Speaker 4: Minnesota Timberwolves failed to make the playoffs, but for about
Speaker 4: a month they ran one of the great travel agency
Speaker 4: scams of all time. Is nobody on Wiggins Island with me? Nobody?
Speaker 4: I got something coconuts?
Speaker 3: You know I'm joining. Yeah, but the island. I have
Speaker 3: one requirement. The island has to be right under the rim,
Speaker 3: because that's where he belonged. Yeahland's gotta be a little
Speaker 3: circle underneath the hoop.
Speaker 5: I'm not ready to buy property on weekends. So I'm
Speaker 5: coming out for weekend, man, I'm coming out to rage
Speaker 5: for a weekend.
Speaker 4: This weekend, we show why not.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 4: By December, the island was deserted and the Wolves were
Speaker 4: on an eleven game losing streak.
Speaker 2: What happened to the subway? The subway fortunately shut down.
Speaker 2: Rats infested it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. January, the Wolves launched a thirteen game losing streak,
Speaker 4: joining the Hawks as the only teams in the league
Speaker 4: to have multiple double digit losing streaks this season. Wiggins
Speaker 4: was eventually traded to the Warriors, where he continued to lose,
Speaker 4: ultimately piling up twenty straight defeats before finally getting a
Speaker 4: win on February twenty ninth. Problem with that, nothing that
Speaker 4: happens on leap Day actually counts, so sorry. Things weren't
Speaker 4: much different for the other Wolves star Karl Anthony Towns,
Speaker 4: after an early season suspension for fighting with Jowell. Embiid
Speaker 4: also amassed a surprising personal losing streak, dropping seventeenth straight
Speaker 4: games he played in as a combination of bad luck, injuries,
Speaker 4: and incompetence saw Catman Do go from November thirteenth all
Speaker 4: the way to February eighth without winning a home game.
Speaker 4: It was a disappointing season for the Timberwolves, but maybe
Speaker 4: it wasn't a total loss, as the team finally traded
Speaker 4: for D'Angelo Russell after months of trying to acquire one
Speaker 4: of Town's best friends. We won't know until next year, however,
Speaker 4: as the duo played just one game together, a loss, naturally,
Speaker 4: before a wrist injury put towns on the shelf. Sometimes
Speaker 4: it's just not your year, though we say that all
Speaker 4: the time about the Wolves.
Speaker 3: For the first time since twenty fifteen, the Golden State
Speaker 3: Warriors weren't one of the league's biggest stories Night in
Speaker 3: a Night Out. Kevin Durant was off to Brooklyn, Klay
Speaker 3: Thompson was going to be out the entire year following
Speaker 3: attorney a cl in Game six of the Finals, and
Speaker 3: even though everyone was excited to see Steph Curry as
Speaker 3: a solo act, championship expectations were long gone. They did
Speaker 3: have a new arena, which Curry christened with a forty
Speaker 3: foot air ball on the very first shot in the
Speaker 3: Pristine Chase Center.
Speaker 4: Coring way down town.
Speaker 2: That comes up. Wait, he's trying to ana the right way.
Speaker 13: Whoa out? He's just testing the air in the arena scene.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Steph would play just four regular season games before
Speaker 3: breaking his hand. With Clay out and Draymond Green nursing
Speaker 3: a finger injury, the Warriors ran out some lineups full
Speaker 3: of unknowns.
Speaker 1: The Warriors, I know we're giving them the pass, but
Speaker 1: they are the worst team in the league by far.
Speaker 2: They just played again.
Speaker 1: They got smacked by the map. They lost by nearly
Speaker 1: fifty and everybody that played for the Warriors wasn't even
Speaker 1: on the Warriors last season. Guys, you've never heard of
Speaker 1: Kyle Bowman.
Speaker 4: He's a showman.
Speaker 1: Eric Pascal, he's a rascal.
Speaker 2: Mari Spelman, what the hell?
Speaker 3: Man? This is good?
Speaker 2: I like it, great joke.
Speaker 5: I like Burks?
Speaker 2: Does of works?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 8: Nice?
Speaker 4: What we call he Stein? No one's fine.
Speaker 3: Draymond came back, but with the Splash Brothers on the end,
Speaker 3: his particular blend of talents was diminished. That didn't stop
Speaker 3: him from beefing with Charles Barklay, though, Hey, sack.
Speaker 17: Draymond, don't talk as much since he haven't that a
Speaker 17: triple single?
Speaker 4: What a triple single?
Speaker 17: Barkley should stopped before I go take this job, though,
Speaker 17: so I can do that well too. He alreadyn't make
Speaker 17: enough money playing, so he needed that job. He should
Speaker 17: stop talking to me. I like to Tennessee to so
Speaker 17: he should stop before I take his job. If he
Speaker 17: came talking, I'll take you soon. So did don the thanks,
Speaker 17: So yeah, he probably should be quiet. He also can't
Speaker 17: talk basketball. Ru not smartough, I'm not qualified.
Speaker 3: Some things never change, some things never change. As for
Speaker 3: a new addition, D'Angelo Russell. He did what he came
Speaker 3: to do in Golden State, score points, including a career
Speaker 3: high fifty two against the Timberwolves, and get traded to
Speaker 3: the Timberwolves, who were obviously impressed. In return, the Dubs
Speaker 3: got Andrew Wiggins in a first round draft pick. Welcome
Speaker 3: to Wiggins Island Warriors fans.
Speaker 2: And well, that's it.
Speaker 4: Every single thing that happened in the entire NBA prior
Speaker 4: to this restart quite the journey. Maybe we forgot some
Speaker 4: things along the way, or maybe you just imagine them.
Speaker 2: Think about that.
Speaker 4: Which is a couple of days left until the season
Speaker 4: resumes in Orlando.
Speaker 2: All this past is prologue.
Speaker 4: The teams will look different from who's on the court,
Speaker 4: to what they look like, to how well they played together.
Speaker 2: But you can't know where you're going if you don't
Speaker 2: know where you've been. Clipper bros, you.
Speaker 1: Heard it here first, have a great time, turn up,
Speaker 1: Love you guys, awesome.
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us. And remember, because of the hiatus,
Speaker 3: the Raptors are the longest reigning single season champions in
Speaker 3: NBA history. It's almost like they repeat it already you know,
Speaker 3: Embrace the bubble people,