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Episode 147: 1 Gordan Ramsay vs 100 Black Women · Play 4 Keeps Podcast

• Jax: Anyway, before we do this, let's get the roaster. So I'm keeping the worst or cutting the worst? Okay. Keeping the one up. Still not ready, but let's continue. Greg: Yeah, keeping the worst of the worst. Yeah, keeping the worst of the worst. All right. First, duo up. Cam Newton and Kelden Benjamin. Jax: Honestly, like, I think they hate each other now, but like, before they weren't terrible. Before he got like super duper fat. Like he had success, so if I'm keeping the worst, I don't think they were that bad, so I'm going to cut them. Greg: Okay. All right. Next we have Sharron Moore and Paige Shiver. Jax: Is this... is this really sport- I guess technically it's sports. Greg: Now you know where we're going. Now you know. This is sports. I don't care what you're talking about. Jax: since. Greg: Keep her cut, nigga. Jax: I'm keeping the worst of the worst. I'm gonna keep them, bro. I'm gonna keep them. I'm gonna keep them. Greg: What? Next duo up, Brian Flores and Tua Tonga Walua. Jax: I'm cutting them, because they weren't like, Brian Flores hates two or he didn't like playing, he didn't like two as his quarterback, but they weren't like terrible. In fact, the Dolphins try to get them two tank, but Brian Flores wouldn't do it and that's why they fired him. So I'm gonna cut them. I don't think that was, that was bad. That wasn't bad, that wasn't no worse. Greg: Okay. Next duo up. LeBron James and Shaq the Cleveland version. Jax: No, have to cut them because LeBron was still, LeBron was still LeBron at that time. So his goodness outweighs the falling on the floor from Jack. So I'm gonna cut them. Greg: Fair? Okay. All right. So you have one key and you would cut three. You have two cuts left. Yeah, we have two cuts left two keeps left. Next duo up. Tiger Woods and a motorized vehicle. Jax: I'm not gonna lie. Is that really that bad? Ty could be seeming like he having a good time in the cars, It don't always work out in the end, but it feels like he's having a good time in those motorized vehicles. So like, is that really the worst of the worst? I thought he was having a good time. He was on the phone with the president, bro. Like, I don't know. Greg: Amen. ⁓ Man, welcome back to another episode of Play for Keys podcast. only podcast where we do something different every single day, not an hour, not an episode. This is a daily thing. I'm your host, Greg. That's my host, Jax. We only announce ourselves by name at least once a month. Hahaha! Life is good. Life is good. Jax: But then again, then his wife beat him up with the club because he got, you know, I'm gonna keep that one because I think it might have been pretty bad. So I'm gonna keep that one. Greg: It doesn't happen every episode, unfortunately. Brain farts every time. Brain farts. But like we said, this is the podcast for casuals. If you are casual, this is the show for this is a show for you. And we're going to let you know how casual we get. When I give Jackson's blind reaction later, later down the episode, he has no idea what he's into. He has no idea what he's got involved with. But that's OK. Jax: Yeah. Greg: Okay. Two cuts left, one keep left. Next, duo up. The Brooklyn Nets version of Paul Pierce and KG. Jax: Alright. Like, I'm trying to think back and I know like when they first got there, weren't they like, I sort of kind of, they wasn't like, ⁓ they wasn't fool you like my fire, were they? I can't remember. ⁓ That doesn't sound promising at all. Greg: That's okay. Hey, doesn't matter. You're here. It is what it is. ⁓ first of all, I would like to congratulate you for not picking the morning slot to do this episode. I really appreciate it. A nigga got a nigga really got to muster up some real energy to like be performative at eight o'clock in the morning. I'm glad we're here. I like it was a steep decline. can't tell if that first year was decent or not. Jax: Yeah, I just don't remember if there was like, feel like I could be misremembered if I am. ⁓ well, it's a video on the internet. But I don't think there was that horrible, when they literally when they first got there. So since I don't think they were that bad, I'm going to cut them. What the fuck? We would have you had to go in like early so I normally be like 10 or whatever you had to go in before it's and I'm like I'm not getting I'm not getting up so we to record a pocket and then also leave time for you to leave your place and go to your like I'm not waking up that early to do all that Greg: All right, gotcha. Next duo up, Mike Vrabel and Diana Rusimi. Yeah, in my mind. Hey look, in my mind, in my mind, I was prepared for anything. I was prepared for that nigga to say, I guess we got to start at 645. I was mentally there. was like, this nigga might really do it. Jax: I think it gets, that story gets progressively worse the more and more I learn about B U C I don't wanna speak to anybody after 45. I really don't wanna speak to nobody before like. But it really gets progressive. I actually hate hearing about this story. I'm just like, bro, we need to calm this down. Greg: Yeah, it's getting bad. Jax: I didn't just don't want to speak to nobody. I just don't want speak to Don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. Greg: Yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right, Jack. Jax: But should I cut them? Greg: Stop touching niggas with your hands. Okay. ⁓ well, let's go ahead. While we're here. Donations. Donations. Donation. You have one cut and one keep left. Whatever you pick with you keep this you're cutting the next one and vice versa. Jax: Exactly. In no way. They are terrible. But just because I don't want to hear about them anymore, just get them out of my sight. So I'm going to cut that. Leave me a, please take me off the group chat. Take me off the group chat, Mike Brayboy and Diana Rossini. I don't need to know anymore about you people. Greg: All right, If your name is not Jordan Booker, go ahead, don't name. Jordan, take a break. Congratulations to your proposal. You're going to have to save up some money. I know what you want. Weddings, that's not cheap. Okay. All right. So going back over the list, you cut Cam Newton and Keldon Benjamin. Jax: Yeah. ⁓ You see that You see you see him going viral for that cuz I remember when he first posted when he tackled that bull or whatever Greg: You kept from on more in page. You cut Brian Flores into a takavolou. You cut LeBron and Shaq the Cleveland version. Yeah, when he read the video, oh, it viral again. I didn't I didn't see the second viral. But yeah, he began he began viral for like the most random shit like that that whole wave he had, I think last year or two years ago where he would just take his cap and gown everywhere. He said he's like mowing lawn. Jax: Now it's going viral again. Greg: You kept Tiger Woods in a motorized vehicle. You cut Paul Pierce and KG the Brooklyn Nets version. And you cut Mike Vrabel and Diana Rusini. Your final keep, your final keep is Jermarcus Russell and the 2000 Riders. That is your keep. Jax: Yeah. Seems like a good one. Yeah, no, it went viral again. So shout out to Luke, bro. Yes. Same thing. The graduation or whatever. ⁓ Greg: Going to stadiums, arenas. That shit was funny as fuck. Did I tell you I saw him at that random basketball game when I was in Houston? Jax: you Honestly, I'm fine with that because respect to Jermarcus Russell, he was really one of the worst draft picks ever, unfortunately. It sounds terrible. It sounds hard to say, but no, by all accounts. then you could go back and look at him in college, and he was amazing in college. And then he just got to the NFL, and he just like that. So yeah, I'm okay with my list. I'm okay with my list. No. But I've ran into him at a couple games before though. Greg: Yeah, Nah, that nigga was terrible, guy. Yeah, I into him. I think we were playing like Utah, something random. I just was taking my girl to a game she ain't never been to a basketball game for real. And he was like, brother good. I was like, who the fuck is that talking to me? Who is that? Who is that talking to me? And then I turned around and it was Jordan. He was selling them tickets. I was like, oh shit, my bad, homie. But just wanted to shout out that man with love. Not bad. Jax: Hahaha! Greg: Not a bad, not a bad list at all. A lot of a lot of terrible shit in this fucking a lot of terrible in this fucking list. Comment down below. Did he fucking good? My goodness. Now that we got that blind reaction, blind ranking, he had no clue. It was off the dome. Now we can get back to our. Our normal podcast activities. Jax: You Greg: since he's going to be a, you know, a Mr. Real Soul man. So shout out to him. And if you, you know, if you still want to donate, you know, don't stop me. I was just giving you an olive branch. But let's go ahead and get into the things that we don't care about. Super quick, real quick. Before we get in there, last minute audible. Have you heard about the Gordon Ramsay situation going on? Jax: or at least you guys are pro. but let's start with the NBA. Jamal Mosley, head coach of the Orlando Magic, he got fired after the Magic got bounced from the playoffs. Magic lost to the Pistons in an embarrassing fashion, they fired him, but we said this like weeks before, because, I mean, we didn't say, the Magic said this weeks before, it was leaked, they said no matter what. I don't know nothing. Isn't, we're gonna the chef dude, right? Okay, that's literally all I know. I just know he's a chef. I don't know. Greg: Absolutely. Yeah, you know. You know, I'm a I'm an idiot sandwich, you know, that that Hell's Kitchen nigga. Yeah. Well, apparently this nigga may not. He may not like black people. He may not like niggas. That's not really surprising. That's a white man. Jax: We are firing him once the season is up. And I mean, they win seven games with the Pistons and honestly, did they blow three one or I'm tripping. Okay, so yeah, blew three one, they fired him. Keeping beyond, I have no idea where the magic go from here, because the magic roster is built to contend now. They just for whatever reason. I don't know if he likes anybody, but so him being, if he is racist, I'm not surprised. Greg: You're done. Fair. Fair. But, you know, he'd be having these restaurants all around. And one of these restaurants, it got a little shaky in London where they found out there was ⁓ a lady that brought her dog inside of this restaurant. Red Flag One. Why is this dog in this restaurant? Not only was this small dog in this restaurant, them niggas put the little the pee pad next next to the table. But that They blew through him. Jax: Mm-hmm. suck respectfully like I don't know what's wrong with it like Palo was hurt yeah, Fronze was hurt yeah but like niggas can't shoot them niggas make too many mistakes I think in that that final game didn't they like miss like 23 straight shots or something crazy like that Greg: small ass dog to do her business. Next to the table. And guess what said puppy did? Did that God dead business. Now, this black woman recorded this. I don't know why she did that. Well, I mean, for proof, but like, I didn't need to see that. Blur that shit out. She came up there and was like, hey, ⁓ look what we're doing. She tried to call the lady out. You what that lady said? That lady said. Well, you have a you have a newborn baby. I think that was game six. Game six, they had that which forced the game seven for Pistons because they I mean they had game game six in control. Yeah. Jax: Okay. Yeah, they had game six in the bag and then they missed everything and then they got blown on game seven. like I said, I don't know where the magic go from here because like they I feel like they have cornerstone players like Palo. I think he's really great or I think he's really good friends. I think he's good as well. I like Anthony Black. Wendell Carter wasn't bad this series. Yeah, don't. Jalen says he might have to go just because he can't shoot, but he's not bad. just. Greg: She pees in poops. Whoa. Now, why are we comparing animals to babies? Why are we why are we doing that? And that baby has a diaper. What the fuck are we talking about? ⁓ yeah. Jax: You can't equate like, you can love your dog as much as you want. ⁓ A human can go in restaurants. Dogs should not be in restaurant. Greg: at all. Jax: Can't shoot right now. So I don't know what the magic would do. like, ⁓ Devin Bane, who I forgot. Devin Bane is just good in general. So, and they gave him four picks for him in the first place. So like I said, I don't know where the magic go from here. Cause like, this was, this was their time. The Celtic wasn't good for real. Jason Taylor was hurt. The Pacers were out the playoff. Tyrese was hurt. And Bede is, you know, constantly teetering the line between life and death. ⁓ Greg: Insane. This is a hot take that Jackson said probably multiple times. And I allow him to say it multiple times because it's fucking true. Get these dogs out of here. Now, a lot of people say, you know, Gordon Ramsay, he hates people. So we know he's going to get on her ass like we know it's like, ⁓ like, what the fuck? Hell no. This nigga came out and double down with the dog lady. Yeah. Jax: Yeah. Who else in the East? The Pistons only have Cade. The Cavs, unfortunately, have to play off James Harden. The Raptors are the Raptors. This should have been a relatively easy path for whoever is in the East, and the Magic could not walk that path despite making all these win-nout moves. So who? Is there any coach that you got your eye on there, or anybody you know that can be good? you think they should go like, old established guy or somebody new? Greg: And now niggas are perplexed. He was like, what you mean? You're siding with the dog lady in this situation? Mind you, he has a show called Kitchen Nightmares, which is about struggling. you Jax: That's gonna be a kids nightmare. You have a dog peeing in your restaurant. What do we? It's like they're like inside. wasn't like a patio or nothing. Greg: Like, what are we talking about? You have a situation where. No, it was it was inside. mean, they have an outdoor section if you want that. But they were inside. It was indoors. Jax: Yeah, like, I would like, honestly, I feel like you shouldn't bring your dog, but like, if you're gonna wait, like sit outside if you're gonna do that, but like, what's wrong with you? Why would he side with them? Greg: I don't know, because I was looking back at how long he was coaching because at first I was like, OK, how short, know, how how short was his Yeah, so she was like, you know, I'm never going to know Gordon Ramsay restaurant ever again. And on top of that, I know Gordon Ramsay don't agree with no stupid shit like this because it's in their like rule book or whatever. Like, guess when you look at their website, it says dogs are welcome. They must be outside. They must be outside. So we already know Gordon Ramsay doesn't fuck with animals inside. You just didn't want to agree with a black woman. Jax: Wait, how long he was coaching the Pistons or like how long he's coaching like his career in general? Greg: I was talking about ⁓ Jamal Mosley, like how long he's been coaching the Orlando Magic. And yeah, because there's another bald nigga there. I get it. Jax: I said piss, not for a bit, man. They look the same. Him and JB Biggers have looked like brothers, bro. Greg: Bro, like that's like I definitely understand. So he was there ever since twenty twenty one. So he's been there for about six seasons, which normally. That's a that's a good little sample size to see what kind of coach you have. ⁓ And I think in year three. Is when they made the play out, they jumped up to the fifth seed, like randomly. Jax: Mm-hmm. Greg: mind you, this is in London. ⁓ Y'all are never beaten those allegations UK about how I feel about your food. But that's neither here nor there. That's neither here nor there. But I just wanted to put that on your radar. We don't care. But if you ever thought about going to a Go to Ramsay restaurant, don't go ask somebody that's been to one in Vegas. That shit's mid anyway. It's mid as fuck anyway. Jax: So. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yesterday, they their first playoff in 2023. Greg: Yeah, 23, 24. It's OK, but and then from there, the next year they went to the seventh seed and then, you know, it was a, know, back and forth with Boston. Then you went all in and got Desmond Bain and all this stuff. You're supposed to be a higher seed and you end up having to play two playing games to get into the ABC. Maybe he just lost his voice in that locker room, even though he even though he did some things that. That, you know, It's mid is overpriced in his mid like. Yeah, I honestly I don't even know how Gordon Ramsay cooks anyway, like it's. Now we're good, but. Jax: Yeah. Greg: I getting to the real stuff. Stephane, Stephane Diggs found not guilty after her. ⁓ What's her name? Chef Mia, Chef Mina. Milo. I don't know the chef's name, but. Because I don't want to talk about the Tyree kill incident, we're just going to wrap it into Stephane Diggs. It's called not guilty after going back and forth with this chef over being choked, strangled. ⁓ make people really good coaches. I remember that time where during the play-in, was giving people like the whole film session was nothing but him playing everybody's college game tapes to remember what they used to fucking do. And them niggas locked in and blew the fuck out of Charlotte. know what mean? So I don't know what kind of coach it is, but honestly, he was more of a scapegoat to me anyway, because the real issue was Paolo. Paolo didn't have a great year. Jax: I don't know this stuff. Greg: The whole nine, that lady, that chef that ended up taking the stand, it was getting a little shaky, all right? It was getting a little shaky. this year. He's he ramped it up towards the end of the series for the Pistons. But leading up there. Yeah, he was good in the playoffs, but like leading up to there. Yeah, yeah, he was not acting like a franchise guy at all. That's why he didn't make all star appearance. So I would probably lean to it seems like they'll probably do something like a Tom Tibbetto. Strangely enough, strangely enough, I'm not saying I agree with it. Jax: That was the worst. That was worse than something you would see on a TV show where they're trying to be bad or something. That was really, that was, I don't know. I mean, he's not guilty. So I don't know if he did strangle her or not. I just know he's not guilty, but this is like, you. Yeah, you would play off right at this point. Like you were arguing with the judge, you were arguing with the prosecutor, you were arguing with Stefan, like arguing with everybody. And he wasn't answering questions. They had videos of you like, ⁓ he choked me. And then the next day, like break dancing and shit. And you were like, ⁓ man, I couldn't even move. I'm like, this isn't going to go well. Like I think he's a solid coach like career wise and everything, but I'm like, you know what you're getting with tips bro. Like y'all might lock in on defense probably like in the magic already good on defense. So do they really need all that? I don't know, but you know that and you know, he's going to play your players all 48 minutes in the magic Palos. I don't want to call him injury prone, but he's been hurt. Fron's been hurt. I don't, you know what you're getting with tips bro. I don't think I'd hire him, but. Greg: AC AC you should be crump AC you should be crump after getting has be this crazy by the That's crazy. Two things one no matter what this is still Stefan Diggs is for Stefan Diggs is in court because because Yeah. Jax: I'm also not in the magic from office. Oh, do you have a step in the video? Why is she living with you? It's so much. There's so much going on. Greg: Yeah, but at the same time, it's just like. Somebody made that somebody made that tweet says the final digs had sex with that woman and woke up and said, ⁓ bitch, you cook too. That's how she got employed. That is how she does exactly how she got employed. ⁓ number two, as far as that chef Mila girl or the the kitchen chef. Jugs. ⁓ the YSL trial has done irreparable damage to what niggas think they can get away with. ⁓ This should. I can't even say Tibbs was the problem. Well, I can't even say Tibbs was the problem in New York for real, because it was like, it's not like the New York Knicks did like some crazy turnaround with Mike Brown. Like they still seem like they have similar issues. They're just happening. Same fucking team. So I don't I don't know. I think France just needs to they never call France injury prone. But every time I see the magic, that nigga's always injured. They don't really address it. Always sitting down. Apollo just needs to get better. Jax: you Yeah, it's like the same, it's the same thing. It's the same thing. Yeah. He's sitting down. Greg: This should have never made trial. should have a lawyer should have stepped in and said, fuck no. Like we don't have enough evidence and I don't trust your story. Like they didn't even the girl long enough or good enough. I don't even know how long it took, but. And it is like you said, it is a win now. So I don't know. Having a young up and coming coach is the way either. don't know. Like we know who is not going to be. He's not going to be Doug Rivers because the nigga retired. So at least we don't have to worry about a dog river is swooping in for a second go around at the fucking magic. So I don't know what it what it could be. It might be an assistant coach. There's a lot of assistant coaches that are. Getting up in the ranks. Jax: Was it a civil case or a criminal case though? Because I know once his criminal, once his criminal, once this file, she can't do nothing. She can't take it back. It was him against the state after that. But even then, she should have heard. The people inviting me should have been like, there's not enough proof or whatever you want to say. That was godly. Greg: Criminal. It was criminal. Jax: All right. On the rise, it feels like, Greg: on the rise. think ⁓ Ben Sullivan from the Rockets was like chopping head coaching gigs. Jared Dudley. ⁓ I think he was with the Nuggets. There's a few guys out there. So we'll see. But I don't know anybody. I don't know anybody that's NBA coached experience right now that's out there looking for a job right now. I don't know. Mike Malone's already gone. Yeah. Yeah, should have took that hundred. Should have took that hundred K. Hundred K. Jax: That's so, that's so cool. He like, offered her, she said he offered her 100K and you should have took that because now you didn't get anything. Greg: N***a said 5.5 million. Jax: I was like, Taylor Jenkins got hired by the Bucks. Greg: ⁓ my God, my goodness. But to move on from that, because like I said, that Tyree kill shit, I'm not I'm not pressing it. I don't want to kill. ⁓ shit, was I was I pressing the wrong button this whole time? We do. Exactly. Anybody that was recently fought like I mean, I maybe I can't even say Frank Vogel because Vogel used to be a Magic's coach. I don't think they would spend a block. ⁓ Baby booting hoes. Does he want to do shit like that again? I don't know. Jax: you You turned the camera on, but it was working. So I like, it worked now. It worked. Greg: Brother both the same color. I'm thinking that I'm pressing the we do not care but no hold My bad Hey, this is a the podcast that does something different every single day Every single day nigga. It doesn't stop now Next things next PJ Tucker five threes David Blatt. I'm just playing. I'm playing. Jax: They were probably gonna come back to me. He said, after how the cab did, I'm not coming back over. Don't even talk to me about it. And I get it. I fucking get it, bro. I get it. The kitchen, it was going, I was like, I was going with the flow. I'm not mad at it. Greg: No, that is like I get it. Like that was a crazy. That was a crazy thing. Jax: They were like, Tyler was a great coach, but he got hoed. He got hoed. I'm like, call it like it is, he got hoed. You Greg: Yeah, it was was was was a bad it was a bad ordeal. But like I said, when it comes to like the magic, that's where I'm like, I don't know what the future holds, like at least with other younger teams that may fall short or even if the pistons fall short against whoever they may be, even though it looks like they're going to take care of business. You can see you got the blueprint, you got assets, you got a pathway with Orlando, you gave a five first, you Finally retired. I don't even know how many seasons he played, but he played long enough. Jax: I feel like 17 or something like that. He played, he played he hellish things and for everybody. And he was like undrafted and he was like, he started his career overseas, right? And then he became something. But he went overseas and then he became something. Greg: Which is kind of crazy. That was that was his. Jax: You got a blueprint, you got A there, you just know you need another score. Greg: 17 is actually crazy. Yeah, I think he started overseas and I think... Went on in. ⁓ And it's like, OK, like, and you just fired a coach. It's like, OK, like where? I think the first time I saw PJ Tucker was when he was with the Phoenix Suns. Jax: You went all in, you got the play in. That's not what all in should be. That's not how all in works. Greg: And I thought he was a lot older than what he actually was. I think he was with Phoenix back when Gerald Green was still in Phoenix a long time ago. But that was the last time I remember him. ⁓ But hell of a career. I think about that graphic all the time when he when he was like the the smallest center in the playoffs. Everybody 6'11, seven foot. Rockers want to play small ball office. He's 6'5 and was grabbing them boards. That yeah, that's not how it works. And on top of that, there's still a discussion on who the actual guy is. They can't tell. Exactly, you can't. Nobody can really definitively say, hey, is this Franz's team or is this Apollo team? If if Franz was healthy enough, he probably would have already had it and it would have been his team, but he's always injured. And Apollo was picked to be the franchise guy, but you can't count on him. Jax: And if the guys are on that roster, if the guys are on that roster. Thank you. Pitch six, five, I'm like, bro. That's how I knew the Rockets were never gonna get there. That's how I knew the Rockets were an unserious team, bro. I'm like, you're not winning no championship with six, five. Greg: to be said franchise guy on every single night on the basketball court. So that'll be interesting. Yeah, for sure. So, you know, and Italy hates him for whatever worth that is. I'm never going to bring that up. Jax: and probably getting hurt sometimes as well. Greg: All right, bro, I think we're I think we're moving the conversation in a different direction. We can stay focused. But I'm still so about this. This is crazy. But now, man, congratulations on, you know, probably one of the better defenders against the. Golden State version of Kevin Durant, you can't stop that, but. I feel like P.J. gave us our best chance. At all times, so. Jax: My fault. My fault. Let's continue. Let's continue. Also true, don't get Italian national team coaches, don't let them coach the Magic. Greg: Don't let no Italian ass look at it. Come through, bro. It's over. But yeah, big ups. Jax: But moving on from that firing, let's go ahead and talk about a hiring. I think this hiring we're both high on because Dallas Mavericks, they went ahead and hired Masai Ujiri as their ⁓ team president and alternate governor, which is, guess, like assistant owner, basically, because they don't call them owners no more. They call them governors. Greg: You know, salute to him. Salute to him. Just for that, we do not care. I'll give him the traditional Mike Tomlin. You what mean? We won't give him. We won't give him Kendrick Lamar. We won't give him. And that ends right there because we we we gotta go. Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless being reunited once again on Earth take ⁓ Jax: Yeah. Seems stupid, but I digress. ⁓ Yeah, he was with the Raptors from 2013 to 2025. He was the architect of that championship team. Masayi Jerry is a good drafter, a good evaluator of talent. I think he really knows what he's doing when it comes to basketball. So I think this is... knock it out the park higher because the Mavs need like some type of direction. I think he can give them just that because after Luca left and everybody just stopped believing in them then they got Cooper flagged. like, I think he can be the one that like steers the boat and they, oh, this is the type of team we're trying to build. This is what we want. So I like this hiring a lot. Greg: Skip Bayless hasn't been on first take in about what, 10 years? It's been about 10, 11 years over a decade. I had no idea this was going to happen. I just looked up one day when I got to work and saw that shit and I'm like, But his first remark, I think the first thing he came up there when they introduced Skip Bayless, he was just like, man, like, I remember running this show when it first started. And then, you know, Steve and they just took it to a whole nother level and he was like, Yeah, I like this. I like this hiring to. ⁓ When you win the championship in a place like Toronto. Your leash is. I was saying your leash is so extremely long. With having down years and that's exactly what happened. Them niggas never went back up. After that championship, I told and I told myself, I don't know if I told myself, I don't know why. Jax: with the superstar that doesn't want to be there. Greg: got mad respect for you, mad, all that stuff and you know, love you like a brother X, Y, Z. He was like, but and then this nigga just started going on to his rent. He was just like, man, there's just certain things you say on television where I'm just like, what? So you are here talking about LeBron James number two all time. I still have him nine. And at that point, I was like. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, OK. Jax: Thank Greg: told or whatever, because I think there was like a diehard Raptors fan at work. And we both agreed. It was like, when you win a championship in like Toronto, you're good in the city for at least eight years. Like you could you could have five straight, six straight bad seasons and nobody's going to be looking for you like, all right, like, what the fuck is he on? You just won the championship for the first time in your history. So he left right. Someone say, hey, welcome back, Skip. He's just like... The best I can compare it, he's just like LeBron James when he does that, that hezzy where he like looks at the ball before shooting it. You know exactly what he's going to do every time. And it's still going to piss me off no matter what. Like it don't, I can expect Skip Bayless to do something. And even when he does it, I still drop my jaw and be like, all right. I'm about to say nothing phases me. And then he does something that phases me. So I can't even be mad. at the perfect time. He left in 2025 right before and niggas was gonna be like, all right now. All right, bitch. That was 2019. That's a pre-COVID championship. right. Can we at least make the playoffs? So he left right, right when niggas was about to talk, you know, bad about him and then ushered in to a Dallas Mavericks job that already has a centerpiece ready. Like you at once to be there. Yeah. I mean, there isn't. Jax: The fuck you doing? you ⁓ Yeah. that wants to be there. I'm pretty sure Cooper flag like that was, yeah. Greg: I'm just gonna choose to remove myself. He's from Maryland. ⁓ he's from Maine, one of them. He's from Maine. He's from Maine. So. He had food like this ever in his life. He's he's good. He's fine. Jax: Yeah, bro, like I've said it with society has moved past the need for Stephen A Smith and skip babies like they can just Yell into the void somewhere else. I'm not I saw like a clip He was like ⁓ playoff P and that's playoff P EE because he stinks like That's like Not even from Maine, even worse. Greg: You Jax: He ain't never seen all the stuff he's seen in Dallas before. Greg: He ain't never seen a beef rib a day in his life till he came over here, bro. It's crazy. So he don't even have to do the difficult task of having the one a superstar. You just need to complement the pieces around him. And I think he can really do that. You Jax: I just really need, I need, people need to get beat up, bro. Like, people need to get beat up. That's how I'm, people need to get beat up. Greg: a lot this nigga has a daily show with a keep to leave there's niggas that are capable of doing it they're not they're not Jax: beginning of the super. And you still have Kyrie, for whatever that's words, because Kyrie, he's coming off the ACL, but he's Kyrie Irving. He's older, yes, but are you going to keep him? Are you going to trade? You can figure out what you want to do with that as well. So that's another asset you can move on from or keep or whatever. that's another good chip. Alright. Greg: He talks to Richard Sherman all the time, Keem Tlaib. This nigga's resume of talking... He be bringing Richard Sherman to the show all the time. It's his little underdog show. Jax: He does? Talk to Richard about it. Greg: Yeah, he has an amazing he has an amazing timeline because we found out, know, I mean, you know, he didn't fly. Cooper flight didn't flop his rookie year like he showed real legit promise. So he's working, we're good here dropping mad crazy points so you can do whatever the fuck you want to do with Kyrie and be fine and get assets. I think he's good. You know, this is a good drafter. You drafted he drafted O.G. I think he got Fred out of. ⁓ One thing about Skip is like, damn, these niggas be hating like they be hating skip or whatever. They'll break bread with that nigga. They'll still talk in person. It's not this not virtual. You know, physically on the same couch. You could do something and you're choosing not to say it's the same thing with the Draymond Green situation. It's just like, mean, like you can beg niggas to to take down your opps. Sometimes you got to do it your own self. Jax, if you want that nigga done, you got to go do it. Jax: You're a good eater. Greg: Not free agency, but I don't I think Fred went undrafted. Yes, he picked up him. Pascal. This goes on like, you know what to do. You know, you know how to do these things. So I think he's going to be I think it's going to be fine. I don't even know where you jury's from. Jax: He's a woman. I think we're not drafting, so we'll pick up. Yeah. Yeah. Shit. Greg: You beat him up. Jax: I got something, nevermind. The stuff we were talking about before we got on, Steven was here earlier and we were talking about that and I was like, you know what? I would do it. I would do it. I don't know. ⁓ Greg: God. Not that it really matters, but it's just I was wondering if he was like a down south nigga and then. He was just living in Toronto all these years. Alright, now I'ma hold you to it. Jax: I know he carries like mace or whatever, but I don't care. still do it. We'll see what happens. Fuck it. I never heard him speak before actually. Does he have a vaccine? Where is he from? Greg: That boy hit that treadmill every day. He gonna wear them Jordans. I'll never losing these. On me. But. The moment we've all been waiting for, Jax thinks he has a blind reaction coming his way. But that's just not the case. He doesn't have a blind reaction. He has a blind ranking that he has to complete. Niggas thought I wasn't gonna get a tick tock off. No, brother, we got you today. And he the only nigga I've ever seen push a security guard. I ain't gonna lie. The more I remember that. Jax: It says he's from England. Greg: Okay, Gordon Ramsay. Jax: Yeah, I'd never heard him speak before, so I don't know if he has an accent. Greg: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what he sounds like. That is interesting. Jax: Oh, and side note, because we sort of referenced it, didn't really, I don't think we ever actually talked about it, but yeah, Cooper Flay, he won the rookie of the year, right? How do you feel about that? Because he was first in Khan, Knipple, then VJ was third. Greg: This is interesting. Jax: You Greg: He did when he were good, I'm not I'm not mad. think I think it. I think it landed the way it was supposed to win. ⁓ I just don't like how the odds changed after a con canipal had like bad playing games. I think that's incredibly lame to do because it's just like already like this is a regular season war and the only nigga that can change his like stock in this award is con canipal like living. He's the only one that can change it. Jax: Yeah. Greg: Jacks is going to blind rank a keep three, five. Worst duos ⁓ ever in sports ⁓ in sports history. All right. Keep that in mind. are you ready? While there's another nigga while I fuck with Cooper flag, bitch, you were sitting on the couch like you were literally sitting on the couch like you could have had a you could have laid an egg. And if you were that good, you could have pushed yourself into the temp spot, but you didn't. But I think I was always going to be Cooper flag, no matter what. Jax: No. Hahaha Greg: All Jax: I thought they'd do the color rookie of the year thing, but I'm not mad. Greg: I thought about that too. I'm not mad. I'm really not mad at it. I'm just... Jax: They were both well-observing. All three of them were well-observing. VJ is still going crazy in the playoffs. Greg: There's some crazy history just having like, you know, to, you know, a white envy, a white rookie of the year and the white and another white player being a runner up. ⁓ I just don't think we've ever seen no shit like that since the fifties gang. don't I don't I don't think anybody can recall the last time that's ever happened. Not in my lifetime. To white, to white, to American whites battling for a rookie of the year. Jax: You Yeah, I'd glitter the earth. Greg: I clutched my pearls. Jax: I'm trying to, I can't even think of it. Greg: It made me question, is this the game I love? Do I love this game? Is this the type of game I love? Let's move on before I get problematic. Let's move on before I get problematic. Jax: All right. Let's stay problematic. Or actually, we're not going to be problematic, but the league will be problematic because the NBA, they did one of their anonymous polls. And this is going to be a blind reaction for the both of us because we haven't seen, or we know like one thing about it, which is probably like the biggest thing to be honest, but everything else we don't know. So the athletic did an anonymous poll with NBA players to get their opinion on a whole bunch of stuff going on with the league. And let's go ahead and get started with this right here. Greg: Hmm Jax: Most underrated player. was 151 votes casted. ⁓ As you can see, only four, like, so it wasn't really that many people wanting to give credit to all these other players. Only 4%. The leading vote getters were 4%. But ⁓ the leading vote getters were Jalen Johnson, Derek White, and Jalen Brown. So this is top three. I'm not, this is cool. Underrated. Greg: Yeah, I mean, these are these are names that I kind of expected. Chris Dunn is a crazy pool, but that makes him underrated. Donovan Mitchell as well. Jax: calling Gillespie as well. I don't understand why still being underrated is interesting, but I guess. ⁓ But yeah, OK, I see Josh Getty, Quentin Grimes, Dillon Harper. Dillon Harper's really underrated. Greg: for sure use. Yeah. Jax: All right, so there's that. Now, most overrated player, this is the one I got spoiled by social media, but the lead voted for the most overrated player is Alperen Sangoon, followed by Rudy Gobert and Trey Young. And I sort of knew Rudy and Trey were gonna be up there, because people just, people hate Rudy forever. And he's just, he's just stealing the playoffs, locking people down. So interesting, but then. I don't, people just hate Trae Young. I don't get it. I don't get it either. I like Trae Young. But the Sen Gun, I'm not gonna lie bro, I see. Like these, didn't do, he didn't show, he didn't show up in the playoffs well enough. So can, I see why people think that. Especially like, cause his game is like, it's a little ugly. It's a lot of ugly actually. And like when they go in, you're happy, but they ain't been going in lately. And when they don't go in, he looks ridiculous. So. Greg: I don't get that either. Jax: And you also gotta play deep. Greg: Yeah, it's touch around the rim that fell off. Yeah, it's touch around the rim fell off. And he was a way better defender last season than this season. ⁓ And he had to share more of the offensive low last season versus this season where. You're pretty much going through Kevin Durant, honestly, it just looked like ugly hoops in general for that for that team. It just looked like give the ball to KD and watch that nigga word. Jax: That's what happens when you don't get a point guard for no reason. Greg: where one thing I wanted to point out is crazy how this nigga Tyrese Halliburton is still on this fucking list. Nigga didn't even play this year. That's crazy. do a damn thing. Nigga caught shingles and still caught the overrated label. Nigga, that's crazy. Insane. After the run he had last year. Interesting. Jax: Mm-hmm. I do a damn thing. Really? I barely played two. I played like four games. Jaws ain't here too. They didn't let Ja play. I don't know if he's overrated or not. The grillies didn't let him play. Greg: Honestly, honestly I thought Denny would have been a little bit higher, but I guess players respect that again. a title hero. That doesn't surprise me. Damn, it's a bonus. I really play either pods being on here is exactly what I needed. Jax: the whole. That doesn't mean people hate Pods. Cause I don't think he's overrated at all. Greg: It's me. I'm niggas. It's me. He broke the new jacks. It's me nigga. Jax: I feel like a lot of people like rape pods probably like nobody thinks he's super good. Nobody thinks he's like, people do think he's terrible, but I don't know. I feel like the fact that you want to call him overrated means you hate him. And I guess y'all hate him. Greg: Yeah, yeah. I get it. And it's not even because of him. It's just the fact that it's almost like the Tyler Hero thing where it's like you put niggas in trades and they're like, hey, hold on. I'll get you on this, but damn, I got to give up part. Who do you think this nigga is? Go trade that nigga in the trade thing and push the trade through. What the fuck? He is not that good for you to be hesitant. Jax: Yeah. Trying to get Yannis or Paz, brother. Greg: Yeah. Jax: More things, another thing aside from your current coach, which coach do you find most impressive? Joe Missoula got the most votes, followed by Mark Diagonal of the Thunder and JD Bickerstaff of the Pistons. I'm not surprised. Those are probably like three best coaches. Suppose up there as well, suppose always good. I like to see Joe. Greg: I'm not surprised. I probably put Charles Lee up there. I'd put Charles Lee up there. Jax: I think JJ Reddick is a really good coach. I think he's just dealing with a lot right now. Greg: Yeah, I will. Yeah, I will put JJ Reddick just off the just off the mere fact niggas don't bring up that podcast no more when it come to JJ. ⁓ yeah. That is legit. When he first got hired, it was like, my God, they're bringing in a podcaster to coach. You do not hear that shit after 251 seasons. So he's valid. He's valid for me. He may still squeeze a note squeaking by. I feel it. Jax: Yeah. Bye. guess brother I guess. Which coach do you find least impressive? Top three vote getters are Brian Keefe, Doc Rivers recently retired and Doug Christie. Who's with the Kings? I'm not gonna hold you. Who's Brian Keefe? Is he the Pelican? Greg: you Mmm. I don't know that nigga. What is that? What is that? Did he get fired then? Jax: I don't know. ⁓ wizards, wizards coats. Greg: You must hear that. ⁓ that's war. Jax: I mean, that team was actively trying to lose. So, ⁓ Greg: And no, think it's this, ⁓ you know what? This makes a lot of sense. Jax: Why? Greg: Because them niggas allowed Bam to score 83. Just off rip. Just off rip. Just off rip. The defense, you was playing? Yeah, nah, brother. I don't give a fuck if you was tanking. You allowed history to be broken on your watch. I can see why that happened. Jax: Never mind, never mind, yeah. Yeah, never mind. by Bam out of... And we think Bam is great. He's not 80 points great. So, know, Brian, you deserve this one. Like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Greg: Yes. Yeah. You deserve that one gang. You deserve that. Jax: Bless you, what else? Who is the league's best defensive, ⁓ well, number one. Greg: God damn, this is the biggest gap I've ever seen. Why is Chris done the second answer though? Jax: I don't know. Like Ches not there, man Thompson's there. Okay, I see a star. I guess, but I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. Ches not there at all. That's really crazy. Greg: That's alright, that's alright, that's Lou Dora down here. Rudy Gopin. Jax: They ain't champion out there at all. And he was second in defensive player of the year votes. Interesting. Well, we're champions, so whatever. Greg: Yeah, he's not. Damn. Jax: Was that the last one? ⁓ I believe that was the last one. That was the last one. Greg: Interesting. I had a question about the polls in general. I feel like when it comes to anonymous polls, the concept of it is so crazy. Imagine your job having that, like an anonymous poll. And it's just shit like, who do you think is underrated at your job? Overrated at their job. Jax: always. Mm-hmm. I feel like this is a little bit different though, because like, yes, these are all like everybody at their job, but like they're all at different like workplaces. Cause like, like if it was like an anonymous poll for like the team, it was just like one team vote. That'd be, that's insane. That is insane. But the fact is spread around everybody. was like, okay, you can, you can do this and not feel like, well, I mean, you still feel hated, but like if it was your own team voting on that, you'd be like, ⁓ my gosh, these niggas hate me. So I give you the look. Greg: feel like if it was I feel like if it was team based, it would have been like disingenuous answers. Like you would just see like a random like, like, who's overrated. And then they'll just spam the fuck out of Jeff Green. It's like, all right, nigga, like, y'all just saying shit. Y'all just got locker room banter. They're good. With this being like a league wide thing is niggas are a little bit more honest about their feelings. But even then, it's like, damn, this is Jax: The only person who would be anonymous in a team anonymous poll is probably Kevin Durant. ⁓ Greg: Absolutely. Absolutely. You're right. Jax: All right, but keeping it basketball since it's mainly basketball today. We have to talk about Jalen Brown losing his goddamn mind after the Sixers beat them in that game seven. And before I even get this, Mavie, before I even get to, I just have to say, I feel like you were up three one and y'all couldn't close it out. So I'm like, any of the stuff you really say, bro, like. Greg: Yeah. Jax: You had three chances to beat them and you couldn't at all. So come on, Greg: Yeah, it's gonna be hard because not a lot of people trying to hear what the fuck you got to say after losing three one. It's kind of hard for me to be like, ⁓ you're doing too much. But. Jax: Yeah. Yeah, but Jalen Brown, if y'all did not know, he's started a live streaming career, unfortunately, to everybody involved. And I say that about every live stream because it's always terrible. But after they lost, he went on a rant. talked about the refs had something against him. He talked about him being flopping, which is valid. He also said, one of the comments he said was that this was his favorite year of his career, which I'm not even entirely that mad at that one, but people were upset. But let's... Let's play the hits. Anytime I'm going to be right now. That's exactly what we'll do. So nothing. We're not doing that. And also, you talking about your back foot. Joel Embiid is on his deathbed every single game. Greg: You Jax: I'm sorry. Greg: Air candy? Jax: But he went on this whole live stream was like, I don't even know how long he'll be live streaming for. But he went on for much longer complaining about the refs. He got fined by the NBA $50,000, which I mean, low key, I would have been like, hey, my season's over. I'm not in the NBA right now. Why y'all finding me? But still regarding, he got 550,000 for these comments. Brad Stevens, who is the head of basketball operations for the Celtics, I believe he came out and he had to address these comments and say, oh, I had a good talk with JB and we're still close and blah, blah. But then Jalen Brown went on another live stream again and he said, you he's like, I'm upset that Brad even had to address this, but no, I still love the Celtics and I'd play here forever if I could. What do you think like, what should be the Celtics course of action with this whole thing? Or is there a course of action that they should take? Like, do you think they should be like, you know what, let's just get rid of this season of malcontent? Or do you think we should just be like, you know what, let's just brush it off, bring it back next season? Like, what are your opinions on this, Greg? Greg: Honestly, I mean, they did what they did like they did exactly what they was supposed to do. They had a great conversation with that digger. And we're just going to keep it pushing because at the end of the day, they had a great season last last year. Now, it's just a matter of I think he's I think he's like up for like his extension or something. I don't know if it's this summer or later, but like he's supposed to be getting some fucking bread. very soon. So it was just a matter of if you're going to come into that. Jax: I hear only I hear big extension. Well, NBA is weird though, because they just be extending people out of nowhere. So you could be right. Greg: Yeah, it'd be crazy extension. So I think when it comes to Jaylen Brown, I think a lot of I think when it came to Brad Steve's having to speak on it, I think it was more of that, you know, the comment that you didn't care about the. You know, you know, this past year was my favorite season. ⁓ Everybody can everybody knows the difference between best and favorite until it comes to a nigga they don't fuck with. Like. Jax: Yeah. Greg: I can say that LeBron is the best player that I've ever seen play. And I can also say that Carmelo Anthony was always my favorite basketball player ever. But all of a sudden, when Jalen Brown and he gave his reasoning on stream like, yeah, like niggas counted us out, called us the gap here, Celtics. And we still ended up coming to the playoffs and ended up being a top three seed when nobody was talking about that. Everybody was like, you know, take for AJ DeMonstra. Yeah, I mean, you take and we didn't we we did so well. Jax: They're like, ⁓ my God, need a tank, I need a tank. Greg: Jason Tatum said, hold on, I think I can play. Like that, you know, like that's just a testament to how good Jalen Brown was. So I think he like, it was a motivating, it was a personal challenge for him, especially as a nigga that's getting mad criticism for, that nigga can't dribble with his left and he can't lead the team. Is it Jalen Brown's team or Jason Tatum's team? So I think that was blown out of proportion. Jax: Yeah. Greg: And I think the only people that are upset about that or niggas that one day want J, you know, want JB to get traded or Celtics fans that are in their feelings, even though they won the fucking championship, get over it. I don't get the fuck over it. Who cares? But the course of action, I don't think there should be any course of action because at this point he's not really not told to no guns. Now, I will say these these other niggas that you be having. in the stream with you these random white people. I don't know who these niggas are. need one. Cut them niggas out. Jax: They pop out with if like every NBA player got like five random white dudes with them in the tuck at all time for any any type of video content they need. I don't know how they be knowing these people bro. ⁓ Greg: anything. ⁓ I don't know who these are, bro. Who the fuck these niggas are? So I don't know about that. But as far as him live streaming, like he do be breaking down film. I just think he chose this go around to, you know, get some shade off. But I've been going I've been going back. I haven't been watching them most, but I have been, you know, kind of telegraph. OK, throughout this whole season, you've been breaking film down. This is what you kind of do. It's just this one went viral because doing this fresh off of game seven. Jax: Cause it was like the ref having a, he said the ref having a ginger against me. Greg: Yeah, and I think the only reason why he got fine was he said the reps is rig is a lot of rigging going around. Some niggas is rigging. It's like, OK, and not saying that he's incorrect, but it's just a sense of like, all right, nobody's trying to hear that after a game seven when you had full control over that series. That's fair, but he's cool. It'll be I. Jax: Exactly. But let's keep it playoffs, Greg. Since our last podcast, what has happened? A lot of teams got knocked out of the playoffs, I believe. Because I think the last time recorded was before any of the game sevens. Greg: Yeah, there was only two games so we had the two East Eastern teams. Everything in the West was already said. Jax: Yeah. Okay, so we sort of addressed the Pistons and Magic a little bit earlier. ⁓ Cavs and Raptors. I wasn't surprised that series went how it went. I just don't really, I didn't really have much faith in the Raptors to be completely honest with you. So I'm not surprised that Cavs won. And now they're playing the Pistons. You want to start with the Well, we're already on the East, so let's talk about the Pistons Cav series. Detroit's up 2-0. And to be frank, it hurts to say this, but I don't even, I don't know if this is a playoff James Harden thing. It might just be a old James Harden thing. He might not have a horses no more. Like just Pistons are a young team and it looks like the Knicks and Sixers game just started. But the Pistons are a young team and they can keep up with Harden, bro. Like they're not gonna get bullied around by him because normally Harden can like push people around and stuff. But Cade is bigger than Harden. Like I think Harden might just be a little bit too old, man. He hasn't been playing good. Greg: I mean, when it comes to Hardin, I don't even like when niggas get on, you know, live television and try to break down like a hardened playoff ordeal. It's like they are like we've we've been. It's just like, bro, like like you are not telling me anything new about playoff James Harden. But as far as like. Jax: People like jumping on hard and tough guys, bro. Greg: James Harden goes, it's just. There will be times, and I don't know why people don't bring this up. Yes, he's old, but this nigga be trying to beat a nigga like two or three times before he commits to the move. He's done it all his whole career where like he'll do a dribble move and his first move gets the nigga like it gives him. But then that's when a nigga decides to like step back. And when when he was in his prime. Jax: you Greg: It just looked cool. And it's all right, but cool like you're James Harden. You can do that. We have a star Thompson. That niggas quick twitch is going to allow him to recover so much faster. He's back where you need to be. And now you got a block shot because that I will give the Thompson twins this either one of them. They don't bite on chump like on pump fakes. They do not bite on pump fakes ever. And I'm like, man, like that's a good ass skill. Jax: Yeah. He's there, you can't get by him. Greg: because niggas do be doing that. every time, especially that last game that happened, I'm like, damn, nigga, you beat Cade the first time. You allowed Cade to recover because you want to step back. Oh, that nigga's turnovers was crazy. I he had a triple-double of turnovers. This shit was throwing me off so bad. if I had a broomstick, I do have one. I just don't feel like bringing it out. I would say. You might want to bring them room sticks out, but. I just I just say this once again, like. Why is the conversation always James Harden? When he's on a team, it'll never be no Donovan Mitchell. It'll never be no Evan Mobley. It'll be nobody else. Jax: It can. Cause Don, Evan Mobley is really the one who needs to step up. Cause they can't like nobody on the pitch can really guard Evan Mobley for real. If he, if Evan Mobley like really locks in nobody on the pitch can cause Jalen Durant we already know he can't play defense. Tobias Harris is old. Like nobody can really, or not Patrick, what is his name? Beach two? I don't remember his real name. Oh God, like, I don't know what to say. But yeah, I mean, it's true. Greg: That's what I'm saying. I'm like, it'll be nobody else. I say a stool. Jax: He's strong, but he's smaller than, he's shorter than Evan Mobey. So like Evan Mobey and Jared Allen as well, they should be running it up on these pistons because they don't got no interior defense, but that's not what's happening. Greg: Orlando gave you Orlando gave you the blueprint on how to how to do it for real. They just couldn't finish the job. They just couldn't knock down shots. But y'all have shooters like Donovan Mitchell, James Harden, Dean Wade. The list goes on. Nigga can shoot even Evan Mobley can step outside and shoot it every once in a while, even though I don't encourage it every time. But you got you. Jax: Yeah. The only one that can shoot is Darrell Allen, but you don't need him to shoot because he's playing defense in dunking. Greg: You got you got the team that can space the floor out to do what you need to do on offense and then on defense Do exactly what you need to do on defense It's just Kate has been playing on another on another level and that's fine. But Jalen Durin still look lost last game He still look lost Like you know people don't talk enough about Jalen Durin mainly because they're winning right now, but best best believe If this series was even tied 1-1 Jax: Jaylen has had a good game to play off here. I don't know what's going on with Jaylen. I'm not going to lie. Greg: This will be talking about Jalen Durin a lot more. It's like, you look lost, bro. You are losing money every game that you play, every game that you suit up and go play. You are. Jax: And I feel like he's going to make an all NBA team. He was an all star. Like, Jaylen Dunham was really, really good this season. And now he's, I don't know what's going on. He's just not playing good at all. Greg: You fucking good this year. Yeah, you fucking good. It has to be a mental thing because I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't have the answer to why he he looks night and day. Maybe it's just because niggas know how to scheme around them when you play a nigga in a seven game series. But then it came out the gate not playing well. Like it's not even like a he had a good thirty five point game or a twenty five and ten game. And then they just found the blueprint. Jax: Like not even like a 20, like 20. Greg: Yeah, that's weird. I don't fucking know, but I don't know. Jax: But, ⁓ Let's go ahead and let's go to the West so we can get those out and then talk about the Knicks sixers last. Cause that's, you can talk about that a little bit more. Cause at West it's with all due respect. OKC they're up two and O in the series against the Lakers. And like I said, with all due respect, I think it's a sweep. The Lakers literally just do not have the. The personnel, the horses, everybody on OKC has scored 20 points in a NBA basketball game. Literally every single player on their team, except for I think their rookie who hasn't played at all because he's been injured. But everybody else has scored 20 points in an NBA game in their life before. Everybody on OKC is good. There's nothing the Lakers can do about it, unfortunately. Greg: I know them niggas was like bad about the fouls and shit. I know I'm like, I know that's a thing. And I do respect that the thunder like players, they lean into it and just don't give a fuck. Like they don't they don't really care. Like they're going to keep doing it. You got to do it like you got to be unfazed with it and that's fine. And there be times when I'm just like, you're kind of overdoing it. And then I'll be seeing some replays. I'm like, I was kind of crazy. Jax: That's what you got. Greg: But I'm gonna just keep pushing because it's kind of hard for me to harp on shit when you're down 25. Like, it's just like, I want to be like, damn, like Jax: Like wasn't all free throws that knocked you down 25. It wasn't all free throws that made you be down by 32. Greg: Now I'm saying it's just like the foul discrepancy. It's a real thing sometimes. There's times where you can't really guard physically the same way as the thunder is. Like in some cases, I do agree. But me beating my chest and saying that online when you're down 25, you got nothing from it. So no for me, big dog. Like pack it up and we'll see. We'll really see. ⁓ what is really made out of come to Western Conference. Once, because I think when we talk about this next, you know, this next team, I think it's ultimately going to be dispersed and OKC battling it out. Then we can really see if there's going to be a foul discrepancy. Because they is it is it an issue? Yes. Also, we do not care. I don't care. I don't. I just. Jax: Yeah, fuck. Greg: I have nothing for you. And one thing I do have smoke for is for the 76 is because. that you gave these niggas Jared McCain four baggage ships. Jax: I'm not gonna lie, even if they didn't have Jeremy McCain, it'd still be the same. it is funny, Jeremy McCain just not like, yeah, no. Greg: No, but it's the greed that we talk about in the Bible, though. Like, it's the greed that we talk. It's the principle. I don't even care that y'all are good enough to not have him. Golden State was good enough not to have Kevin Durant. It didn't matter. on top of that, they got boogie cousins the next year after that. This is greed. Darrell Morey, you're a liar and I will never work with you ever again. Like, what are you talking about? What are we doing? Jax: Yes. Greg: I'm upset. But yeah, I mean, this is I mean, honestly, the West has been a yarn fest, a snooze fest ⁓ this round, and I'm just kind of waiting for the conference finals. Literally, when the West plays, I go to the gym. I go work out. Like, I'm just like, I feel like I'm I feel like I'm not being productive with my time watching a blowout on both on both fronts. So I fuck it. Why not? Jax: Yeah. Really? This room? Greg: Who cares? Jax: Speaking of these ⁓ next series, the Timberwolves and Spurs, the Timberwolves, came out, they won game one. They was playing them tough. Wimby had a bad game, but then game two Spurs blew them out. And I just like, I really wish Anthony Edwards was healthy. I think that would, this series would be completely different. think the Timberwolves, I think it'd go seven if Anthony Edwards was actually healthy. But he's not, he's coming off the bench. You can literally see he can't really move for real. He's on a minute restriction. Honestly, I feel like they really shouldn't even be playing him if they're gonna do all that. But like, I really wish Andy Edwards was That's really my main takeaway from this series. I think the Spurs are probably gonna win it in five. And yeah, they're just too talented right now for this current iteration of the Wolves to beat them. Because Andy Edwards hurt, Dante DiVincenzo's hurt. The soon he played he still just coming off of an injury like this team is not full strength, okay Greg: at all. And they're not they're not healthy enough to counterreact the the adjustments of the Spurs do from a game to game standpoint. So the Spurs lost. then I found out that fucking Coach Pop was in film with them niggas. And I was just like, ⁓ Jax: He came back. He saw that game and he was like, oh no. This is not how we do it. Greg: ⁓ okay. Then I guess I ⁓ I got something for this. I can. This is easy fix. I got you. Jax: He's like, me get my walker real fast. put up to the practice. Greg: That's like Tom Brady. That's like Tom Brady reading the defense. He was like, ⁓ this is where y'all went wrong. It's right here. Just do this simple move right. They can't stop that. Look at them. They they they're too injured. Yes, it's the Drake, the Drake Lil Yachty. That's that's Coach Pop and Wimby. All right, man. Fair. And they blew them niggas up like 25, 30 points. I'm like, okay, it's never close. So Jax: Exactly. We were just like, ⁓ of course. Yeah. This was crazy. That was never closed again. Greg: This might be this might be this might be honestly. If I'm being honest, and. And ain't no ho, it'll probably go six. I think you can win one more. I think you can win one more at home. I mean, I had like I said, I came in here not thinking they was going to win one in San Antonio and you all squeezed a game one by accident, so I think they can win one. Game three or game four at home. Make it a game six, but in my mind, this shit is over. It's over for me. I don't care no more. Jax: Like we, I'm not trying speak for you, but I know we both wish it was a more competitive. We both wish they were healthy so they can like play for real because we, they would for sure. I think it would go to seven in all honesty. I think they were healthy, but they're not. you just got to sort of give that one to the Spurs. But last series we got the Knicks and 76ers and they're playing right now. New York leads two zero. And me is playing this game. Greg: Absolutely. I'm not fazed. Jax: But yeah, I really don't know about this series, bro, because I'm not gonna, I hate the Knicks. And I think my dislike of the Knicks has made me underrate them, because no, they got some cold, like Kat is still good, course, Jalen Brunson is still good, like, Mikhail Bridges is still Mikhail Bridges, OG and an OB is still OG, this is actually like a pretty good rocker. You said what? Greg: I'm- This niggas wavering This niggas wavering stand Standin you're wavering nigga. Hey, hey, bro. Look Jax: Who me? On my hate? No! On what? Greg: The way you feel about the Knicks is how you feel about the Knicks. They've been the Knicks for decades. I'm not faced. I don't give a fuck if they up to, ⁓ Philly is gonna find a way to win the series. I promise you, bro. Jax: You think they're still gonna lose, I want them to, but Embiid, he be dying. Embiid is dying every single game, bro. Greg: Yo. As far as farm, bro, is fine. I get you. The Knicks are going to Knicks. It's not. Jax: They elbowed him in his appendix bro, he just got that whole taking out. They elbowed him in the surgery scar. They're trying to murder him, B. Greg: I promise you, the Knicks losing this series will have nothing to do about the Philadelphia 76ers. The Knicks are going to lose because the Knicks are the Knicks. This happens every year. These niggas get excited. starts going crazy. Niggas lose. Niggas start losing the plot and niggas start getting unfocused. When they won game two, that's when I knew. Okay. They're not going to they're not going to press the gas like they need to. Let me look at the score right now. They down right now, 17, 8. Now, granted, this is 2026 basketball. There is no lead that safe, but that tells me everything I need to know. Like, hey, we're going to come back to game six and it's going to be tied 2-2. Don't even worry about it. Philly finna win these two games. Jax: It's pretty down right now. Yeah The only thing I know for sure about Philly is that BJ Edgecombe is not no ho. He's not gonna go out like a ho. That's all I know. I really like BJ. He's not scared at the moment, bro. He's just gonna pull up and he gonna shoot. Greg: He's not gonna go like the whole And of course, Jeremy Schoen out here talking crazy. Jax: Like my niggas? Alright bro. Greg: Like put a put a put a battery in that nigga VJ bag. Hey bro, look. Hey bro, get the egg. And it goes on the generator for seven years. Leave him alone. Leave him alone. He said it, not me. Jax: All right, but I think we wrapped everything up. I think it's that time, Greg. Greg: Thank That's so fucking bad. If you from Houston, you should have a generator on deck. If you're a homeowner, if you're a Houston homeowner, I know niggas be in apartments and shit. If you are a Houston homeowner, you should definitely have a generator. It's a fact. But Jax, what's your hot take? Jax: All right, I'm not gonna hold you. I'm stealing this from a Twitter user, Alpha1906. That's very funny. This is very funny. Yeah. But I'm stealing this hot take, because I agree, especially with all this stuff that's going around this country right now. But he said, Greg: What the fuck? That's a crazy ad. What the fuck? Jax: And I'm going to, of course, quote what said. He said, we don't need a, or rather, we need a don't play where you have no say campaign to negatively recruit black athletes away from states where black political power has been erased. There's a whole lot of racists who think that money's a guiding force, but we need to show them that money is everywhere. And I wholeheartedly agree with that hot take because this comes off of, I think in Memphis, just, well, Jerry Mandarin. legally gerrymandered, like, so now that there's no republic, there's no democratic seats over there in Memphis anymore, they're trying to do the same thing in, I think, they're trying to do the same thing in Virginia, but I don't think that worked. But yeah, like they're just taking away voters' rights and all this. And I'm just like, I don't know what, or. I know what, but you can't say that on these platforms. I know what these have, you can't say that here. You can't say that here. Greg: Oh shit. I know the route. I know the answer. I know the answer to all of this. Jax: I know the solution, but we can't say that. realistically though, I've always felt this way, because I remember, think it was one of these running backs. He went to, was it Ole Miss or Missouri? was one of those schools that had their, it one of those states that had the state flag. they changed the state flag since then but they had a state flag but within their state flag was a Confederate flag and he didn't want to go to that school because of it and I think like stuff like that is needs to be more common because we need to show these people like they can't just keep playing with us our history our lives our money our livelihoods our everything and like think it's gonna be cool like we need like especially like athletes, cause they're unfortunately have been put in the position where they're like looked to as like the, like as like role models for people, especially young kids. like, just, I don't know, we just need something that shows that, we don't have, we don't agree with any of the bullshit y'all do. And we don't have to abide by these rules and everything. I just, it just bothers me that a lot of these higher ups are able to get away with all the bullshit they're doing right now. And I don't know, we just need to. Get away from these niggas, in all honesty, bro. I just hate it. I hate what this country is. I was gonna say is becoming, but it's always been like ass, bro. I don't know, it just pisses me off, bro. So that's my hot take. We need to do something to affect these niggas, even if it's as little as not going to their schools, bro. Greg: You could do more than that. But we're going to leave it alone. This the one to neutralize the threat. No, I wholeheartedly agree. And I remember back in 2020 during that covid, you know, when a virus hit. know, niggas, niggas start getting good with God, niggas start reassessing their lives all of a sudden, niggas. Jax: No, there's for sure more than that, you can't say these things. Hahaha! Greg: I think we need to tap into these HBCUs, man. I think we need to really get these big athletes. Yo, they had that big ass push. And, you know, some people committed. Most people didn't. But, I think we do need to give. I do think we need to do something. And it's just going to have to take, honestly, if we can just get five years of consistency of just. like consistently making that a priority. You would see a big shift, but it's just kind of hard. To. Get over the year, you know, to get over the year one hump. Like. To get over the year one hump and especially when we're talking about football, because basketball, they love to use that nepotism. ⁓ yeah, like there's only nothing but rich kids playing ball. But with football niggas like they're still niggas getting out the mud. Jax: Get people to agree. Greg: So it's hard for me look at this kid and be like, hey, yo, look, sacrifice these millions so that you can go for the greater cause. He was like, nigga, like VJ Echolm said, like, I've been living on the generator for seven years. Give me that white man's money so I can take care of my mom's gang. I don't give a fuck what you're talking about. And it's kind of hard for me to be like, Coon, because you're living in poverty. Like you're getting it out the mud. I get it. So it's just it's going to take. Jax: I'm gonna dinner here. Yeah, but I did it. I learned everything. did it. Greg: It's going to take an act of God. Honestly, it won't. It would just have to be somebody that has been backing the funding of HBCUs to just get an even bigger budget to say, you know, we can match you just like these other niggas can. Like I said, that should take time. But five, if we can just get five years, five years can just do some real fucking damage. ⁓ but, know, just like. What do you want to do in the small sample size that he did? Crazy, like he he was like one person. But. The fact that he was able to do that and then transfer the Colorado and in turn. Colorado into black college, you for like two seasons, it's like, like. Jax: Yeah. I don't know if they're still that in the box. I think people sort of stopped caring about Colorado. Greg: Yeah, people don't go fuck about Colorado. I don't I haven't seen a Colorado hoodie in forever since your door left honestly Jax: We don't really buy in Colorado like merch and all that, cause of DM. Greg: Not that ass. Niggas, niggas out here buying Cleveland Brown shit right now. Like it's the whole thing. Mind you, it's Cleveland Brown. I don't know. I don't know a nigga that has and this is this is not even disrespect. I don't know a nigga that got a Travis Hunter jersey. I know five people right now. I know five people right now with a Shadurah Sanders jersey. Overall. Yes. I know five. I know five people right now. Three of them are women. Three of them are women. gap. Jax: you Should do a brown girly? It's crazy. Yeah Greg: But it's a good hot take. Good hot take. call myself an honorary fat, an ⁓ honorary fat nigga, mainly because I've been losing weight and I've been trying to get into the gym. So I'm trying to be Greg fat no more. So we're still working on it. But I feel like as an honorary fat nigga, I can get this shit off. My high take is that if you if you have to take Benadryl to eat some food that you have no business eating, That is the fattest shit I've ever seen in my fucking life. There are niggas that will go out their way. I gotta eat this shrimp. I gotta eat this lobster. I gotta eat this seafood boil. Let me take this Benadryl first, because I'm allergic. Yo, that is the fattest shit ever. And the only reason why people don't call you fat is because you don't look fat. But that is the fattest shit. Yes, people do that. People will take Benadryl. Not dead ass. I'm not playing. There are niggas that will dead ass take Benadryl. Jax: People are going there. I did it. Greg: just to eat some of their favorite food, because it just tastes so good. It's not good for you though, my nigga. You're allergic to it. Dead ass. Jax: That's the dumbest shit I ever heard. What? Greg: There are are there are people there are women out here that got a bit of drill in a person. They know they're going to go. Let me just take it. Wow. Wow. You know, I'm just like, yeah. Because that. Because at first I was just like, OK, in my mind, at first I was just like. Maybe their symptoms are like not bad. Jax: That's stupid. ⁓ my gosh, that's stupid. That be pissing me off. Are you stupid? Are you bloody? Greg: for real, like y'all haven't had like a traumatic experience to a point where you had to go to the hospital. But that's still crazy. I don't think there's ever been food that tasted so good that I had to go like. Well, granted, I'm not allergic to nothing, so I can't really compare it, but it's just I don't think I've ever had food. I'm like, I got to have it. I'm allergic, but it should taste so good that I'm just pop this this bit of drill afterwards. What? Yeah. Yeah. Jax: No, that's fucking stupid. That's so dumb. Like, that's like, like, that's pissing me off. Like, that's so stupid. Greg: it. Yeah, it's dumb. But like, people do it. And when it's crawfish season, best believe I start hearing that dumbass shit too. Jax: She's not even good enough for all that. Greg: It's not. It's not. As a nigga that enjoys crawfish, it was never going to be that deep for me. What the fuck are we talking about? But like I said, I'm Jax: It's never that deep for you to go get some nose unless you like alerted to like some, don't even know like, what's something that like, if you like fucking water or something, she's then like, okay, I fucking guess you want to take the Benadryl to drink water or something. I don't know, but like, what? Greg: There's nothing, there's nothing- There's nothing on this earth. There is nothing on this earth that is solid that is worth taking a Benadryl over. I have not taste food good enough. That is like I need to probably take a Benadryl. Jax: is so dumb. That is so stupid. That is so fucking stupid, brothers. Greg: I can find something else to do. Niggas like I said like niggas would call. Nope. Nobody calls this shit fat Nobody calls this shit like fat nigga behavior, but that is definitely fat nigga behavior and you only don't call it fat nigga behavior Jax: ⁓ you're not... You're fat and dumb if you do that shit. You are fat and stupid. Greg: I'm saying like that is so idiotic and I know women gonna get mad cuz I only see a lot of it's like a lot of women do this and I'm just like What? But you can't call it. You can't call women dumb and stupid on the internet without it being ⁓ anti-black a little bit So people people be treading lightly, but it's just like come on my nigga. This is crazy And the only reason why people don't call you fat is because you don't look fat Jax: That's fair. That's ins- that's upsetting, I'm not gonna lie. That's so stupid, that's so stupid. Greg: Yeah, I've been I've been holding that one in touch for a little minute, but like I saw I saw like another tick tock again. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Jax: I didn't know people did that. I'm not gonna watch it. I didn't know people. Greg: Yeah, you know, people are stupid, but I just thought it was a one off like, ⁓ OK, like I knew this one person that did that. And she did it every once in a while, and I'm just like, that's kind of crazy. Like, what the fuck? But then I just like, ⁓ this is not just a you thing like other people do this. No. Jax: Honey note safe. Honey note safe. Honey note safe. Greg: Look, I don't have to look. I know. I have no dog in the fight. I just think it's stupid. I can't even relate to it. It's just Like Jack's peanuts could never be that good. Oh, God. Peanuts, peanut oil, Chinese food. It don't matter. Like there has never been. If you ever told me you had to pop Benadryl before we went to Buffalo Wild Wings or some bullshit. I'm like, all right, bro. Like, what are we doing? All because you want a bacon cheeseburger that bad? Man, fuck out of here, nigga. Figure something else out. Jax: Peanuts never tasted good. They never tasted good. But I think that's I'm living. That's upsetting. That's upsetting. That's stupid. That's so, that's... All right, let's wrap it up, bro. Let's wrap it up. That's so... Greg: All right, Jackson, last words. Jax: Don't do that shit. Don't do that. Don't do that shit is my last words. Are you stupid? Greg: you He said, don't you dare, nigga. Yes, that's real. That's real. That's real. ⁓ man. And as for me, I'll leave people alone. All right. It's kind of hard to save niggas right now. Just let them niggas be. Focus on what you can control. Don't try to save other niggas. Stop trying to give niggas guidance. They're not trying to receive it. Some people had to learn our way. ⁓ But that being said, we'll catch y'all niggas next week. Like, comment, subscribe. Lock in on our TikToks. Lock in on our YouTube stuff. We've been dropping ⁓ stuff. Just dropped another thing yesterday. ⁓ Show us love. Jax: Yeah, another thing before we... One, two, I seen it. Greg: ⁓ yeah, I think another thing dropped today. I've been dropping like other clips and you know, interact, go crazy. ⁓ And we will catch y'all next week. Such a gross.