Speaker 1: Well, we've reached our official one year anniversary as a show.
Speaker 1: Everybody said we couldn't do it. We did it. We
Speaker 1: proved them wrong. All the haters, uh. And we're hitting
Speaker 1: one year just as teams are gearing up for the postseason.
Speaker 1: We will discuss some of the generational bigs currently battling
Speaker 1: for positioning in the MVP race eventual Awards with eleven
Speaker 1: year NBA VET current Bucks color analyst Marcus Johnson on
Speaker 1: today's episode, I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm Jabari dude, and
Speaker 1: this is my old and or Jack got mad, Boosties
Speaker 1: Davis driving, Spinny Hurry a three pointer, stop Curry from
Speaker 1: til again. Be honest, that's right. The next time you
Speaker 1: hear this show next week, Miles should be back from
Speaker 1: paternity and I will be gone. This is not like
Speaker 1: love below speaker box situation. My kids spring break just
Speaker 1: lines up with the end of paternity leaves. But you
Speaker 1: can you can start spreading the rumors. But Marcus Johnson,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on our one
Speaker 1: year anniversary show. Big fan of your work, big fan
Speaker 1: of just your career, big fan of Raymond from White
Speaker 1: Man Can't Jump. We were rewatching scenes today and wondering
Speaker 1: how the hell you are not a famous action star
Speaker 1: right now. I have to assume that is by your
Speaker 1: choice or the directors just messed up, because man, you
Speaker 1: are you are great on camera. But thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us. Hey man, look, I'm honored to be a
Speaker 1: part of this one year anniversary show mad Boosts. I
Speaker 1: love the name, and yeah, so thanks for having me,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, we had a good time doing
Speaker 1: the movie. I did some other stuff after that, but
Speaker 1: nothing ever approached the popularity of that character. Raymond Dickens,
Speaker 1: based on a two true story about a guy by
Speaker 1: the name of Reggie Harding, was one of the first
Speaker 1: high school the pros players from from the Detroit area
Speaker 1: back in the early sixties. So pulled out of in
Speaker 1: depth background about that character that a lot of people
Speaker 1: aren't aware of. Yeah, I think I read that you
Speaker 1: have worked on a have a screenplay about the screenplay
Speaker 1: and look, you know, just the research was fascinating. I
Speaker 1: talked to everybody, from Dave Being to Bolt the Near
Speaker 1: to some guys from the ABA days. Freddy lewis a
Speaker 1: guy from the old Midwestern League by the name of
Speaker 1: mc burton who's actually a doctor now was in mad
Speaker 1: school when he played basketball in the Midwestern League, which
Speaker 1: a semi pro league back of the day. A. Ray
Speaker 1: Scott was the first African American to be Coach of
Speaker 1: the Year in the NBA in mid seventies with the Pistons.
Speaker 1: He was a teammate of Reggie Hardy, you know, so
Speaker 1: it was just fascinating doing the research talking to all
Speaker 1: these guys about the history of the league. And roth
Speaker 1: Thorne was another guy who's the teammate of reggiees and
Speaker 1: then this parting U you know, heroin and the and
Speaker 1: then the siren call of the streets were his undoing.
Speaker 1: But he was given a business to both Wilt and
Speaker 1: Bill Russell Man back in the r back said he
Speaker 1: would be one of the top, you know, five centers
Speaker 1: and a couple of years U right when he came
Speaker 1: out of high school and got to the NBA. But
Speaker 1: unfortunately the drug addiction to heroin and the lord of
Speaker 1: the streets, the temps, the gangsters, the hustlers, all that stuff, yeah,
Speaker 1: that he idolized took precedent over his development as a
Speaker 1: basketball player. And I think I saw you say that
Speaker 1: the detail of you know, your character and white man
Speaker 1: can't jump Raymonds sticking people up, but being you know,
Speaker 1: so somebody who hangs around there and is like sixty eight,
Speaker 1: uh and he was seven, and they're like, come not again,
Speaker 1: You're I know right, He's like, no, this ain't me,
Speaker 1: This ain't me, This ain't me. So you really did
Speaker 1: pulled that seam directly from his life. Yes, they pulled
Speaker 1: out directly. That was one of the first folklore tales
Speaker 1: that they would tell you back in the seventies when
Speaker 1: you got to the league and take a story about
Speaker 1: Reggie Hardigan and the and the ski masks robbing the
Speaker 1: liquor store seven feet in the you know, this ain't me.
Speaker 1: And so that was one of the first things that
Speaker 1: you heard, and it was funny back in the day.
Speaker 1: It's a funny story. But when you look at the
Speaker 1: background and do a little bit more digging in terms
Speaker 1: of his history, it's actually as sasty. He wound up
Speaker 1: getting shot on the streets of Detroit I think about
Speaker 1: thirty years old, nineteen seventy two, and so the same
Speaker 1: so the same streets that he couldn't get away from
Speaker 1: that that durilled his career, went up leading to his
Speaker 1: undoingspend time in prison Jackson Prison in Michigan for two
Speaker 1: two or three years for armed robbery and a bunch
Speaker 1: he was robbing a bunch of dope houses where he
Speaker 1: would buy dope at got to the point where they
Speaker 1: got so pissed off at it because they knew it
Speaker 1: was him seven feet with a ski mask that he
Speaker 1: came up to a dope house to Robert and two
Speaker 1: shotgun blasts hit him in both legs and he was hospital.
Speaker 1: It's just a crazy, crazy life, that wow, colorful crazy
Speaker 1: life that cross passed a lot of great, great NBA
Speaker 1: all timers. So it's really a fascinating story. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds amazing. Somebody needs to buy that screenplay post haste. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's appropriate like that that you're on our
Speaker 1: anniversary episode. You you are somebody who still can dunk
Speaker 1: and moose, you know, so you still have the mad
Speaker 1: boosties that you had in your career. I still have
Speaker 1: the same ability to dunk that I had in my career,
Speaker 1: which is which is none. Um, I was net but
Speaker 1: I can still I think touch the bottom of the net.
Speaker 1: So in that way we are similar. Um, Like can
Speaker 1: you talk about that? Like you you dunk. Is it
Speaker 1: every every year on your birthday? You get us Josiah
Speaker 1: think of NBA Twitter. Yes, we should say that he
Speaker 1: brought the idea to me the year that Blake Griffin
Speaker 1: jumped over the Kia. Oh yeah, that was about fifty
Speaker 1: four fifty five years old at the time, and you know,
Speaker 1: con dunk really easily back then, and so we could
Speaker 1: we got some matchbox cards or something. Um, I just
Speaker 1: you know, jumped over one. You know, I'm doing the
Speaker 1: same thing, Blake. I'm a jump over a car and
Speaker 1: that kind of that created the monsters every year after that.
Speaker 1: I'm sixty seven now, so it's for the last thirteen years.
Speaker 1: Every year he's like, come on, damn, we gotta do it.
Speaker 1: I gotta do it. About Joe, Joe, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I only I only I only dunk once
Speaker 1: a year on my birthday around my birthday. I never
Speaker 1: tried any other time, so I don't know if I
Speaker 1: could do it or not. And got some hip issues.
Speaker 1: So this year was a little, you know, a little challenging,
Speaker 1: but I was able to pull it off and we
Speaker 1: got it done. So but that next year, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I may have a hip replacement done by that time,
Speaker 1: so this may this may have been the last one,
Speaker 1: but it's been fun. What it does is, man, it
Speaker 1: keeps me in shape, keeps me working out, gives me
Speaker 1: something to shoot for, a goal to shoot for, to
Speaker 1: stay and staying reasonably good shape. At sixty seven years old.
Speaker 1: I work out six times a week, six days a week,
Speaker 1: and I mean nothing, you know, like an hour and
Speaker 1: ten minutes, nothing crazy, but just enough to stay in
Speaker 1: reasonably good shape. So it's been the impetus for that.
Speaker 1: So that's been a good, good positive behind it. Hey, well,
Speaker 1: I give you credit because you're doing something at sixty six.
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to do it thirty six, so to
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Yeah. So I mean, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: current NBA, the purported subject of the of this podcast.
Speaker 1: You get an up close and personal look at the Bucks,
Speaker 1: and I feel like they are a lot of smart
Speaker 1: people's pick for the title this year. But there's actually
Speaker 1: an interesting conversation happening around Yannis with Isaiah this week.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you if you saw this, no,
Speaker 1: I haven't tell me about it. Well, actually, get from
Speaker 1: earlier in the year. It was basically it was surrounding
Speaker 1: the conversation with Jannis where people were saying he might
Speaker 1: struggle in the eighties, he would come off the bench
Speaker 1: in the eighties or nineties, whatnot. Charles Oakley in particular,
Speaker 1: draws Okeley in particular and Zeke you know, the two
Speaker 1: his credit out paraphrase, and he basically was saying, a guys,
Speaker 1: you guys need to be quiet because he would dominate
Speaker 1: in the eighties. We've never seen anything like him coming
Speaker 1: to our league. Uh, you know, and and and basically
Speaker 1: he's one of he's one of the quote unquote old
Speaker 1: heads that definitely shows love. So I'm interested. How where
Speaker 1: do you you see him up close and personal? You've
Speaker 1: seen him, you know, for the bulk of his career definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, the great moments. How do you think Janie
Speaker 1: would fare? No, man, I mean, greatness transcends eras and
Speaker 1: traits will figure out how to excel in different eras
Speaker 1: and it goes both ways. And so you know, people
Speaker 1: talk about how we couldn't have played in today's NBA
Speaker 1: from the eighties and nineties, and then guys from from
Speaker 1: even seventies. I mean, but the great players would figure
Speaker 1: things that with me. They like to point to my
Speaker 1: three point field goal percentage. Well that's why I like
Speaker 1: cleaning the glass, because they don't count heaves and in
Speaker 1: the corner shots and all that. Both of my stuff
Speaker 1: was in the shot clock, in the quarters, those types
Speaker 1: of three and so you know. But but you know,
Speaker 1: if i'd have worked on a three point shots, I
Speaker 1: shoot thirty seven, thirty eight percent. I know that hands down.
Speaker 1: But when Yannas yeah that Bucks mean, now people are
Speaker 1: coming around, Charles Barkley calls him the greatest player on
Speaker 1: the planet, So that that that's a definite feather in
Speaker 1: Jannae's cap to have that happened. I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: James Harden coming out and saying it we should see
Speaker 1: was seven feet No he had to do, was Johanna's
Speaker 1: is an acquired taste. And you know, watching him when
Speaker 1: I first got to the Bucks eight years ago, he
Speaker 1: was coming off a season where he averaged about the
Speaker 1: sixteen a game, seven eight rebounds. I didn't know if
Speaker 1: he would be a solid NBA player for the next
Speaker 1: ten years at that time eighteen nineteen topping out at
Speaker 1: that or would he be an All Star. I certainly
Speaker 1: didn't think he would be this this this transcendent player
Speaker 1: who would be a two time MVP that would drop
Speaker 1: us piece in a close out finals games. I didn't
Speaker 1: think that. I didn't. It just didn't look like he
Speaker 1: was on that trajectory in terms of his skill package,
Speaker 1: and just just didn't look like he was going to
Speaker 1: be that kind of a guy. But that's where his background,
Speaker 1: his motivation, his inspiration, his diligence to working out, his
Speaker 1: his his desire to be the best. That's where all
Speaker 1: that comes to the play. And I saw that earlier.
Speaker 1: I saw him had great games, and I'd see a
Speaker 1: shadowy figure after he had a great game and we won,
Speaker 1: running through a crowd of people that right after the
Speaker 1: game and in tending to gree below weather in Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, who is that crazy brother
Speaker 1: right there with the T shirt and then to cut
Speaker 1: off sweats. What is he doing? Then A look closer,
Speaker 1: man as shannas, where the hell is he going? Watch him?
Speaker 1: He's going to the practice facility across the street to
Speaker 1: work on the street throws and and astinue. That's just
Speaker 1: forty plus point games. We have a flight to another
Speaker 1: city that night on the team plane he's sitting in
Speaker 1: the back of the plane with Sean Sweeney, the assistant
Speaker 1: coach at the time for the Bucks, going over film
Speaker 1: and video in terms of what he could have done
Speaker 1: better even though he just dropped forty points or that
Speaker 1: opponent that night. That's honest, I mean and so um
Speaker 1: he could have played in any era. He has such
Speaker 1: a unicorn as the popular way of describing a guy
Speaker 1: like him. Think about it. He's seven feet two fifty,
Speaker 1: so he's strong enough to kind of with handle, withstand
Speaker 1: the pounding back of the day, but he's also got
Speaker 1: this his his separator is this handle. He's able to
Speaker 1: get to where he wants to go with this ball,
Speaker 1: handling like no other seven footer. I'm trying to run
Speaker 1: my mind through the course of history to think if
Speaker 1: there's been a seventh footer that could handle like he
Speaker 1: could not. That's also he's been a product of his
Speaker 1: era because it's been encouraged for and it's the European
Speaker 1: kind of influenced in the in the NBA, in the
Speaker 1: American game, big men shooting outside shots. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: if you were a Jim McDaniels from Western Kentucky who
Speaker 1: average thirty a game in college. You get to the pros,
Speaker 1: you're soft because you shoot jumpers at seventy feet. My
Speaker 1: teammate at UCLA, Richard Washington, the most outstanding player in
Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament nineteen seventy five, twenty eight against Littleville,
Speaker 1: twenty eight against Kentucky, great jump shooters, six to eleven.
Speaker 1: He got to the league. You're saft, get your bigs inside, pounded,
Speaker 1: pounded inside. That's for the small boards and guard to
Speaker 1: shoot the jump shots. So it's a different era, and
Speaker 1: so there is a more more of a premium put
Speaker 1: on big men the stretch for that can knock down
Speaker 1: jumpers and that that that helps him. But you know,
Speaker 1: he just knows how to play, how to score. This
Speaker 1: finishing is so much better than I've ever seen it
Speaker 1: before this year. But his ability to handle the ball
Speaker 1: to get to his spots, and he studied defenders and
Speaker 1: knows how to attack angles and body position to draw fouls.
Speaker 1: And even though he's shooting sixty five sixty six percent
Speaker 1: from the line, a lot of guys would back off
Speaker 1: and getting to the freek the line. Because of that,
Speaker 1: he embraces the challenge and gets to the freek the
Speaker 1: lite even more, probably shooting those seasons than he's ever shot.
Speaker 1: So that's his mindset. It's just different, which I think
Speaker 1: would trans in any era. Yeah, and a lead to success.
Speaker 1: You know, as a current Sixers fan and one time
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons fan, like that was something I always admired
Speaker 1: about Jannis is there was just no no fear, didn't
Speaker 1: no matter what the last trip to the free throw
Speaker 1: line was, it didn't enter his mind. He has that,
Speaker 1: like Tom Brady, strategically short memory and just you know,
Speaker 1: uses it to as a banner. Yeah, without questions. So
Speaker 1: bringing it to this era, and I'm taking nothing away
Speaker 1: from any area prior to this. I'm not one of
Speaker 1: those you know folks that says, oh, you know, yester
Speaker 1: years players couldn't play. I would love to see it
Speaker 1: because I think I like you, I think greatness. It
Speaker 1: will translate regardless. But it was the coach's fault. They
Speaker 1: were the ones telling everyone a three point shot was
Speaker 1: a terrible shot the whole time. Then they like slowly
Speaker 1: but I slowly figured it out and the players got
Speaker 1: their game up to Yeah, now now it's just a layup. Well,
Speaker 1: remember Rick Petino was the first guy I heard saying,
Speaker 1: and this is probably mathematically not exactly precise, but percentage say, well,
Speaker 1: he'd say, you know, three point shot shooting, you know
Speaker 1: ten three points, ten shots and you make four threes,
Speaker 1: you know, or six four threes is equivalent to six
Speaker 1: twos or whatever. So of twos is like shooting sixty
Speaker 1: positions three point line because of the point value. And
Speaker 1: that's that's the first time it kind of registered in
Speaker 1: my mind. Hey, that's a good point. You don't have
Speaker 1: to shoot a great field percentage. And then affective field
Speaker 1: goal percentage got introduced. That was in the these We
Speaker 1: started talking about that when I was with Seattle and
Speaker 1: Terry Stotts and George carl and that was an interesting statue.
Speaker 1: Two shooting percentage and affective field goal percentage and the
Speaker 1: value of that extra you know, point that you get
Speaker 1: from the three pointer. Uh. And now fast forward to
Speaker 1: today and now we're shooting with the bucks like over
Speaker 1: forty threees a game as a bunch of teams. Over
Speaker 1: four three is a game, which is just crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: coming up watching you know, watching the other game in
Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties, I never anticipated as being here.
Speaker 1: But to that point, you know, we were told, you know,
Speaker 1: about five years ago or maybe even a decade ago,
Speaker 1: to the big Man was gone, that you know, there
Speaker 1: was no more, no more great big Man or anything
Speaker 1: or something along those lines. That was the general conversation,
Speaker 1: which it wasn't even true then. But now you have
Speaker 1: guys like obviously we've been you know, we've been, you know,
Speaker 1: discussing Jannis, You've got em Bid, You've got yo kids,
Speaker 1: You've got a d you got you know, Miles Turner, cat.
Speaker 1: There are literally big all throughout the league. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw something out there, and you can call me crazy,
Speaker 1: That's okay. I'm usually the crazy man. I think this
Speaker 1: era of bigs is just as good as it's ever been,
Speaker 1: even with the focus of the game, you know, we
Speaker 1: like to present it as it's exterior game, or at
Speaker 1: least outside in as opposed to inside out. But given
Speaker 1: the range in in actual ability of the modern big,
Speaker 1: I think this crop is just as good as it
Speaker 1: ever has. Well, that's an interesting assertion. And it's almost
Speaker 1: like you got a bunch of Tim Duncans out there.
Speaker 1: You know, you got a bunch of mobile seven foot
Speaker 1: the good shooting um not straight back to the basket,
Speaker 1: can go down there and do some work if they
Speaker 1: need to. But it's so interesting how so many teams
Speaker 1: like the Kings and and and Sabonus. I mean, they
Speaker 1: run their offense through these elbow touches, even in Draymond Green,
Speaker 1: who's not really the prototypical big, but still you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's in there in their in their lineup.
Speaker 1: They run everything through them as a popeum for what
Speaker 1: they do offensively, So I wouldn't you know, I'm thinking now,
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of in my mind's eye, trying to
Speaker 1: trying to rud off all the bigs in recent years
Speaker 1: and kind of what they did Kevin Garnett and some
Speaker 1: of these other guys. Um, when I think of the
Speaker 1: big and I tell Kevin Durant in that equation from
Speaker 1: from sheer Sides alone, Jannis and Yo Kitchen mentioned all
Speaker 1: these names, and you know, yeah, let me tell embed.
Speaker 1: One year. One year, he was hurt and I forgot
Speaker 1: if it was a nasal fracture. I forgot what it
Speaker 1: was going on with him, but he was out for
Speaker 1: an extended period. So we're in Philly and I'm watching
Speaker 1: his his his routine before the game. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: play that night, so they're putting it to the real
Speaker 1: hard riggers routine. Before the game. He knocks down literally
Speaker 1: like about twelve threes, just coast to coast, dribble down
Speaker 1: the one three point line, swish, dribble back down to
Speaker 1: the other three point line at the other end, switch,
Speaker 1: drill back down. It was just amazing watching the accuracy
Speaker 1: of and how he shot the ball at his massive
Speaker 1: seven two nineties sides. Yeah, and the fluidity you know
Speaker 1: he plays. And I always said, these guys at that side,
Speaker 1: they played like the six six six seven Bonamy portis
Speaker 1: for us. I mean, the way he shoots and plays
Speaker 1: and moves. You don't think of him as like six
Speaker 1: ten two fifty. And that's the difference between now and
Speaker 1: back in the eighties, in my day and even years
Speaker 1: after that, some guy with some guy with that side
Speaker 1: would with automatically be pitgeonholed and discouraged from expanding his game.
Speaker 1: Now they actually work on the expansion of your offensive
Speaker 1: skill package that plays allotted to it. Also, all right,
Speaker 1: we are going to take a quick break. We're gonna
Speaker 1: come back. We only have Marcus for another ten minutes.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna come back. We're gonna get right into
Speaker 1: the fastest segment in podcasting, the rapid Fire Round of questioning.
Speaker 1: So we'll do that first and then Jabari and I'll
Speaker 1: stick around and b us a little bit, but we
Speaker 1: will be right back for rapid Fire in act two
Speaker 1: because it's a special anniversary episode. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: and we're back, and Marcus, you just got to give
Speaker 1: the first thought that comes out of your mouth into
Speaker 1: your brain. Doesn't matter if it's dumb, you know, just whatever.
Speaker 1: It can be wrong as long as it's fast. And
Speaker 1: we will be very slow and not fast on our end,
Speaker 1: but that's okay because that that is our egative as
Speaker 1: hosts of the show. But are you are you ready
Speaker 1: for the rapid fire round of question We shall see
Speaker 1: all right, Um, Jabari, do you want to do? You wanna?
Speaker 1: All right? Start the clock? Let's go, h mark the
Speaker 1: clock has started each year and we and we spoke
Speaker 1: to this a little bit earlier. But I have a
Speaker 1: twist for you. You You know how you post a video
Speaker 1: that you know that shows that you can still dunk,
Speaker 1: and I like, you know, like I said, it's impressive
Speaker 1: each and every time related to that, do you have
Speaker 1: a favorite dunk of your career or was there a
Speaker 1: player that you always wanted to go to meet at
Speaker 1: the rim that you didn't get a chance to. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so we're planning against the Lakers. There's a
Speaker 1: scrum under the baskets, but the ball Kareem is right
Speaker 1: behind me. I've been down, picked the ball up and
Speaker 1: off of birt, jump up in the air. Kareem jumps
Speaker 1: the block and I dunk it backwards. Who like, Wow,
Speaker 1: it's a reverse dunk over Kareem. Yes, indeed, right, A
Speaker 1: friend of mine got a great shot of it on
Speaker 1: a fly that I just I can't find to save
Speaker 1: my life. I know it's I know it's in my
Speaker 1: stage somewhere. I gotta find that flag because he got it.
Speaker 1: He got it right at the perfect moment, me about
Speaker 1: to foot over the rim, Kareem trying to block it
Speaker 1: and getting ready to reverse jam on it. All right,
Speaker 1: the greats get gotten at times too. Yes, indeed, you
Speaker 1: have the number one pick. Next year you're you're an
Speaker 1: NBA GM. You have the number one pick, so you
Speaker 1: basically can draft Victor Webbing Yama if you want, and
Speaker 1: you have just learned that every NBA team is willing
Speaker 1: to trade you a single player for that number one pick.
Speaker 1: Do you do it? And if so, who do you choose?
Speaker 1: I'm almost I'm verging on saying besides the honest because
Speaker 1: Janna seems like kind of that's my answer at least.
Speaker 1: But is there is there a player besides Jannis that
Speaker 1: you would trade Webbiana for? Yeah, Webbing Yama for straight
Speaker 1: up and bat Man if I could, Jannis and Joelian
Speaker 1: Big all due respected Brook Lopez, but my backup center.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, book, but I love you. I would understand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it'd be cool with that. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: keep it going. If you could bet on any fan base,
Speaker 1: and you you know, you see the fans, you see
Speaker 1: the arenas, you see with it, you're what they're capable of.
Speaker 1: But if you could bet on any fan base to
Speaker 1: make the in arena challenge shots that's the lay up
Speaker 1: three throw three pointer and the half port shot, which
Speaker 1: fan base would you better? Ah Da, I don't know.
Speaker 1: The Knicks, I don't know why. I don't ask you what.
Speaker 1: Nick's always have been a team that whose fans are knowledgeable,
Speaker 1: So I would hope that some of that knowledge would
Speaker 1: extend to some skills, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: they translates to the in arena challenge. Yeah yeah, I've
Speaker 1: always loved playing for the next funny story with the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I know this is the speed round. But but but
Speaker 1: when I first learned about gambling, I think we were
Speaker 1: up by a certain amount of points and the Knicks
Speaker 1: score to cut the three, and the crowd just erupted,
Speaker 1: And I told her any redfielders like two seconds on
Speaker 1: the clock and losing, where are they cheered the point
Speaker 1: Sprand was the point sprand was for bro? Just a
Speaker 1: bunch of people running into the OTP immediately after the game? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: New york Y city in the world. All right, what's
Speaker 1: the best NBA city based solely on the food? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: NBA city based solely on the food would have to
Speaker 1: be Chicago's got a tough We've been to some. Really.
Speaker 1: They do a thing called break bread uh Nights with
Speaker 1: the Bucks where the team has these team dinners, and
Speaker 1: I've been fortunate enough to get in on a couple
Speaker 1: of them. In Chicago is always outstanding in terms of
Speaker 1: the restaurants that they choose. All Right, So this one
Speaker 1: is appropriate because like your boosties, I'm also jealous of
Speaker 1: your crisp proline at that at your age. So Jalen
Speaker 1: Rose recently said that man should be spending a minimum
Speaker 1: of one hundred dollars on a haircut. And you know,
Speaker 1: while that might be a little bit steeper, you know
Speaker 1: my taste as a podcaster, what's the what is the
Speaker 1: single item or routine maintenance that you're willing to pay
Speaker 1: top dollars? I mean, I I gave my barber sixty yesterday.
Speaker 1: You know you ushould give him fifty over he kind
Speaker 1: of fit me in with the crowd in the mid afternoons,
Speaker 1: and you know, I didn't want to ask him for
Speaker 1: ten dollars change, so I just left him with sixty.
Speaker 1: So and that's a lot. You know. Back in my
Speaker 1: day ten twenty, I was paying my sunber Rider cut
Speaker 1: my hair twenty dollars a shot. Now he's charged forty,
Speaker 1: So fifty sixty is kind of like by eleven, I
Speaker 1: remember being able to go to the go to the
Speaker 1: shop with fifteen bucks and that actual yeah, no more
Speaker 1: they look at you like you're crazy. Now. One quick
Speaker 1: follow up Jalen's hairline too good to be true. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going up. I've heard some stories,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know, I think his sister came
Speaker 1: out and said a couple of things about it. But
Speaker 1: whatever it is, And Taylor Rhodes is one of the
Speaker 1: all time classiest guys I've ever been around. What he's
Speaker 1: doing in Detroit and and every time I see him,
Speaker 1: just on a personal level, it's just great Interactually we
Speaker 1: talk about you know, we talk about you know, Kyrie
Speaker 1: and his situation. We talked about real stuff and he
Speaker 1: keeps it real and just uh, I just love Jade
Speaker 1: Rose's death. And during the All Star Game in Oakland
Speaker 1: back in the early two thousand, I think the business card,
Speaker 1: the bench Carter du All Star Game, they wouldn't let
Speaker 1: me in, like the players party gave me a hard
Speaker 1: time about getting in. All of a sudden, Jayalen shows up.
Speaker 1: It's like, Hey, this dude is a legend. Come all that.
Speaker 1: You would be right on there, you know so well.
Speaker 1: I love him for the rest of my life. You
Speaker 1: had about three arful ladies with me, you know you
Speaker 1: know what, yeh made it even sweeter. Whatever he's doing
Speaker 1: with the hairline works, I think work work of art.
Speaker 1: All Right, you can take any former Milwaukee Buck and
Speaker 1: pair him with Janna. Which former player would you like
Speaker 1: to see him play with? Oh? Man, hey, I mean
Speaker 1: that's the god. That's not fair. But yeah, that is
Speaker 1: the right answer. You know, I was in Oscar, but
Speaker 1: Oscar was kind of passed his prime at that time. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Ray Allen, I think was a would be
Speaker 1: a good period, right, kind of came into his own
Speaker 1: pre post Milwaukee dates with the Celtics, is in with Miami.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, it's some some some good options there.
Speaker 1: All right, last question, and this is probably the most important.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I want to make sure let's do
Speaker 1: it all right? Jack or Jabari Jabari? Okay, okay, straight boy,
Speaker 1: that's cool. I get it. You know, you know he
Speaker 1: knows our people. You know, usually with most guests, it
Speaker 1: doesn't completely devastate me. But I'm not gonna lie. This
Speaker 1: one hurts. Well. No, but here's Jack. Here's the reason why.
Speaker 1: Because I just did a interview for documentaries they're doing
Speaker 1: on Yannis and did a kumpo uh for for an
Speaker 1: hour or so. But in the course of my research
Speaker 1: for that that interview, I looked at Janice's scoring stats
Speaker 1: from one year in Jabari Park average twenty point game
Speaker 1: that year, the year he heard his knee average. This
Speaker 1: kind of made me sad, you know what I mean
Speaker 1: in terms of what, yeah, what it could have so
Speaker 1: that that that name Jabari was fresh on my mind.
Speaker 1: So I think it was more a kniat jerk than
Speaker 1: anything anything to do with quality. I'll send you some
Speaker 1: jack seck my stats a little bit later on. I'll
Speaker 1: take that simply vote right here. Thank you very all right, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for for doing the show. A legend.
Speaker 1: Jay Lenrose was right, this has been a blast. Where
Speaker 1: can people find you? Hear you all that good stuff? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter old school eight eight eight. I think
Speaker 1: Instagram the same thing, and uh you know on League
Speaker 1: Pass watching buck games and check us out. This year,
Speaker 1: I think this will be our year. I feel really
Speaker 1: good about our depth. We got some of the deepest
Speaker 1: lineup in the league in terapter shooting them. I was
Speaker 1: having a conversation with Steve Novak yesterday about it. This
Speaker 1: is one of the best all time shooting teams one
Speaker 1: through twelve in the game, and you know, we gotta
Speaker 1: look at that. So that's gonna help us. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: Marcus Johnson, thank you so much. What a pleasure. All right,
Speaker 1: Jackon Barry, thank you. Let's take break. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back to talk about some great performances from the week.
Speaker 1: And we're back. And um, you know, I've never had
Speaker 1: to do an entire segment of this show after losing
Speaker 1: the I've had to go home to the wife and
Speaker 1: kids with my tail between my legs. But I've never
Speaker 1: had to actually show up for these fans so they
Speaker 1: can hear the defeated man that I am for twenty
Speaker 1: four hours after after I lose a Jack or Jabari.
Speaker 1: But you have to love his ability to to play
Speaker 1: that game and say, like, oh, well you know what
Speaker 1: it really was about Jack, He was like he was
Speaker 1: on it. He was quick. Oh man, you can tell
Speaker 1: he's been a dad for many years because yeah he
Speaker 1: made it. Yeah, yeah, I just I actually like you
Speaker 1: both equally. I just picked it at random. But you know, uh,
Speaker 1: to please stop crying, it's making me comfortable, Brian. Please
Speaker 1: cut that part out where he says, please stop crying,
Speaker 1: it's making me uncomfortable. And then I ball and call
Speaker 1: him dad and say thanks a lot, Dad, because yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think it made him look bad. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Um, so we're gonna come back with the
Speaker 1: mad boost. These great performances of the week. Um, what
Speaker 1: a week. The Lakers fans are on the Reeves train,
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves. I'm hearing, you know, I have a lot
Speaker 1: of Lakers fans in my life living out in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and I am hearing every time this man puts the
Speaker 1: ball in the basket from a Lakers fan, you get
Speaker 1: you guys are excited about this, this young man speak
Speaker 1: to it. You know, I look at it like this.
Speaker 1: Every fan base is going to be happy about, you know, like,
Speaker 1: you know, a secondary guy. And when I say that,
Speaker 1: I mean no shade whatsoever, but not necessarily a star
Speaker 1: or a guy that was expected to carry you at
Speaker 1: the most important, you know, the most important juncture of
Speaker 1: your of your you know season, and he's done that.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a reserved guy that has stepped into
Speaker 1: a role with obviously with Lebron being out these last
Speaker 1: nine games or so, and he's played incredibly well. From
Speaker 1: the Lakers you know fans, you know side of things,
Speaker 1: I do recognize we go overboard and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of us. So it seems like we're overdoing it with
Speaker 1: the love, but it's really just a matter of fans
Speaker 1: of a struggling fan base that are looking for something
Speaker 1: to be happy about. Under a minute to play read
Speaker 1: here he goes on its ways. He is quite right
Speaker 1: now as reason. Just take it over the game. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask what draft class he was and uh, he
Speaker 1: was not drafted, but twenty twenty one. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: best when you just have somebody who you aren't counting
Speaker 1: on who comes through. He always looks a little bit
Speaker 1: surprised when he does something awesome on the court. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's a lot of fun. Did you see that
Speaker 1: Newark's own? And by Newark, I mean Newark, Arkansas? Yes,
Speaker 1: I love on a stay in America. It is just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're we have Paris, Texas, We're you know Cincinnati, Missouri,
Speaker 1: or like you know California. Yeah, yeah, all the parises
Speaker 1: are out of control. Um, Jannis, I've I've heard just
Speaker 1: about enough of about this Yannis fellow. But um just
Speaker 1: making it look easy with a twenty two thirteen ten
Speaker 1: nine of nine from the floor, one of one from
Speaker 1: deep Win over the Raptors. A really solid pro career.
Speaker 1: I think with important timber Wolves, because it's own, there's
Speaker 1: a soft spot inside the work. From there, what more
Speaker 1: can you say about Giannis This is you know that
Speaker 1: hasn't already been stated. But really, at this stage, it
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter if he wins the MVP, because again
Speaker 1: I'm just reiterating, he's the best player in the world.
Speaker 1: He and he goes out and he proves it on
Speaker 1: a nightly basis. I wish the MVP conversation was over
Speaker 1: because I honestly think it's gonna either be you kitch
Speaker 1: if people who you know are on the majority of
Speaker 1: MBA writers who have a vote that was just the default,
Speaker 1: or it's going to be honest and all the focus
Speaker 1: on Embiid and then I don't I don't want Hibid
Speaker 1: to like wear himself out. I mean, he's been saying
Speaker 1: all season that you know, this isn't important. The thing
Speaker 1: that's important to him is getting to the third round,
Speaker 1: getting to the Eastern Conference finals. So we'll see about that.
Speaker 1: But I just I want it to be over. Dubar,
Speaker 1: I completely understand. Adding I'll be honest with you. I
Speaker 1: give these guys credit for being able to compartmentalize like that,
Speaker 1: because I'll be straight up, if I were Embiid, I
Speaker 1: would be like, nah, this is my year, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I get him crazy? Why not his eyes exactly? Why not?
Speaker 1: I mean, we might as well talk about Joel Embid
Speaker 1: became the first Sixers player to score thirty plus in
Speaker 1: nine straight games. I was surprised by that that that
Speaker 1: was the first time, and that's no shade, what's the work.
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, I didn't anticipate that being the
Speaker 1: first time that ed up. I mean, I guess we
Speaker 1: should talk about the MVP conversation because you had a
Speaker 1: text two miles and I we still we still have
Speaker 1: the group text thread going where you said after after
Speaker 1: one of these nine straight thirty point games, game winning
Speaker 1: shot at the end. I think it might have been
Speaker 1: the Blazers game. I forget um, you said a couple
Speaker 1: more like that, And he's going to put himself in
Speaker 1: the MVP conversation, in the conversation like, he's not even
Speaker 1: in like that. Most of the conversations I hear include him,
Speaker 1: they're not like and maybe if this Embiid kid could
Speaker 1: put a couple games together, he might be I think
Speaker 1: there's still there's people who think he might be in
Speaker 1: the conversation, oh if he asked the Sixers fan, he's
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's leader of the Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: that was a little bit tongue in cheek, but really
Speaker 1: it was kind of what you were, what you alluded
Speaker 1: to earlier, where so much of the conversation was being okay,
Speaker 1: is Yoki or someone else? And you know, deservedly so
Speaker 1: it's been be honest in that in that role. But
Speaker 1: I think Joel, I'll just say definitively, I think Joel
Speaker 1: embiid as every opportunity to win this award, you know,
Speaker 1: as those other two guys. I think I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it definitively, I think he has a shot at the
Speaker 1: All Star Team might do that. He might be able
Speaker 1: to make that he heard of pretty good. They need
Speaker 1: to They just need to catch I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: with regards to his MVP candidacy, it's it would be
Speaker 1: nice for them. I think he has a real shot
Speaker 1: if they catch Milwaukee. I already they need to catch
Speaker 1: Milwaukee if they want to make it out of the
Speaker 1: second round because they're not getting by Boston, at least
Speaker 1: not Boston like at full strength, which they would be
Speaker 1: in the second round, so they need to catch Milwaukee
Speaker 1: in I'm assuming that's where some of those urgencies coming from,
Speaker 1: because they're playing at at the highest level they've been
Speaker 1: playing at at a time when I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of other teams are kind of hitting the dull
Speaker 1: drums a little bit. Um, they seem pretty locked in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if look, if I'm a Sixers fan,
Speaker 1: which you know that I'm famously not, but if I'm
Speaker 1: a six I'm feeling pretty famously I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1: I am shocked that they haven't just lost a bunch
Speaker 1: of games in a row. But as we were looking
Speaker 1: over the schedule, I was like, ah, yeah, here it
Speaker 1: comes the Bulls game, which will have already happened, so
Speaker 1: you'll know if I'm right or wrong, listener. But I
Speaker 1: was like, the Bulls game, that's the game that they lose,
Speaker 1: where like, I'm feeling really good and then they just
Speaker 1: drop a bewildering loss on me. But um, that is
Speaker 1: you guys dealt with enough of me being a self
Speaker 1: loathing six Wish fan last week, so we'll leave it
Speaker 1: at that. Shay still doing it, man, you know, let
Speaker 1: me go back and retroactively say you're right. And what
Speaker 1: I mean, what I'm referring to is about midway through
Speaker 1: the season, we had this conversation about the most improved player,
Speaker 1: and while I do think I do, obviously for those
Speaker 1: same reasons, think that Laurie is probably a good candidate
Speaker 1: the most improved player. This year has been shaped with that, right,
Speaker 1: TAM's gotta do this then, is the opening nearly turns
Speaker 1: it over, Hea does. Here comes a run out for
Speaker 1: SGA and about to be and he fits in with
Speaker 1: the way they've been given the award out, which is
Speaker 1: person who becomes a All NBA caliber talent. Well, you
Speaker 1: know that was a job last year, and I feel
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be do the odds reflect that this
Speaker 1: is obviously the first time i've it's gone fount and fourth,
Speaker 1: I think Shay is the leader right now. But like
Speaker 1: it was large. It was large. It was Laurie for
Speaker 1: a while, and they kind of fopped back and forth.
Speaker 1: I mean, Laurie makes sense because he like was much
Speaker 1: worse than Shay was last year. Right, he was pretty
Speaker 1: good last year, but it was it was it was
Speaker 1: a throwaway year because you know, he basically they I
Speaker 1: don't want to say they gave up on him. They
Speaker 1: decided to move on in Chicago. They dumped him, you know,
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. He has that year where you know, he
Speaker 1: still looks pretty good. But we didn't anticipate this. It's
Speaker 1: in in particular when when they made the trade, it
Speaker 1: was okay, well Laurie might put up you know, twenty
Speaker 1: point nights, but they're not going to be in most
Speaker 1: of these games. And they've been right there like all
Speaker 1: throw yeah. I mean, but like Shay wasn't getting dumped
Speaker 1: in a trade last year, you know, explain that whereas Laurie.
Speaker 1: But they were like, yeah, well, you know, we know
Speaker 1: what we have with this young man turns out not
Speaker 1: I am getting people ready for the return of Miles
Speaker 1: Gray in this young man um. The Grizzlies are maybe
Speaker 1: putting some things back together. Had seven players and double figures,
Speaker 1: led by Jaren Jackson's thirty one Desmond Banes twenty six
Speaker 1: in a win over the Warriors. They're just they're tough, man,
Speaker 1: They're they're really like mentally, yeah, just when I'm ready
Speaker 1: to write them off, they say, oh hey, hey, guess what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: five of six coming close to catching the Kings, who
Speaker 1: are so both of them are coming close to catching
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. Denver has been seven games out in front,
Speaker 1: I feel like for the past a few months months, yeah,
Speaker 1: and now it's I mean it's they're not they're not.
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna catch the nugget. I think that they're winning again,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, they're four up in the West
Speaker 1: and they're point differential, like they used to have a
Speaker 1: leading point differential, I feel like, and now they're that's
Speaker 1: kind of fallen back to earth. I think we should
Speaker 1: probably have a Nuggets fan or person on over the
Speaker 1: next you know, month or so. Why would we do that?
Speaker 1: Why would we do because I watched Nuggets games and
Speaker 1: I watched the action, But you know how, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit different when it's your squad. I for the
Speaker 1: life of me can't figure out when it was a week.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, teams go through that. Then it
Speaker 1: was two weeks. And it's realistically been the best. So
Speaker 1: you want to have them on and be like, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with you? After they've had the best season in
Speaker 1: the history of their FRANCHISEE Like, all right, you can
Speaker 1: come on now. What's going on? Guys. You don't look
Speaker 1: as good as you used do you feeling all right?
Speaker 1: I think I still think they're probably doing the thing
Speaker 1: that every team seems to do, other than like the
Speaker 1: Sixers seem to just be trying to power through to
Speaker 1: the end of the season right now. But Yogas doesn't
Speaker 1: care about that MVP or a race. I think he
Speaker 1: cares about, you know, preparing for the postseason. There might
Speaker 1: be some resting going on, and they do seem pretty
Speaker 1: comfortable with a four game lead over Sacramento and Memphis.
Speaker 1: But Memphis, it's it's good to have It's good to
Speaker 1: have you back, buddy asolutely. And then Dame, I just
Speaker 1: want to talk about this stat that you pulled. So
Speaker 1: first player since Kobe and O five oh six to
Speaker 1: have scoring games of thirty plus, forty plus, fifty plus,
Speaker 1: sixty plus and seventy plus. This man is locked in.
Speaker 1: He's a legendary score. I mean, it hasn't led to much,
Speaker 1: you know, to eating wins really like right especially in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. But Dame is you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know where he's gonna go down in the
Speaker 1: all time. You know, everybody has a different top fifty
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. But Dame is going
Speaker 1: to be one of the greatest scores that, especially at
Speaker 1: the guard position, that the game has ever seen. It
Speaker 1: is all said and done, and you know what, a
Speaker 1: lot of people will, you know, make make light of
Speaker 1: the fact that he hasn't asked for a move and
Speaker 1: you know, wants to stick around. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it is still going to be pretty damn
Speaker 1: impressive when you know, when you look at all of
Speaker 1: the accomplishments that he ends up with regardless of whether
Speaker 1: he wins a time. Yeah. Did we ever talk about
Speaker 1: that thing he said in the I think it was
Speaker 1: on a podcast to JJ Reddick where he was just like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: when I'm done playing basketball, I just go home and
Speaker 1: like play with my kids and enjoy my life a
Speaker 1: while trying to Yeah, which I thought was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty refreshing. You just never. I think most players,
Speaker 1: whether it's true or not, are just too scared to
Speaker 1: say that because fans tend to deify these players who, like,
Speaker 1: you know, were like he was so mentally off that
Speaker 1: all he cared about was losing and it was emotionally
Speaker 1: devastating to him. And it's like yeah, or you could
Speaker 1: like have a have a good life and be happy
Speaker 1: and put up sixty and seventy in multiple games. I
Speaker 1: think that definitely helps his calls, the fact that you
Speaker 1: don't look at Dame and say like, oh, he doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like he's given it his whole, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean with Winnie never here so never if anything
Speaker 1: gets goals like to have that sort of balance, you know,
Speaker 1: life balance to be able to give it you're all
Speaker 1: you know when you're there, and obviously you know when
Speaker 1: you're training in preparation for it, but also be like yeah, no,
Speaker 1: like no, let's go make pancakes kids. That's pretty all. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. So it's time to go with our NBA
Speaker 1: broadcast call the week Nuggets home call on this, putback dunk,
Speaker 1: let's roll it, use your shot, Yo gets on the move,
Speaker 1: put it up, rocks that cast bar. But Michael Porter
Speaker 1: junger Um dunking dunk get with his hand like parallel
Speaker 1: to his face, like up so high, which is always fun.
Speaker 1: People forget how tall he is or where I forget
Speaker 1: how tall he is. People don't it's ten six ten
Speaker 1: and just has a wet shot. So that that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. It was off of yokachmiss. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: he also dunked over yo back. Yeah, he got posterized
Speaker 1: by his own teammate. Um. And then the Twitter of
Speaker 1: the week, we gotta give it to King Josiah Son
Speaker 1: of this week's guest response to Austin Reeves scoring a
Speaker 1: career high, utilizing Peter Weber's epic who do you think
Speaker 1: you are? I am celebration, which is what I'm thinking
Speaker 1: most of the day. If you just like saw what
Speaker 1: was going on inside my head, it is this celebration,
Speaker 1: so anything, it's like, you know, it's one of the
Speaker 1: greatest sports celebrations of all time. And I absolutely mean that.
Speaker 1: I'm not being hyperbolic. It's one of the greats, especially
Speaker 1: because I don't know if it completely makes sense, but
Speaker 1: we know what he means. No, it doesn't make it.
Speaker 1: An is just perfect, just perfect. Yeah, So what a blast. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and then Araboosti's listener of the week was aaron An Mix,
Speaker 1: who is super excited about Michail Bridges having the opportunity
Speaker 1: as a top option. Offensively, Hey, aaron An, you and
Speaker 1: you and all of us were psyched about this, she
Speaker 1: was actually seemingly feeling guilty that she says, I guess
Speaker 1: now I'm a Nets fan too. And I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say this for the record. While I may have been
Speaker 1: a hardline, no, you have to have one team, you
Speaker 1: know fan in the past, the Lakers are my team.
Speaker 1: But I've got several other teams that I you know,
Speaker 1: because a former Lakers are playing on them, or I
Speaker 1: just picked them up. I've got a bunch of teams
Speaker 1: that I can appreciate, and I think that's probably a
Speaker 1: healthier approach to NBA fandom. Yeah, it's like having a
Speaker 1: rescue dog a rescue team. That's a thing that I
Speaker 1: am hardline. I think the whole thing of Like you
Speaker 1: can't just adopt the town your new team. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up and rooting for whatever team my
Speaker 1: dad was coaching obviously prepared me to just switched teams
Speaker 1: with the people I value. But like, I've really enjoyed
Speaker 1: the NBA just following Lebron around and rooting for whoever
Speaker 1: he's playing for, assuming it's not playing against a team
Speaker 1: my dad was coaching, and you know, just just being
Speaker 1: a free agent and just appreciating what is super exciting
Speaker 1: about the league. So I highly recommended if you're feeling
Speaker 1: because of some other famous sports guy podcasts that you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to switch teams, or it's a safe space
Speaker 1: here at Miles and Jack Miles and or Jack got
Speaker 1: Matt Boosts, so you're you're always free to switch teams.
Speaker 1: I'd actually be interested to hear from boost these listeners
Speaker 1: like who feel beholden to this? Like what are some
Speaker 1: teams that have tempted them where they're like, Oh man,
Speaker 1: I wish I could root for the team. They look
Speaker 1: so good, Like the Miami Heat looks funny. I rooted
Speaker 1: for Lebron when he was there, but I still respect
Speaker 1: what they do. I still love Eric Spoelstra, Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: like what they do is super cool and just my
Speaker 1: heart does not feel you know, I can't make myself
Speaker 1: a Heat fan, but I respect it must be a fun,
Speaker 1: fun ride to be a Heat fan. All Right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just throw this out there before we go. We're
Speaker 1: five years down the road and Joel embiad is into
Speaker 1: Miami Heat Jersey or can you allow yourself then totally
Speaker 1: easily I do it if he switched teams tomorrow, i'd
Speaker 1: do it, like I give you know, I'm not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like that's the thing. I feel like Sixers fans probably
Speaker 1: have a have the wrong idea about me that I'm
Speaker 1: like this diet in the wool Sixers fan, Like I
Speaker 1: am a Sixers fan because that's who I was rooting
Speaker 1: for and then my dad retired, but I got to
Speaker 1: I was rooting for them, like from Embad's rookie year
Speaker 1: and so you know, but I'm a I'm a mercenary.
Speaker 1: I'm a mercenary fan out here, and agents does make me.
Speaker 1: I still have whatever that unhealthy fandom is where I
Speaker 1: feel physically ill when they don't do well. So I
Speaker 1: got that part. But I'm in no way, like you know,
Speaker 1: long term cursed to be with a team, which is
Speaker 1: which is a nice luxury I have. So all right,
Speaker 1: Well we did it. We made it a year. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for everything you've done, Man Jabari, one
Speaker 1: of the true great producers out there doing it, one
Speaker 1: of the great NBA minds. Appreciate you. Appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: for listening to the podcast for a year and telling
Speaker 1: your friends about it. And that's gonna do it. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be back for Year two next week, or at
Speaker 1: least some of us will be. But yeah, we'll talk
Speaker 1: to you all then. Bye bye,