Gil's Arena - The Lakers And Knicks Win BIG!!!

Episode Date: May 3, 2023

The Lakers And Knicks Win BIG as Gilbert Arenas reacts to a crazy night in the NBA Playoffs!! Other NBA topics include the injuries to Jimmy Butler and Joel Embiid, Steph Curry vs Lebron James and The Boston Celtics MUST WIN Game against the 76ers. Sign up for Underdog Fantasy HERE with promo code GILSARENA and get a $100 first deposit match: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-gi... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Agent Zero. Change the game. Put that respect on his name. Look, with the honor call for greatness, the chosen a few, the carry the gift of genius, who do what they do Who possess Vanessa, bless with desire, it's true I'ma say it loud, none other than who?

Some swear by Nikes, others love Adidas Rappers be rockin' crowds, I'd rather rock arenas You may have a nice shop, you're super set with a pill Who made the zero famous? It's Gil Homie fire, he wet, cold as the Pacific Some dudes try to guard him, no need to be specific He dazzled up the crowd as a wizard for years Was a hundred percent real, it's Yield

Yield Eat em up Yield It's Yield Eat em up Yield Yield Eat em up Yield It's Yield Eat em up Gil! Eat em up Gil!

This man got YouTube commercials on his shit man. Welcome back to Gil's Arena presented by Underdog Fantasy. Gil, I'm not as rich as you. I got commercials on my YouTube. I don't got premium. I can't afford that yet. I can't even afford pants, Gil. You already know what it is. Damn. But you ain't got to call me out in front of all these lovely people. I'm just saying.

What are Ugg slippers? No, no, no. I forgot my shoes. Okay, I ain't even going. My toes is decent for Hooper. That's real for Hooper This is gills arena presented by underdog fantasy got the legend Gilbert arenas here We got Rashad McKay's back in the building rocking the crown and the crown So you already know we got we got to talk these Lakers. We got to talk these warriors gonna talk in B. But first Y'all know underdog sponsor this show. I got to tell you every single episode because I'm contractually obligated to do so

But if you want to get down with underdog fantasy download the app use promo code gills arena They will match your first deposit up to $100 and Gil I know I'm the one that always be on here talking about don't use the insurance just raw dog it You know go to four or five pieces, but we've been taking too many L's out here. So no y'all been taking too many Oh get that insurance Get that insurance ladies and gentlemen Steffi trade you yesterday man maybe be training but when it's a round number I always take the higher just in case if they hit it You know you still get some bread. I gotta take Gil's advice man cuz you fuck me up about three months now

How many kids you got true? I got five so shit right now. I'm putting on condoms. All right I'm putting up protection Get the insurance my god That's why underdog put it there. It's not gonna be as much bread if you win, but you got a better chance of winning. It don't feel as good. It don't feel as good that way. I didn't feel like you're cheating, but. I like the feel.

I like the feeling. And we see the chats already jumping. Y'all getting the comments in, the slander, all that good stuff. Don't act like I don't see it. I see everything y'all say. I don't take it personally, though, because that direct deposit hits every two weeks. And God, it's good. But if you want to be featured on this show in our Mostly Fans segment,

you've got to drop a good question. The keyword here is good, and we will use it in the show. Also, we told you all this hack, but if you subscribe to the show, it makes those comments boost up higher, and you've got a better chance of getting on here. So hit that subscribe button for us. So, Gil, we've got to bring up something from yesterday. You told us a story.

I think it was your rookie year. You got the Escalade. You used to match from the Bay, straight down to Sunset Boulevard to hit the strip. Well, long time Warriors fan and Gil's Arena fan, Christina Wong. Oh, for real? She hit me in the DM. She had the photo. And I didn't realize, when you say Escalade, custom Escalade, if y'all can look close,

they say arenas with the multicolored durags, and you know it's the early 2000s. Yeah. Baby, that was custom color, too. The sky, like I had to do the sky with the blue. Because, you know, back then, Escalade was like Maybachs. That was college youth? No, that was NBA. That was my rookie year. But you know, like the Escalade, everybody,

it was like different colors because it only came in like champagne. It was like champagne, black. And white. I don't even know if it came in white. But yeah, mine was white, black, and mine was champagne. So I seen like, I think it was Timberland or Gary Payton, and they had that dark blue color.

So me and Jason Richardson, all we did was spend time trying to figure out what color we was going to have ours, and I came with that. What size rooms? 24s. So I was at UCLA at that point, and I always tell the story, UCLA SC, we had like a Pono. 22s. Ooh, damn, Gil, there was 22s?

It started off at 22s, because 22s is big. Someone had the 26s, the spinners, but you had Scalabrini, Jeff Drapagna at SC, Capono, I think Matt Barnes at one point had the Escalade too, but everybody had Escalades on 26s. Their credit was not good enough to have that. Salute to those gentlemen for being ahead of NIL. Get it back, however. That was like you said, that was the whip back in those days. If you had the Escalade, you knew you made it. I had the Expedition, so I felt like I was adjacent to the movement.

My shit was kind of dusty, so I'm not even going to lie. That was the NBA card, though. Not the Navigator? The Navi for the haters? You had to be a drug dealer for some shit like that. On our team had the Navigator. Yeah. He had to pull it. I'm like, are we all going to get Navigators?

You know what we ended up getting? Expeditions. That was escalating Jason. We thought he was going to get the Navi, and then I didn't even qualify. I had bad credit even then. I had... I don't fucking have bad credit coming into college. Man, my mama and my daddy.

Oh, I already fucked you, huh? Yeah. But the Expedition was baller if you had the newer one that had the. I had it. I don't fucking have bad credit coming into college. Man, my mama and my daddy. Oh, I already fucked you, huh? Yeah. But the Expedition was baller if you had the newer one that had the leathers in it. It looked close. For sure. For sure. I ended up selling for SC, Lexus, 430, 1993 though.

I was not. Baller. It was 93. It was 93. Listen, back then, anything that was name brand was nice. For sure. Anything was nice. In college? You can hook it up.

I hoofed it up. It was a Pat Moe film. Lexus, you know, what was it? It was Lexus, Benz, anything that had that quality on it. You would say college, it was the shit. And question for you, do you ever regret getting the custom arenas on there? Because I'm sure it made it hard to creep around the city. Or did you want people to know that it was you when you was pulling up?

Listen, everybody's shit said Cadillac. And then some people just put Caddy on it. Yeah. Right? So, like, you was the shit if you had Caddy. Right? Instead of the whole Cadillac side, Caddy. I had, you know what?

Fuck that. I want arenas. I want everybody. Were you running red lights, though, if you don't mind, you know, doing those type of things? I used to have the cameras back in those days, too. So there was, you know. Who didn't run red lights?

But my point is, that was Gil. Not on purpose. I mean, on purpose. That's Gil., too. So there was, you know. Who didn't run the Vans? But my point is, that was Gil. Not on purpose. I mean, on purpose. That's Gil. Are we racing? I mean, you know. The people used to fuck with you in traffic? Motherfucker, no one knew who I was.

You acting like I was just this big name brand nigga that's coming into the NBA. You were well respected in Southern California. I don't know how it was in the North. They wasn't rocking with you like that? I had to earn my name up there. Okay. In them streets. Okay.

In them streets of hooping. While I was an NBA player, I was playing at the local parks. Because I wasn't playing in the game. So I was playing in San Francisco, the San Francisco League. I was playing in there. I was playing at the local park on, was it Berry Island? What's that shit called? Bay Farm Island? Shit, called? Bay Farm Island?

Shit, no. Bay Farm Island. I was playing at the parks against local kids, whooping their ass. It was like, you should be in. What college you go to? I said, I play for the Warriors. No, you don't. I don't.

I don't actually play, but I'm on a team. Did you ever have any issues with, say, like some 17-year-olds that were talking too much? No, no, no. Make it short. No, no, no, no, no, no. Just make it short. No, no, no. Just making sure. No, no, no, no, no, no. Just making sure. No, no, no. There is, there is.

Well, he's famous now. He's a famous producer now. But there is, there is footage out there where he was talking shit and he said he could whoop my ass and then we had to go in the garage and put some gloves on. Damn. Is that it? His nose got snapped. I told him he keeps swinging like that.

It's going to get snapped. Snapped his nose. So this is pre-strap, Gil. It is pre-strap. Okay. But what's funny is he has the... He's funny though. He has the footage and he has to turn it into... He told me, you know I still got it when you broke my nose for talking shit.

Ooh. I know, I got him snapped. Good thing that's not your limitations. I'm sure it's probably. Man, he was cool. Oh, he's cool about it? Yeah, he got tickets. He was one of the. He got tickets.

He got tickets to all games. He got tickets and shit. Nosebleeds. I wasn't him yet. You wasn't him yet. I wasn't him yet. Nosebleeds is funny, right? Damn.

That's janky. That hurts. That hurts. Gloves. We're going to start the show on a light note. So, Gil, you have two of the most legendary nicknames in NBA history with Agent Zero and Hibachi.

And much like boxing. What? Correction. It's one nickname. Agent Zero Hibachi? Say it all together. Agent Zero. Say it all together.

That says Hibachi. Hibachi is a phrase. But people call you Hibachi. Because it's stupid. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Clarification, man. It's not a good. Yeah, call you Hibachi? Because they're stupid. Thank you. Thank you. Clarification, man. It's not a good... Yeah, you don't get to pick the nickname.

Hibachi is what I was doing. I was cooking people. Okay. And Agent Zero is who he is. Yeah. Agent Zero is Hibachi and everybody. Like 007. Okay.

Yeah. And then the title of the movie. So Hibachi is a verb. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then the title of the movie. So hibachi is a verb. Yeah. Okay. The art of cooking. So much like boxing, NBA is known for coming with some of the best nicknames in the sports game.

So recently, Lakers assistant coach Phil Handy gave Austin Reeves the nickname Mr. Wiggle. And Kings guard, Davion Mitchell, goes by Off Night for his penchant for locking up dudes. Off Night? Off Night. If you guard him, it's going to be an Off Night. Or you're going to have Off Nights. Davion Mitchell goes by off night for his pen jib for locking up dudes. It's your boys. Off night? Off night. If he guarding you, it's going to be an off night. Or you going to have off nights?

If he got to guard Steph, it's not going to be an off night. Mr. Wiggle? I'll start with you first. Mr. Wiggle. What's the best nickname in NBA history? The best nickname in NBA history? Magic best nickname in NBA history. Magic. You like that?

Because the reason I say that is the best nickname is because we thought that was his real name. Yeah. We called him Magic Johnson.

Didn't even know his name was Irving. I mean, everybody else's nickname, there was a nickname. We thought Magic Johnson. Didn't even know his name was Irving. I mean, everybody else's nickname, there was a nickname. We thought Magic Johnson, that was his real name. Look, Magic Johnson. When we talk about Magic Johnson,

when everyone says the best point guard, we say Magic Johnson, not knowing the nigga name is Irving. Wow. Right? Rashad, who you going? Who got the best nickname you made? I'm pouring. I'm pouring.

He's mad now. I am. I am. I'm fucking pissed. You always do that shit too. You throw the best shit out there like, yeah, top that, motherfuckers. And I'm like, okay. Like we talked about earlier, I like three of them.

I like Human Highlight film. I like the big Aristotle. That is just, when you talk about dominating- Was that Shaq? Shaq. The big Aristotle. And then I wanted to say Kobe's Rucker Park name, Lord of the Rings. Those three.

So I mean, after you- That is a good... I mean listen, the nicknames are good. I have one that is... you can't say it. You can't say it because it's something that happened to a whole group of people. I know. Listen, I didn't know what it was. I just heard him, kept saying it. So I have a Rucker Park name too.

What was your Rucker Park name? What was your Rucker Park name? Okay, hold on. We're not here to judge. They gave you the name. Okay, so it started off as Pro Material. Okay. Right?

And then I scored like 55, 60, 55, and then they started chanting something else, and it's a police squad that killed people back in the day. Okay. Well, that's... Okay, yeah. We'll leave it at that. Damn.

Yeah. That's tough. Because they said I was out there killing people. No, that's... Yeah. It starts with a G. Okay, just... Starts with a G.

Starts with a G. It's a group of people you can't... Okay. Oh, okay. I can guess. Tell them. I know. I'm not...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Figure it out in the chat. Yeah, yeah. But according guess. Tell them. I'm not going to tell them. Figure it out in the chat. Yeah, yeah. But according to highly reputable basketball reference, other nicknames you had, they have Agent Zero, they have the Hibachi. I don't know. You might want to tell them to nix that. Nacho, black president. Nacho is something I used to say.

Nacho. I just finished watching. Oh, Nacho Libre? So I was just saying that shit the whole game. And if you're from LA, you got to know the best nickname probably in LA history, Super Crip. Super Crip. David Hamilton. Super Crip.

And then he changed his name to Super Duper Crip, but still my favorite nickname ever. Because people literally used to refer to him as Super Crip or Mr. Crip. That was his name. Super Crip like that was Magical and another man super crip and you had to do it because he was a super funny is the scouts used to call him super I mean he's super crip Take the shades off for that. It was a super crip. That'd be super crip. Great, dude You know, we was at big man camp together. Good man, good man.

All right, so some other good nicknames for the chat. I know y'all dropping them in there, but Air Jordan, The Answer, Chef Curry, Greek Freak, The Glove, The Dream, Chocolate Thunder, Slim Reaper. Human highlight film. I also like Neek the Freak. Like, that was... Easy Money Sniper. The Microwave, Vinnie Johnson. That's his IG name.

I thought that was his nickname. Slim Reaper is his nickname? Uh-huh. He tried to come right server for a little guy with Was it trigger? Sure? Tarantula he wasn't rocking with Durantula for you like that. I didn't mind it. I thought I thought it I thought it flowed All right, so we got best nicknames, but what's the worst nickname in NBA history? No, listen. I'm not trolling. Y'all can't do this.

No, no, no. We're not. You already know where you're going, Gil. No, you can't do this. I already know where you're going. I already know where you're going. This. You can't do it. The Bus.

That is a horrible nickname for a basketball player to call yourself The Bus. Right? Call me The Bus Brown. That is a horrible nickname. You're getting us involved in your situation. By far. Come on. By far. Really? By far. That's like Amber Rose doing a slut walk.

How do you just try to turn this horrible thing into something? That is a horrible. Empowerment, you gotta take it. Horrible. Rashad, you had a nickname when you were with the Timberwolves that you weren't too fond of. Yeah, Ticket called me McNasty. McNasty. Rashad, you had a nickname when you were with the Timberwolves that you weren't too fond of. Yeah, Ticket.

Ticket called me McNasty. McNasty. But in a positive way, right? Yeah, I just thought it was... I contributed to a porn name. I just went right into it. Yeah, no, no, no. Yeah, I went right into my actions with that. It was like McFlurry, Ticket Sandwich, and then it was McNasty.

But it was all just because he liked my game and the way I was ferocious and talk shit like him. But I didn't like that shit for some reason. I was just, Nasty, don't be calling me Nasty, nigga. Nasty Nates. Nasty Nates. Nigga, you a cocktail. Give me your cocktail, boo. I was in them streets though.

I was in them streets with them. I'm in cellmate with McNasty over there. Come on. I ain't like that. I ain't like that. Nasty, that's what. I was in them streets though. I was in them streets. I mean, Selmae would be nasty over there. Come on. I ain't like that. I ain't like that.

Some other names y'all might not be familiar with. Craig Elo, his nickname was Eggs. He was called that by John Lucas because they used to play for breakfast and John Lucas used to bust his ass all the time. So he just started calling them Eggs. Bimbo Coles, which is tough. Jameer Nelson was called the Crib Midget by Dwight Howard. Still don't understand that one. Jason Maxill was nicknamed the baby eater.

And Nick Young at one point in his career was going by Bean Burrito. I think it was very short lived. Bean Burrito. Bean Burrito. Bean Burrito. Like listen, the best name, the best name ever that can be ever titled hasn't been used yet. Because to use it, you have to know you're gonna

be him right you have to know you're gonna be him the goat that's the nickname the nickname the goat but Earl the goat man ago back in the day Earl the goat man ago oh I don't even know if they knew goat at that point was not a new which today do because he was the goat, man a goat. Oh. But I don't even know if they knew goat at that point. Nah, they knew. What you mean? Did they do? Because he was the goat of the playground then. He was Earl the greatest of all time. Don Cheadle, great movie for those who haven't seen it.

Okay, my bad. Yeah. Okay, someone already got it then. King James. No, King James is King James. Excuse me. The goat the greatest of all time. You get to label yourself that early and then live up to it?

There an echo in the room somewhere in this motherfucker. You know, we got a studio audience. We're not going to talk about that type of shit today. Underdog has furnished us with a lovely studio audience. We're about seven deep. Chef and Curry is still alive and well. But what? To be in the conversation.

What's it? His name is Chef Curry. Chef Curry is Chef Curry. He can't name himself the goat. The goat his name? His name is Chef Curry. Steph Curry, Chef Curry. He can't name himself the GOAT. The GOAT Chef Curry. No, no, no. His nickname. The GOAT Chef Curry.

All together. His nickname is already done. Like Michael Jordan, MJ, Air Jordan. Those are already his names. Chef Curry. But you got your airness. Yeah, it already came when he was playing. You can't change it now.

We can add to it. Just like King James. It's was playing. You can't change it now. We can add to it. Just like King James. It's King James. You can't. That's what I said. It has to be started early where everyone, then your greatness hits. Oh, shit. So he is 35.

Like John Morant. He don't got a nickname right now. You're right. Like the GOAT. Well, they call him 12. I mean, it is John. They call him 12. They call him 12. They call them 12.

Watch out for 12. The dumbest names is when motherfuckers just use their initials and their number. That's when you know you don't have no creativity. No, that's when you know you named yourself. Like, you can't name yourself. It has to be given, right? So, like, you know, CB3, CB4, right? That's Chris Bosh. What about Udonis Haslam?

CB4, three people had that name. What about Udonis Haslam going by UD? It's not even the first name. It's not the first initial, last initial. It's just the first two letters of his name. That's what I'm saying. That's what- Ud.

Let's get it. UD. UD. Udonis, if you're watching this, I meant no slander whatsoever, sir. Don't pull up on me. But let's talk about the biggest news that come out of yesterday, kind of. After back-to-back seasons, being the runner-up, Joel Embiid finally got the love he craved and deserved.

Tuesday, Embiid was named the NBA MVP. Can he get a little smoke? Can Embiid get a little? No, he don't get no MVP smoke. He get a light tap. East Coast don't get no MVP smoke. He get a light tap. East Coast don't get no love. From Gilbert and Joe Salk.

No, because now I'm thinking about nicknames. He has a horrible nickname. Troel? Process. The Process. It sounds like it's never going to develop. It's processing. He's the MVP now.

He has to get a new nickname. That process sounds like I was little and I'm processing. He's the MVP, so he has to now change his name. Trust the process, though. It's undeveloped real estate. It's an undeveloped real estate deal. Tuesday, NBA was named NBA MVP

and he was emotional during the announcement surrounded by his teammates. I think we got some video Yeah, Tobias Harris look like Jake every time see Tobias here I'm like Jacob like yeah Jake on the building Imagine all the people showing up and you lose. No, man, you know, everybody showed up because they knew they knew 100% You got the hug from Harden.

That's beautiful. Embiid became the first Sixers since Allen Iverson in 2001 to win the MVP. And we got the voting results here. Joker came also closer to 3P. Damn. Finishing in second.

Giannis finished third. Those three were the only people who got first blade first place votes So the question I got for you gentlemen Did the MVP voters get it right? They I mean they got it yeah, yeah, they got it right not that far off though That's that's very far 70. No, that's that it wasn't that okay far but no they got it, right? The problem was it was all it was hindered once like he has to think Kendrick About me Yes, talk about he has to give the credit to Perkins.

I mean, I'm serious. Like, this was an influence by media, that fight between Kendrick Perkins and, you know, J.J. Reddick. That is really what did it in. And people started swaying the vote after that, you can see after that, Jokic play went down. You can see he stopped caring. Like you know what, if this is what people are talking about, I don't want no... So

he technically backed out him fucking self. Is that Perkz's fault though? Yep. You're in Joker's spot and you can win three-peat, you're going to say, I don't even want to hear all the noise? I'm in Denver anyway, How much noise are you really hearing? As media, if you know you have influence,

a lot of influence, there's certain things you're technically not allowed to do and not allowed to say. I mean, we're having our topics, but sometimes we've got

to keep our personal... I don't know. I might do it too, so I don't know. I might do it too. I don't know. I might do it too. But sometimes when you know you have certain powers, you can't... You got to try not to use them. That's why I asked you. Did he have a vote?

I think Perk might have been able to vote. See, if you have a vote, then you can't... Y'all know what it is. You're not allowed to... There's just certain things you shouldn't be allowed allowed to do but it's part wrong for exposing Yes, the 68 percenters one. I'm you should be he should get fined You should get fine for the information is not This was a public knowledge of the voters from 2022 just looking at that list compared to the demographics of the league

Leagues like 70% black voters are like 70% white. Is there any issue there? Remember I told you it was stupid anyway because there's no white, technically there's no white players. He's foreign. Okay. He's not a traditional American Caucasian. But y'all know what really truly happened, right?

So Perk represents Georgia in the 2020 election. You know how when the shit was swallowedalled and the shit cheated your motherfuckers Swaying the vote and all that shit you just said that shit happened in the election, right? Same shit just happened when perk did that shit. We was looking at you like listen to the perk trippin. Hmm. You're swaying the vote Literally, so when you see Joker back down in his performances, which we've seen, literally him pull back a little bit and B, he started going more full throttle. You see it. It's like, if we're going to start doing shit like this for awards and clout and crime because

you won, but then you lose in the second round and you don't make it to the real show to win the real bag and the real trophy, it's like, man, what are we doing? We're manipulating it for show business. For sure. So if we're going to do that, let's make it count, right? Let's make it count. At least play each other at the end. Play once. No, but that still doesn't matter.

Like, you being better than me one-on-one doesn't determine if you are the MVP of something. But for the case of show business, if you're going to give us a show and manipulate who wins, at least play each other at the end so we can play it back, so we can go back and play this game back and be like, we don't care if Joel was better, but this was a great game. I just don't.

I mean, it's a regular season award. I mean, just what is the criteria? What is the reason? Like, for me, show me why he is an MVP, especially at 70 fucking percent. Yeah. How? Where's his numbers? That's 70 percent better than this guy's numbers.

Yeah. That's what I want to see. Right? You know, if he's lost the last two years with having the same exact numbers, you average 30 every time you loss. Man. So what makes this 30 better than the other two 30s? And his team is better than they were before.

That's the only, I just need the explanation. I just don't want to take, you know, this is 70% is a big gap. Like you're talking about like he, this is like he averaged 35 or more, and Joker just played this horrible thing. Compared to Joker, Giannis, Joker, number one team in the West, Giannis, number one team in the East. Do we value winning? What are the things?

What is the thing when the other two players that are so far below him played better this year than they did last year? Bro, that's a great point. You can't even dispute that because Joker's numbers are better. He almost averaged a triple-double. He almost averaged a triple-double. Giannis' numbers is better

than they were last year. His team is number one. His team number's one. Embiid, points went up, but his rebounds went down. So one and a half. So there's just a plus 1.5. The fuck are y'all looking at? So how's the big? I'm a two-time MVP too.

Everybody's numbers was point, like one point to 1.3 better. All of them, all three of them. All three, all three guys was. So. So you're saying they got it right, but did they get it right? They got it right. I'll give it to them because Joker backed out. Joker backed out.

He backed out and said, all right, listen. Did we give him points for that, though? Who? For Joker scaling it back because of the leak? Because of the manipulation? Nuggets weren't first place. Because of the leak? Because of the manipulation? Nuggets were in first place. He backed out because of the manipulation. You can't scale it back because, you know, if he wasn't mentally capable,

I mean, just strong enough to say, I don't give a fuck what you're talking about. I am him. And he's willing to just back out? Then fuck it, back out, motherfucker. I'll take lead. You're right. Well, I don't even say Joker backed out. He backed out.

Numbers went down a little bit, but the Nuggets were chilling in first place. No, what I'm saying is look at how he was playing before Perkz's comments. He was killing shit. Look at him after those comments. There was like a two week span where it really looked like he just said, fuck this, all right, I'm cool. No more 20, it was like 17, 19. Like say, an eight, six, four, seven. Yes, it was trash. He was like 17, 19. Like, say, an 8-6, 4-7.

Yes, it was trash. Like, he was literally trying not to have a triple-double now. And would you say that's a testament to him obviously not giving a fuck about winning his third trade MVP, but looking ahead to what's the more important MVP? The regular season MVP or the finals MVP? I mean, I would have pushed that shit in all their faces. Fuck y'all.

I would have been out there and motherfucker really. Like, you got to remember, they was talking about stat chasing. They was trying everything to just minimize the production. And that's the thing I don't like. Don't minimize the man's production. Like, if you want to hype his production, hype it. But don't say his is just, you know, these don't mean anything. This is the real numbers.

It's the same shit. Just one can't do what he can do. We've already talked about the whole stat chasing phenomenon. I think that was square created. People who didn't really get stats. Because you can't tell me in an NBA game, you're going to be like, oh, I don't need this stat. Or, damn, we beat this team by 20. I'm not going to score this bucket even though I'm in the game.

Oh, hell no. It's just like, come on, bro. We're playing basketball. Hell no. The point is to beat the other team in the submission. I can't wait until someone says, oh, man, these coaches are chasing all wins. He didn't need to win that game. He won 12 in a row.

He didn't need to win it to stay in first place. He had this resume. So do you guys like the MVP being announced in the second round like it is now? Or should it come at the end of the season? Or should we wait all the way to the end of the finals? I think that shit should come the soonest that the When the regular season is over with that first week of regular season that we could have played a base for the playoffs start Let us know who won then

Let us know two weeks in the playoffs what the fuck doesn't matter right if it's a regular season award now We it's like sometimes you're gonna be looking at this MVP and be like, shit, this motherfucker's out in the first round. Oh, this motherfucker's trash. It's the regular season award. Let us know then. Why though, Gil? Why? Because the fans, they're not the smartest.

Explain why. It's important for us as a collective culture to know who it is right at that break because we're going into the playoffs and we've got to perform now. No, because the reason is you're in the middle of the playoffs and then everything is already cut off, right? Right now, people still think the production that's going on in the playoffs actually has something to do with... Roll over. the production that's going on in the playoffs actually has something to do with, you know, like

it has something to do with like we need everyone to know that what we're doing in the playoffs has nothing to do with this. So let all of us know what, who won what now, right? I want to know he's the MVP so I can motherfucking

go at him anyway. Target on the back. That's what I wanted you to say. Put that target on the back. Like, yeah, yeah. Oh, he's the MVP so I can motherfucking go at him anyway. Target on the back. That's what I wanted you to say. Put that target on the back. Yeah, yeah. Oh, he's the MVP? All right. I got something for this bitch. Let's see.

Right? And then now Joker know he didn't win it. Now I want to see his mood. Like if Greek the Freak know he didn't win at the beginning, he has another mentality going into that point. Like, yo, give me a reason to keep fighting. You go back to Hakeem when Kenny Smith tells a story about what happened when Hakeem, when David, was it David Robinson, won the MVP over him, and he was like, that's mine, but it was like before the series that they announced who the MVP was, they gave it to him, and

he just destroyed him. That whole series. Yeah. Just because of that. 95. Yeah, just because of that. So you think about things like that. If you got a target on your back before the playoffs and they saying that you were the

guy and you got four other guys in the playoffs looking at you like, yeah, we can't wait to get to them because he won this award over me and I feel like I was more deserving and our team X, Y, Z. I think that creates basketball to be more competitive in the playoffs. Reason, and I'm setting it up also for playoff awards. If you let us know before the playoffs start

everybody who won these awards, you can start introducing playoff awards. They already got Western Conference Finals. There ain't no fucking playoff award. Leading score, best three-point percentage, the same shit y'all have for regular season. Same shit.

All the playoff teams. All the playoff teams, the best playoff five. That's dope. That is awards you can give out. That's really meaning some shit. You got to up your level of play too. Finals MVP and finals, all that, that is the ultimate awards, but that's only really two awards.

Would you have finals MVP and then playoff MVP or would that be the same thing? Same thing. Okay, so everyone's a finals MVP is the MVP of the Because then we switch it cuz I'm fine. No, no finals finals MVP in playoffs MVP is Different. That's what I was saying. Yes, it should go 2015. Yes now going 2015. Because now, when you think about, yep, the 2015 LeBron, would it be, he would have been playoff MVP.

Yep. Because, you know, the finals MVP is just going to the guy who won. Yep, for the game. The guy who won, yeah, for who won that series.

The finals MVP is who's been dominating all, I mean, who's been dominating the whole playoffs. Then you got like the all-playoff team. All-playoff team. Yeah.

Yeah, I like that a lot. A lot. That's like when we used to play AAU. They got the all-terney team. All-terney team. Yeah, yeah. That's some new shit. Give me my patch.

Thank you. Like shit. I don't even have a letter from Jacket, but if I did, I'll put it on. Watch, now one of them big motherfuckers is going to try to steal the shit. They're going to try to steal my shit next time. Yeah. I be watching these shows. They watch you. They watch him roll They go get this chapter 10 K though, so you can hit the blunt But you know you I was googling, you know, you know YouTube got this YouTube guidelines, right?

And they always try to fuck somebody should I all shall not smoke it on camera? We go ahead Google we go circle man you don't go to the top it'll be an AI blunt Y'all not smoketh on camera. We're going to hit Google. We're going to circumvent YouTube. We're going to go to the top. It'll be an AI blunt. It won't be a real one. Okay, cool. We could just do it before and then show the video of him hitting the blunt.

Artificial. We can figure a way out to hit the blunt. That's some tricky money. We're going to figure it out. So Harden blessed him with a custom Rolex with a 23 MVP engraved on it. I think we got some photos of it. Oh, look at it. Came through.

It sweeps. It doesn't tick, hopefully. He might need to get a refund. So I got to ask the both of y'all, what's the best gift a teammate gave you? Man, fuck all that. Hold on. Before you get that, so the watch was already made, right? So that means they probably known a week before

So if you know a week before that you already won MVP, what the fuck you crying for? You already knew you got a whole fucking nothing to start about us 60 some people You already knew you want to MVP goddammit, what we here for what are we doing? So now Joker's comments don't mean anything because he already knew he lost What if they would have brought all of them in there? Don't make sense I thought about it the reason that he already knew he won they're not gonna let that make sense because The year Russell Westbrook beat James Harden out, James Harden was in Paris because

when he found out he lost, he didn't want to go to Athlete of the Year. He knew he didn't win so he wasn't going to show up to the award show. So he was in Paris doing his Paris thing. So they already know. So don't give me the whole... Don't do that unless you're going to treat it like Selection Sunday. You got Joker with his crew. You got the bearded one.

Yeah, do that shit. Yeah. Shut the motherfuckers up. Tell them all, hey y'all, you won. You won. You won. We both for you. We both won. Have them both up there. All right, we choose you. And the other one, man, do that shit.

But the only thing I ever got from teammates is they shut the fuck up when I shot the ball when I wanted to. Damn. That's a gift. That's the best gift. That's a gift. That turned into 100, and that turned into max, to be honest. That's better than Rolex. Rashad, what's the best gift! That's a gift. That turned into 100 and that turned into max, to be honest. That's better than a Rolex.

Rashad, what's the best gift teammate ever gave you? Hate, hate, hate, hate. Your teammates were haters? No gift? No lap dance? No nothing. No Secret Santa? Nothing?

They ain't show up to no birthdays, no Christmas parties. Did you invite them? I don't even fucking remember, man. They should have just came anyway. Yeah, man. It just seemed like all my teammates always been lame or the vice versa. Either I'm the lame one or they the lame one. So, you know, the chat, y'all going to say I'm the lame one, right?

Facts. All right. You got some support in the chat, okay? It's all good. You got like three motherfuckers in there. You got about three for five. I get it. All I need is one.

Fifteen. You got about 35. I mean, I gave out some presents, you know presents a few times, but not too many. Because I didn't really rock with too many niggas that I'm a... But you gave the gift. They didn't give a gift back? I don't know. I'm not into gifts.

That ain't one of my affirmations. Okay. Gift giving is not one of them. So he didn't get gifts because he don't like gifts. Yeah. I didn't give much as a kid, so I'm good. So we talked a little bit about this yesterday, but apparently after... Nope.

I got... Larry Hughes gave me all his clothes He gave me all his clothes What kind of shit were you good all kind of shit he was wearing in the Nelly video all the shit from my Second year no, no after our rookie year. He left. Oh right all the clothes because he had to move. I got all his shit. I was broke. That's what I'm saying.

Larry had some shit. I was broke as Larry the Legend right there. All that shit. All that shit he had. I mean, I had all the jerseys. I was crispy that next year. Jerseys and everything. What? What are y'all talking about?

I didn't have to go to the mall no more. This is Larry's son right here. They still hooking me up. Okay. Damn. Okay. That's nice. Okay.

Smooth move. You gave him the FUBU jerseys? FUBU with the 05? FUBU was done in fucking like the 90s, bro. Yeah. No, it wasn't. Chill. We were still going hard.

Fat Albert, bro. It was Fat Albert. FUBU sport, bro. Stop it. We were still rocking and I had to Sean John's Had all that NBA shit NBA stuff them jerseys back the football jerseys Listen I had some he has some hypnotic bottles in it Incredible home with y'all? Come on now. There was no reason to make Hennessy and Hymnotic.

I don't know what we was thinking. What do you mean? I'm saying the drink, it was like, why am I going to drink this murky green looking shit and turn me into a human being I don't really want to be? I don't care. I don't care. Listen. That's to go hard on the crew.

Incredible Hulk was the name for it and it was very accurate. That was an accurate name. Man, that was like $40,000 worth of gear. That's real. Yeah, that's a good present. I know. And all the windbreakers. Not the windbreakers,

but what are some suits we had to wear? Back suits? Nah, you came in too early. The velours? It was not velours. It was like, it was thin linen. It was thin linen.

Oh, the seersucker? The velour era was beautiful. It was the thin linen that we had to wear back in 2001, 2003. I know what you're talking about. It was thin. Everybody was wearing it. All them shits. What?

Fucking 5X. To Miami and shit. Yeah, too big. 5X. So Embiid missed game one with a sprained knee. After the announcement, he told teammates reportedly, I'm back and plans of playing game two versus Celtics. Did Embiid feel pressure to play after winning the MVP?

No, I don't think so. Sixers already got one game. He knew he won MVP last week, bro. Last week he knew. But now everybody else knows. Okay, so no, he didn't have no pressure because obviously he knew last week that he didn't play game one. And we talked about it yesterday, but you think it's a good idea he comes back

sixers already stole game one. The chances that I'm winning two in Boston, I'm going to say are slim. I mean, I wouldn't have came back game two because, look, if I lose, if I lose and play horrible after I win an MVP, I look trash. So you going to wait a game? I see it. I like that. No, I mean, I don't.

It ain't a lot of pressure. I think from what you're trying to say, Joe, is that there is some type of pressure. Just because you did just win and you have been hurt. So if your team does lose. But even if your team fucks around and wins. Without you, you know what I'm saying? That's how good we are. Yeah, that's how good we are.

But, you know, they haven't played to that standard all season to beat a team like Boston without Embiid. So for them to get that win with James playing the way he's been playing, that's the James I've been waiting for. We've been talking about. I'm like, yo, when is this James going to show up? He's back. And I'm glad he waited to this point to get that win with James playing the way he's been playing. That's the James I've been waiting for. We've been talking about. I'm like, yo, when is this James going to show up? He's back. And I'm glad he waited to this point to do that.

If he can keep doing that shit, Philly is. Stats got his points at what? 23.5 right now. So they thinking he's going to take a real big dip. That's the pick him for today? 23.5 for James Harden's points. I don't know. That's a good one.

After 45? Yep. You can't slow that momentum down. I don't know. That's a good one. After 45? Yep. You can't slow that momentum down for him. They can. And be MVP. He ain't this type of guy, though. MVP. So that's the question, though.

Is that a reason why he should wait to let James get off for a second game? No, I mean, you're up 1-1-0. MVP might give you that super energy where you can go out there and steal two. Two wins going back home is way better than one-on-one. Yeah, for sure. So, I mean, it's all with his knee. If his knee is fine, then go out there and try to steal game two. MVP got the knee feeling good, though.

Oh, yeah. Last week. We also got to mention, LeBron been in the league 20 years. For the first time in his 20-year career, he did not receive a single MVP vote. So when you look back, LeBron's a four time MVP, he's also a four time runner up. I think we have some of the finishes in his career. So 9th, 6th, 2nd, 5th, 4th, 1st, 1st, 3rd, 1st, 1st. 4th, 5th, 06th, sixth, second, fifth, fourth, first, first, third, first, first. Full 506.

Who won? I think the other three second place finishes came after 2013. No, no. First 10. No, no, no. Steve Nash is full 506, right? Let me see. Steve Nash would be your 506. So Kobe was third?

Kobe was third when he averaged 35? Get the fuck out of here. It's a dirty game. Wait, I'm meaning it, right? I'm remembering it. Huh? The 06-07. Was 35 a game?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, 06-07. Because Nash went back to back, right? That was his last year. So Nash was 04-05, 05-06. Yeah, and you know, some of these graphics are janky. Second page me. Second page me.

Second page me. And then here we are. Second, third, third, fourth, second, 11th. Damn. 18. And not a single, not a drop for 2022, 2023. But my question for y'all is how crazy is it that LeBron has finished top two in MVP voting for literally 40% of his NBA career? I mean, that lets you know that he could have easily have had, what, eight?

What is it? A total of four more? So he had four MVPs, four runner-ups. He could have literally had eight. He was four away from having eight MVPs. That's wild. Makes you think it's rigged, huh? You can't say too much about it.

No, that kind of makes it kind of weird now, right? We're knowing that if a man was chasing someone else's legacy and you don't want him to be your guy, you can really just say I'm not voting for him this time. 100%. Voter fatigue, they used to call it. But MJ was a victim of it, Kobe definitely was. He only got one MVP in his career.

That's just stupid. That's just stupid. Trying to teach a man a lesson for not being selfish. Humility. What was Jordan when he wasn't winning getting MVP? He was selfish Well, we talked about LeBron no MVP votes, but he did Come into Golden State Chase Center along with ad help the Lakers get that game one victory against the Warriors. Ooh.

This man. Rashad, we're going to bring you back. What is it going to take to bring you back? He's not an L.A. guy. He was a Lakers fan at one point in his life. 100%. All of my life. All your life? All my life.

My whole life. Let's bring it back. I'm trying. I'm working around. It was a good win. Solid team effort. A.D. We love the way you playing.

Keep doing the fucking shit. Yeah. Now he's French. So we love the win. We, we, we, we, we, we. We love the win. Until you motherfuckers start putting some money in my pocket from these other dog bets, I'm not fucking with y'all at all. You got to get the assurance.

That's what I mean. If you lose, go to say he lost. I'm just saying, man. You're at the staff at five. When it mean. If he loses, he goes to season. He lost. You had the Steph at five. When it's a round number, I generally always go higher. But you had the Steph at five. He hit six. I feel for you.

Dubs in five. Lakers looked good initially, but almost tricked that thing. But what did we learn from game one of this Lakers-Warriors series? We learned that Lakers is going to win this series. Because Golden State played well. They played well. They did. In loss.

Like, they played very well in actually loss. They hit, what, 21 threes. Lakers hit, what, five? Five, six threes the whole game. so it's we're not you know Steph all the main players played very well for Golden State and they lost at home lets me know that this this is an easy win for the Lakers Lakers were six from 25 for three 24 percent Warriors were 21 53 shot close to 40 percent it scares me it scares me because like you said man the Lakers were six from 25 for three, 24%. Warriors were 21-53, shot close to 40%. It scares me.

It scares me because, like you said, man, the Lakers look really, really good. And to take the Warriors' best shot, like Looney played well. He had 23 boards. Poole played well. Klay played exceptional. He didn't play great. Steph didn't play great, but he got them back in. I think all the benchers, Wiggins played solid.

GP played cool. Everyone played solid. There wasn't anything nasty that you can look and be like, they played like this, that's why they lost. And even that run they had at the end let you know it was going to be a good series because we talk about what's standing runs. So if the Lakers, a veteran team, as I said last couple episodes, if they are disciplined enough and veteran enough to withstand a run

and know that they got to make a run themselves, they'll take over the series because exactly what happened in the fourth. They withstand that 14-0 run, stay in front. Get the ball to AD, put it in the basket. Man, get a stop. We secure the win. And I keep saying we because, you know, in moments, I want them to win because there is a matchup that the NBA

and the fans want to see. And it's either the Lakers, Boston, or Denver, Philly. And that's just me saying. Who want to see Denver, Philly? It's an alternative matchup Okay, the things that we can't see or we can't control like that's an alternative Alternative moneymaker for the NBA. I'm gonna tell you this right now. I'm gonna go on record if Denver and Philly are in the finals I'm y'all y'all gonna be doing this show without me. I'm going to be upstairs. I'm going to be upstairs playing video games.

I'm not coming down here to talk about that goddamn shit. Not even for- No, no, because we have to do watch parties. No, I'm not doing that shit, all right? I'm not even going to pretend. I'm going to be upstairs. Y'all going to have to FaceTime me. We got to get a Gill body double.

FaceTime me. I'm going to be just in my fucking living room. Just, what's up, y'all? We're going to get a Gill body double to come through. So then no other real matchup really makes sense other than Lakers and Boston. Or Warriors-Boston. Warriors-Boston. But then again, even that matchup is a replay, right?

Yeah. So that makes sense. You know what I'm saying? But I think that the Lakers, the way they play, like you just said, if they continue to play like that, they can take it. They can take it in seven. I think that's your prediction. You said L it in seven. I think that's your prediction. You said Lakers in seven.

I said Lakers in seven. Before yesterday. After last night? Maybe five. Right. And I said Warriors in five. After last night, I'm like, ah. Bro, you just said Warriors in five like five minutes ago.

I know. But I was just a troll. I was trolling right there. But now that I'm thinking about it, I'm like, man, Lakers can pull it out in six if the Warriors don't have no answers for all the firepower they threw at them. They ain't got no answers. Lakers in six.

There's nobody that can go into last night game and say, we need you to play better. Right. Like, you need to play better. Like, everyone played well. It's not like that's what I said. Steph played well. I mean, yeah, he didn't have 45 50 but he played well compared to everyone else playing Good to you know yet to him. I mean he have face face guarded defense hit big shots

You know, he had about what 25 I'm like 27, but he said I mean, that's what I said He played well and Vanderbilt played great You know the utility guys that Austin Reeves hit big shot, but that's what it said. He played well. And Vanderbilt played great. You know, the utility guys. Austin Reeves hit big shots. But that's what I said. But the Warriors coming off a two-day rest, a big game seven win against the Kings. They played well still. But I'm just telling you all the context, Gil.

The context is they played well. So going into game two, what are you telling your players? That's the big question. You hit 21 threes. If you hit 15, you lose. If you hit 12, you lose. But do you think that the Warriors recognized the Lakers game plan or what they actually took them out of, which was shooting the ball, shooting more threes? They actually ran them off the three-point line more times than they thought. And they still shot 53.

And they still shot 53s. So Steph really wanted to make seven to eight of those, only made six because they were running him off the three. Well, if he makes eight, they win the game. Yeah. But let's talk about the Lakers a little bit. And we got to talk about Darvisham or Bumpy as Bubba Dub likes to call him. Bumpy.

Bumpy. But Lakers were up 14 in the fourth quarter with about six minutes to go. Proceeded to let the Warriors go on a 14-point run to tie the game with 138. And we've got it right here. You know, Steph got the and one here. I think they called it on Vando initially, but AD took that foul.

Then come down, uh. Klay with the, kick-a. Then we, clay with the. Then we got that with the easy layup. I thought LeBron was going to beat it, but then I'm like, he's 38 and the foot's janky. Then the pull, yeah, the pull 28 footer. Wide open. That fast. Cut at the three.

Then D-low, try to do his best. Cut at the three. And then D-Lo tried to do his best. No Vanderbilt. This would blue my whole bet. And right when Steph hit that, I'm like, fuck. It's over with. Shit done. But we need to note during that point, Vanderbilt was out for a significant point of that.

They were going back and forth. Lakers had two timeouts. Darviham did not use either of those timeouts. They looked gassed. AD hunched over. It looked like he was resting on offense, trying to get his win. And they couldn't get a bucket. Should Darvin Ham have called a timeout at some point during that Warriors 14-point run?

Nope. You have a veteran team. You have King James in your lineup. He understands he's been in this situation a hundred times over. As a coach, I haven't. So me calling a timeout means I don't trust what you guys are doing. So if LeBron didn't look at me and say, yo, call a timeout, or if LeBron didn't call a timeout, then I'm trusting what my players is doing. Yeah, they went on the run, but I'm not going to panic and call a timeout.

You a weak-ass coach. Like, I go by that theory. If we start the game off, the first coach to call a timeout is a weak coach. You're weak mentally. Like, that means you do not trust your team, you do not trust your game plan if you got to be the first one to call a timeout.

So, in that situation, they went on the run. Okay, we still gotta respond. Timeout or not, we still have to respond. It really don't matter. If you call a timeout and then come out there and these motherfuckers do eight more, we're gonna call another one? Waste both your shits?

So I would rather save my two timeouts towards the end, the last 30 seconds, the last minute, because I might need it. I'm gonna need it then I'm not I don't need it now But they're up you're up right yeah, so if you're gonna say those two timeouts Up into the point where you're tied. Mm-hmm. That means that Now I agree with you up into the point where you got to use those two timeouts at some point. So throughout that run, there's a point, there's a nut-cutting time that you're saying that good coaches don't cave in on.

We're not going to cave in and call this timeout because they're making a run, let's withstand. Because what the timeout does when you're on the road is it allows the crowd to get into the game more. Right? And so to avoid that, you have to know that as a coach, we got to stop this run on our own while we're playing in real time.

But they did not do that. Right? So he ended up getting a timeout during a time where they almost tied, where they did tie the game. They tied the game time out. Now we recalibrate we figure it out. So to me both sides is like a double edged sword. It's kind of like you do want to call a timeout just to kind of ease the bleeding.

You want to stop the bleeding but you can't because the crowd still evolve. He didn't he didn't recall someone. That's what I'm saying. He couldn't. So he didn't call out time after the tie. But here's the only only question I have for you. So you have Vanderbilt doing a solid job on Steph. Vanderbilt went out the game.

I think the Lakers were up eight with like five minutes to go. He didn't come back in until like a minute left. Yeah, so how many points did Steph score? In that window. Steph hit the three. I think he had the and one before Vanderbilt went up. Six points. No, but Vanderbilt was still in for that one.

Yeah, so he had three. Three points. Right? Look, I need him when it counts, right? He had five, excuse me. He had five. It worked in his favor, right? It's one of those things where you're still playing chess out there, right?

And you mentioned it. You call a timeout, what ends up happening? They get to start celebrating. You're going, think about the behavior, the human behavior of what happens. They're going on a run. Think about if they would have called a timeout after he hit the three. Steph already turned around and

started pop-locking and dropping. You don't want to call a timeout and let that motherfucker just do what he want to do. You got to let us play and see if we can get a quick one. To their point, we got the D-low bucket. You call a timeout. Steph is celebrating. The crowd is celebrating.

The players are celebrating. They're slapping each other. You guys are walking with your head down. I don't give a fuck what you say in that timeout. Your mood is killed. Momentum. Your mood is killed. Theum. Your mood is killed. The yellow meter has went up.

Motherfuckers in there yelling. When you come back out, their meter is higher than it was before. That timeout shit don't work like that. I don't give a fuck what you turn. There's been teams where we don't run. Motherfuckers call a timeout. I come out of that bitch one-four flat. We juiced up.

What the fuck? We juiced up. We juiced up. You done subbed in someone cold? flat. We juiced up. We juiced up. You done subbed in someone cold? Yes, we juiced up. This motherfucker been sitting for four minutes. He think he about to stop me? Flat, one-four flat. I'm attacking the cold man now. So I'd rather everyone's going and then

let a bucket kill the momentum, not a timeout. So Darvin Hampton, you'll be all right. Yeah, you're all right. You'll be all right, bro. Hey, shit. You'll be all right, AD. We went up on the run.

This is the run. Handle it. And it worked. For sure. And appreciate you to more than 6,000 people in the chat right now. Y'all know we rock with y'all. Keep the comments coming. But so, Warriors down three, 9.1 seconds remaining.

Jordan Poole launched what looked like about a damn 30-footer. NBA Twitter, you know. Steph getting doubled. I'd say they swing. I like this shot. Okay. So, saw the shot. After the game,

oh, let's see it again. Let's see it again. That's deep. That's deep. But after the game, Draymond hopped on his pod and supported Poole's decision to take that shot. Quite frankly, I liked the shot. You know, you obviously, you know, you tell him to eat up the space and take three a little bit closer as there was, you know, he could have eaten up the space, but Jordan can shoot the ball

and he got a good look at it. Yes, you want him to take a couple steps in and get an even closer three, but Jordan taking that three is not why we lost that game. I know everyone's going to point at that one play and say he should have never shot that three. Prior to that three, he was six for ten. That's real. Ended up six for 11, obviously obviously because he bricked it but you know

internet still gonna do what it do they have some jokes ready to go for Jordan we all know his penchant for baddies in the crowd so I just got over course I said fuck it I'm gonna take it but like we said Poole was 6 for 10 from 3

before launching that 28-footer, 30-footer. He had just knocked down a 28-footer to cut the lead to 3 before Steph hit the one to tie the game. I'll start with you. Did you love or hate Poole's deep 3? I mean, it was the open shot. I don't even question the depth because it's him, right? Him, Curry, him, Curry, and Klay.

That's their range, right? Like, we see them shoot that shit all year, make those shots all year. So, you know, Steph got doubled, swung to Draymond, Draymond passed it up. That is the wide-open shot, right? If he would have turned that shot down and tried to get another one, that wouldn't have happened. So that was the best shot available. He couldn't even take a dribble, to be real,

because they would have collapsed on him. From one of your prime shooters that you have as a shooter, your free throw leader last year, NBA. So you know he is a bucket getter. So there's no question. There's no thought. He just missed. Yeah.

Defense not set. You're looking at the spacing that Golden State always has when they take shots like that anyway. It just looked like a part of their offense that he just happened to be open. LeBron ended up, you know, having two on one and choosing, I'm going to let him shoot it. So it's one of them shots that LeBron ain't thinking he's going to have a chance to make it unless he make it. So this happened to not rim out. I love Jordan Poole's willingness to take a big nut shot like that. That's a big nut shot right there.

And if you're the Lakers, that's probably the shot that you live with, right? No, you don't. I mean, I'm just saying. No. No. If I got Steph and Klay on the court. No, you don't. I mean, I'm just saying. No. No. If I got Steph and Klay on the court. No. With Poole shooting it, I'm living with it. No.

There's no way if you told Lakers to rewind this and look at that and see Jordan Poole right there by himself and no one near him, they would not accept that shot. How are you going to play it any better? No, what I'm saying is that is not a shot that big they are willing to allow like that's dream on green that's equal dollar if that's loony Gary Payton jr. fuck that go ahead but it happened to be Jordan pool they was lucky he missed that's the whole point of that's what I'm saying he's they're

not we wouldn't have to they're just happy he... That's what I'm saying. It's not like they looked at it like, oh, that's Jordan Poole. But if it's Claire Steph and that shot, living with it is harder to live with it because we know these two, not saying Jordan can't hit it, but we know these two have hit it. They have hit this shot in clutch moments. Jordan, they're like, okay, he's going to have to prove that shot. He's going to prove that, and he hasn't. If you're going into that

place saying, Jordan's wide open right there, you're going to have to prove it. You fire. If he makes that shot, someone's getting cussed out that Jordan Poole was that open. If he misses the shot, what happens? You're lucky. We win. If Step Kerr That's the whole point of living with it.

If he makes this shot, who you think is getting cussed out? Because someone fucked up right here. It's a double team on Steph. That's what I'm saying. It's AD. AD should be getting cussed out. But that's what I'm saying. Because it's a miss, someone got cussed out.

Now, the problem is. Are you cussing AD out? No, I'm saying because of where he shot it at. We're living with that because of where he shot it at, we're living with that. That's where he shot it. Now, look at AD. Now, let's say if he was happy with this shot. Look at AD's response.

He's pointed, and then he's all shit. He's like, no one's over there. No, he's like, oh, shit. Go back. Watch. Look at him. He realized who the fuck is open. It's double team.

Look, he gets it, and then he's about to pass it. Oh, shit. And then he's like, oh, shit. He's like, no one's guarding him. Yes, he's like, oh, shit, because they didn't know that was fucking Jordan Poole. Jordan Poole, right, right, right. But I'm saying, because of where it is, they're like, all right, we got to live with that. Because of where it is.

It ain't you got to live with it. There's nothing you can do. We got to live with it. That's not got to live. Got to live is you have an option. It's nothing we can do. There's nothing you can do. We got to live with it. That's not got to live. Got to live is you have an option. It's nothing we can do. It's nothing we can do. We got to live with it.

If he makes that shot, if he makes that shot, right, someone's getting cussed out because they fucked up. But we know if he misses that shot. If Curry shoots it and he misses it, we won. But Curry got a better chance. It don't matter. I have my best three shooters taking that shot I don't know. That's it if I if Jordan Poole gets that shot ten times all ten times you fucked up

That he got that open He's open, but if he's only making four of them you lost four times If curry makes five it it doesn't matter. But we win it six times. We win it more than we lose it, Gil. Why would you want to have someone make four shots when you can stop the shot from even being a two? You can't stop it because it's racist. What would you have done on that possession? You blame AD for nothing?

What do you do? Draymond grabbed the ball and I'm running the pool. What do you do in this situation? No. Was it KYP? Know your personnel? No, because they were doubling Steph. Yeah, and then he threw it.

He threw it to Draymond. I'm running the pool. And it's an offside, weak side rotation at this point. It's three on two. And the reason why Jordan Poole was open is because the weak side rotation at this point. It's three on two. And the reason why Jordan Poole was open is because the weak side got a scramble. Yes. You scramble. I'm not going to scramble to a non-shooter and leave an open shooter.

And that's what happened with LeBron. That was LeBron's damn decision to live with it. Technically, LeBron fucked up too. He fucked up first. No, no, no, no no no no it was his rotation I wasn't his rotation because you watch him back up this is educational right LeBron was on the LeBron look where LeBron LeBron was on the left side look he right there look he was about to go out rewind it look

well look look look where LeBron's at first. Look where Klay at. Klay. He lost Klay. So he lost Klay. Now it's a two-way. Now it's LeBron's right there. That's not even LeBron's play.

What was he doing? He was going to rotate. Look. Look who's switching. Look at the switch. Look at the switch. Dennis Schroeder switches with LeBron. So LeBron is the bottom guy.

Right. So Dennis Schroeder is supposed to be this next guy. But LeBron. So LeBron is the bottom guy, right? So Dennis Schroeder is supposed to be this next guy. LeBron will have clay and Wiggins, but Dennis Schroeder has his back turn. Right there. Look, LeBron knows now. Stop right there. LeBron knows that's his rotation. That's not his rotation. You keep saying it's his rotation. It's actually not his rotation. It's Schroeder's rotation. It's Schroeder's rotation.

But because he has his back turn, LeBron knows as a smart player, he not watching. I'm going to go get that. But you're saying it's his rotation. That's not his rotation. But he takes his rotation. He takes the rotation halfway. See, LeBron is... Boom, he doesn't commit.

LeBron is just moving. But he knows that the next rotation is supposed to be Schroeder, so he takes it. That's what I'm saying. LeBron is just moving in no man's land. See, Schroeder, if Schroeder is opened up, he would know. See, Schroeder don't even know Poole is coming down the lane. You're right. He's face guarding.

That's why this is, when you're going to yell at somebody, you got to know whose rotation this is. But that's a smart switch off. Smart switch off of Schroeder. So, okay, if it's a smart switch off of Schroeder, that means James is still at the bottom. Because Wiggins is wide open. But that means you're giving up a two and not a three. And we want to give up a two.

You're trying to blame LeBron James for moving forward. Stop. LeBron stops right here. Whose fault is it? If he's switching with Schroeder. Stop LeBron James for moving forward. Stop. LeBron stops right here. Whose fault is it? If he's switching with Schroeder. Stop LeBron right here. His man is in the corner. What's the name is switching. So that means Wiggins is about the back door. LeBron

is Wiggins. It's a three on two on the weak side. God damn it. Stop. We are in real time. Stop. Right. Keep going. Stop. Right. Stop. We are in small crew. We are in small crew. Stop. Right.

Keep going. Stop right. Nope. Stop in the middle before LeBron levels up. Come back. Come back. Do I need to read? Come back.

Come back. We got new technology. Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back. Back, back, back. Right there. Keep going.

Right there. So if Schroeder is switching, right? Yep. There's three. You got two people. So that means on a three-on-two defensively, right now the head of the defense will be AD and Schroeder. And Schroeder is pre-rotating. Now you're seeing where Schroeder.

You see now why the problem is. Schroeder is not paying attention. He's not in rotation. He's face guarding Wiggins, switching with LeBron. So LeBron technically is the net guy. Right. They don't see Wiggins, switching with LeBron. So LeBron technically is the net guy. Right. They don't see Wiggins. I mean, they don't see Poole here.

Yep. Right? So that's why when AD gets to pointing. He doesn't see him. He's pointing like, whose man is this? Whose man is this? And LeBron goes up and then backs up. And LeBron sees that he's the only guy that could do it.

And he comes. Because Schroeder's face guarding. See, that's why. And that's what ends up happening. That's why I say we have to live with it based on that rotation because LeBron can't get there in time. Then you're living with it because you're forced to live with it. You have to.

I'm not going into that situation like, oh yeah, I'm going to leave this motherfucker open. Why himself? 100%. One, Wigan, if I'm rewinding this back and I'm saying alright team look dream on Stunt get back to wake get back to pool, but they didn't know pool was coming down exactly And it was almost a pool party. He made it

Shit we still got time. I'm ending it. Yeah, you was gonna go with the last shot with LeBron? Uh-huh. He's gonna... No timeout. No timeout. We talked about... Oh, wow. No timeout. Okay. Three ball. Three ball?

Chicks love the three ball. From LeBron with the foot? Well, let's talk a little bit about AD. Came through with an amazing performance. Walked right into Chase Center, had that 30 ball in 30's crib. 57% from the field, 8 for 8 from the free throw line where he's been struggling a little bit. Five dimes, four blocks, but most importantly, 23 boards. Kevon Looney rebounded his ass off, but Kevon had about 30 if it wasn't for AD putting his body on him, doing some things.

So he joins only Tim Duncan. Only him and Tim Duncan are going to put those numbers up in a playoff game. He's the first Lakers since Shaq in 2004 to have a 30-20 game. I mean, both them boys was rebounding their ass. I mean, they were saving a lot of possessions. I mean, it was just a challenge that he took. You know, a guy who's going to challenge him, you know, offensively and defensively on the board side.

So, I think once he realized he was going to be challenged, he ended up taking that battle. But if you're the Warriors, how do you slow down AD in game two? I mean, there's really nothing you can do when he wants to come and play. Is he going to slow himself down and take a backseat like he usually do every other game? And that's exactly what I was thinking. Allow him to be consistently inconsistent, right? But I don't want that for him because what I've just seen, I see,

it's just like when you play and your coach tells you all to get on the line and run a certain time for a sprint. You got to now run that same time every time he say get on the line because he knows what your time is, right? AD, you spoiling us right because now you can't come into the next game and get anything less than 15 boards i need 20 right there's nothing stopping you because you just showed us a whole formula how to do it both of y'all looney and davis wow you can't there's no reason not to be consistent they They can't guard you. They're too slow.

Draymond too small. Glooney too slow. Chuck talked about it last night. You look at AD, you say you got to have a megastar series for this team to go. So you can't get in foul trouble. You can't be fatigued. You can't get hurt. Those three things can't happen.

That was always a big thing where I used to tell people in training camps, right? I said, training camp is a weak thing, right? We're going to go one day, one, and then two, then maybe two, then one practice, right? We're going to do it like that. But your greatness shows in who you are on day five, six, and seven. Everyone looks great day one and two. Once the body starts fatiguing, everyone starts getting... Like, you know, that first day of training camp, everybody's sprinting.

Everybody looks like they fucking ready to play. Right? Second practice, couple people fall off right by day four and five All pretenders is known. They the bodies is fucked up. They legs hurt. They never did now now them sprints Let's see who coming first now. Mm-hmm, right? That's what I look for like game one. Everybody looks great game one Let me see you game four, five, and six. So, AD looking

right out. Game two, we're going to see what you look like. Game three, let me... That's what makes that game seven. That's where that game seven, that Jimmy Butler. It's that crop that comes in it. That's what separates.

How much of an impact did that 50-piece game seven, now two days later, I got to play game one at home? You didn't forget 27? And still being able to drop 27. And listen, I don't know. Steph's a bad motherfucker, man. Listen, I don't know what Steph do for conditioning, and I know he's never told his secret,

but trust me, as someone who was conditioned, he's doing something different. They need to take his blood. I'm sorry. They need to see what's going on, like what kind of oxygen level of his heart bigger than everybody else's lungs. Because he is, this is not normal. Yeah. Like when you talk about conditioning itself, like you're talking about a guy who's probably running.

He runs like he's running an 800 full speed. Yes. He looked bored when he out there running. I ran a 400. I was a 400 runner. I understood how to run at a minute straight full speed. He's, I mean, it looks like he's at a minute and a half, two minutes of a high level endurance speed.

So that's why I said, it looks like he's running a 200. I mean, not a 200, an 800. He's running like, I couldn't do the 800. I was a great 400 running. The 800 was just different for me. That shit is, yeah. Like, so when you're talking about a kid, like I look at like kids who run like a, you know, like a ninth grader who's running a, he's a basketball player. He's running a 50 yard.

I mean, he's running 50, 52nd, you know, 400. And I'm like trying to chase that motherfucker around. No way. In a game? Oh man, that's gonna be hard Yes, sir As he can just keep he can go up and down for 50 straight set like people don't as a 50 straight seconds So long that is a long time 50 straight seconds of just pure running is a long time

But I think people at home you might hear that and think 50 seconds ain't that long that shit in a basketball game most most players are running at a 10 seconds or 13 seconds high level. That's it. Before a stop, timeout, foul, out of bounds. People don't realize it. You look at an NBA team and they go up and down, up and down, and look at those players.

I mean, that's what we saw at the end of the game because it was like a three or four minute stretch where you're waiting for a stop. If you're playing hard for 14 seconds, that little 14, when you pass half court, you got to play defense for 14 seconds. If you're playing hard,

that 14 seconds is a long time. If you're going back and forth and you're trying to put that clock on, man, it's different. When you're guarding a guy like him, then you got to go down and run the floppy extra, extra. Run away. Come on, man. I had to guard Rip Hamilton, right?

I had to chase him through all these screens and then got the rebound. Of course, like, push it. Man, you crazy as hell. I'm about to walk this shit, get my breast like it's crazy as hell. Woo, alright, five down. Shit, I ain't got time for this. Nah. You can tell when a person's tired

when they've been running up and down. They call a player. I remember you called like, it was like five down or four down. The two has to circle the big. When that two guard is tired, they ain't circling shit. They be like, no, no, no, just throw the shit down there, man. I'm already on this side.

Yeah. We got them alternate options. It's easy when you tired. We saw with 82, you know, Schroeder normally does that thing where, you know, they'll be slow with the inbound. But AD hunched over it. You could tell AD ass did not want to get, like he was waiting, I think, for Poole to come.

I was gonna say, listen, two straight minutes a minute. Listen up and down up and down You're tired and did this see what Steph does man is just unreal I'm pretty sure his he can do high-level running for about a minute and a half two minutes and I'm going that I'm doing that off of Rip Hamilton. Yeah, I Seen Rip Hamilton, two, three months ago. There was a drill that was done 10 minutes of straight running, right? After the kids finished playing, 10 minutes of straight running, right? Rip Hamilton's been sitting there.

We just talking shit the whole time. He's like, oh, man, I need to get some conditioning in. I'm like, oh, that I need to get some conditioning in. No, that's what's up. Got on the line. Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. Like he's like, the kids have already been running for four minutes.

He beat all the kids laps, boom, boom. I told my son, keep up, right? Keep up with him. Doom, doom, doom. And I'm sitting here like, no stretching, no nothing. He beat, they were five, three to five minutes in front of him. He beat my son who came in first He beat my son by eight laps eight up and downs And he was like, what the hell was that muscle man said I'll show you I'll show you tape on him later

So we talked about the Warriors, 53-3. They shot 40%, but only got to the free throw line six times. Lakers shot 29 free throws. Do the Warriors need to do a better job of attacking the paint this series, or are they living and dying by that three-pointer? It's a jump shooting team. They don't really have any athletes that's going to get fouled. Like, Curry doesn't get, I mean, you know, he don't get fouled.

He can get fouled, but he's not, he's trying to get his open shot floaters at. Poole, same thing with Poole. Klay don't get fouled. So it's going to be, they're going to have to really get crafty on trying to get to that penalty. Nah, nah, we got to dive into it. Because Bumpy gets some type of credit this time. Bumpy gets some type of credit because now finally his game plan is going to work against a good team, right? Which is run him off the line, force him inside the AD where he can misdirect

shots, right? Vanderbilt can block shots. Rue can block shots. Rue can block shots. These are all like bigger defenders that what the Lakers had eight blocks to one at some point before the third quarter, like the showing defense that they're pushing them off the line so that they take contested twos and those contested twos are being defended very well. Even Austin is playing great defense on the perimeter. So what I'm seeing is, is that the Warriors have to now adjust their game to not being able to depend on the three.

But how do you do that without trying to get AD and foul trouble? But how do you do that without having to go in there against shot blockers? So now the game plan is going to be muddled up for Steve Kerr because you can't depend on the three. They're defending it very well. So how are you going to get to the twos without actually getting clean blocks for AD? Clean blocks from Vanderbilt where that's what it looked like yesterday. They just played clean defense

where if you're talking about a theft or a robbery, they got in. No fingerprints. But they shot 40% from three. You're telling me this Warrior team make 21 three-pointers and lose the game. Yes. But what he was saying is how do they get to the free throw line? They can't. Remember, they ran you off the three to shoot twos,

and you still couldn't get to the free throw line. Because you're scared of that contact because you got a real shot blocker down there. No, because all the guys are shooters. They're not scorers. I mean, Steph. But Steph don't even want to take it in there to do what he usually does. I mean, that's what I'm saying. It's not like they're not free throw containers.

You can pull something like that against a Luka, a James Harden type, because they know how to penalize your big man for going. So the fact that Curry is going to take the footer or the floater, so he's going to get his shot off before you can actually foul him. Even the foul he got was like he's already past you and you just hit him in the head. So to manipulate the free throw line, you don't have anybody on that team that's athletic enough to get there and jump and challenge that big.

All of them are going to go away from the contact. So it's really going to be hard for them to sit there. Yeah, Wiggins. Yeah. And then I'm looking at how. Man, that's going to be. Man, that's hard. I just thought, damn.

Yeah, I mean, just trying to get to the line in that scenario don't make sense for them at all. Because you know, you got LeBron, he's going to drive. AD's going to get fouled, put backs in. I mean, you got guys on that time. Austin Reeves, and they not calling a lot of his shit. Now I love when he get in front of the guard, slow down, do that thing where he back up back up.

It's going to be unless you're just like, Curry is getting fouled while shooting jumpers to get them in a penalty. It's just going to have to be, you're going to have to just, you know, like it's going to be that off-ball screen type shit. You're holding me and you foul. It's not going to be a lot they're driving and getting fouled at the lane. None of those guys, all those guys are shooters, and they're trying to get their shot off before you get there.

So let's talk about Jerry Vanderbilt a little bit. You know, he got that tough task with guarding Steph. I think he did a solid job. Steph 10 for 24 from the field, I think 6 for 13 from three. Some of those threes came with Vando on the bench. But would a Vandalorian be able to keep up with Steph for the remainder of this series? Listen, when it comes to a great defender, guarding a great offensive guy, you're just trying to make it difficult.

That's it. Last night he made it a little difficult. Step is going to adjust, he has to adjust to step adjust. But just being there, being there, following him around. You're just trying to make it harder for him to get his shots off. Thinking you're going to stop him to keep him to 10. Not fucking nowhere in heaven. Or is it no way in hell? No way in hell. Ain't going to happen in heaven either. There's no way in hell you're going to keep this guy

to 10 shots. He's going to get his shot attempts up. He's going to score. You just got to be consistent on making sure he knows you're fucking there. Right. And there's a difference between the athletic defender and the intelligence defender. And I think Vanderbilt is going to get to be both athletic and intelligent. But right now, I don't think that he has the wherewithal to understand how many possessions you cannot take off with Steph.

Like, Amarcus Smart, to me, is an intelligent defender. He's not an athletic defender where he can go out there and be athletic like Jared, but he's smart enough to know how to make up for things that Jared may fall short of, which is like taking possessions off when you've got to face guard this motherfucker every single second around the floor. And can't be a letter there can't be a switch out you gotta literally zone in on your guy and i see like a vanderbilt being um like the mcdaniels got the mcdaniels kids and and the timberwolves like they're really athletic defenders but they

just got to get that intellect of how to guard certain guys in the league. Like a Kawhi and an Artest used to have. They were both athletic and intellectual to know, all right, I got to take this guy out of the game by not letting him touch it. He can't smell it tonight. So Jared, if he can get this mentality of understanding the intelligence of never taking a break when you're guarding clay or stuff and knowing you got to stay in they i think he catapult to a whole nother level defensively so let's talk about uh lebron and draymond a little bit uh before the series started mark spears dropped an article detailing how draymond spears grandma You don't like Mark. You rock with Mark? No, I like Mark. Yeah, I'm just saying.

Mark's my guy. Just to hear those names, Mark Spears. Okay, Mark. Mark's a real one. Mark's a real one doing his thing. But Draymond wanted to travel to L.A. to go be at the LeBron record-breaking game. He was going to do the TNT broadcast. The Warriors were in Portland at that point.

They had a game the next night against the Blazers. Struggling at that point in the season. Steve Kerr said the name noted that. He nixed the idea. Draymond said he completely understood. But when we talk about LeBron and Draymond, they're close friends. They can often be seen joking around with each other. You know, I know Warriors fans in particular

aren't really fans of how much Draymond rocks with LeBron. But if you're the Warriors, is Draymond and LeBron's relationship concerning at all? Seriously, is that a question? Yo, this is a question. Absolutely. It's a question. That's not a real thing, man.

Friend, friend, buddy, buddy. Are you concerned about the buddy, buddy shit? He's trying to top your throat off. Then that's everybody in the league then. Everybody in the league. Comments Draymond's made about LeBron, you know, and they're accurate. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not doubting it. You're talking about a guy who's been in the league comments Drayvon's made about LeBron, you know, and they're accurate I'm not I'm not I'm not doubting you talking about a guy who's been in the league 20 years

everyone loves 20 years though. They put it in time. Drayvon wanted to be at the LeBron record-breaker more than ad did You talk about 20 years of friendships that he's had with people. Yeah, for sure. And players. So, you know, like, you're talking about the Kyries and all this, and there's nothing that's... So, Warriors fans tripping, basically? Yeah, they're just trying to find... They're just trying to find... They were salty. Yeah, they're trying to find...

Every time Grandma talks about LeBron, they get super, super, duper salty. That's like a Magic and Isaiah relationship, right? That's their relationship? Magic and they're just good friends. Nobody said nothing about fucking Charles Barkley and Jordan's relationship. Yeah, yeah. They hang out the night before the game. They didn't stop Jordan from busting his ass. Right.

Purely gambling related, though, trying to get some money off of each other. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Well, Gil, you said you spent time at LeBron's house. Did you ever feel like it gave you a competitive disadvantage doing that? Or not even you per se, but the other teammates that might have came with you over there? No, because a real competitor knowing I'm going to fuck you up on the court or we're friends off the court. There's no buddy-buddy on the court.

That's not a friend. A real friendship will challenge each other's greatness on the court, that's not a... A real friendship, a real friendship will challenge each other's greatness on the court. Yeah. But I think the disconnect is when you're showing the fans that it's almost like you're distracting them that this friendship doesn't need to be visible to them because it's war. All right? It's me against you, It's always us against them.

If you're showing favoritism or weakness towards the guy who's going to come in here and kill us. Same guy who punched a nigga in the nuts. Same nigga who punched a nigga in the nuts. The one who punched him in the nuts. That's the guy we're talking about. We're talking about if he likes LeBron or not. It's like the fans are like,

we don't want you to be friends with him when we're playing against him. He's supposed to be our enemy. But look, y'all can go sing Kumbaya at the crib. Oh, you goddamn want to in your tents and pee-pees and have your cheese. You can do all that shit on your own. But look, when we're playing, you don't want to go to the game. It's not my game right now.

But we got a game tomorrow. Get your ass in the tomorrow. We got a. Tomorrow. Get your ass in the sauna. We got a game tomorrow. It's a two hour flight. Motherfucker just went to Vegas. I can go to the goddamn game. I'll do some yoga or something. And I'm working.

You can stream this shit on your phone. You distracting everybody. Wasn't he working under LeBron's company? He was with Clutch. He was with Clutch. And what was it? That's what you're talking about. It's too much.

It don't exist. It's too much. The narrative is just a narrative you're trying to push. We're talking about the same guy who's been dirty to LeBron the whole time they played. Competitors are not going to be like that. Four years. Hey, yo, I'm about to go catch Gil's game in D.C. real quick. I'm going to see y'all niggas tomorrow.

Excuse me? You about to do what, bro? Relax a little bit. Just go play some 2K or something. You ain't got to go. Imagine you're his teammates, though, and you're watching that LeBron game on TNT, and Draymond's there. Doing the TNT game.

On the mic. I had to come down here to check it out. Draymond working. Come on, man. You can stop with the TNT. Draymond working. He can't get his check. He can't get his check.

He can't check it out. I couldn't miss this. I had to be here. Draymond working, man. I never fought the man for TNT. Draymond working, man. I never fought the man. He said TNT, man.

It's not like he was going on a personal thing to do. It was a TNT invite. When he made that little smile, I like that. He was a TNT invite. When he made that little smile, I like that. It was a TNT invite. TNT. I'm just saying, man, like real talk, like your best competitors, right, was your best friends. Absolutely.

Right? Them the ones you played one-on-one and y'all damn near had fights every single match. Same thing in the NBA, man. If Matt Barnes and Steven Jackson had to play one-on-one, they're going to be fighting at the end of that. 100%. Because they respect each other too much to let one of them win.

Like, I'm not going to let you win. Like, you're going to have to earn this. So by the time they finish, that's a fight. They're too competitive. Like, so the notion of, I'm just going to let my friend score on me, yeah, that's not how that works. This is not, I'm not letting my friends score on me. Fuck him.

I don't want him bragging to me. Fuck him. That's not what I was saying. But I'm just, no, that's how the fans, that's how the fans think of like, oh, LeBron James is going to come in here and Draymond is just going to let him go and he's going to win the series. Dray did get that tech for us. We appreciate it. Of course, Draymond, it's personal.

When it comes to the court, he's my friend, but he knows the type of player I am. And I'm going to challenge him to the max. That's how it is. So did y'all have any friendships with players that people would have never guessed off the court? Like who are you cool with, Gil, that Wizards fans would have been salty about? Off the court? Like, did they know you were going to LeBron's house before playoff games?

Nope. How would Wizards fans have reacted? Doesn't matter. I was averaging 32. That's why you're 32. I was averaging 32. Let's. Friends, how I was going on my fucking house. I mean, Tim Duncan, like that's what I said, it doesn't, it don't work like that.

For sure. For sure. Probably Rip. Rip was the homie. He was my OG. You know, of course, KG, but Coutinho, Coutinho was the homie, where I got a hoop against these dudes. Like next night, you know what I'm saying?

Or even if we're chilling in the summer and it's working out together and it's like, it's the homie, but when we playing pickup, you're not the homie at all. Like you said, fans may get misconstrued thinking that we going to let somebody do any... We all got egos to the max where it's competitive, it's competitive. I want to beat you. I ain't going to cheat you, I'm going to beat you. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to do whatever it takes to get this bragging rights because at any point we having

a conversation, the person who got the biggest ego in the room is going to be the one that wants to say, but y'all motherfuckers ain't beating me though. Yep. Y'all all lost to me, so fuck what y'all talking about. Right? We all want to have that one up. So that's what makes it good to have friends because you know that dude on the other side, he want it just as bad as me.

He's just as good as I am. So when we match up, it's up. All right, last question for you. If anybody want to see what NBA friendship look like on the court, watch Anthony Pillar and Kevin Garnett. They were best friends. Besties. Besties. Besties. Yeah. They were best friends. Besties. Besties.

Besties. Hung out all day besties. They played against each other. Kevin Garnett gave him a cheap shot. See what Anthony Pillar did to him. Straight elbow. Pull it up. Pull it up, Chad.

Now, we don't have it here, but I'm saying if you're going to check, pull it up. Pull that shit up. Just straight. Like it was a straight just boom. Best friend did this. It was best friend on the court.

That shit don't play. It's war. It's war when we play this game. All right, last question about these Lakers Warriors. It's going to be a little out there. Gil, don't do the thing where you drink water and you ignore me because it's so elaborate of a question. I already know.

I already read the scouting report. But A.D. LeBron logged the most minutes in game one, 44 and 40 respectively. AD struggled to put together back-to-back performances. Obviously, LeBron's foot is still an issue. He's not playing at the LeBron level that we know. Entire series is only one day off between games. Lakers already stole game one.

Is there any universe where you would consider resting LeBron and AD hear this for game two? No goddamn. Well, you're not gonna beat these Warriors Two games in a row or no, we don't need the motherfuckers. Oh, so they're gonna win game I am a chance for it to the way the workers are working WJ is on strike. We need you know, they need good content No, we're not doing that day off shit. This is the playoffs.

There's no management, nothing right now. Lakers came in with three days off after beating the Grizzlies on Friday. That is what's up. You had three days off. Motherfucker, you good. You had three days off. You done had days off. There's no more days off. We going straight seven. You ain't them

fucking ankles and foot. Whatever the two big ones. With the LeBron, Jackie foot. Will you fuck off, man? Listen, I don't give a fuck. Y'all done had three days off, man. This is not a daycare. We are the fucking Lakers.

Lakers, man. Let's just say hypothetically, you had to rest one of them. Who are you resting, LeBron or AD? Huh? If you had to rest one. Underdog said, Gil, we taking the show away. If you don't, rest one of these gentlemen for game two. Can I say that again? I'm resting LeBron, man.

I'm resting AD. You need AD to win. No, no, no, no, no. AD had a great game. But you need him to sustain the win. When has he had back-to-back great games? Yeah. Yeah.

So he already had a great game, meaning the game it's naturally he's gonna shit the bed so he's gonna shit the bed why would I leave LeBron on the bench and then he's gonna shit the bed automatically AD do what you're gonna do shit the bed already go how are you looking to win the second game we're just give it away are we giving away you think you think the Lakers can win the second game without AD I'm asking your question the Golden State played very well and lost Just give it away. Are we giving away the second game? You think the Lakers can win the second game? Without AD? Whoa, whoa. I'm asking you a question. Wait a minute.

The Golden State played very well and lost. Yes, I really think I can win the second game. Without AD. AD ain't playing the second game good anyway. I'm asking you a question, Dio. I guarantee you he's going to have 19-8. Just asking you. He's going to have 19-8 next game.

Just asking you. Game two. Can you win without AD? Game two. Can you win game two without 30 asking you, can you win without AD? Game 2, can you win? Game 2 without 30 and 23, 5 and 4. He's going to have 19 and 8

this next game. But you can still win it. Without LeBron? No, with LeBron. So if LeBron is gone and then AD is going to give you 19 and 8. No, you can't win that.

Okay, because that's what he's going to give you. We don't know that. I'm just looking at the history. We don't know that. I'm just looking at the history. We don't know that, Gale. Let the numbers reflect. 30-12. Right.

38-7. And we can't have that. Can't have that. That's what he's doing, God damn it. He's like this. I'm resting LeBron just to give him the opportunity to try to be consistent. That's a good strategy. Try to be consistent.

I mean, he's older. He's earned it. AD's only 30 years old. Yeah, and you want him to take over the realms and take over the castle? This is the test. But- From the back to back. But you say, send them both out there.

I'm not. They listen, but hey, fellas. Listen, fellas. Sorry. I know drug tests coming. I get it. I'm going to say, listen, hey, get your motherfucking asses out there, man. Get your motherfucking asses.

We ain't done that. Y'all take days off if y'all want. Hey, I got some days off for you. You sweep them, you're going to have like seven days off. How about that? You're going to have seven days off. It's like All Star break. You can go to Cancun.

How about that shit? All right, so let's talk about these heat nicks because we're forced to, contractually obligated to. Hold on. Do you think there's a chance for a sweep? Don't even put that in the universe yet, no. Warriors are too good.

Them light-skinned. Look, if you get two at home, if you get this second one in Golden State, then we stupid enough to lose game three. You think so? Yeah, that's how dumb we are. I thought you was a real fan. I am a real fan. I'm just being realistic.

I'm being realistic. We're not putting that out there. We win two in Golden State. You can't win two in... We will be so hyped that we lose game three just because we that dumb. We're not putting that out there.

I'm trying to give you some good mojo right there. Warriors, great chance. Nobody's going to let us have seven days off. The league not doing that. You give us seven days off, boy. So let's talk Heat Knicks briefly because we have to.

I'm sure we got some New Yorkers in the chat representing for us. He was short-staffed for game two against the Knicks without Jimmy Butler, who had the janky ankle. He had the bling in his ear to them earrings iced out but the Knicks big three did their thing wait there the Knicks big the Knicks big three the big three that's particular to the Knicks who the fuck is the big three runs it Brunson Randall RJ Barrett Andre Barrett is part of the RJ Barrett excuse me South Andre Barrett though the legend RJ Barrett, though, the legend. R.J. Barrett. That's technically the Knicks' big three.

But they combined for 79 points. Brunson dropped a 30-piece, including 25 in the second half. Julius Randle put up 25. R.J. Barrett put up 24. Look at Melo. All the New Yorkers loving it. Will the Knicks have this level of success when Jimmy comes back? No.

Are you still not rocking with the Knicks? No, I love the Knicks. Are you of success when Jimmy comes back? No. Are you still not rocking with the Knicks? No, I love the Knicks. Are you still not rocking with their fans? I'm trying to give you a… No, no, the fans is popping. The fans are popping right now. But they won that game without Jimmy Butler. Okay.

They barely won, and that demon wasn't on the court. All right? You know, Ross the man who… Now that makes it even better, how Jimmy plays in the playoff that he had put dreads in before. Just a troll. But, you know, it's a different team when Jimmy's on the court and, you know, when Jimmy plays, it's a whole different level of basketball.

So, Knicks can, you know, celebrate all they want. But, you know, do that when Jimmy's on the court So you still need you still not you know, I don't look it's been working for them It's been working for the Knicks, but the Knicks have a handicap that they don't understand You have three your three dominant players are all left-handed Having to do the same exact thing on the same exact spots. They all need to do, like they all

need to play in that same realm and same space and it's kind of, I know people are like, well there's three people that play right-handed on the Golden State Warriors. That's it. When it comes to left-handed players, they have to play a certain way. And you have three of them, all three, big three are all left-handed. So they're cutting off the court to each other.

I got to give credit to the New York Knicks just because they got this far. Right? They got this far. And then they're facing the Miami Heat, which, you know, they do have a monster in Jimmy Butler. But to see those three, the big three for the new york knicks without mentioning josh hart and quickly yeah dr hart is doing this and i like what new york is bringing to the table and for them to win one because you said the crowd showed up last night right crowd showed up and for them to be able to get and split that to go back to Miami it's important because

like you said Miami is a home game for New York right so it's about conversion now how can you convert this into a competitive series and like I said I want to credit you know William Wesley Leon Rose for really getting this team the way they need to be. But I just don't like the way Tibbs coaches them. I do not like the way he subs. I don't like the way he, like the schemes that they use. They're not going to be able to hold up against Jimmy. Jimmy going to tear them apart because they don't got a three that can guard him. They're going to put them bigs in foul trouble.

Like, listen, them Tibbs type of coaches, they are great. They're great for building teams, like putting structure and discipline into young teams to be successful. The defensive-minded type of coaches that think that we're going to lock everybody down and then we're going to somehow figure out how to score, those days is over. That shit is so dumb. That shit is so dumb. That shit is so dumb. It's just because if you don't have one guy who can get his own bucket, which they do.

The reason that they're really successful is because you have a guy who can actually play basketball. Right? Like, Randall's a hooper. That's a hooper. Yes. The difference between a hooper and a basketball player is a basketball player can hoop, but he understands how to play within.

A basketball player means he's AAU style. You put him out there, and then you just let him play. When it comes to structure, his skill might deplete. Right? and there's the His skill might deplete. Yeah, right and Brunson has that old-school Basketball and hoops skill. Yeah, right and when it gets down to crunch time His his basketball knowledge makes him yeah, and that's the reason they're successful if it wasn't for him going there They would be booing the fuck out of Judas Randall again. The other year, he booed him. He had enough of that shit.

Yeah, so it's one of those things where I like it just because of him. He brings that old New York feel back. Like Mark Jackson, old school Mark Jackson. That city is going to be Brunson because it reminds them of the 80s and 90s Knicks. That 90s Knicks mentality of brute basketball with a little bit of skill. Brunson is New York. Yes. I'm sorry, Randall.

Brunson is the king of New York. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? mentality from Villanova to New York, that's a whole different feel for New York because now they can trust him. They can trust Josh Hart, which is his battery pack. Josh and him are teammates and they understand the dynamic of what it takes to win.

And if you go and watch that last two minutes of the game, Josh Hart showed up. He became the heart of the Knicks. And he's like, to me, you want Julius Randle to be the Draymond Green of the team, like the heart and soul of the engine, but he don't got that leadership. Josh do. Josh got that leadership mentality. He got that thread on him that's like, I got championship water on my body still. And with them two, you got New York, like you said, an emerging New York Knicks team

that's going back with that same soul feel. That's why you got John Starks on the sideline, looking the way... getting the crowd involved, Melo in the background. I say that's... All the New Yorkers show up now. It's like, New York's back. It's like John Leguizamo and them in the crowd and shit. It's like, where y'all been at? They need to get another. They need to get an amazing four man, four or three.

And Julius Randle is the Jordan Poole. That's his style. I like that. Like random. What plays does he run? He don't run no plays. Just get the ball, brush his shoulder down, do all this bullshit. You know, that's his play.

So he will be my sixth man on a great team. Oh, shit. I'm sorry, but that's... You're going to have the internet going? That's what that one is. Until you learn how to play by what? I mean, look, it ain't going to be by the Knicks. They done booed this nigga for five years.

I don't care what the Knicks say. No objections on this side. I don't care what the Knicks say. I mean, you can't boo me today when you booed this nigga for four years. I'm sorry. That's real shit. Well, thus ends our Heat Knicks chat. Very, very, very, very strong.

Six, seven minutes. Now it's time for my favorite segment. You can keep it in time. No, no, no. I'll be looking at the time fucking with him. I'll be making it go longer looking at the time fucking with him. I'll be making it go long and looking at the time. I live right down the street. I'm already prepared for your shit.

I already know how you... I got the scouting report on you, Gil. That one time I had to catch a flight and then you wanted to extend the shit 20 extra minutes. Okay. Still made it though. Southwest, you know it's going to be delayed going out of Burbank. Some things are just guaranteed.

You already know. But time for our mostly fan segment, end of the show. Chad came through with some decent stuff. Okay, they got us. Got some Z-souls. So question number one said, If the Knicks make it to the conference finals, would other players want to come to NY?

Hell yeah. Who the fuck said that? It's a question mark, so I know something sneaky. I know. I'm just saying. You ask every time. Who the fuck is asking these questions? What kind of Knit fan is that in the conference finals? They really think they're going to win this record?

That's just- It's just two question marks on there. They didn't want to be- Come on, man. Listen. That's fantasy. That's like- It's like. But did the Brunson signing change anything?

Does that make it now a desirable location for Frey? It doesn't want to go. Is Leprechaun's real? They just making that up. I'm like. New York. I thought we was going after real questions. This is a troll.

Okay. Knowing the Knicks ain't going to make it to the next round. But is it going to. Is it going to make it to Knicks round, but is it going to make it? Make Celtics? I mean, listen, every – Make Celtics? No, what I'm saying is that would be a good matchup. Everybody wants to play in the garden, right?

Everybody wants to play. The New York jersey, the New York staple is no different than the Lakers staple, right? It was just always – no, everyone hates when I say it. It was always the fans that really gets rid of opponents. We go into the building, and we're playing it, and we're listening to the crowd turn on their team. They changed, Gil. No, no, no.

But what I'm saying is, so as an opponent, we're looking at this crowd like, damn, I don't want to play for this team. Yeah, right. They'll turn on me, too. Yeah. Like, what's the difference between me or them? If I have that jersey.

So year after year, when you're talking about free agency, that is the last place you want to go because we watch you boo your own fans. If you're talking about Golden State and you're cheering, you're sitting there cheering MVP to some sorry-ass player. Don't say nobody's name, man. Don't say nobody's name. The one year you wanted to be a Knick player is when we saw what they were doing for that Lynn Sanders.

Jeremy Lynn. Yep. Yep. We were watching New York explode. Like, like, I mean, you're watching the TV and you just just listening to the like, yo, that shit rocking right there, fam. Like I gots to be a part of that. And that's when like people like fans don't understand that we're opponents are looking at the environment. Yep. Everything is recruiting.

When you're talking about an NBA player or just recruitment, everything is part of recruitment. How the fans treat, how, what is it, like, how does y'all locker room look? Like, we're looking at the opposing, you know, the players' locker room. We're going in there, like, yeah, you know, I got a DVD. I got the what's-her-name.

I got a PlayStation. Like, yeah, for real. The the simple shit is yes. It's the simple shit. Yes set an NBA play The millions don't matter. It's the simple shit. So when you're talking about the fans Shit, sometimes the cheerleaders how they look it's important for parking spots. I'm just the disident It's the dumbest shit. So when you're talking about attracting free agents, right, and we're going to the Knicks players and we start asking questions, man, but them fans be booing you and motherfuckers be like, yeah. How about tax writing things like that? Does that factor in at all?

How much of your bread is getting taken? At a certain age when we understand that shit, at an early age, right? Like, Lakers, always their advantage is always going to be this. Our market, Hollywood, want to be famous? Directors, TV, look, clothing lines, it will all be better here. And you over there, where were you at? Charlotte? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, 100 in Charlotte, you make 70 here.

By the time you leave here you'd be worth 200 million Damn might go to New York like shit I can't after listening what he just said they might go to New York You know why because like he said LA and New York are the two biggest destinations for big markets Big market Brunson advertising all that right, but of Brunson. Advertising, all that. Right? But if Brunson is not marketable, he not going to fit the New York mantra like Melo did. Kind of almost like how Amari did. But bring a Dame, bring another player who got some marketability, you got something

going for the city. The city's just looking for something marketable. That's so cool. R.J. Barrett is not marketable because he's Canadian. You got to bring a New Yorker in. You bring a New Yorker in and they can take him and be like, yo, we can throw

Davey's around them. But New Yorkers rock with R.J. Barrett. They do, but not as much as they would an actual New Yorker that was presented. You don't need a New Yorker because New Yorkers is trash. So you don't need a New Yorker, New Yorkers is trash. So you want to, you got, you got no love for New Yorkers? The player, when was the last time New York had players? Early 2000s. Yeah, the mellow years.

Early 2000s. Mellow years. They had players up there, bro. They got all of them. That plate, like that, no, J.R. is New's New Jersey Jersey J.R. Smith Jersey Jersey boy Jersey. Oh you some old from the yeah, okay. Yeah, no no Steph Was probably the last I said all of it was the last great New Yorkers like most of those New Yorkers are leaving Yeah, they go to high school. So you don't really know who New York greats are because they left You know to go to go to different high school, so you don't really know who New York greats are because they left to go

to different high schools. So it's hard to really pinpoint who's great. They just need a bona fide star. Dame, you're older. Give them the big money, Hulu. I already got Brunson. The Hulu bag. I already got Brunson.

You're going to keep Brunson and not take name man Listen, I don't want to with the better game Mm-hmm, even even the same maturity. It'll bet you if it don't win Oh, you're gonna be killed for getting rid of Brunson after what Brunson did Yeah, but that's the same way and they did IT in Boston. I need a I need a star, right? What they did in IT IT in Boston. They got rid of IT and for Kyrie and then what and then pan out We got the bigger name and in pan out. That's real. I want I want a star I want like a fucking John Moran or something in New York

Gritty all through the goddamn city, but that's I'm not I'm not gonna lie That's who New York needs New York needs Ja Morant. You're talking about a face. That's too street form. You're talking about a face that matches the ability. A face that matches the ability of what he do, and he's still gritty for the New York guys.

That's a perfect combo. And I feel like- Ooh, that's a billion dollar man right there. That's a perfect combo. That or Atlanta. I'm still rolling with Ja and Atlanta. Atlanta's trash. Atlanta.

Atlanta, they're not- The big market. They don't have a fan base. They do. Ja is the fan base. They don't have no fan base. They do. Ja is the fan base. They don't have no fan base. NBA young boy. That's a football city.

That's a football city. You know who does have a fan base? Gil's Arena. And we did a great job today. That's a fucking great aspect. I know we got one more question. It's time to go. I know we got one more question.

It's time to go. Traffic is picking up by the minute. And the nigga just said he live right down the street. Right down the street. So, question three. Oh, there is a question? Oh. Real quick, Gil.

I don't need a 27-minute story. Who the hell named you Gilbert? My dad. My daddy, unfortunately. But he's senior, right? He's senior. Who named him Gilbert? Some other.

So there's another Gilbert Arenas? Is the Gilbert Arenas senior? Yes, dude. Damn. And then when I asked my dad, yo, why'd you name me Gilberto? You got an O at the

end of that shit? You're supposed to. I've been wanting to call you Gilberto. I didn't know for sure if it was called Gilberto. I didn't know that

was a real name. I thought it was just Roberto. My dad was like, yo, I had three names. It was Gilbert. No. Hippolito. Hippol Gilbert, though. Hippolito.

Hippolito. What? Hippolito. Yeah. That's his brother's name. And then Juan. I can see there was a Juan around. You know what the fuck?

What kind of three options is those? Like, you couldn't think, like, a regular name. Like, a regular name. Where your dad from? Cubans. Okay. We're Afro-Cubans. Why are you giving me Mexican names? Cuban. Juan? Spanish. Spanish. Spanish from? Cubans. We're Afro-Cubans. Why are you giving me Mexican names?

Cuban. Spanish. Spanish. Gilberto. Yeah, so I'm Afro. This is clear. I'm Afro, so I'm Afro-Cuban. That's what I am.

So, you know, so most of us arenases, if you know if you're a real arenas because your name is Spanish. Gilberto Arenas? Do they have that as a category? The zero on the end. Like ethnicity, Afro, Cuban? No. Other?

Huh? Your other? You know what they call you, no matter where you at. Yeah, black. You can go black right there, but technically my race is African. That's a nigga! That was the other way I was going to go with that, but you know, underdog supports the show.

But okay, Gil, we learn something new every day, and we appreciate y'all for learning something new with us. We will be back tomorrow. It's been another episode of Gil's Arena. We will see y'all Thursday. Woo-hoo!