MJGMB #93: The Best of Rapid Fire 2023

Hey everybody, it's Brian the editor, and what a year has been. The dribbles, the dunk shots, the whimby of it all. It's been a spectacular season of mad Boosties thus far, and we just want to thank you all for sticking with us through another crazy year of hoops. Now, you know the drill, Miles, Jack and Jabari are off doing drills at basketball camp this winter, working hard on those aforementioned Boosties. So I decided to whip up a special best of.

Rapid Fire episode.

Yes that's right, an entire episode of Miles yelling at me to start an imaginary clock. So, you know, hold on to your butts, strap in, do what you gotta do, cause it's about to get real.

You know, since we got a season coming up, we would like to have our guests, you know, put their foot down and really make a bold make some bold predictions that we can revisit at the end of the season.

Just based on what little information we have. Uh and I think, you.

Know, Josh Gondolman, we would love to hear some of your boldest predictions. We're talking like like go for it. We're talking big swings, like we were just talking about okay, So first up, broadly, what is your absolute boldest prediction for the upcoming NBA season?

Oh?

Okay, boldest prediction is the two part bold prediction. Okay, Luca MVP, but the MAVs are like in the plan.

Oh wow, Okay, yeah, okay, I have to put it on his back. Okay.

Now, next one, which team or teams will have the biggest increase in wins over last year?

Go?

Bold?

Oh biggest increase? You know, I'm gonna say. I I like, haven't looked at the numbers, which makes this bold because it's stupid. But I think Pacers.

Okay, I think Yeahcers look interesting. Yeah, I feel like I don't know.

Even though Metherurin was not looking great in the Summer League, I think I.

Think they're gonna be great.

And he didn't close strong last year, but I feel like I feel like he's a player, he'll figure it out. And yeah, thirty five wins last year.

M hmm, well year.

Yeah, the Pacers. I talked to my U, one of my two Pacers fan friends this weekend, and he's like to hype coming out of Summer League.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm a home Grin fan. I'm very excited.

Yeah me too.

Yeah, highlight based. I only watched the highlights of him.

I watched the full game.

You're an merchant, he does, he's His highlights are so fun too. Yeah, he's just doing silly stuff.

Yeah.

My favorite thing about Summer League is like really like the Summer League Championship is like whose worst players are the best worst players?

Right?

Yeah?

Find out tonight from possibly Josh.

Which rookies or rookie do you think has the best chance at beating Wemby uh to the Rookie of the Year.

Oh, I think if I think Dame's gonna get traded and Scoot is going to put up like wild numbers there. Okay, I mean I'm going Scoot.

Yeah, yeah, I like that.

Also, which off season move or moves will actually have the greatest impact?

What's a trade?

Everyone's just like, you don't realize this is that's enriched uranium right there.

I think Grant Williams is going to get Dallas up into the playing tournaments.

Okay.

Superducer Jabbari is big on Dallas's off season.

I was not, but I think their off season was better than their season.

Yeah, which is always what you want.

Yeah, yeah, you want to peek, Well, no one's playing. Wait you see what they did off the court? Should we roll right into rapid pire? Yeah, Josh, you've wandered into the shooting gall alley shooting.

Yeah you did? Yeah, did it again?

Crossfire? There we go, crossfire, hurricane Josh.

Now this is the fastest segment. Now we're going to ask you a question. You're gonna just respond react, just chest past from that. Yeah, exactly, don't cloviate, don't expand on your answers. And Jack and I start talking, just cut us off, be rude.

Don't even take it out of the holster. And if you shoot yourself on the foot, just don't react.

If you yourself your teeth.

Yeah, just beare down.

Just be like you know, be like plexical and g it out. Okay. Now here we.

Go into the club after and she might have something.

To did he like start crying like I would have? Or what what did he do? Does anybody we have like the do we have the oral history of that evening? But I am curious. And this is a test, Josh. You're supposed to keep us moving here.

Yeah, this is gonna have it go wrong, sport.

We're talking about the wrong sport. Okay, yeah, really, let us wander off. Yeah, I know, I.

Know, but here we go, Josh question. Oh actually, uh, allow me to actually back up a second.

Brian, start the claw.

Brian's not even here, Miles, Well, he's here in spirit. Well that's all that matters.

You want to go first or I go first?

Why don't you go first? Okay, so I don't even know where I am.

All right, I get it, I get it, Joe Biden, we're all up in there, all right. So Josh, we're asking each guest which young bombs will have a breakout.

Season in twenty three twenty four.

Some of the guys we've been tossing around our Tyrese Maxey, Al Shanngoon, Austin Reeves, Kate Cunningham.

Uh, who's throwing in the mix?

The k am looking like you just came down off the mountain, you know. Yeah, he is looking rough.

Jack.

This is for you. I think it's gonna be Tyrese Maxey. I think it's the I think it's the year of Maxie.

What I'd like to hear?

Yeah, we'd like the year max we'd like to Yeah, give show. Tyres isn't your kid's favorite player.

Yeah, he loves it. The only player he knows in any sport. And so if you know baseball is on, he's like, where's Maxie? So yeah, we're working on some things with him.

He learned about all sports from Bo Jackson and Dean Sanders.

He's like, well, you should play both of them.

Yeah, this is ridiculous.

Guys did it thirty years ago?

Yeah, what's the problem.

Yeah, all right, Josh, I have a magic wand you can have any player's skill set for a day. Who are you choosing? What skill set are you?

Are you picking from them?

I want I want that Aaron Gordon prime dunk contest dunk ability.

Is this the second Aaron Gordon we've gotten?

I think so it is?

Yeah, Aaron Gordon's perimeter defense defense?

Yeah yeah, they said, just like the gritty perimeter defense and fundamental.

I just want to be able for one day to guard across five positions.

In the NBA?

What what kind of dunk would you be doing? What are you trying? When you got that kind of list?

I would want to jump. I would want to do one of those jumping over a guy or jumping over a thing.

Yeah, wasn't that birthday cake one or was that his opponent? I feel like there was one in that dunk. It was him and Zach Lavine, right yeah, and like one of them blew out a birthday cake.

It was a cupcake, right yeah?

Jerald with a candle, yeah yeah, never ignore me.

Yeh when he blew the candle up. Where are we at, Josh, Josh, you got to keep this segment.

Going, you know, get up there.

As my producing skills, they're rusty. I've been on sea.

Oh, here we go. Who do you pick in their ultimate peak? Prime Shack or prime Hockey?

Oh? I esthetically I prefer Prime to watch.

Mm hmm.

That's all.

Okay, rapid fire, that's my whole answer.

But why is that?

Is this a trick?

No asking? Just like I've never heard of this player? I like Shack. I'm a Lakers fan. I only know Laker players, so I was like, who is this guy?

I think Shaq was so exciting and dynamic and dominant, but like Hakeem played with the level of there was like so much finesse to his game and played great defense, which I always give extra points for.

This guy sounds almost made up, Josh, And I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and made up this guy.

I didn't make it what you said him to me. I don't know.

You gotta keep this segment going, Josh, this ship your miles.

Next question, you can.

Take two players from all of history you create your Mad Boosti's edition NBA JAM team.

Which two players are you taking? Oh?

Okay, I'm going from the world of NBA Jam to start like NBA Jam. Sean Kemp is unstoppable and he's on this team. I'm just keeping him in that world. And then I think it's Steph Curry and Seawan Camp. I think he's Steph.

Curry's Curry and big like a Curry and somebody who could just like chuck you across the court like that. That seemed to be such a great skill that you really needed in there.

I was gonna go with Jeff Hornise and Grimace from Mcdonmmer's.

Similar thinking, the same same thought, Yeah, exactly exactly.

The Grimace is like he's got touch around the basket.

Like surprising, surprising.

Yeah, they don't run.

A lot of place for the Grimace, but he's got that.

They need to they need to. Yeah, they're not seeing what I'm seeing I guess. Okay, how about this. You can again?

Now you have superpowers, You've got a time machine, you got all that Bill and Ted's phone booth. You can place any former Celtics great on next year's roster.

Who are you adding to the mix?

So they need they need like toughness and grit and defense.

And Marcos Smart.

Who which I think they call Bill Russell two point oh yeah, but I mean I gotta go Bill Russell. Like Bill Russell team. There's no to them on the defensive end. But yeah, you know what, Marcus Smart. Bill Russell's number two. Okay, good, He's.

Always been number two behind him. And finally Jack, which is me or Miles that other guy over there.

I have to pick one of the two of you, and I don't. There's no parameters.

The question is Jack or Miles?

Do you just call him John?

I said, Josh, don't try and establish dude.

If I have to pick Jack Miles, I'll kill myself.

John.

We'll take that. We'll take that, Josh.

We're going to ask you a question. Don't think too quickly. Just chest pass us the ball right back with your answer. Don't expand upon it because we like to get through as many questions as quickly as possible, and we want to keep our record attack. So if we start blow viating or expanding, we need you to come in interrupt and say, hey, get the steam.

And look, you've been on you know, been on TV. You've been in the hot seat before. Yeah, network broadcast.

Yeah, okay, uh so I guess we will get into it.

Are you ready?

I'm ready to Can I start with the first one because I have it?

Well, hold on?

Oh yeah, you do it?

Start the clock?

Oh wow?

Yeah, see they gotta I gotta get people's attention out there.

Literally a lot of people have stopped what they were doing and looked over here.

You guys, there's a podcast happening over here.

Check it out.

Try and make your way through the care We should have opened with Brian start the clock, all right. I have a derivation on the what teams we want to cover, So we're talking teams we want to cover in the off season.

Obviously we have.

Like the Spurs, okay, see Magic Sons, the Rockets, Portland, and the Mavericks.

So far.

You have the opportunity to either add a new team that we should be covering and like paying attention to in the off season, or take one of those teams off because I have some on that.

List in the list one more time.

Spurs Wemby Okay, see chet, those aren't going anywhere.

I don't care if you tell us to get rid of them.

The Magic Suns, Rockets, a lot of young pieces Portland Scoot Mavericks.

I'm ready to get the Rockets out of that. I am too.

Yeah, my dirty work, Yeah, no way, yeah, because I think what they did was add kind of not boring but less intriguing players at positions where they had more intriguing players, and Dylan Brooks are going to be less touches for your Jalen Greens.

You know, yeah, I think I think that's the right answer.

Let's see, you can place any Formers, Blazers great on next year's roster, any of them? Which former person he's taking out the time machine and putting.

In that jersey?

Bill Walton seventy seven Walton Okay, yeah, yeah, was he good?

It's really good. He was really good.

Good.

I think he would like expand the mind ke Walton.

Did I say Bill Walt and then.

When he was just born in seventy seven, what.

Luke Walton's arm tattoo personified playing on our tune.

I think you got a seventy seven Bill Walton out there, just moving the ball around the offense.

Okay, yeah, with the mind expanding.

I don't think there's ever been like somebody who was openly like into psychedelics in the.

League is criminalized in Portland right now, he would have a different time.

He's coming back around.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he has like his best game games and areas are like Psilocybin's legalize, like Golden State.

He's just going off.

Land all the time.

Are you gonna all right?

What's your all time Blazers NBA Jam squad?

Oh my god, actual people are like, woo what I put on there? Okay, recency bias? Put Scoot and Jade and Sharp on there right now, just dunking. If I have to take recency bias out of it, it's Damian Lillard and Chide Wallace.

Oh clears for to add that in NBA Jam to kind of make like NFL Blitz where there's also like unhinged like fine.

Defense to But it was like that was one of the best skills you could have.

It's just like, you know, check them across.

Yeah, burn right through somebody. Okay, how about this best NBA city to catch a game in? And when you're in that city, what's the best meal you can have?

Oh?

I mean I have have to evangelize for Portland Oregon here and let me lay out. I'll give you another option after that, but let me lay out the argument Portland, Oregon.

Other than our soccer teams, it's.

A one town. It's a one team town, you know what I mean. Blazer's fans are passionate, even when they're bad. You're going to see people who really care about the game, but who for the most part, aren't jerks. And then after the game, you can take yourself to a little restaurant called Canard, which is my favorite restaurant in the world, and get yourself some high end steamburger sliders cassle but like high end amazing dessert.

The food is fantastic.

I remember you reminded this to us when I was there recently, and I did not go, oh yeah, made a mistake in.

A Blazers game. You got a whole season in front of you to do.

Okay, okay, And if you didn't have to evangelize for your town.

If I didn't have to evangelize for my town, I'm going to say.

Something a little bit sacrilegious right now, go ahead, I'm gonna do it.

I'm gonna say, go see a Laker.

Games about.

Because of Twitter, I think Laker fans get like a bad rap sometimes because Laker fans.

Is also just terrible. Any group on Twitter is getting a bad rapp But if.

You as a Blazer fan, this again, this hurts for me to say that is a fantastic fan base.

They're great. They like understand the game, They're passionate.

They get like they have like in depth smack talk, you know what I mean, Like if you make fun of Sam Perkins or whatever, they're going to understand what that means. Like what Like, they're up for anything. They're smart, they're passionate. And then after that, Oh, what's my favorite restaurant in LA? Right now, you come over to my house and I'll cook you up something on the backyard.

Yeah, we'll put We'll make sure we have Ian's address in the show description.

Guys, so you guys can pull up anytime. Okay, literally great?

Yeah, all right?

If you could add one skill set from a player for a day.

What player would it be in?

What skill set?

Any player skill set?

Like it's like a like mic type situation.

Will be Aaron Gordon's Slam.

Doctor modern day Aaron Gordon.

I mean maybe even like four years ago, like the peak of the slamdunk contest. Yeah, just three point shooting his friend setting now really but like especially if.

It was me and my current body, Yeah yeah, right, all of a sudden, I like walked into a twenty four hour fitness like walked into a game, and like, cause do that say it like that.

Because hold on, man, we're about to finish this game up.

Okay?

Ok one second though, and then just like go do something like insane.

I mean that would be right here or it's Pier on the Depo second voice, and those are.

The wow beautiful wow, like honey, if you could okay, how about this, if you if like, of all the highlights that have occurred in NBA history and basketball history, if you could embody a player within a highlight and be like, I physically can experience what happened in that moment?

Is it the same thing now?

Is there so biased?

But it's the bad it's the bad shot it's not even the Houston one. It's the one over Oklahoma City, just because of everything that happened after that, the arena going crazy, his family being courtside, the team dog piling on him.

Yeah, the meme happening immediately.

Yeah.

Yeah, two different memes, three different memes, actually, like three different.

Memes from like one shot.

Uh.

And that maybe I might actually start crying.

Yeah, please, I think that will be it.

Uh.

And finally Jack or Miles.

Oh, I got to pick it to a Jack or Miles.

Yeah.

Yeah, oh god, See this is tough.

This is tough because Miles, we have a we have a relationship going back.

We're friends, friends with your wife. Jack. Jack is related to doctor Jack Ramsey namesake. Yeah, I gotta take the ore.

Wow, the diplomatic, but the difference, I mean the listeners. The listeners will respect that Jack and I so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we think that's a that's just a bunch of bold.

But a good deal is when nobody's happened.

Yeah, Brian start the clock.

Wow.

He even cleared his throat t yell at Brian, do you're gonna go?

I would you like to go? Where should I go?

To?

Myles? I think you did that last time. I feel like you're setting me up.

Oh, I would love it for you to go.

That's like when you made me eat that burger and you put all those spicy chilis in it, and why don't you pick a bite? All right, here we go first one up, I will go emon.

We're gonna be talking a lot about teams we want to cover in the off season, Spurs.

Or obviously want to talk about them. Uh, what's a team you're expecting things from?

We've talked about obviously the Rockets, Portland, Magic, et cetera.

Who else should we be keeping our eye on?

The Mavericks. That's the first team that came to mind. And now I don't think so because they seem boring.

But sure, okay, now what is it about the maver We're talking about Kyrie?

And I'm just like, are they bringing him back?

They have to?

Does he want to be there? He's got to?

It seems cut and dry, right right, Mark?

I think Cubans I love that ad.

I think I was actually mad that it felt like the image of his face that was burned onto the bun was like done in post and they didn't actually burn it into the piece of bread.

Yeah, that's like my response.

I was like, you didn't even you didn't even singe the bread properly to have his face on this done and post he is, I'm sorry, min, you got to keep this.

You got to keep this going. We have to keep this going.

Sorry, But then I would have I would have walked away without that tidbit. And now every time I see the commercial, it's going to be.

They're messing around with you.

Why would they be called mars Cubans if my face isn't burnt onto them. I'm just saying exactly.

I'm really bad at keeping it going.

Okay, any former Raptor great on next year's roster? Which former great are you adding to this mix? Oh, Kawhi Leonard is good at basketball?

Or Kawhi Leonard like time machine Kawhi Leonard?

Oh yeah, he was pretty good back then. It's a good it was a good answer.

What happened?

You know what? Like, can I get like Elijuan with one hundred when he joined the Raptors he might have been thirty five?

I don't know, but take peak, I don't Can we get to the time, can we get a ruling?

Do they have to have been at their peak time as a raptor in.

Order to it's their time as a raptor or change a proof we've just heard.

Oh, so can be Hakeem. This is a great an you can time machine. Wow, that's a new dimension to this question. Now it's everybody's forgotten since he got hurt, But Kawhi for the first two games of the postseason was the best player in the NBA.

Of this pause season.

It's so wild.

He's still so good if he is healthy.

Are they are there? Are there rumors about what's going on with him in Paul George's contracts right now?

Oh yeah, let me change my Dallas answer to the Los Angeles Clippers.

You made it down.

I thought you're gonna ask like a relationship question. They're rumors about what's going on and.

Yeah, those max expensions anyway.

Sorry sorry, uh next question, do you have any wishless arenas slash NBA cities that you want to catch.

A game in?

Yeah, Madison Square Garden.

Mm hmmm, yeah, yeah, it seems easy.

It's easy. It's great.

You can just like take the subway into the game if you're in New York elsewhere, it's really is an experience, unlike.

So I feel like if it's on THEIRS, it's good enough to be online.

Yeah. Yeah, also a very musical owner of the venue as well.

One of my favorites, you guys to Continuo, I'm really I love this banter.

D in the Straight Shot?

Do you not?

Are you not familiar? You got to check out.

It's one of my favorite bands, one of the best New York bands. I don't know what's your favorite musical action come out of New York?

Because I used to say.

To the next question, this is great.

I used to say Wu Tang, But it's actually j D in the Straight Shot, so obvious.

Leave that there.

Uh and mom, what are your top three basketball movies?

Oh?

Like Mike, like Mike?

Okay with bow.

Wow, bow wow.

Now let's respect he's elder. He's elder. Bow wow.

Now the starmaking role, I don't know.

I love in basketball.

He got game.

I don't know.

Those are the first thing that.

Came to mind.

Those are great answers.

Yeah, those are great answers, are they?

Yeah?

I think the.

Older is a head coach and someone gets kidnapped.

Is that Eddie?

Eddie?

I said, ed and Eddie.

Yeah, ed uh and I think, yeah, that was a good one.

Or what was that one movie where Billy Crystal is the NBA ref for the first.

Five minutes of the Forget Paris, Forget Paris.

Yeah, that was also.

I really loved that opening because like, man, like those little NBA cameos, it's like they give me I.

Can't interrupt people this much.

Okay, thank you.

I will take that as as you're keeping this on, so I appreciate you doing it like that.

Yes, okay, we should keep it moving. Thank you so much.

You're going please.

Don't make me interrupt people painful? Got to ask you, uh, best poutinery in Toronto?

Isn't there a place called the poutinery? Let's go with the poutinery?

Okay, are you not a poutine fan?

It's a lot, it's a lot.

You know what I had when we did our live show in Toronto?

I have.

Okay, Yeah, those were good.

Yeah, I didn't realize and then we don't need another question.

Yeah.

I'm also the like the West Indian food, like the Caribbean food over there.

Love that that's we had lunch. We had fantastic bread stuff.

In Yeah, I love the city of Toronto, some of my favorite people the whole world.

Question number six, are we coming back to Toronto?

Yeah, we're definitely going back. We might just move there and make our show permanently part of that. And with that question we brings us to the final question. Jacker Miles will remind you that I was the one just saying all the nice stuff about Toronto. I'm Jack, Jacker, Miles.

Giles, Giles Mill, who's that? Who's that?

It's a combination. Actually, let's go back to talking about Parochis and and.

Oh you mon, I love that. Okay, that was That was a great diplomatic answer.

We appreciate you going right down that you couldn't choose one of your favorites.

That I got it.

Fine. Who do you think of Giles?

Is also pretty fun?

But of the two, if.

We want sort of Giles, are you emphasizing more than poutine?

If I really had to.

Pen and I think we know what that means?

You ready? Oh wait? I thought too much? Yes, I'm ready. There we go, Bryan, start the clock. Okay, Jack, are you gonna go first?

Or oh I'd love for you to go first.

Miles.

Okay, here we go, Busy what is your favorite NBA city to visit and what is your must have meal in that city?

Oh?

Man, uh, probably San Francisco and must.

Restaurant the best?

What's your favorite what's to San Francisco?

To go to Proger and forget forget the name of the rest.

I think it's something simple as like Mama's or something kitchen or bakery or something. But it's like this breakfast place that people stand outside and line fork and so I just love breakfast and I like, you know, yeah, yeah, what's.

The way, what's the what? What makes it?

Like?

What are you getting at the really well made breakfast food? Okay, okay, I love breakfast food.

I loves you hate the Courage bagels in La Miles If you had that, I've got Courage bagels. Yeah, yeah, I just had that for the first time this weekend. I ate like five bagels at a birthday party. I was like boxing the kids out. I was like no, They're like, oh no, all right? Is he? First of all, you got to keep us more on track than that.

Don't not the best with these speed of these questions, like I try to think about it and maybe don't have something on the top of my head, but I'll try harder.

All Right, we're talking teams that we want to cover in the off season, you know that that people might not be paying attention to, but just like previewing them. I think so far we've discussed the Spurs, shoe In, Okay, see shoe in. What's a team that you're expecting is going to be interesting to watch next season that you know people might not have their eye on.

Orlando Magic.

Orlando Magic be passing the ball to you.

I don't know.

Wow, what is it about Orlando?

Man?

This is the slowest game ever.

No.

Well, first of all, I really hope they drafted Sar Thompson because I think he's going to be really good, as will his twin brother Amen Thompson. But in today's NBA front court, maybe two through four combo of Plo, Bang Caro, Franz Wagner and Sar Thompson would be absolutely like it's It would be great for somebody like I exposed to for example, so many options, so many things to do with that trio. They have everything except Ben Caro probably not as great a shooter.

Thompson going to be a good enough shooter.

He's actually really good shooting the ball right now and everything else that they can do, and their approach to the game.

Like, I think that's going to be a really fun group.

And even somebody like Markel Foltz who's not really required to do as much, he's having a lot of fun over there. And if you give him more talent around him, he's going to be, you know, even better. He's fun to watch. And so I think Orlando, and it's not just a Florida bias because I'm not a huge fan of Florida right now, Okay, yeah.

As a Sixers fan, I've never heard of this Mark hell Foltz a little bit you're talking about, but he sounds like.

I know not of this man. By the way, the restaurant or his shooting is on Washington Square. That's there, It is there, it is. That's what I love that.

Sorry, we got to keep this second.

I'm it's all good. It's all good. I gotta ask you this question.

Now.

You can go back and attend any single playoff game in.

NBA history, any game. Which game are you choosing? Do I know what's gonna happen?

Like?

Do I know the result?

It's a great philosophical question. Do we memory what?

Wow, Oh yes you don't know.

Super producer Jabari's coming through saying, yes, you are a Biff Tanner in this.

You got you know the Sports Almanac.

I'm gonna go ahead and say Kobe's eighty one, especially now. Uh, you know, I remember where I was, and I do not do that very often, because man, my memory is terrible long term. But I was at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino when I got a text.

I forget who the text was from.

See, somebody sent me a message and said Kobe has seventy and I said it was a fact, and I just stopped everything I was doing and just went to the middle bar and h TBS that had the NBA TV on. And it wasn't the most entertaining of finishes, but I know if I was there, I think I would have had just a lot of fun watching that, because I mean, you know, it's that, and it's it's will and so.

Yeah, I think that's probably my answer.

There are very few like flashbulb moments of like any any pop culture in my lifetime, but Kobe getting eighty one, Like, I remember where I was when I found out that game was happening, and like running to the TV and Lebron going off against Detroit for that first time when it was like, oh, okay, so he is right. I know that could like to say that now that he

I would say, I don't know how many people you've asked this question, but I would say most people would lean toward taking the short thing, right. So if I could switch that for I mean, who is the youngest up and coming star. I probably don't want to get Jason Tatum right If I could trade it right now for Dakola Jokic, is that an option?

Yeah, Jokich is an option. And I feel like we haven't had anybody heading in the playoffs. We hadn't anybody, say Jokic, and I feel like he has played his way into that seems like the right answer, or at least a completely valid answer.

At this point. It's like, oh, yeah, that's yeah, probably makes sense right.

Because I mean every for everybody that thinks though he's definitely gonna get hurt if his body type, like you don't think the people around him wo have been like nurturing him and taking care of him and wanting him to be this next great thing, have not considered that possibility that maybe they should train him properly so that he doesn't get hurt or it's there's technology to sort of predict these types of things and knowing what to train.

And you know, in the NBA.

With the way it protects its offensive players, now, like what are you going to do against him if he rises up from distance, Like you have to get entirely out of his way unless you can block that shot. Yeah, And so I think he just provides too many possibilities and we've seen too much of an evolution of the game, like Yannest. You know, obviously, if I think if if we redraft, he's number one in that season in twenty thirteen.

But I think even if we don't know how good he.

Can be, I think just his body type and his personality probably from an interview, gets him drafted in the top fifteen this year. You know, right, Yeah, I don't think anybody's passing up that possibility just because it's it's so unique, and you know, even with a guy like Jokic, you just don't know.

He could get hurt anytime too. Yeah.

People talk about like his size and health and they're like, you know, look what happened to like Ralph Sampson and Samboui and like guys who are over seven foot seven foot two.

I think, but those.

Guys played in penny loafers like that. That few people realize that's what you played him. Back then, it was pennyfers or tap shoes. That's where the technology was at the time. So there's not there's not much.

You can do.

It's a different, different game. That's a very good point.

Is he your South Florida native? I got to ask you rank these three Miami musicians from number one to number three. DJ Khaled, Gloria Stefan, pit.

Bull, oh Man, Okay, just by my taste, Yeah, I'm going to see Gloria Stephan Third, and you know she's been I've spoken to Gloria and her husband very nice. People love them. Fixtures in the city made amazing music. I've just heard it of my entire life, so probably okay. Second has to be pit Bull. Now, he is such a great story. But I just like DJ Kaled's music better. And DJ Khaled also it was in my podcast four Years of Heat.

Yeah, there you go.

Uh no, correctly, why I'm picking him right right?

I mean, come on, like the bangers that he's made, whether producing or even wrapping on him, just you can listen to him anytime.

Okay.

Also, I think we have to add a cool wrench Pizza Dia to the DJ Khaled the Papa John's Pizza Dia.

Cool my bad. But yeah, that that's another hit from another one.

All right.

And finally the question we ask all our guests, Jack or Miles a refresher memory.

I'm Jack's I trying to think of who I like better Mile good.

Usually people are like, oh, I can't pick, but I like that You're telling us that's who you like better.

Cool.

Yeah, I'm gonna say, Miles, I feel like you need love right now because his Lakers just got swell.

That's cool. I should have mentioned I'm a six ers, but he did already.

He did already, you did already. Let me have that makes my big way more solid.

All here we go, start the claw started up.

Here we go, Na Washington.

Is there a single NBA player you would take right now over the chance of taking Wembin Yama with the first pick this summer in a hypothetic Please?

Who is there?

Or would you you you're ready for Wemby?

Uh? Yeah, I'm ready for Wemby. Let's let's see him in action. Let's let's get him fed really really well and get the calories up. Yeah, and get him on the court.

Now.

Now, what is it about him, Victor webbin Yama that has everybody talking? Or how's you even thinking about him?

I think just the hype overall about him, and I just want to see it in action.

Sorry, Lena, I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, but this is this is the time where we need you to step up in.

This is the time where you.

Need to cut miles off and say it's one and done. This is the tournament. This ain't the playoffs tournament.

Sorry, yeah, you know what. Actually, no follow ups.

Jabid drop your address in the chat so Lena can send you her emmy, because that was fantastic what you just did.

I want to know, man, you.

Meet me, Yeah, meet me, meet me in Costa.

Yeah, yeah, y'all, y'all yeah, the middle of you.

Jeez on, Hey.

There it is.

Meet me at the Mesa College Gymnasium.

Okay, absolutely right, yeah, on Broadway or university or one of those.

I got to I gotta go to her turf. Okay, here we are, Yeah, all right, but I'll keep it going.

Lena.

You can go back and attain any single game in NBA history. Which game are you choosing?

Oh my gosh, probably I guess Game four of the twenty twenty one finals. So I could run on the court and make the final quarter just not happen, all the glue on my hands in the middle of the buck and never moved from Pizer Forum and make sure that game is never relived or finalized, because I think I have the power to change the course of that entire series if I were in the building.

That's a true fan. That's a true fan. I got a true fan question for you. What is the best thing to eat at the America West Arena.

Oh my gosh, we will.

Call it the America West Arena.

Just yeah, you know, we know, but in this home, it is the America West Arena.

The President is Barack Obama, and.

Yes, or forever first Lady or forever Arina America West. Oh man, that is a great question, because I have not I will say the dessert spread, the dessert spread that they have at least the media center is top notch. I mean, we get cookies, we get little you know, par fake cups, We got brownies, we got cheesecake, we got chocolate, we got cart we got sweet we got fruits, we got we got a bunch of stuff going on. And you know what I actually discovered on accident, this

Wow, that's next level because some of the honest do you have me a cheesecake?

Yeah?

And now with the new you know, the players agreement, that sounds real good.

That's what I'm saying. Next level, all right, So keeping it, keeping it going.

You can take any former son's player and pair him with Booker and Kadi. Which former son is so close to your heart that you would like to see that?

I mean, I have to go with Charles Barkley now, because I just want to see how together. Wow, what good friends and you know they respect each other to the highest degree. I mean, that's that's where I would automatically go with that. And I just think that that would be a fun little trash talking session among teammates.

Oh yeah, easy money Sniper and Chuck whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, how about this, Lena, what is your boldest postseason or even play in prediction for this year?

Go?

Are you guys ready?

Are you okay?

Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.

Well, you know the Sun's fan in me. I can't I can't.

Fully say okay, I get you.

But the Kings will be in the Western Conference Finals.

Okay, the Kings.

Will be four wins away from a trip to the NBA Finals.

Wow.

Wow, Which team they'll have to get past?

Yeah, I don't know, Yeah, okay, but I think.

That they the beam and the power of the beam, the beam to the city and Mike Brown's entire staff in a way that we will not see again, and I'm ready for the full First of all, i will say they apparently had a thirty for thirty done on the Kings many many years ago. I've seen the zip drive file. It's it's not open because they had a premiere at a local theater and then it was never released to the grand public. But I've seen it and it needs to be either released updated.

Ye.

No, but now they need to bring it back. With the end of that they've got going in Sacramento and the way that Mike Brown has turned this entire franchise around, I mean, it's going to be rocking in there. And so my bold prediction is that they're going to keep this momentum going and and take it to the to the finals in the West.

Could you imagine they went all the way?

I can't imagine it. It feels like they're a team of Destiny.

Also feels yeah, and the like like to your point about the power of the Beam, like I believe in it, Like I've changed religions to Beam because.

The Purple belge from the Lakers fan.

I mean, I mean, look, it is what it is. You know, it could be fair weather.

And that that wasn't even upon the.

I appreciate it. I appreciate that. But now I want to say, rather start the clock.

I'm like, like the beam, uh people I feel people.

Say that, yeah, like that like from Awesome Powers Lover the Glow, But it's there.

It is.

Yeah, all right, Lena, are you ready for the most important question that you've been asked today?

Oh?

Gosh, I don't know.

Guys, this is it. You will be judged based upon this answer.

I know, Miles or you.

I've been thinking about this one since the last appearance, actually so almost was it a calendar year almost?

You know.

It keeps me up at night, to be honest with you. But I have to.

Go with Jabari stop the count.

I have to go with Jai And I will say this this is why only because Miles he has a little bit of an edge on my familiarity with him because I first heard him on another podcast that I love on a door, but that that kind of wrote me in. And now we've come full circle where I am a guest on this incredible podcast that I'm honored to be a part of.

Shout out to Lacy Moseley bringing us together.

Ye wait really, yep, we.

Are members of the congregation. Baby.

Oh wow, hey, you know you know I'm the I'm the person who coined the name scam Goddess.

Oh scamming you out of your royalties?

No, no, no, no. Lacy and I are cool. She's actually very like anytime she does an interview, she's like, yeah, my friend Miles Gray came up with the name, or because I refer I would nickname her that because before she even had the show, she was we were always talking about scams and how much we love scams. And then when she would come on my other podcast, I was like, the scam Goddess is in the building.

Man.

She took that and I was like, yo, let me just get a T shirt, you know what I mean?

And we're good. So I know it's coming. I know it's coming.

Well then well then maybe I have to go with Miles. Then because you came up with.

This is how we do an each other.

Anymore.

Just I'm just saying I'm trying to keep it logical.

No no, no, no no. I respect that first answer.

And look, you are an Emmy winning entity, So what you say I will never push back on.

Here we go, Brian.

Start the clock.

So mean to Brian.

It's just the way I started off. You know, I apologize. I text him right after I said it. I'm so sorry.

Man.

You don't you know I can't control my helf and rapid fire.

Jack, you want to go first? I go first?

What do you want to do here?

Why do you go first? Wow?

Again? Okay, thank you.

You're a gentleman and a scholar, Jared.

A live bit of the last twelve NBA Finals have featured at least one of Lebron or Steph. If you were to pick two guys to go on such a run moving forward to take that man, who are you rolling?

Yokich mm hmm, Chason Tatum Boom.

I don't really believe that.

I don't think I've.

Ever boot uh now, but yeah, I just I don't know, does Tatum I feel like I'm I feel I feel a statement coming on that I'm going to regret.

Uh, so I won't say it, but uh just he I don't know.

Everybody's always throwing up those side by side like here's Kobe doing this shot and here's Jason Tatum doing this shot, and that feels inappropriate. That comparison feels inappropriate to me when it comes to like having the sickness that it requires to be like the level of competitor where you impose your will on Yeah, you know.

To quote the great Reddit viral video in a comparison like that. Yeah, and if my grandmother had wheels, she could be a bicycle.

It's that easy, right, Yeah.

He just seems like a good person, like Jason Tatum, like a nice person, well well balanced person.

Not the singular focus that you know, just puts you at odds with everybody.

Yeah, all right, but Jared, what are we saying?

Man?

We got to keep this moving, mam. I really appreciate that.

Is there a single NBA player you would take right now over the chance of taking Victor Webbing Yama with the first pick this summer outside of Giannis Onto Takoupa Yannis has just reached out to us and informed us that he wants his name taken out of consideration for this question because that has been the answer that everybody's given for it up to this point. And he said, I'm actually not interested in being traded for Victor Wembing.

I would say the guy that I would have said for the last dnswer if he had been in the East, and.

That's Luca Luca over Wembing Yama.

Yeah, I mean, I think I don't watch a ton of guys who are not in the NBA. I've seen the clips obviously. Yeah, there's a little injury risk, there's a little everything risk with someone who's not in the NBA. And I think Luca is the real deal. So and just the age thing, right, like the guy like Yo kitchen mb and stuff.

They're a little a little too old, I guess to be like a ten year run. Yeah. Yeah, we like Luker around here. Definitely almost called Jared Luca. I don't know why I got Luker on their brain.

Jared, what is your favorite NBA city to visit and what is your must have meal in that town?

Miami?

Mm hmm maybe some rope bubbeha wow, good on Cuban food. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course yeah, there you go.

Yeah, all right, you can take any former pacer and put him on this current group in Indie. Which former great are you choosing to make a run in today's NBA.

I mean, the best player they ever had for today's NBA is is probably still Paul George.

Wow.

Yeah, over Wonder.

Over Roy Hibbert.

Wow. I was gonna say, I was gonna say, I was gonna say Jermaine O'Neil was a monster. Yeah, years before he got he was man.

Yeah, I mean, I just want to see Rick Smits against Embiid real quick.

I'm just curious just to see like Prime Smith's because.

You know, he was always I just I mean not to say that that's the right answer, but I am very because because of how highly shock would away speak of him. I would be curious just to see if you could simulate that what that looks like or if he's just getting absolutely dusted.

I don't know, but at something.

I mean, he would get dusted. But I mean he's seven to four, you know. Yeah, he's a big boy. So he's one of the few people you put up next to MB they would actually like look normal.

Yeah.

Uh.

And finally, Jared the most important question of them all, Jack or Miles.

Gotta go with Jack?

Yeah?

Who he's telling Jamari that I know Jack actually more from Crack Days, from that podcast probably, So yeah.

We got a ringer baby.

You gotta you run a planting. Well, great to have you, Jared. Next week, my mom will.

Be the guest on the show and Kim let me get a winning streak, Jim, let me get a wedding streak.

Yeah, it's a full on plant for the next one.

All right.

That has been our best of Rapid Fire twenty twenty three.

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