# Playoff Jimmy Butler's Return Is BAD News For The NBA

An episode of [Gil's Arena](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1689097415), 16 Apr 2025, 2 h 33 min.

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Playoff Jimmy Butler's Return Is BAD News For The NBA Playoffs according to Gilbert Arenas as Gil & The Gil's Arena Crew react to Jimmy Butler's DOMINANT performance for the Golden State Warriors as they took down the Memphis Grizzlies to advance to the NBA Playoffs and break down how Playoff Jimmy Butler's arrival mixed with the dominance of Steph Curry & Draymond Green sets the Golden State Warriors up for an upset in their first round matchup against the Houston Rockets. They also react to the play-in game in the East where the Atlanta Hawks fell to the Orlando Magic after Trae Young got ejected, forcing the Gil's Arena Crew to ponder if this Magic team has what it takes to overcome the NBA Champion Boston Celtics. Next, they react to reports of Nico Harrison staging a private meeting with the media to discuss the coverage of his all time blunder in the Luka Doncic trade and debate if the Dallas Mavericks GM just needs to own his mistakes at this point. Finally, The Gil's Arena Crew gives their final predictions of the NBA MVP Award and debate if Nikola Jokic's dominant individual season will be overshadowed by Shai Gilgeous Alexander's near perfect campaign when factoring in the success of the OKC Thunder's NBA leading 68 Wins. Please give us a like and subscribe!!! Gil's Arena Crew - Gilbert Arenas, Josiah Johnson, Lexie Brown, Rashad McCants, Sheryl Swoopes, KJ Martin & Kenyon Martin Gil's Arena Merch is Available NOW at https://gilsarenamerch.com/ Sign up for Underdog Fantasy HERE with promo code GIL and get up to $1000 in Bonus Credits and A FREE Pick: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-gil's-arena USE Code GIL10 for 10% off tickets on SeatGeek https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/GIL10 Vote Here For The Webby Awards - https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/creators/individual-creator/sports Join the Playback chat to interact with Gil and Josiah https://www.playback.tv/gilbertarenas SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAvjYgmwadC682OoC4Cc6TQ Join the Underdog discord for access to exclusive giveaways and promos! https://discord.gg/underdog 0:00:00 2 Min Countdown 0:01:54 Show Start 0:09:46 Playoff Jimmy Carried The Warriors 0:24:49 Scariest Duo In The West 0:33:13 Do Jimmy & Steph Need More Help? 0:39:37 The Real Reason The Warriors Benched Kuminga 0:59:12 KJ Martin Enters The Arena 1:00:25 Warriors - Rockets Preview 1:17:27 Magic - Celtics Series Preview 1:33:34 This Is The Lakers Year 1:39:21 Trae Young's HOSTILE Ejection 1:44:27 Nico Harrison Is Standing On Business 2:03:45 Rashad's INSANE MVP Pick 2:29:58 MostlyFans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Welcome back to Gills Arena presented by Underdog.
[0:06] Speaker 2: Glorious Wednesday here in the arena playing underway. Warriors in
[0:12] Speaker 2: the Magic Advance. Other teams fighting for their playoff lives.
[0:17] Speaker 3: How everybody feeling today?
[0:19] Speaker 4: Good.
[0:20] Speaker 5: It's a great day.
[0:22] Speaker 6: It is a great day, a great day to be
[0:24] Speaker 6: in the arena.
[0:25] Speaker 1: Is it Tuesday or Wednesday?
[0:26] Speaker 3: It is Wednesday.
[0:27] Speaker 7: Babe.
[0:28] Speaker 3: You had us working overtime last night.
[0:30] Speaker 7: Hump day.
[0:30] Speaker 3: Hump day.
[0:31] Speaker 5: I guess every day could be hump day, but.
[0:34] Speaker 8: Well, yeah, it should be.
[0:35] Speaker 3: First time.
[0:36] Speaker 8: That's supposed to be the middle of the week, right?
[0:37] Speaker 8: But every day should be hump day. We don't have
[0:41] Speaker 8: off days around here, so.
[0:42] Speaker 5: Yeah, hump day.
[0:43] Speaker 3: It's Wednesday.
[0:44] Speaker 8: It's the middle.
[0:46] Speaker 6: Exactly.
[0:48] Speaker 8: At some point during Wednesday.
[0:49] Speaker 9: At some point during Wednesday.
[0:51] Speaker 7: Okay, okay.
[0:52] Speaker 3: Because the Sunday counts, right? I don't think.
[0:54] Speaker 5: They do the work week.
[0:56] Speaker 3: Oh, the work week.
[0:57] Speaker 6: Every day on Thursday.
[0:58] Speaker 3: Thursday, Friday.
[0:59] Speaker 5: Wednesday of the work week.
[1:00] Speaker 1: Bring your cats to the arena. That shit was hilarious.
[1:04] Speaker 1: That shit was right on time. That's why I haven't
[1:08] Speaker 1: seen it. That shit was right on time.
[1:11] Speaker 2: But this is Gil's Arena presented by Underdog. As always,
[1:13] Speaker 2: we've got the legend Gilbert Arenas here with us. Making
[1:19] Speaker 2: her return to the arena, we got four-time WNBA champion
[1:23] Speaker 2: of the world, Cheryl Swoops.
[1:26] Speaker 1: Back on the couch.
[1:29] Speaker 3: Grand entrance. We don't see you enough.
[1:32] Speaker 6: Do you like the four champs or the three MVPs?
[1:35] Speaker 5: I like all of them.
[1:36] Speaker 1: No, but if we had to say one.
[1:38] Speaker 5: Hall of Famer.
[1:39] Speaker 8: Hall of Famer. That's more important than the other two?
[1:43] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:44] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:44] Speaker 8: Of the other two, though.
[1:46] Speaker 5: After that?
[1:47] Speaker 8: Of the other two.
[1:48] Speaker 6: Hold on, I'm adding it right now.
[1:49] Speaker 5: Four-time Olympic gold medalist.
[1:51] Speaker 8: Before MVP?
[1:52] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:53] Speaker 6: Okay, then after that.
[1:55] Speaker 5: Four-time MVP.
[1:56] Speaker 7: I mean, no.
[1:57] Speaker 5: Four-time WNBA champion.
[1:59] Speaker 1: Oh, because we.
[2:00] Speaker 8: Had the debate on here, like Gil says.
[2:02] Speaker 5: And then I'm doing MVP after that.
[2:05] Speaker 1: So Gil thinks MVP is first.
[2:08] Speaker 7: Of course.
[2:08] Speaker 1: I think I did say that as well.
[2:10] Speaker 5: Oh, you said it?
[2:11] Speaker 6: What?
[2:12] Speaker 8: Because you can stand on that first.
[2:14] Speaker 3: Individual achievement. No, yeah.
[2:17] Speaker 8: We're not going to do it to Rashad. He's having
[2:20] Speaker 8: a hard time.
[2:20] Speaker 1: As long as you put him in there, I don't
[2:22] Speaker 1: really care what order.
[2:25] Speaker 3: On this side of the couch.
[2:26] Speaker 6: You heard him.
[2:28] Speaker 2: We got the man known as Cemetery Larry, NCAA champion
[2:32] Speaker 2: of the world, Rashad McKenzie.
[2:34] Speaker 3: Back in the arena. I just wanted to get that
[2:37] Speaker 3: over with, and then I could laugh with y'all. I
[2:40] Speaker 3: was just waiting.
[2:40] Speaker 1: Just waiting on the thing.
[2:43] Speaker 8: Should have kept your shades on.
[2:45] Speaker 3: I was trying.
[2:46] Speaker 1: Should have kept your shades on. Y'all can see your eyes.
[2:48] Speaker 1: I know now.
[2:49] Speaker 8: See, now you can't hide.
[2:50] Speaker 3: I know, see. I wasn't trying to hide. I was
[2:52] Speaker 3: trying to get it through.
[2:55] Speaker 8: I seen you look at me, see?
[2:57] Speaker 2: And on this side of the couch, the distinguished gentleman
[3:00] Speaker 2: from Oak Cliff, former number one pick, Kenya Martin, back
[3:03] Speaker 2: here with us.
[3:04] Speaker 6: What's up?
[3:08] Speaker 3: In a bittersweet moment. Bittersweet. Lexi, it's your last day.
[3:14] Speaker 5: I need a song.
[3:14] Speaker 9: Yeah.
[3:15] Speaker 3: Oh, why?
[3:16] Speaker 7: Can I get a song when I get back?
[3:17] Speaker 1: We're going to work on that. But we have, making her.
[3:21] Speaker 2: Last day in the arena just for now, WNBA champion
[3:25] Speaker 2: of the world, Seattle Storm Guard, Lexi Brown.
[3:27] Speaker 3: Back with us.
[3:28] Speaker 7: Let's go, Lexi.
[3:31] Speaker 3: Why would I grow up? Lexi, we're going to make
[3:33] Speaker 3: this one count.
[3:34] Speaker 6: Go, Sexy.
[3:34] Speaker 3: Go back to work. Go, Sexy. There you go, Sexy. Lexi.
[3:38] Speaker 7: Okay, we hear that. That's what I would like.
[3:41] Speaker 3: You hear that?
[3:41] Speaker 1: Go, Sexy.
[3:42] Speaker 3: Get it, Sexy.
[3:43] Speaker 7: Daryl called me Sexy Lexi at AU.
[3:45] Speaker 3: I did.
[3:46] Speaker 7: On TV.
[3:46] Speaker 3: Okay.
[3:47] Speaker 7: We're going to try and get it to stick this summer.
[3:49] Speaker 3: Sexy Lexi. We're going to brand it.
[3:51] Speaker 7: Wear shirts. We heart Sexy Lexi.
[3:55] Speaker 2: For all the fans out there, we still have two
[3:57] Speaker 2: viewing options for you. Our traditional version, mobile vertical version.
[4:00] Speaker 2: Pick whichever one you want to watch. Just make sure
[4:01] Speaker 2: you support the show. Here's what's cracking in the arena today.
[4:06] Speaker 2: The Warriors got their first ever play-in win and secured
[4:09] Speaker 2: the seventh seed with a dominant performance from Steph and
[4:11] Speaker 2: Jimmy Buckets. Does Houston have a problem in the first
[4:14] Speaker 2: round of the playoffs? Warriors, the duo looking good. The
[4:18] Speaker 2: rest of the crew, John of the Kaminga.
[4:20] Speaker 5: Such a hater.
[4:21] Speaker 3: We're praying for you, sir. You're a hater. We want
[4:23] Speaker 3: you to get some minutes.
[4:24] Speaker 2: The Magic smacked the Hawks to get the seventh spot
[4:27] Speaker 2: in the East and now face the defending champs in
[4:29] Speaker 2: the first round. What can the Magic do to make
[4:31] Speaker 2: the series competitive against the Celtics? Don't sleep on the Magic,
[4:34] Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. And the NBA awards ballots are filled
[4:38] Speaker 2: out and being counted. Will Jokic's historic individual performance get
[4:42] Speaker 2: overshadowed by SGA in the Thunder's historic season in the
[4:45] Speaker 2: MVP race? We will discuss, but before we get into
[4:47] Speaker 2: all that, As always, this show is brought to you
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[5:34] Speaker 2: speaking of Underdog, as for tonight, Kenyon has some picks
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[5:43] Speaker 2: Voochie Mang, higher, 17.5 points. Bulls taking on the Heat.
[5:49] Speaker 2: Tyler Hero, higher, 5.5 assists. That 9-10 playing game. The Giddler,
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[5:55] Speaker 8: The white man tonight.
[5:57] Speaker 3: All Caucasian tea. All Caucasian tea.
[6:01] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[6:02] Speaker 2: White guy Wednesday. You know what I'm talking about? We
[6:04] Speaker 2: like to say here in the arena.
[6:05] Speaker 3: White boy Wednesday.
[6:06] Speaker 6: White boy Wednesday.
[6:07] Speaker 7: White boy Wednesday.
[6:09] Speaker 3: Is that what it's called? That's what they should have
[6:10] Speaker 3: put up there. So you got the Giddler higher 35.
[6:12] Speaker 3: I had one.
[6:13] Speaker 8: More and I took him off.
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[6:15] Speaker 7: Who's the... How many more?
[6:17] Speaker 3: Oh, shit.
[6:18] Speaker 8: I was going to go with Duck and Robinsons, but listen.
[6:22] Speaker 8: I decided not to. Too white.
[6:24] Speaker 3: Too white. We got the Giller. Yeah.
[6:27] Speaker 6: Too white.
[6:27] Speaker 2: Josh Giddey hired 34.5 points, rebounds, and assists. And DeMontis,
[6:32] Speaker 2: the bonus, hired 19.5 points. So if you use Canyon's
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[6:40] Speaker 2: on the Underdog app. How everybody feeling about these picks tonight?
[6:46] Speaker 2: White man Wednesday. White boy Wednesday in the arena. Dallas
[6:50] Speaker 2: ain't got no bigs. They all hurt.
[6:52] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[6:54] Speaker 7: Only one is a sis. Same with yesterday with Josh.
[6:57] Speaker 4: He didn't get his sis either.
[7:00] Speaker 6: A lot of problems in their front office. And Josh
[7:02] Speaker 6: Giddey been.
[7:03] Speaker 9: Triple doubling them people out there.
[7:05] Speaker 8: He been triple doubling them people out there.
[7:08] Speaker 2: So we asked the chat if they're riding or fading
[7:10] Speaker 2: with your picks. 58% of the chat riding with your
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[7:43] Speaker 2: All right, well, let's get into it. We had some
[7:46] Speaker 2: playing games last night. Let's start with the more exciting
[7:49] Speaker 2: of the two first. So the Grizzlies and Warriors squared
[7:50] Speaker 2: off in the night cap with the Dubs looking to
[7:53] Speaker 2: get their first win in their playing history, 0-3, entering
[7:58] Speaker 2: the game. Last time these two teams met in Memphis
[7:59] Speaker 2: on April 1st, Steph got his get back with 52 points,
[8:03] Speaker 2: 10 boards, 8 dimes, and 5 steals. And the Warriors
[8:06] Speaker 2: win while Jimmy Butler added 27 points in that game.
[8:08] Speaker 2: And Tuesday night, the Warriors dynamic duo show why they
[8:11] Speaker 2: are going to be a problem in their first postseason together.
[8:14] Speaker 2: Let's look at the highlights. So playing Jimmy was in
[8:20] Speaker 2: full effect. Jimmy Buckets had 21 points in the first half,
[8:25] Speaker 2: taking advantage of Grizzlies rookie Zach Eady, who was tasked
[8:28] Speaker 2: with trying to guard him.
[8:29] Speaker 3: The Warriors went with that small ball lineup.
[8:33] Speaker 6: In the game.
[8:34] Speaker 2: And he wanted nothing to do with this man. He
[8:38] Speaker 2: made a mockery of his existence. Former two-time college player
[8:42] Speaker 2: of the year. So Butler led the Warriors with 38 points,
[8:45] Speaker 2: seven rebounds, six assists, and three steals in the game.
[8:49] Speaker 2: So Steph dealing with that janky thumb on his shooting hand.
[8:53] Speaker 2: It bothered him in the fourth quarter.
[8:54] Speaker 3: Of the game.
[8:55] Speaker 2: Did not stop him from getting buckets. 37 points, eight rebounds.
[8:59] Speaker 2: He was nine for 22 from the field. We got
[9:01] Speaker 2: to see this play from John off the backboard to himself.
[9:04] Speaker 3: Doing his thing.
[9:07] Speaker 8: Yo, and Scottie Pippen did as good as a job
[9:09] Speaker 8: that you could possibly do as trying to guard this dude, man.
[9:15] Speaker 6: You know, let's try it.
[9:17] Speaker 1: He tried really hard.
[9:22] Speaker 3: He tried really hard. Ooh, the broken disc.
[9:23] Speaker 2: So it was a scary moment for the Grizzlies late
[9:25] Speaker 2: in the third quarter after Ja got a bucket and
[9:27] Speaker 2: fouled but landed on Buddy Hill's foot, rolled his right ankle.
[9:29] Speaker 2: So Ja returned to the floor, shot a free throw.
[9:34] Speaker 2: But the Grizzlies held it down for 12 in the
[9:36] Speaker 2: fourth quarter. Desmond Mayne was cooking at 30.6 boards, four down.
[9:39] Speaker 2: He's five free from deep. Ja had 22 on 9
[9:41] Speaker 2: and 18 shooting. Jaron Jackson had 18, 6 and 4.
[9:45] Speaker 2: Zach Eady put up a double-double, 14 to 17 rebounds.
[9:49] Speaker 2: Grizzlies were down by as much as 20 in the game.
[9:54] Speaker 2: Took a lead in the fourth quarter for the first
[9:55] Speaker 2: time since the first quarter. Steph did his thing, but
[9:58] Speaker 2: with 5.4 seconds remaining. Grizzlies down by three. In-room head coach,
[10:06] Speaker 2: Tuomas Zalo, trying to draw up a play. Not able
[10:10] Speaker 2: to get the ball in bounds. After the game, Josh
[10:12] Speaker 2: said he was merely a decoy on the play for
[10:15] Speaker 2: that five-second call. Steph went on to hit two free throws,
[10:17] Speaker 2: give the Warriors a five-point lead. Warriors get their first
[10:21] Speaker 2: playing win in franchise history, lock up the seventh seed,
[10:25] Speaker 2: will now face the Rockets in the first round of
[10:27] Speaker 2: the playoffs. After the game, Jimmy Butler had this to
[10:29] Speaker 2: say about how dangerous this Warriors squad is with both
[10:32] Speaker 2: him and Steph out.
[10:34] Speaker 11: As someone who's used to making long runs in the playoffs,
[10:37] Speaker 11: and you guys have had to make this run just
[10:38] Speaker 11: to get to the playoffs, how do you feel about
[10:41] Speaker 11: this group and what you guys are capable of doing?
[10:44] Speaker 3: Shit.
[10:45] Speaker 6: I mean, hell.
[10:46] Speaker 12: I think any team has a chance when I'm on
[10:54] Speaker 12: a team, but I know that every team has a
[10:59] Speaker 12: chance if Steph's on a team.
[11:00] Speaker 3: So.
[11:02] Speaker 12: I get to play Robin. That's my Batman. And I
[11:07] Speaker 12: don't know who else is. We got all the villains
[11:09] Speaker 12: over there, Two-Face and Joker and Riddler, everybody else in
[11:12] Speaker 12: the Western Conference.
[11:14] Speaker 6: But we got a lot of games to win.
[11:17] Speaker 2: So we've talked a lot about this Warrior Squad since
[11:19] Speaker 2: the Jimmy Butler trade. What version of Jimmy we were
[11:21] Speaker 2: going to see come postseason? Obvious playoff Jimmy, a.k.a. playing
[11:26] Speaker 2: Jimmy for this playing game. Still here 38 points, Steph
[11:28] Speaker 2: at 37. What did Steph and Jimmy show the basketball
[11:31] Speaker 2: world in the Warriors playing win over the Grizzlies?
[11:37] Speaker 3: Oh. The Distinguished Gentleman. Oh, you didn't say Kenyon. The
[11:41] Speaker 3: Distinguished Gentleman.
[11:41] Speaker 8: Oh, shit. I'm just trying to figure who you was asking.
[11:46] Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah. Like, really? I throw the lob up. Whoever
[11:50] Speaker 3: wants to grab it and dunk it, go ahead and
[11:51] Speaker 3: get it. Oh, yeah.
[11:52] Speaker 8: No, that's what we were expecting. That's what we said.
[11:55] Speaker 8: For them to have a chance to beat anybody in
[11:57] Speaker 8: the playoffs. them two had to play this way. And
[12:04] Speaker 8: they showed up when they needed it. And in a
[12:08] Speaker 8: crucial moment, every moment to give it away, but showed
[12:17] Speaker 8: winning habits down the stretch. Even with making bonehead plays still,
[12:26] Speaker 8: the turnover Jimmy had jumping in the air, That one,
[12:29] Speaker 8: Steph dribbling to the corner.
[12:31] Speaker 3: Draymond Fowling.
[12:32] Speaker 8: Draymond Fowling, Bane. It's just, like, guys that's veterans, like,
[12:37] Speaker 8: are making plays lately that you, like, hmm.
[12:41] Speaker 3: Like, really, dude?
[12:42] Speaker 8: Like, you've been around too long to be doing that.
[12:45] Speaker 8: But shout out to them for showing up in the
[12:48] Speaker 8: playing game. They've been on through in the playing game.
[12:50] Speaker 8: So it's been tough slating in these games for them.
[12:53] Speaker 1: But it's, yeah.
[12:59] Speaker 7: It's crazy how he can just turn it on like that.
[13:02] Speaker 8: What does Steve Kerr have against... Like, you refused to
[13:05] Speaker 8: put that dude in the game last night when you
[13:07] Speaker 8: could have used him. Like, you threw the other dude in, like,
[13:12] Speaker 8: the other light-skinned dude. I don't know him.
[13:16] Speaker 3: Right?
[13:17] Speaker 1: So what did this dude do? Like, that shit wild
[13:20] Speaker 1: to me.
[13:20] Speaker 8: Draymond in foul trouble, and you don't think you can
[13:23] Speaker 8: use this dude's energy and athleticism in this game when
[13:26] Speaker 8: you're trying to play small ball?
[13:28] Speaker 3: It's called a doghouse. It's an outhouse.
[13:31] Speaker 7: What did he do?
[13:32] Speaker 1: That shit's wild.
[13:35] Speaker 7: Two DNPs in a row.
[13:37] Speaker 3: Draymond's in foul trouble.
[13:39] Speaker 1: Everybody try to figure out why he not playing, but
[13:41] Speaker 1: me and him, no.
[13:42] Speaker 13: DNP.
[13:43] Speaker 2: Coach's decision, Kaminga healthy, was available to play in the
[13:46] Speaker 2: game just like the Clippers game.
[13:47] Speaker 1: Me, coach, and the agent know what's going on. The
[13:50] Speaker 1: only thing stopping me from whooping his ass is this money.
[13:54] Speaker 1: That's the only thing stopping Jason Tatum from whooping his ass.
[13:59] Speaker 1: Trying to embarrass me like that.
[14:02] Speaker 3: He's doing the same thing. How is this not a trend?
[14:04] Speaker 3: How is it acceptable?
[14:08] Speaker 2: Like I said, we're going to talk in depth about
[14:09] Speaker 2: Kaminga in just a moment, but we got to show
[14:11] Speaker 2: some love. The Jimmy buckets and step first. Lexi watching
[14:15] Speaker 2: that game. Watching the Warriors two-headed monster.
[14:17] Speaker 4: I mean, we said that Jimmy was going to show
[14:20] Speaker 4: up in the playoffs. It's just so interesting how he
[14:22] Speaker 4: can just turn it on like that. And obviously it's
[14:24] Speaker 4: not a problem for him, but then everybody else around
[14:27] Speaker 4: him has to figure out how to play around that,
[14:30] Speaker 4: which is why when he doesn't play that way in
[14:32] Speaker 4: the regular season at times, it's confusing because I'm like,
[14:36] Speaker 4: the rest of the team now has to adjust to
[14:38] Speaker 4: you taking 20 shots a game and shooting threes and
[14:43] Speaker 4: being more aggressive.
[14:44] Speaker 7: So I think that's why.
[14:44] Speaker 4: The rest of the team kind of looked a little
[14:47] Speaker 4: out of sorts last night. But Steph and Jimmy carried. But, yeah,
[14:51] Speaker 4: like Kenny said, they, like, made some mistakes that Houston
[14:54] Speaker 4: will make them pay for.
[14:55] Speaker 7: So they got to tighten up.
[14:56] Speaker 3: Let's move to this side, Cheryl.
[14:58] Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler going up against Grizzlies 7'4, rookie center Zach Eaddy.
[15:03] Speaker 2: Seemed like he felt disrespected.
[15:05] Speaker 1: By that matchup.
[15:06] Speaker 2: So seeing Jimmy cook him, what message do you feel
[15:09] Speaker 2: like he sent to that Grizzlies squad?
[15:11] Speaker 5: First of all, who would do that?
[15:15] Speaker 6: An interim head coach with no prior NBA coaching experience.
[15:21] Speaker 6: If only they had a veteran coach there. Maybe he
[15:23] Speaker 6: should be.
[15:24] Speaker 13: Well, I think any player, if you're Jimmy Butler and
[15:28] Speaker 13: you see Edie come out to try to defend you, yeah,
[15:32] Speaker 13: I'm going to take it personally. Like, you've got to
[15:35] Speaker 13: take advantage of that. But to Lexi's point, and Kenya
[15:38] Speaker 13: said the same thing, this is why the Warriors wanted
[15:41] Speaker 13: Jimmy Butler for playoffs for moments like this.
[15:45] Speaker 5: And I love what Jimmy said.
[15:46] Speaker 13: It ain't about being Batman, Robin, all those things, but
[15:49] Speaker 13: I love what he said about if I'm on your team,
[15:53] Speaker 13: you've got a good chance of winning, but with Steph on.
[15:55] Speaker 5: The team, you have a very, very good chance of winning.
[16:00] Speaker 5: I don't like them going up against.
[16:02] Speaker 7: My Rockets, but.
[16:04] Speaker 3: Houston, we have a problem.
[16:05] Speaker 13: I like the way the Warriors look right now.
[16:10] Speaker 2: And, Sha, just looking at Jimmy out there, 38 points.
[16:13] Speaker 2: There's a lot of talk he wasn't shooting the ball
[16:15] Speaker 2: as much. More facilitator after the game. He commented that,
[16:18] Speaker 2: you know, people want him to shoot more threes. But
[16:20] Speaker 2: he said, F that, basically. I'm trying to get to
[16:22] Speaker 2: the hoop, get these layups. What do you think about
[16:25] Speaker 2: Jimmy's performance out there?
[16:29] Speaker 1: I think he took what the defense gave him based
[16:31] Speaker 1: on poor coaching. poor coaching strategy. You go small, you
[16:36] Speaker 1: go small. You've got a lineup that can match Jimmy
[16:39] Speaker 1: Butler being matched up with Jaron Jackson Jr., who's your
[16:43] Speaker 1: best defensive player anyway. So it was just a chess
[16:50] Speaker 1: game out there, even though I don't think Steve is
[16:52] Speaker 1: the best chess player. He just outwitted them with the
[16:56] Speaker 1: game plan, which is to To force Jada to do
[17:00] Speaker 1: things he wasn't supposed to do, turn the ball over
[17:02] Speaker 1: in crucial moments of the game. Bane didn't really get
[17:06] Speaker 1: his rhythm going until, I'm thinking third quarter. He ended
[17:12] Speaker 1: up with 30, but 30-something.
[17:14] Speaker 3: Yeah, 30. 30. But he was the only one that
[17:16] Speaker 3: really had it going.
[17:18] Speaker 1: And I just don't like the thought that Jimmy thinks
[17:22] Speaker 1: that Batman and Robin can get it done in today's basketball.
[17:26] Speaker 1: You need Justice League players. You need Batman and Superman.
[17:32] Speaker 1: You need Iron Man coming in and assisting sometimes when he.
[17:36] Speaker 3: On his break.
[17:36] Speaker 7: What about Wonder Woman?
[17:37] Speaker 3: Wonder Woman got to pull up and cheer on the side.
[17:40] Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying? Pom-poms ready. You know what
[17:43] Speaker 3: I'm saying? Yeah, she got to be ready.
[17:45] Speaker 7: For what?
[17:45] Speaker 3: Pom-poms ready.
[17:46] Speaker 7: Wonder Woman doesn't have pom-poms.
[17:48] Speaker 13: She has a lasso.
[17:50] Speaker 3: The rope. Yeah. Same thing. No. Same thing. No, it's not. No,
[17:54] Speaker 3: it's not a lasso.
[17:55] Speaker 5: It's the same thing.
[17:56] Speaker 3: Go team go. Go team go.
[17:58] Speaker 1: It's just not working no more, so I think that
[18:00] Speaker 1: him placing himself as Robin is just not.
[18:04] Speaker 3: You're not feeling him saying.
[18:05] Speaker 1: No, he's saying happily, like, I'll let Batman do what
[18:10] Speaker 1: Batman does. Steph's not going to be able to do
[18:13] Speaker 1: it by herself. That's a situation.
[18:15] Speaker 13: He just said, I'm the Robin to his Batman, but
[18:17] Speaker 13: he wasn't saying I'm going to let him.
[18:19] Speaker 3: He said, that's my Batman.
[18:20] Speaker 4: Does that mean, does Jimmy always wanted to be Robin?
[18:22] Speaker 6: Yes. Yes.
[18:23] Speaker 3: That's why he said, that's my Batman. What's wrong with that?
[18:26] Speaker 7: So how come they kept putting him in situations to
[18:28] Speaker 7: be Batman?
[18:29] Speaker 8: Because he was trying to get another guy and he just,
[18:31] Speaker 8: he plays better in this role.
[18:33] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[18:34] Speaker 3: He said, I don't want to be.
[18:35] Speaker 7: He's always just had not great Batmans.
[18:38] Speaker 8: Because he don't want to be, he don't have to
[18:40] Speaker 8: carry it every night.
[18:40] Speaker 3: He don't want to be Thor.
[18:41] Speaker 6: Right?
[18:41] Speaker 8: He don't want to have to. But he wants to,
[18:43] Speaker 8: in the big moments, he wants to.
[18:46] Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, there's nothing wrong with wanting to be Robin.
[18:48] Speaker 7: You're a great Robin.
[18:48] Speaker 5: Well, that's what I'm asking. What's wrong with that, though?
[18:51] Speaker 3: When you were already Hulk.
[18:55] Speaker 5: But it's a different team and a different role.
[18:57] Speaker 1: Obviously.
[18:58] Speaker 5: So what's wrong with him saying he's the Robin?
[19:01] Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with him saying he's a Robin.
[19:03] Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with him saying that's my Batman.
[19:09] Speaker 2: Gil, we watched the game on playback last night. Candidly,
[19:12] Speaker 2: we were very distracted.
[19:13] Speaker 8: Yes, y'all were.
[19:14] Speaker 2: There were some other situations going on, some surprise guests
[19:16] Speaker 2: pulling up to the playback.
[19:17] Speaker 6: All hail Jimmy. I cannot say anything else about his game.
[19:23] Speaker 6: I'm done questioning this man. When it counts, he delivered.
[19:32] Speaker 6: and it just shows you how talented he really is
[19:37] Speaker 6: right you know as frustrating you know you can get
[19:42] Speaker 6: with him because you know the capability of it and
[19:45] Speaker 6: you start questioning who he is and questioning why he
[19:48] Speaker 6: didn't get paid and then when it counts, he's like, hello.
[19:52] Speaker 8: Thanks for the extension.
[19:55] Speaker 3: Thanks for the extension. I'm about to show you, right?
[19:58] Speaker 8: You know, to really, you know.
[20:02] Speaker 6: Come out there and be docile for most of here
[20:06] Speaker 6: just to learn the offense to then show his potential
[20:10] Speaker 6: is amazing to see. You know, most of his turnovers
[20:13] Speaker 6: came from trying to pass when he had the advantage
[20:20] Speaker 6: of shooting, right? So, you know, when you look at
[20:22] Speaker 6: some of the turnovers he made, he's going in to
[20:25] Speaker 6: have the shot, and then he's, you know, making that pass.
[20:28] Speaker 6: Same thing with a corner play. He's in the middle
[20:30] Speaker 6: getting ready to, and then he tries to, you know,
[20:33] Speaker 6: make that pass. So, you know, for the most part,
[20:36] Speaker 6: I mean, he played excellent. How he carried that heat
[20:41] Speaker 6: team is exactly the guy we saw.
[20:43] Speaker 2: So, Gil, on a separate note, the chat wanted me
[20:45] Speaker 2: to ask you this. They wanted to know how come
[20:47] Speaker 2: you're dressed like you're about to play Squid Game.
[20:51] Speaker 3: Player zero. This is the chat, Gil. It's not me.
[20:54] Speaker 3: You know, I'm a fan of all your outfits. You
[20:56] Speaker 3: do cut the check.
[20:57] Speaker 7: Gil, I think you look nice, though.
[20:58] Speaker 3: I like it. I like it. I like the look, Gil.
[21:00] Speaker 7: Look, Gil, like, fit. You look like you finna go
[21:02] Speaker 7: on a run or something.
[21:03] Speaker 3: Representing the beautiful country of Mexico.
[21:05] Speaker 6: You sure you said that in there? You sure you
[21:07] Speaker 6: said that? I just made it up.
[21:08] Speaker 7: Is that how you did it?
[21:10] Speaker 3: That Gil Gress is with him.
[21:11] Speaker 6: He might have made that up.
[21:12] Speaker 3: He might have made that up.
[21:13] Speaker 1: Make up a lot of shit over there behind the computer, man.
[21:17] Speaker 3: I'm dead on. I'm dead on.
[21:19] Speaker 1: He's typing this shit up. Like, I'm about to say this.
[21:21] Speaker 1: Y'all cool? I'm going to say this? I would never. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
[21:26] Speaker 3: Here we go.
[21:26] Speaker 2: I would never play with your office, good with the chat.
[21:29] Speaker 3: I agree.
[21:29] Speaker 1: I'm done.
[21:29] Speaker 6: I can say that right now. As soon as they
[21:31] Speaker 6: say stop, this knee is moving.
[21:33] Speaker 5: Because you are like.
[21:35] Speaker 7: You're done.
[21:35] Speaker 1: Because you're hard-hitting.
[21:37] Speaker 7: From head to toe.
[21:38] Speaker 3: Huh?
[21:39] Speaker 5: I said, because you're coordinating.
[21:40] Speaker 3: You are coordinating.
[21:41] Speaker 7: Did y'all watch Squid Game?
[21:42] Speaker 5: I like it.
[21:43] Speaker 3: Got to coordinate.
[21:43] Speaker 7: Would you have won, you think?
[21:46] Speaker 3: What?
[21:46] Speaker 7: What game would have taken you out?
[21:47] Speaker 6: Squid Light, Green Light.
[21:49] Speaker 3: Really?
[21:49] Speaker 5: You said Red Light, Green Light?
[21:50] Speaker 6: I can't stand that long.
[21:51] Speaker 7: I would have gotten through that.
[21:53] Speaker 6: No.
[21:53] Speaker 7: Really?
[21:54] Speaker 8: I can't stand that long. I can't run full speed.
[21:56] Speaker 3: I'm done. Marvel, all of that shit.
[22:00] Speaker 6: I should be spacious, but I mean, for the most part, nah,
[22:03] Speaker 6: I'm good. I can beat them.
[22:05] Speaker 3: That was unnecessary, but... It was. Let's get back to basketball.
[22:12] Speaker 6: If this was black, we all did. You know, they're
[22:14] Speaker 6: going to be pushing this shit.
[22:17] Speaker 4: They were pushing each other in the show.
[22:20] Speaker 3: That shit would have been over.
[22:21] Speaker 6: It would have all been red light, green light.
[22:22] Speaker 3: It would have been over. It would have been the last...
[22:27] Speaker 3: So back to basketball. My mama.
[22:30] Speaker 6: My mama.
[22:31] Speaker 3: There you go. I should have kept to myself.
[22:33] Speaker 2: But Kawhi Harden did work in the Clippers season finale
[22:35] Speaker 2: win over the Warriors Sunday. Luka and LeBron have been
[22:37] Speaker 2: elite in helping the Lakers secure the three seeds. You've
[22:40] Speaker 2: got SGA Jalen Williams also doing their thing. The Young
[22:43] Speaker 2: Boys and OKC. But are Steph and Playoff Jimmy the
[22:45] Speaker 2: scariest duo in the West right now?
[22:47] Speaker 3: No.
[22:50] Speaker 6: I was wondering why you just named me those other people,
[22:52] Speaker 6: then you just said what?
[22:53] Speaker 3: We playing NBA jams. NBA jams.
[22:56] Speaker 2: Steph and Playoff Jimmy, scariest duo in the West right now.
[22:59] Speaker 2: Saw them last night combined for 75 points.
[23:00] Speaker 8: No.
[23:02] Speaker 7: I think I'm going Kawhi and James Harden, maybe.
[23:06] Speaker 3: The claw and the beard.
[23:08] Speaker 5: Kawhi and James look good. I forgot about Kawhi and James.
[23:10] Speaker 3: Huh?
[23:11] Speaker 5: They look good.
[23:11] Speaker 1: If we're being.
[23:14] Speaker 3: Honest, I hate to say it. You got to say it, King.
[23:18] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[23:19] Speaker 5: What'd you say? Yes.
[23:20] Speaker 6: No. No?
[23:21] Speaker 7: Oh, you're going to say Luka and Bron.
[23:23] Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah. Wait, wait. What was that?
[23:26] Speaker 7: What was that?
[23:27] Speaker 3: Lexi said it.
[23:28] Speaker 1: I did.
[23:28] Speaker 6: Why are you bringing up the words?
[23:30] Speaker 3: Luka and Bron.
[23:32] Speaker 8: She said it.
[23:32] Speaker 7: Luka and Bron.
[23:34] Speaker 6: What were they ranked? I'm saying right now, playoff mode activated. Yes,
[23:40] Speaker 6: I'm saying.
[23:40] Speaker 7: I don't know. I'm still rocking the same since.
[23:44] Speaker 6: Hawaii right now. They'll probably be in front of Shea
[23:48] Speaker 6: and Williams.
[23:49] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[23:51] Speaker 4: I mean, I think Kawhi and Harden and Luka and
[23:54] Speaker 4: LeBron might be like.
[23:56] Speaker 6: I mean, you can just add anybody with Jokic and
[23:58] Speaker 6: you in front.
[24:00] Speaker 7: So that technically doesn't count.
[24:02] Speaker 3: Jokic, JPJ, you're going to be.
[24:06] Speaker 1: Like, Jokic. Jokic, Christian Brown, Jokic.
[24:09] Speaker 7: I like Jokic.
[24:11] Speaker 4: But would you put Jokic in whatever Denver player in
[24:14] Speaker 4: front of Shea and Jalen?
[24:16] Speaker 7: Jokic and Curry?
[24:18] Speaker 3: Probably.
[24:18] Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll put Steph and Jimmy as three on that,
[24:25] Speaker 8: two or three on the list. I'm going Bron and
[24:27] Speaker 8: Luka first.
[24:28] Speaker 3: Wow. Beautiful, Kenya.
[24:32] Speaker 1: I didn't say the whole fucking team now. Don't get
[24:36] Speaker 1: beside yourself. Very close to the whole fucking team.
[24:39] Speaker 8: Two guys.
[24:42] Speaker 3: Ebony or ivory?
[24:44] Speaker 8: Yeah, but James and Kawhi are scary. That's a scary thing.
[24:49] Speaker 8: Because Kawhi, yeah, once he's looking.
[24:52] Speaker 1: He's locked in.
[24:52] Speaker 8: Yeah, but I'm going to go with Bron and Luka.
[24:55] Speaker 8: Scariest duo.
[24:56] Speaker 2: So where do you put Steph and Jimmy Buckets amongst
[25:00] Speaker 2: the scariest duos in the Western Conference right now? At
[25:02] Speaker 2: this point right now, playoff mode activated.
[25:04] Speaker 3: They're not scary at all. No fear?
[25:07] Speaker 7: Not scary at all.
[25:08] Speaker 5: I didn't like that.
[25:09] Speaker 3: Y'all take that one little game like we're supposed to
[25:12] Speaker 3: run and hide? No.
[25:13] Speaker 1: No, since they've been there, they're on the low for
[25:16] Speaker 1: nine games. I think they were 21-7 with the all-star break.
[25:21] Speaker 2: Something like 24-5, somewhere around that. With Jimmy in the lineup.
[25:26] Speaker 8: It's good, man.
[25:29] Speaker 6: Stop it.
[25:31] Speaker 3: Stop it, man.
[25:32] Speaker 6: No fear for Steph and Jimmy locked in like that?
[25:35] Speaker 3: Russell Westbrook and Joker. You're going with Russ?
[25:38] Speaker 7: That's a good one.
[25:39] Speaker 8: Okay.
[25:40] Speaker 3: I mean, come on. We're talking basketball.
[25:42] Speaker 8: Okay, I'm with you.
[25:44] Speaker 3: Talking basketball. So, yes. Championship. Yeah, I'm with you. Shit.
[25:49] Speaker 1: To the rack. We're going to the rack with this one.
[25:51] Speaker 1: And Murray healthy. We're not playing. We heard y'all. We
[25:55] Speaker 1: heard y'all.
[25:56] Speaker 3: Yeah. We get to back to burping them babies again.
[25:59] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[26:01] Speaker 8: Oh, he's been here.
[26:02] Speaker 3: He gets to back to burping them babies. Oh, he's
[26:04] Speaker 3: been here.
[26:06] Speaker 8: At the daycare, never close.
[26:07] Speaker 1: We heard you loud and clear. Russ heard you loud
[26:10] Speaker 1: and clear. Jamal Murray heard you loud and clear.
[26:13] Speaker 3: Cool.
[26:14] Speaker 8: Yeah, because Murph was the first one who was out
[26:17] Speaker 8: here rocking.
[26:18] Speaker 3: He just... No longer in Los Angeles.
[26:20] Speaker 6: I'm going to rock him, you burp him.
[26:21] Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely.
[26:22] Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
[26:24] Speaker 1: You sit there like this.
[26:26] Speaker 12: Burping.
[26:31] Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be a funny celebration.
[26:38] Speaker 3: That is the celebration. He did.
[26:44] Speaker 8: I think we're not here. I think in Oklahoma City,
[26:46] Speaker 8: I think he passed it. He passed the baby before,
[26:49] Speaker 8: but ain't nobody, ain't nobody ever took it this far
[26:52] Speaker 8: to burp him yet.
[26:53] Speaker 4: Listen, when yoga's just like, I want to break your
[26:55] Speaker 4: triple double record. So they're aware. So I feel like
[26:59] Speaker 4: if he throws it to Yogi, she might participate.
[27:03] Speaker 2: Yogi just might let the baby draw. So Cheryl, Steph
[27:11] Speaker 2: and Jimmy Butler, scary duo in the West? The rest
[27:13] Speaker 2: of the couch, not really.
[27:14] Speaker 13: I don't know if they're the scariest. I'm never going
[27:19] Speaker 13: to go against Wardell. But I like the Lucas Braun, too.
[27:27] Speaker 3: That's a lot to like.
[27:28] Speaker 5: I don't want to say it, but I do.
[27:30] Speaker 8: Because any given game, they both can have triple-doubles.
[27:32] Speaker 7: I do, yeah.
[27:33] Speaker 1: Like, I can, yeah, because they're going to control this thing. Yeah.
[27:39] Speaker 3: Shasta, you're shaking your head.
[27:40] Speaker 7: You're also not high on Bron.
[27:41] Speaker 3: Not worried about him?
[27:42] Speaker 8: Of course he's not.
[27:43] Speaker 5: No, he's not.
[27:45] Speaker 3: There's no basketball. Of course he's not.
[27:46] Speaker 6: No basketball.
[27:47] Speaker 3: What does that mean? Yeah, you said you have no
[27:49] Speaker 3: more criticism.
[27:50] Speaker 7: He's not a top, they're not the top three duo.
[27:51] Speaker 3: In the West?
[27:52] Speaker 8: So going, they are, their numbers are.
[27:57] Speaker 3: They're what? Across the board, better than everybody.
[27:59] Speaker 5: Which means what?
[28:00] Speaker 2: You said you have no more criticism for Jimmy Butler. Obviously,
[28:04] Speaker 2: we know how you feel about Steph. No, no, no, no, no.
[28:07] Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler is... Jimmy's real. I was watching.
[28:16] Speaker 3: He's real.
[28:20] Speaker 6: I mean.
[28:22] Speaker 2: You like that duo in the West, or are you
[28:23] Speaker 2: giving Harden, Kawhi, or LeBron, Luka the nod? We also
[28:26] Speaker 2: got Jalen Green and Shane Goon.
[28:27] Speaker 6: I was about to say. I mean, just for a duo.
[28:29] Speaker 6: I mean, no duo is going to beat anybody in
[28:34] Speaker 6: the West. It's still the rest of the team. And
[28:38] Speaker 6: just watching last night.
[28:40] Speaker 1: They both are going to have to score 50.
[28:46] Speaker 3: Each combined?
[28:47] Speaker 8: Yeah.
[28:48] Speaker 6: Y'all got to look at each other and be like– 60-40,
[28:54] Speaker 6: or there's going to be a relationship. 50-50, whatever this
[28:57] Speaker 6: is about to be, it's going to be us. The rest,
[28:59] Speaker 6: they're going to have to get in where they fit
[29:01] Speaker 6: in because they're not. Nobody's paying attention to the other ones.
[29:04] Speaker 6: Is that a sustainable strategy?
[29:06] Speaker 7: No, it's not.
[29:07] Speaker 5: It's not sustainable, but that's all we can do.
[29:10] Speaker 3: If you're a good coach... Steve Curry, good coach?
[29:13] Speaker 8: He'll have the average 27, 28 apiece.
[29:16] Speaker 3: Because your two main guys are occupied. Yeah. So Steve Kerr,
[29:20] Speaker 3: got to be ready with some adjustments, we feel like.
[29:22] Speaker 8: You're going to have to play the dude, man. Listen, dog.
[29:25] Speaker 8: They playing, listen, dog. All that shit that they talking
[29:31] Speaker 8: about Kaminga, you're going to have to play him against Houston.
[29:34] Speaker 3: Because one thing.
[29:35] Speaker 8: They have is a fucking young athlete.
[29:36] Speaker 1: Yes.
[29:38] Speaker 3: Throw Post out there if you want.
[29:40] Speaker 1: Want to.
[29:40] Speaker 8: Yeah. Jabari going to shoot his face off. He's going
[29:44] Speaker 8: to go by him.
[29:45] Speaker 3: You're playing a rookie over that man. Let's talk about this. Well,
[29:50] Speaker 3: against Eddie, I understand. You got Looney over there.
[29:54] Speaker 8: No, Looney can't do... Looney can do nothing with him.
[29:57] Speaker 3: He ain't had nothing to give him. But... Edie ain't
[29:59] Speaker 3: ready for that type of block.
[30:00] Speaker 8: But the other boys sell him one, sell him two.
[30:03] Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
[30:04] Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler was guarding him. Jimmy was guarding him and
[30:08] Speaker 1: J-Mine was guarding him. He wouldn't... You got to teach
[30:10] Speaker 1: him how to be dominant. He ain't like that yet.
[30:13] Speaker 8: But Post is looking him eye to eye, basically. Looney, like,
[30:17] Speaker 8: it's a difference somebody out there your size, whether you
[30:20] Speaker 8: looking over the top of nigga's head.
[30:22] Speaker 1: Kaminga out there, they got to make a real adjustment
[30:27] Speaker 1: with Kaminga and Jimmy Butler on the floor at the
[30:29] Speaker 1: same time doing the same shit. He defends too, dog.
[30:33] Speaker 1: He athletic as fuck. You're going to have to.
[30:35] Speaker 8: Play him, dog. I hear you, Steve Kerr. So you
[30:41] Speaker 8: already fucked with his money already.
[30:44] Speaker 7: Not yet.
[30:47] Speaker 3: Not enough. You got to move them around.
[30:52] Speaker 7: But Steve said he doesn't know how to do that,
[30:54] Speaker 7: which I.
[30:55] Speaker 3: Think is great to openly admit that.
[30:57] Speaker 2: He didn't have to do it yet, but we asked
[30:58] Speaker 2: the chatter, Steph and Jimmy Scares do on the West. 66%
[31:01] Speaker 2: said no. The chat said that LeBron and Luka... are
[31:06] Speaker 2: the scariest duo, 62%. Jimmy and Steph second at 18%.
[31:08] Speaker 2: Kawhi and Hart at 16%. Jokic and Murray 4%. So
[31:12] Speaker 2: talked about Jimmy Butler and Steph. They combined for 75
[31:14] Speaker 2: of the Warriors, 121 points. Other three starters combined for
[31:18] Speaker 2: 16 points.
[31:19] Speaker 7: That's not going to cut it.
[31:20] Speaker 2: So Warriors got some solid play from the bench. Gary
[31:22] Speaker 2: Payton the second. Ricky Quinn post combined for 23 points.
[31:25] Speaker 2: Is the Warriors supporting cast strong enough to make them
[31:28] Speaker 2: a legit threat this postseason?
[31:30] Speaker 8: It can be.
[31:31] Speaker 7: You put Kaminga back in.
[31:32] Speaker 1: Right?
[31:34] Speaker 3: It can be.
[31:36] Speaker 8: But, like I said, them dudes going to have to
[31:43] Speaker 8: play excellent basketball. Jim and Steph are going to have
[31:46] Speaker 8: to play like all-star, all-NBA caliber basketball in these playoffs,
[31:55] Speaker 8: which is averaging 27, 28 apiece in order to advance,
[32:00] Speaker 8: in order to make noise. Now they're going to have
[32:02] Speaker 8: to play out their mind, play like they just did consistently.
[32:08] Speaker 8: You got to get some more production. I know this
[32:10] Speaker 8: is a big ask, but you got to get some
[32:15] Speaker 8: offensive production from Draymond somehow. If he's going to be
[32:19] Speaker 8: out there. If he's going to be out there, you
[32:20] Speaker 8: got to get something out of it. Let's talk about
[32:22] Speaker 8: the elephant, though.
[32:22] Speaker 6: 12 minutes.
[32:23] Speaker 3: Buddy Hill.
[32:23] Speaker 8: You need a Jordan Poole.
[32:24] Speaker 3: You need a.
[32:37] Speaker 1: Instant offense, unpredictable time bomb, can come in, give you 20,
[32:42] Speaker 1: give you 15. One, they're not running no plays for him.
[32:47] Speaker 1: When he get in, he got to shoot quick. just
[32:50] Speaker 1: to maintain his minutes. He ain't got to shoot it
[32:53] Speaker 1: that goddamn quick.
[32:53] Speaker 3: He has to. Because he already shoot quick.
[32:56] Speaker 8: The way he shoot that.
[32:57] Speaker 3: He already shoot quick.
[32:58] Speaker 1: So think about my mentality now that I'm like, man,
[33:00] Speaker 1: I don't know how long I'm going to be out here.
[33:03] Speaker 1: I got to get three. I'm used to getting six up.
[33:05] Speaker 1: I got to get three. I got two minutes. I
[33:07] Speaker 1: get three up.
[33:08] Speaker 3: Oh, he is.
[33:08] Speaker 1: I'm going to get him up. I'm going to sit
[33:10] Speaker 1: over here and feel good about it. I'm going to
[33:13] Speaker 1: feel good about it.
[33:14] Speaker 3: Thanks, Steve.
[33:16] Speaker 1: But you need a guy like him to be like,
[33:18] Speaker 1: you don't have a clay. You don't have a Jordan Poole.
[33:22] Speaker 1: You got a Moses Moody. You got a Pajinsky. You
[33:26] Speaker 1: got a Kaminga. You have to switch up your mentality
[33:29] Speaker 1: as a coach on how you actually regulate. Bro, what
[33:32] Speaker 1: are you doing? You're not segmenting, putting all the load
[33:35] Speaker 1: on Jimmy and Steph to score, score, score.
[33:39] Speaker 3: I look at Steph's workout regimen. It's all threes. All
[33:43] Speaker 3: he's doing is shooting threes because that's their offense.
[33:46] Speaker 1: Yep.
[33:47] Speaker 3: So you stop them from shooting threes.
[33:48] Speaker 8: What they got?
[33:49] Speaker 7: He did shoot a lot of free throws yesterday.
[33:50] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[33:52] Speaker 1: Jimmy did too. But think about Kaminga being in there
[33:55] Speaker 1: and double the production. You throw Buddy out there, he
[33:57] Speaker 1: gets open shots instead of forced shots. I think that's
[34:01] Speaker 1: better for them. All right, well, let's talk a little bit.
[34:05] Speaker 8: Go ahead, Cheryl. Sorry.
[34:06] Speaker 5: No, I was going to say, so who do you
[34:08] Speaker 5: put in Buddy's place?
[34:11] Speaker 3: Buddy's not starting right now, so he's coming off the bench.
[34:14] Speaker 3: I would start Buddy.
[34:15] Speaker 7: So who do you give the.
[34:16] Speaker 5: Those minutes too.
[34:17] Speaker 7: You would start Buddy instead of Moody?
[34:19] Speaker 3: I would start Buddy.
[34:20] Speaker 7: Over Moody? You'd start Buddy.
[34:22] Speaker 3: I'd start Buddy. Buddy is the one of the guys,
[34:24] Speaker 3: he starts quick.
[34:25] Speaker 1: If you get him going, he's going to be ready
[34:28] Speaker 1: for you all night long.
[34:29] Speaker 3: But it ain't about the offense with Moody. What do
[34:32] Speaker 3: you mean?
[34:33] Speaker 7: He's out there for defense.
[34:35] Speaker 8: He started on Ja. He started on the other guy's best.
[34:39] Speaker 8: That's cool, too, but our defense is a scheme.
[34:43] Speaker 1: But our defense is a scheme for Moody to be
[34:45] Speaker 1: on Ja like that. Ja's not our... He's not Steph.
[34:49] Speaker 1: Ja's not Steph, so we can have Buddy run around
[34:51] Speaker 1: on Ja. We're not trying to lock Ja down. Because
[34:56] Speaker 1: Ja's going to do what he did last night. What'd
[34:59] Speaker 1: Ja do last night?
[35:00] Speaker 8: He didn't get by him in the phone.
[35:02] Speaker 3: What'd Ja do last night?
[35:04] Speaker 6: He hurt himself.
[35:04] Speaker 2: He did hurt himself. Buddy Hill's most impactful play was
[35:07] Speaker 2: putting his foot in the landing area.
[35:09] Speaker 3: Not at all if you watch the game. Ja was
[35:12] Speaker 3: supposed to get open.
[35:13] Speaker 6: One.
[35:14] Speaker 3: Could have got open. Didn't get open.
[35:16] Speaker 8: Two.
[35:17] Speaker 3: The last play. That last play.
[35:19] Speaker 2: So after the game, Ja was assaulting the locker room,
[35:22] Speaker 2: said I was a decoy on the play.
[35:23] Speaker 3: I don't know. He could say what he won't. Go
[35:26] Speaker 3: get the ball. But before that, there were plays that
[35:29] Speaker 3: he made that.
[35:30] Speaker 14: It's down the stretch. It's down the stretch shit. But
[35:34] Speaker 14: coaching fixes that. Coaching fixes all of those mistakes. And
[35:38] Speaker 14: I feel like there's at a disadvantage just because the dude.
[35:42] Speaker 1: Guy didn't know what Steve was doing. He didn't know
[35:44] Speaker 1: how to segment those. I think Taylor Jenkins would have done.
[35:52] Speaker 8: Starting Buddy Hill, though, that doesn't do nothing for me.
[35:57] Speaker 1: Jimmy driving, Buddy spaced out. You need another spacer. You
[36:00] Speaker 1: only got Steph.
[36:01] Speaker 8: Can't have him and Steph out there defensively, bro.
[36:03] Speaker 3: That's Klay Thompson. Who?
[36:05] Speaker 8: No, he's not.
[36:06] Speaker 3: Buddy Hill is Klay Thompson right now.
[36:09] Speaker 8: Klay plays defense.
[36:11] Speaker 3: Buddy Hill is a body.
[36:12] Speaker 8: Klay used to guard the other guy, other team's best
[36:14] Speaker 8: perimeter offensive player.
[36:17] Speaker 3: Nah, Moses Moody doing that. Moses Moody ain't no better
[36:19] Speaker 3: defender than fucking Buddy Hill. Yes, he is. No, he ain't.
[36:22] Speaker 8: Or he would have threw him out there.
[36:23] Speaker 3: No, he ain't. He threw him out there because he
[36:25] Speaker 3: don't like Buddy.
[36:25] Speaker 6: Okay.
[36:27] Speaker 3: They do have some issues.
[36:28] Speaker 13: I know.
[36:28] Speaker 6: Is Buddy a free agent?
[36:30] Speaker 7: Wait, who doesn't like Buddy?
[36:31] Speaker 3: Steve.
[36:32] Speaker 7: Does Steve like any other players?
[36:35] Speaker 6: I look at money because he was starting at the
[36:37] Speaker 6: beginning of the season.
[36:37] Speaker 3: Yeah, Buddy Hill, no, he's under contract.
[36:39] Speaker 2: He's got a player option in 2027, but under contract for.
[36:41] Speaker 6: The next two seasons. It was 12-3 when he was starting.
[36:44] Speaker 1: Buddy?
[36:45] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[36:45] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[36:48] Speaker 6: I don't even know what Moody has to do with it.
[36:50] Speaker 6: It's Pazinski. Why is Pazinski starting when he's supposed to be...
[36:52] Speaker 6: That's the one. He's supposed to be the Jordan Poole
[36:55] Speaker 6: that comes in that changes.
[36:57] Speaker 3: The offense because it's about him. So is Jimmy playing
[36:59] Speaker 3: the four? And Moody's playing the three? Yes, today. Boom.
[37:02] Speaker 1: Get him out of there.
[37:03] Speaker 3: Get him out of there.
[37:09] Speaker 1: You can still keep Moody in there. Let Moody still play.
[37:12] Speaker 1: You got Buddy at the end. You got Buddy Hill.
[37:14] Speaker 1: I'll roll with you in that one. You got a
[37:15] Speaker 1: better lineup. It's a better lineup with more firepower. You
[37:19] Speaker 1: got more threats on the floor. Because if Buddy get hot,
[37:22] Speaker 1: Buddy get hot, it's over. But if he don't, then what?
[37:25] Speaker 3: Well, now you sub him.
[37:27] Speaker 6: It was balling.
[37:27] Speaker 3: But if you don't get him.
[37:28] Speaker 6: You sub him.
[37:28] Speaker 5: At the beginning.
[37:29] Speaker 3: Sub early. Sub early. Get him out of there. We
[37:31] Speaker 3: change the move.
[37:32] Speaker 6: I got you.
[37:33] Speaker 2: So, speaking of coaching decisions, let's talk Kaminga. So we
[37:38] Speaker 2: hit Kaminga a little bit earlier, but Jonathan Kaminga got
[37:39] Speaker 2: his second straight DNP. As a reminder, he's a restricted
[37:43] Speaker 2: free agent this summer. Gil, you said he should have
[37:45] Speaker 2: took the Warriors offer before the extension deadline back in October.
[37:49] Speaker 2: Reports were Kaminga was looking for a deal in the
[37:51] Speaker 2: $ 35 million per year range, and the Warriors were offering
[37:54] Speaker 2: something in the ballpark of $ 30 million per season. So
[37:56] Speaker 2: about a $ 5 million difference per year, which I think $ 20,
[37:59] Speaker 2: $ 25 million over the life of the contract. You predicted
[38:03] Speaker 2: the team would do something to diminish his value. Kaminga
[38:06] Speaker 2: obviously hurt early January through March. Came back and kind
[38:10] Speaker 2: of ramped it back up. Kaminga not getting any burn
[38:13] Speaker 2: in the two biggest games of the season would seem
[38:15] Speaker 2: to indicate the diminishment of his value. Can the Warriors
[38:19] Speaker 2: afford to keep Benji Kaminga if they want to make
[38:21] Speaker 2: a deep playoff run?
[38:23] Speaker 6: You said afford.
[38:26] Speaker 3: Deliberately.
[38:26] Speaker 7: Technically, yes.
[38:27] Speaker 3: Deliberately. Thank you, golf club. Got a spot right here
[38:31] Speaker 3: for you.
[38:31] Speaker 8: Got a spot right there over there by that water jug.
[38:34] Speaker 8: With the big cushion. I'm going to give him the
[38:37] Speaker 8: big cushion because his back is going to start hurting
[38:39] Speaker 8: if he sits here too long. So we got to
[38:41] Speaker 8: give him the big cushion.
[38:42] Speaker 3: What does it do to his mental, though?
[38:44] Speaker 8: He don't care.
[38:45] Speaker 2: So after the Clippers' DNP, he was in the arena
[38:48] Speaker 2: well after the game getting some shots.
[38:49] Speaker 6: Hold on.
[38:50] Speaker 1: I was going to ask that.
[38:51] Speaker 3: I had to go through that shit. That bothers me.
[38:53] Speaker 3: Just watching another dude go through like... Not knowing.
[38:57] Speaker 5: So did you see the clip after him shooting?
[38:59] Speaker 3: Yeah, the clip.
[39:00] Speaker 8: So you saw him shooting after the game?
[39:02] Speaker 3: In the Chase Center after the Clippers game, he was
[39:04] Speaker 3: getting shots up.
[39:06] Speaker 8: With no coaches out there. It was his homeboys rebounding
[39:08] Speaker 8: for him.
[39:09] Speaker 3: That's nasty.
[39:09] Speaker 8: Like, that's the shit that stood out to me. I'm like,
[39:13] Speaker 8: fucking homeboy got on Tim. They got on Tim's rebound. Like, homeboys,
[39:18] Speaker 8: three of his homeboys out there passing, rebounding for him, dog.
[39:20] Speaker 7: That's nasty work.
[39:22] Speaker 8: At the Chase Center where they play it. Not one
[39:25] Speaker 8: coach out there.
[39:27] Speaker 6: Wow.
[39:28] Speaker 7: Alarming.
[39:29] Speaker 3: It is not.
[39:30] Speaker 7: Alarming.
[39:30] Speaker 3: It is not. That is how it works. It's a
[39:32] Speaker 3: trickle-down effect.
[39:33] Speaker 1: When I say hands off him, I better not see
[39:37] Speaker 1: none of y'all talking to him. Not the media, not
[39:41] Speaker 1: the upper, not.
[39:42] Speaker 3: The front office.
[39:43] Speaker 1: You're walking around like you're the only person left on
[39:47] Speaker 1: the planet.
[39:48] Speaker 3: Talking like Will Smith in I Am Legend. I'm talking
[39:50] Speaker 3: to the mannequin. Say hello. Say hello. Back to me.
[39:58] Speaker 3: It's lonely.
[39:59] Speaker 1: That boy, I feel for him because you, man, because
[40:03] Speaker 1: you're going to stop.
[40:04] Speaker 3: Stop, Joe. I told you to stop, man.
[40:06] Speaker 7: Stop with your laughing.
[40:07] Speaker 3: You're not supposed to laugh at your children.
[40:09] Speaker 1: It's my favorite movie.
[40:10] Speaker 3: It is. It hit home, don't it?
[40:11] Speaker 1: When you look at it, you're like, damn. I don't
[40:14] Speaker 1: ever want to be like that, talking to no mannequin.
[40:17] Speaker 3: I'm about to buy a mannequin.
[40:18] Speaker 5: I told her I was going to say hi.
[40:20] Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure you got one already. I do, I do,
[40:23] Speaker 3: I do.
[40:23] Speaker 7: That's nasty, though.
[40:25] Speaker 3: Damn shame what they did to that dog. Damn shame.
[40:27] Speaker 1: They fucking killed my dog. Just watch him during the game, man. Like,
[40:32] Speaker 1: they're in the huddle. He's just not engaged. Like, it's
[40:35] Speaker 1: a horrible... It's just a horrible thing, man.
[40:38] Speaker 5: It's a tough situation to be in.
[40:40] Speaker 7: He's only 22.
[40:42] Speaker 5: Yes.
[40:43] Speaker 6: What do you do?
[40:44] Speaker 3: Fragile as shit. What do you do?
[40:45] Speaker 5: He's a kid.
[40:46] Speaker 8: Fragile, man.
[40:47] Speaker 3: I was the same age. Like, I'm telling you.
[40:49] Speaker 5: So back to your question, like, mentally.
[40:52] Speaker 1: This is what you should have did.
[40:54] Speaker 5: And been out, right?
[40:55] Speaker 6: Signed your money. Went on about your career.
[40:58] Speaker 13: Mentally, how do you deal with that as a 22-year-old?
[41:03] Speaker 6: I've seen it.
[41:04] Speaker 8: Trust me.
[41:05] Speaker 6: They never recover back.
[41:06] Speaker 7: That's, That's nasty.
[41:08] Speaker 1: Because you don't have to do that to someone that young.
[41:11] Speaker 3: It's the resentment for the coach. How much is this
[41:12] Speaker 3: number going to be this summer? That's going to hit you.
[41:16] Speaker 1: That's going to be the fucked up part.
[41:17] Speaker 13: Here's another question I have for you.
[41:21] Speaker 8: Ain't nobody going to offer. That's going to be the
[41:23] Speaker 8: crazy because they know they're going to be on some bullshit.
[41:25] Speaker 13: Here's a question I have for you as NBA players.
[41:30] Speaker 5: What does a... I'm not even going to put.
[41:33] Speaker 13: Jimmy in it, but is Steph having conversations with Kaminga
[41:38] Speaker 13: right now?
[41:40] Speaker 5: What is Steph doing in this situation?
[41:42] Speaker 8: Trying to stay out of the business of it.
[41:47] Speaker 7: Okay, but is there.
[41:50] Speaker 6: There's no fixing it.
[41:51] Speaker 7: Well, I think the addition of Jimmy Butler kind of.
[41:55] Speaker 8: There's no fixed.
[41:55] Speaker 7: Changed everything.
[41:57] Speaker 6: I think that changed everything.
[41:58] Speaker 1: Steph said, man, we could really use Jonathan out there.
[42:01] Speaker 7: Yeah, right.
[42:02] Speaker 6: I know you did.
[42:02] Speaker 3: If he could go to Steve.
[42:03] Speaker 4: But that don't got nothing to do with what the
[42:06] Speaker 4: front office.
[42:06] Speaker 7: And the coaches are doing.
[42:07] Speaker 3: That's the point.
[42:08] Speaker 1: But if it's made clear to Steph that it ain't
[42:10] Speaker 1: got nothing to do with Jonathan, if it ain't him,
[42:13] Speaker 1: y'all need to let him know it ain't him. So
[42:16] Speaker 1: he can fix his brain that he not thinking I'm
[42:18] Speaker 1: a bad player and I ain't good enough.
[42:21] Speaker 7: In comparison to y'all just wanting to do a money deal.
[42:24] Speaker 7: Because he's not on the court. He was on the court,
[42:27] Speaker 7: then he was on the court. Suddenly.
[42:28] Speaker 3: It's a business deal they're doing. That's what he's talking about.
[42:31] Speaker 1: You're playing business and I'm trying to keep my mind together.
[42:36] Speaker 1: I want to play basketball. Y'all playing politics. That's where
[42:39] Speaker 1: they lose the game, bro. They lose the love of
[42:41] Speaker 1: the game.
[42:42] Speaker 7: I still can't believe he didn't sign that extension.
[42:44] Speaker 3: You don't want to play no more.
[42:45] Speaker 1: You don't want to high-five your teammates because nobody was
[42:48] Speaker 1: really there when you was fucking down there trying to
[42:50] Speaker 1: figure out how I'm going to get some more minutes.
[42:52] Speaker 3: Everybody's just like.
[42:53] Speaker 1: Hey, man, somebody going to hit Jonathan up and let
[42:57] Speaker 1: him know the bus about to leave?
[42:58] Speaker 3: Nope.
[43:00] Speaker 1: That's how we going. Like, ain't nobody going to hit him.
[43:03] Speaker 1: Even the fucking managers and the ball boys. Ain't nobody
[43:06] Speaker 1: going to hit Jonathan and tell him he coming?
[43:08] Speaker 3: Nope. What'd he do to y'all? What'd he do to y'all? Nothing.
[43:14] Speaker 3: They just told us not to talk to him.
[43:17] Speaker 8: Yeah, nah, that shit, man. I just don't feel like I've...
[43:25] Speaker 8: Playing that game with people. And people's future is nasty work, man.
[43:34] Speaker 8: Because we sit here and we see the ability, right?
[43:37] Speaker 8: Our eyes don't lie to us, right? We see what
[43:39] Speaker 8: the kid can do offensively, defensively, the energy that he
[43:42] Speaker 8: brings to the game, the love that he has to compete.
[43:48] Speaker 8: And when is that a bad thing? When is that
[43:55] Speaker 8: not valued? for what you're trying to accomplish, right? If
[44:01] Speaker 8: you say we in this to win and we are
[44:05] Speaker 8: playing for a championship, right? Isn't my job as a owner, GM,
[44:12] Speaker 8: coach to put the best product on the floor in
[44:15] Speaker 8: order to try to accomplish this goal? It's wild that
[44:21] Speaker 8: we sit here and have this conversation over and over
[44:24] Speaker 8: and over and over again about These organizations and these
[44:28] Speaker 8: coaches playing with people's lives, man. It ain't just about
[44:31] Speaker 8: the sport at the end of the day.
[44:34] Speaker 3: Facts.
[44:35] Speaker 7: Right?
[44:35] Speaker 8: To Shah's point, it's his mental health. It's how he's
[44:38] Speaker 8: going to deal with this if he can bounce back
[44:40] Speaker 8: from this, right? It's real out here, man. And you
[44:45] Speaker 8: don't like... And he's fragile. He's still a kid. And
[44:51] Speaker 8: we don't know who he has to lean on, who
[44:52] Speaker 8: he's talking to. Like, it's... It's one of those things, man,
[44:58] Speaker 8: like you want to ask Steph, like, yo, what are
[45:02] Speaker 8: you saying to him?
[45:03] Speaker 7: Yeah.
[45:03] Speaker 8: Are you helping?
[45:04] Speaker 7: Has anybody asked him?
[45:06] Speaker 3: Speaking of Steph, so after the committee.
[45:07] Speaker 6: There's nothing to do to help that man.
[45:09] Speaker 8: There's nothing.
[45:11] Speaker 6: I hope Sacramento, I hope you're not mad at me
[45:14] Speaker 6: still because what I said last year happened. He's gone
[45:17] Speaker 6: because they was not signing that money to him.
[45:19] Speaker 3: Darren Fox.
[45:20] Speaker 7: Who, Darren Fox?
[45:21] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[45:22] Speaker 6: There was no way he was going to make that
[45:24] Speaker 6: All-NBA so they can pay him that Supermax.
[45:26] Speaker 5: When you say there's nothing that anybody can.
[45:29] Speaker 3: Do, what is.
[45:32] Speaker 5: What's Kaminga's, like, his mindset right now? And I'm asking
[45:36] Speaker 5: this question because I have never been there.
[45:39] Speaker 6: Fuck y'all.
[45:39] Speaker 8: That's his mindset.
[45:40] Speaker 13: Is he even thinking I might play in the playoffs?
[45:44] Speaker 1: His mindset is fuck y'all.
[45:45] Speaker 6: Yeah, and I'm going to show you what's going to
[45:47] Speaker 6: happen every single time.
[45:48] Speaker 1: He didn't want to be on fuck y'all time. He
[45:52] Speaker 1: wanted to be on, like, yo. Well, he wanted his money.
[45:55] Speaker 3: No, he want answers.
[45:55] Speaker 8: He want to play.
[45:56] Speaker 3: I want to know why I'm not playing. That's it.
[45:59] Speaker 8: He knows why he's not playing.
[46:00] Speaker 6: I'm saying you don't think he's not.
[46:03] Speaker 1: He probably got 50% of the answer. No, because they're
[46:05] Speaker 1: not honest with him.
[46:07] Speaker 3: I was honest with him. He's not listening.
[46:11] Speaker 1: Hopefully he is listening to us.
[46:15] Speaker 6: So this is what's going to happen. He's going to
[46:17] Speaker 6: go to a free agency. Someone's going to offer him something.
[46:20] Speaker 6: Let's say four-year 90. Go ahead and say he's going
[46:24] Speaker 6: to match it. He's going to beg them not to
[46:28] Speaker 6: match it. And then he's going to go somewhere else.
[46:32] Speaker 6: So he's going to get low ball to the number
[46:36] Speaker 6: that he accepts first.
[46:38] Speaker 2: Because every other team knows right now. So nobody's going
[46:43] Speaker 2: to jump out the window.
[46:44] Speaker 6: Because I know he's on fuck you time. The other
[46:47] Speaker 6: team like me, I'm not going to jump out the window.
[46:49] Speaker 6: I'm just like three or six, three or seven. I
[46:51] Speaker 6: know he's going to say fuck you. So he's capped
[46:54] Speaker 6: right there. He capped himself because his ego is not
[46:58] Speaker 6: going to let him Go back to Golden State because
[47:02] Speaker 6: of what Golden State.
[47:03] Speaker 3: Did to him.
[47:03] Speaker 7: That's dirty, dirty, dirty work.
[47:05] Speaker 3: So, because you see how they did Clay, right? A
[47:06] Speaker 3: bunch of players do it. But what did they just
[47:09] Speaker 3: do with Jimmy Butler?
[47:12] Speaker 1: They just paid Jimmy Butler right away. The bad shit
[47:14] Speaker 1: they did to Clay, like. And then they fucked Clay over.
[47:16] Speaker 1: They fucked Clay over. That's crazy, ain't it?
[47:19] Speaker 3: Ain't that nasty? They just gave it to Jimmy like here. Oh, man.
[47:23] Speaker 6: That's the new guy.
[47:23] Speaker 3: That's the day. It's the new day, man. It's like, damn,
[47:26] Speaker 3: you just gave him.
[47:27] Speaker 7: And I got to do all this.
[47:29] Speaker 8: Like, you drafted me, right? Like, and you bring the
[47:32] Speaker 8: new guy in and you get him, like.
[47:33] Speaker 6: Should've signed the money.
[47:34] Speaker 3: Right.
[47:35] Speaker 8: Because then they... Hindsight always 20-20, but... People don't understand
[47:40] Speaker 8: this sometimes.
[47:41] Speaker 7: For $ 5 million.
[47:41] Speaker 6: And you really gotta sometimes step outside the self. and say,
[47:46] Speaker 6: all right, they just offered me how much for your what?
[47:49] Speaker 6: In the ballpark of $ 30 million per year. It was
[47:51] Speaker 6: a report from Anthony Slater saying that.
[47:54] Speaker 2: 120.
[47:55] Speaker 8: So they offered me 100.
[47:56] Speaker 6: They are trying to give me 120 million. And I say,
[48:01] Speaker 6: I want 140.
[48:03] Speaker 1: It ain't worth it.
[48:06] Speaker 6: When they say, well, no, you have to think, that's
[48:10] Speaker 6: his wallet.
[48:11] Speaker 3: That's his wallet.
[48:13] Speaker 6: Right? So if he's saying, hey, I don't know, man,
[48:15] Speaker 6: we need to go ahead and talk. And he starts
[48:20] Speaker 6: day after day, he ain't answering. I have to think, hey, man,
[48:26] Speaker 6: I probably said a number he wasn't comfortable with.
[48:29] Speaker 8: Let me take the money he's willing to.
[48:31] Speaker 6: Give me, $ 120 million. Because that $ 140, that extra $ 20
[48:36] Speaker 6: million that I'm trying to get, how much is it
[48:39] Speaker 6: going to cost me if I don't accept it? The 120.
[48:43] Speaker 8: Never thought about it. No, they never do. Never thought
[48:46] Speaker 8: about it.
[48:46] Speaker 3: How much are you losing?
[48:47] Speaker 6: You have 120 in your hand. If he says, fuck you,
[48:52] Speaker 6: that just cost me how much now?
[48:55] Speaker 8: Because I never thought about it when they offered me
[48:57] Speaker 8: the 66 jersey. I never thought about, like, damn, what
[49:00] Speaker 8: if I, right?
[49:01] Speaker 7: Like, what if this don't work out?
[49:02] Speaker 6: But you got to know your leverage. You got to
[49:04] Speaker 6: know the open market. You got to know your leverage.
[49:07] Speaker 6: If you don't have no leverage... Take your four years.
[49:11] Speaker 6: They're going to play you because now they just invested
[49:13] Speaker 6: in you. It's only a three-year deal. Three-year deal, four-year
[49:16] Speaker 6: play option.
[49:17] Speaker 3: You just want the man.
[49:21] Speaker 7: How they did Klay. Like, what the hell?
[49:23] Speaker 3: He was playing well.
[49:25] Speaker 1: Well enough for them to consider him and us on
[49:28] Speaker 1: this couch because we spoke on him being the next
[49:30] Speaker 1: franchise guy.
[49:32] Speaker 3: And I said, burning building. Get the fuck out, Jonathan.
[49:38] Speaker 3: It's burning. You do not want to be a part
[49:40] Speaker 3: of this. You're going to be the scapegoat.
[49:43] Speaker 5: Watch.
[49:45] Speaker 3: Here we are.
[49:46] Speaker 1: He ain't even playing. We was talking about him. Gil
[49:49] Speaker 1: literally said, don't go nowhere. You're the franchise of the...
[49:53] Speaker 1: When Steph goes, it's your place.
[49:55] Speaker 3: Don't go.
[49:56] Speaker 1: Look at him now.
[49:57] Speaker 3: But take that.
[49:58] Speaker 1: Bread, right?
[49:59] Speaker 7: I feel like if he had signed the contract, it
[50:00] Speaker 7: would have been different.
[50:01] Speaker 6: I said, if you sign this deal, you're the man.
[50:02] Speaker 6: If you don't sign it, your ass is going to
[50:04] Speaker 6: be on the bench.
[50:05] Speaker 1: So when I was playing, when I was playing, just
[50:09] Speaker 1: like Austin Reeves, when Austin Reeves was playing well and
[50:12] Speaker 1: he took that 50.
[50:14] Speaker 3: Could have got more from the Spurs. Should have got
[50:15] Speaker 3: more from the first deal, right? But he took it.
[50:19] Speaker 7: Look at him.
[50:21] Speaker 1: This is the same opportunity where if Jonathan takes the deal,
[50:27] Speaker 1: Do they start playing well again?
[50:30] Speaker 3: They don't make the move for Jimmy Butler? Right?
[50:34] Speaker 1: Or is he in that move? Is he in that move? Like,
[50:37] Speaker 1: is it not Wiggins? Remember, you got Wiggins and Kamingo
[50:40] Speaker 1: on the same team.
[50:42] Speaker 8: You want to keep the 22-year-old. I'm pretty sure they
[50:44] Speaker 8: asked for him.
[50:46] Speaker 1: That was the talk before the trade. Remember the trade talk?
[50:50] Speaker 1: That was the talk before the deadline. They was like,
[50:52] Speaker 1: let's not get rid of our what?
[50:55] Speaker 3: Assets. Who was the future? Kaminga.
[50:58] Speaker 1: And who else?
[51:00] Speaker 8: That's it.
[51:00] Speaker 3: Poginski.
[51:01] Speaker 6: Moody.
[51:01] Speaker 3: Poginski. They didn't want to get off Poginski, and they
[51:05] Speaker 3: didn't want to get off Moody.
[51:06] Speaker 2: They was asking for him. The Warriors were very high
[51:09] Speaker 2: on Poginski. They did not want to get off of him.
[51:12] Speaker 2: That's why they were comfortable letting Clay go. I'm just saying.
[51:15] Speaker 2: That was the whole thing. They brought Clay off the
[51:18] Speaker 2: bench for Poginski. So we looking at Kaminga like, oh,
[51:22] Speaker 2: you're the next guy. They giving you the ball. Oh, yeah,
[51:25] Speaker 2: he out there rocking and rolling.
[51:27] Speaker 3: Why has the tune changed so much now?
[51:30] Speaker 6: Right.
[51:30] Speaker 3: I'm not hearing the same fucking vibe.
[51:34] Speaker 7: What did you say?
[51:35] Speaker 6: I said it back then. You don't sign a deal,
[51:37] Speaker 6: they're going to bench you. That's just a fact. I don't,
[51:41] Speaker 6: I mean, JJJ, what'd I say? I don't give a
[51:43] Speaker 6: fuck what you, I don't give a fuck how many
[51:45] Speaker 6: blocks you go out there, motherfucker. Yeah.
[51:47] Speaker 3: They gonna sit you. Yeah. They gonna sit you. X-Ray,
[51:50] Speaker 3: oh shit, something's wrong.
[51:51] Speaker 6: We gonna sit you because I am not paying you, JJJ,
[51:55] Speaker 6: 300 million. Are you kidding me? I don't give a
[52:01] Speaker 6: fuck how you out there, your name is not worth
[52:05] Speaker 6: 300 million dollars. You are not Ja Morant. You are
[52:09] Speaker 6: not selling these seats for me to pay you $ 300 million.
[52:13] Speaker 8: He didn't play 65 games?
[52:14] Speaker 6: Huh? But he can't win defensive player of the year.
[52:17] Speaker 3: Gil, let me ask you this.
[52:19] Speaker 8: He didn't play 65?
[52:20] Speaker 6: I think so.
[52:21] Speaker 1: There's only like 15%.
[52:21] Speaker 8: I saw that, but.
[52:24] Speaker 3: Is it important for the players to know this information?
[52:27] Speaker 6: They should have an agent who's had players that done happen.
[52:31] Speaker 1: I'm talking about is it important for the players to
[52:33] Speaker 1: know what you just said about at the end of
[52:36] Speaker 1: the day. I'm not trying to pay you $ 300 million
[52:39] Speaker 1: because your name ain't worth it.
[52:41] Speaker 6: They should.
[52:42] Speaker 1: So if the players know that that's a part of
[52:44] Speaker 1: your leverage, marketing, appearance, talking to the media.
[52:50] Speaker 3: All that shit, being a franchise guy, $ 300 million is
[52:53] Speaker 3: a lot of money.
[52:55] Speaker 1: What if the players all know this now and they
[52:57] Speaker 1: carry themselves different because you want that money, right?
[53:00] Speaker 3: You got to be worth it. Look test, eye test,
[53:04] Speaker 3: talk test, walk test. You got to come here and
[53:06] Speaker 3: give us results. Do you hear what she just said?
[53:08] Speaker 7: I didn't even want to give it to Luca.
[53:10] Speaker 3: He didn't pass the test.
[53:12] Speaker 1: No, he passed the test. He didn't pass the test.
[53:14] Speaker 3: He didn't pass the test.
[53:15] Speaker 1: Yeah, he did.
[53:16] Speaker 3: No, he didn't. He ain't in public. He wasn't in
[53:19] Speaker 3: public passing the public test.
[53:20] Speaker 6: Don't worry.
[53:21] Speaker 8: What they told you is some bullshit.
[53:23] Speaker 1: Luca was worth all of it.
[53:24] Speaker 3: We're going to give it to him.
[53:26] Speaker 1: I can tell you that.
[53:26] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
[53:27] Speaker 1: So....
[53:28] Speaker 2: You guys asked about where Steph fits in this equation.
[53:31] Speaker 2: So after Kaminga got the DNP against the Clippers, Steph
[53:34] Speaker 2: had this to say about Kaminga's DNP. He said, just
[53:37] Speaker 2: to be ready, the test of a young player in
[53:39] Speaker 2: this league, especially with our team, you never know when
[53:41] Speaker 2: your mama will be there. It wasn't his time tonight. Again,
[53:43] Speaker 2: it's Memphis. It could be a game where he makes
[53:45] Speaker 2: his presence felt. Obviously, it did not happen. But Steph
[53:48] Speaker 2: went on to say, don't let noise outside of the
[53:50] Speaker 2: locker room, the tension that might come from it, distract
[53:52] Speaker 2: you from your ability to make an impact when your
[53:54] Speaker 2: number is called.
[53:55] Speaker 3: Sounds good, right?
[53:56] Speaker 8: Sounds good, but when your number not called.
[53:59] Speaker 3: And when we got the win.
[54:01] Speaker 8: How do you deal with it then? When my name
[54:05] Speaker 8: don't ever get called during these 48, right? So then what?
[54:10] Speaker 3: Playoff comes and goes and then what? Steph, you know
[54:13] Speaker 3: how that feel? Nope. Huh? Hey, Steph, I appreciate it, but... Hey,
[54:18] Speaker 3: you ever did it? Hey, you know how this feel
[54:20] Speaker 3: over here?
[54:20] Speaker 8: Hey, you ever did it?
[54:21] Speaker 6: Woo!
[54:22] Speaker 3: It's hard to.
[54:24] Speaker 8: You ever.
[54:24] Speaker 6: Had a DNP?
[54:25] Speaker 3: He just said it.
[54:26] Speaker 8: If you ever had a DNP, let me know. A
[54:29] Speaker 8: healthy DNP, let me know.
[54:31] Speaker 3: Ready to go, DNP. Ready to go, let me know.
[54:34] Speaker 3: Hot pack. Ready to go. Looking down at the coach
[54:36] Speaker 3: every time. Every time he look down, I'm looking at him.
[54:39] Speaker 9: He looking at me, I'm motherfucking looking at him.
[54:41] Speaker 13: Get ready to take him off, right?
[54:44] Speaker 3: That's his third foul. Third foul. I knew it. He say, Jake... Cheryl.
[54:48] Speaker 7: Cheryl.
[54:49] Speaker 8: No, no, no.
[54:49] Speaker 1: No, hey.
[54:50] Speaker 9: He don't even get the whole name now.
[54:52] Speaker 3: Cheryl ain't even on the team. She is a fan.
[54:56] Speaker 1: He's just trying to tell her to take him.
[55:00] Speaker 6: Anything would have.
[55:01] Speaker 3: Anything would have... You....
[55:03] Speaker 1: You get ready put the hand it's just That's the
[55:22] Speaker 1: worst one. Right where you about to walk past. Go back,
[55:25] Speaker 1: go back. There ain't no walking past. There ain't no
[55:31] Speaker 1: heat pack. You don't need no heat pack.
[55:34] Speaker 6: You don't need no heat pack.
[55:37] Speaker 1: You don't need no water.
[55:38] Speaker 3: You don't even need your uniform. Go watch him warm
[55:41] Speaker 3: up first game. I can tell you this.
[55:43] Speaker 6: The one thing I'm not going to do. is put
[55:47] Speaker 6: that motherfucker in and he start balling out to make
[55:50] Speaker 6: me look stupid.
[55:51] Speaker 3: Absolutely.
[55:52] Speaker 1: Not a chance.
[55:53] Speaker 6: Because I can tell you one thing that takes away
[55:55] Speaker 6: 82 games. It's an amazing playoff. Absolutely. That motherfucker go
[56:00] Speaker 6: out there and start doing some shit in the playoffs,
[56:03] Speaker 6: get his value back up, I'm fired.
[56:05] Speaker 7: It only takes two weeks.
[56:06] Speaker 6: We done had a whole six-month plan of this motherfucker
[56:09] Speaker 6: sitting here doing nothing. I can't let him go out
[56:12] Speaker 6: there and just get his numbers in the playoffs.
[56:15] Speaker 8: Motherfucker go out there, bitch, and average 12. The motherfucker
[56:17] Speaker 8: be looking at Steve Kerr like....
[56:21] Speaker 6: He could have been averaging... So you.
[56:23] Speaker 8: Couldn't use them 12 points?
[56:25] Speaker 2: So we asked the chat, can the Warriors make a
[56:27] Speaker 2: deep playoff run with Kaminga on the bench? 65% said no.
[56:31] Speaker 2: So we're going to talk Warriors Rockets in just a second.
[56:34] Speaker 8: So the question is, do they think they can make
[56:35] Speaker 8: a D-off playoff run with him? Like, with or without him? Shit,
[56:40] Speaker 8: that's the question.
[56:41] Speaker 9: Who's making that call?
[56:42] Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
[56:43] Speaker 10: Who?
[56:44] Speaker 7: The coach?
[56:44] Speaker 6: The wallet.
[56:45] Speaker 5: Or the GM?
[56:46] Speaker 3: The coach, right?
[56:47] Speaker 7: The offices.
[56:48] Speaker 3: What you want me to do? This motherfucker all the
[56:49] Speaker 3: way up there on the top. That's dirt.
[56:53] Speaker 6: They're in the suites.
[56:55] Speaker 7: Don't do it.
[56:56] Speaker 1: There's Dunleavy in there.
[56:58] Speaker 3: There's Dunleavy in there.
[56:58] Speaker 1: There's above Dunleavy.
[57:00] Speaker 8: With the bottom right hand of that piece of paper
[57:01] Speaker 8: they sent you.
[57:02] Speaker 3: You know, you sign it, and they got that white
[57:04] Speaker 3: thing that will never show up.
[57:05] Speaker 1: On the right hand side, that stamp that they didn't
[57:07] Speaker 1: put on that motherfucker.
[57:10] Speaker 6: Not the signature, the stamp.
[57:11] Speaker 3: The stamp.
[57:12] Speaker 7: Wow.
[57:13] Speaker 2: So we're going to talk Warriors Rockets in just a second,
[57:15] Speaker 2: but we got a special guest in the arena right now.
[57:18] Speaker 3: He just finished up his fifth season in the NBA. Wow.
[57:22] Speaker 2: The son of the distinguished gentleman from Oak Cliff, KJ
[57:25] Speaker 2: Martin in the building right now.
[57:28] Speaker 3: KJ pulled up on us. Congratulations. You're a grown man now.
[57:36] Speaker 1: You look rich.
[57:37] Speaker 8: You look rich, sir.
[57:38] Speaker 3: You smell rich, rich, sir. That's so cute. KJ, we
[57:43] Speaker 3: appreciate you pulling up. How are you?
[57:46] Speaker 1: We got the Martin family well represented. Here, I got
[57:48] Speaker 1: a little hug with you, bro.
[57:49] Speaker 3: Appreciate you. We ain't had you on since, what, summer league? Yep.
[57:53] Speaker 3: Back in the day. Just wrapped up your fifth season
[57:56] Speaker 3: with the Jazz. Yep.
[57:58] Speaker 2: How you feeling right now? And what you looking forward
[58:00] Speaker 2: to in the summer and looking forward to next season?
[58:05] Speaker 9: Been going by fast.
[58:06] Speaker 15: I mean, my first year, he told me he was like,
[58:09] Speaker 15: after your first two years, it starts to fly by.
[58:11] Speaker 3: But now this summer, I'm excited.
[58:13] Speaker 15: I think this is one of my biggest summers going
[58:16] Speaker 15: into my sixth year.
[58:17] Speaker 9: A lot of stuff I need to work on.
[58:19] Speaker 15: So I'm excited to get back in the lab and
[58:21] Speaker 15: get ready for number six.
[58:23] Speaker 2: We appreciate having you on the couch. So we're going
[58:25] Speaker 2: to talk a little bit. We talked about the Warriors
[58:27] Speaker 2: winning the play-in against the Grizzlies. We're going to hit
[58:28] Speaker 2: a little bit this Warriors-Rockets series we got coming up.
[58:31] Speaker 2: So last time the Warriors and Rockets met in the
[58:33] Speaker 2: regular season, Houston held Steph to just three points on
[58:36] Speaker 2: one for 10 shooting, thanks to a masterful defensive effort
[58:39] Speaker 2: from Amon Thompson, Dylan Brooks. And after Steph's only bucket
[58:43] Speaker 2: at the end of the first half, as you may recall,
[58:45] Speaker 2: there was a little situation.
[58:46] Speaker 3: With him and Emei Adoka.
[58:48] Speaker 5: Emei begin to do it.
[58:50] Speaker 2: Changed some words. There's the bucket. See Draymond fired up,
[58:55] Speaker 2: but it's both teams. Both teams went to the locker room.
[59:00] Speaker 2: You can see Emei come in the frame. Him and
[59:03] Speaker 2: Steph sharing some words. He got on Nike Cortez?
[59:09] Speaker 3: Yeah, he's on some OG time. He's on different times.
[59:14] Speaker 6: Oh, damn. This series is kind of hilarious.
[59:18] Speaker 2: Steph tried to play it off. They both tried to
[59:19] Speaker 2: make a big deal about it. Warriors won three of
[59:22] Speaker 2: five games against the Rockets this season and are the
[59:24] Speaker 2: favorites to win the series. According to betting odds, the
[59:29] Speaker 2: Warriors are the favorites to win the series against the Rockets.
[59:31] Speaker 2: Teams split their final two games post-Jimmy Butler trade. Houston
[59:35] Speaker 2: had one of the best defenses in the league during
[59:36] Speaker 2: the regular season, but this is not the regular season anymore,
[59:39] Speaker 2: as we know. So, KJ, you used to play for
[59:41] Speaker 2: the Rockets. We're going to start with you. If you're Houston,
[59:44] Speaker 2: what's your strategy to slow down the Warriors' two-headed monster
[59:46] Speaker 2: of Steph and Jimmy Butler?
[59:47] Speaker 3: You've done it before, but now this is a playoff.
[59:53] Speaker 15: Houston got bodies to throw at him. Like, they're just
[59:56] Speaker 15: going to muck the game up, I feel like. I mean,
[59:57] Speaker 15: I know y'all was talking about Kaminga also. I think
[1:00:00] Speaker 15: he's going to play this series.
[1:00:01] Speaker 3: You think Kaminga's getting some work?
[1:00:02] Speaker 8: For sure.
[1:00:03] Speaker 15: Him and a man, Thompson, I think they match up well.
[1:00:07] Speaker 15: I mean, you need, like, you know, a bigger guy
[1:00:09] Speaker 15: that's physical. But, I mean, that last game where he
[1:00:13] Speaker 15: had three points, like you said, it's the playoffs. So,
[1:00:17] Speaker 15: I mean, it's going to be different. Steve Kerr got
[1:00:19] Speaker 15: some stuff up his sleeve. So, I don't think the
[1:00:22] Speaker 15: Warriors is an easy win, but– Houston got a chance
[1:00:26] Speaker 15: for sure.
[1:00:27] Speaker 3: And we talked about Warriors-Grizzlies.
[1:00:29] Speaker 2: Steph had that two-point game against the Grizzlies, followed that
[1:00:32] Speaker 2: up with a 52-piece, and then 37 in the playing.
[1:00:35] Speaker 2: So he seems to take things like that personally and
[1:00:39] Speaker 2: go out and get buckets. Let's keep it on this side.
[1:00:42] Speaker 2: To the elder, Martin, you had to strategize from a
[1:00:46] Speaker 2: defensive standpoint how to shut down Steph and Jimmy for
[1:00:48] Speaker 2: an entire series.
[1:00:49] Speaker 3: If you're the Rockets, how do you approach that?
[1:00:52] Speaker 8: In the words of Jerry Sloan, you can't call them all.
[1:00:58] Speaker 8: can't call all of them so grab him hold him
[1:01:01] Speaker 8: beat him up listen he gonna like it's gonna be
[1:01:04] Speaker 8: a physical if I'm I'm gonna make it as physical
[1:01:07] Speaker 8: as I could possibly make it on Steph Curry right
[1:01:12] Speaker 8: I'm not if I'm them like they got bodies I'm
[1:01:17] Speaker 8: not afraid of Jimmy if I'm Houston we got size
[1:01:20] Speaker 8: we got athleticism we have youth but yeah I'm That's
[1:01:27] Speaker 8: just the way Houston has been playing as of late. So, yeah,
[1:01:30] Speaker 8: I can just see them, just like I said, holding them,
[1:01:32] Speaker 8: grabbing them, making it as tough as possible, trying to
[1:01:35] Speaker 8: run them off the three, forcing them into a crowd,
[1:01:38] Speaker 8: making them play into a crowd. Yeah, just we're able
[1:01:43] Speaker 8: to switch a lot of things. We're going to try
[1:01:46] Speaker 8: to keep our opinion out as much as the action
[1:01:50] Speaker 8: as we can because that's going to be the objective
[1:01:52] Speaker 8: is to attack Sangoon and the pick and rolls and
[1:01:55] Speaker 8: then handoffs and things like that. So try to keep
[1:01:58] Speaker 8: him out as much as action as we can. But
[1:02:00] Speaker 8: if he is in action, he's got to be aggressive.
[1:02:03] Speaker 8: He has to be up. Put two on him. If
[1:02:08] Speaker 8: Sangoon is in action, we're putting two on Steph. If
[1:02:11] Speaker 8: there's anybody else we're switching, we're being aggressive with him.
[1:02:14] Speaker 8: So that's where I would play. Especially if Draymond is
[1:02:19] Speaker 8: in action. If anything, Draymond is in action, Draymond is
[1:02:21] Speaker 8: going to have to beat me.
[1:02:23] Speaker 9: I go small two at certain situations, put Jabari at
[1:02:25] Speaker 9: the five.
[1:02:27] Speaker 1: Yes.
[1:02:28] Speaker 8: So then you got real problems.
[1:02:32] Speaker 3: Switch one through five. Yeah.
[1:02:34] Speaker 2: Gil, I know you don't think the Rockets can win
[1:02:37] Speaker 2: this series, but if you had to come up with
[1:02:41] Speaker 2: a strategy for them to potentially be able to do that,
[1:02:43] Speaker 2: how would you approach it?
[1:02:46] Speaker 6: The one thing Rockets do have is they have guys
[1:02:50] Speaker 6: who can– you're not going to scout for that actually
[1:02:54] Speaker 6: can play. Rockets really, I mean, Golden State don't have
[1:02:58] Speaker 6: a bench like that, but Rockets actually do. They got
[1:03:01] Speaker 6: players like Shepard, they got Whitmore that actually can put
[1:03:05] Speaker 6: the ball in the basket, that can actually offset anything
[1:03:09] Speaker 6: you're trying to do. Because everyone is so versatile on
[1:03:12] Speaker 6: the team, there's lineups you can put Golden State would
[1:03:19] Speaker 6: not be actually prepared for. You can put Amon Thompson
[1:03:23] Speaker 6: at the one, Green at the one, Amon Thompson two.
[1:03:28] Speaker 6: You can just have a big ass line up and
[1:03:30] Speaker 6: everybody can switch everything and everybody's six, eight and above, right?
[1:03:35] Speaker 6: So you're small, fast, but still big and athletic. So,
[1:03:39] Speaker 6: I mean, the fact that you still on your bench
[1:03:42] Speaker 6: have Eason, Smith, Amen, Sangoon. God damn.
[1:03:50] Speaker 7: Why do people think we're going to win the series?
[1:03:51] Speaker 7: Why are they not their favorite to win the series?
[1:03:53] Speaker 1: Well, they think the Rockets are young and they think
[1:03:55] Speaker 1: they're second seed.
[1:03:57] Speaker 7: I think they have to win game one, though.
[1:04:00] Speaker 9: After 1A, he can go out to five.
[1:04:01] Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I said.
[1:04:04] Speaker 8: You can really fuck with Draymond Green. Go out to five, absolutely.
[1:04:06] Speaker 9: Because Looney's not trying to score in the post.
[1:04:09] Speaker 3: He just facilitates. Post neither.
[1:04:11] Speaker 1: They can't run that small ball shit against the Rockets. No,
[1:04:14] Speaker 1: not because of the Rockets.
[1:04:16] Speaker 3: Yes.
[1:04:16] Speaker 8: Draymond will be in foul trouble, unfortunately.
[1:04:20] Speaker 1: Did y'all actually watch the Rockets game when Steph had three? No.
[1:04:26] Speaker 3: I don't think nobody actually watched it.
[1:04:29] Speaker 6: Yeah, we was live.
[1:04:30] Speaker 8: I didn't know he took 10 shots.
[1:04:31] Speaker 3: I didn't watch it. I just thought he took 10 shots.
[1:04:33] Speaker 7: Please enlighten us.
[1:04:34] Speaker 3: Everything happened. It was a back-to-back too, right? Don't matter.
[1:04:37] Speaker 3: It's a scheme. He made a player.
[1:04:41] Speaker 1: One thing that you do is you've got to hype
[1:04:43] Speaker 1: your players up to believe to play like you play,
[1:04:46] Speaker 1: which is aggressive first, punch first. Amon Thompson is one
[1:04:50] Speaker 1: of those guys that can do that. Dylan Brooks is
[1:04:52] Speaker 1: one of those guys that can do that. Fred even
[1:04:54] Speaker 1: can have a little dog in.
[1:04:55] Speaker 3: Him to have. He can do that. Jabari, he follows
[1:04:59] Speaker 3: the pack.
[1:05:01] Speaker 1: He'll go hard as everybody else goes, but he's not
[1:05:04] Speaker 1: going to step out and be there in the front.
[1:05:06] Speaker 1: Shang-Goon and Steven Adams, there's nobody to match what they
[1:05:09] Speaker 1: do well. You looked at the last game against Memphis.
[1:05:13] Speaker 1: The reason why Memphis lost was because Edie couldn't take
[1:05:15] Speaker 1: advantage of getting the ball down there when he had mismatches.
[1:05:18] Speaker 1: Shang-Goon's going to take advantage of that every single time.
[1:05:22] Speaker 1: So either if you got Adams and Shang-Goon in at
[1:05:25] Speaker 1: the same time, which I would love that matchup because
[1:05:28] Speaker 1: you go high-low, Shang-Goon can play off the and you
[1:05:31] Speaker 1: got ducking ability, offensive rebound ability, but then you got
[1:05:34] Speaker 1: Jalen Green, you got Dillon that can play well sometimes,
[1:05:39] Speaker 1: but I look like, like you were saying, Whitmore and Shepard.
[1:05:43] Speaker 1: Whitmore is my guy that I look like, I'm like, yo,
[1:05:45] Speaker 1: he's going to kill. But then you got Eason. He
[1:05:49] Speaker 1: out there. He going to do his thing. So they
[1:05:51] Speaker 1: got a type of team to me that's favorite. There's
[1:05:54] Speaker 1: no doubt that they're the favorite because of what they
[1:05:57] Speaker 1: did to Steph. It's just how consistent they can be
[1:06:00] Speaker 1: because they're young. How can E-May really like, help them
[1:06:05] Speaker 1: embrace what he's trying to do, which is be aggressive,
[1:06:08] Speaker 1: punk them early, make them complain to the refs, and
[1:06:11] Speaker 1: we got them out their game.
[1:06:12] Speaker 7: Keep them off the free throw line.
[1:06:14] Speaker 3: And play without fouling.
[1:06:15] Speaker 7: Well, you said they can't call them off. They might.
[1:06:18] Speaker 3: You can't put Steph on the free throw line.
[1:06:20] Speaker 7: They shot 30 free throws yesterday.
[1:06:22] Speaker 4: Jimmy and Steph shot 31 free throws.
[1:06:26] Speaker 3: Go to the rack. Go to the rack. Go to
[1:06:28] Speaker 3: the rack.
[1:06:29] Speaker 8: And he is a rookie.
[1:06:31] Speaker 3: He didn't know what to do with that.
[1:06:33] Speaker 8: They're going to call it on the rookie, right? they gonna,
[1:06:35] Speaker 8: he's not gonna get the benefit of the doubt against
[1:06:39] Speaker 8: Jimmy or, he's not gonna get the benefit.
[1:06:40] Speaker 3: Of the doubt. The Grizzlies out-rebounded him. It was 50
[1:06:44] Speaker 3: to 39.
[1:06:44] Speaker 2: He had 17 boards, too. But, you know what I mean?
[1:06:46] Speaker 2: He wasn't doing shit when he got it. You know
[1:06:47] Speaker 2: what I'm saying?
[1:06:48] Speaker 8: But they didn't throw it to him.
[1:06:49] Speaker 1: They wasn't throwing it to him. They didn't throw it, listen.
[1:06:51] Speaker 1: They didn't throw it to him on the block. For
[1:06:53] Speaker 1: the duck ends. When he got the ball, he was
[1:06:56] Speaker 1: super dribbling.
[1:06:57] Speaker 3: Yeah, he was super.
[1:06:57] Speaker 8: Yeah, because they didn't get to throw it. Because on
[1:06:59] Speaker 8: the block, and he's trying to dribble that motherfucker, and
[1:07:01] Speaker 8: they put it to him, and they tied him up
[1:07:02] Speaker 8: both times, right?
[1:07:03] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[1:07:05] Speaker 8: If you throw him when he can do something with it,
[1:07:07] Speaker 8: instead of him trying to make decisions with it. I
[1:07:10] Speaker 8: don't know if y'all heard what I said. Throw it
[1:07:14] Speaker 8: to him so he can do something with it, instead
[1:07:17] Speaker 8: of him trying to make a decision with it.
[1:07:19] Speaker 3: Yep.
[1:07:21] Speaker 8: Catch it, fucking turn, dunk it, catch it, turn, jump, hook.
[1:07:25] Speaker 3: Hop the table and get it.
[1:07:27] Speaker 8: I got to try to figure out if they double.
[1:07:29] Speaker 3: No. Shang-gu not going to do that shit.
[1:07:31] Speaker 8: Not at all. He busting ass out there.
[1:07:33] Speaker 3: I'm telling you. It's going to be a nasty matchup
[1:07:35] Speaker 3: for them.
[1:07:35] Speaker 5: This is why Kaminga better play this series.
[1:07:38] Speaker 1: They have this big lineup that's a plus 14.5 in
[1:07:41] Speaker 1: that rating.
[1:07:41] Speaker 8: Yeah, I play this.
[1:07:42] Speaker 6: Amen at the 1, 6, 7. Easton at the 2, 6, 8.
[1:07:43] Speaker 3: Jabari at the 3, 6, 10.
[1:07:43] Speaker 6: Sangoon at the 4. Adams at the 5. Steven Adams.
[1:07:46] Speaker 8: Yeah.
[1:07:56] Speaker 3: Yeah, I played against him.
[1:07:57] Speaker 6: Because one to one, two, three is so athletic. Steph
[1:08:02] Speaker 6: running around, they're going to get to that. And the
[1:08:04] Speaker 6: fact that Draymond Green, what are you going to– like
[1:08:07] Speaker 6: this is– you're going to get tired in this series.
[1:08:10] Speaker 3: Steph going to foul.
[1:08:10] Speaker 6: Trying to figure out how to help everybody.
[1:08:14] Speaker 3: Okay.
[1:08:16] Speaker 6: Soon as they go small, I'm going big, and I
[1:08:18] Speaker 6: just want to see what happens.
[1:08:19] Speaker 3: And Houston, if you miss, Golden State, good luck getting
[1:08:22] Speaker 3: a rebound. Yep.
[1:08:23] Speaker 6: I would just attack the glass.
[1:08:25] Speaker 1: Oh, they are.
[1:08:25] Speaker 6: Yeah, they're not like they super.
[1:08:27] Speaker 1: You ain't got to tell Steve Adams to do it.
[1:08:28] Speaker 1: I'm slowing the game down.
[1:08:30] Speaker 8: Damn sure.
[1:08:30] Speaker 6: He's going to be right in the corner. But even
[1:08:31] Speaker 6: with Jabari, hit the glass. Like, because they playing three smalls.
[1:08:35] Speaker 3: Yes, I'm slowing it down.
[1:08:36] Speaker 1: Because this, he's not even fast enough to get down
[1:08:38] Speaker 1: the court like that. I'm slowing the game all the
[1:08:39] Speaker 1: way down. And I'm putting a three-quarter court press on
[1:08:42] Speaker 1: them niggas.
[1:08:43] Speaker 3: Oh.
[1:08:43] Speaker 5: Not the three-quarter first.
[1:08:45] Speaker 1: I'm putting a three-quarter court pick him up at the
[1:08:47] Speaker 1: free throw line every time.
[1:08:48] Speaker 3: And we might trap.
[1:08:51] Speaker 1: And we might trap at the half court every now
[1:08:53] Speaker 1: and again just to show you that y'all not setting
[1:08:56] Speaker 1: no offense up down here.
[1:08:57] Speaker 3: All y'all doing all game is picking roles. That's it.
[1:09:00] Speaker 3: That's it. Ain't no actions. Ain't no Steph running around. Nah,
[1:09:04] Speaker 3: by the time y'all cross, man, it's 14 on the clock.
[1:09:08] Speaker 3: Y'all in trouble.
[1:09:09] Speaker 6: Big ass lineup.
[1:09:10] Speaker 2: So let's go around the couch because we got a
[1:09:12] Speaker 2: lot more to talk about on the show. Shab, we'll
[1:09:13] Speaker 2: start with you. Give me your Warriors-Rockets series prediction. Winner
[1:09:17] Speaker 2: in how many games?
[1:09:18] Speaker 3: Rockets in the Six. Uh-oh. Cheryl, how about yourself? We
[1:09:21] Speaker 3: know you got a rep for Houston.
[1:09:24] Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm going Warriors.
[1:09:26] Speaker 3: Oh. Oh.
[1:09:27] Speaker 8: Then you pull it over Rashad McCann.
[1:09:31] Speaker 13: I'm just, I'm going Warriors and Warriors and six.
[1:09:35] Speaker 3: Warriors and six.
[1:09:37] Speaker 13: I'm like, I hear all of that, but there's something
[1:09:40] Speaker 13: about Steph Curry in the playoffs that.
[1:09:46] Speaker 13: I don't care what defense you throw at him, Steph
[1:09:48] Speaker 13: is going to show up. I know it's going to
[1:09:51] Speaker 13: take more than him, but I love Houston.
[1:09:53] Speaker 7: But, yeah, there you go.
[1:09:55] Speaker 5: That's what I got.
[1:09:55] Speaker 6: And five?
[1:09:56] Speaker 3: Six. Gil, how about yourself?
[1:10:01] Speaker 8: Seven games. It'll be a seven-game series.
[1:10:07] Speaker 3: For sure. Unfortunately.
[1:10:10] Speaker 6: Depending on who gets the fouls in the first quarter.
[1:10:13] Speaker 3: Okay.
[1:10:19] Speaker 7: Houston or Skoltex?
[1:10:21] Speaker 6: I mean, Houston has the advantage of athleticism and different
[1:10:30] Speaker 6: type of lineups. And Golden State's done played so many
[1:10:34] Speaker 6: mind games with their players that even if you try
[1:10:38] Speaker 6: to use Kaminga, he's not going to be mentally ready
[1:10:40] Speaker 6: to just go out there and just win for you.
[1:10:43] Speaker 3: Right.
[1:10:45] Speaker 6: Because, you know, at the end of the day, that's
[1:10:46] Speaker 6: what you really need for him to win for you
[1:10:48] Speaker 6: because you done already fucked him up. I just don't
[1:10:54] Speaker 6: see Jimmy Butler and Steph being able to just fairly
[1:11:01] Speaker 6: whoop this team's ass. So it's depending on who gets
[1:11:05] Speaker 6: in foul trouble in that game seven. Right? If that
[1:11:07] Speaker 6: whistle is blown for the aggression that Rockets is going
[1:11:11] Speaker 6: to be putting on them, then, you know, then it's
[1:11:15] Speaker 6: a Golden State game. You're going to see it early
[1:11:16] Speaker 6: in game seven, trust me. It's either going to be
[1:11:18] Speaker 6: a blow, it's going to be a 20-point blowout. It
[1:11:20] Speaker 6: ain't going to be close. So is that the Warriors
[1:11:22] Speaker 6: or the Rockets?
[1:11:25] Speaker 1: I'm the same way.
[1:11:26] Speaker 3: I'm the same way.
[1:11:27] Speaker 1: I'm waiting for game seven.
[1:11:28] Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to win. I'm waiting for
[1:11:30] Speaker 3: game seven. I don't know who's going to win. I'm
[1:11:32] Speaker 3: waiting for game seven. Wrap it up. In the Western Conference,
[1:11:36] Speaker 3: you got to live here. You don't have to answer
[1:11:38] Speaker 3: the question. You have to answer it.
[1:11:39] Speaker 9: I just know it's going to seven.
[1:11:40] Speaker 3: I ain't going to say who I think is going
[1:11:42] Speaker 3: to win.
[1:11:43] Speaker 6: I think it's one of seven.
[1:11:44] Speaker 1: Gil said he needs to see the first six games
[1:11:47] Speaker 1: before he can give you four.
[1:11:48] Speaker 3: Lex is putting it in a good way.
[1:11:49] Speaker 8: Lex is putting it in a good way, so go.
[1:11:51] Speaker 3: Ahead, Lex.
[1:11:52] Speaker 4: Oh, I said Houston will only win if they get
[1:11:54] Speaker 4: this series over quick.
[1:11:56] Speaker 7: So they got to win it four or five. If
[1:11:58] Speaker 7: it goes to six or seven, Warriors win.
[1:12:00] Speaker 6: Houston only wins if the referees are going to let
[1:12:03] Speaker 6: them play.
[1:12:04] Speaker 2: Speaking of referees, do we expect to see the extender,
[1:12:07] Speaker 2: Scott Foster, make an appearance in this series?
[1:12:09] Speaker 3: Yes.
[1:12:10] Speaker 6: Of course.
[1:12:11] Speaker 3: As you dump?
[1:12:13] Speaker 6: If you don't, pow, pow, pow, pow. And that's the thing,
[1:12:16] Speaker 6: Steph's going to have 40. Did somebody say game seven?
[1:12:18] Speaker 6: Steph's going to have 40 with the most free throws
[1:12:20] Speaker 6: he's ever taken in his life.
[1:12:22] Speaker 5: What'd you say, Houston in what?
[1:12:24] Speaker 3: I'm going to go six.
[1:12:25] Speaker 6: Six?
[1:12:26] Speaker 8: I said five before I'm gonna go Houston.
[1:12:28] Speaker 3: And see Rockets and six.
[1:12:29] Speaker 9: I should go to seven.
[1:12:30] Speaker 1: KJ says going to seven on first two games.
[1:12:34] Speaker 6: He's gonna be all over the West Coast. He never
[1:12:36] Speaker 6: gonna be on game one.
[1:12:38] Speaker 3: First two games.
[1:12:38] Speaker 1: I was gonna be Houston game one or two Warriors win.
[1:12:43] Speaker 1: And it's a good to take who the defensive players.
[1:12:46] Speaker 1: They need to get out the game for the next three.
[1:12:49] Speaker 6: First game.
[1:12:49] Speaker 1: They'll play the first flip because they can't do it.
[1:12:52] Speaker 1: It's two and a Houston's back-to-back in Houston. Yeah, that's
[1:12:55] Speaker 1: gonna be a split. Well, I'm a Warriors hater, so
[1:12:57] Speaker 1: I'm always praying for their downfall.
[1:12:58] Speaker 6: No.
[1:12:58] Speaker 3: You don't think they're going to split? Don't know if
[1:13:01] Speaker 3: those prayers will be answered.
[1:13:01] Speaker 9: Chase?
[1:13:02] Speaker 6: No.
[1:13:03] Speaker 3: They got to split.
[1:13:04] Speaker 8: They're going to split in Houston. They're going to get one.
[1:13:07] Speaker 3: Houston can get one.
[1:13:08] Speaker 7: Houston has to win the first game. Houston has to
[1:13:10] Speaker 7: win the first game, I feel like.
[1:13:12] Speaker 3: They got to win the both. They got to win back-to-back.
[1:13:14] Speaker 7: They need to win the first game.
[1:13:15] Speaker 3: I think the first game should be a blowout, too.
[1:13:18] Speaker 7: A Houston blowout?
[1:13:19] Speaker 3: Lexi, did you pick a winner, you said? No.
[1:13:21] Speaker 5: Her and Gail didn't.
[1:13:22] Speaker 3: Okay, well, not adhering to the criteria. Three didn't. No.
[1:13:25] Speaker 3: Three didn't. Sure didn't.
[1:13:26] Speaker 6: I said game seven, first quarter.
[1:13:28] Speaker 8: I can tell you right there.
[1:13:29] Speaker 7: I just want everyone to have a good time and
[1:13:30] Speaker 7: stay healthy.
[1:13:32] Speaker 3: Well, hopefully.
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[1:14:33] Speaker 3: Oh, wait.
[1:14:34] Speaker 2: The Hawks and Magic. Sorry, it was a long night
[1:14:39] Speaker 2: last night. We were on playback for about three hours plus.
[1:14:41] Speaker 1: They cared, dude.
[1:14:42] Speaker 6: If you were to win past Magic.
[1:14:44] Speaker 1: Who would they play?
[1:14:46] Speaker 3: Hawks and Grizzlies.
[1:14:47] Speaker 6: Nobody would care, man, to be honest, man.
[1:14:51] Speaker 2: They said I was looking sleepy on the playback. They
[1:14:53] Speaker 2: were accurate, but I had to stay up, push through.
[1:14:55] Speaker 8: You look high.
[1:14:56] Speaker 1: Well, you know.
[1:14:57] Speaker 6: I'm just saying.
[1:14:58] Speaker 3: I like to do things in my Josiah time.
[1:15:01] Speaker 2: But Hawks and Magic met in Orlando for the first
[1:15:03] Speaker 2: playing game.
[1:15:04] Speaker 3: I heard my name on there, man.
[1:15:05] Speaker 6: Huh?
[1:15:06] Speaker 8: I heard my name on there last night. What'd I say?
[1:15:10] Speaker 8: That was wild last night on there. Bargaining like shit
[1:15:13] Speaker 8: on there.
[1:15:13] Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
[1:15:14] Speaker 6: About what?
[1:15:16] Speaker 3: One-on-one. One-on-one shit or some shit. Oh, and Pat Bev. Yeah,
[1:15:21] Speaker 3: Pat Bev. Pat Bev was on there.
[1:15:24] Speaker 8: Yeah, 100,000. A lot of things going on in the universe.
[1:15:27] Speaker 8: So play one-on-one?
[1:15:29] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[1:15:29] Speaker 3: That would be funny, dog.
[1:15:32] Speaker 6: Four for 21.
[1:15:33] Speaker 2: So Hawks and Magic met in Orlando for the first
[1:15:35] Speaker 2: playing game with a chance to face The defending champion, Celtics.
[1:15:39] Speaker 2: Teams split their season series 2-2, but the Magic used
[1:15:41] Speaker 2: their home court advantage to show Trey Young and them.
[1:15:44] Speaker 3: They had a trick up their sleeve. Let's take a
[1:15:46] Speaker 3: look at the highlights, if we can, please, Paolo.
[1:15:49] Speaker 2: Magic controlled the game early, leading by as much as
[1:15:52] Speaker 2: 22 points in the first half. Cole Anthony led Orlando
[1:15:55] Speaker 2: in scoring, coming off the bench and putting up 26 points.
[1:15:57] Speaker 2: He was 10 for 17 from the field, 4 for
[1:15:59] Speaker 2: 9 from 3. Paolo Bancaro, also known as Paolo P. Caro,
[1:16:03] Speaker 2: in the arena, had 17 points, 9 rebounds, and 7 assists.
[1:16:06] Speaker 2: on four of 13 shooting. Franz Wagner, aka Waggy Waggy,
[1:16:11] Speaker 2: had 13.
[1:16:12] Speaker 3: And 13 boards. While Wendell Carter Jr.
[1:16:14] Speaker 2: Was a leading scorer amongst the starting unit with 19
[1:16:16] Speaker 2: points to go along with seven boards. Magic second year guard,
[1:16:20] Speaker 2: Anthony Black, big off the bench as well, putting up
[1:16:22] Speaker 2: 16 points on six of seven shooting. Three for three
[1:16:26] Speaker 2: from deep. Hawks bounced back in the second half, cutting
[1:16:28] Speaker 2: the deficit to three late in the third quarter. So
[1:16:32] Speaker 2: Trey Young led the Hawks with 28 points. and six
[1:16:35] Speaker 2: dimes on eight of 21 shooting. Ice Trey was 11
[1:16:38] Speaker 2: for 12 from the line. Dyson Daniels had seven points,
[1:16:41] Speaker 2: 12 rebounds, and seven dimes. Okonkwo, 11 and nine boards.
[1:16:46] Speaker 2: And Georges Niang came off the bench with 15 points
[1:16:50] Speaker 2: in the game, but the magic opened it up in
[1:16:54] Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. Started going to work. Y'all see Paolo
[1:17:00] Speaker 2: out there doing his thing. About five minutes remaining in
[1:17:03] Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. Trey Young Ejected from the game. Was
[1:17:07] Speaker 2: extremely frustrated. Picked up two quick techs. Magic went on
[1:17:10] Speaker 2: to get the 25-point win to secure the seventh seed
[1:17:12] Speaker 2: in the East. So, Magic 10-3 in their last 13 games.
[1:17:19] Speaker 3: Shout out, Fran, Dembo. That's my brother, goddammit.
[1:17:25] Speaker 2: So, Magic 10-3 in their last 13 games, including the play-in.
[1:17:29] Speaker 2: Are the Magic getting hot at the right time?
[1:17:33] Speaker 7: Who are they playing next?
[1:17:34] Speaker 3: You're Boston Celtics? No. Good luck.
[1:17:38] Speaker 6: Nope.
[1:17:39] Speaker 8: No?
[1:17:40] Speaker 6: No.
[1:17:40] Speaker 3: No concern? No worries?
[1:17:42] Speaker 1: No.
[1:17:42] Speaker 3: Not even a tad?
[1:17:44] Speaker 8: No. Because they're the one team that can match with
[1:17:46] Speaker 8: them size-wise.
[1:17:49] Speaker 6: And he gets to the pre-door line.
[1:17:50] Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
[1:17:52] Speaker 8: Yeah, so it's going to be a tougher series. They
[1:17:56] Speaker 8: don't shoot the ball well enough from the outside to
[1:17:59] Speaker 8: compete with Boston, I don't think.
[1:18:02] Speaker 6: Um....
[1:18:05] Speaker 8: Yeah, it's going to be a tough one.
[1:18:08] Speaker 2: But looking at this Magic squad, not a true seventh
[1:18:10] Speaker 2: seed by standard definition. Had a bunch of guys miss
[1:18:13] Speaker 2: a lot of games this season.
[1:18:14] Speaker 6: That's the scary part.
[1:18:15] Speaker 2: Where the fifth seed last season took the Cavs to
[1:18:18] Speaker 2: seven games in the first round.
[1:18:20] Speaker 6: I'm sure the Cavs are extremely excited. We see Shug
[1:18:22] Speaker 6: over there smiling.
[1:18:23] Speaker 8: He said they lost.
[1:18:24] Speaker 6: What?
[1:18:24] Speaker 8: He said they lost.
[1:18:26] Speaker 1: Extremely excited to not have to see the Magic.
[1:18:29] Speaker 3: In that 1-8.
[1:18:30] Speaker 1: There's two Cleveland fans over there.
[1:18:31] Speaker 2: There's a lot of Cleveland represented in the arena. But
[1:18:34] Speaker 2: excited to not have to see the magic in that
[1:18:36] Speaker 2: 1-8 series rematch from last playoff series.
[1:18:40] Speaker 3: But move to the side of the couch. Gil, you have,
[1:18:42] Speaker 3: you know, former Orlando Magic.
[1:18:45] Speaker 6: Fan.
[1:18:47] Speaker 3: Penny Hardaway fan.
[1:18:48] Speaker 8: Yeah, Penny Hardaway fan.
[1:18:49] Speaker 3: Fan of the jerseys. They get hot at the right time? Yeah.
[1:18:55] Speaker 6: I mean, they got healthy at the right time. I mean,
[1:19:01] Speaker 6: it should be an easy win for Boston. But I
[1:19:08] Speaker 6: don't think it's going to be as easy as that,
[1:19:11] Speaker 6: they think, because you do have three 6'10 players on
[1:19:16] Speaker 6: the magic.
[1:19:19] Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
[1:19:19] Speaker 6: So you're shooting a bunch of jump shots, and they're
[1:19:21] Speaker 6: coming down, trying to pound the ball down low. I mean,
[1:19:25] Speaker 6: it could offset a little bit. You don't have Jalen
[1:19:29] Speaker 6: Brown at the beginning of the series. He's going to play,
[1:19:34] Speaker 6: but that knee is a little.
[1:19:36] Speaker 6: Half a Jalen Brown, that ain't good enough. Not at all.
[1:19:39] Speaker 8: Not against them young animals.
[1:19:41] Speaker 6: You know, I mean, you got one of your best
[1:19:44] Speaker 6: guards coming off the bench as a six-man shooting that shit. So,
[1:19:47] Speaker 6: you know, Pritchard got, you know, it's him or Cole.
[1:19:50] Speaker 6: They're going to be sitting there firing at each other.
[1:19:51] Speaker 6: But you got– they're going to hit that off as
[1:19:53] Speaker 6: a glass. They are. And they're going to be sitting there,
[1:19:56] Speaker 6: you trying to run through the lane. Like, so you
[1:19:58] Speaker 6: sitting there chucking a bunch of threes can– It should
[1:20:03] Speaker 6: be blowouts, but I mean, I don't think the young fellas.
[1:20:06] Speaker 8: I don't know if it's going to be blowouts, but
[1:20:08] Speaker 8: I just think experience.
[1:20:09] Speaker 6: I think they can pull in, too. They can pull out, too.
[1:20:13] Speaker 6: How are you feeling about this Magic squad? Jamal Mosley
[1:20:17] Speaker 6: at the helm.
[1:20:20] Speaker 3: I think Boston wins, but....
[1:20:25] Speaker 15: Orlando's going to affect their bot. Even if they win,
[1:20:29] Speaker 15: it's not going to be like, oh, like... Like, we good. Like,
[1:20:32] Speaker 15: we still fresh.
[1:20:33] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[1:20:34] Speaker 9: Like, even if you guys do win 4-1, fine. You're
[1:20:39] Speaker 9: going to be beat up.
[1:20:40] Speaker 8: Yeah, you're going to be beat up. Same thing I
[1:20:41] Speaker 8: be saying.
[1:20:42] Speaker 3: You're going to be beat up.
[1:20:43] Speaker 1: You're going to be beat up.
[1:20:44] Speaker 3: Not Celtics fans on this side of the account. Like,
[1:20:46] Speaker 3: you're going to be beat up.
[1:20:47] Speaker 15: So, regardless if it's 4-1, even if you guys sweep them,
[1:20:51] Speaker 15: you're going to be beat up. Because they ain't just
[1:20:53] Speaker 15: going to go out like that. They don't know no better.
[1:20:55] Speaker 15: They're going to play hard. Like you said, you come
[1:20:57] Speaker 15: through the paint, we're going to foul. And we're going
[1:21:01] Speaker 15: to make y'all guard.
[1:21:04] Speaker 3: Celtics ran through the East last season.
[1:21:07] Speaker 7: I don't know.
[1:21:07] Speaker 4: The Celtics, they're going to shoot their threes, but they
[1:21:10] Speaker 4: do need to attack the basket because the Magic do
[1:21:12] Speaker 4: foul a lot.
[1:21:13] Speaker 3: So they need to use that against them. Orlando going
[1:21:15] Speaker 3: to throw.
[1:21:16] Speaker 9: That's a problem.
[1:21:17] Speaker 6: Yeah, your team don't want to get hit either. So
[1:21:20] Speaker 6: if they're down there hitting, they're going to want to
[1:21:23] Speaker 6: settle more.
[1:21:23] Speaker 3: Yes. They're going to throw.
[1:21:26] Speaker 8: They ain't settling. They just going to continue.
[1:21:28] Speaker 1: They ain't going further.
[1:21:29] Speaker 8: They're going to. They shoot furthermore, they're going to win
[1:21:32] Speaker 8: back some more.
[1:21:32] Speaker 15: Because I know if they shoot, what is it, like
[1:21:34] Speaker 15: 43s a game, the percentage of them winning is high.
[1:21:37] Speaker 6: I said that too.
[1:21:39] Speaker 3: I said that too.
[1:21:40] Speaker 15: No, if they shoot 40%, like if they shoot 43s
[1:21:43] Speaker 15: a game, their percentage on winning the basketball game is like.
[1:21:47] Speaker 3: So imagine if we shoot 60.
[1:21:49] Speaker 7: We shot 40 last night.
[1:21:51] Speaker 1: Shoot 63 in a game, we're going to beat you.
[1:21:54] Speaker 1: Because our percentages are making.
[1:21:56] Speaker 15: That's why I think you just let them go one-on-one
[1:21:58] Speaker 15: and let them take twos and don't help.
[1:22:00] Speaker 1: Well, let's live by the three, die by the three.
[1:22:02] Speaker 1: That's what the karma is by shooting a lot of threes,
[1:22:05] Speaker 1: especially in the playoffs. Last year, the difference between them
[1:22:07] Speaker 1: and now is the fact that teams wasn't expecting them
[1:22:11] Speaker 1: to depend on the three as much as they was,
[1:22:14] Speaker 1: and they was hitting shots because you're like, you ain't
[1:22:16] Speaker 1: shooting that. Now we see they shooting that shit every night.
[1:22:19] Speaker 3: 48 threes per game. They depending on it.
[1:22:22] Speaker 1: So if I'm Orlando, I need contested threes. We don't
[1:22:26] Speaker 1: want to make them shoot twos.
[1:22:28] Speaker 7: And they can't try to shoot with them either.
[1:22:30] Speaker 1: And that's too much on us to try to get
[1:22:32] Speaker 1: them to change their game completely because that's more defensive effort.
[1:22:35] Speaker 4: Yes.
[1:22:36] Speaker 3: We just need contested threes.
[1:22:38] Speaker 1: And we hope they have bad shooting nights for the
[1:22:40] Speaker 1: whole series.
[1:22:41] Speaker 3: Because if they shoot bad, they lose. I mean, they
[1:22:43] Speaker 3: have size.
[1:22:43] Speaker 15: I mean, they're going to throw Wendell at the five,
[1:22:47] Speaker 15: Isaac at the four, Paulo at the three, Franz Wagner
[1:22:50] Speaker 15: at the two.
[1:22:51] Speaker 3: Drop coverage at all of us. You're all 6'10. Yes.
[1:22:56] Speaker 15: They're going to put Wendell 6'10, Isaac 7, Paulo 6'10,
[1:23:02] Speaker 15: at the three, Franz Wagner 6'10, at the two. You
[1:23:06] Speaker 15: can put Cole out there if you want to. Anthony
[1:23:07] Speaker 15: Black 6'7.
[1:23:09] Speaker 3: I'm trapping Jalen and Jason in the free throw.
[1:23:12] Speaker 8: No, never.
[1:23:13] Speaker 3: No, hell no.
[1:23:14] Speaker 6: I don't have to.
[1:23:15] Speaker 3: No, because they want to shoot threes. They're the only.
[1:23:17] Speaker 1: Ones that can actually snake the pick and roll and
[1:23:20] Speaker 1: be dangerous in the snake. Because that's where actually Orlando's
[1:23:25] Speaker 1: bad in the snake. They don't know how to guard it.
[1:23:29] Speaker 1: People get down into the gutter defense and they make plays.
[1:23:31] Speaker 1: So if you have somebody that can stop that, you
[1:23:33] Speaker 1: either trap it or you switch it.
[1:23:35] Speaker 6: You don't switch it.
[1:23:37] Speaker 3: And if you're switching it, you're.
[1:23:38] Speaker 1: Playing one-on-one ball with Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum at
[1:23:41] Speaker 1: the top of the key.
[1:23:42] Speaker 3: Shooting a size 3 on a 6'10 guy.
[1:23:44] Speaker 5: But if you're trapping it... Everybody got.
[1:23:46] Speaker 3: To be ready to rotate.
[1:23:47] Speaker 8: They're going to let them shoot threes.
[1:23:48] Speaker 5: You said Orlando's going to let them?
[1:23:51] Speaker 6: Orlando's going to let them shoot threes because they got
[1:23:53] Speaker 6: six tens. So they're going to sit there with the side.
[1:23:57] Speaker 7: And then Orlando can't also shoot those that many threes.
[1:24:00] Speaker 6: But if you look at the three-point finish against Orlando,
[1:24:03] Speaker 6: it's not actually good.
[1:24:06] Speaker 3: No.
[1:24:07] Speaker 7: How many threes was Orlando shooting.
[1:24:09] Speaker 3: In those games?
[1:24:10] Speaker 2: The season series is a little fugazi just in terms
[1:24:13] Speaker 2: of guys.
[1:24:13] Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, I was at one of those games.
[1:24:16] Speaker 3: They lost. Boston lost.
[1:24:18] Speaker 6: Boston lost by 20?
[1:24:19] Speaker 7: I don't remember. Jason wasn't playing.
[1:24:21] Speaker 6: No.
[1:24:22] Speaker 3: Jason wasn't playing. Jalen Brown was playing.
[1:24:23] Speaker 7: Jalen Brown, I think, had a good game. Who Orlando started?
[1:24:26] Speaker 3: Yeah, he played good, but they lost.
[1:24:27] Speaker 6: KCP started?
[1:24:28] Speaker 8: Orlando at the two.
[1:24:29] Speaker 6: Who played the one? It's a new kid.
[1:24:32] Speaker 3: Gary Harris? Yeah, Gary Harrison. They got Gary Harris and
[1:24:35] Speaker 3: Corey Joseph, the same player. Yeah, so Corey Joseph, KCP.
[1:24:39] Speaker 9: And then it goes 6-10. So I'll put a smaller
[1:24:42] Speaker 9: dude on Porzingis.
[1:24:44] Speaker 8: Yeah.
[1:24:44] Speaker 3: Because the only thing, he doesn't want to shoot.
[1:24:46] Speaker 6: You'll put KCP on him. And then everybody, yes.
[1:24:50] Speaker 9: So when it's that pick and roll, you sweat, yes.
[1:24:53] Speaker 3: I don't care. Because KCP is, I mean, Porzingis is
[1:24:56] Speaker 3: going to take that personal. Doesn't matter. You're going to
[1:24:59] Speaker 3: give it to him down there. You're going to say,
[1:25:00] Speaker 3: give it to me down here.
[1:25:01] Speaker 1: So who you put on him?
[1:25:02] Speaker 3: Is it Isaac? Paolo? Isaac. Isaac? Jonathan Isaac. 8 for 33.
[1:25:07] Speaker 3: I don't think he start, though. So who you start?
[1:25:09] Speaker 9: You start Isaac instead of Wendell Carter?
[1:25:11] Speaker 3: Yeah. So you go Isaac, follow.
[1:25:14] Speaker 6: No, I'm talking about losses.
[1:25:15] Speaker 3: It's a good athletic young.
[1:25:18] Speaker 1: That's a good core, right? And then we'll Horford come in,
[1:25:20] Speaker 1: then you put it out. Bring in Wendell Carter to
[1:25:22] Speaker 1: match him.
[1:25:22] Speaker 3: Makes sense.
[1:25:23] Speaker 8: Lexi said she don't give a hoot. Y'all bring Snoopy. Goddamn. Hey,
[1:25:27] Speaker 8: Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Handwall Diz and himself, Celtics in five.
[1:25:31] Speaker 3: So Celtics average 48.
[1:25:33] Speaker 7: Who are you talking about when you're talking about Disney characters?
[1:25:35] Speaker 2: Celtics average 48 three-point attempts per game in the regular season.
[1:25:39] Speaker 3: Shot 30.
[1:25:39] Speaker 7: Cinderella.
[1:25:40] Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse.
[1:25:41] Speaker 7: Mickey Mouse.
[1:25:41] Speaker 3: I don't care.
[1:25:42] Speaker 7: We're down.
[1:25:43] Speaker 1: So you think they're taking more three-point attempts in the playoff?
[1:25:46] Speaker 3: Bring them all.
[1:25:47] Speaker 1: You got to look at how playoff basketball is played
[1:25:50] Speaker 1: when you talk about second chance points, executing offense and
[1:25:55] Speaker 1: all that type of shit. So Boston is going to
[1:25:57] Speaker 1: be into either one or two things, quick shots or
[1:26:00] Speaker 1: execute the offense. So it's seven seconds or less, or
[1:26:04] Speaker 1: it's run the play all the way through. And I
[1:26:07] Speaker 1: don't think Joe has plays in his arsenal that they're like,
[1:26:10] Speaker 1: we're going to execute this shit. I think they're going
[1:26:13] Speaker 1: to keep doing what they've been doing, run that shit out,
[1:26:15] Speaker 1: and just shoot threes.
[1:26:17] Speaker 4: Who's style going to take over?
[1:26:19] Speaker 1: Seven for 40, like eight for 13, eight for 33,
[1:26:21] Speaker 1: seven for 40.
[1:26:21] Speaker 3: From three? Orlando?
[1:26:27] Speaker 6: No.
[1:26:28] Speaker 3: Against them.
[1:26:28] Speaker 6: It's like you're talking about sidestep against 6'10.
[1:26:31] Speaker 8: Sidestep contested threes. It's sidestep against 6'10.
[1:26:34] Speaker 3: Don't force them to shoot two. Don't foul them. Play
[1:26:36] Speaker 3: without fouling. You'll be good. Keep them off the line.
[1:26:40] Speaker 3: Keep them off the glass. It's 3-1.
[1:26:42] Speaker 2: Magic were 2-1 against the Celtics this season. Tatum and
[1:26:44] Speaker 2: Franz Wagner each missed two of those games. None of
[1:26:47] Speaker 2: the games included the top two players from both teams.
[1:26:49] Speaker 2: And then you talked about... I think last game or
[1:26:52] Speaker 2: the last meeting of the season, Magic smacked the Celtics.
[1:26:54] Speaker 2: Celtics rested their top six players in that game.
[1:26:58] Speaker 6: And you just look at the Magic, we talk about
[1:26:59] Speaker 6: that squad. But that's what I'm saying. If I'm going
[1:27:04] Speaker 6: against them, I'm going to say, all right, this is
[1:27:06] Speaker 6: what they want to do. I'd rather you shoot threes
[1:27:09] Speaker 6: against motherfuckers who can contest. Like, I don't want to
[1:27:12] Speaker 6: switch on, you know, Cole and then, you know, Jason
[1:27:15] Speaker 6: gets to sidestep, but if everyone is 6'10, that's going
[1:27:18] Speaker 6: to switch.
[1:27:18] Speaker 8: On to him.
[1:27:19] Speaker 6: If you want to do a whole bunch of sidesteps
[1:27:21] Speaker 6: the whole series, cool.
[1:27:22] Speaker 3: If you beat us doing that, fucking cool. But they're
[1:27:23] Speaker 3: the ones scoring for you, too.
[1:27:28] Speaker 6: Like, you're talking about the games are 104. Like, if
[1:27:31] Speaker 6: you look at Boston's scores, 104, 76, 96. Like, they're
[1:27:37] Speaker 6: not scoring 150 shooting all those threes.
[1:27:40] Speaker 1: They're post-up basketball in this series. We've been playing basketball.
[1:27:45] Speaker 1: We've been big basketball. We'll make them guard. Jalen Brown
[1:27:47] Speaker 1: will make you guard. And then who's the other guard
[1:27:52] Speaker 1: on Boston? Derek White. No, Drew Holiday. Drew and Jalen Brown.
[1:27:58] Speaker 1: This will be that series. Does Drew need to play
[1:28:00] Speaker 1: like Bradley Bill? It rains game, post up, back to
[1:28:02] Speaker 1: the basket.
[1:28:03] Speaker 3: What'd you say?
[1:28:04] Speaker 2: Does Drew need to play like Bradley Bill this year
[1:28:06] Speaker 2: just to flip it up on him?
[1:28:09] Speaker 3: Reverse Uno card.
[1:28:10] Speaker 7: I'm going to play like Bill. I'm just fucking around.
[1:28:15] Speaker 3: But let's talk a little bit about... Why not?
[1:28:17] Speaker 7: Why would you say that to him?
[1:28:19] Speaker 8: Say that to Bradley?
[1:28:20] Speaker 7: No, say it to Drew.
[1:28:23] Speaker 6: Oh, say that to Drew about... Yeah, we just, you know,
[1:28:25] Speaker 6: reverse Uno.
[1:28:25] Speaker 3: Yeah, yesterday I was listening to y'all.
[1:28:30] Speaker 2: Talk Jalen Brown, right? Jalen Brown missed the last three
[1:28:33] Speaker 2: games of the season dealing with a knee injury. Made
[1:28:35] Speaker 2: him ineligible for awards this season. He only played 63 games.
[1:28:40] Speaker 2: Brown been getting pain injections in his knee. Celtics head
[1:28:43] Speaker 2: coach Joe Mazzullo said he's 100% confident Brown will be
[1:28:46] Speaker 2: ready for the start of the playoffs. But how concerned
[1:28:48] Speaker 2: should Celtics be with Jalen Brown's knee injury in this series?
[1:28:51] Speaker 3: Not worried?
[1:28:52] Speaker 6: No.
[1:28:53] Speaker 3: Worried about nothing? Nothing. Lexi, you scared? You can tell
[1:28:56] Speaker 3: the truth.
[1:28:57] Speaker 8: Scared.
[1:28:58] Speaker 7: We're the defending champions.
[1:29:00] Speaker 6: Well, say it again.
[1:29:02] Speaker 3: Ain't nobody repeating.
[1:29:04] Speaker 5: Yeah, but getting.
[1:29:06] Speaker 13: You're missing your Superman.
[1:29:08] Speaker 3: I don't know.
[1:29:10] Speaker 2: Former Celtics fan. Since shifted his allegiance to the Knicks,
[1:29:13] Speaker 2: but looking at your whole squad.
[1:29:15] Speaker 7: They're going to be fine.
[1:29:16] Speaker 2: Jalen Brown, the Superman of that Celtics squad in your estimation?
[1:29:20] Speaker 5: Concern.
[1:29:22] Speaker 3: Jason Tatum is not Robin. I know that. He can
[1:29:27] Speaker 3: be whoever he want to be. He just can't be
[1:29:29] Speaker 3: Superman today. That's all. Celtics are cool, man. Alexi, look
[1:29:35] Speaker 3: at this. They're cool.
[1:29:38] Speaker 7: Y'all hate us so bad.
[1:29:39] Speaker 3: They're cool.
[1:29:40] Speaker 7: It's so crazy.
[1:29:41] Speaker 3: Let's see if they can do it again, though. If
[1:29:44] Speaker 3: they're not, it's paper champ.
[1:29:45] Speaker 7: They are the defending champs.
[1:29:49] Speaker 3: They got to defend, don't they? And don't they got
[1:29:52] Speaker 3: to defend?
[1:29:52] Speaker 5: I mean, if they want to win it again, they do.
[1:29:55] Speaker 8: Cleveland ain't trying to hear that shit. Lexi said she's
[1:29:57] Speaker 8: going to come to this motherfucker like BG. They win
[1:29:59] Speaker 8: it again. Like J.R.
[1:30:01] Speaker 7: Smith.
[1:30:05] Speaker 3: Chat, no. Chat, very interested in whether you're wearing socks
[1:30:09] Speaker 3: or not. Yes, sir, Lexi.
[1:30:10] Speaker 2: I can confirm Lexi wearing socks today, chat. I am
[1:30:12] Speaker 2: wearing socks.
[1:30:14] Speaker 3: You didn't have socks on yesterday?
[1:30:16] Speaker 7: I did wear socks yesterday. They were asking if I
[1:30:20] Speaker 7: had socks on under my boots.
[1:30:21] Speaker 3: They wanted to see if her feet were sweating.
[1:30:23] Speaker 7: But I'm like, why would I not be wearing socks?
[1:30:26] Speaker 5: Oh, they got foot fetish.
[1:30:28] Speaker 3: Yeah, they want to look good.
[1:30:28] Speaker 8: That's what I said.
[1:30:29] Speaker 7: Our chat is a scary place.
[1:30:31] Speaker 6: Yeah. Love y'all, though. Something to be concerned at all
[1:30:34] Speaker 6: about Jalen Brown then?
[1:30:35] Speaker 3: You like that shit. Yeah.
[1:30:36] Speaker 7: You like it?
[1:30:37] Speaker 3: The chat? Yes. Oh, no, no. Got a little OnlyFans. Yeah.
[1:30:41] Speaker 7: Don't say that.
[1:30:42] Speaker 6: You missed three games?
[1:30:43] Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said, Jalen Brown missed the last three
[1:30:46] Speaker 2: games of the season. Particularly interesting because if he would
[1:30:49] Speaker 2: have played two of those three games, he would have
[1:30:51] Speaker 2: been eligible to make an All-NBA team.
[1:30:53] Speaker 3: Got my toes.
[1:30:55] Speaker 1: So the fact that he didn't try to play means
[1:30:57] Speaker 1: he's been getting pain injections in his knee, really sore,
[1:30:59] Speaker 1: and you're going to go to the playoffs and try
[1:31:01] Speaker 1: to win the championship?
[1:31:03] Speaker 5: It's a concern.
[1:31:04] Speaker 6: It is. Definitely.
[1:31:07] Speaker 1: It is.
[1:31:08] Speaker 3: Cheryl, you worried?
[1:31:10] Speaker 13: Well, I'm not worried because I don't really care about
[1:31:12] Speaker 13: the Celtics.
[1:31:14] Speaker 6: Hey, man, I ain't going to tell you, man, the basketball.
[1:31:16] Speaker 6: This has been a fucking.
[1:31:18] Speaker 3: Great year, man.
[1:31:20] Speaker 8: Man, it's been a great year.
[1:31:21] Speaker 3: And prompt to smoke.
[1:31:22] Speaker 6: This has been a great, like, if you ask for, like,
[1:31:25] Speaker 6: a hand-me-down championship and you need everything to, like, go right,
[1:31:30] Speaker 6: this has been the year.
[1:31:32] Speaker 7: For the Lakers?
[1:31:32] Speaker 3: What?
[1:31:33] Speaker 7: How are we getting back to the Lakers right now?
[1:31:35] Speaker 3: Always.
[1:31:35] Speaker 7: How did this happen?
[1:31:36] Speaker 3: I had nothing to do with the case.
[1:31:38] Speaker 5: We're not even talking about the Lakers.
[1:31:39] Speaker 3: We're talking about the Celtics. How did this happen? What
[1:31:42] Speaker 3: time is it?
[1:31:42] Speaker 7: We weren't even talking about the Celtics.
[1:31:44] Speaker 3: God dang it. What time is it? 1-11.
[1:31:45] Speaker 7: He blew the smoke and said, okay, Lakers high.
[1:31:47] Speaker 6: All right.
[1:31:48] Speaker 7: That's what time is.
[1:31:49] Speaker 5: Enough of these other teams.
[1:31:51] Speaker 1: Let's talk about my squad.
[1:31:53] Speaker 6: I'm just saying, if you a Laker fan and you
[1:31:56] Speaker 6: thinking about a championship.
[1:31:57] Speaker 5: It's not going to happen.
[1:31:59] Speaker 3: This has been the perfect year.
[1:32:01] Speaker 6: We got Luka.
[1:32:03] Speaker 3: Right? We did.
[1:32:05] Speaker 6: Denver, shit done popped off over there. Phoenix Suns, shit
[1:32:09] Speaker 6: is trash over there.
[1:32:11] Speaker 1: You got a.
[1:32:13] Speaker 6: Team that obviously the trade they made didn't help them out.
[1:32:16] Speaker 6: And then you got a young team and then your little.
[1:32:19] Speaker 3: Matchup is whatever.
[1:32:20] Speaker 6: And then on the East, they have knee problems from
[1:32:24] Speaker 6: their Superman that they think is not going to be
[1:32:27] Speaker 6: a problem the whole series.
[1:32:29] Speaker 3: Then he got a guard.
[1:32:30] Speaker 6: Look, I like that. I'm sorry.
[1:32:33] Speaker 1: I really like that.
[1:32:34] Speaker 6: That All you needed was two out of three to
[1:32:37] Speaker 6: activate that, right, all NBA, and you didn't try to play?
[1:32:42] Speaker 8: Means you are really hurt.
[1:32:44] Speaker 6: Then you got the playoff games and you got battles
[1:32:46] Speaker 6: to do.
[1:32:47] Speaker 8: I'm going to take that.
[1:32:48] Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I appreciate that. I'd rather have him like
[1:32:51] Speaker 6: this than healthy.
[1:32:53] Speaker 1: Them two games, them 65 games on me and shit,
[1:32:56] Speaker 1: he got his 300 already.
[1:32:57] Speaker 3: Yeah, he does have his money.
[1:32:59] Speaker 1: Shit, the fucking 65 games don't mean shit to him.
[1:33:02] Speaker 3: His chips would do.
[1:33:04] Speaker 8: My 300 already kicked in, goddammit.
[1:33:07] Speaker 6: Hey, listen, I'd rather take Porzingis, calf industry going into
[1:33:11] Speaker 6: the championship.
[1:33:12] Speaker 3: Do that again this year.
[1:33:14] Speaker 6: Try that shit this year.
[1:33:18] Speaker 3: Right?
[1:33:18] Speaker 6: I'd rather you be this way than healthy.
[1:33:20] Speaker 1: So that's what they playing already? The Lakers playing the
[1:33:22] Speaker 1: Celtics right now?
[1:33:23] Speaker 3: They got the greatest player of all time. Sean, you
[1:33:26] Speaker 3: can speak up, Sean. They got the greatest player of
[1:33:29] Speaker 3: all time, and they need all this shit.
[1:33:30] Speaker 6: I didn't say we need it.
[1:33:31] Speaker 3: I'm saying it happened.
[1:33:33] Speaker 6: We didn't ask for it. We didn't write it. It happened.
[1:33:36] Speaker 1: They had the last five years to try to get
[1:33:37] Speaker 1: some shit done. We were waiting until the moons lined.
[1:33:40] Speaker 3: Up this year. The moons have finally on the Easter Sunday.
[1:33:47] Speaker 5: It's all lining up.
[1:33:50] Speaker 3: Minnesota.
[1:33:52] Speaker 8: Nah, man.
[1:33:52] Speaker 6: I thought you were talking about the Boston series, man.
[1:33:55] Speaker 6: I'm not going to Boston, man. Game three, man. Game three, man.
[1:33:59] Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Going to game three, man. She ain't worried about
[1:34:04] Speaker 3: Minnesota in six. Oh, man.
[1:34:06] Speaker 6: I'm not worried about no bitch.
[1:34:07] Speaker 3: You said Minnesota in six? Minnesota in six.
[1:34:10] Speaker 7: Hey, man.
[1:34:13] Speaker 6: Have you seen her offense?
[1:34:16] Speaker 3: That shit looks so disgusting, man.
[1:34:18] Speaker 8: I can see why they.
[1:34:20] Speaker 3: Have you seen Lucas' defense? It looks equally disgusting. That's
[1:34:25] Speaker 3: a good trade-off. That's a fucking trade-off. You don't get
[1:34:28] Speaker 3: to say that and not say that, too. What the
[1:34:32] Speaker 3: fuck is going on? Yeah, we trash on offense and
[1:34:35] Speaker 3: you trash on defense.
[1:34:37] Speaker 9: You saw Andy Edwards shoot 10 threes a game and
[1:34:39] Speaker 9: shot 40% from three.
[1:34:40] Speaker 8: Hold on, I don't think you should. He's too athletic
[1:34:42] Speaker 8: for that.
[1:34:42] Speaker 3: Andy Edwards.
[1:34:46] Speaker 7: I mean, they're going in. Yes, they're going in.
[1:34:47] Speaker 9: We played the last game. He shot like 17 threes.
[1:34:51] Speaker 3: He shot 17.
[1:34:51] Speaker 9: That was our last game.
[1:34:52] Speaker 3: I'm watching. He shoot like 17 threes.
[1:34:54] Speaker 9: I'm like, what's going on?
[1:34:55] Speaker 1: And after the game, I looked, and it was like, oh,
[1:34:58] Speaker 1: he got.
[1:34:58] Speaker 7: Oh, he was trying to.
[1:35:00] Speaker 3: Break a record.
[1:35:01] Speaker 9: He shoot 10 threes a game and shot 40%. I'm
[1:35:04] Speaker 9: not worried about him.
[1:35:06] Speaker 8: It's his number two.
[1:35:07] Speaker 3: Julius.
[1:35:08] Speaker 1: Yeah, that shit's funny right there.
[1:35:10] Speaker 6: They literally give him the ball, and then it's like
[1:35:13] Speaker 6: a whole new offense. It goes like, everybody playing today's basketball,
[1:35:18] Speaker 6: soon as he touch it, 2,003 different nuggets.
[1:35:21] Speaker 3: What?
[1:35:21] Speaker 6: Everybody sitting there like, no, that's it. Hey, give me
[1:35:28] Speaker 6: some pop.
[1:35:29] Speaker 8: Oh, my gosh. Crazy shit. And had it going the
[1:35:34] Speaker 8: other day.
[1:35:35] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[1:35:35] Speaker 8: Had it fucking going. What I'm saying? No, dude, it
[1:35:39] Speaker 8: ain't before that.
[1:35:40] Speaker 1: Listen, they threw that motherfucker to him, man, and he
[1:35:42] Speaker 1: motherfucker went right into his shit.
[1:35:44] Speaker 6: I'm like, swing the ball to him, man. He just
[1:35:47] Speaker 6: made three straight. Soon as he get it bored, like glue, yeah.
[1:35:52] Speaker 6: Ball stopper. I got something for you.
[1:35:56] Speaker 7: Oh, he's a ball stopper in New York.
[1:35:58] Speaker 6: But this, it looks really bad here.
[1:35:59] Speaker 7: It looks worse here because you have a player like him.
[1:36:01] Speaker 6: It looks worse here because, like, with Brunson, it's kind
[1:36:03] Speaker 6: of like, boom, then you do your thing. Here, they're
[1:36:05] Speaker 6: doing pick and roll, passing, cutting. And then when it
[1:36:08] Speaker 6: gets to him, it's like, all right, everybody move. Watch
[1:36:12] Speaker 6: this play.
[1:36:12] Speaker 8: And then it's like, yeah.
[1:36:15] Speaker 6: Like, he's left-handed, left-handed.
[1:36:18] Speaker 3: Like, left. Like 1970s left. 1970s.
[1:36:22] Speaker 6: Yeah, you know that left where they don't know what
[1:36:25] Speaker 6: the right side look like? Like, everything left. The shoes
[1:36:29] Speaker 6: leaning left.
[1:36:29] Speaker 3: All the calluses on the left. Yeah.
[1:36:34] Speaker 8: Racetrack.
[1:36:34] Speaker 1: They don't know what the right look like.
[1:36:36] Speaker 3: Yeah, the racetrack. All this shit here just dribbled down
[1:36:42] Speaker 3: that side like this.
[1:36:44] Speaker 1: All right, well, we will talk Lakers Warriors tomorrow. Or
[1:36:48] Speaker 1: Lakers Wolves, excuse me, tomorrow. We don't even need to
[1:36:50] Speaker 1: talk this series, man. Don't even worry about this. We do.
[1:36:53] Speaker 1: Always a good reason to talk Luka and the Lakers.
[1:36:55] Speaker 1: Lakers Warriors. I'm glad I'm not going. I mean, Lakers Timberwolves. Okay,
[1:37:00] Speaker 1: you are invited to the show tomorrow. I'll be in
[1:37:03] Speaker 1: Cabo tomorrow.
[1:37:03] Speaker 8: Me and my homie are going to Cabo tonight.
[1:37:08] Speaker 3: Okay, we'll be safe. Yeah, we're going. Holler at the pharmacy.
[1:37:13] Speaker 3: Ain't nothing like a good fishing trip.
[1:37:16] Speaker 2: Let's go back to Trey Young's ejection for just a moment.
[1:37:20] Speaker 3: Plenty of fish.
[1:37:22] Speaker 2: Fish cap. Let's see Trey Young's ejection. So late in
[1:37:26] Speaker 2: the game, Trey made a solid test pass in my
[1:37:29] Speaker 2: opinion to the game.
[1:37:31] Speaker 3: Was given a technical foul for that. Then as he
[1:37:36] Speaker 3: walked back down the court.
[1:37:37] Speaker 6: $ 50, 000.
[1:37:38] Speaker 1: Now it's $ 75, 000.
[1:37:43] Speaker 3: And then it's going to go to 100. Proceeded to
[1:37:45] Speaker 3: make out the ref.
[1:37:46] Speaker 1: Watch out.
[1:37:48] Speaker 8: You got to show the other angle.
[1:37:49] Speaker 3: 100. Okay, I'm glad you're out. So we have it
[1:37:52] Speaker 3: right here. Yes, please show this angle. I haven't been
[1:37:54] Speaker 3: ejected yet. Maybe. Hit him with the okey-doke. Goddamn color.
[1:37:59] Speaker 3: Big man. So bad. Big man.
[1:38:01] Speaker 1: I think he said motherfucker when he was saying motherfucker.
[1:38:05] Speaker 2: So the second tech came for kicking the ball away
[1:38:09] Speaker 2: and making a mockery of the game as we were
[1:38:12] Speaker 2: attempting to shoot the free throw for the first tackle.
[1:38:13] Speaker 2: That was from the pool report from the crew chief.
[1:38:16] Speaker 2: So after the game, Trey said he was frustrated with
[1:38:17] Speaker 2: the lack of foul calls for him and his teammates
[1:38:19] Speaker 2: and the ref letting the Magic get too physical while
[1:38:22] Speaker 2: also noting he didn't think the Magic players were dirty.
[1:38:25] Speaker 2: Just a little too physical without being appropriately officiated. What
[1:38:28] Speaker 2: would have made it better? if he would have took
[1:38:30] Speaker 2: that bitch to the locker room?
[1:38:32] Speaker 8: If he would have took the ball with him, dawg.
[1:38:36] Speaker 3: Hey, man.
[1:38:38] Speaker 1: It would have been the best ejection ever. That would
[1:38:44] Speaker 1: have been the best ejection ever, dawg. Him taking the
[1:38:48] Speaker 1: ball with him.
[1:38:50] Speaker 8: He still got to be careful.
[1:38:51] Speaker 9: He got another player game.
[1:38:54] Speaker 3: If he did that, they would have suspected him. And
[1:38:57] Speaker 3: it was that way.
[1:38:58] Speaker 8: I was like, take it with you.
[1:39:00] Speaker 9: If it was a playing game where if you lose
[1:39:02] Speaker 9: and you're done, maybe.
[1:39:03] Speaker 3: Just take the ball. Maybe. Put it up on you.
[1:39:07] Speaker 8: Take that motherfucker with him.
[1:39:09] Speaker 9: Nox, you'd have been spending next year.
[1:39:11] Speaker 5: They gave him a T for the Pass?
[1:39:14] Speaker 6: Yes.
[1:39:14] Speaker 3: That was a hard pass.
[1:39:16] Speaker 8: That was a first attack.
[1:39:20] Speaker 3: Technically, that's worth two in the moment. Absolutely.
[1:39:24] Speaker 1: But that's his normal passing motion.
[1:39:25] Speaker 3: Wait, is that a rule?
[1:39:28] Speaker 6: You can't pass the ball to the ref?
[1:39:29] Speaker 9: Not like that.
[1:39:30] Speaker 6: Not like that.
[1:39:31] Speaker 3: Boom!
[1:39:31] Speaker 6: Bye.
[1:39:36] Speaker 7: He caught it.
[1:39:37] Speaker 9: Actually, he caught it.
[1:39:39] Speaker 6: How you get mad after you catch it?
[1:39:41] Speaker 3: Because he not caught it? When I caught it.
[1:39:43] Speaker 8: Lucky I'm looking at it.
[1:39:45] Speaker 6: That's why I said I would have. Ah!
[1:39:47] Speaker 3: When you catch it, you feel how... Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no. Oh,
[1:39:55] Speaker 3: hell no. Oh, yeah.
[1:39:57] Speaker 6: That was a punk motherfucker. It's still a part of
[1:40:04] Speaker 6: a delay of game. If you touch the ball, throw
[1:40:06] Speaker 6: it somewhere else, it's really a delay of game.
[1:40:09] Speaker 3: A textbook chess pass.
[1:40:10] Speaker 1: Definitely not.
[1:40:11] Speaker 3: And then your second.
[1:40:12] Speaker 1: Delay game was just.
[1:40:13] Speaker 8: A free throw.
[1:40:14] Speaker 7: That was a great pass.
[1:40:15] Speaker 6: But that's what I'm saying. It was great technique. Because
[1:40:17] Speaker 6: you are actually part of the game, in a sense.
[1:40:20] Speaker 1: He had excellent technique.
[1:40:21] Speaker 3: His thumbs were in. He stepped forward. He got it.
[1:40:25] Speaker 6: Nice and crisp.
[1:40:25] Speaker 3: He got it. You know what I'm saying?
[1:40:26] Speaker 8: Nice and crisp.
[1:40:27] Speaker 3: He hit him right between his number. It was a
[1:40:30] Speaker 3: little too tough. Hit him right between his stripes. You
[1:40:34] Speaker 3: ain't never had a strong passer throw you the ball?
[1:40:36] Speaker 3: You'd be like, God damn.
[1:40:38] Speaker 6: Are you okay?
[1:40:39] Speaker 3: I'm open.
[1:40:39] Speaker 5: But you know when there was something meant behind that.
[1:40:42] Speaker 1: When you're doing the drill with the coaches and the
[1:40:44] Speaker 1: head coach. Like when somebody don't want to pass you
[1:40:46] Speaker 1: the ball. That's all it is.
[1:40:47] Speaker 3: Damn.
[1:40:53] Speaker 1: Sure.
[1:40:53] Speaker 5: And you know, at that point, I'm like, I don't.
[1:40:55] Speaker 3: Even want to give it to you. I don't even
[1:40:56] Speaker 3: want it because you don't want to give it to me.
[1:40:59] Speaker 6: You don't even want to give it to me. Fuck it.
[1:41:01] Speaker 6: And you're trying to aim to hurt him.
[1:41:02] Speaker 1: And you're not doing something like that.
[1:41:04] Speaker 3: The ref will give you a delay again.
[1:41:07] Speaker 9: So she should have gave him a tap.
[1:41:08] Speaker 3: And I'm wide open.
[1:41:10] Speaker 6: No, no, what I'm saying is, if I just interrupt
[1:41:13] Speaker 6: him from trying to take the ball out, and the
[1:41:16] Speaker 6: ball go in, and I grab it, and then hand
[1:41:19] Speaker 6: to the ref, the ref always just gives the delay
[1:41:21] Speaker 6: a game.
[1:41:21] Speaker 3: It's not like he threw it.
[1:41:22] Speaker 6: If he threw it with one hand, maybe.
[1:41:24] Speaker 3: In a pass. He threw it like this.
[1:41:25] Speaker 6: No, but so the fact that it was still passed
[1:41:28] Speaker 6: and given to the ref, it's still part of.
[1:41:32] Speaker 1: He had to pass it like that.
[1:41:33] Speaker 6: It's still part of.
[1:41:34] Speaker 3: It's not a pass. No, this is throwing. This is...
[1:41:36] Speaker 3: This is a... We got to see, like, the last, like...
[1:41:39] Speaker 3: It was the lead-up. Like, I scored.
[1:41:41] Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
[1:41:42] Speaker 6: So it's like.
[1:41:48] Speaker 2: But just to play devil's advocate, he's not delaying the game.
[1:41:51] Speaker 2: He's trying to increase the game by making a.
[1:41:53] Speaker 1: Very quick pass. But that's what's part of delaying the game.
[1:41:55] Speaker 1: The fact that the play that you made leading up to.
[1:41:58] Speaker 3: That nutmegged the nigga and then floated him and then
[1:42:01] Speaker 3: you pissed off.
[1:42:03] Speaker 7: And made it.
[1:42:04] Speaker 8: I'm done with this shit.
[1:42:05] Speaker 3: Done with this shit. I'm ready to go to the
[1:42:06] Speaker 3: locker room, man. I'm done with today. I'm ready to
[1:42:08] Speaker 3: go back to the landlord.
[1:42:09] Speaker 8: Bring on Chicago and Miami, man.
[1:42:12] Speaker 3: Bring on Chicago, man.
[1:42:13] Speaker 6: I've never seen somebody on fire get two texts to
[1:42:16] Speaker 6: get kicked out.
[1:42:17] Speaker 1: Usually it's the opposite.
[1:42:19] Speaker 9: You're just stinking it up.
[1:42:21] Speaker 1: I'm tired of this.
[1:42:24] Speaker 6: I'm one for 12.
[1:42:26] Speaker 3: Let's keep this thing moving.
[1:42:27] Speaker 2: Mavs and Kings meet tonight in the 9-10 game as
[1:42:31] Speaker 2: both teams try to keep their playoff hopes alive. Tuesday,
[1:42:34] Speaker 2: Mavs GM Nico Harrison and team CEO Rick Welts met
[1:42:37] Speaker 2: with a select group of Dallas media in a private
[1:42:39] Speaker 2: session in which no cameras or recording devices were allowed.
[1:42:43] Speaker 2: So according to ESPN's Tim McMahon, when Harrison was asked
[1:42:47] Speaker 2: about the Luka trade, he repeatedly said that defense wins championships.
[1:42:52] Speaker 2: Harrison also offered this assessment of the trade, saying, quote,
[1:42:55] Speaker 2: there's no regrets on the trade. Part of my job
[1:42:58] Speaker 2: is to do the best thing for the Mavericks, not
[1:43:00] Speaker 2: only today, but also in the future. And some of
[1:43:02] Speaker 2: the decisions I'm going to make are going to be unpopular.
[1:43:05] Speaker 2: That's my job, and I have to stand by it.
[1:43:07] Speaker 2: So Harrison also pointed out Other moves that he's made,
[1:43:10] Speaker 2: including trading for Kyrie before the deadline in 2023 and P.J.
[1:43:13] Speaker 2: Washington and Daniel Gafford before the deadline in 2024, were
[1:43:16] Speaker 2: met with skepticism, but ended up working for the team.
[1:43:20] Speaker 2: Harrison also said, but our philosophy, like I said, going
[1:43:23] Speaker 2: forward is defense wins championships, and we're built on defense,
[1:43:26] Speaker 2: and this trade cements us for that. So do you
[1:43:30] Speaker 2: respect Nico Harrison for standing on business, saying he has
[1:43:33] Speaker 2: no regrets trading Luka? I, for one, respect it.
[1:43:37] Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, you can respect standing on it.
[1:43:39] Speaker 3: Make that trade. Own it.
[1:43:40] Speaker 7: But you can't compare that trade to those other two trades.
[1:43:44] Speaker 6: Nah, it just seemed like those other trades under Mark
[1:43:47] Speaker 6: Cuban was sounding like some basketball trades. Sounding like this
[1:43:53] Speaker 6: Luka trade was personal.
[1:43:56] Speaker 3: Why?
[1:43:56] Speaker 5: Because he don't play defense?
[1:43:58] Speaker 1: Don't do that to him, Cheryl. He does not want
[1:44:01] Speaker 1: to talk about that type of shit on his show.
[1:44:04] Speaker 3: He does not want to talk about the truth on
[1:44:05] Speaker 3: his show. He's going to make up his own shit.
[1:44:07] Speaker 3: He's trying to fuck up his algorithm.
[1:44:09] Speaker 1: No, no, no.
[1:44:10] Speaker 7: I'm saying based off of what Nico said, defense wins championships.
[1:44:12] Speaker 3: That's basketball related. Team game. You are the ghost. It's
[1:44:21] Speaker 3: the team game. It's basketball.
[1:44:24] Speaker 1: I'm just saying that hearing you say it, it just
[1:44:27] Speaker 1: makes sense.
[1:44:28] Speaker 8: Cheryl.
[1:44:28] Speaker 5: I'm going off of what Mr. Harris is saying.
[1:44:31] Speaker 8: That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
[1:44:34] Speaker 3: Well, good.
[1:44:35] Speaker 8: Stick to it.
[1:44:36] Speaker 1: Own it.
[1:44:37] Speaker 3: That's my story.
[1:44:37] Speaker 6: No, no, I don't got to stick to it.
[1:44:39] Speaker 1: I got to stick to it. Right? There's no way
[1:44:42] Speaker 1: in hell you that there's no way if Nico is
[1:44:44] Speaker 1: saying defense wins championships ad is a better defender.
[1:44:47] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:44:47] Speaker 1: No, no, I get it So is this thing we got.
[1:44:49] Speaker 8: Here That's a better defender than Luka, too. But this
[1:45:08] Speaker 8: motherfucker ain't averaging 39 and 9.
[1:45:10] Speaker 3: We got a motherfucker on our team called Kyrie Irving.
[1:45:13] Speaker 3: We do. Thank you. They do.
[1:45:14] Speaker 6: Excuse me. You know Luka, we got Kyrie. Zero percent.
[1:45:18] Speaker 6: This is zero percent. Nico wanted to trade Luka Donovan.
[1:45:24] Speaker 5: Well, it wasn't Nico's decision.
[1:45:25] Speaker 6: Of course it wasn't.
[1:45:26] Speaker 3: But he appears to be standing on business.
[1:45:27] Speaker 6: He has to stand on business, because I'm telling you
[1:45:30] Speaker 6: to stand on business, because if not, it's your motherfucking ass, too,
[1:45:33] Speaker 6: that can leave.
[1:45:34] Speaker 1: No doubt.
[1:45:35] Speaker 7: He wants to stand below.
[1:45:36] Speaker 6: I mean, what are we? Are we going to pretend
[1:45:38] Speaker 6: to be stupid?
[1:45:39] Speaker 1: Right?
[1:45:39] Speaker 6: Obviously.
[1:45:39] Speaker 3: Y'all just going to make up some shit, because y'all
[1:45:41] Speaker 3: don't like the real answer.
[1:45:43] Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
[1:45:43] Speaker 3: You're going to make up some shit?
[1:45:45] Speaker 6: I don't need to make up nothing.
[1:45:46] Speaker 3: They said what they said.
[1:45:47] Speaker 1: So you're going to make up.
[1:45:50] Speaker 3: Some shit they didn't say.
[1:45:51] Speaker 8: No, no, I have everything I need.
[1:45:53] Speaker 6: No, 100% he didn't want to trade him.
[1:45:57] Speaker 3: Thank God he did.
[1:45:58] Speaker 6: Luca's power was too much for the new owners. And
[1:46:05] Speaker 6: he wasn't conforming to their rules, so get rid of
[1:46:08] Speaker 6: this motherfucker.
[1:46:10] Speaker 8: Sound about right.
[1:46:10] Speaker 3: What is it?
[1:46:11] Speaker 5: Conforming to their rules. What were their rules?
[1:46:13] Speaker 1: Rules is they wanted him to kiss the ring.
[1:46:15] Speaker 3: I'm the new owner. Get in shape. Stop smoking.
[1:46:17] Speaker 6: Stop talking. Hey, Mark Cuban is... No, that's his lie.
[1:46:21] Speaker 6: Mark Cuban is not your boss anymore. The rules he
[1:46:24] Speaker 6: gave you, the power he gave you is non-invoid. I'm
[1:46:28] Speaker 6: the new owner. We're going to play by my rules.
[1:46:30] Speaker 6: We're going to do what I say to do. If
[1:46:32] Speaker 6: you don't like it, you get the fuck on.
[1:46:35] Speaker 5: So it shouldn't happen that way?
[1:46:38] Speaker 1: No, it should. But don't, but that's what happened.
[1:46:42] Speaker 3: This was a personal thing. It sounds like Nico's standing
[1:46:44] Speaker 3: on men.
[1:46:46] Speaker 6: Nico's not going to say that.
[1:46:48] Speaker 5: He can't say that.
[1:46:49] Speaker 4: The compromise was to send Luka to a team like
[1:46:52] Speaker 4: the Lakers.
[1:46:53] Speaker 7: No one's seen this coming.
[1:46:55] Speaker 8: When he traded, did Nico ever say anything?
[1:46:58] Speaker 6: Not a word. This is his first interview.
[1:47:00] Speaker 3: Embarrassed.
[1:47:02] Speaker 8: Didn't want it to happen.
[1:47:03] Speaker 1: Who was the first person?
[1:47:04] Speaker 3: He did an interview with Jason Kidd.
[1:47:06] Speaker 6: Who came out with the bullshit?
[1:47:10] Speaker 3: The owner came out with some shit that we've he
[1:47:14] Speaker 3: came out with. Oh, he smoked this. He did this.
[1:47:16] Speaker 3: He did that. It was his.
[1:47:17] Speaker 6: He had the problem.
[1:47:19] Speaker 8: You reiterate this message or I'm going to find somebody
[1:47:21] Speaker 8: to reiterate it for.
[1:47:22] Speaker 2: Fat, lazy, alcoholic, hookah smoking, no defense plan. He's the
[1:47:26] Speaker 2: one who gave us what we need to look at.
[1:47:28] Speaker 6: They had a problem? That's not true.
[1:47:32] Speaker 1: I'm asking you.
[1:47:36] Speaker 3: No, I'm asking you.
[1:47:37] Speaker 6: Can y'all pull up the play when they were saying,
[1:47:40] Speaker 6: fire Nico. Can you see one person that is disgusted
[1:47:46] Speaker 6: with it because he knows the truth? His name is
[1:47:48] Speaker 6: Mark Cuban. What was Mark Cuban's face? Oh, I got
[1:47:51] Speaker 6: Mark Cuban's look. I can't believe it. It's not him.
[1:47:55] Speaker 1: He had that look on Shark Tank, too.
[1:47:57] Speaker 3: Remember, he got pushed out, too.
[1:47:59] Speaker 1: Every time somebody don't want to do a deal with him,
[1:48:01] Speaker 1: he had that same look.
[1:48:02] Speaker 5: Mark Cuban got pushed out?
[1:48:03] Speaker 6: Yeah, Mark Cuban got pushed out, too.
[1:48:05] Speaker 3: When he don't get what he want, he had that
[1:48:07] Speaker 3: same look.
[1:48:08] Speaker 6: Remember, he was basketball operations, and they pushed him out
[1:48:11] Speaker 6: of it. They lied to him.
[1:48:13] Speaker 3: So he's bitter. He has a reason to.
[1:48:16] Speaker 1: Make everybody feel a certain type of way because he
[1:48:18] Speaker 1: ain't part of the plan no more.
[1:48:22] Speaker 5: So did Luka do those things?
[1:48:25] Speaker 6: Oh, no.
[1:48:25] Speaker 3: Whatever he did, he looked very slender, glowing. Whatever he
[1:48:29] Speaker 3: was doing, I said, where did Luka go?
[1:48:30] Speaker 1: Cheryl, if you're not getting answers for your questions, you've
[1:48:32] Speaker 1: got to just move on because they're not going to answer.
[1:48:34] Speaker 3: What's wrong with Monkey Hooker?
[1:48:40] Speaker 7: I don't smoke hookah.
[1:48:42] Speaker 2: What's wrong with smoking cigarettes? They were getting that off
[1:48:45] Speaker 2: the back of their hands. They were smoking them in
[1:48:48] Speaker 2: the locker room in the hay day.
[1:48:49] Speaker 8: And winning championships.
[1:48:52] Speaker 3: Eater breaks.
[1:48:54] Speaker 8: Doing lines at halftime.
[1:48:56] Speaker 2: I'm going to admit, with the math, Luca looked a
[1:48:58] Speaker 2: little portly. But since he's come to the Lakers, very slim.
[1:49:02] Speaker 2: Then I simply host him a lot. I'm on my
[1:49:04] Speaker 2: Los Angeles.
[1:49:06] Speaker 7: Coffee breaks.
[1:49:07] Speaker 3: Hitting Jamba Juice frequently.
[1:49:09] Speaker 5: Yeah, but I even said that. That wasn't his call.
[1:49:15] Speaker 5: He doesn't have the power. Nico doesn't have the power
[1:49:18] Speaker 5: to do that.
[1:49:19] Speaker 1: He can suggest it, right, but somebody got to be like,
[1:49:21] Speaker 1: all right, we're doing it. He ain't even think about it.
[1:49:24] Speaker 1: They said that shit, he's like, wait, what?
[1:49:26] Speaker 5: Nico, this is what you got to do.
[1:49:28] Speaker 8: And Nico is the one who's in the forefront. It's
[1:49:31] Speaker 8: whoever wallet it is. You're going to do whatever I say.
[1:49:33] Speaker 1: It's my wallet, man.
[1:49:34] Speaker 6: You're going to listen.
[1:49:36] Speaker 8: If I'm paying the checks and I'm stamping these checks,
[1:49:38] Speaker 8: you're going to do what I say.
[1:49:39] Speaker 3: I'm going to find somebody to do it, right?
[1:49:41] Speaker 13: So was there a conversation with Luka before you traded
[1:49:45] Speaker 13: him up? Back to what you said, like, here's what
[1:49:48] Speaker 13: we need you to do, and if you don't want
[1:49:50] Speaker 13: to do it.
[1:49:50] Speaker 1: Or can't do it, then we've got to come.
[1:49:51] Speaker 8: It's too late, right? So just imagine, right? When you
[1:49:56] Speaker 8: give guys their power within an organization, you can't walk
[1:50:00] Speaker 8: it back. The player's not going to allow you to.
[1:50:04] Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
[1:50:05] Speaker 8: What you allow me to get away with day one.
[1:50:09] Speaker 5: Right, but ownership changed.
[1:50:10] Speaker 8: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. The people I see
[1:50:14] Speaker 8: every day didn't change, right? And in my brain, these
[1:50:20] Speaker 8: are the people that's letting me get away with whatever
[1:50:22] Speaker 8: I've been doing and getting away with, right? I don't
[1:50:26] Speaker 8: see them. I met them. They came in hot.
[1:50:28] Speaker 3: I'm the new owner. They come to the game. They
[1:50:30] Speaker 3: sit courtside.
[1:50:31] Speaker 1: Everybody, oh, they put them on the TV, which you
[1:50:33] Speaker 1: never see because you fucking playing.
[1:50:35] Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
[1:50:37] Speaker 8: It don't matter. So just, so the James Harden thing, right?
[1:50:41] Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Houston, right?
[1:50:42] Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
[1:50:42] Speaker 6: Perfect.
[1:50:43] Speaker 8: Del Mori.
[1:50:44] Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
[1:50:45] Speaker 6: Yeah. Wanted him.
[1:50:46] Speaker 7: Wanted, like, right?
[1:50:48] Speaker 3: Do you. Mm-hmm.
[1:50:51] Speaker 8: Go somewhere else.
[1:50:52] Speaker 3: Who comes in? Del Mori. Do you.
[1:50:56] Speaker 8: It ain't the same thing, but that power, then once
[1:50:59] Speaker 8: somebody try to relinquish it, it's a struggle. It's this
[1:51:03] Speaker 8: power thing, right? Because I've been doing shit my way.
[1:51:07] Speaker 8: I've been getting on the PJ after the game. I've
[1:51:09] Speaker 8: been doing this. I've been doing that. I've been saying this,
[1:51:11] Speaker 8: going here, moving how I fucking want to move.
[1:51:13] Speaker 6: Right?
[1:51:14] Speaker 13: You're saying nobody had a conversation with Luca before they.
[1:51:17] Speaker 5: Made the decision.
[1:51:18] Speaker 6: Because the trade wouldn't happen. If you would have warned,
[1:51:22] Speaker 6: if the agents would have actually knew, Oh, that was sabotage.
[1:51:26] Speaker 6: If he would have known, that shit would have been
[1:51:27] Speaker 6: sabotage from the beginning. But that's why they did it discreetly.
[1:51:30] Speaker 3: Yeah. Cheryl, you know what these are? Can I please
[1:51:35] Speaker 3: put down LeBron cookies? That's LeBron cookies.
[1:51:36] Speaker 6: I don't even know what that means.
[1:51:37] Speaker 3: Can you please put down LeBron cookies?
[1:51:38] Speaker 7: Are those relevant to this current conversation?
[1:51:39] Speaker 3: There's a do not touch sign on the cookies.
[1:51:41] Speaker 6: I don't know what it means.
[1:51:42] Speaker 3: What did these cookies do to the Miami Heat?
[1:51:46] Speaker 7: Got LeBron out of there.
[1:51:47] Speaker 3: Huh?
[1:51:48] Speaker 7: Got LeBron out of there.
[1:51:49] Speaker 3: You know the answer. You don't got to hesitate.
[1:51:50] Speaker 8: It was a power struggle.
[1:51:51] Speaker 3: Okay, it was a power struggle. What's going on here? Hey,
[1:51:55] Speaker 3: is it the same thing? This might be a... You
[1:51:58] Speaker 3: cannot eat those, Cheryl. Cheryl, you can have LeBron.
[1:52:00] Speaker 7: You can't eat those.
[1:52:01] Speaker 3: No, you cannot. Oh, okay.
[1:52:03] Speaker 9: You can have LeBron.
[1:52:04] Speaker 3: Cheryl, if you eat... Cheryl, you cannot eat those cookies. Hey,
[1:52:07] Speaker 3: I'm sitting down. Hey, I'm sitting down. Cheryl, I'm sitting down. Hey,
[1:52:10] Speaker 3: I'm sitting down.
[1:52:15] Speaker 1: Hey, I'm gonna fire a shot real quick. Josiah, don't
[1:52:17] Speaker 1: tell her to eat it, because you would eat them
[1:52:18] Speaker 1: cookies right now.
[1:52:19] Speaker 3: I would not touch LeBron's cookies.
[1:52:21] Speaker 5: I don't know nothing about the cookies.
[1:52:22] Speaker 1: You eating them old-ass cookies, boy? Cookies old as shit.
[1:52:27] Speaker 3: We put new cookies in.
[1:52:28] Speaker 6: We refresh them every day.
[1:52:31] Speaker 1: That's a goddamn lie.
[1:52:32] Speaker 5: Okay, go ahead. I'm gonna eat my chocolate.
[1:52:35] Speaker 1: Luca's situation is the same as Miami. We took away
[1:52:39] Speaker 1: your cookies. And you had a fit. We don't want
[1:52:43] Speaker 1: no more cookies. Well, the equivalent? Okay, I get it, but...
[1:52:47] Speaker 1: No more cookies. I mean, kind of a no.
[1:52:50] Speaker 3: Kind of a no.
[1:52:51] Speaker 8: It's a power thing.
[1:52:51] Speaker 3: It's a different... Y'all don't like my taste.
[1:52:52] Speaker 6: It was like opposite.
[1:52:53] Speaker 3: Y'all don't like my taste. They had the.
[1:52:56] Speaker 1: They had the... They had the spit.
[1:52:57] Speaker 3: They always... What do you mean?
[1:52:59] Speaker 6: Huh?
[1:53:00] Speaker 5: What do you mean it's different?
[1:53:01] Speaker 8: So... Remember.
[1:53:03] Speaker 6: Okay, so think about the owner before. Mark Cuban, right?
[1:53:06] Speaker 6: Think about Dirk's power, right? Think about Luka's power.
[1:53:09] Speaker 3: He.
[1:53:09] Speaker 6: This is... You're my guy. Do what the fuck you
[1:53:11] Speaker 6: want to do around here. That's how... He's a player's
[1:53:16] Speaker 6: gym owner.
[1:53:17] Speaker 5: Mark Cuban was.
[1:53:17] Speaker 6: Yeah, so he owns everything. He does everything. Luca, everyone
[1:53:22] Speaker 6: follows Luca. The new owners coming in, they didn't like that. Like, they,
[1:53:27] Speaker 6: I run everything. I'm this, and this man is not
[1:53:30] Speaker 6: listening to me. And these people are not listening to me.
[1:53:32] Speaker 6: He's in my way. Like, yo, Abe.
[1:53:35] Speaker 1: And so it's like, yo, he needs to get the
[1:53:36] Speaker 1: fuck out of here.
[1:53:38] Speaker 6: Because if he gets the fuck out of there, they
[1:53:39] Speaker 6: all got to fall in line. As long as Luka's here,
[1:53:42] Speaker 6: I have no control over this organization.
[1:53:44] Speaker 8: You don't know the other owners that he's talking to, right?
[1:53:47] Speaker 8: He might be talking to some other owners, like, listen,
[1:53:50] Speaker 8: I'm in line to buy the Dallas Mavericks. How should
[1:53:53] Speaker 8: I do it? And you never know what they... Listen,
[1:53:56] Speaker 8: we don't allow this. We don't allow guys to do this.
[1:53:58] Speaker 8: We don't do this. We don't do that. If they
[1:54:01] Speaker 8: do this, they'll prob me.
[1:54:02] Speaker 6: So.
[1:54:03] Speaker 8: Never know. You never know how he run his other.
[1:54:05] Speaker 1: Businesses, right?
[1:54:06] Speaker 3: No more cookies on the plane.
[1:54:08] Speaker 1: I dig it, but how he run his other businesses...
[1:54:10] Speaker 1: Can you take a picture with my wife? Fuck your wife, man.
[1:54:13] Speaker 1: Might be the same thing, right?
[1:54:15] Speaker 8: Might be the same thing. He might run his other
[1:54:17] Speaker 8: businesses the same way. You don't get in line, you're
[1:54:20] Speaker 8: not going to be here. So it's... It's his fucking money, ultimately.
[1:54:25] Speaker 8: And the man was in line to make $ 345 million.
[1:54:29] Speaker 8: And if I'm not... If I don't like the way
[1:54:31] Speaker 8: you're moving... It's at my discretion to make this call, ultimately, right?
[1:54:35] Speaker 8: So we can speculate. People can do this, do whatever
[1:54:39] Speaker 8: we want to do. It ain't our checkbook, ultimately. And
[1:54:46] Speaker 8: if they would have won a championship last year, maybe
[1:54:48] Speaker 8: it's a different conversation.
[1:54:49] Speaker 6: No, he was gone.
[1:54:50] Speaker 8: I'm saying maybe it's a different conversation. But they didn't.
[1:54:56] Speaker 1: Now it's like, and this was put out there. So
[1:55:01] Speaker 1: the owner was like, shit. And for Nico, hold on.
[1:55:05] Speaker 8: And like I said, and for Nico, after the continuous
[1:55:10] Speaker 8: Marshawn Lynch statement, I'm just here so I don't get fined,
[1:55:13] Speaker 8: like defense win championship, that shit, right?
[1:55:17] Speaker 3: Sounds good.
[1:55:18] Speaker 5: But haven't you heard that all your life?
[1:55:20] Speaker 1: It's a cliche.
[1:55:21] Speaker 3: It's easy.
[1:55:23] Speaker 8: Oh, it is.
[1:55:23] Speaker 3: It is, Rashad.
[1:55:24] Speaker 8: Nico's a Nike redneck.
[1:55:26] Speaker 3: Defense is a part of it.
[1:55:27] Speaker 7: You've heard that.
[1:55:27] Speaker 3: Oh, no. Defense is a part of it. You've heard
[1:55:29] Speaker 3: that your whole life. Yes. So most important.
[1:55:31] Speaker 8: And so is the motherfucker averaging 39 and 9 is
[1:55:34] Speaker 8: a part of it as well.
[1:55:35] Speaker 3: But our job is to stop him from doing that.
[1:55:38] Speaker 6: But nobody is stopping him.
[1:55:39] Speaker 3: But that's our job. That means we're not doing our job.
[1:55:42] Speaker 1: They stopped it. The owners play defense. So my thing is,
[1:55:48] Speaker 1: is it a part of the game?
[1:55:50] Speaker 6: Yes.
[1:55:50] Speaker 1: I'm the one defense first, all this shit.
[1:55:53] Speaker 3: Yes.
[1:55:56] Speaker 1: And so is what he's doing on the other end
[1:55:57] Speaker 1: and impacting overall game. It hasn't shown to be championship
[1:56:02] Speaker 1: basketball though.
[1:56:03] Speaker 3: That's the whole metric.
[1:56:04] Speaker 1: The metric is we know defense win championships, but we
[1:56:08] Speaker 1: know that this player who gets.
[1:56:10] Speaker 3: 32, nine and nine don't play defense.
[1:56:13] Speaker 1: So that's going to be the one thing that we're
[1:56:15] Speaker 1: going to say, look, you got us all the way
[1:56:17] Speaker 1: here without defense.
[1:56:18] Speaker 6: That sounds great.
[1:56:19] Speaker 1: You got us all the way here.
[1:56:20] Speaker 6: That sounds great until you go after the people that
[1:56:22] Speaker 6: they went after.
[1:56:23] Speaker 3: Yeah, great to have.
[1:56:24] Speaker 8: That crutch, right? Great to have that crutch.
[1:56:27] Speaker 1: But that you don't play defense and that's the one
[1:56:28] Speaker 1: thing that we needed to win the championship.
[1:56:32] Speaker 6: I said it all sounds great until you go through
[1:56:34] Speaker 6: the people that they were trying to trade him for first.
[1:56:37] Speaker 5: That they were trying to trade Luca for? So who
[1:56:41] Speaker 5: were the other ones?
[1:56:41] Speaker 6: The first person was Anthony Edwards. Anthony Davis was the
[1:56:48] Speaker 6: third option after the other two said no.
[1:56:50] Speaker 5: Who was the other one?
[1:56:51] Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards and It's okay.
[1:57:00] Speaker 7: But they were trying to get deep.
[1:57:02] Speaker 6: Anthony Edwards was first. And then they went to Embiid.
[1:57:07] Speaker 6: And Anthony Davis was the last one.
[1:57:10] Speaker 3: I thought Michael Jordan was the last one.
[1:57:12] Speaker 8: No, I'm sorry, sir.
[1:57:14] Speaker 3: So Mike said no, huh?
[1:57:16] Speaker 6: No, they didn't call no Mike.
[1:57:19] Speaker 3: I thought nobody made no calls. I thought nobody was involved.
[1:57:22] Speaker 3: Nobody knew nothing about it. Oh, see, now we got
[1:57:24] Speaker 3: a cause, maybe.
[1:57:26] Speaker 6: I don't go narratives. I go right to the source themselves.
[1:57:30] Speaker 3: The source came on our show and said he didn't
[1:57:32] Speaker 3: know nothing about nothing.
[1:57:33] Speaker 1: Did you believe that?
[1:57:34] Speaker 6: No, he didn't know anything about nothing. I didn't know
[1:57:38] Speaker 6: Rich Paul was the Lakers. I thought Rich Paul was
[1:57:41] Speaker 6: the agent.
[1:57:44] Speaker 3: I think Palenka's Palenka.
[1:57:46] Speaker 6: And then Whoever is the owner and general manager of
[1:57:51] Speaker 6: the Timberwolves and same thing with Sons. Agents was not
[1:57:55] Speaker 6: because the agents would have tore the deal apart. Because
[1:57:59] Speaker 6: obviously Luca leaving would have been not a good thing
[1:58:03] Speaker 6: for Luca losing a hundred something million. So if I'm
[1:58:06] Speaker 6: his agent and I knew.
[1:58:07] Speaker 3: Fuck no. Fuck no.
[1:58:12] Speaker 6: Why am I going to have my player lead to
[1:58:13] Speaker 6: lose $ 150 million who just bought a $ 15 million house?
[1:58:21] Speaker 6: I will be a fucking retarded agent. He will fire me.
[1:58:25] Speaker 6: So obviously if I knew as an agent This is
[1:58:29] Speaker 6: not going to be a good play for me or
[1:58:32] Speaker 6: my client. So this was just general manager, general manager.
[1:58:36] Speaker 6: Conversation is I'm going to ask you one time, whatever
[1:58:39] Speaker 6: your answer is, I'm never going to call back. And
[1:58:40] Speaker 6: that's how it worked.
[1:58:43] Speaker 13: And so the agents didn't find out until.
[1:58:45] Speaker 7: The deal was done.
[1:58:47] Speaker 3: Yeah, right before.
[1:58:48] Speaker 8: Like 40 minutes.
[1:58:50] Speaker 1: Like right before they started to ask for Marquise Morris
[1:58:53] Speaker 1: to be a part of the deal.
[1:58:55] Speaker 3: So I think Keith was already a part of the deal.
[1:58:57] Speaker 2: Once he was included in the trade, he was pondering
[1:59:00] Speaker 2: retiring and Braun came through and said, no, big fella.
[1:59:02] Speaker 3: We need you.
[1:59:04] Speaker 1: Somebody knew something about something, didn't they? Braun would like
[1:59:08] Speaker 1: his cookies for sure. Let's keep this conversation moving. So
[1:59:13] Speaker 1: we have a chat.
[1:59:13] Speaker 2: Do you respect Nico Harrison standing on business? 49% of
[1:59:17] Speaker 2: the chat said yes.
[1:59:18] Speaker 3: 51% said no. Post split.
[1:59:20] Speaker 2: So just one quick other aside from this media availability yesterday.
[1:59:23] Speaker 2: Mavs CEO Rick Welts, Hall of Fame basketball executive, former
[1:59:27] Speaker 2: CEO of the Golden State Warriors, was with Harrison for
[1:59:30] Speaker 2: the media availability, according to reports. He didn't say much,
[1:59:33] Speaker 2: but he did offer these thoughts on the Luka trade, saying, quote,
[1:59:37] Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors once traded Monte Ellis for Andrew Bogut.
[1:59:41] Speaker 2: Monte Ellis was beloved. Bogut wasn't going to play that year.
[1:59:45] Speaker 2: Bogut's not really a marketable player. It got better because
[1:59:48] Speaker 2: they had a guard named Steph Curry, and Steph Curry
[1:59:50] Speaker 2: came in and made the entire fan base love him.
[1:59:54] Speaker 7: He came in or he was already there.
[1:59:57] Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so not the same.
[1:59:58] Speaker 6: He came in or he was already there.
[2:00:01] Speaker 7: That's what he just compared Luca to?
[2:00:03] Speaker 3: It's not a true statement.
[2:00:05] Speaker 7: Has Nico done any media by himself?
[2:00:06] Speaker 3: Steph and Monte played together.
[2:00:08] Speaker 7: He always got someone like that. He got someone right
[2:00:12] Speaker 7: behind him like, oh, makes no sense. You better stay
[2:00:14] Speaker 7: where you're supposed to stay.
[2:00:14] Speaker 2: They think Steph Curry came in, meaning he got more
[2:00:17] Speaker 2: playing time. But 72 years old. They're just saying anything, man,
[2:00:22] Speaker 2: besides that.
[2:00:22] Speaker 5: Yeah, but Monte Ellis and Angie Bowers.
[2:00:24] Speaker 7: That is okay.
[2:00:25] Speaker 3: No, that's right.
[2:00:26] Speaker 7: Thank you, Mr. CEO, sir.
[2:00:29] Speaker 6: Let's come out and say, man, this motherfucker wasn't listening
[2:00:31] Speaker 6: to me, man. Fuck him.
[2:00:33] Speaker 1: Everybody be like, that doesn't make sense.
[2:00:35] Speaker 7: Y'all got the money. Y'all got the money. If that's
[2:00:38] Speaker 7: how y'all feel, okay.
[2:00:40] Speaker 8: Fuck him.
[2:00:41] Speaker 2: While we can't speculate... I'm not speculating. But I'm saying
[2:00:44] Speaker 2: if Cuban owned the team still, he would have gave
[2:00:47] Speaker 2: Lucas bread.
[2:00:48] Speaker 3: He would have gave Lucas bread.
[2:00:50] Speaker 2: You got new ownership come in. Obviously, they get their
[2:00:52] Speaker 2: bread through casinos. They just didn't have nothing about doing
[2:00:55] Speaker 2: no money for me.
[2:00:56] Speaker 1: They just didn't want Mark Cuban with Luca's cookies.
[2:01:02] Speaker 6: They didn't get along, man. The owner didn't like them.
[2:01:06] Speaker 3: He didn't like them.
[2:01:07] Speaker 6: Why y'all be acting like this shit ain't personal?
[2:01:14] Speaker 7: It is personal.
[2:01:14] Speaker 6: It ain't personal. Think about just anything with change. Luca
[2:01:21] Speaker 6: got his power from Mark Cuban. Not the new owners.
[2:01:25] Speaker 6: The new owners come in and they want to be loved.
[2:01:28] Speaker 6: I'm spending the money. I'm doing this. Love me like
[2:01:30] Speaker 6: you did the last person. Show me loyalty. And Luka wasn't,
[2:01:35] Speaker 6: so bye. Well, God bless them. God bless Nico Harrison.
[2:01:41] Speaker 6: God bless Rick Welts. Let's keep this thing moving. NBA
[2:01:44] Speaker 6: awards ballots were turned in yesterday. Rachel Nichols tweeted out
[2:01:48] Speaker 6: this photo of the award ballot requirements.
[2:01:50] Speaker 3: Let's take a look.
[2:01:52] Speaker 2: If we can, each ballot must be filled out in
[2:01:54] Speaker 2: its entirety and has been populated with the eligible candidates
[2:01:57] Speaker 2: for each award. No votes may be split. The deadline
[2:02:02] Speaker 2: for all votes to be received by the NBA is
[2:02:04] Speaker 2: 6 p.m.
[2:02:04] Speaker 3: Eastern Tuesday, April 15th, obviously.
[2:02:07] Speaker 2: The no votes may be split, being circled, which is
[2:02:11] Speaker 2: particularly important for the MVP race between SGA and Yoke.
[2:02:14] Speaker 2: You can't split your votes. You can't put both of
[2:02:17] Speaker 2: them in there. You've got to pick a side.
[2:02:19] Speaker 7: Wait, how do you split a vote?
[2:02:21] Speaker 6: Who's eligible?
[2:02:23] Speaker 3: We're going to talk about that in a second.
[2:02:27] Speaker 7: How does one person split a vote? I don't know.
[2:02:29] Speaker 7: What do they mean by that?
[2:02:30] Speaker 3: Don't put two names in the category.
[2:02:34] Speaker 6: Like Cole. I don't know.
[2:02:36] Speaker 5: So you've got to just put one name.
[2:02:38] Speaker 6: Pick one name, put it in under each designation.
[2:02:43] Speaker 4: I thought it was you rank, put them in order.
[2:02:46] Speaker 4: I thought that's how it was. First place vote, second place.
[2:02:48] Speaker 7: Isn't that how it is?
[2:02:50] Speaker 8: Right?
[2:02:50] Speaker 5: That's how it is with the W, I know.
[2:02:52] Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure how they fill it out is not
[2:02:55] Speaker 6: how it is shown here.
[2:02:56] Speaker 3: The trickery comes after.
[2:02:58] Speaker 9: I don't want to see the rules.
[2:02:59] Speaker 7: I want to see the actual ballot. What does it
[2:03:01] Speaker 7: look like? Sometimes, like, in the.
[2:03:04] Speaker 5: Past, people would write.
[2:03:06] Speaker 7: When she said, now I'm attacked, would you go vote
[2:03:08] Speaker 7: for both of them?
[2:03:09] Speaker 2: I don't know why they would put that direction on
[2:03:11] Speaker 2: there and let that be the situation, but like I said.
[2:03:14] Speaker 7: But why does she feel attacked? You're supposed to pick one.
[2:03:17] Speaker 8: I didn't code this year.
[2:03:20] Speaker 2: No split vote is particularly important for the MVP race
[2:03:23] Speaker 2: between SGA and Nikola Jokic. So Jokic made history this season,
[2:03:26] Speaker 2: becoming the first big man to average a triple-double, going
[2:03:29] Speaker 2: to Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook, the only players to
[2:03:31] Speaker 2: accomplish the feat. Jokic finished the season averaging 30 points,
[2:03:35] Speaker 2: 13 rebounds, 10 assists in 70 games, 58-42, 80 shooting splits.
[2:03:40] Speaker 2: Jokic also led the league with 34 triple-doubles this season,
[2:03:44] Speaker 2: finished top three in points and rebounds. top two in
[2:03:46] Speaker 2: assists and steals. No other player has ever finished top
[2:03:49] Speaker 2: ten in all four categories in a season. Jokic was
[2:03:52] Speaker 2: top three in all of them. So did Jokic just
[2:03:55] Speaker 2: have the best offensive season for a big man in
[2:03:57] Speaker 2: modern NBA history? And I don't even say season until
[2:03:59] Speaker 2: we can lose the offensive distinction. Forget big man. Player ever.
[2:04:05] Speaker 3: Best offensive season for a player in the NBA history.
[2:04:08] Speaker 6: Yes.
[2:04:08] Speaker 3: KJ, you are currently in the league right now. Yes.
[2:04:11] Speaker 6: This is coming from a player currently in the NBA.
[2:04:15] Speaker 1: You're on Gills Arena presented by Underdog Woo Woo.
[2:04:16] Speaker 3: 14 boards a game. You said he was like 42
[2:04:20] Speaker 3: from three?
[2:04:20] Speaker 1: Yeah, 42%.
[2:04:20] Speaker 9: 41.7, we round up on the shot.
[2:04:21] Speaker 3: As a shooter.
[2:04:21] Speaker 2: 41.7 is not 41, closer to 42. What if I'm
[2:04:24] Speaker 2: a big man? Big man would be 37, and that's good.
[2:04:26] Speaker 6: 37, 38.
[2:04:26] Speaker 3: Top three in those four categories. He had tough threes, too.
[2:04:28] Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to see it in real life.
[2:04:30] Speaker 3: What'd he shoot for the field?
[2:04:31] Speaker 5: 58%.
[2:04:45] Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. It's like 57 points on the round. 60
[2:04:48] Speaker 3: from the 50. 58, 42. Come on, man. 80 from
[2:04:50] Speaker 3: the line. That's crazy. Ain't no way I don't win.
[2:04:53] Speaker 3: 80 from the line. No way. Come on. 30, 15,
[2:04:56] Speaker 3: and 10.
[2:04:56] Speaker 6: That's crazy.
[2:04:58] Speaker 3: Every night.
[2:04:58] Speaker 13: What's SGA average?
[2:05:00] Speaker 8: Two steals.
[2:05:01] Speaker 3: Sure, I'm glad you asked.
[2:05:03] Speaker 2: SGA led the league in scoring 33 points per game,
[2:05:05] Speaker 2: six assists, five rebounds, played 76 games.
[2:05:07] Speaker 6: Wow.
[2:05:08] Speaker 2: Led the Thunder to a franchise record 68 wins, best
[2:05:11] Speaker 2: record in the National Basketball Association.
[2:05:13] Speaker 8: I want to know that eligible.
[2:05:16] Speaker 6: I want to know that shit. That's all I want
[2:05:17] Speaker 6: to know. Like, when they say eligible, does that mean
[2:05:21] Speaker 6: anybody that they think is eligible to play is going
[2:05:24] Speaker 6: to be on this list?
[2:05:25] Speaker 3: Well, as you are aware, there is a 65-game minimum.
[2:05:28] Speaker 7: So they can vote for any player that played 65 games.
[2:05:31] Speaker 7: That makes them eligible?
[2:05:32] Speaker 6: Yes.
[2:05:32] Speaker 3: 65 game minimum.
[2:05:33] Speaker 7: Which is why votes are going to be wasted on people.
[2:05:36] Speaker 4: Like, not that Giannis doesn't deserve votes, but he's not
[2:05:39] Speaker 4: in the conversation, so.
[2:05:41] Speaker 3: He's going to get any votes. No.
[2:05:43] Speaker 2: So, Gil, to your point, speaking of NBA awards, as
[2:05:45] Speaker 2: Justin Russo pointed out, only 84 players in the league
[2:05:48] Speaker 2: met the criteria for the 65 game minimum.
[2:05:50] Speaker 1: Damn.
[2:05:51] Speaker 3: And they're eligible for awards this season.
[2:05:53] Speaker 7: That is not good.
[2:05:53] Speaker 3: So they're going to put all of them at 84?
[2:05:55] Speaker 3: How many of y'all? 450?
[2:05:55] Speaker 7: 15 out of that.
[2:05:56] Speaker 3: What?
[2:05:57] Speaker 6: What?
[2:05:57] Speaker 7: 15 out of that 80?
[2:06:01] Speaker 2: So that means that nearly 84% of players who are ineligible,
[2:06:05] Speaker 2: including some big names, of course, players like Wimby, frontrunner
[2:06:08] Speaker 2: for defensive player of the year before he got sidelined
[2:06:10] Speaker 2: with the blood clot in his shoulder. Also players like Luka, KD,
[2:06:13] Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard, Jalen Brown, like we talked about earlier in
[2:06:16] Speaker 2: the show, AD, Dame Lillard, just a name.
[2:06:20] Speaker 7: That's crazy.
[2:06:21] Speaker 6: I just want to know them, whoever's 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, that.
[2:06:24] Speaker 1: People will be getting voted for.
[2:06:26] Speaker 6: Because obviously some votes are going to go to Giannis.
[2:06:31] Speaker 6: New York people, whoever loves New York, they're going to
[2:06:33] Speaker 6: pick Brunson. Then you're going to have some with Jason Tatum.
[2:06:37] Speaker 6: Some are going to be Jalen Brown. You're going to
[2:06:39] Speaker 6: have some over to Garland. And then if someone loses
[2:06:44] Speaker 6: by four votes, look where you wasted votes at.
[2:06:47] Speaker 7: This should be.
[2:06:52] Speaker 6: Whoever votes for someone who's not even in this race,
[2:06:56] Speaker 6: like even if you voted for Giannis, I will be
[2:06:59] Speaker 6: looking to pull your.
[2:07:00] Speaker 8: You can't vote next year.
[2:07:01] Speaker 3: Even with the Giannis vote?
[2:07:02] Speaker 6: You can't vote next year. Because you know who's been
[2:07:05] Speaker 6: number one and two for the last two months. So
[2:07:10] Speaker 6: the fact that you... Because you don't want to pick
[2:07:12] Speaker 6: one of the two, so you're going to just... So
[2:07:14] Speaker 6: this is where that split shit goes.
[2:07:15] Speaker 3: You don't want to.
[2:07:16] Speaker 6: You can't figure it out, so you just vote somebody else.
[2:07:19] Speaker 6: If you vote for Tatum.
[2:07:22] Speaker 6: You can't vote for the next three years. If you
[2:07:23] Speaker 6: vote for Garland, your shit gone.
[2:07:27] Speaker 3: Right?
[2:07:27] Speaker 6: Because he ain't been in an argument. These guys ain't
[2:07:31] Speaker 6: been in an argument to even waste a vote. Why
[2:07:34] Speaker 6: are you doing this when we know who is in
[2:07:36] Speaker 6: this race for one and two?
[2:07:38] Speaker 3: So focus here. That's what ends up happening.
[2:07:41] Speaker 7: You vote for someone who you know should be MVP and.
[2:07:43] Speaker 5: It takes away from one of those who.
[2:07:45] Speaker 2: So Giannis' season, 30 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists, Shot 60%
[2:07:53] Speaker 2: from the field his second season, averaging 30, shooting over 60%
[2:07:57] Speaker 2: from the field.
[2:07:57] Speaker 3: Only player to do that. So let me get this straight. Yeah, there.
[2:08:00] Speaker 1: Is three assists shy and three-point percentage.
[2:08:09] Speaker 8: He don't shoot.
[2:08:10] Speaker 3: He don't shoot.
[2:08:10] Speaker 1: He's less than one attempt per game. And then the
[2:08:12] Speaker 1: free throw percentage. 62% from free throws.
[2:08:14] Speaker 3: Free throws.
[2:08:16] Speaker 1: Three-pointers and a three-assist a game is the only thing
[2:08:21] Speaker 1: keeping Giannis from being neck and neck with Joker.
[2:08:24] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[2:08:25] Speaker 3: Neck and neck.
[2:08:27] Speaker 1: So how does SGA make... How has it been a
[2:08:30] Speaker 1: race between the two? Media?
[2:08:32] Speaker 3: Exactly.
[2:08:33] Speaker 1: Narrative. Pushing the narrative. You pushing something that ain't real,
[2:08:37] Speaker 1: that ain't true, because this dude got the same numbers
[2:08:39] Speaker 1: as him. How the hell did he get in the race?
[2:08:42] Speaker 4: Well, every year they, like, change the reasoning. They're like, okay,
[2:08:47] Speaker 4: now he got to be on a better team.
[2:08:48] Speaker 1: And we said that the record shouldn't reflect all of
[2:08:51] Speaker 1: this other shit. So the first thing we say is
[2:08:53] Speaker 1: he let his team number one spot?
[2:08:56] Speaker 4: Well, that was what was going on with Jokic. Oh,
[2:08:59] Speaker 4: your team isn't as good. And they got their shit together.
[2:09:02] Speaker 8: Well, his team was never number one.
[2:09:03] Speaker 1: He got three MVP.
[2:09:04] Speaker 3: No, exactly.
[2:09:05] Speaker 7: But then when it came to Shea, they're like, okay, well.
[2:09:07] Speaker 3: Then he get it.
[2:09:08] Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's like weird, but every year they like.
[2:09:11] Speaker 4: Change it up every year to like contradict what they
[2:09:15] Speaker 4: did the year before.
[2:09:15] Speaker 1: What y'all saying with the votes is we can't vote
[2:09:19] Speaker 1: for Giannis when he should be voted for.
[2:09:22] Speaker 3: Should be voted for more than the other guy. Do
[2:09:24] Speaker 3: you feel like Giannis deserves some MVP votes? He shouldn't vote.
[2:09:27] Speaker 3: He deserves some MVP votes. His number's better than Shane's. 100%.
[2:09:36] Speaker 3: So what do we be talking about? Honestly, you know what.
[2:09:39] Speaker 7: I think could possibly reset.
[2:09:41] Speaker 1: This whole thing?
[2:09:44] Speaker 7: Is if Jokic wins and Giannis comes in second.
[2:09:47] Speaker 3: He should.
[2:09:48] Speaker 4: I think that would reset this weird media algorithm that's
[2:09:53] Speaker 4: going on right now.
[2:09:53] Speaker 7: If Jokic wins, but then Giannis finishes in second.
[2:09:56] Speaker 3: Which is not going to happen.
[2:09:58] Speaker 7: It kind of should.
[2:10:00] Speaker 4: I want Sato in so bad, I think he should
[2:10:02] Speaker 4: have won last year. I don't see how you don't
[2:10:05] Speaker 4: give Jokic the MVP at this point. But with Giannis' numbers,
[2:10:10] Speaker 4: if he finishes second, I don't think anybody would be like.
[2:10:13] Speaker 3: Question it. Yeah, you wouldn't question it.
[2:10:14] Speaker 7: That doesn't make sense.
[2:10:15] Speaker 1: But they would with the narrative, because the narrative is
[2:10:16] Speaker 1: so strong. Stephen A came on here, already had his
[2:10:19] Speaker 1: lot picked. So he's like, I'm going to pick him regardless.
[2:10:22] Speaker 8: He already said he had SGA picked, and I'm like, how? Yeah.
[2:10:25] Speaker 4: I mean, I still want him to win, but I
[2:10:26] Speaker 4: just don't think he will. But Giannis getting a ton
[2:10:29] Speaker 4: of first-place votes would not surprise me.
[2:10:31] Speaker 5: Would you look at Joker's numbers? Like, it shouldn't even
[2:10:36] Speaker 5: be a race. It shouldn't even be a question who
[2:10:39] Speaker 5: the MVP should be.
[2:10:40] Speaker 8: They did the same thing during the NFL season with
[2:10:46] Speaker 8: Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. They were pushing Josh Allen
[2:10:50] Speaker 8: to win his first MVP, win his first MVP, win
[2:10:53] Speaker 8: his first MVP. And meanwhile, while Lamar Jackson went out
[2:10:57] Speaker 8: there and had the best quarterback year by numbers that
[2:11:02] Speaker 8: you could possibly have. Facts. So while they pushing this
[2:11:05] Speaker 8: Josh Allen narrative, narrative, narrative, this dude over here by numbers,
[2:11:09] Speaker 8: and you're looking at what his team is doing, and.
[2:11:13] Speaker 1: Because he won at last year, you're like, can't give.
[2:11:17] Speaker 3: Him another one.
[2:11:17] Speaker 8: He already got two. We got to give him. He
[2:11:22] Speaker 8: got Patrick Mahomes. So it's the same shit they're doing now.
[2:11:26] Speaker 8: They pushed this shit all season, and guys, they had
[2:11:29] Speaker 8: their mind made up already before all games were played,
[2:11:33] Speaker 8: which is not fair to the athlete.
[2:11:35] Speaker 2: And you guys said you don't care about the winning
[2:11:37] Speaker 2: component of it, right?
[2:11:38] Speaker 3: No, we didn't.
[2:11:39] Speaker 1: I mean, it's important, but not actually.
[2:11:42] Speaker 8: If they were in the basement, no.
[2:11:43] Speaker 1: But from the eye test, if you look at it,
[2:11:46] Speaker 1: you're watching the way these games are affecting the way
[2:11:48] Speaker 1: they're played and who's having an impact on their team's success, right?
[2:11:53] Speaker 3: Right.
[2:11:54] Speaker 6: Thunder 68 wins this year.
[2:11:57] Speaker 3: I'm just telling you.
[2:11:58] Speaker 8: And your coach putting you back in the game so
[2:11:59] Speaker 8: you can score 50.
[2:12:00] Speaker 3: Yeah, all that other shit. That's other shit.
[2:12:04] Speaker 8: And Lord knows how many other times that it happened
[2:12:06] Speaker 8: throughout the year for him to get his 30.
[2:12:08] Speaker 3: And I watched it.
[2:12:09] Speaker 8: So this is my thing with it. Played great, absolutely. 32, yes.
[2:12:15] Speaker 8: We've seen that. We've seen that.
[2:12:20] Speaker 1: We've seen it.
[2:12:20] Speaker 7: It's true.
[2:12:21] Speaker 8: We've seen a guy average 30, 32, 33 most wins.
[2:12:25] Speaker 8: We've seen that shit. We've also seen some average triple-double.
[2:12:29] Speaker 3: Not that big.
[2:12:31] Speaker 9: But numbers are numbers, though.
[2:12:34] Speaker 8: It's the effect of how it is.
[2:12:37] Speaker 4: What were Russell Westbrook's team bad those years he was
[2:12:42] Speaker 4: doing that?
[2:12:43] Speaker 3: They needed all of it. They went to the playoff.
[2:12:46] Speaker 8: They needed all of it. His team was worse than
[2:12:48] Speaker 8: what Yogi's is.
[2:12:49] Speaker 1: And they needed all of it.
[2:12:50] Speaker 7: But they got to the playoffs, though, right?
[2:12:52] Speaker 8: But did they need all of those stats?
[2:12:54] Speaker 3: Who?
[2:12:54] Speaker 8: The Oklahoma City Thunder when he was doing it.
[2:12:56] Speaker 3: No, yes, he did.
[2:12:57] Speaker 1: In order for them to be competitive each night, they
[2:13:02] Speaker 1: needed each rebound, each assist, and each point that Russell
[2:13:06] Speaker 1: Westbrook scored for those years.
[2:13:09] Speaker 6: All of them.
[2:13:10] Speaker 8: Washington, D.C., Same thing. You go to this situation with
[2:13:15] Speaker 8: Nicole Elkis. The exact same thing.
[2:13:18] Speaker 3: They shouldn't.
[2:13:18] Speaker 1: Huh?
[2:13:19] Speaker 8: But they shouldn't. But they do. That's the problem.
[2:13:23] Speaker 6: Because his team is underplayed, we're giving them credit for it.
[2:13:27] Speaker 8: Who's underplayed?
[2:13:28] Speaker 3: Murray.
[2:13:29] Speaker 8: He's been out. But I just know the whole of them.
[2:13:32] Speaker 1: He picked up the production. He's picking up production. These
[2:13:35] Speaker 1: are champions. But they're struggling. I up my production because
[2:13:41] Speaker 1: they're struggling.
[2:13:41] Speaker 3: That makes me the MVP because I can do that.
[2:13:43] Speaker 6: You got a guy who has to do what he's
[2:13:46] Speaker 6: doing to even compete. This is a college team. This
[2:13:50] Speaker 6: is a team that Auburn is the same age of.
[2:13:52] Speaker 3: Okay.
[2:13:53] Speaker 6: Everything he does actually matters. So it's this, he's in
[2:13:58] Speaker 6: the Russell Westbrook, but his team is one.
[2:14:01] Speaker 3: But he's only doing one thing.
[2:14:02] Speaker 8: He's doing everything.
[2:14:03] Speaker 3: He's doing one thing.
[2:14:04] Speaker 8: No, that's what you want to give him credit for.
[2:14:06] Speaker 6: Where's his defense?
[2:14:06] Speaker 3: The consistent thing that he goes in the game to do.
[2:14:08] Speaker 6: Where's his defense?
[2:14:09] Speaker 3: He's the higher level of defense. SGA.
[2:14:12] Speaker 8: He get blocks. He's literally a two-way player.
[2:14:15] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[2:14:17] Speaker 7: This is crazy.
[2:14:19] Speaker 5: The media votes for who they like, really.
[2:14:23] Speaker 8: It's a media popularity contest at the end of the day, right?
[2:14:26] Speaker 5: But I agree with you.
[2:14:27] Speaker 13: I think there are some players that because of the media,
[2:14:31] Speaker 13: the media likes you and they're like, oh, you had an.
[2:14:34] Speaker 5: Okay season, so I'm going to give you a vote.
[2:14:36] Speaker 7: Well, I go.
[2:14:37] Speaker 13: Back to two years ago, remember when whoever this random
[2:14:41] Speaker 13: person was that.
[2:14:42] Speaker 5: Gave Asia Wilson a fourth place vote for MVP.
[2:14:45] Speaker 8: They should lose their vote.
[2:14:48] Speaker 7: They should.
[2:14:48] Speaker 5: They shouldn't be allowed to vote anymore.
[2:14:51] Speaker 7: Ever again.
[2:14:52] Speaker 13: And it was one person that gave her a fourth
[2:14:54] Speaker 13: place vote.
[2:14:56] Speaker 6: Like, make that make sense. Those little things affect it.
[2:14:59] Speaker 6: That's why it should already be down. Once the first
[2:15:02] Speaker 6: week comes, it should be dialed down to one, two,
[2:15:04] Speaker 6: or three. If you've been just talking about two people
[2:15:07] Speaker 6: the whole season... then it should just be them two
[2:15:10] Speaker 6: on a ballot. Why are you wasting your time on
[2:15:14] Speaker 6: someone you know you're not going to actually vote number one?
[2:15:17] Speaker 6: You're not going to... Giannis is not going to get
[2:15:19] Speaker 6: enough votes to go number one, Tatum, Brown, but the
[2:15:22] Speaker 6: fact that you have them on there, they're biased fans.
[2:15:26] Speaker 6: They're biased fans that are media are going to vote
[2:15:29] Speaker 6: for them. Why are you giving them options? Because you
[2:15:31] Speaker 6: are really taking away from the two candidates. Like, there's 100... Votes,
[2:15:39] Speaker 6: it should be these two. If these two, if there's three,
[2:15:42] Speaker 6: if there's three of them, then go for three. But
[2:15:45] Speaker 6: the fact that there's going to be people on there,
[2:15:47] Speaker 6: we're going.
[2:15:47] Speaker 3: To look at it.
[2:15:48] Speaker 6: Why does he have a vote? Why does he have
[2:15:49] Speaker 6: a third place vote? Why does he have a second place?
[2:15:51] Speaker 6: You're just wasting fucking time voting. It's fucking up the
[2:15:54] Speaker 6: whole thing.
[2:15:54] Speaker 13: Well, when you look at Giannis' numbers, why isn't he
[2:15:58] Speaker 13: in that conversation?
[2:15:59] Speaker 8: They started off poorly.
[2:16:01] Speaker 5: So then we go to the way the team is playing.
[2:16:04] Speaker 1: We're not the ones that voted.
[2:16:08] Speaker 3: You can't ask the question. We don't have a vote.
[2:16:09] Speaker 3: But I'm asking your opinion.
[2:16:10] Speaker 6: Our opinion doesn't matter because whatever their criteria is, is
[2:16:14] Speaker 6: the criteria. Your opinion matters.
[2:16:16] Speaker 8: If Giannis was in a bigger city, if he was
[2:16:19] Speaker 8: in a bigger city, it would affect this year's MVP vote.
[2:16:25] Speaker 1: Dame Lillard did that. If Dame's playing better, Milwaukee's playing better.
[2:16:31] Speaker 1: We're looking at Giannis completely different. They took them off TV.
[2:16:35] Speaker 7: You don't even see them.
[2:16:37] Speaker 3: You don't even see them.
[2:16:38] Speaker 1: Which is the reason why we don't know Giannis playing
[2:16:40] Speaker 1: good right now.
[2:16:41] Speaker 3: We don't know. They've always had that janky playoff.
[2:16:44] Speaker 1: So if you think about it, Middleton gone, Kuzma comes in,
[2:16:48] Speaker 1: Dame goes down, all you got is Giannis. He's still
[2:16:51] Speaker 1: maintaining 30, 12, and 7. 60% from the field. Yo,
[2:16:53] Speaker 1: what are we talking.
[2:16:59] Speaker 8: Same thing he did last year, the year before that,
[2:17:00] Speaker 8: the year before that.
[2:17:01] Speaker 6: What are we talking about?
[2:17:01] Speaker 8: Shea did too.
[2:17:03] Speaker 3: Same shit with Shea.
[2:17:05] Speaker 1: And now Shea is on the best team in the league.
[2:17:08] Speaker 8: He's just going one more point, one more point. But
[2:17:11] Speaker 8: his assists and rebounds are fucking the same.
[2:17:13] Speaker 5: So should the record matter?
[2:17:15] Speaker 6: It should in cases like this is individual cases. You
[2:17:18] Speaker 6: have somebody that can help you win. You have Dame Leonard.
[2:17:21] Speaker 6: You have Dame time. You have you guys are championship breeds.
[2:17:25] Speaker 3: Your team core is championships.
[2:17:28] Speaker 6: And you're saying that I'm having a whole bunch of
[2:17:30] Speaker 6: players that are not even in this category. And I
[2:17:35] Speaker 6: have my team better than both of you. And you
[2:17:37] Speaker 6: guys are looking at me like you're better. then you
[2:17:40] Speaker 6: guys should be doing better. I should be the one
[2:17:43] Speaker 6: that has to do 30, 30, and 30, and then
[2:17:46] Speaker 6: my team is fourth.
[2:17:47] Speaker 3: You are a champion.
[2:17:48] Speaker 6: You know how to win. You have a championship coach.
[2:17:51] Speaker 6: You have all NBA 75 on your team. You have
[2:17:55] Speaker 6: won a championship. Four of your starters are still playing.
[2:18:01] Speaker 6: And me and my rug rats behind me. These diaper
[2:18:06] Speaker 6: dandies behind me.
[2:18:08] Speaker 8: It's an all-star.
[2:18:09] Speaker 6: That can still be playing in college basketball.
[2:18:12] Speaker 8: But they're not.
[2:18:13] Speaker 6: And still be young in college basketball.
[2:18:15] Speaker 8: But they're not.
[2:18:16] Speaker 6: And we're beating you. We're better than you. We whooped
[2:18:19] Speaker 6: your ass all year. But you guys are claiming that
[2:18:22] Speaker 6: you should be in front of me? How?
[2:18:24] Speaker 3: So what about Donovan Mitchell?
[2:18:26] Speaker 6: What about him?
[2:18:27] Speaker 3: He don't get no bid.
[2:18:27] Speaker 7: His numbers don't.
[2:18:28] Speaker 1: He didn't.
[2:18:29] Speaker 7: His numbers don't.
[2:18:29] Speaker 3: Don't get no bid, right?
[2:18:30] Speaker 6: He didn't.
[2:18:31] Speaker 3: He was number one all year.
[2:18:32] Speaker 6: Cool.
[2:18:33] Speaker 3: It's cool now.
[2:18:34] Speaker 1: Is he better than me?
[2:18:35] Speaker 3: Cool now. Is he better than me? Yes, he's better
[2:18:38] Speaker 3: than you.
[2:18:38] Speaker 1: He's better? He don't have to have the numbers you
[2:18:40] Speaker 1: have because his team is locking and clicking on all cylinders.
[2:18:43] Speaker 8: So what numbers was you trying to look up?
[2:18:45] Speaker 7: Donovan.
[2:18:46] Speaker 6: He said his team was better. I was about to
[2:18:47] Speaker 6: look to see what team was.
[2:18:48] Speaker 3: Thunder. He said team first. He said team first. You
[2:18:52] Speaker 3: knew what he was going to do. You knew what
[2:18:53] Speaker 3: he was going to do.
[2:18:54] Speaker 6: No, he said his team first.
[2:18:55] Speaker 3: So I'm going to look up the team and let
[2:18:56] Speaker 3: him know who his team is first. Then he said numbers.
[2:18:58] Speaker 6: I was going to let him know who numbers was
[2:19:00] Speaker 6: better too.
[2:19:00] Speaker 3: That's fine.
[2:19:01] Speaker 1: But the other guys are.
[2:19:01] Speaker 6: Going to let him know who's better all the way around.
[2:19:03] Speaker 8: The other guys that we're talking about numbers are better.
[2:19:05] Speaker 8: How much does defensive side of the ball equate to
[2:19:07] Speaker 8: your defense?
[2:19:07] Speaker 6: Obviously, it don't matter.
[2:19:08] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[2:19:09] Speaker 1: He plays defense, too.
[2:19:10] Speaker 3: But I'm talking about most valuable player. How much is
[2:19:13] Speaker 3: the defensive side?
[2:19:13] Speaker 13: I personally think you should play both ends of the
[2:19:15] Speaker 13: floor to be considered in the MVP.
[2:19:19] Speaker 8: You got to play it because you're out there.
[2:19:21] Speaker 5: To be considered in the MVP race, I think. I
[2:19:25] Speaker 5: think you've got to make an effect on him.
[2:19:27] Speaker 7: There's no criteria. There's no criteria. Every year it changes.
[2:19:32] Speaker 2: When you look at SGA, you look at Joker. In
[2:19:35] Speaker 2: your opinion, if you had to vote for MVP, who
[2:19:37] Speaker 2: are you giving that vote to right now?
[2:19:39] Speaker 3: Jokic. And why are you picking Jokic? He's having the
[2:19:43] Speaker 3: best season ever.
[2:19:45] Speaker 15: So, I mean, I don't know.
[2:19:48] Speaker 6: It's tough.
[2:19:50] Speaker 3: Because it will be his fourth. It will be his fourth?
[2:19:54] Speaker 3: Most valuable player award. They messed it up, though. They
[2:19:58] Speaker 3: should have gave it to SGA last year. Exactly. Because
[2:20:01] Speaker 3: now it's all like... They're trying to overcompensate.
[2:20:04] Speaker 7: What was Jokic's number last year?
[2:20:06] Speaker 6: Probably almost triple-double. 26-10-9, I think. No, I think it
[2:20:09] Speaker 6: was probably like.
[2:20:10] Speaker 3: I got it for you. Probably triple-double also. Very close.
[2:20:16] Speaker 6: 26-12-9.
[2:20:16] Speaker 7: That's why this year everyone's like, duh.
[2:20:18] Speaker 3: So why would they give it to him last year?
[2:20:21] Speaker 3: Because they didn't think he was going to get any better.
[2:20:24] Speaker 6: They was ranked 11 coming into the season.
[2:20:28] Speaker 7: And they didn't think he was ranked one. I know
[2:20:30] Speaker 7: he wasn't.
[2:20:30] Speaker 9: Because he's having the best season ever, so it's like, oh.
[2:20:36] Speaker 6: It's just weird. It's the weirdest thing. No, what I'm
[2:20:38] Speaker 6: saying is you're ranked one. I'm ranked 11.
[2:20:40] Speaker 3: I think it should be between.
[2:20:41] Speaker 6: I finished one with my team that was ranked 11.
[2:20:45] Speaker 6: You finished behind me, but they give you.
[2:20:47] Speaker 3: The award for the race.
[2:20:49] Speaker 1: You get gold.
[2:20:49] Speaker 6: I got to get silver.
[2:20:50] Speaker 2: But you're talking about team rankings here because if you
[2:20:52] Speaker 2: play from that side, Thunder, 16-game lead in the West.
[2:20:56] Speaker 9: That's right.
[2:20:59] Speaker 3: For the rest of the year, he covered both.
[2:21:02] Speaker 2: So you got a guy on a 68-win team, 16
[2:21:04] Speaker 2: games ahead of the next closest team last season.
[2:21:06] Speaker 6: I think it was two or three-way tie. I bet
[2:21:09] Speaker 6: you they don't even have a criteria. I bet you
[2:21:14] Speaker 6: they don't even have. They just give you the ballots
[2:21:17] Speaker 6: and say fill them out. I don't even think they
[2:21:19] Speaker 6: have a criteria of what to look for.
[2:21:21] Speaker 7: Like what would be the ideal criteria for an MVP?
[2:21:23] Speaker 5: Like it says there is a criteria, but not really.
[2:21:26] Speaker 3: Okay.
[2:21:27] Speaker 5: I mean, do you know what I mean?
[2:21:28] Speaker 7: Because best player and most valuable player are not the
[2:21:30] Speaker 7: same thing.
[2:21:31] Speaker 13: The MVP award is given to the player who, in
[2:21:32] Speaker 13: the opinion of the voter, is the most valuable player.
[2:21:36] Speaker 5: In the league during the regular season.
[2:21:38] Speaker 13: There isn't a single definitive set of criteria, but the
[2:21:40] Speaker 13: award is generally considered to be based on a combination
[2:21:42] Speaker 13: of individual performance, team success, and overall impact. My issue
[2:21:48] Speaker 13: is a lot of the media that votes, they don't
[2:21:52] Speaker 13: know basketball.
[2:21:53] Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
[2:21:54] Speaker 3: They don't watch it?
[2:21:55] Speaker 5: No, and so in here it talks about the eye test.
[2:21:58] Speaker 7: There's too many.
[2:22:00] Speaker 5: Like, to me, if you've never played the game.
[2:22:03] Speaker 13: And don't really understand it, I ain't really sure if
[2:22:06] Speaker 13: I trust your eye test.
[2:22:10] Speaker 1: Because you don't know what these mannerisms mean. You don't
[2:22:12] Speaker 1: know what this hesitation means.
[2:22:16] Speaker 3: You don't know a lot of the little things that
[2:22:17] Speaker 3: players will know.
[2:22:19] Speaker 6: I'm literally still 50-50. They wrote that. Hey, do not
[2:22:24] Speaker 6: split it. They was talking to me.
[2:22:26] Speaker 13: Do you think it would be different if players got
[2:22:30] Speaker 13: to vote on MVP?
[2:22:31] Speaker 6: Nope.
[2:22:32] Speaker 8: Because players don't like players. Players are haters.
[2:22:34] Speaker 6: Remember, it used to be the players and then they
[2:22:36] Speaker 6: started fucking the shit up. I think it should be computer-based.
[2:22:39] Speaker 6: You put the criteria in the computer.
[2:22:42] Speaker 7: Yeah, they got to figure something out.
[2:22:43] Speaker 6: And then put all the accolades in there and put
[2:22:45] Speaker 6: everything out and let it spit out what it's going
[2:22:47] Speaker 6: to spit out.
[2:22:48] Speaker 4: Are you going to ask ChatGP who the MVP should be?
[2:22:53] Speaker 6: Because let's just say you're the MVP and you didn't
[2:22:59] Speaker 6: give me an interview or you told me, motherfucker you. Now,
[2:23:03] Speaker 6: whatever you do don't get shit.
[2:23:04] Speaker 7: Yeah, so you're not going to vote for him.
[2:23:05] Speaker 6: I'm not going to vote for you.
[2:23:06] Speaker 7: Because he didn't give you the opinion.
[2:23:07] Speaker 1: But you know what I mean?
[2:23:08] Speaker 3: So this is human.
[2:23:10] Speaker 9: Takes the opinion out of it.
[2:23:12] Speaker 6: Yeah, you take the opinion out of it.
[2:23:13] Speaker 2: Well, bias gets brought into it because, oh, this dude
[2:23:15] Speaker 2: is rude to me, but this dude is really nice
[2:23:17] Speaker 2: to me.
[2:23:17] Speaker 6: Really nice to me. Oh, my God, he's 26. He's
[2:23:20] Speaker 6: 26 a game.
[2:23:20] Speaker 3: Looks like 40.
[2:23:21] Speaker 6: Right. So you got to take that out of it, man.
[2:23:26] Speaker 3: Looks like a 40 face.
[2:23:28] Speaker 6: I don't know.
[2:23:28] Speaker 3: It's tough.
[2:23:29] Speaker 9: This one's tough.
[2:23:30] Speaker 6: It's going to be crazy.
[2:23:31] Speaker 1: You know what?
[2:23:31] Speaker 3: This is.
[2:23:33] Speaker 6: Whoever wins, I'm like, makes sense.
[2:23:36] Speaker 8: I can't even get mad at it.
[2:23:37] Speaker 1: Criteria is a totality of team wins and individual excellence.
[2:23:44] Speaker 3: Shay wins.
[2:23:47] Speaker 6: Right.
[2:23:48] Speaker 7: But what is the split? Is it 70% individual?
[2:23:52] Speaker 1: Your guess is as good as mine.
[2:23:56] Speaker 3: It's overwhelming.
[2:23:57] Speaker 4: Because if it's individual performance, team, then that's different.
[2:24:03] Speaker 1: Joker wins the individual performance by impressive margin, but the
[2:24:07] Speaker 1: team success propels Shay.
[2:24:09] Speaker 3: Over the top.
[2:24:12] Speaker 7: Chet GPT knows everything. I have yet to open up
[2:24:15] Speaker 7: that album.
[2:24:17] Speaker 3: It compared the two and combined the two.
[2:24:19] Speaker 13: Do you think Kobe Bryant should have won more MVP?
[2:24:24] Speaker 5: What did he win?
[2:24:25] Speaker 2: Two?
[2:24:26] Speaker 7: Kobe won two MVP?
[2:24:27] Speaker 3: He won two.
[2:24:28] Speaker 6: The year he lost to Steve Nash, well, technically, he
[2:24:32] Speaker 6: came in third in voting. He came third in voting
[2:24:36] Speaker 6: that year, but The fact that the media said, and
[2:24:40] Speaker 6: you look at his team, they supposed to have been
[2:24:43] Speaker 6: last in the West, and the fact that they did
[2:24:46] Speaker 6: make the playoffs, you have to give credit for that.
[2:24:49] Speaker 6: You can't say someone is not going to be good
[2:24:51] Speaker 6: and then they over-exceed what you said and then you
[2:24:54] Speaker 6: still pretend it didn't happen. You can't do that. That
[2:24:58] Speaker 6: has to be factored in.
[2:25:01] Speaker 3: Right?
[2:25:01] Speaker 6: It has to be factored in. You pre-ranked them last. Eighth.
[2:25:07] Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[2:25:09] Speaker 6: And you still lose to the guy whose team was
[2:25:13] Speaker 6: 65 wins, or 62 wins, dropped down to 55? Because, what,
[2:25:17] Speaker 6: you thought they were going to be bad, and they wasn't?
[2:25:19] Speaker 6: I asked ChatGPT.
[2:25:23] Speaker 5: What did you ask ChatGPT?
[2:25:25] Speaker 3: Should Kobe have one more MVP? I said, yes, of course.
[2:25:31] Speaker 7: Yes, of course.
[2:25:32] Speaker 3: Let me tell you why.
[2:25:34] Speaker 1: He deserved more because it's consistent greatness from 2000 to 2010.
[2:25:38] Speaker 1: Arguably the best two-way guard in the league, dropping 30
[2:25:40] Speaker 1: plus a night.
[2:25:41] Speaker 3: Locking up opposing defenders in the best scores.
[2:25:44] Speaker 1: Splitting votes with Shaq in the early 2000s, Kobe and
[2:25:47] Speaker 1: Shaq were dominant together, which canceled each other out in
[2:25:50] Speaker 1: the MVP voting. Shaq got one in 2000, but Kobe
[2:25:54] Speaker 1: was already elite by then. 2005 snub, 35 points for
[2:25:56] Speaker 1: a game. Biggest snub in history. 2006, 2007, it says two, T-O-O.
[2:26:05] Speaker 1: ChatGPT said that. Kobe led the league in scoring again
[2:26:10] Speaker 1: with 31-6. Nash got it again.
[2:26:13] Speaker 3: Damn.
[2:26:14] Speaker 1: The politics of MVP has always been a part of
[2:26:17] Speaker 1: the narrative. Part numbers and part team success. Kobe didn't
[2:26:20] Speaker 1: always fit the narrative.
[2:26:21] Speaker 3: The voters liked.
[2:26:22] Speaker 1: He was intense, polarizing, and sometimes painted as selfish. That
[2:26:26] Speaker 1: hurt his MVP case.
[2:26:28] Speaker 13: No, meaning the media didn't like Coke.
[2:26:33] Speaker 7: Yeah, I got some.
[2:26:35] Speaker 3: Damn. Even when his performance was undeniable.
[2:26:37] Speaker 8: Now, I know you use Chad G.
[2:26:39] Speaker 7: I know that's right.
[2:26:40] Speaker 8: I know you do because you just used it.
[2:26:42] Speaker 6: Now, can you tell them what did it say when
[2:26:45] Speaker 6: you typed in who's going to be this MVP since
[2:26:47] Speaker 6: I know you typed it in?
[2:26:48] Speaker 7: I already said Shay.
[2:26:49] Speaker 3: You okay? You okay over there? You prepared that for
[2:26:56] Speaker 3: 20 minutes over there.
[2:26:57] Speaker 1: Just to do that?
[2:26:58] Speaker 3: You did all that just to do that?
[2:26:59] Speaker 6: No, I just said you finish your speech.
[2:27:01] Speaker 3: Nah, I already said.
[2:27:04] Speaker 7: They picked Shay.
[2:27:05] Speaker 3: Yeah, I said that.
[2:27:07] Speaker 7: AI picked Shay.
[2:27:08] Speaker 2: I wonder what the real AI has to say. The
[2:27:12] Speaker 2: only AI I trust to give opinions.
[2:27:15] Speaker 3: The real one?
[2:27:17] Speaker 4: I know he mad as hell that that shit exists now.
[2:27:19] Speaker 4: I know he mad as hell that AI is like
[2:27:22] Speaker 4: a thing now.
[2:27:22] Speaker 7: He no longer has his opinion.
[2:27:24] Speaker 3: They should ask A.I. then ask the real A.I. He
[2:27:26] Speaker 3: has to concur for it to be that way.
[2:27:27] Speaker 7: You need to do something with A.I. He got to.
[2:27:30] Speaker 2: Well, we will see how it pans out. Like I said,
[2:27:32] Speaker 2: all the votes are in being tabulated by the NBA.
[2:27:35] Speaker 2: We will know very soon who wins the MVP.
[2:27:38] Speaker 3: You already know, Gil? Adam Silver told you?
[2:27:41] Speaker 6: No.
[2:27:44] Speaker 3: Tie your shoes. And while you do that, let's move on.
[2:27:47] Speaker 6: Who do you think is.
[2:27:47] Speaker 5: Going to win it?
[2:27:52] Speaker 1: You.
[2:27:53] Speaker 5: No, I'm messing with you.
[2:27:55] Speaker 3: Play your game, bro. Let's move on to Mostly Fans.
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[2:28:08] Speaker 2: So our question today is from Underdog user Dunk City.
[2:28:11] Speaker 2: Wants to know, who are you taking in the playing
[2:28:12] Speaker 2: game tonight? So we got Heat at Bulls, Mavs at Kings.
[2:28:15] Speaker 2: Let's go around the couch. Shai, we'll start with you.
[2:28:17] Speaker 6: Who are you taking in the East and the West
[2:28:19] Speaker 6: in the 9-10 playing game tonight?
[2:28:21] Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Chicago. And the other one
[2:28:25] Speaker 1: was Dallas and who? Dallas and Sacramento. I'm going with Sac.
[2:28:31] Speaker 3: I like Chicago. I like Giddy, and I like Beliskis.
[2:28:34] Speaker 3: Is that his name? Matas Buzelis. Buzelis.
[2:28:37] Speaker 7: The rookie? Yeah, he's tough.
[2:28:39] Speaker 3: He's going to be cold.
[2:28:40] Speaker 7: He's tough.
[2:28:41] Speaker 3: The Giddler and Buzelis.
[2:28:42] Speaker 1: Yeah, I like both of them. And Sac, yeah. I
[2:28:45] Speaker 1: hope DeMar show up, man, and make a little run.
[2:28:48] Speaker 3: Okay. So let's move on to you, Cheryl. Who do
[2:28:50] Speaker 3: you like? You're on the same picks. Bulls and Kings. Yeah.
[2:28:55] Speaker 3: Gilbert Arenas.
[2:28:58] Speaker 2: The namesake of Gil's Arena presented by Underdog Woo Woo.
[2:29:02] Speaker 2: Who do you like in the 9-10 playing games tonight?
[2:29:04] Speaker 6: I like the Bulls, but I know the NBA going
[2:29:08] Speaker 6: to give heat that win for Jimmy Butler's loss.
[2:29:13] Speaker 8: And then the Kings.
[2:29:17] Speaker 3: So you're saying heat and Kings?
[2:29:21] Speaker 6: No, I said Bulls and Kings, but I know Heath.
[2:29:22] Speaker 6: You said you like the Bulls, but the NBA is
[2:29:24] Speaker 6: going to give the Heath the win.
[2:29:25] Speaker 5: Heath never answers.
[2:29:28] Speaker 7: These answers are crazy.
[2:29:29] Speaker 1: I said Kings.
[2:29:30] Speaker 5: He never answers.
[2:29:31] Speaker 1: No, I said Kings. If I'm 50-50, I don't care.
[2:29:36] Speaker 6: I like the Bulls, but you just lost Jimmy Butler.
[2:29:39] Speaker 1: They might go ahead and give you one.
[2:29:40] Speaker 8: Sports answers.
[2:29:43] Speaker 2: Very good paycheck. Let's move over to KJ. Who do
[2:29:47] Speaker 2: you like in the East-West playing? 9-10 playing game tonight.
[2:29:50] Speaker 3: I got Heat and Mavericks.
[2:29:52] Speaker 2: Heat and Mavericks. Completely opposite from Sean's pick.
[2:30:00] Speaker 6: Well, Heat and Mavericks.
[2:30:01] Speaker 3: Heat and Mavericks.
[2:30:02] Speaker 6: Is there any difference, man?
[2:30:03] Speaker 3: Yes. Anthony Marchand, Dave? I see what you're doing there.
[2:30:08] Speaker 3: I got Mavericks. I see what you're doing there. I'm
[2:30:11] Speaker 3: hoping it don't happen. That's why I'm over here. Great
[2:30:13] Speaker 3: trade for the league. I was going to go that way.
[2:30:15] Speaker 1: The two teams I got fucked.
[2:30:17] Speaker 3: Let's move over to Kenyon.
[2:30:19] Speaker 6: Kenyon, who do you like in the 9-10 playing game tonight?
[2:30:25] Speaker 2: Bulls Kings. Bulls in the Kings. Last but not least,
[2:30:29] Speaker 2: Lexi Brown, Seattle Storm Guard.
[2:30:32] Speaker 7: Bulls Kings.
[2:30:33] Speaker 3: Bulls Kings? Yeah. WNBA season is very close, Cheryl.
[2:30:37] Speaker 6: We can feel it.
[2:30:37] Speaker 5: WNBA guard, Seattle Storm. Let's go.
[2:30:42] Speaker 2: So, got those answers. Shout out to Underdog as always.
[2:30:45] Speaker 2: He's going to be a good one. So, like I
[2:30:47] Speaker 2: said at the beginning of the show, a little bittersweet. Lexi, today,
[2:30:51] Speaker 2: your last day in the arena. Not forever.
[2:30:53] Speaker 7: Not forever.
[2:30:53] Speaker 6: Just for the time being, as you get ready to
[2:30:55] Speaker 6: ramp up for the WNBA season.
[2:30:57] Speaker 5: Go get bucket.
[2:30:58] Speaker 3: Your first season with the Seattle Storm. Let's give Lexi
[2:31:00] Speaker 3: some love.
[2:31:02] Speaker 2: Underdog will be bringing us out to Seattle to support
[2:31:05] Speaker 2: you in the storm this year.
[2:31:07] Speaker 6: Taking two threes again.
[2:31:08] Speaker 7: You can wear that outfit.
[2:31:09] Speaker 3: No expense.
[2:31:10] Speaker 1: Put you at 1.5.
[2:31:10] Speaker 3: Threes? Yeah.
[2:31:11] Speaker 7: That's about right for now.
[2:31:14] Speaker 3: Very no expense.
[2:31:14] Speaker 5: How can I get my ticket?
[2:31:16] Speaker 7: You can wear that.
[2:31:17] Speaker 3: Do they have a Ritz Carlton in Seattle?
[2:31:18] Speaker 8: Yeah, make sure you went to Costco. Okay.
[2:31:20] Speaker 7: More flowers.
[2:31:21] Speaker 1: Lex, we have a gift for you on your last
[2:31:24] Speaker 1: day in the arena for this particular moment.
[2:31:27] Speaker 3: Thank you.
[2:31:27] Speaker 7: Let's go, Lexi.
[2:31:29] Speaker 3: Lex, we wish you best luck.
[2:31:31] Speaker 4: Thanks.
[2:31:32] Speaker 3: Go get some buckets. Them look familiar.
[2:31:34] Speaker 5: Go get lots of buckets.
[2:31:35] Speaker 7: Familiar to what? I know you don't send flowers.
[2:31:39] Speaker 3: Who?
[2:31:39] Speaker 7: You.
[2:31:40] Speaker 3: Shit. No. All the time.
[2:31:42] Speaker 7: Do you do?
[2:31:43] Speaker 3: To strangers.
[2:31:47] Speaker 7: How do you send flowers to strangers?
[2:31:48] Speaker 3: They ghost me afterward, but it's cool.
[2:31:50] Speaker 1: I just be like, shit, baby, ain't nobody loving you
[2:31:54] Speaker 1: from afar like me.
[2:31:56] Speaker 3: Yeah, they give me the address. So then they're not
[2:31:58] Speaker 3: a stranger. No, I'll just be like, yo, let me
[2:32:00] Speaker 3: send you some flowers.
[2:32:01] Speaker 7: And they just give you the address.
[2:32:03] Speaker 3: But look, them Target, though, for sure. I get them
[2:32:06] Speaker 3: from Target, for sure. A great store. They're pretty beautiful.
[2:32:11] Speaker 1: Okay, now this is funny.
[2:32:12] Speaker 3: Okay, this is funny. Oh, God, I don't even know.
[2:32:16] Speaker 6: It's funny, because you know in playoffs, right, there's always
[2:32:20] Speaker 6: somebody in the second unit that has to be the
[2:32:22] Speaker 6: other star, right?
[2:32:24] Speaker 1: So the Lakers got.
[2:32:26] Speaker 8: Rodney James is Anthony Edwards.
[2:32:29] Speaker 6: And Wolves is using Joe Ingles as Luca.
[2:32:34] Speaker 1: Y'all both fucked in.
[2:32:37] Speaker 2: And on that note, I appreciate you, KJ, for pulling
[2:32:40] Speaker 2: that second.
[2:32:40] Speaker 4: Time out of your schedule to come to the arena.
[2:32:43] Speaker 3: False advertisement.
[2:32:44] Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody on this couch. Appreciate everybody in the chat
[2:32:47] Speaker 2: as well for showing love to this show. This has
[2:32:49] Speaker 2: been another episode of Gil's Arena presented by Underdog.
[2:32:52] Speaker 3: We will see y'all tomorrow.

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