Bobby brings a hot take to the table that immediately gets Eddie fired up, with the guys going back and forth over whether Wemby is really as good as everyone says he is. Then Dan Woike joins the show to talk about why the Knicks might actually have a real shot to win the NBA Finals and what has to go right for them to pull it off. Plus, the guys get into Texas Tech softball and why the program has turned into the Death Star of the sport. It’s a mix of loud opinions, playoff hope, and a reminder that Texas Tech softball is the villain everyone wants to be.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is a podcast call twenty five wist sorts and
they go wear a whistle. So yet it's too bad?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But what did you expect?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's a podcast call twenty five whistles, twenty wine.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Win blow that whistle? You know it has come to
my attention. I'd like to say hi to everybody who
listens to this show who is not a sports fan.
And what I would also like to say is, I'm
gonna give you guys a strong ten minutes of nonsports
or sports adjacent at the beginning of every episode.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well, because we have a lot of listeners that will go, hey,
I listen sometimes, but I don't really like sports, and
I'm like, oh my god, we must bore you. Like
I could recommend you four other podcasts to listen to.
Thank you, yes, and feel free to hit me up
in DMS and be like, hey, I don't really like
sports that much about I like listen to the show.
So we're still going to talk sports, although sometimes we don't.
But I like to give you a solid ten at
(01:01):
the beginning of sports or just not total sports like
nerd out. So I'd like to start with this one.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Did you blow the whistle, I blew it.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We're on baby, Yep, it's me Kevin Brandon and Eddie.
A man says his life will never be the same
again after he was on a flight and he asked
for some coffee and the coffee was really hot and
it burned his penis.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Like Bad.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Bad suffered severe burns to his penis when a cup
of hot coffee spilled into his lap during a Virgin
Atlantic flight from Las Vegas. He forty one claims a
lidless cup tipped over due to a slanted tray table,
leaving him an excruciating pain and requiring treatment on board
for blistering burns. Do you have to pull it out
(01:49):
like if it's burning? And because the thing about flight
attendants that I've learned from knowing a couple is that
the job they're doing in the air isn't really the
job they're paid to do. They are paid to do
that job, but the job they're paid to do is
any emergency that happens that hopefully doesn't happen that they
are educated and qualified to do. So you don't want
a flight attendant to have to do all the jobs
(02:10):
are qualified to do. I get that, are they qualified
to pull out a penis and put cream on it,
and do you do that there you have to? Or
does he just do it in the restroom?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So they just give him the ointment and be like,
all right, go handle it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And then all of a sudden, you here that did
ain't he's go burn hand.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Man. That's crazy though, Like see back in the day,
you know there was the whole McDonald's lawsuit because somebody
burned their lap on hot coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Does this guy own the airline? What happens here BBC?
Is that I don't know, because I don't know. Some
things are actually people's faults. And something that's slanted, yeah,
that's trouble. If there was a question like would you
like a lid for that and he said no, but
then the table was slanted, that could be something true.
I don't have enough of an understanding. It's exactly what happened,
(03:09):
except for his penis was burned. And that is a
strong start to this show.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's no good sports.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Sports the other I made a list. Guys have so
much talk about and so this is not really going
This is gonna be sports, but only kind of Okay,
did you guys see the twelve year old. The guy
suspended for five years and his dad for life from
the Little League.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
No, okay, ah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So there's this kid, he's on the mound and there
had been some jabber jeawn between teams. Twelve years old,
so you're talking what sixth seventh grader?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, twelve years old, sixth grade.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
He gets up to pitch and the wind up the
delivery and he chunks it right at the dugout of
the opposing team.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I like it. That's funny. That's funny. It's just funny.
It's not my kid, you know, so outside that's not
good a kid, Yeah, it's not good because the dad
told him to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So he gets up in a chunks of baseball as
hard as he can at a kid and the other
just a dugout of other players. You like that?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I mean the story like if it was watching a
movie and that happened, like that's funny. But no, no, no, no, dude.
If I was there, that was my kid, my team,
Uh huh, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What if it was the opposing team?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Even worse because you're throwing it in my kid's dugout
and your kid got hit. Yeah, not good.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Like I like stupid stuff. I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So they got banned, like what happened on.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
The kid has been banned for five years from playing
in any leagues in that town apparently, and the dad
suspended for life. Wow, now here's the problem I have.
The kid should not be suspended for five years. The
kid was doing what his dad told him.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
If you want to take him out of that game,
maybe another game or two.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That twelve year old is just doing what pops said
to do. Yep, and that sucks. So it's wild to
see because he just gets up and he looks good
and strong like those hard and he's up. Then the
wind up turns WAPs it to the dugout over there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And in reality, you know, like a dad banned for
life unless he has like a bunch of kids, that's
gonna that's gonna hurt, you know, like he's because now
he won't be able to coach his other kids. But
if that's his only kid and your band for life, you're.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Like, okay, whatever, Like that's a loser dad.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It's a big time.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I feel bad for the kid because he's got that
loser dad that is raising him and is teaching him
values a lot of bad values. That's a loser, dad.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, because what did he do when they're not on
the ball field? Yeah, as far as what he's teaching
right right.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Justice for Braxton is.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That his name Braxton?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
No, I just figured did a twelve year old's name
is Braxton? Who's a picture? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay? All right?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Do you have a heart on your hand?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's They thought it was a tattoo. I was told
to ask this because I don't well, they were making
fun of me. We weren't making fun like you guys
were making fun of me hard.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Every morning me and my wife were getting our five
year old ready for school. You know, they were like,
all right, today, it's gonna be a great day. And
we draw hard on each of our hands to where
at any point in the day if we miss each other,
we just look at the heart and we hugged the heart.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That's sweet.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
You guys were laughing at him when I walked in,
and I didn't know why exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
No, no, because the joke was like, he's like, so
if you see me hugging my fist, you know what
I'm doing. And we're like, ha, ha, that's funny. You
should tell Bobby, so is the.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Heart you're hugging your wife or your son.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Our son like it's for him really, like when he's
at school if he gets sad or whatever, he just
looks at the heart.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And you guys think that's funny.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Also the kid throwing into the dugout too. Maybe I'm
just twisted man. Yeah, checked my mind out this bad day.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I got one more sports adjacent e story. Did you
guys see the tennis players shove the girl?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I did, and it's a weird angle. He didn't shove her, okay,
because I was gonna say, it's a weird angle where
it looks like maybe she just moved.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But it looks pulled up. His name is Raphael j
O d a R. It looks like when he's walking
off he lifts his arm up and shoves the ballgirl
back into the wall.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's it does look like it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I'm telling you. When I saw it, I thought, what
a freaking loser. Yeah, I'm gonna get Kevin's it's the reaction.
Do you have the video I'm looking for right now?
If you just type in oh.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, it does look like it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean I believed it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I thought, Wow, if that dude did that, he is
such a loser. But then I thought, there's no one
gonna do that because that is so bad. Yeah, you
can tell because she's like in the way and she's
like whoa. So the internet just blows up on this dude, like,
how could you hit a ball girl just because you're
upset walking off the court. He's walking off the court,
he lifts his arm up to like wave at people,
(07:44):
and right about the time she's trying to get out
of the way, and she gets her feet hanged, like
stumbling backward and like falls into the wall, just trying
to get out of the wave. And it looks because
it's the exact angle like he nailed her.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I mean, they couldn't have timed it or perfect it
to make it look like he It looked real.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
How about that? That's pretty funny?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Huh wow?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yesterday I was watching NASCAR last night and some dudes
to sports no no, no, no, okay, and some dude Rex
or whatever. But his car is still running and he's
going he's gonna go back in the garage like he's
quitting the race, and there's he makes the turn to
go into like where all the cars are, like where
all the team trucks are whatever, And when he makes
the turn, there are two people just standing in the
middle of the gate like talking like a da da
(08:25):
da dude. They almost got hit by the car. It
was crazy. One girl grabs the other girl. They're just
like move. It was hilarious, Like, dang, that was close.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Did we talk about the Ferrari fully electric car on
this show?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
No? No, I don't think we did.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Did I do it on guys? I'm stretched too thin.
I don't know where I'm talking about stuff anymore, and
I keep pretty diligent notes of everything. But I had
this conversation recently about Ferrari has revealed its first fully
electric car. And this car is like a seven hundred
thousand dollars car. Wow, And it looks like Corolla.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Oh does he?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Well, it does look like it looks a little space
ag and it's like two tone is not the words
that's where like my uncle uses. But it's like it's
blue and like the hood's black, and it's got some
cool cult And I only saw a couple of pictures,
but the internet was taking a crap on it because
it's like seven hundred thousand dollars for a car, and
it looks like that. But Ferrari has revealed its first
(09:21):
fully electric car.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Yeah, that does not look like a Ferrari, right, like
one of those leafs you remember, the Nissan Leaf or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
It is priced entry about six hundred and forty thousand dollars,
so much it blends Ferrari's signature performance with a family friendly, roomy, seeding,
high in tech, a large trunk. If I'm paying seven
hundred thousand dollars for a car, don't put the large
trunk in the first five things. I need better things.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, the trunk is last.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I do want to be surprised at the trunk. I
don't really want that to be one of the top
three things you list on a seven hundred thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Is it fast?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
It goes one hundred and nine miles an hour?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Look at it?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Show me, I got it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Brandon Gatchi's next year.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I mean literally, that's the Leaf and that's the Ferrari.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh yeah, and a little more aerodynamic.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Looks like a toy, But you're right, if you just
love the brand Ferrari and you love electric, and you
really want a big trunk, like I get it. You
want that trunk because I don't think that every expensive
car needs to scream. My non Hyundai. I don't think
that screams, but some people do. Like it's an suv.
(10:37):
You never paid a lot for that.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You're non Hyundai.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, is that what we're calling it? Well, it's been
it's been brought out before, but I just don't like
saying it. It feels so flexy. I don't like that
because I'm not driving it. I literally am not driving
it as a flex Does that go fast? I don't know?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, you haven't.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
No, I'm not once. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
A car guy like pedal to the met dude one time?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Never, And I never drive it with the engine almost never.
It's always electric. Electric goes fast anyway because there is
there's no fuel injection, so there's no time because a
lot of times you have to gas take a second
to get the fuel injections. I didn't even know that
I build electric and.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It sounds like it sounds like a real engine, can
you Well, I can flip it both, that's right.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So it is forty or fifty miles electric and then
it goes to gas. But I don't ever drive it
forty or fifty miles. I just get home and plug
it by count. I never put gas in it. That's great,
that's it's amazing. But if I want to flex and
hit it, I hit a button and it goes to
the engine. Have you heard it?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, so I'm imagining it goes fast, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It sounds like it goes fast.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, So I would say I have that it was
not for the reason to flex a car because it's
an suv. I don't think it's a flex at all
unless you're like a hardcore car person. If I were
to see this car driving around, I want to be like, dang,
that's a seven hundred thousand dollars Ferrari. No, I would know,
But I don't think you buy this if your interest
is flexing, you just think you like the Ferrari brand.
(12:07):
Just yeah saying hey I own a Ferrari. Maybe that's
it too.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I mean that sounds cool.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Are Ferrari's generally expensive?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I would believe.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I would say so, because I feel like all car
brands that don't have commercials are expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh that's a I've never thought about it like that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Ferrari doesn't have commercials.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Seen one. They don't need to show anything to her.
Mama's family, family family matters reruns. Yeah, ever seen that happen?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I know they're expensive, but I mean like expensive.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Go two hundred and fifty thousand to six hundred thousands,
that's expensive.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
If you want.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
One, just buy a regular one. Don't buy the weird
looking one.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Unless this has some crazy trunk trunk.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Oh man, that's trunk. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I wonder how Fari goes, because my Hyundai goes I
think maybe almost four hundred miles on a full dan.
It's a lot. Whenever the ice storm hit and our
power we lost all of our power. We our power
was our Hundai for three days. We plugged everything.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
A minute that still worked.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, and it had It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Would y'all sit in there too? Sometimes?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I wouldn't go watch stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Oh like on your phone? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, keep it powered up. We both go sitting there
and there's heat because he turned the heater on.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I'm not sure if I like this or not, but
like those Volkswagen buses, the new electricity you've seen them.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Those are really cool.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Like I keep seeing them around and I'm like, oh,
I don't I like because I love the buses. I
love the old antique like nineteen sixties VW buses, you
know where they have like sinks and couches in them
and all that. So I don't know if I'm just
stuck on that or I like really like the new
electric ones.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Probably mostly the first, but a little the second.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
My wife once one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So bad.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
They're cool?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
How much are they?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
They're pretty? I mean they're up there, like I think
they started the brand new they're.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Like eighty oh wow, wow, that's all.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
And they stopped making them this year and they'll they'll
start making them in twenty seven, so maybe the twenty
fives will start going or the twenty fours will go down.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
And if you had an electric can you just plug
it into the.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Wall, just the wall, so yes. But it charges a
lot slower, so yes.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And I mean like the outlet you would plug it back.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You can bring in the studio, plug it in at
you could. It charges a lot slower. Okay, what we
had to do is replace because I've had an electric
car in some form for the past seven or eight years.
You have to basically put in this is a stupid
way to say a washer and dryer type input.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh yeah, I know whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yes, yeah, and then it charges a lot faster.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
These Ferraris go two hundred and fifty to three hundred miles.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Dang, so not even that far from an electric Oh
I thought speed me too, My bad?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Like what no, I told you a.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Hundred ninety I know, But then he said that on
a three hundred a road car that goes three hundred,
that's like a rocket. Okay, that's fourteen minutes. We've got
to fourteen minutes without a huge sports I'm gonna say this,
this controversial wimban Yama is not that good. I'm gonna
tell he's just tall. He's good, but he's just tall.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
What are you talking about? That is the dumbest thing
you've ever said.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
If you're a smart man, if he were six seven,
he'd just be a fair NBA player.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Do you know what a tall fair NBA player looks like?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Rudy Gobert. No, he's better than no Fair. He's like
defensive end. He's defensive Player of the Year multiple years.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay, so he can block. Great, You're tall, dude, you
should be able to block this guy. Wimby shoots three. Yes,
he drives like a point guard if.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
He wasn't seven foot five, and he is, so you
can't take that away from him. He's tall and he's
pretty good. But because he's so tall, he's awesome. It's
so funny you say that.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I was watching the games the other day and I
was like, I've here heard all this hype about Wimby
for years and I haven't sat there and watched a
bunch of Spurs game and.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I'm like, he's good.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You know he's gonna get a lot better. But I'm like,
I don't even think he's the best player on the
floor tonight. I mean, obviously what night, but Game seven,
just for one example.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Wemby's awesome, dude. But I'm telling you it's only because
he's tall.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I think it's amazing to see a tall guy move
the way he does and play basketball the way he does.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I agree all that I agree with, and it's stupid
to go, well, we're gonna make him worse because he's tall,
because that's not fair. I'm just saying he if he
if he's Kevin Durant's height, he's not as good. Kevin
Durant's seven foot tall.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I see what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But Wenby's awesome and he's gonna be awesome and if
he can stay healthy. But I do picture him getting
hurt randomly like Kevin Durant did for seasons at a time,
just because he's so long.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Look at it. I mean, every time he falls, it's like,
oh my gosh, his knees gonna break.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Tired too, always looks tired. I like Wemby man.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I was like, I got a little mad there.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I like Webby a lot. I do because it cares. Yeah, yeah,
I do like that. But I just think he's just
real tall. But he's a good But like Kevin Durant
is awesome, Kevin Durant is a shooter. I'm not comparing
the two really, except Kevin Durrant is a pure everything.
If you take three four inches off him, I think
he's just an elite guard. I think he's an elite
(17:11):
six eight tweener three four right.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
But dude Wemby in his one handed rebounds, it's just
crazy to me.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, Womby's awesome he's awesome. I just think he's tall.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, how tall is he seven? Okay?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
They say seven to five, but then you hear the
people that actually know go, he's seven six or seven seven.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Because he looks way, way, way, way taller than everyone else.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, it's weird because most basketball players want the extra
entry two lie.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. They're trying to bring him down.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
They're trying to bring him down a little bit, so
he's not such a freak. Woby's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Are you betting him on the champ?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I don't think so. I don't have enough interest. We'll
talk about this in a little bit with Dan Wykeu's
coming on. Who was at the game, So that's all
coming up. I wanted Oklahoma City to win, and I
think they would have won had they had their full
arsenal players. But that's part of it. It's not even
an excuse, Like everybody has to be healthy to win,
so it's not an excuse. But so everyone crowning the
(18:12):
Spurs as the next great thing. I think they are
absolutely the favorite or co favorite every year, but Oklahoma
City is just as good if they're at full capacity.
Because the Spurs were full. How rare for the Spurs
to have everybody healthy everyone.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, I had some scares along the way, but yeah,
everyone for the most part is still playing great.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
And I don't just like to I like the Spurs.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Fox missed a few games, Yeah, played.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Good, and he's not even I would I'd trade Fox tomorrow.
I think Harper is the dude on that team. I
know Castle, Harper doesn't start, Harper was injured a little bit. Dude,
give me Harper all day. That dude's awesome. I think
if if I were drafting from both those teams, Wimby first,
Shay second, I'm taking Harper third on a two team draft.
(19:04):
Sure you can be Castle.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Now, don't. I don't know their contract situation, but I
feel like, can this team stay together for a while?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, because they're all within their early deals. I had
pulled that. Oh man, what did I do with that?
I pulled exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That because every time I'm like, oh, this team is
so good, and I started thinking like, oh, WELLNA be
able to keep this team together?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I lost it. Yeah for a while, Okay, good and cheap.
How about Celtics legend Luke Cornett.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, they forget Yeah, for sure, he definitely saved the game.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Do you want to know the only reason I know him,
it's not from the Celtics, it's from he was the
one that I think wrote the article about the Atlanta
Hawk's not having Stripper Night. Really he wrote the article, yeah,
for like any Players Tribune or something, so you may
look that up. So there are only two Cornets I know.
Jim Cornett had the tennis racket. I his wrestling manager
all during the eighties nineties. Luke Cornett, the basketball player,
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the big white dude. I think whenever the Hawks were
going to have and I forget what the strip club
was called, Magic City Night. I think he's the one
that wrote the article.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah right, Brandon, you knowed him out. You know that
plays Brandon?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Oh yeah, what did he so it was him?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
He argued the collaboration was disrespectful to women. Wow, women
or women?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Disrespectful man a woman?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
But what a block. What sucked was my father in
law was at that game. Oh yeah, that's like his
favorite thing in the world. This time, at least he.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Has a good game.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He had a bad weekend for sports and I messaged
him about it. I was like, dude, sorry, because he
went to Arkansas College World Series. We went to nine
innings and softball seven against Nebraska. It was an awesome game.
Nebraska is awesome. They have the best all around player
I've ever seen, and her name is Jordi ball At
Jordy from Now. We played the crap out of them.
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They beat us for the home run at the very
end of the game extra innings.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
He was there.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
We had to play the loser game the next day.
You knew we were gonna lose. We played till midnight.
LA played earlier in the day that day they had rest.
We played late.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We checked in earlier. They were like down seven zero.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
They start hitting home runs off of us. We had
to pitch people that pitch the whole night before.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, yes, I saw the same.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah. It was just like black whack whack.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So he went to both of those games and then
to the thunder game.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
A guy that good should not have to suffer three
losses like that. He's like the best dude, because he's
a good dude. He's the best. Yeah, he's the best dude.
He shouldn't have to suffer through all three of those.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I just want to hug him. Yeah, I'll have him
draw hard on his hand and then and then it'd
be great, you can hold the heart.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Okay, that's pretty good. That's pretty fun for you guys, though,
do you feel, honestly, do you feel like the Nicks
or nothing?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I do, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I mean the only doubt I have is they've blown
out every single team that they've played.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
But it's the East.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
But it is the East, so like I feel like
the Spurs have it. But I do think it's gonna
go seven games. I think it's gonna be clear.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So then everyone thinks, dude, chet sucks. Chet sucks, and
it's we shouldn't say that because here we are dopes
to don't play basketball.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
We suck, we suck, we suck hard.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah yeah, but we're not. It's like he was weird scared. Yeah,
he got dunked on the very beginning of that game seven.
He would he didn't want the ball.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, it was over.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It was like I was watching Rick and K. Yes,
so Rick and I was a pitcher, came up with
the Cardinals, was really good for a minute, then got
the big yips and got big scared and couldn't throw,
couldn't just couldn't throw and was like freaked out, mentally out.
He ended up coming back as an outfielder later in
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his career, a pretty good outfielder too, but like he
just his mind exploded on him. I feel like that
happened to Chet. He did not want the ball. He
did not guard Wimby. You saw that. I was like,
that's Rick and K and my wife's like never heard
of him, Like anyway, moving on, look look him up.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Thanks were explained to me who it was. But you
know what's like, I feel like Game one there was
a weird and we never talked about this, but like,
did you you see the post interview with.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Shae, I don't know. At this point, they.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Interviewed Shae and they were talking about how he thought
Hardenstein did against Wimby, and he is like, you know,
I'm not gonna say that. He goes, you know, I
hit that he did good. He did good, and he's
just like I just I would have done something different.
And so I feel like that kind of summed it
up to me that like everyone on that team was like,
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why is Chet not the dude on Wimby?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Oh that's okay. So I didn't see Shae say that,
and I'm not even sure if you what you did
is true to it, But I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's what I got from it because that's exactly what
he said.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Against It wasn't a Hartenstein thing, no, and I.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Think it was. He was just and I don't know,
but it seemed like him. He was feeling like, why
wasn't our biggest dude on Wimby.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Everybody kept saying that Wemby hates chet like hates chick.
I was just trying to embarrass. Yeah, I felt bad
for him. I was frustrated for him. It's fresh for
my father in law. Then I got mad at check
for my father in law.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Oh no, I know, Yeah, that's not good. But now
your go Spurs go right.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I don't care. It'd be fun to see the Knicks
win because they haven't one in fifty years, and I
have no relationship with the Knicks at all, more so
because I think the Spurs are going to be around
to win a bunch forever.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I hope you're right.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So if the Knicks do win, I think that's probably.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Man.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I just I like the Spurs though, Yeah, I'm just
kind of torn. I like the story of the Knicks.
But there's nothing about the Spurs that makes you not
like them, I know, and they're in a small market.
Well hate them once they start winning. Yeah, we'll get there.
We're America. We want to build somebody out and they
rip them down.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Did you guys hate the Big three Spurs?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Eventually genobly got annoying. Yeah, eventually, Tony Parker, because they
won so much, we paid more attention to them, and
eventually they got annoying.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
But Tim Duncan kind of like got out Scott free.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Hu do you not?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
How can you have anything bad to say against? Like, hey,
he's cool, love news thing, love him.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Congratulations, Thank you, that's fun for you. Thank you, that's
fun for you.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I don't have any beef with anyone. There's a good
storyline for both. But I think the freaking NBA for
the next couple of years goes through that West being
San Antonio and Oklahoma City, unless when he gets hurt
and that whole team crashes.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yes, because that would happen. If he got hurt, that
would happen.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
I didn't know this first coach. You listened to our podcast? Yeah,
obviously he listens to our No, did he really.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, whistles?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Guy, Yeah, did you not watch Game seven?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, they did exactly what I said they should be doing,
so obviously means they're listening to twenty five whistles.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Makes sense?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Hey, guys, why don't we try what this dude said.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I heard Eddie be in the team room.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Hit play play the whole podcast. Hit play up.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
There Ed's game plan.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
They have to listen to the first ten minutes of.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
No Sports to penis.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
What you think?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Hey, lightens the mood a little bit, you know, of
another note, and I think you guys will like this,
even though you're not into college softball like I am.
But so Texas Tech, what's Star Wars? What's the big villain?
Not Darth Vader, but was like the Death Star? Yeah,
that's talking.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
About That's a planet like of the bad Planet.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Okay, bad planet. Texas Tech softball is the death Star
of It's like the evil place. Now I don't really
feel that way, but to everybody else it is because
Texas Tech has a ton of money. I think they
spent two million dollars on their softball team. They allegedly
are poaching players. They're grabbing all the best players from
all the best teams, saying we'll give you this money
if you get in the portal. It's everything you don't
want to happen, but it does happen. It's not legal
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to proach. Oh, it's not no oh, but it is
legal to pay players. But it's not legal to proach.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
So Texas Tech gets from Florida Jason Williams's daughter white Chocolate.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I saw he was everywhere this week. Well, because he's
Texas Tech. He's the dad of Now his daughter plays
on Texas Tech's team. She was awesome at Florida. They,
according to reports, poached her, paid her a bunch of money.
She comes over to Texas Tech. She's awesome. She got
hit five times against Florida in that series, like with
a ball.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
She got beaned.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Do we not talk about this?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
No, So she came from Florida, went to Texas Tech.
They played a super regional against each other. In the
three games, she had hit five times and then at
the end of the game, massive fight. The coach got
kicked out because then he wouldn't shake hands. The teams
wouldn't shake hands, is crazy, right, So there's there's one.
That's one number two, and this is the one that
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was all weekend that made me laugh out loud. Clipped this.
There's a girl at Tennessee. She was at Tennessee who
played third base. She was an All American. She went
to Texas Tech. Texas Tech is the death Star, they're
the villain. Supposedly they poached her and said, give you
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all this money, come to Texas Tech. Texas Tech ends
up beating Tennessee in the College World Series. So the
team that she used to play on played the team
that she's on, and after she left, there was all
this drama about herbie and on the team. Her dad
bad mouthed on the coach all so of course it's
gonna be a little chippy once they get there. Tennessee
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ends up beating Texas Tech. So the team that she
was on and left just got beat by the team
that she's on. In the handshake line afterward, they're pop up, up,
up up, goot good. They go to the press conference
and she says that the Tennessee coach said to her,
you made a mistake as they're doing handshakes. So everybody's like, ooh, drama.
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This player is already a bit problematic. Her dad is
very problematic. So everybody's like, show us the tape, the
tape of the handshake line. Of course they're gonna have it.
They find it. The head coach did not say this
to the girl. She got up there and said that
in the press conference that the head coach said it.
The head coach never said it to the girl. It
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did not happen. So they're like forensic evidence every little
mouth movement. The only thing that happened is after they
went to the handshake line and they walked away. The
player looks back and says that if somebody did say
it, it wasn't the head coach. It wasn't in the handshake line.
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It wasn't what she had said to make the coach
look terrible. And look, I'm sure both the sides are
a little wrong. Yeah, everybody hates Texas Tech because they're
buying all the players and they're winning. Now, you can
do this, like all the college football teams do it.
But it seems to be pretty obvious that it's some
pretty heavy poaching. And the girl's dad, the handshake girl's dad,
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it has been all over social media. At some point
he was talking about, hey, she got seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. That's more money than you'll ever make
in your life. To somebody, Oh, why don't you, why
don't you keep on sn ad?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
What what her dad is saying this?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah, I'm almost positive it wasn't ai because I found
like three different places that's how you doubled check. So
is wild? Is what I was watching all weekend. That
head coach from Tennessee did not in the handshake line
say that. And she got in the press conference after
and said the head coach said that to her, she's lying. Now,
put that on her dad, because if that's how our
dad is, her dad's raised her to be like that.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yeah, probably the same dad from the little kid that
threw it up the dugout right or uncle Taylor.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Panell said that Karen Weekley told her you made a
mistake instead of good game in the handshake line after
today's game. Panell also said her decision to transfer from
Tennessee to Texas Tech as old news and she moved
on that's from Jenna mccara o one, it didn't happen.
You're gonna get up to the press conference and lie.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
That's crazy, especially nowadays everywhere nsick scot you.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Okay, Texas Tech ended up winning again. They're still in
it now, but they're so we're anti Texas Tech now.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Okay, hey they're the dark side due this week.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, I'm an sure I'm anti Texas text off. Well
I really I'm really not. Yeah, but they're the villain.
We need villains. Sports is so much more fun when
we have villains. And Texas Tech gets to be the
death Star right now because we need a villain here.
And they bought all the players they played UCLA. They
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need to buying a picture from them or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Too, really crazy and it's define poaching to me, Like,
so that's I'm not in the transfer portal.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Okay, okay, I'm running back at Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You're happy in Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I'm in Arkansas. It's my sophomore year.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I just finished.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I'm gonna stay at Arkansas. Of course, I'm getting nice
in IL. I did not get in the portal. I
get a call from someone going, hey, if you get
in the portal we over here at Alabama, we'll give
you a million and a half bucks. I need even
making four hundred thousand there. Get in the portal, we
will pay you once you get in the portal. You
can't you can't legally have that call. You can't coax
someone to get in the portal and transfer. But it's
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happening all over the place all the time, got it.
I wish my school had all the money. I want
to be the death Star.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah right, because that would be cool.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, they're stirring things up in football still yeah Texas, Yeah,
because they got all the money.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Money.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Was that oil money?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, it's the one guy mostly. Oh really, I wish
we had that guy. I hate that guy. I wish
we had that guy.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Get that Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. All right, clip that whole
thing right there. Put that in because that'll get some play.
That was a big, big drama story there that. Uh
there was a guy. Did you follow the guyther bet
on DraftKings?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Oh yeah, that was crazy.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
So he bet Michigan to win the college basketball the
NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
They did, got it.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
He bet the USA to win the gold medal it's
the Olympics in hockey, they did. He bet the Knicks
to go and win the East did it. And at
the beginning of the series he had the Spurs to
win the West, and so they kept giving him cash
outs of like four hundred thousand, and then when they
went down three to two, it was down to like
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three hundred thousand again because he bet twenty five hundred
bucks twenty one point seven million.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Going into game seven, the cash out was over six
hundred thousand dollars. He's like, I'm not hedging. I'm not
cashing out. He had the Spurs. Wow, I'm not hedger.
I'm not cash out. I'd have cashed out. I had
cashed out in Arkansas, would have been the death Star
and we'd have been buying players mid tournament.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Absolutely, man, And he hit from one point seven million
dollars twenty five hundred dollars bet.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
That's amazing. Gosh, that could be you, Eddie, that could
be and someday, Man, I've gotten really bad at not
hitting cash outs like I just I should because I
lose the bet. Most of the time. I was like, nah, man,
just wait it out, just wait it out. We can
do this. And then every time I lose the bet,
I'm like, gosh, I should have cashed out.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
That's you how it works.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, I woke up today because Denny Hamlin won the
NASCAR Nashville NASCAR race last night, but it didn't end
till like eleven rain. It was rain delayed. Yeah, it
started late and so I didn't see the end, but
I woke up to some cash.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Was that here in Nashville?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
It was?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
The final thing I wanted to mention was another Texas
Tech story with football. Oh, so Sarkesian a couple of
weeks ago says, and he doesn't mention them by name,
but there's another team in other conference that if we
played their schedule, we could win their conference with our
twos and threes. He's talking about Texas Tech. So the
guy at Texas Tech with all the money says, hey,
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I'll pay for this. So he offered to buy out
and I forget who the schools were that Texas Tech
was playing Week one, and then to buy out Texas'
game as well if Texas would play Texas Tech no way.
He threatened to buy all the games out. He's like,
didn't play?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Is that legal?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, there's not illegal about that. Sounds so cool. You
would pay the buyouts for both of those schools. Wow,
because they have to pay those teams to play they
He's like, I'll pay them. You don't play the game.
Let's get Texas Tech and Texas to play and let's
see if you back it up.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
That's crazy. So is it going to happen?
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I want to be the death Star. That'd be so
cool to have money and make people hate you.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
They play, Texas plays Texas State week one. Okay, so
he offered to buy that out, and Tech plays Abilene Christian.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
And he's like, I'll buy that out too, a couple
million bucks.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
If you were Texas State, would you take the money.
It's not about Texas State, I know, but would you
take the money?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Of course you're part of it.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You have to say yes, I'll take the buyout.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
No, you take it and you schedule another game, right, Yeah,
you don't schedule a big team, but you're scheduling that.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Yeah. No, if you get bought out, you have no
choice in it, really yeah no, yeah yeah, because there
are teams now buying out teams because the conference, certain
conferences now are playing more game. Yes, he's going to
play nine conference games, and so teams are just getting
bought out. They have no choice, got it. But they're
getting that money, which is the only reason they were
playing a bigger team they were going to lose to anyway.
Got a bunch of notes Texas Tech. In Texas Tech,
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I respect it same, It's fun to root against it,
and like, I hope they lose. But I love villains.
I wish I could be the villain sometimes in that
that world just means you're winning and you have you're
just winning. If you just win, you become a villain.
Winby will become a villain at some point.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, that's it, all.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Right, take a break. Hey, let's welcome in. Dan Woiki,
Lakers reporter for The Athletic and a longtime NBA writer
who has covered the league from Clippers lob City to
Lebron and Luca and also a broader NBA perspective from
the final starting this week in the Western Conference Finals,
Wild Game seven. I just finished reading your article about Chet.
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Let's just start there, Like, Dan, what happened with Chet?
Speaker 6 (36:50):
So Bobby, I think of this like through more of
a human perspective than a basketball perspective. Imagine that you're
like a one to one, you know, seven foot tall,
kind of unicorn type of player. You're always the biggest
players your size aren't as skilled as you. You shoot
it better, you dribble better than anyone who's as tall
as you. And that's been your whole basketball life, right,
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And that's true for Ched Holmgren. He was a top recruit.
He was one of the top players in the country Gonzaga,
and then he gets to the NBA and that's who
he's supposed to be, right, And then all of a sudden,
like the funhouse mirror version of yourself, that's you know,
twenty percent taller. It feels like and more skilled and
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better than you is like your new foil, and that
guy is hell bent on destroying you every time you play.
And yeah, I think it had it has a mental
effect on Ched Hulgern. I think all of the advantages
that he normally has he doesn't have against Victor women Yama.
And it doesn't mean Chet is bad. But what is
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interesting is that as the thunder kind of move forwards,
like they're gonna have to beat the Spurs, and they're
gonna have to beat Victor Weben Yama. This is something
he's gonna have to get over.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Bobby.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Yeah, to me, Chet's seven foot and I there are
guys seven foot one. However, tall Chet is with ball
skills like he can shoot three, and that would make
all the sense in the world to me. If they
didn't have Chet guarding Wemby, they kept him away from him.
So yeah, and I complete, I just think of that
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picture like the seventeen U basketball tournament where like Chet's
holding the met the trophy and Wemby's next to him
and taller, but Chet's got it, Like did Wenby just
did he just have like this vendetta to kill the
guy who beat him in seventeen under basketball?
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Wemby does seem remarkably petty in like a fun way, right,
Like I mean, like incredible competitor.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Right.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
I was talking to a guy I know on the
San Antonio staff when we were talking about this, and
it's just like one, like, I mean, Chet's not like
Chet is competitive and Chet is tough and like he
will go at guys.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
It's like, but like this is like the smoke.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
It seemingly he does not want, right and I don't
know if he feels defeated, he feels passed over already,
But like you know, like Victor, it's crazy, Bobby.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
They're like these guys right that, like.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
You see it in the paint and then like people
just like stop right And it used to be like
that was like a Rudy Gobert thing is like guys
would drive into the paint, you'd see Rudy Gobert and
you would turn around. Like the thing with Victor is
it's like you're looking over your shoulders like everywhere because
it's not just the rim, Like you know, he can
close out on you from ten feet away.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
He's so long, he's so agile, Like I don't want
to say.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
I mean, yeah, he's like scary to play against, I think,
and like I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Like how to attack it quite yet.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Somebody will figure out something, but we're not there right now,
right like right now, like he is the scariest player
in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You're onto. Something that is so re rushing about Wemby
is that he cares like it matters to him. And
even after the game, you know, he was so excited.
I mean he was it was it was, it was much,
But I like it that it was much because this
guy could just rest on the fact that he's seven
five seven six, you know, depending on who's measuring him.
And just be like I'm tall and I'm good. But
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I feel like it's really cool to see someone with
all that natural ability, natural the physical, all the tools
and still really really want it.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
Have you heard sort of like the kind of the
stereotype right about like tall players in the NBA is
that like they don't love basketball that you know the reason,
like at some point when they're ten years old, somebody
finds him on a playground says like, hey, guess what
you're six foot eight, you're going to have And it's
not the exact same thing as it is for like
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everyone else. I do think that Wemby what's different about
him is like not only does he love basketball, he
is like committed to being like the best player of
all time. That's the goal, right, It's not anything else.
The goal is to be an all time great. The
goal is to be better than Michael Jordan, to be
better than Kremeabul Jabbar, to be better than Lebron James.
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And it's credible.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I was in the Laker lock ago when they played
Victor Remandhama.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
I was talking to a player and I and we
had this like we were like how many MVPs would
he win and it would still be like a disappointment.
And we landed on three that if this guy wins
three MVPs, he's like something has gone wrong in his career.
That's just how good he is, right like, and how
good he can be. It feels like he is going
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to win six of them.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I don't know. Now, sometimes we get prisoner of the
moment on.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
This type of stuff, but like I mean, Bobby, we've
never seen anybody like this, right, Like, I mean, this
is transformative stuff, like in the same way that you know,
when I'm trying, like I try to think of like
the other guys in other sports, like in my like
time on this planet, who've been like, oh my god,
I don't know what we do with this, like Bo
Jackson like at his peak, Ken Ggraphy Jr. You know,
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guys as big and as strong as errand Judge, Like
these guys like don't just like they don't just show up.
It's generational and this is it. I mean Lebron for sure,
this is like a generational player. And we're like we're
in like chapter one of his career right now, which
is the scariest part.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
I try not to be prisoner of the moment as well.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
And I do feel that.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
If Oklahoma City would have had another scorer, if you know,
and and injuries are a part of it. So I'm
not saying like whoa is okay, see, but you had
Jayla Williams out and you had a j out like
they had to go to McCain at the end like
be their guy. And he's fourth or fifth when it
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comes to who you want to have the ball, but
he was their shooter. And I think if those if
only one of them can play, I think it's possibly different.
So I don't want to scream that this is the
Spurs world now, but I do think it's the Spurs
and the Thunders world.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Now.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
I mean, it feels like these teams are light years
ahead of the rest of the Western Conference and they're
both as sending still like that's the relative And now, look,
I remember when the Denver Nuggs from the NBA title
talking to people around the league and being like, who's
ever going to beat Nicola Jokic, right, and you know
he hasn't won a title since. I mean, it felt like,
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oh my god, like you have Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown,
you know, ending the primes of their career at this
time with like the sort of Missoula ball, like who's
going to beat the Boston Celtics. Injuries happen, things happen,
the league changes really quickly. I think what these two
teams are where it's different is that this is like
style and like and skill. You know, you have a
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player like I mean, like, let's let's run down some
of the guys. We haven't talked about, right, we haven't
mentioned shake Kill just Alexander, we haven't mentioned Stephan Castle.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
We haven't mentioned Dylan Harper.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
You know, like these are guys that are I mean,
Shay is unreal and is so good at getting into
his spots so going to manipulate in the game, but
like those Spurs guards are both like I mean, it's
not hard to like close your reson to matge of
both those guys as all Stars in the next three seasons.
Or like Castle to me is like I was talking
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to a group of my friends about it. It's like
he's athletic like John Moran, but he's like a dog
kind of like Tony Allen, but he has skill too,
like he's so sudden, like there's some Derek Rose in
his game, Like I mean, like this guy is has
a chance to be like really really special. And then
you watch Dylan Harper play and he's like a twenty
year old who plays like he's thirty five with so
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much poison. You know, the Thunder push everybody around Bobby,
like the Spurs push the Thunder around, you know. I
think Jaylen Williams said yesterday at their interviews he was
just kind of like they sort of play like us,
and it's like they do and except they're younger and
stronger and cheaper, right, And so yeah, I think those
I mean, yes, everybody is chasing these two teams. Now
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that being said, the Knicks have a chance to win
the finals.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Let me ask one more question before that about the
Oklahoma City. So they're like, Okay, what's Sam Presti is
gonna do? Like he's got all the picks, he's got
the young what what's what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah, good question.
Speaker 6 (45:17):
I think there has always been like Sam, I'm not
afraid of like, like you know, I think, making big moves,
but they've usually been more like outgoing than incoming, right, Like,
I'm really curious to see, like does he look at
their their team like take let's just say like Giannis
for instance, right, like who I don't think they're particularly
(45:38):
interested in, but like let's just say, like, okay, do
you look at Yannis and Sagakoombo and know that if
we trade for him he will sign somewhere else in
a year. We don't think we can keep them, but
if we can get him, maybe we can win. Does
Sam Presty cash and you know they've got two first
round picks this year, they have young players, They have
picks way out into the future, still drew cash in
(45:59):
for do you chase even mobiley? Do you chase some
other like young player? That's a sending that fits your timeline.
You know, there's been some talk about like do they
move up in the draft and try to get like
Cam Boozer. You know, I'm not so sure. I do
think like you don't want to overreact to what just happened.
To your point, Bobby, like you were missing two really
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good players in a very tight series where an adjustment
here and adjustment there. You know, like you win game one,
you win game seven. The only thing that I would
push back on on that was just watching those games.
So I was at three of those games. I think
that it's this isn't analytics, this isn't like high level
X's nose. It just seemed easier for the Spurs than
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it did for the Thunder. When the Spurs got the
ball in the basket, it seemed easier, and it seemed
harder for Oklahoma City to score. It seemed harder for
Oklama City to move and get into the stuff that
they wanted to get into.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
And when that happens, you know, that.
Speaker 6 (46:59):
Doesn't really shift with time, Like I think the Spurs
are only going to get better, which makes all of
this stuff Like again, if you're Sam, like you have
to look at your roster and say, like can we
can we like, can we beat these guys consistently?
Speaker 2 (47:12):
You know, is this the best group we have to
fight them? Or do we need do we need like
another big gun?
Speaker 6 (47:19):
And it'll be fascinating to see like how they handle
it because it's such a team like being around the
Thunder in these playoffs, Bobby, like like that is such
like a like we put the individ we put the
team ahead of the individual, like high character group of people,
people who like do this stuff with like with teamwork
and selflessness, all the things you want. Right you start
(47:39):
adding stars to that, that gets a little tougher to sell.
But maybe they need to upgrade their talent.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
Well, the Earth has already declared the Spurs the NBA champions.
How do the Knicks stop that?
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (47:50):
I mean I think, like I mean, the Earth has
not been paying attention to the vibes, right, Like I mean,
then the Spurs just came through, you know, and like
the Knicks have just been sitting there watching and waiting,
and you know, I mean, like they've got so much momentum,
the energy and their crowd is gonna be incredible, Like
they have the shot making, they have like sort of
(48:11):
the athletes to compete with the Spurs. You know, I
do think obviously, like you know, can Karl Anthony Towns
and then like get at Victor Wmenyama, Can O g
Annobe guard up and Josh Hart guard up on Victor Wemenyama,
which is a thing teams do.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
But I don't know, I mean, I hesitate to make
a pick right now, to be honest, I haven't like
totally thought about it, just drop my kids off at school.
But like I do think that they Yeah, they've got it.
They've got a really good chance.
Speaker 6 (48:39):
I mean, if the Spurs have the best player in
the series and Victor Wemanyama, the Knicks might have you know, two, three,
four and Jalen Brunson and og N Andobi and Carl
Towns like that seemed like reasonable to me in some order,
and like you can put together a Syria, you can
win a series that way.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
So I have League Pass and I leave it on
in the evenings a lot when I'm preparing for whatever
else I'm going to be doing in the day. Yeah,
I didn't spend a lot of time on the Knicks
and so until later on when I would watch more
of the Knicks. And I've admitted this, so I'm not
a Nick expert. However, the one player that I think
has kind of surprised me at how freaking good he
is is Anonobe. Has this dude always been that good.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
He is?
Speaker 6 (49:23):
Like when he's been healthy, he's sort of like everything
NBA players want in a role playing teammate, right, Like
he's good enough to shoot more than he does, but
he's cool with if it only happens eleven times a
game or ten times a game. He's a beast like physically,
like incredibly strong, like built like a defensive end, like
(49:44):
a lean defensive end, right and he you know, can
guard anybody like one through five. Incredible, incredible winning basketball player.
He's just had injury stuff, you know, and hasn't been
available consistently consistently. He had some injury stuff earlier this postseason,
but seems to be healthy right now.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
I mean, yeah, he's he's like one of those guys
may be that.
Speaker 6 (50:07):
Like you could just put him on twenty nine teams
in the NBA other than the next, and he would
look awesome, right, Like, like put him with Lukadancic, it
would look great. Put him with the Kola Jokic, it
would look great. Put him with Steph Curry, it would
look great. It doesn't matter, like you can put him
anywhere like he had. He's like as plug and play
of an NBA player that exists like at a super
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high level.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Like will he ever be an All Star?
Speaker 6 (50:30):
Probably not, But it's like like the ball knowers know, right,
like the guys know in the league, like this is
a guy you want on your team when you need
to get a stop. He's a guy that can that
can catch and shoot and hit a big shot and
get a bucket. I feed him to do that too,
a high level player, really high level player.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
I have two questions left, go Knicks and then Lebron.
But with the Knicks. And this is going to sound
like a kindergartener asking the question, but I love it.
Did Karl Anthony Towns just get a better attitude.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I think sometimes when you are.
Speaker 6 (51:05):
Unburdened of the pressures of like having to be like
the number one pick for a team, you know, facing
the franchise stuff, like all of that stuff, it just
frees you up.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
And I think he feels more freed up. He can
have more off nights with the Knicks. He can. You know,
it's not his team, it's not his town. It's Jalle
Brunson's team.
Speaker 6 (51:26):
It's Jael Brunson's town, right, And Kat is slotted in
as a complimentary piece.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
And I say that respectfully.
Speaker 6 (51:33):
I mean, he's still obviously like really really good and
is a like a high level talent in the league,
but like he doesn't have those responsibilities, right, Like he
doesn't have to be the one to like save the
franchise and Jallel Brenson seems very comfortable being in that
in that role, and like, look and it's not just Brunson,
Like they have a roster full of players that are
there to like kind of make life easier on you
(51:55):
if it's not your night. And I think, like, you know,
and I don't know Carl well, but like you know,
just being around him a little bit in some series
and stuff like that over time, like it just you know,
it just seems easier that he has more help, you
know what I mean, Like that the situation and the opportunity,
the timing, all that stuff suits his game, suits his personality.
And I think, you know, Mike Brown's done a really
(52:16):
good job too of like kind of unlocking some stuff
with him and not asking to be anyone that he
isn't got to.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Do the Lebron question, and I saw a couple of
things that I would love for you to comment on
that you're the expert. I saw Lebron a clip of
him saying, yeah, he take a little less money to
stay with the Lakers, And then I saw another thing
saying they'd rather have Reeves for forty million a year
for four years versus Lebron at that for one. All
of this so based on where we are right now,
what do you think is going to happen to Lebron?
Speaker 6 (52:44):
I mean he needs to first formally decide he like
wants to keep playing basketball, right, which I think he does.
I do think that that is more in question that
people have realized or had been more in.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Question than people realized.
Speaker 6 (52:57):
But I think once he decides he wants to play basketball,
now it's about his priorities, right and like can they
be achieved?
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Like he wants to win. I think he wants to
be close to Los Angeles. This is where his family is.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
Like he's talked very openly about wanting to like be
a volleyball dad for his daughter. And you know, look
like this guy Bobby is in the course of twelve months,
I've never seen anybody get addicted to something quite like
Lebron has gotten addicted to golf. So like, yeah, I
don't know that he would want to go play in
a cold weather market in part because of that, Like
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I think he likes he's scheduled into his routine. All
of this is to say, like it makes the most
sense for him to be back with the Lakers. That
that is the most boxes that get checked for everybody involved. Now,
the money can get weird, right, Like you know, Austin
Reeves just turned twenty eight years old. He is a
part of the Lakers long term future, you know, and
(53:53):
they're going to have to pay him. His money is
not directly tied to Lebron's money, like they both can
get paid this summer, but like Lebron's money is more
tied to like how aggressive the Lakers can be in
improving the roster around him, around Luka Dodgics, around Austin Reeves.
And so I think it is on the Lakers if
they expect Lebron to take like a big, big pay
(54:14):
cut or willingness to take a big pay cut, you
got to just be you got to you gotta come
up a plan, and you got to tell.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
Him this is why we're doing it, and this is
like what we what it can do for you. I
think they'll get.
Speaker 6 (54:25):
There, But I do think, like when we reported this
in the Athletic, like I mean, the priority this summer
is to build around Lukadocch Like that's the priority, right.
That's not a knock on Lebron James. It's just like
this is their first chance to like build out the
Luca roster, and so yeah, you need you need the center,
you need the shooting and the athleticism on the wings
(54:46):
and stuff like that. And like, by the way, you
do need Lebron James too. Like he's really really good.
He was awesome this season and you know, in March
the Lakers were one of the best teams in the
NBA when he like really like slotted into that third
man kind of job with that roster. But like, you know,
you've got a lot of decisions to make, a lot
of stuff to kind of figure out. And I think,
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you know, the Lakers are going to have to figure
out if if Lebron, you know, can they sell Lebron
on a version of this where it makes sense for
Lebron to take twenty five million dollars. I'm just making
up that number, But like, can can you pitch that,
you know, and if you can make a good enough pitch,
I think you can get him. But he's Lebron James.
He's got suitors, he's got options. Fascinating because we've just
(55:29):
never seen a guy be like this at forty one,
not in this sport like he's too old. He's told
to fully get all the way behind, but he's way
too good to walk away from. It's it's it's a
fascinating position.
Speaker 3 (55:42):
That's what they say about me.
Speaker 2 (55:45):
I can relate except mostly easy to walk away from.
Speaker 6 (55:48):
Though like I'm I'm I'm too old to get behind,
and I'm also very easy to walk away from.
Speaker 3 (55:54):
So great article.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
Actually nothing like nothing like Lebron at all.
Speaker 3 (55:58):
Actually great article if you got you guys. I'm a
subscriber to The Athletic. But Dan wrote a great article
on chat and and what had happened on Sunday night
and just generally looking forward. And you guys can follow
Dan dan Wikie Sports on Twitter. Hey, thanks Dan, I
really appreciate you, love your work, and hopefully I'll see
you again sometime soon.
Speaker 6 (56:15):
Ibby, you know, normally I'm not nice to people who
wear Cubs gear. I'm a white Sox person myself, but
I'll make an exception to start the week.
Speaker 2 (56:22):
I don't want to. I don't want to endo this
week with negativity.
Speaker 3 (56:24):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (56:25):
All I have a good day, man, Okay, that's it
for us. Everybody feel good? Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yeah, who's that picture though? That went to see that picture?
He struck someone out, like who he did?
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Suck it?
Speaker 1 (56:38):
Yeah, he just dance. He liked sucking dance.
Speaker 3 (56:40):
They kick him out.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
I don't know what happened. I saw the video, but
I saw the manager come out and be like, that's
it's just unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (56:48):
See the Georgia player get kicked out of for the
home run?
Speaker 5 (56:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (56:50):
What did he do? That? One?
Speaker 3 (56:51):
Film out? Immediately home run? He looked at the dugout, dance,
came all the way and they let them. But you know,
it's it's a bit performative college sports. Hit throw him out?
Speaker 1 (57:01):
Really?
Speaker 3 (57:01):
I think he was like still rounding second base. Yeah yeah,
he dude, he was doing all kinds of stuff. You know,
we don't talk a lot of college baseball. But UCLA
was the overall number one seed, so they were number
one and the over they lost in the regional. It's
like NCAA tournament, Virginia losing is the one to a sixteen.
(57:23):
It's literally what that was never happened before. Wow, So
all right, that's it? Music? Ah, yes, I can just
see music in a place.
Speaker 1 (57:32):
How mad it? Flex Man?
Speaker 3 (57:35):
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I don't even listen to sports and I listened to this.
Let us know. Let me know on the old DMS there,
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Thank you and we will see you guys.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Bye. Buddy.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
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Speaker 1 (58:22):
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This is a podcast call twenty five wist sorts and
they go wear a whistle. So yet it's too bad?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But what did you expect?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's a podcast call twenty five whistles, twenty wine.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Win blow that whistle? You know it has come to
my attention. I'd like to say hi to everybody who
listens to this show who is not a sports fan.
And what I would also like to say is, I'm
gonna give you guys a strong ten minutes of nonsports
or sports adjacent at the beginning of every episode.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well, because we have a lot of listeners that will go, hey,
I listen sometimes, but I don't really like sports, and
I'm like, oh my god, we must bore you. Like
I could recommend you four other podcasts to listen to.
Thank you, yes, and feel free to hit me up
in DMS and be like, hey, I don't really like
sports that much about I like listen to the show.
So we're still going to talk sports, although sometimes we don't.
But I like to give you a solid ten at
(01:01):
the beginning of sports or just not total sports like
nerd out. So I'd like to start with this one.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Did you blow the whistle, I blew it.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We're on baby, Yep, it's me Kevin Brandon and Eddie.
A man says his life will never be the same
again after he was on a flight and he asked
for some coffee and the coffee was really hot and
it burned his penis.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Like Bad.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Bad suffered severe burns to his penis when a cup
of hot coffee spilled into his lap during a Virgin
Atlantic flight from Las Vegas. He forty one claims a
lidless cup tipped over due to a slanted tray table,
leaving him an excruciating pain and requiring treatment on board
for blistering burns. Do you have to pull it out
(01:49):
like if it's burning? And because the thing about flight
attendants that I've learned from knowing a couple is that
the job they're doing in the air isn't really the
job they're paid to do. They are paid to do
that job, but the job they're paid to do is
any emergency that happens that hopefully doesn't happen that they
are educated and qualified to do. So you don't want
a flight attendant to have to do all the jobs
(02:10):
are qualified to do. I get that, are they qualified
to pull out a penis and put cream on it,
and do you do that there you have to? Or
does he just do it in the restroom?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So they just give him the ointment and be like,
all right, go handle it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And then all of a sudden, you here that did
ain't he's go burn hand.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Man. That's crazy though, Like see back in the day,
you know there was the whole McDonald's lawsuit because somebody
burned their lap on hot coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Does this guy own the airline? What happens here BBC?
Is that I don't know, because I don't know. Some
things are actually people's faults. And something that's slanted, yeah,
that's trouble. If there was a question like would you
like a lid for that and he said no, but
then the table was slanted, that could be something true.
I don't have enough of an understanding. It's exactly what happened,
(03:09):
except for his penis was burned. And that is a
strong start to this show.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's no good sports.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Sports the other I made a list. Guys have so
much talk about and so this is not really going
This is gonna be sports, but only kind of Okay,
did you guys see the twelve year old. The guy
suspended for five years and his dad for life from
the Little League.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
No, okay, ah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So there's this kid, he's on the mound and there
had been some jabber jeawn between teams. Twelve years old,
so you're talking what sixth seventh grader?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, twelve years old, sixth grade.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
He gets up to pitch and the wind up the
delivery and he chunks it right at the dugout of
the opposing team.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I like it. That's funny. That's funny. It's just funny.
It's not my kid, you know, so outside that's not
good a kid, Yeah, it's not good because the dad
told him to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So he gets up in a chunks of baseball as
hard as he can at a kid and the other
just a dugout of other players. You like that?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I mean the story like if it was watching a
movie and that happened, like that's funny. But no, no, no, no, dude.
If I was there, that was my kid, my team,
Uh huh, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What if it was the opposing team?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Even worse because you're throwing it in my kid's dugout
and your kid got hit. Yeah, not good.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Like I like stupid stuff. I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So they got banned, like what happened on.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
The kid has been banned for five years from playing
in any leagues in that town apparently, and the dad
suspended for life. Wow, now here's the problem I have.
The kid should not be suspended for five years. The
kid was doing what his dad told him.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
If you want to take him out of that game,
maybe another game or two.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That twelve year old is just doing what pops said
to do. Yep, and that sucks. So it's wild to
see because he just gets up and he looks good
and strong like those hard and he's up. Then the
wind up turns WAPs it to the dugout over there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And in reality, you know, like a dad banned for
life unless he has like a bunch of kids, that's
gonna that's gonna hurt, you know, like he's because now
he won't be able to coach his other kids. But
if that's his only kid and your band for life, you're.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Like, okay, whatever, Like that's a loser dad.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It's a big time.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I feel bad for the kid because he's got that
loser dad that is raising him and is teaching him
values a lot of bad values. That's a loser, dad.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, because what did he do when they're not on
the ball field? Yeah, as far as what he's teaching
right right.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Justice for Braxton is.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That his name Braxton?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
No, I just figured did a twelve year old's name
is Braxton? Who's a picture? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay? All right?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Do you have a heart on your hand?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's They thought it was a tattoo. I was told
to ask this because I don't well, they were making
fun of me. We weren't making fun like you guys
were making fun of me hard.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Every morning me and my wife were getting our five
year old ready for school. You know, they were like,
all right, today, it's gonna be a great day. And
we draw hard on each of our hands to where
at any point in the day if we miss each other,
we just look at the heart and we hugged the heart.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That's sweet.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
You guys were laughing at him when I walked in,
and I didn't know why exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
No, no, because the joke was like, he's like, so
if you see me hugging my fist, you know what
I'm doing. And we're like, ha, ha, that's funny. You
should tell Bobby, so is the.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Heart you're hugging your wife or your son.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Our son like it's for him really, like when he's
at school if he gets sad or whatever, he just
looks at the heart.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And you guys think that's funny.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Also the kid throwing into the dugout too. Maybe I'm
just twisted man. Yeah, checked my mind out this bad day.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I got one more sports adjacent e story. Did you
guys see the tennis players shove the girl?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I did, and it's a weird angle. He didn't shove her, okay,
because I was gonna say, it's a weird angle where
it looks like maybe she just moved.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But it looks pulled up. His name is Raphael j
O d a R. It looks like when he's walking
off he lifts his arm up and shoves the ballgirl
back into the wall.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's it does look like it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I'm telling you. When I saw it, I thought, what
a freaking loser. Yeah, I'm gonna get Kevin's it's the reaction.
Do you have the video I'm looking for right now?
If you just type in oh.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, it does look like it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean I believed it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I thought, Wow, if that dude did that, he is
such a loser. But then I thought, there's no one
gonna do that because that is so bad. Yeah, you
can tell because she's like in the way and she's
like whoa. So the internet just blows up on this dude, like,
how could you hit a ball girl just because you're
upset walking off the court. He's walking off the court,
he lifts his arm up to like wave at people,
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and right about the time she's trying to get out
of the way, and she gets her feet hanged, like
stumbling backward and like falls into the wall, just trying
to get out of the wave. And it looks because
it's the exact angle like he nailed her.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I mean, they couldn't have timed it or perfect it
to make it look like he It looked real.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
How about that? That's pretty funny?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Huh wow?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yesterday I was watching NASCAR last night and some dudes
to sports no no, no, no, okay, and some dude Rex
or whatever. But his car is still running and he's
going he's gonna go back in the garage like he's
quitting the race, and there's he makes the turn to
go into like where all the cars are, like where
all the team trucks are whatever, And when he makes
the turn, there are two people just standing in the
middle of the gate like talking like a da da
(08:25):
da dude. They almost got hit by the car. It
was crazy. One girl grabs the other girl. They're just
like move. It was hilarious, Like, dang, that was close.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Did we talk about the Ferrari fully electric car on
this show?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
No? No, I don't think we did.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Did I do it on guys? I'm stretched too thin.
I don't know where I'm talking about stuff anymore, and
I keep pretty diligent notes of everything. But I had
this conversation recently about Ferrari has revealed its first fully
electric car. And this car is like a seven hundred
thousand dollars car. Wow, And it looks like Corolla.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Oh does he?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Well, it does look like it looks a little space
ag and it's like two tone is not the words
that's where like my uncle uses. But it's like it's
blue and like the hood's black, and it's got some
cool cult And I only saw a couple of pictures,
but the internet was taking a crap on it because
it's like seven hundred thousand dollars for a car, and
it looks like that. But Ferrari has revealed its first
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fully electric car.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Yeah, that does not look like a Ferrari, right, like
one of those leafs you remember, the Nissan Leaf or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
It is priced entry about six hundred and forty thousand dollars,
so much it blends Ferrari's signature performance with a family friendly, roomy, seeding,
high in tech, a large trunk. If I'm paying seven
hundred thousand dollars for a car, don't put the large
trunk in the first five things. I need better things.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, the trunk is last.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I do want to be surprised at the trunk. I
don't really want that to be one of the top
three things you list on a seven hundred thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Is it fast?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
It goes one hundred and nine miles an hour?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Have you seen it?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Look at it?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Show me, I got it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Brandon Gatchi's next year.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I mean literally, that's the Leaf and that's the Ferrari.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh yeah, and a little more aerodynamic.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Looks like a toy, But you're right, if you just
love the brand Ferrari and you love electric, and you
really want a big trunk, like I get it. You
want that trunk because I don't think that every expensive
car needs to scream. My non Hyundai. I don't think
that screams, but some people do. Like it's an suv.
(10:37):
You never paid a lot for that.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You're non Hyundai.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, is that what we're calling it? Well, it's been
it's been brought out before, but I just don't like
saying it. It feels so flexy. I don't like that
because I'm not driving it. I literally am not driving
it as a flex Does that go fast? I don't know?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, you haven't.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
No, I'm not once. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
A car guy like pedal to the met dude one time?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Never, And I never drive it with the engine almost never.
It's always electric. Electric goes fast anyway because there is
there's no fuel injection, so there's no time because a
lot of times you have to gas take a second
to get the fuel injections. I didn't even know that
I build electric and.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
It sounds like it sounds like a real engine, can
you Well, I can flip it both, that's right.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So it is forty or fifty miles electric and then
it goes to gas. But I don't ever drive it
forty or fifty miles. I just get home and plug
it by count. I never put gas in it. That's great,
that's it's amazing. But if I want to flex and
hit it, I hit a button and it goes to
the engine. Have you heard it?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, so I'm imagining it goes fast, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It sounds like it goes fast.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, So I would say I have that it was
not for the reason to flex a car because it's
an suv. I don't think it's a flex at all
unless you're like a hardcore car person. If I were
to see this car driving around, I want to be like, dang,
that's a seven hundred thousand dollars Ferrari. No, I would know,
But I don't think you buy this if your interest
is flexing, you just think you like the Ferrari brand.
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Just yeah saying hey I own a Ferrari. Maybe that's
it too.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I mean that sounds cool.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Are Ferrari's generally expensive?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I would believe.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I would say so, because I feel like all car
brands that don't have commercials are expensive.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh that's a I've never thought about it like that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Ferrari doesn't have commercials.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Seen one. They don't need to show anything to her.
Mama's family, family family matters reruns. Yeah, ever seen that happen?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I know they're expensive, but I mean like expensive.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Go two hundred and fifty thousand to six hundred thousands,
that's expensive.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
If you want.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
One, just buy a regular one. Don't buy the weird
looking one.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Unless this has some crazy trunk trunk.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Oh man, that's trunk. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I wonder how Fari goes, because my Hyundai goes I
think maybe almost four hundred miles on a full dan.
It's a lot. Whenever the ice storm hit and our
power we lost all of our power. We our power
was our Hundai for three days. We plugged everything.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
A minute that still worked.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, and it had It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Would y'all sit in there too? Sometimes?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I wouldn't go watch stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Oh like on your phone? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, keep it powered up. We both go sitting there
and there's heat because he turned the heater on.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I'm not sure if I like this or not, but
like those Volkswagen buses, the new electricity you've seen them.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Those are really cool.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Like I keep seeing them around and I'm like, oh,
I don't I like because I love the buses. I
love the old antique like nineteen sixties VW buses, you
know where they have like sinks and couches in them
and all that. So I don't know if I'm just
stuck on that or I like really like the new
electric ones.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Probably mostly the first, but a little the second.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
My wife once one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
So bad.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
They're cool?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
How much are they?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
They're pretty? I mean they're up there, like I think
they started the brand new they're.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Like eighty oh wow, wow, that's all.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
And they stopped making them this year and they'll they'll
start making them in twenty seven, so maybe the twenty
fives will start going or the twenty fours will go down.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
And if you had an electric can you just plug
it into the.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Wall, just the wall, so yes. But it charges a
lot slower, so yes.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And I mean like the outlet you would plug it back.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You can bring in the studio, plug it in at
you could. It charges a lot slower. Okay, what we
had to do is replace because I've had an electric
car in some form for the past seven or eight years.
You have to basically put in this is a stupid
way to say a washer and dryer type input.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh yeah, I know whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yes, yeah, and then it charges a lot faster.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
These Ferraris go two hundred and fifty to three hundred miles.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Dang, so not even that far from an electric Oh
I thought speed me too, My bad?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Like what no, I told you a.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Hundred ninety I know, But then he said that on
a three hundred a road car that goes three hundred,
that's like a rocket. Okay, that's fourteen minutes. We've got
to fourteen minutes without a huge sports I'm gonna say this,
this controversial wimban Yama is not that good. I'm gonna
tell he's just tall. He's good, but he's just tall.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
What are you talking about? That is the dumbest thing
you've ever said.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
If you're a smart man, if he were six seven,
he'd just be a fair NBA player.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Do you know what a tall fair NBA player looks like?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Rudy Gobert. No, he's better than no Fair. He's like
defensive end. He's defensive Player of the Year multiple years.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay, so he can block. Great, You're tall, dude, you
should be able to block this guy. Wimby shoots three. Yes,
he drives like a point guard if.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
He wasn't seven foot five, and he is, so you
can't take that away from him. He's tall and he's
pretty good. But because he's so tall, he's awesome. It's
so funny you say that.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I was watching the games the other day and I
was like, I've here heard all this hype about Wimby
for years and I haven't sat there and watched a
bunch of Spurs game and.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I'm like, he's good.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You know he's gonna get a lot better. But I'm like,
I don't even think he's the best player on the
floor tonight. I mean, obviously what night, but Game seven,
just for one example.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Wemby's awesome, dude. But I'm telling you it's only because
he's tall.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I think it's amazing to see a tall guy move
the way he does and play basketball the way he does.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I agree all that I agree with, and it's stupid
to go, well, we're gonna make him worse because he's tall,
because that's not fair. I'm just saying he if he
if he's Kevin Durant's height, he's not as good. Kevin
Durant's seven foot tall.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I see what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But Wenby's awesome and he's gonna be awesome and if
he can stay healthy. But I do picture him getting
hurt randomly like Kevin Durant did for seasons at a time,
just because he's so long.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Look at it. I mean, every time he falls, it's like,
oh my gosh, his knees gonna break.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Tired too, always looks tired. I like Wemby man.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I was like, I got a little mad there.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I like Webby a lot. I do because it cares. Yeah, yeah,
I do like that. But I just think he's just
real tall. But he's a good But like Kevin Durant
is awesome, Kevin Durant is a shooter. I'm not comparing
the two really, except Kevin Durrant is a pure everything.
If you take three four inches off him, I think
he's just an elite guard. I think he's an elite
(17:11):
six eight tweener three four right.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
But dude Wemby in his one handed rebounds, it's just
crazy to me.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, Womby's awesome he's awesome. I just think he's tall.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, how tall is he seven? Okay?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
They say seven to five, but then you hear the
people that actually know go, he's seven six or seven seven.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Because he looks way, way, way, way taller than everyone else.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, it's weird because most basketball players want the extra
entry two lie.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. They're trying to bring him down.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
They're trying to bring him down a little bit, so
he's not such a freak. Woby's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Are you betting him on the champ?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I don't think so. I don't have enough interest. We'll
talk about this in a little bit with Dan Wykeu's
coming on. Who was at the game, So that's all
coming up. I wanted Oklahoma City to win, and I
think they would have won had they had their full
arsenal players. But that's part of it. It's not even
an excuse, Like everybody has to be healthy to win,
so it's not an excuse. But so everyone crowning the
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Spurs as the next great thing. I think they are
absolutely the favorite or co favorite every year, but Oklahoma
City is just as good if they're at full capacity.
Because the Spurs were full. How rare for the Spurs
to have everybody healthy everyone.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, I had some scares along the way, but yeah,
everyone for the most part is still playing great.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
And I don't just like to I like the Spurs.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Fox missed a few games, Yeah, played.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Good, and he's not even I would I'd trade Fox tomorrow.
I think Harper is the dude on that team. I
know Castle, Harper doesn't start, Harper was injured a little bit. Dude,
give me Harper all day. That dude's awesome. I think
if if I were drafting from both those teams, Wimby first,
Shay second, I'm taking Harper third on a two team draft.
(19:04):
Sure you can be Castle.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Now, don't. I don't know their contract situation, but I
feel like, can this team stay together for a while?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, because they're all within their early deals. I had
pulled that. Oh man, what did I do with that?
I pulled exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That because every time I'm like, oh, this team is
so good, and I started thinking like, oh, WELLNA be
able to keep this team together?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I lost it. Yeah for a while, Okay, good and cheap.
How about Celtics legend Luke Cornett.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, they forget Yeah, for sure, he definitely saved the game.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Do you want to know the only reason I know him,
it's not from the Celtics, it's from he was the
one that I think wrote the article about the Atlanta
Hawk's not having Stripper Night. Really he wrote the article, yeah,
for like any Players Tribune or something, so you may
look that up. So there are only two Cornets I know.
Jim Cornett had the tennis racket. I his wrestling manager
all during the eighties nineties. Luke Cornett, the basketball player,
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the big white dude. I think whenever the Hawks were
going to have and I forget what the strip club
was called, Magic City Night. I think he's the one
that wrote the article.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah right, Brandon, you knowed him out. You know that
plays Brandon?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Oh yeah, what did he so it was him?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
He argued the collaboration was disrespectful to women. Wow, women
or women?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Disrespectful man a woman?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
But what a block. What sucked was my father in
law was at that game. Oh yeah, that's like his
favorite thing in the world. This time, at least he.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Has a good game.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He had a bad weekend for sports and I messaged
him about it. I was like, dude, sorry, because he
went to Arkansas College World Series. We went to nine
innings and softball seven against Nebraska. It was an awesome game.
Nebraska is awesome. They have the best all around player
I've ever seen, and her name is Jordi ball At
Jordy from Now. We played the crap out of them.
(20:56):
They beat us for the home run at the very
end of the game extra innings.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
He was there.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
We had to play the loser game the next day.
You knew we were gonna lose. We played till midnight.
LA played earlier in the day that day they had rest.
We played late.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We checked in earlier. They were like down seven zero.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
They start hitting home runs off of us. We had
to pitch people that pitch the whole night before.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, yes, I saw the same.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah. It was just like black whack whack.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So he went to both of those games and then
to the thunder game.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
A guy that good should not have to suffer three
losses like that. He's like the best dude, because he's
a good dude. He's the best. Yeah, he's the best dude.
He shouldn't have to suffer through all three of those.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I just want to hug him. Yeah, I'll have him
draw hard on his hand and then and then it'd
be great, you can hold the heart.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Okay, that's pretty good. That's pretty fun for you guys, though,
do you feel, honestly, do you feel like the Nicks
or nothing?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I do, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I mean the only doubt I have is they've blown
out every single team that they've played.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
But it's the East.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
But it is the East, so like I feel like
the Spurs have it. But I do think it's gonna
go seven games. I think it's gonna be clear.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So then everyone thinks, dude, chet sucks. Chet sucks, and
it's we shouldn't say that because here we are dopes
to don't play basketball.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
We suck, we suck, we suck hard.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah yeah, but we're not. It's like he was weird scared. Yeah,
he got dunked on the very beginning of that game seven.
He would he didn't want the ball.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, it was over.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It was like I was watching Rick and K. Yes,
so Rick and I was a pitcher, came up with
the Cardinals, was really good for a minute, then got
the big yips and got big scared and couldn't throw,
couldn't just couldn't throw and was like freaked out, mentally out.
He ended up coming back as an outfielder later in
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his career, a pretty good outfielder too, but like he
just his mind exploded on him. I feel like that
happened to Chet. He did not want the ball. He
did not guard Wimby. You saw that. I was like,
that's Rick and K and my wife's like never heard
of him, Like anyway, moving on, look look him up.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Thanks were explained to me who it was. But you
know what's like, I feel like Game one there was
a weird and we never talked about this, but like,
did you you see the post interview with.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Shae, I don't know. At this point, they.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Interviewed Shae and they were talking about how he thought
Hardenstein did against Wimby, and he is like, you know,
I'm not gonna say that. He goes, you know, I
hit that he did good. He did good, and he's
just like I just I would have done something different.
And so I feel like that kind of summed it
up to me that like everyone on that team was like,
(23:33):
why is Chet not the dude on Wimby?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Oh that's okay. So I didn't see Shae say that,
and I'm not even sure if you what you did
is true to it, But I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's what I got from it because that's exactly what
he said.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Against It wasn't a Hartenstein thing, no, and I.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Think it was. He was just and I don't know,
but it seemed like him. He was feeling like, why
wasn't our biggest dude on Wimby.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Everybody kept saying that Wemby hates chet like hates chick.
I was just trying to embarrass. Yeah, I felt bad
for him. I was frustrated for him. It's fresh for
my father in law. Then I got mad at check
for my father in law.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Oh no, I know, Yeah, that's not good. But now
your go Spurs go right.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I don't care. It'd be fun to see the Knicks
win because they haven't one in fifty years, and I
have no relationship with the Knicks at all, more so
because I think the Spurs are going to be around
to win a bunch forever.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I hope you're right.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So if the Knicks do win, I think that's probably.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Man.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I just I like the Spurs though, Yeah, I'm just
kind of torn. I like the story of the Knicks.
But there's nothing about the Spurs that makes you not
like them, I know, and they're in a small market.
Well hate them once they start winning. Yeah, we'll get there.
We're America. We want to build somebody out and they
rip them down.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Did you guys hate the Big three Spurs?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Eventually genobly got annoying. Yeah, eventually, Tony Parker, because they
won so much, we paid more attention to them, and
eventually they got annoying.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
But Tim Duncan kind of like got out Scott free.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Hu do you not?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
How can you have anything bad to say against? Like, hey,
he's cool, love news thing, love him.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Congratulations, Thank you, that's fun for you. Thank you, that's
fun for you.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I don't have any beef with anyone. There's a good
storyline for both. But I think the freaking NBA for
the next couple of years goes through that West being
San Antonio and Oklahoma City, unless when he gets hurt
and that whole team crashes.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yes, because that would happen. If he got hurt, that
would happen.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
I didn't know this first coach. You listened to our podcast? Yeah,
obviously he listens to our No, did he really.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, whistles?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Guy, Yeah, did you not watch Game seven?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, they did exactly what I said they should be doing,
so obviously means they're listening to twenty five whistles.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Makes sense?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Hey, guys, why don't we try what this dude said.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I heard Eddie be in the team room.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Hit play play the whole podcast. Hit play up.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
There Ed's game plan.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
They have to listen to the first ten minutes of.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
No Sports to penis.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
What you think?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Hey, lightens the mood a little bit, you know, of
another note, and I think you guys will like this,
even though you're not into college softball like I am.
But so Texas Tech, what's Star Wars? What's the big villain?
Not Darth Vader, but was like the Death Star? Yeah,
that's talking.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
About That's a planet like of the bad Planet.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Okay, bad planet. Texas Tech softball is the death Star
of It's like the evil place. Now I don't really
feel that way, but to everybody else it is because
Texas Tech has a ton of money. I think they
spent two million dollars on their softball team. They allegedly
are poaching players. They're grabbing all the best players from
all the best teams, saying we'll give you this money
if you get in the portal. It's everything you don't
want to happen, but it does happen. It's not legal
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to proach. Oh, it's not no oh, but it is
legal to pay players. But it's not legal to proach.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
So Texas Tech gets from Florida Jason Williams's daughter white Chocolate.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I saw he was everywhere this week. Well, because he's
Texas Tech. He's the dad of Now his daughter plays
on Texas Tech's team. She was awesome at Florida. They,
according to reports, poached her, paid her a bunch of money.
She comes over to Texas Tech. She's awesome. She got
hit five times against Florida in that series, like with
a ball.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
She got beaned.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Do we not talk about this?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
No, So she came from Florida, went to Texas Tech.
They played a super regional against each other. In the
three games, she had hit five times and then at
the end of the game, massive fight. The coach got
kicked out because then he wouldn't shake hands. The teams
wouldn't shake hands, is crazy, right, So there's there's one.
That's one number two, and this is the one that
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was all weekend that made me laugh out loud. Clipped this.
There's a girl at Tennessee. She was at Tennessee who
played third base. She was an All American. She went
to Texas Tech. Texas Tech is the death Star, they're
the villain. Supposedly they poached her and said, give you
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all this money, come to Texas Tech. Texas Tech ends
up beating Tennessee in the College World Series. So the
team that she used to play on played the team
that she's on, and after she left, there was all
this drama about herbie and on the team. Her dad
bad mouthed on the coach all so of course it's
gonna be a little chippy once they get there. Tennessee
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ends up beating Texas Tech. So the team that she
was on and left just got beat by the team
that she's on. In the handshake line afterward, they're pop up, up,
up up, goot good. They go to the press conference
and she says that the Tennessee coach said to her,
you made a mistake as they're doing handshakes. So everybody's like, ooh, drama.
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This player is already a bit problematic. Her dad is
very problematic. So everybody's like, show us the tape, the
tape of the handshake line. Of course they're gonna have it.
They find it. The head coach did not say this
to the girl. She got up there and said that
in the press conference that the head coach said it.
The head coach never said it to the girl. It
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did not happen. So they're like forensic evidence every little
mouth movement. The only thing that happened is after they
went to the handshake line and they walked away. The
player looks back and says that if somebody did say
it, it wasn't the head coach. It wasn't in the handshake line.
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It wasn't what she had said to make the coach
look terrible. And look, I'm sure both the sides are
a little wrong. Yeah, everybody hates Texas Tech because they're
buying all the players and they're winning. Now, you can
do this, like all the college football teams do it.
But it seems to be pretty obvious that it's some
pretty heavy poaching. And the girl's dad, the handshake girl's dad,
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it has been all over social media. At some point
he was talking about, hey, she got seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. That's more money than you'll ever make
in your life. To somebody, Oh, why don't you, why
don't you keep on sn ad?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
What what her dad is saying this?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah, I'm almost positive it wasn't ai because I found
like three different places that's how you doubled check. So
is wild? Is what I was watching all weekend. That
head coach from Tennessee did not in the handshake line
say that. And she got in the press conference after
and said the head coach said that to her, she's lying. Now,
put that on her dad, because if that's how our
dad is, her dad's raised her to be like that.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yeah, probably the same dad from the little kid that
threw it up the dugout right or uncle Taylor.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Panell said that Karen Weekley told her you made a
mistake instead of good game in the handshake line after
today's game. Panell also said her decision to transfer from
Tennessee to Texas Tech as old news and she moved
on that's from Jenna mccara o one, it didn't happen.
You're gonna get up to the press conference and lie.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
That's crazy, especially nowadays everywhere nsick scot you.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Okay, Texas Tech ended up winning again. They're still in
it now, but they're so we're anti Texas Tech now.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Okay, hey they're the dark side due this week.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Okay, I'm an sure I'm anti Texas text off. Well
I really I'm really not. Yeah, but they're the villain.
We need villains. Sports is so much more fun when
we have villains. And Texas Tech gets to be the
death Star right now because we need a villain here.
And they bought all the players they played UCLA. They
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need to buying a picture from them or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Too, really crazy and it's define poaching to me, Like,
so that's I'm not in the transfer portal.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Okay, okay, I'm running back at Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You're happy in Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I'm in Arkansas. It's my sophomore year.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I just finished.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I'm gonna stay at Arkansas. Of course, I'm getting nice
in IL. I did not get in the portal. I
get a call from someone going, hey, if you get
in the portal we over here at Alabama, we'll give
you a million and a half bucks. I need even
making four hundred thousand there. Get in the portal, we
will pay you once you get in the portal. You
can't you can't legally have that call. You can't coax
someone to get in the portal and transfer. But it's
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happening all over the place all the time, got it.
I wish my school had all the money. I want
to be the death Star.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah right, because that would be cool.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, they're stirring things up in football still yeah Texas, Yeah,
because they got all the money.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Money.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Was that oil money?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, it's the one guy mostly. Oh really, I wish
we had that guy. I hate that guy. I wish
we had that guy.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Get that Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. All right, clip that whole
thing right there. Put that in because that'll get some play.
That was a big, big drama story there that. Uh
there was a guy. Did you follow the guyther bet
on DraftKings?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Oh yeah, that was crazy.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
So he bet Michigan to win the college basketball the
NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
They did, got it.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
He bet the USA to win the gold medal it's
the Olympics in hockey, they did. He bet the Knicks
to go and win the East did it. And at
the beginning of the series he had the Spurs to
win the West, and so they kept giving him cash
outs of like four hundred thousand, and then when they
went down three to two, it was down to like
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three hundred thousand again because he bet twenty five hundred
bucks twenty one point seven million.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Going into game seven, the cash out was over six
hundred thousand dollars. He's like, I'm not hedging. I'm not
cashing out. He had the Spurs. Wow, I'm not hedger.
I'm not cash out. I'd have cashed out. I had
cashed out in Arkansas, would have been the death Star
and we'd have been buying players mid tournament.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Absolutely, man, And he hit from one point seven million
dollars twenty five hundred dollars bet.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
That's amazing. Gosh, that could be you, Eddie, that could
be and someday, Man, I've gotten really bad at not
hitting cash outs like I just I should because I
lose the bet. Most of the time. I was like, nah, man,
just wait it out, just wait it out. We can
do this. And then every time I lose the bet,
I'm like, gosh, I should have cashed out.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
That's you how it works.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, I woke up today because Denny Hamlin won the
NASCAR Nashville NASCAR race last night, but it didn't end
till like eleven rain. It was rain delayed. Yeah, it
started late and so I didn't see the end, but
I woke up to some cash.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Was that here in Nashville?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
It was?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
The final thing I wanted to mention was another Texas
Tech story with football. Oh, so Sarkesian a couple of
weeks ago says, and he doesn't mention them by name,
but there's another team in other conference that if we
played their schedule, we could win their conference with our
twos and threes. He's talking about Texas Tech. So the
guy at Texas Tech with all the money says, hey,
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I'll pay for this. So he offered to buy out
and I forget who the schools were that Texas Tech
was playing Week one, and then to buy out Texas'
game as well if Texas would play Texas Tech no way.
He threatened to buy all the games out. He's like,
didn't play?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Is that legal?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, there's not illegal about that. Sounds so cool. You
would pay the buyouts for both of those schools. Wow,
because they have to pay those teams to play they
He's like, I'll pay them. You don't play the game.
Let's get Texas Tech and Texas to play and let's
see if you back it up.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
That's crazy. So is it going to happen?
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I want to be the death Star. That'd be so
cool to have money and make people hate you.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
They play, Texas plays Texas State week one. Okay, so
he offered to buy that out, and Tech plays Abilene Christian.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
And he's like, I'll buy that out too, a couple
million bucks.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
If you were Texas State, would you take the money.
It's not about Texas State, I know, but would you
take the money?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Of course you're part of it.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You have to say yes, I'll take the buyout.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
No, you take it and you schedule another game, right, Yeah,
you don't schedule a big team, but you're scheduling that.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Yeah. No, if you get bought out, you have no
choice in it, really yeah no, yeah yeah, because there
are teams now buying out teams because the conference, certain
conferences now are playing more game. Yes, he's going to
play nine conference games, and so teams are just getting
bought out. They have no choice, got it. But they're
getting that money, which is the only reason they were
playing a bigger team they were going to lose to anyway.
Got a bunch of notes Texas Tech. In Texas Tech,
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I respect it same, It's fun to root against it,
and like, I hope they lose. But I love villains.
I wish I could be the villain sometimes in that
that world just means you're winning and you have you're
just winning. If you just win, you become a villain.
Winby will become a villain at some point.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, that's it, all.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Right, take a break. Hey, let's welcome in. Dan Woiki,
Lakers reporter for The Athletic and a longtime NBA writer
who has covered the league from Clippers lob City to
Lebron and Luca and also a broader NBA perspective from
the final starting this week in the Western Conference Finals,
Wild Game seven. I just finished reading your article about Chet.
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Let's just start there, Like, Dan, what happened with Chet?
Speaker 6 (36:50):
So Bobby, I think of this like through more of
a human perspective than a basketball perspective. Imagine that you're
like a one to one, you know, seven foot tall,
kind of unicorn type of player. You're always the biggest
players your size aren't as skilled as you. You shoot
it better, you dribble better than anyone who's as tall
as you. And that's been your whole basketball life, right,
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And that's true for Ched Holmgren. He was a top recruit.
He was one of the top players in the country Gonzaga,
and then he gets to the NBA and that's who
he's supposed to be, right, And then all of a sudden,
like the funhouse mirror version of yourself, that's you know,
twenty percent taller. It feels like and more skilled and
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better than you is like your new foil, and that
guy is hell bent on destroying you every time you play.
And yeah, I think it had it has a mental
effect on Ched Hulgern. I think all of the advantages
that he normally has he doesn't have against Victor women Yama.
And it doesn't mean Chet is bad. But what is
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interesting is that as the thunder kind of move forwards,
like they're gonna have to beat the Spurs, and they're
gonna have to beat Victor Weben Yama. This is something
he's gonna have to get over.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Bobby.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Yeah, to me, Chet's seven foot and I there are
guys seven foot one. However, tall Chet is with ball
skills like he can shoot three, and that would make
all the sense in the world to me. If they
didn't have Chet guarding Wemby, they kept him away from him.
So yeah, and I complete, I just think of that
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picture like the seventeen U basketball tournament where like Chet's
holding the met the trophy and Wemby's next to him
and taller, but Chet's got it, Like did Wenby just
did he just have like this vendetta to kill the
guy who beat him in seventeen under basketball?
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Wemby does seem remarkably petty in like a fun way, right,
Like I mean, like incredible competitor.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Right.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
I was talking to a guy I know on the
San Antonio staff when we were talking about this, and
it's just like one, like, I mean, Chet's not like
Chet is competitive and Chet is tough and like he
will go at guys.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
It's like, but like this is like the smoke.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
It seemingly he does not want, right and I don't
know if he feels defeated, he feels passed over already,
But like you know, like Victor, it's crazy, Bobby.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
They're like these guys right that, like.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
You see it in the paint and then like people
just like stop right And it used to be like
that was like a Rudy Gobert thing is like guys
would drive into the paint, you'd see Rudy Gobert and
you would turn around. Like the thing with Victor is
it's like you're looking over your shoulders like everywhere because
it's not just the rim, Like you know, he can
close out on you from ten feet away.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
He's so long, he's so agile, Like I don't want
to say.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
I mean, yeah, he's like scary to play against, I think,
and like I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Like how to attack it quite yet.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Somebody will figure out something, but we're not there right now,
right like right now, like he is the scariest player
in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You're onto. Something that is so re rushing about Wemby
is that he cares like it matters to him. And
even after the game, you know, he was so excited.
I mean he was it was it was, it was much,
But I like it that it was much because this
guy could just rest on the fact that he's seven
five seven six, you know, depending on who's measuring him.
And just be like I'm tall and I'm good. But
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I feel like it's really cool to see someone with
all that natural ability, natural the physical, all the tools
and still really really want it.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:28):
Have you heard sort of like the kind of the
stereotype right about like tall players in the NBA is
that like they don't love basketball that you know the reason,
like at some point when they're ten years old, somebody
finds him on a playground says like, hey, guess what
you're six foot eight, you're going to have And it's
not the exact same thing as it is for like
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everyone else. I do think that Wemby what's different about
him is like not only does he love basketball, he
is like committed to being like the best player of
all time. That's the goal, right, It's not anything else.
The goal is to be an all time great. The
goal is to be better than Michael Jordan, to be
better than Kremeabul Jabbar, to be better than Lebron James.
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And it's credible.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I was in the Laker lock ago when they played
Victor Remandhama.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
I was talking to a player and I and we
had this like we were like how many MVPs would
he win and it would still be like a disappointment.
And we landed on three that if this guy wins
three MVPs, he's like something has gone wrong in his career.
That's just how good he is, right like, and how
good he can be. It feels like he is going
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to win six of them.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I don't know. Now, sometimes we get prisoner of the
moment on.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
This type of stuff, but like I mean, Bobby, we've
never seen anybody like this, right, Like, I mean, this
is transformative stuff, like in the same way that you know,
when I'm trying, like I try to think of like
the other guys in other sports, like in my like
time on this planet, who've been like, oh my god,
I don't know what we do with this, like Bo
Jackson like at his peak, Ken Ggraphy Jr. You know,
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guys as big and as strong as errand Judge, Like
these guys like don't just like they don't just show up.
It's generational and this is it. I mean Lebron for sure,
this is like a generational player. And we're like we're
in like chapter one of his career right now, which
is the scariest part.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
I try not to be prisoner of the moment as well.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
And I do feel that.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
If Oklahoma City would have had another scorer, if you know,
and and injuries are a part of it. So I'm
not saying like whoa is okay, see, but you had
Jayla Williams out and you had a j out like
they had to go to McCain at the end like
be their guy. And he's fourth or fifth when it
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comes to who you want to have the ball, but
he was their shooter. And I think if those if
only one of them can play, I think it's possibly different.
So I don't want to scream that this is the
Spurs world now, but I do think it's the Spurs
and the Thunders world.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Now.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
I mean, it feels like these teams are light years
ahead of the rest of the Western Conference and they're
both as sending still like that's the relative And now, look,
I remember when the Denver Nuggs from the NBA title
talking to people around the league and being like, who's
ever going to beat Nicola Jokic, right, and you know
he hasn't won a title since. I mean, it felt like,
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oh my god, like you have Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown,
you know, ending the primes of their career at this
time with like the sort of Missoula ball, like who's
going to beat the Boston Celtics. Injuries happen, things happen,
the league changes really quickly. I think what these two
teams are where it's different is that this is like
style and like and skill. You know, you have a
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player like I mean, like, let's let's run down some
of the guys. We haven't talked about, right, we haven't
mentioned shake Kill just Alexander, we haven't mentioned Stephan Castle.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
We haven't mentioned Dylan Harper.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
You know, like these are guys that are I mean,
Shay is unreal and is so good at getting into
his spots so going to manipulate in the game, but
like those Spurs guards are both like I mean, it's
not hard to like close your reson to matge of
both those guys as all Stars in the next three seasons.
Or like Castle to me is like I was talking
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to a group of my friends about it. It's like
he's athletic like John Moran, but he's like a dog
kind of like Tony Allen, but he has skill too,
like he's so sudden, like there's some Derek Rose in
his game, Like I mean, like this guy is has
a chance to be like really really special. And then
you watch Dylan Harper play and he's like a twenty
year old who plays like he's thirty five with so
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much poison. You know, the Thunder push everybody around Bobby,
like the Spurs push the Thunder around, you know. I
think Jaylen Williams said yesterday at their interviews he was
just kind of like they sort of play like us,
and it's like they do and except they're younger and
stronger and cheaper, right, And so yeah, I think those
I mean, yes, everybody is chasing these two teams. Now
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that being said, the Knicks have a chance to win
the finals.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Let me ask one more question before that about the
Oklahoma City. So they're like, Okay, what's Sam Presti is
gonna do? Like he's got all the picks, he's got
the young what what's what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah, good question.
Speaker 6 (45:17):
I think there has always been like Sam, I'm not
afraid of like, like you know, I think, making big moves,
but they've usually been more like outgoing than incoming, right, Like,
I'm really curious to see, like does he look at
their their team like take let's just say like Giannis
for instance, right, like who I don't think they're particularly
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interested in, but like let's just say, like, okay, do
you look at Yannis and Sagakoombo and know that if
we trade for him he will sign somewhere else in
a year. We don't think we can keep them, but
if we can get him, maybe we can win. Does
Sam Presty cash and you know they've got two first
round picks this year, they have young players, They have
picks way out into the future, still drew cash in
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for do you chase even mobiley? Do you chase some
other like young player? That's a sending that fits your timeline.
You know, there's been some talk about like do they
move up in the draft and try to get like
Cam Boozer. You know, I'm not so sure. I do
think like you don't want to overreact to what just happened.
To your point, Bobby, like you were missing two really
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good players in a very tight series where an adjustment
here and adjustment there. You know, like you win game one,
you win game seven. The only thing that I would
push back on on that was just watching those games.
So I was at three of those games. I think
that it's this isn't analytics, this isn't like high level
X's nose. It just seemed easier for the Spurs than
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it did for the Thunder. When the Spurs got the
ball in the basket, it seemed easier, and it seemed
harder for Oklahoma City to score. It seemed harder for
Oklama City to move and get into the stuff that
they wanted to get into.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
And when that happens, you know, that.
Speaker 6 (46:59):
Doesn't really shift with time, Like I think the Spurs
are only going to get better, which makes all of
this stuff Like again, if you're Sam, like you have
to look at your roster and say, like can we
can we like, can we beat these guys consistently?
Speaker 2 (47:12):
You know, is this the best group we have to
fight them? Or do we need do we need like
another big gun?
Speaker 6 (47:19):
And it'll be fascinating to see like how they handle
it because it's such a team like being around the
Thunder in these playoffs, Bobby, like like that is such
like a like we put the individ we put the
team ahead of the individual, like high character group of people,
people who like do this stuff with like with teamwork
and selflessness, all the things you want. Right you start
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adding stars to that, that gets a little tougher to sell.
But maybe they need to upgrade their talent.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
Well, the Earth has already declared the Spurs the NBA champions.
How do the Knicks stop that?
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (47:50):
I mean I think, like I mean, the Earth has
not been paying attention to the vibes, right, Like I mean,
then the Spurs just came through, you know, and like
the Knicks have just been sitting there watching and waiting,
and you know, I mean, like they've got so much momentum,
the energy and their crowd is gonna be incredible, Like
they have the shot making, they have like sort of
(48:11):
the athletes to compete with the Spurs. You know, I
do think obviously, like you know, can Karl Anthony Towns
and then like get at Victor Wmenyama, Can O g
Annobe guard up and Josh Hart guard up on Victor Wemenyama,
which is a thing teams do.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
But I don't know, I mean, I hesitate to make
a pick right now, to be honest, I haven't like
totally thought about it, just drop my kids off at school.
But like I do think that they Yeah, they've got it.
They've got a really good chance.
Speaker 6 (48:39):
I mean, if the Spurs have the best player in
the series and Victor Wemanyama, the Knicks might have you know, two, three,
four and Jalen Brunson and og N Andobi and Carl
Towns like that seemed like reasonable to me in some order,
and like you can put together a Syria, you can
win a series that way.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
So I have League Pass and I leave it on
in the evenings a lot when I'm preparing for whatever
else I'm going to be doing in the day. Yeah,
I didn't spend a lot of time on the Knicks
and so until later on when I would watch more
of the Knicks. And I've admitted this, so I'm not
a Nick expert. However, the one player that I think
has kind of surprised me at how freaking good he
is is Anonobe. Has this dude always been that good.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
He is?
Speaker 6 (49:23):
Like when he's been healthy, he's sort of like everything
NBA players want in a role playing teammate, right, Like
he's good enough to shoot more than he does, but
he's cool with if it only happens eleven times a
game or ten times a game. He's a beast like physically,
like incredibly strong, like built like a defensive end, like
(49:44):
a lean defensive end, right and he you know, can
guard anybody like one through five. Incredible, incredible winning basketball player.
He's just had injury stuff, you know, and hasn't been
available consistently consistently. He had some injury stuff earlier this postseason,
but seems to be healthy right now.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
I mean, yeah, he's he's like one of those guys
may be that.
Speaker 6 (50:07):
Like you could just put him on twenty nine teams
in the NBA other than the next, and he would
look awesome, right, Like, like put him with Lukadancic, it
would look great. Put him with the Kola Jokic, it
would look great. Put him with Steph Curry, it would
look great. It doesn't matter, like you can put him
anywhere like he had. He's like as plug and play
of an NBA player that exists like at a super
(50:28):
high level.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Like will he ever be an All Star?
Speaker 6 (50:30):
Probably not, But it's like like the ball knowers know, right,
like the guys know in the league, like this is
a guy you want on your team when you need
to get a stop. He's a guy that can that
can catch and shoot and hit a big shot and
get a bucket. I feed him to do that too,
a high level player, really high level player.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
I have two questions left, go Knicks and then Lebron.
But with the Knicks. And this is going to sound
like a kindergartener asking the question, but I love it.
Did Karl Anthony Towns just get a better attitude.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I think sometimes when you are.
Speaker 6 (51:05):
Unburdened of the pressures of like having to be like
the number one pick for a team, you know, facing
the franchise stuff, like all of that stuff, it just
frees you up.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
And I think he feels more freed up. He can
have more off nights with the Knicks. He can. You know,
it's not his team, it's not his town. It's Jalle
Brunson's team.
Speaker 6 (51:26):
It's Jael Brunson's town, right, And Kat is slotted in
as a complimentary piece.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
And I say that respectfully.
Speaker 6 (51:33):
I mean, he's still obviously like really really good and
is a like a high level talent in the league,
but like he doesn't have those responsibilities, right, Like he
doesn't have to be the one to like save the
franchise and Jallel Brenson seems very comfortable being in that
in that role, and like, look and it's not just Brunson,
Like they have a roster full of players that are
there to like kind of make life easier on you
(51:55):
if it's not your night. And I think, like, you know,
and I don't know Carl well, but like you know,
just being around him a little bit in some series
and stuff like that over time, like it just you know,
it just seems easier that he has more help, you
know what I mean, Like that the situation and the opportunity,
the timing, all that stuff suits his game, suits his personality.
And I think, you know, Mike Brown's done a really
(52:16):
good job too of like kind of unlocking some stuff
with him and not asking to be anyone that he
isn't got to.
Speaker 3 (52:22):
Do the Lebron question, and I saw a couple of
things that I would love for you to comment on
that you're the expert. I saw Lebron a clip of
him saying, yeah, he take a little less money to
stay with the Lakers, And then I saw another thing
saying they'd rather have Reeves for forty million a year
for four years versus Lebron at that for one. All
of this so based on where we are right now,
what do you think is going to happen to Lebron?
Speaker 6 (52:44):
I mean he needs to first formally decide he like
wants to keep playing basketball, right, which I think he does.
I do think that that is more in question that
people have realized or had been more in.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Question than people realized.
Speaker 6 (52:57):
But I think once he decides he wants to play basketball,
now it's about his priorities, right and like can they
be achieved?
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Like he wants to win. I think he wants to
be close to Los Angeles. This is where his family is.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
Like he's talked very openly about wanting to like be
a volleyball dad for his daughter. And you know, look
like this guy Bobby is in the course of twelve months,
I've never seen anybody get addicted to something quite like
Lebron has gotten addicted to golf. So like, yeah, I
don't know that he would want to go play in
a cold weather market in part because of that, Like
(53:30):
I think he likes he's scheduled into his routine. All
of this is to say, like it makes the most
sense for him to be back with the Lakers. That
that is the most boxes that get checked for everybody involved. Now,
the money can get weird, right, Like you know, Austin
Reeves just turned twenty eight years old. He is a
part of the Lakers long term future, you know, and
(53:53):
they're going to have to pay him. His money is
not directly tied to Lebron's money, like they both can
get paid this summer, but like Lebron's money is more
tied to like how aggressive the Lakers can be in
improving the roster around him, around Luka Dodgics, around Austin Reeves.
And so I think it is on the Lakers if
they expect Lebron to take like a big, big pay
(54:14):
cut or willingness to take a big pay cut, you
got to just be you got to you gotta come
up a plan, and you got to tell.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
Him this is why we're doing it, and this is
like what we what it can do for you. I
think they'll get.
Speaker 6 (54:25):
There, But I do think, like when we reported this
in the Athletic, like I mean, the priority this summer
is to build around Lukadocch Like that's the priority, right.
That's not a knock on Lebron James. It's just like
this is their first chance to like build out the
Luca roster, and so yeah, you need you need the center,
you need the shooting and the athleticism on the wings
(54:46):
and stuff like that. And like, by the way, you
do need Lebron James too. Like he's really really good.
He was awesome this season and you know, in March
the Lakers were one of the best teams in the
NBA when he like really like slotted into that third
man kind of job with that roster. But like, you know,
you've got a lot of decisions to make, a lot
of stuff to kind of figure out. And I think,
(55:07):
you know, the Lakers are going to have to figure
out if if Lebron, you know, can they sell Lebron
on a version of this where it makes sense for
Lebron to take twenty five million dollars. I'm just making
up that number, But like, can can you pitch that,
you know, and if you can make a good enough pitch,
I think you can get him. But he's Lebron James.
He's got suitors, he's got options. Fascinating because we've just
(55:29):
never seen a guy be like this at forty one,
not in this sport like he's too old. He's told
to fully get all the way behind, but he's way
too good to walk away from. It's it's it's a
fascinating position.
Speaker 3 (55:42):
That's what they say about me.
Speaker 2 (55:45):
I can relate except mostly easy to walk away from.
Speaker 6 (55:48):
Though like I'm I'm I'm too old to get behind,
and I'm also very easy to walk away from.
Speaker 3 (55:54):
So great article.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
Actually nothing like nothing like Lebron at all.
Speaker 3 (55:58):
Actually great article if you got you guys. I'm a
subscriber to The Athletic. But Dan wrote a great article
on chat and and what had happened on Sunday night
and just generally looking forward. And you guys can follow
Dan dan Wikie Sports on Twitter. Hey, thanks Dan, I
really appreciate you, love your work, and hopefully I'll see
you again sometime soon.
Speaker 6 (56:15):
Ibby, you know, normally I'm not nice to people who
wear Cubs gear. I'm a white Sox person myself, but
I'll make an exception to start the week.
Speaker 2 (56:22):
I don't want to. I don't want to endo this
week with negativity.
Speaker 3 (56:24):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (56:25):
All I have a good day, man, Okay, that's it
for us. Everybody feel good? Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yeah, who's that picture though? That went to see that picture?
He struck someone out, like who he did?
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Suck it?
Speaker 1 (56:38):
Yeah, he just dance. He liked sucking dance.
Speaker 3 (56:40):
They kick him out.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
I don't know what happened. I saw the video, but
I saw the manager come out and be like, that's
it's just unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (56:48):
See the Georgia player get kicked out of for the
home run?
Speaker 5 (56:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (56:50):
What did he do? That? One?
Speaker 3 (56:51):
Film out? Immediately home run? He looked at the dugout, dance,
came all the way and they let them. But you know,
it's it's a bit performative college sports. Hit throw him out?
Speaker 1 (57:01):
Really?
Speaker 3 (57:01):
I think he was like still rounding second base. Yeah yeah,
he dude, he was doing all kinds of stuff. You know,
we don't talk a lot of college baseball. But UCLA
was the overall number one seed, so they were number
one and the over they lost in the regional. It's
like NCAA tournament, Virginia losing is the one to a sixteen.
(57:23):
It's literally what that was never happened before. Wow, So
all right, that's it? Music? Ah, yes, I can just
see music in a place.
Speaker 1 (57:32):
How mad it? Flex Man?
Speaker 3 (57:35):
Thank you everybody if you do listen and you're like, hey,
I don't even listen to sports and I listened to this.
Let us know. Let me know on the old DMS there,
mister Bobby Bones. Also, you can go to our YouTube.
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Thank you and we will see you guys.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Bye. Buddy.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
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I'm Bobby Bones.
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