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That's like when the old ladies go to um like become the crosswalk, like they're just bored . They think they got all the power too. They got that stop sign and that motherfucker. Whistle? Yeah, and that orange vest. Wait , wait till I say you go. Yeah. Oh my god. So how many how many trips have you had? None yet. Listen, I was on a wait list. Wait list? What are they doing? A background check? To become to get on the shop or to be able to do that, yeah. It took like almost a half a year. Finally got the email like yesterday. I bet they would have fast tracked you if you made that public. Yo, that's one. In fact, you can get a a deal. Yeah, what you probably could get a great deal with Instacart. Need off . What yo, can we can we uh do a like can we document you uh do an Instacart Insta one? Or just like a day, just a day of like Instacart Jaywells doing Instacart. We need to do a video on that. That shit would be hilarious. I don't think there is one. What? Are you gonna use like a fake name or you're gonna say like Jason Williams and have a picture of you? Yeah, it's a real deal, totally field people are aren't gonna recognize that you're doing it for like for fun they're gonna be like oh who's this guy fucking around yeah they're not gonna realize that you're there or or they'll be like hey man, is everything all right? You know, don't worry about me. I'll I'm good. I know, but people people don't what made you want to do that? What? There's gotta be some other shit going on that what you applied before here. I did. That's so I'm not laughing at it at all. I think it's just won't hurt my feelings if you were. I but I mean I don't think that there's anything wrong with having a job. I think it's fucking cool cool to have a job, but it's just funny that like you're like, I'm so bored that I'm gonna shop for other people, and you're not even doing it, you're not even in it for the bread. You're love of the game. What I'm gonna do it for I I don't I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I how fast what the first time I get in the grocery I'm gonna learn where all the motherfucking tomato sauce is. Oh you're gonna supermarket sweep it. Yes, sir. Yeah, I'm pulling up. I already know. You're hitting the fucking hole. Yeah. Spin move at the corn. That's right. Oh my god, you're gonna be sick. I might do it all in a shisty too. All times have a shisty on . It's like when the professor's in the Spider-Man costume. Yeah. Your Instacar shopper shows up at the big end ofgest the one professoror Profess did with uh when he was the nerd with the book bag and shit. Yeah I thought that was better than the uh Super uh Spider Man one. Please keep all of that in. Uh hoopin' and hollering another episode. Please keep all that in the middle. You know some people are absolute bullshit Instacart shoppers though. You know there's people who I think they're like if you get a male Instacart shopper, he's probably just gonna be throwing in some bullshit he doesn't know With the ripe avocados, you know, which tomatoes to be grabbing. Yeah, he'll grab any grapes or something. Yeah. The smush. Terrible grapes, bro. I don't know nothing about avocados and shit like that, but I wouldn't get you a a uh a a shitty bag of grapes. I'd at least get you a good bag of grapes. The avocados you gotta find which ones are ripe. No, that ain't that ain't the deal. I didn't sign up for that. Yeah, you're gonna be speed running. You're gonna be the fastest dude on Instacart of all time. That's right. Uh Hooper Holler in episode twenty-four. Uh we're in the in the thick of the playoffs. And yes, the Knicks Sixers series it did already start, but I just like need a second to be like the Sixers took care of business against the Celtics when nobody believed in them. I didn't even believe in them and then here they are taking care of business against against the Celtics. That's pretty fucking awesome. You think they took care of business or the C eltics just gave that shit to them? The Celtics were trying their hardest. I know. They didn't just give it to them. I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure all of them were trying their hardest . Well the rotations they had going on ., you're saying that the coach was uh I mean the coach fumbled badly. To in my opinion, I've never coached the game or nothing, but but Vucevic got to play before Garza. Yeah, the Celtics down the stretch had one of the weirdest starting lineups of all time. I do get it a little bit because you're like, hey, they need to do something different in game seven than they did in game six because game six didn't work at all. So so so so they they go with the start Ron Harper Jr. for playing for four minutes? Is that what the the was that what the answer was? No, that wasn't the right answer. And that's why it was a failure because like you can't back that up with any process other than hey we're gonna shake shit up. Yeah, game seven is a weird time to find your spark. Let's try to find a spark for your team. I feel like to get reps. Like let's get reps. Joe Mazzula is the last person that I thought would ever do that. I know I've been the last person. Glazing Joe Missoula all playoffs all season. I'm like Joe Missoula, genius coach. He is a good of a maybe he was listening to this show because I probably said that the second best team in the East was the Celtics when they're starting Luca Garza and Baylor Shireman. I'm probably I probably literally had that sound bite. And he he listened and did exactly that and th they couldn't beat the Sixers, but they got close down this stretch. It don't mean nothing, brother. Sixers I don't think people realize how much that meant for Sixers and Sixers fans to win that game. And maybe that's loser mentality, but the fact that it's been forty two years that like three of the last eight years the Celtics have been the ones to bounce the Sixers from the playoffs, that we were down and we've been getting smoked in game sevens year after year after year. It meant a lot to get that monkey off the back and be able to beat the Celtics. Maybe it's celebrating a first round win, but that was fucking exciting for me because I didn't expect it. You did definitely deserved it, but you know, I wish everybody was healthy and we could see everybody play that way. I mean M B wasn't healthy for most of the series . You wish Tatum was healthy or saying That's true. I'm I'm glad Tatum didn't play that game though. Me personally. I'd rather see Tatum for a whole year next year. Like even seeing him grab at his calf that last game, I'm like, yo, chill, dog. Like, yeah, it's not worth it. Because what if he propels him to a win? And then you're playing in uh another really nursing uh you're coming back off the Achilles still and then now another calf, you never know what could happen. Going back to where you tore your Achilles, right? Didn't tear it in the Madison Square Garden? Did he? Yep. Yeah, I mean that's yeah, that that would have been a bad situation just because he would have had to give it all night after night. It's not gonna be an easy series against the Knicks. Like it's not gonna be a four-game type of situation if the Celtics are playing against the Knicks. Now, well actually I don't want to get off the Sixers. I still need to give the Sixers some credit. Embiid was in fucking incredible. Monster. M B was like throwback M B like uh three or four years ago when he first got his offensive game, and it he also seemed to have like a calmness to his game. Mid range wasn't credible , uh drawing a lot of fouls. Yeah, the flopping got to go, bro. This this too it's it's So you agree with Jalen Brown, you would have got on the live the next day and and cried about it. I wouldn't cry about him because they beat us, but he's just Sometimes maybe. But I'm just not a fan of that flopping. All the time. But if somebody fouls you, it's like you have to uh you you kind of have to play the game that wasn't dictated by him. That was dictated by guys before him. That don't have to make me like the shit. Yeah. Just because that's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I I don't know. When it works for me I like it right I'm a fan I'm a fan of the Sixers uh whatever they gotta do to win uh I'm gonna support that okay cool what they gotta do to win this this series I mean fucking you watch Jalen Brunson flopping the entire time. It's hard, bro. It's hard. He's flopping the entire series, bro. These fucking pussy ass refs, bro. He's fucking flopping. Yeah, yeah. But it's they're good at it, right? It was funny to see Edgecomb like complaining to the refs and even MB'd after the game being like complaining to the refs about the flopping. Yeah, we we you gotta live by the sword, die by the sword. Like we flop, we flop and you know on the side. Everyone flop. All the good players do it. Yeah, exactly. And Brunson's doing it too, and he's a master at it. They've learned to do it good. James Harden started it right. It's one of the best ever. Yeah. And I don't know what you what do you think about adding uh an extra set of eyes out there though? An extra ref. It don't matter. You don't think that th there's no thing gonna do something like add an earpiece or something like it's still gonna be . I mean fuck you could blow the whistle every every possession probably, right? Yeah. I mean it's just But it's also embied isn't Mitchell Robinson at the free throw line. Like he's making his free throw. So he's gonna make you pay. Like a guy like Mitchell Robinson doesn't wanna get uh he doesn't wanna get to the free throw line. No, he don't even he he be getting to try to get rid of the ball fast as hell. He wanna get offensive rebound. What do you think? Is it uh equally pussy to play like hack a mitch, like a hack a shack type of game? Do you think that that's also bullshit? Trying to send a guy to the line? That's not pussy? No, because what's the difference in that and it's forcing the guy over in the weak side corner to always get every shot Or take his big ass up out of the game. So a game plan. Yeah. I mean shit. But yeah, but then they have guys like Justin Edwards in the game trying to make that happen. Regardless, the Sixers earned it. The Sixers deserve it. Everybody had the Celtics coming out of the East. I did. I did Paul George is playing awesome. Paul George is fucking incredible. And he's also willing to accept his role. And if he does that, he could play three or four, five, six more years, bro. He's standing, I mean he's playing great defense, but on offense, he's like he's just waiting for his turn. That's correct. He's letting them play like two-man, three-man games at the top of the key. You can't and you can't slack off uh uh uh Paul George either because he'll knock that shit down. I think that's good for like the back a lot of players mess up on the back half of their career That's right. To like, oh yeah, let me like back off. Like he's still getting a big contract right now. So it's like, all right, I know we got Maxi. Embiid when he's healthy still embied. Well, let me back up a little bit. And you know what he knows in his mind? He can still bust anybody's ass he wanna bust their ass. Exactly. Yeah. And there's possessions when he knows that he could be the alpha. Because there's possessions when Embiid's fucking at war on the block, fucking calling for the ball, and Paul George is like, but I got this one. Flop. And it fucking it it looks great. It's automatic. And uh he's very like if if you're watching as a fan, it's like a calming presence to watch. But uh still ain't got no answer. What? Who gonna w ho gonna win the series? Can can we finish off the Celtics first? I wanna finish off talking about the Celtics right. I wanna get it I need to just put this the Celtics to bed because uh They they're they're slept. They're slept. Yeah, they're done. Well, it's just like this year. I there's a a Celtics fan I know that uh he he said that when the Sixers won game five to make it three to two, he said that's the steak that we throw to the dog before we put the dog down. Yeah, that was just the the bone that we're throwing to the dog, just so there can be one last treat before we put the dog down. The dog's got fucking rabies dude. The dog's fighting back. You can't kill that dog. The dog killed the owner. It bit the hand that fed at that steak. Uh what do you what do you say to Celtics fans who have that who had that perspective. I mean they they gotta eat a little crow, right? It's just looking in the mirror, you Philly fans are the same motherfucking way. You know what I mean? Y'all y'all are great great for the sport. Great for sport, y'all fans. Probably the best two fan bases I think that I've ever witnessed uh in my time in Knicks fans are gonna be beating down your door with pitchforks. Knicks fans are Knicks fans aren't aren't like they're not bro y'all motherfucking Philly fans and Boston fans are crazy. Like literally. Like y'all got something wrong with y'all. Like there ain't no need to yell fuck you to somebody that's walking down the sidewalk to have some lunch. That's what the Knicks do though. Knicks fans. I saw Knicks fans try to rip a maxi jersey off somebody's back last night. Well, I can only speak on my behalf. In New York, I never received that type of treatment. Last year the Knicks fans were throwing the trash at that pacer standing. Really? It's hilarious. Well, that man should have feared for his life. Let them pack him into the fucking trash. Did you see that? He was getting like trampoline. Really? Yeah. Yeah, they're throwing. I fuck with the Knicks organization just because how they take care of all their old old old uh players. Sit them there on on the front row the baseline. Yeah, that's nice. That's dope. Some all timers. No, no no matter what player it was, they they bring them back, bro. That's great. I like that. You think that there's I bet there's some players that can't necessarily get the You think they're putting him court side? Yeah. Playoffs? Yeah. Uh the ones that ain't getting that don't even call. They know. Let's uh let's close the book on uh three questions about the Celtics before I move on to fully talking about the Knicks. All right. Three questions about the Celtics. What are you huffing and puffing about? Should they trade Jalen Brown. So what wait wait before before we ask that. What was Jalen Brown talking about la last night or last season this season? Uh huh. Was the best season in his own favorite season? They were saying it was his most favorite oh or his favorite season that's career. Most fun he ever had playing the sport. That's that what's that saying? That that's opening up some wor can of worm sharker. To me. Reading between the lines. He's saying trade me? Something's gotta happen is what he's saying to me. Whether it's me, him, or him . Who'd be the third hymn? Missoula? I don't know. Well I know who the other hymn is for sure that's JC Tatum. I'm looking at it like, oh, like we were supposed to be bad. Of course the Celtics are supposed to win the championship every year. Like everyone wants them to, but no one expected them to make the playoffs. And he was the guy that's like, all right, I got us. Let's go. Tatum comes back. Now the expectation is higher. Remember we came on here. True. Look what happens. Yeah. So from Jalen Brown's point, he's probably like, all right, we lost, but like, hey, I was in the MVP conversation this sh I feel like it's different. Of course, team wise, it wasn't successful, but for him it's like all right. But is it a jab at Tatum though? I bet he didn't mean it to be as big as it sounded because it it's He's one of the smartest people in the NBA . Yeah, it's probably was a calcul like even him going live is like uh you you doing that for a reason, you know. He said he went live every week and so he just didn't want to he didn't flake on going live. He said he would go live regardless. But I mean you know how he's he is a smart guy. You know how the media cycle works. You know that there's not one phrase that they're they're gonna not comb over to see some t some type of subtext. They found the subtext . It would be a shame to see them split up. I agree. Neither one of them k the guys can think that that they got a better chance winning a championship without each other Well sometimes when you're drafted into that situation, you take it for granted though. You know, like the grass is always greener. But like if you're drafted and you're the only superstar, you would love to get paired with another superstar. But if you're drafted That'll be an awful move if you break them up. Terrible move. Stupid. Because every every championship team needs you need two wings anyway. Like at least. You need two wings that are like awesome at that caliber to even compete. Who are you getting back to trade one of those guys . I mean , like a Giannis play? Like, I don't know. Does Giannis make the Celtics better? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. What? No? No way. From Jalen Brown? So you rather get off. So you would Jalen Brown and somebody for Giannis, you're saying? Yeah . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Max doing that too. Yeah, what? Giannis or Jalen Brown? Come on. Come on. Jalen Brown is an in the world. they every year they the best team going in. Of course you can't win every year. All they do is shoot threes, dog. Giannis can't hit sand if he fell off a camel. But they you don't think you think that they would put Giannis in the corner, they let Giannis be Giannis. Bro, they good bro. If you want other pieces, get off of Pritcher, you go get a lot of good pieces for him. Derrick Wall. Derek White, you get a lot of good pieces for him. Jordan W Jordan Walsh, his stock going up a little bit. Like for me, they got pieces. They'll be all right. I saw the Barstool blogger Greenie saying that the Celtics should trade Derek White and Sam Hauser for Donovan Mitchell. Yeah. I said, why not go get Luca? Yeah. Why not get Luca and Bron together? You could probably get both. Or Wemby. Just go get Wemby. You might as well just go get Wemby. Yeah. I think that would be a good thing. Just trade trade Vucevic and Garza for Wembby. Because the the Spurs could make sense. That's a 2K trade. Yeah. I think he was breaking down the salary. I was like, you don't have to do all that. That's a no. But I I think that uh or that the coach keeps his job too, right? Joe Mazzula? Yeah, he keeps his some nasty Celtics fans. They had a great nope. They lost first round. Ass. Terrible. They had a great year, in my opinion, for regular season. I thought they were a lottery team this year. But the last three years they've had ignominious ends to illustrious seasons. They had uh what was last season? Knicks? Knicks. Knicks. And then the season before that? Yeah, NBA championship. Oh, NBA champion, okay. And then the year before . You the last so yeah, you they were in the chip, right? Yes. Lost. Okay, so they won the chip. And then last year they were the best. Chilies. Nick N Kicknicks were b Nick's was balling last they I think Knicks still win that series if Tatum doesn't get hurt, but for me you still the best team every year. Right. I agree that Missoula, you're not going to get a better coach on the open market than Missoula. You would kill for a coach like Missoula . Yeah. Unless one of them goes to the But Giannis, I mean Giannis is that puts your whole like European argument in like a uh precarious spot because obviously Giannis is gonna make the Celtics better. No, it's not obvious. I was fitting the same thing the total opposite of that. I don't think it's obvious. The total opposite grass ain't greener all the time. All they Peyton Pitcher, bing bing, bing, Derek White shooting threes, everybody's shooting threes, and what's Giannis doing? Yeah, their offense is very free-flowing. Like, we know they live and die by the three, but that's ball movement at the end of the day. Giannis is uh have in the half-court and driving court. He's still but it ain't happening, but he not that that doesn't make Boston. Giannis going to Miami or some he don't want to go to Boston. If you gonna go to Phoenix. No, I don't think he liked the West Coast. Really? He don't like he said he don't like LA or something. Same. But Phoenix, not LA, but but if the Knicks, I mean LA, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why? I think it's just an overrated, spread out city. I think that probably if you live there and you have a good sense of like your community, maybe it's great, but visiting LA is always an unfulfilling experience. That's that's unfortunate for you. You know, you know that in uh you should go to LA with me. What you just because you smoke weed there that I'm gonna have well. I also smoked weed when I went to LA. They don't have anything to do with smoking weed. What I mean you go by the beach? No, no. Mm-hmm. So what is it? Pitch it to me then. Tell me on everyone. I've never met any I've never met anyone and said they don't like LA. Oh , first person. LA is like one of the most universally like overrated travel cities. I think like you look at overrated travel cities, like any like top ten list in the world is gonna LA is gonna be one of the most overrated The kite community deserves to have a good spot to fly kites. Yeah, that's the only one thing you can do in LA. LA there's so many more things to do in LA than New York. Overrated travel cities. Los Las Vegas, Miami, Los Angeles. LA or New York ? New York was New York . New York . If I'm like old and retired and want to live on the beach then LA. But you don't even live on the beach if you live in LA. There's like two towns of living on the beach. Eight months a year eight months a year in New York, there's big black snow thickened on the sidewalk for eight months. And we got the beach here too, bro. Yeah, you just told me buddy jumped in the water and got out smelling like a turd. Go there Yeah, there ain't nobody. People in New York don't even like they wouldn't even say they like living in New York better than LA. I wouldn't live in LA. I like to like visiting . Yeah. And what do you do? I golf . I eat some food. But Giannis I could see coming to New York. There's a probably a reason why he would like New York . No, do they make for for cat? No, I think that I mean, well, so I think that's a good time to switch to the the Knicks uh series. Okay, let's take a quick break and build this parlay, but of course we couldn't do any of that withoutft DraKings. The NBA playoffs are in full swing and the intensity isn't letting up. And with DraftKings Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NBA, your winnings get a boost of every single playoff game, all playoffs long. Playoffs you know what it is. The stars turn it up round by round and DraftKings turns up with them with a profit boost available every single game day. And that's first round to the finals. And let's let's construct one right now. Okay . Then let's go. Uh uh do the pussy ass sixers now, don't we? No, we can do the pussy ass out of Tim Roles. No, we're gonna do the Sixers. What do you want to do, Jordan ? Sixers are our underdogs to the Knicks. Let's build a parlay. Let's do it in real time. Uh who's gonna score a lot of points for the Sixers? Who's gonna score a lot of points for the Knicks? Well, I mean it's hard not to. Maxie having a big game. He had it wasn't his best show in the hook. Okay. Brunson too, right? Maxie's twenty five plus. You think Brunson's running or we'll put him at twenty five again too. Brunson. Brunson. Maxie and Brunson both at twenty five plus. What's he? He we could get him at 20 points. Well, I like that better than you know what I mean. Okay, well, we'll do all three of them. So all three of those added together. Yeah. High scoring. High scoring game. So that's plus four forty . Uh see to me I think Philly has a better chance to win slowing that bitch down . To me. Well I'm making the parlay right now. Yeah, let's get it. Okay, there it is. Plus 440, maxi 25 plus points, Towns 20 plus points, Brunson 25 plus points. That bet is in. And you know that we're doing it with the DraftKings Sportsbook. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now. Use code hoopin' to claim your profit boost. That's code to hooping to get a boost every dayy at the NBA plaoffs in partnership with DraftKings. The crown is yours. Gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER or 1-800-MYRESE. New York, call 877-8 Hope and Y or text Hope and Y. Connecticut called 888-78 nine seven seven seven seven seven or visit ccpg dot org. On behalf of Boothill Casino in Kansas, wager tax pass-through may apply in Illinois, twenty one and over in most states, Void on Ontario. Restrictions apply. Bonus bets expire seven days after issuance. For additional terms and responsible gaming resources, see sportsbook.draft kings.com slash promos, limited time offer. Fuck if they play like they did in game one, who's gonna beat them? Be hard to beat shooting the lights out. Yeah, brother, they're not gonna do that the whole series. Everybody was hitting Jalen Brunson in the playoffs. He's a different beast though. He is. Philly was dead ass tired though too. Yeah, Philly's tired and their rotation it's like it's not like they're playing like the Spurs rotation or even the Thunder rotation. Like they're playing fucking seven guys. They're playing their starting five and Drummond and uh Grimes. Like they don't have that depth uh that other teams have. The Knicks have depth. The Knicks have guard depth. You're seeing like McBride and Alvarado getting in. Like it's gonna be a tough series for the Sixers, if it's like a long series. They kind of did that last series though. Get smacked or win. It kind of was like smacked or win. Yeah. That should put it on a fucking t-shirt. Get smacked or win t-shirt a hundred percent of the time. And bridges look better too. Bridges like game one, obviously, but uh rounding into form after having a shaky regular season. It's hard to win if Brunson has twenty-seven points at halftime. At halftime, hitting everything. Like how many foul shots did he shoot? A lot. I think the Knicks only shot like just look at the free throw discrepancy. How many Philly shot compared to the Knicks? Pussy ass refs, bro. Pussy ass flopping too. No, it's probably because the Knicks was shooting all these jump shots, right? Oh, maybe. Yeah, that could be it too. But they're hitting fucking everything. OG's hitting his jump shots. They just look well-rounded, tough to beat. Here we are again. Everybody thinks the Knicks are gonna beat Philly. It's just like everybody thought Boston was fitting to beat Philly. You thought Boston was gonna be Philly. I know, I said that. Now yeah, after round one, I can't I'm done judging games after one or two games, but can't do it in the playoffs. I know look at them free throws . Plus 15. Yeah. The uh yeah, a lot of a lot of series like I mean the the fact that the East had uh a six game series and then three seven game series, it does speak to the competitiveness of the East. You know, it wasn't, I mean, there was a lot of teams that didn't make the playoffs, limited teams that that were in the play in, but like you the the teams in the East were competitive with each other. Everybody is could was anybody serious. There weren't like the sweeps I thought it was going on at West. Huh? One through eight, like every series. I mean the Pistons, the like the uh imagine what kind of different conversation we're having about the Pistons if if they lost. Yeah, if they lost. Even if they lose game seven, we're still having those dark conversations about them. But the fact that they are able to overcome if they what if they lost in fucking five games? Wasn't it three one? Yeah, it was three one. If they lost in five games, what are we saying about the Pistons? I think in game six the Magic had a crazy a lead too. They were up twenty-four and lost by like twenty-four. They missed they missed twenty-seven consecutive shots the Magic did that night. That's insane. That that that's hard to try to do. I've never seen a coach uh about to be fired, then about to get like a thousand-year extension, and then going right back to being fired again. Well fuck, you should have got fired if you st Did you see what he did with the rot ations in game seven? Yeah, it was bad. He played like three or four guys that ain't played a minute of the whole series. Yeah, I don't know. I think Franz getting hurt too, kind of. I hurt him for sure. For sure, but they still had a chance, bro. in the fourth quarter. That's insane. Yeah. Is that just is that choking? Like I feel like there's some words that NBA players have like a tough time with like choking and bust and stuff like that. For game six, you you're up, you gotta put the team away or if you're if you're up and you're home you were home at on that game too. You weren't you gotta go back on the road for game seven, so you gotta finish the game. Yeah, if you're up twenty four perts in game six at home and lose. Yeah. You already know what time it is in game seven, don't you? Yeah, NBA, not saying you're gonna win by thirty if you're up twenty-four, but you gotta finish the game. You might win by ten, cause people they're gonna go to run as the NBA. Yeah, of course. You might win by ten or twelve, but you gotta put them away. Bro, if you have twenty four, you could damn near take a shot clock violation every possession in the fourth quarter and still win the game. Yeah, that is a colossal a colossal failure. And it's gotta I mean gotta foll onow the coach, but this is another team that's like built . You know, it's not like they're built to be a team that just like protects the ball, protects the lead. I like how they're built, but they they need to what do they have the what are they gonna have, a lottery pick this year for? the magic The magic? No, I don't think so. It'll be like not for the Oh no, I'm thinking of the Hawks. I'm thinking of the Hawks. I'm thinking of the The Magic gave up four first round picks for Bain. Oh yeah, so they're cooked. So they can't get any so they're doing they can't do shit to get a point card. Who though? I mean i i if they want to get somebody good they're gonna come up gotta come up off Franz or or or or Paulo . Yeah Paulo I think Paulo is uh the one that's staying. I think Franz, like you know, NBA, if it don't work a few years in a row, they moving up off of it. I don't know if somebody would want Suggs either. I mean, I don't know. I think Suggs is tradable and I think Franz is who people would want. Good signing. I'm not for Apollo and shit. That would be a good bronze, get him in a good position. He would have been great for Wendell Carter, too. They could have used the point guard for sure. Uh and then the Raptors, the the Raptors took that gate that series to seven. I thought that that was pretty impressive that they're playing, especially with Brandon Ingram getting hurt. I thought they just played like a super tough brand of basketball the entire time. Old school. Yeah. Rough and tumble. They got those nice rims in Toronto. Scotty Barnes just leaning on you. I mean they they the what they were able to do, that that Barrett shot was sick. It was. That's like all time. That's great for them. That's a huge overachievement this year for for the uh Raptors. Raptors are one guy away, I think. They get a star, they'd be alright, huh? Yeah, one star away. Giannis went there . Can you keep all of them and get Yannis? I mean Giannis would be incredible. I don't know you don't know. One year one year. Next year is the last year. Yeah, next year's gonna be the last year. So they gotta trade him. Yeah, they gotta get up off of it unless they're the losing for another Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we gotta s at some point go through and look at who could actually offer a good package for Giannis. For for Giannis. Miami, bro. Huh? Miami. Who are they gonna give up to? Yeah, they don't have everybody. Except Bam . Yeah. Bam and Giannis together. Well them two will bring somebody else there too. But like play style, you're saying that that's that works play style wise, but not on the Celtics it doesn't work? No, the Celtics shoot all these three pointers. That will work. That'll work. Yeah. Giannis at the Giannis at the three, bam at the four or five, it'll be co ol. Or Giannis at the four, bam at the five, that'll work for sure. I think so . Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Like what what's the spacing like from those two dudes? Or what kind of offense are they running? I think the NBA is moving moving away from like straight three. Like air you gotta be able to shoot threes. Like I don't I don't think that's like the brand of basketball anymore. You could win with downhill guys, bigger guys. He would probably love to be in Miami Who wouldn't? Yeah, it would be awesome to be in Miami. But I don't know how Miami makes that happen. That's Pat Riley. He'll figure it out. They don't have enough picks. They don't have premium acts. Send Tyler Hero back to Milwaukee. Mm-hmm. Tyler Hero sounded like a $200 million deal, didn't it? Uh who do you guys like in the in the Cleveland Detroit series? The good old manufacturing series, fucking tire factory series . I think Cleveland's gonna get it because I think James Harden ain't really played good in the playoffs. He's he's due. It's coming. I like Cleveland as well. You do? What uh you like what Mobley's been able to do? I feel like I want to see more out of him. I think that'll be an interesting when he plays well, there they it elevates their game. Yeah. So then I think players like we always said the it's the extra players in the playoffs, like guys like him, Jared Allen, Stru Tyson, Struce, those are guys have to elevate their game. Struce is there, bro. Struce Struess fucking rules. I agree. I like Struct. I love watching Struce play. He's over maximized his frat boy capabilities. I bet he has a good time too. He definitely has the time of his life. He's like playing fucking like intense basketball. Getting like did he get a tech dealer? He might have got like a little flagrant or something like that. Fuck yeah, Struess. Yeah, I like I like Cleveland in that series. Yeah, that's a fun one. That's definitely uh that that would be an interesting series. Um but I think it's funny that those are the two teams going up against each other and then it's Philly and New York. Like those those are just very similar cities that are going up against each other in Cleveland and Detroit and then Philly and New York. And then uh out west , it's coming off the bench . You have DiVincenzo fucking, I mean, poor guy is i i is uh brutally injured, and they still find a way to beat the Spurs. That's amazing. Starting minutes like playing pretty well. I didn't see any of that game last night. True, they the fact that they put it on that late, that's that's not really. Stupid. That's dumb. Yeah. Them sneaking one out in in San Antonio is big. Huge. With Ant coming off the bench. And even playing like that. I don't know if you remember. Remember Giannis when they won the championship? He had kind of had like a similar knee injury. I'm like, oh, it's over. I'm thinking it's like his ACL. Same thing. He was cool. Came back and was fine. So it's fine. It'll be okay. Yeah, it'll be all right. I think that uh Gobert is a good matchup for them against Wemby. Obviously Wemby's gonna do what he does. It's not like you neutralize it. But he makes it harder and like there's I mean the points weren't there. Obviously he's gonna give 1 10% on the defensive end. But I think that outside of the Lakers, a lot of the West and almost a lot of the teams have like a center that's interesting as a matchup against Wemby. Not that they're going to completely neutralize them, but Chet always has uh tough back and forth with him. Of course he does. Gobert. Uh like you know what time it is with Gobert. I think that if you're in the East, like and be'd put up 70 on him. Uh like cat is like uh interesting matchup against him, and then they have like decent center depth. I think that like outside of like him him going against the Lakers, I think that he he could pretty much half his way, but there are enough good centers where it's gonna be an interesting big man matchup no matter what happens. That being said, it'd be tough. I'm not counting out the wolves at all. It'd be tough for them to get past the wolves. No, yeah. It's been it's gonna be competitive like that. To speak on what you said, all those guys you just named about Wimby playing against Wimby, yeah, he has to guard all those guys. That brings him away and got those blocks and shit. So yeah, it's a different game when he's playing against guys like that. Hey, Pat Bev Podcast with wrong listeners. We'll be right back. But first, a quick question from one of our partners. So you know the uneasy, anxious feeling you get when you think about dealing with your insurance company? Well there's actually a term for that. It's called insurano ia. 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He's still fucking incredible. Yeah, I'm not so sure what torch he was holding, but yeah, he is a good player. As a defensive player of the year type of guy. Yeah, very good. Yeah, that's that's a match. That's not a torch. That's old school match. Bro,, ye Iah mean yeah, I think he's great at what he does. Absolutely. One of the best ever. And I I think that my point is that that's a game that it's not like he that can age gracefully. It's not like he's like gonna lose what he's doing with with that kind of stuff. Like he can still play great defense and give you like ten ten little points, fourteen rebounds, and like four blocks, and like that's the the type of game you need out of him. Yeah, he could be a backup center for thirty-five more years, bro. Yes. If you wanted. Yes, just play some defense. Yeah. Um, and then the Lakers were able to get the Rockets the fuck out of here. Uh the Lakers, the the this is the this is the teams, this is the four teams you would want in the West. I I think the two teams people will have gripes with narratively that are out of it are the Celtics and the Nuggets. And I think people want to talk about the Nuggets in crazy ways, but like I think that the four teams you have right now in the West is a is a great last four. If they're all healthy. Lucan in play. Jokic, okay. Great player. We always say best player ever. Or best No, bro. If LeBron lost in the first round like that, like to a banged up team like that, they would be ridiculing him, bro. Of course. Why is it different? Why is Jokic still the best player in the world right now? I don't get that . I never I wasn't saying that he was better. Was I saying that he was a big thing? I might have. I don't know. I'm asking. I'm trying to even the Twitter streets. I don't see a lot of talk about Jokic right now. It's different standards, bro. LeBron is LeBron and then everybody else. Feel me? It's just different. First, you can't lose to those that Laker team like that So what would be an appropriate reaction to uh to y Yokich losing? Like we gotta drag him a little bit? A little bit. Do you think LeBron will get uh drag, dog. Yeah, but that's the crown. The crown's heavy. Like he like are we still getting? Or is there two crowns? Is there two kings or is LeBron the king? No, no, he's he's past. We're past like the prop like LeBron. LeBron's still he's still elite. But he's not like we're not we're not being like, oh, he's the clear best player in NBA anymore. Has he ever lost in the first round? No, he's not saying he's saying what I'm saying, if he did. If if that was the same situation, he has. And what happened? Yeah, so what about Jokic? So should should we drag him? No, I'm just saying why no, not why we ain't dragging him. Why ain't Stephen A and all them folks dragging him? Wind horse and all that big fatneck fucker. Why ain't they dragging him? Because he's he's already in Serbia fucking watching a horse race shit. That has nothing to do with it. Because you don't want to drag him You don't want to drag him. I mean business is dragging anybody. I mean watching great d basketball brother. But I think what Jordan is saying is that he should be getting drug on all these to all these uh uh uh talk shows, right? Yeah, maybe. It's just like I feel like we can't crown him as much like he's clearly elite. Yeah all NBA player. But I don't think they should this year I don't think they should have lost that first round series. I think that's like a that was a bad loss on the nucle on the nuggets part. Right. But I thought we were just saying that the wolves are sick . The wolves are great. But for Jokic to lose the first round, so we have triple double twenty seven thirteen so Elite and 11 is elite. Pull up the stats of Jokic against the Wolves this year in the playoffs. You can just scroll up on that same page. I think it's uh it's right there. Like uh I don't I don't think that I I d I just don't know what the argument the counter argument against him twenty five point eight, thirteen, nine and a half assists . That's pretty good. That's great. That's great. You think without Anthony Edwards? Do you think Di Vincenzo? How many times has LeBron lost in the first round? He has? Okay, what was his stats in that in that playoff series that he lost? 27, 7 and 7. Only first round loss he had was in 2021. Yeah, who'd he have on his team? That was like AD Hall of Fame. They were eliminated by the Suns in six in 2021. Prior to 2021, LeBron had a 14-0 record in the first round. I think la maybe last year they lost to the You feel what Jordan's saying. It's some bullshit, ain't what he's trying to say. It's di different strokes for different LeBron gets looked at different than any other player in the NBA. But LeBron gets looked at I just want my best the best player in the NBA. If that other best player is hurt, they have other injuries, I expect them to get it done. No? What did LeBron had two of their best players hurt then? No, I'm s LeBron got it done. I'm talking about the they played the yeah, they played um the T-Wolves. Yeah. Ant goes down and D Vincenzo's not one of the best players, but he's a key player. He's a playoff performer for sure. And then they still get it done. Terrence Terrence um Shannon comes in and gets it done. Jaden McDaniels. Yeah, but I mean I I don't I I just don't think it's like just because LeBron got dragged unfairly, it's like now we have to drag him. Like okay, I'm not saying drag, but I just expect the best player to get it done. But Giannis like couldn't even get his team to the playoffs. He's one of the best five players in the world, right? Like there there's uh uh Kevin Durant, like one of the best five or ten players in the world. His team lost in the first round. Like I don't think that everybody just deserves to get dragged. The Timber was already. I'm not saying LeBron deserves to get dragged. I'm not a dragger. But but but why why is what he's trying to get at is why is LeBron the one that the only one that gets it gets it? Because he's the king. He's the fucking best player of the gener ation. He generates the clicks for ESPN. He's the like the nucleus around which everything fucking rotates. Like he's the most important player in modern NBA history. Protein and comes in two smooth flavors, espresso cafe mocha and espresso sweet cream. And whether you're braving your morning commute or chasing your pup, stell blue cans are for those always on the go and for those who care. Stellblue is more than just great coffee, it's about giving back. I named the brand after my rescue dog Stella, who inspired our mission to help more dogs find their forever homes. 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I don't I I just uh maybe he deserves to to have more uh scrutiny, Jokic, but I also just don't I don't think that he like flopped or choked . I don't think that it yeah. I don't know. People people What did he do? He lost to a banged up T Wolves team. And put up like thirty, ten, and ten. That don't mean nothing. It does You lose people lose. Yeah, LeBron loses. He's been in the motherfucking finals 37 times and he gets ridiculed for that. Uh who do you guys have coming out of the out of the two series in the West right now? Let's make some predictions. Oklahoma City got to, right? Yeah . Hey. People went crazy on you for that wolves take, bro. Yeah, that's true. That was was a b that a viral clip. That was our early one. People on my neck. I need that back. Um I think the Spurs come back. I'm going Spurs though. Spurs? I hope they all go game seven. I think the Spurs come back and beat him. We should redo um who we have in the in the finals right now. I think we're not. Since it's another another round. I'm going Spurs and Cavs. I'm gonna go uh Nick's and the Thunder . Hmm . I'm gonna go Which is a good series. Yeah Nick's and the Thunder too man. So we're sleeping on Detroit again. Yeah. Yeah, oh for sure. Oh, for sure, for sure. Definitely . I think that Detroit, like Kate Cunningham got a lot. They clawed that out last series. They did. Yeah, they didn't pretty. No, the Magic shot one for twenty in the fourth quarter. They qu yeah, like that that was I just don't they just don't look like um a once eat. They don't look like they belong, right? Yeahah. Or I ye, I just think a win is a win, but they look incomplete too. Like they kinda look like a little bit incomplete. Like they're they look like they're a player or two away. Which is like they had the lottery picks. They were right there. And uh I know people are coming down on Duran hard. I think he'll be fine. I think so. When they play good, they're great. When they're all clicking and shit. People are like Durin lost himself money. I don't think so at all. No, he's wrong. He's gonna get like a fucking paid for sure. He'll get seven more contracts. Yeah, people are just gonna like line up to pay him. If Detroit don't, they're silly. Yeah, for sure. He's learning from like that was a tough experience . They still won the series. Like, isn't adversity what you want your young player to be going to remember is that oh that game with the seven, they were down. Like you just remember who won. That's right. That's right. What do the Lakers have to do to give OKC a s a series? Well, we're gonna have to go kidnap Sha. Shay, I mean . Uh Luca, is Luca gonna play? They gotta have Luca to beat him. They have to. Luca, they say he hasn't even been running yet. I saw him squatting though. I almost think the the Lakers are better uh without Austin Reeves . Now, not not just Austin Reeves and LeBron. If you have Austin Reeves and Luca, I think they're better. Does that make sense? Because I think Luke Connard and Marcus, the ball taking out Marcus Smart's hands, you know that. Yeah, Luke Connard got nerfed from uh Austin Reeves coming back. He did, he did. And I think that I'm not taking anything away from Austin Reeves. He needs to get his looks too, but I just think Luke Connard. I mean if Luke Connard only gets three shots a night, what's he there for? He should at least get 10 threes a night, Luke Connard. Last three game. Um Austin Reeves played three games when he came back, right? Or was it two? Three three times, right? Uh Lou Kennard's last three games, seven points, one point, three points. And before that, I mean before that, 14, 23, 27. See what I'm saying? Yeah, that's I mean that's that's a it's it's it's it's silly for me to sit here and say that they're better without Austin Reeves, right? It's silly. You know what I mean by that though. But but the thunder, it's like I mean the thunder could throw some stuff at him. But it but like like the Thunder could throw Lou Dort at him and it could be like it could make life hard for him. But then it's like we could they got so many guys they could throw at people, bro. And they might get a top five pick this year. I know. That's crazy, man. They're just brilliantly. Does Jay Dub being hurt hurt the Thunder or are they okay without him? I think they're so good they're okay without him. Now they're definitely better with him. But but then that takes away somebody one of those bench players' minutes and and and and and shit too, so we have to track Jared McCain versus Landry Shamut's minutes in the playoff just to just to kind of bring that argument full circle. Did Landry Shamut get hurt though? He played he was playing last night, I thought. Was he? Or maybe that I I thought that was him playing in the fourth quarter. It could have been someone else. Ma by the fourth quarter I was just had a few Jeremiah . Twelve minutes. He played twelve, but that's the probably the whole fourth quarter. Yeah, Jerry McCain's in a tough spot with that that roster they got in Oklahoma. Three. Uh two. Year two, yeah. McCain? Yeah, year two. He cool. You mean of his career? Yeah. Oh yeah, I think he'll he'll be in the NBA. Not many not many year two guys are getting major minutes right now. Like oh no not not too many guys are getting major minutes on that roster anyway. One, twelve, zero eight. Listen, Jared McCain's gonna be in the NBA forever, bruh. If he wants to be. Yeah, he'll be sure. Um I mean I love Jared McCain. Uh or I'm a fan of Jared McCain uh as a player, but I do see the fact that you need to be able to play defense to play in the playoffs. Like I yeah, he'll be he'll be good, but uh you have to be able to play really good defense to play in the playoffs or else they're just gonna hunt you. Or you have to be like Jalen Brunson level of scoring ability because it's gonna be a massive imbalance and I think that that's just the the problem that they're running into. Like he's six foot one and like he just doesn't he it's not like he could guard guard a bunch of positions. I'm not saying Jerry McCain sucks. I I'm a fan of him. I think the Thunder's just deep like That's what I say, but the people in front of him are just better. That doesn't make him no good. He's great. Shit. Honestly, he would have helped Philly right now. Yeah, he would. I think he helps a damn near any team, bro. Because he can shoot the ball, right? He can shoot a little bit. He could shoot. He could definitely shoot. He's a great shooter. Yeah. He's made one three this playoffs, but I think that he just hasn't had a lot of opportunities. No minutes at all. I think put it's it's but it you have to be able to play defense. He's not who's he guard who's he guarding on on the Lakers. Well I'm not so sure you get to have to play I mean you gotta have good team defense, bro. No one none of these guys can really guard guys one on one, can they? I think Marcus Smart is a problem for him in the playoffs, and that's who he'd be on. You think Jeremy Cain have a tough tough time guarding Marcus Smart? Yes. Destroy. Marcus Smart's going at his chest. He's not gonna play because the Thunder are super deep, but say he did play, hypothetically. If the Lakers' game plan was yo, Marcus Smart, go at Jared McCain every time, I think the Thunder would be like okay that's cool that's what's live with that so so if Mark oh yeah I mean I I I agree and and the fact we're talking about Jeremy Cain's potential defense in the playoffs in the weeds that sounds for me they just deep they coming off a championship like you got trade But that's what I said from when as soon as he got traded there, or got you know I mean I knew that was gonna be a problem in the playoffs. They're they're way too deep, bro. This is our pet pet topic to be able to talk on. Uh so the Lakers that have no chance, Timberwolves have no chance to win. Will the Lakers get a win in a series? I can't doubt Braun. That's right. Reddick either. Reddick's start sparking the the the fire under the team. He's like they're one of the best teams of all four four best teams of all time. And they might be. They don't foul. They don't do this. He's gassing them. Yeah, you gotta do everything he can, but you know. You never know in the playoffs, dog. Some one player could go down or something could happen. I'm thinking they gotta get Brian got to get the first one, dog. Yeah, Bra Bron give me 35, 10, and 10. Yeah. All you gotta do is put a headband on, that's what's happening. The first one would be amazing. I don't know, bro. I don't think the LeBron is he done yet? I think No he's not done exactly. So that's why he he's gonna he's gonna make something happen. Well, I mean look at their roster compared to this roster . Yeah, yeah. The Lak ers made it made something shake in the first round, but the uh the Rockets didn't have it either. The Rockets were undermanned. The Rockets was like deer and headlights, bro. They they was just happy to be on the floor with LeBron. That's what that looked like. Yeah, there's a lot of boy guard. Once they lost KD, yeah, they they felt like they uh it seemed like to me like we ain't got KD, so if we don't win this it's okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. I put Reed Shepherd in that same conversation of like the the like you need to be able to sh score insanely well or play pretty good defense to be able to play in the playoffs and his defense just wasn't there yet. He's just in the same conversation as as McCain to me. But he's got an experience. He's young, um, which is a great spot to be in. What else we have on that prep sheet? Any anything else left on there? Cooper Flag, rookie of the year. 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Or held him back. Held him back. Didn't let him flourish. The motherfucker's a hall of famer. Right or wrong. Probably, yeah, yeah. Well, probably . I'd say yeah. Okay. There's like a 80% chance of getting it. I I see where Draymond is coming from with it though. Like, you know, everybody that's in the NBA, all y'all was elite in high school, elite in college. You had to get some sort of buckets. When you get to the NBA, you gotta adjust to your team, adjust to your coach. Draymond just had to do that. Maybe at some point he's like, oh, like I was one of those guys too. You could feel like that personally. But he adjusted and adjusted greatly. Yeah. So I could see like why he's like, oh, why I'm saying this, but uh other people are like, Oh , nah, like you're bugging, you he wasn't the one taking the shots and all that, but like you kind of adjust and you kind of shift your m your mind frame, you know? I don't know how how do you think about it? I I I like like you said is is everybody that's in the NBA was was the guy at some point, right? Get buckets after buckets, but NBA is like What kind of player could he have been? I don't think he could the way he plays the game, the way he has earned his Hall of Fame status, he doesn't look like a guy that could be a a guy on a team, carry a guy team to a championship. With that being said, I'm not so sure Golden State has any championships without Draymond Green. You need a guy like that. Yeah, do y'all think Golden State wins any championships without Draymond Green? It's hard to say. Maybe when they get KD, but even even that is like, I don't know. So probably yeah, but probably the K atie won those songs. I think they would get without him. But also he's such a unique player because like every NBA draft, there's a like a 6'8 dude who all the scouts are like, Yeah, he plays just like Draymond. No. Like he's just like Draymond. And and since that like that like last year was like Colin Murray Boyles. Like he's a Draymond he's like a Draymond clone. None of them have played like Draymond and none of them have had the impact. And I think that his impact can't be overstated. At the same time, I don't think that Steve Kerr was preventing him from being James Harden. Like if he just had the ball in his hands, that he'd be fucking doing like I I don't really think that he was held back. I think that he optimized what is like a a narrow role for him. And he was probably one of the best players ever at that type of role. For sure. And and and like the mindset that Draymond has to to be able to to turn that switch from being all going average in 30 or whatever he did in high school or whatnot to be able to not only do what he did to do it at that level. Triple doubles type shit and don't get any plays run for you and shit. That's that's something bro. He's a genius basketball player. I think so. One of the smartest basketball players ever . But I also well what'd you think about him saying that uh Austin Rivers was gifted a contract, bailed out by his dad and got a forty two million dollar contract or whatever it was. You think that 's a low blow. I think it's a low blow. I don't I don't think I want to say I think Austin probably earned his money and I don't think the owner of the team that gave him that money would do it just because his dad wanted to do it , I don't think the coach is make coach clearly is getting players and stuff, but he's not yeah, give him that money right now. Plus a lot of plus the general manager, a lot of essays are not like a salary cap and shit like that. I don't I don't know if that's true necessarily. I think Austin Rivers' career gets disrespected. I do too, just but a lot of that was because his dad and shit was in the league and stuff like that. But that buttody could hoop. Um also a lot of guys in the NBA had dads who were in the NBA. Like a lot of them. A lot of them. A lot of dudes. I just learned the other day that Kevin Lovesdad was in the NBA. You know his uncle was a uh a beach boy. You know the beach you know who the beach boys are? Yeah. His uncle was one of them. Yeah, that I think that was the clip I seen. He was like talking about like his family dynamic or something. He nobody throws a better outlet pass than Kevin Love. Facts. He wrote some beautiful uh heartfelt messages to his dad on Instagram when his dad passed away. That shit was fucking love, like lovely. Yeah, I saw that. That was beautifully wrong. I don't know Kevin Love too much. He seemed like a cool dude. Those outlet passes are crazy. Bro, this shit is stupid, bruh. And the fact that he uh that he was chubby at UCLA and then got slim. Him and Russell Westbrook wasn't supposed to nothing like they were . Yeah, they played completely. I mean, they both have flourished. Russ didn't even start in college, did he? Who was their coach? I think oh was he there with Darren Collinson? They had another guard. They had two guards. But not Drew. Was he not Drew? Was he there with Drew ? Uh I know that they had another one. Or maybe Aaron Afollow or something? Well about Earl Watson was out there too now. Earl. Earl Watson, yeah, they had guards. Like, but it's also like you can't start three guards. He's a big thing is so crazy. Like you could be like the best player in a follow college.. Drew Oh, yeah. Aaron O'Falo was like the man in Kingdom. Hell yeah, to us. He was the one to follow. Darren Carlson was. Yeah, I was thinking of the Kendrick song too. Black Boy Fly . Drew Holiday. Like, just want to know who Darren Carlson is. He'll man is a killer. Yeah, he was. So it's like that's a tough team to to crack the starting lineup on. Hell yeah. Shit, even like we just talking about the adjustment. Kevin Love going to the Cavs, like that was an adjustment.. Yeah He went from 30 and 20 to not even getting the ball. Who's the best outlet passers? Who are some of the other best outlet passers of all time that you uh either watched or played with? You know, bro, I didn't look for outlet passes. I was usually busy getting the ball off the rim myself and starting to break. You were a sick outlap. You could get an outlop. Pull that shit up. How many dunks did you have in your career, bro? Well up I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with six. Six? Nine. Yup. Billy Ho, White Man Can't Jump. What y'all talking about? No, and we were just watching him dunk on um Mario Ellie. Uh well I don't know if it was really a dunk. It was a hundred percent a dunk. Yeah, Dwayne Wade, sick outlet passer. Dwayne Wade? Who's a better outlet passer though? Dwayne Wade or James Hart and though to get this shit viral. Dwayne Wade I mean they both threw outlet passes to LeBron. It's probably a gift to throw an outlet pass to LeBron. He's a fucking hawk out there. Yeah, if LeBron misses the ball, y'all be on his ass . I've never hated on LeBron in my life. In my life I've never hated on him. You're just saying why won't you also drag an another bro No, we wasn't saying we saying we the question was why isn't he getting that? Jokers is disrespect that LeBron. Jokic . Am I bugging for saying that? No, you're not. That's what it seems. You're not. That's what it is. Because it's it's it's like nobody is blaming Jalen Brown, though. It's a line right here, softness and realness. It seems like the softness is what you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Always always goes across the water sometimes. Some type of water. The softness goes. You know what I'm saying? So I don't know what it is. You know, that that's why they get MVPs and shit, because they're nice to the media. They talk to the media after every game and shit like that. You think when Braun loses in the first series, first round, he wants to talk to the media? Nah, but them other motherfuckers go in there and talk to him so they get nice. Yokoshet in Serbia, the whole team would have been fired.. Yeah, well Joker's nice to the media. They can fire them in Serbia because the team's only making 200,000 total. So yeah, we'll get we replace y'all. They got the Savannah Bananas out there in Serbia playing for them. Yeah, the uh I can't believe that uh that they they had to go through that. Uh poor guy. Uh that that that that ever happened to LeBron. That my heart goes out to him, man. He's had a tough We know we need to get a couch with an eject button on the bitch. Motherfucker talk bad about LeBron I'm injecting you . But the comments of like you guys work for a clutch. Yeah. Yeah. I don't work for clutch either. Fuck you . People think I work for clutch. I fuck with clutch. But if they gave you a job though. They don't they don't I don't get no check on the first and fifteenth from clutch. Just Instacart? I'm an Instacart guy. You know what I'm saying? Instacart . Yeah. Shout out the Instacart, man. Yeah. So like you don't want to like, you never want to like coach or nothing after? You know, man, I I'd like to be like a uh like a one -on-one type coach, type you know. Like a trainer type of thing? Yeah, like a not like a trainer. I want to be a part of the team. I don't want to be a trainer like player development. Yeah, something like that. Not like Chris Brickley and these guys, them kind type trainers, you know. I think that would be fun and shit, but I think that that'd be too much for me. Um 'cause I don't really I can't teach you basketball. Like I don't know if he d he's teaching them like different shit with a shot. I ain't I ain't about that. You know, I'm I'm I'm the type of coach that's going, let's try this, that shit don't work, all right well shit let's try that. All right, that shit don't work, let's try that. Ain't no we gonna try it like KD or we're gonna do it like you know, none of that. So yeah, like a player development type shit, like if y'all's team was on the road and you was injured or something and y'all need to get shots No, we we're just gonna follow you around doing Instacart shit and like watch we're gonna make a fucking brick off of it. We're gonna be like, why were we ever even talking basketball? I'm in. I swear you bought a good Instacart car. I mean bro like I'll wrap my I'll wrap my whip in Instacart uh the carrot and everything. Like a NASCAR? Hell yeah. Let's get to it. So you applied? How does it work? You can't downloaded the app. Okay. Signed all my shit up. Bomb. And then for like for like a half a year, bro, I was on a wait list of becoming a chocolate. Yeah. Every fucking day. Yeah, let me put y'all on , bro. They were calling every like prior job. They're like, why can't why isn't Pat Riley answering me back? Do you think retired MBA guy that's an Instacart deliverer? Hell yeah. For sure. Really? I bet . But not for the reason that you're doing it. Not for fun. Not as a hobby. Like there's probably uh guys who are trying to be gainfully employed, yeah. I'm good to I'm g beonnaat Yeah . Do they get tips? They can they can. Well if I just leave the shit on the porch, how am I gonna get a tip? No, that's how you don't you don't go in the crib, like some people do. They gave me a lot of tips. Like go and put you, I would never want to motherfucker come and put shit in my fridge. Would you? No, I didn't even know that was the car and drop that shit at my door. That's right. But maybe it's for someone who's disabled or something. Yeah. If they can't uh put their own shit up or their their wheelchair bound maybe. They have somebody in there with them Maybe. Well, I mean, if you go through a half a year background check, I hope it's fine. Yeah. No, it wasn't background check. It was just the way on the wait list. Because Instacart's so so packed. Everybody's just it's tough to get a job. If you was in New York, you'd have got accepted next day. Yeah, what? Well shit, yeah, but I lose all my salary getting a parking ticket time to motherfucking bring y'all divers ions to you. Fuck them park. You not parked . Why is that carrot wrapped car double parked on 7th Avenue. Somebody told me all you gotta do is throw your flashers on. You'll be straight. Yeah, flashes with a big old ticket on the windshield. Just run out when you see them. You know they they they used to put the boots on the car in New York, clamp it on. Now they put that big ass thing on the windshield.