The Deep 3 Podcast - We Reacted To Your Craziest NBA Conspiracy Theories | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: April 8, 2026

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I ask you guys on Twitter to give us your best, most believed NBA conspiracy theories. We are going to react to them today. Let you know if we agree with you. Do we have foil? We probably do. You can put some on your head if you'd like if you want to make a hat. To Arson Crafts. First off, old classic one, two-bit hack says MJ was given a choice to either take a ban for his gambling or retire after his first three-peat.

Do you guys believe that he had all two-year motives for his retirement? take a ban for like oh for the gambling okay uh man i would like to believe it me person you know a top agenda i'm pushing um and i will fucking vote for this yes i believe this hell yeah i do you would like to believe that the greatest basketball player of all time arguably is a gambling degenerate 900% and you understand his legacies on the line and he has a potential to cement it as the greatest of all time and he was like you know what this sounds better Jordan is calculated way more calculated than you think donovan do you buy this

Of course I do. Okay. Naturally. Of course I do. Are you going to buy a question first? Are you going to buy all of these? Maybe. Maybe.

The hardest part, I would say, obviously, I don't know yet. But the hardest part about the Jordan thing is the fact that, like, you built up this entire, like, lore and story about Michael Jordan about him just, like, wanted to kill everybody in every single competitive aspect. And then one day when he's literally has his foot on the league's neck, he's like, yeah, I'm going to take it off. I'm done. That doesn't make any sense.

Yeah. that like I can even even with the circumstances I could see that being some something that he looks at it's like yeah I'm gonna keep going so I there's a little bit where I'm like okay I like this I think he was tired tired yeah I think it's exhausting to go to 10 straight finals get lonely at the top man I think it's hard to go to eight straight finals LeBron's done it I think only one guy can do it okay that's why he's there Omni Pepper says That there are no conspiracy theories And everything is fair

I am not Adam Silver Commissioner of the National Basketball Association Like Alive This is probably something that Adam would Would do He probably did write this You think Adam got burners? Yes

100% He thinks in our comment section with him Yes I know about our comment section He's tapped in He's chest He's chest That was so check out

Yeah shout out the chest man He's chest That would check out. Will 792 says theory. Donovan Mitchell may not have outmeaded Shea and there was padding involved. Hashtag Pat Gates. The padding files? That's a lot.

That's a big allegation. The pad files. We're going to start calling Donovan Mitchell Paddington. Padgate. That's a big allegation. Out of all the theories he came up in the world, he still thought about the meetoff. That's still in people. top of mind as it should be

I mean do you forget history often I don't even remember what it looks like bro uh not are just lying I don't lie I don't you want me to say it with a straight face say it with a straight face on folk I'm not lying mind you he had to make a joke out of it

I'm gonna say you remember this is not straight at all no man that's crazy this is a good conspiracy theory that wasn't natural couldn't be Barry Bonds did. We're in the Royd era.

It wasn't natural. We're in the Royd era. We're in the Royne era of meat. What? We're getting meat BL. That's what they're calling them. Meat BL. They're calling them DDLs.

DTLs. Oh, you know what, Donald from Mitchell was a church. Bluezer. He's ahead of the curve. Oh my gosh. There's probably celebrities we didn't know about like 30 years ago getting hair trans fans before it became popular to go to Turkey. DDLs before we all knew about it. DDS.

Wizard Edd says that minute ball was at least 50 while he was in the league. How long was he in a league for? He had a mad sort of career. At least 50s. He might have been 60. I don't know. It was a common conspiracy theory that he lied about his age

and that he was actually like a 40 year old rookie. A lot of people do that. Yes, I 100% agree with that. I don't know about 40 or 50. That's fucking 50s. 50's mad crazy. Is that a 30 year old dude? How long did he say he was?

If you go back, the, the picture that you see from like the 70s, there's dudes complete bald, right? Like everything. And then it's like, oh, this guy was 23. Like, they were aging so poorly back then. I can understand why this. Let's look up rookie minute bull. He was supposedly 23 years old.

like okay let's see what's my like bro if you look up a picture of Nate Thurman when Nate Thurman was 22 zoom in on this Beesoles this is rookie Manute Bowl

at 23 years old oh my gosh zoom in to the trackpad 23 old Manit Bull all right so he might be like 26 but like 26 do you think Manute Ball was out here

with skincare with toners and sunscreen. He was just happy to wash his face in the morning. I promise you. So I'm saying he's just on water on his face and call it in a day. Yeah, I'm looking at a picture of Bobo when he was a rookie. Yeah, man.

He was at least like 28. There's no way. I think he was a 32-year-old rookie. At least 50. At least 50 is hilarious. Because what would that mean? Let's say he's a 32-year-old rookie. He played from 86 to 95.

Who named your, bro. What? 60. De-hooping? Zero way. No way, bro. Bro, being that old and that, that's the greatest athlete of all time. It's so impressive.

That's a goal of my, I saw this video of, there's a race with 80-year-olds, and they do, they do 100 meter dashes. Bro, these 80-year-olds are getting after it. And that is now one of my life goals is I want to be the fastest 80-year-old man in America. You got to start training now, man. That's going to be Michael Irvin. he's gonna be 80 running a fucking 4-8

running it Hills Bob X says that in game one in 2008 Paul Pierce shit his pants went left in a wheelchair Beesles this is a theory still

I do believe that I ain't go on there's too much evidence evidence we found the specimen well was that streak bro

he still hasn't explained it and his story has changed up so many times at this point you are guilty this is he's told different versions of it

really? Yes, yes. There's ones where he admitted it. There's other ones who were like, nah, I was injured. Why would I do that? Like, all right, man. That's funny. They carried him.

They had the wheelchair and then they had him when they were carrying him just by his limbs. Yo, do you know how badly like you got to be constipated to say, yo, fuck the chair, man. Just carry me. That's bad. He's a liar. He don't want to sit on it. Yeah. He didn't want to smush it with a spread.

Mm, down his leg. Strait would have been bigger That turtle head would have W conspiracy theory I respect it My favorite non-NBA conspiracy theory Is that we eat oatmeal Because the ruling class is forcing

Commoners eat horse food Do you like oatmeal? Yeah Okay you can bear it I don't like oatmeal oats I like thrown in a smoothie I guess But I don't love it Ah okay

That we eat oatmeal because of You know what that's real Oatmeal can be very comfy though That's real I just yeah I just watched the video yesterday

about this dude was talking about like synthetic luxuries and he was like whenever he's like most people in the world haven't eaten

like real vanilla or like real wasabi because the actual stuff like doesn't you know get produced or anything and

listen I saw that video last night you tell me this today yeah I'm eating horse food I believe I'm with you the league is purposely

having refs make Bad calls in big games to draw media buzz. He said these refs are clip farming. I'm not putting anything past Mr. Silver. I think Adam Silver knows what clip farming means. I think he says that in his vocal vocabulary. So who might say he doesn't tell the refs to do it? I don't know, man.

Sometimes these rest are brittle. I don't know. Maybe there's dumb? Yeah. Maybe it's all natural? Yeah, I think so. I don't know. I think the refs control it they can control.

That's always been my conspiracy theory. Like they can't control every bucket going in. But they can definitely control. enjoy the pace of the game and how a game is called. They can put their foot on the scale a little bit. Yeah, they can put it on. No, so we know that they can alter things. Do you think they're purposely making the wrong calls for attention to make people mad?

No. No. So, El Conspiracy? Yeah. Because it stays on their reputation. So now. Yeah, and then they can't like work finals games and stuff like that. I will say, though, they are trying to make them stars and stuff.

You see how these reps, you see how they're starting to be much more like theatrical when they're announcing. I thought it was just that one ref. There's a lot of them. He's a trailblazer. There's a lot of them that give very like long and drawn out explanations after replays. LeBron Beyond steroids, bro.

Jeff T. wasn't joking. Okay. If you're the league, do you ever want to test this? I'm sure he gets tested the same amount as everybody else. Here's another hit, Barry Bond. I'd assume so.

Okay. Okay. I don't feel like we should talk about this. I feel like we might get packed up tomorrow. the fans are going to come. He has a red dot in his forehead right now. He's swind a little bit. Fuck.

I see the bands. I hear the saxophones. It's a lot. But do you? You feel like too close to the truth? You feel like you're on spotlight? They're going to come for you. The Catholic Church didn't take you down.

They don't do me like Sebi. The Morris twins, swapping places for that playoff game. Do you feel like the Morris twins played in each other's shoes? Do they have the exact same tattoos? I doubt it. Allegedly. That is the...

Allegedly they do. That's the claim. That feels hard to believe. Why would they like want to do that? Let me just pull up a picture. I don't think it's in their personality. I'd be like, hey, bro, would it be cool if we just talk? That's got to be meat munching though.

Why? Meat much. You're the same tattoos as your twin brother? Come on, bro. It's your original. Be original, man. You can't. You're literally not original.

That's what I'm saying. You're already not original. Can you at least get original tattoos? No, I'm going to be not original. That's my bro. That's me. No. When I see him, I see me.

because it's me. Literally. Nah. Are you anti-twin? How do you feel about twins? You're fucking whack. I think you can be that's that's not

performative. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna get it off that. Nah, bro. Same tattoos. So I get it. You don't like,

you don't dislike twins. You just like those twins. You just want those twins to be one of the good ones. Whatever. Wait, what are you putting on me? One of the good ones. What are you talking about right now?

This. Next week. The Mavericks get the number one overall pick was rigged. 100%. 100%. I saw this random ass graphic the other day. It showed like how every single time a team trades are like superstar player, the following year, get the number one overall pick.

They put the thing in big tags over the top. Yes. You saw it too? I'm straight profiling you. Say cheese sports. Hell yes. Hell yes. Oh, yeah.

Very true. This league. The NBA rigs his lottery. Bo's like, word? Bro, it makes too much sense. You can't tell me it doesn't. I will buy every time into the song of a dance.

Oh my God I just think Nico Harrison The luckiest motherfucker in the world Honestly I think every time we do this We give him way too much credit Cut him way too much bail

To say it was part of the plan He knew what he was doing I think there's nobody in life That's been luckier than that idiot Lucky he's out of a job Good eventually his luck ran out But he survived longer than he should have Nah man

David Robinson Another famous players in the 80s and 90s 100% used steroids not all, but there are a lot of stories by guys giving unreal amounts of muscle during the off season and all going bald. I don't care how tough army training is. The Admiral did not get the pills off

of pull-ups. Yeah, this is like this is like undeniably true. There was hella steroid in the 80s and 90s like hella. This is undeniably true. They had to go in the opposite way. Yeah, I don't know about David specifically, but undeniably true that those guys were huge

as fuck with way less education on protein intake. They ended up creating and they ended up monitoring, they were all massive. Before baseball made everybody cut down. The baseball guys ruined the rule book, so every sport had to fall a suit. We started testing for it.

Snazzy, YGO. Can you do a pull-up? Damn. Because if not, then I think that this is kind of hating. But he's right, though. He may be saying on David Robinson. I don't know if David falls into that or not. Maybe he's a genetic,

he's genetically gifted to be that big. I don't know. But a lot of those. role players are pretty fucking huge in the 80s and it was not a coincidence. Run to hill. Exactly. You got running hills,

doing burpees. That also is just like, I feel like standard athletic training across the board. Like everybody was kind of trained the same way and then as time goes on. It's like, oh, basketball players are training like this.

Yeah, they got less meatheady because they realize flexibility and stuff batterers. There's also like there's more space today so they've got to be flexible. Back then you got to be strong. So that's definitely part of it. But he is actually right for like the 80s. Dr. Evil Chicken says

One of Jimmy Butler Anthony Edwards is absolutely Michael Jordan's son and no one can convince me otherwise my favorite part the evidence lines up all too well

what is the evidence the evidence the split face pictures of them side by side you saw that one micro Zemba video they see those memes I look like

this Queen Elizabeth and XXXX and Zosian memes and they're like the evidence all lines up would you like to submit your evidence to us so we can also see

Because if it's All right This man wants Marco Jordan's evidence This is such a reach This is a nasty reach I didn't even reach for that And not me

Yeah that's a niche Next one The Nuggets Management Have intentionally Prevented the signing of good Backup Centers to inflate Yokish's advanced statistics So he can win MVP's

I agree. What are we talking about? They've just been bad at their job. They haven't been the greatest. Exactly. Why do we keep siding people like... Well, they had false hope on guys like Zika Naji. It's not my fault.

He ain't pan out. Bro, Lowe recently did a video where he looked at Yokic's like recent assists, like on NBA.com. You know how they do the play-by-play? Yes. Oh, yeah. Bro. They'd be padding.

I ain't going to lie. I think the reality is like every home stats keeper is a little generous. Jamal Murray would take three gerbils do a spin in a step back. It's really bad. You're right. It does pertain to every star player ever, honestly. Yeah, every home team is like that where they give a little love to their guys. It just depends on who you want to hate on.

And we'll find out. It's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah. With a lot. Seven assists, a lot, bro. Like, it's bad. Oh, no, he'll be at 13.

Fuck. He sucks. That is different. It's very different. He's not the Chippoldo double king. 13 is still a triple double. Caleb Q4 says, I mean, every time a star gets traded to L.A.

in the past 15 years, that team that traded them wins the lottery. Coincidence? That's that graphic I've been telling you about, man. That's Sachi sports. They're on to something. Is it every time? Anthony Davis.

Luca Dantzic. Did the Grizzlies didn't get one for Palisal? Shack? Oh, no, no, last 15. They got the, they got the two picks in back-to-back years with Shaq and Penny. And then Shaq just left. Yeah, he just left. So they're not the same.

Yeah. Was it back-to-backer? Anthony Davis and then Luca, they're setting a trend. Every time this happened in Adam Silver's NBA, they won the lottery after. So who's getting in now? So if Yannis becomes a Laker in the summer, then he's the bucks hit at the next year? No, I don't think the bucks can't because I don't think they have their pick. Never mind.

You have to get traded. Yeah. That means a Portland trailblazers. Do the fuck what's hell, Portland? That's funny. I believe this. The cabs are about to get the no one big against. So do we think the lottery?

Most of the comments on this post were about the lottery and that being rigged for the whims of the front offices of the league? I feel like if there's any aspects of the league to be, like, rigged or, like, controlled, has to be the lottery. Like, I know, like, we literally see the odds happen in our, like, pretty much happened right in front of our face with the, with the ping pong balls and shit but I don't know I can't tell you

the actual logistics behind it but I know it's happened before and there's been literally tape of it back in what the 90s or was it the 80s? 85 is it 84 but no the 85 the Patrick Ewing one is the famous one yeah that's the envelope one

there's tape of it but it's not like there's like smoking gun tape it looks a little weird when you're looking for it yeah but it's not like they have like clear cut evidence at the end of day like this shit is a business and it's an entertainment league so I'm gonna do what it needs what needs to happen to build the best product. So I don't blame him.

I would do too. Unarmed says that they're overblowing the tanking problem to expand the draft lottery to help big market teams get better players in the draft, give the playoff teams a better opportunity to climb up the draft and they're using the team's tanking

as like a punishment as the means to make it happen. So just making a bad problem even worse. They're tired of Zions going to New Orleans and getting their career ruined. They want to see Zions go to New York and thrive. Mm. I kind of rock with that.

I kind of like that. Getting the number one pick and drafting a pumpkin where if the clippers had gotten that pick they want to draft a Riesus Shea. They would have to do with their job and pick Castle.

I kind of like this. Could you go out of your way to really, really make sure that nobody's tanking like that for real? Okay. Identified a clear overreaction they were all kind of perplexed by

that why is Adam's silver moving this way. Tanking is obviously not this. big of a deal. What's the ulterior motive? Ah, Lakers, Knicks, that's the motive. He sees the connecting dots. Celtics. They're trying to get DeBanza back up there. In a couple years, they're trying to have a duo

of DeBanza and Cooper Flag. I'm just so happy that they see what we see, man. You see this? 100%. Okay. It's my favorite one. I believe the reason Kauai Leonard is bawling out so hard this season is that once the season concludes,

due to the aspiration scandal, Kauai's contract will become void and he will be a free agent on the open market. He's trying to earn himself a payday. Now this, it's a bailout. Now, yes, and he knows it. He knows the punchment's coming down. This is what you call noticing

Andrew, C.T. You are smart. Ah, man. Is his contract going to be void? He's kind of cooking. He's cooking with all the gas in the world. He's cooking with food. fish grease. All right, Mark Jones.

I think the, would it be like more of a punishment to just let him go and just void his contract? Does it? It's a punishment because now they don't have Quayleon. Yeah.

Yeah. The Clippers had deserved way more punishment than Kauai's self. Do they look? You want that? No. They have no pigs. They want Kaui Leonard.

Yeah. And if he's going to leave, they want to trade Kaui Leonard so they get some of those picks back. They have no reason to not want to, like, keep him on the team until this contract expires. What are you going to do with that cap space? Sign Isaiah Hardinstein.

Great. Fucking awesome. Bring them back. Sick. I think Andrew is, this is a great conspiracy theory. But if the league was real, it would ban Quai from the NBA. Damn. Yeah.

Really set the standard. Damn. And that, bro, people would fucking hate Adam Silver forever. If they voided Kauai's contract and then he was like, well, I don't really want to go anywhere. I guess I'll play for the Lakers. And then Kauai ended up on the Lakers. That'll be nuts.

If Kauai ends up on the Lakers next to Luca as a punishment, as a result of the punishment for the aspiration stuff. At that point, yeah. Adam Silver will be removed from office the next day. Yeah. You're noticing the plot too hard. We've been talking about it in the Lakers back channels. That's disgusting.

They can't happen. No, it's funny. That's like not impractical. No, I know. He doesn't want to leave L.A. Yeah. That can't happen. Also, it could because like he's never.

healthy. This is the best healthy season in the long time. Like, it wouldn't be this, like, insane thing if they use other capspace on him. It would be great when he's healthy. But, like, there'd be some caveats there, you know, like. I'll try to act like he's not going to be excited when Kauai. I'll sell myself. I'll sell myself.

That's what I'm saying when Kauai Leonard is on the team. But I'll be cautiously optimistic, you know? Like, I've, I've seen the last six years of Kauai's legacy. Yeah. I want to see a Celtics Lakers final so bad. Whatever it takes. Let's do it. I want to see it this year, honestly.

Yeah. I would love to see it this year. Both imperfect teams, these like not juggernaut all-time level, but very good teams, it would be beautiful. Yeah. Tatum dogs, Luca. All right, man. I'm pushing a job. I'm pushing it to justice.

That's the end of that.