Gil's Arena - Gilbert Arenas Recaps A WILD Weekend Of NBA Playoffs

Episode Date: April 18, 2023

Gilbert Arenas Recaps A WILD Weekend Of NBA Playoffs Detailing everything that went on across the NBA in the First Round of The NBA Playoffs. Topics include, Draymond Green's Stomp, De'Aaron Fox and The Sacramento Kings' Hot Start, Austin Reaves Becoming Him for the Los Angeles Lakers and so much more!!!!!! Gil's Arena is NOW LIVE. Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Brought to you by Underdog Fantasy: Sign up here for a deposit match up to $100 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Tuesday. We back. Tuesday. I miss y'all, man. It'd be a long... Talk on Tuesday! It'd be a long couple of days. I'm not going to say that shit on Tuesday. Talk on Tuesday!

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three of that Knicks-Cavs game is going to be.5 points. Y'all going higher or lower for that? What? Y'all have to ask. This is a trick. I'm going lower. .5 points? You don't think Julius Randle's going to score a point in the game?

I'm going lower. I don't think he's going to fucking play. This must be a trick, God damn it, man. Don't follow the trip. Underdog is a suspect. I don't know. Point five, you're not going to go either. That's the trick, man. Did he get hurt or something?

No, it's easy. That's the promo code for you. Underdog is showing their love. He's got to score one point, and you get one of your pick-ups. Hey, be careful, people. Motherfuckers be tricky out there. That's too easy. I don't know.

Somebody going to pick lower and watch them fucking hit on it. I'm going to crack up because it's not going to be me. I'm going higher, of course. And for all the fans out there, we see the chat is jumping. Y'all getting in there, getting your comments in. We got our mostly fan segment at the end of the show. If you add a good question to this chat, a good one, let me preface it. It's got to be good.

It can't be no bullshit. We will ask it at the end of the show. So go ahead and get them questions in as you watch the show. I mean, it could be bullshit. I mean, it's got to be good. Some good bullshit. All right? It can be some good bullshit.

But let's get into this thing. Gil, you had the internet going nuts the past few days. Every day, really. We've been riding the heater for a minute. They've been supporting. But you made an appearance on the I Am Athlete pod and you compared your career at age 25 to other NBA greats. One great in particular.

This is unfair for me because now I gotta rank myself against people's careers I got hurt at 25 so if you stop me at 25 they ain't stepping in with me so when people hear it they go like what yeah man yeah 25 there's no three championships there's only a one-time all-star I'm a three-time all-star three-time all NBA player by the age of 25 some people thought that was spicy got that that was a very measured reasonable take no because when someone always asked me about you know you know who's better me or Dame or me or, you know, Westbrook or any of those guys. I was like, well, you're comparing me, right, to someone's career.

We know where they are at 20, 30, I mean, you know, 32, you know, 38 years old. Like, they had a full career. I got hurt at 25. So, to be fair to me, you stop us at 25 and then compare from when we came in the league to 25. And then that's how I can compare. Other than that, Steph, you know, after 25, fucking way better than me. You know, his career way better than me. There's no contest about none of this stuff. There's no contest about me and Dame, me and Westbrook, me and James Harden.

These guys are far in front of me when it comes to our career, but 25 Dig it fucked up at 25. It's what I've seen literally every publication that covers NBA basketball posted a tweet Some of them framed it correctly. I am athi was a little you know with the clickbaity shout to their social team I understand you got to run them numbers up. But even still, you watch the video, you see the context and people were still, and this really doesn't give me hope for NBA Twitter for the future. There's a lot of idiot motherfuckers out there that just want to get mad about anything. And really anytime Steph's name comes up, the level of defensiveness, which we're going to get into later on the show with just Warriors

fans in general and delusion. And it's like the context at 25. Somebody's like, why'd he stop it at 25? I got hurt. Did you watch the video? I know. That's what I'm saying. I'm hurt. I probably played like 50, 60, 70 games after the age of 25.

So, you know, I have to stop my career at 25. That's where my career stops. So, you know, that's, you know, it's not a long list of greats, of people that can consider themselves over three-time All-Stars, over three-time NBA champs. I mean, not NBA champs, but All-Stars, all NBA players. I mean, it's, when you hear the list, when you think about who could be there, you'd be surprised. It's just top tier. Well, it's funny that you mentioned that, Gil. We pulled a little bit. We don't got everybody.

I know somebody on the internet will be like, but you forgot X player or Y player. But let's just go through a little bit. Jason Tatum will likely be a three-time All-NBA player. We're still waiting for those awards to come out. Four-time All-Star. Luka, by age of 25, I think he's 24 right now. EuroLeague champion MVP, likely four-time All-NBA, four-time All-Star. LeBron, MVP, five-time All-NBA, one-time All-Defense, four-time all-nba four-time all-star LeBron

MVP five-time all-nba one-time all-defense five-time all-star mellow three-time all-nba third-team two-time all-star Tim Duncan finals MVP mellows. I don't even know you put mellow in there. Hmm. He don't make the cut He got three time why he's not three-time all-nba and three-time all-star Gotta give him a break. Yeah, Do we value All-Star games? It was a fan vote. Yeah. Okay. Tim, get him out.

Get him off the page. Tim Duncan, finals MVP, four-time All-NBA, four-time All-Defense, three-time All-Star. Kobe, three-time champ, five-time All-NBA, four-time All-Defense, five-time All-Star. KG, two-time All-NBA, two-time all-defense. I combine those together. Okay, and you'll have Michael. You'll have Magic with probably like six-time all-star. You're going to have Bird.

You're going to have Shaq in there. So when you're talking about that, that's why I consider myself at that time, I consider myself, at that time, I consider myself good. I had 60. I had 50-point gamers. I was one of the youngest players. I guess they had like top 20 young players that scored 60 points. So by the age of 25, I held a lot of NBA records.

Most points in a half, overtime. Most points in less amount of shots. You know, I was really fucking some motherfuckers up. I ain't even going to lie. Yeah, I mean, you was great. It was good. It was great. It was great basketball.

It was great. And this is your show. You're paying us. But I just want to point out that, you know, a lot of people were hating on you and saying that you weren't this and weren't that, that you don't understand basketball. So just imagine how great you could have been if you understood basketball. I know, right? That's wild. I know, right?

I mean, I just, I know. I had all the information in my head and it just popped. Because they're so used to listening to non-basketball players, when they hear me talk, it goes against everything they've been taught. Yeah. And that's the problem because they've been, you know, most of the people who have been speaking, it's textbook information, right? You know, it's textbooks, information, you know, three level scoring and all this like

layup, right? Mid-range, three. That's three level for basic players. You know, where's the post up? Where's the, where's the post up? Where's the post up? Where's the logo scoring? Right? There's more levels.

There's more levels. There's levels to this shit, I think, is what you're saying. Three level is fucking elementary basic bullshit. And when it comes to you and Steph, we got to drop a you got to remember. I'm going to be the one to say it. I'll take a sip at the end of the show. I think you played against Steph his rookie year, I believe, December 18, 2009. In that game, I'm just going to read the stats.

You're going to fuck me up, huh? 45 points, 13 assists, 15 for 25 from the field. He had 45 on me? No, Gilbert Arenas had 45 points. Oh, okay, okay. Steph Curry, though, 27-8 in four, though. So, I don't know, 25-year-old. Is that with Monte?

Oh, we got that. Look at y'all talking to each other. What are you telling Steph right now? Nothing much. Were you giving him like the MJ Kobe advice, like this is how you can become great? Oh. Oh. And you know it's authentic because look at the janky visuals.

Back in the SD days. Very standard. That was the scariest thing about Gilbert. He was the first point guard I played in the league that just shot whenever. Uh-oh. So, Gil, you're the reason that Steph is cooking like this. I'm sure after this game, he went back and said, never again. Oh, this was his rookie season. Yeah.

Oh, that motherfucker was nice. My God, he. And this was before he was really getting the love like that to be the Steph that he is uh oh but if he

you know if he didn't hurt his if he didn't hurt his ankles I mean we wouldn't be having that discussion because he would have been he would have been a three time all

NBA player by then and that's the thing I think a lot of Steph fans super emotional very young a lot of them can't drive, can't drink alcohol. So, they take things very like

personally. I used to pull some little niggas up. Without the context. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we got more highlights. I think I got we're just gonna let this thing ride out. Okay. It's Tuesday. It's Tuesday. Hibachi time. Oh Monte what got that work too, okay And was there anything extra for you coming back to Golden State Did you feel like you had to give them buckets every time you was back? I always gave Golden State buckets when I got back home hit game winners there. Oh Who was that?

Nah Oh, who's that? Nah I want to see the most important thing did y'all get the dub? Oh We get the girl anybody get stomped during this game. Oh Yeah, I got the win Nine pointer. Okay him and yeah him and Ellis was a Yeah, a problemo. Alright, so question for both of y'all. When we look about through the course of

history, a lot of guys' careers negatively impacted by injuries. And that's the thing. As a real hooper, you're always going to show love to guys and factor that into what they could have been. But if you could turn off injuries for any NBA player in history, who would it be? For me, Penny Hardaway. Okay. For me, Penny Hardaway. Okay. For me, Derrick Rose.

Oh. Derrick Rose. Man, how's it going? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If D. Rose don't get hurt after that knee, it gets ugly for points. Fun fact. When you mentioned Derrick Rose, Derrick Rose is actually younger than Steph Curry. That's wild.

That's wild to think about. Yes. Derrick Rose is younger than Steph Curry, just so we have. By what, like a couple months? Probably a year, a couple months, yeah. That's wild. I know, right? Some other guys we could throw on that list, Brandon Roy, Grant Hill, T-Mac, Gil.

Gil. Yao Ming, Allen Houston. Brandon Jennings before the Achilles. Grant Hill, man. Grant Hill. I mean, that's another one. Grant Hill. A lot of the problem with the basketball discourse and culture nowadays is they go on basketball reference,

they go on stat music, and they'll just look at stats. And I realize some guys may not even have made the league, but from a Hooper's perspective, we got a tremendous amount of respect for and realize could have been janky coaching, a lot of factors go into it. Which is also a testament to you guys and being able to perform throughout those situations. But- Oh, Baron Davis? Ooh, BD.

BD. You know, it's really, and I'm teaching my son this right now. There's levels you don't want to be technically a hooper. You want to be a basketball player. You want to be good enough to be able to mesh with anyone. You have to learn different ways of scoring, moving without the ball,

having the ball, posting up so you can play with anyone. You can be in any system. You don't want to be playing this certain type of way get to another system and then you can't play basketball anymore right that's the distance between a hooper and a basketball basketball player basketball player has so much knowledge that no matter where you put him he can thrive he can adapt because he's done he's done seeing every type of of of offenses that's been out there. You know, I went from, you know, playing one-four down and all that stuff to the Prince's offense.

Well, when I went to college, no plays just ran from me. I had to move without the ball, and I'm backdooring, cutting, doing all that. So you have to be great to be good. You have to understand how to score in different scenarios. I hope y'all were taking notes. But now let's talk about... No one's taking notes while they're watching the phone. I promise you.

I promise. Just scribble it down. A mental note, perhaps. Write it on a napkin. But let's talk about these NBA playoffs. It's been a while so far, but the biggest moment of Monday night was a stomp heard around the basketball world.

And NBA commissioner Adam Silver was in the building to see it all. Look at this. Oh, ah! He tried to... Seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and the Warriors down four. He faking. You saw Sabonis and Klay battle for a rebound. Sabonis fell to the ground, grabbed Draymond's leg.

Draymond unlocked his leg and stomped on Sabon on his chest like it was a slam ball trampoline. Got into it with the King's crowd. Look at Jordan Poole smiling. He's in Bing range, so he's still cautious, protecting that grill. They had official review. He was a little too like, Draymond just don't care, man. He was a little too like Okay, man, he was a little too in the man Dream I was given a flagrant to ejected from the game now following the game dream. I had this to say about the incident

My leg got grabbed second time in two nights referees just watch it I Got to land my foot somewhere I'm not the most flexible person so that's not stretching enough. The explanation was I stumped too hard. You're gonna stop it. John Goble was looking at Monk hold my leg the last game and it just let it go. And Zach clearly was watching my leg get held this game and let it go. So I guess ankle grabbing is okay. So we've gotten a chance to see that play from damn near every angle, game angles, crowd angles, local news angles.

Should Dre have been ejected for that play? I say no. Okay. One, it's the Kings versus the Warriors, and that's just whatever goes in that arena goes on in that arena. This is the playoffs. But I just don't like that you penalize the second person. You penalize the second person.

The grab was first. The know, the grab was first, right? The hold, the lock was first, right? If you stop it right there, then only one person gets penalized. So, you know, the foot came after. I don't give a fuck if he stomped something. You know, he got a little song. He's doing a little dance on his chest. That's not my problem, right?

So when I'm going back and reviewing it, I have to give something to the first party first. That's the problem with this world right now. We penalize number two. You can't tell someone how to fucking react. You can't tell someone how to react on something. If you stop it, if you penalize the first person first, there will never be no reaction. Sabonis was penalized. He got attacked on the play. I should be flagrant to first the vagrant one or flagrant one in nothing

You had to penalize the you can't it's a reaction. Yeah, why is the action not being penalized more than the reaction? Because the way he did it I think the way like I mean to me from the angle I feel like he should have failed. Like if Draymond would have just failed and just kicked him in the nuts or something, like then it would just look like whatever. But the fact that he stumped him. But he jumped out of it like Spider-Man. I think that's the extras off of it.

That was the funny part. You hit him, he's like, oh, and then you jump out of it. Yeah, but I don't think he should have got ejected. I mean, I think they both should have got something And I hope the league don't suspend them because I mean they're you know, they're weird about it Well, hey go ahead a step and then that's all Like like so right here he should have just failed and then you would have been able kick him in the nuts and it even Looked like it was that hard of a stomp Like he didn't put a whole body weight on it like he kicked off off the other leg to spare it, if you really watch it.

But nonetheless. But even with this, right? My theory is going to always be you penalize the action, not the reaction. And that's the reason that people are still doing the action first, waiting for some reaction, right? So, like, if you slap me and then I start beating your ass, I get arrested, not the person who caused the reaction. And I don't like that theory, right? It's like if you don't put your hands, if you do not grab,

nothing happens to you. So let me penalize you first, and it'll stop the future people from. We know Draymond's a very emotional player, but he's also had a track record or doing some questionable things in the postseason We think about the dick kicks in 2016 that I was a natural motion with the follow-through now. I'm watching this video I'm not that flexible. I can't do that. It's like shit all the dicks. I seen you kick in there's some flexibility in those legs So but when you look at the Sabonis part of it, what's worse to you, the Sabonis leg grab or the Draymond stomp? Is it the Sabonis thing because he did it first?

It looks like he wasn't really trying to twist it. You see that in football a lot. He was just trying to, I think, slow Dray down a little bit. Don't grab my ankles. Give his team a competitive advantage. Don't grab my ankles. But that's what I'm saying. You're slowing him down.

What if I'd have pulled and pulled my Achilles or something? Anything can happen. So that's why I said you have to penalize, number one, worse than the reaction person. And do you think anything was more to it because of Sabonis and just kind of how he looks? I'm not going to say it was racially motivated, but it seems like a lot of players came through in Dre's defense and Sabonis kind of has a lot of players came through in Dre's defense. And Sabonis kind of has a reputation of doing some dirty shit at times,

even though it's not glamorized because he plays for the Kings. So it just feels like a lot of guys, when it happened on the interwebs, were defending Draymond. Well, if you look at the play before that, he was grabbing Klay, right? He was grabbing Klay. Yeah, Klay. But they say, like, he flopped. It's like, no, Klay gave him that little elbow shove.

He got a janky center of gravity. He literally fell. Yeah, he grabbed the jersey, then he pulled him, yanked him down. So, it's like, he's starting all of it. Listen, it's playoffs. Okay. I'm sorry. It's playoffs, and, you know, shit happens in the playoffs.

So, you know, if I'm reffing that, you know, it all depends. You know, it's either both get nothing. Man, that would have been my call. Like, this is the fucking playoffs. It's Sacramento. You guys hate each other. You know, all right, let's go. Let's keep the game going. You ain't fucking hurt. Get up. Come on, this is the playoffs. Are we seeing the birth of an actual rivalry? I know we're not anywhere near the band. We'll call that? No, no, no. This has been a rivalry for a long... It was a rivalry when I was there. not anywhere near the band. We'll call that. No. This has been a rivalry. For a long. It was a

rivalry when I was there. Regular season? Regular season. Okay. We were sorry as hell. Seventeen, eighteen games. Them Golden State fans come up the sack. They getting their ass whooped. I'm sorry. That's what I said back then. It was it was a dollar beer and then there was a Sacramento Kings. Those Weber, Bay, Pagia, Bibby. The real cowbell. Yeah, it was that group.

So, you know, we was over there getting manhandled, and the fans was manhandling our fans. But when it came to Oakland, Oakland stood up. 18 fucking wins, we have a sellout crowd. That's one thing about that Oakland crowd. They came to support the basketball team. Ah, you know. The Sacramento Kings, they owe E-40 an apology for kicking him out.

Yeah, what y'all think about that too quickly? Like, he's the king of North. Like, how y'all going to kick E-40 out? Because you Golden State? I thought that was bad karma. They're going to have to pay for that. I thought that was bad karma. Like, you don't fuck with 40 water anywhere in the back.

You're trying to... This is playoff. That's disrespect. Playoffs. Sacramento ain't done nothing to be doing all that. Playoffs. They're starting to get on my nerves. You kick all super fans out.

You kick all super fans out. It just feels like Kings fans are getting a little too thirsty. Yeah. Eventual line stepping and setting themselves up for some disappointment because it still is a defending champ. Okay, first of all, if I'm Lakers, right? And this is Lakers. And then we're in the playoffs.

And then we're playing the Clippers. And Clipper Darryl and Marcellus Wiley's in the crowd. They're getting kicked the fuck out. I don't give a fuck what they do. They clap too hard. Hey, you, you, you. Making all this ruckus. Get the fuck out.

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Win by any means. But not 840. 840? Get him out. Him and his wife. Out. Out. All right? See?

See? All of San Francisco. Can't do that to 40. Can't do that to 40, man. Come on, man. It's the playoffs, man. All that shit. All that shit counts, man.

All right. Well, let's. I'm your super fan. All right. Let's see. You too short. Get the fuck out. You're kicking too short out. Oh, man. Yeah. We right. Love you. You too short, get the fuck out. You're kicking too short out.

Oh, man. Listen. We're doing too much. Come on, man. Listen. You too short can't save the game. Come on. Think about it.

Come on, man. Think about in Cleveland, right? Spike Lee came all the way to Cleveland to support his team. And then like two minutes in the game, he kicked his ass out. You know how stupid you look at me, Spike Lee, bruh. That's the kind of shit that I would do if I'm an owner. An owner, yeah. Get his ass out of here.

Soon as he clapped you hard, aw, you're making too much ruckus, get the fuck out of here. There's been some legendary cooking going on in these NBA playoffs. We gotta show everybody some love with hibachi time Is that the wait wait for the graphic, okay Get the graphics. No, I'm just kidding do it live

All right, so talked a little bit about the stomp the word side, but we got to talk about these Sacramento Kings Specifically Darren Fox and we'll give Malik Monk some love too, Kentucky boy. De'Aaron in the two games, 31 points per game, seven assists, three and a half steals. Malik Monk's putting up 25, close to five rebounds, close to three assists, shooting damn near 46% from three. Think about their 38 and 32 point game in game one. Not quite as baller if in game two, but they still got the dub. Malik came in through.

I hit like two or three threes in a row that got the crowd just jumping. And I love to see dudes with that green light that can give buckets. So, Brandon, I'm going to start with you first. When we look at this King squad, what have the Kings shown you in the first two games? That they could take care of home court. They did what they were supposed to do. They took care of home court. They did what they were supposed to do. They took care of home court. I think the challenge is now them being on the road,

in the playoffs, in Golden State, you know, that hostile environment, the champions. So it's another challenge for them. But they, you know, they took care of home court. They did what they were supposed to do. They came out on fire. They shot well. You know, they did their job.

Now it's all about if you can get a win on the road, which is going to help you in the future or next rounds or whatever happens with them. So Gil, in looking at this King squad, game one and game two, Warriors started to make that second half run like they do. In the years past, that was curtains. They was going to win the game.

The Kings have withstood it in both games, overcome it. All those Warriors, quick know, quick streak, streak his points. They coming back, getting buckets, extending the lead back up. So what have you seen from this Kings squad? This, this, this series right now has proven what I've been saying for years, right? About these old school coaches, right? Putting only defensive players out

there, right? to stop scores. And I've always kept saying, to stop a score, you need a score. To stop a lion, to track a lion, you need a fucking lion, right? So if you have just a defensive player guarding Steph, he does his job, but Steph gets the rest on his defense, right? Well, now you have two guys that's scoring, and Steph has to actually play defense, so he has to exert more energy now.

So now when you have a guy running at Steph full speed, and now Steph got a back pedal, now he can't take any plays off. Now on offense, he got to run around. It kind of fatigues him more. So now you can see what an offensive player does to another offensive player, right, versus just having a defensive player,

and then Steph gets to sit there and then has all the energy on the other side. So that is, this series has proven my whole logic of why I would never have real defensive players trying to stop scores. I want another score, and you're going to have to play defense too. I get that logic, but also I feel like too for the Warriors. If I'm the Warriors now with Andrew Wiggins coming back, I'm bringing Andrew Wiggins off

the bench right now and I'm going to bring GP too on there to stop Darrington Fox, slow him down early. So I think that's where it does work with that. For Golden State, for a guy like Jarrington Fox, I would put GP2 on him early just to slow him down. Into high stuff. Yeah, yeah, into high stuff in that aspect. But De'Aaron is out there cooking now.

To be honest, for Wiggins, I mean, he's playing well. He played well last game. Is he playing? We had talked about this before last week, and we thought it was going to take him some time offensively to get his rhythm back, but he's come in. I know, he looks good. Maple Jordan. Yeah, but you're going to have to do something early though to mix Sacramento up a little

bit because they're getting too comfortable. Darin DeFox coming down early just getting to that bag is going to be hard to stop. You need something early to take that up. They're going to have to just trap him. They can't trap him so fast. What I'm saying is his speed is too fast for a switch. He already has two steps on 95% of the guards in the league. Shit, 99% of the guards, he has two steps advantage on them. Right?

Now you're going to switch to guys he has four, five, six steps on. You're never going to stop this kid. You know what I mean? So it's one of those things where, you know, he's going to his right, trap him. Fuck it. Just trap him. And pick him up 94 feet. Yeah.

Every stop ball. But then you need Gary Payton Jr. to come in. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Slow him down, just pick him up full court. Because also, Gary, too, he's on the offensive end. He rebounds. He's going to rebound. He's going to slash. You still got to guard him.

You still got to guard him. Let's talk a little bit about Mike Brown. Mike Brown, likely going to be coach of the year, turn this Kings franchise around, but also extremely familiar with this Warriors team. Wait, wait. I thought we already gave that motherfucker the... I thought he already got that. Reported.

It was reported. Who reported that it's not him? It's a lot of dry snitching that goes on in this league. Why would they do that? Clicks. Oh, I thought the man already got this shit. Oh, trip, man. Don't...

Oh, damn. Mike Brown moves the needle. He's over here moving it. He't... Oh, damn. Mike Brown moved the needle. He's over here moving it. He's going to win it. It's a formality. I'm over here talking about black power and shit like that, and now it ain't even confirmed? Oh.

So we got to riot if he don't? Huh? We got to riot if he don't win? No, we look stupid. Okay. We could pull up on Adam Silver, I know where he stands. But, just talk about Mike Brown is familiar with the Warriors. How much of an advantage does that give Mike Brown over Steve Kerr,

knowing that this Warrior squad and the personnel, how they move? Oh, I know how to bait Draymond Sabonis. Just go fucking give him a little leg tuck. He'll kick you and try to jump off you like a trampoline. No, I mean, you know, everyone knows the Warriors by now. But, I mean, you know, it's Draymond. This is one of those series that Draymond really has to be careful with because you have to bait him.

If you can bait him to get going and do what he did, it helps the other team. You know, you have a guy who, you know, he does so much for that team. So if you can get him off the floor, it kind of goes in your favor. So I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, Coach Brown is over there saying, hey, just keep punching on him, keep holding on. Do what he do to you, right? Hold him, grab him, do all this stuff and see if he can get irritated. Yeah.

I mean, and this is still the same Mike Brown that coached Cleveland, back with LeBron that had great seasons and all that. So this is nothing new to him But like you said, yeah Draymond, he's a big key I think he has to control his emotions to see the serious for them to win because if he's not on the court It's gonna be tough for them. I mean just Who he is his body language and how he you know does all these different things on the court So if he can't control his emotions is gonna get really it's to get really interesting for them who makes it easier for the Lakers

and that's all we really care about we have agendas we don't hide and we don't pretend to be like this other media out here you know I'm unbiased like motherfucker we know who's breaking bread with you we know who you rocking went so the Warriors are down 0-2 and that snapped the NBA streak of 27 straight playoff series where they had never trailed. What? 0-2. Really? Yeah.

You said what? So they had 27 straight playoff series where they had never been down 0-2, 2-0, however you want to look at it. Wow. That's fucking wild, right? Yeah. They're the fifth defending champ to fall behind 0 Oh two in the first round the other four all Lost in the first round three of them got swept

So we look at the words in the regular season 11 and 30 on the road extremely nasty Habubu Very uncharacteristic of this Warriors dynasty. We look at this series seven games We know that the Kings have four home games So the words gonna have to win at least one one road game if they want to win this series seven games, we know that the Kings have four home games. The Warriors are going to have to win at least one road game if they want to win this series. Ask both of y'all, what do the Warriors need to do to

win a road game? Right now, fuck the road game. They've got to win these two games at home. You've got to get these two games at home and just against a young team or any team, right? Once you win your next two games at home, that game five actually is against the road team

because they have to defend it and they have a little bit more pressure because you're going on a two-game win streak and, you know, you have the momentum and now they have to really, you know, the little cheeks might tighten up a little bit more. So, you know, the easiest game to win for the team that's down is game five. If they've won, you know, game three or four. Yeah.

You know, I've been in that situation my first rookie year when we were playing Atlanta, we were down 2-0 in the beginning, we won two and we went back to Atlanta and won game five. We lost the series in seven, but just winning that game five was so meaningful to us because it was like, you know, you're just like, woo, like finally, like finally got one. But I think for the Warriors too is more, I think they just got to start getting more locked in. I think locked in, you know, like, you know, just get away from the noise. I think the noise, like the crowd, like Draymond, like when he got kicked out and he was like chanting at the fans and it's like, it's kind of like, ah, like, I don't think like, you

know, like it's needed right now. Because during that time he was doing that, remember it was seven minutes left and they were down four. Four. Yep. Seven minutes left, down four. So the game was still close, so it was still kind of winning. He's hyping the crowd up. Yeah, so he's hyping the crowd up,

and the momentum just kind of shifted still to them. So I think just staying focused, staying focused. But, you know, they are at home, so they got game three and four, so they should be able to win. Yeah. Do we think there's any way that these Warriors lose game three at home? Yeah. I mean, it's a possibility.

I mean, everything they've been through these past two games, all the bullshit they've dealt with, obviously Draymond's going to come in fired up. League's watching. They want to stretch this bitch out a little bit. Yeah, I don't... They need to make the switch with Wiggins and GP too, though. That was going to be my other question. You hit on it on your side, but Gil, what adjustments would you make if you're Steve

Kerr? Right now? Like, I mean, I don't want to get desperate enough to start trapping right now. But, like, with left-handers, right? Or just any guy left handers or right handers if you push him to his left hand it's their driving hand you know it's kind of harder for them to to pull up jumpers when the ball is in that dominant hand um it all depends on what you're trying to do do you want him getting to the basket or you want him shooting his jumper right and that's that's really what you know I'm focused on. I don't want to just play him straight up where he has both weapons.

Right? So if I'm protecting the rim, I just push him to his left, meet him at the rim. If I want him to rely on his jumper, push him right, knowing that he's going to step back. So it all depends on, you know, what they feel comfortable with. But I'm at home. I feel comfortable with my team at home, so I don't really make too many adjustments. And they need a big game out of Poole.

Yeah, yeah. Jordan Poole. We've got to get him going on both ends. Both ends. Both ends, like seriously. Let's talk about Jordan Poole a little bit. He was supposed to be that warrior spark off the bench, struggled so far this postseason.

He's averaging like 18 minutes per game, 10.5 points. He's shooting 29% from the field, like 25% from three. He's been pretty tough. 23 years old, he signed a four-year, $140 million extension back October 22.

I got a question. If you're the warrior, should you still believe in Jordan Poole? I am because I see the talent. I know he's working. We have good vets that he's been following. Great mentors. I mean, we have a great staff, 140 for the skill level he has. I would like to see him turn more into a basketball player. 140 for the skill level he has.

I would like to see him turn more into a basketball player than just a freelance hooper out there. But I guess as of the way the team is, they need him more in that role anyway. Just someone who comes off the bench to just give us a spark. So I'm happy with how he's performed this year. But depending on where I'm going, the following, I need to see more of a lead guard role because that's what I paid him to do, to eventually be the lead guard at some point. So at some point, he's going to need to learn how to play the game the full way versus just coming out

there as a sixth man that's just only looking for points. Uh just depends on what happens this this this playoffs. Um you know with all the drama that happened earlier between him and Draymond. Um you know, little bit of a distraction. I say on the team. Um but I guess it just depends. I mean, you can get a lot for Jordan though, Jordan Poole. You can get some first round picks, you get a lot of other things for the future too, if it doesn't work out.

I mean, if anything, you got to make sure you have Steph, Clay, it depends on what Draymond's going to do, Wiggins for sure, GP too. But Poole's kind of like in that, you know? He's a tweener. He's a tweener, because we can use him, but also wele's kind of like in that, you know? He's a tweener. It's a tweener, like, because, you know, we can use him, but also we can get a lot for him, too. So I think that's where it's at. You talked about Poole and what this Warrior squad is going to look like,

especially with this new CBA coming in, trying to punish teams like that. Klay Thompson, 33 years old, reportedly looking for a max level extension this offseason. They just locked up Jordan Poole for four years. Draymond's got the player option this year. He'll likely hit that and explore and see what's out there. Wiggins is locked up for a few more years. So if you're at awards, you've got some tough decisions to make.

Do you value Klay at 33 years old coming off of major injuries, or do you ride with Poole, or like you said, do you look now with Poole and say, well, shit, we could make a move and potentially get some good assets back in exchange for him and still keep Klay on the squad? Yeah, I think it depends on what happens this postseason. Me, I'm signing Klay. I mean, he's been drafted here.

It's too much history for me, and then I don't want to see a guy like that go. With Jordan, still kind of fresh, new. You know, we kind of really don't know yet. So, I mean, it just depends. But I'm signing a play back, though. I mean, but 10-year age difference, Jordan 23, does the trajectory tell you that he can figure that shit out? Like, you know, he's got a couple years to do it. Well, like Gil said, if he can become a basketball player, like Gil said, if he could become that lead guard that I want, then yeah.

But right now- You probably won't know that by July, though, is what I'm saying. So you got to take a risk. At the end of the day, it's all about loyalty, right? Is it? There's no loyalty in the NBA. But I mean, I'm making a decision for myself, right? Klay's bought me four championships, right? He's asked for how much?

Max. Max. Max. Yeah, he deserves it. Is it gonna be one like this? Like... Really? All right, man.

Really? You deserved it. You deserve it. You got 500 million to seven billion? Yeah. So is Dre not an I-man out? If you got to pick between them? But you can't do it.

I'm just saying. In Adam Silver's NBA with this new CBA, it don't look like you'll be able to do that. I mean, that's what I said. To sign two of them? Now, you got Dre and Klay. If they both want their bag, you might be in a situation where one of them got to go. What is Dre looking for? Max, I don't know.

I mean, at the end of the day, listen, I've had an owner. But you don't have to make tough decisions, Gil. I've had an owner. I learned from what was done for me, right? I was hurt. They told me his knee would never be the same. He would never be the same player. And, you know, Mr. A. Poland, may he rest in peace, said, I don't care about none of that.

He's done. He did what he said he was going to do for me. And this is his money. So, you know, you got me four championships. You moved my brand up $6.5 billion. Right? This is no question. I'm going to figure out, I mean, if I have to sign both of them to $100 million and then, you know, off it somewhere else, put them in some other deals, I'm going to do that. Right? This is no question. I'm going to figure out, I mean, if I have to sign both of them to $100 million and then,

you know, off it somewhere else, put them in some other deals, I'm going to do that. Right? I owe these guys. But do you owe them? I understand that. I'll be damned if these two Hall of Famers, these two guys who's going to be in those fucking rafters are gone somewhere else. Their first year in that arena arena they gave me a championship.

They gave me my money back. I get all that and I would agree with y'all. What date would Adam Silver say? Whatever that writing is, I figured out. We gonna figure it out. I'm smarter than that motherfucker right there. I'm smarter than Adam Silver. I can tell you that. Clay, take less. I got this tech plug for you. I'm gonna give you some stock

in this joint. I completely agree with y'all, but I think when it comes down to it, it's going to be a tough decision that has to be made. So then now you bank your future with Jordan Poole. I'm keeping my fucking team. You got Draymond. I'm keeping my three. Draymond.

I got to keep my three. I'm keeping my three. I mean, for sure. Draymond's going to apply pressure, though, because another team's going to come out and offer a bag just to fuck with the Warriors because that's how this game moves. And they're going to up the price. We're going to see the same thing

with Austin Reeves when it's time to negotiate his deal this offseason. Somebody's going to throw that sick bag at him just to fuck y'all over. Yeah. Warriors? We'll see. They got the bread to do it, but that's on the framework of the new CBA. Jordan Poole might be the

odd guy out. It's not that he don't have game, it's just the money. The money makes sense to move at the start of the season. And it's not that he don't have game. It's just the money. The money makes sense to me. But start of the season was like Clay was pretty much that guy. He was earmarked. Like if it's an odd man out, it's going to be you. Your career is kind of on the downfall.

But Clay started to show a little bit more. Has he lost a step defensively? Probably. But to y'all point, it's about loyalty and what y'all have done for this franchise, the culture you've built around here. Splash Brothers, what y'all have done for the light-skinned community, empowering us and making us feel like we can really go out here and do things and achieve in this world.

I mean, what? I mean, and Clay came back from Achilles, right? The Achilles. Achilles? And then won it the next, or whatever, the year when he came back. So it's like, it's a lot of sacrifice. Mark Cuban did for D on one championship right one championship right and dirt is dirt right they got they got you for make it

rain put their put their statues outside yeah for all this all three oh yeah I'll get in statues yeah for sure oh to be, I'm gonna put him in the Oracle. Oracle? I don't give a fuck if it's shut down or anything. I'm gonna be in the Oracle! No building, just three motherfucking statues just randomly there. Yeah. And just a quick plug in with the chat, we got 5,000 people watching the stream right now. Woo!

But guess what? Five ain't enough, so call your friends, call your homies. Call your mamas, mamas, mamas! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!

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Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! my show is failing. I don't want to know who, Gil. I don't want to be in this beat. It's just male whore. It's a male groupie.

It's just male groupie. You don't worry about him. But let's keep it moving. We got to talk about these Los Angeles Lakers. And we're going to give love to two guys who really deserve it.

Austin Reeves, Rui Hachimura. They got him online they're calling him Hachimura now, Gil. I want to ask, can you get that stamp of approval? No, no, no.

He can't get that for just the game one performance? No, no, no. He's still Hachimura? No, no, no. He can't beat Hibachimura? No. Let's just break it down. Austin Reeves.

One game. Cooking the game one over the Grizzlies. Hibachimura tied the Lakers record for most points off the bench in a playoff game, 29, five threes, 30 minutes. Reeves came through, did his stuff. I'm him. I'm him. I'm him.

I'm him. I'm him. I'm him. I'm him. I'm him. I'm him. I'm him. I'm him.

I'm him. I'm him. I'm him. Let the world know. It's funny because you just look at him. You never want to judge a book by its cover, but if a dude like that says, I'm him to me, I'm on the other side of that, I would be demoralized. I'm rolling.

We let a dude look like this come in here and punk us. Austin Reeves is coming to the back. I know, man. He's been playing well. I don't know what I was thinking in February. Now you apologize, Gil, but this is the thing. It was all because I'm just a Westbrook fan. You know what I mean?

I wasn't really accepting the fact. I wasn't looking at him as a player. I was just looking at him like, you're in my player's way. You're in my player's way. Get out of his way. But this is the thing that Lakers fans need to appreciate. Y'all both stepped up.

Y'all offered the apology. Apologized. And since y'all have apologized, Reeves has been cooking. You might have got Austin Reeves to bat. He need to come break Gil Zerino off with an interview and some bread. I mean, the man's playing well. Bring a jersey. I know.

That AR is going to look nice in here. Wait, wait, Gil. I'm looking at the wall. I'm an Austin Reeves jersey. I know, that AR is gonna look nice in here. Wait, wait Gil, I'm looking at the wall. I'm an Austin Reeves fan. I mean, we could find some. Who jersey you checking off the wall? He ain't here yet. I mean, but yeah, like six, seven more years, you'll get here. See, I don't know, is Joe Johnson in jeopardy?

Hell, Joe, I saw Joe. I'm bitching on you. Yeah, but you got LeBron, you got Kobe, you got KD, you got the franchise. Iso Joe. No, Jermaine O'Neal got hurt for me to be in my second All-Star. When the NBA tried to fuck me up. That's my buddy right there.

That's my guy right there. Jermaine no deal. Scottie Trippin not coming off D-Way. There's no... Franchise? What's wrong with you? You know he didn't even play high school basketball You put him in the entryway

I think he played two games in high school basketball Steve Francis played Just so fans out there Steve Francis played two High school games Two High school coaches don't do that That's crazy He played only two high school games games. Two. High school coaches don't do that. I don't do that.

That's crazy. Yeah, he played only two high school games and then went to no, he went to a junior college. He got a scholarship. He went to

junior college. They won state championships. They went undefeated. Then he transferred to a junior college in Maryland. They won a championship

and then he got to Maryland. Two games became the number two pick in the NBA draft. So, hell no. That just confirms. That's why they call them franchise. That confirms what I always say. High school coaches are haters.

All right? If you're his high school coach and you only put him in for two games, there's conversations that need to be had. I'm pretty sure he was, like, not going to school. Go to school. Go to school for him. It's high school. You can't finesse a good grade.

Back then they probably had you got to be at four periods and stupid crap like that. Get him a body double. It's high school. Figure it out. But let's talk about these Lakers. AD came through 22 points, 12 rebounds, 7 blocks. LeBron on a janky foot. Still not looking like himself but 21-11 at 5 assists.

So we're looking at this. Are the Lakers in control of this series? Boy, you better stop. Stop, baby. Oh. Not yet. John Morant's out. Oh, he's done?

Yeah. Oh. Yeah, he's out. We don't know, Gil. Out. Oh, if Ja's done, then yeah. We don't. Unless you got the plug that we don't know, Gil. Out. Oh, if Ja's done, then yeah. We don't. Unless you got the plug that we don't know.

You talk to Ja. No, no, no, no. He fell on his right wrist. I understand that. Which means he's not going to be able to shoot. That's going to take at least 14 to 16 days to get the feeling for a shooter. Right? Unless they're going to throw Toradol in there and shoot the Toradol up.

But if they throw the Toradol in that shot, he won't be able to feel that hand. Right? So, therefore, without John Morant doing what John Morant does, in full. Full. Tom, we got reports today from Shams that the x-rays came back negative for a fracture. But to your point. That motherfucker hurt. Memphis not winning one game.

Would John Morant hurt? They can't get one. Would John Morant hurt? I mean, he's going to play. Nah, he ain't going to be able to dribble with the right hand. I mean, you know, like, even when we just hurt it a little bit, that motherfucker would just be going. Like a thumb.

Like, yeah, somebody hit your thumb or something. Yeah, what's funny is, I remember in the playoffs, Bron was coming down the lane, and I tried to absorb that motherfucker. Boom, hurt my wrist. Like I couldn't move it. They gave me a Toradol shot in the booty,

hyperextended my knee. What? That's where you take it? You could have just said a Toradol shot, dude. I gotta to let y'all know where they take it. It's there. So people who take Toradols, right? Yeah. I mean, I have to have one. Yeah. Shit hurts.

How long does it take once you get the shot for the pain to go away? No, that goes away instantly. Yeah, no, for sure. That's wild. Yeah, it goes away instantly. You can feel that medicine going right through. You can feel that, oh, yeah. And when you hyperextend you're going...

Because whatever you're trying to guard, you're not in guard mode anymore. What I'm saying is, did you feel the hyper... Was there any pain on that? No pain on it. When you did it? But I felt my knee go back, like oh, yeah, that's going to hurt me later on. Then how long after that shot wears off do you feel that pain? I didn't play the next game. Okay, but I'm saying how, how long are you feeling good

until you're like, oh, shit. About 12 hours. Oh, my Lord. That's wild. You just know it's coming. Oof. Yeah. That's jammed.

But let's, okay, so you're saying there's no shot. But Grizzlies, last year without a job, were 20-5. This year, they're 10-8. But I think the bigger issue is no Steven Adams, no Brandon Clark. But they've got. Bro, it's 4-0's fall why we even talk about this still he said for all Okay for We know the Lakers play down to their competition four games, you know

Cuz we need our Lakers the rest for the next series, baby for that. Let's go. It's already written What is this already written in the script? Adam silver gonna get at least five out this one. Nah. We need LeBron rest. We need his foot to heal, brother. Just trust me on this one. We need our foot to heal, brother. We need our foot to heal, my man.

So let's talk about Ja a little bit. We love seeing the dunks. We love seeing the high flying plays, the way he plays, but Ja's like what? Like 6'3", 180 pounds? So just looking at Ja for the long-term longevity of his career, does he need to adjust his game at all and kind of step back a little bit from doing all that, those high-flying theatrics towards the cup?

Yeah, I mean, you know who had a problem with that early in their career? Wasn't Dwayne Wade? Dwayne. Dwayne Wade had that. But Dwayne's heavier. I mean, Dwayne was more stockier, too. Yeah, but he did a lot of falls. We had a lot of falls earlier.

Jot doesn't fall as much. He doesn't fall as much. Not like Allen Iverson, Dwayne did. Dwayne fell so much, he was a football player. No, no, no. He had thigh pads. He had side pads. The way he felt so much, he was a football player. No, no, no, no, no, no. He had thigh pads. Yeah.

He had side pads. He had the butt bone pad. He had the rib pad. Yeah, I remember that. He had the spinal pad. This man had everything but shoulder pads. Yeah. Like, you hit Dwayne Wade's body, he ain't feeling nothing.

He was secure. I wore that. I remember that. Oh, yeah. I remember I wore that for my second year. That and all that. Yeah, all that. All this heavy ass shit I remember I wore that fit my second year. That and all that. All this heavy ass shit. Earl Boykins had real football pads.

The real ones that you insert. He wore those and he was like, yeah, because the big man, he's like, the big man, they always knee me. I was like, oh, that's smart. Then I had to think about it. How is the big man kneeing your little ass? Your little? What are you talking about?

I guess it was just a concept of what he was saying. I understood. How is a big man kneeing your little ass? Your little? Like, what are you talking about? But I guess it was just a concept of what he was saying. I understood. But in theory, nobody was kneeing you, you little shit. Why you always lying? Because he used to always do this. Oh, oh, oh. I was like, what is that?

That was a football patch? He was like, yeah, the football patch. So when you look at John, think of somebody like Jordan, right? Jordan tried to bulk up to deal with the Pistons, that bad boy era. One of your favorite Aaron that bad boys don't see you you mean Thomas 89 and 90 but to absorb more contact to be able to deal with that I mean should job think about doing that or is that gonna fuck up his game we can't have it I mean listen just like with any player

you're gonna have to adjust your game anyway. You're going to have to learn how to post up, learn how to pull up runners. It can't be always the same move, two foot jumping. But he's young and that's what his game is built on right now. But hopefully later on down the line, he does add more elements to his game. Okay. Yeah. I mean, he's definitely going to have to get stronger, you know, change his game.

I always say, like, one of the things that helped Steph over the years was when he got stronger. Like, when Steph started getting stronger, you could tell, like, after he won a championship or got to the playoffs a couple of times, his body started changing. And he started playing different. So I think he just got to take care of his body more, put that alcohol down, allow that partying and stuff, and really start locking in.

At 23? I mean, well, it's not looking on the up and up right now for them. I mean, it's, you know. Well, not all of them. I'm saying, like, you know. 27? 27, 28 yeah. Not all of them. I'm saying like, you know, like 27, 28. Well, I mean, what he's talking about, you know, they don't see nobody in the West, so

like, in that aspect, it's like, okay, well, then you got to start taking your training a little way more serious than anything. You know, it's just talking like that. It's that young in us, right? I like it for sure. I'm with him. Okay. It's just, in us, right? I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it for sure. I'm with him.

Okay. It's just, you know, changing just a little bit. And Gil, you're going to go on record, Gil's Arena, the show for the streets. You don't think Ja. I think Ja's going to try to play. We'll see. No, he's going to try. I mean, listen, he's going to try.

I think Lakers in five, man. He's going to try to play. I mean, it might be Lakers in five. He's going to try to play, but I'm just saying the way he fell on the fingers and the wrist, they're going to be hurting to the point where he can't shoot a jumper. You know what I mean? I mean, you're talking about a game every other day, right? And that's going to take about 14 naturally.

So unless he's going to take toward all shots the whole playoffs, then now I don't feel for his safety because now he can't really feel anything. So it's not going to really benefit him because you can't even feel the stroke on the wrist with that. No. We'll see, man. If he snubs his toe, he tweaks his knee, he won't feel any of that until it wears off and then that becomes another problem.

How many of those shots can you get in a row? You got to space them out? I don't know. Okay, because shit. I don't know about that. Some any given Sunday type shit. Once my shit wore off and I'm like, ah, my heart hurts, man. My shit hurt.

I think I tore something again. All right, well, let's keep this thing moving. We got to talk about another series that everybody kind of excited about. Y'all thought that the Suns were going to smack the Clippers. Yeah. You went on record. I did. And said that.

But game one, Kawhi, I would never root against a man with braids in the year I lower 2023. I've said that. He's consistent. He sticks to it. The last hair braider. Kawhi came through, 38 points, five rebounds, five assists, shot 54% from the field in game one versus the Suns.

And this was after the Clippers learned. That's that level four scoring right there, that ISO. Oh, look at it. Travel, but we'll take it. No, that's not. And the new rule is that it's not a travel. I know. This right here.

Oh, look who he's giving work to. Is that Kevin Wayne Durant? It's quite a 38 piece. Had KD guarding him a lot in the fourth quarter. And this is coming off the news that Paul George will likely miss the entire first round of the playoffs. Other people stepped up though.

So I got to ask both of y'all. After game one, and we don't want to jump too far ahead, but is Kawhi the best player in this series? Water. It's water. Okay. Unless one of y'all sprinkled crack in there. The best player? He believes so. Of course he does. Kevin Durant.

I know what he believes. I need to know who do y'all believe is the best player. The best player is Kevin Durant. Still. The best player is Kevin Durant. Okay. Right? We're talking about the best player, right?

Like who's having the best series? Kawhi Leonard. I'm not saying the best player overall. I'm talking about in this particular seven-game series. Now, who would you start a team around? Not anything beyond. Evan Durant is the best player if he's on the court. In this series, he's the best player?

He's the best player. Okay. Kawhi's. Kawhi's what? Two. But Gil, you thought a little too long about it. Kawhi might be 1B, if anything. Kawhi got two rings in two finals, too. Why would he feel like he I mean, I don't I mean I know what he feels like I'm just talking about but I just I like the matchup and I like the matchup because

It's like Kawhi's like I'm just as good or better than Kevin Durant. Well, no, no, I get what we tell ourselves I understand that. I know. I get that. Right. You know, I thought when we were playing against LeBron James, I was the best player in on the court. I, you know, but, you know, the reality. Right. Well, in reality, if he wins this series, he's better than Kevin Durant. Oh, if he beat if he beats the Suns, if he beats the Suns without Paul George, he's a he's better than Kevin Durant right now. Not just right now, he will be better than Kevin Durant right now if he gets that done. Good. You agree, disagree?

How are you feeling? Think about it. Kawhi Leonard walks the Suns down at the end. He's better than Kevin Durant right now. Without Paul George? Because he's by himself. He's not by himself. He's not by himself. He's with Russ.

Oh, he is with Russ. With Russ. But Russ is going to defer to him. So if he can carry the load by himself, then I have to put him somewhere up there. Reluctantly? Yeah. I'm just saying right now. I'm not saying like over.

I'm just saying right now I'm not saying like over I'm just saying right now he would be I mean because to be honest for them to win this series you know it has to be Kawhi doing exactly what he did so if he does win this series he's right he's right he's right unfortunate

but we'll see though so let's talk about now KD Book this quote-unquote sons big four Big three point five if you will. Mm-hmm Do you expect more from Katie and Booker in this game to Katie looked a little passive late in the game he didn't shoot for the last five minutes like he was trying to Still figure out the flow if you're Katie in that situation Are you telling your teammates to give you the fucking ball

or are you letting them do what they do? It all depends on how the game is going. But, you know, Kevin Durant not, you know, shooting or scoring in the last five minutes is... It's painful. ...is not benefiting, you know, my team. It's not benefiting us to win the game. I have a top three player in the league on my team,

and he's not getting the ball the last five minutes. That's like having Jordan and Kobe on the same team, and one of them does not get the ball the last five minutes. It just doesn't make sense, you know, especially to be successful. So You know, I expect you know the next game that they make an adjustment and you know that ball goes to you know In the last five minutes only two people should be getting the ball The last book okay. Okay by Kevin. Okay. All right, Kevin. Okay. All right, Kevin. Okay, Brooke. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brooke and Kevin, you know, the rest of y'all team, you know, y'all just spot up.

Just watch out, you know, and rebound and, you know, pass the ball to these two. Yeah. I mean, and like the Clippers was already in the rhythm, too. Them playing games helped. Yeah. Like a lot of those. That's why I feel like a lot of these teams, too, lost their first game because the teams that the play-in games, it was already in the rhythm. So that's why I was like, the first game

I give the Clippers that second, but the second one I think Phoenix come out and do their thing. And then it just gets interesting. Oh, it's funny you mention that. Kill your defensive player of the year, Scott Foster, on the officiating crew for game two of Clippers vs.

Suns. Come on, man. God. So, we know there's been some issues with some certain players on the Suns. There ain't been no issues. There's been some issues.

There's just one issue. With one of the players on the Suns. Historically, he's been known to come in, fuck some shit up. We appreciate that. They said they appreciate that audio on the back.

Adam Silver, I thought that, listen, there was a time where Scott Foster could not ref Chris Paul games. All right? What happened? Why are we allowing Scott Foster, the best defensive player of the year, to ref Chris Paul games?

I thought that we had situations where Scott Foster was disrespecting Chris Paul's son, and we put a rule in that he could not ref Chris Paul games. Now you're just trying to fuck up the season. This should not be allowed. So let's go. We're going to put our hypotheticals. Chris Paul wanted to whoop that ass, and y'all had to put a stop to it. Y'all had to come off.

Serious. They had to have a meeting because Chris Paul wanted to lay hands on them. Let's put our hypothetical caps on. All allegedly, Gil, we can't confirm nor deny. No, Chris Paul confirmed it. All right. He confirmed it to me. He's going to whoop that ass.

Gil's arena. Beat the shit out of that man. And hearing the story, it was... I'll be honest. You just can't be a referee just walking in the goddamn parking lot just cussing kids out. That's a whole other story. Yeah, he just went in the parking lot, just cussing kids out,

and it happened to be Chris Paul's son. That's the type of shit that gets you pulled up on. Chris Paul was trying to pull up on them. Pull up on them. I didn't know that. So I want to know, you know, Kyle Foster officiating,

I think the losing streak in CP3 games is at 14. Will it end at 14 tonight? Yeah. So Suns are getting the win. We thought that at 10 and it's been FOMO, man. Thought it at 5.

Nah, they got to have this go 1-1 back to L.A. Yeah, they'll get it done tonight. The Suns will get it done tonight. Fuck, bro. This is horrible, man. They'll get it done tonight. But here's the question for y'all.

We put our hypothetical caps on this. I'm not putting Chris Paul in. I'm sorry. Fuck this. I'm not. Fuck this. I'm not. I'm not doing this.

Because it just makes it look bad because we're all looking. We're all going to be looking for Scott Foster. So what's going to happen is he's not going to ref normally. Right? So if Chris Paul is doing something, he's going to pretend he's not seeing it because he don't want to make a call either way.

Right? Which hurts also. Right? So now he has now he might blow some calls that shouldn't be called for Chris Paul. It's just, it's a, it's just a horrible fucking look.

But what is normal officiating? Because I've seen a lot of bullshit this postseason. I don't know what's a foul, what isn't a foul. Like if he calls a suspect offensive foul, what is everybody going to say?

Oh, see, here you go. You're doing that bullshit. If he calls a suspect foul that we don't think it's foul for Chris Paul, we're going to say, so you're trying to favor Chris Paul now. It's just, you can't win bullshit. And he calls a suspect foul that we don't think is foul for Chris Paul. We're going to say, he's trying to favor Chris Paul now. It's just. You can't do it either way.

Just stay away. Just stay the fuck away. Stay away from Chris Paul. I don't know why fucking they keep putting Scott Foster on as Chris Paul. We know now. Yeah. It's blatant. Adam Silver, we know.

We know every time Chris Paul and Scott Foster's on the court, there's some bullshit. Just stop it. You're just making the league look bad. Paul and Scott Foster's on the court and does some bullshit. Just stop it. You're just making the league look bad because if Suns lose, whose fault is it? Scott Foster. Scott Foster. He fixed the game. That's what everyone's going to say.

Just so stop it. Stop the narrative. Just leave that motherfucker at home or put him on another game. So Gil's Arena, show for the people, cure for the common show. So we talk about whatever the fuck we want to on the show. We'll see how long it lasts. We have a lot of ops. We got a lot of ops.

We already know. We already, media creators get denied. We try to just support. We can't. Your media? All the time. Damn. That's because of Twitter.

You be fucking with people. But Gil, little does the NBA know I'm rich. I'll just pull up anyway. Not a big deal. Still getting same access. What? Hey. But now I just gave it away so they're not gonna look at it facial recognition I gotta wear a do-rag or something you really getting denied out there?

oh yeah it's all good I don't take it personally have you used my name? yeah we use we use your name oh yeah then you getting denied they say are you with Gil? use your name. Oh, yeah, then you can deny. They say, oh, you with Gil. No. No, no,

we don't want no chill. You are not getting no access. All good. I will see him outside or at the function. You got to say no chill.

No chill? Oh, you don't use that one too? We don't get vetoed multiple times. We get vetoed at Summer League. I'm like,

damn, y'all let, I see them. Y'all let us ask questions here. Neither here nor there. I don't take it personal. It is what it is. The game ised at Summer League. I'm like, damn, y'all let, I see y'all let us ask questions here. Neither here nor there. I don't take it personally. It is what it is. The game is the game.

Damn. But. Bro, you can't use my name like that. No, I got to. They're not real hot and straight. I got to use Chandler Parsons. I got to come. You got to use J.J. Reddy.

I'm here with J.J. Reddy. I'm here with J.J. I'm about here to red carpet what you need. You want to get in the huddle? What you want to do? You want to get a the huddle? What you want to do? You want to get a jumper up in the game? Listen, we have no chill Gil, Gil's arena, and he don't have his backpack. They might let you in.

He don't have the backpack. Come on in. I like that JJ Redding angle. I'm just going to say, oh, he's ready. I'm here with JJ. Richard Jefferson. Here with RJ. Jalen Rose

you know we got some good names in there but so Athletic came out with a poll anonymous player poll today

ask players who's the worst referee 25.4% Scott Foster he has the highest the highest fudge so why you know why is the league Mm-hmm. Scott Foster. He has the highest? The highest. Fudge.

So why, you know, why is the league keeping him? Because he does well for the league, right? I don't mind Scott. I like him. I do too. I've never had a problem. I enjoy his officiating. I've never had a problem with him.

I've never had a problem, but... Duh. I already know what you're talking about. I've never had a problem, but... Duh. I already know what that look means. Okay. Whoever the head of referees, most likely Scott is his man.

Let's just try that one. Right? I mean I guarantee whoever the head is... Is it Monty McCutcheon? Is Monty McCutcheon the one who was rocking the bow tie the other night? Yeah. I can't even hate. No, I like that. He got a little fit off. Monty was um... He's from that area. They homies? Yeah, they from that old, somewhere in, was it Philly? Somewhere in the Philly woods together. Yeah, yeah. Did you like Joey Crawford? I didn't mind Joey.

I mean, you know, like the way I, because I talk shit when, you know, sometimes, like, he didn't penalize me for it. You know, you really have to get under Joey's skin for him to give you a tech, right? That's why I said, you know, Scott, I didn't have a problem with Scott. Steve Javy, you know. So, the guys who were considered assholes, right, they didn't really give. Give him issues. They didn't give the assholes. Right. They didn't really give. Give them issues. They didn't give the technicals like.

You know they just. You know I have problems more with the rookie refs. Because they don't really know you like that. So they're just giving texts and doing shit like that. We're going to see. It can't last forever. The streak got to end. The streak got to end.

Hey listen. When people say. Look bad luck can't. Yeah it can. The streak the street got it in the cousin I must yeah yeah that's that's last forever that's yeah that's eternal beef listen I'm doing one of these I'm gonna put my shirt right here and I'm going to just threaten the hell out this I'm just when we get this I'm whooping your ass. I'm doing all that Listen it's supposed to be 15 to know right now. I'm supposed to win this game too So I'm just gonna let you know after this game. I'm beating your ass. All right, and so you give me a win So you give me a win I'm whooping off in that ass

I said I feel like the Suns are gonna win tonight the street got in I want to be alive to see it I put your money on the dance. I only got a short more time on this earth. I can't see. I need to see the streak end at some point. When will it end? Let's talk about Clippers and more specifically Russell Westbrook aka Huss Westside.

Man of the people. Halftime. Tried to get into it with a fan during the Suns game. I thought it was funny. That was halftime? Don't call that man Westbrook. Westbrook was coming back from the visitors' locker room. There was a shortcut through a fan area. Fan, I think, called him Westbrook as his son

was eating some food straight off the plate, no forks. Westbrook got the dude's grill. But the funniest thing, he had the half shirt up like Zeke Elliott. That was the funniest part, he had the half shirt up like Zeke Elliott. That was the funniest part. That was his jersey.

Did he just tuck his jersey in so you could see the abs? See, that's why I want to get my abs right. That's why I want to get my abs right. So I can just do dumb shit with the abs. Sorry. Do it for both of us. I gave up. I gave up. I'm sorry I go to the mall abs showing.

I'm sorry. I worked my ass off for these abs, man. For these abs. I I gave up. I gave up. I'm sorry I go to the mall abs show and I'm sorry I worked my ass off for these abs, man. For these abs. I'm right up. Ever since I retired I wore a goddamn t-shirt in the pool. Are you shirt in the pool, crew? You shirt in the pool? Yeah. Oh, no. I don't even have

I don't have a belly but a shirt in the pool because I don't have the abs. I don't have I want all of it. I got man boobies. You just got to be comfortable with it, Gil. No, I want the abs. I want the abs. I want all of it. I got man boobies. You just got to be comfortable with it, Gil. Sure, no. I want the abs. I want the abs. Like, T.O., listen, I want the T.O. abs.

My problem is I'm kind of stuck in that no man's land. Like, if I had the Rick Ross gut belly and his fashion would have showed off, I'm still sensitive about it. So I've tried to get to that level, but it never really hits like that. Listen, you're going to know when I have the maps because I'm coming on the show, no shirt. We've got to get J.R. Smith to pull up. Just like this. Start stretching this shit, doing random

shit just to flex. I'm doing all that. Let's talk about Westbrook. 3 for 19 in the game. 1 for 6 from 3, but he came through 11 rebounds, eight assists, two steals, three blocks, including one that was game-saving. He blocked Devin Booker. Devin Booker was bitching to the ref. Russ threw it off

of him, got the Clippers the ball back. So Gil, I'll start with you first. What grade would you give Westbrook in game one? C-? Passing. I mean, you know, he's C-minus? Passing. I mean, you know, he's doing everything to try to get the win. You know, I think, you know, with him, he's thinking way too much.

You know, he thinks what people care. He thinks what people think. Like, if I'm him, I'm going back to the old Brody. I'm going to watch my old Brody days. You know, my triple-double days when I played very well and look at my swagger then versus now. Because it's not like he's lost his ability to do what he's been doing, you know, playing the way he's playing, you know, you know, I just think this is just a confidence thing.

And I think he just needs to start watching tape of, you know, how he approached the game and, you know, just get that little swag back that he had. You know, I think, you know, at this point, he's trying to, you know, please everyone, please himself on he can still be this man and he's thinking way too much about the game, making shots and not taking shots. I think that's where it is. It's all mental right now.

Me? I'm going to give him a B. I'm going to give him a B because I know he went 3 for 19, but he stepped up to the plate, made two big free throws, then came back down and got the block on Devin Booker that kind of like saved the game for them to win. So I think that, you know, showing that his toughness through it all, like he's still tough and he still is going to always fight and still go hard. So I think, and then like you said, just piggyback on what you said, like he needs to go back into just being the old Russ again.

Like the fans, they're going to say whatever. Like athletes going after fans, I always feel like it's stupid because you're not going to do anything. Like you're not going to take off on a fan. So it's just like. I mean, 50 games. Listen, you're not going to do anything to a fan. So the NBA is letting the fans like, you know,

because back when we were playing, we didn't have where we walked out. The fans were right there. They didn't have the clubs. They didn't have all that stuff. Orlando Day, when I went to Orlando they did. Yeah. So it's basically a shortcut. A lot of dudes have been doing it all season. I'm sure that they will nix that from now on and make them do that long walk back to the

court. I think Dwayne Rankin put up a video showing just what it looks like and how easy it is for court access. But is there something for you guys? And I understand fans talk shit, Gil. But when you look at a fan and you look at the toughness that they think they have, does it ever just... Because I'm like that. Sometimes somebody talks shit and I look at them like, bro, you can't talk shit.

No. Not you, though. Come on. That's part of the game. I mean, the fan... Listen, this is what the fan... I get it, but I'm just saying. When a fan wakes up in the morning

He's getting ready to go to his game The one dream he gets is that I can talk shit to this person. He acknowledges me Right, so that that fan like that's his life Right. I got the talk shit to fucking Westbrook and we stood toe-to-toe and then I'm telling myself It's okay. It wasn't myself if you wasn't here I would have swung it out of the plane. That's what the feeling is. It's part of the process, it's part of the game and that's why I say I'm, because I'm

a super fan too, so you know, hackling is part of the game. I've watched docs when you had the guy who was the Washington Wizards. I forgot his name. He was that lawyer who used to read Charles Barkley's book behind the bitch fucking with Charles Barkley. Right. I was trying to get him back for the playoffs when I was in Washington. What happened is the arena he was in, when they switched to the Capitol Center, the way the seating seating was they wouldn't give him the same seat for that price You know, so he stopped being a fan reunion chip in I don't know they I couldn't find him

What is it Robin thicker Robin thicker? You said Robin thick thicker. Yeah, something thicker. Yeah, I Got bearing on my ear. He's Caucasian thicker sound a little fuss some I'm like, wait a minute to I might have to pull the mic out. Go have a conversation. Thought he was trying to test me on a Tuesday. But if you're that fan, I think the fan was there with his son. I can't confirm that.

He was. But if I'm the son, I see my dad get checked by Westbrook, and he tell me to do my chores. I'm going to be like, motherfucker, you got bitched by Westbrook. I ain't listening to you. Nah. He didn't. He didn't. He wouldn't have done shit. It didn't matter. Russ wasn't listening to you. Nah. He didn't. He didn't. He wouldn't have done shit.

It didn't matter. He still- Russ wasn't going to do nothing either. But all the same. I'm pretty sure his son was like, is that Westbrook? Yeah. I'm pretty sure. And his son was locked in on the plate, and I get it.

I don't like the fact that fans can be back there. Well, that's their area. That's their area. So there's a door. It was a separate fan area. There's a door that you can go through that can get to the visitor locker room. But as a visitor, you gotta deliberately open that door, so you're now into their territory. It was blocked off, but they just need to lock that door.

So that was basically the first time, like, oh shit! That's what they're saying, yeah. The best part is that if this was on the street, he would have wanted to take a picture with Westbrook. Oh shit, Westbrook. Yeah, for sure. But you're in an element where- It's playoff time.

It's playoff time. Playoff time. I don't understand why the opposing team really thinks that they're going to get love in an opposing arena. That's what he's doing. If we was outside this arena and they caught me, yes, they're going to get love in an opposing arena. That's what he's doing. Like, that just doesn't, it doesn't. Look, if we was outside this arena and they caught me, yes, they're going to want to take a picture. Right.

But when it's bleed your team, fuck you. That's just how it is. But we see a lot of the same shit on social media, and it's like, I think we just come from a generation, an era where you're not going to talk crazy to somebody unless you have hands and you're willing to defend yourself. Where now you can create an account. It's just part of this whole stigma and culture around sports

where you can say a bunch of wild and reckless shit. Don't get me wrong, fans boo all the time, but there's a line you start crossing when you make it personal and do whatever. Me personally, I don't think Westbrook is the most disrespectful nickname. I think it's like, you know, but Russ... No, he just, I mean, he just... It's a corny or slander name, honestly.

I think with him, you know, because of... It's his last name that's being changed. And, you know, to him, that's like, don't fuck with my last name or my kids. Yeah, but... If you want to fuck with the first name, cool. But my kids have this name, and they're starting to use this in my son

and all of them in school, and they're probably starting to just wear them emotionally. But somebody called you Gilbert Aserenas or something like that. First, I'm like, nigga, that's not even a good name. Work harder. You know, sometimes. I mean, we see it all the time. To be honest, social media really has gotten people out of their element.

This summer, I got to put hands on you know, you know youtuber no for real No, not that youtuber another one you damn you got multiple youtuber issues just friends of friends Okay, so, you know this summer and you know, I got to put some hands on you know a youtuber You know just for run off in the mouth cuz I think he thinks because I'm goofy Right and I laugh a lot that he really think that's my personality and don't really think I'm a fucking psychopath. Sometimes you just gotta... I'm just saying. I've worked with you for a few years. Sometimes you just gotta... Don't be fooled by the calm demeanor.

I've never seen that bad side. But I'm a peaceful man. I'm humble. I just come in. I got some things for you too. Kick through the door, boom! I keep that strap on me too. You know.

Come run this way, you will get clapped. Will get clapped. I said ask Reenus. I think a Reenus would have probably been more functional. It would have been more functional. It would have flowed better. Gilbert Grape. You know, I got it all.

Come on. Gilbert Grape, Gilberto. I done got it all growing up. So, I got suspended a lot. Now it's time for our third favorite segment, mostly fans. But first off, we want to shout out all the fans who pulled up today. Now again, we started this show, the powers that be. They said they wanted, we would be good if we had 5,000 continual people in the chat.

We surpassed that. We're almost at six. Oh. Less than two months in the chat. We've surpassed that. We're almost at six. Oh. Less than two months in the game. Two, yeah. Why? Because we demand more. We didn't come here to play with y'all.

When we said in those meetings before the show started, we're about to take this shit over, we did. We handled our bids. We scrambled like Randall with his. Shout out, Jay-Z. All right. So let's go. The Mosey fans, I'm going to start. First fan question from Jada King.

If Lakers make finals with current roster, should they still pursue Kyrie Irving offseason? Yes. Okay. No. No. No. Why? Why?

If they get to the finals. Yeah, if they get to the finals. Yeah, we sign. We just, we, no, because we need a bench. Like, I'm going to just roll with my five, and we need to get bench players. We start off 2-10. That's fine. And then we went to the finals. Yeah, but, you know, but we, hold on, hold on.

Oh, you are a Laker fan, too. I am a Laker fan. But look who we playing. But that was the old team. But I'm saying. The 2-10 was the. So I'll go get Dame then. Okay.

I'm not mad at that one either. And I'm not saying nothing against Kyrie. I'm not saying anything against Kyrie. I just feel like the Lakers would need a Dame or something. Because Bron is almost on his way out. Dame is at the top. And Dame is just more reliable for the Lakers. You're just more reliable.

We know what we're going to get. And that's not saying Kyrie is a hell of a player, one of the best guards I've ever seen. But it's just for the Lakers and for what the Laker fans want, you've got to be reliable. I'm not mad at that. That's all. What would you have to give up to get Dame is the question.

Well, all of them. Half the team can go. But are you comfortable with that? I'm just saying. With this squad, if this squad, you got a final number. That's 30 points a night for sure, we know. So that's 30 points a night for sure that we know that we're getting. Yeah, I mean, you know.

A lot of people can go. But Dame locked into 26-27 when he has a player option. So now you've got to have him on the squad for the next three to four seasons at least. That final year, if he accepts his player option, he's making $63.2 million. Dame should be on everybody's list this summer. This summer. But, like, he should be number one. If you can, if you have.

He should be the number one free agent. Yeah, number one free agent that you should. I mean, not free agent, just number one guy. Number one guy people are pursuing. But if you're the Lakers, at what point are you giving up too much? Because if I'm Portland, I need Austin Reeves. I need. He can go.

Okay. But I'm going to ask for a lot of shit. He can go. Angelo Russell can go. Yeah. D-Law, I think, got to still figure out. As long as I keep A.D. and Braun. Yep, A.D. and Braun.

And we can find we can find somebody else because that's between them three that's 90 points right I mean at least 90 points a night so we good for sure so we got a uh another question here from one of our fans uh Warriors King series might be a record for most players in the series that have parents that also play in the NBA uh you got Steph Clay GP2, GP2, Wiggins, and on the Kings side, you got Sabonis. They want to know, is this the new NBA normal, and how much of an advantage do player kids have in the game? I think this is going to be the normal going forward versus the past NBA players.

When the past NBA players, I think it was more of, you know, we're too busy to really train our kids. You know, that's really a thing. That's real. You got to think about like Mello and Braun, right? Because they're still training themselves and training and doing all these to be professionals, it was really hard for them to actually be training their kids. Right? That's really a thing.

When you think about NBA kids, you're thinking about Shaquille O'Neal. When it was really time for him to get to his son to train his son, he's still an active player, right? So that's really hard to really put your hands on and be a hands-on, you know, father and trainer at the same time. So moving forward, there's going to be a lot more. I mean, you got Pippa's kids, you got Dwyane Wade. You've got Dwayne Wade's son still trying to make his mark. You've got LeBron's kid. You've got King and Martin's kid. My son's coming up.

I've got three boys, 12, 10. Eric Dampier's kid is number one in his age group. Boozer's kid. The Boozer boys. Matt Barnes' kid. You've still got whose son was just number two pick Atlanta Atlanta, he's at Houston. He's placed Houston. Am I smoking crack? He plays for Houston Number two number two pick number two number three pick

Jelani I mean Come on y'all. Jabari Smith. Jabari Smith. Yeah, there we go. Right? I mean, so you have a lot. There's a lot of shit going on in his head right now. Because what's going on now is, you know, the inner city kids used to have the advantage because they were hungry.

Yeah. Right? And the rich kids are spoiled. Now the rich kids have the resources of paying for trainers. So now the inner city kids don't have that luxury anymore because now the little spoiled kids got trainers now. All day training. Just go with your goddamn trainer. So that trainer is training the kid and by the time the kid loves it, he has the skills now. So he's not falling behind. DeJuan Wagner. DeJuan Wagner's son is nice.

You got Wag Junior. So, you know, you're going to have Dante Jones. You got his son coming up. So, you know, we can say masterpiece kids coming through the pipeline. Mercy and mercy. You got the privileged kids coming. You know, and they're coming with a whole different bag. You know, it ain't the inner city.

These kids that's playing now are actually privileged kids. You know what's crazy, too? Like, when you used to look at kids, like, back in the day, like, the kids that were more fortunate than us, like, that had dads, and, like, they were trash. Trash. Like, now it's, like, these NBA kids, like, they're good. It's like, you know, there's NBA dads.

Their kids are crazy. I mean, you look at Steph and Seth probably are, like, the gold standard for that. I mean, you got Clay. You got Brunson. You got. They grew up in Orange County, so you already know. RJ Barrett.

RJ Barrett. You got, you know, Gary Payton Jr. You got. No, it's dope. No, it's just dope to see, like, the fact that we. Robinson, Glenn. You know, Glenn Payton Jr. You know, you got... No, it's dope. No, it's just dope to see, like, the fact that we... Robinson, Glenn, you know, Glenn Robinson. Mason, Anthony Mason's son. You got a lot of fucking...

What is it like for y'all to pull up to AAU events? And, you know, you got the former NBA player dads there with their kids. Like, are y'all talking shit to each other? Is it beef? Like, is it love? No, it's... It's what's up. It's what's up, right?

It's just like a what's up in this life. Y'all happy for each other? When we played, we barely seen NBA. Yeah. I didn't see no NBA player. I mean, I seen Stacey Ogden, but he was just coming there to talk, right? The only real famous, the only real famous person that I knew in AAU was probably, it was Gary Payton, Brandon Payton. It was Gary Payton's but Brandon Payton there's Gary Payton's brother yeah right I was oh shit that's GB brother right there right now you know you're going there you know Kobe's Kobe's daughter you know recipe she was playing and you got Matt Barnes over there Then you got... I think it's crazy too on the daughter's side.

Zeebo's daughter. Now it's just... My dad goes harder on the girl's side than he used to go on our side. But the shit talking is intense.

He'd be on it throughout the games. I got to calm his ass down sometimes. You'll go to an event. You'll have 20 NBA players. Next NBA players running through the...

Just run it all day. All day, yeah. And I think that's what helps these kids, too. Like, being able to see us. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, we wasn't able to see that. So, just being able to see, like, an NBA player walk in, it's like, your game different. Like, you know what I'm saying?

You're trying to show out. Like, you're trying to show that, you know, oh, I'm nice. Like, I can get with it. So, I think that's, like, the game is getting better with the kids, too. Because they can see us. Like, we're there. Well, now I'm excited. I can get with it. I think the game is getting better with the kids too because they can see us. We're there. I'm excited for the generation. I'm excited to see your kids. I'm excited to see your kids. Elijah has been out here cooking.

Derek Rose has got a son that plays. You've got Dwight Howard. His voice is big. Are you up next? That's what I said. The NBA is going to be different, but we're going to be all right back. It's going to be different. The NBA is going to be different, but we're going to be all right back. It's going to be like one like, damn.

But our kids is just hooping. That's our show for today. We appreciate everybody in the chat. We got to get over six. Two questions? Damn, how much more? We fulfilled five and a half, almost six thousand people in there you have two fucking questions

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