The Mismatch - 10 Things With 10 Games Left, and the Lakers' Streak Ends at Nine

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

Verno and Jacoby return to react to last night’s matchups, including the Lakers' win streak ending in Detroit. Then they look at 10 important things happening in the remainder of the regular season, and the Prospector returns.Welcome to The Mismatch!(0:40) Pistons end the red-hot Lakers' win streak: No Luka magic (8:23) 10 things with 10 games left (8:55) What stands out in the East standings? (9:05) What are the Bucks doing?: The Cam Thomas dilemma (11:36) Cavs playoff chances: Payroll is in win-now mode (16:20) The regression is real for the Orlando Magic (20:42) What stands out in the West standings? (26:09) Lakers desperate and scary: Luka MVP, LeBron breaking records (35:40) Thunder-Wizards fight: The Wizards are ruining the NBA (40:35) Knicks are sending Jacoby to therapy (44:45) Kevin Durant passes MJ: Fifth all time on scoring list (59:40) The Prospector is back with an NCAA tournament update Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! [phone]Hosts: Chris Vernon and David JacobyProducers: Stefan Anderson and Jeff ShearinSocial: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Farnan. And joining me to do it as every week from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby. Jacoby. Luca Tonchich had the ball. Clock ticking down. Looking for some Luca magic to extend the streak in Detroit. No magic. No rabbit in the hat.

Just a hat. There was magic. So the red hot Lakers ran into the Detroit Pistons who were trying to hold down the Fort while their best player is out with a collapse long. And a guy that the mismatch spoke of first before any other show, before any other broadcast in the world was shining light on the great Danish Jenkins. What a game of. The mismatch was there.

He has now two games in a row. So first, the Golden State game, which is over the weekend. and now this one. In the Golden State game, he had 22, 8, and 7. And now tonight against the Lakers, 30.8. 8 assists for rebounds. I mean, they draw up a play for Jenkins to win the game. Cade Cunningham's out. Who needs him when you have Danis Jenkins?

Is Jenkins in the MVP conversation? I mean, it just started too late. His candidacy just started too late. He's not the most athletic. He's probably like, I don't know, 5-11. He seems it. What's the ball in the basket? It just does.

And what's crazy is, I don't know, there was a, there's a thing going on over the weekend. I was watching the NCAA tournament. There was a little guard for one of the small schools named Cruz Davis. Cruz Davis, super cool. he was like a and and also like a player of the year in his conference the whole thing, right?

So then I go and look up and Cruz Davis, it says, had played at Iona. And I was like, no way. So I go back and look, bro. At one point, Rick Petino had Walter Clayton Jr., Danish Jenkins and this kid who just won a conference player to the year cruise day. All at Iona. I was like, how was that?

How was that? He was loaded at Iona. It's almost like his Latino guys. It's a good basketball coach. I don't know. throwing that out there. Unbelievable. Anyways, yeah, big night for Dennis Jenkins.

And pick credit for the Pistons. I mean, that is a, that's not a good win. That's a great win over the Lakers. and, you know, when everybody was worried last week, when we had to deal with this horrible news about Cade Cunningham and Bimon, the fact that he was going to be out for a couple of weeks, it was like, what is this going to do to the standings? What is this going to do to their chances?

But they have certainly showed the resolve that they're able to win basketball games, even against what is, that's been the hottest team in the league, right? The Lakers have been as hot as anybody. and Luca Dodge has been on the heater of all heaters, and they go into Detroit and come away with a loss in that game because of guys like they just plug and play, and they've got something special. You know, I know everybody got down on the Pistons

and there's not a tremendous amount of belief as they would typically be in a number one seed, but I love that team. I do. I love that Pistons team. And, you know, there's so many clutch stats. that are the Lakers are the best clutch team and their clutch record and Luca in the clutch. And there's all these clutch numbers.

That was a clutch game and the Pissons did everything they needed to do. And I thought the shot that Luca had at the end was just, it just felt like there was no plan aside from like give Luca the ball. And he didn't really get any downhill momentum. It was pretty disappointing. But that game, the Pissons were up 16 in the second half. And the Lakers come storming back and you kind of, it kind of felt like a Laker win.

I thought they showed a lot of heart. This is a very encouraging win for the pistons. So there's other games that are going on, but there are ones that are just worth mentioning on this Thursday night to update some things that are going on at the league. It's for the record. It's not Thursdays. Oh, it's Monday night.

It's Monday night. Why did I say Thursday night? Sometimes I wonder about you. Sometimes I wonder about you, Bruno. Sometimes I wonder about myself. Is that the second time I've said Thursday? I'm just like, are you okay, dude? Is it not Thursday?

Are you serious? I'm kidding. All right. Anyways. This Thursday night. Oklahoma City got their lineup back for the first time. Feels like ever because tonight they went and played against Philadelphia. Gildjus Alexander, Jalen Williams, Lou Dork, Chad Holmgren, Isaiah Hartenstein.

No Mitchell. How many times has that lineup been available this season? Zero. Six. Six is the answer. they have played 41 minutes together. So wait. Oh, has that lineup been available if they've been started?

Yeah, available. Like, where all five guys were in the lineup. Yeah, 41 minutes is not a lot of minutes. No, that's not a lot of minutes that they have played together this year. And obviously, we got, what, 10 games to ramp up for the playoffs with the lineup that is their chosen lineup, you would think, right? like the one that they would, the one that they certainly won an NBA title with. And so they were able to get a win.

The most appalling on this Monday night is the Orlando Magic who are absolutely cratering at the wrong time. What is happening? We are thinking about these teams through the prism of, okay, who's ramping up and getting ready and playing their best basketball leading into the playoffs?

Not that it is always the greatest indicator, but the team that's like stumbling their way into, you know, when you are expected to play at your best and you are playing possibly at your worst over the course of the last week and a half, two weeks, it is super cause for pause, especially when you lose to a theme in the Pacers that have not won in the month of March and their last win was February 11th at Brooklyn. I mean, 16 straight games they lost.

And the magic want this one. After the Laker games, they lost with the Knarge shot. You would think, like I tell you, when I open up the app, there are certain games I just don't pay attention to because I can only watch two or three games at a time. And this one I just wrote off as a magic win. For good reason.

For good reason. should have been, I mean, it's been a blood bath for 16. Literally, you could have not tuned in to any game. The Pacers played in the month of March. And you would have been okay feeling like, I know what happens in that one. Mm-hmm. Every once in a while, right? I guess, I guess they just needed one for their spirit.

I don't know. I don't know. I felt the same way about the Rockets and Bulls. The Rockets and Bulls are playing right now. And it's not like, oh, they might, like, the, But the magic Pacers game was close at the end. It came down to the last second. This Rockets and Bowles game is a blood back.

Crazy. What's happening? I mean, again, not what you want to see from the Rockets, especially when we're, again, we're, we got about 10 games left in this season. So we're going to go through 10 things with 10 games left in the season that we've got a hit on. All right, let's go first.

Because some of these were, obviously does affect what we were just talking about. One that we did not mention is the Spurs beating the heat also, which already happened. If it's not just beating the heat, they just waxed the heat. I was excited to see Wimbunyama, you know, the heat.

I've won some games recently. Like, it wasn't even close. It wasn't even close. All right. First, what stands out to you in the Eastern standings? Okay. We won't spend much time on this, but the first thing that came to mind

when I looked at the standings, top to bottom, the bucks suck. Like, this team doesn't have their pit. They sent Cam Thomas home. And then they sent Cam Thomas home. I understand they don't have Yonis, but like the plan was to win basketball games this year, and they're sitting at 29 and 41.

It's an absolute disaster in Milwaukee. Let the record show that when we did our offseason pod and we were doing the free agency pod. I told you then, Cam Thomas should absolutely take that contract. This guy, this, this is the most obvious mistake you can make. You are going to get frustrated. They're not, you know, if you, if you can get buckets for Brooklyn,

they're going to be like, no, we want to focus on the young guys. They end up just getting rid of him completely. Then obviously he's probably frustrated, disgruntled the whole. thing, he goes, can't make it happen. He must just be a colossal prick because they're just sending him away. Yeah. When something like this happens, there's something going on that we don't see. Especially because they're waving him at a point.

He can't sign with the playoff team. No. Okay, because of when he's gotten weight. So he can't just like pick up and like sign with somebody right now. So he's done. His season is done. And now he's going to go into free agency. it's like bird in the hand.

At the time, you remember he kept asking, you know, he was like, you know, all these guys, it was like giddy and comminga and all, they were all up for free agency. And when those numbers leaked out about kind of what he was offered, I was like, bro, you better take that now. You take it. Especially with the Nets.

We don't have to spend too much time talking about the Nets, but like they're trying to develop young players and having Cam Tom has put up 25 shots and score 30 is not developing young players. So the opportunity wasn't even there to bet on him. No, that was just a colossal mistake. And then who knows what's going to happen with his career. Because now you're just going to have to play your way back into the position that you were in.

Like that money may never be available again, honestly. I mean, who knows? But like, Doc Rivers is also not like some hard-ass guy either. Right. Like he's known as like a player's coach. Like, and they send him home March 23rd. Yeah. On a team that loses every night anyway.

But I did say we weren't going to talk. so much about the bugs. But here's one thing that jumped out of me. Yeah. And I want to talk to you about this team that we discussed a lot around the trade deadline. It's the Cleveland Cavaliers. Obviously, the Garland for Hardin thing happens.

They bring in Keon-Ellis. They bring in Schrooter. And I really like the moves they made. There was an immediate impact with Hardin in the honeymoon. And I just feel like this team, what happens in the next six weeks with this franchise is going to be extremely pivotal. And there is a way when I look at the standings, as you said, where I'm like, they could beat the pistons.

Could. And also when you look at like, since they've required James Hardin, their offenses ratings 120. It's the second best in the NBA since they got Hardin. defensive rating is 18th. They don't have Allen right now, which I think is very important for them. But just like,

this to me looks like I could see them beating the rapids. Would you pick them over the Raptors in the first round if that's the way it ends up, which looks like it would? I mean, I don't think it'll be a short series, but yes, I would pick them. Yes.

And then I assume they would go up against the pistons. Oh, and this is perfect, because this is, this is your non-believe versus my belief. You bring Jared Allen to that knife fight. You go ahead. Bring it to the knife fight.

I can't wait to see you. Bring Jared Allen and James Harden to a knife fight. I'm not sitting here saying they're going to beat the pistons. You brought this up because it's like, you know what? I actually think that they could win. And then, hey, you'd have to play the pistons

in the second ride. It's again, just discounting Detroit. It is. A little bit. It is. First of all, you're putting words in my mouth. I haven't even gone there yet. Because I know that's where this is leading. I know you.

But what it looks like to me is it's really not about whether or not they beat the Pistons. It's they've got serious decisions to make as a franchise, right? This report comes out that it's like LeBron James, like the warriors or the calves. And then you're looking at it and you're like, all right, well, Mitchell has a couple years left, one of which is a player option. So he could be a free agent after next year. He's up for an extension. So then it's like,

are you going to pay Mitchell $300 million? All right. And then you start thinking like, all right, what if they flame out? They get gentlemen swept against the pistons. Then you start looking at Janus this off season and the terrible bucks.

You're like, well, like a Mowgli and some other stuff for Janus. Like, are we going to do that? And then you have to extend Janus. So then you've got $600 million committed to Mitchell and Janice. That's what I mean by pivotal. I'm not saying they're going to beat the business.

I'm saying it's extremely pivotal offseason because you cannot run this back with this cord next year. Especially when look at their payroll right now. This is going for it. They decided it's win now. Go for it. So therefore, this is, I know that it's the Knicks owner that had gone on an interview and said,

know finals or bust. It really is, though, I mean, if they don't go to the Easter conference finals, to your point, I mean, you just rethink the whole thing because you spent, you can't spend 200 something million dollars on a team that loses in the second round. Like, it's not, it's not tenable.

So, but then it's like, do you trade Mitchell to the Spurs? I don't trade for Janus. Do you trade Mowgli for Yonis? It just feels like it is boom or bust for them, which is why I find that so interesting. The question was, when I look at the standings where I think about, I think about the calves,

I think about just how important this playoff is for them. It's a pivotal playoff for them. I agree. The thing that stays out to me, and I had this written down in my notebook before the events of this evening, but I had the magic. I mean, hanging on to a half game, This is going into tonight before they lost to a Pacer's team that has not won in a month, over a month.

Hanging on to eight, they were a half game up on Miami. Now, Miami did take a loss to the Spurs. And one and a half up on Charlotte. That was coming into tonight. Think about that. Look, between Toronto who's five and ten, who's Charlotte, there's only two and a half games separating that. And the magic, is that now six in a row that they've lost? I think it's six.

It's either five or six. It's five. Okay. Five games in a row when this is like, you need every game like blood just to stay in your spot. And it's like, it's unfathomable, but how big of a disappointment. And what a health or skeleton. We thought they had gotten their act together two weeks ago.

You're playing the Pacers. It's outrageous. At home. Outrage. At home. And look. And that is one of those where it's like, that will be the one that is marked.

We talk about these goofy outcomes that can take place. You know, we talked about it last week when I went to that Memphis Denver game. Yeah. And it's like, that's one you mark down and you go, oh my God, if we would have just won the stupid Memphis game. And this is one where they'll all sit there and go, we wouldn't be in the play in if we'd have won that. because the margin is so thin between five spots.

Like they have had a chance. You see what's happened with Atlanta and Atlanta flying up to six now. Like this could have been you. This could have been you. Like that's what can happen. All you have to do is win some games in a row and you can fly up these standings because these other teams are like, you know, six and four every 10 games, five and five.

So, I mean, if you do a, but now you have really put yourself behind the eight ball to where, God forbid, a team that was going to run it back, a team that went for the big shot and acquired Desmond Bain. And they kind of sold off. Who's been playing well? Bain has been playing well. that is crazy. I mean, I just can't. This is wild. They just can't.

They can't end up behind the Sixers in the standings. It doesn't say. Everybody thought the magic were what the pistons are. Yes. Like, they were the teams. That was in a, you know, take the next step. I can't believe they're worse. I can't, honestly, I still can't believe it.

I can't believe they dropped that game to the Pacers and are now. Like, They could be gone after one game. After one. They could very well be in that nine, ten games. I know. To earn the right to play the pistons. This is not the magic.

During the offseason, we thought this magic team is going to be a threat. Top four team in the east. No, it stands out to me like a sort of thumb because it's just wild to me that they're now battling to try to stay out of a play, a road play-in game. where they could lose one game and just be going home.

How is that a thing? How? I mean, you could always point to injuries. France is out, you know, whatever. They've had injuries throughout the year. That is true. But like the Thunder, like you said, they're like, you know,

core five have played 41 minutes together this season. They've got the best record in the league. Like, you have to be built to sustain injuries. It's just been bad vibes all year. We were, and we thought that maybe, you know, the, the, the, the, the Palo Bain. tandem had gotten it together and they were playing the song again

Orlando Magic and it's just like I don't know it's so it can happen so fast it can happen so fast where it's like oh my God who wouldn't want this like if you were talking about promising they were the one coming into the season it's like they got

Franz they got Palo they got Sugs now they got pain you know because they just missed the shooting and just that honest effort that was brought every single night last year that made them what they are, that like DNA evaporated somehow. And there's no way it left town with Cole Anthony and Caldwell Pope.

That's a great point. I don't see Mosley coaching this team next year. I'd be pretty surprised. I'd be pretty surprised. I would too. All right. Next thing. Number two,

the West standings. What stands out? Oh, you and I are going to have the same thing on this. Yeah, it's obvious. What is happening with four through six? The rockets, the nuggets, and the timbrevals.

One through three is pretty much locked up. And so is seven and beyond. Okay. So they're all kind of right there next to each other. In fact, they have like virtually the same record. Okay. Four through six. Houston, Denver, Minnesota.

All right. So here's how I want to frame. This is what I want to ask. So four plays five, but feeds into, Oak City. Yes. Okay. Would you,

if you're a fan of one of those teams, wouldn't you rather be six and play the Lakers and feed into San Antonio? It's weird that the standings are four or five, six, but just because, like there's no great matchup, right? You're either going to have to play Houston, Denver, or Minnesota. They're all going to have to play each other. But of those,

and it would be interesting, to see if anybody would attempt to maneuver this. But if given the choice, wouldn't you rather have your path to the Western Conference finals be the Lakers and then the Spurs rather than one of those, either Denver or Houston? What? No.

No. Why? Because I would rather play one of the other teams in four through six than the Lakers in the first round. No, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't. The only one you feel, the only one that you would pick against. Don't tell me what I feel.

Because you literally, we talk about this every show. And I'm not letting you change your opinion on this. Houston is the only one you would pick to lose to the Lakers. And you love Houston. You would not pick Minnesota or Denver to lose to them. So that's two out of the three, Jacoby. Hold on. Hold on. We, there is a recency bias with the Lakers.

They've been playing well lately. I saw Luca tonight. Here comes L.A. Jacoby. Dive on the floor in like the second quarter. He tripped. He drove on the floor. He tripped. He laid out.

He laid out like your bronze did. And he saved the ball. And I think Reeves messed up the transition shot or whatever. But like what intrigues me about these three teams is certain nights they look like championship contenders and other nights that are just completely right them all. And I just don't, they're Jekyll and Hyde teams, all three of these teams. So I'd rather play another one of the Jekylland Hyde teams than the Lakers. We'll have the LeBron James and Lucas.

We can go back to what I asked you. I don't listen to you when you need to talk. You would not pick the Timberlboro or you would not pick the Lakers over the Timberwolves. You would not pick the Lakers over Denver. You know you wouldn't. I might pick the Lakers over the Timberwolves. Oh, stop. I might.

Come on. I might. And then you'd be cursing out Deon. Andre Aiton within five minutes. Julius Randall's playoff history is not exactly stellar. I mean, I don't know if you were there, but Rudy Gobert is evidently Wilk Chamberlain against the Lakers because we saw that. I wasn't there.

But I was in L.A. with our guy Van Lathen watching the Timberwolves give up 153 points to the Clippers, like right in front of my face. This is recency bias. It might be. I would rather, I would rather be six than four and five. Because it's a bloodbath, whoever you're playing. Like that series is, that's a long series. And it feeds into Oklahoma City.

I'd rather take my chances feeding into the Spurs. I think that you just got to think about the first round, the first round only. And you'd rather be in a matchup with the Hootson Rockets than anybody else in the top six in the West. That's fair to say, right? You'll agree with that. I know we don't like to agree.

And if we're doing recency bias, there's no question. Houston has not been. They're losing the Bulls right now. I mean, you're talking about. We're kind of down on them. You would rather play the Rockets than anybody else. So if there would be some jockeying, it wouldn't be to get to six. But then, but again, I'm trying to have my best chance at going to the West Finals.

You just got to think about it one round at a time, too. I don't do. I don't have to. What do I, why? I'm not playing. I don't know. I don't have to think about anything. Are you sure you're not playing?

I don't have to think about anything one round at a time. We can talk about my team stinks. One round of the time in the draft. I could think about the whole thing. Second round of the draft. I can project the whole thing out. Yeah, I could project the whole thing out if I want to. Hell, we just these teams like the wolves look good against Boston.

And then I watch them get waxed by the clippers. And the rockets, like, you know, at times they look great. And then they're losing to the Bulls tonight. The Nuggets beat the Spurs a couple of weeks ago. And then you watched them lose to the Grizzlies. Like they're very Jekyll and hide all three of these teams. That's fair. Well, and our next thing to talk about is this Lucidantia cheater has been,

that's what has made things. That has been the change, right? Like, not only the pecking order of the Lakers like falling into place, like it's very clear like, here's the guy that it's like, putting the team on his back every single night. And then there's Reeves and then there's LeBron. And then these other guys like, you know, you just kind of try to fill in the gaps. The smart thing, obviously he didn't play tonight, which is part of the, I mean, they had to start, I think, La Ravia instead of, instead of smart tonight.

And so they, yeah, he should not be as essential as he is. He is, though. Because, and that's the thing I worry about with the Lakers is when you get into the playoffs and you're only prepared. for one team and there is no like going out in LA the night before and whatever. And I just think about a team honing in on that team. There's an awful lot to expose. You know what I mean? There's an awful lot to expose on that team.

And it's not like you've got a bunch of help off the bench. It's not like you look over to the bench and like, all right, I put in Peyton Watson and put in Bruce Brown and put in, you know what I mean? Like some of these teams. Jones. They, they could change it up, I'm saying. If like, okay, you're, you're busting our non-athletes. All right, we got some athletes we could throw in. Like, they don't. They don't have athletes. There was a couple. They got a bunch of, a whole bunch of other white guys. There's a couple of Jackson Hayes possessions tonight where I was just like, is he throwing the game?

I was like, it's like, he's kind of like going vertical. Like he's Roy Hibbitt or something. Like watching people go past him and score at the rim. I'm like, what is happening here? And Marcus Smart should not be as important to this Lakers team as he is. So that's the concern. But the point is, Donchitz, like, it feels like his MVP candidacy has gotten the latest run. Wouldn't you agree? Like, I'm saying, no, no, it got sewed up with SGA. I'm just saying the amount of votes that Donchit gets is much higher today than it was two weeks ago.

Like, I don't even know if I had Luca. I might have had him five. You probably had him five. I mean, him being outside of top five is kind of silly. Yeah. I might have had it. But again, you got to remember, it was like SGA. Brown and K.

Yeah. He's in that zone. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, no, I think he was, he was viewed like after those guys. And I think like right now. Oh, and Wembe. And Wembe's up there too.

So, I mean. That's what I'm saying. It's SGA, Yokich and Wembe. And then there's a gap. and then you get that K. Brown, Luca, like, whatever, however you want to slice it. But this Luca, like, 10-game run has just been otherworldly, where he looks like the best bucket getter on the planet. He averaged 42 points in the last week.

He had four games last week. He averaged 42 points a game. Well, and that is... If we're being fair, even if we, there's things we don't like about their defense or things we don't like about their interior, in the end, the great equalizer is... I've got the best player on the floor. And it's like, it's not like he went into some of those series when he was playing with the Mavericks with a bunch of all stars around him.

You know what I mean? Like he just controlled, dictated the terms of the game. And he looks right now, that's the, when we talk about like teams heading into the playoffs, he looks at his absolute apex at the perfect time. Yes. because, I mean, if I could mark you down for 40-something and controlling the game and controlling the pace of the game and going to the foul line and making everybody play these half-court basketball games,

like he's certainly the guy I want my corner for that. And I think that, you know, I hate the whole, like, oh, the Lakers are better without LeBron narrative. I think that's absolutely just ludicrous. I might even give it wind. But I think LeBron being out was instructive for him. He's got such a great basketball. Q. He knows the game so well. Him being out

in street clothes and just watching the way that they played without him, sort of like he said, he read the room. He's like, okay, I see where I am on this team and I see how I can best play my role. And maybe it's not a like me and Dwayne Wade, who's got it tonight

sort of a thing. Maybe it's like I'm on the other side. I'm on the weak side. I'm on the weak side. Evidently, he is no, no stake in the game anyway after this season. So it's like, that's my last 10th. That's not. You can't see. I saw

because Sam Amick said that he might leave or whatever. Romano said that the lake aren't going to get him. Everybody thinks he's leaving. Everybody. There's that one person in the NBA that thinks that LeBron James is wearing a Laker uniform next year. Nobody. Nobody thinks.

It's on the board. It's on the board. Just for lifestyle. No. He's going to go somewhere and he's going to have a Netflix crew follow. blowing him around. It can, you know what? If people can watch LeBron's, you know, the last dance or the last go-round or

bow to the king or whatever the hell they're going to call it. And then, yeah, he's just going to go, he's going to go from arena to arena and say, bow to me, my loyal subjects. And then, you know, they can watch the mismatch and then watch bow to the king, the LeBron James final year. He should dress as a king. Like with a crowd. He will.

I'm sure he will. Every time he goes to the arena. I have no idea what's going to happen to LeBron James and Sobs. None. None. There's no like natural path. It doesn't really make sense. Remember when you went to the Lakers?

Like everyone's kind of like speculating about him going to Lakers? I have no idea what's happening. Well, we're going to, let's go ahead and add in that this week, while we go, we do need to praise him. It's a. LeBron James broke Robert Parrish's record for most games played 1613. Jesus. So I went and pulled. it up and said, all right, let's just make me eligible for postseason awards.

So I'm only playing 65 games. I would have to play 65 games a season for 25 straight years to break. Oh, my God. And he's good. And by the way, he's also played in over 200-something playoff games. His total is over 1,900 games that he has played. He's played in like almost 300 playoff games. It's outrageous how many games he played.

But yeah, 25 years at 65 games a season would get me, that's what could break LeBron's, that's how I could break LeBron's games played record. Just the amount of game, that's just a ridiculous amount of games. And it's 23 seasons. But yeah. Every time we say like we won't see. anything else like this again. We probably will,

but it feels very Tom Brady. I don't know. It's like, it's like, but this is a very unique situation. I don't know, man. I don't know if, I don't know if anybody can play 65 games a year for 25 years.

Like that, that does feel. That's insane. That, I mean, in fairness, it was friggin Robert Parrish that held the record. It's not like,

I mean, there's a portion of our audience that, like, is having to look him up. Doesn't know who. Robert Parrish. Yeah, I mean, it was not like he's been like mega relevant. Like, you know what I mean? Do you know, Robert Parrish games I've watched? Because I was, you know, I was growing in Massachusetts. How many times he inbounded the ball and then it would be like Dennis Johnson took the ball up and got to

the front court? And then like four seconds later, Robert Parrish would enter the frame just running into the front, into the offense because he's so slow. I got to be honest with you. Here's a take for you. I would be so pissed if I was Robert Parrish. I would be like, how? Do you see his thing, though? I played 1612 games. Like, I would feel like I had an unbreakable record. Like, there's no way.

I'd be sitting around like Sy Young's 511 wins and be like, go ahead, try. And like, the fact that, like, not only is he going to break this, he's going to stomp it, it's crazy. And you would never think it would be a big that would hold the record, too, because of their bodies are just so, like, abnormal

that you wouldn't think they would have that sort of longevity. Oh, I'd be so, I'd be so resentful. Did you see his quote? He did, like, a thing about it. It's the, he's the sweetest guy in the world. He's just such a nice guy. Like, he's just, like, so proud of LeBron

and gives, and he bows down. He said all the right things. I know. And that would just for sure would not be me. I'd be like, what? Like, I don't have a lot of records, but I do have the games played. Like, no one will ever be able to say

they played more games than me. And he should, he should probably hire somebody to audit it. Like, let's audit this. Let's make sure. How many minutes did he play in these games? 1600. All right, other things we've got to get to.

Number five, I guess we're put now. The Thunder Wizards Brawl. all right we're recording this on Monday it happened over the weekend I can't believe if you would have told me even if you would have given me

the games that were going on that night you say all right two of these teams are going to get into it and when I told you the wizards are on a war path to like ruin everything and I mean I'm not the guy that would stand up for the thunder here.

But, but in a week's time, if we're counting, the Wizards have given up 83 points to Bamar Bayo. They have collapsed Kate Cunningham's lung, and they've gotten into a fight with the best team in the NBA, which came away unscathed except for some suspensions or whatever. But like, what are they doing? Adam Silver's just got to shut them down. Just quietly lose games.

That's all we need you to do is to quietly lose games. Stop collapsing lungs. Stop letting Bam in a bio, scored in three points, and stop getting in fights and getting people suspended. I mean, we should be able to just tune you out. Nothing you do the rest of the way matters. But every damn night, it's like, did you see that wizard's game? No.

No. I did it. And then something crazy significant happens. We have had three monster. A great point. Wizards moments, 83 points, a collapse long, and a brawl. How? How?

Just take your losses and go to Cancun. Seriously. Did anything happen tonight? Are they playing tonight? No. I'm sure something catastrophic happened. No. But I didn't think about it that way.

but when you put it that way, it's like, guys, just quietly lose games. That's all you have to do. And this brawl was one of those things. Like, you know, when you get in a fight with your wife, you're like embarrassed and tell your friends about what happened? They're like, what happened? I wanted the volume to be on 45 and she wanted on 43. And then we ended up screaming each other.

It's just like one of the stupidest fights. It's, it's Champany and Jalen Williams. And they just like bump into each other. It's like, that's it. It's all it is. Is Jailin's trying to take the ball out? Jim Petty's in his way, and they bump into each other once. It turns into this whole thing.

And I watched this stupid fight a million times. And if you see it, if you're listening to this podcast, watch it one more time and keep an eye on this poor cameraman who's just, you know, he's on his knees down there under the basket. He ends up getting folded backwards. Like his legs are in the air and his knees are by his ears. And he's just folded backwards. It's not great. It's not great. Like when he came home, his lady was like, how it's work tonight?

He said, I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk. You also, like, the guy's probably like, how is this happening at a Wizards game? Yes. I'm just supposed to be here for two hours and 15 minutes and get to go home. I'm not even paying attention. I know. All I'm doing is filming a 50-point loss.

Yes. And then I get to go home. And maybe there'll be a Pub Carrington highlight or something. Yeah, maybe Alex Star will hit a three. Next one. I'll let you do this. Tyler Colick's unbelievable day. Not only did he just torch the G-League,

then played a second game in one day. He's been in damn witness protection for the Knicks. Colick was a thing that we were so excited about in the winter. Oh, we were all on it. He was doing the, he was the swag. He was the swag. On Zapplo Show live show,

we were talking a lot of Nix. And there's a lot of like Lynn Sanity talk, And there was like a week where Tyler Colick was like Colick sanity. It was like 20 and the 24. He was trying to run. It was Christmas. Yeah. And now he's like in the G league.

Scoring 42. He had a huge game in the G league. And then he came in against the Wizards. Let's give him the fourth. We'll give him the fourth moment that matters. Of course it's the wizard. Everything happens against the Wizards. Yeah.

Yeah. What is going on? Comes in against the Wizards and like hits a bunch of shots. Yeah. I think it was in for five minutes. scored 11 points or something. It was great. But like,

here's what's happening with the Knicks. Do you think we'll see Tyler Colick on the court in a postseason game? No. I think that Jose Alvarado

has made him pretty much irrelevant with this one. Any minute you would give Colick, you would give Alvarovarov. He also started to like Clarkson again. Clarkson? He was a, he was

a person and don grata for a little while. They've, they're deeper. than you think, but like, if you think about the Knicks, I've been thinking about this because I'm not too high. And they'll go, they've won six straight. Like, look who they played during these six games. Like, literally teams that are trying to lose.

The best team they played in the six game win streak are the Warriors without Stephen Kurt. But they're third in offensive rating. They're now fifth in defensive rating. Did you know that happened? They were middle of the pack like a month and a half ago. And I think a lot of the last. this is schedule.

But I'm still not happy. Why? They play, here's who they play to finish. Pelicans, thunder, hornets, rockets, grizzlies, Bulls, hawks, Celtics, rafters, hornets. There's some good ones in there? I want to see them 7.30 this Sunday against the thunder. Because remember they had a good game against the thunder in the garden?

They're going to be in Oklahoma City on the road. I just want to see how real this team. Oh, and that'll be a big to do, right? That'll be NBC on Sunday night. Yeah, 7.30. Oh, that'll be a big to do. Yeah. That'll be a big one.

Show me something, New York Knickerbockers. Like, I don't know. I don't know why I'm still apprehensive. I don't. I need to be put on the therapist's couch. What is it about this team? Their fifth in defensive rating, third in offensive rating. they've won six row.

The Celtics, they're a half game behind the Celtics for the two seed. And the Celtics have the toughest schedule of every team in the Eastern Conference. So they could very easily be the two seed behind the pistons. I'll be your therapist. Do I have to pay you? What's her name? Dana. I'll be Dana for a minute.

Jacoby. What don't you trust about the Knicks? Mainly Carl Anthony Towns. if you really want to boil it down. I knew that would be the answer. I'm trying to be soothing to you. That's a good therapist voice. I'm trying to be soothing to you,

but I knew that you were going to say Carl Anthony Towns. What about Carl Anthony Towns? Do you not trust? We're going to get to the mood of this. Defense. There are certain possessions in which I don't think that he's even paying attention.

Yes. I agree. Okay, thank you very much, Dana. Here's $250. I have validated. I have validated your feelings. I guess you have. I just, I don't know, man.

They could be the two-seat playing against the Celtics in the second round. They could. And they scare you. Oh, yeah. They better get Vouch back. That Luca Garza thing ain't going to take in the playoffs, bro. I just saw the Celtics in person. Too many white guys.

The Cassidy level is too high. Yeah. And I know that Vusevich is a white guy too, but still at least got size. He's Euro. You know what I mean? Yeah. Slow feet don't eat. He's slow.

Yeah. Oh, I know. But against the size to go along with Quetta. They need some size. They're going to face size. They need size. And if they get Vooch back, they'll be all right. but they need

they will need him they will need him that Garza thing's not going to take in the playoffs a second round matchup with the Celtics would be tough it'd be tough

I don't know I like that I like that I like my town's Mitchell front line oh yeah Joe Mazula's not afraid to just foul Mitch

that's why Luca Garza he'll play a big role come on in six fouls all right next one. KD passes Jordan on the scoring list.

This is mega impressive. So he's got 32,294 points. He is behind Kobe, Carl Malone, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and LeBron James. He's going to score roughly like 1900, probably between 1900 and 2,000 points this year, so I went and looked at.

He's 37? I mean, another guy that, like, you were just talking about, how LeBron's still putting up numbers. Like, it's not exactly like Kevin Durant's slow and that. Still averaging 25 a game. Is there anything about watching Kevin Durant this year that makes you feel like he's close to retirement? I mean, I kind of looked at it. I was like, all right, well, if he did it for four more years,

he would be the second leading score all the time. If he did it for three more years, he could jump Carl Malone and then just be behind LeBron. and Corrine. Yeah, then he scored about 1,600. He's averaged about 1,600 in his last 8 seasons.

Okay. So if you put him at 1,500, okay. He's going to be some depreciation. Yep. He would need to play. Four more years that puts him at his 3.

41. Yeah, that'd put him at and that would put him at 3 ahead of Carl Malone. Yeah. I don't know if he's going to get to Kareen. But it is, interesting. Because the way I feel about him is so different.

It is so weird, isn't it? It is so weird that he has like these unbelievable, all-time accomplishments. And yet it is clouded by this like the rockets have looked disjointed. The Suns was a disaster. And we can't get past that. The All-Star game, like, text leaking out thing is just the thing. It still hangs out there, though, bro. It doesn't bother.

You can't help but think about it. You have to think about it. Every time I see Jabari Smith, it's what I think about. I was looking at Jabari's numbers tonight. Let me see what he did. He was like 0 for 8 to start the game tonight. I'm about to look at it right now. I was like, damn, Jabari.

Are you telling me that every time you look at Jabari, Smith, you do not think about that. Come on. I do not. I'm not lying. Let me find what Jabari Smith. Yeah, so they lost by eight to the bowls. And let's look at Jabari Smith's numbers real quick.

He did not have a great game. He was two for ten from the field, one for seven from three. It's a disgusting loss. One for seven from three, Jabari Smith. Coming out of the draft, he was a shooter. It's a bad loss. You really do not. I can't get,

Get off my dickerson out of my head. To me, it was like those are private text messages that got leaked. But I know what they said. But there's private text messages. It's not like he's out there publicly trying to, like, argue against, you know, strangers. It's just a group text. And someone in the group text leaked it. I understand.

I know what they said, though. I know the way he feels is what I'm saying. Yes. And so did Jabari Smith. At some point, he must have addressed the. team and been like, I'm sorry. And Shen Goon. And I mean, it's just bizarre.

I was, I'm watching the Pistons game. And I've been watching Rockets games recently. And like, we were so high in the Thompson twins. And like, it's just so difficult if you can't hit a jumper. Oh. Like, it's just, it gets so hard. Asar is such an awesome

defender, though. Oh, yeah. And both of them are. Both of them are. Like, obviously, Alman does more. on offense than the brother does. But like, I just feel like you let a sars, it's like a, you let a pit bull out of a cage. I mean, he is just, it's relentless. So just tonight, Luke to get the ball past half court is like working.

He made like three moves. He had to dribble behind his back. He had to cross over. He had to turn his back to him just to get the ball over half court. He is special. And it's just crazy act, crazy. Crazy. Crazy.

man. I saw, but like, he missed a couple floaters. And it's like, and you just leave him alone to shoot jumpers. It's hard if you can't shoot. It is hard. Next one. What are we got?

Curry's back soon. Isn't any chance on the Warriors doing anything? Warriors fans are having like a debate on whether, like I can't. Like, I mean, I guess you can just tank it out and try to get a high pick. But it's like, we're not doing anything anyway. You're in that weird spot right. now. Let me look at the standings.

There are eight games above the Pelican, so they're going to be in the 10 spot. No, no, no, no, no, but just ensure that we get our lottery pick, right? Like, you're in that spot where they're going to have to play in that play in game. So it's like, should we just keep out Curry, keep out Porzengis, and just lose the game and get the higher pick rather than get involved in playoff basketball at all. the only hope of play basketball is to play against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Yeah, be led to the- No chance.

And you would be led to the slaughter. And this is, I just, I can't wait until they change the lottery system this off-season because if you were not incentivized to lose, there is a world in which it's like, hey, man, who knows, you got Stefan Curry, he can go for 40, you never know. But there's no reason to play him. And he was supposed to play, like yesterday he was supposed to play a five-on-five scrimmage. they had a day off. They announced that he was going to play

at this 5-5 scrimmage and he wasn't even cleared for that. There's only like 10 games left in the season. So the whole idea is, is it even worthy of bringing it back, right? I just hate that we had this conversation. I hate it.

There is a world where you could see. No, no. There's not, whatever world you're about to say, no. Uh-oh, you're mad at me? Because sometimes you rule things out without knowing that I have the biggest first.

Right. There is a world where you could see Phoenix losing to the Clippers. Agree with that. Yes. Okay. Now it's a one game set and the Warriors beat the Blazers. And now the Warriors play the Suns. Phoenix Suns. One game to get into the playoffs.

There is absolutely a world where you could see that playing out exactly like that. Have I told you about Rishir Fleming's wingspan? Yes. Okay. Yeah, but then what happens next? You play the Thunder? I mean, I lived this last year with the Grizzlies. Yes, that is what happens, and it's not fun.

The Grizzles were ahead in game three before John went down, and they were toe-to-to-to-to with them in game four. That's right. That was a very respectable sweep. That's right. Yeah. A very respectable sweep. So, I mean, that is the question, right?

Like on the whole Warriors thing. Like, I just think it sucks that we have to even have the conversation. I just feel like winning, like having it, I don't know, teams should try to win basketball games. I know. I know. You know? And that is a scenario that could take place.

The Clippers are going to, I mean, in a one game, again, you're playing one game. It would be fun to watch the, a Steph Curry team, have a one and done, two one and done games. That would be fun to watch. And I think the bigger thing about the Warriors is, it's not like Steph Curry's health or whether or not he's available or whether or not you should shut him down

is Steve Kerr. Like, imagine you're Steve Kerr. And you've had the success that you've had in that building with this franchise. And you had to do this, this year. Like, he does not have a contract. It would also be cool if we, I mean, look, I hope he does come back.

I hope he does play it out. And I actually hope that the scenario that I was just talking about where they somehow either, you know, whoever loses the clippers and the suns, then they, if the Warriors could get there and just having one curry game against the Thunder would be, you know,

like one of the knife where he just, game two, he scores 50 and they win. And it's one to one. It's going back to the Bay. It would be fun. conversations about are the Thunder in trouble? Do they have enough shooting?

I would rather see him in the playoffs than not. Yeah. But like Voske and like Gys Santos are not going to like, you know. Geys Santos. Track you track you to four wins against the thunder. Second. Another concern is this. One thing I'm concerned about this.

Doc Rivers. No longer coach of the bucks. Steve Kerr no longer coach of the Warriors. Jacoby and Verno no longer hosts the mismatch. Yeah. A little bit concerning, a little bit concerning. that's fair. That's fair.

Yeah, we kind of need Steve Kerr to want to keep this job. Yeah. Or else he's going to take ours. Exactly. Scotty Pippin's Mr. Pib commercial. Mr. Pipp. Oh, he's finally getting his rocks off about the, he's still pissed about the last dance.

He's going to be pissed forever. I got to love that Scotty Pippen hates the way. With the fires of seven hells. He hates him. I do. I like him. I do. How could you possibly win that many championships as a tandem and hate each other this way?

I got to be. It's so authentic that he is like, he can't stand it. And like they, you know, he went and like did that tour. And it was like him and a couple other guys. And they went to like, they went to a couple of like cities and did like these sit down things of like, you know, the truth about. And it's like, you know, then they're like rebutting the things that were said or the way it was. framed in the last last dance or whatever. And so now this is amazing marketing as like the second guy, right?

Like that Mr. Pib has never gotten the correct shake that it should get. I love that they have teamed up with Scotty Pippin. It is a match made in absolute heaven, right? Even better. That Scotty Pippen is the Mr. Pibb. And then he's getting his jokes off about a multi-series. documentary that blah blah blah talks down

on him and it's like oh my God this is brilliant. This is brilliant. To make it even better, our colleague Van Lathen is the voice of the soda can. Van Lathen who I went to that Clippers Timberwolves game with is the voice of the

soda can. I love this. I do. I love it. I love it too. I love the whole market. I'm here for all of it. his ex-wife dated Jordan's son. Like, what is happening? And what is going on? I know.

What is this? We need a whole new series about just them. Once, brothers now, you know, to be the now mortal enemies. It's like, it's so weird that Pippin and Jordan hate each other.

But at least at this point. At least if I can laugh about like, you know, like Kim doing a Mr. Pib commercial, making fun of the fact that he doesn't get, short shift. It's great. Also, Mr. Piv, not part of my life.

No. Not part of my life at all. But, I mean, could kind of make a comeback. It could. Kind of could. I mean, when is the last time? That's why I say brilliant marketing. They got us talking about it. Do you know what Dr. Pepper is supposed to be? Do you know what type of soda it is?

Like, what the flavor is supposed to be? Dr. Pepper, baby. It's good and nice. Do, do, do you know, like, what flavor that soda is supposed to be? Plum. No. It's supposed to be a plum soda. Did you look that up?

Or is that a real thing? I have a show called Food News on the ringer. It's supposed to be plum. Plum. It's supposed to be like a digestif, like, Dr. Pepper, like plum. I'll be damned. Yeah. We, a lot of times, my son likes diet Dr. Pepper.

We got that in the house a lot. Yeah, I do diet Dr. Pepper. It's a very close approximation to the actual Dr. Pepper. I agree with that. Yeah. I would say in terms of diet soda, like Diet Coke and Coke tastes nothing alike, but I love Diet Coke.

But Dr. Pepper, diet Dr. Pepper tastes a lot like Dr. Pepper. I'll tell you something. I don't. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't even know. I cannot remember. I cannot remember the last time I drank like a regular soda. I'm not,

it might have been. I don't do that. We're old. Our metabolism is not going. But I would say over, maybe 20, I mean, it's certainly over a decade. I don't remember if I was ever in a situation where I would. I think I've had like a rumming Coke. I've had like a rumming Coke.

Oh, maybe. You know? Yeah, I don't know. So I, but I've got, but I could tell you about every diet drink. Every. How do you feel about diet versus zero? Like if you had a Coke zero and a Diet Coke in front of you? I think I would, I could.

I would choose Coke Zero. You would. Yes. I learned there's less caffeine. There's less caffeine in the Zero. Oh, I like Coke Zero. I would say the ones we have in our house, the most. Because we're not big soda drinkers, but we do have them like on deck.

Coke Zero, Sprite Zero. Every once in a while I'll get some Diet Mountain Dew. I like that as well. Yeah, I like Diet Diet 2. I do. Yeah. It's sort of like, we know when you smoke cigarettes, but you don't buy packs. Like, I don't keep diet sodas at my house.

But if I go to the bodega, I'm always going to pick one up. Fair enough. All right. Last thing before we get out of here. My buddy, the prospector said he was watching the NCAA tournament. He said he's been. Huge weekend for the prospect. He said he'd watch the NCAA tournament.

And I actually heard him come in the back door a little while. Oh, he's here? Get him? Oh, yeah. I'll talk a little bit about the tournament while you go get the prospector. that St. John's game was one of the more inspiring moments I've had. I don't watch a lot of college basketball. I get paid to watch the NBA.

I love the NBA. I've always loved the NBA. I went to a college that had a division three team. So I don't have that sort of like alumni love for college basketball, but I do love the tournament. And I have to say, the Rick Petino and John Caliperi being as, Oh, the Prospector. How you doing?

I'm doing well, Prospector. You had a big weekend. What did you see? What did you learn? Prospector learned a lot over the weekend. Number one, A.J. Di Bancaster. 35 points getting double team the entire time. Other coaches saying he can't stop him.

He locked up, number one. Locked it up. Whoa. Locked it up. What about A-Cuff? Locked it up. I thought Peterson. I thought Peterson played well in a loss.

They were down like 10. This is what the Prospector thinks. Aikov's great. Dynamic guard for sure cannot guard a stick. So you better have four guys that can defend all around them. Oh, Prospector. That little dwarf on the other team from High Point had 30 points. Take the turn's wearing him out.

Darren Peterson, Cam, Boozer, getting picked apart. Unfairly on the boozer front, unfairly on the boosier front. The one that's benefiting from this the most is Caleb Wilson because he didn't have to play for that bozo, Huber Davis, and take that loss. You saw that canceled his radio show?

The prospector told you about Nate Ament. Yep. Get him out of here. Get him out of here. Tennessee's going to the Sweet 16. It ain't because of him. He can't do nothing. Prospector.

Freshman, freshman, freshman. All anybody talks about is the freshman. But the prospector had his eyes on the seniors. Who's that? Him old folks. The old folks. Not those guys that are wet behind the end. ears, have no life experience.

Nope. So the Prospector, same old song. Find some of these guys that became conference players of the year, proved they were great all year long and are still on good teams. We'll get to the tournament. They'll get drafted in the second round and everybody will go, how did everybody miss on them? Because the NBA is ages.

The Prospector is not. The Prospector is not. Just, tell me some seniors. Here's something to keep a lookout for. That kid that hit the shot for Kentucky, Otega Oway. O'Begah. O'way, keep an eye on him, keep an eye on him in these mock grass. Gotcha.

Zubi at St. John's, he's going to be a role player, but he competes like a monster, an absolute monster. and how many times do we have to see these Rick Petino kids come and do something. Dennis Jenkins ring a bell. Rings a bell. Everybody's talking about the freshman on Arizona. Bradbury's.

Bryce James. Bryce James. Ain't nobody talking about him. Even though that kid, if the prospector is going to prospect him, that kid is front and center every time there's a camera around. If you want a kid that can get on camera, get Bryce James. For all those phony team that do the whole everybody get together around the sideline announcer after the game,

Bryce James is perfect for your team. He'll be there front and center. Didn't do shit the whole night, but he'll be in the front row. The whole season. Jayden Bradley is the Arizona kid. He's the one that they aren't talking about. Keep an eye out. Keep an eye out.

The Prospector says, keep an eye out. Keep an eye out. You okay, Prospector? All right. Others. The Prospector was crying in his soup when Joshua Jefferson from Iowa State got hurt. Just a killer. Just an absolute killer.

I'm going to give you another one. Also, Ryan Cronwell, Conwell from Louisville. The kid got hurt. Halftime said he was hurt, but he was. He said, I'm there for my team. That kid, that's a fighter, a dog. A dog. The Prospector loves dogs.

Dogs, Prospector. It was like DMX. Conwell, you did it for me. You did it for me. You were a dog. All right. Now, Sweet 16 is coming up. We got things to pay attention to.

The big one is going to be Arizona versus Arkansas. Hmm. Five star heaven. Braden Burry's Coe Pete. That kid I just mentioned, Jaden Bradley, keep an eye on him. obviously for Arkansas. It's A Cuff.

Cuff. Malik Thomas, but the one the prospector fell in love with over the weekend. And the prospector knows his daddy. Billy Richmond the third. Billy Richmond

the third. Keep an eye out for him. When you're watching the games, watch for Billy Richmond the third in that Arkansas game. Woo! Houston. We got Kingston Fleming's

and Keaton Wogler. both though. You spoke about Wogler last time Prospect. Also got Pages' kid for Illinois and That's right. Eva Sitch

Go look at what he did. Kazimte. He plays for Illinois. There was a block on one end, dunk on the other end sequence by Evisich that made the prospector's Willie move for the first time in four years.

pull up the sequence your will he'll move to it's that awesome oh prospector thank you so much for blessing you know Willie had been dormant for four years until this Illinois dung and then this Illinois dunk happened and it was alive alive it was like this and then it went like that number right there. Thank you for the demonstration. You're welcome. Prospector, will you come back and join us next week after the Speed 16? If you promise to watch Alex Caravan from Yukon.

I promise. Another oldie but goody. Promise. And go watch that kid from Illinois with that block dunk sequence and watch what it does to your Willie. We don't need any of them Boner Pills sponsors on this show. You just watch Illinois dunks. DeVis it.

I was watching the Laker game tonight. They showed the over the backboard camera. And guess what logo was on top of the backboard? Rugeet, Rugee, Rugee, Rugee. Prospector doesn't watch the NBA. That's when they've lost their love for the game. Who moves your Willie, the Issevich? Evisich.

All right, I'll keep an eye on him. No Rousie. Prospector doesn't watch the NBA. Boring. I appreciate you joining us Prospector. I look forward to you joining us next week. We'll be back with the mismatch on Friday as always.

I want to give a shout to Chris Vernon, who also joined us earlier in the show and The Prospector and our producer, Stefan, Jeff. We'll be back on Friday.