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Speaker 1 (00:01):
She needs an enforcer. And if it ain't gonna be
me Michelle Rappaport, Like where is Charlie Oakley? Doesn't her
team have like a Zaveria McDaniels or a Rakesha Mahorne.
She needs like a goon on her team because when
your star player that's bringing so much money, so much
(00:22):
attention to the league, and it's a collective, it's a
bunch of them. It's been brewing, you know, I know
it's not just Kaitlin Clark. It's also Angel Reese, it's Cameron,
it's all the girls, and it's just you know, it's
been building for years. But let's not kid herself and
they're not thinking. The crowning jewel at this moment is
Caitlin Clark when she's getting the shit knocked out of
her every single game, and none of her teammates are
(00:45):
at least running to say something to the other person,
like yo, what the fuck are you doing to our
cash cow?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Or my teammate you're talking about my like Tera Loans,
Like where's that Tera Loans? Like Yo, that's my quarterback.
Boom have no fear. The Iron Reports Stereo Podcasts is here.
Boom have no fear. The Iron Reports Stereo podcast is here.
(01:17):
NBA Finals are happening this episode.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We're talking all basketball, all NBA and all w n
B A.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Iron Report Stereo pockets coming live and direct from Los Angeles, California.
Name is Michael Rapport Ak, the Grinkleman, Dingo Ak, the
Inflamed Ashcarnazi aka the Disruptive Warrior AKA White Mike aka
the Jewish Charles Oakley. Iron Rapports Stereo Pockets coming live
and direct from Los Angeles, California. The NBA Finals start tomorrow.
(01:50):
The NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
What a matchup.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The highs, the lows, the tweaked elmos, the ankle sprains,
the bad thumbs, the ping keys, the knees, the hips.
There's only two teams left. I got dubbed Jordan Winter
with me breaking down all things NBA.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
We do a lot at the im Rappers Stereo podcast,
but one of the things we do the best is
our basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Jordan, how do you feeling? I feel great, so happy
to be there. What's good? Rap it pack?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, we love NBA basketball. NBA basketball is fantastic. NBA
basketball isn't always will be fantastic. We've got an incredible
finals coming up. We've got the one seed Boston Celtics
against the five seed Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I got a question, Yes, is anyone on record that
you know of?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I know they're probably coming out of the woodwork, Joe
I told my cousin that Dallas was going.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
To make it to the finals?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Is anyone of weight on record having predicted that the
Dallas Mavericks would make it to the finals?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh yeah, who back Michael Rappaport, Miles play the Big
Diesel song, Shack.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
O'Neil broke quittus of all times. This is a game.
To me, this is not a sport. My name is Shaq,
I'm the Black Michael Rappaport and big ball of brand
T shirts look uncomfortable. Shack said that Dallas was When
did he said at the beginning of the.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Season, Shack before the season started, Shack Diesel on record.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The Black Michael Rappaport, the Big Diesel.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
The Black Michael Rapport. Shaquille O'Neal said. Number one Rookie
of the Year Victor Webbin Yama, easy choice. Number two
Nikola Jokic aka the Joker who After the fact, when
Shaq was talking to Joker said that he thought that
Shay Gil just Alexander should have won. But he said
in the beginning the Joker, Yes, But he also said,
(03:52):
who's winning the NBA Championship? He said the Dallas. He said,
they're gonna win the shit, he said, the Dallas Mavericks.
And that was before the trades and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Miles play the video champions Dallas. Wow. Okay, another wow yo,
because nobody.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I don't think in the beginning of the season, the
Dallas Mavericks didn't think they were winning a championship.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So last season because obviously we have the company captain picks. Yes,
talk about all the time sports betting. We are so
proud about our NBA picks and prognostication. We're at this
all day every day, and we make futures bets. Last
year and you don't just make just one pick. Sometimes
(04:38):
you make at least two. You pick one from the East,
you pick one from the West. Last year we picked
the Nuggets to win it all right. This year we
picked two teams from the East. We picked the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Obviously didn't win. Spider Mitchell went down, so did Jared
Allen Arris LeVert. Yeah, they got knocked out by the Celtics.
(04:59):
But our pick from the West was the Dallas mat Wow.
And the reason is because Bazuka.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Luca Bazuka Luca, who, by the way, I gave him
that name.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's such a good nickname that I want that nickname
to be his nickname. Luca Magic is cool and he
does magical things.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But Bazuka Luca is a better Luca Magic. It's like, okay,
Luca Magic, that's not a nickname, that's kind of a thing.
And he exudes Luca magic like Pete Davidson exudes not
for me allegedly big dick energy, right, But a nickname
Bazuka Luca, that's like yo Bazuka Yo Bazuka.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Luka Bazuka yo Zuka. Yeah. And he used to wear
the cut sleeve on his shooting.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Arm, so he's like locking and load in his Bazuka
step back.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Luca Magic is in a nickname. Magic is magic.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Johnson and I think we probably at another time, another
episode down the road, need to really start giving out
other nicknames because there's a real well. We gave Raymond
Green the dick kicking Draymond of course, Draymond the Dick Kicker.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Green, which he deserves.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And by the way, what he did on inside the
NBA about Rudy Gobert this whole Western Conference Finals was embarrassing, embarrassing.
It was really not cool.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And although I've.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Seen him on his podcast clips give More Love, he
has to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Let's stay focused on the nicknames.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
What I'm saying that we there seems to be a
lack of great nicknames in the NBA right now. When
you know we were coming up before me, you had
what Iceman, George Gervin, Pistol, Pete Maravich like nicknames, good doctor,
doctor j Like those are incredible, Nicolet Thunder, incredible nicknames.
Now we've got like Joker because it's Nikally that makes.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Sense for him.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Luca Magic is not a nickname. I'm saying it the
third time. That's not a nickname. SGA like, that's not
a nickname.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Let me tell you something. SGA needs a new voice.
You know, I was. I haven't talked about this, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hearing him talk during the playoffs, his shit sounds like
it's like Sir Patrick Mahomes shit. His shit sounds crazy
because he looks cool, he dresses cool, he plays cool,
and then you hear him talking it sounds crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You know what's so funny is we spend so much
time eighty two game regular season and then the playoffs
are going for months. But it all comes down to
two teams.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You know, Jimmy Butler this the New York Knicks that,
Tyros Halliburton this, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You're gone, honest, Johannese Lebron, Anthony Edwards, all of it.
You're gone, You're out of the picture. And Draymond, Chris
Paul everyone out there. Your opinions don't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Your opinions don't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
All that matters is we are right between the lines
and there's a lot of storylines that are pumping through
this series.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Before we get to the storylines, I want to tell
you I've done it again.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I need to pivot.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And there's two things that I want to talk about
before we get to the actual final. The WNBA. Okay, now,
I don't even know the names of their teams. There's
some Chicago team is the Angel Rees, Team Sky Chicago
Skot right, the Chicago Scott versus the Indiana Fever right,
the Chicago Sky Sky Chicago. Sky played the Indiana Fever
(08:19):
right on ESPN the other day, and I watched the
game all the way through. Now I'm on my phone,
I'm drinking my coffee. At one point I went out
of my hotel room to get another coffee, and I
came back.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
But I watched the game a WNBA game. When was
the last time you watched an entire WNBA?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
He never, It's never happened before.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Okay, So this is like your Larry Bird Magic Johnson
WNBA moment.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Literally got it. Like, I watched the game.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
The game started at nine am our time, LA time,
because it started at twelve, yes, nine am, which.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Is yeah, it was an early game.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Now, I didn't wake up to watch the game. Not
gonna lie. I didn't wake up to watch the game.
I just saw that it was on and turned it
on and watched it all the way through, which is
is shocking to say. Now I will say the WM
I couldn't be happier. I think it's fantastic for women.
I think it's fantastic for women's sports. I think it's
fantastic for the future of young girls all over the world.
(09:21):
It's incredible, But we need to keep a couple of
things in perspective.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Number one, there's.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Only twelve teams, twelve teams in the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
This is like the original NHL and there's like eight teams,
twelve teams.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's it. Six per conference. That's it. That's all. That's crazy.
It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That's a small league, that's almost like a still an
upstart league. Yes, and they're growing. It's great, of course.
But the one girl body checking Caitlyn Clark. Yes, dirty play,
dirty play. I suspend her ass and she called.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Her a bitch before she did it, like it was.
There was intent, there's intent, there's hate. There's racial undertones, overtones.
I don't care what anybody says. And that sexuality stuff
is prevalent because there's a lot of the dating of
players and the Caitlin Clark is a white straight woman
(10:18):
who is getting a more attention than all of them.
Combined those overtones, undertones, and it's being discussed a lot.
You have to bring it up.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Indiana Pacers Arena was sold out at twelve packed pack twelve.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
This is what I want to say about it. The girl.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
We've been seeing clips of Caitlyn Clark hit threes, We've
been seeing clips of Kate and Clark making turnovers. We've
been seeing clips of Caitlyn Clark and other WNBA players,
but it all leads with Caitlin Clark. Obviously, Caitlyn Clark.
There's no there's no WNBA without the history of the WNBA.
Lisa Leslie, somebody, ryl Soops, all them, Diana Tarazzi, all
(10:59):
the ones. I don't even know other great w I
don't know. I don't fuck with the WNBA like that.
Nobody did, right, which is why you need to leave
Caitlyn Clark alone because I've never seen them hipcheck dirty plays.
I'm sure it's happened, yeah, but it's like yo. The
question that was discussed after Caitlin Clark got knocked to
(11:20):
the ground and called the bitch was should she tough
en up?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Everybody's like, should she tough enough? What do that mean?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
What would Caitlyn Clark toughening up mean? Does she punch
somebody in the face? Do you want a malice in
the Palace WNBA style? Do you want fights?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Like? What does that mean for her to tough enough?
And where are her teammates? That's the real question. Now
I want to offer up two things.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I have said that at fifty four, with a slight
case of gout, a lot of inflammation and full of
phlegme at fifty four years old, I am the prototype.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I move like a WNBA player on.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
The speed of a lot of the bigger WNBA players
at fifty four. If I get that surgery, I am
good for six hard fouls. And nobody's gonna fuck with
Caitlyn Clark. With Michelle Rappaport on your bench.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You're just gonna go full Caitlyn Jenner and join the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yo And people like you're not good enough. I am
good enough if you watch the way I run, and
you watch the way most some of them are fastest shit,
but the bigger one I'm talking about, I'm be a
power forward slash center. I like Angel Reese, You're not
doing any of that goofy shit with me on the court.
I'll close line Angel Reese, right, Okay, I'm like on
(12:46):
some Bill Lange beer shit with Angel Reese, like she
needs an enforcer, and if it ain't gonna be me,
Michelle Rappaport, Like, where is Charlie Oakley? Doesn't her team
have like a Zaveria McDaniels or Rakesha Mohrne. She needs
like a goon on her team because when your star
player that's bringing so much money, so much attention to
(13:10):
the league, and it's a collective, it's a bunch of them.
It's been brewing, you know, I know it's not just
Kaylyn Clark, it's also Angel Reese, it's Cameron's it's all
the girls, and it's just you know, it's been building
for years.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But let's not kid ourselves. And they're not thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The crowning jewel at this moment is Caitlyn Clark when
she's getting the shit knocked out of her every single game,
and none of her teammates are at least running to
say something to the other person, like.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yo, what the fuck are you doing to our cash cow? Right?
Or my teammate?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You're talking about my like Tera loans, Like where's that
Tera loans? Like Yo, that's my quarterback.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It's it's unsportsman like, it's not it doesn't matter what
age you're playing at, Like where's the coach? Like where
is the incitement to stand up for your teammate? Like
unless Caitlyn Clark behind the scenes is just like the ultimate.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Diva, which she is the worst of the worst people.
Which I don't think she would get this far.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I would have come out she's been playing for ten games, like,
and their team has not been winning. Have some pride.
You're getting all this attention and you're two and eight,
Like that doesn't eat away at you, the fact that
your cash cow is the talk of all sports and
you're losing.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And you're getting you're losing, and she's getting a shit
knocked at it, and none of you have done anything
to retaliate. It's like, if you want this league to
be real, and you want this league to be like,
you know, taken seriously, That's taken seriously because if they're
gonna give it out, you need.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
To stand up for your star absolutely somehow.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But like does that mean getting into a fight, because
I don't want to see the NBA players fight, let alone,
Like a WNBA fight now would be the worst thing
that could happen for the WNBA. So the question when
they say tough enough, what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I mean she is the equivalent of Steph Curry, right,
and Steph Curry faced the same type of accusations. Questions
the ankle like the toughness, and as much as we
get on Draymond Green's case.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You have that goon there.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
He's built his entire livelihood about being Steph's guy.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
He even talks about Steph.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
When they're not even around, when he's on his broadcasts
and stuff like that. Is his personality is being Draymond
Green to Steph Kirk one hundred. So yes, there is
something to be said to be that person. There's got
to be one of them on that team.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And if and if they don't have them, I'm saying
I'm offering up my service.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I will be Caitlin Clark's goon. Just need to go
through the surgery.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's gonna take a little while, but I can absolutely
make him w NBA team once I get that surgery.
(16:01):
Other thing, Agent Zero Gilbert arenas the only person who
literally never showed up no show on a scheduled Iron
Rapport stereo pockets. I love gil loved him as a player,
love his personality, Gil's well intentions, He's got a He's
just a likable guy.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Oh that was a strange day because that's when we
were getting tons of athletes coming on the podcast, coming
over to the old La Gloom tomb. His producer showed
up and you're is sitting in the studio with you
and you're just like, where is Agent zero? When Agent
zero did not show up? Didn't show up, and the
(16:39):
guy's just sitting there. I'm not gonna put him on blasts.
I know who it is. And you were like, get
the fuck out of my house. Yeah, you gotta go, right.
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I was you gotta get the fuck yeah, because he
was like, well, it's just gonna be no's I've already
waited an hour, get.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The fuck out. You got to go. You gotta go. Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But gil I see him at the Big Three. I
fucked with Gilbert. I'm a fan of Gilbert's personality. But
Gilbert Renez, to quote the great EPMD, you gotta chill.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You sound.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I don't know if you're doing this for clicks, maybe
you're on those edibles. Maybe you're just doing it for
the fun of the game. Maybe you're doing it because
you know, instead of calling you Agent zero, we should
call you Chef Gill And you just like talking shit.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But your takes are ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You said that Steph Curry is not a generational talent.
You said that Yokick is the statistically.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
The worst MVP.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Also, you're just player hating on Yokick, whether or not
he's this that, the statistics, whatever, the fact that you
said that Steph Curry is not a generational talent, generational player,
whatever your intention was, gil as great of a talent
that you were and is likable that you are, people
(17:52):
will always remember you for pulling out that hammer, for
bringing that hammer into the locker room.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That fucked up your career.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It wasn't the knees, It was the bringing the gun
into the locker room over some bullshit. And you talk
about everything, and I know you've addressed the gun, and
I know people make mistakes, but if you're gonna talk
about everybody else, you should be talking about why you
brought that hammer into the arena over some money shit
(18:23):
like and ruined your career. When people talk about Gilbert Rene,
they don't talk about the sixty points on Kobe, They
don't talk about the Adidas commercials, your story, how likable
you were, how you came up. They talk about you
fucking it all up, bringing that that knaka, the pistol,
the pistolely into the arena.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So if you're gonna talk.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Let's talk about that shit otherwise, like you're just doing
it for clicks, And I feel like he's more entertaining,
he's more charismatic, and Gilbert Arenas is more informed than
to just do it for clickbaits, because if a player
of that status, of that talent needs to do it
for clickbaits, what is everybody else gonna do with themselves?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Stephan Curry is He's someone who changed the game of
basketball forever. He's a four time World champion and he
was the best player on that team even with Kevin Durant,
he was still one A one B if you want
to get into that. Stephan Curry is one of the
best basketball players we've ever seen, period.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
And Gilbert, you fucked your career by bringing a gun
into the That's what ruins your career, not the knees.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's what fucked you up.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
That's why you became cancerous, That's why you became like,
we don't want gill on our team because you did
the wildest shit, one of the wildest things ever.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And what's the dude's name that he pulled the hammer
out on.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I was Javarius Critton And dis is he in jail. Yeah,
he's in jail for murder. He's not coming out.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Any time you pulled the gun out on the wrong dude. Yes,
maybe that's why you pulled the gun out. Nonetheless, talk
about that more often then talking about generational talents.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Just an outrageous take, and that's just what the NBA
community has come to see Gilbert ass And he's everywhere,
I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Because of the takes.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Well, Gil's Arena that like they must be filming that
that show daily around the clock because his takes are out.
He has too many takes. And now he's like on
that the Nightcap with Shannon and o Cho Cinco, like
his takes out there, Like not everything needs to be
a hot take, That's what I'm saying. Not everything needs
(20:35):
to be out there for that type of attention. Maybe
he's just like, fuck it, this is what I'm doing now,
so I'm gonna do it. He's got to be doing
it on purpose.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
He's got to be doing it on patrol it, Gilbert Arenas,
Steph Curry would bust your ass. You're not in the
same level. I don't care that you scored and you
were talented, and I watched you play. I watched your
whole career, Steph Curry's. You're not even in the same
discussion of talent level, what you actually did, what you
actually accomplished to the joker or to Steph Curry, you're
not in the same level of discussion period. And I
(21:06):
don't know why his colds don't say that, like, Yo,
you're bugging. You can say you're bugging with Sean McCants
like in his other case. You could literally say, yo,
you're tripping. No one says that. No, I'm letting you know.
Steph Curry's a thousand times better than you, and I
love you. I said that with all due respect.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yes words, NBA Finals, What do you got, dub The
Boston Celtics are better than anyone wants to believe that
they are. They are incredible, and I do not like
the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I've had a needless to say, I have Celtic derangement syndrome.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I am a longtime Knicks fan, obviously, you know, throughout
the years. I don't know if there's really been a
Celtics Knicks rivalry other than a Boston New York ravory
the Knicks, and they haven't been there over the span
of this Boston Celtics run that they've been having, and
the Celtics they've been to the Conference finals a lot
(22:17):
in the last little more than half a decade. They
were just in the finals, not last year, but the
year before against the Warriors, which Stephen Curry and the
Warriors busted the Celtics ass period took care of business
against them, and they lost last year to the Heat
in the conference finals.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
They get there. They get there all the time. They're
on some Buffalo billshit.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
If the Celtics don't win the championship this year, they're
on some Buffalo billshit.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
The boy I love losing Super Bowl. The wide right,
wide right, Oh for sure, this is the best chance.
And that was a glorious moment that wide right I
was dying. They are going to need to win this championship.
There was so much pressure on the Boston Celtics to
win this year. This is their year. They are amazing.
(23:08):
They went sixty four and eighteen this season. They went
thirty seven and four at home this season. They beat
teams by eleven points per game this year. They adage
one hundred and twenty points a game and give up
one hundred and nine points per game. This team is stacked.
(23:33):
They are ridiculous, and it's very strange to me that
the Celtics had such an incredible year and only had
one player on the All NBA team.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Wow. I mean, Jason Tatum got First Team All NBA.
The other dudes didn't make the All NBA teams. Jalen
Brown didn't make it. Wow, I don't understand. But what
about the other dude.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Derek White didn't make it. Drew Holliday, like they got
recognition on both of them made second Team All Defense.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Wow. But Jalen Brown absolutely deserve to be on an
All NBA team. There's no reason.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And he gets a bad rap because he doesn't have
like the cleanest handles and such. But that guy gets
to his spots. That guy is incredible to watch and
for me, especially because I watch it not only as
a die hard NBA fan. I've been watching NBA my
entire life, right, and I love it so much and
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now over the you know, the better part of the decade.
Now I watch it as a sports better and trying
to find those edges. There's certain players that I love
betting on, and there are players in this series that
I love betting on for those prop plays. If you
have to bet if someone's gonna score more or less
than a certain points, well, Jalen Brown. I love betting
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on Jalen Brown for props. For props, does he answer
the bell? He does a lot. Derek White incredible. Just
love betting on Derek White. I mean, if you bet
against Tatum, especially three pointers, like his over under taking
the under on his three pointers, you would win a lot.
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He has not been hitting. And then going back and
looking at the two matchups that they had this year,
the Mavericks and the Celtics, and really you could only
talk about the one that happened in March because that
was after the trade deadline, and you know, looking at
these guys, Tatum had a monster game in both of
those games, and they won both of those games, but
they went crazy from three point territory in the game
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that they played, himself just did and it was a
close game until the fourth. And that game, that was
the only game that we can really look at and
see like who all the guys were because Porzingis played
in that game.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
PJ.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Washington played in that game, and Tatum had thirty points
in both those games. He had thirty nine in one
of them. Luca had a triple double in both of
those games. Us Pingus playing Game one, tingus Pingus is playing.
He's back, And.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
So I hope tingus Pingus doesn't get hurt because I
love tingus Pingis And that tingus Pingus video that I did,
it was out of love.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, it was out of love and naivete.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Nobody knew who the fuck tingus pingis was right, and
that's why I said tingus Pingus.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Who the fuck is tingus Pingis?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
And I said that who the fuck is tingus Pingus?
And he loves the way the fuck is Lativia. He
didn't send you a jersey, he loves.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Send me a jersey when he was with the Mavericks. Yeah, yeah,
tingus Pingis isuse. I always felt bad.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I was like, I thought that it was deemed because
it got so much attention.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Miles played the tingers Pingers video. Please, what the fuck
did they do? Who the fuck is this? What the
fuck is tingus Pingus? I never heard of fucking Latinia?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You drafted this fucking kid. Your stupid amazing video still
brings me joy every time I see it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
People still send me the Tingus Pingus video.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I've seen people wearing multiple jerseys on multiple teams of
Tingus Pingis on the back of.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
The days I never met Tingus Pingis, oh Man, and
Tingus Pingis has an axe to grind because he used
to be on the Dallas Mavericks and they traded him.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
This is what's so crazy about both Christoph Porzingis and
Kyrie Irving. They were both traded for Spencer Dinwiddie.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, So Spencer Dinwiddie was on the Wizards and got
traded I think it was after the twenty twenty one
season to Dallas for Porzingis. Because Porzingis went from the
Knicks to Dallas and he was on that team, and
you know, they thought that Luca and Porzingis were gonna
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be like the one two punch, right, but it just
didn't work out. He was unhappy with his role. Towards
the end of it. He was dealing with injuries, as
he tends to do, and they shipped him to Washington, right,
So he went to the Wizards, where he played with
Daniel Gafford who's now on the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
So Christoph Porzingis, Tinkus Pingus Tingus Pingis, Tingus Pingis got
traded to the Wizards for Spencer Dinwittie, Spencer Dinwitty and
Dorian Finney. Smith along with a couple other draft picks,
got traded to the Nets right in the fire sale
for Kyrie Irving after he got suspended and posted that
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Amazon documentary link, the anti semitic one that got a
lot of attention. He got traded to Dallas to be
Luca's partner after Jalen Brunson. It worked out, left to
go to the Knicks. Oh, it worked out, but it
wasn't looking great.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
It wasn't looking good.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I think it took a lot of maturity from Kyrie
to become the second fiddle, the robin to the Batman,
because Bazuka Luka is Batman. Bazuka Luka is that dude.
Bazuka Luka is my favorite player in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yo, Bazuka Luka.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But not only is one of my favorite players in
the NBA, he's etching to the top of being my
favorite player in the NBA because of the shit talking. Yeah,
there's that video of him talking to other players, talking
to the fans, and he's not just like I'm better
than you, man. He's like, fuck you you bitch, ass
ho fuck you pussy.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I don't think he said suck my dick, but he's
he talks crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
He's youelling with the guy in Minnesota in the in
the game that they just won Game five, who's saying
crying with the handkerchief?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He's like, who's crying now, motherfucker? I love that shit.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I was at Game two against the Clippers when he
went crazy towards the end. He hit that three and
was screaming at Chris.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Paul who was weak one side. Yo. I love that stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I would just want to put on record my three
favorite players, Luca, Brunson, Spider Mitchell, those are my three.
I love watching all three of those guys playing. Why
I love watching Luca play the most is because he
plays basketball like it's a symphony. You cannot steal the
BA from him, you cannot stop him from getting to
his spot. He makes and takes some of the craziest shots,
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but he practices those shots. They like the step through, fallback,
you know, falling out of bounds.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Can we say he's the Leonard Bernstein of the NBA.
I think so.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Luk of dankik Aka Bazuka Luka is the Leonard Bernstein
of the NBA. He plays basketball like it's a symphony.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
He's magnificent. I love watching him play. I think I
bet on the Mavericks more than any other team this year,
so I watched them a lot this year.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Let's break down the matchups. Break it down three minutes,
three minute weave. Okay, so where the season is going
to be.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Make a break is You've got Kyrie and Luca versus
Derek White and Drew Holliday.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
They're gonna probably be mixing a match depending on what
the the matchups are. But like, that's it. That's the
series in a nutshell right there. Like can they put
a stop inside of that offensive firepower?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I think that they're gonna get some damage done towards them.
I think they're that good at defense that I think
Derek White is just he's spectacular, Drew Holly spectacular. And
then on the other side, we're looking at, you know,
Derek Jones Junior, who is a string being freak athletically
going up against Tatum who is the same kind of build.
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So that's gonna be fun. You've got Jalen Brown against PJ. Washington.
That's gonna be fun. And then you've got Daniel Gafford
slash Derek Lively versus Porzingis and Al Horford. Now, I
don't know if what Porzingis's status is. They were fine
without I think let's just say he's fine or he's not.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Hopefully fine.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah, this series, I think is going at least six.
I think that both teams have what it takes to
win on the road.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And then I think Bazuka doesn't give a fuck where
he is. Bazuka won a championship.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I don't think home. I think he's never grew up
playing at home, like an actual home. He's always like
grew up Spain.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, real Madrid.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
He's won a championship playing in one of those places
that has like the flares, like the craziest basketball environment
you could ever think of, like where there's riots and shit.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, that's that's what.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
The Boston Garden, as nuts as it is, that's nothing,
nothing to him, and I wouldn't scream it.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Let yo Celtics fans fuck with Kyrie.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah, don't poke the bear with Luca because Luca will
end your whole season. Kyrie, he's zero in ten since
he stamped on Lucky the Leprechaun. But that was a
different team, that was the Brooklyn Nets. And like Kyrie
has evolved, he's evolved.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
And it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
A really, really fun series. Both teams shoot the three
very well. The Celtics are deep, they play defense as
a team. They hit a lot of threes. I expect
Boston to win the championship. But I'm rooting for Dallas.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm rooting for Dallas. I'm rooting for I'll never root
for Boston.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I'm the root for the.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Patriots, under root for the Red Sox. I don't give
a shit about the NHL. I'll never root for the
Bruins if they got a lacrosse team. Is there a
WNBA team from Boston? I don't like them. I like
nothing Boston. I'm rooting for the Dallas Mavericks to win
this series. Bazooka, Luka and Kookie Kyrie irving, Mark Cuban.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Let's say MAVs and seven MAVs and seven in Boston
ripping their heart out.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
The Dallas Mavericks in seven, ripping their hearts out, Red
au Back kicking screaming in his grave. Bob Coosey's gonna
be in the building, Larry Bird, if you have any
love for the Boston Celtics, maybe you show up.
She needs an enforcer. And if it ain't gonna be
me Michelle Rappaport, Like where is Charlie Oakley? Doesn't her
team have like a Zaveria McDaniels or a Rakesha Mahorne.
She needs like a goon on her team because when
your star player that's bringing so much money, so much
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attention to the league, and it's a collective, it's a
bunch of them. It's been brewing, you know, I know
it's not just Kaitlin Clark. It's also Angel Reese, it's Cameron,
it's all the girls, and it's just you know, it's
been building for years. But let's not kid herself and
they're not thinking. The crowning jewel at this moment is
Caitlin Clark when she's getting the shit knocked out of
her every single game, and none of her teammates are
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at least running to say something to the other person,
like yo, what the fuck are you doing to our
cash cow?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Or my teammate you're talking about my like Tera Loans,
Like where's that Tera Loans? Like Yo, that's my quarterback.
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Speaker 2 (01:20):
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The NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
What a matchup.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The highs, the lows, the tweaked elmos, the ankle sprains,
the bad thumbs, the ping keys, the knees, the hips.
There's only two teams left. I got dubbed Jordan Winter
with me breaking down all things NBA.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
We do a lot at the im Rappers Stereo podcast,
but one of the things we do the best is
our basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Jordan, how do you feeling? I feel great, so happy
to be there. What's good? Rap it pack?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, we love NBA basketball. NBA basketball is fantastic. NBA
basketball isn't always will be fantastic. We've got an incredible
finals coming up. We've got the one seed Boston Celtics
against the five seed Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I got a question, Yes, is anyone on record that
you know of?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I know they're probably coming out of the woodwork, Joe
I told my cousin that Dallas was going.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
To make it to the finals?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Is anyone of weight on record having predicted that the
Dallas Mavericks would make it to the finals?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh yeah, who back Michael Rappaport, Miles play the Big
Diesel song, Shack.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
O'Neil broke quittus of all times. This is a game.
To me, this is not a sport. My name is Shaq,
I'm the Black Michael Rappaport and big ball of brand
T shirts look uncomfortable. Shack said that Dallas was When
did he said at the beginning of the.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Season, Shack before the season started, Shack Diesel on record.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The Black Michael Rappaport, the Big Diesel.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
The Black Michael Rapport. Shaquille O'Neal said. Number one Rookie
of the Year Victor Webbin Yama, easy choice. Number two
Nikola Jokic aka the Joker who After the fact, when
Shaq was talking to Joker said that he thought that
Shay Gil just Alexander should have won. But he said
in the beginning the Joker, Yes, But he also said,
(03:52):
who's winning the NBA Championship? He said the Dallas. He said,
they're gonna win the shit, he said, the Dallas Mavericks.
And that was before the trades and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Miles play the video champions Dallas. Wow. Okay, another wow yo,
because nobody.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I don't think in the beginning of the season, the
Dallas Mavericks didn't think they were winning a championship.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So last season because obviously we have the company captain picks. Yes,
talk about all the time sports betting. We are so
proud about our NBA picks and prognostication. We're at this
all day every day, and we make futures bets. Last
year and you don't just make just one pick. Sometimes
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you make at least two. You pick one from the East,
you pick one from the West. Last year we picked
the Nuggets to win it all right. This year we
picked two teams from the East. We picked the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Obviously didn't win. Spider Mitchell went down, so did Jared
Allen Arris LeVert. Yeah, they got knocked out by the Celtics.
(04:59):
But our pick from the West was the Dallas mat Wow.
And the reason is because Bazuka.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Luca Bazuka Luca, who, by the way, I gave him
that name.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's such a good nickname that I want that nickname
to be his nickname. Luca Magic is cool and he
does magical things.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But Bazuka Luca is a better Luca Magic. It's like, okay,
Luca Magic, that's not a nickname, that's kind of a thing.
And he exudes Luca magic like Pete Davidson exudes not
for me allegedly big dick energy, right, But a nickname
Bazuka Luca, that's like yo Bazuka Yo Bazuka.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Luka Bazuka yo Zuka. Yeah. And he used to wear
the cut sleeve on his shooting.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Arm, so he's like locking and load in his Bazuka
step back.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Luca Magic is in a nickname. Magic is magic.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Johnson and I think we probably at another time, another
episode down the road, need to really start giving out
other nicknames because there's a real well. We gave Raymond
Green the dick kicking Draymond of course, Draymond the Dick Kicker.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Green, which he deserves.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And by the way, what he did on inside the
NBA about Rudy Gobert this whole Western Conference Finals was embarrassing, embarrassing.
It was really not cool.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And although I've.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Seen him on his podcast clips give More Love, he
has to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Let's stay focused on the nicknames.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
What I'm saying that we there seems to be a
lack of great nicknames in the NBA right now. When
you know we were coming up before me, you had
what Iceman, George Gervin, Pistol, Pete Maravich like nicknames, good doctor,
doctor j Like those are incredible, Nicolet Thunder, incredible nicknames.
Now we've got like Joker because it's Nikally that makes.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Sense for him.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Luca Magic is not a nickname. I'm saying it the
third time. That's not a nickname. SGA like, that's not
a nickname.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Let me tell you something. SGA needs a new voice.
You know, I was. I haven't talked about this, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hearing him talk during the playoffs, his shit sounds like
it's like Sir Patrick Mahomes shit. His shit sounds crazy
because he looks cool, he dresses cool, he plays cool,
and then you hear him talking it sounds crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You know what's so funny is we spend so much
time eighty two game regular season and then the playoffs
are going for months. But it all comes down to
two teams.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You know, Jimmy Butler this the New York Knicks that,
Tyros Halliburton this, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You're gone, honest, Johannese Lebron, Anthony Edwards, all of it.
You're gone, You're out of the picture. And Draymond, Chris
Paul everyone out there. Your opinions don't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Your opinions don't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
All that matters is we are right between the lines
and there's a lot of storylines that are pumping through
this series.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Before we get to the storylines, I want to tell
you I've done it again.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I need to pivot.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And there's two things that I want to talk about
before we get to the actual final. The WNBA. Okay, now,
I don't even know the names of their teams. There's
some Chicago team is the Angel Rees, Team Sky Chicago
Skot right, the Chicago Scott versus the Indiana Fever right,
the Chicago Sky Sky Chicago. Sky played the Indiana Fever
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right on ESPN the other day, and I watched the
game all the way through. Now I'm on my phone,
I'm drinking my coffee. At one point I went out
of my hotel room to get another coffee, and I
came back.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
But I watched the game a WNBA game. When was
the last time you watched an entire WNBA?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
He never, It's never happened before.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Okay, So this is like your Larry Bird Magic Johnson
WNBA moment.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Literally got it. Like, I watched the game.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
The game started at nine am our time, LA time,
because it started at twelve, yes, nine am, which.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Is yeah, it was an early game.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Now, I didn't wake up to watch the game. Not
gonna lie. I didn't wake up to watch the game.
I just saw that it was on and turned it
on and watched it all the way through, which is
is shocking to say. Now I will say the WM
I couldn't be happier. I think it's fantastic for women.
I think it's fantastic for women's sports. I think it's
fantastic for the future of young girls all over the world.
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It's incredible, But we need to keep a couple of
things in perspective.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Number one, there's.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Only twelve teams, twelve teams in the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
This is like the original NHL and there's like eight teams,
twelve teams.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's it. Six per conference. That's it. That's all. That's crazy.
It is crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That's a small league, that's almost like a still an
upstart league. Yes, and they're growing. It's great, of course.
But the one girl body checking Caitlyn Clark. Yes, dirty play,
dirty play. I suspend her ass and she called.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Her a bitch before she did it, like it was.
There was intent, there's intent, there's hate. There's racial undertones, overtones.
I don't care what anybody says. And that sexuality stuff
is prevalent because there's a lot of the dating of
players and the Caitlin Clark is a white straight woman
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who is getting a more attention than all of them.
Combined those overtones, undertones, and it's being discussed a lot.
You have to bring it up.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Indiana Pacers Arena was sold out at twelve packed pack twelve.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
This is what I want to say about it. The girl.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
We've been seeing clips of Caitlyn Clark hit threes, We've
been seeing clips of Kate and Clark making turnovers. We've
been seeing clips of Caitlyn Clark and other WNBA players,
but it all leads with Caitlin Clark. Obviously, Caitlyn Clark.
There's no there's no WNBA without the history of the WNBA.
Lisa Leslie, somebody, ryl Soops, all them, Diana Tarazzi, all
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the ones. I don't even know other great w I
don't know. I don't fuck with the WNBA like that.
Nobody did, right, which is why you need to leave
Caitlyn Clark alone because I've never seen them hipcheck dirty plays.
I'm sure it's happened, yeah, but it's like yo. The
question that was discussed after Caitlin Clark got knocked to
(11:20):
the ground and called the bitch was should she tough
en up?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Everybody's like, should she tough enough? What do that mean?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
What would Caitlyn Clark toughening up mean? Does she punch
somebody in the face? Do you want a malice in
the Palace WNBA style? Do you want fights?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Like? What does that mean for her to tough enough?
And where are her teammates? That's the real question. Now
I want to offer up two things.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I have said that at fifty four, with a slight
case of gout, a lot of inflammation and full of
phlegme at fifty four years old, I am the prototype.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I move like a WNBA player on.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
The speed of a lot of the bigger WNBA players
at fifty four. If I get that surgery, I am
good for six hard fouls. And nobody's gonna fuck with
Caitlyn Clark. With Michelle Rappaport on your bench.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You're just gonna go full Caitlyn Jenner and join the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yo And people like you're not good enough. I am
good enough if you watch the way I run, and
you watch the way most some of them are fastest shit,
but the bigger one I'm talking about, I'm be a
power forward slash center. I like Angel Reese, You're not
doing any of that goofy shit with me on the court.
I'll close line Angel Reese, right, Okay, I'm like on
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some Bill Lange beer shit with Angel Reese, like she
needs an enforcer, and if it ain't gonna be me,
Michelle Rappaport, Like, where is Charlie Oakley? Doesn't her team
have like a Zaveria McDaniels or Rakesha Mohrne. She needs
like a goon on her team because when your star
player that's bringing so much money, so much attention to
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the league, and it's a collective, it's a bunch of them.
It's been brewing, you know, I know it's not just
Kaylyn Clark, it's also Angel Reese, it's Cameron's it's all
the girls, and it's just you know, it's been building
for years.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But let's not kid ourselves. And they're not thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The crowning jewel at this moment is Caitlyn Clark when
she's getting the shit knocked out of her every single game,
and none of her teammates are at least running to
say something to the other person, like.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yo, what the fuck are you doing to our cash cow? Right?
Or my teammate?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You're talking about my like Tera loans, Like where's that
Tera loans? Like Yo, that's my quarterback.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It's it's unsportsman like, it's not it doesn't matter what
age you're playing at, Like where's the coach? Like where
is the incitement to stand up for your teammate? Like
unless Caitlyn Clark behind the scenes is just like the ultimate.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Diva, which she is the worst of the worst people.
Which I don't think she would get this far.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I would have come out she's been playing for ten games, like,
and their team has not been winning. Have some pride.
You're getting all this attention and you're two and eight,
Like that doesn't eat away at you, the fact that
your cash cow is the talk of all sports and
you're losing.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And you're getting you're losing, and she's getting a shit
knocked at it, and none of you have done anything
to retaliate. It's like, if you want this league to
be real, and you want this league to be like,
you know, taken seriously, That's taken seriously because if they're
gonna give it out, you need.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
To stand up for your star absolutely somehow.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But like does that mean getting into a fight, because
I don't want to see the NBA players fight, let alone,
Like a WNBA fight now would be the worst thing
that could happen for the WNBA. So the question when
they say tough enough, what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I mean she is the equivalent of Steph Curry, right,
and Steph Curry faced the same type of accusations. Questions
the ankle like the toughness, and as much as we
get on Draymond Green's case.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You have that goon there.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
He's built his entire livelihood about being Steph's guy.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
He even talks about Steph.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
When they're not even around, when he's on his broadcasts
and stuff like that. Is his personality is being Draymond
Green to Steph Kirk one hundred. So yes, there is
something to be said to be that person. There's got
to be one of them on that team.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And if and if they don't have them, I'm saying
I'm offering up my service.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I will be Caitlin Clark's goon. Just need to go
through the surgery.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's gonna take a little while, but I can absolutely
make him w NBA team once I get that surgery.
(16:01):
Other thing, Agent Zero Gilbert arenas the only person who
literally never showed up no show on a scheduled Iron
Rapport stereo pockets. I love gil loved him as a player,
love his personality, Gil's well intentions, He's got a He's
just a likable guy.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Oh that was a strange day because that's when we
were getting tons of athletes coming on the podcast, coming
over to the old La Gloom tomb. His producer showed
up and you're is sitting in the studio with you
and you're just like, where is Agent zero? When Agent
zero did not show up? Didn't show up, and the
(16:39):
guy's just sitting there. I'm not gonna put him on blasts.
I know who it is. And you were like, get
the fuck out of my house. Yeah, you gotta go, right.
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I was you gotta get the fuck yeah, because he
was like, well, it's just gonna be no's I've already
waited an hour, get.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The fuck out. You got to go. You gotta go. Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But gil I see him at the Big Three. I
fucked with Gilbert. I'm a fan of Gilbert's personality. But
Gilbert Renez, to quote the great EPMD, you gotta chill.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You sound.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I don't know if you're doing this for clicks, maybe
you're on those edibles. Maybe you're just doing it for
the fun of the game. Maybe you're doing it because
you know, instead of calling you Agent zero, we should
call you Chef Gill And you just like talking shit.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But your takes are ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You said that Steph Curry is not a generational talent.
You said that Yokick is the statistically.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
The worst MVP.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Also, you're just player hating on Yokick, whether or not
he's this that, the statistics, whatever, the fact that you
said that Steph Curry is not a generational talent, generational player,
whatever your intention was, gil as great of a talent
that you were and is likable that you are, people
(17:52):
will always remember you for pulling out that hammer, for
bringing that hammer into the locker room.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That fucked up your career.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It wasn't the knees, It was the bringing the gun
into the locker room over some bullshit. And you talk
about everything, and I know you've addressed the gun, and
I know people make mistakes, but if you're gonna talk
about everybody else, you should be talking about why you
brought that hammer into the arena over some money shit
(18:23):
like and ruined your career. When people talk about Gilbert Rene,
they don't talk about the sixty points on Kobe, They
don't talk about the Adidas commercials, your story, how likable
you were, how you came up. They talk about you
fucking it all up, bringing that that knaka, the pistol,
the pistolely into the arena.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So if you're gonna talk.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Let's talk about that shit otherwise, like you're just doing
it for clicks, And I feel like he's more entertaining,
he's more charismatic, and Gilbert Arenas is more informed than
to just do it for clickbaits, because if a player
of that status, of that talent needs to do it
for clickbaits, what is everybody else gonna do with themselves?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Stephan Curry is He's someone who changed the game of
basketball forever. He's a four time World champion and he
was the best player on that team even with Kevin Durant,
he was still one A one B if you want
to get into that. Stephan Curry is one of the
best basketball players we've ever seen, period.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
And Gilbert, you fucked your career by bringing a gun
into the That's what ruins your career, not the knees.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's what fucked you up.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
That's why you became cancerous, That's why you became like,
we don't want gill on our team because you did
the wildest shit, one of the wildest things ever.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And what's the dude's name that he pulled the hammer
out on.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I was Javarius Critton And dis is he in jail. Yeah,
he's in jail for murder. He's not coming out.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Any time you pulled the gun out on the wrong dude. Yes,
maybe that's why you pulled the gun out. Nonetheless, talk
about that more often then talking about generational talents.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Just an outrageous take, and that's just what the NBA
community has come to see Gilbert ass And he's everywhere,
I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Because of the takes.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Well, Gil's Arena that like they must be filming that
that show daily around the clock because his takes are out.
He has too many takes. And now he's like on
that the Nightcap with Shannon and o Cho Cinco, like
his takes out there, Like not everything needs to be
a hot take, That's what I'm saying. Not everything needs
(20:35):
to be out there for that type of attention. Maybe
he's just like, fuck it, this is what I'm doing now,
so I'm gonna do it. He's got to be doing
it on purpose.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
He's got to be doing it on patrol it, Gilbert Arenas,
Steph Curry would bust your ass. You're not in the
same level. I don't care that you scored and you
were talented, and I watched you play. I watched your
whole career, Steph Curry's. You're not even in the same
discussion of talent level, what you actually did, what you
actually accomplished to the joker or to Steph Curry, you're
not in the same level of discussion period. And I
(21:06):
don't know why his colds don't say that, like, Yo,
you're bugging. You can say you're bugging with Sean McCants
like in his other case. You could literally say, yo,
you're tripping. No one says that. No, I'm letting you know.
Steph Curry's a thousand times better than you, and I
love you. I said that with all due respect.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yes words, NBA Finals, What do you got, dub The
Boston Celtics are better than anyone wants to believe that
they are. They are incredible, and I do not like
the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I've had a needless to say, I have Celtic derangement syndrome.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I am a longtime Knicks fan, obviously, you know, throughout
the years. I don't know if there's really been a
Celtics Knicks rivalry other than a Boston New York ravory
the Knicks, and they haven't been there over the span
of this Boston Celtics run that they've been having, and
the Celtics they've been to the Conference finals a lot
(22:17):
in the last little more than half a decade. They
were just in the finals, not last year, but the
year before against the Warriors, which Stephen Curry and the
Warriors busted the Celtics ass period took care of business
against them, and they lost last year to the Heat
in the conference finals.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
They get there. They get there all the time. They're
on some Buffalo billshit.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
If the Celtics don't win the championship this year, they're
on some Buffalo billshit.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
The boy I love losing Super Bowl. The wide right,
wide right, Oh for sure, this is the best chance.
And that was a glorious moment that wide right I
was dying. They are going to need to win this championship.
There was so much pressure on the Boston Celtics to
win this year. This is their year. They are amazing.
(23:08):
They went sixty four and eighteen this season. They went
thirty seven and four at home this season. They beat
teams by eleven points per game this year. They adage
one hundred and twenty points a game and give up
one hundred and nine points per game. This team is stacked.
(23:33):
They are ridiculous, and it's very strange to me that
the Celtics had such an incredible year and only had
one player on the All NBA team.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Wow. I mean, Jason Tatum got First Team All NBA.
The other dudes didn't make the All NBA teams. Jalen
Brown didn't make it. Wow, I don't understand. But what
about the other dude.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Derek White didn't make it. Drew Holliday, like they got
recognition on both of them made second Team All Defense.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Wow. But Jalen Brown absolutely deserve to be on an
All NBA team. There's no reason.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And he gets a bad rap because he doesn't have
like the cleanest handles and such. But that guy gets
to his spots. That guy is incredible to watch and
for me, especially because I watch it not only as
a die hard NBA fan. I've been watching NBA my
entire life, right, and I love it so much and
(24:27):
now over the you know, the better part of the decade.
Now I watch it as a sports better and trying
to find those edges. There's certain players that I love
betting on, and there are players in this series that
I love betting on for those prop plays. If you
have to bet if someone's gonna score more or less
than a certain points, well, Jalen Brown. I love betting
(24:47):
on Jalen Brown for props. For props, does he answer
the bell? He does a lot. Derek White incredible. Just
love betting on Derek White. I mean, if you bet
against Tatum, especially three pointers, like his over under taking
the under on his three pointers, you would win a lot.
(25:08):
He has not been hitting. And then going back and
looking at the two matchups that they had this year,
the Mavericks and the Celtics, and really you could only
talk about the one that happened in March because that
was after the trade deadline, and you know, looking at
these guys, Tatum had a monster game in both of
those games, and they won both of those games, but
they went crazy from three point territory in the game
(25:33):
that they played, himself just did and it was a
close game until the fourth. And that game, that was
the only game that we can really look at and
see like who all the guys were because Porzingis played
in that game.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
PJ.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Washington played in that game, and Tatum had thirty points
in both those games. He had thirty nine in one
of them. Luca had a triple double in both of
those games. Us Pingus playing Game one, tingus Pingus is playing.
He's back, And.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
So I hope tingus Pingus doesn't get hurt because I
love tingus Pingis And that tingus Pingus video that I did,
it was out of love.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, it was out of love and naivete.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Nobody knew who the fuck tingus pingis was right, and
that's why I said tingus Pingus.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Who the fuck is tingus Pingis?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
And I said that who the fuck is tingus Pingus?
And he loves the way the fuck is Lativia. He
didn't send you a jersey, he loves.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Send me a jersey when he was with the Mavericks. Yeah, yeah,
tingus Pingis isuse. I always felt bad.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I was like, I thought that it was deemed because
it got so much attention.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Miles played the tingers Pingers video. Please, what the fuck
did they do? Who the fuck is this? What the
fuck is tingus Pingus? I never heard of fucking Latinia?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You drafted this fucking kid. Your stupid amazing video still
brings me joy every time I see it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
People still send me the Tingus Pingus video.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I've seen people wearing multiple jerseys on multiple teams of
Tingus Pingis on the back of.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
The days I never met Tingus Pingis, oh Man, and
Tingus Pingis has an axe to grind because he used
to be on the Dallas Mavericks and they traded him.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
This is what's so crazy about both Christoph Porzingis and
Kyrie Irving. They were both traded for Spencer Dinwiddie.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, So Spencer Dinwiddie was on the Wizards and got
traded I think it was after the twenty twenty one
season to Dallas for Porzingis. Because Porzingis went from the
Knicks to Dallas and he was on that team, and
you know, they thought that Luca and Porzingis were gonna
(27:44):
be like the one two punch, right, but it just
didn't work out. He was unhappy with his role. Towards
the end of it. He was dealing with injuries, as
he tends to do, and they shipped him to Washington, right,
So he went to the Wizards, where he played with
Daniel Gafford who's now on the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
So Christoph Porzingis, Tinkus Pingus Tingus Pingis, Tingus Pingis got
traded to the Wizards for Spencer Dinwittie, Spencer Dinwitty and
Dorian Finney. Smith along with a couple other draft picks,
got traded to the Nets right in the fire sale
for Kyrie Irving after he got suspended and posted that
(28:24):
Amazon documentary link, the anti semitic one that got a
lot of attention. He got traded to Dallas to be
Luca's partner after Jalen Brunson. It worked out, left to
go to the Knicks. Oh, it worked out, but it
wasn't looking great.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
It wasn't looking good.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I think it took a lot of maturity from Kyrie
to become the second fiddle, the robin to the Batman,
because Bazuka Luka is Batman. Bazuka Luka is that dude.
Bazuka Luka is my favorite player in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yo, Bazuka Luka.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But not only is one of my favorite players in
the NBA, he's etching to the top of being my
favorite player in the NBA because of the shit talking. Yeah,
there's that video of him talking to other players, talking
to the fans, and he's not just like I'm better
than you, man. He's like, fuck you you bitch, ass
ho fuck you pussy.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
I don't think he said suck my dick, but he's
he talks crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
He's youelling with the guy in Minnesota in the in
the game that they just won Game five, who's saying
crying with the handkerchief?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He's like, who's crying now, motherfucker? I love that shit.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I was at Game two against the Clippers when he
went crazy towards the end. He hit that three and
was screaming at Chris.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Paul who was weak one side. Yo. I love that stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I would just want to put on record my three
favorite players, Luca, Brunson, Spider Mitchell, those are my three.
I love watching all three of those guys playing. Why
I love watching Luca play the most is because he
plays basketball like it's a symphony. You cannot steal the
BA from him, you cannot stop him from getting to
his spot. He makes and takes some of the craziest shots,
(30:08):
but he practices those shots. They like the step through, fallback,
you know, falling out of bounds.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Can we say he's the Leonard Bernstein of the NBA.
I think so.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Luk of dankik Aka Bazuka Luka is the Leonard Bernstein
of the NBA. He plays basketball like it's a symphony.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
He's magnificent. I love watching him play. I think I
bet on the Mavericks more than any other team this year,
so I watched them a lot this year.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Let's break down the matchups. Break it down three minutes,
three minute weave. Okay, so where the season is going
to be.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Make a break is You've got Kyrie and Luca versus
Derek White and Drew Holliday.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
They're gonna probably be mixing a match depending on what
the the matchups are. But like, that's it. That's the
series in a nutshell right there. Like can they put
a stop inside of that offensive firepower?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I think that they're gonna get some damage done towards them.
I think they're that good at defense that I think
Derek White is just he's spectacular, Drew Holly spectacular. And
then on the other side, we're looking at, you know,
Derek Jones Junior, who is a string being freak athletically
going up against Tatum who is the same kind of build.
(31:30):
So that's gonna be fun. You've got Jalen Brown against PJ. Washington.
That's gonna be fun. And then you've got Daniel Gafford
slash Derek Lively versus Porzingis and Al Horford. Now, I
don't know if what Porzingis's status is. They were fine
without I think let's just say he's fine or he's not.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Hopefully fine.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Yeah, this series, I think is going at least six.
I think that both teams have what it takes to
win on the road.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And then I think Bazuka doesn't give a fuck where
he is. Bazuka won a championship.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I don't think home. I think he's never grew up
playing at home, like an actual home. He's always like
grew up Spain.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, real Madrid.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
He's won a championship playing in one of those places
that has like the flares, like the craziest basketball environment
you could ever think of, like where there's riots and shit.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, that's that's what.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
The Boston Garden, as nuts as it is, that's nothing,
nothing to him, and I wouldn't scream it.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Let yo Celtics fans fuck with Kyrie.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah, don't poke the bear with Luca because Luca will
end your whole season. Kyrie, he's zero in ten since
he stamped on Lucky the Leprechaun. But that was a
different team, that was the Brooklyn Nets. And like Kyrie
has evolved, he's evolved.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
And it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
A really, really fun series. Both teams shoot the three
very well. The Celtics are deep, they play defense as
a team. They hit a lot of threes. I expect
Boston to win the championship. But I'm rooting for Dallas.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm rooting for Dallas. I'm rooting for I'll never root
for Boston.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I'm the root for the.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Patriots, under root for the Red Sox. I don't give
a shit about the NHL. I'll never root for the
Bruins if they got a lacrosse team. Is there a
WNBA team from Boston? I don't like them. I like
nothing Boston. I'm rooting for the Dallas Mavericks to win
this series. Bazooka, Luka and Kookie Kyrie irving, Mark Cuban.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Let's say MAVs and seven MAVs and seven in Boston
ripping their heart out.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
The Dallas Mavericks in seven, ripping their hearts out, Red
au Back kicking screaming in his grave. Bob Coosey's gonna
be in the building, Larry Bird, if you have any
love for the Boston Celtics, maybe you show up.
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