# AI'S CAREER OR A RING_ D-Wade Says Bron Is An ALPHA & SGA's 3RD MVP Run Has The Arena Heated! Part2

An episode of [Gil's Arena](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1689097415), 17 Oct 2026, 58 min.

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## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: No eaters walking to the end.
[0:03] Speaker 2: So heading into the season, most people have the West
[0:06] Speaker 2: running through either San Antonio or Oklahoma City, with the
[0:09] Speaker 2: Thunder looking for revenge after the Spurs eliminated them in
[0:11] Speaker 2: Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals. With the Thunder
[0:15] Speaker 2: adding both frontcourt and a perimeter death, likely getting a
[0:18] Speaker 2: healthy Jalen Williams back this season, AJ Mitchell as well.
[0:22] Speaker 2: I need to ask you guys, who at full strength
[0:24] Speaker 2: has the roster advantage as we start the season, the
[0:26] Speaker 2: Spurs or the Thunder?
[0:33] Speaker 1: I'll go OKC. Well, with Jalen Williams, it brings another element,
[0:38] Speaker 1: but Spurs did beat them. with Jalen Williams being there
[0:45] Speaker 1: during regular season. A little bit, just a little bit.
[0:47] Speaker 1: Regular season. I said just a little bit. I've been
[0:51] Speaker 1: a nigga five times. I don't give a fuck who's
[0:54] Speaker 1: missing or not. You know what I mean?
[0:56] Speaker 3: But he played 30-something minutes, like 30-something games at you.
[0:59] Speaker 4: No, no, but what I'm saying is, as the Spurs,
[1:01] Speaker 4: I don't give a fuck what you're talking about, though, because,
[1:03] Speaker 4: you know, like, we won. You got to get that
[1:08] Speaker 4: get back. But everybody's fully healthy.
[1:14] Speaker 1: Are they losing? Is OKC losing big man to overseas?
[1:17] Speaker 2: No, I think the overseas team is bitching, but the
[1:19] Speaker 2: NBA does not care.
[1:20] Speaker 1: Y'all owe us some money.
[1:22] Speaker 5: Fuck you.
[1:27] Speaker 1: You know the answer. I'm in the middle, man. I'm 50-50.
[1:29] Speaker 3: I'm going to be completely honest with you. I'm going
[1:31] Speaker 3: OKC 1,000%. I think SGA is going to show up.
[1:35] Speaker 3: You slide Chet Holmgren back to the third option. I
[1:38] Speaker 3: think he's going to be legit. Jalen Williams is a
[1:40] Speaker 3: top 15 player in the league.
[1:42] Speaker 1: Healthy.
[1:43] Speaker 3: I think One, he can guard on both sides of
[1:46] Speaker 3: the ball, but you're going to have a whole heap
[1:48] Speaker 3: of a night trying to stop him, 1,000%. And then
[1:51] Speaker 3: I think drafting Mara to try to wear Wimby down
[1:55] Speaker 3: is going to be a cheat code alongside with Hardenstein
[1:58] Speaker 3: being in there. I thought Hardenstein had a lot of
[2:00] Speaker 3: good minutes versus him last year. I just believe OKC,
[2:04] Speaker 3: even going game seven versus him and Jalen Williams being
[2:07] Speaker 3: hurt most of the time or them being down and
[2:09] Speaker 3: Chet Holmgren only averaging eight points per game, It's crazy,
[2:14] Speaker 3: and I think they elevated with the others. I think
[2:16] Speaker 3: McCain is going to ball out. I think McCain is
[2:20] Speaker 3: going to ball out.
[2:21] Speaker 1: I think A.J.
[2:22] Speaker 3: Mitchell is going to go crazy. I think they have
[2:24] Speaker 3: a solid 9 or 10. But most importantly, it's all
[2:27] Speaker 3: about how do you stop Wimby. Can you make Wimby
[2:30] Speaker 3: have a bad game? Can you make him have a
[2:32] Speaker 3: rough series? I think once you bring those guys back,
[2:35] Speaker 3: it's going to be legit. And Mara is underrated, bro.
[2:38] Speaker 3: Mara is going to put some money.
[2:39] Speaker 1: Can he move? Move. Hell yeah. He can run, move, block, everything, bro.
[2:44] Speaker 1: I don't know.
[2:45] Speaker 6: I might have to go Spurs on this one.
[2:50] Speaker 3: Just Harper, Hassell. I think J. Williamson and SGA can
[2:59] Speaker 3: handle those three, in my personal opinion.
[3:00] Speaker 6: See, that's what I'm saying. You name it two, J. Devin.
[3:03] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's enough. What you talking about? What now? These
[3:06] Speaker 1: guys are getting older. They was young doing whooping ass.
[3:09] Speaker 3: Bro, J-Dub only 25 years old, bro.
[3:11] Speaker 1: I know, but these guys are in their second year.
[3:14] Speaker 3: J-Dub is better than all three of those dudes. If
[3:17] Speaker 3: you had to do a top five out of those guards,
[3:18] Speaker 3: it'd be SGA, J-Dub, and then you go about how
[3:22] Speaker 3: you want with Fox, Harper, and.
[3:25] Speaker 2: Yeah, he will be the third best player on the court.
[3:29] Speaker 2: But you put J-Dub above.
[3:30] Speaker 1: Fox, Harper. 1,000%. Okay. And my man's castle.
[3:35] Speaker 3: And if you ask J-Dub, even when they lost to,
[3:38] Speaker 3: we be forgetting, OKC's an airy group, bro.
[3:41] Speaker 1: J-Dub said they got a guy that's 7'6. J-Dub?
[3:44] Speaker 3: But he was out. He didn't play in that game seven?
[3:47] Speaker 3: When he played on the regular season, he said. But
[3:49] Speaker 3: he was hurt every other week. And you got a
[3:51] Speaker 3: guy that let it be known every time they play
[3:54] Speaker 3: them is action.
[3:56] Speaker 1: Like, I need that.
[3:57] Speaker 3: Every time the Spurs play OKC... wouldn't be saying something
[4:01] Speaker 3: indirect to them to let them know that. But they
[4:04] Speaker 3: weren't healthy, and they went game seven, and then he
[4:06] Speaker 3: celebrated like he won a championship after OKC. Shea only
[4:12] Speaker 3: went out there with one.
[4:13] Speaker 1: Man, bro. You came in, you came in.
[4:15] Speaker 6: I'm a puncture man, though. You can't do nothing.
[4:17] Speaker 1: I'm a puncture.
[4:18] Speaker 3: Jalen wasn't there. My best shooter was not there. My
[4:21] Speaker 3: hitter was not there. You took out the white boy.
[4:23] Speaker 3: My hitter was not there. You know the difference.
[4:25] Speaker 1: I punctured when you was there. I punctured when you
[4:27] Speaker 1: wasn't there. Jalen Williams.
[4:29] Speaker 3: How many games last year?
[4:31] Speaker 1: 11 out of 12.
[4:31] Speaker 2: They were 4-1 against them in the regular season.
[4:36] Speaker 1: Obviously, 4-3 against them in the postseason.
[4:40] Speaker 3: It's tough. It ain't tough to me, bro. I hope
[4:43] Speaker 3: the Jalen Williams is a different night.
[4:45] Speaker 1: I want to... If OKC plays a 2K lineup... I
[4:55] Speaker 1: think they would dominate. Spurs. Thank you.
[5:00] Speaker 4: And the lineup has always been this. You put both... Like,
[5:07] Speaker 4: to neutralize Wimby, you always have both your bigs in.
[5:13] Speaker 1: Put both.
[5:14] Speaker 4: Stop trying to play him by himself. You put both
[5:18] Speaker 4: of them in at the same time, so he has
[5:20] Speaker 4: to fight two 6'11, 7' footers.
[5:24] Speaker 1: Right?
[5:26] Speaker 4: I would try at some point Game one is game one.
[5:33] Speaker 4: I will try all three. I will put Chet at
[5:35] Speaker 4: the three. I will put Chet at the three and
[5:40] Speaker 4: go seven to seven foot and then have my two
[5:44] Speaker 4: big guards and say, now do something. What y'all going
[5:47] Speaker 4: to do? We'll sit in the fucking zone. Can't shoot
[5:50] Speaker 4: like that.
[5:51] Speaker 1: Get us out the zone. And I'll fuck around and
[5:55] Speaker 1: put Chet at the top of the key. I'll put
[5:56] Speaker 1: Chet at the top of the key. That would be
[5:58] Speaker 1: the worst thing you could do, too. What? Three sevens?
[6:03] Speaker 1: Come on, man. What do you mean? What do you mean?
[6:07] Speaker 1: I'll put him. He will be guarding. He will be guarding. Wimby.
[6:10] Speaker 3: The court going to be too small for them to.
[6:12] Speaker 1: Ice on anybody. So I already have him for Wimby.
[6:15] Speaker 1: So he will guard Wimby. And then I have Chet
[6:18] Speaker 1: guarding the three. Who are you going to put? Champagne?
[6:20] Speaker 1: You're going to drive? You're bringing them out there. You're
[6:23] Speaker 1: going to drive? Okay, I'm just going to. There's going
[6:26] Speaker 1: to be too much length back there. I got Harker's
[6:29] Speaker 1: side of the fort.
[6:30] Speaker 3: And they can move. There's going to be too much
[6:32] Speaker 3: length back.
[6:33] Speaker 1: There, bro.
[6:33] Speaker 6: Bringing that seven-footer out there on that island.
[6:36] Speaker 1: Bro, Jalen Williams. Okay, you're going to bring him out
[6:38] Speaker 1: on the island and do what? Drive to the other
[6:40] Speaker 1: two seven-footers? Yeah.
[6:43] Speaker 3: And Shay and Jay are seven feet wingspan, bro.
[6:45] Speaker 1: It's over, bro. But I'm going to sit him at
[6:47] Speaker 1: the zone. I'm going to sit him at the zone.
[6:48] Speaker 1: At the top of the key. Sit here and do this.
[6:51] Speaker 4: And then I'm going to have my two guards at
[6:54] Speaker 4: the end and have my back line at the back line.
[6:56] Speaker 1: They did that last season. No, they didn't. No, they
[6:59] Speaker 1: did not, bro. Jay Williams wasn't even there. That matters.
[7:02] Speaker 1: I'm not even trying to yell at you.
[7:03] Speaker 6: That matters, bro.
[7:03] Speaker 1: You can't say something like that.
[7:04] Speaker 6: They did it.
[7:05] Speaker 1: Bro, he was not there, bro. They got the ass
[7:07] Speaker 1: whooped with the lineup I just said. No, they didn't.
[7:09] Speaker 6: No, I'm talking about Chet and Hockenstein started, right?
[7:12] Speaker 1: They started. That's when they was winning. That's when they
[7:15] Speaker 1: played very well. But no Jalen Williams, Swaggy, for a
[7:18] Speaker 1: good portion of the season. When they played very well.
[7:20] Speaker 1: That's another issue they got to work on. Oh, man. A.J.
[7:22] Speaker 6: What we call it?
[7:23] Speaker 1: It was his team. A.J. Mitchell. A.J. Mitchell. You got
[7:26] Speaker 1: Case and Wallace. What I'm saying is.
[7:27] Speaker 6: It was his team for a minute.
[7:29] Speaker 1: All NBA defensive level.
[7:29] Speaker 4: Because Spurs is going to go... What are Spurs going
[7:31] Speaker 4: to do? They're going to go small. They're going to
[7:33] Speaker 4: go four guards.
[7:34] Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't want to match you with four guards because.
[7:39] Speaker 4: It only benefits Wimby if there's fucking four guards and
[7:42] Speaker 4: you try to match the lineup.
[7:43] Speaker 1: We're going to go one center... See how stupid.
[7:47] Speaker 4: You are to go forward guard lineup with me to
[7:49] Speaker 4: try to match them.
[7:50] Speaker 1: Now I'm by myself out here. So all I'm going
[7:53] Speaker 1: to do is take your big on the outside, go in,
[7:56] Speaker 1: throw it up, get the rebound.
[7:58] Speaker 3: And give them one shot for sure because you got
[8:00] Speaker 3: three bigs and give them one shot.
[8:02] Speaker 1: They didn't play the centers. OKC for some reason always
[8:05] Speaker 1: went small.
[8:05] Speaker 4: Like why are you going small when you can just
[8:07] Speaker 4: be bigger than everyone?
[8:09] Speaker 3: Beat them the fuck up. Because you got to beat
[8:11] Speaker 3: up when.
[8:12] Speaker 1: Like when Denver won. Look at the, like, people didn't
[8:16] Speaker 1: pay attention to the lineup. Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon, 6'11.
[8:20] Speaker 1: Michael Porter Jr., 6'11. They're big. All they were doing
[8:23] Speaker 1: was getting offensive rebounds. These were big dudes. Yeah, Jamal Murray, 6'5,
[8:27] Speaker 1: point guard. Like, people, like, the championship team were big.
[8:32] Speaker 1: Brian's teams are huge. Who does everybody, like, praise on
[8:35] Speaker 1: the New York Knicks for helping win? Mitchell. Mitchell Robinson.
[8:39] Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson.
[8:41] Speaker 4: Because he's making sure we're going to get the extra rebounds.
[8:45] Speaker 1: Like, you need that height. He did.
[8:46] Speaker 3: Flagrant fouls. He literally played like an old school big.
[8:48] Speaker 3: I mean, like, what he did that was perfect was like, yo,
[8:51] Speaker 3: when Wimby was getting tough, he just came in. Cat
[8:53] Speaker 3: didn't have to hit nobody. It's like, yo, we about
[8:55] Speaker 3: to deliver a blow.
[8:56] Speaker 1: Pause. And that's all he did, bro. I liked that matchup.
[9:00] Speaker 4: Like, even the Lakers back in the day, man. Like,
[9:03] Speaker 4: people like Magic Johnson's team. Remember, Magic is my point guard.
[9:06] Speaker 1: He's 6'9. Yeah, big game, James. Now, James is, I mean,
[9:10] Speaker 1: James is 6'9, with Kareem 7 foot. Like, that's, it
[9:14] Speaker 1: don't matter who the 2-3, the 2 and the 3 is,
[9:16] Speaker 1: it don't matter.
[9:17] Speaker 6: It's all wrong. I know y'all having a little weak moment,
[9:21] Speaker 6: but y'all won't.
[9:23] Speaker 1: Let's bet it. What are we wrong about?
[9:24] Speaker 3: We can bet it. What do you want to bet?
[9:26] Speaker 3: I want to bet something good.
[9:27] Speaker 1: I really want to bet it. What are we wrong about?
[9:29] Speaker 1: I want you to go home.
[9:30] Speaker 6: Let's bet it.
[9:31] Speaker 1: What are we wrong about?
[9:32] Speaker 3: They play first game of the year, right? That's the season,
[9:34] Speaker 3: I mean. OKC plays Spurs.
[9:37] Speaker 1: Where at? Spurs? Yeah, OK. Want to bet it? Bet what?
[9:43] Speaker 6: The game that Spurs win.
[9:45] Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck about. I'm saying what I
[9:47] Speaker 1: would do in the lineup. I know they're not going
[9:49] Speaker 1: to do it. I'm saying what I would do with
[9:51] Speaker 1: the lineup. That's what I would do. What I would
[9:59] Speaker 1: personally do. with the lineup, I would go really big
[10:03] Speaker 1: against women. Yeah, 1,000. I would try to keep them
[10:06] Speaker 1: off the offensive rebound and the fucking defensive rebound. I
[10:08] Speaker 1: would just hit the glass on them. I got two
[10:09] Speaker 1: seven-footers I can just waste.
[10:11] Speaker 3: Also, too, if they're going like that small ball, the
[10:14] Speaker 3: Spurs in general, they're going to have to sacrifice defensive
[10:16] Speaker 3: rebound and If Vassell's going to be their foreman, at
[10:19] Speaker 3: the very least. I mean, the same way that the
[10:21] Speaker 3: Timberwolves struggled when they got Gobert underneath. They got Jada
[10:25] Speaker 3: McDaniels starting to afford it. They're like, damn, we got
[10:27] Speaker 3: to do a bit better on boarding because we literally
[10:30] Speaker 3: are playing four small guards. And other teams that go big,
[10:33] Speaker 3: your advantages are your advantages regardless.
[10:35] Speaker 2: So these teams will face off Tuesday, October 20th to
[10:38] Speaker 2: start the season and tip off.
[10:40] Speaker 1: We will monitor. That's why I said 50-50. Like, it
[10:43] Speaker 1: depends on the lineup. Like, I didn't like some of
[10:45] Speaker 1: his lineups that he was pulling out. Like, you were
[10:49] Speaker 1: always good.
[10:50] Speaker 4: Like, you dominated the game. Like, I don't know if
[10:52] Speaker 4: they watch film, but when they was playing against Indiana,
[10:55] Speaker 4: they were dominating when both their.
[10:57] Speaker 1: Bigs was in.
[10:58] Speaker 3: They give Caruso too much. I love Caruso, but they
[11:01] Speaker 3: give Caruso too much time to be a streaky shooter.
[11:04] Speaker 3: You be sitting there, you're like, if you want to
[11:07] Speaker 3: be the foreman, then let him be the foreman. Every
[11:09] Speaker 3: big man can pass like Caruso.
[11:12] Speaker 1: Like that shit was cute. You got him on Joker.
[11:14] Speaker 1: It's cute. I get it. I get it. This shit worked.
[11:17] Speaker 1: But if you're plus 15 with your two bigs, and
[11:22] Speaker 1: then you keep going small, and the team keeps coming back,
[11:26] Speaker 1: When are you going to say, you know what? Our
[11:29] Speaker 1: two bigs is dominating. Because when one's trying to do
[11:31] Speaker 1: the floater, the other one, he jumps, Miles jumps. Oh,
[11:34] Speaker 1: offensive rebound. Like, are you missing this? Yeah.
[11:37] Speaker 4: Y'all lost the game and was losing the game because
[11:39] Speaker 4: y'all kept giving up offensive rebounds because you got four.
[11:42] Speaker 3: Yeah, because Wimby had, like, 17 rebounds. Like, what is he, like, 32?
[11:46] Speaker 1: Yeah. Like, Indiana was getting him on the glass, too. Yeah, yeah.
[11:49] Speaker 3: And Wimby, during that Western Conference Finals run, he was killing.
[11:54] Speaker 3: But it was also like, bro, how do you keep...
[11:57] Speaker 3: He's 7'4, and the dude you guarding is guarding you 6'5. Like,
[12:00] Speaker 3: it looked absolutely crazy. And we were screaming, like, yo,
[12:03] Speaker 3: he had a big game, 40 points, all this, and
[12:06] Speaker 3: a third. And it's like, bro, he's doing it versus midgets.
[12:08] Speaker 3: Why is he doing it versus midgets? I have no clue, bro.
[12:11] Speaker 1: Because you're trying to match up. No, because your other guy, Chet,
[12:15] Speaker 1: don't want to guard him. You got other people out there.
[12:18] Speaker 1: Because you're trying to play small ball. No. All right, well.
[12:22] Speaker 1: Everybody wants to be the Warriors. Come out and play.
[12:27] Speaker 4: Now, everybody want to be the Warriors because, and don't understand, okay,
[12:32] Speaker 4: Draymond Green is very different.
[12:34] Speaker 1: He can, you know what I mean? Like, even the Bulls.
[12:36] Speaker 1: The Bulls' small lineup was... A big lineup, two. Yeah, 1,000. 6'6, 6'6, 6'7, 6'7.
[12:45] Speaker 1: Ron Harper was 6'5. Who won with his seven feet? Like,
[12:50] Speaker 1: they're big across the board.
[12:51] Speaker 6: They won with Caruso playing the small four.
[12:54] Speaker 1: No, no, yeah. They won, too. But they struggle. They
[12:59] Speaker 1: always struggle because they'll go one big, and that's how
[13:03] Speaker 1: Indiana kept coming back because Indiana was getting all the
[13:07] Speaker 1: offensive rebounds. Once they pulled Chet out... They're small. Like, remember,
[13:12] Speaker 1: when you're talking about small, Lou Dort didn't have a
[13:15] Speaker 1: great vertical.
[13:15] Speaker 4: He don't got no 40. Caruso don't have a 40, right? AJ,
[13:20] Speaker 4: these guys are small, small.
[13:22] Speaker 3: Caruso only dunk when he run full speed from half court.
[13:25] Speaker 1: So when they pulled Chet out of the lane, Indiana
[13:29] Speaker 1: Smalls jumped higher. Give me this little motherfucker. Mathurin is like,
[13:34] Speaker 1: I take that. Even Nembhard. Nembhard was in there.
[13:38] Speaker 3: TJ kept getting offensive rebounds.
[13:40] Speaker 4: That's why TJ kept getting the offensive rebound because who's
[13:44] Speaker 4: boxing him out? I can jump over AJ. So it's
[13:48] Speaker 4: just playing to the team. The winner of the chess
[13:54] Speaker 4: match is the one who makes you. I'm making you
[13:58] Speaker 4: all to your team because I got a Wimby on
[14:00] Speaker 4: my team. So if I got a Wimby and I
[14:01] Speaker 4: got four guards, of course I'm going to put my
[14:03] Speaker 4: four guards hoping you're stupid enough to do it too.
[14:06] Speaker 1: But if you win three.
[14:08] Speaker 4: Bigs, now I got to look at them and be like, oh, shit.
[14:11] Speaker 1: Didn't expect that.
[14:12] Speaker 4: First, I'm going to try to run you, see if
[14:14] Speaker 4: we can get some advantage.
[14:15] Speaker 1: I hope you call a timeout, move your team.
[14:16] Speaker 4: But if I don't and Wimby's struggling, now I got
[14:19] Speaker 4: to go match big for big.
[14:20] Speaker 3: Can I ask you one more before we get out?
[14:21] Speaker 3: What about you do that verse, the Spurs say this.
[14:27] Speaker 3: Say OKC beats the Spurs in that situation and it
[14:30] Speaker 3: was going to the finals. How would you then go
[14:33] Speaker 3: against the Knicks if it was a repeat? Because right now,
[14:35] Speaker 3: when you think about it, say if the OKC were
[14:38] Speaker 3: playing versus the Knicks again and right now the dominant,
[14:41] Speaker 3: you wouldn't want to go three bigs in that situation
[14:43] Speaker 3: because they got a great five-out ball and... Besides Cat,
[14:47] Speaker 3: it's who? No, we're just playing against the Spurs. We're
[14:50] Speaker 3: just doing that against the Spurs. Yeah, were you only
[14:52] Speaker 3: doing that against the Spurs or would that help anywhere else?
[14:54] Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
[14:55] Speaker 3: Would you still have to get back to guarding a
[14:57] Speaker 3: five-man out situation?
[14:58] Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing that against the Spurs, only against the Spurs. Okay, okay.
[15:05] Speaker 1: Maybe if I'm playing against the Knicks. What about the Heat?
[15:11] Speaker 4: Next you have to play, I will play straight up
[15:14] Speaker 4: basketball first three quarters.
[15:18] Speaker 1: Then Jalen Brunson is getting doubled.
[15:24] Speaker 4: The whole fourth quarter. I'm going to pick him up
[15:28] Speaker 4: full court. I'm going to trap him. I'm going to
[15:32] Speaker 4: trap him. I'm going to say, okay, Josh.
[15:35] Speaker 1: Okay. Josh, I want you to do everything.
[15:42] Speaker 4: Because you do everything the first three quarters, and then
[15:46] Speaker 4: everyone is programmed, no matter what's going on, give the ball.
[15:51] Speaker 4: He starts it, and then when it gets to 6-7,
[15:53] Speaker 4: we'll go get it. But he's going to start the offense.
[15:57] Speaker 1: He's going to be 20 seconds off the clock. So
[16:00] Speaker 1: I'm going to trap him, don't let him get it back,
[16:02] Speaker 1: he get it back, trap him, make him have 10 assists.
[16:06] Speaker 1: Because that's not his superpower.
[16:08] Speaker 4: His superpower is putting that ball in the basket in
[16:11] Speaker 4: the fourth quarter last five minutes. People look like this
[16:15] Speaker 4: is why I say people don't pay attention to basketball.
[16:17] Speaker 4: First three quarters, Jaden Brunson probably shot 30, 30, 23 percent.
[16:22] Speaker 1: Oh, he's shooting horrible. Whoa.
[16:24] Speaker 4: He's shooting horrible in the first three quarters.
[16:28] Speaker 1: He's shooting 80 percent in the fourth. Right? You know
[16:31] Speaker 1: what I mean? So he's one for 12 in the
[16:34] Speaker 1: first three quarters.
[16:35] Speaker 4: Motherfuckers, 10 for 10. Like, so you had to play
[16:38] Speaker 4: the fourth quarter very different.
[16:39] Speaker 1: I'm trapping him. Right?
[16:42] Speaker 4: So I'm playing the three quarters first. That fourth quarter,
[16:45] Speaker 4: I'm going to play very different against him.
[16:47] Speaker 2: All right, well, let's keep this thing moving. It's going
[16:49] Speaker 2: to be an exciting season. We'll see what happens with OKC,
[16:52] Speaker 2: San Antonio moving forward. But Dwayne Wade, LeBron James spent
[16:55] Speaker 2: four seasons together in South Beach as members of the
[16:58] Speaker 2: Hedo Squad. went to four straight finals, won back-to-back chips
[17:01] Speaker 2: in 2012 and 2013. During his time in Miami, the
[17:05] Speaker 2: Heat were known as Wade County, but D. Wade appeared
[17:08] Speaker 2: on Jaron Jackson Jr. 's Offscript with Tripp show recently
[17:11] Speaker 2: and shared this about LeBron and who was the alpha
[17:14] Speaker 2: on that team.
[17:16] Speaker 7: After that 2010 free agency kind of changed the universe
[17:20] Speaker 7: as we know it, do you think That 0-9 season
[17:25] Speaker 7: was the season that made LeBron James and Chris Bosh go,
[17:29] Speaker 7: I want to play with this guy?
[17:31] Speaker 5: I never thought about that. Like, I don't know if
[17:34] Speaker 5: it's that one season. I think we played together, like,
[17:36] Speaker 5: you know, All-Star Games and Olympics. And you get to
[17:39] Speaker 5: see guys and see guys' personalities and you see what
[17:42] Speaker 5: works with yours and what doesn't. I'm not saying you
[17:44] Speaker 5: out there recruiting, but, you know, you're just looking. And
[17:47] Speaker 5: so I think from a bronze standpoint, he knew him
[17:50] Speaker 5: and I can vibe out because I'm not– I can
[17:54] Speaker 5: be an alpha, but also don't need to be the
[17:57] Speaker 5: alpha to still be me. And so I think he
[18:00] Speaker 5: understood that. And cause he's an alpha, he's an alpha dog.
[18:03] Speaker 5: And so you, it's hard when you go, you go
[18:05] Speaker 5: team up with a lot of alphas, you know, you
[18:07] Speaker 5: in the sense of like, they can't be nothing but
[18:09] Speaker 5: alphas and LeBron can't be nothing but an alpha. I'm different.
[18:14] Speaker 5: It wasn't about a me thing. It was just about
[18:16] Speaker 5: a us thing. No matter what we were doing, like
[18:18] Speaker 5: I'm different. In the All-Star game, I'm going to give
[18:20] Speaker 5: it up so you can go dunk. Like, I'm not– like,
[18:22] Speaker 5: most guys want to get that bucket. It doesn't matter
[18:25] Speaker 5: to me. Like, walking away from the game is not
[18:27] Speaker 5: about how many buckets I got. It's about how much
[18:29] Speaker 5: winning you can do, how much impact you can have
[18:32] Speaker 5: on winning. That's what I was told. That's what greatness
[18:34] Speaker 5: looked like. When it came down to play with Brian,
[18:36] Speaker 5: when it came down to that time, I think them
[18:38] Speaker 5: guys knew I was a winner and I would do
[18:39] Speaker 5: anything to win.
[18:42] Speaker 2: Herwood D. Wade said there, D. Wade, Won a championship,
[18:46] Speaker 2: two with LeBron, one without LeBron.
[18:48] Speaker 1: You ain't looking good up there, boy.
[18:49] Speaker 2: Huh?
[18:49] Speaker 6: You ain't looking good, D-Wade. You ain't looking good up there, boy.
[18:52] Speaker 6: What are you taking at, AGH?
[18:53] Speaker 1: Stress-free. Moisturize. Stress-free. So, Swaggy, we'll start with you.
[18:58] Speaker 2: What's your reaction to D-Wade saying LeBron can't be anything
[19:02] Speaker 2: but an alpha?
[19:04] Speaker 1: I understand what he's talking about.
[19:06] Speaker 3: The way LeBron is the coach out there on the floor,
[19:10] Speaker 3: floor general, point guard, one through four. putting everybody in
[19:14] Speaker 3: their situation. And I understand what that's talent that D-Way's doing,
[19:18] Speaker 3: that you can adjust your game and still be you
[19:25] Speaker 3: out there. You know, you got many levels to your game.
[19:27] Speaker 3: It's all about winning. When you're trying to win, you
[19:30] Speaker 3: know how to sacrifice certain parts of your game to
[19:34] Speaker 3: get to that ultimate goal.
[19:35] Speaker 6: So two people here that's.
[19:37] Speaker 3: Like, really great just talked about the main thing is
[19:41] Speaker 3: about winning. He would give up all them points. It
[19:43] Speaker 3: ain't about the points and stuff. It's about winning.
[19:46] Speaker 1: Fellow champion, like yourself and Dwyane Wade.
[19:48] Speaker 6: That's why he looks so good.
[19:49] Speaker 1: Right there.
[19:50] Speaker 6: You know, skin's glowing. You know, if that loss be mad,
[19:53] Speaker 6: it hurts. Just talking and shit, dressed out. When you're
[19:57] Speaker 6: glowing and shit, you don't really got to say it.
[20:00] Speaker 1: You look like that. You see it? You're fine. I
[20:04] Speaker 1: love it. Like, comfortable, boy. Let's shift over to you, ET.
[20:09] Speaker 2: We hear D-Wade's comments, willing to relinquish the alpha to
[20:14] Speaker 2: LeBron when joining that Hedo squad.
[20:16] Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think it goes without saying. I mean,
[20:19] Speaker 3: LeBron is LeBron James. We call him King James. When
[20:22] Speaker 3: he shows up, he garners a lot of attention, and
[20:26] Speaker 3: I think it's just him just stepping up to his obligations.
[20:29] Speaker 3: I think when it comes down to 76ers, You can
[20:32] Speaker 3: still lead from the back and still be the outpaws
[20:34] Speaker 3: and still be the outpour from the back. So meaning
[20:37] Speaker 3: like I think his position this whole year is going
[20:39] Speaker 3: to be the voice, the coach on the floor, but
[20:43] Speaker 3: directing everybody in the right type of position. He could
[20:45] Speaker 3: probably average still 18 or nine the game. But I
[20:48] Speaker 3: think the quote unquote leading scorer is going to be Maxie.
[20:51] Speaker 3: I think the guy that's going to be the most
[20:53] Speaker 3: assertive and aggressive is going to be Jalen Brown. I
[20:56] Speaker 3: think the alpha is who can bring it in. hold
[20:58] Speaker 3: everything together and kind of disperse their experience amongst everybody else.
[21:03] Speaker 3: And I think LeBron, like we said prior, he's been
[21:06] Speaker 3: in 10 straight NBA finals. He kind of knows what
[21:08] Speaker 3: it takes to get over that hump. And, you know,
[21:11] Speaker 3: his voice has to be as loud as in a
[21:12] Speaker 3: locker room because this is kind of like a free
[21:16] Speaker 3: reign locker room where, you know, the Sixers have still
[21:19] Speaker 3: been trying and they've been talented, but they've still been
[21:20] Speaker 3: trying to find that alpha who can lead, you know,
[21:24] Speaker 3: in a locker room and on the court. So I think,
[21:28] Speaker 3: you know, that's just the way it goes.
[21:33] Speaker 1: Gilbert J? What he's saying is absolutely correct. Makes a
[21:39] Speaker 1: lot of sense. When Shaquille came over there, right, Shaquille
[21:45] Speaker 1: was the alpha. And D-Wade played his position. And they
[21:53] Speaker 1: didn't win that first year. What happened was Shaq got
[22:01] Speaker 1: hurt at the beginning of the year. And D-Wade carried
[22:06] Speaker 1: the team. When Shaq came back saying, nah, let's run
[22:10] Speaker 1: it my way. And he's going like, yo, you know, like, hey, hey,
[22:14] Speaker 1: come on, give me the ball. And what happened was
[22:17] Speaker 1: Gary Payton had to stand up and say, nah, I
[22:20] Speaker 1: came here to win a championship.
[22:23] Speaker 4: Young fella leading. Carrying a team is how we're going
[22:28] Speaker 4: to win. So when Shaq, you know, Shaq is with
[22:31] Speaker 4: his peer, like, you're right.
[22:33] Speaker 1: You know what? Okay, if you think young boy.
[22:34] Speaker 4: Is going to carry, he's like, young boy, he don't
[22:36] Speaker 4: have no ego here. If you tell him he's second option,
[22:40] Speaker 4: he's going to fall in place. But I'm telling you,
[22:43] Speaker 4: we're telling you he's going to be the number one option.
[22:46] Speaker 4: We're going to run with him and go like that.
[22:49] Speaker 4: And that's what happened.
[22:50] Speaker 1: So with D-Wade, D-Wade.
[22:52] Speaker 4: Is no different than someone like Curry or Jokic, right,
[22:58] Speaker 4: where the betterment of the team, they will decide mentally,
[23:04] Speaker 4: if I need to take a back seat, cool. I
[23:07] Speaker 4: can do that because no matter what, the ego part
[23:10] Speaker 4: of it is not what makes me great.
[23:12] Speaker 1: It's just the game itself. So sometimes what conflicts is
[23:17] Speaker 1: just the title. And then you have some personalities, just
[23:21] Speaker 1: their personality itself.
[23:23] Speaker 4: What makes them real winners is they are in control, right?
[23:28] Speaker 4: Brunson is an alpha.
[23:29] Speaker 1: No matter what team you put him on, he's going
[23:33] Speaker 1: to demand LeBron, Kobe, MJ, right? You have Larry, right?
[23:41] Speaker 4: So there's guys that if you put MJ and Kobe
[23:45] Speaker 4: on the same team together, The title is what they're
[23:49] Speaker 4: going to fight about.
[23:49] Speaker 1: They can both average 35.
[23:51] Speaker 4: It's going to be who's the best here versus somebody
[23:57] Speaker 4: else who's like, hey, you're going to have the title.
[24:00] Speaker 1: I just want to win this championship. So he had the.
[24:03] Speaker 4: Perfect personality to work with. He could have played with Kobe. Remember,
[24:07] Speaker 4: he did it off the bench.
[24:09] Speaker 1: USA, oh, y'all going to come off the bench? All right, man, cool.
[24:13] Speaker 1: I'm good with that. It don't matter.
[24:14] Speaker 4: I'm going to go out there and still do me.
[24:16] Speaker 4: But you need guys mentally that can just do that.
[24:18] Speaker 4: Everybody can. So let's spin it forward now. We heard
[24:23] Speaker 4: D-Way say what that experience was like with the Heat.
[24:25] Speaker 4: LeBron still in the NBA, year 24, going to the
[24:28] Speaker 4: Sixers squad.
[24:29] Speaker 2: It's a new look Sixers squad, new team. A lot
[24:31] Speaker 2: of big personalities on this team. You got finals MVPs,
[24:34] Speaker 2: former MVPs. What level of alpha LeBron is best for
[24:37] Speaker 2: this Sixers team this season?
[24:43] Speaker 1: Hmm.
[24:44] Speaker 2: Am I just taking this shit over and it's business
[24:46] Speaker 2: as usual? Maxie or Jalen Brown?
[24:50] Speaker 4: So was he the alpha last year with the Lakers?
[24:53] Speaker 1: He was an alpha.
[24:54] Speaker 4: Okay, but when you're thinking alpha, are you thinking that
[24:56] Speaker 4: he's going to be leading the team in scoring, rebounding,
[24:58] Speaker 4: and all that?
[24:59] Speaker 1: Or alpha is just a dude that's just running the team? Yeah,
[25:02] Speaker 1: I feel like the dude... He can run the team
[25:03] Speaker 1: averaging 5-5-5. And that's what I'm saying.
[25:06] Speaker 3: And he's going to give you 18-8-8 because he comprehends, like, yo,
[25:10] Speaker 3: you know what? I need Maxie to average 25. I
[25:13] Speaker 3: need Jalen to be good. And when Embiid's back, we
[25:16] Speaker 3: get to it however we get to it. But I think, like,
[25:19] Speaker 3: it's a different level. And like I said last year, like, Redick, Redick,
[25:23] Speaker 3: hit it right on the mark, but I don't know
[25:25] Speaker 3: if he presented it the right way because LeBron was
[25:27] Speaker 3: kind of being resistant, but like, yo, you can still
[25:29] Speaker 3: be the alpha on his team and still be the
[25:31] Speaker 3: third option because what you're doing, your presence, it's just
[25:35] Speaker 3: your gravity. Wherever LeBron goes, you have to worry about him.
[25:38] Speaker 3: No matter what on the floor, he's so smart in
[25:41] Speaker 3: transition and open court on defense and just even in
[25:43] Speaker 3: crunch time, he's always going to implement himself in a
[25:47] Speaker 3: top two player on a court or just his impact
[25:50] Speaker 3: is going to be significant regardless. So I don't, It's
[25:54] Speaker 3: like the MVPs. I don't even think that shit. Titles
[25:56] Speaker 3: don't matter, but you understand because his presence alone is
[25:59] Speaker 3: saying everything.
[26:02] Speaker 6: I just think he didn't feel like he was a
[26:05] Speaker 6: part of last year with the Lakers.
[26:06] Speaker 2: It was very disrespectful. Kind of pushing him out, but
[26:09] Speaker 2: we still let you hang around.
[26:11] Speaker 1: You think so? That's how you read it?
[26:15] Speaker 3: The only thing I'll say that I didn't mind, I
[26:18] Speaker 3: don't know how else. I felt like they... They lack
[26:21] Speaker 3: so much offensively. I didn't know how else you implement
[26:25] Speaker 3: Austin Reeves to his highest level without like LeBron can
[26:28] Speaker 3: do so many different things. When you're that gifted, if
[26:30] Speaker 3: you're on a quarterback, hey, bro, you got to take
[26:32] Speaker 3: a step back in the couple of years you average
[26:35] Speaker 3: 18 and let the team in scoring. You didn't do
[26:38] Speaker 3: everything all around, but that's what was best for a team,
[26:40] Speaker 3: even if it didn't come out as an advantage or not.
[26:45] Speaker 2: But it was obviously a tough situation with Luca and
[26:47] Speaker 2: everything going on. But hey, this is Luca's team now.
[26:49] Speaker 2: You're alpha, whatever it may be. Congrats on a great career. Yeah,
[26:52] Speaker 2: that's what I feel. I told you, didn't you?
[26:54] Speaker 3: But I just thought if you give the ball up
[26:56] Speaker 3: to anybody, it's like during a certain time, Brian eventually
[26:59] Speaker 3: is going to have to give the ball up to
[27:00] Speaker 3: Kyrie in certain moments. I feel as though it's that
[27:02] Speaker 3: disrespectful or not. You're giving the ball to Luca, five-time
[27:05] Speaker 3: first-team All-NBA player. You know, year 22, when we sit there,
[27:09] Speaker 3: we know you the second best. Luka respects you. They
[27:11] Speaker 3: respect you. But, like, in order to get the best
[27:13] Speaker 3: out of this shitty-ass team, because our front office ain't
[27:15] Speaker 3: hitting on shit, Austin Reeves had to be. But y'all
[27:20] Speaker 3: are out here, so I apologize.
[27:22] Speaker 1: How about this? Let's just do it like this. Mm-hmm.
[27:25] Speaker 1: It's okay, Gil. We moved on. We're in Philly now. No, no, no.
[27:28] Speaker 1: I want to hear it. I want to know. This
[27:31] Speaker 1: is a Philly question. Yeah. In that locker room, if
[27:35] Speaker 1: the coach draws a play, right, and LeBron said, no, no, no,
[27:39] Speaker 1: we're going to run the one-fold, me, Maxie, do the
[27:42] Speaker 1: pick and roll, and then you're going to pass it
[27:44] Speaker 1: to me, Jalen Brown, backdoor, we're going to get the dunk.
[27:48] Speaker 1: Who the fuck do you think the rest of the
[27:49] Speaker 1: team is listening to? That coach or LeBron's play? LeBron James.
[27:53] Speaker 1: Then that's the alpha. The alpha is not, you don't
[27:56] Speaker 1: have to lead the team in scoring. Nobody's saying lead
[27:59] Speaker 1: the team in scoring.
[28:00] Speaker 4: But who's going to be running the structure of the team?
[28:04] Speaker 4: The best person fit for it is LeBron James. I mean,
[28:09] Speaker 4: if you're trying to win, it will be LeBron James running,
[28:13] Speaker 4: the guy who can memorize everything, right?
[28:16] Speaker 1: Like, the guy who.
[28:17] Speaker 4: Can, you know, he goes in, this is a play
[28:19] Speaker 4: to go. You're listening to LeBron James out there as
[28:23] Speaker 4: the quarterback.
[28:24] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[28:25] Speaker 1: Right?
[28:26] Speaker 4: It's no different than Tom Brady and fucking Buccaneers.
[28:30] Speaker 1: I don't care how old he is.
[28:32] Speaker 4: The smartest person on the fucking field is who we're
[28:36] Speaker 4: listening to.
[28:36] Speaker 1: But Tom Brady's the quarterback. No matter where he goes.
[28:39] Speaker 1: LeBron James is the point guard. He's the one that's
[28:41] Speaker 1: going to be telling us what to do around here.
[28:44] Speaker 1: You're telling us what to do. If he says, hey, JB,
[28:49] Speaker 1: you guard him. 1,000, yeah. JB, all right, got it.
[28:53] Speaker 1: It's going to be him who's going to be telling
[28:55] Speaker 1: everybody what to do.
[28:56] Speaker 3: And even as a player, bro, you... You love your coach, bro,
[28:59] Speaker 3: but you listen to your star, bro. I don't know.
[29:02] Speaker 3: We're not listening to the coach.
[29:03] Speaker 1: We're not listening to the coach. This is a different team, though, bro.
[29:05] Speaker 1: This is Jalen Brown, Maxie. He's going to be the
[29:08] Speaker 1: one leading them here. You're going to go back. You
[29:10] Speaker 1: got to remember, a coach....
[29:23] Speaker 4: A coach is coaching from playbook in, they're not in
[29:26] Speaker 4: real time, right? You got to remember, look at the
[29:29] Speaker 4: views here, sideline view, right?
[29:31] Speaker 1: We play 2K view. So our vision is very different
[29:34] Speaker 1: from theirs.
[29:35] Speaker 4: Yeah both visions are right so he might say oh
[29:40] Speaker 4: we need to swing it here and i'm looking at
[29:41] Speaker 4: something here and i see an advantage here he sees
[29:43] Speaker 4: an advantage here right but you're going to go with
[29:46] Speaker 4: the person who has the ball in his.
[29:47] Speaker 3: Hand especially all that experience so.
[29:49] Speaker 1: So what ends up happening is there's another coach on
[29:52] Speaker 1: the court.
[29:52] Speaker 3: That's going to be lebron yeah can anybody else on
[29:55] Speaker 3: the team do that.
[29:55] Speaker 1: No Jalen Brown would try.
[29:57] Speaker 3: I mean, I think in a new NBA, like, you
[29:59] Speaker 3: just explain that soft-ass training camp. I feel like you
[30:02] Speaker 3: can do whatever the fuck you want, to be honest.
[30:04] Speaker 3: You just watch a second-year player say, I'm starting. Like,
[30:07] Speaker 3: I feel like in a, like, I feel so, like,
[30:10] Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't coming off
[30:11] Speaker 3: this bench. Fuck what you taught. Like, I feel as
[30:13] Speaker 3: though in a new NBA, like, I think Jalen can
[30:16] Speaker 3: do it or whatever.
[30:16] Speaker 1: But, huh? They bold.
[30:18] Speaker 6: That's a bold statement, bro.
[30:20] Speaker 1: Which one? I'm not coming off the bench. Bro, that's crazy.
[30:24] Speaker 1: I mean, I would rather him say, I want to start.
[30:30] Speaker 1: I'm not coming off the bench. I mean, yeah. Fuck
[30:34] Speaker 1: what you talking about.
[30:35] Speaker 3: You want him to concede? No, I'm not saying that.
[30:37] Speaker 3: That's just wild to say it out loud. Bro, do
[30:40] Speaker 3: you remember to say that out loud?
[30:42] Speaker 2: Come on, bro.
[30:42] Speaker 3: You probably would never play the first two months to
[30:44] Speaker 3: say some shit like that. We weren't as good as
[30:47] Speaker 3: Dylan Harper, so that makes complete sense.
[30:49] Speaker 6: You was the number two pick.
[30:51] Speaker 1: I wasn't shit.
[30:52] Speaker 3: And you wouldn't even think to say, like, that's.
[30:56] Speaker 1: Crazy, bro. That's crazy.
[30:57] Speaker 2: But as a number two pick, did you walk in like,
[30:59] Speaker 2: this is my shit?
[31:00] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[31:01] Speaker 3: As a number two pick, I walked in, I was like, bro,
[31:03] Speaker 3: why would I be playing? And I love my guys
[31:05] Speaker 3: to death, but I was like, I don't understand what
[31:06] Speaker 3: you're talking about. Why am I coming off the bench
[31:09] Speaker 3: for a 28-win team and y'all telling me I got
[31:13] Speaker 3: to play behind a dude that played here six years
[31:15] Speaker 3: and he showed you what he was, like, I was
[31:18] Speaker 3: just like, this is worth my future and development. Y'all
[31:21] Speaker 3: wasted a lottery pick. That was all. So you kind
[31:25] Speaker 3: of did say the Dylan Harper. No, but I wasn't
[31:27] Speaker 3: as good as Dylan Harper, bro. I also understood that
[31:29] Speaker 3: as well. Like, nobody heard it, did they?
[31:32] Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
[31:35] Speaker 2: They listen and they're like, okay. But that's how you feel.
[31:38] Speaker 2: You feel like, come here, I wasn't shit or I'm
[31:39] Speaker 2: the number two pick.
[31:41] Speaker 3: I just came in. I'm just saying, I've never been drafted. No,
[31:44] Speaker 3: I just literally thought, like, how do we not have
[31:46] Speaker 3: a system built around me if y'all are waiting for me?
[31:49] Speaker 3: When I was sitting there, I was like, yeah, I'm
[31:51] Speaker 3: doing too many blue-collar things to be a superstar. And not, like,
[31:56] Speaker 3: in a bad way. I just thought, like, you get
[31:58] Speaker 3: a system set up. When John Wall came in, Gil
[32:00] Speaker 3: was elite, and they made him Move over positions.
[32:05] Speaker 1: Nigga, it was number nine with a mustache. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[32:08] Speaker 1: We're not going to disrespect.
[32:09] Speaker 6: Hey, man, he don't turn number nine.
[32:10] Speaker 1: I'm not going to disrespect me like that. Hey, man,
[32:12] Speaker 1: he don't turn number nine.
[32:13] Speaker 3: What I'm saying is to take the ball out your hand.
[32:16] Speaker 1: I was not elite, nigga. I was washed. Were you? Yeah.
[32:20] Speaker 1: Once that knee went down, it was all washed from there.
[32:23] Speaker 3: I know, and that's good to hear. That's good to
[32:25] Speaker 3: hear because I just, man, I thought that.
[32:28] Speaker 1: Was crazy, bro. Listen, listen. It was going? Yeah, man,
[32:31] Speaker 1: I kicked that knee off the team so fast.
[32:33] Speaker 6: You knew it?
[32:34] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[32:34] Speaker 3: After the first pick was announced, they kicked that nigga
[32:37] Speaker 3: off the team.
[32:37] Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It wasn't when the first pick,
[32:39] Speaker 1: I knew the first pick. Yo, how old were you?
[32:41] Speaker 2: When you were watching that draft lottery and you saw
[32:43] Speaker 2: that the Wizards got the first pick.
[32:44] Speaker 1: He called me. He called me. I already knew. They
[32:49] Speaker 1: really picked him. They really picked this motherfucker, man. Bro,
[32:53] Speaker 1: that draft is scary every year. You be like, man,
[32:55] Speaker 1: I still got a year. I already said it. After
[32:59] Speaker 1: I got in trouble, we get the number one pick.
[33:01] Speaker 1: It's over. We get another pick, I'm going to Orlando.
[33:03] Speaker 1: I do a draft day. Give me Orlando.
[33:07] Speaker 2: Were you watching that draft lottery, hoping the ping-pong balls didn't...
[33:10] Speaker 2: My agent. Me and John Wall had the same agent.
[33:14] Speaker 1: Did he start treating John Wall better? I knew who
[33:17] Speaker 1: was the one pick.
[33:19] Speaker 2: Did you feel like Fagan started treating John Wall better
[33:21] Speaker 2: than you when he knew?
[33:23] Speaker 3: That's what Drew Hardy said. Drew was like, he had
[33:26] Speaker 3: to switch agents after... After John Wall came into the league, yeah,
[33:30] Speaker 3: Dan Fagan. You had to switch jerseys, numbers, everything.
[33:34] Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't have him as a, like, he
[33:36] Speaker 1: was my former agent. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[33:38] Speaker 4: Right, so it was like, he already warned me.
[33:41] Speaker 1: I'm not saying it was rigged. He just warned me.
[33:44] Speaker 1: Who's possible to get the point?
[33:46] Speaker 2: You know something.
[33:48] Speaker 1: You might not want to watch the drive tonight.
[33:51] Speaker 3: And that's what I'm saying. Did you know in that sense? Hey, bro,
[33:54] Speaker 3: we need a new face. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[33:58] Speaker 1: How old were you when your knee was out? 25.
[34:00] Speaker 1: You knew it was over then? You hear doctors start
[34:04] Speaker 1: talking shit, you know what I mean? Yeah, so you
[34:05] Speaker 1: got the meniscus tag on. We're gonna have to talk,
[34:07] Speaker 1: you know, poking holes in your kneecap and the blood's
[34:10] Speaker 1: gonna grow.
[34:10] Speaker 6: All I heard.
[34:11] Speaker 1: I'm sorry. All I heard... I'm done talking about change.
[34:14] Speaker 1: You know, the doctor.
[34:15] Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
[34:15] Speaker 1: The doctor said.
[34:16] Speaker 6: I'm sorry for... Yeah, that shit kind of hurt.
[34:18] Speaker 1: I get it. What? Nigga, I made $ 200 million. You
[34:21] Speaker 1: think I give a fuck about that knee? No, no, no.
[34:23] Speaker 1: Of course not, but, like, that's crazy, bro. The doctor said...
[34:26] Speaker 1: When he said this, I knew it was over. He said,
[34:30] Speaker 1: when he looked at the knee, he was like....
[34:33] Speaker 4: I don't even know how you walking, let alone trying
[34:37] Speaker 4: to play basketball.
[34:38] Speaker 1: You know what I mean? What the fuck you mean?
[34:41] Speaker 1: I don't know. What the fuck you mean? I'm going
[34:45] Speaker 1: to a different one. I'm going to a different doc.
[34:48] Speaker 1: Imagine going to.
[34:49] Speaker 2: A different doc.
[34:52] Speaker 1: What are you going to do now?
[34:54] Speaker 4: After my first one, I came back to season, played
[34:59] Speaker 4: eight games. I think I had like 28, 29, and 13.
[35:03] Speaker 4: I think I had one of them against Timberwolves.
[35:07] Speaker 1: And woke up in the morning, shit was hurting. Just falling? Yeah,
[35:11] Speaker 1: so I went to go see the doctor. And then MRI.
[35:14] Speaker 1: I remember. It's like, yeah, I don't.
[35:17] Speaker 4: Know how, I don't even know how you walking on
[35:19] Speaker 4: this knee. Yeah, we're going to have to do a
[35:21] Speaker 4: micro fracture, more meniscus tear. And he was like, you know,
[35:25] Speaker 4: you know, I don't think you should be trying to
[35:26] Speaker 4: play basketball no more.
[35:27] Speaker 3: But was technology like just not developed? Like in modern
[35:31] Speaker 3: day age, if that happened to you, would you have
[35:33] Speaker 3: been able to come back?
[35:33] Speaker 1: Yes, because, because.
[35:35] Speaker 4: They don't do micro fracture anymore. So every athlete they
[35:40] Speaker 4: did that on, their career was ruined. Every athlete from
[35:43] Speaker 4: every sport, nobody survived it. They don't do it no more.
[35:48] Speaker 4: They don't go to your knee. So you just go
[35:49] Speaker 4: to Germany or some shit.
[35:50] Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what they do now, but no
[35:52] Speaker 1: one does that surgery. You do a surgery and it's over.
[35:54] Speaker 1: It was new. It was just trying to shit. But
[35:57] Speaker 1: when you hear somebody say, yeah, I don't even know
[36:00] Speaker 1: how you're walking no more, reality is kicking in. Yeah.
[36:03] Speaker 1: So my whole thing was like, yeah, I just got
[36:05] Speaker 1: to figure out how to get some games in to play.
[36:07] Speaker 4: But he said, yeah. He said, with this. I said,
[36:10] Speaker 4: so what's the downside? Am I going to be able
[36:12] Speaker 4: to run, jump?
[36:13] Speaker 1: He said, you're going to lose jumping power. He basically said,
[36:17] Speaker 1: I hope you know how to.
[36:18] Speaker 4: You're going to change your game because you ain't going
[36:19] Speaker 4: to be the same.
[36:20] Speaker 1: That's fine, dog. I'm sorry, bro. I mean, it was A.
[36:24] Speaker 4: But I got it in real time. It was no
[36:27] Speaker 4: fake hope. I was just trying to be like, I'm
[36:29] Speaker 4: going to still have my game. I said, the worst
[36:31] Speaker 4: I can be is looking like a Steve Nash. Then
[36:33] Speaker 4: this motherfucker. Was that the worst you could be, or
[36:39] Speaker 4: did it get worse?
[36:39] Speaker 1: Nah, it was worse. Okay. I was a nigga just
[36:41] Speaker 1: sitting in the corner.
[36:42] Speaker 6: Just another nigga passing by.
[36:44] Speaker 1: What? 25. I know it, dog. You're lying to me.
[36:51] Speaker 1: Let's bring back some positivity.
[36:52] Speaker 6: You was about 26 then.
[36:54] Speaker 1: Just wearing suits and shit. Just got my suit game on.
[36:57] Speaker 1: With the blonde collar. But that's neither here nor there.
[37:00] Speaker 6: I remember when you came back. You're rich.
[37:03] Speaker 1: I remember when you came back. I was putting damage
[37:04] Speaker 1: in at 25.
[37:05] Speaker 2: I respect it. But let's keep this thing moving. We're
[37:08] Speaker 2: going to do something special this season. Our entire Gills
[37:11] Speaker 2: Arena cast will be doing a season-long NBA fantasy competition.
[37:17] Speaker 1: Rules are simple.
[37:17] Speaker 2: Each member of our cast We'll draft eight players to
[37:22] Speaker 2: a team. With the top five players from that team,
[37:24] Speaker 2: stats counting for the final total. Whoever scores the highest
[37:28] Speaker 2: over the course of the season wins our grand prize. Gil,
[37:31] Speaker 2: what is our grand prize?
[37:32] Speaker 1: $ 100, 000. Who put $ 100, 000 up, Gil? Playmaker. For real? If
[37:36] Speaker 1: they don't do it, if they don't put it up,
[37:38] Speaker 1: Melly gonna put it up. So congrats to Playmaker. Yeah,
[37:40] Speaker 1: she'll do shit with the money. Playmaker or Melly. Melly.
[37:43] Speaker 1: I knew she'd be going in. She do be giving it.
[37:46] Speaker 2: So Playmaker or Melly, you're putting up $ 100, 000 cash. Whoever,
[37:49] Speaker 2: we're gonna do, I don't do all the fancy shit,
[37:50] Speaker 2: but whatever the fantasy point totals are. Yeah.
[37:54] Speaker 1: Top five players.
[37:54] Speaker 2: We're giving you guys eight players, so if three of
[37:56] Speaker 2: them get hurt, you still have that top five to
[37:58] Speaker 2: draw from.
[37:59] Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to let you guys trade them.
[38:00] Speaker 1: You got to pick whoever wins.
[38:02] Speaker 3: Can we break it up and just get top three, third, second,
[38:06] Speaker 3: that participation. I want to get 25 at least.
[38:08] Speaker 1: Oh, you don't want to be Nick? No, I want
[38:11] Speaker 1: to get a what? I don't want to be Nick.
[38:13] Speaker 1: You don't win and you don't get nothing. All right,
[38:17] Speaker 1: second place sound good now with some money on it. Wait, wait, wait.
[38:19] Speaker 1: I'll get it.
[38:20] Speaker 6: I love it. So, first place gets $ 100, 000.
[38:21] Speaker 1: No, it's a $ 100, 000 prize.
[38:21] Speaker 3: So, he's saying, like, so first place gets, like, $ 60, 000.
[38:31] Speaker 1: Second place. Rich Rollins. We want first place to get
[38:35] Speaker 1: 100 and everybody gets zero. We're still figuring out the bread.
[38:37] Speaker 2: We still have to talk to the good folks at
[38:39] Speaker 2: Playmaker because this will be news to them. But we'll
[38:41] Speaker 2: hop on that call Monday, Playmaker, and sort it all out.
[38:43] Speaker 1: Don't worry. This is Guzman. This is what you signed
[38:46] Speaker 1: up for. All right. We do shit how we feel like.
[38:47] Speaker 6: Do we got to hand it off to the chat, too?
[38:50] Speaker 1: Yeah, give the money to the chat. Put it in
[38:53] Speaker 1: your pocket. Yeah, you can give them little ugly ass keys.
[39:07] Speaker 2: So we're holding the draft this Monday during our episode
[39:10] Speaker 2: of gills arena will track the leaderboard throughout the season
[39:14] Speaker 2: But today we're doing our official draft lottery. So let's
[39:17] Speaker 2: get these ping-pong balls if we can't please Thank you.
[39:20] Speaker 1: So we got the name on it so he can
[39:21] Speaker 1: see the name. Oh Yo, I'm not going to look.
[39:23] Speaker 1: How are you going to have a see-through? Yeah, cover
[39:27] Speaker 1: that thing up. Cover that thing up. that thing up.
[39:31] Speaker 1: I'm going to magic drop it. How many balls is
[39:32] Speaker 1: in it? I think it's one for everybody in our country.
[39:35] Speaker 1: He can see it. He can see the numbers. See,
[39:37] Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Cover that thing up. Actually, there's randoms? Wait,
[39:44] Speaker 1: is it another drawer? I can't see. I can't see.
[39:48] Speaker 1: Somebody pick it for him. Can we take the extras out?
[39:51] Speaker 1: I just got to draft names out of here. What'd
[39:53] Speaker 1: they put in there? Huh? What are we doing in there?
[39:58] Speaker 1: Was there extras? I got... Just open the top. Just
[40:01] Speaker 1: open the top out.
[40:02] Speaker 6: Open the top and then let him shake it and just.
[40:05] Speaker 2: Yeah, you shake it, let him pick it. All right,
[40:09] Speaker 2: shake and pick. Shake and pick, shake and pick. Shake
[40:12] Speaker 2: and pick, ladies and gentlemen. So it's all names in there.
[40:15] Speaker 1: All right.
[40:16] Speaker 6: Is that what you told us?
[40:16] Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me look for the frozen one.
[40:18] Speaker 1: We got the frozen one. Oh, yeah. With the number
[40:23] Speaker 1: one pick. Number one pick goes to Evan. Oh, what? Hell, yeah.
[40:29] Speaker 3: This is the best day of my life, for real.
[40:31] Speaker 3: That's some bullshit.
[40:33] Speaker 1: What the fuck you saying that for? Come on, baby.
[40:36] Speaker 6: That should have been the number one pick.
[40:37] Speaker 1: It should have been the last pick. Number one pick
[40:40] Speaker 1: goes to Evan. Yeah. I'm just going to egg you, man.
[40:44] Speaker 1: I got a big wrist. I got a big wrist.
[40:46] Speaker 1: Number two pick. Shump. Okay, Shump. I see you, baby.
[40:54] Speaker 1: Number three pick. Hold on. See, I should have been
[40:59] Speaker 1: Adam Silverman. Luca, get ready, baby. Number three pick. Brendan Haywood.
[41:04] Speaker 1: The good guys are winning. All right, man. Dude, we
[41:09] Speaker 1: can't rig this one.
[41:09] Speaker 3: This nigga's talking about, all right.
[41:12] Speaker 1: He's talking about he don't want the top three. Number
[41:14] Speaker 1: four pick. Josiah. Our very own Gilbert Arenas. Yeah! Who
[41:19] Speaker 1: you getting?
[41:20] Speaker 6: Huh?
[41:20] Speaker 1: Who you getting?
[41:21] Speaker 6: I'm last, cuz.
[41:23] Speaker 3: Swag, we got four more picks to go.
[41:26] Speaker 6: Who is this?
[41:28] Speaker 7: You want Luka?
[41:29] Speaker 1: Number five pick. I want Luka, too. Our very own
[41:32] Speaker 1: Baron Davis. Lord Baron Davis is number five pick. Yeah,
[41:34] Speaker 1: nigga will be last. Three more picks to go. But
[41:39] Speaker 1: if you last, you get the last pick and the
[41:40] Speaker 1: first pick. Nick, you got a championship ring.
[41:42] Speaker 2: You good, bro. Number six pick goes to Boogie. DeMarcus
[41:45] Speaker 2: Cousins will get the number six pick.
[41:46] Speaker 1: Man, how many people on the Boogie? Yeah, you got
[41:49] Speaker 1: all these people on the couch now. I know. God damn.
[41:51] Speaker 2: It's a snake draft. So if you pick first in
[41:53] Speaker 2: the first round, you will pick lax in the next round.
[41:55] Speaker 1: Okay, well, I want to be last.
[41:56] Speaker 3: You'll snake it. So snake is not that bad. You
[41:58] Speaker 3: don't want to be last. Man, there's that many good
[41:59] Speaker 3: niggas there. You're going to end up with Dylan Harper.
[42:03] Speaker 1: Number seven pick. Danny Green. Danny Green. That means the
[42:08] Speaker 1: last pick. Damn, dawg. In our first ever Gills Arena.
[42:11] Speaker 1: That's crazy as hell. Fantasy Draft Lottery. You used up
[42:14] Speaker 1: all your luck. Hey, now that makes sense, though. Right?
[42:17] Speaker 1: He said if he ain't second, he'd be a rather
[42:19] Speaker 1: than last. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You said that.
[42:21] Speaker 1: You used up one of me. No, I want to
[42:23] Speaker 1: be last.
[42:23] Speaker 6: I get two picks.
[42:24] Speaker 1: Yeah. Perfect. Verse by Gene. Perfect.
[42:28] Speaker 3: The eighth pick. So I use that by Jinks who
[42:30] Speaker 3: are 79ers. This nigga finna pick up Jalen Dern.
[42:33] Speaker 1: Damn, this shit rigged. No, no, no. It would have
[42:38] Speaker 1: been rigged. I wanted number one.
[42:40] Speaker 2: Authentic, most authentic draft model. So I'll repeat the draft order.
[42:46] Speaker 2: Evan landed the number one overall pick in our Gills
[42:48] Speaker 2: Arena Fantasy draft that we'll be holding this Monday. I
[42:50] Speaker 2: appreciate you. Shump got the number two pick. Brennan Haywood,
[42:53] Speaker 2: the number three pick. Gil, the number four pick. Baron
[42:57] Speaker 2: Davis got the number five pick. Boogie will pick sixth.
[43:01] Speaker 2: Danny Green got the seventh. And arguably the greatest corner
[43:04] Speaker 2: of all time, the creator of the corner board, Swaggy P, eighth,
[43:08] Speaker 2: but it is a snake draft.
[43:10] Speaker 1: See, God is good. Whoever isn't available for our draft,
[43:15] Speaker 1: because niggas be busy. We will auto-pick the highest available
[43:17] Speaker 1: pick for them. I need to go chat. What happened?
[43:23] Speaker 2: Said if somebody can't make the draft, we will auto-pick
[43:26] Speaker 2: their team with the highest available pick at that point.
[43:28] Speaker 1: Hell no! No, no, hell no. We don't know what
[43:31] Speaker 1: one of them niggas might pick. They might pick some
[43:33] Speaker 1: stupid shit. Fuck that. Nah, no, no, no, no, no, no. Nah, nah, nah,
[43:40] Speaker 1: we're not doing that.
[43:42] Speaker 6: It's like points.
[43:43] Speaker 4: It might be Giannis there, and they might be a
[43:46] Speaker 4: motherfucking Sangoon fan.
[43:47] Speaker 1: You ain't lying. You ain't fucking lying. Look, he already said,
[43:51] Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like, nah.
[43:52] Speaker 6: Nah, nah, nah.
[43:53] Speaker 2: My Little League's institute the same type of draft going.
[43:55] Speaker 2: I have seen that type of stuff go down.
[43:56] Speaker 1: I didn't pick anything.
[43:58] Speaker 3: You end up with a Sabon Institute.
[44:01] Speaker 1: You got your draft board.
[44:03] Speaker 4: If they're not him, I believe in this. If you
[44:05] Speaker 4: don't make it, you get.
[44:06] Speaker 1: The worst possible. No. Yeah. That's not fair. Bring your
[44:10] Speaker 1: ass in. Bring your ass in. Be available. That's real.
[44:15] Speaker 1: Be available. You get penalized if you're not here. I mean,
[44:18] Speaker 1: we are here every day, guys, you know. Every day. Hey, Chad,
[44:22] Speaker 1: I'm going to need y'all help. If I win, y'all
[44:24] Speaker 1: know I'm going to break y'all off. I'm about to
[44:27] Speaker 1: kill it. I'll give you the first pick for that.
[44:29] Speaker 1: I'll give you two picks right away. Grab the lottery jersey.
[44:31] Speaker 1: You got it. I'll give you the fantasy draft Monday. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[44:33] Speaker 1: Wait a second.
[44:34] Speaker 3: I'll give you the first pick for that Kobe jersey.
[44:38] Speaker 3: That's the same price. Gil, you thought about it, too.
[44:41] Speaker 3: For real, dead ass, you thought about that long?
[44:43] Speaker 1: Just give it to me. Swag, you got the 60-point
[44:45] Speaker 1: game ball? You wanted 20. I got a bunch of 24s.
[44:50] Speaker 1: I mean, I do have enough. All right, throw in
[44:53] Speaker 1: a shoe. I do have about 20-something.
[44:58] Speaker 3: You give me an autograph, Kobe jersey, Gil, Adidas shoe.
[45:03] Speaker 1: I'll give you the first pick. You got the third pick?
[45:05] Speaker 1: I got fourth. All you want is Luka? Yes, sir.
[45:09] Speaker 1: You got no traits. That's all, man. What's done is done.
[45:13] Speaker 1: I ain't asking for nothing, man. That might work.
[45:17] Speaker 2: That might work. So you got to be very strategic
[45:21] Speaker 2: in your picking. You want players that are actually going
[45:23] Speaker 2: to play.
[45:23] Speaker 1: Hey, can we trade? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You
[45:25] Speaker 1: can't trade. We're talking about it, Gil. I don't know.
[45:27] Speaker 1: I don't do it. Yeah, okay.
[45:29] Speaker 2: I mean, it is your show. And you do cut
[45:31] Speaker 2: the check. So really, if you want to do it,
[45:33] Speaker 2: we have to. No, I'm just saying that, but that's
[45:35] Speaker 2: everybody's vote.
[45:36] Speaker 3: That's decent. Yeah, I would love to trade. I ain't
[45:38] Speaker 3: going to lie. It would.
[45:40] Speaker 2: You pick eight players, your top five point total will
[45:43] Speaker 2: count towards your overall total points. So that means if
[45:46] Speaker 2: you have three players that get hurt, whatever it may be,
[45:48] Speaker 2: you still have that five to pick from.
[45:49] Speaker 1: Also, we can trade after we pick. I don't know.
[45:52] Speaker 1: We're going to talk about it later. No, no. I
[45:53] Speaker 1: was going to say, I wouldn't be trading if I'm
[45:55] Speaker 1: not involved. Like I said, we pick eight, and then
[45:57] Speaker 1: somebody has in their 6-7 that they're not going to play,
[46:00] Speaker 1: and they want to trade with a starter. Can we
[46:02] Speaker 1: do that? We'll discuss it. I mean, you light-skinned. I mean,
[46:05] Speaker 1: you run shit like this. I just host. No, I don't.
[46:07] Speaker 1: All right. I coach Little League and host Gills Arena.
[46:11] Speaker 1: That's it.
[46:13] Speaker 2: But it's time to try and finesse some bread on Polymarket.
[46:17] Speaker 2: This is Put That On Something. We're going to give
[46:20] Speaker 2: you a trade on the Polymarket app. You got to
[46:21] Speaker 2: pick a side and put that on something. So SGA
[46:25] Speaker 2: has won back-to-back MVPs looking to join Bill Russell, Wilt,
[46:28] Speaker 2: and Larry Bird as the only players in league history
[46:30] Speaker 2: to three-peat when it comes to to the MVP. But
[46:34] Speaker 2: as it stands right now, Wimby, the clear favorite with 35%
[46:38] Speaker 2: of traders picking the alien to win his first most
[46:41] Speaker 2: valuable player award. SGA and Luca have the second best
[46:45] Speaker 2: odds with 15% of traders picking either one of them
[46:48] Speaker 2: with Jokic and Giannis rounding out the top five at 14%
[46:52] Speaker 2: and 7% respectively. But let's take this to our couch. Swaggy,
[46:57] Speaker 2: we're going to start with you. Who's winning the MVP
[47:00] Speaker 2: this season?
[47:03] Speaker 1: Oh, shit. Wendy. Swaggy's going to go with the people's pick.
[47:10] Speaker 6: No, I'm going with Ant-Man.
[47:12] Speaker 2: Swaggy going off script, going with Anthony Edwards, Ant-Man. Anthony
[47:18] Speaker 2: Edwards currently 5% of traders picking Ant-Man to win. But
[47:25] Speaker 2: if you did place that trade on Polymarket and you
[47:27] Speaker 2: put $ 10 on.
[47:27] Speaker 1: It, you win $ 187. 60 for that win.
[47:28] Speaker 2: Just $ 10. 00. You could turn it into $ 187.
[47:33] Speaker 1: 60. So you're telling me there's a chance. There is
[47:35] Speaker 1: a chance. Evan, let's move on to you. I don't
[47:42] Speaker 1: see him giving shade. I'm going to go Dark Horses.
[47:49] Speaker 1: I'm going to go Luka or Tatum. Luka or Tatum? Tatum.
[47:55] Speaker 1: I like Tatum. Tatum also at 5%.
[47:56] Speaker 3: I like Tatum a lot. I think that eats us
[48:00] Speaker 3: up for grabs, like you said. If they go top
[48:03] Speaker 3: two in the East, and I think the kid that
[48:05] Speaker 3: put up 50 in them three times in a month
[48:07] Speaker 3: can average 32, 33 a night with eight and eight,
[48:12] Speaker 3: it's hard not to argue that.
[48:13] Speaker 1: Okay. Good argument.
[48:15] Speaker 8: I was going to sneak him.
[48:26] Speaker 1: Yeah. I think Jokic numbers dips because his team got better.
[48:30] Speaker 1: Low key.
[48:30] Speaker 2: Wimby, then you, and Wimby's 35% of traders, 15% going
[48:33] Speaker 2: to Lucas.
[48:34] Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking about reality. Like, his team got better, so.
[48:39] Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Luca. You're going with Luca?
[48:41] Speaker 1: I'm going with Luca. Slovenian Jesus.
[48:43] Speaker 6: I'm going to be eighth and sixth.
[48:46] Speaker 1: The former teammate of LeBron James. You should never go
[48:48] Speaker 1: below five, bro. Yeah, he hasn't gone below five. It
[48:51] Speaker 1: was him or Tatum to me. Because I think Tatum
[48:53] Speaker 1: being in the East, he's going to average about 30-something. Yeah.
[48:57] Speaker 1: He's going to have his 37. He gets eight rebounds,
[48:59] Speaker 1: eight assists. He's going to have the numbers. And he's
[49:01] Speaker 1: performing at crunch time.
[49:02] Speaker 3: He's got some pretty big games.
[49:04] Speaker 1: I mean, Luke is going to lead in scoring. And
[49:09] Speaker 1: he's going to have 8, 9, 9, 9, maybe 10, 10.
[49:11] Speaker 1: So he's going to be there. All right.
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[49:31] Speaker 2: Now it's time for our last Mostly Fans of the Week.
[49:34] Speaker 2: And maybe our last Mostly Fans of all time in
[49:36] Speaker 2: this particular... Depending on how Gil feels. 30-something. Lower that
[49:41] Speaker 2: green screen. Paolo, we appreciate you. Appreciate the rest of
[49:45] Speaker 2: our crew on this glorious Friday.
[49:46] Speaker 1: I was thinking Giannis. I was like, low-key, Giannis could, but,
[49:49] Speaker 1: you know.
[49:49] Speaker 2: All right, so we have a comment from Jameroni. He said,
[49:54] Speaker 2: whenever we talk about the Y Emberwolves, we need to
[49:56] Speaker 2: play Why Ain't Livin' by A $ AP Mob.
[49:59] Speaker 1: That's got to be their anthem. Who? Hmm? Why who?
[50:04] Speaker 1: Why Ain't Livin' by A $ AP Mob. We are old heads,
[50:07] Speaker 1: I know. The mob. The mob, bro.
[50:11] Speaker 3: ASAP Mob, ASAP Rocky, ASAP Ferg. The Cozy Tastes Volume
[50:16] Speaker 3: 1 was a classic from the skits.
[50:18] Speaker 1: Wait, there's more ASAPs? It's like 80 of them. There's
[50:20] Speaker 1: not no more, though. They're doing that. Wait, wait, wait.
[50:24] Speaker 3: Think about your lunch table as a kid. That was
[50:27] Speaker 3: the ASAP Mob.
[50:28] Speaker 1: Oh, I thought it was just ASAP Rocky. Oh, no, no.
[50:31] Speaker 3: I mean, this would have been technically your last group
[50:33] Speaker 3: would have been a mob. This would be a mob,
[50:35] Speaker 3: ASAP Mob. You just throw the staff in front of it.
[50:40] Speaker 8: Okay.
[50:40] Speaker 1: What was the other names? A $ AP who?
[50:43] Speaker 3: A $ AP Ferg, A $ AP... You know A $ AP Ferg.
[50:46] Speaker 1: You know Ferg.
[50:47] Speaker 3: A $ AP Ari, A $ AP... Who? A $ AP M. It
[50:53] Speaker 3: was a wavy group. The Cozy Tapes one was elite.
[50:56] Speaker 3: The Skits were elite.
[50:58] Speaker 1: It was culture. I thought it was all the same name.
[51:02] Speaker 1: A $ AP is... A $ AP... A $ AP is Ferg in
[51:07] Speaker 1: the day. Like, I don't... I didn't know they had
[51:13] Speaker 1: rap groups.
[51:14] Speaker 3: He sound like an OG.
[51:18] Speaker 1: I didn't know they all had the same name. All right,
[51:23] Speaker 1: so let's keep it moving.
[51:24] Speaker 2: We got a comment from Skywalker7474. He never said he
[51:28] Speaker 2: didn't want to be an icon or lose his talent.
[51:30] Speaker 2: He's talking about Allen Iverson. He said accolades. That's not talent, B.
[51:37] Speaker 1: I ain't never said that. That's what it is, Twain.
[51:41] Speaker 4: If you take away the accolades, that means you're taking
[51:44] Speaker 4: away scoring title. You're taking away all NBAs, all stars,
[51:50] Speaker 4: scoring titles. You're taking away all of it, which means, nigga,
[51:54] Speaker 4: that's not an icon no more.
[51:56] Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That's why I was saying the
[52:00] Speaker 1: way I was saying it. You said it right, bro.
[52:01] Speaker 4: If you're taking away your accolades, that's you. You're taking
[52:05] Speaker 4: away that, then you're just regular.
[52:08] Speaker 1: Regular?
[52:09] Speaker 6: It ain't HBO, it's just regular ass people.
[52:13] Speaker 1: Brunson has accolades. He's all NBA. He's an all-star. He's
[52:16] Speaker 1: the finals MVP. Everything.
[52:18] Speaker 2: We have a comment from the Out of Pocket Variety Show. Said,
[52:22] Speaker 2: AI without the accolades is Marbury. Think about that.
[52:26] Speaker 1: No, he's not. That's what I said.
[52:29] Speaker 4: I was just being a dickhead by taking all the accolades.
[52:32] Speaker 4: You gotta be, when you say shit like that, it
[52:34] Speaker 4: has to be which accolade?
[52:36] Speaker 1: Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You said you'd give all
[52:39] Speaker 1: your accolades away. All of us. That's rough. Keep a few.
[52:45] Speaker 2: We have a question from JuiceNationM. Did they talk about
[52:50] Speaker 2: Hibachi goat build in NBA 2K? We did, beginning of
[52:53] Speaker 2: the show.
[52:54] Speaker 1: You know what? I don't want your son picking me.
[52:56] Speaker 6: He won't pick your ass. Fuck with you. Fuck you.
[53:02] Speaker 6: You got to see through sweats and shit on the couch.
[53:05] Speaker 1: No, we don't. We don't. We have to address this.
[53:09] Speaker 6: Come on, man. Let's get the fuck out of here.
[53:10] Speaker 6: You've been talking all day.
[53:12] Speaker 1: You know that?
[53:12] Speaker 6: You wake up.
[53:13] Speaker 1: At 6 a.m.
[53:14] Speaker 6: And talk.
[53:14] Speaker 1: You're going to talk after. I got to see you later.
[53:17] Speaker 1: Can you thank me already? I don't want to see
[53:18] Speaker 1: you no more. Your son was a.
[53:20] Speaker 4: Hoodlum when he was little. What I did to him,
[53:24] Speaker 4: you know, a village fucks the kids up, shit like that.
[53:27] Speaker 4: I fucked him up.
[53:29] Speaker 1: So he act right. You did do that. You did
[53:32] Speaker 1: do that. You did that. Scared straight.
[53:34] Speaker 6: Scared straight.
[53:35] Speaker 1: I scared straight him. Now you wear glasses. Got a
[53:40] Speaker 1: little white girl here and there. Talk proper. Hey, hey, dad. Hey,
[53:45] Speaker 1: Uncle Gil. I did that. Hey, Uncle Gil. Gil loves
[53:54] Speaker 1: the kids. All right, let's keep it moving. Somebody got
[53:57] Speaker 1: to do it.
[53:59] Speaker 2: We have a question from TreyGamesFitness4928 said, who has killer
[54:03] Speaker 2: instinct in today's era like Kobe?
[54:05] Speaker 1: Who has killer instinct in today's era like Kobe? Oh, man.
[54:11] Speaker 1: The one that stands out the most would be Brunson.
[54:16] Speaker 1: Just straight killer instinct.
[54:18] Speaker 4: It's all the way through the game and that ending.
[54:21] Speaker 1: Luka.
[54:23] Speaker 6: Man, hell no.
[54:24] Speaker 1: No?
[54:26] Speaker 3: When Luka go in the last five minutes.
[54:27] Speaker 4: His last five minutes is good, but when you're just
[54:29] Speaker 4: talking about somebody who just feels soulless, it's Brunson.
[54:35] Speaker 1: You think?
[54:36] Speaker 4: You can't There's no getting through that.
[54:39] Speaker 1: Bro, he's at that level?
[54:42] Speaker 4: Listen, I went back this whole time, and I'm just
[54:45] Speaker 4: watching his fourth quarter.
[54:47] Speaker 1: He's a maniac, man.
[54:48] Speaker 4: He has no compromise in his thought process.
[54:53] Speaker 1: Wow. I'm glad to hear it. Right behind him would
[54:56] Speaker 1: probably be Shea. Okay. Shea is up. Low-key, Hallie. Yeah,
[55:02] Speaker 1: Hallie's tough. How he got some coldness to him, too.
[55:06] Speaker 1: It's game seven. Yeah.
[55:07] Speaker 3: If he would have never got hurt. But you don't
[55:09] Speaker 3: think Ant-Man is more talk than kill?
[55:12] Speaker 1: Verbally, he's like, I don't give a fuck about nobody.
[55:15] Speaker 3: But he sit down and guard, bro.
[55:18] Speaker 1: If he uses the words with Brunson.
[55:20] Speaker 6: Style, like, yeah.
[55:21] Speaker 4: He has the confidence. He's young. He got to turn
[55:25] Speaker 4: it over.
[55:26] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[55:27] Speaker 2: All right, so we have a question from Marcus Thompson, 301.
[55:29] Speaker 2: Marcus Thompson, dedicated super chatter. So which one would y'all
[55:33] Speaker 2: bring back? NBA Live, NBA Jam, or NBA Street?
[55:37] Speaker 1: NBA Street. Live. Like 02, 03 Live? Like early Live? 08. 08? No? 08? Yeah. Yeah.
[55:58] Speaker 6: He was on there with the black and gold. That
[56:00] Speaker 6: color jersey.
[56:01] Speaker 1: It was just the hottest thing moving. And you know
[56:04] Speaker 1: how good I was, bro?
[56:06] Speaker 3: You had all that before 25.
[56:08] Speaker 1: I had both covers. I got offered both covers. NBA
[56:12] Speaker 1: Live and NBA 2.
[56:13] Speaker 6: It's 2 o'clock.
[56:15] Speaker 1: God damn. Live is bigger. He will talk all day.
[56:18] Speaker 1: Last one. This is from NJ7. Shout out. Amen. You'll
[56:22] Speaker 1: appreciate this one, Swaggy. From NJ7.
[56:25] Speaker 2: Shout out Gil Zerini. Y'all get me through long work weeks.
[56:27] Speaker 2: I just wanted to say I appreciate all the fellas
[56:29] Speaker 2: on the couch. Also, shout out my guy Swaggy for
[56:32] Speaker 2: standing on winning business.
[56:34] Speaker 1: The real brother knowledge. The real brother of knowledge. Brother
[56:36] Speaker 1: of knowledge in the building.
[56:40] Speaker 2: And we got one last comment from DeliveryGuy91. Said, half
[56:43] Speaker 2: a billion dollars in salary got swept. No Dodger talk
[56:46] Speaker 2: this year, Joe. You can't win the World Series every year,
[56:48] Speaker 2: but now we know what it feels like.
[56:49] Speaker 1: Wait, Dodgers lost? Yeah. Dodgers got swept by the Brewers.
[56:51] Speaker 2: What the fuck is the Brewers?
[56:53] Speaker 1: Canadian Brewers? First World Series since 1982. That's fucking Milwaukee.
[56:57] Speaker 3: If you find it in Chicago, you'll get there in
[57:00] Speaker 3: an hour and a half.
[57:01] Speaker 1: It's over there. Can't win the World Series every year.
[57:03] Speaker 1: And for all you broke properties, you can't win. That's crazy, bro.
[57:07] Speaker 1: What happened to the agent? Is he here? What happened
[57:10] Speaker 1: to the agent is crazy.
[57:12] Speaker 6: He hit one home run.
[57:14] Speaker 1: His teammate kicked his shoulder.
[57:15] Speaker 2: He's been dealing with some shit. His swing mechanics were
[57:18] Speaker 2: a little off good. Was Mookie best player? Mookie was
[57:20] Speaker 2: out there doing his thing as usual. But they did
[57:23] Speaker 2: struggle against the Brewers. We got to test them. We
[57:27] Speaker 2: got to drug test them.
[57:29] Speaker 4: I was just about to kick in my Dodger gear.
[57:33] Speaker 4: I bought some Dodger gear.
[57:34] Speaker 1: Back-to-back World Series champs. I didn't know the playoffs started.
[57:38] Speaker 1: Still the last World Series champion.
[57:39] Speaker 6: You're lost to the Dodgers.
[57:41] Speaker 1: You know, anybody watch. But the Yankees lost too, so
[57:44] Speaker 1: it's all good. Die Yankee, lose.
[57:47] Speaker 6: Shout out to the chat.
[57:49] Speaker 2: Another successful and productive week, but the NBA season is
[57:52] Speaker 2: here starting next week, ladies and gentlemen. We're about to
[57:53] Speaker 2: turn it up even more. But before we go today,
[57:56] Speaker 2: make sure you hit that like button. And if you
[57:57] Speaker 2: have not subscribed to our channel, make sure you subscribe
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[58:02] Speaker 2: our numbers up. Appreciate everybody in the chat. Appreciate everybody
[58:04] Speaker 2: on this couch. Appreciate our amazing crew. Make sure you
[58:07] Speaker 2: pull up Monday for our Gills Arena Fantasy Draft. But
[58:11] Speaker 2: this has been another episode of Gills Arena presented by
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[58:16] Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa. We'll see y'all next week.

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