The Mismatch - Luka Drops 60 on Historic Night, Wemby Silences Jacoby, and Loves and Loathes

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

Verno and Jacoby share live reactions while Luka Doncic drops 60 points as the Lakers' win streak continues, Victor Wembanyama silences the Suns (and Jacoby) with a game-winner, and they have an interesting debate about astrology and discover a new way that it relates to the NBA. (00:00) Welcome to The Mismatch! (00:31) Red-hot Charlotte on a roll after its 4-14 start to the season (02:16) Luka drops 60 for the Lakers: Historic night in Miami (06:25) Wemby silences Jacoby: Spurs' clutch 101-100 win vs. Suns (10:36) Pistons’ big opportunity: Prove they’re not Cade-dependent (20:06) Loves and Loathes (20:25) Verno Loves: Tomahawk poster by Rasheer Fleming (26:20) Jacoby Loves: Luka and the Lakers’ vibe is different (31:35) Verno Loathes: Watching the Nuggets implode vs. the Grizzlies (40:14) Jacoby Loathes: The position the Pelicans are in (42:02) Verno Loves: Dejounte Murray’s Achilles return (45:04) Jacoby Loves: The Eastern Conference solidified a lot at the trade deadline (47:13) Verno Loathes: 65-game rule needs to be amended for injury (51:31) Jacoby Loathes: Anyone who believes in astrology (56:17) Verno Loves: Carlos Boozer repping son Cameron (58:16) Jacoby Loves: Nebraska wins first NCAA tournament game in school history (01:02:55) Verno Loathes: Draymond the “jerkface” (01:06:46) Jacoby Loathes: Anthony Davis ‘Punk'd’ show The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. (only needed when baked-in FanDuel ad read is in episode) Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! [phone] Hosts: Chris Vernon and David Jacoby Producers: Stefan Anderson, Brian Waters, and Jeff Shearin Social: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Farnan and joining me to sit us every week from the ranger.com. It's Dave Jacoby-Cicobie. We had some great basketball games today, and I'm not talking about the tournament. I'm talking to the National Basketball Association. The National Basketball Association did try to make its mark while everybody is paying attention to the first two days of the NCAA tournament. The first one, which is early, I did see Del Curry's day. number go up in the rafters and the red hot Charlotte Hornets who were once 14 and 26 are now 36 and 34. So they've gone 22 and 8 over their last 30 games. They ran out on

the magic. And the only reason I mentioned this is because we're now in that stage of the year where every one of these games matters immensely towards teams either being able to move up to seven and eight so that they've got a big advantage in the play in, making the play in at all, even though we've kind of decided on the 10 teams in both conferences. But most importantly, your opportunity to try to get into the top six. And it seems like a long shot for some of these teams, but they get on heaters and they win seven or eight after every 10 games they play, they got a chance at closing the gap. We did say a couple weeks ago, like kind of this is sort of like the dead spot, you know what I mean? This is kind of like the doldrums of the schedule early

March, but it's starting to get better, especially when you have a matchup like this one between the Hornets and the Magic who are three and a half games separate before this game and now they're two and a half games separate. Now we're like looking at schedules to see who can get where because the difference between six and seven is huge. Difference between eight and nine is huge. And you know, we don't have to talk about 10 and 11 because it's not really a thing in either conference. But it was really exciting. But I got to tell you, I was watching this Lakers game.

And the Lakers Rockets, they had their little Monday, Wednesday thing. The Lakers had a clutch game against the Rockets last night, fly to Miami, and they looked like they flew on a plane last night to start the game. Like, I think they were down 15 in the first half. It just seemed like one of those schedule losses. Luca Dachich had 60 points. And they walked away with the win. 60?

60. He had 59 and he got fouled. And I think his high is 73, I want to say. And his second highest point total is 60. So he gets foul of 59, misses the first one. Hits the second one. 60 for Luca. Luca's been on an absolute tear.

An absolute tear. Like, do you remember how we all felt about the Charlotte Hornets like three weeks ago? It's happening with the Lakers now. It's happening with the Lakers. Would you like to revisit our question from last, last episode, which is, do we need to start taking the Lakers seriously as a Western Conference slash possible finals contender? I mean, at a point, do we? Can I give you the honest answer?

Can I give you the honest answer? Yes. I'm not sure. All right. That's my honest answer. It's like, kind of, I think. Well, I mean, look. I think where I landed, if I remember, I can't remember everything about the episode,

but I think where I landed was we did not have them. I think we came to an agreement on this. And I think we're probably still in the same spot, which is did not. Oklahoma City and San Antonio are a tier above everybody. And we did not have them in the same tier as we thought of Minnesota and Denver. That was kind of the next two because we were. we've started to not believe in Houston. Put them in that chair.

And we've said, okay, that's where they belong. They belong with Minnesota and Denver, that level of, you're not, you're not the two that we would be surprised if you're not in the Western Conference finals. But you're also, like now, honestly, anybody outside of those five, we would be surprised if they are in the Western Conference. Now you realize you just kicked a,

out the club. No, no, no. I included the nuggets. Oh, Minnesota. The Rockets. Get the rockets out of the club. That's fair. They've been kicked out.

We kicked them out. So here's my question. Here's my question. And I don't want to start talking about playoff seating yet because so much can happen. But man, imagine the Los Angeles Lakers led by Luca and LeBron, go up against the no playoff games of the core of the San Antonio Spurs. No scars? No scars.

Oh, my God. It's going to be the ultimate Verno theory test. No, it's not. All the scars, all the surgery scars, all the bags under the eyes, all the hair treatments, like all the pudgy bellies. It's going to be like against the 23-year-olds with all the athleticism. Like, if this were to happen, and we don't have to get ahead of ourselves, this would be the ultimate test of the Verno Battlescars theory. And it's also Jackson Hayes and DeAndre Aden guarding women. Yama, which is all the other thing.

And again, I keep bringing this up. You obviously still have not read the manifesto. The manifesto includes that scars are irrelevant if you are playing against the seven-foot-five alien. So I understand, did it again. Wee, we, get your croissants. It's time to talk, Wembe, your favorite player, Jacoby. I mean, they're playing the Sons. And they're down.

They're down like eight, five. minutes left. Fox play, make some plays, and it wasn't a great finish for the Phoenix Suns, but it gets down to the last possession and your guy, who you will bring up later,

put a pin in that, Mr. Fleming, goes to the line. They don't foul intentionally. So there's about, I'm going to say, 26 seconds on the clock when the Sun's inbound.

They imbound in the back court to Jalen Green. He travels, I would never call it, but whatever. And then, And they decide to, like, aggressively double-team the Sons without fouling. So they pass out of one double-team, pass out of a second double-team, pass out of a third double-team.

The ball finally finds Fleming, and they foul him with 11 seconds left. So they just wasted 15 seconds o'clock, and they're down by one. Fleming goes to the line. He missed it, but, like, it touched all of the rib. So you're thinking, like, all right, he's going to hit this one. tough it was like down if it was pop a shot you know the pop shot has the sensor in the back it would have counted it was down and then it pops out now it's an inbound for the spurs 11 seconds left the inbound the ball to wimby who clearly was supposed to give it to deering fox on a dh-o

fox is covered up good and then wimby just faces his defender stands there stand the clock a ticket. Stans there, jab step, stands there, and then just rises up and hits a shot because he's 7 foot 6.

And then he's, so they win the game. It's in San Antonio, the place is going barkers. He's screaming at the jackals. He's screaming with his teammates. It was like, oh, you got overtaken.

I liked it. I liked it. I liked good basketball. Oh, no. I like good basketball players in basketball games. Even Victor Wenbaniama's biggest hater, he won you over. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I'm for briefly. Briefly won me over. It was five minutes ago. I'm still in the moment.

Phoenix is going to regret these. That's been, that's been at least three I can remember in the last week. Toronto, you know, Toronto won the fourth quarter went the wrong way. The Jalen Brown game against the Celtics, they had the lead, went the wrong way. Lost to Minnesota. soda without aunt. And now this, where you get your heart ripped out, it's like, this is a lot of tough losses. There's a very fine line where Phoenix, in an alternate reality where these fourth quarters have gone a little bit different, they are like competing for home court advantage. And instead, now they're trying to make sure they don't have to.

They've got the seven seed locked up. So congratulations, Phoenix Suns. You are the seventh seed in the Wednesday conference. They're like five up on the clippers, and they're like two and a half pack of Denver. I can't imagine a world in which they overtake Denver. However, as you said, a couple of these balls bounces the wrong way. Like, they had possession after possession in this game, down the stretch, in the clutch, where they just turned the ball over, took a terrible shot, didn't run any offense.

It was one of those like playing not to lose instead of playing to win games. And when you look back, this always happens. It's like, oh, man, we were a game and a half out of the six-seat. And now we're going to play in. And it's those games, these games right here. Well, because they, because they had leads in all those. Toronto, Boston, San Antonio, like, you got fourth quarter leads and you didn't close the door on it. Well, it's also one of those games where it's like, imagine if we just got the ball over half court and just held it and just let the shot clock run out.

We'd probably win. Unfortunately, the big news today in the NBA was not about a game. This Kate Cunningham news about the. collapsed lung. I mean, the wizards, they can't, can, can, look, can Adam Silver just step in, let the wizard forfeit the rest of their games? Nobody will have an issue with it. No wizard will, no, maybe like opposing centers because that's what I said. Someone's scored 83 on every time I get those in a week, averages up. But in a week span, we have seen now they have given up 83 points to a man.

And the average is 18. And they have hurt one of the most likable, like first team all NBA leading his team MVP candidates in Cade Cunningham. He's got the collapse long. He's going to be out for at least two weeks, sounds like. And who knows, who knows, right? Who knows how long he'll be out? But this story has been such a great story.

because it was like, all right, they made a big leap last year. But that's a group of guys that took another leap this year. Like, keep in mind, they did what they did last year and then took some scars in that hard-fought Nick series. But this is also a franchise. I could not believe this. I read this earlier this week. They have not won 50 games since 2007, 2008.

Oh, my God. 50 games is a good season. 18 years. But think about the Pistons Nuculuses since then. I know. I know. And they have not, but it's been 18 years since they had a 50 win season.

And they're already there. And now, you know, you're going to be without Cunningham. I know you can look at this as like kind of the, there is the only silver line. Oh, I like this. And it is tiny. I got one too. I know you're going to say, go for it.

But the only silver lining is everybody says they are so K dependent. Yep. Nobody else can create. He's the engine. He makes the whole thing go. You know, teams are going to sell out on him. And so inevitably, someone else is going to have to work on shot creation for themselves and for others.

someone else is going to have to step up, and there's going to be a two-week span leading into the playoffs where it's like maybe you would not have found a curve ball that actually will work in your non-Ked minutes or your opponent selling out on K'd minutes, and maybe that could be to the benefit, right? You know, in the same way where we say, of course you would rather have Jason Tate,

than not have Jason Tatum. But we all freely admit that Jalen Brown would never be this version of Jalen Brown if he wasn't. I mean, you know, and so again, I'm not saying that you're going to look up and like, wow, I can't believe

Karris Levert showed us. I was about to say, Carus Leverts stretched a little extra before the games now. Dennis Jenkins. Obviously, it does put a lot on Duren. But Duren is, he is a, his buckets are,

function of someone else's I understand, but I'm saying he's top of the whiteboard now. And there's going to come a time. We're talking about the release vow. Who's the second guy? Who's the guy that we're going to really going to be able to count on? And you're going to find out. Like, we'll see.

We're going to learn a lot about the Pistons. You know, they have not fallen apart in the past when they've had to play without Kate Cunningham because they bring it on a step for every night. And they play defense, right? It would be Javante Green. and Karis Lavert and Dennis Jenkins. What is it, what everyone says about the pistons is they're 2K dependent,

the 2K heavy, the same thing we say about the Rockets and Kevin Durant. It's getting kind of tired. And I do like your glass half old thing. It's like, you know what? Someone's going to have to score. They're going to have to get to 100 somehow. I mean, you know, and that is with starting. It is obviously awful.

This is terrible. I mean, it's a glass lung. Like, number one, it's a super scary injury. number two, we don't know. You don't know how he's going to respond to this? You don't know. I mean, we know that this has happened in the past, but this is not a very typical basketball injury.

This is a contact sport injury. This happens in football. That's when guys collapse lungs. You know, you just don't even have many scenarios in which it would happen in a basketball game. But, I mean, look, you're going to, we know they need a full strength. And the other thing is, what is it due to their seating? Are they able to hold down the fort?

They're three and a half up on the Celtics. I know. Can you hold down the fort? I mean, that three is not going to stay. They're not going to widen the gap. And it could get down to that like one game, one and a half games thing for the number one C for home court throughout. And before the collapse lung news, we were all asking questions of the pistons anyway. Yeah.

And we also know that this thing is very deep. dependent on the seating. You know what I mean? Like, if you drop, you're, let's just say a, for instance, is you could be playing Boston or New York in your second round rather than Cleveland in your second round. Like, that's a big, big difference to me as someone who's not a big Cleveland believer either, right? I'm just saying, like, your steps to, your steps to being able to play, especially when we expect so much parity. We just had a discussion. earlier in the week of, like, there's a scenario where we could see all 10 of those teams if they got there possibly winning a couple of playoff games.

The parody's going to be so great that the matchups are going to truly decide who we get to see in these Easter conference finals and Western Conference as well. And that's why we move to the Edwards thing. You know, like, depending on what happens in the amount of time that he is out, that could have a profound effect on where Minnesota ends up in the standings. And you could be looking up and having to play a Wembe earlier than you thought,

a Shea earlier than you thought. I mean, hell, obviously your first round matchup becomes infinitely harder and without home court advantage. I know they're a team that, you know, they've been to two Western Conference finals, but those seedings are going to be enormous towards your ability to, you know, they're not going to be any different of a team, but they could look and make rash decisions based upon losing in the first round

to a team that should have never been playing in the first place because this happened and they dropped down the standings and everybody separated by two games. And I think the Cade and Ant will be available for the playoffs, but who knows how much, will it be at 100%. you know, how much, C's obviously, you know, he's got a collapse lung, so how much work can he possibly do to get ready?

Like, there's so many question marks about this. But one thing about the Western Conference playoffs is we're looking at him is, like, one through six is pretty much set. Yeah. And one through three isn't set, but it feels kind of set. And I don't know if you want to play in the first round against the Spurs, the Thunder,

or the Lakers as it stands right now. I'm just why, I watch Lucas scores 50. I know. Seven minutes ago. 60. You saw him so 60. 60. Yeah. 40 to like 24 hours ago. Right. It's crazy, man.

Like this is a, we did complain about the dead spot the schedule like two weeks ago, but this feels very real right now. Well, and somehow LeBron turned into Superman. I mean, he's like dunking from everywhere. I mean, he looked like he's 22 years old last night. He's diving on the floor. He's dunking from 20 feet away like a monster. I'm like, okay.

what is going on here. Give me what he's got. It's almost. Because I'm old to. I'm old too. It's testosterone. We've talked about it before. It's Frank Thomas.

He called Frank. Give me the packie. We keep, Hey, look, I get enough hymns ads. Somebody. All of them.

Is that what it does? Whatever rougeet is, no free ass, I don't know what that does. But they're pumping it to me. Like, they listen to my conversations. Tell you this.

He looks, he looks great. And no, the Lakers have been on the heater for sure and have made us reconsider what we think their possibilities are. I mean, back to back clutch against the rockets, which I'll talk about in a second. And then to put up 60 when you're down, you're back to back, you're down on the road in Miami to go into halftime and just like get it together

and to come out the way they did. They're impressive. They're impressive. Still concerned about Aiton and Hayes, though. It's still like. Well, and the other thing is you go and you're also concerned to. about the incredible amount of white guys to bring off the bench. They look good.

Come playoff time. I got it. The Vagia plays defense. But they, but in the playoffs. Exciting whites. Like the meme says. They find you. No, in the, in the playoffs, they find you.

They say, oh, there he is. And then they run you in every action until Luke Kinnard is off the court. They're like, oh, Luke Kinnard's out there. Duncan Robinson's at a spray tan right now. All right. let's get to our loves and lows of the week. So this first one that I'm going to start with. I was so proud of this, Jacoby.

I was like, oh, I was like, dude, I know this guy hasn't gotten national attention yet. I'm a ball nowhere. You're saying to yourself. I was like, this is going to be a thing. And then in the first half, in the first half of tonight's son's first game, you can go find it. Tomahawk poster. Tomahawk. And I was like, this is perfect.

I'm literally going to talk about this guy tonight. And he's got this viral clip that's going to be going around. And people are going to be doing the same thing I was doing a couple weeks ago, which is going, who is Rishir Fleming? Who are you? And then I read this article about Rishir Fleming, who is, oh, he's, he's the new cool thing for the sons, despite his miss free throws tonight. Those are tough.

He's been the new fun thing. I found this whole thing about him. Now check this out. He's the first pick of the second round. And he went to St. Joe's. Okay. So he's a rookie this year. He has a 7-5 wingspan.

When you see him out there, you're like, this guy looks like a frico. It's because he has, like, you know how Bridges looks? McKell Bridges and you see him and you're like, bro, how are your arms that long? Same thing. Seven five wingspan, but he's only six, eight. He has the same measurements as Robert Williams and Jared Allen. He has a bigger wingspan than Kevin Durant, Walker Kessler, and Ivaka Zubba. And he's six eight. And like recently, he started knocking down threes. Like they're playing in more

minutes and over the course of the last eight, 13 games and tonight as well, so that's 14 games, he's averaging like 18 minutes a game and he's productive and he's been knocking down in those games. The threes, he's shot more of them and he's making like 50% of them. So you have this like weird, like you don't know what he is. He's this athlete, but he's got this crazy long wingspan, but now he's knocking down threes. And then I go back and look and I'm like, well, that's kind of crazy. And then the next article you read about Rishir Fleming, oh, I love these too. Bro, he's part of the Durant trade.

Oh, Jalen Green, Mallowak, who was the 10th pick, Rishir Fleming is in the trade. And then Kobe Brea. There was that many players. He's part of, he's part of the, the Durant trade included this guy who has like taken the hearts and minds of Suss fans despite his misfree throws against the suns the night we record this. And everybody's like, what is this? How do we get him on the court more?

You just don't see. It's just very odd statistic. He's so. unique. It's just a very weird build. And you can see like, all right. Like, there's a bunch of these guys and you'll remember this was one of the things, this is one, the first times that I was ever, that it was ever brought to my attention about Cedric Coward before the Grizzlies thing. And it was like this list of guys that were this height with these crazy wingspans. And it was OG and O.G. And O. B. and McCall Bridge. You have a.

A fetish, Chris Bernie. You have a fetish. Oh, I know. You might not know it, but you have a fetish. You're a Wingspan guy. Yeah. And this guy, seven, five. I read the same stuff you read because I prepped for the show.

Unbelievable. Not only do I prep my stuff. I'm like, Rashir Fleming today. Let me do some research. I read that same article. I had the same notes. But somehow I got into like a defensive highlights of Rashire Fleming over the past two weeks.

Oh my God. It's like it's like Wemba, dude. He's just like out of nowhere. You watch so much NBA basketball. And you see, I've never seen someone get from the free throw line to pinning a shot at the backboard faster. He's a thing. Outside of Wemby, outside of Wemby.

He's a thing. This rookie class has been unbelievable. And then over the course of the last two weeks, we got a new one where it's like, who is this guy? This guy. Yeah. And also, like, didn't I, I remember draft night, I really expect Malawatch, Malawak, I don't know how to say it. But I really expected him to be a bigger part of the Sun's year this year, especially because they had like a need at center.

Right. I don't know what's happening there. Well, Mark, Mark Williams. I guess. Yeah. I guess. But this Fleming thing from out of nowhere. Amazing.

And do you know what? You know what? Him missing those free throws tonight kept him from being a national story, kept the mismatch at the, the forefront of basketball influence. Agreed. Agreed. So that was good. Go check out.

Go check out the Tomahawk donkey head tonight. This guy is interesting. He is an interesting prospect. Because I never, I mean, he's just been a, we've talked about rookies all year long. And now we're to March. You never said it. It's like, who is this guy? Never mentioned him once.

Who is this guy? And why is he awesome? And why does he look like this freak of nature? Yeah. And why hasn't he been playing? It's awesome. It's awesome. God, I was thinking, I don't know if we're going to get to the Rockets later,

but I was looking at the Rockets last night. I was just like, they could use Dylan Brooks. Honestly. So I'm the one that didn't like to trade. I know. I'm the one that didn't like the trade. I was, uh, last night, you know, I had a lot to do today. And I'm tired.

I'm exhausted on my couch. And the Lakers are up against the Rockets for the, you know, they played Monday. Monday, we all know what happened then. They're up on the Rockets. And my first love is just the Luca and Lakers last night. I know it's a lot, but just I'm not going to take up too much time. But let me just run through some of the things that I saw.

I'm so glad I didn't go to sleep. Because what ended up happening was KD had two points in the first half. And he had two points in the second half of the previous game against the same team. So the Lakers held him to four points in essentially a game, which is really the second half of the first game and the first half of the second game. He came out in the second half and was like, fuck you guys. And just started hitting shots left and right, yel chirping at the bench.

He was just on fire in the third corner. And I was like, I can't go to sleep. My wife likes to wait for me to go to sleep. I was like, girl, this ain't happening tonight. Like I'm going to watch this one. And when I knew that the Lakers team was different, this is going to sound really stupid and I'm not embarrassed. at all. In the first half, there was a fast break. And Luca Donchich had the ball, and there are

no defenders around. He had plenty of time. Look at Donchish, what does he list? It's six, eight, six, seven? Yeah. He's got the ball. And he's got all the time in the world to set up his steps to dunk the basketball. And he doesn't dunk the basketball. He lays it in. And the Lakers bench goes nuts. Thumbs down, booing him. And he goes to the Lakers bench. He's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, that is the moment. And I was like, I think this Lakers team, like, do you remember three weeks ago it was

like JJ and Luca yelling at each other? And now they're having the time of their lives. And it's just like the vibes have completely changed. That was awesome. We all, I'm not going to go through what happened in the clutch last night because it was just, it was the one play that really got me. Everyone shows the highlight when you watch like the highlights of the game. of him throwing the Aleoup to LeBron.

But that wasn't half the play, that him getting a screen from Aiden, Thompson's covering him, he's a screen from Aden, and Alperin Sankoon, God bless him, he's trying his hardest out there. But Luca just plays him like a fiddle and just goes behind the back, and doesn't just like split the double team.

He leaves everybody 10 feet behind him. And now it's just like that Draymond Green short roll math. And it was Hachamora this time from the same corner that LeBron ran from and he sees him coming. And then he just completely turns his back to Atchabora and looks at the guy in the wing and throws a no look out of you. But when I saw that, I think that put the, I want to say up to, or whatever was happening,

he was just in a fucking zone. And then, remember we were talking about when Boozellis started talking to Luca? Yes. And we were talking about how he gets motivated. And sometimes it's another player. And sometimes it's a fan. And there's some idiot was talking. to him from the front row, from the exact same spot to his left in the second half.

And every time they scored, every time anything happened, he just needs a target for his anger. And it fuels him in a way where, like, honestly, if I'm, it's usually the refs. If I'm for Tita, for Tata, tell me for Tita, whatever, I'm like, you are, your season tickets are revoked. You are no longer allowed to sit court side. You are welcome to sit ten rows back. But no thank you. We don't want you here anymore. It was just an awesome showing.

We're in LeBron's talking all over the place, 30 points, Luca 40, like it was just, and they played defense. Do you know my favorite Luca play it was? I said it was going to go along. God, you really are. You really are. You really are.

You're going to move out to L.A. No. You're a freaking L.A. guy. No. Yes, you are. No. You, I think it was the, stop. No, no.

No. No. No. No. No. We've been doing this show all season long, and you have not been one, one thousand effusive in praise of your own New York Knicks as you just were for the Los Angeles Lakers.

I had a great time watching the game last night. It's unbelievable. However, put a pitterness. I can tell I'm on to you. Because my last loathe is going to make Rich Paul so mad at me that I can't move to L.A. That's a tease for later. I'm on to you. The best play, Lucabade, I think it was after he split that double team.

he drew a charge, and it was a charge, but he took just the full brunt. I forget who the offender was. He just took it right to the chest, and I swear I got to hit his head on the, on the court. It was a great loop of game. I think I'm a Laker fan.

Now, this is awful. How did this even happen? I knew it was going to happen. I knew this was going to happen. How this even happened? I quit myself. You got, you got,

because you left miserable weather and rats for a week. I think my first loat is myself. And you went there and you were like, oh, and look at, And the weather is amazing. And this air one smoothie. I went to the hotel pool. I took my shirt off and tan.

Look at this yoga I'm doing. Oh, yeah. You know what? I like the Lakers now. Yeah, you're a gym. All right. My first loathe, the nuggets in person. You know, I look forward to this.

I look forward to it. I'm like, you know what? I get to see one of the greatest players, maybe the greatest player. Like, there's millions, millions of people. of people that play basketball. Some much better than others. He may be the best on planet Earth at it.

Of all the humans, he may be the best one. And I'm like, you know what? Season stinks. I'm really just, I told you, I scout other teams to get an opinion of them and prospects. And the prospect. That's kind of where it is, right?

Because the team that I go to all of their home games is not putting their best foot, forward, let's just say. And even with that, now I will give a little bit of an excuse. I do need to give some context. We get the pregame show last night and we're about to do the pregame show and the guys tell me that they talk to the Denver announcers. They didn't get in until 5 a.m. Yeah. I mean, 5 a.m. is wrong. You know what I mean? So how much should I ding them? for what I saw, but bro, the Grizzlies did everything they could to not win that game. They're like, oh, G.G. Jackson, you scored? Come here. You're in timeout.

Todd Jerome, you almost have a triple double. You're in time out. Todd, are you wearing your uniform underneath the warmups? If you make two good consecutive plays in a row, you're going to the bench. Get out. What are you doing? and Taylor Hendricks had like six steals and three blocks. They forced Yokic into 10 turnovers and the Nuggets just refused to lay the, to lay the smackdown. And so I got to see, look, I was happy a team that had lost eight games in a row. Yeah.

And he's gone to the post-show game. It's also nice. It's nice to see a group of players have smiles on their face for the first time. in three weeks and and everybody be happy and fans walking out like happy about something that took place because these these seasons are miserable like I could not tell you how much last night it ran through my head the only thing that matters to me honestly I've been and of course up in 25 years I've been through a lot of these oh yeah seasons um where the season doesn't go the wrong way and then these teams punt because they're not incentivized to win right but

watching it last night, I was like, I can't be more grateful that this is going to be the last time I have to do this crap. It will never be a good thing. There will never be a time, again, where I have to walk out of an arena, and a fan who has paid their hard-in-a-money to go has to wonder whether it was good or bad that we won. Yes.

And that's so wrong, it's so against everything. A coach doesn't have to make decisions trying to think, is it, what do I do here? Is it better if I win or lose because I've got a locker room and I've got a group of guys. But on the other hand, I understand the draft odds. And it's just so counterintuitive to everything we care about with sports. And I'm glad that it has reached this critical mass where it will be inevitably fixed this summer. But for a night like last night when, you know, the nuggets in the standings,

they need every game like blood. and they just, it was just a whiff. It was a total and complete whiff last night. And I was, it was jarring to me. I know they didn't have Aaron Gordon last night, but it was jarring.

It's just, I'm not going to go into like how to fix tanking, but this doesn't need a tweak. This, this needs, like, this doesn't need surgery. It needs an amputation. Like,

we need to have a dramatically change the way that this is structured. And I'm going to go down the path of trying to fix it. But also, also I will say, first time, season, I have seen fans of a player, just an individual player, get thrown, get escorted out of the

arena. You want to guess what player? Straanya? No, no, no, no, no. It wasn't Strawnia? Who was it? Two chicks showed up in Aaron Gordon jerseys. Oh. All right?

Okay. And they are hammered. Yes. Oh, those are my cousins. Those are my cousins. One of them is holding a sign and it says, Aaron Gordon, come to the country with me. The country.

What does the country mean when you're in Memphis? I just go to the country. I don't even know what that means. A different country or like just where there's no building. Check this out. I think they're twins, the two chicks. The other chick sign, she's holding it up. Why didn't we lead the show with this?

Why are we, they're like half an hour into the show? Stop. people are behind them and are like, not only they hammered and dancing, they're screaming the entire time. What's the other sign say? I shave just in case. First of all, that's brilliant.

That's brilliant poetry. Come to the, but they can't be twins. That ruins everything if they're twins. They're friends. Let's just say they're friends. They looked exactly like. The friends dress alike and look alike.

Maybe they do. Maybe it was my mother-daughter. Just don't ruin my fantasy. Maybe it was a mother-daughter. You've been on too many porn sites. Their daughter. Eric Gordon, who knew? I just want to say this.

The idea that Aaron Gordon didn't see this or didn't read it or didn't make eye contact once is absolutely absurd. It's absurd. They got escorted out in like the first quarter. Because everybody behind them was like, sit down. They're holding up the sign the whole time. So, and they wouldn't, yeah, they were, Come to the country with me. Yeah, come to the country.

I shave just in case. Hold on. I'm going to see. I don't want to get. Send me the text. No. I don't want to get the, you took a picture.

You took a picture. I 100% have a picture. Yeah, you're a journalist. You want to make sure you get it right. We're serious journalists here at the mismatch. Yeah. This is the best story since Stranya, dude. Oh, come to the country with us.

Oh. And it says AG 32. And by the way, that chick is wearing a, she's wearing a Yokid's jersey. And the other one is wearing Aaron Gordon jersey. They don't, they're not sisters. Huh? You can't say come to the country with us if you're sisters. That's just too weird.

I'm just telling you. They'll look at it. Send it sent it to me so I can evaluate whether they're not there. I just sent you the picture. You can look at them and you can evaluate it's live on the end of the episode. At the end of the episode, we'll do 10 minutes on the future Mrs. Gordon's. The nuggets in Perth. But what is it? But in Memphis, what has come to the country with me? Like drive 45 minutes out of town where they're in the sticks? Yeah, they live like, yeah, they live out in the sticks probably. Oh, God bless them. I love those two. I mean, I shave just in case. That's what it said. I like, I like her like, you know, she's got self-awareness.

She's like, it's probably not going to happen. They didn't even, they didn't even last. They were gone by the second quarter. I mean, they were gone by the time they walked into the game. They got their liquid courage, I think. God bless. God bless. Yeah. It's the first time I've seen that. How much effort was put into the signs? Like, was it just like marker on white paper?

Look at it. I don't know. It didn't come through yet, buddy. Yes, it has. It's on your phone right now. Stand by. Oh, yeah, it is. Oh, yeah, they put real effort into this.

This is a, that's a 45-minute project. And unfortunately, they do look like sisters. Sorry, let's move on. God, what is what happening in the world? All right. All right. I'm going to pick up the pace here. This is a, I know you like to be critical of me and the way I pick loves and loaves and things of that nature. That's totally fine.

I deserve it. Me? I want to say, yeah, it's fine. It's fine. I'm straddling the fence here of loves and loaths. I get that. I mean, how many weeks in a row could you do the Lakers are awesome before I just start project out vomiting on my camera?

Don't get me sorry with your camera, all right? My first loathe is the position that the pelicans are now in. Because like new front office, terrible trade for Derek Queen fears. Okay, we're going to trade Herb Jones. We're going to trade Murphy. And then this offseason, we're going to- No, they're not. We're going to feature Zion, but we're going to trade him this off-season.

But now they're winning. They beat the Clippers twice in row. Do you know that Zion has played 43 of the past 44 games? Oh, I just saw a Zion's going to get extended article. Oh, no. It's just like, so I loathe the positions they're in. Like, there was clarity. Right.

There was clarity two months ago. It was like out with the old, in with the new, start fresh, new front office. Like, we've seen this pattern before. And now it's, they're like, wait a second. DeJar-Murray's good. We've got DeJante Murray. We've got Fears. Yeah.

We've got Murphy. We've got Jones. We've got Zion. We've got Queen. Like, that sounds like a 10 seed next year. They're going to go for it and they're going to lose in the first game and go home. And it's just like I load the idea that like they have to make a decision now. Right.

You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. It just, it bothers me. If I was a Pelican fan, I'd be like, are you excited? Because you don't want to lose because your pick is gone. I mean, you've already seen Zion did his sit down with Malika. He's played the 40-something games in a row. Like, he's going to get his money, bro.

Oh, my God. I mean. I know. Just imagine signing Zion to like a $300 million contract. Nobody's doing that. Nobody's doing that. My next love. You know what?

I'm going to stick with them since you brought up the Pelicans because the guy that I, the reason I brought this up is because of him. And that is Dejante Murray, who has been outstanding since he returned this year. And my love is Achilles returns. I have been very hard. by this. Tatum was to look good. And this guy has looked good to

Jante Murray. And now I think that bodes very well for Halliburton. And maybe we're not done with Dane. Maybe he could come back. I mean, he signed that deal with Portland. I'd love for him to have one last deal with them. He's the three point champion, for God's sake.

Did you see the video? What, Damien Lille? 20 straight like 45 foot threes. Unbelievable. So I mean, look, I'm just happy, look, this has been very good because we have evolved where it's like, all right, it's not a, you know, it used to feel like it was a death sentence or at best you were going to be a very reduced portion of former self, right? Whatever you were, you were like, that ceiling is gone, right?

and who knows on the ceiling. But obviously post-Dorant, our opinion has changed. Obviously, you know, with Clay Thompson, he's had runs post-having it happen to him. But these two guys have just looked so good since they've come back, both, you know, the way they're moving. If I'm not mistaken, DeJante's first game was a little rough. But like, since then, it's like, oh, no. And he's shooting and he's beating people off the dribble and looks, you know, makes explosive quick cut moves. And I'm just hopeful because, you know, the Halliburton one was like, oh, my God.

I mean, not only was a game seven. It's like, what does that mean for the rest of his career? And it's like, I'm watching these guys come back. And I'm like, you know what? Maybe you're going to be all right. Like, we've just gotten so good at not only surgery but rehab that guys are able to become much closer versions of them, their full selves than it used to be. It's a good point. We talk so much about.

medical advances. This is one that seems to be a very serious one where it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't feel, oh my God, that guy's career is never going to be the same. Like, okay, it might not be the same, but it's going to be maybe 80, 90 percent of what it would have been. I'm watching Jason Tatum last night, I guess the Warriors, and I'm like, what happened to this whole like ramp up minutes restriction, 80 percent of his normal self? Like, where was all that? Like, I thought this is going to be like, okay, he's playing 12 minutes, 15 minutes, 17 minutes, 20 minutes. He's just like Jason Tatum again. So Achilles recoveries, love him.

All right, my next love. And I didn't want to repeat because I basically said this in the last episode. So I'm not going to say how excited I am for the first round of the Eastern Conference. What I am going to say is that it's much more exciting than the Western Conference, the matchups, potential matchups in the first round. also say this. There's, it's been injected with new blood. Like, C.J. McCollum. Can you really say that though when the West is going to include your Lakers? It's going to include your Lakers. I mean, I'm not even, I'm even a quarter of the way through my thought, all right?

Doesn't that already trump everything? The Lakers are involved, so it's going to be the best. Anyway, C.J. McCollum, James Hardin, Keon Ellis, Jose Alvarado, Kevin Herder, if he played, and Busevich, I know he's from the Eastern Conference, but he's from a team that no one cares about, and Arizona Celtics. It's just like, it feels like at the trade deadline, the Eastern Conference solidified a lot. And I like it.

And I really like what's happening with the Hawks. And I love that C.J. McCollum is involved. Because when he's playing for the Wizards, like I watched him hit a game winner, I was like, no one else is watching this game. You know, it kind of felt like we might have seen the end of like meaningful basketball from C.J. McCollum before his value as a on the basketball court diminished to the point where it's, it's, it's moot. And now it's so exciting to watch him and

the Hawks on this streak. And like there's so many good potential matches in the first round. I'm excited about it. In the first round, but those top six in the West, when we get to that second round, like there's like almost no, there, there's no bad matchup you could pull out of a grab bag if it includes those six teams. Not a single one. I'm saying, not a single one. Oklahoma City, San Antonio,

Minnesota, Houston, the Lakers, Denver. So you see them down on right now. I got it. Me too. But I'm saying those six. Kevin Durant and. Yeah.

It's still going to be fun to watch. Yes. Yeah. My next love. Okay. And this happened because of the Kate thing this morning. it's the 65 game rule. It's so dumb.

And I don't want to... I just don't want to harp on this all the time. And I hate... It's worth bringing up. Well, here's the deal. This happened because, you know, the same way that there is a critical mass that has gone on with tanking, and so now they will address it,

it feels like it... I like everything about the 65 game rule, and I have made my opinion clear, on this. Oh, wait a second. No, Bruno, hold on a second. I remember this is one of my loads. I'm not a fourth of a way through my thought.

Two weeks ago. That's the exact same thing that I just said, by the way, except I said a quarter. That's why I did it. Okay, but I remember bringing this up and you went on, I didn't even let me finish. My sentence then, and you went on this a passion diatribe about how.

You're not letting me finish. I don't want to hear it. Okay, because this is now going to become a debate again. but it's unfortunate because it is because of real injuries this time, okay? Like with Yokic, with Cade, with these guys, right? And that and I never want that to happen, okay? But I need to remind all of you dumbasses why we got to that point. You've already done this, rant.

I'm sorry. You've already done this. I'm sorry that the 65 game rule is going to keep these guys out. What I would do. No, I'm helping you out here. I don't make this a debate. It needs to be amended for injury. They made a mockery.

They always set out quote, unquote, four injury. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. They made a mockery of the season just two years ago. I mean, you couldn't tune into a national TV game where anybody was playing. Do you remember this year, the Warriors,

the Warriors were playing the heat, and they were like on a tough road trip. It was like four and five nights or something. And then it was like Drayman's out. Jimmy's out, Steph's out. Like, it happens this season too. The only reason these guys play is the 65 game rule. Get it through your heads.

None of them will be playing on a regular basis. So wait, you loat the 65 game rule, but you celebrate the 65 game rule. No, I load that this is about to be a debate again where everybody's saying the 65 game rule is dumb because all of you have pea brains that have no context that they have, the reason it had to come in is because they wouldn't play basketball, and you are fighting for them to not play basketball again. You don't get it. They'll just sit out again. Do you want us to stop the recordings so you can figure out which side of this fence you're on? Because right now you're just, it's going right in your taint. I just made it very clear. What I loathe is that the

bozos, you probably included, are going to come out of the woodwork, all saying the same thing. Oh, man, this guy can't get all NBA? Oh, this 65 game rules got to be changed up. As if they did it as punishment. They did it so that guys would play basketball because we were at a point where guys refused to play basketball unless you made them in order to get contracts and awards. It's the only thing that keeps us from having guys sitting out all the time.

If they wouldn't have abused it, and guess what? But now there's been the abuse of tanking, so now they're going to do something about it. That's why we have the 65 game rule in the first place. So before you start the 65 game rule is dumb. At least acknowledge why it's in there. And all you bozos, look, I hate that Cade might not get an award to. But they got to have the rule or else people are just going to sit out for ridiculous reasons, non-injuries. All right, I'm going to move on.

Go ahead. This one's tricky. Laker fan. See, that's old. Wen Binyama. I have trouble with this one because I also love and loat it. I love Jalen Brown for understanding this and saying this, but I have some thoughts afterwards. Jeff, please play the clip.

JT's a tiger. Ron is a dragon. Joe is a dragon. Niccolo, he's new to our team, he's here to horse. It's here to horse right now. Each of those have different communication styles, and you can go into numerology as well. Like Sam is a five, I'm a five.

So, you know, different breakdowns. And then you can also go into like star signs, like, you know, between like, you know, JTs or Pisces, et cetera. I learned all of that different type of stuff, and I was able to, like, communicate to guys in different ways that kind of help with my leadership this year. So, Verno, I love that Jalen Brown has this knowledge about his teammates. And you know what?

You think I'm going to go after Jalen Brown? I will not. Fine. Whatever edge you can get, whatever you think helps Jalen Brown, that's fine. Here's what I loathe. Anyone who believes in astrology is wrong and ridiculous. The stars in the sky when you were born have nothing to do with your personality. or behavior on Earth whatsoever in any way, shape, or form.

Someone show me some science. I have twins born at the exact same time, the exact same day, the star is the exact same place, and they're completely different people. If you swap around any astrology horoscope, it's all the same. They're all the same. You're all fools. If you come up to me and be like, what is your sign? I'll tell you because I'm a nice person and I'll smile, but I judge you secretly.

If you're really into astrology, God bless you, whatever makes you happy. I want you to be happy, but I judge you. I don't believe in astrology at all whatsoever. Jalen Brown, shout to you for getting to know your teammates and putting everything you can into being a leader and a communicator. You're the best. Anyone who believes in astrology, I'm out. I'm going to let you have your opinion on this.

Thank you. I mean, I'm going to, I didn't think that was in question. I didn't think that was in question. But I'm going to admit something to you that is going to disappoint you. Won't be the first time. I don't really. I've never really thought. thought about whether or not, it's not like I know astrology.

I don't even know the signs or anything. But that being said, one of my favorite accounts on Twitter is Zodiac GM. And he analyzes every trade and player acquisition and lineup based. Who's the lens of astrology? Followed. Followed. Followed. Say left.

He's always right. Always. I'm telling you when, like, if you make a trade or something, I'm telling you, Zodiac GM. I'm looking it up right now. Bro, and it will say these guys fit. It says four followers. That can't be the right one. It'll say this coach and this player and the best player do not have matching energies.

And it'll be, like he does, I don't understand all of it. But it'll be he has. and there's little like green dots next to it. So it like all lines up if it's all, if it's like if it works in synergy. Or it'll be like, the Zodiac GM. That's who he, okay.

Yeah. Amazing. I'm on it. No. And then he like, too wit, I know, look,

unfortunately you're going to end up becoming a believer in this stuff. I don't worry about that. That is not in jeopardy. It is crazy. I got to admit. Stop it. No. No.

it's crazy he'll go to like the old like he'll say like the Denver Nuggets championship team okay what was the difference in them and he will take you through there's a capricorn and cancer is collaborative networks i love the zodiac gm zodiac gm i love jalen brown he's so good i just don't you can do whatever you want in your own personal lives i do not believe in astrology whatsoever in any way shape or form i just don't it's just bullshit do you know how far away those stars are they may not even exist anymore. That's how long it takes for the light to get to Earth. There's got to be something to it though because... There's not. There's not.

I read my sign thing one time and it was kind of like I was like, yeah, that is kind of me. Are you strong and fierce, but also an introvert and an extrovert? It's just like, it's everybody. That's everybody in the whole fucking world. Just spare me. I'm getting upset now. Go to yours.

Last thing. Carlos Boozer's kid may very well. be a top, he's for sure going to be like a top three or four draft pick in this upcoming NBA draft. And I like Dad's Repid. And Carlos Boozer, this is what he said. Carlos Boosers kid who had a pretty good game, even though Duke was not very good against Jerry McNamara Sienna team today. He gives so much to his team, whatever it takes, he's an unselfish superstar. And that transatlish. to the NBA.

Although Carlos Boozer conceded his son may not be the most athletic prospect, he doesn't believe that should stop him from going number one overall. Quote, if you want to win, you pick Cameron. And I'm going to tell you this, the GMs that don't pick Cam,

they're going to regret that for 15 years. What about the Zodiac GM? I don't know what Zodiac GM. I mean, it depends on his energies. I don't know. what his energies are. But I will say, I like the dad. I like the dad repin the kid. I love it too. And the kid, I mean, another Duke reclass that, and he's going to run away with national player of the year. Like his, his bad games are everybody else's best games. He has been so

ridiculously consistent. It's amazing. What's the prospector think? Huh? Oh, what's the prospector thing? I mean, send him a text. When I asked him last week, he was like, if you're doing the whole, this guy will not fail list, I mean, he's right at the top. He's not going to, what? It's also like the, he's not going to be bad. Guess what? Yokic, not athletic. Donchich, not athletic.

Two of the top four players in the league. So there you go. No, Camp Booser is awesome. Awesome. All right. This one is tournament related as well. I was prepping for the show that we have here, the mismatch on the Ringer Network on Spotify and Netflix.

And I missed this some of the games, the tournament games. And I saw this headline, and I had to fact check this at four different sources. The Nebraska men's basketball team won their first tournament game today. their first tournament game in the history of the program. Do you know, how much did you read about it? I read a little bit about it. So they are the only. Yes, I've got that right here.

Power for school. Everyone, even Northwestern, even Oregon State, even, you name it. I looked at that. So here's the other thing I did. I was like, let me just Google, because I do heavy research for this program. what players were drafted at the first round from Nebraska? Because I'm like, if there's got to be some like marquee players

that went to Nebraska, they just like lost in the first round or whatever. Eric Piakowski, drafted 15 by the Pacers in 94. What else do we have here? Oh, Rich King in 1991. He was taken by the Supersonics. I'm not familiar with Mr. King's game,

Dickie King. And Tyrod Lou. Nebraska stand up Nebraska You know who they're You may not know this Do you know who an alma mater of Nebraska is? Victoria Dowling

My mom Go Huskers She went to Nebraska Your mom went to Nebraska I believe that she was named The ideal Nebraska co-ed Which is one of the weirdest awards You could possibly get

But she didn't play 65 games So they didn't give it to her So I like that Hey, number one, there's an NBA tie, former NBA player and coach, Fred Hoyberg. Oh, Hoyberg. Yeah, and his kid played too. He's the, he's the Nebraska coach. Yeah.

The other thing is two years ago, they had a chance. They played in the NCAA tournament in maybe it's, yeah, I think it was two years ago in Memphis. I went. Oh, you were there? I bought tickets. Nebraska took over the arena. Complete, like the whole city of Omaha, the whole state of Nebraska descended

because this was going to be their first NCAA tournament win ever. They had a guy named Tominaga. You could go find him on the internet. They called him the day. Japanese Steph Curry. Oh, you would have loved this guy. He was a little guard who shot from everywhere. I do remember this guy.

Japanese, he played for Nebraska. I do remember him for him. Yeah, yeah. So I sit in the Nebraska section. These are the coolest, nicest people on earth. I loved them. And they got their ass kiss by Texas. A&M. It was so depressing.

Japanese Steph Curry couldn't do nothing. None of them could do nothing. And they all had to drive back home to Lincoln, Omaha, or wherever they were from in Nebraska. And I was like, this is such a bummer. It's such a bummer. But they thousands and thousands and thousands of people. I'm just shocked.

I'm thinking about all the colleges in the world. It's insane. That have got one tournament win. Incredible. And Nebraska. If you put a gun on my head, we're like, named 30 state schools.

Like Nebraska's like number 24. Right. Yep. So they did win. Congratulations to them. And the Hoyberg. And shout to my mom. I deal Nebraska Coed.

How did that happen? She's a very, just a nice person, very beautiful. No. Oh. How did she end up in Nebraska? She was like an army kid. And I think their last station was in Omaha.

Yeah. I'll be damned. World traveler, your mom. That was more the country traveler, but I'm gonna get it too. Fair enough. All right, my last loathe. Well, Draymond Green just shut up.

Seriously. What is this even pegged to? Like, when I saw this on the rundown, first of all, it says, No, no, no, no, no. I want to take the people behind the curtain. It says, Dremond, the jerk face on the rundown.

I did, right, Jura. When it says, like, Rishir Fleming, I'm like, oh, let me just research, let me get familiar with the material. Instead, it says, Draymond, Because I'm, because he could be referencing one of seven things that happened last few days. Oh, because I'm from Memphis. Everybody tagged me on this.

He, like, nothing is going on, bro, that has, should put Memphis in your sight lines. But he's like, oh, I heard Stephen A. Smith talking about it. And he's like, and they just need to move the Grizzlies to Nashville. They just need to get them up out of there. You know, they don't have hot tubs and saunas in sight and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they just need to move on to Nashville. and, you know, there's no reason for the team to be in Memphis and it's like, A, why is this? Why? Why? Why? Okay. And the other thing is, he almost signed here a few years ago. But it is a small market, a majority, minority city that counts desperately on that franchise.

And great point. A city that has unbelievable character and soul. And, the city cares deeply about the organization. It has a profound effect on the community, local businesses, everything else. And they need to move so you can have a sauna? Seriously. I don't have a...

You're here for a day. A day! No sauna, though. Unbelief. Walk outside. It's hot as shit. All the time here. I had a great hot yoga experience. Memphis. So you can go there, Draymond. It's so humid.

We don't need saunas. We sweat our ass off all the time. Why is Memphis under attack this year? Of all things. Like, why? What did we do? It's all like the hotels. You know what? I made fun of the ducks at the Peabody, but it was a nice hotel. I had no notes outside of the ducks. It'd like a little

too much of a thing, but sure. Peabody. Peabody. Peabody. It's a Massachusetts thing. It's a Massachusetts thing. I just, I was so And then because here's the thing, I don't give a crap what he says all that much. It's that everybody tags me on it. Like, you see what Draymond said? He said your team needs to move.

I was like, why? It's also, like, if you want to get into it, didn't the Warriors move recently, where they moved from and where they moved to? Yeah. Hmm. How do you think the former community feels about that? Right. I think that's helped?

Yeah. Or hurt. Right. I think San Francisco would have survived without the wars? I hope he has a hot tub and a cold tub. I hope he signs with the Grizzlies. That's what I hope happens. That'd be perfect.

I used to, I used. If is Patrick Ewing, Sonics, Sonic's Jersey years? I used to want that. I did. I used to want that. He is insufferable, bro. Leave my team alone. Jerk face.

Jerk face. Not even like is a jerk face. Just as Draymond the jerk face. I'm surprised because you don't really use grammar. surprised you can capitalize the D, the T, and the J. And I never cuss like that either. He made me mad. He said I never cuss like that. Jerk face is not a cuss. No, no, I said, I said F you. I know. I mean, you take it back. You can take it back. I take it. I mean, I wish I wouldn't have done it, but, you know, people make mistakes. You didn't take it back. No, I didn't take it back. I feel

that way. I feel that way. I said fuck Scotty Barnes a few months ago. I still hear about it. I actually do take that back. I'm sorry, Mr. Barnes, the Barnes family. All right, I'm going to make this quick. I'm apologized in advance to my colleague and friend, Rich Paul. This thing has come back up. I've gone after this before. No, it's not insights to excellence. I've already done that a few times. But when this first got promoted, I was just floored by it. And now they're going to be close to it is becoming a real thing. This thing foul play with Anthony Davis where it's punked, but he's Austin Coutcher, is one of the most strange media entities I've ever been a part of or seen in my whole entire life.

Like, what about Anthony Davis made you be like, you know what? He'd be great in the Austin Coutcherola Punked. And in the trailer, he's like, you guys might not know about this about me, but I love pulling off pranks. And do you know who the first person they showed? For like three years. Oh, yeah. Do who the first person who gets pranked is?

It's Raymond Green. Oh, my God. That one looks kind of funny, though, to be honest with you. Because Draymond starts to lose his mind. Because, you know, Drayman will say stuff. Other people are polite or whatever. But, like, Tara Lipinski, do you even know who Tarla Pinsky is? Figure skater?

Yeah. Oh, okay. Jamal Murray, Robert Griffin, Cooper Flags involved somehow. Like, God. Oh, one of his pranks is the NBA. And he goes, ow, ow, I'm hurt. And they're like, oh, my God, again. And he's like, no, just kidding.

Wizards. Look, I'm going to walk around with a limp all day and everybody's going to think I'm hurt. Every time I fall down, I'm not getting up for 10 minutes. And the teammates, when he was on the Lakers, the Lakers stopped going over to him when he was on the ground. I did notice. Did you see LeBron go down?

He's done this twice. in the last two weeks. When he gets fouled and he hits his elbow on the wood. But this, like, he stays down for, I mean, he's probably legit hurt. I have no idea what's going on. But I noticed the trainer took like eight minutes to go over there. He just needs to get one. He needs to get one of those Barry Bonds.

Yes. For his elbow. The elbow guard. He does. He does. The Barry Bonds one. All right. All right.

I'm sorry, Rich Paul. I'm sorry, Anthony Davis. I'm sure you're a nice person, but that's not going to be a show I watch. It's on. Isn't it on like true TV? No, but it's on after an NCAA game. They're getting like a prime spot. Like once the NCAA games over,

it's going straight to this. Do you know what that does? Makes episode one have a big rating. Because people just leave it on. Yeah. I got you. It's going to do it for our show. Thank you to Brian.

Thank you to Jeff. Thank you for Stefan for making it all happen. Jacoby. I'll talk to you next week.