Speaker 1: Oh no, we got no more NBA games with there's
Speaker 1: no problem because we still have shover through the summer.
Speaker 1: And we're joined this week by one of the absolute funniest,
Speaker 1: if not the hilarious account on NBA Twitter, writer creator
Speaker 1: baller Josiah Johnson. I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brian,
Speaker 1: and this is Miles and Jack got mad You want
Speaker 1: to tell you about the timing you were just a
Speaker 1: little bit up there. Welcome y'all to another episode of
Speaker 1: Matt Boosts. I know it's the off season. I know
Speaker 1: there's you know, there isn't formal ball to be had,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't record. But yeah, you know, on a
Speaker 1: fishing ballot exactly. It looks great though, it looks fantastic.
Speaker 1: But let's not waste any more time. Let's first of
Speaker 1: all introduced today's guests, the brilliant Josiah Johnson. First of all,
Speaker 1: I need to know what he was looking like to
Speaker 1: claim that you have mad boost. Oh see, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you asked, Josiah, because I can't and I used to
Speaker 1: be able to get net. So yeah, I'm about a
Speaker 1: net range right now. I can give you a couple
Speaker 1: of back work happen stretching. Definitely just want to make
Speaker 1: sure your boosties weren't matter than oh absolutely had to.
Speaker 1: And again we name the show to sort of jar
Speaker 1: the minds of people of our generation when that was
Speaker 1: the thing you said, mad boost But Jose, how are you?
Speaker 1: How are you liking the how are you enjoying the
Speaker 1: in between times? Right now? This is this is the
Speaker 1: thing I like to say about the NBA season. There
Speaker 1: is no off season right this isn't for me, obviously
Speaker 1: a lot better than regular season because a lot of
Speaker 1: people are lunching right now, they're on vacations, they're not
Speaker 1: paying attention to what's going on. And this is when
Speaker 1: you get the best stuff. We've got the Draft that
Speaker 1: just happened last week. You got free agency coming up.
Speaker 1: My favorite time of year, because you know, it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be crazy. You know, I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You got the Kyrie situation, you got Draymond and Perk.
Speaker 1: It's just there's never a dumb moment in the NBA.
Speaker 1: You know, there there's less games and all that type
Speaker 1: of stuff going on, but these guys have a lot
Speaker 1: more free time. I think that's the thing people really
Speaker 1: need to gravitate towards. When they have more free time,
Speaker 1: that's time to send out shots on Twitter, on Instagram,
Speaker 1: make videos, you know, call people all types of slurs
Speaker 1: like do whatever whatever you know you feel is clever.
Speaker 1: Has anybody ever like come up during the off season
Speaker 1: just with their like I remember, like the DeAndre thing
Speaker 1: was a whole but but that wasn't really him like
Speaker 1: doing anything. That was like everybody chasing him, right, So
Speaker 1: what what what's the what's your like most memorable like
Speaker 1: social media performance from the off season? Well, it's too fold,
Speaker 1: So I gotta go back a few years. So when
Speaker 1: a D came into the Lakers, So I think the
Speaker 1: Raptors that had won the championship that year. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, my my clock is all all over the place.
Speaker 1: But I was in Vegas hanging out. My wife and
Speaker 1: I started writing a song about you know, a D
Speaker 1: coming to Lakers using ice cubes in the hotel, right,
Speaker 1: and we were just kind chilling hanging out. This is
Speaker 1: right after the Raptors of one go down to the
Speaker 1: lobby order some Postmates go down to the lobby at
Speaker 1: the Encore. You know, I walked through the v I
Speaker 1: P section see a gentleman with braids, taller gentlemen. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this looks like Kauai. But they literally just one Like
Speaker 1: surely they can't be in Vegas right now, look at them.
Speaker 1: It's kind of staring, like, you know, wearing new ballengces
Speaker 1: like checks all the boxes for Kauai. Every turns out
Speaker 1: it was Kaua. I think they had flown out for
Speaker 1: the night to go party with Drake or something like that.
Speaker 1: So probably one of my favorite kind of just offseason moments,
Speaker 1: like the season that just ended, we wind winding down.
Speaker 1: I'm looking around, like, you know, carrying my bag of postmates,
Speaker 1: staring at Kawhi Leon or try to sneak a picture
Speaker 1: of him. But obviously, you guys know Vegas heavy surveillance,
Speaker 1: didn't want to get on their naughty list and you know,
Speaker 1: get booted from the Encore. But I managed to grab
Speaker 1: a shot at him, super blurry, but I hold and
Speaker 1: cherished that moment. That's amazing. All right, So you mentioned
Speaker 1: the Kyrie stuff, but everybody that that seems to be
Speaker 1: the thing that most people, like My eyes kind of
Speaker 1: glaze over when it comes to trade machine stuff. But
Speaker 1: that is definitely not the case for most NBA A fans,
Speaker 1: and everybody seems to be intrigued. What will Kyrie do?
Speaker 1: I think I think the main teams that everybody's talking about, Lakers, Clippers, Nicks,
Speaker 1: I don't think that means that that is the extent
Speaker 1: of like where he could possibly end up, and obviously
Speaker 1: the Nets. But if you had to look at your
Speaker 1: crystal ball, what do you think is gonna happen? I
Speaker 1: think it was very telling and shout out the Pier
Speaker 1: ships of from Complex Sports who got the interview with
Speaker 1: Kyrie on the red carpet the BT Awards. You know,
Speaker 1: he asked him, do you want to be a Brooklyn Net?
Speaker 1: And Kyrie literally did not say yes. He literally, you know,
Speaker 1: tried to pass it on to his mom and really
Speaker 1: just stoked those fires. And Kyrie is an interesting dude.
Speaker 1: You know, the reports first dropped that he was considering
Speaker 1: opting out and taking the six million dollar you know,
Speaker 1: taxpayer mL e from the Lakers. Nobody was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would never happen, right any other player on the planet, Like,
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me, There's no one that happened.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, hearing the stories in Romans behind
Speaker 1: the scene that him and Lebron James kind of reconciled.
Speaker 1: Kyrie is figured it out. You know, Kyrie dip to
Speaker 1: Boston didn't work out there, dip to Brooklyn didn't work
Speaker 1: out there. You know, Kyrie and Lebron go together like
Speaker 1: a two piece of biscuit. You know, they are a
Speaker 1: phenomenal crew. I was sad to see them break up
Speaker 1: when they're in Cleveland, and you know, will help, you know,
Speaker 1: as long as the eighties healthy as well, will help
Speaker 1: be able to thwart that Warriors jugg or not that
Speaker 1: you know, appears that there's no insight to this new
Speaker 1: reborn We don't need k D you know, dynasty that
Speaker 1: they're they're starting over there. But for me, like just
Speaker 1: just to know that, you know, something that you would
Speaker 1: have never imagined in your life. And obviously Kyrie had
Speaker 1: a tumultal season last year with the mandate not playing games,
Speaker 1: We're playing like twenty six regular season games or whatever
Speaker 1: it was. To now know that there's a potential for
Speaker 1: him to come to l A and Lakers fans have
Speaker 1: to be super super cautious and and optimistic, but also
Speaker 1: knowing that you know, we want every star player to
Speaker 1: come there. You know, everybody has been photoshopped in the
Speaker 1: Lakers jersey, So just a note. And it was like
Speaker 1: a week or two ago. It's like, all right, SBS,
Speaker 1: it's just smoke. It's not gonna happen. But now, you know,
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning kind of you know, gingerly
Speaker 1: walked into work and checked all the tweets from Jake
Speaker 1: Fisher and Christian Winfield and other dudes were very respectable
Speaker 1: and reputable you know, sources in this game, and it's like, yo,
Speaker 1: this thing could happen. I'm just more curious if Kyrie
Speaker 1: is really ready to play in l A. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we're still feeling the ramifications of Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: coming through in the whole west brig thing and all that.
Speaker 1: You know, Lakers fans, you know, for my money, of
Speaker 1: the greatest franchise in sports, but also the fans, you know,
Speaker 1: they accept greatness and they have no problem calling you out,
Speaker 1: no problem. You know, I've saw it with with cous
Speaker 1: with KCP, with Danny Green, whoever, it is, even Lebron
Speaker 1: at times, you know, a d as well, like they'll
Speaker 1: take a shot to whoever they're not tripping, so you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Kyrie can handle that. Also, I
Speaker 1: would just say keeping away from like the Panga Canyon,
Speaker 1: keeping away from Melrose, any of those distraction type parts
Speaker 1: of the city. You got to keep them just centered
Speaker 1: and locked in, hopefully just somewhere like downtown right near
Speaker 1: Crypto dot Com Arena exactly, just be right near, right
Speaker 1: near right there. And even that might be a gamble
Speaker 1: because you just never know who's gonna be in town,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. They can lead them all types of
Speaker 1: different rabbit holes. But you think like that, my hope
Speaker 1: is it would rekindle something there would be because I
Speaker 1: just I love Lebron and Kyrie is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite offensive players to watch of all time. Like, I
Speaker 1: just think he's so creative. You think he'd there'd be
Speaker 1: a better fit there that like Lakers with Kyrie would
Speaker 1: would be putting something kind of impressive together. Look, I
Speaker 1: think you know, we all kind of make the jokes
Speaker 1: and got the landing for Kyrie last year, But he's
Speaker 1: a year or two or move from season guy who can,
Speaker 1: like you said, score the high level, super super great
Speaker 1: offensive player. I think he'll make any franchise better, just
Speaker 1: a matter if he's gonna play or not, or what's
Speaker 1: going on in his world, in his life at that point.
Speaker 1: Obviously the mass Man dates and all that stuff is
Speaker 1: eased up a lot. California, great Weather Lakers, great franchise.
Speaker 1: You know, get to playing friend of Jack Nicholson, get
Speaker 1: to play near Andy Garcia. Used to be courtside. Now
Speaker 1: he's like fifth six row. Yeah, you know, well he
Speaker 1: got He's in the Father of the Bride reboot. He
Speaker 1: has his seats might get closer again. That's a big
Speaker 1: recruiting point for a lot of NBA players. Yeah, Andy Garcia,
Speaker 1: I've always dreamed of playing within feet of Andy Garcia.
Speaker 1: Was this crap Mr Old days with like Paul at
Speaker 1: the Don when he was you know, on his mediorc ride,
Speaker 1: he had the courts I see, you get a little
Speaker 1: Floyd May where their action a lot, a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of great, great things to do, great things
Speaker 1: to see for him to be in l A and
Speaker 1: oh wow, I'm looking at Yeah, we got some breaking
Speaker 1: breaking Okay, so it's gonna be a sign in trade.
Speaker 1: The bestice Kyrie just opted in. Uh. Okay, this is exciting.
Speaker 1: So what does that mean, Because again, I'm not a
Speaker 1: trade machine guy. Like he just opted into like with
Speaker 1: the Nets after saying he was not going to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming he wasn't just like damn, I'm just playing
Speaker 1: so like it means that something's in the works. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he definitely was willing to do the sign
Speaker 1: in trade. I think that was the kind of the
Speaker 1: latest news today. So in order to accomplish that, he
Speaker 1: would have to obviously sign with the Nets first to
Speaker 1: get that going. It's surprised to see him opting in,
Speaker 1: but I think that probably would bode well for Lakers
Speaker 1: fans that he doesn't have that that big deal aspirations
Speaker 1: just yet. You'd be looking for that next contract. Lakers
Speaker 1: obviously have some some free money once brest Brooks contract
Speaker 1: is up. If he decides to opt in, that's kind
Speaker 1: of the big thing that we're all waiting to see.
Speaker 1: And I love Russman, you sail that guy like he has.
Speaker 1: You know, he has a Wednesday to decide whether he's
Speaker 1: gonna opt in or not. If he opts out, which
Speaker 1: I don't ever anticipate happening, I think now you know
Speaker 1: there's gonna be chaos is gonna suite across the NBA
Speaker 1: because you know, like he's gonna basically have that that
Speaker 1: forty something million freed up in cap space. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting times. Yeah. So apparently he said he's playing
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn next year. In his way, normal people keep
Speaker 1: the world going, but those who dare to be different
Speaker 1: lead us into tomorrow. Irving told the Athletic I've made
Speaker 1: my decision to opt in see you in the fall,
Speaker 1: and then a eleven did he did he say see
Speaker 1: you in the fall in Brooklyn or see you in
Speaker 1: the fall in terms of the exactly so, there's always
Speaker 1: has been doing for like the last week and a half.
Speaker 1: Two weeks he came with the brother of Maras own
Speaker 1: wire meme. He's just he's not just like, hey, I
Speaker 1: want to be in Brooklyn that I'm not dipping. But
Speaker 1: he did that with the Celtics. I think that's a
Speaker 1: great part about the NBA nowadays. Guys will tell you
Speaker 1: that they want to be somewhere than three hours later
Speaker 1: change their mind and they have the the free way
Speaker 1: to do it. Now, who am I to stop him?
Speaker 1: I feel like the Lakers could use them, and you
Speaker 1: know if we can't give them as much bread as
Speaker 1: he wants. You need to start like a crypto coin
Speaker 1: or something like that. Lakers fans will happily invest in
Speaker 1: it and let him take that thing out and not
Speaker 1: trip about it. You were mentioned like some people who
Speaker 1: are pretty reliable sources, and so I just I was
Speaker 1: just curious and like, I don't want to name any
Speaker 1: names because I think, like I think this is one
Speaker 1: of the hardest jobs in the world. But like the
Speaker 1: people who we go to to report NBA news five
Speaker 1: minutes before the rest of the world finds out on Twitter,
Speaker 1: there were a couple of things that like they had
Speaker 1: wrong or like we're heading in a different direction right
Speaker 1: up into the last minute, especially with the draft. Is
Speaker 1: there is there something different going on? Is it just
Speaker 1: like their jobs very hard and they've been able to
Speaker 1: make it easy. Did like they all invest in like
Speaker 1: counter intelligence to like seed false rumors with the other guys,
Speaker 1: or like is there something new happening in that world
Speaker 1: when you look at just the whole space with being
Speaker 1: an NBA insider or kind of what that means. The
Speaker 1: problem is these guys telling themselves every free agency right.
Speaker 1: So nowadays ex player signs here there, whatever. It's always
Speaker 1: according to his agent at blank you know, insert agency.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what they have to tweet now. So
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, well, if you're getting that information in July,
Speaker 1: then like then who's the source in October November when
Speaker 1: it's that same player involved in whatever situation is going on.
Speaker 1: So it's just knowing, you know, Wolch has his sources,
Speaker 1: Shams has his sources, Chris Haynes kind of all these guys,
Speaker 1: and then there's there's a crew of not insiders breaking
Speaker 1: but there's times like I'm not a source or an
Speaker 1: insider guy, but I'll hear information because I'm getting directly
Speaker 1: from the source before the agent even finds out. And
Speaker 1: generally it's the agent who's telling a certain contingent of it,
Speaker 1: sometimes coming direct from players. As we all know, players
Speaker 1: are very finicky. Again, they might want to be somewhere
Speaker 1: and then an hour later change their mind. So the
Speaker 1: information as as it was given may have been accurate
Speaker 1: in that particular moment, but an hour later, like oh man,
Speaker 1: I had to do nothing, completely change my mind and
Speaker 1: I want to go here. But that's just kind of
Speaker 1: with with this game. Miss so I don't never knock
Speaker 1: her fat those guys is definitely a tough position to
Speaker 1: be in. But even like we saw it with the
Speaker 1: Palo ban cheriold Jabari Smith kind of situation. Jamar is
Speaker 1: going number one, Jabari going number one? Oh wait, um,
Speaker 1: you know they're indicating that they're leaning now towards Palo whatever.
Speaker 1: I always kind of I'm not a big gambler, but
Speaker 1: I go through Vegas now once once the Vegas odds
Speaker 1: kind of post Vegas obviously always has better sources than
Speaker 1: the insider guys, So I'm like, oh, wait, this dude, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this number is going down or whatever. He's left a
Speaker 1: long shot, like Vegas know something that we don't, you know, right, Yeah, yeah, Paalo.
Speaker 1: The Vegas odds like the day before just suddenly shot
Speaker 1: up for him going number one and then but people
Speaker 1: are still reporting it that he was going number three
Speaker 1: and yeah, that was interesting, which is why because I
Speaker 1: don't think he worked out for the Magic If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, I don't think that Jabari Smith worked out
Speaker 1: for the Rockets. But you know, they got enough when
Speaker 1: they got the figure, they'll figure it out. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We're gonna be right back
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk Hustle and just basketball movies in general.
Speaker 1: And we're back with the King Josiah Johnson, and it
Speaker 1: is the offseason. We gotta watch basketball somewhere. It's time.
Speaker 1: It's time to talk some basketball movies. I think all
Speaker 1: three of us watched Hustle. Yeah. Yeah. My first reaction
Speaker 1: was like, I love I thought it was like a
Speaker 1: great Buddy film. Yeah, yeah, it's basketball movies are on
Speaker 1: a curve for me. It's like if there was only
Speaker 1: one type of movie that was allowed to have music,
Speaker 1: I would like that type of movie better than others.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, yeah, I like how there's music in
Speaker 1: this one, and I love music, and like that's what
Speaker 1: When I was watching this, I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I love watching great basketball players, like even if
Speaker 1: they're just shooting around. Like it's like so like I
Speaker 1: could I could watch this for eight now any for
Speaker 1: frames per second. It looks so cinematic, makes everything so meaningful.
Speaker 1: It feels like they took like the perfect combination of
Speaker 1: like several movies like like Big Daddy, you know, driving
Speaker 1: back from Adam instead of like a Little Kid. He
Speaker 1: was apt and it was like a you know, fix
Speaker 1: for eleven, you know, NBA prospect, but just this cool stuff.
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say about the movie that
Speaker 1: that did bother me. I love the movie. I loved everything.
Speaker 1: Anthony Edward was obviously Oscar given whatever you about Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, amazing performance, and and just in general obviously
Speaker 1: is the phenomenal dude. Man, He's I've got the chance
Speaker 1: to work with them a little bit and hang out
Speaker 1: with him a little bit. He's he's a legend. But
Speaker 1: the one thing that bothered me was that the whole
Speaker 1: hustle scene where was like, Yo, you bet you can't
Speaker 1: hit the rim. It's like anybody I'm just saying like, okay, right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit the rim or whatever. I'm not even
Speaker 1: trying to make it. I just got to hit the rim,
Speaker 1: chief like. But I did respect that that he was
Speaker 1: that confidence in his defensibility and definitely had a respect
Speaker 1: for Adam Sandler everything he's got going on. Also was
Speaker 1: trying to figure out why it was the sixers, you know,
Speaker 1: but that's neither here nor there. Yeah, I mean for
Speaker 1: people who haven't seen the film, right, it's about this
Speaker 1: basketball scout who you know, he's been working for the
Speaker 1: six Ers. He's trying to make his way onto the bench.
Speaker 1: He really wants to coach, and he finally gets his opportunity.
Speaker 1: But you know, as those things are starting to materialize,
Speaker 1: something happens at the team because Robert Duval, who's like
Speaker 1: the owner, passes away, and then Ben Foster the Sun
Speaker 1: becomes the one in charge and has like a bone
Speaker 1: to pick with Adam Sandler, and he takes them said, hey,
Speaker 1: I know you just got that assistant coach job, but
Speaker 1: this is what I need. I need you to come
Speaker 1: back and find me somebody. I need you to identify
Speaker 1: a player that's gonna right this ship because what they
Speaker 1: they they drafted like Mo Wagner, I forget, what is
Speaker 1: what's this? What's his character's name in it? Oh? I forget? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah anyway, yeah and like and and there's a scene
Speaker 1: where Adam Sandler's based saying like I don't think this
Speaker 1: guy's ye, that's what it was. And then from there
Speaker 1: you kind of see this is his journey about basically
Speaker 1: being screwed over for lack of a better term, and
Speaker 1: having to go out there and find the layer that
Speaker 1: is going to get him. You know back in it,
Speaker 1: and so that's sort of like the journey that Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler's characters on. Yeah, I think I think it makes
Speaker 1: sense as the Sixers because it's ultimate underdog story. Everybody
Speaker 1: knows they're not making it out of the second round,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about them beating your own team, but you
Speaker 1: can root for them a little bit. And it also
Speaker 1: gives you an opportunity to uh talk about Philly sports
Speaker 1: fans who are a character in and of themselves. I
Speaker 1: am a Sixers fan, I should I should acknowledge if
Speaker 1: if you're a Mowak, Wagner or some of these other
Speaker 1: guys and they're like, yeah, this is your character playing
Speaker 1: like not dog. I'm sorrying this. I'm not not I
Speaker 1: need a better story, Archie, I'm yeah. And so you're
Speaker 1: gonna be the bust. You're gonna be the guy who
Speaker 1: like our guy who really knows basketball is like he stinks,
Speaker 1: and yeah, but Anthony Edward's like it's funny, it's sort
Speaker 1: of arbitrary. Thonny Edwards is Kermit something um like. So
Speaker 1: a handful of them have have like fake names. And
Speaker 1: then they got real players to coming through playing themselves
Speaker 1: in the day. Shout out our list, Robert Wool, I
Speaker 1: mean that's I feel like where we all got familiar
Speaker 1: with Sandra Oh was when she was on our list,
Speaker 1: but just to go through because I think one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why we even gravitated towards this jack was
Speaker 1: because we saw Anthony Edwards and were like, and he
Speaker 1: has amazing acting ability, even if he might not even
Speaker 1: be acting. The fact that he was that relaxed and
Speaker 1: delivering these lines like trying to bully Jancho's character, it
Speaker 1: felt so real and in this like really dark way,
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, he's evil, Like I feel it coming
Speaker 1: off of him. And I really enjoyed that because it
Speaker 1: was such a compounds like I love this guy. He's
Speaker 1: got range. There's a point which you've probably seen in
Speaker 1: like the clip that everybody was passing around because of
Speaker 1: how like good Anthony Edwards was just acting while playing ball,
Speaker 1: getting in his head. But like there's a point where
Speaker 1: like you like are really mad at him and he's
Speaker 1: like messing up the whole story for the protagonist. Jancho
Speaker 1: is the NBA player's name who plays him, and he
Speaker 1: like punches him and Anthony Edward's like it cuts to
Speaker 1: him and he like kind of looks over, and I'm
Speaker 1: still like, man, he's so likable even though he's like
Speaker 1: evil and like really like just nailing the antagonist. I'm like,
Speaker 1: he's so cool, so nice. He just seems like a
Speaker 1: cool guy to hang out with. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be the spoiler guy for anybody who hasn't seen the movie,
Speaker 1: but I love that, like everything is based off like
Speaker 1: pickup games, like he killed in this open run, like
Speaker 1: gotta gotta draft him, gotta give him a truck, just
Speaker 1: you know, been imagination a little bit. But now I
Speaker 1: think and his character, his performance, especially playing a dude
Speaker 1: named Kermit, which I feel like, you know, he looks
Speaker 1: like a Kermit some weird, strange part of the world.
Speaker 1: But I feel like Ane was even really acting. That's
Speaker 1: you know, right, it's just kinda you know, these are
Speaker 1: lines like I know, I'm saying my own lines. I'm good,
Speaker 1: Like what's the motivation here? I feel I got you
Speaker 1: gotta clown this dude to talk about his daughter, right,
Speaker 1: no words, I'll take care of He's going off book?
Speaker 1: What is he doing? Like just let him write his
Speaker 1: own lines. Just when you work with Aunt, you let
Speaker 1: him write his own lines. But of all the actor,
Speaker 1: of all the players that we saw in there, obviously,
Speaker 1: uh gotta give it up to watch o hern and Gomez.
Speaker 1: He he had a tear come out his eye. I
Speaker 1: was like, what is going on? I was really impressed
Speaker 1: with a lot of the act he was not there,
Speaker 1: weren't like really Kenny Smith was also really good. I
Speaker 1: was surprised how comfortable he was. Were there any other
Speaker 1: like standouts aside from I think everyone's talking about Aunt
Speaker 1: and obviously Wantcho, but were there other performances that kind
Speaker 1: of made you smile? Like maybe Boblanely for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And he's how old are you? That's the funniest Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the funniest scene is a real thing, right, is
Speaker 1: like going over overseas and like trying trying to recruit
Speaker 1: somebody like figure out and you're like, all right, you
Speaker 1: got your birth certificate? No, we how old are you?
Speaker 1: Twenty two? And then his like eighteen year old son
Speaker 1: walks up and he's like he's twelve. He where's your
Speaker 1: presertive kid? It was lost in a fire. Aren't imitating life?
Speaker 1: Are you? Guys just generally like basketball movie fans like, yeah,
Speaker 1: how important you is the quality of the playing because
Speaker 1: like when I was a kid, I was like Blue
Speaker 1: Chips was the most excited I think I've ever been
Speaker 1: for a movie because they were like they got checked,
Speaker 1: like they got real players, and they just like filmed
Speaker 1: it like with them like playing against each other essentially.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was the closest I've seen in
Speaker 1: a movie too, looking like real basketball action. Kind of
Speaker 1: My dad was in that that movie. So they definitely
Speaker 1: they booked out of high schools, like high school gym
Speaker 1: that was supposed to be Western University high School Gym
Speaker 1: in Indiana had like you know, thirty forty guys that
Speaker 1: were kind of a year two years in the league
Speaker 1: are coming in the league and really, like you said,
Speaker 1: they were just playing like actually real games. Obviously they
Speaker 1: would stop down and shoot whatever particular scenes they need
Speaker 1: to shoot. There's Bobby Night story about him going off
Speaker 1: script and uh, you know, telling him to block the
Speaker 1: shot like you know, then let them, letting them do
Speaker 1: what they wanted to do, like no, like yeah, and
Speaker 1: Shack is in there just being shock. I feel like
Speaker 1: that was when the main stream of the country like
Speaker 1: got to see Shack like be fully himself, which was yeah,
Speaker 1: which was fun. He was Neon Boudreaux. Neon Boudreaux one
Speaker 1: of the great names in very in fiction history. And
Speaker 1: Butch McCrae shot up Penny being Butch McCrae, I feel
Speaker 1: like Hustle kind of lifted that. You know that Neon
Speaker 1: Boudreaux scene from from Blue Chips where he goes to
Speaker 1: like the backwoods out because that scene was wild. I
Speaker 1: was like, I was like, how is there any gift
Speaker 1: to that? Rim shock just like ripped off that like
Speaker 1: barn you know, in that scene in Blue Chips, Because
Speaker 1: there's times I'm like that I don't know what kind
Speaker 1: of him there on for the purported like country Jim
Speaker 1: that they were playing in. Both movies have like characters
Speaker 1: where the premises they're secretly one of the great basketball
Speaker 1: players in the world, but they're hiding that from everybody,
Speaker 1: like almost intentionally. In the case of Neon Boudreaux and
Speaker 1: Blue Chips, he is hiding it by playing basketball in
Speaker 1: in a swamp like that you can't get to without
Speaker 1: like wading through water and like going on a fan boat.
Speaker 1: How did yell. I mean, so there are a couple
Speaker 1: of scenes I like. I like that we saw some
Speaker 1: of our and one mixtape Brethren in that we saw
Speaker 1: Ao and like main Event and Grayson Bouche the professor
Speaker 1: people who I was like. I was like, I had
Speaker 1: all those tapes, but what did y'all think? Because like
Speaker 1: the two of you have much more experience at like
Speaker 1: the highest level of basketball, whether you're interacting with or
Speaker 1: through family and things like that. Mine ends with like
Speaker 1: my friends in high school that we're doing workouts and
Speaker 1: like post high school to try and get into like
Speaker 1: a good D two school. So the scenes when I
Speaker 1: saw like the fitness coaches and the sort of like
Speaker 1: the different strength training exercise like those montages, I was like,
Speaker 1: ID love seeing these exercises that they're always doing, like
Speaker 1: roll the medicine ball, slam it, throw it through the
Speaker 1: tractor tire. And then I'm like, who does does the
Speaker 1: coach bring his own tractor tire or is there a
Speaker 1: tractor tire at every gym? Tractor tire based that was
Speaker 1: the thing I was gonna say, not enough tractor tires.
Speaker 1: And they workout in this workout footage, they find a
Speaker 1: way to make it make everything tractor tire focus who
Speaker 1: had the tractor tire, Because yeah, I've been a probably
Speaker 1: thousand gyms in my life, maybe one or two or
Speaker 1: three of them. But you know who's bringing it, who's
Speaker 1: backing it up with cards? It fitting in? They just
Speaker 1: leave it there. They take him the football field back
Speaker 1: to the court and vice versa kind of just like
Speaker 1: guys cycle through it. Right. I love the Rocky Component Tour.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, he's got to hit this time, like
Speaker 1: like the market is like do distance running is the
Speaker 1: most important thing for an NBA athlete who's preparing for
Speaker 1: the combine. So to your point, there's a part where
Speaker 1: he goes viral by going on defense and defending people
Speaker 1: one on one and they can't touch the rim. It's
Speaker 1: it's just such a weird like miss. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess like one on one defense is important, but as
Speaker 1: like not, I don't know. There's so much one on
Speaker 1: one in this movie. I feel like like that, which
Speaker 1: is a little bit. But the workout footage is fun.
Speaker 1: He's really lovable. So a movie that I've gone back
Speaker 1: and watched, and the basketball footage is worse than I remembered,
Speaker 1: but it still works on me as white men can't jump.
Speaker 1: I feel like they have like good players in there,
Speaker 1: but Wesley Snipes and what do you Harrelson's like kind
Speaker 1: of like you can tell he's picked up a basketball before,
Speaker 1: but like he's also you can tell they're having to
Speaker 1: like slow things down and like give him three ft
Speaker 1: to like get his jumper off. And Wesley Snipes is
Speaker 1: just incredibly athletic Loogan but like also doesn't really like
Speaker 1: he's dribbling it over his head many of the times.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, it still works for me. How
Speaker 1: important to you guys is like the the quality of
Speaker 1: basketball action. So I'm gonna give you a true story.
Speaker 1: So my dad was in white may can jump as well.
Speaker 1: Raymond rather liquor store kind his claim to fame, but
Speaker 1: no remembers basketball career. They just you know, five time
Speaker 1: I'll start Halliday finalists don't remember that the guy wrought
Speaker 1: the liquor store. So I got to hang out a
Speaker 1: lot doing their like you know, pre pro pre prep
Speaker 1: for for it. And they were doing a lot of
Speaker 1: like workouts like Beverly Hills, y m c A and
Speaker 1: some other spots. So, uh, to your point, you know,
Speaker 1: what do you have played like D two, D three
Speaker 1: somewhere actually actually knew how to play basketball. Wesley had
Speaker 1: no clue what he was doing. So they would do
Speaker 1: like drills like three man we'ves, five man weaves, and
Speaker 1: dudes would deliberately like not trying to go with Wesley,
Speaker 1: and he kind of caught. He caught onto it. He
Speaker 1: started cutting people out. But like, yeah, when he was
Speaker 1: he started to go, guys are kind of shoving to
Speaker 1: the back of the line because they didn't they didn't
Speaker 1: want to have to go with him. But if you
Speaker 1: watch that movie, tons of cutaways every time you try
Speaker 1: to get freaky with the crossovers between the legs and
Speaker 1: all that type of stuff. Jefinitely, you know, cutting the
Speaker 1: tight body shots and things like that. Who was the
Speaker 1: stunt who was the stunt baller for him on that?
Speaker 1: I don't wonder, Yeah, I wondered to shoot. I don't
Speaker 1: even know. It's before Jamal Crawford's time, but I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, but then they do the cutaway him, like
Speaker 1: making the layup or tight on his face for those
Speaker 1: I would think, so you understand cinema movie magic. It's like,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's people at home, like, oh wow, where's
Speaker 1: the go, Like you see, yeah, you see him do that.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, that was definitely let me see that
Speaker 1: in a wide shot at full speed, Like what if
Speaker 1: we took it from like four courts over, Actually we'll
Speaker 1: take it from the y and you guys are playing
Speaker 1: on the corner all the way down the street was
Speaker 1: slow push from that movie works perfectly beautifully. Shout out
Speaker 1: to movie magic. I mean we were talking about this earlier.
Speaker 1: I think Blue Chips for me, how the most, like
Speaker 1: I don't know, the energy from those basketball scenes felt
Speaker 1: real like and it's hard to replicate that because I
Speaker 1: think every sports film most I'd say the competitive scenes
Speaker 1: are very controlled and highly choreographed. And anyone who plays
Speaker 1: just a little bit, you can tell any sport like
Speaker 1: when they're when it's the movie version of them playing
Speaker 1: the sport, you're like, come on, like that's how hard
Speaker 1: they're going. No, but this even for like the times
Speaker 1: it felt a little bit slower because of like the
Speaker 1: amount of talent. I was like there, it felt a
Speaker 1: little bit easier to like, it was a little it
Speaker 1: was more palatable for me than like the thing. I'm like,
Speaker 1: y'all were playing speed. Come on, it still was energizing,
Speaker 1: like anybody who's played in the summertime, and like you said,
Speaker 1: like these spots, no, these dudes will go about fifty.
Speaker 1: So if you go about a hundred and fifty percent,
Speaker 1: you can keep up with him and hope to break even.
Speaker 1: Kind of there. They're trying to remember like playing against
Speaker 1: KG back in the days, and I'm not going like
Speaker 1: a pent. He's going and embarrassing me, like I scored
Speaker 1: a basket just to pretend like he's going speed right right, right,
Speaker 1: Like I saw le Bron lose the game and U
Speaker 1: c l a like you know, and everybody like he
Speaker 1: lost a crew you say, like kids like le Bron
Speaker 1: was literally going thirty seven right, yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's what makes the draft so hard. Right was
Speaker 1: KG talking trash as he was embarrassing you? He was
Speaker 1: the nice guy though. It's like O KG four and
Speaker 1: you're a four too. It's like yeah, not like no,
Speaker 1: you want me to guard this guy? This is not fun?
Speaker 1: Like whom need to go to college? Man? I remember what?
Speaker 1: Like he literally like he was playing defense and somebody
Speaker 1: tried to pass from like three point line to the
Speaker 1: wing he just like stretched his hand out and it
Speaker 1: was literally like the longest arm I've ever seen, like
Speaker 1: gracefully just tapped the ball stolen like one dribble, got
Speaker 1: to the other end of the court, dunked it and
Speaker 1: I was like, this dude is like draft body moving
Speaker 1: like a gazelle down the court and I was like,
Speaker 1: what do you want me to do with this dude?
Speaker 1: But he actually was complimentary. He was nice. I grabbed
Speaker 1: like a lot of rebounds in the game for some reason,
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, man, you're a glass eater dog.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, thank you, Mr Garnett, thank you Kevin Garnett. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you saw in the post though, like please we were
Speaker 1: doing shout out, dude, but we were definitely doubling into something. Also,
Speaker 1: the one thing that I loved about the film was
Speaker 1: just the concentration of familiar faces throughout it, Like you know,
Speaker 1: you you saw everybody's the Ai, Luca dr A And
Speaker 1: for me personally, my one of my favorites was seeing
Speaker 1: James gold scene in that Like I think that was
Speaker 1: like the climactic scene, wasn't It was like that last
Speaker 1: tryout run where like Trey and all of them are
Speaker 1: there right, and like James Goldstein was just like there too,
Speaker 1: being like all right, what do we got here today?
Speaker 1: I like James coold seen Mr front Row at the
Speaker 1: Lake Show, so many questions for that man, Yeah, like
Speaker 1: what was he doing in his twenties? Like, well, I
Speaker 1: just want to not like he is in his twenties.
Speaker 1: That's just what he looks like, Yeah, that's the stylist.
Speaker 1: Like who's doing the outfits, who's giving him the scarves
Speaker 1: and all that other? What about basketball just made him
Speaker 1: want to watch Realistically, would someone like James Goldstein be
Speaker 1: at a workout like that? It's Jimmy, you know, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, part of me was like trying
Speaker 1: to find him, like, man, James Goldstein is not gonna
Speaker 1: be there, But part of it was like what do
Speaker 1: I know about any of these things? Part of me
Speaker 1: also as a Laker fan, wanted to create space for
Speaker 1: the reality and like, you know, James gold he shoul
Speaker 1: would be there, you know, as as an you know,
Speaker 1: exalted fan of the game. Yeah, my dad coach in
Speaker 1: the NBA, my grandfather coach in the NBA. James gold
Speaker 1: team was actually at my baptism. He was he put
Speaker 1: the Holy water on you. Just random tangential NBA basketball things. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: do you guys have like a favorite basketball movie? Uh? Definitely,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously just kind of the the usual suspects that
Speaker 1: he got games. White Man Can't Jumps. But when I'll
Speaker 1: throw out there and it always just stayed with me,
Speaker 1: Slam dunk Ernest, you know, shout out for the parachues. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Still Cozart, who's in like eighteen basketball movie. He was
Speaker 1: in Blue Chips as the the guy who told the
Speaker 1: coach about Shack's character was in White Man Can't Jump.
Speaker 1: He's the one that hustled up Billy on the court.
Speaker 1: He was a part of that contingent. So yeah, Slam
Speaker 1: dunk Ernest definitely. I think is a movie that doesn't
Speaker 1: get the love in respected deserves. Yeah. Teen Wolf is
Speaker 1: my slam On Karnest. That's the bad basketball, bad movie
Speaker 1: that is still like all movies that I watch to
Speaker 1: this day are like viewed through a teen Wolf shaped prism,
Speaker 1: because that was like a movie I watched a hundred
Speaker 1: times before I was like six years old. Um, I
Speaker 1: still can't can't watch it and not be like I
Speaker 1: don't know. It still goes. It's pretty good. Michael Michael J. Fox.
Speaker 1: I think Mine is probably one of the few basketball
Speaker 1: films that ages flawlessly from the moment it came out
Speaker 1: into this day, which is the air up there, the
Speaker 1: air Jimmy only shaking back. Very similar, very similar story
Speaker 1: to I'm watching it, I'm watching my wife. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: like this, this scene is like from this, like this,
Speaker 1: but like when you got the job and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I was just about to die like Robert, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: is this skinned version of the Air up there based
Speaker 1: except they made a big mistake and hustle by not
Speaker 1: having Adam Sandler have to get out and hoop in
Speaker 1: the last climactic basketball game and like show everybody, because
Speaker 1: didn't they do that in the Air up there? Didn't? Uh,
Speaker 1: they can like ball, like the circumcision we had to get,
Speaker 1: he had to get. Like it's about more than basketball.
Speaker 1: Chief might lose his cows, oh my gosh. Yeah. Which
Speaker 1: is also the thing about Sandler which is so funny
Speaker 1: because he's over the years, he's shown like he's a
Speaker 1: good he's a great actor, like you know, these dramatic roles,
Speaker 1: but there's something to like he's there's also there's something
Speaker 1: that feels limited about his range because when he gets angry,
Speaker 1: I can't help but just think of like all the
Speaker 1: comedic films. He's like, all right, what are you like
Speaker 1: where he's screaming like in a really dramatic, tense scene.
Speaker 1: I'm like, like funny though, Like this movie is genuinely
Speaker 1: like it's my like, I think one of the better
Speaker 1: blending of serious Adam Sandler with like I'm I'm actually
Speaker 1: laughing out loud because they had again there. I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed him and wantcho as like an on screen duo.
Speaker 1: They really had like it was it was very believable,
Speaker 1: and they're like they're positive feelings towards each other felt
Speaker 1: very real like and not just people acting. So yeah,
Speaker 1: give him credit there. All right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll beat back right after this. And we're
Speaker 1: back and Josiah, it's time to do our favorite segment
Speaker 1: on this show, the time for the rapid fire questioning,
Speaker 1: the lightning round of questions. We are just going to
Speaker 1: chest pass you a question and you fire it right back.
Speaker 1: No thinking, Okay, there's no time for like any thinking,
Speaker 1: any time for besides like stuff like that. This is
Speaker 1: the rapidest of rapid fire, the lightning ist of lightning rounds.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we tell people just to like get in the
Speaker 1: red headspace, to like get in an athletics stand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just on your toes anyway, Time for the lightning ground
Speaker 1: of questions. Start the clock boundund pound pound pound pound.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Start one bench, one cut one. Sydney
Speaker 1: Dean white man, can't chump Butch McCray, Blue Chips, Kenny
Speaker 1: Tyler the sixth man, Wow, wild card. I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: Sydney Dean at the character because you could play summer
Speaker 1: probleague with MJ, but decided to focus on his game
Speaker 1: in the court. Uh bench, Wait, who's the other two?
Speaker 1: Kenny Tyler in Butch McCray. I'll bench Butch just because
Speaker 1: he's a little fragile. You know. He was trying to
Speaker 1: dip after like two games and thought his mom was
Speaker 1: gonna be able to keep the house. He had that
Speaker 1: one behind the back move though, like on the sideline
Speaker 1: the and then turned it turned around. That was pretty dope.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you got humstick after one, Like we just
Speaker 1: want a big game. You're trying to go to the
Speaker 1: crib block. No, Danny Tyler once once his brother dipped
Speaker 1: into the afterlife, there was his game was gonna be
Speaker 1: cooked after that. Yeah, okay, that's fair. Alright, you could
Speaker 1: check Jack. Sorry, here we go, lightning keeping. I don't
Speaker 1: know you want to do this one? Okay? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll do this one. We do alternate and I don't
Speaker 1: want after that? All right, keep getting my head space
Speaker 1: for to ask the question quickly. If you could change
Speaker 1: one rule in the NBA for one month next season,
Speaker 1: just for funzies, what do you do? I bring back
Speaker 1: foul bathing, bring back foul baiting. Ward, these guys, we
Speaker 1: want to see points, okay, to figure it out. More
Speaker 1: free those more points? All right? We need we want scoring,
Speaker 1: so bring it back. Yeah, great answer, lightning round. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know, actually, since we're talking about it, I always
Speaker 1: like to ask, you know, what are your feelings on
Speaker 1: like a rock and Jock style basket that comes down?
Speaker 1: Or my answer, which is each NB a court has
Speaker 1: its own three point line that is different, like based
Speaker 1: on your like a weird shaped one too, yeah, one
Speaker 1: like you're it actually goes out to the logo. I
Speaker 1: missed rocket Jock, but that just brought back a ton
Speaker 1: of great memories when they do the basketball and like
Speaker 1: the baseball softball game, Yeah, either one just ridiculous. Whoever
Speaker 1: came up with that pass on the back? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: then what was the other one? Sorry, guys, different three
Speaker 1: point line like squiggly home court? Yeah, squiggle it up.
Speaker 1: Let's even wonder draw for half the league with that,
Speaker 1: and we have to abide but lightning. This is lightning,
Speaker 1: my bad. Okay, back on it, Josiah. Okay, does Lebron
Speaker 1: wind up with four rings or is he gonna find
Speaker 1: a way to fill that whole hand up and get five?
Speaker 1: I can't guarantee that will get five, but I will
Speaker 1: say this, if he does, a lot of people are
Speaker 1: gonna try to, you know, commit a bodily harm to me,
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna be insufferable. I'm gonna shut up. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we've seen a certain fan base, after winning
Speaker 1: a championship with the high salary cap in NBA history,
Speaker 1: try to act like they were underdogs or the chip
Speaker 1: was acted against them, like you're literally like a hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars in luxury tax, like you have all the chips,
Speaker 1: you had everything. So because Lebron does win, that fifth one.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be optimistic and say, does we need Kyrie?
Speaker 1: Kyrie and Lebron get back, make some some amazing music
Speaker 1: like Bill and Ted's excellent Adventure. Uh you know, come back,
Speaker 1: makes some amazing music and get that fifth ring? All right,
Speaker 1: wild you are widely considered the king of NBA Twitter.
Speaker 1: Who would be your Twitter follow? Mount Rushmore? We're mixing things.
Speaker 1: You thought I was gonna say you were a Twitter
Speaker 1: queen or something like that. No, I didn't Mount Rushmore
Speaker 1: the presidents of all time and gotta embed in there
Speaker 1: just for the pettiness k D Yes, I say Jasmine L. Watkins,
Speaker 1: who I referred to as the Queen of the NBA Twitter.
Speaker 1: It eventually catch on the stick. And then one morning
Speaker 1: I thought me, up there gotta you know not to
Speaker 1: be Yeah, that's for And I don't believe we're not
Speaker 1: adding another face. We're not adding any more seats to
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, which is guess what it is, Josi?
Speaker 1: What are the best kicks to hoop in? Now? One
Speaker 1: is gonna be what would you like to be pictured
Speaker 1: in as a shoe? And what is one that for
Speaker 1: you in terms of comfort? Are you playing it? And
Speaker 1: are they the same? So pictured in the patent leather Jordan's.
Speaker 1: They're they're great, They're great for photos, a great look,
Speaker 1: not really terribly comfortable to actually hooping a great church
Speaker 1: shoe though. Okay, so you taught my Jordan Levins. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back and uh and this is a
Speaker 1: nostalgic moment for me, so I'll just give some context.
Speaker 1: Playing my senior you're in high school, I had this
Speaker 1: this Yankee pair of Jordan's that kind of literally like
Speaker 1: they looked good, but they the souls are all jack
Speaker 1: outslip all over the court. So Dad shows up to
Speaker 1: a game. He's got a fresh pair of Kevin garden nets.
Speaker 1: This was like in the nine, just came up with
Speaker 1: the hair bubbles or whatever and not the greatest shoe everybody.
Speaker 1: He shows up like, yo, you want these? Like of course?
Speaker 1: Like what? No? Literally like whose proceeded the ball out?
Speaker 1: And then, uh, you know I said, like eighty percent
Speaker 1: of reason I was able to get a scholarship to
Speaker 1: you say, like because just you know, look good, play good,
Speaker 1: play good, play good. But yeah, so all right, I
Speaker 1: hate getting put on the spot with these because uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many like the like the j
Speaker 1: kids back in the day, the Pennies Zoom Flight. I
Speaker 1: remember when uh Mike Baby rock those in the championship
Speaker 1: game when he was a yeah, and it was just
Speaker 1: like I've never seen anything like those shoes in my
Speaker 1: life and was just so fascinated by him. Those those kgs.
Speaker 1: I remember they were white and they had the blue
Speaker 1: gradient black blue gradient. Oh oh. I love those shoes
Speaker 1: and the air Zoom Flight ninety five is probably my
Speaker 1: top shoe with the race car wheels on it. That's
Speaker 1: like it never ends. Actually, the logo of the show
Speaker 1: for people listen to the show, if you look at
Speaker 1: the shoes I'm wearing in the logo, I'm wearing air
Speaker 1: Zoom Flight ninety five. Okay, I'm gonna say some the
Speaker 1: controversial or asked a question controversial. I was always Nike looking. Sorry, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta keep this moving, man, Jordan's my favorite shoe.
Speaker 1: But this is a lightning aside. But I got to
Speaker 1: like try on my friends iver since and every time
Speaker 1: I wore Rebox they were very comfortable. Did you guys
Speaker 1: ever try Rebox on? Like I didn't. I didn't think
Speaker 1: they were cool, but they were so comfortable with my
Speaker 1: boy Chris had the questions when they came out, and
Speaker 1: I remember and I was like, yo, because because they
Speaker 1: also had like the heck of light sort of circ
Speaker 1: insulting on the size of like that looks like comfort.
Speaker 1: I was just such a loyal Nike kid. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you not gonna catching me those though I
Speaker 1: like it. I like the vision. We went to US
Speaker 1: l a wh When I went to US today, we
Speaker 1: were in did to school, so it was definitely and
Speaker 1: I looked back. We had some tough years there. But
Speaker 1: you have to imagine like going to gyms, but you're
Speaker 1: playing Arizona Oregon. They have every fresh pair of Nike
Speaker 1: you can imagine, and you like roll up in pro
Speaker 1: models and remember I understand the nostalgia, like great, but
Speaker 1: you know, like these aren't like a ball or shoe
Speaker 1: like right, you know, I'm not bossing in pro models.
Speaker 1: I'll just send that laitning round. Funniest NBA player you've
Speaker 1: created content with, Oh there's so many funniest um probably
Speaker 1: Embat I mean, I go back to him, but he's
Speaker 1: he's a hilarious dude, because you who would ever guess that?
Speaker 1: You know, he's not even the mean the state that long,
Speaker 1: but he just mastered Twitter and social media, like when
Speaker 1: the Ben Simmons trade went down and he hit him
Speaker 1: with my biggest haters, funeral mean like, but just to
Speaker 1: be you know, he's not on Twitter often, but like
Speaker 1: when he does come through, he come through with some heat,
Speaker 1: makes account and then Joe's I. Lastly, for all the
Speaker 1: Laker fans out there, myself included, are the Lakers back
Speaker 1: in the mix next season? You know how it goes.
Speaker 1: Of course it's lightning around, but I'll just say this
Speaker 1: AD missed like forty games ast year that we could
Speaker 1: say what everyone, we could fingerpoint whatever, like if a
Speaker 1: d is not hurt, and that's obviously a big if
Speaker 1: and hypothetical, we're not suffering the season that we had,
Speaker 1: Like you know, even I look back to the previous
Speaker 1: year where the Suns fans kind of got salty that
Speaker 1: we acknowledge that had he not had the hamstring injuries,
Speaker 1: you know, Lakers very well may have been raising that
Speaker 1: teamh Banner like. And then they dealt with injuries this
Speaker 1: postseason and and got smack a Rood in Game seven.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, like well you know, like injury,
Speaker 1: consider injuries. But so I think if we can get
Speaker 1: Adie off Nuke squad, off the video games, if you
Speaker 1: get Adie in the gym not just touching a basketball,
Speaker 1: really making love to that basketball, you know, metaphorically spiritually
Speaker 1: and connecting with it and and really shooting it just
Speaker 1: one time, gets like good for him, that this squad
Speaker 1: is gonna be okay, Kyrie. No, Kyrie, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not just down on Westbrook as a
Speaker 1: lot of people are. I don't think it was obviously
Speaker 1: a great year for him, but I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Darvin Ham coming in hopefully get rushed to buy in
Speaker 1: and kind of just you know, there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: change that need to be made. But I think this
Speaker 1: squad can can be successful. And she too, Yeah I was.
Speaker 1: I was at the Iris and Classic in Memphis late
Speaker 1: April early May, you know, hanging out in Memphis eating
Speaker 1: some mid barbecue. I'll just say that. And we're hanging
Speaker 1: out in the hotel lobby and the place I went
Speaker 1: to weren't good references. I have places to go that
Speaker 1: are good, right. Yeah, I'm just saying you're not You're
Speaker 1: not slander in Memphis Barb because Miffians got mad at me, like,
Speaker 1: oh you went to and that's like, look, Miffians told
Speaker 1: me where to go. They suggested Spots, went to said
Speaker 1: Spots was not impressed. They actually found out the spots
Speaker 1: to go. That's not that you're there, but basically we're
Speaker 1: hanging out, hanging out hotel lobby, just chilling. And then
Speaker 1: who pulls up in like a pickup truck but like
Speaker 1: Bondsills and Rashid Wallace and honestly, like like you know,
Speaker 1: twenty year old fifty year old me was just in
Speaker 1: heaven like one of the biggest legends I feel like
Speaker 1: in the history of basketball. Yeah, and just to see
Speaker 1: she's whole career. So if if she can't get through
Speaker 1: to a D I don't know who can. I'll just
Speaker 1: say that, Yeah, I think I'm hopeful. I'm hope, and
Speaker 1: I have a player on my team. I'm hoping hits up.
Speaker 1: TV twelve is just TV twelve for life. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say who that is, but that would be wonderful
Speaker 1: as well. And you know the offseason, Hope springs eternal. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: So let's get it. Sixers Lakers in the finals next year.
Speaker 1: It's a bang, all right, So I thank so much
Speaker 1: for coming on. Miles and Jack got mad, but seas man,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you, you you know, blessing the pod with
Speaker 1: your excellence and your knowledge and wit. So I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you and support you and check
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Speaker 1: these times you like you rattle off a bunch of things,
Speaker 1: but that's not the point, guys. I just came here
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Speaker 1: other stuff I do. And frankly, I'm not getting big
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna use that as a leverage, that of the tool.
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Speaker 1: enjoyed the summer. Bye bye,