The Daily Zeitgeist - MJGMB #68: Blazers, NBA Con and more with Ian Karmel

Episode Date: July 12, 2023

Miles and Jack were on-location at the league’s inaugural NBA Con and were pleased to be joined by hilarious standup comedian and Blazers fan Ian Karmel. The trio discussed the future of the Blazers with or without Damian Lillard, NBA Con and more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The weekend of wet B. Yes. Wet B.A. Con. Exactly. And we're on location at M.B.A. Con, if you can't hear that already. In the background, we are not in our usual studio. And it's, you know, we're here for the first weekend of the Las Vegas NBA Summer League. And we're going to discuss the incredible atmosphere here, as well as, you know,

some excitement for all the rookies of the Summer League. Maybe talk a little bit about Wemby with stand-up comedian, writer, podcaster Ian Carmel on today's episode. I'm Miles Gray. And I'm Jack O'Brien. And this is Miles and Jack O'Brien Booskies. All right. Okay, shout out to that young man right there. Fantastic glasses, sir. Three on one. Davis.

Love. LeBron. There you go. Driving, spinning, fading, hitting. Curry, a three-pointer. Bang. Steph Curry from downtown again! Giannis with the take. Oh, look out.

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and just opening a table on the tab. Table on the tab. Anyone who wants to swing by. Even hockey franchises, football, we'll take any offer. Anything. If it's good enough, we're open. We're open. What do you think so far?

I haven't been able to walk around the convention, but NBA Con looks gigantic, and I've probably seen a fraction of it. And I saw one DMX poster, so I'm already very excited. Oh, yeah. It's dark and hell is hot. That's for sure. I can tell you that much about NBA Con, and that is what the NBA asked us to say right off the bat.

The most legendary DMX representative. It seems to mostly be a DMX-centered event. It seems more like a DMX Con. No, I walked around. It's fantastic. There's a lot of shirts that I know I couldn't pull off that people are selling. A lot of stuff that I'd buy and then pull out of the closet and be like, you're 38. I think I see ATLians on

wax right there across the way if my eyesight does not fail me. Anyway, so for everybody listening at home, we are in Las Vegas at NBA con. Uh, and there's a 20 foot hoop here, miles. I don't want to leave out the 20 foot hoop.

We got, you think you can make a shot on the 20 foot? Yeah. It's been like the sword in the stone. Like no, nobody has made it yet in my version of events. And then I walk up cockily and like swish it. Yeah.

Just like, just very casually one handed. I'm waiting for Dan Cortez to walk in. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But he's got like a t-. Yeah. Just like, just very casually one-handed. I'm waiting for Dan Cortez to walk in. Yeah. Just nail it, walk out. But he's got like a t-shirt wrapped on his head,

like full Rock and Jock style. Full Rock and Jock, 20 points, they win, he leaves. So Ian, you are, you're a Portland man. I'm a Portland man. I'm a Portland man.

And a Portland fan. Lifelong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell us about what, is it, was it by choice? You have no other choice? There's no other choice. If you're a man of taste, if you're a person of taste, you become a Portland Trailblazer fan. I grew up in Beaverton, Oregon, right outside of Portland. I went to preschool at the Middleman Jewish Community Center where the Blazers used to practice.

Oh, wow. Kevin Duckworth gave me a piggyback ride. You would see Clyde Rexner leaving as you were eating steak fries in the cafeteria. And I was I was hooked, man. It was I've been a fan ever since. I can't. That's so wild that they were using like a middle school, a like two basketball courts and on one court, the Portland Trailblazers would be practicing. And the next court over, a bunch of middle-aged Jewish men would be playing pickup basketball. In the late 90s, early 2000s, the Celtics practiced at Brandeis University. Like legit. Like they were just like, yeah, I don't know, man. They got a court. Like it wasn't as, like now everybody's got their own like fitness center.

Right, right, right. It's just you should be like. Do they keep the lights on? We'll have a practice there. We're an NBA team. Paul Pierce actually picked up a JD while he was there too, right? Not too long, Massachusetts. How has this season been feeling for you? We'll get to the off-season, but

how do you feel so far about this season? As a Trailblazer fan? I have a mixed bag of emotions. I'm trying not to lose sight of Scoot and Sharp. You know what I'm saying? I'm very excited about that. I'm very excited we locked up Matisse Tyvel. Right, right.

You know, for three more years. Damian Lillard is on his way out of town. And that's sad. That's a sad feeling. I was going to ask, you know, that I, I thought he was going to be a lifer.

I thought, I kind of, I thought he was going to be a lifer too, but then certain things started breaking certain ways. Yeah. Where it was like, I think what happened to him is what happens to everyone. You turn,

you, you know, you get a little deeper into your thirties. You start looking around. You don't have a ring on that finger. You don't have a ring on that finger. And then you're like, maybe I should expand my age range on him.

Miles, you're interviewing Ian like you're trying to make him cry. Like you're Roy Firestone. What else? Remember our Vita Sabonis? Oh yeah, if he would have come over a little bit sooner, we would have won that championship. Probably, for sure. So yeah, as a Blazer fan, it's, I mean, it's a melancholy time. You're sad to see Dame go.

You're sad to see it happening the way it's happening with, like, everything, like, playing out in the media, all the mudslinging and everything, but, you know what I mean? A passionate love affair, a messy divorce. Yeah. What are you going to do? Love to see that. Yeah, I've seen a lot of people trying to put Dame's career as a blazer in perspective as it seems to be coming to an end. And the conversation around, is Dame the greatest

blazer of all time? I've seen it debated along lines of, well, Walton got you a title and his high was the highest and he was like a, one of a kind center. And Clyde might've put up like,

you know, had more, uh, success in the post season. But I just feel like there's like something so singular about Dame. And again, I don't want to like fully go down a road where I'm trying to make you cry,

but it would be good for the numbers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, like just, just greatest blazer. Like, I feel like be good for the numbers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just greatest blazer. I feel like it has to be Damien.

He is the coolest person in the league, I feel like. He's even the coolest person, I think, in a sleeveless t-shirt. In my mind, when I think about how I would want to look in a sleeveless t-shirt, I picture Damien Lillard in practice. Right, exactly. Wearing that nobody else looks good in.

It's one body type, and he has it. I think it's generational. I think Bill, I mean, Bill Walton won a title with the team. Of course, they were amazing. And then the next year, they got off to an amazing start. But then he got hurt, and then he left, and it was bad circumstances. The part of the team, you know, they mistreated his broken foot, made him play and everything. But he was there for like a minute, and then he left, and that was bad circumstances on the part of the team you know they mistreated his broken foot made him play and everything but he was there for like a minute and then he left and that was

the 70s Clyde I think has a little bit more of an argument but he didn't win a championship and to me when you're a Blazer fan and we haven't won a championship since 77 what you have to latch on to are moments like moments of pure euphoria as a fan. Right. Cause it's not always going to come in the form of lifting the trophy. Right. It's not right. We haven't had that experience.

So with Lillard, you get the shot against Houston. I was there for that shot. And it was like louder in the tunnels after the game than I'd ever heard it in any arena during any other game. It was insane. The explosion, it was like euphoric.

And quieter before he hit it. I still remember, that's the most iconic sound of a game-winning shot, is when he clapped for the ball and you heard it echo the whole crowd. It also sums up how good Blazers fans are. People's hearts weren't beating.

Everyone's heart was suspended until he shot it. People were clinically dead for about 0.3 seconds. Yeah, 0.9. And then we did that, and that was amazing, and they did it again against Oklahoma City and Paul George. He did it twice. An impossible shot. Impossible. I went to the motor center to try to recreate that shot. Afterwards, they had me do it, and it was the fattest moment of my entire life. It was so embarrassing.

I hurt myself trying to lunge it, and I still came up like four feet short. But for that reason, the moments he's given us, I think he has an argument for being the greatest blazer of all time. And that's just, it's up to what you covet. It's him or Drexler. Or Rasheed Wallace, if you're just

kind of a jerk. Yeah, Rasheed Wallace is one of my favorites, I've got to say. Even though I've had my run-ins with him with my teams, but I'm just such a big Sheet fan. Oh my god, he's amazing. There's like a cult of Rasheed Wallace in Portland. Yeah, and I mean, I was like, I'm not going to lie, I had the Air Force ones, the Sheet.

Oh yeah! Those were really cool. With them shooting on me? Which is wild too, because who else got that kind of a logo, quote-unquote? There's not many people, like, after Michael Jordan, who they're like, okay, we'll give you a little form of you as your logo. It's kind of just Jordan and Rasheed Wallace. Yeah. Yeah. I also dyed my hair a little bit for Rasheed.

Yeah. You got the little spot. You're trying to be cool. Yeah. I have a little bulldog tattoo on my arm. Dame has the second most tactical fouls in NBA history. So we all have our own tributes. Dame as a commercial entity,

his appearances in commercials, he can pull off things that nobody else can. First of all, I think he's the only NBA player to have a Modelo ad, right? I think so. Could be. At least the one that's even memorable enough to say. Yeah, I'm sure there might be someone

else. Yeah. And then he has that one Gatorade ad where he the premise is that he trains with Ryan Garcia for a day and then is as good at boxing as Ryan Garcia is by the end, which I feel like if LeBron tried that

nobody would be having it, but Dame were just like, yep. LeBron tried that, nobody would be having it. But Dame were just like, yeah. LeBron knew about Ryan Garcia before he even started boxing. LeBron saw Ryan Garcia jogging down the street. He said, hey, can you buy me for boxing? Well, you should. LeBron actually got Ryan Garcia into boxing.

He also helped invent Gatorade. He would have been in that commercial in a very different way. Dame has tremendous range in commercials. On the court and in commercials. Because he also plays a baby in an Allstate ad. That's true. In the Modelo ad, though, he does not do much acting. No. It's just more like he was serving food or

working out in the gym. But again, it's not about his acting ability necessarily as much as his cultural gravity and what he can pull off just in our eyes more so than what he can pull off. His dialogue with Ryan Garcia

and that Gatorade ad, which I made everybody watch before we started recording, is not convincing. It's not Cracker Jack. I wasn't buying it. And just a note to the listeners, what you're hearing right now is, I'm just going to look out,

I'm not really good at estimating. This is about 200 to 300 people, I think, in front of us. It was 200 to 300 seated. And then I think it's another 200 to 300 standing. And then in the wings. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. So apologies to all the Boosties listeners.

Just staring at us in stunned silence. I actually saw on Twitter that the Thomas and Mac Center is half full because of this. They have it on a remote feed. Spurs representatives are actually pretty upset. Shout out to the Allegiant Center, who I know tomorrow they're going to be doing a whole live stream of our second performance here.

Anyway, all good things to come. Our home arenas are full. Home fans obviously couldn't travel, but they all want to experience it together. Shout out to everyone watching this on the big screens at Shibuya Crossing too. I know that's popping off right now. Or yokoso nihonjin.

You know, we've got to keep it international. Should we move on? Yeah, let's move it along. Because we're here at NBA Con, obviously the big thing that everyone is talking about, even us, is we try to figure out how we're going at NBA Con. Obviously, the big thing that everyone is talking about, even us, as we try to figure out how we're going to grift our way into seeing Victor Wembe and Yama play for the first time is Wembe.

Yeah, we're recording this. He's about to debut. Yeah. In about three hours from right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Other than that brick fest. Yeah. Because he was wearing a Spurs jersey at that point.

Yes, he was. Yeah. And we'll get to that later. So hopefully he has a little bit more. Because, Jack, that shook your confidence, right? I'm out on this guy. I don't think the guy stinks. This guy stinks.

Did you see that? He couldn't get one to drop. I shoot around. I make at least one. There's a hoop right there. I'll go make three in a row. They say in summer league, if you play well, it doesn't really mean much.

But if you can't perform, you perform, that's a really bad time. So I think we've got to get out on Wemby now. We were talking about Wemby. For somebody who is potentially part of the dawn of the new age of what basketball looks like, we felt Wemby doesn't quite capture the essence. It doesn't have quite the gravity. He needs a nickname. Just Victor Wemby-yama have quite the gravity. He needs a nickname. Just Victor Wemby Yama. Too many

syllables. He needs one. Wemby is terrible. Terrible. We need to put effort in on nicknames because we have that entire era where it was like PG-13 where it's like initials and number. Initials and number. That's terrible. VW1? No. Come on.

We can't do it. VW1 is terrible. That's terrible. VW1? No, come on. It sounds like a concept car. Anything VW gives you Volkswagen, which it's a notably small car. The VW1. SEO nightmare is what they tell you. It runs on German feelings of regret. It's green energy.

And then just the name-based nicknames are terrible, too. Now we're stuck with Joker forever. With Jokic, when Big Honey was right there. People called him Big Honey. The man is Big Honey. 100% Big Honey. You gotta call him Joker and look at all these brackets.

Or Serbian Uncle. I don't know. That's how he plays basketball. It's like you're playing with Uncle Ball. He plays Uncle Ball in the driveway. Jorts. Jorts, because he can play just as well. Totally looks like he would show up to the Y in Jorts and dominate.

Did you see the video of him buying beer in Serbia recently? There's CCTV camera of him going into a liquor store in Serbia to just buy a six-pack, because he's hanging out with people, and he's dressed like Jeff Spicoli or something. In his full Nuggets uniform? No. Just like loose cotton tank top, shorter shorts, like slides, like backwards hat. And he walks in very casually. And the person at the register is like, wow, you're tall.

And doesn't even know who he is. And he's just being like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, you should have played basketball. Took off. There he is. He's like undercover as Spicoli that makes sense he seems like one of the people who would do what Bono got caught that one time dressed as a Hasidic Jewish guy

to just try and fly under the radar he's just like I am American surfer as a Jew I just want to say we would welcome Jokic or Bono into the trunk at any moment if they want to make the jump. Make the leap. So, Jack, you have any, I mean, look. All right. So, yeah. Wemby just sounds like, I don't know, like, yeah, I hear it's Wemby said in a British accent, like, for some reason.

It just sounds like it should be said with a British accent. Or like a corgi. Like, one of the Queen's corgis was named Wemby. Wemby. When I wrote it in the Google Doc, it auto-suggested Wembley, so there's just lots of English energy coming from this nickname. So we're gonna

live workshop some nicknames for him. So, Nails is one that I wanted to put out there because it sounds tough, but is one that I wanted to put out there because it sounds tough but is actually a reference to his beautiful nails and nail beds. Cuticle health is peak. Like some of the most beautiful nails

I've ever seen. Yeah. You look at that guy, you know he's taking biotin. You know? That's no question. There's no question. He's cheating. He's using that Dead Sea Secret brand. You know what I mean? But again, beautiful hands. I mean, that's potential. If I'm thinking on the business side, okay, maybe we can do a little nail polish deal or something there.

But, you know, maybe you have something a little more intimidating. Slender Man was thrown out by Super Producer Brian. Gets at kind of the otherworldly nature of his presence. The fear he puts. The fear he strikes in other teams' hearts, the fact that he looks like three large gazelles in a trench coat, like, all those things kind

of work together. Right. What else? Wembang Yamama. That's good. I feel like that's, like, very fifth grade playground energy. And then we can bring back, like, these sort of and one t-shirts. Yeah's good. I feel like that's very fifth grade playground energy. And then we can bring back these sort of

and one t-shirts. Yeah, exactly. Where he becomes the new and one guy. Who's also kind of like Slenderman, like a faceless gray form. Victor Wimpen your mama, and then whatever joke it is, you just fill that right in. Yeah. I think I like Vicky Stiltz. Vicky Stiltz. You know, just something classic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Vic has to come into it on some point. Like, Vic is a workable part of the name. Vic is good. Yeah, like something about Vic. Vic Skywalker. You know,

he's into like sci-fi and stuff like that, so I think that could work too. Maybe, and I think he said he likes Game of Thrones also. So, look, you know, Mad Boosie's listeners,

please give us some Tolkien or George R.R. Martin or George Lucas-based nicknames for him that we will personally deliver to him when we surprise him later on. We're planning on running behind him. And he seems really busy, so we're going to have to run up on him real quick.

We got some notes for you. But yeah, I mean, he's... The person he's mainly going to be compared to, other than, I guess, Chet probably a little bit, but also Scoot. And Scoot has like just a timeless, like A plus perfect nickname. Yeah. Out of the box. Scoot is fantastic. And it's I think I think what's great about it is that it feels like it could be diminutive to be Scoot.

Yeah. But there's also just something about it where it's like, that's Scoot. Also, can you imagine how it would feel to get dunked on by a guy named Scoot? Like, that's the guy maybe you lose to at, like, tennis at the country club. You know what I mean? Like, maybe shuffleboard, he beats you up. But you just got dunked on by a guy named Scoot? Scoot and his wife cricket.

Yeah. Down at the tennis club. Yeah. We're having Scoot and down at the tennis club. Yeah. We're having scooting cricket over for club sandwiches. Yeah. Oh, have you had her? She makes her own Tom Collins mix. Oh, my God.

She's amazing. It's fantastic, actually. I love cricket. Love her. But yeah. And Scoot, by the way, his real name is Sterling. Yeah, which is also good. Also good.

So he just naturally is just oozing nickname charisma. Yeah, yeah. If he turns 29 and he wants to get out of the scoot business and turn into Sterling, come on, dude. Sterling Henderson? Sterling Henderson is something a law firm rules. It's definitely one of the most high-volume car dealerships in terms of sales in the Pacific Northwest. Sterling Henderson is like in a John Grisham book where the hots shot recruit goes and works before things turn out to be not what they seem. Exactly.

It's the pelican. I've been digging into the books. It's Sterling Henderson. All is not what it seems. Hey, you know what happened to the last guy who had your position at Sterling Henderson? He went missing. Neither do we. Scuba diving accident.

And he was licensed. It's real murky. A lot of people have kicked around something with aliens, UFOs. I don't know. I don't feel like UFO really captures the length. Calling him an alien is a little weird.

I think maybe we just have to wait to see him play. And it'll become very clear. I think that's what it should be. I think there needs to be a league-wide agreement that we wait and don't stick him with, like, Wemby or any bad nickname. We wait for him to do something. And then it's bestowed.

That's how it should happen. How many games do you think we give somebody before we give them a nickname that sticks? Until the right name arrives. We'll tell them. I'm in the process of that with my son right now. We haven't given him

and he just can't figure it out. He's just trying to vibe it out. Oh, man. Five months deep. It's getting kind of hard. The nurse is still stopping by your place being like,

hey, come on. Hey, come on. You got to fill this thing out. I'm like, just leave it blank for as long as you can. I'm not getting a vibe from this kid yet.

Just go like straight up commune vibes and let the kid name himself whenever he can. Or I'll just lay out three basketball cards in front of him and whichever one he pulls out.

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This is, like, also there's a huge leap it's taken because of, like, how little I feel like he was able to show what he could do in college. It's so strange. in college it's all it's so strange like have you ever had like a group of friends who you just like or like people that like you couldn't like really like vibe with and like you like i wonder if that's what was yeah i know but i wonder if that's what it was like like he just like couldn't like do like he didn't look that impressive at gonzaga and then like oh my god he looks amazing in the summer league yeah that wasn't a system where he could shine. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know if it's the, like, they clog it up. Drew Timmy was already there. He had a whole thing going on. You know what I mean? God, they love Timmy. Don't they? They love Timmy. We love Timmy, don't we, folks?

Oh, we love him. But yeah, I don't know. Have you ever seen video of giraffes fighting? Yes. At the zoo. They face each other and then they just whip their necks at each other as hard as they can. And I think that's what it's going to look like if Victor Wemba Nyama and Chet end up in the paint together. It's basically going to be a giraffe fight.

Throw a Poku in there for fun? And then Poku in there. Yeah. Wow. That's going to be a... It's going to look so weird. That's again, like to your point,

Jack, what's so interesting, I think about this new season coming up is that I feel like we're just on another sort of generational shift in how the games play. You know, like we're starting to see like these like really interesting, very unique types of players come into the league. And now just seeing how that's going to work now.

Cause a lot of people are like, well, let's see what happens if, you know, can Wemby throw his weight around or this, that, and the other. And I'm sure we're going to see how he, you know, is able to use his size and skill. I'm going to watch every game that Wemby plays in for like, I don't know how long it's going to last.

I'm like so excited about that. You've got to stop calling him Wemby. I'm so sorry to interrupt you. You're stuck in the trap. We've got to beat it. You're stuck in the trap. I'm going to watch every game that Victor plays in. Nails.

Nails. Nails. I'm gonna watch every one of Nails' games and I'm gonna watch every one of Chet's games because they're both super exciting.

Lenny Dykstra was the last Nails and that was like ages ago. We're ready for a new Nails. And that was more persona based than cuticle. And you moved on to have a successful car washes.

Absolutely. One of the best places. Successful businessman. All in. And then Scoot. So how are you feeling about the season? I feel phenomenal. I pray we get the damn thing wrapped up before the season actually starts for him and for us, but

I'm ready. I'm ready to watch Scoot throw an alley-oop to Sharp, throw it down so hard that they have to adjust the rim afterwards. That had to happen three times a game, and for us to lose by 15 to the Memphis Grizzlies is just a respectable 15. I'm ready for all of that. I'm ready to go

12 and 70 this season, man. Let's do it. I know it's not even a good draft class. Get us that big kid from Maine. What's his name? Who's like in the 2026 draft class? Oh, yeah. I forget his name. That LeBron was just talking to.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He also has one of those. I know exactly who you're talking about. That guy is from Maine. I don't think he's going to have a problem with playing in Portland, Oregon. You know what I mean? Let's just get him from the Portland to Portland connection. We'll introduce him to places that make high-end biscuits. You know what I mean? Let's just get from the Portland to Portland connection. We'll introduce him to places that make high-end biscuits.

You know what I mean? Take him out to the woods. He'd like a good flannel. We got those too. We got a good flannel. We got him a triple XL double tall, man. I know that for a fact because that's what I was wearing. We will hook it all up. I'm ready for the Blazers to be bad. I mean, as an NBA fan,

what's the worst thing that can happen? Your team does not have a definitive direction. Where you're hanging out in limbo. And that's kind of where we were. Damian Lillard was too good for us to ever really be bad. The rest of the roster was too bad for us to really be good. Now we've got Scoot. We've got Sharp.

We've got other good young players. And I'm just ready to go, man. Let's go be bad for fun. I think you guys are going to be. I think it'll be interesting. We might be alright. I wouldn't get... I know we all have to taper our... Well, we've got a $160 million player in

Jeremy Grant there still. For real. And Ant. Of course. Anthony Simons. Yeah, we might actually like... I think we're going to be better than last year. I think that's a safe bet. Do you want to go to the sports book right now? Yeah, absolutely. What are we thinking? Western Conference Finals. Okay. I like that. I can definitely see OKC, like, actually, you know, it seems like Shea Gilgis-Alexander, like, gets better every year,

and they are now going to have somebody. Like, Chet actually looks like he can, like, make stops in the paint, which I don't think a lot of people had coming in. Well, who's got big hips in the NBA anymore? There's no one to really get them off the block quite the same way. I feel like Embiid would turn and accidentally send him into the third row. Joel Embiid might accidentally kill Chet Holmgren this season. Moving his arm around like is hazardous he'll go fly off into the distance and make a noise

like goofy what do you know real quick in terms of contenders uh suns building out their depth uh are we are they now i mean people heading into the playoffs last year were like the Suns are the team to beat. Obviously, it turned out to be the Nuggets. I feel like it's still the Nuggets, but it does feel like we're getting towards a big three of teams with the Nuggets, Suns, and the Lakers. Looking really good.

And the Blazers, Big Four. Some would say. Even the Blazers. I'd say two. Is there anybody that you see impressed with anybody's offseason moves I mean, some would say. Even the Blazers? I'd say two. Crazy, it's a big four now. Is there anybody that you see impressed with anybody's offseason moves thus far? I was really frustrated with how well the Lakers did. That really upset me as a Blazer fan.

I couldn't believe it. I thought for sure Austin Reeves was going to get a little bit more money than that. Deal of the century. He was so good in the playoffs. Did we have like a promo code or something? I don't know. I don't know what Rob Palinka had. I think there was like a group on for white rim

runners and then they pulled that out. Yeah, I thought they had like a really good offseason. And again, like the Suns, I mean, adding... Who's that guy who was on the Nets? Come on. Utah. Yeah, I thought that was a fantastic ad. Especially with how open he's going to end up being

on that team. They better be good. What did he end the season at? Just around 40 maybe? I remember at one point, he was way out in front. He was shooting mid-40s. It was only 47 or something at one point.

I think he didn't end up hitting the number of threes because he got hurt, right? So like he didn't, so like the season ending stats, he didn't make it, but like at a certain point, he was like ten points, ten percentage points above everybody else. He's not going to be any less open on the Suns.

I mean, like that's like a really good get. And I mean, yeah, even as like a Lakers fan, I'm, you know, I got to have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for Frank Vogel, so I am definitely excited to kind of see what happens. Just not in the context of when we're playing them. I also, here's an incredibly unpopular opinion.

I like Dylan Brooks still. You know what? Is it more because, you think, is it because it's like, ah, he didn't, I'm like, that's rough. Alright, maybe I like him a little bit. Or you think the whole time, you're like, go ahead. I liked him the whole time. I liked a little bit, like, I like a completely

irrationally confident person. Yeah, just committed to the bit. Even to their own detriment, just like never let up. There were so many opportunities for him to, like, recant and he never did. Yeah. And there's something really charming about that, and I think you get him in the right situation.

He's got the confidence of 10,000 SoundCloud rappers. It's like, how? This could be bad for you. And he cut to it wasn't great, but now he's in Houston. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what they're doing in general.

I mean, good for Fred Van Vliet. That is a whole lot of money. That is a whole lot of money. That's a whole lot of money. When the response to your signing is everyone being like, good for him. Good for him. That's really nice for him. That's great. Maybe not good for the team.

Houston didn't want to hear that. Who would have been good for it? They're looking for one of those promo codes we used for Austin? We, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we,

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we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, at Dame, that's a worse team than last year. That's for sure a worse team than last year. I don't know what their backup plan is.

If it's a James Harden backup plan or something like that. Where's he playing right now? Oh, he's with the Sixers. It does seem like things are falling towards the Sixers just running it back

basically with the same team. Nobody else got significantly better in the East. I mean, like, unless Dame, like, does end up in Miami. Boston could be interesting. Boston's different. Yeah, it's different. I mean, that's the thing. It's like, did they,

some people are like, did they have to burn it all down? Or at least a fraction of it down? I think, Jack, what you want to, you would have blown it up. Yeah, I would have gone ground floor rebuild for those guys. Well, as of this down, I think, Jack, you would have blown it up. Yeah, I would have gone ground floor rebuild for those guys. As of this recording, Jalen Brown

is not a signed member of the Boston Celtics. I mean, Damian Lillard could end up in Boston. But that is a grim reality. I mean, but hey, good for all the folks in Beantown if that does happen. I think he would have

a great time there. He'd be used to it. Sing a lot of angry white people in the crowd. Yeah. It's an environment he's comfortable playing basketball in. That's the real pressure cooker. You know what I mean? Alright, here we go. It's Cam Jordan from New Orleans Saints here to tell you it's going down

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This is actually kind of a bit of a first for us, where we're going to walk you through, put you through your paces and see what you know about your favorite Portland Trailblazers. That was actually the only question. Dead Left Shrimp, Ala Abdullahi, Maurice Lucas, Jeff Petrie, Bob Whitsitt. Okay, we didn't even ask. Were you looking at my laptop the whole time we were doing the episode?

Okay, here, let me Google some stuff then, and then I'll just come up with something now. Here's question one. What year were the Trailblazers founded? 1971? 1970, 71? 70. 1970? Wow, I was going to give you options.

Man, this guy's good. Hell yeah. We're in trouble. All right, the Blazers have gotten the number one pick in NBA history four times. Can you name the four bonus points if you also name the years?

I'll start you off. Gregory Oden. Gregory Oden. Who was the right pick at the time. We didn't know what line ahead. Everybody agreed. Who could have? Who could have? We also got...

Was Michael Thompson our first pick? Michael Thompson was the number one pick in 1978. 1978? Yeah, the year after we won the championship, we had the number one pick, and then we couldn't run it back. We started the season like 54-10. Then he goes and wins with us. I don't recall that happening.

Good man. And then his son went and won. I don't recall that happening. Good man. Yeah. And then his son went and won just to the South. Great Portland, Oregon native. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where did he go? Oswego? I don't know if he went to school there.

Isn't that where Kevin Love went? Kevin Love went to Lake Oswego. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some of those guys. We're getting sidetracked. Jefferson, big basketball school. I don't know if I know the other two. You would know one of them.

One of them is Bill Walton? Yeah. Bill Walton, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Bill Walton. And then the third one. I thought when you were saying he would know the other one,

it would be this one. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because this is one that's on the tip of everyone's tongue. The room art? Oh, my God. Is it the room art? Yeah, it's the room art. Speed answers.

I can't keep track because there's so many Martin yeah speedy answers I can't I can't keep track because there's so many people in the crowd I don't know who to look at it came back to me the problem with

knowing all of the Blazers number one picks I mean Bill Walton worked out great oh yeah is like

anytime like LaRue Martin and Greg Oden are mentioned it's like in a really like sad sports center

music package right yeah Michael Thompson also was the year that really sad SportsCenter music package. Right. Yeah. Michael Thompson also was the year that Bird was drafted. Super producer Jabari did a little deep dive. So in case there's not enough shade thrown at the Blazers draft history, they went with Thompson, obviously. I mean, he was great.

And Bird had decided to play his senior season at Indiana State, and they didn't want to, like, wait. Wait for him, yeah. The Celtics drafted him that year, even though he was going to stick around for another year. So you didn't just pass on Jordan, you passed on Bird. We passed on Bird, too? Right.

That would be fantastic. Something for me to think about on the flight home. All right, here we go. All-timers. Do you know the all-time leader in games played in a Blazers uniform? Oh, games played. You want some options? Let me...

It's not... It's not Dame. It's not Dame? It's not Dame. Okay. Is it Jerome Kersey? It's not Jerome Kersey. Cliff Robbins?

No. It's not Cliff Robbins? No.bins? No. It's not Cliff Robbins? No. No. No. Who are the options? Well, now it's going to be obvious. I've really eliminated.

I've eliminated. Wait, let me. It wouldn't be Clyde. Is it Clyde Drexler? It's Clyde Drexler. It's Clyde Drexler. Yeah. Really?

What kept you from thinking that? I don't know. Because you're bad at trivia? Because I'm bad at trivia. My instincts are terrible. I think I'm a stupid guy who's only been pretending to be a Blazer fan for online clout. This has been completely nerve-wracking, by the way. Good for Clyde.

All right. The answer's been Scotty Pippen. Yeah. Like, dude, what? Oh, shout out Scotty. He's going through a hard time right now. Scotty, yeah. You know, hey, our hearts are out there with you.

Our hearts are with you. Jack, which one do you want to ask this next one? Yeah, we can. All-time leader in three-point field goals. Damian Lillard. Okay, fine. All-time leader in points scored. Damian Lillard.

All right. All-time Scotties. Scotty Pitt. There you go. All right. He figured it out, folks. He figured it out. All right.

Second and threes is CJ already, right? That's what I'm out. Second and threes is CJ already, right? That's a say. Second and threes is CJ, yeah. But like by half. Yeah. Even close. Yeah, and then Wes Matthews after him. Big Wes, yeah.

Yeah. You can see the NBA has changed. Yeah, 100%. 100%. Terry Porter, I feel like, was one of the best shooters on NBA Jam. Yeah. And he made 773 total. Dame made 2,387.

It's like, yeah. Different times, man. Different times. All right. Should we get into it? Yeah, I think it's time. It's time. Ian Carmel, I want to let you know,

although we are friendly friends off the microphone, you have wandered into one of the more violent and dynamic segments in sports podcasting. It is called the fourth quarter round of rapid fire questions. Temperature drop. It's really cold. Whoa, did you see that? This woman just left with her baby because she knew

it was going to get dangerous. The baby's fighting out of her arms now. It's drawn to it. The kids know. Drawn to the energy. Because this show is it. Hey, the kids know the kids, the energy. Uh, cause this shows like vape pens. You know what I mean? Really?

Not good for you, but the kids love it. It's bad for you. Okay. But we're here in the fourth quarter of rapid fire questions. We're going to ask you a question. Don't think too quickly. Just chest pass us the ball right back with your answer.

Don't expand upon it. Cause we'd like to get to as many questions as quickly as possible. And we want to keep our record intact. So if we start bloviating or expanding, we need you to come in, interrupt, and say, hey, get this thing on task. Three-man weave. And look, you've been on TV. Oh, yeah. You've been in the hot seat before. Yeah.

Network. Broadcast. Just so we're all aware. Late night. Yeah. Okay. So I guess we will get into it. Are you ready? I'm ready. I. Yeah, network. Broadcast. Late night. Okay, so I guess we will get into it. Are you ready?

I'm ready. I'm ready too. Can I start with the first one? Well, hold on. Oh yeah, you do it. Brian, start the clock! Oh, wow. See, I gotta get the people's attention out there. Literally a lot of people stopped what they were doing and looked over here. You threw a hatchet at us. Guys, there's a podcast happening over here. Check it out.

Try and make your way through the crowd. We should have opened with Brian start the clock. Brian start the clock! Alright, I have a derivation on what teams we want to cover. So, Ian, we're talking teams we want to cover in the offseason.

Obviously, we have like the Spurs, OKC, Magic, Suns, the Rockets, Portland, and the Mavericks so far. You have the opportunity to either add a new team that we should be covering and paying attention to in the offseason, or take one of those teams off. Because I have some headings on that list. In the list one more time?

All right. Spurs, Wemby, OKC, Chet. Those aren't going anywhere. I don't care if you tell us to get rid of them. The Magic, Suns, Rockets, a lot of young pieces, Portland, Scoot, Mavericks. I'm ready

to get the Rockets out of there. I am too! You did my dirty work for me. Yeah, no way. Yeah. Now why is that? Because I think what they did was add, not boring, but less intriguing players at positions where they had more intriguing players. Known quantities.

Dylan Brooks are going to be less touches for your Jalen Greens. I think that's the right answer. Let's see. You can place any former Blazers great on next year's roster. Any of them. Which former person are you taking out the time machine and putting in that jersey? Bill Walton. 77 Walton? 77 Walton. Okay.

Yeah. Was he good? He was really good. He was really good. And I think he would expand the minds of the... Luke Walton's dad? Luke Wal dad? Did I say Bill Walton? When he was just born in 77. I just want Luke Walton's arm

tattoo personified playing on our team. I think you're going to 77 Bill Walton out there just moving the ball around and initiating the offense. With the mind expanding, I don't think there's ever been somebody who was openly into psychedelics in the league as much. P don't know much about that. Yeah, with the mind expanding, I don't think there's ever been somebody who was openly into psychedelics in the league. Psilocybin is decriminalized

in Portland right now. He would have a different time coming back around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has his best games and areas where Psilocybin's legalized. Like Golden State, he's just going off.

John Mayer would be hanging out in Portland all the time. Let me get a voodoo donut. All right. What's your all-time Blazers NBA jam squad? Oh, my God. Of actual people? Or, like, who would I put on there?

Okay. Recency bias. Put Scoot and Shane Sharp on there right now. Just dunk it. The entire time. Dunk it. If I have to take recency bias out of it, it's Damian Lillard and Rasheed Wallace. Oh.

Yeah. With the body checking people clear across the court. Constantly. I think you need to add that in NBA Jam to kind of make it like NFL Blitz, where there's also like unhinged violence on defense, too. That was one of the best skills you could have.

Just like, you know, when you check them across. Just burn right through somebody. Okay. How about this? Best NBA city to catch a game in. And when you're in that city, what's the best meal you can have? I mean, I have to evangelize for Portland, Oregon here.

I'll give you another option after that, but let me lay out the argument. Portland, Oregon, other than our soccer teams, it's a one-team town. Blazers fans are passionate even when they're bad. You're going to see people who really care about the game, but who, for the most part, aren't jerks. And then after the game, you can take yourself to a little restaurant called Canard, which is my favorite

restaurant in the world, and get yourself some high-end steam burger sliders. It's like White Castle, but high-end. Amazing desserts. The food is fantastic. I remember you recommended this to us when I was there recently, and I did not go. Oh, yeah.

Made a mistake. Can I play this game? You've got a whole season in front of you to do it. Okay, okay. And if you didn't have to evangelize for your town? If I didn't have to evangelize for my town, I'm going to say something a little bit sacrilegious right now. Go ahead. I'm going to say, go see a Laker game. Yeah.

Sounds about right. Good fans. Because of Twitter, I think Laker fans get a bad rap sometimes because Laker fans are all over the world. Anyone on Twitter is also just... They're terrible. Any group on Twitter is getting a bad rap. As a Blazer fan, again, this hurts for me to say, that is a fantastic fan base. They're great.

They understand the game. They're great. They understand the game. They're passionate. They have in-depth smack talk. You know what I mean? If you make fun of Sam Perkins or whatever, they're going to understand what that means. They're up for anything. They're smart. They're passionate.

And then after that, oh, what's my favorite restaurant in LA right now? You come over to my house and I'll cook you up something on the grill in the backyard. We'll make sure we have Ian's address in the show description, guys, so you guys can pull up anytime. Anytime. Literally anytime. Great, great, great. Alright, if you could add one skill set from a player for a day, what player would it be and what skill

set? Any player's skill set? It's like a like Mike type situation. It would be Aaron Gordon slam dunking. Aaron Gordon, modern day Aaron Gordon slam dunk. Aaron Gordon, modern day Aaron Gordon slam dunk. I mean, maybe even like four years ago, like the peak of the slam dunk contest. Yeah, now he's three point shooting. Yeah, he's

sprint setting now, really. But like, especially if it was me in my current body. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If all of a sudden I like walked into a 24 hour fitness and like walked into a game and like, can I see that? Yeah. And say it like that?

Yeah. Can I see it? Hold on, man. We're about to finish this game up. Okay. Okay, one second, though. And then just go do some insane dunk. I think that would be the most fun.

Hey, is this your Kia right here? It's either that or it's Victor Oladipo's singing voice. And those are the two. Wow. Yeah. Beautiful voice. Wow. Like, honey, if you could, okay, how about this?

If you, like, of all the highlights that have occurred in NBA history and basketball history, if you could embody a player within a highlight and be like, I physically can experience what happened in that moment. Is it the same thing now? I'm going to sound so biased, but it's the bad shot. It's not even the Houston one. It's the one over Oklahoma City. Just because of everything that happened after that.

The arena going crazy. His family being courtside. The team dogpiling on him. The meme happening immediately. Two memes. Two different memes. Three different memes, actually. Three different memes from one shot.

And now maybe I might actually start crying. Please do. I think that would be it. And finally, Jack or Miles? Ooh. I got to pick between Jack or Miles? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, God. See, this is tough. This is tough because, Miles, we have a relationship going back. We're friends. Yeah. Friends with your wife. Yeah. Friends with my wife.

Jack is related to Dr. Jack Ramsey. Namesake. Portland legend. Yeah. I got to take the oar. Wow. The oar. Wow.

He did it. Yeah. The diplomatic decision. I got to split the difference. Okay. Yeah. I mean, the listeners will respect that. Jack and I will not. Not so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We think that's just a bunch of bull. A good deal is when nobody's happy. I guess it is what it is. Well, Ian Carmel, thank you so much for joining us for this very rowdy special edition of Miles and Jack on Mad Boost. He's here live at NBA Con in Las Vegas. You got some shows coming up?

When does this come out? Next week. Next Thursday. If you're in Toronto, next week I'm at the Comedy Bar Danforth on the 14th, 15th, whatever the next week. Whatever that is. I'll be at High Plains Comedy Festival in Denver, Colorado.

I'll be in Vancouver, BC later this year. I'm all over the place, Colorado. I'll be in Vancouver, BC later this year. I'll be all over the place. All right. And where do people find you and get more info about you? At Ian Carmel on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, everything. Is your TikTok going up? Oh, my God.

I got 4,000 followers. I'm hosting NBA, like conspiracy theories. I'm making fun of my old boss. We never talked about the Dame conspiracy theory about the statue. Oh, yeah. No, we did. We got to do it real quick. Now we got to get it in. Yeah. Okay. We never talked about the Dame conspiracy theory about the statue. No, we did. We got to do it real quick.

Now we got to get it in. Okay. We were talking before this was, I saw this on Reddit that a lot of people were talking. This is obviously a joke, but they're saying the real reason why he wants to leave Portland and go to Miami is that he's afraid of statues. He has a documented fear of statues and that the theory goes that if he

stays in Portland too long, that man is getting a statue. So to avoid becoming the thing he most fears, the most efficient way to solve this is to be traded to Miami. Get out of here. You buy it? This makes a lot of sense to me. Rather do that. This makes a lot of sense to me. It's kind of the only thing that makes sense.

If you look at the history of Portland recently, too, they've been going around tearing down statues. Right. You know what I mean? Knowing Damien Lillard's kind of the only thing that makes sense. If you look at the history of Portland recently too, they've been going around tearing down statues. Right. You know what I mean? Knowing Damien Lillard's afraid of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amazing, amazing. This is crazy. Well, you can follow us on Twitter. Check out the hashtag MadBoosties, B-O-O-S-T-I-E-S. You can find me

on Twitter at MilesOfGrey. I'm on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Yeah, and that's been this very wonderful Ruckus edition of Miles of Jack on Mad Boosties. Did I do a good job? Tell me before the show's over. I did a good job, right? Yeah, you did a great job.

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