Speaker 1: I don't know if I should if I should just
Speaker 1: start weeping. I mean, I think we should leave this.
Speaker 1: I think this is how the show. I think that
Speaker 1: was the intro of the show. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I should cry or celebrate. But y'all, we do know
Speaker 1: that the season is in full swing. At least the
Speaker 1: number one pick, Paulo ban Caro, made a statement in
Speaker 1: his debut. He looks looks solid. The Pelicans have already
Speaker 1: taken flight, as it were, and Dame time is back,
Speaker 1: and we're joined by none other. Because it be me, me, Me,
Speaker 1: and Timothy Bella on today's episode, I'm Miles Great, and
Speaker 1: I'm Jack O'Brien, and this is Miles and Jack got made.
Speaker 1: I wonder I was seas basketball fans are appreciating my
Speaker 1: sixty minutes impression because I do feel like I'm nailing
Speaker 1: my Leslie Stall and I think I was nailing my
Speaker 1: Missy Elliott. I be me, Me, Me and Timothy reference
Speaker 1: to Timberland. But anyway, with the real Timothy that we
Speaker 1: are with is the wonderful reporter, editor, and author Timothy
Speaker 1: Bella or Tim Can we call you Tim Timothy? Of course,
Speaker 1: Tim's great guys and I have to say that is
Speaker 1: the best intro I've ever gotten, so certainly appreciate that. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're the best this. I don't know if did they
Speaker 1: not tell you that ahead of joining were the we're
Speaker 1: the best podcast in the past space. Yeah, yes, yes, sorry,
Speaker 1: everybody got I think he likes the effect produced when
Speaker 1: people just find out as they're recording the podcast, we're
Speaker 1: the best of this. But um, yeah, so it's great
Speaker 1: to have you. You got a new book which is exciting.
Speaker 1: Barkley a biography, that's what it's called. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a description, that's the actual title. Um, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna dig into that in the second of three quarters
Speaker 1: that we that we do on this show. We call
Speaker 1: him periods, three of them like hockey Star whatever. It's
Speaker 1: the NBA show, and we we we do three periods. Um,
Speaker 1: but we got to get into I am both crying
Speaker 1: from you know, disappointment that my sixers got off to
Speaker 1: a rocky start and Joyce and I don't know which
Speaker 1: is which at sometimes it's just swinging back and forth.
Speaker 1: But it's so good to have basketball back. And there
Speaker 1: are those players, the returning players that we were excited
Speaker 1: about who have looked amazing your zions, Williamson, and then
Speaker 1: there's ones I forgot about, Man, I forgot about damn,
Speaker 1: you know, like I forgot about job. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: And we're going to talk about job because I mean
Speaker 1: that that's never too far from our mind, uh, Timothy,
Speaker 1: for it to fill you. And we did do our
Speaker 1: entire first episode just about John Morant because we were exported. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's worth it. He killed my rockets, dropt like forty
Speaker 1: eight on him, like of course. Sorry. He's also shooting
Speaker 1: six from the three this season, which, like if he's
Speaker 1: already unstoppable in terms of like getting by you, getting
Speaker 1: where he wants and just like burying a shot or
Speaker 1: a image defining dunk um over your head. But now
Speaker 1: if if he's I don't I'm not an analytics guy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say though, I don't expect him to stay
Speaker 1: shooting six from three for the rest of the season. Um,
Speaker 1: but man, he looks good, so of course we will
Speaker 1: just do our requisite owed to John Morant. But I
Speaker 1: mean we're doing it right now. Yeah, I mean, Timothy,
Speaker 1: what what what? What's getting you excited so far? Yeah? Honestly,
Speaker 1: guys like I mentioned I'm a packastan, so I mean
Speaker 1: there's there's some exciting things, but still I and they
Speaker 1: want the last night was like damn it winning, Um,
Speaker 1: so you're getting excited about winding um yeah yeah, and
Speaker 1: health you're rocking your tankini. Yeah, I had to do it.
Speaker 1: Besides that, though, I'm still even though he left, I'm
Speaker 1: still a very big James Harden fan and honstantly, I
Speaker 1: just love seeing him just come back to the level
Speaker 1: that he was in Houston, even if it's only for
Speaker 1: a few games. Who knows if it's actually gonna last.
Speaker 1: About For me, I've always been a hard and backer,
Speaker 1: even in his darkest darkest days, So like it's cool
Speaker 1: seeing him just gotta go off, um and should It's
Speaker 1: just be the Jimmy Jam jam too. I remember in Houston, like,
Speaker 1: oh boy, he's dropping dudes, like he's doing everything. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It does feel like there's some ingredients there for the
Speaker 1: Sixers that they just need to like kind of make
Speaker 1: work together. And I truly believe that they will get
Speaker 1: back to the second round of the playoffs and get
Speaker 1: on ceremoniously. They're rightful place the second round. That's they
Speaker 1: have a Gravitational. Yeah, the second round second. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody talks about Lebron getting to the finals all those
Speaker 1: years in a row. I think by the time, by
Speaker 1: the end of this run, people are gonna be like
Speaker 1: the sixers, Man, what what a run they had of
Speaker 1: second second round exits consistent? If anything, it's like the
Speaker 1: saddest version of a turner. Stay right, top eight, you're
Speaker 1: really definitely top eight. Um. Yeah, let's talk polo though.
Speaker 1: I mean we we saw flashes of it in the
Speaker 1: Summer League. I think everybody likes to throw cold water
Speaker 1: anytime I get too excited about the Summer League, as
Speaker 1: I want to do. But it was it was good
Speaker 1: to see it in live NBA action. Putting up in
Speaker 1: his debut game, first game and the n b A
Speaker 1: I feel like I was starting to play in the NBA,
Speaker 1: my first game would be more of a you know,
Speaker 1: feeling it out situation, the first day, first day of college,
Speaker 1: first day of college. You don't want to go too hard.
Speaker 1: You don't want to show them all your all your
Speaker 1: cards and not gonna raise your hand to answer every question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe this is a critique, Palo. Maybe don't don't put
Speaker 1: it all out there right away. But this man put
Speaker 1: up twenty seven nine boards, five assists, two blocks, first
Speaker 1: rookie to go five and five in a debut since
Speaker 1: Lebron joined three other players to ever do five and
Speaker 1: nine in their debut, along with Grant Hill, Willie Anderson
Speaker 1: and Harp Ron Harper. So, I don't know that this
Speaker 1: is gonna be exciting. The Orlando's uh, I think they
Speaker 1: were they started going three, but they're just a lot
Speaker 1: of fun to watch, and he's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun to watch. He makes me sad at every
Speaker 1: time if I see him, Because for Starry in March,
Speaker 1: up until the NBA Draft, I was con fans he
Speaker 1: was going to be a rocket, Like that was the
Speaker 1: guy I wanted. That's it. I don't care about the others.
Speaker 1: And I was shocked if he was rejected third and
Speaker 1: then what would kill me about our fourth draft? Um
Speaker 1: My heart shattered at It's been a great year for me,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but that was definitely not my
Speaker 1: best moment. Yeah, it's like it's tough because it was
Speaker 1: one of those things where you're like, wait, everybody else
Speaker 1: is wrong and I'm right, and then you find out, oh,
Speaker 1: they were just lying to me. They're not wrong. They
Speaker 1: knew he was the best player, yeah the whole time.
Speaker 1: Super producer Jabari pointed out that this dunk that is
Speaker 1: kind of the highlight, the de facto highlight that I
Speaker 1: think people have seen from Paulo's first game, uh is
Speaker 1: reminds me of Tom Chambers, which is for the old
Speaker 1: heads who uh not like the old head NBA tape fans,
Speaker 1: the old head video game players. If you remember the
Speaker 1: game Bulls versus lakers Um, where each player had like
Speaker 1: a move that they could do and write like magic.
Speaker 1: If you got magic going down the lane, he would
Speaker 1: go behind his back and do like a little behind
Speaker 1: the back scoop shot that was basically unstoppable once you
Speaker 1: got to go, and it was like the Fatality and
Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat. This dude completely re enacted the Tom Chambers
Speaker 1: and and I think it's one of Tom chambers most
Speaker 1: famous dunks also, but it is like kind of a
Speaker 1: one handed like he cocks it and puts it down
Speaker 1: and then dunks over over somebody in a somewhat embarrassing fashion.
Speaker 1: Carol's gonna take it, fly over the top of Joseph
Speaker 1: and draw the foul. You don't put that on your
Speaker 1: highlight reel. You didn't see it. You're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of this. It does seem like I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: overcome this minor obstacle in my way kind of energy
Speaker 1: where look, I get it, it's, uh, you're just skying
Speaker 1: over people. But I it is really nice to see
Speaker 1: like the continuity from getting excited from his college performances,
Speaker 1: uh preseason and now and just playing so man, just
Speaker 1: so like he's you can tell he's having fun and
Speaker 1: he's so he's just aggressive. I just love to see
Speaker 1: him just dunking it NonStop because you know, right now,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm definitely shifting gears into more neutral territory to
Speaker 1: to appreciate all the basketball bounty that is in front
Speaker 1: of me and not get involved into the tribalism of
Speaker 1: just you know, supporting my one team beneath absolutely leading podcasters.
Speaker 1: You know, we've had a lot of guests on him
Speaker 1: who who have been like, you know, I I remember
Speaker 1: the day is when I was a fan. Now now
Speaker 1: I'm like too much in it, too close to the game.
Speaker 1: The I've I've had the fandom drilled out of me. Uh,
Speaker 1: and now I'm just like a Socrates of basketball just
Speaker 1: standing back and like just seeing the matrix go by
Speaker 1: and the Sixers the way the Sixers started the season.
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna speak for anybody else who might
Speaker 1: co host this podcast with me, but looking at that
Speaker 1: outlook and being like, I think I'm gonna thinking there, yeah,
Speaker 1: they got something. I'm no longer a fan of any
Speaker 1: particular team. Yeah. One quick question. Do you think Holo
Speaker 1: Conna hold off that Donk and Tom Chambers shorts though,
Speaker 1: because the shorts were very different back in the day. Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's a great question. Jordan's pool was my
Speaker 1: great hope for somebody who was going to because I remember,
Speaker 1: like when he was in college, he was wearing the
Speaker 1: Stockton like nine eighties basketball shorts in college and then
Speaker 1: he I think he's scam to the pressure. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's how how we put the tents that one,
Speaker 1: but he yeah, it is now baby Shakespeare of basketball podcasting. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know now he has the tights underneath, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's not as strong a statement when he
Speaker 1: goes out there in the short shorts, but it's there.
Speaker 1: Somebody could come into the league rocking the shortest of shorts.
Speaker 1: And you know what this is to producer Jabari is asking,
Speaker 1: is this our dumb recommendation of the week? Um? Tim,
Speaker 1: We are in shorts ownership with the NBA, so they
Speaker 1: do have to listen to this. So this is where
Speaker 1: we seed them with incredibly stupid ideas. With that said,
Speaker 1: in fashion, we're already embracing the short shorts again, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like for for swim trunks and
Speaker 1: things like that, and I feel like, why not just
Speaker 1: come out and show off your quads, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Those professional athletes let the mesmerize the people
Speaker 1: with those thighs. I saw Jalen Green in the last season.
Speaker 1: He was rocking on short shorts. Alright, cool, alright, Jalen
Speaker 1: Green might be our and just slowly each game, just
Speaker 1: keep taking him up a little bit, just the seat
Speaker 1: just getting higher and higher until people are like, wait,
Speaker 1: wait a second, like those is wearing volleyball cut off?
Speaker 1: What are they doing? Think this actually keeping track of this?
Speaker 1: There's got to be someone who's keeping track of like
Speaker 1: who wears very short shorts? League? Yeah, I mean, but yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody needs to take who's wearing short shorts in the
Speaker 1: league this week. Um, so this isn't necessarily a pitch
Speaker 1: for the NBA. Although Adam Silver, can you know, when
Speaker 1: he's kicking it with Jalen Green, he could just be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I heard a wild idea and actually, actually, you know what,
Speaker 1: Commissioner Silver, you can take it as your own. You
Speaker 1: could say I had a while idea the other day.
Speaker 1: I steal ideas from other podcasts all the time, So
Speaker 1: just yeah, another thing. So I'd put Palo in the
Speaker 1: category of like things we were appropriately excited about, right,
Speaker 1: like we were talking about Pelicans. I think we were
Speaker 1: appropriately excited about. Although it is tough too, I know,
Speaker 1: like as we're recording, having zion and ingroum out because
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that's the thing. We're just like healthy, healthy, healthy,
Speaker 1: healthy man. When they when they had everybody going, Willie
Speaker 1: Green was stirring the soup, making all the flavors work together.
Speaker 1: The play that got me most excited was actually the
Speaker 1: Herb Jones clothes out block. Yeah on Kevin Durant, like
Speaker 1: a seven footer who has one of the highest releases
Speaker 1: in the league, and he just came from the paint
Speaker 1: and blocked it. It was pretty I mean, where did
Speaker 1: he take? I guess he's just that long, huh. Like
Speaker 1: It's not like he was really necessarily covering horizontal distance,
Speaker 1: but just him closing out and getting vertical bowl. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe like that it was blocked until I
Speaker 1: was like, oh wait, that was so short. Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: doesn't usually miss, but yeah, not like that. Yeah, Durant
Speaker 1: blocked away by her. You had to do hardy did
Speaker 1: to block Kevin Durant jump shot. I just loved how
Speaker 1: he didn't stop. He just went and he was in
Speaker 1: full control and it just didn't care that, you know,
Speaker 1: one of a dozen best players and the game's history
Speaker 1: is putting up and shout at the quarter He's like, no, man,
Speaker 1: I got this. Yeah. Yeah. That was the other thing
Speaker 1: that made it kind of hard to catch at first,
Speaker 1: because he wasn't like, oh my god, what did I
Speaker 1: just like just what, puts his head into his hands
Speaker 1: and starts weeping like I would have. He goes to
Speaker 1: the ref He's like, can you can you stop the game?
Speaker 1: Can I get the ball? Can I get the ball
Speaker 1: real quick? Can I take that? Can we get a
Speaker 1: new ball? I want to take home. I would have
Speaker 1: appreciated that. Though Katie had a good block later in
Speaker 1: the game, block brandon Ingram at the rim, which Katie
Speaker 1: sneaky good shop blocker has been in the past. That
Speaker 1: was one of those like Looney Tunes blocks where Ingram
Speaker 1: goes up to hands like and I'm dunking, and then
Speaker 1: when his hand sits in the rim, it's like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Kevin. Kevin holding the ball now rejected that, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but good luck to you. Zion looked good
Speaker 1: when he was in there, and hopefully he's able to,
Speaker 1: you know, bounce back from the contusion. But all right,
Speaker 1: should should we take a break and then get to
Speaker 1: the things we were probably underrating? Yes, I think we should.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do that. We'll be right back. And
Speaker 1: we're back. And we were underrating John Morant, even though
Speaker 1: we devoted a whole episode to him last season. Um,
Speaker 1: it seems like it would be hard for us to
Speaker 1: under age John Morant. No, not not at this point.
Speaker 1: I say I was right about the Celtics. I thought
Speaker 1: everybody was underrating how good the Celtics were gonna look
Speaker 1: coming out of the gate. That Jayson Tatum was going
Speaker 1: to be a legit m v P candidate, and uh
Speaker 1: so I feel good about that. But jah, you know
Speaker 1: with everybody like there was a lot of Sixers take
Speaker 1: the Sixers might be the best team in the East.
Speaker 1: Like there's just all these like fun takes. You know, people,
Speaker 1: what what's gonna happen with the Lakers? Who's gonna the Grizzlies. Well,
Speaker 1: they'll probably be about the same as last year, so
Speaker 1: we can just move on. And John Moran was just
Speaker 1: in the dark getting stronger. Yeah, who would have known?
Speaker 1: Who could have known? Yeah, I mean there was another block.
Speaker 1: It wasn't as good as the one where he just
Speaker 1: like flew up and defied the laws of physics and
Speaker 1: caught that layup in the ins, but it was it
Speaker 1: was so he just he got he got up so high.
Speaker 1: Should we should we play that clip? It sounds like
Speaker 1: wrestling coming the other way? I mean he Okay, I
Speaker 1: gotta say I was saying this before, especially watching that
Speaker 1: NETS game, It's like it's like Spider Man is playing
Speaker 1: on the court. Yeah, it is. Watching That's that is
Speaker 1: what he most evokes. That's that's a great evokes Spider
Speaker 1: Man because in a way they're mortal beings moving at
Speaker 1: their normal pace, and he just has like this extra step,
Speaker 1: this little bit of bounce to everything. That ended that
Speaker 1: like audacity to or audacity as we've trademarked it. Just
Speaker 1: taking certain shots going up for boards. You're like, bro, yours,
Speaker 1: how tall are you? Sir? You know what? I forgot
Speaker 1: your Spider Man? So Peter Jarker, keep doing money blocks
Speaker 1: a shot. It's the audacity of Nope, yeah, thank you, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I couldn't stand the met Grosses for long time. I
Speaker 1: just thought they were just flat out boar and then
Speaker 1: here comes Spider Man in here, and I'm like, oh damn,
Speaker 1: that's appointment point and viewing now just every night with him.
Speaker 1: It's unreal. It's just a shot in the arms that
Speaker 1: the entire city and franchise right there. And he did
Speaker 1: drop forty nine and thirty one minutes on your team.
Speaker 1: So I guess we gotta ask you, how did it feel?
Speaker 1: What it would it looked like from your vantage point.
Speaker 1: I was at a friend's wedding, so I was kind
Speaker 1: of the drunk, so I was like a five, right,
Speaker 1: get another perspective. Yeah, I'm like, all right, that's probably
Speaker 1: going to happen at at least another fifteen times to
Speaker 1: the Rockets this season. So if Traps once put Jaw
Speaker 1: a couple of times, but Jaw, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be shocked anymore. And the stroke looks smooth the like
Speaker 1: he had a shot I think the nets of pool
Speaker 1: within six with a minute left and the fourth and
Speaker 1: he had the ball at the top of the key.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like when when he was like hitting
Speaker 1: threes last season where they were giving it to him
Speaker 1: because they just didn't want him to like blow by them,
Speaker 1: get in the lane, like there's any thing you can
Speaker 1: do about that. But they were guarding him and he
Speaker 1: was dribbling and like pulled up off the dribble and
Speaker 1: hit like a deep three like that was, you know,
Speaker 1: just ice cold and it was fun. Yeah, it looked
Speaker 1: it just looked smooth, like this is supposed to be happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you always let him take that shot, right, yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: not this season apparently it's like damn and then yeah,
Speaker 1: adding that to his game, now, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: And k D who as we talked about on this
Speaker 1: show last year, Kevin Durant, he has a really good
Speaker 1: eye for young players. He was on a podcast years
Speaker 1: ago when Joe was still in college and they were like,
Speaker 1: who do you who do you see out there? Like
Speaker 1: what do you think Zion, what do you think of?
Speaker 1: And he was like, there's this guy from Murray State,
Speaker 1: John Morant. It was before he like kind of exploded
Speaker 1: onto the scene in the n C Double A Tournament.
Speaker 1: He was like, keep an eye up for John Morant
Speaker 1: and he was right, and he he recently said ahead
Speaker 1: of their game, he's the most marketable guy in our league,
Speaker 1: the face of our league going forward. So many kids
Speaker 1: are inspired by what he does that is coming from
Speaker 1: the other like one of the other faces of the league.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty cool. And then so one that I
Speaker 1: think I I felt like I totally missed on in
Speaker 1: the sense of just like things that I was excited
Speaker 1: about going into the season. Damian Willard Dame time has returned. Um.
Speaker 1: This also reminded me because I always used the example
Speaker 1: of Clay As as like the most kind of locked
Speaker 1: in and uncanny, like locked in shooting performance you've ever seen,
Speaker 1: when like the ball, you know they're just throwing it
Speaker 1: up in the you know, the balls going in like
Speaker 1: before the ball even leaves their hand. But I think
Speaker 1: Dame has like the most times where I've just seen
Speaker 1: him do that where it's literally like Dame time and
Speaker 1: the game is over and there's nothing you can do
Speaker 1: to stop what is happening to you. And he he is,
Speaker 1: he's locked in this season. He looks awesome. He looks
Speaker 1: so fast, his explosiveness is there. He's shooting threes at
Speaker 1: his you know, he he had an offshooting year, uh
Speaker 1: last year, and you know he's he's just back and
Speaker 1: looks amazing and it's like getting to the line at
Speaker 1: a record rate and just like doing all the things
Speaker 1: you would want. And the Portland Trailblazers are the only
Speaker 1: team in the West with a four no record, which
Speaker 1: is pretty pretty wild and not not what a lot
Speaker 1: of people had coming into the season. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: a lot of the a lot of the Blazers were
Speaker 1: looking good, you know, like Cam from Me, Anthony Simon's yeah,
Speaker 1: and Jeremy Grant too. I was just like, oh, you
Speaker 1: know that I watched that game the Lakers against him,
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, there a lot of people are
Speaker 1: doing pretty well right now. But yeah, Damian Lillard, I'm
Speaker 1: always just like, sir, why are you sold loyal? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Please please, either of you got the chance to see
Speaker 1: his pregame shooting routine or anything, because I know everyone
Speaker 1: talks about step and it's incredible, but if you'd ever
Speaker 1: get the chance, you just watched Dame's pregame routine. He
Speaker 1: just goes so hard and I feel like he shoots
Speaker 1: from every possible spot on a court. He gets into
Speaker 1: a real sweat ahead of time too. And I was
Speaker 1: just in awe when I saw him. It's amazing. His
Speaker 1: step back is so mean, this step up violent, it's
Speaker 1: so violent, it's so impossible to go. That was also
Speaker 1: hard fan that was That was a moment too. I
Speaker 1: think we're watching that where like Russ took a shot
Speaker 1: on one end and then Dame comes down just fishious
Speaker 1: step back for three and you're lea, yes, he was
Speaker 1: a tough one, yeah, or beautiful or beautiful because I
Speaker 1: am a neutral, so I said I would like that.
Speaker 1: I embraced that. Yeah, But like Portlands can just fill
Speaker 1: it up, just buckets on buckets on buckets real quick.
Speaker 1: They were I think losing when I checked their score
Speaker 1: yesterday and then you know, checked it again and they
Speaker 1: were up, you know, so Simmons is kind of the
Speaker 1: younger guy that you've been hearing for years now that
Speaker 1: like they won't trade this guy, so like that they're
Speaker 1: not like pumping them up there, just like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't don't even talk to us about Simmons. And everyone
Speaker 1: was like, maybe that was a mistake. We don't know.
Speaker 1: He looked like decent at times last year. He looked
Speaker 1: really good at times last year. But he put up
Speaker 1: i think twenty two of his twenty nine points and
Speaker 1: a five and a half minute burst last night, and
Speaker 1: they're just the Blazers are exciting. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Blazers fans. Shout out to Celtics fans. Also, they look
Speaker 1: just as look like they didn't miss the beat. Always
Speaker 1: like to see an anthrony doing well in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, should we do our underrated performance of the week? Yes,
Speaker 1: our news segment, because sometimes you sleep on stuff and
Speaker 1: you miss things. Well not now. Now we have to
Speaker 1: take the time to point out some fantastic underrated performers
Speaker 1: of the week in our new segment and got to
Speaker 1: highlight some of the best performances that definitely flew under
Speaker 1: the radar. This is just Jabari sees all he's an
Speaker 1: all seeing Our producer, Jabari Davis wanted like an all
Speaker 1: seeing basketball mind. And yeah he's like san, Yes, he's
Speaker 1: very much and like just the same, just as just
Speaker 1: as similar. But so these are these are some performances
Speaker 1: I personally had missed over the past week. Brooklyn's Nick
Speaker 1: Clexton put up a nineteen eleven and four blocks in
Speaker 1: his win over Toronto. Well on the around a side,
Speaker 1: Precious a Chewa had ten points and and this is
Speaker 1: where I am performatively taking off my gelasses and putting
Speaker 1: them back on and rubbing my eyes twenty two rebounds
Speaker 1: off the bench to in a win over the Heat. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Charlotte's Nick Richards put up ale and two
Speaker 1: blocks off the bench and a win over the Hawks.
Speaker 1: So you know, all you daily fantasy players out there,
Speaker 1: it's got that. Yeah. And also I think just as
Speaker 1: a team got to mention the Jazz because I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's check in with that project and they're three and
Speaker 1: one right now, and I was like, yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: y'all were supposed to, yeah, not do so good. Well, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder if any of the players are saying that
Speaker 1: as they're beating them. They're like hey, like, hey, hey, Laurie, Man,
Speaker 1: what's happening? You wouldn't tell you whiling right now? What
Speaker 1: happened is Danny ains know about this. You're in so
Speaker 1: much trouble or you were in so much trouble with
Speaker 1: plays the long game. You know he plays the long
Speaker 1: We've seen him do it. Oh man, all right, So
Speaker 1: we do want to get to your big news. The
Speaker 1: Barkley bio drops November one, just a few days. How
Speaker 1: are you doing? Is this year like three hundred interview
Speaker 1: in the last couple of days. No, this this is
Speaker 1: really my first day of just really going hard. And
Speaker 1: I mentioned this, but I've also got to a seven
Speaker 1: unfold son too, so I am doing these interviews. Also
Speaker 1: 'm making sure he stays alive too, so like today,
Speaker 1: but it's going great so far though, So I don't know,
Speaker 1: like what what are the story because this is this
Speaker 1: is a legendary dude, right, Like, how do you approach
Speaker 1: a biography? What are the stories that you came away
Speaker 1: with where you were like wow, like I did not
Speaker 1: did not know? Like there there's one with a musician
Speaker 1: that I'm told is very popular named Madonna. Well, I
Speaker 1: I don't even yes. That feels like if you had
Speaker 1: like a celebrity fridge magnets. He just Charles Barkley, Madonnadonna,
Speaker 1: Godzilla and break dancing. What happened between Charles Barkley and Madonna.
Speaker 1: So it was one of those situations when Charles had
Speaker 1: separated from his longtime wife Mo and it also had
Speaker 1: come at two point in time where Charles was the
Speaker 1: type of peak of his power. This was the ninety
Speaker 1: three season, his first in Phoenix, his and the p season,
Speaker 1: and they are in the title of this playoff run
Speaker 1: that eventually attended in NBA Finals. Well, right around the
Speaker 1: times playoffs startup, Madonna is spotted attending one of Charles
Speaker 1: His games in l A with our Citio Hall and O'Donnell.
Speaker 1: It's just to paint a picture here, pure nineties Big
Speaker 1: nine energy all the way. Are we were like three
Speaker 1: of the most nineties people out there. We should do this, right,
Speaker 1: Let's just like kick it at a Lakers game, right,
Speaker 1: that's great. I'm thinking like a Madonna and Rosie o'donald
Speaker 1: kicking it because like they just did Ale. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, I think they were friends before a league
Speaker 1: of their own. I think I know that that like
Speaker 1: that friendship was was out there. Okay, okay. They even
Speaker 1: had this magazine back and forth that they did in
Speaker 1: which most O'donnald asked Donna at one point, if you
Speaker 1: had a choice between this guy, this guy and Charles Barkley,
Speaker 1: who would you marry? Who would you date? And she said,
Speaker 1: without hesitation, Charles Barkley, And she said, maybe joking leads
Speaker 1: that Charles Barkley is a god. So the affinities she
Speaker 1: had at four Chuck, who was very public at this
Speaker 1: point in time, and actually it was so public that
Speaker 1: they were actually spotted out to dinner in Phoenix one night,
Speaker 1: and I noticed because actually talked to the owner of
Speaker 1: the restaurant who was like, yep, that's Madonna, and Charles
Speaker 1: actually introduced her as such. And they were also spotted
Speaker 1: out at a nightclub, and there were just a bunch
Speaker 1: of rumors that they were dating, and Chuck denied it
Speaker 1: every time. The timing of it is really interested because
Speaker 1: she actually called him during the Western Conference Finals right
Speaker 1: before Game seven against Seattle, and that following day, Charles
Speaker 1: has perhaps the best game he ever has forty four points,
Speaker 1: twenty four boards, game seven, win off to the finals,
Speaker 1: and just like everyone the whole time is like, is
Speaker 1: he friends with her? Is he seen her? A dave?
Speaker 1: They said no. It even got to a point or
Speaker 1: Charles said that, um, his mother in law at the
Speaker 1: time had a heart attack, and he said it was
Speaker 1: because of the stress and these stories surrounding these allegations,
Speaker 1: So like it was a really heavy, heavy point in
Speaker 1: his life, his career. That would be kind of forget
Speaker 1: about now And can you imagine to something like that
Speaker 1: happened now, like in this age of social media and
Speaker 1: memes and how that would just never go away. It
Speaker 1: would be like I'm trying to think, like, I guess Lebron, No,
Speaker 1: maybe not Lebron, who who's like a player of that magnitude?
Speaker 1: Maybe Durant? Who who? Like, is there an artist like
Speaker 1: j Lo? Is that whoo Jack? Come on, get get
Speaker 1: with the times, man. I mean Madonna wasn't like new
Speaker 1: on the on the scene and right, That's why I'm
Speaker 1: trying to come up with like people who are iconic
Speaker 1: and established Beyonce maybe I don't know, just like imagine
Speaker 1: James Harden and Taylor Swift, Yeah, something like that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they've forget about this. And then a year later, Madonna
Speaker 1: has her infamous interview on Hetterman Show in which she
Speaker 1: drops the F bomb like you know, fifteen seventeen times,
Speaker 1: and during the course of the interview, Hetterman actually asked
Speaker 1: her about if she was friends with Charles Barker. Then
Speaker 1: she said that he was in capable of being friends
Speaker 1: with anyone, just extremely uncomfortable within while. Yeah, so she
Speaker 1: just even a year half of that uh oubject just
Speaker 1: kept coming up. Wow, you can't you can't really even
Speaker 1: contain him. That's how I would have taken that if
Speaker 1: I was Charles Barkley, he can't really be friends, he
Speaker 1: can't be friends with anyone. Is like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's like, first of all, wow, he still have feelings
Speaker 1: for me. Second of all, yeah, I like it. That
Speaker 1: was at the time when she was a secretly eighty
Speaker 1: two pac too, and that came out like years later,
Speaker 1: So like if a lot happening in her life at
Speaker 1: that point in time and time A big fan of
Speaker 1: first so it's like, yeah, it's a lot, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean great taste. Um so, and then inside the NBA,
Speaker 1: which is I think, what a lot of the younger
Speaker 1: people kind of know him for man even still like
Speaker 1: that line it's like crazy in a game seven, is yeah,
Speaker 1: the fact that that isn't the thing that like everybody
Speaker 1: talked about and people are still like, well, he didn't
Speaker 1: win a title. It's like he put up preaty four
Speaker 1: and twenty four in a Game seven of the conference finals.
Speaker 1: The man could do things in in the clutch. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: But so now he's known for being just like one
Speaker 1: of the best TV personalities. Maybe I don't know, like
Speaker 1: in the game anywhere. So, like, what's the backstory on
Speaker 1: how the inside the NBA came together? Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: kind of this open secret that he was always going
Speaker 1: to go into broadcasting after he was done. It was
Speaker 1: just the matter to win. And he started tempting at
Speaker 1: his retirement from basketball starting to nine four and so
Speaker 1: so if if this went on, this tease went on
Speaker 1: for like six seasons before he finally stepped away after
Speaker 1: two thousand, um so everyone thought and recognized that he
Speaker 1: would end up on NBC, which had the NBA rights
Speaker 1: at the time, which was the standard for or NBA
Speaker 1: programming right up until Turner. Sorry to actually get more
Speaker 1: of these games, and their head at the time wanted
Speaker 1: to make a run at Charles, even if it was unlikely,
Speaker 1: and they had this mutual friend who set up this
Speaker 1: dinner which turned into this legendary hours long dinner with
Speaker 1: a you know, like food, cigars, everything. And when Charles
Speaker 1: got back, he and pitiedly could not sleep that night,
Speaker 1: talked to his agent. He's like, I have to sleep
Speaker 1: on it. He didn't sleep. Um And then early that
Speaker 1: following morning he told pick ever saw his friend and
Speaker 1: the NBC Sports giant that he was going to Turner.
Speaker 1: And I think it's surprised everyone I know. When I
Speaker 1: spoke with Kevin Harland, he was like, the prospect at
Speaker 1: the Charles coming here seems so distant and in such
Speaker 1: a launch shot that I didn't want to take it seriously.
Speaker 1: Didn't happened, and he and others said that it just
Speaker 1: changed how every one of view Turner at point in time,
Speaker 1: and from the moment he got there, he clearly did
Speaker 1: change things, and he really did open up things for
Speaker 1: how studio shows go. UM so have tried, uh class
Speaker 1: have failed to applicate that. And he's open up a
Speaker 1: ton of opportunities for a thought of people Like when
Speaker 1: I spoke with Kalen Rose, he told me that that
Speaker 1: he would not be on ESPN now if Chuck had
Speaker 1: not done that con turner and showing people that this
Speaker 1: can be done at a high double. You can be funny,
Speaker 1: we can talk about things that are not just basketball,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be okay. I mean that is
Speaker 1: that is truly like thank god things happened that way,
Speaker 1: because like it's easy to forget now, but like there
Speaker 1: was a huge difference between like what you could get
Speaker 1: away with on NBC versus what you could get away
Speaker 1: with on like a cable like not even like one
Speaker 1: of the top cable channels, but I guess, I guess
Speaker 1: it is one of the top cable channels. But there
Speaker 1: were so many I had nitro man right, So like
Speaker 1: the fact that he went to not one of the
Speaker 1: networks where he would have had to deal with, you know,
Speaker 1: a legacy and uh, you know, you just wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been like the networks is like Bob Costas and stuff,
Speaker 1: like they're not gonna leave it baggy and just be
Speaker 1: like let's just let Chuck be Chuck and like kind
Speaker 1: of invent like podcast vibes in the process. Because like
Speaker 1: that's really what is the closest thing that we had
Speaker 1: the podcast back then, which was just like them seeming
Speaker 1: like they were chilling being honest about being honest about
Speaker 1: like their shortcomings, being like I don't know, I didn't
Speaker 1: really watch it that like you know, like when you're
Speaker 1: not mad about that either, because you're more just in
Speaker 1: awe of like hearing this sort of the sincere interactions
Speaker 1: between these guys. Yeah, I wonder if that was like
Speaker 1: his instinct in that moment or if it was just
Speaker 1: like that good of a meal that he was like, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm going to eat well if I go to Turner
Speaker 1: was just like what did they tell you? He's like,
Speaker 1: I forget, man, But the potatoes that they had and
Speaker 1: I don't know what the dishes called, but they were
Speaker 1: creamy and mashy. This all sounds so good. I gotta
Speaker 1: make the so yeah, it's just yeah, it's true though,
Speaker 1: because speaking with Bob Cosas, pat Riley, dr J had
Speaker 1: a storm people who were NBC at point times they
Speaker 1: all said that Chuck went there, he could not be
Speaker 1: the same guy. It was too straight placed, he was
Speaker 1: too buy the book, um, and sometimes it was just
Speaker 1: very boring too for being honest. Honestly, the same could
Speaker 1: be said about T N. Teeth and Turner before Chuck,
Speaker 1: when it was just Ernie and Kenny. They were both
Speaker 1: very good, but it was not exciting. It was it
Speaker 1: was good, but nowhere near they are now where you know,
Speaker 1: this guy ducked into the Hall of Fame for that show,
Speaker 1: which is unheard of. Right, Yeah, yeah, man, off the
Speaker 1: strength of your show being so they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: what's so good? That's how much joy you've given us.
Speaker 1: Super producer an A hosnie A. She's one of the
Speaker 1: producers of our other show, The Daily's Like Ice. I
Speaker 1: watched her become a fan of the n B a
Speaker 1: through just being a fan of Inside the NBA, and
Speaker 1: she was just like, that show is so good that
Speaker 1: I am now watching games to know what they're talking
Speaker 1: about when they're talking about the it's a gateway show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, because there is. I think it's just that
Speaker 1: level of sincerity behind it. It's like, yeah, Charles Barkley
Speaker 1: trying to do a very polished version of what on
Speaker 1: air pundit is is not as interesting as merely just
Speaker 1: letting people embrace who they are and just taking that
Speaker 1: because that's truly that's the magic. Isn't even like, well,
Speaker 1: what's the secret. It's like we just let people on
Speaker 1: as that and work. It's just been cooking for so long.
Speaker 1: And and thankfully short after Shock joined he found himself too,
Speaker 1: because people at this kind of but when Shaq first joined,
Speaker 1: he was trying to be ESPN Shack instead of like
Speaker 1: myself and right, yeah, exactly, instead of the guy who
Speaker 1: was in the Shacks pedition, you know, pulling up at
Speaker 1: pickup games in l as being a real regular guy.
Speaker 1: Angelina's remember that phase of Shock just being check october
Speaker 1: Fest Shock. You know that's another Angelina local reference. But
Speaker 1: there's ah, yeah, there's a Horror Night now and Long
Speaker 1: Beach that is Shock themed and like Shock shows up
Speaker 1: in DJs there. So Jack is really a force of nature.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the fact that that show was able to
Speaker 1: make itself roomy enough to contain that force of nature
Speaker 1: like a like a blimp hanger containing containing cloud um,
Speaker 1: that was poetry. Let's take a quick break. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back with Rabbid Fire and we're back and Miles,
Speaker 1: you know what time it is? Man? Mm hmmm, you do, right,
Speaker 1: it's time. Yes, like four No, no, I mean like
Speaker 1: we missed it by three minutes. Oh this guy, madam. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's time for the rapid fire round of questions. Now, Timothy,
Speaker 1: rapid fire round questions. I don't know if you've always
Speaker 1: done that, but I like that being the name of
Speaker 1: it because it's very um yeah, and as if there's
Speaker 1: another round of questions that were less rapid. Look, don't
Speaker 1: pick up part the just just let me be Miles. Okay,
Speaker 1: we just learned. Let Chuck beat Chuck. Let Miles be Miles.
Speaker 1: I'll be Bob Costas Timothy Bella. It is time for
Speaker 1: the rapid fire round of questioning. I changed it even
Speaker 1: that time. Now this is the fastest segment in sports podcasting, nay,
Speaker 1: all of podcasting. We're gonna ask you a question. You
Speaker 1: just respond with your first instinct answer. Do not extend
Speaker 1: your answer. Keep it quick, and we will hold you
Speaker 1: accountable even if Jack or I continue to blow viate
Speaker 1: and extend it because the fastest moment. Obviously we know
Speaker 1: that Jack, we know we let's go exactly. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, and Jack, you already you know obviously we
Speaker 1: know how important it is to keep this segment moving obviously,
Speaker 1: so of course, let's not dawdle any further shot. Wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me get man. All right, my thought
Speaker 1: my cup of noodles was done. Okay, here we go. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go start the clock. That's right. The rapid fire
Speaker 1: round of questions begins. Uh do you want to go first? Uh? Sure,
Speaker 1: go all right, Timothy. What is the biggest surprise so
Speaker 1: far in the early going? Is it the Jazz coming
Speaker 1: out and you know, winning games? Is it the Blazers
Speaker 1: going four? And oh? Is it the Lakers? The Sixers?
Speaker 1: Where where where are you at? I go Jazz? And uh,
Speaker 1: every time I see Danny Andrew's face, let's looks stunned.
Speaker 1: I think that kind of sums it up. So yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely the Jazz. I'm feeling kind of I'm feeling like
Speaker 1: true Major League vibes, like the movie Major League, like
Speaker 1: where they have They're all just like we're gonna win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, these players got a lot of heart,
Speaker 1: but that's about it. And then look what's happening. They're
Speaker 1: putting up big numbers. I'm sorry, we have to keep
Speaker 1: this going. Next question, Timothy, Indiana rookie Benedict Mathern joined
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller as the only two Pacers rookies to ever
Speaker 1: score twenty plus in consecutive games off the bench. Between
Speaker 1: Haliburton and Mathern, has Indiana found the next Pacers stars
Speaker 1: or might this make them more likely to make a
Speaker 1: deal to clear even more space for them to shine
Speaker 1: similar predicament. They're like, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. And this
Speaker 1: is a Lakers fan leading question where they're like, should
Speaker 1: they just like, I don't know everybody else on a
Speaker 1: fire sale, You're you're you're putting that complexion on there.
Speaker 1: I'm just but Loki, I am. I am curious as
Speaker 1: a Laker fan though. Two that just is a coincidence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can deal everybody else to except those two. I
Speaker 1: really do think they've got something cooking. Um is a
Speaker 1: case of Mathern. He killed Mike's two Frogs and porch
Speaker 1: madness last year, so um, I perspectively hate him, but
Speaker 1: he's spent happing so he's great. Yeah, but objectively got
Speaker 1: to understand, Okay, he's got sometimes he's good. He's good.
Speaker 1: He was the other player in the summer League that
Speaker 1: everybody was like, watch out now, Um, all right, this
Speaker 1: is news to me, but it says here that the
Speaker 1: Sixers and Lakers are both off too rough starts. Um,
Speaker 1: which team do you think is in more trouble and
Speaker 1: which team is more likely to make a move first?
Speaker 1: And it's gotta be l A on both of those
Speaker 1: and possibly I don't think gets close. And I mean,
Speaker 1: at least with Philly, you've got far and two seems
Speaker 1: like he's bounced back. MB who is my m VP
Speaker 1: pick for this season? You've got all the pieces there.
Speaker 1: Everything looks okay, even if it's a I'll start to
Speaker 1: first in l A. Can you name anyone off their
Speaker 1: bench who isn't Austin Reeves right now? Because I'm having
Speaker 1: a really hard time with it. So I think there's
Speaker 1: just an absolute mess. Mm hmm, yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a big moment. Uh, it's the existential gut checked. I
Speaker 1: think right now we're looking at what is the best
Speaker 1: way out? How did we get here? How do we
Speaker 1: prevent being back here for a very long time. But
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, you know what, you've got to
Speaker 1: start off Rocky two and somewhat Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I'm I think I'm worried. No,
Speaker 1: that was coherent and seems like you're in a good place.
Speaker 1: I am, I am, I am, I'm look, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a big Grizzlies fan, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: shout out to my Lakers as someone who um experienced
Speaker 1: for us for a whole season. Um yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even have to say just yeah yeah. And
Speaker 1: I think I think that I think that conversation is
Speaker 1: rapidly shifting towards like is it you know, what is
Speaker 1: going on with him? And it is this more of
Speaker 1: a situation where it's like they're like peep. I think
Speaker 1: needs the space to be able to come to like neutral,
Speaker 1: Like I think that there's I think the situation has
Speaker 1: become insurmountable for however he's used to doing things and
Speaker 1: now I'm less like, man, this guy, like get him
Speaker 1: out here. I'm like, is this guy okay? Is he okay?
Speaker 1: Is he okay? It's like now I'm shifting to that,
Speaker 1: you know, agree with a Chuck said a week or
Speaker 1: two ago how his joy has kind of been sucked out,
Speaker 1: Like you can see, yeah, just in his eyes there's
Speaker 1: not as much fire or life even with all of
Speaker 1: his flaws, He's still had that energy you just love
Speaker 1: and you just don't see it right now. Kind it's sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what, Timothy, I love the empathy, but
Speaker 1: we have to keep this move, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'll let you go a little bit long there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So so sorry about that. So sorry about that. But
Speaker 1: also the second more shooting three point team in the
Speaker 1: league is that I think twenty nine percent, and the
Speaker 1: Lakers are currently at twenty one percent. So just um, hey,
Speaker 1: what about those defensive ratings. Defensive ratings are off the chart.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not like all out on this team.
Speaker 1: I just think I'm not. Their defense looks great. They
Speaker 1: just need to find some shooting, um, which is easier
Speaker 1: than we're like a like a Disney Films inciting incident
Speaker 1: away from figuring this. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like something gets out to a ten and oh
Speaker 1: start and then Danny Danny Ainge is like fire sale.
Speaker 1: Um alright. One of our listeners, Adam Silver a Silver
Speaker 1: in the discord mentioned relegation, uh and teams taking the message.
Speaker 1: Is there any world where that actually takes place in
Speaker 1: the NBA? No, I don't see it ever happening, to
Speaker 1: be honest, would I be against it now? I wouldn't be, because, uh,
Speaker 1: teams like my Rockets, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Detroit, Orlanda
Speaker 1: have just been so so bad for multiple stretches now
Speaker 1: and I do think it would accelerate some of these
Speaker 1: rebuilts hopefully. Um So I wouldn't be opposed to it.
Speaker 1: I just never see actually going through. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just hard. I think. Just again, we're
Speaker 1: not like other sports leagues like where you can do
Speaker 1: that in you know, potentially minor league Baseball or things
Speaker 1: where the infrastructure set up that immediately a teams like well,
Speaker 1: I'm in this market and here's my venue to play
Speaker 1: in boom where now everything has to be like a
Speaker 1: huge arena. So that really limits those markets unless you're
Speaker 1: doing like a hermit crab thing where like a relegated
Speaker 1: team is like, well kick these guys because guess who's
Speaker 1: using the crypto dot com arena now, Like I don't
Speaker 1: think from the right, but I mean it is interesting
Speaker 1: to see, like obviously, because you want to try and
Speaker 1: figure out a way to not incentivize playing so cynically
Speaker 1: especially when you know, like a lot of people are
Speaker 1: you know, fans and want to be like, hey, let's
Speaker 1: let's see where this goes. But I get that there's
Speaker 1: you know, how do you how do you alter that system? Already?
Speaker 1: It seems just overly complex and I just don't think
Speaker 1: logistically or infrastructurally. Uh, there's a way for that to happen.
Speaker 1: But hey, I'm down for hermit crab switching. Like if
Speaker 1: you're relegated, guess what'll come up off it playing in
Speaker 1: the garden? Or what if you decided who the next
Speaker 1: who got the number one pick in the next year
Speaker 1: with a mid season tournament between like the bottom eight
Speaker 1: teams or something like that. It's like, now get it together. Um,
Speaker 1: I feel good about that. Yeah, yeah, I think there
Speaker 1: is a way to do a gladiator fight anyway. Moving
Speaker 1: on to the final question and most importantes and Timothy Bella,
Speaker 1: Jack or Miles No kidding, that's an answer. That is
Speaker 1: an answer was the answer last week? Man? No, Um,
Speaker 1: I never picked between people, so I hope an option
Speaker 1: just always So okay, I appreciate that. Fantastic car Friends.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, could until like a minute ago. Um, that's cool.
Speaker 1: I'm oh thirteen and two. Stop spamming the chat with
Speaker 1: Tim You burned me? Oh man, Well, Timothy Bella, man,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on Miles and
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Speaker 1: I'm on leave at the Washington Post at the moment,
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Speaker 1: from you. So that's gonna do it for this week. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did it. I can't wait to see, man, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to check in on those records, you know,
Speaker 1: Let's see what Let's see where the standings are at. Okay,
Speaker 1: in a week, and then we'll see if I'm still
Speaker 1: feeling if you're still no longer a Lakers fan and
Speaker 1: just just a basketball transcended. I'm gonna turn into the
Speaker 1: Mr Burns when he was like glowing in that one episode.
Speaker 1: I'm enlightened now I do not have a team, only
Speaker 1: the league. They're like, this dude has been contaminated by
Speaker 1: some kind of toxic substance. All right, Well, anyway, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We'll see you next week.
Speaker 1: Bye bye,