Speaker 1: Everybody. Training camps have officially open and we're only two
Speaker 1: weeks away from the start of the regular season, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna be discussing state of the MAVs, Luca's mvp os,
Speaker 1: as well as all the news and knows from around
Speaker 1: the league and some great, great fantastic moments from media days.
Speaker 1: Just wonderful, wonderful style with the Spotify Live NBA Chad
Speaker 1: host Josh Everley. I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien
Speaker 1: and this is my mad mad boystes. Yeah. It did
Speaker 1: a little bit Australian thing and that. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it well international flavor because our guest today,
Speaker 1: Josh Everley from Calgary. Uh, I guess once called it
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma of Canada, wrote for Hoop Mag, NBA Canada
Speaker 1: and Sporting News. He's in the building. Hello, Josh, you
Speaker 1: have heard of the stampede. Good to confirm that true,
Speaker 1: son of Calgary. Yeah, I knew, I knew that story
Speaker 1: was not That pre show story was not true. I
Speaker 1: was like, no one from Calgary would not know what
Speaker 1: the stamp Yeah, it was mistaken identity. Yeah, I went
Speaker 1: to Calgary Comic Con and uh, had a had a
Speaker 1: wonderful time and uh your your lovely town. Um and
Speaker 1: have not been back since. But it's a nice town.
Speaker 1: You got a little river there. I feel it feels
Speaker 1: very got a little river camp ridges, some grass people. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I saw talking like John Rockefeller or something.
Speaker 1: It is a long standing joke that like people get
Speaker 1: off the plane in Calgary to go to Banff, people like,
Speaker 1: what do I do here? Driving another hour and a
Speaker 1: half to the mountains in bap and then right, that's
Speaker 1: what we do. Why is it called the Oklahoma of
Speaker 1: Canada because it's just the because I know, I know
Speaker 1: about the Stampede, because of marching band culture and brass culture.
Speaker 1: Like that's a big that's a big draw. But I
Speaker 1: also get that there's rodeos and stuff going on. What
Speaker 1: is it about it? What is it about Calgary? You
Speaker 1: know what? I don't know somewhere between Oklahoma Texas. It's
Speaker 1: just it's one it's super conservative. We've had one non
Speaker 1: conservative government like the last fifty years. Uh it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's you know a lot of small town rural communities.
Speaker 1: I don't know how cowboy it really is. When like
Speaker 1: the two urban cities aren't cowboy all, but we we pretend.
Speaker 1: We pretend to dress it up. Stampede for listeners who
Speaker 1: don't know, is like a large cattle auction that is
Speaker 1: also like a burning man for a Cowboys cowboy burning man.
Speaker 1: It's like an inner city festival for ten days straight.
Speaker 1: And yeah, there's a bunch of terrible stats that define it,
Speaker 1: but we don't we don't need to get into those.
Speaker 1: Mostly good time. Yeah yeah, and true to the brand.
Speaker 1: You're a MAVs guy, Yeah sure it fits, it fits. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what was the draw to, like, how do you go? Like,
Speaker 1: what's your sort of fan journey as a kid in
Speaker 1: Calgary to the NBA and then the mass My origin
Speaker 1: is a MAVs fan is not all that exciting. But
Speaker 1: my mom was a flight attendant and she was, I
Speaker 1: guess in the Fort Worth area. Brought me home a
Speaker 1: Cowboys hoodie and a Mavericks T shirt when I was
Speaker 1: like six, so that was just those are my teams.
Speaker 1: And then I was like a hipster for it, which
Speaker 1: I also loved, right because now everyone else is like
Speaker 1: there are teams other than the Lakers and the Raptors
Speaker 1: in and I was like, yeah, I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: those teams, so but also like y'all had the best
Speaker 1: jerseys when when the Raptors and the and the Grizz
Speaker 1: came out, These are the most fun. Damon Stodemyer was like,
Speaker 1: my my one of my favorite players. There you go, Okay,
Speaker 1: so purely just off the gift, You're like, does it
Speaker 1: this is the cure of me? Was in It worked
Speaker 1: because Nash was Canadian and then Dirk became my favorit
Speaker 1: player of all times. So things like moved in the
Speaker 1: right direction. If I had that first team, like you
Speaker 1: remember really rooting for, like which, what's what squad was? Like? Man,
Speaker 1: oh two, I would think like yeah, probably too. The
Speaker 1: first playoff series I remember really watching was Sixers Lakers
Speaker 1: and oh one. My first two basketball coaches Jabari A's
Speaker 1: or the story before, but my first two basketball coaches
Speaker 1: were arguing during you know, they're supposed to set a
Speaker 1: drill or something, and they're arguing about who was better
Speaker 1: Kobe or Ai. And that was like, Okay, I kind
Speaker 1: of want to I want to partake. My coaches are cool.
Speaker 1: I want to partake in this conversation. And I've been
Speaker 1: arguing useless basketball comparisons for the last twenty something that
Speaker 1: was that was the moment of that. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: always that that elder influence that in right. So, how
Speaker 1: are you feeling about the Maps this season? It's a
Speaker 1: it's kind of an exciting year, a tumultuous offseason. Los
Speaker 1: Bronson to the Knicks inquired Christian Wood via trade. Are
Speaker 1: you are you confident? Is it? Like I again, I
Speaker 1: think maybe I'm more cynical because I'm not part of
Speaker 1: the market. Like if you live in the market, your
Speaker 1: privy to all these like hype videos and like local
Speaker 1: pr pushes and you rub arms with Cuban at coffee
Speaker 1: shops and think you're included in things. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's like I saw Nico at subway and he
Speaker 1: told me something. He told me everyone that's great. Everyone
Speaker 1: was in the best shape of their life. Everyone had
Speaker 1: lost X amount of weight. But you know what, the
Speaker 1: MAVs have this very storied history of like having an
Speaker 1: almost off season, like they really positioned themselves to do
Speaker 1: some amazing things in the off season, and then they
Speaker 1: usually don't do them. And then this year they kind
Speaker 1: of took that a step further and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: we've had a guy completely outperformed his draft value, completely
Speaker 1: surpass everything we hope from him, and we lost him
Speaker 1: to the Knicks, who haven't been able to sign anyone
Speaker 1: else for the last twenty years. Like they really want
Speaker 1: above and beyond, and it's smacking the expectations and I
Speaker 1: can't line in. I I don't feel super optimistic. I
Speaker 1: felt like things broke incredibly right for the MAVs last year,
Speaker 1: incredibly right. Not unlike Portland a few years ago where
Speaker 1: they get Kevin Durant out in the conference finals and
Speaker 1: they can't even take a game. That sort of This
Speaker 1: year felt like for the MAVs, like the Son's imploded.
Speaker 1: They're playing good basketball, the Jazz imploded. It was nice,
Speaker 1: it was a feather in your cap, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if are really in a position to build on
Speaker 1: what they did last year, and even with them probably
Speaker 1: being a playoff team and Luca maybe winning M v P,
Speaker 1: which I know you want to get to, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't It doesn't feel like this team ceiling is higher
Speaker 1: than it was last year, which is tough because you
Speaker 1: want to see growth. This is how I feel about
Speaker 1: the Sixers entering every pre There's different types of fandom
Speaker 1: and some people you know, Fall Springs Eternal. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the preseason media day was a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Everybody is, uh, you know, everyone's in the best shape
Speaker 1: of their life. James Harden lost a hundred pound pounds
Speaker 1: hundred pounds jokingly, but um, you know, Jimmy Butler's hair
Speaker 1: is glorious as we're going to talk about. But I'm
Speaker 1: also yeah, for whatever reason, the way basketball fandom hit
Speaker 1: me is like, I'm like, don't hurt me, don't I don't,
Speaker 1: don't do this to me, don't get my hopes up.
Speaker 1: I have a reason for that, though, like why I'm curious.
Speaker 1: Like my reason is the O six finals, which I
Speaker 1: still feel very sick about. And I won't I won't
Speaker 1: go down the rabbit hole with you, but I feel
Speaker 1: very sick about the two thousand six finals still, So
Speaker 1: that was my I don't trust anymore. I've been hurt
Speaker 1: too deep. One way free throw at a time into
Speaker 1: the soul and then you want to after that. Man,
Speaker 1: But now it's one one. Now it's one one, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I don't have nice things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's like I just I just wanna interview you and
Speaker 1: find out what it feels like to get out of
Speaker 1: the second round. Uh so you know that's that's where
Speaker 1: I'm coming from. I saw the vote this morning. Doc
Speaker 1: River says the most talented team he's ever had for
Speaker 1: the ninth year in a row, which I fantastic quote
Speaker 1: from Doc, like one google was like every team he's
Speaker 1: ever had, most talented teams everything. I don't want to
Speaker 1: take this away from you, but it does feel like
Speaker 1: the Sixers are becoming the fun pick because they it's
Speaker 1: like they have a lot of toys that are fun
Speaker 1: to talk about, you know. I mean Embeat obviously is
Speaker 1: like a generational basketball genius and physical, you know, just
Speaker 1: just incredible. But then like I think there's the underrated.
Speaker 1: He's been runner up MVP last couple of years, so
Speaker 1: everybody's like, you know, slept on a little bit, like
Speaker 1: by one and a half percent is embiad and then
Speaker 1: the James Harden being in shape, and it's just like
Speaker 1: people's minds are like I could see this, you know,
Speaker 1: it like fires the imagination. I just I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, because it feels like a movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like it's like a couple of things like yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it beats hard and lost a hundred pounds, and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're becking, like it feels like the momentum of a
Speaker 1: montage sequence. Polarizing team they are, they are so polarizing.
Speaker 1: It's funny. You're it's like you're in my head because
Speaker 1: I tweeted something yesterday where I was like, if you
Speaker 1: could just promise me and James Harden would be healthy
Speaker 1: and committed in the playoffs, Like if you could just
Speaker 1: make me that promise, and then then I would only
Speaker 1: have to see like m beat is hamper with a hip, knee,
Speaker 1: shoulder one time in the playoffs, I picked you to
Speaker 1: win the title. Rety the talents there, How the heck
Speaker 1: do you account for Harden and embat and the constant
Speaker 1: like banged up and are they all? I mean, I
Speaker 1: shouldn't throw, I shouldn't up and beat in here, but
Speaker 1: hardened last year in the playoffs looked like he was
Speaker 1: so uninterested that one game. But that one game though,
Speaker 1: step back. But I truly think that is the thing,
Speaker 1: is that people still have that one game in their
Speaker 1: mind and it's like, you know that that's still confirmation
Speaker 1: rises to the top and everyone's like, oh, but remember
Speaker 1: they looked really good in that one Miami game. They
Speaker 1: looked like they could have gotten out of that series
Speaker 1: and gotten swept by the Celtics in that game. Now
Speaker 1: there's just something fun about them. I'm also sky high
Speaker 1: on Maxie, Like I'm sky sky sky sky. I think
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed. My my whole fan. My four year old
Speaker 1: is obsessed with Maxie. Um. So he asked me in
Speaker 1: the offseason, like, well, it's Maxie up to? Like why
Speaker 1: why don't we watch Maxie anymore? He doesn't even recognize,
Speaker 1: Like when I'm watching like football, he's asking what's up to?
Speaker 1: Where's Maxie? Like, what's what's he doing? How's he looking
Speaker 1: this offseason? Yeah, that's when I thought basketball was called
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. I'm like Magic Johnson on the like, no,
Speaker 1: this is baseball. I'm like, so no, yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: coming in. That's the new that's my new definition for
Speaker 1: the factor. Like if a four year old is clamoring
Speaker 1: in the background, four year old, look at the game
Speaker 1: and be like that man is just faster than everyone
Speaker 1: and knifeing through incredible athletes and getting to the cup
Speaker 1: every time. Speaking of your sixers, you know, optimism. I
Speaker 1: know we were talking about Chris Middleton and him missing
Speaker 1: you know, the start of the season through injury, and
Speaker 1: you know, Jabari before it was like, Jack, can this
Speaker 1: help you get some distance, create some distance between all
Speaker 1: the distance between Philly and the Bucks? I was like,
Speaker 1: maybe close the distance a small amount because they're they're
Speaker 1: better than us. They've made the finals, they've won the
Speaker 1: championship and within the last two years. I think I
Speaker 1: think we should be talking about closing the distance, um,
Speaker 1: because yeah, and in Middleton will be back, he's not.
Speaker 1: What's what's the Vegas difference in wins for those two
Speaker 1: teams right now? You know, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: got to be close at this point. Like you think
Speaker 1: with what the Bucks kind of aging and all the
Speaker 1: talent Philly, you even think it would be it would
Speaker 1: be pretty neck and neck. Yeah, and I fully believe
Speaker 1: that they can do some real damage in the regular
Speaker 1: season and the you know, the playoffs are the playoffs. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I see, I see why we're similar. Just like
Speaker 1: you won't even hope aloud, you won't even like ponder
Speaker 1: about the No, Yeah, you guys are definitely fell off
Speaker 1: the same tree of who hurt. I have a six
Speaker 1: ye that I don't I don't wear because they've lost
Speaker 1: too many games the days that I wore it. So
Speaker 1: that's the level of um, just stupidity. I guess you
Speaker 1: would call fandom because you're such a big fan that
Speaker 1: even your hat affect what happens thousands of miles away,
Speaker 1: no matter what. Acknowledge your power. Yeah, I just wish
Speaker 1: Doc would acknowledge that I've been writing him letters being like, look, man,
Speaker 1: I got I gotta figured out. But he did acknowledge it.
Speaker 1: You've got that season desist from his lawyers, right, But
Speaker 1: I just want him to acknowledge, Oh got you got
Speaker 1: you got you for sure? For sure, Josh. But question
Speaker 1: for you, I know you said you were a little
Speaker 1: bit feeling less optimistic well with the offseason. What would
Speaker 1: you have liked to have seen for you to maybe
Speaker 1: move yourself into the slightly hopeful column? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I would have liked to have seen them make up,
Speaker 1: especially if they were going to lose Bronson. I would
Speaker 1: like to have seen them find that secondary playmaker score
Speaker 1: on the perimeter. That's name wasn't Spencer Dinwitty like? And
Speaker 1: I tho for whatever reason like Mark Cuban very clearly
Speaker 1: loved Spencer Dinwitty. There's a relationship there. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's a bad player. He's I think as your third guard.
Speaker 1: He's a real nice rotation player to have. But I mean,
Speaker 1: if you watch that Jazz series, every time he was
Speaker 1: leaned on just missing terrible shots, couldn't get things going.
Speaker 1: Awful lot of pressure for him to step up. And
Speaker 1: we've been talking about, you know, three straight years we
Speaker 1: were talking about Luca really is incredible, but there's somewhat
Speaker 1: of a ceiling to him running every possession for your team,
Speaker 1: and even if he's super efficient, like there needs to
Speaker 1: be possessions and times when he's off the floor where
Speaker 1: you can lean on somebody else to create that offense.
Speaker 1: They sort of found it with Brunson, they immediately lost it.
Speaker 1: So in my mind, it was either keep Brunson or
Speaker 1: find someone you were comfortable taking that role. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if we have it. I I don't know
Speaker 1: if the team has found that. I loved Tim Hardaway Jr.
Speaker 1: I really do, but again, I think we've kind of
Speaker 1: seen that play out as well, and the combo him
Speaker 1: and didn't didn't what he's somewhat underwhelming. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say the Luca thing is like like getting to view, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the MAVs from from an outsider, Like it
Speaker 1: gets a lot of attention his usage, right, but there
Speaker 1: was a time when Ben Simmons had things really going
Speaker 1: for for the Sixers and he just always put the
Speaker 1: ball where it needed to go. And like it like
Speaker 1: peqe Lebron where it's like he's basketball computer where the
Speaker 1: ball always goes exactly where it needs to go. And
Speaker 1: like having that plus one of the best shot makers
Speaker 1: that I've ever seen, like an uncanny shotmaker who like
Speaker 1: can sometimes just flip it up while running in the
Speaker 1: opposite direction and it just goes in and you know
Speaker 1: what's going in. Like there's something about the MAVs this
Speaker 1: year that is exciting to me because every team you
Speaker 1: put around Luca, because he's such a singular talent, feels
Speaker 1: like there's an opportunity for something that you've never really
Speaker 1: seen before and like you just have to get the
Speaker 1: pieces right. And like I mean, even like Christian would,
Speaker 1: like I don't, I don't normally pay attention to acquisitions
Speaker 1: such as Christian would, being like someone who comes on
Speaker 1: and now there's like controversy is whether whether he's starting
Speaker 1: or not. But everybody put around Lucas Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's it's exciting to me. I mean, I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see what they look like. Christian it's a nice player,
Speaker 1: he does some nice things. But then you know, we
Speaker 1: see this every year where like basketball in the playoffs
Speaker 1: devolves into like a two man game, and like, are
Speaker 1: him and Luca outperforming like Steph Dre Are they outperforming
Speaker 1: Jamal Yokich? Are they outperforming Kauai Paul George And I
Speaker 1: just I don't know. I don't know about that, and like,
Speaker 1: and it's exciting and maybe it's one of those things
Speaker 1: where I think as a fan, if you've been in
Speaker 1: the lottery for a long time, like the playoffs is
Speaker 1: so exciting, and then you get that one year where
Speaker 1: you make the plaoffs and you're like a darling, like
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies last year. Everyone is like so excited, everyone
Speaker 1: loves what you're doing. And then there are expectations like
Speaker 1: the Maps have had this conference finals run and it's like,
Speaker 1: now what. And I think that's only amplified by the
Speaker 1: fact that you see player movement being what it is,
Speaker 1: and like some of the whispers a year ago about
Speaker 1: like Luca wasn't totally happy on all the movement in
Speaker 1: the front office and some of the things behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: and you you kind of feel like there's always this
Speaker 1: timer ticking behind your head of like if the MAVs
Speaker 1: don't progress, like are they are gonna gonna lose that
Speaker 1: chance to build around Luca the next five years because
Speaker 1: things have to essentially be seamless. It would seem to
Speaker 1: keep a lot of guys these days. Hmm, all right, well,
Speaker 1: should we take a break and come back and talk
Speaker 1: media media to the media, the media, the media will
Speaker 1: be right back and we're back. And yeah, CJ McCollum
Speaker 1: signed a two year extension with the Pelicans. Now New
Speaker 1: Orleans has c J McCollum, Zion, Williams and Brandon and
Speaker 1: grom Bingy through at a minimum. Yeah, And when when
Speaker 1: they had Zion with a with a high usage rate
Speaker 1: two seasons ago, they were one of the more unstoppable offenses.
Speaker 1: Like he was just playing out of his mind. Um,
Speaker 1: It's it's really like the West is just stacked up,
Speaker 1: like there are so many teams that are going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if they if they make the
Speaker 1: playoffs at this point, because you've got Warriors, Sons, Nuggets, MAVs, Grizzlies, Clippers, Wolves, Pelicans, Lakers, Kings, Blazers, um,
Speaker 1: eleven teams right there with you know, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised to see the first nine, I'd say with a
Speaker 1: like making a legitimate playoff run. And I am including
Speaker 1: the Lakers in there because they do have Lebron James
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis, which I think that's still correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they still have Lebron James and Anthony Davis. Will they
Speaker 1: be able to walk and move? How many nights a
Speaker 1: year do they have those two? That's what as a
Speaker 1: Laker fan like every day, I'm like, what do what
Speaker 1: offering must I bring lay at the altar for them
Speaker 1: to stay healthy for I don't know? Said they're an
Speaker 1: interesting team too. I mean the Lakers are all as
Speaker 1: polarizing as well, but oh yeah, but here you can
Speaker 1: see things just going, Oh, I think, yeah, we thought
Speaker 1: last year was a weird one, boy, right, I mean
Speaker 1: if you get a d Russ and Brown out there
Speaker 1: for fifteen games to a row and it's still not
Speaker 1: a good product that defense that has been well mounted
Speaker 1: several times by all of them, that we weren't on
Speaker 1: the floor together, just it could sung you and wet
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, well I don't think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think just even considering Russ as part of that,
Speaker 1: I'm not fully invested as that being a reality. Aren't
Speaker 1: the Lakers still considering part of that? That's yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's the freaky thing that we're watching, Like, are do
Speaker 1: you mean those words you're saying right now? But that's
Speaker 1: a whole other question. Let's focus on the real news,
Speaker 1: which is Zion because because of the Pelicans media day,
Speaker 1: this man came out and said something that is the
Speaker 1: most horrifying thing I've ever heard from Zion Williamson. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna play this. He says, he's feeling good and
Speaker 1: the best he's ever felt. Uh, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: in my best right now. I feel like I'm moving faster.
Speaker 1: I just I feel great, oh boy, faster and jumping higher.
Speaker 1: He looks a different quality for um. He he almost
Speaker 1: like because somebody was doing a side by side like
Speaker 1: what do you look like a media day last year?
Speaker 1: Verse this year? And like last year? He looked like
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson to me, and this year he looks like
Speaker 1: he's cut from marble and like just every He also
Speaker 1: got a different haircut, but um lower. Yeah, it's it'll be.
Speaker 1: I mean the difference is the first one he looked
Speaker 1: like he looked country strong. The first picture he looked
Speaker 1: country strong, and then the next one is like I
Speaker 1: got a trainer, I found out about what high performance
Speaker 1: athletics is because he looks just somehow stronger than country strong.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, where are his overalls? Like that first one,
Speaker 1: I could just see him wearing like like a train
Speaker 1: conductor striped overalls under like that was his outfit. And
Speaker 1: now it's like he looks like he's like I don't know,
Speaker 1: he's it's it's truly this. There's a shift there that
Speaker 1: I'm it just excites me. And then hear him say
Speaker 1: with such confidence, it's such a big smile on his face,
Speaker 1: like I'm running faster, I feel like I'm jumping higher.
Speaker 1: That's I'd love to see it. I'd love to see it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I was already excited. They're already one top
Speaker 1: five league pass teams for me, but this is this
Speaker 1: is getting me even more excited it does. I mean,
Speaker 1: we keep coming back to one point. The NBA made
Speaker 1: a mistake. They gave us a show that they have
Speaker 1: to listen to, and we've decided to take advantage of
Speaker 1: that by pitching them ideas that they probably aren't hearing
Speaker 1: anywhere else because they're so dumb and he we keep
Speaker 1: coming back to this idea that Zion would look great,
Speaker 1: and Overalls has looked great, and Overalls like they need
Speaker 1: to make it so that Zion is like a fully
Speaker 1: formed wrestling character. Yes, like he comes to the gym,
Speaker 1: he checks in, or you know, during the announcement of
Speaker 1: starting lineups, he has tear away overalls, yes, instead of
Speaker 1: a regular warm up, and just like everything, like he
Speaker 1: needs to be the first player with a Carhart deal
Speaker 1: instead of a Nike deal or in addition to a
Speaker 1: Nike deal, and like Mikita power tools, like everything, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. They're like, this guy's an entire lifestyle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like out of the tunnel on a fan boat. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and I think this is the thing I'm I would
Speaker 1: love And another NBA's listening, or at least three people
Speaker 1: are that here's some ideas, right, because I would love
Speaker 1: that everybody can have their own costume based on their vibe,
Speaker 1: like your tarot, your warmups should be whatever you wanted
Speaker 1: to be, Like, you know, based like hitters in the
Speaker 1: in the in Major League Baseball, they have they have
Speaker 1: like music they can walk out too before they go
Speaker 1: to take their at bat, and that gives them a
Speaker 1: moment to sort of let people know their personality. I
Speaker 1: feel like you can tear away afi any outfit you
Speaker 1: want as part of your like sub in sort of celebration.
Speaker 1: You're opening this up to like Kyle Kuzma and Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook as well. Though, Yeah, we're gonna live through those choices. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what the memes would be, The memes
Speaker 1: would make themselves. Okay, I'm making the argument that they
Speaker 1: leave this decision to us. We based on players having
Speaker 1: a strong enough vibe. We are allowed to pick like
Speaker 1: one player per teen that has a strong enough vibe
Speaker 1: that like they are the player that when they're about
Speaker 1: to check in instead of just like going to the
Speaker 1: scorers table, maybe there's like a little bit of a
Speaker 1: smoke bomb effect and then you hear like their warm
Speaker 1: up music before that. Well, you never show this you
Speaker 1: never show the subs bench. It's always a mystery because
Speaker 1: they gotta walk out like the w W E like
Speaker 1: when you sub in, So it's always a mystery. Up
Speaker 1: until that point. It's like, Oh my god, Shrewder has
Speaker 1: come out, and I feel like Shrewder he could wear
Speaker 1: outfit where he wears prosthetic shoulders on his shoulders just
Speaker 1: to accentuate that. And then so when he comes like
Speaker 1: like like just just like like a like a like
Speaker 1: a transformer, like a power Ranger machine getting ready. I
Speaker 1: don't know. See, these are ideas. Yeah, these are all ideas,
Speaker 1: and not all of them are gonna be winners. But
Speaker 1: I mean Shrewder with big shoulders, shoulders upon shoulders, ye,
Speaker 1: shoulders upon shoulders, who would get the custom outfit on
Speaker 1: the MAVs Josh, Like when I feel's got the personality
Speaker 1: that could kind of like give us a little performance,
Speaker 1: but also like it would really feel like again, this
Speaker 1: would be Dinwoody, and I feel like his outfit every
Speaker 1: night would be like an n f T opportunity at
Speaker 1: some at some point like QR code would flash, but
Speaker 1: like every night you gotta be on it, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I love that, so Zion I think we were saying
Speaker 1: before we started recording, we were kind of debating, what
Speaker 1: what do we think the best Zion like the you
Speaker 1: hear the first the opening you know stranger, yeah, and
Speaker 1: and everyone and suddenly the announcers like, oh my, he's
Speaker 1: coming back. They said back, Um, what do we think
Speaker 1: in Zion's warm? It's gotta be country, right, it's gotta
Speaker 1: be swampy, a little swampy or like or he leans
Speaker 1: into Zion being like Zog from Superman, like Kneil before Zion, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know that could work. Yeah, credence is born
Speaker 1: on the Bayou. I think we're born on the bayou
Speaker 1: will work like, um, listeners right in, let us know
Speaker 1: what you think, yeah, and give us other any other
Speaker 1: players who you feel like have a specific enough vibe
Speaker 1: to uh, you know, hold aloft I should wear a wig.
Speaker 1: Lebron wears a wig and you're like, what's he got
Speaker 1: under the wig today? And then the day he comes
Speaker 1: out with the full big head Lebron, that would be
Speaker 1: a that would be a moment for sure. One player
Speaker 1: each team has to has to like have a whole
Speaker 1: wrestling persona. Yeah. But actually, speaking of fun, NBA hair. Uh.
Speaker 1: One thing we do we do need to point out
Speaker 1: was Jimmy Butler, who I think he's winning my heart
Speaker 1: as potentially maybe one of my favorite comedians in the
Speaker 1: league right now. Um with his hair extensions that he
Speaker 1: has been showing us over the course of the summer.
Speaker 1: If you remember, in the beginning, they were like tide
Speaker 1: dollar sign length, sort of like braids that he had.
Speaker 1: Then on day he shows up and insist to everybody
Speaker 1: he doesn't have extensions in with a straight face but
Speaker 1: also having a good sort of a good sense of
Speaker 1: humor about it. I just want to play this clip
Speaker 1: where he's talking to Taylor Rooks about his hair and
Speaker 1: kind of the motivation behind rocking these very long extensions
Speaker 1: that he has. They are not extensions. So y'all leave
Speaker 1: me alone so you can be into the moment you
Speaker 1: decided that this was going to be your style. What
Speaker 1: vibe were you going for with the locks? Um, honestly,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to see how many people want to Internet.
Speaker 1: I would love my hair and it did great, and
Speaker 1: my facial health make sure I still got it. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not gonna keep it though, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie to you, it will be gone sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later. It's his hair is amazing, He's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know he it changes his energy completely, especially
Speaker 1: like with the shaved face too, Like he just he
Speaker 1: looks completely different, phenomenal bit that I'm surprised nobody has
Speaker 1: done to this point. Just wear extensions and insist they're
Speaker 1: not extensions. And somebody were like a fun wig like once,
Speaker 1: I feel like Shock would put a wig on every
Speaker 1: now and then, but it was it was him being
Speaker 1: like big shock with it like here. But like I
Speaker 1: feel like Carlos Boozer took a sharp beat to his
Speaker 1: head several seasons and I don't make anybody loved it
Speaker 1: at that time. I don't. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: got much props for the creativity there or because he
Speaker 1: went he tried to push the techno technological boundaries of
Speaker 1: what we considered hair. You know, we're like ink. I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're considering ink hair quite yet. Which
Speaker 1: is I think his Like these dracts really make it
Speaker 1: look like if tied all the sign was in me
Speaker 1: goes or like he didn't make it, he got kicked
Speaker 1: out of egoes. He's working with a strong hair, like
Speaker 1: a strong hairline to begin with. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: also it's there's no question of like, oh man, what
Speaker 1: is he trying to pull off? You know, right, if
Speaker 1: if Alex Crusso came with the same like look or
Speaker 1: like a long flowing hair, it probably wouldn't work quite
Speaker 1: balding man, no disrespect to bald mom. But he came
Speaker 1: out with a full lace front. I'd be like liviers liviers,
Speaker 1: liviers Alex. But it is like this is bordering on
Speaker 1: character work. He was doing it all summer came back,
Speaker 1: I mean, with with hair length that like we all
Speaker 1: saw him three months ago, four months ago like that
Speaker 1: to claim that it physically he just like focused real
Speaker 1: hard and like grew his hair out in the in
Speaker 1: the last couple of months. Phenomenal bit. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler. Long may last. And then lastly, you want
Speaker 1: should we talk about that that you honest clip? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Which about Courier about the Euro I mean we had
Speaker 1: two good, two good media day moments. One was like
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward he said Steph Curry is the best player
Speaker 1: in the world. Um, after leading the Warriors to the title,
Speaker 1: which feels like the right thing to say, right, it's
Speaker 1: not like a hot take, like I can follow the
Speaker 1: logic of saying like, well, he took his team to
Speaker 1: the end, and that's a that's my easiest sort of
Speaker 1: not like I don't know, not as confrontational or a
Speaker 1: controversial take. It's one of those things that were like,
Speaker 1: if he says like I don't know, I wouldn't blame
Speaker 1: him if he's like, I think I'm the best player
Speaker 1: in the world. But it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: doesn't like roll off the tongue unless you're one of
Speaker 1: those guys who's like truly just loves to remind people.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be perceived as as something you know
Speaker 1: it will be. It will be written in headlines. So
Speaker 1: I think it's like the politically correct move. You honest
Speaker 1: gonna be Marriy Milwaukee after this. And then also so
Speaker 1: the euro basketball is harder for him than the NBA,
Speaker 1: which I think a lot of people were like, oh,
Speaker 1: shots fired like his competitors in the NBA, But when
Speaker 1: you hear the whole clip, it sounds more similar to
Speaker 1: like him just saying that the lanes are a little
Speaker 1: bit more clogged up, and it's and they're more physical
Speaker 1: because they're not as talented as NBA players. It was
Speaker 1: interesting though, I mean it does sound a little more
Speaker 1: similar to playoff basketball the time, and obviously NAMB it's
Speaker 1: way higher. But the space is just you have a
Speaker 1: lot of lanes who drive the ball, a lot of
Speaker 1: lanes to create. It's just they go over these morning
Speaker 1: tens like people pick you up full court double team
Speaker 1: you uh, full court zone, um to man's man to
Speaker 1: the last uh five second double teams from the start
Speaker 1: from zone, and then they go man's man last the
Speaker 1: seconds and then the double team in the post. There's
Speaker 1: no lanes like it's just the more physical Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is why I've been saying that people needed to
Speaker 1: give me a shot in the NBA before they fully
Speaker 1: decided no, just you didn't play college basketball. You weren't
Speaker 1: even that good in high school. Like why, like the
Speaker 1: lanes were going to open up. I definitely might my
Speaker 1: game lent itself more to just that wide open, wide
Speaker 1: open spaces. Wind blown through my hair because I do
Speaker 1: have long hair, and my vision of myself playing in
Speaker 1: the NBA. UM, so you got like long hockey hair
Speaker 1: or something. Trevor Lawrence, right, right right, Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: it's interesting to hear him so be so like unequivocal
Speaker 1: though too, you know where he's like, nah, I like
Speaker 1: I'm playing better because I go when I'm playing in Europe,
Speaker 1: it's such a harder it's just a harder proposition for me,
Speaker 1: Like it opens up for me in the n b A.
Speaker 1: I have to think differently in Europe, and so it's
Speaker 1: a great it's a great way for me to get prepared.
Speaker 1: And I just I'm like, again, I'm only thinking about
Speaker 1: like other European sports, and like it is so tactical,
Speaker 1: like everything is so tactical where it's never just like hey, man,
Speaker 1: get out there, let's do our thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: just put some points on the board. We'll be all right.
Speaker 1: Where it's like, okay, how can we efficiently identify the
Speaker 1: weak points in our opponents game and figure out how
Speaker 1: to exploit those? Well, just playing eking out the margins.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting to see him sort of describe that
Speaker 1: game like that, all right, should we take a break
Speaker 1: and then come back and put our guests Josh under
Speaker 1: on the hot seat under the rapid fire hot seat.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be right back and we're back, and
Speaker 1: it's time for Mr Johns really from Calgary stretching trash, Yeah,
Speaker 1: getting ready. Yeah, open up those knuckles because it's time
Speaker 1: for the rapid fire round of questioning. Now, Josh, we
Speaker 1: are just gonna chest pass you some questions. Don't even think,
Speaker 1: just send the ball right back with your answer. Okay,
Speaker 1: and don't we don't have time to make this like
Speaker 1: you know, just like a slow paced thing with like
Speaker 1: well thought out answers. Just scream them out. Dumb answers preferred.
Speaker 1: Here we go, start the clock down. Jack, You're gonna
Speaker 1: go first or I'm not. Yeah, I'll go first because
Speaker 1: I know we we gotta get down to it unless
Speaker 1: you lets do it. No, uh, Josh, you watched and
Speaker 1: appreciated the ascension of Jalen Bronson with the MAVs for
Speaker 1: several years, So tell us what does this upcoming year
Speaker 1: look like for Bronson in the lead role for the
Speaker 1: New York Knickerbockers. Lots of family time at home, come
Speaker 1: to playoff with dad, will be in the same sting.
Speaker 1: Oh no, hey, that okay, okay? How about this? Can
Speaker 1: the Celtics, whether they're early season storm as they adjust
Speaker 1: to life without Robert Williams because it's about eight to
Speaker 1: twelve weeks out with the knee surgery, or might there
Speaker 1: be a period of adjustment to start this season as
Speaker 1: they also work Malcolm Brogden into the mix. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a period of adjustment with the things that
Speaker 1: you mentioned and also the things that you didn't mention
Speaker 1: that are there happening behind the doors of this time.
Speaker 1: I think absolutely on their wins, total under on their
Speaker 1: wins to m okay alright, okay, okay, um, So you
Speaker 1: heard our dumb pitch for the n b A the
Speaker 1: like players get entrances, one player each team left our
Speaker 1: our podcast, what which player gets it? Give us a
Speaker 1: dumb pitch to then be what what? What's something you'd
Speaker 1: like to see that you think would be entertaining? Rule
Speaker 1: change at it entertainment far um. Find a way to
Speaker 1: reward players for playing in the All Star Game, and
Speaker 1: I don't care how ridiculous it is. You get to
Speaker 1: take the salaries of the players across from you, like
Speaker 1: you're playing for keeps for their salary, like racing for
Speaker 1: pink slips. Find a way to make people play defense
Speaker 1: in the All Star Game. Occasionally just do it, whatever
Speaker 1: it takes, whatever it takes. Right, it's like a huge
Speaker 1: money game. Like actually players can wager or whatever they
Speaker 1: would like each other and then can you do like
Speaker 1: could you do like bigger bets too that might like
Speaker 1: give you an advantage in the postseason or something to
Speaker 1: like if you're trying to like is there even I'm
Speaker 1: really nothing like if you want to if you want
Speaker 1: to mix in a parlay like cards on the way
Speaker 1: home on the flight home. On top of like I'm
Speaker 1: into it, I'm into it. Just those public yeah and Josh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta keep you answers a little bit shorter of
Speaker 1: my man. I just want to first remind you about
Speaker 1: this is a rapid fire segment. What are we underrating
Speaker 1: about the upcoming season? Uh? We talked about the Pelicans
Speaker 1: for five minutes and we didn't talk at all about
Speaker 1: they're playing, and we talked about like Zion's outfits. I
Speaker 1: think like the Pelicans are gonna be in stating this year.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be just like so so so
Speaker 1: good regular season basketball. How deep theyre going? I think
Speaker 1: they're they're only winning or I think they're getting into
Speaker 1: the playoffs and probably not even winning around. But I
Speaker 1: think that team is winning games. I think they're going
Speaker 1: now wow, okay, and you're you're saying that that how
Speaker 1: insane they're gonna be. Is gonna be completely unrelated from
Speaker 1: Zion's fits? And like what, Yeah, that's okay, interesting take,
Speaker 1: interesting take. We'll see how everyone feels about that. Come
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season. Um reminded me in
Speaker 1: nine a month, put it on there on the board.
Speaker 1: All right, which new phases in new places are you
Speaker 1: most looking forward to this year? And do you think
Speaker 1: are gonna gonna make a difference? Most looking forward to
Speaker 1: John Wall? I just I just want to know, man, like,
Speaker 1: does John wall have something that in the tank? Is
Speaker 1: he gonna actually be like an X fractor for the Clippers?
Speaker 1: I have no take either way. I'm just curious, just
Speaker 1: want to see it. And biggest X factor in a
Speaker 1: new place? I don't know, Malcolm Broadden, I guess in
Speaker 1: Boston in the playoffs will be huge. Yeah? Uh? Next up,
Speaker 1: who's gonna be a first time I'll start this season?
Speaker 1: M hm? Tyrese MAXI yeah, okay, tell your son all right?
Speaker 1: And finally, uh Jack or Miles boys, I don't know
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think I'm trying to base you off
Speaker 1: of your your zion suggestions. I don't know, man, I
Speaker 1: don't think I've got I don't think I have enough
Speaker 1: information yet. Like I need to hear a few more
Speaker 1: of these NBA ideas like we we gotta run, we
Speaker 1: gotta run them get you a little bit a part
Speaker 1: on the the and then and then see interrogation text.
Speaker 1: I want to make an informed decision, like I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna hit you with like do you make your bed
Speaker 1: draft day question? But I pH okay, by the way
Speaker 1: it wins separated, I will come completely roll over on
Speaker 1: Miles and tell you anything you want to want to hear.
Speaker 1: Just completely throw this man under the bus, all right, Josh.
Speaker 1: Truly a pleasure, heavy and thank you for coming on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thanks boys. Yeah, um, where can people
Speaker 1: find you? Follow you all that? Because stuff? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Josh Everley, do a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything everywhere on Spotify live folks and chats there and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, thanks Savaniel. All right, and that's gonna do
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