Greatest Series of the 2010's

It was once said that the regular season is where players make their money, but the playoffs is where they make their legacies. In this episode we examine the shift from regular season to post-season play, recount some of the most memorable team performances in April through June, and share the never-heard-before stories swirling around them. This decade is ripe with rivalries and some of the most prolific comebacks in league history. Tune in to find out how they stack up…

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Markeith Morphs is over there and he was talking to me,
talking tracks. He's like, yo, we're going back to ok
see going back. I look over. I'm like, nah, man,
it's over with. I've seen it too many times. It's
dang with the ball at the end of the game.
It's over And I turned her. By the time I
turn around, the balls halfway in the air, it's at
its apex. He knocks it down. I turned around. I
didn't even say anything to the bench afterwards. I just

(00:20):
stared him down before I ran over to the pile
and celebrated. But that moment's gonna live forever in the league.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Welcome to g o t E greatest of their arrow.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
What's up self, Golt, what's going on my boy?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Man? I've been loving the feedback we've been getting on
these episodes.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, we're still rolling, man, So I got a lot
of topics still to go. We're just getting started. We're
still growing this thing, getting our sea legs under us
and just making it better on the fly.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Absolutely, man, It's super exciting. Today we got a good
special one, you know, greatest playoff series of the twenty
hens and you know it's the difference between regular season
and the playoffs, and you know what I mean, Like,
I'm just excited to even just cover this because a
lot of fans only look at it, they complain about
the eighty two games. And I would love to kick

(01:15):
things off about you explaining that transition of regular season
and then getting ready for the playoffs and then just
being in those playoff matchups, like how intense it is.
But first I want to discuss going down memory lane
like we always do. You know, twenty tens gave us,
you know, those classic Golden State Warriors Cleveland Cavaliers matchups,

(01:36):
some of the best basketball we possibly ever seen, especially
that twenty sixteen series, and then you had you know,
obviously the San Antonio Spurs, you know, the Miami Heat
doing their things, so definitely fun Lebron getting his first
couple of rings in that era, which kicked off, you know,
the career he has now, so just over exciting. Some

(01:59):
of the best basket Like we mentioned in the previous episode,
the focus, the intensity, you know, the construction of certain teams,
how they were built together, certain teams built to just
beat this one team because it was so much dominant.
And then I felt like you kind of knew who
was going to be there. They gave us the exact
matchup that we truly needed, and they didn't let us down.

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Like you knew, like Cleveland was going to be there
and Golden State was gonna be there if they stayed
healthy and they showed up. It was really good.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, twenty tens was like basketball Heaven to me. It
was so much drama.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
That was kind of like the era when you know,
social media started to take over the sport. So every game,
especially when you got to the playoffs, every game was
so magnified, so scrutinized. You could feel you could see
the pressure when some players got to the playoffs and
how they were dealing with the pressure and their emotions
and things like that. But like you said, the matchups,
it was stuff you look forward to all year. You

(02:52):
kind of knew who was gonna clash when you got
to the playoffs. You knew esp see later in the decade,
even earlier when you said they had some of those
Boston Lakers, that's if you knew that was gonna come
towards the end of the season. And then you had Slaps, Warriors, Rockets, Warriors. Okay,
see Bulls Calves. There was a lot of stuff you
knew you were going to see, and it was just
a matter of those teams being healthy and ready to
go when the playoffs came around that you wanted to see.

(03:15):
And this is a dope topic to me just because
I remember, like a lot of these playoffs series and
a lot of these matchups and moments in the NBA
like framed the time period of my life. Like I
remember where I was in twenty thirteen or whatever when
Brian won his first ring twenty twelve, and I remember
where I wasn't rare, I only hit that shot. I
remember I was in college and back home and me

(03:38):
and the homies were at a bar and they had
the game up on one of the TVs and Brian
winning his first ring, and I mean, I was kind
of emotional because I remember Brian was taking so much
heat for the decision and all that, and I'm in
the club having fun with the homies to watching the
game at the same time, and just it was dope
to see Brian at his first ring. So, like I said,
I some of those memories, you remember where you were

(04:00):
when some of these crazy things happen.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
So it's gonna be dope to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Speaking of, you know, remembering where you were. I wanted
to get into the conversation of you know, you being
a professional athlete and dealing with the eighty two you
know game grind and then preparing for the playoffs. What's
the difference of the regular season verse the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
I mean, like I said, everything is magnified. The importance
of every possession, every game is just that much more important,
Like you gotta you lock in. Obviously, the scout reports
more detail. You know everybody's plays, you know you're playing against,
and by the time you get through game two three
of a series, you literally hate everybody else on the

(04:41):
other team. You had so many, so many battles, so
many games, like you really look over to the other
sideline and you kind of hate those guys. So that's
why you see some of the squabbles and the fights
and and things like that going up throughout the series
and momentum. Like I said, it feels like if you
lose a game in the playoffs, it feels like the
world's about the end, like the series is over. Sometimes
your fans are overreacting. And then if you win a

(05:03):
game for like everything is in you in your in
your uh, going in your direction, Like you could be
down two, oh win game three, and you're like, oh,
we got to see we figured it out this year,
we better win the series. So it's it's a completely
different ball game once you get to the playoffs as
opposed to the regular season. The way it's referee the
intensity goes up. It's just it's kind of a different

(05:23):
sport to me.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
So you've been on a one seed team and you've
been on other seed teams. What's the difference about being
I guess with a comfortable lead, knowing you know you're
the favorite going into it, and then what's it like
being the underdog in the playoff matchup?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
You can really as an underdog UFLA, you can really
play free. You're going out there and just letting it
all out. Because especially like my first talking about my
first playoff series, I was in Portland, I think it
was twenty nineteen playing against the Warriors, and I mean
nobody expected us to go in there and win that
series against the wars and it was kind of us
against the world mentality, and that Portland team in the
Western Conference finals facing off Gas Steph and Dramond and

(06:01):
those Clay and those guys over there. So I mean
we came into every game confident, but at the same
time we were just leaving all out there, and that
was those memories I'll never forget.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, for sure, definitely a fun one. I think I
was like, I pulled up for one game because actually
Steph was out, and then you know they had Quinn
playing and y'all had actually a good squad that year.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, squad.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I know that's one of your favorite That was one
of your favorite teams. You got some good teammates on that.
I was actually talking to Hivan Turner earlier. He was
just like he shared with me how he couldn't get
you the ball, and when he did get you the ball,
he wanted you to shoot every time because he like,
I can't keep looking off Dame or CJ because they
need the ball and everybody else needs the ball. But
when I get it to you, you better shoot it.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Et was holding me down all serious on all Series
ball year. Really.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean, we had that bench unit that Terry Stopps
was letting us rock all five bench unit uh at times,
and we were getting it done.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
So we had.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
We had that group that it was so good because
we had a good for young guys and vets that
kind of knew that role. Everybody fit into that role perfectly,
obviously led by Damon CJ. But we kind of shocked
the world making that run to the Western Conference Finals,
and the pinnacle of that was obviously a Game five
against Oka see the Dame Bye bye game winner over
over Paul George. One of those more memories I was

(07:18):
on the floor Ford that I'll never forget.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Speaking of that memory. Man, that was a crazy moment,
like what did you did you know who was going in?

Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's funny. Everybody asked me like did you see that clip?
That kind of went viraled? Me over there talking to
the okay see bench as Dan was shooting out Like
I wasn't even watching him release the ball. I turned
around and the ball was in the air. But a
lot of fans and everybody be asking me, We like,
what were you saying to the bench before he shot
the ball?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Do you know what's going in? And now I was
over it.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Actually I ran down to the corner and I'm standing
there spreading the floor for Damn. I knew he's gonna
take the last shot.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
I know you're not.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
I know he's not giving it up in that situation.
But I run down there and I'm right in front
of okay See's bench. And now now it's one of
my homies. Now Markeith Morphs is over there and he
was talking to me, talking tracks. He's like, yo, we're
going back to OKC Game five, We're going back. I
look over, I'm like, nah, man, it's over with. I've
seen it too many times. It's dang with the ball
at the end of the game. It's over And I

(08:13):
turned By the time I turned around, the balls halfway
in the air, it's at its apex.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
He knocks it down. I turned around.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I didn't even say anything to the bench afterwards. I
just stared him down before I ran over to the
pile and celebrated. But that moment's gonna live in It's
like a famous gonna levet forever in the league.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Absolutely. Now people are questioning if that was a good
shot or a bad shot, and we obviously know it
was a good shot.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
It depends on who's taking it.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Depends on who's taking it. Everybody don't get that. Look
Game sevens man going into Game sevens. How many actually,
how many Game sevens have you been part of?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think two?

Speaker 1 (08:46):
I was in the game seven That same year we
played against the Nuggets in Denver. That was game seven
I played against. We lost the Game seven when I
was in Philly lost the Trey Young and the Hawks.
The infamous is that the infamus of That's the Ben
Layup game?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh man lay I think I think it's just.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Been in two game sevens. Honestly all the playoff series
I played in, but there's nothing like a Game seven.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, like going into that game, like what is the nerves?
The approach? Like how are you feeling? Like, I mean,
I know every game is the game, but this is
kind of like a winner go home and you know,
you're just trying to survive to get to the next round,
and you know, and being in that situation, what is
it like like just you know, running out the tunnel,

(09:35):
getting ready, warming up, going through your routine. Does it
feel different? Is there just like an intensity.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Game seven you just want the game to start from
like Game six. In between Games six and Game seven,
you just wanted to start because you can't really prepare anymore.
You know, you've played against them six times already. You
know the scout report, you know how they play. It's
just a matter of getting your body right, getting healthy,
keep your skill sharp, and you want the game to
start because like you, nervous for however many days in

(10:02):
between those games, your fan base is nervous. You don't
want to check social media, you don't want to watch,
you don't want to hear people talking about the game.
You just wanted to start and lay it all on
the line. But once the ball goes up, the intensity,
you could feel the tension in the air in the
arena because every every every moment is important. It's really
when to go home, so liked they always say it's

(10:23):
nothing better than the game seven.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's that's really facts.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Man.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Too bad Michael Jordan never played in one.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
He wouldn't know.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh yeah, man, real, goat right there. Tell me about
your very first playoff experience.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, my first playoff experience was that year in Portland,
like my first really so I played. I think it
was my sixth year in the league. Never been to
the playoffs. I was on a lot of younger teams
and then going to Portland having a roll over there.
It was like that my night before my first playoff game,
I was as nervous as ever because you know, it's
different basketball.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah. So you I know, you as a competitor, you
like to, you know, compete, Yeah, you want to win
those how how like excruciating those first six seasons. Well,
it's tough, like just just like going home. Ear.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, it was, It's tough. It was tough. I mean,
like I said, you want to play the highest stakes.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
As a competitor, you want to you want to play
in the playoffs with everybody watching, then liketual, the intensity
goes up, the games mean more. But also as a
young guy, you want to also want to get reps.
And I was my first few years. I was just
trying to establish myself in the league at the same time.
So it wasn't like I was I was coasting in
the doing the regular season anything. I was trying to
get minutes, so I was. I wanted to play in

(11:39):
the playoffs, but that wasn't honestly my priority.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
We're going to take a quick break, but when we
get back, we're going to talk about the greatest playoff
series of the twenty tens. I can't wait for this.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah, some good matchups.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Man, I already know where to start. I'm excited about
this one. I think I actually seen you at this game.
Twenty sixteen NBA Finals Cleveland Cavaliers Golden State Warriors. Now,
obviously the Cavs won this series, but Game seven, it
was Father's Day in Oakland, and everybody's at that game.

(12:29):
And when I say everybody was at that game, it
felt like you know the heavyweight fights, where you know,
like everybody.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Like I gotta, I gotta be here, put my suit
on for this one.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, no, you was locked in. Everybody's in there.
I wasn't even planning on going. I ended up getting
a ticket last minute. I flew up with my homie
and I'm looking, we all walking through the hallways and
it's super intense. But like a lot of people thought
the Warriors was gonna win, like like it was like

(13:00):
and I'm like, I don't know, I don't know, And
could you just talk about that series just like because
I mean we I still to this day think that's like.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
That's the pinnacle NBA basketball to me, Like.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's the greatest game I've ever attended in my life.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
The whole series was first of all the two teams
was two of the best teams in the decade. Just
yea top to bottom those rosters, with those matchups, you
had Steph Kyrie Clay Jr. Some snipers, obviously Bron I
mean dre mind it was. It was high level basketball
from top to bottom. And you had seventy three and

(13:34):
nine Warriors. They had they were fighting for their life
for that legacy because obviously seven three and seventy three
and nine without a championship don't hit the same.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
So then they knew that they knew that.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
The chiming in don't mean a thing without the ring.
Like you know, like it was so much calv started
off three one down. You know, you got the infamous
Bron meme where it got the headphones in with the glasses.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
You know, play said what it was. It was so
much instigation.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
It was like wrestling, you know what I mean, even
like you know, Draymond got suspended after game they were
three after game four, and he's I remember, like he
couldn't be in in the arena during the game, but
if they won, I mean, he had to be there
to celebrate. So I was there an old Oracle arena
and right next to Oracle is the baseball stadium where
the AD's play so dre during the game, dray Mind's

(14:23):
over in this baseball stadium next door in a suite
watching the game. So hopefully if they win, he can
run over real quick and be on the floor to celebrate.
You know what I'm saying stuff like that. Going through
throughout the series, that was just so drama feel and
when you look back, you hear all you hear all
the interviews from the players, and he talked to some
of the players that were in this series just to

(14:44):
they feel like so honored to be a part of
that series because they know that's that's it was so
intense and that's gonna be remembered forever. Even the losing team,
like Steph, the love he shows for the way bron
and Kyrie played those last three games, It's like, I
never seen anybody, any duo play that good for three
straight game.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
So you got to take Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I mean seeing seeing Kyi play like that was crazy, insane.
I had a respect for Kyle. I was just like, yo,
he nice, but that series, I was just like yo,
he took advantage of the moment, like like all right,
I'm here, I'm going to make it be known like everything.
He hit some big shots and then obviously the infamous

(15:21):
bron chased down block that he had. You know, he fell.
I thought he got hurt on that play. It was
so crazy. Everybody gassed. It took all the wind. I'm
saying that oracle was so loud.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
It was loud, man, it was loud.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Like you didn't even know the whistle was blown. That's
how crazy it was. Like the intensity.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
I think everybody was standing up the whole game, from
the whole game, thirty minutes before tipball, through the whole game,
nobody sat down and there it was.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
It was insane.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
I felt like a college atmosphere.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Like that's how it was.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Like NBA games don't be like that.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Not like that.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
They had the shirts, yellow shirts, like the Yellows shirts
yo own, like the back to back Like I was like, Yo,
this is crazy right now, this is so crazy that
like they got the shirts. I still I gotta find
it somewhere, but I got the shirt. And you know
they be joking talking about saying it to a foreign
country or third world. It's such an Aaron shirt because
like people were so locked in and I just remember

(16:20):
telling a Cleveland Cavalier fan. I turned to him and
I said, congratulations, it's like a minute left, and he says,
don't do that. It's not over yet, and I said, no,
it's over. And then he just was sitting there crying
because you know, like obviously they had that draft of
winning the chip. And then I'm like, okay, after the game,
I'm trying to go get some food. Oakland is dead.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
That devastated, like because and like I said, that's the
that's the peak of like NBA Twitter means, yeah, getting
cooked for bad performances. So all they knew all summer
Warriors Warriors fans gonna have to you heard you blew
a three one lead, Like that was the running joke
all sum Do you think do you think that Kyrie
shot is where you put that in an all time

(17:04):
NBA shots that the best NBA shot shot in NBA history, Like.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
I think I think it matters. Yeah, Like you know,
we mentioned n Test shot, but I think Kyrie shot
matters compared to a U M j U Tah Jazz
the last shot. It's up there because it just was
because of the the environment, because of the stakes.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
The stake, and nobody scored like it was a rock fight.
Nobody scored for like three four minutes before that shot. Yeah,
it was, and everybody got like Steph airball, Kyrie airball
to floater. Bron couldn't score, Draymond missed a couple, Iggy
missed a couple. Everybody's getting a chance to pet. It
was a tie game and nobody scored. It was like

(17:49):
nobody go over the hump, and then Kyrie just took
it upon himself.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Got it, got it right where he needed to get it,
and it's splash. I mean that's that. I mean them
the game, Them the joints that you either dream about
it as a kid, or the ones you lose sleep
and you don't sleep for a week or two because
you're so sick, because like that's the that's the game.
Steph throws it behind the back past.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, I forgot about that.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
He couldn't get good, you know what I mean, because
people was dragging that. It was like a season, you
know what I mean. It became a thing.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
I mean they put the trophy on it, trophy on
the ruthless yo.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
I remember, because I knew it was gonna be like
that's kind of like a quick story I remember.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
So I'm at the game obviously.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
And it's like thirty seconds left whatever, and I knew
that the war was about to lose, and I knew
Steph was gonna get it on it. He was gonna
it was gonna be a rough summer for him. So
I go back and like in the hallway as the
wards after the game wars walking back to the locker room,
they got to pass the family room that's on the left,
So I go back down there before then the game.
I sneak back there because I know Steph gonna walk

(18:53):
by me on the way back to the locker room
after the game. So I get back there, I'm like,
I'm gonna have a couple of words for him, keep
his keep his mind right, because I know he gonna
be he gonna be pissed for that. He's gonna be upset.
So the game over, he walking up and I'm like, yeah,
I grab him. You get my hug with that, momm like,
you're gonna be a You're gonna by He's like nah no,
he looked he had his head day. He looks like

(19:13):
Something's like no, no, no, I'll be back.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
I was like, oh, now showed me something. Yeah, it
was crazy.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Hey man, some of the something. And again, as easy
as those two teams made it look to get back,
it's not easy to get No, it's not easy.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Because then you had the next KD came in the
next year, twenty eighteen final or twenty seventeen finals, and
those two teams were Obviously the Wards were better because
they had a KD, but the Calves were better. That
was that Cave team the next year was better than
that twenty sixteen team. To me, that the same serries
a little a little more help. But that next series,

(19:55):
even though it was four to one in that twenty
seventeen finals, that was some high level basketball too.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now let's talk about our friend man him joining and
this is probably one of the most controversial conversations in
NBA history, you know what I mean. Ky ends up
signing with the Warriors fourth of July, right, he just
ruined everybody's holiday. By the way, I remember where I
was at. I think I was. I was gambling somewhere

(20:22):
with some other players, and the notification comes through and
I'm like, this ain't real, This ain't real. No, this
ain't real. What did you think of that?

Speaker 3 (20:36):
I wasn't too surprised.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
I kind of had an inkling early halfway through that
season before that, he I mean, he lives.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
He liked the Warriors style of play.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
He wanted to go somewhere where they played that type
of basketball, and he could see himself over there. And
you obviously got the thing that oh Stephane Stephan Draymond
called him crying from the car after losing you.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
I mean, that's a.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Great that's their greatest myth of all time.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
By the way, and people believe it. It's crazy if
people believe it. But Nah, I kind of had inkland.
I mean, but I was. I was, I mean, obviously
being step brother and happy for him. I'm saying, they
gonna probably win the next two three chips however minute
they want to win. But as the NBA player at
the time, I'm pissed because I got it. I'm I'm
in sack at the time. Ended up going to Dallas,

(21:22):
signing to Dallas that I think a couple of days later,
but I'm like, I gotta play these dudes for the
next few years.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
I'm like, this, this ain't gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
And they they were rolling, they were rolling. I didn't
even like I didn't. I wasn't one of them type
of fans that was like, oh man, basketball week now
or oh it's over. I just was like they good.
Like no, they're good.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
And they but think about the league players. Teams were
still they still had to show up. They've had the hoop.
KD had the hoop for them to get to the
to win the chip like the Rockets.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Wasn't no joke.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, no, they They wasn't bull of thozing people. But
they was just like locked in like they had. Their
offense was smooth. They had like they was doing different
sets and options and passing it this way that you
got KD rotating no defense and you know we mentioned
that lineup that they put out there. You got Clay,

(22:17):
Iggy Dre and.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
K Hampton's five, Like y'all they're defending like that.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
They doing it all man, one of the one of
the best defenses I've ever seen in my life. So
I'm looking at him like, all right, they're about to
run up against bron and them again. Who you know?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, and then you saw him in that that that
Christmas Day match up twenty sixteen. Yeah, that's one of
the best best games in the decade. I think Kyra
and Kyrie hit the game winner and that one too. Surprisingly,
I got some moments, man, they were Kate the Warriors

(22:56):
came back with Addie k D and those two teams
were sizing each other up for the match up they
were gonna have later later that year.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, no, that was some good bump. But when they
lined up, I'm just like they got nobody for King
Kay knew it. He got that. He got that that
he like, I'm here, yeah, playing I'm here, like I'm
not about to let this slip away, Like I'm about
the plays.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
He has something to prove.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Like game that game one of the finals, when he
showed he came out there with a different ads. You
can see it in his face, like I'm here.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
He dunk and he block and shines. And when he
started hitting them deep threes, I think like game three,
Game four, like give it here?

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Was that real without the game one of the games
Rihanna at the game he hit the bucket instead.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, yeah, that was a good time. Man, that was hooped.
That was that was some good bump.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
A lot of lebron fans was not feeling that. They
just thought that was just the weakest thing ever. But
it was like no, man, like, this is what you do.
You load up for the best, and the best load
up for them, like because again the calf got better too,
they got better. So it just was because they was
coming off of winning. Nobody looked at it crazy, but
they was technically like they was loading up. They just

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didn't have enough K in them, like and adding a
young KD like that. I think K was Liker twenty
nine thirty, like he still you know, didn't have too
much mileage.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
On it, but I think you're younger than eight. Yeah, eight,
but like.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, him getting it and winning, he made that first
one look smooth, and then they did it again. I'm
just like, are they gonna are they gonna go get four?
I'm nervous down because, like you know, I'm a Bulls fan,
so always joke and I remember Kay was like, dang,
you was hating. You didn't want me to get a
three P dollars. Wasn't like that. It was just like

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y'all just didn't look like y'all. Could you know, like
y'all everyone was gonna lose again, like they was rolling bro.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
The last matchup you had the twenty eighteen Warriors Warriors
Cavs Finals matchup with the famous Brian game one that J. L.
Smith game to me, Bron, yeah, me and ja Yeah, Bron,
That's that's one of the best Bron games I've ever
seen right there. Yeah, and that was a sweet but

(25:22):
that's that game and that series had to be talked
about too.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, I mean that that series was kind of I
don't know, I didn't feel bad for him, but like
it just was just.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
You know, obviously the Cavs didn't have the same type
of team. Yeah, but it was just like Kyrie was there.
It was like, all right, man, this is where we're going.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
This is this is where we're going. We're going up
and it ain't nobody stopping us. This is when they
start putting them into conversations with with the ninety one Bulls,
the ninety eight Bulls, like they got the old heads,
like sitting up in they seed like hold on, b Yeah,
they came beat us. We did seventy you know what

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I mean, like we do like you know, they're getting
the dream matchup, so you know, even though we don't
compare Arazon here, but like they was trying to do it.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
They was definite.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, they because that was team was sixteen and one
in the playoffs and the Bulls team.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah, you had some you saw some hate coming out
of there.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh yeah, proper hate though, proper hate, proper hate because
they listen, they done threepeat it twice, so they earned it.
They earned it, you know what I'm saying. Mike, Mike
an't even mike't even open his mouth. He didn't even
say nothing. He ain't got to speak, you know. But
it was all the role players doing crazy.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
They upholding they legacy or holding on to the legacy.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Hey, sometimes you gotta protect it. Man.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
They couldn't wait to get on the pot and get
interview in.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Man, let's talk about this. Twenty thirteen Miami. He sent
it TODYO Spurs matchup.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Good bump that was.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
That was some bump for sure. Like I don't even
easily like Lebron the heat bro like Tim Duncan Tony
Parker League as I think Shot is up there. We
talked about Kyle. Shot is probably one of the greatest

(27:21):
Shots is because he low key you know, people don't
want to hear he saved bron legacy. He said it.
I mean, it's not like that like Bron gonna be Bron.
Bron was gonna be destined to be top five all time.
He was gonna do that. But for raided hit that.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
They lose that series. People don't even realize, like that's it.
That was game six. They still played Game seven. Yeah,
like everybody think the series that was series is over
after that. But the drama in that building he watched,
they said they had the ropes out. Security was coming
down for the trophy presentation. Game over. Yeah, aim over

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ray All and saved the day.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Saved it. As a shooter self, how hard is that shot?

Speaker 1 (28:06):
That's a tough shot. You running out, you're backpedaling. All
your momentum is going away from the basket, so your
momentum going away from the basket to set your feet
and launched again towards the rim.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
It's tough shot.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Mind. You had to know where his feet was because
that could have been That could have been a long
two man.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
You don't want to do all that for long too.
You're trying to get three. So but I mean, you
asked ray about it. That's repetition.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
He said. He shot that shot every day.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Before warming up before games, and it showed up in
the biggest moment.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, I mean I think about it all the time
and I don't I don't like to tease Brian for it.
Like bron was insane those Miami He ears like closest
thing to a goat you possibly could be during those years.
But man, like I just be like, you're reality And
if he doesn't make this shot, like how we even talking?

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How are we talking about him the same way?

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Like that type of stuff that what shifts everything, lifts
the universe everything, you.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Know what I mean, Like that's a huge what if.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, because they were talking about like they're got to
make some trays.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah, you know, like, oh, we got to mix this
thing up in Miami if we can't get it done,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Also, t Mac was on that team your boy, he
thought he was gonna get one. He was locking up.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
It all comes back to TC. I thought he's gonna
get his ring man.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, all all of Twitter at that time was t
Bac about to get his first one, like they had
it ready. And then they you know, after they had
my Dog on the meme because he just looked he
was he was doing the college hoops. He had the
orange locked. It was bad, Brun. He did his spirit
fingers and all. Man, it just didn't work out for him.
It was unfortunate, man. But that was actually a fun

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one to be involved in and watch because, like you said,
seeing it and and the people don't really give Bron
a hard time for him joining the Miami Heat, like
Kevin gets. As far as joining the Heat, it wasn't like.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
I mean it gave a hard time for the way he.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Did it, how he did it, but like he's.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Still leaving, but for actually going there and loading up
like that because because but I think part of it,
because he was they kind of felt sorry for him
because he was a little a little depression with all
the heat he was taking for not winning. He's like,
I got it. I gotta win one. I won't one
of the best to ever do it. But then they're
not gonna size me up with with MJ unless I

(30:34):
get a ring. So I'm gonna do whatever it takes
so the fans can blame themselves.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's the narrative anyway, though, I
think about it when we think about any young star
that's potentially predicted to be anything. If you're drafted one
through three and you're Cornerstone and you're playing well, you're
an All Star and you can't get over the hunk, like, right,
I don't. I ain't gonna blame it DeMar de Rosen
and say like, oh, he could have been one of

(30:59):
the great, but him not being able to be Braun
in those Cavs teams, it's a little black cloud over
his career because they're not acknowledging all the other great
things he's done in his career because you didn't get one,
you know what I'm saying. And it's unfortunate because if
Bron does stay in Cleveland. I do think the law

(31:21):
of averages you eventually get one, like Derk like.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
But do you want to put enough?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
It's not enough when it's the expectations. Because even people
think Shack's career was like not as great despite him
getting four, like they felt like him being such the
most dominant force, he should have had as many as
as as Bill Russell or more than Michael Jordan's. So
it's like it's interesting. So another series that's uh, the

(31:57):
twenty ten Lakers Celtic Celtics. I had a crazy bet
this game, you know, man, I was rooting for the Celtics. Man,
I was, I had told somebody that I would get
a Lakers tattoo. Mm hmm, you know, yeah, but I did.

(32:22):
I don't know how I talked about I don't know
how I got out of that.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
I'll say, you got to show that.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
No, I got out of it. I don't know how
I got out of it. I ended up doing something else,
but like I got out of it. But like that
one was people were really mad at me just because
like being from La not rooting for Lakers. You know,
I love KG, I love Ray Allen, but I wasn't
a Celtics fan. I was really rooting for Rondo. Like

(32:46):
Rondo was just like my guy. I'm like, yo, Rondo
got to get this win. Like you know, it was
just a fun series. Paul Pierce was hooping.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
You look at it.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Some of the people on that floor with Pal obviously
Ron and you got Celtic, got KG on the floor,
Rashee Wallace, Uh, I mean Ray Rondo. That was There's
some Juggernauts on that floor out there. And you can't
have a have a list of best finals and best
playoff series without a Lakers Celtics robbery, right, it's only right.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
That's another thing that was the same thing with the
Cleveland Warriors. Things like when you get those good matchups
and those teams are put together to to to do that,
you gotta respect the history in it, you know what
I mean. It's not that the league is boring, It's
just that we are witnessing greatness and we gotta we
gotta shift our mindset when we're looking at that. These

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two teams meet up again for a very good reason,
and then it's showtime.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
It's like it's it's showed. Like you go see the
games in LA and all the stars courtside.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's something.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
It's something different about them Lakers Celtics Finals playoffs matchups
that just no other two teams can can live up to.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah, I mean so much history. I mean when you
really think about it and think about how the Celtics
was using their home court advantage turning the hot water off.
And I wish the NBA was still like that, because
I would love for y'all to be like kind of
public complaining about like.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
That no more, because you got sham. You know what
I'm saying, 'smoke gonna complain and tweets and this that,
and like they say back in Cameron back in the days,
to turn the heat up all the way and it
would be like people packed on top of each other
and Cameron Indoor Stadium a duke for the duke get
and see game you just the way team not used
to it, but don't but that's their home court.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Evan team like that.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
They turned the uh, they turned the hot water off
the showers. It was cold, like we had beat on
the water and I was like, I was telling the coach,
I'm like, man, I'm about the shower real quick. I'm
gonna come out and go do the you know, do
the little press. So I turned the water on and
I just screamed because it's like it's ice. It's like

(35:03):
it's just so cold, but like it's also cold outside.
It's like negative something because I'm in the Midwest, and
I'm just like, yo, this is not it.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
But I got a shower to the warfare, whatever it takes.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
That's like in the playoffs, And this happened to me
a couple of times in playoffs series where we you know,
like midday before the game, midday. Ever, wy chank at
day mid day, midday nap in at the at the
hotel and sometimes while the fire alarm go off. Every
time the fire alarm will go off before the playoff game.
The type of stuff don't happen it or this happening?

Speaker 2 (35:35):
What what team were you playing for?

Speaker 1 (35:37):
When I know what happened in Denver A couple of
times during that series in Philly. I know we're in Atlanta,
the fire alarm going off at two o'clock in the
middle of the day.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
We got to get up and lead a hotel. I mean,
it ain't adding up.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
How do you go about eating your food in those
visiting cities?

Speaker 1 (35:56):
See these days we get you got a little mill room,
so you know what I'm saying, You ain't got to
order out and ain't it ain't gotta worry about the
the mje flu game or you know what I'm saying,
nasty peaks and he got that made him sick and
Utah back and they ain't got to worry about that
stuff anymore because that the team take care of your meals.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
I mean I like that though, man, I just I
like the disadvantage. I like the the winning and the
hostile environments. I would love it because like I love
the home court advantage of being called a cheater, like, man,
we can still beat y'all. Y'all went through all this
and make the victory so much sweeter. Like you just

(36:40):
don't understand, Like Yo, y'all did all that, man, Like, oh,
all of a sudden, we can't shoot on our court all.
You know what I mean? Like those things matter, man,
because it just fire you up, Like all right, this
is how y'all want to do back. This is how
we're gonna This is how we're gonna play, man.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
And you put all the tricks.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
When it come playoff time, it's, oh, we got we
have a walk through two hours before the game. Y'all
can't get on the court to shoot until this time.
Like y'all can't use our court on off days for practice.
Y'all got to go to the local wid to get
to get to get shots up. You know, they pull
out all the tricks.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Another series that's on our list of the San Antonio
Spurs versus Miami. They won the Spurs one is four
to one. This is an infamous meme where Bronzi's Kawhi
checking in and he's.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Like, yeah, it's the revenge series.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
They came back with it all year with Avengers having
to think about that that Ray Allen Game six, losing
the game seven the year before, and I think this
is the Danny Green three point record, most three pointers
in a in a final series. He was shooting the
blood out of the ball. Shoot blood. I MVP the

(37:57):
Kawhi MVP Finals, MVP. It is averaging what what they average?
Sixteen winning the finals MVP something crazy. Yeah, it wasn't
to me. This wasn't the most entertaining series of all.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Time, but no, but it was Dominant's own.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
It was dominant. You know.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
The thing is, I don't complain about points, right, and
you go back and you look at it and you say, oh,
it's such a low scoring game. You look at the focus,
you look at the intention, you look at the like,
what does it truly take to beat this team? I
felt like they were so well coached, so well hated.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
I hated the spur. I was was boring basketball. But
look at older. I mean, I appreciate it, the style
of play, moving the ball, just so much trust in
the system.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
But I hated watching them play. Man, so like.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
During the times when you first tell me about the
first time you played against the Spurs, Like originally, like
what did First of all, what did you come in expecting?
And then after.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
You knew the system, so you knew the system. You
knew Tony trying to get Tony Parker to his right hand.
They're gonna post him on one block. You knew everybody's
gonna touch the ball, They're gonna move it until they
got an open corner three or whatever.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
It was. So but you know, it's boring basketball, but
they they mad. They had every read.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
They had their sets, but they had every read and
every counter to what you're gonna do defensively. But I mean,
I was just in awe because I've walked out on
the floor and I'm matched up with Tony Parker. He
was a little older, but it's I mean, I was
the Tony Parker Finals MVP. Tony Parker one of the
greatest ever do it. I was just happy to be
on the floor with him, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, I mean, really thinking about that stuff, and.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Then you look over on the sideline and it's pop.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yeah, he wanted to realist.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
He go over there and you can chop it up
with him during the game and he'll talk to you
he has something funny to say.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
He wanted realists.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
I remember covering his Sons twenty nineteen and this the
Sons are playing against the Spurs at home, and we
get the fifteen minute with the coaches right like, while
y'all are doing your little shooting around stuff right the players,
so pop just you know, he's so intimidating, like to

(40:17):
a point of like if you don't got nothing right
to say, he can shut it down. And I don't
know what happened in the world. Something happened in the world.
He did not want to talk about basketball at all,
and I had like, I was like, yo, like I
think they were now I got a three game losing
streak or something. I don't know what made me come
with this whole analytical question. He said, you really want

(40:40):
to talk about basketball? He said, you really want to
talk about basketball? Right now? It's people do d I
don't know what was happening like during like the actual thing.
It was a real real world crisis at the time,
and he just broke it down for the next ten minutes.
And I just was like, he made me feels so small,

(41:01):
But I get it with his messaging. But when he
don't want to talk. He don't want to get it.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
Welcome to the medium.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yes, yes, it parked me because I it was nothing
I could really counter. I would look like the jerk
bringing up basketball after he got a great quote and
a quote went on Twitter the video and it's me
kind of shutting up because I got my little recorder
right there and I'm just like damn, and they're like,
isn't that isn't that tree? And I'm like, man, because

(41:31):
I was on the roll. I had like a great
quote from Luke Walton. I had a great man, but
I was rolling. I had Spoe qun Snyder like I was.
I was in a good field, so I was ready
because everybody was like prepping me like yo pop pop
pop and also Russ. But I had like where Russ

(41:51):
is easy because I know Russ, so I could get
you know, I ain't gonna start off negative.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
And you probably hear your voice like oh that's a yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Yeah no.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
But he knew me.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
He knew me. But it was like what are you
doing in the locker room? You know what I'm saying,
Like one of those type of things like yo, you
you do this now, like you know what I mean?
But It just caught me off guard, but like, yeah,
it's a certain people I've ran into, like where i'd
be like dang Man Mellow too. Mellow Mellow gave me
a hard time. I asked him about defense, and he
just was not feeling that. But it was actually when
he played for the Blazers. I tried to like, I

(42:22):
tried to be like positive.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
I was like, yo, that's kyp but no, it was good.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
I was. I was picking him up. I was like, Yo,
they say you don't play defense, but you had two
big stops in this third quarter and he was like defense.
He said me, defense you want to talk about? I said, like,
I don't dropped the ball. I dropped the ball trying
to be too much on my job.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
He's supposed to be a point guard.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
Man, when we come back from break, we're gonna give
our top five greatest playoff series of twenty tens. All right,
sef we spent some time rambling, you know. It took

(43:11):
us back down to memory lane. Some great playoff series
this time probably some of the best. I honestly say,
the best playoff series we've had in NBA history in
twenty tens. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, that might be
a hot take, but I think it's some of the
greatest playoff series we've ever had in NBA history. Happened

(43:32):
in the twenty tens.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
I agree. I said, like I said, that's the mecca.
To me, that's ain't no better basketball decade, especially in
the playoffs than the twenty tens.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
To me.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
It might be because I was a part of it,
but I think it's that time to get into our
top five. Goat twenty tenths playoff series. I'm gonna go
ahead and get it rolling with one the blown three
to one league in the finals. That's number one. Twenty
sixteen Finals Warriors Cavs. Just for all the reasons we

(44:04):
talked about earlier. Number two and we didn't even get
into this, but this is a close number. This is
almost my number one, but the twenty sixteen Western Conference
Finals Warriors Thunder because it was two blown three to
one leads in that playoffs and this is the game.
Say this when games is Clay was born, Steph had

(44:26):
a crazy game seven Kad Bron and ok see his
last year there that series with some bump.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Now that and then we were talking about we didn't
even really get into it.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
But the playoff atmospheres during that time when saying and
okay see was one of the hardest places to play
during the playoffs. Number three twenty thirteen Finals heat spurs
the Ray Allen shot. Obviously, that's my number three. Number four,
We're going to twenty twelve Eastern Conference Finals heat versus

(44:58):
Celtics bron with the crazy Game six in Boston where
he had like forty five was hitting everything. He felt
like he had a way to the world on the
shoulders in twenty twelve trying to get his first ring
winning the Boston and went crazy doc over on the sidelines,
just I don't know what to do.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
I got nothing for him.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
So twenty twelve Game six or that whole series, twenty
twelve Eastern Conference Finals Heat Boston was number four.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
My last one.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Twenty ten Finals Lakers Celtics Ron our test, big shot,
Kobe passed me the ball, Kobe getting the ring, Kobe
Powell Autumn, the Lakers Celtics matchup.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
That's my top five.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Okay, I like it. I like it. I ain't mad
at it, man. So for me, I got Toronto Raptors
Verse Philly, the Kawhi shot the bounce. That's at number five.
Then I got Golden State versus OKC twenty sixteen Western
Conference Finals at four, that had three. I got Miami

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Heat versus Spurs, the Heat wins four to three, and
that twenty thirteen finals okay. Then number two Lakers Celtics
twenty ten Game seven, and lastly twenty sixteen NBA Finals
Cleveland Cavaliers first to Golden State wors. I think that's

(46:23):
number one. That's the undisputed damns number one.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
I can't roll with the number five with the Rats Philly.
That that was nasty hoops. Wasn't no buckets being giving
out in that series. It was hard to watch, but
that dude got They got the cat.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
It got the dramatic factor.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah, the bounce of Kawhi and they went on to
win it.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
Yeah, but just it was not that wasn't good basketball
and watching me, it was just clunky, like no buckets,
I need some. I gotta have the drama. It had
the drama.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
It had the drama, had the drum.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
But and it had the aesthetics, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yeah? I mean they a lot of fleiling, a lot
of flopping, a lot of complaining. But at the end
of the day, Man, Kawhi just again. I just liked that.
The memes came with it. Also, you thinking about the
memes were crazy. The memes was crazy. And also like
the heart being ripped out of the joint, you feel me.

(47:29):
Kyle Lowry basically avenged himself, you know what I mean.
He beat the allegations, so like you know, he showed up,
and he showed up. He showed up. It was it
was a whole stigma on him, man, and he couldn't
show up in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
He did it, bro, So that was hard.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
I mean, the Kawhi coming over for one season and
winning the rings, especially the.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Hell of a run. He did it like it was
a college joint, bro, Like like done what it done? Bro?
And then they had the craziest thing about it at
the Kawhi tracker, Bro, they following them around trying to
see where he's gonna sign.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
That was Yeah, that whole playout wrong. You had Drake
acts like he was on the team.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Drake got it was a lot going on Jurassic Park, Man,
you really think about it, Man, that was that, Like
I said, that was a hell of a run, man,
when you really think about it overall, because you know,
I think it'd be obviously different if K plays, But
it happened, so you gotta gotta give him worse credits.

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You know, Steph Curry was on that floor, Clay obviously
got hurt, KD got hurt, basketball injuries. Nobody you know,
initially tried to do anything, and you know they still came.
They still showed up and did their thing.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Man.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Yeah, that was the end of the dying. That that
that that wrapped up the dynasty. Obviously Clay missing the
whole next season, k was out of there. Uh yeah,
they kind of wrapped up the end of that war.
He's dynasty the same way that the way the Spurs
wanted ended. They the end of the Heat, the Heat.
The Heat was dynasty. You know, Brown was out of there,

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but the Wade was starting to get older and banged up,
slowing down, turning the Bosh team. They went from Bosh
being the third leg to to that's wash the franchise.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Now, man, I would have loved to see first option
Bosh again at his age, you know what I mean,
if he's to.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
Make these playoffs like the state so high in these
playoff series because one bounce, one lost game, it could
determine the leg the direction your franchise is gonna go.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
I'm saying, y'all shouldn't have broke up that Portland team.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Everybody overreacts to a loss.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yeah, that Portland team should have stayed together. Hey, I
think y'all would have still been, you know, at least
competing for actual finals. Y'all was that good?

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Yeah, we had a good, good squad. But there's so
many of them stories. It's like, oh, we almost won,
we didn't get it done. But now it's putting pressure
on the front office and ownership to make a change,
like we got we gotta make a change, sticking it
out a couple more years, holding the continuity down, giving
another shot as oh we got to make a big splash.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
And bringing a Kawhi for one year and try to
win it. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
We're gonna take a quick break, and when we get back,
we're going to talk about Born in the Wrong Era.
This time we're talking about teams. And now it's time

(50:34):
for our favorite segment, Born Wrong Era, and this time
we're talking about teams. So, Seth, which team do you
think could be good for this particular era and be
able to compete and dominate.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
R is Off first.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Okay, so I would like to see the twenty seventeen
Golden State Warriors in this era, potentially matching up with
the OKC Thunder, potentially matching up with this Luca Lebron Lakers,
potentially matching up with the Jokic you know, Denver Nuggets,

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and seeing how they would fare in this current Western Conference,
because I feel like although that was a great team,
they ended up getting it done. The teams are so athletic,
the teams are so like loaded up that it would
be really interesting. And I don't think they bulldozed through
the West like that, but would definitely be exciting to

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watch and could fit in this era.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Honestly, I like those twenty ten Lakers or Celtics, either
one of those Lakers Celtics teams.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
They had a lot, they had deep teams, a lot
of star power.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
Obviously I was the start of the Big Three in Boston,
so that that Big Three can slide right into this era.
As far as kind of stacking the deck and having
three main guys, three stars that a lot of teams
are trying to do. These days, they can spread, They
can spread outside of AROUNDO everybody else on that floor
to really shoot it.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
KG could step out, He'll probably be shooting threes. These days.
They have Rashid Wallace.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
They could play five out and that's that's space and
space and that's all you're seeing it today's game. So
I like to see them match up with a lot
of the teams in this area, even today's Boston team.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
That'd be a good matchup.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Yeah, No, today's Boston team they got. Honestly, I would
like to see them against them Spurs teams, just because
they both are disciplined, they don't make too many mistakes,
and they like just top the bottom could match up,
you know what I mean, like plug and players. So
that would definitely. I don't know if it'd be fun.

(52:39):
I don't want to use those words, but it would
be competitive.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Spurs and fun, don't done.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Hey, man, it's kind of tough to say that.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Man, with respect to those at that time basketball, just respect.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
To the fundamentals, man, the fundies, San Antonio fundies.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
All right, well, mother born in the wrong era.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Yeah, absolutely well, And I think that's that's it, man,
And we want to thank the listeners as always for
tuning in. Let us know who had the best top five.
We want to know who actually won the tally up.
Let us know in the comments. Is it Seth or
is it me? I think it's me. I always have
the best takes every week. I don't know what Seth's

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talking about. This is where we get competitive. But again,
you guys, use your ears, listen closely and choose me.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Let us know if we missed any moments, some of
your favorite playoff teams, some of your favorite series. If
we miss anything, shoot us a message.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
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We want to see these type of conversations. Hell, make
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to I want to see these type of debates that

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where where we started it. You know, it kicks off
to the big screen.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
This has been a Unanimous Media original.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Go was produced by iHeart podcast and Unanimous Media. It
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produced by Stephen Curry and Eric Kaye. Co executive producer
Collinna Marie Cutting. The executive producers at iHeart Podcasts are
Sewn Titon and Jason English. This series was produced by
Derek Jennings and Peter Kutcher, co producer Kurt Reddy. Original

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