Speaker 1: On this episode of This League, we have a massive announcement.
Speaker 1: This will be the last Barstool Sports This League episode
Speaker 1: in history. The pod will be tier. Yeah, it's a tier.
Speaker 1: I'm sad. The pod will be continuing. We will be
Speaker 1: going somewhere else with the podcast A. Dave and Erica
Speaker 1: and the Barstool family have been nice enough to allow
Speaker 1: me to continue it somewhere else. I will not be
Speaker 1: able to take Marty with me, unfortunately, he will be
Speaker 1: with you in spirits. More on that in a minute.
Speaker 1: We also get into very fittingly for this League. Of course,
Speaker 1: it has to be the final segment of the episodes,
Speaker 1: very final segment of the entire series. That is This League,
Speaker 1: which is mister balloon Hans. Oh my god, what a
Speaker 1: bum Ben Simmons. What perfect symmetry. The universe is always undefeated,
Speaker 1: always on time, always there for me, So do me
Speaker 1: a favor. Marty drop the beat for the last.
Speaker 2: Time, trying to take care and said, you'll be waiting.
Speaker 3: For plan never stop.
Speaker 2: We got the grand NiFe, go, let me go the game,
Speaker 2: game and everybody knows.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the big lead is that I'm I'm bouncing.
Speaker 1: This is the last branded episode of this league. I'm
Speaker 1: leaving Barstool Sports. I am going to take a job
Speaker 1: doing a sports gambling show called MGM Tonight, Bet MGM Tonight.
Speaker 1: I'm also going to be working for w f N
Speaker 1: here in New York, but I'll also be on six
Speaker 1: seventy the Score in Chicago. I will be on WIP
Speaker 1: in Philly. Shout out to Philly. Fucking shout out to
Speaker 1: Philly for making my career take a next step, getting
Speaker 1: a bag from the powers that be because of you
Speaker 1: Philly fans. Without your rage, none of this would be possible.
Speaker 1: Uh also to do some work on a Milwaukee station
Speaker 1: that is connected to six to sevenue this Score, which
Speaker 1: thank you sons in four. What does that mean for
Speaker 1: this league? I have to change the name. Obviously I
Speaker 1: cannot take the name with me, but I will be
Speaker 1: taking the subscribers with me, and the followers and the
Speaker 1: TikTok and the YouTube shows. Shout out to Marty for
Speaker 1: building this YouTube up. I will not have Marty here
Speaker 1: to listen to my ridiculous takes anymore, but I will
Speaker 1: miss him. If you're a subscriber, you're still going to
Speaker 1: be getting the podcast on the same feed, So I
Speaker 1: don't think there's really anything for you to do, Like
Speaker 1: it's on iHeart, it's on Spotify, it's on Apple. I'm
Speaker 1: still working out like how that logistically technically goes, but
Speaker 1: it's happening. A bottom line, can't stop, won'll stop, Like
Speaker 1: this is a roleie, not a stop watch. The shit
Speaker 1: don't ever stop. So it is a bittersweet moment. I'm sad.
Speaker 3: I'm sad too.
Speaker 1: Just do you let me ask you a question before
Speaker 1: we get into this segment, like how would you characterize
Speaker 1: this seventy This is seventy fifth episode, seventy six episode,
Speaker 1: how would you how do you look back.
Speaker 3: On this time? It was the first podcast I was
Speaker 3: assigned to do at Barstool Sports. I started in November
Speaker 3: and we started this in January, like right when we
Speaker 3: got back from holiday, and it was, I mean pretty
Speaker 3: crazy I got to talk about I mean, I didn't
Speaker 3: expect to be on the mic in here as much
Speaker 3: as you allowed me to. So thank you for that.
Speaker 3: It's fun, Yeah, just for me to be able to
Speaker 3: just work on an NBA podcast at Barsool Sports, where
Speaker 3: that's the one league that I love the most and
Speaker 3: where I feel like Barstool was lacking a little bit.
Speaker 3: I mean, at the time, we clearly didn't have an
Speaker 3: NBA podcast, so that was sweet. And to be able
Speaker 3: to yeah, be on the mic for it was, you know,
Speaker 3: something I never thought was going to be possible that
Speaker 3: shortly into my tenure at Barstool, So thank you.
Speaker 1: And to me, I think the best part, like, truthfully,
Speaker 1: one of the moments that I will never forget because
Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for nostalgia. I'm sucker for family shit.
Speaker 1: Is like just that moment with you and your dad
Speaker 1: in the finals, and like the fact that the Phoenix
Speaker 1: Suns on our very first season together went to the
Speaker 1: finals and that we were there is an unforgettable moment.
Speaker 1: So yeah, for the last time under this league name
Speaker 1: Marty and I will get to just completely take a
Speaker 1: dump on Ben Simmons, just legitimately go in on this
Speaker 1: ridiculousness that is him. So the big news is this,
Speaker 1: At the very moment I publicly announced that I was
Speaker 1: going to another place, this Ben Simmons news dropped again.
Speaker 1: Universe undefeated. Right. Ben Simmons has told the six Ers
Speaker 1: he is not showing up to camp. I am holding out,
Speaker 1: he says, get me the fuck out of Philly. I'm
Speaker 1: never coming back, I want nothing to do with you,
Speaker 1: and so on and so on and so on. Who
Speaker 1: could have seen that coming. Surely not Doc Rivers, right
Speaker 1: like he would have never ever thought Ben would need
Speaker 1: to leave. After the media asked Doc Rivers, do you
Speaker 1: think you have a championship caliber point guard? And he
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, just a Jordan Truck I mean,
Speaker 1: certainly not Joel Embiid. No, No, we're good friends. No,
Speaker 1: they love each other. Not after he just buries Ben,
Speaker 1: saying that Ben passing up that dunk slash layup was
Speaker 1: the turning point in the series and costed them the.
Speaker 3: Game, Like, no, did you see his tweet?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Ben, I love playing He made it
Speaker 1: very clear he loves playing with Ben. He doesn't actually
Speaker 1: love Ben as a person. Not Danny Green, who is
Speaker 1: not now answering questions about trade specifics and getting into
Speaker 1: details about which players he thinks will be on the
Speaker 1: roster that are not named Ben Simmons for the Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons trade wow, And certainly not Darryl Morey, not him,
Speaker 1: not the guy who got into town and immediately tried
Speaker 1: to ship Ben Simmons out for his guy, James Harden
Speaker 1: and the guy who then lied about being fully committed
Speaker 1: to Ben, and he was just testing the market. He
Speaker 1: loves Ben. Ben is the point guard in the future.
Speaker 1: He's a perennial All Star. He's a defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year. He is unique, special in all his gifts
Speaker 1: in ways we cannot appreciate. And he is here for
Speaker 1: the long term. Not when Daryl Moury was shopping Ben
Speaker 1: all off season, trying to get anything, anything, anything for Ben,
Speaker 1: telling the world he was not shopping Ben but was
Speaker 1: open to trade requests. No, no way any of this
Speaker 1: could happen when all of these players decided, and now
Speaker 1: also now the fan base just so welcoming, so supportive,
Speaker 1: so warm embraced. The Philly fan base is not like
Speaker 1: they've ever tried to run anyone out of Philly. Never
Speaker 1: booed anyone, not even Joel Embiid. They didn't ever boo him.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 1: Personally, I'm shocked. I could not have seen that Ben
Speaker 1: would decide this was unsalvageable and threatening to hold out.
Speaker 2: No way.
Speaker 1: But the crazy thing is like all of that's our
Speaker 1: chasm aside, Like this is the core to me, This
Speaker 1: is the most delusional element. Okay, so everyone coach, head
Speaker 1: of basketball operations, probably the popcorn guy, the fans, teammates,
Speaker 1: all of them have decided we want Ben gone. Yes,
Speaker 1: get this guy off the fucking team. Get him out.
Speaker 1: He's a cancer, he's not doing his job, he's overpaid.
Speaker 1: We need to get somebody else in who's a real
Speaker 1: point guard. And as soon as Ben says, and listen,
Speaker 1: Ben is to blame for a lot. But as soon
Speaker 1: as Ben says, you know what, you guys are right
Speaker 1: and in fact, I'm gonna take a chill, stay away
Speaker 1: from this fucking team, hold out until you guys can
Speaker 1: get me a new location, everybody else is like.
Speaker 3: What, No, how could you Ben?
Speaker 1: How could you say that? How could you bring your
Speaker 1: own trade value down by saying you would hold out?
Speaker 1: Baby babies, His trade value is already to the floor. Like,
Speaker 1: if you think that Ben saying I'm gonna stay away
Speaker 1: from the team is the reason you can't get a
Speaker 1: hardenedest package for Ben, I've got some shit to sell you.
Speaker 1: I've got some You cannot be preaching that Ben should
Speaker 1: have loyalty for you when he's like just agreeing with you.
Speaker 1: You guys have literally put your boot on his fucking
Speaker 1: neck and as soon as he just puts his belly
Speaker 1: up and he's like, yeah, I agree, you're just like no,
Speaker 1: like you should still want us.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, It is a little bizarre just because I
Speaker 3: mean it clearly, you know, reached a point where like
Speaker 3: this just this relationship can't work anymore. Like it just
Speaker 3: it got that bad, that toxic at the end of
Speaker 3: that Atlanta series that I mean, we all knew it,
Speaker 3: Like I mean, I know we predicted this holdout situation,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't that hard to predict really. So now that, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's pushback to and it's like, what what are we
Speaker 3: trying to save here? Like, I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I have a boyfriend was with them. What he just
Speaker 1: made me think of was when you said, it's a
Speaker 1: relationship right, doesn't work for either sides. I had a
Speaker 1: boyfriend three and a half years. We lived together. It
Speaker 1: was rocky the whole way. He was constantly being like,
Speaker 1: you should move out. I would get an apartment, then
Speaker 1: he'd bring me back in and then here and there
Speaker 1: and everywhere, and he's like, this isn't working. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be with you. Anymore, and I would fight
Speaker 1: for it, I would scrap for it. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: And then I just like, I think there was a
Speaker 1: Drake song that came that was like playing and he
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not saying, you know, like that one,
Speaker 1: and he's like, basically needs to move on. I was like,
Speaker 1: it clicked for me, dropping folks tonight As an aside,
Speaker 1: where are we at in the music universe where we're
Speaker 1: legitimately making rankings not of the greatest albums of all time,
Speaker 1: but the greatest album rollouts of all time? What the
Speaker 1: we were like, Oh? Yeah, you know why I love
Speaker 1: Drake because he rolls his albums out better than Kanye.
Speaker 3: That's just not true.
Speaker 1: That's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I think he does a pretty decent job at it.
Speaker 3: But I mean Kanye just I mean going back to
Speaker 3: like graduation and we're so off the rails here, but.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter. It does not fucking matter. So anyway,
Speaker 1: so I tell him because of this Drake song, forget
Speaker 1: what song it was, but I'm like, you're right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna move out. I'm gonna go. I have a place
Speaker 1: to go now, it's all solid, just like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ship my boxes out, and then he was like, what
Speaker 1: come on, Like it's been I'm moving to Japan, like
Speaker 1: maybe we could move to Japan together. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you insane? You've literally been trying to kick me out.
Speaker 1: This has been the sixth time you've taken my fucking
Speaker 1: keys and like told me to find another place to stay.
Speaker 1: And now I'm like, yeah, I have another place to stay.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gucci, here's your fucking keys. And then you're like, no,
Speaker 1: that's basically what it's like, dude, You're the reason I
Speaker 1: know that I need to go. I just agree now,
Speaker 1: I just agree. Now. So obviously, trade rumors have reached
Speaker 1: a boiling point. And this is how I know Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons is more polarizing than even JR Rder. The Warriors
Speaker 1: have an entire front office that is completely in disarray.
Speaker 1: They are split, They are infighting over whether they want
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. Completely chaos going on. I mean there's already
Speaker 1: chaos there.
Speaker 3: Like the package or just whether or not they want
Speaker 3: him at all, whether they want.
Speaker 1: Him at all, They're like does he fit or does
Speaker 1: he not? It's like you guys were clamoring for him.
Speaker 1: Now that things are sticky and messy. You're like, maybe
Speaker 1: he's not worth it. I mean, maybe you have a
Speaker 1: guy like Draymond Green who already fills that role, like
Speaker 1: very integral part of this championship, DNA, and you can't
Speaker 1: have them both on the team at the same time.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So this is what the front Athletics says.
Speaker 1: The Warrior's front office is currently split on whether or
Speaker 1: not to accept a Ben Simmons trade offer from Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: There isn't and has never been a realistic one on
Speaker 1: the table for them to discuss. Talks can't be considered
Speaker 1: dead because they've never really been alive. Sources say, wow,
Speaker 1: for a team that absolutely positively has to win right now,
Speaker 1: for them to be like, ah, Ben, you'd rather go
Speaker 1: with the two untested rookies, pandemic p second coming and
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins, No meniscus can't catch a ball, deer in
Speaker 1: headlights Andrew Wiseman, James James Wiseman, Andrew Wiggins, James Wiseman,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that was. I could you see
Speaker 1: my eyes. I was just like, that's not right, That's
Speaker 1: just not right. James Wiseman. And instead of taking Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: twenty four year old, defensive candidate of the Year, Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year candidate, multiple time All Star Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not on team Ben ever, never ever has been.
Speaker 1: But when we are here, this is officially crazy town.
Speaker 1: This is like you think Kaminga is going to get
Speaker 1: you there now over Ben?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for their situation now, yeah, that doesn't
Speaker 3: That makes a little sense to me.
Speaker 1: Here's so I know more things are bad bad. The
Speaker 1: goddamn Sacramento Kings came out and preemptively said to Darryl Morey, Hey,
Speaker 1: I know you think you're gonna fleece us, because that's
Speaker 1: what we do. That's not happening anymore. There's no Fox
Speaker 1: for you, over Fox. Yeah, there's no Haliburton for you.
Speaker 1: There's no Harrison Barnes for you. What you will get
Speaker 1: and you will like is Marvin Bagley and Buddy Healed.
Speaker 1: And that's the deal. Take it or leave it. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's not a good pack. That's a bad package. And
Speaker 1: you still have no point guard to speak of. You
Speaker 1: still have a big man that you really don't want
Speaker 1: to pay now with Marvin Magley, who is a cancer.
Speaker 1: That's the deal. That's the Wish version. You thought you're
Speaker 1: getting a hardened version and hard and trade, and you're
Speaker 1: getting the Wish version of the hard and trade, like
Speaker 1: the you know Wish, that little company that's like brocash shit,
Speaker 1: no picks, no players that you want. And this is
Speaker 1: what Simmons says. It also means that things are in trouble.
Speaker 1: He is amenable. Oh, by the way, he said he
Speaker 1: wants to be traded to one of the three California teams.
Speaker 1: There's four. There's four, Clippers, Lakers, Kings, Warriors. That's four. Anyway.
Speaker 1: He also let it be known that he's amenable to
Speaker 1: Cleveland huh, which we joked about last episode, which would
Speaker 1: be tremendous. Ben Simmons point guard of an all seven
Speaker 1: foot or roster that could actually happen. I need it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need it.
Speaker 3: I mean you're gonna suck, just go for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need it, like I need that's a league
Speaker 1: past team at that point, is it not? Like that
Speaker 1: makes you fun and relevant in a very like oddities
Speaker 1: kind of way, like a Barnum um Bailey circus, you know,
Speaker 1: like find these like long trees that move about in
Speaker 1: the wind. And now also Rich Paul has said, By
Speaker 1: the way, I have another client. His name's Tyrese Maxi.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be involved in any Ben Simmons deal. He
Speaker 1: wants fucking out too, and like does he want to?
Speaker 3: He does?
Speaker 1: You can't just say that, you can't just be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: max he's also part of any Ben Simmons package, and like,
Speaker 1: why would MAXI want to be a part of a
Speaker 1: Ben Simons package when he's just gonna play behind Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons unless, by golly, Ben Simmons isn't a point guard unless,
Speaker 1: by golly, someone plays him at the four and Maxie
Speaker 1: can play alongside of him. I am personally tantalized by
Speaker 1: by all of it. The universe is undefeated. What do
Speaker 1: you think.
Speaker 3: I mean just about Philly, about like this whole thing.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a mess. It's very clearly a mess.
Speaker 3: I there's a for Ben Simmons in the NBA, though,
Speaker 3: like the obviously is. He's he's insanely good player. I mean,
Speaker 3: like his salary just like keep this place.
Speaker 1: From Toronto Raptors perfect place.
Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, yeah, I mean that'd be a way better
Speaker 3: package for them to get what Siakam and like Van
Speaker 3: Vlee eat or.
Speaker 1: Skam and Malachai Flynn. Oh, go take Malachai Flynn. You
Speaker 1: can keep MAXI. They can just keep Maxie. How about that?
Speaker 1: How about just Ben for for Siakam? Straight up, it's
Speaker 1: not bad trade. No, I think you do that trade.
Speaker 1: I think probably they want to keep Siakam if they
Speaker 1: can keep them. Yeah, because I would prefer Siakam over
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. But hey, this for me personally could not
Speaker 1: be going any better in this league. Let's move on.
Speaker 1: So there's been seventy five episodes, seventy six episodes, and
Speaker 1: IT takes have been tepid. The takes have been hot.
Speaker 1: IT takes have been ice cold. We've had some good ones,
Speaker 1: we've had some bad ones. I thought it would be
Speaker 1: fun for us to kind of go through them. Some
Speaker 1: of the favorite, some of the worst ones, and some
Speaker 1: of the best ones. Should we start with worst takes
Speaker 1: are best takes?
Speaker 3: Ooh ah, you pick?
Speaker 1: Just take the worst takes first. They're shorter, you know,
Speaker 1: the short, shorter list.
Speaker 3: Shorter list.
Speaker 1: I think I'm pretty sure, Yeah, I am all right.
Speaker 1: So I mean when you take the a, B's and
Speaker 1: c's and you don't put them into separate numbers, and
Speaker 1: it does appear that the worst takes are shorter the
Speaker 1: Bucks the top one. The Bucks will never win a
Speaker 1: championship as currently constructed. Eleven games in, I saw a
Speaker 1: man walk around a screen and I said, then that's
Speaker 1: how I know it's not gonna happen. If you're already
Speaker 1: lacking energy eleven games in, I don't know how you're
Speaker 1: gonna summon it. In eighty during the middle of the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals, that appears. Although I listened to it
Speaker 1: back and I listened to it and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they will never win. You're right, Trista, They're never ever
Speaker 1: gonna win. And You're like, they won though they did,
Speaker 1: They've done it. Yeah, so confidence is a hell of
Speaker 1: a drug. Sons In four off of that little tree branch,
Speaker 1: that was really wrong. That was ours. We had, We
Speaker 1: shared that together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I wasn't actually expecting them to go
Speaker 3: for but.
Speaker 1: But sons in anything was an incorrect After after game two,
Speaker 1: I felt like they were gonna win.
Speaker 3: Definitely.
Speaker 1: Giannis isn't Batman.
Speaker 3: Crickets.
Speaker 1: That was a bad one. That was the time. I
Speaker 1: mean at times he wasn't though.
Speaker 3: Sure, I mean he's been playoff be honest before. But yeah,
Speaker 3: he wasn't this year.
Speaker 1: Man, he was good Budenholzer pretty true still. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I mean they extended him, they extended him. He
Speaker 1: was gonna be fired, That's what I said. Uh, they
Speaker 1: went up two oh, nets went up two oh. I
Speaker 1: was in my uber drivers and he was like, they're
Speaker 1: firing that guy, aren't they? And I was like one
Speaker 1: hundred percent and that was a zero percent chance of happening.
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton, Uh, not a good enough Robin way too inconsistent. Well,
Speaker 1: when you have a batman who becomes that level of
Speaker 1: a batman, it really doesn't fucking matter. So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna take that l Golden State will win twenty two
Speaker 1: games this year. Honestly, if Steph didn't turn into Batman, they.
Speaker 3: Probably would have you mean turn it.
Speaker 1: I mean like he went full sicko mode. He went
Speaker 1: into like the best season he's ever had in history.
Speaker 1: He was putting up sixty.
Speaker 3: All the time that twenty fifteen sixteen year.
Speaker 1: But he was better than he was better this time.
Speaker 1: I think. Anyway, that was a bad take. It's just
Speaker 1: undeniably a bad take. Golden State to go to the
Speaker 1: finals in the same season, in the same season, I've
Speaker 1: predicted Nate McMillan is a fucking trash coat.
Speaker 3: That's the one I remember, Yeah, because when you said
Speaker 3: at the time, I was like, eh, is he well?
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, his caliber and record at that time
Speaker 1: showed me he has a hard time getting out of
Speaker 1: the first round. And listen, there was some bias there
Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers scars. When you've had a guy play or
Speaker 1: coach for your favorite team, you remember all the things
Speaker 1: that they do to fuck up. Like I remember Rudy Fernandez,
Speaker 1: like nobody else remembers him.
Speaker 3: I loved him.
Speaker 1: I bet you did, but Blazers fans fucking hated that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was a bad I mean, he ended up
Speaker 1: being like a Coach of the Year candidate. Nate McMillan
Speaker 1: such a bad take, probably the worst take, honestly, Like,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the one I feel the worst about
Speaker 1: because it's like slander and he had some personal development
Speaker 1: go on. Anyway. Heat dark Horse Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: Tis tisk Harden. Sources say Harden to be the first
Speaker 1: one hardened to be a sixer. That was even before
Speaker 1: this league podcast really began. Very close to happening, but
Speaker 1: still wrong, still wrong. Game four nets were plus two nets,
Speaker 1: money line was plus two seventy and I got on
Speaker 1: TikTok and I said, put as much as you can
Speaker 1: on it, and that was that was a bad bet.
Speaker 1: Early on in the season, Colin sex Sexton and Darius
Speaker 1: Garland sex Land, I said Cleveland could be good.
Speaker 3: It seemed fun, it seemed fun that first week.
Speaker 1: Well, Cleveland was being good at that time, Nicks were
Speaker 1: being good at that time, Atlanta was being good at
Speaker 1: that time. And two of those three ended up actually
Speaker 1: being good, and the other one was Cleveland. A dame
Speaker 1: will never ever join a super team, it appears hasn't
Speaker 1: happy yet. Yeah, but if it ends up happening, that
Speaker 1: take will be wrong. So I'm preemptively saying it's not
Speaker 1: a never ever. Nicks will continue to suck. They did
Speaker 1: not suck. They went to the playoffs. They were a
Speaker 1: five seed, five four seed, four seed, four seed, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: four seed. Best. Take Ben Simmons trash. Ben Simmons is
Speaker 1: in a point guard. Sixers are in disarray. They're going
Speaker 1: to see in the playoffs that he's nobody sick. Take
Speaker 1: fam like the best take. Literally, everything I said would
Speaker 1: happen did way more than I thought would happen. So
Speaker 1: credit to me. Steve Nash having problems with Dan Tony
Speaker 1: going to have some problems in the playoffs, didn't make
Speaker 1: a ton of adjustments, played Kevin Durant way too many minutes. Marty.
Speaker 1: Of course you will disagree, but I think that take
Speaker 1: someone ended up to be true.
Speaker 3: I mean, his coaching didn't keep them from going to
Speaker 3: the finals.
Speaker 1: Kevin Rant had a air ball very second, last second
Speaker 1: of that of that three pointer because he was so tired,
Speaker 1: did not get any rest.
Speaker 3: If his foot's not on the line, they win that
Speaker 3: series for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Danny Ainge is going to be out, Brad Stevens
Speaker 1: is going to be out, and the Celtics will retool.
Speaker 1: They are a dumpster fire. Wow, what a fucking you
Speaker 1: had that one prognostication. And you also were calling me
Speaker 1: crazy at that time.
Speaker 3: I don't believe I said crazy.
Speaker 1: I think you were just like, that's a crazy while said.
Speaker 3: Like, I think it was a little early, like I
Speaker 3: hadn't quite gotten there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where we're at usually not just.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was it was like in March or something
Speaker 3: when you started that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it could have been February. It was
Speaker 1: very I was like, this is big trash. Celtics are fake,
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz overrated. Very good take. Yeah, they clearly have
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who are old and can't defend Lakers, overrated,
Speaker 1: Lakers not healthy. Solid take, a dy brittle, solid take.
Speaker 1: Drew Holliday and PJ. Tucker difference makers. That ended up
Speaker 1: being one of the better takes. Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you can how you can rizzle resolve PJ Tucker
Speaker 1: Drew Holiday difference maker and Milwaukee never winning the ring.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, both of those things cannot
Speaker 1: be true. Houston won the west Brook trade certainly. Certainly,
Speaker 1: Warriors should have never drafted James Wiseman. They should have
Speaker 1: taken LaMelo ball, which I think is undisputable now that
Speaker 1: that take was correct. Oh, there's something going on at
Speaker 1: five Serve Arena is a conspiracy? Great take. No one
Speaker 1: shot well there, no one will shoot there. I think
Speaker 1: we will find out in a thirty for thirty down
Speaker 1: the road that they're tightening those fucking rims and that
Speaker 1: there's humidity going on, and that the balls are inflated
Speaker 1: to a high degree, and that you literally need to
Speaker 1: put it like rainbow sky into the hoop in order
Speaker 1: for it to get in. Scott Foster game. Scott Foster
Speaker 1: game isn't always like it's a forever take, it's a
Speaker 1: forever green, evergreen, correct take. Pelicans won't make the playoffs?
Speaker 1: People did that When people forget about that one, because
Speaker 1: there was a time people were excited. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I never did not doubt it. You did not doubt it.
Speaker 1: Al Horford will come back to the Celtics.
Speaker 3: You said that.
Speaker 1: I said that these are all we have the receipts.
Speaker 1: We have the receipts, always have the receipts. What are
Speaker 1: some of yours that you remember making that were right
Speaker 1: and wrong?
Speaker 3: I definitely was going to add, just like LaMelo ball
Speaker 3: in general to best takes, just gonna like I bet
Speaker 3: him to win Rookie of the Year. I thought he
Speaker 3: was gonna be really good, and I think like episode
Speaker 3: like three or four, I was like, hey, we should
Speaker 3: probably do a LaMelo segment. He's pretty damn good.
Speaker 1: Also, Aunt Edwards, we were early to the Aunt Edwards
Speaker 1: train too when he had that dunk and then the
Speaker 1: world went like and shit on him. We're like, actually,
Speaker 1: they're pretty good this guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so just me trying to like push LaMelo
Speaker 3: down everyone's throats. I feel like that was probably my
Speaker 3: better take.
Speaker 1: Your son's take was very good too. I think you
Speaker 1: thought the Sons were going to be very good a
Speaker 1: lot earlier.
Speaker 3: And a lot of people just started calling them a
Speaker 3: Western Conference powerhouse in February area. Yep, So yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I was I was right about that.
Speaker 1: What were you most wrong about TYLERU? Tyler? Tyler was
Speaker 1: a garbage coach. It turns out he was very good,
Speaker 1: but what.
Speaker 3: He was he was certainly, but like, what would lead
Speaker 3: you to believe leading up until this these playoffs that
Speaker 3: he was going to do that three one?
Speaker 1: I guess three one. I guess three one is a
Speaker 1: help comeback?
Speaker 3: That actually would be interesting to go just go back
Speaker 3: and rewatch like all seven of those games and see
Speaker 3: like what was different.
Speaker 1: Everyone was pressers too.
Speaker 3: Sure because like Lebron is always going to get the
Speaker 3: credit for that. There's like obviously, and he deserves it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I guess that overshadowed maybe like some things
Speaker 3: that Tyler had done in that series.
Speaker 1: Tyler actually deserved to have no Kawhi for the end
Speaker 1: of the Utah series in the Western Conference finals as
Speaker 1: well run because we got to see all the little
Speaker 1: things that he got to do, gadgets that he was
Speaker 1: able to put out and to put in place, and
Speaker 1: that worked. I think that coming back from that map
Speaker 1: series was critical, even though you know, Kawhi went full
Speaker 1: rebot robot with no knee like that was a lot
Speaker 1: of tylu using Nick Batoum in certain ways. Loved that,
Speaker 1: loved loved seeing that. And sometimes I think there's players
Speaker 1: who are so great, like Kawhi and Lebron, like they
Speaker 1: can overshadow your coaching in good ways and bad ways,
Speaker 1: like shout out to us also great take Doc Rivers overrated,
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers fucking trash coach, overrated and like he he
Speaker 1: choked on his own dick all the way through the playoffs,
Speaker 1: like did not look good, did not look good, Barry
Speaker 1: Marilyn Manson esque. I think that's what he did. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. All right, that's all the time. That's a
Speaker 1: good time to wrap it I guess wrap it up
Speaker 1: always unless you are in a long term relationship, Stay safe, folks. Uh,
Speaker 1: And that's it. For the episode the last episode of
Speaker 1: this week. I'm gonna miss you, Marty and keep in
Speaker 1: touch mm hmm. Thank you to everyone who helped out
Speaker 1: along the way, Dave and Gas. I don't know if
Speaker 1: people know this, but me and Dave weren't on great
Speaker 1: terms when this When this podcast got fucking green lit,
Speaker 1: I honestly didn't know what was gonna happen. I didn't
Speaker 1: even like I wasn't speaking to him, and I gave
Speaker 1: it to Gas. Gas were on a private jet with Dave.
Speaker 1: Gaz listened to it and green lit in an hour,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if Dave ever listened to it.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know. I never asked. We're obviously great now.
Speaker 1: But thanks to Dave and Gaz for letting this thing happen.
Speaker 1: Because they don't green lit every single pody that gets
Speaker 1: put out to them one and almost almost none. A
Speaker 1: lot of people get rim checked on their on their podcast.
Speaker 1: They gave me the ability to do things the way
Speaker 1: I wanted to do them, as like a very unconventional
Speaker 1: empty desk, not because no one wanted to do it,
Speaker 1: because I wanted to figure out whether I could actually
Speaker 1: just lean on my own opinions. So I appreciate them
Speaker 1: for giving me the Twitter and the ig account and
Speaker 1: letting us run that. Marty, I appreciate you for building
Speaker 1: out that YouTube and being like you're just a dope
Speaker 1: second mic honestly, Like you're so much better as a
Speaker 1: second mic that I could have ever imagined in my brain.
Speaker 1: Like you're just very low key, savagely funny, Like you
Speaker 1: make fun of me in ways about my takes that
Speaker 1: are great, and like you know a shitload about basketball
Speaker 1: and and like the history of the game in ways
Speaker 1: that I think about the game on such a like
Speaker 1: a high level, such a psychological level, and you think
Speaker 1: about the game and and in like more technical ways.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a great balance. I'm gonna really
Speaker 1: have a hard time honestly replacing you. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know how it's kinna how that's gonna be, honestly. Oh,
Speaker 1: I will thank you to Ariya and Mikey for pinch
Speaker 1: hitting when Marty ended up on the road for I
Speaker 1: think there was like one boondoggle and some real work
Speaker 1: stuff to some sports books. But like, truthfully, as much
Speaker 1: as the this podcast has been highly contested, we have
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people who follow us on TikTok now
Speaker 1: and there was like zero before. And they are a rabid,
Speaker 1: very active way in the weeds more than I thought
Speaker 1: any basketball fan who would listen to me would be
Speaker 1: given them so ridonculous. And thank you about being vocal,
Speaker 1: thank you about asking questions. Thank you guys for following
Speaker 1: and like staying very engaged, and like, thank you guys
Speaker 1: just for supporting. That's probably the biggest reason that I
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that the next place that I
Speaker 1: went that I it was very important to me that
Speaker 1: for them and for you guys, that we kept going.
Speaker 1: So onwards we go. Marty will definitely be invited on
Speaker 1: the pod, especially you and your dad for some sun stuff.
Speaker 1: So for the last time, please like, please rate, please
Speaker 1: subscribe on Spotify, on Apple I think I just found
Speaker 1: out Toda like we have a thread on iHeartRadio. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. And on Stitcher, uh, and follow us
Speaker 1: please on TikTok right now it's this league, but there
Speaker 1: will be a new name. I am not positive what
Speaker 1: it will be, but s names involved. Uh And for
Speaker 1: the last time ever, this league.
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Speaker 2: we don't allowd no no no po po no no
Speaker 2: no poe pole.
Speaker 3: You a slow pole all black?
Speaker 4: Oh it would stay?
Speaker 2: Whoa, I'm the best, I'm the best case clothes rock
Speaker 2: kill rock.
Speaker 3: I ain't no joke.
Speaker 1: You mean that?
Speaker 3: Give me that, you mean that, give me that, give
Speaker 3: me that, give me that. I want this and now
Speaker 3: what you mean?
Speaker 1: I can't have that?
Speaker 2: Stand your lane, Lois Lana skirt skirred on him, Stand
Speaker 2: your lame, Penny Lander skirt skirred on him.
Speaker 4: Big big, big big dog, big dog, big dog, walk in,
Speaker 4: big dog. Walk here with the dog.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna risk it all. I'm a risk it all.
Speaker 3: I'm a whisk it all.
Speaker 4: Lie big, big, big big dog, big dog, big dog,
Speaker 4: walk in, big dog Walkay with the dog. I'm a
Speaker 4: risk it all.
Speaker 2: I'm a risk it all.
Speaker 3: I'm a risk it all.
Speaker 2: Ooh, you got a risk it just to get a biscuit?
Speaker 3: Biscuit?
Speaker 2: How many licks does it take the liquord? She wanted
Speaker 2: a liquor trapper. Remember but she already to elect the rapper.
Speaker 2: Oh my, oh my, so fly Fly said, I stay fly,
Speaker 2: I stay fly quality just to get by. I want
Speaker 2: it all out, a piece of the pie. Everybody eats everybody,
Speaker 2: and we keep all of the receipts.
Speaker 3: Swing good. We live in good.
Speaker 2: We could have made it up about the hood.
Speaker 3: Give me that, give me that, give me that, give
Speaker 3: me that, give me that, give me that. I want
Speaker 3: this and now which you mean, I can't have that?
Speaker 2: Stand a lane, Lois Lana skirt skirt on him. Stang
Speaker 2: you lane, Penny Lana skirt skirred on him.
Speaker 4: Big big, big big dog, big dog, big dog, walk in,
Speaker 4: big dog, walk in with the doll.
Speaker 2: I'm a risk it all.
Speaker 3: I'm a risk it all. I'm a whisk it all.
Speaker 4: A big big, big, big doll, big dog, big dog,
Speaker 4: walk in, big dog, walkay.
Speaker 3: With the dog.
Speaker 2: I'm a risk it all.
Speaker 3: I'm a risk it all. I'm a risk it off.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm