🔥 NBA Playoff Predictions: 1st Round Breakdown, Finals Picks & Steph vs Jimmy Debate | Ep. 131 🔥 - Pick'em Pros

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's mighty funny, you know, with the Lakers and
Luka.
It is.
So what have you done for melately?
Because he comes out, Lukacomes out and looks like he's 87
years old, okay, and all of asudden the Lakers aren't going
anywhere, and then he has onegood game against.
He has one good game againstthe.

(00:20):
Brooklyn Nets are like some badteam yeah some awful team and
then all of a sudden, oh Luka,oh Luka is doing it.
It is the craziest thing to see.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
No one talks about the bad game.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
The up and down nature of this team.
The up and down nature of thisteam.
With that said, I've got theLakers in five.
Okay, all right, ladies andgentlemen, welcome back.

(01:08):
You know who it is?
I am Derek Thompson.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
And I'm Diego Thompson and I'm Christopher
Davis, and who are we?

Speaker 5 (01:14):
The Pick'em Pros.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
We are the Pick'em Pros coming back at you in the
house with a special episode,episode 131 of who you Got
Father-Son Dynamic Duo Sportsanalyst, Christopher Davis.
Man, we got a fire show for youtoday.
Oh man, it's going to be somuch fun.
We're going to start off numberone.
Okay, it's been a few weeks,but well, no, it's only been

(01:38):
about one week or so, it's beenabout two weeks.
We got to give Diego thebusiness for his Duke pick.
He was so, so sure that Dukewas going to win it, so we all
are going to give him thebusiness.
So definitely give yourcomments on that.
Show your love to Diego becausewe're going to give him the
business.
It's NBA time, y'all.
It's finally time for theplayoffs, Y'all ready man, it's
NBA time for sure.

(01:58):
Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Hey, don't try to segue too soon, brother.
Yeah, that's right, don't seguetoo soon.
You're not getting ahead ofthis.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
So we're going to give all of our picks East picks
, west picks.
We're going to pick everyfirst-round series.
We're also going to tell youwho our finals picks are.
Now we're on record, finally.
We're going to do that.
We're going to have the one andonly Brianna on our sports Wood
.
We will also talk about KD'snext landing spot.

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Where will he land?
Okay, then we've got JamesMcFarlane.
We got James McFarlane joiningus.
We cannot wait to talk to himabout his OKC Thunder as well as
his West picks.
And then we've got a firedebate to finish the show.
Who's taking the last shot?
Who should take the last shotfrom the Golden State Warriors?
Is it Steph Curry or is it HemiJimmy Butler?

(02:49):
We're going to talk about thatFirst off man, how y'all doing
Diego?
What's up with you, man?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Doing good.
Nba playoffs are about to start.
Golden State Warriors about tokick off their playoff run.
Looking forward to that.
Especially after Duke, let medown.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going to touch on that,
don't you worry.
We're going to touch on howDuke let you down.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
We got the NBA playoffs coming up.
No, I'm not even worried aboutthat right now.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
We can wait, can't we wait?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, we can pause for a little second.
I need my leg back from LamarJackson.
Let's see what's happening.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, let's let it simmer a little bit how you
doing my man.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'm really good.
I'm very excited for the Lakersplayoff run.
There's been a bit of a changein my tune.
I'm feeling something in theair, so I'm just going to go see
.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Feeling something in the air.
All right, well, thank youeverybody that makes this show
go.
We are growing.
Thank you to everybody.
Thank you to Joe here in thestudio running everything for us
.
Thank you to Summer behind thescenes running the comments.
Thank you to Brandon behind thescenes.
Thank you to Aaron, mike,everyone that makes our shows at
King's, which will be be atKings next week on Saturday.

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Thank you to everyone thatmakes Pick'em Pro go.
We really appreciate you all.
All right, so, diego, before wetear you down, we're going to
build you up a little bit.
Man, so we understand that youwere on spring break in
Vancouver.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, I was.
How was that man?
Yeah, it was awesome.
It was a great city.
You know a beautiful city.
It was awesome.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Sounds good, sounds good.
Did you catch any sports?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
I caught the Warriors game while I was there.
Yeah, I got to see that.
I didn't get to see them playthe Clippers, but I did see
their playing game, so I washappy I got to see that, got to
see that win.
Also got to see the Mavs Kings.

Speaker 8 (04:49):
Got to see Clay bounce back Mavs are still alive
.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Mavs are still alive.
Alright, okay, alright.
Well, you know what?
Let's not?
Let's not.
Yes, international man.
That's right, baby,international man.
He is an international travelman traveling with your uh
mandarin team there atravenscroft.
So that's awesome.
I'm happy you had a chance todo that.
Shout out to your mom for uh,for funding that.
So, uh, big, big props to mom,all right.

(05:15):
Well, let's uh get into what wewanted to talk about here.
Let's get into the bigdiegoacle, All right, let's get
to our first slide here withDiego, all right.
So, man, diego, why don't youjust tell us about that game

(05:37):
that you were very confident andjust went a?

Speaker 3 (05:40):
different way, you okay?
Yeah, I mean it's been twoweeks.
I mean it's Warriors time, youknow, it's championship time,
you know.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Come on, not for Duke , we're not even worried about
Duke now.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
No, not for.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Duke, not for Duke.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, well, that was an interesting game, you know.
It went from being up a lot Ithought we had it.
I was leaned back, ready tocelebrate and then I went
leaning against my chair becauseit was closer, then just went
tumbling on the ground.
So I was in disbelief, it wascrazy.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
It was very reminiscent of the Big 3 Miami
Heat when they lost the firstseason against the Dallas
Mavericks.
And then Chris Bosh.
As soon as he got back almostto the locker room, he just
collapsed and fell out.
It was very similar to thaty'all.
So I know we went easy on youat first.
We didn't really post anythingon social media, we let you

(06:34):
gather yourself.
So I honestly felt bad for you.
But now that it's been a littlebit of time, we got to get a
few licks in on you, man, a fewlicks in on you, man.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'm just imagining that whole.
You know the video where Russthrows the interception to
Malcolm Butler.
You see Richard Sherman's face.
Yes, I'm just imagining that'sthe end yes, that was it.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
That was it.
Oh, no, that was definitely it.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Everything's just collapsed, dude.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, you know it is what it is.
That was definitely it and,like a typical father okay, I
did tell you.
So I told you that my HoustonCougars I told you they were
going to get up in your chestDid they win it all.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
You said they were going to win it all.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
They were going to roll those shorts up and they
were going to get into you.
Emmanuel Sharp, I told you itwas a bad matchup for Duke.
You got let off the hook lastyear when she got hurt, but now
this year you had nowhere to run, nowhere to hide my Houston
Cougars.
They had to put it on you.
It hurt me so much to do that?

(07:32):
I don't think it did it hurt meso much.

Speaker 9 (07:33):
It really really did Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
But, like I said, I told y'all who was going to win.
Okay, I told everybody UConnwas going to win the women's
championship.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I told everybody Florida was going to win the
championship, didn't I guys?
No, what did the bracket say?
No?

Speaker 8 (07:53):
The bracket said Houston and South Carolina.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
I had a feeling you guys would disagree with me.
I had a feeling you guys woulddisagree.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
What about your final picks though?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
That's okay.
Let's go back to the show acouple weeks ago.
No, no, that's okay.
What about your final picks,though?
No, no, no, that's okay, let'sgo back to the show.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Let's go back to the show.
A couple weeks ago, y'all.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
A couple weeks ago, here we go Put money on it.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
I've got to say UConn .
I believe that at this point Ithink smart money is on UConn.
Y'all know I love, I loveHouston.
That was your sleeper team.
I love Houston.
When they get into toughpossessions they just are not
able to score.
They just, overall, as a team,don't have enough offense to
pull it off.
So again, smart money I feel ison Florida this year.

Speaker 9 (08:40):
See, that was in like January, that's an earlier clip
.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
That's not live.
You want me to pull up yourbracket?
You literally switched the tapedoesn't lie the ball don't

Speaker 1 (08:52):
lie.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
Hold on.
Hold on.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
No, no, no, the tape don't lie, the ball don't lie.
I remember that was you said.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Houston will win the men's national championship, and
they didn't.
And you said South Carolina wasgoing to win and they didn't.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
I said again go back and look at the episode.
I said my heart is with Houston.
Okay, but smart money, my headis with Florida.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
For the women.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I said my heart is with South Carolina, but if
you're putting money on it, theteam that's going to win it is
UConn.
I told y'all that I can't helpit, that I'm so brilliant with
this, I cannot help it.
I can't help it.

Speaker 7 (09:41):
We'll give you this because we know you're not
getting any more picks.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
You can have it.
You can have it.
I'll have a video of this.
We'll give you this because weknow you're not getting any more
picks right.
That's fine, you can have it.
You can have it.
We'll let you get that one.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
I'm so happy I came prepared.
I'll let you get that one.
So one more thing before we goto the NBA Diego, all right.
So Cooper Flagg.
So a lot of other people havedeclared from Duke, okay, but
Cooper Flagg, as far as I knowless, something's broken in the
last hour.
Cooper flag is still notofficially declared.
I don't think Should he.
Should he come back and try toactually become a top five

(10:15):
player of all time?
Or is he already a top fiveplayer?
Why don't you address both,both of those fours at Duke.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
As far as, like Duke top five players, players of all
time, I'd say he's not thereyet.
That collapse kind of took himout of the conversation okay,
but uh, I think he should comeback.
I think he should come back anduh set like a new trend for
duke players.
Uh, just staying one more yeartrying to get the job done, get
this banner number six, so uncfans can stop, can stop giving

(10:43):
us, giving us all this shade,because they're talking about
2015 was like 100 years before2017 when they won.
I'm just tired of that and Iwant to get a fresh, shiny new
banner.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Your favorite rapper literally became famous and is a
global superstar.
In the time since, duke has wona championship, to be very fair
, it's like three presidentialterms ago.
It hasn has won a championship,to be very fair, and also it's
like three presidential termsago.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
So it has been a minute.
Unc won just two years afterPeople acting like 10 years ago
was 100 years ago, and UNC wonjust like eight years ago.
They did retire, coach K, soI'm just we also beat them three
times this year and they lostin the first round.
Good points Anyway.

(11:30):
Cooper Flagg, you said he'sgoing to take a month to decide
if he wants to come back.
So we'll see what he comes backwith in probably about two
weeks now.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
So great take.
What do you think, Chris,Should Cooper Flagg come back?

Speaker 2 (11:45):
On the one hand, yes, because again you want to
return a program to prominenceand kind of like, prove, cement
yourself.
But on the other hand, it'slike that NBA buddy, that that
first round pick, that firstoverall pick, all every team's
like clamoring and like wantingto take for you at this point.
And you know, I mean, let's see.
Hopefully, if he does go to theNBA, I need him to go to the

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Eastern Conference because, aswe're about to shortly see, way
too much talent in the West.
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Charlotte will take him.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, please, please, charlotte.
If he declares, yeah, I feelyou know, with the, with NIL in
place, I think it's a realdecision now, before, there
wouldn't even be anything tothink about.
He would need to go pro.
But my goodness, he could make$10 million, maybe more, and
then you've got otherendorsements and whatnot.

(12:35):
So as far as money goes, it maybe equal.
And again he reclassed up.
So he is a young man, he'd stillactually be like, you know,
right, right.
So you know, a lot of times youknow you want to start the
clock on that NBA money andwhatnot, but I honestly feel
that for all that it would dofor his Duke legacy and the

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money that he can make, Iactually think he should come
back.
Yes, definitely, I really do.
And also, when I look from agenerational standpoint, when I
look at the players that weresurefire first picks and were
not going to drop if they stayeda year, I don't think any of
them regretted coming back.
You look at Peyton Manning.
Peyton Manning could have left.

(13:19):
He really, really wanted toplay another year and played.
It still went number one.
I'm sure if you asked him today, if he were to, you know, do it
again, would he do the samething?
He would.
Tim Duncan was the same samesituation.
Tim Duncan could have gonefirst.
He came back.
He just really wanted thatexperience.
So all that it would do for hisDuke legacy, I think that would

(13:41):
be really cool.
Yeah, so I would love to seeand, like you said, it would
start a trend.
It really would start a trend.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
I think Zion would have benefited from another year
for sure.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yes, Zion, that's not really a question, but I mean
he's putting it out there.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
He definitely needed another year.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, yeah, all right .
Well, no great great discussionthere, all right, diego?
Well, thanks for being a goodsport man, and now we are going
to finally, for your sake, moveon to the NBA and get into our
first set of picks here.
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, all right.
Well, let's get into it, man,first round, we've got, let's
start with the east.
Okay, we've got the detroitpistons.
Pistons are back, bad boypistons, and they are bad boys
again.
All right, playing the favoritenicks.
Diego, what's your take on thisseries, man?

Speaker 3 (15:02):
man, I got the Knicks in six.
I'm going to go with that, okay, actually, no Knicks in five,
knicks in five, knicks in five.

Speaker 9 (15:09):
The Pistons they're….

Speaker 3 (15:11):
You want to go four, I'm going to stick with five.
Okay, pistons, they're a niceteam.
They got Cade Cunningham.
He's making a good player, butthey just don't really have
after him.
They just don't really have anyother guys that can just get
buckets whenever, like I mean,they have Isaiah Stewart who's

(15:32):
like the just kind of aggressoryou know, plays good defense,
sort of Draymond-ish for theirteam.
They got Malik Beasley who canhit threes.
They got a few other youngpieces, but just not another
like star that can get him there, while the Knicks they have
Brunson Cat, you know, mikaelBridges, a bunch of other pieces

(15:53):
.
So yeah, I think the Knicks gotit, the Knicks, knicks in five,
alright.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
I have the Knicks in six and it's going to be very.
I think it's going to be very.
I think it's going to be morecontested than people think
because again, with Tim's againrunning players to the ground or
the, you also have to factor inthe fact that like to me at
least this whole season, youwith the next, and like why
they're the three CDs?
Because they've continuouslylike played down to their
competition and even when theylike face like championship

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contending teams, they've gottenwashed.
So I feel like, if you'll belike they are a very good team.
Jalen Brunson has that playoffexperience of being a dog.
Carl Anthony Towns has momentswhere he like shows up and then
he might, will, and then alsoyou're depending on newer
commodities like McHale and OG.
I feel like Josh Hart's goingto show up and bring that
intensity either way.

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But then with the piston sideof it, I mean you're playing
with house money at this point.
That's always the mostdangerous thing in sports.
When you literally have nothingto lose.
You just being there is themoment I feel like if you're a
hungry team, you're gonna wantto like definitely push it now.
Again, I do think the knicksover high of the larger talent,
so that's gonna win out of theseries, but I wouldn't count the
pistons making this a veryinteresting series.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, yeah, I think they're going to rough it up,
make it physical.
The Knicks aren't as physicalas they were before, so I think
a lot of the games are going togo down to the wire.
That Madison Square Gardencrowd, though, is amazing.
The Knicks will definitely riseto the occasion with that
intensity.
I have the Knicks in five, butI feel that a lot of these games

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are going to go down to thelast few minutes, I think it's
going to be a very entertainingseries, a fun series, I hope
Detroit reps for the city it'sjust great when they're in it
Shout out to all the Detroitfamily as well.
We got the Knicks on this one.
Let's move on to the nextseries.

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I think we're going to make aquick work of this because we
don't want to get into financialtrouble like ESPN did, because
this is going to be a snoozefest.
You know Indiana Pacers and theMilwaukee Bucks man, this is an
NBA TV special so I think thisis going to be on NBA TV.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
It was actually on ESPNU, which is crazy, right?
That's diabolical streaming.
Only they put the Super Bowl onTubi.
Let's be fair to Tubi now.
We can't use Tubi like that.
That visual is on fire.
We can't even put it on Tubi,we gotta put that on Crackle or
something like that.
That is ridiculous.
So, diego, who do you have inthis one?
I, we can't even put it on.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
We got to put that on crackle or something, something
like that.
That is ridiculous, all right.
So, diego, who do you have inthis one?

Speaker 3 (18:28):
man, I got the Milwaukee Bucks in seven.
The only reason I have it goingthis far is because of Dame and
his injury.
He's out for the first game buthe should be coming back a
little later in the series.
But I do think Giannis will beable to win them if he will be
able to carry them for at leasta game or two.
And when Dame comes back,they're just going to take care
of the Pacers, so yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, I have the Bucks at six.
Yeah, it's going to be a toughwatch, it's going to be a little
bit boring, but I just want tosee Giannis, you know, do his
thing and kind of like return tothat form again.
Like you see, the numbers he'sputting up and the fact that he
hasn't been put in like mvpconversations, it's kind of
crazy and I feel like it's moreso like well, it's the east and

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you're like not dominating inthe east like you typically were
.
So I feel like that's why thebias is there.
But again, goddess is still toptwo player in the world to me
personally, so I definitely wanthim to show out.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah okay, all, all right.
Well, I'm going to surprise youguys.
I've got the Pacers.
I've got the Pacers in six withthis series.
I feel that Milwaukee's beenstruggling.
They've only won one playoffseries in the last few years.
Dane is out, at least game one.
When he comes back, he'scertainly going to be rusty, so

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because of that, pacers will befired up.
Of course they feeldisrespected.
So they're going to come outand Tyrese Hallenburton will be
doing his thing, unless it'sreally crunch time.
Then he'll start passing theball more than Magic Johnson.
But yeah, I've got the Pacersto win this one in six, just
because Milwaukee is not goingto be at full strength in my

(20:03):
estimation.
All right, okay, okay, well,let's get off on that one before
people tune, tune away.
Okay, let's keep the ratingsgoing here, let's move on.
So, oh man, the boston celticsnumber two, seeded boston
celtics, which sounds so strangeto say.
Right, yeah, uh, take, try totake on the Orlando Magic.

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So the Magic won their playinggame, took care of business,
blew their opponent out and herewe are.
So, diego, who do you got inthis one?

Speaker 3 (20:32):
I got the Boston Celtics in five.
I think Orlando gets a game athome with Paulo, but other than
that I think the Celtics justtake care of them and then go on
to the next series.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Okay, all right, it's Boston at this point.
The playoff experience itself.
It would be a crazy upset, butI don't see no any way that
Boston does at least get in theconference finals for sure, for
sure.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah, boston is certainly a juggernaut.
They are the defending champsand the team that feels
disrespected, you did yeah, youpicked them to win last year.
They did come through for you.
Picked them to win last year.
They did come through for you,so you got that one correct.
I also, like you two gentlemen,I have the Boston Celtics as
well, although I have themwinning in six.
So I think this series is goingto go a little longer.

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I think it's going to take thema little while to get going.
The Magic are going to playwell, and also the fact that
Jalen Brown Jalen Brown isdealing with an injury, so that
may.
I think the Celtics are going tobe a little slow getting out
the gate.
I think they'll gain momentumas they get into the second
third round, but I think this isgoing to be a little more

(21:42):
competitive than most peoplethink in my estimation.
So I've got the Celtics winningthis in six.
All right, okay, all in myestimation.
So I've got the Celtics winningthis in six.
All right, okay, all right.
Well, let's move on to the nextone.
Okay, we've got the ClevelandCavaliers.
Man, the number one seatedcalves, could have probably won
70, but it looks like they tooktheir foot off the gas and kind
of cruised as they got to theend, cause they built such a big

(22:05):
lead.
They're going to play the uhwinner of uh, the hawks versus
the heat, who always seem to bein the play-in.
Yep, I'll be interested to seewho wins that.
So, diego, who's gonna win theshowdown tonight between the
heat and the hawks, and thenwho's gonna win the series
overall?

Speaker 3 (22:22):
unless it's a blowout right now.
Um, I got the heat winningbecause they they, because they
just always seem to bring itinto play.
Yeah, they got Tyler Heroscored 38 points in the last
game against the Bulls, and thenthe Hawks.
They seem to be losing theircomposure a little bit.
Trey got ejected.
It just don't seem the same.
So I got them playing the Cavsand then that series.

(22:45):
I got the Cavs winning a five.
Okay, Cavs winning a five Allright Easy series.
Okay, cavs winning a five Allright Easy series.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Okay, same, I have the Heat winning the Cavs a five
.
Because that Trey Young at thatgame I've never seen him like
that, like frustrated with histeam.

Speaker 9 (23:01):
And.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't know if he's out of there.
So I'm like, hey, if you wantto trade that dude to San
Antonio, pair with Webby, Iwouldn't be too bad at it.
But I'm just, yeah, I thinkTrey's, he's mentally checked
out at this point.
I don't know what's happening.
I just yeah, okay, yeah, buteither way, cavs are fine.
It's going to be a quick series.
It will be interesting to seewhat the Cavs do in the next

(23:25):
round and like getting deeper inthe playoffs, because again we
have seen Donovan Mitchell showup and dominate in the first
round and then it comes secondround.
He's doing a lot of the heavylifting and his team doesn't
necessarily about, so we'll see.
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
We will see.
Well, for this one again, forthe heat Hawks.
I actually have the Hawks withthis one.
I think the Hawks are the hometeam in this game, so I'm going
to give them the edge.
It's Friday night in Atlanta,hot Atlanta, okay.
And so I think you know Trey isgoing to have one last
memorable performance.

(24:00):
He is one of the all-time greatplay-in players, so he's going
to have it there.
And yeah, I think Atlanta isgoing to be jumping tonight and
they get it, but then they goand get swept by the cast.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
So that's what I'm gonna predict here.
I saw a stat from miami they'vebeaten the chicago bulls in the
play in three straight years.
Wow, wow, yes, that's crazy.
Yeah that that is the annualplay-in matchup, for whatever
reason, my goodness.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, both of those teams are just stuck in
mediocrity right now.
So yeah, that's crazy.
That is the annual play-inmatchup for whatever reason, my
goodness, both of those teamsare just stuck in mediocrity
right now.
So, yeah, something there.
Okay, all right.
Well, let's move on to the nexttopic.
Here.
We are going to bring in theone and only Brianna.

(24:46):
Let's bring Brianna in to joinus, our athlete correspondent.
What's going on?
Hi, how are you?
Hey, hey, great, how about you?
Pretty good, okay.
Well, we again want to touchbase with you on all that you've
been doing with Pick'em Pros.
So, our new athletecorrespondent here.
You've been talking to a lot ofbig time athletes, and why

(25:07):
don't you tell us about thebasketball player that you
interviewed recently?
We're going to play a clip fromthat.

Speaker 9 (25:13):
Yeah, I interviewed Brandon Wood.
He currently plays overseasright now.
He's really just a nice guy.
He's very inspirational and thevideo the interview is really
good.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Good, all right.
Well, I'll tell you what.
We have a minute clip from that.
We're going to go ahead andplay that along with the social
media reel, and then, uh, we'llbe right back.
Okay, I'm putting money on it.
Wrong one, here we go.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, I pick them like a pro global trot ball.
Talk a pick and roll.
We're going up to scoretouchdown.
This is not a field goal.
We the winning team champions.
When you walk through the hall,you can play your bet with us,
Cause you know we're going towin them all.
I pick them like a pro globaltrot ball.

(26:02):
Talk a pick and roll.
We're going up to scoretouchdown.

Speaker 9 (26:07):
This is not not field goal.
We, the winning team champions.
When you walk through the hall,you can play your best with us
because you know we're going oneof them all.
Yeah, the most memorable momentyou had while you played in
college, but that year, firstgame of the college basketball
season november 11, 2011.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
11, 11, 11.
We played in san diego on anaircraft carrier against north
carolina for my second time,magic Johnson our honorary
captain.
James Worthy, their honorarycaptain, president Barack Obama
and Michelle Obama sitting onthe sideline getting to meet
them before the game and justplaying on a game on top of an

(26:43):
aircraft carrier you know thatwas.
I mean it's kind of referred toas like the greatest venue
college basketball game ever.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
All right, that was yes.
So you can see that on YouTube,see that on our channel, go to
the my Sports Journey channeland or playlist, I should say,
and you can see that fullinterviews that's about a 40
minute interview is a whole lotof great info that he shared
with us.
So what else do you have comingup, brie?

Speaker 9 (27:15):
Yeah, so I had the opportunity as well to interview
Will Hernandez.
He plays for the Cardinals.
That was a good interview.
And I also interviewed LukeLittle.
He plays for the Cubs Also agood interview coming out soon.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
All right, yeah, we'll be dropping those.
I believe luke little is nextthing he's dropping tuesday, if
I'm not mistaken, and then thefollowing tuesday we'll go ahead
and drop.
That will hernandez uh video.
So, yeah, yeah, looking forwardto that.
Good, well, uh, we know again,you are in arizona, in the
phoenix area, so we cannot letyou go without talking about

(27:51):
your guy, kevin Durant.
Okay, now we know BookerBooker's your guy, guy, right,
but KD is there right now andlooks like he's going to be on
the move.
So where do you think KD willor should end up?

Speaker 9 (28:05):
Yeah, well, in the first place, he should have
never went to Phoenix, in myopinion, because they got rid of
all of our younger players.
That actually made our teamgood, which was annoying.
But I don't know.
I mean, a lot of people aresaying Golden State again or OKC
again or the Knicks even,because he was supposed to go to
the Knicks in 2019, and then henever did, and then he never

(28:27):
did.
So I don't know.
I feel like that would be coolto see him at Knicks, and Mikael
Bridges is also there, who Ialso love, so I feel like that
would be a cool duo to see,because they're both really tall
players too.
So I feel like they could dosome damage.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
I like that.
Bree, yeah, seeing him thereNow that would really be
something for the Brooklyn back.
But we all thought he was goingto go to the Knicks and really
surprised a lot of people bygoing to Brooklyn, so that would
be very interesting.
And then, yeah, teaming up withthis old teammate.
So I like that take.
That would be very entertainingto see that happen.

(29:03):
What do you think, diego?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Oh yeah, I agree, I like the Knicks.
I don't think OKC would be themove, because they've got so
many younger guys and so manydraft picks.
They have a bright future.
I just think Kevin Durant wouldmess it up.

Speaker 9 (29:19):
He messed up the.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Suns yeah, he messed up the Suns, brooklyn, a few
other teams, and I think theHeat need to rebuild too,
because they already tradedJimmy and they got Bam, they got
Tyler Hero, so I think theyshould just keep going in
younger directions.
The Knicks they're just readyto win now.
I think they just need maybeone more star to put them ahead
of the Celtics and Cavs.

(29:40):
That would be the move.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
My whole thing with the Knicks fit and why I do
think that would be cool.
And again, him being thebasketball purist, him loving
the game and him playing atMadison Square Garden would be
cool.
It's the fact that it's likewho do you trade, who do you
give up Because you're going tohave to get rid of OG or Cat to
make sure that they get the ball.

(30:03):
So I would be, because I wasalso thinking like a younger
team, like Houston, that wouldalso be pretty good, but with
all the young players, him kindof leading the charge there,
that would also be good.
But I just I don't know, whileI would love to see him back in
New York because, again,brooklyn, katie, regardless for
the lack of playoff success,there was moments of just like

(30:26):
wow, this is some of the bestbasketball you've ever played.
But yeah, with the Suns it feelsdisappointing at this point
because it's like we know you asan all-time great and I know
for Bree it's a lot worse.
But I do think that KD deservesto be for me, just go where you
feel wanted and just kind ofwhere you can just keep hooping

(30:48):
until the wheels fall off,because you still are your prime
it's.
You still are not contributingto winning anymore, and I don't
know if you want to get anotherchip or if you just want to stay
in the league because you lovethe game so much.
So we'll see.
We'll see, but I think Houstonwould also be a great team for
him.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, I think Houston would be a great fit as well
and I feel that he was a goodfit in in phoenix.
I think the issue was morebradley beal.
Bradley beal was not a good fitin phoenix and they never
should have let chris paul go.
Yes, chris paul, because, again, booker as much as we like
booker right, they never wentanywhere until chris paul got

(31:25):
there.
And then that's the.
You know.
You know, chris Paul reallyunlocked a lot for Booker and
they were at a whole notherlevel.
So they need a true point guardto really orchestrate and run
run that team.
So I think that was one oftheir biggest mistakes of
letting letting Chris Paul go.
So I think that's where theywent wrong.
And then, of course, bradleybill.
It was just too many peopleplaying the same position and

(31:48):
then trying to have Booker playpoint.
That just did not work at all.
But let me tell you where Iwant to see Kevin Durant.
I want to see Kevin Durant withthe Dallas Mavericks.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Oh man.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
I actually like that too.
Yeah, I like that, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
So again, everybody's getting all out of shape here
about OK, no pun intended aboutus sending Luka Doncic.
Ok, over to LA, but there is amethod to our madness.
Ok, we need to get morephysically fit and we need to
get the right pieces and build anew victory, All right.
So what we're going to do isbring in KD, we're going to have

(32:31):
Kyrie and we're going to haveAD and with that big three we're
going to take over.
And you can book it right nowthe champions for next year, 26,
will be the Dallas Mavericks.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Okay, all right.
Quick question with that,though?
Didn't he just say defense waschampions, championships, and
that's the reason why theytraded their five-time all nba
player yes so what's the 37 girl?

Speaker 6 (32:56):
kevin durango way better defense is a way better
defender than luca just I'm not.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
I'm not just kidding.
He's a way better defender thanluca.
What I am saying, though, isthat you're starting that
retirement home, but then youdon't got a bunch of picks in
the future.
So again, are you going all infor one rig after you made a
colossal mistake?
Is that what they're doing?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
we're going, but like , how much really is it going to
take to get kevin durant?
I don't know if it would bethat much, because luca, you
didn't give up that much forluca right and kevin durant he's
stupid like that's not even heis averaging less.
He says less numbers and he'scoming off a team that just lost
a bunch of games.
That was like the 12th seed inthe West.
So, um yeah, I don't think itwould take as much as people

(33:37):
think.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
That is true.
I don't think it'll take asmuch cause they know they're
they got to get off them, yeah,so they're not going to get as
much as they they would havebefore, before, yeah, but uh,
yeah, all right breed you have.

Speaker 9 (33:52):
Do you have something you want to throw in?
I just want him out of phoenixall right.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Well, hey, phoenix, yeah, they definitely.
You have some rebuilding to do,certainly have some rebuilding
to do, so it'll be interestingto see what happens this off
season.

Speaker 9 (34:07):
It's gonna take a few years.
Yeah, yeah, it's going to takea few years.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah, it's definitely going to take a few years, but
you've got a great fan base,great stadium, very entertaining
, and the NBA is better whenPhoenix is jumping over there.
So it's like a nightclub theway everything is set up, so
it's a real nice vibe out there.
Yeah, all right, all right,bree.
Well, we are going to go aheadand move on to our Westpix.

(34:31):
But, thank you so much.
We understand you've got a big,big trip coming up and a big
competition, so good luck withthat.

Speaker 9 (34:43):
We all will be rooting for you to go ahead and
take First?
You want to tell us about that?
Yeah, so I'm going to Seattleon Wednesday.
So I'm going to Seattle onWednesday, I leave and I'll get
back Sunday.
But it's basically a JEAnational convention.
Students from around the Stateswe go and compete and we make a
video or newspaper or yearbookI guess because newspapers
aren't a thing anymore andeverything else.

(35:04):
So, like photography, video,yearbook, we all go and I'm in
video.
So I make a video and I madethat video with my partner and
then we're going to hopefullyget first place.
We got first place last year,so hopefully we went again this
year.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Nice, nice, going to defend your title.
Yeah, all right, we'll belooking out for that.
Well, best of luck to you andwe'll be looking out for it.
So thank you yes, thank you allright, all right, okay, well, so
we'll be pulling for breed totake first again, and now we are
going to go ahead and move intothe west.

(35:40):
Oh man, the stacked deep west.
Every series is going to be funto watch, so let's go ahead and
get into this, guys.
Let's start with the next one.
Here we've got the okc thunder,the team that has, uh, possibly
the mvp for this year.
Sga the mvp.
Okay, the the mvp, as diegosays.

(36:00):
Yep, they will be playing.
The winner of the game tonightbetween the memphis grizzlies
and the dallas mavericks.
Okay, yes, d Dallas is still init All right still in it so
Diego who wins tonight, and thenwho wins this series, and then
how many games I'm actuallyreally rooting for Dallas
because I just hope that they'reable to get into the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
give the fans a few extra games.
Klay's been playing well so I'mhappy for him, but I got
Memphis winning it.
I think that they will lose tothe Thunder in five.
The SGA would just be too muchfor them.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Too much war for them ?
I guess?
Yeah, too much war.
I got Memphis winning and thenI got OKC winning the whole
series.
I have them in five as well.
I do think that this firstround needs to for OKC, they
need to prove that the dominanceof the regular season wasn't a
fluke, because again, if theysomehow lose, I think it gives

(36:58):
that, like we believe, warriors,like with Dirk, with Dirk type,
feeling you don't want to be inthat position, especially with
the fact that Memphis is veryexperienced, they could make it
a little bit more dangerous.
So I wouldn't be surprised ifthe series goes longer, but
because of the regular seasonsuccess and how OKC seems to
turn a new leaf, I think thatthey win this in five.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
OK, all right.
Well, yeah, I agree with youcompletely, chris.
I've got the Grizzlies tonight.
As much as I would love to seeDallas stay in it, that would be
a fun story, fun narrative, butI think the Grizzlies are going
to be too tough.
The Grizzlies are at home.
The Grizzlies will definitelybe going all out tonight.
I think they pulled this gameout and then I have OKC winning

(37:42):
in five.
I think Memphis is going tosnatch a game from them at some
point, but I think the OKCThunder will go ahead and win
this one at five.
So, all right, okay, all right.
Well, let's get to man.
These next three are not goingto be so clear-cut as that okc
series.
So man this one, this seriesbetween the la clippers and the

(38:04):
denver nuggets.
This is probably, to me, goingto be the best series out of all
of them.
And another opinion that I haveon this one is, if you could
pick one team that has thehighest odds of winning, of
losing in the first round oralso possibly making it to the
finals, is the Denver Nuggets.

(38:25):
Yeah, you can see eitherhappening with them and go OK,
yeah, that's about right.
Yeah, so this is can see eitherhappening with them and go.
Oh okay, yeah, that's aboutright.
Yeah, so this is going to begreat.
But, diego, who you got and howmany games?

Speaker 3 (38:35):
for this one.
I got the LA Clippers in seven.
The Clippers, their players,are really turning back the
clock.
Kawhi Leonard and James Harden,they're just playing well.
Kawhi playing like playoffKawhi.
I just think the defense theguy that got zubak playing like
he's in the running fordefensive player of the year and

(38:55):
he can guard yokich.
So I think that's that's gonnabe.
A big part of it is that theyhave a guy that can at least
contain yokich a little bit.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
So I'm going with clippers okay all right, you're
going to clippers in seven allright, I have the clippers in
six, which is even I might pushthat thing up to seven, because
the Nikola Jokic factor of itall is what worries me about
this series.
I do think that overall, theClippers have the better team,
they have the better defense,but they got that magic man from

(39:24):
serving you feel me, he's a dog.
So I just I don't know.
I really want the Clippers towin because I want to see Kawhi
have a good series and JamesHarden, turning back the clock
has been really good, but we'veseen him sometimes with his
playoff performances andsometimes he wants to do better.
But hopefully those are allconquered and we see Kawhi,

(39:47):
james Harden, finally giveClippers fans a little bit of
hope of like oh hey, we're not,there's still a little brother,
though let's, let's not get thatconfused but, still have a good
moment of just like hey, it wasPG's fault, we can fully blame
him.
Let's just actively.
We got a good team now, solet's Clippers do it.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Man Clippers.
Well, yeah, this is going to bea great series, but y'all, come
on now.
The disrespect of the 10-timeMVP Joker.
Come on, Come on, y'all, comeon now.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
Clippers have Zubac, he's going to lock him up.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Listen, we thought we had 80, man, I just like, will
you the one thing with playingyour kitchen?
This, as Lakers fan I canattest to this.
There's no stopping him.
You just have to pray every yougot to hope everybody else
decides to suck that nightBecause, again, if Jamal Murray,
michael Porter Jr Show up, theseries will get a lot more
interesting.
But because of theirinconsistencies, this season I

(40:49):
don't see that.
But yeah, there's nothing youcan do with yonkers, it's just
he go get his.
So you just gotta.
You just gotta hope you slowhim down a little bit, but even
still, you just gotta hope theteam around him just doesn't
perform well, and I was.
I don't know.
I don't know.
That's why I have it in six,but I can see it going either
way.
It's scary.
Well, yeah, I have it in six,but I have it at six, but I can
see it going either way, it'sscary.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Well, yeah, I have it in six, but I have it in six
for the Denver Nuggets.
Okay, as far as the Clippers go.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, can't get fooledagain, all right.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
They don't have Paul George.

Speaker 6 (41:23):
Now there's no, paul George, look man.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
But look, man Kawhi, I am not falling for the banana
in the tailpipe.
I'm sorry, I am not.
He is going to walk off thecourt in great fashion and then,
all of a sudden, we'll hearsomething in the news 15 minutes
before the next game about himbeing out.
I do not trust it.
This happened too many times.

(41:47):
And then Harden with all of hisplayoff blunders I know, no, no
, no, give me the nuggets.
They've got a little bit ofrejuvenation, because it looks
like, you know, malone, althoughhey fairly or unfairly kind of
ran him out of there, theydefinitely seem to be responding
to the new coach with theselast few games.
I think they're going to comein and have something to prove,

(42:18):
and they do have home court aswell.
So I've got uh, I've got denverin six for this one.
All right, oh, let us know, letus know who y'all got in this
one.
All right, okay, here we go.
Man, oh boy, these last twocan't wait to talk.
Man, we got, uh, we got somehomers here.
Now we got some homers in thehouse.
Okay, so we've got the numberthree seed LA Lakers.
Wow, three seed LA Lakers Allright, home court advantage.
They've got Ant-Man.

(42:39):
Ant-man, potential new face ofthe NBA.
He's coming in town.
Okay, as the sixth seed, diegoDiego, who you got in this one
man I'm going with the lakersand seven.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Um, I don't trust ant against luca.
Luca has already shown that hehe'll just little boy and do the
whole series and go bear and gobear too.
I just, I just don't trust him.
Yeah, and lebron's gonna showup, luca, of course.
Yeah, yeah, like lakers all day.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
I have for my team.
I got us at six.
I'm not going to do a Lakers atfive thing.
That's not happening.
I think that Anthony Edwards istoo good of a player.
With one of those home gamesand the energy of that Minnesota
home crowd, he's going tosnatch maybe one or two.
I think that, yeah, how we'removing after this season.

(43:34):
After seeing Luka's 45-pointperformance versus the Dallas
Mavericks which again you knowout of shape, but he put 45 on
you I just want to say, hey,that's all I'm going to say
about that, crying like a baby,yep, and then he dropped 45.
So that's just throw that outthere.
I think that Luka is on arevenge tour.

(43:55):
I think he was to that.
The best way to say it to me isthat you got to make him regret
it.
You got to make him remember,you got to make dallas realize
that you made one of thegreatest mistakes in nba history
.
So let's, let's start the run.
Let me not get too ahead ofmyself.
Let's start the run.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Okay, okay.
Well, it's mighty funny, youknow, with the Lakers and Luka.
It is.
So what have you done for melately?
Because he comes out, lukacomes out and looks like he's 87
years old, okay, and all of asudden the Lakers aren't going
anywhere, and then he has onegood game against.
He has one good game against.

(44:32):
He has one good game against.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
The Brooklyn Nets are like some bad team.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Yeah some awful team and then all of a sudden, oh
Luka, oh Luka is doing it.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
It is the craziest thing to see no one talks about
the bad game.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
The up and down nature of this team.
The up and down nature of thisteam.
Okay, see nature of this team.
Okay, but big, but okay, I'vegot them in five.
Because, number one, ant, Idon't trust Ant.
Okay, I still can't unsee whatI saw last year and the way that

(45:06):
Luka went in there and becameeverybody's father.
Okay, the fact that Ant letthat man come in there and cuss
Gobert out after scoring on himand then do all the stuff that
he was doing to the crowd andAnt's supposed to be ATL, this
and that and he let Luca justsit there and put his feet up on

(45:26):
the couch and get a sandwichout of the refrigerator and
didn't do anything about itrefrigerator and didn't do
anything about it.
Right, didn't, didn't coke,didn't go up to him, didn't say
anything to him.
I'm like really, this man camein here and just completely dog
jaw again.
Yeah, I have no problem withminnesota losing to dallas last
year.
That wasn't the point.
It was the way they did it andthe way they let, the way he let

(45:48):
luca come in there and justtalk to everybody the way they
did and he didn't do anythingabout it.
No fight, I can't unsee that.
So if you're that way with Luka, then how are you going to be
with Luka and LeBron and crew?
No, no, no, I don't trust it.
I think the Lakers get this onein five.
Then everyone, like somebodyover here, is going to get all

(46:11):
excited.
Santa Leica is going to win achampionship and then they will
proceed to then lose in the nextround.
So that's what I see happening,all right.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Look at, hey, clip this one.

Speaker 9 (46:21):
This needs to be the clip that needs to be shown.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
If we come on, come on, it's going to be fun, it's
going to be fun, it's gettinggood to him, diego.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
It's getting good to him.
It's getting good to him.
Let's get to the Warriors.
Let's go, let's go.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
All right.
Now we will be joined byspecial guest uh, mr James
McFarlane, here ina moment.
We're going to talk about onemore game and then we're going
to bring him on and get his takeon the West games, and then
also our next topic betweenjimmy butler and steph curry.
So we can't wait for that.
But before we do that, we'vegot to get into this last series
.
Oh man, diego, series.

(47:02):
We've got, oh man, but numbertwo seed houston rockets,
coached by my god you doka, okay, and they have the seventh seed
, golden State Warriors, whobarely won a play-in game, had
to have a heroic effort fromJimmy Hemi Butler and Steph

(47:22):
Curry just to barely win thatgame Lost to the Clippers at the
end of the season.
So they have somehow gotteninto the playoffs and now we
have this matchup here.
So, diego, who do you havebetween these two teams?
I got the Warriors and six.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
This should be pretty light.
I'm being nice giving theRockets two games actually, but
Emei Udoka we beat Emei Udoka inthe finals just a few years ago
, so we have a finals win overhim.
And you say it's a 2-7 matchup.
True, but there's only afour-game difference between the
Rockets and the Warriors, soit's really tight.

(48:00):
The Warriors they got Jimmy,Jimmy and Steph.
Jimmy went off for like 38-8-7in the playing game.
Steph added 37.
So I mean that's just anunstoppable duo, the best duo in
the playoffs, Better than Lucaand LeBron.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
Oh, that's a good In terms of playoff, playoff, like
there's dominance.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
That's those two all day.
Like Draymond, you know, givesus a little intensity.
You know he might cost us agame or two.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
He, might, he might.
He already cost you twochampionships, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
It might cost us a game or two, he might, he might.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
He already cost you two championships.
Yeah, okay, all right Easy.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Yeah and yeah, miss Thompson.
Yeah, there is a little bit ofslander on your team.
I will try to watch myself.
Miss Thompson, I willdefinitely try to do that, all
right.
Okay, c-pain, who you?

Speaker 2 (48:46):
got All right.
I got the Warriors at is at sixas well.
Playoff Jimmy showed up and nowI'm very, very worried about
playing that, potentially thenext round, and with the best
duos conversation.
I do think that that is veryinteresting with having a four I
mean four-time champion, one ofthe greatest playoff risers

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we've ever seen.
So hey, let's see if y'all canstart your run again.
We're not going to talk aboutwhat Ahmed did a couple weeks
ago.
You know, where a certain guyonly scored 3A.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
It just happened this regular season.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
He was holding stuff.
He was holding stuff more thanthe Saints were holding the Rams
in the 2018 NFC Championship.
Yeah, I'm going that far back.
He was More than the Saintswere holding the Rams in the
2018 NFC Championship.

Speaker 9 (49:34):
Gotcha.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah, I'm going that far back.
He was holding him more thanthat DB was holding the receiver
.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Nice, my bad bro.
I knew that was a sore spot.

Speaker 6 (49:43):
I just had to get that little joke.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
But I still have the Warriors winning this.
I mean, the Rockets are tooyoung, they don't have the
experience and again, I feellike E-Mail is going to coach
them.
Well, but it really depends onwho plays the better defense in
the series, and I don't know ifyou can stop Steph and Jimmy in
like four games.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
I don't think you can do that that whistle will be in
Steph's favor.
Because of the experience I'mjust going to say it might not
be right, but I just think itwill be.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
That is a good point.
But in terms of the Rockets, asthe great, honorable Keith
Sweat once said, we may be youngbut we are ready.
All right, the Rockets.
I got the Rockets in seven.
I got the Houston Rockets inseven.

(50:32):
So, diego, I might not be ableto come home tonight.
So yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
So my question was so you have the Rockets beating us
in the next round.
I wouldn't be mad if you hadthe Warriors beating us but the
Rockets beating the Lakers inthe next round.
Now I actually have the.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Lakers winning that only because they're playing the
Rockets.
Okay, so I have the Lakerswinning that only because
they're playing the Rockets.
Okay, so I have the Lakersgoing to the Western Conference
Finals for the record, butthey're going to lose in the
Western Conference Finals.
They're going to win becausethey've been lucky with these
matchups.
The Lakers are lucky to playthe Timberwolves first round.
They'll be lucky to playHouston, but then their luck
will run out against OKC thatnext round.
So don't worry about it, yougot them waiting on you Don't

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worry about that.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Some teams just got to get a better season.
That's on them.
That's on them.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
The Rockets showed, oh man, just about a week ago
they showed that tenaciousdefense.
It's just like see, I got theman, Diego, I got to school you
this.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Everyone knows it was Draymond's fault, though,
because Draymond was doing toomuch that game.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
And Draymond's going to be doing too much in the
first round.
Draymond's learned you and yourmother are going to be so
frustrated.
He's became more mature.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
He's ready for this matchup.
And we've owned the Rockets forlike 10 years, Every year,
every time we beat them thatownership is over, because now
they have Yudoka.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Okay, they got your other guy they got your other
guy from Memphis, was it Brooks?

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Yeah, we own him too.
We own everybody no no, no, no,no.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Draymond is going to lose his mind in this series.
I'm telling you they're goingto bottle up, they're going to
double Steph Okay, and it'sgoing to be all on himmy.
Jimmy and 37, however old JimmyButler is, is not going to be
able to carry the load, probablygoing to be able to carry the
load, probably going to bangknees again, and it's just not.
He's not going to be able toget them over the hump.

(52:18):
These young, upstart HoustonRockets just like them, houston
Cougars, put that D on your DukeBlue Devils these Houston
Rockets are going to do the samething.
It's defense, just like theysay in Dallas Defense wins
championships.
It's defense is defense.
Just like they say in Dallasdefense wins championships
Because defense is going to bethe difference.
That tells me why the Warriorsare going to win.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
That's right, we're going to have this tape to play.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
It's the great Nico Harrison said All-time great,
nico Harrison.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Do you have a spare?

Speaker 2 (52:53):
room for me?
I do.
You might just have to be on mycouch, bro, because you said
the Lakers ain't going to go tothe finals.

Speaker 6 (52:59):
Oh dang, that's right .
I wouldn't give you the room ifyou said we wouldn't chill.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
I'll have nowhere to go.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
You might just have to be on the couch, man, I'll
find a home.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
I'll find a way, ok, all right.
Well, hey, let's bring our guyto kind of set us straight here,
mr James McFarlane, to talkabout these series.
Ok, and then we're going totalk about Steph and Hemi, last
second shot.
So let's go ahead and bring ourguy in here.
Mr James McFarlane, how youdoing my man?

Speaker 8 (53:31):
I'm doing pretty good .
How's it?

Speaker 1 (53:32):
going?
How's it going?
All right, doing great, Doinggreat.
So hey, first off, let's rewindback.
Do you have any comments onDiego's debacle with Duke?
Anything you want to chime inon that?

Speaker 8 (53:45):
Listen, diego, don't worry about it.
Duke messed up my brackets too.
Luckily I made two brackets.
I had Florida to win one and Ihad Duke to win another one.
But Duke let me down.
I thought Duke was going to win.
Duke played not to lose andHouston played to win.
That was the difference.
It was just like that.

(54:07):
Like you said, a Houston Cougardefense was a whole other
different aggressive animal thatDuke wasn't used to seeing.
That's not ACC ball.
They used to see theseoffensive plays, running these
motions, running these sets.
Houston was playing at a wholeother intensity so they weren't
ready for it.
But it's okay.
You know, cougar flag hadn'tdeclared for the draft yet.

(54:29):
You got the Bougie twins comingin.
They got some transfers comingin, so it's looking promising
for Duke.
It's looking very promising.
And then they got Coach Shire.
He's doing a good job sinceCoach K left.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
So we'll see.

Speaker 8 (54:45):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Yeah, we will be back .
We got the Bouger twins, likeyou said, so we'll be back.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's gonna be gonna be fun tosee.
I can't wait to see whathappens, what happens there.
So, james, let's, uh, let'stalk about, let's go reverse
order here.
We just talked about thehouston rockets and golden state
warriors.
Why don't you give us your takeon that series?
What's going to happen there?

Speaker 8 (55:09):
all right.
So, diego, I know you are awarriors fan, but listen,
houston is playing at a whole,nother different level.
They got coaching.
Now, hey, these young guys areanimals and they are so
aggressive, just like thehouston cougars.
Green is playing.
Listen, these guys are playingat a whole nother level.

(55:31):
But one thing we have to takeinto consideration is the
second-place team and theeighth-place team is four wins
from each other.
So when you look at that, youhave to look and say, okay, well
, it could go either way betweenthose four games in the
standings at the end of theseason, but Houston, I got

(55:52):
Houston in six or seven.

Speaker 9 (55:56):
And if it get, to seven.

Speaker 8 (55:58):
We'll talk about the only way the Warriors will win.
If it gets to seven and itcomes down to the last shot, I'm
taking Curry with the last shot.

Speaker 9 (56:07):
That's the only way the Warriors will win.

Speaker 8 (56:10):
That's the only way the Warriors will win.
If it goes to seven, the ball'sin Curry at the last second.
That's the only way theWarriors will win.
If it goes to seven, the ball'sin Curry at the last second.
That's it, oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
I'm concerned with Houston.
Do they have a guy that can geta bucket at the end In close
games?
Do they have a guy?
Because in these games in theregular season they've struggled
with finishing at the end.
That's the only thing I'mconcerned with them about
Warriors.
We got two guys.
Two guys.
And we got other shoes.
We got Buddy Heald, who canmake a shot.

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We got Pajemski also.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Buddy Heald can make a shot, can he?
Yes, he can.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
Did he hit the rim, did he?

Speaker 1 (56:46):
even hit the rim on that shot.

Speaker 6 (56:47):
He can literally get y'all to a higher scene it's one
shot.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
That was not the time for him to do it but he can
make a shot, he can I trust himmore than I trust Jalen Green to
make the last second shot.

Speaker 8 (57:06):
Diego Houston plays ahead, they're gonna outscore
you.
They're gonna listen, they'regonna run them, old guys, so
much until by the time it getsto the fourth quarter.
Listen, all right, you're goingto see, they're going to run
them so much in those first fourgames that the Warriors are

(57:27):
going to have to win at leasttwo to three games in the first
four games in order to evencompete with he's.
Because, after what, houston isgonna run and run and run the
entire time it's gonna be atrack meet might be getting
nervous.
No, it's gonna be a track meetbut it war is gonna have to
figure out how to slow the gamedown, because houston they play
fast yeah, yeah, I do, can't,can't wait for that.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Well, let's move on to uh.
We got a couple more series tohit it real quick love your,
love, your analysis.
And let's also acknowledge hereagain you and diego have a
connection.
You both are at ravenscrawl, sowe want to definitely,
definitely shout you out with uh, with that as well.
So okay all right, all right.
Well, hey, l Lakers andTimberwolves Chris.

(58:13):
We affectionately refer to himas C-Pain.
Wife nicknamed him C-Pain.
He is a Laker.
What You're?
A Laker homer?
Okay, laker homer, but LeBronLeBron's your guy as well,
although you claim it's Lakersand then LeBron.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
It is Lakers and LeBron forever.
It's always going to be likethat.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Okay, that's what we get.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
We're, for you know, hired God at this point.
Thank you for bringing us backafter the cover.
Appreciate you, but yeah, whenhe's gone, I'm going to still
rock with the Lakers, notbecause we have Luka now, not
for that reason either.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
So we all have the Lakers in either five, six,
seven, we all have the Lakers.
How about you, james?

Speaker 8 (58:55):
I agree with that.
I think that Minnesota is noton one core right now.
If you would have asked me thisquestion last year, it would
have been a different answer.
But I think the Lakers aremeshing right now.
They're figuring out theiroffense and they're figuring out
okay.
All right, let's see what'sworking best to our advantage
against these other teams,especially like minnesota.

(59:17):
Minnesota's.
I think they're playing kind ofhaywire right now and I think
the lakers are honing in on whatis getting them to their wins.
So, by a small margin I I gotto put this up by a small margin
we got the lakers.
By a small margin, we got theLakers in five or six.
You know what I'm saying, okay.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
I love it.
I love it, I love that.
Okay, all right.
So next, clippers, nuggets.
Man this.
Arguably, although a lot ofthese are going to be
competitive, arguably the mostcompetitive series we're
flipping.
I have nuggets, have Nuggets,they both have Clippers.
Who do you have in this one?

Speaker 8 (59:52):
I have the Nuggets and I got the Nuggets in six.
I think that, just off of puretalent from Murray and the Joker
, they've been playingphenomenal.
Even though I know Shy is thefront runner for the MVP, the

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Joker is right there behind him.
I'm talking about in closeproximity, right behind him, and
I think that the Joker shouldwin the MVP, but he's probably
not this year because you knowthat has a lot to do with where
your team finishes and you knowyour interactions with the team
and things of that nature.
But I have the Nuggets.
Just off for sheer talent, Igot them in six.

(01:00:34):
I think that the Lakers are Imean, not the Lakers, the
Clippers are past their prime alittle bit and they don't have
Paul George, so I think thismight be their last hoorah
before they have to dismantlethe team.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Yeah, I love that y'all have them in six as well.
I'm exactly there with you.
And then the last series.
Before we get into our finaldebate here, we've got either
the Dallas Mavericks or theMemphis Grizzlies playing the
Thunder.
I believe you have whoever, theeighth seed is upsetting OKC,
is that correct?

Speaker 8 (01:01:07):
Absolutely not.
It doesn't even matter who winsthe eighth seed.
I have the Oklahoma City jerseyon right now because it's their
time.
I'm not an Oklahoma City fan,I'm just a fan of the NBA.
This is actually a KD jersey,so you know what I'm saying.
Just in case KD ever wants togo to OKC, he would have to take

(01:01:29):
considerably, a whole lot lessmoney.
But ideally, oklahoma City isgoing to win.
I think they're going to winthe West.
It depends when they get to theLakers.
You know the Lakers are smartwhen they come with their
schemes and plan and stuff likethat.
It's just going old team, old,wise team versus young,
energetic team and whoever winsbetween that two is probably

(01:01:53):
going to win it all.
But as far as I just want tospeak on KD, his next move, the
only place I see KD fitting isthe Rockets, to be honest, and
it may be like at a reduced role.
So I looked at the last fiveyears.
Kd has averaged 28 points inthe last five years.

(01:02:14):
That production can fit well inany system.
You put him with the Rockets,that'll be good, that'll be
great.
You put him with the Lakers.
The Lakers somehow find ways toget players that don't fit the
system but eventually end upthere.

(01:02:35):
I don don't know how.
And then, of course, if he goesto the warriors, everybody
would love that.
You know what I'm saying.
You can't complain with that,but it is one team that no one's
paying attention to that hewill fit great with that's
missing a part that he couldpotentially fit.
He would fit great with that'smissing a part that he could

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potentially fit.
And the team is the books.
Middleton's not there anymore.
So if he goes to a situationlike that, it could work.
It could be like one of thoselet's get it, the one that,
let's get this one and done andlet's you know, let's figure out
the rest after that.
So yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
I like that yeah, I like that a lot yeah, I didn't
think about that.
That's a good one love yourinsight.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
And then we already know last second shot.
We're going to talk about thisnext, but we have your take here
before we let you go.
Last second shot I think youalready said Steph Curry is that
it's situational oh it justdepends on who's guarding who.

Speaker 8 (01:03:38):
okay, say situational , if I'm down, if you're down by
two and you want to win thegame and and curry has been
hitting all game he's he's madeat least four or five threes a
game.
You got to put the ball inCurry's hands, but Jimmy has a
nickname and it's called JimmyBuckets.

(01:03:58):
Jimmy is going to back you.
If you got a small guardguarding him, he's going to back
you down.
He's going to put you in thepost and he's going to turn
around, make the shot, get thefoul.
Jimmy Buckets is going to getto the free throw line.
He's going to get to the freethrow line.
He's going to make his freethrows.
So it's all situation.
If you're down by one, I'mgiving it to Jimmy.
You're down by two, I'm givingit to Curry.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Okay, all right, I like that, love it, love it.
Well, james, you are welcomeanytime.
It was an absolute pleasuretalking to you today and we
certainly hope to see you again.
We'll be at King Saturday nextweek and we have many, many
shows coming up again.
We're weekly, so you're welcomeanytime and thank you so much.

Speaker 8 (01:04:38):
Absolutely, it was a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
All right, all right, yes, ladies and gentlemen, mr
McFarland, that was great man.
Yes, yes, diego, thanks forhooking that up.
All right, well, gentlemen,let's again talk about this last
second shot, and then we'regoing to wrap up with making our
finals pick, and then, ofcourse, we're going to have

(01:05:01):
Brandon send us home with hisfinal take here, but so again,
james said it's situational.
Ok, great, take Love that,diego, for you.
Last second shot.
Is it Steph Curry or is it HemiJimmy?

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
I want Jimmy Butler shooting the last shot,
regardless of the situation.
I love Steph, but first off,everyone's going to be thinking
about Steph, everyone's going tobe trying to guard him or
double team him.
They're not going to expect usto get Jimmy and especially,
like Mr Mack said, he can scorein so many different ways.

(01:05:39):
Back you down, get a mid-range.
If you get fouled, hit somefree throws.
He can hit threes also.
So if you get Steph, let's saywe're down by three, steph's
getting double teamed.
Jimmy's probably going gonna bewide open.
He can hit that threeespecially, play off Jimmy.
I trust him more than many,many other players.

(01:05:59):
Yeah, I, I want Jimmy shootingthe last shot.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Okay, when Jimmy's shooting the last shot, I like
that.
Okay.
How about you see pain?

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
I would say Jimmy as well.
Again, there's a provencommodity that in the playoffs,
the play had really keyed me in.
It was like, oh yeah, he's backon, so you know back to who he
is.
So, yeah, man, I have Jimmyjust taking the shot against
Steph and, like Diego said,everybody's keying on him.
Everybody's going to be like wegot to stop him from, you know,

(01:06:30):
gaming us.
But I think Jimmy, he's notafraid of that moment and he
will definitely.
I feel like definitely.
There's times where he's goingto take over, so I think I'd
have him take the last shot aswell.
What about you?

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
okay, okay uh, I got draymond green.
Oh no, I was like didn't getdown.
He missed a key layup.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
I know right, Almost airballed it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
No, I've got Jimmy.
Yeah, I got Jimmy Buckets aswell.
Steph, again, that's not hisgame.
You know last second shot he's.
You know he's not 6'5", 6'6",6'7", you know he's.
I have only really seen one ortwo times where he's even been
able to get a decent look inthat.
In that situation, when youknow he's going to get the ball

(01:07:20):
and they pressure him and put along guy on him, he just doesn't
get a good enough look in myopinion.
So to me, have steph be a decoy.
He's going to draw a bunch ofattention.
Just capitalize on that.
Get the ball to jimmy buckets,let him play his uh, grown man
bully ball and get whateverbucket you need.
So yeah, because of that Iwould go.

(01:07:41):
I would go with him.
Now if they still had clay, Iwould say clay, I would want
clay again.
Clay's taller, he can.
You know he's got that quickand it's just a bigger play.
Like I said, I think Steph isjust too small and he doesn't.
You know, as athletic as he is,he doesn't have enough wiggle
to just John Morant, shakesomebody and then get that space

(01:08:03):
, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
So yeah, yeah, I also wouldn't sleep on Brandon
Pajemski too.
He's a great shooter, you know,can hit a bunch of shots.
He'd probably be wide open.
If you pass it to him, he'swide open.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
I trust him to make it.
Trust him to make that.
I like that.
I like that.
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Shout out to Chatterpots.

Speaker 5 (01:08:25):
He was just cooking the.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Lakers like two weeks ago.
He was, he was, he fired us.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
That's why I'm a little bitter.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
One final thing before we bring Brandon on for
the last take.
Can't wait to hear Brandon'stake on all this stuff.
So Brandon's got histhree-minute final recap, but
let's go ahead quickly here it'srunning out of time and give
our finals prediction.
So now we are on record.
Okay, we're going to talk aboutit next week at Kings.
Okay, we're on record, diego,who you got in the finals facing

(01:08:54):
off and who's winning.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
I got the Golden State Warriors versus the Boston
Celtics.
Just like 2022.
And just like 2022, we're goingto beat them Because we got
both of their owners in the team.
Steph owned them three yearsago.
Beat them in the finals.
Beat Udoka.
Beat all the crew.
Jimmy Butler two years ago.
Beat him in the finals.
Beat Udoka, beat all the crew.
Jimmy Butler two years ago.
Beat the Boston Celtics inseven to go to the NBA finals.

(01:09:18):
You pair both of those guystogether.
Oh boy, that's just.
You can't stop that.
You just can't stop it.
I don't see how you stop it.
We're going to submit you to bedrug tested.
And then look at the matchupsthe Rockets easy Lakers.
We just beat them two weeks ago.
They're too small, they can'tmess with us.
Yeah, we beat that.

(01:09:41):
Yeah, we beat them.
Then, western Conference FinalsOKC.
They're too young, they don'thave enough experience.
We beat them and you're too old.
We have all the experience andwe have two amazing playoff
players okay, so the Warriors isgoing to be Warriors Celtics

(01:10:04):
2022.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Warriors win the championship.
Is what you're saying.
Okay, yeah all right, okay, allright, okay.
Well, one homer, one homer to anext, all right, chris, what
you're saying?
Okay, yeah, all right, okay,all right, okay.
Well, uh, one Homer, one Homerto a next, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
Chris, listen.
So I know this whole.
This whole season I've beenhedging my bets, but I after
after seeing Luca that Dallasgame, I'm sorry.
I feel like this is revengeseason.
I need a Saquon Barkley leveltype run.
I need the NBA translation forthat.
So Luka is going to turn up,Could potentially be finals MVP

(01:10:41):
when we beat the Celtics inseven games.
That's my finals prediction.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
At least you're not hiding me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
I'm not hiding that at all.
I'm sitting ten toes.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
We called this weeks ago a month ago, we told you
what you were going to do.
We have your week.
I was like no, I'm nervous.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Now, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
We can set it all time high.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Now, Chris, you do realize that the Lakers are not
going to play the Brooklyn Netsin the playoffs.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Okay, I'm not scared.
I'm not scared, I'm not backand down.
Them tears moved me.
I don't know if they movedanybody else, but they moved me.
Let's go, let's do it, okay,mark.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Okay, wow, this is going to be so fun.
This is going to be so fun, solet me go ahead and give you my
NBA Finals prediction here,y'all Okay.
So I have in the West corner.
I've got the Oklahoma CityThunder in the NBA Finals.

(01:11:39):
Yes, I do, sga is going to makehis way to the NBA Finals.
They will beat the LA Lakers inthe Western Conference Finals.
They will make it to the NBAFinals.
In the East, I've got theBoston Celtics.
Yes, yes, I do, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
I've got the Boston Celtics.
Yes, whoa.
Yes, I do.
You've been with the Cavs allyear.
Yes, I do, you've been with theCavs all year.
What are you?

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
doing that, my friends, was a diversion.
Okay, that was a simplediversion, all right, couldn't
let you guys know where I wasgoing, Okay, but now I'm putting
my cards on the table, puttingmy money where my mouth is.
Yes, I've got the BostonCeltics going to the finals,
okay, so it will be Boston OKC.
And, ladies and gentlemen, weall know, we all know, I've been

(01:12:22):
riding with this squad and I'mriding with them again have you?
Not at all.
I've got the Boston Celtics, myCeltics, winning the NBA
championship.
Yes, that's right, chris.
Yes, that's right.
All my Boston Celtics fans, Iam back.
Okay, you can get married twice.
Yes, you can.

(01:12:43):
You can marry the same person,okay.
So, and in case anybody wantsto question my allegiance to
Boston see, I came prepared.
I came prepared for thisepisode, alright.
So if you want to question myallegiance to the Boston Celtics
, that is me at the 2022 finalswith Diego, repping my Boston

(01:13:04):
Celtics shirt and the chain Okay, alright.
That is me wearing the BostonCeltics shirt and the chain on a
Pick'em Pro episode.
Okay, that is me wearing theBoston Celtics shirt and the
chain on a Pick'em Pro episode.
Okay, that is me repping theBoston Celtics shirt, picking
the Boston Celtics.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, yes,where have you?

Speaker 6 (01:13:23):
been for the last three years.
You listen to that outside.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
Where were you when they actually won the thing?

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
There, that doesn't matter.
Okay, all right, okay, I rightOkay.

Speaker 6 (01:13:35):
I was in another relationship at the time.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
But now I am back, okay, and now we are going to
make it right, because everybodysee, there was something
missing when Boston won it lastyear.
It was kind of dull.
Everybody will admit that theplayoffs were fantastic until
they got to the finals, and thereason why it wasn't as exciting
is because I wasn't with theceltics.
Something was missing, hey, butnow I am with the celtics.

(01:14:00):
So when they win it this year,it will be sweet tatum, you're
finally gonna get your respect,because now I'm on board with
you, okay.
So, tatum, do it for us.
All right, don't let me down.
We got the boston celticswinning the championship this
year.
All right, there we go.

Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
The thing is that you don't make bad picks.
You don't make bad picks.
It's that you're either way tooearly or you're way too late
with it.
It's like you can't actuallypick the team when they're
winning.
It's just I don't get it, man.
Come on, get a're winning.
Like it's just I don't get it,man.
Like, come on, like get a, geta pick right when it's actually
happening well, I, I am going tobe right as it's happening this

(01:14:40):
year.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
okay, I am obviously not too early, I'm not going to
be too late.
Okay, I see, I saw everythingin the celtics earth, so I was
ahead of the game, okay.
And then I, then I got caughtup, all right Last year.
Okay, I had a moment, okay.
But now I am back and I realizenone of y'all picked the
Celtics, so you can't, you can'tsay I'm back when nobody else

(01:15:01):
is picking the Celtics.
I see it, I've got thoseinstincts.
I am picking the Boston Celtics.
Celtics are going to win thechampionship.
I got got it all right.
All right, let's go okay.
So with that, let's bring myman, brandon.
Brandon, what's going on, myman?

Speaker 7 (01:15:20):
what's going on?
Hey how you doing I'm good, I'mdoing good oh, awesome, awesome
, man.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
So, hey, man, we got the brandon final take, brandon
minute.
Man, why don't you take us out,my man, and and just say tell
us we got a whole bunch here, sowe got the three minutes.
Why don't you go ahead and tellus who you got in the
championship, give us your takeon Steph and Jimmy Butler last

(01:15:47):
second.
Why don't you just go for it,my man?

Speaker 7 (01:15:52):
So I do have Warrior Celtics in the finals.
Ooh With the egg, I can see.
Yeah, instead of Steph gettingfinals MVP, I can see Jimmy may
get finals MVP.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Ooh.

Speaker 7 (01:16:10):
As long as we win.
Yeah, that's true.
Let me think well, mvp, I'mstill going with Jokic.
Oh, you still got.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm still going withJokic.
It's close, because I see whatShea was doing.

(01:16:34):
Yeah, it's like I feel likesomebody's going to get screwed
out of MVP.
Either it's going to be Shea orJokic, so I'm going to go with
Jokic.
Okay, I feel like Jokic hasarguably been the best player in
the last five years, other thanGiannis.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
What about KD's next team?

Speaker 7 (01:17:06):
KD's next team.
Yeah, I have OKC still as theirfavorite.
Okay, houston being I've heardHouston, but I can't see Houston

(01:17:27):
letting go of their young core.
Yeah, so I can see why theyprobably like, probably
hesitated to pull the trigger.
Okc only does this if JalenWilliams is not part of the deal
.
If he's not part of the deal,they could probably pull the
trigger.
Win or lose, I think they'llpull the trigger.

(01:17:48):
If they win the title, I don'tthink they pull the trigger.
But if they lose in theconference finals or the second
round, don't think they pull atrigger.
But if they lose in theconference finals or the second
round, I think they pull atrigger.
So for his deep book, I'm stilleither it's still either the
Knicks or probably the Pistonsyeah so it's looking look at

(01:18:11):
that.
Or if Miami somehow gets rid ofTyler Hero and a bunch of
players, maybe Miami I can seeMiami kind of looking at players
like either Book or Giannis oreven KD.
So it depends on what a lot ofthese teams does in the playoffs

(01:18:31):
who gets bounced first orsecond round.
That's when it kind ofdetermines, like who should make
moves and stuff like that.
So it should be interesting.
It's going to be an interestingplayoff series, both in just in
sports in general, for as theNBA and hockey of course, yeah,

(01:18:52):
all the way through Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
All right, and does Cooper Flagg come back?

Speaker 7 (01:18:59):
I say no, I think you just got to.
You don't want to risk injury?
Okay, and knowing him, heprobably just going to declare
yeah, it's either.
I'm saying either the Wizardsget the first pick or the Jazz,
but I'm leaning towards.

(01:19:20):
I would say the Wizards wouldend up being the number one pick
in the NBA draft.
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
I like it.
I like it, can't wait to seeBrandon.
Well, thanks for giving yourfinal take here.
We appreciate that, my man.
We will be at King's next weekand then back in the studio the
final week.
So we will see you again in twoweeks, my man.

Speaker 7 (01:19:44):
Okay, all right.
All right, thank you.
Thank you, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
All right, fellas.
Well, hey, man, it's time toget out of here.
We're over time, so let's goahead and get on out of here,
man, you guys ready for nextweek?
Yes?
Sir man it's going to be crazy.
So, yes, again five ticketsleft.
You want to go ahead and jumpon that now.
Those are going as we speak, sowe will see you again next time

(01:20:11):
.
Until then, pick them, pros,we're out.
Thanks for checking us outLater.
Take us out in style, chuck.

Speaker 5 (01:20:19):
Going back for that nostalgic feel.
And you don't have to go home,but you have to get out of here.

Speaker 9 (01:20:25):
So let's play this song Bounce, bounce.

Speaker 5 (01:20:28):
Put your hands up, put your hands up, put your
hands up, put your hands up, putyour hands up, put your hands
up, put your hands up, put yourhands up Whoa.
Oh man, I gotta get it in theworst way.
I'm talking gold around my necklike I'm in first place.
I'm talking I mean, it's likeit's her day and all my homies
got my back like a vertebrae.
These knuckleheads going globalwith my shirt say she let me

(01:20:51):
for it for her first day dateand I ain't going back and forth
.
If it's her first date andgetting money, we ain't worried
bout her heartbreak.
Look, she don't want no otherguy Feeling like, yay, i'ma
touch the sky, sipping on my wet, rolling up the side, married
to the game, I don't wanna bribeWhoa, whoa.
She don't want no other guyFeeling like, yay, i'ma touch
the sky, yeah, sippin' on my wet, rollin' up his eye, married to

(01:21:14):
the game.
I don't wanna ride Whoa.
Look, I think it's about time togo.
I think it's about time to go.
I think it's time to go.
I think it's time to go To Mars, jordan.

(01:21:36):
The name Isal is a local namefor the city of Isal, which
means the city of Isal.

(01:22:02):
The name Isal means the city ofIsal.
Thanks for watching.

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