Gil's Arena - LeBron James & The Lakers Needs To CLEAN HOUSE

Episode Date: January 4, 2024

Gil's Arena Says It's Time For The Los Angeles Lakers & Phoenix Suns To Push The PANIC Button as Gilbert Arenas and The Gil's Arena Crew dissect the struggles plaguing both teams and why Lebron James and Kevin Durant NEED to turn things around quickly. They also address the Los Angeles Clippers' success following the James Harden trade but wonder if the Clipper curse is still waiting to strike. 2024 is the year of Gil's Arena, please consider throwing 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 GILSARENA 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/ Pre-Order Rashad's Book Here - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD9ZQ3HD?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420 CHAPTERS: Intro 0:00:00 Show Start 0:03:48 Gil Reacts To Katt Williams Interview 0:07:22 Gil Reacts To Man Attacking Judge 0:20:47 Is Stephen A Smith REALLY A Bigger Star Than The Knicks? 0:25:07 Gil Fires Back at Knicks Fans 0:28:40 Jalen Duren Rides Walker Kessler 0:46:46 Does Klay Know He's Cooked? 0:50:46 When Gil's Arena Knew It Was Time To Give It Up 1:02:48 Time For Lakers, LeBron and Darvin To Panic? 1:10:26 The Clippers Are The New Lakers 1:29:58 Westbrook Makes The Top 25 Scoring List 1:42:13 Time For The Suns To Panic? 1:57:51 Is Tyrese Haliburton An NBA Superstar?? 2:15:10 Mostly Fans 2:27:36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is my store. This is what I was doing with what nobody knew. Y'all don't know what goes on in practice or the locker room. Age is zero. Change it. Yeah. Welcome back to Gil's Arena presented by Underdog Fantasy. Whoa, whoa! It's Thursday, last show of the week, so you know we got to go out with a bang.

Yeah, I know you got some things on your mind. Some people that you would like to respond to. So we're going to get to that. Shirley, how's everybody else doing? Kenny, good to see you back on the couch. What's happening, play? Appreciate you. To you and your wife for that lovely New Year's Eve dinner.

I still got the itis from it. All right, man. You missed that, Lex. Yeah. The oxtails, jerk chicken. Yeah, but you're more than welcome. We have a cookout at the house. I still got some wings of fizz if you need some.

Oh. Oh, it's a whole lot. Five days ago? Yeah. Oh, yeah. They still smoking. Instant nap. Okay.

I cook so much chicken on the smoker Yeah, I'll see y'all cook Already turnt up but this is an invitation open invitation be there This is gills arena presented by underdog fantasy as always got the legend Gilbert arenas here with us with that You know, like I already said you are you know locked in prime. I'll watch a little nightcap last night Now this is daycap. We got Lexi Brown back here with us. Hello everybody. Okay. You got the coffee ready? Energized? Ready to go? Yeah, ready. And Kenya Martin, as I already mentioned, back here on the couch with us. We got a lot to get into, so let's just get it going. Here's what's cracking in the arena today. The Lakers have been trash

since winning the NBA Cup, but what does a purple and gold need to do to right the ship? Trash. The Clippers are the hottest team in the league right now, but is this the year the Clippers' curse finally ends? No. No. And the Suns' big three has only played four games together this season,

but is it time to push the panic button? It's getting close, Gil. It's getting close. But before we get into all that, as always, the show is brought to you by Underdog Fantasy. If you have not done so already, download the app, use promo code Gil. They will match your first deposit up to $100.

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you were on Nightcap last night with Shannon Sharp. And came through yesterday with arguably the interview of the year. Already. Jinx. Cat Williams pulled up, never wanted to bite his tongue. Williams had smoke for a plethora of other black comedians, including Kevin Hart, Ricky Smiley, Michael Blackson, Steve Harvey,

and Cedric the Entertainer. Dang, Cedric told you when you asked him, did you steal Cat Williams' joke? He said it don't line up. How it don't line up that I did it on TV in 2018? You came to see me at the comedy store do it in 2019 and then did it on the Kings of Comedy. Like, what doesn't line up? This is a televised joke that Mark Curry helped me punch up and get to the level that it was. The same Steve that went to go watch Mark Curry do his whole sitcom and then stole everything Mark Curry had.

Now Steve got a sitcom where he the principal and he wear a suit. And then he gets this high top fade making all black men think he got the best lineup in the business and it's a man unit then you ask why you not a movie star i didn't want to be a movie star just the same negro that hated on bernie with this same thing i didn't want to be a movie star no you couldn't be a movie star there There are 30,000 new scripts in Hollywood every year. Not one of them asks for a country bumpkin black dude that can't talk good, and look like Mr. Potato Head. There ain't none.

Remember, when Cedric the Entertainer starts, he's supposed to be singing, dancing, and telling jokes. That's why he's called the Entertainer. We found out he can't sing, can't dance, and doesn't write jokes. He did four comedy specials. They're so bad, Shannon, they're not available on Netflix or Tubi. Can I say that again for the audience? They're so bad that they're not available on Netflix or Tubi.

You don't think Sam's a good comedian? The world doesn't think that, sir. I have 12 comedy specials. He has four specials that are not available on Netflix or Tubi. Tubi, the crazy stray. Yeah, that's like you. Tubi, the crazy stray. Like, he didn't even need the Netflix part.

He should have just said Tubi. Yeah, so he went for the top in the bottom like Natural to be in Netflix both capitalized on this moment with their social teams But cat also dropped would assure to be one of the most memorable clips of all time You have been an unnatural allegiance to losers is not like you. Yo, he is so funny. Like. He was ready for this.

Yes. Yeah, yeah. He was prepared. And that's the thing that all the dominoes were set up for him just to. Yeah, yeah. He was prepared. And that's St. Delice. That's the thing that all the dominoes were set up for him just to kick them all down. It was pitching vibe. It was batting

practice in that bitch. Right in front of him. Knocking them bitches out the park. He's a crazy storyteller. Did y'all believe that he read 3,000 books every year as a child? No. I don't know. 3,000 books? year as a child? No. I don't know. 3,000? That's what he said.

Head in the hat? How do we fact check? How many pages? I was going to say, he sandwiches ridiculous things in the truth. And you're like, maybe he did read 3,000 books. That makes the best comedy, though. I mean, 3,000 kiddie books. That could happen.

It's only four pages. He wasn't talking about no kiddie books, though. Even if I don't agree, I'm just going to keep it to myself because I don't want to get packed up like these gentlemen. Hey, man, I believe that he read all 3,000 of those books. He came with the clip fully loaded. What's funny is the joke he's talking about, I know it because I used to laugh at it when it came out.

The 98 joke when the music too loud and black people don't turn the music off. And they doing the cranking. And then he got to get out of the car and push started it. So I know the joke. And then when Sid did it, I'm like, oh, it's kind of the same. So I was thinking that back then. Yeah. If you're a fan of stand-up.

But here's the real issue. Everyone's right in this situation. Right? In a sense. If you tell a joke and I think I can do it better and add some extra to it, I'm going to do it. There's no difference in anything in fucking life. Right? Every movie that we done seen has been

copied or, you know, we took something from it and then redid it a little bit better, right? You can't be mad that but I think The lie to say that you didn't is where That's what probably yeah, that's the problem. Mm-hmm. So that's like sampling somebody music and not asking them. Mm-hmm Yeah, you have no credit for so I think that's like sampling somebody's music and not asking them. Mm-hmm. Right? You're giving them no credit. Yeah, you're giving them no credit for it.

So I think that's where it comes in. I originate this. I came up with this joke. Mm-hmm. Give me my credit, and we ain't got no issue. Mm-hmm. But the fact that you say that, no, my joke. No, it was mine, actually.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did that. So I think that's where the problem lies for him. If he would have came out and said it was mine, then I don't think he would have attacked him the way he did. He was coming. He always comes, right? He's going to. Oh, he's entertaining.

Very entertaining. He was sitting and waiting, because I guess didn't all those comedians have the same interview, and they just sat up there? So they all pulled up to Club Che Che, and to Cat Williams' credit, I'm sure he watched every one of those. Absolutely. It was taking notes.

Not true, not true, not true. Because he sat down and was like, I'm ready. 30,000 scripts. Well, even if they're telling the truth, they're not going to come back for rebuttal. They can't. He came so hard that there's really nothing. They got to do it on their own platform like Ricky Smiley did.

Yeah. Like Ricky Smiley, but it's on his own platform. He can tell his side of it to further the story. He said, no, I couldn't have did what Cat did in playing Money Mike. So, yeah, no, I was cool putting on the Santa costume being in the movie like so that so he was able to Elaborate further on what he what would he said after cat went on her so what about the cat saying that? Oh, no dress thing. He put it in My contract that if I'm gonna do a movie with him again

He got a put on the dress, but you know when when damn when you got that kind of power When Ricky smiley said his that you know, he tried out for money man and money Mike says, you know his thing That could have happened. All right. I'm going out for this part, right? They're like, okay We like you and then he come in he come in and do a better job absolutely like yeah we gonna we're gonna take you this job this fits your personality this fits his sure right so we got another role for you so that's what I'm saying they all could be telling the truth absolutely on it yeah who doing it the funniest okay oh, now could nobody have played that part?

No, no. Other than him. So Cat vs. Kevin Hart, one on one battle. Oh. But who's funnier? 59, I mean they just got, not even funnier, they just got to go at each other. That's the problem, now here's the problem. 10 rounds.

Now here's the problem. The only person that can top this interview will be if Kevin showed up. The reason it is is because Kevin holds the trump card. And that trump card is when you was on top of the world, you was the diva that was turning down roles, doing this and doing that. How long is somebody going to do that before they move on? Absolutely. I took that role. You had you and your team, right?

Red and all those guys. I watch everything. You have your group, right? You didn't put your group in a position to be successful. I'm putting my group in situations to be successful. Don't be mad at me

because I'm doing it. Don't be mad at me because I'm taking the roles and the roles I can't take. The first person, my friends, my friends. So, you know, the red cup boys, some of his writers, they got their podcasts, right? And Cat Williams group is not, and they're funny too. You know what I mean? So it's, it's more of you getting mad at me because I did what you were supposed to do. Right? You was thinking about yourself. I'm thinking about everybody else. That's the Trump. That will be the Trump card here.

Yeah, it will. Yeah. But you got to be funny. You got to be funny with it, though. True. And the thing is. I don't know if you can be funnier in that situation than that. Yeah, it's unfortunate that you put it that way. Can't we all just get along? Yeah, it's so unfortunate and then now that you put it that way it's Can we all just get along yeah, yeah, but putting yourself for putting the pride of certain roles above Getting everybody

To the place where you are right? Yeah some roles. Yeah, you got to think about your team. Yeah, yeah. But then, but you know how that is. It's that, I ain't saying it's him, but a lot of situations where the loyalty thing is not always that.

Like once I get on, then I'm, I'm going to do all these, but I'm only going to take these because it benefits me. Unfortunately, that's what it has come across in this situation. But no, I mean, he's funny as hell. So if that's... Those guys and his crew have benefited to a certain degree. And it's probably like they, and like in that world, I'm assuming, because it's just like our business.

It's cut through, like I'm individual first. So I gotta work on this. And if I'm getting a contract and somebody wanna pay me, I'm really like, I can mention you, but it ain't on me to make sure that you get the gig. Mm-hmm. So it's it's like it's It's a delicate touchy thing when it comes to that Because you like you can't go in there which I'm pretty sure he did at times because he's outspoken and he Got to take all of us or we all and we ain't coming. Mm-. Which I'm pretty sure he's done that a few times.

Which rubbed people the wrong way. Like you said, how often are you gonna let him do that before they move on? Because his group is early 90s comedy. Yeah. Right? That Corey Holcomb style. That's not today's world. So this early 2005 style, everyone's not today's world so you know this early 2005 style everyone's sensitive now

absolutely right so who's a better who's better at comedy oh yeah we we can't tell you that unless you take off the handcuffs and say, all right, listen, Kevin Hart, you can say whatever joke you want and you don't get penalized by the world, right? Because he's at a position where there's certain jokes he can't say. I even said, man, hey, I've done it. I've watched this comedy, man, you should have said it like this. He said, I just can't. You're trying to get me fired on cold as balls.

Hey, where can I come? Nah, you're going to get me fired, cold as balls. Hey, where can I come? Nah, you're going to get me fired. Right? But that's the thing. You know what I mean? Cat Williams is at a place where, just like a Corey Holcomb, they can say whatever they want. Absolutely. But at the end of the day, you're capped off now.

You are because of that. Right? Because of that. You are capped off, and he's going to jump up to that next elevator. And that next elevator, you can't use certain things You can't use certain words. Oh, yeah, right and the more he wants to keep moving to elevate himself your handicap so We can't say we can all say yeah cat Williams is funnier because he gets to say whatever he wants

Right is there's no different in us versus the ESPN their KIPP that capped off by destiny. Absolutely They can yeah, so you can't say bitch, right? You're going to get fired. You bitch. You can't do that. We can say a lot of words on this show that they can't say. But in the interview,

Kat called out other comedians for stealing jokes. Obviously, big no-no in the comedy game. But stealing moves and plays is a major part of sports. So Lexi, I'm going to start with you. What's your favorite move that you took from another player? Ooh, favorite move? I would take, I mean.

OK. I mean, my favorite move is a step back. I feel like everybody does a step back. So I mean, I would say maybe like the pullback to the step back, which I watched Kristy Tolliver do at Maryland when she Was in college. I thought she beat Duke actually Okay, I think it was the national championship game put them in overtime with the pullback over a six seven center But you watch that like I'm like, I want to be like her for sure. Yeah, can you how about yourself?

Maybe the rigmarole pulling a chair on somebody. Like that shit was... That's real. That shit was... It's the best shit ever. For real. Now, I know when you were playing, you studied other players meticulously, used to write down... Oh, they write down all the moves.

So, what's your favorite move that you took from another player? It was from Jordan and Kobe. It was called the look no pass I see you but I'm gonna shoot Hell of a move y'all that is the best move in that direction. So that goes to the whole favorite gift. What's somebody ever gave you? The ball. The ball.

All right, let's keep this moving. Wild scene in Vegas recently when a man attacked a Clark County judge in court after she denied his probation. This shit is hilarious. God. Yo. Oh, Lord. Look at his probation. This shit is hilarious. God. Yo. Oh, Lord. Look at this, baby. The whole shit is coming.

God. They said that looked better than the Eagle secondary. Yo. I don't know what the hell. Listen. Whatever he got charged for, you can add 20 to it. Ooh. You can add a dub on to that.

Are you kidding me? That is crazy. Like, you shouldn't do that to a judge, but that would be no female judge. But still, you got to, let's take that out of it. That shit is hilarious. Damn, that is a, like, okay, it's a female. He wrong for jumping on a female. Okay, yes.

How did he get there? Yo, that fact, listen, yo. Lil Duvall said he looked like somebody threw a mannequin over their mouth. Yo, y'all. Hey, man. Everybody in there that was supposed to prevent that, fired. Fired everybody. Yo, and the dude, he like... Like, he in shock that he like,

oh, shit, like, your reaction time went quick enough, buddy. Oh, all y'all fired. Get out. That Terry Tate off his linebacker. What in the hell possessed him to die? Sometimes you feel a certain type of way. He said some stuff, too. The fact that that didn't alert anybody. I think he said, like, oh, hell no.

Yeah, and nobody was like. And it was like she was trying to go give him probation because he had some prior charges. Yeah. And he was right. Ed, we're going to have to give you some time. Well, buddy, guess what? You got Moe.

Hey, listen, I understand. That would have been me and most men in child support court if we could do that. Listen, you took, hey, boy, listen. What? You took the words. I was going to say it. You took the words right out of my mouth. Sitting in that bitch,

bawling at the judge. Like, my lawyer tapped at me like, calm down. I mean, that motherfucker steaming. So absolutely, Gilbert. Yeah, listen, I remember I'm sitting there and I'm like, you say anything over $120,000 a month,

I swear to God I'm jumping over there. You said what? Oh yeah, I was in court for $244,000 a month, I swear to God, I'm jumping over here. You said what? Oh, yeah, I was in court for $244,000. A month? Yeah. That's... Kids eating good. That's Red Lobster every day.

Yeah, so I'm sitting there like, I double dare you. I double dare you. Double don't dare you in this motherfucker. You can't get child support if I'm in jail. Hey, man, I was sitting there, motherfucker, and then then you get to feel like this motherfucker really don't like me man Do start taking that shit person Like you ain't go Jack

Well, this is not that kind of court kick It's going to become that kind of court, God damn it. I'm going to need a motherfucking criminal attorney in this bitch in a minute. I remember when that lawyer, think about it, it's $244,000. When that lawyer said $10,000, I did this. Judge, watch out. I'm going to watch. He was going to get it. You better wear bulletproof vests all day.

I'm dead ass serious. I tried to warn y'all before the show started that it was gonna be a wild Thursday. You know how big a blow it is? Two, four to four. Your ass get ten. Oh, yeah. Judge, you better go get it. Suit up.

Oh, yeah. You get certain wins in a boy You thought you was like boy if I could have did that and that motherfucking boy out, hey. There's some shit that's just worth doing, man. What? Absolutely, man. People think about, like, now y'all know what 2016 and 15 was, right? Hey, man.

When you win... Shit, yeah. What, man? You're gonna be paid as a motherfucker. Hey, Jack, trust me. Na-na-na-na-na. I got some ice cream. I got some ice cream. I got some ice cream. Speaking of pettiness, let's transition to New York,

where Stephen A. Smith took some flack last night for saying he's a bigger star than most of the Knicks. So here's our first mostly fan question of the show from underdog user Manny Morales. This is crazy. He said, Stephen A. Smith said he's a bigger star than most of the Knicks. Do you agree or disagree? Way to lie.

Most of the current Knicks? Most of the Knicks. He might be. I mean, I remember at the end season thing, I mean, everyone was very excited to see Stephen A on that damn stage. You know how he does his little walk? He was waving to the crowd. Everyone was like, Stephen A, Stephen A. Like, they was lit.

Yes. So I can understand. I can completely understand why he feels that way. That's not a foot. That's real. I mean, I don't know if there's any Knicks players outside of New York will be noticed. I mean, Randall here in L.A. The rest of them, yeah, you just, you pretty, you local.

I'm trying to think. I don't. Y'all some lab ass. Queen Latifah and Juice. Y'all some local ass ballers. You local. Yeah. You're right.

Look, for anyone who didn't hear what Stephen A said last night, here are his full comments. Because what I'm saying is, this is the mecca. This is Madison Square Garden. This is New York City, baby. They can't get a star. They cannot get a star. You had a chance. You had a chance, and you passed it.

I don't care what. Whoa, whoa. This is excellent information. All the inside info. He will break it down to a science and make you say yeah it makes sense but it doesn't change the reality it's the mecca and the stars come to visit we never have any we do you realize a legitimate argument could be made that stephen a smith is one of the big stars in new york you realize that that's a damn shame yeah

a bad niece 56 years old ain't thought about playing basketball in about 30 years, and I am a bigger star than most of the New York Knicks. It's a damn shame. Now I'm motivated. I mean, the fact that he said most when it's all. All. Stephen A. Comet is very interesting. Reminds me of a show that I've seen before.

Presented by Underdog Fantasy, Woo Woo. None other than Gil's Arena. Gil, you said some similar stuff that had Knicks fans in their feelings. It was a multi-day pack-up. Multi-day. So they were coming for you for your comments earlier this week. Do you think

Stephen A was essentially saying the same thing that you were on Gil's Arena presented by Underdog Fantasy, Woo Woo? Exactly. When was the last Stephen a was essentially saying the same thing that you were on gills arena presented by underdog fantasy wolf wolf Exactly okay, when was the lab what was the last actual superstar that they had? Mellow mellow and then before that what? Patrick Ewan in eighty fucking five. You are the Mecca of basketball and Well miss that went yeah, but that was but that was a that was an interest that was the interest at right now You are the Mecca of basketball. Well, my stat went. Yeah, but that was an injured stat.

That was an injured stat. That was an injured stat, right? We're talking about a healthy, ready to go that can put the city on the back. You had two players. One was a seat. One was, I can sell his face. The other one was a, just keep playing basketball, sir. Just keep, you just do what you've been doing, right? It wasn't about looks back in the 80s, right? It was just we need to hurry. It was a different time

Okay, I know that we're in it this they look like it was a different time The double knee pad look was fire back there with the big bulky armpit. You can't know the domino was give motherfuckers buckets Yeah, he was giving me was giving it was good. I was giving motherfucking fives. That work, that junk. The man had his own shoe, Gil. It's possible for them to uplift their hair because the way they did the Linsanity, all that. It's possible that they can do it. And they just, they're not doing it. So, speaking of your comments on the Knicks from earlier this week,

Knicks beat writer for the New York Daily News, Christian Winfield, posted the following tweet in response to what you said about the state of the franchise and them needing a star player. Gil said the Knicks are top three in payroll. They are 17th in active cap. Then he says they need to trade for a star. And the first name he says is Jalen Green. Where is he at?

What is he? He's the beat writer? New York Daily News. Honorable man, Gil. Honorable man. He can be honorable man, but is he going... He still has to get credentials every single day to be a beat writer in New York. It's the only team that does that. Dolan's petty.

He's kind of like me. So they got to apply every game to be a beat writer. Because in case you said something foul. In case he said something foul, I don't want your ass back in here. Will do her. So I can see. But the problem is here. You're a Googler.

That's your friend? Tell him he needs to get his Google game up. I said exactly. What did I say? No, you got to tell me. Because what I said was they've spent the most money in the league, top three, and having won a championship. You got to listen to all of the words. Won a championship, which means you have to move further than the two, three years you're going to try to to make them 17.

If you go back to the 80s, from the 80s till now, you're going to be top three in spending money. Have you won a championship since the 80s? No. Lakers have. New York has. Chicago has.

Even Golden State. Understand what I'm saying and that's what happens. You guys are so quick to try to make me wrong that you don't listen to the words that I'm actually saying.

When I say you do not know talent and whoever's been picking talent in the New York organization, 83, y'all had a chance to get, there was this guy by the name of Clyde Drexler. Didn't get him. God damn it. That's a superstar, right? Didn't get him very super. We don't even know I'm even throw names on who you got 86 gonna have Ron Harper shit. You could have had Eldon Campbell with I mean I think about that kind of team, right you got Clyde You got big fella Ewing you got Ron Harper you got Ron Harper, you got Mark Jackson because they picked him, that was a great pick.

And then you could have had Eldon Campbell at the four. That's a great team. And then eventually after you did Mark, you got Rod Strickland, which is a great player, but you already just picked a point guard a year before that, stupid. And eventually you picked Huber Davis, right? I mean, come on. Gil, no Huber Davis. Slander on the Lord's Thursday. I mean, you went Grit Anthony. I mean, how many point guards you need? That couldn't really do nothing.

Then you always needed a three. You went Huber Davis when you should have went Latrell Sprewell. Right? I mean, think about a championship they could have had. So is it me that don't know talent or you? We can even go recent. Let's try from, uh-oh, the notebook is out. 2008. The little handy-dandy. They could have had Brooke Lopez. They could have had DeMar DeRozan. I want to know who dropped the ball on that in the workout. You could have had Jimmy Butler. Damn, I want to know who dropped the ball in that workout. You could have had Devin Booker God damn it. Who was evaluating that that time? Mm-hmm Donovan Mitchell Right you could have had BAM

Donovan Mitchell or BAM, right? Mm-hmm turn the page or a page Right, you got RJ Right, but if you looked at your team, you already had that position. So you could have got Garland, right? You would have had Garland, Knox, Morris, Portis, and Randall. Better team. Most of your picks you don't even have anymore.

Kevin Knox, who's over in Detroit right now. He's decent. Y'all could have had a dude by the name of... People say we look alike, just for the record. Is Halliburton a superstar? Yes. Oh, they could have had him. Mm-hmm.

Ooh, Halliburton. Y'all done made Gale pull out a lot of receipts. They could have had this dude by the name of Shay. Shit. Really? They could have? They could have had this dude by the name of Shea. Shit. They could have had Shea. Or Mikael. You could have had even one of those two.

Could have had Mr. B. Branigan. But I think the other issue they have, when you went on that... Last year's pick. I don't know who they picked. But who they could. But I know it ain't Jalen Williams

who's averaging 18. Huh? Who was in that fucking workout? I'm just trying to figure out where I said something wrong at. Hey, I'll even fuck you up, New York. Y'all can sit here and bitter all day. When LeBron was a free agent, I'll even fuck you up, New York, and y'all can sit here and bitter all day. When LeBron was a free agent, I think they wanted to go there.

So, LeBron, Wade, Bosh, and Mike Miller was going to follow them. And you decided to follow what Dan Tony was saying by Dan Tony picking his own man, Amari Stoudemire. So if I tell you go after Jalen Green, he averaged 22 points last year as a 20-year-old. If you look at everybody, it's Cade and him from that class. You have a 6'6 guy I'm pretty sure if you can find this in the league. Let me know 6'6 guy who can create his own shot Got fast twitch muscles jump 46 48 inch vertical And and can put people in the seat highlight reel if you can find that Anywhere let me know and he has a following

And he's very easy to market. Very, right? Very easy. Very luxurious girl. That's easy on the eyes. You have a female easy on the eyes. And he got a whole... And he's Filipino. Filipino. Filipino, black. Let me know if I'm saying something.

This is how bad New York picket is. I'm going to tell you. This is how bad New York picket is. I'm going to tell you. I got something to say. Who is... I let you go. No, go. Who's...

They have one of the biggest guards that LA... I mean, that New York has produced, right? In the draft. In the draft. He's coming up by the name of Rafer Austin. He is a demigod for New York basketball. You have a chance to pick him. And you don't, and he goes the very next pick.

Skip to my Lou, ladies and gentlemen. You have skipped to my fucking Lou in your back pocket. Right here. Second round pick. You're telling me that just for the city itself. You hiring your friends. Someone who's going to. You don't think all those people would have ran to the arena.

He was the biggest thing moving in New York. During and one mix up. Mm-hmm. I don't know nothing yet. No, so I So when I was doing my Rounds doing TV thing. I was asked a question about the state of New York Knicks at the time So it's after my spent two years with the Knicks, the state and the third. So I get a random 9-1-7 call one day on my phone. Can you mark Mr. Dolan here?

Oh, shit. Did he call you a naysayer? Hey. Did he call you a naysayer? He said no. Dude. So I literally said, I heard you guys. Man, listen, it ain't personal.

Please don't take what I said personal. I was only speaking facts. That you hired Phil Jackson, right? For what? Phil's an excellent coach. Picking talent? Eh, not so much. He did a hell of a job with the team, Jack.

And what did Phil Jackson do when you gave him the job? Head coach of the yard. Right? The two. Gave 70 million. I was like, yo, what track record? It's all there. It's just the picks, the free agency.

It starts up top, though. It ain't just everybody involved. The beat writers, the players, it's the fucking whole shit. The whole shit show. The whole shit show. But when you're there, you don't know it. The two years I spent there, it was great. We was fucking winning. Besides when you there, you don't know it. Two years after me, it was great. We was fucking winning.

Besides the second year, we made the playoffs that second round. But you see it. You're like, damn. Once you leave, you're like, damn, that was... It was really like that? From the outside looking in, because they spend... One thing they do, to your point,

they take care of motherfuckers. He's going to spend it to take care of you. If you there, that once Nick, always Nick shit, they mean it. Absolutely. They treat you great. If you have been there, you played there, but it's... They don't know what they do. Yeah, because it starts up top, dog.

You're a great businessman. Okay, cool. Do that. Like, you admittedly, like, you like, oh, I really do this. We know this is a fucking hobby for you. Hobby? It's a hobby for you. And you can

tell. I do what y'all want to do. Here's the checkbook and here. That ain't the way to fucking do business. That business. We have a 9171-7 number entering the Funny this is how funny it is. This is how bad you know, the whole thing is Dolan's there every game Dolan's at every game, but he has a rule that you can't put him on TV? What are you ashamed of?

I was in the building the day they fired Fisdale. I went out there for a job. Front office coach. I was in the building that day. Breakfast, meet and all that. Sit around, watch practice. I'm sitting around and I'm waiting on going to talk to the office and ESPN on, right?

And they come across the bottom line on ESPN while I'm sitting in the office. The Knicks fire. I was like, I see the coaches going off in the room, and I tell everybody, you know what? Thank you for your time. I see y'all a little busy today. I'm going to go about my business, man. Yeah, yeah. Craig, this man conducted practice.

You could have fired him before practice. You let this man conduct practice, he come over there, everything was fine, hunky-dory, ha, ha, ha, and they get this man to boot right after practice. I was like, oh yeah Hey motherfucker that crucial Before we move on producers want to let you know you rattled off a bunch of names I think one name you didn't mention was a gentleman by the name of Steph Curry that the Knicks had the opportunity to draft

Yeah No, no, I'm gonna say don't don't listen to our producers fuck Okay Reduce they could have traded up the producers is googlers, bro. They googling but ain't got ain't got my Google Oh, no, I got some new shit over there said it was the chat. They said it was Man I know what I'm doing over here man If you do wait till after the show today, they could trade it up Like you know you got a good trade up nice like that

You can't even what's the one talks about Jalen like Oh Jalen Grimm with 22 points man at 20 years old Name what name a rookie y'all done had that had 22 points as a rookie. Yeah, like he's on pace to be a all-star Right. So what my thing is this team you have Like he's on pace to be a all-star soon. Right? So my thing is, this team you have, let it go. Right? This is how good that Jalen Green is. You give them Randall and Brunson right now, I guarantee they turn you down.

Because he's future. Right? Once you get future, you build on it. He's 21, 22 years old. So you, was it Paulo Benchero? Paul the banker. He averaged 20. Jalen Green averaged 22 at the same age. You see it? if he's the the the foundation then why do you think i named him yeah patrick ewing average 20th rookie year girl not 22 20 that motherfucker was 37 at that age i ain't gonna fuck yeah no jaylen green can go yeah absolutely yeah he's struggling a little bit right now but you gotta see that the personnel that they put around in houston now it's kind of taking his groove away a little bit. Took the ball out of his hand.

If I said this, people would think I'm stupid. That's what happens when the front office don't know what the fuck they're doing. Just fucking putting pieces together. The New York Knicks has been the Clippers of the East, and nobody's ever said it. The old Clippers of the East. Where? Damn, Gil. Have you noticed that since... Their biggest free agent ever is going to be Brunson.

That's going to be the best free agent they ever signed. Brunson will be that. The only rookie they've ever extended... is R.J. Barrett. And then got rid of him. Got rid of him. Because they don't want to... What do I know?

I feel like I like you, but we're going to be getting packed up for the next several days. Or attempted to. Don't pack me up. Don't pack me up. I'm not the one picking. You guys, can I get into the game?

Hey, hey, hey. If I was picking and I'm sitting there watching talent, trust me, I would have seen... I would have seen Clyde Drexler. I can tell you that for sure. Hey, hey, hey. If I was picking and I'm sitting there watching talent, trust me, I would have seen, I would have seen Clyde Drexler. I can tell you that for sure. Yeah, one thing, one thing, yeah. I wouldn't have, you... To pick the talent, you got to...

You got to know what you're looking for. Absolutely. Okay. I know I wouldn't have picked, this wouldn't have been my one, two, and three. I wouldn't have had... I wouldn't have had Hubert Davis. No, was he coming off the bench?

Greg Andy? One of them. It don't matter. You had Mark Jackson. You had three guards. You had Glenn Davis, you know, Doc. You had him at six-four. Glenn Rivers. You had three, six-four

guards. One, two two and three you telling me why Jordan was giving y'all buckets. Well, let's take it right now It started three left-handed players And on that note, let's keep it moving fuck Do I get a feeling that you're gonna get a pair of Timberland boots with a dead fish in it sent to your house sometime in the near future. Look, they're building in a sense, right? I guess when the team has been winning a little bit, they think that I'm saying something. So I already see what's happening with you guys, right?

You guys are at a... You're stalled out, right? You're stalled. Like, you just trade your future The future you had you just got rid of him right? He was a solid RJ bear right you got rid of him We didn't gonna do with Randall in a minute. You're gonna get rid of him You're gonna be back to ground zero once again because you don't have nobody to take you over the hump right? You're like Memphis without the Jamarant aspect of it.

I'm telling you, get the Jamarant aspect first. And then you can bring in the Brunsons and all of that to build around that star. So, yeah, you can make the playoffs and do this every year and win. You're never going to. For the money y'all have? What? Putting that boy in that. For the money y'all have, What? Putting that boy in that... For the money y'all have,

I'll be buying OKC themselves. Hey, whoever they're scouting, scout for me too, goddammit. I'll pay you double. Whoever's scouting for OKC, give me him. That's my GM. That's my GM.

Goddammit. Shut up, Scott Preston. That's my fucking GM. Pistons are the worst team in the league right now. He's the GM. Like, no, that's Scott Preston. The people that work for Scott Preston. Okay.

No, he's saying the scouts that work for Scott Preston. You got to bring the whole crew. It's like Kevin Hart and his crew. You got to bring us up. You got to bring us up. 11-11 OKC. He's the GM, but he ain't going anywhere. Can New York Knicks history say they've drafted better players than OKC has?

Absolutely not. And on that note, am I saying something dumb? This is Gil Zerino presenting my underdog fantasy movie. I'm going to give you back to the 80s. Oh, and they've been around a shorter amount of time than the New York Knicks. Yeah, you think you're picking better picks? So we're going to move on, but Knicks fans, if you want to get back at Gil, this is what I would do. I would download the Underdog Fantasy app, use promo code Gil.

And get in the chat. And get $100 out of Underdog Fantasy's pockets with that deposit match. Really show Gil who's boss. And do pick-ems on the Knicks. Pick-ems on the Knicks. All day long. As long as you go under, you good money. So Pistons are the worst team in the league right now.

Big man Jalen Duren decided to take out some of those frustrations on the Jazz on Wednesday night. With his home crowd, they dump it down low now. That's a money. Tried it. What is this? He dunked on Walker Kessler, then tried to ride him like he was a horse. He could have had Walker Kessler, too. He could have had Walker Kessler then tried to ride him like he was a horse. He could have had Walker Kessler too. He could have had Walker Kessler too.

So Kenyon, I'll start with you. What you doing if someone tried to ride on your shoulders after dunking? And during hangs on because most players do that, so... What can you do? Body slam him to the ground? Yeah, there's some different moves. Oh, plenty. Would it have been an issue? I don't know.

Okay. I really don't.. Mm-hmm. Okay. I really don't. It depends on... That looked intentional to me. Thank you, Gil. It depends on who it is. But that looked intentional. Because I didn't dunk and wrap my...

You know who... But you let go of the rim and carry you away? I held on the rim and grabbed you away? Not to that degree. I held on the rim and grabbed him. And you pulled him in? Yeah, pulled him in. Yeah. You take that shit and get your nuts off my goddamn shoulder blade.

What the fuck's wrong with you? That happened to me before. I'm horrible. I'm horrible. Yeah. You're under that big, yeah. I'm not in the... I'm talking to you.

Just thump the shit out your fucking Yeah, it depends on who it is man, right if just happened just say what I was playing if somebody like Mark Madsen No, no not enough somebody it depends on who it is now yeah Yeah, that's yeah. We he should be happen to, man. Yeah, that's, yeah, we're going. He should be, to be honest, he should be happy it was Kessler. Yeah. Because you can see Kessler actually trying to hold him. Oh, yeah, like, oh, shit.

Oh, shit, hold him, he hold you, make sure you don't fall. Because something like that, if Kessler would have moved wrong or pushed, man, he could have broke his neck. Yeah, not overreact, because most people in that situation overreact. If that was Draymond Green, boy, you would be in hospital right now. What? You would have broke your wrist. Broke your broke his neck. Yeah, not overreact, because most people in that situation go overreact. If that was Draymond Green, boy, you would be in hospital right now. They would have broken your wrist, neck. You would have balled your ass up.

Put you in a rock bottom out there, bitch. Nah, nah. Shaq wouldn't have done that, because you wouldn't have got there. You wouldn't have dunked first. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you would have been body slammed on the attempt. Wasn't happening, Jack.

Lexi, is somebody trying to do that to you again? Would you be insulted? I don't even have a thought for that. No, Brittany Griner? She don't, she like... She put her nuts on you? Her what? Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry about that. I mean... Excuse me? No, no, no. You're right. Underdog fantasy is not responsible for the savings made in this program. When BG dunks, it's not that much elevation.

She's got such long arms. It's like real quick. Okay. No, look. Ain't no hand on her. Let's shift it a little bit. You've already offended several fan bases players. No, it a little bit. You've already offended several fans. It wasn't intentional.

I just, because she pays child support. I just, because I put her as a father. Anyway. And she walked around the beach with her shirt off. Klay Thompson has struggled this season, but has shown glimpses of the vintage Klay to help the Warriors dynasty win four chips. But like I said, he has been struggling.

He's averaging 16.7 points per game. Klay is averaging... Big-ass kids. One and two. I have nothing to do with it. I'm merely here to host. The host has no name. Klay is averaging...

Go ahead, J. Go ahead, J. Kid. I just wanted you to hear what you said. This is actually fun. It just came out of you. I had to think about it. Oh just wanted you to hear what you said. This is actually fun. It just came out of you. I had to think about it. Oh, shit, I didn't say that. Get ready to write an apology note.

Oh, shit. Klay has averaged 16.7 points per game this season, lowest since his second year in the league. He's also averaging career lows in field goal and three-point percentage. After the Warriors beat the Magic on Tuesday to improve to 16-17, Clay talked about a conversation he had with Steve Kerr about adjusting his mindset in the last chapter of his career. Sometimes I forget just how successful

and how lucky I've been to be a part of championship teams and all-star games and gold medals. And when you want to get back to that level so badly, you can kind of get in your own way. And rather than forcing it, we had a conversation about just enjoying this last chapter of my career and how lucky I truly am to still be playing this game and do it at a high level

and being a better mentor for these young guys, leading by example, and having my energy right every game. And he helped me realize when I do have negative energy, how that affects the team in a poor manner. So we had a great conversation that just helped me change my whole mindset and forget about shooting splits or points per game or all-star games and just to enjoy being in this Warriors uniform and appreciate what we built because it's such a rare opportunity for any professional athlete to be a part of so much success and to try and pass that

torch to the younger guys and keep this thing going. So one legend on Twitter offered this commentary in response to Clay's video. He said, admitting you're a cook is a heavy realization, dawg. Take a cold MF to get up on the podium and speak like this, especially when you're only 33 years old. Shout out to Reese Holiday. I thought it was gonna be something nice. But the question

for you guys in all sincerity, is this Clay acknowledging that he isn't the Clay of old anymore? Yeah. Listen, he's been probably thinking about this for the last couple years. And the telltale sign is when they didn't give him his money, right? And he had to go out there and perform and as a player, you know when you're not really That do like that anymore, right? You can feel it you can sense it, you know guys that you know

You used to clamp up are getting shots that they normally wouldn't get. You're not getting the shots that you normally got. So I think that that conversation with Steve Kerr was more of a, I know you're stressed right now, but enjoy what you have done in this league. I mean, you was a guy who they thought was going to be a six-man, a usable piece at best. And you turned into an all-star. You turned into a four-time champ, right? Instead of coming into this arena, right, depressed and thinking about this money,

be blessed and understand what you have done in this league. And I think that's what this is. Enjoy the moment of what you did That's for you big dogs, let's see how you feel about playing comment I mean, I think it's good that he's He has publicly acknowledged this because I feel like there's just been a lot of talk and negativity Surrounding him and and and the Golden State Warriors in general,

but there's been a lot of focus and heat on him in particular. So I think he does believe that. I mean, I don't like that he says that, like, this is, like, the last of my career. Like, I feel like he still has, like, a few solid years left, but maybe not at the level that, you know, he'd played at before. He had those two injuries. So I think it's good that Steve sat him down and kind of was like,

can you just readjust your mindset? You've done so much for this team, this organization, this league. You should be proud of that. And I'm glad that he said that. I mean, he didn't look happy saying it at all. So, I mean, I'm not really sure why that game he decided to make these statements. But, I mean, I feel like he's shifting his mentality. And I think after he's said that, I feel like maybe he will start to play a little bit better, more relaxed.

So he looks stressed out when he's out there. He does look stressed this season. But we riding with you, Clay, as always. Kenyon, what are your thoughts on Clay's comments? No, first and foremost, I've always been a big-time Clay fan. His craft, his shooting, form, everything about his game is defensively. It's unfortunate that you have to come to that during a stretch where you struggle. Questions are asked of you.

And whoever asked the question, probably it was a great question, I'm sure, for him to have to sit there in that moment. Like you said, it didn't seem like he was happy saying it. And when you are reflecting on what you have been and he's thinking about it in real time. Mm-hmm. So, and it's coming out as that. Like, that real emotion and that real feeling in that moment is, like Gil said, all the

thoughts that he's been having over the last two years since all the injuries and all that it started then mm-hmm and now is is manifesting itself now it's starting to surface right so it's like fucking staph infection mm-hmm it's. For us athletes, when you have to come to that realization that, damn, I ain't that anymore. I can still hoop. Yeah.

But I ain't that. You think he's doing this, you know, maybe because he's seen the writing on the wall. Now he's taking control of this narrative of if he potentially doesn't stay in golden state he's not gonna be like oh i was pushed out oh i know no no i don't think so i think for one this this is has been a success story in itself in golden state with the guys right and to us to a degree they failed him right by not putting other pieces

around him to utilize what he does best looking great shooter stand like he shouldn't have to work that hard to get his shot off and you saw it decline after the injury not okay let's go get a post player. Or let's go get this to put him in this position. Or let's change his role in this way. Since the injury. You couldn't expect him after having two major injuries to come back the way he was.

Just, it was foolish and naive to think that he was going to come back that same way. And for you not to surround him with other players like you do like now, he don't have to work as hard to see if he got the ball in his hand, it might be better for him. But putting better pieces around him could help. And I think him realizing who he is now and you think about those things and I and and it's unfortunate that we are in this this world where everybody excuse me everybody has an opinion on your craft where I don't know who the fucking no-name ass is talking about realizing that you fucking cooked.

Like, who the fuck are you? What have you done? Like, to even comment on Klay Thompson. Right. I'm going to take that stand with it. Like, who are you to comment on what this man's coming to realization is doing? Like, who are you?

What have you fucking done with your life? What realization have you had done with your life? What realizations have you had to come to? Fucking nobody? People like that drive me fucking crazy, dog. They get on my nerves. You don't have the leverage to say anything about Klay. I played in the league. This man won four championships,

did anything that I could. Respect it. And anything other than respect on Klay's name at this point is disrespect. Because the work that he's put in. Fight from injury. Like most dudes don't come back from two of them, man. To play again. And win a championship.

And win another. It just don't happen. So, put some respect on it. And shout out to Steve Kerr for having that conversation with him, like you said. To ease that pressure. And that's a great coach that he has. And a great mentor. And a great friend.

Not just to play a coach relationship. He look at him as a friend. And to be able to see that he's stressing, to see what the media is saying, to hear all these things and to be able to come to him and have that conversation, like it ain't that bad.

You've done great things for yourself, this team, your family, this game. It ain't that bad right now, as you've done great things for yourself this team your family this game It ain't that bad right now as you seen like most guys will get a fucking right limb to be in your position right now And a heartbeat so clay had 11 30-point games last season including a 54 piece in 3 40-point games He's had one 30-point game so far this season, but we got a mostly fans question from underdog used by the name of cash me out 89 Later in your career was there a player or situation that got the best of you where you said it might be time for me To hang them up so Gil I'll start with you. Yep

Yeah Yeah. Ooh. It's going to be. Elaborate. Because I don't know that doctor's name. He said, no. I don't know that doctor's name because he told me, you will never be the same player again. So you need to adjust your game.

Yeah. What the fuck does that mean? Right? You know, that was my thought process and Trust me when you're going into the game and you see a lane open and I'm a one-foot jumper And now I got to go in there and try to jump off to Alright, and I'm not a two-foot jumper that can dunk right the game changes and I remember when I was in Memphis, right,

I think this is something that people, for the naysayers, right, I think people think I got blackballed, right, and not realize I got in trouble in Washington. I played in Orlando. I played in Washington after Orlando and in Memphis, so it's not a blackball. What ended up happening is I'm going to the gym early,

and I have Jeremy Pargo and Josh Shelby as the rooks, right? And I'm training them, working them out, right? Anything I said, they listened, they did. But Hollins didn't fuck with young guys only vets so I wasn't better than them not even close right these dudes was there was a future right future guards you can see it oozing their work ethic oozing and they're putting me in the game right putting me in the game and I said right then and right there that I Don't have the love that I used to have for this game and these dudes do and as long as I'm on this team I'm gonna be in their way So that was the day I was like I'm done. I made enough money in my life, right?

I don't have to love let somebody let me remove myself There's that now there's only 449 people. So somebody who's looking to do what I did has a chance. Because as long as I say I want to be on a team, any veteran coach would have put me on the team as a backup or a backup backup. And this is when you were with the Grizzlies. This was with the Grizzlies. So after that day never I never answered another call to come back Now if you look at it 2013 when doc was a coach with the Clippers You know he invited me to training camp. I didn't show up

I'm good cuz whoever whoever you don't cut to put me on the team He probably has more love than I do right now. And I respect the game too much to just be sitting on the bench collecting a check. I mean, you say that. I know a lot of people who hear that.

I'll go take this Asian money. But I wanted to hit on something. You say that that player has more love than you, but isn't it love for you to be able to acknowledge that you're not the same player that you are anymore to give somebody else an opportunity?

Yeah, no, that's just the respect and the game I fell in love with. I understand fans, but they don't understand I was a fan first, and I was just a fan who got a chance to live out his dream, right? So when I'm in the NBA, I was a fanboy, right? Everybody, okay, let me get your jersey. Sign your autograph. I collected 550 goddamn jerseys while I was a player because I was a fan who was playing, right?

I just had a skill, and I was great at that skill. So when I felt like I don't have the same love playing no more, let me go ahead and give someone who was, you know, at the end of the bench number 15. I got to think about how I started. I thought I started as a number 15 player, right? Now imagine if that veteran was in front of me, I would have never got my shot.

I don't want to be that dude, so I opened up spots So can you was there a player situation in your career that got the best of you you just thought it might be time to Shut it down. Oh, no, I'm not sure same as the injury man For all the time fucking injury the game where I played you know, I don't Nobody I ain't gonna get nobody that kind of credit. I know Yes Yeah, just time Yeah, really just time. Yeah, you play enough you play a certain way

To work a certain way, you work a certain way, then, yeah, it's shit. Back then, yeah, it's surgeries and, yeah, it's... Yeah, yeah, I... So did you adjust with yours over time because you was injured? I didn't know how. I still just went. Like, I mean, like, mentally. Yeah, yeah, mentally, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I just...

For me, I just didn't start shooting a whole lot of jump shots and certain things like that. I just Yeah, no, I just went yeah, well mentally I knew like certain situations like there especially when I went to Milwaukee You know what? Yeah, it was on the break And I went up like you said that one foot jump and I was like, oh Fucking need and I was like, oh. Fucking knee didn't, I was like, eh, this don't feel right. But, and that was just from, like, time. Like, it was that.

I was like, nah, yeah, this. But then you sit around, you're like, maybe I still can, but then, nah, you realize, like. And then, yeah, it's just that, and for me to go to Milwaukee, it took everybody around me in my inner circle to get me to go. Because I had mentally checked out. I was checked all the way fucking out. Sitting at home, family, kid, the phone rang and everybody around I literally held the phone was like just listening to the conversation like this and she was like I'm like yeah yeah you know what I'm

saying yeah it's that then you know I'll go I put everything aside like you know what I'm gonna go give it and then the shit don't work and I I, yo, they could have called me like, yo, we changed our mind. Yeah. You know what? I was on the next thing smoking home, man. Yeah. So, Lexi, obviously you're still hooping, still young, vibrant, out here really in these streets getting it. Putting in the work in the gym.

I'm just saying, still young, but able to be on the move. Guys. All these streets vibing. Let me clear that out. Clear that out. Not in the move. Out in the streets, guys. Out in the streets. Clear that out. Clear that out. Not in the streets. Mostly in the gym. You're young.

On the streets, on the way to the gym. It wasn't until 5.30 in the morning. But 5.45. No, she wasn't. Doesn't matter. She's completely working. You know, because she's comp at this point, right? I test 5.30.

Are you in the gym? Because I am. You did message me at 5 30 talking about are you did you get your shots up i was on my way to pilates so i was stretching you were putting in the work but my point you don't you know some situation this past season how has that just changed your mentality and approaching and just maybe even just in appreciating the game a little more and understanding how it could be taken away from oh. Oh, yeah. I think the biggest thing for me is the way I take care of my body, which I was, since I've been young, I've just always been very healthy, no injuries, knock on wood.

And I just love being in the gym and working out. So if I feel a little soreness, a little tired, I'm like, let me just go work it out. I'm going to go to the gym, work out, work out. But this summer, when I got really sick, you know, you can be the healthiest person in the world and like you have no control over certain things. So I had to really sit down and just be like, I need to just take care of my body better. Like internally, like the physical, like the lifting, the running, all that, I got that handled. But what I eat, my diet, massages, stretching,

drinking, those things, catch up to you, catch up to you. My doctor said nothing I did caused me getting sick. It just was something that happens to some people. But yeah, moving forward, I'm going to get to the gym a little earlier. I'm going to be more mindful of my morning routines, try to stay off the phone, just mentally. Everything has just changed, and I do have a new gratefulness for the game. I mean, I still am obsessed, and I love basketball. That never changed, but it's just a little bit different now And now I'm like a vet vet like last year. I was like kind of like a baby vet but like now I'm like a real vet so I'm excited to go into this season and

You know help the work. Well, we have two lottery picks so help them out Wrap my arms around our younger players that are you know still learning? But I'm like yo, I'm not ready to get out of anybody's way yet So I'm just excited WNBA season quickly approaching. We are excited to be hitting you up for tickets Mm-hmm two games. Hopefully you answer your phone always. Okay, no switch ups. No switch up. I need 10 Like you going home I'm just kidding. Like, you're going home. I'm bringing the whole crew out here. You got to bring everybody.

But so, obviously, with the Sparks, we got to talk about the other team in L.A., Los Angeles Lakers. Lakers ended 2023 with two straight losses, much of the same in their first game of 2024 against the Heat, who did not have Jimmy Butler. Got so bad that Heat fans were in staples, giving Lakers fans a proverbial fuck yo couch. Much of the same in their first game of 2024 against the Heat, who did not have Jimmy Butler. Got so bad that Heat fans were in staples, giving Lakers fans the proverbial fuck yo couch. He said, we have enough to win.

He really does. And if you hear the mantra over and over again from his team, they believe him. What are they? The let's go Heat chant. Oh, got it. Very disrespectful. Who's your daddy? Fuck yo company. LeBron finished the game with 12 points,

which was his lowest scoring game when playing at least 35 minutes since 2016. He left the arena without speaking to reporters, which I feel like is an indication that he wasn't particularly happy. Shit about to go down. And when asked about the vibe of the team, Austin Reeves responded, shitty, we're losing. Lakers are 3-9 since winning the NBA Cup, dropped to below.500 on the season, currently holding down the 10th seed in the West. Darvin Hamm's been criticized for his rotation decisions during the slump.

We got a question? No, no, I just got a statement when you get done, Reeves. Okay. So, like I said, Darvin Hamm has been criticized. On Wednesday, Hamm put Austin Reeves back in the starting lineup, but the tandem of Torian Prince and Cam Riddish played a combined 48 minutes, finished the game with zero points, five turnovers. So, according to Shams and Yovan Buha, they have six sources that say there's currently a growing disconnect

between Hamm and Lakers locker room, stemming from disjointedness around rotations and adjustments Can you know you have a statement you're gonna make your statement that I ask a question That's why they in season turn shit overrated Fuck let's call the fuck what it is. Why that shit overrated? Like, it's a gimmick. Like, it's a fucking gimmick, man.

That shit don't mean nothing. Like, the fucking team's struggling right now. After winning that motherfucker, like, all them guys after winning that, they fucking struggling. That shit a gimmick. That talent. Y'all got on that fucking team of y'alls. After winning that they fucking struggling that should have gimmick that talent Y'all got on that fucking team y'all You and you my fuck both y'all Chad is blaming me for pointing out that the Lakers were the first NC the tournament championship winners

Ray batter 18. I do raising banners and shit. I'm really fool. So I just a fact that's your fools Go man raising banners in the middle of the season fool for what Man No, man, okay. We okay. Y'all got this shit. Okay, cool. Let's move on man Yeah, I put too much emphasis on it, but anybody who would have won would have put a banner up shit weak I'll give the Lakers in the other 2019 whoever the shit fools go. We don't mean nothing Unless you was unless the Boston Celtics would have won the motherfucker, the Milwaukee Bucks or the Denver

Nuggets would have won it. It's the only thing that fucking mattered. Because them three teams right now, we think they got a chance to win the NBA championship right now. As we sit here, when the season started and to to this point right now. Even though Minnesota won, okay, I don't look at them as a champion right now. But that... And why the fuck Darvin keeps switching lineups? Seems like he's pulling names out of a hat.

And he's like, this is the lineup for tonight. Give me five. Yeah. Give me five. I just need five. Well, we know who two are going to be. I just need three. Three, right.

Playing CeeLo out this. Jerking him a full closet. That is how he puts out his white notes. Question for the couch. It's getting to that point. Darman's catching a lot of heat. Darman, we rock with you. Please do not pull up on us.

Man can break Bibles with his bare hands. Will Darmanham finish the season as a Lakers head coach? I'm speaking to LeBron, Richie Paul, Savannah. I don't care which one of y'all at this point do it, but look. Just go to the locker room. Where did that come from? I don't care which one y'all at this point do it, but look just Go to the locker room You put this in Prince's locker you put this in cams locker you put this in in D-Lo Dan van then you put this in this locker right you don't say shit when we get it

We know what to do you skip you a fling this shit like this You put all your shit in here and you get the fuck out this arena Okay, because as long as they on this team that motherfucker with the ball head and the bump gonna keep putting the asses in the game Okay, as long as they on the team, I don't know what he's seeing It is like he's trying to relive his career and wish someone put his sorry ass in the game. Okay?

Three people played. They scored four. I'm pretty sure we can go four. We can do four. I can get four by myself. We can do four. And Kevin Love can score 10 on me. The fact that Kevin Love, I didn't even know he was still in the league.

He had 10. Kevin Love, admirable player. He had 17 rebounds. Kevin fucking Love. Nice little pushback. UCLA Bruin Guild. I didn't know he was still playing. I thought he retired with UD.

The fact that man's still in the league and he gave you 10 and come on man ain't no god damn listen listen Bron you gotta you gotta do what Kobe did to Rudy T

I don't know if you heard this story but after the warrior game when Kobe had enough while they were doing film, Rudy T was in the middle of his speech crying, I don't know what to do. Kobe walked his ass down, put his hand on his shoulder, and said, hey, we're going to have to let you go. So we're going to pay you go So we we gonna pay you You know go here spend some family time, but you're gonna hear get the fuck on out of here

Hey, rest of y'all. Hey go to practice. Yeah, Ron. You can play me do the truck He fired that man go on and fire this motherfucker Enough to That's ridiculous put out the trash cans and Put them all in this basket and get them the fuck on out of here, man I'm sorry ain't no damn way that these guys should be put in the game anymore. I'm sorry I commend you for the heavy duty heavy duty cuz they got a lot of shit They own bags all three the motherfuckers put your shit in and get the fuck out You don't need your own bag. All three of them motherfuckers. Put your shit in there and get the fuck out. You don't need your own bag at this point. Ain't no damn way, man.

Y'all keep putting these dudes in the game. Lexi, what are your thoughts about... I mean, I don't know. Something about the... Because I watched the game last night. Something about last night's game was, like, particularly infuriating. Yes.

Because, you know, you have Bron out there who only scores 12, and it kind of just made the team just look super horrible. Like even him, just his presence alone, you're out there with one of the best players to ever play, and y'all cannot elevate yourselves, elevate your effort, elevate your shooting, your defense, and you're playing next to LeBron James. Anthony Davis is having an amazing season,

and y'all can't even match their intensity every night. No, it's talent level, Lexi. It doesn't even look like they're trying sometimes. They can't. They can't. Like, when people want to... Go ahead. People want to say

Right, and I've always said I said this when Vogel was doing that shit, right? You cannot have LeBron James who drives to the basket You got Anthony Davis right and then you put three dudes who can't shoot the ball in the game Together if you can't shoot I am NOT the game. Together. If you can't shoot, I am not guarding you. Right. Right? So, Cam. Cam guy is not gonna ever guard him. He took one shot last night. So, that means if this is Cam, and you're

LeBron, I'm doing this. Try to drive. Try to drive. I'm here. Hey, I got your help. I got... You got three players on that team That's just gonna sit and watch LeBron James. So LeBron is playing against Prince's guy he's printing his cams guy you put van Danny's gonna be playing against his guy because they're not a Threat so that means LeBron James and Anthony Davis are playing against five defenders.

So now you can't get to the free throw line. If I'm driving and you guard him, Michael Ruffin, and he pull out, you're going to sit there. I'm not following that song. Now I'm trying to now. I can't even go in there. So now I've got to sit jumpers all day. So now you take the free throw line away from me.

LeBron don't go to the free throw line. He can't get in there because it's goddamn five guys. They don't understand that concept Niggas sitting there boxes and elbow boxes and elbow One shot but you're talking about talent. How hard is it to make a wide-open shot? Apparently forget the boy a wide open shot. Apparently. Forget the wide open shot. Take the wide open shot. Yeah, taking it. Take it. If I pass to you,

I don't give a fuck if you kick the ball in the stand. Just kick it towards the rim. Let your man do this at least. Like, oh shit, it might go in. Yeah.

The fact that they don't even look at you. The fact, I don't even know your motherfucking jersey number. I don't even know your jersey number at this point cuz you like you pop that Paul Pishon It was what shouldn't it was your name? I always do like that. They should be doing that to you out there I was these dudes

Like this God would they know Scott report day. Hey, we just go focus on LeBron James and what's an air? Anthony David, yeah, I'm sorry, but I don't know when in the fuck that they started, when they started taking the talent off. When did sorry players start being in the starting lineup? There's teams where this starting guard is going to start for six minutes and then we're going to sub him out and he ain't going to play no more. He's going to play three minutes, then we're going to put the real guy in. When the fuck did that start happening because I swear to God

I know the Bulls didn't have a guy that should have been started to coo coach wasn't starting over Pippen We can sell his ass in he's a great six man, but he's not He's not a starter Right nobody gonna Lakers on the bench should have been started Right there's nobody on Boston Celtics that should have been starting in front of somebody on that goddamn lineup. There's nobody in Detroit Pistons

when it was the bad boys. There's not nobody on the bench that could have been starting. You got two players on the bench that's sitting there doing this. It's some bullshit. These motherfuckers got zero. Shit, you ain't even got to put us in the game. It's some bullshit. These motherfuckers got zero. Shit, you ain't even got to put us in the game.

We can do that. We can do that right here. They're better because they're not getting scored on. Because you got these defensive players not really even getting those stops real, and you're not scoring. That's a good point. Like I said, shit, they're doing better than them.

They ain't even getting scored on. Like, what? You're going to, they're doing better than them. They ain't even getting scored on. Like, what? You're going to have a better plus minus than they're playing. Well, absolutely. Like, what are we doing? Shit, my defense is better than yours. Watch. Like, what are they?

This is not how we wanted to start 2024, ladies and gentlemen. This is crazy, man. Let's answer your question, Joe. I don't think he will finish the season. Thank you, Lash. Thank you for acknowledging me just a little bit in my moment of need. Hey, man, listen. If you don't want to put Rui or if you don't want to put Rui and D'Lo in...

Rui was out last night. Was D'Lo out? Yeah, he was out. He was out. He ain't playing. Can you put Phil Handy in? God damn it. We know he can dribble the fuck out that ball, right? He got his shit on the swim. Put him at the point shit. I mean a If you worried about defense Just remember last night your player score zero. He gave up 17

I'm pretty sure yeah, Phil Haley can score more than that and give up 17-2. Hey, start putting your coaches in. They can do a better job than these players at this point. So we got a mostly fans question from underdog user D Pickham. D Pickham. Not D Pickham. See? I got a D Pickham. Shout out to our crew.

I was just seeing this face. I was like, ooh, he's about to say. Pause. But I told you somebody was going to make me stumble at some point in this show with their damn usernames but let's play the video ethan davis been playing well since the nc's tournament the narrative used to be ethan davis need to give us more offensive now he's been dropping numbers since the nc's tournament but the lake has been losing is there a correlation between that what's's going on? Do we need to fire Darby? Big trade coming in?

What needs to happen? Let us show. I want y'all to stop making these videos while you're driving. Stop it. That's dedication right there. Please stop. Pull over. Just do it at a stoplight.

If I can, I saw the little... You're on the highway, sir. Stop sir stop doing this okay but that's all I want to say about that stop doing this shit so generous what needs to happen he said is there correlation between Anthony Davis playing well and I'm losing no no I said the narrative needs to be that uh he needs to give us more Please down 9-1. He said, is there a correlation between Anthony Davis playing well and him losing? No. I said the narrative needs to be that he needs to give us more offensively. But, yeah, is there a correlation?

Okay, at this point, someone has to score 20. There's only, like... Only two of them. I got two starters that's going to score zero, average five and seven. I mean, shit. I got to put points on the in in the basket i mean you have no other offense like why i don't he scores around the league like you put d lo you put reeves you put ruey think about the lineup when lebron james who's's helping? Rui can put the shoot, D'Lo can shoot, Reeves can shoot.

So that means when LeBron drives, it's by himself. When Anthony Davis decides to go one on one, who are they gonna help off of? No one, right? And then you might tell yourself, hey, hey, I don't have no one come off the bench. No, that's when you come off the bench with the motherfuckers who can't score Hey, you got three minutes. All right, you're going there and then you do whatever you can do at your ability, right? Run up and down get a little cardio get a little sweat Then I can sub you the fuck out if you hit two shots to keep you a little bit other than that

You're there as a timeout at this point, right? I know you only get a certain amount of timeouts. Van is a timeout, right? Cam is a timeout. When you put them in, you're giving your team a timeout, right? Hey, instead of me calling a timeout, here, go in for Reeves for three minutes, right? Here, go in for LeBron for three minutes. Hey, hey, hey, not enough water, you're going back in.

Now use that shit as a timeout. And that's the mentality that they, I feel like they will play better knowing that. I feel like they're kind of playing stiff right now because they in the starting lineup. They're not scoring. They're not even looking at the basket at all. So I feel like maybe if they start becoming those rotational type players, you'll be able to maximize them more in a shorter amount of time. Because they ain't not doing anything at all. How many more games do they score 2-0 and you keep them in the game?

I don't know if you don't understand the concept because he never got in the game. So he don't understand. He would have been van or can van vanderbilt van he don't even get this full name it ain't got nothing to do with him but it ain't not it ain't my fault don't get mad at me right i know what i did when i got in the game you gave me seven eight minutes i'm for sure getting six shots i'm gonna fuck you i know where i'm going if i don't make it right if i don't shoot I know where I'm going. So let me go ahead get these shits off real quick, right? That was that was my mentality That's that's him. That's who you were

Right, but the problem is if they put show ass in a game back then for a guy who actually Complain what you think they're gonna be that what you think Reeves and D low and Rui are really thinking on that bench Huh the same thing Russ was thinking see we thought Russ was crazy. Yeah now you looking crazy see Russ wasn't the crazy the fact that you said a Bone first time a first a first ballot Hall of Famer for Reeves Right. We thought she was a sick puppy not a puppy but more like a Pitbull pitbull extra shit some of that Germany shit right one of them

You know just I'm just gonna be all right. The fact that you second for that we was me I was disgusting Yeah, what was more disgusting is when you got rid of him and then you put the guy on the bench. Mm-hmm. That was like, whoa. Now you have that same guy. You done paid and you got him off the bench for who? He's probably the third best player.

You have the third best player coming off your bitch That's that's like Golden State and put Wiggins on the mission that's like sons putting Beale on the bench Right the Middleton on the bench and nobody's doing that goofy shit Yeah Middleton on the bench and nobody's doing that goofy shit. Yeah. Yeah, I'm starting to boycott. I'm going to sit down at the

Staples and I'm going to have my signs. If anybody feel the same way, then we're going to go down to the Staples Center and we're going to boycott. It's going to be to either bench the people that don't need to be playing or get rid of Ham. Now, if we're going to yell get rid of Ham, I don't want to be in the front line just because I walk out the arena.

I don't want to be that dude in the front line because whoever's in the front is going to get knocked out. I like my face the way it is. So I'm going to be like in the back with a little horn and shit. And y'all just protect the drums Yeah Boof I ain't seen course I because he's the type, because he's from Michigan. He's the type that had to fuck around and walk over.

He's the type that fucking walk over right to the seat. On the beach cruiser. That is Deebo just light-skinned it. Let's keep this thing moving. Yeah, so the Lakers, you know, underperforming right now, but the Clippers have been out here cooking, so we got to show them some love with a hibachi time. Presented by Underdog Fantasy.

Clippers are one of the hottest teams in the association right now, and their big three show why they're arguably the best in the league. Paul George dropped 17 in the first quarter, finished with 33.7 rebounds. Kawhi was looking like vintage MJ with the turnaround Jays, putting up a 30-piece. Harden had 22.11 assists as the Clippers got the win over the Suns. They are 13-2 since December 1st, leading the league in field goal and three-point percentage. So, we're going to start with you. Are the Clippers the biggest threat to Denver in the West as we stand right now in Adam Silver's NBA on January 4th, 2024 on Underdog FanFest.

Franchise show, Gil's Arena. You can admit it. I'm a liquor fan. I'm a liquor fan, so I can't even do that. But they playing very very very very licorice Right here playing very like that like magic name back and they play very good Whoo?

They play very good cuz usually they have the players It's like one of those, like they got like four players that we supposed to have and the other like 13 they should have. Shit. That is sad. Like you got the Clipper fans walking around here. Good. Good for them. They deserve it.

They've been waiting patiently for this to happen. Wait, are they in a winning streak? I think we're like three or four games. Oh, okay. It doesn't even matter. They ain't get to 20. They were on their little 10, and I was like, oh, they might have been right. I think they lost one, right?

They probably were like 16 and 2, 16 and 1, right? 13 and 2. 13 and 2 since December 1st. 13 and 2. I believe they were 8 and 10 at that point. It's real crickets, though. This winning streak. Which I don't like.

Yeah, nah. So let me ask you a question. So it's not a big foe no more? So Russ shit don't matter? Nah, it's a big foe. I'm just asking. Primary men. I'm a Russell Westbrook guy.

Shout out to Huss Westside. I'm just saying that three crews starting together as a primary. Russ's minutes have been reduced. Unfortunately, I do not agree with it I just merely state the information do not support it This is still called a before it's a big for but they have big problems They're gonna need they got first they got four first ballot Hall of Famous There's a big foe absolutely I got some big folk. Absolutely.

We ain't gonna leave Russell out this time. Russell Westbrook, the Westbrook family, Ray and the rest of the crew, I apologize. Yeah, I ain't going out. So Lakers and Clippers play each other Sunday. Yeah. Wait, who's home team? It doesn't matter. It does matter.

It really don't, because we do got the team we got they gonna be put in they don't dub them right is yeah It's gonna be you know, they don't do it them for why it's gonna be guarded by print. So there's gonna be like 35 to 2 and then you got cam gonna be guarding PG that's gonna be like 28 to 1 He might score a free throw right and thenangon come in and then Vangon guard Harden probably and Harden will have like 26 Vangon have one so it's gonna be you know Someone's gonna have to make up the 68 to 3 Deficit that the But that's how it is. Yeah, it's a Lakers home game technically

That's insane. We'll break it down like that. But then that's and that's the man. That's the math. That's not math and right I I got an equal out player. So if I have this aggressive guard and I have this defender When they match up like yesterday you got two players as guarding two players the scores 37 to 0 now someone has to make Now, someone has to... You can't make that up. Someone has to beat their guy and then make up a def. So that means LeBron got to outdo his guy and cut some of this deficit.

Anthony Davis has to beat his guy. And then same thing with the guys coming off the bench because you're in the hole 37 points because of two players. Mm-hmm. Math is still math. Yeah. Simple. Simple math. Coming off the bench because you're in the hole 37 points because of new players Math is still math. Yeah Simple so there's definitely simple math So we're gonna do OAU is it was a coach Carter or back in the day put the locks on the goddamn gate arena put the locks on the gate. Only crew that can come in here at this point is the Clippers.

Lakers, they got a bye week. Keep it like football. You got a bye week, son. The whole week, fuck the schedule. Y'all gonna lose. Take it. Just put the players out that can put the ball in the basket. We do it like soccer.

LeBron, just go in the game. Just go in the arena, shoot a free throw, we win or lose. Fuck it. At this point. Just fucking keep it just like that. Just going arena shoot a free throw we win or lose fuck it at this point This fuck it just just keep it just like that LeBron James versus the next star they play 101 It is free to free throw and that's the end of the game. We ain't we don't need to play this one out Hmm or just had the Clippers playing the purple and gold a couple games, you know You know Well, I wouldn't my look I wouldn't buy that right now look real familiar Do you have a unnatural allegiance to losers?

Dammit come on Brian 39, please don't let's go out like this. All right Where we see you done for a while about LeBron damn got up We thought when Jordan had that wizard team was bad shit LeBron got then it was in the Wiz Is this worse than that that year Kobe had that really bad team? No, go there You know what's he was talking about though, right? Yeah, I know what I gave him 60-Lo on that team too? I gave him 60. No, no, I gave him 60. I know what that team is. Oh, what team?

You're talking about that team. No, I was talking about the more recent... Like the Sacre and that crew or... The Sacre, the big head dude? Yeah, the big strong dude with the tattoo. The dude who got the head like McCann's hats? That dude? Yeah, shout out Rashad McCann.

Damn, so Kobe's had two groups like that. Yeah, but he was all for the last one. No, because that same group turned into all-stars, right? That was D-Lo, Julius Randle. B.I. B.I. They were young. Okay, so that doesn't really count. Yeah, yeah.

No, I thought you were talking about that Smush Parker. Damn, Gilbert. Chris Mim. You know, that group. Okay, so is this group for Braun worse than that group was for Kobe? Yeah. Damn, that's tough. Because you got at least... We got AD, though.

Come on, Gil. If we left Smush, Smush would shoot the shot at least. Right? You know, even Luke Walton going to shoot. No, there's nothing more. And I used to be that player that wouldn't take the shot. And now I'm shooting, and now I play with people who now won't take the shot. And I've now realized how infuriating that is.

Just shoot it. Just shoot it. Just shoot it. We can go get it. You won't turn it over. A missed shot is better than a wasted possession. That's the worst thing, man, when you swing, swing, and you wide open, and you don't shoot. Yeah, that used to be me.

Like, damn, dawg. We don't care if you miss it. As long as you're shooting, they have to play honest defense. When I'm coming into the lane, as long as you are a threat, they going to have to, ah, I need to get back. He might, you know. But the fact that you won't shoot it when you get it, they don't need to leave. Shoot.

That's the problem. It's not that you can't shoot. The fact that you won't shoot. The won't shooting is the problem. You can't play 18, 19 minutes and take one shot. Mm-mm. You did offensive rebounds you get the defensive rebound push it right like i guess as people don't really understand like that being 0 for 10 is better than being 0 for 1. Because as a defender, if I think you're going to shoot, I got to come guard you. Right?

Which means if he drives, I'm like, oh, shit, I got to. If you're taking one to two shots a game, you're playing 18 minutes, I can guard you by your stat sheet. What? I can look at your stat sheet and say, all right, Prince, Cam, Van, when they're in a game, we do not need to guard them. When they get the ball, obviously, they're just going to pass it to whoever they got the ball from.

Yeah. Ha, ha, here you go. What? Good job. Throw that motherfucker. I did it! Yeah! Woo!

Woo! Or throw it to the other team. Huh? Yeah, see, we way more disrespectful than these basketball players. Than when we played. They would throw that motherfucker in the hand, we would turn, listen. Turn. Turn around. Man, please shoot it. Please.

We'll tell you. Please shoot that bitch. Turn around. Trying to see where that bitch gonna come off at. Do one of these. Yeah, what? In a minute, nigga, try to see where that bitch gonna come off at. Do one of these. Yeah, what? In a minute, nigga, try to gauge where that bitch gonna... Because it's gonna come off hard. Whoa, shit!

Taylor Klein did that recently, right? Last year. Yeah, I know. Little wave off. He did that to the girl from South Carolina, and everybody was like, that's disrespectful. Shoot the ball. That's called her scout report. Yeah, absolutely.

Ooh, that was good to me. Now... But shout out to South Carolina. She's shooting that bitch report. That's true. Ooh, that was good to me. Now... But shout out to South Carolina. She's shooting that bitch now. Yeah, no, no, no. Now, what ended up happening, right? She messed up their whole offense. You messed up...

Now, if you are a basketball fan, just think about South Carolina with Kaitlyn Cart, right? She's not going to guard this person, which means she's sitting in the lane guarding everybody else, which means the offense that they're trying to run, they can't run it anymore. The fact that she is, it's a four on five, and I'm just, oh, you're trying to curl?

I got that. I got that. We're going to sag in here. We're going to sag in here. Now imagine two players on your team in the starting lineup doing that defense. How can LeBron get in here? In the NBA. In the NBA.

How can LeBron get in here? He's the best in the world. Right? Think about if Joker, if you take Murray off and put Cam, you take off KCP and put Van, he ain't getting no goddamn triple doubles. Because those guys, they shoot. No, because he got one guy for sure. Ain't going to let the ground touch that bitch. Motherfucking Michael Porter Jr.

He ain't letting the ground touch that motherfucker. You throw it to him. That's going up. He's shooting that bitch. Now think about if I Jr. He ain't letting the ground touch that motherfucker. You throw it to him. That's going up. He's shooting that bitch. Now think about if I'm driving and he open, right? You're going to be like, ah, ah.

I'm not human. Ah, ah. Staying right there. I'm going to put my hand in that motherfucker's chest. You drive, nigga. I'm like, hey. You move.

Hey, where you going? Yeah. Human nature, man. No matter what a game plan is We all are human right I can tell you right now The game plan is the leave you open and you hit two threes back-to-back I guarantee you whatever that game plan is. I'm not doing it no more She we're not gonna look at that. That's good. Yeah, Lexi had 38 or you know

You hit two shots. That's it. You drive. Can you drive it? Uh-huh. Hey, Gil, where you at? Oh, my bad. My bad.

Because I'll be damned, my man outscores me or makes me look stupid. So the human nature of it is if whatever the game plan is, if my guy does something that makes me look bad i'm gonna adjust my damn self you better you have to so can you uh earlier in that clipper segment you corrected me big four westbrook so we got to give westbrook a little bit of flowers

uh on monday russell westbrook passed patrick ewing to enter enter top 25 NBA's all-time scoring list. Brody's also only one of three players to be in top 25 in career points and top 10 in assists, joining LeBron and Oscar Robertson. Although he's seen a reduction in playing time this season in the wake of the Harden trade, Westbrook is shining in that role, has been an important part of the Clippers' success. We all can agree, first ballot Hall of Famer, only player in history to average a triple-double in multiple seasons But good as you look back it seems like Westburg always gets a lot of hate from fans and not to give them any

You know any attention, but what is Westbrook's legacy as a former player if somebody's played in this league? How to current former players look at Westbrook just like he should have been looked at from the beginning a Hall of Famer The guy that when you're giving that speech to your team on big games or you're trying to get them motivated, go out there and play 110%.

Right? He is the example that you should be given. And that was the whole sad part about Westbrook's legacy, that you let media tell you, let you tell you what he was doing with his effort. What he was doing with his effort, it was easily done. And that was the bad part about, like, when you talk about we can go through history. You tell me how many players played 130% every single game of their career. It'd be hard to find somebody in front of Russ.

We've never looked at a game where Russ was playing and said, yeah, he ain't playing hard today. It'd be hard to find somebody in front of Russ. We've never looked at a game where Russ was playing and said, yeah, he ain't playing hard today. Not one, right? And that's when you paint with, if you're a boss, right? If you're a boss, you're going to write that check every single time. You're not even going to question, how much you want? Because you know it's going to be more good than bad.

The turnovers, the missed shots at the wrong time, none of that matters. I have a dude that I know I don't even have to question his work ethic. I don't have to question if he's going to come play today. I don't care. If we hear something bad about Russ, I know one thing, when that light and that jump ball go, 130%. That's one player I never have to worry about.

And they took that away with... He's stat chasing on hustling. Crazy. Hustling. He's stat chasing. Y'all snack chasing. Fat fucks. Fat fucks. Snack chasing. Fat fucks. Snack chasing. Click chasing. Y'all clickbait chasing.

Yeah, yeah. I just don't know, like, out of all the players, why Russ was the one that they decided to just try and destroy. I think it's standing back from the OKC days with him and KD. And even if you watched a young Russ with KD, they got the meme of him staring at the MVP trophy and all that type of stuff. Russ thought he was on that level. Now, I'm not going to say he's a better player than KD, obviously.

But for him to have that confidence and go out and excel, average a triple-double for multiple years, win an MVP like KD did, I think it was always kind of a little bit of, I don't know if the media created it or whatever, but I used to watch those games. They're trying to put him in this villain role, in this villain role, and that's just not who he is at all. So, I'm glad. It just looked different. It didn't look like what KD was doing. It didn't look like what

James was doing, but it was just as effective. So, yeah, no, it's just media, man. No, this man has... Yeah, you can't write in any sports column and show people effort for what article has been written over time. Mm-hmm. You can't write effort. You can't show it. And that's what he is.

There's no number to effort. Yeah, there's no number to it. So I watched a clip, somebody asked Kevin Love about Russ. That's who he is, man. Goes hard, plays hard, cares, all those things. And for people to try to change that narrative is beyond my thought process. Yeah, you can't line too many people up and say they played harder than Russ throughout the history of this band. The history. Might be one that come to mind, it might be Dennis Rodman. Like, just for us, flat out fucking effort.

Every possession. And what comes with that is winning. It's a winner's mentality. In life, then you put that in a basketball setting. Come on, man. That's what you get. And yeah, nah, man. I've stated this on this show before,

and I've stated it other places. We'll stand for no Russell Westbrook slander, man. Whatsoever. Because I see myself in that. will stand for no Russell Westbrook slander, man. Like, whatsoever. Because I see myself in that. I play hard. I lay my hat on that, how hard I play each and every day. No matter how I felt,

no matter what was going on at home, no matter what me and my head coach had going on, no matter the lady, whatever was going on at home, no matter what me and my head coach had going on, no matter what the lady, whatever was going on, I hung my hat on, I'm going to fucking play hard, no matter what. And to watch that and be like, yeah, he played fucking hard. Yeah, he played fucking hard. Yeah. For somebody to play hard.

Every time. Somebody to play hard. And I respect that. Anybody that approached the game that way, man, and you can... I got to college, man. I shot 30% from the free throw line, man. I can teach you to motherfucking shoot and dribble. I can teach you to shoot and dribble.

If you give me that effort, and that's what Huggs told me, you give me that, I can help you with the other part. That's Russ. And at the highest level. And yeah, no, it's that. He's excellent in my eyes, man. Ken, you talked about Snack Chasers and their view of Westbrook. Why is there such a disconnect in how fans view Westbrook's career versus how current

former players like everybody on this couch and how they view Westbrook's career? Because they listen to the media. They're not watched. Like, of course, there could be a game where, okay, he dribbled down. It's seven seconds on the clock. He kicked the bitch off his foot trying to go make a play. He didn't intentionally drill that bitch down like, where my right foot? Out of bounds.

We lose. Okay, yeah. Hey, y'all, let's go party. Like, no. He come down, he think he has the opportunity to go make a play. Yeah, us as hoopers be like, damn, Russ. But we not crucifying him for it. Which the media and the people that's to the me to go crucifying for it

But damn what he's done to put his team in that position each and every night To be in the game to be able to make that mistake To be able to take that what we might deem sometime as a ill-advised shot where you could have kicked it to that guy But he believed in his ability. So how can you, oh, granted, yeah, we might, but ain't nobody ever fought Gil for believing in his ability to score the ball or to go make a play. Ain't nobody crucified his code for, like, no, you can't do that because that's what he saw at the moment. But it's, yeah, it's, at times, it's cringeworthy. Yeah, when they started, when they pushed the narrative, I was just like, like, okay, if you're shooting, right, if you're shooting too much and trying to get points, you got a ball hog, right?

They label that as a ball If you're searching for assists That's nothing right you know I mean like if I'm passing up shots to get assists They haven't crucified that yet. You know because you know magic you know magic getting his John Stockton Steve Nash Right they can do that. You get the coaching. If you want to patch your win stats, there's nothing against that. Then this weird one where rebounding came in.

They never done it with Bill Russell. They never done it with anybody who was, because it's an effort. Then all of a sudden, a a guard goes in and he's purposely Rebounding which the first thing I say get the rebound Right. He's one of my players Get the rebound don't let that fucking ball hit the floor and the fact that I got a player that's doing it I'm gonna now say oh, he's stat chasing? He's stat chasing? I don't give a fuck who it is. I got five players with the same uniform on.

The first one to get it before the other fucking team, good. I will hope my center wants to get 20 fucking rebounds. I would love for the power forward to do it, but obviously my guard is getting to it first. I should give him a raise for that. If Kenyon was out there getting 50 rebounds a game, nobody would say shit. But if Jason Key going out, oh, that's that, Jason.

No, no, what it is is they don't have no offense. We didn't give them no fucking offense rebounds. That's what we didn't do. We call that a fast break. My point guard getting a rebound, we call that a fast break. My point guard getting a rebound. We call that a fast break. But that's what I'm saying. You made the fans, made fans, right?

The fans with a pen made fans with a TV think that this was just some easy shit to do. And to put this in real context and perspective, right, each and every game, how many possessions is there? 80, 90. You can get a good one, right? Team shooting, team percentages, 40s, Right? They're making 40% of the shot. I mean, there's another

60% of the motherfuckers that hit the rim that don't go in. So he gets 10 of them. 10! 10! So he chased 10!

9.5! 9.9! 9.8! So he chased 10. 9.5, 9.9, 9.8. So where the rest of the fucking ball was going? So the other guys ain't stat chasing, that's rebounding the ball, that's going after the ball? Like, shut the fuck up. That's what I was waiting for. Like, that's... When I heard it man it just it just sound is

the even with someone like Keidrick Perkins when you said it against Joker it's just a dumb is dumb I'm making Pat so I'm like for Joker it would be Morgan plays I'm I'm passing the ball to open guys too much. Like, what the fuck is the, like, my steal guy is getting too many steals. As I'm still scoring the hell out of the ball and rebounding, but now I'm overpassing. My shot block is blocking too many shots at the rim. Let me, like, but fuck up. Like, now if you did a stat where my shot blockers giving

Up office of rebounds you because he tried to block shot Maybe yeah, or my steel guy trying to get too many steals and he's giving up points. Yeah, but fucking rebounds The fuck is he giving up yeah What is what is it? Defensive only benefits go eggs any coach Any fucking basketball coach about rebound how important it is Yeah, I guarantee That motherfucker at It's like 1a 1b Damn, this week damn the point the point is like fucking four or five on the coaches fucking everything

Rebound that shit biggest shit on the board let y'all come out y'all get our rebound. They got that shit Plastic on that bit my bad plastic on that bitch like But it's that chasing when he go out and he does it as his position? Like defensive rebound. There's like zero. There's zero negative thing going after a defensive board. Zero. All boards, yes. And then back to my point. We call it a fast break. He is the most athletic and fastest guy on the floor at any given time. Any given time.

So why wouldn't I want him getting the ball first? We loved when J.K. got three bats. I hated when he got the ball first. We fucking do. J.K., man, it is dog. We are running so fast because we got the opportunity to go get a dunk or a layup or something. Or Kerry going to get a wide open fucking

three. Russ pushing that bitch. He's making plays at the rim or for his teammates. That's why I just love sitting here sometimes and hearing y'all talk. Kenny, as you said, the Snack Checkers out there, they can really cloud your vision and cloud your mind.

Yeah, because they don't understand what they're looking at. And that's what it is. They do not understand what they're looking at. They're looking at a stat sheet. Just like Googlers. You don't know

what you're Googling. Right? If I say something, you're Googling chapter one, and I'm on chapter fucking 10, right? You thought I was talking about the last eight years, and I'm talking about fucking the 40 years. That means all the Patrick Hewitt teams and the Melo teams,

you go back in history. That's where top three comes from. Not your little goofy motherfuckers on Twitter thinking top 17, right? We're about your credentials that you got to get every day. How do I know that every day? You got to go to the game day and sign up. I know that uh-huh. Uh-huh I know it's true. God damn it. I do all my study. God. There you don't even leave that do that shit You're you are the cat Williams Away from me with this googly shit y'all like I don't know what Google package you got but I can give you mine

I Got I got to know When I see those notebooks get retrieved from your pocket and end up right there, I know it's going to be one of those days. But let's talk about Westbrook's former teammate, Kevin Durant. KD missed his second straight game on Wednesday with a hamstring soreness as the Suns lost to the Clippers. So far this season, the Suns' big three has played together

in just four of the team's 34 games. The big three has also eaten up more than $150 million of the cap for at least the next few years. So, Gil, looking at the squad and how they look so far, I believe they're the ninth seed. Could anyone have predicted the Suns' season to end up like this? And if you're the Suns, how concerned are you, not only for now, but for the future of this squad that you've invested so much in? I mean, it's concerning, but it's basketball, it's sports, right?

You know, injuries, players get hurt. And, you know, you have to deal with it, you know, as it comes and just as upper management and the coach, you just can't wait until all three are healthy if that ever happens, right? And sometimes reality for you, your reality or your expectations never happens. Right now, you got Bill back and KD's gone, right?

KD comes back, Booker might take a break, right? And that's that juggle game you got and i know like as a coach you will hope that i can get all three of you guys in at the same time so we can see what we have right right now you don't know what you have because you haven't actually had everything together to see and evaluate it so it's hard for them to make moves because they don't know what they have yet Because it could be great. We have no idea Right. Are you nervous though? That it's only been 34 games this season in this big three

We touted out that we basically bankrolled our franchise in the future of this team for the next few years We know KD you You thought that was for the next few years? Look, they put all the fucking chips in the middle of the table for this year. For this season, but all those guys under contract. Still though, man. All three of them are? Yeah, for the next, let me pull it up. Boop, boop, boop. That's right.

26. So, okay. Yeah, but it's, you can't rely, I just. KD 26, Beal and Booker 27. I don't think anybody was expecting Bradley Beal to be hurt this much. This badly. I mean, the back is nothing to play with. And then you have to start wondering what D. Book thinking. Like, he was on some bad teams, man. Mm-hmm.

On some really horse shit teams out there. And... Look at that look. D. Book to the Knicks. Does he... Does he... Does he leave

the mandate? This ain't what I... This ain't what I... It's that... It's just questions, man. Yeah, he's been on some bad teams. Four games out of 30. Stay on the float for the most part.

But... As a fan, I'm wishing, I'm hoping that this is not for KD, the same Brooklyn thing, right? Where you guys are great when you're together, but you guys can't get on the same page. And then, you know, when people look back, they're going to look at your names and not really realize that y'all didn't play together Right, and I don't want that to happen for sons where you got names, but they never actually played together And this is like an identical Crazy actually And there were reports Katie yeah, I was frustrated that was my question yeah, Katie said it was bullshit but trying to figure out a formulator, but does

Does this force Katie's hand again Just say Bradley build is not healthy for the rest of this year Heaven forbid right if he's in and out in and out like he has been right Does it force his hand again? Or do you say fuck it? It's my last stop. I Know he got a bowl ball on the scene right, you know Bobo we play he played he played last night I know you gonna lie. He played You gotta go to prophecy Bo Bo. He got a Bo Bo. Bo Bo fulfilled a prophecy. Hey, we got to fulfill the prophecy, Bo Bo. A lot of people believing in you, Bo Bo.

He's been doing well. He played well last night. He's been playing the past few games. He came through with a little black furry joint, too. So Bo Bo always has swag. I want time. I want swag. I'm just saying, now he needs it on the court.

You know, as long as it's like it's like, like situations like that kind of confuse me because you have him, KD, Book, like that could be a hell of a four. So what's going on? My thing, I don't need him to be when KD's out, bring him in. Why can't they all play together? I don't understand these fucking coaches in this NBA, bro.

No, I really don't. I'm baffled and at a loss at times that a guy's worthy of playing where other guys are not there. But when they're there, you don't have no minutes for them. Like, none. You don't have no minutes for one other guy. It's a 48-minute game, man. You don't know what the lineup could work with.

You don't know what it looked like together. You only wait till a guy out to throw him out. Like, that shit is super. There's some really good players rotting away on a lot of big teams. Oh, K.J. Martin. I can think of one off top. Yeah. Man went from averaging 29, 30 minutes, averaging 15 points as a starter.

Last NBA season. And can't get off the fucking bench. You know what it is sometimes too? But Bobo situation is go ahead is this Just like anybody right if you tell if you give a coach who loves the 80s, let's say a Knick fan And you say I pick your team You can tell exactly what type of team they're going to pick. They're going to have some grit grind type of team. That's why they love this team. Some grit grind type of team.

And if they have some type of super talent on a team that doesn't fit this mold, he's not going to play. Coaches have a style that they grew up watching or grew up coaching. And what ends up happening is when they have certain type of guys on the team and they don't fit their mode, they don't want to play it. One thing a coach would hate is I'm benching you and then you come in a game and you have 30. Now I got an answer for that shit. I

Got an answer for why I've been holding this type of talent on the bench right now. I don't want to play you no more Like hurry hurry hurry come back Bench because I don't want to answer for this shit right because that's the one thing that I'm look stupid for the decision I made absolutely it becomes the ego Versus the reality you do not want to look stupid on the decisions you make and most these coaches are picking Teams and they're going off of their how they see the game. We all know if I was a coach What type of team our half? Yeah, absolutely scored 200 points, right? I'm trying to score 200 said I'll be like any motherfucker and We would be in there and I'm moving like more points

I'll score these motherfuckers right and that would be my type of team Right and that's just that's just how it is so when you looking at these coaches you got to look at the coaching the coaches staff and see what type of Right. And so if you're a coach that Stan Van Gundy, right? He coached, he liked certain type of players. Those guys that played in the gray area, he didn't like gray area players. He didn't like people who thought just, oh, you know, you want, okay, I'm gonna go here, pass it down. You want to cross screen. Oh shit. They over helping. Boom. let me cross boom layer him oh no that's not the player drip i just scored that's not the player drop i drew up you did boom i'm looking for something yeah you're

looking for some bullshit because there's not even inside you know you're gonna get it down there they're gonna come and double and then you know turkey Lou gonna be on while open over here they gonna come to him and there's gonna be JJ in the corner I just fucking told you that's not his side so if this not a side and I can go double there that's not on this idea they're gonna double on that side and I gonna double all right I'll wait we won't do he wait for you he waited for the double goddamn double, now he got to shoot a goddamn jump shot. They have these ideas of what the game's supposed to play like, instead of watching the game for itself. You should know how the game flows, who's going to get subbed in.

I got my starting five, most likely in my brain they're going to play about 38 to 45 minutes, period. Right? If one get in foul trouble, hey, you, you, go on there. Right? Other than that, relax. Relax. End of the court, I get you in. Hey, hey, hey.

Sub in for me. Tie it. Go ahead. You good? All right, sub back in for me. Right? Like, I'm watching the game in real time. I'm not...

Hey, Van, sir. This man just hit six straight shots. What you subbing him for? Because it said on your piece of paper. You're not watching the game in real time. And that'd be the problem. Which is crazy because they have like 76 assistants. You help them with that. Yeah, sitting back there on Netflix.

With their iPads. On Netflix. Not doing shit. They don't be doing nothing. Before you got all those coaches, before you can't do nothing. So many coaches and so many bad coaches, like so many bad decisions are being made. It started way before the NBA, right?

Man. Shit. I watched a high school game yesterday. They got the biggest kid on the floor. I didn't see any shit three times, and I said something all three times. They got this motherfucker at half court with the fucking ball. I said, when is he ever going to do it? Block. Jump hooks. I said, when is he ever going to do it? Block.

Jump hooks. Much better, huh? Feel better, don't it? Yeah, feel better. Come on, man. It's fucking coaches, man. You got to have that talk. Do you like scoring?

Because you could do it a lot better, right? Right, right. In this period. Everybody else is five foot. But it's on the coach, though. But it's on the coach. It's a ego thing. Like, dude it's on the coach. It's a heavy thing Dude, no coach him coach that guy

Play what you got this motherfucker. It's this shit the people that eyes don't yeah Then everybody don't deserve a job What I just period Everybody don't deserve a job. They? Just period. Everybody don't deserve their job. They're getting it like anything else in life. Like, they have a friend. The friend hired them.

Boom. Right? Cool. Right? You know, if I got a head coach job, I got friends that I know who I'm going to pick. Right? Real shit.

I used to go down to Houston cage. It was playing there and I used to sit close by them team bench They didn't give me no ticket I bought my own fucking ticket to go to the game And I don't want you to tell me shit if I have something to say So, you know they got them seats where you can literally sit right next to the fucking coaches.

Yeah. Which is the craziest shit in the world to me that you can sit, basically, I'm sitting on the bench, basically. And I'm just,

you know, I'm really, I'm in an observatory manner right now. I'm just observing, just. And I'm listening for what's going on

so, because I had these conversations with KJ like, yo, what the fuck are your assistant coaches saying? About this, about that, about this. And he's like, nothing. When they say this, he just vague with it. I'm thinking he ain't giving me the toll.

And I'm listening. Like, so ain't nobody going to say nothing. So got to check out the game. Y'all don't pull him to the side and give him no Like ain't nobody gonna correct thing and I'm Take a homeboy my we go to the game here He played overseas for a little while he live he's like so ain't nobody gonna say nothing motivating in him

So ain't so ain't nobody gonna correct it I'm like, nah, not from what I've noticed. And it's to Gil's point. They just hired just this friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend shit that's been going on forever. Qualified, you might have coached in high school, and you was at a D2 and they now you fucking top assistant in NBA

Like what have your teams done with you as? Calling the plays or you calling the shots and don't none of that shit matter Because you had a friend that was there and they can't correct these fucking behaviors because they don't know what it is And it's bad coaching this bad schemes across the board, man. And this shit is... Yeah, to give a point, it's just... Yeah, they...

It's this fraternity of friends that get hired and... I want to sit in an interview when a general manager's hiring a coach. I want to sit in... What questions are you asking? What questions? What can he say in an interview? That translates to that fucking game like what questions do you ask this man? So he if y'all's down five

What play you gonna call? Oh, that's what they be asking. They do some shit like yeah, the gentleman how the fuck he know He never played So that's I was just guessing on some stupid shit of what you can ask a man when you don't even have the answer You don't know what? Drop a play drop drop the blade How do you feel about this? Dropping who the fuck I got on my team if I ask you to play certain guys, will you do they ask them? like to bring in the pattern report Actually, would you be opposed if I came to you with a timesheet and told you that such-and-such you to play certain guys, will you? Do they ask them to bring in scouting reports? If I asked you, would you be opposed

if I came to you with a time sheet and told you that such and such had to play X amount of minutes, would you be okay with that? No, I'd not be okay. You're not going to give me a whole bunch of shit to just put in the game because you're going to fire me when they're like shit. Absolutely.

This conversation, like, dog. Hey, man. Let me see your... My interviews would be, A, all right, show me your practice breakdown from start to finish. Okay, so you're going to start with this drill, start with this. I want to see if it makes sense. I want to see if you go from spot shooting to five on five, right? Back to half court.

Back to five on five. You do that shit, get the fuck out of here. It needs to flow. It needs to half court, all the half court shit, get it out of the way. Then you do all the half. Do not go from this to stop, to go fast, to go. You're going to get my fucking players hurt. You got to go slow, build it up.

Start off slow, build it, build it, build it. At the end, we're doing five on five. Good. But do not do this. Go full to stop it and go back this. Now they're walking and doing. We're going to go through these plays. No, man. No, this shit got to make sense.

If your shit don't make sense, get the fuck out of here. Yeah. Yeah, man. I'm with you, man. No. This shit gotta make sense. If your shit don't make sense, get the fuck out of here. Yeah? Yeah, man. I'm with you, bro. I'd be in the middle of a drill. We'd be doing some shit. All right, we're gonna do, uh... We're gonna do, you know, we're gonna walk through some place. Like, hell nah. We already going full speed. Save that for the end.

No, hell nah. No, we're not going to. You should have done that shit 30 minutes ago. Once you slur... Once you slur certain people that listen Jack I'm gonna go sit the fuck down watch our practice rest of this day jacket. These motherfuckers is cold now Jack But that I don't vibe so let's put it in some sideline out about I just that's what I said I get that that's a real thing like I'm sitting there judge and I like you know me I'm trying to That's a real thing. I'm sitting here judging. You know what I mean?

I'm trying to make it make sense. No, it don't. When we start working out, it has to be this flowing thing. You go stop, go to go fast to stop and sit, and we're going to talk for 20 minutes and try to go back to fight. No, that's not no. That's bad.

That's bad practice management. Get your shit together Yeah, you won't be coaching this team Let's keep this thing moving got one last thing before we get to mostly fans So Pacers are in the midst of a five-game winning streak Tyrese Halliburton has been cooking after dropping a pair of 2020 games to end 2023 and joining magic and Stockton is the only player to do it in back-to-back games. Hallie and the Pacers got some revenge on the Bucks in Milwaukee on Monday

after the whole Giannis game ball snatching incident a few weeks ago. And they played them again on Wednesday at the crib. So Halliburton came through, hit this three, and then followed it up with this legendary behind-the-back pass

for another bucket to seal the win. Boom! Finished the game with 31 points, 12 assists, zero turnovers. Pacers improved to 4-1 against the Bucs this season. Halliburton is averaging 25 points, 16.5 assists, and 4.8 rebounds in his last four games. In that span, he has 66 assists, four turnovers. Dang.

All I heard was LeBron's getting traded to Indiana to play with that team, bro. That's all I heard. LeBron over there. You see how wide open the motherfucker was? And he shot it. Now imagine if he didn't shoot. Watch the Lakers.

You'll see. You'll see. You'll see what that looks like. 16.5 to 1 assist to turnover ratio. And I think for the season, he's at something like 12.7 to 2.5 assist to turnover. The zero, baby. The zero, they're thriving.

Keep the structure of the temple. So last year, Knicks announcer Wiley Serbiak called Halliburton a wannabe all-star very controversial Halliburton went on to be all-star that season the fuck is a wannabe all-star. What team was he? Who what team a Serbian? Yeah? He's who? Yeah, I'm gonna say shit The knickerbockers. Pardon me?

Knicks. Say it again. Because I can tell you right now, if it has to do with the Knicks, they don't know what Tana looks like. It just flows great. So, I called him a wannabe superstar. Halliburton went on to be a superstar. So, this year, Bucks announcer and father of the host of Gil's Arena presented by Underdog

Fantasy, Woof Woof, Marcus Johnson, playfully called Halliburton a wannabe superstar. He said it during the game, but the whole pregame show he said Halliburton should be in the MVP conversation. But he playfully did it. They're trying to really build this rivalry. Bucks are getting smacked right now. They're on the wrong side of it. But question for the crew.

Tyrese Halliburton will be a superstar. Is that a fact or is that cap? A superstar? I mean, he's playing how he's playing. I mean, you can't deny his talent as long as you have the pieces on around. Listen, the way he plays the game, he's going to make everyone look good. I mean, the only problem that you're going to have with him is he's going to make people look good where you're going to have to pay them more than they are worth. Does he have to get out of Indiana in order to be that superstar? Listen, he's... I don't know.

I don't think so. He is J-Kid with a jumper, right? Now, the problem that he's going to always have is guys who are worth, let's say, 10 million a year, he's going to make them look like they're worth 20. So he's going to keep losing teammates. He's going to keep losing teammates or they're going to keep paying for something that's not as good as it's supposed to be.

Because he's spoon-feeding. He's going to spoon-feed these mediocre players, making them look better and worth more, which is going to hurt him in the long run because he's not going to have the real talent that he needs to have To be where he wants to be so he's gonna have to do some Digging down when he's gonna realize like damn. I don't have the actual talent

Me doing this makes them look better than they really are And that's gonna be something that is gonna have to he's gonna have to understand that You don't want to to understand that you don't want to sit back and realize that, damn, I don't have other superstars with me to really fight for this thing. Because he's doing his job. But do you feel like a guy like Hal Berer and the way he can pass the ball around other stars around the league are looking at that like, man, I want to go play with that dude. Hey, what city is that again?

Indianapolis, a fine city. Everything centrally located. To answer that question, they probably want to be on the same team with him. Not in Indiana. Not in Indianapolis. That's really the mecca of basketball. Indiana is a nice place.

Napa is an okay place. Indianapolis is an okay place. Fine gentlemen's clubs. Nice local eateries. Hey, you know who could have had him? There's this team that, like, they don't know what superstars look like. They could have had him there. Woo! They could have had him there. Whoa

Then he could have had It was there pick but I mean I whoever they picked I pressure he ain't playing But we're having the all-star game there. So you know black here Shima. Yeah everything again, okay It's a little chilly. Century located, though. But they got nice little things that connect every building. You still, you run into the same issue that Jai is going to run into in Memphis.

Mm-hmm. Your name and your play is bigger than the city. It was not there, right? So unfortunately, to be a superstar, he has to get out of Indiana. His play is that, but to become that, well, people, were you on TV?

And that's what makes you a superstar. That was the issue. National televised games make you a superstar I know I know how you feel about the in season tournament, but that's especially this season That's what catapult that kind of really catapulted them gave them some national TV games I think they were at the bottom of the league understand that but I believe we have the Obligation on to put them on TV more just like I just read Sunday, Oklahoma City. They add a couple Oklahoma City national televised games now late this season Winning so winning. Yeah, they can do it if they wanted to yeah

But if I just feel like it's one of those markets where it's never gonna be hey the premier one thing they can do right now They can put Indiana on TV over the fucking Lakers. They more than a time. Yes, they can Lakers fans would have been there morning. I know not a fucking y'all fucking now y'all like to care at this point at this point I like the cowboy I want to turn us around. I like a lot of cab. No, I'm not watching three niggas score zero man on my I'm sorry, man. They might just well just be on this show. Hey, come over here and shit. Talk about other people like we do. Come back here and you're going to get the same results. Yeah, but the superstar shit, he has to get out of there, man. The kid can play.

And the fact that he plays a game that takes care of the ball as fast as they play and as fast as the league is these days, and some of the passes are not easy passes that he makes but they're spot-on he's hitting guys in a shooting pockets on the roll is supposed to be doing it with flair I hate that swag word you don't like flag I will remove it from my lexicon yes No, you can use words you want to. I just ain't going to use it. No, but we're in close proximity with each other. You can use whatever words you want.

You grown. I mean, Giannis got named in Milwaukee, so you don't think he's not going to be able to persuade anyone. I mean, it took a while. And a championship. And a championship. Is it good for the league, though? This is what we always talk about.

The fans always get mad. We had this conversation with Ant and Pat Bev. Like, they have the opportunity to build up these cities and put these star squads together, but I understand the allure of going to New York. You gotta put them on fucking TV. You gotta advertise them. You can't have

the same faces on commercials and this, and you gotta... If you want these small markets, right? All-star game in these cities are not enough. It's not. All-star game are for fucking fans. Going to the city, festivities, jam sessions, and autograph and pitch opportunity for fans,

right? That's what all-Star Weekend in these cities. You got to do more. And more comes with winning, for sure. If teams are winning, then you're able to put them on TV more and do other things and advertise these players more, which Milwaukee's proving that small market winning. Denver is proving that small market winning. These teams are getting better.

You see Joker in all them hotel commercials? Mm-hmm. Yeah, they're trying to make them. Market winning Denver is proving that small market winning these teams are getting better Yeah, they're trying to make them Now this is the only thing he's been in yeah, right and I was excited when I saw my oh shit Nicole in the commercial I told my wife. Hey, man, Nicole in the commercial. Mm-hmm. He's right you of them. So it's They shot that shit in one day. Yeah That was that was that was one that was a fucking one-time thing Today, I need you here at 10 We don't let you go by six so we need I feel like I feel like just watching that they turn that around in like a good hour

Here you're lying There should be some cities that just shouldn't have teams. They're just there. Uh-uh. I'm sorry. Unfortunate. I'm not going to ask you the name of the city. No, what I'm saying is you're a bad businessman.

When they were having an argument during lockout, and they were talking about, we should split the TV deal, and the owner's like, I didn't tell you to buy that team over there. What city is that again? You're just a bad businessman. It's a fact, right?

If you're talking about, like, superstars, and you're trying to build this thing globally, there should be a team in Vegas. There should be a team in, I mean, Texas got three good teams, right? San Diego, you put a team in San Diego. Take the Clippers, put them in San Diego. There should be a team back in Oakland.

I hate to take Memphis' team. I really hate to take their team. But the population of the city is under a million people. In the city of Memphis itself, the population is under a million people. Like 600 and some thousand. That there alone is for sport. You got to look at what it is and it's not sustainable for a super... You got a team there, but what are you looking to do with it?

Just to say, okay, we got a team in Memphis. I'm a basketball. I got a team sure I got a team Move that same team to Nashville. Mm-hmm Guarantee it does better. The population is better more people going Money is better there is But you got to do these things in order like you got to look at this Mm-hmm, and you got a small mark you got a superstar in job

How much long is he gonna stay in Memphis where got to look at this. And you got a small market, you got a superstar in Jai. How much longer is he going to stay in Memphis where, I just look at shit like that. And Tyree Tyler Burton in Indiana. You have to put these things in perspective. Sacramento. What have they done? It's just, it's been year in, year out of bad basketball. I mean, shit, you got a team in Canada?

Put a team in Mexico. That's what they were saying. They're going to sell it out. Hey, put a team in Mexico. Shit is right there. It's not like, you know. It's close. All right, well, let's keep this thing moving.

It is Thursday. Just quickly before we get to mostly fans, after 12 seasons in the league, Ricky Rubio has officially announced his retirement. Rubio's fifth overall pick by the Wolves, 2009. Youngest player to ever play in the Spanish Pro League. Making his debut at 14 years old. Posted this tweet.

No, I am not. We do not have the time for that, and I do not have the vision. Congratulations. Congratulations. And let's move on to Mostly Fans. I hope you're okay, Ricky Rubio. Woo. Alright. I mean, I'm pretty sure he'd get hope you're OK, Ricky Rubio. Yeah, cool.

Woo. All right. I mean, I'm pretty sure he get his shit his own country. All right? We good. Deal. He got his own country. You just said put a team in Mexico.

We got to embrace other countries. Yeah. You said it. You just said put a team in Mexico. I did say that. It was minutes ago. OK. My bad.

You know they coming for you. They said you don't like white Europeans, even though you've commented on several black Europeans and others. Non-discriminatory. We just love America. Nothing wrong with that. That's what they're always talking about, too. America, this, America, that.

Then you say you love America, and then they... The world is fucking crazy, man. That's wild shit. That's why I like poking. So, question today is from underdog user by the name of big ship 62 uh he said what's your starting five for the east and west in this year's all-star game so we got the all-star voting it's just released today wait so he's asking a question that we don't get to say it before you i'm just showing you what it looks like what the people are starting five this is what the people are saying. You said all starting at five.

This is what the people are saying. Oh, look at Rob, man. Disagree with them if you want. That's so crazy. This is time to use to a question. But we get to look and see. Where the fuck is Josh? Seven?

Yeah, he played four games. Pretty impressive for playing four. Yeah, right? The fuck, Joe? Josiah? The fuck? Seven? He's played four games.

Demetrius! He got... Listen, dawg. Did you just hear what I said? Josiah? The fuck? Sammy? He's played four games. Demetrius! He got... Listen, dawg. Did you just hear what I said? I did. They got less than a million people living in that city. Okay, we'll inflate his numbers.

We'll inflate his numbers. You can get everybody to vote. Do a golf with a handicap. They ain't got a fucking enough, man. They ain't got a fucking enough, man. You got to do a golf with a handicap. You got to, you know, balance it. Everybody...

Wait, how is it organized? Listen, every single individual in Memphis can vote fucking twice and they still be fucking short But they gotta make the all-star game position list to just let five centers roll up They can vote twice. They still won't have minutes Luca So LeBron leading frontcourt in the West yeah Okay, Shay Luca looking stuff leading the guards in the West Tyrese Halliburton shutout burgeoning superstar Tyrese Halliburton, shout out. Virginie superstar Tyrese Halliburton, Dame Lillard, leading them in the East.

Okay, Trae Young. I like that. Okay, Trae! I like that. Ain't enough. So what we doing? Shout out Austin Reeves cracking the top ten. Your starters. The starters are... I mean, the starters right there.

LeBron, Kevin Durant, Joker. Joker they want to know who is your five you You can sway the malice. They're still Ron KD Jokic and then guards Luke and Steph I put Luca and Shay. Oh Shay butter. Yeah, I Mean well Steph's going through right now with Draymond and Klay and Wiggins, he should be... He deserves it, but I still pick Shea. Yeah, give me them top three on there and them top two.

I said, once you put it up there, it's easy right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Same thing on the other side. No Devin Booker in the West Guard? Does that concern you at all? Oh, damn. Devin Booker? Devin, as far as votes, no. He doesn his votes, no. He'll be an all-star.

He'll get voted. I mean, Clay on there, I'm just saying. He's passing too much. Shout out to the Warriors. D-Book fans don't like that. This is fans voting, so that looks about right. Snack chasers as we will forever now. Another man. Those look pretty good. Good job, fans. Uh-oh.

And before we go, Gil, your birthday's on January 6th. Unfortunately, that date has been taken over. Oh, shit. Yeah, it got taken by the white folks. I didn't even know I wanted it this year. Your birthday got gentrified, so we're gonna celebrate it today. Yay! I didn't even realize this.

We want to say happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Black cake. Who, me? Happy birthday to you. Black cake. Who me? Happy birthday to you. Who me? This. Happy birthday dear Gil.

Gil Bird. Beautiful cake. Happy birthday to you. Yeah. My kind of cake. Make a wish. Kiss. Darvin Ham, do not start Van, Cam, and Prince.

Yay! Gil, what's your wish for? I'm not going to say it. After the show, head over to Gil's YouTube page to see the last part of his bet against Melly Monaco. Will Gil win the Porsche 911, bet against Melly Monaco. Will Gil win the Porsche 911 or will Melly win a million dollars cash? Tune in.

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