Pardon My Take - Blake Griffin - Detroit Piston/Clipper For Life

Episode Date: May 6, 2018

Philly is still cleaning up their premature confetti celebration and Brad Stevens has broken the process (2:37 - 6:42). Lebron has killed the Raptors, again, and he somehow gets better every game (6:42 - 10:07). Warriors are still the team to beat and we kind of hate James Harden (10:07 - 12:11). The Caps are a game a way from PFT eating horse poop and Brad Marchand licks people (12:11 - 17:50). Who's Back of the Week including DJ Khaled's refusal to eat his wife's pussy and Albert Pujols hit 3,000 hits (17:50 - 24:59). Detroit Piston Blake Griffin joins the show to talk about his trade from the Clippers, if the Clipper for Life ceremony is awkward in retrospect, how he's changing his game, and what the differences between Manhattan Beach and Detroit Michigan are (24:59 - 62:05). Segments include Kings stay Kings Skip Bayless, Hurt or Injured Matt Harvey, Stick to Sports Sportscenter, Sabermetrics American Pharaoh fucks a lot, and Stay Woke is Kanye performing an elaborate art project on all of us? You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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It happens to a lot of guys. Yeah, we don't... We're not gonna make the joke that everyone thinks we're gonna make, but Rick Petino sometimes comes down his leg really fast. But let's start there. We have to talk about LeBron, but that... You can't have a worse experience in having the confetti go off and then having to play overtime and losing it overtime in just like the Sixers.

Trust the process. I understand they're young, but just bonehead moves over and over and over. And what's going on with Vegas in that series? I don't know. Vegas just hasn't adapted at all. They've just been like... I mean, I... All the Sixers are due.

Here's what I think has happened, because I have been part of it. Like I've been a victim to this. The Celtics always talking about we don't have Kyrie and Hayward, and like pretending that the team they do have is not talented. It's pretty fucking talented. And Brad Stevens is a really good coach. I mean, that last play that they had drawn up, I don't know how you get isolation like that for a last second shot.

It just doesn't happen in the NBA. Are we to the point where we're going to put Brad Stevens on the Mad Scientist list? What's that? Is he a Mad Scientist? Oh, yeah. I mean, I think he's the best coach in the game. He's a Mad Scientist. So, yeah.

And I bought into the process. I still think that Philly has a very bright future, but they have... They've gotten pants this series. They look like... They look so ill-prepared. Ben Simmons shooting the ball up one with a fresh shot clock and eight seconds left. I actually think... What about that miss dunk?

He's playing like a miss dunk. Stay woke. I think Ben Simmons shot that on purpose because he didn't want to get fouled and miss his free throws. Like, it's a real problem that he can't shoot. He's playing like a rookie. So, this actually... I've changed my mind now.

He is a rookie based on how he's been playing. Yeah. And in bead, I mean, I don't know what to think of in bead right now. I feel like every time he gets... He gets gas in the fourth corner. He gets the ball down in the low post and he either trips over himself or he's still effective sometimes, but half the time he looks like he's a baby deer walking on ice. And I mean, we've addressed this before, but this is Philly's comeuppance.

Yeah. Philly got too big, too fast. They turned into Boston, no offense to him. It was a little too much. Philadelphia fans turned into Boston fans so fast it made my head spin. It is funny though watching Twitter, like it's an all-time Twitter thing when the Philly and Boston fans go at each other because Boston fans now have the one up, but then it just becomes a who won the Super Bowl.

And it's just like... But then you go back to 2004. Yeah, it's a human centipede where they just keep eating each other's shit over and over. It's like the, is Joe Flacco elite? Well, he won a Super Bowl. So did Trent Dillford. That's how that conversation always goes. So I saw some people saying that Brad Stevens is doing more with less than Popovich ever

has. I agree. You agree? Yeah. I mean, Popovich had Tim Duncan, who's like a top 10 player of all time. Well, you were saying about how this team isn't talented, but... No, I think this team is very talented. They don't have...

They're good, but... I think that's what the difference is. People are pretending that they're not talented because they don't have their number one guy, but they still have a ton of talent. Three first round picks at Borford. They get a bunch of really good talented guys. Right. And those first teams, not only Tim Duncan, but also Gene Obli, also Tony Parker, they

were pretty fucking good. But he made those... Yeah, he made those... Pop definitely made those down a little bit. He found those guys. He did his weird little overseas... He spent a semester abroad and came back with two ballers. But looming for the Celtics, and if we're gonna...

Are we gonna say the Sixers are dead? Yeah. Okay. I'm fair saying the Sixers are dead. Yeah, they're dead. They might be a gentlemen sweep. Yeah, exactly. Looming is LeBron James, who...

I'm happy that I'm on the right side of history on this one, because there was a lot of talk that he was ripe for an upset in the East this year, and I'm firmly in the... I'm not picking against LeBron in the East until he loses, until I watch him lose in the East, because it seems like it will never happen, and he has somehow gotten, like, stronger. And... Yeah, interesting. And the Raptors... So you're saying the series is over?

LeBron James. Yeah, I said the series. Oh, I said the Raptors were dead after Game 2. LeBron James is now the mayor of Canada. Yeah. That is... What he did to them, that game, the Cavs dominated the entire game, and then at the end they're like, oh, let's let him back in just so we can fuck with him a little bit

here. And it worked out perfectly that he hits the game-winning shot. He has another, like, 40-point game. He... LeBron is reaching that extra level. I still... I must still say he's not the MJ level, because he hasn't stopped anyone from getting a championship. And so...

Because I don't think any of these guys, like, DeMar DeRozan's not going to win a championship if LeBron's not there. But he has done the thing where I think DeMar DeRozan might never be able to play basketball again. Now, LeBron has ruined his career. One thing... We can actually make the argument that LeBron James is at his worst as a GM, but I think that he makes his teams...

Same with Michael. Yes. And so... Yeah, exactly. But I think he makes his teams worse on purpose, so that he's the guy that stands out and it's like, oh, look at these shitty teams. What's my favorite game to play is, like, go through all the old LeBron James rosters from Cleveland and figure out which team that he got to the finals was the shittiest.

And spoiler, they're all shitty. Right. Except for the year where he had, like, Kyrie and Kevin Love, who was still playing, like, Kevin Love. And then J.M. Green got a weird suspension. Yeah, that was interesting. I don't know where.

Yeah. But here's the thing, I still don't like LeBron, but I've reached this point a few years ago. Like if you don't sit down and if you don't realize that he's an appointment television and you won't see a guy like this for a long, long time, like then you're hurting yourself as a basketball fan. Like I watch these games and I say, holy shit, I cannot believe what LeBron's doing night in and night out. Yeah.

I think we need to ask the question though, if he's scared of overtime. He keeps making these buzzer beaters. Maybe he doesn't believe in himself. It's a good point. It's something we have to, I mean, as... The overtime is just one big clutch shot. Yeah. And so he's trying away from that by making all these buzzer beaters.

Yeah, the LeBron I know would like to pat his stats. So he probably, we probably should try to get to overtime a little bit more. Yeah. I guarantee you if he has under 30 points, when it's his chance to take a buzzer beater, he'll miss it so he can get over 30 points. And then the other series, well, we all kind of forgot that the Warriors are the best team in the world and definitely going to win the championship. So hand up.

I fucked up. I took him back to Okafor. He's not bad. Ryan Gomes was 265 pounds in high school. On Friday, I accidentally, I was trying to bet on the over in that game and I accidentally took the Warriors money line for a shitload of money as my default to win. And so that was bad. That is bad.

That was a really bad surprise. That's bad. And I thought about it. After I saw my bet, I thought about going back and just like eating the juice and just like... Live betting it. Yeah. Live betting it.

But I was like, you know what? This is like, this is God telling me something. And it didn't work out. You're an idiot. You told me to stop gambling. Yeah. Yeah. Um, the Pelicans, that was a nice game three for them, but like you knew game, game four,

the Warriors are like, we're not fucking around anymore. Fuck this. And Kevin Durant, it's so unfair that he gets guys guarding him that are like six inches smaller. They kept on just saying it during the telecast too. They're like, this is not fair. This isn't like, you can't stop Kevin Durant. It's not fair.

Yeah. Kevin Durant is now in that, in that pantheon of like how LeBron James gets an inch taller and 10 pounds heavier every time an announcer talks about him, like, hey, did you know LeBron James is six foot nine? He's really ballast. And 290 pounds. Yeah. Um, with KD, he's at that point where now he's seven foot one.

Yes. Absolutely. The Slim Reaper. The Slim Reaper. He does have a wingspan of like, of a golden eagle. Yeah. Nine feet. Nine feet.

Yeah. It's ridiculous. Um, and then, uh, it looks like the Rockets will probably take care of the Jazz. Our good friend Mark Titus wrote an article on Friday. Do you like the Rockets? And I do not like the Rockets. They flop so much. James Harden and Chris Paul, they spend half of the game just like throwing their head

back. James Harden is, he's got to be the most annoying player in the entire world to guard. Yeah. If you try to play defense on him, he does that little thing where he gets you off your feet and then he travels, jumps into you, he travels, melts the Euro step. Yeah. Uh, but it's, it's got to be so annoying. He's like, uh, the road runner and everybody else is like the Coyote that keeps running

into his wall. Yep. It's, he's just, he's infuriating watch. I don't, you know what? I've turned the corner on James Harden. I used to like him. I don't even like watching him play. It's not fun to watch him.

Do you know what it is? It may, James Harden brings out like the worst old white guy takes in everyone because he plays isolation ball and you just sit there like, pass the ball. Why don't you pass in the ball? Why are you dribbling for 20 seconds? Yep. And I like, you want to fight against it, but so at some point in your life when you're like five years old, you were taught to pass the ball and not dribble around.

And that's partially because we don't have the skills to dribble around like James Harden and he's a fish in his hell, but I still sit there and was like, pass the fucking ball, dude. Right. So he was a good old white guy. Take you ready for this one. Yeah. James Harden, more like James Softon.

Mmm. I like it. I hate him. I hate him. I hate it. You know, I don't have a lot of enemies. I'm putting James Harden on my enemy list. There we go.

Also be rooting for them in the, against the Warriors though. I don't know. Underdogs? No, no, no, no. Because I want to see LeBron James losing the finals. Yeah. Well, he's, Hank, as a LeBron stand, three and 10 overall. That's what we're, that's literally all I'm, like, keeping me alive with LeBron.

Well, the Southerners are going to beat the Cavs and then they have a much better chance of being the Warriors. No, no, no, no. LeBron needs to make the finals so that he can go three and 10 in his life. Yes. As a LeBron stand, I need him in these finals. Um, all right, uh, then we have Hockey, so my caps. You're going to have to eat some horse poop.

My Washington Capitals. Here we go. Here we go. Central parking and eat. I'm telling you. The horse poop from a big horse. I have the Sunday Scarries right now. I'm going to drive carriages around, right, Hank?

Yeah. I have the Sunday Scarries right now for a game that's not even guaranteed to be played. Yeah. I'm already looking at Wednesday in DC, game seven. I've seen this movie, movie before. I know what's going to happen. That's just, if we don't win in Pittsburgh, we're fucked. We're fucked.

It's going to be trouble. We're the capital. Yeah. I can see. And a case. Yeah. Wednesday comes around and oh wow. Period one.

The Penguins are up three, nothing. It's like, oh, shit. How'd that happen? It was actually four nothing back in 2009, I think, is what you were referring to. Yeah. Yeah. But it just ripped my heart out. You're right.

You're right. So we'll see. Monday night will be a big night for you and horse poop eating. I feel like I should go to DC for game seven if necessary. Yeah. But I know what's going to happen and it's going to be like, I'm going to be going to my own funeral. Yeah.

But you still got to go. I still got to go. I got to make an appearance. Not this year. Not this year. Not this year. I'm inviting people to funerals this week. Oh, really?

I don't want to jump the gun on who's back, but John McCain said, when I die, Donald Trump, you're uninvited. That's a power move. That also is. I'm going to start uninviting people to my funeral right now. That is also the easiest way to get Donald Trump to go to your funeral. Yes. You're not allowed.

Hey, James Harden, you're not coming to my funeral. You're not allowed, dude. The other series we want to talk about the Bruins got eliminated, but the biggest story, maybe the funniest sports story of 2018 is Brad Marshawn licking people, and it's actually a great litmus test for who has a sense of humor, because the people who get legitimately upset about that, fuck them. That is one of the funniest, trollest things to do, just lick your opponent, because you're not hurting them.

Right. You're just grossing them out and making them really annoyed. Yeah. I mean, he should do a wet willy. Yeah. He'd drop the gloves, but not to fight just to stick your finger in somebody's ear. I think a wet willy is one of those things where it's not a violent act, but you are totally justified if you murder somebody for wet willy.

Yes. I don't know if you guys saw the guy who retreated Habs 1909, who said it's sexual abuse in the workplace, what Marshawn is doing. No. Okay. So it's a new level. You know what? What if he's got herpes?

Yeah. And he's just spreading that all around. I just love that the NHL- That's why you go to the playoff beard, too. Yeah. I love that the NHL had to sit there and be like, what do we do about this? This guy won't stop licking people. We have a serial liquor on our hands.

Yeah. You know what to do when it's Wilson and his head-hunting people. You don't know if somebody's got their tongue draped around somebody's neck. You know what you should start doing is giving hickeys. Ooh. Hickeys. Now that's a good move. That's a good move.

Yeah. Under the pile? Yeah. Then we should get that going. A lot of stuff goes on at the bottom of the pile. The guy just comes out with a hickey. Just kissing each other. Oh, man.

I wanted the Bruins just to keep going, just to Marshawn to keep like, he was definitely going to lick someone else. He couldn't stop himself. So Hank, in terms of Boston sports losses, the Bruins probably pretty low on your list. Yeah. I'm much more invested in the Caps. You don't care? And the Caps okay?

Yeah. What is that? What do we have on that, by the way? 13 to 1? It's right up there. Oh, hold on. Spencer Haas, friend of the program, went to Vegas a couple weeks ago and sent me a ticket. He got me a Caps future.

So I'm in with you guys. 15 to 1. There you go. Wow. Okay. What they are now. Probably 45 to 1 because Vegas knows we should capture going to lose in DC also. I was going to say we should probably hedge out before game 7.

Yeah, probably. The Bruins loss was bad, but the Boston sports media after the Bruins losing the playoffs is probably better than when any other sport loses because they just tear like the division between people that think Tuka's bad and good and Marshawn being bad and good. The radio people want to get rid of Marshawn and Tuka and then everyone else just freaks out. Here's what I've learned about hockey analysis. Nobody knows what the fuck they're talking about ever.

Can I say something else? Hockey is the toughest sport. You could put a lineup of five random guys in the NHL and just put them on a team and I would not be able to tell you who's good and who's bad. Yeah, that's fair. It's so subjective. But the Tuka Rast thing to me, like I think he's good. I don't watch, you know what I mean, like hockey's one of those sports kind of like baseball.

You watch your team, like I don't. So I think he's good, but when you have to start an entire campaign convincing people he's good. Yeah. Now I'm like, okay, something's wrong. Now you're fighting the wrong battle. He's not that bad. Yeah.

He's good, but he's good, but bad in big moments. So it's like, is that really good? So that's kind of bad. It's kind of bad. It's kind of bad in a voice. So it's more like a playoff. So yeah. It's kind of good.

Okay. So officially Tuka Rast, not good. Not good. Bad. There's numbers. Yeah. Good. Yeah.

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the taste of your dreams. All right. Who's back? I was back the week is got a few Donald Glover back in a big way. I posted an SNL on Saturday. I didn't watch the show, but all the skits I saw online. You heard about it. We're very funny.

Was he doing another lethal weapon movie? He did the New Star Wars. He released a song. I know you're talking about Danny Glover. I think Hank doesn't know who Danny Glover is. He's in Predator 2. The Cavs skit from SNL was pretty funny. Hilarious.

He did a Kanye one that was hilarious and Amigos one all very, very funny. Oh wow. Release a new song that was fire with a good music video. Yes. Offset? No, he was Quavo. Oh, okay. Oh.

So he didn't get the Pussy put on. Oh, that was the Lambo one? The therapy? Yeah. I didn't understand that. Now it makes sense. I watched that and I was like, what are these guys supposed to do? So Cal got the Pussy put on him by Cardi B.

Yes. Okay. Nice. And the new music video is awesome. New music video is awesome. And Atlanta season two is awesome. And he's Star Wars coming out. So he's basically music acting, TV movies.

That's pretty bad. Jack of all trades. Yeah. He's pretty much good at everything. But guess what? Sports. Yeah. He doesn't know anything about watching other people play sports like us.

He couldn't tell us whether Tuko Rast is good or not. He couldn't tell us who's the goat, MJ or LeBron. Yeah. He would be just lost. Loser. Yeah. Okay. Pussy eating is back.

Oh, okay. DJ Khaled came out and said he doesn't do it. Finally. And then there was a whole slew of celebrities that came out, Smash Mouth, The Rock. Smash Mouth. Yeah. Smash Mouth came out. Smash Mouth and The Rock.

The word called Smash Mouth is slew of celebrities. Yes. Smash Mouth and The Rock. Yeah. That's where the line stops. Everyone else. Smash Mouth. Smash Mouth is pretty psyched to be included in a sentence with The Rock.

Dude, they just wait. I'm imagining the guys at Smash Mouth just sit on their computer all day waiting for a hot button topic on Twitter to pop up and just be the first to reply so that sentences like Hanks can be sent. Yeah. Smash Mouth has a strong Twitter game. I don't know if you know this background, but on Veterans Day every year, they'll tweet like a picture of the invasion of Normandy and just put a huge Smash Mouth watermark

on it. Thank you for your service, Smash Mouth. Oh, God. And then the bullpen card is back. Okay. So they brought it back this year, but it was used for the first time on Saturday. I saw it. Call him a cue.

Awesome. Big time back. Awesome. Okay. We need more bullpen cards. Yep. Put some spinners on that thing. My Who's Back of the Week is oral sex.

Mmm. Actually, I'm going to change it. Who's Back of the Week for me is not performing oral sex because DJ Khaled made it cool again to not eat pussy. Yeah. Drew Soprano. That's right. Oh, there you go.

Wow. You got your second season. Hank. Nice. You're really spoiling the second season of the Soprano Soprano Listeners. Man, they were playing golf. Got to ruin that. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry that Hank had to tell you that Tony kills Christopher. DJ Khaled, by the way, he definitely is waiting for, like someone just told him you are what you eat like 10 years ago, and he's like, I can't eat that pussy. I can't eat that pussy. This is a weird thing for him to just throw out there. Yeah. Very strange. I'm going to weigh in on this.

I don't do that. I'm like constantly arguing and fighting with his wife on social media. Oh, really? Yeah. No shit. That's a healthy marriage. Yeah. Yeah.

So maybe eat some pussy. DJ. DJ Khaled. What's his first name? DJ. But what is his real first name? D. D.J.

I don't know. DJ Khaled. Khaled Muhammad. It's a mouthful. His name is Khaled Muhammad Khaled. Double Khaled. Okay. All right.

Double Khaled. All right. You know what? I'm actually going to say, if you go double, if you go double name on your name, you don't have to eat pussy. You don't have to eat pussy officially. Yeah. DJ Khaled.

He's not a good singer though. Remember like he tried to actually become a singer last year so we know his tongue doesn't work well. Yes. So this is not a surprise. Sweet. Yeah. DJ Khaled.

Maybe he'll have a hologram version of himself eating his wife's pussy. Woo. That way he doesn't have to do it. No. I just said not eating pussy is back. Okay. Not eating pussy is back. Finally, men can feel okay with proclaiming that.

Yes. Yeah. Not pleasure their female counterparts in the bedroom adequately. Yeah. Finally, men can finally not partake in oral sex. Finally men can have sex with a woman and not give her an orgasm. Yeah. It's about time.

It's about time. Welcome to 2016. Huge weight off our backs. It feels good. All right. I got two. The first is the 3000 hit club. So not for hers for sure, right?

3000 hit club. Albert Pujols. Los Angeles Angels. The probably the best angel of all time, right? Oh yeah. Angel for life. Move on. So 3000 hit club for Albert Pujols.

I actually wrote down because his number is five. I wrote down my top five Albert Pujols career moments. Okay. All right. When he got traded to the Angels. All right. No. So five.

Finding out his name was Pujols before you knew he was good. Yeah. Pujols is a very sneaky underrated name. Okay. So number five is July 31st, 2012. He had two home runs and a 6-2 win Angels Over Rangers. Number four is August 10th, 2017. He was a 37th player to have 10,000 played appearances with the Angels.

Who could forget? Number three, April 22nd, 2014. He hit his 499th and his 500th home run in the same game. Angels vs. Nats. That was great. And number two, June 3rd, 2017, 600th home run, Grand Slam Angels vs. Twins. And then this one, 3000th hit, Angels vs. Mariners. You know what though?

Actually, not 3000 hits, it's 2,999 because that ball he hit off Bradley Hitch hasn't landed yet. So they can't count that. I don't know what you're talking about. They can't count that one as a hit. I don't remember that. Yeah. He wiped that one from your memory.

That didn't happen. Didn't happen. But yeah. Good for him. Good for him. Best Angel of all time. Best Angel. Going into the Cooperstown with that bronze Angel hat.

That halo. That's going to look really good. Also, I'm just missing the cut was the time that guy accused him of doing steroids and he said no. But it was rude because you shouldn't even put those two. Don't say it. Don't say it. No.

He sued him. So I think Albert Pujols like if you go, if you sue the guy for saying you did steroids, then guess what? You didn't do steroids. That's absolutely true. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.

Is he the oldest person to ever hit 3000 hits? Because nobody knows how old he is. Yeah. True. Remember, let's bring that one back up. That is true. I think Albert Pujols is 50. He's been playing for the Angels for 35 years.

Yeah. It's crazy. And then my other who's back is I pooped my pants, but I was six. So it doesn't really count. That doesn't count. Yeah. I was sick. Yeah, you were sick.

So we were just, forget it, right? Yeah. Did Stella look at you? Did she tell? It was a moment. It was a moment. It's like how dogs can sense fear. It was a crisis moment.

There was a crisis moment that was, thankfully we weren't too far from home, but it was... So you just, you waddled back or did you find it in that house? Yeah, I just waddled. I waddled. Yeah, it was bad. It's all right. Okay, but I was sick. So, forget it.

I got so relaxed in the steam room the other day, I peed a little bit. Oh, that's actually okay. I had a towel on. And if we want to do our Jersey Shore out there, Snooki peed a little in her pants when she was working out. Yeah. Okay. Squat over.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, she was doing squats. She was a little pee. That's, yeah. Oh. Keep your mouth off it, boys. All right. Let's get to our interview with Blake Griffin.

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Did you ever get your shirt? I got my, yeah, I got my recurring guest shirt. You did? I did, finally. Fuck yes. It took a while, but I got it. Did you frame it? Put it on your wall?

I've worn it. Nice. Let's start with an easy question. Yeah. What are the similarities between Manhattan Beach and Detroit? There's both people in both places. Okay. Yep, fact.

I found an ice cream shop in Detroit, so there's two ice cream shops. Nice. Do people wear t-shirts? Well, no. People kind of go, don't wear t-shirts in Manhattan Beach. Yeah. Could you get a Coney dog in Manhattan Beach? No, I don't think you could.

No, I don't think you could. I don't think you could either. There are a lot of nice cars in both places. Yes. Just some are built in Detroit. Yeah. And then they are shipped to Manhattan Beach. Yeah.

Where people drive. Ooh, actually, the car thing is an important aspect here, because so I want to hear, what was your initial reaction when you got traded? I was just kind of like shocked a little bit at first. Yeah. I mean, when you don't see it coming, obviously, it's shocking, but. Did you think it was a joke? No, I didn't actually.

Who, was it your agent that called you up or was it? No, I actually, I got a text from a friend actually saying like, hey, like I think Detroit's, you know, somebody that kind of knows, I think Detroit's trying to make a trade for you. And that's how I found out. And that's also how I found out it went through. Yeah. So last off season, when you were reeing up with the Clippers, you probably didn't expect to be spending half your year in Detroit then.

No, I didn't. But you know, life comes at you fast and you just got to be prepared. Did it kind of change the way that you looked at the league? I mean, you always knew that it was a business, right? Yeah. But this was like a very stark example of like how little they can actually care about the players. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, that's a perfect way to describe it. I knew I'd seen it happen before. I'd seen guys, you know, be promised things and it never come to fruition, but it changed how I viewed certain people for sure. I wouldn't say the whole league. You can't judge the whole league off of one thing. Right. Right.

Was it awkward looking back like the whole Clipper for life and they retired your number and all that stuff? Not awkward. I mean, it was a... Is your number retired? Yeah. I think so. I think it is.

Clippers retired your number. I think that's an action. I think that counts as a ceremony. Yeah. They're in their free agent presentation. They did a whole Clipper for life and they retired. I watched it go up in the rafters and... That's awkward.

Okay. I'm going to answer the question for you. That's awkward. That was pretty quick. Did you... So my initial reaction was Blake is fucked because how is he going to sell Kias in Detroit? Right. I don't...

I don't sell Kias anymore. Oh, okay. Yeah. But they don't... They have a lot of cars for you to jump over in Detroit, though. Tons. Tons. Tons.

Harking lots. Harking lots full of cars. Tons. I mean, just run and jump and run and jump. So how... Did Steve Ballmer cry to you? I haven't spoken to him. Oh.

Have you stopped using Microsoft products? I never did. Yeah. Dummy. No, we're so steady there. So how long did it take to you for you to like... I mean, because it was kind of shocking. I think we all were a little shocked.

How long did it take for you to get over the initial shock and be like, all right, let's make the best of the situation because, I mean, Detroit has some young guys that are, you know, probably a better situation than Reggie and Andre. Yeah. Honestly, like one day, to be honest, like I got over the shock. I met with the owner in LA that night and then the next day I was on a flight. So like once I landed in Detroit, you know, you start to feel like the love from the fans in the city and kind of, I don't know, there's a little bit of excitement and then we were

playing the next day. So... Have you met Kid Rocket? I haven't, not yet. Where am I? You gotta make sure to do that while you're up there. Yeah. I did get a tweet from Big Sean, though.

That was... That's huge. That was cool. That was big, yeah. That was huge. What's Dan Van Gundy like? He seems like a cool guy. Very cool guy.

Very nice guy. Funny. And actually like genuinely cares about people and guys and it's kind of rare. He's got decent handles, too, doesn't he? Yeah, he does. Have you seen the video? I saw that one video of him going like behind his back doing spin moves and shit. That's all I could think of.

I didn't expect that out of like... I call him woke... What's the point? Woke Ron Jeremy. Yeah. That's what he looks like to me. Yeah. But he can handle the ball, man.

Yeah. He does. Did you tell the owner to keep him? Yeah. It was more of like just a general exit, meaning it wasn't really like a... It was a woj bomb. Yeah. Yeah.

Actually, I don't think that was true. Oh, really? I don't think that was true. Yeah. I heard from my people that wasn't true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know though. Well, Stan Van Gundy, do you ever tell him like, hey, Stan, remember that time that Dwight

Howard showed up drinking when you were drinking Diet Coke and was like, I love Stan Van Gundy and then basically like wanted to get him fired? Was that a... Wasn't that like a press conference? Yeah. It was like a pregame or a shoot around press conference. I don't really remember that well. Yeah.

That was... I remember it. I don't really bring up the Dwight Howard days. Yeah, probably not. He's the best. How much does Reggie Jackson hate Westbrook? I don't think he does. Okay.

I don't think so. He always talks about... Okay, okay. He always talks about their days in Oklahoma City. Yeah, oh yeah. Oh yeah. With fond memories. Oh yeah.

People forget that you were like patient zero for the rookie of the year debate that we're having right now with Simmons because Simmons took a year off, you took a year off just to... I don't know, you're just kicking your feet off, just hanging out. I had to just settle myself into LA and establish myself as like an entertainer. Yeah. That was smart. That was smart on your part. So obviously you probably fall on the Ben Simmons side of this debate, don't you?

I mean he hasn't played any games. He didn't play any games last year. Yeah, but I mean it's a second year. I get it. Somebody was like, yeah, but you got to like practice with this. I never... I practiced in training camp and I never practiced again the entire season. I didn't travel with the team.

But you practiced. I didn't practice. I did in training camp for like six practices. But you learned the plays. Not really. You know what? I'm going to fall on their side because as a fellow foot injury survivor with you and Ben, I feel like it's important we show solidarity here.

Big Cat doesn't understand what that's like. What do you mean? What's wrong with Co-Rookie of the Years? Co-Rookie of the Year. Come on. Come on. Those millennials. Yeah, it's classic.

So this goes back to... This goes back to the last one was what? Elton Brand. I don't like it. Yeah, yeah. Elton Brand and Guard for the Rock is why I'm going... Steve Francis. Sam Casel.

Franchise. Steve Francis and Elton Brand are the last ones, right? Jason Kidd, Grant Hill shared it. Yeah. They went on to have great careers. Well, foot injuries. Yeah. The other got hurt a lot.

Did you ever get bit by a dog? No. Okay. Are you still doing stand-up? Yeah. Make me laugh. Yes. Come on, funny man.

Tell me a joke. I don't do jokes. Make me laugh. I don't do jokes. I just tell stories. Okay, so go ahead. Tell a story. Tell a funny story.

Come on, funny man. So one time... I... You were living on the beach and then you got a phone call and it was like, hey, I hope you like Detroit, yeah, Coney Dogs and Thick Pizza and looking at a casino across the river. Do you guys know what buffs are? Yeah. What's buff?

I didn't before I moved there. What is that? It's like the Cartier glasses. Oh, okay. Yeah. The casino's actually pretty cool in Detroit. I went to the MGM one. Yeah.

They're like... Actually, Detroit's kind of on the up and up. I had some buddies in town and we went to the MGM and then we went to... There's like a top golf simulation thing up on top. You got the people mover. I've never ridden the people mover, but I've seen it. Detroit is on the up and up. Are you going to try to become a three-point shooter?

You are. Yeah. I think I took too many threes last year. You took more threes last year and made more threes than you did for your entire career before. I mean, that's also not like a... I think I had like 40 megs in my career or something. No, you had...

I looked at the numbers. You were like 80 for 280 and then last year you were like 115 out of 300. Yeah. So you're going to be a three-point shooter now. Yeah, but I think I want to shoot... I think I ended up shooting like five a game, which is too much. I want to shoot like three or four. So how do you get...

Four max. Is that something you're working on in the off season? Yeah. Getting better at that. So how do you get... How many shots you take in the off season? Just threes? Yeah.

You're just sitting there and someone rebounds for you and you just... You always shoot somewhere between like 200 to... Depending on the day, 150 to 200 threes and then mixed in with like mid-range and all that. And then there's just someone rebounds. Can I be that guy? Yeah. You guys want to rebound?

I would definitely rebound for you. Who is that guy? It depends. There's just always different people, but the best guys are the ones that just like go balls out and like sprint down, like it's like game seven NBA finals, Dennis Rodman going after the rebounds. We'd do that for you. I'd have to say.

Big Cat will rebound. He'll pass it to me and then I'll feed you a pass. Yeah. There's got to be a rebounder in the past. Yeah. Different skill set. It's just a rebounder. It's too slow.

What's the going rate for rebound guy? Oh man. Do you tip him? Yeah. Normally like kind of at the end of this. See, normally it's like a guy that's like young up and coming video guy, like trying to make his way. So you know, you always take care of him.

You like give him shoes. You give him like Nike stuff, like or Jordan stuff, whatever, you know, whatever it is. Got it. Your sponsorship is... You're an Oklahoma guy. Have you talked to Baker Mayfield? I have. What's he like?

What's up? No. Attitude problem? No. He's going to be great. He wears a headband. No. He's going to be great.

You know what? He's just got this thing about him that like, I think Johnny had it too, but Johnny also... Had other things about him. You know, it's in a different situation. Baker, he's just like a competitor, man. I was happy to see him go number one. If anybody can like move forward with the Browns. Yeah.

Do you want to call him? We'll give him a call. Yeah, we'll give him a call. He likes us. He does like us. Have you guys interviewed him before? We were supposed to. We met him at the Barstles Super Bowl party.

Yeah. Baker. Baker. All right. Baker. What... At what point is he bigger than you? Has that already happened because he was the number one pick?

Yeah. I mean, football in Oklahoma is like... Yeah. That's what it is. But you were... You're an NBA superstar, so... No one really cares about basketball. Okay.

I guess with the thunder. Yeah. But like as we were growing up and all that, nobody really cared. Call. What am I calling? Speaker. Yeah. Here we go.

Yeah, throw it up next to the... Pardon my take. Exclusive pick. Are you guys going to speak? Yeah, yeah, we'll talk to him. He's not going to pick up. No, he's busy. He's probably running from a cop.

No, I'm not. I'm not going to make that joke. I'm not going to make that joke. I'm not going to make that. I made that joke before. If you say anything... I'm not going to say anything. We won't say anything.

Oklahoma people stick together. I was doing it before. I was doing it before you picked up. You're one big family. Literally and metaphorically. Thank God. Okay. I wasn't going to say...

I'm sorry, Baker. Yeah. I was getting it out of my system so that we could then have a great... No, I've actually met him. He's a good guy. Super mascot. And he's also way thicker than I thought. Like he's a solid dude.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's a good guy. Super mascot. Super mascot. Super mascot. Super mascot. Super mascot.

Super hot dude. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, he's short, but like he's solid. Was he like 6'2, 20- Slim thick. Wait, he's thick? Yeah, a little bit thick.

Exactly. You were like, damn. That guy's got thick bones. Yeah. He's like, he's like what's his nickname? P.J. Tucker. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. P.J. Do you still talk to Jean- barriers Jordan? Is that awkward? No, it's not awkward. Because you kidnapped them and now everyone's gone. Yeah. That's...

That part's a little weird. Yeah. It's like watching Alpha Dog in retrospect. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You imagine like somebody getting kidnapped and like locked in a basement and then like a year later, like the police come in and like, yeah, everyone's been gone for like

the past year. I don't know why you stayed down here. Also my tweet ended up being the one that you read out loud to me when I was like, blow the whole thing up. I mean, I, not to say that I'm like an NBA GM, but I completely forgot about that. I kind of am at this point, right? I mean, that was, you put that in the in the, that you're right. Actually, that's on me. No one was thinking that before I put that out there. Nobody, nobody, not a single person. Do you, uh, what, what is the miss, the biggest misconception from that little kidnapping tweet emoji thing that went down? Uh, probably that it was a kidnapping or that we were like forcing our way in or like

that we like didn't let anybody else in. It was more of a situation where he was like, I think he like called our coach called doc and was like, I don't want to go to Dallas. I don't want to, I want to come back. So it was like, okay, we all got to fly down there and you know how to meet with him. And then that was it. Then they wouldn't let him meet with you guys. Yeah. Then Mark Cuban was crying. Mark Cuban had him kidnapped. It was no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no other way around. Mark Cuban was trying to get around Dallas. Yeah. Yeah. You can, okay. So Cuban was driving around, he was crying. He was like, I can't get to him. Yeah. I don't even, I don't even think

that part was true. Yeah. I can see Mark Cuban crying. So it sounds to me like you guys just had a dinner and and it became a kid. No we had well I flew in had dinner with him and then stayed with him that night and then everybody else flew in the next day we went and met and then we went over to back to Deandre's house had another meeting and then we he was like all right cool I'm in and then we just waited until he could sign and then we left so what's the pitch like like come on come on man we're gonna be together next ten years like how do you how do you pitch come on we're all gonna be together no one's going anywhere you

just like play ping-pong and let him win a bunch like how do you pitch a guy to stick around it was more just like a it was more just like a talk you know it wasn't even like really a pitch it was just like you know we got we we left some unfinished business out there we got some business trips coming up you mean Chris for life for life JJ to be your fault here you're playing for ten more years you're not going anywhere yeah oh man that's funny look back at that yeah is there any part of you that that misses Donald Sterling just to like laugh at him and nobody's really laughing really probably more like awkward

there's one thing that I will always laugh at about Donald Sterling and that's the deposition that he gave yes yeah that that one question if you haven't read it yet they they asked the question his response was you know I certainly love when beautiful women suck on me and they make me feel good and they're in the back of the car and they're sucking on me I feel great and they make me feel good with their mouth and they're like sir we asked you like what the frequency of your haircuts was it was like a totally unrelated question I mean it's out there yeah stop him when he's wrong here's a good question how

much fun is it to dunk it's a good time more fun to dunk on somebody than just to dunk yeah do you like when you practice you just you don't you don't I don't really don't can practice really are you bored of dunking that's why you shouldn't all those threes yeah do you realize how annoying that you realize how you come across when you say you're bored of dunking to guys like us who like can't get over an inch off the ground but you know what when I when I say that it's more so that I'm trying to develop other parts of my game to become a more complete player and to help my team win games got it so that's good

answer but you're turning your back on dunking which is something that I wouldn't say turning my back I still do it in games okay for the people yeah that's true put on a show and you know I want to save my best ones for the people yeah I don't want to do in practice when it's just teammates and you're like a band you're like Leonard Skinner and they never practice free bird anymore sweet home Alabama and they hate playing it but they'll play just to make people happy so would you say that you hate you hate dunking no I don't hate dunking does uh to Stan Van Gundy have a son that he can put on the team that

you guys all secretly don't like I don't think he has a son okay interesting way me asking that question yeah I didn't know this about you were home school I was until 10th grade so no no no no no it's 7th grade wikipedia is wrong yeah that's not my fault that's wikipedia okay so if you're homeschooled like every kid goes through that thing where they have a crush on their teacher oh god so yeah how was that for you eighth grade you have a great special on mother's day flowers flowers dot com do you believe in dinosaurs or do you have any like weird yeah yeah what you don't I mean a lot of people that were

homeschooled they're like oh dinos are God's sperm or like something weird like that what's a new woke NBA like the the Kyrie the earth is yeah I mean what just stands on that have you seen the pictures of the earth yeah yeah looks like a flat coin to me yeah well yeah it's round but it's like it's a circle actually I you know what juries out on whether or not the earth is flat but do you believe that the Sun is hot I believe the Sun's yeah how come outer space is cold then well yeah depends on what direction and outer space you know others drive towards you drive towards the Sun like you're gonna burn no that's

true how come it's colder at the top of mountains than it is at the bottom mountains I think because of the atmospheric pressure I don't know about all that you know what you're gonna crush on your mom the first 15 years life bullshit get out of here come on oh okay serious question playoff series when you're in the playoffs what is what's like the mental game like when you're playing the same team over and over and you're playing against like that you're across from the same guy you know game one game two game three and then you're just trying to get that edge and make adjustments what is that what

what's what goes on there it's just a like a lot of concentration to be honest I think like when once you get in the playoffs like obviously players help win games but like coaches are huge like you see like Brad Stevens like that's a great coach and like they not that those guys aren't good but like do they have any business being being right one oh on in the second round without you know Kyrie I guess Marcus smart came back but Gordon Hayward are those guys like the biggest thing for me I think is the coaches adjustments game to game like okay we did this they did this maybe it worked this game and then you have to

guess what their adjustments are gonna be and you have to make your adjustments according to what you think their adjustments are gonna be so it's like it's such a like game of chess in the playoffs that coaches really come in obviously the players have to play well and lock in but at the end of the day like you're going out and playing yeah um what have you heard about where LeBron is going this summer I heard okay the new world cut this part yeah we'll take this out I don't know man I did a podcast like last summer and they're asking me about it's just you know some friends and they asked they're like what do you

like what do you think about like LeBron coming to I guess the room was LA last summer I was like man I hate asking answering these questions because I just never know like and I'm always wrong and they're like but if you had to guess like you know it's a joke I'm like I could see him go to New York and then it was like the next day yeah that's that's what I'm trying to do here so what are the odds that he's going to Detroit because nobody's talked about it yet but super team I may or may not have some information about that oh okay that's a quote how much I didn't say whether the information was positive yeah right but

you have information about it that's that's good enough for us we can drive clicks with that okay how much how much do guys talk like NBA players you know like clicks and whatnot I think quite a bit what clicker you in I'm you have a banana boat that we don't know I'm not in the banana I know you're not in the banana we all know that but what uh was it weird that Chris Paul was in the banana boat well you know you know what it's normally like guys like come up together yeah it kind of like make sense oh so you and Hashim the beat the beat yeah the beat are in the banana boat together haven't haven't spoken to him

in a while but hope he's doing well um what's it like watching Chris Paul suck in the playoffs when he's not your teammate okay next question yeah yeah are the rockets a bunch of betas I'm sorry are the rockets a bunch of betas betas they're a good team you know they they got a lot of good players they play hard play smart play with the okay what's the real answer do you believe in analytics analytics yeah explain to me man so Colin coward came up with it it's basically nothing that Colin coward says but wait no this might be true this might be true no this might be true so

1000% it doesn't matter what you say you could say something completely fact all right he actually said that he said the sun is hot so you just said that he's wrong there he's wrong no okay now I do yeah analytics is the regular season you can put up all kinds of numbers you can play a certain style when you get to the playoffs it's about the guy it's about you know the competitor in you and kind of manning up in those tough moments that's man elix okay that's not like saying anything yeah no it is like no just saying that like in the playoffs you've you're tougher you have to be mentally tough yeah man so he just

changed the word mentally tough to man but it's not right I didn't change he upgraded yeah he made it way better yeah I don't love it but you guys can call it that if you want how many group texts are you in with different players quite a bit probably really what's the most recent one just any NBA player yeah yeah group text like it has to be all NBA players yeah maybe majority you can have a couple throw me into one that's all right I like with my teammates like all those guys yeah everyone on the team yep who's the worst text worst annoying like maybe uses too many emojis listen this is my favorite guy ever

but Jamal Crawford still has a blackberry it throws off every group text because then it's like nine guys or however many with a with a the eye message and then it'll be like Jamal's response will be like only six guys in it it's a different thread all right yeah you just keep hopping one year we like did a group a team group chat everybody minus Jamal and then whatever was said in the group chat somebody was in charge of relay screenshot it and then email it to Jamal I'm actually okay with that Jamal Jamal gets buckets so like I mean one of my favorite teammates right he's he's so good he's such a

like get hot guy that he can do a blackberry like that place yeah I think if you're someone who's not any if there's anybody in the league can do a blackberry I'm like a road trip are you guys all kind of on your phones when you're on the planes or are there still those like those poker games that are played we play cards yeah yeah how much some guys sit at the table there's like four guys four seats at a table I've said at the table for like the past six seven years yeah you ever see a fight because somebody didn't pay no I've never seen like a fight but I people there's times when people don't pay like

who I'm gonna say that man was how was Sam Decker at cards he didn't play what what is say something bad about NBA refs you know what it's a very hard job and they do their best and one time I tried to ref it one of my kids camp games and it was really hard so I understand what they're going through that's good do you want to take 60 seconds to bash the NHL because we always give hockey players time to bash the NBA I'm sure they do yeah I don't really have anything against the NHL I really like those guys really I mean play hard they like are tough they just it's just and it's like part of like history

and culture but they like do the handshake line and everybody's face and act like that's a big deal yeah I mean yeah show me you guys upper body lower body injuries it's like come on their equipment sweat their equipment smells sometimes yeah but you have to wear all those pads they act like they're tough but they're really just wearing like football pads after it's not that tough right you're out there competing every day with no pads I feel like there's a lot of hockey fans that listen to this yeah probably maybe yeah what you try to run what would you say I'm a hockey fan I think you have a zero point zero in

the analytics department I'm a fan of the NHL all right Seeky question put in promo code take you get ten dollars off your Seeky purchase yeah you like that what is the promo code take oh take TAK safe ten bucks Seeky oh you're gonna put it in also 100flowers.com slash take for that Mother's Day okay 24 roses that's a lot of roses how many so the Seeky question is how many fake Instagram accounts do you have or Twitter three fake Instagram accounts to Twitter accounts what's the buzz around the NBA though for real when something like Kevin Durant's fake Twitter account hits the it's the

I don't know I mean it's kind of a weird move it's uh I mean listen he I mean he probably I think he like said this he was like you know my bad it was a weird okay yeah lapsed in judgment or something like that I just think it's just you just can't read this stuff about yourself yeah how often do you read like I don't I try not to at all I don't really read like my my Twitter like mentions but there's times I was telling somebody the other day I was like on the popular page Instagram just like scrolling along and it has like the there's a video and it's like it looks like a highlight of me and so I like I

click on it I'm like oh I wonder what this is and it was a highlight but the caption was Blake Griffin is the most overrated player in the history of the NBA and then hashtag and he's ugly too all right like it's fine if you want to say like I'm overrated it's your opinion like but man you didn't have to throw that and that was the most popular post on Instagram at that time yeah it's on my popular page you have to Instagram was like we know he's not reading the haters do you have to be careful like what you click like on on Instagram yeah you can just go go around throwing out likes all willy-nilly yeah yeah you gotta

follow us or people all the time mm-hmm yeah yeah I don't really follow many people I fall like careful be careful it's all I'm saying I'm fall someone there's gonna be fucking after the trade did you unfollow anybody on Twitter or Instagram I unfollowed the Los Angeles Clippers oh you did petty yeah ooh we follow him right now on Instagram why we can get everyone going being like Blake Griffin just follow me yeah can you do it for us wait you follow the bronze fall right now I don't fall I don't follow that major reports gonna write an article about it yeah no we actually we're just doing a podcast

while this all but I feel like the Clippers wouldn't make sense it should be enough to follow up follow the thunder yeah thunder uh-huh and then at Westbrook and then in like 10 minutes we'll unfollow it all right you follow me see I don't believe you okay nice I just fall their entire Westbrook yeah yeah follow them do it Steve Adams follow him follow him I already follow like three Paul George Westbrook mellow playoff be oh man yeah do you have a nickname for yourself playoff be playoff bees not bad yeah layoff be layoff be yeah do you take any year off the yeah there you go when you fly do you fly

private no really no Jesus I mean I have a lot of money that you have to get to like fly I mean I have before but it's a waste of money especially if I'm flying like like my brother and I flew here from LA it's like commercial like maybe if I was going like LA to Vegas and I was with like a bunch of friends you know or like I had some buddies to like pitch in yeah yeah like Detroit to Oklahoma City yeah yeah that's a long flight yeah Detroit to Oklahoma City yeah yeah that one yeah just isolate that sound clip Detroit to Oklahoma City good what is your least favorite thing about traveling like during the season yeah

season during the season yeah during the season I think is that they don't call it anymore mmm good good point get it they call it on me yeah they do least favorite thing about traveling probably just the fact that it takes so much longer to for 50 people to travel you know than it does mm-hmm you gotta there's two buses there's a truck full of equipment yeah all that shit is everybody actually listening to music on their headphones when they show that shot of them all getting off the bus they've all got their like headphones on I don't I just put my headphones on I listen to what everybody's saying around

me just in case they're talking shit well my theory was that whenever I have headphones on a lot of times I just put them on so I don't have to talk to people because nobody's gonna ask any questions if you have I do that like when I'm what if I'm here I'm like walking around yeah put my headphones in and I don't really listen I like to listen to everything I also like to hear if I'm about to get hit by a car or a biker yeah and then like people like yo like I'm like and then I start to go you're just jamming yeah I like it that's yeah it's good so sorry do you think NBA fashion has gotten a lot of hand guys are

expressing themselves in ways that I think is important you should you should start could we design something for you next year yeah if we designed it an outfit for you it depends I'd have to have like some say okay it would be Coachella inspired yeah yeah I mean yeah this is fine we basically just put you in a bunch of denim that's super fine yeah I'm going baggy okay I'm going baggy want to bring here's what we can do let's bring back to like 2002 look well Jinko's unfortunately just went out of business I'm sure you could find some vintage Chinko's I had some and then I peed on him and lit him on fire because

it worked for me but I was thinking the suits that Tracy McGray to used to wear that you see like from the 2002 draft with what's his name Heinrich just like huge wide legs yes just bring that look back just a suit that's five sizes too big easy my last question is what did you think when Vince Carter was mocking you this year I love Vince he's got a great relationship with who do you okay it's another last question who do you hate and in life yeah an NBA oh NBA besides the refs like you said earlier you know there's just not that there's not anybody that I hate you know I think that we're all out there doing our best and

we're all trying really really hard and everybody's just trying to provide for their families and do what's best for them their families oh the rivers oh yeah their families try to provide for their family gotcha okay um were you the one that radicalized Kanye radical no no I wouldn't be okay sure yeah do you have his number nope that's a lie be careful when you touch yeah that's because so put your screen shots on Twitter he'll screenshot everything yeah he's very very red pill be very very careful alright do you have any questions for us um Mount Rushmore coming up yeah Rushmore season right around the corner do you think

this performance was good enough to get you back it was good I think one of the best performances was the when we did the movie spoilers yep movie spoilers was great and then we also when we did the Mount Rushmore of cities NBA cities that was right before free agency yeah it's a really good idea yeah yeah that was that was a lot of fun oh yeah I forgot about the whole tunnel to shit who went in the tunnel Chris Paul went in the tunnel what oh yeah we had you on like right after the movie the movie the movie the movie didn't actually happen it was the movie spoiler yeah yeah when they're tunnel like in peeky blinders we're just tunneling under the ground and he's like ready to explode yeah yeah yeah

yeah that was why it was so weird how we had you on right then we didn't even realize that happened to be the day you guys didn't notice at the time but it happened to be the day after god whoa so strange which on you guys's part is poor journalism yeah right we should have paid it we should have gone on the internet that day we don't yeah we don't pay attention to the NBA until March anyways do you ever send your last last question for me do you ever send your brother in place of you because you kind of look alike um like here you go do this thing for no I haven't are you Blake yes I just blew my own mind yeah you don't know wow that would have been wild are you college age will ferrell because he looks a lot like that yeah it did look like me

right yeah yeah I've always thought that like if somebody was gonna play me in a movie well not now I guess he's a little too old now he'll he doesn't care he'll play anything oh I thought you were gonna go the angle that why would there be a movie about you yeah you know that's a good point it's just a question you know that sometimes you get all right well Blake thank you very much mount rush for a guess thank you appreciate you coming in and hopefully we'll see you now spin zone Detroit you get to come to New York like five times a year so we can hang out every time you come we'll uh we'll do a podcast every time every time every single time you'll give us headlines there won't be a time that we don't do a podcast even if you're playing next to them and then the Nets

we'll do two that week yeah yeah one per game per game yeah okay preseason two can you get us courtside of course that's a lie what you oh I thought you'd sit to sit courtside I thought you meant like after the game no no no okay you guys want to come to Detroit I got okay we yeah we get course on there yeah I got you there yeah okay okay sweet all right oh one last question yeah I don't know if you know this about us we own a basketball team oh yeah New Zealand you want to play any interested in coming over I didn't know this about yeah New Zealand breakers they're in the ABL I think no in the L no yeah the NBA know that you gotta know what league they're in NBL no I'm not gonna come play for you guys we have to know what league it's in the L when your career starts to fade

you come play for us all right so I'm just I'll hit you next time I'm just tampering right now that's all yeah just throwing the tampering yeah we're gonna tamper with you all right yeah it's an option yeah okay three three oh that's not bad did your brother still play he retired yeah but he would come out of retirement no yeah I mean he probably would play okay New Zealand's a beautiful country I want to go you would be a breaker for life we would never trade you ever ever ever raise it into the rafters breaker for life yep that interview was brought to you by the black tux they've got amazing new selections the black tux has tons of fresh new complete looks and suit essentials for all your upcoming spring events and weddings and take your style to a whole new level the black tux

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and he said he's gonna come in and do an interview every single time the pistons play in New York and um go to the part of my take twitter account because like a lot of times he's very very dry in the interview but he's fucking with us the entire time oh yeah oh yeah and uh he followed the thunder so stay woke. Trouble in paradise. He sent me a text after Paradise Detroit some like turkish website wrote a wrote a blog post about him following the thunder. Yeah that's no big deal he usually doesn't reply like a lot uh all right segments first up we have king state kings skip balus after LeBron hit his game winning shot he tweeted that was clutch if he actually aimed for the glass mm-hmm i love it he he he just invents new ways and i'm i'm fully i'm a skip balus disciple

now yeah he's the best yeah he is so committed to it i'm surprised that skip hasn't picked up on the lane violations yet yeah that seems like he's been slacking on that one yeah um but yeah if he you know what if you don't call bank in a situation like that i don't think it should count yeah i'd rather be good than lucky listen this is old school pick up hoops and skip he knows what was it 1.4 1.4 points per game dude as a jv player if any listeners don't know about the 1.4 with Jaylen Rose go watch that clip it was the most awkward thing i've ever watched like Jaylen Rose he killed skip balus it was actually the first time the first and last time you've seen skip balus not be skip balus for like a brief second he just ruined because there's

there's no arguing back against no but a dog airbud averaged more than 1.4 points per game yes yes as a puppy um either way skip i mean he's doing it he's just he keeps doing it and i love it i love it so so much i i mean he's right yeah if he if he didn't call bank then it's not a good shot mm-hmm it just it was a bad shot that happened to go in right exactly that's my tires doesn't count i love life the same as a good shot yes yeah correct well i mean embrace debate this seems like i'm like greenberg's dumb rules should a bank shot be worth more mm if you call it if you call yes yeah yeah it should be worth the letter h yeah that's pretty much i like it right there um all right we have a herder injured matt harvey so matt harvey's done with the mats cut the dark night

it was a fun run mess fans yeah was it a fun run i think i think obviously it ended poorly but mess fans i mean harvey day used to be a big thing yeah he's every time like a year yeah they were all about it he had that uh was a game five in the world series against the royals i don't know i mean i i call me stupid well actually no this isn't stupid because matt harvey's gonna still have like a good year in his career left simply because it's the mats right so he's not hurt or injured he's just a met right now has he always been a dick or did he learn it from living in the stupid city for too long no he i think he's from Connecticut so i think it was kind of born into born into him yeah he inherited it and he's always he's been a yankee fan his whole

life oh great so and it's always now he's going to be a yankee yeah i mean let's get the pinstripes measured that's why it's like if you're a team looking for a pitcher you should probably take a flyer matt harvey because it would just be so perfect mets yes for matt harvey to regain his form now i'm a little bit woke on this because all i see in this move is the mets clearing a spot for tebow okay i'm just saying they're break he wait is he still tebow hit like two opposite field home runs you have to be the last person in the world who's still watching like the tebow stuff uh yeah well that's okay yeah well it's it's exhilarating this is wait he's not gonna force skins off Filipino children this is like one of those any barns or sheds no sheds he hasn't hit a shed yet hey this is

one of those moments where pft does something that's ironic but then it becomes it it started as ironic but then it's unironic you're in your life dude's life did you see this a guy was eating a hot dog and he was choking on it in the stands and he hit a home run that hit the guy in his solar plexus gave him the heimlich no and he puked up the hot dog it was like it's like the get up you watch get up i do watch get up yeah and it was like how how how's get up like oh i watched him like an hour of it once and pft's like well they're actually kind of finding their stride i come i come and try and have like an actual conversation with people about the content of get up that morning everyone's just like dude nobody watches they go right to the fourth chair it's actually pretty good

right now yeah oh you see booger yeah booger is uh he got the gig as first reported by me oh the money night football gig oh he did so it's gonna be booger jason witton and then um some guy that sounds exactly like the last four guys they've had the booth okay uh wait is this actually been reported yeah it's but you've broke it i broke it on on friday oh okay like just like to somebody in the office i didn't say it public oh i was gonna say i was like what did he has been not break it has he has been broken it no it got reported by um what's his face dutch probably oh okay so no then we're taking credit yeah yeah all right first first shirt here please credit us tessitore i'm just gonna say it's gonna be tessitore you just told someone in the office but that

counts yeah it's like i mean well you can check the tape it's chris bersard yeah as far as i know the first to say it was me yeah i didn't say publicly because i thought i might be wrong um speaking to espn stick to sports espn is back to sticking to sports so well what no so they had their top 10 on saturday night and it was just 10 different angles of lebron's game winning shot that's not sports it's called sports center not camera center you show these 10 different angles i want to see the play one time and then you show me my fucking cornhole highlights okay okay all right um it was i i was very confused when i was watching it i was like what's going on wait they're actually gonna do all 10 and that is uh that's the lebron james sports center it was a lebron

james sports center but lebron james is like i was thinking about this the other day our attention spans have gotten so short as a society that lebron james is really the only person that can keep up with our short attention spans he keeps doing like crazy things night after night and keeps reminding us that he's really good if if lebron james existed in like the 1980s before the internet people would not have time to process the cool stuff that he does right but wait he did another thing like i still haven't gotten over like that game winner that he had in uh in the pacer series right but it's like him and donald trump are the only two people that can stay ahead of their news cycle and keep like one up in themselves yeah but you like you haven't processed

it so now you're gonna be okay yeah i actually like that theory thank you maybe roger gardell too roger gardell seems to get in there he always is like one step ahead of him his own stupid decisions right he outsmarts himself that's right that's the price they pay for being such a brain genius yeah exactly um all right speaking of lebron the sabre metrics we have two of them the first is lebron at shoot around on saturday said on his follow-way jays two points are not just two points coaches have been saying that for a while but two points are not two points added he'd explain later ooh okay 2.0 was a what does that mean is it sometimes 2.0 can be a c sometimes it can be a bac if you're getting arrested well i thought maybe sometimes it can be talking about an ones

but he gets he misses his foul shot so it's oh it's still two points it's still two points maybe he's talking about like making weird shots can psych out your opponent because you're like oh how'd that go in oh it looked too weird maybe that's yeah too when you add up enough two points you actually make tomorrow's an incapable playing basketball that's true yeah yeah and 2.0 is the most dangerous league in sports too so that's actually infinity 2 equals infinity lebron's on some weird shit actually it's negative infinity this is the news thing like you just say like crazy shit and then everyone's like whoa they search for meaning in it yeah that was deep speaking of searching for meaning in something weird do you want to go with there with the

we're going to do it in a second okay the other same metric she had was american ferrell uh the because it was derby day and justify one by the way shout out randy moss gave us that pic no in mendelson bashing mendelson mendelson finished last yeah he was like that torres is trash he i've never heard somebody hate an animal as much as he hated irish i think it was like the second or third favorite and that horse stunk so anyway uh american ferrell has sex three times every day and his owners charge a 200 000 fee per impregnation which generates about 30 million dollars a year annually holy shit he doesn't perform oral sex though so does it really count true does the does the mare get hers that's wild that is 30 million dollars a year just three times

a day to buy a horse yeah well so you can eat the shit yeah and then second so that we can sell the cum right it's like a horizontal monopoly that we'll have going here exactly all all things horse yeah horses lay eggs we sell horse eggs native americans we use every piece of the animal yeah i do they make horse biograph because that seems like a lot of sex no i think horses are just always horny like if you put a horse in front of a girl horse it just it just goes rock hard and once you just you just say fellas yeah the horse and just gets a boner horses aren't asking for consent right that is problematic did i ever tell you about the time i saw a horse beating off no i was telling pat this um we were watching the kentucky derby uh on saturday when i was

like 12 years old i was i was working in the summer at like a nursery where they would you know grow flowers and stuff and there's a horse that like built any retaining walls lived oh yeah the retaining walls are sweet nice yeah um there's a horse that like lived on the property and one day i i looked over at it and it had this huge horse boner and it just started kicking its dick for like 10 minutes the horse was jerking off yeah that's how horny jerks that's how horny horses are that's how i learned what sex was yeah they fucking yeah and you've been kicking your dick ever since yeah oh man that's that's that's horse true story yeah i should have gone over and collected the the sperm should have gone over and helped them out worth it's weight and gold

that's the on the speciality yeah yeah but if but if you're not getting off i'm just i'm just it's the same thing as petting your dog hey dude stop kicking your dick just petting a different part of the animal this is weird all right forget it forget i said anything by the way if you really want to creep yourself out go watch the movie equus it's about a dude that loved fucking horses that's like that and it's and it's told like very sympathetic to this guy it's like oh he just had a special type of love it's like that that dude who fucked dolphins and then and then he left the dolphins they killed themselves yeah dolphins committed suicide yeah well yeah because he was going down on him probably yeah Jesus putting a snorkel on fucked that's fucked up um all right

so we do stay woke who finish although i bet dolphins would be really good at oral sex well dolphins yeah female dolphins because it's like you have a second your nose is also dick yeah they got everything going and they got good tongues yeah and they got a blow hole they got all dolphins are just like a big sex doll yeah they yeah they got all things to work yeah their nature sex shopping so it's really not his fault when you think about it that way right um all right so our stay woke it's a little confusing but we'll we'll break it down basic in basic terms Kanye West is basically doing a project on america right now he's doing like a social experiment marshal henderson style um what was the original marshal henderson social experiment i think it was

like gay people are the worst yeah he was saying he's like i was just writing a paper yeah i was writing a paper and i've taken all the responses and they will be used in my paper i'll tell you what that plays once yeah and he was the one guy who could do it uh-huh like you can't ever do that again but he did it that one time so anyway someone put this guy named snow cone nine six five which is hilarious just to say about snow cone nine six five go read this thread he basically breaks it down the Kanye and his uh one of his like collaborators denim tears whose name is Tremaine emory is doing a social experiment and they've been dropping clues and the basis of the social experiment is this guy joseph uh by how do you say his name boys but boys boys boys he's german

be you ys that's often usually doesn't turn out too well so he was an artist and he did a famous project where he did i like america and america likes me and he locked himself into a room with a coyote for three days to basically tame the coyote and snow cone nine six five is essentially saying that Kanye is doing that right now publicly and trump and the alt right are the coyote so he's teaching everyone that you can lock yourself in a room with the ones you hate and tame them so Kanye in this theory Kanye west actually doesn't like donald trump correct but he's trying to talk to trump supporters and followers and make them see his side of things right i i could see this playing out if Kanye west weren't just insane already yeah well

it also is that insanity though yeah maybe he's the only sane person yeah the depths though it is funny the depths like if this actually is true or say this isn't true which it probably isn't well one of the the thing that was interesting was the andy koffman part like you put up a book of the bias guy and then like a andy koffman drawing i mean meaning he's studying andy koffman which is just like mood board it was it was buys in andy koffman and so he's doing like kind of like a Joaquin phoenix i don't know i don't i don't buy the idea that somebody can like have an alter ego that they just stay committed to like as a second persona for this long yeah come on i don't know what's funny though this this just shows how crazy how trump has broken people's brain

because this guy went on like a 30-point tweet thread looking at clues and stuff essentially because Kanye's politics and his don't align right he's just like how could he how could he not think like i think yeah oh he must be doing this elaborate fucking public artwork yeah i'm gonna have a very important thread to explain why my hero didn't actually disappointment it's fucking perfect i love it i love i love 2018 i love twitter people are fucking crazy um all right that's our show should we say we were going should we say we got a one say oh that's it you said champagne all right love you guys it's part of my take presented by bar stool sports