Inside the NBA: Nuggets' Triumph, Trade Rumors, and Hoops Talk

It is season two talking hoops as the journey continues . It is a whole new season . We're going to a new June . Coach Murph , welcome back . Great to see you , Man . are you ready ? Are you ready for season two ? I thought I was seeing things .

Am I ready ? And I see the sweatshirt in the back baby Podcast Paul Coach Murph . Here we are , season one to season two , episode one . I didn't even think there was going to be a season two . I am happy . I am jubilant Now that I just noticed the sweatshirt in the back with the logo . I lost it a little bit . Now I'm even more joyous .

We'll get to that later . We'll get to that because that's a part of this podcast . And hey , we're in a whole new season , so this all sorts of new things we're going to see , but we're back to our monthlies , right ? But who would have thunk we're in the NBA off season . What off season ? There is no off season .

I want to say so much . Let's just go .

We got to start with the champions , though , right , yeah , we have to give props . I mean , last time we were on it was tough for us because our Celtics didn't make it to June .

It was the heat in the Nuggets I was bitter and frustrated , as I should have been , like most Celtics fans still are . We're going to talk about that , but I was real , you were very positive And I speak in some more truth , so I'm feeling better now . After the Zingas trade , which we'll talk , we'll get into that , let's just give props to Denver .

I mean , what a performance , what a run in the playoffs . I mean , i guess the question is were they that good ? And I guess the ultimate question is are they still the team to beat this year ?

Yep , They're still there . They're still there . Also , what was so impressive to you ? So the Denver , that team is like an old school , my favorite kind of basketball , 80s ball just team . The Joker is like an old farmer kind of guy . He's this old school Big . You know what I mean .

You know what I mean . Yeah , yeah , you know what I'm picking up Lunch pail ready to go to work .

He's a classic man .

He literally win the championship . The confetti's coming down And they're like can I go home now ?

Yeah , it's like I have other interests , whatever . Right , he's always said that He's like I don't really Thank you , thanks , that's like , that's humble , but he's awesome man All in off the court . We all love him , but he was a hard worker . That whole team played well .

And what's interesting about them going into this year , as we talk about all the new teams and who's got a chance , what was what ? did they have continuity , Right ? They've had that same team a while now . Same coaching staff , Great word Like same all the way across . The only thing they did is add a few pieces . That really made the difference .

They only had him for a year .

But that just shows you these teams at the top , and I know we're going to talk about our green being one of them . All it takes is one or two guys to add to your mix . But I would say the biggest takeaway for me is they just been the same . They've had the same group together for a while .

But and hey the Joker man .

Let's not dance around it . The guy's the best player in the league .

Yeah , well , yeah , oh , you have to give it to him after the ring . Yes , yes , that's it . I got nothing there . All right , there's different levels and different positions when who's best and the stat and the other .

We got to congratulate them because they took season one's crown . They journeyed all the way to the to June . They got the title And , yeah , now let's put that behind us . I agree with you . I think they're probably one of the favorites . I think Vegas is saying they're one of the favorites , but it's July , baby .

And everybody's like oh , we got a new big three .

I'm going to go right into that .

I just wanted to give a little props to like the players on Colorado , to like DeAndre Jordan , Jamal Mari , obviously . But this kid , Christian Braun , a brown , This thing , I think it's like brown Yeah . Just real quick B-R-A-U-N . It's like he's that young guy . He came in there with that fire . You remember He was a rookie .

You know what I'm talking about , that's a great point . Any team out there right now , as we get into the NBA draft , talk as part of this . That got their new guy . Christian Braun was a rookie and he made a difference In game three . In the finals he swung a game . He actually swung a game .

He had like what 18 points Just fire .

So are you teams out there that got that good draft pick That don't think that player can't make a stamp this year . They can Christian .

Braun did , they did great .

Great point . Aaron Gordon , coach's point .

Check it out , yeah , coach's point Contabious codwell Pope , like they had a squad . I'm going to move forward , but I just wanted to . There's a point There's going to be a little . There's all throughout there . Like I brought a reason why I brought a brown . It came brawn The kid you're going to hear this throughout the pod Energy intensity , that's it .

It was in Miami . Oh , every time he was in He would just bring a fire Like , all right , let's move on .

That's going to be something that we're going to . You'll see throughout the pod , all right ? So we were talking about Bradley Beals . Go to Beal . He's one of my favorite players in the NBA . He's like water man . He flows . Really good friends with Jason . As you know , grew up Jason Tatum . You know all about their relationship .

Lot of scores . Lots of guy that can shoot . But here's the problem I have . They all do the same thing . They're all the same player Booker , durant and Beal What do they love ? Jump shots ? Can they even play defense ? Who's playing defense out of those three ? They don't play defense . Well said man .

I don't know , i'm not a big No you do know , I'll just stop there with everything , Everything's defense . Yeah , That's the problem . I mean you're going to get me started . I'm going to get all revved up too , because that's what I want to see more of intensity on defense , And they will . Eight D-bookers they can play that .

I mean shoot . Look at game four , Oh sorry , game five in the NBA finals . That was a tough watch when it came to offense And the reason it was that was pure D Both teams giving their all on defense right . Denver just had a little bit more .

Right , i mean they played . I mean everybody wants to talk about their offense .

Wait , 2007 , with the perfect year that they lost in the Super Bowl . Man , here's the great defense of team , so there you go .

Well , that's that Pertoucher bang . So defense does win championships . They'll get you there . Right , the offense will get you there . But when it comes down to it , in the finals of all sports , you'll see that you have to have the defensive , you have to have the great defensive players stepping up . Man , i'm all fired up .

Here we go What else we got . So you know , just kind of staying there with , i guess all of a sudden we're just talking about Western Conference With that trade . did that bump Phoenix up , or do you still feel ?

like no , oh , they did bump up Absolutely .

So you think it's Denver Phoenix in the West right now . As things sit , i'm not making any of those .

Yeah , yeah , yeah . We're not doing any of that yet . We're not doing any of that yet .

It's only month one , it's only July . I mean , some of the teams haven't even been formed out yet , aka our Saltics , which you'll get to , and actually let's hit on it , man .

Huh , we're going right to the choppin' boom , right into it , the big trade . The big trade right ? There's not that much , there's not like a whole bunch of lot . I have all every single offseason move right here . Every agency deal , everything But the Saltics got obviously .

Well , it was weird how it went down , right , because we hear earlier in that night when it was going down , that they're going to be trading Brogdon , malcolm Brogdon . It was like a three player or three team trade , where he's going to the Clippers and somebody else is going out and they're getting Porzingus .

Brogdon's Marcus needed to go . Man , i'm OK with that , Whoa . Yeah , he's done . Bye , this is a business , dude . Nba is a business , by the way , and never take anything personal . See you later .

Yeah .

Marcus does Marcus things . He was a great leader and did things that . a gritty and defensive player , amazing offense . irk me the way he tried to play Irk , irk , irk , irk . It was time . It's time for change . Bye Porzingus man . Hold on , hold on , hold on .

Hold on , hold on , hold on . I got to stop you . We're going to talk .

Thank you , marcus , you're there now with that , Thank you .

Marcus , But the initial reaction you weren't like oh No , This one hurts .

Yeah , just for a split second . But I felt in my instincts we're like mm . This is it . And I only felt good about Porzingus when I went and looked on his Wikipedia and looked what he's done in his career . I don't think people really know and they need to know . He had promising years , 2016 to 18 . He was injured .

So do you feel like the Celtics got better with this trade ? Yes , i need to .

If we're going back to the finals , let's just say we're in the finals . Let's just say we went to the finals with this team right now , against the Joker . We have bodies . Now Size matters And we're going to get into Victor . How size doesn't matter . That's a different size , isn't it ? A unicorn , a skinny unicorn ? I'll get into that too .

Yeah , i get something to add on that too .

Yeah , but he's got . This is in May and time Zingis can shoot and score and rebound . He's a true center , just as true as Robert Parrish . We haven't seen this yet . We had , like Montross just popped in my head Garbage . We haven't . we've had garbage centers . Now we got big out right here . The vets still want the ring , but who else do ?

We have a young team man , 42 years old Joe is Can these guys stay healthy , though ?

That's the ultimate question Yes , it doesn't matter , don't tell you We're going to get injured . Come on , of course we're going to get a little bit into here .

Got to throw it out there , man . Got to throw it out there . Young It's like 25 .

It's 27 . 27 , 29 , 25 , 26 . You know we got we got the squad with youth Robert Williams , big Al and Zingis Yeah , A big three . You know throwing JTJB right there , what ? There's a lot . All I know is we got bigs , and you know how much I care about defense and boards . Dude , i got to stop you there .

I got to stop you there , though , because one of the things .

But I'm done , i'm done , that's it .

That's all I got One of the things I'm shocked about in this kind of hits on free agency slash super maxes . I if you would have told me a couple of weeks ago that we'd be getting on this pod and Jaylen Brown still has not signed his contract .

I . We're hoping to get it right , like today .

So I'm starting to think .

I mean , we don't even know , like you're saying oh , i wouldn't you wait till the very end , dog , it's all . This is the game . It's so simple , the game of life , well as he's business he's going to wait till the tick , tick , tick , tick , the last minute . We can't really .

That's what we think , but you know as much as I want to talk about this something else is going on . Paul for sure That . Well , and that's where I was going with this , is as much as I want to like . Break out here . You have a trade over here and free agency over here . They're all one . So the question is back .

Well , back to the more money . It's simple as that .

Somebody , as we sit here , what's the biggest news in the NBA right now ? This Jalen Brown super max and Damian Lillard .

Oh , D Lillard , And he's . he has nothing to do with us . You know he wants nothing to do with us , but there might , that might have been all a game too .

Is that going on

Jason , I was reading all that Is Jalen Brown going to end up on the trail . What happened ?

Is Jalen Brown going to the trailblazers and is Lillard coming in ? The chances of that are very , very likely . I don't want it . I don't either . What's the ?

word that you said . I said good word . What I said good word . I said do you ? what was the word You used ? I said good word . Good word You used before about the Denver continuity Enough said Why leave ? Stay with JT and work it out and make all the naysayers bow down .

We literally have to look at ESPN . as we're talking , i'm in a different place now .

I said they're never going to grow . Anybody can grow , we can all go . It's a choice . They can grow in their young and JT and JB need to stick together and get a ring . I feel it's going to happen . I'd rather have JB than Lillard , thank you very much . But if Lillard comes in , he's a great threat . He's a superstar . It's like a win-win .

Do you know Hardwood Houdini ?

I know Hardwood Houdini .

He's the one who's going to show up .

Hardwood Houdini , he's the one throwing this out there , just a few hours ago .

I've already have it here All NBA wing Jaylen Brown is now eligible for a Supermax contract extension , But there's been no news of Brown agreeing to such a deal . This has led to speculation that the South is considering moving on from Brown , whether they are low-top extension or low to sign it , i know already .

Good for Grant , four year 53 . Good for you . Bye , i don't want you on the team . Anyway , i'm done . He wasn't even playing . I'm telling you there weren't what we needed . It was like we got what we needed from them . They're both great players . Jt and Williams were close . By the way . Jason would say that it was his best friend , but I don't care .

Who do we just pick up ? Sam Celle , boom Ding , ding ding . Charles Davis , i have it , i have it . I have it . Charles Lee , i have it right here , charles Lee .

Yeah , ding , ding , ding . Podcast . Paul , you're awesome .

Don't even know the guy , but they say he's good , he came from Milwaukee .

Then the secret one in the secret , one you don't know about .

Is there a new ?

pick up Ding ding ding . His name is Phil Preci And that's the nickname of podcast Paul in high school when he had record scoring whatever five points and five seconds . Man Named after Paul Preci , the Milwaukee box . Ding ding ding , ak's , as I know PIM3 , podcast Paul , podcast P Preci , p-i-m-p . Come on , paul . Well , i'll cast Paul baby . So okay His name .

I mean Preci loves Preci .

But you know , dude , no , that was just a good sign . I was like , oh , preci , preci . He doesn't have much experience . He's coached a little bit at Mizzow , but he's with us , so welcome welcome . Sam Cassell , i love , i loved watching him play . He was such a smart guard , great IQ . He's got great coaching experience . But I love Charles Lee .

Yeah .

You know , in a player as well , so I love that .

Here's what I'm hearing from the coach . He's a big believer in Brad and Brad as we're seeing . All day . The Theo Epps team is there . He's going all in . We went from being down for 03 .

Yeah , he's back in his boy , joe , but he has art Everybody's flipping . I played ball today with the boys and then Tony , he was like they're freaking out about Joe . I'm like no , no , no , no , no , joe can grow too , we all . It's the power of growth . What's the power of growth ? What is it Suffering ?

What am I against ?

in the game of the , centering the game of basketball around something .

One person , one one , That's true , but what else ?

One star In the gameplay the three ball . You should never , ever depend on the three ball as much as they do in the NBA . That should be over here . And yes , we have great shooters , but you don't depend on that to win a championship , that's . That is blaspheme against this sport , which I love so fully Love .

So the question is and by the way , just on that , Am I wrong ?

Come on , that was a ding ding ding .

Coach Murph , you're right , you're right , it's great coach's point . But back to the suffering of power growth . Remember who stole that , who stole that line .

It didn't steal it . Oh , oh , oh Coach .

Spoe Oh .

Spoe took it from you . He heard the cast .

We don't know who's listening . Miami , that's all right . That was season one . Spoe was like all right .

I gotta listen to .

Jake Season one was Miami . I gotta do something .

Spoe was like I gotta do something . Listen to Paul Caspaul .

Coach Murph , all right . So , if I'm hearing you correctly , if and when Jalen Brown sign Yes . Now we're starting talking And they do nothing else . So you got Porzingis , jb , jt , al , rob Williams , malcolm Brogdon We're not even talking about our guy who , by the way , be white By the way , Oh God . Pause .

Oh God , Why did ?

I not lead ? Did I not lead the podcast on this Listen . We don't even have to worry about the Celtics . What ?

am I even doing here ? The green machine , the green machine , you know why ?

Why Derek White DY Shaved his head Finally .

I didn't even see that . I was like yeah .

That's . Look it up right now . That is so hot , it was all over the internet .

All I didn't go there without . That's so good , finally holding on to dear life .

So , derek , White was already at this level up here . Now he shaved the head . We could just move on . We know the Celtics , we know the whole man's head and hair and confidence .

We're just men . If you're not feeling your flow , if you don't have the , your bald is beautiful . I've been shaved . I have a little thin , but I have no more troll hair . No , but the troll . It's a whole thing with men and women too Poor women that are bald into .

It's always about the cut . It's always about the cut .

I'm just too immersed . Fog has balls . All he's right . Every single time It's all about the cut , fresh cut . I feel like I forgot .

I can't believe . So he's got that . That's huge . That should have been No joke .

We're joking at one , but it's no joke here , that's a true thing . It's a true thing .

Yeah , awesome . So , yeah , you know what ? Now , as we talk about this , i'm totally fine with the Celtics . Now We're good .

Totally fine . I've been fine . Especially , I didn't know we got the cut . I was like waiting for him to do that . Anyway , he's a player man .

What about Miami ? If Miami , do you think Miami's going to get Damien Lillard ? Oh yeah , That's gone some way .

He's going That would be Yeah , that's what's going to happen .

He's going to win now because he's telling everybody what we're hearing out there is he wants Miami Nobody else talked to talk to me . It's Miami or bust , yeah , so if they go if he goes to Miami . does that make them legit or they trade away their depth ? I mean , they were all about their depth with that team , right Yeah ?

That's interesting As much as we want to downplay Miami .

You know they're going to need size . You know they're going to be in the mix again .

You need size to be done . You need size man period .

You need size Yeah .

As I was preparing for the pod and going through stuff , i'm like looking at the size of people And also I got a couple of surprises . But it was the year of Bill Russell , so he passed in 2022 . It's almost a year . He passed in July . What was it ? I have it down here July 31st , 2022 .

Size . Will , Chamberlain's size , Karim's size , magic Well the Joker was the first in the year .

How tall was .

Magic Johnson bro 6'9" , 6'9" .

Yeah , people forget He's a special guard . He was a guard for it . I got some special cool stuff to get into , but you need that , you need it . And then they don't really have that Do that . They didn't really have enough size against them , so we went out to go Want to go .

Well , before we go , I want to take this Anything else we want to talk about as far as what we've seen so far with trades free agency , I think I'm hoping we're going to see something about O-shape or set .

I think I'm getting into your band . We're going to talk about the unicorns .

I have a hold of this . We're going to get there . That's what I want to talk about . That's the dessert .

I have some special fun dessert . That's weird , it's cool , it's true too , but I have nothing We can go .

And it's not over . That's the thing . I have a whole thing .

Rudy gave trade to jazz for the Lana Hawks . I have the whole thing here . I can just fly through it . It's nothing .

There's nothing made . But is there anything that jumps out Besides the Biel ? Fenix got Biel , no Strauss , i was like oh , you got rid of Strauss .

Scratch my head . I liked him . He's gone to Cleveland , right Went to Cleveland . You know that I love Kyrie , the Dallas Mavericks . They picked up Grant with Kyrie now to get that connection . Denver They got Deon too . Deontre , jordan , monster dude . Reggie Jackson , justin Holiday , return Pistons , golden , oh , golden State dude Chris Paul Oh there we go .

We did that . There we go , we missed , oh yeah .

Just two Murphs talking about Robbins coming in for Batman . Let's go .

So you're your boy . The pool party's gone out to the Wizards . They got rid of the pool player .

Well , you know why .

Because they had to resign . Dreymon got resigned .

AK Paul , paul got , paul gets best man . You're hoping he's coming to the Celtics . I kind of want that to happen . I love Dreymon . I love his psychological edge , his mouth , the loudest physicality . You know about me , i'm after that whole .

Jordan pool , you know knocked down , So he got his four year deal , monster deal .

Good for him . Dreymon And Chris Paul comes aboard . Chris can be a leader Guard , another man with a ring . He needs a ring , so he's got that fire to get that ring And he's a great veteran guard . And then they got Dario . Dario's not that good , i reckon if you saw that they got a one year deal . He's a big dude , he's 6'10" .

like that after Mupp , i don't know , i really think Chris Paul , the Lakers didn't get better . They didn't really do anything . Steph and Dreymon and Chris .

Chris coming in there . Anything's possible with a curry on the bench , on the bench in the game dude . They still got Clay Splash Brothers still there And they got a little Chris Paul of . I like that . Houston , let's move . Fred Van Fleet agrees to three year deal .

Oh yeah , houston picked up a bunch of people . Yeah , they did . They got like a whole bunch of Brooks , dillon Brooks . It signed us Green Jack .

Green , aaron Holiday . Jock Landahl , patty Mills , fred Van Fleet Fleet is , i would say , fleet .

Well , that's , that's E-Maze team Utoka , you see Houston coach .

Good for him . Let's move on from him to all that personal stuff .

We heard what Danny H said .

Obviously , he's a Brad guy too .

Oh , he came out and said he backed up Missoula and said Missoula's a better coach than E-Mai Oh yeah , we gotta stop hating .

It was his first crash course year , and we were super hard in Boston on everybody . Like , as fans , we are like the man's greatness , and if you it's too much , i was looking at my God today I'm like , damn , am I that ruthless ? So like , i'm not gonna be like , everybody deserves a second chance .

Can we get in the fun stuff now ?

I know I was getting on fun up . That's fun , that's fun , it's true . No , no , no , no , i'm ready to move on .

Yes , we're done To a great topic that I want to get into .

They had the part about the unicorns .

They had it sold out For his first summer league game . the place was sold out last night In this kid after the game . Did you hear him , did you ?

already said he goes .

I don't know what I'm doing yet on the court . No , what I'm doing .

So do you know , lebron , just you a LeBron did . He wasn't even there . The king wasn't there . You know , they know . Do you know where the king was ? Yeah , this is what he's . Oh , with brawny Probably do . You got to follow the ballers with the ballers , go It's a ball , Oh yeah . It's a ballers world dude . If you're a baller or not , either .

He was at Deuce's birthday party .

No , he was by the way Deuce is .

Deuce right now is sitting front row in Vegas with his daddy watching the Celtics anyway .

He was at the jam . It's the . What does it call ? it's the . It's for the high school jam . Yep , you have the peach jam . That's it . Yeah , high school . I'm telling you , dude , have you heard about this kid ? That's all over the news right now . So he . So there's always this cool thing again hardwood Houdini shot out Apparently .

name .

Yes , he's above the rest . Cut his name And his name is Cooper flag with two G's . He's . He's a . He's a freshman in high school . Unicorn Yes , 610 monster . Wow , he's just a beast doing his work . That's a unicorn . This was a false unicorn , plastic .

Well , you know , pony pony , pony , pony little ponies , you're unicorn . You're with me . You knew something was off . You just knew it was off when the night before he's slapping Britney Spears . What's going on ?

Oh , he didn't slap him watching podcast Paul , where I come on . We are impeccable with our word . We speak with truth and love here . It was this head of security that gave her a back . You will eat this . I watched it a few times , pretty all being crazy . But he , i came . Mr Hey , mr Hey , mr Wow . Too close , man , too close .

We're talking about saving one more name , paul who wasn't ?

who's a ? U ? I hate to call them plastic's Taco fall . He's gonna be like a taco fall . You feel me ? I do .

This is what I want to get across today with this whole unicorn talk and this guy being number one and oh , he's gonna be rookie of the year . How many games are gonna play ? Well , he's gotta play at least these games . Get rookie of the year . Guess who's gonna be rookie of the year ? and this is the unicorn we should all should be talking about .

Let's go . Let's go to the trackers , get home grin .

Oklahoma City Thunder .

Look at this kid .

Let's go , let's go . Big come from behind . Block shows off with a big first quarter . You know what I'm saying ?

yeah , I'm trying to go the tracker right now . I want to watch the tracker , are you ? we all forgot about him . Yeah , you know what ?

it was actually at the Seattle crossover event . Good stuff , dude . What is it crop with the hexes name Jamal Crawford Jamal ?

Crawford , it was six man the year forever .

He's from Seattle , right , seattle doesn't have a team , but he does a pro am NBA thing every summer . Last year . It was the crop . It just just shows up . It's all these NBA players that were here in my town in Seattle . Tatum was there , lebron was there , chet Holmgren played in the game and hurt his ankle .

Right , i just totally doing all my stuff prepping for the body . I totally overlooked my guy . Yep , i love it , why not ?

this all takes us to why we really want to talk about unicorns , because there's the original unicorn and I didn't even know this , i didn't even know this , and now he's my guy . Mr Crips up Chris apps , chris apps , right , chris Taps Crit steps or you can do tops .

We're just gonna be calling them zing is zing , zing , zing baby original unicorn .

So when they traded for this guy or the name was out there , the only thing I thought my brain was oh wait a second , that dude played for the next . He got hurt . It's a lot of talk about unicorn . Then he went to Dallas . I had no idea , because he played for the Wizards last year . I had no idea how good this guy is .

I didn't know his numbers either 43 and 19 is all gonna say that's the highest he's ever scored . But , like I said before in the beginning of pod , 2016 to 2018 Is promising years . He was crushing numbers high 30s , double doubles , all day , boards , blocks , defense , knee injuries . He's golden He , and it takes time to recover , man .

The other thing to back to your three ball thing that you can't stand .

That's what I thought he's only 27 .

I thought that's all he did , cuz I guess in Dallas .

I just read about the three ball . Did you hear about this ?

Carlisle , our guy Rick Carlisle shout out to Rick , he's played for the Celtics baller Iry birds guy , where'd he coach ? He was in Indiana , but he's in Dallas , yes .

Yes , no , no , i don't know where he is . No , he's Indiana .

He's the Indiana Pacers coach .

But he was Dallas but you know what ?

I just heard this about porzingus . He actually wanted porzingus just to shoot threes , what he can , so so I thought he was only shooting threes , but he was being coached that way . His games evolved . I didn't know he had a post game , i didn't know he had a mid-range .

I saw , I look no he plays defense , he does it all so yeah . He's 240 bro , he's a big dog , so he's gonna go ahead . Go out to hit the three when you're open . I don't care . Yeah , it's like I don't want to see less of that and see more of the involved old-school game . Bring The lower , the low download game into this world . You know , that's what .

Is he wearing Antoine Walker's old number , number eight ? Isn't that Antoine Walker ?

That's a great song . You know what I always said . I'm not doing it anymore . I Always say this was in the last pop . It's , it's Paul Pearson , antoine , okay , it's Paul . That's who ? JT and JBR ? No , they're gonna win a ring that they're not gonna let that happen . Paul got his , antoine never got his . That's not the relationship Those two are gonna have .

oh so , just wrapping up the unicorn talk Cuz on our last pod that we brought this up . We didn't even bring up poor zing It's the original unicorn . Now We're all about , yeah , him being the unicorn , but it's the unicorn . Who else are we talking about ?

The definition of unicorn is not a two , seven footer in my , in my world and the podcast world here , our world podcast , prawls world . Just two more talking news Our unicorn is magic . He's six , nine . Enough , a unicorn could be Luca . He's six , nine . It's a big dog that can play download . He can play the center if you have to , like magic Johnson did .

Dang remember I told you it's coach . I was gonna look up .

Who was the youngest ? hold on . Hold on , is this coach's quiz ? We just went into a trivia quiz .

Yeah .

Oh yeah , seasy-two , I got other stuff . I got so much going on . I said all past was so fired up . Last part I'm always fired up but it's just like more , not negative , it's just like , ah , frustrated and agitated , never negative . But I was being like I was just done , i like done with a team .

I just said who won Again , there's so many players .

Let's go . So . The youngest , the one they won the championship how old were you ? You were the youngest out of that . You got to choose . It's a whole day Kobe , mj Magic , shaq Bird , bill Russell . I even throw the dream Hakim in there , kareem Wilt , who is the youngest ? Who is the one that did it ? All right , i got it .

Magic Johnson 1980 , 20 years old .

Check it out What in the year .

Why did I give you clues 1980, ?

right , i am beside myself . That's my brother .

We're related .

It's the power of the pod man , it's the power of the pod , the spirit of the pod , the blood brothers , brothers from the same mother .

I just crushed the quiz .

I mean listen to this , We love you , man , but hold on a second dude , Bro . Do you knew that , or did I ?

know what I did .

Because I brought it up before . No , you've never brought it up , i did , i brought up Magic before . Just a little bit , remember You did , you did .

But I still got the year .

You nailed the year 1980 to 81 season . Magic was unreal . This is why I'm going to run up .

It's a little bit of a winning time .

This is why he's a true unicorn . There's a difference between oh , unicorn is like a seven or a seven or four . No , he played center and guard because Karim was injured and scored 42 . Had like 10 , 10, . He almost had a triple double And he also got the MVP . He was 20 . Second to that is Kobe at 21 . All right , tony Parker , 21 .

What years Ding , ding , ding 1996 .

Oh , no , no , no no no , whoa , whoa , whoa .

Kobe is not that , no , no , no 2001 . But good job 99 , 2000 .

Look , look , this is where I coached him . If it's wrong , i eat my food like eat my . I eat my words for , for , for Ted , for Miami . I always eat my words . I love it . It's rare , though It's a rare . That's why I'm so trim . I'm not that I'm so trim and lean because I don't have to eat my words much .

He was like seven years in or something , but before he .

How old was Michael Jordan ?

I'm like I'm going to go with 28 .

Check it out . I'm out of my seat . I'm out of my seat . We're going to get on video soon .

Pick a stop man , we're waiting for my seven .

We're just two months waiting for the seven figure contract baby . That's your dream . Live your dreams . Paul and I are , You're absolutely right . Ding , ding , ding .

I missed the coach's quiz .

You did great , paul , 28 years . So I didn't know . I was like , ooh , coach Murphy , easy Time , patience , he's 28 . It gets better , yeah . So I was like wow they're not even near that . They're like 25 . Well , jb is like 26 , i think , or seven , they're right , they're so young . Even D White Trader Destiny , coined by Paul Gaspol , is 29 .

Chad Holmgren thing right now . That's great with the Oklahoma City Thunder . Anyway , let's go again . You know the dream shake .

He's one of the best unicorns of all time . Okay , How old was he ? And he went .

I'm going to go with 28 as well . Wrong .

He was 31 . Yeah , when he got his first in 1996 . Wrong , sorry , i got it for you 94 , 95 . And then again back to back championships . Remember they won two , he was 31 . So I'm doing all this , i'm like easy peasy , and then we're going to get Al one at his age , we're going to get these boys They have plenty of time .

So hold on , you're back Season , you're fully back , you're renewed .

Totally renewed and transformed . Yeah , happens almost every day , i wake up .

You said they're never going to win a champion .

I go to sleep .

I die . You're taking it . You're taking that back .

Totally taken back , all right .

I don't even have to take back it because it'd be in the moment , didn't know .

But I now this is all came to be like we didn't know . Like you said , oh , what's going to happen in the offseason ? all fired up , but there's but the continuity , the consistency , sticking with each other . And these super teams are great . That can happen . You can make one . We did an 08 . We made one in 08 and they only got that one .

You need to have Boston . Oklahoma City is going to be in .

Rage on Rondo , one of those unsung heroes of all time . You have the intensity and defense tenacity and offensive threat of KG . His energy is highest of all time I've ever seen intensity . And then you have Paul Pierce , of course , and the rest of the guys , but we had the ultimate bench too , so it was the whole squad .

I just can't wait for you to look up the an updated picture of Derek White .

Oh yeah , yeah , That's a dude . So that's it . That's that dude . The day in Lakers history , magic Johnson starts at center versus 76ers , game six of 1980 and 1980 NBA finals . He was 20 . But that doesn't matter . Hakim won . Him is 31 . Doesn't matter , doesn't ? So I'm feeling way better about our Chris Taps , for Zing .

Well , there it is . I've been waiting for this . It's been a slow build for him to get there . Yep , He's feeling they made the best move so far in the off season , assuming they signed JB And you know what . As much as I talk about season two trying to keep this on schedule . You know a monthly pod . We might have to do an emergency pod early on man .

You know , anything else , because I got another secret surprise .

I think I'm ready to wrap it up soon . man , wrap it up with a quick quick one .

All right , it's a quick one . It's a double quiz . It's a double . It's a double , all right , you get two scoops of wonder . It's a summertime , i want two scoops , yeah .

The girl asked me Obsies in Coke is corn . I go .

I couldn't believe I'd said it . I should go as one scooper two . I said one And then I felt terrible about myself after . I was like , why does get one little scoop No two scoops of wonder ?

The NBA Summer League quiz is going to be a quick one , all right . Yeah , the NBA Summer .

League quiz is also known as what ? Paul Gaspar , what's going on right now ? What is it known ? The NBA Summer League is also known as another . It's going on . They're playing there .

So it's easy , I just Oh it's .

Vegas , las Vegas Summer League . It's a little confusing because there's also current NBA Summer League's , california classics , salt Lake City Summer League . It was cool looking this up , but the most prominent Summer League that the NBA is affiliated with is the Vegas League . Yeah , ok , it's cool man . It's a cool little history .

Which , by the way , they built this like new sphere in Vegas .

And when there's different events .

it like , it like has different things going on , so it looks like a basketball . right now , the sphere is just like a big basket .

Yeah , that's cool . It's cool , it's what's going on . It's cool , man , the NBA is really , i told you , since the pandemic you told that we talked about . Well , they did the best since the pandemic . They were the best to do the bubble And I think after the bubble , whoosh , we slung , shot into it before you continue on the quiz .

It's very short . Just again , by the time we press record or the by the time people listen to this podcast , this whole Jalen Brown talk might have already happened , because he's in Vegas right now .

Exactly So . In what year did the NBA attach its name to the event making the NBA Summer League ? Oh , what year ? Woo , You're getting some good . This is just who worse talking hoops , Dude .

I'm going to give you the idea of the knowledge I'm going to go with 2003 . But not bad . Oh , it was on a roll man .

In 2007, . this happened , You know . in 2008 , the Summer League expanded to 22 teams sponsored by EA Sports . The 15th , Samsung , took it over to Samsung NBA League Summer League . Since 2018 , all NBA teams play in the Las Vegas Summer League . And that's it , guys A quick little history and knowledge of what's going on right now .

Can I throw out who I think the MVP is going to be ? I think I already just said it Chad Holmgren . Chad , But runner up Jordan Walsh .

All right , let's go , man . There is things to look forward to in the offseason . Yeah , there is a season two . There is Episode one in the books . Yeah , man , thank you for reviving my spirit , paul . Yeah .

Just too much

It never stops . It's not about the destination . Kobe rests in peace and power . He always talks to the kids and says it's not about getting to the top of the mountain , it's not about these .

Well you know what's really cool about starting this in the offseason too , coach , is the regular season doesn't start till October . So , yeah , there's lots more to talk about when it comes to the league and what we're doing right now . But who knows , Maybe we have a surprise guest .

Yeah , this is all about talking hoops , ooh .

So we're going to have some fun things come up for the listeners this year And one more thing I want to say now .

I thought about I was I forgot before It was there in the beginning . It's one more thing . Yeah , and Bill Rest in Peace and Power as well said this . He said there's five players on this team . It takes five out there , but you only have to shut down that one superstar , that guy that's scoring that 40 .

You see what ?

I'm saying Like just let that guy go off . You can't have two or three doing it , You know . But we're going to have two or three doing it . Big time lord . Time lord is going to grow even more with . It's going to be a time healthy Play more than 20 games . Yes , He's going to grow tremendously . We're going to see a Time Lord and Ziggy's duo .

One last thing I did want to talk about before we go out and before you send out .

Hold on one second . Oh this is this just blew my mind , just to .

Merf , i had to take my phones off for that . Sorry about that .

Finally .

Everybody . Well , we're enhancing our game in season two . We're going to make it very exciting for the listeners . Maybe , if you decide to engage a little bit , you need more engagement . Yeah , maybe if you go to our social media and you give us a like , you get a free t-shirt . Who knows ?

Instagram . We're on Instagram now . The only issue with the t-shirt is we're still working out the kinks .

Oh yeah , we had a little issue , it was .

August Paul's showing the shirt . It was a fast buy . That's not your fault , that shouldn't have changed .

This is one of them where you got the logo on the back .

That's sick It's all full .

You got the whole thing .

I'm still working out the front . Now here's the good news August Paul's holding up a black t-shirt with the just two Merf's talking hoops logo , and it's both sides , front and back .

Looking for any people , and I will have the final up on social media soon . But before we do that , i don't want to give anything away , but Coach's birthday is coming up . He might have something in the mail , yes , Thank you , we're going to let Coach give final approval on the design And that's amazing .

But listeners .

you're going to have a chance to win some gear And lots more fun stuff like this come in this season .

Oh yeah , growth Merge , let's go . It's July , this is my month , july 14 , baby , it's going to be four or five Earth years , but that's the construct too . That's a limitation . I didn't think like that . I'm feeling the best I ever had Mind , body , spirit And you can start , and right now .

Before you take us out , though , just staying on that , we have to let the listeners know too , and this will be in the show notes . We do have a new Instagram page . Yeah , just two Merf's , because , remember , we have our Twitter page , our Facebook group page . We now have an Instagram page .

So you'll see a lot going out there .

Yes , oh , yeah .

Take a look at that . It's going to be a fun summer of growth , working out the kinks . But aren't we always growing ? Everybody's growing working out the kinks . There are mistakes Absolutely No coincidence . It's just experienced men , You know . And I'm feeling happy and free because Paul and I are living our dream . We have this once a month .

Just Two Merfs . We're so glad we're back , excited to be here . We'll see you all soon , peace .