The Mismatch - LeBron Slanders Memphis and Verno Responds. Plus, Loves & Loathes.

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

Jacoby and Verno close the week out with their Loves & Loathes, which include LeBron James’s Memphis slander, the Wizards' failed April Fools prank, and Steph Curry’s return! (0:58) Headlines From Thursday’s Games (6:53) Loves and Loathes  (7:05) Verno Loves: Hawks were once 26-30, now they are 44-33 (13:29) Jacoby Loves: Wardell Stephen Curry II Returns on Easter Sunday (16:16) Verno Loathes: Mosley’s Orlando Tragic Lose by 50+ to Raptors (23:32) Jacoby Loathes: MVP race is over, SGA wins it  (25:55) Verno Loves: Ayo Dosunmu Should be Franchise Point Guard (28:31) Jacoby Loves: Paul George’s post Suspension Play (30:37) Verno Loathes: LeBron’s Memphis Slander in Favorite Golf videos (40:55) Jacoby Loathes: LeBron coming after Verno’s City of Memphis (42:48) Verno Loves: Maxime Raynaud named NBA Rookie of the Month (45:00) Jacoby Loves: The Pacers effort at the end of the Season (46:50) Verno Loathes: The Wizards April Fools Fiasco (53:48) Jacoby Loathes: The Raptors  (55:50) Verno Loves: Kawhi Leonard’s 1 minute “Back to Nature” Documentary (1:00:33) Jacoby Loves: Watching The Bucks Ousmane Dieng (1:04:17) Verno Loathes: Knicks fans have lost some Juice (1:11:56) Jacoby Loathes: How much Reality Show “Summer House” has taken up in his brain The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! [phone] Hosts: Chris Vernon and David Jacoby Producers: Jessie Lopez, Brian H. Waters, and Jeff Shearin Social: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon and joining me to us every week from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby. Jacoby. Verno, we're going to talk about a lot today. I've seen the rundown. All I care about. All I care about is your reaction to the LeBron James' Memphis slander video that came out.

That's all I care about. So I'm going to talk about a lot of different things first. But like, I just want you to know that is all I care about. I mean, it's unfortunate that those are the headlines literally everywhere. When I was going through and we were getting ready for the show as we were recording this on Thursday night during right now, the Lakers and the Thunder are playing against each other as we are recorded. Literally. Well, I mean, I can't wait to see who is more mad about the calls that were or were not made in this game between Luca and Shageld just Alexander as they're coming down the stretch.

But no, I couldn't avoid it. As I'm going through all the NBA news and I'm getting ready for this evening show, it's like, LeBron says this, LeBron says this, LeBron says this, LeBron says this. And I'm like, oh, for goodness sakes. And of course, people are tagging me about it and everything. They want to know what I'm going to say about it. So we'll get to that a little bit later in the show. Oh, forget it.

Who cares? Seriously. Who cares? You care, Verno. You care. Don't lie to the people. I always say don't lie in the microphones. You're going to be very interested.

Don't say that you don't care. You're going to be very interested as to why I did care, and it's not going to be the reason you think I care. Come on. A guy not liking staying in the Hyatt or whatever he said. I don't get to it later. All right. A couple games that did go on tonight.

First, the Charlotte Hornets took care of business against the Phoenix Suns. We're down. at the end. Well, look, every game matters to Charlotte at this point in the season. Phoenix is pretty much just locked into where they are going to be. Now, I will say, I saw them before we recorded our last episode in person. And I was impressed, but they've gotten everybody back by now. They got Dylan Brooks back. They've gotten Mark Williams back. They got, Grayson Allen didn't play in the game that I went to. You know, they were playing a bunch of those were Shear Fleming's and Boo, yeah.

You had a bunch of those guys that step in. They've got to use this last, you know, handful of games as a ramp up to getting back used to playing with each other, but more importantly, used to playing with each other with green in the fold because it's all been mixed and matched, right? Like the Jalen Green and Booker thing had worked itself out with the role players alongside and whatever,

and now it's kind of mixed and matched with these players. And so Phoenix, who's going to have a wonderful, game set against, and that Clippers Blazers thing is going to go down to the wire. But their spot at seven is locked. And the only thing to be decided is who they're going to play in a one game set to decide whether or not they get the seven seed or if they have to play again for their playoff lives. But they've got to use this last couple as a ramp up.

And it is a tricky situation just because of when they have gotten their guys. fact, they haven't had like that full unit of what would theoretically make them best. And when they are not theoretically at their best, they've been able to figure it out. They've been able to figure it out. Yeah, right? They've been able to figure it out. I do want just to congratulate the Hornets for giving Mark Williams a tribute video. I thought that was great.

Good for them, you know? Come on. And as you said, the clippers losing to the, the clippers losing to the, the Blazers just kind of shocked me. It's just like they're neck and neck for this thing. And it's such important being the difference between nine and eight. And I just, I don't know. I can't figure this Clippers team out.

Wait, hold on. I got to take a 20 second. Did they really play a tribute video to Mark Williams? Yeah, yeah, they did. No, they didn't. Yeah. Like a thank you or like, like, or was it like a. I didn't see the whole thing.

Was it like a Sarah McLaughlin with the Dodgers? I don't like watching. Sarah McLaughlin with the Dodgers. dogs. I will remember you. No, no, no. It's still a saddest

commercial ever. But that is bizarre. When you went to Los Angeles, they also played a tribute video for them. Yeah. Although all those great memories they have. We rejected you. Yeah, with Mark Williams.

With Mark Williams as a... Remember it's Alton Connect? Do you remember him? Yes. Yeah. Do you remember him? have not. And the other game that went on is the Pistons,

the Pistons beat everybody. That's what they do. Are the Pistons better without Cade? Are they better without Cade? It's what they do. They might be better without Cade at this point. They have proven to be good no matter who is in their lineup. It's ridiculous.

And obviously on the other side, the big story was Anthony Edwards going to be ineligible for all the awards by not playing. I think he had an illness tonight is what I read. He needed to play every game. Well, we had the craps last game, so maybe that was it. Exactly.

Castro intestinal. I mean, so he's not going to be eligible for those awards, and that's obviously an all NBA guy. So there's another one. There's going to be a lot of ineligible players for season awards this year. And Lord knows we have talked about that topic 100,000 times. No, we don't need to do that again. It will get to it.

But Edwards already has his max. Like it's not one of those significant things where if he made it, he would be eligible for another $80 million or whatever. Like he's already paid. Right. Yes. And then, but it'll become a thing when everybody sees the all NBA teams. Everybody's going to be like, what?

Cock brothers on here? So that one was going on. And then obviously we've got the big with the Lakers and the Thunder that are playing against each other tonight. It's nine to 25 right now in the first quarter. Yeah. Not a great start for the Lakers. It feels like one of the, of those where Oklahoma City would try to lay the smack down just to send a message

before we get into. We're not that far away from playoff time. And so this week, there's been a lot to love and loathe. We will start with a few weeks ago, I brought them up, and you kind of, like you do with most things I bring up, rolled your eyes about the Atlanta Hawks. And you were like, really? Do you think they're dangerous against somebody? again, we ready yet?

Because they were once 26 and 30, Jacoby. They were 26 and 30. You know what the record is right now? 44 and 33. That would put them 18 and 3 since the All-Star break and walloped Orlando in a game that Orlando needed like blood. Yeah, they did. And was coming off like a crazy disappointing loss.

So you'd figure they would rebound. And then I looked on Monday, they beat the Celtics in a game that we talked about last week and that we would have circled for what they were able to do. I saw the stat that Evan Sidery posted. It said, the Hawks sent the Trey Young for C.J. McCollum trade. There were other pieces involved, but sure. Go ahead. Right. But that's the major pieces.

Yeah. Yeah. Offensive rating, 123.9. Number one. What? 123.9. Number one. Defensive rating, 100.8. Number one. Net rating, 23.1. Number one. Damn.

I mean, you can cherry pick stats and use the sliders to make them better or worse, but that is significant. It's been a while. That's significant. I mean, it's been a while since that trade. Well, they, you know, they had the streak, which was against, you know, poor teams, fine. And they lost the rockets that night. But since they lost the rockets, they've beaten the pistons and the Celtics twice. You know, we kept on doing this all throughout the year.

And I think we took a dip. with a couple of different teams. We're like, maybe they're going to be this year's Pacers. Maybe it's the Clippers. Maybe it's the Tornets. Maybe it's right. Who is the team that cranks up that you never saw coming? That is just a totally different version of what they had been the majority of the season.

I mean, they have certainly thrown their name in the hat. Because for a minute there, right, it was Charlotte where it was like, they got the number one. You remember we were doing this? Of course. Number one offense, number one net rating. With their, with Diabate, et cetera. Oh, yeah.

Their starting five is never lost. They're the best instead of the 87 bowls, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Right. And I'm saying we took a test drive with the clippers doing this because their record had gotten obscene post their six and 20 start or whatever the hell it was. And then took a test drive with the Charlotte Hornet.

and look, the end of the season, this is a real drive with the Atlanta Hawks because now they're going to be, they got the five seed right now. They got the five seed added to the playoffs. They got the five seed added to the playoffs. And there is, I will just say this,

there is no evidence to suggest that they are not very dangerous. I would, I mean, I'm a Nick fan. So you're looking at right now as it stands the Sixers, the Hawks, or the Raptors in the first round. And I might just, I might just have to go to church and pray for the Raptors on Sunday.

Yeah. That's who you would want. Yeah. That's who you would want. You got to be kidding me. Because the other two are, look, the other two, it would be a shock if there's not a game six in their arena. To me. Oh, yeah.

Remember, we talked about this. I thought all of these Easter conference series, I thought all of these teams could have a crack at winning two games, right? The customary game three win, first home game in your arena. Because I just don't think there's, you know, unlike the matchups that we had in some other years, I don't think the divide is that great between these teams. I think the parody is much, much greater, right? There's not the dominant.

I think you're going to wipe. the floor with them. I think these teams that have emerged four through eight are much stronger than we would have originally identified them as being. That's what I think. I don't think there'll be many people that will pick an upset in the first round in the Eastern Conference, but I don't think there will be a sweeper and maybe one gentleman sweep. I think it might be one gentleman sweep, but everything else is six or seven. And Atlanta might be. Atlanta might be. Atlanta might be the one that's like we nobody thought the Pacers were going to be playing in the NBA finals, much less than a game seven in the NBA finals.

Nobody, even after they were amazing from January on last year, right? They were under 500 at the calendar turn, like, just like we were talking about this. Like, we've been searching all year. And again, we'll see what their ceiling is. But they were 26 and 30. we went through 56 games with paying no mind to them whatsoever. And put a pin in this one, Berno, for like our August shows. The difference between the Pacers and the Celtics going into next year

with their star player coming back from Achilles. Right. Because the idea that the Pacers are going to sort of like pick up where they left off in the NBA finals because Halley is back is a little different than what Celtics and the Tatum are working with. I don't know. They did trade for Zubotch and they're going to have a top five pick probably.

Yeah. So, you know, if they get Hallie and DeBantzda to go along with what they got, they could be right back in the mix pretty quick. We'll see. All right, what's your first love? I've been thinking about this. There are reports that

Wardell, Stefan Curry, Stephen Curry, sorry, stuff. Has been practicing and scrimaging with the team and has picked to return Sunday, Easter Sunday, a return on Easter Sunday. Why not? He would approve. That's for Jay and I had to. Yeah, I know.

That's for him. He's doing that on purpose, right? I apologize. He's righteous. And I thought about, I was like, well, does this make sense? What's the point? Should you risk injury? And then I slapped myself in the face.

I was just like, Jacoby, he's a star basketball player who has physical ability to play basketball. Their team is literally in contention for a championship on paper. They're not out of the playoffs. They're in the play in. You can get the eighth seed. You can win game one in OKC and get some headlines. Maybe there's some injury luck happening. Like, if you're in it, you're in it and you have a chance.

And I believe that it is absolutely the right thing for Wardell, Stefan Curry, to play basketball, professionally if he's physically able to. And the fact, I'm mad at myself for even considering an idea in which it wasn't possible because we've got to this place where it's like, well, if you can't make the playoffs, then you just try to lose every single game. And if you're not a contender for a championship, then you're probably better off not even making the playoffs, just losing the playing. Like the loser mentality has seeped into my own brain.

Of course it's great that Steph is playing. I like watching Steph play basketball, and we'll get the opportunity to do that on Sunday, and we'll get the opportunity to do that in one winning your in games or winning you get to play again, whatever, in the plan, and I support it, and I love it, and I'm happy for the Warriors and all their fans. My first loat.

Do like a follow-up sentence or something, like add a little something to what I said. What do you want me to say? Nothing, move on. I thought you, I thought you summed it up well. I want Steph Curry to play also, and I'm glad you've come around to my way of thinking. Okay.

Because, I mean, a couple of, well, no, a couple of weeks ago, you're like, oh, well, you know, they're not going to win anyway. And they should, shouldn't they just, like, what does it matter if you're in the play it or not? It's just one game. And now they're playing. Now I'm upset that I even asked you to contribute.

Just move on. Just move on. Now they're playing in it. You're like, you know what? I decided I like, I like watching Steph Curry play basketball. Just shut up and move on. Did that replace LeBron James as great?

All right. My first load, the Orlando tragic. So they lost that aforementioned Hawks game, 130 to 101. And that was coming on the heels of Sunday losing by a franchise worst 52 points. So they lost by 52, and then they turned around in a massive home game

and lost by 29. And it's all Mosley, Mosley, Mosley, right? You know, fire the coach, fire the coach. And look, I mean, I talked about this months ago. They should have, they should have just run him out and brought in Taylor Jenkins and maybe he could have fixed it. That being said, that was like four months ago. Four months ago.

Okay. So, look, I'm not going to be the one to say that Jamal Mosley does not deserve to get blame for this. But I will say, I read Mike Bianchi, who's a long. time columnist down there in Orlando. I read his column. Unbelievable, I read a column. Because I just wanted to see what the vibe was.

And I mean, he just killed him, surprisingly, not surprisingly at all. And he was saying, like, look, the coach is going to take the blame for this. And you can talk about mostly all you want. But when a team loses by 52 and then they turn around and then they get smacked like that by 29, at one point I wrote down what he wrote. At one point in the column, it says, where's the fight? where's the anger, where's the leadership? And you can point to Jamal Mosley all you want,

but that's a bunch of guys. You have to quit to be that sorry. To lose by a franchise record 52, you just let go of the rope completely. And then turn around and it not get fixed and get embarrassed. Now, there's some people that say, look, Jamal Mosley, that's the responsibility. The responsibility is having guys ready to play.

This column's point was this isn't X as and O's when you're getting smacked around like that. Like you could have anybody on the sidelines. And it's really interesting because I thought about it through the prism of there was a story I read on Monday. And it was about Tommy Lloyd. He is the head coach at Arizona, who is rumored to be possibly going to North Carolina. But Tommy Lloyd's done a great job, obviously, with Arizona. His teams in the final four with a great chance to win the national championship.

And in that last game, last weekend, they were down by seven. at halftime against Purdue. And the story goes, the Tommy Lloyd walked into the locker room and he didn't give like some Al Pacino any given Sunday, rah-rah speech. He didn't cuss him out. He didn't do anything.

He said, he went into the locker room and he said, you guys figure it out. And he walked out. And he walked out for five minutes. And then he came back in. And he said, He's done this four or five times this season.

Now, keep in mind, Arizona bombed them out in the second half of that game. I think they turned it over one time. They won the second half by a million. And he said he's done that like four or five times. And then as the article went on, it said that there was like, it said that there's been all kinds of studies about this. And I thought this was super fascinating. It said the most powerful thing in team sport is a player-level.

program is what Tommy Lloyd said. And then he said, and then the article goes on in a separate part and says there was a huge meta-analysis done of 50 studies of over 17,000 athletes. And what they found was that team captains had nearly twice the effect on performance as coaches. Now that sounds trite, right? This is interesting. I'm listening.

I can't help but think when I'm watching Orlando or any of these teams because we are going to fire these coaches. And I'm not defending the coaches, right? But in the end, then this has been studied by, look, nerds study everything. And what they found is that your team captains have twice the impact of your coach. That the player-led programs, and I think that is not just about colloquial. Allegiant Athletics. I think that's about any team. And I watched that Orlando team, and I said, what happened?

And I do think that, you know, a lot has been made of, like, Dylan Brooks and when he was with Memphis and now he's with Phoenix and a lot of, you know, whatever. Culture, blah, blah, blah, yeah. But also, like, there were all their veterans on that team, Kyle Anderson and these kind of guys, right? And then you got rid of those guys. And, like, then you, you know, they say the, uh, the inmate who,

the asylum in some ways, right? Like a bunch of young guys are now in charge. And you've got to, whenever you're building these teams, and they did the all-in move, you know, by bringing in Desmond Bay. Like, and they moved off of Catavius, Colwell Pope, Cole Anthony, some other vets they had on that team, whatever.

But I don't, and again, I'm not close enough to that situation to understand, but that is a team that obviously, obviously turned it over to guys that are not ready to lead. Because that does. doesn't happen if the guys in that locker room are able to lead. And at that point, it has to come completely from the coach.

But a lot of these teams, when they're starting to press forward, they discount whether it's veteran leadership or whatever it may be. Because it's pretty obvious, Paolo's not that guy that says, this shit ain't happening tonight, right? Like, you can't get bombed. These games matter so much. And they're getting killed. They need these games, too, for standings-wide.

So that's very good qualitative analysis. So I'll offer some quantitative. Yeah, let me hear it. I like teams that have identities. Like, it's like, what do you do? Who are you? What can you rely on night after night? And the thing I loved about the magic the last two years is they could rely on their defense.

Lunch pair. They are now 14th in defensive rating. Like, this was a team. like, you know what? Maybe they don't have it tonight, but at least they're going to be able to defend. They're going to defend the basketball. And they're 14th now. Their defensive rating is 114.8.

Well, and they've been marred by injury. They never had. Sure. They don't have, they never have Paulo Franz and Suggs together. You know who else can say that? The Oklahoma City Thunder, the best recommend. I agree. Like, that's not an excuse anymore.

That's every single year with the magic. Yep. But they always had defense. year the defense has fallen off a cliff. And I mean, mostly obviously is not going to be their coach next year. But if I was Orlando Magic fan, they were trending up and they're now trending down hard. The pistons are what we thought the magic were going to be. I don't like it when you say something I wish I said.

Sorry. Yeah, that's a good job. Now I'm jealous. Let's move on. My first loathe is when Verno says something that I wish I said. That's a good one. Yeah, yeah, there it is. No, seriously, I'll make this brief because we got to pick up the pace here.

I think the Shay Gildes-Alexander is the MVP, and I think this is a great four-horse race for the MVP, but the idea that it's still close and that we're like monitoring these performances night by night is kind of ridiculous to me. Best player, best team. I don't like him. I don't like the way he plays,

but he's easily the MVP as far as I'm concerned. Easily. What if, I mean, again, it would take like an act of God. Don't you dare. Exactly. Like, whatever you're about to say, it's not going to happen. Like, if San Antonio flipped the standings, would you still believe in best player or best team? Yes.

No, no, no, no. You tricked me. You tricked me. I just don't, I don't think there's enough room left in the race. Oh, monsieur, monsieur. He left his cigarette. He left a cigarette. at. Yeah. I thought he was going to say that the coach from Arizona was using a laissez-fail technique.

But I just think I think the MVP race is over and Chegildes Alexander will win it. And I think that people with our profession are just using it as something to talk about. It's over. Well, the guy in second place is making a thing out of it. He went on sports center. Oh, he's great. And he went on a sports center last night saying, I want it. And he's making. Good for him for wanting it. I'm glad that he says that. He's also made a pretty profound case. Bro, he has like 41 last night.

I know. And he's made people. Well, and they're like 25 and what was it? Hold on 25 and 2, I think. Is it? No, 26 and 2. That's ridiculous. 10 in a row, 26 and 2 over their last 28.

I mean, that's. How are they not in first? I mean, Oklahoma City just never loses. Seriously. They never lose. how can you how can you go 26 and 2 and not be at first place hell the hawks went on a two week run in their five seat yeah they were like night they suck they sucked three weeks ago a lot of it has to do with your magic though i'm aware orlando tragic Orlando tragic all right my next love i owe to soon moo oh god

i mean i loved this at the trade deadline but man oh man as before tonight and And I think he ended tonight with like 16, 5, and 4 in their loss. But as a starter, he had been averaging 19 points and 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 52% from the field, 48% from 3. He had a huge game. Yeah, a triple double against the Mavs earlier this week. That's right, the Mavs, yeah. I love Dissuomu.

If they could get, look, now I love D'Soon Mu as a starter. I have sat there and thought, boy, they just need a point guard. They just need a point guard. They just need a point guard. So if they, now that they've kind of got this one, if they can get Edwards back fine. McDaniels. Most importantly, McDaniels back fine. All of a sudden, they, I do think that is a total new wrinkle to them.

Absolutely. If, uh, if Dissoon Mooh is now going to be the starter. And I'm rolling out there, Dissoon Moe, Edwards, McDaniels, Randall, Gobert. Woo. I like that for playoff basketball, man. I really do. And obviously the McDaniels thing being week to week is scary. The last thing we got was from three days ago.

An MRI conducted by blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. On McDaniels revealed the left knee, Patella tendon apathy and a bone bruise. McDaniels would be listed as week to week. Further updates on his progress will be provided when available. That's bad. Because I want Dante and Nas and that group coming off the bench. You know what I'm saying? That's the plan.

Yeah, I know, but I don't want the Dissue Mood makes it so you don't have to have everything go through and get doubled, aunt get doubled, aunt get doubled, because that's what it's going to be, right? That's why Randall went off in that first round last year, and it's like, all right, like here's maybe at least another safety valve that can not only create for himself but for others.

And I love to Soon, Mu, and the Bulls are so goofy. It's unbelievable. Yeah, I mean, we don't have to even spend our time discussing the Bulls, but I love this trade at the time. and I do love this team. I just want McDaniels to be at 100%. He needs to be at 100%. But I like I.O as a starter.

It took a little while, but they got there. Yes. And I like, I like team. One of the things I thought was like it could be a heel for them to not have a point guard. He can man it. Absolutely. My next love is Paul George post suspension.

Like, God. damn this guy like it turns out all he needed was like a couple months off because and he came out with some quotes where he was like listen like my mentals weren't great my physicals weren't great I was playing through a lot of stuff and I do want to say that we often don't give players credit for playing hurt not injured like oftentimes players are hurt but they play and it's done it now it's down the report and then we don't give him credit for it like he is fully healthy now and at the peak of his powers. The last game against the Wizards, 30 minutes, 30 minutes, 39 points in the first three quarters, six assists, five rebounds.

Six for 12 from beyond the art. Stats against the Wizards don't count, but he has been great. They do count and he's been great. And that was just one example of him. I think he's since he's come back, he's averaged like 25 points or something. He looks good. and he's moving well on defense. Like he just looks like a different player than he was before he got suspended.

Remember, he's not coming back from an injury. Am I misremembering? Am I misremembering a recent episode where you said bring on the Sixers? I don't believe in the Sixers because I don't think they'll be healthy. Bring on the Sixers, go ahead. But that most of that has to do with Joel Imped's infallibility. Who's looked better recently? Them are the Knicks.

The Knicks. You saw the Knicks in Memphis. It's an audio format for the record. I gave him the thumbs down. Yeah, you gave him a thumbs down. Oh, I thought we pivoted a video. You did. Have you tried to find us on Netflix?

LeBron. Open up Netflix and try to find our show. I told my kids we were on Netflix. They're like, no, you're not, Dad. It's like, hold on. You got to search it. You got to search it. My next loathe.

LeBron, James, in Memphis. Okay. So you've been waiting for this. I've been waiting all day for this. Well, because I told. you, I said, this is not the angle you think. That's what you rode the rundown, not the angle I think, which is just bullshit. Just do your

thing. I'm going to lay out. Why is that, why is that BS? Why? Your city that you ride for. Don't you want me to? Was disrespected by the most famous athlete on the planet. And you're like, it's not what you think it's going to be, David,

but I'm going to lay out. Okay. So before I get into the LeBron James Memphis thing, which honestly, I don't like, whatever. Like, I did this with Dremont. I did this with Chandler Parsons. Like, there's been a dog pile on Memphis that I just don't understand that's

taken place over the course of the past three months. I just don't get it. So this is just another one. But he's LeBron James. So it's going to get the headline. This is why it's not what you think. What you don't know about me is I love. Bob does sports and I love watching these YouTube golf shows. So yesterday, Bob does sports posts.

We got, like he posts the promo and it's LeBron playing with them. Him, Joey Colcutz, Fat Perez, the whole Bob does sports crew, which I watch their videos all the time because I love golf. And I'm watching and I'm like, oh my God, because LeBron had started. watching them. He started watching them because he's gotten into golf. So he reached out to them saying he wanted to do it. I'm like, oh my God, he's going to do this. I'm going to get to watch LeBron not only play golf on this thing I watch all the time. So they say the show is coming out at like noon. I think it's at new, right? That's when it's going to drop. He said, Bob says it's going to drop tomorrow at new. Okay. So I'm on my local show. And I'm

I'm thinking to myself. So I'm, you know, and I thought I marked down, like, when I get home from work or maybe later today, when Haley has to go to soccer, I can't wait to watch this. This is going to be great. Before I could ever go and watch this, it's just, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing.

My text, my phone. I'm like, no. How? Like, the one thing, the golf thing I wanted to watch that I was exactly, like, now is marred by, like, What are the chances? Seriously. You want to see him hit 140-foot yard pitching wedge.

That's what you were interested in. All I wanted to do was watch the Bob does sports with LeBron mash up and him playing golf with them. And those headlines start coming out. And I'm like, it says LeBron James says this. And I click on it. It's like in a recent episode of Bob does sport, I was like, oh my God. No. No, no.

There's no way that the one thing I was looking forward to watching today has been totally ruined for me. Like, seriously? Like, how can I not be able to watch a golf video? Why is there some kind of, why is there Memphis slander in a golf video that I want to watch? that should be my safe place. Would you agree that should be my safe space?

This has happened to me before or two. Right? I was getting a lap dance since you started talking politics. I was like, girl, like, what are we? This is not what I'm here for. This is what are we talking about now? Taxes? Like what?

Immigration? Oh my God. Get my $20 back. It should be my safe space. I resent him to nowhere. There's what if you would have told me, hey, Chris, I know this afternoon, you're going to watch the Bob does sports with LeBron James video, right? And then you would have said, what are the chances Memphis is mentioned in that video? I would have said, less than zero.

It's a less than zero chance. And this is what I love about you. It's like, you just wanted to see him like hit out of the sand. That's it. You know what I mean? That's all you want. You just wanted to see him be like, like, oh, is you going to lay up or is you going to go for the green? That's what Chris Vernon was.

therefore. Instead, it's a takedown of his city and a suggestion that they move the franchise that you love so much. Like, if there were like taboo words for Chris Vernon, Memphis would be one and Grizzlies would be one. The other thing is the guy is from Cleveland. But let's not, let's not start firing. Let's be above it. Let's take the high road. No, I'm saying. Take the high road. Take the high road. He's from Akron. He's from Akron, which is not even Cleveland. Right, not even Cleveland. Like, you know what I'm saying?

I'm not saying that I don't mind Cleveland. Like, I'm not against Cleveland. I'm saying, but it's not like he's from Miami or L.A. Yeah, he's not from Vegas. He's not from Las Vegas where it's like, oh, we look down on it. You know what I mean? Like Clay or really? Or even like Austin, which is like some, a cool small city.

Yeah, do you think, do you think players love going to Cleveland? In the words of Joachim Noah, what's so cool? about Cleveland, dude. I never heard anybody say they went on vacation to Cleveland. Like, right? I mean, it's not like the hotspot or anything. So it's just bizarre. The other thing is, I don't, I guess we just need to have a good, a better hotel here. I don't get it. Because these guys are here for 24 hours. And I have wondered, I, you know, Morant used to be the one that would always stand up for Memphis. And obviously before that, it was Tony Allen, Zach Randolph, Mark, I saw that Mike Conley, that whole. crew. Like, you've never had a player that played here go out of their way, except for Rat Chandler Parsons who stole $93 million. He's literally the only one that's ever played in Memphis that I've ever heard. And I've been here 25 years. But I mean, they just don't. And they also, like, they don't understand the dynamics of Memphis and Nashville. Nashville is the city that

looks down on Memphis. And there's a racial component to that. There's no way around that. And it's very bizarre to hear NBA players talking about a minority-based city. I mean, losing the one professional franchise would kill the city. I'm not kidding. It would be devastating to the city. And it sucks. It sucks. I don't understand where the dog pile came from.

It never happened. I've been here 25 years. It's never been like that. It's never been like the hotels being the problem. Like I stayed at the Peabody Hotel. It was lovely. It's weird. I have certain feelings about the ducks, but whatever.

They're also. They're here for one night. Bass Pro Shops that's a pyramid that is also a hotel like right there. Like who doesn't want to stay at a Bass Pro Shops pyramid? Like an Egyptian pyramid that's also a Bass Pro Shops is right there. And we've got complaints because what? The hotels don't have jacuzzis? Memphis has our problems.

We are also one of the most important cities in American history. and world history. And the soul and the character of this city is unbelievable. I'm telling you this as someone who has lived here 25 years and have chosen over and over and over and over again, not to move. I could have moved to any city anywhere over and over again. I got offered jobs everywhere you can imagine. I have been asked to move a thousand times over my career. and I stayed here because of the people. The people are real. The people are authentic.

No matter where you work or where you live or what team you root for, whatever, in the end, the world and your life is about people. That's what it's about. That's what makes a place. What makes New York is not all the skyscrapers and all the stuff to do. It's the people. What makes whatever city you want to, whatever. And the people in Memphis are as real.

and as authentic as it gets. And so it is totally unsurprising to me that an absolute phony like LeBron James feels out of place. I mean, I've been to Memphis a couple times, and I'll say there's a couple things that you associate Memphis with, right? Barbecue, blues, Beale Street,

basketball. If you go to Beale Street and you walk to the bottom, you bump into the basketball arena. It's right there. Right there. And if you take that away, or you could go, you could possibly walk down the street

to the National Civil Rights Museum, or you could walk up the street and you could go to Sun's studio where Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash recorded their songs. Or you could go over to Stack Studio where Otis Redding and Bookerty and the MGs and on and on recorded,

I mean, some of the most important music and things that have happened in music history. Oh, or you could. drive down the street and see the house of the king of rock and roll. It's like, come on, bro. Or if you go to an Egyptian pyramid made of glass, that's also a fast pro shots. We could do that too.

You could do that too. We got our problems, but it's a great city. All right. And I don't understand the dog pile. I just don't know what's happened. I don't know when it became free reign. And I don't know what happened. And I don't know.

It's bizarre, honestly. We've been here 25 years. It's not like the team has been here for four. And like we've been here for five years. My next loathe is also LeBron James, talking to shit about Memphis. Because you're my brother. And if you come from my brother,

then you're coming for me. And I love LeBron James so much as a basketball player. But man, like, if you agreed, of all the things he agreed to do, I know you love YouTube videos, LeBron, but like you cannot be on a microphone for four hours. You're going to say something out of pocket.

Is it four hours? To play golf, it takes me four hours. I'm not hitting the thing in the woods. Those videos are usually an hour. So like I, as I told you, I watch all of those.

They've had Max Homa, John Rom, all kinds of people do these. And those guys are legitimately hilarious. I love their channel. I've seen that I don't follow their channel, but I've seen those guys before in short clips. Oh,

you know, the heavier guy with the longer hair. Fat Perez. Yeah, I saw him in the videos. Like, I know that guy. That's my guy.

Fap Farrs is my guy. He's a star. Forget LeBron James. I'm here for Fap Perez. I know. LeBron James, stay for Fap Perez. I know. For that, for the one thing that I do watch on TV,

I just, all I do is watch sports and then I watch YouTube golf videos. I do love your angle, though. You're like, all I wanted to do was watch LeBron James shank a drive. Like, that's all I want to do. I just wanted to see him hit a drive in the woods. And now it's like he's slandering my city and wants to move my team to Nashville. How is that what came out of that video? Seriously.

What? What got a luck do I have? All right, let's talk about basketball. I want 45 to 76 and there's two and a half minutes left in the second quarter. I want to play LeBron and golf and just trash him. I do. That would be, that would be the best. Would you share a card? I would share a card?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm fine with them. Would you gamble? I would find with it. We could play it. We could play in Nashville, his favorite city. Idiot. All right.

Maxime Renault is my next love. Look, there's literally nothing to be excited about for the Kings. I mean, what they have done. We're a few years removed from one of the great stories in all of the NBA. It just shows how fast it could change. That light the beam thing was so damn fun. It was unbelievable. Oh, my God.

And, you know, they broke it after, what was it, like 17 years. They hadn't been to the playoffs. And it was like, not only were they getting there, they were good and Fox and some bonus or crack. Oh, yeah. Malik Munk's coming off the bench on heaters and it's like, and Keehan Murray is a rookie who's having this, who breaks the three point rookie record and all this stuff. And it's like, you look up a few years later and it's like, what the hell.

But this guy is good, Maxine Renaud. And he was named rookie of the month this month. So I'm going to give him a shout out. He averaged 18 points, 8.5 rebounds, two assists, also had 6, 20, point games and two 30 point games. And he led all rookies with six double doubles. You know, you see him.

He's a legit seven foot tall. Oh, yeah. I mean, he, and he stretches it all the way out to the three point line. And I love when he does the, like, throw it out to him. And then he like, somebody does the late close out. And he, like, half of his highlights are him like pump faking a three and then taking two steps and dunking. And I'm like, you know what?

This guy is big. and he's offensively gifted and he plays pretty tough. Like, you know, look, you're looking around that team and you're like, all right, what do we build around? It looks like, we're not projecting four all-stars for him, but like he's something to watch. Everything sucks, but they might have gotten the steel of the draft. At 42.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. The 42nd pick might be awesome. And he might be like the fourth best French center and Monsieur Baskett, boy might have something to say about him later. You never know. Monsieur, Mr. Basketball had something to say about Maxim Renaud.

Maybe down the road. Reno. That's a good one. The Pacers were like, they had like a 16 game losing streak at some point. Like it was like they were just not even competitive in games. It was just like one of those teams or if I saw them on the lead pass list, I wouldn't even watch whatever.

But they've gotten some. wins recently. They beat your Orlando magic last Monday. Tragic. And then they, sorry, your Orlando tragic last Monday. So it's previous Monday, March 23rd. And then

they did the L.A. gamut. And you remember the L.A. gamut took out the Nix. It took out the wolves. They lost to the Lakers, but it was like a three point, a seven point game. And they went down to the wire with the clippers. And again, like, I watched these two L.A. teams just

just dominate. the Knicks when they came to town over weekend and the wolves when they came to town. The Pacers, two, like, solid losses. There might have been some weird shenanigans at the end of that Clipper game, too. And then they beat the heat and the Bulls. Like, those are good wins.

Kobe Brown looks good. The Bulls is a good win? I'm trying to be positive about the Pacers, Verno. All right? Trying to be positive about the Pacers. Okay. Okay. it's the Pacers we're talking about.

They lost 16 straight games. They're in the middle of a 16 game losing streak. And they go down to the wire against the clippers. Yep. And they beat the heat in the Bulls. So we're giving them credit for finally giving an honest effort after 70 games. You know what? Just move on.

It took 70 games. But thank you for playing. You know what? Why don't you just talk about Maxime Rayneau some more? I wish I could. I'd love to. I know you would. Get Miss Yul.

My next, my next loathe. The Wizards April Fool's fiasco. Okay, so for those of you that missed it, look, the Wizards did this bit where they bring out a guy,

they blindfold him, they sell him he's going to shoot at half court for 10 grand. And then, of course, they do the whole, everybody cheers when he, after he shoots the ball.

No one's in their seats. It's just dead. No, no, no. They did. They cheered like he won. No, I saw it. Okay. So they cheer like he won.

He thinks he won. He takes the... You have to give it. There's also a bunch of mascots around. Yeah, yeah. They're going to present. Actors. So the mascots are surrounding him and dancing with him and so happy for him.

That's right. And they're going to give him this $10,000 check. But then they take his mask off, his blindfold off. They're going to show him the clip. They show him the clip. And he obviously did not make the shot. And so it's like, oh, Over the backboard.

Over the backboard. April fools, you don't win 10 grand. So this was met with all kinds of anger online. So much anger. And it was like, even like Jamel Hill like retweeted it was like, like a how dare you do this to one of your paying customers type of thing. Right. All right.

So number one, look, I've been around these NBA games now for, as I mentioned, 20-something years. I know a bit when I see it, right? Like that was not, the guy's in on it too. I don't think this is the first time this has been done. This is all set up. So here's the thing. So then the wizard, then because of the outrage about this bit that they did this to

one of their paying customers have to explain to everybody online that, hey, everybody was in on the bit. That wasn't just some random wizard. fan. He was in on it too. Miss the mark. We're sorry. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Right. Okay. Because, of course, everybody's outraged because we get outraged about everything. Here's what I'm going to say. The reason I load this is not that they apologized for it. Okay? Not that they apologized. It's that they apologized and said, hey, everybody's in on the bit and, you know, hey, so it wasn't what you thought it was and whatever.

Game Ops 101. Anybody in GameOps would know this. The trick is that guy, who were they playing last night? Who were they playing? The Wizards. They were playing Sixers. Okay, the Sixers. That guy is in an Iverson, Jersey.

It's Game. It's GameOps 101. You put the guy in an Iverson jersey. You put him in Philadelphia. He's got his Philly hat on. He's got his Iverson jersey on. And then he goes and he blows it and nobody cares. The only reason this went awry is because you did the bit wrong.

The bit needs to be an opposing fan. That's who you're goofing on. The same way that every guy. game, there's like a guy that's like, what they do is, you know, they'll have the bit and they'll say, all right, it'll be like, Kenny is a Grizzlies fan. And then there's Tommy. And Tommy's got like all Celtics garb on, right? It's a Grizzly Celtics game. And so they'll say, all right, and we're going to ask you a question. They're going to say, and whoever wins this question is going to get a new PlayStation 5.

And so then they'll say, uh, Kenny. They'll say, what is one plus one? Kenny would be like, two. And they'll be like, that's right. And they'll be like, uh, Tommy, the Celtics fan. How many grains of sand are in the Sahara desert? And everybody will be like, they'll be like, ah, ha, ha, ha.

They're like, the winner is Kenny, the Grizzlies fan, right? And then they'll like throw a pie in the, in the Celtics fans face. And that's the way this stuff. works and it's like all you had to do was put that guy in sixers garb and nobody cares everybody's laughing at the stupid sixers fan that lost you made it your own fan you dumb asses that's not now people are mad that you you did this to one of your paying customers they're also sending mixed signals because they're like you didn't win 10,000 dollars but you do get a signed jersey and two court side seats next season.

I'm like, whoa, if that was the Knicks, you can't even get a court side seat for $10,000. I was like, if you came home with two court side seats, I'd be like, that's fine with me. Like, the consolation prize is pretty fucking sweet. If you ask me, you got Trey Young and Anthony Davis, the Wizards, Top of the East conference next year maybe, who knows? They just did the bit wrong.

That's all. It is 82 to 51 at halftime. The Thunder have 82 points against the Lakers. Well, I will say, you know, the first thing that comes to my mind when you say that? Live back to the Lakers. No, there is, hell no. Hell no. That's what I would do.

No. Maybe LeBron should focus more on basketball than YouTube golf. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Stand up. Stand up. Hey, stop working on your chips and work on your game. Anyway, hey, look.

No, what Don's? on me is there's this guy on Twitter. Every time the Lakers win, he like sends the screen grab of the win and like tags me and Bill Simmons and Zach Loe or whatever. Good for him. No, no, no. Every time they win.

Every time. Good for him. Good for him. He tags us on the Lakers win graphic. And I never have responded in life. I've never, I've never even. I know. I've never acknowledged it happens.

But when they finally lose this season, I swear on my life, I'm going to find the guy. And I'm going to send him the losing graphic. I should send him tonight. I'd be like, hey, man, where's the graphic? Do it. You got to do it.

No, I'm waiting until their season's over. I've got to wait until the final conclusion. Just know I see you tagging me on there every single night. And I ignore it. But I think to myself, when your season's over, I cannot wait to send you the graphic. And then he's going to be like, son of a. bitch. He never has responded to me in life. And now my season's over. Yeah, I'm that petty. I will do that. Make sure you do. Yeah. All right. My next love.

Uh, is it my love? Oh, yeah. The Kauai Leonard documentary. Okay. So, you didn't let me do my loathe, man. Come on. It's all in order on the rundown. What was it? The Raptors. Oh, I'm sorry. I'll make it quick. Remember that game against the Magic, 31-0 run, beat him by 52?

Yes. Then he started thinking, maybe the Raptors are a thing. You know, they're in seventh plays. They could make six plays easily. They lose to the Pistons. Fine, the Pistons have been good without Cade. That's a fine loss.

And then they're at home. They're playing Maxim Reno. Réneau. And the Sacramento Kings at home after a loss. And you must be thinking to yourself like, there's going to, I'm not, this is one of the games that I'm not, I'm not paying attention to.

You don't say. DeMar de Rosen and precious Achua revenge game. Like, it wasn't one of those games. It was like, hey, man, like, you've seen like when the Nuggets beat, the loss of the Grizzlies, like the Kings took the lead midway through the second quarter and were ahead the entire rest of the way. It was a dominant win and a revenge game for Precious and DeRosen. And then the Raptors have the Grizzlies and then the Celtics.

Like it could get ugly quickly. Like they could fall into the plane. I'm going to see him tomorrow night. I'm going to see. I'll see him tomorrow night. I saw RJ Barrett was not with the press conference. He was like, dude. Like, because Darko was doing like, this is a process and we're learning and whatever.

And RJ Barrett got up there and was like, no. We cannot lose to the Kings. This is ridiculous. Like, that's fine. I'm with RJ. It's fine to do all that, but like that is ridiculous. We cannot have that happen. All right, my next love, the Kauai Letter documentary.

I couldn't even find it. I was looking for this thing. I couldn't even find it. Okay, you're going to love this because I love it. Los Angeles Clippers superstar Kawhi Leonard is shining on the court this season. And now the two-time champion is shining in the filmmaking space. Leonard announced on Wednesday that a documentary he exclusively produced

called Back to Nature was nominated for a Webby Award where a Webby Award nominee for Best Sports Video and Limited Film Series and specials. Go vote for us for the Webby's People's Voice Award Leonard wrote on X.

I could not find it. There are four other... That's also more than he did for aspiration. Just throw that out there. There are four other nominees. There's one evidently about Paulo, a docu series. I saw the other nominees, too. There is one about a barrel racer and her horse.

What is a barrel racer? Oh, this is been around the barrels? And then there's another one about a sailor. And his journey. Yeah, and his journey on Red Bull Italy's Sail GP team. Oh, and the final nominee is Tara and Hunter Woodhaw. There it is, yeah. Yeah, and that's two track athletes.

a married couple that won Olympic gold battles. I don't want to watch any of those. So I was like, oh, much like you where you said you went to go search, right? I try to find it. You probably typed it in, right? Back to nature, Kauai Leonard, nothing.

I'm like, bro, I have got to see the Kauai Leonard documentary. And it's like, and then I found a description. It's like his life coming back after injury, whatever, and his daily routine and whatever. and I was like, oh, dude, I've got to find this. I found it.

Was it on his YouTube page, that one minute and four second thing? Yes. That one minute and four second thing is the documentary that got nominated for a Webby Award? It's a new balance ad. Nothing is funnier to me than Kauai Leonard promoting his documentary of which he executive the Kauai Leonard documentary being one minute is the funniest thing in the history of the world. It's one minute and he has one line and he walks up and it's to another Kauai Leonard that is fishing. Back to nature.

And he says, some days are good, some days are bad. And then he says, and then he's like listening to the radio and they're talking about Kauai Ler, I'm like, what is going on? I didn't understand it. No, that's the documentary. The Kauai Leonard documentary is one minute long. I thought it was a new balance ad. I was like, this can't be the documentary series that got nominated for an award.

It's one minute. And it's on his YouTube channel that has five videos with a total of like two minutes and 45 seconds. You can watch his entire YouTube channel during a commercial break. Nobody even knows he has a YouTube channel. He doesn't. It has 8,000. subscribers. This is the aspiration contract of a YouTube channel. Dude, I was like, dude, I would really love to see a behind the scenes thing about Kawhi

Leonard. And so I went searching for it. And then I found out. So I had, I found somebody. And then they said, it's 104 because he was going to return last year on January 4th. And I'm like, it's an hour and four minutes. That's what we know it's 104 it's a minute for the Kauai Leonard documentary that is nominated for an award is one minute long that is the most Kauai letter thing ever do you know why we're not nominated for a Webby it's too long we're boycotting we boycotted we did we boycott it yeah we boycott it yeah we boycott it all the awards actually oh we did yeah we're boycotting on every award you didn't tell me. Yeah, yeah. I told the producers. Okay, good. Yeah, I have no problem with that. I have no problem with that. We're not participating. They would just disrespect us anyway. And my wife is a documentary director. They're disrespecting my wife. Right. I agree. Yeah, you disrespect my wife. I can't participate. I feel that way, too. We're on the same page.

Here's my love. You know, I was locked in on the Knicks and Grizzlies yesterday. But I cheated a little bit. and I was checking out the Rockets Bucks because it was the closer than I thought it would be. And I just want to say, there's not a lot going on that's positive about the Bucks, but I absolutely loved watching Osmond, Osmond Jang, go off against the Rockets. They lost by six, and it was kind of close. Osmond Jang had Uzman Jang, sorry, 36 points. Former Thunder. Yes.

He played for the Thurts. a little bit too. 36 points, 15 for 31, and there's something, I went back and like, you know, because I prepare very judiciously for this program, I watched all of his field goal attempts. And a lot of those 36 points were scored on Reed Shepherd. And then I was like, wait a second, Cormac Ryan, I know that guy. Yep. He went off too.

He's from New York City. downtown he's from manhattan and not all of all the new york city basketball players you could name not too many of them like are from manhattan and he's from mdhawn he went to collegiate which is like at all boys school the other west side private school then he transferred to milton in massachusetts he played stanford notre dame and unc and he had a lot of buckets last night missed his first two threes imagine that tough night yep his first basket Kevin Durant, this went semi-viral, waves him off. He has the ball

outside the three-point line. Kevin Durant goes like this to him. You know, he kind of a dick when he plays him. Waves him off, and then Cormack goes past him and scores. And then he goes on to score, I think it was like 25 points. And I watched all those 25 points. A lot of them were on Reed Shepard.

Oh, no. Not only that. You sound like, you know who you sound like, Emeyodoka. That's what I was about to say. Pete Nance also went out for 25 points. I think Cormack had 26. And then I started thinking to myself, I was like, maybe there's a reason that Reecher doesn't play.

Maybe there's a reason. Like, all I hear about is, well, they need a point card. They need to play Reed Shepherd. Need to play Reed Shepherd. After watching these two players. You thought he was getting cooked. Jang and Cormack Ryan cooked Reed Shepherd. He must have eaten like 25 field goals.

And I'm thinking of my. myself like maybe Eme Udoca and I said I've said this about him last year and I'll say right now there is no one that has more data on how effective Reed Shepherd is as a basketball player than E. May Udoca and the

staff of the Houston Rockets. So for every time I listen to a media member say how much Reed Shepherd needs to play and how great he is, it's just a small sample size, just one game but he was absolutely cooked by Jang and Cormack Ryan. And I asked Chris Ryan

in our group chat if Coromack was his son and he has not responded positively or negatively. So who knows? Chris Ryan's son. CR Month was actually about Cormack Ryan. Possible. It's possible. Positively.

But yeah. So no one knows about the bucks or their little backup players or whatever, but I think this does have actual implications on a real playoff team. Like, yeah, Zhang and Ryan scored a bunch, but they scored them all on Reed Shepard. It's worth noting. It's worth noting. My last loathe. So you mentioned the Grizzlies and the Nix.

I'll keep this short because I don't want to depress you. Man, they lost some juice, the Nix. And I tell you this is somebody who's in a small market. Like, I tell you all the time, like I saw there was a couple weeks ago when Wembe came to town, it was like, yo, what just happened? This is a wave. Like, there's kids everywhere in Wembe Jersey. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I'll tell you two, about a week and a half ago, the Celtics came into town. Oh my God, there were Celtics. It was weird. Like, there were more Celtics fans in the arena than when, right after they won the title. I don't know where it all came from. But so, look, anytime you've got like a terrible team, especially at a small market, your fans stop coming.

And then those are filled in by people that want to see the other team. So there's always, I think there were less Knicks fans last night than I ever remember. And they're ex-New Yorkers in every city. It was just weird. I will say, Knicks fans are always great for the jerseys, right? They, they bring, like, so the Bulls fans are pretty good, too. Like, Bulls were here a week ago, but the Bulls had way more fans than the Knicks did.

The Knicks always have a huge contingent at the games. Always, always, every year. Like, even during the sorry years. Because last night, I saw a guy with the Bernard. King Jersey, a guy with a Nate Robinson jersey. Oh, Bernard King Jersey. Oh, yeah. Nate Robinson, I saw multiple spree wells.

He was a popular one. I saw a Ewing, but like in totale, not that many. Like there, and there were some sprinkled in Brunson's. There were some Bronsonsons, right? But I don't know what it is. And you tell me, do you feel less engaged with this year's version? It just felt like it didn't have juice like it had the last couple of years, especially when they had gotten good. Because it's going to be what, the fourth straight year they've made the playoffs.

And I don't know. Maybe it was a bad night. Maybe it was a bad gauge. But I'm telling you, I have seen visiting fans like come in droves recently. And I got into that arena last night and I was shocked. I was like, where the hell? Maybe it's because it was a three game losing streak leading into it. I don't think, I don't think that it was weird.

Nick's fans in Tennessee are so fickle that they're like, oh, they lost to the rockets and the thunder. So like, like, I don't think it's like, oh, they had a bad road trip, so we're not going to go to the game. I don't think that's the case. And I'm just telling you what's weird is every year. And this is for the last 25 years, every year, you can count on the Celtics are always going to have fans here. Lakers for sure. Bulls, interestingly enough. Bulls have like a fan base.

And like, I don't know how. But there's always people in Bulls jerseys that are at the games. And then the Knicks are one of the big ones. And last night and they don't have the kids either. Like the kids are, you know, they don't wear Brunton. I asked my son, why do kids not love Brunton like they do? And I'm not talking about New York kids. I'm talking about like kids in general.

And he said he's too fundamental. That's why they don't. That's why they don't. That's why his explanation was kids don't think it's cool to be fundamental. And I agree with that. They don't. If you look at Steph Curry, who's also a smaller person compared to NBA standards, you can see why kids can relate to that.

He's flying around. Right. He's joyous. He's hitting threes. He's shooting from deep. And he's got a smile on his face and he's handsome. Whereas, Brunson is just like, sticking his big head into your chest and getting like a turnaround up fake step through

eight footer off the glass. Like it's just not, it's, it's not like Joe Benito. It's not like a beautiful game. And their two best players are Brunson and towns, which are not exactly. Triple double towns. Well, it's also not like. Triple double towns. There was no town's jerseys there last night, let's just say.

There's no town's jerseys in MSG. I know. So that's a thing. But last year's team felt like it had a ton of juice. I don't know why. This year's doesn't feel the same. It's a bad time to sort of like ask me about the pulse of New York City on the Knicks right now. Oh, I went on Knicks fan TV with my guy CP the franchise.

He's great. He's fantastic. Oh, no. What morning was that? The morning of the game. And he was like, he was like, Chris, he's like, the sky is falling. The vibe of bed. After last night.

The sky is. fallen after the Houston game. And I was like, hold on. Don't let the sky fall yet. I will say in the three games they lost, they were not favored in any of them. Yeah. It's how they looked.

Yeah. It's bad vibes right now. They got down in that Houston game, like immediately and were never winning that game. They made a little run. They made a little run. But it never felt like they were going to win that game.

I got tricked into it. I got tricked into it. I got tricked. into it you know I was like I tricked into when they uh when the Grizzies made it closing like the third quarter they got down like four or something no I was like all right I'm gonna bet I'm gonna bet the Knicks I know the Knicks gonna go end up blowing them out so the live odds were minus 11 and a half and I don't bet a lot but I put a little extra on this one and guess how much they won't buy 12 11 oh my god and I'm sitting there like you guys can't

beat these guys by 12 I thought that was I thought that was I thought I was stupid killing money. You didn't count on Adama ball. Adama ball. I'm now familiar with this game. Do you know how I knew who he was? Number 72, Carl and Fiske out there. Oh, did you notice Lucas Williamson? I did not. I did not. That sounds like someone I went to high school with. I know. I cheated off his test in math class in seventh grade. I know. Lucas Williamson. Lucas Williamson. Yeah, yeah. His parents were divorced and he lived in a trailer park. I know that kid. I was like, I was like,

was this real life. He was, they signed him in the morning. He was playing against the Knicks. Lucas Williamson. Yes. True story. It's 90 to 58 in this Lakers

Thunder game. They told me that I said, what, does anybody know anything about this guy? They're like, he played for the Memphis hustle. And I was like, what? Do you text Roger? Text Roger. No, no, I was like, when?

And I did. And Roser's like, yeah, they got, they cut him. after he cussed out of the coach. They got waved by the hustle. He's playing for the Knickerbockers. Yes. Playing for the knickerbock.

You got to pick up towns. Yes. You got waved by the hustle. You pick up Carl Anthony Town. Unbelievable. Oh, God. Who got hurt here? Last one.

Luca's down on the ground. But here's the thing about Luca is, like I talk about, hurt and injured. Luca is always hurt, never injured. He's always hobbled, but he's never injured. And I think that people don't give enough credit for that. You know what? MVP raises over.

Luca wins. I was wrong about SGA. Your last one. I'm going to make this quick because it's not about basketball. I don't watch the show Summerhouse. I watch a lot of reality television, like during the off season. You know, obviously I'm on lead pass all night. But I like to catch up on reality TV with my wife.

You love Fanderpump Rules and the Valley and things of that nature, some Bravo stuff. But I do not watch Summerhouse, but I did watch this season of Summer House, and it was excellent because one of my friends, girlfriends, is on the show. So I'm like, let me check in on this. And I don't know if this has caught you and your algorithm, but there has been a scandal of all scandals about the Summer House cast this week. Okay.

And I loathe how much real estate it is taken up in my brain in the last 48 hours. What is this on? Bravo. Oh, Bravo. It's a Bravo show. Okay. But I won't even bore our listeners with all the details. Some of them are know what I'm talking about.

Most don't. But the idea that as we head to the final stretch of the playoffs, that I spent two hours of my day to day researching Amanda and Wes's relationship and what it has to do with the Giggly Squad and when the timeline was and like Dave Portnoy is involved. And like, and Kyle is the worst husband in the world. but now that his wife has hooked up with one of his friends post-divorce, he's the hero, but he's really terrible.

It's just the whole thing. And Sierra, Sierra is gorgeous, and now Rihanna is trying to hook up Sierra with like Michael B. Jordan. This thing has gone full on Scandival, and I love it. Wait. And I couldn't get enough. There's a guy that is being considered

the worst husband in the world this week. terrible husband. And it's not that Christy Gnome Chicks husband. Oh, I don't know that one. Look that one up. Look that one up.

The pictures of him. He's wearing like fake boobies and like hitting on chicks online. Tiger Woods is calling the president on body cam. I don't even care. All I am is all I care about is some guy on Summer House. How many, how many episodes is this thing?

It's not worth it. I can't even recommend it. I think we're on episode like eight or nine of this season. I've only watched this season. It's like season 10. All right. I guess I'll watch Bob Dust Force

with LeBron James. I was so excited to like, we're going to wrap the show and I'm going to watch, I'm going to watch this Lakers Thunder game so hard. I'm so excited for it. And it's like,

it's a 30-point game right now. How many of these guilds is Alexander have? Um, free throws or points? Damn. You were the one that said, we need to stop talking about this. Everybody's doing the whole, you know, trying to, you know, I don't mean it. You know what I didn't mean it.

Everybody, everybody's trying, everybody's posturing like SGA's fun to watch because he's going to win the MVP. Oh, no. Oh, shut up. He's going to win the MVP. He should win the MVP, but it's like, it's like when Hardin won it. If you like guys playing, again, don't tell me that he doesn't play four fouls. And you could say, well, that's the smart thing to do. It's also not aesthetically pleasing.

Shea Gilders Alexander has 26 points. Okay. Three. Three. That's ethical, ethical, ethical. Ethical.

How may, how may, how may, how many? How may he have? And did he get a 17th tech? Luca got a little hurt, did not get a tech. He has six, double the amount of free throw attempts, unethical. Lucas is one for seven from three.

What about, three for ten from the field? Yeah, it's not looking great. What about LaBronda? What about, What about LeBron the golfer? LeBron? LeBron?

He's hit the fairway 70% of the time. He's three putt twice. And he's two for five from the field. I've been watching a little bit while you've been talking because I don't listen to you when you talk. Oh, no. Oh, no. Someone's got hurt.

Dort looks like he just got hurt. Twisted an ankle. But I don't listen to when you talks. I've been checking on it. A lot of turnovers for the Lakers right now. Lakers, turnovers, just not looking great. Let's see how many they have.

They have 13 turnovers. Sounds like a thunder message that was being sent tonight. All right. All right. It's going to do it for the show. Thank you to Jeff. Thank you to Brian.

Thank you to everybody that helps us out with the show. Jacoby. I'll talk to you next week.