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Episode Date: January 20, 2026

Gilbert Arenas & The Gil's Arena Crew react to the NBA announcing the starters for the NBA All Star Game and debate if snubbed superstars like Anthony Edwards & LeBron James deserve to be on the team's starting five. PLEASE give us a Like and Subscribe!! Today's Gil's Arena Crew : Gilbert Arenas, Josiah Johnson, Brandon Jennings, Kenyon Martin, & Nick Young Gil's Arena premieres every Wednesday & Thursday at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. Sign up for Underdog HERE with promo code GIL and play $5 to get $75 in bonus funds or bonus entries https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-gi... Use our code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/ARENA10 Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAvj... Join the Underdog discord for access to exclusive giveaways and promos! https://discord.gg/underdog Must be 18+ (19+ in AL, NE; 19+ in CO for some games; 21+ in AZ & MA) and present in a state where Underdog Fantasy operates. Terms apply. Concerned with your play? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org; NY: Call the 24/7 HOPEline at 1-877-8-HOPENY or Text HOPENY (467369) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. All right, so let's get into it. Yesterday, it wasn't just MLK Day. It was also NBA All-Star Star Day as the league announced the starters for the 2026 All-Star game here in Los Angeles.

Let's take a look. So fans accounted for 50% of the All-Star vote with NBA players and media panel accounting for 25% in each of the starter vote. So the 2026 West NBA All-Star starters are Nicola Yokic, Luca, SGA,

Steph Curry, and Wimby, also known as Wamba Wamba. While the E-Starters are, Janice Cade Cunningham, Tyrese, Jalen Brunson, and Jalen Brown. So Wimby, Cade, Maxie, and Jalen Brown were named starters for the first time in their career. So here's the official

voting results. Oh, let's give it up for them. Those four gentlemen. So here's the official voting results for those all-star selections. Yeah, that's great. So Yokic had the highest weighted score in the West. While Yannis had the highest score in the east, Anthony Edwards just missed out on becoming the first Timberwolf

to be selected as the starter since Kevin Love in 2014. He finished in a tie with Wimby based on weighted score, but Wimby won the tiebreaker because he had a higher percentage of the fan vote. So the reserves will be announced this Sunday, and as a reminder, the league is doing a USA versus the world format this year. with two teams of eight American players taking on an eight-player world team in a round-robin format. So after the coaches pick seven reserves from each conference with no positional designations, Adam Silver will name additional all-stars if there aren't the minimum of eight international players or 16 American players.

So, Gil, we've seen the all-star starters from both conferences. Did the voters get the all-star starters right? Hell no. So it's fans, 50 people. It's fans 50%. And then... NBA players, 25%. But we did have...

NBA players? But we did have some players vote for people like Brony. And that's why the players don't vote. That's why that shit stopped. Brony got two votes. He's an all-star in some of their minds. It stopped mattering. Okay, then the other 25...

A media panel. Nobody from Gills Arena presented by a underdog. A little panel. And then they wait at all land and then they pick the starters. They waited. And then whoever has the highest weight of score, top five in each conference, are selected starters.

Any tiebreakers are decided. Basically, someone who's really popular that don't play can't be a starter now. So someone who's very popular who got injured at the beginning of the season and the fans vote them in and they get that as an all-star nod can't happen anymore.

Like the previous years of, okay, so. I like this, then I like this one better than. The media and the players can come in and hate on the fans of designation, but the fans still are worth 50 people. percent. If that's what they came up with, I'm fine with it. I mean,

Swag, are you rolling? I mean, what are we going to say? It's better than the previous years where fans vote, and then you've got two people who never played, and they're starting an All-Star game. I like this method way better than. Name one. The fans get it right to me.

That y'all mean? The fans don't get it right. You can do yow, you can do vint some years, you can do penny some years, you can do a herbie some years. You're going to do a hurt. Yow deserved to be in there. No, but he was hurt. He was hurt.

I mean, what I'm saying is, if you're not playing that year and they vote you in, that's a spot. Yeah. You get that nod. But when you hurt, they replace you still. But he was named as a starter. If you was playing, you would have been an all-star. But that's probably. You're not playing, and you get that vote.

Right. That's what I'm saying. So you're saying, y'all wouldn't have been an all-star if he was playing? No, and I'm saying, y'all shouldn't have been an all-star because he wasn't playing. But he's still not going to play, so somebody else still going to be an all-star. But you see how it trickles down? If he comes back, he gets to play. If he's not eligible to be one because he's not playing.

I just saw I like this better where, you know, you got to people. It would have been shacked than somebody else, right? It would have been shacked than Brad Miller or Bradman. What I'm saying? Does there to be in this order? Yeah. Fan vote. Yeah.

Fan vote. That's what I'm saying right there. The fan vote is 50%. Yeah. He's more. I know, Steph was comfortably in there. I know you like Ant, but Steph is more popular than him. That's what, man.

I know you're, hey, listen, hey. He's, Ann, man. I know he's popular, but Steph is still Steph. No, they got it right. No. So, yeah. And then Wimby, it's hard to get Wimby, oh. It was tied.

What was Tateham? He was tied. Tatum did not crack the top 10 in the Easton conference for this format. No. I don't know about for fan votes. No, for fan votes. So like, like, say, he got it right. Like Tatum, if he was just fan votes, he could have been starting.

Yeah. But he would have been starting anyway if he was here, though. That's what I'm saying. If he was here, we're saying like they're not there. I know. So that means right now, instead of Jalen Brown, it would have been Tatum. We didn't know. Maybe would that be arguing if somebody heard they should still be able to win the MVP or something

because you know what they're never said that. Nobody said that. Nobody said that. I heard. 55 games, right? If they still played 60 years. We did talk about Wimby last year. He would have been a defensive player of the year

if he would have been able to reach the minimum, but the game is the game. No, I said if he plays 64 games. But that's what I said. If he plays 64 games with these same numbers, you mean to tell me that. That's what I'm saying. That's the difference in you playing 34 games

and somebody. Not playing at all. And not playing at all. I mean, like, I can't argue who shouldn't be on it. I can just say, Ant Man, Donovan Mitchell. They deserve it. They're very deserving.

Yeah. Absolutely. They would have been, nobody would have been like, ah, that's, you got it wrong. Like, no, nobody would argue that. We got to improve our ring tones, ladies and gentlemen. I'm crazy. I'm not too mad.

What are we here doing? I mean, it's hard to take anybody out of those. I mean, it's hard to take anybody out of the years. Grown-ass man got K-pop as his ringtone. I mean, I'm going to have to reevaluate. You cut my head out. 42, right. It makes sense, but, yeah, I'm going to have to re-evaluate.

You cut my hair, you're playing K-pop. He was dancing to it, too. You be dancing to it? Yeah, yes, of course he does. He's a TikTok, he makes TikToks and shit. Absolutely. Hey, well, hey, we are in a TikTok society. Absolutely, he'd be in that motherfucker dancing with shit, leotard to him.

So, let's get back. So, Mr. B, you asked what Steph was averaging here. Steps average in 27. Mm-hmm. Liator. Five and four. Amman averaging, uh, 24. 9.6, we'll give him 30 points shooting a career high,

field percentage, and 3 point percentage. A lot of fans thought that Aunt deserved the nod, and I'm sure felt that way as well. Wimby were tied based on their way to score, and like I said, the league gave Wimby the Knot based on higher fan vote. Okay, higher fan. Was the tiebreaker for that particular situation.

So if the fans are mad, vote better. 50% is yours, so, I mean, don't say stuff shouldn't be there, and you voted them in, too? Yeah, it's not even a... You may be told that? It's not an inverse theft thing. Don't they veto some of those?

But it's not an amp versus Steph thing. Wemby was the fifth ranked All-Star, him and him and Ant were both tied. So Steph was already comfortably in there. Oh, okay. Yeah, so it didn't come down to between. It's regardless of position. Oh, yeah, because it's positionless. It is positionless.

And obviously, given this format, there will actually be three teams, one international team, two at USA teams, so there'll be five players on these people. They're technically 15 starters, but the NBA's still doing this for a nostalgia sake. So they should do three all-star starter teams then. Right, right Basically, yes, yes, basically Yes, just Yeah, just add the other five now

Like in mind, it's AI, go to my brain If you were going to do this format, you could have the international starting five And then the dual American starting five But I'm merely a house I guess So with, I'm still confused with this So it's three teams, right?

So Shea is going to play On the world team Yeah, you got the world Yeah. He's a North American. Basically how it played out, it's five Americans, and then there's still five international. So it's not East and West.

They shouldn't, why the fuck they split up in Congresses? Yeah. When it doesn't matter. Just to get the fans. Like I told you before, it's a waste of people time, though. You know, it was a funny. Winning is not going to actually matter when it comes to the international side. Yeah.

So what's going to happen is players are going to say. sit back and you're going to be pulling all stars on the international side from body fitting teams and all stars who got jaded being in fifth, fourth, it's going to be sitting there like, wait, what's this? Devin Booker all them years like, yo!

Yeah. Trey Young is going to be like, yo! Jamal Murray? I want to be international then if I can be on the 10th, my 10th best team and get pulled. So Jamal Murray is going to be on the national team. He gets to make his first.

He gets to make his first. But he still would have made it, though. But still he still. No, no. No, he wouldn't have. This year? No, he would have made it this year as a reserve. If it's all, because you've got to remember,

them guards going to clean that up. As a reserve in the West? Yeah, the way the Nuggets are playing right now without Yonkish. As a guard in the West, he makes it this year as a reserve. This year he makes it. And nobody playing better than him in the West as a guard besides Shay. So you're going to have to have Austin Reeves,

better numbers? He ain't been playing. Ant man. He ain't been playing, yeah. He ain't been playing. Yeah. And better numbers. Yeah.

I didn't even count in Osse Reeves. Jamal Murray playing better than him. He's played 40 games. Austin, Reeves played 23 games this year. Yeah, Jamar Murray playing better than him. And he'd been out. So Jamal Murray definitely get the nod over him. Jamal Murray's played in 39 games.

And what he's doing since Yolke has been out, he's definitely getting in over him. But still, but he's on the world. He's on the world team. He's on the world team. So you got K, Steph, Brunson Bronson

Jason Jason James Brown Maxie Maxie of the 10 you got So it's

Yeah 5 international players 5 remember To be east and west though So John No bigs though That's the thing about it Like

No They got Yokes over there They got Wimby over there They're starting John is over there They got all bigs They got I'm saying

They just They just whole thing And They're Zaza right Luca Is the guards That's starting Huh?

Yeah, Zaza. Then you got to pull three more international. So you got Murray? You got a heavy contingent of fan votes. Yeah. It was off to the Warriors. Yes, the Zaza. So now you got to go, see?

He's playing a lot. Now you got to go Danny. Now, what is his team record? Yeah. He's going to be like, yo. Yeah, ninth in the west right now, go. Ninth in the West. Exceeding expectation.

This is the first of the player we're talking. Look at every time Tray Young had 27 and 10. Yeah, I did. And where his team was, and he got put out. Donovan Mitchell, them years, he got put out. Devin Booker, all them years, out, right, that he didn't get the night because it was too guard loaded. So you got, so Danny has to make it.

Then when you got marketing? They didn't own that Utah team? Yeah, I'm saying. They're, what, 28 per game? 20 per game. Where's his team at? They got 14 wins. At least Danny and them got 20 wins, 22 wins.

They, 500. Portland 500 at least. 500. I'm saying, but if you're going to take it here, all your 500 over marketing is what I'm saying. Ninth in the Adam Silver's Western Proversy?

Ninth in the West that's a little bit Yo, so the reason for all this voting and all this voting changes is because of Zaza. No. There's Devin Booker.

That's what they said. It's Devin Booker all-star this year. Devin Booker? Is Devin Book and All-Star? Do you take him? I mean, I would say so just the way that if you look at the Sun's last season

compared to this season, the expectation for the Sun's coming this season, where they're at right now. So many players is hurt and being hurt that a bunch of West is going I mean the Americans have a trouble too.

There's going to be some people, he'll be like, wait, what? Because you're going to pull Braun. Okay, Bron, Katie. I was just about to say they're making the team. Like, I don't know if you're going to know this now, but LeBron is all right. Bronn Katie. Looking at this thing.

From there, Detroit, might pull Durham. Here's the problem now. You got the All-Star game at the Intuit, Don. The Clippers' home arena. Kawai. But you also have James Hardin playing at an all-star level this season. That's a great. Do both of those?

You take two from the Clippers? Do you take two Clippers? Not with that record. Clippers currently 13. Now, so now those, the clipper boys are going to be sitting there like. Damn, they have it's 28 and 26. That's that. We're going to be looking at it.

If you pulled Danny and marketing, you got to pull us now. You got to. I'm saying it's, you have to then, yeah. See, so the winning, the winning now, the winning now, because the international players, you got the five, you're always going to have the same five. It's the other three that you're going to have to try to pull that's good from bad team. I mean, but now you got, you got Sanguangoon

Changoon potentially. Danny, potentially. Marketing bad team. Those are all-star players. 10th. Those are all-star players, though. They're 10th. But you have cat as well.

The number are all-star players, though. How about the other 400 people that had the better numbers that was sitting at 6, 7, 8 that didn't get put in? So you're putting in some guy who's sitting in 10th. Because you're trying to, you're trying to favor The international? But, Gil, so you got Jamal Murray and Kat,

six and seven, whatever, where do you want to put them in? So each team get reserves, right? So it's more awesome players. Oh, only three reserves. Three teams of eight. So that international five is those five-starred. Yeah, that's what they're talking about to say. So every year,

we look at someone who got snubbed, look at their team record. They always have a winning team record, but they get snubbed for it. because it's jam-packed. So now, so that means that now you have real All-Stars that's in winning situations, like you guys claim, that won't make it because you're trying to do international.

And there's never been nine, there's never been eight internationals making an all-star game. Everybody got to play a four. Last year was the most at six, I think. And six are still Americans. You're using Kat as an international. Here's the middle. Everybody has a lot.

foreign in any family. You're using Pat as international. I'm saying, I mean, I just feel like the problem is I mean, well, this is American problem. I mean, American players. If y'all wouldn't send back just letting the Europeans, or I mean, the international players dominate the league, they wouldn't have to put this format in.

They don't have to do that. I mean, I'm just saying, the last, I mean, I'm just saying, the international players have, the NBA is all about international players right now. The best players are the top five international players. So this is an American problem.

If they got on, they sit and did their job, and if LeBron didn't back out last year and do all that other stuff like he did, then we wouldn't have this problem. But now that the fact that the international players have a voice in this league, now we've got to cater to them. So yeah, now we're going to add some more players to it.

Can I ask you a question? Yeah, that's fine. What's up? So you're saying the way the regular league is from five players out of 400 players. Five players out of 400 players. Five players out of 400 players. Five. Yep. It's changing the way you look at the All-Star game.

Everything. The whole league. Okay. The whole league. The whole league. The whole league. So now let's just focus on the All-Star games. Right?

Because you want to put more of them in an All-Star game. Might as well. Right? Because it's water down. Right. Right as well. Water down. Now, I'm going to say a few names, and I want you to rank their All-Star performance.

Okay. Yokich. Ten is good. One is bad in effort. Yokic. Don't even bother. One. No matter.

No matter. He deserved to be out there. Luca. One. Desert to be out there. Sabonis. One. Deserts to be out there.

So you're saying you're going to fix a problem and use internationals, but the internationals that do go there are worse than the Americans that play. Not necessarily. I mean, I just named the three biggest ones. You know, you didn't name the biggest one. Where's Janus? Where's SGA? How's Z. performance in all so I don't know.

Four, three, four. Yonis is the only, no one, that's the way Yonis plays 10. Okay, he's the only international. Jamal Mary this year, I'm sure it'll be a 10. I mean, who else? Sure he will be a 10. I'm sure he will be.

What I'm saying is it helps to leave. Out of the five players that play from international, only one actually cares. He don't. That's not true. But he plays hard. He don't. He don't count.

He don't count. He plays hard. He doesn't. No, what I'm saying is if you're talking about effort. He gets a 10. The other ones don't even try, but you're trying to use the international language to put more of this in here. More that don't try. I mean, it's the top five players in the league are from international.

Let's see what else is happening over here across the water. It does not help the all-star game, though. I'm saying, we're going to be able to make more money, add more international players to the All-Star game. Why not? I mean, shit, we put 10 Americans out there and ain't nothing anyway. deserving of it. I mean, y'all just want to give all.

It's the all-star deserving the way it's going down. It's the all-star. It's the all-star. That's what we get foreigners, though. That right there. That's what we give foreigners in the league. They get all-the-way. They can make the all-star game and not deserve it.

Just because they're... No, so who's not... So Jamal Murray and Larkin don't deserve it. No, Jamal Murray does. Yes. If he makes it, yes. If he makes it, yes. If he makes it, yes.

What he is for his team, yes. So he doesn't play like an all-star. Well, who's... Who's making it on this year down? Last year, absolutely. This year's numbers are down. Okay. He should make it before.

KD is the all-store. If they have to pick one off their team, it's Kevin Durant. If I got to pick one off of you, son I'm picking KD over San Gung. San Gu's numbers are down this year. Last year he played out his mind last year. His numbers are down this year. Well, you got to remember. And he's international.

But because he's on the international side. But I'm not taking him over the other bills. I already got enough bigs, though, so no. But that's what I'm saying? On the international side. his numbers make it. Because it's not compared to all-stars. It's compared to international players.

But his body of work for that team, he should be able to make the international. Yeah, he's going to make it. Anybody can make the international. Anybody can't. Yes. We've got to see the names. I want to see all the names that's coming out.

All the international squad. So we can see where their numbers are. Compared to the ones that's not going to make it. There's going to be guys. There's going to be guys in the NBA that averages 26, 27 that won't make it. And international is going to be averaging 21-20. You put Shangoon over Kat.

Let me read the numbers to you. You tell me how you feel. Shangun average in 22, 9 rebound, 6 assists this season. Cat averaging 21, 12 rebounds, 3 assists. And the part is both can be fighting for the both international. Nick third in the east, 25 and 18. Yeah, that's. They will be, though.

Rocking fifth in the west, 25 and 15. But you know they're going to try it. See, that's what I'm saying. Cat can make the right one. If you don't make that one, I want to be international today then. See, that's the problem. You just got, yeah.

Do you put Shang-Go, if you talk about winning and all those other factors and variables that the coaches are going to use? Oh, I don't know. Shang-go on a better team. It's going to be guards versus big.

What is this? What is this? Huh? It's going to be guards versus Biggs. Base. Yeah. Sang-goon is going to be posting up Ant-Man.

What are you? Shane-Goon's team, better winning percentage. Yeah, I don't know. The nicks have been asked lately. I don't like five bigs. I don't like change in certain things because it messes up history. And that's why I don't, I don't like that idea of history being altered, right?

So when you look at the bigs back in the day, the 90s bigs, right, the fact that you have a David Robinson, a Keem, a shack, right? that they are the top five in the NBA, but because they're in the same position, it goes first team, second team, third team, right? So you can have the third best player in the league whose first team, but he has to play third team because he got beat out. See, now that's different,

so all three other can make the first team. So now some of them got third team awards that history won't understand it was changed. Yeah, when it should have been. Yeah, yes. But it happened with Embeded in Yokic going back and forth. One was on first team and one had to play second team. A second team he didn't deserve.

Is that when they changed it? That's when they changed it. Yeah, they won for the MVP voting and you make second team all NBIAs. It's crazy. It's wow. Man, so it's like either keep it the same. So does any of this even matter anymore? No, that's what I said.

Like the all start, like making first teams, like all the stuff that you meant something. And like what is it now? Because like you just said, Shaq, Hakeem, David Robinson, they're going second, third team when they should have been first team. So like, how do you really like measure it?

Like their legacy is kind of... Does the All-Star game matter? Who had the best half season? I'm just asking you guys. It's an all-star. You didn't make that motherfucker before. It matters. Yeah, it matters.

I was like, oh. I was playing the best midway through the season. All-N-B-Based seems more important, obviously. All NBA is definitely weighted more. Definitely is more important. But you still getting recognized for what you have been doing. To get left off of that motherfucker, trust me. Hey, when you think you're going to, hey, we think you are to get left off?

All right, yeah. I just feel like it's different than the Pro Bowl in the NFL. Pro Bowl, end of the season is based on your body of work for the whole season. I agree. That's all NBA. That's all NBA. Now bring them to make them play a game at the end of the season. Yeah, the Pro Bowl is one thing to make, to get it.

Pro Bowl is one thing to get your, to be acknowledged for your body at work, yeah. But if you're still playing, then you don't play in the game no way, so it don't matter. But, yeah, the All-Star, I just think it's, like we've been stating on this couch, man. It's All-Star weekend, it's entertainment. They need to use it as such. And stop forcing guys to playing the game that they don't want to play in. Let's find a different way to celebrate them. the guys that's been voted in,

let's find a different way to give them that during the halfway point of the season and continue to have the fans come in because it's fan interaction. People go there with a possibility to run it into an NBA player, taking a picture, getting an autograph, being in the same venue as multiple NBA players.

Let's figure that part out to have them be able to interact with the guys because people don't care about the game, man. Yeah, it's too much on the game now. You're with these gimmicks year-in, year-out, trying to fix a problem that you're not going to be able to fix because it's still the guys are not going to take it serious because they're not being paid to play in it.

Just like the end-season tournament. There's money involved. Them dudes out there playing to the motherfucking horn is that negative. There's negative zero on the clock. They're still trying to score. So there's no incentive for guys playing this. So let's figure out a way to make it more fan appreciation and give something back to the fans for support.

For going out and voting and continue support guys, let's figure it out in that matter. But forcing the guys to play in the game that they don't care about is just too much. You know what the real problem is? And it's a simple solution that they just don't have a value for because they don't understand an athlete. We sit in the locker room, right?

all we're going to go out there and play hard right we're going to go out there we all we all day and play hard hell yeah we all do what is the what is the first thing that happens in the game that says yeah i'm good when somebody someone gets the ball he goes in he gets hit harder than he's supposed to get hit in a all-star game but so once he gets hit he's done because the element is one i don't want to get hurt because i have the right to be regular season. So I don't want to get hurt, and you have the rules worse than playoff hitting. Because you sit, it's like watching one-on-one online, right?

They sit in there playing prison basketball, right? You can hold them, grab them, do all this stuff. That's what the All-Star game feels like. You come in there, you're letting people hang on your whole. And they're like, yo, so you're not going to call no foul? All right, I'm good. I'm checking out. I'm not going to go down there to get clothesline for the whole thing.

nothing. But ain't the All-Star games? So I just want to chuck three. So now you got a whole bunch of threes chucking. So you can't even touch me. I'm sure the bitch laugh for it. Ain't it supposed to be like a celebrity game like charity celebrity? They have that. Now think about it. Hey, they had that on Friday. Why are you going a hundred in an all-star game for fame? But think about, but think about the idea. It's supposed to be a celebrity fun game. Yeah. Meaning in this fun atmosphere, you should be blowing a whistle more. Not Less. Not less.

Yeah, I don't know about that because they wanted to be free-flowing and having it. But the problem, then make the rule, just call it like regular game. Yeah. Just call it like regular game. I agree. Don't call it worse than playoffs. I agree. I agree.

So now that's all that happens. Somebody get, you're going to, oh, hell, no, this is what we're doing? I'm good. Then you just start hearing it, then the guard's going to start chucking, big man start checking because you're not calling no files. That's where a problem starts at that they don't, they don't understand it. I don't want to get hurt first. Yeah, that's the... Now I'm coming out here and I go to the lane

and I just got pushed out the air and you didn't call nothing. Come get me. Go look at... This can tell you, like, go look at the way guys warm up before the All-Star game. Right? In the locker room.

Go watch dudes. Trust me. It is way different than a regular game. I was in three. So I know I had three experiences. Who are you talking to, Ken? Fans said how many games were you? I was in three.

So are you looking at your phone? That means I was in three locker rooms. I was in three warmups. I was in, I started one time, and then I was for three, and I heard, oh, hell, no, this is how we playing? That's how we play. We good. Oh, hell, no, that's how you get, we got Shaq on our side. We got Shaq, we got Shaq, we got Ben Wallace, we got Rashid.

Oh, hell, no. That's how we playing. Those, Shaq, Shuck to do, dance for shit. Jack, yeah, that's practice, right? That's practice, that's all this, huh? Because one thing you don't want him. Driving that lane, get clothes lined. So why don't we?

You don't want him to start. That's the thing. Like, you don't want him to turn it on. Huh? Like, you don't want Shaq to turn it on. Now, think about it. Why you, have we not ever seen Shaquille O'Neill the regular season in the All-Star game?

You never seen that Shack in the All-Star game? Why? Because they're not calling files, and he's not going to, I'm not going to go in here and just let you just hang on me for no reason. Because then I'm going to want to fight you for it. That's what the All-Star game is. The All-Star game is, you want me to play hard. If these are the rules, we're just going to be fighting out here.

How don't we turn All-Star weekend? Like, take the game out. Let's take the game off for Sunday. Let's keep everything above that Sunday. Let's turn into like a business atmosphere or like a basketball type of complex con, like where fans can actually interact. He's just called the Files. Not all the gimmicks in the world.

But the game is fast. But I think if you take the game out and make it to where fans can't actually Let me ask you something, can you? But dudes ain't going to play harder. Let me just ask you something, can you? Like, you can still do dunk contest?

You go up and try to dunk it, and they hold you like they hold you four five times. What you're going to say? All right now. All right now. Hey, yeah, yeah, send me out, or do you know,

or do you know what I'm going to turn it on out here. It should be vacation time anyway for players. I wouldn't want to play it again Sunday. Just tell you, man. I'll be sitting there. So last thing we got to discuss before we move on. So LeBron's NBA record

streak of being named a starter for 21 straight All-Star games ended Monday. This will be the first time Brown will not be a starter in the All-Star game since 2005. He's averaged a 23.7 assists, six rebounds shooting 51% in the field. So we all know last All-Star game LeBron tapped out last minute

proved to be a very wise decision as that game was absolute dog shit. They got the memo. He figured it, ooh, yeah, no. You want to play against who? Yeah, no, I'm good. He said, rookies hunt Who I play?

It's the same thing? No, no, no. I'm playing against my son's class. Obviously, he dropped in the fan vote this year. Dealt with the sciat. He could have started a mids 14 games to start this season. But do you think LeBron deserves a spot on the All-Star 2? Deserves.

He's going to have a spot on the All-Sart 2. Does he deserve it? Yeah. How much he had? 23. 7-ass 6 rebounds. I'm rolling. Could be his last season.

You're 23. He's got a pack. I don't never question. I don't never question a number one, number two option on the team. I don't question your all-star credentials. It'd be them third options. And I'd be like, well, Gil. That's team record.

You know, I'm a LeBron fan. I don't know if you're 12. Who rated with 12? 12 do not make the all-star like me me who made it with 12 who made it with 12 man who made it with 12 dog it's the beard talking yeah somebody made it with less who made it with 12 a nigger made it average in 8 he he he he he he he he and we're about some international players make 12 average 12 12 12 12 4 and 2 Cal Corby made an all-story game with that.

Oh, they went on that 30. I'm good for what they went on. He didn't go on nothing. He was a starter, though. He didn't. Let me try this again. He made it because somebody fell out, though. Let's try again.

Don't give a fuck. They went on a what? A 30 game win streak. Now, imagine what he had, hold on. What he averaging that 30 game went 12? Or probably 10. Like, you remember you doing them 30 games? When they won in a row, he had.

Remember that year you average 18 a game? And then you see somebody in Cal Corby 12. Oh, they just put anybody in this motherfucker now. Yeah, that's not. Now Nick, blaming the rest of y'all. Hey, Nick, why y'all ain't win more? Nick, I'm an all-star. But they used to put, like, 14 for the first.

That's the problem. I mean, four people for the first. No, they have. They ain't four players. They ain't full off. They had, what, Rondo, Ray, Paul, Pagie, Detroit, Detroit, Detroit. All the motherfuckers are the average 20. I know.

Shit, Tashon, Primp, Ray Allen, Alex, Tonsky, Bill. That's the case. Rich Jeffers said they made the All-Star Tilly. 13, 12? Imagine hearing Richard Jefferson making the All-Star game. You should have made it. Huh? You should have made it when we met when we was kicking ass in these?

Yeah, he couldn't. Compared to, yes. He would be. Cal Court got in Richard Jefferson, definitely an All-Star. For sure. Me and Jake Ken went. For sure. For sure.

Back the point, LeBron. That was the point. No doubt from y'all. How much Ruii averaging? Because I guarantee you somebody's like, Ruey and the All-Star game, the whole world to flip. That's exactly what we was doing during the game with some of these players split the all-nard game.

On an international side? When you're number one, that's what happens. When did they change that, though? Like when the team was number one, they used to get like three or four players. That was the Spurs, right? I think that was the Spurs. I don't know when they started it,

but I know when I recognize it. Three every year. I know. I recognize it. Players are not even. When was the last time a team had like three or more players? What was the last team that had three players or more? I want to say Boston.

I want to say the Boston Celtics with KG, Ray, Paul Pierce, and Rwondo. Before that. Somebody after that. Oh, okay. The Cleveland, the calves have three last year? Warriors, warriors, warriors. Warriors. The cats have three last year?

Warriors. Did Mowley? We didn't care, man. We were checked out. Mobley, Donovan. And did Garland make it last year? I don't know Garland made it last year. He was hurt.

He was hurt. They had three off. But I know Boston had four. Diamond Mitchell, Darry's Garland. They all made it last year? Yep. Yeah. Golden State.

We just didn't care. I'm sorry, Shug. We were in the bad. So Daris Garnel made it did make it last year? Yep. Yeah, three off. Wow, didn't nobody know. So what, Katie's Clay.

We were. Well, you know there was a lot going on. Dway had the domino function. Yeah. Eat us party. Yes. S.J. had the Converse function.

We were. He said, no, you were saying, Gold State, Katie, Steph, Clay, and fucking Draymond. Oh, yeah, yeah. He had every date. Look, there was a lot going on out there. I just look at this. Like, that's what I'm saying. I'm better off, I'm better off doing this.

You go, there's a list, and it says, uh, scoring, and then it has all the way for, it just, it starts from the top to the bottom, then assists stop to the bottom, then rebounds, top to the bottom. But if you number one. Just do this. You take the top scoring, right? there's going to be a number. It's going.

And then you take that, listen, you start that. You go top 24, boom, you take that list. Top 24, right? Then you put that. Then you do assist. Top 24, boom. Then you do rebounding, boom. And then you put it in a machine.

That would give you consistently who the top 24 best players in the NBA is. Then you just grab those 24. Fuck a record. These are the best 24 players in the world. And then you put them out there. So you can't make a difference without scoring and assists in the game? I think I said scoring, assists, and rebounds. Then All-Star?

You know what? No, because if you think you're an all-star player and you ain't scoring nor passing, that the fuck out of here. Like the one. Bill his back label, though. Ben Wallace, fucking Draymond. Oh, you want to, huh? Fucking Dennis Robbins.

Them like us, yeah. Did those awesome? Best 24 players? They made the, they were number one. I'm asking the question. The team was number one. I'm asking a question. We had an inadvertent smoke.

I'm asking. Are they top 24? No. They got Tayshan Frick. Let me ask you again. Let me ask you again. You got 28, 6, and 5. You got 6, 12, and 3.

But I'm number one. I'm number one. You're going to be picking them on video games. If I'm number one, I'm number one. I know, you're number of your team. Somebody asked one of that. So just to answer your question, the last team to have four players selected the Austin team, I believe, with the 2017-18 Warriors were the last team to have four.

I just said that. Yeah, yeah. Four? Yeah, yeah. Four? Yeah, yeah. That's real. And the 1617 warriors also have four.

The Atlanta team, I think Calcoat was the fourth. Yeah, he was four. Oh, yeah. The 14, 15, Hawks as well. They had how many real ones? 20, 2011 Celtics. 05-06 pistons. Think about it.

Atlanta, Atlanta. 97-98. 4. Okay, Mr. B. 82, 83, 6ers. Go ahead. Get it over. Let me go.

Who was on the Lakers when they did that all three? I think. Because I got... Because I got screwed. On the 4. Hey, that's Kobe, Nick. No. Not sure.

Shack and Eddie Jones, I think. Eddie Jones. Because Kobe got voted in. Yeah, Kobe got voted as a start. He didn't deserve? The Little Laker boy is here. Yeah, the best pitchers in all. Oh, that duck right there?

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Let's shift over a little bit. I was going to wear my RAM stuff, but I was like, you know what? Yeah, that would have. That would have to do that to you. I would have. Especially with your beard. You should have. I would have thought you was a story.

Always come on. Always tomorrow. Nah. Nah, you're going to wait. What? You wanted him to do that? We're going to the chip, so it ain't no brief. That was a Super Bowl right there.

That's cool. So we got some unfortunate news coming out of Golden State with Jimmy Butler suffering a season-ending torn ACL during a game against the Heat Monday night, first time playing against his former team in Golden State since being traded last season. And I already played in Miami's first time playing him in Golden State. state. So let's take a look at what went down. So entry happened midway through the third quarter.

Butler jumped to catch an entry pass in the middle of the paint, collided with heat guard. Damian Mitchell landing awkwardly on his right knee falling to the ground, screaming in pain. Butler remained on the ground for a few minutes of Steve Kerr's teammates and training staff. Gather around and take another look. Did not look good from the start. You can see the looks on the faces of some of the players on the court. Despite the awful situation, Butler was in good spirits using humor as a coping mechanism for the devastating injury. So during the TV timeout, the NBA app's mics were still hot and captured a portion of a conversation between Butler and Buddy Heald while he was down on the ground in pain. So as Butler was helped his bench by Heald and GP2, he also joking the Fisher

that he deserved two free throws for that play. Once he reached the bench area, Butler was helped by Buddy Hild and Jonathan Camminger to a wheelchair near the locker room with the announcement of a torn ACL coming shortly after the game. So this morning, Butler posted this Carousel on his Instagram account, including a meme of him as General Sornis, with a caption that read, Last Night, 44 of 82, be back before you know it. Carousel also featured highlights of the Warriors' win over the heat, ended with a photo of Jimmy and Steph Dapping Up.

So Butler was averaging 20.6 rebounds, 5 assist in 38 games, of the season. His 15th in the league. Jimmy Bucket, six-time all-star, five-time all-N-BBA selection, five-time all-defensive selection. Turned 36 last September, has one year remaining on his deal with the Warriors. So Gil, wish a reaction to Jimmy Butler

suffering a season-ending torn ACL. And speedy recovery. I mean, you hate to, you know, see somebody go out, you're injured. Especially something that's serious that's going to be season-ending, so, you know, they're in good spirits. you know, how you mentally think is how your body react.

So, you know, hopefully gets back soon and see him next year. Can you just saw that play, Jimmy's suffering on a tour in ACL. Obviously, the Warriors were playing well, have been playing well. Now lose him for the remainder of the season. Obviously, it's status long-term unknown. But what's your immediate reaction? Just find out Jimmy Butler suffered a touring ACL out for the remainder of this season. First and foremost, yeah, I wish him.

Speed of recovery, man. To Gil's point, you hate to see that, man. Anybody. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Been playing well as a team, like you said, as of late. They were trying to get back into what they thought they were getting with, Jimmy and Steph and those guys playing well. So, yeah, no, it's somebody else to step up.

Yeah, it's just bad timing, man. Like, this shit sucks. Yeah. Get your old team. Get your old team. Yeah. Somebody not living right. Somebody not living right, man.

Go pray. I don't know if the living conditions had anything. Yeah, because that's more of like a freak accident. I don't want nobody to get hurt, but that's just, that don't rarely happen to get your old team. Keep her treating people bad over there. Shit. That's just, that's tough, man.

Brother had 17 points in 21 minutes. You're not wishing him speed recovery, you see. I do wish him to be scree recovery. But he ain't going to be speeding. Shit. Fucked up there. That's the last time he's going to be speaking. My fucking John Camingo would have sat there and been like.

Yep, that's what I'm saying. See, now you need me. Now you need me. My leg hurt too. Yes. Yes. Let me take you to the back straight on something. Yeah, he said that was like, go on.

Yeah, carry him out. I got done for time. So he don't get no motherfucking bright ideas. Hey, Buddy, I got him. Who helped him? Buddy and his... Two niggins are not playing? Come on, we got him.

We got you with me in the back with you. Come on. Back here, chilling. We got him, coach. Train the junksteria. We got it. Such a bitch. He's that such a...

Buddy and GP2 helped him to the bench. Buddy and Kamenga helped him to a wheelchair wheelchair near the Warriors locker room obviously he was taking to get MRI revealed a torn ACL no you can tell these friends though they like each other too though that's funny that's some shit you would have did and they could wrap this season up though yeah his own way because they don't have another number two option right now the other one they're not playing so I mean you know you hate to see a player like him go down but you know the wars don't have nothing else right now they're they're kind of just stuck at this point.

Whatever trade value they thought they was going to have, now it's kind of like, if I'm a team, I'm just sit back. Because now they're desperate at this point. I'm the Warriors. I mean, I look desperate. I'm trying to trade comming. He's asking for a trade request. He's not playing.

He's one of our third best players, second best players. So it's like now that Jimmy just went down, yeah, we just stuck. Yeah. Very unfortunate. So talk about the words. Warriors are on fire as of late after a slow start to the season 9 and 3 in their last 12 games

25 and 19 on the season currently 8th in the West. You guys already kind of start talking about this, but how did Jimmy Butler's injury impact the Warriors for the short and the long term? We have a great opportunity here.

We have a great opportunity is what I'm saying. All I see in my brain right now. is bring out the tank. If there was any good year to tank, it's this year. Oh, there's so many prospects

in this year's draft that I don't care who you are. You shouldn't be able to miss. Like, you've got a not-no basketball if you have a top six pick, and you pick wrong. So if I'm Golden State Warriors, Right now, I don't want to win not another nail game.

Not another nail game. Now imagine. Now imagine that's the top three, they automatically get Peterson, a boozer, or AJ. That's going to do nothing next year, man. If everybody's back? Just trade stuff. If everybody's back? I trade me.

He already slow. I'm just saying. You add him and you get free agency. You can trade that pick with somebody and get somebody a cup ball. That's why you just start and let the rookie be a Cooper flag. It's time for Steph to go, man. You don't need to. You lose your whole fan.

You lose your whole fan. You're taking. Self is 30. How old is 37? Bro, Steph still has the number one selling Thursday. That's why he could go somewhere and win. You can get a lot for Steph, boy. The Warriors, you can get a lot of stuff.

I know you can get a lot for Steph, and that gym is going to be emptied in the bitch. No. No. Empty. You crazy as hell. You might as well just write out with him for the next. 30, 37.

I mean, trade them down. Steph turns 38 in March. You're going to put Steph with a rookie next year? Wait, he's what? 30s. Yeah, just go out. Just go out like college. I can trade that asset.

Is that what you, is that what you try to sell to stuff to how you can go out like code did? I'll go out just like Gold did. 17 and 65? I'm just, what? Go out with 60, go out whatever, but I'm playing with one team. My legacy, like, if I go somewhere else, then I mean, I have to.

All right. Do the Warriors do good with top picks or rookies? Mm. Do they do good with rookies? Mm, Steph. Was he with Steve Kerr? Clay. Was he with Steve Kerr?

Dreherbaugh. Was they with Steve Kerr? Jordan Poole. This Steve Kerr King. Joe Poole. Huh? Huh? Steve Kirkang.

It took Poole three years, and he got punched under the end. He started looking like you. That's got nothing to do with what you're just talking about. He looked like you with the witness. That has nothing to do what you're talking about. Was the average in 20? All right, after pool, what else? You got the last six years.

He put Paziga over fucking Kamega. He's going to name two people? Just name Wiseman. No name. Wise man. Dugger? Just name him. Don't say here about.

Kaminga. They had a pick every year, motherfucker. This name. You said it. He said top. I've had a top pick since, uh, Wiseman. Yeah, he ain't in the league no more. Damn.

He didn't fuck this head up. That'd be a good year for one. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm tanking. You could get all, I know one thing for show. You get one through five if you, the Warriors right now for stuff. I know one, I know one thing for show. You think you're five. I'm a big market.

You can get five for them. I'm a big market team, right? And I know one, I know. AJ want to be in a big market Or Utah I know Peterson wants to be in a big market Right Boozer is okay

Right But for the most part This drive class This could be the LeBron draft class Thank you so I want to get in there Why don't I want that team Why don't want them go to the Wizards Charlotte Bobcats

Blazers But you just said that And now they're going to have Charlotte Bobcats The Charlotte Bob. The first step, if you're that guy coming in LeBron, you got stuff in front of you. If you got one of them picks coming in. There's no guard.

Everybody who's coming in, that position's open for them. Man, they're going to be in a way. That position is open for them. That position is open for me. Two to three years left. He got to sit there with a rookie and my help. My original team that comes back. With Pazingas and Boozer are Pazingas.

You think that's going to be changed? That's going to win. Pazineke is, Jean-Mont, Green, Steph, and a rookie going to win a chapter. Him too. This team was supposed to go. People had high hopes on this team. And you know we're a hope work.

Thank you, Katie. It's the important thing. Spurs saw the same thing. Why are you going to go out there and get it big? One because he's right-handed. The other one's left. Chips. Chips.

Chipsy with Spurs. Why are you going to go get another big man? Because he can play on that side. One's on this side. I can play on that side. I got to do a threat. They call them the Twin Towers. You can start a step over

when we're getting training stuff. Listen, hey, man, listen. You can trade them. You can trade your ass set. Right? You can go in there and get whatever you think you can get. You're going to have to deal with that in some point in time in the next two or three years.

You ain't going to have stuff. So you got to deal with that. You might as well have picks and shit coming in where you can start stuff over. and get new fan base and a new fan base. Not a new fan base, but keep the same type of fan base. Push the fan base up. Hey, so is this true about Jimmy.

Jimmy's injury is after the cutoff of January 15th, so they can't use the disability clause where they can sign money for another player. Let me see. As you know, I'm merely a host. Let me see. It sounds about right. They're really, they're really. You can file for an exemption, like 2.5 or something from the league as an exemption.

You can sign for whatever they want. Bradley Bill. Teams have until January 15th to apply for a disabled player reception and until March 10th to actually use them. So. According to your research, Brandon, words, if you shit out of look.

But if you're too close to the cap or by the apron, then they're not going to give it to you. Okay. So that was the clippers problem. By their first apron and they was like, yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Shit. Mm. So bring you to my next. Warriors. Bring it to my next question. Obviously, we've seen the situation going on with Jonathan Kaminga. Don't even say it. Don't you open your mouth.

I was a host. And you should, if they do eggs, he should tell him to kiss him in his ass. No, he should say, my back is broke. Spinal. Didn't even ask a question yet. Spinal. Kiss me in my back. Spinal.

Not kiss me. Oh, my kiss me. No. So we've seen the situation with Kamengas, several DMPs, the backiotomy, and the backiotomy, and that Thunder game on January 2nd when Steve Kerr tried to force him to play. Rightfully so. Does Butler's injury force increase playing time for Jonathan Kaminga or give the worst extra motivation to trade him as soon as possible?

Still where they are, same boat, same, they should change. He gonna, they don't, they ain't played him, ain't go play him, he shouldn't play it and refuse to play. Babe. So now do you try to move him? What should he do, girl? Yeah, you had this look when you was Kamiga. What I do?

What I do? You play good for the team you won. team you wanted to go to. What was that again? You played good. You missed the games and when you played for Orlando came here. Beginning season?

Begining season. I'm like, I think y'all should start Kirk Hyenrak at the truth. Oh, he did say that. I don't want to be here. I'm like, you're going to play. This hurts.

Missed the first three games. Mm-hmm. Came back a little bit. Nick, you ready? play. I should have hurt a kid. Did you get fine for that? Got fined $5.

Yeah, you read about that, yeah. You were the arena since down to let Nick Young play. How much I love that guy? My back heard again. Here you are all these years later. I don't know. Sharing candy on the couch of Gil's Bay. My best game that season was against Orlando Magic.

Had to shoot my new balls. Yeah, like 30 next. I still got it. I just been bullshed with these stickers. I was bullshit. Oh, I still got it. We were just bullshied. We were just bullshund.

Man, bitch maw, bitch ma'am. Orlando Canby said, now I think I gotta start, nigga. Oh, that's what I got to start. Wow, bro. Oh, that was your train. Hey, coach, I got to start real quick. If he had a good thing going. Nah, man.

This is why I, that was why I leave you. I'm bitch, I was with the bitch. Hey, hey, oh, Orlando's coming. Hey, I got to start real quick. Tomorrow I can be back on the bench. Had them like 31? Uh-huh. Back to the bitch.

That's why he finds you. That's after that. They knew. I knew, too. That was a crazy year ago. I knew what I was going. But no, they been up, no, that man ain't going to play no more for the Warriors, man. They better not even open their mouth.

Yeah, that's disrespectful. How you treated him this whole time. You're coming out. I don't, I don't even look my way. That's what I said. Someone that lives. Don't even look. Don't even.

Like, I better. be able to sit as comfortable as I've been sitting before. I go in, I sit on my 13th seat. I don't even want to hear. Hey, come, come, nothing with a cage. That's the word. No, no mean, no, none of it. No, K, no, no, but do you play?

Man, man, he's sitting on the last seat. Steve Kurt looked at him. That's the way he looked. That's the word. I'm sitting in the last seat. As soon as he looked, I'm going to see who he's looking at. Right. He's looking at him dead and his eye and do this.

Look the other way like, hey, hey, he's, worst feeling. Man fucking tapped the fan. Hey, he's trying to put you in. I ain't come to work. He's trying to put you in the game. Try to put you in the game. I ain't come to work to work.

You don't think he's in a tough situation though? Because do this make him look bad if he's saying no. Who? If Steve Kurt tried to put him in? Yeah. He asked for a trade. Yeah. Nick, the rest of the public.

He was gone. The other things are. The man acts for a trade. Oh, yeah. The man acts for a trade. So you. He tried to play him another day, he said, ah. Back of y'all.

My bat. That'd be all right. Who they play now? Hope you all know how to win without Jim. When they play sack. When they play sack, they play sack again anytime, so? Don't even want to go there or some shit like that? He want to go anywhere but motherfuckold state.

Any word that Steve Kurt not coaching. That's the dumb place. No one person, no way. The only way I get on that court is, hey. If I get on this court, I'm playing all 48. You sub me one time. You look to sub me. You, man, come on, get one time I'm done for the season.

There's no negotiation. Either lose. That's what I'm saying. Y'all way, I can care less because I already asked for a trade. I play 48 minutes. I've missed and I want them all now. 48 the rest of the season for the shit you did last year. But Jay-G-W- You're asking for a lot. Jake G.

You asked me to sit on this bitch 48 minutes. But like, think about that. Steve Hurd don't like him. He didn't like Steve-Kead. Yeah. So if you need me, what about 38 to 40 minutes? Yeah, I said 48 already. Yeah, but we can't, I mean, you got to come out.

I don't have to do nothing. You're going to ask for a sub. You're going to do that. I don't have to do nothing. That's the problem. Like, when I was sitting on the bench 48, non-negotiable right 48

all 48 plus timeouts and everything I couldn't even get up I had to sit there sit your ass and I couldn't even get up and clap people sit there 408 now we're going to 48 minutes moving forward non-negotiable the number is 48

yeah if not 459 none of it I don't care what the score here so the way it used to go right y'all fans right when a guy would be in this position, he wouldn't be disgruntle. He would be the biggest jokester and fucking with everybody, by everything.

You can come out, you can be having a horrible fucking game, and he is going to say something in that moment to make you either want to choke the shit out of him or you can't do nothing but late. Because he's been on teams with guys, the coach had no intentions on playing him, and it's been fucking a month and a half and he ain't played. Yeah, everything's a joke. Film, anything come out to coach your mouth, and he ain't talking to me.

You're talking, you're sorry, motherfuckers. Because he ain't, hey, there's shit like that they're going on. He ain't going to have no attitude. We lost it. Yeah, we lost. No, he's going to be at the back of the bitch. We're cracking, but talking that. Talking shit.

Listen, talking cash shit about everybody. Yeah. Lucky that ain't. Johnson came out of that guy. Yeah, they look at, yeah, they look at his, he's, yes, he's about his business. Right. Because you got to, we would like, dude would be loud, but they're like they subtle with it, neither. Like, they're letting everybody know.

He's not. Bitch, Bob! That ass-old. Camiga does have some personality on the low, I just will say that. Okay, damn, but he's probably not displanning in these moments, right? But, you know, sometimes all can take us a word or look. Yeah. Because it's just, I was on one of my team.

She was one of my team, may one day the, the motherfucker George. then playing him in the fourth. He came out the next practice, nigga, and when I say shot that bitch every time he touched it. Like, fuck practice. Listen, dog.

No matter what play this man called, he shot this bitch wherever he was. And tell him, K, we can play in the fourth, right? I wasn't saying shit because he bitched both of mine. We ain't playing the fourth at all.

Tell him, Kay, I can play in the fourth, right, Kay? Tell him, shit, we can play basketball. We're really good, okay? Shoot that motherfucker. As he's talking shit, that motherfucker coming away, he's firing that bitch.

I'm like, yeah, it is listening. All right, well, we will monitor the Warriors situation. We have to. We cover every tape in the National Basketball Association. Yeah, they're done.

Why are a lot of these fans, man? I don't even want to smoke the Warriors pack right now. No, you don't even, like... The Warriors are cut. Not like this. Not like this. Not like this. The worst pack.

I just know if Kaminka goes out there. This is what happens, man. If he goes out there, and played, he should be choked out. Choked out. Choked out. His friends, family, whoever... They're gonna put him out there though.

Whoever cares about him on that team should choke his ass out. They go, buddy, he'll go on, Ken. Both y'all, if either one of y'all get on that court, y'all should choke each other. No, no, not. No, no, buddy, he don't need to get that. He ain't, he going to play. He's a little older. He ain't got that big.

He can hold out. Buddy got to play. You still think they won't play. You still think they won't play. You still think they won't play. But, buddy, but, buddy has to play. Buddy has to play. His market value, he has to play.

Kaminga, the other 29 teams, they already on board. Yeah. Okay. Come on. Come on, son. We got something for you, son. We got luxury over here. I mean, he got to play.

He's going to be on the couch. Let's keep this thing moving for our last topic of the day. So John Morant's future with the Grizzlies may be in doubt with the report. The team is open and willing to trade him ahead of the February 5th deadline, but his present was a GIF Sunday, as Jai was back in action after missing the previous six games with a right calf contusion, with the Grizzies taking on the Magic in London for their second straight global game after Orlando got the win in Berlin on Thursday. So Jai helped Memphis get some payback while reminding his squad he still liked that. Let's take a look at some of the highlights from the game, if we can, Cheerio.

Moran came through with one of his best games of the season while on a minute's restriction, finishing with a team high 24 points on 7 to 13 shooting along with 13 assists and 5.5. rebounds and 28 minutes of action. He had 20 and 10 dimes in the first half as the Grizzlies led by 19 at the break. The job was a team high plus 26 for the game. Jack Laundale came through with 21 off the bench on 9 of 11 shooting along with eight Borden and Jaron Jackson Jr. had 17 and 5 rebounds. Grizzlies cruise to the wire to wire win. They led by as much as 33 in the game. 12's back ladies and gentlemen. He's showing off.

He's showing off. Don't know for the team he was ready. I said y'all open and willing. Trying to bring back that feeling, but... Ooh. Ooh. There it is. You never see.

You play like this. Twain, boy, that's that move I do. Hit the little somber as well for those who like to dance. Huh? But after the game... That's the first one, but he's playing with him, man. So after the game, Mark Stein asked Morant about the trade rumors and the two-time All-Star had this response. What do you want?

Where do you want? this thing to go from here after the way you played today? Very loyal to you, I got a logo on my back, so rest you're actually where I want. Very loyal guy, I have a logo on my back. So here's that photo of John Moran's back, just for reference. Hey, yo. Where's it at with the Nike sign?

Oh, the grizzly bear? The grizzly bear. Oh, yeah, he's going to get that. A lot of shit going on on here. A lot of shit going on on his back, but you do see the Grizzlies logo. You'll get that shit covered soon. I've seen a draft, though. Go put a nice little evil, evil little bear on it.

But you could easily turn that to the magic fine. Or just. So, John says he's a loyal guy, but should the Grizzlies be loyal to their franchise player? Are any companies ever loyal? I don't care. All I want to know is, where the fuck are the trades at? Like trade already trade somebody

damn like trade started we already heard before it started people were supposed to be traded right you didn't want Jha you didn't want Kaminga I know there's players on the brine started today

damn what are we waiting for who are you waiting for get rid of like I'm sitting here waiting for the trade deadline every day we're waiting somebody needs to move today damn

I don't like you like this I'm just saying y'all pumped up people were supposed to be traded where they at when free agency starts right you're a little aggressive like 1159 59 a nigga already

signed that deal it goes on a ticker money already signed in one hour billion dollars worth the contract have been signed. Now, you look like... How many days has it been? Nobody has transfer nowhere.

You look like you're talking about. No, no, I'm thinking about my Laker T. There's like 10 people that need to go, and I wonder why they're still here. It was just one tray, I think. Stray young, right? That was before. Oh.

Oh, since then. Yeah. You all right? Nothing. M. Okay, we can't. Man, you can get... Bill has a dream, Mr. B. Everybody has a day off on my day.

Everybody has a day. Everybody has a day off a bunch. Like, I don't even want to watch the Lakers right now. Because I'm watching people who, you know, who's not even going to be there. That's, like, I'm tired of hearing the rumors, make it happen. Oh, so it's a waste of time. No, go already. You knew you were going to trade him when the clock hit.

See why it's important no rumors? No. No, is Orlando one of his teams, top teams? I don't know. I don't know. Just let's go. Yeah, I hate the rumors. Do the shit.

Hey, I don't want him. What you got? Come on, let's go. Hey, hey, you're out. That's how I'm supposed to be. He's just ready. He's just ready for this shit. He wants some action.

I want some action. Don't you want some action? How you ask for change again? What you got? Say how you said. What you got? No, no, see, that's the difference. I don't want no change.

I just want to see how many cars stop. That's it. You just want to see who cares? Just who cares, man. I don't care. I don't care about you love. That's poetic. Y'all dealt with this all last week.

He'd been looking like this for a look. Uh-huh. What he's been looking like this? They're talking about. This look. I'm just saying it's the trades. You got to be traded. I can't take you serious looking like that.

You ready for some moves again? Hey man, why you keep... Okay, if you want to just go off topic, what was you? I was doing star shit. Where did you go? Being a star somewhere out there. Trying again?

Don't worry about me. Did you go to China again? That's where a lot of these people gonna be in the minute. They should. You know that girl on Instagram that go to Dubai? You're like, yo, why you keep going on the

Oh, my God. That's my China man. Oh, my God. What's in China? Oh, my God. Up and going. Not in the summer. Up and gold.

Every three, four weeks. In the time when that bill need to be paid, your wife is in China. Drink hot, nigger. Whatever you deal. over there, drink it up. Bring up your sorrows.

I don't even want to know. Not the girls that go to Dubai. I know you ain't going over for no basketball. Andrew, you're very familiar with TikTok. Is there anything going on in Dubai? Oh, okay. Girls go there, they go to Dubai. They get their rent money.

They get their rent money. For the year. For the year. I have to do that. This is Twitter. That's what it sounds like. That's what it sounds like. That's a

No, that's too. It's so, it's okay, man. We with you. Get it by any means. You feel me? This is real friendship by here, ladies and gentlemen. Every time I talk to, I'm like, where you at? I'm in China again.

All right, man. You all they're doing camps? Nah. You playing? You got clothes coming? Nope. I ain't got no clothes. You have fun, all right?

I don't mean to interrupt. Safe travel, brother. Back to our discussion about the Memphis Grizzan and their franchise player, John Morant, government named Tometrish Jamel Moran. Fuck John. God, damn. We over the shit. We want the trade to happen already.

I want to see where he's going. I got to be fucked up. They ain't trading. Now you see what I'm talking about. Yes, please. See, and this is what Brandon wanted. Yes. This is what Brandon wanted.

He wanted to know weeks before. Yep. Start getting to go. Right. That's going to be booming, bro. He wanted to be moving. He did a new start. He did a new start.

He do need a new start. Fresh fish on the line. Fresh fish on the line. He can call from anybody. I want to know so I can tell my agent, these are the three teams I want to go to. You took that beforehand. Yeah, but see, the conversation ain't happened like that because I think that they want me.

So now that I'm hearing the rumors, now I got to, oh, go back to thinking it's all about business. See, when you first come into the league, everybody thinks they look. Everybody think the players, everybody think the team love you. Every young player that come in. They always think that because they're playing well, they get everything, everybody's on them, everybody's talking. But then once the rumors start happening, then once a little something happens, you start really seeing about the business of it. Like when I feel like, I thought, I was, I thought, I was, I'm, I'm,

I always felt winning. Winning, winning, winning, winning. But then it was, got to the business, then you start understanding other things. Like you said, some teams don't even want to win. So you're trying to do all this. It's just like, you know, you get put in a position where, oh, shit, well, let me start making sure my situation

or making sure I'm good for the long term. So my agent knows what I want. That's just all. That's why I said the rumor. Just changes things. So, uh, report's job, bought a house in Miami recently. Oh, shit. How is it?

Yes, for a story. It's summertime. Yeah, in summertime. Yeah, it's Memphis right there. You know, it's closer to... Where is he from? Charlotte, right?

Carolina, yeah. Carolina, I believe. He's somewhere around there, right? Yeah. Anybody that's around that area usually goes to Miami. Like, if you're closer to, like, L.A., like, you'll come over here. But do you just go there to vacation, or do you go there to maybe...

Oh, no, that's for life. I don't know, if jobs moving in Miami, that's for life after basketball. Okay. Like, Yon is in New York. Yeah, it's for life after. Like I'm setting. living with Memphis in the summertime. Huh?

You don't want to be nowhere near Memphis during the summertime. A fine sense. Then more Chicago. Don't say that. Chicago's nice in the summertime. It's beautiful. No, the, what? What?

It's beautiful in Chicago. No, the weather's, no, the weather's beautiful in Chicago. And it's just that weather comes. There's bees and there's things that sound like bees that hurt a lot more than bees that come in the summer, too. Gotcha. So you got to look out the window for that good-ass weather. Gotcha.

Or try to stay downtown. Stay on that, still on the 35th plus. Do you think job feelings just hurt that he's hearing the rumors and getting treated like this? As a star, you feel like... As a gritty, why do you allow those rumors to get out? Like, what are you hoping to accomplish with that? The team tatted on your back, now you hear all this. I think his feelings just hurt, bro.

We're open and willing to trade you? What kind of shit is that? I got your logo on my bag. You know how much that hurt? What shit? That's loyalty, loyalty. Loyalty. Loyalty told them to do a swaggy.

That's stupidity. Right? What the fuck? Who told you to do that? Get dragged to get these motherfuck. I got Lakers on mine and I didn't even play for the Lakers. But you grew up the fan of them, so that's... You didn't go out, motherfucking golden state draft at your ass in the second round.

You didn't go out and get the gold and get the bridge on your fucking... Man. He can't go out and get the bridge. That's how much. Get an old. I was going to the wizard tattoo. I was almost as close. I'm still this close from getting one.

See how a team can make you feel like. I feel like that's not like a team. New York still. I would never get the wizards. I'm stuck my head. I would never get a team cup. I'm right here, dog. That's like the NBA logo.

I get my school. Okay, New York. That's the NBA logo. Yeah, I think getting NBA logo is very corny. Oh, wow. Yes, yes. I think having the NBA logo tattered on you is corny as hell. What if it's your own image,

I do, no, no, no, for an NBA player, an NBA player that's in the NBA, he'd go get an NBA tat with the logo and everything. What if it's not Jerry West, what if it's a silhouette of Mr. B. Shooting a 3rd? What if the kid grew up and NBA was his world? And he got it before he got it to the league. You got before like, one of the high school kids, right? Yes, you won that mother. We know you in the NBA. I know sussain dudes have it before they got to the one.

Like that's before the high school, like the high school college kid that get one. Yeah. I said someone get it like as a sock. I don't get, it isn't that bad, we hoop, we hoop, dog,

like, it ain't that bad, yes, you get an NBA logo with Jerry on your team. So you got one? No. No, no,

when everybody, like, it ain't that bad. I don't know. I'm thinking about it. Like, if I, like, that's my goal.

The joint logo, the NBA logo. Your dream was to get that that trophy on you that you got. That's what you got. That was not a dream as a title. Huh?

As a child. No, no, no. No, no. I'm talking about most of these kids get in high school. That's just like some of them got the Jordan logo in high school. That's course. Now your ass with Adidas. Man, in high school, you got Jordan.

You're sponsored by Adidas. The only tattoo that I saw that was cool to probably like get was when Alan Averson had the only, only the storm survive. I almost got that one. Right, that tattoo. I saw Tyson Taylor had it. I saw Tyson Taylor in high school and I saw a couple other people had it. But it was like a, like that was like a,

That was like more... I almost got the Chonsie Billis one. Which one? It was like King of the Hill. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, ooh, I get my first Jack. I was going to be King of the Hill.

Get that man where you're from Park Hill. That man from Park Hill, Colorado. That's the neighborhood he grew up in. Oh, that's a high. I didn't know. I want that. I want that. He from Park Hill.

Nah, man. Stay up. Stay away from the NBA logo unless you a fan. But that we grew up. That's what that means, right? All right. Well, talk about one more thing. But getting your team, getting the team that draft that you logo on you is fucking die.

It's worse than NBA getting the NBA. That's die. God, man. Y'all got that's worse. They both bad. You give me 300 million. You give me 300 million. The least I can do put the goddamn bears.

You're right. 300 million. I'm going to put the bear. Right. You're right. I put the funky-ass girl name on me. Right. And she can't give it nothing.

But it's Louis. I can put the bear on it. I can put the bear on me for 300 million. Both of them are. Yeah, yeah. Man, my, you're asking for free. Both for them, listen, that's the equivalent. Hey, that's the equivalent.

Hey, that's the equivalent, right? Getting the NBA team that draft that you logo tattooed on you and getting a female name tattooed on you. And I get the gym that's a big name. It's the same thing. Hey, what is it? I'm almost got eight polling on in time. Oh, me.

Hey, baby. A, Paul, baby. Ernie Grunfield. I'm telling me I wouldn't go play for the Netsville. I'm time that boxing. All right, very quickly before we wrap up for the day. Let's talk about something else that went down in the game. So Jai has the history of doing celebrations, as we know, some of which have drawn the ire of the league,

elected warnings and a hefty fine. So Monday, midway through the second quarter, Jai hit a three to put the Grizzlies up 30, proceeded to pull out the bazooka. He has now upgraded. pulled out the bazooka. Boom! We had to slow it down due to Amazon's director.

Not really appreciate it at that moment. So you may recall, Jawa's fight $75,000 by the league last April for mimicking, pointing a long gun during a game against the Miami Heat, the finger gun situation. Came shortly after the league warned him and Buddy Healed about doing finger guns at each other.

That was last year? Last season. April? Last season. Last year. Last year. It was 2026 now. Yeah.

It's a whole other year. Finger guns, job, self-defense. But, so in light of his prior celebration history with the league, any issue with Jodd doing the bazooka cellie. Come on, Joe, fine, man. So, you wasted down to my damn, that's what,

so normally what happens is I ask the question, you could say yes or no? Yes, no. Whatever the question for yes or no. Okay. Defend yourself. Defend yourself. I know, but he, you know.

Did he get fined? It's two thousand. Not yet. Host are back in 2026, well. Not yet. Usually they find him right after. So didn't he do that. He did the grenades.

He didn't get fired for that. It was not a grenade. He was taking his words, throwing him out and blocking him out to the north. Blu-Boo! Now he got the big bazooka gun. This isn't the first time he got that. He's done that before. He did that right after he got suspended.

When he got suspended, it came back, and he did the dunk. He did the dunk to damn they win the game. He did the bazooka. No word if that was a kid. I think they don't like the pistol. The bazooka is. It's all the same. It could have been a potato gun as well, Gil, which is legal in most states.

Listen. Why? I just like, celebrations are a celebration. You're going to find everybody for, you know, pulling that or not. You're not. They're not. They're not going to find everybody because everybody don't have history. They're not fighting him.

I'm saying they have. I'm saying they haven't for this, but they have. Stop, listen, man. That's, stop talking these people, man. That's all. Just leave it alone. And you can have other, there are so many other celebrates. They are, he's very creative.

I'm pretty sure people send him shit all the time, right? Let's use one of them. I did. They see me this one. I like that. I like the one when he was doing. Yeah, like that. Like, I'm like that.

So many other things they can do, man. Let's, like that. Let's stop talking to people, that's all. To give them them a reason for this to be even maybe a fine again. Let's stop talking, right? We're put the weapon up. See, it's time. So this is coming from experience.

Right? The man that's sitting in the domain chair that's in New York, right? The conversations ain't been, listen, dude. When you- The conversation I had, the conversation I had, right? The conversation I had with David Stein, right? Son, if you want to continue to be a part of this league, you would change your ways. And did you stop? I didn't push him about on the court again.

She, you kept a very big step, not doing the game. after the game. Still, you were pushing the motherfuckers. Yeah, but I didn't put my hands on nobody in that regard after me and David Stern had that conversation. I got you. I drew back a few times during the game, right? And guess what, hey, you know, he got the old,

they got the motherfucker, the devil and the angel on your shoulder. David Stern was on both of them, like, go ahead and do it. Hey, I dare you. Go ahead and punch him if you want to. All right, so this is the last thing. I'm sure you guys will appreciate this one. Punch me if you want to.

We'll end on a positive. Speaking of getting punched on, Grizzies and Magic tipped off their global game series in Berlin on Thursday. Java's sideline for that game proved to be a blessing in disguise as he may have found himself on the wrong side of a poster like some of his teammates did. Let's take a look at this play right here. So as you see, Anthony Black, catch the ball and transition proceeds to dunk on four Grizzlies.

Defenders in the game. Anthony, I know black. I was about the fight. Take a look at every single angle, including former defensive player of the year, Jared Jackson, Jr. So according to the league, Black's fast break facial is the most viewed highlight

of the season across NBA social platforms generating over 85 million views and counting. How impressive was that? That's all we're asking for. That's why you give them some change now. I only got five. I only got five. I mean, it happened in Berlin, so that helped even more.

The fact that it's so, you know, international. You know, nobody see that game. It don't matter if it was the States, Berlin. It was on at 11th and Pacific time on Thursday. They saw that play. It was the most viewed social clip on the NBA app. 85 million views. I was golfing.

This is beautiful. Impressive, no, everybody's making a big deal about you. I don't care. It's Tuesday. It's a lot of versus Maddie. I mean, versus Grizzlies. Huh? What's his name?

Anthony Black, very good play. Now we know his name. Anthony Black. Unfortunately. You think we hear about Anthony Black again? Yes. Yeah, he's talking about him, motherfucker. Played very well.

Gil, you should appreciate Anthony Black. You know why he wears number zero, sir. What? Does it Gilbert? Where no other numbers available? They won't let me wear zero in Orlando. Yeah. You are not Anthony Black.

I'm just, I'm just ready to go. get on Arc Raiders and try to find a dude who stole my gun when I told him I came for peace You're what is that a video game? Yes, okay It's actually it's life. It's real life We supposed to be out there farming if I say I'm here peacefully and I'm picking up my lemons and trying to do my little quest And you see I got some big stuff back there That's for them up there having one of the movies Nick and oh you're living? And and and they wait to like

I get all the way to the thing and they jacked me for it. You know, the people in front of the store that just be talking themselves. Yeah, he's on that shit right now. That's the look. You got to let them be right now. You're having a moment. Let's keep it going. We've had this conversation again in about six months.

This is a good place for us to wrap up. Make sure you stick around for an all-new episode of the Arena Grin-Iron coming on right now. But this has been Gil's Arena, presented by Underdog. Whoa! We'll see y'all.