1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to this League Uncut in the rule of twenty 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: four hour NBA News. This's you, Chris Haynes. It's time, Markstein, 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: It's some time. This League Uncut is underway and on fire. 4 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: This should be a good one. 5 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 2: Friends, Welcome to another edition of This League Uncut. Mark 6 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: Stein here, of course, accompanied by Chris Haynes from Turner Sports. 7 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 2: We did not arrive at the name of this show 8 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: by accident. Hashtag this League is obviously a huge part 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 2: of the show title, and this Thursday night in the 10 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 2: NBA was a This League kind of night. Man the 11 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: Philadelphia seventy six Ers up three to two, a chance 12 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 2: to close out the Boston Celtics at home move on 13 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 2: to the conference finals for the first time since two 14 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 2: thousand and one. Jason Tatum misses thirteen of his first 15 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 2: fourteen shots. This thing was set up for Philly to 16 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 2: finally finally get past the second round hurdle, get back 17 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 2: to the final four, and really give themselves a chance 18 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 2: to win a championship. And what happens. Tatum goes nuts 19 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter when it looked like he couldn't 20 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: win a shooting contest against Fresno pacifics Chris Haynes Tatum 21 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 2: goes wild in the fourth, Boston Storms back wins, evens 22 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 2: the series, forces a game seven, and then it gets 23 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 2: even crazier in the night cap with the Phoenix Suns 24 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 2: trying to save their season. No DeAndre Ayton because of 25 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 2: a rib contusion, No Chris Paul who's been out for 26 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 2: several games with a groin injury. Phoenix in an elimination 27 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 2: just like last season. Phoenix goes down by thirty at 28 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 2: the half. A year ago, Game seven at home, second 29 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 2: Round against Dallas at halftime, Phoenix down fifty seven twenty seven. 30 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 2: Tonight at home, Game six, have to win to force 31 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: a Game seven in Denver. The halftime score Nuggets eighty one, 32 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: Sons fifty one. Game basically over at halftime. Denver rolls 33 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 2: on to win comfortably and ussure the Phoenix Suns to 34 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 2: their own off season of discomfort, where the Boston Philly 35 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:52,119 Speaker 2: loser is headed, where the Milwaukee Bucks are now, and 36 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 2: where so many other teams in the league are After 37 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 2: a season where you had a number of clubs go 38 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 2: all in to try to chase the championship, and my man, 39 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 2: my man Howard back he had a great line in GQ, 40 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 2: he called it the Age of Chaos, a fitting summary 41 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 2: for where we are and a fitting summary for this 42 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 2: Thursday night. Wow, let's start with the first of tonight's surprises. 43 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: Chris Haynes, I'm gonna be honest with you. I thought 44 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 2: Philly was winning this game. There was nothing pregame that 45 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: you were I was just I didn't want to hear 46 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 2: about a Boston bounce back. I know they did it. 47 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 2: They won at Milwaukee in the exact same situation last season, 48 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 2: down three to two, needed to win a Game six 49 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 2: on the road to have a shot to extend the 50 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: series and win in seven. But you know the Bucks 51 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 2: didn't have Middleton. I just I thought Philly went to 52 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 2: a new place by winning Game five in Boston. They've 53 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: won twice in Boston already in this series. I mean, 54 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: are we are we now going to say that the 55 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 2: We're now going to ask the Sixers to win a 56 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: third road game in Boston to get out of this rounde. 57 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 2: I just all the frailties of these two teams, they 58 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 2: were all on display tonight on both sides. But Jason Tatum, 59 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 2: when it looked like just going to be the worst 60 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 2: night of his life and the worst off season of 61 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 2: his life, brilliant in that fourth quarter. And like I said, 62 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 2: I putting my hand up. Didn't see it coming, man, 63 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: I really didn't. 64 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 3: No, huh, Well, you're not alone. I didn't expect them 65 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 3: to beat the Sixers at their place at all. I 66 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 3: thought the Sixers had their number. I thought the Celtics 67 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 3: were mentally out of it, didn't have I just think 68 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 3: they didn't have the answers. But they had the answers 69 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 3: in the fourth quarters. Jayson Tatum for sure came through. 70 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 3: And can they win? Can the Sixers win a third 71 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 3: game in Boston? That is a lot to ask. That 72 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 3: is a lot to ask. Boston is not easy. I mean, 73 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 3: it's a good series though, definitely a good series. If 74 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 3: I was a betting man, which I'm not. If I 75 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 3: was a betting man, I would just have to favor 76 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 3: the home team. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be 77 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 3: confident about that pick. But it's Game seven, it's in Boston. 78 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 3: That's why, that's why the regular season is so important, 79 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 3: so you can have the home court advantage. But I 80 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 3: know Philly, having already won two already, they go in, 81 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 3: they go into Boston with confidence. But I don't like 82 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 3: the way it looks they had a golden opportunity to 83 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 3: sell it Game six at home that definitely could have 84 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 3: cost him a series. 85 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 2: I mean, just getting to the conference finals would have 86 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 2: been demons would have been exercised in Philly. And now 87 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 2: for the next twenty four plus hours, they're gonna have 88 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 2: to hear it all again. I mean Doc Rivers like 89 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 2: it or not, there is no getting around his record. 90 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 2: Doc Rivers is seventeen and thirty two in elimination games. 91 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 2: And you know Embiid only had two points no rebounds 92 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 2: in the last six minutes. So Harden is taking all 93 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 2: the heat for how poorly he played, But it's not 94 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 2: just gonna be on him. 95 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 3: I mean. 96 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 2: The Sixers. They haven't been to the conference finals since 97 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:40,359 Speaker 2: the days of the Answer, since I was in my 98 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 2: beat writing infancy that was. I mean I had six 99 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 2: seven years in the league. 100 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 3: I mean it's it's Lakers. 101 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, they look, they made the finals and they lost 102 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: to the Lakers. But I mean just that team won 103 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 2: the East, and you know that was Iverson at the 104 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: peak of his powers, and it's been more than two 105 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 2: decades and tonight was the night, and it just look 106 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 2: this this whole season has been bonkers, and you know, 107 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 2: just night after night after night, we just keep finding 108 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 2: out that we think we know these teams, and this year, 109 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 2: more than ever, we don't know these teams. So I 110 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 2: guess if there's ever gonna be a year where you know, 111 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 2: we get shocked again and Philly wins this series, you know, 112 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 2: they win a third row game and win a Game 113 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 2: seven in Boston. Look, I guess anything is possible this season, 114 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 2: but I'm just psychologically I can't wait to see what 115 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 2: this team looks like. 116 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: I mean. 117 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 2: This, they know the opportunity that was squandered tonight, and 118 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 2: I'm sure as we're taping this on Thursday night, they 119 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 2: are They're in agony. It was teed up for them 120 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: so beautifully in a series that statistically, in a lot 121 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 2: of ways Boston has dominated. I mean, Boston is plus 122 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 2: thirty eight for the series. This series should have been over, 123 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 2: but no, it was Philly with the chance to close 124 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 2: it out tonight. And I think in sports we tend 125 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 2: to we tend to say Team A can't get over lost, 126 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 2: be they'll never recover. It was so gruesome, you know, 127 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 2: and I think teams routinely surprise us. But man, like 128 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 2: I said this, there are so many psychological layers here 129 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 2: for Embiid, for Doc Rivers, for Harden, I can't wait 130 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,319 Speaker 2: to see. I'd love to see improved me wrong, But 131 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: you know, I'm skeptical in the extreme for m. 132 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 4: B, the MVP winner. 133 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 3: And if you look at, on the other hand, what 134 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 3: the Joker is doing, dominating quietly as he always does so, 135 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 3: and B would definitely get his share of criticism, probably 136 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 3: the most criticism of his career. If they don't pull 137 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 3: this out. You know, there'll be a lot to be 138 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 3: had Rivers as you as you said, the track record 139 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 3: speaks for itself. So there's a lot of stake for 140 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 3: the sisters, a lot of state going into that final game. 141 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just man and yeah, and you know as 142 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: we speak, I mean, that's the thing. These HiT's so weird. 143 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 2: It's how quickly things can change. Because Jokic won the 144 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 2: last two MVPs, and coming into the season, there was 145 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 2: all this talk that voter for tigue, voters are not 146 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 2: gonna want to vote for him a third time, and 147 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 2: I think there is truth to that. I think voters 148 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 2: were not gonna give it to him unless it was 149 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 2: an absolute, unequivocal slam dunk. But the whole second half 150 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 2: of the season, of the regular season, the conversation changed, 151 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 2: and it was not just that Embiid was the likely winner, 152 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 2: and that was proven to be correct. Embiid did win 153 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 2: his first MVP, but it was that these playoffs were 154 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 2: going to become a referendum on Jokic's last two seasons. 155 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 2: And you know, I don't want to get into a 156 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 2: huge all night MVP debate, but I mean, I you know, 157 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 2: I gotta, I gotta say it. I mean, you know, 158 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 2: Jokic has he's shutting a lot of people up right 159 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 2: now because you know, they're going to the conference finals 160 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 2: for the second time in four years. And as I 161 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 2: keep pointing out, the two times in that four year 162 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 2: stretch they didn't go Jamal Murray was injured, he didn't 163 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 2: have his second best player. First of all, the Nuggets 164 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 2: don't even have a second All Star. Jamal Murray, Michael Porter, Junior, 165 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon all excellent. They've got a better bench than 166 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 2: they've had, but there's no All Star there. Jamal Murray 167 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 2: still has not made an All Star Game. So Jokic 168 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 2: took all this heat all season long for his suppose 169 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 2: d playoff failures, and it's like, okay, what you know, 170 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 2: the last two times he's had a squad, he's in 171 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 2: the conference finals. They lost to the Lakers in the bubble, 172 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,559 Speaker 2: and let's see what happens in these Western Conference finals. 173 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 2: So I mean you said it. I mean this is 174 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: the list of I think, the list of teams that 175 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 2: are at this crossroads. It just keeps getting longer and 176 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 2: longer and longer. I'm gonna have to count it up. 177 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 2: I think we're getting close to half the league worth 178 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 2: of teams that are all facing these really uncomfortable off 179 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 2: seasons and and tough roster decisions. But you know Philly's 180 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 2: going to be at the top of that list. I mean, 181 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 2: Harden and Doc Rivers are their play the past playoff failures. 182 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 2: Now it's going to be that's all they're going to 183 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 2: hear here about. And Joel Embiid, Yeah, when you win 184 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 2: the MVP but your team underachieves in the playoffs and 185 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 2: and you know you're the Sixers are up three too, 186 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 2: you've got to finish the series off. You just have to. 187 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to go too far down the road. 188 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 3: But if they don't, you know, this is a this 189 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 3: is a team that can go through a similar situation 190 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 3: like the Milwaukee Bucks, where they might they could change coaches, 191 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 3: they could James Harden's future is in doubt. There, Well, 192 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 3: where does Philly go from there? Are they going into 193 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 3: the next season? Will they be a championship contending team? 194 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 3: There's there's a lot, you know, there's a lot that 195 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 3: will dissect you in this league because at the appropriate time. 196 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 2: And look, we've been talking about this for ages now, 197 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 2: but the reason we talk about it so much is 198 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: because the chatter is out there. When you talk to 199 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 2: other teams, they I mean, you know, I did. I'm 200 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 2: trying to remember. I've done quite a few radio shows 201 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 2: here lately, so I can't remember which one it was, 202 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 2: but one of my recent one of my recent radio appearances, 203 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 2: they said, you know, do you think do you think 204 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 2: James Harden to Houston is real? And my answer to 205 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 2: that is, we don't know yet if it's real, But 206 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 2: there's enough smoke that teams around the league watching this 207 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 2: situation are convinced that the Rockets are serious about going 208 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 2: after Harden in free agency and pursuing a reunion, so 209 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 2: you know, one kind of cautionary note or you know 210 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 2: where I'd say, let's just wait and see a little bit. 211 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 2: You know, I am intensely curious as I get ready 212 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 2: to go to Chicago for Tuesday's Draft lottery. For once, 213 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 2: I'm going to be somewhere and you're not going to 214 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 2: be somewhere. That's the first time that's happened in ages 215 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 2: that I'm somewhere important and you have to check in 216 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 2: with me to see how it was. What if Houston 217 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 2: wins the draft lottery, if they get web Bin Yama, 218 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 2: do they really still want to pursue James Harden or 219 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: do they make it all about wem Ben Yama's timeline 220 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 2: at that point? And you know, I guess, uh, if 221 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 2: that happens, the Rockets will have to answer that question. 222 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think just using common sense, they get 223 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 3: that kid, you build around him. 224 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so, I mean if they get 225 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: if the Rockets win the lottery, to me, I I 226 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 2: don't look, I've questioned their interest in the hardened reunion anyway, 227 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 2: but I know the Rockets want to win that. You know, 228 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 2: they've just endured the three worst seasons in franchise history. 229 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 2: They don't want to be a rebuilding team anymore. James Harden, 230 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 2: by all accounts when you plug into the grapevine, his 231 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 2: interest in going back home. There are legit reasons for 232 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 2: him to want that. So yeah, it's gonna it's gonna 233 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 2: be a very loud and noisy offseason in Philly if 234 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 2: they can't go to Boston and surprise us yet again. 235 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 2: But this whole series, man's like, like I said, when 236 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 2: Milwaukee went out out Philly Boston, to me the winner, 237 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 2: that was your favorite to win it all, and they've 238 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 2: both been so shaky in this series. I'm not even 239 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 2: sure I'm picking the winner to beat Miami. I do 240 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 2: think Miami will close out the Knicks in Game six. 241 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler is playing the basketball of his life and 242 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 2: they got spoke coaching. I'm not sure. I'm not sure 243 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 2: I'm picking Boston or Philly to beat Miami. I'm really not. 244 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 3: Well, you know you're assuming that that series is over. 245 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 2: Stone, Yeah, I am, that is the one. I mean, Well, look, 246 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 2: I've been wrong, left, right and center with my picks 247 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 2: here lately, so I am though, I do you know, 248 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 2: no disrespect to the Knicks they did what they had 249 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 2: to do in Game five to extend that series. I 250 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 2: just don't think a veteran Miami team is going to 251 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: do what Philly did tonight and squander the close out chance. 252 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 2: I just don't. I just don't think Spoe and Jimmy 253 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 2: Butler will let that happen. 254 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 3: I would. I would agree with you. I would agree 255 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 3: with you. I'm just just starting something. 256 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 2: You always like to You like to just sit there 257 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 2: and jab me, because you know it's easy. I know 258 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: I'm easy. 259 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 4: You'd like to see how you react. 260 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 2: You know I'm easy. Pray in ad. I think I 261 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 2: think what we saw tonight probably gets Miami even more 262 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 2: ready to you know, the Knicks. The Knicks have had 263 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 2: a great run to me this, You know, the Knicks 264 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 2: fans don't want to hear any of this. They want 265 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 2: to win the series and go to the Conference finals 266 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 2: in the first time in forever. But you know, to me, 267 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 2: even if the Knicks are out after Friday night, even 268 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 2: if Miami finishes that thing in six, I think tremendous 269 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 2: season in New York, Jalen Brunson found yet another level 270 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 2: improved for the fifth straight season and or maybe the 271 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 2: fourth straight season. You can't really improve on your rookie season. 272 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 2: But they're gonna keep They're gonna keep building that thing. 273 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 2: They've got so many pieces to make upgrades. The Knicks 274 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 2: have a tremendous future no matter what happens. So if 275 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 2: I am prematurely writing them off, I'm sure, I'm sure 276 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 2: I'm gonna hear about it. 277 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 4: Oh you will, Oh for sure you will. Yeah, no 278 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 4: doubt about that. 279 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 2: Mister Haynes. Let's move west now, because for me, honestly, 280 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 2: what we saw out of this game Denver at Phoenix 281 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 2: in Game six, I think it's almost crazier than the 282 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 2: events in Philly tonight. Yes, much closer game in Philly, 283 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 2: but that this could be so one sided that the 284 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 2: Sun's season could end this way the same way it 285 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 2: did last season. I really, I really thought, even without 286 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 2: DeAndre and Chris Paul, that the Sons at home had 287 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 2: a more than decent chance of forcing a Game seven. 288 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 2: But you know, we're constantly on the search for a 289 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 2: true favorite in the league, and like I said, Boston 290 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 2: and Philly have both been so shaky in that series that, 291 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 2: like I told myself, I gotta stop saying that the 292 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 2: winner is the favorite to win it all because neither 293 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 2: one of those teams are playing well enough to deserve 294 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 2: that mantle. The Nuggets, on the other hand, unbeaten at 295 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 2: home in these playoffs. They closed out the Wolves in five, 296 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 2: they closed out the Suns in six, and mister Jokic 297 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,479 Speaker 2: doing just fine as the non MVP this season. 298 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's looking like the MVP he is again. 299 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 3: He is doing it quietly. That's that's his game. He 300 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 3: dominates quietly his game. You're not going to see it 301 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 3: on many highlights except for probably his passing, but one 302 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 3: to truly, one truly, one of the most dominant players 303 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 3: have in the league right now, arguably the most dominant 304 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 3: only offensive end. With that being said, I picked Phoenix 305 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 3: to win this series. Matter of fact, I take it 306 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 3: a step further. I picked Phoenix to win it. 307 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 2: All, and I warned you not to do so. You 308 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 2: did you? 309 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,919 Speaker 3: You wasn't on the bandwagon. You didn't you didn't pick Phoenix. 310 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 2: Well, no, huh, I think I think I think I 311 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 2: think I did warn you that. It just wasn't enough time. 312 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 2: It just it wasn't. 313 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 3: It wasn't. But it's KD, It's Devin Booker, It's Chris Paul, 314 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 3: and I felt like if anybody can mesh in that timeframe, 315 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 3: it would be those guys because of their talent and 316 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 3: their IQ. But KD went out with that injury towards 317 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 3: the end of the regular season, was out an extended period, 318 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 3: miss time, Chris Paul with the growing injury, last two games, 319 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 3: miss the last two game to the series, and they 320 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 3: just didn't have the depth. They didn't they didn't have 321 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 3: the depth. And I still you know, it's one thing, Stein, 322 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 3: if if the public would allow me to make a 323 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 3: pick at the regular season and make a pick at 324 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 3: the postseason and allow me to stick with my pick, 325 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 3: I'll be fine. Like if I had the chance to 326 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 3: change my pick after the first round, I probably would 327 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 3: have changed it, Stein, but I'm sticking with my pick. 328 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 4: I'm sticking with the pick I had in the postseason. 329 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 3: I wouldn't comfortable with the pick. 330 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 4: I wouldn't confident with the pick, but I stuck with it. No. 331 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 2: Look, and first of all, I'm the same. Once I 332 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 2: make a pick, you can't you can't change it. I mean, 333 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 2: you just you know, Milwaukee was my pick to win 334 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 2: it all this season, and you know, there you go. 335 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 2: I mean gone in Round one. I mean they were 336 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 2: down forty four to twenty six after a quarter tonight. 337 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,199 Speaker 2: I mean, this thing is a mess. This is an 338 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 2: absolute It was hard. 339 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 4: It was hard. 340 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 2: Crops to the Denver Nuggets, who I think will now 341 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 2: get some incredible shine because again they've been they've got 342 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 2: a real home court advantage, they've lived up to the 343 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 2: one number one seed so far. Again that the last 344 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 2: six plus weeks the regular season was nothing. But Jokic 345 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 2: better do it in the playoffs or his MVPs are invalidated, 346 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 2: even though MVP is a regular season award. But that pressure, 347 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 2: if it's bothered Jokic, you can't tell one iota that 348 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 2: it's it's bothered him. And they go to Phoenix and 349 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 2: win by twenty five to close the thing out, and 350 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 2: now it's just, you know, put the Suns right there. 351 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 2: You know again, I'm I'm i gotta stop prematurely putting 352 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 2: Philly there, because the Sixers could win a Game seven 353 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 2: in Boston, but the Sun season is over, and they 354 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 2: go right up there with Milwaukee and Dallas and Portland 355 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 2: and anybody else you want to name for these teams 356 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 2: that have to be looking at major, major, major changes. 357 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayton can't see him playing another game in Phoenix. 358 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 2: You know, I think there's some question about what sort 359 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 2: of market he would have with three years left on 360 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 2: his deal he's on. You know, this was only year 361 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 2: one of the one hundred and thirty three million dollar 362 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 2: deal that he got after doing an offer sheet with 363 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 2: the Pacers and the Suns matched. But he's a former 364 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 2: number one pick, a recent former number one pick. A 365 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 2: market will emerge, and you know, I uh, I just 366 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 2: think they're gonna move him. You know, Chris Paul is 367 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 2: a harder call. Chris Paul's contract is easier to trade 368 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 2: financially because there's only a sixteen million dollar guarantee a 369 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 2: little shy, a sixteen million partial guarantee for next season. 370 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:55,880 Speaker 2: The fourth season completely non guaranteed. So theoretically Chris Paul 371 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 2: should be easier to move than DeAndre Ayden. But I think, look, 372 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,360 Speaker 2: they may end up looking to move both of them. 373 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 2: But I think I think eight and eight and there 374 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 2: has to be a fresh start. I mean, it's just 375 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 2: it's just gotten way too tense. Uh, you know, I 376 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 2: think on both sides there and I do think there 377 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 2: will be some sort of action, but you know, they 378 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 2: gave up so much to get Kevin Durant, and I 379 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 2: think they found that. You know, they decimated the depth 380 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 2: around him to get him. And you know then you 381 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 2: got Durant and Booker only playing, Durant only playing eight 382 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 2: games before the playoffs. It's just just too hard to 383 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 2: throw it together on the fly with with the a 384 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 2: deb you know, and and as good as Denver. 385 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 3: Is, let me, you know, I agree with most of 386 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 3: your the points you made. But can a case also 387 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 3: be made that this group just hasn't played together love 388 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 3: enough and that you give them one more run, give them, 389 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 3: give them another him one full season, even bringing Ayton 390 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 3: back one full season to see what this team can do, can't. 391 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 4: Can a case be made? Can a vala case be 392 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 4: made for that scenario? 393 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 2: I think to a degree it can. But the nature 394 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 2: of this loss was so one sided after a one 395 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 2: sided loss last season, so I think there has to 396 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 2: be a significant change of some sort. You know, based 397 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 2: on everything I've heard, I think Matt Ishbia, the new owner, 398 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 2: is a MANI Williams fan. I don't I don't see 399 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 2: that this. I don't see this being laid at the 400 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 2: coach's feet, even though they're non competitive in this huge 401 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 2: game six. 402 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 4: Whose feet star? 403 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 2: Like I said, I think eight and be the first 404 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,959 Speaker 2: one to go. I'm actually gonna break one of my rules. 405 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 2: I don't like to do fake trades, but I think 406 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 2: today I might actually lob a fake trade into the 407 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,479 Speaker 2: ether completely fake trade. 408 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 3: Should should What I mean this is this league uncut, 409 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 3: is not this league cut. 410 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 2: But you know that's not a you know that's not 411 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,439 Speaker 2: really a function of this league uncut or not. Like, 412 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 2: I don't like to do fake trades because we're counted 413 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 2: on as league insiders to report actual moves, and like, 414 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 2: I don't like to hypothesize about, hey, this would be 415 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 2: a great trade, because again I don't want to confuse 416 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,199 Speaker 2: it with when we report the real deal. But in 417 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 2: this case, I am gonna get swept up in the 418 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 2: pod moment here. 419 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 4: You're making me nervous. 420 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 2: I'm making you nervous. 421 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 4: Though we switching size. 422 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayton to the Dallas Mavericks to hook up with 423 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 2: his buddy Luka Doncic. Hypothetical fake trade. This is purely 424 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:13,959 Speaker 2: an idea. Eighten to the MAVs for a package that 425 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 2: would that would feature, first of all, Dallas has to 426 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 2: keep its number ten pick in the lottery. If the 427 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 2: MAVs fall to eleven in the lottery, that pick goes 428 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 2: to the Knicks. So if the MAVs can retain that pick, 429 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 2: you package the player they draft at number ten because 430 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 2: that pick the MAVs. The MAVs have to make that pick, 431 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 2: and such a trade would have to be executed after 432 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 2: the draft. They can't do it beforehand. But you package 433 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 2: number ten with Tim Hardaway, Junior, MAXI Kliba, whatever other 434 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:59,199 Speaker 2: contracts are needed to make the math work. And hypothetically, 435 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,959 Speaker 2: I do wonder if there would be interest in the 436 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 2: Phoenix side from that. I I, you know, Ayton is 437 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 2: a former number one pick, but I don't know how 438 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 2: high his stock is. Maybe maybe they can do better 439 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 2: than that, but I'm not so sure they can do 440 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 2: better than that. And I think the Suns and Ayton, 441 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 2: I think both sides need a fresh start. Luka Donca 442 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 2: and Aytan they've they're from the same draft class, and 443 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 2: I I, you know, I think their buddies. I think 444 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 2: there is a fondness there. So, you know, I could 445 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 2: see two teams and they do they do share. Mister 446 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 2: Bill Duffy is an agent so I you know, I think, uh, 447 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 2: I think that's two teams that need need to shake up. 448 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 2: And so again, throwing that one out there purely as 449 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 2: a hypothetical, as a maybe, as a concoction, in my mind, 450 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 2: not even a maybe. It's a full, full on concoction. 451 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 4: Uh. I'm just looking at four. 452 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 3: I'm looking at some fake news right now. Stein, I'm 453 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 3: looking at Dwight Howard. I'm gonna send this to you 454 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 3: and Ryan. Dwight Howard just posted. I guess he failed 455 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 3: for it because it's definitely fake. So he failed for 456 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 3: a fake quote and he posted on He posted it 457 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 3: on Instagram. It's a quote supposedly, it's supposed to be 458 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 3: from Chris Paul. The quote is, if I don't win 459 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 3: the ring with KD, I'm going to Taiwan with Dwight Howard. 460 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 3: It's so Dwight Dwight posted this fake Cobbat say a 461 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 3: CP three, what we're doing here? We gotta be better. 462 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 3: We gotta be better. Come on, dw we gotta be better. 463 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 3: I do not that's that's something Chris Paul would not say. 464 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:52,239 Speaker 3: But we gotta be better. Man eight years yeah, and 465 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 3: for him, Stein, that's right, Oh man, this was I 466 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 3: remember when I remember when they picked up KD. He 467 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 3: said he's never had a situation like this where he 468 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 3: could just get out the way you know, he told 469 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 3: he told me he's been wanting to play off the 470 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 3: ball for a minute. And he did it a brief 471 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 3: time with Houston and they had some great success. Believe 472 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 3: they were a win away from getting to the NBA 473 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 3: Finals when they were playing the Golden State Warriors a 474 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 3: few years back, and he just didn't get to see 475 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 3: it happen. 476 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 4: We didn't. 477 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 3: We didn't see enough time. So that's why I asked, like, Okay, 478 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 3: could management, could they look at a scenario where they 479 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 3: bring I think if they're going to bring anyone back, 480 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 3: they'll bring CP back over eight and I think eight 481 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 3: and is. I think they're probably done with Aiden. I 482 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 3: think they're probably tired of each other at this point. 483 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, That's what I'm saying. Like, it's not inconceivable to 484 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 2: me that they would not move Chris Paul. But I think, 485 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: look Ishbi has shownas he's going to be super aggressive already. 486 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 2: I mean, you know, he put a bazillion assets on 487 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 2: the table to get the Durant deal done. You know, 488 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 2: he had basically been there for a day or two 489 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 2: officially when that trade went through. So I am sure 490 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 2: the Suns are gonna aim high and explore every single option, 491 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 2: but I I think that, you know, the safe the 492 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 2: safe bed is that they're going to make at least 493 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 2: one major move, and I think it has to be 494 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 2: it's got to be eight. I mean, with this new 495 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 2: CBA coming in, it's just you can't have you can't 496 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 2: have a four star construction and then be able to 497 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 2: put pieces around him. It's just that the the restrictions 498 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 2: are too onerous when you can't use the tax mid 499 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 2: level and you can't make sign in trades, and it 500 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 2: just it restricts you so far if you if you 501 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 2: advance into second apron territory. So it you know, it 502 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 2: behooves the Suns to try to They got to see 503 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 2: if they can try to move eight, and if they 504 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 2: move eight, and then see if they can get some 505 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 2: depth back because they were clearly lacking in that department. 506 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 2: But the other thing tonight, man, they showed they showed 507 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 2: the great Al McCoy call it on the radio during 508 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 2: the game. They you know, you got the legend Hub 509 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 2: Brown on the TV broadcast and then they're talking about 510 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 2: Al McCoy. I mean, Al McCoy is ninety, this is 511 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 2: his fifty first season calling Sons games. He's retiring, one 512 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 2: of the absolute gents in the sport, won an absolute 513 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 2: legend in the broadcast game. And I mean the Phoenix Sons. 514 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 2: He's leaving the job without the Phoenix Sons having won 515 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 2: a single title in all that time. They made the 516 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 2: finals multiple times, three times, seventy six, ninety three, and 517 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, but couldn't win it. And man, al 518 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 2: McCoy fifty one years in the job and didn't get 519 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 2: to see a championship. That's rough. 520 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 4: Yes, that's tough. Yeah, everybody was expecting it to be 521 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 4: this year. 522 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 2: But you really, you really, I mean you liked I mean, 523 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 2: I know Jamal Crawford was the same. 524 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 4: You don't make that trade. 525 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 3: You don't make that trade and not have those expectations 526 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 3: like you make those You make that trade to win it. 527 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 3: Now there's no it's it's win now. You know this, 528 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,239 Speaker 3: you know you know that question. Giannis was asked at 529 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 3: the end, like is it's a failure? This was a failure. 530 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 3: This this season was a failure. 531 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 4: For sure. 532 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 2: It was a failure, but it was also like again, 533 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I brought it up more 534 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 2: than once because again it history tells us you just 535 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 2: mid season trades don't lead to championships. We can go 536 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 2: over the history one more time. Clyde Drexord to Houston 537 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety five. That trade led to a championship. However, 538 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 2: the Rocks were defending champions and they had a guy 539 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 2: named Hakim Elijahwan who everything revolved around in Houston. Rashid 540 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 2: Wallace to Detroit in two thousand and four, that to me, 541 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 2: that is the standout example. That's the best that a 542 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 2: mid season trade has ever worked out because Rashid wall 543 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 2: I mean, it's really hard to pinpoint who was the 544 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 2: best player on that Pistons team. Was it Chauncey Bhillips, 545 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 2: Was it Rashid Wallace? Was it Ben Wallace? Was it 546 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 2: Rip Hamilton? It was it was the ultimate ensemble cast. 547 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 2: But Rashid's two way play and the kind of defender 548 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 2: he was that really changed the dynamic of that team 549 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 2: and took it to a new level, to the point 550 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 2: that they smoked the Phil Kobe and Shaq Lakers in 551 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 2: the two thousand and four NBA Finals and then Markasol 552 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen. But when he went to Toronto that 553 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 2: was Kawhi's team. He went as a complimentary player in 554 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 2: this trade. Kevin Durant is supposed to be the alpha. 555 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 2: He ended up being the co alpha be because Devin 556 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 2: Booker was so good in these playoffs. But again they 557 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 2: were together for eight regular season games and that's just 558 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 2: not enough. So I mean that kind of does back 559 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,239 Speaker 2: up your case. That to a degree, you could run 560 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 2: it back, but like I said, it's there's been so 561 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 2: much negativity building up since the finals of twenty twenty one. 562 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 2: When it comes to DeAndre Ayt and Mani Williams the franchise, 563 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 2: there has to be a change there. There just has 564 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 2: to be. 565 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 3: Well, that's what the offseason is for and we're going 566 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,399 Speaker 3: to see. But they definitely would Matt Ispia. He is 567 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 3: in when now mode. When now mode, He's going to 568 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 3: apply pressure and I wouldn't be I'm just saying this. 569 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if he added staff to that 570 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 3: front office. There's going to be there's going to be 571 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:59,760 Speaker 3: changes all around. I believe, really, yes, I believe. 572 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 2: So all right, we will get back to the Suns 573 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 2: and they're busy offseason. I have a feeling you're right 574 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 2: and that they will be a fixture among the teams 575 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 2: we're talking about once we fully shift our focus to 576 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 2: what's happening at draft time and free agency. But we 577 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 2: still have two massive games Friday night. There is absolutely 578 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 2: no letup Nick's Heat Game six in Miami. You've already 579 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 2: heard the clips that Tom Thibodeau is surely racking up 580 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 2: and going to use them in his pregame motivational speech 581 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 2: because I said Miami was going to close that thing out, 582 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 2: So let's see, maybe I can. Maybe, maybe I turn 583 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 2: out to be a mini spark that leads the Knicks 584 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,879 Speaker 2: to a surprise. But no, I do think Miami will 585 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,360 Speaker 2: not make the mistake affiliated tonight. I do think the 586 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 2: Heat will find a way to finish that series off 587 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 2: on its home floor. Lakers have the same opportunity against 588 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors closed that thing to 589 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 2: three to two on Wednesday night. Chris Haynes was in 590 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,080 Speaker 2: the building. I gotta just say, from far away Dallas, 591 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 2: just watching on my TV, scary what happened with Anthony Davis. 592 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 2: Scary to see your reporting that said Anthony Davis needed 593 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:33,839 Speaker 2: wheelchair assistance to be relocated to the Laker locker room 594 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,640 Speaker 2: where he needed to be in the bowels of Chase Center. 595 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 2: All signs point to Anthony Davis playing this game six, 596 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,440 Speaker 2: But I mean, how effective will he be? Has he 597 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,959 Speaker 2: really shaken this thing off in record time? Major major 598 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 2: question mark. 599 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,480 Speaker 3: Was it was scary. I'm just being honest. I saw 600 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,279 Speaker 3: ad as he walked off the court and I was 601 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 3: able to follow him to the back before he needed 602 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 3: will share assistance, and his equilibrium was off. He couldn't 603 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 3: really stand up straight. It was a scary sight. Like 604 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 3: I know a lot of people are making light of it, 605 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:18,080 Speaker 3: but that that wasn't a light situation. And so I'm 606 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,439 Speaker 3: you know, I was very surprised, you know, that night 607 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 3: that he didn't suffer a concussion. So that's good news 608 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,000 Speaker 3: for the Lakers. And now he's gonna he will play 609 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 3: in game six. We don't know how effective he will be, 610 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,439 Speaker 3: but he will play in Game six. We were able 611 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 3: to see him walk and leave the arena and at 612 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,800 Speaker 3: that point he was walking fine. He was walking fine, 613 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,759 Speaker 3: but I saw him the way he looked right after that, 614 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 3: and he just did not look right. So that's that's 615 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,680 Speaker 3: pretty much a miracle that he's going to be able 616 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,520 Speaker 3: to play. With that being said, the pressure is on 617 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,439 Speaker 3: the Lakers right now. That's exactly what the Golden State 618 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 3: Warriors want it. And you still it's going to be 619 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 3: tough to close this Golden State Wars team out because 620 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:15,239 Speaker 3: they've been through every scenario imaginable in the postseason. They've 621 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 3: been down, they've been up, They've played with key players 622 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:24,879 Speaker 3: out and performed well and got to win. This will 623 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,520 Speaker 3: not be This will not be an except exception Friday. 624 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:34,040 Speaker 3: I expect a really tough game, really tough and close game. 625 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,640 Speaker 3: I don't expect to blowout from from either team tomorrow. 626 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 3: So I don't know what to expect. I can't even 627 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:46,040 Speaker 3: say I you know, you know, I usually I tend 628 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,600 Speaker 3: to favor the home team. I can't even I can't 629 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,600 Speaker 3: even go there, starn I really do not know what 630 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:51,240 Speaker 3: to expect. 631 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, in these playoffs that have been so topsy turvy, 632 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,080 Speaker 2: so surprised, fieled the year of the lower seed, as 633 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 2: I've been calling it, I mean, yeah, you know, I 634 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:08,520 Speaker 2: guess I'm giving Miami some extra respect because of Jimmy 635 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:12,520 Speaker 2: Butler and Eric Spolstra by my you know, in my 636 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,400 Speaker 2: belief that that they'll be able to close out the 637 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,399 Speaker 2: Knicks in Game six, but any any other series. I mean, 638 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,840 Speaker 2: could Philly pick up all the pieces and win a 639 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,359 Speaker 2: Game seven in Boston this year? Sure? Why not? And 640 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:33,160 Speaker 2: could Golden State undo and pull themselves out of a 641 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:38,400 Speaker 2: three to one hole this season this spring? Why not. 642 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,840 Speaker 2: It's it's you know, almost anything is possible in these 643 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,800 Speaker 2: in these wild playoffs, the age of chaos. As again, 644 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 2: as as Howard Beck called it, I did I did 645 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,520 Speaker 2: see while we're recording this, Kevin Durant just went to 646 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:59,880 Speaker 2: the podium after Phoenix's elimination. The KD quote quote, it sucked. 647 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 2: It was a bad feeling. It was embarrassing. They came 648 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 2: out and hit us in the mouth and we couldn't recover. 649 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 2: Gonna be such an interesting off season in Phoenix. But yeah, 650 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,760 Speaker 2: get getting back to Lakers Warriors. I mean, I certainly, 651 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,439 Speaker 2: I'm you know, I'm I'm far, I'm fifteen hundred miles away. 652 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 2: I'm watching it all on TV like everybody else, And 653 00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,279 Speaker 2: really did expect that Anthony Davis was going to end 654 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,920 Speaker 2: up in the concussion Protocol but he did not the 655 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,279 Speaker 2: Lakers say, I think he's officially probable. Is the is 656 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:32,880 Speaker 2: the listing? 657 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,800 Speaker 3: They listed him probable, but not due to the hair injury. 658 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 4: It was due to a foot injury, so. 659 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:47,279 Speaker 2: It's not even on the injury report. Man. But yes, 660 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,520 Speaker 2: if I'm the Lakers, I would advise them to uh. 661 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,560 Speaker 2: I would advise them to win Game six, don't don't 662 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:57,959 Speaker 2: let this, don't let this go seven, where we saw 663 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 2: what happened in the last Game seven and the mister 664 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 2: Stephen Curry delivered the first fifty point game in Game 665 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,160 Speaker 2: seven history. I wouldn't advise. 666 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,560 Speaker 3: It, not at all. I won't be covering game six, 667 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 3: I'll cover Game seven. That so game six is ESPN 668 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,400 Speaker 3: game and the game seven is an ABC game, So 669 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,799 Speaker 3: if it gets the game seven, I'll cover that. That 670 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,399 Speaker 3: would just be for writing purposes, Bleacher. 671 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,680 Speaker 2: Report and podcast purposes. 672 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,920 Speaker 4: And podcast purposes of course, yes. And then after that, 673 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:36,960 Speaker 4: I'll be on assignment for T and T during the doing, 674 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 4: covering the entire Western Conference Finals. 675 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,120 Speaker 2: And the next time you and I connect for one 676 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 2: of these pods, I will be in Chicago already for 677 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:52,080 Speaker 2: the combine, the G League Draft Combine, and of course 678 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:57,239 Speaker 2: Tuesday's draft lottery brick for Vic Victor Webbin Yama, we 679 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,480 Speaker 2: will finally find out his team after months and months 680 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,080 Speaker 2: and months of anticipation. Wem Bean Yamas season is still 681 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,759 Speaker 2: going in France, so he won't actually be there. He's 682 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,719 Speaker 2: going to have to watch it from Afar himself. But 683 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to it because I've had playoff 684 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,480 Speaker 2: obligations for the last bazillion years. If I've ever been 685 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,960 Speaker 2: to Chicago, I legit can't remember it. I think this 686 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:27,960 Speaker 2: is my maiden trip to the pre draft camp in Chicago. Again, 687 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000 Speaker 2: if I've been to one in the past, I completely 688 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,640 Speaker 2: don't remember. But this will definitely be the closest I've 689 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,200 Speaker 2: ever gotten to the actual lottery. And so this is 690 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:40,400 Speaker 2: one that I figured, with Wembin Yama being at the 691 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:44,760 Speaker 2: top of the list and how badly teams want him, 692 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,720 Speaker 2: a pretty good one for me to make the trip 693 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:49,799 Speaker 2: and check it out. So that's going to do it 694 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,960 Speaker 2: for this edition of this League, uncut, Stein and Haynes 695 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:59,800 Speaker 2: together again. Please please please rate, review and subscribe to 696 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,120 Speaker 2: the sh Show, and we will be back soon with 697 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,440 Speaker 2: all the thoughts on how Round two ended up. A 698 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,080 Speaker 2: look ahead to the conference finals, and a look ahead 699 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:14,920 Speaker 2: to the draft lottery. Talk soon, everybody, and that'll do 700 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:15,440 Speaker 2: it for us. 701 00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,160 Speaker 1: See you next time. This League on cuta IS and 702 00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:20,320 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio production 703 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:26,960 Speaker 2: Chris Haynes and Mark Stein.