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May 9, 2025 35 mins

Basketball fans — the NBA Playoffs have completely gone off the rails 😳 and the Pick'em Pros are here for ALL the smoke in this emergency episode!

🔥 Derrick is standing ten toes down on the Boston Celtics despite their shocking collapse and 0-2 hole. He says they're just “playing with their food” and confidently predicts 4 straight wins. But the crew isn't letting that slide...

💥 The panel dives into the Cavs’ epic collapse vs. the Pacers, debating if Indiana is just lucky or if Cleveland choked under pressure.

🚨 Plus:
 - Should Celtics fans panic or trust in Kristaps' return?
 - Are the Thunder for real after blowing out the chamionship tested Nuggets?
 - Will Jimmy Butler turn back the clock if Curry stays out for the Warriors?
 - Who’s the true threat in the West — SGA or Anthony Edwards?

From bold takes to wild predictions, this high-energy 30-minute show is packed with unfiltered NBA playoff reactions.

🎥 Episode 134 – recorded LIVE on Friday, May 9th at 7pm EST

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Donovan Mitchell was playing with G League Unite or
Ignite, whichever G League teamyou want to pick.
That's who he was playing withand they had an eight-point lead
.
So he was dog tired, couldn'teven walk up the court without
hunching over, so he was lookinglike Luka in the last few
minutes of the game.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
He was so tired.
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
We still get shots when we're out in the playoffs.
Let's show us how much we be ony'all minds.
I see the hatred.
I see the hatred.
I pick them like a pro Globaltrial ball.
Talk a big and roll.
We're going up the score.
Touchdown.
This is not field goal.
We the winning team champions.

Speaker 5 (00:36):
When you walk through the halls you can play spread
with we gone with them all.
Yeah, this is a major play.
We do it big in a major way.
Diego, be having the pick ofthe day.
Here we come, don't care if youready.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
We them boys to go.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.
You know who it is.
I am Derek Thompson.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I'm Diego Thompson.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
And who are we, the Pick'em Pros?
We are the Pick'em Pros comingback at you in the house with a
special no, we always sayspecial, but this is a special
emergency, emergency 911 NBAplayoff show.
It's a short one.
Normally our shows are an hourhour and a half.
Quick 30-minute show where weare going to talk about just how

(01:24):
right I am with all of my picks.
We knock Chris out, we knockC-Pain out of the way.
All right, now the spotlight ison me and you, diego.
We're under fire.
Well, you're more under firebecause I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
All right.
Well, the team you picked isdown 2-0.
Mine's tied.
So I mean I'm really up in thiscase.
Do I look concerned at all?
Do I look concerned?
I know I'm not concerned.
You should be concerned.
You're going into New York down2-0.
Tatum's out here looking like a5'11 point guard.

(02:00):
You can't get to the rim.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
You may or may not be correct about that part, but
anyway, man, we're ready for afire show.
Man, we're going to dive rightinto it.
We're going to bringChristopher Davis, c Payne Davis
and the princess of pick andpros, brianna, on in a second
man, you want to just go rightinto it and bring them on.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Or you got something you want to say to me directly
before we bring our colleagueson.
Yeah well, what's up with theCeltics, man?
I mean, come on blowing two20-point leads, tatum and Brown
looking like they're forgettinghow to play basketball at the
end, I mean, just what's up withthat man.
Come on, you got anything tosay for yourself?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, you know, man, like my other Boston comrade,
you know Julian Heggie said youknow, shout out to him, man,
we're just playing with our food.
You know, playing with our fooda little bit, it's all good,
you know, just getting used tothe flow of things.
But I am not concernedwhatsoever and we'll definitely.
I know Brianna and C Payne wantand C-Pain want to get in this,
so let's bring them on.

(03:03):
Thank you everybody forchecking us out Again.
We are about to get into it.
Hold on, let's pull up some ofthe comments here.
Rihanna doing her thing, Summer, let's go.
Thank you everybody forwatching and checking us out.
Yes, yes, yes, Yep, Cavs aredown 0-2 as well.

(03:24):
Yes, All right.
Well, let's bring on acolleague.
Let's bring on C-Pain andBrianna.
What's going on y'all Hi?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm doing good.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, great man, this is great, you're right into it.
Quick show today Celtics in six.
I'm looking good man.
That's basically what Ipredicted celtics and six, and
I'm right on track with that.
So, oh, so they're gonna winfor sure.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Four, okay, okay.
So they're star playersshooting tour dates and that's
just gonna be fine.
Like five or twenty, like heshould, he should may 20, if
we're just supposed to be like,oh, oh yeah, you still believe
you Celtics, we got the glasseson.
Hold on, let's see what theglasses are.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Glasses don't mean anything Exactly.
He thinks it's cool.
He's a guy, he's trying toprotect himself.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Jalen Brunson cooking y'all in the clutch.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I mean, I don't know A guy, jalen Brunson, cooking
y'all Mikael.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Mikkel Bridges is cooking, y'all Okay with an
amazing defense that he's alwayshad, but the Suns gave up
Mikkel.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Freaking Bridges Never forget Mikkel Never ever
Mikkel.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Mikkel.
He's like the best on the team.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
And you know not better than Brunson.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, that defense says otherwise.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
The two clutch plays.
He does play better defense Tim.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
He's making some clutch plays, for sure.
What's aggravating about it?
You know it's alwaysaggravating when it's not like
the number one star, who's theone that's got the biggest mouth
.
So it's fun when it's your team, but when it's the opposition,
isn't that the most aggravatingthing?

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, it is.
But I had a quick question foryou as the biggest Joe Bazzzula
hater, saying you may, you don't.
It should be the coach, right?
I had a question because youthink that you're gonna win four
straight.
However, his whole live by thethree, die by the three.
Philosophy is what's got themin this situation?
I mean 25 for 100, like that.

(05:21):
Yeah, you missed 75 threes andnobody thinks, hey, let's just,
we got a bunch of big guys thatcan get the paint, let's just
make this a little bit easier onus.
So I'm just asking you, stillrocking with Joe, you think you
know it's gonna swing the otherway?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
so I'm not necessarily rocking with Joe,
alright, because you know how Ifeel about Joe.
I'm just rocking with theCeltics overall.
I'm rocking with Tatum.
I'm rocking with Brown.
I'm just rocking with theCeltics overall.
I'm rocking with Tatum, I'mrocking with Brown.
I'm rocking Porzingis.
It's going to get healthy.
He's going to get over whateverrespiratory issue he has.
That's the missing piece.
Porzingis, when he shows up,because see, that's who I want

(06:00):
to see Porzingis with.
Who's going to guard Porzingis?
And the other thing I want tosee I want to see Porzingis with
the ball.
Who's going to guard Porzingis?
And the other thing I want tosee I want to see Tatum.
The fourth quarter this timethey're going to put Tatum on
our guy that's killing us.
The point guard, brunson.
We're going to put him onBrunson and see he guarded
Brunson early.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Then Kat and Mikkel Bridges and OJ Anobi are going
to get whatever they want.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
That's fine.
They're not clutch enough.
They're going to miss the shot.
Brunson is the only person onthat team that I'm concerned
about shooting in the fourthquarter.
All we have to do is put Tatumon Brunson and it's over.
Not even worried about it, Noteven worried about it.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
I think if they wanted to do that, I think that
if that was something theythought was going to work, they
would have done it after thefirst game.
That's not going to work.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Again, that will work .
That's poor coaching.
I saw that.
But Tatum, tatum's going tostep up to the plate, he's going
to take the challenge.
He's going to tell everybodymove out the way.
He's going to say I got Brunson.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
And he's gonna say I got brunson and he's gonna shut
it down.
What about on the offensive endof the court is is that
somebody else's role or is heswing?

Speaker 1 (07:09):
we just got to swing the ball.
They swing at the first threequarters of the game.
All right, get these shots, allright.
And then, fourth quarter, theywant to go iso ball.
That's not their game.
Tatum and Brown can't dribble,all right, they're going to get
ripped.
So you know, that's just.

(07:31):
They need to just swing theball.
Just swing the ball, swing,swing, swing.
Get an open shot.
Porzingis boom for three.
And we got it.
But this next game, saturday,that's going to be a blowout.
Now, game four will be tight.
We're going to blow them out.
Game three, game four, willcome down to the fourth quarter.
We're going to pull it out andthen tables will be turned.
We got it.

(07:51):
We're going to take them fourstraight.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think the Knicks want it more.
The Celtics blew two 20-pointleads, though, so I wanted, I
believed that the Celtics weregoing to win it all and like it
wasn't going to be close, butnow that the Knicks are really
like putting in their effort andlike showing that they want it,
I feel like they're probablygoing to win this series now.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, a lot of people feel that way.
Brianna, you're there, you know.
Chris C-Pain.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
I think C-Pain is more hopeful because of his
Lakers being knocked out, sohe's hoping that I can join him
in this business.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
I'm not going down.
I'm not going down.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Oh yeah, diego, we're going to get to you later.
You are going down, diego,we're tied.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
The series is tied.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, I'm feeling good, y'all, I'm feeling good,
y'all, I'm feeling good, allright.
Well, keep the comments comingin.
Let us know if you have anyquestions.
Uh, we see all of these arefiling in, so thanks for joining
us for this emergency nbaplayoff show.
I just wanted to come and givey'all a little bit here, all
right?
So let's move on to our nexttopic.
Let's move on and talk aboutthe lucky Indiana Pacers.

(09:11):
All right, the lucky IndianaPacers.
I still believe in the Cavs.
I don't think this is going tobe a problem at all.
I think they just have to gettheir people back is all they
have to do, and they're going tobe fine.
Diego, let's start with you.
How do you feel about thisCavs-Pacers series?

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, well, obviously no one wants the Pacers to
advance, so that's why the Cavsthey got all their people.
They're rested Now, they'reready to go and they're about to
win four straight and knockthem out of here.
Okay.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I just got a quick question on why we keep calling
the Pacers lucky or justCleveland choking.
I think there's a mix of thetwo, because, yes, all the
players were out.
All the players were out, I'mnot going to lie.
Game two all the players wereout.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Three Three starters and two all-stars.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Wait, so nobody can.
Everybody forgets how to do aninbounds pass four straight
times.
We're just going to let thatslide.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yes, you got Mitchell playing with the G-team.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
On the Tyrese Halliburton game.
They didn't rebound.
That's nobody else's fault.
They let Tyrese Halliburton getthe rebound with Jared Allen on
the court.
So that's nobody else's issue.
That's nothing but the Cavs.
It's just oh, everybody washurt.
This is their excuse.
They'll be fine.
Not the fact that they were upeight with like 40 seconds left

(10:31):
In like regular basketball terms.
The game's over.
Oh, we can just solve this away, get fouled and we'll be good.
And they couldn't get aninbound pass right now.
Nobody has this problem.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Ever since March, madness Final Four, eight-point
lead and end has never beensaved.
That's right.
That's right, this is Duke.
It's never been saved.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
But this is the NBA, this is game.
You need to get this game.
Steel wants to split the series, so the Pacers don't have hope.
Then you let Tyrese Halliburton, where everybody called most
overrated, get you for game.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Still is, still is ready to get you for gate like
still is.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Still is sorry, man, at least the cavaliers were
close last game.
Yeah, it shows some hope forthem it's like right, right,
well, yeah they.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
They had a a substantial lead, with missing
three of their starters.
Donovan mitchell was playingwith G League Unite or Ignite
whichever.
G League team you want to pick.
That's who he was playing withand they had an eight-point lead
.
So he was dog-tired, couldn'teven walk up the court without
hunching over, so he was lookinglike Luka in the last few

(11:38):
minutes of the game.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
He was so tired.
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
That was wild.
We still get shots when we'reout in the playoffs.
Let's show us how much we meanto y'all minds.
I see the hatred.
I see the hatred, but I'm goingto just be real.
That doesn't I get it.
Donovan's tired.
He's literally greatperformance backpacking this
team.
However, nobody else is notlike, hey, we got to step up
because this guy's been killingit for us.

(12:03):
Nobody else not.
We got to really box out onthis rebound.
If he misses it, there's somany chances that they had to
win that game.
That's my issue with the Cavs.
It's not that.
You know, despite all theinjuries, I get it.
You know you're not at fullstrength, but you still have a
chance to let the series split.
Go to Indiana.
You're going in with theconfidence.
Other Pacers they're playingwith house money.

(12:24):
They're like okay, nobodyexpected us to be here, nobody
expected us to be too well, solet's just see what happens.
And now they're back in theirplace.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
They're back in their place.
They're going to have someTwitter confidence at first, and
then, once the Cavs get adouble-digit lead, all that's
going to go away and they'll befine.
They just need to have Wow NewSouth.
They just have to have alltheir starters.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Once they have their starters, they're going to be
just fine NBA roster.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
I guess we'll see tonight.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
This is a team that could have won 70 games.
The Cavs are strong.
Cavs are strong.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Very strong.
I agree with what.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Brandon, the Cavs are strong.
Cavs are strong, very strong,yeah, but I agree with what
Brandon said.
I think Halliburton isoverheated and underrated, so I
don't know.
I feel like the Pacers mighttake it tonight again.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
He still scored like 15 points last game.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
So A lot of game, though.
I think game, listen, Iunderstand the concept of like,
oh like.
Donovan Bichette at 40 did hehit the shot that he needed to
to win the day game he did, hedid, but he had no pressure.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
You take all the pressure away from Hallenburton.
He's clutch.
He's as clutch as they come ifthere's no pressure involved,
but the moment there's pressure,he's as clutch as they come if
there's no pressure involved,but the moment there's pressure
he had house money and housemoney like they should.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
They should have just let him go to the rim and at
least like just get, just gethim to overtime, instead of let
him shoot the three to win thegame we all knew he was going to
step back and shoot the three,don't we?
Yeah, so why did?

Speaker 1 (14:03):
the guy, guard him, go for the fake.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
I don't know how people know more about what's
going to happen to an NBA player, but hey, that's the story of
that game, so we will see.
I hope, listen.
I hope the Cavs win.
I hope that this is a series,because Pacers-Knicks would be
ugly work.
I'm not going to lie, it wasjust ah.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Oh, my goodness that wouldn't be.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
I mean, yeah, we could go back to the air.
It's like oh, reggie Miller,I'm sorry, I'm too young for
that, that's not my area.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
We already looked ahead in this because we know
ESPN suffered financially lastyear by the Pacers being in the
Eastern Conference Finals.
Now, thankfully for ESPN, theyswitch, so ESPN is going to have
the Western Conference Finalsthis year.
Tnt is going to have theEastern Conference Finals.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
TNT's got nothing to lose.
Yeah, this is their last year.
Yeah, TNT, they don't care.
They're going to bail it in.
This is going to be all jokesaway.
Hey man, we barely watched.
Oh, my care, they're going tobail it in.
This is going to be all jokes.
Hey man, we barely watched.
They're going to have a goodtime.
They're going to check it,Check it, check it.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
They're going to have a good time.
Yeah, that's going to be atough watch.
That's going to be a toughwatch, if it's that.
Alright, we got about 12minutes left.
Let's turn our attention to MrDiego, all right, and talk about
how much the Warriors are introuble.
The Warriors are in trouble andlet's get a hold on.

(15:33):
See, I'm managing.
See, we're at the crib today,so I'm managing comments and I'm
also managing our screens.
Hold on, let's get a littleshout here.
Keen Brianna dot sports is herInstagram.
You see Chris's Instagram there.
See everybody's name.
See everything.
Shout us out.
Make sure you follow everybody,like and subscribe, all right.

(15:54):
So Warriors, diego, man, whoo,y'all are one in one, but you're
basically done with Steph beingout.
I don't even know why you'rewearing that Warriors jersey.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
We're good, it's one in one.
We won out.
I don't even know why you'rewearing that warriors jersey.
We're good, it's one and one.
We won the one game where stephgot hurt and I mean we were
basically really throwing thatgame, throwing the game two out
because we probably weren'tgoing to win anyway even if
steph was playing, because mewith them, I mean two games in
minnesota we probably weren'tgoing to win both of them.
And I mean we just we played 14guys.
So, um, yeah, that's a lot fora playoff game, but you know, we

(16:27):
were seeing what lineups wouldwork, what players would be
ready for this stage.
So then, game three we know thelineup's going to be ready and
that's going to be the gamewe're going to take.
We're going to be up 2-1.
Then it's going to be just likethat, like, just like that yeah
.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
So y'all having the greatest shooter of all time Not
being scheduled to play untillike game 6, that's not going to
matter at all.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
We figured it out.
We took the game to analyze.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
I was like, okay, this might be even.
And now he came back.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
We want a game without Steph, so we analyzed it
and now we know what we need todo For this game.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Well, Michael Jordan's son's coming for you
guys.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
So no one's getting.
No, he's gonna.
He's gonna be scared just aboutjust of steph sitting on the
bench.
He's scared of steph, everybodyknows that you can take all
these other stuff he's scared ofsteph no, he's not.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
He wants.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
He wants to win, he's going for everyone the
two-headed monster of my team, ayoke which last year.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
I'm just saying I'm a little little worried, a little
worried, yeah he has like thatold school mentality, like he
wants it, he's very, he's very.
Um, what's the word competitive?

Speaker 2 (17:42):
he's very competitive yeah, he's very competitive.
Yeah, he really wants it.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
He's going to get it.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Can't be stopped because Luka beat him in five
last year.
Luka and Kyrie, we just need to.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
What does that say about us?

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah, two points.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
One.
I want to go.
Kyrie might be better than.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
LeBron, that's going to take us over the show we got
to win.
I'll address that with youlater, man.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Let me make two quick points.
One, let me go back to Brandon.
We got the balloons here.
We'll go to Brandon's commentabout the Pacers.
We do know a lot of what we'resaying you got to take with the
Pacers.
We like poking fun at them, weknow they're're small market and
all that.
You got to take a little bit of, uh, what we say with a grain
of salt with the pacers.
We like messing with them, welike trolling.

(18:32):
Some of what we say about the,some of what we say about the
pacers, is trolling.
So don't uh, don't get toocaught up in that.
All right, um, and then myother point about the warriors.
So what I will say is coming offof that Houston series.
It looked like the Warriors hada whole lot more freedom in

(18:54):
that game one.
The court looked wide open,like Houston locked them down.
They had trouble moving.
They looked like they were awhole different team.
Game, one against theTimberwolves.
And then, of course, steph goesout and we have that.
But I'm the.
The?
Uh warriors need to get a game.
They've got to win one of thesetwo games at home.
Uh, they cannot go down three,one to the timber wolves.

(19:16):
So they've got to find a way.
Steph, he's not coming backuntil game five at the earliest.
So, jimmy buckets, he's gonnahave to find a way to pull one
of these games out.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, this is the same Jimmy Buckets that took the
heat, carried them to two NBAfinals.
How many players in the leaguehave carried their teams to two
NBA finals by themselves as themain guy?
Yeah.
It's a game against AnthonyEdwards Is he the same guy?

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Is he the same person ?
He's older now.
He's still Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
He's not in his prime anymore.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
No, Diego.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
You're just getting your hopes up, Diego.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
We're going to get a game.
This is the.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Wild, wild West.
This isn't the East.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
He beat the Celtics twice in the East Conference
Finals.
That isn't the East.
He beat the Celtics twice inthe East Conference.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Finals.
That wasn't the Celtics.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
The year after, the Celtics went to the NBA Finals
and everybody was saying they'regoing to win against Golden
State.
They went back to the EastConference Finals and Jimmy and
the Heat beat them.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Those were the Marcus Smart Celtics.
Those weren't the same Celtthem.
Those were the Marcus SmartCeltics.
Those weren't the same Celtics.
All right, yeah, not the sameguys.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, they're different now.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Uh-huh oh shots fired .

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Yo, he is All right hey.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
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That's what we came up with.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
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Speaker 1 (20:49):
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Speaker 1 (21:01):
Join us works.
I just pulled up a comment fromthe person who named
Christopher C Payne Davis.
C Payne, my wife just put acomment up saying C Payne is
LeBron enjoying watching ourseries from the comfort of his
home.
Worry about that.
Just a nice little jab at CPayne.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Rest up the FCL.
You feel me A 40-year-old withan injury.
We used the injury compound.
He was hurt.
Oh he was hurt.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
MCL.
That's right.
That's why we didn't win.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Not the fact that Luka can't defend a traffic code
and Anthony Edwards justdecided to go nuclear and all of
our role players suck andAustin Reeves was terrible.
I'm not bitter about this atall.
We saw the supercut last week.
You know we can just move pastthat alright, seems like you're
hurt a little bit, yeah, but hey, chris, don't worry about it.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
In the final segment NBA finals, you're going to get
a chance to pick your newchampion so I don't have to
worry about that, because I'mstill good.
But yeah, chris, you can pickyour new champion.
All right, because I don'tthink you've officially gone on
record and given us your newpick.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Not the new pick.
Not the new pick yeah, okay,we'll see.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
We'll see We'll get that All right.
So let's move on to the ThunderOKC Thunder and Denver Nuggets
before we talk about the finalsand get on out of here.
So Diego's got a big AAU gamethat we got to run to here.
Yeah so Thunder, man.
So they're tied 1-1.

(22:38):
Joker, you know, won that firstgame.
There had a great play byGordon there made the clutch
three at the end.
Westbrook has returned backhome to OKC.
They stole that first game.
Thunder controlled most of itand then the Thunder just came
out and whoo, totally blew themout.
In game two they did them theway the Celtics are going to do

(22:58):
the Knicks tomorrow.
So they came out and reallystomped on them.
So, diego man, what happenswith the rest of this series?

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, on them.
So, uh, diego man, what happenswith the rest of this, this
series?
Yeah, the thunder, uh, it'sprobably the thunder, and I'll
say six, just to be safe.
Um, I would I like to say five,but I'll give, I'll give the
nuggets a game.
You'll get two more game.
Um, yeah, they just, they justlook so good.
Um, the first game.
I think you know the, thenuggets are coming off an
intense series from the flippersand um and the thunder.

(23:30):
They had a lot of time off.
So I mean, I think I think theyjust had to get used to the
speed of the nba playoffs againand uh, yes, why I lost that
game.
But second game they were backlike their normal selves and
they were dominating.
So I think that's how it'sgoing to go.
Rest of the series.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Okay, all right, ooh, I would what do you think, bree
?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Well, I think Oklahoma city is going to take
this one, just because RussellWestbrook Brooke well, can't
even say his name, sorry, he'slike.
He also has that competitiveenergy still, like after every
team, like after all he's beenthrough, and the hate on him is
still so forced that it's likeproving everyone wrong, like I
don't know why everyone hates onhim.
He's a good player and he'sproving it.

(24:10):
And the nuggets?
They don't really need it.
Hey, I saw that.
The nuggets they don't evenreally need it, like whatever,
like I don't know, I don'treally care for the nuggets
because they always beat my sons.
So you know that's what I thinkall right, right.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, they do put a hurting on the Suns, yeah it's
really sad.
What do you think, C-Pain?

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Hey, I got the young boys in OKC because I'm just,
you know, I like what I saw inthe second game.
I feel like again, that wasanother close game-time decision
, like again with Chet you know,kind of Wrecking the free
throws, not getting out to thethree point line, that's what
got him.
And I think that when it comesto like this young team, again

(24:54):
it's all about them Taking theirlumps and then responding
Because again they have the mosttalent, they have the deepest
roster.
It's just everybody being like,hey, let's lock in, play a good
48 minutes, nobody else canbeat us.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
So I think that, yeah , that does sound like I'm
shouting my pick early, but youknow, that's how the eastern
conference is looking at that Ifigured that's where you go,
figured you go that.
Go that route for sure.
Yeah, uh shout out to uh johnnyo up here so said uh, hey,

(25:27):
ladies and gentlemen, how y'alldoing, what's up, johnny yo,
johnny yo, we're playing your uhperformance as we end the uh
show today.
So stick around and take a lookat that as we play, that as we
go out.
So yeah, I think that theThunder will definitely strike.
I think they win this in atleast.
I probably agree with Diego andsay six.

(25:50):
I don't see it going seven.
I think the Nuggets are goingto come out strong, so they'll
probably get one of those gamesat home, either three or four,
but I see the Thunder finishingthis one off in six.
But what about that home crowd?
Like the coordination, likeI've never seen.

(26:11):
You've seen them put the shirtsout right, but normally 70%
might wear the shirts out right,but normally 70 might wear the
shirt, 60, 70.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Pretty much everybody in okc wears those t-shirts
yeah, it's funny becauseapparently, like they'll show
you like on camera, on like thebig screen, if you're not
wearing a t-shirt, so it's likeyeah that'll force you to not
like a bear shit.
Like you know, do your thing,but I really like it.
I like seeing you know.
It gives that old playofffeeling.
Everybody wears shirts,everybody's excited.

(26:39):
My favorite stadiums duringthese playoffs have been
Minnesota and OKC.
Just how crazy those crowdshave gotten.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
That's a great home court advantage.
I've been able to go to onegame there before.
Yeah, it was great, so a greatenvironment.
I think they are going to builda new stadium but uh, yeah, I
mean, they weren't even supposedto have a team.
I think the, if I rememberright, they have their team
because the uh, the hornets,were there for like a year and

(27:13):
the support was so huge thatthen the NBA, you know, saw that
and then they were able to, youknow, eventually get a team
down there.
But, yeah, that fan base iscrazy.
That's their only professionalteam, so great place to watch
again.
So, yeah, definitely think theThunder will strike and get this
All right.
Well, we're about out of time,so it's time to make NBA picks.

(27:35):
Are we sticking with our picks?
Are we changing, or hasanybody's team got knocked out
and are you forced to changeyour picks?
So, erica, we see you've gotOKC solid pick there, all right.
So, diego man, let's start withyou here Again.
We already gave you the olivebranch, so you know you're.

(27:56):
Let's start with you here Again.
We already gave you the olivebranch, so you know you're
pretty much stuck with theWarriors.
But how confident are you inyour Warriors holding on?

Speaker 2 (28:05):
You might as well just skip over me, because you
know I have the same pick.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Same pick, and who are they playing in the finals?

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Celtics, Warriors Celtics Just like 2022.
Beat them down just like 2022.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Okay, so see, see, I'm not the only one saying
Celtics.
You know, we'll say the Celticsare still going to get there.
All right, bree.
I don't know if we got yourofficial pick from the beginning
.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Yeah, you're not on the record, so you kind of.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
No, I got to make a good choice, then You're kind of
cheating a little bit here,because you're making it midway,
but we'll still count it.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, it's okay.
I'm going to take theTimberwolves.
I really see them winning.
I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, I know why.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
I mean, they're just that good.
I want the Knicks like at theend of the day because McHale
bridges that they're not goingto, I don't know.
They're not going to make it tothe finals.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Nah, they definitely will not make it to the finals.
So sad, but you know, okay, hemade it further with them than
the Suns, so it's fine, allright, okay, okay, I like that C
Payne man.
So, lakers, you know we triedto give you that olive branch.
Didn't want to take it, but nowyou're kind of forced to make

(29:16):
your new pick.
So looks like you've alreadysaid OKC.
So sounds like you had thatthere.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
I mean I had the Celtics before.
Y'all decided to miss 75-3, sonow I'm like it was like, oh
well, obviously the Celtics aregoing to win, because you know
my team's out.
And now it looks like, oh well,obviously the Celtics are going
to win because you know myteam's out.
And now it looks like, oh okay.
So I would still say, eventhough I did roast them, I do
think it's possible for theCeltics to come back if the

(29:45):
variance swings their way.
But I'm still picking theThunder to win the whole thing.
So I will say Celtics-Thunder.
But again, the Celtics have toplay perfect these next two
games.
It can't be no dilly-dallying,it can't be.
You know, I'm 20, and all of asudden they forget how to play
basketball.
That cannot happen.
They have to survive thisseries because I believe they'll

(30:06):
whoop on whoever wins CalfSpacers.
I firmly believe in that.
Because, again, I still don'tbelieve in the.
Calf's experience the cowsexperience.
But liz, yeah, yeah, y'allgotta do something.
This y'all gotta win for sure.
Yes, it's all that or nothing.
I'm also saying that, like youknow, because of my roommate.
You know he was going through.
He actually like went to gametwo and like it was like yeah,

(30:27):
so we saw the story point, look,that's where it went.
Well, like one lead.
So, yeah, shout out to dj.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
I just who was dj pulling?

Speaker 4 (30:34):
for, oh no, he's.
He's a Celtics fan, he's adiehard Celtics fan.
So that's why I was like ahyeah.
Man, yeah, in fact it was scaryhow calm he was after those
games, so I was like ah man, hemight know something, I don't.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, oh yeah, just waiting for something to break.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
All right yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, okay, well, see , see y'all, y'all still believe
in myself.
I mean, hey, they, even if theywere, I mean we know they're
going to easily win game three.
But let's say something.
Let's say there was a fluke,injury or something you know,
and they lost game three, theystill take the last four.
I mean they're just that muchbetter, all right.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
It's that much better we're not coming back from 3-0,
man.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
That happened, that happened.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Hey, they came back from 3-0.
The other time forced a gameseven and it was a win.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
They didn't win the game, they didn't win the game.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
They didn't win the game.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
They didn't twist his ankle in game seven.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
If Eric Jared White doesn't get one of the craziest
layups we've ever seen, thatseries is over.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
That was a one in a million chance to get to this.
It was himmy jimmy.
Just like he's going to closeout the temple, steph might not
even come back.
Yeah, we might just close itout.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Man wow.
We only get that one out, Steph.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Wild, wild, wild, all right.
Well, hey, let's go on and geton out of here.
I appreciate y'all hopping onjust doing a little smack talk
Again.
We weren't supposed to be onbut with the big deficit it
seemed like a home team couldn'twin, had to come on here and
chop it up, talk a little bit ofjunk, but we'll be back in the

(32:17):
studio next Friday with afull-blown official show, deep
Dive.
We'll have all the clips of mecorrectly predicting how
everything was going to go, sowe might have a little intro.
We might have an extended introbefore next week's show.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
All right man.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Sounds great Because.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
I need a subject, super kind of like the Lakers do
if y'all get swept.
I'm just saying, if thathappens, I need that same energy
returned for me, because thatwas hilarious last week.
I ain't going to lie, but Ineed to get my get back.
So, yeah, yeah, cut the clips,cut the clips, cut the clip.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
All right, cool, all right, well, hey, peace and love
.
We will see y'all next week.
Until then, pick'em Pros OutLater.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
When I say Pick'em, y'all say Pros, pick'em Pros,
pick'em Pros.
When I say Pick'em, y'all sayPros, pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros
, let's go.
Yeah, woo, we in here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, pick'em pros.

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We're gonna start on the righttrack with a big pros anthem.
It's not random.

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It's not random.
There's a big feature on afeature that's common to fandom.
When it comes to the right pick, they're all psychic, even see
pain.
Psychic Boom.
The activity is seismic.
How the mountain, so high can'tclimb it.
Wanna be on a team thatelevates at a better rate than a
feather weight versus aheavyweight.
There ain't no better way,gotta.
Let them demonstrate second andall with the numbers they
generate, with their interest inlike field goals and they never

(34:59):
take it to be field goals andthey blowing up on a real load.
And when it comes to them, youknow what divas on the island,
every social platform shouldn'tbe that hard to find them.
Every north to the south, eastand west.
Everybody knows the fatheralways knows best.
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