MJGMB #145: The Best Of Mad Boosties 2024

Well, well, well, no, that's not the normal voice. Because the guys are on Christmas break this week, so please enjoy this best of twenty twenty four episode that features a blend of fun conversations with the athletics Mode de Quille Ndscapes, Martins Johnson, comedian Megan Gaily, writer creator Extraordinaire Jasmine Watkins, Sports Better and analysts Jamison Welch and comedian Matt Leeb.

Welcome to the show. I guess we should just start talking at the state of.

The Milwaukee Bucks, you know, four and six over the last ten. I'm like, it is everything Okay, I was asking Jabi before this, I'm like, is this panic time or is this a doc Rivers bias?

Yeah?

Let me let me just start by saying Jabari did not tell me we'd be talking to Bucks, and if he had to that I would not come on here.

For me. But uh, yeah, it's not good.

Is the best way to put it. Like I said, they're two and five. I think, yeah, I got there. They weren't playing exactly great before, but at least the record was better. So before it was the process was bad, but the results were great, and now the results are bad.

And according to people in Milwaukee, the process is great.

I missed some of the games, but like if you're losing, I don't think the process is all that great. But for the game I saw last I don't remember. I think that was the Hornets, which whatever.

But when we saw the Nasty who's some respect on the nastas his name?

I noticed people like to pick on him, but uh, yeah, he shows you can't. Actually he's a real NBA player, just the fifteenth man.

Yeah, I gotta say, like, just just so I'm a Sixers fan. I remember when we exported James Harden to the Clippers. They had a rough start and then the seventy six ERSNSS kind of washed off of him through repetition, and now they're one of the best teams in the league. So I will just say sometimes it takes a seventy six Ers export a couple reps to just like get the negative.

Energy off of them.

And so I would give yourself a little bit of time, maybe a couple more games, and then you're gonna go on like a wild winning streak.

That's Is this a metaphor about Pat Bait or Doc Rivers?

The Doc Rivers doctor.

Yeah, yeah, because yeah, I mean I remember the last time, I was like, see when James Harden went there, I was like, see.

It's he's not that, and then of course he's.

Really good.

Yeah, And I.

Knew he was good. I knew he was good last season.

Counter I mean, we've seen James Harden be great in the regular season and then it's the same most story and playoffs. So like, you know, wait until June before you completely buy into your theory that he watched all the seventy six ers off of him. But yeah, it's not great for the Bucks that you have to not only fire a coach midseason, but then hire a completely new one.

I didn't even go to the interim route. There was like, no, we're gonna completely.

Clean break yeah clean.

Blake replaced everything with Doc Rivers, which I mean.

Obviously he's had success if you win championship in NBA only, but so many people can say that. But at the same time, I don't know how to put this other than I don't like his vibe.

I believe Doc Rivers a few I don't.

I'm just kidding, But I mean, even how he got here if you believe the athletics reporting, but if he can, if we can give it some time.

Seven games is not enough, I don't think.

I mean, Adrian Griffin got thirties to my game, so you know, give it some time.

But I didn't like what I.

Saw in the beginning of the season, even when they went on that win streak with a lot of those like one of one of those games I believe was the one and Dame hit the game winner. So there's a lot to want more from this team. Obviously, the partnership of him and Dame, the health of christ Middleton is brook Lopin is still the defensive star wark.

It's still a question.

But if they have stability now, if the players believe in their coach, which it was clear even before day one it felt like that they did not believe in Adrian Griffin, then actually there can be some optimism.

But until then it looks rough.

Yeah.

You remember that shim machine material that all the basketball shorts are made of in the nineties, that like if you had a cat and it arrently scratched, it like ruined the.

Entire it was like one thread and the whole thing instead it's like scrunched on the side.

I remember when she brought it back for Rod. It had one of those scratches in it, and I'm like, okay, so this is why I was at ross. But I was like so in love with it because I was like, yes, I am part of the world is mine, which is what stood for the Twism movement.

Yeah, he had.

I mean, Shaq was just such a like you know, like in the era of the big superstars, like with Michael Jordan taking up all the oxygen, like having a big guy like Shaq who felt like a fun, lovable kid whose gigantic shoe was in every mall in America for some reason because everyone's like, get a loaded of this guy's foot.

Yes, yeah, and became like the number one novelty in America, like yeah, surpassing Giant ball of string.

It was like shack shoe.

Yeah, yeah, it was.

It was like roadside attraction famous, Like people were just like, look look at this freak, and it was. It was crazy too because like in the era of Michael Jordan, which he is taking up all of the space to even have another superstar who also so you know had uh you know, he was a rebot guy, so you know, he had his silhouette on there they tried to make.

That bad hanging.

Yeah, but you know, and and he's he hadn't he hadn't even won a championship yet, you know, it took him.

You know a few years.

He had gone to the finals with the Magic, but he had not won a ring. He was beaten by uh, you know, like better centers.

Yeah.

Yeah, and still he was like this big superstar. So when he went to the Lakers, I was like, this is cool. But also, you know, all y'all are bandwagon. I've loved the Lakers ever since. My middle school teacher teacher was Elton Campbell's brother.

He was.

Tall, Yeah, very tall. That was the other thing that I believe that.

So I'm gonna I'm gonna believe it.

And I also was like, Eldon is a is you know, this guy is a weird accent, But Eldon does seem like the type of name you would have if your whole fan les would name yeah, yes, like a transit Atlantic accent. Family would name their kid elder right right, And so yeah, so I was always like, you know, Kobe doesn't get respect. Like everyone's buying shack albums, nobody's buying thug poetry and I was like, you know, he's a he's not a great rapper, but he can rap an Italian?

Why do people not respect this guy? One that he won the dunk contest? You know? Uh?

And then when the dunk contest.

Did did Kobe not win the dunk contest? Am I crazy?

I thought he did? That was like his second or first?

Yeah?

I thought he did, like the first first year? How is that more hygen that he It was iconic? He he uh, he has like his what was his move? It was oh man, it's been so long, but it was like, he definitely dunked the ball good.

I remember, all right.

I just wanted to make sure he dunked the ball good.

Here's a refresher for Kobe's dunk contest in ninety ninety. So. The thing that I remember was that he wore his shooting shirt for it, which was very like, oh okay, we liked that. And I remember wanting a shooting shirt.

Eighteen years old six six yeah, yeah, okay, it's eighteen years old.

Here's this but us he got second.

Year okay, yeah, eighteen years old, his second year exactly. Ooh, big went down between.

His legs and got them, wore his shooting shirt the whole time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like that casual casual.

Casual.

Also kind of a mistake because why why is this not more iconic?

You say, a mistake, but you know, but he didn't win.

The shooting shirt comes off, Oh.

Dude, then they'll put it one more time.

Oh yeah, and then selext no, but it's the big show. His last one I think was, oh yeah, Brandy's in the audience.

Is important.

That's what.

He took Brandy to the prom right, he did take he.

Did, he took Brandy to the prompt. And then what was this one?

He tried to go for a bounce between the legs.

That's a good game for him. That that was a I don't want to see that replay is not nice.

First all right, so here's the last one we saw. We saw Michael Finley.

Already definitely like the most iconic one and yeah, oh yeah, this is like pumped back.

Yeah yeah.

So he he proved himself to be athletically like one of the greatest. And then you know, everyone just called him a ballhog for his first like three four years in the NBA, which was true.

You know, he averaged five steals from his teammates.

Yeah it's not just that, b Yeah, but it was.

But no, but you could see that belief in him too. I remember like one of the playoff series against the Jazz and he was throwing up so many shots that I was like, dude, relax, like, yeah, you aren't the answer to this right now. But you could tell that, like that turned into what Kobe then became, which is like that real self belief in himself and be like I'm not I'm not serious.

I'm like, I'm not joking.

I will I will negate every contribution from this other team by myself if I had to. And yeah, that was a thing that was a little bit. I remember being frustrated as a young fan because it just didn't feel like it his belief was matching what was showing up on the court. But then when those things were reconciled.

Yeah, and once everything started to come together, once they were running the triangle, once they you know, got uh Phil Jackson immediately were winning championships, and he was still you know, people were still you know, talking trash.

I was like, you're wrong, Kobe's Jordan. And then like Lebron James came out in two thousand and three and I was like, whoa Kobe?

I still hate Jordans.

I still don't like Lebron from just that, because.

From people trying to shift the focus away from my man Kobe.

And this is a this is for people who don't live in La. This is how most Lakers fans at least.

Yeah.

A sickness that most Lakers fans have is they are they resent that Lebron came to the Lakers and won a championship.

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah hurt.

They're like, I hate this guy, like he's just here, he just wants to win one with our jersey on they Yeah.

Nakers fans coined the term Mickey Mouse.

Branding for Disneyland, all we don't like this guy.

A question that just.

Occurred to me about Shack because arguably he went into the profession and where the thing that is most notable about him is the least remarkable, which is like he's around other people who are huge and he like makes them look small by comparison, like Shaq is. I don't think people understand how big Shack is and more just huge in every direction. Do we think he would have had a like he would have been world famous if he just like never picked up a basketball.

Just look at this big guy.

He wouldn't be a big guy who's like incredibly like charismatic and cool and like.

Yes, wait, so in this alternate universe, where where does he what's his path goes? Still?

I don't know if he goes to LSU, but like, wwe maybe.

Oh interesting. I could see him being like a Andre the Giant.

The Giant people by the way, forget how big Andre the Giant was.

He's another one.

It was like you when you think he's a giant, he's just like, ah, there's giants in the NBA.

No, he's like Jack.

He's like, yeah, watch holding hand coke and have your mind blown.

Right, Yeah yeah, I'm just every finger is the size of a two liter boty.

You know, you're just like what the hell? Yeah?

But yeah no, he was like always uh, one of those guys who I think people you know, you saw him as kind of freak, you know what I mean.

It was just like, damn, this guy is huge. But what made him amazing was the quick dude. He was fast.

Yeah, yeah, crazy. He would have wanted you would have wanted him doing something athletic. Maybe maybe in this scenario he's just like the world's greatest NFL something or other.

Yeah, oh my god, did.

You imagine someone that like that?

All he played center in the NFL like whatever team like the people rushing behind him.

But you think the push push is effective with.

Like normal people, like an actual linebacker.

You're like, yeah, yeah, don't throw it to me over over the middle. But alone, you would.

Literally kill people. People would have died.

Oh shak heel, how she adore you? All right, shall we take a quick break.

Yeah, let's take a quick break, and then we're gonna tilt our eyes over toward Uh.

That's where the Olympic is happening.

We'll be right back.

At the comedian.

I get it. Sometimes there's some cities.

That you go, I go there and I take it L you know, yeh, Like I take an L in my hometown Indianapolis is like, we're good, thank you. Next, I do have to have because I am marrying and live with a Lakers fan, and so sometimes it's hard to go, oh, am I part of this Stockholm syndrome relationship, or like I need to like take a step out of it because the other day I go, now, what after the loss?

I said, what is Lakers Twitter saying?

Because I can't go to Lakers Twitter, but I do like to be updated. Yeah, and he's like, oh, Lakers Twitter is game planning how how they can win in seven?

And I was like, wow, okay, yeah good.

And they saw the same game I saw too, where I mean it was wild because we were huge Jabbari, Jack and I were all texting and we all watched this run. We're like, and that's where we just lost the game. Like the Lakers just you stumble for a little bit, they will take advantage and they will just take off with the lead in a way you cannot claw back, especially if not with the kind of shooting

I was like, I'm good.

I already know how this ends because I've seen the team, and to Jack's point, we just lacked the cal I like that. I prefer that we don't lack the willpower. We like, we just definitely not the willpower.

Like Lebron has all the willpower, all the training, all the it's just it's just caloric. He needs the He needs to eat one of those dogs. The what are the bacon wrapped sausagees outside of stables?

An alley dog, danger dog, danger dog. Yeah, he just needs to d a couple of those danger dogs.

He'll be good.

It's it's wild though.

Uh My one hope for the Lakers is I remember, specifically after Game one or maybe Game two of the series with the Warriors last year, I felt as certain as I do.

Right now that it was over for the Lakers.

They looked bad, they looked cooked like that. It was like, oh, the Warriors figured them out. Like I remember Zach Lowe being like, yeah, no, I mean, this is just the point that Lebron's at in his career and it's an embarrassing way to go out, but uh, you know, and then he is the best at figuring things that. You know,

I guess, Yeah, exactly another ailing aging team. I mean, like, yeah, doing that against a on their way out Warriors versus on their way up Nuggets and just I don't know. I think it's a bit. That's where I have to I have to fly, you know, float back to real world, not Laker fan world. Were like, don't worry, baby, we got this. Hang it up, hang it up. Just hey, take check the sides for the banner, baby, We're doing this.

As my friend Sewn from Cleveland always says, the Lebron James team is never desperate. He has not been saying it as much lately, though, so Yeah.

Weird impression though that really, like.

Said, I was no Miles.

I was back at.

The Lakers game when I was pregnant and men were very mad at me for being pregnant, you know, I was like.

Back there, Wow, yeah, yeah, sorry about that. But yeah, that's where like I have to jettison myself from the pain of just holding on to a dream that is pure fantasy at this point. I mean like it's just not like as much as I want to believe it, I just I just can't. I can't bring myself there. And that's called self preservation.

Yeah, is there any of you that's like, why did we put ourselves in this position to be the seven seed.

To be players?

Yeah, yeah, it's a whole lot of happening at my house too.

Yes, we've created our own prison that we have to rot inside of and go stagnant and what it is, what it is. And now I'm reading that we're going to bring Darvin ham back next season. Ready, we're seeing stories like this. Please don't let that be true for my for my family's sake.

Yeah, as much playing time as he is, all right, we do want to talk about it. Anthony Edwards, thank you something I can feel excited about. Yes, this was the most fun thing about the game once was Anthony Edwards just coming through, I mean him against Kevin Durant and KD looked you know put up thirty three had some amazing points, but Anthony Edwards was just thirty three points, nine boards, six assists, two steals like big steals yeah, and justtitude.

Trash yeah, like charming.

It's like it's it's so many stats outside of the points too, just like you are a star, get like.

Please let me run development for your company?

Like I just love ye yet my my son My not even two year old son went to his first basketball practice on Saturday. He wore Anthony Edwards shoes and he did not play one second. There was a playground right next to the basketball court and he said, I'm out of here.

Yeah.

He got so many compliments. Dads were like, where'd you get those shoes to a baby?

Yeah, So it's like this is the star power, Like, yeah, please talk to me, not the child. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, where did you get the shoes? Yeah?

Yeah?

That was so Yeah, right, Jack, I can't believe. Have you got nothing else to say about the Sixers? I just want a glass right over there.

Like Nicks are probably going to win.

Well, I mean what the game has started, Like, as we're recording this, the Sixers or down three to one, the game, the elimination game has started, and I don't know, it's yeah, the like they have not been able to win the close ones and yeah, that's mb. He seems too slow to rebound seems to be the main problem. And so there's just a lot of problems on the offensive boards, you know, all with injury and it's just like a truly cursed career for this man in Philadelphia.

Just seeing that that shot him that they're saying like, yo, he's got a mild case of Bell's palsy, like you know, like a form like facial paralysis.

And I was with half his faces paralyzed for something.

I could not I was like, yo, this guy is doing everything right now. He's like I got off of leg, my face is paralyzed, and he's still I still made that shot. I was like, hey, he put up.

Like everybody's talking about him being historically bad in the playoffs, he does seem to have historical bad luck in the playoffs. He did put up fifty in Game three. Despite that one of the strangest just performances in a in a basketball like seemed the first half it was like is he all right? Is everything okay with him? Like he seems like he's going through things emotion down And he ended up having fifty and the Sixers won the game. But uh, yeah, I just think I think the Knicks

Are right now.

I always sound defeat even when they're if they were up for you, and this is how I would sound. This is just what it is to be a Sixers fan.

We were doing this all season. We're like, Jack, look at them they're doing.

They're putting a little run together.

You're like, I don't know, it doesn't matter. I'm like, come on, tap into the delude. It's twenty. Every time we have Philly fans on, like Blake Wexler two, everyone has like the same thing.

It's like, I don't know, man, like I'll believe it when I see it, but but I will watch and maybe go along.

And were over here on the other end of the spectrum, just like, yeah, Lakers to next year.

We're both on the same like of school bus going off a cliff. But it's like that meme where someone's looking out one side of the bus and the other person looking at the other side of the bus and like, but we're on the same bus, you know what I mean. It's just like the Laker fans like.

Wow, we are not on the same bus.

By the way, you guys have eighteen titles. We have a couple.

We've had an MVP or near MVP for the past uh you know, four years, and every year the playoffs are a disaster, So uh do to like things like doesn't make sense? Like, I mean, I guess it makes sense because he's seven foot two and you know, has just like a massive body and like you know that. But it's every he'll have a great year and then like things just start to fall apart right at the postseason. Just is it's too long? Yeah, but like this year, you know he took some time off. I guess he

Thank you.

Oh okay, that's been my time. Like Elon Musk on that Tesla shareholders call, it's like, actually, we don't make cars. We actually AI robotics coming, So it's not an l.

I'm just a fan of the great game of basketball.

Thank you.

Yes, you have you have transcended. You have transcended. Well, speaking of transcended, I think it's time we start a new tradition here on the show. It's time to give a quick eulogy to the teams we have lost to the postseason. Que the cue the church music, please mm hmm. Dearly beloved. We are gathered here today to lay several teams down to rest this week, and although they each fought valiantly, we're going to need the Pelicans to step

I think they're in a better place now when they were getting swept a couple of nights ago. The most depressing detail as we were going through the eulogy notes they won forty nine games in the regular season this year. That is the third most enfranchised history and it didn't even feel like that that could a seasoned for that right, They still only have two playoff wins since the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen season. Is this how you're supposed to

Well, I mean it kind of it's a little bit. It's just kind of just I guess maybe we'll call it a post mortem.

Yeah, okay, with on the best of health moving forward and you know, happy trails to brandon Ingram I guess absolutely to the Pelicans.

You know, now you have time to tour the beaches of Galveston, Texas, or go to Faraday, Louisiana. It's all. It's all fun and games. Phoenix Suns fans were talking to you next, and there was plenty of evidence that a manufactured super team would rarely work. We honestly, we can't fault you for trying for having a dream. Look, I was there. I thought Gary Payton and Carl Malone. Anyways, let's forget it anyway. I'm just saying, we can't fault

I really believed that they might be able to do something because of how good the nets looked four years ago.

That's what that was the logic that I was clinging to.

I remember remember when the nets had like peak, but it was peak KD, so that that was the difference. Anyways, the rumor mill is already a buzz surrounding multiple stars, head coach Frank Vogel, the team in general.

We wish you safe.

Trails took Casa Grande, and now, my Laker fans, our time has come yet again, as Denver has done it to us again.

I don't think ad. Look, you may have played a career high in games, and Lebron in his most games since twenty eighteen, only for the team to not perform the expectations and have immediate rumors about his future in LA following the season. But at least this ride has been fun and completely free of anxiety or angsil I'm not on. It was full of anxiety and actually want my kidding. Look, the Nuggets seem to have been our alpha and our omega. We started the season playing them.

Wow, you're really crying. That's incredible.

These are courage tears, man, because I'm so crazeous, bro.

And we're back.

We're back.

And okay, yes, the seventy sixers played before the all time classic.

Game that should just be should determine who wins the championship. Yeah, if you if you had the most exciting double ot in the regular season, just give us number eighteen. I mean you want to stop the count Tournament two like that stop you stop the count mode. That's when I stopped the count. You are saying that in the fourth quarter, they gotta lead.

Stop the stop the count.

If you want a funny story, like one time I was playing DeAndre Jordan was a rookie when I was with the Clippers one time and I was like we had screwing around on the court or something and playing one on one, but he couldn't shoot from the paint.

As soon as I took the lead, I was like, I'm done. I got to go stop the paint and just ran off the court like I would too.

That was my version to stop the count. That It's like every time he wore talking to me, I beat in one on one, Yeah, and it's like he's would be like running back.

I'm like, ah my knee, though, little.

We should we should have.

We should have introduced you as somebody who just destroyed DeAndre and one on one and he hasn't been the same since. But yeah, that night Jack. I was, you know, people are coming against Denver.

Joel was a late scratch, uh, and the memes were coming for my man, Joel embiid man talking about how he's scared of Jokic. I just want to set the records right, Okay, he has dominated Jokic in the last few matchups.

He's not afraid of Yokic.

He's afraid of the altitude. And have you tried to exercise at altitude?

It's so hard?

Like he's just being smart. He also hasn't played in Utah right in a while?

Yeah, man, it's hard altitude.

Yeah, because I think Jabari was saying he hasn't played in Denver since twenty nineteen. I think, yeah, I haven't played in Denver either.

I don't want I don't want to do that. Yeah, where are you out?

Man?

See?

I was, I was like, I think I'm off this mbiid guy for the Lakers, you know, because like we kind of got to go there to make stuff happen, so a couple of times, a couple of times a year. Yeah, yeah, so people.

Are looking for an excuse to be out on him like that. That was what that whole thing taught me.

Is.

People were just ready to be like, I'm tired of this guy.

He's so many people.

Yeah, like Bill Simmons especially, He's like, eh, well, you know Jokic is always doing it and attack may wing.

You win an NBA title with Larry bird on your team? What would what does this have to do with Larry bird Man? Yeah, road Bill Simmons is tough to I listened to his show. He is both dismissive of the seventy six ers, but then like also secretly like fears that he's He's like the seventy six ers, like don't they stink? Like they I'm not worried about them. But then like when he's talking about potential trades, he's like,

Man? Is it? Is it one?

Mic? But yeah, that's it.

That's the game.

Though, Like everybody's kind of counting out the six or until they do it in the playoffs. It's not that different than what we did with Denver, whether it was fair or not, Like we counted them out until they went and won the finals like it was along those years. So it's along those lines in that sense, so like you you understand it from them, and look, it's a bad look. It's a bad look you know that. Hey yeah, yeah, I mean, if he's genuinely hurt, totally get it respected all that stuff.

You hurt, don't play it.

We know his knee injuries and stuff like that. But man, it's kind of suspicious, yeah, you know, And it sucks because literally the week before I had just gone on a podcast defending Embiid and then you know, I'm like, don't worry, he'll like he'll play in that game, and then of course he scratches, and I'm like, all right, I can't.

I can't defend him anymore. I'm not going to go out on a limb. Yeah, I mean. It's also just one of those things as fans you want to see too, you know, like you want to see that like MVP race play out on the court and just be able to be like, oh great, we got to see them go up against each other, and now we have a little more data to begin you get the take machine going.

And when the people were like where's Embiid and he was like pointing to himself, I was like this is not good to just go go back to the locker room.

This is like, this is embarrassing for all of us.

Hey man, but I always I give him respect as a as a fellow Arsenal fan.

You know, I'll be in a corner to will you know, being a corner to the Lisp.

You said that you're no longer very interested in signing Joel mb to the lake.

D Yeah, I mean, you know, like I said, my my fantasy is just go wherever the wind blows me. So right now, I'm like, I don't know, maybe Lucer, you know, yeah, maybe this Luker Doncic.

Guy, he might be.

He might He might have a case too. This might not be a bad deal. Jameson, I'm a good man. You've wandered into the rapid fire round of questions. We're just you. You've done this before. We're hitting me with some questions. Don't expand on your answers, give us quick responses right back to us. And if you take too long, we will be very rude, and we are very impatient,

Should I go first?

Or do you want to go first? Uh?

You can you can go, man, It's cool, all right, Jamison.

You can go back in time to personally witness any of the following iconic moments. The first one, Magic's baby sky hook in the garden in nineteen eighty seven. And I will play the clips just to remind you of how beautiful these moments were.

Cooper takes the ball out of bounds baseline, Raymond Worthy is the left.

Worthy comes as a right, the left goes mad You's got it. He didn't shoot at five seconds left, Maddie gotta metal. Just what I thought a hook shot?

As twelve god two seconds eleven, the Lakers take the lead on Magic Johnson's running sky hook.

Hey Jack, that was you, pat Riley, there is.

I mean a man chick on miss chick. Okay, the opportunity number two, by the way, number two.

My six year old just saw the year nineteen eighty something and he was like one thousand, nine hundred eighty.

I was like, oh, yeah, you're born man.

Yeah, yeah, that there were numbers from then. Yeah, there were numbers from then. All right, Jamison moment two. Run our test that three pointer in Game seven against the Celtics straight into my veins by looking more tests. Shout up to my therapists on that one. And then finally, Kobe Bryant Clutch Finals performance. After Shack goes out Game four in the two thousand finals, try gets rose. Now Indiana has five foul.

The Pacers do not want to fail here, put Kobe.

On the line.

Kobe fires the jumper and gives La the lead. Okay, so then here it is, Jamison, of those three moments in history, which one are you showing up to so you can witness personally with your eyes?

Well, I saw the last two like lot on TV. Yeah, yeah, that the first one. Obviously I was really young, So I probably on that one because I was way more intense because of where it was located at the history at the time, uh, the players on the court. So I probably go acted that one. The other two I remember very vividly. I watched the game in four the third one. I had a lot of money on the line to that.

One, so I don't want to.

But yeah, yeah, I probably the first one.

Yeah, magic baby, skyhooking the godden Yeah, that you.

Give yourself a sports almanac can become like like con Biff, Yeah, Biff, all right, Uh face of the n b A for the next five years?

Could it be me?

I don't play basketball, but I don't know.

Not off the table. Now I have this podcast, No Face.

Of the NBA for the next five years.

Poor faces number one because he has.

The personality with the game. Well, there's guys that are just as talented, but the personality that goes with the game in the swag.

It's him.

Yeah, can we come up with a better nickname for him?

I feel like somebody was pointing out on Twitter, and this has been a frequent thing, Like people were like what happened to NBA nicknames? On Reddit three years ago? Someone was like, Kemp was Rayman, Peyton Glove, Dominique, the Human Highlight Film, Barkley, the Round Mound of Rebound, Michael Jordan Air Jordan, Like these are great poetic nicknames, and now it's like Anthony Edwards. Well, the first three letters of his name is ant Okay, okay, we'll call it him ant man.

Like what about this Tony No, man, that's just like a normal nickname. Alright, alright, alright, alright, what about Antony?

No?

So what about a E.

The reason why we don't have great nickname any war is because we know these guys from when they're like fifteen years old, so there's no mystery anymore. We just called them by their name or call them whatever nickname they already have. So we've known them, We've seen them do AAU seem to do high school. There's no more intrigue anymore. Back in the day when Sean Kent was dunking on everybody, that was the first time you saw it.

But do you do you personally miss like a good nickname or are you just like it's fine, let's call him an, let's call them AE whatever.

Yeah, I do miss a good nickname. However, the issue is this, the people will pray nicknames that shouldn't be doing it. We need people who are cool and have swag doing it, not people trying to be cool and to go viral, Like it's two different things, Like you stand there laying with that. And I think that's a big issue that we have on social media when it comes to basketball.

Whatnot, Like some of them like Barkley being the round mound of rebound, like that is too sweaty to like cook for that to work today. Like granted, it's a lot of fun, but it only as possible because there were like the beat reporter for the Sixers was like I came up with this and I'm going to keep repeating it until everybody else does, you know, like there was it's like that old media model. Whereas now, like I don't think you can get the round mound of rebound started.

No, no, no, no.

No, you can't. You can't do like nicknames that sound like an intro bar and like a Sugarhill Gang rap song, you know what I mean. It's like rebound It just like no I'd ever.

Gone over your friend's as eat and the food just ain't no good.

Yeah, we need something, that's what we need. We gotta we gotta go to the next We need we need something. We need bars. Okay when it comes to these nicknames. So yeah, the the challenge is out there, all right, So James, the next question Barkley's Hall of Fame career or former guest the Matt Boostie's Robert Ory's Hall of Fame.

Career right by. I would take Barkley's career. He was a living team, made a lot of money. He's still making a lot of money. He's he's just he's just about a famous you want to be. People know you don't know too much about you, and I think that's always cool. Uh. But Barkley, Yeah, No, Barkley at one point time at the top of the player in the NBA, and that was never the case for Robert or you know, he had a hell of a career, did what he did. But I would take Barkley's career ten times.

Yeah, and we.

Did, of course, say Robert Rory is Hall of Famer.

He's not a basketball Hall of Fame, but he's in the much more important Uh.

Miles and Jack I Mat Boosti's Hall of Fame.

All right, that's gonna do it for this Best of episode.

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