Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, we got a
Speaker 2: lot popping around the league. We discussed the latest news,
Speaker 2: including Dame Dalla going out for sixty one, player taking
Speaker 2: a shot so bad that he gets his teammates ejected,
Speaker 2: Ruey Hachimurra breaking the Internet in Japan, and we get
Speaker 2: into some other news around the league, including some tea
Speaker 2: on the Jamess, Lebron James Junior and Lebron James Senior.
Speaker 2: Trade deadline approaching. So do me a favor, Nick, and
Speaker 2: drop that generic ass beat.
Speaker 3: All right, let's start with the little.
Speaker 2: News from around the league while you were sleeping.
Speaker 3: Dame Time, Lillard, Damian.
Speaker 2: LaMonte, Allie Lillard Senior, if you please put on a tray,
Speaker 2: a sixty piece extra crispy wing tray platter on Utah
Speaker 2: Jazz and their heads, just ridiculous readonculous, stupid flames. I'm
Speaker 2: getting text messages with the clock. That's the only thing
Speaker 2: I'm getting in the text message. Just easy, efficient, one
Speaker 2: of the best performances I've ever seen. And we talk
Speaker 2: about Dame Time, right, we talk about that it's the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: Usually late in the fourth this Wednesday.
Speaker 2: It started late in the third where Dame made the
Speaker 2: final twenty consecutive points for the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 3: He had fifty.
Speaker 2: Points a fifty piece after three quarters of play, one
Speaker 2: of the very few to ever do that, and the
Speaker 2: entire game was kind of like just a little kid's
Speaker 2: fantasy in his backyard. Dame shot what twenty for twenty
Speaker 2: nine from the field, which is the fourth player in
Speaker 2: NBA history to get sixty and shoot seventy percent along
Speaker 2: the way. I will, of course, because he's right underneath
Speaker 2: the bucket and he's big, and he probably dunked eighty
Speaker 2: percent of his shots. Karl Malone, who we hate for
Speaker 2: obvious reasons, David Thompson, who we've talked about recently.
Speaker 3: And that's just the beginning.
Speaker 2: According to the NBA, it was the most efficient sixty
Speaker 2: point game of all time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, when he was told about this, hey, uh, this
Speaker 2: was a crazy game.
Speaker 3: Did you know that this was historic? This is what
Speaker 3: he said.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't. I mean, I don't. I usually when
Speaker 1: I leave here, that's when I check my phone and
Speaker 1: I have, you know, messages, and people send me stuff
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I mean, I didn't know that it's
Speaker 1: a sixty. It's the most efficient sixty point game ever.
Speaker 1: For real.
Speaker 4: That's my wife felt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty same. Maybe let's see, So does
Speaker 1: this sixty hit you different? That's crazy because I ain't nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just sitting here thinking like I had
Speaker 1: a shot at the end of the shot clock from
Speaker 1: half court toward the end that I shot, it probably
Speaker 1: would have been a little bit better. I had a
Speaker 1: couple that I missed a free throw. Damn.
Speaker 2: You also tied Jordan.
Speaker 5: With four, which is the third most behind Kobe six
Speaker 5: and Will thirty two.
Speaker 1: So Kobe's wither, we ain't catching Will. That's up, that's out.
Speaker 4: Dang, that's cool.
Speaker 3: We're not catching Will. No, you're not.
Speaker 2: So he was absolutely stunned, right, and this is what
Speaker 2: he had to say, pretty much exactly what you would think.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say that it was easy because
Speaker 2: they had big bodies and some long defenders out there.
Speaker 2: But I think usually I get into a groove where
Speaker 2: I'm just going without making those simple plays and teams
Speaker 2: start to come after me sooner. But I was kicking
Speaker 2: it ahead, I was swinging it, so it didn't feel
Speaker 2: like they actually came after me until the very end.
Speaker 2: That's why it seemed like the most simple one of
Speaker 2: all of them, just the most simple sixty point performance
Speaker 2: of all of them that.
Speaker 3: Dame has ever had.
Speaker 2: So I think the thing that's interesting about this performance
Speaker 2: is a jumping off point into what Dame has a
Speaker 2: new name for this type of Dame performance. We've got
Speaker 2: Dame time, right, but this is something different. Dame refers
Speaker 2: to this as Dame Space, like space and time. Dame
Speaker 2: Time is scoring fifty time, Dame Space is scoring sixty
Speaker 2: on twenty nine shot attempts. Dame Space is something that
Speaker 2: he must do and is unattainable to do and live
Speaker 2: there for an entire NBA season because, as he said,
Speaker 2: you would go crazy. If you were to do that,
Speaker 2: you would have no life. You would only be preparing
Speaker 2: for the game.
Speaker 3: Sounds like me. Sound was like, well, my life is
Speaker 3: like the Dame Space.
Speaker 2: But Portland is gonna need Dame Space because they are
Speaker 2: in the thirteenth seed. They are two games under five hundred,
Speaker 2: they have been blowing leads, they're not winning close games,
Speaker 2: and ultimately players that they should rely on, could rely
Speaker 2: on have relied on, are no longer reliable, I e
Speaker 2: use of Nurkic. So in the last ten games, Dame
Speaker 2: has been an astronaut. He's averaging in the last ten
Speaker 2: thirty eight points per game, eight point five assists, four
Speaker 2: point one rebounds with one steal, and he's also limited
Speaker 2: his turnovers from turnovers.
Speaker 3: Per game to three turnovers per game.
Speaker 2: So his play, even when Portland loses, has been incredible,
Speaker 2: has been something fun to watch, even in a sad
Speaker 2: l And you know what I thought about it, long
Speaker 2: and hard.
Speaker 3: I said it on Twitter last night. I don't care anymore.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't care about Portland winning or losing, because
Speaker 2: ultimately that makes me sad. What I do care about
Speaker 2: is watching Dame Space. And if I can get Dame Space,
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. I'm okay with Portland being the
Speaker 2: thirteenth seed and Dame feeling like he has to be
Speaker 2: Superman and he has to score sixty.
Speaker 3: I am as a better just elated to.
Speaker 2: Know that as long as they're in the dull drums,
Speaker 2: he's probably gonna be safe to go off for forty
Speaker 2: pretty much every single night, and they'll set the line
Speaker 2: at like thirty four and a half. I am just
Speaker 2: purely happy really to see Dame be Dame again. He remember,
Speaker 2: he missed almost all of last year with an abdominal
Speaker 2: injury and surgery. We weren't sure if we were gonna
Speaker 2: get to see this version of Dame ever again. And
Speaker 2: now we're getting not just Dame time, but Dame space
Speaker 2: a whole new level. He came back from that injury
Speaker 2: and had the ability to, I don't know, defy time, space, gravity.
Speaker 3: When is Dame.
Speaker 2: There's another level coming, Dame Monster, Dame Dinosaur.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it's just something that we all need to
Speaker 2: appreciate the way that teams are blazing out West anyway,
Speaker 2: we're not doing anything.
Speaker 3: Let's be honest. The Blazers, they're not gonna compete for anything.
Speaker 3: Of note.
Speaker 2: You think this team can beat the Nuggets? You think
Speaker 2: this team can beat the Memphis Grizzlies. No, you think
Speaker 2: this team could even beat the fully healthy Who's guarding
Speaker 2: Zion on this team? It's certainly not Irks, not in
Speaker 2: a sire little no one. No one is stopping Zion
Speaker 2: on this team. So you have some fun young pieces.
Speaker 2: You got Jeremy Grant, You're gonna sign him to a
Speaker 2: long term deal. You're gonna figure out what's going on
Speaker 2: with anthrety Simons because he may not work long term.
Speaker 3: You've got to figure out how to get Nirk.
Speaker 2: Off the books and then, honestly and then develop the
Speaker 2: hell out of Keon Johnson and Shade and Sharp and
Speaker 2: maybe get yourself a lottery pick, because this lottery is
Speaker 2: gonna be nice. All I care about from now on,
Speaker 2: and all I think Plazer fans should care about now
Speaker 2: is Dame space. As long as he's healthy, as long
Speaker 2: as he's putting up monster games.
Speaker 3: No more negative peeps from me, and honestly, the media
Speaker 3: should be the same.
Speaker 2: Stop asking Dame when he's gonna grow tired of this organization.
Speaker 2: Stop asking him that that makes him sad, that makes
Speaker 2: him question whether he wants to be on this team.
Speaker 2: Why are you guys pushing Dame to want out? You
Speaker 2: cover this god forsaken team. You want to see no
Speaker 2: Dame on this team. You want to get him so
Speaker 2: mad that he remembers that he almost asked out. Fuck
Speaker 2: those people, Honestly, you are you are not worth the
Speaker 2: pen that is in your hand that you write those
Speaker 2: notes with.
Speaker 3: All right, let's move on. Oh we gotta talk about
Speaker 3: this Warriors game.
Speaker 2: Imagine, imagine taking a shot so bad it gets your
Speaker 2: own teammate ejected. Think about that that happened in an
Speaker 2: NBA game last night, and not just any teammate, your
Speaker 2: star player, one of the greatest shooters, if not the
Speaker 2: greatest shooter of our generation, Stephan Curry. Stephan Curry was
Speaker 2: so mad at Jordan Poole last night that he got
Speaker 2: kicked out of the game automatically. He was so frustrated
Speaker 2: that he put on these historyonics. He was so bombastic,
Speaker 2: so showy in his frustration, tossed his mouthpiece across the
Speaker 2: stadium floor and immediately got sent away.
Speaker 3: And I honestly believe that's something that we need to
Speaker 3: look at Jordan Poole about. Right.
Speaker 2: I watched Jordan Poole shoot such an egregiously bad shot.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry was visibly done with him. He was done
Speaker 2: with the game. He knows that it's an automatic eject
Speaker 2: and he was like, I'm fucking done.
Speaker 3: I'm done with this kid.
Speaker 2: He kicked out of a rivalry game, right, like a
Speaker 2: rivalry game that was razor close with a minute to go,
Speaker 2: a minute to go, Warriors up to and it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Do you know how bad your shot selection has to
Speaker 2: be for Stephan Curry to get ejected one out of
Speaker 2: the only three times that he's been ejected in his career.
Speaker 2: In eight hundred and fifty nine games, Steph Curry has
Speaker 2: only been ejected three times, and one of those times
Speaker 2: was because of you and your poor decision making, which
Speaker 2: is exactly what happened, right Pool, This is what happened.
Speaker 2: Pool took a pass with Steph standing on the logo
Speaker 2: waiting for the ball. Steph's clapping for the ball. Yo,
Speaker 2: give me the ball, Give me the ball. And what
Speaker 2: does Jordan Poole do. He chucks a twenty eight footer
Speaker 2: that had absolutely no prayer of going in. That's Jordan Poolet.
Speaker 2: Then runs up the court with a look of rage,
Speaker 2: takes out the mouthpiece and rifles it into the stands.
Speaker 2: This is not a Steph indictment. This is about Jordan Poole.
Speaker 2: We need to have a serious discussion about Jordan Poole.
Speaker 2: And I think for those who have known him since
Speaker 2: he played at Michigan, he has a nice kid, but
Speaker 2: he is one of the most infuriating players to ever
Speaker 2: step on a court.
Speaker 3: This was the perfect example. Fucks up, comes.
Speaker 2: Close to losing the game for you, and then redeems
Speaker 2: himself with the last minute lay up in order to
Speaker 2: get you the win. Where you you basically he's the
Speaker 2: puppy who shit around the house and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden comes up to you with his toy late
Speaker 2: at night and you're like, oh, God, Like, okay, Jordan,
Speaker 2: I still love you. Yeah, I get into bed. You
Speaker 2: know that's he wouldn't even glance Steph's way because he
Speaker 2: just shit in Steph's corner of his bedroom.
Speaker 3: God, Steph ejected, and I like the confidence to Jordan Poole.
Speaker 2: I want to swag swaggy player, but damn you gotta
Speaker 2: have some situational awareness. Steph is thinking at this point,
Speaker 2: all right, we've got a Grizzlies team that's tough. They've
Speaker 2: come back from a fifteen point deficit. We gotta be smart.
Speaker 2: We got to hit timely shots. We've got to protect
Speaker 2: the ball because we've lost four games in a row.
Speaker 2: The season's on the line, and he's thinking all of this.
Speaker 2: And you know what Jordan Poole is thinking at that
Speaker 2: point in time, I'm a gunna heat check. That's all
Speaker 2: he's thinking. I'm gonna shoot this fucking ball right now, Steph.
Speaker 2: Of course, gracious, this is what he had to say
Speaker 2: after the game, crucial.
Speaker 4: Time in the game, and the way that our season
Speaker 4: is going is, you know those questions about the height
Speaker 4: and says, the urgency of every detail matters, and when
Speaker 4: you want something really bad, you know, like just getting
Speaker 4: to win, and then fourth quarter execution, clutch time type situation,
Speaker 4: you know, all that stuff does matter. So I reacted
Speaker 4: in a way that obviously put myself out of the
Speaker 4: game and put the team in a tough place. But
Speaker 4: the attentions and the energy around what matters in the
Speaker 4: sense of winning, that's that's what it's about. Thankfully, we
Speaker 4: all responded, or my teammates responded extremely well. Clay with
Speaker 4: a big shot, JP with you know, the game winner
Speaker 4: at the end. The execution was great. We needed that one.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of there's a sense of urgency
Speaker 4: for sure, and kind of let my emotions get in the.
Speaker 2: Way of it, no shit, but let's not get in
Speaker 2: the way of knowing that JP got in the way
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I loved Jordan Poole. I met him when he was
Speaker 2: a freshman, he went to the Final four. He was alert,
Speaker 2: he was fun, he's well mannered, he's well meaning. There's
Speaker 2: not a bad bone in his body. I don't think
Speaker 2: he has any ill intent when he's taking twenty eight footers.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's spiting Steph Curry. But you gotta know, dude,
Speaker 2: you are not Steph Curry. You will never be Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: You gotta be more aware that this team is our
Speaker 2: dubs are in trouble, and you are a big part
Speaker 2: of why they are in trouble. For the first time
Speaker 2: since Ben Simmons was traded, Joel Embiid and the Sixers
Speaker 2: got to face off against a healthy Ben Simmons and
Speaker 2: a somewhat healthy Nets team no Kdi and as you
Speaker 2: might expect, as you might be predicting, shit did get testy.
Speaker 3: Yes it did.
Speaker 2: It got testy so fast in what turned out to
Speaker 2: be a really good game. Actually, even though the Sixers
Speaker 2: went up big at first, tons of hard fouls, borderline
Speaker 2: cheap shots, Sixers blow a a twenty two point lead
Speaker 2: at one point, Nets come roaring back. Nick Claxton was awesome,
Speaker 2: Kyrie was really good. Even Ben Simmons hit some really
Speaker 2: big shots down the stretch. Game ended one thirty seven,
Speaker 2: one thirty three with the Sixers actually getting the dub.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: The game had forty five fouls, seven technicals, six on
Speaker 2: players and a seventh on a delay of game penalty
Speaker 2: that led to sixty three free throws. If you are
Speaker 2: one of those people in your rocking chairs and you're
Speaker 2: praying and hoping for throwback basketball, that was it, folks.
Speaker 2: You got it. It was physical, it was nasty, it
Speaker 2: was feisty. And Ben and Joel I think it is
Speaker 2: clear now despite what they say, because they do tell
Speaker 2: us that, oh, we didn't like we were friends, but
Speaker 2: like we didn't have any problems with they. No, they
Speaker 2: don't like each other. That is big facts. They have
Speaker 2: a full blown rivalry now on our hands and me
Speaker 2: put me personally, oh I love it. I could not
Speaker 2: get enough of it. When asked about the rivalry during
Speaker 2: the game, Joel Embiid, as per usual, did not disappoint.
Speaker 2: He said when asked what he felt playing against his
Speaker 2: old teammates, I felt nothing. Just like every single night,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to just fucking kill whoever is in front
Speaker 2: of me. My mentality is always about scoring. If I
Speaker 2: get doubled, make the right pass. If I get played
Speaker 2: one on one, or I see an opportunity to go score,
Speaker 2: I am going to go score. I don't know that
Speaker 2: I've ever heard Joel Embiid say he wanted to fucking
Speaker 2: kill someone on a court. Uh so this feels not
Speaker 2: the same as normal matchups. Go kill whoever you want, Joelle,
Speaker 2: but just just know that that's not the same energy
Speaker 2: that you bring every single night. So he posts up
Speaker 2: on Ben three times, he missed the shot, once, he
Speaker 2: got fouled, a second time, he got stripped a third.
Speaker 2: But there was some extra beef going on between the teams.
Speaker 2: Joel had more aggression, more power, more something against Ben,
Speaker 2: and at one point Embiid took a full run down
Speaker 2: the paint.
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons made a business.
Speaker 2: Decision to step aside, and Joel Embiid dunked the ball,
Speaker 2: hammered it home, hung on the rim an extra second.
Speaker 2: Then he twisted around and stared down Ben Simmons.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 2: He then shift Ben in the back early in the
Speaker 2: game as well. So the things that are happening between
Speaker 2: Brooklyn and Philadelphia they are real. This is a new
Speaker 2: beef that is going to happen and continue as long
Speaker 2: as Hard and Embiid or on the sixer and as
Speaker 2: long as Kyrie and Ben Simmons are on the nets.
Speaker 3: It is real.
Speaker 2: Harden does not like Kyrie. We know that he wanted
Speaker 2: out of Brooklyn because of Kyrie. Kyrie does not like Harden.
Speaker 2: They were going at each other in practice one on one,
Speaker 2: lots of nastiness going on between the two.
Speaker 3: Embiid and Simmons.
Speaker 2: We know they very much didn't like each other as teammates.
Speaker 2: And now the two teams are battling for the position
Speaker 2: and the playoffs are battling for the top four. They're
Speaker 2: battling for a playoff series, and I hope they see
Speaker 2: one another in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Don't you.
Speaker 2: Watching Ben and Joel Embiid square up seven times of
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons revenge spot. That's the kind of NBA we need.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of NBA I am looking for. Moving on,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard about this, because it's
Speaker 2: relatively new. There's this there's this new technology call called
Speaker 2: chat GPT.
Speaker 3: It's AI. You can get it to do anything for you.
Speaker 2: You can get it to write papers for you, you
Speaker 2: can get it to write a script for you. You
Speaker 2: can get it to make arguments about why villains are
Speaker 2: actually the heroes and movies. There's all kinds of tiktoks
Speaker 2: being made about it. It's blowing my mind. But what
Speaker 2: I know about chat GBT, based on what I have heard,
Speaker 2: is that very clearly it infiltrated the NBA two nights ago.
Speaker 3: That is true. How do you know?
Speaker 2: Because they're not sentient beings, right, these AI creatures, these robots,
Speaker 2: and you know when you come across someone who's not
Speaker 2: a robot, you know what's human and what's not human.
Speaker 2: We speak a certain way, right, and when you see
Speaker 2: and hear this, you will know that this is not
Speaker 2: a normal interaction between reporter and player. So Russell Westbrook
Speaker 2: was asked some questions after a very disappointing loss. Turn
Speaker 2: the ball over late, everyone's giving them a hard time.
Speaker 2: They played the Clippers, they lost by fifteen or so,
Speaker 2: and then this young woman that we did not get
Speaker 2: to see her face, did this.
Speaker 5: First of all, congrats, congrats on making the twenty four
Speaker 5: thousand points much Yeah, tonight, you use impressive dribbling skills
Speaker 5: to successfully fake out your opponents multiple times, and in
Speaker 5: the second quarter you made a jump shot where your
Speaker 5: body was turned like one hundred and eighty degrees away
Speaker 5: from the basket. It was just an amazing shot. You're
Speaker 5: always making these spectacular moves with just within a split second.
Speaker 5: Do you anticipate doing them or is it just a
Speaker 5: second nature to you? Like do you just not even
Speaker 5: have to think about it?
Speaker 2: Paul's his answer does not matter. That's not a person
Speaker 2: that's either. Okay, so it could be a person that
Speaker 2: chat GBT wrote that script for her. But this is
Speaker 2: a plant. This is a thousand percent a plant. There's
Speaker 2: two explanations, right, So she's a plant.
Speaker 3: Is the first one. Doesn't this seem rehearsed? Is she
Speaker 3: a friend? Do they know each other? He was ready,
Speaker 3: he was smiling.
Speaker 2: Impressive dribbling skills to successfully fake out your opponent. Those
Speaker 2: words have may have never been strung together ever in
Speaker 2: life before. That is a gentle question that only an
Speaker 2: NBA TNT Kids reporter would ask, or somebody that you're
Speaker 2: just friends with. It's like when Kristin Lemlow gets Lebron
Speaker 2: James for an interview.
Speaker 3: Oh Today, Lebron.
Speaker 2: You were wearing your Lebron twenties, and it looked like
Speaker 2: you were extra explosive and successfully faking out your opponent.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, though, the other potential explanation is
Speaker 2: this chat GBT idea getting more and more sentient by
Speaker 2: the moment, I robot style infiltrating the Lakers pressers, because
Speaker 2: this silence sounds exactly like the question that you would
Speaker 2: have when you input or have data, and that's what
Speaker 2: it spits out. Hey, help me ask Russ a question
Speaker 2: that would make him happy and in a good mood,
Speaker 2: and that's the kind of question that chat gbt would
Speaker 2: spit out. Probably one of the craziest exchanges I've ever
Speaker 2: seen in a press room. And I am not, if
Speaker 2: anything but intrigued about who she is who. We didn't
Speaker 2: get to know her outlet name, we didn't get to
Speaker 2: know her name, we didn't get to.
Speaker 3: See her face.
Speaker 2: Apparently her name is Julia McIntyre and she covers a
Speaker 2: Lakers for News for You Online, which, let's be honest,
Speaker 2: probably got put up and made four days ago.
Speaker 3: By chat gbt.
Speaker 2: Like it has exactly two hundred and fifteen followers on Twitter.
Speaker 3: She's just out of college. If this is a plan
Speaker 3: to go viral, I am. I am proud of her.
Speaker 2: If she's only twenty two years old and she's hitting
Speaker 2: you with the successfully used your ball handling skills to
Speaker 2: fake out your opponent, nothing but success I hope for her.
Speaker 2: I'm still not one hundred percent convinced that she's not Ai, though.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to see real blood come out of
Speaker 2: her body in order for me to not say, huh,
Speaker 2: you gotta watch it again. Don't just take my advice.
Speaker 2: Don't just take my word for it of the sow
Speaker 2: that we just played. Go on TikTok and google it,
Speaker 2: because his reaction is priceless. All right, let's talk a
Speaker 2: little bit more about the Lakers. So moving on, Rui Hachimura.
Speaker 2: Rui Hachimura broke the Internet. So this is probably one
Speaker 2: of the stories I could not have seen coming. I
Speaker 2: did not see it coming, and it does now make
Speaker 2: some more sense why the Lakers may have made the
Speaker 2: trade that they did. Well, it all comes down to
Speaker 2: one thing, which is money, and we know Genie Buss
Speaker 2: does not have a lot of it.
Speaker 3: She's one of.
Speaker 2: The poorest billionaires you've ever met. She has that is
Speaker 2: her only stream of income, and she's doing whatever that
Speaker 2: she can to keep this little family business alive. And
Speaker 2: now it makes sense why they would value the Japanese
Speaker 2: big man as much as they did so following the
Speaker 2: trade from Washington, which is the doldrums of relevancy, right,
Speaker 2: No one cares about what's happening here, not even c Span.
Speaker 2: There's what's happening here, and they're covering this place twenty
Speaker 2: four to seven.
Speaker 3: But Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: The Japanese streaming service NBA Rakutin, they love some Lakers
Speaker 2: Rui Hachi Mura. It happens to be the only streaming
Speaker 2: service for the NBA in the in Japan, and they
Speaker 2: immediately scheduled all of Rui's games so that all of
Speaker 2: Japan could watch him play immediately. Of course, it's the Lakers, right,
Speaker 2: so half of the country probably wanted to watch the
Speaker 2: best basketball player on the in the in the world, right,
Speaker 2: Lebron James. And then you've got Russell Westbrook. He's quite
Speaker 2: enticing as well. Their game started at twelve thirty pm
Speaker 2: Tokyo time, and you know what happened.
Speaker 3: Predictably, the whole damn thing came crashing down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the entire streaming service melted into a oblivion ten
Speaker 2: minutes before tip off. They could not handle the bandwidth
Speaker 2: that Ruey Hachimura, Lebron, James Russell Westbrook and probably Dennis
Speaker 2: Shrewder International German Phenom ended up.
Speaker 3: Bringing to the table.
Speaker 2: An entire country tuned in to catch Ruey Hachimura. Who
Speaker 2: I told you, I told you he is on bags
Speaker 2: of chips all over Japan. Just know he's popular over there.
Speaker 2: And all they got when they tuned in was a
Speaker 2: four to one four era.
Speaker 3: That's what they got.
Speaker 2: According to Basketball News Japan, with only ten minutes left
Speaker 2: before the game started, the country only the country's only
Speaker 2: official streaming service, NBA Rakutin went down. NBA rakoton nut
Speaker 2: offered free YouTube streams to the local audience starting at
Speaker 2: approximately the nine minute mark in the second quarter.
Speaker 3: That's a rough look.
Speaker 2: That is a rough look for the first game to
Speaker 2: see Ruey Hachimura. You went from streaming service it collapsed
Speaker 2: to now you're putting the thing on YouTube TV. I
Speaker 2: think the game just finished like ten minutes ago. The
Speaker 2: YouTube TV lag is so far behind live action. Have
Speaker 2: you ever tried to watch YouTube YouTube TV sports? YouTube TV.
Speaker 2: I had to pay so much money just to get
Speaker 2: back on track because Twitter would be two three, four,
Speaker 2: five minutes in front of me in my stream. If
Speaker 2: you got bad Internet, it's even worse. So if you're
Speaker 2: the Lakers, money is coming, baby, Ruey Hachimura is gonna
Speaker 2: be very profitable for you. I saw Hang Chu, who
Speaker 2: is a female basketball player for the New York Liberty.
Speaker 2: She's six', Eleven she's From, china sat next to a
Speaker 2: bunch of people who flew in From beijing just to
Speaker 2: watch her. Play watch what happens for Rui Ichuru suzuki
Speaker 2: single handedly kept The Seattle mariners a float for like fifteen.
Speaker 2: Years so Maybe Ruey hachimura is the, uh is the
Speaker 2: panacea to all all of the issues for The. Lakers
Speaker 2: he's going to become a cash cow For Janie, buss
Speaker 2: whether he thought he would or. Not SO i eat
Speaker 2: Up Michael jordan's. STORIES i can't get enough of. THEM
Speaker 2: i need to know everything that goes on inside of
Speaker 2: his crazy head and all of the decisions that he.
Speaker 2: Makes he is not just the, goat but also what
Speaker 2: makes him more interesting is that he's certifiably.
Speaker 3: Insane he's just it just.
Speaker 2: Does ask Former hornets and current sons Big Man Bizmack.
Speaker 2: Biambo he was the number seven pick in the twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: Draft he ends up with The Charlotte bobcats on draft.
Speaker 1: Day.
Speaker 3: Right he played In charlotte.
Speaker 2: From twenty eleven to twenty and fifteen and then actually
Speaker 2: again from twenty and eighteen to twenty twenty. One so
Speaker 2: he's been Around jordan a, lot we could probably say.
Speaker 2: So according To, Bismack jordan would regularly murder current players
Speaker 2: in practice for no. Reason Bis mack said, This Michael
Speaker 2: jordan would come into practice and just play one on
Speaker 2: one with players and then just kill. HIM i, REMEMBER
Speaker 2: i think T Rob Thomas robinson played for The, bobcats
Speaker 2: and he would just tell him how how lesser of
Speaker 2: a player he.
Speaker 3: Was Michael. Jordan.
Speaker 2: Pause keep in, mind at this, time he is fifty
Speaker 2: five fucking years, old busting the ass is of twenty
Speaker 2: year old players regularly for no reason, whatsoever just to
Speaker 2: break their spirit on the team that he. Owns So bismck,
Speaker 2: continues he, Goes mike Is Mike. Man i've seen him
Speaker 2: play one on one with players after, games one on,
Speaker 2: one just taking him. Out so this was PROBABLY i
Speaker 2: think seven eight years, ago seven eight years, ago he
Speaker 2: would come into practice and just play one on one
Speaker 2: and just kill him one hundred. PERCENT i didn't even
Speaker 2: think he could still move like. That what a psycho,
Speaker 2: like what a psychotic. Person you come in and you
Speaker 2: disparage and break down the players that play for the
Speaker 2: team that you own that you want them to have
Speaker 2: confidence and. Succeed and also he still is so physically,
Speaker 2: gifted he could probably still.
Speaker 3: Play good minutes for The Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Hornets it probably could, play probably could step in For
Speaker 2: LaMelo ball When LaMelo ball twists like seventeenth consecutive. Ankle
Speaker 2: bismack continued with, THIS i think somebody DURING covid actually
Speaker 2: challenged him because we had a phone call and he, Said,
Speaker 2: okay give me a couple of.
Speaker 3: MONTHS i just need to get in.
Speaker 2: SHAPE i don't need to run and all, that but
Speaker 2: just give me a couple of months And i'll be ready.
Speaker 3: For one on. ONE i wouldn't suggest anyone take him
Speaker 3: up on, that he.
Speaker 2: Said could you imagine sixty year OLD mj just giving
Speaker 2: buckets To Kelly lubra just giving buckets To Terry, rosier
Speaker 2: just and shit talking him the whole time about how
Speaker 2: trash they.
Speaker 3: Are, yes, YES i. Can he is.
Speaker 2: Insane no other player short Of kobe And, lebron probably
Speaker 2: not Even, lebron, honestly probably Just. KOBE a hundred years
Speaker 2: from now we will be discovering new tales About Michael
Speaker 2: jordan because everyone is. True everyone is more crazy than the,
Speaker 2: last AND i don't think anyone can get enough of.
Speaker 2: Them All, right let's talk About Bronnie james.
Speaker 3: Lastly he's still in high school and we've.
Speaker 2: Talked about him multiple times, before but he's lighting the
Speaker 2: basketball world on fire and his play is getting. Better
Speaker 2: But i'm not really talking about. That i'm talking about
Speaker 2: all of the where Is.
Speaker 3: Bronnie james going to school?
Speaker 2: Rhetoric and now he has narrowed his choices down to three,
Speaker 2: Schools Ohio, State, oregon AND usc probably now Just oregon
Speaker 2: In Ohio. State but The athletic just dropped a massive
Speaker 2: think PIECE i think it's their third one this year
Speaker 2: On Bronnie. James so they know where their bread is.
Speaker 2: Buttered they know That Bronnie james moves a, needle but
Speaker 2: they are detailing the dilemma that he faces in picking a.
Speaker 2: College the, problem as the article points, out is that
Speaker 2: if you Get, bronnie you probably.
Speaker 3: Get the whole.
Speaker 2: Circus there's no like you just don't Get bronnie and
Speaker 2: then nothing. Else you're not getting him as a. Player
Speaker 2: you're getting every game on NATIONAL, tv all of the
Speaker 2: media in the, world all of the scrutiny On.
Speaker 3: Earth it's catch twenty.
Speaker 2: Two as for, me as An oregon, FAN i have
Speaker 2: zero interest In Bronnie. James we are not ready for
Speaker 2: that level of. Smoke we are not ready for every
Speaker 2: single game on NATIONAL.
Speaker 3: Tv what if he doesn't perform?
Speaker 2: Well what if your team as, Imperformable what if his
Speaker 2: season is a train. Wreck what if you're not playing
Speaker 2: him and you're? Losing and how many games is Lebron
Speaker 2: james gonna go? To how many is going to show up?
Speaker 2: To how is that going to impact the fans that
Speaker 2: go to that? Game probably a. Lot is Lebron james
Speaker 2: junior worth the? Headache The athletic surveyed eight anonymous college,
Speaker 2: coaches and one of them had some real things to.
Speaker 2: Say the expectation doesn't match the talent, level or at
Speaker 2: least not, yet and that is where it gets.
Speaker 3: Messy. Hmm the expectation.
Speaker 2: Doesn't match the talent, level and that is where it
Speaker 2: gets messy On one coach said he couldn't even get
Speaker 2: on the phone With Bronni james because it was gonna
Speaker 2: take an incredibly long time in order for him to
Speaker 2: be able to even reach out to his mom or
Speaker 2: HIS pr Team, James let's be.
Speaker 3: Honest is he a top forty.
Speaker 2: Player he's, improving but there are probably ten players at
Speaker 2: his position in his own class rated higher than. Him
Speaker 2: all eight coaches, said as it, stands the ones that were,
Speaker 2: pulled he would not start on their teams or any
Speaker 2: likely twenty five top twenty five program in the. Country
Speaker 2: he can, ball but he is not a, starter according
Speaker 2: to those eight, coaches and it's probably too much to
Speaker 2: ask An All american play style from a, freshman, Right
Speaker 2: you're probably going to sit him at least a little,
Speaker 2: bit but he's not going to be a four year.
Speaker 2: Player so what are we really talking about With Bronnie.
Speaker 2: James we're not Getting Kid cunningham out Of Bronnie. James
Speaker 2: another coach said This bronnie, is in essence a four
Speaker 2: star player with a five star. Name if it were
Speaker 2: a no, brainer he'd be signed By duke by, now
Speaker 2: it would be done Or. Kentucky there's a reason he's
Speaker 2: not going To. KENTUCKY i don't know if that's. True,
Speaker 2: HONESTLY i don't know if THAT'S i actually think that's
Speaker 2: one hundred percent. WRONG i think If bronnie wanted to
Speaker 2: be At, kentucky he would be At. KENTUCKY i Think
Speaker 2: bronnie is trying to find the best branding place for
Speaker 2: him where they trust the coach and that the coach
Speaker 2: will prioritize him being on the. Court they will allow
Speaker 2: him to make mistakes early and play through, them rather
Speaker 2: than being Like Dan hurley and benching his players every
Speaker 2: time they do something. Wrong is there programs that would
Speaker 2: concede something like. That, yes we just said there's three
Speaker 2: programs that are on his list now that he's narrowed it, DOWN,
Speaker 2: Usc Ohio, state And, oregon which happens to be my alma.
Speaker 2: MATER i can feel, that or he will be An
Speaker 2: Oregon duck in my. BONES i can feel. It he's
Speaker 2: already A nike. Athlete it makes already so much. Sense
Speaker 2: And braun, said he's already spoken To Dana altman and
Speaker 2: he knows that there is mutual. Interest AND i believe two. Things,
Speaker 2: One Bronnie james is won and. Done he's not going
Speaker 2: to sit around and wait For Lebron james to collect
Speaker 2: dust while he's seasoning in the college.
Speaker 3: REALM i think he's going to be in and. Out And.
Speaker 2: Lebron james is set a timetable. Right the most important
Speaker 2: thing of all For lebron is to play With. Bronni
Speaker 2: bron's contract with The lakers is up the same year
Speaker 2: That bronni is eligible for the. Draft do you Think
Speaker 2: Lebron james is going to extend with The lakers And
Speaker 2: bronni is just gonna hang out At Ohio state for
Speaker 2: a second.
Speaker 3: Year, no absolutely. Not the athletic.
Speaker 2: Thinks no one Thinks bronni is actually a one and done,
Speaker 2: player nor does his current recruiting. Rank only one college
Speaker 2: freshman selected in last YEAR'S Nba draft ranked below twenty
Speaker 2: third as a high school, Prospect Baylor's Jeremy, sohan who
Speaker 2: played high school ball In europe because OF, Covid and
Speaker 2: as Stephen a, said always, says AND i get all,
Speaker 2: that but that also brings me to my second. Point
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter what his ranking, is it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what. Bit he's a first rounder because his dad
Speaker 2: is included in this first round.
Speaker 3: Package that's.
Speaker 2: It if he was not connected To Lebron james in any, way,
Speaker 2: yeah he'd probably Be Josh. Hart but if he gets
Speaker 2: drafted by The, rockets Call lebron the Next Kakim eliju,
Speaker 2: one the Next. Rocket great the circus will come to
Speaker 2: town and it will be big dump trucks full of.
Speaker 2: Cash we've never seen a duo like this IN nba history,
Speaker 2: before and especially one really revolving Around Lebron, james the
Speaker 2: greatest player of his, generation most POPULAR nba player on the.
Speaker 2: Planet AND i don't even think we can probably predict the, ratings.
Speaker 2: Right could you imagine a sponsored prop bet For lebron
Speaker 2: And Bronni. James that'd be. Chaos could you imagine the?
Speaker 2: Ratings can you imagine the features that they're going to.
Speaker 2: Do he's not the ordinary recruit because we've never seen
Speaker 2: a situation quite like this. BEFORE i cannot end the
Speaker 2: show without talking About Lebron James. SENIOR i can't IF
Speaker 2: i talk About. JUNIOR i have to talk About senior
Speaker 2: because that's how he wants it. Well On tuesday, Night
Speaker 2: lebron pulled a malice in The palace In Los. Angeles
Speaker 2: he was ready to scrap against a, pedestrian a random
Speaker 2: civilian sitting in the.
Speaker 3: Stands things could have gotten. Ugly what.
Speaker 2: Happened so he's walking off the court at halftime and
Speaker 2: At crypto Dot com arena and a guy Heckles. Lebron
Speaker 2: what does he say To Lebron. James he says, This Hey,
Speaker 2: Bron Hey. Bron he says it from a floor, seat
Speaker 2: by the, way which is. Crazy you better get your shit.
Speaker 2: Together and then he hits him with, that with that
Speaker 2: receding ass. Hairline you better get your shit, together with
Speaker 2: that receding ass hairline of.
Speaker 3: Yours oh my, God oh, No lebron. Stopped you can see.
Speaker 2: It he lets it sink, in and then he rushes
Speaker 2: the heckler with blackness in his, eyes like the kind
Speaker 2: that my dog gets when she's ready to attack me
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night BECAUSE i pet her
Speaker 2: the wrong, way Like bron had to get held back
Speaker 2: from coming after a. Pedestrian and then the as this
Speaker 2: heckler is ushered, out he, goes, yeah look at.
Speaker 3: Him he mad you?
Speaker 2: Sick right, now there's there's only one thing that one
Speaker 2: can gather from this.
Speaker 3: One barkley has a good. Idea he said.
Speaker 2: This he said that every player should get A hall
Speaker 2: pass and beat one fan's. Ass and that's probably one
Speaker 2: of the best ideas That i've ever. Heard but what
Speaker 2: we know is also The lebron has a sensitive. Area
Speaker 2: he has a touchy, spot something that gets him riled.
Speaker 2: Up and unfortunately That's india just keeps moving back and
Speaker 2: back and back every every. Year just a couple more.
Speaker 2: Inches that's all the time that we have for the eat.
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