Speaker 1: Hey, Internet, it's editor Brian. Look, while the guys are
Speaker 1: spending the holidays together away from their families at basketball camp,
Speaker 1: so that their boost these are even mad or next year,
Speaker 1: we decided to whip up a little compilation of some
Speaker 1: of our favorite moments of enjoyed. What are some of
Speaker 1: our favorite NBA players doing non basketball athletic achievements? You know,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry with the smoothest golf swing that I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: Like I've I've watched professional golf and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: they should swing like that. That's a that is a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. I think he's I think he's like a
Speaker 1: good golfer, like a very very good golfer. Like hold on,
Speaker 1: and you said he's the best swing you've seen, and
Speaker 1: you've seen Charles Barkley. Correct, So apparently I made that
Speaker 1: same joke and super producer Jabari was like, actually, like
Speaker 1: he's improved his swing, so, Jasmine, have you seen what
Speaker 1: his swing used to look like? Um? No, and I
Speaker 1: would he never showed it to him because but I
Speaker 1: it golf is very hard, like yeah, like mini golf
Speaker 1: and top golf. Although I was drinking both times, it's
Speaker 1: still hard. Shout Charles Barkley has one of them, has
Speaker 1: his own form of the golf swing where he just
Speaker 1: halfway through this wing he has to like stopped, is
Speaker 1: this the right place to now put all my energy?
Speaker 1: And then swings and then apparently he improved it so
Speaker 1: it's smooth now. But so Steph Curry was doing a
Speaker 1: pro am, which is the thing they do frequently with
Speaker 1: golf and US amateurs, and somebody asked him if Barkley
Speaker 1: with his new and improved swing was going to like
Speaker 1: place well and business something. Yeah, I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you about Arles. He's uh, you know that that bets
Speaker 1: out there again this year top seventy. Do you think
Speaker 1: he can do it this year? No clip that sent
Speaker 1: it to him, let him play it on every tea box.
Speaker 1: There's no way he's doing it. So as much as
Speaker 1: as much faith this shug has had in the Warriors
Speaker 1: and jump shooting teams win the championships, the least amount
Speaker 1: of uh, that's the least this amount of faith I
Speaker 1: have in him, you know, hitting the top seventies. I
Speaker 1: love the pettiness of the Warriors. They were, they were
Speaker 1: for many years they seemed like above it. They just
Speaker 1: let Draymond do that for them, and now they are
Speaker 1: all just petty and insufferable. They're like a bunch of
Speaker 1: Lakers fans out here just being whoa, whoa, whoa. You
Speaker 1: had us not in along with you? No, but they're
Speaker 1: really really coming with it. I do love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure we're getting a little too arrogant, but whatever,
Speaker 1: I'd love. There's Jasmine, there's more right there. I don't
Speaker 1: know about him. But back to just and Karl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns just again, there's this confidence right about Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: that I think is really it draws people in. And
Speaker 1: it's not like in a hyper arrogant way, Like there's
Speaker 1: a smile on his face even though he's saying like
Speaker 1: he's always being very very confident. And just even after
Speaker 1: it was like in response to that clip that Aunt
Speaker 1: posted of him just launching the pigskin, uh, there was
Speaker 1: a reply in it where Kat was like asked about
Speaker 1: like Aunt's own belief in himself and then this was
Speaker 1: the answer. And you also get a bit of a
Speaker 1: reply from Anthony Edwards himself at the end of it.
Speaker 1: He's the best shooter who and anthonks he's the best
Speaker 1: baseball player, football player, skier, curler walker on. So it's
Speaker 1: like a postgame in the world, the postgame press conference.
Speaker 1: And I think it was around when Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: was saying like he's the best big man shooter of
Speaker 1: all time, and then somebody was saying, you know, and
Speaker 1: actually thinks he's the best shooter on the team. But
Speaker 1: I do like that Anthony Edwards was just there, just
Speaker 1: ready in the background of the press conference, be like, actually,
Speaker 1: so let maybe specific here about what I am the
Speaker 1: best at. Say it right or keep my name at
Speaker 1: your mouth. But I think that's the fun party. But
Speaker 1: like most people, if they said something like I'm the
Speaker 1: best at any sport that has a player behind it,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, okay, please sit down. You were so.
Speaker 1: But like again, I don't know, there's something energetically about
Speaker 1: him where the confidence doesn't feel toxic, Like it's he's smiling,
Speaker 1: so it's he's almost like being joking. But also when
Speaker 1: you see the way like how much of an elite
Speaker 1: athlete he is he is, you're like, he has to
Speaker 1: believe that on some level. But there's like a healthy
Speaker 1: quality to his confidence that I really admire. Yeah, he's lovable.
Speaker 1: He's won a little bit, but not too much. I
Speaker 1: think Hall of Fame like athletes in other sports or
Speaker 1: just doing other things. I remember like it was a
Speaker 1: it was a big thing during Iverson's career for people
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, but have you seen his high
Speaker 1: school playoff highlights? And in fact, I guess this has
Speaker 1: really caught on in the on the modern internet because
Speaker 1: when we went to look for them, you can only
Speaker 1: find them on Facebook like this, and I think it
Speaker 1: was like a page that his aunt was running. It
Speaker 1: was pretty fun to watch man he's he was. He
Speaker 1: was the quarterback. He was also like you know, played
Speaker 1: wide out and was like getting all sorts of interceptions
Speaker 1: and like laying people out in ways that I was
Speaker 1: not expecting from Allen Iverson. Yeah, it's always fun to
Speaker 1: like find out when an athlete in one sport like
Speaker 1: they're actually really good at this other thing as well,
Speaker 1: because like going through it, you got Iverson playing football.
Speaker 1: The one thing I feel like we see a lot
Speaker 1: though two is a lot of basketball players who like
Speaker 1: play soccer or soccer adjacent like Joel Embiid for example,
Speaker 1: he loves to like juggle the basketball like as if
Speaker 1: you know, he's not playing basketball, but he's also got
Speaker 1: like a definite Uh, how do you say we excite
Speaker 1: level of excitement for it, because like you'll see him
Speaker 1: go for like overhead kicks like on a like a
Speaker 1: hard floor, and you're like, sir, you are too big
Speaker 1: to be doing stuff like this. Yeah. He's pretty jug though,
Speaker 1: which is pretty wild. I mean that's his footwork is legendary,
Speaker 1: and I mean it is probably what makes him the
Speaker 1: best big man in the history of the NBA. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, is there is there any Sixers bias
Speaker 1: showing through that. My two answers are both sixers. Great, Um,
Speaker 1: check out this guy too, Alan Iverson. I don't know,
Speaker 1: check it out. Maybe he's pretty good. Huh. It sounds
Speaker 1: sounds sounds pretty good. You got a branch out from
Speaker 1: the sick of fandom, you'll be much happier. Oh, believe me.
Speaker 1: I I said, like towards the end of the Heat series,
Speaker 1: I was like, just put us out of our misery, please,
Speaker 1: just just that. Yeah, yeah, change the channel on us forever. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There was also a good I guess. I guess it
Speaker 1: was inside the NBA segment where they had everybody compete
Speaker 1: like trying and do penalty kicks, and Shack was like
Speaker 1: just destroying the ball, which, you know, not surprising one
Speaker 1: of the strongest humans ever for someone with the u
Speaker 1: P dietry issues. But I don't know if foot issues
Speaker 1: at yet. Someone to see someone kick toe kick a
Speaker 1: ball with that energy, I was like, Shack, your big
Speaker 1: toenails are gonna blow off, dreaking it like that. Ye.
Speaker 1: The goalie unfortunately did lose arm uh trying to stop
Speaker 1: one of his now, but Shack at least was like
Speaker 1: the ball was heading in the right direction. He was
Speaker 1: missing it by a couple of feet. Charles Barkley brought
Speaker 1: all of the elegance of his golf swing to soccer. Yeah. Aggressive,
Speaker 1: aggressive style. That's how we know Chuck. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not a finesse guy. So when he boots, the ball
Speaker 1: had a really nice placement. Actually, but Chris Webber had
Speaker 1: the best. Webber hit a deceptive penalty. He made his
Speaker 1: body look like the ball was going right and then
Speaker 1: he went left with it, which, yeah, Kenny, Kenny, is this.
Speaker 1: I think it's also like it's kind of a like
Speaker 1: a prank on American athletes when they have like American
Speaker 1: athletes kick a soccer ball because not many people are
Speaker 1: growing up doing that. It's the same way like when
Speaker 1: you see, like in Europe someone trying to throw a
Speaker 1: ball and Americans are like, what where was your father
Speaker 1: would throw a ball like whacky stuff. Didn't even do
Speaker 1: a chest pass. Nothing had has reminded me how unnatural
Speaker 1: the throwing form is. More than like trying to throw
Speaker 1: a baseball with my Turkish friend in high school and
Speaker 1: like he had never thrown a ball, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, that is but that that is actually what
Speaker 1: watching Kenny the Jet try and kick this soccer ball
Speaker 1: reminded me of. It wasn't that like he looked like
Speaker 1: he had never kicked the ball. It's that he had
Speaker 1: never even heard that people did that, or like I
Speaker 1: had watched someone else do it before, because it wasn't
Speaker 1: even like the idea of like what your body should
Speaker 1: look like when you kick a ball, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? But hey, it is what it is. Uh
Speaker 1: Summer league though. This is the one thing though when
Speaker 1: I was over there, I kept my phone on me.
Speaker 1: I was like, at all the Summer League highlights because
Speaker 1: it's you know, this is our first chance to get
Speaker 1: to take a gander at these rookies coming into the league.
Speaker 1: What was everybody else's experience, guys rubbing your mits, signing exasperatedly,
Speaker 1: What's what was going on? I mean, I usually go
Speaker 1: the first weekend, but I just because like some family
Speaker 1: stuff I had, I'm going this week for the second weekend,
Speaker 1: and it seems like I missed out on the greatest
Speaker 1: like party and like the social gathering of the NBA season.
Speaker 1: So but like I was watching the games, and the
Speaker 1: thing is, it's like for my my marriage, it's not
Speaker 1: good because I'm just getting excited about like exhibition games
Speaker 1: about players who are not playing until like the actual competition.
Speaker 1: So I um, it is like a contentious part of
Speaker 1: my relationship. But I do get really excited watching these
Speaker 1: young guys. So yeah, well you get in you get
Speaker 1: in trouble with former guests making daily because the competition
Speaker 1: is not good enough. She's like, all right, you can
Speaker 1: be excited, but this competition, well, I'm just like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you're just too obsessed. Yeah, we're having dinner
Speaker 1: and I'm like going stuff for a Sharif O'Neal like later,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, so it doesn't count. I
Speaker 1: hear that A lot people are like, you know, the
Speaker 1: it's just the summer league, and I get that. However,
Speaker 1: I have now watched some of these players play in
Speaker 1: the n C Double A Tournament, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: supposed to be like decent competition, and then the Summer League,
Speaker 1: which is supposed to be at least that level of competition,
Speaker 1: and like, I don't know what, Like chet home Grin
Speaker 1: looked so good in the Summer League. It like at
Speaker 1: a level that I was like, what were they doing
Speaker 1: at Gonzaga? Like the Gonzaga coach has made me look
Speaker 1: like a fool. Uh he is so good, Like some
Speaker 1: of his skills were just like not at all evident
Speaker 1: in those n C Double A Tournament games or really
Speaker 1: like any of his college highlights that I've seen, Like
Speaker 1: what happens there is its wild he looks awesome. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, I mean, that's the thing is I feel
Speaker 1: like the college game, those systems or whatever in college
Speaker 1: and like be a part, be a role player, whatever,
Speaker 1: But like you had a guy like chat Homegren who
Speaker 1: was designed to play basketball in his own way, like
Speaker 1: some are like to like get after it Chet and
Speaker 1: also to like I tweeted this, like he has. He's
Speaker 1: been having such performances that like, I'm already envisioning my
Speaker 1: son a few like years from now, like in the
Speaker 1: driveway yelling Chet instead of Kobe and Chet. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like Chet is like a banker's name. But I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm still in off of him as a physical presence,
Speaker 1: just seeing someone that long elongated, uh like for lack
Speaker 1: of a better term, moving the way he does, just
Speaker 1: just defending the room like it was. I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: there were many times I was like, oh, wow, he's
Speaker 1: doing all the things that everyone's saying he does, and
Speaker 1: he was doing it so effortlessly. I thought maybe there
Speaker 1: would be some slight like uh period of adjustment, but
Speaker 1: again it almost felt like he was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I should have been drafted number one. Let me show
Speaker 1: you something quick. I remember making fun of Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: because I didn't watch any of his games at Texas,
Speaker 1: and then like that bench press part of the combine
Speaker 1: when he couldn't bench press like one fifty or something
Speaker 1: like that, I was like, this guy is gonna be terrible.
Speaker 1: And I was wrong. And what happened with him? I
Speaker 1: forget how was this? He was in a movie called
Speaker 1: Thunderstruck and then kind of just like Radar. But I
Speaker 1: mean that's the thing is like there there's strength. Doesn't
Speaker 1: just look like bodybuilders, I think, um and you know,
Speaker 1: chat was he wasn't just like hitting shots because he
Speaker 1: was tall. He was like blocking dudes and like the
Speaker 1: floor was really impressive. Are you guys just generally like
Speaker 1: basketball movie fans like how important you is the quality
Speaker 1: of the playing because like when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I was like Blue Chips was the most excited I
Speaker 1: think I've ever been for a movie because they were
Speaker 1: like they got checked, like they got real players, and
Speaker 1: they just like filmed it like with them like playing
Speaker 1: against each other essentially. I feel like that was the
Speaker 1: closest I've seen in a movie too, looking like real
Speaker 1: basketball action. Kind of My dad was in that that movie.
Speaker 1: So they definitely they booked out of high schools. Like
Speaker 1: high school gym that was supposed to be Western University
Speaker 1: high School gym in Indiana had like, you know, thirty
Speaker 1: forty guys that were kind of a year two years
Speaker 1: in the league are coming in the league and really
Speaker 1: like you said they were just playing actual real games.
Speaker 1: Obviously they would stop down and shoot whatever particular scenes
Speaker 1: they need to shoot. There's obviously Bobby Night story about
Speaker 1: him going off script and uh, you know, telling him
Speaker 1: to block the shot like you know, and then let them,
Speaker 1: letting them do what they want to do, like no,
Speaker 1: like yeah, and Scheck is in there just being shock.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was when the main stream of
Speaker 1: the country like got to see Shack like be fully himself,
Speaker 1: which was oh yeah, which was fun. He was Neon Boudreaux,
Speaker 1: Neon Boudreau, one of the great names in him in
Speaker 1: fiction history, and Butch McCray shot out Penny Me and
Speaker 1: Butch McCrae. I feel like Hustle kind of lifted that,
Speaker 1: you know that Neon Grows scene from from Blue Chips
Speaker 1: where he goes to like the Backwoods Algae because that
Speaker 1: scene was wild. I was like, I was like, how
Speaker 1: is there any gift to that? Rim? Shock just like
Speaker 1: ripped off that like barn, you know, in that scene
Speaker 1: in Blue Chips, Because there's times I'm like that, I
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of rim there on for the
Speaker 1: purported like country Jim that they were playing in both
Speaker 1: movies have like characters where the premises they are secretly
Speaker 1: one of the great basketball players in the world, but
Speaker 1: they're hiding that from everybody, like almost intentionally. In the
Speaker 1: case of Neon Boudreaux and Blue Chips, he is hiding
Speaker 1: it by playing basketball in in a swamp like that
Speaker 1: you can't get to without like wading through water and
Speaker 1: like going on a fan boat. How did you know?
Speaker 1: I mean, so there are a couple of scenes I like.
Speaker 1: I like that we saw some of our and one
Speaker 1: mixtape Brethren in that we saw Ao and like main
Speaker 1: event and Grayson Bouche the professor people who I was like.
Speaker 1: I was like, I had all those tapes, but what
Speaker 1: did y'all think? Because like the two of you have
Speaker 1: much more experience at like the highest level of basketball,
Speaker 1: whether you're interacting with or through family and things like that.
Speaker 1: Mine ends with like my friends in high school that
Speaker 1: we're doing workouts and like post high school to try
Speaker 1: and get into like a good D two school. So
Speaker 1: the scenes when I saw like the fitness coaches and
Speaker 1: the sort of like the different strength training exercise like
Speaker 1: those montages, I was like, I love seeing these exercises
Speaker 1: that they're always doing like roll the medicine ball, slam it,
Speaker 1: throw it through the tractor tire. And then I'm like,
Speaker 1: who does does the coach bring his own tractor tire
Speaker 1: or is there a tractor tire at every gym? I
Speaker 1: was tire based. That was the thing. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: not enough tractor tires and then workout. In this workout footage,
Speaker 1: they find a way to make it, make it everything
Speaker 1: tractor tire focused. Who had the tractor tire because yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been a probably thousands gyms in my life, maybe
Speaker 1: one or two or three of them. But you know
Speaker 1: who's bringing it, who's packing it up with cards? It
Speaker 1: fitting in right, and they just leave it there and
Speaker 1: they take him the football field back to the court
Speaker 1: and vice versa. Kind of that guy cycle through it, right.
Speaker 1: I love the Rocky component tour. It's like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: got to hit this time, like like the morning. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Distance running is the most important thing for an NBA
Speaker 1: athlete who's preparing for the combine. So to your point,
Speaker 1: there's a part where he goes viral by going on
Speaker 1: defense and defending people one on one and they can't
Speaker 1: touch the rim. It's it's just such a weird like missing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess like one on one defense is important,
Speaker 1: but it's like not, I don't know, there's so much
Speaker 1: one on one in this movie. I feel like like,
Speaker 1: which is a little bit yeah, but the workout footage
Speaker 1: is fun. He's really lovable. So a movie that I've
Speaker 1: gone back and watched and the basketball footage is worse
Speaker 1: than I remembered, but it still works on me. As
Speaker 1: white men can't jump, I feel like they have like
Speaker 1: good players in there, but Wesley Snipes and what do
Speaker 1: you Harrelson's like kind of like you can tell he's
Speaker 1: picked up a basketball before, but like he's also you
Speaker 1: can tell they're having to like slow things down and
Speaker 1: like give them three ft till they get his jumper off.
Speaker 1: And Wesley Snipes is just incredibly athletic. Loggan bu Leg
Speaker 1: also doesn't really like he's dribbling it over his head
Speaker 1: many of the times, And I don't know, it still
Speaker 1: works for me. How important do you guys? Is like
Speaker 1: the quality of basketball action. So I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: a true story. So my dad was in white may
Speaker 1: can jump as well. Raymond rob the liquor store kind
Speaker 1: of his claim to fame remember basketball careers. They just
Speaker 1: you know, five time All Star Hall of Fame finalists
Speaker 1: don't remember that the guy wropped the liquor store. So
Speaker 1: I got to hang out a lot doing their like
Speaker 1: you know, pre pro pre prep for for it. And
Speaker 1: they were doing a lot of like workouts like Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: Y M c A some other spots. So, uh, to
Speaker 1: your point, you know, what do you play? Like D two,
Speaker 1: D three? Somewhere actually actually knew how to play basketball.
Speaker 1: Wesley had no clue what he was doing. So they
Speaker 1: would do like drills like three man we's, five man weaves,
Speaker 1: and dudes are deliberately like not trying to go with Wesley,
Speaker 1: and he kind of caught me, caught onto it. He
Speaker 1: started cutting people out. But like you, when he was
Speaker 1: he started to go, guys are kind of shoving to
Speaker 1: the back of the line because they didn't they didn't
Speaker 1: want to have to go with him. But if you
Speaker 1: watch that movie, tons of cutaways every time you try
Speaker 1: to get freaky with the crossover between the legs and
Speaker 1: all that type of stuff. Definitely, you know, cutting the
Speaker 1: type body shots and things like that. Who was the stunt,
Speaker 1: Who was the stunt baller for him on that I wonder, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wondered to shoot, I don't even know it's before
Speaker 1: Jamal Crawford's time, but I say, you know. But then
Speaker 1: they do the cutaway him, like making the layup or
Speaker 1: tight on his face for those type of things. So
Speaker 1: for those understand cinema movie magic, it's like, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's people at home like, oh wow, where's he go?
Speaker 1: Like you see, yeah, you see him do that? A's like, no,
Speaker 1: that was definitely notice let me see that in a
Speaker 1: wide shot at full speed, Like what if we took
Speaker 1: it from like four courts over, Actually we'll take it
Speaker 1: from the y and you guys are playing on the
Speaker 1: corner all the way down the street. Was slow push
Speaker 1: from that movie works perfectly beautifully. Shout out to movie Magic.
Speaker 1: I mean we were talking about this earlier. I think
Speaker 1: Blue Chips for me had the most, like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: the energy from those basketball scenes fell real like, and
Speaker 1: it's hard to replicate that because I think every sports film,
Speaker 1: most I'd say the competitive scenes are very controlled and
Speaker 1: highly choreographed, and anyone who plays just a little bit,
Speaker 1: you can tell any sport like when they're when it's
Speaker 1: the movie version of them playing the sport. You're like,
Speaker 1: come on, like that's how hard they're going. No, but
Speaker 1: this even for like the times it felt a little
Speaker 1: bit slower because of like the amount of talent that
Speaker 1: was like there, it felt a little bit easier to
Speaker 1: like it was a little it was more palatable for
Speaker 1: me than like the thing. I'm like, y'all, we're playing speed.
Speaker 1: Come on. It still was energizing anybody who's played in
Speaker 1: the summertime, and like you said, like these spots, No,
Speaker 1: these dudes will go about so if you go about
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty percent, you can keep up with
Speaker 1: him and hope to break even. Kind of they're trying
Speaker 1: to remember like playing against KG back in the days,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going he's going and embarrassing me, like
Speaker 1: I quarter basket just to pretend like he's going right right, right,
Speaker 1: Like I saw le Bron lose the game in U c.
Speaker 1: L A, like you know, and everybody's like he lost
Speaker 1: a crew, you say, like kids, just like le Bron
Speaker 1: was literally going thirty seven right, Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's what makes the draft so hard, right was
Speaker 1: KG talking trash as he was embarrassing you. He was
Speaker 1: the nice guy though. It's like O K four and
Speaker 1: you're a four too. It's like yeah, not like no,
Speaker 1: you want me to guard this guy? This is not fun,
Speaker 1: Like who need to go to college? Man? I just
Speaker 1: remember what Like he literally like he was playing defense
Speaker 1: and somebody tried to pass from like three point line
Speaker 1: to the wing. He just like stretched his hand out
Speaker 1: and it was literally like the longest arm I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: like gracefully just tapped the ball, stole it like one dribble,
Speaker 1: got to the other end of the court, dunked it
Speaker 1: and I was like, this dude is like draft body
Speaker 1: moving like a gazelle down the court. And I was like,
Speaker 1: what do you want me to do with this dude?
Speaker 1: But he actually was complimentary. He was nice. I grabbed
Speaker 1: like a lot of rebounds in the game for some reason,
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, you a glass eater dog, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, thank you, Mr Garnett, thank you Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 1: Yeah you saw it in the post though, like please
Speaker 1: shout out, dude. But we were definitely doubling into something. Also,
Speaker 1: the one thing that I loved about the film was
Speaker 1: just the concentration of familiar faces throughout it, like you
Speaker 1: know you you saw everybody's the Ai, Luca dr J.
Speaker 1: And for me personally, my one of my favorites was
Speaker 1: seeing James gold scene in that Like I think that
Speaker 1: was like the climactic scene, wasn't It was like that
Speaker 1: last tryout run where like Trey and all of them
Speaker 1: are there right, and like James Goldstein was just like
Speaker 1: there too, being like all right, what do we got
Speaker 1: here to? Damn? Like James Cool seen Mr front Row
Speaker 1: at the Lake Show, so many questions for them, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: like what was he doing in his twenties? Like well,
Speaker 1: I just want to not like he is in his twenties,
Speaker 1: that's just what he looks like, Yeah, it's the stylist,
Speaker 1: Like who's doing the outfits, who's giving him the scarves
Speaker 1: and all that other lab he's wearing? What about basketball
Speaker 1: just made him want to watch? Realistically, would someone like
Speaker 1: James Goldstein be at a workout like that? It's Jimmy,
Speaker 1: you know he could put That's what I'm saying. Like
Speaker 1: part of me was like trying to find him, like, man,
Speaker 1: James Goldseey is not gonna be there, But part of
Speaker 1: he was like, what do I know about any of
Speaker 1: these things. Part of me, also as a Laker fan,
Speaker 1: wanted to create space for the reality and like you know,
Speaker 1: James Gold, he should be there, you know, as as
Speaker 1: an exalted fan of the game. Now, Jack to what
Speaker 1: you were saying about Anthony Edwards, I mean, there's there's
Speaker 1: no I'll say this if you find a reason to
Speaker 1: dislike Anthony Edwards, the issue was you Anthony that guy,
Speaker 1: That guy is everything we want from Like I've you
Speaker 1: mentioned the fact that he came into the league and
Speaker 1: people were saying, like, oh, he needs to improve the shooting,
Speaker 1: and then he suddenly becomes a terrific three point shooting,
Speaker 1: Like he's setting records for for people, you know, you
Speaker 1: know players his age in terms of like making threes,
Speaker 1: and his his offensive game, Like I think as at
Speaker 1: some point in his rookie year he got known for
Speaker 1: like dunking on people because he would put you he
Speaker 1: will put you on the poster quick, fast and easy.
Speaker 1: But like his game is so polished offensively that you know,
Speaker 1: in a way that in a way that like Vince Carter,
Speaker 1: he would dunk on people all the time, but his
Speaker 1: offensive game was extremely well polished, and you know. But
Speaker 1: the thing about Anthony Edwards that even sets him apart
Speaker 1: for Vince Carter, it's like this guy is extreme. You know,
Speaker 1: he gives you a lot in terms of like media interactions.
Speaker 1: So like, you know, I will say that like he's
Speaker 1: like a six seven version of Shock in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. Like you know, he's gonna dominate on the court,
Speaker 1: but like he's gonna give you a sound bite like
Speaker 1: he had to. He had the quote of the weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like he's like, yeah, it was the kids that talked
Speaker 1: the most trash at the Memphis game. And I love,
Speaker 1: you know, like I love this guy's game. I love
Speaker 1: everything about it and the fact that, like he's twenty,
Speaker 1: we could potentially have thirteen and fifteen more years of
Speaker 1: this right you know, Like it's it's ridiculous. Man. So
Speaker 1: like shout out to Anthony Edwards. I love that guy.
Speaker 1: I think he is. He's going to be a star,
Speaker 1: a superstar for a long time. And if I had
Speaker 1: to pick one player that that one player, one storyline,
Speaker 1: or whatever terminology you want to use. From the first weekend,
Speaker 1: it's Anthony Edwards. Man, Like that guy's must see TV.
Speaker 1: He specialized early in his Uh, like you were talking
Speaker 1: about when he became numb for dunking on people. That
Speaker 1: first of all, he had a dunk where he jumped
Speaker 1: over somebody's head and dunked on them, and unfortunately they
Speaker 1: called an offensive foul because the defender like reached up
Speaker 1: and touched his leg and then like fell back. But
Speaker 1: he also specialized on donkey people with his arm at
Speaker 1: like a ninety degree and like just straight out in
Speaker 1: front of him because he was that high over the
Speaker 1: rim and like that that made me realize, oh, that's
Speaker 1: the thing you have to unlearn when you're like that
Speaker 1: athletic is like, oh, that's very dangerous what you're doing
Speaker 1: right there. You're too high above the basket. Like you
Speaker 1: need to just go as high as you need to
Speaker 1: to dunk, and I need to, But what about as
Speaker 1: high as I can go? Well, then you will jump
Speaker 1: out of the building. Even when you're twenty, you can
Speaker 1: still love live on the edge and reckless, Like I
Speaker 1: don't even doing that. When he's I can't believe him.
Speaker 1: He'll still be young. He'll be a ten eleven year
Speaker 1: vet at that point. But uh, no, that that that
Speaker 1: guy is phenomenal man, and he is exactly what that
Speaker 1: franchise needs. And I look, I don't know what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen in this series, but they've proven and he's proven that,
Speaker 1: like no stage is too big for him. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's gonna come up, you know, on the right
Speaker 1: side every time, because that just never happens to anybody.
Speaker 1: But like even his coach, you know, Finch, he's even
Speaker 1: said that he's he's proven, he's he's improved dramatically on
Speaker 1: the defensive end from year one to year two. So like,
Speaker 1: this is a guy for as as entertaining as he
Speaker 1: may be in like a postgame press conference situation, like
Speaker 1: this dude is a dog. He's a dog. He gets
Speaker 1: after it and any basketball fan and I know y'all
Speaker 1: are like, you love dog. Well, his mentality is it's
Speaker 1: so elite, you know. And that's what's so And like
Speaker 1: what you're saying, Jack, I think you were saying you
Speaker 1: can't fake that confidence, right, and you can tell in
Speaker 1: the game that he plays and the words that he speaks.
Speaker 1: And I think to your point to what makes this
Speaker 1: series so great is like you have on one side
Speaker 1: and saying I'm ready for this, I'm energized by the challenge.
Speaker 1: In fact, I this is all I ever really wanted,
Speaker 1: Like you can tell that's that's where he's coming from.
Speaker 1: And then the other end you have jaw also saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a good game, but I honestly felt that
Speaker 1: we lost that for ourselves. And so you're putting up
Speaker 1: these two mentalities together and like it's only going to
Speaker 1: deliver some of the best competition that you know that
Speaker 1: we've seen it. And we're recording this right before Game
Speaker 1: two tips off, so you guys know more about what
Speaker 1: happened in this series than us. But there's one thing
Speaker 1: that is not going to change, and that's how excited
Speaker 1: I am about Anthony. One more thing I do want
Speaker 1: to say about Anthony Edwards, and I think you all
Speaker 1: said it earlier, just like leading up to like this discussion.
Speaker 1: He wants this moment. Like if you if you go
Speaker 1: back to the one year he was at Georgia u
Speaker 1: g A, they weren't good, so he didn't really get
Speaker 1: a chance to play in like big time, prime time games,
Speaker 1: and this first year in Minnesota, you know, they didn't
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, where some people might be like, all right,
Speaker 1: well I'm a little nervous going into this game, and
Speaker 1: it's naturally feel nerves. You could tell he's not only
Speaker 1: he's not only embracing the moment's right, Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's beautiful to see that. Like the times when they
Speaker 1: fall behind or gets close, like that's when you're gonna
Speaker 1: see some ridiculous highlight from him. And also like right
Speaker 1: at tip when everybody's amped up, he's just the most
Speaker 1: amped up. He's just like the one who's like, all right,
Speaker 1: I don't gonna score the first seven points here, hold
Speaker 1: this real quick, what I do? So we we're going
Speaker 1: to get some of his postgame greatness a little later on.
Speaker 1: Just from the past couple of years, I do want
Speaker 1: to workshop with you guys in just mainlining highlights of him.
Speaker 1: Over the course of the past couple of seasons, I
Speaker 1: have realized that, um, the I think it's the Minnesota
Speaker 1: broadcasting team, but like nobody has quite figured out what
Speaker 1: to say after he does something incredible. They have tried
Speaker 1: to answer deadly, answer deadly, uh, And once even tried
Speaker 1: ants bury they're dead, which is like a cool fact,
Speaker 1: like you ever see ants like going out like Harry
Speaker 1: and a fallen soldier and you know sometimes there will
Speaker 1: be a whole lot of them. I don't know, like,
Speaker 1: can we workshop something for that? It doesn't need to
Speaker 1: be right now, but like you know something right because
Speaker 1: it is an ant too small, too fully encapsulate, you know,
Speaker 1: is that your pa? No, I feel I feel like
Speaker 1: either because I feel like ants are just hard, too
Speaker 1: small to fully encapsulate, and a name too insufficient to
Speaker 1: fully embody all of them that he contains. Just dunked it,
Speaker 1: Like that's too wordy. Ants can lift three hundred times
Speaker 1: their weight, but like that's again too wordy. So if
Speaker 1: it's on the Discovery Channel, that would be amazing. Um,
Speaker 1: you know who we need to consult on this is
Speaker 1: the Charlotte Hornets broadcasting that because they go in every time.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to like, what could you what could
Speaker 1: you do for Anthony? Ever, so this is why I'm
Speaker 1: not a broad right, something like there are more than
Speaker 1: ten thousand known species of van around the world, but
Speaker 1: the deadly ist just right here in Minnesota. There you go,
Speaker 1: Like that's also worthy? Feel like Jack, we always talk
Speaker 1: about how you get mixed up with his name for
Speaker 1: the actor Anthony Edwards from e er So maybe we
Speaker 1: my brand will not hold it. I I like when
Speaker 1: we were talking about him on Zeyke Guys the other
Speaker 1: day and I was like and like I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't do it because Anthony Edwards. And also I think
Speaker 1: there's like something with like John Edwards like that, like
Speaker 1: just his name needs to be cooler or something. I
Speaker 1: don't know, like we need to brand him. So like
Speaker 1: somehow Dr Mark Green sent this person to the er
Speaker 1: tom Dr Mark Green the character's name, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's too washed of a reference to people,
Speaker 1: like I get that one. My mother would appreciate that reference,
Speaker 1: you know, because she was the biggest e R fan
Speaker 1: that new but natsy. Now you got me thinking about,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, is that George Clooney on the bench
Speaker 1: because Anthony Edwards has pulled up as his co star.
Speaker 1: You're like the early seasons of You are not many
Speaker 1: people know that George Clooney actually started on her. Like
Speaker 1: now we're getting too worthy. I don't know. Do we
Speaker 1: have to move on from ant Man as the like
Speaker 1: ant Man is a solid heist movie, like if he
Speaker 1: steals it and then dunks it, like yeahtually to ask
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards. Yeah, I know exactly what were you talking about.
Speaker 1: He just needs He might even just like top of
Speaker 1: the Martin to you because he loves the Irish accent.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's what it is. The anttagonist is that
Speaker 1: that's not good, right, anti easy Buggets, task forces, we'll
Speaker 1: come up with something. We'll come He's deserving. Yeah. My
Speaker 1: favorite moment of this finals is actually from last season
Speaker 1: when when when the Warriors went out in the plan
Speaker 1: and I just want to play Steph's words from from
Speaker 1: that playing tournament, because like we're saying the experience, they're
Speaker 1: like the focus. It's evident. It was evident over one
Speaker 1: year ago. I just didn't go our away. I don't
Speaker 1: know how many different ways to say it, but it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's just it was a special year all things considered,
Speaker 1: um in a new experience for me. Draymond a loan.
Speaker 1: Try to make the most of it. Come back, bottle
Speaker 1: this up, everybody make the right strews, take advantage of
Speaker 1: the summer and don't want to see us next year.
Speaker 1: I was at that game. I was at that playing
Speaker 1: game at Chase Center last year and it was lit.
Speaker 1: I wish there was any other words to describe that energy.
Speaker 1: But it was really fun and that's when I totally
Speaker 1: bought it on the play in and the excitement. But yeah,
Speaker 1: step said Marcus words, you don't want to see us
Speaker 1: next year, And I think some people are like, all right,
Speaker 1: bro okay, Sure I would say that too. But then
Speaker 1: even then in March, Draymond was like, we're getting to
Speaker 1: chip in March, you know, and then even and then
Speaker 1: Clay saying it was vibes when they went down to
Speaker 1: one to the Celtics, I was like, oh, Gay, that
Speaker 1: that's where that that like any I think even Clay
Speaker 1: was saying at the at the post game, He's like,
Speaker 1: we've been here, so we're built for it. And that's
Speaker 1: it just comes together like that when you have that experience,
Speaker 1: I mean, having somebody come in like Clay. We we
Speaker 1: still don't know what Clay is gonna look like next year,
Speaker 1: right yeah, right. When when a player comes back halfway
Speaker 1: through the season, like that is never the finished product,
Speaker 1: you know, Like we we saw it with Jordan's when
Speaker 1: he came back from retirement, and like, you know, he
Speaker 1: came back deeper into the season, but people are like,
Speaker 1: well he's washed, uh and you know, they didn't quite
Speaker 1: win it, and so people, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people forget about that. Like, can you imagine Twitter's response
Speaker 1: to that. You would see m J is washed thread. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they would have done to him. It would
Speaker 1: have been over um for a couple of months, and
Speaker 1: then everyone would have forgotten and he would have been
Speaker 1: the best. And I think that's the benefit of maybe
Speaker 1: not having Twitter culture around back then. It allowed us
Speaker 1: to be like, look at the magic person who it's
Speaker 1: fantastic that we all love and we can't air our
Speaker 1: weird opinions for everybody to hear unless we're in a
Speaker 1: local sports bar or a barbershop. It's I also think
Speaker 1: I might not want to see them next year, uh
Speaker 1: personally as a as a fan of a different NBA team,
Speaker 1: Maybe not maybe not huge. Um. I do want to say, though,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's really cute for some hypothetical
Speaker 1: person to pick their favorite clip as something from not
Speaker 1: even this year. Um, but I did wanna pick one
Speaker 1: clip from this year, and this is the backbreaker three
Speaker 1: STEPH hit to put the Warriors up seventy two fifty
Speaker 1: and somebody put together a compilation of all the different
Speaker 1: broadcasts from around the world as they as they react
Speaker 1: to what was a ridiculous shot. Super deep again, just
Speaker 1: like Catch the second it touches his fingers, it's it's up,
Speaker 1: it's in, and they're up twenty two. All of a sudden, Um,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's in French. This is French, that's French.
Speaker 1: They turned around. He said he wants his ranks. Portuguese, Yeah, lean,
Speaker 1: are you taking notes here as a professional broadcast? Absolutely? Korean? Hey,
Speaker 1: that that sounds the same in every language. That's what
Speaker 1: I said. Italians, Chef Pry, I mean yes, point to
Speaker 1: that finger. I think he said. He washed his hands
Speaker 1: after that. In Spanish, I do just want to give
Speaker 1: a shout out to UM the Spanish broadcast, because I
Speaker 1: watched the I I lived in Spain for a month
Speaker 1: during high school. You know, Jack, you lived in Spain,
Speaker 1: all right, Lena, I find a way to bring this
Speaker 1: up every every episode. And let me tell you about Actually, Lena,
Speaker 1: you might want to hear this. I went to Italy
Speaker 1: once was a better place. But so I was there
Speaker 1: during the nineties six finals, the jew in the last finals.
Speaker 1: So I watched every game in the Spanish language. Broadcast,
Speaker 1: and their broadcaster actually narrated every dribble that would happen,
Speaker 1: so every time they dribble, he go beat beep, beep, beep,
Speaker 1: coming up, beep beep, and then he's taking with the beat,
Speaker 1: beat beep all but he just didn't It was like
Speaker 1: he didn't feel comfortable if there was any silence, like
Speaker 1: any air at all. Yeah, you gotta let it breathe
Speaker 1: and that the Spanish broadcast that we just heard did
Speaker 1: a great job, so I feel like they've stepped their
Speaker 1: game up the nation experience. No more beeping, no more beeping. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do want to just talk about two things with LaMelo,
Speaker 1: both passing related, but I just want to get your
Speaker 1: thoughts on I want to get your thoughts overall on LaMelo.
Speaker 1: But the way he puts spin on a bounce pass
Speaker 1: feels like he's just getting started with like figuring out
Speaker 1: like weird ways to make the ball just like you know,
Speaker 1: head in one direction and skip up into somebody else's
Speaker 1: hands like that you didn't even know the ball was
Speaker 1: headed towards. And then the outlet pass is I feel
Speaker 1: like an art form that is getting better and better
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, Like and he might be
Speaker 1: the best at it with just the touch is like
Speaker 1: he will literally to the last second hold the ball
Speaker 1: and had three defenders committing and then through those three
Speaker 1: still somehow fine the window and not even like going
Speaker 1: through legs or anything like it's there's something Jason Kidd
Speaker 1: made me excited about watching passes Jason Williams. Of course,
Speaker 1: Peyton and Stockton. You know Stockton, of course, but Stockton
Speaker 1: was just more meeting potato. Yeah, I felt very just ha,
Speaker 1: you did not see him over there? I saw. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of Stockton's success is just oh to Carl
Speaker 1: Malone and Jeff hornesseet knowing how to finish, which is
Speaker 1: what Lamello needs a little bit more because if you
Speaker 1: if he nails that three from what was it last week,
Speaker 1: which is crazy all over the head and then just
Speaker 1: kicks it out to the corner. If that shot is landed,
Speaker 1: then that's like one of his like calling card, like
Speaker 1: that's NBA commercial type whatever. I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be exciting to see him grow. But as is always
Speaker 1: the case, you know in Charlotte, you know, and and
Speaker 1: this is coming from and it's just so you understand
Speaker 1: where my apprehension comes from I am a Cubs fan
Speaker 1: and I am also a Dolphins fan. We know what
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have done in the last twenty five years.
Speaker 1: The Cubs did what they did in sixteen, but since then,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much let every star go for the sake
Speaker 1: of building. And you know, every ownership has a different strategy.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's impossible as a as a fan
Speaker 1: of a franchise that is traditionally only mildly or non competitive,
Speaker 1: to have separation anxiety issues when you get a once
Speaker 1: in a generation player on your roster. So I find
Speaker 1: myself mitigating the excitement about and I and I shouldn't
Speaker 1: do that. I know I shouldn't do that, but I do.
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to love, right. I love Kimba Walker.
Speaker 1: And how that work out for me? I just I
Speaker 1: just I need a hug. Well here, let's let's let's
Speaker 1: treat our our wounds with just just a little quick
Speaker 1: package of some of Lamello's best passes so far. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just that's just beauty for the sake of beauty.
Speaker 1: That's just your legs. He went through his leg can
Speaker 1: then flip it up for an alley that right, could
Speaker 1: have just slipped it up. But so this one is
Speaker 1: an underhanded, uh, full court pass that lands in like
Speaker 1: a three inch box. Now that's the spin one that
Speaker 1: I was talking about, which is a full court bounce pass. Uh,
Speaker 1: a full court single bounce pass with English on with
Speaker 1: a lot of English on it that just skip right
Speaker 1: up into the left hand of the person who's about
Speaker 1: to dunk it. Yeah, he he has that vision where
Speaker 1: he knows where everyone is on the court and the
Speaker 1: ability to like drop it into a uh three square
Speaker 1: inch space that is going to make it easiest for
Speaker 1: his teammate to put the ball in the basket. Okay,
Speaker 1: And so then to that point on top of that,
Speaker 1: it's not to me, it's not just court vision. It's
Speaker 1: also oh, I really want to do I want to
Speaker 1: pass it here, but this guy's in the way. What
Speaker 1: could I do to move him? And it could be
Speaker 1: something as slight as dipping the shoulder to insinuate the drive.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even he doesn't even take the first step
Speaker 1: in that direction. He could can he can make defenders commit,
Speaker 1: and he can just sell his body in a way
Speaker 1: that doesn't over commit his ability to do what he
Speaker 1: actually wants to do to like, you know, what his
Speaker 1: actual intentions are in the play, and that's not something
Speaker 1: you see on a regular basis. And you know, I'm
Speaker 1: like every sports fan, you want the good ones to
Speaker 1: stay with your team forever. Traditionally, when you talk about
Speaker 1: the Hornets as a franchise, historically the Hornets are Man,
Speaker 1: we had so and so it's never he was our
Speaker 1: guy and that was the guy. And you know Hornet
Speaker 1: in the best years that it's just man. We used
Speaker 1: to date him. You know, you see somebody famous on
Speaker 1: TV and you madam Man, we behead of chance. Right,
Speaker 1: he didn't work out. Maybe the honest thing sets the
Speaker 1: new template, especially if they, you know, do it again
Speaker 1: this year, like people are going to start being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we stay where we're at. I think
Speaker 1: the league is better off when you have players as
Speaker 1: electric as Mellow playing for franchises that aren't as always
Speaker 1: regularly discussed honestly low key. I'll put the Hawks kind
Speaker 1: of in that same bucket in a way where they've
Speaker 1: had players and they've been good, and you know, Horford
Speaker 1: and the Gang, like, they've had people. But what Trey
Speaker 1: Young is brought to that franchise, like just just him.
Speaker 1: Just last week they were channing screw Tray Young at
Speaker 1: a Yankees game. They're still so he has gotten under
Speaker 1: the skin of a franchise that they hate him at
Speaker 1: other sporting event, at the game in New York, I
Speaker 1: shot the video. I shot the video at the next
Speaker 1: game last month when when Trey Young told the fan
Speaker 1: to hold that l and then he got it off
Speaker 1: and made a play. He's just he knows how to
Speaker 1: just come up to people and just be I'm gonna
Speaker 1: screw with you. And it touches an entire city, and
Speaker 1: that is great. You know. I think it's not fair
Speaker 1: to compare Atlanta and Charlotte in terms of metropolisan metrics
Speaker 1: and you know, all of the gubernatorial statistics, but Atlanta
Speaker 1: as a franchise, in my opinion, isn't as talked about
Speaker 1: as it should be considering the size of the city,
Speaker 1: considering the size of that market. And Trey Young has
Speaker 1: given them something. I hate the fact that they had
Speaker 1: to play each other this week. Yeah, I hate that.
Speaker 1: I hate the I think because those are two teams
Speaker 1: that you want to see those seven, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: with each other, you know. So my point is I'm
Speaker 1: excited about LaMelo. I just hope that we don't lose
Speaker 1: him to some super team Voltron transformer situation that that's inevitable.
Speaker 1: You know the point the point guards who are coming
Speaker 1: up right now. Though you got LaMelo, you got Trey,
Speaker 1: and you got jobs like those are the three three
Speaker 1: players that I'm most excited about, because Trey and LaMelo
Speaker 1: in particular, it seemed to be like doing new things
Speaker 1: with geometry. And then joh just seems to have superpowers.
Speaker 1: John just doesn't respect gravity as a physical you know rule,
Speaker 1: and he's another great example, but just a player had
Speaker 1: electric they like he deserves to be revered like that.
Speaker 1: In also love the fact, speaking of the Grizzlies, no
Speaker 1: one told me this, but I like, you haven't found
Speaker 1: out like a random act about a team, you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I approve of that. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that the Grizzlies play Whooped that trick from hustle and
Speaker 1: flow at the games during timeouts like that's they're like
Speaker 1: momentum swing the opponent is called a time out. Like
Speaker 1: you remember in the nineties they would play Gary Glitter
Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Park to the Hey So instead of
Speaker 1: that the Grizzlies play Whooped that trick from a movie
Speaker 1: set in Memphis. It's not even a real person in
Speaker 1: that movie, like this is Hey and it brought it
Speaker 1: brought him an oscar, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: that film brought anstar sown. So you know, I get
Speaker 1: get that. I get that, I get the three six
Speaker 1: Monfia ties to I understand the Nemzis ties. But it's
Speaker 1: just it's just of all the songs you could play, like,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have guessed that. I wouldn't have chosen that.
Speaker 1: And then I'm shocked that the entire arena it's just
Speaker 1: that trick. And I'm like, y, They're like, Dad, what's
Speaker 1: a trick? They're like, Oh, I don't worry. Worry about it, boy,
Speaker 1: you can tellell around you here. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a break and let's come back and let's talk about
Speaker 1: the postseason after that. And we're back, and I think
Speaker 1: this is our new tradition is we'd like to close
Speaker 1: out the show with some rapid fire questions with our guests.
Speaker 1: So Sarah, when we ask these questions, just don't even think,
Speaker 1: just react. Give us your answer, and because we just
Speaker 1: want to pick your brain. Uh, and let's start the clock. Now, Jack,
Speaker 1: you may be getting the questioning. We call it a
Speaker 1: lightning round because lightning is fast. So the idea is
Speaker 1: that these are like questions we're gonna ask fast, and
Speaker 1: it's really good when you have to explain it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So um, just like full background. Uh, just wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure you weren't caught unaware real quick. And so
Speaker 1: now I'm going to ask the question as Miles mentioned
Speaker 1: thirty seconds ago, I'm going for that. Before that, we
Speaker 1: like to mention we like this segment to be so quick.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no reason to draw this out. We
Speaker 1: want this to be super quick so people get a
Speaker 1: lot of information. Really, the segment shot started, I think
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool shot so far right far, So we're thinking quick.
Speaker 1: So take take the far place with quick and the
Speaker 1: way we we go go, which is a line from
Speaker 1: the Dark Knight Dark, which is the joker, says it
Speaker 1: Um and who played him again? Ledger? That's right, And
Speaker 1: what we're doing is balancing the Ledger with some questions. Uh.
Speaker 1: Number one best NBA arena not named. I love Little
Speaker 1: Caesar's Arena, the New Detroit Arena. That's a very good
Speaker 1: one tie. I love the Hornets Arena, Madison Square Garden
Speaker 1: is uh is obviously legendary, but also Little Season. Those
Speaker 1: are just the really good arenas, great places to watch
Speaker 1: a basketball game. Also the Sun's Arena, It's Footprint Center,
Speaker 1: I think is now the name of it, but I
Speaker 1: feel like those are those are very good arenas. Wow,
Speaker 1: I had not I had not heard the thing about
Speaker 1: the Pistons or the someone who loves crazy bread I
Speaker 1: mean say less the thing is also the I don't
Speaker 1: know how or why, but the the Little Caesar's food
Speaker 1: at Little Caesars Arena is better than you'll get it
Speaker 1: anywhere else. They're saving their fast ball up. Speaking of food,
Speaker 1: which arena has the most underrated food? And I know
Speaker 1: you said Little Caesars, so that gets in there, but
Speaker 1: expand on that, please, are there any other place? So
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm speaking to like the media dining,
Speaker 1: which is not going to be the fan experience like
Speaker 1: eating out on the concourse. And so the Houston Rockets
Speaker 1: they've always got like a beautiful charcuterie board in the
Speaker 1: media room and I'm like, oh yes, I would love
Speaker 1: some brie and some like fresh colamado olives, thank you
Speaker 1: WHOA Okay in comparison, right, if Houston's coming with the charcuterie,
Speaker 1: what are you used to usually for your your mediu meal?
Speaker 1: I don't know, like a really dry buffet, chicken breast
Speaker 1: that's just been really overcooked, and then like a hot
Speaker 1: dog that's on a stale bun. Okay, fantastic, which like
Speaker 1: I'll eat, I'll do it all right, young player, you
Speaker 1: expect to take the leap next season, so job would
Speaker 1: be our example for this season? Is there a young
Speaker 1: player who you think next year we're gonna all be
Speaker 1: talking about them on shows like Mad Boosties, which is
Speaker 1: most people's touchstone for lace. You know, NBA content feels
Speaker 1: like a cop out to say, like Evan Mobley, but
Speaker 1: he's oh god, he's so good. I love Evan Mowbley
Speaker 1: and Scotty Barnes, Like those are guys that I am
Speaker 1: absolutely certain are going to be great, So I'm watching them, Okay.
Speaker 1: Next question, ninety six Bulls or the sixteen Warriors in
Speaker 1: a series Bulls. Two players from the nineties you'd love
Speaker 1: to see in today's game Dennis Rod and Larry Bird.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like, I love that answer. I love.
Speaker 1: I want a guy who doesn't need to be provoked
Speaker 1: to punch someone, like he's he comes into the game
Speaker 1: in a good mood and thinks I might punch someone tonight.
Speaker 1: Turn this up. Yeah, And and also like I just
Speaker 1: think those guys could play in any Arab basketball. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Robin is such a good example of like the kind
Speaker 1: of Draymond thing and like, you know people underrated thing
Speaker 1: that I think we saw a little bit in the
Speaker 1: like last dance. But how much studying he does on
Speaker 1: like energy merchant watching the ball hits the room with
Speaker 1: those ing ing ing ing ing ing ing exactly. Uh.
Speaker 1: And finally, you can fill Utah's coaching void bit of
Speaker 1: a thought experiment with any available candidate. What direction you're
Speaker 1: going in? You like in a D'Antoni of vocal stocks
Speaker 1: and assistant? What do you do? There's two different ways
Speaker 1: to answer this question, right. It's like, if I am
Speaker 1: GM and I'm running the ship, what am I doing?
Speaker 1: Or what do I think is best for the people
Speaker 1: that are already in those positions. If I'm running, it
Speaker 1: can't say Miles or me. You can't say if I'm
Speaker 1: running everything, the first thing I'm doing is just blowing
Speaker 1: it up, like I I'm I'm trading everyone I'm bringing
Speaker 1: on like expiring contracts and just like trying to stockpile
Speaker 1: assets because I don't think that they can get better
Speaker 1: through trading right now. And um, in that case, then
Speaker 1: I want someone that's going to do really well for
Speaker 1: young players. And so I wouldn't have waited so long,
Speaker 1: and I would have got Kenny Atkinson. And but now
Speaker 1: that that doesn't seem like it's a choice, I kind
Speaker 1: of think that bus Dale would be really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one. I thought you were going to say you'd
Speaker 1: blow it up so that you could move them to
Speaker 1: a different market, like the owner from the movie Major League.
Speaker 1: But that's also a good strategy. I like that. All Right,
Speaker 1: well you have you have passed our lightning round. I
Speaker 1: know you probably like didn't even realize that had started
Speaker 1: so quickly, didn't. Um, he told you real quick, all right,
Speaker 1: And then we gotta do we gotta do the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got to this is this is a
Speaker 1: play that had me and my dad running out my
Speaker 1: house and into the street Western Conference Finals against the
Speaker 1: Kings Lakers down to one in the series, down to
Speaker 1: Kobe's got it and he takes it to the rack
Speaker 1: um miss his check gets point blank. Uh mrs mrs
Speaker 1: the layoup and then beautiful assist from Vladi Diva picks
Speaker 1: it out to you. Robert. Yeah, let's just let's relive
Speaker 1: this wonderful moment. Let's seven second. Kobe takes it in
Speaker 1: rush shack. Good, look at you. Rob's so locked in,
Speaker 1: you're not even You're not even showing teeth. I'll move
Speaker 1: against Christie for the right foot shot. I don't need
Speaker 1: blank open right. Cue that music and that iconic celebration
Speaker 1: two hands behind the back. Yeah, don't put that in
Speaker 1: the right handed risks, don't You're right? You know. The
Speaker 1: funny thing about this shot is there you want to
Speaker 1: see it. They get goose bus. But the best, the
Speaker 1: best view of the shots from overhead when you see
Speaker 1: the whole arena and rupt at the same time, and
Speaker 1: then you see the ball boy Dante uh streak across
Speaker 1: the floor and it's it was. It was such a
Speaker 1: fantastic one because when you're growing up a Laker fan,
Speaker 1: huge Magic Johnson fan man, and you know, watching the
Speaker 1: Lakers play and watching them back when I was you know,
Speaker 1: coming out of college and I saw magic pull it
Speaker 1: sound like, oh no, they're not gonna win to get board.
Speaker 1: You know, so many different moments and you be able
Speaker 1: to do that in a lake of uniform. Not just
Speaker 1: in the Lake of uniform, but at home in the
Speaker 1: Staples Center in front of our fans, because it's not
Speaker 1: very many moments as a Laker playing with Toby Shock
Speaker 1: you get to get the fans a chance your name.
Speaker 1: But you know, for me that that was the best,
Speaker 1: you know, six months of my life after hitting that
Speaker 1: shot mine, I didn't pay for anything in l AFT.
Speaker 1: I went to Vegas. Yeah, that was the best six
Speaker 1: months of my life. Man. I mean you're still good
Speaker 1: in l A. I'm sure, yeah, just a little bit, uh, Because,
Speaker 1: like I said, I've that moment just for me on
Speaker 1: a personal level, right, it was so intense. We knew
Speaker 1: what was on the line there and when that shot
Speaker 1: went in, Like again, the appropriate response was either jump
Speaker 1: up and down or just run away from the TV
Speaker 1: screen because I can't believe what I just saw. And
Speaker 1: I remember my dad and I we both at the
Speaker 1: same time like we have to get out of here
Speaker 1: because we just need to scream this out in the street.
Speaker 1: And it was funny because I would see other people
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood also got out of their house because
Speaker 1: they were like you after you hit the shot that like,
Speaker 1: I gotta run towards the bench whatever that is and
Speaker 1: just be like, come on, everybody was out. So yes,
Speaker 1: what a like such a poignant moment in memory for me.
Speaker 1: So there are very few game winning, actual buzzer beaters
Speaker 1: that changed who the champion was that season like that,
Speaker 1: that shot doesn't go in. The Lakers are down three one,
Speaker 1: like you guys go on to win the you know
Speaker 1: the thing. People always say, oh, we're down three one,
Speaker 1: and I was. I was on a team and the
Speaker 1: five he wanted the Phoenix. Un he can't run back
Speaker 1: to beat them. And you see what Lebron did lately,
Speaker 1: you know, his Golden State down for you once. So
Speaker 1: when I tell people that, oh, if y'all went down
Speaker 1: three one, you talk when the Kings, you might not
Speaker 1: want to eight. You can't. Like Rudy t said, it
Speaker 1: best never undance to make the heart of the champion.
Speaker 1: When you got black moment and the big Diesel anything probable, right,
Speaker 1: you know he were Momba at the time, but you
Speaker 1: know he was still Kobe Bryant, right right, it was
Speaker 1: really great and that I'm just curious and that and
Speaker 1: not one shot against the Magic right you shot that
Speaker 1: over Horace Grant, who you ended up being teammates with
Speaker 1: and obviously playing with shock. Did you was there any
Speaker 1: ever discussion like once you guys like after that, did
Speaker 1: you ever reminisce about that moment at or just something
Speaker 1: that you're like, don't I know that was rough for you,
Speaker 1: but hey, we gotta chip together, so it's all you get.
Speaker 1: There were three guys on that team from that Magic
Speaker 1: team that we swept. Let me put that out there,
Speaker 1: like the we swell in the finals, Paul Brian Shaw O'Neil,
Speaker 1: so you know, sweeping no guys with so much fun.
Speaker 1: But I used to talk a little trash and not
Speaker 1: I mean about I said, y'all, y'all know what the
Speaker 1: deal is. Y'all see that closed personal. But I talked
Speaker 1: too much trash because I didn't want them to think
Speaker 1: about that. So when we went into the finals that
Speaker 1: they'd be like, oh man, the last time was in
Speaker 1: the here together we got swept by Robert always Brocket.
Speaker 1: Oh man, um when Vlada said that that was a
Speaker 1: lucky shot. I mean, maybe he was mad that he
Speaker 1: hits you with one of the greatest assists of all
Speaker 1: time as a Laker, But can we just play that
Speaker 1: clip because it's one of the great clapp backs. So
Speaker 1: this is why saying post games very hurt, very hurt.
Speaker 1: We get it. This is it was a tough one.
Speaker 1: Ever make that shot. You know, that's a lot of
Speaker 1: lots of shot. It's just like luck it shot the Sultan.
Speaker 1: You don't need to have a skills or something. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that kind of situation just throy it. Then it goes in,
Speaker 1: goes either. Property was saying that it was basically just
Speaker 1: a luck shot. That situation just have to throw it up.
Speaker 1: Wasn't luck or was there more to it? When no
Speaker 1: luck shout? I've been doing that for all my career,
Speaker 1: so he should he should know he better read uh
Speaker 1: reading paper or something, reading paper or something. I love
Speaker 1: the confidence and that's again the confidence. Funny story behind that.
Speaker 1: You know, at the time, I was mad at ESPN
Speaker 1: because they had wrote an article about someone. I don't
Speaker 1: remember the exact details, but I've a I've always been
Speaker 1: a big compoinment any time there's something bad to happen
Speaker 1: happens with an athlete, you want to post it all
Speaker 1: over your show. But any times something great off the
Speaker 1: court happens, you never talked about that, so I was
Speaker 1: I was mad about something. So that's why I kind
Speaker 1: of paused, like that you should watch ESPN or something.
Speaker 1: But I said, that's why I said, read the paper
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to get any love. So it
Speaker 1: got to back then, But it was funny. That's why
Speaker 1: I said, read the paper. And that was like that
Speaker 1: proper was literally the last next to Parker last year,
Speaker 1: the next to last year. When papers are we're in
Speaker 1: print because that's everything with digital that makes it a
Speaker 1: classic lines that makes it. And I like that you
Speaker 1: didn't fumble that clap back is that you were very
Speaker 1: uh intentionally saying, well, I'm not gonna show you just
Speaker 1: being love or like I'm not gonna show this network love.
Speaker 1: Uh read a paper. There we go. I got it,
Speaker 1: double double burn. All right. That'll do it for this
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