# Zion Williamson's Breakout Season FIRES UP Gil's Arena

An episode of [Gil's Arena](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1689097415), 12 Mar 2025, 2 h 25 min.

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Zion Williamson's Breakout Season FIRES UP Gil's Arena as Gilbert Arenas & The Gil's Arena Crew react to the Cavs nabbing their 15th straight win as the top team in the NBA and debate if this historic season deserves more respects as Mitchell, Darius Garland and the rest of the Cavs look to unseat the Boston Celtics in the NBA's Eastern Conference. They then react to Zion Williamson balling as of late as the New Orleans Pelicans' superstar is playing the best hoops of his career and proving that with the correct care and training he can finally deliver on they hype he earned as the NBA's next generational prospect. Speaking of generational prospects, Gil & The Crew turn their attention to March Madness where consensus #1 overall pick Cooper Flagg is weighing his options on returning to Duke or heading to the NBA, sparking a debate on NIL's impact on the one and done prospect and if hyped up players will have more control over where they play in the pros. Finally, they break down Tyrese Haliburton & The Indiana Pacers' football style play to take down Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks inciting a hostile conversation on which team is most likely to win a playoff series as we enter the NBA Playoff conversation. Please give us a like and subscribe!!! Gil's Arena Crew - Gilbert Arenas, Josiah Johnson, Lexie Brown, Brandon Jennings & 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 Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off your Starter Pick (that’s over 40% off) with promo code GIL at https://shopmando.com! #mandopod Try Huel with 15% OFF PLUS A Special Gift today using code GILS at https://huel.com/gilsarena Unlock a healthier, easier way to eat with Huel—nutritionally complete meals in minutes, so you can focus on what really matters. USE Code GIL10 for 10% off tickets on SeatGeek https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/GIL10 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 Stream Josiah's Film "Memes & Nightmares" Available NOW on Hulu and Disney+ 0:00:00 2 Min Timer 0:01:59 Show Start 0:10:47 Lexie Returns From Athletes Unlimited 0:11:34 Lexie Traded To The Seattle Storm 0:16:58 The Cavaliers Deserve Respect!! 0:34:52 Cavs Prank Rookie Jaylon Tyson 0:36:26 Kenyon's Prank War With JR Smith 0:52:50 Bucks Get FOOLED By Pacers Trick Play 1:04:57 Is Haliburton One Of The NBA's Best PG's? 1:13:52 Cam Spencer TROLLS Kevin Durant 1:27:06 Zion Is Playing His Best Basketball! 1:55:05 Cooper Flagg's Big Decision 2:08:29 Dawg Bowl Recap 2:17:04 MostlyFans 2:25:00 In Memorium of Junior Bridgeman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: Welcome back to Gales Arena presented by Underdog.
[0:07] Speaker 2: Another glorious day here in the arena. How everybody doing? Good, good.
[0:11] Speaker 1: Appreciate everybody in the chat who pulled up yesterday. Apparently
[0:15] Speaker 1: a lot of y'all got opinions about the show, but nonetheless,
[0:18] Speaker 1: thank you Stephen A. as well for coming through to
[0:20] Speaker 1: the arena, coming to our home court. What's up with it?
[0:24] Speaker 2: See? Ain't done that in a minute. I'm off my.
[0:29] Speaker 1: Game today, Gil, but we're going to keep it, hold
[0:31] Speaker 1: it together. This is Gil's Arena presented by Underdog. As always,
[0:34] Speaker 1: we've got the legend, Gilbert Arenas, here with us. Representing
[0:40] Speaker 1: Tough Crowd, Tough Crowd University, we've got Mr. B, Brandon Jennings,
[0:43] Speaker 1: back on the couch. And on this side of the couch,
[0:47] Speaker 1: we've got former number one pick, the bully from Oak Cliff,
[0:49] Speaker 1: Canyon Martin. Yeah, I think.
[0:52] Speaker 2: We're going to have to change this, man. We're going
[0:54] Speaker 2: to have to change this?
[0:55] Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to have to change this.
[0:56] Speaker 2: You don't want to be a bully?
[0:57] Speaker 1: I'm not. Oh.
[0:58] Speaker 2: That's the thing.
[0:58] Speaker 1: The gentleman from Oakland said that's the thing.
[1:02] Speaker 2: Like, that's, like, people really, like, think that, like, I
[1:06] Speaker 2: was supposed to come in this motherfucker yesterday, like, would
[1:08] Speaker 2: a wife be the only one? And black Timbs and, like, right?
[1:13] Speaker 2: Cut off jean shorts and, right?
[1:15] Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
[1:16] Speaker 1: Cold Stone Steve Austin. Right, yeah.
[1:18] Speaker 2: That was what they really expected. Like, no. People know
[1:22] Speaker 2: how to have an adult conversation, bro.
[1:24] Speaker 1: We are respectful in the arena. Until disrespected, that's all.
[1:28] Speaker 1: But there was... We give the energy we get.
[1:31] Speaker 2: So you had a backpack with those clothes in it?
[1:33] Speaker 1: No, I didn't. Oh, okay. Just checking. And making her
[1:39] Speaker 1: triumphant return to the arena, WNBA champion of the world,
[1:44] Speaker 1: recent Seattle Thor acquisition, Lexi Brown is back.
[1:47] Speaker 3: I missed y'all.
[1:52] Speaker 2: We missed you, Lexi. I ain't gonna lie.
[1:53] Speaker 1: I did. We missed your energy and positivity.
[1:55] Speaker 2: Absolutely.
[1:57] Speaker 1: I had to be positive. They've been out here for
[1:59] Speaker 1: a while. I know.
[1:59] Speaker 3: I've been watching you, KU. My mom always texts me,
[2:01] Speaker 3: KU looks lonely without.
[2:02] Speaker 5: You on the couch.
[2:03] Speaker 2: Had to be positive.
[2:04] Speaker 3: Dealing with the nonsense.
[2:05] Speaker 2: So I'm back.
[2:06] Speaker 3: I'm back for a few weeks.
[2:08] Speaker 2: See, if they get started and I can talk to you,
[2:10] Speaker 2: I don't have to play dominoes. I just started playing dominoes.
[2:16] Speaker 2: I got a nice game in yesterday when they started
[2:18] Speaker 2: that shit yesterday.
[2:19] Speaker 1: There they go. For all the fans out there, we
[2:22] Speaker 1: still have two viewing options for you, our traditional version,
[2:24] Speaker 1: mobile vertical version. Pick whichever one you want to watch.
[2:26] Speaker 1: Just make sure you support the show. Here's what's cracking
[2:29] Speaker 1: in the arena today. The Cavs are in the midst
[2:32] Speaker 1: of their second 15-game winning streak this season, have the
[2:35] Speaker 1: best record in the league. Should Cleveland be the favorite
[2:39] Speaker 1: to win the chip this season? They're playing very, very
[2:41] Speaker 1: good basketball. We got to show the Cavs some love.
[2:43] Speaker 1: Y'all been saying we don't give enough love to the Cavs.
[2:45] Speaker 1: We're going to see if y'all love them back. Tyrese
[2:48] Speaker 1: Halliburton and the Pacers ran an NFL-style ATO to stun
[2:51] Speaker 1: the Bucs and move into a tie with Milwaukee for
[2:54] Speaker 1: fourth in the East.
[2:54] Speaker 2: You see it.
[2:55] Speaker 1: Which team is more likely to win a playoff series
[2:58] Speaker 1: this season? As we know, Pacers beat the Bucs last year.
[3:00] Speaker 1: Bucs were a little injured. They are tied right now
[3:02] Speaker 1: in the East. They got them.
[3:04] Speaker 2: That wheel route. There go that wheel route.
[3:07] Speaker 1: And Zion messed around and dropped the second triple-double of
[3:09] Speaker 1: his career in a win over the Clippers. How cautious
[3:12] Speaker 1: should the Pels be with a two-time All-Star for the
[3:15] Speaker 1: rest of the season? Zion looking real good out there.
[3:17] Speaker 1: Said he wants to play back-to-back, as Pelican said. We're
[3:19] Speaker 1: not letting you do that, young man. We're trying to
[3:21] Speaker 1: keep you right for the future. But before we get
[3:23] Speaker 1: into all that, as always, this show is brought to
[3:24] Speaker 1: you by Underdog. Go ahead, download the app. Use promo
[3:26] Speaker 1: code GILL. Get up to $ 1, 000 in bonus cash, plus
[3:29] Speaker 1: a special pick-em. As for tonight, GILL has some picks
[3:31] Speaker 1: up in his partner pack on the Underdog app. Let
[3:33] Speaker 1: us take a look, if we can. LaMelo Ball, higher,
[3:36] Speaker 1: 6.5 assists. Hornets are at the Hawks tonight. SGA, higher,
[3:40] Speaker 1: 26.5 points. Thunder got a big game against the Celtics
[3:44] Speaker 1: in Boston tonight. De'Aaron Fox, higher. 4.5 assists. Klay Thompson
[3:49] Speaker 1: hired 14.5 points. And Nikola Jokic hired 8.5 assists. How
[3:55] Speaker 1: everybody on the couch feel about Gil's picks for tonight?
[3:58] Speaker 3: It's real positive, Gil.
[4:00] Speaker 2: Huh?
[4:00] Speaker 3: That's a lot of positivity.
[4:02] Speaker 1: I know.
[4:02] Speaker 5: Listen, I stopped going lower on the guys because I
[4:08] Speaker 5: got to post it. And then when I post it,
[4:11] Speaker 5: it look like they start doing shit that they don't
[4:13] Speaker 5: normally do.
[4:14] Speaker 1: Right, motherfucker?
[4:15] Speaker 5: I have them lower seven rebounds. Now they want to
[4:18] Speaker 5: get 12. Now they out there actually doing it. Like,
[4:21] Speaker 5: wait a minute, sir. So I just push positivity.
[4:26] Speaker 3: I'm all for that.
[4:27] Speaker 1: Pushing positivity. Gil, the chat agrees with that positivity. 63%
[4:32] Speaker 1: of the chat is riding with your picks for tonight.
[4:36] Speaker 1: So if you like these picks.
[4:37] Speaker 5: I want to know what you, when they do that,
[4:39] Speaker 5: I want to know which one they disagree with.
[4:42] Speaker 2: With the 37% is not rolling with?
[4:45] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[4:47] Speaker 2: Chad, go ahead and drop in.
[4:48] Speaker 1: Clay, there's nobody there. Drop in whatever pick of you
[4:50] Speaker 1: are not rolling with, that Gil has tonight.
[4:52] Speaker 2: If Yoka's don't get 8.5 assists, something wrong.
[4:55] Speaker 1: Shea. I mean, hmm. The D-Fox one.
[5:02] Speaker 3: Shay gonna get 30 every night.
[5:03] Speaker 2: You see it. You know, LaMelo, that's a little tricky
[5:06] Speaker 2: right there. 30 times, too.
[5:07] Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been taking a lot of shots.
[5:10] Speaker 2: If D-Fox can't get five assists, I mean, I mean.
[5:12] Speaker 2: I mean, his assists are low, so he ain't passing.
[5:15] Speaker 1: That's what I always say, too. He ain't passing.
[5:17] Speaker 2: I can show you my motherfucking account. That's what I
[5:20] Speaker 2: always say. Oh, they can do this. Yeah.
[5:22] Speaker 1: Right?
[5:22] Speaker 2: Oh, they can get this. Oh, that's easy tonight. motherfucker have.
[5:27] Speaker 2: What is it? Four and a half? That bitch have four. Yeah. Right?
[5:30] Speaker 1: Yeah, that might be a tricky one because Chris Paul
[5:34] Speaker 1: is the point. Mm-hmm.
[5:36] Speaker 6: That's why I said his assists are low for a
[5:38] Speaker 6: guy who got the ball.
[5:39] Speaker 1: Chaz saying they're not rolling with the mellow going higher,
[5:42] Speaker 1: 6.5 assists. We believe in the ball family here in
[5:44] Speaker 1: this arena. LeVar, three for three. Don't he average? Don't
[5:48] Speaker 1: he average like.
[5:49] Speaker 7: He average probably that. I think I'm so... Yeah, I'm
[5:53] Speaker 7: used to... The early, the early one, early in the year.
[5:57] Speaker 7: When he was passing the ball?
[5:58] Speaker 2: Yeah, LaMelo averaged 26-7 so far. I hear every seven,
[6:01] Speaker 2: like I said. Yeah, what's-her-name was out there then, the
[6:03] Speaker 2: Brandon Miller kid was out there, so he was catching
[6:06] Speaker 2: and shooting that bitch. He was throwing that ball, but
[6:08] Speaker 2: he was just catching and shooting.
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[7:38] Speaker 1: Before we get into everything we gotta get into, obviously
[7:40] Speaker 1: it's great to have Lexi back here on this couch. Yeah.
[7:44] Speaker 1: Lost me going down in your life. You don't know
[7:46] Speaker 1: how to push.
[7:46] Speaker 2: Since you left me. You don't push the smoke enough.
[7:50] Speaker 1: I thought I was not allowed to push the smoke.
[7:52] Speaker 3: Right on Joe's side.
[7:53] Speaker 1: That's why you don't push it. Right.
[7:56] Speaker 2: As per my contract. I don't know if you know,
[7:58] Speaker 2: but I designed it right behind you.
[8:00] Speaker 1: I understand. And I feel it every time you push.
[8:02] Speaker 1: You can feel all that fall.
[8:03] Speaker 2: I feel it every time you push.
[8:05] Speaker 1: Every time, yeah.
[8:07] Speaker 2: Every time you push.
[8:08] Speaker 1: I thought we don't do that. I thought we don't
[8:10] Speaker 1: do that.
[8:10] Speaker 2: Look where it's angled at.
[8:11] Speaker 1: Right there.
[8:14] Speaker 2: I feel the smoke every time Gil pushes the smoke button.
[8:19] Speaker 1: You see how it go, right? I appreciate it. You
[8:23] Speaker 1: tough on me, but I appreciate it like a big brother.
[8:26] Speaker 1: And I got some other news. We just crossed 964,000 subs.
[8:29] Speaker 1: While we were giving out money, shout out.
[8:31] Speaker 2: To the chat.
[8:31] Speaker 1: So now we have eight winners today. We'll announce the
[8:34] Speaker 1: other six at the end of the show. But Lexi,
[8:35] Speaker 1: back to you. Just finished your fourth season hooping in
[8:38] Speaker 1: the Athletes Unlimited League. Yeah. 16 points per game. You
[8:41] Speaker 1: finished seventh. on the leaderboard.
[8:43] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[8:43] Speaker 2: Seven points.
[8:44] Speaker 3: We're scoring.
[8:45] Speaker 1: Top seven.
[8:45] Speaker 3: We're scoring.
[8:46] Speaker 2: Katie Buckus, doing what you do.
[8:48] Speaker 1: What was your experience like for you at Athletes Unlimited
[8:50] Speaker 1: this season?
[8:51] Speaker 3: It was really fun. It was nice to really feel
[8:54] Speaker 3: healthy for the first time in like a year and
[8:56] Speaker 3: a half. I started the first week as a captain
[9:00] Speaker 3: for the scrimmages. So I really got to like kind
[9:02] Speaker 3: of set the tone for myself, which was really fun.
[9:04] Speaker 3: And the players we had there, the roster was so impressive,
[9:08] Speaker 3: so talented. And we just have fun. And Nashville was
[9:11] Speaker 3: a really cool city. I didn't really know much about
[9:13] Speaker 3: Nashville before we went there, but They really showed up
[9:15] Speaker 3: for us. The environment was nuts. The city really embraced us.
[9:20] Speaker 3: And I got to work on my game. So everyone
[9:22] Speaker 3: thought I was going to come in there and just
[9:23] Speaker 3: jack threes all the time. But I was really getting
[9:26] Speaker 3: to the middie. I was getting to the lane and
[9:28] Speaker 3: running a little bit of points. So it was fun
[9:31] Speaker 3: to experiment a little bit.
[9:32] Speaker 1: And there's some sad news for us. Back in February,
[9:36] Speaker 1: you were traded by the Spark to Seattle Storm. Yeah.
[9:39] Speaker 1: That's the good news for you, but sad for us,
[9:41] Speaker 1: because you're going to be far away. Yeah. You're still close.
[9:43] Speaker 3: Still close.
[9:43] Speaker 1: Alaska airline, two and a half hours.
[9:45] Speaker 3: Yeah, so y'all better get on the plane, Gil.
[9:48] Speaker 1: But you get to reunite. No.
[9:49] Speaker 3: Y'all got to come to Seattle. Obviously, you're going to
[9:52] Speaker 3: be in this game.
[9:53] Speaker 2: I'm just like, yeah, when you come here.
[9:55] Speaker 3: Yeah, but y'all got to have. Yes, but you must
[9:57] Speaker 3: come to Seattle at least one time.
[9:59] Speaker 2: Because, you know, when we sit, we're going to be
[10:00] Speaker 2: right next to you.
[10:02] Speaker 1: Right, because.
[10:02] Speaker 2: That is our section.
[10:03] Speaker 1: Or we're going.
[10:04] Speaker 2: To be on the other side talking shit. It all depends.
[10:07] Speaker 2: We will rock you on it.
[10:09] Speaker 1: If you're cool, we will rock the Lexi T-shirt again. Yes.
[10:11] Speaker 2: If y'all are rolling with it. Or you can just
[10:13] Speaker 2: give us jerseys.
[10:15] Speaker 3: That would be better.
[10:16] Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Traded to the Storm, you get to reunite
[10:20] Speaker 1: with Nneka Ogwumike, who you played with on the Sparks.
[10:23] Speaker 1: Noelle Quinn, my former classmate at UCLA, head coach over there.
[10:26] Speaker 1: What was your reaction to getting traded.
[10:27] Speaker 2: To the Storm?
[10:29] Speaker 3: It was a shock. I had no idea that that
[10:33] Speaker 3: was in the works at all. But for me, I'm
[10:36] Speaker 3: a very self-aware person, so... The Sparks, you know, when
[10:40] Speaker 3: they made that move for Plum, you know, everyone thinks
[10:43] Speaker 3: she's a point guard. She's not a point guard. She's
[10:45] Speaker 3: a two guard, which is what I also am. So, like,
[10:47] Speaker 3: I wasn't naive to the fact that they're bringing in
[10:50] Speaker 3: this superstar at my position, essentially. So when that happened,
[10:54] Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I need to show that I
[10:57] Speaker 3: can play a little bit of the one. Then they
[10:59] Speaker 3: signed a point guard who finished the season with the
[11:01] Speaker 3: Sparks and also was with me in Nashville, Odyssey Sims.
[11:04] Speaker 3: So I was like, dang, maybe I need to start
[11:06] Speaker 3: showing that I can play the three. so I can
[11:08] Speaker 3: be out there all together. So, you know, that's kind
[11:11] Speaker 3: of what jump-started me being more of a shot hunter,
[11:15] Speaker 3: trying to, you know, play a little bit more of
[11:16] Speaker 3: the middie. So, like, you know, if they need to
[11:19] Speaker 3: put all three of us out there, like, I can
[11:20] Speaker 3: play the three, I can guard threes. You know, our
[11:24] Speaker 3: general manager and new coach were in Nashville, kiki-ing it up,
[11:28] Speaker 3: taking pictures on the court with us and all this
[11:30] Speaker 3: kind of stuff. And two weeks later, I get the
[11:33] Speaker 3: call that, they've traded for me, and I was just
[11:35] Speaker 3: kind of like, I was on my way to the game,
[11:37] Speaker 3: so I didn't really have much time to have a
[11:39] Speaker 3: conversation about it. And that was that. And now I'm
[11:43] Speaker 3: on the Seattle Storm, and I'm really excited about it.
[11:45] Speaker 3: But it was definitely a little bit of a blindside,
[11:48] Speaker 3: not going to lie.
[11:48] Speaker 2: Seattle, a great city.
[11:50] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[11:50] Speaker 2: Very, very nice people. It rains a lot.
[11:52] Speaker 3: It rains a lot. But in the summertime, it's nice.
[11:55] Speaker 2: It's a great city.
[11:56] Speaker 3: Beautiful city in the summer. Definitely one of my favorite
[11:58] Speaker 3: places to play, even before... I got to LA, you know,
[12:03] Speaker 3: before I got to LA, I loved playing crypto. And
[12:05] Speaker 3: then my second favorite, Target Center. And then, actually, now
[12:08] Speaker 3: that I think about it, before I got traded to Minnesota,
[12:11] Speaker 3: Target Center was my favorite. Before I got traded to LA,
[12:15] Speaker 3: crypto was my favorite. And then I was like, oh,
[12:17] Speaker 3: I really like it in Climate Pledge. and now I'm
[12:20] Speaker 3: in Seattle.
[12:21] Speaker 2: They support you.
[12:23] Speaker 3: I've been speaking into it, so I'm not talking about
[12:25] Speaker 3: no more arenas, no more.
[12:26] Speaker 2: Yeah, they support you.
[12:28] Speaker 1: Big time.
[12:28] Speaker 3: Some good hands, man. I'm excited, and I have a
[12:31] Speaker 3: practice facility.
[12:33] Speaker 2: Ooh.
[12:35] Speaker 3: I got a whole facility. I kept asking for one,
[12:38] Speaker 3: and there it goes.
[12:39] Speaker 1: And to all the fans in the chat asking.
[12:41] Speaker 2: They say.
[12:43] Speaker 3: You want a facility?
[12:44] Speaker 2: Here.
[12:45] Speaker 1: So all the fans in the chat asking, Lexi is
[12:47] Speaker 1: and still will be a part of Gil's Arena. Trade
[12:50] Speaker 1: or no trade.
[12:51] Speaker 3: I know, I was like, y'all not care?
[12:53] Speaker 2: You can't quit her.
[12:53] Speaker 3: They were like, she's not going to be on the arena?
[12:55] Speaker 3: I'm like, guys, I just got traded.
[12:57] Speaker 2: You only one flight away.
[13:00] Speaker 1: But beauty is, you still got a job.
[13:03] Speaker 3: Facts, exactly.
[13:04] Speaker 1: They want you.
[13:04] Speaker 2: Still got the opportunity to go out there and hoop.
[13:08] Speaker 3: Yeah, and play with a really great team. Lots of veterans.
[13:12] Speaker 3: I went from being one of the oldest, now I'm
[13:14] Speaker 3: back to being younger.
[13:16] Speaker 2: Great fan base.
[13:20] Speaker 1: No, Gil.
[13:21] Speaker 3: No, number eight. I changed numbers.
[13:23] Speaker 1: She changed numbers, you guys.
[13:25] Speaker 2: What number are you?
[13:26] Speaker 1: Eight. Double four.
[13:28] Speaker 2: Double the trouble.
[13:29] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[13:30] Speaker 3: I was like, I haven't really found too much success
[13:33] Speaker 3: with number four in the W. I won a championship
[13:35] Speaker 3: wearing seven, so four is good. Four is gone for WNBA.
[13:42] Speaker 2: Where do we find these games?
[13:44] Speaker 1: What do you mean?
[13:44] Speaker 3: Like, to watch?
[13:46] Speaker 1: The Storm.
[13:47] Speaker 3: To watch?
[13:47] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[13:48] Speaker 3: What do you mean? On TV?
[13:50] Speaker 2: Yeah, which is it? Do I need a Seattle's? Oh,
[13:53] Speaker 2: you don't know yet. All right, just let us know.
[13:55] Speaker 1: I'm new.
[13:55] Speaker 2: Send us the link. Okay. To the YouTube channel. We
[13:59] Speaker 2: will watch them all play back.
[14:00] Speaker 3: I predict... Oh, yes, yes!
[14:02] Speaker 2: What? Playback.
[14:04] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[14:04] Speaker 1: Playback is having WNBA.
[14:05] Speaker 2: Oh, I'm gonna be on it!
[14:06] Speaker 3: I also predict that we gonna... I'm going to say
[14:09] Speaker 3: this positively because I really believe in this team. I
[14:12] Speaker 3: think we'll be on TV a lot.
[14:13] Speaker 2: Okay.
[14:14] Speaker 3: So I'm excited about this game.
[14:16] Speaker 1: Good shit.
[14:17] Speaker 2: Every game, only watching yours.
[14:19] Speaker 1: Playback.tv slash Gilbert Arenas if you'd like to join our
[14:22] Speaker 1: playback watch party. Everybody getting their own stations now, so
[14:25] Speaker 1: it's like.
[14:27] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
[14:28] Speaker 3: Most games are on the app, too. The WNBA app.
[14:32] Speaker 5: There's somebody on YouTube that actually shows everything, so y'all
[14:35] Speaker 5: might want to get that under control.
[14:37] Speaker 3: I remember seeing those people on Instagram Live, Twitter streaming stuff.
[14:41] Speaker 2: Regular, like, damn, this is no flag, nothing, huh?
[14:46] Speaker 3: They're like, we ain't never seen nothing like this before.
[14:50] Speaker 3: They probably got it under control this year, though.
[14:53] Speaker 1: They better. You know we're going to be watching and supporting,
[14:56] Speaker 1: so let's get into it. From NBA basketball, Cavs are
[14:59] Speaker 1: the hottest team in the league this season. Already set
[15:02] Speaker 1: a franchise record for most consecutive wins by starting out 15-0.
[15:06] Speaker 1: And on Tuesday, they had a chance to match that
[15:07] Speaker 1: winning streak with the Nets coming to town. With all-star
[15:10] Speaker 1: guard Donovan Mitchell along with DeAndre Hunter and Ty Jerome
[15:12] Speaker 1: all sidelined, Darius Garland put the team on his back
[15:15] Speaker 1: to keep the streak alive. Let's take a look at
[15:17] Speaker 1: some highlights. Cam Thomas led the Nets with 27 points.
[15:20] Speaker 1: Cam Johnson had 17-5-5. Who, without little D-Lo in the
[15:23] Speaker 1: second half, sitting out with the right ankle injury management.
[15:27] Speaker 1: Cavs were down by as much as 18 points in
[15:29] Speaker 1: the second half, but Garland picked up the slack, scoring
[15:32] Speaker 1: 18 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter. You
[15:35] Speaker 1: see the heave.
[15:35] Speaker 2: I did it.
[15:37] Speaker 1: See the heave, we believe. Like I said, Darius Garland,
[15:40] Speaker 1: 18 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter. Jared
[15:43] Speaker 1: Allen added 23 points, 13 rebounds, three blocks. He was
[15:45] Speaker 1: 7 for 12 from the field. Evan Mobley, 21 nine
[15:48] Speaker 1: boards and six dimes. He was 9 for 13 from
[15:51] Speaker 1: the field. But you see it. Darius Garland doing his thing.
[15:57] Speaker 1: Bringing the Cavs back. Say we don't talk about the
[15:59] Speaker 1: Cavs enough. Well, here you go.
[16:01] Speaker 2: Got him.
[16:03] Speaker 1: Every time.
[16:04] Speaker 5: Old Gary Payton. White chocolate Gary Payton, right? That's that move.
[16:08] Speaker 1: So like I mentioned, this is the Cavs' second 15-game
[16:10] Speaker 1: winning streak this season. Cavs also clinched the Central Division
[16:13] Speaker 1: title for just the eighth time. That's nice. And it's
[16:17] Speaker 1: only the second time the team has done that without
[16:19] Speaker 1: LeBron on the roster.
[16:20] Speaker 3: He's so crafty.
[16:21] Speaker 1: So the win did snap a streak of 14 straight
[16:24] Speaker 1: wins while scoring 110-plus points. which tied the 1986 Celtics
[16:28] Speaker 1: for the longest in NBA history. That Celtics squad went
[16:31] Speaker 1: on to win the chip. Cavs have also had three
[16:34] Speaker 1: 12-game winning streaks this season. Top team in the league
[16:36] Speaker 1: with a record of 55-10, including 30-4 record at home.
[16:41] Speaker 1: Have the top-rated offense in the league, seventh-rated defense. Is
[16:45] Speaker 1: it time to start putting some respect on the Cavs' name?
[16:49] Speaker 2: Yes.
[16:49] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[16:50] Speaker 2: Yes. You said that begrudgingly, Brandon Lane.
[16:53] Speaker 6: No, because, I mean, what I say, Donovan Mitchell wasn't
[16:56] Speaker 6: the number one option on the championship team, and he's
[16:58] Speaker 6: proven it. He watched the show. The team is well
[17:02] Speaker 6: put together. Darius Garland, he's playing crazy. You know, Donovan Mitchell,
[17:07] Speaker 6: he might not be having the numbers like an MVP,
[17:10] Speaker 6: but his leadership and the way he got his team
[17:12] Speaker 6: behind him, I mean, they're for real. If I'm the
[17:16] Speaker 6: Bucs or whoever got to see the Cavs in the finals,
[17:19] Speaker 6: you should.
[17:20] Speaker 1: Be a little worried because they're for real.
[17:25] Speaker 3: When y'all had y'all's point guard combo, did anybody mention
[17:29] Speaker 3: Garland as the top point guard in the league right now?
[17:33] Speaker 3: Is that what the list was right now?
[17:34] Speaker 2: Active players at this moment?
[17:37] Speaker 3: I mean, I would put him in that conversation. He's been, like,
[17:41] Speaker 3: quietly just leading that team. And, yeah, I agree with Brandon.
[17:46] Speaker 3: They all don't have, like, these crazy numbers like some
[17:49] Speaker 3: of the other guys that get a lot of the attention.
[17:52] Speaker 3: But they've been so consistent. The entire season, two 15-game
[17:55] Speaker 3: winning streaks is like, I don't think people really understand
[17:58] Speaker 3: how hard that is to do in the NBA. So
[18:01] Speaker 3: they've just been really impressed.
[18:01] Speaker 6: And also in the beginning, they tried to break them
[18:03] Speaker 6: two up in the beginning. Remember the season they were
[18:05] Speaker 6: trying to say it was issues between Garvin and Donovan Mitchell.
[18:09] Speaker 1: Actually, it wasn't. Even last season saying it was going
[18:11] Speaker 1: to be one or the other. Yeah, they were trying
[18:13] Speaker 1: to do if it was one or the other.
[18:14] Speaker 3: They tried to do.
[18:15] Speaker 1: It to us, too. It was a little Boston. It
[18:18] Speaker 1: was a little Boston trying to.
[18:19] Speaker 3: They tried it.
[18:20] Speaker 1: That's how they were playing. Yeah, they tried it, but. No, I.
[18:24] Speaker 1: You know what's so funny?
[18:24] Speaker 2: It's the old Cavs.
[18:30] Speaker 1: Play. You remember when Kyrie was in his own, getting
[18:33] Speaker 1: his own, then LeBron came. Okay.
[18:35] Speaker 2: That's what happened here, too.
[18:37] Speaker 3: Oh, with Donovan?
[18:38] Speaker 1: Garland was... Oh, Garland.
[18:39] Speaker 5: Garland got his MVP. I mean, got his all-star. And
[18:43] Speaker 5: then Donovan comes, and it kind of stunts him, right?
[18:47] Speaker 5: So he's done a good job of still.
[18:50] Speaker 2: Showing that he still, you know, can.
[18:53] Speaker 5: put up numbers, and it really, like, stands out when
[18:57] Speaker 5: you see.
[18:59] Speaker 2: Donovan out and then he leads, and then you're like, oh, shit.
[19:04] Speaker 3: He's like that.
[19:05] Speaker 5: Like that, you know what I mean? And then when
[19:07] Speaker 5: he's out, Donovan is... So I think if they're going
[19:10] Speaker 5: to actually compete for a championship and actually try to
[19:15] Speaker 5: get it, they're going to both have to be dominant
[19:18] Speaker 5: at the same time. they're not going to be able
[19:20] Speaker 5: to have a backseat and then rely on Mobley.
[19:23] Speaker 2: Or Allen to actually take them over the top.
[19:25] Speaker 5: It's going to have to be them two doing majority
[19:28] Speaker 5: of the damage and let the other two get in
[19:31] Speaker 5: where they fit in.
[19:32] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the offense that they're running now.
[19:33] Speaker 2: Like, J.B. is a good coach, but his offense is
[19:38] Speaker 2: set up for one dominant ball. Kenny Axson comes in
[19:43] Speaker 2: and coming from Golden State, what they're running, it's... We got...
[19:48] Speaker 2: We know who that guy is, but the other guy
[19:50] Speaker 2: guy eat as well because the ball moves enough. So,
[19:53] Speaker 2: to your point, yes. Like, they both gonna have to
[19:56] Speaker 2: be who they are, which is what Steph and Clay
[19:59] Speaker 2: was at one point, right? And then you had KD
[20:02] Speaker 2: to that, and there's Steph and KD. The ball's still moving,
[20:05] Speaker 2: but the other guy's still eating as well while those
[20:07] Speaker 2: guys are still averaging what they need to in order
[20:11] Speaker 2: to get us over the top. So that's what this is.
[20:14] Speaker 2: The ball is moving. It ain't sticking. They believe in
[20:16] Speaker 2: the past now. And winning is contagious. Do I believe
[20:23] Speaker 2: in them? Don't know yet. It's the regular season. They
[20:30] Speaker 2: playing very, very good basketball right now, not taking nothing
[20:33] Speaker 2: from them. Let me see them get out the first
[20:37] Speaker 2: round like I keep saying, right?
[20:38] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
[20:39] Speaker 2: Get out the first round. Let me see how it
[20:40] Speaker 2: looks in the first round. You can get out the
[20:42] Speaker 2: first round, and if you go seven with an eight seed,
[20:44] Speaker 2: then it's like, oh, right? You go out there and
[20:49] Speaker 2: you do what you're supposed to, how it looks right now,
[20:50] Speaker 2: which is be dominant, and you sweep them, or you
[20:52] Speaker 2: go 4-1, then we start talking, right? Because last year,
[20:57] Speaker 2: that same team, I got to say, granted, a different coach,
[20:59] Speaker 2: but you only won, you won your series last year,
[21:02] Speaker 2: but You won seven games. You won seven games. Yep.
[21:05] Speaker 2: With a very, very, very, very, very young Orlando team. So... Shit, nigga,
[21:11] Speaker 2: play them a game.
[21:12] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
[21:14] Speaker 2: So right now, seven through ten in the East is
[21:17] Speaker 2: Hawks at seven, Magic eight. Heat nine Bulls. So it
[21:20] Speaker 2: could be another matchup, right?
[21:21] Speaker 1: Another matchup.
[21:21] Speaker 3: Orlando doesn't look like they looked last year.
[21:23] Speaker 2: I think the Cavs got that year under their arm.
[21:24] Speaker 3: Orlando doesn't look like.
[21:25] Speaker 1: They looked last year.
[21:26] Speaker 6: I think from last year. I think they learned a
[21:28] Speaker 6: lot from last year. No, they've learned a lot.
[21:29] Speaker 3: They've gotten a lot better.
[21:31] Speaker 5: They've gotten better, but if you're Orlando, and if you're
[21:35] Speaker 5: the coach of Orlando.
[21:38] Speaker 2: You don't fear. You want to play. I want to
[21:40] Speaker 2: play them.
[21:41] Speaker 5: It's the idea of they never won on this home
[21:44] Speaker 5: floor in the playoffs.
[21:46] Speaker 2: All we got to do is just steal a game there.
[21:48] Speaker 1: So as hype as they are, Orlando's just as hype.
[21:51] Speaker 1: And when you're going in the playoffs, man, it's really
[21:53] Speaker 1: just about believing.
[21:54] Speaker 2: And Orlando been injured most of the year. They missed
[21:56] Speaker 2: their best two players for most of the year. Paolo
[21:59] Speaker 2: was out significant times.
[22:00] Speaker 1: And Franz was out. And then....
[22:05] Speaker 2: I want to play them.
[22:06] Speaker 5: If I'm Orlando, I want to play Cleveland. You remember
[22:10] Speaker 5: Golden State against Dallas, right? The reason Golden State won
[22:16] Speaker 5: is they already knew they can beat them. Dallas already
[22:20] Speaker 5: was thinking, oh, shit, we got to play them. One
[22:23] Speaker 5: versus eight, you know what I mean?
[22:24] Speaker 2: It's matchups.
[22:25] Speaker 5: Once someone has a little energy, them little five, six,
[22:30] Speaker 5: seven shots in a row don't phase them.
[22:32] Speaker 2: Don't even worry about none of that.
[22:33] Speaker 1: We got this.
[22:34] Speaker 5: Like, in the playoffs, like, you know, you got somebody
[22:36] Speaker 5: who really believe he can beat you, he going to
[22:40] Speaker 5: fight you all the way to the end.
[22:41] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[22:42] Speaker 2: Right?
[22:43] Speaker 1: Versus a team that we've been spanking them all year.
[22:45] Speaker 2: They come into the shit like, I heard four games, man.
[22:48] Speaker 2: We up out of here.
[22:50] Speaker 1: Right?
[22:50] Speaker 5: You can see that in the playoff series, man, on
[22:52] Speaker 5: how the body language. You know if a team is
[22:55] Speaker 5: going to just stay fighting or versus, like, let's hurry
[22:58] Speaker 5: up and get, like, a quick little 10-0 on them,
[23:00] Speaker 5: and then they done.
[23:01] Speaker 1: Game over. So we asked the chat, did the Cavs
[23:04] Speaker 1: deserve more respect? 84% said yes. As we know, last season,
[23:08] Speaker 1: Cavs beat the Magic in the first round, took on
[23:11] Speaker 1: the Celtics in the conference semis, got the gentlemen's sweep.
[23:15] Speaker 1: Do you believe this Cavs squad has enough to dethrone
[23:17] Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics in the East?
[23:20] Speaker 5: I think they have enough. I think whatever, I think
[23:23] Speaker 5: they have all the pieces they need.
[23:26] Speaker 1: It's just.
[23:28] Speaker 5: will it all click at the same time? Will everybody
[23:30] Speaker 5: be on the same page and understanding that, you know,
[23:33] Speaker 5: there's going to be games where Donovan Mitchell has to
[23:36] Speaker 5: take over. There's going to be games where, you know,
[23:38] Speaker 5: the matchup is Garland has to take over.
[23:40] Speaker 1: The bigs are going to have to take over. Like,
[23:42] Speaker 1: it's round by round. It's, you know, there's sacrifices. Yeah,
[23:46] Speaker 1: depending on the plan.
[23:46] Speaker 2: There's sacrifices they're going to be making. Are you going
[23:49] Speaker 2: to be smart enough to make it? How does that
[23:50] Speaker 2: matchup look? Like, with them, like, who guards who?
[23:53] Speaker 6: Like, who does Donovan Mitchell guard?
[23:55] Speaker 2: And when?
[23:57] Speaker 6: They match up. Like, what's the matchup? Like, who's guarding
[24:01] Speaker 6: Darius Garland?
[24:02] Speaker 8: Drew.
[24:02] Speaker 1: It'll be Drew and, yeah, it'll be the, you know,
[24:04] Speaker 1: they're small guards. It's going to be the guards.
[24:05] Speaker 2: Derek White out there, you put them on. Derek White
[24:08] Speaker 2: and Drew Holiday are out there.
[24:09] Speaker 1: Okay.
[24:10] Speaker 2: I ain't saying they're bad players, but that's their matchups.
[24:12] Speaker 6: And then probably Jalen Brown, when they get him to, like,
[24:15] Speaker 6: the fourth, get Donovan.
[24:17] Speaker 2: It's... I mean, Cavs are going to have to play chess.
[24:19] Speaker 1: Then you have an advantage, right? Yeah.
[24:21] Speaker 2: Then Jalen Brown has to guard Evan Mobley. Tatum can't
[24:27] Speaker 2: guard him.
[24:28] Speaker 5: That's the only problem with the Cavs team is there's
[24:34] Speaker 5: no defender neutralizer that's going to neutralize Tatum and Brown
[24:41] Speaker 5: on their side or going to actually make them work.
[24:45] Speaker 2: And that's going to be the only problem.
[24:47] Speaker 1: Right?
[24:48] Speaker 2: You're talking about seven series. Like, you know, A.
[24:51] Speaker 5: Brown, you guys, just pick the motherfuckers up full court,
[24:53] Speaker 5: run them, turn them, run them, turn them, run them,
[24:55] Speaker 5: turn them.
[24:56] Speaker 1: And then game six, seven, you know, these guys are
[24:59] Speaker 1: so beat up that, you know.
[25:01] Speaker 2: That's what they're going to do.
[25:02] Speaker 1: They got pieces.
[25:03] Speaker 2: They got a big... Yeah, they got... Oh, but then
[25:05] Speaker 2: DeAndre Hunter.
[25:06] Speaker 1: Hunter. This is a series.
[25:08] Speaker 2: He's going to start.
[25:09] Speaker 3: He's going to have to start.
[25:10] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's... He's going to have to start.
[25:11] Speaker 3: That's changed a lot.
[25:12] Speaker 2: DeAndre Hunter. He doesn't... He's going to have to start.
[25:15] Speaker 2: If they play Boston, he's going to have to start.
[25:17] Speaker 2: I'm not even going to play around... No, I ain't
[25:19] Speaker 2: fucking around.
[25:20] Speaker 1: Not at all.
[25:20] Speaker 2: Not in a playoff series.
[25:22] Speaker 5: I need someone who's going to challenge them offensively.
[25:24] Speaker 1: Yes.
[25:25] Speaker 2: They got to guard it. Okay. Versus, like, just sitting there, like.
[25:29] Speaker 3: Who are you taking? Allen is coming up?
[25:31] Speaker 1: Whoever the three is.
[25:33] Speaker 2: Whoever that three is. Was it Dean? Was it Wade?
[25:37] Speaker 2: Or whatever the other kid. Or Cora, whoever. I'm taking
[25:39] Speaker 2: whoever that three man is. Who y'all starting at the three, Chuck? Yeah,
[25:44] Speaker 2: he got to go.
[25:45] Speaker 5: Yeah, Max going to have to come off the bench.
[25:47] Speaker 5: Max going to have to come off the bench. He's
[25:49] Speaker 5: going to match up with Pritchard.
[25:52] Speaker 2: He's still a shooter. Match up with Pritchard. He's a shooter, right?
[25:54] Speaker 2: Which is fine, too.
[25:56] Speaker 1: Which is fine.
[25:57] Speaker 2: But that makes it better.
[25:58] Speaker 5: Like, I just need, like, when you're talking about playoffs,
[26:01] Speaker 5: the one thing you don't want is you don't want
[26:04] Speaker 5: their best player not doing nothing on defense.
[26:08] Speaker 1: Okay. Right? I mean, he just, hey, get him, get him,
[26:13] Speaker 1: and then he got 100%. energy on offense.
[26:15] Speaker 2: Yeah, we used to put J. Kidd on whoever else
[26:18] Speaker 2: and let Carey guard the dominant and, hey, he helping off.
[26:23] Speaker 2: But even with him, he can be guarding Gil.
[26:26] Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
[26:27] Speaker 2: Why are you down here digging in the post, man? Like,
[26:30] Speaker 2: go guard him. But no, but you need that. So
[26:34] Speaker 2: the way Drew Holiday plays out there, right? Motherfucker everywhere.
[26:37] Speaker 1: Yep.
[26:38] Speaker 2: No matter who he guard.
[26:39] Speaker 1: And I mean, what's so funny is that'd be my
[26:41] Speaker 1: game plan.
[26:42] Speaker 2: My game plan is I will run.
[26:44] Speaker 5: Plays that forces Drew Holiday to play his man.
[26:49] Speaker 1: Right?
[26:50] Speaker 5: So I was, like, it's going to be, as soon
[26:52] Speaker 5: as we dump it in, double screen off for what's
[26:54] Speaker 5: his man to come off, like, make him move because he's.
[26:57] Speaker 2: A neck guy.
[26:57] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[26:58] Speaker 2: He don't, it's like, he don't care. No, they playing
[27:01] Speaker 2: Utah the other day.
[27:01] Speaker 1: They playing Cajun. He guarding the five. Yeah.
[27:04] Speaker 2: He was guarding the five, man. So he could do it.
[27:06] Speaker 1: Just be everywhere.
[27:08] Speaker 2: I'm like, this shit is crazy. Like, I'm like, why
[27:09] Speaker 2: is Drew down? When they threw it to him in
[27:11] Speaker 2: the post, I'm like, what? In the next possession, I'm like, oh,
[27:13] Speaker 2: he fucking guarded it.
[27:14] Speaker 1: Right?
[27:15] Speaker 2: So he wrong. He doing shit like he just mucking
[27:17] Speaker 2: everything up. Just fucking their whole game playing up. Because
[27:19] Speaker 2: he's just in the middle, in the way. Just in
[27:21] Speaker 2: the middle, in the way. Like, that's what I said.
[27:23] Speaker 5: Like, when you're talking about guys like that, like, no one,
[27:27] Speaker 5: no one values a guy who prevents.
[27:32] Speaker 2: Plays from being ran.
[27:33] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Or stop him. You know what I mean?
[27:36] Speaker 5: Like, so you got a muck guy who's very great
[27:38] Speaker 5: at netting stuff.
[27:40] Speaker 2: You got the on-ball. Yeah, you're good on-ball.
[27:42] Speaker 5: But that net guy, the net guy is the one
[27:45] Speaker 5: who stops me from driving.
[27:47] Speaker 1: Right.
[27:47] Speaker 2: Right? Like, I'm not worried about this guy.
[27:49] Speaker 1: He's handicapped to rules, right? Like, principle.
[27:53] Speaker 5: Like, if I get below the free throw line, he
[27:57] Speaker 5: has to.
[27:59] Speaker 1: Push me baseline because that's where all... So I'm just
[28:02] Speaker 1: going to sit here, wait till that help guy go.
[28:04] Speaker 1: Once the help guy go, I'm going to take off
[28:06] Speaker 1: because that net guy ain't paying attention to none of that.
[28:08] Speaker 5: He's just sitting there roaming, searching, and those guys is like,
[28:13] Speaker 5: God damn, I got to pass the ball.
[28:14] Speaker 2: If we used to play Houston, I got Chuck Hayes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[28:20] Speaker 1: What?
[28:21] Speaker 2: No, dead ass. Dead fucking, dead serious. Hey, today is
[28:24] Speaker 2: my day to, whoo, I'm going to guard the ball today, y'all. Hey,
[28:28] Speaker 2: get to sit back in this business and play traffic
[28:30] Speaker 2: cop today.
[28:32] Speaker 1: People don't know, that is the worst player on the.
[28:36] Speaker 2: Trash the cop. Yes, that's the worst. That's the one
[28:38] Speaker 2: who's stopping all, like.
[28:40] Speaker 1: Yes.
[28:41] Speaker 2: Think about Luka. When Luka, when they.
[28:43] Speaker 5: Did, like, go back to the clips, go back to
[28:46] Speaker 5: the clips, when they put that thing out.
[28:47] Speaker 2: Luka played great defense, right?
[28:49] Speaker 1: Yes. Now, look at Luka's defense individually, then look.
[28:52] Speaker 2: At the goddamn wall they back there.
[28:54] Speaker 1: Motherfuckers just sitting there just.
[28:56] Speaker 2: It's like Luka.
[28:57] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
[28:58] Speaker 2: It's important.
[28:59] Speaker 3: It's a strategy.
[29:00] Speaker 2: Damn, trying to run a pick and roll. Like, no,
[29:02] Speaker 2: you go there. Hey, look, I'll tell you. Hey, nope, corner.
[29:06] Speaker 1: Corner. You hit.
[29:07] Speaker 2: I sit back there. You, man, no, we ain't running
[29:10] Speaker 2: them no more.
[29:11] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Mr. Bean, I appreciated your guys' traffic copying. I
[29:14] Speaker 1: don't know what you got there. Nah, that shit was.
[29:17] Speaker 2: I can see it came on. Hold on, nigga. Stay
[29:21] Speaker 2: over there.
[29:21] Speaker 1: Back door. Back door. Now, he used to say, the
[29:23] Speaker 1: back door, don't deny. Come on. I got him. Yep. Reverse.
[29:28] Speaker 2: Post up.
[29:29] Speaker 1: Front him.
[29:29] Speaker 2: I got him. I'm like, god damn, man.
[29:32] Speaker 1: Hey, shit.
[29:33] Speaker 2: Why we running a place he knows?
[29:34] Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Shit.
[29:35] Speaker 3: So, when he was watching it.
[29:40] Speaker 2: So Eddie Jordan was assisting with us in Jersey. Then
[29:42] Speaker 2: he went there putting the same fucking offense.
[29:45] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[29:46] Speaker 2: No, Eddie, not tonight. Them other 78 games that y'all
[29:50] Speaker 2: gonna play, you can run them plays. But these four,
[29:55] Speaker 2: you ain't gonna be able to run.
[29:56] Speaker 1: None of that shit. Deny him.
[30:00] Speaker 1: Let him catch it, right? Let him catch it. Back up.
[30:04] Speaker 1: I wish Brent Haywood would flash up to the elbow.
[30:06] Speaker 2: They running.
[30:07] Speaker 1: Man, back up. Let him catch it.
[30:10] Speaker 2: Let him catch it.
[30:11] Speaker 1: Seriously, I'm telling you, let him catch it. Back up.
[30:14] Speaker 1: They cutting through. They trying to throw the ball there.
[30:16] Speaker 2: Don't let it go. Make him shoot it. He not
[30:18] Speaker 2: going to shoot the jump shot. Now they at motherfucking
[30:22] Speaker 2: like six.
[30:22] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[30:27] Speaker 2: Especially when you're just learning it.
[30:28] Speaker 1: Yes.
[30:29] Speaker 2: Oh, it's bad. Now you're supposed to go all the
[30:31] Speaker 2: way through. Yes, you're telling. Yes. Yo, oh, that part.
[30:36] Speaker 1: Right?
[30:37] Speaker 3: Horrible.
[30:38] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[30:38] Speaker 2: Hey, you know you're on the.
[30:40] Speaker 1: Wrong side, right? Yep.
[30:42] Speaker 2: You know you're on the wrong side.
[30:43] Speaker 1: I'm kidding, Dad. I'm on the wrong side.
[30:44] Speaker 2: He didn't ran chin and ran through the wrong side. Hey,
[30:47] Speaker 2: you know you're on the wrong side, right? Now you
[30:50] Speaker 2: didn't fuck the whole play up.
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[32:19] Speaker 2: Kneecap. You know what I mean? Little elbows right out here.
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[32:48] Speaker 3: Oh, like that.
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[32:53] Speaker 1: One more thing to talk about with the Cavs. After
[32:55] Speaker 1: the game, Cavs first-rounder Jalen Tyson had to learn a
[32:58] Speaker 1: hard lesson after coming up short on one of his
[33:00] Speaker 1: rookie responsibilities. Donovan Mitchell shared the punishment on his IG
[33:03] Speaker 1: story after Tyson forgot to get donuts for the squad.
[33:11] Speaker 2: Take that wall. Take that wall.
[33:17] Speaker 1: Take that wall.
[33:17] Speaker 2: What side you are opening up? Take that wall.
[33:20] Speaker 1: Next time, yeah. Oh, hell no.
[33:35] Speaker 2: That's good, too.
[33:41] Speaker 1: That smell good, too. I'm hoping that my popcorn was
[33:44] Speaker 1: not buttered. That'll add a whole another layer. I'm playing
[33:48] Speaker 1: the king. I see you shaking your head.
[33:50] Speaker 3: Y'all have done that to somebody?
[33:52] Speaker 1: No, somebody did it to me and I almost died.
[33:54] Speaker 1: Somebody did it to you almost? Yeah, I almost lost
[33:56] Speaker 1: his life. No, he almost did it. No, J.R. Smith. Insane.
[34:01] Speaker 3: How did you clean it out?
[34:04] Speaker 2: No, I didn't.
[34:05] Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait.
[34:05] Speaker 2: I didn't fucking clean shit out.
[34:07] Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. You had to, like, bring it in.
[34:08] Speaker 2: He wasn't a rookie. Yeah.
[34:10] Speaker 3: No.
[34:10] Speaker 1: Yeah, so why....
[34:13] Speaker 3: Oh, that wasn't a rookie thing? He was just being
[34:15] Speaker 3: an asshole?
[34:15] Speaker 2: No, that was the whole.
[34:17] Speaker 6: No, that's a rookie thing that they did, but he
[34:19] Speaker 6: wasn't a rookie, wasn't he?
[34:20] Speaker 2: Come fix this.
[34:21] Speaker 1: Mike came off, came off. We can still hear you.
[34:23] Speaker 2: Yeah, no, but no, it was April Fool's shit, right?
[34:27] Speaker 1: Mm. No.
[34:28] Speaker 3: Ain't shit funny.
[34:29] Speaker 1: This is what April Fool's do. No, no, no. Let
[34:30] Speaker 1: me tell you now. So, John, I told a story before.
[34:35] Speaker 2: So, April Fool's. Certain guys, we know who smoke on
[34:43] Speaker 2: the team, we know who don't, right? I come in
[34:46] Speaker 2: there one day, I put names on the board. I
[34:49] Speaker 2: tell the trainer, put names on the board. I put
[34:53] Speaker 2: my name on there as well. Put two guys' name
[34:55] Speaker 2: on the board, right?
[34:56] Speaker 1: That's stinky.
[34:57] Speaker 2: Come to shoot around, niggas like, oh, shit, today.
[35:00] Speaker 1: Today, boy, this is going to be.
[35:03] Speaker 2: They ain't nothing, motherfucker. Gatorade water, Gatorade water, Gatorade water. So,
[35:07] Speaker 2: you know, you try to piss and go home and
[35:09] Speaker 2: do it. They come out to shoot around. We come
[35:11] Speaker 2: out to shoot around, ain't no name. April Fool's on
[35:14] Speaker 2: the board, right? That's the April Fool's. Ha-ha, ki-ki, no harm,
[35:18] Speaker 2: no foul. Right? We got a game that evening. I'm
[35:23] Speaker 2: not playing today. I got in the suit, whatever, put
[35:26] Speaker 2: my car key, locker. Game over. Hop, bring it in, nugget.
[35:32] Speaker 2: I'm first one out the door, because I ain't playing.
[35:35] Speaker 2: I hit my alarm.
[35:36] Speaker 1: You know, I'm diligent.
[35:39] Speaker 2: My car don't unlock. I open the door. Popcorn just
[35:46] Speaker 2: spill out my Range Rover. Not in the Range Rover, kid.
[35:49] Speaker 2: I left the door open. Turn around, right back. Damn,
[35:54] Speaker 2: they're doing media and shit. Media in the locker room now. Yeah,
[35:57] Speaker 2: I'm going to go back in the locker room. Oh,
[35:59] Speaker 2: there's a video of it.
[36:00] Speaker 1: Look it up.
[36:01] Speaker 2: Oh, there's audio of it. No, there's audio of me listening.
[36:05] Speaker 2: Who the fuck had access to the locker room? There's
[36:07] Speaker 2: a camera right outside the locker room door. Y'all got
[36:11] Speaker 2: a certain amount of time. Who the fuck took my
[36:14] Speaker 2: key out of my locker? Who was in the locker
[36:16] Speaker 2: room during the game? You got a certain amount of
[36:19] Speaker 2: time on my way home.
[36:23] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[36:26] Speaker 2: By the time I get home, I'm 10 minutes. They
[36:30] Speaker 2: done reviewed the tape. We know who's in the locker room.
[36:36] Speaker 2: We talked to him. This is what happened, da-da-da. So
[36:40] Speaker 2: JR done put the little ball boy that used to
[36:42] Speaker 2: run around with him up to it. So now, all right,
[36:47] Speaker 2: what's JR's address?
[36:52] Speaker 1: Deadass, bruh. What's his address? Was the popcorn out of
[36:56] Speaker 1: the car? I left the car there, nigga.
[36:59] Speaker 2: I don't know. Wasn't my only car. Like I said,
[37:03] Speaker 2: I left the car there. Went to my.
[37:11] Speaker 2: Hey, what's his address? What's his fucking address, man? What's
[37:17] Speaker 2: his address? Can you not... They called everybody, Agent, my
[37:23] Speaker 2: partner who met Molly, who was with us in San Francisco,
[37:26] Speaker 2: because he lived in my building. Molly used to work
[37:27] Speaker 2: for the team, everybody knew him. Can you please don't
[37:32] Speaker 2: do this, don't, please, because I had not listened up.
[37:36] Speaker 2: There's no, I'm done. Yeah. Did he say it was
[37:39] Speaker 2: April Fools? I don't give a fuck.
[37:41] Speaker 3: Wait, so, obviously you were mad about the popcorn, but
[37:45] Speaker 3: were you, like, more mad that someone, like, invaded your space?
[37:47] Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[37:49] Speaker 2: It's more of that. And you had somebody else do it.
[37:53] Speaker 1: And, yeah.
[37:54] Speaker 2: The thing, and everybody was just like, why him?
[37:59] Speaker 9: Right?
[38:00] Speaker 2: Everybody in the organization was like, why him? You know
[38:03] Speaker 2: where this is going to go. Like, you know where
[38:06] Speaker 2: this is going to go. But it took everything, like, they, yeah, they, yeah. No,
[38:12] Speaker 2: they took, yeah, they had to get my whole, they
[38:14] Speaker 2: reupholstered my whole car.
[38:16] Speaker 1: Took it out of his check. Like, yeah.
[38:19] Speaker 2: Damn.
[38:20] Speaker 1: The gentleman from Oak Cliff. Yeah, I told the.
[38:22] Speaker 2: Ball boy, listen, I told him to tell, listen, he's
[38:25] Speaker 2: not allowed back in the Pepsi Center.
[38:28] Speaker 1: The ball boy?
[38:29] Speaker 2: He's not allowed back in the building.
[38:31] Speaker 1: You there, or.
[38:33] Speaker 2: If I'm... I don't... He's not allowed back in the building.
[38:35] Speaker 2: I told him, if you see me around Denver, Colorado, nigga,
[38:38] Speaker 2: you go the other way.
[38:39] Speaker 1: You leave.
[38:41] Speaker 2: Because I told... They begged me not to do nothing
[38:44] Speaker 2: to JR. You fucking listen. Mm-hmm. Fair.
[38:50] Speaker 1: Aw, poor kid.
[38:52] Speaker 2: They asked me... They told me, like, I can't... They
[38:54] Speaker 2: still got to work with him. They asked me, please.
[38:57] Speaker 2: Because I was going to do something harmful to JR.
[38:59] Speaker 1: I ain't going to even hold you, bro. For popcorn?
[39:03] Speaker 2: Something I paid my money for? See, I couldn't have
[39:06] Speaker 2: been on your team.
[39:07] Speaker 1: I would have hurt you, dog.
[39:09] Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
[39:10] Speaker 1: It's something I paid my money for.
[39:12] Speaker 3: What year was this for you?
[39:13] Speaker 2: Five, six, seven, eight. That's crazy.
[39:19] Speaker 3: That's a crazy thing to do to a player yourself.
[39:23] Speaker 2: No, it was, it took Molly, it took my mom
[39:26] Speaker 2: and my agent, my assistant. It took everybody to talk me.
[39:33] Speaker 1: Off of this ledge I was on, bro.
[39:35] Speaker 2: No, I ain't going to.
[39:37] Speaker 1: That's crazy. Hey, man. Hey, Carolyn.
[39:39] Speaker 2: The thing we talked about with Kenya's car. Hey, white
[39:42] Speaker 2: Range Rover, light-colored interior. So this is like....
[39:50] Speaker 3: Wait, so you eventually saw J.R. at some point?
[39:52] Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't say nothing to him about it.
[39:55] Speaker 1: No, you just let it go.
[39:56] Speaker 2: I had to. Because you.
[40:00] Speaker 2: Then.
[40:01] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[40:02] Speaker 2: This is.
[40:05] Speaker 2: You say the wrong thing other than what I'm expecting
[40:09] Speaker 2: you to say. It's a whole situation now, right? Then
[40:14] Speaker 2: what I was going to do is going to... I
[40:18] Speaker 2: had no thought process then. You said then? Yeah, I
[40:22] Speaker 2: do now.
[40:23] Speaker 1: I think now. It does.
[40:24] Speaker 2: No, I think now. I think before I act now. Then,
[40:29] Speaker 2: I didn't think before I acted. I just acted, and
[40:31] Speaker 2: I dealt with the consequences. Whatever it was going to be,
[40:34] Speaker 2: I dealt with. That's what it was with me. I
[40:37] Speaker 2: didn't think like... That's why I said people with the
[40:39] Speaker 2: suspensions and the fines and all that shit with the league,
[40:42] Speaker 2: it didn't matter to me. The money was.
[40:46] Speaker 1: Yes, but.
[40:47] Speaker 2: My respect and what people was going to go a
[40:49] Speaker 2: lot further than that fine or that suspension, right? That's
[40:53] Speaker 2: just what it was with me. I deal with the
[40:56] Speaker 2: three games. I deal with this, right? That's just what
[41:00] Speaker 2: it is with me. And I would have dealt with it.
[41:01] Speaker 2: Whatever would have came with it, I would have dealt
[41:03] Speaker 2: with it, bro.
[41:04] Speaker 1: Dead ass. So, question for the rest of the couch.
[41:07] Speaker 1: What's the best prank Ricky hazing that you saw when
[41:09] Speaker 1: you were in the league? I already know you did
[41:11] Speaker 1: a bunch of wild wrestlers.
[41:12] Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't participated in it on either side of it,
[41:14] Speaker 2: so it don't... Didn't do that shit as a rookie,
[41:18] Speaker 2: and I didn't do it as a rookie, and I
[41:20] Speaker 2: didn't do it to nobody else, so.
[41:24] Speaker 1: He got you. Mine was.
[41:27] Speaker 2: But as a rookie, I didn't do it. I didn't
[41:28] Speaker 2: fuck with nobody. Didn't nobody make me do nothing, like
[41:31] Speaker 2: go get donuts. Yeah, you was the number one pick.
[41:34] Speaker 2: They got you donuts, I would imagine. No, I didn't
[41:36] Speaker 2: want nothing, but you wasn't going to make me do shit.
[41:39] Speaker 2: You wasn't going to make me do a motherfucking thing.
[41:42] Speaker 2: How many years you had in the league? We was
[41:45] Speaker 2: going to fight. 22-year-old me? Man, please. Boy, you, man,
[41:52] Speaker 2: I'm fighting you hard as a motherfucker at 22 years old.
[41:55] Speaker 1: Coming out of Cincinnati, all.
[41:56] Speaker 2: Them weights I just got done lifting at Cincinnati, man,
[41:58] Speaker 2: I would have fought you hard as shit at 22
[42:00] Speaker 2: years old. Hell, I had to call SWAT.
[42:07] Speaker 1: Popcorn?
[42:08] Speaker 2: No, you was hell, though. I bet you was, yeah.
[42:10] Speaker 2: My best was cool, though.
[42:11] Speaker 1: I had.
[42:12] Speaker 2: Yeah, whore. No, they fucked with him as a rookie.
[42:14] Speaker 2: You gonna have some popcorn?
[42:15] Speaker 3: Are you triggered?
[42:17] Speaker 2: Like, they not.
[42:18] Speaker 3: I want some popcorn.
[42:19] Speaker 2: They fucked with him as a rookie because the shit he.
[42:21] Speaker 1: Was doing properly. Yeah. Yeah, I was.
[42:26] Speaker 2: I was doing some minutes as a rookie.
[42:29] Speaker 1: And they was kicking your ass. I ain't gonna fuck
[42:31] Speaker 1: about that pain. I wasn't playing. My best was cool.
[42:36] Speaker 6: I had Jerry Stackhouse, Kurt Thomas, Andrew Bogut... I think
[42:40] Speaker 6: I came late. I had to get the newspaper from
[42:43] Speaker 6: Michael Redd every.
[42:44] Speaker 1: Morning, and I had to get the donuts.
[42:45] Speaker 2: You should like that, bro.
[42:47] Speaker 3: Practice loops to hotel rooms.
[42:50] Speaker 6: Yeah, and then I think I came late one time,
[42:53] Speaker 6: and then they kicked.
[42:54] Speaker 1: All the balls in the stands. You have to go
[42:56] Speaker 1: get the balls.
[42:56] Speaker 2: You in to go get them? Yeah, I had to.
[42:59] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
[43:00] Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to.
[43:01] Speaker 2: It was me and Jody Meeks, because we came late. Yeah,
[43:05] Speaker 2: we came late to shoot around.
[43:06] Speaker 3: Dang, I think we did that, too.
[43:07] Speaker 1: Also, no, there's no B giving his resemblance to Conor.
[43:10] Speaker 1: I wish, I wish, I wish.
[43:12] Speaker 2: Yeah, they used to kick the ball. Right, so then, right,
[43:15] Speaker 2: so they did it to us, right?
[43:16] Speaker 6: So then the next year, you know, the rookie's coming in,
[43:18] Speaker 6: we trying to do it, right?
[43:19] Speaker 2: We're going to do it to them. I think it was,
[43:21] Speaker 2: we was in Denver.
[43:22] Speaker 6: We was in Denver, and we kicked the balls up
[43:25] Speaker 6: in the stands in Denver. You know, Denver is fucking,
[43:27] Speaker 6: you know, big, and then we got in trouble for it.
[43:29] Speaker 6: And they were like, we have to stop the rookie
[43:30] Speaker 6: hazing on our team. Like, they were like, we got
[43:33] Speaker 6: to stop. It's not professional or whatever. So they kind
[43:35] Speaker 6: of killed it. Like, they was trying to kill it.
[43:38] Speaker 2: It's just some of the shit I used to hear
[43:40] Speaker 2: dudes doing, man. Dudes on some teams, man. I just like, yo.
[43:45] Speaker 1: Man, I would have hurt one of them dudes, man.
[43:47] Speaker 2: Oh, then you shouldn't have been on my team.
[43:48] Speaker 1: You couldn't have been on my team, man.
[43:50] Speaker 2: I would have hurt one. Listen, it would have been over, bro.
[43:53] Speaker 2: It would have been over, bro. All of us, they
[43:57] Speaker 2: would have had to trade a bunch of us. We
[43:58] Speaker 2: would have stayed home because... It's just certain shit I
[44:02] Speaker 2: came in.
[44:03] Speaker 3: What is the point of it?
[44:04] Speaker 2: I'm saying, like, I wasn't... Like, for, like, the fun
[44:06] Speaker 2: part of it, when some people take it too far,
[44:09] Speaker 2: I'm like, why?
[44:11] Speaker 3: Like, that's weird.
[44:13] Speaker 2: Didn't join the fraternity for that reason, because they're trying
[44:15] Speaker 2: to get me to join an alpha shit in Cincinnati.
[44:17] Speaker 1: I mean, they do it in football.
[44:18] Speaker 2: Yo, you don't want me in y'all fraternity, dog.
[44:20] Speaker 1: You don't.
[44:21] Speaker 2: Big Brother Kenyon? You don't want me in your fraternity, man.
[44:25] Speaker 2: Because the day one of y'all touch me, dawg, it's
[44:28] Speaker 2: on and popping in this bitch.
[44:30] Speaker 1: What's your name, Big Brother? Like, no, bro, that shit weird, man. Like,
[44:35] Speaker 1: put your hands out there, you doing shit. Yeah, you
[44:39] Speaker 1: a child.
[44:39] Speaker 3: Hazing?
[44:40] Speaker 5: No, because it did, so they had a rule, if
[44:43] Speaker 5: you don't do it, ass-whooping.
[44:45] Speaker 1: So I took ass-whooping every time. Oh, yeah, they kicked
[44:49] Speaker 1: the balls in that bitch.
[44:51] Speaker 2: Hey, Rooks, go get it.
[44:53] Speaker 1: Nah.
[44:55] Speaker 2: I ain't playing folk games. I ain't practiced.
[44:58] Speaker 1: I'll take this ass.
[45:00] Speaker 2: First of all, they don't even got that kind of energy.
[45:02] Speaker 1: We ain't doing shit around here.
[45:04] Speaker 3: Oh, you just was.
[45:06] Speaker 1: Going to locker room.
[45:06] Speaker 3: You were just bored.
[45:07] Speaker 2: They jumped me. Yeah, yeah, I was bored. Yeah. I
[45:10] Speaker 2: bruised hip, back, hamstring gone.
[45:13] Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Hamstring gone.
[45:15] Speaker 2: I got hit by a car.
[45:17] Speaker 3: What y'all got going on?
[45:19] Speaker 1: So, what y'all doing?
[45:20] Speaker 5: Y'all remember throwback jerseys? Oh, yeah, so throw bachelors in, right?
[45:23] Speaker 5: So everybody was ordering. So Chris Mills ordered a Frank
[45:28] Speaker 5: Tarkin jersey, right?
[45:29] Speaker 1: Oh, he been bragging all motherfucking. Yeah, he was bragging
[45:33] Speaker 1: about this jersey.
[45:34] Speaker 2: So I went to his house because we lived down
[45:37] Speaker 2: the street.
[45:38] Speaker 1: Huh? Yeah.
[45:39] Speaker 2: Yeah, so I ended up taking it. I ended up
[45:42] Speaker 2: taking it. And then, you know, the next road trip,
[45:45] Speaker 2: we were on the road, and then I covered it up.
[45:47] Speaker 2: And then I sat down. I was like, yeah, man,
[45:49] Speaker 2: I got one.
[45:49] Speaker 5: Of the hottest jerseys out. boy, unzipped it, took my
[45:53] Speaker 5: shit off. So, you know, everybody was like.
[45:55] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, you was annoying.
[45:56] Speaker 2: So he stoned Cole.
[45:57] Speaker 1: He pretending I ain't, you know.
[45:59] Speaker 2: I was like, y'all got any wings? Them barbecue joints.
[46:06] Speaker 1: Yeah, get the barbecue joints.
[46:07] Speaker 2: Yeah, I want barbecue today.
[46:09] Speaker 5: Just trying to get his attention, right?
[46:10] Speaker 1: Just, right?
[46:15] Speaker 2: Doing all this, right? Just doing all this.
[46:18] Speaker 1: Nothing.
[46:19] Speaker 2: Nothing. Didn't say nothing, didn't do nothing, right? Nothing. Like,
[46:23] Speaker 2: we going on a road trip?
[46:25] Speaker 1: Nothing.
[46:25] Speaker 2: I'm expecting ass-whooping. Three, four days, right? Just, like, you
[46:30] Speaker 2: know how you're looking at him?
[46:30] Speaker 1: Like, nothing.
[46:32] Speaker 2: Try to walk by him, see if he going to trip? Nothing.
[46:35] Speaker 2: I ride home with the nigga.
[46:37] Speaker 1: So, you know, so I'm already, I'm already like, you
[46:39] Speaker 1: know how you're like, I'm getting close to the window
[46:42] Speaker 1: because I'm thinking he going to boom one of those. Like, nothing.
[46:46] Speaker 2: I'm getting out of the car, like.
[46:49] Speaker 5: And I'm like, I go behind, I'm like, nah, this
[46:53] Speaker 5: nigga gonna hit me, right? So I'm like, I just
[46:55] Speaker 5: go in front of him, like, cool, garage right there.
[47:01] Speaker 5: Walk right in front of him, boom. Me, the whole thing, pow.
[47:09] Speaker 1: Like, I think he broke my shit. I limp into
[47:14] Speaker 1: the house, like, and it was like, he hard, boom, like,
[47:20] Speaker 1: It's murder, right?
[47:21] Speaker 2: Attempted at least.
[47:23] Speaker 1: I was about to say, attempted murder, for sure.
[47:25] Speaker 2: Attempted at least. Going to practice, I can't practice, I
[47:30] Speaker 2: can't do nothing for three weeks. Damn.
[47:32] Speaker 1: I mean, it didn't matter.
[47:33] Speaker 2: I was already on IR, so it was... But, yeah.
[47:36] Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew that, yeah. I see you did not
[47:38] Speaker 1: learn a lesson in that moment, because you continued.
[47:41] Speaker 3: Oh, no, no.
[47:41] Speaker 2: When I was... What's her name again? I was good.
[47:43] Speaker 2: I got choked on a plane.
[47:45] Speaker 1: I was asleep.
[47:47] Speaker 2: They choked me up. Yeah, they got me that.
[47:49] Speaker 1: Like Jody and Baby Boy. Like, I'm just sitting, just sleeping.
[47:52] Speaker 1: I don't know what I did, but I was asleep,
[47:55] Speaker 1: woke up to him. Who choked you? Chris Mills, again. See?
[48:00] Speaker 2: Light-skinned, see? I would have been listening. He had anger issues,
[48:03] Speaker 2: so I was just therapy. I was just there.
[48:06] Speaker 1: I was just there.
[48:08] Speaker 2: I get it.
[48:09] Speaker 1: I was that guy.
[48:10] Speaker 3: Therapy punching bag?
[48:12] Speaker 2: We got to get Chris Mills on the show.
[48:13] Speaker 1: I had vets. That shit was fun.
[48:15] Speaker 2: That's my best shit.
[48:17] Speaker 3: You're sick.
[48:18] Speaker 1: That's not normal.
[48:19] Speaker 2: That's not fun. No, I didn't.
[48:22] Speaker 1: For like Nick and all them.
[48:26] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[48:27] Speaker 1: Not to that extreme. I was getting hurt, but I
[48:30] Speaker 1: deserved all of that. You were shooting them with BB guns.
[48:33] Speaker 2: But it was his BB guns. paintball guns, it was his.
[48:37] Speaker 1: Beer? Yeah.
[48:39] Speaker 2: I wish that on nobody. Unless you just like, just attention. Yeah,
[48:43] Speaker 2: I'm like, shit, I just hear Shaq doing it, like,
[48:46] Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, man. The doodle in the shoe? Oh,
[48:48] Speaker 2: putting rub, taking the nigga mouthpiece, putting it in his
[48:51] Speaker 2: tights and shit like that, bro, and putting it back and, dog,
[48:55] Speaker 2: I'ma hurt you, dog. Shout out Chauncey Biller.
[48:59] Speaker 3: He did that?
[49:00] Speaker 2: I know what I got choked for. I had to
[49:02] Speaker 2: carry the bags. Yeah, some crazy shit. I had to.
[49:05] Speaker 1: Carry the bags, you know, when we land, three in
[49:07] Speaker 1: the morning, but we already have people that do that.
[49:09] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[49:10] Speaker 1: We have people that, you know, we just get in,
[49:13] Speaker 1: and he's talking about, yo, get my bag. Like, no,
[49:15] Speaker 1: I'm tired.
[49:16] Speaker 2: I said, get my bag.
[49:17] Speaker 1: I'm tired.
[49:19] Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, I played today, so I don't... So...
[49:23] Speaker 5: I decided to Ace Ventura that motherfucker down the hallway.
[49:27] Speaker 9: Boop, boop, boop, boop.
[49:37] Speaker 3: Yo, you was annoying.
[49:38] Speaker 5: The thing about it now, his strength, Danny Fortson, Mark Jackson,
[49:53] Speaker 5: They had to hold back from killing me. I'm just
[49:57] Speaker 5: now thinking about, like, yo, the shit I was doing.
[50:01] Speaker 5: All it took was him to really just, yo, take
[50:03] Speaker 5: that shit real serious to hurt me. I'm just thinking
[50:07] Speaker 5: about that shit now, like, yep.
[50:09] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Danny would've hurt you.
[50:10] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[50:11] Speaker 1: He's the only one that, like, he'd give me, like,
[50:13] Speaker 1: a little boom. It was never no... Yeah, because he's... Yeah, well,
[50:17] Speaker 1: the shit he was doing to Troy Murphy, I'm like, ooh.
[50:20] Speaker 2: You might want to get in the weight room, brother.
[50:23] Speaker 1: That shit'll, like, it hurt.
[50:24] Speaker 2: All right, well, let's... Oh, no, Danny, listen. Big bitch
[50:27] Speaker 2: get physical.
[50:29] Speaker 1: Let's keep this thing moving.
[50:30] Speaker 2: I was a freshman. He was first team All-American at Cincinnati, yeah.
[50:34] Speaker 2: I come in there, motherfucker, 206 pounds. Damn, that bitch
[50:38] Speaker 2: eating weights. By the time I got there, I was like, yo, yeah,
[50:42] Speaker 2: let me just not let you get into my body anymore.
[50:46] Speaker 2: Get that.
[50:46] Speaker 1: All right, well, let's keep this thing moving. Bucs were
[50:51] Speaker 1: playing with heavy hearts Tuesday night after learning the passing
[50:53] Speaker 1: of former Bucs current minority owner Junior Bridgman. We'll have
[50:56] Speaker 1: more on that later in the show. But Milwaukee was
[50:59] Speaker 1: up by three with 3.9 seconds remaining in the game,
[51:02] Speaker 1: and then this happened.
[51:03] Speaker 2: So let's take a look.
[51:05] Speaker 1: Pacers drew up a football-style ATL with all four of
[51:07] Speaker 1: their players lined up in the backcourt as receivers. Tyrese
[51:11] Speaker 1: Halliburton ran a wheel route down the left sideline. Got
[51:14] Speaker 1: a nice pick from Aaron Neesmith to free him up.
[51:17] Speaker 1: How he caught the in-mouth pass, hit this ridiculous three.
[51:19] Speaker 1: Right in Giannis' grill, getting fouled in the process. Play
[51:24] Speaker 1: was reviewed and the foul stood. Halliburton knocking down the
[51:26] Speaker 1: go-ahead free throw. I don't know why they reviewed it.
[51:30] Speaker 2: They said Giannis didn't land it.
[51:33] Speaker 1: Buck still had a chance. 3.4 seconds remaining. Giannis drove
[51:37] Speaker 1: it down the court. Had to put up a three.
[51:39] Speaker 1: Missed the shot.
[51:40] Speaker 2: You can see Halliburton doing the dame time. After the miss.
[51:45] Speaker 2: You don't take threes, can you?
[51:46] Speaker 1: Good shot.
[51:48] Speaker 2: It was a good shot. Almost went in. Why are
[51:52] Speaker 2: you doing the Dame time?
[51:53] Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. That's corny.
[51:54] Speaker 1: It's corny. He's done it.
[51:56] Speaker 3: A few times. If they missed it, maybe.
[51:59] Speaker 6: I think we beat them like three times this year.
[52:02] Speaker 1: Tally had on the DX Pumas. He wanted to do
[52:03] Speaker 1: the D-Generation X second, but he said he got 525K,
[52:06] Speaker 1: so he thought better of doing that. But let's go
[52:09] Speaker 1: back to that ATO. That ATO looks familiar.
[52:11] Speaker 2: Same play they ran during Game 3 of the Eastern
[52:13] Speaker 2: Conference Finals last year.
[52:14] Speaker 1: Against the Celtics. We got the side-by-side. We talked about it.
[52:18] Speaker 1: I think Neesmith shot that one. 1.7, Megan.
[52:23] Speaker 2: The exact same score as well.
[52:26] Speaker 1: Damn! Wow. That shot did not go in. But Halle
[52:32] Speaker 1: made his. Reggie Miller calling the game for TNT.
[52:35] Speaker 2: Pacers led.
[52:36] Speaker 1: So after the game, Halliburton said the Pacers installed the
[52:38] Speaker 1: play in training camp a couple years ago. He made
[52:41] Speaker 1: the shot the first time they ran into training camp.
[52:43] Speaker 1: Hadn't gotten the ball again. since running the play, but
[52:46] Speaker 1: what's your reaction to Pacers beating the Bucs on that
[52:48] Speaker 1: football-style ATL play?
[52:49] Speaker 2: You like that play?
[52:50] Speaker 1: Fuck yeah.
[52:51] Speaker 2: I lost in the Western Conference Finals because we trying
[52:54] Speaker 2: to zip a mellow up. Twice. They worked on this
[52:58] Speaker 2: shit two years ago. They knew.
[53:02] Speaker 1: So this is the shit I mean right there. Absolutely.
[53:04] Speaker 2: Good job. Fucking yes. Great coaching.
[53:08] Speaker 1: Yes.
[53:09] Speaker 2: I'm with it. Yeah.
[53:10] Speaker 1: Absolutely.
[53:11] Speaker 2: Yes.
[53:12] Speaker 1: Two thumbs up.
[53:13] Speaker 2: Absolutely.
[53:14] Speaker 1: I'm with it.
[53:15] Speaker 2: Where's the scouting report? Yeah, they about to run this.
[53:18] Speaker 3: Right, the lineup obviously is extremely unique.
[53:20] Speaker 1: Because it's a trick play, you don't really... Like, that's
[53:23] Speaker 1: the second time they've ran it. So you're not... That's not.
[53:26] Speaker 2: It's in the game situation, though, so you know it, though.
[53:28] Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
[53:29] Speaker 6: Like, this has to be the way that we.
[53:30] Speaker 1: That you know that they're going to run.
[53:33] Speaker 3: Well, everyone goes.
[53:35] Speaker 1: Listen, where.
[53:36] Speaker 6: All they did was just go all the way down
[53:38] Speaker 6: and somebody just comes.
[53:38] Speaker 1: Where Giannis was hiding at, you know they knew the play.
[53:44] Speaker 2: From there, it's just execution.
[53:46] Speaker 1: Did you say I'm supposed to go this way or
[53:47] Speaker 1: is he going to go this way?
[53:49] Speaker 5: At that point, you don't know where your man is going,
[53:52] Speaker 5: your man.
[53:52] Speaker 3: You're just playing man-to-man.
[53:53] Speaker 2: They were up three, though, right?
[53:54] Speaker 1: They were up three. That's why I don't even know why.
[53:56] Speaker 3: If you know where that corner shot. Play a zone.
[54:00] Speaker 1: That zone.
[54:01] Speaker 2: They expecting you.
[54:03] Speaker 1: To play man. Change the game plan.
[54:09] Speaker 5: And make them call a timeout.
[54:10] Speaker 2: Go zone. Make them.
[54:11] Speaker 3: Yeah, do something.
[54:13] Speaker 2: You see how simple I just came up with that
[54:15] Speaker 2: right now? I'm sitting on the couch here. You see
[54:18] Speaker 2: how simple I just came up with that? Out of
[54:20] Speaker 2: a timeout, right? They're drawing up a play versus man.
[54:26] Speaker 1: Go zone.
[54:27] Speaker 2: As soon as you see them go back there.
[54:29] Speaker 1: The game on the line. We're up three.
[54:31] Speaker 2: We're up three.
[54:32] Speaker 1: Exactly.
[54:33] Speaker 2: If they hit a three, okay.
[54:34] Speaker 1: Make them catch the ball out here in front of you.
[54:38] Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
[54:39] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[54:40] Speaker 2: Don't let nobody catch the ball... Line up across the
[54:43] Speaker 2: fucking three-point line.
[54:46] Speaker 3: Angle your bodies. He can't even make that pass.
[54:48] Speaker 2: Make them throw it over.
[54:49] Speaker 1: Overthrow.
[54:50] Speaker 2: Why people put somebody on the ball? Let's start the
[54:53] Speaker 2: fuck there. You ain't need nobody on the ball. They
[54:57] Speaker 2: got Brooke Lopez on the ball.
[54:58] Speaker 1: Huh? They got Brooke Lopez on the ball.
[54:59] Speaker 2: For what? Make him stand right in the motherfucking.
[55:01] Speaker 1: I don't know.
[55:03] Speaker 2: Whoever come around. Why is he on the floor? Why
[55:08] Speaker 2: is he on the floor? You need Speed Linton. Put
[55:11] Speaker 2: Giannis in that situation, make him turn. Whoever flashed first, Giannis,
[55:15] Speaker 2: you fucking take it. Let's try that one. Let's go
[55:18] Speaker 2: boxing one. Who's the best shooter out here? Let's try
[55:21] Speaker 2: something different than this everybody-think-the-same-way shit.
[55:26] Speaker 1: Play man every time. I remember I asked Eddie.
[55:28] Speaker 2: My bad. Oh, she's kids. My bad. We was doing
[55:31] Speaker 2: a play. We was doing a play. Zip her up.
[55:33] Speaker 1: Allen Iverson.
[55:35] Speaker 2: Like, it's coming up.
[55:36] Speaker 1: Caught it. And I said....
[55:40] Speaker 5: Why do we do this play? And I said, it
[55:43] Speaker 5: makes no sense for how it happened. That is actually,
[55:48] Speaker 5: it's three seconds left. I'm coming up away from the rim.
[55:53] Speaker 5: I get the ball. And then now I got to
[55:55] Speaker 5: turn my body back to the rim and then take off.
[55:59] Speaker 2: This is not meant, this is only meant.
[56:01] Speaker 1: For a certain type of guy.
[56:03] Speaker 5: A TJ Ford type of player is meant for small
[56:06] Speaker 5: comeback people who can just go.
[56:07] Speaker 1: I don't know. Right?
[56:08] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[56:09] Speaker 1: So I said, I want to, like, I'm going forward,
[56:14] Speaker 1: he's going forward, then I got to turn, and my
[56:16] Speaker 1: hips don't work like that. I want to come downhill.
[56:18] Speaker 1: So why can't I, like, start at.
[56:19] Speaker 5: The half court and then run? So now I'm on
[56:22] Speaker 5: the move three seconds. Like, me zippering up, you're forcing
[56:26] Speaker 5: me to shoot a jump shot with three seconds left.
[56:29] Speaker 1: I got to turn, two.
[56:30] Speaker 2: Well, I can't get to the rim. If I'm coming.
[56:32] Speaker 5: Downhill, I have that option to get to the rim.
[56:35] Speaker 5: Then we start switching all our plays, me coming downhill.
[56:38] Speaker 1: So, unfortunate, there was a photo of the shot, Halliburton
[56:41] Speaker 1: hitting the shot. You see Darvin Hamm on the Bucs' sideline,
[56:43] Speaker 1: hands in his pockets. Lakers fans had a field day
[56:45] Speaker 1: with that. After the game, Doc Rivers was asked about
[56:49] Speaker 1: this play. He said, we just lost him. That's on us.
[56:51] Speaker 1: I told our staff, we got to have our guys
[56:53] Speaker 1: prepare better for that now. Exactly. We were off the body.
[56:56] Speaker 1: We were in trouble before the play started. Also, Doc
[56:58] Speaker 1: challenged the call. Bucks lost their final timeout, which they
[57:01] Speaker 1: could have used to advance the ball on the Halliburton-Maine
[57:03] Speaker 1: free throw.
[57:04] Speaker 2: They lost the fucking timeout?
[57:06] Speaker 3: They challenged that call?
[57:07] Speaker 2: Challenged the foul.
[57:08] Speaker 1: Challenged the Giannis foul.
[57:10] Speaker 2: It didn't happen in front of their bench. Yeah.
[57:12] Speaker 3: And you didn't need that. You were only down one point.
[57:14] Speaker 2: Hold on. See, this is... Hold on.
[57:17] Speaker 1: It looked like a foul.
[57:17] Speaker 3: You would have been down one point anyway. It happened
[57:20] Speaker 3: in front of your bench.
[57:21] Speaker 1: You knew it was a foul. You saw the shit happen.
[57:24] Speaker 1: It's a foul. It's a fucking foul.
[57:25] Speaker 3: It was a foul, but even.
[57:26] Speaker 1: He challenged it.
[57:27] Speaker 2: Lost the final timeout. Making it a tie game.
[57:30] Speaker 1: Yep. Because the free throw put it up. One. Yeah.
[57:32] Speaker 1: It would have been a tie game. It was going
[57:34] Speaker 1: to be a tie game either way.
[57:35] Speaker 2: No, no, no. I mean, he was going up one
[57:37] Speaker 2: either way.
[57:38] Speaker 1: No.
[57:38] Speaker 2: No, he challenged a foul call. He got fouled.
[57:40] Speaker 3: It would have been tied or up one.
[57:42] Speaker 2: If he win the foul, it's just a tie game.
[57:45] Speaker 3: Right.
[57:45] Speaker 1: Right?
[57:46] Speaker 2: So, yeah.
[57:47] Speaker 3: You don't need to tell.
[57:49] Speaker 1: Don't you have time? Take your shoe off or some shit.
[57:51] Speaker 2: He got fouled.
[57:51] Speaker 1: Do one of these.
[57:52] Speaker 2: He got tackled. The guy in the back got the computer.
[57:55] Speaker 1: We can see it.
[57:55] Speaker 2: He's in front of your bench. Fired.
[57:59] Speaker 6: No it's like you said yeah cause then you lose your.
[58:01] Speaker 5: Time out but I mean you know you probably can't
[58:03] Speaker 5: see the angle but you have.
[58:05] Speaker 2: You have you got the what's in it there's literally someone's.
[58:08] Speaker 6: Job to do that if I'm on the bench I
[58:10] Speaker 6: see it he's coming this way I'm looking.
[58:12] Speaker 5: At everything right here you're the coach you're here right
[58:16] Speaker 5: So if you're Doc, you're here, closer to the free.
[58:19] Speaker 1: The person with the eye patch.
[58:22] Speaker 2: They got 15 players on the bench.
[58:24] Speaker 1: Exactly.
[58:25] Speaker 2: They got five in uniform and 15 on the bench.
[58:27] Speaker 1: Somebody can say, like, yo.
[58:28] Speaker 2: Nah, don't do that. But that's what I'm saying. But
[58:31] Speaker 2: no one ever challenged you. I'm going to be like, yo, no,
[58:33] Speaker 2: he fouled him.
[58:33] Speaker 5: Did Ronnie, did Giannis do something like this?
[58:36] Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
[58:37] Speaker 3: I'd be like, no, Giannis, you're fouled.
[58:39] Speaker 2: You're fouled. I know, but you got your best player
[58:41] Speaker 2: doing this.
[58:41] Speaker 1: Everybody got to work harder. Equipment manager as well. But
[58:45] Speaker 1: Wynn puts the Bucs and Pacers in a tie for
[58:47] Speaker 1: fourth in the East. Both teams are 36-28. Bucs on
[58:51] Speaker 1: the tiebreaker right now, so the Pacers are technically fifth.
[58:53] Speaker 1: But Mr. B, Bucs are sixth. Mr. Milwaukee, who do
[58:59] Speaker 1: you have more faith in to win a playoff series,
[59:01] Speaker 1: Bucs or the Pacers? Bucs are leading the series 2-1
[59:04] Speaker 1: right now. They play again on Saturday. Well, Giannis, I mean,
[59:07] Speaker 1: Logan's 34 is healthy. We always have a chance.
[59:10] Speaker 6: But I think Giannis and Dame only took 14 shots
[59:14] Speaker 6: last night. So we definitely, I mean, I know it
[59:16] Speaker 6: was a close game and we could have won, but,
[59:19] Speaker 6: you know, they got to be, you know, they got
[59:22] Speaker 6: to be more aggressive. I see down this stretch of,
[59:25] Speaker 6: you know, last 17, 20 games, you know, we're on
[59:27] Speaker 6: a three-game losing streak right now, so.
[59:30] Speaker 2: You know, can't be losing games like that.
[59:34] Speaker 1: Gil, you said you started 2025 with no Doc Rivers, haters, slander,
[59:37] Speaker 1: clean slate. Mm-hmm. To quote you, who you got more
[59:42] Speaker 1: faith in right now to win a series, Bucks and
[59:43] Speaker 1: Pacers face off in that first round?
[59:46] Speaker 5: Bucks and Pacers face off? I mean, they're 4-5 right now.
[59:50] Speaker 5: I'm going with the Bucks. Obviously played each other.
[59:54] Speaker 2: We'll have Bobby back, right?
[59:57] Speaker 1: Bobby will be back. She'll be a little stronger.
[1:00:00] Speaker 2: Because I can tell you this, 20... I'm just being.
[1:00:03] Speaker 5: No, I'm just saying, like, I'm not saying you should
[1:00:06] Speaker 5: do this. All I'm saying is, whatever you got busted for.
[1:00:13] Speaker 2: You should have been on in these last two to five.
[1:00:15] Speaker 1: Games because they're not coming back to test you.
[1:00:17] Speaker 2: That's just an FYI.
[1:00:18] Speaker 1: You took tramadol.
[1:00:20] Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just saying.
[1:00:21] Speaker 1: I already got busted for tramadol.
[1:00:22] Speaker 2: It's a painkiller.
[1:00:23] Speaker 1: I don't think it improves your muscle mass.
[1:00:24] Speaker 5: I'm going to be taking the painkiller all the way
[1:00:26] Speaker 5: until the last three games because obviously you ain't coming
[1:00:30] Speaker 5: back to my house because I'm not part of the
[1:00:32] Speaker 5: NBA right now. So if a motherfucker come back looking
[1:00:34] Speaker 5: like Rainbow 2, let's just say, I'm looking the other way.
[1:00:37] Speaker 3: Rainbow 2.
[1:00:38] Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, Bobby, you got a little bit of rest, huh? Yeah.
[1:00:42] Speaker 5: Boy, you starting today. Lopez, sit your ass down. Or
[1:00:45] Speaker 5: does Tremadol run out? Just being honest, man.
[1:00:51] Speaker 1: I'm like the Houston.
[1:00:53] Speaker 5: Is it Houston Oilers?
[1:00:54] Speaker 2: What was that baseball team back in the day? The Astros?
[1:00:56] Speaker 1: The Astros. I'm like the Astros in the 90s. I
[1:01:00] Speaker 1: don't know what's going on in that locker room. They
[1:01:03] Speaker 1: just hitting home runs like crazy.
[1:01:05] Speaker 5: Wasn't that the team that was... You know, I'm only
[1:01:07] Speaker 5: a Dodgers fan. The Astros was back in the day.
[1:01:11] Speaker 5: We don't support the Astros. You talking about the Oakland
[1:01:14] Speaker 5: A's with.
[1:01:14] Speaker 1: The Bash brothers?
[1:01:15] Speaker 2: No, what team was.
[1:01:17] Speaker 1: Huh?
[1:01:19] Speaker 5: The Oakland A's with the Bash brothers? Mark McGuire and
[1:01:21] Speaker 5: Jose Canseco? Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco? No, damn, but
[1:01:24] Speaker 5: wasn't some with the Astros back? Like, everybody came from
[1:01:27] Speaker 5: there at first?
[1:01:28] Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
[1:01:30] Speaker 1: I do know that the Astros have an asterisk next
[1:01:31] Speaker 1: to their World Series win for some.
[1:01:33] Speaker 2: No, yeah, that's... Janky maneuvering.
[1:01:35] Speaker 1: I don't know. We got to prepare, though. So we
[1:01:38] Speaker 1: asked to check who's more likely to win a playoff series. 81%
[1:01:40] Speaker 1: said the Milwaukee Bucks, Brandon. I don't know if that
[1:01:42] Speaker 1: gives you... Any comfort? I mean, yeah. I mean, we
[1:01:46] Speaker 1: should be able to go out the first round. It's
[1:01:47] Speaker 1: that second round. So let's talk a little bit about
[1:01:49] Speaker 1: Tyrese Halliburton. Was Olympian this past summer. Oh, second round
[1:01:52] Speaker 1: would be bomb. Got an A on the group project.
[1:01:54] Speaker 2: If you're five?
[1:01:55] Speaker 1: It depends if you're five or two.
[1:01:59] Speaker 2: Right now, listen, if.
[1:02:01] Speaker 5: Doc is being smart, he's going to want to sit
[1:02:04] Speaker 5: in four or five.
[1:02:06] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good.
[1:02:07] Speaker 2: We need to just stay right there.
[1:02:08] Speaker 1: To face the Cavs in the second round.
[1:02:09] Speaker 2: Yes.
[1:02:10] Speaker 1: I don't want to drop to six.
[1:02:11] Speaker 2: I don't want to go to three. I want to.
[1:02:14] Speaker 1: Be 4-5 because I got whoever 4-5 is, right? Second round. Right?
[1:02:20] Speaker 2: That second round, I get the cap.
[1:02:23] Speaker 3: So we're all still very much afraid of the Celtics.
[1:02:25] Speaker 1: Yes. Okay.
[1:02:27] Speaker 2: Because... Did that make you happy? You know why? Okay.
[1:02:30] Speaker 1: Yes.
[1:02:30] Speaker 5: My two stars set out. Two other motherfuckers had 40 each.
[1:02:34] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:02:35] Speaker 2: I'm a little nervous.
[1:02:35] Speaker 1: I'm just going to put it on. I'm shit of
[1:02:37] Speaker 1: a team like that.
[1:02:39] Speaker 3: That has four guys that could.
[1:02:40] Speaker 2: Then another guy just made nine threes the other day.
[1:02:42] Speaker 1: Sam Houser.
[1:02:43] Speaker 2: Sam Houser made nine threes the other day. Yeah, that's
[1:02:45] Speaker 2: a team that I'm not... Shit is ridiculous.
[1:02:48] Speaker 1: Huh?
[1:02:48] Speaker 3: Yeah, you got shit right there.
[1:02:49] Speaker 1: It's insane.
[1:02:50] Speaker 3: I said, teammates 40-40, who did it? And I was like, oh.
[1:02:53] Speaker 2: Life is not fair sometimes.
[1:02:55] Speaker 1: Let's talk a little Tyrese Halliburton was a member of
[1:02:56] Speaker 1: the Olympic squad, got an A on the group project,
[1:02:58] Speaker 1: as he pointed out.
[1:03:00] Speaker 2: Did not necessarily.
[1:03:01] Speaker 1: Do as much to deserve that as other members on
[1:03:03] Speaker 1: the team, but made history this weekend by becoming the
[1:03:06] Speaker 1: first player ever to reach 500 assists before committing 100
[1:03:08] Speaker 1: turnovers in a single season. On pace to be just
[1:03:11] Speaker 1: the second player in league history to finish the season
[1:03:13] Speaker 1: with 800-plus assists and less than 150 turnovers. Muggsy Bogues,
[1:03:17] Speaker 1: the only other player to accomplish this feat. Appreciate you,
[1:03:19] Speaker 1: the Clutch Points, for the assists on this one. But, Hallie,
[1:03:22] Speaker 1: average Clutch Points, a fine website, fine group. Yeah, solid
[1:03:26] Speaker 1: Clutch Points. Put a nice tweet out there with this
[1:03:28] Speaker 1: information that was repurposed.
[1:03:30] Speaker 2: Okay.
[1:03:31] Speaker 1: Got to show love to the sources. We state our
[1:03:34] Speaker 1: sources here. C, right?
[1:03:35] Speaker 2: Not K.
[1:03:36] Speaker 1: No. Clutch points. Not the purveyor of checks and fine
[1:03:40] Speaker 1: gummy bears that we've come to know and love.
[1:03:43] Speaker 2: They can cut the check, too.
[1:03:46] Speaker 1: Halliburton averaging 19 points, four rebounds, nine assists, with just
[1:03:50] Speaker 1: 1.7 turnovers per game this season. Does Tyrese Halliburton still
[1:03:53] Speaker 1: belong in the conversation as one of the best point
[1:03:55] Speaker 1: guards in the league?
[1:03:59] Speaker 5: From my definition of point guards where, you know, what
[1:04:02] Speaker 5: I grew up on, yes. I mean, there's only, there's
[1:04:05] Speaker 5: still only a few of those guys left. That really
[1:04:09] Speaker 5: is the point, the purity of what a point is.
[1:04:13] Speaker 1: Yeah. And just as a reminder, none of you put
[1:04:15] Speaker 1: him in your top five point guards.
[1:04:17] Speaker 2: I mentioned him. Yeah, he mentioned him.
[1:04:18] Speaker 1: And you did mention him. I did draft him at
[1:04:20] Speaker 1: the dog bowl. He did betray me by not playing
[1:04:22] Speaker 1: in the game, so a little. Little disappointment was... I
[1:04:26] Speaker 1: think Yaka Poto. And he ended up having the most fantasy. I, um....
[1:04:32] Speaker 5: Just the traditional, like, the ideal of the traditional point guard, yes.
[1:04:41] Speaker 5: He is up there. It just has to be... I
[1:04:44] Speaker 5: know it's point guard is point guard, but it's going
[1:04:48] Speaker 5: to start getting murky.
[1:04:49] Speaker 1: It is murky. Like.
[1:04:53] Speaker 5: As a point guard, I still have Magic as the
[1:04:56] Speaker 5: number one point guard.
[1:04:58] Speaker 2: That's the definition of a point guard.
[1:05:00] Speaker 5: As a player, I have Curry in front of him
[1:05:03] Speaker 5: as a basketball player for me, right? Even though Curry's
[1:05:07] Speaker 5: in the point guard, but I don't have Curry as
[1:05:08] Speaker 5: a point guard. I just have him as a guard, right?
[1:05:11] Speaker 5: I just got to be fair to what those, the
[1:05:15] Speaker 5: Magic Johnsons, the Isaiah Thomas, the John.
[1:05:19] Speaker 1: Stocktons, the Mark Jacksons, right? The....
[1:05:23] Speaker 5: The Rondos, like, you still got to keep the purity
[1:05:25] Speaker 5: of those guys. And then there's just guys like an AI,
[1:05:29] Speaker 5: guys like a Curry, that they're small. That's the position
[1:05:33] Speaker 5: they have to play. But I can't minimize their greatness. So, like,
[1:05:37] Speaker 5: as pure points, as just a point guard, I have Magic.
[1:05:41] Speaker 5: But I have Curry in front of him, if that kind.
[1:05:43] Speaker 2: Of makes sense.
[1:05:44] Speaker 1: How many pure point guards in the NBA right now,
[1:05:45] Speaker 1: you think? Pure? Yeah, that's you. Shit.
[1:05:49] Speaker 3: Not many.
[1:05:51] Speaker 2: Lonzo Ball.
[1:05:52] Speaker 1: Mm.
[1:05:53] Speaker 3: Chris Paul.
[1:05:55] Speaker 2: Yes. Tyrese.
[1:05:57] Speaker 1: Chris Paul.
[1:05:57] Speaker 2: Chris Paul still. Garland's trying to hang in there. How
[1:06:06] Speaker 2: about the guy that's leading the league in assists? Trae.
[1:06:09] Speaker 1: Trae Young. Yeah. He's on that line.
[1:06:16] Speaker 5: Because he can play either one. That's like James Harden
[1:06:19] Speaker 5: this year. He's on the line this year. That's what
[1:06:21] Speaker 5: I'm saying.
[1:06:21] Speaker 1: He's on the line. That's what I said.
[1:06:23] Speaker 2: He's on the line this year.
[1:06:25] Speaker 3: So now moving forward, what are you considering when you're
[1:06:29] Speaker 3: talking about point guards in the league? Because I think
[1:06:32] Speaker 3: assist to turnover ratio is big. And then the eye test,
[1:06:34] Speaker 3: obviously how people can control the game and the pace.
[1:06:37] Speaker 3: I think that's something that doesn't get talked about a
[1:06:39] Speaker 3: lot at all.
[1:06:39] Speaker 1: I want my.
[1:06:41] Speaker 2: Point guard to think pass first. That's who I... I
[1:06:46] Speaker 2: want the ball in their hand. If I'm talking about
[1:06:48] Speaker 2: a point guard, I want you to think pass first.
[1:06:53] Speaker 2: You think low assists. I don't mind you trying things
[1:06:58] Speaker 2: if you see certain things at times, but I'm old
[1:07:02] Speaker 2: school in that regard. I don't want my point guard
[1:07:06] Speaker 2: to lead my team in shot attempts. That's not a
[1:07:10] Speaker 2: point guard to me.
[1:07:11] Speaker 1: Or turnovers.
[1:07:12] Speaker 2: That's a basketball player to me. He's not a point
[1:07:14] Speaker 2: guard to me.
[1:07:15] Speaker 3: What is the turnover number for, like, the elite point guards? Like, what,
[1:07:19] Speaker 3: three or less? It's... Two or less?
[1:07:21] Speaker 1: Depends on how many assists you have.
[1:07:23] Speaker 2: No, it depends on... Like, if you're averaging 11 assists
[1:07:25] Speaker 2: a night, three is okay.
[1:07:27] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:07:27] Speaker 2: But if you're averaging six a night, then three is fucking.
[1:07:31] Speaker 3: Yeah, so, like, what's the.
[1:07:32] Speaker 1: It depends on.
[1:07:33] Speaker 2: Break it even. It also depends on your style of play. Yeah,
[1:07:35] Speaker 2: you definitely broke even.
[1:07:36] Speaker 1: Yeah, you broke even, yeah.
[1:07:37] Speaker 2: Like, there's point guards that are just.
[1:07:40] Speaker 5: They're passers, right? And then there's creators, right? That guy
[1:07:45] Speaker 5: who creates assists... he's gonna have a lot of turnovers.
[1:07:48] Speaker 3: Yeah, like, Trey, Cade, James Harden, they're all averaging, like,
[1:07:53] Speaker 3: almost five.
[1:07:54] Speaker 1: Five turnovers?
[1:07:55] Speaker 2: Yeah, see, that's... That's a lot, though.
[1:07:58] Speaker 1: That's a lot. Cade, that's too much for Cade.
[1:08:02] Speaker 5: Because most of his is going to come in from
[1:08:04] Speaker 5: getting in the lane and trying some shit, right? Like,
[1:08:06] Speaker 5: Westbrook could get his from, like, more running motherfuckers over.
[1:08:10] Speaker 3: That's a lot of turnovers.
[1:08:12] Speaker 2: But, like, Big Kid, I.
[1:08:13] Speaker 1: Don't care about the turnovers because he's trying to do
[1:08:17] Speaker 1: some shit out there.
[1:08:18] Speaker 3: Which is what Trae Young is on right now.
[1:08:19] Speaker 1: LaMelo, his turnover ratio is going to be... Who? It's
[1:08:25] Speaker 1: nasty work.
[1:08:25] Speaker 2: Averaging five turnovers is nasty work. Yeah, so Kate is
[1:08:28] Speaker 2: 9.3 with four and a half turnovers. Trey is 11.5, 4.8.
[1:08:30] Speaker 2: I still think it's a lot.
[1:08:31] Speaker 1: That's high.
[1:08:39] Speaker 3: Who else? James Harden, 8.7, 4.5.
[1:08:42] Speaker 2: But think about, like, Trae Young.
[1:08:43] Speaker 1: That's a lot.
[1:08:44] Speaker 2: When he's coming in, throwing that lob. You know what
[1:08:47] Speaker 2: I mean? 4.8 is high, but 4.5, you say?
[1:08:51] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's high. That's a lot. Like, Holly, the way
[1:08:54] Speaker 1: he plays.
[1:08:55] Speaker 2: The way he plays, that's very impressive.
[1:08:58] Speaker 7: Very impressive.
[1:08:59] Speaker 1: Not going to lie.
[1:08:59] Speaker 5: Like, Chris Paul. Throwing the ball at him. We know
[1:09:03] Speaker 5: you ain't going to get a turnover.
[1:09:05] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:09:06] Speaker 2: Allie, 8.9 assists. Oh, fucker.
[1:09:09] Speaker 1: Pick you up.
[1:09:09] Speaker 2: I'm going to hand it to you.
[1:09:11] Speaker 1: Pick you up so you can put it in the basket.
[1:09:14] Speaker 1: Ultimate assist. Like Luka, right?
[1:09:17] Speaker 2: Like Luka's passing. You got to put Jokic in there.
[1:09:19] Speaker 2: How he passes the ball. Same thing with Jokic.
[1:09:21] Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's up to 3-4. How he passes
[1:09:23] Speaker 1: the ball.
[1:09:23] Speaker 3: He averages 3.3 turnovers. He averages 3.3.
[1:09:25] Speaker 1: Who?
[1:09:25] Speaker 2: Jokic.
[1:09:25] Speaker 1: 3.3.
[1:09:25] Speaker 2: See, I could.
[1:09:31] Speaker 2: So I can deal with that. I can deal with it.
[1:09:33] Speaker 1: He's at 10, 11 tonight, less.
[1:09:36] Speaker 2: Than three and a half.
[1:09:37] Speaker 1: 10.5, 3.4. See, you can deal with that. Them other dudes, yeah.
[1:09:42] Speaker 1: How many is that, what, one points?
[1:09:44] Speaker 2: So 8.9 assists, 1.7 turnovers.
[1:09:47] Speaker 5: It ain't as high as like a John Stockton where
[1:09:50] Speaker 5: he's got to assist these little... But how he moves
[1:09:55] Speaker 5: up and down that court at a fast.
[1:09:57] Speaker 2: Pace and you're only turning the ball over one time.
[1:10:01] Speaker 1: That is impressive.
[1:10:02] Speaker 2: That's impressive as shit.
[1:10:03] Speaker 1: It is.
[1:10:04] Speaker 2: Because you're flinging that motherfucker.
[1:10:07] Speaker 3: Yeah, he's throwing shit now.
[1:10:09] Speaker 2: Yeah, the way he plays. He's trying shit now. He's
[1:10:12] Speaker 2: definitely not state basketball. He's definitely not playing that.
[1:10:17] Speaker 1: He'll be under the rim and launching for the 3.1.
[1:10:19] Speaker 1: This ain't no John Stockton come pick.
[1:10:20] Speaker 2: He'd throw motherfucking goddamn top and full court lobs and shit. Like,
[1:10:26] Speaker 2: here you go. What is magic for his career?
[1:10:28] Speaker 1: I would assume he was at, like, three.
[1:10:31] Speaker 2: Career? I'm pulling it right now. Because he, I mean, just.
[1:10:36] Speaker 5: The no look and all that shit that you, you know,
[1:10:38] Speaker 5: I would just assume that he was.
[1:10:40] Speaker 2: A lot of that shit's half-court. Yo kids just make
[1:10:41] Speaker 2: it look sexy.
[1:10:43] Speaker 5: First career, I think 3.9 from number six, 3.9 turnovers
[1:10:47] Speaker 5: per game.
[1:10:48] Speaker 2: But as I said, just the style of play, it
[1:10:50] Speaker 2: makes sense.
[1:10:51] Speaker 1: Him, J.K. 11.2 assists per game.
[1:10:53] Speaker 2: What about Steve Nash? John Stocks is going to be low. Him, yeah,
[1:10:57] Speaker 2: he's going to be low.
[1:10:59] Speaker 1: Steve Nash? Steve Nash is going to be up.
[1:11:02] Speaker 3: Turnovers?
[1:11:06] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:11:07] Speaker 3: Just be trying.
[1:11:08] Speaker 2: John Stockton.
[1:11:09] Speaker 1: He probably has the best 10.5 assists career. And then
[1:11:13] Speaker 1: let me give you turnovers. One point what? Hold on
[1:11:16] Speaker 1: one second. Jesus. You taking care of that ball. 2.8. 2.8.
[1:11:18] Speaker 3: 10.5 to 2.8.
[1:11:19] Speaker 1: Taking care of that ball. Taking care of that ball.
[1:11:24] Speaker 2: And that turnover might be off the foot.
[1:11:26] Speaker 1: My bad. It's my bad.
[1:11:27] Speaker 2: It ain't.
[1:11:28] Speaker 3: Or maybe someone drop it.
[1:11:29] Speaker 1: They give it to you. We asked the chat, should
[1:11:31] Speaker 1: Halliburton be considered a top BG in the league right now? 55%
[1:11:35] Speaker 1: say no.
[1:11:36] Speaker 5: A top?
[1:11:37] Speaker 2: No, one of the top.
[1:11:40] Speaker 1: A top? Yeah, I mean, a top is like 10, right?
[1:11:43] Speaker 1: It's 32, the top 10.
[1:11:44] Speaker 2: They're used to the scoring guard.
[1:11:47] Speaker 1: So a top 10, top third of the league? Top third, yeah.
[1:11:50] Speaker 2: Yeah, they're used to scoring guards.
[1:11:52] Speaker 1: All right, so let's move on to a situation that
[1:11:54] Speaker 1: went down Monday night between the Grizzlies and the Suns.
[1:11:57] Speaker 1: Grizzlies beat the Suns. 120-118. Let's take a look at
[1:12:00] Speaker 1: a moment between Cam Spencer, a 24-year-old rookie on a
[1:12:03] Speaker 1: two-way contract, and Kevin Durant, one of.
[1:12:06] Speaker 2: The greatest players.
[1:12:07] Speaker 1: He had to put his age out there and shit.
[1:12:09] Speaker 1: So Spencer hit a three. Laying at the third quarter,
[1:12:13] Speaker 1: Spencer nailed a corner three. Durant closing out, decided to
[1:12:16] Speaker 1: chirp a little after the shot. But KD was not rolling,
[1:12:21] Speaker 1: ended up putting his fingers in Spencer's face. Desmond Baines
[1:12:23] Speaker 1: stepped in and KD ended up shoving him after they
[1:12:26] Speaker 1: got face-to-face. Close enough to smell each other's breath.
[1:12:29] Speaker 3: Okay. How many points did that kid have at that moment?
[1:12:34] Speaker 1: So after the game, they asked Spencer what KD said
[1:12:36] Speaker 1: to him in that exchange, to which he replied, nah,
[1:12:38] Speaker 1: that stays on the court. Not good for TV. Both
[1:12:46] Speaker 1: were assessed technical fouls, finished the game. So KD actually
[1:12:49] Speaker 1: had a chance at a game winning three, missing just
[1:12:54] Speaker 1: before the buzzer.
[1:12:55] Speaker 2: But let's take another look.
[1:12:57] Speaker 3: What did he say? I want to know what he said.
[1:13:02] Speaker 3: I want to hear what he said. All these videos
[1:13:06] Speaker 3: with audio. Y'all couldn't catch this one?
[1:13:08] Speaker 2: Let you see.
[1:13:09] Speaker 1: I already know.
[1:13:10] Speaker 5: It wasn't something polite.
[1:13:13] Speaker 1: Did he get in touch with somebody else this year?
[1:13:17] Speaker 1: I think KD said you were a bitch-ass N-word man
[1:13:19] Speaker 1: of my liberty skills.
[1:13:21] Speaker 5: Correct.
[1:13:22] Speaker 1: To Cam Spencer.
[1:13:23] Speaker 3: Oh, Cam Spencer, he was hooping.
[1:13:24] Speaker 2: Obviously Caucasian, but.
[1:13:26] Speaker 3: He was hooping a little bit this game.
[1:13:28] Speaker 1: So, how surprising is it to see KD getting trash-talked
[1:13:31] Speaker 1: by a relatively unknown player like Cam Spencer?
[1:13:34] Speaker 2: That's not the issue. That's fine. What is the issue?
[1:13:37] Speaker 1: The respect. I mean, he's on fire. I mean, the
[1:13:41] Speaker 1: kid is on fire.
[1:13:42] Speaker 2: You know what I mean? He's going to hit his fourth, third,
[1:13:44] Speaker 2: fourth three.
[1:13:45] Speaker 1: Yeah, he ain't... Cool.
[1:13:48] Speaker 3: It's entertainment.
[1:13:49] Speaker 2: I'm being gums, goddammit.
[1:13:51] Speaker 6: But he was hooping before that. Like, he had a
[1:13:54] Speaker 6: game or something this year where he was going.
[1:13:56] Speaker 5: That was the highlight of this man.
[1:13:59] Speaker 2: Absolutely.
[1:14:01] Speaker 5: This right here turns him into whatever he's going to be.
[1:14:04] Speaker 3: And that wasn't reserved for KD. Whoever closed out on.
[1:14:07] Speaker 6: Him at that moment was going to get whatever that
[1:14:09] Speaker 6: was happening.
[1:14:09] Speaker 2: But KD is KD.
[1:14:10] Speaker 1: It's just KD, though. It's KD.
[1:14:11] Speaker 2: That's his moment.
[1:14:13] Speaker 1: Yeah. What? Yeah.
[1:14:14] Speaker 2: Did y'all see that, mama?
[1:14:15] Speaker 1: Yeah. That's those moments. How do you think Dylan Brooke
[1:14:19] Speaker 1: was born?
[1:14:19] Speaker 2: And then don't be surprised that KD's reaction to it
[1:14:23] Speaker 2: is what it should be.
[1:14:24] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
[1:14:24] Speaker 2: He say what he say, KD reacted to it.
[1:14:27] Speaker 3: Move on.
[1:14:28] Speaker 2: And now Desmond Bain, see that's the.
[1:14:31] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the Desmond Bain part.
[1:14:32] Speaker 2: See, this is where you... See, this is the problem
[1:14:35] Speaker 2: I have.
[1:14:37] Speaker 1: Right?
[1:14:38] Speaker 2: You walking over there in people's personal space.
[1:14:41] Speaker 3: You got nothing to do with what happened.
[1:14:44] Speaker 2: Dude. Probably just sticking up for me, man. That's fine, man.
[1:14:48] Speaker 2: But you walking.
[1:14:50] Speaker 3: Face to face.
[1:14:51] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
[1:14:52] Speaker 2: See, like I stated yesterday, the whole situation, right? You
[1:14:57] Speaker 2: do that shit to people who you don't think gonna
[1:14:59] Speaker 2: react a certain way.
[1:15:01] Speaker 1: Okay. You think it's gonna go a.
[1:15:03] Speaker 2: Different way, you're not walking up in with them short-ass arms,
[1:15:07] Speaker 2: walking all up on a nigga.
[1:15:08] Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
[1:15:10] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
[1:15:11] Speaker 2: Hook the shit out you, bro. Like, fuck. Yeah, but,
[1:15:14] Speaker 2: you know, KD... He's not, I'm saying some people, I'm
[1:15:16] Speaker 2: not saying everybody ain't built the same way, everybody don't...
[1:15:21] Speaker 2: perceive a threat in every, you know what I'm saying?
[1:15:25] Speaker 1: No, no, we for sure know who's gone. When you little, oh, no,
[1:15:28] Speaker 1: you know who's about that and who's not. Yeah, you're
[1:15:30] Speaker 1: walking up on people that way. That's all I'm saying.
[1:15:31] Speaker 1: You trying to win the game, brother. Like, you explained
[1:15:33] Speaker 1: the situation.
[1:15:34] Speaker 2: Let KD say what he say.
[1:15:35] Speaker 1: It's over. KD putting his finger in his face. That's fine.
[1:15:38] Speaker 2: Let him take up. That's what I'm saying.
[1:15:39] Speaker 1: He bumped his gums. KD said what he said. Let
[1:15:42] Speaker 1: him take up for himself.
[1:15:44] Speaker 2: He stopped.
[1:15:44] Speaker 1: KD didn't say nothing first.
[1:15:46] Speaker 2: You got to take up for yourself first. He said
[1:15:48] Speaker 2: something to KD. Katie called him a bitch. You bitch
[1:15:51] Speaker 2: ass nigga.
[1:15:53] Speaker 1: To Cam Spencer. Yes, which I'm sure he's probably like,
[1:15:56] Speaker 1: thank you. Yes, Katie. Katie called me an N-word. Katie
[1:16:00] Speaker 1: said I'm his N-word. Like, yeah. I'm saying so.
[1:16:04] Speaker 2: Let him take it for himself in that moment. He
[1:16:07] Speaker 2: said something. He said something back. Now, Desmond, you didn't
[1:16:10] Speaker 2: escalate the situation into something new. I just... Just let
[1:16:16] Speaker 2: it go. See, this is where people... Can you think
[1:16:19] Speaker 2: you're tough?
[1:16:19] Speaker 1: No!
[1:16:21] Speaker 2: I don't think I'm tough, but you're just not going
[1:16:22] Speaker 2: to walk in my personal space when it's the situation
[1:16:26] Speaker 2: going on between two people. You inject yourself. It's your teammate.
[1:16:34] Speaker 2: I get it. Grab your teammate.
[1:16:37] Speaker 1: Yeah, no, somebody.
[1:16:37] Speaker 2: Grab your teammate. Don't grab me. Don't walk in between.
[1:16:41] Speaker 2: Don't walk up to me. Grab your teammate. You want
[1:16:43] Speaker 2: to say something, yeah, yeah, fuck you from over here, right?
[1:16:49] Speaker 2: Don't walk up, boom, peep. That's all I'm saying, man.
[1:16:52] Speaker 2: There was no text given, right? Yeah, it's two, double.
[1:16:54] Speaker 1: They both got text.
[1:16:55] Speaker 2: After he's, I'm saying, he escalated to see who got
[1:16:57] Speaker 2: the text, him and who.
[1:16:59] Speaker 1: I think KD got one. I think Cam Spencer got one.
[1:17:01] Speaker 1: And none for Desmond Bain? Wait, nothing to Bain? They
[1:17:03] Speaker 1: got nothing for Bain. And KD double text.
[1:17:06] Speaker 3: See, nothing for Bain?
[1:17:07] Speaker 2: See, that's the dumbest. See, now, right there. See, they
[1:17:10] Speaker 2: escalated it.
[1:17:11] Speaker 5: Now, right there is where the refs, you got to
[1:17:15] Speaker 5: stop this shit.
[1:17:18] Speaker 2: Them two didn't have a problem.
[1:17:20] Speaker 5: They shot him, point faces, he's walking the other way,
[1:17:23] Speaker 5: no threat. Where you guys came in is because of
[1:17:26] Speaker 5: somebody else decided to intervene.
[1:17:29] Speaker 2: It should have been a one tech.
[1:17:32] Speaker 1: Bane. Yeah, man, I already do. Them going down the
[1:17:36] Speaker 1: court talking shit, the play is still moving.
[1:17:39] Speaker 2: Bane is the one who started it. Interjecting yourself.
[1:17:41] Speaker 1: You interjected. Now KD has to defend himself. You escalated
[1:17:44] Speaker 1: the situation.
[1:17:45] Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm giving you the technical for starting it.
[1:17:49] Speaker 2: Because if you move out.
[1:17:50] Speaker 1: Of the way, they just going to walk down the
[1:17:52] Speaker 1: court talking shit. That's it. Nothing. You stop it now.
[1:17:56] Speaker 5: This has got to get involved. So I'm going to
[1:17:58] Speaker 5: go after the person who... Who got it to this point?
[1:18:01] Speaker 5: You instigated and escalated. So he, yeah, he instigated and
[1:18:05] Speaker 5: then the other two people get attacked like, motherfucker, I was.
[1:18:07] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:18:08] Speaker 1: Come on, refs.
[1:18:10] Speaker 2: That's the... Come on, refs. That's the old... Mind your business, man.
[1:18:15] Speaker 1: We get it. That's your teammate. You want to beat
[1:18:16] Speaker 1: up for him.
[1:18:17] Speaker 2: Be able to beat up for him and y'all walk
[1:18:19] Speaker 2: off together, talk shit.
[1:18:20] Speaker 1: That's fine, all that. Man, we're walking.
[1:18:23] Speaker 2: It's in battle. I just think it's just battle. I mean,
[1:18:27] Speaker 2: because he know KD. Like, come on. Like, KD's just,
[1:18:29] Speaker 2: he a hooper. He like to talk shit, hooper.
[1:18:30] Speaker 3: Me too.
[1:18:31] Speaker 6: Like, he not trying to, you know. It's just one
[1:18:33] Speaker 6: of them moments where you're just in the battle. I
[1:18:35] Speaker 6: like the hoop and talk shit. I like the hoop
[1:18:37] Speaker 6: and talk shit.
[1:18:37] Speaker 1: My young boy, my young boy, Hooper. And Spencer had
[1:18:39] Speaker 1: 14 in the game at that point, finished with 16.
[1:18:41] Speaker 2: He's likely feeling himself. That's what I'm saying.
[1:18:44] Speaker 5: He's having his moment. He's feeling himself. If you're a referee, right,
[1:18:49] Speaker 5: what is a double tech for? It cancels each other out.
[1:18:53] Speaker 5: Then don't even do it.
[1:18:56] Speaker 1: True. Let's just play ball. Right?
[1:18:57] Speaker 5: Because, I mean, the idea of one could make a
[1:19:01] Speaker 5: free throw, put it up four, and they could have
[1:19:03] Speaker 5: been the aggressors, right?
[1:19:06] Speaker 1: Like, you don't want Memphis to make theirs, go forward,
[1:19:08] Speaker 1: he miss his.
[1:19:09] Speaker 5: That's unfair advantage, right? You started it, then you get
[1:19:13] Speaker 5: one more point. I look at it like that. I'd
[1:19:15] Speaker 5: rather just say, if I'm going to give both.
[1:19:17] Speaker 2: A double tech.
[1:19:18] Speaker 3: Just leave it alone.
[1:19:19] Speaker 2: There's nothing to call here.
[1:19:21] Speaker 1: I'm not going to blow the whistle on that.
[1:19:23] Speaker 2: Y'all both talking shit. Are y'all done? Like, something else
[1:19:26] Speaker 2: is going to happen within this point of time before
[1:19:29] Speaker 2: the game is over.
[1:19:30] Speaker 5: Like, refs, there's only a few people in the NBA...
[1:19:35] Speaker 5: who don't have a conscience when they're getting angry.
[1:19:39] Speaker 2: There's only a few of those.
[1:19:40] Speaker 5: The rest of the league, these superstars, I'm going to
[1:19:45] Speaker 5: tell you, with KD and Bane, Bane ain't worth KD's.
[1:19:50] Speaker 2: Check if he misses a game.
[1:19:53] Speaker 1: Motherfucker ain't worth $ 300, 000.
[1:19:55] Speaker 2: Right?
[1:19:58] Speaker 5: No, so half the shit you guys are doing, you're
[1:20:01] Speaker 5: doing it for no reason. We have LeBron, Steph, all
[1:20:06] Speaker 5: these guys get into it. What the fuck y'all going
[1:20:09] Speaker 5: to do? It's worth $ 400, 000, $ 500, 000?
[1:20:13] Speaker 1: Shut up.
[1:20:14] Speaker 2: If you're a real one.
[1:20:15] Speaker 1: No, man. If you're a real one, your kid is
[1:20:18] Speaker 1: over there like....
[1:20:24] Speaker 2: I need school clothes.
[1:20:25] Speaker 1: That's y'all's support, buddy.
[1:20:28] Speaker 5: Babe mom over there with the red bottoms and the
[1:20:30] Speaker 5: goddamn Hermes bag.
[1:20:32] Speaker 9: Shut up.
[1:20:32] Speaker 1: Nah. Right?
[1:20:34] Speaker 2: Motherfucker, you going.
[1:20:35] Speaker 1: To spend it on him?
[1:20:36] Speaker 2: Well, somebody going to go without for the month.
[1:20:40] Speaker 5: Nah, you ain't going to.
[1:20:42] Speaker 2: You started putting it in math. Somebody going to go without.
[1:20:45] Speaker 1: For the month. You just gave him a down payment?
[1:20:49] Speaker 1: He's worth a Lambo? Like, yeah.
[1:20:52] Speaker 2: Since you put it like that.
[1:20:53] Speaker 1: Since you put it like that, yeah, he ain't worth
[1:20:57] Speaker 1: no Lambo.
[1:20:58] Speaker 2: Yeah, he escalated the situation, man.
[1:21:01] Speaker 1: It's just part of the game.
[1:21:03] Speaker 2: But he should have been, like I said, he talking shit,
[1:21:04] Speaker 2: he talking shit.
[1:21:06] Speaker 3: Yeah, no text.
[1:21:07] Speaker 2: Bang, stay the fuck away. Now I can see why. See,
[1:21:11] Speaker 2: people think the 80s was tough because they fought.
[1:21:16] Speaker 5: They fought because they only got fine laser tickets.
[1:21:20] Speaker 2: Yes.
[1:21:21] Speaker 1: Jesus.
[1:21:23] Speaker 2: Man, $ 42.
[1:21:24] Speaker 5: You would hit somebody for $ 42.
[1:21:27] Speaker 1: But how do you know Blazer tickets were $ 42, bro?
[1:21:31] Speaker 2: Have you seen their record?
[1:21:32] Speaker 1: It's $ 42.
[1:21:32] Speaker 2: It's fucking $ 42, boy.
[1:21:35] Speaker 1: I'll bet there's so.
[1:21:36] Speaker 3: Much more at stake now.
[1:21:39] Speaker 2: I'm like, listen, that's why they fight so much. It
[1:21:41] Speaker 2: was damn near free. Fight today and play tomorrow.
[1:21:43] Speaker 1: That shit was crazy.
[1:21:44] Speaker 2: No kicking out, no nothing.
[1:21:46] Speaker 1: Nothing.
[1:21:47] Speaker 2: Yo, that shit's crazy.
[1:21:48] Speaker 1: Baby a tech. He said, maybe a text. I mean, you.
[1:21:52] Speaker 2: Whole fight, maybe a text. All right, let's get back going.
[1:21:54] Speaker 1: I can tell you.
[1:21:56] Speaker 2: Get back to it.
[1:21:57] Speaker 5: I can tell you when it started really costing money.
[1:22:00] Speaker 5: When you started seeing Shaquille O'Neal try to.
[1:22:04] Speaker 2: Get into a fight, and he straight phantom punching everybody.
[1:22:09] Speaker 1: Moved up. Yeah!
[1:22:11] Speaker 2: Like, come on, yeah, he ain't trying to get kicked
[1:22:13] Speaker 2: out of this game. Come on, man. Still getting kicked out.
[1:22:15] Speaker 2: You might as well hit it.
[1:22:16] Speaker 5: Yeah, I ain't gonna get kicked out for breaking his door, though.
[1:22:19] Speaker 2: Still, you might, you gonna get kicked out for throwing
[1:22:21] Speaker 2: that mother. You might as well land it.
[1:22:24] Speaker 5: So, there's just some people that, listen, I get it, right?
[1:22:30] Speaker 5: People fucking with you, but there's some people that you
[1:22:34] Speaker 5: just don't throw no punch, dog. You got too much
[1:22:36] Speaker 5: power behind some shit like this, and whoever you hit.
[1:22:40] Speaker 2: Right? Some people.
[1:22:47] Speaker 5: You sitting there eating weights all day, like, yeah, like, no,
[1:22:50] Speaker 5: nobody wants that kind of hit, man.
[1:22:52] Speaker 2: Like, Giannis, don't hit nobody. You don't need to hit nobody, bruh. Who, Giannis?
[1:22:57] Speaker 6: I mean, I wouldn't want to see Giannis hit nobody anyway.
[1:22:59] Speaker 3: I don't want to see none of these guys fighting.
[1:23:01] Speaker 2: I don't want to see none of them. I don't
[1:23:03] Speaker 2: want to see.
[1:23:04] Speaker 1: None of that.
[1:23:05] Speaker 5: Listen, you can chase the motherfucker all around. Just don't
[1:23:07] Speaker 5: land no punches, dawg. Like, nobody trying to be paralyzed.
[1:23:09] Speaker 3: There's not a single NBA player that I'm like, damn,
[1:23:11] Speaker 3: I really want to see him get in a fight.
[1:23:13] Speaker 2: I just want to see, like, Chet and Wimby.
[1:23:17] Speaker 1: That shit look funny.
[1:23:19] Speaker 2: That shit is like a funny-ass fight. It's just going
[1:23:20] Speaker 2: to be a bunch of just bumps.
[1:23:21] Speaker 1: It's just a bunch of bumping and hitting like this
[1:23:23] Speaker 1: and swinging and.
[1:23:24] Speaker 2: Falling, trying to get around. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1:23:27] Speaker 1: Like they got oil on them or some shit like that.
[1:23:29] Speaker 1: Just random. With the tall legs.
[1:23:31] Speaker 3: Big, long-ass fight.
[1:23:33] Speaker 1: Look how paper this is. Like, they did all that,
[1:23:37] Speaker 1: and then they both hit each other at the same time.
[1:23:40] Speaker 1: That's what that look like.
[1:23:43] Speaker 3: Double knockout.
[1:23:45] Speaker 1: So we asked the chat, a problem with Cam Spencer
[1:23:48] Speaker 1: trolling KD. 77% said no. Chad loves smoke here.
[1:23:53] Speaker 2: It's a moment.
[1:23:54] Speaker 1: You feeling them?
[1:23:54] Speaker 2: So you had 14 up to that point?
[1:23:56] Speaker 1: Finished the game with 16.
[1:23:57] Speaker 2: Made this shit on KD.
[1:23:58] Speaker 1: Shit, hell yeah.
[1:23:59] Speaker 2: Hold that. Thankfully it happened in March, not February. It'd
[1:24:02] Speaker 2: be a different conversation.
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[1:25:05] Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about Zion. Pelican season may
[1:25:07] Speaker 1: be cooked as they are currently the second worst team
[1:25:10] Speaker 1: in the Western Conference, but their franchise player is giving
[1:25:12] Speaker 1: the squad reason for optimism as Zion put up another
[1:25:15] Speaker 1: solid performance to help his squad get a win over
[1:25:17] Speaker 1: the Clippers. Let's take a look at some of the
[1:25:19] Speaker 1: highlights if we can. So Zion dropped his second triple-double
[1:25:23] Speaker 1: this season, end of his career, 22 points, 10 rebounds,
[1:25:27] Speaker 1: career-high 12 assists in the game. Let's just take a look. Oh,
[1:25:32] Speaker 1: he looking smooth out there. Let's keep it real.
[1:25:35] Speaker 3: What?
[1:25:35] Speaker 1: So Kawhi led the Clippers with 29 points, eight boards,
[1:25:38] Speaker 1: and 36 minutes of action. Harden had 25 and 17 assists.
[1:25:42] Speaker 1: Not enough to stop Zion and this Pelicans squad.
[1:25:47] Speaker 2: They had all them numbers and still lows?
[1:25:49] Speaker 1: That they did, King.
[1:25:50] Speaker 3: Dang.
[1:25:51] Speaker 2: In New Orleans, though. I don't care.
[1:25:54] Speaker 1: I'm just.
[1:25:55] Speaker 2: Pelicans in the basement. Bourbon Street.
[1:25:57] Speaker 1: They where? Huh? They in the basement. The second worst
[1:26:03] Speaker 1: record in Adam Silver's Western Conference.
[1:26:06] Speaker 2: Zion been looking good lately, though. We got to give
[1:26:08] Speaker 2: him his love. So James had 29-17. Kawhi had 29.
[1:26:11] Speaker 1: Kawhi had 29-8. James had 25-17. 25-17, and they lose.
[1:26:15] Speaker 1: And they did not lose again. I think Zubai's had, like, 19-2.
[1:26:17] Speaker 1: No defense?
[1:26:19] Speaker 2: Yes. They had 25-17, and they lose.
[1:26:23] Speaker 3: They lost to the Pelicans?
[1:26:25] Speaker 1: Well, you know the Clippers gonna flip.
[1:26:26] Speaker 3: Zion, he just brings so much.
[1:26:27] Speaker 5: The most underrated thing about Zion is.
[1:26:32] Speaker 5: He can jump off his left leg also with the
[1:26:35] Speaker 5: same force.
[1:26:38] Speaker 1: J.R.
[1:26:38] Speaker 2: Smith.
[1:26:40] Speaker 5: People know he can jump off the right. A lot
[1:26:44] Speaker 5: of people don't know he can jump off the.
[1:26:48] Speaker 2: Left leg, too, as a right-hander. Mm-hmm.
[1:26:55] Speaker 3: Yeah. He's insane.
[1:26:56] Speaker 2: What's the funniest? And he jumped off too. Yeah. So
[1:26:59] Speaker 2: he's a rare. He's a rarity. He jumped off.
[1:27:03] Speaker 1: I really understand why you said you shouldn't trade him.
[1:27:05] Speaker 3: You can't.
[1:27:06] Speaker 2: Why you can't give him up.
[1:27:07] Speaker 5: Me, right now, I'm going to be thinking about this
[1:27:10] Speaker 5: for the future of.
[1:27:14] Speaker 1: I want.
[1:27:15] Speaker 5: My goal would be trying to move him to the
[1:27:17] Speaker 5: two or the three.
[1:27:20] Speaker 1: Mm. Mm.
[1:27:22] Speaker 5: He's a more powerful Dwayne Wade. Zipper ups, pick and roll.
[1:27:30] Speaker 5: Because he passes the ball.
[1:27:32] Speaker 1: He has vision. He knows how to play point. So
[1:27:37] Speaker 1: keeping him at the four, cool.
[1:27:38] Speaker 5: But him coming downhill, taking people off the dribble, even
[1:27:45] Speaker 5: posting up the twos, and then I can get taller
[1:27:48] Speaker 5: to keep the wear and tear on him. let him
[1:27:50] Speaker 5: bully the fuck out of the guards, right? It's not
[1:27:53] Speaker 5: like he gets beat off the dribble.
[1:27:54] Speaker 2: Or any of that.
[1:27:55] Speaker 5: I would be trying to move him to the two
[1:27:57] Speaker 5: and the three. To save him from all this jumping
[1:28:01] Speaker 5: and trying to block shots in the back with those knees.
[1:28:06] Speaker 5: And I mean, it's just, like, when you look at him,
[1:28:08] Speaker 5: it's like, he's too strong for the fucking forward man
[1:28:13] Speaker 5: out there.
[1:28:14] Speaker 2: He's pushing through them. What if he's sitting there pushing
[1:28:19] Speaker 2: up clay?
[1:28:19] Speaker 5: Like, think about the twos that would be trying to
[1:28:22] Speaker 5: guard him.
[1:28:23] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:28:23] Speaker 2: Zipper up, swing through, like, damn. Okay, just put the
[1:28:26] Speaker 2: ball in his hand like they did with Braun, though. Like, Giannis, Braun.
[1:28:30] Speaker 2: Just fuck, get him the ball, get the fuck out
[1:28:32] Speaker 2: the way. Let him make all the decisions. Like, I
[1:28:35] Speaker 2: think that's where they best suited. So Zion, a lefty,
[1:28:37] Speaker 2: but practically ambidextrous.
[1:28:39] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:28:39] Speaker 2: Because we didn't have any.
[1:28:41] Speaker 1: So, no, that's fair.
[1:28:42] Speaker 2: I mean, if you can get him, I'm definitely.
[1:28:44] Speaker 1: Just give him the ball.
[1:28:45] Speaker 2: Just put the ball in his hand, surround him by shooters,
[1:28:47] Speaker 2: get you a bid, get you... Surround him by shooters,
[1:28:50] Speaker 2: just like they did Giannis. Get... And good luck trying
[1:28:55] Speaker 2: to stop him.
[1:28:56] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:28:57] Speaker 2: Good luck.
[1:28:58] Speaker 3: You just need to stay healthy, man.
[1:28:59] Speaker 2: Like shooters. Yeah, put them on. And they win there, though. Huh?
[1:29:04] Speaker 1: No. Win?
[1:29:05] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:29:06] Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's going to be great seasons, but,
[1:29:08] Speaker 6: I mean, he's going to have great seasons, but is he.
[1:29:10] Speaker 2: I mean, a lot was expected of this squad.
[1:29:12] Speaker 1: Obviously, injuries derailed this season. His peers is, like... Man, listen,
[1:29:16] Speaker 1: let's just be honest. Like, some of these cities are just,
[1:29:18] Speaker 1: they're just capped off.
[1:29:20] Speaker 5: Some of these cities are just, they're just playoffs, they're
[1:29:22] Speaker 5: just playoff teams.
[1:29:23] Speaker 2: First round, they're just happy with that. Willie Green's contract.
[1:29:27] Speaker 2: Willie Green's contract.
[1:29:27] Speaker 1: Right, that's it.
[1:29:28] Speaker 5: Like, so you're looking at, like, a team like, you know,
[1:29:31] Speaker 5: right now, the Blazers, a team like them, Minnesota, nah, man. Charlotte, Utah.
[1:29:42] Speaker 5: These are guys that a great season for them is
[1:29:46] Speaker 5: getting over 45 wins. If they can make it to
[1:29:49] Speaker 5: the playoff, they're going to raise their ticket prices. They
[1:29:53] Speaker 5: don't care about no playoff win.
[1:29:55] Speaker 1: That's bonus. 0-4, cool.
[1:29:57] Speaker 2: They got there.
[1:29:58] Speaker 5: They can sell that. That's a good season for them.
[1:30:02] Speaker 5: He's in one of those cities. He's not in a
[1:30:03] Speaker 5: city that they're thinking we're going to win a championship
[1:30:06] Speaker 5: at some point.
[1:30:07] Speaker 1: There's only five.
[1:30:09] Speaker 2: Or six teams that's going into the season.
[1:30:11] Speaker 5: And they're strategizing the next five years we're trying to
[1:30:13] Speaker 5: win a championship.
[1:30:16] Speaker 1: So Willie Green, to answer your question, got a contract
[1:30:18] Speaker 1: extension back in April of 2024. Details won't report, but
[1:30:21] Speaker 1: I think it's like an additional three years, so he
[1:30:23] Speaker 1: should be there for a while. We know that.
[1:30:26] Speaker 2: Don't mean shit.
[1:30:28] Speaker 1: I understand. Like, I'm not firing him.
[1:30:30] Speaker 2: I'm not firing Chauncey Billups. We know what your teams are, bro. Yeah,
[1:30:34] Speaker 2: that's what I was like. Like, I'm not firing a guy.
[1:30:37] Speaker 5: I know he signed an extension. I mean, like, what
[1:30:38] Speaker 5: am I, like, really, what are we expecting? We've seen
[1:30:41] Speaker 5: what you're drafting, what you're expecting. Like, is my superstar
[1:30:44] Speaker 5: happy with you? That's all I give a fuck about.
[1:30:46] Speaker 2: I don't know. Right? Chauncey's not that good as a team, but, bro,
[1:30:51] Speaker 2: have you watched him defend?
[1:30:52] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:30:54] Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Okay, yeah, them Portland Trailblazers, listen, man.
[1:30:58] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:30:59] Speaker 2: Chauncey Bill is the coach of the Portland Trailblazers.
[1:31:02] Speaker 1: The Portland Trailblazers.
[1:31:03] Speaker 3: Not the Pistons.
[1:31:03] Speaker 1: The head coach of the Portland Trailblazers.
[1:31:06] Speaker 3: Not the Pistons.
[1:31:07] Speaker 1: He played for them. Not JB Bickerstaff, who is the
[1:31:09] Speaker 1: coach of the Pistons.
[1:31:10] Speaker 2: Not that guy.
[1:31:12] Speaker 1: Not him.
[1:31:12] Speaker 2: The other black guy. The other black guy. The other
[1:31:15] Speaker 2: black guy that's the head coach.
[1:31:17] Speaker 1: The other.
[1:31:18] Speaker 2: But they defend like a motherfucker. No, Zion, man, he different.
[1:31:22] Speaker 2: They just got to figure out. They got to figure out.
[1:31:24] Speaker 2: And I think putting the ball in his hand, making
[1:31:26] Speaker 2: him the primary decision maker. will slow him down at times.
[1:31:31] Speaker 2: You force him to play in the half court. You
[1:31:32] Speaker 2: force him to be a certain kind of player and
[1:31:35] Speaker 2: when it's needed, get that rebound and go. But guys
[1:31:38] Speaker 2: get the rebound now, they give it to him. And
[1:31:41] Speaker 2: how they do with Bron and Giannis, they bring it
[1:31:43] Speaker 2: up the floor. They're the predominant decision maker for the guys.
[1:31:46] Speaker 2: I think if you put him in that situation... He'll
[1:31:49] Speaker 2: definitely be flirting with a triple-double. Yeah.
[1:31:52] Speaker 1: Like every night. Yeah, because... Like, he'll be on that
[1:31:55] Speaker 1: type of thing now.
[1:31:56] Speaker 2: Here's why.
[1:31:57] Speaker 1: Him, Jokic.
[1:31:58] Speaker 5: In the post, if he's, like, listen, if a two
[1:32:01] Speaker 5: is guarding him, think about if he's playing against the Cavs.
[1:32:04] Speaker 2: Okay.
[1:32:05] Speaker 5: He gets in the post, you automatically have to double.
[1:32:08] Speaker 1: Right?
[1:32:08] Speaker 5: You're not going to just sit him down there, let
[1:32:11] Speaker 5: him do one move and just jump.
[1:32:13] Speaker 1: Right?
[1:32:13] Speaker 2: So you're forced to double.
[1:32:14] Speaker 1: If he's coming down the lane at any point, you
[1:32:16] Speaker 1: got to collapse.
[1:32:17] Speaker 2: Right?
[1:32:18] Speaker 5: So he can average the eight, nine, ten assists. That's
[1:32:20] Speaker 5: what made Westbrook.
[1:32:23] Speaker 2: High assist.
[1:32:24] Speaker 1: James Harden high assist.
[1:32:25] Speaker 5: Because they're coming downhill so much, these little dump-offs.
[1:32:28] Speaker 1: Like, oh, oh, there we go. Passing, passing just makes
[1:32:31] Speaker 1: it easier.
[1:32:31] Speaker 5: So that would be my moving forward plan for them,
[1:32:35] Speaker 5: trying to see if I can get them down to
[1:32:38] Speaker 5: the shooting.
[1:32:39] Speaker 2: Small forward first in the next two to three years.
[1:32:43] Speaker 1: Work on this ball. Like, this summer, I'll just be
[1:32:45] Speaker 1: working on just ball handling.
[1:32:48] Speaker 5: And try to cut weight as safe as possible.
[1:32:55] Speaker 2: Is his handle better than Braun and Giannis?
[1:33:00] Speaker 1: I mean, from them highlights, he was.
[1:33:02] Speaker 2: I think he handled it better than them two. He
[1:33:05] Speaker 2: probably has a better... Better.
[1:33:07] Speaker 1: Yes.
[1:33:08] Speaker 5: He probably has better moves than a handle, but just, like, Giannis'
[1:33:12] Speaker 5: handles is just.
[1:33:14] Speaker 2: To get to where you need to get to. Yeah,
[1:33:16] Speaker 2: it's just... I'm about to say, yeah.
[1:33:18] Speaker 1: Nah!
[1:33:19] Speaker 6: I know where I'm going with these six dribbles.
[1:33:23] Speaker 2: Like, it's effective, but it's limited.
[1:33:25] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:33:26] Speaker 2: Bronze effective, but it's limited. Yeah. I.
[1:33:32] Speaker 2: Just watching Zion, how he handled it, I don't... I'm
[1:33:35] Speaker 2: trying to.
[1:33:35] Speaker 5: Yeah, he has a better, like, touch to it where, like,
[1:33:38] Speaker 5: if you say, hey, play point guard, pick you up
[1:33:40] Speaker 5: full court.
[1:33:41] Speaker 1: That's what I.
[1:33:42] Speaker 2: He ain't got to turn his back to me.
[1:33:45] Speaker 1: Nah.
[1:33:45] Speaker 2: That's what I'm getting to.
[1:33:46] Speaker 1: Yeah. So let's talk a little bit about Zion in
[1:33:49] Speaker 1: these last 13 games. I've been playing very, very well.
[1:33:52] Speaker 5: But you'd be surprised who don't have handles that looks
[1:33:56] Speaker 5: like they have handles.
[1:33:56] Speaker 2: Like, there's a difference between.
[1:33:58] Speaker 1: Half-court handles and handles. Like... Luka.
[1:34:04] Speaker 2: Luka has handles. Not full court handles.
[1:34:08] Speaker 5: You pick him up full court. Yeah, you pick him
[1:34:09] Speaker 5: up full court. That motherfucker don't know how to.
[1:34:12] Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's this. That's true, but all his moves
[1:34:15] Speaker 2: come from like.
[1:34:18] Speaker 1: Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom, step back.
[1:34:20] Speaker 2: Boom, boom, boom, step back.
[1:34:21] Speaker 1: His moves that he created is for scoring, not bringing
[1:34:25] Speaker 1: the ball up.
[1:34:25] Speaker 2: It's foot placement. But like I said, it's... But Zion
[1:34:30] Speaker 2: got the foot speed, right? It's the foot speed aspect
[1:34:33] Speaker 2: of it. Yeah, you can.
[1:34:35] Speaker 2: Like, Steph got the handle, but he got the motherfucking
[1:34:37] Speaker 2: foot speed to go with the handle, right? You just
[1:34:39] Speaker 2: ain't finna put him in a box and think you
[1:34:41] Speaker 2: gonna full court, half court, no court.
[1:34:44] Speaker 1: You ain't finna.
[1:34:45] Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like, some of them dudes,
[1:34:47] Speaker 2: you can.
[1:34:49] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:34:51] Speaker 2: Respects.
[1:34:52] Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit about Zion these last
[1:34:54] Speaker 1: 13 games. Averaged at 26 points, seven rebounds, six assists,
[1:35:00] Speaker 1: shooting 62% from the field. He's only played in one
[1:35:04] Speaker 1: back-to-back this season, and that was before he missed 27
[1:35:07] Speaker 1: straight games with a left hamstring strain. Played in 27
[1:35:11] Speaker 1: of the Pelican 66 games. What's going on?
[1:35:14] Speaker 2: The numbers?
[1:35:15] Speaker 1: No.
[1:35:15] Speaker 2: What happened? His back messed up. You got a bacchiotomy? Yeah,
[1:35:18] Speaker 2: we got a motherfucker over there getting old.
[1:35:20] Speaker 1: Bacchiotomy. I can see it. I can see it.
[1:35:23] Speaker 2: Oh, shit. Breaking the tramadol.
[1:35:25] Speaker 1: What's going on over there? We were like, what?
[1:35:29] Speaker 2: What's going on over there? We got.
[1:35:32] Speaker 1: We got George over there, man, sitting down, screaming, man,
[1:35:35] Speaker 1: back hurting.
[1:35:36] Speaker 2: I don't know, bro. Shit did not bring the donuts today.
[1:35:38] Speaker 2: I just pointed out to him earlier. That was an
[1:35:40] Speaker 2: extra step.
[1:35:41] Speaker 1: Hey, man, you need to stretch, and when you.
[1:35:44] Speaker 3: Get home, man.
[1:35:44] Speaker 1: The stretch lab is right over here.
[1:35:46] Speaker 2: This motherfucker sitting down now, oh, shit! I hooked him
[1:35:51] Speaker 2: up with the chiropractor. Hit the button. Oh, shit.
[1:35:56] Speaker 1: Motherfucker spasmed him.
[1:35:59] Speaker 2: Get that tramadol or Toradol, whichever you prefer.
[1:36:02] Speaker 1: Like I said, Zion last 13 games averaging. Go ahead. No,
[1:36:07] Speaker 1: let's enjoy it. This is Gil's Arena presentation. We all
[1:36:09] Speaker 1: looked at him like, you all right over there?
[1:36:12] Speaker 5: We thought he was reacting to like the chat or something.
[1:36:14] Speaker 1: Something happened. Doctor said I need a bath. It was
[1:36:22] Speaker 1: a stressful day yesterday. We were back in the arena.
[1:36:24] Speaker 1: Had a lot going on at the Flower Girl Secret Service.
[1:36:28] Speaker 2: The P.F.
[1:36:28] Speaker 1: Changs. Shout out to our crew. It has now been
[1:36:33] Speaker 1: one day since Stephen A. has ducked Gil's arena for
[1:36:36] Speaker 1: the second time. But Zion last 13 games averaged 26 points,
[1:36:40] Speaker 1: 7 rebounds, 6 assists, shooting 62% on the field. Played
[1:36:44] Speaker 1: in one back-to-back this season. That was before he missed
[1:36:46] Speaker 1: 27 straight games with a left hamstring strain. played in
[1:36:50] Speaker 1: 26 of the Pelicans' 66 games this season, but 17
[1:36:53] Speaker 1: of the last 21 games. So Zion was asked about
[1:36:56] Speaker 1: not playing back-to-backs in late January, had this to say.
[1:37:00] Speaker 8: Let me make this clear to everybody out there. If
[1:37:04] Speaker 8: I can play in the back-to-backs, I would. I physically, yes,
[1:37:08] Speaker 8: I can. But I work for the Pelicans. They have
[1:37:14] Speaker 8: decided that based off the numbers, you know, It's not
[1:37:18] Speaker 8: smart to do that right now. So, you know, if
[1:37:21] Speaker 8: that's what they feel, I'm rocking with them on that.
[1:37:23] Speaker 8: But yes, if I could play in a back-to-back, I would.
[1:37:27] Speaker 1: So Pelicans have 16 games remaining on the schedule. Kenya,
[1:37:30] Speaker 1: as you pointed out, they are a high pack of mid.
[1:37:33] Speaker 1: Second worst record in the Western Conference right now. How
[1:37:36] Speaker 1: cautious should the Pelicans be with Zion moving forward this season? Very.
[1:37:41] Speaker 3: Very.
[1:37:43] Speaker 2: Also have the claws in his contract. White gloves.
[1:37:45] Speaker 1: White gloves.
[1:37:49] Speaker 2: He's their future.
[1:37:50] Speaker 3: What is the point?
[1:37:51] Speaker 2: He's their future. So whatever they gotta do to protect
[1:37:58] Speaker 2: that investment and that future and keep putting bodies in
[1:38:00] Speaker 2: them seats, that's what they need to do. The record
[1:38:05] Speaker 2: is what it is at this point of the season.
[1:38:09] Speaker 2: You're not playing for anything, so yeah, you gotta be smart.
[1:38:12] Speaker 2: I ain't saying just to totally sit in, but definitely
[1:38:16] Speaker 2: be smart. And playing for the future, cuz that's what
[1:38:20] Speaker 2: it is at this point. Get somebody to play next
[1:38:24] Speaker 2: to him, CJ, those guys. Yeah, very smart. That's how
[1:38:31] Speaker 2: they should handle this situation with Zion moving forward.
[1:38:35] Speaker 1: Lexi, I'll call you to think the Pelicans. Do you
[1:38:36] Speaker 1: agree with what Kanye's saying? Oh, yeah.
[1:38:38] Speaker 3: But it's also nice to see Zion in good spirits.
[1:38:40] Speaker 3: He's excited to play. His body looks good. So I
[1:38:44] Speaker 3: think the Pelicans, they can be excited for the future
[1:38:47] Speaker 3: with Zion. He's He needs to be bought in with
[1:38:49] Speaker 3: what they got going on. They're playing for him. And
[1:38:52] Speaker 3: his numbers are crazy. So again, when everyone was like,
[1:38:55] Speaker 3: they need to trade him, they need to come up offside.
[1:38:57] Speaker 3: And I just like, you can't come off a player
[1:38:59] Speaker 3: like that. You just gotta be patient and hope for
[1:39:03] Speaker 3: the best.
[1:39:04] Speaker 2: Let me just throw this one thing. I want him
[1:39:05] Speaker 2: to go, I don't know who. I'm pretty sure there
[1:39:07] Speaker 2: is a thing these days. I've never had the researcher
[1:39:11] Speaker 2: to use it. I'm pretty sure there's a hamstring specialist
[1:39:14] Speaker 2: out there somewhere.
[1:39:16] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
[1:39:17] Speaker 2: That specifically deals with hamstring. Because that's been his thing
[1:39:24] Speaker 2: as of late. All that power. That twerk, that get
[1:39:28] Speaker 2: up and go is from zero to 60. And fucking
[1:39:33] Speaker 2: point whatever seconds. He needed to go find somebody to
[1:39:35] Speaker 2: help him deal with hamstrings, teach him how to stretch properly,
[1:39:38] Speaker 2: how to deal with those things, and to avoid this
[1:39:42] Speaker 2: moving forward. Cause it's been a thing as of the
[1:39:44] Speaker 2: last couple of seasons, like hamstring shit has been. That's
[1:39:47] Speaker 2: where his power's at. Yeah. Take care of it. Yeah.
[1:39:49] Speaker 1: But other than that, yeah. I did a quick Google search.
[1:39:53] Speaker 1: We've got a big time doctor in Finland. I'm not
[1:39:55] Speaker 1: going to try to pronounce his name. Somebody in Miami.
[1:40:00] Speaker 2: Hey, man, you're in Finland, motherfucker.
[1:40:04] Speaker 1: You got a game in Finland, motherfucker.
[1:40:05] Speaker 2: That's where it's at.
[1:40:06] Speaker 1: I could probably give him a lot of advice on it.
[1:40:08] Speaker 2: I've been to Helsinki before. That's where it is? I've
[1:40:12] Speaker 2: been to Helsinki, Finland before. Very nice place to turn up.
[1:40:14] Speaker 2: I'm 12 years old.
[1:40:17] Speaker 1: You went out for a year. You definitely got to
[1:40:19] Speaker 1: be cautious with him. It's one of those things where.
[1:40:25] Speaker 2: I don't want to sit him.
[1:40:26] Speaker 1: I want him to play.
[1:40:27] Speaker 2: You know, the one thing that he's done missed is games.
[1:40:31] Speaker 1: Right.
[1:40:31] Speaker 5: I mean, you can see, like, even though speculations that
[1:40:34] Speaker 5: he don't want to play basketball, you can see every
[1:40:35] Speaker 5: time he talks when he's talking about basketball.
[1:40:38] Speaker 2: It's joy.
[1:40:41] Speaker 1: It's one of those conversations, you know, about we got
[1:40:45] Speaker 1: this many games left.
[1:40:46] Speaker 2: What do you want to do?
[1:40:48] Speaker 1: Right.
[1:40:48] Speaker 5: This is what I'm trying to do for you. Like,
[1:40:50] Speaker 5: you know, next year, we're going to get the number
[1:40:53] Speaker 5: one or number two pick. We're going to get, you know,
[1:40:55] Speaker 5: Cooper Flagg or Ace Bailey here to help you, right?
[1:40:58] Speaker 1: Let's just be honest, right?
[1:41:01] Speaker 5: We're going to get one of them two long motherfuckers
[1:41:03] Speaker 5: over here to play with you. And, you know, we're
[1:41:06] Speaker 5: thinking that you healthy, we got a chance to make
[1:41:09] Speaker 5: the playoffs next year. So, you know, I don't want
[1:41:12] Speaker 5: to risk your health. So how do you want to
[1:41:15] Speaker 5: play this?
[1:41:16] Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, let him be a part.
[1:41:18] Speaker 1: Of the decision-making.
[1:41:19] Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
[1:41:21] Speaker 1: Right? You know, that's all sometimes players.
[1:41:23] Speaker 2: Want to be.
[1:41:23] Speaker 5: Like, you coming in and talking about, yeah, we're not
[1:41:25] Speaker 5: going to play you these games, and boom, boom, boom,
[1:41:26] Speaker 5: and you're like, oh, damn.
[1:41:28] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:41:29] Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
[1:41:30] Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's basic spirit. Yeah.
[1:41:31] Speaker 6: Because the way he was saying, well, you know, I
[1:41:33] Speaker 6: work for the Pelicans, so if it's on me, I'll
[1:41:35] Speaker 6: play back-to-back.
[1:41:36] Speaker 5: So it's like having that real conversation, just open up,
[1:41:39] Speaker 5: you know, about what the plans are, what you're thinking,
[1:41:42] Speaker 5: what the plans is for me. Then you're going to
[1:41:44] Speaker 5: be like, okay, I get it.
[1:41:46] Speaker 1: You know, let me.
[1:41:47] Speaker 5: Let me play three more games then, coach. Let me
[1:41:50] Speaker 5: just go ahead and dunk on a couple more fuckers.
[1:41:53] Speaker 2: This contract ain't poor guaranteed.
[1:41:56] Speaker 1: Contract, non-guaranteed, has clauses in it that can void the contract.
[1:42:00] Speaker 1: I believe in the second year, that deal has three
[1:42:01] Speaker 1: years remaining, if I'm not mistaken.
[1:42:02] Speaker 2: So, yeah, I'm going to just put the ball in
[1:42:04] Speaker 2: their hands.
[1:42:05] Speaker 1: That motherfucker, listen. I got the leverage over you. I
[1:42:09] Speaker 1: don't need to use it.
[1:42:11] Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
[1:42:12] Speaker 1: It's like.
[1:42:13] Speaker 2: Trade me. Yeah. Yeah, because you don't want that. Like,
[1:42:16] Speaker 2: so I was like, listen.
[1:42:16] Speaker 1: Right, I'm like.
[1:42:17] Speaker 3: And that's.
[1:42:17] Speaker 2: Why I won't even, because I don't want that. I
[1:42:19] Speaker 2: don't want that.
[1:42:20] Speaker 1: I don't want that trade me bullshit.
[1:42:23] Speaker 3: I feel disrespected.
[1:42:24] Speaker 2: I'm going to just be honest. Let's say he is healthy.
[1:42:26] Speaker 2: Not like we done processed his motherfucker.
[1:42:27] Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you good. And the Claws say I take
[1:42:31] Speaker 1: $ 10 million from you this year.
[1:42:34] Speaker 2: I don't think I'm going to take it.
[1:42:36] Speaker 5: Like, yeah, I know, look, you're supposed to get this,
[1:42:38] Speaker 5: you know, but I'm going to go ahead and let
[1:42:40] Speaker 5: you keep this. This motherfucker what? You see that face
[1:42:43] Speaker 5: King made? He might even say, thank you, boss, for appreciating.
[1:42:47] Speaker 1: These few little 10 million you're going to give to me.
[1:42:50] Speaker 5: And that's, you have to be like, everybody, you can't
[1:42:56] Speaker 5: treat like business deals. Some people bring a little bit
[1:43:00] Speaker 5: more to the table than, And as a business owner,
[1:43:05] Speaker 5: you got to treat them just as such, right? So
[1:43:08] Speaker 5: if I have a clause that say, I don't need
[1:43:09] Speaker 5: to give you this, and you look healthy than a motherfucker,
[1:43:12] Speaker 5: I'm going to ease your brain. Hey, don't even worry
[1:43:16] Speaker 5: about this little clause. You're going to get your full,
[1:43:19] Speaker 5: your little full money. Obviously, he's had injury issues, but
[1:43:21] Speaker 5: they got him at a great deal. I think three years,
[1:43:22] Speaker 5: around like $ 125, $ 126 million left on the contract, about $ 40,
[1:43:24] Speaker 5: $ 42- ish a year. These currency because you have all lessons
[1:43:32] Speaker 5: that you had you you you have all the power
[1:43:34] Speaker 5: in your hand, man You you you don't have to
[1:43:37] Speaker 5: You don't have to use it Right, you know, I
[1:43:40] Speaker 5: know I want him to be mentally Thinking about basketball
[1:43:44] Speaker 5: not thinking about mom and I lost 20 30 million
[1:43:47] Speaker 5: this year my god That ain't helping a player out.
[1:43:51] Speaker 2: So y'all think... Might as well, motherfucker. He took it already.
[1:43:56] Speaker 2: Might as well. And that's what motherfuckers go through. He
[1:43:59] Speaker 2: took it already. I'm making.
[1:44:02] Speaker 5: Listen, I'm making 40, but I could be making 60.
[1:44:06] Speaker 5: That 40 is irrelevant in my mind when I'm not happy. Like,
[1:44:10] Speaker 5: people need to understand, like, at a certain level, it's
[1:44:14] Speaker 5: actually not about money.
[1:44:16] Speaker 1: We're not... We're not wired... We're not wired mentally to
[1:44:22] Speaker 1: think about billions.
[1:44:24] Speaker 5: They done instilled championship.
[1:44:28] Speaker 2: And plan and doing this.
[1:44:30] Speaker 1: So you give me one.
[1:44:31] Speaker 5: Max contract, that second max contract is more ego than
[1:44:36] Speaker 5: it is like, you know, you got 300 on the table.
[1:44:41] Speaker 2: But what about my parking spot?
[1:44:44] Speaker 5: You know, I like this, you know, because my parking spot,
[1:44:47] Speaker 5: I like to sit, I like to park right there
[1:44:48] Speaker 5: so I can get out early. I done had, I'm
[1:44:50] Speaker 5: averaging like 29 in that parking spot. And he's like, yeah,
[1:44:53] Speaker 5: we're not giving you that parking spot. 300 here, 250 there.
[1:44:59] Speaker 1: I'm going for the 250.
[1:45:00] Speaker 3: With my parking spot.
[1:45:03] Speaker 2: Yeah, he gave me a parking spot.
[1:45:04] Speaker 1: He done gave me these tickets, he done did this.
[1:45:06] Speaker 1: He made me feel like I'm wanted.
[1:45:09] Speaker 2: And that's the.
[1:45:09] Speaker 1: And valued.
[1:45:10] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the value of the.
[1:45:13] Speaker 5: Even though everybody be like, you better give me that 50.
[1:45:15] Speaker 5: I can make my own parking spot.
[1:45:17] Speaker 2: We know that. I'm going to park there anyway. Give
[1:45:20] Speaker 2: me the 50. I'm going to park there anyway.
[1:45:24] Speaker 5: NBA players more about, it's principle.
[1:45:27] Speaker 2: It's more ego.
[1:45:28] Speaker 5: What got us there is the ego. Sometimes what hurt
[1:45:32] Speaker 5: us too is the ego.
[1:45:34] Speaker 1: Facts. So we asked the chat, should Zion play back-to-backs?
[1:45:39] Speaker 1: So 61% of the chat who are not licensed physicians said,
[1:45:42] Speaker 1: Said yes. Is Zion still a player? Of course.
[1:45:44] Speaker 2: Back-to-back.
[1:45:45] Speaker 1: But you guys say they can start easing all these
[1:45:48] Speaker 1: restrictions they have on them maybe next season once they
[1:45:50] Speaker 1: have a fresh start and opportunity to.
[1:45:51] Speaker 2: Actually do something.
[1:45:52] Speaker 3: Maybe they're in contention for something. Maybe they're alive.
[1:45:54] Speaker 2: What about the love of the game? I like how
[1:45:58] Speaker 2: they use no back-to-backs. Load management.
[1:46:03] Speaker 5: But no one calls it out when you hear the
[1:46:07] Speaker 5: players say, it's them.
[1:46:08] Speaker 3: You know, they just got elected today.
[1:46:10] Speaker 2: Views of me.
[1:46:11] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:46:12] Speaker 5: I mean, we done seen, we know who got blamed,
[1:46:16] Speaker 5: but we know who's calling the shots.
[1:46:19] Speaker 2: Right?
[1:46:19] Speaker 1: It's one of those.
[1:46:20] Speaker 2: Things where.
[1:46:22] Speaker 5: If you're going to load, manage, it should be something
[1:46:25] Speaker 5: around the league.
[1:46:27] Speaker 3: Does there have to be an official announcement that someone's
[1:46:29] Speaker 3: not playing back-to-backs?
[1:46:31] Speaker 1: No. No.
[1:46:32] Speaker 3: For like, I mean, some of the, and we just finally.
[1:46:37] Speaker 2: Be like, oh, I wonder if he's wrong.
[1:46:39] Speaker 3: As a, as a, bad business. As a fan, bad business.
[1:46:43] Speaker 3: So be like, no, not.
[1:46:44] Speaker 5: To get, but as a fan, like some of these
[1:46:46] Speaker 5: people are, they're buying tickets a year in advance, they
[1:46:49] Speaker 5: get the schedule, they saving up, like, I'm saving up,
[1:46:52] Speaker 5: you know, let's say, as soon as the schedule comes,
[1:46:54] Speaker 5: Steph Curry's gonna.
[1:46:55] Speaker 2: Be here, and I can fly. Me and my family,
[1:46:58] Speaker 2: we gonna fly. We gonna see him here.
[1:47:00] Speaker 1: And then he don't show up.
[1:47:02] Speaker 2: Not even fly there. They're the closest NBA city. They
[1:47:06] Speaker 2: drive into this fucking game and not to see Steph
[1:47:08] Speaker 2: Curry play. Yeah, so it's like one of those things.
[1:47:10] Speaker 5: If you're gonna, like, as a coach, as an organization,
[1:47:14] Speaker 5: understand this. If you're gonna save your guy 10, 15 games,
[1:47:21] Speaker 5: be it on your dollar, not on.
[1:47:25] Speaker 2: The opposing team's dollar.
[1:47:28] Speaker 1: Right?
[1:47:28] Speaker 5: I don't want you to come to, if I'm Memphis
[1:47:31] Speaker 5: and Bron's coming in.
[1:47:32] Speaker 2: Town, I'm getting paid. This is a win for me.
[1:47:37] Speaker 1: Right?
[1:47:38] Speaker 5: We making a little bit of money because of Bron's
[1:47:40] Speaker 5: coming in town. Don't sit Bron on my watch.
[1:47:42] Speaker 3: Y'all got 41 home games.
[1:47:46] Speaker 2: He only come in here two times. Once, maybe.
[1:47:49] Speaker 1: Yeah, once, yeah.
[1:47:50] Speaker 2: You know, Giannis come.
[1:47:51] Speaker 1: In here one time. Right?
[1:47:52] Speaker 2: Don't sit Giannis on me.
[1:47:54] Speaker 1: You got fucking 41 games you can sit him on
[1:47:57] Speaker 1: your dot. Your fans get the privilege to pick and
[1:48:00] Speaker 1: choose the games.
[1:48:01] Speaker 5: I done bought my ticket six months in advance.
[1:48:03] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:48:04] Speaker 5: I don't, and I think that if we're going to,
[1:48:06] Speaker 5: if you're going to sit your.
[1:48:06] Speaker 1: Guy, be mindful of the road team.
[1:48:09] Speaker 5: Sit your guys at home, because they done bought the
[1:48:12] Speaker 5: whole ticket season.
[1:48:13] Speaker 1: For home games. It should be a league mandate. Yeah,
[1:48:16] Speaker 1: league mandate.
[1:48:17] Speaker 2: They should send that memo out to every team, right?
[1:48:19] Speaker 1: Right when the schedule come out.
[1:48:20] Speaker 2: Right when the schedule come out, it should be part
[1:48:22] Speaker 2: of it, right? You got to be mindful. You playing
[1:48:24] Speaker 2: in this shit.
[1:48:25] Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm serious.
[1:48:26] Speaker 2: You can plan it. If you're healthy.
[1:48:28] Speaker 1: If David Stern was... Yeah. David Stern would have been
[1:48:30] Speaker 1: on top of this already.
[1:48:31] Speaker 3: David Stern would have been this.
[1:48:32] Speaker 1: Garrow.
[1:48:34] Speaker 3: That's a fucking thing.
[1:48:35] Speaker 5: 80s, 90s.
[1:48:36] Speaker 1: Yeah, all that missing.
[1:48:37] Speaker 3: This would have been handled already.
[1:48:39] Speaker 2: LeBron missing that All-Star game?
[1:48:40] Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
[1:48:41] Speaker 5: Like the credit for the 80s and the 90s, right?
[1:48:45] Speaker 5: they really thought about fans. When you talk about MJ,
[1:48:51] Speaker 5: you talk about Cobes and that idea of someone's coming
[1:48:56] Speaker 5: here to see me for the first time.
[1:48:58] Speaker 1: There's 20,000 people. I don't want to leave someone.
[1:49:02] Speaker 5: They came all the way from somewhere, spent all this money,
[1:49:04] Speaker 5: and they didn't see me play.
[1:49:05] Speaker 2: So if I'm available, I'm going to play.
[1:49:08] Speaker 5: Last year in Washington, people don't realize, this is last year, he.
[1:49:13] Speaker 1: Played all 82 games.
[1:49:16] Speaker 2: He went to every city.
[1:49:17] Speaker 5: This is, like, he showed up because he knew people
[1:49:20] Speaker 5: was coming in to.
[1:49:21] Speaker 2: See his last hurrah. So he was there, available.
[1:49:24] Speaker 1: They said, man, the man was pulling black tar out
[1:49:27] Speaker 1: his kneecap. Damn.
[1:49:27] Speaker 2: Talking about, yeah, you don't need to play. Man, this
[1:49:31] Speaker 2: is my last go-around.
[1:49:32] Speaker 1: Like, I'm... Right. They came to see me.
[1:49:33] Speaker 2: Fuck it. You know?
[1:49:35] Speaker 1: I mean, the mentality is different in the 80s and 90s. Yeah,
[1:49:37] Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, but it should be mandated. Don't
[1:49:40] Speaker 1: miss the run.
[1:49:40] Speaker 3: It's not an impossible thing to do.
[1:49:43] Speaker 2: Because I'm selling packages on, you know what I mean?
[1:49:45] Speaker 2: Put your team, put the game, the fans and shit first.
[1:49:49] Speaker 2: Because they're paying their hard-earned money for it, man. You know,
[1:49:52] Speaker 2: I'm selling, like, listen, I got, let's say, I got Memphis.
[1:49:55] Speaker 2: Have you ever taken a family to the game?
[1:49:57] Speaker 1: Like, I was at Memphis, Charlotte, Lakers. Yeah, I can
[1:50:01] Speaker 1: sell that for top solid.
[1:50:02] Speaker 6: Like, seriously, it's like two grand, $ 2, 500, just for, like,
[1:50:05] Speaker 6: just sitting there, like.
[1:50:07] Speaker 3: It's an expensive outing.
[1:50:09] Speaker 1: Parking is expensive as well.
[1:50:11] Speaker 2: You got it.
[1:50:12] Speaker 1: Parking. Parking.
[1:50:13] Speaker 2: And then they're going to want something to eat.
[1:50:15] Speaker 1: They're going to want a gift.
[1:50:17] Speaker 2: The kid want a basketball.
[1:50:18] Speaker 1: Jersey.
[1:50:19] Speaker 5: Jersey.
[1:50:20] Speaker 1: The flyer. Whatever it is. Hat. Scully. T-shirt.
[1:50:24] Speaker 2: Jerk.
[1:50:24] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:50:25] Speaker 2: You walk out of that motherfucker $ 1, 000 light.
[1:50:27] Speaker 1: You got to hit the vendors on the street and
[1:50:29] Speaker 1: walk down a little bit. Some of the fans give
[1:50:32] Speaker 1: a fuck about the wind and the good game. My
[1:50:35] Speaker 1: son came to see him. Nigga in a suit.
[1:50:38] Speaker 2: Like that? Yeah, him over there. Yeah.
[1:50:40] Speaker 1: The game-winner. Yeah, we see all that. My son just
[1:50:42] Speaker 1: sitting there looking. Not worried about it.
[1:50:47] Speaker 2: Why you ain't play? Why you ain't play, boy? Why
[1:50:51] Speaker 2: you ain't buy a ticket where he was playing? My
[1:50:53] Speaker 2: son asks me all the time this year. My six-year-old
[1:50:55] Speaker 2: asks me all the time. KJ was with Philly by Joel.
[1:50:59] Speaker 2: Why Joel and B not playing? Why he not playing? Dad,
[1:51:03] Speaker 2: when Joel go play? Like, all the time. Who's your
[1:51:06] Speaker 2: son's favorite player right now? Oh, LeBron.
[1:51:10] Speaker 1: Okay. How do you feel about LeBron's son?
[1:51:14] Speaker 2: He's just dad. He's the family now. He's still LeBron.
[1:51:18] Speaker 2: He's still LeBron. And them kids love LeBron.
[1:51:21] Speaker 1: It's 1A and 1B.
[1:51:23] Speaker 2: LeBron and KJ. Right? KJ is 1B. Man, I wish
[1:51:30] Speaker 2: I was recording. I ain't even in the equation, so shit.
[1:51:35] Speaker 2: I wish I was recording Bronny's first game. Elijah was
[1:51:40] Speaker 2: sitting down.
[1:51:40] Speaker 5: And he was like, yo, let me know when he's
[1:51:42] Speaker 5: getting in the game, right? Because he wanted to see
[1:51:44] Speaker 5: the moment.
[1:51:46] Speaker 2: You know, the play where.
[1:51:49] Speaker 5: Bronny got the ball, passes back to Bron, and then
[1:51:51] Speaker 5: he was, like, open, and he didn't pass it to him?
[1:51:54] Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
[1:51:56] Speaker 2: That motherfucker just hating.
[1:51:58] Speaker 1: He got all the fucking points and he just hating
[1:52:00] Speaker 1: on Bronny.
[1:52:01] Speaker 2: Man, fuck him.
[1:52:03] Speaker 1: I was like, yo, relax, he's nervous. But I never
[1:52:07] Speaker 1: seen him get so mad. You was happy for it?
[1:52:11] Speaker 1: Because it was one of those things that Ronnie was open, but...
[1:52:14] Speaker 1: Swing it!
[1:52:15] Speaker 2: Swing it, motherfucker! Ain't that like... He was like, yo.
[1:52:18] Speaker 5: Like, I'm like, dude, I wish I had it because
[1:52:21] Speaker 5: I guarantee you all the kids was thinking the same thing.
[1:52:26] Speaker 2: He passed it.
[1:52:27] Speaker 1: Then he went right there and you give it back, goddamn!
[1:52:31] Speaker 2: So he get his little truck off and it was... Hey, man, daddy.
[1:52:36] Speaker 2: Daddy old hate-ass.
[1:52:37] Speaker 1: He trying to get his little points.
[1:52:39] Speaker 2: You over there with all the points.
[1:52:40] Speaker 1: You want to shoot your little step back? I was like,
[1:52:45] Speaker 1: this is the funniest shit ever.
[1:52:48] Speaker 5: I want to know how many parents heard the same thing.
[1:52:52] Speaker 5: You LeBron fans became Bronny fans, and you was mad
[1:52:55] Speaker 5: at Bron for not passing his son the ball.
[1:52:57] Speaker 2: When he was open right there. Swing, swing.
[1:53:01] Speaker 1: Swing, swing, motherfucker. Swing, swing, motherfucker. So Zion Williamson, former
[1:53:05] Speaker 1: number one pick out of Duke.
[1:53:06] Speaker 2: Let's talk about another.
[1:53:08] Speaker 1: Presumptive 2025 number one overall pick. Cooper Flagg helped Duke
[1:53:12] Speaker 1: clinch the ACC regular season title this past weekend with
[1:53:15] Speaker 1: a win in North Carolina. Flagg also dropped 28 points
[1:53:18] Speaker 1: in Duke's win over Wake Forest last week. And fans chanted,
[1:53:22] Speaker 1: one more year. as he was subbed out for what
[1:53:24] Speaker 1: could be his last home game. Let's take a listen.
[1:53:27] Speaker 1: Send off OB.
[1:53:31] Speaker 3: Doing big this year.
[1:53:33] Speaker 1: One more year. One more year. They say.
[1:53:42] Speaker 3: That every year.
[1:53:43] Speaker 1: Kelly and Ralph.
[1:53:44] Speaker 2: It's entertaining.
[1:53:45] Speaker 3: His parents said, no, no.
[1:53:48] Speaker 1: I think they might have said, run it back. Move around.
[1:53:51] Speaker 1: That is an international move around symbol.
[1:53:53] Speaker 3: Run it back.
[1:53:55] Speaker 2: In Caucasian, that is run it back.
[1:53:56] Speaker 1: Run it back. So Cameron Crazy wanted him to stay.
[1:53:59] Speaker 1: Got excited by the fact he seemed to signal run
[1:54:01] Speaker 1: it back to them as they chanted one more year.
[1:54:03] Speaker 1: So last month in an article published by The Athletic,
[1:54:05] Speaker 1: Flagg was quoted as saying, I want to.
[1:54:08] Speaker 2: Come back next year.
[1:54:10] Speaker 1: As of right now, the three teams tied with the
[1:54:12] Speaker 1: best odds to win the lottery are the Wizards, Hornets,
[1:54:15] Speaker 1: and Jazz. So in the world of NIL, Flagg can
[1:54:18] Speaker 1: still make good bread if he doesn't like those potential options.
[1:54:22] Speaker 1: Believe Cooper Flagg will return to Duke or enter the
[1:54:24] Speaker 1: NBA draft. Going to the NBA.
[1:54:27] Speaker 6: $ 60 million online.
[1:54:29] Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
[1:54:32] Speaker 6: I mean, college was fun, but it's time to, you know.
[1:54:36] Speaker 2: Give him my money.
[1:54:37] Speaker 6: He got his shoe deal already with New Balance.
[1:54:41] Speaker 1: Lexi, you went to Duke, didn't you?
[1:54:42] Speaker 2: If he really wanted to be a college student, he
[1:54:43] Speaker 2: would have stayed his ass at, he reclassified, correct? To
[1:54:47] Speaker 2: go up, right?
[1:54:48] Speaker 7: To go up.
[1:54:48] Speaker 1: What the fuck do.
[1:54:50] Speaker 2: You think he's going to do? Spend more time in college. No,
[1:54:52] Speaker 2: not a chance. Duke education?
[1:54:54] Speaker 1: No, he could have been an incoming freshman next year
[1:54:57] Speaker 1: if he wanted to.
[1:54:58] Speaker 3: He's smart because what are they going to say? I
[1:54:59] Speaker 3: can't wait to get out of here? Like, you're not
[1:55:01] Speaker 3: going to say that?
[1:55:02] Speaker 1: Yes, you can.
[1:55:02] Speaker 3: Yes, you can.
[1:55:03] Speaker 2: You know he's leaving.
[1:55:04] Speaker 3: Right, but why would you just say that?
[1:55:06] Speaker 2: 60 million? People went to Kentucky and knew them dudes
[1:55:09] Speaker 2: were one and done. They go to Duke, Kentucky.
[1:55:12] Speaker 3: The crazies know. It happens every year.
[1:55:14] Speaker 1: One and done.
[1:55:14] Speaker 3: Every year. They come in and they leave.
[1:55:17] Speaker 1: Absolutely.
[1:55:18] Speaker 2: Zion, Marvin.
[1:55:20] Speaker 3: All of them.
[1:55:20] Speaker 2: You name it. We go back to Kyrie.
[1:55:24] Speaker 1: Kyrie, 11 games.
[1:55:25] Speaker 2: Corey Maggette.
[1:55:27] Speaker 1: You name them. It's just fun.
[1:55:29] Speaker 3: They just have fun.
[1:55:30] Speaker 1: They know.
[1:55:31] Speaker 2: They've been one lead.
[1:55:33] Speaker 3: They just want to make them feel good.
[1:55:34] Speaker 1: I'm going to have that conversation.
[1:55:35] Speaker 2: What about Christian Lander, though?
[1:55:37] Speaker 1: Can you?
[1:55:38] Speaker 2: And Grant Hill, four years, absolutely, all of them.
[1:55:39] Speaker 1: Bobby Hurley, all of them.
[1:55:40] Speaker 2: What about getting an education? And how they used that education.
[1:55:45] Speaker 2: See how they worked out for all of them. How
[1:55:47] Speaker 2: they used that education.
[1:55:48] Speaker 1: Whatever they studied in school, is they using it today? No.
[1:55:51] Speaker 1: No study.
[1:55:52] Speaker 3: He out of there.
[1:55:54] Speaker 2: Guarantee Grant Hill didn't go to journalism, broadcast school.
[1:55:58] Speaker 1: Guarantee he didn't go to Buffalo, how to go run
[1:56:00] Speaker 1: USA basketball. He didn't.
[1:56:03] Speaker 3: I want to shout out the women's team. They just
[1:56:04] Speaker 3: won the ACC tournament. So shout out to the women.
[1:56:08] Speaker 3: Just wanted to say that.
[1:56:09] Speaker 1: So they both balling.
[1:56:11] Speaker 5: If I'm the team, I'm going to tell them, listen,
[1:56:13] Speaker 5: I know you're leaving.
[1:56:14] Speaker 2: But look, hey, can you announce it after... I sell
[1:56:19] Speaker 2: these season tickets.
[1:56:20] Speaker 1: We raising the prices. No, that's rude. Let me sell
[1:56:23] Speaker 1: these season tickets for next year before you eat now, okay?
[1:56:27] Speaker 2: That's all I'm asking. Listen, it don't matter.
[1:56:30] Speaker 3: It don't matter.
[1:56:31] Speaker 2: They got somebody else coming next year. And that's why
[1:56:33] Speaker 2: he won't.
[1:56:33] Speaker 1: We got the boozer boys coming in already, right? That's
[1:56:36] Speaker 1: why he won't. So, listen, it don't even matter. Them
[1:56:38] Speaker 1: seats are sold.
[1:56:39] Speaker 2: Yeah, you got the same.
[1:56:40] Speaker 1: Small arena.
[1:56:41] Speaker 2: Them seats are sold.
[1:56:43] Speaker 1: You got the number one player in the class coming in.
[1:56:46] Speaker 2: It's the same position, so. Yeah, that's why.
[1:56:49] Speaker 1: Absolutely.
[1:56:50] Speaker 2: It's just like Marvin left. Zion left. Marvin was coming in.
[1:56:53] Speaker 2: They just keep recycling. Six, nine guys that can play basketball.
[1:56:58] Speaker 5: If he publicly say, hey, I'm staying, booze are going
[1:57:03] Speaker 5: to be like, Really?
[1:57:04] Speaker 3: Oh, really?
[1:57:06] Speaker 1: Oh, really? Hey, what's that other school around the corner?
[1:57:10] Speaker 3: They ain't nobody going there. Is that North Carolina?
[1:57:12] Speaker 1: Is that North Carolina? What? They're not going to UNC?
[1:57:15] Speaker 1: Why would you leave playing the same position?
[1:57:16] Speaker 2: You're playing the same position.
[1:57:17] Speaker 1: What the fuck we doing? He can learn. Yeah, yeah.
[1:57:21] Speaker 1: I'm going to learn.
[1:57:22] Speaker 2: Whooping his ass at the school. The kid Boogie Ellis
[1:57:27] Speaker 2: was out here. I told him, if Cash and Stanley
[1:57:31] Speaker 2: go there, Boogie going to decommit.
[1:57:32] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
[1:57:33] Speaker 2: If Stanley went to Duke, what'd Boogie Ellis do?
[1:57:36] Speaker 1: Where'd he end up?
[1:57:37] Speaker 3: Here, right?
[1:57:39] Speaker 2: Yeah. So, it's that situation. Play the same position, the dude, yeah,
[1:57:43] Speaker 2: you put the guy in a certain situation, they don't like, ah.
[1:57:46] Speaker 2: Because you banked the reason, like.
[1:57:49] Speaker 1: Yeah, he signed her because he needed her.
[1:57:52] Speaker 2: Absolutely.
[1:57:53] Speaker 1: He won and done.
[1:57:56] Speaker 2: I know my daddy went here, but I'm coming here
[1:58:00] Speaker 2: to be the man. I'm not coming here to play
[1:58:01] Speaker 2: second fiddle.
[1:58:02] Speaker 5: Yep.
[1:58:03] Speaker 1: So as I mentioned, Wizards, Hornets, Jazz, I think tie
[1:58:05] Speaker 1: for best odds to win the lottery. What, the number
[1:58:09] Speaker 1: one pick? To get the number one pick right now.
[1:58:11] Speaker 1: Wizards have a position to beat. Wizards what?
[1:58:13] Speaker 2: Wizards, Hornets, and Jazz. Utah Jazz.
[1:58:16] Speaker 1: Charlotte would be cool. For him?
[1:58:19] Speaker 3: Right there.
[1:58:19] Speaker 2: For him and his success?
[1:58:20] Speaker 1: Best option for Cooper Flag next year between those three teams.
[1:58:23] Speaker 2: For his success, probably Hornets.
[1:58:26] Speaker 3: He's right down the street from Sean Dukes.
[1:58:29] Speaker 5: Because you have a point guard, you have a shooting guard,
[1:58:34] Speaker 5: you don't have to be.
[1:58:35] Speaker 2: Great at the beginning.
[1:58:37] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:58:38] Speaker 2: Is he the three or the four?
[1:58:40] Speaker 1: Three-four.
[1:58:41] Speaker 2: Because what is Brandon Miller?
[1:58:42] Speaker 1: He's the two? Two-three. Two-three.
[1:58:45] Speaker 2: See, Brandon Miller, like, he's a two. So I can
[1:58:48] Speaker 2: move him.
[1:58:48] Speaker 5: I can have him and Melo as the back guard.
[1:58:50] Speaker 5: Him and Miles Bridges, you know, whoever has the better matchup.
[1:58:54] Speaker 5: I got you guys at the three-four. And then Mark
[1:58:57] Speaker 5: Williams at the five. that team instantly will be like
[1:59:00] Speaker 5: Detroit Pistons. As long as everybody's healthy.
[1:59:03] Speaker 1: They can instantly go and be like, oh, shit.
[1:59:07] Speaker 2: This current Detroit.
[1:59:08] Speaker 1: Because what Cooper Flagg is, Cooper Flagg is, Cooper.
[1:59:13] Speaker 5: Flagg is, he defends. Like, he's like an old-school white boy.
[1:59:17] Speaker 1: They out there.
[1:59:18] Speaker 2: Playing hard as a motherfucker. He play hard as shit. No,
[1:59:22] Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. He play hard like Matt Harper in them.
[1:59:25] Speaker 2: He play hard like Matt Harper.
[1:59:26] Speaker 1: Absolutely.
[1:59:27] Speaker 5: They out there just motherfuckers just sweating on you and shit.
[1:59:30] Speaker 2: He does wear a new belt. All right, damn, relax.
[1:59:33] Speaker 2: But he can play offense. And he's really good.
[1:59:35] Speaker 1: Yeah, and like I said, he got the hustle and
[1:59:37] Speaker 1: the defense of an old school white kid.
[1:59:40] Speaker 2: And he athletic like black guys.
[1:59:41] Speaker 1: Yeah. So you got a little mixture going on over there. Like,
[1:59:45] Speaker 1: you know what? I can, this is, I'm good over here.
[1:59:50] Speaker 1: Come on, y'all remember the white boys they put in
[1:59:51] Speaker 1: the game?
[1:59:52] Speaker 2: You're like, oh, man.
[1:59:54] Speaker 5: You can punch on them, give them a little elbow shine.
[1:59:57] Speaker 2: Brian Cardinal.
[1:59:57] Speaker 1: They're still right there.
[1:59:59] Speaker 2: They just happy to be here. Brian Cardinal. Running through walls.
[2:00:03] Speaker 2: You're like, ah, damn, this motherfucker don't ever. Your era
[2:00:05] Speaker 2: was Hallenberg.
[2:00:07] Speaker 1: Hallenberg.
[2:00:07] Speaker 2: Them motherfuckers right there.
[2:00:09] Speaker 1: Mark Madden. Mark Madden. Yeah, you're like, fuck. Hell yes, Kenyon.
[2:00:14] Speaker 2: That shit was so funny.
[2:00:16] Speaker 1: That shit was hilarious.
[2:00:17] Speaker 2: That motherfucking jump shot. I'm like, hell no. That motherfucker
[2:00:21] Speaker 2: went in. Hell yes, Kenyon.
[2:00:24] Speaker 1: But I still think about that randomly from time to time.
[2:00:27] Speaker 2: That shit was right on time, too. I'm like, man,
[2:00:30] Speaker 2: good shot, bro.
[2:00:32] Speaker 6: Charlotte, you don't like Utah?
[2:00:36] Speaker 1: Because of his skin? No.
[2:00:38] Speaker 2: No, no, no.
[2:00:39] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[2:00:40] Speaker 2: But I like their point guard. What's the point guard
[2:00:42] Speaker 2: they got?
[2:00:43] Speaker 1: Isaiah?
[2:00:44] Speaker 2: I'm just, listen. Walker Kessler.
[2:00:47] Speaker 1: Yeah, they got him.
[2:00:48] Speaker 2: Marketing. Cooper Flagg. That's a big tree. That's the two.
[2:00:53] Speaker 1: John Collins.
[2:00:54] Speaker 2: The three, four, five. I like Utah, too, though.
[2:00:56] Speaker 3: But I'm.
[2:00:59] Speaker 2: Just saying. I'm looking forward to that.
[2:01:02] Speaker 1: If he goes there, they're expecting him to be the
[2:01:04] Speaker 1: number one option. Who?
[2:01:05] Speaker 2: No, Lorne Markkinen is the number one option.
[2:01:07] Speaker 1: No, they're not.
[2:01:08] Speaker 2: Lorne Markkinen is the number one option. I wouldn't mind
[2:01:11] Speaker 2: him there. I wouldn't mind you talking. Absolutely, Markkinen is
[2:01:14] Speaker 2: the number one option.
[2:01:15] Speaker 1: I like you talking, because he got.
[2:01:17] Speaker 2: Charlotte just.
[2:01:19] Speaker 1: I don't even.
[2:01:19] Speaker 2: Charlotte is just a bit too chaotic.
[2:01:21] Speaker 3: He fit with Charlotte.
[2:01:22] Speaker 2: They're going to run. They're going to run him down.
[2:01:25] Speaker 1: He ain't got to work hard.
[2:01:26] Speaker 6: They just have a lot of shit going on.
[2:01:28] Speaker 5: No, I'm just saying, as a young team, I mean,
[2:01:31] Speaker 5: just as a young player, you don't really, you don't,
[2:01:34] Speaker 5: he can come in and not really have pressure off
[2:01:36] Speaker 5: the jump.
[2:01:37] Speaker 1: Yeah. Right?
[2:01:38] Speaker 5: So he can, and then you got LaMelo out there
[2:01:41] Speaker 5: doing everything for him. He can go out there and
[2:01:44] Speaker 5: average 16 and 12 and be like, oh, shit, rookie
[2:01:46] Speaker 5: of the year, and he ain't really have nothing to do.
[2:01:49] Speaker 5: and then let him get into his own without any pressure.
[2:01:51] Speaker 2: Because he's going to make shots. He's going to make shots.
[2:01:53] Speaker 2: He's athletic. I think putting him with LaMelo now is...
[2:01:58] Speaker 2: So we asked the chat... We asked the chat, best
[2:02:01] Speaker 2: landing spot for Cooper Flagg.
[2:02:03] Speaker 3: It's a big-ass lineup.
[2:02:05] Speaker 1: It was not the Wizards, Lexi, as you said. They
[2:02:06] Speaker 1: got the least amount of votes, 12%. Jazz came next
[2:02:10] Speaker 1: with 28%, but the Hornets, 60% of the chat for
[2:02:13] Speaker 1: Cooper Flagg.
[2:02:14] Speaker 2: Listen, for his.
[2:02:18] Speaker 1: brand.
[2:02:19] Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. The Cooper flag brand?
[2:02:24] Speaker 5: I don't know what the percentage is of them when
[2:02:27] Speaker 5: they get in.
[2:02:28] Speaker 2: There, but... Of them when they get in there? No,
[2:02:31] Speaker 2: the team.
[2:02:32] Speaker 1: Okay. Brooklyn? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
[2:02:40] Speaker 2: Brooklyn?
[2:02:41] Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
[2:02:41] Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
[2:02:42] Speaker 2: You the NBA?
[2:02:44] Speaker 1: You need.
[2:02:46] Speaker 2: A white hope?
[2:02:48] Speaker 1: Brooklyn? They marked it.
[2:02:54] Speaker 5: My son got the shoe deal, right? And I looked
[2:02:58] Speaker 5: at it. Just to look. There was four teams. It
[2:03:03] Speaker 5: says tier one teams, right? You get a bonus. You
[2:03:09] Speaker 5: get a bonus million dollars if you land in. It
[2:03:13] Speaker 5: was New York Knicks, Lakers, Brooklyn.
[2:03:17] Speaker 1: And Clippers.
[2:03:18] Speaker 2: You got a meal for the Clippers, too?
[2:03:20] Speaker 1: No, it's the city. It's the city. And then it
[2:03:23] Speaker 1: had tier two. And that's where Houston, Dallas, Houston, Dallas.
[2:03:32] Speaker 2: What was on that tier? San Francisco wasn't actually there.
[2:03:36] Speaker 1: No? Wow, that's interesting. Huh?
[2:03:38] Speaker 2: Boston was there.
[2:03:39] Speaker 3: What about Chicago?
[2:03:41] Speaker 2: Philly, Chicago. It was Philly, Chicago. It was seven of them. Miami.
[2:03:45] Speaker 1: Miami. Miami.
[2:03:47] Speaker 2: Yeah, Miami. Biggest cities, but not.
[2:03:50] Speaker 5: The only team that surprised me that actually wasn't there.
[2:03:54] Speaker 2: Was Golden State. Like, wait, huh?
[2:03:57] Speaker 1: Like, San Francisco? No, but it was... But it had
[2:03:59] Speaker 1: tier one, tier two. You get... Just getting there, just...
[2:04:03] Speaker 1: You get drafted those days, you get a bonus.
[2:04:05] Speaker 2: So it was, what, a million and 500,000.
[2:04:07] Speaker 1: Damn.
[2:04:07] Speaker 5: You just get an extra bonus. The other teams, nah,
[2:04:10] Speaker 5: they work for your shit.
[2:04:12] Speaker 1: Damn. Figure it out.
[2:04:14] Speaker 3: That makes sense, though.
[2:04:14] Speaker 1: Give you an endorsement deal.
[2:04:16] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[2:04:17] Speaker 5: So, like, so for the Cooper Flag brand, if you
[2:04:20] Speaker 5: got to pull in a frozen envelope or the ping-pong
[2:04:23] Speaker 5: ball that stick at the top, whatever you need to do.
[2:04:28] Speaker 1: So Nets, I think, have a 9.8% chance of getting
[2:04:30] Speaker 1: the number one overall pick.
[2:04:32] Speaker 2: And that'll be the team to get it.
[2:04:33] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[2:04:34] Speaker 2: A team like that to get the number one pick.
[2:04:36] Speaker 1: For the.
[2:04:38] Speaker 2: For his work and I'll be... Oh, they'll be happy
[2:04:40] Speaker 2: with that.
[2:04:40] Speaker 1: For the NBA.
[2:04:43] Speaker 2: Not the teams and the fans.
[2:04:45] Speaker 5: The NBA, when I'm selling as the commissioner, I'm selling
[2:04:48] Speaker 5: shit overseas, and I'm selling to these big companies that
[2:04:52] Speaker 5: sponsor these TV deals.
[2:04:55] Speaker 2: Luka in Los Angeles.
[2:04:58] Speaker 5: Cooper Flagg over here.
[2:05:01] Speaker 1: Kirby still in place. We got Laker. We got Tatum.
[2:05:06] Speaker 2: I got all my hubs here.
[2:05:09] Speaker 5: If I can find somebody in Chicago and try to
[2:05:11] Speaker 5: get Chicago the third, fourth pick and they can get Harper,
[2:05:17] Speaker 5: father like son, right?
[2:05:20] Speaker 1: The NBA is booming. This is a great, great business.
[2:05:28] Speaker 1: Think about when the NBA was at its top.
[2:05:32] Speaker 2: Who was in Chicago?
[2:05:33] Speaker 5: Michael Jordan. Who was in Los Angeles? You got Kareem, Magic, Worthy.
[2:05:40] Speaker 5: Who was in Boston? Larry Bird.
[2:05:42] Speaker 2: My three hubs, cities.
[2:05:44] Speaker 1: It wasn't Dr.
[2:05:45] Speaker 5: J and Young Charles Barkley over in Philly. Because that
[2:05:50] Speaker 5: was the hub, too, back then. When you think about
[2:05:54] Speaker 5: 80s basketball, look at the cities that were. Look who
[2:05:58] Speaker 5: was in those cities. Yee!
[2:06:02] Speaker 1: We will see where the ping-pong balls land and where
[2:06:05] Speaker 1: Cooper Flagg will end up, or if anything.
[2:06:07] Speaker 2: Oh, man, fuck that ping-pong ball, man. Just be honest.
[2:06:10] Speaker 2: Frozen envelope me. Yeah, just come out there. Hey, listen,
[2:06:12] Speaker 2: number one pick, Brooklyn.
[2:06:14] Speaker 3: All right.
[2:06:15] Speaker 1: Harper, you're going to Chicago, goddammit.
[2:06:18] Speaker 5: And then the rest of y'all, we're going to ping-pong y'all.
[2:06:21] Speaker 2: Fuck it, let's go like that. Shit, we ain't going
[2:06:23] Speaker 2: to play no games with y'all.
[2:06:24] Speaker 1: All right, well, let's keep this thing moving. Shit. So,
[2:06:28] Speaker 1: as I mentioned, Monday, most of the Gills Arena crew
[2:06:30] Speaker 1: was in San Diego this past weekend for Dog Bowl.
[2:06:33] Speaker 1: So let's take a look at what went down.
[2:06:36] Speaker 2: We got a recording. Okay, Christian.
[2:07:19] Speaker 4: How we feeling about your team?
[2:07:32] Speaker 1: I'm feeling great. Yeah, you know, I got some stats stuff.
[2:07:34] Speaker 2: You know, I got Luca. I heard Giannis might not
[2:07:37] Speaker 2: play today, so I picked Dane. So you're playing the
[2:07:39] Speaker 2: injury game today? Yes, sir.
[2:07:40] Speaker 1: Okay.
[2:07:41] Speaker 2: I'm happy with my team. Good luck.
[2:07:43] Speaker 1: Thank you.
[2:07:43] Speaker 2: Thank you. Appreciate you.
[2:07:44] Speaker 1: All right, Rashad, how we feeling about your team? How'd
[2:07:46] Speaker 1: the draft go?
[2:07:47] Speaker 2: The way it always goes.
[2:07:48] Speaker 1: Pick them, you know them, you win them. You want
[2:07:51] Speaker 1: to win, come holler at me. I'm the underdog genie, okay?
[2:07:55] Speaker 3: So how'd that draft go?
[2:07:56] Speaker 1: You feel good?
[2:07:57] Speaker 3: I feel good, confident today.
[2:08:00] Speaker 1: A champ.
[2:08:00] Speaker 2: I mean, you're a champ.
[2:08:02] Speaker 3: Think like a champ.
[2:08:02] Speaker 2: Speaks for itself.
[2:08:03] Speaker 1: How'd that draft go?
[2:08:05] Speaker 2: I think it went all right, man. I knew how
[2:08:07] Speaker 2: Gil was going to think. Of course, he always going
[2:08:09] Speaker 2: to think points. So he went with big scores. And guys,
[2:08:12] Speaker 2: I heard him over there talking about certain guys might
[2:08:14] Speaker 2: not play in the injury game and all that. I
[2:08:17] Speaker 2: like my team, man. I can predict the moves everybody
[2:08:19] Speaker 2: else is going to make, so I really went with
[2:08:20] Speaker 2: a little bit of different.
[2:08:21] Speaker 1: Already held the trophy. Felt very good in my hands.
[2:08:24] Speaker 1: I told him to bring it to my room. But Gil,
[2:08:25] Speaker 1: I'm not phased. He has the highest projection right now.
[2:08:28] Speaker 1: I'm not a challenge. Currently lowest. Wasn't really rolling with
[2:08:30] Speaker 1: the draft order. I had to pick last for some reason.
[2:08:32] Speaker 1: But respect the snake draft. Got the 6th and 7th pick.
[2:08:35] Speaker 1: Tyrese Halliburton, don't let me down.
[2:08:36] Speaker 6: Feeling great, man. I came in, you know, the whole trip,
[2:08:39] Speaker 6: you know, I've been dressed, business casual. I came ready.
[2:08:43] Speaker 6: So this is all business. Everything is all business. You know,
[2:08:45] Speaker 6: I have to go with Giannis, of course.
[2:08:47] Speaker 1: Jalen Brown. I'm very confident tonight. I know my boy
[2:08:49] Speaker 1: 34 is going to do his thing. Yes, sir.
[2:08:51] Speaker 3: Especially if he's wearing that tough crowd hat walking in.
[2:08:53] Speaker 2: Oh, always.
[2:08:54] Speaker 1: We got to keep it hostile.
[2:09:16] Speaker 3: I saw you freaking out earlier.
[2:09:17] Speaker 2: Tell me what's going on.
[2:09:18] Speaker 1: How we looking?
[2:09:20] Speaker 2: Bucks just lost.
[2:09:21] Speaker 1: I lost today.
[2:09:22] Speaker 2: I'm very upset. But shout out to Underdog. Never again.
[2:09:25] Speaker 1: Never again. I should have never went for the Celtics.
[2:09:27] Speaker 1: I should have never went for the damn Celtics. Never.
[2:09:30] Speaker 3: Well, we'll get him next time, huh?
[2:09:32] Speaker 1: If it is the next time.
[2:09:33] Speaker 2: And he hated LeBron before.
[2:09:36] Speaker 1: Oh. Oh. Oh.
[2:09:45] Speaker 2: The 2025 Gills Arena Dog Bowl champ right here.
[2:09:48] Speaker 1: Dog Bowl champ, baby.
[2:09:49] Speaker 2: First win in the building. Like, I would like to
[2:09:52] Speaker 2: thank all of my family, friends.
[2:09:54] Speaker 1: I know y'all not my friends yet, but I got
[2:09:55] Speaker 1: 10 grand. And you know, anyone who wins money, y'all all.
[2:09:59] Speaker 2: Want to be friends with them. So all my new friends, Yeah,
[2:10:03] Speaker 2: my boy. Yeah, I'm ready to celebrate with you. Hey,
[2:10:07] Speaker 2: drinks on me.
[2:10:08] Speaker 1: Drinks on me.
[2:10:09] Speaker 2: In underdog box. Kind of works the same.
[2:10:13] Speaker 5: All right?
[2:10:13] Speaker 2: Okay, but it's on me, though.
[2:10:16] Speaker 1: So I just want to say that Gilbert Arenas had
[2:10:18] Speaker 1: the number one pick in the Gills Arena dog bowl draft,
[2:10:21] Speaker 1: and he finished first. He did not overperform. He finished accordingly.
[2:10:24] Speaker 1: I had the sixth pick. I finished sixth. I don't
[2:10:28] Speaker 1: blame racism for this because it is March. We are
[2:10:30] Speaker 1: outside of February. But God bless underdog. God bless Dog
[2:10:33] Speaker 1: Bowl 2025. God bless this gentleman right here. What do
[2:10:36] Speaker 1: you want, first and second place? $ 300, 000. I saw him
[2:10:39] Speaker 1: last night. I said, this man is here with a plan.
[2:10:41] Speaker 2: He's here to win. Appreciate you, Jeremy. Appreciate everybody in
[2:10:45] Speaker 2: the underdog family. We're a little turnt up right now.
[2:10:47] Speaker 2: Dog Bowl 2025. Dog Bowl 2026. Maui, four seasons, Hawaii.
[2:10:52] Speaker 2: My suggestion. Don't know if we'll do it, but that's
[2:10:54] Speaker 2: all I have to say. Shout out to the underdog crew.
[2:10:56] Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa! So, once again, I want to give a
[2:11:02] Speaker 1: shout out to LOL Hot Dogs. Won $ 300, 000 at the
[2:11:07] Speaker 1: Dog Bowl. As a reminder, Gil did win the Gil's
[2:11:10] Speaker 1: Arena Dog Bowl. Suspiciously got the number one overall.
[2:11:13] Speaker 2: Pick Very convenient. Very convenient. Extremely convenient.
[2:11:17] Speaker 1: You saw Rashad.
[2:11:18] Speaker 2: Every time we get a draft.
[2:11:19] Speaker 1: Huh?
[2:11:20] Speaker 2: Every time we get a draft. Every time there's a draft.
[2:11:23] Speaker 2: Somehow just get the number one pick.
[2:11:24] Speaker 5: Did he perform better than the second and the third?
[2:11:26] Speaker 1: No. Who? Luka.
[2:11:30] Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, Gil.
[2:11:31] Speaker 1: You just always get the first pick.
[2:11:33] Speaker 2: What's funny is I said, as long as I get
[2:11:34] Speaker 2: the top.
[2:11:35] Speaker 1: Four, I'm good because I can get Luka or LeBron.
[2:11:40] Speaker 2: Five and six, I'm like, oh.
[2:11:42] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the general feeling. I just wanted a Laker.
[2:11:45] Speaker 2: That's it. Rashad took LeBron.
[2:11:47] Speaker 1: LeBron obviously ended up leaving that Celtics game with the
[2:11:51] Speaker 1: groin strong. Are we going to listen?
[2:11:52] Speaker 2: Are we going to? I mean, I don't want to
[2:11:54] Speaker 2: bust him out. But are we going to? Can we
[2:11:58] Speaker 2: just tell on him?
[2:12:00] Speaker 1: He's a LeBron fan, people.
[2:12:03] Speaker 2: He's a LeBron fan.
[2:12:04] Speaker 1: Let me check the chat to see if Rashad. Like, everything. Rashad. Oh, duh.
[2:12:11] Speaker 3: Don't we all know that?
[2:12:12] Speaker 1: Yeah, but they think this is LeBron. Is it not obvious?
[2:12:15] Speaker 1: LeBron jersey, all of them.
[2:12:17] Speaker 2: He did draft all of them?
[2:12:18] Speaker 3: Like, you got every single LeBron jersey ever made.
[2:12:21] Speaker 1: You remember, he was like, hey, man, can I get
[2:12:23] Speaker 1: that football LeBron?
[2:12:24] Speaker 3: He probably got his high school jersey.
[2:12:26] Speaker 1: Yeah. But that's what I said.
[2:12:29] Speaker 5: I said, listen, you done put so much energy into
[2:12:32] Speaker 5: not liking LeBron.
[2:12:33] Speaker 3: Do not you love him.
[2:12:34] Speaker 5: Every time you pick him, he get you every time.
[2:12:39] Speaker 5: Every time you need him, like when he had LeBron,
[2:12:43] Speaker 5: he had him 7.5 rebounds.
[2:12:45] Speaker 2: And I said, LeBron already said he's going to get seven.
[2:12:47] Speaker 1: He done. Right?
[2:12:49] Speaker 2: He got seven.
[2:12:50] Speaker 1: Oh, quarter to go.
[2:12:53] Speaker 3: No, saying you hate someone and then choosing them to
[2:12:55] Speaker 3: perform well for you is like backwards.
[2:12:58] Speaker 1: It's so backwards. When LeBron popped up on the draft
[2:13:02] Speaker 1: board on Shia's team, there was definitely... We over here
[2:13:05] Speaker 1: looking like... Come on, dog. Don't do it. Don't do it.
[2:13:10] Speaker 2: He was like, LeBron. I thought I had a chance, too.
[2:13:13] Speaker 2: Jay Tatum was the bottom, but everybody else let me down.
[2:13:17] Speaker 2: Everybody had three turnovers. Like, five of my six guys
[2:13:20] Speaker 2: had three turnovers.
[2:13:21] Speaker 5: Yeah, what's so funny is when they, there was like, what,
[2:13:24] Speaker 5: assists was like, was rebound, rebounds was one and a half, right?
[2:13:29] Speaker 5: So when I was looking at, if I have a guard,
[2:13:31] Speaker 5: do they get rebounds too?
[2:13:34] Speaker 2: I thought I went with a great strategy too. Doing
[2:13:36] Speaker 2: guys that's supposed to do some of everything, get a
[2:13:39] Speaker 2: couple rebounds, steals, blocks.
[2:13:42] Speaker 1: A lot of strategy goes into you want competitive game
[2:13:44] Speaker 1: because you want those guys to play and be in
[2:13:46] Speaker 1: the game. But. Shout out to Yaka Purdy.
[2:13:48] Speaker 2: Thompson gave me almost a triple-double and shit like that.
[2:13:52] Speaker 1: You picked Giddy, too. You had Giddy? Nah. I had Collin.
[2:13:56] Speaker 1: You had a triple-double in that game. Oneka.
[2:14:00] Speaker 2: Oh, that's who did it for you.
[2:14:01] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I was getting ready, and I was like, ah,
[2:14:05] Speaker 1: let me go. Because he has a double-double going. Like,
[2:14:08] Speaker 1: I would have picked Mark Williams, too, like a player
[2:14:11] Speaker 1: like that. But he wasn't playing back then. So we
[2:14:15] Speaker 1: asked the chat, producers, not me, Cemetery Larry, if you're
[2:14:17] Speaker 1: watching at home, we asked the chat, is Rashad a
[2:14:20] Speaker 1: LeBron fan? 73% of the chat said yes. Cemetery Larry
[2:14:25] Speaker 1: is a LeBron fan.
[2:14:26] Speaker 3: Gotta be.
[2:14:28] Speaker 1: Now let's move on to Mostly Fans, presented by our
[2:14:30] Speaker 1: friends over at Underdog. If you want to be in
[2:14:33] Speaker 1: Dog Bowl next year, download the Underdog app. Next year?
[2:14:37] Speaker 3: 2026.
[2:14:37] Speaker 1: Redo it again. Oh, you said Dog Bowl. Dog Bowl, 2026.
[2:14:43] Speaker 1: Four seasons in Maui was my suggestion. First class. Shout
[2:14:47] Speaker 1: out to the underdog first class amenities. Four seasons in
[2:14:50] Speaker 1: Maui is nice. What are we doing for the playoffs, though?
[2:14:52] Speaker 1: I want something for the playoffs. Gil, I'm not doing
[2:14:56] Speaker 1: shit with you. That shit was fun. I ain't even
[2:14:57] Speaker 1: going to lie. That shit was fun, dog. For you?
[2:15:00] Speaker 1: It was. It was fun when you saw you got
[2:15:02] Speaker 1: the number one pick. The game is rigged, Gil.
[2:15:04] Speaker 3: I'm not saying no name.
[2:15:06] Speaker 1: Everything is rigged. I'm down for the playoffs.
[2:15:08] Speaker 2: Well, Jason Tatum had more points on the day. Yeah,
[2:15:10] Speaker 2: that's what I said.
[2:15:10] Speaker 1: Baller.
[2:15:11] Speaker 2: I mean, I would have still picked Luka.
[2:15:13] Speaker 1: And I respect that.
[2:15:14] Speaker 2: Like, people think I'm a LeBron fan. No, I'm a
[2:15:16] Speaker 2: Laker fan first.
[2:15:17] Speaker 1: Luka taking number one.
[2:15:18] Speaker 5: I don't know if anybody ever asked me what my
[2:15:22] Speaker 5: top ten is.
[2:15:23] Speaker 1: No, we don't.
[2:15:23] Speaker 2: It's Lakers.
[2:15:25] Speaker 3: One through ten?
[2:15:26] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[2:15:27] Speaker 5: No, I got Jordan, and then from there, it goes LeBron, Kobe, Magic, Shaq, Kareem, uh.
[2:15:37] Speaker 1: Wilt. That was Wilt.
[2:15:39] Speaker 5: And then from there, I'm still working on the next three.
[2:15:43] Speaker 5: Luka's going to be in there. I might put Curry
[2:15:46] Speaker 5: and KD, you know, just to fill.
[2:15:48] Speaker 1: It on out.
[2:15:49] Speaker 3: You said all Lakers. Michael Jordan and the Lakers.
[2:15:54] Speaker 1: Michael Jordan and the Lakers. I'm forced. That's crazy how
[2:15:57] Speaker 1: dominant the Lakers have been. Expected. But it is mostly
[2:16:01] Speaker 1: fans presented by Underdog. Go ahead and download the Underdog app.
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[2:16:05] Speaker 1: cash plus a special pickup. So speaking of Lakers, we
[2:16:08] Speaker 1: have a mostly fans question. From underdog user RealHooper39. Shaq, Wilt,
[2:16:15] Speaker 1: and Dwight, king of the court, three dribbles, first to seven,
[2:16:20] Speaker 1: who wins?
[2:16:20] Speaker 3: Ain't nobody trying to watch that shit.
[2:16:22] Speaker 1: Shaq, Wilt, and Dwight, king of the court, three dribbles,
[2:16:25] Speaker 1: first to seven, who wins? Lexi, you have said that
[2:16:27] Speaker 1: nobody is trying to watch that shit. With Shaq.
[2:16:29] Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm about to.
[2:16:31] Speaker 1: You can pick.
[2:16:33] Speaker 3: Let's do the prime versions of all of them. I
[2:16:35] Speaker 3: feel like that's the only way you can do these things, right?
[2:16:38] Speaker 2: Not prime.
[2:16:39] Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't want Laker Shaq. No, I don't want
[2:16:41] Speaker 5: Laker Shaq. Give me Orlando Shaq. Against a young Dwight.
[2:16:46] Speaker 5: Young Dwight is too mobile. Give me Orlando Shaq.
[2:16:50] Speaker 3: How do you even out these conversations? Because everybody was
[2:16:54] Speaker 3: a different player at different times.
[2:16:55] Speaker 1: When you have these comparisons.
[2:16:58] Speaker 3: Best version of the matchup or the best version of
[2:17:01] Speaker 3: them as a player?
[2:17:02] Speaker 5: We're thinking like, all right, so you got Dwight. Dwight
[2:17:06] Speaker 5: playing against the slow ones. He's strong enough to hold him,
[2:17:09] Speaker 5: but they can't catch him. So you would need Orlando Shaq.
[2:17:13] Speaker 3: To play.
[2:17:14] Speaker 1: To be able to.
[2:17:15] Speaker 2: To be able to deal with that.
[2:17:15] Speaker 5: Then you're sitting there like, okay, Orlando, Shaq.
[2:17:17] Speaker 2: Getting that bitch off the rebound and pushing her. Shaq
[2:17:21] Speaker 2: leading the break. Like, shit like that. Got it.
[2:17:24] Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Dwight Howard. Who was the
[2:17:28] Speaker 1: third one?
[2:17:28] Speaker 2: I'm going with Orlando, Shaq. Shaq, Wilt, and Dwight.
[2:17:31] Speaker 1: I didn't see that one.
[2:17:31] Speaker 2: I'm going with Orlando, Shaq. Three dribbles, first to seven.
[2:17:34] Speaker 1: I can't even.
[2:17:34] Speaker 2: I'm going to try. I don't know what.
[2:17:36] Speaker 1: Wilt looked like.
[2:17:38] Speaker 2: Don't give a fuck what Wilt looked like. I saw what...
[2:17:41] Speaker 2: I saw what a Lando Shaq looked like, and I'm
[2:17:44] Speaker 2: going with him. Three dribbles too? I'm going with him.
[2:17:46] Speaker 3: I don't know. Where are they starting.
[2:17:48] Speaker 1: With the ball? It don't matter. That is a valid question.
[2:17:52] Speaker 3: If they started mid-post, it's different than top of the key.
[2:17:55] Speaker 1: Full court, three. Full court, three dribbles.
[2:17:58] Speaker 3: Full court, three dribbles. I might go Dwight.
[2:18:01] Speaker 1: That's just....
[2:18:03] Speaker 2: Dwight's going to shoot setback threes and shit.
[2:18:05] Speaker 1: Huh? Dwight's going to be shooting setback.
[2:18:07] Speaker 3: That would be a big-ass, crazy-ass, one-on-one game.
[2:18:10] Speaker 2: Nah, that Dwight was more deep.
[2:18:11] Speaker 5: Like, he was just trying to get into his offense,
[2:18:13] Speaker 5: so I'm going to.
[2:18:14] Speaker 2: Go with Shaq, too. Throw that thing to 32.
[2:18:18] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Yeah, him.
[2:18:20] Speaker 2: Pinstripe Diesel.
[2:18:23] Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Yes.
[2:18:24] Speaker 3: He was different.
[2:18:24] Speaker 2: Anybody can talk about Wilt.
[2:18:26] Speaker 5: Like, I seen the defense that they was actually playing.
[2:18:28] Speaker 5: They was playing with their chests. That's the way they
[2:18:33] Speaker 5: play defense now.
[2:18:34] Speaker 2: Nah, nah, nah.
[2:18:35] Speaker 1: You at least.
[2:18:35] Speaker 2: You at least... No, that's how they're supposed to. But
[2:18:38] Speaker 2: how they play defense now is like that.
[2:18:40] Speaker 1: Right?
[2:18:40] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[2:18:42] Speaker 1: The motherfucker just turned around and just shot it over him. Like,
[2:18:46] Speaker 1: you ain't gonna put your hand up? What the fuck
[2:18:48] Speaker 1: is going on? You punk dancing on the court and shit.
[2:18:50] Speaker 2: Yeah, like getting bucked.
[2:18:52] Speaker 1: Like, listen, listen.
[2:18:54] Speaker 2: That's how they play post-defense now.
[2:18:56] Speaker 5: Like, I understand that, you know, the game just started.
[2:19:00] Speaker 5: I know it started just back then. The rules wasn't
[2:19:02] Speaker 5: the way the rules were. But watching it now, you're
[2:19:06] Speaker 5: going to laugh. You're going to laugh your ass off.
[2:19:08] Speaker 5: How they was playing defense.
[2:19:09] Speaker 1: I'm going.
[2:19:12] Speaker 2: To go with my favorite answer.
[2:19:13] Speaker 1: Lexi, nobody wants to watch that shit. Sure don't.
[2:19:17] Speaker 3: Definitely don't.
[2:19:17] Speaker 1: Tremendous answer. And now let's move on, we're doing the
[2:19:20] Speaker 1: Gillian subscriber giveaway. Oh wait, Kane, before we do that.
[2:19:23] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a couple things I want to say. You
[2:19:24] Speaker 1: got to go, you got to say what you want
[2:19:25] Speaker 1: to say.
[2:19:25] Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple things. You can keep the lights going.
[2:19:27] Speaker 1: This is like a Gillian subscriber giveaway.
[2:19:30] Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I want to shout out to my daughter, man, Sierra. She,
[2:19:34] Speaker 2: you know, we thrive to be a successful family. It
[2:19:38] Speaker 2: ain't just a basketball family. She's in a different industry,
[2:19:41] Speaker 2: the model industry, this, that, and the third. Just signed
[2:19:44] Speaker 2: a three-year deal with Will and me.
[2:19:45] Speaker 1: The model industry. Oh, shit. You know what I'm saying?
[2:19:49] Speaker 2: Shout out Baby Girl, man. People always hear me talk
[2:19:52] Speaker 2: about KJ, he's the oldest. She's the second oldest and
[2:19:57] Speaker 2: successful in her field. So, yeah, nah, man, I just
[2:20:00] Speaker 2: wanted to give my baby girl a shout out, man.
[2:20:01] Speaker 2: She is first girl, so she has a special place,
[2:20:05] Speaker 2: of course, you know what I'm saying? But, nah, man,
[2:20:07] Speaker 2: she doing her thing, man. So shout out to Ciara Rain, man.
[2:20:09] Speaker 2: Shout out to Ciara.
[2:20:10] Speaker 1: Make that name.
[2:20:11] Speaker 2: That modeling contract. Yeah, that.
[2:20:13] Speaker 1: And be on the lookout, man. We got some things
[2:20:15] Speaker 1: in the woodwork, man. First picks coming out. Can you
[2:20:18] Speaker 1: show us?
[2:20:19] Speaker 2: Just made a press announcement yesterday, man. Just me sitting
[2:20:22] Speaker 2: down with other number one picks. Open, candid conversation about life, basketball, this, that,
[2:20:28] Speaker 2: and the third. Looking to put that out around June, man.
[2:20:32] Speaker 2: So y'all be on the lookout for a total different
[2:20:36] Speaker 2: side of me that y'all haven't seen, man. So I'm
[2:20:39] Speaker 2: looking forward to that. benefiting from the things that we
[2:20:42] Speaker 2: do here. So thanks, bruh, for giving me the opportunity, man. Yeah. OK,
[2:20:47] Speaker 2: when you say first.
[2:20:49] Speaker 1: First. Right?
[2:20:50] Speaker 2: Is it first and the second round?
[2:20:52] Speaker 5: I was technically second, but the motherfucker.
[2:20:54] Speaker 1: In front of me should have been the first rounder.
[2:21:00] Speaker 2: We can sit down any time.
[2:21:02] Speaker 4: No, you're not invited.
[2:21:04] Speaker 2: Can I go?
[2:21:05] Speaker 1: Can I go?
[2:21:06] Speaker 2: What's the whole premise of your show?
[2:21:08] Speaker 1: Can I go?
[2:21:10] Speaker 2: Yeah, no, man, it's going to be dope, man, so
[2:21:13] Speaker 2: y'all be on the lookout for it, man. It's different,
[2:21:17] Speaker 2: but it's time and not everybody can do it, so
[2:21:20] Speaker 2: I'm in a position to, so... We're going to do it.
[2:21:24] Speaker 3: Let's get it.
[2:21:27] Speaker 1: So we got a couple more pieces in the business. First,
[2:21:30] Speaker 1: the Gillian subscriber giveaway. The Gill's Arena YouTube channel has
[2:21:34] Speaker 1: now surpassed 964,000 subscribers. 964,000. We already gave away 2,000
[2:21:41] Speaker 1: at the top of the show. We got 6,000 more dollars.
[2:21:43] Speaker 1: As a reminder, if you have an underdog account and
[2:21:45] Speaker 1: you follow the Gill's Arena YouTube channel, You subscribe to us,
[2:21:49] Speaker 1: you have a chance to win $ 1, 000 for every 1,000
[2:21:50] Speaker 1: subscribers we get between $ 900, 000 and a million. So we
[2:21:54] Speaker 1: got six names. I will read those six names right now.
[2:21:56] Speaker 1: Each of them is getting $ 1, 000 from Underdog. First up,
[2:21:59] Speaker 1: Money Wah. Money Wah. You got $ 1, 000 coming from Underdog.
[2:22:07] Speaker 1: Next up, Twin Pictum.
[2:22:09] Speaker 2: Twin Pictum. Twin Pictum. Next up, FSBXKJ. FSBXKJ. That's a
[2:22:22] Speaker 2: whole name.
[2:22:23] Speaker 1: Next up, TTIME716. TTIME716, you got $ 1, 000 coming from underdog.
[2:22:30] Speaker 2: Next up, CNizzle.
[2:22:32] Speaker 1: CNizzle, you have $ 1, 000 coming from underdog.
[2:22:35] Speaker 3: These names are hilarious.
[2:22:39] Speaker 1: Last but not least, we have CrispyB26. CrispyB26. You have
[2:22:45] Speaker 1: $ 1, 000 coming from Underdog. We need 75 more subs to
[2:22:48] Speaker 1: get to 965,000. So hit that subscribe button for us
[2:22:52] Speaker 1: if you can. And you can win $ 1, 000 in bonus cash.
[2:22:54] Speaker 1: So got to end this show on a little bit
[2:22:57] Speaker 1: of a down note. Give me a second, man. So
[2:23:07] Speaker 1: World lost a legend yesterday, Junior Bridgman. passed away unexpectedly
[2:23:12] Speaker 1: at the age of 71. So Bridgman was a two-time
[2:23:20] Speaker 1: conference player of the year, All-American at Louisville, went on
[2:23:23] Speaker 1: to play 12 seasons in the league with the Bucks
[2:23:25] Speaker 1: and Clippers, starring in his role as a sixth man.
[2:23:29] Speaker 1: He was a teammate, close friend of my father, Marcus Johnson.
[2:23:32] Speaker 1: I knew him as Uncle Junior, like my siblings did.
[2:23:37] Speaker 1: Many people may not remember his basketball career, but I
[2:23:39] Speaker 1: guarantee everybody who played in the league knows who he is.
[2:23:43] Speaker 1: Successful businessman and went on to become a billionaire. First
[2:23:46] Speaker 1: in the restaurant industry where he famously worked every job
[2:23:50] Speaker 1: at Wendy's during his off seasons to better learn the
[2:23:53] Speaker 1: business before going on to be a franchisee of more
[2:23:57] Speaker 1: than 450 restaurants. 2016, he shifted his business empire becoming
[2:24:03] Speaker 1: a Coca-Cola bottling distributor. Also helped Save Ebony and Jet
[2:24:08] Speaker 1: Magazine from bankruptcy and turn them profitable. Most recently bought
[2:24:13] Speaker 1: a 10% ownership stake in the Milwaukee Bucks in 2024.
[2:24:16] Speaker 1: Give me a second.
[2:24:26] Speaker 2: Not done, not done.
[2:24:27] Speaker 1: But I appreciate y'all. Uh, Bridgman suffered a heart attack
[2:24:32] Speaker 1: yesterday while speaking at a charity event in Louisville, uh,
[2:24:35] Speaker 1: which personifies him and his character, had a big heart,
[2:24:37] Speaker 1: devoted his life to helping others. So I want to
[2:24:40] Speaker 1: send my love and prayer to the Bridgman family, his wife, Doris,
[2:24:43] Speaker 1: his kids, Justin, Ryan, and Eden. Um, I just want
[2:24:51] Speaker 1: to say we love you, Uncle Junior. We appreciate everything
[2:24:53] Speaker 1: you did for us and, uh, for all the many
[2:24:55] Speaker 1: people that you helped and inspired. Uh, rest in peace, legend.
[2:24:58] Speaker 1: We are going to miss you, man. Um, This has
[2:25:01] Speaker 1: been another episode of Gills Arena presented by Underdog. We
[2:25:05] Speaker 1: will see y'all tomorrow.

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