MJGMB #55: We're On Award Tour with Sean Keane

and podcaster Sean Keene on today's episode. I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien and this is us driving Spinning Curry, a three parter stuff curry from town again. Yes, okay, we're back back. I didn't hold my breath since the last time I was on with you. I know it's not gone. Well, yeah, you still look pretty grayish blue. Oh, I will say it's not the most flattering skin tone on you. But yeah, we did nail the intro as usual as usual. But let's bring in our guests today. Hilarious.

Guess one of our favorites to come on the show. You probably know him from his podcast Roundball Rock, and you might know him even better because he's got a new comedy album coming out called America's Uncle Dad. Okay, daddast big Uncle Dad energy today. Yes, please welcome to the microphone, mister Sharkane, thanks so much from downtown. Nailed it, nailed it good man. I'm good. I'm excited about the playoffs. I think we got some good uh playing games too.

And uh I like that, uh even in advance. I'm not gonna I don't want to jinx anything, but I like that the Lakers and Grizzlies are already feuding even before their matchup set up, so that so the game will the games will be over. But we are explicitly uh this this podcast is set before the Minnesota Los Angeles Lakers, like the tip off is like hours like two hours away, hours away. Um Miles to explain why

the Lakers should be the championship favorite. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean look at that path, you know, just I love the seating. You know, we'll eat them all up. Super producer Jabari was like, I don't know about the Grizzlies, man, Yes, they are the roaches of the league and that they are an indestructible force that defy all reason. That does scare me because that is the kind of team that would probably do us in. But as I look at it, I'm like, oh, yeah, well, I guess you're gonna have

to get through it to get to it. So you know, bring them, bring them, as we say, I mean, I want to. I want to. Just this is I feel like the most the West is the most wide open we've seen a conference, like in years that that I can remember. It just feels completely wide open. We went on fan duel to look at the NBA Finals odds and like they're really just all over the place. Like the Suns the Warriors are the two. They have the

best odds to make it out of the West. The Suns the fourth seed, which for understandable reasons, the Warriors, your team shone Suddenly everybody was it was it just the Clay quote being like, what when we're healthy, I don't think anyone could beat us, And everyone's like, yeah, good point, all right, Yeah they're the favorite. Um, the Nuggets are the third favorite coming out. The Lakers, who are in the play in are the fourth favorite coming

out of the West. The Grizzlies, the Clippers. Are they doing that because they know Lakers fans are just like rabid enough to put massive amounts of cash down maybe yea, like a public team. Yeah, I don't know. It's interesting. I mean, so this is how they have it ranked, just in terms of this is how the gamblers haven't ranked. The public markets have the Bucks as the top favorite, the Celtics as the second favorite, the Sons, the Warriors, the Sixers in fifth place, the Nuggets, the Lakers, the

grizz and the Clippers. So here I'm just gonna go through and tell you where I think the public is wrong. I think the Celtics should absolutely be number one over the Bucks after the thrashing that they gave them. Just generally,

they've been the best team all season. They were consistently the most dominant team other than you know, they had their swoons, but it always felt like when they were falling off, it was because there was like a focus, and then when it was a game that they needed to win, they would like win by fourteen, it wouldn't even be close. So I don't under the Bucks over

the Celtics is confounding to me. Is it anything to do with like no one coming back to the Eastern Conference finals and that they think that might be like a disadvantage. I mean, I know that most people most of America are boost these listeners, so they probably aren't

know that fact. But now, but I don't know, maybe maybe they just you know, yannis or disrespect because even I'm you know, I'm not a Celtics fans, but they seem like the best team heading in like kind of a clear best team to me, right, I think it's only because they have to play the Sixers before they play the Bucks. I think the Celtics would be favored against the Bucks, but no one really respects the calf

the Knicks maybe, so that's my thought. I see this like if they were the top seed, they'd be like easily to favor. So I think fans, when you're pulling for a team all season, you have a little bit of like a sixth sense that you develop about that team. And I will say I think the Sixers should not be ranked as as high as they are on the I like, barring injury, like beyond just the like Robert

Williams being unreliable and you know, maybe being hurt. I don't like, even with Robert Williams in or out, barring injury, the Sixers are not getting past the Celtics in the second round, like that's that's it's a rat as far as i'm because like, unless one of their like main three perimeter players, it's just the worst matchup. Nothing against

the sixers. It's just like and you have I don't know, sometimes maybe maybe being a fan, like I'm overly cynical about this, but it just feels like they don't have like that matchup does not work in their favor, Like I don't but you know, maybe maybe their fifth because the Celtics could get injured or something. I don't know. I just don't know how you could feel like you're going to be disappointed by Doc Rivers or James Harden or Joel Embiid in the playoffs, especially a series the

first two points grant I grant you with enthusiasm. Uh, Joel Embiid has been like concussed or had his face broken and everyone like he's a joke. He's choken on pieces of his face, He's had his face broken multiple times. Um So I don't know, I expect big playoffs from him. I expect a big you know, second round from him.

I just don't know that it's gonna be enough. It doesn't seem like it's enough to uh come close to beating the Celtics, all right, But I want to talk to you guys about your teams because the Lakers, they've been like the second team that I'm pulling for, and I have a similar feeling, like even with the game against Utah, which they needed it right like the eighty second game of the season, like they were trying to

win that game. The other games that determined seating weren't wrapped up up as of yet, and even in that game, like having rooted for this Lakers team all season, I wanted to see them put the stomp on Utah. I watched your Warriors put the stomp on Portland, and as I was checking the score, I was like, this is

gonna be like a two point game. But I just knew it heading into the fourth, Like there's just something about this team where when they most need it, when you're most like, well, they're they're gonna show up and put the stomp down on Like now they just don't do it. Yeah, you know, and what you said is all true and valid, But my thing is I'm not living in the same reality as most NBA fans right

where you are a Lakers fan. I'm a Lakers No, no, no, I'm a sovereign citizen of Laker Nation, and whenever I interact with the police, they don't like it. But I gotta say, man, like, it's one of those things where like, I just feel the only thing that gives me hope is just a weird run and a little bit of momentum that we can carry from game to game. Because there were moments before we're like I was telling Jabar, We're like, yo, okay, we got something here. We got okay,

I could I can get behind this. But then you'd have some performances where you're like, I really would have liked to see a little bit more dominance there, and it doesn't happened, which shows that I'm like, you know, Jabar was saying this before, and I agree with him completely. It's going to be feast or famine. Yeah, you know what I mean. But I haven't seen that much feast in this season. I haven't seen that much feast. Oh

you should have seen it against their food. You see it against Chic with Austin Reeves hit Pat Bev with that too small. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I think it's gonna I think it's gonna be tough. I'm not I think I said last week. I'm I'm very realistic. If we get to the second round, I'm going to have a party for myself. I have to know expectation. However, I will say this without the game being played against Minnesota,

we are going to absolutely destroy them. Okay, yeah, you could put this on a plaque and we'll visit this next week when I know the Lakers have done what they're going to do to the Wolves. And if they don't, guess what, I don't care. Ray Jas though, Yeah, and guess and I'll put on my Grizzlies jersey they have. It's so crazy that this game that the Lakers have basically every advantage imaginable, it's shaping out to be a

blowout win for the Wolves. Yeah that's what. That's what, And maybe they take care of business and the matchup with the Grizzlies, like it feels like there's a lot of narrative of the Laker. You know, this is a great matchup for the Lakers, but like, I don't know, man, Grizzlies have that last season, they have that experience from

last season. I feel like that people are ignoring it because they like don't really like the griz Like the Grizzlies kind of became on cool at some point this season, and like they feel underrated to me at this point heading into the playoffs, Like the Grizzlies feel like they could play really well throughout the playoffs and you know, surprise a lot of the people. Yeah, no, I could totally see that, I ainka. I mean just based on how they even figure out how to do it without

like Jaw or Adams or anything like that. You're like, oh, somehow there's like a squad there that that pulls for each other. They can get it. I mean they have. They have this weird thing where Jaw is the biggest star, like one of the biggest stars in the league, but they play just as well or better without him. So I think that also like doesn't compute with like the fan brain of like how you're supposed to think about an NBA team, So like that probably also takes away

from their narrative momentum. But I don't know that the narrative momentum actually matters that much in a playoff series. Joh probably dropped an interesting stat which is they were twenty and five without jaw last year, and then seven and seven without him this season. Okay, so you know, and then it just seems like the most movement I've seen in the last couple of weeks as the season's coming to an end, there's been a big movement to

the Warriors bandwagon. Sean, I have not watched the Warriors with a rooting interest this season. I don't have a gut about where this is coming from or like whether it's earned. Well as a Warriors fan, what are you feeling.

I mean, it's not really earned, except that they're playing the Sacramento Kings in the first round, and that's like, you know, they have a lot of injuries, like Andrew Wiggins played like forty five games this year, Steph Curry played fifty something games, and now they have Gary Payton's back.

But mainly, I mean, they've just kind of been messing around all season, like like even in the games where you know, they played the Kings on Friday Night, like they had to win to stay out of the plan, and the Kings benched like four starters and they got a big lead and then they just they like run out of bounce more than any NBA team I've ever seen, and you know, just row ridiculous fast break path. Yeah, like they're they're constantly trying to fast break and like

throwing it over the backboard. And I guess like last year they were also kind of doing that and then they stopped doing that mostly in the playoffs. But they have not been very good. They don't they also don't really blow out teams like you would maybe expect, and I guess maybe they have a little bit more of a bench now. But the only reason I feel confident is that they get to play the Sacramento Kings while the second round opponent is going to be, you know,

a bloodbath between the Grizzlies and Lakers right now. Look, I'm gonna say this and then they're gonna lose in five games to the King, But just you know, they've beat in the Kings like ten out of eleven, and just I feel like the Kings always get a lot of former Warriors, and I don't know, I mean, we've the last time Harrison Barnes was in a Warrior's jersey, he was just breaking threes in the NBA Finals. So I just feel like the Warriors have a big confidence

advantage in this series coming up. Other than that, I wouldn't pick him against the Suns, right, Maybe not the Nuggets, maybe not the Lakers, but I think that I think

they might just kind of luck out because of the bracket. Yeah, the Suns seem impossible to pick for me, but I mean with the Warriors going against the Kings, they've been bad on the road, like real bad on the road, and they don't they don't have home court advantage, Like it just it's weird to me that everyone's like, yeah, but they're getting Wiggins back, and like just this thing where it seemed like all season everyone was just waiting

for them. They're like, yeah, but here, okay, here come the Warriors, and they're putting them together now and they're doing it again with the playoffs, and I just I don't know, we've seen it happen before where the team that was, you know, the defending champ just kind of

is like, all right, now it's on switch time. But it just feels like they would have done it a couple of times in the regular season, like him gone on a run of like ten and a row without everyone being like, what the what is happening with the Ward. So I don't know, I personally think Celtics, Nuggets, and grizz are being underrated probably the most for sure. Yeah, and then their reward is going to be playing the

Lakers in the second round the first round. Yeah, so maybe we'll see yeah, or maybe we got take down the Nuggets. That's right. So you guys showing you're off nug off the Nuggets. You feel like they're no. I like them. I think they're I think they're gonna play. I mean, it's just I just feel like the Suns are impossible to predict because they haven't played together that much.

I don't think they've lost with Kevin Durant. But also, um, I don't think there's been a playoffs where either Chris Paul or Kevin Durant hasn't got hurt in like five years, right, So, and you know, I mean they're It was weird watching them against the Clippers because they had their their bench guys were really giving the full strength, totally trying Clippers a real battle. So maybe people are kind of sleeping

on the Suns and uh. But but yeah, and they're the top pick, They're the number one coming out of the West, the top pick for on FanDuel, a sponsor of this show. Oh oh, FanDuel, great site. Um, I'm gonna been a lot right on that with a promo code, probably i'll hear on this episode. Um yeah, but the Nugget, I think the Nuggets are a little discounted because of well, okay,

so it's two things. I kind of slumped when they had the top seed locked up, and then the MVP debate was so crazy this year, Like I can't remember there ever being players basically like organizations running like attack ads against CITs, and so every time Yogis you know, miss some shots, you just see like everybody everywhere's like, that's it. That's why I'm being it's better or like you know, embiid sits out a back to back in Denverness,

like that guy is a coward. He's afraid to play Nicola Yoki and so uh, people sort of like forgot that the Nuggets basically clinched the top seed with a month ago, you know. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, we'll see, Um, we'll see, we'll see the Lakers just do their thing. Although oh man, so it's so nerve wracking. Part of it is like it's the perfect way to lose for

the Lakers. Yeah, like, for all the reasons Sean planning, I'm like, this is the exact way that it's exactly how they lose, and it's exactly how the other fans derived. There a little bit of life force from watching all of us go like, what the heck happened over there? By the way, can you imagine how much Patrick Beverley is going to enjoy just watching the TV and hating both teams? Seriously, I hate the Wolves for leaving. I hate the Lakers. Let's take a quick break. We'll be

right back. And we're back, and it's time to go on an award tour with Miles my Man. I wish, I wish you could have just played that. Yeah, we're on award tour with Miles my Man. Count and eat your and every vote with the votes in our hand. Yeah, I mean, I think it's we've we've we've had a few things to wrap our heads around this season, and I think we could. I think I think it is time for us to hand out some awards along with Sean Kane. Um, shall we just go down category by category?

You know? Yeah? I mean the big one is MV POI move, POI boy. Most Valuable Player of the Year. Um, I think they're gonna give it to my man and be person. Just seems like the narrative turned on that Celtics game and let's do it. Yeah. I mean, at this point it almost feels like Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar you know where It's like, man, he's getting close, he's getting closer. We can't we can't do him like that another year. Okay, here it is even though you only fought a bear

in this movie. Yeah, it simply he was actually trying at the end of the season, like like Jannis and Yogis were just taking games off and Embiid was just dominating all his opponents. Great, yeah, yeah, you know I have a theory too that why he was especially dominant this year. She remember when he was first trying to make the All Star team and he asked if he made the All Star Team, if Rihanna would give him

her number. Yeah. Well now she's had a child, you know, she's pregnant again at the Super Bowl and that was like enough he had he was able to leave the boy behind to become the man now, right, He just so he took the Rihanna poster from his wall down basically, single giant tier rolling down his face. Just chug one file, Shirley Temple and pour it down. What do you think one tier? What the fluid volume is of one embid tier? Yeah, I think it's Yeah, it's like, yeah, all right, we

got the coy coach of the year. The main candidates Mike Brown, Mark Dagnault, who I'm obviously a big fan. He's the coach of the NBA franchise that really surprised a lot of us. Um, oh yeah, okay, see all right, Hey, it's good that he did a great job. He did a great job. Also my age, that guy, Mark Mark Mark Dagnoli. Yeah. Joe Mazzola, who's probably younger than I know. He actually he's probab rh yeah yeah, yeah, he's thirty four. He's thirty four. Yeah, he's younger than good for him,

younger than anyone I know. Um, he's the youngest person I've ever heard of, and yet he's got that old man sense of humor. Yeah, I think. Yeah, Joe Mazzilla is definitely I think, God a great shout for that, purely based I think like you touched on it, Jack purely based on the sense of humor alone. Yes, one of then we've ever seen delivered to a room full of media so funny it stunned them to silence. Um the royal family. Yeah, that's only one of those that

I'm aware. Jesus married Joseph. Remember when he demonstrated some kind of martial arts role. That's amazing that that was because that was that was very funny. Jesus mary Joseph one not that funny, And then the martial arts thing was legitimately funny. I was like, wait, was the other thing that we were making fun of him about, like

actually him playing four D chess comedy? Didn't he miss a couple of games this year because he heard his eye playing pickup basketball and then was like, yeah, I played like ninety minutes to pick up basketball every single day. The media is like whattball team, and like you're playing hard enough that someone could scratch your cordial like just down there, scratch guy into scrums for the loose balls. He's a coach for like forty years. Oh yeah, it's

been a delightful experience. Mike Brown seems like I would love to see him win for what he did. In Sacramento. Yeah, but I think the Mazzola, like everybody counting the Celtics out at the last minute in the off season because he was the coach, and then them being one of the best teams, if not the best team all season. If only someone had predicted that in their preseason episode.

One of those of the things Mike Brown did this year that was kind of great was he um managed in a year where people yelled at refs probably more than I can ever remember, and just like cursing out officials by name in press conferences. Mike Graham managed to make some speech about the King's getting screwed on calls late and the NBA's respond He was like so measured that the NBA was like, yeah, we are actually messing

up these calls. We gotta we gotta do better. Tared Fox here, it's h yeah, that's we thought the gigs we didn't respect the gigs. He was right, he was right about us. No guilty. Hey, we're mature enough to We're mature enough to own that. Yeah. Polo bunk Caro's probably rookie of the Year. I feel like, you know, Jaylen Williams mathurin both strong candidates, but it feels like, yeah, yeah, Carols, I think I wish it was looking more interesting. There's

a bank kare, Oh yeah that yeah. If you're if you're like the number one pick and you square were the most points, and I think maybe you get the most rebounds of all the rookies. Like he just didn't blow it at any point, you know, yeah, No, he's awesome. Six six moy What were you thinking, Russell Westbrook? I think Quickly is gonna win. But I actually like Bobbyportis. I think he's just like he's so good for the Bucks and shoots threes and plays defense. But I think

they're gonna give it to Quickly. Yeah, and Brock Good's great. It's like this is a weird year where there's this many good six man candidates, six moys, six moys. I mean, like I said, I've been saying to me, it's gonna be Russell Westbrook. You're gonna see it. You're gonna see it happen, folks, It's gonna be right there, it's right in front of us. But also Norman Powell though, I when I look at that name too, I when that game when we played the Clippers, I was absolutely. I

was devastated by that. Man. Uh so I don't know nothing. I'm like and I'm I have Stockholm syndrome now, But yeah, I was definitely impressed, definitely impressed with him. Also great World War two general. Yea love work there. Um my boy. Uh Most Improved Player of the Year. It's the weirdest award in the world, right yeah? Is it gonna be like what what are we? What's your what's the logic being applied this year? Is it like a guy who became superstar from really good player or like, hey, hey

where do you come from? Hey how about that? Huh? It market in right when? Yeah? Yeah, I mean it was so John Rand's the weirdest one. This happens like every other time. It's like Kevin loves the most improved player and you're like, let's leave a number three pick. Yeah. John Rant was already the rookie of the year and he was picked second and then they're like, yeah, most improved. Yeah,

he didn't believe it. That was my argument going in that it seems like that that that seems to be the trend for the past five six is that like they give it to somebody who went superstar, like what took it up to being like a perennial All Star

like All NBA candidate. But both of these guys feel like they are in that, Like Marketing's probably you would be surprised if he wasn't a All Star or like a you know, in the conversation for All Star next season, SGA would be the most joli pick this year, But Marketing feels like the most like nobody was counting on this this season, right, So no, absolutely not, especially too when we were like, yeah, man, they're they're gonna tank so hard and you're like, whoop, And now the only

tank he's messing with is a finished tank when he goes to do his military service this year. Wait, the last three were jobs, Julius Randall and Brandon Ingram. What is it about leaving the Los Angeles Lakers that allows teams to players to get there again? Because it's not a good place to be for young players because we don't understand the concept of improving over time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good to be young in Hollywood unless you're on

the Lakers roster. It's a dangerous place either. Yeah, you're like, oh, you're making mistakes you're young player, get him out of here and then when they leave, or like we miss you, Kyle Kuzma, we miss you. I don't know either great candidates. But Jay feels a little weird, like like it's in that job category of like it's a little weird. We knew this dude was amazing. Yeah. Lorie feels more in the spirit of the award of like of like, hey kid,

you really wow. We weren't expecting that from you. Wa way to prove us wrong and take it to another level. And jaylen Brunson any other year feels like easy win. Oh yeah, yeah, like he's been like a bunch of amazing candidates. Haliburton also has been amazing, but I feel like that was also something that people expected. Deepois seems to be between Brook Lopez and Triple j Um. Yeah, I think either good candidates. Evan Mobley is even being tossed around, which is wild since he's in his second

year still. But yeah, I think I don't know. I might go Brooke just because it feels like it's kind of runoff most improved player type thing where it's like he's always been good defensively, but he really like stepped it up and anchored it and started getting some attention this year. But yeah, and it's kind of cool that he went from being this just like bucket getter on a bad team, Yeah, being like a three and D

seven footer for a really good team. Yeah, but adva mobili Like when you look at their defensive stats as a team, like, he's anchoring the best defense in the league, which is pretty cool. And then yeah, MBID winning back to back scoring titles. He's my pick for the boy of the mbid P. I think, as Brian said in the chat, good one, good pun there. I mean, enough of those lesser awards. Should we be giving out our our own awards. I think it's time for the boost

these awards. Yes, sir, here we go, folks. This is uh, this isum forgot about Dre? Oh yeah, who's the forgot about Dre? Comeback Player of the Year for you? Jack we got? I mean I think Jabbar was narrowing it down to a few people, but where does your heart life? You had to just speak a name for this, I mean it's gotta be my man, James Harden. M I think I think Harden makes most sense here. Yeah that they certainly forgot about James h Heading into the season,

people were, um, but so here's the thing. This tends to happen with him after he plays badly in the playoffs and people are like, yeah, that guy might not be anymore. Oh we forgot about that part. All right, let's go Bosti's dunk of the year. Okay, boost He's dunk of the year. I think for I mean, look, we can go through a couple. Uh. We can start off with, um, who Donovan Mitchell over Utah. Let's see that move over Johnny Utah, get me too? What about

drawn by in the fourth Mitchell violent poster? Yeah, that's poster. It does feel like, all right, so Donovan Mitchell had an incredible season. I think maybe he could have been a recipient of the Forgot About Drey Award. Yeah, but it feels like he's not getting enough attention in the awards conversation, and he had such an amazing season. I feel like this would mean a lot to him to get the boosts Yeah the year. I think I think we are kind enough gods to bestow that honor upon him,

But I don't know. I mean that that's although I do feel like Utah kind of did this thing where like he's like, okay, I'm long enough, and at a certain point he was just like actually like arms down and then you can just do whatever you'd like, sir, And I'm just gonna inbound the ball and hopefully the play call will my attention will be on the oh, fantastic, fantastic the U I am actually because this is not my pick for boost these doy I'm actually gonna change

my pick for the Forgot About Drey Award to Donovan Mitchell from James Harden. Okay, mine's gonna be Russell Westbrook. I'm gonna pick Clay Thompson for that one. Okay, although people talk about Clay Thompson all the time, it just yeah, yeah, yeah, but we forgot about that captain's hat. Yeah, that's true. You know, I certainly did. Next one, Shaden Sharp on Draymond Green. Let's check this one out the inside shut Yeah.

I feel like this is a this is a narrative one where people wanted to see some payback for the Draymond Jordan Peel video or Jordan Pool video, and this is this is getting votes because of that. I mean,

it's not that spectacular if I'm being honest. Yeah, it's it's violence, but it's not that spectac But yeah, like part of a good dunk, though, is you need someone, You need the defender to truly be vanquished in the sense that there is a belief on their side too when they go up like utah, he at the last second, he's like, I lost. I lost. Draymond basically is like

he barely jumps. Yeah, he's sort of like, yeah, I'll get in the way, but like, I'm not going to give you the satisfaction here, which felt like a tremendous business decision on Draymond Green's part. He jumps with both Maybe he's just I'm not just jump he just doesn't he jumps as hard as he can. Yeah, yeah, he's not a big jumper. I think he's just not used to this kind of Vertically, this one's pretty fun in

slow motion. Miles is giving us a slow mo look, and Draymond's legs they're flying out like an action figure that just got rag dolled. Uh it's pretty that's his Yeah, yeah, right, like a like a soccer goalkeeper. Yeah, okay, that's in the conversation. How about Aaron Gordon over Landry Shammon. How about this one. This one was pretty violent and like the landing of the dump has never landing could have ended his life. Yea comes ag sir, laying it on your head, sir. Well and he does it in ot

up one. Yeah. Yeah, Landry Shammont miss catches his rebound and then comes down and yeah, and they called it a chart and then they reverse the call. Yeah yeah, I mean because look, he's basically trying to be like I'm not gonna jump, but I'm gonna lean into it as and this is where you're like, oh, sir, like that one point looks like Landry Shammont is doing the high jump and he's trying to arch over the bar.

Yeah he's doing yeah, yeah exactly. And then right here the coming down from Aaron Gordon, this moment right here, like there's this moment where he's like, where are my feet gonna go? Right now? Your skulls underneath me? Yeah, and that's where the new parent in me is like, no,

watch out, but it works out. So one thing I like about it, Yeah, Aaron Gordon as a dunker this year is that he had a pretty good year and uh, near the end of January, he made this statement that if he made the All Star team, he would do the dunk contest, and the league was like, yeah, we're good actually, and then a G leaguer won the dunk contests eluded Aaron Gordon in three or four taps at this point, man, so he needs he kind of needs

this dunk of the year. Yeah, yeah, le score in one of the Sixers final games of the season, Mac McClung, Yeah, I put up to Delaware Blue. Yeah, but he he was in there in garbage time, or I mean, it wasn't garbage time. It was the starters were mostly sitting and he he came in and got buckets. So do we think there was a lot of pressure for the Sixers to give him a two way, like right before they All Star game, so he wouldn't be dunking into

G League Jersey the whole time? Right? And fine, I think I think we know the Dunk of the Year is gone too. Yeah. I think so those are all great. Candles were good. But and then we have Jah against the Pacers, against the laws of physics, against against everything we believed in scientifically, here we call shove the count ran against jump with me if you want to go holy cow, oh, my partner. Didn't you just see that? Partner? Partner, Hey, partner, did we see that? He also does it? Cool? So okay,

pulls it all the way back. Yeah. When he lands, he does like a James Brown faint ye back into Steven Adams, which is really cool. I thought like Adams was gonna put like a KF on him, like yeah, James Brown. Yeah. It is like if NBA two K designed like a job Morant dunk for like the commercial, like this is what it would be, and you would be like, that's not realistic. How far the ball back? It's like below his shoulder even like usual, I'd be like, okay,

you get it behind your head. But it's like this thing's like a four thirty. Yeah. If I'm using like lock time, like how far this thing is? I feel like I'm why do you ever see like that swing portrait of Tiger Woods so you can like actually understand like the mechanics of his swing is like no normal person can keep that arm straight as much as Tiger Woods does. Like in this sense, I'm like I want to see this dunk portrait because so how far back he has it I'm like, I'm tearing my own like

I tore my labor um like watching watching. Um so that's my uh boost he's dooy for yeah and yeahs find and said he just said these are literally from NBA Street the video game. And I'm like, yeah, I think so. Uh. I can already hear Bobbito doing the play by pie. You know, we also have next up boost these ballers for next year breakout year expected. Um, we're gonna We're gonna hold off on that one. We're

gonna do that at the end of the playoffs. Okay, see see how Yeah, because obviously Austin Reeves is gonna just do his thing. Some candidates we have Tyrese Maxee, Austin Reeves, Al Shingon. You know, these are all players who had big years this year. Hal Shinguen also wins my pick for boost. These El toy longest Torso of the year, all Torso, a lot of Torso right there. Uh and Kate Cunningham also on the list. But well, yeah, let's let's let's give him, let's let him cook a

little bit before we start before we go there. And of course James Wiseman, of course, yes, I think the wise man cometh, you know, we could see something from him. I'm not giving up on the wise. That makes me that honestly makes me think that the Pistons are going to get the top pick and get wimpon just because of Wiseman's luck. You know that's right. Yeah, um, it's someone we're rooting for. For sure. Everybody loves that Dad's a bad luck. But yeah, it seems like a really

good dude. Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back for the fastest segment in podcasting. And we're back, Sean, Sean, I don't know if you remember, like this is your return. Guests have often said they blacked out for because the pressure the speed. So to remind you to get you back up up to speed, because the segments all about speed. We're getting these questions, they're gonna come fast and furious. You are responsible for

keeping things rapid fire. We will be doing our part by just doing long rambling meandering. Well, no, I think we're being pretty concise. Yeah, you know, somebody described us as succinct the other day and almost fell over in my chair. But yeah, you know, you know the rules, so don't mess about. Okay, don't end our streak we have going of this continuing to be the fastest segment sports podcasting. I wanted to be spinning around. Okay, like it's a carton and you're having to pull your collar

to the side, So step pull out. Um, but get ready because this is the rapid fire round of questioning. Bryan, start the claw. It's been a while, Jack, what do you think us? Yeah? Why not? I'll go You're the older one. The kids should go first. Here we go, Chunky, can I ask you a question? Yeah? Here we go. Is there a single NBA player you would take right now over the chance of taking wemban Yama with the first pick this summer? Um, I think I'd still take

your honest m Now, why is that? What is it about? Yeah? Yeah, he just it just seems like he is the most like force of nature player. And is it because he's from Europe too? Is that from Europe? Like he likes he likes weird foods, He got into a few. Yeah, yeah, would I still have to one boy, at least one of his brothers? That might be tough. It kind of comes with it, you know what I mean? Comes with it And don't call them a nepo baby. They know.

I'd just be like, could he be a broadcaster, like could he just be employed by the team in some other capacity or does he have to be on the rock? I think he has to be on the roster though, yeah, yeah today. Look I love when there's like a duo like that in like European soccer, like you gotta get Also, my kid brothers also coming and they're like, well they don't have them money, like fine, but he's coming. My

mom doesn't let me leave without him. He's gonna be He's gonna be here, so you might as well might a uniform or else it's gonna look weird. He's gonna be on the court at the end of games. So please all right with air coming out, I want you to pitch me another NBA movie taking place around a star without anyone playing the star. Just contextual NBA movie

that you want to see the story told. Okay, So I think I think this is about the nineteen eighty five draft lottery, and it's basically an Ocean's eleven style heist featuring members of the New York's Knicks organization rigging the lottery. In my version, it's like Old Nicks all getting together to freeze that envelope. Yeah yeah, and anytime you can get the movie star magnetism of a character like James Dolan, Yeah you want oh yeah, yeah, well

I think somebody would want to play Walt Frazier. That's like a good you could get a you gotta costume design, Oscar Nod or just his hot or do you do the thing where it's just larger in life where you only see the back of him. Oh yeah, and like but it's always doing fun stuff, fly with his hand. Every they're like a door opens an amazing music's playing. They're like, yeah, you got it, Walt, you know? Yeah?

Oh man, that guy's a card, isn't he? Obviously JD and the Strange soundtrack though, yeah, yeah, of course, of course my favorite band. Have you ever seen them live? Though? They're really like once you see them live, you'll really like start to appreciate. Yeah, because the albums recently Yeah, yeah,

can Out Street. Yeah I remember too. I mean like I went to go see Radiohead, but then this other band came on before, not really a esthetic match, but I was like all right, fine, huh cool, okay, alright, Sean. I'm sorry, man, you're really de ran in the show. We got to keep this thing going. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Well, here's the next question. You can go back in history and attend any single game

in NBA history. Which game are you choosing? I'm watching the Kareem Finals MPP because I'm not a Laker fan, but I don't hate any team in the NBA as much as the Boston Celtics. And wow, just that like moment of release for because they lost like seven finals and the Celtics or something like that. Whatever, the clinching game is an eighty five. I want to see that, Okay, just for the the experience, but it's the magic of lager Nation and then it ruined everybody from that point

now that can't feel joy, real joy anymore. Oh No, you know, like I said, we need we need like the methodone equivalent of winning constantly or else it's it's a it's bad news. We get the sweats. Yeah, but like seeing how sad Danny Ainge would be. That would be great, that the tears off his cheeks like a red hour back breaking a cigar in half. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what I'm making the aid later. Yeah, uh Sean. What's the best thing to eat at the Chase Arena?

Oh oh h they have these chicken bake sale Betty chicken sandwiches. They're really fred chicken sandwiches. They're great. Oh wait, what's bakesale Betty? And the brand little Oakland Place? The next pies and fried chicken really good? Yeah, I mean the real locations also bad. Bet I love that entire combination of words. And I'm gonna go with this next question. You can take any former Warrior and pair him with Steph clay Andre. Which former dub would you like to

see them play with? I really think he was a man at a time. He was in the wrong era. Chris Anthony Randolph. Anthony Randolph gets there, the things he could do with Steve Kerr as his coach. I thought you were gonna pick Chris Gatling, but I like they had, you know how he his nickname was the Gatling Gun. Yeah. The Warrior's announcer at the time was Steve Albert, like a lesser like lesser than Kenny Albert. And he would always call him the Energizer and pronounce it like that,

and everyone's like he has the most obvious name. He just comes in and shoots all the the Gatling gun. The energizer is in it, Like, no, he's Datling, and Gatling wasn't. Gatling wasn't like he was a starter that played all the time either. He played like short spurts. It was like, right, so frustrating. Um yeah, maybe he was just you know, pro gun control. Yeah that's what it was. I like that. I like that. What is

your boldest postseason prediction for this year? Oh? Um, I guess okay, So my boldest prediction is gonna be that, uh, at least two low seeds win in the Western Conference in the first round. M yeah, okay, yeah, to look, two five through tens are gonna look so you think Lakers and think as think the Clippers have eight more decent chance against the Suns than it seems like just yeah, maybe a lot of dudes I don't think coming back. But Clide is just now that he's playing like forty

five minutes a game, like yeah, back to robotic. Yeah yeah, I can't tell. I had the Clippers on my like team that I think is being underrated in the odds in the bedding, but I took him off just because I feel like I might still just have that old man, like you know when Doc Rivers trades for a player that beat him up in the playoffs six years before, right, Yo, Yeah, he's not still that dude. Like I'm wondering if that's

what I got with Kawahi. I mean, he looks really good this season, but like you just see him stepping all over your boy. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm getting still like it. I can't turn your back on that guy in the playoffs, tell you that much. What I would love to see is I mean, I don't think it's very likely, but you could see a Clippers Warriors conference finals, and I think the Warriors would just have front office executive Zaza Pachulia and just stand him courtside, yeah at

all times, like like remember that Kawai, remember that? Remember him back? Uh And finally Sean the most important of them all when you come on this show, Miles or Jack, Oh oh, I gotta pick Jabari again. I think he's he did such a good job today. He's really he got picked even when I was co hosted. Did he get picked all the time when you were out or when I was he got picked all the time. When you this is he's fired a conspiracy. I mean, we can't fire him, but if we had that kind of power,

yeah we will, we wouldn't. This show would be absolutely nothing without him. But he does not deserve to be picked just because he is the absolute bones of this show and we're merely like a toe callous every word that I said, what I'm saying right now. He's just been texting me jokes and insights, and he's actually been facetiming me on my other lap off, just like yeah, holding up two cards. But the eyes like wow, well okay, well look we got it. That's fair enough and a

diplomatic choice as well. Um, but Shan King, thank you so much for joining us on this edition. Before we get your information, we do want to tell people about the boosty suits of the week. Well, we asked the listeners out there for their own play in tournament predictions, and let's look at the results. Sixty four percent of y'all said a playing team would eventually win a first round series, and it seems a majority of them believe

it will be the Lakers. Oh wow, I hope you're right, and if you're not, then shame on you for getting my hopes up and our boost. These listeners of the week were at Michael Underscore Loris and predicted the Lakers would eventually smash the Grizzlies. Okay, I'll stick around for that. At Baby eighty four predicted a conference finals run from

the Lakers wow. And at ched Earthling, who is a Celtics fan, predicts a Celtics verse Lakers finals That would really be interesting, but so make sure you give us a follow on Twitter at mad Boosty's double O S t I E S. And also before we go, Jack, who are in your conference finals and who are in your finals? Conference Finals? East, Celtics, Bucks, I know, little a little Edgy Wests. We can go Nuggets. Can it be Nuggets, Suns? No? No, they're second round um Kings, Warriors,

Grizzlies potentially or Lakers, Timberwolves. Who knows Nuggets, Griz Nugs, grizz Yeah okay, and then the final grizz Celtics. I like that, okay, Sean Keen. Who are in your conference finals and who are in your finals? I'm going with Warriors, Sons, Bucks, Celtics. And then I gotta pick the rema. I'm picking the rematch Warriors Celtics. Wow, okay, he's back. This is this is gonna be thrown in my face in about a

week when the Warriors go down too in Sacramento. Right, I'm gonna get Obviously, the Western Conference finals are gonna be you know what, I think. I just want to I need a little bit of revenge on my way to the finals. So it's gonna be the Lakers and the Suns. Uh. And then the Eastern Conference is gonna be Bucks six, and then it's going to be Jaggers, then Jack and Miles. Wow, that would be this show. Well, yes, that thought like the fourth time they this is the Yeah, yeah, yeah,

they gotta get some revenge for eighty three. Hey, if the NBA, I mean, we've already given you credit for saying that you could fix the nineteen eighty five draft, let's make this happen for the ratings of Miles and Jack got mat boost. He's obviously your number one priority as a league. Yeah, this would be huge for us. So yeah, come on for the little guy. Please in the Lakers for the little guy. Yeah, so we'll see.

I have a feeling I will be wildly inaccurate, but ANOI can dream Kenny Sean, Where can people find you and support you? And all that? Man? Okay, my album's gonna be called America's Uncle Dad will be out at the beginning of this summer. You can go to Blonde Medicine Records. That's Blonde Medicine dot com, ron Ball Rock is My Basket podcast, Twitter dot com, at round Rock cod Patreon slash round rock Pod. And you can also read me at Yard Parker and Giants Baseball in Center

because it's baseball season. Love that, love that, so check that out. Oh and I'll be at the San Francisco Punchline on April twenty fifth. I love it there. I love it there. Do they still have that weird mural on the wall? They use Sacramento Ones amazing because it's there's not really a skyline and yeah, one of the

biggest buildings is actually a jail, so wow wow. Or like that one weird like train yard out of nowhere that I always feel like I'm like passing by the way to the airport and like what is that like trains used to go through there. Yeah, it's a really weird pyramid. There's a zigarat in West Sacramento actually, and some crazy designer made it and no one wanted to use it. So now it's a government building in a zigarrette in West Love it. I love it, Love it

as well. But may they light the beam from now unto eternity? All right, well, that's gonna do it for us this week. You know we're gonna be back next week, where I will be basking in the accuracy of my take, obviously, and if I'm wrong, I don't care. I keep it moving anyway. We'll see you next time. Thanks for tuning in, check you later, Bye bye.