Gil's Arena - Gil's Arena Debates If The Suns Are REAL Threats In The West

Episode Date: March 26, 2024

Gil's Arena Reacts To Domantas Sabonis Making Double Double NBA History as Gilbert Arenas & The Gil's Arena Crew break down Sabonis' 54 straight double doubles and discuss if the offensive explosion in the NBA is causing milestones like this to be devalued. They also react to the Phoenix Suns & Boston Celtics tough losses as Kevin Durant & the Suns tricked off an easy win to the Spurs without Victor Wembanyama and Jayson Tatum's Boston Celtics blew a 30 point lead to the Atlanta Hawks, but does this mean anything to these team's playoff pushes?? Finally, they welcome back Gil's Arena fan favorite Lexie Brown and discuss Caitlin Clark's incredible performance in the Women's NCAA Tournament before giving their savage takes on Diddy's house raid. 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 0:04:01 Lexie Recaps Her Athletes Unlimited Experience 0:08:11 Candied Watermelon 0:11:34 Diddy Is Done 0:22:07 Norris Cole Talks End of G League Ignite 0:36:05 Caitlin Clark's Balls Out In Women's Tournament 1:04:26 Sabonis Makes Double-Double History 1:18:20 Divincenzo Sets Knicks 3 Pt Record 1:27:56 Suns Lose To Wemby-less Spurs 1:45:16 Suns 4th Quarter Issues 1:55:45 Celtics Blow A 30-Point Lead to Hawks 1:59:14 MostlyFans 2:15:02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to Gil's Arena, presenting my underdog fantasy. Whoa, whoa! Whoa! I know. Yeah, what? You know, a little pre-show issue. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring the show live and direct to you Monday through Thursday.

You know, shout out to our amazing crew who battles the elements, withstands all obstacles to make sure this show is ready to go every single day at 11.30 a.m pacific 2 30 easter more or less right about you know we do our best but this is gil's arena presented by underdog fantasy as always we've got the legend gilbert arenas here with us what up how you doing gil the fashion is fashioning yeah no no no, no. I went to this shoe place. I forgot the name of it.

But I got to create my own shoe. Oh, so you made those. I made it. Yeah, you like them. Those are cute. And then this part, this part, this part right here, when it get hot. Look at that. Look at that.

Look at that. Look at that. Oh, they got this. Wow. That's coordination. Yeah. Wait, so does the sun do that? Yeah, the sun do that. So you don't have to rub it like that. Yeah. There, so does the sun do that?

Yeah, the sun do that. So you don't have to rub it like that. Yeah. There's no sun in here. You feel me? So when I go outside, boom! That's tough. Oh, really.

You need to get those on the market. That's real cute. Yeah, them look like my size, too. We got Lexi Brown back in the building. Lexi. After a successful season with Athletes Unlimited. Y'all said get to work. You've been working.

You've been cooking. 24 hours. Not even. She just landed. Get your ass. Right to the studio. Happy to be back. We're happy to have you back.

The chat has been buzzing for you. They've been wondering about your whereabouts. We told them you were busy doing other things. Returning to the floor. Yep. Getting your cook on. Yes. How'd your team end up doing out there? Well, I finished 10th, so I finished top 10 out of 40.

Okay. So I didn't win. Sorry, Gil. But top 10. Top 10 in what? So there's a leaderboard. So there's no teams. No, you get like accumulated points for all the stuff.

All the stats? All the stats. Okay, so let me break this down real quick. Thank you. Athletes Unlimited is a league, so there's 40 players, and there's a leaderboard. So you get points for everything. So made baskets, missed baskets, fouls, free, like everything. You get plus or minus points.

And then you get points for winning quarters, and you get points for winning games. Okay. So at the end of the season, you all the points accumulated and then you finish 1 through 40. And then the top four people every week are the captains and then that's how we draft. So the teams change every week. And then the 1 through 40 you get bonus money at the end. And that's how you determine your bonus money.

You got top ten bread though. Let's go. Yeah. Yes. So yeah. It was fun. Congratulations. Thanks. Putting me whole something in. Oh, yeah.

Big baller. I'm trying to catch up to y'all. So we ain't got to pay you this week. Nope, that's why I'm here. That's why I showed up today. It is check season. And we got Kenya Martin back in the building. That's a lot of Cincinnati red.

What are we doing? What's that? Okay. What is that? It's a Bucs. It's a Bucs hat. What we doing? What's that? Okay. What is that? The Bucks? It's a Bucks hat. Like Milwaukee Bucks? Yeah. But red? Dang, that's dope. Do they have jerseys that color? No. You know who they play tonight, right? Remember I had a blue that nobody seen before. I got an All-star weekend in New Orleans. Mm-hmm. New Era had a store. That's hard.

Yeah, it's a few joints, yeah, that's not team-colored. Mm-hmm. Are you rooting for the Bucs this evening? This just went with what I wanted to win. Okay, all right, just coordinate. Just making sure. Just making sure we got our own Mr. B out in Milwaukee right now for the Lakers-Bucs game.

Looking to get credential in the field. Oh, y'all gonna lose. Yeah, yeah, we sitting everybody today. And Bron gonna sit AD. We sitting. Yeah, it doesn't matter. We both should play. Huh? If you...

See what your grandmom tell you. If you hunting, you can hit it, boy. Now, we won last. We won last game. We don't need to win this game. Make it competitive. See how cool staying where y'all are. Yeah. So, Alexa, before we get into the show, we got to know, what was the athletes'

unlimited experience like and how did it feel for you to be hooping again after everything you dealt with in the W last season? Yeah, it was fun. My first week and a half-ish, I was on minutes restriction, so I didn't really like playing like that, but I had to make sure that, like, my body was cool. So, after that week and a half, I was like, all right, I'm good to go. I think I was playing like 35 minutes a game or something crazy like that, but it felt good. I'm in really good shape. I was in probably one of the best shapes out of everybody there, I think. I've added a lot to my

game, which I'm excited to show in the summertime, And I'm a lot stronger than I thought, too. So shout out to Pilates for helping me get that back. It was just fun being out there again. And I felt great. It was fun. Finished top 10. And training camp starts in a few weeks. So very excited.

Yeah. Well, let's get it. So we got you for a few more weeks on the couch. So we're going to make the most of it. But here's what's cracking in the arena today. The Suns tricked off a much-needed win to the Wimby-less Spurs to fall to the A seed. But how much pressure is their Big 3 feeling

with the playoffs right around the corner? The Celtics are the hottest team in the league, but blew a 30-point lead to the Hawks in a loss on Monday. Any calls for concern, even though they've got, what, like a 10.5 game lead in the East? They chillin'. Oh, we gonna see. We gonna see. And Norris Cole is pulling up to the arena

to talk about the end of G League Ignite and which players from this year's squad are the most league ready. I think they got one more game on Thursday. And then the G League Ignite is cooked for good. But before we get into all that, you want to get your bread up, go ahead, download the Underdog Fantasy app. Use promo code GILL.

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So let's get into it. Throughout history, black people have invented some legendary things. I think that goes without saying. And now you can add candied watermelon to that list. So we got a video here. This is in Atlanta, Georgia. Mason. What? Going hard.

Big backs. On the candy watermelon. Just had the internet going nuts recently. Very good. Thank you. Big backs. Oh, I had to be the senator out loud. No need to repeat.

It seems like people do not care about the summer coming. The food concoctions I've been seeing on Twitter have been ridiculous. No need to repeat. It seems like people do not care about the summer coming. The food concoctions I've been seeing on Twitter have been ridiculous. It looks like diabetes in an aluminum tray. But I got to know, are y'all rolling with candy watermelon? And if so, would you eat it in public? Canyon, I'll go to you first. I don't eat watermelon, so no.

You don't roll with watermelon at all? Okay. You like candy? I'm back, dog. Wait, why don't rock a watermelon at all Okay, you like candy Ain't enough as a kid Yeah, like no, I'm so that wouldn't Keep had no more Maybe honeydew sometime maybe cantaloupe You like candied grapes. I've never had any candied fruit Candy great. They're just a big it's like the grapes with that a bigger that stuff is on top of it. Sugar. What is it? I don't know.

I thought it was cotton grapes. I'm sorry. With the cotton candy grapes. Oh, is that what they are? I've never had them. I know what you're talking about. Candy grapes? Yeah, like whatever that is on the watermelon, they put it on other fruits.

No, I'm just starting to think women are creating shit to kill men 100% Woman is eating that in the video and the woman probably made it cuz there's nothing There's really nothing man. Just create that got anything to do with diabetes Right when you see all these funny mixtures of shit women Right, when you see all these funny mixtures of shit, women, I think y'all trying to take us out. I really do. Been potty for years. Niggas like watermelon?

Then throw some candy in there. Then throw some candy in there. They can simply not eat it. Like it's blood pressure up. They can simply just not eat it. That shit looks disgusting. So, Alexi, I mean, I got to ask you, though. You're getting prepared for your WNBA season.

So, obviously, training, you're eating right. Off- you, though. You're getting prepared for your WNBA season. So, obviously, you're training. You're eating right. Off-season, though, would you roll some candy watermelon? No. Under no circumstances? No. It looks like it hurts your teeth.

I have very sensitive teeth. Like, sugar and stuff. Like, that just... No. Make my stomach hurt and my teeth hurt. They didn't have chocolate dipped strawberries? I mean they did all kinds of food like bananas, watermelon, okay. Chocolate covered bananas. They dip things, they fry everything.

It's like they spot the melting pot. Or with the cheese. Don't put whatever in there. Fondue. Gil, roll in with candy watermelon? No under no circumstances That was in Atlanta. That was George that's a man of shit, Georgia. But yeah, that was some Atlanta shit for real. I Was so we're probably it there or some more Texas. Yeah, so what?

The chat is not rolling as well. How big is the people in Atlanta? I'm sorry, I just, you got to ask the question. Is that the biggest city? No. No? No. OK. I'm pretty, no.

Big people everywhere, Gil. I get it. I'm not making something up. Definitely in the south, though. Probably deep south. Somewhere in the south, I'm pretty sure. You know, you got to. They're not in the south?

They are, but I wouldn't pick them. They're not number one. Yeah, I wouldn't say Atlanta. They got not number one. I wouldn't say Atlanta. They gotta be up there though. Where's high blood pressure and diabetes? What city is that in? Is that Atlanta? I'm sure there's a correlation.

Anywhere in the South. There is a correlation. It's just anywhere in the South? Okay. So we asked the chat, 73% said they would not rock with candy watermelon. I say explore, you know? Let your taste buds explore, give it a chance.

Hell no. It's like going to the state fair in Dallas. They got everything. Everything. Yeah. Everything. Fair in Dallas? Oh, they frying everything.

Their food is crazy. Oh, yeah, they frying butter and all kind of shit. Ice cream. Fried butter on a stick. Oh, OK, listen, man. They doing everything at this. Bacon wrap, turkey leg. You name it.

What? You name it. And you got to stand up eating it all. You just need turkey, leg. You name it. You name it. And you got to stand up eating it all. You got to stand up eating it all. I like both of those, and you just ruined both of them for me. This is looking great. What's the craziest thing that you've eaten at the fair? Shit. I don't know, bro.

I got to think about that. I had a cheeseburger and donuts. Yeah, that's the donut. That one. Cheeseburger and the buns were glazed donuts. That's probably what I had. I would never eat it again. It wasn't disgusting. I felt disgusting after. You felt real fat, right? Yeah. So like a fat girl, when you got done, you was like... I was like, wow, I feel horrible about myself right now. But you had to take more than one bite.

Like, this is my food, really? I finished it. I ate the whole thing. I ate the whole thing. That shit was good. I got a sensitive stomach, so there's... That would probably make you feel better. If I start mixing stuff, I'll throw up fast.

Like, if I leave ketchup out too long or barbecue, and it's just sitting there and I can just smell it, I'll throw up. We learn something new about you every day. You do not like the scent of ketchup or barbecue. sitting there and I can just smell it, I'll throw up. We learn something new about Gil everyday. You do not like the scent of ketchup or barbecue. If I eat too late at night, 2-3 in the morning, I'm in the shower throwing up.

Don't try donut cheeseburger. Yeah, that's a lot of info. I'm like bulimic a little bit. Gil-emic. Gil-emic. Gil-emic. Seriously. So I got to ask you guys on the couch,

what's your most reckless food topping combo? We just saw candy, watermelon. Food topping combo? Yeah, what's the wildest thing that you'll put on top of food? On top of food? I make my own dip. What's in your dip, Gil? Salsa, and then every cheese I can find in the refrigerator.

Right, I put it in a pot and I gotta melt that joint Then throw a little sugar There you go There it is There it is There it is Then throw a little sugar and mix it up Sweet cheese Sweet cheese

Sweet cheese is nasty Why sugar? I don't know What made you think let me throw some sugar this bit or She mostly would have thought mostly very cool beer She's sugar and sugar. Yeah, that and salt. Like, sauces. I like mixing my sauces to just... Hmm.

But sugar. Well, I don't have anything to talk about. Regular sugar, brown sugar. I put ranch on spaghetti pizza. Some people don't seem to think that's a good idea. Ranch on spaghetti, Gil. Give it a try. I mean, you put ranch on pizza, so okay, I can see the vision.

I'm just saying, you know. You know. I see the vision. Ranch or tomato? You don't eat ranch with pizza? I dip it. I don't put it on top. Dip it. That's the thing.

So I get it. Ranch and hot sauce. Thank you, Lexi. I appreciate you. Yeah, that's the thing. It's good to have you back. Okay, I felt unsupported. I felt unsupported on this couch.

He said spaghetti. But it's the same family. No, that's not the same thing. Sauce and bread and... It's flour and tomatoes. Yeah. Noodles are flour, you know. You stir, you like mix it in?

I mix it, yeah, yeah. So you like Alfredo sauce? No. Well, when I can eat eggs... You need the tomato sauce base with a little bit of ranch on it. I put sriracha mayonnaise on top of the eggs. On what? Eggs, scrambled eggs.

Okay, now that... Sriracha mayo on the top. Oh, okay. But I don't eat eggs anymore. Oh, I thought you said sriracha and mayo. No, no, no, like the sacha, mayo on the top. Oh, okay. But I don't eat eggs anymore. Oh, I thought you said sriracha and mayo, so it's- No, no, no, like the sriracha, mayo. I see.

I got you. Like orange. Come back. I got you. I understand. But yeah, but I don't eat eggs no more, so that's over. Okay, what's your most- You vegan? No, eggs are just really bad for you.

I read it in a book that my dad gave me about cleansing your body, and the number one thing he said to stop eating was eggs. And I stopped. And I felt better. Oh, wow. Yeah. Kane, what's your most reckless food topping combo? Why do fintechs like Float choose Visa? As a more trusted, more secure payments network,

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Maybe, I don't know, it's like fries... Like, fries or, like, tater tots, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard. Ooh, the ketchup, hot sauce, mustard combo on the fries? Hot sauce. Nah, that's all right. Wait, just fries regular? You don't put, like, in the burger? Oh, yeah. What?

Like, dipping sauce? No, like, y'all don't put your fries on the burger like little kids? No. Oh, like in the burger? Yeah. No, I eat my burger separate. I have done that before, though. I have, when I was a child.

But that's not like the thing I do. When I was a child, yes, that was appealing. I like to enjoy them separate. That was very appealing. So what you put in your grits? I do eat grits. So what do you put in your grits? I like salt and pepper.

I don't put the shit in there. I like salt and pepper. I don't put the shit in there. I like salt enjoy them separately. That was very appealing. So what you put in your grits? I do eat grits. So what do you put in your grits? I like salt and pepper. I don't put the sugar in my grits. Salt, pepper, sugar. You put all three?

Salt, pepper, sugar. Oh, of course you do. Of course I do. And cheese. Damn. Your sweet cheese. Sweet cheese. Sweet salty cheese.

You put meat in yours? Sausage. Bacon. Sausage or bacon? Absolutely. But I got to mix mine. It's my dog. Did she you put meat in yours sausage bacon sausage a baby good like absolutely But I got a mixed mind what you put in your your grits bacon Salt pepper salt pepper sugar you do butter butter and sugar

Yeah, you know rice white rice anything anything. Butter, salt, pepper. Same thing. Cheese. Salt, pepper, sugar. So you just put cheese on everything. Salt, pepper, sugar, cheese. I don't know why I love cheese so much. I do too, but that's... I love me some cheese.

Cheese on everything. I love me some cheese. Me too. Yeah, I melt that shit. Melted cheese. I'm a cheese... I got to melt my shit. Yeah, I'm a cheese fan.

I love all different. I'm... Nah, cheese is good. Smoked cheddars, goudas. I'm all across the board with it. What's the cheese? So, regular square cheese out the refrigerator. I go in that motherfucker and get a slice in a minute. What?

You like cheese sticks? No. You like the spring cheese? Everyone hates, yeah. No, my daughter. Spring cheese? Oh, I used to love that shit. My kids eat that. My daughter eats that shit.

We gotta talk about some major news going on in the world. Things are not looking good for Diddy right now. The music and business mogul had his home in Los Angeles and Miami raided by Homeland Security on Monday amid a federal sex trafficking investigation based out of New York. So this is some of the footage. Oh, my God. They rode in there with the heaters. I believe his two sons were at the crib.

Damn. They were escorted out. Do you see the ladder on the tree? You said the ladder? They had a ladder at the beginning like so people in the house were detained they were not arrested that's important important to point out uh so there was some speculation about diddy's whereabouts yesterday uh allegedly his plane or one of his planes uh was spotted in the caribbean he was supposed to be on it that was was not the case. TMZ dropped some footage of him in Miami.

TMZ, man. TMZ be on it. I think somebody sent in this footage. You can see them here in Miami at the Miami Opelika Executive Airport. So according to TMZ, Diddy and some other people got stopped by Homeland Security at the airport. He appeared to be aboard a private jet at the time. He was not arrested as the investigation continues. And in another

weird little note, Diddy's home raids came on the 27th anniversary of Biggie's classic, Life After Death. So, you know, we talked a little bit about it on the show yesterday. We kind of found out right at the end. Now we've gotten a little bit more information. Gil, what's your thoughts on this whole situation?

You've had some things to say over the past few weeks. I knew he didn't flee because when homelands is after your ass, trust me, they know exactly where your ass is at all times. They have trackers on your fucking cars at that point. They have your signal. So there was no way when people was like yeah he's out of the country i'm like fuck no and if he is out of the country they know exactly where he is all time so them accounts is damn near shut off so he is this is over

there's no way there's no way to run now that man is guilty whatever they said he did it was the one that's no it don't matter what he did, at this point they're going to find, they're going to find something, they're going to find whatever they want to find to get him to tell on somebody. Oh, he's snitching, boy. Well, yeah, this is kind of similar to what happened with the Epstein stuff. Like, just a can of worms was just open. So I'm just, I'm not interested because this whole thing is horrible. But, like, just the other names that are about to probably come out with all this is going to be insane.

There's a lot of speculation. It's hard to piece together what's actual legit information, what's conjecture, what's being made up online in the wake of this. But Kenyon, you surprised at all at this situation? What are your thoughts on it? I don't know if y'all heard me say this, but I live my life. I'm not surprised by shit, bro. I'll be honest with you. Anything that eventually comes out or somebody says and there's some,

they start doing homework and there's some facts behind it. Don't wish no harm upon nobody. It's unfortunate, but no shit surprised me, man. History has told you that it's people doing wild shit, man. People into all kind of stuff. So when things come, I'm just not shocked. Yeah. Right? I'm just like, oh, damn.

But then you start getting detailed, you're like, oh, damn. Right? It's just like, that's my reaction to it. Like, damn. I mean, people said that Cassie thing was like the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, it was. No, that started way before that. It was when he was ranting about his drink. The Ciroc and the León tequila.

He was like, no, they're racist, and he's about to sue. Oh, that's what we're doing over here? I bet. And then from there, that's when the spiral started. We should have known something when he started giving back niggas' masters for no reason. what we doing over here? I bet. And then from there, that's when the spiral started because that's, you should've, we should've known so when he started giving back niggas

masters for no reason. Hey, here's your masters. Here you go. Here's your masters. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, nigga,

what you got going on? It's like a, first you thought it was like isolated incidents of people coming out but it seems like it's more of like a domino effect.

No. And the feds are kind of like. But that's, but that's but that's that's life when you when when you on top of something and Someone throws a stone and someone sees a crack everyone else comes so Cassie Open it up for everybody else. Yeah, she was real close to him. Yeah, like she did Yeah, so once she put out that big statement and then he settled

Everybody's like oh shit. He's not gonna blackball me And then from there just became this in a day, yeah this but you got You know I'm saying like those insurance thing Insurance like what he got was a what's gonna happen now was oh no, we're gonna a how much she has for okay Let's get here to her Absolutely, cuz it's gonna end up costing What's gonna happen now? What's oh no, we're gonna how much she has for okay? Let's get here Absolutely, cuz it's gonna end up costing them more fielding with the trial anything like that. Yeah, wait, let's oh, it's ran Yeah, it's right a bad shit would have came out like that didn't people but now They season

electronic devices and computers and Listen, hey man Like what they do once they get back to the office. They hook that mother up today computer age Gonna be some black Melissa blackmail. Whoever he was blackmailing at the time all all that shit about to come out Yeah, but you know like You hear shit all the time. You've heard shit over the years and but it's always been You hear shit all the time. You've heard shit over the years, but it's always been not as... Took it serious, right? Unfortunately, with R. Kelly shit,

people heard shit over the years as well, right? Over the years, uh-huh. But nobody take it as serious as they should until these folks got involved like they did with him right yeah you just don't for amen where there's lots of red around like lots of red flags around Eddie for years everybody the one thing I do know everybody ain't fucking lying that's my my thing. When they come with some shit they said, and you be like, I'll be like, well, and then once multiple people, everybody ain't lying.

You might have a couple of lies in that motherfucker. A couple of lies. But overall. If there's 10, it's going to be about six lies. So you just got to figure out them four. Four for 10 is still not a good. Now when it's coming to this kind of shit, not at all. You folks. They're for 10 is still not a good not well now We're not when this coming this kind of shit Now when you play with this kind of this jeopardy here is a different type of jeopardy

Like damn you listen, you know the pot, but you know the problem with it all is okay. So like it's sex trafficking, right? now it'd be Okay, so let's say like his sons is dating the girl right and then they fly to they fly somewhere if did he himself didn't get permission to fly that daughter out that's sex trafficking for himself with the intent of his son having sex so they're going going to find loopholes. They're going to find stuff. They find loopholes. So, you know what I mean?

They're going to find loopholes to jam them here so they can get something else. And I hate this for his daughters. No. He has two daughters. You know what the strange thing was? I've been raided before.

Plenty of times. I mean, when you say plenty... Yeah, what? He said that like, that was casual. That's a casual thing. They looking for weed. You know what I mean? Raid coming in.

They got to hit the dough in. One thing I know for sure. There's never been an 11 o'clock, 1 p.m. raid ever. No, they ain't coming. They getting your ass at 5 a.m. 5 a.m. Raid ever They get you five a.m. a.m. Yeah, four five a.m. Before you wake the fuck up or they gonna hit you at like 1 a.m

In the morning, they're never coming in when you over there fresh and red so they're monitoring everything So they probably let the daughters go to school Let them go to school make sure everybody's tracked where everybody's at and we don't spring break actually so who? It is it is pretty they wasn't in the house. They don't spring break. That's a thing. They weren't in the house It's traumatizing not the two twins wasn't in there. Where are they? I hope they're somewhere safe No, that was a girl. They have a lot of support because it is for the mother a disaster Yeah, they never come at that out Yeah, the 1111 one. I was like wait a minute middle of the day. Nah, they get you anymore places

Huh? To opposite sides a country is crazy. I remember he's that's what said he's not in the house He's not in the house at the time in any places So he's in Miami to hit Miami, but he's not in the house at the time in any places. So he's in Miami. They hit Miami, but he's not in the house. So you think they made sure that he wasn't there? They make sure so he can't sit in there. They watching. They're going to make sure he's not in there erasing whatever he got erased.

So they're making sure. Yeah, make sure he wasn't in the house. Yeah. Make sure he can't call nobody once the fish. He got wind of some shit. Somebody probably called. That's why they had everybody hemmed up the way they did. And they taking phones, man.

Yep. Damn. Yeah. Taking phones. Taking phones and computers. iPads. All of it. Yeah.

Surveillance. Not looking good. Footage. Yep. Taking them camera systems out. All of it. Man, they running logistics on all that shit. It's going to get crazy.

That was the one thing I was like, hell nah. They would've hit that man five in them, five in them before you could wake up. Boom! What's going on? Because they know nobody's looking at the camera system at that time, so they waiting, they was waiting for him to move. Shit, that shit happened out there by us.

Poor dude out in his underwear, like hey, come out as is, bro, you took too long to come out for one We're gonna get a little door you took too long So they can come everybody like that's what I said like they're they're on the phone with whoever Most likely they've already there's an informant inside of his camp already Where he's at trust me like but when it. But when the fed and the homeland shows up, they've already got you clocked.

They got a warrant already. They listening. Yeah, they got you clocked already. Yeah, they listening. It ain't like they just got the warrant yesterday like they do on TV. We need a warrant.

They get the warrant and then they come to your house. Nah, they had that warrant last week and they been tapping everything in, following everybody. He's planning on being out of town on the buttons We gonna hit him at this time

orchestrated joint Informant a make sure he's out of town. That's why they just got caught one of his his uh drug mules at the airport And they're all that Allegedly this time. Allegedly. Well, I mean, it's not allegedly, because the ass had drugs on him. Those were alleged drugs, yo. Alleged drugs.

Hit his ass at the same time. All of them got, ba-ba-ba-ba. Let's go. We just say allegedly to avoid any legal issues. You can put allegedly. Just like you can say Paul, you can say allegedly to anything. No, but basically, that's how you do it. I said allegedly.

Allegedly. Yeah, you say allegedly. Definitely works better in your favor than Paul. Allegedly. Allegedly. It's Paul's, Your Honor. It's Paul's, Your Honor. works better in your favor. They're all alleged allegedly allegedly cause your honor heard I think Any of those used to get you out of soon people say Oh, I read I read we should read it at

Yeah I read it. Where did you read it at? It was there. It was online. It was online. And I was on his bus and it was a book. Put him away. It was a pamphlet. Wild times going on. Literally. Yeah, in the universe. Why he was at the airport with some drugs?

They getting sloppy these days. Boy, you already got to ship that through the mail. Ship that to the mail. It was on his person? He had it on him. He got to ship that through the mail, let it get there before. Drop it at the house. So you gonna walk outside.

As you gentlemen, and Lexi, you know, black community... You can do all you want, you better let that joint sit there. That's what I'm saying, let it sit there, look. As soon as you take it in your house, put it down. Pick it up. I know nothing about this behavior. Pick it up. I know nothing about this. I just learned. Pretty damn Just learn

As you black community Law I just know not to break it soon as you take possession Just enjoying the conversation. I don't know where it's going. You got to know the law, man. You got to know the law. You got to know the law. I just know not to break it. As soon as you take possession, hey. They coming, hey. Don't know nothing about that. They knocking. So as you all know, the black community struggles to take anything serious, especially moments like this.

Ever. The diddler was trending. The diddler. The diddler. No diddy was trending. Honey, can we please? We joke about everything. But the diddler. No Diddy was trending. Honey, can we please? We joke about everything. But the diddler, whoever came up with that.

Oh my God. Oh no, isn't that undefeated? They're called in the diddler. Oh my God. You give them ammunition. You can't be black people, dawg. You give them ammunition, they're going to use it. No matter what.

So, hey, did you see the one where someone said, where's, is it Koeisha? What's the girl's name? What's a Alicia? Karish there's a real creature she's like I'm right here, but look outside Yes Going to prison she was like hey y'all No, we know where you been that girl somebody said look outside I was like damn we will monitor the situation to keep you updated as we do on Gil's Arena presented by Underdog Fantasy.

Let's move into some basketball. We got a special guest pulling up to the arena right now via Zoom. Two-time NBA champ, current member of G League Ignite, Norris Cole. Takes some time out of his schedule. What's going on, legend? How you doing? What's going on? How y'all doing? What's happening?

So, Norris, we got some things to get into. We appreciate you taking some time. Where you at right now? If you don't mind me asking. I'm in Vegas. Okay. Okay. I'm in Vegas.

So last week, the league announced that they were shutting down G League Ignite after four seasons. You served as a veteran presence for the team this year. So what are your thoughts on the NBA deciding to shut down G League Ignite? And what's the mood of the team like right now? I was kind of disappointed in the decision. I understood it from a business aspect. They came and explained to us what was the – they gave us the surface reason.

You know, obviously it's probably deeper, you know, reasons why they shut it down. But they told us basically why it's shutting down. And some of the draft guys who were coming in for two years, giving them their options and things like that, and said that they'll still have the resources to help everyone. But I was disappointed in the decision. And the mood of the team is great. The guys have their dream of making it to the NBA. And we try to tell them that. Don't let anything

distract them from making their goals a reality, and sometimes it's going to be unexpected bumps in the road, and this is just part of their journey. So the guys have played well, they've responded well, and they're not giving up. So just from a personal

level, what was your experience like in G League Ignite, and how beneficial do you feel like it was in helping young talent get ready mentally and physically for the grind of being in the league? I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it a lot. We had some guys who were very curious, who asked great questions. I think it's good for their development. Obviously, it's not for everybody. It's just another option for for talented players who maybe you know don't want to go to college or who don't want to go overseas

and i think um playing in the nba size court nba practice setting nba weight training session nba terminology i think from that standpoint it's an advantage over college players but obviously college has it has its advantages too as far as you know organizational structure team structure um practice time you know obviously in college they practice more because they play less games so i think it has its advantages and its disadvantages i think that is a mistake to to cancel it because i think you know the more options talented players have to get to their dream, the better. So that's my take on it. What happens to the players on the team?

Do they get to go to another G League team, or they got to go overseas, or they got to get drafted? How does that work? What's up, Lex? Hi. Most of the guys are drafted this year. So most of the guys are drafted eligible this year. So most of the guys are going to enter the draft. We're expecting to have, I think, four first-rounders

and possibly two top teners on this team. There's two guys that can come back that they don't have to enter the draft, and one of them is a real special talent, Dink Paint. He could possibly be a number one pick next year six seven 210 pound point guard um he's weighing his options right now he doesn't have to make a decision yet but they can go overseas um the nba can help them facilitate a team to the g league um or they can you know sit out and train uh mike uh darius uh beasley did a few years ago he had an internship with New Balance, actually, and he just

trained to learn the business of sports entertainment and then he entered the draft. So they have some options, but right now they're just trying to finish the season first, and then once the season ends, then they'll start exercising the options that they have, because Dink is going to have different options than the other young man

who's also not draft eligible. Can he to college they go back to school can they uh i don't think so don't quote me on it but i don't think so because you know they're amateur you know they're not amateurs they receive checks even though college players are receiving checks now too so it don't make any sense but i don't think that they can but i believe that they should have a special rule in place just because of this and they should let dick go to school because he would normally be a senior in high school right now he you know he he would be a senior in high school right now and so i think he should be able to go to college if he wanted to okay so do you think the nba failed them in this manner and they're smelling this like do you think they failed him honestly i do you know i think that uh like i said i

understand some of the business aspects of it they you know the nba is all about money as you guys know and um anytime they're spending money and they don't get the maybe the results that they maybe want or expect you know they look to make changes but i think from dink's perspective dink pate i think they definitely failed him because he's a talented guy and he's a guy that's, you know, in another year he will be NBA ready and so I think not allowing him to

have his last year with the Ignite you know, the progress that he's made this year to take the program away from him I do feel like that kind of is unfortunate for him. Yeah, so they kind of force him to put his name in the draft. He's not eligible. He can't put his name in the draft.

He's not eligible. He's not eligible because of age. So for a player like him. But because of his age, right? Yeah. Yeah, his age. He's 19 and one year removed, right? So he's a senior this year.

He just turned 18 last week. He would be a senior in high school. Yeah, he would be a senior in high school right now. So they should let him go to school. They would be a senior in high school. Yeah, he would be a senior in high school right now. They should let him. They should let him go to school. They should let him go back to school. Yeah, but then they signed a two-year deal with the league.

But then you're dealing with the NCAA now to get him. But there has to be, like, exceptions to the rules. It should be. It should be, right? It should be exceptions. Everybody else is getting paid. He's getting paid no matter how he got paid. We're getting paid. So the fact that NIL deal is in, it should just waive whatever happened here because of the NBA deciding.

But it's two separate buckets, right? Yeah, just like when Maurice Claret and Mike Williams, they won their judgment, got an agent, and then it got overturned. That right there should have allowed them, because it got overturned, it should have allowed those boys to go back to school.

You can't hold it against them for something that happened after. Do they foresee them potentially bringing the Ignite back? Because then that would just set a poor precedent, I think. But if they don't expect it to ever come back, then I feel like there shouldn't be a problem with the exception. Yeah, it should be.

It's just crazy that this billion-dollar conglomerate of a business of the NBA, right, that they have the NBA, right? Mm-hmm. That they have the W who they treat y'all like a redhead stepchild, you know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm.

And this who they treat like a pet they found off the street. Mm-hmm. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's... That's what, like, for real, though,

come on, man, let's call it, like, it's bad business. Like, it's bad business across the board. You got all the means to make most of these things successful. Simultaneously as the NBA. I agree. Why not?

I don't know. Why not? Why isn't the G League as big as it's supposed to be? It still seems like you don't even really know about it. Yeah Besides the first year of existence. Yeah You know really don't they don't They don't feature it. They don't talk enough about it. They don't put it on TV enough They don't listen like games like NBA games start at 4 o'clock, right?

First games about 4 4 30. Yeah, why? First game is about 4, 4.30. Yeah. Why aren't these games at noon? Fuck it. Noon, 1, 2, 3. Yeah. You know, people who like basketball are going to watch it. Right.

Right? You put it on the same channels, TNT, give them motherfuckers more work to do. Yeah. Or they could lean into like the streaming, kind of mean very unrelated, but the way Athletes Unlimited does things is that they focused a lean into the streaming. I mean, very unrelated, but the way Athletes Unlimited does things is that they focused a lot on the streaming and the broadcasting rights and the media rights more so than getting people in the arena. Well, they do have media.

They do have our games on. They stream our games. They are on TV. They're just not on necessarily mainstream TV. And to answer your question, Lex, they never said that they're not

going to ever have one again, but they definitely said that it's shut down for the foreseeable future. And I think what they're going to do is they're going to try a different option,

a different development option, maybe starting younger, which, you know, might be a mistake too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so think so but that's the thing is though they're scared of your kids so let me say scared nothing sorry no no no it's a lot of competition out here in that field right now right here it is it's a lot more competition now and don't name

the same the money aspect of it isn't pushing kids towards that because other people are probably paying these other places more. Right? Or are they doing more for them? Yeah, and the players, the young players right now,

one of the things that the coaches are kind of complaining about, the young players are not ready. Yeah. But that's not just because of G League at night. Those are players

coming from Duke and North Carolina. Everywhere. So it's not's not just because of G League at night. Those are players coming from Duke. Everywhere. Everywhere. So it's not that the young players from G League at night are not ready. It's all the young players. A lot of them are not ready

the way the NBA would like them. But my thing is, we'll stop drafting them so young. Draft more experienced players and let them get ready and then draft them. You know this. I talked to general managers.

Most the general managers, probably 25, at least 25 general managers do not know how to build a team around their star players. So you have a star player like let's say say Joel and bead, right? Or they say, all right, we want Joel and Maxie. These are our stars. They don't know how to look for talent that fits those two. So they just pick guys. And then a year, a year and a half later, like, ah, he don't fit. Let's get rid of them. So they don't know how to actually draft and pick players that fit the guys that they're going around. And that's the problem

with majority of the NBA. You say Denver. Denver knows how to pick guys around their star. Milwaukee, they did that before, but you see they're struggling now. Miami does a great job. Boston, they're trying they're struggling now. Miami does a great job, right? Boston's- Boston.

They're trying to figure it out, right? They have to see the talent that fits around the two guys that they think are the cornerstones. And for the most part- Now, you're right, Gil. They don't know how to do that. And I think sometimes they get talent mixed up with fit. Like, a guy might be supremely talented, but he might not be the one to fit on that team. And so sometimes you have to pick fit over talent. Mm-hmm.

So when they say, like, best available during the draft, what do they mean by that? The best player. The best player. Best available talent. But not the best available for the team with the next pick. No. Exactly.

Okay. Exactly. Right, so, so like it depends on i asked this question i said all right i said if you had um kobe bryant right on your team already and you got the number one pick and you know their careers already you don't have a center right and yao ming and tracy m McGrady is up who do you go after and they were like I'm going after Yao Ming and I'm like so you just let Tracy McGrady go to someone else there's a will already have Kobe Bryant at the end

I mean I mean I would make sense but you're trying to play but couldn't on the style of play you're trying to play. Depending on the style of play. But then you have some people that says, great talent knows how to fit with each other. Right? So I'm going to get the best player. I'm not going to go after something I think I need because I can find any center at that point to fit with Kobe Bryant. You know what I mean? So everyone has their different outlook on it.

Yeah. But why don't you get the best player at the position you need? I think need over fit. I mean, I think, like, it's why that fits. And that you need is better than just getting the best available. Because chemistry matters, man. Like, let's go up Golden State. There maybe were forwards that were better coming out than Draymond Green,

but Draymond Green is the perfect fit for them. Remember how talented David Lee was when he came out? He was probably more talented than Draymond Green at the time, but Draymond Green was the perfect fit so they can get Lee out of there. And we've seen what happened when Lee was out of there, right? They still kept winning because Draymond was the perfect fit for them. Andrew Wiggins wasn't a great fit maybe in minnesota or cleveland but look he was the perfect fit when he came to golden state so i think you know fit matters you know in my team in miami you know when they drafted me i mean there were other guards that were you

know pretty good in my draft i started naming the guards and players in my draft it was a lot of them but i was the right fit that the team needed for that position at the time. So, you know, and it's the same thing for Chicago when they drafted Jimmy Butler and things of that nature. There were other talented players, but Jimmy was the right fit for that team with Derrick Rose. And so I think fit over talent, you know, works best in the NBA. So speaking of talent, Norris, there's a lot of young talent in the G League at night.

What players on the squad are you most excited to see at the next level? You already mentioned Nick Pate, but what other players on the squad? Who are some of the guys that are coming out this year that you're excited to see in the league? Matas. Matas Buscelli. He's the most versatile. He might be the most versatile player in the draft.

He's 6'10". He can shoot. He can ISO. He can play out the post. He can iso. He can play out the post. He can block shots. He can run the break. Power forward. You also have Ronald Hollins. And he, Ron is, you know, our leading scorer on the team and leading in steals.

He has a high motor, you know, very competitive. You know, he's a champion. He won three state championships in high school, played Team USA. So he's played in the high pedigree. He reminds me a lot of Jimmy Butler actually. He's raw offensively, but he has the ability to be very, very special. And we also have Etan coming from Spain. He won the FIBA 17 and under, and 18 and 19 under gold medals for Spain.

So he's a shot blocker, rim protector, rim roller. He's also played against high-level elite competition, you know, his whole career as a young player. So, you know, those are three guys I'm really, really looking forward to seeing at the next level. Well, Norris, we appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to pull up. And Tyler Smith, too. I forgot about Tyler Smith.

Okay. For sure. Tyler's 6'11 shooter. forgot about Tyler Smith. Okay, for sure. Tyler's 6'11 shooter. He might get drafted top 15, top 20. Say that again? Tyler Smith. 6'10 shooter? Yes, four-man.

Four-man. He might be one of the best pure shooters in the draft. Well, Norris, we appreciate you taking time out of your schedule. We know y'all got, I think, one last game coming up on Thursday before the NBA shuts down, G League Ignite. So, you know, excited to see you back on the couch in the near future. I'll be back soon.

You already know. You already know. Shout out to Norris for taking time to talk about everything going down with G League Ignite. Pulling up to Gil's Arena presented by Underdog Fantasy. Woof, woof. Woof, woof. You already know. Woof, woof. Appreciate y'all. How many years was G League Ignite. Pulling up to Gilderina presented by Underdog Fantasy. Woof, woof. Woof, woof. You already know.

Woof, woof. Appreciate that. How many years was Ignite around? Four seasons. Four seasons. Four seasons. Dang. So I think they had four lottery picks in those four seasons.

I want to say close to like 10 guys drafted overall in that time. And they'll have a couple more this year. So the business side you get, but you got to say the league was somewhat successful in accomplishing what his goal was. Yeah, you probably just don't think they're going to get those top guys anymore because of the... The NIL, Brett? Yeah.

But we've talked about this on the couch before. If you're trying to go to the league, and we've had this conversation about your own son and kind of what his approach would be. Trying to go to the league, does it make more sense to get stuck in a college system for a couple of years,, he said something that he said that the College teams practice more than they would. Yeah, which would be weird because How less games I Think I'm playing a similar amount of I want to say you play like once or twice a week G League

There was like 34 38 games something like that like shit. That's college Sure, that's what some of these big-time guys twice a week Twice a week so 30 games. Yeah, I mean, that's a college thing for the days you're not the days you're not practicing I mean the days you're not playing what you're doing in practice. You're not practicing three four times a day You're only getting your shit in the G League? Yeah. Well, apparently not. That's why I said that stood out. He said we have more games, but they don't have more games.

Y'all need to be in... They're young. They should be in the gym every day. That's what it feels like, but, you know, we will see. I think this speaks just to larger issues about NBA development, youth development in America, but... Yeah. Well, they don't know what they're looking at no damn way. Do you think the NBA is going to take a...

They're going to start younger even more? I mean, it looked like that's what they were trying to do with the Ignite, but I feel like they need to go even younger. We talked about that a little bit yesterday. The foul fucker told me basically my son wasn't good enough. Who? To play on the G League Ignite team. You know, been in existence four years. wasn't good enough. Who? To play on the G League night team.

You know, they've been in existence for four years. Who, KJ? Oh, when he was coming out. And that's why he had to go to IMG. Oh, Sean. And still ended up getting drafted. Yeah. It's a...

Uh-huh. Where does American have their camps at? What? They have their overseas camps where? Who, NBA? Yeah. So they have NBA academies, I want to say India, Mexico. Where does American have their camps at? What? They have their overseas camps where? Who, NBA? Yeah. So they have NBA academies, I want to say India, Mexico, Australia, and Senegal.

So India, I mean, did I say India? India is one of them. Uh-huh. India, Mexico, Australia, and I believe Senegal. And Senegal. So a lot of players have been coming from Senegal, right? A lot of players have been coming from Australiaegal, right? A lot of players have been coming from Australia. And what age does that start?

I'm not sure about that side of it, but I think it starts early on. Like it's like a high school kind of pipeline. High school age, at least. And do they do that because AAU doesn't exist over there? The NBA has just tapped into those markets more rather than here. And the global game and all that probably height Probably synagogue has a lot of height coming out of this So they're trying to put their hands on development of kids now

So that's what I'm saying when people talk about overseas the NBA has this American style on those countries now Yeah, so when you're saying oh, yeah, they're coming. It's American American, right? They're pulling. They're looking at who they want. They're training them. We got a college over here. We got a college over here. Mexico, I haven't seen. I feel like NIL has kind of thrown a wrench into some of this. Yeah.

That's one of the main reasons I think the NBA said that they were shutting down the league, just with the whole NIL aspect of it. Guys are going to get back in college now they competition well and they're not gonna win that and in fact yeah the fact that they didn't lift straight out of high school which can and now if you had the stronger G League would seem to make sense if you wanted to cultivate the best talent and get them on an actual NBA schedule. But I don't like, so far hasn't been proven. When you draft a young kid and he goes down to the G League, to me, his career is not going to be what it's supposed to be.

I don't have no hope for him, in a sense. He's not part of your future because unless he got hurt or he's come back from injury, but if he's just going down there in the middle of the season to play, that tells me you don't have hope for the kid because the

G League doesn't have your touch. It doesn't have your strength and coach. It doesn't have your trainers. It doesn't have nothing that has to do with you. It's a farm league that's technically away from your hands so the fact that you're gonna put a kid down there that you're you basically yeah yeah tell me when he's ready that type of shit means you don't really have nothing for him because I'm not gonna put a kid that I I I think he's my future I'm not putting him down. I need to see him every single day.

I need to train him, work with him, build him up. I don't need him going down there playing that type of basketball, whatever fucking Roach City you got him in, and that Greyhound bus system y'all think y'all... No, no, no, that's not going to happen to this young dude. So that's how I look at it. Do you think they just got to revamp the G League?

Because I have heard a lot of people say the style of play in the G League is like a free-for-all. It's reckless basketball. Because it's people trying to get jobs. So it's the look-at-me league. I saw a score in one of those games. It was like 140-some. Yeah.

I was like. It's guard-heavy, too. Yeah, because the guards dominate the ball. It's like it is an advanced AAU league is what it is because the guards dominate the ball The bigs ain't get no looks as they get it off the glass get off the glass, right? So with this so with the G um, do you get 19, right? If the development thing is what they're not ready is what he said, right? They're not ready after one year.

So why not keep them for two years, right? You got your hands on them for two years in an NBA setting. Yeah. But they're not playing against NBA talent. But some of those guys become draft eligible. Still, I don't give a fuck. So you said just two years minimum? But I'm saying for those guys.

Two years. If you're making this decision, you got to block them for two years. If you're making this decision, you got to be locked in for two years. If you're worried about they're not developing, right? You get them at 18, 19. You're expecting more out of them the older they get, right? So by 20, you don't think he'll be ready? Instead of at 19? I think that's the reason, though. They're like, well, if I got to stay here for two years, I might as well go to college. you think he'll be ready instead of at 19?

I think that's the reason though, they're like, well, if I gotta stay here for two years, then I will go to college. Right, and make money. Make money and I can leave after one. I'm with, but still, you're still not ready though. It's the same thing. Yeah, but those guys, they gonna lie to themselves. So you're one and done, you're still not ready.

Yeah. Only the special ones are ready. But that becomes the issue with the NBA. You're telling us that the guys are coming in and they're not ready to play, right? And then a year with you and then they come back the second year and they're still not ready. Motherfucker, that's your fault. Yeah. That is your fault. Yeah That is your fault. Mm-hmm

you have 36 coaches now. Yeah, this ain't when we play. Yeah, we got an old dude. That's the you know old player He's a player development coach. He ain't developed or played nothing with us Yeah, he rebound for this, you know, hey, you know How many more shots you gonna take played nothing with us. He ain't rebound for us. Just, you know, hey, you know, you got five. Hey, man, how many more shots you going to take? I just took five. He ain't even looking at you when he's throwing the ball. He ain't even looking at you when he's throwing the ball.

Hey, man, what a shooting machine. Can we get a shooting machine in here, man? I don't need dude right here. Y'all don't have that no more. Y'all have coaches. Y'all have, like, dudes. You got at least, when we played what we had, one or two extra people besides the coaching staff, maybe. Y'all got 30-something people extra now.

I went to a Mavs game. I was shocked at the coaches' bench. How many more coaches and players? Yes. In the stands and shit. They got them behind the bench, in the stands. I went, I had to Google the staff team. Everybody got computers and stuff.

Like, you're telling me you can't develop a player? How? How? Y'all should be embarrassed. Y'all want to blame the kids. If the dude can't, like, Jalen Brown, we're laughing that he can't dribble with his left hand. I don't blame him no more.

How many coaches y'all got? Tie that motherfucker whole right hand up. Tie it. Just tie it around his head. Just tie it. Dribble with your left hand for one hour during practice. Every day for a week. God damn it, I guarantee you have a left hand.

Y'all, this is ridiculous now. Y'all got that much money that y'all paying on the staff not for no results, just for a motherfucker to just look cute behind the bench? Something's wrong with you guys. Y'all need to be revamped. Just hire people. You want a job?

You want a job? Come on, come on, just sit back there with your little nice little suit on, little computer. Everybody back there look. Yeah, they got five of them motherfuckers sitting back there with your little nice little pseudo on little computer everybody back there look what is it? They got five Back with iPad Watch it again Oh shit again looking for that I'll be taking so long for the goddamn and we got them replay

Oh shit me closes out and then I got it. It's too late now Hello, baby looking up here. Is it huh? Can we should we do this? Yeah, like yeah, I don't fucking want the iPad But we can just Been waiting for the jumbo Replay man, but yeah crush Just it's just weird I think if I went to training camp out there with the Clippers because KJ was still on the team,

and I went to practice one day, and I was in awe of how many people was in this fucking gym, man. Yeah. Like, everybody. I'm going to look, like, you got everybody got somebody different stretching them. They got 17 trainers, four strength and conditioning dudes, fucking

some social media guy. I'm just like, yo, man. This is crazy. People walk like... I went to, when I went back to Washington, right? And I remember we, the game was getting ready to start. It was right before the game, o'clock, game's at 7.30. So I wanted to see, like, how many people were shooting before the game. They turned the practice gym into, like, a club. The VIP area.

VIP club. Delicious snacks and beverages. Right? So the practice gym is a club now. On game day. Period. That's the club. Half of it is now just a separate club. So there's no practice court.

There's no practice court because they built their own facility. But I'm like, okay, that's cool. But on game day, before the game, they're not shooting. There's a club now. I said, that's a disadvantage. Yeah, for the home team. That's a club now. I said that's a disadvantage Of having a photo home team

Yeah, like that's where you go down before like I before the game get your little reps in because we're not going to the practice facility Did to come here, right? I'm just gonna come here early get my shots get my rhythm in right before the game. So where do they get their shots? Oh, do y'all go out there? So why they all go out there everybody So while they all go out there, everybody's shooting their balls, but they get 30, 40 shots up? Oh, no.

You got slotted times. Right? Your time from 6 to 6.15. You from 6.15 to 6.30. So how much work can you actually get in during them 15 minutes? As I said, there's advantages and disadvantages and they're so yeah

There's y'all and then you got the superstar come if the superstar if you're not an early guy, right? Mm-hmm when he get there you got to get the fuck off the floor. So is and wait 15 minutes What if I need 30 today? Yeah, cuz my I ain't my shit ain't feeling right right now That's I said it just seems so like hmm Yeah, you can do more. Well speaking of getting shots up, let's move on to some hibachi time. Segway. Segway, Jay. Appreciate you to our expert producing squad.

I'd be nothing without them. So we're going to talk a little bit about the women's tournament. Monday was Kayden Clark's last college home game. As number one seed, Iowa took on West Virginia. And Clark went out with a bang. She put up 32 points in the win en route to setting a new Division I single season scoring record, surpassing Kelsey Plum's previous record. Oops, with a nice step back. So Clark has 1113 points this season

with at least one more game remaining in her college career. Possibly more. Looking forward to that UCLA-Iowa lead-A game. So Clark is the only player with two straight thousand-point seasons.

Got to hear it from the home crowd. I mean, wow. Why do y'all get to play at home in the tournament? It's always been like that. But why? Probably to fill the arenas. That's the only reason that I could think of. To make sure you have good environments for the tournament.

Good environment for the home team? Yeah. We're going to hit that in a second. I mean, what's the point of the tournament? Then what's the point of having? Well, like when I was in college because that's how it always was I never thought there was anything like Weird about it cuz that's just how it was but now with like certain regions I mean till you get to sir. I mean I played a regional final at a home at Louisville against Louisville That's crazy. And we beat them there.

But that was to get to the final four. We were at somebody's home gym to get to the final four. That's crazy. And then my second season, we were in Spokane. And I think Gonzaga is out there. Yes. They got upset. So we was going to have to play them in their home court to get to the Final Four if they

had won. That little arena out there in the middle. Yeah, so they got upset, so I was like, thank God. I don't want to do this again. But... A little cheating. We're going to dive into that a little bit more in a second, but first, Lexi, how impressive has Kaitlyn Clark been this season and during her career

at Iowa? Yeah, I mean, I think I tweeted before the season started that she would average 30, and she did. I think she averaged 31. What I'm most impressed about Kaitlyn is how she's handled, like, the pressure and the noise and that she shows up every day and, like, performs at the level she does. Like, she hasn't really had any bad games, really.

And, obviously, she takes all the shots. She has't really had any bad games, really. And obviously she takes all the shots. She has the ball in her hands all the time, but I don't know how many players could perform under pressure like she has. And that's what impresses me the most about her is how she's handled all this attention, fame, money, and she comes in and she does exactly what she needs to do every night. She's got the spotlight on her back, 32 points per game. You think being in Iowa City maybe has something to do with this?

It's a low-key, laid-back city. I'm just saying it's not like a... I mean, they love women's basketball out there. It's huge and rabid. Because when I was in college, I mean, it wasn't like this, but they was riding for their Iowa team. So she's home, hometown hero. I mean, same with Plum.

She went to watch every... I remember the McDonald's game. We were like, Plum, why are you going to Washington? She's like, because it's going to be my team. It's going to be my shit. And we were like, okay, that's valid. I'm the leading scorer in college history. So she was right.

Same with Kaitlyn. So yeah, she's been fun to watch. I haven't watched her for all four years. So she's going from to watch. I haven't watched her for all four years, so. Yeah, so she's going from being top dog in college to the likely number one overall pick by the Indiana Fever in a few weeks. Fever were 13 and 27 last season, so it's definitely going to be a culture shock and change of scenery, just going from a dominant Iowa squad to a squad that's, you know,

in flux right now. But how will Kayden Clark need to adjust her mindset in the W next season? I mean, we talk about just you got first-round picks that aren't making squads, how cutthroat and intense the league is. I mean, I see her mindset now. I don't think there's really much for her to change. She's a dog. She's a competitor.

And I think it's going to benefit her playing around other pros. She doesn't have any – she played with her post player last year who was at our training camp who got ultimately cut. But, like, and then she had Megan Gustafson who's a pretty good center in the W right now. She's killing overseas right now. So she hasn't really played with, like, too much talent. So I think that can definitely benefit her as well.

Take the load off a little bit, but... Who's the star there now? The star? The star? For Fever? Kelsey Mitchell. What position? She's the two guard.

One, two. She's a shooter. Those two together, I think, are gonna be a problem. They just gotta be able to make it work. And then they have Aliyah Boston as well. What position is she in, bro? She's the center. From South Carolina

So set some screens and check it No, she don't know they gonna get her to ball They have to give her the ball. Oh, yeah You don't have it here She was killing. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, if they figure out how to get Kailin Kelsey and Aaliyah to work and be happy. That's the thing. But they could be a problem.

That Indiana people team could be very good if they can figure it out. But all the other pieces. I think they've already double-seasoned ticket prices, obviously on a five-hour drive from Iowa City. I know you double-seasoned ticket prices because I'm coming in. I know somebody who is getting the ball She got to get the ball no no no no she was here last year right they go figure it out I got to get the ball. I didn't change. I'm economics around this mother Rick out of here last year Last year last year they need to work together Gil team

Oh, hey work makes the dream work building for the future Huh the building get it off the bird board. Yeah, they building off of who though both Soon as soon as soon as like as soon as I can't hit prices and double seats and field changes on sold use rig of the year Hey, yeah, I'm happy. No, I do know about the get it off the glass Seaston field, tickets unsold, he was Rookie of the Year? Nothing happened. No, because one thing I do know about the team, one thing I knew about women's basketball, you got a dominant post player, you got a chance.

Yeah. Women's basketball, if you can throw that thing down low and she can do something with it and rebound, you got a chance. And Boston does both of them things, so, hey. She's going to rebound first, and then... She's got a post, and you got to feed her, though. It's part of it.

I mean, Kaylin is a willing passer. I'm going to feed her off the glass. Now she got, you know... Now she got real people to pass. You saw her article when she was like, I don't want to pass it to John. She didn't have anybody to pass the ball to. She had her 13.

People earlier in her college career. Earlier in her college career. Now she got... Now I didn't see him taking shots. Why am I getting in the rough? Yeah, she got people to pass it to Joe. She didn't have nobody to pass the ball to. She had her 13. People are earlier in her college career. Now she got... Now I'm in the gym taking shots. Why am I giving you the rub? Yeah, she got people to pass to now. Say that again? I mean, she literally...

With them COVID lines. Baby with the mom and the... Y'all not here. I'm not giving you the ball. I'm not giving you the ball. You ain't in the gym taking shots. I said, I felt that, Caitlyn, because why? But through the years,

I learned to trust the squad. Learn to trust it at averaging 32. Hey, man, when I saw that, I was like. She's just not saying it out loud no more. I said, I know that's right, Kalen. Yeah, I learned to trust the team. Whoa, you averaged 21 that year, and you're averaging 32 this year. Okay.

She's like, yeah, I just want to say this shit out loud. The M and the E in team. It's a me in team. But, Ken, you talked about the current women's format where the top four seeds in each region host the first, second rounds at home. And obviously this puts the lower seeds at a disadvantage. So an Iowa's win was a close game. West Virginia was called for 27 fouls compared to 11 for Iowa.

Iowa shot 30 free throws. West Virginia shot a total of five free throws in the game. So, Lexi, you had Twitter ablaze after dropping the following tweet. Home cooking. Said, I hope we're getting closer to neutral sites in the women's tournament. Obviously, it had some people in their feelings. Some people were supportive. Some people were not.

Yeah, it was like... Home cooking. I mean, yeah, people were like, well, they earned it. They earned the home court advantage. But I'm like, okay, well, that's not how the tournament works. That's the whole point of the tournament is you take all of the advantages away. Yeah. It makes sense to them because they have the advantage now.

Let's say they had to play South Carolina in South Carolina or they had to play LSU Advantage is cool when you got the advantage. Yeah, then it'd be like why we plan That that becomes argument. Yeah, it works the same way and I mean it just depends on what team like my senior year We went to Georgia To play in their first and second rounds and we beat the shit out of Georgia. So it just depends on where you are. So I just don't feel like there's enough arenas that provide a super competitive advantage. I know Iowa is like, Iowa and South Carolina

are like crazy. But if you look at the rest of- How about Louisville? Louisville was on the road. How about LSU? Did they have a great crowd? Right now. But when this group leaves, I'm not sure. I just don't feel like out of the 16, there's enough for people to be like,

get it out of the sites. But I hope that... My intention with that tweet was there's so much more interest now in money in women's sports that business-wise, they would be able to do it. It wasn't really about the competition. How many arenas are big? I know Louisville has actually a big arena where they can hold.

Yeah. They can house. They can house. Yukon, sometimes they'll use the men's arena. Maryland has a huge arena that they play in. So they can't do regional in some of those big arenas? Yeah, for sure.

But given the business, obviously all the attention on the game, I think viewership for the women's side surpassed the men's side. Does the women's tournament even really...

Who? The numbers. The numbers, Gil. What numbers? In the arena? No, on TV. On TV viewership. Ah, we don't... I don't, I don't know, stop.

I mean, yeah, because they said the same thing about ticket prices, but then they're like, okay, well, look at the size of the men's arena versus the women's arena. Yeah, like. So, like, that made sense why people were like, get that. Like, they can't do. Apples and oranges. Yeah, the metrics on viewership is not, they're going by the shit that they were doing in the 90s and stuff.

Yeah. on viewership. It's not, they're going by the shit that they were doing in the 90s and stuff. When everything now is on your phone and the computer, it doesn't measure the same. So we don't know. We don't know. But just from a live viewership standpoint,

obviously it's a huge business. On the men's side, we love upsets. We love the Cinderella story. It seems like on the women's side, not really rolling with those upsets as much. We need to get

our marquee games. Obviously, because all of them teams playing at home. We need to get that Iowa-LSU rematch. Yeah, because they were like, well, then y'all are going to be mad when there's two teams in the Final Four that no one cares about. But I'm just like, well, that's the point of the tournament. There's stories.

There's players that get to play really well. I know people that West Virginia team like they played I like they were not scared of Iowa There was a foul at that it was I don't know what the clock was but it was when Caitlin went I think she broke the record the when the guard got under and actually hit the ball and Then Caitlin pulled her back and they called a foul on a little guard as all I had to rewind like wait they called a foul on a little guard. That's all. I had to rewind. Like, wait, who was this foul on?

Yeah. On Court of Advantage. Fuck it. Yeah. I mean, it came to your point. That's a completely different tournament now and I got to go win at Iowa. Yeah. And then people are like, well, then those neutral sites turn into rooting for the underdog.

Yeah. That's the point. Like, that's the thing. You're the better team. You shouldn't need it. Yeah. You're the better team. Exactly.

You're the superior team. So you. Yeah. That's what point. If you're the better team, you shouldn't need it. If you're the better team, exactly. You're the superior team, so you... Yeah, that's what everyone... When you're watching, you're watching it for the better team, right? But then if the underdog team is playing well... It's got to be the better team that day. You kind of choose. You start rooting for them because it's part of the sport. Yeah.

I'm like, just try it and see what happens. Like, it could be horrible. It could be great. But we won't know. Yeah, because you give a team a chance. Yeah, you give them, like, because it's... Yeah, you... There have been a few teams I didn't want to play.

Even though we were the better team, I wouldn't want to play Oregon at backcourt. Yeah, I wouldn't want to play Oregon. Like, no one want to play Duke and Cameron during the tournament for the men. Like, no way. Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't want like no one want to play Duke in Cameron during the tournament for the men like no way Like what Stanford in Stanford in the tournament like a lot of nerds on the crowd You know, but they say they say they say real shit real very mean nerd thing I mean they told me my very mean nerd thing stripping

Yeah in in college. Yeah, I found out she was I didn't want to find out about a crowd. Like, God damn! They do their due diligence. Give those girls a stripper. What is this? They are very astute at finding out information. You stripping on weekends. You know, very lucrative industry.

Very lucrative industry. While I'm on the court, you stripping? I had to find out because of the crowd. She working on the court you strip it Had to find out because that she wasn't on the night. You got games very stupid so much. She did right now Let's keep it moving this is gills arena presented by fantasy she Fantasy. She watching the game while she at work. You watching me play, baby? You watch the game? Yeah, I watch. I watched it.

Yeah. Yeah, sure did. It was a little shaky. It was a little shaky. And I made some money. Always a good time in the arena. So, DeMontis Sabonis got snubbed from the All-Star Game this year, but the Kings big man made history

on Monday night. Sabonis finished with 11 points, 13 rebounds, and 10 assists, and the Kings went over the Sixers. It was his 54th straight double-double this season. 54th straight? Yeah, so that surpassed Kevin Love for the longest streak since the ABA-NBA merger.

Sabonis had 67 double-doubles on the season. Wait, wait. Okay. So 54 straight, 67 double-doubles on the season. Why don't Sabonis get no love? 54 straight, but you said since the ABA-NBA merger. Okay, so what record did he break?

Kevin Lewis. Well, there was a record. No, I watched the game last night. I guess some dude played for the Kings, some crazy record as well back for a so Which record did he actually break the longest streak of double-doubles right funny you ask that girl. It's funny you So all records since the day Since 78 that's not a record. If you cap it, okay. It's a record, sis.

No, sir. Let the bonus have some flowers, okay? We're going to talk about that shortly, because I know how your mind works. I know, you know. Remember, I always say it. I said how the NBA works, they do not actually pay attention to that old NBA because it was Caucasian feel.

When they started talking about stats now and the greatest now, it's always after the merger when all the talent was in one building. That's why the pass from 76 below really don't get no recognition

because it's like, well, that wasn't really the league because there was a whole other league going on too. So the fact that when both leagues got together, and so basically all these stats really come from. Yeah, and the NBA took a lot of the ABA. It's a very inventive league. Brought a lot of that stuff over to make the game more exciting, more compelling. But so we talked about Sabonis got the 67 double-doubles this season.

It was also his league-leading 25th triple-double of the season. He became just the fifth player in NBA history with at least 25 triple-doubles in the season, joining Oscar Robertson, who comes from that older generation, Wilt, Westbrook, and Jokic. He wasn't an all-star this year? No. No. No. Was not.

Nah. In the West, I mean, again, because it's by position, right? Yeah, they do that. Who would you take out? They still do the position. It's not really, it's position, but it's- Shouldn't be an all-star. Let's talk about it.

It's over who, I don't even remember who was an all-star. Back then, so it's, see, now if it was sinners it had been probably yokage in him If they had the actual center position steel Front court that he got front court. So now his stats got to compete with front court players And which is like guards and stuff to know just small forwards. So he has to compete with Kawhi, PG, Bill, KD, LeBron. Yeah. Yeah, so he has to compete

with those guys still. So if someone's, like, not popular, like, at all... Him? Mm-hmm. Will he never have a chance? Like, he will never have a chance if he's competing with guys

like PG, Kawhi. The squad, I mean, you got Cat, who made the squad, and obviously the Timberwolves were cooking at that point So but it's this constant influx of what's the criteria in terms of but it's him doing good or how good that's the problem It's it's the five man has to be smushed in with the small forward and the power forward and that's why yeah Rough and so now it's you know, you know, you had an issue with the Sabonis quote-unquote record. Since the merger, former Lakers champion, current radio analyst Michael Thompson took issue with Sabonis' record as well. He tweeted the following.

He said, wait, what's the NBA doing here? Celebrating Sabonis' 54 straight double-doubles and calling it a record when Wilt did it 227 straight times. What are we doing here? By my Michael Maths, a bonus to steal, what, 173 games away from the real record? Or is my Michael Maths off? I do not like how he typed any of that tweet. You know, he getting up there.

Wait, who's? Is this what's-his-father? Yes, Clay Thompson. Clay Thompson's pappy. So Clay typed this. Maybe he was trying to stay under the 140 count. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what that was giving.

So we talked about... I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt with that one. It seems like two sides. You talk about pre-merger and the league being filled with a lot of Caucasians, as you say, and maybe diminishing some of those moments, and then Merger so which one which which side is it? Do we value the records more post merger or do we gotta include everything together? it's I mean you Have to put you have to put like Like there's no record broke

Right. He didn't break a record so you can't use that word, broke a record. You have to use some other type of language. Longest streak. Yeah, longest streak. Surpass K-Love streak. Okay. Longest streak in the last 30 years, shit like that. You can't use broke.

There's nothing that was broke here. That's the problem. They do that with everyone. For news to be hit, you diminish someone else's legacy. Obviously, this motherfucker is 173 away from the real record.

This shouldn't even be conversation. But you got to sell it somehow. Hey, 20 straight. This is the second longest since Wilt. And what was Wilt's? 375.

You're like, wait, hold on, dog. It's still the same. You're like, that's not even. Can you run with that or we need to put that? Wilt was what? That was three seasons of a double? like put it let's put it in reality This is damn three seasons worth of saying none of them catching this record so Reef like no sirs like right it was 200 or 227 so 54

Three seasons like this season after season Into another season because like my house and your house, same neighborhood. We're in the same area. We're in the same region. A little different part of the place. I don't like when they do that to the older generation when they try to put the new generation into the stats. Of course, there's stats that this is not even going to be questioned.

Even with the blocks and the triple-doubles, tell the real story. Tell the real story of the triple-doubles and the double-doubles and all that. So really, the owners of the triple-double will be Wilt and Bill Russell. So Wilt will have it. Bill Russell will be second. That is the truth of stats. And it's still impressive. What's the bonus did so I don't know why they have to like Like you said diminish the past and uplift what you guys are doing now because what guys are doing now is still very impressive

But you don't got to keep stomping on the older players to make the newer players See more when they only miss thought They just pretend that it doesn't exist. It didn't exist, yeah. Which I think is worse. They pretend that it just didn't happen. Like, oh, this is the triple, double, this and this. And like, well, technically, if we want to just say because this is the NBA when it started, Will Chamberlain owns the quadruple double stat because he averaged 14 blocks for a career. Not a season for a career. 14.4 for a career. So that means he would have averaged this many triple doubles,

and then some of the triple doubles would have been quadruple doubles, so technically he would own the quadruple double, he would own the triple double, and the motherfucking double double. Same thing with Bill Russell, right? But do we not show as much respect to those times? and a motherfucking double-double. Same thing with Bill Russell, right? But do we not show as much respect to those times? Because you pointed out 50s, 60s, 70s, a lot of plumbers, accountants in today's NBA.

Well, I mean, we say they were plumbers and accountants because they were, because obviously they was getting $5 a game. I'm just making that shit up. I don't know how much he was getting paid, but obviously they needed another job. I think it was $5, game. I'm just making that shit up. I don't know how much it was getting paid, but obviously they needed another job. I think it was $5,000 for the year, maybe. That might have been bread back then. Eh.

I'm just saying. You know, so they did need other jobs to survive. We understand that. Bad coke problem? Listen. Was that the old point well I mean was it coke problem then I was out of the 70s you know it was around around for a while so elixir I mean what not but that's what anything you know when when it starts

off it's never gonna be the same 60 70 years later so you know it should be $55,000 salary cap in the league's first season in 1946-47. That was a lot of bread back then. As I said, I was looking at in the middle of the season, they started off the season

with nine teams and then 20, 30 games later, eight teams. They'll just drop a hole to the air. Yeah, we just going. Don't pull up to work.

Don't pull up to work today. Don't pull up to work today. Leads take time, people. No, no, no. Leads take time. Leads take time. Okay? Okay, they do. And then they start to flourish.

All right, let's keep it moving. Dante DiVincenzo has been a big addition to the Knicks this season. And on Monday, he actually did make some Knicks history, Gil. This is not disputable. DiVincenzo scored a career-high 40 points, including a Knicks franchise record 11 three-pointers in the blowout win. We have some Knicks fans here, so those of you who are hearing

are Knicks related. I ain't even going to lie. Yes, sir. Good. What's the good? Good. Good. Good.

Good. Good. Oh, he was feeling his. Yeah, you know that shot right there. I've been working on my... That shot was yesterday. Wow. So, as you can see,

midst of a blowout, I think Devin Chindo played 40-plus minutes. I'm weak. Stayed in the game long enough to hit that three. Good for him. Then we'll sub out to a rousing ovation. Put him up 28 with that three.

Mm-hmm. Knicks and their fans embraced the moment naturally. Pistons head coach Monte Williams wasn't feeling it, offered these thoughts after the game. I don't care about their team at all. I could care less. Those guys, the way they got those threes, I don't want to be a part of that story.

Well, you are. Yeah, whether you like it or not. Wait, what does that mean? Was he mad at the Knicks or mad at his players? I think he was a little mad at the Knicks, unsupportive of them. Dante DiVincenzo running the score up. Wait, what? Play better defense.

Like, what are we talking about? So, Josh Hart came to the defense. Josh Hart came to the defense of his current Knicks teammate with a big apple-sized clapback. He's a head coach in the league. He has an attitude to know so much how he goes. They're going to be a part of that. Yeah. What is he mad?

He's mad that he stayed in the game? That's what I said. He didn't like the way they got some of those threes later in the game. What was he supposed to do when they had the ball? I think he felt like it was disrespectful. He shot 11 for 20 from three. 23 pointers in the game. What was he supposed to do when they had the ball? I think he felt like it was disrespectful 11 for 20 from 3 20 20 out of the 20 read that lets you know that mother he's shooting the three The last time last time these two teams played But it's just like you let a guy that's hot get up 20 of them. 23s. He didn't... Like what? He only took 23 shots,

so 20 of them was threes. As a coach, what you... And two assists. Last time that they played, Monty was very salty. You remember the play where he ran into Thompson and they got the bucket,

didn't call the foul. So I think he just has some New York City beef. You complaining about... It's not like Brunson's in there, like running the score up. Exactly, no shade, but. You know what I mean? No shade, but.

It's not Randall up in there. It's not a star player in there running the score up. It's a fifth, sixth, seventh, team's option, and you can't stop him? He's a starter, Gil. I know, I mean, I'm just saying, but you get what I'm saying, literally. Don't call him a second option. So like, you can't stop him? He's a starter, girl. I know. I mean, I'm just saying. But you get what I'm saying. Literally.

So, like, you can't stop him? There's a problem with you, not him. I would have kept him in for the next three minutes. What the fuck? I give him a 4-4. Get 50. Get 50. The fuck?

Someone has to score. Yeah. As long as it wasn't Brunson, you shouldn't get mad. Ball? Because y'all are so bad, like... We're trying to get bread. With Montee. Contracts on the line, can you do...

I'm mad the way he got them threes up. Are Montee Williams' frustrations with DiVincenzo's stat-patting justified, or is the game the game? Stop. Don't say stat-patting. He was not doing nothing. He was patting his stats. No, he wasn't.

He was scoring. He was shooting. He was scoring. He was getting buckets. He was shooting wide He was shooting wide open shots. I'm getting my stats. I'm putting some pad on them. I need more. I don't know. He was hooping. Okay, with Devin Chinzo's bucket getting.

Part of that video with Monty, though, it kind of felt like he was mad at his team. I'm sure. He's had to see it all season. I don't know if he was throwing shade at the Knicks. He was. You think so? It seemed, it was giving. Yeah, it was like. With some of those think so? It seemed, it was giving. Yeah,

it was like. With some of those threes that they got, I think just. Like them John up plays. You as a coach, that's on your players, that's on the floor.

Mm-hmm. Take better defense. Yeah. Been a rough year for the Pistons to say the least. To say the least. It's almost.

Frustrations is coming out. Yeah. See, the thing is, moneyrations is coming out. Yeah. See, the thing is, Monty don't cuss. So if he just go ahead and get it out, he'll feel a lot better. Right? Just go in there and lose his shit one day on the players, listen, he'll feel a lot better. Hey.

He still trying to keep it real cute. He don't cuss. He's going past that. You got to blow up. You're going to give yourself an aneurysm in that motherfucker trying to hold that. Want to call him your mother fucker. Sorry mother.

That right there lets you know you sorry mother. Right there. Come on guys. We need to play harder. What are their locker rooms like? We need to play harder guys. Listen guys. This is not working for us us I think we should dive on

the floor after the ball and we need to like what is no like you whole ass niggas trying to get me fired like one of those rants so somebody need to be yeah I need to be a few four letter words thrown around. Yeah. At least a frick. More than a few. At least a frick. At least a frick. Give him a frick. No, you'll get laughed at. Give him a frick. No, you'll get laughed at.

I'd rather you not cuss. They would absolutely laugh. I'd rather you not cuss. All them young guys in there. Oh, they laughing at the frick. I would rather you not cuss. Then say frick. Say frick.

No. All right, bro. I mean. No, it don't work. Listen. Just hear me out. How long you been playing basketball Wow Your dad played before that been around this game for a long time. You've been around this. Mm-hmm you bet It don't work I get it you're upstanding gentlemen, I get it you praise your religious I

understand it It don't work when you dealing with 19 year old black kids that don't fucking want to live it don't work Mm-hmm fuck black is what athletes period You need to be able to relay a message sometimes mm-hmm They understand cuss words. You're playing like shit. We fucking suck. You're not rebounding the damn ball.

Something, Monty, please. Something. That is not... Trust me, he'll understand. God did invent curse words. He'll understand God didn't very much work God be like man you do I see what you're dealing with. Hey you you're forgiving You're not gonna recognize the person that you about to see did this pastor right before he went on with life. I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta go down a little bit. Because you're not going to recognize the person that you about to see. You're forgiven.

Hit one of those. Because we get it. You lost 27 straight and you trying to remain. Listen, you... God knows y'all are fucking struggling right now. And you trying to remain calm

in this situation dealing with these fucking kids, man. No, no. They understand cuss words. They are important. Right? Necessary.

I'm at the game. I can't say certain things to KJ when he was younger. Cameron, I can't say certain things in the game. When we get in the car. You look like shit today, nigga. You fucking suck. Cameron, I can't say certain things in the game. When we get in the car. You look like shit today, nigga. You fucking suck. Your effort, your attitude, your body language is fucking awful, nigga.

I wish I could have came out there and slapped the shit out you. I can't say that at the game. Don't cause a PS4 in your life. Yeah, but you don't, like, no. He get it after. Yeah, you understand it't, like, no. He get it after. Yeah, you understand it better. KJ, you're not playing hard. Cameron, I wish you would play a whole lot.

No, that's not cutting it. Dealing with somebody, no, they don't understand that, man. Well, Kenya, I'm a son of an NBA player. Those conversations resonate a lot more. You know, it's like, shit, let me get my shit right. Let me get it together. For you guys as players, though,

when you're playing against a player, I'll just tell you a story. We're playing against Stanford. Their star player at the time missed a shot. He yelled out, gosh darn it. And we're all like,

like, like, you're getting your ass barbecued. Come on, dawg. Like, you gotta say it.

You can curse, but when y'all see a player who doesn't curse, do you lose respect for them? Yeah. Yeah. Facts. Do you feel like they're food in those situations?

Yeah. No, you are, you have a safety on, right? You have a safety on who you are as a person means you're not going to go to the extreme to win a game, not going to go to the extreme to win a game not gonna go to the stream to get under someone's skin, so You're the correlation between cursing and like how much you feel like you judge Yeah, listen you being judged when it's sports right? Mm-hmm. We've run from we have When you step on the court people look at no kind of shoes you got on

Yeah, they're looking at how you of shoes you got on. They're looking at how you shoot. If you got goggles on or not. You got goggles on. You got goggles on. They got eye issues. You can have eye issues. Oakley got some cool goggles on. They might be.

You just better get a bucket and them goggles. You better be nice. You better be nice. Hey, you wear goggles and play that. You better be nice. Yeah, you ain't get no bucket and no goggles. You got them labels. You better be nice. Hey, you wear goggles to the court, you better be nice. When Scoot Hinder put the goggles on, I said, oh shit, career over. Yeah. Oh my God.

Oh my God. Come on, Double Zero. Not the goggles, bro. And Double Zero. And Double Zero. Like, come on. You can't do both. You can't do both.

Double Zero. Hey, look. Look like somebody made you up. You got to change next year. You got to go straight to a whole nother... One number. One number. Just get one number. Zero or whatever.

20, 10, whatever. And then you take the fucking goggles off, put some laces and whatever. Don't fucking have goggles like you horse. Put some laces again as if that's not a major surgery. Contacts and laces and whatever. Don't fucking have goggles like you, Horace Grant. As if that's not a major surgery. Contacts and laces. Whatever you need to do. Horace Grant goggles, they work, though.

Yeah, they work for him because he was trash. Rebound. Missed a layup or two. He was no star player with the goggles. Who's a star with goggles on? Goggles? Kareem. Kareem.

Okay. One of the greatest to ever do it. And that's different. That was in the 70s. No. That was in the 70s. I'm pretty sure Kareem? Kareem. Okay. One of the greatest to ever do it. And that's different. That was in the 70s. He said it before. No. That was in the 70s. No. I'm pretty sure Kareem showed up.

People thought he was trash. Trash. He's to their advantage. He's to their advantage. Hold this. He's to their advantage. One move. Okay, Kareem, okay.

Okay, Kareem, the only one. Okay, Kareem. And now we got Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, C-R-E-A-M, playing with Indiana State. Shut up. Like, dude, it's just... Yeah, nah, you can't... So, Moral Store, you got the curse. Yeah, no, I'm just, like, they don't understand him.

Trust him out. Especially when you calm. And you can't resonate with them. Because only they know that he can get to that level, which might make him a little more scary to them. Trust him, man. He can keep it together all the time. Man, I play for Bob Huggins.

Mm. Bruh. He's crazy. Dude's terrified. Man. Terrified. Not to go out there, bitch, and play. Man, there'll be certain situations I watch game nine,

I'll be like, man, that man will lose his damn mind. And it's little shit. Mm-hmm. Little things. I like that man to lose his mind Are you the ball going out of bounds right? And you just save it? Another team getting go shoot. Oh, you might not play for the rest of the game Okay for who you are like it's shit like that. I'll be like oh

He gonna cut you out. He can't be like well, why didn't you throw the ball to the nearest corner? Right? Can't, yeah. Like, he's not, Monty, like, no, we get it, man. It's been a long year. Yeah, he just looks exhausted. This is at that point, you got to drop one now. A lot going on. You need to go have a drink.

You need to go drink your bottle or something. Go in the room by yourself and cuss. Whatever you got to do, dude, you got to get it out. Talk to the therapist, y'all. You're in every kumbaya, burning sage, doing all that shit that ain't helping. Let it out. Fucking yoga, Pilates, walks in the park, mountain,

whatever the fuck you're doing that ain't helping. It seems like he's more stressed than Diddy is right now. It's like he's the only person that's having the worst shift. Diddy, Monty, and I. Shit, it might be Monty. Yeah, right now, shit. You look at his face, he's like, bro, this friend don't want to laugh. It's okay, dawg, relax, bro.

Yeah. We get it. Poor Monty. This is levels two in this. All right, man. Okay, don't relax bro. Yeah For Monty this love was to it Stop they tell the chest stop naming people who had to put goggles on cuz they got hit now. I don't count Mari start of my like gusty we're gonna talk about that we talking about Stan was a hell of a player them goggles was goddamn Disgusting we talking about about your career as goggles. Yeah.

Like James, we're, yeah, like. James is nice. Marty Williams doing worse than the Diddler right now, girl. I mean, it look like it. I'm not calling him the Diddler. It look like it right now. He frustrated. He sounds like a Batman villain.

Shit, I mean, the way he's been portrayed in these streets. He is a Batman villain. Let's go down the history of the game, though. Kareem. Of goggles. That was shit. I mean the way he's been portrayed in these streets. He is a Batman. Let's go down the history of the game though Kareem of goggles that was great. No nice night or nice. Well, Kareem was great great James Ward. It was a night layer. Uh-huh Kurt Rambis Kurt in track Lakers. Oh, so all the Lakers had glasses goggles on Kevin Duckworth Mmm All the Lakers had glasses, goggles on. Kevin Duckworth. He had double zero. He had double zero and goggles. Scoot Henderson.

Scooter. Scoot, you got to get this thing on. Yo, you out there be looking like a Benison Kevin Duckworth. Who else had goggles? That was it, right? Grant. Grant. Harvey.

Harvey. Horace. Harvey had them too? Yeah. So he just copied his brother? Grant. Grant. Grant. Harvey. Harvey. Horace. Harvey had him too? Yeah. So he just copied his brother? Bo Outlaw played with goggles.

He's a legend. I know Bo Outlaw. Charles. Buck Williams. His name is Charles. Charles. You don't call him Bo? Charles.

Charles Williams. Hey, there's a story out there. They, hey, you know, Bo Outlaw played hard as hell. They like, hey, Bo, you playing hard, but you're killing what you're killing us Rip Hamilton had his own after he got poked an eye right? It was his mask With a mask instead had to only be the Mario water goggles because if he get hit in his retina again, yeah Yeah, so Man if I just I mean we'll speak that on myself

Play with goggles. I would probably just stop playing. That's nasty. No, thank you. They just look at you different. You got to be nice, man. You wear them. You got to be like that. My best friend wears goggles and she look cold as fuck on the court when she wears hers. Who? Her name is Diamond DeShields. You got to deal with Oakley. He has some cool...

If you can get a bag out, I'm supportive of everybody. Her encore swag is like top tier. She put the goggles on, she look she look you know my stance on bag securing He got hit I too right there was a Talk to people who got hit now we talk about who put them shits on They got bad eyes every game Kareem at the death perception down pack with them So we asked the chat who's having a worse year 77% said

Any votes against Diddy We know right like what no we know Right Knowing what we know, right? Like, what? Knowing what we know. Knowing what we know, and y'all still voting for Monty? Right? That should have been 100 to 0. Yeah, they just had to cut a check for 30. What is wrong with y'all, Chad? Chad, what is wrong with y'all?

Please. Take me out to the league and be frustrated. They understand what's going on in Detroit. That man got to live in Detroit. They losing. Hey. You got DeFacento scoring 40 on you. 11 threes on Instagram.

Lost 27. Listen, man. They lost 27 straight, 27, 28 straight games this year, dog. Unfortunate streak. That's enough to make it jump off a building. Yep. In itself, right? That was early in the season. That'll make you call in sick a few days.

Do I really want to do this? Man, you know what I got to go. I can imagine. So just imagine, right? What is the morale like? So you wake up and you're like, you don't want to cuss? Man, I got to go deal with this shit today. Yep.

Right? You got to get, I know you're thinking it. Go ahead. Hey, this is some bullshit. Yeah. But then the direct deposit hits and, you know, they it. Go ahead. Hey, this is bullshit. Yeah. But then the direct deposit hits, and, you know,

it starts to make sense. I lost 18 in a row. Still the same number. And the next direct deposit hit, and you had lost 26 in a row. Let's keep moving. Let's talk a little bit about the Phoenix Suns. After smacking the Spurs by 25 on Saturday in their first of two straight games in San Antonio, Suns thought they were going to get an easy dub on Monday with Wimby sidelined, but they thought wrong.

Jeremy Sochan dropped 26. Sohan, I have to fuck with French names, including a big three late in the game to preserve the win, along with the career-high 18 rebounds, and Devin Vassell added 26. Booker dropped 36, and KD added 29, but they were the only Suns starter to score in double figure. Bradley Beal suffered a right finger sprain, left the game late in the fourth quarter. He only had nine points in the game.

The Suns are 1-3 against the Spurs this season. The loss drops them to the eighth spot in the West with just 10 games remaining. So I got to ask the couch, how embarrassing is a loss like this for the Suns when they're fighting to avoid the plan I mean the most embarrassing embarrassing thing is the Spurs got three day wins off of them That's Fuck the time here it's almost like 25% of their wins come from the Suns.

I know, we're like, shit, we need to play the Suns all the time. This is kind of my favorite part of the season when you have the teams that have no chance of making the playoffs, and they just be messing up all the other teams. Spoilers. One and three against the Suns is some nasty work. That's embarrassing. That's embarrassing. That's the embarrassing part. Especially with the way that thiss is some nasty work. That's embarrassing. That's embarrassing. That's the embarrassment.

Especially with the way that this West is breaking out now. If you would have at least went three to one, those two wins. Yeah, it was bad before. Need those games back. No win be two? Like, ooh. Yeah, that's really, yeah, that's... That's a bad loss. Well, they're all bad losses, but considering the position they're in now,

they probably are like, damn. We probably should have gotten them two games. We needed them. What's up with Bradley Beal, man? Let's not dance around that shit, dog. You got a sprang finger? Sprang finger in the shooting hand. He said he's going to play on Wednesday, though.

How many he got? Hmm? How many of them he got? What, fingers? No, hands. Two. And how many fingers? There's ten. What fingers no hands to and I'm in the fingers

Everybody in my finger Probably this one it had to be better be one Go back in the game as a fucking decoy nigga y'all playing for a fucking playoff spot. You could absolutely be a decoy You still out there bitch pump fake Pump fake. Dribble. Penetrate. Kick the ball to fucking... Stop, man. Motherfucking niggas, man. It's so fair. I really don't get it, man.

Like, I really... It bothers me. Like, y'all fighting for a playoff spot. You missed enough games already with serious injuries. Finger? You're fucking... People have pointed out that Russ had the fractured hand.

Came back in like three weeks. Dude, I fell on the fucking floor in Philly. My fucking bone was sticking through my finger. Jammed stuck like this. Ew. Stuck. They put regular season game. Pull this motherfucker

back out and ask me if I wanted to go finish the game. I look at him like, yeah, it ain't that bad. And go back and finish the game. Regular season. We wasn't fighting for shit. Did it hurt after the game? Yes. It wasn't a sprained finger. My bone was sticking out. I had stitches and went to finish the fucking game, man.

This generation needs to get tougher is what I'm grasping. Dude, you got to... If I only had nine points, I'm going back in. I need to get to it. You don't care about the playoffs. That's even more... I'm going back. I need to get nine points. I'm going back in Left the game with two two minutes 51 seconds remaining the fourth the Suns were And they was losing yeah, okay Before You make this so he only had nine and they was losing yeah, okay Before Yes, we talking about I'm thinking it's the first quarter. I got nine

The fourth quarter that's super late. Yeah, Bradley bill. Come on, bro Hey, but you're saying that the Sun should be more embarrassed that they literally gave up Gave me first we win Meaning it's gonna be the difference between the playoffs and the play-in. And with all the hype that was surrounding this team coming into the season, the move they made for Bill, this supposed big three, how much pressure do you feel like the Suns are feeling right now to get a dub and to get some wins before the playoffs?

It's the same pressure for everybody at that point. I mean, you know, we're... Everybody's done... I mean, every team that we thought was supposed to be doing good, they just ain't. Right? You got Golden State, you got Lakers, you got Phoenix,

you got Dallas. Even though Clippers is playing well, I mean, you would have thought they would be, you know, two, three seed. They're not. They're struggling right now. Ty Lue called the team soft. Right. You thought Memphis was going to be good.

We thought Miami was going to be good. Philly was going to be good, but unfortunately got hurt. But for the most part, you know, the teams that we really had hopes for, they're just not playing. They didn't play well. So is there any pressure on them? Not. No. So many. To be honest, they didn't play well. So is there any pressure on them? No, so be honest. No, no one really many They've been they've been bullshit all year that there's really no pressure on them. So, you know

Losing and being being sorry the whole year then Release the love you fuck around don't get in. That's my I mean this that's the point though They're at the point now where yeah, there's a chance they don't get in when they fuck around trick to game They may have to go to play a trick to game. You got them three paying that kind of money Nah, they're gonna make the play in that no make the plan, but I'm This play-in group right now is crazy. Hey, look, San Antonio ain't nowhere near that motherfucker. It's Dallas, Phoenix, Lakers, and Golden State right now.

You got, like, all the superstars in the West in the play-in. But I'll tell you... They can lose to any one of them. So, Suns remaining schedule all 10 games are against current playoff playing teams. So they got the Nuggets. They're at the Nuggets, at the Thunder, at Pelicans. Then they got the Cavs, Timberwolves, and Pelicans

again at home. Home and away with the Clippers at Sacramento. Then they end the season at Minnesota. Oh, that's kind of a hard stretch. Kinda. Not really. Huh? Who they gonna beat? They just lost to fucking San Antonio without Wimby.

We're not talking about Boston. I guess I think it might depend on how the other teams are playing. Because they got their spots kind of locked to them. They're going to win Denver because Denver's not going to play that last game. Minnesota might not play that last game because depending on where they are

so they might sneak some wins. But they got the Nuggets coming up. They just lost to the San Antonio Spurs without their best player. You don't think other teams, the other guys, okay, they sit Nicola, they sit Anthony. Okay, the other guys are still going to show up to play. Yeah, but it all depends. Like if OKC is in the second spot right now and they don't want to go to three

or they want to go to three and they're like, all right, we'd rather play this team. Yeah. It really depends on the other teams, I think. I've been there where we purposely lost. But y'all were already established somewhat as a team. Y'all had a playoff game before?

Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. Have y'all had playoff games before y'all decided to do this? No. This was the first time and going into the playoffs like the last couple games I don't think they're gonna take that chance with Oklahoma City with a bunch of young guys. You know what? Yeah, they gotta get ready for play. We're gonna lose games We're gonna sit shade and lose a few games to get so we ain't got Those last three games who they play the last three games so last the last three games of season will be uh at the Clippers at the

Kings at Memphis so three road games the club Memphis gonna show up to play oh no Minnesota excuse me Minnesota yeah see we don't but you never know they might be fighting to get out of two but it won't you never know bro we don't know we don't I can't see Oklahoma City chilling chilling losing them young dudes ain't built like that. Yeah. Right? That's what I'm saying. If they play them, they're going to play their game.

Dude, they're going to... I hear you. I get what you're saying, Gil. I do. But... These young teams, they not... It's a different... What I'm saying is if I don't want to win a game,

I'm not going to play the guy. How many games... That's what I'm saying. The guys that's playing. I'm talking about the guys that are playing Yeah, he started scoring all a sit down sit your ass down sit your ass now you fucking up the rotation you get here You start here to be sexual as that You motherfucking I just I'm just this NBA right I'm what what a how many games they all have ten

Them last they go fucking three and seven in these fucking games. They could yeah I saw you go three and seven these motherfuckers But like you know three or seven to pay out five in these motherfuckers you depend on things pan out You might be looking at the ninth or tenth seed. That's what I'm saying. Yes, Gil. Three? Gil. They got six games above the tenth spot, right, with ten games left.

I mean, they're not going to get that far down. I'm saying the ninth might be. I'm just thinking other teams. But you get that ninth spot with a surge in Rockets team who may knock the Warriors off, or you got the Suns-Warriors. There's six games. That bottom bottom feeding team has to go to but if they play well Then they could get that succeed who Phoenix. Yeah Yeah, I mean six seven and six seven eight or five, but yeah, I'm looking at worst case scenario

That's the tough schedule to say it's a tough schedule. What is Sacramento's? Where they are right now maybe now? That Sacramento game might be popping because they might be fighting for that six-pot. Let's get it. Kings are 42-29 right now. They're currently holding down the six-pot. Tied with the Mavs, though. I think they got the tiebreaker over the Mavs as it stands right now. They played them once. It's going to be real spicy.

It's going to be good. Let's talk about another problem that the Suns are dealing with. Some major fourth quarter issues. Been one of the worst teams in the league, offensively and defensively, in the fourth quarter. In the fourth quarter, they're 30th in offensive rating, 28th in defensive rating. Have the worst net rating in the league.

So how concerning are the Suns' fourth quarter struggles heading into the playoff? You know they lost to the Spurs three times right I've got out I'm just said they lost to the Spurs to me because they have so many they have Beal Booker and Katie when it comes to those closing defense defense I mean defense you would think yeah potentially issue but offense to be struggling like that what I'm saying is it because they just don't know who? Who the guy is in that moment does that matter like they they're doing that um?

They're doing that matchup if we're gonna set a pick and rolls and match up and and whoever has a disadvantage we're gonna go at Versus like playing through each other right you guys are offensive juggernauts. You guys are hard to stop individually. What happens when you guys are all playing together? Backdoor cutting, little chin cuts, little offense that's just for you three in the fourth quarter, which makes it hard. It's easy to stop you guys one-on-one if that's what you guys are trying to do

in the fourth quarter. Versus you guys now play offense in the fourth quarter and we don't know what the fuck to do and we don't have no plan to stop you guys are trying to do in the fourth quarter versus you guys now play offense in the fourth quarter And we don't know what the fuck to do and we don't have no plan to stop you guys Throw the ball into Kevin Durant and Bradley be a fucking fly on a fucking split action dude I'm gonna stop let me stop Very knowledgeable about the game. You are very knowledgeable about the game. Old 10, 15, Kevin Durant come off like, now you got the seven-footer running for the, like, come on. Just, they need offense the last four minutes.

Yeah, they need a system. I mean, I feel like it's very concerning for me to be 30th in offense in the fourth quarter and you got all these offensive juggernauts. Because right now they're just relying on each other going one-on-one And that doesn't help you guys out They need the office. We're just them three three man game just like oh shit. This is hard to go I'll be watching the game and they you put Nurkic in the pick and roll and they jumping you it like I Understand you trying to get the five men in to pick and roll.

But, dude, they're not letting you play one-on-one. Yeah. Right? In the fourth quarter, if Kevin Durant said... If Nurkic said a pick and roll with Kevin Durant, they're jumping. Yep. If Booker said it with Nurkic, they're jumping. If Bradley...

They're not letting you play one-on-one. They're not switching it. They're not switching the five on you. They're not doing that dumb shit. They're making you get off of it. And now, you guys, you don one-on-one. They're not switching the five on you. They're not doing that dumb shit. They're making you get off of it. And now, guys, you don't know what to do. Now you got to throw the ball back to fucking Nurkic. And now he got to try to be the decision maker.

See, Nurkic is red ass in the corner. Sit in the corner. Or the last seat on the bench. Yeah, with Allen. That corner. You three over here, sit over there. Work it out. Let's see if they jump that shit now.

Yeah. Yeah. You were very high on this Suns team early in the season. Yep. How much confidence do you have in this Suns squad? We're going to be in the sixth seed, baby. Yo, even have him set in the pick. Play in Minnesota.

Yeah, Kevin Durant and Bill. No, Grayson Allen. No, Grayson Allen. Let Grayson Allen set it. Yep. Let him switch. Because they're not going to jump it. No.

Let you switch that motherfucker, okay. Let him jump that monthly. Okay. Yeah do anything other than what we expect you to do in this is quick Let's talk about boy Boston Celtics because we have to We're gonna say they number one all year, yeah They blew a 30-point lead. Oh, they blew all that's ready. Oh blow the number one team. That's up by 10 games blue Lead okay. Whoo. We should be worried. Yeah Guys, you know that what it is as you know Who the number one

Boston underdog fantasy big Celtics fan. I'm just trying to get it checked. All right. Secure. Okay. Let's be scared. There's nothing guaranteed. Let's worry about Boston blowing a lead up 10 games. I mean, are they still even playing? Yeah, you see the script every day, so you already know what we're going to talk about.

I didn't even look that far down. Because you were just so inspired. I'm not talking about Celtics. So inspired or not. No, Celtics were in the midst of a nine-game winning streak, 22 in their last 22 games, heading to Atlanta to face off against the Hawks on Monday night. Proceeded to trick off a 30-point first-half lead to Canel.

But here's the thing, right? They got a 10-and-a-half game lead in the East, I think six-game lead over the Nuggets for the best record in the league with 10 games left this season. So they could lose every game from now on and still be number one. But does that create a sense of complacency now being that far ahead of everybody? Is that good or bad, not heading into the postseason? Good.

That's great. Go work on some shit. Yeah, let's get it. Fuck with these rotations, these minutes. We can start playing with these lineups and what work in case somebody go down. You can do's like practice, live practice. And we can see Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown,

never know some shit could happen, what am I doing in this situation? Start working on end of games. This shit you can work on end of games. This is like literally 10 games of practice. You think about managing their minutes leading up to the power. Hell no, hell no, hell no. Or you let them to be consistent

He worried about average. I'm worried about that. That's what I'm worried about the same thing They're gonna be worried about what course of the year we gonna play you like first quarter second. Hold on brother relax Relax I didn't spin my whole I didn't Mess it up. No, no way No, but this is when you can start like really like testing shit out though like I Jen and Brown you're gonna be at the Point today, right? You're gonna be at the point today. We go we go, you know Let you start the offense that you finish the office. Let's see what you got going on. Yeah, oh big

Yeah, I'll play a big line. Yeah, but don thing they need to worry about is securing home court for the finals, which I think is not going to be an issue. I don't think the Nuggets are going to really threaten, or whoever in the West is going to threaten. What? Is it done deal? They got 57 wins? It's six and a half up on the Nuggets.

No, six games up on the Nuggets. They both playing well. They both 9-1 in the last 10. I mean... At this point, that's what you never know. Boston playing the Eastern Conference. Yeah. Boston playing the Eastern Conference.

How do you feel about the Eastern Conference? Strong? I'm just saying, though. No. Come on, bro. It's raggedy down. It's raggedy down there. Well, there's a little raggedy in the Eastern Conference.

Barbecue or mildew, we're going to lean towards the mildew side. They're going to get a few more wins against the East. Yeah. Yeah, it was a bad loss against Atlanta. OK, cool. Up 30 in the first half. They're the best players. I tell you, when you're winning this one and have so much success this season, that type of shit doesn't really...

That's not for the fans to talk about but you own The road they play in Atlanta. They were niggas went to the strip. Yeah. Yeah Start looking at this start looking at their phones. Yeah, man. It's one of these nights. Yeah What happens this part of basketball man but obviously they consistent only got 15 losses very impressive she don't don't don't Doc Rivers got more losses than all Boston since he started he got more losses than Boston so there you have it perspective can in perspective. Can I confirm or deny that? Wait, how many does he have for real?

Put that in. He has 12. He has 12 losses. Has he been there? He's got 15. Yeah. And he got 12 since he's been there. He got 12 because they were 13.

That's the same. 13 and 13. That is funny. Yeah, but he didn't coach. Joe Prunty coached some of those games. No, no, no. They won. Doc got 11.

Doc got 11 losses. They're not all good. Joe got one. Joe got one. Doc got 11 losses. They're not all good. Joe got one. Joe got one. They got 11 losses. Shit. That's crazy to think about. So 10 and a half game lead over the Bucs.

Poor Doc. We've said that the East doesn't really have a lot of good stories. Not to compete right now. Not a lot of competition. To threat anything. And Philly. Ooh. Threat anything Boston got going on.

They're a threat. Can you rock in the Bucs hat? I think you'll be supporting them tonight. So you think Boston is just going to steamroll through the playoffs? In the East? Yeah. Yes. They can have a trouble with, they will hope that Miami wins that 7-8 seed,

so they're in seventh, so they can play so they can play what Philly Chicago or Atlanta Hmm We sort of know the status of a B, but you guys are previously said and I'm pretty sure they'll work Miami first round I don't think anybody ever wants to play them first round not in the playoffs here none players They unlock something different over there in the playoff series. Not in the playoff series. They got to unlock something different over there in the playoffs. Coaching, man. Yep, coaching. Preparation matters.

Yeah. And they going to be prepared down there. They going to play hard. They going to compete. But they going to be prepared more than anything. Anything you trying to do. So. Yeah.

Yeah, that's true. And you ever have experience like this with the Nets? What's that? Where you just head in the east at this point in the season? Yeah, we went to Miami for a few days. Good or bad decision in hindsight? Oh, it was a great decision. It was a great decision. We went to the finals, motherfucker.

Make it short. Great fucking decision. It's a lovely city. But you know who you got on your team, man. Mm-hmm. You know this shit. We did that shit. I think we swept the first two rounds of the playoffs.

So we took a few days off at the end of the regular season, got ready, and we're down to swept the first two rounds. Eight straight out. It might have been ten straight. Yeah, I think so. 0-2, 0-3 season. You guys, 4-2 against the Bucs in the first round. Swept the Celtics, swept the Pistons. Swept the Pistons. Okay, I think so. 0-2, 0-3 season. You guys, 4-2 against the Bucs in the first round.

Swept the Celtics, swept the Pistons. Okay, the next two rounds. Yeah, next to Bucs. Yeah. Swept, damn. Wow. Swept, swept, swept.

Swept in the Eastern Conference finals? The Bucs got two games? The Bucs did get, don't know how, but... Damn, I think... Y'all swept the second and the Eastern Conference finals?

Conference semis and the Conference finals. Wow, that's... Damn. Putting foot in the conference finals Wow, that's damn Putting foot shit. I know I know the NBA was madden the most Go go back and look at it. Hey, we was destroying people Defense We were scoring but we was locking shit down. Down.

Gil, we know you're not a fan of the Boston Celtics like most people in this beautiful city of Los Angeles and like most people on this couch, except for Lexi. But are you sure this isn't going to be a year that the Celtics raise a banner? I was rooting for them until, you know, Paul Pierce had to say what he had to say. You know, as a Laker fan, just... Wait, what did Paul Pierce say?

He was basically saying, he started off great, right? He was saying, oh, Boston has a better chance of winning a championship before the Lakers. And then he decided to say, Lakers just got to the party, you know, just tying it up with that Mickey Mouse ring. And I'm like... That stuck a nerve? It did. Because, you know, 80% of the championships was won before anybody was born. We don't know what was going on during that AAU season that they was having back then

when it was winning eight games and shit because in the last 30 years, Boston hasn't even been relevant in basketball. Yeah, I saw your clip about that. Since the mid-80s, I believe, was their last championship. Last championship. Jerry Curl's still prevalent. They've been, let's say, normal. They've been a normal team.

Yeah, compared to the Lakers. They've been regular. Before the 08 one, obviously. They've been regular. They didn't know discipline. One championship in the last year. Milwaukee. Yeah, we're talking about the recent championships.

Lakers are definitely ahead of that. You got Lakers, you got Chicago, you got Golden State, you ahead of that. You got Lakers. You got Chicago. You got Golden State. You got San Antonio. That's been relevant. You know, shit, Pistons, no? There's been regular Pistons there.

Yeah, Pistons, right? Miami. I mean, you got teams that Boston hasn't been. I see what you're saying. You know what I mean? So don't try to pretend that... But you can still root for them because your Lakers don't have a chance.

No, I'm just saying, you know, when we... Never say never, Lexi. This is Hollywood. We've seen amazing things happen. You know, since the Lakers... I mean, since the NBA and the ABA has been merged. You know what I mean? Been merged.

This has been merged, you know what I mean? Yeah, how many times... Y'all haven't been no damn dynasty. I get that. That's all I was saying, you know? That's fair. Lexi, any retort as our resident Celtics fan? I mean, I picked them to go to the finals when we made our picks a while ago, so standing on that.

Holding firm on that. But I'm with Paul Pierce that y'all probably got a better chance. Probably. Y'all have to win it this year, because I can tell you this got a little we load up next year I know that what I'm doing with the Clippers do bro every year we just pretend that is not gonna be popping no no no yeah black don't crack We probably like get Paul George. We probably like pay Clayton Cum. Like, we got some things that's working in our favor.

Are you the GM? Probably not. Okay. Probably our best. We just hoping. So the chances of y'all doing that is... Because your dad shouldn't do nothing during the trade deadline. He fucking needed help. Did not.

We got Spencer Deer with you, King. We got new D-Lo. We got new D-Lo. We unlocked D-Lo. We might need to start scaring the shit out of everybody then. We know. We're going to trade your ass, motherfucker. On a personal level,

we got to seek get back in the wake of the deadline. Only worked for one player. Needed it to work for more. What does a chip mean for Jason Tatum? Do you feel like it solidifies him as a top five player in the league, or is he already there? He's already there. This year, he's top five.

Top five. Does his value increase? A championship this year would elevate him to, like, y'all can't say shit status, I feel like. I mean, he's very close to that right now. But a championship, how old is Jason? 26? It puts him in a very elite.

I mean, it would be face elite because now, you know, he can sit there and claim that he is the future has a chip has the stats has a look Jordan brand Well, I mean, you know The NBA the media gets to really throw it out there and you know, they can't really say shit impressive resume Ties the hairline. Yeah Do some sid, family man. Yeah, you get the really good. I'm telling you, it's all right. I don't know why people are not leaning into it. It's crazy.

Bringing light skin to Deuce back, as if we ever left. Y'all never leave. Well, Drake got to respond. Do something, Drake. Do something. Damn, this is really going down for hip hop right now. You know what? To be honest, Drake don't even have to respond right now

Did he done caught the attention everything is damn rates Shit to your money room and I know why don't you got to be so aggressive with people who ain't got nothing to do with it Huh? Backwards walk with your hand like this man. Yeah, it's like the backwards walk. You know what? The backwards walk with your hand like this, man. Yeah. Like, sir, I'm... Like, come on, dawg, hold on.

I'm good. I'm just... I just... You know I'm not the one, right? Yeah. You know I'm not the one. Thank God. Not me.

You know it's not me, right? Y'all came in here for computers and phones. What the fucking guns for? Yeah, yeah. What is the guns for? Y'all came in here for computers and phones. I was thinking that, too. Why do they have them big-ass guns?

When I saw it at first, I was like, this can't be real. They're not storming. I guarantee if they would have pressed the buzzer, they would have let them in. You got to break the gate. Hold on. Breaking the gate and shit and all that. We know why y'all are here. Give us a second.

Hit the Homeland Security. We got a warrant. They're going to let you in. We're going to open all the gates. Just don't break nothing. Because you know they go in there and they fuck shit up. Yeah. Oh, they go in the house they fuck shit up. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, they go in the house and they rude. Yeah, like why do they do that? Rude. God. They rude with it. They just, I mean I know in movies obviously but- Don't fold now.

You know what I mean? I was talking shit. They done tore blinds down. Like bitch, it's outside. Like you over here ripping this, like it's outside. There's no hidden door. The fuck is you? You can see the sun over here tearing curtains down.

Like, no, all right. Yeah, I'm... Gil is our resident raid expert. Oh, my God. Kicking the door in. Oh, it's open. It's the bathroom. Why are you kicking down unlocked doors?

It's the bathroom door, dawg. It ain't shit locked. Check it first. If you're going to raid Gil's spot, do it or 1130 or after you just open it all the doors and shit Like what are y'all in George? Gotta be growing weed in this underwear drawer. Yeah, but the fuck out of him You know, I tried to sue like hold on man. Y'all ain't fine shit So y'all somebody got to put this shit back together something y'all didn't find nothing in here I don't know what y'all looking for. Y'all gotta put it back like ah

No responsibility. Oh You break you by oh, you're coming to tell you all that Fucking acts and again. It's your responsibility just sitting there pushing through just front door knock I have a war just a little like a ram thing open the door You know what you came in here for. Yeah.

Computers and phones. Put the shit to the window. Oh, that look like a real warrant. Okay, okay. Come on in. It look like a real... It is going to look like a real... We asked the chat, will Boston steamroll the East in the playoffs?

64% said the opposite of yes. They said no. Oh. The chat is not rolling with the Celtics. Chat, we got one back. Appreciate you guys. I don't know. It's Doc fans.

They only been the best team in the league all year. Oh, shit. That news break. Uh-uh. Closed. It said Diddy's daughter got caught up in the raid. Uh-uh. Oh, no.

Not the girls. We will have to. Somebody in the chat just simply commented, Derek White's forehead. I don't know what that means, but... That may be a cause for concern come playoff time. Derek White. Now let's move on to Mostly Fans, our last segment of the day.

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we will give you a free pick-up as our thanks for supporting Underdog Fantasy. All right, so our first question comes from the chat. Okay, damn, y'all giving Andy C3 a lot of bread right now. We appreciate you for waiting to make that right turn yesterday, Andy. So it comes from Underdog user Andy C3 said, what was the first car you've ever purchased and what's the last? So, first car you purchased and then what's the last car you've purchased? My first car I purchased was when I got an MBA. I've never purchased a car.

Lise, what do you do? Just get rides? What do you do? Bus, Uber? I, um, my first car was purchased by my parents. But that's an extension of yourself. And then I wrecked it right before COVID, and I just have not got another one since. It's very easy to move around without a car. It's a lot easier than I thought.

But I get a rental car during the season, pay for it by the league. Baller. And then when I was overseas, I'd a rental car during the season, pay for it by the league. Baller. And then when I was overseas, I'd have a car. And then when I move around, I usually find a way to get a car, so... Uber, bus pass? No bus pass. No bus pass.

Begging people for rides? Not that either. Asking people for rides? No. I figured it out. But I always got a car. It's not my own. It's not your own?

It's not my own. I feel like it's better like that. But I do want to get a car. I just, honestly, the reason I haven't got a car yet is I don't know what, I don't know which one I want. I can't make a decision.

You look like a Tesla. I love a Tesla. You look like a Tesla. See, I've gotten mixed reviews about Teslas. I just thought I'd leave the world behind, though, so that the Tesla scene would not start crashing. I drove one last summer and I loved it, but it really only makes sense in LA because they got the charging stations everywhere, but in other places, not as easy to charge

your Tesla. Well, we are in the hunt for a car sponsor. Yeah, guys. So if you're out there and you would like to supply Lexi and the rest of the girls are in a crew with the vehicle. Everybody would like to give me a car. You know, Mercedes, guys. And you would like to supply Lexi and the rest of the girls are in a car. You know, Mercedes, BMW. You're shooting for the stars. Might as well.

Might as well. Say like a high-end show like this. Prius, Lucid Air. We do need that. Cyber Trek. That's what they're called. Those things are scary. I'm trying to get one. So, Kane, what was the first car you purchased and what's the last car that you purchased? like the first car that out that was ever did Like a 92 Honda Accords were people don't sleep on Honda Accords

what's the last car you bought most recent car you bought uh Sprinter Baller family joint business slash Honda Accords were key.

A beautiful automobile. Back in those days you could find like 50 cents in change that would get you a lease. You said college, right? Yeah, that makes sense. Cincinnati. They didn't really have funding like that. I mean, what's the first car you purchased and what's the last? Oh, it wasn't from the school. Trust me, it wasn't from them. Oh, man. So y'all didn't get perks like that? GS300. Sponsored by Arizona.

Cheaters. Bear down. Cheaters. No, no, no. Cheat. Cheat? That didn't help us win. NIL predecessors.

Don't forget you there. That didn't help us win. No, that's when help us with and I know No, that's when I got there you had a driver license See I got one better for you. I got a car. I had a fucking driving license. Okay, that's that's a lot better It's right right dirty Technically don't need one to make the car operate. I drove from Cincinnati to Dallas and back So the fact that the man gave me the car with no license, you know Tripping, yeah, y'all tripping over there. Yeah, what y'all got going on over there? Friend of the program. So, Gil, GS300, what's the last car you bought? I thought you were going to say the Gil Escalade that you had. No, that was in the NBA.

Yeah, that was in there. I technically got that before I... That was empty the bank account truck, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I should have put that on the school. I was driving to Sunset. Last car... I should have put that on the school. And I was like, drive to Sunset. Last call. I mean,

I'm on the list for the Cybertruck. I can just see you driving around in that thing. Yeah. So there was a, I should have had it two weeks ago. And someone, someone, someone.

How much is that truck? Someone... Like, $116? Someone more popular than me jumped in front of me, and like, damn it! Well, not even that. They paid more. Nah, they jumped.

And they paid more. They jumped. They're just like, oh, you know what? Snoop Dogg want this car. Damn it! Snoop Dogg want the car. It's like, because it's the only one. And, you know, I get it.

You paid more. Probably paid a little bit more. Like, I got whatever, just call it $200. I got $200, they would have been like, Gilbert Arena, go to the Simon Truck. It's sold. It's sold. They're going for that nigga who going to pay the most.

Yeah, that's all that is. He went that motherfucker, had your name on it. What is it, 116? They like, I got 150 for you. It's sold. I know how they do it. Mr. Reen, this here, we have some technical difficulties. We have to place another order for another truck.

That's exactly what happened. Yeah, so that's the game they got them play. So next question from underdog user AvoTheBoy08. What player, team, or coach is under the most pressure as we near the playoffs slash play-in? Player, team, or coach? Under the most pressure? Player, team,

coach, I would say boss. No, Bucks. You still hearty for him when you're... Coach or team? Coach. Yeah. Team. And Giannis?

Is he under pressure? Giannis got a ring. I don't know, Dame. Dame? Well, Dame's not... I don't know. I don't know. Is that why?

Because he's never won a championship before? Never won one, but I don't... It Dame. Dame? Well, Dame's never won a championship. I don't know. I don't know. Is that why? Because he's never won a championship before? Never won one, but I don't... It's not really on him. This is more just coaching team itself. The team. Because, you know, where you guys... Where they were and coming in midway, y'all supposed to do something.

Right? So... And me, I'm going to make sure that I keep mentioning you know that they got a lot of pressure on them but for the most part everybody that would have had pressure done failed anyway so it's not like we give a fuck in him so now is all the pressure on Boston nah if they played Miami first round and lost in Miami are we gonna be surprised Nah. If they played Miami first round and lost to Miami, are we going to be surprised? Yes.

We would? Miami? We would be surprised if they lost to Miami like that? Full strength? Full strength. Yeah. White America would not be pleased, Gil. Yeah, I'd be surprised.

This is an election year, too, so just keep that in mind. Yeah, I'd be surprised. You'd be surprised? Even though what I know and think about Miami. I would still be surprised this year You would get the jokes off I mean I'm just saying like merciless Be interesting time Good way to start individual pressure

Who has individual pressure out there? I just don't think so any right now.. We're, like, in, like, a transitional period, I think, in the NBA. So it's like... I think there's some pressure on Darvin Hamm. You think so? Mm-hmm. Yeah, no. He's out of here, Dave. Yeah, I think there's...

As a coach, I think there's... I think he's out of here anyway. So there's a lot of pressure. No matter what he does, I think... The only thing that's going to save him is a chip, potentially, and that might even be a net. I don't even think that'll save him. I do.

Save a chip? That'll save him. Oh, I mean, he'll start the season off, and then, like, midway through it, they go, like, 1-10, get out of here. Oh, back to Denver. It's crazy that Denver, like, none of us come up with Denver. No one is, like, we just expect them to be in the championship.

There's, like, ah. Well, that's what we expect them to play well in the championship. There's like I was what we expect them to play Well, yeah. Yeah, I know I do. Yeah They don't like they don't say nothing. They don't they just play Never fans. We got a little player is not marketable Yeah, the star player quiet. He don't like the limelight. Mm-hmm. They just go about their business. Yeah They're like a hard team to root against. Yeah, ultimately Yeah, you're right

Like there's no players very likeable guys. Yeah So I can you not be a Nicola fan Look how he plays game and his approach and what he about There's our yeah nuggets and six. Maybe five. Depending on who they play. Yeah.

It's going to be Boston. Six. Honey baked ham is gone. Damn. And I was just liking them too. You know you're going to be looking for your summer league, so just keep that in mind. No, you ain't. How's he going to be looking for your summer league, Gil, so just keep that in mind. No, you ain't.

How's he going to be at summer league? He was rolling around the wind looking like Deebo last year. Because the team, the Lakers, is there. The Lakers is there. I'm just saying. After the end season term, I did not think that this was going to be where the Lakers is at. You know, never. Yeah, they get in. Keep up a lot. They get in the playoffs and do decent in the first round. I think it'll is gonna be what it like is you know never get in people belong to playoffs and

Do decent in the frame you get to the one thing here be I? Know do decent or y'all make it in first and foremost Do well It's hard to blame the coach because there's no so much pressure and so much You telling me who to play? Versus who I want to play, little shit like that. Yeah, yeah. So it's really hard to blame coaches besides somebody like Doc. Yeah, then this is ultimately costing me a job.

No, I'm just saying he was a consultant. Like, are we just going to forget he was a consultant? Doc, I'm going to catch these strays no matter what. If you're a consultant, that means you got a lot of power, is all I'm saying. Is that what that means? That's what that means. That's, that means you got a lot of power is all I'm saying. Is that what that means? That's what that means. That's what that means, baby.

We might have to pull up to Milwaukee for the finals. I don't know. I think this playoffs is going to be fun because there is really not a ton of pressure on anybody, I don't feel. As I said, all the bottom teams. There's going to be some good basketball. There's going to be some good-ass playoffs. I think so, too. This can probably be the best playoff in a long time.

Does that mean like the bottom team, the playing games? I mean, you got superstars. This is not like Minnesota. It's not like this is like... You got the superstars at the bottom. You got all the young, hungry ones at the top. That can happen. And then you got a bunch of really solid teams just in the middle, ready to mesh stuff up.

The East Coast is the East Coast. We don't buy a fan station there. And you'll also have episodes of Gil's Arena four days a week throughout the postseason to keep you entertained. So, Lexi, great to have you back on the couch today. Appreciate you coming back through. Thank you. Always a pleasure. A lot of red, but it's all good.

You know, I respect you. What's happening, cuz? That's how you say it, all red. What's happening, cuz? There are Crips in L.A. that like to wear red. It's very fascinating. It's fascinating, but nonetheless. 2024.

But this has been another episode of Gil's Arena, presented by Underdog Fantasy. Well, well, we will see y'all tomorrow 🎵🎵🎵 We'll be right back. you