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Episode 144: A Bad Work Wife Can Save Your Marriage!! PART 2 · Play 4 Keeps Podcast

• Jax: You know there's new Love Island show now about the niggas after. Greg: Beyond the Villa. Jax: Yeah, I didn't know that was a thing. saw a clip that I was like, I forgot. Greg: My girl watches that. ⁓ Jax: Hahaha Greg: I told her wasn't I wasn't ever going to be invested like I was last season ever again. So all my updates is just going to come from her. And then she was like, yeah, everybody's on there except for. Oh. Oh, Alandria, Nick Ace. Shelly and Huda for obvious reasons. And I was just like, oh, I don't give a fuck about. Jax: to famous people. Greg: White people actually have. Niggas are talking about Iris and Pepe. I don't care about them niggas or the show. I don't care about season eight. Whatever it is, I'm coming in. I'm not watching it. Jax: That's how it is. That's how it's fucked. Isn't Pepe Mexican still? I was gonna be like, that's white, but let me just not white, but like, man. Yeah. Greg: But you know, non black, I don't care about non blacks. I don't care. I don't care that Brian and Amaya broke up or why they broke up. Come on, gang. I'll never forget. I'll never forget what happened. I will never, I will never do no stupid shit like that ever again, Love is blind. Thank you. Thank you for coming back. Thank you for coming back stronger. You know, RV, we appreciate your services. ⁓ Jax: of those talent shows. Also, I don't watch enough of those shows to really have any reference, so I could be completely wrong. I have no idea. Greg: I think it's like undisputed. think it's undisputed the best. You know, it's it's like it's like all. It's like in it like when when NFL and NBA started making their comparisons like Love is Blind is always king like you're to have your moments with like other shows are like Christmas Day. But we know where viewership come from, they go like all this other shit. is what it is, bro. Football's always king, Nobody's ever stopping, nobody's ever topping Love is Blind. You may have a random good season out of one of these other shows like Ultimatum. Jax: Okay, I see what you're talking about. first I was like, what? But now again, I feel something. Greg: And you may have you may have other shows like Ultimatum, you know, Mary, that first site give you like that little one hit here and there. But consistency peak for peak. You can't you can't be you can't beat it, Jax: is probably the best. Greg: Enough of the small talk. Welcome to another episode of the Play for Keys podcast, the only podcast where we do something different every single day. Not an hour, not an episode. This is a daily thing. New TikToks alert. Like them. All right. ⁓ It's apparent that y'all love Bo Nix. I get it. Y'all love that nigga. Jax: Haha. People were calling that the Rays Bay and I was like, I went back and I watched it again. I was like, no, I truly believe if you replace him with any of the quarterbacks I said, you'd probably get the same exact result. Greg: Nah! I understand that I think the only reason why people started calling it Rage Bay didn't even include Jalen Hurst in there. Jax: Jaylen Hertz, like, I think Jaylen Hertz is... I don't think Jalen Hurts is that bad. I think Jalen Hurts is better than Bo Nix, but it's just the type of throws he doesn't do. He only throws like deep shots to the outside. That's not what Bo Nix does. he doesn't listen to his coaches either. So I don't know if he listens to Sean Payton. Greg: Yeah, that's that's fine. But that Doesn't sense like the fact I'm saying like the fact that you didn't bring him up and say that he was better to bone next. But you went deep in your bag. It said Malik Willis. That's what raised because. It's like how you tweaking it. And they get in the name all they can even name all the stars. They go straight to the bench. Malik, Jamis. Jacobi. Jax: Yeah It's not my fault. It's not my fault. think they're cold and the Kobe's a starting quarterback now, but we'll get into that later. Greg: Oh yeah, he held out. Still looking for his deal. Pay that man. But this is a podcast for casuals. If you are casual, this is the show for you. Obviously, we're talking about quarterbacks that are better than bow necks. What a time to be alive for casual. Let's go ahead and get into it. The rent to do donations, donations, donations. Jax: as he said. Greg: It's actually kind of crazy. Before I even say what I'm about to say, we just gonna go into the we do not cares real WrestleMania is this weekend for those who are who partake. ⁓ Obviously, that's not Jax. Obviously, that's not Jax. really not me for But I'm tapped into all sports and, you know, ⁓ it's been as a deal with ⁓ WWE to ⁓ so. Jax: I would call it WWESport. You just made it. Okay. I'll I'll end it there. I'll end it there. Greg: You'd be seeing that a lot. It is. This is for. Yeah, this is for I don't watch it, but. Is what it is, but. ⁓ When doing WrestleMania events. Promos are a thing. ⁓ Advertisements are a thing. So when you see promos being done. Just understand it is it is an act. It is a promo when you see Cameron. Jax: Go. Greg: getting pulled out of his chair by J. Uso. Just know it's a promo, my nigga. My girl thought it was real. Jax: The amount of people I saw that believe that, was like, it's, yes, it's, all wrestling is fake, it's clearly fake. They're not just gonna let the host of the show get beat up in front, like what are we talking about? Greg: My girl, my girl sent me my girl sent me that shit like two days ago. was like, LMAO, this is wild. I was like, hey, hey, I was like, babe, you black like you've seen Cameron on real movies. You know that they can act. Jax: What? If any altercation would ever happen like that, they wouldn't release the footage that quick. Greg: I was like, it can't and Cam don't even can't can't don't even aggravate niggas or get aggressive with it. It's like off rip, like just unprovoked. Like it has to be like a ⁓ beef happening. Like something happened. You say something to slide a cam. Then he'll he'll he'll he'll come back and do some some weird shit. But him just coming out here and just you're not that good. Wait, hold on. Cam ain't never been on that time of time. Jax: Nah, he had- Okay, okay. Greg: Remember that shit with, you know, a real, you know, a real back and forth with Cam. Just look up Cam versus ⁓ my God. What was that box's name? ⁓ my God. ⁓ yeah. Adrian Broner. Yeah, Adrian Broner. If you want a real back and forth on how Cam really get down is him and Adrian Broner. That's how he that's how he do it. That's how he do it. He'll call you a crackhead in in all that other stuff. ⁓ So. Jax: ⁓ Broner Greg: That was one that I've seen, but this is WrestleMania weekend on top of it being ⁓ NBA playoffs, which we'll talk about later. Be mindful. Everything's a problem. We do not care. Next. We do not care. We do care, actually, but we're just not going to talk about it a lot. WNBA contracts. Supermaxes. These girls are getting mills. Jax: into it. Greg: I mean, Asia got like a three year, five year, five mil. Malia Boston has a six point three million over the span of five. ⁓ The list goes on. I can name you all the girls that have got bread. Shout out to Kelsey Plum. hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine dollars for one year. Jax: Nice job. They said she did that to avoid, or they said she did it to her contact to avoid like some millionaire tax in California or something like that. And I was like, hey, if it works, it works. Like I can't mean that. Yeah. Greg: If it works it works do what you got to do. Give me that dollar. Give me that dollar to the side Give me that give me that dollar in an envelope nigga Jax: I just caught out a hometown discount, nothing too crazy. Greg: Hometown, I don't even think she from there. ⁓ no, you mean home, like as in like her team. saying my full home team. Jax: that Yeah, but also, but also, I have no idea where any of these women are from. I have no idea where any of them Greg: You right. You right. Also shout out to Brittany Griner that signed with the Connecticut Sun. You're not slick. You're just trying to come home. That's really shit. And ⁓ what? ⁓ that's why I wanted to pull up there. Jacks, have you seen this? WNBA commissioner back and forth for the reporter. Jax: This reel is fucking... This reel is fucking... Possibly? Question mark? I think I've seen her say something, but I don't remember what. Greg: Because a lot of people, you know, would think like, OK, like we got here and these women are getting all these contracts and the league is going in the right way. The commissioner must be at the helm of this. Right. Like you would think in your mind like, ⁓ yeah, the commission is doing a good job. You know, that's that's not really the case how people kind of see it. A lot of people see it as the women held their ground, they stalled and they got the money that they deserve, you know, got deserved. So. Jax: Of course. You High-key, that's basically what happened too. Greg: And it's basically what kind of happened. I'm gonna lie to you. So the reporter of as WNBA commissioner ⁓ asked how much longer she'd be the WNBA commissioner. ⁓ and we're going to share my screen because I need your Jax: Last little question to ask. Okay. Greg: Opinion on a few things, but I want you to actually listen to this shit first You're So it was all new fixes fucking spring, but ⁓ Now it was probably a little low on it on the on audio at first. I wasn't sure how much y'all could hear Jax: I was funny as shit. Would you answer? Yes, I actually would. I would. I was able to, well maybe the, I was able to hear. Greg: OK, but as long as he was able to hear. the main part, I wanted to make sure people saw the commissioners saying, I wonder if you would have asked this if, you know, if this was a man ⁓ before I even tell you some of my Jackson. Is she right? Jax: Is who, right? The ⁓ commissioner? Greg: Is Kathy first? Yeah, it is. Is Kathy Ember right? The W is the WNBA commissioner, right? As in, I wonder if you ask the same question of a man. You feel like she's being asked this question because she's a woman. Jax: She's being asked this question because she's not good at her job and low-key I feel like the way the reporter phrase it wasn't like when initially said it I thought it was gonna be like ⁓ how about like I thought it's gonna be a little bit more antagonistic but she was just like What do you see for yourself in the future? That was basically what she was asking and she was like, ⁓ would you ask that she was a man like have you not been on Twitter and seen people like for Adam Silver's head. Like they want Adam Silver to die every single day. People threaten Adam Silver's life all the time. Like they would, they'd probably say much worse about Adam Silver. Actually they have said much worse about Adam Silver. So like this has nothing to do with you being a woman. It's just your effectiveness at your job and people have been calling it or calling you bad at it for a very long time. Greg: daily. And he's done more. Jax: Yes, they would ask this question. And the report, like she said, yes, I would ask this question to your man. So that, that, it wasn't, wasn't, it wasn't a gotcha moment. She thought, she thought she was going to get. Greg: That shit fucked. Like I said, I would. I'm glad she said it in the midst of like her talking. I'm glad she didn't wait until she finished her statement and didn't say I would. I'm gonna attack the point. I would don't disrespect me. But this is going to be a reoccurring thing. I wanted to, you know, set that video because I want to set the tone for further discussions down the line when we talk about women in sports. Jax: Yeah. Greg: We will have those conversations conversations will be had we will start a dialogue. But before we get there. Before we get there. Let's go into NFL football real quick. Will Anderson. ⁓ wait. ⁓ yeah I forgot. Jax: ⁓ wait, have one more, one more thing. Or actually, well, this can sort of go in here. actually have two more things. Another thing we didn't talk about on the, do not care, but that's cause we do care about it. Jacoby Brissett, he's holding out for a new contract because he wants quarterback, starting quarterback money. And as somebody who's always liked Jacoby Brissett this entire time, even though he's always been a backup. Greg: Mmm. Jax: I like that from him. He's trying to bleed the cardinals for all they can get or for all he can get and I respect it. So shout out to him. But. Greg: ⁓ yeah, pay that blackmail. Jax: But there's another story in the NFL. don't think, have you? Does the name ⁓ Luther Davis sound familiar to you in anything? Greg: No idea who this is. Jax: All right, he's a former Alabama football player and he's been ⁓ indicted or maybe caught, what exactly? ⁓ But yeah, he's been caught up in a fraud scheme with NFL players. And let me just share my screen. So former Alabama DT Luther Burden, not Luther Burden, nevermind, Luther Burden. No, Luther Davis, Greg: I'm about to say I was like the Chicago nigger. Okay. ⁓ Jax: Luther Davis dressed. Luther Davis dressed. and wigs and makeup to impersonate Michael Penick Jr, David Joakim, and Xavier McKinney in an alleged $20 million loan fraud scheme. and wigs and makeup to impersonate Michael Penick Jr, David Joakim, and Xavier McKinney in an alleged $20 million loan fraud scheme. Greg: What? What? Jax: Him and an accomplice created fake companies, fake accounts, and IDs tied to the players, then attended virtual loan closing in disguise to complete these deals. The scheme involves at least 13 loans totaling nearly $20 million over a 17-month span. He's now facing up to 20 years in prison. He did plead guilty as well. And Greg, you know what Michael Penax Jr. looks like, correct? Do know what David Injoku looks like? Do you know what- Greg: Yes! What you need a wig for? What does the wig? Why does he need a wig? Jax: You know what David and Joku looks like. Greg: Yes! Jax: like and then who's who's that one he said Michael Panic, Dave Njoku and uh who was it there Greg: Yeah. Oh, there was another one? I thought it was only two. Jax: Xavier, Xavier McKinney. I showed you David and Jokey. Let me Google Xavier McKinney. Like. Greg: I don't I kind of worry. I don't know what even like. Okay, get it. This is where the wig is coming from. Jax: What are we talking, then? What does Luther Davis look like? Greg: ⁓ my god. Jax: He looks like none of them. don't even like, cause this Michael Pena, that's Michael Pena right there with the Dure. I mean, maybe I don't think it's probably what he was doing. I'm not going to lie. Cause none of these, none of these three players look the same. mean, maybe you could say Xavier McKinney and David and Joku because they both have like the ⁓ dreads or whatever, but it's just like, brother, what are we doing? Yes, you were going to get caught. Greg: He could have just threw the durag on. You can only do this. You can only and on top of that, I don't know how long you got away with this, but. How long like 17 months, honestly. If you're physically going somewhere. You know, establishing certain things most of the time when you're dealing with football players that wear the helmet. So if you throw the wig on. Jax: Very true. Oh no, 17 months, 17 months, man. Greg: OK, bad like. I don't really know what these niggas behind the helmet look like. But the average woman or man that's not in the football don't know what David and Joku really look like for real. Without the helmet, it's not like he's impersonating Patrick Mahomes or or Jalen Hurst or some shit. 17 months is a lot. He could have just he could have just ⁓ milked it with fucking Michael Pennex and called it a day. That's just a durag. Jax: street. I just want to know like why these three players and also just why like Greg: Ew. That is that is yeah, why them famous but not too famous Jax: I just feel like none of them looked it. They're all like on completely different ends. That's what's blowing. Like they're all in completely different ends of like the look spectrum. Like they all look completely different. So I don't even. You should have known. Greg: But like, who does he really look like though? Like he don't look like nobody though. Jax: Who? Greg: Luther Davis, like I'm just like if I'm if I'm Luther Davis, I don't look like anybody in the league though. Like there's nobody. Who could he really pull off? Jax: Exactly! So why you choose these niggas, Actually, no, he could have chose somebody like, I feel like he looks like a generic black person, like a generic person. So he could have found another player. Like, I would have probably chosen like a lineman or something, because Luther was a lineman. I would choose like a bigger player, somebody who literally always has their helmet. Like, I have no idea, but it's just. Greg: Alright nigga. Like if he was, I'll say this, if he if we were going all time, maybe I could see like if Ray Rice was still in the league, maybe. Maurice Jones drew, actually, don't know. I don't even know what Maurice Jones drew face look like. He's too tall anyway. Jax: He's too tall. Marie's young drew like five six. But then they're online, so nevermind. So it doesn't even matter. Greg: Yeah, I'm not in. What you mean? ⁓ yeah. Right. ⁓ Jax: He was closing all these deals virtually. He was closing all these deals virtually. Greg: So what the fuck he need the make-up for? So what the fuck he need the make-up for? Jax: I mean, you gotta show your face on the camera and he had the makeup and the durag and the wig. Greg: ⁓ this nigga. Actually, actually, he don't know how to do this shit. Who was doing this nigga's makeup? Who was doing this shit for him? Who was accompanying this nigga? actually, he don't know how to do this shit. Who was doing this nigga's makeup? Who was accompanying this nigga? Jax: do want to see like, I don't know what he looked like during these calls. Like, cause he probably looked, I mean, he probably looked ridiculous, which should have been a red flag in and of itself, but it's, don't know. Greg: Somebody had to put this shit on him. 17 months and these niggas not even close like you got niggas from all across the country. I'm nigga in Cleveland and nigga in Atlanta and I don't know where McKinney plays football but. Jax: I know he used to play, I think he's with the Packers now. But still, like completely different areas. Greg: Yeah, Green Bay, Cleveland, and Atlanta. Yeah, brother, I've never seen no shit like this. Did he ever have league aspirations? I'm unfamiliar with his gang. Jax: I am as well. He played on the 2009 Alabama championship teams. That was a while. So his league aspirations are dead and gone. Cause it's been a very, very long time. Let's see. He was a lineman for the undefeated 2009 championship team and he made 47 tackles during a four season career from 2007 to 2010. So probably didn't have any. Greg: So he's a champion. So he he's an NFL nigga and you using and you using well, I Don't know how old and Joku is but you're basically using younger niggas anyway Jax: Well, I mean, Michael Pinnix is old, relatively speaking. Greg: but this nigga was a champion in 09 nigga. We were in middle school. Jax: Fair. Greg: I was an Alabama champion in 09. Was that Mark Ingram's Heisman year nigga? Like, nigga. He's gotta be pushing 40 nigga. Jax: That was Mark Ingram. I'm looking on his Wikipedia now and he did go to the comma or no, he didn't go to the comma. He only had a pro day. So he didn't really get to the league, but it says for post collegiate activity on September 11th, Yahoo Sports reported that he acted as a sports agent or a bag man for sports agents during 2011 and 2012. And all this was way before the NIL stuff. So this was for sure illegal. So the news article was accompanied by subsequent reports containing facsimiles or receipts for flights, money transfers, and text messages. The documents and text made, they showed that he made direct payments and provided benefits to several college football players. So he's always been about this scamming. So I guess. Where's he from? Let me scroll. Where's he from? Greg: Where is he from? Jax: Don't say. Greg: Good man. Jax: ⁓ Louisiana, I guess, because he not. He stunned the college world by reneging on his commitment to LSU. So he's from Louisiana. Greg: Mm. Mm. Jax: I guess, Greg: I guess bro this is it just seem he doesn't seem like a one man band like there has to be somebody else ⁓ at least accomplishing this nigga with the looks with the makeup when you said wig and makeup Jax: Yeah, I wanna know, I wanna know who's, I do wanna know who's doing the makeup. Greg: because that's crazy. That's fucking ridiculous. And if I find out he really did it by himself, even... Jax: Like there's no way it looked good. Like I just feel like he looked, he probably looked ridiculous, but whatever. Greg: Neither him or there. That's the power of the Internet. You can kind of avoid physical interactions for so long. Until those are a show's proof. They can show that showed the fake ID. It was wraps up to them. yeah, I'm I'm I'm a I'm a go on a deep dive after this, but I'm not going to do some more research on that. That's crazy. But, know, speaking of, you know, another defensive player, Jax: Yeah. You Greg: Let's talk about somebody that really got the bag, got it the right way. Will Anderson. Will Anderson Jr. ⁓ Somebody even say, you know, football version of Bronnie James. Got a contract extension three years. Look at this nigga's face, bro. Like, you can't tell me that's not Bron. That's crazy. Jax: Bronnie, like Will Anderson and Bronnie should be on the same football. They should be on the same team. They should be on the same team. Like Bronnie could have been the linebacker or, Bron, how tall is Bron? I think Bronnie like six, two. Okay, Will Anderson like six, three as well. Like Bron could have been a pass rusher. Bronnie could have been a pass rusher. could probably, or if he stays skinny, he could have been a safety like. He should be playing football, bro. Greg: That's good. And Bronnie's like 6'3". probably as. Ronnie could have been whatever the fuck you want to be could have been a linebacker. Bro, Bronny James and Will Anderson might be able to beat the 2000s Ravens defense. That nigga so athletic too. God damn. out to him. But, you know, I think this is the only relevant news that NFL has gotten me. Not gonna lie. Everything else has been, we hate Lamar Jackson. So I wanted to show love to this nigga, Will Anderson. Jax: You Yeah. Greg: And hopefully, know, the Texas team, they're on the right track of trying to build a, you know, a team that can, you know, be in the playoffs. know, you got your CJ Stroud situation going on. But I did pick up, I did pick up his fifth year option from not mistaken. Yeah. Jax: They just gotta get the CJs back. What they should have, because CJ wasn't a, CJ's not a bad quarterback. He just like, he just had the worst game of his life on national television. I don't think he's bad. He just, I don't know. He had a con-cunipple moment, bro. Greg: Yeah, it was, it was, was spooky. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, it just felt a worse to con but I respect it. ⁓ Four turnovers in a half. I don't know nigga. I mean, I still got hope. Jax: It was a worse. But like, see, is still good. The Texans are still promising. I think they're gonna figure it out. But yeah, shout out to Atlanta. Yeah. Greg: I still got I still got hope that's a man of God. I still have hope. But my God, that was rough. That was rough. Now that we got NFL stuff out the way, because I didn't I didn't really have any real follow up is the Texas respect. I don't care. ⁓ Let's get into things I actually do care about. White people drama part two. Diana Rossini. Resigns from the athletic. This is after P.I., private investigators, or investigator, took photos of her and Mike Raible at a couple's resort lounge or resort hotel. Something like that. And I had to embrace each other. ⁓ Fingers interlocking. All right. Jax: Something like that. and fingers interlocking. That's really the great best. That's really what that thing. Greg: Niggas want to skip over a nigga's want to skip over this right here. That's a body. That's a Jax: If that picture was never included, if they never did that, I feel like they probably could have got away with it. Greg: Could have got away with it. But interlocking is for sure body. there was one. And on top of that, that P.I. nigga, he was in his bag. Those are some crazy photos. There was that one of them like looking over the mountain and that mountain looked beautiful as hell. I was like, nigga, this shit look Canada's fuck. Jax: Yeah. I don't know, like, what type of camera do you need to have to do that? Because, like, how do they not see somebody with, like, a big-ass camera just, like, I don't know. Greg: one. That nigga knew how to do his fucking job. All right. So, ⁓ originally, when we brought this up to y'all on the podcast, there wasn't a lot of information out just yet. You know, everything was kind of speculations. We were kind of getting our jokes off. And at the time, the athletic was defending on Diana Rossini, which is like, are these claims are laughable? ⁓ yeah, y'all, you know, y'all, y'all not really. Jax: Yeah. Greg: This is baseless. We defend Diana. She's been a hard worker here and there. Blah, blah, fucking blah. now we have her. You know, she she's so she's so confident and she's so ten toes down that she's decided to hand in her resignation. She's so innocent. We're resigned. Jax: y'all can't fire me I quit Greg: Yeah, I think they started an internal investigation after that. They started internal investigation after some more things came out. But, you know, she still stands on, know, you know, she still stands ten toes on what it was. ⁓ She's not really apologizing for anything. She's like, hey, I'm fucking quit. Mind you, her contract was going to be up in August anyway. Jax: gone in like May or August? I can't remember. Greg: It was going to be in August, it was going to be done. So, I mean, she could have struck it out three, four months. Me personally, me personally, if I was on the attack, like if somebody was attacking, you know, me, I'm riding that shit off. I'm riding it. I'm defending this all the way into the wheels fall off. I'm not doing none of that. I'm not quitting. I'm not doing nothing. I'm just, I'm swinging. Jax: Right there. the Think she had to quit though cuz they started like that investigation and once once she was far rather once she resigned that that means the investigations off no more so they can't go cuz I mean she for sure like they don't like Granted we we don't know we weren't there but like she obviously was with my grave with it. I we're not fucking stupid and so yeah, so she had to because the investigation to keep going and then they would have found out that she like we know she lied but then Greg: We're not done nigga. Jax: proof that she lied and then it just been all so much worse and I seen like I think ESPN did a story and they're talking about ⁓ how they asked both Rusini and were able to just produce like anything that could have like Like just anything that could have said you were there by yourself or you were there with the group and that they're like, do you even have like a Uber receipt to show that you drove up there or something like that or like so that you didn't get there with Mike variable or just like anything and she, she was maybe reducing. Like there was no, she said it was a girl's trip. There was no pictures, nothing. So it was just like, nobody came out to her defense. I'm just like, damn bro. And then I just got the bleacher report notification. There was like, They said that Mike Vrabel is not gonna face any type of punishment or whatever for this, which is, I mean, I never expect him to in the first place, cause like he's a coat that's not really like, we can't really do anything. Like even though, yeah. Yeah, he didn't. Yeah, so. Greg: on the air. I'll make it. Now, what am I saying? Like, you think they finna get this nigga on? And if he in on top of that, even if they did want to do something, it works for the Patriots. ⁓ your owner is nigga. It was in a massage, pet, pilar, happy ending ring, cold thing that niggas want to brush under the rug. All this you think that they could care about this nigga potentially cheating on his wife with Diana Rousini, nigga. Jax: And the Patriots have been known to like outside of that, the Patriots just like cheat in general, like Bill Belichick and them like, probably throw it up. Yeah, real Americans. Greg: Look at this cheese! This is the Patriot's way! on me. I'm saying, I'm saying everybody, everybody doing something questionable. Bill Belichick, him too. Never forget. I do have two questions for you since we're here. The first question, how do you feel about the the alarming amount of people that are on the side of. know. If Diana Rossini was a man, this would be a long story. It wouldn't be as blown out of proportion as this. Jax: ⁓ See, I hate that because people say, oh, if Dianna Rousey was a man, this is like, if she was a man and like, if this exact same situation happened, but she was a man, like it would, the story would have blown up because it's, it'd be too man. So of course, so that's why I'm like, we can't really do that sort of equivalency, but I, I sort of get what they were saying though. I'm not gonna lie. because this wasn't gonna be my hot tape, but I'm gonna just go ahead and say it. I think, cause Jamel Hills, she made a tweet and she was basically saying that same thing. And I did agree, cause there are a lot of instances where people reporters or what have you have like a conflict of interest. Like they'd be buddy buddy with all these people. Like I don't remember, there was a picture of like Peter Schrager with like NFL insider. He was at Sean McVay's wedding. ⁓ But yeah, Shauvy Vey, Adam Schefter, he's like all with a whole bunch of like agents and teams and this, that and the third. So it's like, are conflicts of interest. Are they like romantic? No, but like those are still like gigantic conflicts of interest. So I do see where they're coming from. So I do agree sort of like this was a man, this situation. If this was a man in a not romantic context in this situation would be blown, it'd be like blown past, but. Greg: Adam Adrishifter. Jax: If it was like a one to one comparison with two men doing it, then I guess this would have blown up still because it's two men, of course, we're not stupid. Greg: to men are glad we're on the same page because me personally, I do hate when they're like, you know, if you put a man in this exact same situation, it's a long story. Hold on, Slow you down, slow your own nigga. Because as soon as I keep doing that, y'all keep skipping over the part of niggas interlocking their hands. And I hate when y'all do that. Jax: That's from Pays News. That's from Pays News. Like, if Adam Sefter and Mike Grable interlocked hands, like, we would know. Greg: Like, bro, this country is too homophobic to let this just slide. I don't know why you think it would be a non story if I found two niggas interlocking hands glancing at them at a beautiful mountain and thinking homophobia wouldn't be outrageous. No, nigga, we would still talk about it. My issue might blow bigger than Diana Rossini. I'm not going to to you. Jax: Exactly. Thank That would be crazy. Yeah, nah. Greg: But yes, I do agree with the overall sentiment of what people are trying to get off. These niggas are compromised. All right. There's there's there's a reason why. Oh. Don't nobody in the Dallas Cowboys fuck with Skip Bayless, even though that niggas of him. Because that nigga just got personal, like this nigga nigga one trying to be buddy buddy with nobody to a fault, actually like damn nigga. I'm like, God damn skip. Fuck. Jax: Yeah. He was just making stuff up about people too. Like that's why everybody hated him. Yeah. Greg: the fuck is this? ⁓ So yes, I think everything happened for a reason. There are also rumors allegedly that the PI was sent by Diana Rossini's husband. That's not confirmed though. That's not confirmed. That's not confirmed. Jax: But I saw like a tweet like that and then I tried to find it again and it was like deleted. So I was like, I don't know if it's true or not. Greg: The black van, the black van's got there. Black van's got there. Like I said, I can't confirm or deny that. But PR is PR. That's not that's not somebody has to hire that. It's not like no random ass nigga on the street. ⁓ look at this. No, this was a private investigator. So somebody. Somebody knew this was a reoccurring thing. This is not your first time hanging out with variable. And you lying and there's no. Jax: Yeah. Greg: You know what? Yeah, let's let's go ahead and move on. Go ahead and move on to another press room. Another controversy. A.Z. Fudd. We didn't talk about the WNBA draft. Shout out to them. Shout out to the to the amazing women that that, you know, were able to now make life even more life changing money now with this new, you know, new CBA. Y'all coming in at the right time. Happy for y'all. Jax: ⁓ yeah. Yeah. Greg: getting drafted number one overall pick. This is the first year where it was controversial on who was going to be the number one pick. It wasn't a clear cut favor like your page, Caitlin, Aliya Boston. It was the first time you could have a real debate, real discussion. And the Dallas wings select A.Z. Fudd from out of Yukon for people that don't know who A.Z. Fudd is and why that's significant. That is or well, I don't know if they're still together. But, you know, allegedly this is this is them, you know, you know, dated or dates Paige Becker's the number one overall pick from last year's draft. Jax: Yeah. Greg: ⁓ So, in the midst of our opening press conference, somebody wants to address the teen chemistry or whatnot and this is how it went down. Jax: strips. Greg: Now, this clip got everybody wrong. I won't say everybody. That's a little hyperbolic, but it got everybody in an uproar about why did that man ask that dumbass question? Why do y'all care? Why does it matter? ⁓ a whole lot of people saying some, ⁓ my God, like, why can't people just mind their business? Jax, I'm before before I go into how I feel about it. You have a problem with this question. Do you have a problem with this interaction by any chance? Jax: Low key, I'm not gonna lie, a little bit, a little bit, come like, nigga, leave me alone. Like that's really it. Like what? Like yes, I mean, I assume that's true, I don't fucking know, but like, why does it matter? I mean, I get why it matters, but like, nigga don't ask me about that. Weird ass nigga. Like that's, that's sort of how I feel. So I'm like, I do, I do see where some people are coming from. Cause it's just like, nigga, leave me alone type shit, but. Greg: Okay. Fair. Yeah. Sure. Okay. Right. Yeah. And I, to a degree. I get it. ⁓ I can understand that point, I guess for me. I just feel like. PR really didn't need to protect this one. I feel like she could have just said that and everybody would have been just fine. I feel like A.Z. Fudd could have spoke out for herself and be like, mean, I'm going keep my private private life private. Jax: I feel like she might not have used those words. like, she, honestly, if she would have said the same statement that the, you call it, has said, I think it would have been like a bigger controversy, I feel like. Cause people are like, oh, it have been like a whole thing, I feel like. Greg: Bye! Yeah, and I feel and I think from a journalist, from a journalist standpoint, I don't think it's I don't think it's too unfair to ask given that. Y'all are playing with, you y'all playing basketball on the same team. And granted, I get it for you, WBA fans. Yes, this is not the first time this has happened. I know that there was a whole married couple that played with each other and they got asked about their dynamic. That's that was just a question because it's like, know, The bigger your sport gets, the more you're going to have new viewers and new eyes on the sport. And they're coming from a ⁓ standpoint of watching men's sport, where you rarely see anybody talk about two niggas talk about, know, two niggas on the same court publicly dating or publicly married, sharing the field. You just don't see that. Jax: Yeah. ⁓ I Mean it's probably has happened in the sport. We just don't know it Greg: Yeah, but it's never been public. And like I said, you know, Paige has already confirmed that they they they so it's not like you're digging up something from Tiktok or digging up something from like she publicly said that and it's been, you know, wildly think so for me. I think there's. ⁓ I think I see a lot of like WNBA media members like they try to come to the defense of like WNBA players from new fans that are entering the space and you know asking questions in bad faith or whatever. I don't think that was a bad faith question. ⁓ I just think there's some underlying tensions because a lot of people feel like AZ Fudd shouldn't have been the number one pick. Jax: Yeah. Greg: or they feel like another outfit, like another player could have been better. And they felt like pages, you know, influence probably like swathe there. And on top of that. Evidence is evidence there. There has been there has been footage of of the Dallas Wings GM intentionally ⁓ getting Nailissa Smith to the wings because she wanted Dijon a Carrington. So it's just like, OK, so. Jax: Yeah. Greg: You already have shown proof that you have grabbed the player because you want to lure another player into. I do think it is kind of fair to ask a question. I think it is fair to shut it down. I don't think anybody did anything wrong. I think everybody's kind of blowing this shit out of proportion. You're not supposed to agree with every journalist and what they have to say and what they have to ask. Not just journalists are not supposed to be your friends. Journalists are not supposed to be PR. Yeah, they're not supposed to do that. I know a lot of I know a lot of former athletes and whatever, that's how they get caught up. Because in order to do your job well or do your job correctly, you're run motherfuckers the wrong way. And you might end up destroying relationships in the standpoint if you're not too careful. But I look, I feel like there was nothing wrong with this interaction at all. I think people need to calm down and I think we all need to shut up and drool. Wasn't that deep? Jax: Yeah. Greg: thing wasn't that deep at all. But next up, ⁓ I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but Doc Rivers has stepped down. Not only stepped down, think he retired. Retired from the game he loved. Jax: Yeah. you Greg: after a 32 and 50 season, a one NBA championship, and a Hall of Famer. Dark Rivers is done. Okay. Now, congratulations. Jax: congratulations to him because he's a Hall of Famer so his career was objectively good as Hall of Fame basketball coach. And was a coach, he didn't get Hall of Fame as a player right? No. But was nice as player though like everybody knows objectively like niggas from back in the day was like oh yeah Dr. Ritz was nice so. Greg: Absolutely. Nah. He's a good player. Yeah, you can't talk about the NBA. You can't write the story of the NBA without including Doc Rivers. Doc Rivers is in there. You know, you know, when you you talk about when you talk about coaches, when you talk about Doc Rivers, if somebody you don't finger snap, you know, I, Doc Rivers, this was the Doc Rivers. They're like, OK, like we understand this. The the the error that he had against Kobe in 2008 and 2010. Talk about that. one of the one of the first we that's the first real big three to happen. First big three generated in Boston. Jax: D-like- Dogg had like real iconic highs and lows. Like that championship was a high and like the lows was unfortunately like all the three one losses and blah, blah, blah. But Dogg, we were like, I don't know. was like, like Hall of Fame is well deserved in my opinion. So I'm, shout out to him. But this is just another example of the Bucks fire Adrian Griffith for no reason, They fired Adrian Griffith for no reason. Greg: Absolutely. Yeah, sure. And it's just and it's just it don't make no sense, bro. You know, it no sense. And I don't think this was like the end of his contract, right? Jax: Yeah. All right. ⁓ Greg: Yeah, no, because I remember I remember they extended this nigga Jax: So that'd be what their fourth coach they're paying then. Cause I remember they had, cause I think they paid like, they were paying like Budenhozer, ⁓ Vogel, right? And then I think agent Griffin as well. it's not like, golly. Greg: It was a long list of niggas. I think they just got there. Yeah. Yeah, this is spooky. Jax: What are they doing? What are they doing, bro? Like, they just throwing money around, bro. God, what is wrong with niggas, man? They don't know what they're doing. Greg: Yeah, I think they're officially done with boot and hoser. think boot and hoser officially got paid off last season. Also, now you have Adrian Griffin. I don't think Vogel was ever a coach for them. Vogel was a science coach. Jax: And then he coats the bucks as well? Greg: I Jax: Maybe there's another... Greg: I thought they went from booting hoes or straight to Adrian Griffin. That's what I thought. Jax: I thought there was three coats. I don't know. Well, I don't remember their coating, whatever, but yeah, it says Rivers, signed a deal worth $40 million when he was hired in January of 2024 and it's supposed to take him through next season. Greg: I could, I look, I could be wrong. OK, yeah. So he's on. So you sort of pay that shit off. Still got Adrian Griffin. You just got done with Boudinosa and you're still paying off Damien Lillard. ⁓ And y'all don't own, do y'all own the first round? Jax: Bro, who owns the bugs? Greg: Probably OK soon. Jax: turn it light. Greg: No one, one, no one, how them niggas Jax: I mean, who is the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks? Cause he needs to get talked about more. Like he might be worse than Jerry. I'm trying to, who is it? I see president, I'm on Wikipedia. I see president, I see general manager. I do not see owner. Greg: ⁓ wait, maybe they don't do ownership because I don't even did the Green Bay Packers as owner Jax: ⁓ true. It's a group led by billionaire hedge fund managers, Wes Edens and Mark Lazry own it. So, it's groupinated. Greg: Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think. Yeah. I think that. Yeah. Them and the Packers. I think they just do a thing where it's like we don't we don't have an owner. We self-govern or some some shit. These are niggas that these are niggas that wanted to Connecticut, son. Jax: Africa. ⁓ do. Okay, it's Mark Lazar. I remember because he was talking about the Connecticut. So what does this, what does he do? Greg: Moving like this? Jax: They just be born rich and they just they just be born rich and they just exactly. Greg: He's I got to put my money somewhere so they don't tax me. God damn. Jax: I freaking guess, man. You guys suck. But shout out to Doc Rivers, Hall of Fame for your, you got your son in the NBA, You won that life. Greg: ⁓ shefawa. These are my good shout-out to dark rivers And he had a good he had a successful career. Maybe played what like 11, 12 seasons. ⁓ Got it out the mud, one of the best mixtapes of all time from a high school standpoint. ⁓ Yeah, Janice is is for sure gone. It's over. Pack that shit up. Jax: Yeah. I didn't let him play a single second with both of his brothers. Coach fired, not in the playoffs. Probably don't have their own pick. Let me Google. Let me Google, do the Bucs have their pick this year? Greg: He's getting the back of blood. You're done. It's over. Jax: They don't fully own their 2026 first round pick. Due to the Drew Holiday trade, Atlanta holds the right to swap for the more favorable of the 2026 picks between Milwaukee and New Orleans. And the Bucs will receive the less favorable option. Greg: ⁓ they're keeping her pig because the pelicans from the pelicans from the have a book. They could have a top five pig that they don't own because they because they wanted Derek Queen. Jax: Okay. Greg: ⁓ my god. ⁓ my god. ⁓ man. Jax: I guess, geez. I just, I get the NBA's difficult, but I feel like a lot of it shouldn't be this hard to field like a competitive team. I don't know. Greg: No, wasn't. No, it just wasn't. Zion played mad games. He wasn't injured. He wasn't he wasn't injured like that. He he actually had a decent season this year. Yeah, it's it's it's getting it's getting bad, man. But we won't talk more NBA basketball very soon. But final thoughts on on Doc and Yonis, where Pack it up is over. That's basically all I wanted to say, all them accolades I said from top to bottom of him being a successful guy and all that stuff. And yeah, that's Doc Rivers. That's not your right. It's over. Sell high for Yonis in the offseason. Don't waste our times. Try to keep Ryan Ryan Rollins if you if you can. If not, sell that nigga high too. ⁓ damn bro a team with Miles Turner and Kyle Kuzma as your. man alright anyway. Alright the play in basketball tournament. Has officially concluded. Jax: Yeah. Greg: And I will say I was entertained, at least for the first half. These last two games, not too much. But them first two, them first two days, I was entertained, nigga. Amazing. Jax: Let me see if I can pull that up. I thought I had it, but I don't. But who was the first? The first game was what Hornets and Hornets in Miami. That was an excellent game. Hornets won 127, 126. Everybody went crazy. Everybody hooped. was real basketball, although. Greg: ⁓ Miami. Yes. Jax: Watching that game, I cannot lie. The Hornets were pissing me off just a little bit because all they kept doing was shoot threes. I get that's their play style, but my brother, please, we have to do something better than that. I would appreciate if y'all attacked the basket just a little bit more. They did not do that, but they still managed to get the win. It was like a... Lamilla had like the game winning drive and then Miles Bridges had the game saving block. It was an excellent game. But biggest issue in this whole game is what I was really trying to pull up. Greg: Shout out to Kobe White too. Jax: Kobe White went stupid, bro. Kobe White went stupid. Greg: Stupid. Jax: But the biggest from this game, ⁓ unfortunately, comes from LaMelo Ball and Bam Adebayo. This happened in the second quarter. And look, he's the mellow, he's driving the ball. He falls, bam, he goes for the rebound. As he's getting the rebound, mellows wipes out his leg, takes the leg out from under him. Bam falls, hits the ground. He gets injured and he does not return to the game. He like injured his tailbone or something. And like I said, he didn't return to the game. The Hornets ended up winning by one point. Bam obviously would have made a difference. I'm not saying that he would have won. I'm just saying he clearly would have made a difference. Greg: would have made a difference. Jax: best player but, CeeLumela have been thrown out the game for that. Greg: Probably like I wouldn't have been upset ⁓ If he did, one thing I didn't want to happen was them trying to like address it afterwards. I suspend him one game the next time, even though it probably wouldn't have made a difference in hindsight because I'm going to get niggas got fucking clapped by 30. But. I just don't I try my best not to like. ⁓ Make the punishment based off of. Based off of the reaction of the injury. Like. Jax: it up. Thank Greg: If Bam would have just got up and played basketball, I don't think niggas would be tossing lamella ball. I don't know. I don't think niggas would be like, ⁓ we we got to get this nigga out of here. ⁓ so a flagrant or something, something had to been called. The fact that nothing got called. That's crazy. That that's crazy. Something needed to be called. Jax: Yeah, nothing was called. think that's my beat. when I saw, when I saw like, I think the melody got thrown out. when I saw, cause I just thought like that was like a textbook, like flagrant too. Like I don't. Greg: Yeah. Jax: I'm not saying he was like malicious or anything like that. I'm just saying like that was literally like the textbook thing. Like it was unnecessary, not a basketball move. He tripped him and all that. So I was like, okay, he should get them. But I knew they weren't going to, but I was like, it's the plan. So they're not going to just go ahead and do that. So I thought he was going to at least get a flagrant one. He didn't get anything. That's the crazy part. But yeah, the horn is in the- Greg: Yeah. Yeah. good anything that is crazy. I'm not going to lie. And on top of that, somebody brought this to my attention too. You know, we always talk, you know, people always talk about how LaMelo ball, you know, is an unserious guy. Don't give a fuck. Dickhead basketball, dickhead hoops. We don't, I don't condone this shit, but at the same time, I mean, shit, I can't, I can't say that the nigga don't care. If you if you willing to give a get a competitive edge, you know, flipping nigga flipping again, do X, Y, like you care about hoops. You you care. You care about a team when official like you, you know, you it's not like a shrug my shoulders. I don't give a fuck. I'm just here for a check that that nigga, you know, that nigga do give a fuck about. Just trying to win by any means necessary. Because that was that was a crazy. That was a crazy. That was a crazy thing to do. Jax: Airstrip. Respectfully to the heat. Like I didn't want band to get hurt because that sucks, but the heat needed to lose this game because they need to stop trying. Like I get the heat culture and blah, blah. I need to stop trying. You're like, really just blow it up. They're not going to, but damn it. That's what they, that's what they need to do. Greg: I need to lose. My God. Well, this year, man, bro. I needed them niggas because I did not because I had a good feeling that they was going to be Orlando. I thought the Hornets might have been Orlando, but I knew for sure Miami would have made that shit a lot more closer than the fuck we saw last night. But. Yeah, man, that was that was crazy. And then the next the next game, which I thought was going to be. Like a who gives a fuck between. ⁓ true. The Western side that same night Trailblazers versus the Suns. I'm thinking, OK, this is going to be a late night game. I don't give a fuck. Boy, was I fucking wrong. Boy, was I fucking wrong. All right. Them boys was out there whooping specifically that idea of soldier. Jax: What game are you thinking so I can pull it up? Next game on the Eastern side, Eastern side. Listen, Danny, I can't, I cannot co-sign you as a basketball player because of some of the things that you stand for. But he's nice, bro. Danny, like, he was, yeah, he was an All-Star this year and he didn't really do nothing to All-Star game. And people were like, ⁓ man, you can tell he don't deserve to be out there. But now in this plane, you just see all. Greg: Like, come on, nigga. Jax: All he did was just bully them and get to the basket and score at will every single time. He finished with 41 points, the Blazers won. So they're in the playoffs now as the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference. they, then he dropped 41, they ended up winning, but unfamiliar, I'll be honest. Greg: Seven seed. It'll go zoom in a zoom, a skip to that last play. It's a last play that last play. That's when I was. Yeah, this one right here. My god. My god. Jax: game winning and won. Greg: Man, look. God damn. A legit M-1 too. Nigga, dig your phone. Jax: like Yeah, he could get out the way. And he was just doing stuff like that the entire game. Greg: my god. ⁓ Literally. Jax: And mind you, Trailblazer's still doing all this without Damian Lillard. And we don't even know if Damian Lillard's gonna come back next season, but still, I didn't expect the Blazers to make the playoffs, so I'm thoroughly impressed by them. Greg: Still bro. I mean, I don't think you expected the Suns to be in a playoff scene either. So I mean, these are two things you weren't expecting. Jax: Yeah, this is a very ugly matchup. Suns and Blazers, yuck, but yeah. ⁓ Greg: It was entertaining. Yeah. But yeah, it's just one of those things where that whole time I'm just like, look, they might keep it competitive with the Spurs, but I think the Spurs are ultimately winning. We'll go into predictions later in a few. But all I could really think about that whole time was damn like if this nigga, this how this nigga who right now, man, what does it look like next to Dane? This what this nigga look like next to Dane. Jax: I mean, sometimes it might not work because we said stuff like, he's not Yannis, but we said stuff like that. And Yannis was like, ⁓ what's Yannis and Damon gonna look like? It didn't work out for them. So we got to all these things like with the rain of salt or whatever you want to call it, but it was hooping, bro. Greg: You ready? You know what I saw? You know what I saw? I saw an NBA. I saw the NBA tweet out some shit. Once the Blazers finally got their matchup with the Spurs and they revisited that that twenty twenty three clip of Scoot Henderson playing against Wimby ⁓ back in that that G League at night game. I was just like. I ain't gonna lie, if I was a foreigner. I'd feel some type of way. Jax: Mm-hmm. Greg: of you promoting this like, ⁓ they're reuniting again after my nigga from my country dropped 41. Granted, don't I don't I can't co-sign. I can't co-sign that that basketball player. But I could understand if I was just like, nigga, school Henderson, nigga. That nigga was on the bench the whole clutch crunch time. Why did you bring this up? Jax: I think he finished with like nine or 10. He wasn't, and he's been hurt most of the season, man. Maybe Scoop can shake back, bro. Greg: I'm not saying he can't nigga address elephant address me ⁓ But on the what was the other game ⁓ the fucking yeah, what an east that was Orlando and Philly Jax: Going, yeah, going back to the East. Yeah, so let's go. Yeah. Philly ended up winning that game. Let me share this one instead. was 109-97 Tyrese Maxey did his thing, 31 points. And B did not play. Greg: Eugh. He's just coming back from surgery, so it might be a little minute. Yeah, appendicitis, something crazy. Jax: Yeah, he had like appendicitis or something like that. It's a very normal person thing to get. So was like, dang, but shoot, they still ended up winning. once I saw this happen, was like, and especially with reports that came out earlier that day, they were like, oh man, the magic, it's an unnamed player or a couple of unnamed players don't like the headcoats. Greg: Right. Jax: The ownership said that they were probably going to fire, they were going to fire Jamal Moses, who's their head coach. They're going to fire him no matter what the outcome is in the postseason, blah, blah, blah. So I saw this and I was like, man, it was a good run, Orlando. Actually, it wasn't a good run, Orlando. Yeah, I'm tripping. It was a terrible run, Orlando. But maybe they can make something shake. And then they beat the absolute breaks. Greg: It wasn't what it was a bad run. Terrible run. Underperform. Blue dog shit! Jax: Off of the Hornets who I feel like everybody wanted to see the Hornets in the play. We were like, man, finally the middle is some serious basketball. Brandon Miller, he's coming into his own mouth bridges. He's behaving himself. We got con can nipple who's a rookie of the year. Like it's going to go crazy. And I put on that game. I got to the game late. They were down 30 when I started watching it and I was like, Greg: Nigga me! Yeah. Jax: What are we even, but then like I sat down, I watched the game, it was just like, man, the Magic was just bigger than them and bullying them the entire time. And I'm just like, nigger. Nobody won't respectfully, nobody wants to see the Magic in the playoffs. The Magic don't want to see the Magic in the playoffs. They know they gotta blow it up. They know this is not the team. In the Hornets. Greg: Like a... And it's just like, man, because like I said, you said, Jamal Mosley is going to be gone regardless, bro. Like it don't matter. He's going to get let go because you underperform. You wasn't supposed to be in the plan to begin with. Like five, five first round picks for Desmond Bane. Jax: Yeah, so you traded four first round pick. They trade five first round picks against Desmond Bain. And Desmond Bain is a good player, but you did not trade those picks to be in the playing game. Greg: Right. You did this to push push your chips in for ⁓ a championship or be top three. This was your chance because in your mind, the Celtics were down. Tyrese Halliburton was down and nobody's checking for Milwaukee because game got traded out. In your mind, all you're really all you're really competing with was the New York Knicks because nobody knew Detroit was going to have a 46 win jump. Like that was fucking crazy. Jax: Yup. Yeah. Greg: And you find yourself in a plan. Crazy. Always the lower seed. So. We'll see, but. Jamal Mosley will be the scapegoat, but the that that that picture that we see right now, Apollo Ben Carrol, that's the nigga ⁓ that people will start having discussions with real soon if he doesn't start getting more consistent. ⁓ He played well against the Hornets. But my God. Playing against the 76ers that brother looked terrible. Not going on. They could look like a shell of themselves. Jax: Yeah, I don't know what happened, but I wouldn't even get to the other game on the ⁓ Western side. Let me just do that real fast. The Warriors, Steph Curry did Steph Curry things and the Warriors beat the. Yeah, no, Steph Curry won. ⁓ and Draymond turned back the clock. Literally locked, clamped Kawhi. Greg: It was bad. ⁓ yeah, William Rosa Clippers. I was entertained. ⁓ Blam! Clamps. Twice. Jax: Like, and then I think after the game, Koala was like, no, yeah, Draymond, he just locked me up. Like. Greg: See ya. Jax: I haven't seen Dre Mom play like that in a very long time. Is this the? Yeah, it's a Dre Mom solitary confidant. Greg: Dad nigga. That nigga was playing some defense, boy. Jax: Man, what? Love you, love you. Greg: Because said nah, fuck all that. Fuck that. Jax: I think Kawhi up to this point he had 19 points the entire game but I don't believe I think he only scored two in the fourth quarter and this is all Draymond took. This is the, he took the leading of bucket and Draymond denying the ball, Kawhi can't do anything. like Greg: Dad nigga was on that nigga was on go dad nigga was on go God Jax: Like this deal? ⁓ my ⁓ my ⁓ okay. Goodness, goodness gracious. out to the good boy. He went crazy at the end. Greg: Goodness gracious. Had that nigga in hell. ⁓ my God. My goodness. Jax: Yeah, but this happened and then the Warriors ended up playing the Suns last night. Jalen Green, he went crazy and the Suns ended up beating the Warriors and now they are in that final play-in spot. Rockets fan Gray, how did seeing Jalen Green, how did that make you feel? Greg: Oh, it made me feel any type of way just because I've seen this nigga do it. It's not. Yeah, and I think in the game before that, he had 35 points like, oh, it doesn't move me because I've seen this nigga do this. It's not it's not about him not being able to do it. It's the fact that nigga, can you do it consistently? Nigga, am I going to get 36 points today? Jax: He comes with ⁓ 36 points. Greg: And then because I already know what it is, because I'm seeing this trip right now. And mind you, they're going to use OKC as the excuse. ⁓ he's playing OKC, a good defense. OK, but if you're a good enough player, you shouldn't be stopped at six points. I shouldn't be the next stat line shouldn't be six, four and three. I don't care. I don't give a fuck how good OKC is. You should be able to still get yours. I ain't even I'm not even talking about efficiency because people talk about efficiency, nigga. Jax: Yeah. Greg: You should be if you're one of them niggas, you should be able to get your 20, your 25, whatever. Even an even an inefficient 28. I'll take if it was like four for 30 something or like if it was something crazy. It's like, OK, then they're going to get to the. Yeah, for the 32 is great. I'm not here. Bullshit. I'm throwing out bullshit. I'm doing I'm throwing out bullshit numbers right now. That's crazy. But there should never be a time where like he had 35 points against the Warriors last year. Jax: Stop shooting ⁓ Greg: He had in game two, he had 35 points. You know, you know, the games he had 9 11 9 13. OK, nigga, like so I mean, I'm looking for I hope he plays well. I'm never rooting for that niggas downfall, but. I don't regret the trade at all, never did. I never regretted it. Jax: Yeah. I think somebody reported after the game about like the trade and the differences from this year and last year. And he was like, I think he said he thought that the trade to get Katie to Houston and Jaylen greeting all them to Phoenix. He was laughing down to the trailer. They both won. And I mean, you got to agree because the Rockets are what? Third, fourth seed? Question mark. And then the hornets are not the sons. They made, they made it to the playoffs and nobody really expected it. Greg: Yeah, one of those seeds. Sounds are. Yeah, I think it worked. I think it worked out for everybody. so it's just a matter of time. A trait like that is going you have to wait about five, six years to figure out, you know, how really all planned out just like, you know, OK, seeing the Clippers. Yeah, it took it took about a decade to figure out who really won that shit. You got to see the results of everybody. Jax: But since we talking playoffs, let's go ahead and get into this bracket. See what we think, who's gonna win this first round. So let me pull this up. Greg: Absolutely. Jax: All right, we got the first round brackets on both sides. You want to start with the east or west? Greg: Let's get, let's not the east style first. Jax: All right, so the one and eight matchup is Pistons and the Magic. Who do you got taking that one? Greg: ⁓ I got pistons in six. Jax: I have Pistons at five. I have Pistons at five. And Cavs and Raptors, who do you got in that one? Greg: I'm out of time. Yeah. I got the calves. But it won't be like a sweep. I would say calves and six to. That's the six. Jax: I got the cat. Cavalry, that makes sense. All right, got the three and six matchup is the Knicks and the Hawks. Who do you have? Greg: You know, this disappoints me because Trey Young is not in this bitch, I'm be honest with you. I got, I got hocks and six. Jax: Okay, but I'm not gonna, me, I don't, well, you know, I've never believed in the Knicks in any capacity. I don't think they're good. I've never thought they were good. So I'm taking the Hawks. I think it's gonna be tough though, cause they're still young teams. I go Hawks in seven, but, when the, if and when the Knicks get knocked out, that's going to cause hell. Cause they blew up their whole team in every, so it's gonna be crazy. But. Greg: You Yeah Yeah. Yeah. Jax: Last match we have the two and seven match up Celtics and the Sixers. Who do you got in that one? Greg: are so so far Jax: I think I got, if Embiid plays South Jackson 5, if Embiid does not play South Jackson 4. I just don't know how many games in, I just don't know how many games in B is gonna play. But all right, to the Western side, we got the one and eight matchup, the Thunder versus the Suns, who do you have? Greg: Thunder for. Jax: I'll give Devon Booker one. I take Thunder in five. Greg: I don't see it. I don't see I'll be honest with you, I don't see that shit happening. Yeah, mean, wishful thinking, I guess, but I'm not seeing it. Jax: It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. The four and five matchup, the Lakers and the Rockets. This series is gonna piss me off, bro. I just know it's gonna piss me off. Greg: It should it should be Rockets of five is not but realistically, it'll probably be ⁓ Rockets and six and I don't want to see a game seven out of this shit. I'm not gonna lie. Jax: is it. I agree that realistically it should be Rockets and five, but that's exactly what's going to be Rockets and seven. And they're going to win that game seven by like one point. Greg: Like fucking ridiculous nigga. Jax: We got the Nuggets and the Timberwolves for three and six matchups. Who do you have in that one? Greg: This is an interesting one. I'm not gonna lie. ⁓ Kinda had the timber wheels, bro. Back online. Jax: ⁓ yeah, I think the Timmy Wolves got this one. Greg: Timberwolves, Timberwolves, Disco 7. Disco 7. Timberwolves and 7. Jax: Yeah, because they always play, they always play each other. They play each other a lot in the playoffs, honestly, and they always play each other tough. 10 rules and seven just makes sense. that's going be a series. You see, Julius Ren, they asked him like, how are going to guard your yoke or something like that? Like what, Timmy? was like, man, I'm just going to have to call God. That's real. That's real. Greg: Yeah. That's gonna be a good one. That's real as fuck. That's real. I'm not gonna lie. That is real. Jax: Spurs and Cheryl Blazers, the two and seven matchup. I want to say Spurs and four, but the Spurs are also a young team, so they might lose one. So it'd be Spurs and five. Greg: I have spurs in seven. Jax: And seven. Greg: Aspers and so they'll win. But I think the fact that they haven't been to the playoffs yet either. ⁓ we're just talking about two. Inexperienced teams, I go out to you. So I think I think this one is going to play out a little bit. I've seen enough from Denny to say he might get to he might get to on his own. You might get to. Jax: Yeah. You against Wimpsuit. If Denny can get two against the Spurs and Wimpy and them, we're gonna have to start talking about Wimpy different and not go lie. What we're gonna have to talk about Denny, one of them is gonna get talked about differently. We don't know who, one of them is gonna get changed. Greg: Nigga, we gonna have to start talking about Denny. Somebody gonna get talked about. Somebody gonna get they talk. Somebody gonna get talked about. Good and bad. For sure. Yeah. Jax: You But Greg, do think it might be that time. Greg: Fucking bad. It is that time. for the hot take of the wig jacks. Do you have your hot take? Jax: I in fact do have my hot take. very short and sweet, but honestly it's been bothering me. We need to start, not even we, cause I don't do it, but for musicians out there, start putting your album names back on the album covers. Why is that not a thing no more? Cause I was trying to talk to somebody about, cause my cousin, she's a singer and she dropped her album and I was trying to like, Greg: Hahaha Jax: tell somebody what it was called. And I was looking at the cover and it's just a picture of her. I can't tell nobody about this because I don't know what it's called. Then I had to like go on my phone like I could be opening it up for crying out loud by Shontel Hazen. Go ahead and get that. But anyways, like. Greg: Hey, shit on there. Hey, shit on that cup. You Go ahead and in my phone right now. Jax: No, I'm not just start stroking my phone. Nobody has their nobody has their song titles on any of album covers. No more. And it's pissing like because when we're older or like we were like searching for albums, you want to get like a physical copy or viral or something like one day you're not going to be able to like like go to the shop and like scroll through and find what you're trying to find because you can't like you're not going to know who this person is. You're not going to know what the album's called. So just don't make sense. I don't get like. Why did they stop doing that? Put the titles back on the, it doesn't make sense. Cause I'm literally scrolling my phone right now. I don't see any album that has the title on the thing. Greg: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know when I don't know when we started making that shift. But I'm not mad at that. I kind of do agree. I kinda do agree. I think niggas don't check for artwork like they used to though. Jax: No, I'm real. Greg: Thanks for the album, Gov. Jax: My name is not Niggaz. I feel like the artwork needs to match the album, needs to match the vibe of the album to me. Greg: I think I think about that young thug that drop. It looked like white face and I think it was open this on was nigger. Jax: Exactly like that. As soon as I saw that cover, I knew it was going to be some bullshit. I knew it was going be some bullshit. Greg: You right. Yeah, that would be also bullshit. I agree though. I agree. I agree. I forgot. Let make sure I got my. My heartache is kind of straightened to the point, man. I'm not saying that y'all over niggas apology or anything like that, but ain't nothing wrong with that fucking second apron, bro. That hoopla and all this, ⁓ my God, this second apron is ruined in the league and all this extra shit, bro. That second apron is not as bad, bro. I feel like what niggas started fear mongering because when they when it first came out, it a whole the second aprons above. I could. Yo, it's a motherfucker for franchises that don't know what the fuck they're doing, because if you know what the fuck you're doing, you're still going to make a competent franchise. All right. Boston, look at the Boston Celtics before that CBA and look at them niggas now. Yes, they had to lose a few players, but they're still on track. Jax: You Greg: and they lost Jason Tatum. You look at Oklahoma City, some might even say they was prepared even before this shit even happened. But you look at them niggas before the CBS. Jax: I didn't know. I was like, is it okay to see even in the second April? I didn't even know. Greg: No, they're not. don't even think I don't even think they touched it. And they got fucking draft picks. But they're a competent organization. We are a competent organization. It's some shit just don't fucking matter. All right. Look, I know a lot of people was talking mad shit about the Warriors when they got Kevin Durant and they made their CBA as soon as they signed fucking the Marcus cousins because they said greed is in the fucking Bible. All right. Y'all are greedy as fuck. And certain people got on this internet and started shitting about all this shit about what the second apron could do. And you can't sign just that and the third. Who is really struggling because of the second apron? Niggas that don't know what the fuck they're doing. Incompetent franchises that were already and always will be incompetent franchises. ⁓ my God, the Sacramento Kings are struggling. They've been struggling for 20 years. The fuck that second apron do? Jax: Because you really... You really shouldn't get into like, the only people who should get into second apron are teams that know what they're doing. Otherwise you're just going to destroy your franchise. Greg: Yeah, and niggas that are in the second apron don't stay in the fucking second apron that fucking long. Are most people that are paying into the luxury tax anyway? They're trying to push for a championship. You know what an incompetent franchise does? Overvalues what they already have and think they still have a championship window. That's when they get fucked. Like, ⁓ OK, we still have aging stars. Let's push all in. All in for what? The sixth seed, Jax: Yeah. Greg: You're not a good. That's not good management. So no, I think the second apron was was a was a good thing. When we start talking about things that Adam Silver has done wrong, there are things that he's done wrong. Second apron is not one of them in the playing tournament. It was not one of them. That nigger cooked on both of those, in my opinion. I don't care what y'all nigger say. That doesn't that doesn't mean I agree with all the other shit. All right. All the gambling and all this extra shit. Look, they got flaws. Jax: He's like, he still need to figure out that gambling stuff. Greg: This there's some shit that needs to get down. All right. Jax: Also, let's talk about, once again, shout out to the Trail Blazers for getting into the playoffs, because their head coach was arrested on the first day of the season. And they've been cooking with their assistant coach this entire time. ⁓ and their front office is getting investigated. Greg: and their front office. and their problems got suspended. Through all this turmoil, these niggas still prevailed. Jax: Maybe the trouble is the student that made the play awesome, bro. Greg: ⁓ And on top of that, they drafted scoot that hasn't really done much for them and they still found a way to get into the fucking playoffs. Young Hansen really ain't been doing shit for them. They still got into the playoffs. Those are two back to back picks where it's like, huh, nigga? And they still overcame overcoming two bad draft picks. I don't know, man. Jax: Yeah. Greg: I gotta start looking at the head coach. Shout out Tiago Splitter. Jax: with no name. I was gonna say it was no star, but I guess Denny is that star? Question mark. Greg: that they got for like a second round pick out of Washington because niggas didn't think he was a star. Turn that nigga into a star. Jeremy Grant. Man, that's crazy, man. Like the trailblazers, I keep my eye on y'all, Keep my fucking eye on you. But yeah, that's my heartache. Jackson, last words. Jax: Hey man, ⁓ wanna change your life? Go outside, do some life changing stuff, man. Go outside, some grass, because the weather's not terrible no more, so do that as well. ⁓ and then Michael Jackson movie come out. Everybody needs to tap in and watch that, because that's coming out this week. Greg: Absolutely 24th or 25th or some shit like that. Jax: Yeah, so when it comes out, y'all need to tap in. I will be tapping. Greg: I will be tapped in. We will have a dialogue. We will start a dialogue. And don't overanalyze it. You know, since you talking about that movie, I'm actually, gonna leave it alone. I'm gonna leave it alone. It's not worth it. It's not worth it. not worth it. worth It's not worth it. worth it. It's not It's, I... Jax: Yeah. It's it's going to get overanalyzed. That's the only, it's, they're going to do some think pieces about it. Greg: Nah, I'm just gonna say there's gonna be a lot of niggas wearing a lot of crazy shit. This the fucking movie theater and ⁓ I'm not Do what you want to do, but you impersonators, stop. Don't you dare come to that fucking. Don't you dare be outside the fucking movie theaters, break dancing and shit. I'm tired of y'all fake ass. Jax: You already know this. Greg: You you white face as niggas. Give it up. I hate you niggas. ⁓ man, that's blackface, bro. But I'm truly a bro. But without further ado, we'll catch on the next week. Make sure you like comment, subscribe. But tapping with John, it is next week.