For the first time since Ben Simmons was traded, Joel Embiid and the Sixers got to face off against a healthy Ben Simmons and a somewhat healthy Nets team no KD and as you might expect, as you might be predicting, shit did get testy. Yes it did. It got testy so fast in what turned out to be a really good game. Actually, even though the Sixers went up big at first, tons of hard fouls, borderline cheap shots, Sixers blow a twenty two point lead at one point, Nets
come roaring back. Nick Claxton was awesome, Kyrie was really good. Even Ben Simmons hit some really big shots down the stretch. Game ended one thirty seven thirty three with the Sixers actually getting the dub. But here's the thing. The game had forty five fouls, seven technicals, six on players and a seventh on a delay of game penalty that led to sixty three free throws. If you are one of those people in your rocking chairs and you're praying and
hoping for throwback basketball, that was it, folks. You got it. It was physical, it was nasty, it was feisty, and Ben and Joel I think it is clear now despite what they say, because they do tell us that, oh we didn't like we were friends, but we didn't have any problems with they. No, they don't like each other. That is big facts. They have a full blown rivalry now on our hands and me put me personally, Oh I love it. I could not get enough of it.
When asked about the rivalry during the game, Joel Embiid, as per usual, did not disappoint. He said when asked what he felt playing against his old teammates, I felt nothing. Just like every single night, I'm trying to just fucking kill whoever is in front of me. My mentality is always about scoring. If I get doubled, make the right pass. If I get played one on one, or I see an opportunity to go score, I am going to go score. I don't know that I've ever heard Joel Embiid say
he wanted to fucking kill someone on a court. Uh so this feels not the same as normal matchups. Go kill whoever you want, Joelle, but just just know that that's not the same energy that you bring every single night. So he posts up on Ben three times, he missed the shot once he got fouled a second time he got stripped a third. But there was some extra beef going on between the teams. Joelle had more aggression, more power, more something against Ben, and at one point Embiid took
a full run down the paint. Ben Simmons made a business decision to step aside and Joel Embiid dunk the ball, hammered it home, hung on the rim an extra second. Then he twisted around and stared down Ben Simmons. Wow, that's incredible. He then shift Ben in the back early in the game as well. So the things that are
happening between Brooklyn and Philadelphia, they are real. This is a new beef that is going to happen and continue as long as Harden and Embiid or on the sixers, and as long as Kyrie and Ben Simmons are on the nets. It is real. Harden does not like Kyrie. We know that he wanted out of Brooklyn because of Kyrie. Kyrie does not like Harden. They were going at each other in practice on one Lots of nastiness going on
between the two. Embiid and Simmons. We know they very much didn't like each other as teammates, and now the two teams are battling for the position, and the playoffs are battling for the top four. They're battling for a playoff series. And I hope they see one another in the playoffs, don't you watching Ben and Joel Embiid square up seven times a Ben Simmons revenge spot. That's the kind of NBA we need. That's the kind of NBA I am looking for. Moving on, I don't know if
you've heard about this, because it's relatively new. There's this there's this new technology called chat GPT. It's AI. You can get it to do anything for you. You can get it to write papers for you, you can get it to write a script for you. You can get it to make arguments about why the are actually the heroes and movies. There's all kinds of tiktoks being made about it. It's blowing my mind. But what I know about chat GBT, based on what I have heard, is they very clearly
it infiltrated the NBA two nights ago. That is true. How do you know? Because they're not sentient beings, right, these AI creatures, these robots, and you know when you come across someone who's not a robot. You know what's human and what's not human. We speak a certain way, right, and when you see and hear this, you will know that this is not a normal interaction between reporter and player. So Russell Westbrook was asked some questions after a very
disappointing loss. Turn the ball over late, everyone's giving them a hard time. They played the Clippers, they lost by fifteen or so, and then this young woman that we did not get to see her face did this.
First of all, congrats, congrats on making the twenty four thousand points much Yeah, tonight, you use impressive dribbling skills to successfully fake out your opponents multiple times. And in the second quarter you made a jump shot where your body was turned like one hundred and eighty degrees away from the basket. It was just an amazing shot. You're always making these spectacular moves with just within a split second. Do you anticipate doing them or is it just a
second nature to you? Like do you just not even have to think about it?
Paul's his answer does not matter. That's not a person that's either. Okay, So it could be a person that chat GBT wrote that script for her, But this is a plant. This is a thousand percent a plant. There's two explanations, right, So she's a plant is the first one. Doesn't this seem rehearsed? Is she a friend? Do they know each other? He was ready, he was smiling. Impressive
dribbling skills to successfully fake out your opponent. Those words have may have never been strung together ever in life before. That is a gentle question that only an NBA TNT Kids reporter would ask, or somebody that you're just friends with. It's like when Kristin Lemlow gets Lebron James for an interview. Oh, today, Lebron, you were wearing your Lebron twenties and it looked like you were extra explosive and successfully faking out your opponent.
On the other hand, though, the other potential explanation is this chat GBT idea getting more and more sentient by the moment, I robot style infiltrating the Lakers pressers, because this sounds exactly like the question that you would have when you input or have data, and that's what it spits out. Hey, help me ask Russ a question that would make him happy and in a good mood. And that's the kind of question that chat GBT would spit out probably one of the craziest exchanges I've ever seen
in a press room. And I am not, if anything but intrigued about who she is who. We didn't get to know her outlet name, we didn't get to know her name, we didn't get to see her face. Apparently her name is Julia McIntyre, and she covers the Lakers for News for You Online, which, let's be honest, probably got put up and made four days ago by chat GBT like it has exactly two hundred and fifteen followers on Twitter. She's just out of college. If this is a plan to go viral, I am. I am proud
of her. If she's only twenty two years old and she's hitting you with the successfully use your ball handling skills to fake out your opponent, nothing but success I hope for her. I'm still not one hundred percent convinced that she's not AI, though, I'm gonna need to see real blood come out of her body in order for me to not say, huh, you gotta watch it again.
Don't just take my advice, don't just take my word for it of the sow that we just played, go on TikTok and google it because his reaction is priceless. All right, let's talk a little bit more about the Lakers. So moving on Ruie Hachimura. Rue Hachimura broke the Internet. So this is probably one of the stories I could not have s coming. I did not see it coming. And it does now make some more sense why the
Lakers may have made the trade that they did. Well, it all comes down to one thing, which is money. And we know Genie Buss does not have a lot of it. She's one of the poorest billionaires you've ever met. She has that is her only stream of income, and she's doing whatever that she can to keep this little
family business alive. And now it makes sense why they would value the Japanese big man as much as they did so following the trade from Washington, which is the doldrums of relevancy, right, no one cares about what's happening here. Not even c Span cares what's happening here, and they're covering this place twenty four to seven. But Los Angeles, the Japanese streaming service NBA Rakutin, they love some Lakers.
Ruey Hachi Mura. It happens to be the only streaming service for the NBA in the in Japan, and they immediately scheduled all of Rui's games so that all of Japan could watch him play immediately. Of course, it's the Lakers, right, so half of the country probably wanted to watch the best basketball player on the in the in the world, right, Lebron James. And then you've got Russell Westbrook. He's quite enticing as well. Their game started at twelve thirty pm
Tokyo time, and you know what happened. Predictably, the whole damn thing came crashing down. Yeah, the entire streaming service melted into oblivion ten minutes before tip off. They could not handle the bandwidth that Ruey Hachimura, Lebron James, Russell Westbrook and probably Dennis Shrewder International German Phenom ended up bringing to the table, and entire country tuned in to catch Ruey Hachimura. Who I told you, I told you he is on bags of chips all over Japan. Just
know he's popular over there. And all they got when they tuned in was a four to one four era That's what they got, according to Basketball News Japan, with only ten minutes left before the game started the country. Only the country's only official streaming service, NBA rakoton went down. NBA rakooton nut offered free YouTube streams to the local audience, starting at approximately the nine minute mark in the second quarter. That's a rough look. That is a rough look for
the first game to see, ruey Hachimura. You went from streaming service that collapsed to now you're putting the thing on YouTube TV. I think the game just finished like ten minutes ago. The YouTube TV lag is so far behind live action. Have you ever tried to watch YouTube YouTube TV sports? YouTube TV. I had to pay so much money just to get back on track because Twitter would be two, three, four, five minutes in front of me in my stream. If you got bad Internet, it's
even worse. So if you're the Lakers, money is coming, baby, ruey Hachimur is gonna be very profitable for you. I saw Hang Chu, who is a female basketball player for the New York Liberty. She's six', Eleven she's From, china sat next to a bunch of people who flew in From beijing just to watch her. Play watch what happens for Ruy Ichuru suzuki single handedly kept The Seattle mariners a float for like fifteen. Years so Maybe Ruey hachimur is THE uh is the panacea to all of the
issues for The. Lakers he's gonna become a cash cow For Genie, buss whether he thought he would or. Not SO i eat Up Michael jordan's. STORIES i can't get enough of. THEM i need to know everything thing that goes on inside of his crazy head and all of the decisions that he. Makes he is not just the, goat but also what makes him more interesting is that he's certifiably. Insane he's just. It just. Does ask Former hornets and current sons Big Man Bismack. Biambo he was
the number seven pick in the twenty eleven. Draft he ends up with The Charlotte bobcats on Draft day. Right he played In charlotte from twenty eleven to twenty and fifteen and then actually again from twenty and eighteen to twenty twenty, one so he's been Around jordan a. Lot
we could probably say. So according To, Bismack jordan would regularly murder current players in practice for no. Reason Bis mack said, This Michael jordan would come into practice and just play one on one with players and then just kill. HIM i REMEMBER i think T Rob Thomas robinson played for The, bobcats and he would just tell him how
how lesser of a player he. Was Michael jordan. Pause keep in, mind at this, time he is fifty five fucking years, old busting the ass is of twenty year old players regularly for no reason, whatsoever just to break their spirit on the team that he. Owns So bismack, Continues he, Goes Mike Is Mike. Man i've seen him play one on one with players after, games one on,
one just taking them. Out so this was PROBABLY i think seven eight years, ago seven eight years, ago he would come into practice and just play one on one and just kill him one hundred. PERCENT i didn't even think he could still move like. That what a psycho, like what a psychotic. Person you come in and you disparage and break down the players that play for the team that you own that you want them to have
confidence and. Succeed and also he still is so physically gift he could probably still play good minutes for The Charlotte. Hornets it probably could, play probably could step in For LaMelo ball When LaMelo ball twists like seventeenth consecutive. Ankle bismack continued with. THIS i think somebody DURING covid actually challenged, him because we had a phone call and he, Said, okay give me a couple of. MONTHS i just need
to get in. SHAPE i don't need to run and all, that but just give me a couple of months And i'll be ready for one on. ONE i wouldn't suggest anyone take him up on, that he. Said could you imagine sixty year old mj just giving buckets To Kelly lubre just giving buckets To Terry, rosier just and shit talking him the whole time about how trash they? Are, yes, YES i. Can he is. Insane no other player short Of kobe And, lebron probably not Even, lebron, honestly probably Just.
Kobe one hundred years from, now we will be discovering new tales About Michael, jordan because everyone is. True everyone is more crazy than the, last AND i don't think anyone can get enough of, them