Speaker 1: Quick updates on the Timberwolves courtesy of I think he's
Speaker 1: like now the head of PR for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: I think he's now got that job. He's playing basketball
Speaker 1: and the head of PR, head of communications, Austin Rivers,
Speaker 1: he's not really last episode, Austin we talked about it,
Speaker 1: came out and gave his thoughts on why the team sucked,
Speaker 1: who's responsible? Everyone is at fault, but of course it's
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert's fault. Of course.
Speaker 2: As an aside, did you guys see this Minnesota?
Speaker 1: Is anybody worse at social media than the Minnesota Timberwolves
Speaker 1: because they've tried to create like this buzz around Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert and they've given him a new nickname.
Speaker 2: What do you think his nickname is? What do you
Speaker 2: think it is?
Speaker 1: I immediately said something French, right, like the like the
Speaker 1: croissant or something. It will probably be better than this.
Speaker 1: Gob Zilla g o b Zilla as in Godzilla with
Speaker 1: a b gob like like ghak, like what what are
Speaker 1: we doing here? Gob Gobzilla like Gobert?
Speaker 2: I get it. Shouldn't it be Gobzilla? Then? Gobzilla probably
Speaker 2: the worst nickname of all time. Let's be honest, I am.
Speaker 1: I am here for anything that makes Rudy Gobert look worse.
Speaker 1: So Rudy Gobzilla. Well they gonna say you got gobsmacked
Speaker 1: by Gobzilla.
Speaker 2: What are we?
Speaker 1: That's so dehumanizing too to call him Godzilla?
Speaker 2: Godzilla?
Speaker 1: Like, listen, I know we don't like Rudy, but if
Speaker 1: you have to think about calling him something and you're
Speaker 1: using Godzilla as his nickname, that'd be like Colin Carl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns cat squatch.
Speaker 2: That's probably their next one instead a sad squash cat squatch.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably someone like twenty two years old,
Speaker 1: probably making like four fifty an hour.
Speaker 2: They're like just trying.
Speaker 1: To fire off hot tweets. Back to Austin Rivers, that
Speaker 1: was a total aside. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 1: Aunt Edwards is currently six years away from his prime
Speaker 1: and he's already this good. He's a franchise player. He's
Speaker 1: the guy here, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Pause.
Speaker 1: Hold up, Austin Rivers, you just started something. You just
Speaker 1: started some shit. I don't know if you know this, Austin,
Speaker 1: but your job is to calm things down, not to
Speaker 1: fire things up. Not Carl Anthony Towns. He's not the guy,
Speaker 1: not Gobzilla, Rudy Gobert. He's not the guy, not Diloo
Speaker 1: and followed the entire Wolves organization on Instagram because he's
Speaker 1: not getting extended aunt Edwards.
Speaker 2: I agree, by the way, aunt.
Speaker 1: Edwards is the man in Minnesota according to Austin Rivers,
Speaker 1: and you know what, he's not wrong and as the star,
Speaker 1: probably the only star that you can count on a
Speaker 1: night to night basis. Did you see what Aunt Edwards
Speaker 1: did to everyone the last three games?
Speaker 2: He has been insane.
Speaker 1: They need I think he played against Portland and was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: They need to build around him and no one else.
Speaker 1: Only only this is the way for Minnesota to break
Speaker 1: out of its history of underperforming. Only this is the way.
Speaker 1: He is our Joe Burrow. If you like Minnesota. He
Speaker 1: is needing to be protected and surrounded by players that
Speaker 1: bring out the best in him. And everyone else is
Speaker 1: just a distraction and is just a complication and is
Speaker 1: just on.
Speaker 2: Their way out. Really.
Speaker 1: But what's amazing about all of this is that Austin
Speaker 1: Rivers is actually speaking about the Wolves future six years
Speaker 1: from now, not five, not seven.
Speaker 2: Six years from now.
Speaker 1: Is Austin Rivers lobbying to be the head coach or
Speaker 1: assistant coach of the wool of six years from now,
Speaker 1: where he can give Aunt Edwards the keys, because that
Speaker 1: would be a very political, very doc rivers Sun kind
Speaker 1: of thing to do. I cannot hear what else he's
Speaker 1: gonna say. He's gonna be talking all year because he's
Speaker 1: two way, he's not fully guaranteed, and he's got the
Speaker 1: gift of gab.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he's turning into our Olivia Pope from Scandal,
Speaker 1: like the crisis manager pr for Austin Rivers.
Speaker 2: It's about that time again. Happens every year. Is it
Speaker 2: time to time to bust a rhyme? No? Is it
Speaker 2: time to make fun of Rudy Gobert? Always?
Speaker 1: But no, it's NBA Fan All Star voting time. So
Speaker 1: the beginning of my annual rants on how much.
Speaker 2: I absolutely hate fan voting. I hate it. I think
Speaker 2: it's fucking trash. I think it needs to go.
Speaker 1: Today Shams dropped the first standings in the NBA fan
Speaker 1: voting and it was as dumb as I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: It was dumber than last year. If it's even possible.
Speaker 1: Let's look at what it currently looks like now. Depth wise,
Speaker 1: Western Conference. You've got Lebron James in the front court,
Speaker 1: Jokic front court, A d Zion Wiggins, which isn't as
Speaker 1: crazy as it was last year, honestly, Paul George, Laurie,
Speaker 1: Markinen Fine, Draymond Kawhi, Kevon Looney, the Guards in the West,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, Luca jaw Shay Clay.
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard, Devon Booker, eighth, Austin Reeves nine. These are
Speaker 1: all by votes, by the way, this is a ranking system.
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool ten. We've got Russell Westbrook over Damian Lillard.
Speaker 1: We've got Russell Westbrook over Devon Booker. Listen, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big fan of Jordan Poole's as you can see,
Speaker 1: but Austin Reeves over Jordan Poole, Austin Reeves for Austar.
Speaker 1: There's one hundred and forty four thousand people that voted.
Speaker 2: For Austin Reeves. All of them live in LA.
Speaker 1: All of them are own, all of them are probably
Speaker 1: a bus family member.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the east.
Speaker 1: KD number one, three million votes, Jannis number two, Joe
Speaker 1: l embiid three, Tatum four, Jimmy Butler interesting, very interesting,
Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam six, Come on, come on, Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 2: I didn't even see this one. Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 1: Number seven, Paolo ben Carroll finally an honest vote.
Speaker 2: Nick Claxton, Nick Claxton, he's.
Speaker 1: Been good, but he's he is he an All Star?
Speaker 1: And Jared Allen number one. This is where it gets funny.
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving number one guard in the East.
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving, the one that was suspended miss time.
Speaker 1: I know he's going crazy. I know that nets are
Speaker 1: winning games. Two million votes for Kyrie Irving, Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: two fair, James Harden three, Jalen Brown four, Tray Young,
Speaker 1: Tray Young, Trey Young's five. Listen, let's just go down
Speaker 1: the list. We've got LaMelo at seven. Tyrese Haliburton. LaMelo
Speaker 1: hasn't even played any games. Tyrese Halliburton should be.
Speaker 2: Five on this list. He should be five. He should
Speaker 2: be five.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Derek Rose, that's how you know this shit is
Speaker 1: fucked up. You know, I don't want to cuss that
Speaker 1: much because I got old people and babies.
Speaker 2: Listen to pot. That's fucked Derek Rose.
Speaker 1: Over Darius Garland, didn't I just tell you Darius Garland
Speaker 1: put up forty five forty seven twice like Darius Garland tenth.
Speaker 1: The disrespect to put Trey Young, who is largely the
Speaker 1: most inefficient player in the league right now, is absolutely insane.
Speaker 2: Braun.
Speaker 1: Of course running away with this is that utterly predictable.
Speaker 1: That's what he does because he's a global superstar. He's
Speaker 1: a bigger superstar than's Laton. Don't let his Laton fans
Speaker 1: hear that because they get mad. But putting Lebron James
Speaker 1: over Jokic, what.
Speaker 2: Are we talking about? What are we saying? I like Lebron.
Speaker 2: He's had nice, a nice last ten games. He's been
Speaker 2: injured too, Yoga just played every fucking game.
Speaker 1: He's having the most efficient season of his career. He's
Speaker 1: improved his defense at an all NBA level. Five thirty
Speaker 1: eight says he should win the Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: We got Anthony day to day. Davis is third.
Speaker 2: What are we doing? What are we doing? Why?
Speaker 1: He's missed weeks of time? No one knows when he's
Speaker 1: coming back. Five of the ten forwards in the West
Speaker 1: have missed significant time. Laurie Markinen has not missed time,
Speaker 1: he has balled out. He's seventh. The question, though, that
Speaker 1: I have, is where the fuck is Demontis Sabonis?
Speaker 2: Where is he? What has he been doing? You mightn't
Speaker 2: think because you're not a Kings fan. What is demonis
Speaker 2: Sabonis doing this season?
Speaker 1: Okay, he's averaging nineteen thirteen and seven, nineteen thirteen and seven,
Speaker 1: he's playing with a broken thumb and not missed a game.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis would never, never, guard wise, why is Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves on this list? Like I said, Aunt Edwards didn't
Speaker 1: even make the list.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this list is trash. Fans are terrible.
Speaker 2: You can just see it.
Speaker 1: Bat Little market teams like Sacramento, Minnesota, no shine, big
Speaker 1: markets like Atlanta, like LA. I don't know why. I
Speaker 1: don't even know the explanation for Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 2: Former Lakers get to just make this list now too.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not sure Kyle Kuzma. He's had
Speaker 1: a fine year, but let's be honest, he's on a
Speaker 1: trash team.
Speaker 2: Wizards. Bradley Beale has been out pretty much indefinitely. He
Speaker 2: just made had a hint, i'mstring strain.
Speaker 1: What are we doing Kyle Kuzma over Powello. No, no,
Speaker 1: just no.
Speaker 2: Trey Young over Tyrese Halliburton.
Speaker 1: Trey Young is shooting forty one percent from the field
Speaker 1: this year period.
Speaker 2: Not from three, He's shooting thirty one percent from.
Speaker 1: Three and that's up since in the last month he
Speaker 1: was at twenty nine percent. That's bottom five for high
Speaker 1: volume shooting in the entire NBA. Derek Rose over Darius Garland.
Speaker 1: Take this fan vote away. Take it away. They don't
Speaker 1: deserve it. They don't know how to use this power.
Speaker 1: We got randoms coming up playing the All Star Game,
Speaker 1: and it affects their checks, it affects their confidence, it
Speaker 1: affects how people around the league see them. This is enough,
Speaker 1: This is fucked up. This is terrible. You're not qualified
Speaker 1: to have a vote. If you're putting Austin Reeves on there.
Speaker 2: You don't get a vote.
Speaker 1: You don't get one. Derek Rose, you don't get a vote.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and twenty thousand people vote for Dereck Rose.
Speaker 2: Are you serious? And I know it's like MX points.
Speaker 1: They're like today, you in five votes if you vote
Speaker 1: for someone for the All Star Game, which is also crazy.
Speaker 1: One fan one vote. You don't get extra votes. It's
Speaker 1: not like today's a special day. If you buy gas
Speaker 1: you get triple the points. You buy a plane ticket
Speaker 1: on American Airlines with AMX, you get five x the points. No,
Speaker 1: you vote for Derrick Rose, you get one vote. I
Speaker 1: bet all of his votes came on like triple points day.
Speaker 1: This is insane.
Speaker 2: Believe me.
Speaker 1: I will talk about this every year going forward. I
Speaker 1: get more enraged year by year. I'm like trying to
Speaker 1: chill out, but these things they do not make it
Speaker 1: easy to chill out. Speaking of which, we got to
Speaker 1: chill out. That's all the time that we have for
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