The Right Time with Bomani Jones - NBA Summer League Pitfalls, Knicks: Finals or Bust? Drake's London Lies | 7.18

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

Live from Summer League in Las Vegas, Bomani Jones is joined by Kid Mero. They discuss some of the unseen activities of NBA players at Summer League (2:49), react to Clipse's newest Album Let God Sor...t Em Out (16:33), Drake's latest shenanigans overseas (19:56) and break down the New York Knicks' chances of winning the NBA Finals. (23:31) . . . Subscribe to Supercast for Ad-Free Episodes: https://righttime.supercast.com/ Buy 'The Right Time' merch: http://therighttimebomani.com/ Subscribe to The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok for all the best moments from the show. Download Full Podcast Here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6N7fDvgNz2EPDIOm49aj7M?si=FCb5EzTyTYuIy9-fWs4rQA&nd=1&utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-right-time-with-bomani-jones/id982639043?utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Follow The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Social Media: http://lnk.to/therighttime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Please make so much noise for the one and only host of the Right Time podcast, Bimani Jones. And of course, we can't have anything Wave Sports and Entertainment related without one of the great content creators of our time. And when I say he's a legend, he's a legend in every sense of the word. The Bronx's own. The living legend. You know him. You love him. Make some noise, Las Vegas.
Starting point is 00:00:36 for the one and only, the kid, Merrill. What's going on, picked up? What's all, baby? Vegas, what's good? Wow. You handled that tight-ass turn better than I did. Yo, fam. My only thing for this whole show,
Starting point is 00:00:54 don't fall down on the way onto the stage. That shit is treacherous, bro. Dude, I did a show for a couple years that had a walk-in in front of a crowd, and my whole thing the whole way was, just don't fall down. Just don't bust your ass. There's always wires and shit on the floor.
Starting point is 00:01:10 There's always something. Tape. And falling is always funny. It's going to make a motherfucker's laugh. Y'all know that Kelsey Grammer viral video. You know what I'm saying? He just fell off the TV. He's like, fuck, oh my God.
Starting point is 00:01:21 You know what I'm saying? That lives with you forever. Yeah, and I'm not that good at laughing at myself. Like, that's going to be, you fall down and they catch it. That's you forever. But you see what it is? You do it. It's like, oh, shit, both fell down.
Starting point is 00:01:35 I do it. They're like, yo, did he do that to get a laugh? Like he's trying to be funny. Like, this motherfucker just fall all over the place. No. I'm 40 years old, bro. I can't bust my ass for y'all to laugh, bro. Like, I'm not down bad like that.
Starting point is 00:01:48 Because it hurts too bad. It hurts way too much. There was a time when you would have done that, though. 100%. Put the check in front of me, bro. I'm doing a barrel roll in this motherfucker. So how many times have you done Summer League? This is the third one?
Starting point is 00:02:02 Second one? I smoke a lot, y'all. You know what I'm saying? So there's going to be a lot of questions that are like, I'm okay, can you help me answer this? You're like, I don't know you, fam. Like, why are you calling the friend? We're not there friends yet.
Starting point is 00:02:15 We got, okay, good. So second and third, you know what I'm saying? But what I will say about Vegas, I love Vegas, because I'm a degeneric gambler, but. Yeah, shout to my day. Who? Who did it? Who did that?
Starting point is 00:02:27 Yeah, listen, that's how I feel inside when I hit on 15. And it's like blackjack. I'm like, who, yeah. You ever seen a dude that's getting a double socky in his mouth and his girl's looking at him questioningly? You know what I mean? That's me at the, like, yay! Blackjack! I was playing Blackjack today with a current NBA point guard, and that was a poor decision maker.
Starting point is 00:02:55 There's no way in the world that I would entrust my offense to do it with the moves that he was making. There's none whatsoever. Like the risk calculus was so bad at every turn. And then the best part was. he was trying to act like he was not an NBA player. All right? So you're about 6'5. It's Summer League.
Starting point is 00:03:15 And look, there's a lot of dudes that are 6'5 walking around here this week that are not NBA players. They play in the NBA Summer League, which is not the same thing. Those dudes, however, do not have all $100,000 change. No. And so he's sitting there and he's playing. And I feel like he's trying to lay low, but I had something to say to him. So I try to say it in some sort of code.
Starting point is 00:03:36 And somehow this was working. And the white people did not realize that he was an NBA basketball player. But the whole way, I'm like, he must rap. I can't possibly think you're fooling anybody right now. Listen, bro, being that height, that's the thing about the NBA. Like, if you're a basketball player, good luck blending in there, bro. Right.
Starting point is 00:03:54 Unless you're in the back court. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you're 6-8, you can't blend in no fucking wear. Well, you know what I'm saying? Your hope is what happened with us when we were walking in earlier at Rudy Gay was walking out as we were walking in. And I did not realize it was Rudy.
Starting point is 00:04:06 because I wasn't looking up. It was like somebody had cut the camera off. And it was just like, oh, what's up? Oh, damn. Was there Rudy Gay? Yo, what's up? Y, what's up? Nipples?
Starting point is 00:04:13 And I had to apologize for it because it felt like I was rude, but it's like when you walk down 34th Street and you don't know you walk past the Empire State Building because the motherfucker's right there. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah. Like, unless you're doing that. Oh, shit, the Mets won. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:24 But this whole two week period is like basketball road trip bingo. You just see all these faces and all these names that you have forgotten about. I saw Sleepy Floyd walking through a casino today. And every time I see... And a bathroom. And every time I see Sleepy Floyd, my brother has a friend who was a basketball player of his era, and he has some dispute with Sleepy Floyd that has led to him calling him Creepy Floyd for the last 40 years. So, like, Creepy.
Starting point is 00:04:54 You know, creepy? He can't stand creepy. And it has nothing to do with how Sleepy Floyd looks. He just had some beef with Sleepy Floyd. And it took everything in me not to scream out creepy. Creepy. Creepy. Creepy would have whoop my ass.
Starting point is 00:05:07 What up? Can you imagine some dude that doesn't know you that's not actually your friend just calling you creepy in public? I think it's cute. Fam, listen, what's going to happen after that is going to end up on a lot of different blogs. Jason Lee's going to be talking about the shit. Yes.
Starting point is 00:05:22 You know what I mean? Yes. But like I saw Joel Anthony at the Park MGM yesterday. God damn. Right. Who has thought of that? Who has thought of Joel Anthony? Name of random.
Starting point is 00:05:31 But that's who you see at Summer League. You just have a whole bunch of like you try not to stare, but you're trying to figure out who this person is. Oh, nigga, look, it's Ronnie Touria. Yeah, yeah, right, right. They're all, like, this is basketball family reunion. It is, like, the best part of this weekend. It's like, yeah, not.
Starting point is 00:05:46 It's because you see people, like you said that are on the cusp of being an NBA player. Like, yo, I'm on a, I'm on a practice squad. And then you see motherfuckers that have commercials. Yes. Trying to blend in, like, with the common folk. And number three, which is, and I've heard people talk about this many times, that when the guys come in for Summer League, they give you, in many cases, the per diem up front.
Starting point is 00:06:10 And the lecture is given to these very young men. This is your whole entire per diem. If you spend it all now, you're not going to have any money to eat. Da-da-da-da-da-da. And of course, invariably, there's somebody who messes up and blows the whole thing. But I was sitting at a table, man, this was like a couple of years ago. And I watched this dude.
Starting point is 00:06:29 He had to be no more than 22 years old. and he definitely put his literal last $25 on the table to play one single solitary hand of blackjack. And it was not a crispy 20 that he pulled out. That's the 21. Like that thing had been through the laundry, it had made some moves, and I'm watching him as he puts this money down and he asked for this chip.
Starting point is 00:06:51 And I'm looking at the dealer like, come on, man, you can't do this. Right? There's no way in the world. He was at the table for 15 seconds tops. But he just felt like, hey, man, I'm in, you know, I'm in Las Vegas. I'm an NBA player for a couple of days. And he had $25 worth of fun.
Starting point is 00:07:06 And $25 worth of fun in Las Vegas is no fun. It's not fun at all. Also, I'm over here ready to judge. But I'm like, you give a 20-year-old Morrow talking about, yo, here's a couple, here's a couple G's. Here's your per diem. Don't blow it all the ones.
Starting point is 00:07:20 Bro, you know how much atmosphere models is I have? You know what I'm saying? And y'all are like, what the fuck? Amisphere models? What is that? That's prostitution. y'all they out here selling pussy you know what I'm saying
Starting point is 00:07:34 at an alarming rate you know what I'm saying it's crazy god damn I just walking through the casino like shit niz I just want to I just want to play three-court poker bro like I don't want to I don't want you to feed me a cigarette
Starting point is 00:07:46 yeah that's a whole other Vegas game like the the dudes who come to Vegas and think they just had the luckiest night of their lives only only to be hit with an invoice oh you thought He was hanging around with you?
Starting point is 00:08:01 No, because you was on a roll at the blackjack table. That's why it's stupid. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you thought you was cute. Oh, yeah. Right. She's just a fantasy. Don't worry about it, Bobby.
Starting point is 00:08:12 Like, yo. Listen, man, let me get myself in trouble. Yeah, but no, but this is, it is also the hottest place I've ever been in my life. Like, this is, I grew up in Houston. Dog, it's disgusting. Bo, it's disgusting. You're from Texas. You have, you know, experience with heat.
Starting point is 00:08:28 Yes. I'm Dominican. I've experienced with, like, like heat, humidity and shit like that, but I'm like, fam, this is different. This is like open the oven and just put your head in that shit. Right. You know what I mean? Like, there's no air movement. But see, I also think that that's
Starting point is 00:08:40 part of why it becomes such basketball fan of reunion because you can get a good deal on a hotel this week, right? Like, if you, if you are a basketball type and you need an excuse to come to Las Vegas and you would like to do it at a more affordable price, Summer League is here for you.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Let's make it happen. Yo, you six, yo, I'm six five, I can go left. Yes. You know what's go, baby? Well, I will tell you, I don't know if you have peeped this, but another fascinating Summer League demographic is, and this is becoming more and more of a thing in the last 10 or 15 years,
Starting point is 00:09:12 which is the NBA dad. Oh, shit. The NBA dad is all over. I pulled up one year, me and Mike Smith, we were over there at Thomas and Mac, and I'm going to use, like, just throw a name out here so it's not to expose the dude. This dude comes up to me, he's probably,
Starting point is 00:09:28 I want to say that he's like, fairly like older except all these guys' dads are my age now so I can't really say that anymore it's like man he must have been like 47 ooh feels as old as he used to but he stopped and he says to me just looks at me and he goes
Starting point is 00:09:43 I'm Jamal's daddy I what is this supposed to mean to me like like who's what's Jamal first of all well no this is a this is a fictional Jamal is not the actual like we're not it's not the actual like we're not it's not the But if he said this the first,
Starting point is 00:10:02 I don't know what your name is, though. Right, right. Unless your name is whatever Prince used to go by. There's a lot of those guys in his world. But he said it to me, and I think he said it to me like I was going to be like, oh, hell yeah, that's what, like, no, we're not talking about an all star, right? Like, this wasn't like when I met Zion's daddy.
Starting point is 00:10:18 He said, I'm Zion's daddy. Oh, okay. And it was 2019, so that was a lot cooler back then than it was right now, right? But that checked out. Like, oh shit, Zion's daddy. Oh, shit, okay. Oh, he's about to pull up.
Starting point is 00:10:30 Sure, I would have loved to meet him. Tell him to watch off of that, Mr. Models. Yeah. Tell him be careful. Keep your head on the swivel. Yeah. Actually, the more I think about this,
Starting point is 00:10:40 the idea of having Summer League here is really not. I'm like, yo, why? Why here? Let me show in Wyoming. You want to keep niggas out of trouble, bro. Is there anybody following the big Chinese gentleman for the trailblazers around? Have you seen him?
Starting point is 00:10:54 The Chinese yoga? Oh, man. I feel like you don't got to follow him around because he follows himself around. You know what I'm just saying I would watch the documentary of my first trip. I think he made like a handler
Starting point is 00:11:04 Like he's gonna while out at the pool. Yeah no but like just I just want to see him walking around here and how like how he takes all of this in I was here when Victor had his first one And in fact I did not see it But when he had the thing where Britney Spears When she rolled up all the minute it got ugly
Starting point is 00:11:19 I was in the hotel like right around the same time But that happened and I am so mad I did not see that with my own eyes He probably turned around And that's the thing when you that tall your eye line is very different from everybody else's. Him and Britney Spears are different. She was looking at his foreskin.
Starting point is 00:11:37 You know what I'm saying? She was like, yo, what's up? Victor and the Wimbabayama. You know what I'm saying? That's different. And also, she might have been awesome. You know what I mean? Because everybody in Vegas is also.
Starting point is 00:11:49 Not except me. I'm sober right now. I'm waiting until after the show. You know what I mean? It's very consummate professionals. I just did not understand how anybody is famous as she was thought to herself, I'm going to go run that dude down from behind. This guy that is surrounded by security, right?
Starting point is 00:12:08 Like, what's the worst thing? What's the worst thing that could possibly happen? Especially if you haven't been that famous in a long time. Like, 1999 Britney Spears could probably get away with that, right? 23 Britney Spears, you call the cops. That's a different Britney. It's a different animal. Also, Victor was probably born when she was doing...
Starting point is 00:12:28 Yeah, I don't like to think about those sorts of things. Same. I've been looking at these birth years for these gentlemen that are coming into the league. Oh, you was born. Okay, dog. I was smoking a blunt on my roof, watching 9-11. Well, yeah. You was being born.
Starting point is 00:12:41 Right. So it was one thing when you would say that or like, oh, I was in the eighth grade or, oh, da-da-da. And this is when I looked down and I'm like, I bought a house that. You know, like the things become so much more concrete. Like, and I don't really, I, every time I see like a young, dude make a mistake. I'm much more, I want to start sentences with phrases like young man.
Starting point is 00:13:03 Come on. Right? Like I'm not in a position to be as judgmental as I used to be. What? A much more delicate. Fam. Having kids did that to me. Like, now I'm like, all right, bro. I can't. Alright, man. Listen, bro. If you're 14 now, like, I started smoking weed at 13. So
Starting point is 00:13:17 if so fact, though, I'd be a hypocrite if I told you. I just trying to make this shit look as uncool as possible. Because kids never think they dad is cool. So I just be like, yo, I smoke man weed. Ah! And his face, he's just like, damn, calm down, bro. You get it with the ipso facto.
Starting point is 00:13:32 Yeah. No, this is true NBA story. I went to Houston this year because Bunby does his night at the rodeo, right? And so I went and I got a room at the Postoat, the owner of the Rockets. That's his hotel. So I am assuming that through that contact is why NBA teams, when they come to Houston, they say at the four seasons or they stay there. And so the Pelicans were playing a game that night and they were staying there.
Starting point is 00:13:54 I'm in the lobby. Trey Murphy walks in. I had done some TV with him before, so I stopped and I talked to him. Okay, cool. Fast forward a couple months. I see him somewhere else. He sees me and he does this, you know, does this shit.
Starting point is 00:14:07 What's going on on, Unck? And I'm like, hey, man. A, hey, hey, hey. Because my issue with Unc is very simple. Perhaps it is affectionate, but it comes with no respect. I feel like I've earned this respect at this point. Whatever happened to Sir, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:14:23 Sir is Chris Elbow, come on. No. That's the Southern Gentleman in you. I put in the work. I should get some service, right? So he hits me with Unk, and I, you know, try to have a discussion about Unk. He then tells me that that day somebody saw him talk to me and stopped and asked, and I quote, is that your dad?
Starting point is 00:14:44 The problem is I did the mathematics, and that was certainly on the board. You were like, uh, I was fucking. This was possible. Right. At this area era of my life, I was fucking. It would not, but it would not have even required me to have made a life-altering mistake. Like, it was, it was on board. This is playing fucking.
Starting point is 00:15:06 Right, right. It was organized. It was, it was perfectly reasonable. That casual, fucking. That could have been the case, right? He's like, that was Beaumani. And I'm like, damn, man, this is where we are. Brough.
Starting point is 00:15:18 It's like Matthew McConae said, like, in that fucking movie, like, you know, they get, they stay 17, we get older. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Everybody comes into the league? Yeah, let's take that up a little higher to 17, buddy. Let's get to something a little bit more comfortable. 25. Hey, that's way better.
Starting point is 00:15:39 That's way, way, way. Depends all you are, you know what I'm saying? Because we've seen, you know, some football guys. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, no, we're not. Yeah, okay, I'm going to change the subject very quickly. Now, I wanted to ask you about something because you and I, We had a discussion on my podcast. I guess this was about, I guess, I mean, it's a long time now when GNX came out.
Starting point is 00:16:02 Yes. And we were trying to explain to the youngsters what mid actually is because they don't know what mid is because they've never seen a seed in their lives. So they have been told that mid means something is bad when no, mid is perfectly serviceable. And it'll get you high. That's it. Right? Like, that's the sentence that would explain mid that would justify that $30 eighth that you purchase. It'll get you high.
Starting point is 00:16:26 But there's nothing wrong with it. It's just fine. So I don't know if you have been celebrating Clipsmas with the rest of the internet over the last. See, couldn't even finish my goddamn sense. Right? That's like, couldn't even get to it. Right. Clitmas is crazy.
Starting point is 00:16:44 Oh, no, it's been Clipsmast. It has been. They love it. But there's like there's certain groups and certain acts where the people who love them will just go up in a very, very particular way and they're the loudest and nothing else will be a substitute for them. And clips is one of them, right? You know, malice came back, you know, to get out there, they're very happy about these things. Okay, cool.
Starting point is 00:17:07 He don't curse a lot. No. I thought it was good. Yeah. It's very good. Can we normalize saying things are good again? Because good is becoming insult. Please, y'all.
Starting point is 00:17:18 Look, camera. Please, America. Good means good. It was good. Very good means. Very good. Y'all want everything to be classic or garbage, bro. And that is an impossible fucking binary gang.
Starting point is 00:17:33 It was good. On the spectrum, it was very fucking good. Okay? Like, y'all calling it thriller. Relax. This is what it was. Stegging with a basketball analogy. If you've ever watched a very good basketball player
Starting point is 00:17:46 who can always get to their spots and make their shot. Every possession, they would wind up with the ball right there at the elbow. They know exactly what to do from the elbow, and they make that elbow jumper. And the elbow jumper is effective. But I don't need to watch you make 12 elbow jumpers. This fucking, this game's only 40 minutes. But if you root for their team,
Starting point is 00:18:10 you don't care how they made the shots. You're like, yo, 12 elbow jumpers in a row. Fuck it. But if you don't have the jersey on, it's just kind of like, ah, I might want a little more razzle-dazzle. Yo, take it to the rack, too. Right, right. Could you dunk hold a couple of people?
Starting point is 00:18:24 Please. That was how I felt about it. They got two white guys on the team. Pick one. But the whole week I have basically felt like, like, what it has to be like if you don't celebrate Christmas? Right? But everybody else does.
Starting point is 00:18:37 You did you. Overwitness today. They are excited. They are loving it. You are going to get Chinese food. I got the pan fry want-times already, me. That was where I was the whole week. And, yo, I feel you, man, because it's like,
Starting point is 00:18:52 if you don't jump on a hype train of something, immediately. Yes. It's like, oh, you're hating on this shit was whack. You think it's whack? It's like the fucking
Starting point is 00:19:00 pancake waffle tweet. Yes. Like, yo, Doc, like I enjoy this a lot. I love cocaine rap. You know what I'm from New York. Like, come on. I love cocaine rap.
Starting point is 00:19:09 But like, you said, bro, like, all right, bro, after the cocaine rap, let me get like some, let me get like a little, I don't know, a little misogyny in my rap
Starting point is 00:19:17 some, you know what I'm saying? A little something different. But that was, maybe not misogyny, guys, okay? But that was the best part about, Introspection.
Starting point is 00:19:25 But the best part about Drake falling off is we have one less person that we had to worry about when it comes to these things. Right? You think? That motherfucker-s-oh-fuckers. He's right in Mexico right now learning Corridos. He's about to come out with Pesso Pluma. It's going to be a real hot August. I'm trying to think.
Starting point is 00:19:45 And I consider myself to be a fairly honest person. So I don't have that longer list of things that I can say. But I'm trying to think of any time in my life that I would have felt compelled to stand her front of thousands of people and tell a bigger lie than that dude did when he's tried to talk about how the British rappers were the best rappers in the world. They don't even believe that shit. Brof. No, I can't do that, mate.
Starting point is 00:20:08 Now, I can't rap, man. I'm not better, mate. I'm not better, ain't it. A rap sotting in the Bronx, mate. I can't even smell Bronx. I don't know why Big Jagger is better. It sounded like a black person than they are. Like there are decades of British white people doing black cosplay far more convincingly.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Damn. And the shit that kills me is like, they'll never do the interview. And it's like, you know, an alleyway. It's like skeptor, an alleyway. Like, you know what I mean? Like smack DVD style. Like madgoons around. He's like, well, bro, the problem is that we have proper lyrics.
Starting point is 00:20:43 We have proper lyrics and proper instrumentals, ain't it, mate? And I'm like, bro, none of this is intimidating or scary at all. Like, I heard him. I listen to fucking Migo's talk, bro. And I'm like, you're from Atlanta. I'm from the Bronx. I'm like, I understand half of that. And since I don't understand half of it, I'm frightened.
Starting point is 00:20:59 But my thing with the British dudes is, and we were talking about this upstairs, and I listened to y'all and y'all are going back and forth where I like this one, I don't like this one. I'm not getting far enough in this process to learn these motherfuckers' names. They are all the same person to me. I remember, what was the one from back?
Starting point is 00:21:15 Dizzy Rascal. I remember him. Oh, wow. Dizzy Rascal is Slickickick. That's who I got him. God, I don't know who any of these new people are. And Drake put up there and told, like, so like, I didn't go to church growing up, right?
Starting point is 00:21:30 And one of the great joys he used to always get is if my dad had to speak at a funeral and he would, like, act like he was down, right? Like, he would dial it up and figure out how to do it. And I was like, it wasn't quite lying, but he definitely wasn't telling the truth. I felt like that was the kind of lie that Drake. That male would need a friend so bad.
Starting point is 00:21:47 Fam, that's what happens when everybody's telling you, you're the man for a decade plus. Yes. And you believe it. Yes. You know what I mean? You're just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, hell yeah. Tell me I'm the man again.
Starting point is 00:21:56 Yeah. I should put berets on my hand. It's going to look fly? So is that your way of saying that perhaps LeBron going to turn up saying that the greatest very similar situation? Because I feel like he's going through the same thing right now. Central C is the best MC ever. The best rap of all time.
Starting point is 00:22:12 Dude, the Lakers told LeBron, no, we're good. Imagine that, bro. Imagine being Bronn and somebody being like, we're, we're good. Like, not even using a lot of words, just being like, you don't have to, it's fine, just leave it, just leave it, just leave it, just leave it. You know, you're like trying to help the motherfuckers. Like, yo, I'll help you clean, I'll help you clean.
Starting point is 00:22:33 No, no, no, no, no, no. It's okay, you could just go. Hold on. While he's still good. Right. Right? Like, it's not like he fell off and it's just like, okay, we're going to do this tour, we're going to get these gifts or whatever it was.
Starting point is 00:22:43 They're just like, eh. Nah. Yeah, listen, we got Slovenia and Braun. Oh. Like, we're good. Oh. We don't need, you don't got to... He's going to show up, and it's going to be so passive, aggressive for...
Starting point is 00:22:58 Because he can't say I want to leave. Nope. He can't show up an act of fool. All he can do is be snippy. Listen, if anybody in the NBA could be snippy. Yes. Uh-huh. Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:12 Uh-huh. He can be like talking to report or something. Well, anyway. So... they're talking about like they want me to go but like I'm like yo why do you why he's talking like my cousin you're sending you bro like what the fuck? We're very sassy to these reporters
Starting point is 00:23:27 bro. All right so I have to ask you this before we get out of here because you and I have not talked about the Knicks since the series ended so how certain are you that they're going to win the East next year? Oh 100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. 1000% and I'm not even saying that because of the way the Knicks are constructed, I'm saying that because of the way the human Achilles tendon is constructed.
Starting point is 00:23:53 You know what I'm saying? And there's a lot of Achilles that are going to be out of the NBA Easter Conference next year, Jason Tatum, Tyree's Halliburton, which are the dudes that was the thorns of the Knicks side. Yes. So dames, shot the dame, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's a lot of Achilles that's not going to be on next year. I can't wait for this. I lived in New York for eight years.
Starting point is 00:24:14 The Knicks have only been good very recently. It is a much happier place to live when the Knicks are good. People feel better. My first few, I mean, M. Castles just pull up on me so sad. Like, you got any good news for me about the Knicks? None. None, right? Never.
Starting point is 00:24:28 And now you guys have skipped completely past appreciation, completely past gratitude, and all ready to demanding. Demanding. Just in time for the black man to show up as the head coach. We ready. Yo, listen, Knicks fans went from Mets fans to Yankee fans overnight. Overnight. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:24:49 All it took was Jalen Brunson's stud-built ass. You know what I'm saying? Skin and a paint. Counter, counter, counter, counter, you know what I'm saying? You know what? We're like, yo, you know what we're going to do? We're going to get a seven-foot-tall Dominican dude that could shoot.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Like, what is the best place to put that dude? New York City? Like, come on, Doug. He's at a fish fry on Dykeman right now. He's flying in. You know what I'm saying? It's incredible, dog. So, like, yeah, I'm demanding of the Knicks now.
Starting point is 00:25:14 Like, before I was like, yo, we happy to be here. Now it's like, y'all, y'all better win this shit. I have come, living in New York, I've come to appreciate you guys a lot more, as I've told you before, New York does not send its best representatives to the rest of the world, right? Like, the people that you send us in other cities
Starting point is 00:25:28 really be doing y'all in this. You have to understand this. Like, you get to New York, you're like, yo, you ain't really that bad, right? But the one guy from New York in your town is always, you know, yo, this shit is fucking whack, you know? Yes.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Yes. Oh, y'all gamble? Yo, this shit is whack. Yo, y'all never been to Yonkers. Vegas is all right. Yonkers. Yo, no, no, no. Yonka's got this shit, but it's digital.
Starting point is 00:25:53 It's way more futuristic, bro. I don't got to deal with these fucking ladies. You know what I'm saying? Talking about, yo, I'm the pit bulls. Fuck out of here. But my favorite thing in college with it was is just like, why y'all just be outside all the time? Outside.
Starting point is 00:26:05 Like, just inexplicably, it's 75 degrees outside. You have on a coat and you're outside for no reason. We invented we outside. Yes. You know what it is? It gets hot as fuck in those apartments, bro. It's 75 outside in the apartment is 98,000-ass degrees. Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:26:25 I understand it now. So we all got to be outside. But they was doing it when they wasn't in that apartment no more. Like all the weirdos you send out, but I've come to understand you guys, a cooler in actual application, comma, however, if the Knicks are not good, it's going to be so funny. It's going to be. For you?
Starting point is 00:26:44 It's going to be hilarious for me. I'm going to be calling Kaz up all the time just to talk about the Nix. And when you call Kaz Up and mess with him, he starts off, first of all, fuck you. That is the beginning of this. Like, calling Nix fans is going to be so great. Oh, man. Just text me. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:27:04 Y'all fired the coach after going to the conference finals. Hey, hey, I can't answer for that? I just, you don't have to answer for. I'm just telling you, I know what this means. It's going to be hilarious. And then next year, we're going to come right back to Summer League, having the same exact conversation, me and you right here as we watch Popeye Jones walk past us at some casino. Papa shut the Popeye Jones, God damn it.
Starting point is 00:27:32 I saw Popeye Jones two years ago walking through here. Man, listen, Papa Jones kids play lacrosse. That means something. They play hockey. NHL. They are NHL players. And I would love to be the person to get in a time machine and go back and tell Popeye Jones 30 years ago
Starting point is 00:27:49 that your sons are going to be hockey players. You think they're going to play football, basketball? No. Get some skis, motherfucker. Here, pal. Yes. All right. They're giving us the rap sign.
Starting point is 00:28:02 Kid Mero. Beaumonti Jones, check out the right time podcast available. All five podcasts are giving away for free. Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Thank you. I'm saying. Good is good, y'all.
Starting point is 00:28:13 Good is very good. Thank you.

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