March 16, 2023 • 52 mins
Jack and Producer Jabari were pleased to be joined by podcaster and comedian extraordinaire Blake Wexler for the latest episode. Beyond discussing the potential for this to be Philly's year, the trio also dove into Giannis being the best player in the world regardless of the eventual MVP voting and the Kings making postseason noise
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hell well, well it's that time again. Then we're
talking My sixers. Joel Embiad and James Harden are playing
good basketball together. The Nuggets have hit a rough patch.
Jannis still looks absolutely unstoppable when he gets it going.
We're gonna discuss that much more with comedian podcaster Blake
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Wexler on today's episode. I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm Jabari Davis,
and this is Miles and Jack. Jack sometimes got mad
boost sometimes well you know, Davis indeed driving spinning Curry
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a three potter, stop Curry from the toil again, be
honest the time. Wow, wow, Wow, listen to that new intro.
We're almost a year in and we finally sound like
a real NBA podcast. We are prosed. I mean I
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feel like that kind of sets too high a bar. Actually,
if I had one note, that's like, Man, this is
gonna be an exciting podcast. Nobody who's stupid is going
to talk at all. Hello, don't you are incorrect? Right
off the bat? Hello, I'm Jack, I'm an idiot, and uh,
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Blake Waxler, what's happening? What's up? Guys? Thanks for having me?
I too, am a moron who knows nothing at all,
So yeah, it psych I fit in perfectly. And this
was not a coincidental booking. This was because of my
lack of intellect and inability to be articulate about the
NBA that I was booked on the show. So thank
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you for having me making me look better. And we
did say that specifically, we need somebody to make me
look articulate. By comparison, Blake is one of our favorite
guests on The Daily Zeitgeist, one of our favorite comedians,
and he has this quote that I'd like to read.
I have been following the Sixers season closely this year,
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and I'm sure it's going too soon burst into flames
in a freshly devastating way, and that is very close
to my heart. That is how I feel as a
Sixers fan at all times. So I as a fan,
I want to preface this episode where I think this
is going to be a great episode. And I also
want to preface this by saying as a sports fan,
I am a diehard sports fan to the point where
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sports did in some way figure back into the fact
of me moving to my hometown to Philadelphia after living
in Los Angeles for ten years. Yeah, when it comes
to the Philadelphia Eagles, when it comes to the Phillies,
when it comes to even the Philadelphia Flyers at the
Philadelphia Union, I would say that I am an anxious
but generally extremely positive fan. When it comes to the Sixers,
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it's interesting. I want them to win, but they do
make me sick, both morally and physically, and I think
they're as an overall thing bad for the world, for society.
They hurt my friends, they hurt my family, they hurt me.
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I don't see a reason why they I remember when
there was these rumors that Josh Harris might move the
team to New Jersey or something, because he also homes
the New Jersey Devils. I think he's also putting in
a bid for the Washington Commanders. I almost felt relief
where I was like, just get this specter this way,
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this awful, awful force in my life away from me
and my family. That being, and they do horrible things
over and over and over again. I am going to
stop talking in a few seconds, just as a matter
of mental health. But they are universally, I would say,
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without any merit, and there's no reason to cheer for them.
Thank you so much for having me, and that's that's
that's all I really need or can say at the moment.
I gotta be honest with you guys. Having to Philly
fans to have the conversation with this is beautiful because
nook La fans have been accused of being toxic at times,
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and we certainly are. I'll cop to that personally as
well as for other teams. There you go not to ourselves.
So while we expect and you know, hope or you're
at least, you know, somewhat costly optimistic about winning every year.
I love Philly fans because, y'all, it doesn't matter like this.
It can be a great stretch, it can it can
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look incredible. And you know Joel Embide, who will talk
about here shortly, can you know, can be playing some
of the best basketball of his career. You know, Harden
looks the most comfortable he's looked in uniform. And you
guys will sit here and say, yeah, but no, yeah,
but no, I think this is I think Blake and
I are like specifically neurotic people and neurotic about the Sixers,
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and like mine is built on like I've been a
living and dying with basketball teams since I was a
child because my dad coached basketball, and so my relationship
to the basketball teams that I love the most was
formed at a time when my brain like did not
have object permanence, you know, And so it's just very dumb.
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It believes my basketball brain believes in magical spirits and
magical forces, and there's not much I can do about it.
And then, yeah, I have always just felt a certain
darkness around the Sixers, in particular because it's been a
steady rhythm of getting very excited having a player that
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I would have like when I was playing on my
little hoop in the driveway when I was a kid.
I invented a seven foot three person with like amazing
touch who like played like a guard and just you know,
could do anything on the bat. And he has arrived,
and like they're there. The highs are so high, but
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then there has been this steady rhythm of them not
being able to get it out of the second round.
So I think it is I think it's hard for
the for the pessimistic Sixer fan out there, and I
think Blake and I are both both that for sure. Yeah,
I really like the fact that you use the word
beautiful Jabari to describe our Sixers fandom, and I would
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imagine you're using that phrase in the same way people
use the word beautiful to describe Guernica, the painting by
where there is just a just just dead everywhere, there's
this funnier body. We've gotten to Guernica and the Sixers
have won five in a row, and exactly right here
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is why it's beautiful. There was a little bit of
bless your heart in there in that beautiful, but minute
we felt it and like a Lakers fan cannot talk
about another team without being insufferable. It's just kind of important, impossible,
and I don't I don't blame you at all. It's
it is the most into a Lakers fan describe the
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Clippers is unbelievable. It's just a master class and passive
aggression and backhanded compliments that are just devastating and cut
right to the heart. So Um, but we're not here
to talk about the Lakers. We're here to just worry
about the Sixers for people puke about the Sixers. Um,
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we won't be talking about the Sixers the whole time, though,
thank you who you read my request? Can we stop
this right now? Um? Yeah, I mean, so these are
some things Jubari wrote down. He wrote, hottest team in
the league, winners of five straight, third, best point differential
in the league, fifteen games left, five home, ten away.
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Not great. Team is currently nineteen and twelve on the road,
which doesn't seem that great until you realize that, like
nobody has a winning record on the road this season
for something good for some reason. So I don't know,
I don't think they're going to catch either the Celtics
or Milwaukee. They're doing much better than I was expecting
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them to be doing it at this point because they've
had a lot of really difficult games over the past
couple of weeks, and they're hanging tough and winning close games.
And the thing Blake that I was saying last week,
I think was that this team, the thing that they've
done this year to trick me into believing that they're
different from teams in the past, is that they come back.
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Like remember for the past five years, how even when
they had a lead going into the fourth quarter, you
were like they going into the last five minutes, it
was always like they're they're going to find a way
to lose the And it feels reversed like it does
feel like they're closing this season pretty well in a
way that they haven't before. So that's the thing that
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I'm going to be holding on to until they exit
the second round. What about you? Yes, I agree with you.
Where that is probably the most alarming thing that's going
on with them right now is that they for the
first time have a semblance of a soul. And for
so long this team was just a machine of finding
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new ways to shred you and to torture you. And okay,
that this number one pick didn't work out because he
didn't he forgot how to shoot. This one before that
didn't work out because he never knew how to shoot.
This guy had. There's so many things where that should
be the most devastating thing about this team that isn't
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even in the top fifteen. Of like the fact that
they drafted Mikail Bridges, who was from Philadelphia, his mother
worked for the team, and then they immediately just traded
him right after that, right after they drafted him, and
he had to put on the little hat and everything,
and he thought he was going to play for his
hometown team. That is won a championship with Villanova. I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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great Valley High School. Yeah, and which which which I
had to bring up. I didn't go there, but you
know which high school he went to. And then he
was traded for a guy who we draft in said
of him, who was nearly killed by sesame seeds because
the team cook didn't know that he had teleg h Yeah,
and that's number nineteen and twenty of the most horrible things.
So you now have a You got rid of Ben
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Simmons and that was also all sorts of sad where
you want things to work out, and you now have
this team where James Harden who I thought best case
scenario Andre Miller at the beginning of the year, and
he is all Andre Miller and much much more so.
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He has been great. They're coming back from twenty point
like I think twice in the past week or two
they came back from twenty point deficits, and Joel Embiid,
who is the only person on this team that you
could possibly have any love in your heart for, was
leading those those comebacks. And I am going to try
to stop being so negative. I am going to try
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to put it so now you have this team that
you do feel oh, Wow, like there is some magic
to them where I think before it was a lot
of this, it was why you can't pair the two
stars together, and you were so preoccupied with that, And
now you actually have a team where oh I actually
you have a player who's capable of putting a smile
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on your face in Tyrese Maxie. And it is a
very it's and this is why it's gonna be so
much worse when I'm falling into it myself, just like
you said, Jack, where it's yeah, I'm pulling for them
and they have a heartbeat now and that should be
very exciting in a vacuum, in a vacuum. The MBIAD
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game winner against Portland was it this past week? It
was very fun. Paps he gets not to the floor,
now whistle and it comes to Joel five seconds to
go driving spinning. Absolutely yeah again, comebacks are really fun
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to watch. Um there's I don't know. The MVP conversation
is so weird at this point, but Jabari did put
together a compilation of people just scoring on Yokich Lady's
not there. That really warmed my heart, warmed my cold
broken heart. Like the one thing I will say is
one of my favorite moments of the season was when
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you know, the Sixers played in Milwaukee, sixteen game winning
streak on the line, and Jannis kept going at mbid
and every time he would run into Embiad's body, he
would lose the ball because he just like didn't. He
was like, what wall did I just run into? Embat
is a fourth like that? Like, I think he has
a gravitate like they talk about, well, this guy's a
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good shooter. He has his own gravity on the on
the court. I think Embiad has gravitational pool from physics
because he's that much bigger than everybody, So that that
was exciting. He's immovable, like even for Jannis, who's the
best at scoring, when he gets to the rim and
like gets his body into somebody and Yokich is not. No,
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And I didn't expect to use this sentence today, but
Jannie does. You're talking about someone who has the best
body in the world, Like Yannis has the best body
out of any human being in the entire world, and
his best body ran into Joel's body and bounced off
of it, which is saying a lot. And I wonder
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with the MVP thing, just another just just another issue
in the scheme of the Sixers, But what do you
guys think about the fact where a lot of people,
whether you're on it or I'm sorry, whether Jokich deserves
it or not, people have compared it to the Steve
Nash MVPs often where if you're a voter, I don't
know if you guys are or not. Yeah, but if
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you are a voter, they give us votes. They're smart,
they've heard, they heard, they're fans of the show, and
that's why they will not give you a vote, absolutely not.
How much should that figure in two? As a voter,
It's like, can we give this guy three MVPs or
should that not figure in at all? I'll be honest
with you. That's the part that bothers me the most.
And the reason is is you know, what has happened
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in the past or what has not happened in the
past shouldn't impact this. It's kind of the same conversation
that we were having, was it six It's crazy to
think seven years ago now when Steph was just about
to win his unanimous MVP and people were like, well,
Jordan never won a unitimous MVP and Kim never and
it's like, yeah, well all those things may be true,
but that has nothing to do with how Steph played
in that individual year. I get it, you know, on
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the yokis naing if people want to say, well, last year,
you know, or whenever it was when they were like
a five seed or whatever, you know, he shouldn't have
gotten at the end. And you know, if you want
to have that debate, that's fine, but I don't think
it's fair to Yok if that is the reason why
you're not going to give it to him. I'm not saying,
you know that he's the you know, he's a clear
cut guy and you have to vote for him. But
if that is your reasoning that that just seems unfair
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to I think it's fine to not give it to
him for any number of reasons. Yeah, I agree, Yeah,
I think you make a lot of sense. All right,
Yeah Jove already just gave a long thought out answer,
But you're just saying that. I seem to connect with
what you're saying. Or for some reason, I think his
performance against MBIAD when MBA dominated him. I think this
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compilation of people scoring like he's not there and in
fact seeming to design their offense to attack him. Um
that I have sent to the league office every day
for the past three days. Um, I don't know. I
think it's all fine. I think the MVP Award is
like a sports right is like narrative award. And everyone's
like when we're talking about this with our grandkids from
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like years from now, and I'm like, I won't I
won't be that's with my grand grandly you're showing your
grandkids your old timeline, like your archived timeline. Like look,
he I was on the right side of history with this. Yeah.
I have a tweet subwhere after we drafted jalil Oka
four or I was like, we're so big. It was
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factual jelil Ok, we're so big. Yeah. And then and
Bead was a draft pick around there. They were just
we had all three. We were big. Yeah. We anticipated
the really anticipate in the future of the league. There
light years light years a hit. What we need is
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a center who can score with his back to the basket.
We need Neurland's Noel at the three, we need jalil
Oka four at the four, Dwell at the five, and
we'll have Dario Sarich at the two. Ten Croatian you
can't move, and then whoever and Michael Carter Williams at
the one you know yeah, also can't move. Yeah. I
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think if we had kept that team together, we would
have won two three titles all right. In terms of
playoff matchups, Jabar was asking me, do I have a
preferred matchup? My only like, I feel good about anyone
except the Celtics. Like even like if we could get
the Bucks in the second round, I would feel better
about that than I would getting the Celtics in the
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second round. I just don't they the Sixers don't match
up well with the Celtics, but it's they will lose
a seven game series. Everyone else, I feel like the
Sixers have a chance. Personally, I completely agree with you
and the Celtics not even matchup wise, which is also
why we would lose with points how they count points? Right,
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just mentally, any nationally televised game that the Sixers are
the Celtics, I will not go near because there's just
no right, there's no parts. Yeah, I know, I'm on
no parts of it, so yeah, hopefully, I mean, I
don't think the seeding is going to work out this way,
Like there's no way they'll get knocked out. We because
right now we would face the Bucks right in the
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second round. Is that we place the face the Celtics
in the second round Jesus yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
would have to drop to the four seed. Be careful
trying to get cute exactly. I don't like And probably
the Bucks would also beat the Sixers, but I just
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the Celtics. I have no hope personally out West. The
matchups are interesting currently. It would be the Kings hosting
the Clippers and the three six give which, um, give
that to me hungry and a little bit a little
bit of both. Remember I'm horngry for that matchup, okay,
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and then Sons of Warriors in the first round. Is
that one too bonkers? Yeah? I feel like Kings Clippers.
A lot of the talking heads, not the most important
talking heads like us on this show, the ones, you know,
we're the ones that everybody pays attention to them, will
sway the Vegas line once they hear our take on this.
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But uh like, I feel like a lot of the
ESPN talking heads will have the Clippers in that series,
just because you know, the playoffs typically go half court
and determined by defense, and the Kings are one of
the worst defenses in the league. But jabbar, you're you're
saying you'd go Kings on that. Yeah, I would go
Kings there. And you know this isn't I promise you
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this is not in you know, Lakers Clipper stuff. This
is this is actual analysis, not fans crisis. For this
one moment, you were saying you would go Kings because
they're a real franchise because I think that helps stadium clearly, yea,
their own city, their own stadium. But no, look, I
I recognize, you know, you're kind of to the point
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that you're making a lot of people are gonna say, well,
the Kings haven't been there before, right, you know. And
and while yeah, you know, experience does factor in, you know,
of course I look at the Clippers and say, well,
neither have they you know, like yes they yes they
have Kauhi. But I mean like as a group, as
a group, it's not like they've done you know, like
all of this winning together. And from the King's side
of things, I hear you in terms of whomever they
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match up against, that team's gonna score a lot of
points because teams play with pace, they get up down
the court. Uh, they like to push the ball. But
I look at this King's team as I honestly think
they're gonna hurt somebody's feelings in that first round, specifically
because they can attack you from all over the court,
whether it's you know, you know, anchoring Domas in the
block and letting him go to work, having him up
at the high post, and you know kind of operating
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and and moving, you know, moving the ball around that way. Obviously,
you know, Darren Fox has taken his game to another
level this year. They've got all types of other pieces.
It's you know, the thing that makes them so dangerous
is basically they can get you in the fasken you're like,
you're like in the uptempo game, but they can also
like attack you in the half court set. Like you know,
for example, Darren Fox is mister fourth quarter this year.
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There have been other guys that have done well, but
when you know, when the games get down to it
and it gets close, he's already worn you down to
the point where more often than that the Kings have
pulled it out. So I say all of that to say,
if they lose, we're gonna scratch this from the record
and this never you know, this never happened, this conversation
never existed. But if they win, I will absolutely be
the guy that says, hey, look pat myself on the back,
because I told you that's interesting that they also are
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calling him mister fourth quarter, because I'm more familiar with
that nickname for myself, but I've heard that with you predominantly.
So yeah, yeah, I think it's one of those Superman
situations where like Shack was Superman and then Dwight Howard
was Superman, where you're the shock in this case obviously.
So of course, of course I hear what you're saying.
All right, it's all right, all right, I just on that,
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all right, that's funny. Yeah, I really really really like
this King's team. I've always loved Daron Fox. I think
he had a year or two down and I remember
they were on the radar for possible Ben Simmons landing spots.
I was Haliburton with them at I Forget and it
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was either Fox or Haliburton, and I even I mean,
I don't know how well this is going to age,
but I just really have loved Darren Fox so much,
and Sabonus is of who knew that he would be
able to put up numbers kind of similar to his dad's.
Like his game. Obviously it's not as behind the iron
curtains rest, but it is like an americanized Arvidus Sabonis's game.
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And I was just looking at the team in my mind.
Malik Monk is thirty eight years old, he's twenty five,
and he's another guy who I got. I thought it
was gonna be so good. Kentucky connection and yeah, yeah,
the Kentucky connection exactly. And he's he's kind of had
a rebound year also, but not because of Malik Monk.
Do I think this team can go a little bit
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in the playoffs, But I do think that they're that
they're a little bit flying under the radar for how
good they are. Blake did tell me that he was
going to use rebound figuratively at some point, because this
is a basketball podcast, so swish on that one could work. Yes,
thank you for the assist. Let's take a quick break,
And that wasn't assist. I did help that by pointing
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it out after the fact. That's right, let's take a
quick break. We'll be right back to talk about some
great performances from the week and we're back, and I
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didn't want to only talk about the nickname controversy having
to do with mister fourth quarter changing hands a little
too soon maybe for some people's tastes, but um so, Jabar,
you pointed out that Donovan Mitchell has scored forty or
more five times over the last month. Last week joined
Lebron James is the only player in franchise history score
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forty or more in a game nine times in the
same season. But you called him Spider, and I just
this is a nickname that I've been having problems with
since I started hearing it. You looked up Jabari how
he got it, and it was because he had during college,
you know, incredibly long arms and was able to steal
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the ball from all these different positions. And I think
every time you go to a new level in your game,
at least this was true for me, you know, like,
because everybody in the NBA has such long arms, he
doesn't stand out as having long arms, and so it's
just it's not working. I think we need to come
up with a better nickname for Donnie, which also not
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a great nickname. Let me ask this had KD accepted Durantula,
would you would you have Okay, that's what I'm saying,
So I bet you wouldn't have as much of a
problem with it because the real Durantula or you know,
spider like individuals, it's still it's still Katie. But also
Slim Reaper also was a fantastic one that he said
no to. He said he wanted the servant and that's
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neither here nor there. M M night. They've not show
that Durantula is an incredible nickname, bit Slim Reaper is
somehow an even better nickname. It's just an embarrassment of
Ridges and too. I was trying to think of a
team with more than one Rich on it and to
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say they were also an embarrassed Ridges, but I couldn't
couldn't cut Rich. Buker was the only and I think
his name's Rick, So yeah, David work. But I was
thinking about how in terms of oh, this guy was
obviously a spider in college, like you just said, Jack,
that worked there. But now when you get to the NBA,
it's kind of standard across you know, like massive wingspans
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where it would be like if when I was a kid,
we would haul my best friend Jeff's dad pool Shack
when we would play pool basketball with him. But then
it would be like if we brought him to an
actual basketball court, not playing with children and called him Pulshack. Also, yeah,
we're very, very strange. Yeah, shout out, shout out to
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pull Shack of us to ever do it. Thank you.
Like I love a dad who like just uses his
physical size to dominate the pool basketball game and agree
that just like, just pull up, take the shot. I
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don't care. I gotta get away from it, all right.
Some highlights from this week. Clay Thompson, We love a
good Clay game. Clay locked in Clay eighteen in the
first quarter, just that quick trigger release, thirty three at
the half, wound up with thirty eight because Jabari texted
us all almost like Clay's gotta going, and so we
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all come on TV and immediately he was like, oh
we do. We don't need to do this tonight. It's
not game six yet. Um. Warriors rounding into shape. Like
I think a lot of people suspected they might heading
towards the postseason, but they seem to be the team
that is getting the hottest at the right time, right
now they're so scary, like they're always just so scary.
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It's a team that you can't ever that's they're the
one team where their seed doesn't matter and the playoffs
as long as they're you know, they get passed. I
don't think they'd be in the play in game right
or are they in the play in tournament right now?
Where are they thirty six and thirty three? But um, yeah,
right now they are in Okay? Cool that. Yeah, it's
just a team you have to be afraid of, no
matter what. The Suns you know, obviously wouldn't want to
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see Golden State in the playoffs also, so yeah, Also
shout out to Dante di Vincenzo, the Big Ragou, one
of the one of the finest players to ever come
out of Delaware. For my money, yeah, I love it,
and you do have a lot of money on that.
I have so much money related to that statement because
it's tax free. Gee. Uh so just really quickly on
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the Warriors. Look, I've been I try it all year
to can you convince myself no, No, someone else is
coming out someone else Denver or we at one point
we were hiding the Pelicans. At one point we were
hid in the Grizzlies, the Warriors, or the team out
of the West where you know, even though my heart
might not be in it, I don't have to squint,
you know, you know, very hard for them to make it,
you know what I mean, Like departure there, they've been
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there before, they've done it. If Andrew Wiggins is there,
and you know, they can apply some pressure on something
on some of the scores that they would conceivably match
up against, I have no reason to count them out.
So shout out to last week's guests that claimed that
they were absolutely going to come out of the West
or no, we're going to represent the West at the
Western Conference Finals. Yeah, Western Conference Finals. Because the longer
we go, the more that feels probably accurate. I still
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think it's gonna be the Nuggets coming out of the West.
Take the team that's first, but they have been struggling. Um.
It does feel like for the past couple of weeks,
every time I say I like a team or I'm
impressed by how well a team is doing, they then
proceed to lose multiple games before the episode comes out
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that did happen? And Nuggets, Yeah, yeah, so glad that
we're doing a six or episode this time. Yeah, Sabonis
first Jannis was super fun matchup Bucks and Kings, and
it feels like this is one of those games where
the Bucks are just like, yeah, but we're still the
best team in the league, right, like everybody knows that, right,
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Oh you don't, Okay, I'm going to prove it to you.
And Jannie looked unstoppable, as he does every time he's
playing someone who's not Joel EMBIID forty six and twelve.
He still has that gear where like, you know, like
I said, when he puts his head down and just goes,
there is nothing that you can do if your name
isn't Joel Embead. Yes, and he definitely shielled that in
(29:59):
that game. That matchup was a lot of fun all throughout.
You know, Sa Bonus almost had a triple double at
half time and then Yannie just came out and saying, no,
that'll be enough. Yeah, it is different in the playoffs
as great as Joe because and be looked amazing in
the fourth quarter against Yannis. You can't and not that
you were saying that you could, but to have himbied
on him the entire game because obviously, yeah, you can't
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do it either. That's why you pay PJ. Tucker all
that money. That's good to have, because it is good.
He's spent five of his paychecks on the greatest sneaker
collection of all time. I do have to give that
up for him. I do wonder when at his because
(30:43):
I remember even wearing Jordan ones. Now, if I'm walking
around my feet without an insert in them, beat are
killing me. And he wears these shoes that don't have
He plays basketball at the highest level in non tea doctor. Yeah,
antiques are right, there's the lost flying off his feet. No,
(31:05):
he is Uh, He's been a treat to have on
the team. Doesn't score, but I think in the playoffs
will be a valuable valuable asset for the Sixers. And
the Knicks got right against your Lakers, Jabariat, you watched
the game, What was it like rooting against them? Would
you notice about the Knicks? And the Knicks are tough
man like. I know that there's always going to be
people that doubt Julius Randall, and Julius will give you
(31:28):
reasons too at times. But he you know, this is
one of those bounced back years. I think we discussed
it last week on the show. Uh, he was great
in that first half. The Lakers were slow to adjust
and you know then when they decided, oh, you know,
we do have an Anthony Davis. You know, he was
able to slow him down in the second half. But
by that point R. J. Barrett got to go in
and they just they just outlasted the Lakers in a
(31:50):
game we're quite frankly the Lakers absolutely needed. So it's
a little bit embarrassing. But you know, good on them,
Good on the Knicks. Yeah, and where where are we
at and the standings Lakers are in the play? Okay,
back in the nine. Back in the nine, baby, that's
where you want to be. Every loss is going to
be like, okay, they're out, and then if you know,
when they win, okay, you know they're in. It truly
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is and you know what our listener of the week,
you know, he kind of alluded to this. It truly
is going to be a matter of who's healthy at
the end, like who has who has enough of their
guys left at the end for the you know, bottom
half of the West bracket. What am I watching the
hokey pokey here? Yeah, you put your whole team in,
(32:30):
ye put your whole team out out, put your whole
team and shake the trade deadline. They did shake things
all all, chook things up. All right, let's do our
broadcast call of the week from Mike Breen. We've got
a little bit of a streak of a Mike Breen
appreciation Society happening with Mike Breen banging his way across
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the league with this shot from Steph Perry. To tie
things up with a backscreen by Thompson on Green Curry
a three quinter Steph Curry from Downtown Again, We're tied
with fifteen seconds from me and then Billy Mack on
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the Lakers broadcast on a D doing it on both ends.
This is an awesome highlight and got me excited banging
on both ends on that one as well. Be on
the yard Stock fuck By gave us good play by
a D Now he's one of the floor Diaglo Russell
now finds a D there he is TI fuck your
(33:36):
one end, throw it down at the other. All right,
let's take a quick break when we come back. Blake,
you know you have a show called Blake's Takes for
god sakes, and we're about to get your takes fast
and furious in the fastest segment and podcasting the rapid
Fire segment of Miles and Jacot Matt Boosts. So we're
(33:58):
gonna give you fifteen minutes to stretch out, get a
nice like pre work out in, and then we'll be
back to make you work sir. We'll be right back,
and we're back. Jabari told me during the break that
(34:19):
he's disappointed at me for not making a fast and
furious family reference at the end there, because I did
say that the segment is fast and furious. Anyways, that
digression right there is exactly as fast and quick paste
as this segment is. It's the rapid fire segment of
(34:41):
Miles and jack I'm mad Boosties. It's good that we
have like such a just concise way of introducing it
that it conveys how fast it's going to be. I
still don't understand the whole speed situation that's going on here.
I relate to the fury, yeah, but I'm going to
go more into the fastness and the quickness. If you
had a hat on your your head, it would be
spinning around right now in the air. Does that put
(35:04):
things in perspective for you? Well, thanks for telegraphing my
closer when I do stand up, well you can you
can always switch to the arrow through the head, you know, yeah,
I guess yeah, but you know how lititious Steve and
his team is. Yeah, that has turning all about. What
is this the hooky pokey? That's another one for you,
(35:26):
free one if you want to, if you want to
use that in your stand up set. A lot of
hoky pokey references. Somebody told me they didn't even know
what like, I guess not everybody grew up with a
hookie pokey. Um. Yeah, the younger, younger audience is gonna say,
I don't know what they're I don't know what you're
talking about, sarah. Um. Anyways, well we should tell them
(35:46):
to get up off their butts and get jobs. Right,
you go, buy, yes, invest All right? Should we start
the clock? Alright? Alright? Catch phrase? There there it is.
There's the catch phrase. It is all ours and nobody original? Jabar,
Do you want to start? You want me to start?
(36:07):
Why don't you start this time? Okay? Sounds good. Blake.
You can take any former six or impair him with
Joel embiid. Which former six or would you like to
see play with Joel Embiid. Todd mccolla, Next question, Todd McCullough,
next question. That is fantastic, And we're not going Barkley,
(36:30):
We're not going doctor Jay. I might go with Jimmy Butler,
actually if only that was wow him. If I think
that might be the best answer, I know, the most
confident of the people that we could put with him
heading into the playoffs, it might. I think it might
have to because here's the thing. As cool as it
would be to see Allen iverson with Joel, that's obviously
(36:54):
not an option, right, Yeah, not enough shots to go
around mo cheeks problems. To be completely honest, if I'm
if I'm talking about that for a long time, Yeah,
I can't. It's destroyed relationships from and romantic Um. Yeah, no,
I think it might be all I did say Butler
to be a little a little shyster there, but I
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think it is. It might actually be Jimmy Butler. I
kind of like that answer. Yeah, Now, Blake, we didn't
fully explain what the situation is here. It's it's really
incumbent upon you to keep us on pace. We are
going to keep us going, all right, I'll name more
Eric snow. I think he could really blossom with Joel embiid.
(37:40):
I think Matt to whole vibe. What did I did
I tell you this is a bad idea? Thomas? Yeah,
Tim Thomas wouldn't honestly, probably wouldn't be that bad of
a one because he's you know, dangerous from three Who
else would I? Oh, doctor, I told you it would
be very cool jumping a little bit clogging in the way.
(38:01):
Oh yeah, if you don't mind. Okay. So, if you
were watching poetic about Jaylen earlier in the show and
we're going to continue our blood feud with him, is
Jalen Rose his hair too good to be true? And
I asked that as a follically challenged man, I'm losing
my hair at a rapid rate. A lot of it
it comes from watching this team over years. I believe
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Jalen Rose had a quote that if you're not spending
one hundred dollars on your haircut or it wasn't a
hundred was the number at least undred, excuse me. His
hair is a distraction and it really is too good.
I agree, and I do believe what they're trying to
(38:46):
do at ESPN with Get Up trying to modernize and
you know, really bring the Disney Walt Disney Company into
the twenty century. I think that his hair, none of
these things can happen while he's giving that level of
detail and attention to his hair. So yeah, I think
that you're going to see Bob Iger step aside again
(39:10):
because of the until this hair situation rectifies itself. So yeah,
it's it's too good to be true, for sure. I
am truly distracted every time he's on camera how great
his hair is. You were saying, you you read Jalen
Rosa's biography, autobiography, I told you that inconfidence. I told
you that in confidence. If he released um, all right, Blake,
(39:33):
try and try and say on track. I know that's
an impossibility, but let's just yeah, let's just pretend we're trying.
Could we pretend we're trying. That would be great. You
can pick any player from throughout history two star opposite
you in a buddy cop movie. Which player or we'll
even throw coach in? Which of them are you picking?
(39:55):
I The first player who came to mind, and this
is actually going to be my answer is Rick Smits
because he looks the most like a cop it's the
It's mostly a casting decision more than onstream chemistry between
the two of us. I think another option could be,
(40:19):
you know what, whatever joke I was going to make
there would not have been approate appropriate. So yeah, I
was going through like the bat. Actually, oh, you know
who it would be would be like Bill lamb Beer
because I would be the good cop obviously in that situation,
and he would be the horrific cop and everyone would
(40:42):
hate him. And I think I could rise up the
ranks quicker that way, just by the juxtaposition of how
much easier I am to get along with. So I'll
go with I know I said Rick Smiths at first,
but I'm gonna go with the only other white player
I could. They are afficial and you guys are aficial
the bad boys, So I'm not mad at that. All
who we are who we are very bad. Keep it going.
(41:05):
If you could bet on any fan base to make
the inn Arena challenge shots, you know, the lay up,
the free throw, the three point or half court which
fan base coort fan bases? Are you betting on it?
I'm so there's different ways to think of this. Here
where you could go, where are the basketball hot, and
where where are the players from? I would this is interesting.
I actually think before they move, I might go with
(41:27):
the New Jersey Nets, because you just have guys from Newark,
you know, just in the stadium. And it's not the
Nets in their current state. Yea, just bloggers, A sunch
guy's named Zander. Yeah, yeah, there are little wrists. So
I might actually have to go with what is the
(41:50):
fittest city in the NBA, and that would be Denver.
I would actually go with because I believe you think
of what people look like in Denver, most of them
are probably working on jump shots. So I would go
with the good folks in Denver for that one. Put
(42:14):
yeah I can't yeah, like it, love it. So I
have this persistent nightmare. This has nothing to do with
the show. I just want to tell you about my
dream that's basically a reverse like Mike, where I suddenly
switched bodies with an NBA player and but I have
my skills still. Um. Yes, what would you do in
that situation if you suddenly switched and you were in
(42:36):
hardened body in the fourth quarter with your skills, I
would carry myself in a way that would that would
be more confident than anyone in the entire world. And
also defensively, there would be no difference between it by
so I do want to say that. I would also
I would insist upond inbounding the basketball, so say so
(43:00):
the other team scores, because it really to answer this truthfully,
you want to hide who you are. So yes, I
would insist on inbounding the basketball. And then right after
I do that, I would start tying my shoe and
I'd be like, you take it, and then exasperated, keep
it just I can't believe it. So and and here's
(43:21):
the thing too. One benefit about Harden is that the
guy sometimes has not maybe hustled as much as people.
So I think I could pass the barrier of reasonable
doubt that oh James is just loaf in it the
script where I think I would just go from top
(43:41):
of the key to maybe top of the key, like
that's going to be the entire and if I passed,
it would just immediately pass it away. I think that's
what I would do, all right. I like that, But
I've always said that I would take an injury. Um,
but that's there's you're braver. Yeah, that's a good one.
I had a dream I always have laughed at the
(44:02):
scenario where when you have such bad self esteem as
a person that in a video game, when you create yourself,
you give all yourself all really really bad by ratings.
You know which is gonna be. It's the whole purpose
of doing it. And then I would make the popular
kid that I grew up with in the game, and
(44:25):
then she'd have amazing ratings and just beat down on that.
Anything else is just unrealistic. You know, I agree, I
agree one hundred percent. Yeah, And I was like, oh,
you gotta go to therapy. I was gonna say, I
feel like we could spend the next thirty minutes unpacking that.
But what I will say, what I will say in
response is, guys, we have solved the mystery. We now
(44:48):
know why traditionally Jim Harden has turned into a pumpkin.
You know. Yeah, has been because people have been switching.
It's guys like me going, yeah, that's good enough, that's
good enough. Have you had that thought while watching him?
That is there a body switching? Is there a body
switchero comedy happening right now? Yeah, that's why I feel
(45:10):
good heading into the playoffs. That's all right. Last last
one here for you, and this is the most important one,
just so you know, uh, you know, some people get
this wrong, some people get it right. Let's let's hope
that you're on the right side of things. To Jack
that or Jabari, Damn, Jabari gets like close to the
(45:30):
camera after he asks it makes a cute face. When
he was coming out of Duke and was drafted so
highly that Jabari I thought he was going to have
his career takeoff again when he went to his hometown
of Chicago. Yeah, oh, it's between you two. I'm gonna
(45:52):
go with sometimes Jack. When I do the Daily Zeitgeist
is not there and I don't know what other commitments
you could have In those situations, I sometimes get paired
with a guest host, which I think is disrespectful. So
I would never do that to you. Record No, and
(46:14):
I every time by the time you've ever been on
this And guess who was one for one with Jabaria
is better? Yeah? Yeah, cool? So I'm going Jabari and Jack.
That's that's not a knock on you, definitely not. It's
a one one a situation. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, I
(46:34):
can't wait to have you back on Daily's like Geist. Man. Well,
you know, I'm definitely going to happen. Jack, someone's gonna
be pipping. Okay, you know he's got he's got six
of them things too. Yeah, any easy and easy. That's
where that phrase came from. Actually it is all right, Jabari,
Why don't you close the episode? Okay? Yeah, man, why
(46:56):
don't you do it? Since you're a you know, clearly
the most important part of the show. See see what
you've done, See what you've done? All right, I will
be sorry. I don't know that's my crying noise. Um.
We went polling this week on Twitter, and I'm going
to be honest with you, some of these results don't
really make sense, but you know what, they were a
heck of a lot of fun. Like Brion went polling
(47:18):
this week. There you go. Sorry. Fifty two listeners responded
to the polls. Think that the Lakers are going to
make a conference finals run if they into the playoffs.
All right, So this is where I'm This is where
I'm not laughing at like that that being impossible, but
the fact that and this is where I am with this.
(47:40):
I love you guys, I appreciate you guys. We'll come on, man, hey,
look it might be, It might be, it could happen.
We'll just say that. I just we might have a
sampled sampling bias because we have a podcast that is
basically a Laker sixers podcast. But this is true. Six
percent of you guys think the Kings win around then
(48:02):
lose in the second round. That is definitive. Wow, it's seriously.
Seventy three percent of you guys think the Suns will
make a conference finals run. Okay, this is gonna this
is starting to be uh mathematically impossible. Oh no, it will.
It will officially be mathematically impossible when I get to
the end of this. U. Seventy percent think the Clippers
went around then bow out in the second We don't
(48:23):
really need comment there because it's probably gonna be true.
Eighty two of you guys think the MAVs barely sneak
in but lose either in the plan or the first round. Okay,
and here's the part where that math ain't math thin
because thirty eight percent of you guys think the Nuggets
will rep the Western Conference from the finals. I think
all of those things are true. Yeah, yeah, true, church church, church, um, yeah,
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fair enough, all right, our Boosti's listener of the week
was at NBA Loverboy because he said, and you know,
we kind of alluded to this earlier Mike Breen. Here
we are h You know that is Mike Breen's alter ego.
So yeah, shout out to you, Mike Breen. Think you
were making your second appearance on the same episode. But
NBA Loverboy says, there's so little separation between the Western
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Conference teams that is really going to come down to
whoever is healthiest, And to be honest, that's probably the case.
You know, we can talk back and forth over these
next couple of weeks, but that's in all likelihood that's
how it's gonna shape up. Yeah, I was gonna say
something mean, but I won't. I'll go for it because
I was just thinking about how much I hate the
take of like, well, I think if healthy the and
(49:27):
like if it all comes down to health, because it's like, yeah,
that's obviously true. That's a piece of randomness that we
bake into the conversation and don't necessarily get anything out
of being Like I think, if Jannis gets hurt, the
Bucks are in trouble. But yes, this is not that
NBA Loverboy, I don't know why MBA mean to you.
(49:49):
I think I just we don't put a microphone in
front of Kyrie Irving's face until the end of the year.
I think they might be able to pick up a
win in the plane for it. Fair enough, But for
the listeners out there, make sure you give us a
follow on Twitter at mad Boostise Blake, thank you so
much for joining us today aside from catching you in
(50:09):
stand up where can the folks followe course, thank you
for having me. This was so much fun. And then
false pleasure is all mine and give me that pleasure. Sorry,
that was just took. I took my microphone. But yeah,
no at Blake Wexler on all social media, Blake sakes.
For God's sakes, I've recently come into possession of a
(50:30):
Twitter account. No, I'm in a think dot account, which
also is not true. But yeah, I'm on TikTok as well,
and uh that's very anyway before the government takes it
away from me. You can check me out on there
and yeah, and if you just look up Blake Wexler
(50:50):
wherever you listen to music, all my stand up albums
that aren't in the middle of a lawsuit will come up.
So you can listen to those and yeah, but serious,
I could not have enjoyed this more. Jabara, You're awesome. Jack.
I've always adored you, so thank you so much for
having me. Thank you you guys. You guys heard it.
He'd say that was awesome. Man, I'm just gonna take that.
(51:10):
I'm gonna take that and run with it. Jabbar, you
are awesome. I'm standing here in front of God and
everyone telling you you're awesome. And on that note, it
has been another fantastic episode of Miles and Jack got mad.
I'm in a weird place. So while we unpacked all
(51:30):
of this, your teeth are bleeding, not your gums, your
actual teeth, out of your teeth. It's been a lot
of clenching happening, you know, the six or seasons really
and then you picking me at the end that that
was just the straw, that was it, and I'd just
fall apart. It's over now. One of my eyebrows just
fell off my face. He's got clump head right now,
(51:55):
all right back next week. Bye bye. The murtherer is
the murcher, the courser
Well, hell well, well it's that time again. Then we're
talking My sixers. Joel Embiad and James Harden are playing
good basketball together. The Nuggets have hit a rough patch.
Jannis still looks absolutely unstoppable when he gets it going.
We're gonna discuss that much more with comedian podcaster Blake
(00:21):
Wexler on today's episode. I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm Jabari Davis,
and this is Miles and Jack. Jack sometimes got mad
boost sometimes well you know, Davis indeed driving spinning Curry
(00:42):
a three potter, stop Curry from the toil again, be
honest the time. Wow, wow, Wow, listen to that new intro.
We're almost a year in and we finally sound like
a real NBA podcast. We are prosed. I mean I
(01:05):
feel like that kind of sets too high a bar. Actually,
if I had one note, that's like, Man, this is
gonna be an exciting podcast. Nobody who's stupid is going
to talk at all. Hello, don't you are incorrect? Right
off the bat? Hello, I'm Jack, I'm an idiot, and uh,
(01:25):
Blake Waxler, what's happening? What's up? Guys? Thanks for having me?
I too, am a moron who knows nothing at all,
So yeah, it psych I fit in perfectly. And this
was not a coincidental booking. This was because of my
lack of intellect and inability to be articulate about the
NBA that I was booked on the show. So thank
(01:47):
you for having me making me look better. And we
did say that specifically, we need somebody to make me
look articulate. By comparison, Blake is one of our favorite
guests on The Daily Zeitgeist, one of our favorite comedians,
and he has this quote that I'd like to read.
I have been following the Sixers season closely this year,
(02:07):
and I'm sure it's going too soon burst into flames
in a freshly devastating way, and that is very close
to my heart. That is how I feel as a
Sixers fan at all times. So I as a fan,
I want to preface this episode where I think this
is going to be a great episode. And I also
want to preface this by saying as a sports fan,
I am a diehard sports fan to the point where
(02:30):
sports did in some way figure back into the fact
of me moving to my hometown to Philadelphia after living
in Los Angeles for ten years. Yeah, when it comes
to the Philadelphia Eagles, when it comes to the Phillies,
when it comes to even the Philadelphia Flyers at the
Philadelphia Union, I would say that I am an anxious
but generally extremely positive fan. When it comes to the Sixers,
(02:55):
it's interesting. I want them to win, but they do
make me sick, both morally and physically, and I think
they're as an overall thing bad for the world, for society.
They hurt my friends, they hurt my family, they hurt me.
(03:15):
I don't see a reason why they I remember when
there was these rumors that Josh Harris might move the
team to New Jersey or something, because he also homes
the New Jersey Devils. I think he's also putting in
a bid for the Washington Commanders. I almost felt relief
where I was like, just get this specter this way,
(03:37):
this awful, awful force in my life away from me
and my family. That being, and they do horrible things
over and over and over again. I am going to
stop talking in a few seconds, just as a matter
of mental health. But they are universally, I would say,
(03:57):
without any merit, and there's no reason to cheer for them.
Thank you so much for having me, and that's that's
that's all I really need or can say at the moment.
I gotta be honest with you guys. Having to Philly
fans to have the conversation with this is beautiful because
nook La fans have been accused of being toxic at times,
(04:18):
and we certainly are. I'll cop to that personally as
well as for other teams. There you go not to ourselves.
So while we expect and you know, hope or you're
at least, you know, somewhat costly optimistic about winning every year.
I love Philly fans because, y'all, it doesn't matter like this.
It can be a great stretch, it can it can
(04:39):
look incredible. And you know Joel Embide, who will talk
about here shortly, can you know, can be playing some
of the best basketball of his career. You know, Harden
looks the most comfortable he's looked in uniform. And you
guys will sit here and say, yeah, but no, yeah,
but no, I think this is I think Blake and
I are like specifically neurotic people and neurotic about the Sixers,
(05:00):
and like mine is built on like I've been a
living and dying with basketball teams since I was a
child because my dad coached basketball, and so my relationship
to the basketball teams that I love the most was
formed at a time when my brain like did not
have object permanence, you know, And so it's just very dumb.
(05:21):
It believes my basketball brain believes in magical spirits and
magical forces, and there's not much I can do about it.
And then, yeah, I have always just felt a certain
darkness around the Sixers, in particular because it's been a
steady rhythm of getting very excited having a player that
(05:44):
I would have like when I was playing on my
little hoop in the driveway when I was a kid.
I invented a seven foot three person with like amazing
touch who like played like a guard and just you know,
could do anything on the bat. And he has arrived,
and like they're there. The highs are so high, but
(06:06):
then there has been this steady rhythm of them not
being able to get it out of the second round.
So I think it is I think it's hard for
the for the pessimistic Sixer fan out there, and I
think Blake and I are both both that for sure. Yeah,
I really like the fact that you use the word
beautiful Jabari to describe our Sixers fandom, and I would
(06:27):
imagine you're using that phrase in the same way people
use the word beautiful to describe Guernica, the painting by
where there is just a just just dead everywhere, there's
this funnier body. We've gotten to Guernica and the Sixers
have won five in a row, and exactly right here
(06:49):
is why it's beautiful. There was a little bit of
bless your heart in there in that beautiful, but minute
we felt it and like a Lakers fan cannot talk
about another team without being insufferable. It's just kind of important, impossible,
and I don't I don't blame you at all. It's
it is the most into a Lakers fan describe the
(07:10):
Clippers is unbelievable. It's just a master class and passive
aggression and backhanded compliments that are just devastating and cut
right to the heart. So Um, but we're not here
to talk about the Lakers. We're here to just worry
about the Sixers for people puke about the Sixers. Um,
(07:36):
we won't be talking about the Sixers the whole time, though,
thank you who you read my request? Can we stop
this right now? Um? Yeah, I mean, so these are
some things Jubari wrote down. He wrote, hottest team in
the league, winners of five straight, third, best point differential
in the league, fifteen games left, five home, ten away.
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Not great. Team is currently nineteen and twelve on the road,
which doesn't seem that great until you realize that, like
nobody has a winning record on the road this season
for something good for some reason. So I don't know,
I don't think they're going to catch either the Celtics
or Milwaukee. They're doing much better than I was expecting
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them to be doing it at this point because they've
had a lot of really difficult games over the past
couple of weeks, and they're hanging tough and winning close games.
And the thing Blake that I was saying last week,
I think was that this team, the thing that they've
done this year to trick me into believing that they're
different from teams in the past, is that they come back.
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Like remember for the past five years, how even when
they had a lead going into the fourth quarter, you
were like they going into the last five minutes, it
was always like they're they're going to find a way
to lose the And it feels reversed like it does
feel like they're closing this season pretty well in a
way that they haven't before. So that's the thing that
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I'm going to be holding on to until they exit
the second round. What about you? Yes, I agree with you.
Where that is probably the most alarming thing that's going
on with them right now is that they for the
first time have a semblance of a soul. And for
so long this team was just a machine of finding
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new ways to shred you and to torture you. And okay,
that this number one pick didn't work out because he
didn't he forgot how to shoot. This one before that
didn't work out because he never knew how to shoot.
This guy had. There's so many things where that should
be the most devastating thing about this team that isn't
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even in the top fifteen. Of like the fact that
they drafted Mikail Bridges, who was from Philadelphia, his mother
worked for the team, and then they immediately just traded
him right after that, right after they drafted him, and
he had to put on the little hat and everything,
and he thought he was going to play for his
hometown team. That is won a championship with Villanova. I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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great Valley High School. Yeah, and which which which I
had to bring up. I didn't go there, but you
know which high school he went to. And then he
was traded for a guy who we draft in said
of him, who was nearly killed by sesame seeds because
the team cook didn't know that he had teleg h Yeah,
and that's number nineteen and twenty of the most horrible things.
So you now have a You got rid of Ben
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Simmons and that was also all sorts of sad where
you want things to work out, and you now have
this team where James Harden who I thought best case
scenario Andre Miller at the beginning of the year, and
he is all Andre Miller and much much more so.
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He has been great. They're coming back from twenty point
like I think twice in the past week or two
they came back from twenty point deficits, and Joel Embiid,
who is the only person on this team that you
could possibly have any love in your heart for, was
leading those those comebacks. And I am going to try
to stop being so negative. I am going to try
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to put it so now you have this team that
you do feel oh, Wow, like there is some magic
to them where I think before it was a lot
of this, it was why you can't pair the two
stars together, and you were so preoccupied with that, And
now you actually have a team where oh I actually
you have a player who's capable of putting a smile
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on your face in Tyrese Maxie. And it is a
very it's and this is why it's gonna be so
much worse when I'm falling into it myself, just like
you said, Jack, where it's yeah, I'm pulling for them
and they have a heartbeat now and that should be
very exciting in a vacuum, in a vacuum. The MBIAD
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game winner against Portland was it this past week? It
was very fun. Paps he gets not to the floor,
now whistle and it comes to Joel five seconds to
go driving spinning. Absolutely yeah again, comebacks are really fun
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to watch. Um there's I don't know. The MVP conversation
is so weird at this point, but Jabari did put
together a compilation of people just scoring on Yokich Lady's
not there. That really warmed my heart, warmed my cold
broken heart. Like the one thing I will say is
one of my favorite moments of the season was when
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you know, the Sixers played in Milwaukee, sixteen game winning
streak on the line, and Jannis kept going at mbid
and every time he would run into Embiad's body, he
would lose the ball because he just like didn't. He
was like, what wall did I just run into? Embat
is a fourth like that? Like, I think he has
a gravitate like they talk about, well, this guy's a
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good shooter. He has his own gravity on the on
the court. I think Embiad has gravitational pool from physics
because he's that much bigger than everybody, So that that
was exciting. He's immovable, like even for Jannis, who's the
best at scoring, when he gets to the rim and
like gets his body into somebody and Yokich is not. No,
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And I didn't expect to use this sentence today, but
Jannie does. You're talking about someone who has the best
body in the world, Like Yannis has the best body
out of any human being in the entire world, and
his best body ran into Joel's body and bounced off
of it, which is saying a lot. And I wonder
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with the MVP thing, just another just just another issue
in the scheme of the Sixers, But what do you
guys think about the fact where a lot of people,
whether you're on it or I'm sorry, whether Jokich deserves
it or not, people have compared it to the Steve
Nash MVPs often where if you're a voter, I don't
know if you guys are or not. Yeah, but if
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you are a voter, they give us votes. They're smart,
they've heard, they heard, they're fans of the show, and
that's why they will not give you a vote, absolutely not.
How much should that figure in two? As a voter,
It's like, can we give this guy three MVPs or
should that not figure in at all? I'll be honest
with you. That's the part that bothers me the most.
And the reason is is you know, what has happened
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in the past or what has not happened in the
past shouldn't impact this. It's kind of the same conversation
that we were having, was it six It's crazy to
think seven years ago now when Steph was just about
to win his unanimous MVP and people were like, well,
Jordan never won a unitimous MVP and Kim never and
it's like, yeah, well all those things may be true,
but that has nothing to do with how Steph played
in that individual year. I get it, you know, on
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the yokis naing if people want to say, well, last year,
you know, or whenever it was when they were like
a five seed or whatever, you know, he shouldn't have
gotten at the end. And you know, if you want
to have that debate, that's fine, but I don't think
it's fair to Yok if that is the reason why
you're not going to give it to him. I'm not saying,
you know that he's the you know, he's a clear
cut guy and you have to vote for him. But
if that is your reasoning that that just seems unfair
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to I think it's fine to not give it to
him for any number of reasons. Yeah, I agree, Yeah,
I think you make a lot of sense. All right,
Yeah Jove already just gave a long thought out answer,
But you're just saying that. I seem to connect with
what you're saying. Or for some reason, I think his
performance against MBIAD when MBA dominated him. I think this
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compilation of people scoring like he's not there and in
fact seeming to design their offense to attack him. Um
that I have sent to the league office every day
for the past three days. Um, I don't know. I
think it's all fine. I think the MVP Award is
like a sports right is like narrative award. And everyone's
like when we're talking about this with our grandkids from
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like years from now, and I'm like, I won't I
won't be that's with my grand grandly you're showing your
grandkids your old timeline, like your archived timeline. Like look,
he I was on the right side of history with this. Yeah.
I have a tweet subwhere after we drafted jalil Oka
four or I was like, we're so big. It was
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factual jelil Ok, we're so big. Yeah. And then and
Bead was a draft pick around there. They were just
we had all three. We were big. Yeah. We anticipated
the really anticipate in the future of the league. There
light years light years a hit. What we need is
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a center who can score with his back to the basket.
We need Neurland's Noel at the three, we need jalil
Oka four at the four, Dwell at the five, and
we'll have Dario Sarich at the two. Ten Croatian you
can't move, and then whoever and Michael Carter Williams at
the one you know yeah, also can't move. Yeah. I
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think if we had kept that team together, we would
have won two three titles all right. In terms of
playoff matchups, Jabar was asking me, do I have a
preferred matchup? My only like, I feel good about anyone
except the Celtics. Like even like if we could get
the Bucks in the second round, I would feel better
about that than I would getting the Celtics in the
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second round. I just don't they the Sixers don't match
up well with the Celtics, but it's they will lose
a seven game series. Everyone else, I feel like the
Sixers have a chance. Personally, I completely agree with you
and the Celtics not even matchup wise, which is also
why we would lose with points how they count points? Right,
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just mentally, any nationally televised game that the Sixers are
the Celtics, I will not go near because there's just
no right, there's no parts. Yeah, I know, I'm on
no parts of it, so yeah, hopefully, I mean, I
don't think the seeding is going to work out this way,
Like there's no way they'll get knocked out. We because
right now we would face the Bucks right in the
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second round. Is that we place the face the Celtics
in the second round Jesus yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
would have to drop to the four seed. Be careful
trying to get cute exactly. I don't like And probably
the Bucks would also beat the Sixers, but I just
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the Celtics. I have no hope personally out West. The
matchups are interesting currently. It would be the Kings hosting
the Clippers and the three six give which, um, give
that to me hungry and a little bit a little
bit of both. Remember I'm horngry for that matchup, okay,
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and then Sons of Warriors in the first round. Is
that one too bonkers? Yeah? I feel like Kings Clippers.
A lot of the talking heads, not the most important
talking heads like us on this show, the ones, you know,
we're the ones that everybody pays attention to them, will
sway the Vegas line once they hear our take on this.
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But uh like, I feel like a lot of the
ESPN talking heads will have the Clippers in that series,
just because you know, the playoffs typically go half court
and determined by defense, and the Kings are one of
the worst defenses in the league. But jabbar, you're you're
saying you'd go Kings on that. Yeah, I would go
Kings there. And you know this isn't I promise you
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this is not in you know, Lakers Clipper stuff. This
is this is actual analysis, not fans crisis. For this
one moment, you were saying you would go Kings because
they're a real franchise because I think that helps stadium clearly, yea,
their own city, their own stadium. But no, look, I
I recognize, you know, you're kind of to the point
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that you're making a lot of people are gonna say, well,
the Kings haven't been there before, right, you know. And
and while yeah, you know, experience does factor in, you know,
of course I look at the Clippers and say, well,
neither have they you know, like yes they yes they
have Kauhi. But I mean like as a group, as
a group, it's not like they've done you know, like
all of this winning together. And from the King's side
of things, I hear you in terms of whomever they
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match up against, that team's gonna score a lot of
points because teams play with pace, they get up down
the court. Uh, they like to push the ball. But
I look at this King's team as I honestly think
they're gonna hurt somebody's feelings in that first round, specifically
because they can attack you from all over the court,
whether it's you know, you know, anchoring Domas in the
block and letting him go to work, having him up
at the high post, and you know kind of operating
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and and moving, you know, moving the ball around that way. Obviously,
you know, Darren Fox has taken his game to another
level this year. They've got all types of other pieces.
It's you know, the thing that makes them so dangerous
is basically they can get you in the fasken you're like,
you're like in the uptempo game, but they can also
like attack you in the half court set. Like you know,
for example, Darren Fox is mister fourth quarter this year.
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There have been other guys that have done well, but
when you know, when the games get down to it
and it gets close, he's already worn you down to
the point where more often than that the Kings have
pulled it out. So I say all of that to say,
if they lose, we're gonna scratch this from the record
and this never you know, this never happened, this conversation
never existed. But if they win, I will absolutely be
the guy that says, hey, look pat myself on the back,
because I told you that's interesting that they also are
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calling him mister fourth quarter, because I'm more familiar with
that nickname for myself, but I've heard that with you predominantly.
So yeah, yeah, I think it's one of those Superman
situations where like Shack was Superman and then Dwight Howard
was Superman, where you're the shock in this case obviously.
So of course, of course I hear what you're saying.
All right, it's all right, all right, I just on that,
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all right, that's funny. Yeah, I really really really like
this King's team. I've always loved Daron Fox. I think
he had a year or two down and I remember
they were on the radar for possible Ben Simmons landing spots.
I was Haliburton with them at I Forget and it
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was either Fox or Haliburton, and I even I mean,
I don't know how well this is going to age,
but I just really have loved Darren Fox so much,
and Sabonus is of who knew that he would be
able to put up numbers kind of similar to his dad's.
Like his game. Obviously it's not as behind the iron
curtains rest, but it is like an americanized Arvidus Sabonis's game.
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And I was just looking at the team in my mind.
Malik Monk is thirty eight years old, he's twenty five,
and he's another guy who I got. I thought it
was gonna be so good. Kentucky connection and yeah, yeah,
the Kentucky connection exactly. And he's he's kind of had
a rebound year also, but not because of Malik Monk.
Do I think this team can go a little bit
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in the playoffs, But I do think that they're that
they're a little bit flying under the radar for how
good they are. Blake did tell me that he was
going to use rebound figuratively at some point, because this
is a basketball podcast, so swish on that one could work. Yes,
thank you for the assist. Let's take a quick break,
And that wasn't assist. I did help that by pointing
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it out after the fact. That's right, let's take a
quick break. We'll be right back to talk about some
great performances from the week and we're back, and I
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didn't want to only talk about the nickname controversy having
to do with mister fourth quarter changing hands a little
too soon maybe for some people's tastes, but um so, Jabar,
you pointed out that Donovan Mitchell has scored forty or
more five times over the last month. Last week joined
Lebron James is the only player in franchise history score
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forty or more in a game nine times in the
same season. But you called him Spider, and I just
this is a nickname that I've been having problems with
since I started hearing it. You looked up Jabari how
he got it, and it was because he had during college,
you know, incredibly long arms and was able to steal
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the ball from all these different positions. And I think
every time you go to a new level in your game,
at least this was true for me, you know, like,
because everybody in the NBA has such long arms, he
doesn't stand out as having long arms, and so it's
just it's not working. I think we need to come
up with a better nickname for Donnie, which also not
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a great nickname. Let me ask this had KD accepted Durantula,
would you would you have Okay, that's what I'm saying,
So I bet you wouldn't have as much of a
problem with it because the real Durantula or you know,
spider like individuals, it's still it's still Katie. But also
Slim Reaper also was a fantastic one that he said
no to. He said he wanted the servant and that's
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neither here nor there. M M night. They've not show
that Durantula is an incredible nickname, bit Slim Reaper is
somehow an even better nickname. It's just an embarrassment of
Ridges and too. I was trying to think of a
team with more than one Rich on it and to
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say they were also an embarrassed Ridges, but I couldn't
couldn't cut Rich. Buker was the only and I think
his name's Rick, So yeah, David work. But I was
thinking about how in terms of oh, this guy was
obviously a spider in college, like you just said, Jack,
that worked there. But now when you get to the NBA,
it's kind of standard across you know, like massive wingspans
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where it would be like if when I was a kid,
we would haul my best friend Jeff's dad pool Shack
when we would play pool basketball with him. But then
it would be like if we brought him to an
actual basketball court, not playing with children and called him Pulshack. Also, yeah,
we're very, very strange. Yeah, shout out, shout out to
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pull Shack of us to ever do it. Thank you.
Like I love a dad who like just uses his
physical size to dominate the pool basketball game and agree
that just like, just pull up, take the shot. I
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don't care. I gotta get away from it, all right.
Some highlights from this week. Clay Thompson, We love a
good Clay game. Clay locked in Clay eighteen in the
first quarter, just that quick trigger release, thirty three at
the half, wound up with thirty eight because Jabari texted
us all almost like Clay's gotta going, and so we
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all come on TV and immediately he was like, oh
we do. We don't need to do this tonight. It's
not game six yet. Um. Warriors rounding into shape. Like
I think a lot of people suspected they might heading
towards the postseason, but they seem to be the team
that is getting the hottest at the right time, right
now they're so scary, like they're always just so scary.
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It's a team that you can't ever that's they're the
one team where their seed doesn't matter and the playoffs
as long as they're you know, they get passed. I
don't think they'd be in the play in game right
or are they in the play in tournament right now?
Where are they thirty six and thirty three? But um, yeah,
right now they are in Okay? Cool that. Yeah, it's
just a team you have to be afraid of, no
matter what. The Suns you know, obviously wouldn't want to
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see Golden State in the playoffs also, so yeah, Also
shout out to Dante di Vincenzo, the Big Ragou, one
of the one of the finest players to ever come
out of Delaware. For my money, yeah, I love it,
and you do have a lot of money on that.
I have so much money related to that statement because
it's tax free. Gee. Uh so just really quickly on
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the Warriors. Look, I've been I try it all year
to can you convince myself no, No, someone else is
coming out someone else Denver or we at one point
we were hiding the Pelicans. At one point we were
hid in the Grizzlies, the Warriors, or the team out
of the West where you know, even though my heart
might not be in it, I don't have to squint,
you know, you know, very hard for them to make it,
you know what I mean, Like departure there, they've been
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there before, they've done it. If Andrew Wiggins is there,
and you know, they can apply some pressure on something
on some of the scores that they would conceivably match
up against, I have no reason to count them out.
So shout out to last week's guests that claimed that
they were absolutely going to come out of the West
or no, we're going to represent the West at the
Western Conference Finals. Yeah, Western Conference Finals. Because the longer
we go, the more that feels probably accurate. I still
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think it's gonna be the Nuggets coming out of the West.
Take the team that's first, but they have been struggling. Um.
It does feel like for the past couple of weeks,
every time I say I like a team or I'm
impressed by how well a team is doing, they then
proceed to lose multiple games before the episode comes out
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that did happen? And Nuggets, Yeah, yeah, so glad that
we're doing a six or episode this time. Yeah, Sabonis
first Jannis was super fun matchup Bucks and Kings, and
it feels like this is one of those games where
the Bucks are just like, yeah, but we're still the
best team in the league, right, like everybody knows that, right,
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Oh you don't, Okay, I'm going to prove it to you.
And Jannie looked unstoppable, as he does every time he's
playing someone who's not Joel EMBIID forty six and twelve.
He still has that gear where like, you know, like
I said, when he puts his head down and just goes,
there is nothing that you can do if your name
isn't Joel Embead. Yes, and he definitely shielled that in
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that game. That matchup was a lot of fun all throughout.
You know, Sa Bonus almost had a triple double at
half time and then Yannie just came out and saying, no,
that'll be enough. Yeah, it is different in the playoffs
as great as Joe because and be looked amazing in
the fourth quarter against Yannis. You can't and not that
you were saying that you could, but to have himbied
on him the entire game because obviously, yeah, you can't
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do it either. That's why you pay PJ. Tucker all
that money. That's good to have, because it is good.
He's spent five of his paychecks on the greatest sneaker
collection of all time. I do have to give that
up for him. I do wonder when at his because
(30:43):
I remember even wearing Jordan ones. Now, if I'm walking
around my feet without an insert in them, beat are
killing me. And he wears these shoes that don't have
He plays basketball at the highest level in non tea doctor. Yeah,
antiques are right, there's the lost flying off his feet. No,
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he is Uh, He's been a treat to have on
the team. Doesn't score, but I think in the playoffs
will be a valuable valuable asset for the Sixers. And
the Knicks got right against your Lakers, Jabariat, you watched
the game, What was it like rooting against them? Would
you notice about the Knicks? And the Knicks are tough
man like. I know that there's always going to be
people that doubt Julius Randall, and Julius will give you
(31:28):
reasons too at times. But he you know, this is
one of those bounced back years. I think we discussed
it last week on the show. Uh, he was great
in that first half. The Lakers were slow to adjust
and you know then when they decided, oh, you know,
we do have an Anthony Davis. You know, he was
able to slow him down in the second half. But
by that point R. J. Barrett got to go in
and they just they just outlasted the Lakers in a
(31:50):
game we're quite frankly the Lakers absolutely needed. So it's
a little bit embarrassing. But you know, good on them,
Good on the Knicks. Yeah, and where where are we
at and the standings Lakers are in the play? Okay,
back in the nine. Back in the nine, baby, that's
where you want to be. Every loss is going to
be like, okay, they're out, and then if you know,
when they win, okay, you know they're in. It truly
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is and you know what our listener of the week,
you know, he kind of alluded to this. It truly
is going to be a matter of who's healthy at
the end, like who has who has enough of their
guys left at the end for the you know, bottom
half of the West bracket. What am I watching the
hokey pokey here? Yeah, you put your whole team in,
(32:30):
ye put your whole team out out, put your whole
team and shake the trade deadline. They did shake things
all all, chook things up. All right, let's do our
broadcast call of the week from Mike Breen. We've got
a little bit of a streak of a Mike Breen
appreciation Society happening with Mike Breen banging his way across
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the league with this shot from Steph Perry. To tie
things up with a backscreen by Thompson on Green Curry
a three quinter Steph Curry from Downtown Again, We're tied
with fifteen seconds from me and then Billy Mack on
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the Lakers broadcast on a D doing it on both ends.
This is an awesome highlight and got me excited banging
on both ends on that one as well. Be on
the yard Stock fuck By gave us good play by
a D Now he's one of the floor Diaglo Russell
now finds a D there he is TI fuck your
(33:36):
one end, throw it down at the other. All right,
let's take a quick break when we come back. Blake,
you know you have a show called Blake's Takes for
god sakes, and we're about to get your takes fast
and furious in the fastest segment and podcasting the rapid
Fire segment of Miles and Jacot Matt Boosts. So we're
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gonna give you fifteen minutes to stretch out, get a
nice like pre work out in, and then we'll be
back to make you work sir. We'll be right back,
and we're back. Jabari told me during the break that
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he's disappointed at me for not making a fast and
furious family reference at the end there, because I did
say that the segment is fast and furious. Anyways, that
digression right there is exactly as fast and quick paste
as this segment is. It's the rapid fire segment of
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Miles and jack I'm mad Boosties. It's good that we
have like such a just concise way of introducing it
that it conveys how fast it's going to be. I
still don't understand the whole speed situation that's going on here.
I relate to the fury, yeah, but I'm going to
go more into the fastness and the quickness. If you
had a hat on your your head, it would be
spinning around right now in the air. Does that put
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things in perspective for you? Well, thanks for telegraphing my
closer when I do stand up, well you can you
can always switch to the arrow through the head, you know, yeah,
I guess yeah, but you know how lititious Steve and
his team is. Yeah, that has turning all about. What
is this the hooky pokey? That's another one for you,
(35:26):
free one if you want to, if you want to
use that in your stand up set. A lot of
hoky pokey references. Somebody told me they didn't even know
what like, I guess not everybody grew up with a
hookie pokey. Um. Yeah, the younger, younger audience is gonna say,
I don't know what they're I don't know what you're
talking about, sarah. Um. Anyways, well we should tell them
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to get up off their butts and get jobs. Right,
you go, buy, yes, invest All right? Should we start
the clock? Alright? Alright? Catch phrase? There there it is.
There's the catch phrase. It is all ours and nobody original? Jabar,
Do you want to start? You want me to start?
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Why don't you start this time? Okay? Sounds good. Blake.
You can take any former six or impair him with
Joel embiid. Which former six or would you like to
see play with Joel Embiid. Todd mccolla, Next question, Todd McCullough,
next question. That is fantastic, And we're not going Barkley,
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We're not going doctor Jay. I might go with Jimmy Butler,
actually if only that was wow him. If I think
that might be the best answer, I know, the most
confident of the people that we could put with him
heading into the playoffs, it might. I think it might
have to because here's the thing. As cool as it
would be to see Allen iverson with Joel, that's obviously
(36:54):
not an option, right, Yeah, not enough shots to go
around mo cheeks problems. To be completely honest, if I'm
if I'm talking about that for a long time, Yeah,
I can't. It's destroyed relationships from and romantic Um. Yeah, no,
I think it might be all I did say Butler
to be a little a little shyster there, but I
(37:15):
think it is. It might actually be Jimmy Butler. I
kind of like that answer. Yeah, Now, Blake, we didn't
fully explain what the situation is here. It's it's really
incumbent upon you to keep us on pace. We are
going to keep us going, all right, I'll name more
Eric snow. I think he could really blossom with Joel embiid.
(37:40):
I think Matt to whole vibe. What did I did
I tell you this is a bad idea? Thomas? Yeah,
Tim Thomas wouldn't honestly, probably wouldn't be that bad of
a one because he's you know, dangerous from three Who
else would I? Oh, doctor, I told you it would
be very cool jumping a little bit clogging in the way.
(38:01):
Oh yeah, if you don't mind. Okay. So, if you
were watching poetic about Jaylen earlier in the show and
we're going to continue our blood feud with him, is
Jalen Rose his hair too good to be true? And
I asked that as a follically challenged man, I'm losing
my hair at a rapid rate. A lot of it
it comes from watching this team over years. I believe
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Jalen Rose had a quote that if you're not spending
one hundred dollars on your haircut or it wasn't a
hundred was the number at least undred, excuse me. His
hair is a distraction and it really is too good.
I agree, and I do believe what they're trying to
(38:46):
do at ESPN with Get Up trying to modernize and
you know, really bring the Disney Walt Disney Company into
the twenty century. I think that his hair, none of
these things can happen while he's giving that level of
detail and attention to his hair. So yeah, I think
that you're going to see Bob Iger step aside again
(39:10):
because of the until this hair situation rectifies itself. So yeah,
it's it's too good to be true, for sure. I
am truly distracted every time he's on camera how great
his hair is. You were saying, you you read Jalen
Rosa's biography, autobiography, I told you that inconfidence. I told
you that in confidence. If he released um, all right, Blake,
(39:33):
try and try and say on track. I know that's
an impossibility, but let's just yeah, let's just pretend we're trying.
Could we pretend we're trying. That would be great. You
can pick any player from throughout history two star opposite
you in a buddy cop movie. Which player or we'll
even throw coach in? Which of them are you picking?
(39:55):
I The first player who came to mind, and this
is actually going to be my answer is Rick Smits
because he looks the most like a cop it's the
It's mostly a casting decision more than onstream chemistry between
the two of us. I think another option could be,
(40:19):
you know what, whatever joke I was going to make
there would not have been approate appropriate. So yeah, I
was going through like the bat. Actually, oh, you know
who it would be would be like Bill lamb Beer
because I would be the good cop obviously in that situation,
and he would be the horrific cop and everyone would
(40:42):
hate him. And I think I could rise up the
ranks quicker that way, just by the juxtaposition of how
much easier I am to get along with. So I'll
go with I know I said Rick Smiths at first,
but I'm gonna go with the only other white player
I could. They are afficial and you guys are aficial
the bad boys, So I'm not mad at that. All
who we are who we are very bad. Keep it going.
(41:05):
If you could bet on any fan base to make
the inn Arena challenge shots, you know, the lay up,
the free throw, the three point or half court which
fan base coort fan bases? Are you betting on it?
I'm so there's different ways to think of this. Here
where you could go, where are the basketball hot, and
where where are the players from? I would this is interesting.
I actually think before they move, I might go with
(41:27):
the New Jersey Nets, because you just have guys from Newark,
you know, just in the stadium. And it's not the
Nets in their current state. Yea, just bloggers, A sunch
guy's named Zander. Yeah, yeah, there are little wrists. So
I might actually have to go with what is the
(41:50):
fittest city in the NBA, and that would be Denver.
I would actually go with because I believe you think
of what people look like in Denver, most of them
are probably working on jump shots. So I would go
with the good folks in Denver for that one. Put
(42:14):
yeah I can't yeah, like it, love it. So I
have this persistent nightmare. This has nothing to do with
the show. I just want to tell you about my
dream that's basically a reverse like Mike, where I suddenly
switched bodies with an NBA player and but I have
my skills still. Um. Yes, what would you do in
that situation if you suddenly switched and you were in
(42:36):
hardened body in the fourth quarter with your skills, I
would carry myself in a way that would that would
be more confident than anyone in the entire world. And
also defensively, there would be no difference between it by
so I do want to say that. I would also
I would insist upond inbounding the basketball, so say so
(43:00):
the other team scores, because it really to answer this truthfully,
you want to hide who you are. So yes, I
would insist on inbounding the basketball. And then right after
I do that, I would start tying my shoe and
I'd be like, you take it, and then exasperated, keep
it just I can't believe it. So and and here's
(43:21):
the thing too. One benefit about Harden is that the
guy sometimes has not maybe hustled as much as people.
So I think I could pass the barrier of reasonable
doubt that oh James is just loaf in it the
script where I think I would just go from top
(43:41):
of the key to maybe top of the key, like
that's going to be the entire and if I passed,
it would just immediately pass it away. I think that's
what I would do, all right. I like that, But
I've always said that I would take an injury. Um,
but that's there's you're braver. Yeah, that's a good one.
I had a dream I always have laughed at the
(44:02):
scenario where when you have such bad self esteem as
a person that in a video game, when you create yourself,
you give all yourself all really really bad by ratings.
You know which is gonna be. It's the whole purpose
of doing it. And then I would make the popular
kid that I grew up with in the game, and
(44:25):
then she'd have amazing ratings and just beat down on that.
Anything else is just unrealistic. You know, I agree, I
agree one hundred percent. Yeah, And I was like, oh,
you gotta go to therapy. I was gonna say, I
feel like we could spend the next thirty minutes unpacking that.
But what I will say, what I will say in
response is, guys, we have solved the mystery. We now
(44:48):
know why traditionally Jim Harden has turned into a pumpkin.
You know. Yeah, has been because people have been switching.
It's guys like me going, yeah, that's good enough, that's
good enough. Have you had that thought while watching him?
That is there a body switching? Is there a body
switchero comedy happening right now? Yeah, that's why I feel
(45:10):
good heading into the playoffs. That's all right. Last last
one here for you, and this is the most important one,
just so you know, uh, you know, some people get
this wrong, some people get it right. Let's let's hope
that you're on the right side of things. To Jack
that or Jabari, Damn, Jabari gets like close to the
(45:30):
camera after he asks it makes a cute face. When
he was coming out of Duke and was drafted so
highly that Jabari I thought he was going to have
his career takeoff again when he went to his hometown
of Chicago. Yeah, oh, it's between you two. I'm gonna
(45:52):
go with sometimes Jack. When I do the Daily Zeitgeist
is not there and I don't know what other commitments
you could have In those situations, I sometimes get paired
with a guest host, which I think is disrespectful. So
I would never do that to you. Record No, and
(46:14):
I every time by the time you've ever been on
this And guess who was one for one with Jabaria
is better? Yeah? Yeah, cool? So I'm going Jabari and Jack.
That's that's not a knock on you, definitely not. It's
a one one a situation. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, I
(46:34):
can't wait to have you back on Daily's like Geist. Man. Well,
you know, I'm definitely going to happen. Jack, someone's gonna
be pipping. Okay, you know he's got he's got six
of them things too. Yeah, any easy and easy. That's
where that phrase came from. Actually it is all right, Jabari,
Why don't you close the episode? Okay? Yeah, man, why
(46:56):
don't you do it? Since you're a you know, clearly
the most important part of the show. See see what
you've done, See what you've done? All right, I will
be sorry. I don't know that's my crying noise. Um.
We went polling this week on Twitter, and I'm going
to be honest with you, some of these results don't
really make sense, but you know what, they were a
heck of a lot of fun. Like Brion went polling
(47:18):
this week. There you go. Sorry. Fifty two listeners responded
to the polls. Think that the Lakers are going to
make a conference finals run if they into the playoffs.
All right, So this is where I'm This is where
I'm not laughing at like that that being impossible, but
the fact that and this is where I am with this.
(47:40):
I love you guys, I appreciate you guys. We'll come on, man, hey,
look it might be, It might be, it could happen.
We'll just say that. I just we might have a
sampled sampling bias because we have a podcast that is
basically a Laker sixers podcast. But this is true. Six
percent of you guys think the Kings win around then
(48:02):
lose in the second round. That is definitive. Wow, it's seriously.
Seventy three percent of you guys think the Suns will
make a conference finals run. Okay, this is gonna this
is starting to be uh mathematically impossible. Oh no, it will.
It will officially be mathematically impossible when I get to
the end of this. U. Seventy percent think the Clippers
went around then bow out in the second We don't
(48:23):
really need comment there because it's probably gonna be true.
Eighty two of you guys think the MAVs barely sneak
in but lose either in the plan or the first round. Okay,
and here's the part where that math ain't math thin
because thirty eight percent of you guys think the Nuggets
will rep the Western Conference from the finals. I think
all of those things are true. Yeah, yeah, true, church church, church, um, yeah,
(48:45):
fair enough, all right, our Boosti's listener of the week
was at NBA Loverboy because he said, and you know,
we kind of alluded to this earlier Mike Breen. Here
we are h You know that is Mike Breen's alter ego.
So yeah, shout out to you, Mike Breen. Think you
were making your second appearance on the same episode. But
NBA Loverboy says, there's so little separation between the Western
(49:06):
Conference teams that is really going to come down to
whoever is healthiest, And to be honest, that's probably the case.
You know, we can talk back and forth over these
next couple of weeks, but that's in all likelihood that's
how it's gonna shape up. Yeah, I was gonna say
something mean, but I won't. I'll go for it because
I was just thinking about how much I hate the
take of like, well, I think if healthy the and
(49:27):
like if it all comes down to health, because it's like, yeah,
that's obviously true. That's a piece of randomness that we
bake into the conversation and don't necessarily get anything out
of being Like I think, if Jannis gets hurt, the
Bucks are in trouble. But yes, this is not that
NBA Loverboy, I don't know why MBA mean to you.
(49:49):
I think I just we don't put a microphone in
front of Kyrie Irving's face until the end of the year.
I think they might be able to pick up a
win in the plane for it. Fair enough, But for
the listeners out there, make sure you give us a
follow on Twitter at mad Boostise Blake, thank you so
much for joining us today aside from catching you in
(50:09):
stand up where can the folks followe course, thank you
for having me. This was so much fun. And then
false pleasure is all mine and give me that pleasure. Sorry,
that was just took. I took my microphone. But yeah,
no at Blake Wexler on all social media, Blake sakes.
For God's sakes, I've recently come into possession of a
(50:30):
Twitter account. No, I'm in a think dot account, which
also is not true. But yeah, I'm on TikTok as well,
and uh that's very anyway before the government takes it
away from me. You can check me out on there
and yeah, and if you just look up Blake Wexler
(50:50):
wherever you listen to music, all my stand up albums
that aren't in the middle of a lawsuit will come up.
So you can listen to those and yeah, but serious,
I could not have enjoyed this more. Jabara, You're awesome. Jack.
I've always adored you, so thank you so much for
having me. Thank you you guys. You guys heard it.
He'd say that was awesome. Man, I'm just gonna take that.
(51:10):
I'm gonna take that and run with it. Jabbar, you
are awesome. I'm standing here in front of God and
everyone telling you you're awesome. And on that note, it
has been another fantastic episode of Miles and Jack got mad.
I'm in a weird place. So while we unpacked all
(51:30):
of this, your teeth are bleeding, not your gums, your
actual teeth, out of your teeth. It's been a lot
of clenching happening, you know, the six or seasons really
and then you picking me at the end that that
was just the straw, that was it, and I'd just
fall apart. It's over now. One of my eyebrows just
fell off my face. He's got clump head right now,
(51:55):
all right back next week. Bye bye. The murtherer is
the murcher, the courser
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