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- Greg: they used to like show video like scary straight videos of at school. Like we they showed it to us in like our classes. And for us at the time. It was like, of course, it was traumatizing. But. It's not like nobody disagreed from doing it, because at the end of the day, watching something is way better than doing real work. So really, fuck it, we'll just watch. Jax: In school? Greg: We'll watch Care Street. But they were like it wasn't like the 2000s versions. It was like the first re-editions like the 90s, 80s. The real. Jax: ⁓ when they're really scary. ⁓ What grade or whatever was this when they showed that stuff to Greg: I think I was like in the sixth grade or seventh grade. Yeah, I was like in middle like it wasn't high school. It was for sure like I was for sure middle school for sure like we it definitely had an impression on us. Jax: Okay, now we're gonna get in Yeah, I missed. What? In high school one time it was like dead ass three back to back to back days where somebody got caught with a gun in their locker. That shit was like low key. The person was like, oh, come on, bro. The second one was like really niggas. The third one was like my nigga. If A and B got caught in, see like what are we doing, bro? Dead ass three straight days niggas are caught with guns in their lockers. I was like, bro, y'all. Greg: Your first reaction is, come on, my nigga is crazy to a good. Because if I found out a guy had a gun. Jax: No, because like, they found, they weren't gonna shoot up the school. They found like guns and masks. Like they're gonna go rob people. Like our school wasn't a school shooter. My school is primarily black. don't, respectfully, we don't shoot up schools unless you, yeah, so I was like, I knew they wasn't gonna shoot us. And it was just like hand guns and stuff too. But it was just like dog. All three of y'all got caught with guns and masks. I think there was like, I don't even think they were like working together. This just so happened to happen. Greg: This is fair. Jax: I was just like, bro, you niggas so- Greg: No more high school. High school is more of like a drug problem. A drug problem like. Colleen's. No, I think well, I think first grade, I think first grade was first time somebody brought a butcher knife to school. I remember that. Like we was in it. That's bad, but. Jax: There was that too, don't worry about that. That was bad. ⁓ Like that's bad, but like you can see how like a kid would bring a butcher knife to school. Greg: Yeah, but it was just like, and on top of that, you in the first grade. I could disarm you, nigga. Jax: No, you can't. He's he's first grade, don't know what's going on. He's just moving wild, bro. He's a danger that can tell everybody else. Greg: Like, you have the strength? Hey, do you have the strength? Do you have the strength? Jax: Yeah, he had to strike, but he'll be flailing around, bro. Like, he don't know what's going on. He's first grade, bro. He's stupid. Greg: Yeah, it's stupid. And can you even reach a vital part of my body? If you catch me from behind, you catching a leg or something? Jax: Whoa, yeah, but that leg, that leg got all the martyrs. That's how us, that's how Sean Taylor died. They got him in the leg. Greg: Yeah, that's true. That's true, that's true. The leg is not my heart though. And I will beat his ass. Jax: They got arteries nigga, they got arteries. Greg: He gonna die with me. I'm taking that little. I will take that little nigga with me, but if I got to die. Jax: The first thing. Low key? Look, like it sounds crazy at first, but like low key, like I see what you're saying, bro. Greg: Like, come on, I can't let you live to see like, I know. Somebody got to learn the lesson. Jax: I don't care that you're... I don't care that you're what, seven? Or whatever the fuck? How old are you? Greg: You're like, yeah, first grade, you're like seven years old. Jax: Some sixes, I'm something like that, but I don't care that you're seven, bro. Greg: Yeah, yeah, you had a good seven years on this earth. Yeah, I hope you enjoyed it. What the fuck? This is why I can't be no teacher. This is why I can't be no teacher. Man, welcome back to another episode of the Play for Keys podcast. The only podcast. We do something different every single day, not an hour, not an episode. This is a daily thing. I'm your host, Greg. That is my host, Jax. Welcome to the show. Two straight weeks of us saying our names on the pod. know, shout out for me for remembering. All right. ⁓ If you're to this, like, comment, subscribe, all those things. And if you've been rocking with us for a minute. Donations. Donations. Jax: Praise God, praise God. Greg: Yeah, man, I was watching to be today I Can't say nothing bad about that show no more man. I can't I can't say nothing bad about that that app no more man They got static shock on there and I've been watching every episode Jax: those words. I've been seeing like 2B does have to, I just don't feel like, I'm tired of creating accounts for things, bro. I'm tired of giving things by email. like, bro, I just don't feel like. Greg: I haven't I haven't done any of that. I just downloaded it on the TV Jax: ⁓ you don't gotta make an account? ⁓ geez. Greg: No, I just I just clicked it and there's no ads. Well, I haven't seen an ad yet. Jax: Like I ain't never, I've never clicked on it. Like two beats on my, I never even clicked on it. So I don't even know. Greg: I mean, look, feel like it's like a glorified YouTube to a degree, but it's fine. It's like if if YouTube and HBO Max had fused each other because it has like random movies that are like, damn, like I haven't seen this on any other platform. But there's no ads. OK. But as soon as I say that. As will probably come at some point, if too many niggas are too many and too many niggas get tapped in on TV. Jax: I was like, they hear you now. They hear you now. Greg: I need to be, I need to be, I need people to still think 2B is trash. Cause right where is that right now? I'm fucking with it. Too many niggas get on there. I'm gonna start seeing ads. It's gonna fuck up. Jax: I don't even have a problem with the only only have problems with ads on like YouTube because YouTube's if he's like every If you want like an hour-long video or like a podcast or something be at like every five minute like that I hate YouTube got too many ads but like Hulu if it has ads I've had I'm fine with that. I Think my Amazon used to have ads and then it doesn't I don't know what happened Greg: Yeah, I'm not mad at that. I think when they ended up getting in that NBA TV deal, it was like, okay, we got the money to cover our ads. We don't need ads. Jax: Okay. Greg: And as we'll still play on Amazon Prime for the basketball game. So I'm missing out on shit. But yeah, I I need to tap in. Not the to be, though. That should be that shift for me. I'm out here. It's nostalgia. It's nostalgia, man. I haven't seen that cartoon in forever, bro. Good intros, good intros. But enough about that. Let's get to the. Jax: Yeah. Greg: Do not care about had to check and make sure it wasn't the Kendrick. The Kendrick. Even though it would make sense after we get done with stuff. Jax: Yeah? Greg: First things up. Iceman. Jax: Thank Greg: ⁓ Drake leaks have dropped or at least a leak. don't I know one confirmed leak. I know there's some other people dropping other songs. I don't know if those shits are real or if it's AI. You know, I don't I don't know. the but the one that I know is real. ⁓ 1 a.m. in Albany. Dropped last night. It was jokes. ⁓ hey, he's the bar. Hey, these the bars are this. I miss this. They could be barred up like this. Jax: Yeah. They are. was funny. I But I like Drake is funny, rather, Drake is funny derogatory, but also funny complimentary. I like Drake, even though all the other, I've always been, I don't have no problem with Drake. It's just fun to make fun of him. But no, I like the song. The thing he said, he was like, stop asking me about 23andMe. I'm a real nigga. he's not. That's it. Greg: Me. He's I'm a real nigga. He's not. Jax: Damn it. ⁓ Greg: That thing is funny, bro. Oh, yeah, he had a few. had a few other like one line of I was like, OK, drink, try to get in his bag for real. By the time this episode drop, I think the album would have dropped because I haven't been keeping up with the album drop, but it's supposed to drop sometime tonight or tomorrow or some shit like that. So. Well, you know, we'll see. We'll see how it goes, but. Jax: Yeah. Yeah, something like that. I hope it's good. Greg: Yeah, I hope it's good, too. And I have like. It'd be so funny seeing like niggas. Hey, like, hey, listen, like you have niggas that hate watch, but you have like niggas that hate listen, and I feel like that's so counterproductive if you really don't like his music, just don't don't listen to it. Jax: Yeah, if I don't like somebody means I'm not gonna if I don't like so I'm not going to Greg: Yeah, I was like, I would never hate. Listen, like, hate watching is one thing because that's sports related and you probably knocked out my favorite team. Now I got a roof on another team to get you off the pedestal. Yeah, you know, that's different. That's different. Hey, listen, you could like, come on, respectfully, there's not enough money. Well, let me not lie. But you but you couldn't really pay me to like listen to logic in twenty twenty six. I just don't like his music. It don't matter what that nigga drops. I don't want to I don't want to listen to it. Jax: and pull up like Dillon Brooks. Hahaha Now you can for sure pay me. I wouldn't like it, but you can pay me to listen to it. upset. Greg: I would prefer it to be a three digit number before I start. You know, except in my standards, I'm not you pay me $20 to know I'm not down that bad. I have $20. I got paid today. I'm OK. We're good. We're good logic. Don't even shows it was on the way. We're good. Yeah, we're we're so good. But, you know. Jax: Exactly, exactly. You Hahahaha Greg: Well, will people stop talking about Caleb Williams after this Iceman drop? No? Jax: not even close. might get... The Bears are going to... There's gonna be a lot of Kayla Williams over whatever Iceman song gets popular edits. It's going to happen. Greg: Not even close. That's gonna be Caleb William Eddard's over this Iceman album. Jax: feel like the Bears might post that themselves actually. Greg: Yeah, they might be on some Kevin and Rancher, you know. How'd that go? You know I had to bring that up. Jax: Yeah. Greg: Anyway, we do not care. Next things up, I think is our our last thing. Player polls have came out about refs and they have them in like a tier list of who they think are like elite refs versus who needs improvement. I don't know if you have it or if I have it, but you got OK, you got it. Sure. Jax: Yeah. No, I got it. I'm not going to go, because like we do not really care about this, but it's a lot of, it's a lot of quick, or at least from our perspective, be questionable decisions. Like they have Tony brothers who recently got into a, that was him with Chris Finch, right? Greg: No. Absolutely. Jax: of trying to fight the Timberwolves coach during the playoffs because Tony Brothers made a mistake. And then you have Scott Foster in the solid performance and Scott Foster is notorious for being terrible at his job and hating Chris Paul and having vendettas against teams. So it's very funny. But the funniest thing, I shouldn't laugh before I say this, there's... But just walk with me here. Greg: Come on now. Jax: There's only, like there are women referees now, but there are no women referees, goodness gracious, in the elite and top, there are none in the tier one. In the tier two where the solid performers are, there are two women referees. And guess what they look like, Greg? Greg: What do they look like? I don't know. Jax: This is one. Greg: Damn. Say it ain't say it ain't say it ain't Jax: Exactly. I used to work with her. This is the one. The other one, she's not as, as, uh, she's not as as the other one, but like, I see what, I see what you're doing NBA players. Y'all not slick, bro. Greg: Okay. Wait, these were the ones that were neat improvement or a solid. Jax: They're solid performers. and they're the only two women in solid performers. like, just, you look at them and like, of course they would put them there, of course. Greg: Did you did you did you look up any of the women that were in the need improvement? Jax: Yes, the findings were in line with what we're voting. Greg: All right, wait, let me see one of the neat improvements I need to see. Jax: Which one did I look good? ⁓ Nevermind, let me not be, let me not be me. Greg: He said, let me not be mean. Jax: I don't even know how to spell these names. I'm not saying these names, rather. But this is... Like this is season one who needs approval. So like you see where we're going with this. NBA players, y'all not asleep. That's all I'm gonna say. Greg: Right. NBA players. know what you are. I know exactly. know exactly what you are. But yeah, I just saw a pocket was I don't even think it was a podcast, but it was like a show on YouTube where. With Kenny, Kenny Beacham, you shout out to Kenny, but it was with he had Jalen Brown, who was notoriously like talking crazy about these refs. ⁓ Made a live stream about it. Grant Williams, Andre Iguodala. Jax: Exactly, bro. Thank Made a whole life turning back. Greg: who is part of like the Players Association stuff. Yeah, like he's part of like the Players Association, something something along those lines, but he has like one of those things. And I think Kenny asked him, like, what goes into like y'all talk about how bad a ref is or like a rep being shitty or not being able to do his job or whatever. What goes into like a good ref and. Jax: He's still, yo, like he does something with the NBA now. Greg: The overall consensus from all three NBA players was it's not necessarily like the accuracy of the calls because nobody's going to be 100 % on all the calls that they call. It's just the accountability factor. Or at least I want when I bring it up or we talk about it or whatever. And they actually go and say, hey, OK, like I didn't see I didn't see that angle at halftime when we do our review. I'll come back. Jax: Please. Mm-hmm. Greg: and tell you like, you know, where we stood on it or like if you were right or if I was wrong or, and if they were wrong, like they have that accountability and then that second half you can see like the end game adjustment of how it's being reffed or what angles or whatever the case may be without it being like a suck up thing like, like LeBron James say he got foul, so I'ma make sure that. Jax: Yeah. Greg: I get it's not one of those. It's just it's a sincere. It's a sincere like, OK, he's actively making adjustments just like coaches are making adjustments, everything else. You're calling it both ways. And he was just like, what makes a bad ref a bad ref is when they don't want to admit when they're fucking wrong about something. And then they just they just stay ten toes on stuff or scoff at the notion that, hey, can you review that play and then come back to me? And they're like, bro, fuck who are you? Jax: Next time, yes. That would also fit me though, so I could do it. Greg: Fuck off. Because we haven't had it to this shit or having the quick whistle to the technique is up, which is why a lot of people for some odd was not. guess it's not odd, but there's a reason why people fuck with Tony Brothers, because at least he'll go through that process like he's not going to bullshit it. If he is wrong, he is going to say he's wrong. I don't know how the Chris Finch thing happened. I don't know if he ever admitted if he was wrong or not or whatever the fuck that was. That was some crazy shit. Jax: I That was, I don't know what was going on with him, bro. Greg: I ain't ever seen a ref cut up like that ever in my life. Jax: Bro, literally everybody on the broadcast episode was like, nah, Tony brother was tripping, Everybody agreed. was like, damn, bro, I never seen nothing like that. Greg: ⁓ he was bugged. Yeah, like, but it's just like as much as I quote unquote don't like this nigga or find this nigga annoying. From niggas like from niggas like Jalen Brown to Dylan Brooks to like I have not seen even Jeff T. I have not seen an actual NBA player say I do not fuck with Tony Brothers. That's more of like a fan thing. Everybody in the NBA kind of fucks with with him, I guess. Now, Scott Foster, that's definitely a different story that. Jax: Exactly. That's why I'm surprised. Greg: I was surprised about that one. But, you know, who knows? PR is crazy. PR is fucking crazy. But enough about the things we do not care about. Let's get into the real meat and potatoes. Haven't said that a long ass time, but let's get let's dive into it. Quarterback season three had no clue that there will be a season three, but Jax has more info on it. I don't know what's going on. I don't know who's in it. That's just gonna have to explain it to me. Jax: Okay, I think you're gonna like these quarterbacks. Who are some quarterbacks that you like? Give me like three quarterbacks you would like to see before. Greg: Walk it down. Definitely not a scrub. I'm tired of like scrubs getting opportunities in video like a movie and stuff. ⁓ Jax: Thank Greg: Jane Daniels wouldn't be bad. Not even even a Caleb Williams, like I wouldn't be mad at one of those. I get him one. Maybe maybe maybe. In a perfect world, I would love to see a Jameis Winston, you know, that's that's just being, you know, that, you know, beggars can't be choosers. You know what mean? I feel like Matthew Stafford has already been on one. ⁓ Yeah, I think he's probably like on the first one or second one, maybe. I don't know. That just sounds like a familiar name. Or maybe I'm just confusing with Jared Goff, whoever. ⁓ I feel like Jack is cool. I don't know. ⁓ I'm not mad. Jax: You Thanks. All right. All right. Greg: Whatever, as long as it's not like below tier niggas. I don't want to see them. I don't want to see bad quarterback play. don't want the Marcus Mario this shit. I don't want to see that. Respectfully. Jax: Well, like I said, I think you're going to like this list and you'll be happy because Jaden Daniels is on the list. Now you got Jaden Daniels, Joe Flacco, Baker Mayfield and Ken Ward. And like Joe Flacco, he was sort of a scrub, but I'm interested because like he got traded mid season and he hooped out for, he didn't even hooped for real. Greg: Okay. Oh, so the oh, so this is from the previous. OK, I'm in my mind. I'm thinking they're recording these niggas for this upcoming season. OK, this changes. This changes everything. OK, because Joe Flacco has some moments. Joe Flacco has some fucking moments. He was in the Unction Bowl against Aaron Rodgers. He dropped. That was a fucking crazy game. He put up 40 points. He put up 40 points against the Chicago Bears when he was with the Bengals. Jax: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. If That game was crazy. That game was crazy though. Greg: He got traded mid-season. We get a chance to see a peak of Shador. ⁓ Cam War makes sense. I feel like Joe Flack was probably going to be a more entertaining Kirk Cousins of the aspect of what this role is in Netflix. ⁓ Jax: I see what you're saying. Greg: Baker Mayfield had he well, at least he had a hot start. I don't know how he ended, but he definitely had a hot start. It was like six and oh. Jax: And Nick Bakers is cool. he's a cool nigga, bro. Greg: You cool guy, you cool guy. Jane Daniels was going through injury, so that's more of the storytelling aspect of like life recovery. I think he did a good job. I think I like this. Jax: We'll see how much he's included because the injuries and stuff. I can't remember, it was like the season two or whatever, some quarterback was injured and they didn't really show him that much because of it. So we'll see how much they include Jayden Daniels. But no, I'm really interested to see how it turns out. Greg: Yeah, because all of these are all for these players. They have interesting enough stories. Yeah, they have good stories and they're not grubs. Like they had some kind of. They've had enough. Everyone has had a good, the great performance in this season. There's a highlight performance somewhere. Joe Flacco lit it up. Kim Ward, although he was playing some garbage time minutes like he didn't have. Jax: I have good stories. Like we know Ken Ward is good. just, he was just walking through the burning flames. Greg: Yeah, and his coach got fired midseason. Like, that's still a story. Yeah. I yeah. I don't know what I was expecting. ⁓ I know I wasn't expecting like a ⁓ I'm glad it wasn't like a Justin Herbert thing. Respectfully, I wasn't looking forward to that. I wasn't a minor Trevor Lawrence given how far they went, but I don't think people. Jax: So everyone think, doesn't this still work? Greg: I don't think so. Jax: I could be completely wrong, but. Greg: From for it to only be season three. In fact, I don't remember a lot of the QBs that were in it. That's just a lot. I don't know. What the fuck? ⁓ I think the problem is they they did that wide receiver thing, And now it's like there's other players that I'm thinking about, OK, I'm looking forward to this. Always like a good sports document sports documentaries getting a bag in July. I don't miss one. Jax: Yeah. Mmm, yeah. Okay, yeah. for sure. Greg: Yeah. Jax: But let's go, let's head out to the NBA, because that was really the only football topic for real. So let's go ahead and start with ⁓ the draft lottery. Yeah, because that happened Tuesday, maybe? Greg: Absolutely. ⁓ yes, no, no, it happened sunday our mother's day Jax: Same difference, same difference. But. Greg: Shout out to the mothers. didn't shout out the mothers last part, but shout out to the mothers. Shout out to the mothers today. Jax: you But yeah, the draft lottery happened and your Washington Wizards have the first overall draft pick. Greg: Okay. ⁓ yes. Jax: Utah Jazz got number two pick, Grizzlies three, Will's four. The Clippers got the fifth pick. We'll talk about that once I finish saying everything. ⁓ Nets got the sixth pick. Kings got the seventh pick, sucks to be Kings. Hawks got the eighth pick, that's interesting to me. Mavs got the ninth pick. Bucks got the 10th. Warriors got the 11th. OKC got the 12th, because of course. The Heat have the 13th pick and the Hornets got the 14th pick. Greg: Absolutely. Jax: Now circling back to the cleavers of the fifth pick, this is interesting because ⁓ they only got this pick because they traded Zubats and some, ⁓ just Zubats, okay. They traded this pick with the Indiana Pacers. That's how the Pacers got Zubats and the picks for the Pacers were protected. So if it landed in spots one through four, the Pacers would have kept the pick and if it landed. ⁓ Greg: You Super. No, this is super. top four. Jax: I think nine through 14, the Pacers also would have kept that pick. But because it landed in the fifth pick, that pick goes to the Clippers and it sucks for the Pacers because they wasted this whole entire season tanking after Tyrese Haliburton got hurt in the finals last year. And they're like, you know what? We're going to get this top pick. You know, we're going to get a high draft pick. It's going to be us and we're to have AJ DeBancil and Tyrese Haliburton is going to go crazy, alley-oops everywhere, high-flank offense. None of that happened. None of that. I'm gonna leave it there. Greg: Hey, that sucks. You know why sucks? they're, I don't know if it was their owner or the GM nigga went to Twitter. Apologize, apologizing to the fans. Talking about something I thought I thought the ping pong balls or the luck would be on our side because this is one of the few we thought we would do. We thought we were due and to their defense. mean, Jax: ⁓ I see. I thought we were due. Like that's not how any of you. Greg: This is one of the few franchises that's never had a number one overall pick in franchise history. So yes, this is the first time. This is the first time they committed to the tank and it went horribly. And now there's somebody in Indiana talking about, see, this is why we don't fucking take. And don't you worry. This will be the last time anybody drives the tank intentionally, because we're going to have different rules next year anyway. But man. Jax: Historically, they never even tanked for it. Like, they used to all just eat meat. We did. Greg: That right there. I think the first thing I thought to myself was. Was it impossible to get Zubak in the offseason? Like, was that an impossible thing to just wait until the offseason to go grab Zubak? Like, did you have to feel like you had to tie a first round pick? Jax: Why exactly did they, because I'll be honest, I wasn't tapped in all the way with the paces, it was taking. And also I don't care about the paces, but like, why did they, they were tanking. Why did they make this trade in the first place? Like, just suck. Greg: Yeah, I don't I don't see the trade deadline because they got they they gave not only to give them a pick, they gave them a pick and they gave them better than bathroom. I'm not saying that he's like some cold ass nigga, but. Jax: I get the giving of Matheran. I mean, I guess maybe they just felt like they had to get something back because they want like, because Matheran, wasn't for whatever reason, the coach and him weren't saying, don't know. Matheran is like good and everything. They just wasn't getting play in time. So I get why they gave up Matheran and everything. So, but like. Greg: Yeah. But like, Matheran and the first round pick, I'm like, damn, is Zubak that nice? Where you felt like you had to give up a valuable pick like that? Jax: Cause like I don't think Zubok isn't bad at all, but like, come on bro. Greg: Yeah, because they basically grab Zubak to replace, you know, Miles Turner and then in their mind, it's OK, you have a Zubak and whatever top four pick that is. That is a crazy roster that is that is a, you know, a scary roster when you got Tyrese Halliburton coming back. But I just feel like Zubak is not. Jax: Yes. Greg: A healthy A.D. either. Where it's like I see I see the vision of why you went all in while still protecting like a midseason trade sounds crazy. I don't I don't know about this, but from a Clipper standpoint. This is great. You get the fifth pick ⁓ after turning your season around because it was looking kind of crazy. ⁓ Now you have more of an excuse to move off of Kawhi Leather. Jax: I mean... Greg: and start off traditionally young, you already have Darius Garland. ⁓ You I mean, you could trade up. You could use that pick and find something else that I don't know. There's a lot of things. It just kind of depends on. You know what you want to do, but the future, just the future definitely got brighter with with the Clippers. ⁓ Atlanta being at eight. ⁓ shout out to the Pelicans. Jax: Who you want. Greg: Yeah, the Atlanta Hawks are not here without the Pelicans giving up a first round pick mind you this was for Derek Queen. All right. I don't know. Jax: Hawks, just go ahead and ahead and pack that pickup. Send to Sus, go ahead and get Jalen Brown back. I know this is what y'all really wanna do. Greg: ⁓ Honestly, ⁓ think ⁓ I loved the Brooklyn Nets selection. Loved that six. Did not need them in the top three. We gave them niggas their pick back. I'm glad it didn't. I'm glad you didn't get AJ DeMoss off of giving us giving them their pick again. I'm glad. I'm glad you have to settle for it. That could. Yeah, I mean, that could have been. Yeah, because we owned it from. Jax: you where some of the assets could have been in the rockets pit. Greg: Yeah, this is crazy. We owned it from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty seven and we gave them twenty five and twenty six back and we still have twenty seven back. We still have twenty seven. So they don't have their pick next year. That is the last pick all from the James Harden trade, by the way, who has gotten bounced from like three or four different teams since them. ⁓ Nets are in shambles. And the problem is they can't intentionally tank. Because. That's just not what we're doing next year. Jax: Yeah. Greg: So you can be competent, the Nets can be somewhat competent and then still end up with a top three pick and it still won't go to them. Crazy world we live in. I don't give a fuck about them. There's certain teams I don't give a fuck about. Like don't give a fuck that the Sacramento Kings got seventh. Jax: Okay. don't be knowing what's going on with the Kings, bro. They just perpetually just terrible except for that one light to beam year when everybody was happy and Mike Brown was there and then they blew that up and now they fucking came right. Yeah, bro. I don't know what the Kings got going on. I feel bad for the fans. don't know how they have fans still, but two, ⁓ if you are still a loyal Kings fan, I feel bad for you. Greg: and then they traded everybody up and then fired Mike Brown. So how am I supposed to feel bad? I feel I feel bad for that one dreadhead as nigga that we talked about with the second. That's the nigga I really feel bad about that nigga was driving an hour to 90 minutes to the games. That's a brother. I'm like, damn, you going through it. Yuck. The fucking Sacramento Kings. But. It is what it is. But I mean, biggest winners, because I feel like there's plenty of losers. I feel like biggest winners. Chicago Bulls. Jax: ⁓ yeah. Yuck. Yuck. Greg: Them getting them getting a top four pick, you know, they may not. It's one of those things where when you get the number one pick, there is pressure to make sure that you get it right. And you could get the one guy that out of the other three or four isn't as good versus being like a Chicago bull. And you just get the best of whatever is left. Like if you end up getting Caleb Wills, Caleb Wilson instead of Cam Boozer, then they're stuck with Cam Boozer. Jax: Yep. Greg: And then there's ties there because his dad used to play for the Bulls. So nobody's gonna be mad at that. If somebody grabs camboos beforehand, then you're stuck with Caleb Wilson. I don't think ⁓ Darren Peterson is gonna be at four. And I don't think AJ Demansa is getting past Utah. If the Wizards don't get AJ, best believe Utah is scooping that nigga right the fuck up. it... Jax: Definitely. I honestly think that the jazz might try, I've been seeing it floating around, but I think the jazz might do it. They're gonna try to trade up, swap out with the Wizards so they can get number one and go ahead and make sure they get AJ Devante. like, you know, like the whole reason he was even, cause he's from Boston, but then he went to, he finished his senior year of high school in Utah. That was because the owner of the jazz paid for him to come over there. Greg: Yeah. They've been the owner of the Jasmine Scout and this nigga since he was in high school for sure. Jax: Yes, he's been paying for that niggas life since he was in high school, bro. Like he's been running his family's move when he got to BYU and everything. That's why I'm like, I feel like I'll probably try and trade and give up. Cause Ace Bailey, originally wanted to go to the Wizards last season, but the Jazz were like, we don't give a fuck. We're going to take you regardless. Like trade Ace Bailey in that number two pick to the Wizards and maybe some other stuff. I don't know. And then get AJ DeBan to like, could, I could see that happening. Greg: Yeah, like they are going to do whatever it takes to get that thing advanced. I could see that happening too. Yeah, I'm not. And honestly. Honestly, if you really want to, you could low key, this is probably the last. This is probably the perfect time to package something up for Lori marketing. Because he's not on the same time. Yeah, like he's not on the same timeline. He's granted, he's still like 28, 29, but. Jax: Yeah. Look at how I just went and get straight a year ago, bro. Yeah, you know, I'm just like everybody else is like young Greg: It's like 22, 23. It's like, OK, well. And when you put AJ the bandstand there, it's like, OK, this is kind of kind of clogs things up. Send that nigga somewhere else. I don't know who he would be a good fit for, somebody can use him. Jax: Yeah, any team who wants, who needs scoring in a 6'10 white person can actually like dribble and move. Somebody's gonna want Louis marketing. I feel like people have always wanted Louis marketing. They just haven't made the trade for whatever reason. Maybe they're just waiting for now. So we'll see. Greg: I don't know. ⁓ man. Memphis being up there. Jax: It's going to make it easier for them to move on from job. Greg: We'll see how to, yeah, it just be a matter of like what their mindset is of like who they're gonna package or like who they're gonna like pick to be with the young quarter they have with the Memphis Grizzlies song. It'll be interesting. It'll definitely be interesting. Jax: But keeping an MBA, ⁓ I feel like we just have to say it one more time, Deramore is a liar. Greg: And I'll never be a part of an organization that he's a part of. Jax: If you do not, if you did not know Darrell Morey, who's of Rockets fame, Sixers fame, he's been in the NBA forever, big analytics guy. He's officially been fired as the president of basketball operations ⁓ by the Sixers after six seasons. And a lot of people are attributing this to, he's the one who traded Jared McCain to OKC. ⁓ he did this. ⁓ he did that. I just honestly think he's just bad at constructing teams, bro. He's been like this for, like, he gets lucky or like he'll look at like, I don't want to say he looked into James Harden, but like he sort of did look into James Harden a little bit. He got to Philly and B was already there and Harden was his man. So he brought Harden over there, but I just, I don't know. I've never been a big Daryl Morey guy. He sort of started this whole analytics revolution with maybe analytics revolution is wrong, but that whole like, ⁓ no mid ranges, only threes and layups and sort of messed up the way you can play basketball because of him. And I mean, it worked for a little bit with the Rockets, but like brother build a real team. You can't have a team with PJ Tucker as your starting center. So that's why I'm like, I'm not real. Greg: Yeah Yeah. Like you can't, yeah, you can't, yeah, can't do, like granted, there was a lot of luck and I think. Jax: And you can't give Paul George however fucking many millions of dollars you gave him. That's another fucking thing. Greg: Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. I think with him. I think one of the one of the first few things that I noticed when it comes to Darrell Morrie, at least what he was like with the Rockets, one, he don't give a fuck about no fucking draft picks and two, he does not care about young players like them. When there's a superstar already on the roster, he don't give a fuck about no young players. So him trading Jared McCain didn't necessarily surprise me. Jax: You Greg: I was just surprised of what he got back. And that was virtually nothing. I was like, okay, I thought you were gonna at least get something for this nigga. all right, that's kind of crazy. Jax: Cause it's you trade him to the Oklahoma City Thunder who's 15 deep are good enough to be a starter. Like respect you could, you could have tried to be like, Hey, can we get Aaron Wiggins who is a what six, girl who dropped 20 in the finals multiple times last year. And now in the play, he's still good. He just hasn't been playing cause they haven't needed him at OKC. But like you could, you could have done something like that, but no, you got draft picks, which I guess, but. Greg: I'm free nigga, was like yo, you didn't get nothing back? Something! And it's and it's just like you and like literally everybody. That was with the 76ers under his tenure is doing well with other teams in the fucking playoffs. We talk about Jeremy Kane, but them niggas had Isaiah Joe to them niggas had to. She had Penny and Tobias Harris. You had these niggas. All read. Jax: Mm-hmm. Yep. you guys. They had Julius campaign too. and Paul Reed, who's taking Dylan Duren's minutes now. Greg: You had these niggas. Jax: And Philly flamed out because they ran out of depth because everybody was sort of getting hurt. I mean, that's sort of like the MO of Philly. Everybody's always. Greg: Like, come on, So it's just kind of like, all right, everybody, like everybody understands him and on top of that, you can't be this and not a good people person. You're not good with player relations. Niggas hate you after you leave for some reason, unless your name was James Harden and then you even burned that fucking bridge. Jax: Yeah. Speaking of Tim McMahon, he did a story on Daryl Moore and he said, Daryl's arrogance has backfired repeatedly over the years. He wrote people the wrong way and his biggest failing as a basketball decision maker is he's never been a guy who valued or even frankly considered the human element, which is a damning thing to say about your presence of basketball operations. Greg: Absolutely. because he treat this shit like 2K. He treats general managing and basketball operations like it's 2K and everybody is disposable. He runs this shit like an owner. You're not an owner. Owners don't have to talk to everybody. They don't. And granted, speaking of owners, we definitely didn't talk about the updates on this trailblazing ass nigga, but we'll get to him at some point. Jax: Hahaha Greg: we'll get it. I don't know if it'll be this part or pod down the line, but we will get I forgot his name. ⁓ yeah. Yeah, Dundon. Yeah. Dundon for sure. Jax: Let's get to him now. What's his name? It's like Chris. Is this something like this? I hope it is. Tom doesn't never mind. Exactly, bro. All right, well, we sort of talked about this with all the cost cutting and all this other stuff he's trying to do. But now it comes out that Trouble is owner Tom Dunn who just bought the team, just bought the team recently. He wants to move the franchise to another state. My nigga, you just got here. Greg: Tom ⁓ is one of the white people names. One of them colonialized. Just... Just bought the team. Jax: And the Trailblazers are like, I don't want to say like a historic franchise, but they've been around for like, since what, the 60s or whatever, 70s maybe they've been around. They've had championships, they've had, NBA's, they've had like iconic players. Yeah. And now you want to move the franchise cause you're cheap. Like, what are we fucking talking about? Greg: Yeah, is, yeah. Yeah, Bill Wong. Jax: And like just a couple of years ago, this team, I mean, yeah, just a couple of years ago, this team wasn't even bad, bro. Greg: It wasn't. It definitely wasn't bad. And on top of that, like even when we first brought this up, I think one of the first things I said was some of these trailblazers fans feel like, they fear that this nigga is trying to move the team? This was before reports were even coming out. And he was just like, why would you be making these rash decisions? Why would you be this extra cheap? This kind of like outrageous if you're not trying to make excuses on moving this somewhere else. That's why niggas got on the Dallas Mavericks so hard when it came to trading Luka Doncic because nobody in their right mind just trace Luka Doncic without it being like, ⁓ you're just trying to move the team to Vegas or you're just trying to get a casino into the Dallas whatever. And that still might be true. But people don't talk about it because Cooper flagged in my calm shit down. But to give up the trailblazers is like the problem with this is that Jax: Yep. Greg: He's trying to like flex his powers or like he's trying to we can move. And the first of all, the four locations that he like thought about were places I wouldn't even want a fucking team. Jax: One was still in Portland, but like a random ass place. I can't even, let me see. Greg: Yeah, I think three of them was Nashville, Austin, Texas, and fucking ⁓ some random city in Michigan. Timbaloo or Timbalo, I forgot the name of that city. I forgot the fourth one, but it's just like. These are. No wonder, niggas, that's. Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jax: Something like that, yeah. Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo. I didn't know that was a real f- I've heard that word before. I didn't know it was a real word. I didn't know it was a real name of something. But Kalamazoo mission. Greg: Kalamazoo is the equivalent of me saying like West Bumblefuck when I'm talking about an Alabama city. Like, what are we talking about? What are we talking about? That's why I think it has I think he has beef over like what he's trying to get renovations for the stadium or something. He's trying to pay for like a new state, something that the city is not trying to do. And it's just like, first of all, you cheap, but you want to get the city to buy or purchase some shit like, come on, gang. Jax: Thank you, bro. Greg: What are you doing? There's too much history in Portland for you to just be uprooting this bitch. Jax: But I mean, people, I don't remember it, but people probably saying the same thing about Seattle. Tell me, oh, it's too much history. So I have a really hard time believing that they're gonna move the Portland Trail Blazers. So especially to a fucking Kalamazoo, Michigan. I know they're not, doesn't want a team. I'm 90 % sure Austin does not want a basketball team. Texas already has too many teams in the first place. And then. Greg: Damn, you know what look. Yeah His hockey team? And Austin Austin is okay with being the college town of like university nothing nothing's going to be better like nothing's going to be prioritized over University of Texas bitch. They got Archmanny right now The niggas up they don't fucking care about no basketball. ⁓ I would cuz it's what his team. What is this team? ⁓ his team was a This is the floor not the floor the Panthers isn't a team in Carolina Jax: Yeah, I was just going say, because... UT. Exactly. Oh, you're talking about the hockey team? I think it is the Florida Panthers. I think it is the Florida. Greg: Is it OK? I didn't know if you own the Florida Panthers or if you owned the Carolina Hurricanes. ⁓ Jax: Maybe it's my fault. Carolina hurricanes. does. Greg: It is Carolina. The only yeah, Carolina Hurricanes, he he bought that back in like twenty eighteen and they're like still in the playoffs. They're still driving. I'm surprised he didn't like. He didn't like his mission wasn't like moving it closer to wherever the hockey places I granted. I understand that the Charlotte Hornets are still there, but the places he's like suggesting are like. All across the United States, like that nigga just Jax: Yeah. Greg: It looked like that nigga just threw darts at a map and said, hey, these are the three I'm thinking about moving them to. I don't see the correlation in any of this shit. What ties do you have to Austin, bitch ass nigga? Jax: Let it in. What time do you have the Kalamazoo? What time does anybody have the Kalamazoo, Michigan? That's not a real place. Like, I guess, Greg: in Nashville when Memphis is still there. Jax: You just, he just said Nashville cause he heard LeBron talking about it. He was like, Oh, now it's like, shut up. Greg: Yeah, when the last time that nigga been in Nashville. That's fucking crazy. Jax: Thank you, bro. But all right, let's get to the playoffs, though, because a lot has happened since the last time we recorded, I feel like. ⁓ Two series concluded, ⁓ and two are getting pushed to game six, I believe. Yeah, so let's go ahead and start with the most important one for many reasons. Actually, let's with the least important one, actually. Greg: Yeah. Yeah, two sweeps. Yes. Jax: The Knicks murdered the Philadelphia 76ers. This final game they played, it got really bad, really fast. They beat them 144 to 114, and with all due respect, the game wasn't even that close. It just got out of hand real fast. ⁓ Belt to ass in every way, or form, but I mean... Greg: I ain't crazy. Jax: Shout out to the six of them even getting this far. Because I know they really just wanted to beat the Celtics, because they hadn't done that for years. that was sort of like their Super Bowl. I don't even mean that in a derogatory way. I mean that in a real way. They were really trying to do that. So that was their Super Bowl. VJ Ed Come he went crazy in these playoffs as a whole like he didn't play bad. He played better than a rookie would be expected in this situation. Embiid he was able to resurrect himself multiple times from the dead to play in these playoff games. So it was an unexpected season for the Sixers I feel like. ⁓ Greg: I mean it in the dark. It was a better better than expected season because I didn't even expect them to be in the playoffs. If I'm being honest, I thought they would have gotten. Yeah, like as soon as Paul George got suspended for 25 games and an NBA was in and out the lineup, I was like, like, OK. Yeah. And then you trade Jared McCain in my mind. I'm like, yes, it's over. It's over. It's over. But they, know, they turned that switch on. Got it done with the Celtics. Jax: I thought it was gonna be all bad. you Yeah. Thank Greg: And, know, I, you know, unfortunately I do have to give flowers and kudos to the Knicks. Them Knicks been shooting the shit out the fucking ball. They've been blowing Knicks out. I don't know what happened when they got down 2-1 against Atlanta. They've been shooting the shit out the ball ever since. They've been blowing out games left and right ever since they, ever since whatever. I don't know if they had a come to Jesus moment. Knicks is whooping. ⁓ Jax: And what? They said never again. Yeah. Greg: Deuce, if it's not Jalen Brunson, it's Deuce McBride. If it's not Deuce McBride, then Carl Anthony Townsend is doing this thing. So we'll see. Jax: Yeah, I right. He's right. He made seven threes last game or this game Brunson made six like they were shooting. Greg: No, they were shooting. I think they I think they tied or broke the record for most most made threes in an NBA playoff game with 30. I was like, geez. Geez, that's a lot of fucking threes. And they kind of got they kind of got off the gas pedal in the third quarter because I'm like, bitch, we are 40. Let's pull our guys. So. Hopefully, they're going to have at least a week off. I mean, yeah, at bare minimum, if not longer. Jax: Please. Yeah. Yeah. Greg: Depending on how this Pistons Cavs series pans out. You know, we'll get to all of these in a few but You know before we get off of this did you ⁓ did you hear that that? conversation surrounding ⁓ Everybody's opinion surrounding Joel and beat and his son at press conferences How they don't fuck with that What are your what are your views on that? Jax: ⁓ yeah. Yeah, I agree. Greg: ⁓ You don't want kids at Prestridge? Jax: Yeah, because like the whole argument, people were saying that people would bring their kids to the press conference, specifically after a loss. And they would like use that kid as like a shield. And I think we sort of, I think we might have talked about it. Maybe not, I don't remember. We talked about on the podcast, but like Nick Sirianni he did this after like a tough loss like he brought like two of his kids went into a press conference game after he was lost and people was getting on his ass about that so like I do sort of agree with that but then also it feels sort of and like this is why it worked is like even be saying this I feel sort of like like an asshole saying like no you can't bring your kids up here but like that's how you know it works because it makes me feel bad even though I shouldn't because I'm not doing nothing wrong but I do agree Greg: Man, what? Jax: You can't be bringing your kids to these press conferences, bro. Greg: This said, hey, I think my personal opinion was. If it's good for the goose is good for the get it like. If it's cool for niggas as winning, it should be cool for niggas as losing. If you want to say, hey, don't bring kids regardless, I'm cool with that. I'm fine with getting these kids. I'm good. I'm good with even if you win. Hey, you'll get these kids out of here. If that's your problem. Fine. If if y'all leave his hand, y'all can bring kids. I'm also not opposed to that. What I am opposed to is being OK with winners and not being OK with losers because the explanation and reasoning why people are saying, like while some people are like, ⁓ my god, like, you know, he's using it as a he was like, he's using it as a a shield, like, you know, like. Jax: You don't want like they they're like, you don't want to ask them a hard question when you got this in right. Greg: You know, these awkward questions. I'm just saying, like, what questions were you going to ask that would make you feel uncomfortable if a kid was in front of you? Like, I'm trying to figure out what is the question that's making you feel uncomfortable? Jax: No, like you don't want to go as hard. You don't want to like go as hard or you could be or it could be a question even like, hey, are you do you think you're going be? Greg: What hard ass question you gonna do? Jax: But one question you could ask is like, could be, oh, do you think you're going to get traded and blah, blah, blah? And then the kid might not know. He'll be like, oh, my daddy, are we moving? And bullshit like that. So I could see something like that happening. Greg: Okay. Yeah And you know and I know and you know what people you know what reporters need to start doing Standing on fucking business and stand on a fucking nuts You know who don't have problems like this New York media because the questions gonna get asked regardless You want to keep getting you and you want to keep kids out of pressers? ask questions Keep asking them fucking questions you okay. I think this is the problem that I think a lot of people this this is the ⁓ Jax: What? But everybody in New York's an asshole. Greg: What do call it? This is the the quiet part that people are not saying out loud. These some of these reporters, some of these people, and I'm not saying everybody, but some of them fuck with the relationship that they have with said player, whatever. And they they're afraid if they ask a certain question that they're not going to get invited to that all white party like they was originally two, three months, you know, whatever. Jax: Very good. Yeah, there is a level of relationship management in all of this. Greg: And they're trying to protect relationship. It's just like being a real reporter. Fuck all that. I know you're not going to do fuck all that, but like if you're reporter like. That question was going to be awkward regardless if the kid was there or not, that player was still going to feel uncomfortable with that question regardless. Me personally, I don't necessarily mind a kid being there because at least in my mind. If I'm a reporter that somewhat gives a fuck. My logic is OK, if he has his kid, the. ⁓ the likelihood of this nigga cussing me the fuck out next to him next to his child is a lot more slimmer. He might give me a more controlled. ⁓ Response to my dumbass question versus him being by himself. Jax: Hahaha Greg: He's like, the fuck you thinking? Now you're getting the sound bite and now it's, it's what, maybe that's what you want. Maybe you want the clicks and views, maybe you want the engagement or whatever, but it's like, okay, like in my mind, I'm like, okay, that kid might be helping you, nigga, I don't know. The kid might be helping you from, you know how Joel and B give it up, nigga slammed a reporter. Maybe you need that kid. Yeah, no, no, that reporter was crazy as shit. That was crazy. Jax: Yeah, that report deserved that. ⁓ But moving on to the other sweep of the playoffs, the more important series in my opinion, the Thunder, because LeBron is in it. It's a whole thing. But the Thunder, they swept the Lakers. Final score of the game for was 115 to 110. I'm not going to hold it. The Lakers, they tried. They was trying their ass off, bro. Greg: That crazy. more important? What the fuck? Word. We do not care. Jax: You want to take this? Greg: Fuck. I was lost. It was a snooze. I mean, like they tried their best in game four. This whole series was a fucking snooze fest. Anything with OKC before getting into the Western Conference finals has been a fucking snooze fest from start to finish. ⁓ The highlight of game. No, Jax, the highlight of game four was a new Dillon Brooks meme. Jax: it works. I mean, I don't want to say it's useless. Greg: That was the highlight. That was a cool meme though. I fuck with it. But still. Jax: Personally, I think AJ Mitchell was the highlight of the series. But that's just my opinion. That's just my opinion. Because he's emerging in the playoffs as somebody who, I've seen somebody say, ⁓ he's better than Lamello Ball, which is a crazy thing to say just because like, he just started doing this. You can't just do that. like. Greg: fair. ⁓ Hey, AJ, AJ finna get AJ finna get Jalen Williams traded at some point. If you keep it up, you finna get J. Doe traded, bro. Because when that when that when that money start kicking in, because you all paid that nigga nicely. They be like, hey, who won them? And who gonna say no to Jaylon Williams? That's a good player. Jax: Who's going to say no to any of these? Well, Darrell Moore, he'd say no. He'd say no to these players, actually. Greg: actually say fuck no. We gave you Isaiah Joe and and a light skin. But don't worry. Hey, Seattle supersonics, Las Vegas, do your jobs. Attack this franchise. Do your job. Do your job and draft in this franchise, my nigga. Jax: ⁓ they're going to They're going to get... But since this series was a snooze fit, well first let me ask, do you think LeBron James is retiring this off season? Greg: After the end of this game, I thought, yes. But the more I hear this nigga talk and the more the more this nigga start talking about, I'm gonna speak to my family. I think he has one more in him. I don't think he's leaving. I think he's gonna stay with LA. He doesn't seem like a nigga that's trying to move just for one year. Jax: I think Greg: Like this Cleveland fantasy died when that nigga started talking shit about Nashville. That nigga said, I hate playing it. I hate playing one. I hate playing at home, too. I don't like playing in Cleveland either. It's snowing. I'm like. That nigga's at the end of the day, this nigga's 41. That nigga is too adjusted to the L.A. lifestyle. I feel like he's going to retire a Laker. I just don't see him. They want they got this nigga tied to the New York Knicks, the Cleveland Cavaliers. I just don't think he got it like that. I don't think he wanted. Jax: He's not going to I'll tell you that much, right? He is not going to New York. It's way too late for that shit. It's way too late. Greg: It's right here. Yeah, yeah, Cleveland. I'm not seeing it. I could be wrong. You surprise me. Jax: Like, I really do think he's going, because I think there's been like a couple of stories that have been put out recently about how, ⁓ LeBron's felt unappreciated by the Lakers and stuff like that. So I could see him going to Cleveland. I think that's what he's going to do, frankly. But ⁓ there's also been a lot of discourse around, it's not on to pick your brain about it, about whether or not the Lakers' tenure for LeBron has been a success. What would you say it's been? Greg: I don't see how it would be anything but a success. I mean, could it have been better? Of course. I mean, it could have been better with Miami, and they won two. But I would consider Miami a successful thing. I don't think anybody would call Cleveland a failure. And they only won one championship. They're a lone, only championship of that franchise. Jax: That's why Cleveland is my favorite, because this is a weak-ass city. So of course that one championship is going me alive. Greg: Week, week as city, week as city in your football team is week two. ⁓ You have nothing to. Jax: Exactly. So like he really changed. He literally changed these niggas lives in Cleveland. Greg: He changed his fucking niggas life. ⁓ my God. Yes. And when it comes to the Lakers, I think there have been plenty of NBA players that have came through the Lakers and did not did not give that team a championship. OK. Now, is he the greatest Laker of all time? No, of course not. Why would we ever? I don't think anybody's debating that, but I don't think I would call an NBA champion. A failure. Jax: What's that? Greg: That's kind of crazy. I don't care. don't care. I don't like do they call Kevin Garnett's tenure a failure with the Boston Celtics? And they have mad championship. They have mad championship DNA. They're the only ones that go back and forth with the Lakers when it comes to championships. Do they call Paul Pierce a failure? Do they call Kevin Garnett a failure? Do they call Ray Allen a failure? Jax: See, I think, and failure is a very strong word, so I don't necessarily want to call it a failure, but I don't really feel like it's been a success as well with the Lakers. Yes, that championship, I think the championship was a success, because an objectively great thing. People want to, ⁓ Mickey Mouse and blah, blah. Regardless, no matter what, they won that championship. They deserved that championship. They got that championship. I think it hasn't really been a success though, because initially, like the way the Lakers had tried to set everything up, it just completely fell apart, because they wanted to get LeBron in there and then have Auntie Davis. Like in their mind, LeBron was going to fall off. He was going to fall off. Like LeBron, he still ain't fall off. Never lost. He's Levar ball. Greg: Never once. Yes. Jax: But like they thought he was gonna fall off. doesn't fall in the way in Lakers mind. They got LeBron and AD and they're like, okay, the bronze gonna fall off a little bit and they're gonna have Andy Davis. He's gonna step up and be the next great being in the line of Lakers big and we can go out and win another championship and then LeBron retires right off to the sunset. We build around AD that didn't work. And then they somehow finessed the matter not even. Well, yeah, I was like, I'm Greg: They didn't they didn't they didn't finesse. They just gave them niggas that like they didn't have to do no work. They just had to say yes or no. Jax: Yeah. Yeah. So like they got Luca miraculously and they're like, okay, boom. Now we have LeBron James and Luca Nantes and this other white boy Austin Reeves. He's getting cold right now. We can possibly build something around this. And then we got this new coach JJ Reddick. But, and I think this is more of a Rob Pelinka, really all of this is a Rob Pelinka film. Except for the Luca Nantes. That's the only good thing Rob Pelinka has done with the Lakers for real. Greg: Wait. And it took that nigga no effort. It took that nigga zero effort. All, all, all Rob Pelica had to say was, oh, you dead ass. And from there, after that, that nigga went to work. Jax: Bye bye. For real? Like, you for real? Oh shit! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, Greg: ⁓ fuck. Because niggas niggas not understanding like like niggas did not know what the latest future was looking like for a hot minute. So Jax: Exactly. And I think them getting Luca, but they still like, even with the Luca, Don't you think it still hasn't worked out? Cause like they haven't built a good enough team around them. So that's why I'm like, it's very underachieving, underwhelming. Cause you would expect it to look a little bit better than this. Cause like, no, like you talk about a KG and Paul Pierce and all that, like none of them had like the cache that LeBron James comes with. Like none of them had like the crate, like they want to win championship. Yes, that was their goal. They ended up doing that, like. None of were LeBron James. And LeBron, he came to the Lakers, he was like 32, 33, something like that. like. Greg: Hell nah, he was like 35. Jax: You got the Lakers? Because he's 41 right now. He's been with the Lakers for eight years. So he's 32, 33. It's something he was around. It seems weird, but that's how old he was. But that 32, 33, that's not a normal 32. That's LeBron James 32, 33. So he's still not in his prime, but he's still one of them ones. A top five player to name it. Greg: Yeah. I don't know. Yeah Yeah, won. Yeah, and he won the championship like when he was like 34, 35. Jax: Yeah, so. Greg: or 3536 or whatever. Okay. Yeah, okay. So that's usually me. Yeah, that's it. Jax: So they just otherwise it's been underachieving. So I do think I do think this is going to be his last season with the Lakers though. I can see him trying to do one more season in Cleveland to finish it out. Cause I think Cleveland got something good going on. I don't think they're going to make it to the finals, but they got Donald Mitchell. They got James Harden. If he continues to stay there, LeBron, it will be a great addition. They just need some. Greg: Yeah, I can see. Jax: A little bit more athleticism defense around that because LeBron James Harden and Donald Mitchell don't really defend because Donald Mitchell is small and LeBron and James are old. So then you get that figured out. But I think LeBron will be a good addition to the Cavs. Greg: Yeah, I mean, think it's all about what people consider a success. I think a lot of times when people talk about the success tenure of like LeBron with the Lakers, they put more on LeBron and not enough on Lakers organization. Because how do you win a championship like that and then implode it? Jax: That Lakers, like the Lakers are really low, high key, poorly run franchise. They just have the Lakers name. Greg: It is a poor leader. Yeah. And like LeBron James was like a great cologne and deodorant for the bullshit that they were. And when he got there, Luke Walton was the fucking coach. And we know how, I mean, yeah, it's Luke Walton. Yeah. Luke Walton was the fucking coach. All right. Y'all had some dark ass years after Kobe left. When Kobe retired in 2016, from 2016 to 28, 2016, was fucking bad. Even, even, even the last years of Kobe's was bad. Jax: Yeah. It was bad. the last few years of COVID was really bad as well. Like people don't really remember. That was a while ago, people seem to have forgotten about it, but the Lakers were in the dumpster, respectively. Like they were starting like Robert Sacre and like Jordan. Remember like, wasn't there one game I think everybody on the Lakers fouled out or like all their starters fouled out? Like, it was bad, it was bad. Greg: 2014. Yeah. Yeah. D. Lowe D. Lowe and Nick Young. Like. What the fuck. Magic John. Magic Johnson said I'm not going to be here like that. was fucking comedy which is why y'all cannot gaslight me and say there was not any truth in that winning time ⁓ thing on HBO Max because these niggas is comical. These niggas comical as fuck. Jax: That whole fucking scandal, like... you Yeah And they've been like that for years. It must just run in the family. They started with the daddy and just continued to the whole family, bro. Lowkey is never gonna happen. They need to do like a winning time with the cowboys. It's never going to happen, but that will be. Greg: Like decades, nigga, what the fuck? It just yeah, fucking bad. ⁓ yeah. Jerry would have to die. Jerry, Jerry would have to die. OK, Jerry would probably green like that, bitch. It probably won't. It probably wouldn't. What's it called? It. I feel like Jerry Jones don't give a about that. I feel like. The people that are around Jerry Jones will put a halt to it before Jerry Jones was out to it. Anything that makes Jerry Jones money, he don't give a fuck about, like he really don't care. Jax: It'd make him look bad. Yeah. Greg: That nigga was in Arkansas with the riots. Niggas just slipped out under the rug. Like, people don't address that enough. Jax: Had that nigga 4K in the background like, ⁓ my. Greg: That was wildly. They get on your. But I think if he died, then I think it would be a lot harder to get that shit off because Stephen Jones and other other niggas that have, you know, they have a lot more humane aspect to the Jerry Jones name. We don't want to do that. Like, let's stop this from happening. But if it was the Jerry, they be a fuck it. Put a decent cast together. Jax: Thank Greg: So wood hair is gonna be there? Wood hair is gonna be what? Jax: Hahaha Having played Jerry Jones. What? Greg: Whoa, why? Who is this nigga? Who is this nigga playing me? Jax: to Greg: Yeah, they do need to. What would they call it? American team? I feel like that's been used as a name before, though. Jax: I don't know what they would call it. They figured something out. Greg: They'll figure something out. think it still need to happen. It's like you teeter the line between because for every winning time, there's a clip and we just need to make sure that this shit goes well. That's in life for every winning time, there's a clip, nigga. Jax: you Think about it. Think about it, forever. Think about it. Greg: NNNN Yeah, well. Jax: All right, do you wanna talk calves next or spurs next? Who's the one? Greg: Spurs next. This thing was like throwing elbows and shit. Jax: Let me pull it before we talk about that. But Spurs have the upper hand on the Timberwolves, I believe. They're up 3-2 in the series. The last game, the Spurs whooped the Timberwolves. got ugly real fast. They beat them 126-97. But that's not really the big story. The big story is that Wimby played this game. And you will end up like, why does play every game? He don't really play every game because he'd be getting hurt sometimes or be hitting the ground, his head be bouncing off the court sometimes. the game before this one, game, and four, yes, game four. I should have had the video. I did not, my fault. But Wimby elbowed the fuck. Wimby elbowed the shit out of Nadri on purpose, as in. Greg: Or, yeah, yeah, four. Jax: Like they've honestly they've been sort of bumping up and roughing wouldn't be up all game being physical with them. That's how you sort of throw him off because he's as big as he is, he is still sort of skin so he can be pushed around a little bit. And when we you know he had enough of that and he was backing down Nas read. Then he was like, you know what? He looked at him first. Do is ever hardest. Boom that nigga Nas read hit the ground. It was almost, Jayden McDaniels almost put that in the game, had like, and he's like, no, let me think, let me not do it. He didn't do it. They ended up rejecting Wimby because duh, just flagrant too, you literally elbowed him in the face. So Wimby got on purpose, on purpose. didn't, like he looked at him and then he threw the elbow. It was clearly a purposeful act. And yeah, he got thrown out the game. The Timberwolves ended up winning that game. Cause you know, no Wimby makes it easier, of course. Greg: Right. The flavor of two of that nigga is insane. He looked at that nigga and then swung his elbow. Absolutely. Jax: And when we ended up playing, a lot of people say he shouldn't, when we shouldn't have played this game was following him. shouldn't have played game five because they were like, Hey, normally if a flag or two happens, there's like a suspension after it, especially if an egregious one like that. Cause I used to see Draymond, I think he, what'd he do with him on deep? He puts LeBron in the balls or did he step on LeBron? Greg: Game five. I would doubt those grigis. What what what hasn't dream on done ⁓ Jax: Nevermind, good point. But in the Dramaline, he got suspended the game in the finals for doing similar shenanigans and things like that. So it was just like, and then I think somebody also pulled up a whole lot of other instances where similar things happened and people were suspended or fired from this. Wimby, didn't get nothing. No suspension, no fine, no nothing. Do you think he suspended? Greg: I can see why he wasn't suspended. That's not like a... Jax: But I get why, it's Adam Silver, he want odds in game. I don't know, do you think he got suspended? Because that's reason I think that he got suspended. But why do you think he didn't get suspended? Greg: Not even like not even from like a ratings perspective like honestly No, I mean, like, obviously ratings play a part of it. But like even I can make a case for it being like a non ratings thing. Like, for one, because everybody keeps bringing a dream on. For one, this is a first time offense. This is a first time offender. All right. And that throughout that whole 2016 run, that nigga was kicking niggas in the nuts all throughout the playoffs. Kick Steven Adams, all that shit. Oh, and then. Jax: Yeah. ⁓ No. Greg: He didn't course correct the behavior afterwards either. So you slap in niggas punching niggas in practice like I think Draymond is a bad example for a lot of these scenarios. I think niggas need to stop bringing his name up. But when he was a first time offender and then on second one, the second one that I didn't really think or I didn't really. ⁓ Jax: Thank Greg: even think about was the fact that it happened very early in that game. It was like the first or second quarter of that game. Like he missed the majority of that game because he elbowed that nigga pretty early. So in their mind, that felt like a one game. Like that kind of felt like a suspension in itself. Low key for somebody that's a first time offender. ⁓ Not saying not saying that you couldn't find a reason to suspend. Of course, there's plenty of reasons to suspend them. Jax: Yeah. Greg: But the combination of him being a first time offender, the combination of him ⁓ doing this early in the game. So like he missed the majority of the game. And on top of that, we talk about ratings. Yeah, I can see why. Now, one thing I can't defend. I thought he was going to least get fined. I was OK. He going to get a good ass little fine. That didn't happen. That's why my dad, you know, motion is crazy. Jax: Yeah. His whimmy's NBA now, bro. said, and he was like, you want to go find one? said no. Greg: Hey, motion motion is crazy because I wouldn't have been mad at. OK, just give them a fine. That's fine. Like, there's no need to suspend this nigga if you won't find him because I didn't see niggas get fined for less and more. So. Less and more so. Yeah. I mean, I'm. I think the only reason why people are not putting up too much of a ruckus is the fact that we want to see this nigga play basketball. Jax: Yeah, yeah, let's aim more. Greg: So and Adam Silver knows this too. So yeah, niggas gonna bitch moan and complain. But at end of the day, niggas gonna see one of on that goddamn court. Now if he do some shit like this again, they gonna throw the book at his ass though. For sure. Like they, it's over for him. Jax: for sure. Now, ⁓ how do you still have this series coming out? Do you think the ⁓ Spurs got it still, or you think the Timberwolves are gonna come back? What do you think is gonna happen in the series? Greg: ⁓ shit. ⁓ you got it. You got it in 4K. Hey! Jax: Yeah, I had to find it. But yeah, here's the elbow. Greg: Look at everybody behind him. Everybody's facial expressions. Jax: Then what happened was like, ⁓ shit. Mike Conney like, hey. Greg: My goodness. Jax: No suspension, no fine, the motion is crazy. Greg: He looked like he got bony elbows that shit you could kill somebody nigga. You could have killed that nigga. That was the throat Jax: You could have killed him. Alright, but who did you say you got in the series still? You still got Spurs? Greg: ⁓ spurs and seven. I think Anthony can get one more. Like I'm saying like, it's something about this timber was team bro like, I think their whole their whole comp like their whole thing is Jax: Thank you. I just wish it was healthy, God. Thank you. Greg: is like, you're a bitch. Like their whole mentality is is either. I think you're a bitch or you think I'm a bitch and I can't go for that. So I got to let you know that I'm not a bitch. Like, that's how they play basketball. Like you. I'm not no hoe. So like in the last week, when the last pot, I'll say they shouldn't be winning. This should be a sweep. But ain't no hoe. And I feel like that energy translates and trickles all the way down. Jax: the end. Greg: from one through 15 through all these niggas. And then JD McDaniel continues to like be a, I don't give a fuck ass nigga too. So it's just like, damn. Jax: Yeah. Wasn't it, wasn't it Ant that said like, I'm not getting swept? He said that like a couple of years ago in the black. He's like, yeah, I'm never going to get swept. And he ain't been swept yet. Greg: And not yet. I don't. It's hard for me to say he would ever get swept unless he's like old. But I'm saying, yo, I go out if I can overcome some shit like this, uncomfortable conversation will be had by me. I'll be I will be I will be pushing some crazy agenda, this nigga. Jax: Yeah. I just, man, I just want them all. I wish everybody in this series was healthy, because I promised you it would be, because Ang is still going crazy, but like, you can just tell it's not the same. He's not as fast. He's not dunking on niggas like he can, so it's. Greg: Like you saw, like you saw, like you saw, I don't know if he told, if he overheard him talking to Dillon Harper or one of them niggas on the spurs. He said, you lucky I ain't healthy. I would have boomed on your ass. I would have dunked on you nigga. You know that. Jax: Yeah, he was like, man. There was a couple of times when like, damn bro, like when he sells for layups and they get blocked, I'm like, damn, if this was like a couple of months ago, that would have been a dunk, he have dunked on that thing, but he's heard, bro. Greg: Like I'll fully healthy and he gonna try to he would have tried to put when we do the fucking rim Jax: That's what I want to see. mean, Julius Randall don't want to be, but it wasn't that. Greg: It was not but like and we'll get up there. Jax: It was low key a crazy dunk, but it ain't get no love. I'm not gonna lie to you. They low key treated how they did with LeBron when he got dunked up. Greg: They just kept going fast. They be passing the ball out real fast. Yeah, we didn't see that. Get the black fans. We didn't see that shit. Yeah. But yeah, I still I think I have the Spurs in seven. think I think Ant-Man gets one more, but I don't think they're going to win. In San Antonio, I wouldn't put money on it. Jax: And then the last series we got, the Cavs and the Pistons. This turned out to be a series for real. Greg: Yeah, man, shout out to him. Out the heart. Jax: James Harden bounce back, I guess he had 30, but it was like an ugly 30, but it was 30 nonetheless. Cade had a 39. It was not an ugly 39. He hoop like crazy as usual. But still the cast ended up winning this one in overtime. Low key, it shouldn't have went to overtime. Felt like the end Jared Allen sort of tripped. Who was it? He tripped Asar Thompson and that shouldn't have been a foul, but it wasn't like. Greg: I'm sorry, Realistically, no shade. That still probably would have got you it over time. I ain't going to lie. No shade, though. No shade. I'm just I'm just be honest. That guy has a free throw line. I can't I can't bank that that was going. I can't bank on that real quick. Go to go to the basketball real quick. I want to get I want to piss myself off real quick. Jax: You You know that's real bro, that's real. Greg: ⁓ Scroll down to the Detroit Pistons. Okay. Jax: We shall not. When you live. Greg: Okay, I was looking at the Jaylen Durham production because that nigga's been ass all fucking serious. Jax: No, he's not not all serious all playoffs and this is because he's more than likely going to make a third team all NBA because he was Averaging 20 in tender in a regular season. He was an all-star. He was great We got to the playoffs. I have no idea what's going on Greg: All fucking playoffs. Yeah, he entered the fourth quarter with only four points and I'm just like, nigga. Jax: They ended up, Reed ended up finishing the game because you just can't really have Jaylen Daren on the court for real. Greg: He scored, for the audience listeners, scored nine points and five rebounds. Four assists, which is not that bad. But three of those nine points. Jax: This is a money everything 20 and 10 in the regular season. Greg: Three of them points came from the free throw line. So he scored three baskets. Ladies and gentlemen. He scored three baskets the whole fucking game. And if this was it. Jax: Peace. He's only had one game, this entire playoff, he's only had one game with more than 15 points. Greg: And he is getting out rebounded by everybody, not just bigs, like he's getting out rebounded. Jax: And like, rebounding was his thing, like, that was what you were getting from that. That was his thing the entire season, getting hella rebounding. Greg: See, A. See what happens when you fumble. You was what you was what miss rebounds. You was with me bounds. Jax: right. You know, you're gonna me bounce, bro. That's the I don't like I don't know what the the Pistons can really use the Pistons could really use a second score because like Tobias here has been cooking at some games, but like this not Tobias here. He only had 13 this game. Like that's not the second score. Secondly, the score is not Tobias here's role at this point in his career. Maybe at any point in his career, respectfully. Greg: Come on, gang. That nigga's not even getting knee bounce! I'm not even I'm not even I'm not even trying to troll. They they legit need Julian Reiss right now. They need you. They need some niggas that can get you some offensive rebounds from Steven Adams or something. Because if you're not going to be offensively productive, go get some fucking rebounds and extend the possession. Be useful. Jax: Yeah defense because he's not doing he's not he was never really a strong defender in the first place so he's not scoring not getting rebounds not really defending and it's supposed to be like he's supposed to be getting a max contract or he was going to if he played wellness playoff now I don't know he might not be a piston next season Greg: Yo, Jax, I'm not. I know a of Jax. When the bad bitches started tweeting at him. That's when I knew it was bad. And them niggas not even on Andrew Reese, they just awesome. We just find, you know, certain black players attractive when them niggas cars, when them girls started tweeting out and saying, get ready to start up that, get ready to get ready to start up that Love Island application. That's when I knew shit was getting spooky. Because that's a crazy insult. That's a that's a crazy swim. Jax: I never heard. I saw somebody call me. They say he should have been an HVAC technician. I seen that, but tell them to get on Love Island is crazy. Greg: But it's telling put in that Love Island application. I'm like, ⁓ that's that's a crazy pool that only women can get away with. I can respect that. Is bad. Is bad. Because the bad bad hoes don't even watch sports like that for real. And the fact that they know that you're not good. Jax: That's crazy. Yeah. Especially after they only loved you. I was gonna say this is like if Jalen Hurts was playing bad, but Jalen Hurts do be playing bad, so nevermind. But what do you, or who do you have in this series though? Who do you think is gonna end up taking it? This is me going back and forth. You say what? Greg: don't know. I thought it was going to be Detroit. Yeah, I thought it was going be Detroit. Now, at this point, it's a 50-50 toss up for me. I don't care who get out of it. Jax: I Cleveland got it. I don't think they're making any progress. Greg: Cleveland could Cleveland could have it on top of that shout out to Evan Mobley. I think I hit a clutch as three. ⁓ When I when I'm a nigga that be like hey, watch out with them threes nigga. shout out for shooting that shit. I'm just trying to figure out who would be the better match up against the Knicks. Jax: This nigga Dean Way with straight cardio. My fault. Greg: No, straight kill. No, that's like it's been. And then they got one steal and some rebounds. Jax: Still out-rebounded Jalen Durin. Greg: Hey, five of them. I thought them hoes was, I thought five of them was offensive rebounds. bad. that would be crazy. Nah, it's six rebounds. You get out rebound. Nah, look at all the rebounds from Cleveland. Go down that list. Ten, what, six rebounds from D Wade. Jared Allen gave you 10 rebounds. Mobley eight rebounds. OK, those are bigs. Let's go into the guards. Eight rebounds by James Harden. Donovan Mitchell gave you four. One less than Jaylen Duren. And then eight rebounds from fucking Max Struz. Are you fucking shitting me? Jax: set of max screws have 80 bones. Greg: There are two guards that got more rebounds than you. Tabari's hair has got more rebounds than you. Paul Reed, with limited minutes, gave them eight rebounds. And more points! This nigga's not getting a contract. He's not. Jax: He's getting in contact. It's just not gonna be what he wanted. Greg: I dare the pisses to give that nigga a max. I dare y'all niggas to do it. Go do it. Jax: Okay, they're to sign and trade him. It's going to be him for Austin Reeves. Because the Lakers, need a center. And the Pistons need the second score, bro. It's going to happen, bro. I can see it. And Luke could be changing center's life, so it could work out for Jaylen Durin, but still. Greg: That's so nasty. He ain't change down dream Jax: Dian Jane don't wanna be changed. You don't wanna be changed, bro. You don't wanna be changed. Greg: Yeah. No, I genuinely despise that nigga. I don't like that nigga. I don't. And it's been like this for a long time. But now I feel comfortable saying that I don't like that nigga. Jax: He should have so much better. Greg: I genuinely, it went from, feel bad for this nigga, to I actually do not like this nigga, bro. Jax: He should have been someone I never like when you got the center with the athleticism, the size, he could shoot a little bit as well. Like it never makes sense to me why they don't work out, but it's time and time again. So many of them don't work out. And it's just like, maybe they just don't have the drive for it. I don't fucking know. This is crazy, bro. How you be seven? Like you're seven feet tall. You know, you're going to the NBA. Stop, stop being stupid. You know, you're here to play basketball. Lock in, nigga. Greg: I'm not making them name making them Bahamian niggas look bad you disrespect the Bahamians my nigga Jax: That's why VJ Ed's comb is going so crazy. Like I gotta change something. I gotta change his perception around my people and I respect that. Like put VJ Ed's comb in the brain and DeAndre Aiden, that's the MVP. That's the MVP. Greg: Got you. NIGGA It's 30 and 15. Jax: The legs can still be playing. Greg: Literally, it'll be a game six. Jesus Christ, bro. Fucking stupid. Anyway. Jax: you But Greg, I do think it is about that time now. Greg: Oooooh waaayyyy I can find the goddamn button. Welcome to another section of I take all the week. Jacks you have a day. Jax: I in fact do have a hot take. My hot take of the week is that we are going to start seeing more and more young player retirements in the NFL. Now this observation comes after I've seen two players who happen to be undrafted free agents who had sort of nice college careers. ⁓ They ended up retiring before like even anything started. This were a Le'Veon Moss who was a running back for the ⁓ Aggies at A ⁓ He ⁓ went to A ⁓ Greg: Okay. Jax: He wasn't terrible, but he just his career wasn't as expected like he was nice and incident blade when I play with him though And then another player was squirrel squirrel whites. He's a receiver from Florida State He's one of like his name is squirrel so you can he's one of them short fast receivers. That's really good But they both ended up retiring there. They went undrafted. They set they signed contract. I think my son the Dolphins I do not remember who ⁓ He signed with the Bears as undrafted free agents, but then they recently just retired. I think both sort of yesterday. And I think this is happening because a lot of these players are getting NIL money now in college and that's sort of setting them up. And they're like, you know what? already made all this X amount of bread in college and I'm trying to make it to the NFL. and it's not working out and I'm arguing like, am I struggling trying to get this undrafted free agent contract when I can already make me very like, cause A ⁓ they were one of the top spenders in NIO last year. And I don't know about Florida State, but it's Florida State. So I can assume that it was a pretty penny for a lot of those players. So I think they're just like, you know what man, I've been trying it, it's not working out. I ain't get drafted. So I'm not even really like. They haven't even really committed anything to me. I'm not gonna like guarantee money or nothing. I can just retire and kick it somewhere else. I already made some bread with the NIL going on. I probably got a lot of connections and stuff as well. Cause you know, the old rich white people trying to get people money in NIL. You know they have like weird connections and stuff like that. So I think we're gonna start seeing a lot more of that because they're like, you know what? Greg: Thank Jax: I already took care of my family. already bought my mom a house. I already did this. I already did that. I don't really need to be in the NFL. I don't want to get CTE. I don't want to my ACL. I don't want to do this. I don't want do that. So I think we're going to start seeing a lot more of that. Greg: ⁓ I don't disagree and I also believe that I want more people to start doing that. I need real, I need people that really love this game to be playing it at a high level. All that really tells me is you just need some money. You just trying to make a living, whatever. Go make a living with a CDL. Go make a living with some other shit. When we give out. Jax: ⁓ yeah. Use that money you made to go start a business or something. a clothing, you know, niggas love clothing brands. Niggas love clothing brands, bro. Greg: Yeah. Hey, ⁓ my God, that's one of the first things these niggas do. Get a Golden Brand Shopify. Yeah, and nobody and nobody has a brick and mortar. It's just all online. is just click this link below. New drops coming soon. Bad hoes in the city wearing your merch. Shout out to y'all. Shout out to y'all. But yeah, I think we do need when it's time to give out these NFL contracts, we don't need Brandon I.U.s, bro. We don't. We don't need DeAndre. We don't. We don't need these niggas that's just trying to get a bag so they can bullshit and do all this extra stuff and. Jax: We don't need DeAndre Ayton's. Greg: ⁓ Not to say that mental health is not important. It is very important, but We started talking about mental health a lot more Over some stuff we knew was not good for our mental health, you know football not good for our mental health, Now we trying to enforce it within the you should But it's starting to become like a focal point thing. I'm like, look y'all need to first understand Football was not made to be mental health friendly CT Jax: It wasn't made for, it wasn't made to be health friendly, period. I'm not gonna hold you. You'll leave this bitch unhealthy somehow. We don't know what, but you're gonna be, you're gonna leave less healthy than you were when we started. Greg: Oh God. Yeah. So I need. You know what saying? So if college given these niggas NIL money is keeping these niggas from making irrational decisions like going super hard into the NFL and going into deep practice squads and practice squad purgatory and and trying to go to Andre Ingram route where they 10 years in this bitch and then they finally get out. Yo. That's enough. You've made your money. Let that set you up for the next thing that you got going on, because I need real niggas that this I need this shit to still mean something to people. You know, I mean, because when we give these contracts out, you put your life on the line. I need Ryan. I need Ryan Clark's backing this bitch. I need. Marshawn Lynch, I knew all those big hair. Jax: and then tap where you like. Literally. Thank Greg: What's that niggas Harrison James Harrison. I need those niggas playing football. I need those kind of mentality. Ciao a tutti a tutti. ⁓ My heartache. You international niggas is not like that when it come to basketball. OK. If you're asking why, if you're asking why I started off that crazy, because Kevin Garnett put a battery in my fucking bag. I don't know if you saw that video of Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce talking about international basketball players, but if you didn't, I'm going to share my screen so that the audience understands my reference point of what's going on. ⁓ Jax: Okay. Greg: And why the fuck I feel the way I feel right now because I'm ready to go. I'm ready to run through a brick wall after hearing this nigga. All right. All right. All right. Jax: Why you yelling already? Greg: Hey, this nigga started bobbing his head. I was like, wait, hold on, nigga. Calm down, Lloyd. Calm down, Lloyd. Hold on. Now, I'm going start it from the top. They're basically talking about international players being better than NBA players. And this is what people have to say about it. Jax: That was big as hell. See the funniest thing about that video is It starts and just shows Paul Pierce and then it cuts the KG in them big-ass glasses the glass the glasses And then Paul case he just like I know I'm not gonna get talking in what I even started Greg: You So let me change the screen because I already knew this is bullshit but I Just I started laughing because that video cut off right Right before that nigga Kevin Garnett was about to say the other the words exactly reshot and I know he was gonna fuck that name up I knew he was gonna fuck that name up. They cut it right before them, but I'm here to add on to that I'm here to double down Jax: You Greg: Because the way some of these niggas be talking about international players being better than NBA niggas when this is still a real nigga league. They talk they talk great the way they talk about international players. You would have thought one of these countries then then beat Team USA in the Olympics the way they talk about it. Every time they talk about European niggas. Or anybody international. They talk about how they got more IQ. They play the bet. They play the game better. They don't have they don't have to use the same athleticism. You know what that shit sounds like? That shit sounds like them NFL niggas talking about quarterbacks for some odd reason. It just feels like a real parallel gets real racial. When I start hearing some of this shit, I'm like, hold on, nigga. What do you mean? All these athlete, all these athletic niggas ain't got IQ. OK, all right. That's a bet. And on top of that, Jax: Play the right way. Greg: I'm a go. I'm a go even further a step further. These niggas need to admit and they won't admit it that they are a lot further away from winning a gold medal than the propaganda has them fool. Bro, these niggas really think they can. I don't give a fuck. Yeah, I know. I know. ⁓ these fresh niggas, bro. There's 30 niggas in this league. Jax: Vel, Yeah Greg: These 30 niggas in these league, you know, ever since 2016 after 2016, we've been hearing these niggas talk about, ⁓ the French niggas are coming. The Canadian niggas are coming. These are all these went all these fucking countries. All these countries keep they they they evolve and they keep getting better. And within the next four years, I see another gold medal. And then four more years later, I see another gold medal. but we keep glossing over the gold medal and all we do is keep talking about, four years down the line, y'all gonna be in trouble. You been saying this, I'm not saying you. These niggas been saying this shit since 2016. I'm put it to you like this. They're not winning in 2028. They're not winning in 2032 and they're not winning in 2036. Try again in 2040 nigga. I'm put it to you like this. They're not winning in 2028. They're not winning in 2032 and they're not winning in 2036. Try again in 2040 nigga. I'm here to stand on that shit. You think we getting gold in fucking Los Angeles when it's in our city? we getting gold in fucking Los Angeles it's in our city? Jax: I think that, I'm not gonna lie, the LA ones, the US can't lose. think even the rest might put a little something, something on something so the US wins. But honestly, I think that whole argument about the international players being better, all that sort of. Greg: You are out your fucking mind we're winning fucking gold. Jax: I do agree that they're not as good as the US players, like another reason I agree with like you talk about internet like SGA and like MB and stuff like that. Like they both came up like they're from I think MB from like Cameroon, but like he went to school in the US SGA. He's from Canada. He went to school in Tennessee. Like all these niggas they came up here bro. So that's exactly. Greg: Yes! I went to fucking college here! I'm saying they learned the game here. I'm saying like, y'all, y'all bullshit. Like I said, like, and you know, they know they love to do they do they love to do that. like. USA versus the world, that's dig right like crazy. So ⁓ if we combine these hundred plus countries, we can finally compete with these niggas that just lets me know how far away y'all niggas are. Respectfully, Canada is part of North America. Jax: the entire planet to beat the United States of America? Greg: And even with Canada, somebody that I think got some real comp, a real X factor on their team, no disrespect, is Dylan Brooks. Let's be fucking for real. Let's be fucking for real. I fuck with him. I fuck with him. He way. Jax: Let's not do that. Dillon Brooks is really nice this season. I'm kidding. Dillon Brooks was really nice this season. So that's why I'm like, I don't know. Dillon Brooks is like a 20 plus point scorer now. Greg: I'm a fan, but when we watch quarter gold, Dillon Brooks, Kevin Durant, Dillon Brooks, LeBron James, Dillon Brooks, Jason Tatum, who didn't even fucking play for real, Dillon Brooks or Jaylen Brown, he won finals MVP in the fucking championship. Mind you, you had the unction coming in the quarter gold. These niggas were 36, 37 and 39 in respective ages. did not have a good postseason run at all. None of these niggas, one of these, Kevin Durant got swept. Respect. I touched the nerve. Steph Curry didn't get out the first round if he didn't make the playoffs. I forgot what this shit was. And LeBron James, that nigga got, I don't know if he got swept or he lost Anthony Edwards too. I feel like Anthony Edwards is the one to fucking tear. Jax: Whoa, he didn't have to bring that up. He didn't have to bring that up. I don't even remember that. Greg: And respectfully, nobody on that other side was beating niggas over 35 plus. And I'm supposed to believe that somebody is supposed to beat us in 2028. Let's be fucking for real nigga. Jax: I While I do agree that the US will probably win that gold medal, I'm gonna say like, yes, them n****s were old, but those are like three of the five best NBA players ever, so. Greg: Yeah, yeah, three of the best five. I don't think I don't think another country can say they have three of the best five generational talents ever. Now I'm saying, y'all, y'all these countries, these other countries, y'all niggas raise anomalies. Yes, you have one great player that that transcends and gets people motivated to play the game of basketball instead of soccer. Y'all are not at that level where I'm worried where Jax: That is very true. That is very true. Greg: Y'all got two or three niggas that are going to be generationally talented at the same time to put real pressure on fucking Team USA. I'm sorry. That's why I feel like, like I said, if you're combining countries, maybe that's different. yeah, but U.S. versus individual countries, I'm not pressed about your superstar because your superstar can't do it alone. He cannot do it by himself. And on top of that, Jax: Yeah, combining countries is different, but like, just the US versus everybody. Greg: USA still has motion because you got international niggas still trying to get US citizenship. We stole Joel and B from niggas. What the fuck are we talking about? Nah, that's my hot take. Like I said, the overall hot take is y'all niggas don't run basketball. My second hot take is y'all not winning in 2028 and y'all damn sure not winning in 2032. And I'm willing to say y'all not winning in 2036 either. Jax: You Greg: If I went in 2040, God bless you. But I don't want to hear a nigga saying, see, I told you I was going to be Team USA. If I went in 2040, God bless you. But I don't want to hear a nigga saying, see, finally, I told you I told you I was going to be Team USA. It might happen. But I'm not trying to hear that shit when I turned 62, nigga. I'm not trying to hear. Where were y'all at when I was 23 in May? I'm not trying to hear that shit when I turned 62, nigga. I'm not trying to hear. Where were y'all at when I was 23 in ⁓ May? Jax: Hahaha! Hahaha! Greg: Where was y'all at? Where was y'all at? That's my heartache. But more and more, the more I start doing more research about international basketball, the more I understand LeBron James. No, I ⁓ will not go further than that. I will not go any further than that. ⁓ But I do that black man. ⁓ Jax, in less words. Jax: Thank You want to go change your life? Go out and do some life changing shit. Go out, touch some grass, go breathe some air. Go participate in society. That's all I got to say. Greg: Pullio Fulio. is a constant reminder that your life is not bad, okay? ⁓ That nine to five, it might be boring, but nothing's more boring than jail or sweat equity, all right? Jax: You could be a little slave in prison. Greg: You can be a big slave in prison. You can be. You can be with you can be a lot of things in prison, but you will still be in prison. Your nine to five is better than whatever lifestyle sweat equity can provide you. You want to go chase a quick bag. You want to you want to scam. You want to do all this extra stuff. Sweat equity is on the other side of that. You will not beat the government. You will not grow old and not see jail going an illegal route. They will catch you at some point. That's for my young niggas and old niggas, because society got some of y'all getting lost. Some of y'all niggas getting caught up in their 40s. Whoa. You should know better. Jax: If you're making real money doing illegal, you're going to get caught. The people that make real money get caught. Unless you got connections. But we can't talk about that. Greg: ⁓ for sure. Absolutely. Even when you got connections. won't you won't you won't spend some time in jail. You may not spend the whole you won't see you won't see jail in prison. Jax: Yeah, shoot, the biggest connective. the biggest and worst connector ever. He went to prison and then died in their mysterious circumstances. The nigga's still talking about that to this day. Greg: Exactly. So, I mean, you're not going to avoid it. Just just be it's okay to be boring. Strive. Enjoy your life. Love the life that you have right now. It can get worse. Jail will not make your shit better. ⁓ That being said, we'll catch our niggas next week. ⁓ Like, comment, subscribe. Watch our TikToks. and we will catch our days next week.