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Uh all of that is done now. Any bit of goodwill was gone within one week. They uh uh it's gloomy skies in Philadelphia right now. Uh I'm I'm speechless, bro. That effort that they put out. They got smoked in game three and smoked in game four. You asked I don't I think they might have beat anybody that they played the other night. But at least try, bro. Yeah. At least try. How do you feel about uh the fan situation? Like it's embarrassing. But that's the Knicks everywhere you go. But especially Philly , especially in the playoffs. And it's a short drive, and there's more money in New York. And the Knicks have proven that they have some kind of momentum, whereas the Sixers can't even get past the second round for their fuck. They'll fuck I agree, bro. That's like I know the players are sick too. I know Maxie's like that sucked. That's sucked like why said it was louder there than at in Madison Square Garden for the for Knicks fans. Like like why don't the fans get mad at the players for playing that way like they get mad at the players when they don't dress that night. They paid all this money to come watch them play and they sit out. They bitch about that. You know, when they didn't have embied. The Sixers are better than what they showed on well the other night, bro. Well, I think one part of it is like they have no depth. They have fucking about seven players that they could play and it's like it's Bona and Drummond trying to like give M B to rest. And M B is is like his body has been through so much. Like he just doesn't have that like springiness that young MB did. He's still amazing. Yeah, well, let me go ahead and say this. They had a motherfucker up there that they got rid of. The boy quit TikToking. I ain't seen buddy TikToking lately. But you know what I've been seeing him do? Hit every three. Philly had buddy. He could have used them. Sure shoulda. They could have used Julian Champagne, who they fucking cut so they could have Mac McClung on their roster to be in a dunk contest. Just so he could be in the dunk cost contest wearing a Sixers jersey. He was on the Delaware affiliate. They pulled him up and they cut Champagne who Champagne, who was who's like who's good. Yeah. He's a worthwhile player. Like he's killing it. They cut Isaiah Joe for fucking nothing. I guess to pay Kelly Ubre and I I like Kelly Ubre, but there's no depth there and the Nick Knicks have more depth, Celtics have more depth, OKC has every team has more depth than the Sixers right now. Speaking of OKC, I didn't even tell y'all the Lakers game the other night. Game three. No, game two. Mm-hmm. I think it was game two. I was there. What the fuck? I was in Oklahoma City, first and foremost, watching the Big Twelve Championship, Texas Tech. Texas Tech, how they do Shit the Bed. Okay . Shit the bed, man. But I they didn't they they shit the bed, but but Arizona State, they got a they got a pitcher. She's nice. Yeah, she's about it, like Master P would Really? What kind of like just throwing absolute heat? Just na uh a little bit of heat, a little bit the spin and everything. I I wish I knew her name. I should know her name, but she is for real. How do they even do spin underhand? I'm I guess I'm dumb. It's probably the same way they do it overhand. But yeah, they just twist their wrist. Okay, no I get it. You know what I mean like yeah you know Kenzie Brown, is this her? Yeah that's her. Kenzie Brown's throwing Yeah I'm going yeah she needs to she needs to have some of this. She got the Chuck Bedneric face mask on. She looks like a football player in the 1950s. Yeah, Kenzie Brown, but yeah, that's enough about Kenzie. Yeah, they beat Texas Tech and all. But yeah, that's all we're gonna talk about to them. But that's showing respect to Kenzie Brown. Yeah, but anyway, I was in uh Oklahoma City during the tournament and my daughter says, Dad, can we get tickets to the game tonight? And you know, I'm I'm the one like I don't really want to go to a game like that. I'd I'd just rather watch it on TV, da-da-da. But she ain't never been to a uh a playoff game uh uh like that. You know, plus it's LeBron James. So I'm thinking, shit, all right, let's let's make a call, bum, got it done. We go sitting there, get in, kinda kinda kinda quietly we get in. We're just sitting with the Jimmies and the Joes, bruh. How high up. Uh we're about mm, we're kinda in the corner over there , uh about seven, eight rows up. Okay. Good seats. Great seats. Okay, great. Yeah. So how was it? How was it seeing it up close? It was fantastic. But middle midway through the first quarter, my daughter said, Yeah, you ready? I said what excuse me? What? What you made a call and she tried to dip? None of tribe is weez. Uber. Yeah, orchard. What? She called the shots like that on you? Well, she had a game tom orrow. So you gotta still respect the game. This is the playoffs. I did respect it. Look. Yeah, the game I guess was over. Yeah, I didn't even see McCain. Yeah, it was. I think the Lakers was up at half. Maybe by two ? Yeah, by one. Yeah, something like that. That's a crazy move to leave early. Didn't I wind up being the Austin Reeves, like uh uh cursing out the ref game? Yeah, and I told my daughter too uh before the game started, I said, You see the white boy with the headband on? He's gonna have all the points tonight. And she's like, Yeah, right . See? Sure enough. Yeah. What do you think about his move of uh calling the ref a pussy? He scored 31 that night, minus 20. Yeah. But uh he he called the ref a pussy and then after the game they had a pow wow being like, hey, like you need to treat us better. We're the freaking Lakers. Ron was like a proud dad, and it was like, Yeah, fucking tell him.ell T him what I told you. Yeah. Well I don't know what the ref said or he probably deserved to be called a pussy at the at in that in that moment. But he was like, you you don't talk to me like that, pussy. It's like, well you don't talk to him like that. That's hypocritical. I don't think players should be able to call refs pussies. No, the refs can't shouldn't say what they want to say either. Yeah, but like he just he was able to say pussy and nothing happened to him. But then well that's okay. Maybe it was warranted. I don't think calling a ref a pussy is like cool. What if he made the one of the worst calls you ever had called on you? Then you okay, I'm gonna get called a pussy. But I think that there's just like an inherent like there should be a mutual respect. And he said it like when he was walking away. So it was like he wasn't like in his face with it. I don't know, bro. I I think that that's fucking a little bit more. So you think I dis you think I disrespected Nikki Smokes? No, I love that. Oh okay. What you mean? I'm talking about calling a ref a pussy. Yeah, well f the refs are pussies. But the refs can't play against you. They can't like get you back. That's the problem. Yes, they can. They they can they can blow the whistle against you all the time and then you know what else they can do that makes makes me that's pussy of that that's being a pussy of them I guess. What if they ignore you? Don't even want to d don't talk to me. No, not right now. Not right. Well fuck you. I'm gonna forget about it in five minutes. Puss ass. I think that the way you say it is kind of more of a phrase. But I don't know. I just think that there's like some I think b between players say whatever the fuck you want to each other, but talking to a ref like that, I don't know if I'm boot looking but Well yeah, I don't I think I think there's something something something missing here that you're not understanding. Like why the fuck you on the ref side? You don't know how to talk you don't know what he said to Alson Reeves or what he didn't say. Well I just think being when you say something to someone who who can't say something back, like would you call like somebody that worked in like a restaurant a pussy or some shit like that? Yeah, I I gotta say I probably would sometimes, but I mean I don't not just for no reason. Yeah, I don't know. Just like what if the ref was like, you're a fucking pussy, like do something about it. Well, there ain't really nothing I can do right now, but like but he wouldn't Or to him to you know, it's just like you you're yelling at someone who can't yell back. He he wouldn't just call me a pussy for no reason is what I'm saying. Yeah, fair enough. Maybe I I maybe I'm the one being a pussy. I think so. What the fuck, bro? You can't fucking say that to me. Yeah. Have some fucking respect. We'd have talked way too long about referees. Yeah. I just thought it was an interesting case. But uh the Lakers have been getting shellacked uh equally badly. It's just that I mean Oklahoma City has the depth and they have those fucking guys. They're better. Just they're better, bro. Are they gonna waltz to a championship? I'm not so sure about that because Nick the Knicks gonna have something to say about it too now. They keep playing the way they're doing. And being able to rest like they could get healthy as they want to But like OG's out. Deuce McBride starting. Deuce McBride's giving you 20 easy easily . Hey, Pat Bear Podcast with wrong listeners. We'll be right back. But first, a quick question from one of our partners. 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And while you bullshit, Minnesota and San Antonio are gonna have something. Some one of them gonna have something to say about it too now. Which one is though. I still think that it's uh San Antonio. But like if Wemby keeps karate chopping people in the fucking neck, I don't know that's gonna have him in a bad spot. I was saying the Mac when we first walked in. If he was like sh like three inches shorter, it's like a little chest one. I think that's a flagrant one. But since he's so tall, he hit him in the in the neck. So it's like, yeah. But that's a clear fragrance, uh, flagrant. It is, but uh you you think he really meant to hit. But they were like it though, who's the background? They've been like pushing D harp . They've been like pushing him around, like like being physical with him as you have to be. So he probably had enough on that, but yeah, but he gotta be smart. We can't do it. Yeah, get him down. Yeah. They're a completely different team with him. Like they're huge. Of course, when he's on the court, they turn into a straight small ball when he's when he's not not. And plus plus Minnesota can go small ball and guard him that way too. Like when he's out the game, Minnesota is attacking the rim crazy. Like they you're probably like, oh no shot blockers. Yeah, I like Cornet, though, but yeah, he can't jump over and nickel shorty. Yeah, he does it. They don't have the big man depth, and uh, he's too Puritan for me. They got Bizmac Biombo over there. Do you think they, I mean, they have uh O'Linick at him minutes too. Olen ick he plays with no socks on, I think. He was out there in Jesus sandals playing. Yeah, he I think he might be able to walk on water, Shoulder. He does. He has the whole Jesus look. He really does. Let him play in a robe. How is he not the one? Uh look. Okay, yeah . I think that's a fine. It used to be a fine when I played it. You had to be like a answer your socks showing. Really? Yeah, bro. That's an insane. But like who who's even who who's that for? Like who's wearing that look? Like why is he why is he trying to do that? Or like is that what archetype is he going for? I don't think skaters do that. I don't think construction workers do that. I don't think that like surfers do that. Who d who does that? What's she going for? People that they ain't got that's the only pair of socks they got, that's who does that. Yeah, your last day of vacation. That's the last clean pair of socks. Yeah. And them was the kind, you know what I'm saying, the that the heels slide down the back and you get a blister on your heel shit. He also had his leg up on the side of the tub shaving that thing too, bro. That shit was shining, dude. I don't know why his leg's so shiny like that? That's gotta be some kind of violation. Put a sleeve on your leg over there. I I I don't I don't love what I'm seeing. Yeah. But uh the the Spurs I think uh I'm just I'm just Jones in for that like matchup between the Spurs and the Thunder just for like the long term sake of like the league. Yeah, but why you gotta want to see Ant Edwards play every night. I'd yeah, he's incredible. Yeah. He's great. He can and he could do it all and he could take over. And I I don't I think the I I kinda think he's the best player left in the playoffs. Because I just hate watching sh how Shay's playing. Did you hear that? Mm-hmm. Did you hear that is that crazy to say it's not crazy to say that's a that's a valid opinion I mean it's it's it's it's yeah it's 'cause I just am so annoyed by watching Shea play. Like I he he is great. Because the fouls and shit? Yeah, I just think that it's like I he's I know what he's doing and he's perfect at it, but like it doesn't feel the same as watching Ant play. Agree or disagree? Oh, I agree because Ant is just so much more whoa, you know, like wow type shit. And gives you the wow factor for sure. Yeah, and Shay's just so boring. He's just frustrat he'll frustrate you to death. Yeah, and get fifty. And like how did he get he got to his spot, he got his fucking he got the man under him and but see what people what people like yourself tend to forget is he still makes the shots. I was gonna say he shoots a high percentage . I think that he is a valid case for being the the best player that's playing right now. I think Wemby has a case to be in in that conversation. Big body Brunson. Even Carl Anthony Towns. For the no come on over it. These two do Brunson has a argument. Brunson has an argument . I love watching Brunson play. Yeah . He is a fiery guard who gets better in the playoffs, but over Ant, where what is what's the argument, man? Oh, I would rather watch Ant. Yeah, exactly. But I would rather watch Ant Edwards play over damn near everybody in the NBA though right now. Yeah, that's my that's my point. Well, you got a good one. I don't know, Brunson and the ending the game. I want to hear that. I want to hear the case for Brunson. Like I think I mean and yeah, he's like well, he's not high flyer right now because of the knee injuries, but yeah, high flyer, like you said, wow. Brunson is more I'm in the paint, two feet, pump fake, pump fake, pump fake, and one just cut he's not Shea, but like I'm getting to the line, I'm and coming off of screens, hitting my open threes. Like it's easy, like who he but pull that up, buddy. You don't damn near made him fall last night. But but you said Anthe ain't really bouncy like that right now. But let Wim become weak side and he got a he got a bounce. Yeah he will. Turn the lamb kick out. Yes he will. Yes he will blow his shit out. Yeah. I hope not. No, no, he ain't g blonnaow shit out. No, he ain't getting hurt. But sometimes you just wind up going hard in the moment you fucking Well he can't help yourself. Even him being hurt right now, it seems like he's just uh under control to me like using more of his like skill like I think he's proving like alright like I've got I came into the league like this I'm athletic high flyer but oh yeah nah I got this too I'm finna show you what el what else I got. Yeah I wish I wish I could have been ethical. He's more ethical than those other two though. He's more of just a pure ethical hooper than those other guys. What do you mean by that? Well, like I don't think foul baiting is like ethical hoops. Like it's good basketball, but like that's like unethical. Yeah, but he from the south. That's how we get down down. Yeah, he's just getting down, bro. He's just like, I'm just going down. All these all these foul baiters. Who you talking about? Foul baiters? The other two guys you just talked about. Yeah, where are they from? Brunson from the north. Yeah, they're both from the north . Yeah. Say from Canada. Yeah. Yeah. I guess so. He's just he's more thorough. I'm trying to think of any of the it is Cade in that conversation of best players left. Probably not, right? He's not in the conversation, nobody on the calves. I think when we're talking about best basketball players playing right now, Kate Cunningham has to be talked about. Yeah. In my in my my conversation he's gonna be talked about. If you had to pick the five best players right now Okay, the NBA playoffs are here in the DraftKings Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NBA brings excitement to every game the whole postseason. When the lights get the brightest the best players in the world, show you exactly who they are. The playoffs turn up round by round and DraftKings turns it up from the first round all the way to the finals. 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For additional terms and responsible gaming resources, see sportsbook.draftKings.com slash promos. Limited time offer. Wimby. Wimby's for sure. Always on the list, right? Okay . And uh S G A. And Edwards. Definitely. Big Body Bronson. Okay, that's four. And probably Cade Cunningham. Cade. Donovan Mitchell. I was about to say that means Cade's over D Mitch, right? Yeah, that's what yeah. I think so. Yeah, I think that I I just think uh yeah, I don't know. I think it's what's hurting D. Mitch i is that they're supposed to be better than what they've showed us the last two rounds. You know what I'm saying? So I think that hurts people when it when it comes to shit like that thinking about D. Mitch. It just feels like if Harden plays good, they win. If Harden is lacking a little bit, they're losing. Like it's I feel like it's more D Mitch is giving you what D Mitch is gonna do. Yeah. It's the all right, Harden, can you assist that? I think that they they both need to be paired like with a a high defensive effort guard. And then when you have both of them together, like they're not gonna give 1 10% in the fucking stance, like putting all their energy into defense. They both want to score a lot. And so like I I feel like that leaves you vulnerable. I'm not saying that's going to sink the ship, but I think that that leaves you vulnerable when you have two guards who are like, okay. Yeah we're offensive wizards. You say that, but they got two s three seven footers down that motherfucker. Yeah, that's true. You could kind of funnel things in, hopefully. But it's like if you're gonna that they they get lit up on some threes, you know, like I feel like there was a play where like I forget maybe it was Merrill wanted the the rotation from uh maybe he wanted Mitchell to the to switch and like he didn't just didn't like engage. And and it's like well of course you you can't expect that from him because like he's gonna put most of his energy into offense. But you know, I think that that hurts you in the long run. Yeah, those plays stand out in the playoffs. I think what would help them be more successful is like if Harden ain't scoring and Mitch D. Mitchell is scoring, then Harden gotta give me like fifteen, sixteen, seventeen assists that night. It was Wade that was pissed off. See Wade's like go switch, go s and these you could see he's like visibly frustrated during that place. Well I think I think that goes over that goal. That's in the game plan. You gotta know that well I don't know. Maybe maybe maybe he wasn't like what are we doing. Maybe he wasn't supposed to switch. Or that's just a mystery. Or go over, yeah. And and I saw other people being like they s they're switching everything anyway, so it's not even on him to go over that screen. And what that's Duncan Robinson, you should never be going under the motherfucking screen on Duncan Robinson. Yeah, but maybe he's expecting the weak side. I don't give a fuck. He ain't I bet you Kenny Atkinson ain't got them going under. Yeah. Even when he owned that fentanyl. Thinking Derek White top five. Fuck out of here. Maybe he does if you think that's shit. Hell I don't know. Huh. Sh ust a little fentanyl. Just check it in on a little bit. If you're going under a screen on Duncan Robinson, there's something wrong with you Especially in the playoffs. Well, I think that that's my point. Like, you want him to just be like fuck it, I'm like f barreling somebody over in that, but that's just not what he's gonna do. And if he's not gonna do that maybe you need another guy that's like gonna be fucking doing that and Harden's also not that guy so yeah I agree yeah good good point but yeah he got a barrel into him. Or I'll score him. Yeah. Yeah or just like yeah, boat race 'em like play one of those fifty to a hundred forty games. Yeah, if they both and that's why it's like they go as Harden goes, 'cause if Harden's gonna have ten points, like that's that's gonna be hard. If he got ten points he gotta ha he can't have uh he gotta have fucking fifteen assists. At least, not three. Yeah, he has to be diamond. And four turnovers. Yeah, that's not James Hardinish . Yeah. What's that series? Is it two to two? Two one . Two one uh Cleveland. I mean uh Detroit. Detroit . Yeah, Detroit's two one. Game four tonight. And I think it'll be interesting to see uh which one like how the Knicks rest and how they match up against both those teams because I feel like it's pretty favorable. Like, I don't see that many holes on the Knicks. I OG being out, it could be a hole, but like shit, it that's how's that a hole? Buddy came in and made thirty-two three pointers yesterday. Yeah, that is nuts. Like, why were they shooting so good? And why are the Sixers shooting so badly? Well, because those all games the Knicks are getting to it this playoff. They were shooting so good because there was nobody guarding 'em. And because they had you like the PA announcer was even like, Oh, New York, oh, New York, go. That's his last game in there. Yeah, it was. You saw that? Yeah, it did. And he got replaced. Like it was fucking. But the Knicks are good, bro. Don't don't be ma don't be upset at the Sixers, bro. They wasn't supposed to be. Well do you think that they have to get rid of uh who who who gets taxed? Do they have to get rid of Embiid? No, they can't. Who's taking the contract? And I think I think I think he's still got something left. It's crazy as ever. I think so too, for sure. Stays healthy. It's hard. I mean, he fell down a couple of times yesterday and was it like dang every time he falls, I'm like, oh it's over. Like he's just like a long tumble down. It seems like it's like slow motion everything. But bro, he's so good. He could be so good, he stays healthy. But he's just gonna have to do more and more load management as time goes on . And it's just like you're losing different things. And it's I I don't know what the solution is. I don't know if there's a way that you can have 'em play forty games a year, try and eke into the seventh seed. I like edge comb. I don't think you get rid of Maxie, like some people are saying. I think other people want to get rid of Paul George. I think you just tr maybe try to keep building. Try to keep building with what you have. I think people are like fucking sell the team, fire Del Mori , get rid of Nick Nurse. I I don't see I don't see it. Embiid said this year was a a success. Yeah, because he stayed healthy. They weren't supposed to beat the Celtics. But already you're getting reports that Embiid is unhappy with management. He didn't like the McCain trade, that they're having these like closed door meetings. All these reports are coming out that like once like there somebody's using their mouthpiece, like he's like, yeah, my I wasn't fully right. Like Maxi has like thumb stuff. Everybody like has these excuses and they're using their ways to like get the information out, whether it's through agents or their media contracts, contacts. It's like that's a sign of discontent in the building. That's a sign that like something's not right. Somebody is a head. I'll tell you what's not right. Who's their leader? Maury? Yeah, the He's a liar. So if he lies, what the fuck? So get rid of Darryl Maury? Well, I don''t know who you who whos gonna replace. You can't keep blaming everybody else every year. Right, like Nick Nurse. Who's a better who's you gonna go find a better coach than Nick Nurse? Who is name him name him? You can't. There's not one out there that's better. Yeah. It depends on who shakes loose, but yeah, I feel like that would have would have happened already. But and he the fact that he beat the Celtics, like he found a way against the Celtics, even though it was very I don't know if he found a way. Yeah, I don't know. I think that you c you have the the twenty third pick in this draft or twenty second pick in this draft. I just keep on building, try to add some pieces, see if Ubre will come back. He's keeps on getting underpaid. Free agent? Yeah, he's a free agent. Well, first thing, if they traded Maxie , then yeah, Buddy should get fired . That'd be bad. Why would you do that? People are saying that the team has no future. I just disagree with that fundamentally. What's Maxi? Maxi and Vijay is like the brightest future. That's as good of a backcourt. And there's Sixers fans who are like this team has no future. Like if they get one young one another young , so to speak, young guy, you could get you. You could get a steal in the those 20s too. For sure, with the amount of freshmen that are out this year, there's gonna be some steals in this draft. There's some young talent. Like who's buddy from uh Arkansas that's projected to go in the twenties? Like they have Malik, Malik Thomas. Yeah, there's like some some uh weird depth in this draft. I think this is going to be a great draft. Yeah, they're they're like they're like a uh was Zubok. If they could have like pull a deal like that off to play with those two guards for a for the long haul, they'd be they'd be something to be messed with. I like Barlow too. He's not bad. Like 22 years old. Like you know what I'm like they have pieces, but the Darrell Mori way is not to build on what you have. He just switches it up every year. So something cra Wizards, Jazz, Grizzlies, Bulls, and then the Clippers. Uh thoughts on on the let's I mean how about the Wizards first over all pick? I think that that's amazing for their franchise. I feel like earlier we were talking about how they have a little bit of motion, how there's like a little bit of a core and the fact that they're about to add Deb anza to that. Is that where we're saying? I think the jazz bought to try to be all right too trade up. I'm not gonna lie. To get the banter? Yeah, they put a lot of st they put he'd been in Utah for the past two years with a lot of movement, so I wouldn't be surprised if they check out the water . Bailey and two? I saw one. They get Wizards get the what was it? Wizards will go to second. They get uh Ace Bailey and then uh twenty thirty one or something like that. Yeah, you got yeah, you gotta send me more. Yeah. What? That's a big package. Bailey. Then you get the band erson. Is there it's still Darren Peterson, it's not like there's a huge if they traded that. What are they gonna do with Buddy ? I think Trey Trey played a one. Darren Peterson is a two. Yeah, he's he's like what, six, seven? How how big is Darren Peterson?? What is it Peterson is like six four, six five, six five. Okay. So you're gonna play Trey Young and Darren Peterson in the backcourt and y'all trying to win? What y'all trying to do? That's like I was thinking that anyway with Trey Young. Trey Young got a he gotta switch his game a little bit now. I'm not gonna lie. I think he's I think he can do it though. But like switch it to what? Like as if like I'm not taking twenty-eight shots a game. Really? Why? If you playing with say if it just all laid out no trades or nothing. Yeah. You playing with uh AJ AJ Devanta. Okay, okay. Um AJ DeVanta, S D A D, uh, Keyshawn George, Bub Carrington, Trey Johnson. You got some young young pieces that can score too. And you have the ability to be an elite point guard. Like take your 15, 20. There's gonna be games you got to take 30 shots, of course you're Trey Young, but I don't think it's all right. Okay, I'm just playing devil's advocate now, but like what if he can still do that? Get you 30 and 20. Nah, he can. It's gonna be times for that. Like it's gonna but when you have more talent, you gotta you spread the wealth a little bit, you know. You think there'll be better a team if he's averaging like fifteen and ten as opposed to twenty five and ten. Yeah, I do. I do. 'Cause you're only getting that crazy game out of him, let's say half the time. Like say he he's like I I want to score 35 tonight and then maybe half the time he'll get you that and then the other half like if it is like eighteen on like a subpar shooting night then you've completely wasted the rest of the pieces around you. Yeah, or or it could be nights too like I we need you to get 30. Yeah, that's what it's gonna it's gonna be times for him the he's gonna be the lead guardian. He gonna have the ball in his hands at the end of the game, man. So you think if him and Peterson can play together? We'll s we' re gonna have to make it you gonna have to do something. I think Trey and Peterson is kind of like for the long term a more interesting uh dynamic uh of if those two guys can coexist. I think Peterson's you think he's a one? I think Peterson needs the ball in his hands to be effective. To be to be Peterson he needs the ball in his hands. I don't know if he's coming off screens and standing in the corner waiting to catch and shoot. I I just hadn't seen him do that at Kansas, but I'm sure he's good enough to do that. I see him in like a a ant role. Like Ant has the ball a lot, but he's not I won't say Ant is the point guard for the T Wolves, you know. Well it's probably gonna be Debance if that trade doesn't happen. Like I think that the the likelihood of them trading. I think AJ goes one no matter who if they traded or whatever, I think he goes one. And that's an even better s uh like situation as far as the fit around everybody. That's an even better look. And then the Jazz go with Peterson and you know, I think that I I've seen a lot of talk of whether the jazz should build around Jaron Jackson Junior as their big or Walker Kessler as they're big. Yeah, yeah. And I'm curious what you guys think. Yeah, I'm going with the bruh every time. But any way, real quick, real quick. Um, I don't know if uh uh was I gonna say, if the jazz pick Peterson over boozer, don't be careful now. Really? Be careful now. I think ACO should get drafted too. But they two? He gonna he gonna drop to like five or six. But don't that the jazz got George, the uh Keontae George, right? I'll slide Keontae George to the two. Really? I'll I personally would I think he could score like he's a could score I I want to see my scores score like when your scores are like a tweener it makes it a weird situation we seen that in the playoffs this year or the teams with no point guard it's like, oh he don't know what to do in the situation. Like slide him to the two. Let A cuff give him the ball. But then you put like Peterson and Keonta George, I feel like that's like they'll make it work, but I don't know. Well, I think that the Grizzlies would be pretty fi red up if Peterson slides at three because that's a whole different like ceiling for them. I think boozer going through Memphis is like where it looks like it's sliding right now, if it's we're we're just talking chalk. But like I think that having that elite w ing could do more things for you in the long run than having a a a big like boozer. Uh but I think the whole top four is excited about what they got. I think that there's a lot of teams that think it's a four person draft. I don't agree with that, but I think that even the Bulls are excited uh to be getting Caleb if that's where if that's how it falls. I think I think Sacramento are gonna be excited to get uh A cuff because that's where he's gonna fall to probably right . Clipper's not gonna pick him because they got Garland. Yeah, yeah. I think they're gonna get wagged. What about Brooklyn? They don't have do they have a point guard? They have the bro from last year. They could like him. Um Jenum. Jonum. Jenum. Yeah. No, that's where Acuff going in. Brooklyn the type to just get somebody from overseas. Yeah, some they're they're about to take the dumbest pick you've ever like I could see them taking the big from uh Michigan. You know what I mean? A Dimar. Yeah. Just randomly. Oh, they have him going after uh Luxembourg. I think the boy from uh Alabama is gonna be all right. Philbon Philborn, is that how you say his name? Phylon. Phylon. LeBairon Phylon. Yeah, I'm gonna be all right. Yeah, it's a good drive. Who do they have the Sixers taking? Who who do they have at 22? Let me get excited about so oh Pete the big from uh oh he has us playing football has used bodies for us. I thought the boy from Yukon, the Marlin's kid, that's the white boy, in it. I thought he was going back. He's staying at school. 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You get the same money I'm getting at UConn on a college campus. I don't have to go in the I don't have to be in the library. I don't gotta live by yeah, all right. I don't have to go live by myself, I'm on college campus. My bro is right down the street. 'Cause to be a pro, I think he has to put on like twenty pounds. You know what I mean? I think that he's just not like uh he was hurt for dinner this year too. Like yeah, just uh yeah, I think that an another like the other huge move in the lottery is the Clippers uh being able to get their pick, their first top five pick since Blake Griffin. They haven't had a losing record since then, which is pretty fucking crazy, pretty impressive. But they also win that Zubok trade and they they get to keep their pick. Like you know that the Pacers fans are sick. The Pacers fans looked at this season and they're like, we ate so much shit after going to the finals. We had such a shitty year that it was almost like, well, hopefully we have like this generational draft waiting for us and we'll be able to get like even if it's the seventh pick, like we're saying, uh our pick of the litter of one of these stars that we can pair with this awesome young core, Halliburton will be back and healthy and skinny again, and then they don't get fucking shit. I'm not so sure they the Clippers have won that deal yet. We're gonna see who they draft. Because Zubok's pretty muff fucking good. Zubak is good. The Pacers uh bash uh president of basketball operations like apologized on Twitter. Yeah. I'm really sorry to all our fans. I own taking this for a surprise that came uh fifth after this year. I thought we were due for some luck, but please remember this team deserved a starting center to compete with the best teams next year. We have we have we have always been resilient. Yeah, you had Miles Turner went to the finals and you got rid of everything. But anyway, yeah, give give back some of your money if you're really sorry. He ain't that sorry. She uh you never see these guys apologizing, but he probably saw what happened to the uh to to Nico in Dallas and he's like, Bro, I'm not trying to get ran out of town for a fucking stupid ass deal. Yeah, well they ain't gonna just in a game seven of the finals out here. They were in it. Like they were fucking in it a and they shouldn't have been. Like the whole playoffs. It's like really? Holy fuck. Like they had a all time run and I mean they used up all their luck. They did. Speaking of the payers, you think Halliburton will get back to into form to where he was in the in the championship series. I know bro, like not offseason this season. Like is that just bad luck catching what he caught? It has to have been like he made a crazy deal. Achilles and what didn't get like shingles? Shingles like how you just that's just shingles is like uh like you can't just catch that from drinking from a water fountain, can it? I don't think so. Yeah, so like I think you got to like what do you sleep on a bad mattress or something like that? I'm not so sure. Yeah, like cursed by a witch doctor? Like you have the wrong cauldron that you're drinking out of? Like how you get is that like is that like an adult virus that causes chicken pops? Yeah. So he didn't have like his shot when he was young. Or or what if what if what if you had chickenpox as a jit? Can you get shingles? I would say maybe that's it's just lying dormant in you? I don't know. This is like a old person's disease though. This is like bed sores. I saw this on six hundred pound life. Like I can't how are you getting shingles? That's just bad luck. That's terrible. That's terrible. Like what do you one man? Yeah, hopefully he comes back straight. Does it stay with you forever? I got all types of questions. He gotta take baths in the house. Yeah, he's definitely gonna go bath. Diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue. Bro, get some peptobismol, you'll be good. What in the world? No, has a heartburn indigestion upset stomach. Stay off that syrup. Yeah, we've talked about that before the show. Yeah, that don't look conducive to what you got, pal. No way Halliburton's on the syrup, bro. He definitely has too much of the moral high grounds. Well anyway, I hope he gets back healthy, bro. I like watching Halliburton play. He's like one of the few point guards that's really left that really likes to Yeah, he really does. And he can like make your team super super successful having that four point night. The kind of night that we're hoping Trey Young could have. Like if he could ever have a night like Halliburton, but they're different types of players. I think Trey Young can get 15 assists with his left eye closed or or wearing a patch like slick reason. He's a super talented point guard. I just we just have he we haven't seen it. He has he's never played with like like they tried the uh DeJounte Murray thing. I don't think that really was it was like, eh , it needs to work that's what I'm saying. So like now we'll see with the talent around him, we'll see how it works. Well he got some now, he's gonna have some. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's pretty good. Steve Kerr is coming back to the Warriors. Everybody thought he was gonna be fired. Everybody said that he was done. Well, I think everybody, I don't know if everybody thought he was gonna be fired. I didn't be fired. I thought he was just gonna walk away. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it seemed like he was he was talking to us, but maybe he gonna come back and and and and put Steph over there in the corner and run shit through Draymond now. No, run through shoe uh through uh on Tata Cupo, like you said. And Braun. And Braun. And Steph. So why would it why would Kerz step down if he knows that Steph, Braun, and Greek Freaker? Here's what it was. Look, I'm finna step down and they said, all right, look, Steve, we're fitting to bring in A and B. Yeah, sign me up for two more then . What wouldn't you? Uh I mean I would if they're if they have the the ability to do that. It seems like the Lakers are already or Lakers fans are already talking about a world where LeBron could be gone, that LeBron could wind up there. And I also think that they're the most delusional Lakers fans, who there are many of them, are just like dreaming up trade scenarios. I saw a trade scenario. They're like, we're gonna trade for AD. I saw another one where they're like, we're gonna trade for Jaron Jackson Jr. Well, they trading. I uh some banners . Fuck out of here. I wish Luca wasn't hurt, bro. Me too, bro. I would love to see this this series against the Thunder with him . It would be good now. Now, if y'all, if LeBron leaves the Lakers, where do you think he'll go and where would you like for him to go? Go back to Cleveland. You'd like that? Go back to Cleveland. So James Harden got to be out of there. I don't know if they can play together. Yeah I don't know. Okay, so you look you want him to go back to Cleveland where where where you think he'll go the crib, retirement. Wow. I don't I don't want you wrong. I don't want him to go play with Steph. I'm not gonna lie. I don't know. Why? Because that'd be unfair? Not unfair. I just I don't want to. Like y'all bats. Y'all like y'all were like the for years, bro. I don't I don't know how many years it was from like Jordan. 20 14 to what was it, 2018, 2019 or something? It was brought up. Let's just say forever. Yeah, you knew who was going to the championship and who was gonna play in the championship. Now like yeah we're at the end. Let's let's join up. Nah I'm cool on that. Okay. You know where I want LeBron to go? The Thunder . Go get a fucking ring , dude. Go get your last ring. If he wants a ring, if he's like, bro, I just need or like hey, I want two more rings. Let me go catch Jordan. Go squat up with the thunder. Go run with those guys for two years. Fuck ing get some jewelry and fucking dip. How sick would that be? Because I I got news for you. The Thunder are gonna be there. The Thunder aren't going fucking anywhere. The way they're built the resources they have so, why not just squat up? Like it's the the same way that everybody ran to the Warriors. Fucking squad up. This is the new the new team to squat up with. Go put on that powder blue fucking run around on the thunder. That would be sick. Thunder gonna get a 60th pick. That's like the best way right now . Yeah, that'd be a main bring Bronny. Let Bronny run. But and so that's where I want him to go. Okay . Where I think he'll go, I think he's just gonna stay on the Lakers. Really? I think he's gonna stay it's the Lakers. Like it's where you end your career like gracefully. It's been there a long time now too. Him going to some different situation, like him trying to go and like do something new, get a get a new jersey, like it doesn't it doesn't make as much sense as like a guy who has fucking ten houses in LA, like every one of his family members is dotted on the same cul de sac. I'd be dope. I'd rather see him playing with Steph and uh and the Greek Freak . Yeah, if he if he did join anyone, go join one of those people you kind of came up with. Well, Brian was already in his prime, but like the Stephs. Don't don't go mess up what Shea and them got going on over there. Yeah, I I don don't't even know if Oklahoma would would would entertain that. Why don't? Because they're they don't need nothing else. Yeah, but they're like the way it's set up is like Lou Dort's gonna expire out, uh Hartenstein's gonna eventually expire out. Like they're gonna wanna replenish some things. Yeah, but they're not gonna build through . Yeah, I think they'll build through the draft too. But for my just for my fantasy world, he goes and s like signs like a eighteen million dollar a year. That jersey would be nasty. Braun in the OKC jersey will be nasty. But he would be having the time of his life though. He he'll He'll be all on the TikToks for sure.. Yeah Ain't no way. Yes, he would. Ain't no way. Yes, he was doing rem remember back in the day, oh, what was that challenge called? Damn. Yeah, Harlem Shake back in the on Miami . Uh in the locker room. Yeah, I remember that. Or when he was doing he was shooting in his driveway, filming it with Bronny and Bryce, and he was like, on his head. Ain't that what they say? That's what the kids say nowadays. Yeah, he was popping . He was popping it. Yeah, he was. Um I would I I would love to see that. Or Spurs . Spurs would be something? Nah, hell nah. Why not? Too I don't nah, that's too young. But they needed them Oklahoma. But they got the I feel like Braun fit the young vibe of OKC more than the Spurs. I agree. I think Wimby, loosen up a little bit. I want it so bad. Just go ring chase. I like I peep ring chasing is so dead now. People are throwing so much shade on ring chasing, like, why not just go if you're a a legend, go back to one good right up at the camera. They were having the time of their fucking life over there. I think ring chasing has looked up looked that funny just because like back in Jordan in those days they they couldn't really they weren't free agents so they really weren't able to to to to go to different cities. They they always got locked up when they had a year or two left in their deal they got locked up mid season so they were they were never you know I mean free. I think that the way that people disparage it and it's only specific people that get it, but like K D to K D haters will never be able to say something without someone being like, Well, you ran to Golden State. It's like, bro, like he's Kevin Durant. Like, what the fuck are you talking about? But people try to take away from it because they're like, well, he's clicking up. Like that's the only way that he could win. It's like, all right. This is I think that's as bad for the culture as like ring chasing the discrediting of great players. Nah yeah. KD that it was crazy in the moment. Like you just were up 3-1 against them, but like I like that he like owned it. He was like, I don't give a fuck. Like I'm going here. Going to hoop. Yeah, he's just gonna try to win, right? Can't take that shit away from him. No, what the fuck? Y'all told me I knee rings and I went got him. Now what? And now people still have something to say. And that's just the nature of it, which I think is as bad. So like LeBron go down the OKC, bro. Yeah. Sam Presley listening. Right? For a little. Um, that would be exciting. Uh PJ Tucker reti red. That was sick. He had a great career. And he's still got a he got a new Nike shoe coming out. All ti he's probably the all time shoe shoe guy in NBA history. Has to be. Uh in NBA history. No one no one will He was hooping at anything for I know his feet was hurting sometimes. It has to hurt. Bro, he has to have a house for his shoes. Nah, yeah, for sure. It's too many shoes. Um you ever seen D books shoe wall in his crib? No, it's crazy. Pull it up, dog. Pull D book's shoe wall up. Look at this. Now I'm just a big D book shoe fan though. Yeah, you're always wearing some books. Yeah. Yeah, he has it looking like a footlocker in a flight club. Footlocker. That's his crib. What? Yeah. That's his home? Yeah . Oh, and he's not even wearing those. Those are displays. Yeah. Good God. What ? Good God . Um yeah, that's fucking sick . All time greats. Um any any other like great shoe guys? I guess in like uh the 90s, it was less like it's not like people were doing crazy stuff with their shoes. No, you really couldn't because there was rules you couldn't wear-color shoes like they do now. Nick Young, too. Nick Young got a bunch of shoes, yeah. Nick Young was doing con he was kinda on the PJ uh PJ Tucker wave for a little bit. Oh yeah. But then he signed a contract with Adidas. But he was tripping. Tripping. Fuck he doing. Talking about feet hurt. Shees You think Gilbert Arenas wore some crazy shoes at one point too. He's Adidas , but he had um some designer shoes or some shit. I forgot what they were. Gilbert Arenas used to hoop in Air Max running shoes. Yeah, you don't give a fuck. And give you 50. He's just having the time You talk about your feet hurt. Like how them dudes used to wear Chuck Taylors when they hooped. That's insane. Not just your feet hurting, like your back. If I like there's no like absorption of if I played like in Chuck Taylors for 10 years or eleven years, how many every years I played, I'd be like a uh a fucking pirate with a peg leg walking around these motherfuckers. Swear to god. Well, I'd be working at IHOP. You'd be with your Aunt Eileen. Yeah, yeah. The uh okay the, MB A playoffs are in full swing and the intensity isn't letting up and with DraftKings an official sports betting partner of the NBA, your winnings get a boost every single day, all playoffs long. Okay, bang. We hit our parlay last week.. Of course we did Well I don't know why y'all don't ask me to do it more. Huh. Fuck. I got the answers to the test. We hit our parlay. It was uh I'm trying to find it in here. Okay, it was twenty five points for Maxie, twenty points for Towns, twenty five points for Brunson on the dot plus four forty, huge hit. That's right. That felt good. And that's DraftKings. So we're we're gonna build another one. And uh I feel like that was a good formula. Three players go with the Spurs. Let's go with Spurs against the uh Thunder. Let's go with the Spurs against the Thunder. Spurs against the Thunder. Jesus Christ, bro. What are you talking about? Spurs against the Timberwolves. Come on, bro. I need to lock in. Okay, you say you like champagne. Well, let me what's the number? Eight. Oh yeah. I mean you could do ten if you want. No, or you like eight. Yeah, let's stick with eight. Okay. Yeah. Straight like eight. Okay, who else do we like in here? Ant could ant's twenty-seven plus or we could go bump down to twenty-five for ant. That's a lot, man. Yeah, he did. What's random? Okay, he's eighteen or seventeen. I think or fifteen. If Julius Randle don't get at least eighteen points, they don't win the game. Am I right? Yeah, unless Ant is going for thirty six. I'm gonna put him at seventeen. Is that cool? Uh yeah, you're the boss, Dad. Whatever you you know you got the money, man. I come on bro. And who's one more player that we think uh is is gonna is gonna do something? What's Wemby? Bissell Wemby at Wemby's at tw uh twenty-eight .enty Tw-eight is a lot of points to be betting on someone having Castle. Yeah, what about we could get him at seventeen? Castle at seventeen. Fox at eighteen . I like Castle a little bit. I'm not the boss I don't know. You just said bet with us every week. Dylan Harper. Dylan Harper, we could get at where's my bro? Uh 12. Oh yeah, let's go with that. That's yeah, right. At D Harp. At D12. Did you see that Euro you had yesterday? Plus 55 0 . Huge. So it's Champagne, eight points, Harper, twelve points, Randall, 17 points. Yeah, I'm glad I ain't had no Euro step in my game because I wouldn't be pass a first guy. You don't think Euro would have been mean. I don't think I would have been a pass. If you had all these gathers and stuff they had if you could just walk down the court. I never traveled in my whole life. 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I saw JJ Reddick fucking absolutely uh destroying Ayton on the sidelines, just being like, this guy is fucking unplay is unplayable you can't play him and I saw some I mean I feel like we talked about it like I saw some of that earlier in the playoffs when he was just like man put in fucking Jackson Hayes I think that uh the skill level will never match up to the effort level with him. I think that his skill is so high and just like You think you just don't love to hoop? I I it doesn't seem like it it doesn't seem like you're you're uh focused enough. I don't know. Then why go through all this shit every night? Go get a fucking huge bag and pretend that you're gonna you're gonna want to do your job like ninety bag already? Did he get a bag already? At least at least play until you get the bag and then lay it down. Uh that's what I would tell him as a vet. Fuck. I mean, what the fuck? It's just crazy how it works out. Like you say, oh, I don't want to be Clint Capella . Everyone's like, what you're bugging. Clint Capella's perfect for this rule. Clint Capella makes a hundred million dollars. Luca goes down, Austin Reeves was hurt at first. This is your time to be DeAndre Aiden and not Clint Capella. This is the time to do it, but I also think there's another part of Clint Capella that he doesn't want to be is like not just the 14 and 4 or like whatever like 12 points, 14 rebounds guy, but like the effort of being a Clint Capella and being like a dirty work guy and high motor. Yeah, being high motor, putting your fucking elbow in somebody's rib cage all the time and just being fit. I think he wants to score 20 points, have seven rebo unds that just come to him and like play like yeah, I'll jump at half of it defense in instead of like being this like constantly present guy, and that's not gonna help you in the playoffs. Like Chet plays hard. Like A D when he's on the court plays hard. As skilled as he is, they play hard. So it's I don't know. He's not yeah, he he's not good enough not to play hard. You feel me? Like there's a one or two guys like that on a team that can take a player or two off when they want. He just happens not to be one of them. Maybe at Arizona he was. And I don't understand why if if you've been one you've been hooping your whole life to get to the NBA, right? And then you get there and then you you don't want to play hard? Fuck you doing? Like, I don't understand. Like you don't like playing basketball now? That's just so fun. Like I I wish I could still hoop. But like And here we are talking about him not playing hard. Do you think that like uh do you think that there's anything to the physicality side of it that some guys don't want to do that like run over the top of the screen shit? Like do you think that people just wanna like play like a more flat footed, like fun brand of basketball? You're not Luca though. Like I'm not just saying it only a few guys could could do that. I'm not rolling because you've been you've been fighting to get over the motherfucking screens your whole life and now all of a sudden you're with the best players in the world and you decide you want to stop doing that. You think that's a good ide a? You know what that's gonna get you? Motherfucking coach telling you I can't play this motherfucker. Yeah. And so I guess that's why I saw the people wanted to bring A D back. Getting A D back. I mean, you could probably get A D for cheap. Is AD a free agent no they'd have to trade for him I think um oh my god if if they got ad back what what would Nico's life be like at that point probably it was all part of the master plan. You're right. Nike. Nike. It's always always comes back to Nike. Nike rules rules the universe. Draymond said he doesn't want to be Chuck in the Houston jersey. And then I think that Ernie came back at him sa saying that he had more games where he had more fouls than field goals made. He had like what fifty game or or I need to know the exact stat. He had like 50 games where he had more uh f field goals or fouls and field goals in the playoffs. I butchered that, but we're talking about Draymond? Yeah. Okay. Ernie just came back at him. Ernie just had Chuck's back. Like he he just was on his ass. Yeah. He had uh tied for the most NBA playoff games with more turnovers than field goals since two thousand three . Yeah. How many rings he got since two thousand three? There's four rings there. Yeah. Chuck was like, I'm not, I don't punch down . Yeah. Draymond just tw is is just making sure that he has his spot on the desk. I was about to say I think Dra Draymond is reaching that he not not Stephen A, but it's like anything he says, they like he probably knows in the back of his mind, yeah, they gonna go crazy on this. Yeah, he said , he was on the he was on the Kevin Hart roast. Yeah, he's he saw that he said to Chelsea Handler, he was like, I wouldn't fuck with you. You know that I've never hit threes in my career. It's a good line. That is a good one. But he's definitely replacing Charles Barkley on there. I think JJ Reddick gonna replace Ernie Johnson on there. Really? Yep. That'd be sick. Yeah, I think that Jay will get on the desk. I th no too much too many responsibilities and shit like that. You'd be wearing a suit, you'd have to wear a suit every night. Yeah, I ain't bothered. Yeah, that's that's that's Amazon or Peacock or all that shit over there. Yeah, that's something. Right. Mellow and L Yeah. Yeah, you're probably right. Pulling up in the Tom Brown or something like that. Yeah, something nice. But yeah, I'm thinking them two guys are gonna replace Ernie. Ernie, Ernie JJ, Draymond Chuck . Shaq stays around. Or Dwight Howard or Joe L M B could replace him. Eh? Yeah, Dwight Howard. I mean like Dwight Howard, you would have seen him get that that look by now. Yeah, well I think they might not have seen that cause the Shaq M B would be great at it. He would be. He'd be great at it. Yeah. That'd be sick to have him before who could replace Kenny ? CJ McCollum. Stop, bro. No? You don't you think that LeBron would ever want to do some shit like that? So what's he gonna want to do when he's retired? He's gonna be a golfer. No, bro. Yeah. He's gonna want to do some Tom Brady shit. Like where he's like owning a team and he's in venture capital and he's doing something with the game. But what's his thing with the game gonna be? Uh you two he could be I bet he'll be like a IRL live streamer or some shit. He'll be running around like speed. He'll be like, I'm in Portugal. Running around with like 5,000 people behind him. Hell no. Ain't no way. I could check it out. He wants to be youthful. Yeah, like golf and be doing like shit. That's how you stay involved. On some Jordan, like I golf. Yeah. I'm the GM. I'm uh Jordan was involved in the batt I think that LeBron is gonna want to be publicly facing though more than like Jordan like Jordan just wanted to win. I think LeBron's gonna w anna be like smiling, joking, having a good time, being on camera, on a podcast, on YouTube or something like that. Yeah, he'll have some shit like that. Or just whatever the most modern it iteration of that kind of shit. But y'all talking stupid because he got a couple more years left now. Come on. I'm still top five after this playoffs. Top five in the world. Mm-hmm. Still . He's better than uh uh uh Jalen Brunson? Yes. Sh I agree . Only person he's not better than I'll say, like definitely not is Shay Jokic Well like replace that's it that's the only person that's guaranteed he not better than I ain't I ain't arguing bro either guarantee better than it nah that's a toss up toss up I think that if you put LeBron on the Knicks right now, they're fucking awesome. Like as opposed to on the Lakers. If you put LeBron on any team, they're fucking awesome. Well you,'re the one by you're the you're the one who brought up big body Brunson. I'll just ask a question for the folks. Oh for the folks. Yes. Okay, got it, got it, got it. You put Braun on any roster, they go to the playoffs. What about him against Luca? What if you put LeBron on the Lakers ? Excuse me. Anyway, uh Josh Hart says uh Philly is in a sports town after what they did. That like uh But but he knows. You are Ph ailly expert. Yeah, like Well he also went to Villanova. But the Knicks, the Knicks travel like that everywhere they go. He's just he's just shitting on he's just being rude on purpose and he's rubbing. So is Philly not really care about losers. Basketball per se. That would never happen at an Eagles game. No, I think they do care about basketball, but they knew they were getting their ass whooped the other day. So they didn't know what it was. They Yeah, let me go ahead and get make twenty, thirty dollars off this ticket and sell it to Buddy with a a blue jersey. You know what I'm saying? And there's just more money. I mean yeah, n uh, I don't know. Like there's only so many football games. Like you could you mortgage your house for a fucking football game, but at most there's like three playoff games and eight regular season games or something. So it's like eleven tickets you have to pay for. Bro, it could be eleven tickets between like two rounds of games, especially if you're going back and forth. It's more expensive to be a basketball fan and the Sixers have done it less. Like the Eagles have won. People are bought in. Like you expect to win if you're an Eagles fan at this point. If you're a Sixers fan, you're like, bro, the fuck am I gonna just have y'all should have just rode off with the biggest idea for like the players? All right, let's buy a thousand tickets, let's go all in the street and hand them out. Would that have been a bad idea? Yeah, but even that would would have have d doneonen't