The Deep 3 Podcast - We Played NBA Would You Rather | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

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We are going to play NBA. Would You Rather? I'm going to show you a series of would you rather questions. You tell me which side you'd rather experience. Some of those are putting yourself in the shoes of a player. Some of them are you as a coach, GM fan, different stuff. First off, would you rather listen to a Michael Porter Jr. podcast for three hours every day for a year or watch 82 Kings games a year?

I would never watch 82 Kings a year. I'm sorry, bro. I can't do it. I'm going to watch the Kings game. Really? I am. because you could watch like condensed games and so you can watch the games

be done with it 30 minutes. That's cheating though you gotta watch every single minute though No I'm watching the condensed game Listen I can put it on my phone Walk 30 minutes a day on the trip I'm getting my steps since Eating your vegetables

Early I can't listen to MPJ for three hours a day Do 82 games a straight torment though They won like 17 games here Three hours is longer than a Kings game But what if you fast forward The three hour podcast You're still getting in all the content

can we listen to it on like double speeder whatever? No, you gotta watch the full game. No, the podcast. Oh sure, whatever your listening habits are. Yeah.

Oh, so I can listen to the three hour. And make it an hour and a half. Yeah. Sure. Sure. That means you're taking in twice as fast Michael Por Jr.

dating knowledge. Which isn't bad, but here's the problem. Every day for a year means that he has a podcast every single day. So he's a lot of content. So by Friday, we're in our 50.

teams of what MPJ thinks about for the day for the week so it's a lot he's you're going to get into his deepest and darkest thoughts yeah now is it the kings next year when they get their lottery pick this season also this year is brutal bro also it's only 82 games that's one season you still have an off season so I'm I'm gonna take the kids you're right you're right yeah give me the kings for 82 games you're right okay okay fair enough yeah next one plus you get to watch whatever team they're playing they're facing so you're right true You're just, hell in a cell on microported you're here. Nobody else.

You're right, you're right. They're botched. We're boxed. Would you rather get the top five picks in one draft or two years in a row of number one overall picks? Can you imagine getting the top five picks in the 2024 draft? Still. Even then the numbers, you could pick clean, castle, modest.

Modest. Let's say you're a good jam. You can pick the right players. You don't got to pick research. or the number one in two draft. Yeah, so that might be the Cooper flag and an AJ. If you got, you got one being flag. But you don't know.

You don't know who's going to be in that draft. Like maybe it won't be that great. Maybe it would be Paolo and Riesashe. Yeah. I think I might take the top five picks. Yeah. If you can trust yourself to get five of the best players, it's a full starting five, that can accelerate you.

Top five picks and one drafts, including their like the number one pick for that year. Yeah, I would do that. If I had a chance to. to get like Anthony Edwards, Scotty Barnes in the building, or even like Mobley, whatever way you want to lead. Yeah, I'm going that way, 100%. I think that's way easier. Way easier.

And I have more changes to fuck up, obviously. Just simple math. One of these guys has to be able to hoop. I'm taking the top five picks. Imagine I get Wemby, Amin, Asar, Brandon Miller, and Kason Wallace. That's the starting five. What?

It's one of the best 35 in the league. It's the greatest defense of all time. Yeah, you're straight. I'll trust myself. Would you rather? Are I wrestle Shack or dance battle Jerry McCain both of these scenarios Your life is on the line

I'm dance battling Is it a boo? The above you point out The above I think I've seen a clip of you doing that for some reason Oh I just like top of mind Peek little Uzi Ooh my bag

Do I have a chance Do you think Shaq has it to this day Over you? Hell you. Does he have for the rest of his life? I think he'll go to the grave, whooping your ass in our wrestling. I don't know.

He could be 40, he could be 80 years old. He could be nuts, bro. You'd be shocked how weak 90-year-old are. He's shocked at him. 90-0. I mean, 90's pretty crazy. So, yeah, 90's probably pretty nuts.

At what age do you think you could be shocked? Give me like, 80. When he's 70, can you beat him? Okay, so there's like variables into this. I got to be in the gym like literally I got to be bulking for at least a year and a half maybe two years. Can you gym your way into beating

Jack and Arm Russell? At 70? Oh sure. Well he's not getting too far 70. Let's not get too far. When he's 60? 60. He's what? He's 50 something right now? Like I can't do it now. You can't beat him at 60? No. That's in three years. Dude. He's 57? I'm assuming you're I'll church. Yeah. No one knows. He's 54. I'm not going to know. Six years.

You have six years from this moment to train to beat Shaq in an arm wrestle. Can you do it? If that was like my life's mission and I was committed to that every single day just doing straight curls. Like being with the best trainers in the goddamn world to arm wrestle shack and this is my moment in life. The defining moment of my life. I think I could. No chance. I think I could.

No matter what, his hands are so four times as big as yours, the grip strength alone is going to be hard to overcome. Listen, man. You grab your wrist and your hand at the same time. There's grip workouts. for that. There's not hand extending workouts. Now when comes to the hand, I don't, does that like really apply? To like. Metal fingers.

They have surgery for literally everything. If I wanted to be 6'5 tomorrow, I could get the surgery to do it. You're telling me they can't make my hand the size of the shacks? We're saying all this. I also know for a fact I will not be jerricated at the dance battle. That's what I'm trying for that. That's all I'm trying to rationalize this. He wrote my ass in a dance battle.

I'm not going to lie. Listen, man. You have anyone of the Thunder videotaping him, hyping him up? He just gets more energy. He gets stronger and stronger. He's piecing me up. Yeah, that's raps.

I'm dead either way, man. It's like Goku with the Spirit Bomb. I'll die having fun dancing with McCain. I'm a beat shot when he's 60. Okay, I don't know where this age came from. Next up. Would you rather see the Celtics three Pete with a Lakers three Pete? It's really for you too.

If the Celtics three Pete starting now, that means my goal gets a ring. LeBron, another ring. So I think I'd rather go that route than the Celtics. I gain nothing from the Celtics being dominant. And they're just mad annoying. Um, I don't know if they're more annoying.

I hate it, though. I think I would go Lakers. It would bother you to see the other, to see Jason Tatum in four rings? Yeah, I think being in the same conference and getting it. And like, they're probably going to, going to beat us a couple times to get to the rings. Seeing Celtics fan have that satisfaction for three-ish. The stranglehold they have on the media?

Yeah, I think I would probably rather see a Lakers three P because they also have to like, they got to restore themselves as. That means they're going through Wembe and O KC every single year. Like, that's nuts. And like Celtics fans, but they have that much power, like they would clearly be fascist. Like they would run media with an iron fist. You wouldn't go anywhere without seeing Jason Tatum top ten conversations. With the Lakers, they're just mad obnoxious though.

And they're annoying in their own way. Being obnoxious, being fascist, I don't know. They're, that's a hard question. The Lakers, like, we get nonstop coverage of the Lakers when they are like 17 and 65. True. Even if they're winning the title, it's the same. You're right. You're right.

They're always fucking loud, nonstop. So I think Lakers three Pete. Yeah, go Lakers easy. Correct choice. Okay Also they're on the other side of the country They're not in the real time zone So I don't have to

They're not in the real time zone I'm getting this Like the Lakers They're in Narnia Yeah I always thought Central was the fake time zone What? Pacific time zone is the fakeest time zone

Out of all of them That's not it's not real He's breaking time zones Pacific Eastern anything else Central is one No Then Eastern Then Mountain

Actually no mountain Mountain might have A low key What the fuck are you talking He's just talking He's just carrying on conversations by himself What is he power scaling? First of all, we were having a very real conversation

So I'm not just talking to myself On the screen It's crazy, right? You were talking to like an hour being right now Mountain I'm talking to a real person But yes, I'm gonna go Central Mountain has an underrated by would go

Eastern time zone, but Let me get Australia they're in the future Oh my God Just US based Those are my Yeah Pacific is at the bottom Okay

Would you rather see Adam Silver Add four more tournaments To the NBA Or every team We're sleeved jerseys forever I can't let Adam get no more ideas off More tournaments Turnments

What do? Do I want to see You know, if there are more sleet, oh, forever. Forever. Like in rotation forever? Or like they got to wear them like. Every single game. Every game forever for this point out for the rest of history will feature a sleeve jersey.

There might be new ones. It might be better ones. Maybe they'll innovate and make them good. But sleeves will be on these motherfucking shoulders. I think that's what we're going to have to just hope for is that is that sleeve jerseys are. Have a renaissance. Yeah. Are just like a round so long that eventually you find a spot where you can make good ones.

four more tournaments. We have a playing tournament. We have the in-season tournament. It's five tournaments in a year. Six. We have the playoffs, which is a long tournament. Seven tournaments. That's too much.

When do we have time for tournaments? Yo, he's getting these sales up, man. He is making more inventory. Holy shit. Yeah, I'm going to say sleeve jerseys forever. That's probably the right choice. Yeah. Would you rather build a team around Cam Thomas or Jaden Ivy?

Cam Thomas. Cam Thomas 100%. 100% 100% you sure yeah I don't think I don't know if

jaden ivy is actually good at anything on the court for camp Thomas like I know he'll like get you some some form of buckets

will be good no I think I'm gonna go jaden and ivy explain why elaborate go go ahead tell me

go pod man be I said I said go I think I'm I think I'm I'm

because I think I'm I think I'm I'm a build my team around Jay and I.V. over Cam Thomas because I know that I'm not winning basketball games at a high, high level either way. I think I would know that sooner would Jaden I be than Cam Thomas. Easier, obvious pass the number one pick? Yeah, because then I can just get off of that experiment as quickly as possible and then go to the next thing. Okay. They'll be potting.

That was good, right? That was good. That was good. She was ass. Next one. Would you rather have Michael Jordan's career or LeBron James's career? Oh, easily. Jordan, people think you're, people used to call you black Jesus. That's insane. 100%. You want to be a Christlike figure? Dude. What did he do to ever deserve that term? The glaze that he does that people don't 69. 69. To compare him to Jesus? What? Come on hell. It's a basketball. Fair, fair. So I raise the question. How many chips do you need to be rightfully compared to Jesus? Where's the bar? But they were calling him black Jesus before he got the ring.

How many times you've done for the free throw line To be compared to Jesus Twice? Yeah, I'm being in history. Yeah. Like you're in history forever. So is that you're in Jesus? Come on now.

Loki? Yeah, exactly. See? He too light. He's too light. That's the point you think exception with? Too light. Yes, because Jesus was black.

I would rather have Michael Jordan's career. Yeah, easy. You don't have the media like picking part every single thing that you do. The 90s are like the single best time in human history to be a superstar. Like that before the internet comes, but you're still in the modern world

and you have the fame and fortune, there's no better time to be the most famous man in America. Do you know how crazy it would be if like a 32, 33 old Ron James came out to have a gambling problem? Like before this even new era, like, yo, it would be crazy. If in 2016 LeBron had to do an interview before like game two of the finals and he was like, I don't have a gambling problem. I just like to have fun.

He would never survive. No. But also with Mike's, you get the best combination of both. Like the accomplishments are very tangible, obviously. And so you have six rings. You have all that stuff that's undeniable. And you still get the hypothetical boost where some people are like, if he didn't retire, he's winning eight rings.

Like, you get the best of both worlds in that sense. So I'm taking Jordan's career. Yeah. Fair enough. Would you rather have Clay Thompson or James Hardin's career? What's the difference in money? That's the main thing. Harding got way blue.

No, because I need to know if I'm going to go down as one of the greatest playoff chokers of all time, is that worth $100 million? They're both bred it beyond comprehension. They both got paid. So you will never worry about money for the rest of your life. Would you rather be a superstar that people remember is one of the most dominant of their time or have a lot of team success? I think I might rather be James Hardin because there's certain what is that you can play in his career. He had moments back in 2018. I think Hardin has way more money too because the Adidas deal to...

$411 million. Yeah, I'm being hard and easily. And then also, too, like, you sat down and created, like, your own, like, play style, not necessarily your own easy job comparisons for other people like Genobi and all that. But needless to say, like, you help create a blueprint and you also force the NBA to change the rules. And you are easily, like whenever people have unguardable conversations, you are at the pinnacle of those conversations all every single time.

So I'm ticking hard. Y'all tripping. I'm going, I'm going, Clay. Really? I'm going Clay. Clay's rich as fuck. We'll never worry. judgment on him he's washed nobody cares what you're chilling and he got made yeah but like what

you said and he got made it's king he's a part of the acclade i won't further the conversation because there's a follow-up question there that makes a conversation different but okay okay i don't know where you know well people who's who's who's making people with in this conversation i think hardens leg we got a valuable size oh my god she just Would you rather fight four lamello balls or two wembys? Two wembies. Lamele ball crazy is hell. He's going to come out with a Molotoff or some shit like that, bro.

A molotov. Yeah, he's ridiculous. Four moletons. He's so unpredictable, bro. I don't know. He might come out with like a batting some nails or some shit like that. He's Neegin. Yeah, I can't trust him.

Four shadow clones of Lamello's carrying. That's hell. But two wembies? That's more wingspan than four lamellos. No, Leamele's going to be tripping me the whole time. I'm going for the knees. I said Wemby. Yeah.

You can go for one knee. The other one's in a grab you. There's two of them. I think Wemby's a little bit more ethical too. Stop! You're getting mushed.

Two Wembees is tough. I think Wembe's more ethical, though. What does that mean? He doesn't have a fair fight. Fuck, no, he's not. He might spare me, too. He won't spare you. There's a chance.

He's not going to spare you. There's a chance. He's going to kill you with his hands. He's going to know. how to kill you with his hands. Lamello's just gonna fucking like a girl put those hands around.

Wemby's gonna know how to tactically murder you. But it's for, it's like for Wembe, it's like, or for Lomelo it's a slow death and he's like slapping me with his hands,

you know? That's so many hands, all at once. Have you seen those Indian barbers that do head massages and they like slap the shit of the people's heads on TikTok?

Yes, I have. You see that? You're thinking of the hair there. That's been to be Lamelloo to you. I haven't tapped into that level of barber. It's like Indian head massages. They're one dollar on streets of India and they go

they expect the shit out of your head. Nah, man. Don't put me in a room for me. That's how to be crazy on that. That's what you want, essentially. You're saying you want that badly. Two Wembies.

Anyways. I'm beating two Wembies. You're winning? Yes. No. I trust me in hand-to-hand combat. Brickens two obese. You're going to tear you in half.

I bet my life savings on your death. It shocks me every time we do something like this, little y'all think of not only me but y'allselves like have some more self-confidence I think you should actively think less of yourself actually when it comes to fighting when people I'm just real sometimes man

I think you have too much courage and if you were in a jungle you would die by lion bite instantly by a lion bite yeah oh die oh yeah I think you would do you think you could take them and you'd just be dead immediately lion can't fight me can't find me first you can fight you next up

would you rather have the work ethic of Jimmy Butler or the intellect of Chris Paul. Probably the work ethic of Jimmy Butler. Because the intellect of Chris Paul, I do feel like once you get to a certain level of intelligence, then you start looking at other people like, oh, that person's dumb, that person's dumb. And then you start thinking less of them, then you start disrespecting them. Now people don't like you because they get your arrogant.

Just make me work hard and I'll be okay. Yeah. So you want you choosing the path towards a better life. Yeah. Jim Butler is more like than Chris Paul. I think you can build off a legacy off a work ethic too. People tell stories about you all the time when it come to intellect. Like it's like, wow, who's smart?

Yeah, exactly. It's like quick slope of people being like, yeah, like smart. And also he was annoying too. Nobody's making biblical stories about how smart this guy was. Exactly. No one cares. No one cares. Nice math skills nerd.

Tom tables, man. Legend. Legend. Thank you.