The Daily Zeitgeist - MJGMB #112: Where the Playas Dwell with Jabari Davis

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

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I'm Miles Gray. And I'm Jack O'Brien. And this is Miles and Jack O'Brien. Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Dachich deep three.

Got it. And Luka Dachich hits 10K. You don't know about that. first episode free yeah i am free mild oh yeah i was gonna say yeah freedom for you yes you are i am a neutral baby yes and you welcome jabari it feels good jabari yeah welcome to the couch with this yeah yeah hey what do you want to watch today? Let's turn on the, I guess, well, as we record this, Oklahoma City and the Mavs are having their first game of their series. I mean, yeah, they were 2-2 against each other during the regular season and split games on each court. So, you know, seemingly very even, but I'm wondering, I know we were talking a little bit before what we think of this matchup. Jack,

you're definitely incentivized. I'm incentivized to root for the Oklahoma City Thunder Miles. 100%. Yes. He's incentivized. That's all you need, folks. And, you know, just watching the Mavs close out their series with the Clippers, I was like,

they might have something there, too. The Mavs are the hot pick. They're the sexy pick among pickers. Are they the favorite? They're not the favorite, I don't think, but I think it's very close. Yeah. That's what it feels like. Jabari, how are you looking at the series?

Are you leaning one way? I mean, I think earlier I was saying, I think I like the Mavericks, but let me tell you why first. I believe that because of what is like the Mavericks, but let me tell you why first. I believe that because of what is happening in hip-hop, Canadian players are wobbling right now. So, Lou Dort, I mean, yeah, that matchup with Luka could look cool, but I believe you're born in Montreal. Shea Gildas Alexander, I believe you're also Canadian. I don't know what's going to happen. So you think they've just been robbed of their spirit?

I mean, look what happened to jamal you know jamal murray has also we'll get to that series in a second but that is my hair brained theory that has no science behind it it's pure conjecture wait that it's irresponsible it just feels so scientific advanced science it's advanced science it's called west coast science you know what i mean this is where where um aggrieved west coasters can find someone to take out their collective frustration on but yeah i don't know i mean i think i think it could be really close i just personally my my thing is the mavericks not because of the science like the kendrick i'm just glad that the nuggets wolf series didn't like start the day that we were about to record something. So I wasn't on there making any predictions.

Because I think we're learning. It's so matchup based, right? Yeah. 100%. What happens. I mean, I just... The thing I'm saying about the Nuggets and Wolves is obviously I would have picked that the the wolves will win the first two uh the second game by 20 to 30 points on the road because yeah uh i just wouldn't want people it just sounds like a lot of pressure because then everybody

would assume that like i i'm the nostradamus of the nba exactly and after the shellacking the lakers got i would have predicted that jamalal Murray would be a minus 38 in the series. I would have predicted that. I would have. To Jack's point, you're 100% right. It's all matchup-based. We can look at and truthfully, we can pretty much throw out what took place in a regular season

because you're not catching teams on the back end of three games out of four days and things of that nature. Everybody's going to be ready. When I look at the Mavericks and OKC, my heart, you know, actually, I'll start with my head. My head tells me the Mavericks are going to take this because I, you know, like when I think two teams are somewhat evenly matched, I look for who's the best player in the series. And I've got that as, and I've got that as Luca, no disrespect to Shea, you know, he had a MVP type, you know you know season this year but I would still give that advantage to Luca

so really what it boils down to is you know who are the other guys that are going to make the difference I mean you pretty much know you expect you know what to expect out of Kyrie and Shea but I'm looking at guys like Jalen Williams and PJ Washington as x-factors in this matchup like truly and I know that's not you know groundbreaking analysis but you know this feels in this matchup. Truly, and I know that's not groundbreaking analysis, but this feels like the matchup that someone like that is going to swing it. I like Jalen Williams in that matchup between those two. I don't know, man.

Lou Dort! Lou Dort! Lou Dort! I like him. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good about OKC. I don't think it's very clear. I think at this point, I'm just going to rely on my West Coast biases to take me away to a place called

inaccuracy and pure emotion. We'll see. We'll see how it nets out. So you're riding with Mavericks over OKC because of the Kendrick Drake beef? Yes, yes. Purely based off of that, I'm taking energy from a completely unrelated industry and

field and transposing it onto the nba and saying this is what the universe this is how the universe is bending currently yeah it feels like these are both two teams that their main their achilles heel is they don't have enough size but the fact that they're going against each other gives them one more round where they can you know look like normal nba teams and then who knows uh but the wolves and the nuggets are um have you seen those guys those guys are big big those guys big real big yeah oh well so growing big up there in Minnesota. Oh yeah, they do. They do. Um, do they even have one player?

That's a local, I'm not even sure. No. Yeah, definitely. Every NBA team, I assume all their players are local. Yeah. Yeah.

Obscure Spanish football teams. Yeah. Oh, I mean that people always do lists like that. We're like, who wins team LA team, like Bay area. Oh yeah. LA would dominate. I mean, it's great. We were just looking. So I mean, people always do lists like that. We're like, who wins? Team LA, team like Bay Area, whatever.

Oh, yeah, LA would dominate. I mean, it's crazy. We were just looking. I was trying to, you know, in preparation for the eulogy for my Sixers, I was looking at Melton, and I was like, oh, he also from LA, from the greater Los Angeles area. Hey, shut up. This series could go any direction.

I'm totally not, I don't feel confident in any of my picks other than that it would be cool if OKC won. Okay, so then you're saying, so moving on,

because I think whoever goes on to face the winner of this next series, it's going to be very difficult. Yeah. These two teams feel like

beyond the Celtics, they would be the favorite to win the title. Whoever wins this next series. Nuggets, Timberwolves. Timberwolves. Yeah. So game one.

Ant, man. It's back and forth affair. It was like, wow, this is going to be a war. Yeah. Yeah. Complete total dominant. What do you put it? Like 43 points?

Yeah. It was obsc Yeah. It was obscene, it was obscene to watch and Jabari, we were talking a little bit before, I was like not that there's any kind of flash in the pan moment, I'm like, is he just on a hot streak or is this Anthony Edwards proclaiming

to the world that he is in fact here and he is ready to just be that guy? You're right, we were talking about i think he's absolutely here you know now he'll go out in game three and of course have a you'll have a bad game and people will listen and say like oh well those guys on mad boosties didn't know what the hell they were talking about but they don't nobody cares nobody cares about the show we're pretty clear about the fact that we're idiots, so you don't have to worry.

You're in with the dum-dums, Jabari. Nobody cares. Don't bet your money on our picks, except for Jack. Yeah, except for my off-season picks, based on seeing a single highlight of Chet. That's where you're going to want to put your money. I do think that Minnesota has figured out this mix. In game two, they didn't even have Gobert in the mix.

I know. I know that he was criticized for missing a game. Again, people will say whatever, but you know what? Family first, and I get it. Plus, hey, look, their defense got even better without him. Yeah. Yeah, no. Plenty of opportunities.

Gilbert Arenas was like, that kid's going to be there when you get done. Look. Karina's like, that kid's going to be there when you get done. Hey, look, I've had two children. Being there for the childbirth is overrated. Hey, man, I think that's cool that he was able to do that. I missed the birth of my son to go get a basketball autograph by Skip to my Lou at Foot Action in downtown LA. And it was worth it. Yeah, it was worth it. Headache was there too.

AO, all the N1 people. I was like, I told my partner, I was like, I gotta get down there. But yeah. N1 was like a wow, the Wolves are here. They're like serious. They're going to be able to make this a series with a team that I think a lot of people were probably expecting. Not me, obviously. I knew that they were going to win both the first team that I think a lot of people were probably expecting. Not me, obviously.

I knew that they were going to win both the first two games. But a lot of people were expecting Nuggets in five. Maybe Nuggets in six would have been generous. Game one, we're like, wow, Ant is here. The Wolves are serious.

After that game, I don't know anybody who was prepared for game two just being pure domination yeah um on and they're just absolutely i don't know i did not and you could tell that the nuggets felt it early on like they just looked dejected coach Coach Malone was on the court. He lost his mind. Yeah. He lost himself in the moment. The music. Jamal Murray, you know, we were saying his on-off numbers weren't great.

Well, you have to keep in mind, when he's off, he's still contributing by throwing heat packs onto the court. That's wild. What kind of reverberations do you think that's going to have? What's the worst sort of penalty

that he could face? I think it's suspension. How many? Probably one. Yeah. Yeah, because he threw a towel and a heat pack. It's like the towel didn't reach its intended destination

and the heat pack didn't either but that does not seem like that ends well considering that the league is looking into that. It did make me kind of realize that if I was an NBA player I would be doing stuff like that all the time.

Oh out of pure frustration? Yeah. Reminded me of the Jason Kidd thing where he spilled the drink to like stop yeah and like it when that happened i also was like man how do they not do this every time like because i'm such a like you know i i scream things like when i'm in my home like when that shot went up from heart to like beat the six it was tie game heart gets an open look he's been killing us all series um we had like friends staying with us they're in the kitchen

i'm in the other room and i'm just like no no no no like they like came in to check on me yeah they thought you were like you caught fire fire or something. Yeah, right. My kids are coming in being like, what is wrong with you, man? Is Maxie okay? You're like, no, none of us are. We're fine. None of us are. It's fine. We're fine.

We're fine. It is what it was. But yeah, I mean, again, like Kat, Naz, Reed, my goodness, look. Kat is playing much better than I ever thought oh my god game one he was really strong like you know there's the cat things that were he has like lapses

here and there but just much better offensively than I thought I would see in a playoff series and then game two he was even better yeah you know what this run from cat reminds me of? Honestly, 2020 Anthony Davis went final. He was no longer on his own team,

no longer having to carry the load, no longer having to be the guy in every way. And he could just focus on playing basketball and suddenly he put up his statistical best year of his career. I'm not necessarily saying that Cat's going to do that, but to your point, he looks like he's at peace. He looks like he's just playing at ease. That's a

scary thing if you're facing these Timberwolves. Both former UK Wildcats with a prominent eyebrow. Exactly. It's all there. I would say that this is more out of the blue.

Anthony Davis was always thought to have the potential to be one of the better players in the league prior to that run. Sure. Maybe I've just been underestimating Cat, but yeah, this has been fun. And it really does seem to come back to Anthony Edwards. Just nobody saw this coming for him this long after ER's run ended.

I'm going to keep making that joke for as long as he is in the NBA. For our younger listeners, they're like, what? Is he okay? He's going to be like Michael Jordan in two years and I'm still going to be making Anthony Edwards from ER jokes Edwards From ER jokes

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invested in him right now. By that, as a Laker fan, I mean, come home, Anthony. Come home. He's not from LA, right? You just like come home Anthony come home he's not from LA right you just mean come home in terms of every great player

belongs in the purple and gold thank you best thing I saw about him was somebody who went to high school with him was like you never saw him walking through the hallway without a different beautiful woman under each arm or I guess girl since it was high school but yeah

that's just he's got he's got the riz as we don't really say as we say yeah as old people who try to sound like young people say this is fair somewhat to that point i feel like we spent the year asking you know openly like okay we got to kind of having a changing of the guard who's going to be the face of the league? We threw a bunch of names out there, and Anthony Edwards just told y'all, no, it's me. Yeah. Just also that the defense

in general, as someone who watched that Lakers series, I'm like, wow, so that's what it looks like when players buy into what the coach is saying. Really executing to the letter of the law. then i'm like okay so i'm taking notes uh and they have a coach that is yeah that they are yeah and again like to your point about the 2020 lakers they're defending yokich like the 2020 lakers too which somehow

the lakers of now couldn't remember that that's well i mean i guess darvin ham couldn't remember personnel yeah exactly yeah we just we are lacking we're lacking the depth we're lacking the size it's all so the the scheme is with the lakers it was dwight javel on yokich with ad helping and with the wolves it's cat and naz on ball with gobert helping. And even when Gobert was out, it's like, they still... This is my thing. Part of me to just center the Lakers again as part of it is like... How do we make this about the Lakers?

And I will tell you why. I believe that they had to, by beating the Lakers, it psychologically set them up to say... Because we were the last stop for them to go to the finals last year. And I think they were like, we've overcome this team. And I, we're probably in a good place. I don't, cause some people were like, oh, they're just washed.

It's like the NFL where, you know, like the one team, one years, you doesn't have it together the next season. But I don't know. It just seems there's like a level of frustration that you're seeing from the nuggets that feels like a bit, I don't know, like they were really expecting things. You're expecting it to go the other way. It also just seems like Murray is a step slow. He's very frustrated.

And we really see a massive difference in this team, like and in Jokich and in everything when he's not 100 like it just right that is the thing that unlocks everything which i guess we knew that about the nba like having somebody who is a knockdown shooter who can get his own shot um and and knock down ridiculous shots is a shot making is the name of the game is the thing that I say, cause I'm really smart. I disagree. I think it all boils down to how many Canadians you have on your team.

That's right. And that's my own analysis. Yeah. Yeah. And that's called West West y'all. All right. Should we go to a break and come back with the new, the hottest segment in basketball podcasting in Memoriam.

Dearly beloved. And we're back. And it's time to send a few more teams to the big court in the sky. Yeah. With wings made of parquet. Yeah.

I think now, although each team fought valiantly, we're going to need the Clippers to step right up first. Hello, Clipper Nation. So, I mean, it feels like the Clippers remain on an endless time loop that consists of offseason positivity, optimism from media, and fans alike. A great run in December or January

only to wind up in the same position each postseason. Put simply, building around several players that have routinely been injured at the end of the year might not be the best of options. Any notes on that eulogy? Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't know anything about building a team around several players that have routinely been injured at the end of the year.

So, yeah, I can't do anything but sit here and feel sorry for Clippers fans. That must stink. Yeah, no, I did not appreciate the way Kawhi just decided to spite me and not play well in the playoffs after I... Yeah, he heard what you said. My big pre-playoffs note was, watch out for this Kawhi guy. Last year, he was a little bit hurt.

He's the best player in the league. For two games. It's, I don't know, I wanted to see them do well. I was pulling for the Clippers and they once again, you know, it's just it's not, they didn't match up

well, but I don't think they were beating many people. It seems like not a hopeful situation for this team. Jabari, thoughts? Jack, I think the words you're looking for is clips going clip and see you guys next year for the same exact thing.

Wow. Those weren't what I was trying to say, but go ahead. Well, it felt like it. It felt like that's where I was going. It felt like it was right there. Very Lakers fan thing. That was an alley-oop.

That was a lob. That was a lob. That was a lob. Jack, would you like to step up to the lectern? Not really, but okay. The Philadelphia 76ers. Speaking of teams built around players who are routinely injured at the end of the year, we have reached the time of the year

where I can officially take a deep breath and contemplate whether I want to take this ride ever again with these Sixers. You do. We found our other star

in Tyrese Maxey. But maybe it's time to tear it all down around Embiid and Maxey and rework the supporting cast yet again. I've seen the list of people who are going to be available. I don't know if that makes sense. Maybe it's time to tear it all down around Maxey only. Oh.

Send the big fella wherever he'd like to go. So I wish I could say it was a fun ride but yeah it was more of the same and you're up you're down yeah rest in peace jabari any other comments for these philadelphians i i can't i can't like pour this on no man i i feel so i feel for sixers fans i do not even just jack i just Jack. I got a buddy on Twitter. Same thing. He, every year, tells me this is their year. And every year, I have to tell him, it's not going to be,

but I'll see you at the end. No, but see, this time, Embiid was hurt. If he was not hurt this time, then we would have been, we would have won the championship. I don't know. i think it might be time to experiment with radical things like maybe he doesn't play for the first half of the season or the first half of games i don't know this schedule does not work it turns out but he's

he's great i appreciate the opportunity to get to root for him it's just the playoff frustration it feels like it's not going any anywhere for a while absolutely well that brings us to the orlando magic and we wanted to give orlando's offense the benefit of the doubt after their shooters caught fire following game two but just when they needed to seal the deal their trio of Paulo, France, and Suggs combined to go just 13 of 64 in an elimination game in which they had an 18 point lead at one point tragic stuff and now come the Klay Thompson or Bradley Beal rumors that are likely to be a large part of this summer's discussion. And I may already be exhausted by them.

But thank you. You gave us something. You gave us something. That was a good run. It was a good run. I gotta say. By the way, that's like Paolo-Fran-Suggs combination is like 90% of those makes were Paolo. The Fran-Suggs

combination was deflated. That was really dire when you get down to that. I enjoyed watching the Magic. They are like a you know, they're just a very unique team. It was

almost like watching a different sport when they're out there. Cause their offense is yeah. Their offense is, as we've described, their defense is a weapon. Like their defense is their offense. They're right. Uh,

they get turnovers in ways that I've not seen. NBA teams get turnovers, just like ripping you right when you come across the court, apparently Suggs is even better than this usually um and was like a little bit hampered by injuries they were fun it was like i love having a team that has a super specific identity in the playoffs like along the way and i i actually would have liked to see them go against the celdics because i think they would have made the celdics somewhat uncomfortable and made it at least like, I don't know, painful for the Celtics to roll on through the Eastern Conference. I don't want this to sound disrespectful because I'm not in any way saying they're like a high school level team. But to the point you just made about their defense, it seems as though you remember like a great high school defense how it can impact

the game it felt more like that yeah honestly if you give them just a couple more competent offensive players i think the match are going to be right in the mix next year maybe not you know title contenders but you know still up in the top of the eastern conference and and pushing teams but clay and bradley beal are not it i don't know i don't know who we're looking at here. I gotta take another look at these free agents and off-season tradables and signables because that wouldn't do it, I don't

think. And I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I have to go. And I hate to do that in the most professional way in the middle of a podcast recording. But thank you. This is not a bit. I do have to run because i have a family gathering that i gotta get to uh but i will be back next week and i you're you're in good hands with jack and jabari the stuff we're gonna say about you after you're gone can you believe this guy you believe that stuff? Is he for real? His camera's still on. He's just back there

housing Taco Bell. He's trying to do something. That baby is going to be there tomorrow, Miles. Family's going to be there tomorrow. I go, but my camera's on. I'm just rehearsing a TikTok dance. I'm trying to get down really good. Alright, y'all.

I'll see you. Bye, Miles. Jabari, time has come to talk about the bucks of milwaukee a technical hometown even though i grew up in los angeles i was born in milwaukee there you go so do you want to take this one sure the bucks what more can i say wouldn't wish the job on anybody i mean except doc rivers he's the one guy would wish his job on well he's a hero he is i mean it was brave it was brave when he came through and took that job over are they still giving out like purple no no no i don't think the military can technically give it to him but it's definitely i'm just gonna say it was under discussion in the pentagon i can see why i

mean you know milwaukee they still have they still got yannis and dame under contract uh but no word on the whether the travel party or the team managers or any of the you know just bus driver yeah bus driver anybody else anyone can get it when it comes to doc rivers no word on whether they're you know what their future holds and you know it's interesting because you know before the show you talked about you asked whether doc was coming back and the more i think about it it's like well what the hell else is he going to do yeah he'll be back and we'll be right here again next year and we'll be right here feeling sorry for him again i mean having to coach yannis yannis well like It's not even how you pronounce G.

Yeah. Yeah, what? Yeah, yeah. It'll be interesting to see what happens to them. Giannis, Dame, and then who knows after that. But yeah, I mean, Daryl Morey was like it's going to be a teardown around Embiid and

Maxie basically at his postseason press conference. And Doc has said the same thing about the support staff and the bus drivers and everything else. That's one way to buy yourself more time.

You tear it down, you're automatically given another year or two. Alright. Eastern Conference, Celtics-Cavs. I don't have a ton of hope that this one's going to be super competitive. Any glimmers of hope here, Jabari? Honestly, no. I would like to lie to you and say that, yeah, I could see the Cavs pulling this off.

And while I'm not going to say they're going to get swept or anything like that, because when they get it going, they can be effective. I just can't see them winning four out of seven against this team. Not high-level analysis. One team's just better than the other and even with porzingis probably or likely out for this round i still look at what boston has and i just don't see a way for yeah yeah so i think everybody's kind of counting the celtics like just putting the Celtics in the finals and the other series, Knicks Pacers, I don't know. Like again,

I don't foresee either of these teams able to defeat the Celtics. The Knicks are tough, at least of the remaining teams in the Eastern Conference. I feel like the Knicks probably have the best chance. What do you think? I think that's going to be the best series

of the Eastern Conference is Celtics and Knicks. Yeah. best chance. What do you think? I think that's going to be the best series of the Eastern Conference's Celtics and Knicks. Yeah. We will eagerly await that, assuming that the Knicks are able to win three more. They did win game one, Jalen Brunson, fourth straight 40-point performance by

a six-foot guard. Yeah, six-foot-ish guard ish. Yeah. Yeah. Six foot ish guard is unbelievable. Like his, his ability to get, get the ball in is, is truly, I mean,

he's the man. And then, yeah, the Villanova, like Josh Hart, even Chenzo thing. It's really wild because like, I remember watching them in school and being like,

man, these guys are good. Like, I feel like Brunson was one of those. I remember having this in school and being like, man, these guys are good. Like, I feel like Brunson was one of those. I remember having this with Embiid too, where like Brunson looked awesome in college, but like he didn't necessarily look like a pro, you know,

cause he's a little bit smaller and it's not like blinding speed or anything like that. And I remember having that with Embiid where like watching the Wiggins game where it was like Wiggins versus Jabari like that game is like these are the guys who are going to be the best and like watching Embiid is going to be incredible right

and everyone's like yeah I mean maybe but yeah I don't know it's like the thing that you always imagine like a good college team it's like all these guys are going to stay together and the pros they're going to be best friends but it's like somehow working for them it's a fun story but team chemistry is a real thing and when you have effective guys that are you know also friends yeah we are yeah it was never gonna work out for me and my buddies but we thought it would

all right uh should we go to one more break and then come back and do the rapid fire? There's one question on here I really like. All right. We'll be right back. I'm Carrie Champion and this is season four

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And we're just going to do one question because we've answered all these other questions. We had a guest bail last second, so just a little peek behind the curtain. So that's what's going on here. We're not going to say names, but we are going to do a single rapid fire round of questioning question that i like so much it comes from our discord from

charlie xavier on the discord or charlie javier depending on how accurately you want me to pronounce it but the question is so the the tom Brady roast just happened as we're recording this. It was a big success for a lot of people. And Charlie's wondering, LeBron is the obvious choice. Shaq is a roast regular, but with the release of the Tom Brady roast, I'm wondering if we're going to see more live athlete roasts on Netflix and what NBA stars they would want to target. Just tossing this out because it might make a good lightning round question someday. What player would you want to see a roast of? Charlie, today is that day.

It's a good lightning round question right now. Well done. Very, very good question. So LeBron is the obvious choice and it feels like the one that we would be most likely to get LeBron or Steph. Yes. And those would both be bad. Yeah, because, you know, nobody wants to say anything about like an all-timer, you know. You're listing a brand.

Yeah, unless it's Shaq, because folks for whatever, well, for a lot of different reasons feel like, yeah, I can give him the business. Yeah. But, you know, a guy like that, it's like, yeah, I can give him the business. A guy like that, it's like, what are you going to say? Hey, family guy. Hey, you look like you have a healthy family. Cool. Yeah, yeah. It just feels like it wouldn't be that fun. But then again,

Tom Brady didn't seem like it would have been that fun. I think they gave three subjects that were off-limits and then just went to town, just body shots on everything else. So maybe it would be fun no matter who we pick. Charles Barkley, I feel like, would also be sort of an obvious pick in the same vein as Shaq being kind of a roast regular. Who are you thinking?

I'm going to steal Miles' answer. And you know what? Since he's not here, that's what you get, Miles. Yeah, that's what you get miles yeah that's what you get miles nice try should it should have stuck around i want give me draymond green and you know what i'm gonna be careful here but for one i think he would be a good sport about it and and really get into it but then there's also the flip side what if he's not hey give me that too yeah we've seen what he can do it's going to be entertaining you know either way yeah i think i would enjoy that i think i mean if you could get jordan which you can't but that would be interesting we know uh we we saw the last dance we know that he takes things personally that are not remotely insulting to anyone besides him so

uh it would be i feel like we would watch a man walk out of a room with like a list of 30 lives to ruin but i don't know i think i think that would be a lot of fun personally mike would take his boot cuts off to expose some i mean sports yeah and everybody line up, let's go. I would just want to see them roast his wardrobe. Like that would be just fun enough on its own. All right, Jabari, we did it. We rapid fired one question. We're at the end of the show.

We are ready. So I guess we didn't do picks on the, on the series is, but who do you like Mavs? Okay. See, like I said, my heart or soon my head is telling me that Mavs, but I'm going to go with my heart here.

And you want to know why I am a shameless corporate shill. Yeah. It benefits this show. If okay. See, continue to be successful. Yeah, that's right.

Let me get okay. See in that series. Yeah. So it's pretty straightforward. Do you like the Wolves? Do you think the Wolves are going to do it? And I will admit, I did not have them before the series. Now that we've seen two games, yes.

I've seen what they did on the road in those two games, really setting the tone. I believe the Wolves are going to take that one. Yeah, okay. We're both aligned there. Knicks over Pacers? Knicks over Pacers. I hope it's a good series. I hope it's a better series than I'm anticipating because for some reason, this feels like one of those 4-1, maybe 4-2 Knicks series,

but I would definitely take a seven-gamer. That would be fantastic. Still got the Knicks. Yeah. I think this is one where I might have picked the Pacers before game one, I think this is one where I might have picked the Pacers before game one and I might still, I'm going to pick the Pacers just to go wild, even though they're down one Oh, at this stage, I just, I, I think they have a lot of offensive firepower. Unfortunately, I think they're going to be an easier team for the Celtics to play, but, um, I do think that they have a pretty good shot in that series and then i'm going calves over so now uh so i was like well that that is definitely one um and you know what all of i you know what we we do have someone else and shout out to this guy i forgot his name off him he's in our discord he picked uh calves in five calves in five yeah calves in five wow Calves and five? Yeah, calves and five. Wow.

You know, not at that level with him, but I appreciate his confidence. I mean, a man after my own heart. Or a woman. I don't know. All right.

That is going to do it for this episode of Miles and Jack, I'm Matt Boosties. Jabari, where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I'm easy at JabariDavisNBA. Make sure you follow Miles at

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for the Rapid Fire Round of Questioning. All that good stuff. That is another one in the books. Ha ha ha. He said we couldn't do it, but that's episode 112 where the players dwell. You know, there we go.

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