KD, You ARE a Phoenix Sun with Aaron Edwards

We'll discuss that each playoff race with comedian and writer Aaron Edwards on today's episode. I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm Jabari Davis and this is Miles and Jack got mad boosties. Nice. We I mean we basically harmonized on that one. That was beautiful. Do you feel about that professional podcasting? Right? It's like it's a beautiful thing, Aaron, Thank you so much. Crooked media writer comedian from Gary, Indiana. Uh, you were a fan of someone named Michael Jordan when you were

coming up? Tell me about that that. I didn't think he was gonna start with that one, but yeah, I thought we were going straight to the second one. Okay, yeah, I'm from Gary, Indiana. It's like forty five minutes from Chicago, so yeah, like it's just it's pretty much Chicago. They call it each Chicago out there. It's just it was before Chicago went crazy. But yeah, like we grew up out there and it was just a huge Bulls place. Like even before we moved here. I had all the

Championship T shirts. We had the Bulls T shirts with the rings, like the ones that were the three rings. We had the ones. Oh yeah, we are the two rings. Like we had all that. We went to Universal Studios dressed in those shirts like we really we really did. You have the one that was like all the caricatures of the players, like the championship team with the big cartoon heads. Yeah we had that one. I had the ones with them as babies, like yeah, I underrated having

players grown grown men drawn as babies. And then you also had the penny fit. Oh yeah. The penny thing was just it was the game changer, Like it was the middle of the nineties penny like it was a hand me down too, like just do it from our church. Her son grew too big and he gave it to me, and I wore it like it was brand new, Like it was the freshest thing I ever seen. Yeah, it was just it was Penny, Like it was pretty much

the second coming of magic, Like he was cool. He had little Penny, like the commercial was like all of it, Like everything about Penny was just cool and I wasn't. I wore it as much as I could. My mom would have to be like, no, no, yesterday you did this, Like no, we're not doing it again, Like she had to physically like make me not wear it every day.

There was a moment in the nineties where Penny was the most exciting player in the NBA, Like, in my opinion, he was just like the coolest He had the coolest ad campaign, he had, like the coolest name. He just seemed awesome, and like, I feel like it's kind of faded because his career didn't necessarily like follow the path everybody was hoping for it too. But that was a real moment. I mean both his names were cool, like Penny and Anthrony go kind of heart like I would.

If you're playing the what if game, Penny hardaway if he doesn't get injured, you know, early on. What's his career look like? I think Kevin Jack win one? Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean they lost because Nick Anderson can't make a free throw, Like he just had to make one and he missed what four in a row? Like, I think if it was enough what ifs to be able to say that, they could have probably won one. Does a better hot take than mine, I was gonna say. I bet he would be pretty good if he didn't get

don't you? So shall we get onto the celestial based superstar in the Valley of the Sun, of course, referring to Kevin Durant, who is set to have joined the Sons in in game action last night. So you guys probably know more about how it looks than we do. But I mean, the Suns are already the four seed, like they that's shocking. Katie's aside, you guys are blowing my mind right now, kidding, And you are joining us from two weeks ago, so yeah, you it's a real

time warp here. But yeah, I don't know. They're four games back of the King, so they're probably like gonna stick in that four spot or worse. These super teams like sometimes take a little while to get going, get everything jelling, and they don't have a while to take really in this case. So it is interesting. But I just I feel very badly for whoever has them in the first round, like whether they're the four seed, five seed, six seeds, like it doesn't matter. Yeah, that's not gonna

be nobody's gonna be happy about that. Yeah. I think teams usually have a lot more time to figure it out, Like twenty games has really pushing it. I think it's less than twenty actually, so it's gonna be like nineteen eighteen games to figure out before the playoffs, like how

these dudes played together. But I think just even running the same place for Kevin Durant that they run from McHale is just gonna work, even if Kevin durrets not even like one hundred percent Yet, it's a lot of open staff people get and book doesn't have to get doubled all the time anymore, which is nice. So yeah, I think it's gonna be a pretty decent plug and play thing. But I also think that first round series

is still gonna be a warm up. By the second round series, I think we should probably know what the team is. Yeah, so you've seen it's already a four gone conclusion that they're going to make it to the second round, And yeah, I really do like that was the biggest problem with the Sun's last time. It was when Book was slow. Where was the where were those buckets coming from? Because when the game got close, it

was really hard. I think Chris Paul went fourteen for fourteen one game, but he now he doesn't have to do any of that. It was just really tough sometimes with how many staggered minutes in the second unit and scoring. And now we don't have to We can have Book or Katie on the floor at all times, and that's

gonna be really close. Yeah, And it's pretty wild to be saying like it's a foregone conclusion because who they would be playing in the first round, like it could be like as right now would be the Clippers, who I think a lot of people had making a deep run.

The Mavericks are right there like that, it feels like it's going to be one of those two teams probably or the Warriors, which I guess that that would be a little less surprising to see them just get kind of swept aside, because this has been a weird season for them, I guess, but yeah, you use the phrase plug and play. I feel like Katie is the most plug and play superstar that we've seen. Like there's just no question that he's going to fit in wherever he goes.

Like just having a guaranteed bucket is always helpful. Yeah, and he even talks about like how much he knows book they were in the Olympics together, which I think helps, like he knows this game a little bit more. And yeah, it's just two dudes. I love the hoop, so I think that's kind of like the easy part. Yeah, you can run the offenses and do like the picket roles and all that, but sooner or later, like in playoffs, sometimes it just comes down and needing a bucket. And

I'd much rather have Katie than not. Yeah, yeah, the ultimate bucket. So let's get into the mess a little bit. Jannis went on The Daily Show and was basically he was asked to talk on KD and his response was, you keep joining super teams to win an NBA title, how about we work out together. Sometime I thought this was going to go in the direction of him being like, can you come join me so we could win a title? Together, but instead he said, so I can teach you how

to carry your own team. That is disrespect. This is something that we've noticed and talked about on this show throughout, like like there was that, like it's never been at this level with him talking to another superstar in such

a highly public thing. There's the Surgeonbacca Cooking Show where he said like some of the coldest words to a human that he was just like with a smile as always, because like that's the thing is, like his general demeanor is so friendly that like we assume that he's a friendly person and then he just says these things that

you see people's face fault, like their spirit leads their body. Yeah, it's like he's kind of using up like the good I mean, first of all, let me clear us up, Like since as a person that has a finger to the pulse of the comedy writing and stuff, somebody who wrote those jokes for him, he probably couldn't have said it, but I know a couple of people that wrote those jokes. He didn't say them, but he seemed very happy to

say those jokes. So yeah, like I think he's kind of used up a little bit of it, like the good finals run that he had and like all that, but I like it. Like at first he kind of came off is like this like Encino Man, it was like the show cool stuff. He's like, oh, this is cool like a PlayStation have you guys tried to hear it? But I feel like that's part of it, right, Like he didn't he didn't come up in the au game. Like he's not like friendly and like in on like

these relationships that everybody's been cultivating. And he's also like he just seems to be like really naively just being like, well, I'm the best player in the world, So why wouldn't I say this to people I'm better than them? And what is he gonna do? He's gonna get mad and like beat me. That's I'm better than him, So why would it? Why would I worry about that? Look, I'm I'm here for mask off, Jannie. Give me supreme players talking supreme miss you know what I mean. Give me

every steph shimmy you can possibly give me. Give me Yannis absolutely crushing souls and then smiling about it, like after the fact. I'm not one of those guys that wants everyone to be humble simply for my comfort. I like it with folks are braggadocha, So please bring me more of this you honest. You did say before it num num num num numb feed me more, Daddy before we started recording, which was a little weird, But I

want to make sure that you everybody heard that. What was the thing he said to Grant Williams during the All Star break, Yeah, like Adam no again, you know what? You know what I'm gonna equate him to. You guys are not black Southerners, but I will say if you know of any It's like when black Pools from the South say bless your heart. They don't really mean that. They don't really mean that as a compliment. That means like, oh, look at you, You're special like that that is so

special of you. But yeah, he's sitting it with a saying it with a smile. And he's sitting there because Grant got in his shot as he was recording and says, hey, get your ugly out of the way, but saying it with a smile. You know, I'm here for it like a Russian accent apparently, Well, you know what, I'm not here for the accents. I think it's cooler but it comes off wrong that he is learning our customs just

because like it's still brand new to him. Like when I was in high school, Yes, calling your friends ugly something you did every single day. Yeah, of course it's just like yo, what time are you going to bolag you? Or when are you studying for this ugly? Like it was just the thing how you do it, But just it coming from him, it just comes off a little. It hits the ear a little rug, I guess, and my people kind of just are like, dang is Yanni's kind of mean, but it's good, like he can get

away with it. I feel like the match of like his personality to these words is the most fun example of this. Like anybody else, I like he's trying too hard or he's like, you know, like going with he's trying to be a face or whatever, like you know, the bad guy. The like if Embiid started doing this, I'd be like, all right, man, tone it down, Like I don't with him. It's just yeah, it's like funny. Yeah,

it just seems silly and lighthearted. Damn also chimed in on this subject because everyone's like you stayed in Portland, Like what do you have to say about it, and he made his quote about Russell Westbrook mainly, which felt a little mean. He was like, you look at Russell Westbrook. You leave OKAYC for Houston. Then James decided he's leaving. Now Russ has traded to DC. Then you get traded from DC to the Lakers. Now you're on your fourth team in four years, and your second year on the team.

Everybody is talking about how they should trade you. Now you're coming off the bench. This dude is a Hall of Famer, an MVP. It's an example that the grass

isn't always greener. That's true. It also feels like Russell Westbrook didn't have any say in any of those trades other than the first one, right, And Okasey was going to start talking about trying to trade him pretty soon if he hadn't asked out, because like his game just kind of fell apart in terms of what people were looking for from him and like whether you could build a winning team around him. It felt like people were out on him. And so that's not necessarily Westbrook's fault.

It's one of those where I don't think he's intentionally being disrespectful for you know, towards Westbrook. He's absolutely using him as a you know, as a case study and recognizing, hey, look, as much as it might have been nice to hop on a bandwagon, that's a bit of conjecture. I'm not saying that he said that, but it might be nice to ring chase. You just never know, and you don't have control once, you know, once that ball starts rolling.

But you know, you notice in the quote he does say he's an MVP, He's done this, he's done that, And yeah, I think that's because he's recognizing, like, oh, this is probably going to be misconstrued. Yeah, And I don't even really consider him going to the Lakers as ring chasing, like you know, exactly going to like one of the best teams in the league. He just was going home. So I really think he was ring chasing.

And also part of me thinks, like, dame, what didn't say this to be mean, but maybe subconsciously it sort of us because him and Russ have had some battles and they've gotten real kippy with each other, and it gets some like real intense trash talk, like regularly, like Russ has said that what that I busted you up? Like ten times in a row now or something like that, like at a point where Dave was like a really big losing streak against them, and Russell let him know it.

So I figured maybe this might be one of those times where Dame was let it that he was playing a long game. Man, it's looking rough out here. I think this was intended with malice. I think he was like, I'm going to ether him in the nicest way possible with this quote he's at He's the meme of the guy showing up to his enemy's funeral. That's essentially right now, all right, all right, we do have to talk about Dame though, because as predicted, we said keep an eye

on Dame. He's been on one. We read like his point totals for you know, the past ten games in a row, and this past week he put up seventy one. It's the season of seventy one. He matched Donovan Mitchell's seventy one and went over the rockets. I highly recommend well, we'll link off to it in the show notes. But the just a compilation of every bucket is really fun. Like there's just something about Dame when he's locked in

that is like supernatural. I've talked about it with Clay before the like he's just he's just kind of flicking it at the rim and knows what's going in. Like he's like as lung as the ball leaves my hand is going in when when he's locked in and like Dame has something different going, but it seems it's no less like just out of body to witness when he's just has it, has it going. You know what. Once he crosses the half court line, you're just like, all right,

this is like he's a threat. Basically, these types of games tend to come in bunches with him, Like there was that time towards the end of it in the bubble he was like this a little bit right, like just completely locked in. Yeah, in twenty fifteen, it was when the Lakers are when the Warriors were going on that run when Steph got hurt or no, it was

right before All Star break. It was a February game and I was living in Portland then, and so we went to Mota and watched the Portland versus Warriors, and he dropped fifty one fifty two, and it was one of the smoothest fifty twos I've ever seen, Like smooth. It was just so easy for him. And he wasn't shooting like this yet, Like he was shooting kind of deep, but he wasn't just confidently just I got the green light pulling up from deep. It's crazy. Now I'm interested

from both of you guys. Who are the guys that you've been most scared of as an opponent when they get it going. You know, you know Jack alluded to Clay earlier. You know, obviously y'all know I'm gonna say being game for me honestly, But for right now, I'm not saying he's the best player in the league. I'm not obviously, I'm not saying that. I'm not even saying he's the best at his position. But he's the guy that scares me the most when he gets it going.

So when I was seven years old, my dad was an assistant for the Knicks and they went against Jordan in the playoff, and that was terrifying because like he was dominated, like he would just take the ball away from you on the defensive end. And he was also at the height of his scoring a bill like it was when he was like putting up you know, thirty

something like high thirties, a game that was crazy. If you guys have heard of Michael Jordan who's played for the Bulls back then, Yeah, familiar, I think for me, like other than Luca after what he did to us last year, like right now, historically I would probably say, yeah, it would probably be shortan too. But Kyrie like once, because you already know he can get by you, and he's hitting tough layoffs and he's just hisiting you to death.

And just once he's hitting threes too, like once that starts falling, then you really gotta you gotta respect the three. He's gonna heavy you from three and get to the rim and get filed like all of it. Like, once Kyrie gets going, it's just really tough to really stop him. Who has the most realistic shout at surpassing eighty mm. That's a good question. Tatum has the will and probably the ability to do it at some point because of

how how kind of locked in their offense seems. Luca definitely, Yeah, seems like he's he's got the ability. But I think it's Day, I really do. I think it's yeah, Dame, I think he has the biggest green light. He doesn't have the supporting cast to take away from it and if he likes nobody's gonna be like, Dame, give me the ball, right, I guess Dame's cooking. Let's just sit back, right, And I think he just has the most realistic chance

to do it. Yeah, and he has a ball in his hands when he like bring the ball of the court. So it's like, yeah, Tatum is probably my answer for the modern like most terrified person to go against his Tatum when he's got it going, because yeah, but that has more to do with the psychological baggage of being a Sixers fan of knowing we could have had him and actually traded down to or trade it up to,

like get away from It's just I don't know. I didn't share the tweet with you when somebody pointed out that you guys could have had you know, emb Tatum and who else was he? Who's the third guy? It was another star. It was like three drafts in a row where they Tatum of Thecail Bridges. There's another story in there and I can't remember who it is now. Yeah, it's a fun game. That's a fun game of what if. It's just fun to talk about. Yeah, it's a normal

collar h find a new topic. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come right back. I'm gonna go

weep a little bit, and we're back. And The Athletic pulled one hundred and one former NBA and ABA players about the game's top players today, like who they think is the best player, and they still think Lebron is the best player, which feels like some of this feels a little bit like they just pulled people who like know about the NBA, and I know that's not true, but like, I feel like this is the same results as you would get if you pulled my wife and

like her friends. In some cases, my girfriend would say Lebron, So that's true. Yeah, Like it's just like these are the names everybody's heard of. This is that's not I'm I am mad that Embiid was not in the top seven, but neither was Tatum, So you got Lebron, Jokich, Jannis k d Steph Luca Kyrie. Kyrie always does really well with players and player polls because what he does is so yeah, he's like part magician, you know. It's just like his shot making, ball handling is truly one of

the wildest things to behold. But I don't know, all the quotes were kind of boring. I don't know, like, well, I'm not a big fan of this article. Let's say sounds like it to that point and actually tying it too. You know, we go what you let in with the Jamaine Jones quote. It's predictable, you know, it's it's Lebron James. The body of work and what he's currently doing at this age, it makes him the best, you know, like

of his time. What I actually relate that too, is not only is you know, obviously he played he played alongside up you know, he played alongside and he played in the league at the time when he played. But I think older guys and someone understandably it's that much more impressive that he's still doing it at this point. So I think that might be influencing a bit of

the bias there. Yeah. Yeah, And most of them played with him, you know, most of these former players played with him or played against him at some point, so you know, Aba, I think he was around back in the ABA era, like just after. I mean, Lebron's like my favorite player in the league, like the person I'm rooting for the most like in the league still to this day. So like, I get it, I'm not I'm

just salty about the mbid thing. They quote a player said Nicola Yokich because he dominates the game on both ends of the floor, it makes his teammate better. Um, so that that was from Lee nail On. Okay, I remember lead nail On. Uh dominates both ends is an interesting quote for Yoki, Like make a half court shot and make it dominates that with the outlet pass on

that side of the basket. Yeah. So you know, I'm the leader of the Yogis bandwagon for this particular season, and I've already stated I do think he will eventually earn that third in row. But we don't have to lie, man like, and yes, he's he's significantly better defensively than seemingly a lot of people will give him credit for. But we don't have to lie and say that he dominates,

you know, on both ends. Come on, Which is why when you asked Lebron and Janis to like pick their number one starter who they wanted on their All Star team, they were fighting over who could pick Yokic last the last pick, and beeB was the first pick. They play against these guys now, not in the past tense. Sorry, all right, but I am not biased. So this is let's get into the performances of the week. Obviously we

talked about Dame. That was a lot of fun. The Knicks beat Boston, which I'm usually a fan of anyone beating balls him, and New York has now won sixth straight.

They're they're messing up the bracket there. They're put me in a mind state where I'm gonna have to be seeing the Sixers play the Heat in the first round, possibly, which is not my My preference would be the Knicks, I'll just say, And that would probably come back to haunt me if it did happen, But I was gonna say, be prepared for all types of awe this you this, you all the time if they do happen to lose

it the Knicks. But Brunson is just really I don't know, I don't think a lot of people saw them being this good with this team coming in and Brunson is you know, he's really backed up and earned you know, his ability to be the best player on a on a competitive team. Yeah, Bronson, um, he did. He did us in last summer so I knew it. I was kind of glad he was getting his own team. I didn't think the Dallas is gonna get Kyrie to replace them. But yeah, Brunson, he's strong, he gets to the basket

spout like dude as a bucket. He can play. I'm glad he got his own squad too. Yeah, but currently they'd be matched up with the Cavs in a four or five matchup that would be really fun, just a rock fight I'm imagining at some points. But yeah, I mean there are people who can get buckets on both teams. Like the Lakers Dallas game. I tend to just like inherently root against Dallas, and I do root for the Lakers because of Jabari and Miles and Lebron, my three

best friends. But this was just one of my favorite games of the season, watching the Lakers come from behind a D kind of finally putting it together, like starting to feel like maybe the Lakers have something here. A D looked awesome, like it was. That game was fun, and Vanderbilt was who, like I was most excited about after that game, and then obviously Lebron's foot injury happened, and we don't know but it's kind of throwing some

water on all the excitement I was feeling after that game. Yeah, I like Vanderbilt's game. I wanted him to be a son so bad, but we also needed the picks that everybody wanted for her Katie. So it was either pretty much everybody I wanted in free agency because I thought the Katie thing was dead went somewhere else because we were just playing the slow, quiet game. But yeah, I

wanted Vanderbilt to really play for us. I wanted Beasley at some point too, but it seems like Utah and Danny ains we're not messing with us at all when they came to trade talks. Yeah. Yeah, shout out to my guys, Vando and Beasley. You know my sentiment in Sugar mix. H No, that's a callback Aaron for him. Last week we had the incredible Sarah todd On and she was wet blanketing all of my happiness. But no,

like Jack, you made a great point. That was such a fantastic game, And you know, I'll be honest with you. Hearing the injury news after the fact definitely, you know, kind of takes the win from your sales. The d low injury on top of that is another one of those things where it's like a man like just when they finally put some pieces out there that makes some sense.

You know, this continues to be the case, but you know what, you know to your original point, I'm I'm gonna remain for you know, I'm gonna keep the faith with a d I think he I think he finds a way to carry. I still think they make the play in Um. Yeah, I don't care about the this you and and all of the key key keys that are gonna come as a result of them not making it. You gotta believe, we believe. That's one thing a Laker fan gonna have. It's gonna do. You hear a lot

of belief, whether it's founded or not. And you know what, quite frankly, we've been spoiled. That's the reason we've been spoiled because more often than not it does work out. Not always, but a lot of times it is. So I have been sitting here and witnessing Aaron Jabari and Miles's hope for everything to come together with you know,

just feeling like, guys, guys, this team stinks. The Dallas game, I was like, this is actually something and I will I will say Lebron was a defensive liability in that game and has been for a lot of this year. Like he was. There were sometimes where the even the commentators were like, yo, why did he just like not even move towards the shooter on that one? So I don't know, we'll have to see what it looks like without him, but I could see them, just like, you know,

putting on a run here even without Lebron. And I don't think Delo being out hurts that necessarily. I'm not a huge Delo believer, but just for perspective, it's more from the playmaking aspect. Without Lebron in there, all of a sudden, it's like, okay, so who's gonna make entry passes? Okay, so who's going to create who? It really is going to be a matter of these guys are gonna have to come out and defend like crazy and make threes and you know what, I'm not gonna hold my breath,

but I'm gonna be hopeful. Yeah, Sixers grizz game was a lot of fun. Had me being like, maybe maybe I can send a text being like Eastern Conference Final. Maybe because I have been a steadfast believer that this team does not get out of the second round. Uh just ever, the seventy six ers and Bead looked terrible. Offensively looked like he yeah, just real slow start, but then just like defensively kind of dominated and they came back and beat the Grizz, but then a couple losses

of the Celtics and the Heat. I'm pretty psychologically damaging, I think for for that team, you're not still on that emotional high from that block. I gotta be honest with you. I would you're you're a better man than me, because I would have been texted NonStop. You saw that, you see what's up? Jump with me and become no, get that out of here, yea here afore the games tyrannic protection luders cannot believe. But you're so much God, this is unbelievable. Look how hard both of them are.

I think people are just excited to see the Grizz lose, especially like that there's been new us, Like I remember how many how much people hated us last year and just thought like we hadn't earned all the trash we were talking. So it's good to see like what happened to somebody else, like even though I enjoyed them, it's just funny saying it be somebody else while we just get to kick it and sneak into the playoffs. Now, yeah,

I think you guys are still you. Actually, I think the Katie I'm now rooting for them because I always root for Katie and Lebron. But like, I think people are gonna be haters, oh big time, especially when they come out and they and they're just wrecking shop that people will absolutely hate. And Chris Paul's on the team. Like, it's easy to root for a team with Chris Paul on it. That's why I knew the hate was coming sooner or later, waiting a couple of months, and we

were exciting and fun because we had young dudes. But the hate is always gonna come when you have Chris Paul, and it's earned. I hated them before you got here. At least you're honest. Okay, at least you're honest. The Clippers have had like two wild games since the Westbrook trade. They've had two like incredible games that there's just like all timers, and they lost both of them, like at the very end. But Kawhi looks incredible. I don't know. I still I still think like they're a bad matchup

for anyone, even the Suns. But so so, they had the second highest scoring game of all time Kings versus Clippers, one seventy six, one seventy five. Yeah, just forty five for Monk, forty four for Kauhi, forty two for Fox, and Ross debut with seventeen points, fourteen assists, five boards, and seven tournaments. So the gift and the curse. But who is the team you least want to see in

the first round. I think it's Dallas. It's just yeah, animosity and Luca and just the whole thing, like at the end of like we're better even than we were last year, but and like technically we would win, but it's just the lucanness of it all. Like I hate it watching it. Um Kad is like, yeah, it's fine having him. I just don't want to play them again. It was just too much. Yeah, it won't got time, but yeah, I just I don't want to do that again.

The real real answer of a team that I know would just be tougher is New Orleans if Zion comes back, because that team was really good and Willie Green knows how to play us, like he he played like he coached our team and he just knew everything that we were running and brandon Ingram just was killing us. So I think that would just be probably a lot more

fun to watch. I actually think you'd be fine for some reason, like just that this was the first Dallas game that I've been super invested in and rooting against them this season, and I felt like they didn't quite have it. But can we go back to Game seven of last year? Like what as a as a son fan, like what is your feeling on that? Was it just like a weird thing where people like sick, not feeling well, Like what what do you think happened in that game?

Like how are you making sense of that heading into this year's playoff? It was weird because Game six I was like I don't like how that look because like Game six looked bad, like body language wise, like all of it, like the vibe, none of it looked good. And even the way that they were talking leading up to it, like it sounded like they didn't even believe

the stuff they were saying. I played basketball with like a bunch of people like my friend Pat and like Mike and all of them like they either like right for the suns or draw for them, or like take photos at the games. And I was like, like, it was just weird vibes. Even when we were hooping, like we were getting ready to go back home, I was like game seven tonight, Like no, it was like nobody wanted to even talk about it. It was just like

really weird energy. Like even when we were playing basketball in the morning and when it was happening, I wasn't super shocked just because it Game six just seems so weird. It didn't seem like they had it. Yeah, as a fan, you know when your team is done, Like I'm gonna I'll give you a quick twenty eleven the playoffs, Lakers are your Lakers are face. You know, matched up with the Mavericks in the round two. After game one, all my boys were like, Oh, it's all good. It's all good.

I honest to god, I was like, yeah, I don't know. After game two, same thing, my boys were like, oh, it's all good. No man, all you gotta do is take care of business. Blah blah. Noah, it was over. And honestly, when a certain team indoor player like in this case in Luca, when he takes your soul, he takes your soul. So I understand why you don't want to necessarily face them. And you didn't even mention Kyrie in that matchup. Yeah, yeah, and that was what he

did it with Jalen Brunson. I mean, they are worse without Finney Smith killed us. He had like eight threes in like two games or something like that. Like he went off too, and Spencer Jimwoody was out playing book coming off the bench. Like it was just all of them. We're just going off and getting open shots and like a lot of those dudes aren't on a team anymore. That's so I'm not really worried, but yeah, it was

just the vibes were just bad that time. This time, I just don't want to do it, just because of Luca and just the crying and it'll be chippy for no reason. That's why I wouldn't like about it. It It would be the no reason chippiness, like you're gonna lose. Why are you being so chippy about this? And that's what I don't want to do it. Yeah, that makes sense. Um, That's how I feel about the Celtics. The heat let's see who else. I don't appear the heat either. Yeah,

that's a tough series no matter what. And you just Jim Butler is just thirty percent better in the playoffs for no reason that anybody's been able to explain to me, just that much tougher. All right, let's go with the NBA broadcast call of the week, Chris Boucher's dunk earns a bar from Raptors, played by play guy Matt Devlin. Let's play it took off in Montreal landed in Toronto. That is absolutely a bar that does just sound like a stray Drake Lyric actually kind of actually, are we

sure it's not? I don't know what's closer or further. Sometimes it's smart enough to know like location on the map stuff like that, So yeah, it seems smart though. Yeah, Drake would have been rapping about doing that at four am in the morning and being sad h Montreal landing in Toronto. All right, we're gonna take a break, we're gonna come back, and it's gonna be aaron the fastest segment and podcasting. You did you just hear Jabari say so? Because that's the sound that this segment is going to

make as it rushes by your head. Got it? Yeah, all right, we'll be right back, and we're back. All three of us are in our athletic positions. We're ready slapping the floor like Bobby Hurley. I always think of Antoine Walker slapping the floor and go that once and then I think i't blown by immediately. Well, um, just like floor slap. I feel like the floor slap, like a couple of people did it, got made to look very silly, and then it people were just like, we're

not doing that anymore. It's still like a fun thing to do, but smarts the only one that does it that I believe, Like, yeah, Colin Sexton was the last one I saw do it and absolutely get embarrassed. Um, so yeah, I think you're right. Folks have learned. Yeah, all right, So we are going to ask you questions. You're gonna give us the first answer that comes to mind on these like and you don't even think about it.

It's just, Um, have you ever seen an action movie where like a bullet ricochets around and it's just like poo poo poo. You know, Yeah, that's kind of the vibe we're going for on this We do need you to keep the thing moving fast, though, because we get distracted very easily. So Jabari, uh, why why don't you take the first one? Are you sure I bequeath the first question unto you? Aaron, You're good with it. Yeah,

I guess all right. You can go back in time and actually change the outcome of a single NBA game from throughout history. Which game are you choosing? Game for twenty twenty one finals? Okay, okay, I think I think I know why that would be the case. But do you care to elaborate? Is that the block? Is that you? Honest? Yeah? That was a boy book drop forty two got the ball strip from him. We had it and had to go up three two. Yeah, the whole thing. It hurts.

We can go to the next one. No, no no, but but Jack, let's actually let's go a little bit deeper on that dig What do you think do you think they have KD in this situation if they actually win that game, would they need to have I think KAD doesn't make the game that close. And yeah, I think nobody is stuff in twenty twenty one, but I think if we win that game that does stop. Yeah, it also feels very unfair to be honest, that he had to beat Kde in the second round and then come

back and beat him in the finals. But yeah, that man, that was a really fun finals. So I have this persistent nightmare that's basically like a reverse like Mike, where I suddenly switched bodies with an NBA player and suddenly I have my skills but in their body, and everyone expects me to play as them. What do you if you are faced with that situation? What's your reaction? Do you try to play? Do you immediately just get thrown out of the game? What? What's your what's your move?

Fake injury? Fake an injury? Yeah that non contact injury. Yeah, you twist your ankle immediately just that. Can you still jump high? Yeah? You can still jump high. I mean you still have their body, but like you, you don't necessarily know how to like you, don't you? Yeah, look a little yeah exactly. I think first I tested out because I'm over anyway, so I'll be like maybe in

this body my skills transfer better. And then I get ripped and like I airball or something that I'm like, Yeah, the first question would be why is he shooting like that? For me? Because I had an ugly jumper. Um, I've always wanted to be injured in an NBA game and then be carried off by a teammate, but be carried off like a baby, like with your legs around them, like like you're being burped, Because yeah, I think I would need to be my size to to pull that off.

But they are seven feet, so you know they can make a six foot or look like a little baby. That would specifically be weird, because in this scenario, you are Zion exactly be a little bit weird. Yeah, all right, back to you, Jabari. All right, that was good, Aron, But again this is a fast segment we need. Yeah, so what is your boldest postseason or even play in

prediction for this year? And he only adds play in prediction because he thinks the Lakers, of course, Oh, you think the Lakers are gonna make it all the way to the five crazy man postseason prediction? Um, I think the Warriors are gonna get swept, so they're gonna make it beyond the play in only to get swept in that first round. Yes, all right. I like the Warriors, by the way, too, I just don't think they got it. Oh you don't have to soften it. You know, this

is a show. That's the tone of the show. Don't worry. Yeah, just regardless. Yeah, if you could bet on any fan base to make the Inn Arena challenge, like the layout pre throws three point or a half court, which fan base are you betting on and what kind of odds do you need to make it worth your while? I'm

betting Oregon, the Portland fan base. Yes, okay, okay. I think that they got a secret amount of hoopers up there, Washington, Oregon, Like they got real hoopers up there, and I think that they take it personally that they don't get the respect that they deserve. So I think just to show everybody you get just a person from Oregon or Washington, I think they'll put on a show. Dang, that's that's

a first. Usually everybody like picks their hometown or you know, like the Well, my boy Andy, he got up for the challenge a couple of months ago and he kind of embarrassed me in front of my family. So what did he do? That's okay, he's not listening. Um, he probably doesn't listening. He is a good friend, but you gotta make your free throws bro and they're free and

all right. Last one for me. Karen Jalen Rules recently said that men should be spending a minimum of one hundred dollars on their haircut, a minimum of that, And you know, for me, that's a little a bit steep. But what's the most that you'll spend on a given you know, a pampering deal, like just the regular garden variety, like whether it's your haircut, you know, you spend that much, you're sitting that much and beyond on you know, I don't know pedicures or whatever anything. I think I'll go

one fifty on hair in general. My hair is braided, Okay, I have to like get it braided and get a faith right after it. So usually that's about one twenty. But if I really have to, I'll go one fifty to like one six. So it's a little bit seem like Jabari was trying to like get permission for spending

a lot of money on a pedicure. There, I sound like you're like, or you know, a pedicure is specific, you know, manicare pedicure pedicure or not me, But like people would say, I've known people who do that and it's normal. Right, Um, what's a good price for a pedicure? That's basically my final? What should I be a peg for a pedicure? Is she? Is she really trying to get over on this price? Leg? It's um? Is Jalen Rose's hair too good to be true? Yes? It's performance enhancing?

I oh it is. He got the spray. We don't have to. He got the little squitsch squitsh squish that he puts on the corner my barbera. He tried to put it on me. I still got on my hair though, so I don't need to do that. But it's good back a little and you can feel that he uses the black little paint stuff. You can see it. Jack, Can I actually amend my answer? Yeah? I don't know if you've seen these, but have you seen the bald Dude lace front that you know? They get the actual

cut with it and it looks it looks smooth. I'm gonna make my twenty twenty three come back. I'm gonna I'm gonna spend that hundred bucks on the bald Dude lakes front. Give me the sheen, give me the you know, give me the little powder, give me all of that I needed Jalen Rose in my life. Yeah, absolutely, I mean it seems but he still has his hair right, Like, you're not suggesting that it's all fake. It's just he has a great head of hair. And also there's some

performance enhancing. I don't know why he goes he does the second thing, like you could tell he got a good lineup. I think he just does it or does it with the black little spray stuff on his side. He don't need to do all that. Yeah, okay, that that seems fair to me. Kind of the only answer I've heard so far that makes sense on Jalen Rose's hair. All right, last question for you, Aaron Jack, where'd your Bari Bari? I was gonna say the last day of

Black History Month. If you do not, you are absolutely being cancer are recording that's in the Last Black History money chnically combined you guys' name, so you'll never know who Jack I mean, m m, yeah, I don't think he did, but see how it is he you know what I think he actually did. He did with Jack Bart. So it's like if Jabari and I were a celebrity couple. That's the name. How just goes? So still second, I'm deal kind of okay, you're the only one that gets

to keep your name. Jack doesn't. All right, that's yeah, that's fair politician. Well, Aaron, you have survived the gauntlet, done it in style. Thank you so much for joining us on Miles and Jack got Matt boosties. Where can people find you? Follow you? Hear you? All that good stuff? Locked on sides? Um. I do it with my boy Brandon Clean every week. We usually do it either Wednesday or Thursday. We're doing it tomorrow specifically for no reason at all, but Katie is making his debut, so we're

doing a postgame show. If you can find the Twitter. Thank super stuff at ay r O n D. Aaron ed same thing on Instagram. Any comedy show you see me in your town, I post them on Instagram. Just stand up, let me up. There you go? All right? We got a Twitter of the Week from Josiah and that concludes Black History Month twenty twenty three and it's Cody Zeller Chase down block on MBU. Did not appreciate that,

but it's amazing. Jose is so good man when it comes to honestly a lot of different things, but in particular Twitter. Yeah, that's that's his. He was on a shack in a fool over the All Star break. That was pretty fun to watch. Yeah with him during the Super Bowl weekend, nice, We asked for your boldest postseason

or plan predictions. Par He's always got to add the plan and our boost These listeners of the week where Paul Garaventa, Hawks don't make it in the East, Warriors don't make it in the West, don't even make it at farren Ellie tweeted, are we even gonna read this? You want? Okay, Raptors in the Eastern Conference finals? Okay, all right, all right, Um sure I could see that we asked for bold all right, so make sure you give us a follow on Twitter at mad Boosties. That

is going to do it for us this week. We're back next week with more NBA action. Talk to you then, Bye bye, lady m HM.