Speaker 1: Yes, the league, the regular league may have ended, but
Speaker 1: the summer league is just beginning, and we get to
Speaker 1: discuss some of the exciting rookies we watched compete. Uh
Speaker 1: as they head into as they hit it. Okay, man,
Speaker 1: it's been a while. It's been a while, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep that as they head into their first seasons.
Speaker 1: With none other than today's guest writer, director, and co
Speaker 1: host of My Heart's new Fantastic Better Basketball podcast running
Speaker 1: the break, we got c J. Blandano in the building.
Speaker 1: I'm Miles and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is my
Speaker 1: Miles jack Man. That was so instane, that was crisp.
Speaker 1: That was ridiculous, and now you are locked in. Um.
Speaker 1: I always I have to say, I always appreciate the
Speaker 1: tone you come in with. Well, we're back at it again.
Speaker 1: Yes you never know, man, Yes I'll ask you. I'm
Speaker 1: still doing it, except for the final episode where we go, well, folks,
Speaker 1: it looks like we've done it. We've we've reached the
Speaker 1: end of the road. Put the NBA out of business. Um,
Speaker 1: with our ridiculous podcast. But it is good to have
Speaker 1: somebody who makes a good NBA podcast here. C J.
Speaker 1: Tola Donna's talk. Stop. I'm doing good. Guys. We all
Speaker 1: we all make good basketball content. Thank you, you're too kind,
Speaker 1: You're too kind. Pleasure to be here, thank you for
Speaker 1: having me. We're watching your highlights, just sobbing, like, man,
Speaker 1: we need to do that. I just wish I could
Speaker 1: talk about the Encourt stuff. You know, many like dunks.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, can't talk about that. Yeah, well we'll
Speaker 1: we'll we'll switch, you know what I mean. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: stub on each other's show just to get those just
Speaker 1: get those takes out, because there are many times I
Speaker 1: just want to talk nothing but sneakers. Um, you see
Speaker 1: the name of our show where you upset that you
Speaker 1: all you didn't get a show title that bragged about
Speaker 1: how high you could jump. That's that's about you, guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, I thought Miles and Jack got mad
Speaker 1: booste Yeah. I thought every person, every guest was the
Speaker 1: one with the mad boost ease. Oh well no, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I mean unless you, unless you got mad boots, I
Speaker 1: have media boost. If you guys want like an after show,
Speaker 1: the media boost, Well, what are we talking? You? Grab
Speaker 1: the net, grab the bottom of the net. How hard
Speaker 1: high up? The net, you grab it um like I
Speaker 1: would say, bottom quarter. Okay, I am hitting the very
Speaker 1: bottom of the net, but I am hitting it so hard.
Speaker 1: It's so hard, Oh yeah when you just wind milling
Speaker 1: the bottom of the net like yeah, yeah, So see ja,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's get into it. Welcome to the show. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this powerhouse podcast with many powerhouse podcasters have come together
Speaker 1: your show though, like you're saying, we talk about what's
Speaker 1: going on the court. You on running the break along
Speaker 1: with your coach, you talk about what's going off the court.
Speaker 1: So what are we talking? Everything from what's who's got
Speaker 1: the most style, rollbacks, sneakers? Everything do I mean? Like
Speaker 1: the thing is I mean I'm an x Is and
Speaker 1: those guy to an extent, but like a lot of
Speaker 1: my love and passion for the game has come from,
Speaker 1: like I mean, I was a nineties Bulls kid, right,
Speaker 1: so I was like decked out in Bulls gear, Jordan's gear,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And then it grew into just like yeah, sneakers,
Speaker 1: and then it was me paying attention to what outfits
Speaker 1: everyone was wearing, what like trends were going on. And
Speaker 1: then uh and then like meme culture happened in NBA,
Speaker 1: Twitter and all that. So it's just like basketball and
Speaker 1: the NBA, as you guys know, is is just such
Speaker 1: a vast world out even something just like what happens
Speaker 1: on the court. So that's what we're trying to cover
Speaker 1: on running the break. How's your favorite Jordan's it changes.
Speaker 1: I would probably say the Jordan's three white cements, the
Speaker 1: when he wore yeah, free throw, freethrow line, dunk okay
Speaker 1: with the here I'm a threes are force. Those are
Speaker 1: those are my two favorites as adults. Those are ones
Speaker 1: we can wear with and they're not like it's not
Speaker 1: like strange. You're not trying to show you can play.
Speaker 1: Come in the middle of a meeting, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, pull up in like aqua eights. People are
Speaker 1: gonna be like, I can't take this guy seriously. He's
Speaker 1: a joker. Yeah, is he gonna jump out of like
Speaker 1: a plane or something like? Yeah, those look like but
Speaker 1: I love those shoes, but I get what you mean. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you later they're like the thirties that look like
Speaker 1: they like like you should be flying them around in
Speaker 1: dune or something, you know, like they're just like triangles. Um,
Speaker 1: that's I I can't pull them off, but I wish
Speaker 1: I could. Yeah, we try hard hitting questions up top,
Speaker 1: but let's go even harding hittinger if we may. Miles
Speaker 1: isn't conjugating quite right yet. He was just I see
Speaker 1: after seeing Juancho as his performance in Hustle, I was
Speaker 1: just like, I gotta go. I gotta go to the
Speaker 1: Promised Lands where basketball was born, the birthplace of Hey,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna pretend for the for the sake of
Speaker 1: just for this cruises, basketball career was born there. Did
Speaker 1: you go around to any of the afterwords like pickup games?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah I did. Oh yeah, this one guy was
Speaker 1: in work boots. I mean give me with a sham God,
Speaker 1: and my my shorts fell down. It was. That's how
Speaker 1: embarrassing it was. Their their next level out there on
Speaker 1: those courts, sinning around pick up with any hill. Yeah
Speaker 1: there's a full band behind us too. But anyway, Summer
Speaker 1: League though, this is the one thing though when I
Speaker 1: was over there, I kept my phone on me. I
Speaker 1: was looking at all the Summer League highlights because it's
Speaker 1: you know, this is our first chance to get to
Speaker 1: take a gander at these rookies coming into the league.
Speaker 1: What was everybody else's experience, guys rubbing your mits, signing exasperatedly,
Speaker 1: What's what was going on? I mean, I usually go
Speaker 1: the first weekend, but I just because it's like some
Speaker 1: family stuff I had. I'm going this week for the
Speaker 1: second weekend, and it seems like I missed out on
Speaker 1: the greatest like party and like social gathering of the
Speaker 1: NBA season. So but like I was watching the games,
Speaker 1: and the thing is, it's like for my my marriage,
Speaker 1: it's not good because I'm just getting excited about like
Speaker 1: exhibition games about players who are not playing to like
Speaker 1: the actual competition. So I um, it is like a
Speaker 1: contentious part of my relationship. But I do get really
Speaker 1: excited watching these young guys. So yeah, well you get
Speaker 1: in you get in trouble with former guests making gaily
Speaker 1: because the competition is not good enough. She's like, all right,
Speaker 1: you can be excited, but this competition, well, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like you're just too obsessed. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: having dinner and I'm like going so for a Sharif O'Neil,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean, So it doesn't count.
Speaker 1: I hear that a lot people are like you know
Speaker 1: was just the Summer League, and I get that. However,
Speaker 1: I have now watched some of these players play in
Speaker 1: the n C Double A Tournament, which is you know,
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be like decent competition, but and then
Speaker 1: the Summer League, which is supposed to be at least
Speaker 1: that level of competition, and like, I don't know what,
Speaker 1: Like chat Homegrin looked so good in the Summer League.
Speaker 1: It's like at a level that I was like, what
Speaker 1: were they doing at Gonzaga? Like the Gonzaga coach has
Speaker 1: made me look like a fool. Uh. He is so good,
Speaker 1: Like some of his skills were just like not at
Speaker 1: all evident in those n C Double A Tournament games
Speaker 1: or really like any of his college highlights that I've seen,
Speaker 1: Like what happens there is wild? He looks awesome. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, I mean, that's the thing is I feel
Speaker 1: like the college game, those systems or whatever in college
Speaker 1: and like be a part, be a role player or whatever.
Speaker 1: But like he got a guy like chat Home Grint
Speaker 1: who was designed to play basketball in his own way
Speaker 1: like some are like to like get after it chat
Speaker 1: and also too, like I tweeted this, like he has
Speaker 1: He's been having such performances that like, I'm already envisioning
Speaker 1: my son few like years from now, like in the
Speaker 1: driveway yelling Chet instead of Kobe and Chet. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like Chat is like a banker's name. But I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm still in off of him as a physical presence,
Speaker 1: just seeing someone that long elongated, uh like for lack
Speaker 1: of a better term, moving the way he does, just
Speaker 1: just defending the room like it was. I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: there were many times I was like, oh, wow, he's
Speaker 1: doing all the things that everyone's saying he does, and
Speaker 1: he was doing it so effortlessly. I thought maybe there
Speaker 1: would be some slight like uh, period of adjustment, but
Speaker 1: again it almost felt like he was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I should have been drafted number one. Let me show
Speaker 1: you something that quick. I remember making fun of Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant because I didn't watch any of his games at Texas,
Speaker 1: and then like that bench press part of the combine
Speaker 1: when he couldn't bench press like one fifty or something
Speaker 1: like that, I was like, this guy is gonna be terrible,
Speaker 1: and I was wrong, And what happened with him? I
Speaker 1: forget what? How was this he was in a movie
Speaker 1: called Thunderstruck and then kind of just like Radar. But
Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing is like there there's strength.
Speaker 1: Doesn't just look like bodybuilders, I think um And you know,
Speaker 1: Chat was he wasn't just like hitting shots because he
Speaker 1: was tall. He was like blocking dudes and like running
Speaker 1: the floor was really impressive. Yeah, Like a lot of
Speaker 1: people were calling out the Kenny Lofton junior clip where
Speaker 1: and we will talk about Kenny Lofton because he was
Speaker 1: really fun to watch. That was something that Carl Tarp
Speaker 1: has been calling out for a long time. But he
Speaker 1: was really fun to watch. But like chat Homegren can
Speaker 1: like do stuff. If you only watch him get back down,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, Okay, this is a problem. But like
Speaker 1: he can do things. He's like gobbling shots up from
Speaker 1: like all the way across the lane and stuff like
Speaker 1: it's it's cool, man. He's gonna be like fun and
Speaker 1: like hard to keep off the floor for very long,
Speaker 1: like right away, which is pretty fun. Also, super producer
Speaker 1: Jabari pointed out that Durant turned down Slim Reaper as
Speaker 1: a as a nickname, which I get. It's it feels
Speaker 1: like it might be trying too hard. But there is
Speaker 1: a new opportunity for that as a nickname. I mean,
Speaker 1: it feels right because he does have like home Depot
Speaker 1: twelve of Skeleton vibes well Katie. He's been wearing Katie's
Speaker 1: so he knows the opportunity here. Because I mean, because
Speaker 1: I love Durantula. If if we can find some kind
Speaker 1: of like a rach nid based thing for Mr Holmgren,
Speaker 1: I think that would be ideal. What's this first clip
Speaker 1: we want to check out of chat? Just just something,
Speaker 1: just some clean fadeaways. First of all, because again I look,
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew everything I read, but to watch
Speaker 1: him in action, he's got he's got the execution. But
Speaker 1: he's such an intelligent player with that ball in his
Speaker 1: Dirk Dupper clutter like so fluid. I would like even
Speaker 1: more fluid than Dirk. Maybe that's the thing. Is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I and his like hands they're soft, they're in control,
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't feel overly rigid. There was like just
Speaker 1: like these dimensions of smoothness to his game that I from,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's my own ignorance. I just wrote
Speaker 1: him off as like, yeah, I'm sure he can do
Speaker 1: these things at this hype, but when you watch it
Speaker 1: in action, like, oh no, this is this is like
Speaker 1: perfectly blended together. Paulo similar story. I mean I thought
Speaker 1: I thought Paullo looked like an NBA player and then
Speaker 1: c double a tournament for sure, But man, he came
Speaker 1: out and was just playing out of his mind, like
Speaker 1: right away for Orlando got his shot, looks great, he
Speaker 1: looked awesome. He just looks like a step quicker than
Speaker 1: everybody else, right, And I mean I think this is
Speaker 1: like the big thing everyone was saying was like he
Speaker 1: looks like he's already too good for summer league. Well
Speaker 1: they yeah, it's like he shut they shut him down.
Speaker 1: I feel like, right, yeah, And that's the thing is
Speaker 1: like summer league. It's like you go there, hey do
Speaker 1: we draft right, Like is this the right guy? Can
Speaker 1: we get him some reps? And then a guy goes
Speaker 1: in and in his first game he's dropping between like
Speaker 1: you know, seventeen and it's like, let's not risk it,
Speaker 1: let's let's wait for the season. But um, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: exciting for like Orlando, who who's needed like a star.
Speaker 1: I'm happy that they have those glimpses are getting excited already. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: see in Orlando or like two teams that I immediately
Speaker 1: will have to watch right away, Detroit to Detroit for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to the IVY in a second. So first,
Speaker 1: you know, we've got a couple of Palla up here. Miles,
Speaker 1: I know you were. You said that we had to
Speaker 1: put clips of Palo in just so you could say
Speaker 1: his name with your correct Spanish pronunciation. The two first
Speaker 1: round picks are matched up against each other. It's drifting
Speaker 1: to get open. It's and it's putter truly butter. That
Speaker 1: is the correct description of that show. Decision to draw
Speaker 1: now now slips to that corner on the strong side.
Speaker 1: Carol trying to post up here against the shorter Nicks,
Speaker 1: got a little one on him. Look at that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it, just to drive, that's just his d n A. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I asked to borrow a pre game how motivated
Speaker 1: and then step the step back. It's cool to see
Speaker 1: people coming to the league with like shots that were
Speaker 1: like it innovated in the past five years and right,
Speaker 1: and they were just like, yeah, no, I've I've been
Speaker 1: doing this since I was twelve. Now this is just
Speaker 1: natural to me. Well and for like these young guys,
Speaker 1: you know some sometimes the advice of like like warm
Speaker 1: up up there or out there, like you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of layups, good passes, but to take step back,
Speaker 1: fade away, long twos y gamble. Uh so, and they're
Speaker 1: pulling it off. Yeah. We we talked about the game
Speaker 1: being progressive, and I feel like this is a good
Speaker 1: example of like they just like already seemed to have
Speaker 1: Like we saw like Chet's first bucket of the maybe
Speaker 1: of the Summers League looked I think you compared it
Speaker 1: to Dirk. It looked like he had just incorporated a
Speaker 1: Dirk move and was just like yep, adding that pallet
Speaker 1: with a step back just made it look very easy
Speaker 1: with a fade away reminded me of Lebron. Like it's
Speaker 1: just you know, the young people have more uh you know,
Speaker 1: raw material to incorporate and like, uh, they look good.
Speaker 1: It looks smooth. Jade and Ivy uh looked great. And
Speaker 1: for Detroit, Detroit's gonna have like really sick backcour of
Speaker 1: like a rookie and a second year guy with Jade
Speaker 1: and Ivy and the number one pick last year whose
Speaker 1: name is yeah kid cunning him. But Jay and Ivy. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm just putting it out there. Wearing the number twenty three.
Speaker 1: Coming into the league with the number twenty three as
Speaker 1: a guard is a strong move, you know, like it's Lebron,
Speaker 1: it's Jordan's Jason Richardson like did it. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, people don't do that well. And he's also
Speaker 1: admitted to completely copying John Morant game, Like obviously their
Speaker 1: hair is someone. But he I think his mom may
Speaker 1: have worked on the Grizzlies coaching staff, and so he
Speaker 1: would like study Jaws game and you could you could
Speaker 1: have seen that in um, you know, his college play.
Speaker 1: But so like to just straight up admit, like I'm
Speaker 1: taking these pieces and I'm wearing number twenty three. That's
Speaker 1: like the utmost confidence. So and his mom is the
Speaker 1: head coach of Notre Dame, which is a women's basketball powerhouse. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Over on one show time, I saw that I roll
Speaker 1: the mom hits the MJ shrubs. Yeah, that's that's great.
Speaker 1: Here here's what the problem that I had with Jade
Speaker 1: and Ivy. So he went to Purdue. His mom I
Speaker 1: think played for the Indiana Fever. They're like the Pacers
Speaker 1: needed a star, and he ended up going one spot
Speaker 1: before their draft pick, like you gotta at least show
Speaker 1: attempts like draft the hometown guy. I know he wanted
Speaker 1: to play for him. So it was like I was
Speaker 1: telling Megan, we were watching the draft and we saw
Speaker 1: the Kings were supposed to take somebody else than Keegan
Speaker 1: Murray and ended up taking um. Very sorry they ended
Speaker 1: up taking Keegan Murray and Jaden had started to slip
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh the paceman, I got my
Speaker 1: get him, and then the Pistons right before him to come.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I was angry at the Pacers organization,
Speaker 1: but you know, on behalf of your wife, Megan, who
Speaker 1: die hard? And are you like does that kind of
Speaker 1: the osmosis? Does that rub off on you? Well? So
Speaker 1: the thing is I support my wife in every way.
Speaker 1: Thus I watched Colts games, I watched Pacers games, and
Speaker 1: the Pacers haven't been that great. It was a bummer
Speaker 1: watching Oladipo bounce and Paul George bounce. So I was like,
Speaker 1: they need somebody, and I thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be Jade. And the thing is this Ben Mathron guy
Speaker 1: from Arizona is hilarious. Who um he called out Lebron
Speaker 1: already before him playing one game. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Lebron's still gotta go out there and prove he can
Speaker 1: beat me. Just so. The thing is like, yet I
Speaker 1: only knew of Jaden and I really was excited to
Speaker 1: maybe watch Jaden for the Pacers. But um, that something,
Speaker 1: dude seems cool too. Yeah, a lot of confidence, didn't
Speaker 1: Jos say. He was like, y'all, body, mj if we
Speaker 1: played right now? He was like yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I like, I prefer somebody thinks that then,
Speaker 1: doesn't you know what I mean? If you're if you're
Speaker 1: going to be out there doing what you do day
Speaker 1: in and and day out, but a new confidence. What do
Speaker 1: you What do you guys think about that statement? Because
Speaker 1: like I think the best players are like Jordan's the
Speaker 1: best player ever was probably like twenty years ahead of
Speaker 1: the league, Like he was twenty years better than the league,
Speaker 1: but like the league steadily gets better. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's an outrageous statement to for somebody to be like, no,
Speaker 1: I would I would be up there with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he played today. I guess like if one part
Speaker 1: is like I wish you would word it a little
Speaker 1: like with more deference or something like that. But that
Speaker 1: might even sound even more funny out of if you're
Speaker 1: trying to be respectful but also say you're gonna cook MJ.
Speaker 1: You're like, you know, I would believe we're we to
Speaker 1: go head to head. I may emerge victorious between the two,
Speaker 1: but that just doesn't sound as good as you. I
Speaker 1: just guys, they MJ invented all of your moves. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, it's like and the thing is, uh, MJ
Speaker 1: also like invented to me how to age with your
Speaker 1: game from being this like high flyer too then the
Speaker 1: fadeaways and like the craftiness and like he was dropping
Speaker 1: you know, his his his scor pus and it was
Speaker 1: going up at certain certain years in his later years.
Speaker 1: So like, no, not gonna cook. I'm jam sorry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I definitely would be able to. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that, like, now that I've watched the younger
Speaker 1: guys a lot, like I feel like I could like
Speaker 1: get a couple of buckets on him, That's all, and
Speaker 1: I can. I will remind you touch the bottom of
Speaker 1: the nut. Yeah, I would. Although like it is the
Speaker 1: kind of thing though that we wish we could see
Speaker 1: happen like like a gladiator match where it's like he
Speaker 1: has called out the champion and then like MJ has
Speaker 1: to be like has to come down from like the
Speaker 1: mountain and then be like you are mortal. Uh. I
Speaker 1: do wish there was a way to prove this in
Speaker 1: a tent somewhere like Brad Pitt and Troy and just
Speaker 1: like eat eat some grapes, something goes out and right exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break, ruminate on that.
Speaker 1: Just just confident in reference to the film Troy, and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back after and we're back, big time,
Speaker 1: big time back in a big way. It got it
Speaker 1: got a little harry during the break. Um, I just
Speaker 1: like I think Drahm Rankle cook m J. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the problem. That's the safest I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: that take. That might that might be possible, But I wish,
Speaker 1: you know, it almost makes you wish that we had
Speaker 1: a way to like adjudicate these kinds of proclamations from
Speaker 1: people like where we had like an AI that we
Speaker 1: could actually create these scenarios where it could take into
Speaker 1: account of how much more physical the players have become,
Speaker 1: how much more physically talented. They become what like the
Speaker 1: speed is of each given player based on their first
Speaker 1: step or whatever. I feel like, why hasn't sports nerddom
Speaker 1: created this AI yet? Yeah, it's also interesting, like if
Speaker 1: MJ were around today, he would have come up with
Speaker 1: the you know, all knowing all the moves that oh yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody now has access to and all the analytics. Probably
Speaker 1: the whole league would be a few years behind where
Speaker 1: it is because everybody benefited from MJ being as good
Speaker 1: as he was. But it is almost absurd to even
Speaker 1: think about it. Yeah, MJ like was so good that
Speaker 1: he ended up like erasing the center position because every
Speaker 1: future center was like I want to shoot the ball
Speaker 1: and like like like so, yeah, alright, let's talk about
Speaker 1: somebody who might have had MJ might have had some
Speaker 1: influence on their game. Kobe Bryant and specifically Kobe's two
Speaker 1: thousand two Finals wardrobe, because that's something that you all
Speaker 1: talk about on running the break. And I think, let's
Speaker 1: just throw to a clip. This is this is a
Speaker 1: really cool video. So Game one, he shows up in
Speaker 1: a green throwback New York Jets Jersey Joe name. Game two,
Speaker 1: he shows up in a Jackie Robinson Dodgers jersey. I
Speaker 1: remember tuning into the finals because I just wanted to
Speaker 1: see what Kobe was gonna wear, Like, what what was
Speaker 1: the next jersey that he was gonna pull out, Like
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my closet looking at Probably it was
Speaker 1: probably a bootleg, my bootleg like Alex English Rainbow Nuggets jersey,
Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, um, I guess, I guess.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm part of I'm part of the cool group.
Speaker 1: And he shows up in the Wayne Gretzky Edmonton Oilers
Speaker 1: in Game three, and then the most amazing thing for
Speaker 1: Game four, the final game of the series, he comes
Speaker 1: in the full Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls get up. He's
Speaker 1: got the warm up as well. I mean, these are,
Speaker 1: you know, players in sports history who we consider the goats,
Speaker 1: So for him to wear that, he was putting himself
Speaker 1: up there. And I remember just even just being you know,
Speaker 1: young and watching it, being like, Okay, if you wear
Speaker 1: all these and you win the championship, you're in the conversation.
Speaker 1: M hmm. I think there's those the two thousand two
Speaker 1: finals with against the nets, right, So we needed some
Speaker 1: reason to tune in to those finals, so that they
Speaker 1: um but that was that was dope. I actually hadn't
Speaker 1: remembered that or like didn't clock that at the time,
Speaker 1: but that that was a cool progression. I mean, and
Speaker 1: I think like that those moments were the first time,
Speaker 1: like it's it's not foreign anymore to be covering the
Speaker 1: players when they're entering the arena, when they're exiting the
Speaker 1: arena and their outfit especial sale, and like also using
Speaker 1: those opportunities to sort of make statements, like we think
Speaker 1: about like Westbrook wearing that you know, official photographer vest
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I thought Kobe doing that that
Speaker 1: was like some of the earliest traces of like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna like talk trash with my was sort of my
Speaker 1: outfit backing up and so I always thought that was
Speaker 1: like one of the coolest, coolest moments in NBA sort
Speaker 1: of like off court history. All Right, So if you
Speaker 1: had the same opportunity, what for jerseys are you planning
Speaker 1: to walk into those games? Myself? I collect obscure champion
Speaker 1: branded NBA jersey, so I'm gonna rock, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: this isn't that obscure, but like an r Vetus Sabonis
Speaker 1: I feel like he's like not talked about enough. What
Speaker 1: what other ones do I have? Like a Luke, like
Speaker 1: like a Sabonis, like Blazers Orb, okay, tell you that,
Speaker 1: like Russian era, like yeah, um, let's see what other
Speaker 1: jerseys would I wear? I mean, I love when it's
Speaker 1: like an iconic player who ended up on a team
Speaker 1: that you cannot like you forgot, you forgot, like in
Speaker 1: acheam Raptors. I would wear that. Yeah, like a jersey,
Speaker 1: right yeah, kind of like a meme jersey, like just
Speaker 1: a flex iverson Nuggets, yeah, or like late years iverson Sixers.
Speaker 1: Even that throws me. That looks like a custom jersey,
Speaker 1: like someone made right right right Yeah, Ewing Magic, Ewing
Speaker 1: Sonics is really bizarre. Yeah, but yeah those are some
Speaker 1: of my fair jerseys. And as an NBA player, I'd
Speaker 1: love to I'd love to just like show tribute that way, yeah,
Speaker 1: and showing up and being like, hey, I'm a little
Speaker 1: over the hill, so don't expect too much from me
Speaker 1: in these four games. I'm this is my statement that
Speaker 1: I'm out of my prime and I'm just here to
Speaker 1: have fun and get my picture taken. Yeah, I'm in
Speaker 1: my Ewing Sonics phase of my career that makes sense
Speaker 1: to the online yes, uh, for you like looking at
Speaker 1: every I mean there's so much style in the league,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's evolved so much from the time,
Speaker 1: like we talked about the nineties where I think we
Speaker 1: were like most visually inundated with the images of NBA
Speaker 1: player style and how much that's changed over the years.
Speaker 1: Like right now, who do you feel currently for your
Speaker 1: own personal taste? Because when I'm not trying to hold
Speaker 1: you as like as editor in chief of Vogue, who
Speaker 1: are the best dress in the league? But for you,
Speaker 1: who do you really like have your eyes like, oh,
Speaker 1: I like the way these you know, I think like
Speaker 1: the most common misconception is like the best dress is
Speaker 1: uh like street like the most expensive streetwear and labels
Speaker 1: and stuff, And I'm like that's like the easiest, you know,
Speaker 1: you get some money and it's like, oh, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: go buy some brands. But I like guys like d'
Speaker 1: Angela Russell, who you know, in an era where sneakers
Speaker 1: and like sort of like high beast apparel, um in
Speaker 1: loud logos and stuff is big. He is like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to loafers to go back to
Speaker 1: some like muted colors and um just like trench coats
Speaker 1: and peak coats and all that stuff. I think he
Speaker 1: really does it well, like his own style kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: like sweaters and stuff. And it's like that's the thing
Speaker 1: is like it's strange. It's not strange, but it's like
Speaker 1: if you're wearing Jordan's in in stuff like that too
Speaker 1: games to then put on Jordan's it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're not really doing it. You're not taking advantage of
Speaker 1: the opportunity here, guys. So like UM and I and
Speaker 1: I get like why we kind of went into that
Speaker 1: um or like white transition because the dress code said
Speaker 1: you had to wear suits. But now D'Angel Russell was
Speaker 1: kind of bringing it back. It's all cyclical and like
Speaker 1: pushing against like the norm dressing kind of like a
Speaker 1: businessman um serge ibaka same way, like he does a
Speaker 1: little bit of like the streetwear labels. He doesn't, but
Speaker 1: he you know, he does it really well. UM. And
Speaker 1: it's more so like there's like curation involved um and
Speaker 1: then Shay um Gilt. Just Alexander is is obviously one
Speaker 1: of the best doing it now. So those are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and those guys are all they have a little bit
Speaker 1: of their own flavor on it. I would say, okay,
Speaker 1: do you have a favorite low to no effort dresser,
Speaker 1: just because like you're saying, because that is a style too.
Speaker 1: There are people who do it effortlessly without being like
Speaker 1: I don't have to do drip by numbers. Yeah, you honest.
Speaker 1: Janice and a Dakompo Yeah okay, never heard of him, No,
Speaker 1: but if you see him, he's just rocking the Nike
Speaker 1: tech fully suits and the thing is, yeah, that's comfy, right,
Speaker 1: Like and Jayson Tatum like straight up like he's a
Speaker 1: Jordan brand guy. He just wears all the Jordan brand
Speaker 1: stuff he tries sometimes but like it's like, yeah, if
Speaker 1: you get free stuff or the free stuff, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the thing I appreciate to him. Like I like that
Speaker 1: they said my favorite kind of clothing is free. How
Speaker 1: do you differentiate between like somebody, because I feel like
Speaker 1: they all have stylists now at this point, right, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: some are like some have stylist just to go out
Speaker 1: in the shop for them, right, Like the Draft this year,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, these these are some style human
Speaker 1: beings that they were meticulously found and they looked great.
Speaker 1: But it does. It does feel like there's in the
Speaker 1: same way that like now you go to the small
Speaker 1: town in Missouri and everyone looks like they grew up
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn because it's just like we all have access
Speaker 1: to the internet and you know, the same the same website.
Speaker 1: I do feel I felt like they were like kind
Speaker 1: of all converging on the same level of stylish and
Speaker 1: Essoda's cool to see people who are kind of going
Speaker 1: against the grand like D'Angelo Russell. Yeah. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the we're just going again, like I said earlier, like
Speaker 1: now it's it's like anti establishment to dress like in
Speaker 1: business clothes. I feel like, so I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot more of that. Yeah, oh just right.
Speaker 1: It's more transgressive to come down back in your formal
Speaker 1: where than the tore up jeans. That that's when I
Speaker 1: know I'm old. When I look at tore up jeans,
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you paid for those? Yeah? We talked
Speaker 1: about that on We talked about that on the on
Speaker 1: the last episode of our podcast. It's like, man, you
Speaker 1: are making millions and like you got torn up jeans, Like,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna believe that. Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's like our like old school parenting where they're like
Speaker 1: they're like, you're torn up jeans, what you couldn't afford
Speaker 1: good genes? And you're like, my man, these are one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars that look like this, and you find the
Speaker 1: sires that could create these holes are right? Um, paris
Speaker 1: right exactly? These are bald mont Okay, now please get
Speaker 1: out of my way. What else are you guys talking about?
Speaker 1: I'm running the break this uh this summer um free
Speaker 1: agency pitches, just like I think maybe around Lebron was
Speaker 1: probably in the decision, was like one example of how
Speaker 1: free agency has become such a visible part of the process.
Speaker 1: So um, especially you know with what's going on right
Speaker 1: now Kevin Durant requesting a trade and and and players
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily like staying on teams. Um, were there any
Speaker 1: crazy like free agency pitches like I think the Celtics
Speaker 1: when they were trying to get Katie before I went
Speaker 1: to the Warriors, they brought him like Tom Brady to
Speaker 1: talk to him. Um. And just like the the extravaganzas
Speaker 1: that are thrown to sort of get some of these players,
Speaker 1: I think they should go bigger and more public so
Speaker 1: that it's It's like when a city is trying to
Speaker 1: get the Olympics there, like everybody gets involved and there's
Speaker 1: just like citywide parties to like try and lure Kadi
Speaker 1: to a city. No, I think like they're like on
Speaker 1: road games for these guys fans, if they know that
Speaker 1: they're on expiring contract, they should pass out, Like Portland
Speaker 1: should have passed out Kevin Durant. Well, Kevin Durants maid contract,
Speaker 1: but if he was going to be a free agent,
Speaker 1: should be passing out Kevin Durant Blazers jerseys and showing
Speaker 1: him nothing but love convincing them to come. I think
Speaker 1: New York sort of did that for Lebron before that
Speaker 1: first Cleveland exit but clearly didn't work. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean like getting to like the should be a part
Speaker 1: of that courting process. Yeah, instead of being like rude
Speaker 1: to the place, Yeah, you should be like we love you,
Speaker 1: I love my kid after you. Yeah, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We're gonna come back. We've done a trivia
Speaker 1: showdown before. In fact, the last time Megan was on
Speaker 1: our one and only trivia game and it was just
Speaker 1: us asking Megan Pacers trivia. But now, because we got
Speaker 1: two Lakers fans here, We've got Miles, we got c J.
Speaker 1: I am going to quiz you guys on some Lakers
Speaker 1: trivia that Miles has not had access to. He's been begging,
Speaker 1: trying to cheat, but I wouldn't allow it, pathetic man.
Speaker 1: Let me questions. All right, so let's take a break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. We'll do a little Laker trivia showdown,
Speaker 1: and we're back, all right, are you? Are you guys ready?
Speaker 1: You have your hands on your buzzers. Okay, the buzzer's
Speaker 1: a buzzer thing. You have to say your favorite Laker
Speaker 1: player of all time, uh to in order to buzz
Speaker 1: in and tell me the answer for each time, or
Speaker 1: a different Laker player every time, different Laker player. Let's
Speaker 1: make it interesting, alright, uh First question, how long was
Speaker 1: the longest winning streak in NBA and franchise history? Extra
Speaker 1: point if you can name the season. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, Oh shoot, Eddie Jones, Um, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guesst seven alright, Dick van Axel, Um, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: forty four games. Forty four games. Jesus Christ, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be real rude about your answers. By the way, Miles,
Speaker 1: expect nothing less. The point goes to c J because
Speaker 1: he got the closest thirty three games. It was in
Speaker 1: the seventy two season. Up next when Kobe Bryant outscored
Speaker 1: the opposing team through three quarters. How much did he score?
Speaker 1: And who was the opponent? Oh gosh, Cedric Sabalis. Uh.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the Raptors game, wasn't. It was not that
Speaker 1: I don't know, these are real hard, but at least
Speaker 1: let's hear you're the player that that's becoming part of
Speaker 1: the Yeah, yeah, Elden Campbell. Um. Was it against the Knicks?
Speaker 1: It was not keep guessing teams. Guys now got the Maverick. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the score through three quarters was Dallas sixty one.
Speaker 1: Kobe had sixty two. Um. All right, apologies to the
Speaker 1: fans which Lakers grade was originally nicknamed Zeke from Cabin
Speaker 1: Creek upon being drafted. Oh, Zeke from Cabin Creek. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wish I knew the answer I'm gonna I would say,
Speaker 1: Zeke from Cabin Creek. It's as if I was a
Speaker 1: Bulls fan in the nineties. The whole time. I was
Speaker 1: a Bulls fan in the nineties old but I lived
Speaker 1: in Dayton, Ohio, so I didn't really have another option. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, um even trying to put that name together.
Speaker 1: You have looked at his image today, probably multiple times.
Speaker 1: Zeke from Cabin Creek. I mean, isn't Magic Johnson? Is
Speaker 1: that you ringing in with? Oh? Yeah multiple times? Yeah? Uh,
Speaker 1: Robert sockry U, Jerry West, Yeah, Jerry Well the logo
Speaker 1: o baby thank you. Um. Jabari's body, jar Jabari's level
Speaker 1: of not like Jabaris will say some stuff to me
Speaker 1: sometimes when he's like, oh, I just assumed you knew
Speaker 1: this piece of obscure trivia, and I'm like, yo, man,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, like I'm I'm also I'm honored that he's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, They're on this plane of existence with the trivia.
Speaker 1: And now I'm like, I feel like I'm disappointing my
Speaker 1: father and all right, I'm just gonna do uh, just
Speaker 1: run through these thing. You guys just shout out if
Speaker 1: you think you know the answer. One. Who did the
Speaker 1: Lakers take with their first pick in draft? Their first
Speaker 1: pick in Kobe? We traded, Yeah, we traded the oh
Speaker 1: for the for the Mornings, Derek Fisher. Moving on, which
Speaker 1: did seven times NBA champion Robert Orry attend Alabama? Uh?
Speaker 1: Which player did the Lakers technically draft twice during the
Speaker 1: late fifties. This is just interesting because it's just funny
Speaker 1: that this could happen drafted twice. They drafted Elgin Bailer
Speaker 1: in the fourteenth round of the nineteen fifty six NBA draft. Uh.
Speaker 1: He opted to stay in school after leading a Seattle
Speaker 1: to the n c Double A championship game and fifty
Speaker 1: eight Baylor was drafted again by the Lakers, this time
Speaker 1: with the number one overall pick. In I know, that's
Speaker 1: our one rookie of the year is Elgin Baylor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like the second should be Jack and Jabari?
Speaker 1: Tell us really cool? You don't say I could not
Speaker 1: have gotten a single one of these? Alright, well we'll
Speaker 1: do it. We'll do it this way. There are two
Speaker 1: Lakers grades that have led to the invention of new
Speaker 1: rules in basketball. Who are the two? Shack and Wilt? No,
Speaker 1: I was saying, I was thinking, didn't Cream like create
Speaker 1: the of no dunking rule? Did that ever get into
Speaker 1: the NBA? Or No? Was that just college. That was
Speaker 1: just college, no dunking. You were not allowed to dunk
Speaker 1: because Korean was just like dunking every every time down um,
Speaker 1: which is so whack. But all right, never mind, there
Speaker 1: was another George Mike and George Mike and created the
Speaker 1: goaltending rule because he was so tall, so much taller
Speaker 1: than everyone. All right, should we should we put this
Speaker 1: man through rapid fire? There is no right answer to
Speaker 1: these And unlike the last segment, this is all about speed.
Speaker 1: Boom boom. Its kind of like a mic drill. This
Speaker 1: is a Mike and drill of uh nba pins. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do it. You're on the clock. Get ready, start
Speaker 1: the clock. Smooth as dressing. Old schoolballer Clyde or Dr
Speaker 1: dre uh Clyde the best. My real name is Clyde
Speaker 1: so and he's still doing it to this day. Your
Speaker 1: name is mother. How are you? I tried? I tried
Speaker 1: in college and then c J slipped out and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: you're a c J. What's now? I'm like, and again,
Speaker 1: I have a son, and I'm like, he's gonna grow
Speaker 1: up in his dad's name is gonna be c J. Like, yeah, Clyde,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm actually you like c J sounds like a
Speaker 1: cool dad's name, Like I could be like, Mr c J,
Speaker 1: can I have a beer? But it sounds like they'd
Speaker 1: be like you asked Clyde, I'm not asking. Wait how Wait?
Speaker 1: So what's the J for you? Clyde Jr. Clyde jan War.
Speaker 1: It's January without the y because I was born in January.
Speaker 1: Damn man jan War. Well, so here's the funny thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it kind of relates. Filipinos just go nuts
Speaker 1: on naming people like kids, so they and so they
Speaker 1: name their kids after celebrities that they like. In basketball
Speaker 1: is obviously huge over there, so they're like, oh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna name our kid after Lebron, but they don't. It's
Speaker 1: not Lebron Santo's. It's Lebron James Santos, and Lebron James
Speaker 1: is the whole first name. And there's no spaces. There's
Speaker 1: like a kid who doesn't because the kid who went viral,
Speaker 1: who doesn't even play basketba, went viral because he was
Speaker 1: singing inside of a target, and um, his name is
Speaker 1: Carl Malone. Like no space. That is so cool? Wait,
Speaker 1: so were you who are you named after? But yeah,
Speaker 1: they just like the name it. My son is named
Speaker 1: after Jalen Rose. It's very cool name. All right. First
Speaker 1: of all, I do I do just have to shout
Speaker 1: out when I lived in New York. Uh, this was
Speaker 1: before streaming and before they're like you could just watch
Speaker 1: NBA basketball on YouTube anytime. I got to watch a
Speaker 1: lot of Clyde Frasier doing color commentary and it is
Speaker 1: yeah MSG network. Uh And if you haven't just gone
Speaker 1: and watched some greatest hits of him rhyming and whooping
Speaker 1: and scooping, is yeah, just like truly one of the
Speaker 1: one of the best to ever do it. And then
Speaker 1: you look at his stats as a player and it's
Speaker 1: it's mind blowing. But will this read game was actually
Speaker 1: the Clyde Frasier game He put up like bonkers numbers.
Speaker 1: And let's not forget to catch a fly in the room.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, people, he was talking about like what a
Speaker 1: cool guy would do, and he was like, yeah, like
Speaker 1: one thing that I used to like to do in
Speaker 1: the seventies is I was just walking into a room
Speaker 1: and just real slow, like catch a fly in my hand,
Speaker 1: shake it a little bit and then let it go.
Speaker 1: And people accident for flying. Yeah, but he was just
Speaker 1: like that, you know. And I guess it was like
Speaker 1: very easy for him because he had like incredibly fast hands.
Speaker 1: For me, I would I would not be able to
Speaker 1: catch a fly in my hands without breaking furniture and
Speaker 1: breaking into a sweat. Anyways, anyway, and and sorry, Cej,
Speaker 1: I gotta cut you off there because this is this
Speaker 1: is rapid fire. One question. Here we go, question number
Speaker 1: the twond Now the Summer League happening in Vegas. Give
Speaker 1: me your top five players you'd like to enjoy a
Speaker 1: night on the town with in Las Vegas. Past Or president,
Speaker 1: pastor President. We're gonna go h Shed Wallace. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go Land Stevenson, who I did see on a
Speaker 1: segue outside of Caesar's one year at Summer League. And
Speaker 1: I kind of proposed the same thing that you're asking me. Um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go um Rick Smith's Rick Smith's one of
Speaker 1: my fair players. Um, we're gonna go. How many is that?
Speaker 1: That's three? Let's go shoot Charles Barkley for sure. Charles
Speaker 1: is like my have dinner with um that are alive?
Speaker 1: Met him a few months ago, locked up shared I
Speaker 1: was literally had a locker next to his still couldn't
Speaker 1: say anything to him love the guy, because didn't even
Speaker 1: want to disappoint him with if I didn't have anything
Speaker 1: good to say, so um, even like in your mind,
Speaker 1: he's like, that's your voice. You're like like, well, so
Speaker 1: I was wearing a c before you know the movie
Speaker 1: the hat ce before and he goes, before, that's a
Speaker 1: nice hat, Like I think he thought it meant Charles Barkley.
Speaker 1: And then the number four for when he played for
Speaker 1: the Rockets, and it's like, why would anyone have a
Speaker 1: hat like that? No, this is cell block four, Um alright.
Speaker 1: Number five would be shoot, um, I'm gonna say, man,
Speaker 1: And while you're thinking on that, I'll just take a
Speaker 1: step back because this is very fast and little list
Speaker 1: Clyde Fraser in game seven, The Willis read game thirty
Speaker 1: six points, nineteen assists, seven boards, five steals to score
Speaker 1: thirty six and have nineteen assists, Like, yeah, your team
Speaker 1: wouldn't have scored if you weren't there. Yeah, um, okay.
Speaker 1: My final one would be Jeremy Lynn. Shout out, Jeremy Lynn.
Speaker 1: You need somebody from Harvard like in the crew, like
Speaker 1: just in case, you know, to get somebody with that
Speaker 1: that that Ivy League background. You make the night balance
Speaker 1: out just like a tena f a writer's room. Oh man,
Speaker 1: that made me so mad. Uh in Bossy Pants where
Speaker 1: she's like, you need to have somebody who went to
Speaker 1: Harvard and I'm sorry, those are the rules and true.
Speaker 1: You want to be able to run into the person
Speaker 1: in the hallway at two am, so they got to
Speaker 1: go to Harvard, Like right, um, all right, you get
Speaker 1: to add one rule to the n b A and
Speaker 1: it can be either serious or fun. My new one
Speaker 1: you have to play one quarter every month in Timberland's
Speaker 1: but you get to choose what quarter it is, so
Speaker 1: you could like the other team puts on Timberland, so
Speaker 1: you choose to like match it up so you don't
Speaker 1: like have a disadvantage of where you could wait and
Speaker 1: then just blow them out and that okay, So what
Speaker 1: do you for posing breaking ankles are crossing somebody up,
Speaker 1: making them fall is a point? Oh yeah. So if
Speaker 1: if you put somebody on skates, right, but you have
Speaker 1: to you have to make the basket after Oh got it?
Speaker 1: So like if you finish at the rim, that's a
Speaker 1: three pointer basically because you left somebody for dead on
Speaker 1: the parquet. Okay, I like that, or they going to
Speaker 1: a penalty box of some sort she embarrassed for. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta like I feel like, you gotta do a
Speaker 1: lap around the arena. Yeah, like, and in that time
Speaker 1: you have to play a man down for how long
Speaker 1: it takes for them to run around the arena. So
Speaker 1: you're playing a man down off the strength of it.
Speaker 1: Just amazing crossover. I like that. I would say I
Speaker 1: like Jack's rule, but I feel like it would be
Speaker 1: it's better like if every like in the game, the
Speaker 1: team can deploy the tims quarter on the opposition when
Speaker 1: they deem it, like, so it's strategic, they're like, and
Speaker 1: they may activate the Tim's quarter on them. We don't
Speaker 1: know that, just to continue maybe one quarter per playoffs
Speaker 1: and like per playoff series, and you get to use
Speaker 1: it on the other teams. So yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1: But Tim's you know, good ankle support, so nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: get hurt, could you You already know that the person
Speaker 1: who gets the and one crossover like juke move bonus
Speaker 1: in the times is probably gonna do a terrible injury
Speaker 1: to their their ankle. But look, I like that. UM.
Speaker 1: Next question, you can travel back in time and attend
Speaker 1: any single NBA All Star game from history. Which would
Speaker 1: you choose? And I'll give you some options. And by
Speaker 1: I I mean Jabari, who has done some very good
Speaker 1: research putting together some of the best which had the
Speaker 1: NBA's top fifty players ceremony at halftime. Would you choose
Speaker 1: two thousand three Jordan's farewell game featuring a retired Magic
Speaker 1: Johnson leading the West to a victory, two thousand nine
Speaker 1: the Kobe verse Shack read the Hatchet or two thousand one,
Speaker 1: where Alan I ever seen leads a twenty one point
Speaker 1: East come back in the final nine minutes. Was going
Speaker 1: to say before I mean the other ones I all
Speaker 1: remember so vividly, like I don't need to be there,
Speaker 1: but like I remember from what rewatching clips and stuff,
Speaker 1: but like to be there to like like erased my
Speaker 1: mind of of Kobe, Uh, you know Kobe. It was
Speaker 1: like Kobe MJ matchup two and then of course that yeah,
Speaker 1: the fifty greatest players with the the which we talked
Speaker 1: about this on the podcast, the why am I blanking
Speaker 1: on this? Running the break the leather jackets that they wore. UM,
Speaker 1: and um, yeah, it's just like that was to me
Speaker 1: maybe one of the best All Star games of all time.
Speaker 1: And I and I was too young until they given go.
Speaker 1: I guess no, not too young to go, but like
Speaker 1: I wanted, I'd love to go to that, right right right.
Speaker 1: I was at the two thou a game. It was
Speaker 1: in d C. When I was in college. Nice. No,
Speaker 1: that wasn't the Mariah Carey jersey dress. Here wasn't. No. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Jessica Simpson singing the national anthem, it was a little
Speaker 1: pitchy from me. I saw them are more of a
Speaker 1: winner than others. I saw Jessica Simpson open for ninety
Speaker 1: degrees at a minor league baseball stadium before she was famous. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's some great entertainment that happens at minor league baseball stadiums.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we we saw Corey Feldman's musical performance. I
Speaker 1: think it was actually after a game. It was a yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a little dire, but you know,
Speaker 1: it was what it was, and just to keep the
Speaker 1: rapid fire paste going. I just shout out to that
Speaker 1: ninety seven year because I remember I bought the album
Speaker 1: that came out for the fiftieth anniversary. Remember that one
Speaker 1: had like a like the case was like leather bound dish.
Speaker 1: And that's when I learned like old school songs like Shotguns,
Speaker 1: like shot that was on that album and I remember
Speaker 1: so vividly like Walker. I love that song the NBA
Speaker 1: of fifty album, you know, Slam Dunk with Cool in
Speaker 1: the Gang. This was basketball, why Curtis blow? Basketball was
Speaker 1: my favorite sports. It was David Samborn that was the
Speaker 1: version of Shotgun that was on and Brian McKnight Seinfeld
Speaker 1: deliver I'm yours okay, see c J told Donna you
Speaker 1: have made it through the lightning rand with your lightning
Speaker 1: fact flex is um. Thank you. I'm sorry so much
Speaker 1: time in each of those rapid fire questions, but hey,
Speaker 1: you know, but thank you for apologizing and you at
Speaker 1: least you are acknowledging that it was supposed to be
Speaker 1: rapid fire and maybe it was your fault that it was.
Speaker 1: Thank you, But you guys accommodated me because you're a
Speaker 1: great host. That's right. Well, uh, CJ. Where can people
Speaker 1: go to listen to your show and find you and
Speaker 1: follow one of the best NBA follows on Twitter? For sure?
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I mean, yeah, wherever you listen to podcasts, UM, Spotify,
Speaker 1: Apple Podcast, if you go to my Instagram or my
Speaker 1: co host Alex Wong. Again, he's a really good follow.
Speaker 1: He's Stephen Lebron on Twitter. Um. Great book that he
Speaker 1: wrote called cover Story about all the most iconic basketball covers. Uh.
Speaker 1: But if you look at on our channels, you'll see
Speaker 1: a link to Running the Break mm hmm amazing. Uh alright, Uh, Miles,
Speaker 1: where can people find you? Oh? You know where to
Speaker 1: find me at Miles of Gray. That's Gray with an A.
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously check out our Jack and Eyes
Speaker 1: other podcasts, The Daily Zeitgeism first time that first time
Speaker 1: we may have actually plucked out on this show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have another podcast and it turns out all right,
Speaker 1: And you can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore
Speaker 1: O'Brien that is going to do it for another another
Speaker 1: episode in the books talking about NBA history. We did it.
Speaker 1: You would get it. That's been an episode of Mild
Speaker 1: and Jack Got Got Mad. Boo boos. Steve