Man. The final day of the season might have been one of the strangest craziest days in league history. Strange because one game left in the season, we had no idea what the playoff schedule was gonna look like. None zero, Crazy because the games themselves were a combination of tanking teams sitting everyone, and other teams fighting like angry hornets to preserve their place in either the play in or the playoffs themselves, and sometimes trying to thread that line
between avoiding the suns and avoiding the plan. Their very tenuous line. That is. Day ended with not one but two fights between players on the same team, a forty two year old who scored more points than he has since two thousand and nine, a pair of coaches getting fired, two NBA team records getting broken, a ton of chaos going on in the apt for math and a partridge and a pear tree. The weekend we had a weekend, folks. Let's quickly recap the play in as it is officially here.
Eastern Conference. We've got the number eight Hawks versus the number seven Heat on Tuesday. We've got the number ten Bulls versus the Raptors in Toronto. On Wednesday, Western Conference. We've got the Tea Wolves taking on the Lakers on Tuesday and ten seed Oka see Thunder taking on the nine seed Pelicans on Wednesday. If you don't already know,
here's the breakdown. Loser of the seven to eight game plays the winner of the nine to ten game on Friday to determined who is the eight seed and plays the number one seed in each conference. Back to the games, we are one hundred percent, completely, totally absolutely have to start with the batshit team, the Minnesota Timberwolve versus the New Orleans Pelicans. Ah wow, I don't even really know what to say. The Pelicans start of the day with an outside chance to make the number five seed if
everything fell their way. The Wolves could have also won and tried to avoid the plan if a disaster hit where the Lakers, Clippers, and Warriors all lost. Is the only game on Sunday where both teams equally wanted to win a lot. There was a ton on the line, and by god was it one of the strangest, most dramatic games in memory. Here is what happened. The Wolves. The Wolves play Timberwolves, but basketball typical Timberwolves basketball, which
means when you think they're gonna lose, they win. When you think they're gonna win, they lose. And sometimes all of those emotions happen in one game super inconsistent. The leader of this erratic play, the leader of what the fuck is going on is, of course Rudy Gobert. Of course, of course it's Hime. Why else wouldn't it be. He's always up to something? What was he up to? Well before the game, Rudy Gobert didn't even want to play.
He was quote suffering from back spasms, and so he was going to sit himself out in an essential, very critical game between two teams trying to make it out of the mud, and Kyle Anderson aka Sloma, was like, no, fuck that noise. I got back spasms too. You're playing. You are playing. That's what we're doing. I don't care what you're going through. You're on this court. That's the first sign of problems is Kyle Anderson telling Rudy Gobert
what Rudy Gobert should do. Rudy Gobert did end up playing, if you want to call it playing, because he was on the court in body, but not in mind or spirit. Two points that he made in the middle of the second quarter, completely ineffective, playing absolutely zero defense, just loafing. Pelicans open up a double digit lead. It looks like
Rudy Gobert wants to be any place, but there. Valentunas put up seven points and seven rebounds on the first quarter alone on Rudy Gobert, so it was not very good. Things are not going well. So then Rudy Gobert loafed a couple more plays in the second quarter. He was a disgusting minus fourteen in the short amount of time that he played. And Anderson was like, yo, they have a time out. He comes up to Rudy and he's like, yo, you need according to the reporting, yo, you need to
play some fucking defense. You need to try now. And Rudy Gobert responded like, oh, bojou, you need to rebound. And then Kyle Anderson's like, verbatim, this is verbatim, this is not my summation. He says, shut the fuck up, bitch. And what did Rudy Gobert do? Very out of character for Rudy Gobert. He punched his own teammate, full closed fist in the chest, full stop. I believe nas reed Or Torreon Prince got into the middle of it, started
bum rushing Rudy Gobert. Kyle Anderson went after him. They had to be separated. The whole thing was a melee, of course. Then Rudy Gobert had to be removed from the scene. Got to get Rudy Gobert away from all of these men who want to kill him. And that's
not the end. Surprisingly halftime, Kyle Anderson, who of course was still furious at Rudy Gobert because he just got punched in the chest by seven footer, went to the locker room where Rudy Bert was finishing changing because he was not gonna play anymore, and proceeded to threaten Rudy
Gobert that he would knock his ass out. According to reporting, Yeah, a recording was leaked which I posted of Kyle Anderson at halftime cussing the Restive his team out for protecting Rudy Gobert because Rudy Gobert, according to Kylie Anderson obviously because that's what the reporting says, he called him a bitch, So the reporting is probably accurate that he's why are you protecting this bitch? The quote what the fuck is wrong with y'all. Y'all guys are kissing Rudy's ass way
too much, telling me to focus. Y'all got some decisions to make this summer. What are those decisions? What are those decisions that they've gotta make? It a is it a him or me? Scenario? It took GM Tim Connolly and assistant GM Dell Demps coming into the locker room to intervene before we got some sort of Roman reign's chair on head scenario going down. They had to send Rudy Gobert home, had to remove him away from the arena. It was so bad because he would have got knocked
out by someone. If you think that that was the end, that on its own right would have been plenty. But there's more and more impactful things actually happened, literally impact before the scuffle that was one hundred percent Rudy Gobart's fault.
We have wing defender Jaden McDaniel's young stud that Minnesota did not want to trade to Utah so much so that they added an additional first round pick to the deal so they did not have to move Jada McDaniels, one of the best perimeter wings in the league, averaging sixteen to four to one in the last fifteen games, picked up two quick fouls in the second quarter, and was so mad at himself that he stormed into the tunnel in a fit like Tasmanian devil and let loose
a haymaker on a brick wall to no one. What do you think happened? Do you think he was fine? Do you think everything's good? You think he went out and played the rest of the game like the Wolves ended up winning the game because Jaden McDaniels had a phenomenal second half. No, Jade McDaniel's broke his fucking hand. That's what happened. Jade McDaniels is done, done zero times.
Remember that MLB player who was so excited that he broke his own hand after the team made the postseason and he didn't play another postseason game, and I think they got eliminated. I think the kid was for the Brewers. Yeah, this is Jade McDaniels in the middle of a crucial game to decide playing seating. That's Jade McDill. No more
time spending playing basketball this year for Jade McDaniels. He fractured a bone in his shooting hand night Night sleep mask for you maybe one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Crazy. Uh. Jake Fisher, friend of the show, I think, three days ago, published a piece why the Timberwolves Jaden McDaniels is the elite defender you need to know more about Oh, I think we know about him now. I think he's a part of the national zeitgeist. At this point,
the loss of Jaden McDaniels cannot be overestimated. He's one of six players in the league to defend a thousand plus minutes against NBA All Stars the season, and now he's gone for the year. I mean, in the history of the world, if you're looking at the battle between Cement and Fist, Cement wins every time. Cement, I think, is undefeated. And guess what. All of this happened And we didn't even reach the third quarter yet, So things
were happening. And then because the Wolves are the Wolves, they lost their center, they lost their perimeter defender, their down double digits to the Pelicans who are trying to make it into the sixth seed or better, what do they do? Somehow, Karl Anthony Towns goes crazy. Somehow, Aunt Edwards goes crazy. Aunt Edwards had five blocks and five steals in the game, most of that was in the second half. The things that happen with the Wolves are
just truly unimaginable. They end up winning that game. Remember there's a possibility now that they could end up playing the Grizzlies in the first round if they win their playing game against the Lakers, who they now play in the first round, which is gonna hear first playing game, which is gonna be wild. But man, the Grizzlies versus the Wolves would be one hell of a doozy. Also breaking news, of course, Wolves suspended Rudy Gobert for the
playing game. He's suspended, He's done, which is I think a blessing in disguise because they're eight and four when Rudy does not play nine to four if you count yesterday and then out West, the Clippers were in a dogfight with the s squad of the Phoenix, Suns, Saban Lee, Darius Baisley just putting up buckets. It was like an AAU tournament game. Nobody was playing any defense. They were
giving it to the Clippers. At one point they were up ten anyway, Suns at a four point lead at the start of the fourth quarter, and then plum and Bones Island, both newcomers at the trade deadline, had words then ended up also getting physical. What Yeah, it didn't
get past shoving, and it immediately intervened. And let's be honest, Plumbly's not probably gonna punch anyone because it's Plumbly, And then they had to be separated where they were sitting at the opposite ends of the bench for the rest of the game. So Beat writer Andrew Greff spoke with Plumbly
after the game. Apparently he was pissed because Bones was missing assignments, which is not shocking because Bones has been missing assignments since he's been at a VCU, So he missed assignments in Denver and that was one of the reasons that he was traded. As for the Clippers, it
was Kawhi Leonard. It was Russell Westbrook that brought them back to the Promised Land where now they get a date with the Phoenix Suns full a squad, Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Chris Paul DeAndre Ayton, who you barely beat without them when they were sitting in street cloths so we're gonna have to see how that goes. After the game, Tylo says, if you ain't getting it right, fight then. And after that we took off and we played better. Maybe we should do it aka fight more often. They
worked it out. Everything is good. The rest of the what are we talking about? He said, maybe we should fight more often. The rest of the day. The Lakers held off Utah to win Golden State, put up fifty five points in the first quarter alone to the Portland Trail Blazers, which is an NBA record, and beat the Blazers by fifty, which we'll get to in a bit, because there's ramifications of all of the losses that the Blazers have had, I think, which we'll get to as well.
I think the Blazers have had seven combined wins in the last two years. After the trade deadline down in Miami, forty two year old Eudonnas HASLM Yes that's his real age aka walking dnp CD had played only sixty four games in the last seven years combined. He put up twenty four points yesterday in a game Eudonnas HASLM Miami bench as a whole put up one hundred and eleven points, which broke the NBA record held by Toronto of one hundred and twenty twenty. Eudonis Aslam had thirty two points
all last season in thirteen games. Eudonis aslam last game of his career puts up twenty four. What an end of the season and we still have the second season left to go, which is the playoffs. Bring in the play in. I need it, I want it. Give it to this