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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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a basketball game last night?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh my god?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
How many points did the greatest basketball team in history
win by last night? At home? In game one? Second
team in history to win all eight of their first
playoff games, best team of all time must have won
pretty decisively at home.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I would have seen got to hate, Bro, it was
a good basketball game. Motherfuckers was hoping, Bro it was
a game.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It was. He didn't say it was a bad game.
It's one of my favorite basketball games in a long time.
I thought it was according with.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
The negativity, saved to hate as a cherry on top
after you know what I mean, You met the cherry
last save the hate for dessert, yeah, said no, I
don't want to. Firstly, I don't need the cherry. Yeah
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
So I give it to Vinnie. They told us those
cherries are made of pig brains in nineteen ninety four,
and I never got that out of my head.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Y'all believe all that bullshit we was lied to about.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Man, I don't know, it just sticks with you.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
You feel me.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Uh. When Wenby first got to the league, Jackson made
a comment that I've actually thought about quite a bit
about him about he did not like the sort of
like sideshow element to the way people would talk about
his height, that it was kind of like more humanizing.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yes, what's that.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's mostly about taco fall, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
because Victor Wemgnon is getting paid enough to like's.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Good and like it's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
But like there were there, you know, you felt there's
sort of like a dehumanizing, almost sideshow element to the
way we talk about the very tall, and that we're
not allowed to talk about the very short in that way.
So why I'm gonna say this, Watching that game last
night felt like what sports must have been like in
like fifteen hundred pieces. I mean really like, it really

(01:57):
felt like this dude is something a little bit different
than human beings. There's all these people on their feet
watching him kill their best friends the whole fucking game,
and it just felt like an elevated It felt like
sports felt like when we were kids. It felt like

(02:17):
a movie, like a like a super sized cartoonish.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Cartoonish us great way to describe it.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, I've seen you know. Of course Womby's getting a
bunch of praise, a bunch of well deserved praise, and
of course you got the whole Hey, guys, it's just
being creatures of the movement. It's just slowed down a
little bit. And it's like, why why do we have
to do what? Why do we have to be rational
about seven twenty? Yeah? Rational about this irrational fucking stat line? Right,

(02:49):
Why do we have to be rational about this twenty
two year old kid in his first postseason on the
road against a team that is eight and zero in
this in these playoffs, puts up forty four and twenty
four since the game the overtime with a thirty foot
three ball, locks the game up by catching the lob,
secures it with a block. And he is twenty two

(03:10):
in his first appearance, he is seven foot five. He
is the most disruptive defensive force I have ever seen
in all my years of watching basketball. He got handles,
he got footwork, he got a three ball. We have
to be rational about this. We have to be logical
about the most illogical basketball player we've ever seen over
We don't, we have never seen anything like this.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Bro