The Daily Zeitgeist - MJGMB #151: Trade Deadline Madness with Sean Keane

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

In this episode, Jack and Jabari were excited to be joined by comedian and NBA podcaster Sean Keane for today's episode. The trio discussed the outcome of a WILD Saturday night as the league and fans responded to the news of the Luka/AD trade before transitioning to the 3-team deal between the Spurs, Bulls and Kings!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Well, well, well, we are back. Miles is back probably next week Definitely next week miles will be back and I'll be out but we're not feuding But miles is back and he appreciates all y'all's messages and he appreciates the fact that the Lakers traded for Luka Dacic So there's a scene in this kid's movie Mitchell's versus the machines where the little kid is kid's movie, Mitchell's versus the machines, where the little kid is going through the phone book and just calling every line, every person in the phone book and be like, hi, do you want to talk to me about dinosaurs? And no? Okay, thank you. And then just crosses

it off, calls the next one. That's how I've been going through my life about the Luca trade. I'm just going up to other adults being like, hi, do you want to talk about the Luca trade. I'm just going up to other adults being like, hi, do you want to talk about the Luca trade? That's me. Same here. I can't, I can't stop talking about the Luca trade. But then when I get somebody who's like, yeah, man, what? That's crazy. Then I don't have anything to say besides what? Like, wait, what?

How? How did? What? Huh? So that's those are the questions we're going to answer on today's episode with comedian and NBA podcaster Sean Keane on today's episode. I'm Jack O'Brien. And I'm Jabari Davis in for Miles probably one more time.

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Over the double team. Oh, night night. Giannis with the take. Uh oh, look out. No, show time. What you got, Giannis? Well, well, well. Welcome to the show.

Sean Keane, how are you doing? Comedian, comedian, comedian, comedian. I'm Sean Keane. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian.

I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian. Look out, little show time. What you got, Giannis? Well, well, well. Welcome to the show. Sean Keane, how are you doing? Comedian, co-host of the Roundball Rock podcast alongside Joey Devine.

What's going on, man? I'm good. I had just returned to America right before the Luca deal happened. Welcome. And what a welcome back. Did you try to turn right back around? It was definitely the craziest thing that happened in America while I was gone. Nothing else. Absolutely.

Was close. It is wild because, all right, so, you know, my co-host, Miles Gray, just got back from being out for three weeks and I was like, you know, all right, so like, wow, all these things I have to like, tell him about that happened while he was out. The the government has been taken over. The you know, every everything like a literal coup is happening,

but like orchestrated by 19 year old to like haven't even graduated from college. But man, the Luca trade, though, like that really does feel the most, is definitely the most unlikely of all those things, I will say, based on my pessimistic outlook of on politics over the past few years. So yeah, I'll ask the various two questions that I've been asking everybody who I talked to about this trade. What? Why? Like, wait, how did you know? Like, huh? Why? Like, why would you know? Why would they?

So, all right. The question on everybody's mind and put it best, like in his reaction to this, when he was being interviewed, it's basically like they traded the best score in the league at 25 like that. I mean, that's, yeah, that's, and then, and then he does some like, it, I get, I mean, huh? Like, why, why'd they do that? There's been rumors that it had to do with his conditioning, a number of different factors being thrown into that, I guess, like, weight partying, complaining about the refs.

Like it just, it just is so confounding that like the reasons they get, like I was, I was like, so there's going to be some story that comes out. That's gonna be like, okay, like I still bet very bad decision, but okay, I can kind of see it. And that I've yet to hear that story. Have you guys like gotten any any clarity? My first thought was that he must have had something he did that pissed off the Adelson family somehow. Like he hates gambling or casinos. Right.

Or he was mad at Mark Cuban for abandoning him. Existential, like, yeah, like things. Like somebody literally was like, he must, the only way this makes sense is if he has a terminal disease. And even then it doesn't make sense because you still have to do a physical. So like it does, it doesn't make sense. Like that would just invalidate the trade. So it doesn't make sense. None of the reasons they gave are deal breakers. None of the reasons they gave, not only are they not deal breakers, they're not even that bad when you're getting what he's, what he's providing.

Sure. But I just don't understand it. Like the, if the condition, if it's like the level of conditioning is so bad that they're like his Achilles heel is like hanging on by a single strand because it's pushing around too much weight or something. Like that's the only thing. But again, these are things that would come up in a physical and would invalidate the trade.

Like if they're doing like five D chess where they're just like, all right, but people are gonna be too excited by how lopsided. Like that's why we kept it a secret was so that everybody would be like amazed, too excited. And then by the time the physical rolls around, they can't go back on it. Like that would be, that would actually be impressive. I've just written the fan fiction of this

trade that like makes sense. That's the only explanation I've been able to come up to for the, the secrecy is really it. Right? Yeah. The secret, you could have gotten every pick in like five years worth of drafts. You could have been like and draft drafting third Jack. Also the Dallas Mavericks. No, no, Jack, let's try this. Yes. Ask me for anything. I am Rob Lincoln. Ask me for anything. Ask you for anything.

Yeah. Whatever you want. Ask. Could I have LeBron James? Yes. Yes. Could you give us your last championship? Like just give it to us? I mean, I don't want to, but yes, because I'll take a three for one deal. I'll take a three for one. Could we call ourselves the Lakers? You'd add something in the middle, but yeah, sure. If that's what you need. And you have to be named after not the Mavericks, but a different Mel Gibson movie. Okay. Lethal weapons, the risks for the bird on the wire. What? Whatever, whatever you need, whatever you need.

Exactly. What the beavers with the yellow jersey would be giving Teen Wolf in a way that I think would be fun. I'm here for. Um, yeah, that I, I think it, yeah. I'm here for. Yeah, I I think it. Yeah, it's it's truly. Again, I can't I don't have a lot to say about it, but it's all I want to talk and think about.

Yeah, that's the same. But I don't remember anything like this. It just feels like he drinks and he's too fat, but it's kind of like he's still 25. Like that is not going to catch up. That's right. Even Sean Kemp was not ridiculously fat until he turned 30. Like I just don't I think he still has the metabolism now. Yeah.

If he's if he is giving you 34, 12 and nine, which is something like that. You did something like that last year and he's fat. I'm sorry. I will take it. Yeah, I will. I will absolutely take it. He already looks like our Vita sub bonus when he was in his like late thirties. So like he's going to be able to play when he's in his late thirties, like just get buckets.

Also you don't want like somebody who has a thing like that, like a handicap like that, that L.A. like everybody stops drinking when they move to L.A. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you just said like if you sent him to Boston, like I mean, you know, I can see that or you sent him to Philly like he. Yeah. But L.A., man, you're going to getilly like he yeah, but LA man, you're gonna get a like

trim in shake Luca Donchich like who's mad at Everything he's already mad all the time. Yeah like this it's gonna be so wild Yeah, he's just gonna add a couple like Erawan Smoothies to his guy. He's gonna realize realize stuff just isn't open late enough to truly get bad and out of shape there. It's it's not it's not that possible to have that same kind of like Midwestern Texas kind of lifestyle, I think. Yeah, yeah.

You got to have your beach body ready. Yeah. But Jack, I just want to quickly say you reference the secrecy of it. That's that's part of this thing that makes me the happiest is because according to reports that came out today The Utah Jazz that were not aware of the deal that they were actually Part also like the fact that Danny H had to come out and say I did not realize I was giving the Los Angeles Los Angeles Lakers the next franchise guy for the for the foreseeable future until like 30 minutes before he still could have put the brakes on. But he was essentially too late. And thank you. Thank you, Danny.

I truly appreciate your support. You know, he did it again, helping them with Westbrook, too. You did. Yeah, he did. I mean, the thing that I've heard a lot of Celtics fans being like, this is so not fair. This is what that is exactly how I felt when the Celtics got KG and Ray Allen, the same office like that. That is how everybody felt. That is exactly what happened to you.

It might not have been through a trade, but it was Michael. Hook that up. Yeah. Like exactly as unfair as this. I'm also not a Lakers fan. This is just so fun. Yeah. You know, like I really is as a Sixers fan who's just been like, well,

I guess I'm out for this season. Now I'm just like, I don't like this. This is so entertaining. Like I can't wait to watch Luca next to LeBron. I am also like, even though I'm not a Lakers fan, I have rooted for every LeBron James team since he's been in the league. And so I do, you know, passively root for the Lakers. And this is exciting. Like we've, we've seen him with a lot of different types of players, but there's not another player like Luca. So it's, it's going to be

interesting. And I did enjoy my time rooting for Luca last year against the Celtics, even though it was only one game that they got off them. That was a fun game. I'm just very excited for Luca in LA for the lifestyle stuff like the paparazzi Luca stuff. He's genuinely a weird guy. Like the leaders have never had. Pau Gasol was European, but he was from Barcelona. So it kind of transferred more. He was going to be... If Pau Gasol hadn't gotten drafted, he was going to be a Spanish doctor. A surgeon, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. He was like a surgeon. He was like,

oh yes, I guess I will play basketball. Yeah. Uh, put my surgeon career on hold, like very smooth, very continental and Lucas. Yeah. Luca just gives like, I don't know. He, if he was from America, he'd be like mudding on a farm in West Virginia. Yeah, absolutely. With a cut off T on it. Yeah. Yeah. Unironically, we're in an eastbound and down shirt. I mean, I was wrong with that. What are you talking about? You have a problem with the down.

All right. Do we want to look at people's reactions? I mean, and was just taken aback. There's footage of so this is a wrinkle that I guess I'd seen this before that someone like passes someone their phone real quick while they're on the bench, but they're just like on the bench during the sun's game looking like passing their phones back and forth, looking at the news. Uh, Katie and be able to just like have their mouths open.

Katie's like looking into the middle distance. Like it's that is my favorite thing about KD is like he's such a basketball fan. And he's honest. Yeah, he's honest too. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back. We'll probably just keep talking about this the whole show. But I mean, Darren Fox got traded to the Spurs. That would be a whole episode in and of itself.

But this one, I don't know. It's a seismic. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. And we're back. And let's see how other people are dealing. Let's continue to look at how other people are dealing with the news. Like we mentioned, Katie and Beal were looking at their phones on the bench being like, what?

Wait, what? Wait, huh? But Katie, one of my favorite things about him, always the consummate basketball fan. Here's his response. Crazy. I would have never thought Luka Daunces would get traded at this age, mid-season. NBA is a wild place, man. If he could get traded, then anybody's up for grabs.

So the fans, by spect spectating it's pretty fun. I know it's kind of nerve-racking though, probably for Luke and everybody in Dallas, LA, AD, everybody involved, I'm sure they're here to spend it right now. It just as a player, does this kind of underscore the transactional nature of this business? It's always been transactional. The players are held to a different standard of loyalty and commitment to a

program, but the organizations don't get held to that same standard from the outside, whether it's the media members or fans. And we all should be held to that same stand. Like, transactional games, a lot of money involved, a lot of business involved too, so. I mean, it just goes on and on, but that was the gist of it. Some great fan reactions too. There's a Denver podcast, I think with a former guest

on this show, where the trade broke as they were recording and they're just like so confident the champs was hacked that they just Just like sit there for tennis feeling like that's so funny How like look at these people they actually believe that this trade happened this trade is not real It was obviously not real like the guy who like same is not real. It was obviously not real. Like the guy who like, same who's like kind of willing to believe it is being shamed by the guy who's like, dude, what, like that's fiction. How, how could that possibly be real?

Why wouldn't they have chopped him around? Why would we all just be finding out about this right now? So the results are that Luca Donchich is on the Lakers with LeBron James. They have some defensive question marks, let's say. They also have the best or second best offensive player of all time and the best or second best scorer in the league currently at the age of 25 on their team. Like what, what is this going to look like? I'm excited to find out, but do you guys have any predictions?

I mean, I think it's awesome that they're just going to try to outscore everybody. Like that's probably not the way to win an NBA title, but it's going to be incredibly entertaining. I think, cause they kind of feel like they're going to have to play LeBron at center, which is terrible defensively but Awesome for scoring and weirdness, you know, yeah Yeah

That'll be so interesting. The funniest thing that I saw was, you know, the immediate reaction I recognize, you know, like the the talking head shows like that's what they're there for But the first thing that people were saying was like, oh well, hey, that's not gonna work You know the brawn needs to ball in his hand to do his business. And you know, uh, you know, Luca obviously needs to ball in his hand to do his business. Like we didn't all just see it work with Luca and Kyrie. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I would,

I would venture to say that two of the smartest basketball minds that we've seen, like probably ever, but especially of this generation, they can figure it out together. They can figure out how to work off one another. They can figure out that two man game, that pick and roll, my God, what are you gonna do? I mean, it worked pretty well with LeBron James and Kyrie Irving and LeBron James and Dwayne Wade.

Like that was a pretty successful pairing, I felt like. Oh yeah, he was on those teams. I forget how they did. Yeah, and it's not like Luca is just a pure score. He's a great passer, a great, like just a great offensive, you know, chess piece, historically great. So it's going to, and no one's going to run back on defense on the entire team. So it'll be like all the way out each way. I got it. And then just a dunk contest at the other end. No, but honestly, just, just quickly on that,

like LeBron has been playing off ball for the, you know, like a lot more over the last few years. Austin Reese has been the primary ball handler in the initiator because like, again, even though it's incredible that LeBron is doing this at 40, he is 40, he is 40 years old. So like, I, like to me that initial reaction is crazy. Yeah, that's actually probably something that the talking head should be talking

about is this cuts into Austin Reeves touches. And that's you don't, you don't want that right. Like he's, Luca's going to have to figure out how to fit in with Austin Reeves team. You know, he's not, they're not adapting to him. A little bit like Kobe has to eat, you know. He just talked about the weirdness, like his first picture holding the jersey up with his, he just looks like a high school kid, like on picture day, like everything about him. Anyways, AD, Kyrie, Clay could be interesting for the rest of this year. We'll see. AD is very good. Like the lopsidedness of the trade

has people ignoring how good AD is. He's very good. I think he's going to help them in the short term. He's an incredible defensive weapon, defensive stopper. And again, Kyrie is one of the most creative and gifted offensive players in the world. So that's going to be fun too. The Mavs are going to be, they're going up against the Sixers pretty soon as we're recording this. Although I don't think AD's there yet. I think he's playing next game.

Yeah, they made it. They made a trade that was like just to save plane tickets. Yeah, that's right. For Caleb Martin. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Just like, oh, you brought your stuff. You're fine.

Yeah. Looking at odds, the Lakers went from 40 to one to win the title to 16 to one to win the title. So still not like the favorite by any means, but that's pretty significant improvement. Dallas now has the same odds as the Clippers and had previously been 25 to 1. Now they're going in the other direction. It would seem. 33 to 1. Yeah, 33 to 1.

All right. Let's talk about, I mean, De'Aaron Fox to join Wemby in San Antonio is super interesting, super exciting. I am like interested to see like how that is going to fit, but I do think like that that could be lightning and also, well, I don't know what Wemby is in a weather metaphor, but you know, it's like someone who's super fast and then having Wemby as the stopper and, you know, being able to do so much on offense could be interesting. What are you guys' thoughts on that trade?

It's funny that somebody's dream destination was the San Antonio Spurs. Now, I mean, it made sense, but usually when you hear that trade demand and he's got one team in mind, it's like South Beach, Los Angeles, New York. And he was like, get me to the Riverwalk. Yeah. You've got one job. But I think he fits really well because the Spurs actually have a bunch of guys who shoot threes, but they basically have no one

who shoots mid range shots. And so it feels like it's going to but they basically have no one who shoots mid range shots. And so it feels like it's going to be like, basically like no one was getting to the line except Wemby and no one was shooting mid range. So suddenly they have like a functional offensive basketball team overnight. It feels like, right. I mean, and not only that, and the fact that they were able to do it without giving up, you know, Devin Vassel, without giving up, you know, so hand without giving up, you know, Stefan Castle, like being able to do that, being able to get like your point guard of the, of the present and future to pair with Wimby and keeping all of those other assets, whether they are continuing to build around them or they eventually use them.

That's just incredible. Like I'm not saying it's, it's on the level of, you know, of a steel, like, you know, the Lucas situation. And again, that's me intending no disrespect to Anthony Davis, as you mentioned is great. No disrespect to Max Christie. You know, that's my awkward adult son. But it is pretty significant to be able to do that. And the Spurs are kind of in the driver's seat, go ahead and into the off season. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be interesting. I love that a big part of what they gave up was just stuff they got for helping Demar DeRozan sign other places as an unrestricted free agent. It was like three of the picks they traded that they just sent back to the Kings and

Bulls because they were so excited to get Demar. Right. There you go. So Dallas fans like who are going through a, like I really do feel for Dallas fans, like watching the video, it gives me no joy to watch the videos where the one you have in here, Jabari, where the dad is just going nuts. Yeah. Yeah. So like get me every piece of Dallas Mavericks gear and I'm going to burn it.

I'm never, never going to any Dallas sporting event ever. I do kind of understand how you feel because I was excited about Caleb Martin coming to the Sixers this off season and they just traded him to Dallas. So that doesn't feel great. So I get it. You guys, I get it. Kind of similar. Like we, we thought he was going to be big for us this year. And I was in there wondering, where is he going with this? I do like that was what a weird season for the Sixers, like heading into the season. I

was like, Caleb Martin is going to be a piece. We're going to like, oh, we're going to be nice, you know, and it is just, I would, I would throw them all back. Real question for you. I, we weren't planning on discussing this, but I just had to ask. Yeah. I would have taken Luca probably on that too. Yeah. Would it stun you if MB to somehow move before this deadline?

Like if they go ahead and say, let's go ahead and press reset, would anything stun me at this point? Um, no, that's a good point. I would be disappointed because I just think whatever you're getting for him right now after this season is probably not what he's worth. Like assuming that there is a future where he can play basketball again. So I'd be disappointed personally, but what are you hearing? No, it isn't even that I'm hearing anything. It's just like, and it,

it kind of to the point that you just made, once that Luca deal went down, I'm like, okay, anything can happen. And like I, I, anything is possible. Anything is possible. But that, those are GMs now screaming at instead of KG, you know, screaming that, but I just look, I look at what they're doing. I look at the fact that they took another swing at it. They, you know, they brought in Paul George, all of the, all of the, the hopes and expectations

that everybody had, and it simply did not work. Part of me is like, you probably should have sold high on him a couple years back, but since you didn't, you know, I don't know what playing him another half of the season only for him to potentially get hurt would do for his stock. Yeah. I don't know either. The other, the other rumors that are getting spread around, but some, someone called them ridiculous rumors or would have called them that, uh,

about four days ago, Jimmy to Phoenix, KD back to golden state, parts and picks heading to Miami. Now in the past, you would say, okay, you just kind of like yada yada to pass the last part where like Miami doesn't get anything like, and just so that you could like make this rumor make sense. But it doesn't. Why would Miami do that? And yet here we are talking about a trade where Luca is on the Lakers, a team that was like uniquely stuck like heading into the season. Everyone was like, well, the problem with the Lakers is they don't have any assets.

So like you can't like get a big piece. You can. And you know, the Lakers have been good at like doing the little like, Ooh, little nip tuck little like, Ooh, little, this is a nice trade. This is a little yeah, R, little. This is a trade. This is a little. Yeah. Rui like little pieces that make sense. And they get like three games better than they would have been otherwise. Well, you can tell they didn't believe it.

They look at it. They never thought it was going to happen because they traded D'Angelo Russell two months ago. You know, and we're just like, yep, it's nothing. This $18 million expiring contract can help us with. Yeah, we're going to. We're going to. Dorian Phinney Smith is the best we can do.

Yeah, that's right. Jabari, were you excited that Rob Polinka managed to pull Dalton Connect back from that trade because Rob Polinka apparently like bad mouth Lucas fitness too much. That's the craziest part. Okay. Let's be honest. I was not being hyperbolic earlier when I said, Jack, ask me for anything. I within reason, I would have said, yes, you can have it if, and I liked Alton connect.

I like him a lot. I think he's going to be good. Jack knows I was praising him to die heavens, especially in the early season when it looked like he was like, okay, we got one of those. If they wanted him, they could have had him and connect for the fact that the fact exactly connect for Don't just that's actually damn good. No, I would have given him a ride to the, you know, to the airport myself if they wanted and he doesn't say that lately, by the way, there's a chance the Lakers would

have asked Jabari to drive him to the airport. No problem. They do that sometimes. It'll take me about seven hours. It'll take me about seven hours to drive back to LA. And I got you big dog. I got you. I'd like to make this trade, but who's going to drive him to the airport?

Jabari. I don't worry. I got a guy. Are they recording? No, but you know, like whatever it it would have taken but the fact that they were able to do that the fact that Rob Polinka was able to get this done I will double back and say and give credit where it's due because I Went into this like I went into the offseason saying hey look, I'm not happy with the direction

We doesn't look like they have any plan whatsoever It doesn't look like they know anything beyond clutch, you know, clutch mafia and all of that stuff. And that it has been great, you know, to a point, but the fact that he answered with this deal, the fact that it's like, yeah, so now what, you know what, Rob, you're probably going to get your statue. You're probably going to get your statue because you've been a part of it. You've been part of the organization that brought in a D one, a title, and then within the next five years, found a way to bring in.

So, man, degenerative nerve condition, that's the only thing that I can put like that. Put that evil on me. I'm not talking about you. I'm saying the only way that, yes. Yeah, yeah. Like something in elementary school that was I was informed that was very a big threat to like they somehow know about it, it, but the doctors aren't able to spot it. It will show up later.

It's truly like I have to resort to magic or curses of some sort to make sense of it. All right, it's time for the Don't Look Now rundown of the week. This was my catchphrase earlier in the year. Every time the 76ers won a game, I would say, Jabari, don't look now. But the 76ers now have four wins. They're now four and 19. But the true don't look now teams of the year, of the moment. The Memphis Grizzlies have won nine of 10. They're now the two seed in the moment. The Memphis Grizzlies have won nine of 10. They're now the two seed in the West.

Jah was hurt for part of that time. They're still, they're just balling. Memphis, you know, everybody, it seemed almost too easy to be like, they're my sleeper, they were bad last year, they're gonna be good this year, now that they got Jah Marant back, but it was easy for a reason.

It made sense. Milwaukee has dropped four straight. They're back down to the fifth seed. It's called the Jack's Don't Look Now curse because I gave them a Don't Look Now highlight last week or the week before. And now they are plummeting four in a row, fifth seed. I can't imagine what that must be like to have a team

underperforming in the East Orlando got Palo and Frans back and has dropped nine of ten What is happening Orlando? These guys need to learn to get along or they could trade Palo to the Sixers for I'm not gonna give them a bead, but you know, okay, that's cool. No, not really. Maybe he's got a valuable contract. I think Uber might be a piece that makes sense in that trade. And then we just want to read through Cade Cunningham over the last eight games.

30.6 boards, 14 assists, 22 points, three boards, 15 assists, 40 points, six boards for us this 32, five and nine, 22, three and seven, 35, five and 11, 29, six and 11, 32, nine and seven. Dude is absolutely balling. Oh, yeah. And then Booker became the son's franchise leader in points in his 10th season, which is wild. Like, first of all, that he's in his 10th season as well,

because he just I don't know if it's like the baby face or what, or just me being old as hell. But I think he's only 28. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that doesn't know that doesn't hurt. But yeah, three years older than Luca Donchich. They got him at 25. OK. I don't under. All right. Let's take a quick break and then we'll come back

and do the rabbit fire round of questioning And we're back and it's a wrap fire round of questioning Sean Keane you stepped into the danger zone is what Seismologists call it. This is the fastest round of questioning in podcast history. We're going to throw some questions at you. You have to make up your mind real fast. Don't even think about it. But when we ask you to justify your reasoning, you have to have crystal clear logic. We are going to move like the wind and you just have to try and keep up.

All right. And also you're going to help us pick the game of the week. Give it a week. Are you ready? And I don't really care about your answer, to be honest, because that's the kind of energy of this thing. I don't really care if you're ready. You understand?

Whatever. We're going to point at you and you talk. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Brian, start the clock. Hey. All right. Jabari, you want to go first? Sure. I got you. I got you. All right. All right. You want to go first?

Sure. I got you. I got you. All right. All right. First one for you. It's a this or that scenario. Which player or duo would you choose for the next three years? A six foot six step at his current age or win me. Wait, wait, which one do I want? Which one do you want for the next three years?

I'm staying hometown with Steph. Those three inches are going to go far. They're going far. The 6'6' Steph is scary as well. Do you think Steph is really 6'3"? No. So this is a true 6'6". Yeah.

Yeah, Dre and I are taller than Dre Mon Green. Yeah, there you go. That would be interesting. Or Wemby and possibly the only person who would have been a bigger surprise for the Lakers to get in Wemby. Yeah. And you picked and you picked six foot six. Good, good choice in no way biased. All right. You got Joker with a D's defensive capabilities or Janus with Embiids knees and feet.

No, sorry. Janus with Embiids knees and feet. No, sorry Yanis with Embiids offensive game and touch I want I want the defense Joker. Yeah After I get it, that's not I love I love you already just like stacks these so that they're embarrassing and Demoralizing to me as the Embiid fan is just like demoralizing to me as the NBA fan is just like, you want the best offensive player of all time with the defensive skills of one of the best defenders in the league or a guy who's good at offense with Jack's favorite players offensive game. What?

OK. Good one. Really, really. It was a real binker. I'm here for the challenge. Right. Okay. Good one. It was a real thinker. I'm here for the chat. Right. All right.

Last one for you in this one that could come to fruition. Yeah. Luca and LeBron as a duo or Steph and Jimmy as a duo. Oh, I'm still taking Luke and LeBron. I can't ride that bar with Steph. I do think the, the wars are approaching the trade deadline like its last call to bars. So there could be a rumor about them and literally anyone in the NBA. And they're just they're just throwing themselves at every vaguely attractive star in the league right now.

And Steph's still going to be like, well, thanks, it's cool. I mean, it's not great, but I mean, it's not. No, no, Jimmy is awesome like that. Yeah. What he did three years ago was so cool. Yeah. How does Luca is like 25? So he's probably like, he's like barely similar, similar generation three years worse.

Whereas Luca, probably this year better than last year when he took his team to the finals by himself. Yeah. If you need him, if you need him. Um, all right. It's time to decide on game of the Mavs at the Celtics or your warriors at the Los Angeles Lakers. Luka Dantric will not be playing yet. As far as we know, those are both on TNT. Saturday, we've got the Celtics at the Knicks on ABC or the Pacers at the Lakers.

Luka Doncic is expected to suit up for this game. This is a tough one. I don't know. I can't figure out which would be the best game here. Most interesting game. So I'm I'm look, I know Sunday might be Lucas home debut with the Lakers, but I'm picking that one because of the bad blood from the in season tournament. Last year, the Pacers want revenge. They didn't get to drink champagne in Vegas last year.

They've had a chip on their shoulders since then. You are going to see Andrew Nemhard. Benedict, I'm tuning in for some memoir. They are going to be they are going to be Andrew Nemhard, Benedict. I'm tuning in for some memoir. They are going to be they are going to be all T.J. McConnell is going to have a tiger in this one. That's I mean, I can't I can't wait to hear the call on this one where they're just like T.J. McConnell has come to. He said, not so fast, Luca.

Yeah, I think that's the right pick for those reasons. And that has been the rabbit fire round of questioning. And despite me making fun of one of your answers, you actually did get everything correct somehow. Is that, judges, do we have that correct? Oh no, no, that's correct. That's weird. Anyway, Sean Ke no, that's that's weird. Anyway, Sean Keane, it's been a pleasure having you.

Where can people find you? Follow you, hear you all that good stuff. Uh, at Sean Keane on Twitter, you can listen to the Roundball Rock podcast. You can read me at Golden State of Mind and yard Barker. And I'll be at the Sacramento, the San Francisco punch line, uh, in a week and a half with Katherine Blanchard. Awesome. Amazing.

Jabari, where can people find you? Mainly on Blue Sky, Jabari Davis, NBA. You can probably find me on Twitter as well, lurking in the shadows, Jabari A. Davis. Like a creep. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on Blue sky at Jack OB the number one and we're hashtag my boosties on the various socials for show links and updates and be sure to join the combo short for conversation on our discord which you can also find the link for when you search hashtag my boosties and that's gonna do it for this

week's episode I wonder if like what what could happen this week, you know, who who knows the sky is the limit apparently? Looking forward to joining again in a couple weeks when Jokic is on the 76ers Till then straight up. Yeah, come on. Why not? They're just like, we don't like how much he's into horse racing. It's not just like weird. It's like annoying. You know, like their explanations for the trade like are like a person who's been in a relationship who's just like tired of their ex, you know? And they're like, it's just like, I don't know. The way he talks about horse racing is just like, yeah, we get like you talk about, you know, and that makes a catastrophic decision.

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