Gil's Arena - Gil's Arena BATTLES Over USA vs The World All Stars

Episode Date: March 25, 2024

Gil's Arena BATTLES Over Who Wins The USA vs World All Star Game as Gilbert Arenas & the Gil's Arena Crew discuss Adam Silver's proposal to change the NBA All Star Game to a USA vs The World Format and get into an old fashioned Gil's Arena Debate over which side would win. They also address the late season struggles for western teams like the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers and discuss if key players like Steph Curry & Russell Westbrook can turn their teams around before the start of the NBA Playoffs. Finally, they rip around the world of pop culture discussing the fiery diss track put out by Kendrick Lamar towards Drake & J Cole and give their reactions from the first week of the NCAA Tournament where legends like Jack Gohlke and Coach John Calipari made headlines. Please consider giving us a like and subscribe!!! Gil’s Arena premieres every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. Sign up for Underdog Fantasy HERE with promo code GIL and get a $100 first deposit match: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-gil's-arena SUBSCRIBE: / @gilsarena APPAREL PARTNERS TUFF CROWD: https://www.tuffcrowd.com/ ADIDAS: https://www.adidas.com/us/agent-gil-restomod-basketball-shoes/ Gr8ness: https://www.gr8nss.store/ Order Rashad's Book Here - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD9ZQ3HD?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420 CHAPTERS: Intro 0:00:00 Show Start 0:03:43 Kendrick vs JCole & Drake 0:06:05 CP3 Calls Ref A TikToker 0:21:50 Jack Gohlke The March Madness Legend 0:29:45 Kentucky Gets Upset AGAIN 0:37:40 Does Gil Believe In The Lakers? 0:46:05 Jalen Green Is Finding His Way 0:57:08 What's Wrong With The Warriors 1:01:33 The Clippers Downward Spiral 1:18:15 Russ Is The Clippers' Answer 1:26:37 NBA Shuts Down G-League Ignite 1:30:02 Should NBA Move To Academy Style Training? 1:40:06 USA vs World All Star Game 1:52:38 Happy Birthday Sheryl Swoopes 2:19:00 Mostly Fans 2:19:45 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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going on in the world of hip-hop, since you're our resident expert on all things concerning young people. Yeah, facts. Facts. I'm washed. I heard it. I don't know what's going on. That's what he be saying, too. So Kendrick Lamar did a feature on future Metro Boomer's new album on a track called Like That and used his verse to take some shots at Drake and J. Cole. Amongst the lyrical jabs thrown was Kendrick saying, F the big three, it's just big me,

the big three, being Kendrick, Drake, and J. Cole, correct. So Brandon, I know you heard the track. I know you listened to it extensively, broke it down. Also representing LA, Compton, Gardena, those areas. So have a firm grasp of what's going on in the mind of Kendrick Lamar. What do you think about this song? What are your reactions to it? I mean, I love the song.

I mean, I think it's great for hip-hop. I think now that Kendrick's out of that deal with TDE, he can unleash some things that we've never heard. And he's more free now. But, you know, when you start talking like that in hip-hop, you know, you got to be ready for what's coming back. One thing about Drake, though, is, like, we know everything about Drake. And we don't know really too much about everybody else.

So it's kind of like it's going to be interesting to see what Drake got to say. Because we don't really know too much about anybody else. Okay. Sean, you share those sentiments? It's up. It's up. Time to pick a side? It's fucking up.

And I'm with K-Dot and them. Okay. Yeah. Why are you on Team K-Dot? Um, I ain't really got to their work yet. I ain't got to his work yet, so I got to all the other niggas' work, see what I'm saying, Drake and them. They just be moving around and shit too much

And I think that K dot been waiting for this. He's he's retaliating This ain't no I'm punching first. This is y'all niggas talking about me. I think j.co been waiting on this It don't matter who's in the way you even the way this is confu Kenny man Confu Kenny don't play around while I'm nothing. I mean, I like it that everybody doing their own thing now. Because it brings back the competition. But they teaming up. That's what he said.

Y'all teaming up. No, I think this is more. I don't even think Drake is really in this, though. I think it's more just. I got these K with all these nines. It's going to be a pest cemetery. I think it's more K. and J. Cole. It's all of them. I mean, everybody. You see all these nines. It's gonna be a pest cemetery. I think it's more a K.N.J. Cole. To all of them.

I mean, everybody. You say all these dogs. I mean, everybody can get it. All the ball is for all your dogs. I got K for all y'all dogs. Huh? Well, you know Jay-Z's still alive, so... We're on the older side.

Sent you the song. As a man who enjoys beef, the beef sector. What is the argument here? I mean, what do we... You gotta pick a side. No, I don't. Yeah, you gotta pick a side. I'm sorry, I'm old school.

So, I like Kendri. I like Drake. I like Cole.. I like Drake. I like Cole future future to future That's what got no fucking side just like basketball I like Kobe I like LeBron and I like Jordan That's it. I got a fucking pink Fuck up. Thank you You feel like everybody.

They're all different. So what am I picking for? They're all different. One's a pop star. Two are rappers. One, they're different. You can't come to my party if you're fucking with them. You got to pick a side. Are you coming to my party or are you taking your ass home?

Which one? Whose party? Future and K-Dot party. You trying to come in. Hey, you still fucking with them niggas over there? Who did Future pick? Future with K-Dot. So he's not with Drake when he did the whole Drake album?

Nope. So you ain't hear the beef. You don't know the beef, huh? It's over with now. So the beef is Drake and Future beefing over a bitch from Booby Trap. Cap. Now, I heard it started with Metro Boomin' first. Cap.

Yeah, one of his jaunts. Yeah, Metro Boomin' first. Some pillow talking as the other one. Yeah, pillow talking. Whatever it is, it's over a female, I think. We have a whole album together. But are you coming? You can't take our whole album.

Are you coming to my party or are you going home? No, I'm going home. I'm going home and just watch. Right from the crib. So you chose Sots? I ain't choosing no Sots. You did. You ain't coming to party.

Whose party? Future and K-Dot party. The future K-Dot. He was invited. So he's saying you were invited to the K-Dot party, but they like, y'all, you still fucking with Drake and them? You still fucking with Drake and them? If he invite me to a party, I'm going to go to the party, and then I'm going to go to the Drake party. But you can they like y'all you still fucking you still fucking with Jake and I can call if he

Invite me to a party. I'm gonna go to the party and then I'm gonna go to the Drake party. Can't come in Oh fucking with them So you got to pick a side. That's no kitchen. I'm not that's what they are. Hey, I'm not Man, when the Kobe was had any problems I was watching the Laker games and I was watching the Miami games When he was both on the same time One's gonna be in the little box one's gonna be in a big box All right, all right, I would then better question all right, so who's the best rapper then out of those three Who's the best rapper out of those three out of Kendrick J Cole and Drake?

Sure out of Kendrick, J. Cole, and Drake? Shit, I don't know. The best rapper? Yeah, like who raps the best to you? What are we going off of? What's the criteria? Rap. Lyrics. Songs.

Lyrics. Lyrics. I don't know. I'm from the West Coast, bro. We listen to beats. I'm in the beats. I'm in the beats. You're in the beats.

What's going on? Give me the shaking. That's what West Coast is about, beats. Yeah. They are important. Since when? Since the beginning of time. No, beats for sure.

Beats for sure. Lyrics too, though. I didn't listen to Eminem, because what club songs he going to have? We going in and listening to Stan? How you grind a Stan? How you grind a stand? If you really about it you'll find a way but after the verse drop Drake offered this response during his show up show in Florida this weekend. And I know that no matter what, it's not a n***a on this earth that can ever f*** with me in my life. And that's why I want you to walk out of here tonight.

But in order to, you know, get yourself off gas, step right up, and move towards the future, sometimes, sometimes you got to acknowledge the mistakes that you made in the past, right? In order to move to the future, sometimes you have to acknowledge the mistakes you made in the past. Brandon, does Drake need to respond to Kendrick's diss, and if so, how quickly? He already responded. He already responded. That was the response. No, that wasn't the response. I heard the response. I heard that was A. response. That is the response. Huh? I heard the response. He made a response. I heard that was AI.

I heard that was AI Drake. Oh, my God. Yeah. I heard that was AI Drake. Yeah. You talking about Pranked? I mean, but whoever was in there right now was all right. Like he's better than the Drake we already did it for.

Oh, shit. I mean, the beef's not really with him. It's J. Cole and Kendrick. But, I mean, if he wants to, go ahead. So, J. Cole need to respond? Yeah, J. Cole got something coming for sure. Expeditiously. All right, well, let's move into some basketball.

Responding is the dumbest thing because we always put a time on it, right? You always put a time on it. You have like three days or four days to respond. If you don't respond fast enough, then it's over. Right? It don't count now. Right. Which is the dumbest thing

because we don't know how long he's been working on this verse. Right? You know, Shooter came out how long ago? A couple months? Two months ago? Well, we don't know how long

they was working on that verse to shoot at Kendrick. Again. And Drake never responded to Pusha T. Huh? Drake never responded to Pusha T. So it's 60 days, right? Drake never responded.

That's where that beef was going. No, what I'm saying is 60 days, we can say Shooter's been out, right? So, you know, Kendrick had at least 60 days for his response. So basically for a fair one, you have to give the dude 60 days to respond. Because if you say, oh, you got to do it in three days and he spent 60 days on it, it's never going to equate. Yeah, that's the fantasy.

Yeah, that's just the fantasy. That's why whoever gets hit first always loses because they're pressured to respond now Yeah, I mean I would just wait I'll still just wait till album or whatever I would I mean it's no I mean I don't know if it's this is the thing the history of this beef go back to control Which is a diss track Kendrick dropped on all them niggas. Like I'm killing all yeah All right, so they never responded to that. So now they took shots on first-person shooter.

Like, them taking shots. Control was how long? Like, six, seven years ago. Damn. So they never responded to that. It's been a long time. I mean, it's been shots taken. But it ain't subliminal.

This nigga called them out. Names, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, he's tired of it. Right. So they still subliminal. He doesn't think you called him out names. I'm saying he's tired of it, right? So they even they'd still subliminal shooting at this nigga. So he's just calling back out control came out in 2013 I mean The real problem is How do you fight a dude who's basically every five years? You got to destroy him. No.

So he don't ever come back. No, you just, if this is what he's going to do, you just sit, keep making your music, and know he's going to leave for five more years after his album. There's no, what's the point? He's free now, though. I mean, he was doing that under TD. I don't know now, you know, Kendrick's free. As I said, I don't know. It's like a nigga you fight, and then he go to jail and then he come back and get out of

jail and you got to fight him again and then he go back to jail and then he get out of jail he Every time he got a jail he bigger and buffer. He like yeah remember me Damon Yeah group hug, nigga. Group hug. I look at it like this. When it comes to the chess war, who has the most to lose? Kendrick. Drake don't have none because Drake is a pop star. He's a singer-rapper.

Reputation. He's not in the lyrical game for him to be even compared to a rapper-rapper. Oh, he is. Oh, yes, he is even compared to a rapper rapper oh yes that's why he never lose that's why he never loses to rappers in the rap game drake is the lyrical assassin that's why everybody looks at him to attack yeah but he can jump into singing and get right out of it no for sure he can he can he can sidestep right out of it and do it only do a singing song only to the fans the actual rap community, we still looking at him like, yo, you never responded to

Pusha, bro. And then, has that stopped any of his shows? It ain't got nothing about stopping his shows. It's the respect and the rap. Who lost their career? Nobody. Pusha actually got, actually, like, they look at him like, yo. Yo. Is he still famous off of Drake?

Yes. Pusha. What was his last song? Sassini's song. He ain't had to push nothing, no. Oh, yeah, they pushed, yo. Yo. Is he still famous off of Drake? Yes. What was his last song? He ain't had to push nothing now. Oh, yeah. He hasn't pushed anything? He ain't pushed nothing. He's still eating off of Dobie, you know? I mean, whatever that is. He's still eating off of a song six, five years ago.

Push her off, push her stepping out. He's selling out arenas and shit still? No? Okay. He's going selling out arenas and shit? Still? No? No? Okay. He's doing shows in the basement. So we asked to chat. We asked to chat. I ain't got nothing to do with this.

He's not involved with this side of the couch. I ain't got nothing to do with none of that. We know it's your own money. I'm just saying. To take a shot at someone right when 50 Cent took a shot at Ja Rule right it was to replace the dude

get out of here I'm here now and I'm going to take your spot and go if you're going to throw a shot for a kill shot and you're not going to replace him then what was the point of it but there was a personal beef with that 50 shit. That wasn't, oh, you rap better than me, I'm trying to kill you. No, nigga, you tried to actually kill me. I'm going to

kill your career without going to jail. And he did. But he did- This shit right here that we talking about is rap. This is a rap beef. This is a duel. Yeah, we're looking for bars. This is a duel. There ain't no personal X, Y, Z. Even with the pushing in Drake's shit,

it could have been personal, which is why Drake said, I didn't respond because I could have ended your whole life. But you never responded. With him and Meek,

he killed Meek. Literally. Meek ain't never been the same since. So now it's like, all right, you got to respond now. You have to.

Why? Because it's a beef. It's not a now you do you have to why because it's a beef it's not a calling you out but that's what i said i you're beefing with a dude who comes around once in the blue moon i'm gonna just keep it moving knocking on your door my nigga what's my money it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like the mbe joker thing right we play four times a year i play you once on at my crowd, and I see you next year. You keep dodging the other three games. That's how that looks. Just two, though.

No, I'm just saying. I'm just saying. If it was a West Coast, I'm playing you to one game. I score 50 on you, and then I'm not playing you no more. I'm never going to play you at your home crowd. I'm just going to play at my turn. Like, what is the beef? It ain't a real thing, then.

It is a real thing. It's a real thing if we get to battle all the time? It ain't a real thing then. It is a real thing. It's a real thing if we get to battle all the time. It's not a built, it's not a, I don't look at it like that. So if you're ducking me

and I'm looking to battle you every time you come out here, your team, and you don't play because you had that one game, you played good, it's like everyone else is looking forward to this.

You're ducking me. I think Drake's just going to keep making his music like he's been doing. He has. I don't, I don't. He's going to respond. Yeah. So we asked the chat, who was the best rapper between the three 46% said Kendrick 37% said J Cole

17% said Drake Basketball That's some I don't know. I love that. I love it Now the chat is honest, that's the wrong. I mean that's right or wrong. Oh, yeah, that's right to me on my perspective That is the child. I roll it. I roll it. I roll you roll. Oh, yeah Damn Kendrick wait, who you rolling with rap the best rap just who has the best lyrics Which is best rapper? Whoever who has the best lyrics? Would you ask best rapper? Whoever sells out the most arenas, dawg. I don't give a fuck what y'all talking about. Nah, we not talking that. Nah, we talking just bars, like lyrics.

Would you rather have seven Grammys and ten million dollars or sell out a million? How about this? Who would you rather be right now? Who would you rather be right now? Out of the three. Okay. Who would I rather be right now? Out of the three. Okay. Who would I rather be right now? Out of the three? Yeah, the nigga with his own plane. They all got money. They all got money.

I'm a fool, Kenny. We'll call it fool, Kenny. The nigga everybody's scared of. Leave that nigga alone. I don't want to be none of them niggas. Leave that nigga alone, man. Brandon is happy being Mr. B. All right, let's get on to some basketball.

No love lost between CP3 and the refs. The Scott Foster beef, well documented. But Tony Brothers is on the list now, too. So during the Warriors' loss to the Pacers on Friday, Brothers ejected CP3 with six seconds left in the fourth quarter. All right. I know, dude. Look at Tony's brother's forehead, though.

Wait, what? Wait, what? Just look at him. Six seconds left. After the game, CP3 broke down when he said to get booted. Oh, man. Oh, Tony. He's talking to me, I talk back.

I called him a TikToker. I had a tech. No, the first one. I just said TikToker. He gave me a tech. The second one I just said, that's too much powers. You know what I mean? He gave me another tech. TikToker meaning?

Need to judge the jury and all that. So for those who aren't familiar, CP3 did some post-game trolling as well, posting this on his IG story. I don't even really care too much for basketball. I'm the judge, the jury, prosecuting attorney, defense attorney, everybody. Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. much for basketball. I'm the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, attorney, defense attorney, everybody. Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. I thought I was ugly. I thought I was ugly, nigga. Boy, goddamn, goddamn. Tony, that's why nobody like your ugly ass, man. Out here talking about you the judge, the jury, and some other shit.

Attorney. Motherfucker, move around. Lucky I ain't playing no more. He be teeing me every goddamn time. It's your ugly ass. How you staying, this nigga like that? Boy, pissing me off. Does CP3 deserve a tech for calling him a TikToker?

A TikToker? You gave a dude a tech for calling him a TikToker? A TikToker? You gave a dude a tech for calling him a TikToker because you're on TikTok? Yes, yes. See how you put that together? See how that shit was bullshit? Like, you really are on TikTok, Tony. You're on TikTok, TikTok-ing.

And if you get mad, I call you a TikToker more, man. Make it make sense. Make sense, bro. Oh, man. Oh, shit, bro. And Adam Silver's not going to do nothing about none of this. No, he got other issues right now. I'm pretty sure he going to find Chris Paul for whatever he said

versus Tony Brother for basically telling the world that he has all the power on the court. Wow. Okay. It was a TikTok. So you're allowed to publicly say you're a crooked cop. And I do what I want what's the crooked I mean the crooked

caught in the hood he has all the power right he can do whatever the fuck he wants to do pull you out of the car straight training day straight training day

pull you out of the car do this rough you up give me your money whatever get the fuck on out of here or I'm going to kill you wow

and cover it up and then say this's just an arrest wow on a traffic ticket you think you're allowed to kick a dude off for calling you a tiktoker and then say you have too much power and then he shows how much power he has by using his power with six seconds left too it would seem like six sec come on six seconds left bro show some restraint maybe don't do the tech in that situation just because you're showing how much power you have. Yeah, that's it.

You did exactly what he told you you did. You have too much power, and you decide to unleash it with six seconds left because, you know, kicking me out gets this much money. You know, I got fined, but if I get kicked out of the game, it costs me this. Wow. And then if you say something about it you get you get taxed again so who so who got baited Chris got baited Chris got baited a tick tocker damn I mean the

players gonna always get baited because he don't have a whistle I'd be honest I mean let's just be honest a player don't have to say shit you don't have a whistle. I'll be honest, I mean let's just be honest, a player don't have to say shit. You don't have to say nothing. If I don't want you in the game, I give you two texts, get the fuck out of here, what are you gonna do about it? So when they ask you, what did you do? I didn't do nothing. Is that gonna change? Are they gonna fine the ref? No, nothing. There's nothing the ref is going to get so what's the point even asking them what did you say it don't matter i just want i just want to find i'm gonna get you a fine you're gonna pay some money but don't i mean it don't matter i mean it's a lot

different now like you say gilbred is involved it seems like that's a very very low on the spectrum of things that you can get a technical for but like they six seconds left right nobody's following. What is the score? 22-111. They were down 11 at that point. Huh? Warriors were down 11 at that point in the game. Warriors down 11. We don't know what the spread is. What's the spread? Was the spread 11.5? Was the higher and lower? Oh, because they get free throws. Over the free throws and make it go over. I mean you really got to put that in in consideration a random tech with six seconds left we don't know what that is for the game Wow this I don't even like best a lot of shit that's you seeing that was like damn they so open with it

yeah too open with it well you know like I see the rest it's like like what you on tick-tock take me at five take five tech for tick-tock at least he could have said oh I thought he was throwing my life he called me a tick-tock he's like my time is up my time is ticking like at least lie Now he called me a what Chris did was he put both of those statements? Into the tick tock statement, which he called him a tick tocker. Then he said after Tony said I'm jury I'm the judge he's saying you got too much power based on what you said in the TikTok. And then give me a take for the second one.

Wow. Chad is saying the spread was 4.5. 4.5? What was the higher low? I mean, what was the... It's not about, you know. It's not fantasy. What was the over-under?

The over-under. For total points in the game? Yep. That's the question. 239. So what was that? 120. That was 233. 239. So what was that? 120. That was 233.

122. Yeah. 11. So it was just some spite. Some old school. We'll make it make sense. But that's stuff you got to pay attention to. Wait, no, no, no, no, no.

What was it? 239 he said. 239. And what was the spread? Minus 4.5. No, no, no, no, I'm sorry. What was the over? What was the final score? 122 111. No, I don't think that was over. Oh it wasn't that was when he got ejected. So that's 235? That was when he got ejected. It was 122 111. Yeah. What was the final score? I'm pulling it up. Should have had it. Sorry.

No, they said 224 was the 123 111 so it's 234 total points 234 all right hmm oh yeah watch them do it's bad that's bad this is just have a I this is a our refs man just have AI refs, man. Just have robot refs, man. Just have robot refs. We wouldn't even be mad about that. Just have some robot refs going out there. Calling what?

You can say whatever you want. Calling the obvious shit. Say whatever you want to them. They're not going to trip. I have no emotions. All right, well, let's keep this thing moving with some hibachi time. So did y'all watch the NCAA tournament at all this weekend? A little bit.

A little bit. Bear it out. A little bear it out. A little bit. So many games, huh? So many games. I mean, men's tournament, women's tournament. Yeah, we're probably going to see you Saturday, homeboy. That's going gonna be nasty

I'm rooting for y'all. I figured We'll both be in Los Angeles this week in the sweet 16 round Who y'all got? Who we have and I'm saying who y'all got? I hope y'all lose. Have Arizona. Who we have. No, I'm saying who y'all playing. The team we about to play in, the Sweet 16? I don't know. Don't care?

Are you going to win? Is Houston still winning? Yeah. They just won. I got them winning it all. We got to talk about... Calvin Sampson. That's my man. Shout out Calvin.

Okay. Fuck that nigga. Sampson. Had the NIL on lock well before. Yes, he never got crazy Before the tournament started most people thought Oakland University was in the bay But senior backup guard Jack gokey literally helped put them on the map and became a March Madness legend in the process Against the 3c Kentucky Wildcats he hit ten th threes in the game, tied for the second most in NCAA history.

Finished first five seasons at a D2 school before getting the chance to join the Oakland squad. 24 years old, super-duper senior. But he led the Golden Grizzlies to the biggest win in program history. Oh, we got another one? Yeah, Coach Callen in the torture chamber. That's tough. This is my favorite part of March Madness, seeing dudes you never heard of before come out and get buckets.

Trying to do their thing. So after the win, Golke proclaimed that his squad wasn't a Cinderella But NC State made the clock strike midnight in their second round meeting. He did his six more threes in that game So when you see something like that Gil does it bring back any memories of the tournament? So what the fuck are they from you just said that we thought they were in Oakland. So where are they from Rochester Hills, Michigan? Gil thank you for asking. Oh, I'm a little bit calmer tone Where the fuck are they from? You just said that we thought they were in Oakland, so where are they from? Rochester Hills, Michigan, Gil. Thank you for asking.

Oh, okay. Do it in a little bit calmer tone. I'm just saying, I'm over here like, alright, so they, uh, where the fuck are they from? Okay, so they're from Michigan. You said you was watching the tournament this morning. I was. Not them. Okay, so what was your question?

I was trying to figure out where they're from. Okay, so what was your question? I was trying to figure out where they're from. I'm like, oh, they're about to say where they're from. Okay. They're not from Oakland. Okay. They're not from the hood. Okay, got it.

Rochester. Rochester. Rochester Hills. Okay. Never been. Heard it's nice. What did you think about that performance and your own personal tournament memories? What was your best game in the tournament?

Probably a lead eight against Illinois. We lost to them earlier that year. And that came out on fire. I think I had like 18 out of our, the first 18 out of our first 25, 27 points. So I was carrying us the first half, so that was big. What happened in the second half, freeze out? What your teammates did? I don't remember.

Okay. We won though. That's all that matters. Yeah. That was that Frank Williams team. Ooh. Yeah, that was nice. He was nice, dog.

He was nice. Yeah, it was that Frank Williams team. Ooh. Yeah, he was nice, dog. He was nice. It was that team. Shia, favorite tournament game? Favorite or the best one? Best, favorite. What was your best NCAA tournament game? Sophomore year against Texas. Second round at 27.

Trying to wheel us to the win. We didn't get that dub, but I was torturing them niggas for sure. Kind of like that. Brandon, obviously you went over and got a bag overseas. Yeah. No, but some of my favorite tournament moments, Jimmer Fadette for sure, Steph Curry, George Mason. Was it George Mason?

Yeah, that run that they had was dope. And then, yeah, just watching UConn back in the day, Marcus Williams and Ben Gordon and them. Marcus Williams was a beast at UConn. Yeah, they were good. No, no, so we're just going to pretend. We're just going to pretend we didn't hear what he said. What?

We're just going to pretend. What? We're going to pretend. What is that? That's what we're doing now. What are we talking. We're just going to pretend. What? We're going to pretend. What is it? That's what we're doing now. What are we talking about? Are we going to pretend? What did I say?

No, we're just going to pretend. You're going to ask it again? What? What was Rashad's favorite game? What was your favorite? Best game. Best game. Best game.

Yeah. Texas. Texas. What happened that game? Did y'all win or lose We lost Move on Who cares It's about individual

For me Now you care It's the win over It's the win over I thought he was going to say the championship game They won the championship. But it's a game that the team didn't win, but his ass balled out. Okay.

He said, that's the question. That was his best. What are you talking about? He's so desperate for a fucking win. I said favorite. You're that desperate? He said, what was your best game in the tournament? To hell.

It wasn't the game that I won. That wasn't my best game. They lost. I thought he was going that I won. It wasn't my best game. They lost. I don't do my best game. I want to do winning. But I've done both. Can you say that? Yeah. No, you can't. You can't.

You can't. You literally can't. I can. I had a bad game and I won the chip. I had a good game and I lost. You can't. I can. It's starting on a Monday. I had a bad game and I won the chip. I had a good game and I lost. You can't say that. Nigga.

I mean, if we're desperate for your wins, nigga, you can crawl and scrape all you want, nigga. That's what we're talking about. Ladies and gentlemen, Glorious Monday and Gilzerine are presented by 100 Dog Fantasy. What's going on? We was chilling. The height of March Madness.

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TV Guide? TV Guide is not Jet. I'm just saying. Is this thing a what? Did you get the Jet feature as well? Where is this thing from? Where is he from? Where is he from?

Where is he from? The Jet cover. Where is he from? Where is he from? The Jet cover. TV Guide. Where is it from? For those who don't remember know, the Jack cover. The Jack, all right. TV guy. Where is it from? For those who don't remember,

you can let us know which channel shit was coming on and what time for the young generation. For the people who don't know. It was essential. It was on the coffee table. It was essential. Or it was in the bathroom. It was in the bathroom.

It was in the bathroom with a coffee table. One of the two. He took his chance. He was on tonight. A very, very important magazine. One of the other facts He took his chance. He was on tonight. A very, very important magazine. One of the other facts. TV guy was lit. There's a lot of shit y'all younger generation y'all just don't appreciate.

So it's really hurtful when y'all call us. We didn't know what channel shit was on. We didn't know what time it was coming on. That magazine was big. Every black person wanted to be on that. I wish I was on the Jack. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's it.

I didn't get no black people fucking with us like that. I went to North Carolina. That's it. With the gr get black people going to fuck with us like that. I went to North Carolina. That's it. With the grambling, I would have made that move. I would have been on that business. Let's talk a little bit about Kentucky. Coach Count Kentucky won them four in their last five tournament games. You may recall they got upset by number 15 seed St. Peter's back in 22.

Oakland this season. Kentucky hasn't won a chip since 2012. Hasn't advanced past the second round since 2019. Does Kentucky need to give Coach Kyle the boot? Or should they keep riding with him for all that he's done? Keep riding with him. I mean, he's getting top-tier talent to come into school. That's what it's about.

I'm pretty sure if he didn't go after top five draft picks every year that he'll have a better winning record. But you're just putting talent together and he's got the top tier talent. So trying to remove him to go get wins you know that's the hottest that right that that's the hottest school for guards and shit damn they're big man but that's the hottest the school for talent so you know as long as he's there you're gonna keep getting top talent and just a couple with that they don't mobile to close to 35 million dollars if he was fired without cause I mean I think a lot

of these coaches now is just, because kids can go wherever you want. It's kind of like, they're kind of overrated now. Like, I think we're seeing their true colors. They're not as good as they used to be. I think the way the college game is going, because you can transfer, you can move, so yeah, you can get top players, but that don't mean when you go to a tournament, you're going to win it.

You just got top players. Like, you're just still going off the name, and i don't even think the name really even matters anymore now with the deals and where you can go so i think a lot of coaches finna start getting exposed i kind of agree with that i agree with both of y'all and in a sense of like who you're gonna bring in that's better than him and doing what he do like bringing the talent in um but then you think about getting beat like this in the first round i mean that says a lot about the talent that you did bring in were they the best talent even though they were the top recruits you know i'm saying like they're supposed to take you over the top like all the other talent did but then again it's like they give them a couple more years they turn into a maxi turn

into a murray turn into rondo, all of those different guys. They got a whole pool of guys. But then it just says a lot about the landscape of where we at. Like you were saying, are we training players that are going to turn into winners? Are we just turning in talent and then taking them to the league and just letting them do what they want to do. And that's a sentiment to Juwan Howard getting fired from Michigan after, what, three and a half, four years maybe, and not giving him the opportunity to build out his resume, his roster, be able to recruit some top talent like that. Calipari has set up a farm system where it's undeniable. You come here, you're going to go to the league.

So that's where we're at right now. So you can't really deny that. You know, he just got to, like you said, with transfer portal, if you can't equate that shit to wins, you just look bad losing in the first round at the end of the season. When was the last time they won at all? 2012. 2012.

Like even these last two losses, I don't really take... I don't put too much on it because this is still COVID. This is still effects from COVID where you got guys sitting in the league. He's fucking Luka's age. You know what I mean? You got dudes in college that's 20- You talking about a dude from Oakland? Yeah, a dude from Oakland.

He's 24. 24 years old. You got grown ass men in this tournament. I think North Carolina starting lineup around the same age as the Thunder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's 24. So you got grown-ass men in this tournament. I think North Carolina starting lineup around the same age as the Thunder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, so you got guys who got to hold back and do all this stuff. So you got guys in there like he spent, what, you said six seasons at a D2?

Five at a Division II school. And then this? Then came through Oakland game. That's crazy. So you got a six-year guy. I mean, so most of these teams that are like really established, they're older than everybody else, right? So you got a group that's 18, 19 years old playing against an average team of 22.

You expect the 22-year-olds to win, right? That's just, especially just one game. So there's still that COVID domino where everyone got their hole back, so you got a bunch of older guys still in college. So you have to give it at least two more years before it cleans itself out. Let's coach it up there. Let's coach it up right now. That game, we all coaches on the Kentucky bench.

You, Calipari, why we not doubling this nigga? Why we let, first half he had what? Let's say he had four threes in the first half. He the only one keeping them in the game. What are we doing to stop this nigga? I'm surprised they didn't switch.

Switch them to the big to him, right? They switched them. Because he was catching shooting that bitch. So they never made any adjustments. I Mean how was he doing a regular season? well, you know sometimes as it's You know in college you you probably don't even know a dude Yeah, it's parking like that, but you can see that he been doing this type of shit the way he was coming off that bitch It was catching shoot one to a dribble handoff as soon as he caught it.

So it's like, hey, look, we not, we reading that. We trapping. Coming off, he started like the first 13, 14 game of the season, got moved to the bench, but I think in their last five or six games, he was playing like 30 minutes a game. He got that confidence rolling. It's like, what do you do as a coaching staff to stop that? And then you get pushed out the first round because you didn't change up the strategy.

Tournament is hard because you have to, whatever adjustments you have to do, you have to do it in the second half and it has to work. Yes. Because you ain't going to be able to do it mid-game. You know, they're fucking 18-year-olds. You got some damn NBA 35-year-olds. You tell them something, they don't know what the fuck to do. Right, yeah.

I think a lot, not even talking about this game in particular, but a lot of people don't understand that they just worry about the season, look at those match-ups. There's a lot of janky shit going on with the ADs and the selection committee behind the scenes, giving you squads that you don't match up well with in a lot of unfavorable situations. Yeah, you know what's so funny?

If you actually, like, look at college basketball, if you know college basketball, right? If you know college basketball, then you can tell which teams would be upset, right? Okay, this group, they're a 10 seed, right? All their guards are scorers, right? Your team is favorite, but your weakest defenders are your guards, right? So the weakest on your team is your guards. You got big men. Their big men are better defenders. So you're looking at a really lopsided game, right? Your guards are going to get torched, and your big man has great defense in the back line. Kind of offsets that, right? It's still

matchups, right? No's still matchups, right? No matter where you are, it's still who you're playing against that's going to match up very well against you. Yeah, thanks. Hey, yo, remember when we was talking about the NIT when the teams didn't want to play? Yeah. Like, just like the game that that kid had with the 10-3s. Like, that could have happened for a kid, you know what I'm saying?

Just playing the NIT games, games like just going off and you Know who knows that kid might get a look somewhere Yeah, no you're just some or a bag like gokey did he got a turbo tax deal with him like I'm gonna say 24 Hours of that game out of here Buffalo Wild Wings deal, but they was only but yeah, we got a buddy in college NIL deal for another three days? Let's get a commercial out of him while we can. I guarantee you

made more bread in the last five days than he did his entire college career. I'm just saying, TurboTax came through Buffalo Wild Wings. He's in the hotel

ballroom shooting commercials and shit with the tape on the stick. Like the Japanese kid from Nebraska. Japanese Steph Curry. Yeah, he fired. I was about to buy his the... That's facts. Like the Japanese kid from Nebraska. Yeah, yeah. The Japanese Steph Curry.

Yeah, he fired. I was about to buy his jersey. That's what they call him. Yeah, but he... Just imagine if he would've had a game like that against a Kentucky, a big team. All it takes is one game, man. One game. But any tournament.

Any tournament. NIT, any of that. He could've been in the NIT. Went off and did like... Somebody scored 50 in the NIT or 60 in the NIT, everybody would be like, who that? Who that? Why he ain't in the tournament? For sure.

Let's move on to the league. Lakers and Pacers met on Sunday in a rematch of the in-season tournament championship, which, in case you don't recall, Lakers won the very first in-season tournament championship. Seems like so long ago. Prior to the game, it was announced that D'Lo would be out with an illness. The Lakers were 0-5 without D'Lo this season. But AD followed up his 41 piece for the NBA Cup chip by giving the Pacers 36 of them things, along with 16 rebounds.

Yeah. Bucket time. Oh! And Spencer Dinwiddie came through, 26 points, which is the most in a Lakers uniform. LeBron added 26, 10 dimes. Austin Reeves added 25 and 8 in the win. Lakers have four scores over 25 points,

I want to say for the first time since the 70s. They also scored a season-high 150 points, which is the most since the 86-87 season, but they gave up 145. Give me that. Give me that. Ooh. What we got?

And we got a little dude. A little dude. Arizona. Arizona legend, T.J. McCollum. Bear down. Bear down. Lakers are 5-2 the last seven games, have won three straight. Do you have any optimism that this squad

can do something special? Do you believe yet? Who? Do you believe in Darvin Ham and these Lakers? Well, I keep telling you, we're in the Western Conference finals, dog, against Denver. How many times I got gotta say the same thing

We're gonna be in the AFC. We're gonna smack through. Okay, see then we're gonna beat on the flippers, right? If they make it we're gonna beat on them and then you know, we probably might take the L to Denver But we're gonna make that a matchup this year already said that what's close, but do you believe Western Conference finals? Do you believe? You've been saying it. You have been saying it. You've been saying it. The current problem with that logic, though, is that the one seed right now is occupied by the Denver Nuggets.

Oh, then we're going to go to the seven seed. We're going to get the seven seed. We're going to get the seven seed. Play OKC. You're going to get the seven. You're going to get the seven. You're going to get the 7th seed. Play on KC. You're going to get the 7th. You're going to get the 7th. You're going to get the 7th. The way it's shaping up in the West right now,

it's going to be really hard for the Lakers to move out of that 9th spot, not to say that's impossible right now. How do they do it? Do the goals. 7 and 8 play for the 7th seed. Loser of 7 and 8 plays winner of 9-10 for the 8th seed. We got to get to that 8th seed, play for that 7th seed. Y'all at 9 right now? You better play like

it might not be Golden State. Golden State might not be there if we keep it in the room. I'm worried about no goddamn Golden State but Golden State is just like this though. Too small. They're small. So Denwiddie L.A.C. is an addition

to the squad. How important is having a game like this for Denwiddie's confidence as down there. A late season addition to the squad. But how important is having a game like this for Denwiddie's confidence as he still figures out his role with the team? I mean, great games for anybody is, you know, important, especially now going into the playoffs, right? You want to have some type of confidence, right? You want to be like, okay, you know, it's finally turning around. So, you know, anybody who can help us at this moment in time, I'm grateful for. Brandon, long-time Laker fan.

I'm happy for Smith. I mean, you know, coming now that the playoffs and all these games is coming up is very important, so it's good to see him play well. Hopefully he can keep it going. And then for you guys, what was your approach as the playoffs got closer? Were you trying to lock in, get buckets, trying to conserve your energy to get ready for the

postseason? How did you approach these last couple weeks of the regular season? Still finishing the season strong because you still got those regular season awards. First team, whatever you third in scoring, got those regular season awards, you know, first team, you know, assist, whatever.

Whatever you, you know, third in scoring, first in scoring, you're still, as an individual, you're still engaged because there's still something, you know, on the line. As a team, I mean, you're trying to put yourself in a position to make some noise. Most teams, they're just happy to make the playoffs, so they don't care. But teams that are trying to get further in there, you know, I don't know today, but back then you're trying to position yourself where you can, you know, it made sense on who you was facing in the first round and moving forward. Brandon, what was your approach? Well, my rookie year, I mean, shit, we had to train strong.

Because I think we were like five or six. We were trying to see if we were going to play Boston first round, but we ended up getting Atlanta. And then, you know, with Scouse, you know, he was so detailed and dialed in. Y'all were trying to get Boston? Yeah. Oh. Yeah, because the regular season, I think we actually played.

I think we were whipping Boston's ass the regular season I think we actually played I think we was whipping bosses ass the regular season. We just see we're there Fuck I want to say y'all trying to go up or down. I think we were trying to go Because we were right now who do I don't know somehow I don't know but but we played Atlanta first round we were trying to get to Boston and then we ended up playing Atlanta though But because we just matched up well with them. Mm- with them but then when bogey got hurt it was like mm-hmm you know and that's what I mean you've alluded this before but you're looking at the matchups at that point in terms of seeding like the individuals don't want to get buckets but our team's tricking games trying to

get that favorable matchup that they're looking for hell yeah the seeding you really think yeah. Hell yeah. The seed in... Hell yeah. You really think that right now the Lakers want to play Denver in the first round? Let's just be honest. Bring it on. Right? Not really? Yeah.

Is that who... Like, if we can... If we can play OKC, Minnesota, or Denver in order, who do you think we want to play? OKC, Minnesota, then Denver. I say Minnesota first because they short.

They short? Yeah. Y'all actually killed them more than y'all kind of killed. But they still got two all-stars, right? They still got two all-stars versus just one over there. And, you know, Shea don't have the playoff experience right now to get those calls. So I'd rather run up against a team that's only 22. No, for sure.

Rashad, you respect that approach? Yeah. Or are you taking smoke from whoever? I mean, if you got confidence from winning the in-season tournament, you shouldn't be ducking anything. You shouldn't be trying to leverage who you're going to play. I'm just saying. But I hear what he's saying.

Already hung a banner this year. Because last year it was, you know, we got to figure out who to fight to get to the... And I was telling them, I'm like, nah, man, y'all need to get to the seven, so y'all can go ahead and fight who y'all fight. But it worked out the way he said it. Like, nah, let's fucking go through the play-in. Let's maneuver.

He got it there. So if he taking the same approach, I get it. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to stand with the same way I was last year. Like, nah, man, fight the hard fight first. Because if y'all get them niggas out of there, you could potentially win it. Win what? The whole West End Championship.

The Lakers got Denver out of the way early. But if you're waiting and giving them momentum to go ahead and you wait like you did last time, it's a sweep. It's a clean sweep. They got too much momentum. Minimum amount of games allowed. Yeah. Yeah. Diligent effort in every game.

So, Lakers got a six-game road trip coming up against the Bucs, Grizzlies, Pacers, Nets, Raptors, and Wizards. How many winnable games? We might be in that seven spot. For sure. We might be in that seven. For For sure. We might be in that seventh spot.

For sure. How many games back from seven? It's so many moving parts and pieces. It's like 11 games back? I'll give it to you right now. 11? No. They're going to lose to Milwaukee.

So Lakers are from the seventh spot right now. Two and a half games back. Oh, they two and a half? Yeah, two and a half, baby. Get that. But I think Kings got tiebreaker. I'm not sure about the money. We're not worried about that and they got who live who was the next just that six-game road trip is the

But first you know, but for them bucks No, that's how this box. That's the L. I'll be there and I'll be there tomorrow front row Bloss yeah, uh, what up? Uh, man, who are you were cheering for? That's the L. And I'll be there tomorrow, front row. Lost. Yeah. What up? Brent, who are you cheering for? What? Better be a Lakers jersey underneath that tough crowd. 4-1-4.

That tough crowd. He's going to be mad at Doc. Go on. Who's next? Hey, reporting live on the scene. Who's next? Grizzlies. Got them.

Got them. Pacers. Got them. Everybody split that. Everybody split that. That's split that that's half nuts got there at Raptors We got that's disgusting we have five. Yes, so they'll go to Five we got five. Well, hey, look here's the question. I'll lose it to the Bucks and y'all losing to any I'm not losing to both

Here's the question Is ad and brown playing all them games No, they probably ain't gonna play against the Wizards neither one of them Now we playing tomorrow we're gonna try to always you always try to get the first joint Yeah, I get first you always try to get the first one. That's the momentum game So we're gonna go we gonna put all the guns put all the guns coming out the bazooka side. Run by me. Put all the guns. We're going to go 5-1.

We're going to go 5-1. So you think Indiana might be the only loss? We're going for 5-1. Right? We're happy with 4-2. We're happy with 4-2. 3-3. Yeah, we tripping.

We go 3-3. 4-2. Three and three. Man. It's tough. Yeah, we tripping. Yeah, we tripping. We go three and three. Yep. Yep. Four and two. If everything work out, we go six and oh, but we not. Yeah. No, five and one, four and two is good. Five and two.

That's what I'm saying. That's all. Six game road trip. Hell yeah. Six game road trip. Hell yeah. Coming back out here with confidence. Hell yeah.

Because that's the type of shit we'll beat the Bucks, right? Fuck around. Beat the Indiana, lose to motherfucking Toronto. Yeah. And be hitting that shit like this. And Memphis. Yeah. Or like the Nets or something.

Yeah. Like, Memphis is going to put up a fight, though. It ain't going to be a blowout, because Bane back. So it's like... Oh, shit. I'm just saying. Before... But look. But wait, but wait, wait. Before that, it was like an easy... But like, just because they play hard, and he out there, he can make shots.

They'll give him a game, but it should be a cakewalk. All I know is if it goes the other way, somebody ain't coming back with a job. You go Lord and Ford. You go three and three, get the fuck out of here. Against that skill. But you still got to watch Denver too, dog. You still got to watch Denver. Oh, Lord Jesus. J. Jesus JJ Redding might be coach

Here breaking down footage Very high level move on to the Rockets rocks one of hottest teams in the league right now Jailor green has put the team on his back. So Green dropped 41 points on the Jazz with plays like this. He looks like a completely different player right now. I think he's averaging close to like 28 points per game in March.

Shit, Huggies ain't cheap. Looks like, you know, a player the Knicks could use. Huggies ain't cheap. So he's 15 for 22 from the field, 7 for 11 from three. Second 40 piece in the Rockets' last three games. And the Rockets are surging at the right time. They're on an eight game winning streak.

Oh, okay. Trails only the Celtics' nine game winning streak. Oh, that's what he don't know. Yeah, you already know. Just a game behind the Warriors for the final playing spot. So three of his highest, three of his eight highest scoring games have come in the last 11 days. But let's just talk about, obviously, Shang-Goon goes down now. He's asked to carry a lot more of the burden.

But how important is it for coaches to give young players time for the game to slow down for this is the most important time for any bad team by any bad team i got a bunch of young players this is what you're looking for you're looking for that guy to get confidence going into next year. So, you know, Chauncey Billups over there in Portland, this is when you let Rook do you, right? Because you're expecting him to be somebody next year. They need games, right? So this is a very important time where your young players that you are counting on, your future's on,

to get the experience now, to get it in real time, to go out there and play through all the mistakes because there's nothing on the line. And then you don't know what you're going to get. A guy go out there and have a 40-piece, and then he come back, and his confidence is out of the roof. Now he's unstoppable. And that's what's happened here, right?

You know, Sangoon goes down, and now he knows he don't have to pass the ball. Right. Right. It's my squad. I like Houston. I like Houston because they're fighting back. And they might surprise the 10th.

Like, they're a game back from 10th spot, right? One game behind the Warriors. And they age straight, right? Let's just say they get three more. They're moving up. Now the confidence is rolling with Ime now. He's like, shit, we might be able to get into the playoffs. Oh yeah, you know you want that playing game.

You know you want that playing game against Braun. Come on, man. You know what time. You know what time. You want revenge. They've got some back and forth. You want that revenge. Yeah.

They've got some back and forth this season. You remember that shit Braun said to him? You remember they had that little altercation? Told him to stop acting like a bitch. Yeah, you told him to stop acting like a bitch. You see that little nigga right there? Huh? We ain't playing against them, brother. We can talk is then brother we can tell then you just be not listening

We not in the night spot no more listen if you sing it in and they in that test Why y'all might be out of there? Do you not listen? Yeah might be out of five and one personal That's five and one four and two. We not going to be in the ninth spot no more. We in the seventh, eighth spot. So who plays the play-in games? Who plays against each other? Seven, eight. Nine and ten.

So seven and eight fights for seventh. Nine and ten fights for eighth. So whoever wins out of seventh. With the loser of seventh. So Houston fighting to get to tenth spot and push what? Golden State out. Yeah. Then y'all stay nine. Y'all got Houston for the play-in.

Correct. Light workers, the young kids. They're going to be playing against Denver, dog. I mean, not Denver. They're going to be playing against Dallas. Dallas at seven? For that eighth spot, bro. We moving up, man.

We moving up. Hey, yo, listen. I think this year the playoffs is not going to have Steph Curry or LeBron James in it. I said the same shit. I said the same shit. I don't think the NBA playoffs have step curry or LeBron James in it. I said Said the same shit You know, I don't think the NBA playoffs is gonna have a radio be that the ratings would be cute, brother Oh, I mean easy. I mean, I mean man's basketball is kind of trash right now. He was rated I'm rating the women's basketball

Yeah, we'll flow right through it next year. Yeah next year. Yeah, that's right Bring the plunger out. God damn it. Yeah, that's right Bring the because it because it I mean we just look at this West though how wild is I think like it's 39 and 32 Right now they had that same record last year at this time. They'd be fourth Now they're nine. I'm just you know, like yeah, it's thick. That's interesting Beat all of you all the East East we gas he's season. Hot pack of boo-boo. Let's stick with the West. We did hibachi time.

Now we're going to do hanachi time. Talk about some teams that are not cooking right now. So before the season even started, Ant Edwards said he wanted to smoke with the Warriors. Ant and the Wolves swept the season series on Sunday. Now the Warriors are barely holding on to the 10th seed. So Steph dropped 31 in the game, but spent the end of the third quarter in a sizable part of the fourth quarter on the bench.

The Warriors were up four when Steph went out, and down eight by the time he got back in the game with about seven minutes remaining. Kerr was asked about the decision after the game. We can't expect to just ride Steph game after game after game. These last few weeks have been really tough on him. We've put the burden of this franchise on his shoulders for 15 years. We can't expect him to play 35 minutes. We have five games in seven days on this road trip. So if you want to say that him playing 30 minutes instead of 32 is the difference in the win and the loss, I totally disagree with that. And we're trying to win the game.

We're trying to keep him fresh too. I mean, can you only play 30 to 32 right now considering what's at stake? The situation will define itself pretty clearly and it is in kind of real time. So every game matters. You know, we're inching closer to the other end of the standings that we never thought we'd be in. So nobody's going to wave the white flag and say, you know, you're mailing it in. And that means playing more minutes, and I'll be ready to do that. Thank you, Steph. Thank you. He was trying not to pack homeboy up. He should have. He should have. He should have. But he should have packed that nigga. Bro, we in the 10th spot and we ain't got time to be talking around and doing all this, bro.

Dumb as fuck he talking that dumb ass shit. Call his ass out, Steph. I'm Superman. What the fuck is he talking about? It look like him or Darvin don't want to Steve Kerr or Darvin don't want to go to the playoffs this year. I'm telling you, I don't think I mean, listen, all them niggas go home this year. Come back next year, man. That's how they acting, ain't it?

What is he talking about? Just keep it up, drama that we don't care about. We're going to put everything on Steph's back in 30 to 32 minutes to play the difference. And he was, y'all was up for. Up for what Steph was up for. And then he down eight. What are you talking about?

That's two minute difference. Literally. Two minutes. Two minutes did that. I'm just tired of his, like, his minutes. Every, you know, this person ain't playing this. You know. Listen, bro.

What we doing? What we doing? What the hell? Move around? Move the listen bro. We'll be doing what we're doing Move around we don't move the fuck around her so the the Wolves game was the first of a five-game road trip like Kurt mentioned And obviously said that impacted the decision with Steph's playing time But you say at this point Kurt don't need to be worried about all that if they're serious about trying to make a playoff push Yeah, man, you see them sand dunes? Steph was running in Dubai. He all right. LeBron James is about to be 40, man.

You're going to hear Darvin and him talking about, we're going to be in the retreat. Bron out there playing all the minutes, man. He playing all the minutes. He making sure. Hey, we need this win tonight, man. Let's get this win. What's the difference with Steph?

He younger. And he run around like a chicken with his head cut off anyway. Tripping, man. Get some better talent then. Shit. Get some better talent. Your team weak. Weak as fuck.

That's all. Your team weak. What spot they in? Hmm? What spot they in? They are in the 10th and final playing spot. And they've been in that spot for how long? You know.

Basically all season? For a minute. For a good minute. For a minute. For a good minute. That's what I'm saying. Don't get bozy now, goddammit. All right?

Sit your ass down. At 30 minutes, 32 minutes, 33, that's what we've been playing you all year. That's what we're going to keep doing. All right. Right? You want to get desperate now because we in the 10th spot. Who? Who getting desperate? I'm just saying. Y'all want to get desperate now because we in the 10th spot? Who? Who getting desperate?

I'm just saying, y'all want to... Oh, I should play 42 minutes now because we in the 10th spot? Get the fuck out of here. Put your ass down. I'm going to sub you in like I always sub you in at the seven minute mark. Sub. Why am I doing something extra? Is that Warriors pedigree?

Huh? I said, is that the Warriors pedigree? That's because you ain't got nothing. You have to do something extra. Is that Warriors pedigree? Huh? I said, is that the Warriors pedigree? Because you ain't got nothing. You have to do something. But that's what I'm saying. That's been his sub pattern from the beginning. The beginning of what? Since he's been there? Since 2000. Yeah. You remember Steph said a lot of fourth quarters

and got out of the state. Yeah, yeah. I'm about to say, yeah, when they were up 20. No, no, no. Cap. Huh? They'd be up 6 or 7 and that second unit would run it up 20, so there's no point in putting them back in the game, but they okay So we're not so we're up six when I go out So yeah, we're go up to it now We down a you ain't put me back in the game like we don't have that talent to be able to sit to be like

Oh, okay. Well now you need to play. No, you need to play more. Yeah, you know, so you're gonna burn You're gonna burn them. You're gonna burn them out. I mean, well shit. I mean y'all y'all been losing all year Ain't no try today no point of trying to win that., well then don't play me. That's just how about that? How about that show stats? I mean well, I mean I mean the stats ain't doing that. I just saw an extension No, I know that's what I'm saying the status fine It's your legacy not mine. I don't give a shit if you want to go out there She y'all put a star really this show legacy are you trying to be who you are you? Gilbert talking that's you need a point. I trying to be who you are. You need poison. That's not Steve Kerr. That's Gilbert talking.

You need the poison. That's not Steve Kerr talking. You talking for the player. Don't put me in. We saying play more. I'm saying play more. If you're going to play me this many minutes and we not winning, then what the fuck? Seven minutes I've been playing you all year. No.

It's nut-cut time. Steph averaging 32.7 minutes per game this season. So two more minutes. Yeah, they go to two more minutes he was talking about. Lowest since 2020, but he only played five games. Minutes are lowest since 2020? But he only played five games that season. But in the previous three seasons, so last year he played close to 35 minutes a game.

Man, the team's sorry, dog. That's what I'm saying. The team's sorry, man. The team's sorry. What are we talking about, right? Are they sorry, though? Yeah. He played two more minutes.

He played five minutes. That makes no sense. But ain't it the same thing? Like, why we even asking the coach, huh? It's the same thing. It's the same thing. Because Jordan Poole ain't there. Except for one guy, right?

No, it's not the same thing. It's not the same thing because Jordan Poole's not there. Jordan Poole's not there. Klay ain't there. Or Wiggins ain't there. I mean, let's just be honest. I don't know where Looney...

I think Looney was punched with damn near two since I was his mans. So he's still in his head shit. So it ain't the same team. Only player out there doing what they do is Steph and Draymond. That's it. That's all we can count on, them two. Now Looney was hoping.

And I don't know what happened, but is he hurt? Now he just could fill out a rotation and then cominga cominga stepped up. So it ain't this it ain't the same team man So I mean, you know you question and you know, oh he's staffing he didn't man. Hey, yo, shut the fuck up reporter That's all you should shut up. Don't start this you're not today. That's the day we lost man. I don't need you question to my goddamn integrity of the game, motherfucker. Like, when coaches start doing their shit, man, shut the fuck up over there. Next question. Hang on, man. I'm trying to get the fuck home.

You over here asking these dumbass questions about why I didn't sub somebody. You already look stressed out. You know what I mean? You see my guy. When I got here, he was all black. My hair. Shit, white as shit. My hair gone, nigga.

Curving it like, I'm 47. I'm 47. I'm 47. I'm 47. I'm 47. I'm Shit, white than shit. My hair gone. Curving it like, I'm 47. What do you want me to do? What more do you want from me? Obviously, I fucked up.

I should have put him in earlier. Shit, I thought I can count on these motherfuckers, but I didn't. I fucked up. Is that what you want me to say? I can't count on none of them. If I if I can put steps that's that's that being all Next question We can't go out there and do that so what they need to do this They need to make this summer?

No, seriously, what moves? Should they just break it up? Or should they just... To be honest, you have Wiggins, who's not playing very well, and it don't look like he's going to ever turn it over. And you got Klay, right? If you can sit there and package them to for a really high level pg right if you can get pg out of it i'll i'll take the chance on that how old is pg pg was 30 31 31 31 32 so i'll go i'll go for that.

Other than that, there ain't really no... PG, 33. 33? That's fine. I mean, if you're going to... I mean... 33? Well, I would go younger. Plays 32?

I think they said... Yeah, 34. He may be 34. 34. Oh, yeah, he's a little bit older, so... Plays 34. I mean, you need someone that's solid, right? Like, Kaminga.

Like, if Kaminga's going to be my second option or my third option, I got a really solid second option, then that's what I'm going to go for. Other than that, Wiggins, Looney. I mean, you got to try to figure out Klay coming off the bench. I don't mind Klay coming off the bench, right, moving forward, but I need a guaranteed second option. Yep.

But do y'all feel like the squad this year is really that, I mean, when you just account for Draymond, the suspension game, missed, you know, 25 total games this season,

they're 11 and 14 in those games. You really feel like they can't still do something? No, no, no. We're talking about this Lakers squad being able, if they can get a favorable match.

They're dangerous because they still have Clayton Wiggins, right? You still got a guy who averages 18, another guy who averaged 21, right? So you got two guys that it can just click one day and they fucking just turn it on and they're like, oh, shit. So no matter how much shit we're talking right now, they can prove everybody wrong as soon as the playoffs hit. You know, we're just saying as of right now and as of all of season, they haven't stepped up to the plate. So if they decide to turn it on and Klay becomes Klay and Wiggins becomes the 16 to 20 guy, then now you're talking about a whole different team. Facts.

That's true. So looking at that team, again, all the turmoil they've dealt with this season, should they be even trying to push those aging guys or just trying to regroup next year? Let's try and get one last hurrah. They're in the 10th spot. So, I mean, as long as they're in the 10th spot,

10th, 9th, 11th, they're going to keep fighting for it because it's a playoff breach. I feel like if they look the way they look now, it ain't going to get better next year. So they need to break that shit up. It's just nasty. It don't look good. It don't look like it's going to get better. Like you said, Wiggins and Klay both look like they just ain't never going to turn it over.

So I wouldn't sit, like I said Wiggins and clay both look like they just ain't never gonna turn it over so I wouldn't sit like I said Kaminga if I'm Kaminga I'm getting the fuck up out of there it's a crumbling house man it's gonna crumble we don't know how it's gonna rebuild we don't know how you're gonna rebuild it and they can say we'll rebuild around you because you do got the pizza it's like man it's nasty i don't trust him it's nasty even with dre and stuff still yeah because dre ain't reliable rebuilding his cominga i mean they will have to pay him that big money because he's the last one standing so i mean i think like him playing with them too is gonna be i think he'll be all right with them too

it's gonna be what it is right now. They need a whole remodeling. Cool. If you're remodeling, I'm the car you're starting with. I'm only 21. If you decide this summer, I need to get rid of everyone, the only person I won't be getting rid of is the 21-year-old. Now,

when you have to pay money, you have to pay me first. No matter what, you're going to have to damn your assignment to a max. Let's just say they hold off on that. What signal is that sending to Kaminga if they hold off on paying him? Hold on what? Paying him the big bread. They're not that dumb.

Let's say that they do. Let's just get hypothetical. They don't really say that we're going to wait. If they don't sign him this year and they make him wait Nick and sign the next year then what ends up into him a signal like we're giving you a sign like we don't really know where we want to go now yeah that's fine yeah yeah we don't know where we want to go now you over there averaging fuck cuz you're going to be more aggressive next year what right so you sit there and you average 16 to 20? I'm fucked, organization,

because now your value done skyrocketed. Now you're talking about 217 million. But remember what you were saying about paying certain guys, right? If you don't have to pay him and you can go into a free agency or you can trade him for pieces next year, make him more valuable, do you wait to do that, or do you pay him and say,

all right, we're going to double down on you for the next five years? Yeah, if I'm going to say that I'm going to pay Kaminga now, he's cheaper. He's cheaper now. You say no and then let him go into next year, and then he ends up balling out Now you're talking about anywhere from 121 50 now to 217 next year. That's what Dallas did to Brinson

Huh? It's kind of what Dallas did to Brunson. Mm-hmm when they did you days are we gonna wait we're gonna wait Mm-hmm, and then he's like man, you know what that's going up price going up Yeah, that's a different but that's a different that's different though because he you know he's over there with luca yeah so it's like they already got they already got that luca went down but that he showed value when he went down right and they tried to like all right we're not gonna pay you now we're gonna wait yeah because of luca yeah then his value went up and he's like i'm cool i mean it seems like they're gonna build around stephan cominga for the next couple seasons coming He's averaging like 16 the game. I think overall this season that's gonna go into the 20

It doesn't wanna you know, you might as well just lock him down now Jake around be all-star next year Yeah, all-star game is in is it is it yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, same thing the bed. We will be there Thank you underdog fantasy you guys don't know it yet, but you're sending the whole crew out there. Well. Thank you, Underdog Fantasy. You guys don't know it yet, but you're sending the whole crew out there. We'll have a bunch of events, festivities. Oh, shit. Yeah, really appreciate it. Jeremy hit me if it's an issue. Tim hit me. All right.

We're planning all out. Where you at? Ritz, where you want to stay? Four seasons. Four seasons. Okay. Five seasons, whatever. St. Regis.

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Hotel free. Whatever's free is where we can stay. Double tree. Please don't rob us. Double tree. How done a big guy got in the bay, man? He took my Gucci loafers. I miss them shoes.

The nigga got you in the bay? Smash and dash. Damn, well, you too big to be getting got. They be breaking windshields out there. I have some luggage in the automobile. I thought they got you got you. Get him off big. Get him off big fella.

Get him off big fella. Come on, man. What size is them? You in the tree, so I'm pretty sure you was used to that. Well respected in the Bay area. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Damn. Was it just me? I was smarted. What you got? What you got?

My 40 homies. I was smarted. Oh, no. That's what they did. His school is for killing. I was smarted. You couldn't even sit on the bus stop with the big fella. You know what time it is, big fella.

What size are those? Come on, man. Them brand new. It's yours. It's your size. Negroes walking shirtless for practice. Josiah, where are your shoes? He always see the whole bunch of dudes on the bus.

Chucks with your socks on. Chucks. With your socks on. Chucks. Holding me down. You got two of them shoes for Christmas, Joe. Told you not to wear them. Then you get an ass whooping for getting robbed. Getting robbed. Got your ass whooping for getting robbed.

Well respected. Well respected in several communities. Your dad is going to be mad. Get your ass whooping for getting robbed. How I get my ass whooping for getting robbed? I got robbed. Showed up in school barefoot. Joke is on you.

The joke is on you, man. All right, well, let's talk about another team that's struggling right now,

the Clippers of Los Angeles. Got smacked by the Hawks last week. Many thought it couldn't get worse. It has.

Clippers took an L to the Embiidless Sixers on Sunday. They're now 1-8 versus winning teams since the All-Star break. 10-10 in their last 20 games and have lost four

straight home games. Also, after the game, James Harden left the Clippers locker room before Ty Lue even began his post-game press conference and before it was open to the media. I think he was trying to avoid the Philly media first game against the Sixers

since getting his dip on. And after the game, Ty Lue and Paul George addressed the Clippers' recent struggles. They're grown men, and they understand. Like, we're a benching team. It's not like, you know, we're playing with second- and third-year players. And so I'm never the type of guy that wants to show a player up or show that they're making a mistake. I'd rather not do that because now it's a story for you guys.

But, I mean, they understand what they're supposed to be doing. Why hasn't the focus been there as you collectively would like it to be? Our focus will be there. I don't know the answer to that. Obviously, our focus will be there if we can pinpoint that and address it right at the thing. It just comes down to everybody being dialed in, whatever the game plan, stick to it and follow through with that plan. So why are the Clippers struggling to flip the switch

With the playoffs approaching because they got no real leader. Mm-hmm. Oh, they got no leadership. I don't know who the leader is rust Is Russ addressing it What you're someone the elephant in the room, which is why we fucking losing these games What's going on, guys? Because it seemed like both of them niggas just ducked that shit. But as of late, so Russ is talking? You're saying like Russ is being the vocal one? Yeah.

What is the urgency? I mean, what do we care for? We're losing. I mean, the urgency is like the season's over April what? In like a couple more weeks. April 14th, less than three weeks away. So yeah, like that's the urgency. Like what are we doing? Like what are we on? April's finna come

around. What are we doing? Clippers 4-C right now. Pelicans on the tiebreaker, the other 5-C. But I'm saying that you got several teams. They could lose that first round. To who? To the Pelicans. Get the fuck out of here. Hey, they keep playing like that. They just lost to

Atlanta. If you keep playing like that, I mean, if they keep playing like that. They just lost to Atlanta. You keep playing like that? I mean, if they keep playing like that. No, what I'm saying is... Zion is balling right now, Gilbert. Where am I? Where am I? What am I putting all my A's in one basket for right now? Where am I going?

Where am I going if I'm the Clippers? Am I trying to go to the third seed to play the damn Suns? Or I'm just going to sit here and go 50% to stay against the team that I really want? Let's just be honest here. Do you want to win all these games and then you the fucking third seed playing against the Suns in the first round?

No, I'm sitting here. We're going to keep battling, win one game, lose one game, win one game, and we no matter what, we play against New Orleans. Favorite or not favorite, New Orleans. Are they playing with fire right now, though, Gil? What kind of fire?

Again, what kind of fire am I really trying to play with? If the Suns get that fifth spot. Then I'll fucking move. If the Suns get that fifth spot, then I'm fucked. That's what I'm trying to tell you. So either way, if I'm playing to get... Yeah, but I wouldn't want to end the season on some 50-50.

Like, let's go in, let's end the season the right way. First of all, we're the Clippers. We always get hurt. There's always some shit. So I don't think they're not in the position to be fucking around and trying to, like, you know, be 50% and just coasting for the next, like, y'all not that good. And y'all ain't won nothing.

So to be acting like, oh, yeah, we're just going to play the Pelicans, all right, go ahead. Yeah. All right, be 50% all you want. Same way. Zion coming. They fucking around.

Be 50% all you want. They fucking around, man. All right. But I get what Gil's saying, but it's like at the same time, if you're going to be losing games and ducking smoke just to stay in that spot so you don't have to fucking play the Suns, that's different. That's different.

Because like you said, the Pelicans ain't no easy win. Easy where? Ain't no easy win. Lunch. Not the way they playing. Lunch meat. The way the Clippers playing. I'm saying Brandon Ingram out for at least the next couple weeks.

Lunch meat. What, he just got hurt? Oh, he did? He got a knee issue going up. Oh, man. But again- Well, that's different. Yeah, so I but again that's different. Yeah I mean that's who that's who we skis. I'm just Paul George. I got that all locked up, bro We're not worried about that, bro. Mm-hmm. Yeah, she's locked up all season like that, bro We've been seeing do they got the first round last year Clippers? Hell no. Okay. They tried. They got hurt last year against the Suns.

Yeah, Kawhi with the game, too. That's what I said. There's certain times of the year you can't really evaluate teams because you don't know what they're doing. You don't know what the strategy is. So that's the hard part. We can say, oh, yeah, man, y'all going through this, and we don't know what y'all are planning on doing.

We're looking at your sub pattern, like this don't make no sense. Are y'all trying to win games or are y'all trying to lose games? As I said, right now they know they can't. How many more games left? Like two more weeks, right? That's the three weeks of the season they have. They know they can't get to seventh. Right, this is the type of team.

This is the type of team, but this is the type of team, they're in the position to say like, let's say Suns jump up the damn fifth. They the type of team that'll jump to, all right, I'll jump to sixth. Play the Pelicans. What's the game discrepancy between 4, 5, and 6? So Clippers are in fourth right now.

They have a half-game lead over the Pelicans. They've got a two-game lead over the Suns, who are in sixth right now. And they've got a two-and-a-half-game lead over the Kings and Mavericks. Ready to keep playing. Or three-game lead over the Kings and Mavericks right now. All them teams right there. That's why they need to finish strong because you don't know. You don't know.

Yes. The Western ain't. Nah, you don't want to. The Pelicans is probably the only team that he would laugh at like that. Everybody else is up for it. They're going to lose that first round. The four through eight spot, there's basically three games separated, four through eight right now.

So if you're bullshitting around, you're going to see yourself in a terrible situation. But you don't know if Suns is doing the same thing. I don't think the Suns care. Suns is sitting there like, if you're the Suns, you want to play Minnesota. Right? They hurt. They're not fully healthy.

They're missing one big star. You're sitting there like, yeah, we can run through them boys. We can outscore them. So, I mean, that's what I'm saying. Right now it's hard to really gauge what everyone's trying to do. But it just seems like no matter what, nobody really moving right now. 5-5, 8-2, 7-3, 7-3, 7-3, and they all still in the same spot. So, Brandon, you said leadership issue.

Do you feel like Kawhi and PG need to show some more leadership and start having guys hold themselves accountable? I mean, if Russ is only doing all the talking and he's coming off the bench, I mean, that's not enough. Like, you know, the guys who won a ring like Kawhi, you know, Paul, I think they all should be talking. I mean, it's their team. They're only, you know, But somebody else got to talk.

And I don't think, and it got to be more than Russ. I think Ty Lue's just depending on the veteran shit for them to just figure it out and just show up. Which is a risk. Yeah, and I don't think you got them type of guys where you can just show up like that. It ain't like the Miami Heat. Right. You know what I'm saying? When they was with all those bets.

That ain't that type of team. This is a team you still kind of got to monitor. You got to talk to him. That's it. You know what I'm saying? Talk that shit to him. Challenge him at least. I mean, I understand there's a lot of Hall of Famers

and All-Stars in there, but ain't nobody got a ring but just Kawhi. So is it on Kawhi now as a champion? I mean, that's never really been his personality. Never really heard about that. So, I mean, you know, it's probably too late to ask him to do it now. But if he wants another one, somebody's going to have to talk. I don't think he needs it.

I mean, publicly, just behind the scenes. Yeah. All right, y'all. I'm sure Russ is talking, though. So speaking of Russ, expected to return to the lineup this week after the fracture. Hannah's kept him out for an entire month of March.

Could be back as early as tonight as the Clippers face the Pacers with both teams on the second night of a back-to-back. So have the Clippers

struggled without Russ shown how important he is and how important his leadership is to that locker room? I think just his energy overall. Leading by example. Leading by example.

I think that's number one. And I think with Russ, you know what you're going to get every night, so you ain't even questioning. Yeah, I think prior to that, Fracture Haney had played every game this season. So even going back to the issue with the Lakers, whatever you want to say, he was the most available of that crew. always put it out there. And it's only something that you can say when you hurt and you're not out there with them

and you can't go on the floor. So I think he probably said less and tried to help see if them guys could figure it out. And they're not figuring it out. He'd probably say less too too, because, you know, they'll be quick to say Russ is a problem. They can't wait to say that. He just gave gold in all situations. Yeah, they can't wait to say that. You talked about, I think...

I don't see no problem. It's playoff time. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Gil Zerina, presented by underdog fantasy Dava that you want to see the Clippers first, huh? What can y'all see the Clippers first row? No, y'all too far back Thank us. Yeah. No, we're too far. Okay second round no, huh, maybe Your second round of then if

They lose out today spot Clippers the only they're not going that far. They only three games out Yeah, but they playing against the same teams. They all planning the A spot, Clippers, they're only three games out. Yeah, but they're playing against the same teams. What's the Clippers' next games? Clippers. The Lakers' next season. So Clippers got the Pacers today, Sixers Wednesday, Magic, Hornets, Kings, Nuggets, Jazz, Cavs, Suns, Suns. Damn.

Jazz in the season against the Rockets. All tough games. After the Hornets and all. Yeah, so they got some bullshit games. Man, so them Tucson games are going to be very important. And who else is out there? So the Tucson game, and then they got the Jazz and the Rockets. The Rockets are the last game of the season.

They got Nuggets too. I'm not worried about those. Those last four games are going to be the most important because it's the end. So it's like that might be one of those type of games where Suns, like where they are, they might sit their whole starters and then Clippers are like, I ain't trying to win this motherfucker either. You know what I mean That's when you're going to start seeing some

Okie doke basketball right there Those last four games Because that's going to be the most important Because Suns is They got Timberwolves right now Right so it's going to be a battle of the wits You're going to start seeing some Greg Pakovich Type shit A Rockets Clippers game to end the season

It's gonna be a dad had to be one of those things is you know Rockets Need that one game and Clippers like shit you can have it You can get into the 10th spot depending on what the Clippers are though. It depends on what the Clippers are That's what I said. It's but that's what But that's what that last week of basketball is going to look like. It's going to be nasty. It's going to be nasty. It could be good or it could be hostile. Some nastiness.

All right, well, speaking of nasty, last week the NBA announced that it will be shutting down G League Ignite after only four seasons. So according to a press release from the league, the decision to end the program comes amid the changing basketball landscape including the NCAA's name, image, and likeness policy and the advent of collectives and the transfer portal. So the G League Ignite program produced three lottery picks and Jalen Green, Kerming, and Scoot Henderson will likely continue that trend in this year's draft.

Squad has been struggling this season. They're currently 2-30 against the other G League squads. Say that again? 2-30. Their scores, they what? They are 2-30. Two wins in 32 games. 2-30?

They won 11 games last season just for comparison's sake. Which I don't mean but... Wait, it's only young kids, right? I was saying, yeah. There's no... I don't think, but... Wait, it's only young kids, right? I don't think the point of them is to go win a... Nope. They got the G League roster, but it's mostly development kids. Shout out Norris Cole.

But two kids came out of there, though, right? They got drafted. Three. How many got drafted? How many got drafted? Three lottery picks. They got some options this year. Jaden Green, Comanga. Our very own Norris Cole, member of the team, helping guide.

I don't think it's about the wins and losses with it, though, but what do y'all think about the program folding and just the situation going on with just youth basketball in America as well? I mean, it makes sense. You know, that was an alternative for kids who didn't want to go to college. They needed to do one and done and then get on to the, get paid a little bit and then get on to the NBA. So the fact that NIL deals are here and you can get more going to college for that one

year, I mean, who wants to go to the G League now? You know, G League, you get 100,000 here and there. There you're making millions for the one year. So I'd rather go to college for the one year now. The G League should just be for the vets, old vets and stuff, that want to come and just hoop. Yeah, same thing. The G League was before, I guess. Yeah, but, you know know just make it like that. Yeah

Yeah, they changed it just for the to corner all of the guys to come to one spot anyway And so now that they seeing that the young guys Having more talent now they want to lock them in so they can do the one and dones and I have to go to college But college they come back to that say we're going to give you some bonus money. But it's still a risk to me because those kids going to, like, a school, he would have made a lot of money, right? In college? In college because of the NIL.

Jalen Green would have made a lot of money. No, I mean, but. I mean, Jalen Green would have got a bag if he would have won. If he was NIL? Coming out of high school. If the NIL was then, yeah, he would have probably got a bag. I mean, all those guys would have got a bag if he were the one. If he was NIL? Coming out of high school. If the NIL was then, yeah, he would have probably got a bag. I mean, all those guys would have got bags, right? And so let's just say they didn't do one.

They did two years of college, made a little bit of money, learned fundamentals, took big talents to the league. It's different. The outcome would be different. But then, like a Jalen Green, would he be as good as he is now with the opportunity? I think they're looking at results

based on that. Like, all right, what is the carryover? What's the conversion of going to G League and coming into the NBA? It took Kaminga how many years to get to where he is right now?

Three. Three years. All right, Jalen Green, it ain't like he hasn't turned it over, but I say the last two years, he's been looking like a potential star. School ain't even looking like that right now, and I think that's what they basing it off

of, like, we ain't really converting. It's, it's, it's, like, I, I, before I even, like, throw dirt on the league itself, I would have to go under the hood and see how they're training. Yeah. Because, you know, in reality, it can still work because kids who want to just come straight to the league and it has nothing to do with money right but i get to learn how to be a pro now right i get to it's that that that that kobe thought process right where

i'm you're doing a college workout yep versus i'm doing an nba workout so i don't have no responsibilities i get to work out three in the morning, five, seven. I get to maximize my workout effort, right? So by the time us two face, you went to school one year and you face me, I'm so far in front of you as a talent. It's not even close. But the fact that they're probably not even doing that. They're probably just working out one time as a team. You're going back here and there.

The college guy still has an advantage over you because you're not maximizing as a pro. So that program will only be for certain type of minds anyway. It will be for the minds of the talented player. We were talking about this earlier.

Team and talent. College is for the team guy mm-hmm the role player who wants the fundamentals and know how to operate as a role player I know the space the floor I need to be where coach need me to be roll rise all the other shit right these guys from the IMG's from the Sierra Canyons and all these they go to the G League because they're talented the talented kids that's like look we need you to be a pro. We need you to learn the sets.

We need you to learn how to ISO. You're going to be the guy we get a ball to to say, go. That's where the separation should be. It shouldn't be that everybody think they can go here because they think they got talent. It's like, look, the Jalen Greens, the Kamingas, they come here because they're going to be pros. The rest of y'all niggas, you can go to college. Because you're going to end up being a role player anyway. And that's only for certain.

Stuff like that is only for certain type of players. It's not for everyone. It's not about the money. If you're telling me you're going to pay my son $2 million and then he has to go to class, right, he has to go to class, and he's going to be in the NBA next year, you can give him the same pick, the number one pick. You can say he can go to class, he has to go to class,

he's going to be the number one pick, or he can go to the G League, get $100,000, he's going to be the number one pick. Me, I'd rather him go to the G League, get 100,000, he's going to be the number one pick. Me, I'd rather him go to the G League for the number one pick because I know he can be stronger, faster, working five times a day versus going to class six periods plus work. Traveling. Yeah, I'd rather use those class times as workout times. Right.

Right, so it's easier for me, just me, I can train him better with an open schedule and say, all right, well, five classes, math, English, and all that shit. I can do that dribbling for two hours, shooting for two hours, free throws. I can turn this into class. Because it's his career.

Yeah. It's his career. I can start a career one year earlier. Yes. But that's how I look at it. You know what I mean? But that's the shit that I created before I wrote my book

was the sports education facilities where you focused on that as a career. We don't have sports as a career post-school, right? It's literally, you got med school,

law school, business school, but you don't got school to sports. Where we go here for this. So like you just said, dribbling, rebounding, all of these things we can go through throughout the week. Like we're going to do this today. We're going to do this today. And if you had that curriculum for a guy like Elijah, like Elijah coming here for that, nigga, what?

When he gets to the NBA, he's going to be unmatched. Like Wimby. If Wimby was to be able to go through some shit like that with his talent, unmatched. And you can get him stronger. Wimby did that playing overseas in France. Yeah, they did. Yeah, I'm going to say. Wimby and Luca, like, you know, they went through the own academy.

They took him out of school at, like, 14 and said, come be a professional basketball player. Yeah, so the academies would be a professional basketball player. Yeah. So the academies would be beneficial in that type of style. Someone said, I don't believe in education. I don't think no one believes in education if the kid is going there for six months. You really don't. I mean, if you want to, what is it? A kid going there, I mean, a kid who's going to the NBA, freshman or sophomore, there's

no fucking education going on, okay? He's not getting a degree. He's not being a fucking doctor. He's going there, developing his skill to get the fuck out of there. That's what I say. If Kentucky moves to education. If you want some educated kids, go to the end of the bench. Trust me, they're going to be there all fucking years.

They're the GPA poster. They're going to be there all full fucking years. Trust me. There you go. They're the GPA poster. They're going to be there all fucking years. Trust me. There you go. You're smart ones. All you do is just the beginning of the bench where the coach is, not them. Right? After that.

Right? Closer to the water. Those that's closer to the water, those are going to be your educational kids. Right? They're there to get education. We will write the papers for you. Most likely, I'm pretty sure, they're not even going to be in sports broadcasting. Right.

I'm sorry, there's not even going to be those guys. There'll be... Because you know, for semesters, you don't even got to really go to class, right? You just got to... Yeah. Nah, but there's some coaches that actually tell you when you get there, hey, man, if you came here for some type of scholar, you want to be, you should have went to Harvard.

Take this Swahili and shut up. We come here to win championships and get you to the league. You ain't here for no fucking classroom and none of that. Don't be trying to take these kind of courses. Don't be trying to take these kind of courses. Shit, you here to do this. You here to do this, nigga. Don't be thinking about nothing else but this.

We got that Swahili for you. So you talked about academy style, but the NBA already has academies across Australia, India, Mexico, and Senegal for players from those countries and continents. Should America focus more on sports academy style training for young prospects like we see overseas? I think, you know, we've had Canyon on the show. Some was at Sierra Canyon.

High school is what it is, but in terms of really cultivating that elite level talent, I wouldn't say it's doing a good enough job of accomplishing that. Wait, what? What? What did you just say that ended? What? I don't think it's doing a good enough job of accomplishing

that. High school versus like a sports academy style, where now we got the cream of the crop, the best of the best best so you're saying we should have like a sports academy for like i'm asking you guys should yeah like img but more more imgs but just more you know across the country yeah just for just for sports though yeah i'm rolling i'm rolling yeah i see. Don't we already have? I mean, most sports have that, don't they? Baseball has it. Basketball has a little bit of it. I don't know if football has it.

I mean, baseball's got basically high school you can get drafted. You can either go to college or you can do the minor league circuit. But it's like so many different levels. But there's a lot of plays. Double A, triple A. IMG is probably the only place that you know you can go and find some talent in all sports.

Tennis, golf, basketball, football, baseball. It's like a hub. Do they still go to school? I think they have course work, but it's more focused, centralized on the sports, right? IMG is built it up

to be like the end all, be all. Everyone goes there. But who's picking the talent? I think they send out the invitations and they they recruit the talent just kind of like boarding school like you just you can either pay or they give you a scholarship because they shipping you in from overseas they shipping you in from across the country that type of shit the only problem with stuff like that is you have to really understand talent to really focus. Everybody can't. It's not A.

You can't treat it like A where your family can pay to get you into this. Right. Right. When you start diluting these type of situations, then that's when you have problems. It should be hand-picked. The talent has to be picked by people who understand

talent, understand height, understand genetics. You can select these guys. You can give these guys scholarship. There's no fucking boarding. You can't pay. Your father's 5'5", your mother's 5't pay you. Your father's 5'5". Your mother's 5'5". Motherfucker, your child 5'5".

I don't give a shit how good you think you are at 12. You cannot get to this program. Because this is not the type of... I don't give a shit what you think you're going to do. You're not going to be this elite, elite NBA player at 5'5". All right? So you're not going to be selected to this program.

Hey, go to high school. Get you a nice little college degree. Maybe in four years, you might make it to the NBA. Good for you. But that's not what this program is about. This program is sniffing out the elite, the superstars,

and that's who we're going to train. That's what the AAU circuit used to be is the show case program More than these schools like Oak Hill and you know Montrose Christian all those type of schools like you see in the AU circuit All right, this motherfucker's good That's how Melo went to Oak Hill because we was able to see him in the circuit like oh shit You need to go to Oak Hill so you can be seen on a bigger stage So I think they need to centralize the AAU market, where it's the big-time players only,

and they're showcasing whether or not they can get to the sports academies. I mean, isn't that what shoe companies have done kind of with their own? Not really. I mean, it's still infiltrated. Like, okay, so you have the Boozer Twins. One. The big one. There you go.

You got the Cooper Flags. Yep. go. You got the Cooper flags. You got the co-op piece. You have these certain... Those are the guys that go. The rest of them, y'all still go and do y'all high school shit and try to figure out your game and then we're going to keep our eye on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know y'all twins. We're going to see if the blood kick in at some point.

But other than that, y'all are going to go through the high school. We're going to keep these guys elevated, and we're going to put them through the pro schedule and let them move on. And then those are the guys that we're trying to get to colleges and going into the NBA. It has to be handpicked. You can't be your father this. You've got to be able to stand on your own. If you can't stand on your own, then the fuck are we really doing? Right. Are you talking about as far as the affiliation with the former players and their kids?

Yeah, if I have an elite program and I'm trying to get the best players and this is who the NBA, you come to my program for who's going to be stars, that means my integrity is on the line. That means the guys I'm picking are stars. That means my integrity's on the line. That means the guys I'm picking are stars. Not names. Not wallets. You can't write me a check. On the way up. Yeah, you can't write me a check. Your father's the governor and all that

shit don't work here. Yeah, I like that. Take your ass to school. Try to sign him for the potential of it. Like, oh, my kid can be good if he goes here with you guys. It sounds like O'Kill, like how Steve Smith was. He couldn't just come up there right here. I gotta see who you are. You care who you are? Steve Smith didn't care. Whole squad?

I think like the last, maybe we had like maybe three practice players, but you know, we only played like seven players. So like, you had to, if you were starting at Oak Hill, you had to be D1. You wasn't D, first seven players, D1. I guess what would be the draw for those other guys

who weren't in the top seven? Did they think they were good enough to be in that top seven? Train. It's like you missed the eighth grade year, motherfucker. I'll reevaluate you in your ninth grade year. You 5'5", and your ass now, you know, you 6'7". Okay, ooh, you spark my interest. Right? Let me go ahead and recruit you. Let me go ahead and get you out of here. Because you 6'7". Okay, ooh, you spark my interest. Right?

Oh, let me go ahead and recruit you. Let me go ahead and get you out of here. Because you still got time. You still got the ass. You know, I don't think they do enough. I think most of this is financial gains versus actually really producing something. It's more financial here.

So that's where it should be the shoe company since financially they are fucking set. So this should be Adidas, Nike, more financial here. So that's where it should be to shoot company since Financially, they are fucking set. So this should be adidas Nike under armor. They should be setting these up actual So you can't you can't pay them for your child exactly this can't be some regular organization that's sitting there just trying to take in checks the the To keep the lights on yeah If you had that option, would that be something, obviously you're talking about your own son and your approach with him, would that be something that you would consider?

Yeah, I got to see. I mean, it goes from the coaching, what's the style, how does it look, how many times is it going to be training? Like, what's the discipline here? It all factors in. And this brings my last question. Brandon, you play at overseas. Yeah.

What I like about the overseas model, usually teams, they have youth teams all the way down. I remember my dad played in the NBA. I was playing like a 10 and under youth team that was attached to the pro team in the city. Should NBA teams have their own youth development programs like they do overseas? I mean, I don't see why not. I mean, what? So overseas you got, like, the team.

So let's just say the Lakers of whatever country, but they'll have youth programs all the way down to, like, 10 years old. Yeah, like, so what's the one squad out there? Barcelona, right? So say Barcelona team, right? They'll have the men's team, then they have a B team, then they'll have like, you know, then they go 18 and under, 16 and under.

Like the AAU. Yeah, like AAU. But it'll all be under one umbrella, though. So like the Lakers will have like, you know, their G League team, and then they'll have like a 18 and under. All the California kids, little Lakers.

Yeah, like little Lakers. Or you go get to recruiting. Yeah. Put your squad together. That's fair. That won't happen. I mean, you have a Laker team and you done had this kid since he was six years old. He's the number one player in the draft, right?

And your ass got fucking 38 pick. How does that work? You done trained this motherfucker your whole life and you can't even pick him when he's ready? That brings a deeper conversation of the draft and its necessity. If you think about how it worked for Dajili,

you got the rights. I mean, yeah. You don't really have the rights. He's the number one pick in the draft. Not if he don't go into the draft. That's when you got the rights. Because remember, you can sign a player coming out of free agency, and you got his rights, and you can send him to the G League without being in the draft.

So I'm in high school, so I'm the number one. So I'm the number one player. You did not enter the draft. So I'm the number one player in the country. And you don't enter the draft. I don't enter the draft. They can pick you up in free agency. Sign a free agency.

So that means now, I don't even know if that's legal, where you have the number one player who can just go into the free agency and then sign whatever he wants and he's not on the rookie scale. You can go into the G League draft. And then that G League team owns your rights. But the G League draft is still in order. Yeah. It's still in order.

As far as like number one and all that? Yeah. So if you're the Lakers and you... It wouldn't be the same as the NBA draft, right? No, it's the same. So like, let's say... So this is what will have to happen in the G League. Let's say you're the Lakers and you have the fifth pick.

Whoever this kid is, he can't enter his name until it's your pick. Right. But he's still under your farm system coming up. No. Right, but he's still under your farm system coming up. Yeah, so he can be in your farm system. So let's say they got the fifth pick and he's the number one player in the country.

Pick one, pick two, pick three, pick four. Now when it's your pick, now he has to enter the draft. I don't think the NBA would matter. I don't think they would mind. Or you create a mechanism where you can protect a couple of these guys if they're your

Franchise guys and then leave the other ones open to be able to that's a let's picture Wimby Right when B is the number one player in the country and he wants to go to a certain or some let's say the Houston Rockets or whatever they have Have him They have the fourth pick Right, so they're saying oh you have to go to the G League. He has to go to the G League. What does that contract look like?

Is he signing the NBA contract, $55 million, or is he signing the G League contract? He's only signing the contract as a temporary situation for him to get into the NBA without having to go through the draft. No, but what I'm saying is, what does that look like? Is he a free agent or not? Because now if he's a free agent, we're talking about a whole

different contract. Now I'm not on the rookie scale. He wouldn't be a free agent if we signed him under the G League contract. You would just have his rights. So then you can bring him up and then re-sign him. You're at the first right of refusal back. Yes. So first right of refusal, the number one pick. So nobody else can come in.

Nobody else can come in. You can give him the bag or you can let him go. Yeah. So nobody, so what's the point of the draft? But that's the loophole. What's the point of the draft to begin with? Right now. Like right now. Because you can do that now. Like he's saying, you can do that now. Where you don't have to go to the draft, to the

NBA draft. Right. You can sign, you can enter the fucking G League. They can get you, like the Frisco, Texas Legends can get you, sign you to a two-year deal, bring you up, and re-sign you to another contract. Because I was going to ask, what's the point of the draft now? It's not like the worst team gets the number one pick, right? It's ping pong balls that determine it. It's not like the NFL, right?

NFL, worst team, we're going to give you the option to get the best player to help make your franchise good. But that's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is somebody like Wimby, right? Once he hits free, so I don't want to go, I'm not going to put my name into the draft. I'm a free agent, right? And then the NBA draft goes on, and then the G League draft is after that, right? Then I want to put myself into the G League draft for the team I want to pick. But because I was a free agent, I'm not under the rookie scale.

And I'm like, all right. You qualify for the big contract. Now I say, all right, instead of the four-year 55 or the whatever, I said I want $200 million. I'm a free agent. You get that? We're going to break the bread. No, I'm just saying. That's great. Put that from a free agent. You get that? We're going to break the bread. No, I'm just saying, that's crazy. Put that from a business standpoint.

Now you're a stupid-ass organization now because I was handicapped by the rookie scale and now I'm a free agent and I'm saying I want the max. Yeah. From a business standpoint, obviously owners aren't going to rock with that. Now you put it, yeah, you put that loophole where that shit would only work for a guy like Wimby. That shit would go right into a lockout. That shit would go right into a lockout.

That shit would go right into a lockout. That shit would go right into a lockout. That shit would go right into a lockout. That shit would go right into a lockout. That shit would go work for a guy like Wimby. Any number one. But if you built up that talent, you should have the option to be able to get him first. But obviously that's neither here nor there. But let's keep this thing moving. After the abysmal showing at the All-Star Game this year, Adam Silver says some changes could be coming. During an appearance on CNN's King Charles with Gayle King and Charles Barkley, Silver offers some thoughts on the future of the

All-Star game and All-Star weekend. I think particularly young players, they see it as, again, a mid-season break, an opportunity to have fun, an opportunity to take a break from a very long season. I mean, we roughly have 1,300 games over the course of the year, all incredibly competitive games, and I think they

see that as something different. They see it, I mean, there's always an entertainment aspect to our league, and I think it shifted from when you were a player, and I think they see that as something different. They see it, I mean, there's always an entertainment aspect to our league, and I think it shifted from when you were a player, and I think to the point where when I saw the popularity of Steph versus Sabrina, see what's happening in the women's game, that we should just be looking to do different things and just make it a celebration of basketball. I mean, we're going to look at U.S. versus international.

I just think maybe it would pass that point where we're going to play a truly competitive game. So, Adam Silver was on CNN's King Charles show with Gayle King and Charles Barkley. Gayle, you're not a Gayle King fan? Oh, so you can talk basketball now? That's what we're doing. That's why they have this That's why they have Charles Barkley on the show. It was high profile

King Charles. What are we doing? Anything? I should have known it wasn't legit once it went to CNN Sports CNN. Sports. Talking with Gail and Charles fucking Barkley. It's underneath the Turner brand. What is it, CNN or Fox News? I don't know. Underneath the Turner brand, Gil. It's very vast. Sports entities, news networks, all feeding the same machine.

Keeping Ted Turner breaded out. Richer than all of us. So reaction to the comments? I stopped listening when I seen

what do you say like making the game better the all-star game better? They're exploring other options potential other

options. One of them could be the USA versus the world type of format like we've seen in other shows. Oh, yeah. We brought that up, though, already.

They do watch the show. Adam Silver. We brought that up in the summer. I saw Adam Silver. He's like, I watch it every day. I just can't tell nobody. So I don't tell nobody. Just like.

They've tried that in 2015 with the rookie-sophomore game. Right. It's not a real thing, okay? You don't think a team full of international players will play harder than the output that we got at the All-Star game this year? Do the international players play hard when they make the team?

No. I mean, is Jokic out there playing hard? Is Luka out there playing hard? Is Giannis out there playing hard? I mean, are they playing hard when they're out there? I can say if when we do see them, they're out there playing the hardest out of the group. But for the most part, they're the ones fucking around too. Shooting from half court, laying on the floor, trying to throw lobs to a dude who has a 10-inch vertical so they playing just as much so what are we

talking about they just go all of a sudden turn it on cuz oh shit it's Americans we play against Americans every day yes that's exactly what's happening we're sorry that's exactly what's gonna happen we on the team we on our team we bought to go out here and play for real. Because when they're playing with the Americans, they're like, oh, we got to play like they play. We got to play like they play. How do we know they're not the bad influence, though? How do we know

the international players aren't the ones? Are they out there getting triple doubles and shit? I think that game should be played like, you know how they have the NFL? I mean, they have the Pro Bowl. At the end of the season. They should find a way to have that game like in the summer or something where guys are getting back in shape Because we want to play because we give a shit. Hmm because they care no no no not because they care I just think you'll have more competitive. It's like is it if it's in the summer or something

How's it gonna be more competitive? I mean, I mean an all-star game. It's not gonna be nothing I think in the in the summertime, you know, guys go back to their homes. Like, they be playing. Guys are actually getting in shape and playing. So if you can find the right time to have that game, you make it a thing. But All-Star weekend, you're not going to get nothing. Like, you'll never get a competitive matchup with those guys doing All-Star. And you're right, because about what he said, when motherfuckers admit, they think about vacation,

they think about, and it's mid-season, man. I ain't trying to be out here. So if you put it in another time frame where it's like, hey, you ain't got none of them excuses now. What's up? Show up. We the best. I don't know, like, just create a weekend of it. I don't know, something where U.S. versus the, you know,

international players. Bragging rights Do it around summer league time. No, it's too early Who the best I see your food of best August who the best international is kicking the American players ass right now Mm-hmm For me and basketball and in basketball Mmm, the Europeans been whooping our ass the last couple years. I've been saying it since last Last day all you every time you know every time no when I said it are you what would American player are putting up numbers the way them five and five Europe here I don't know none I don't know none I don't know none

said it again sit out a lot of your again. Say that all out again. Hold on. Say that all out again. Ask him a question one more time. What American player has been putting up numbers like Luka? Outside the what? Excuse me? Since Luka? The European.

Is he going to let me finish? He asked me to say it again. I said say it again the same way. Okay. Outside the five. I didn't say outside the to say I said say it again the same way okay outside the five Let's say outside the five I said of the five of the of putting up numbers like Luca mm-hmm Joker Giannis Sabonis and Wimby and when also when these part damn a rookie is part of the five now is he's blocking a lot of say You can just go so I said Wimby. Oh

You didn't say well just push a and we're gonna have to put so it's a six He's blocking a lot of stuff. I said Wimby. We'll just put Shea in it. We're going to have to put Soza six. He's an international player. No, I said six. It's international. Claims that Shea's American and Murray's American. So is there any American players putting up numbers like those five right now?

Yeah. No. No. Y'all know how many players in the NBA, right? Yeah, like 300. 400 and something. Yeah, like 450. 450. Yeah.

Internationals taking over and you named five. You named five. There's 450 fucking basketball players and you got five. There's 450 fucking basketball players and you got five. I'm going to give you six. Good players though, Gil. What are we talking about here?

I'm sorry. What the fuck are we really talking about? There was 24 all-stars, right? 24. Ain't none of them niggas fucking with the five. 24 all-stars. All them niggas can move around. of them niggas fucking with the five. 24 all stars. All them niggas can move around. You want to talk? Okay, go. All them niggas can move around.

So again, there's 24 all stars. Four made the all star game. Four. Four international players? Four international players made the all star game. That means there's 20 Americans. So if you want an all-star game,

that means you have to penalize eight Americans to put in eight Europeans who wasn't even good enough to make the team in the first fucking place. So how is it going to be more competitive if you're getting rid of eight all-stars to

put in eight dudes who didn't even make this team when we talk about the sub the snubs when we do the snub list there's not even in the fucking euro players that's even complaining about being snubbed so who because they know the fuck is filling this they know it's bullshit they know the snubbing is who is filling the team you know that's gonna be competitive bullshit because you complain about the snubbin' every year. Americans. Whoever's picking the All-Stars don't really fucking matter because a lot of other players is not getting All-Star bids or getting picked in the All-Star game.

It don't fucking matter. Americans. Because there's a lot of guys who don't make the All-Star team. Who shouldn't. They should make it. Right? So regardless of these guys getting picked on the All-Star team or not, I can name international players that... Ten of them.

Ten? I can name ten international players... That's going to make the All-Star game. No, no, no. That will beat ten of the All-Stars. Ten All-Stars? Hold on, hold on, hold on. No, no, no.

Wait, hold on. He knows where I'm going with this. Hold on, hold on. For an American... So, if we're doing an all-star game, right? We're doing an all-star game. He's going to use American words. He likes to use his words.

This is an all-star game. Because he's going to say all-star game. This is an all-star game, right? We're talking international play. All-star. An international all-star game versus American. All-stars or not. International all-stars versus international. No.

No. See, he's doing the word shit again. What is this conversation about? International players. For the All-star game. No. We're talking about an All-star game here. Not international All-stars. We're talking about an All-star game. I'm not talking about international All-stars.

I'm talking about international players versus American All-stars. We're talking about for the all-star game, but this is for the all-star game Okay, I have to be international all-star. No, no, no just also we're doing all-star game. Got it go So that means you have 12 players go I got 10 Did you put you guys got to we can we put can we put a clip This is Rashad's international team. So SGA, Luka, Wimby, Giannis, Joker, a lot of like benches, Jamal Murray, Siakam,

Markkinen, Porzingis, Sabonis. That's a 10th game. Born in Portland, but a Lithuan. Hey, Lithuania Americans. There's some big boys zone up Zone up we ain't playing one-on-one on ISOs nigga. You can't zone in the office We do land we fucking fantasy man. I'm not arguing about fantasy. We plan This iso and take. This ain't no one on one. This ain't a one on one game, man. We're playing team basketball.

We're playing like Dennis Schroeder. Hold on, hold on. Can I get a pen? Shit, Wiggins. I'll put Wiggins in there too. No, no, no, no, no. We're going to do it. We're not just going to let them play fantasy inside fantasy.

We're going to do... We got Ben Simmons. Do we have a pen for Gilbert? with the appropriate amount of a all right This squad is huge This squad is huge just if you want to just make up shit now Let's actually put it in real real format. No you're gonna because it's an all-in-all put it in talent format You're gonna put it in no format. No, you're going to put it in talent format. You're going to put it in, oh, look, all of my guys, they got great names

and they sell shoes. Listen, these dudes know how to play together. These dudes play European basketball. They ain't going to play ball. They ain't going to play ball. You got a bunch of motherfuckers that can sky high fly and do all that other shit. We get it. Okay, great. Now, since it's

an all-star game, since it's an all-star, Um since it's an all-star this is all because that's what this argument is about So your starters is your starters is fine. Why do you not already have your daughters is fine? Why don't you already have you and I go now? Hey, why did you cross off his list? Why did he have his list of y'all crossed it off? Why he already sent his city and y'all that's showing it Why all of a sudden he bring his notepad out like he about to draw up a whole new lineup based on what the fuck I just put up

there because that's what he do? Yo, you might be tripping, man. Sent in his list and now he want to change his list. I sent in the USA world list which is different from an all-star list. Understand what we're doing here. Can different from an all-star list. Understand what we're doing here.

Can I change my all-star list? Sure! Sure! Change your list. What the fuck do you want to do? I'm going to put the same list. Okay, of course. All right. All right.

You're starting five. You're starting five. Two guards, three forwards. It's fine. The problem with your second list is the format is guard, guard, guard, forward, forward, forward, forward. So therefore you need two more guards. Actually you need three guards because Siakam is a forward. So he does not fit the guard spot. So you need, for your bench, you need three guards and four forwards.

So therefore, you got Murray. See, me, because I'm a researcher, I already have his lineup. Don't I have his lineup? Murray, right? I got marketing right here. Porzingis, and that's a bonus, right? Now, you need... Matherin. Matherin is a forward, so you want him as your fourth forward? Oh, Matherin is a guard. Okay, Matherin.

A bench guy who averages 14. Okay, Matherin is a forward, so you want him as your fourth forward? Oh, Matherin is a guard. Okay, Matherin. A bench guy who averages 14. Okay, Matherin. Who else is your other guard? Lebronovich. Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons ain't even played this year. Okay, you want Ben Simmons? You want me to read out the rest of them because I know you ain't researching.

I got Fred. You got Fred. Van Fleet. Right? You got Schroeder. You got R.J. Barrett. You can use him. You got Buddy Hill. I wasn't going to use none of those. Josh, get it? I know you ain't researching. I got Fred. You got Fred Van Fleet. You got Schroeder. You got R.J. Barrett. You can use him. You got Buddy Hill. I wasn't going to use none of those because they're considered Canadians. I know you wasn't going to use them because you wanted...

Because they're Canadians. I had all of those those, but I was like, look, they're going to say that those are... You got a fucking starter as a Canadian. Stop! But look... You got a starter as a Canadian so please. You got two guys as Canadians. You got two guys as a Canadian, so please Two guys as Canadians who you want

Look, I only put them in there because you said they were on the cusp because they would grew up here You said they grew up here. Okay, just what's what's your other guard dog? You got you got back. You got a bench guy math or an as a as all-star starter I mean as our star guy urgent Hoosier Hoosier you need one more guard giddy giddy. You got a bench guy, Matherin, as an all-star starter. I mean, as an all-star guy. Hoosier, you need one more guard. Giddy. Giddy. You got Giddy. Woo! Amazing team.

Now, you need one last forward. Why do I need another last forward? Oh, you want Siakam as your forward? He's up there. Okay, so Siakam. There is Mark. I got Mark in him. I got Porzingis.

Why do we have to choose another anything? And why can't Siakam play the two? Because he's not a two. Why can't he play the two? Because he's not a two. But he can play the two. He can play the two. You can't just put people where you want them.

So why is Wimby playing the three? Because it's forwards. Excuse me? Forwards. Excuse me? It's a forward. What does Wimby play? It's when they have to play. What does Wimby play? Center. Oh, played center. Oh, come to how do I'm sorry? I'm sorry. It's called front court

What the fuck are you talking about? I know you don't know my y'all can't play to go No, it's front court. So that means the sit they done the wing go forward in the center is considered front court players Yeah, I'm the business so on the on bench, you're allowed to have four front court players. So if you want four centers, you can put four centers. But you still need three guards because you need three guards and four front court players. So that's why I say you're starting five is five because there's no center. It's front court. So you can have fucking three centers if you want.

Okay. You got the four men now? Murray, Matherin, and Siakam. So Murray, Matherin, Giddy. The starters is nice. No Giddy. No Giddy. Murray, Matherin, Siakam. You can't put Siakam as a

forward center. You want to run him at the two, Gil? You can't run him. That's not his position. Three is small forward. That's a forward. Small forward not his position. Three is small forward. That's a forward. Small forward. Gar-er-da. You need three gar-er-das. Why?

There is no such thing as three gar-er-das. There's two guards. There's a point guard and a shooting guard. Then there is a small forward, power forward. Then there is a center. So you're outdated, dog. Come on, bro. So you need three.

So what do you call the third guy? Maybe if you shut up. What do you call the third guy? Maybe if you shut up. What do you call the third guy? What do you call the third guy now? What third guy? What is the score forward called? Front court. He's a front court.

You said it's third guard. Front court. Small fours, power fours, and center are front court players now. So Siakam's not a third. So you need three guards. So Siakam's not a three. That means one or a shooting guard is a three. So what is marketing? Is he a three is a three so what is the front court is marked marketing is for three

Front court he's a front court. So he's not a three front court He's got three small forward forward and center is part of front court. Okay, okay Which is always been that yeah, we have it. We have a time. It's always been that we have a time We have a time crunch. So give us your squad over that small forward is a part of the forward position You're just a small took away the center pot and put it all front court so so in the off the bench you need three guards and four front courts Three guards up is Kevin Durant a guard? No. No.

Okay, so you can't put Kevin Durant. No. Okay. So your guards are massive. Jason Tatum, too? I've lost him. No. He's front court.

He's front court. Okay. So you got Murray, Matherin, Giddy, and Siakam,kinen Porzingis Sabonis as your bench. Give us your squad, please. So the two guard positions as the starters who are going to get voted in. I told you he was going to. Curry, Booker, guards, they'll be voted in. And then you have Tatum, KD, LeBron,

who will be voted in as the front court players coming off the bench. You have Ant-Man, Dame, Ky in as the front court players coming off the bench. You have Ant-Man, Dame, Kyrie as the guards. The front court players would be AD, PG, Kawhi, and Embiid. I'm definitely living with that lineup. So, because you have to put Murray in, marketing, Giddy, who's not an all-star, Siakam, who's not an all-star, Markkinen is not an all-star, Porzingis is not an all-star, Sabon is not an all-star. That means for the American side, Apollo, Jalen Brown, Bam, Zion, Trae Young, Brunson, Fox, Jock, Cat, Donovan, Randall, Jimmy Butler, Jaron Jackson, Tyrese Halliburton. They just miss all of this because you have to put a bunch of guys in who ain't even on

the fucking all-star ballot that are good enough. I knew he was going to be good. Would the game be competitive, though? Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? We can get rid of...

Them starters. Woo! Them starters. Woo! Them starters. Playing them 48 minutes. Did you hear the rest of the team? They got Matherin, Giddy, Siakam, Porzingis, Sabonis, and Mark.

It's great when you can put all fucking 10 big guys in there, and then you want to play zone in the all-star game. Put that big ball lineup in. Yeah, they play zone in the all-star game. We're not going to play zone. We're just going to help. We're just going to play real defense. Brandon, what squad are you picking based on that assessment?

I like the international team. I like the starting five. That starting five is crazy. But what about the remaining five? I've been rolling with the Europeans since day one. I've been saying the Europeans have been whooping our ass. I don't know why people why you're acting like it ain't happening Who's been holding up the trophies Europe? This is like me doing this. This is like me doing this

Who's gonna get a VVS? This is like a major. This is art as a starting five. I want Booker Tatum Katie LeBron Embiid. Oh We so be that's not reality, dog. Still lose. You should have put that. That squad is reality right now, though. That could be a real squad right now. We just got word LeBron is Dominican. So he's moving. No, I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding. These motherfuckers argue about fucking fantasy. Fantasy shit we arguing about. Point being, you're not rolling with the USA versus the world format. Adam Silver needs to move around. There's no format because there's not 12

all-star caliber Euro players. I'm sorry. There's not 12 guys who's going to be balling out that's going to actually compete for this team. I'm sorry. Even when you talk about the future.

Speaking of the future, I got that too. They did a list of the under 25 Euro players or under 25. 25 and under. The best 25 players in the league. They got Luka as one.

Then it goes Ant, Tyrese, Ja, Tyrese, Chet, LaMelo, Scottie Barnes, Paulo, Sangoon, Zion, Victor, Wagner. Wagner. Those are out of the top 25, under 25 guys. There's four Euro players. And that's who the future is going to be? So when y'all say Euros is going to take over, these four is going to take over?

These four. I'm saying take over for us. Like, they just going to keep winning championships. I mean, winning championships and MVP is taking over. Rashad, now you got to take off. Any final thoughts before you take off? He should take off. He thought he came in here handsome.

He thought he came in here handsome. Oh, I'm going to put seven centers in ten spots. And they're going to just be big. And we're going to switch everything. And we're going to block everything. And we're going to be big, and we gon' switch everything, and we gon' block everything, and we gon' be big. DJ. Scheduled appearance. DJ.

See how he, he the nigga that, he forced you to dab him up. You see how he forced you to dab him up? He the nigga that like, you know what I'm sayin', nigga. You know what I'm sayin', nigga. Don't leave me hangin', hey, DJ, don't leave me hangin', my nigga. Man, you wrong as fuck, nigga. That nigga has seven fingers, dawg. Another dead body. That nigga has seven half the shirt on Friday. Man you wrong as fuck. They have another day by

Don't know the rest of his players he had Yogi's and sunglok he had all city Team full of sinners an all-star game position was basketball. Yeah, I know what it's called I don't know we appreciate you seeless basketball game. We appreciate you. We appreciate you coming to the arena. Rashad had a pre-scheduled situation. He will be back Thursday. Have the t-shirt ready by then if you could. Alright, before we

move on to Mostly Fans. That man started putting... He put Wagner at the shooting call. Listen, the Euro is great in one position, two positions. Right? No, it's the power forward. They're tall. They can pass.

They can shoot. They can play the game. Right? So the five man and the four man, they're going to all be fucking 6'10 and above. I mean, shit, if they're 6'10, they're sitting there trying to play the three at this point. When you're talking about the guards, you're talking about just straight Europe. They played international only, no American style. You're only talking about real three players.

You're talking about Luka, Giannis, and Jokic. Shea was here, middle school and high school. He infiltrated. Murray was here, middle school, high school. I mean, these guys were trained here, American style. These guys... They brought their Canadian skill with them. They brought their Canadian skill with them.

What skill? Motherfucker made JV his first year. What skill did they make? They got enhanced. What I'm saying is they got enhanced. so that we are where you're thinking within B So you're only talking about really three players who are dominating that straight. They have no American. They have not touched nothing American I even sir bonuses was born here in Portland. Yeah, everybody has cable number what I'm saying I'm saying is you take Luca out the 16 Unicorn in his position, and what do you really have from the point guard position?

Come on, let's be honest. He didn't even name a shooting guard. He put all small forces and power forces. I'm surprised you didn't say Buddy Hill. Buddy Hill, yeah. I mean, just for a shooter. But look where you got to go. Y'all reaching.

You got to go all the way to nothing against Buddy, but you got to go all the way to Buddy Hill for being the all-star. You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying he's trapped, but I'm saying we're talking about the all-star game. Guys, you're talking about the elite of the elite. The Euros, we're going to talk about the same three or four players every year because they're the elite of the elite, Euro and in the league, but what about the rest of the field?

Let's just be honest. When it comes to international versus American, politically, are we really going to do that? We already have. We already have. Yes. We need more unity.

We need more unity. Why do more unity. We need more unity. Why do you think we did it one year in a rookie-sophomore game and then we're not doing that anymore? Politically, it looks stupid. We need more unity. We need World War III. We look stupid.

Can we all just get along? Choose a side. Can we all just get along? Adam Silver just going to keep teasing around and saying, Oh, Elliot, They're going to do it. They're going to, you know, Adam Silver just going to keep teasing around and saying shit. Oh, Elliot, we're going to do this. We're going to do this. But we might as well do American versus Canada.

I mean, they got a lot. They got eight, nine NBA players. I mean, shit. Another spirited day on Gil's Arena presented by Underdog Fantasy. He did all that in his phone. Didn't have no argument, huh? Rashad is not here now, Gil.

I'm just saying he was stuck. He was stuck. He was stuck thinking one way and not realize I had his ass loop-loop. Man, you just can't put power forwards at the point guard position. There are no winners or losers in Gil's Arena presented bydog fantasy. We'll just great moments discussion debate conjecture He got a bench player as a star But let's keep this thing moving before we do mostly fans We got to wish a happy birthday to one of the greatest to ever do it our very own Cheryl swoops

21 years old today. 22. 22. 22. Oh, she just turned 22. 22 years old. We can get drinks. Okay.

Drinks are you. Let's do it. But the resume, beyond impressive, NCAA champion, college player of the year at Texas Tech, four-time WNBA champ,

three-time MVP, three-time defensive player of the year as well, three gold medals to boot, Nate Smith Hall of Famer. First woman with her own signature shoe. Every time I read these accolades, I need to take a breather. I need my inhaler.

It's a lot going on, but a very, very accomplished career. Be a Cheryl, I think, is the moral of the story. So Cheryl, we just want to wish you a happy birthday from Gills Arena. Hope you are turning up. We will see you back on the couch soon. But now let's move on to Mostly Fans. As

always, if you drop a good question in the chat with your Underdog Fantasy username, and we use it on the show, you get a $50 bonus if you send us a video and include your Underdog Fantasy username. For the people who said I said Tatum as a guard, it was Curry and Booker as guards.

Yeah, you did say that. I know. Tatum, Katie, and and Booker as guards. Mm-mm. Yeah, you're right. I know. But... Tatum, Katie, and Braun are your front court. Yeah. It's voting. It's voting. I don't sit up at 6 o'clock in the morning just doing nothing. Gill, a champion of democracy.

Right, I don't... Let the people speak. So if we're going off of voting, these are guys who will be voted in. So if you take out the Euro players and put them on one side, it would be Curry, Booker, and then Tatum, Katie, and Braun. Gil, you are the electoral college, though, on Gil's arena. So you have to just go by the popular vote. This guy had his whole lineup, right? Yeah.

No, you be having your shit on your pad. I be doing it. I be saying it. I be like, whoever got something coming today, they better be ready. No, no, no. I even got the starters. I even got the starters, all the guards, how much they play, bench, bench, starter, half a starter. I do all that shit.

Oh, no. We need a camera following you at 6am mad scientist as you scribble in the notebook with the additional sheet heroes Americans yeah you really be doing your homework yeah I ain't playing with him today man

special note in the notebook study notes too the arc of the covenant of the USA versus international debate. I'm old school, baby. I get on the phone and start calling. You call it right now. He see me in the morning talking to general managers. What this nigga want now?

First question is from underdog user Blues with multiple Z's on the end of it. So blues What is a new rule? You wish was there when you guys played so a new rule is in the league now that you wish was there when you guys play a New rule I'm just reading the question. You know merely a host. I mean, what is the new rules that are connector? What is a new rule? You wish was there when you guys played and our producers

are extending out? What's the rule or a change? Super Max? Super Max rules? You got the contract rule and then I think the fouls

when you just foul on purpose and you get the free throw now and stuff like that. The take fouls when you just foul on purpose, you get the free throw now. Oh, like the take fouls? Yeah, the take fouls. Oh yeah, they had me some good free throws then. Like that rule today, we had that when we played.

For sure. All right, next question, video question from underdog user Andy C3. If you could have been a part of any dynasty, which would it be? And do you think we'll see another dynasty in the NBA? Thank you guys. Andy, thank you for waiting to make that turn

before... Dynasty. Keep the whip in the same spot. If you could have been a part of any dynasty, which would it be? And do you think we'll see another dynasty? What's my options? Bulls, Lakers, Boston. Okay, Bulls.

Celtics. The Milkman section? You and Bill Russell. Okay, so Bill. Bill too, big too. Doodle on the wall. Okay, what makes a dynasty? Winning how many championships and what time? Three. Three and? I mean, this is's, okay, so Bill. Bill too, big too. Dudu on the wall. What makes a dynasty? Winning how many championships

and what time? Three. Three and? I mean, this is three and like four or five. That has to be. Yeah, like three. Yeah, like three.

Like three or five. Yeah, three. Three the most. Three, but what time frame? Within five years. Within five years. Three within five years. We'll take three chips

within five years. Okay, so you got. What about like the Spurs? They won three out of six. That's what I'm saying. Nope, nope. You said three out of five. We're asking.

You can't go three for six? We're fighting under our own rules. With the same core, we'll say three and six? So Miami Heat, that's not a dynasty then, right? Okay, okay, okay. Close. Lakers, 2000, that's...

I'm sorry, 03, 05, 07. 03, 05, 07? Yeah or five or seven Spurs so how about the Kobe Lakers was that a dinosaur in a row the Kobe post shot Lakers no Kobe shot Kobe so yeah that's three three that is a three-peat. Probably the 80s Lakers. That shit just looked fun. That shit just looked fun, dog. I'm not even going to lie. What looked fun about the 80s, Gil, was a lot going on in the world at that time.

Coke. Coke. Coke in the hoop sounds fun. Coke and Hoops sounds fun. And Playboy Mansion. Shout out to the Coca-Cola modeling company. I'm just saying. He top five ever, man. You ain't got to do that. You have to just the top five ever.

Coke, Hoop, go to the Playboy Mansion and have fun. I'm just saying, that sounds like a fun-ass time to be a basketball player. Just not going. Back when the Playboy Mansion missed. Ain't no social media at the time. Shit, yeah. Word of mouth and telephone calls. Golden State, they're a dynasty.

I mean, I would say them, because...and it's more money. More bread, yeah. When they were winning, so.. More bread, yeah. When they were winning, so. 80s bread, yo. Factor that in. I mean, 80s bread back then was... Seemed like it was great. Seemed like it was great then, right?

It was good then. It was good money back then. Direct plug to the Pablo pipeline. Boston York. Derek. I mean, yeah, in the 80s, I mean... I own a lot of stuff, too. Listen, yeah, right? As much as, yeah, in the 80s, I mean, I own a lot of stuff too. Listen, yeah, right?

You own a lot. As much as everybody's thinking about the Bulls, they're thinking about Jordan. Like, I don't know if I need that kind of heat. That looks like a lot of pressure and yelling. Shit, yeah. So you got the teammates going on tour. I know. That shit.

We are the world. They said Diddy got world. They said Diddy got arrested? They said Diddy did it? Reports are they're raiding Diddy's California and Miami

houses right now. Not sure what they're looking for. Yeah, no, for real. They ain't playing. Man, man. It's over, dog. When they raid,

what are they looking for? Somebody said something in there. A lot of different things. They're looking for girls in the basement. I mean, what are they looking for?

That body. They're looking for love. They're looking for girls in a basement. I mean, what are they looking for? That body. They're looking for love. Who is it, the FBI? Who's doing it? Probably FBI. I don't know. Probably FBI. That's crazy, though.

They're looking for videotapes. They're looking for videotapes. I mean, if you got videotapes, that might be blackmail videotapes on dudes, which is weird. FBI release. I'm not even going to lie, that's weird. Like, I have dirt on you, which puts dirt on me. Right. Like, I'm going to blackmail you on some shit that I'm not even open about.

FBI release a statement saying, take that. That is our show for today. We appreciate you, as always, for pulling up to Guild Arena presented by Underdog Fantasy. We will see y'all tomorrow. Thank you. We'll see you next time. Outro Music Thank you.