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Speaker 1: Well, we've reached our official one year anniversary as a show.

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Speaker 1: Everybody said we couldn't do it. We did it. We

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Speaker 1: proved them wrong. All the haters, uh. And we're hitting

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Speaker 1: one year just as teams are gearing up for the postseason.

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Speaker 1: We will discuss some of the generational bigs currently battling

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Speaker 1: for positioning in the MVP race eventual Awards with eleven

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Speaker 1: year NBA VET current Bucks color analyst Marcus Johnson on

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Speaker 1: today's episode, I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm Jabari dude, and

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Speaker 1: this is my old and or Jack got mad, Boosties

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Speaker 1: Davis driving, Spinny Hurry a three pointer, stop Curry from

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Speaker 1: til again. Be honest, that's right. The next time you

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Speaker 1: hear this show next week, Miles should be back from

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Speaker 1: paternity and I will be gone. This is not like

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Speaker 1: love below speaker box situation. My kids spring break just

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Speaker 1: lines up with the end of paternity leaves. But you

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Speaker 1: can you can start spreading the rumors. But Marcus Johnson,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on our one

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Speaker 1: year anniversary show. Big fan of your work, big fan

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Speaker 1: of just your career, big fan of Raymond from White

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Speaker 1: Man Can't Jump. We were rewatching scenes today and wondering

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Speaker 1: right now. I have to assume that is by your

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Speaker 1: choice or the directors just messed up, because man, you

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Speaker 1: are you are great on camera. But thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Hey man, look, I'm honored to be a

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Speaker 1: part of this one year anniversary show mad Boosts. I

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Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, we had a good time doing

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Speaker 1: the movie. I did some other stuff after that, but

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Speaker 1: nothing ever approached the popularity of that character. Raymond Dickens,

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Speaker 1: based on a two true story about a guy by

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Speaker 1: depth background about that character that a lot of people

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Speaker 1: aren't aware of. Yeah, I think I read that you

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Speaker 1: have worked on a have a screenplay about the screenplay

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Speaker 1: and look, you know, just the research was fascinating. I

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Speaker 1: talked to everybody, from Dave Being to Bolt the Near

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Speaker 1: guy from the old Midwestern League by the name of

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Speaker 1: mc burton who's actually a doctor now was in mad

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Speaker 1: school when he played basketball in the Midwestern League, which

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Speaker 1: a semi pro league back of the day. A. Ray

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Speaker 1: Scott was the first African American to be Coach of

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Speaker 1: He was a teammate of Reggie Hardy, you know, so

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Speaker 1: it was just fascinating doing the research talking to all

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Speaker 1: then the siren call of the streets were his undoing.

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Speaker 1: But he was given a business to both Wilt and

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Speaker 1: Bill Russell Man back in the r back said he

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Speaker 1: that he idolized took precedent over his development as a

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Speaker 1: pulled that seam directly from his life. Yes, they pulled

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Speaker 1: It's just a crazy, crazy life, that wow, colorful crazy

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Speaker 1: I mean it's appropriate like that that you're on our

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Speaker 1: So in that way we are similar. Um, Like can

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Speaker 1: you talk about that? Like you you dunk. Is it

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Speaker 1: every every year on your birthday? You get us Josiah

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Speaker 1: current NBA, the purported subject of the of this podcast.

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Speaker 1: You get an up close and personal look at the Bucks,

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Speaker 1: people's pick for the title this year. But there's actually

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Speaker 1: an interesting conversation happening around Yannis with Isaiah this week.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you if you saw this, no,

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Speaker 1: even seventies. I mean, but the great players would figure

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Speaker 1: But when Yannas yeah that Bucks mean, now people are

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, who is that crazy brother

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Speaker 1: off sweats. What is he doing? Then A look closer,

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Speaker 1: man as shannas, where the hell is he going? Watch him?

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Speaker 1: He's going to the practice facility across the street to

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Speaker 1: work on the street throws and and astinue. That's just

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Speaker 1: forty plus point games. We have a flight to another

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Speaker 1: New york Y city in the world. All right, what's

426
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Speaker 1: the best NBA city based solely on the food? Oh? Man,

427
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 1: NBA city based solely on the food would have to

428
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,880
Speaker 1: be Chicago's got a tough We've been to some. Really.

429
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,879
Speaker 1: They do a thing called break bread uh Nights with

430
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 1: the Bucks where the team has these team dinners, and

431
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: I've been fortunate enough to get in on a couple

432
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,880
Speaker 1: of them. In Chicago is always outstanding in terms of

433
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 1: the restaurants that they choose. All Right, So this one

434
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,080
Speaker 1: is appropriate because like your boosties, I'm also jealous of

435
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 1: your crisp proline at that at your age. So Jalen

436
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 1: Rose recently said that man should be spending a minimum

437
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 1: of one hundred dollars on a haircut. And you know,

438
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,439
Speaker 1: while that might be a little bit steeper, you know

439
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,199
Speaker 1: my taste as a podcaster, what's the what is the

440
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: single item or routine maintenance that you're willing to pay

441
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: top dollars? I mean, I I gave my barber sixty yesterday.

442
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,640
Speaker 1: You know you ushould give him fifty over he kind

443
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,360
Speaker 1: of fit me in with the crowd in the mid afternoons,

444
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,439
Speaker 1: and you know, I didn't want to ask him for

445
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: ten dollars change, so I just left him with sixty.

446
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 1: So and that's a lot. You know. Back in my

447
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: day ten twenty, I was paying my sunber Rider cut

448
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 1: my hair twenty dollars a shot. Now he's charged forty,

449
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: So fifty sixty is kind of like by eleven, I

450
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 1: remember being able to go to the go to the

451
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: shop with fifteen bucks and that actual yeah, no more

452
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: they look at you like you're crazy. Now. One quick

453
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 1: follow up Jalen's hairline too good to be true. Yeah, yeah,

454
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going up. I've heard some stories,

455
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 1: you know, but you know, I think his sister came

456
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: out and said a couple of things about it. But

457
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, And Taylor Rhodes is one of the

458
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: all time classiest guys I've ever been around. What he's

459
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 1: doing in Detroit and and every time I see him,

460
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 1: just on a personal level, it's just great Interactually we

461
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: talk about you know, we talk about you know, Kyrie

462
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,199
Speaker 1: and his situation. We talked about real stuff and he

463
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: keeps it real and just uh, I just love Jade

464
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: Rose's death. And during the All Star Game in Oakland

465
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: back in the early two thousand, I think the business card,

466
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Speaker 1: the bench Carter du All Star Game, they wouldn't let

467
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: me in, like the players party gave me a hard

468
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Speaker 1: time about getting in. All of a sudden, Jayalen shows up.

469
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: It's like, Hey, this dude is a legend. Come all that.

470
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,160
Speaker 1: You would be right on there, you know so well.

471
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Speaker 1: I love him for the rest of my life. You

472
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Speaker 1: had about three arful ladies with me, you know you

473
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Speaker 1: know what, yeh made it even sweeter. Whatever he's doing

474
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Speaker 1: with the hairline works, I think work work of art.

475
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: All Right, you can take any former Milwaukee Buck and

476
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: pair him with Janna. Which former player would you like

477
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: to see him play with? Oh? Man, hey, I mean

478
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: that's the god. That's not fair. But yeah, that is

479
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: the right answer. You know, I was in Oscar, but

480
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: Oscar was kind of passed his prime at that time. Um,

481
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Speaker 1: you know, Ray Allen, I think was a would be

482
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: a good period, right, kind of came into his own

483
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 1: pre post Milwaukee dates with the Celtics, is in with Miami.

484
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, it's some some some good options there.

485
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: All right, last question, and this is probably the most important.

486
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Speaker 1: Are you ready? I want to make sure let's do

487
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Speaker 1: it all right? Jack or Jabari Jabari? Okay, okay, straight boy,

488
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: that's cool. I get it. You know, you know he

489
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: knows our people. You know, usually with most guests, it

490
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 1: doesn't completely devastate me. But I'm not gonna lie. This

491
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 1: one hurts. Well. No, but here's Jack. Here's the reason why.

492
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 1: Because I just did a interview for documentaries they're doing

493
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Speaker 1: on Yannis and did a kumpo uh for for an

494
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Speaker 1: hour or so. But in the course of my research

495
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: for that that interview, I looked at Janice's scoring stats

496
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,400
Speaker 1: from one year in Jabari Park average twenty point game

497
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: that year, the year he heard his knee average. This

498
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: kind of made me sad, you know what I mean

499
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Speaker 1: in terms of what, yeah, what it could have so

500
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 1: that that that name Jabari was fresh on my mind.

501
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: So I think it was more a kniat jerk than

502
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: anything anything to do with quality. I'll send you some

503
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: jack seck my stats a little bit later on. I'll

504
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: take that simply vote right here. Thank you very all right, Well,

505
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: thank you so much for for doing the show. A legend.

506
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 1: Jay Lenrose was right, this has been a blast. Where

507
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,120
Speaker 1: can people find you? Hear you all that good stuff? Yeah,

508
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter old school eight eight eight. I think

509
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: Instagram the same thing, and uh you know on League

510
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: Pass watching buck games and check us out. This year,

511
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: I think this will be our year. I feel really

512
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: good about our depth. We got some of the deepest

513
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: lineup in the league in terapter shooting them. I was

514
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: having a conversation with Steve Novak yesterday about it. This

515
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 1: is one of the best all time shooting teams one

516
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: through twelve in the game, and you know, we gotta

517
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: look at that. So that's gonna help us. All right, Well,

518
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,239
Speaker 1: Marcus Johnson, thank you so much. What a pleasure. All right,

519
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 1: Jackon Barry, thank you. Let's take break. We'll be right

520
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: back to talk about some great performances from the week.

521
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: And we're back. And um, you know, I've never had

522
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: to do an entire segment of this show after losing

523
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 1: the I've had to go home to the wife and

524
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: kids with my tail between my legs. But I've never

525
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: had to actually show up for these fans so they

526
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 1: can hear the defeated man that I am for twenty

527
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: four hours after after I lose a Jack or Jabari.

528
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: But you have to love his ability to to play

529
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: that game and say, like, oh, well you know what

530
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 1: it really was about Jack, He was like he was

531
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 1: on it. He was quick. Oh man, you can tell

532
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 1: he's been a dad for many years because yeah he

533
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: made it. Yeah, yeah, I just I actually like you

534
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: both equally. I just picked it at random. But you know, uh,

535
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: to please stop crying, it's making me comfortable, Brian. Please

536
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: cut that part out where he says, please stop crying,

537
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: it's making me uncomfortable. And then I ball and call

538
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: him dad and say thanks a lot, Dad, because yeah,

539
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,679
Speaker 1: I just think it made him look bad. Um yeah,

540
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: all right, Um, so we're gonna come back with the

541
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 1: mad boost. These great performances of the week. Um, what

542
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: a week. The Lakers fans are on the Reeves train,

543
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves. I'm hearing, you know, I have a lot

544
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 1: of Lakers fans in my life living out in Los Angeles,

545
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: and I am hearing every time this man puts the

546
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: ball in the basket from a Lakers fan, you get

547
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: you guys are excited about this, this young man speak

548
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: to it. You know, I look at it like this.

549
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: Every fan base is going to be happy about, you know, like,

550
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: you know, a secondary guy. And when I say that,

551
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: I mean no shade whatsoever, but not necessarily a star

552
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: or a guy that was expected to carry you at

553
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: the most important, you know, the most important juncture of

554
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: your of your you know season, and he's done that.

555
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: You know, he's a reserved guy that has stepped into

556
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: a role with obviously with Lebron being out these last

557
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: nine games or so, and he's played incredibly well. From

558
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: the Lakers you know fans, you know side of things,

559
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: I do recognize we go overboard and there's a lot

560
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: of us. So it seems like we're overdoing it with

561
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: the love, but it's really just a matter of fans

562
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: of a struggling fan base that are looking for something

563
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: to be happy about. Under a minute to play read

564
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: here he goes on its ways. He is quite right

565
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: now as reason. Just take it over the game. I'm

566
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: gonna ask what draft class he was and uh, he

567
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: was not drafted, but twenty twenty one. Yeah, that's the

568
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: best when you just have somebody who you aren't counting

569
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: on who comes through. He always looks a little bit

570
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: surprised when he does something awesome on the court. Um,

571
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: so it's a lot of fun. Did you see that

572
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: Newark's own? And by Newark, I mean Newark, Arkansas? Yes,

573
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: I love on a stay in America. It is just like, yeah,

574
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: we're we have Paris, Texas, We're you know Cincinnati, Missouri,

575
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: or like you know California. Yeah, yeah, all the parises

576
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: are out of control. Um, Jannis, I've I've heard just

577
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: about enough of about this Yannis fellow. But um just

578
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: making it look easy with a twenty two thirteen ten

579
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: nine of nine from the floor, one of one from

580
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: deep Win over the Raptors. A really solid pro career.

581
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: I think with important timber Wolves, because it's own, there's

582
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: a soft spot inside the work. From there, what more

583
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: can you say about Giannis This is you know that

584
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: hasn't already been stated. But really, at this stage, it

585
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter if he wins the MVP, because again

586
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: I'm just reiterating, he's the best player in the world.

587
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: He and he goes out and he proves it on

588
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: a nightly basis. I wish the MVP conversation was over

589
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: because I honestly think it's gonna either be you kitch

590
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: if people who you know are on the majority of

591
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: MBA writers who have a vote that was just the default,

592
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: or it's going to be honest and all the focus

593
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: on Embiid and then I don't I don't want Hibid

594
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: to like wear himself out. I mean, he's been saying

595
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: all season that you know, this isn't important. The thing

596
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: that's important to him is getting to the third round,

597
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: getting to the Eastern Conference finals. So we'll see about that.

598
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: But I just I want it to be over. Dubar,

599
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: I completely understand. Adding I'll be honest with you. I

600
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: give these guys credit for being able to compartmentalize like that,

601
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: because I'll be straight up, if I were Embiid, I

602
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: would be like, nah, this is my year, and yeah,

603
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: I get him crazy? Why not his eyes exactly? Why not?

604
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we might as well talk about Joel Embid

605
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: became the first Sixers player to score thirty plus in

606
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: nine straight games. I was surprised by that that that

607
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: was the first time, and that's no shade, what's the work.

608
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, I didn't anticipate that being the

609
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: first time that ed up. I mean, I guess we

610
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 1: should talk about the MVP conversation because you had a

611
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: text two miles and I we still we still have

612
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: the group text thread going where you said after after

613
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: one of these nine straight thirty point games, game winning

614
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: shot at the end. I think it might have been

615
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: the Blazers game. I forget um, you said a couple

616
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: more like that, And he's going to put himself in

617
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: the MVP conversation, in the conversation like, he's not even

618
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: in like that. Most of the conversations I hear include him,

619
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: they're not like and maybe if this Embiid kid could

620
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: put a couple games together, he might be I think

621
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: there's still there's people who think he might be in

622
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: the conversation, oh if he asked the Sixers fan, he's

623
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's leader of the Okay, all right,

624
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: that was a little bit tongue in cheek, but really

625
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: it was kind of what you were, what you alluded

626
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: to earlier, where so much of the conversation was being okay,

627
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: is Yoki or someone else? And you know, deservedly so

628
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: it's been be honest in that in that role. But

629
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: I think Joel, I'll just say definitively, I think Joel

630
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: embiid as every opportunity to win this award, you know,

631
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: as those other two guys. I think I'm gonna say

632
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: it definitively, I think he has a shot at the

633
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: All Star Team might do that. He might be able

634
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: to make that he heard of pretty good. They need

635
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: to They just need to catch I mean, I guess

636
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Speaker 1: with regards to his MVP candidacy, it's it would be

637
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: nice for them. I think he has a real shot

638
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: if they catch Milwaukee. I already they need to catch

639
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: Milwaukee if they want to make it out of the

640
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: second round because they're not getting by Boston, at least

641
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: not Boston like at full strength, which they would be

642
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: in the second round, so they need to catch Milwaukee

643
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: in I'm assuming that's where some of those urgencies coming from,

644
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: because they're playing at at the highest level they've been

645
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: playing at at a time when I feel like a

646
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: lot of other teams are kind of hitting the dull

647
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: drums a little bit. Um, they seem pretty locked in. Yeah,

648
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if look, if I'm a Sixers fan,

649
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: which you know that I'm famously not, but if I'm

650
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: a six I'm feeling pretty famously I'm feeling pretty good.

651
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: I am shocked that they haven't just lost a bunch

652
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: of games in a row. But as we were looking

653
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: over the schedule, I was like, ah, yeah, here it

654
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: comes the Bulls game, which will have already happened, so

655
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: you'll know if I'm right or wrong, listener. But I

656
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: was like, the Bulls game, that's the game that they lose,

657
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: where like, I'm feeling really good and then they just

658
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: drop a bewildering loss on me. But um, that is

659
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: you guys dealt with enough of me being a self

660
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: loathing six Wish fan last week, so we'll leave it

661
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 1: at that. Shay still doing it, man, you know, let

662
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: me go back and retroactively say you're right. And what

663
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: I mean, what I'm referring to is about midway through

664
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 1: the season, we had this conversation about the most improved player,

665
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: and while I do think I do, obviously for those

666
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 1: same reasons, think that Laurie is probably a good candidate

667
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: the most improved player. This year has been shaped with that, right,

668
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: TAM's gotta do this then, is the opening nearly turns

669
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: it over, Hea does. Here comes a run out for

670
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: SGA and about to be and he fits in with

671
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: the way they've been given the award out, which is

672
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: person who becomes a All NBA caliber talent. Well, you

673
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: know that was a job last year, and I feel

674
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be do the odds reflect that this

675
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: is obviously the first time i've it's gone fount and fourth,

676
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: I think Shay is the leader right now. But like

677
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: it was large. It was large. It was Laurie for

678
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: a while, and they kind of fopped back and forth.

679
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: I mean, Laurie makes sense because he like was much

680
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: worse than Shay was last year. Right, he was pretty

681
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: good last year, but it was it was it was

682
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 1: a throwaway year because you know, he basically they I

683
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 1: don't want to say they gave up on him. They

684
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: decided to move on in Chicago. They dumped him, you know,

685
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. He has that year where you know, he

686
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: still looks pretty good. But we didn't anticipate this. It's

687
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: in in particular when when they made the trade, it

688
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: was okay, well Laurie might put up you know, twenty

689
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: point nights, but they're not going to be in most

690
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: of these games. And they've been right there like all

691
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: throw yeah. I mean, but like Shay wasn't getting dumped

692
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: in a trade last year, you know, explain that whereas Laurie.

693
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: But they were like, yeah, well, you know, we know

694
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: what we have with this young man turns out not

695
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: I am getting people ready for the return of Miles

696
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 1: Gray in this young man um. The Grizzlies are maybe

697
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,720
Speaker 1: putting some things back together. Had seven players and double figures,

698
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: led by Jaren Jackson's thirty one Desmond Banes twenty six

699
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: in a win over the Warriors. They're just they're tough, man,

700
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: They're they're really like mentally, yeah, just when I'm ready

701
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 1: to write them off, they say, oh hey, hey, guess what. Yeah,

702
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 1: five of six coming close to catching the Kings, who

703
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: are so both of them are coming close to catching

704
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. Denver has been seven games out in front,

705
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: I feel like for the past a few months months, yeah,

706
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: and now it's I mean it's they're not they're not.

707
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna catch the nugget. I think that they're winning again,

708
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, they're four up in the West

709
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 1: and they're point differential, like they used to have a

710
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: leading point differential, I feel like, and now they're that's

711
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: kind of fallen back to earth. I think we should

712
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: probably have a Nuggets fan or person on over the

713
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: next you know, month or so. Why would we do that?

714
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: Why would we do because I watched Nuggets games and

715
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 1: I watched the action, But you know how, it's a

716
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: little bit different when it's your squad. I for the

717
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: life of me can't figure out when it was a week.

718
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, teams go through that. Then it

719
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: was two weeks. And it's realistically been the best. So

720
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: you want to have them on and be like, what's

721
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: wrong with you? After they've had the best season in

722
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: the history of their FRANCHISEE Like, all right, you can

723
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: come on now. What's going on? Guys. You don't look

724
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: as good as you used do you feeling all right?

725
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: I think I still think they're probably doing the thing

726
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: that every team seems to do, other than like the

727
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: Sixers seem to just be trying to power through to

728
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 1: the end of the season right now. But Yogas doesn't

729
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: care about that MVP or a race. I think he

730
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: cares about, you know, preparing for the postseason. There might

731
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: be some resting going on, and they do seem pretty

732
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: comfortable with a four game lead over Sacramento and Memphis.

733
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: But Memphis, it's it's good to have It's good to

734
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: have you back, buddy asolutely. And then Dame, I just

735
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,959
Speaker 1: want to talk about this stat that you pulled. So

736
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: first player since Kobe and O five oh six to

737
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: have scoring games of thirty plus, forty plus, fifty plus,

738
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: sixty plus and seventy plus. This man is locked in.

739
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: He's a legendary score. I mean, it hasn't led to much,

740
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, to eating wins really like right especially in

741
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. But Dame is you know,

742
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: I don't know where he's gonna go down in the

743
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: all time. You know, everybody has a different top fifty

744
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. But Dame is going

745
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: to be one of the greatest scores that, especially at

746
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: the guard position, that the game has ever seen. It

747
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: is all said and done, and you know what, a

748
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: lot of people will, you know, make make light of

749
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: the fact that he hasn't asked for a move and

750
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: you know, wants to stick around. At the end of

751
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: the day, it is still going to be pretty damn

752
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: impressive when you know, when you look at all of

753
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: the accomplishments that he ends up with regardless of whether

754
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: he wins a time. Yeah. Did we ever talk about

755
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: that thing he said in the I think it was

756
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: on a podcast to JJ Reddick where he was just like, yeah, man,

757
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: when I'm done playing basketball, I just go home and

758
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: like play with my kids and enjoy my life a

759
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: while trying to Yeah, which I thought was pretty cool.

760
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: I'm pretty refreshing. You just never. I think most players,

761
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: whether it's true or not, are just too scared to

762
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: say that because fans tend to deify these players who, like,

763
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: you know, were like he was so mentally off that

764
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: all he cared about was losing and it was emotionally

765
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,399
Speaker 1: devastating to him. And it's like yeah, or you could

766
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: like have a have a good life and be happy

767
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: and put up sixty and seventy in multiple games. I

768
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: think that definitely helps his calls, the fact that you

769
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: don't look at Dame and say like, oh, he doesn't

770
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: seem like he's given it his whole, you know what

771
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: I mean with Winnie never here so never if anything

772
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: gets goals like to have that sort of balance, you know,

773
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: life balance to be able to give it you're all

774
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: you know when you're there, and obviously you know when

775
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: you're training in preparation for it, but also be like yeah, no,

776
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: like no, let's go make pancakes kids. That's pretty all. Yeah, yeah,

777
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: all right. So it's time to go with our NBA

778
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: broadcast call the week Nuggets home call on this, putback dunk,

779
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: let's roll it, use your shot, Yo gets on the move,

780
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: put it up, rocks that cast bar. But Michael Porter

781
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: junger Um dunking dunk get with his hand like parallel

782
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: to his face, like up so high, which is always fun.

783
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: People forget how tall he is or where I forget

784
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: how tall he is. People don't it's ten six ten

785
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: and just has a wet shot. So that that was

786
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: pretty cool. It was off of yokachmiss. I'm just saying

787
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: he also dunked over yo back. Yeah, he got posterized

788
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: by his own teammate. Um. And then the Twitter of

789
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 1: the week, we gotta give it to King Josiah Son

790
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: of this week's guest response to Austin Reeves scoring a

791
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: career high, utilizing Peter Weber's epic who do you think

792
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: you are? I am celebration, which is what I'm thinking

793
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: most of the day. If you just like saw what

794
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: was going on inside my head, it is this celebration,

795
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: so anything, it's like, you know, it's one of the

796
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: greatest sports celebrations of all time. And I absolutely mean that.

797
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm not being hyperbolic. It's one of the greats, especially

798
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: because I don't know if it completely makes sense, but

799
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: we know what he means. No, it doesn't make it.

800
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: An is just perfect, just perfect. Yeah, So what a blast. Absolutely,

801
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: and then Araboosti's listener of the week was aaron An Mix,

802
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,919
Speaker 1: who is super excited about Michail Bridges having the opportunity

803
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: as a top option. Offensively, Hey, aaron An, you and

804
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: you and all of us were psyched about this, she

805
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: was actually seemingly feeling guilty that she says, I guess

806
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: now I'm a Nets fan too. And I'm just gonna

807
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: say this for the record. While I may have been

808
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: a hardline, no, you have to have one team, you

809
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: know fan in the past, the Lakers are my team.

810
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: But I've got several other teams that I you know,

811
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: because a former Lakers are playing on them, or I

812
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: just picked them up. I've got a bunch of teams

813
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: that I can appreciate, and I think that's probably a

814
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: healthier approach to NBA fandom. Yeah, it's like having a

815
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: rescue dog a rescue team. That's a thing that I

816
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: am hardline. I think the whole thing of Like you

817
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: can't just adopt the town your new team. I mean,

818
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 1: you know, growing up and rooting for whatever team my

819
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: dad was coaching obviously prepared me to just switched teams

820
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: with the people I value. But like, I've really enjoyed

821
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: the NBA just following Lebron around and rooting for whoever

822
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: he's playing for, assuming it's not playing against a team

823
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: my dad was coaching, and you know, just just being

824
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: a free agent and just appreciating what is super exciting

825
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: about the league. So I highly recommended if you're feeling

826
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: because of some other famous sports guy podcasts that you're

827
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: not allowed to switch teams, or it's a safe space

828
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 1: here at Miles and Jack Miles and or Jack got

829
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: Matt Boosts, so you're you're always free to switch teams.

830
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 1: I'd actually be interested to hear from boost these listeners

831
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: like who feel beholden to this? Like what are some

832
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: teams that have tempted them where they're like, Oh man,

833
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: I wish I could root for the team. They look

834
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: so good, Like the Miami Heat looks funny. I rooted

835
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 1: for Lebron when he was there, but I still respect

836
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 1: what they do. I still love Eric Spoelstra, Jimmy Butler,

837
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: like what they do is super cool and just my

838
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 1: heart does not feel you know, I can't make myself

839
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: a Heat fan, but I respect it must be a fun,

840
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: fun ride to be a Heat fan. All Right, I'm

841
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: gonna just throw this out there before we go. We're

842
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: five years down the road and Joel embiad is into

843
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: Miami Heat Jersey or can you allow yourself then totally

844
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,879
Speaker 1: easily I do it if he switched teams tomorrow, i'd

845
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 1: do it, like I give you know, I'm not. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like that's the thing. I feel like Sixers fans probably

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Speaker 1: have a have the wrong idea about me that I'm

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Speaker 1: like this diet in the wool Sixers fan, Like I

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Speaker 1: am a Sixers fan because that's who I was rooting

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Speaker 1: for and then my dad retired, but I got to

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Speaker 1: I was rooting for them, like from Embad's rookie year

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Speaker 1: and so you know, but I'm a I'm a mercenary.

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Speaker 1: I'm a mercenary fan out here, and agents does make me.

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Speaker 1: I still have whatever that unhealthy fandom is where I

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Speaker 1: feel physically ill when they don't do well. So I

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Speaker 1: got that part. But I'm in no way, like you know,

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Speaker 1: long term cursed to be with a team, which is

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Speaker 1: which is a nice luxury I have. So all right,

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Speaker 1: Well we did it. We made it a year. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for everything you've done, Man Jabari, one

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Speaker 1: of the true great producers out there doing it, one

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Speaker 1: of the great NBA minds. Appreciate you. Appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: for listening to the podcast for a year and telling

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Speaker 1: your friends about it. And that's gonna do it. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be back for Year two next week, or at

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Speaker 1: least some of us will be. But yeah, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you all then. Bye bye,