520 In The Morning - Jeff Teague PREDICTS Thunder-Pacers NBA Finals

Summary

Club 520 Podcast Summary
Episode: 520 In The Morning - Jeff Teague PREDICTS Thunder-Pacers NBA Finals
Release Date: June 5, 2025
Hosts: Jeff Teague, DJ Wells, Bishop B Henn
Platform: iHeartPodcasts, The Volume, Shay Shay Media

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Introduction

In this episode of the Club 520 Podcast, hosted by NBA All-Star Jeff Teague along with his friends DJ Wells and Bishop B Henn, the trio dives into the highly anticipated NBA Finals matchup between the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder. With both teams having unexpected runs this season, the discussion is ripe with predictions, team analyses, and spirited debates.

Overview of the Finals

The episode kicks off with excitement as the hosts highlight that it's game one of the NBA Finals between the Pacers and the Thunder. The underdog status of both teams makes this Finals appearance noteworthy.

Jeff Teague [02:27]: "Yeah. Tonight's the night. Game one, the NBA Finals. Indiana Pacers take on Oklahoma City Thunder live in OKC tonight."

Team Analysis

Oklahoma City Thunder

The Thunder are discussed as a team that has surged this season, bolstered by standout performances and strategic plays.

Lester Holt [02:44]: "I mean, I was three for four in the final four, so, I mean, we're going to probably win by 20 tonight."

However, salary cap constraints and potential trade rumors cast a shadow over the team's future stability.

Tom Brokaw [02:56]: "We've been seeing a lot of, you know what I'm saying? Trade rumors. ... It ain't about the teams or nothing. Chemistry is a money thing, bro."

Indiana Pacers

The Pacers are portrayed as a Cinderella story, making an unexpected run to the Finals with the city’s enthusiastic support.

Lester Holt [10:54]: "Pa is damn near Butler, bro. One Butler made it to the national championship."

The discussion emphasizes the Pacers' defensive prowess this postseason, contrasting it with their regular-season performance.

Ryan Seacrest [38:21]: "And the Pacers weren't known for defense, but this postseason they've been a really good defensive team."

Key Players Discussion

Oklahoma City Thunder

• SGA (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander): The primary scorer and MVP candidate for the Thunder.

  Ryan Seacrest [10:13]: "It'll probably mean more to SGA and the Oklahoma City Thunder because he's the MVP, right?"

• Tyrese Haliburton: Highlighted for his leadership and offensive contributions.

  Ryan Seacrest [12:41]: "I kind of like the way Tyrese talks shit. It's like a subliminal."

Indiana Pacers

• Miles Turner & Myles Turner: Discussed as crucial for the Pacers' success, especially in making key shots and providing defensive support.

  Ryan Seacrest [14:16]: "Miles is gonna have to make shots."

• T.J. McConnell: Praised for his versatility and role in maintaining team chemistry.

  Ryan Seacrest [16:38]: "T.J. mcConnell's gonna work. He gonna work."

Salary Cap and Trade Rumors

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around the impact of the NBA's salary cap on team compositions and future strategies.

Tom Brokaw [03:31]: "These in the salary cap have been getting us all W. So we better not lose tonight, cuz I'm going to burn this."

The hosts express concerns over teams potentially overhauling their rosters due to financial constraints, impacting team chemistry and future competitiveness.

Series Predictions

The hosts engage in a lively debate predicting the outcome of the Finals series.

• Jeff Teague predicts a 20-point victory for the Pacers in game one.

  Lester Holt [05:01]: "And I'm taking. With that bet, I'm taking the Oklahoma City Thunder to smack the Pacers this year."

• Tom Brokaw counters with a strong belief in the Pacers capturing the championship.

  Ryan Seacrest [44:55]: "We got to plug in the gaps and the help and all that. We gonna have to hit some threes."

Additional Topics

Player Comparisons and One-on-One Showdowns

The hosts entertain hypothetical one-on-one matchups between players, sparking debates on who would come out on top.

Ryan Seacrest [53:00]: "If you had to start your team, you taking Tyrese Hal?"

Coaching Advantages

Discussion on the coaching strategies and how they might influence the Finals outcome.

Tom Brokaw [65:07]: "Shout out to Jeff for having since emd. Fuck you. He is in the finals. So you can't say that when they took their team to the finals."

Conclusion

As the episode wraps up, the hosts reinforce their enthusiasm for the Finals and their support for their respective teams. They encourage listeners to stay tuned for future discussions and to engage with the podcast community.

Jeff Teague [57:35]: "So you better than Donovan Mitchell? He better try young. He done heard."

The lively banter and in-depth analysis make this episode a must-listen for NBA fans eager to hear expert predictions and spirited discussions on the Finals matchup.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Jeff Teague [02:27]: "Tonight's the night. Game one, the NBA Finals. Indiana Pacers take on Oklahoma City Thunder live in OKC tonight."

• Lester Holt [10:54]: "Pace is damn near Butler, bro. One Butler made it to the national championship."

• Ryan Seacrest [38:21]: "And the Pacers weren't known for defense, but this postseason they've been a really good defensive team."

• Tom Brokaw [03:31]: "These in the salary cap have been getting us all W. So we better not lose tonight, cuz I'm going to burn this."

• Ryan Seacrest [53:00]: "If you had to start your team, you taking Tyrese Hal?"

• Jeff Teague [57:35]: "So you better than Donovan Mitchell? He better try young. He done heard."

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This comprehensive summary encapsulates the essence of Episode 520, providing listeners with a clear overview of the hosts' discussions, insights, and their enthusiastic engagement with the NBA Finals.

Transcript

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[Tom Brokaw]

Good Morning. Happy Thursday. It's 5:20 in the morning, your favorite sports show brought to you by Boost Mobile. You know the vibes. Everybody pulled up for work this morning. We got Mook, we got T, we got Bishop. Fellas, good morning. How y' all Doing what up, bro?

[Mook]

What's up, bro?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Chilling.

[Tom Brokaw]

Been waiting for this all basketball season, baby.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Game day.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah. Tonight's the night. Game one, the NBA Finals. Indiana Pacers take on Oklahoma City Thunder live and OKC tonight. It's been a hell of a year, man, but we finally here, man. How we feeling? I know Bishop, one of your 18s made it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I know you feeling good.

[Tom Brokaw]

You hit the lottery a couple times this year.

[Lester Holt]

I mean, I was three for four in the final four, so, I mean, we're going to probably win by 20 tonight.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, okay. We going to get some predictions. See, I ain't even going to start there. We going to start with some positive vibes. I want to ask y' all this question. Yeah, we don't like the negativity in the morning. I got. I got this fit on. We ain't losing while I wear this fit. I've been. You know what I'm saying? These in the S before has been getting us all w. So we better not lose tonight, cuz I'm going to burn this. But hey, before we even get to the finals, I've been seeing a lot of, you know what I'm saying? Trade rumors. I want to ask both of y' all this in particular. You think with a second apron affecting salary cap so much that teams are just like going two or three year all in and then just swapping everything out. So I've seen Jalen Brown reportedly on the trading block saying that Todio's definitely interested. It's a lot of key pieces that normally would be like cornerstones or franchises that are rumored to be moved around this summer, bro.

[Mook]

Ain't trying to pay all that money, bro. Get you for a couple years. Get everything we can get. Y' all move on.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, that tax going to be crazy for some of them teams, though. So like you said that second April. I'm cool. I'm paying that much money in tax. And obviously your window probably shrunk. Like you was gonna be a. Y' all mean y' all was gonna be a championship contender. Y' all got a championship. And plus for Boston, they got a whole new ownership group.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So maybe they definitely might not be trying to spend that much money on a team. Especially with JT getting hurt.

[Tom Brokaw]

Most definitely. Look at it. Be here like last year, both the teams in conference finals, you know what I'm saying? Probably gonna be this meta one already is second rumored to be, man. It's really about what you can do this year or maybe next year. Cause we ain't even seen it next year from the teams from conference finals.

[Lester Holt]

Oh, yeah. But I mean, it is what it is, bro. I think everybody should just stay where they at.

[Tom Brokaw]

He don't like that moving around.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's a money thing.

[Mook]

It ain't about the teams or nothing. Chemistry is a money thing, bro. They boys is getting too much money now, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. And the tax is too high up.

[Mook]

For a lot of crazy deals, bro. I can't.

[Tom Brokaw]

We can't afford this, man. The supermax is going to be basically, what, Half a. Half a billion?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. SGA is like 385.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah. So you keep going by the time when be time to get paid, bro.

[Lester Holt]

Who the highest paid player in the NBA right now?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum.

[Mook]

Jason tatum.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yep.

[Lester Holt]

Damn, 385 is a lot.

[Mook]

That's a lot of money.

[Lester Holt]

All that shit is a lot. But damn, 385 is wild.

[Tom Brokaw]

And you know what's crazy? I know to regular people like myself and average fans, you be like, that's a lot of money. But when you really look at it, it's just a portion. Nah, for sure, the salary cap should go up. I mean, like, all these things should increase because these owners is getting crazy money off this, bro. They are paying salaries.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If you could pay somebody 300 million, just imagine what you making.

[Tom Brokaw]

Exactly.

[Lester Holt]

And that's just one person.

[Tom Brokaw]

That's just one person. I got a whole organization. I got a whole salary. We are fighting. Fighting a good fight while we record today. Shout out to the game.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I wanted to kill that fly. That's a fly.

[Lester Holt]

Acting like that news reporter.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Got me out here. This. This country for real, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hey, I always think about him and that one passer who was getting interviewed. He said, back up off me.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Back. Here we go. Now we. Now we. In the morning, we was getting a little technical. Talk about the money.

[Tom Brokaw]

Talking about that moolah. Oh, we can go through these contracts.

[Lester Holt]

I wanna. Okay, so Jalen Brown is up there.

[Tom Brokaw]

Remember, he set the market year before they won, and then JT set the market after they won. But boy, them salaries is crazy, boy. Shout out to Jason Potato.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's a lot of money, man. I'm happy for all these young fellas, man. All these young guys getting all this money. Look at Trey Young right there.

[Lester Holt]

He's mad at Scotty Barnes.

[Tom Brokaw]

Scotty Barnes getting that paper.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I was never mad. Congratulations, brother.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hey, look at him, 22. It's him from. Hey, Frost, get a bag too. Don't sleep.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, get that money.

[Lester Holt]

Tyrese signed that check. Y' all remember he was at the pool.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

And you know what? He has done everything to fulfill that contract. I don't care if Tyrese don't do for the next four years. He has to feel every term of the contract. Shout out to the bro that is.

[Lester Holt]

Tight that day yet that Young getting that type of chicken.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. Cause I couldn't imagine, man being Trae Young in Atlanta. I'm glad they, like, got families and shit. And, like, they really good people. Cause what he About 26. I was about 26 in Atlanta with 300 million crash out on the way. Or even like 26 if I was bam out of bayou making that much money in Miami. I'm glad they just like real humble and grounded people. I mean, I'd probably be doing the same stuff. Cause you care about ball. But Stefan diggs Me.

[Tom Brokaw]

What?

[Ryan Seacrest]

2.0.

[Tom Brokaw]

That's easy.

[Lester Holt]

You think you could dated a celebrity girl?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, no, I'm talking about.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, the life vibes.

[Ryan Seacrest]

The three. Three of them calling me daddy. Pause like, yeah, say my name. Say my name. Destiny's child for sure.

[Tom Brokaw]

No cater to you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes, cater to me. I want all three flavors, too.

[Lester Holt]

Oh, my God.

[Tom Brokaw]

Big Z.

[Mook]

Okay.

[Tom Brokaw]

All right, man. We in the super chat early with it. What they are all right. Mike Jones.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Who?

[Tom Brokaw]

That's funny. What y' all think about? No allows going on podcast again complaining about not getting a shoe deal from Adidas. Nobody's trying to wear a no loud shoe. It's a very simple answer. You can be the greatest track star of all time. You are not Michael Johnson, bro.

[Lester Holt]

He be trying too hard, bro. Just chill, bro. Athlete, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's a fact, though. Mike, you writing that up there. You only see him once every four years. Like, and you annoying.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, when we do see you being.

[Lester Holt]

Annoying, just be cool, bro. And you a phenomenal, phenomenal athlete.

[Tom Brokaw]

You're amazing, bro. Your life is wonderful. I mean, who am I to shoot down your dreams to get a shoe deal? But if you think it's just that simple, bro, there's a lot of athletes and a lot of different sports that don't have a shoe deal that's way more visible and way more polarized.

[Lester Holt]

Start doing cool shit on the Internet, though. Make yourself like a personable person. Brand yourself better. Yeah, bro. You wild.

[Tom Brokaw]

Shout out to your prt, tell him, lock in.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Most of his branding is more, like, from hating on other people. Like, if you want a shoe deal like ae, you should for real. Because, like, if you want a shoe deal like, I do, hoka, I'm wearing them right now. Shout out to Hoka and the team for sending us some. You know, I mean, I told you.

[Lester Holt]

Brown and blue ones today.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, my boy locked out.

[Lester Holt]

Black and orange outfit. He's a hookah Lee for sure.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay, baby.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If y' all. If y' all notice, I. Y' all don't know what I wear here. I obviously just throw the hoodie in. I have a pajama pants under here. It's all type of stuff.

[Tom Brokaw]

The funny thing, I used to love the old inside of the NBA, bro. They used to have a whole short snare. Yes, that's the way you do it. All right, man. Molly the super chat said I was arguing with my dogs. You take Tyrese out and put Lamelo. Patience. Get better or worse. Shout out to Lamelo.

[Lester Holt]

Lamelo.

[Tom Brokaw]

If you have seen this team without Tyrese, boy, we are not that great. 509 block says when Pacers end up winning the finals, will it be the biggest small market team to win or does the Bucks still hold that title?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think the Bucks, because we have. We a small market, but we have really big events every year. Final four. Come here. We're a bigger city.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, we had a Super bowl.

[Tom Brokaw]

National championship is good in Sicily.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We not really a small city. Our market is small, but it's a bigger city. It's one of the top. What is like top 15 biggest cities in the next. Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

So, yeah, people don't come here to have fun, but they come here for business.

[Ryan Seacrest]

There's always business attractions going on.

[Tom Brokaw]

So, man, first things first. Patriots and Thunder first reach their second finals. Who does this win mean more to?

[Ryan Seacrest]

It'll probably mean more to SGA and the Oklahoma City Thunder because he's the mvp, right? So arguably the best player in the league. And then their team been the best team in the league. So I think it probably mean more to them. It's like a higher expectation. I think the Pacers, even though they're a really good team, I think they just kind of thrilled to be here. Like, I think the city is just amazed that they was able to get here. Like, damn. Because we had no expectations for the Pacers at the way they started the year at all. We were like, ah, man, it's over. They had. It was a Cinderella run last year because, you know, they bounced back, made this run. But to be honest, living here, we just happy as hell that they in the finals.

[Lester Holt]

Pace is damn near Butler, bro. One Butler made to the national championship.

[Mook]

I think it's equal though, since just because they both don't got one.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Mook]

You know what I'm saying? If you get one, that's just gonna be crazy.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

Both sides.

[Lester Holt]

I just think, to me, it's gonna mean more for the patients because of Tyrese.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Facts. What do you mean?

[Lester Holt]

Because just, like, not to double down on it. Yeah. I know we speak on that a lot, but, I mean, Shay, it's like, you supposed to win.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's what I. That's why I said it mean more.

[Tom Brokaw]

Cause it's like, number one team. Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If you lose to this.

[Mook]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like this team, this Cinderella team, that wasn't supposed to be both ways because.

[Mook]

It'S almost like they count the Pacers out, too.

[Lester Holt]

For real.

[Mook]

We gonna be lit. But we. We already counted out.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah. Shout out to Jay Woo. He the only person. The automated people who picked us, bro. I love it that way.

[Mook]

We gonna get swept.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's what I mean. So it mean more like if you lose this. It was written for OKC to win.

[Mook]

Like, if we lose, it's okay.

[Lester Holt]

Adriana better be glad Tyrese don't act like Ant. They better be glad. Cause I swear to God, bro, he.

[Mook]

Kind of talks shit, though.

[Lester Holt]

He does. No, he talks, but, you know, it's different.

[Mook]

He ain't like Ant.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. I kind of like the way Tyrese talks shit. It's like a subliminal. Like, he wears overrated shirts.

[Lester Holt]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know, he come in, be like, it's cool. Like the choke sign pause. It's like.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hell, yeah, he do.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's like a subtle. It ain't. It ain't overbearing. Like, Ant don't even really talk shit. He just be. Him be hype, bro. He just be popping like, they said we was going to get swept. Got them out of here, which.

[Lester Holt]

I know it. The vibes.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, He. He.

[Lester Holt]

If he won. He already told y' all if he want a championship or do some like Kyrie did, bro. He dropping his pants, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

You know what I'm saying?

[Ryan Seacrest]

He. He from the neighborhood.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah. Tyrese, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Where Tyrese from? He like, okay.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yep. Him from.

[Lester Holt]

He went to school.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, he was. I would say.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. But, you know, like, they probably from a suburban area.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know what I mean? And it's just a different vibe.

[Tom Brokaw]

And he talked about it. He's like this D, near the biggest city he lived in type, so that seems like he was always cool with being in a small market, cuz how he grew up. But y' all shout out to the. Listen, he doing recaps of every round, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He.

[Tom Brokaw]

He talking his subtly, bro.

[Lester Holt]

Nah, facts. But I'm just saying, if he wins, y' all, I told y' all before, bro, that is gonna. I don't even know, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Bro, when we win this, bro, it's gonna get different, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If the Pacers. The Pacers win the chip, bro, it's gonna be a huge disappointment for okc because the year they had mvp, two all NBA players.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Mvp, defensive players all across the board, making first team, second team, all this shit. They got all these accolades. If they lose, bro, that's a disappointing pick.

[Mook]

Them.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They gonna hit this good, try to blow them up. They ain't gonna say nothing about the Pacers. Pacers lose, they gonna be like, they. Oh, they gotta run that team back next year. Best team we ever had. Pacer history. They. They OKC lose, Jaylen Williams is not that good. Or whoever Chad HGR has to get in the weight room. Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

Like, they gonna be like, go get kd.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Mook]

Pacer's in the perfect spot.

[Tom Brokaw]

Go get kd.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They not gonna be easier for him.

[Lester Holt]

To get KD then, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I'm going to say pacers go get nobody.

[Mook]

Pacers in a perfect spot, bro. They can't lose no matter what.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They don't need nobody. What do the Pacers need to get better? They just got to continue, you know.

[Tom Brokaw]

To grow as a team.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Fight. Yeah, they're right there.

[Mook]

They're right there.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They made to easy conference finals, championship team.

[Tom Brokaw]

I love it for sure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They.

[Tom Brokaw]

They're not going to say next step. They knew in the championship next year. That is not what they going to say. No, no, no, no.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's thunder. They gonna. They gonna pick them apart with all those accolades that everybody got this year.

[Lester Holt]

I mean, since we're here, do y' all think that'll really hurt their team if they lose, though? Like.

[Mook]

Yes, bro. They gonna do it like the Knicks, bro. They're gonna start picking them apart.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They not gonna fire the coach or nothing, but they definitely gonna picking them apart. We need another piece. They gonna.

[Mook]

Jalen Williams ain't what we thought they gonna do.

[Tom Brokaw]

All like you said, bro, it's a copycat league. When we win this chip, they're gonna be like, okay, you don't need a whole bunch of stars. You need one person to run your offense and one person to run your team. And everybody else just be available to play. If we got def. Then we can win.

[Mook]

It literally is a copycat league, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

For sure. Literally. Like, when you start talking about trading the whole Knicks roster when you just made the Eastern Conference finals. Cause the way Indiana played, it's like.

[Mook]

The champions from last year, bro. Insane.

[Lester Holt]

True.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But you know why Indiana make teams look bad? Cause if you go look at their payroll. Yeah. You be like, they ain't paying nobody shit. Really? I shouldn't say shit. Cause I mean, they all making really good money. But compared to other teams, like, if you see Mikel Bridges compared to Andrew Nimhar compared to Niecemith and he getting the same production basically in the game, maybe more, you would be like, what the hell? Like, I think Neesmith may be making 1112 million.

[Mook]

Bridges do what?

[Tom Brokaw]

Nice.

[Mook]

Smith did that one game when he hit five threes in a row.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, but is anybody else for a contract with the Pacers?

[Tom Brokaw]

Miles.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Miles, that's it. Everybody else.

[Lester Holt]

You gotta get Miles that chicken.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

Ownership said. They said we'll go into the. We'll go into the taxpayer for this thing.

[Mook]

He's getting paid.

[Tom Brokaw]

Miles gonna get paid.

[Mook]

They made it to the final because.

[Tom Brokaw]

They'Ll keep this team together. Because I know they were talking about possibly maybe having to move Obi to pay Miles or making another move. I don't know what we're going to do with Benedict Mather. I don't know if he's getting extension or not. I don't know if they are want to move on with him.

[Lester Holt]

Go Flourish.

[Tom Brokaw]

I don't know what Rick on. But that's really what it boils down to. One person we really got to play is Miles.

[Mook]

I do not want to let him go.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Boy, you know, I don't either. You know, if they got to let somebody stand or the tax, the only person that they really could let go is like, T.J. mcConnell. Even though he's like. He's Indiana through and through, he's like an Indiana. Like, he's probably gonna. When they do, the players come back and how they go crazy for Atlantis. T.J. mcConnell's gonna work. Yeah, he gonna work.

[Tom Brokaw]

I see T.J. mcConnell being the basketball Pat McAfee.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, for sure.

[Tom Brokaw]

I can see him going that route. Cause TJ Chill. But he got a lot of personality, too. I could see him doing that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, but he gonna work for the Pacers forever.

[Tom Brokaw]

Come on. We 22nd of the league in payroll. Yeah, your Hawks pay way more money than us and players.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Where my Hawks at? Let me see who we play.

[Tom Brokaw]

21 Brooklyn. Oh, they passed some chicken over there.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, Toronto. Boy, I don't know why we paying so many people. We ain't got no Place.

[Lester Holt]

No, New Orleans is up there.

[Tom Brokaw]

Look at all the players in that team, bro.

[Mook]

He's paying all that money.

[Lester Holt]

Trey getting a bag, right?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Who? Trey? Yeah. Murphy. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

Trey Murphy. Dejounte, Murray Zion. They had to pay off half of Brandon Ingram's contract because he got traded late in the season.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So.

[Mook]

Cj, I'm paying all this money. We got to win some games.

[Lester Holt]

Minnesota, I mean Phoenix. Phoenix being one is fire.

[Mook]

Win some games.

[Tom Brokaw]

You know, Phoenix got three supermaxes.

[Mook]

I'm spending too much chicken for this.

[Lester Holt]

It was dam the we can see in the league.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So. So imagine that. What? What, What New York pay.

[Tom Brokaw]

Where were they at on that list of pay rose?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Let's see.

[Tom Brokaw]

New York four. Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So imagine losing to. You mean the fourth pay it lose to the 22nd.

[Mook]

Yeah, we got. We gotta shake some up.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, bro.

[Mook]

Now I feel them.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, bro. We. They got.

[Lester Holt]

We break down on this show, you.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Know, get this nowhere else. Okay, C25. Okay, C25. But they got. Okay, C25. They got so many young players though. It's going to change a little bit when Jalen Williams get Jaylen Williams and check get paid. So it'll change. But obviously they make it here now though. Yeah, they making it this far with the 25th. Yeah, it's amazing. But for New York to lose to you guys on the 22nd, like, they probably like, yeah, we got to get dumber. Like.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, Milwaukee.

[Tom Brokaw]

At 6. Hey, we be all these payrolls.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, you gotta dumb the team down. Milwaukee gotta dumb the team down. It's too much money being paid. You gotta let Brooke Lopez go God lit. Damn near Bobby Porters go like.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

And the Clippers, my Lord.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, Clippers.

[Lester Holt]

I mean, y' all know who over there though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. It ain't money anything.

[Tom Brokaw]

Bomber don't care about none of that. BOMBER Go number one if you could. Damn. Kwagi hit 50 legend.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. And he. He up for a new bag.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, love that for old school.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Boy.

[Tom Brokaw]

That is crazy, man. Like you said, the business of basketball is more important than anything. But while we here though, that 2012 team, you know what I'm saying? Last time OKC went to the finals, only time rather. I know this is probably obvious answer, but stack these two teams up. Who getting Dub who 2012 and his team.

[Mook]

OkC.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, it was on a list. I had to read it.

[Lester Holt]

Nah, I ain't mad at you for it.

[Tom Brokaw]

I mean, I see people playing with this conversation, but it is a close. It's a quick one, bro.

[Mook]

Okay, see, 2012 is too much, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

They lost to LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Box.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, that's a. That's a crazy team, bro.

[Mook]

They're. Too much.

[Lester Holt]

Was different.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, he was.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah. Like. But I'm saying, though, like, James Harden. Yeah. It's too much.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. That team is one.

[Tom Brokaw]

That's with them.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's one of the greatest.

[Lester Holt]

Scared them. Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

Sweeping them, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's one of the greatest teams ever assembled.

[Mook]

They just ran into Brian.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They just ran into br, bro. They got cheap, and it was. It was. It was assembled organically like it was through the draft. All these players were drafted there. That's one of the. That's the greatest draft. What was it, four years in a row? Three years in a row.

[Mook]

Four years.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. That's the best three years ever in a draft process.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hey, still trapping to this day.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They get kd, then the next year they got Russ, then they got James and Serge Sergeant.

[Lester Holt]

He did that with a whole different vibe, though. Like, this is a whole different team than them.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Lester Holt]

So he's G, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

He relocated a team and then got it cracking. They are not the supersonics.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nah, he. He did it again. You're right.

[Lester Holt]

Different roster, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He did it again.

[Tom Brokaw]

God damn it. Said press.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Y' all did it again. Is that the best three draft picks back to back to back? Anybody ever done anything better?

[Lester Holt]

Nah, not due to their career.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean. Nah, that's the best ever.

[Tom Brokaw]

Those consecutive What?

[Ryan Seacrest]

It was good. No, it don't get anything.

[Tom Brokaw]

You drafted three EVPs in a row.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's crazy.

[Tom Brokaw]

You drafted three VPs in a row.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nobody else. He's the. He has to go down. Is.

[Lester Holt]

The best three years up there in.

[Mook]

A row is crazy, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's crazy.

[Lester Holt]

Danny Ains is up there, too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Who? Danny ain't. He ain't never drafted three. Danny Ainge actually made bad draft picks.

[Tom Brokaw]

He made bad draft, but he made great finesses.

[Mook]

We talking about a draft, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, Danny A made great trade.

[Tom Brokaw]

Danny A is a great finesser. Shout out to his son, get that job.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Actually, he only made one great trade. Like two. I give him two. He traded for. He traded for Isaiah Thomas, and he traded KG and Ray Allen.

[Lester Holt]

That's two. Two fair ones.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, but that.

[Tom Brokaw]

He put a B up.

[Mook]

That was a great trade.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's a good trade. But other than that. And then he finessed Brooklyn out of all them picks. Facts, bro.

[Lester Holt]

He.

[Mook]

Brooklyn was tripping.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Lester Holt]

Wilding, bro. They are a piece of.

[Mook]

I get KG and Paul appears to them. Cool.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They 145. You can definitely have them right now.

[Tom Brokaw]

The funny part about it, if you was on that roster with all this.

[Mook]

Oldest dirt, we about win. Get a ball to Joe.

[Tom Brokaw]

That's crazy because I see a person.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Talk to me crazy the other day talking about you said, y' all beat Brooklyn when Joe was there. I said literally, Joe was the best player on their team. And they was. Get a ball to Joe and wash the fuck out.

[Mook]

JK said, y' all know who the best player in this locker room is, right? We giving the ball to Joe. I don't want to hear said that to all them.

[Tom Brokaw]

Shout out to J.

[Lester Holt]

The fact that you was a part of that is even funnier. Cuz you was literally lying.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He was. He was literally was fly on the wall.

[Lester Holt]

You so much younger than them.

[Tom Brokaw]

I was 40, bro.

[Mook]

I was 20.

[Ryan Seacrest]

For real.

[Tom Brokaw]

And you young in the least. You trying to figure out how this supposed to go. He's like, oh, this is what they are, right?

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's the worst. Being the youngest player on the team. You got a whole bunch of dudes that's been in the league for eight to 10 plus years, man.

[Mook]

You never right?

[Ryan Seacrest]

You never. Everything you do is that that light.

[Mook]

That light put you on that move.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That ain't gonna work.

[Lester Holt]

Real stories, though.

[Tom Brokaw]

Stop doing my move, bro. That's how I got here, man.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You think you gonna get that shot off in a game? Get that out of here.

[Lester Holt]

You know what's funny? Y' all them old there.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I tell them that might work. That ain't gonna work. It don't matter what I did. They said what gonna work. It ain't gonna work.

[Tom Brokaw]

He was in the locker room with kg. I know. That was probably hilarious on a daily basis, bro.

[Mook]

Fire, though. One of the best teammates you ever had. But he's crazy. Everything he do on the court, he do that for real. Practice, all that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hey, what do you tell Jason Collins?

[Lester Holt]

I gotta try to up this.

[Ryan Seacrest]

A good dude. He's my teammate too.

[Tom Brokaw]

I with it.

[Lester Holt]

We here run the story. Boo.

[Mook]

Now he is on a plane.

[Tom Brokaw]

Anytime a laugh, it's already out of here.

[Mook]

We just come from China. Everybody like, man, we get some holes on here, man. We good to go, man. We get it going. Everybody was done with their marriages and stuff. He told Jason Collins, we got you too, boy. Don't worry about it, bro.

[Lester Holt]

We gonna bring some niggas.

[Mook]

We gonna bring.

[Jeff Teague]

That's crazy.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hey, shout out to K. You can be a real teammate. Everybody's included. God, Damn it.

[Lester Holt]

Hey, nobody's left out, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Love for you. What a love. Oh, man, that is hilarious. All right, man.

[Lester Holt]

Oh, y' all know how to up a show?

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, man.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Tom Brokaw]

Who dreams of the super chat said? What's up, fellas? Based on Shade's movement patterns, would y' all consider him a modern day Kobe? Also, who will win a 1v1 series out of Jeff and Mook right now?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Mook probably get me now.

[Mook]

I can't barely walk right now, man.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I rolled my ankle so I probably can't move either, but knee is cooked.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, damn. See, we gotta make you a hoka athlete. You know what I'm saying? You gotta tap in.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Tom Brokaw]

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[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Tom Brokaw]

Come on, man. You see the sign behind us. Power Boss vibes for sure. H art KG said.

[Lester Holt]

Oh, man, Y NBA is crazy, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Shout out to kg, man. He called the Punisher.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nah, bro. Nah, nah.

[Tom Brokaw]

All right, moving on.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nah, bro. Nah bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Shout out to local in the super chat. He said. Question for Jeffrey Barkin. Aside from the warriors dynasty, who has the most frustrating team to play against against what made that team so tough? What are some teams that annoyed y' all? Y' all had to play against?

[Ryan Seacrest]

That was really it.

[Tom Brokaw]

Let me say the words here.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, Brian. I mean, Brown and them in Miami was a good team, but oh, man, I mean, I don't think that really annoyed me. It was like fun competing against them. But it's like you. You had no chance. When kg, I mean KD and them went to the warriors, it was ugly. It was over with. You knew you weren't about to win these Two dudes laughing.

[Lester Holt]

I'm sorry. Why did y' all do this at the end of the show?

[Tom Brokaw]

That's the best part about. We just gotta move on like it didn't happen. All right.

[Lester Holt]

What is Jason call a signing?

[Ryan Seacrest]

J.C. cool as hell. He cool as hell.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He was one of the coolest dudes. He cool, cool people.

[Mook]

Just a joke, man.

[Tom Brokaw]

Shout out to J.C. all right, Molly bottle. Super chat was had at 520. I know y' all are not huge boxing fans. Will y' all be in Vegas? We actually are huge boxing Crawford now, they love boxing up here. For sure. Yeah, we gonna be there at Seagi. We need to play tap in.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I swear I'll do behind the scenes coverage. You know, I'm a Bud Crawford fan.

[Lester Holt]

Is he gonna beat the shit outta Canelo?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, he not gonna beat the shit outta Canelo, but it should be a good fight. Canelo raw.

[Mook]

I don't think he gonna beat Canelo, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I'm gonna say Canelo raw. And he going up in weight, though. Like, I know everybody gonna root for the. You know, we gonna root for the brother. But like, hey, Canelo, he liked that.

[Tom Brokaw]

Nah, Canelo one of the ones.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, Canelo one of the top, top boxers of all time, for sure. He stood in front of some, too.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah.

[Mook]

Ain't no joke when you fight Floyd.

[Ryan Seacrest]

As a youngster and your career don't crumble and you still keep getting millions. You. You like that? Most people that fight Floyd after that, they crumble.

[Mook]

They done they payday and that's that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He didn't went up 400 million. I bet he getting 100 something from this fight for sure.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, he got to, man.

[Tom Brokaw]

Friday, September 12th. Seek. Eek. Tap in. We gonna pull up. Should be a hell of a fight. For sure. Good question.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I know Tank Davidson done fighting again. I think they fight in August. August 16th. I think him and Roach, I think they running it back.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay, the rematch official. Yeah.

[Lester Holt]

I thought he fought it off.

[Mook]

So if he don't whoop him this time, what that mean?

[Ryan Seacrest]

And somebody else fighting on the 16th. Lopez and Haney.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay. Is that the undercard on this fight?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nah, it's two different joints. So who y' all gonna watch?

[Mook]

He gotta whoop it.

[Lester Holt]

He gotta.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh.

[Tom Brokaw]

If you ask me if I'm gonna watch, I'm going to watch Geronte Davis.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You're gonna be watching Tank Davis and Roach versus instead of Tim Female Lopez and Haney.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, that's a tough decision.

[Mook]

And he boring a little bit.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, honey is born.

[Tom Brokaw]

And this first fight was really good. So I'm really looking forward to the rematch.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But it's very interesting, very interesting that the. The Turkish dude put that fight. He putting it on for Haney and them. He put it on the same day as Javante Tank Davis in them fight. So that is very interesting.

[Mook]

Trying to see who the bigger fighters is.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Very interesting.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, he gonna make the fans make a decision. Somebody gonna be upset by how it goes, but should be two good fights for sure. All right, Jay Burns. Shout out to Jay Burns. Be him patience when the come we get an EJ remix with phone 9 polar boy. Maybe Lance no less.

[Lester Holt]

But I got you though, bro. I got you, jb for sure.

[Tom Brokaw]

All right, Lokes the tray said from Winston Salem. Shout out to Teague Mooc. DJ be here in the freaking mic waiting. Need to retire your number already. Shout out to Trey. Appreciate you, gang. Come on, wake. Tap in, man.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Wake. Don't talk to me, man.

[Mook]

That is actually crazy. One of the best players ever.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I'm too. I'm too. That's too real. Damn, you got. You got to be weird.

[Lester Holt]

Shout out to Tim Duncan.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, I'm gonna say Tim Duncan is weird. I'm saying you gotta, like, be weird that way for us. Like you gotta do. You can't beat me. You can't act like me.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cuz I just tell the truth. I'm like, I can't help it. Y.

[Lester Holt]

Hey, I don't think you really said nothing.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I don't say nothing bad.

[Mook]

With you if you wanted them to.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, but I don't know nobody at that school, so you can't go up there and be like, yo, you remember me?

[Mook]

That's how I feel. Like Kentucky right now. Yeah, calm down.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You can't just walk up there and.

[Lester Holt]

Nah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like, one of my guys, Coach Muse is back on the staff. I'm not sure if he assistant coach or what he does, but he always hit me up and just talk, you know, ball and shit. But it's just different.

[Lester Holt]

Like, I see what you're saying.

[Tom Brokaw]

Come on, wake. Make it right. Tap in. We can get it right.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I was overweight the year I left. Somebody wore zero. I'm like, nigga, I just made All American. Damn, what I gotta do around this motherfucker? And when I got there, you couldn't even. Bro, you couldn't even get number one when I first got there. And that was Justin Gray. That was his number. And no offense to Jay Gray. I like Jay Gray. He a good dude. And he a college coach, but I was just like, damn, we can't even get number one.

[Mook]

Nah, I get it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. You know what I mean? I can't get number one. They like, nah, that's Justin Gray.

[Mook]

He hold grudges too, so.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, I mean, but that's like. It seemed like it's order, though. Shit, if I came and I was just a fucking All American, the next like me.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Lester Holt]

I can't touch this.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's a fact.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, I know it may be different regimes and coaches and stuff, but still, you know what I'm saying?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nah.

[Unknown]

Protocols.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Respect though. You can wear Z. I don't care. It's a number. Who care?

[Tom Brokaw]

Come on. Wait. Tap in. Let's make it right. For sure. RT Cozy in the super chat said, jeff, you out of pocket for saying AC better than Zoe.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I ain't say it was better.

[Tom Brokaw]

Bulls were number one to eat before Zo got hurt. They barely make the plane with AC all love, though. LOL. I don't know when the Bulls were number one in the east, but that may be like the second one.

[Mook]

It was hooping, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It was like 10 games in, but it was quick.

[Mook]

But they.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I a say he was better, so they do the same thing.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Y got listen. That's. That's. That's why you got two ears and one mouth. God.

[Lester Holt]

Listen, this want to be 75 so bad.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm just telling you, bro. Never said he was better.

[Tom Brokaw]

For sure. All right, Ray Ray in the super chat said, oh, city or no city, okay, Saying Indy play the same same. But when two teams are alike, the ones that better score is going to win. We got bucket gets for real indie. Idk. I'm not too sure about that. You have one bucket getter for sure. That's in sga and Jalen Williams is solid, but Pascal Siakam scores better than Jalen Williams. Now, Tyrese isn't the biggest scorer, but he generates enough offense, so you know what I'm saying, to kind of help counteract with sga. So we'll see.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It's going to be a good series, man. I hate when people do all this. Who can score, Man, Jalen Brunson just was averaging 30, man.

[Mook]

Lost.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They lost, bro.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, bro. I seen two people get 80 and they lost, bro. Nothing else scares me.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, bro. It. It's going to be a good series. Now the thing that's going to be the real kicker is the defense. Yeah, can the Pacers defense hold up like it's been holding up?

[Mook]

That's what scares me about OKC though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cuz they defense travels all the time.

[Mook]

Scare me about that.

[Tom Brokaw]

And if somebody having a bad night, somebody's going to come off the bench and play crackhead defense for 15 minutes, hit a couple threes and change the game.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, you'll have a kid like Wiggins come in and just kind of change the momentum of the game. He got that kind of capability but like that's the biggest thing. It's going to be the defensive end, the offense. Like obviously we know they can score. Sga going to get 30, but can he? Can they make it tough for everybody else? And the Pacers weren't known for defense, but this post season they've been a really good defensive team.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, I'm very interested to see the matchups we try to throw at sga for sure. All right, Robbie Robin in the Super Chat morning y' all. Big fan of the show. Sad the NBA on TNT is over but we still got esbn. Okay, what player had the satisfy world tour? Tony Parker in Charlotte, Shaq in Boston A Paul Pierce in Brooklyn.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Paul Pierce played in the Clippers. My boy. His farewell.

[Lester Holt]

Paul Pierce farewell is more memorable. All because of Draymond Green.

[Tom Brokaw]

Most definitely.

[Mook]

Second Boston is nasty.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, Shag really didn't even cook like that. I don't know bro. I'm gonna say Paul Pierce just because it's more notable.

[Mook]

Parker and Charlotte is nasty, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

I remember that too. That's the nasty part.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I don't even remember him in Charlotte. That's what he got.

[Lester Holt]

Paid a little good too to go there.

[Mook]

Why was you ever on that team though?

[Lester Holt]

That's a perfect city for him.

[Tom Brokaw]

Very on brand for sure that time period, man. Gotta do some research there for sure. Shout out to Riley Jones B and super chat said 20 to kg the outfit community riding for life. Marcus a real Cal Cambridge old ass team. That's hilarious. All right, I don't know what your name is. Please stop using hieroglyphics but shout out to you what's good y' all Hope everybody good. Marcus, do you have any memorable funny stories from Kentucky? Shout out to the ville, my hometown, the 502 bless loves the lou.

[Mook]

I don't know bro. There's a whole bunch of going on.

[Lester Holt]

Got some shitty. Can't tell on this.

[Tom Brokaw]

Shout out to you though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

The chat going crazy and Kelly in.

[Tom Brokaw]

The super chat love the pod. Would y' all rather get in the ring with a pro boxer or ride a bull? Pause.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm good. I'm getting the Ring, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

I'd rather take a punch in the face, bro, before I do that. That's. That's wild, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Falling off a bull and they stomping on you, bro. I'm straight, bro. I'm cool.

[Lester Holt]

I think they talking about the mechanical one, y' all. Oh, oh, you thought you was gonna get on a real one?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I thought he was talking about riding a real bull. Pause.

[Lester Holt]

He talking about a mechanical bull, y' all.

[Tom Brokaw]

Either way, that's tough. Shout out to you, Christopher Smith in the Super Chat. I just watched Mook at the Open gym.

[Lester Holt]

He rather get punched in the face by Tyson to get on a mechanical.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, no, no.

[Tom Brokaw]

Wait till y' all watch the episode of Club Five Twenty to drop today at 12pm and we talk about people on mechanical bulls.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Pause.

[Tom Brokaw]

Nasty words.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I rather ride a mechanical bull. Thank you, man. Get punched in the face by Mike Tyson.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, I just. He had Mike Tyson. No clue. Oh, never mind, bro. This.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Then we got that bull. What he on today?

[Tom Brokaw]

Hey, I just sh. Not participate. Christopher Smith in Super Chat said, I just watched Mook at Open Gym.

[Mook]

He was hurting.

[Tom Brokaw]

Ak if you got that windmill, my dog.

[Mook]

My knee was hurting, man.

[Lester Holt]

He said he ain't got it.

[Tom Brokaw]

He said, Give my boy 10 days, bro. He got y' all. All right, cruise in 3, 4, 0. The super chat said Tank supposed to fight Haney, but Tank said that hurt.

[Ryan Seacrest]

To do was Haney's fight, so he would have to knock out Haney to win. He didn't take the fight. So basically Tank didn't want to fight Haney because they said it was a setup, basically. Respect.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay. Shout out to you, Travis B in the super chat. Say, yo, what's good? 520. Y' all did a mission how it's harder to make it professionally in track than basketball. Gotta be top five in the US to make it to the Olympics. Yeah, track and field is no joke. You gotta be literally top tier. All professional athletes are in the top percentile of what they do, so respect to everybody.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, track and field is a tough sport. I don't know why people do it no shade. Like, you're a professional athlete, but you only really get to be professional, you know, like, we really, really, really matter once every four years.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like, I know they do other races throughout the years and stuff like that, but you just not really televised. It ain't really. You know what I mean?

[Tom Brokaw]

It's like yourself.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Mook]

Stay in shape for four, four years.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And if you don't, let's just have to you roll, bro. Man, what matter? You just pull your hamstring. That'd be happening two weeks before. But I couldn't be a track and field athlete. Shout out to them there.

[Mook]

You wasted all this time.

[Lester Holt]

My personality would be crazy, man.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You'll be mentally up and your window is so small.

[Tom Brokaw]

Like you said, you lucky if you could be cold for two Olympics, let alone one.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So the things that like Michael Phelps and them were doing is crazy. Unbelievable.

[Tom Brokaw]

The World Championships, Olympics, all that stuff.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes.

[Tom Brokaw]

Respect, man. Shout out to athletes for sure. Invited to the cookout stage to the Hornets. Hire Tibs and get some structure around the young talent. They out there playing YMCA ball. Do not stress tibs out. He is 67. He does not need a heart attack.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Ah, men. Come on, man.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, Lamelo. Sit my boy up out of here.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All right, man, before the chat, gonna keep going all day. We got something else, man.

[Tom Brokaw]

All right, man. Finals game one tonight. Be here.

[Lester Holt]

Why? Why are you asking me a question? I told you. Okay, see, by 20, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Like I ain't even get to finish my question. But go crazy, kid. It's your time to talk.

[Ryan Seacrest]

For sure.

[Lester Holt]

Go ahead if you got some more, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

No, I'm just saying what your team gotta do to win tonight. But you say it's about to ass anyway, huh?

[Lester Holt]

I think for real, like, we've been preparing for this moment, bro. We are setting the tone tonight, man. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, it's going down. 20 point victory, hopefully. I think y' all gonna win when y' all come back here, though. I do.

[Mook]

Y' all win by 20 tonight. That's gonna send a crazy message.

[Lester Holt]

No, it ain't, bro.

[Mook]

Yes, it is, bro.

[Lester Holt]

Game three, I think Pacers win game one.

[Mook]

Y' all win by 20, bro. That might scare us a little bit. I don't like that. I thought it's gonna be a dog fight tonight.

[Lester Holt]

This is gonna be a battle tonight.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Lester Holt]

It's gonna be too late in there.

[Tom Brokaw]

All right, all right. I'm gonna ask both y' all this. All right, Jeff. Okay. See, Aiden won at home in the postseason. Belt to ass. Usually 2. Average margin of victory, 25. What does OKC have to do tonight to get a W?

[Ryan Seacrest]

What they've been doing. The building gonna be electric. I told y' all the other day how it feels to be in the finals. And I'm not trying to be funny or nothing, but if you was there. Yeah, it's different, bro. Like, the energy, the fans is like the anticipation of everything Is a little different. Every shot matter. The crowd go crazy on everything. So it's going to be a different energy in the building. And they going to feed off that energy. They going to play well. I imagine somebody off the bench is going to have a big night. I don't know who, but one of their guys going to come in and the energy going to shift. Cause I think the Pacers are gonna. This is how I feel like the game is gonna start. The Pacers are gonna start off competing. It's gonna go well. They gonna make a sub, and then OKC gonna just take off a little bit.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay.

[Mook]

So I do think OKC gonna win tonight, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay.

[Mook]

Game one at the crib, like you said. I like the Pacers. Game one at the crib, too.

[Lester Holt]

I do. I really do.

[Tom Brokaw]

So you see the second unit taking over the game.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay.

[Tom Brokaw]

Mooc for the Pacers to get a dub. Not okc. What we gotta do.

[Mook]

Damn. Definitely gonna have to. Okay. They gonna be plugging in the gaps and the help and all that. We gonna have to hit some threes. Role players gonna have to. Nemhardt gonna have to come to play, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Mook]

And I feel like we gonna need Matheran to step up, bro. Rick gonna have to let him play, bro. He gonna be huge for us, bro.

[Lester Holt]

At least give him 20 minutes.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Miles Turner is gonna have to make shots.

[Tom Brokaw]

I was just about to say, I think Miles Turner and Imhar, I mean, obviously, outside of superstars, are our keys to win. Because we saw Isaiah Harsh on last year, and that Pace kind of messed him up. He has to hit those threes, bro, to keep the floor space. We have to have that. Because if not, we already had problems with rebounding. We still have it. We showed up some games, but Isaiah Hartstein murdered us on rebounds last year. And then you got Chet out there who could definitely crash the boards. Lou Dort, they got guards like Jalen Williams, who crashed the board. Even sga go get a couple, too. They don't slack in that department. So we got to bring that energy for sure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. But Miles got to make. He got to make shots. Because the way they help. They help defenses. They overhelp, which could be.

[Mook]

That's how you beat them. You have to make. You gotta make shots. Cause they gonna overhelp.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So nimhard niece Smith, Miles Turner, they have to make shots. And Tyrese Halliburton gotta live in the paint.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He gotta live in the paint. It can't be one of them games where, you know how he sometimes wanna fill out the game and you be like, dang, Tyrese not here tonight, but I know what T.J. mcConnell gonna do. He gonna live in that paint. So it could be a big game for TJ too.

[Tom Brokaw]

Most definitely. One thing I liked about Tyrese, I'm not even though he was kind of reserving it for the second half and especially the fourth quarter, he stopped settling or he's just stopped hesitating and making passes. Them teardrops, them floaters in the paint. Like you said, living the paint, that free throw line shot that make a world of a difference for us and them shots be available and we need all that we can get because OKC's defense is crazy for sure, man.

[Jeff Teague]

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[Marcus]

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[I]

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[Marcus]

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[I]

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[Marcus]

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[Tom Brokaw]

Man, I'm really looking forward to this game. Y' all want to wait before we go to who going to win the series? Y' all want to see game one first? I know Behenn. He don't give a damn. He going OKC already.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, I think OKC going win but I just. I be talking shit about sweeps and stuff. I see this going six okay I don't.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I don't have no dog in the fight. I just want a good series. I'm rooting for the home team but I really don't care.

[Mook]

Yeah, I think it's a Good series. But I like. I like the pacers. And. And seven, bro. It's going seven.

[Tom Brokaw]

I'm going Patriots in six.

[Mook]

I ain't mad at that.

[Tom Brokaw]

I'm going Patriots in 6. We still game one. I feel very, very, very confident.

[Ryan Seacrest]

If I was a betting man, I would take okc. If that's. If I was betting. If I was using my Draft Kings promo code, Club520. Yeah, I would take OKC. I don't really care, but since I'm from Indianapolis, it'd be cool for the city to be lit. Like, I love to go downtown after the Pacers win the championship. Like to go out. Not to the parade, but, like, the. Just catch the vibe.

[Lester Holt]

I got okc. But I, you know, I just. I don't know, bro. I just. If Tyrese win, bro, I just. He the greatest Pacer ever, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's a fact.

[Lester Holt]

I just.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, Tyrese get a dub, which.

[Mook]

I'll rank him in the NBA as a player, period. Not just point guard. Right now.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Just right now, as a player. He like 30.

[Mook]

Top 30.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. Just as an individual player. Damn. It's 24.

[Tom Brokaw]

I want top 15.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Top 15?

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah.

[Mook]

I seen Nick Rice 30, about 11.

[Tom Brokaw]

I'm going top 15 for sure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Let's run them out. You taking him over LeBron?

[Mook]

He said, Jokic, you taking over Brian 40, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nah, I'm still taking Brian 25. I'm still taking. I'm still taking.

[Lester Holt]

God damn, y' all.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He taking over down. You taking Tyrese Halliburton over Donovan Mitchell? Yep. As an individual player.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yep. And Donovan Mitchell Cole, one of the.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Best offensive players in the NBA as an individual player.

[Lester Holt]

Brian, you not on this list, bro. You better than all these niggas, but you not.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hold on. Y' all saying, like, not the team, just one. Like a one on one player.

[Lester Holt]

You know what Jeff saying?

[Mook]

I'm not saying a one on one basketball game.

[Lester Holt]

That's what Jeff saying.

[Mook]

Just a player on the team, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm saying if you had to start your team. You taking Tyrese Hal?

[Tom Brokaw]

Most definitely. Tyrese is the system.

[Mook]

Nah, Donovan Mitchell can't get me past the second round, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm taking Donovan Mitchell.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hey, Donovan Mitchell Cole. You know, I'm moving for life. One Dakota.

[Mook]

He is silly.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm taking.

[Mook]

Every year.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It ain't no hate.

[Tom Brokaw]

They just told us last season, I mean, last round, that he had all these weapons on his team and he's so cold. They supposed to get us up out of here, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

It was hurt.

[Tom Brokaw]

I ain't gonna respect something ain't right.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We ain't get past second round, bro. But I'm taking down permission, bro. Y' all not being for real, bro.

[Mook]

We got the people.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We got the people.

[Mook]

We know better than him. Yan is Joker.

[Lester Holt]

Y' all gotta run them down, buddy. Y' all run them down. I referee this.

[Mook]

Giannis, Joker, Jason Tate.

[Tom Brokaw]

Can we go to the top of this list, please?

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, just start from there.

[Tom Brokaw]

We can. We can scroll. Oh, this list is already kind of wild.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Y' all taking. So y' all taking. Y' all taking Wimby or.

[Tom Brokaw]

Because to start a team. Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. So y' all taking Giannis?

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, of course.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Wemby, Giannis, Anthony Davis today?

[Tom Brokaw]

No.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Jason Tatum?

[Tom Brokaw]

Yes.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Carl Town?

[Tom Brokaw]

No.

[Mook]

No.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Jalen Brunson?

[Tom Brokaw]

No.

[Ryan Seacrest]

LeBron ain't on him, ma' am.

[Tom Brokaw]

They legacy. I ain't gonna put them.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And Edwards.

[Tom Brokaw]

I would. Tough, but I'll take a. I'll take a.

[Mook]

I said I'm taking E. I'm taking him over Cade, though.

[Tom Brokaw]

Cade take it over Cam.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, I'm not, bro.

[Mook]

I am. Me, personally.

[Tom Brokaw]

His time is coming, but it's not here yet, y' all.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Wow.

[Tom Brokaw]

Jaren Jackson Jr.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm taking him over. Pajama rent.

[Tom Brokaw]

John Brandon got to the finals, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Mook]

We can only go off to what we see.

[Lester Holt]

Come on, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Y' all watch basketball, bro. Y' all watch basketball.

[Tom Brokaw]

He got to the conference final and went. Went to the final.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They have a good team, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

I seen Memphis win without Ja.

[Mook]

Hold on.

[Tom Brokaw]

We don't win without Ja. I mean, without Tyrese.

[Mook]

Nobody thought they had a good team at the start this year, bro. Nobody.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They was the same team as last year. I said they were playing bad at the beginning of the year.

[Mook]

You turn that team up, bro, without that team, they are horrible without him. That team is terrible.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I seen them hoop. I seen. I seen last year when Nimhard was the best player.

[Tom Brokaw]

He wasn't the best player, but he held it down for sure, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nim Hard was the. Nim hard got paid 54 million because he was killing. And he was a second round player. Nobody expected nothing from them. Hard.

[Tom Brokaw]

He was carry.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What he was carrying. He was carrying last year.

[Tom Brokaw]

I also saw.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He was carrying last year.

[Tom Brokaw]

I also saw Ty Jones get Memphis cracking with Jock wasn't there and they were still winning games. I saw Scotty Barton, Scotty Jr.

[Mook]

So I can't say that they winning without John.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They was. They a good team. But if I put John Morant and Tyrese Halber in a one on one chamber, you know who coming out.

[Tom Brokaw]

You know, if it's ones, it's different.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I agree.

[Tom Brokaw]

Who coming out but you coming beat him. Y' all better stop playing with JJ. What about J2N, bro?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Y' all playing? Y' all playing now, bro?

[Mook]

We play one line.

[Lester Holt]

Give me Ja.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay, yeah, once it's different for sure.

[Mook]

Give me Tyrese.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Nah, Give me every day, bro.

[Mook]

That's what I want my point guard to do.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hey, bro, he playing the east, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, here we go.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm not saying that, bro.

[Mook]

We all in the same NBA, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I swear to God. I swear to God. You put John Morant on the same pace of team, they do the same, bro. Because he can pass the ball. He do all that same, bro.

[Lester Holt]

Any more effective?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Are you crazy?

[Tom Brokaw]

Even Mal says quiet. Talk to him.

[Mook]

I'm not gonna say. I'm not gonna say.

[Ryan Seacrest]

When Jock starts shooting, he start doing the gun.

[Tom Brokaw]

People forget how good John Marin is, bro.

[Mook]

Y just said ae n second guess a, man.

[Lester Holt]

Come on.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Y' all live for the moment, bro. People get caught in a moment, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Come on.

[Lester Holt]

I just said if Tyrese wins this, everybody can go to hell. Like I'm missing leave.

[Mook]

But he right there, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm not saying you're not. So he better than Trey Young? He better try young.

[Mook]

I like Trey Young. I like Trey Young. I'm a Trey Young fan.

[Lester Holt]

DJ ain't going. DJ ain't going.

[Tom Brokaw]

We about to get a chip. I'm rocking with my so I'm rocking with my dog.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He better name.

[Mook]

Lillard is hurt, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Man, y' all know I'm talking about healthy Dame Lillard, bro.

[Mook]

Hell no.

[Ryan Seacrest]

What we talking about? Is he better than de' Aaron Fox? Fox?

[Tom Brokaw]

Yes.

[Mook]

Yes, bro.

[Lester Holt]

What?

[Tom Brokaw]

Yes.

[Mook]

Derek Fox have even made a play.

[Lester Holt]

That's some real y' all.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Y' all playing, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Man, dear Fox is cold as hell, but they got to one first round. They liked the Beam. They was excited off of first round loss, bro. Tyrese is in the finals.

[Lester Holt]

Halliburton is not burning. No, he got traded because of him.

[Mook]

Y' all talking about one.

[Tom Brokaw]

Well, that's a terrible franchise. That's really every guard in Rossbone.

[Mook]

I'm talking about one on one basketball.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But I'm talking about when you go to a gym, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

I'm talking about when I take my team to this.

[Lester Holt]

Can y' all say if y' all trolling to make the show longer or not?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Come on, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Y Fox, bro. One of the coldest. Dear Foxes Raw.

[Lester Holt]

And y' all said right now, if.

[Mook]

Pound for pound, one on one, Darren Fox will kill him.

[Lester Holt]

But no, if you just had them next to each other and you wanted to start a franchise, you gonna pick Tyres.

[Tom Brokaw]

I'm taking the person that took his team to the finals.

[Mook]

Took me to the finals, bro. Who you saying? First round finals.

[Tom Brokaw]

De' Airra Fox got whippy. Next year, if they don't go to the finals, I don't want to hear shit, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They playing. It's a. It's a different team, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

He got one of the best creative players of all time.

[Mook]

That's why Tyrese finna win.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All right? That means.

[Tom Brokaw]

I don't mean Mo.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I mean Drew Holliday better than Tyrese Halliburton. He won a championship twice.

[Tom Brokaw]

Then what we talking about? Drew Cole. He is. Drew ain't better than Tyrese Halliburton and his prom. Drew Holiday and Tyrese. That's a tough conversation for sure.

[Lester Holt]

Drew is better than him.

[Tom Brokaw]

Elite defender.

[Lester Holt]

Don't get it up. Drew is also Drew average a dub don't get it up. Y' all wilding now.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So, so Tyrese better. Devin Booker.

[Mook]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes.

[Mook]

Nah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No. Devin Booker led the sun still championship.

[Mook]

Touch.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, he better than Kyrie.

[Tom Brokaw]

No, no.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Kyrie ain't letting nobody to the final.

[Tom Brokaw]

He went to the finals last year.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We ain't got no finals.

[Mook]

Kyrie got a chip.

[Tom Brokaw]

He got a chip. He got one shot. Oh, well, he got LeBron a chip. He a goat.

[Lester Holt]

Dear Fox, I apologize. Fox, he called. Y ain't disrespecting him. Y ain't just saying he sad or nothing. But I'm saying them, them putting Tyrese over you, bro. They. They.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They wilding, bro.

[Mook]

You think? Dear Fox is top 15 player in the NBA, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Dear Fox, average last year.

[Lester Holt]

I, I, I think y' all kind of like Bro said, living in the. I'm living the moment, people.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Me too, but.

[Mook]

But you got right now.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, it's not the moment. It's the results, bro.

[Mook]

This is what's going on.

[Lester Holt]

No, but Jeff just said do a mock dress.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I need that. That's tough, Fox.

[Lester Holt]

Not that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Tyrese like 19, 18 and, like nine.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, he had a shitty start to these season, too. If you go from January to now, it's crazy.

[Lester Holt]

I like Tyrese, but 50 almost.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I like Tyrese 46.

[Lester Holt]

Y' all getting a little.

[Mook]

I'm just saying, in the 5 on 5 game, he is a winner, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He can win. It's something.

[Tom Brokaw]

Good.

[Mook]

Listen he got the motherfuckers out there.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hooping, bro, and everybody. Your name is the best player on their team. I mean, ain't the best player on their team. Tyrese the best player on the team.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So you taking. You taking him over James Harden?

[Mook]

Hell, no.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Today?

[Tom Brokaw]

Yes, today.

[Mook]

Oh, yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

In his prime. No, today, absolutely. There's no disrespect to James.

[Mook]

I said, what James Harden we talking about?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm just asking.

[Tom Brokaw]

Houston, James Harden.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, I mean, he was an all NBA player. I'm just asking.

[Tom Brokaw]

No, James Harden is called.

[Lester Holt]

He's all star.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's a fact. All NBA.

[Tom Brokaw]

It's never disrespected. Uno, it's love.

[Mook]

But give me Tyrese. Cause I know what James Harden gonna do in the playoffs.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's cool. I ain't mad at that take. But y' all gotta chill or something. Like. So he better than Demar derosa. Tyrese, right now, he a better basketball player than Marta Rosa.

[Mook]

Not one on one.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm just asking questions, man.

[Tom Brokaw]

You gotta watch him.

[Mook]

He like to use.

[Tom Brokaw]

The hands.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That.

[Tom Brokaw]

That question.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Cuz. Cuz. Y' all making my point. All right? I'm about. This is how it's gonna sound dramatic. Y' all making my point. Just cuz you a better basketball player, like you do things well to make your team win, don't mean you a better basketball player than somebody. You can be a complimentary player. You can do stuff that helps do winning. He does winning shit. Caruso does winning shit. Y' all just told me Lonzo Ball is 10 times better than him. Right? That's my whole point. So Tyrese Halliburton just the max deal. Lonzo Ball, that's fine, right?

[Tom Brokaw]

Maybe that's a good ass.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I don't think that is, but I don't think. I don't think Lonzo Ball is better than DeMar DeRozan at no point in his life.

[Mook]

I get where you're going. They more talented people. But if I'm rolling the ball out for my team to win games, I need Tyrese Halber. He's a winner, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He gonna pick high ass level.

[Lester Holt]

I don't think you picking up Tyrese Halber.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Gm.

[Mook]

Now, if we open gym and Tyrese.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Halbert standing right there and they say, who you got? Say, come on, Debo. We going to say, come on, Debo. That's what I'm saying. That's b. That's he a better Hooper. But if I'm. If I'm picking, I'm putting together a team. I'm like, all right, DeMarco Rosa used.

[Lester Holt]

To win 50 games in Toronto. Yeah, I want y' all. But I'll be forgetting.

[Tom Brokaw]

I get what he's saying about one of the best scores of all time.

[Ryan Seacrest]

As a coach, when you putting together a team, you want somebody that's gonna be able to get the whole team together. Everybody gonna like them, and everybody gonna be together.

[Mook]

I need a point guard that could just run everything.

[Lester Holt]

You gotta put certain pieces around.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's how you gotta do. You can't just go throw Tyrese.

[Lester Holt]

He's not just doing that, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He was in.

[Tom Brokaw]

He was out there in Sacramento looking ass, too.

[Mook]

This was in shooting guard.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's my whole point. He was in Sacramento looking ass.

[Lester Holt]

Everybody was in Sacramento looking ass in Philadelphia. Bro, they sad.

[Tom Brokaw]

What you put K re on the.

[Lester Holt]

Sixers, they lit as hell this year.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They said they sad, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

They lit.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Don't be weak, bro. They not going to win. No.

[Lester Holt]

Going to be sad, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They would have lost just as many.

[Mook]

Games this year was healthy.

[Lester Holt]

You keep saying. No, I'm just talking about with the roster that he had to play with.

[Tom Brokaw]

Horrible.

[Lester Holt]

No, I'm saying, though, y' all acting like he changes every franchise in the nbs.

[Tom Brokaw]

He's only been to one. I'm just.

[Lester Holt]

No, I'm saying if you rolling the ball out, y' all said, this nigga's better than Dear and Fox, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yes, bro.

[Mook]

You saying that like that's just insane.

[Tom Brokaw]

To the finals, bro.

[Lester Holt]

Take every team out east far.

[Mook]

Not every team.

[Lester Holt]

You put Tyrese on any team out east, you're not gonna make it. He's not gonna guarantee, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm not saying that that's how y'.

[Mook]

All act, but I'm saying.

[Lester Holt]

God damn.

[Mook]

So who we comparing them to? He's showing more success being a. I mean, he's a.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He's a. He's a good point guard. He's like, jason Kidd.

[Mook]

Got more success.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He's like, jason Kidd. Yeah. We're not saying Tyrese Tyree's probably gonna be a Hall of Famer.

[Lester Holt]

I see why they gave Seattle the mvp.

[Mook]

Yeah, like, just put him on any team now. I ain't saying that.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, that's with anybody, bro.

[Lester Holt]

Put the Aaron Fox on any team. He gonna be just as.

[Tom Brokaw]

He gonna be.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Do the same exact shit.

[Mook]

I'm talking about women.

[Lester Holt]

Tyrese go missing. Tyrese go missing sometimes, but he'd be.

[Mook]

There a lot of times. He had 18 and 10, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

All right, bro, we gotta move on from this. But, hey, That's a hell of a conversation.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm sure saying, bro, some of the players y' all, like, we just watch top 30.

[Lester Holt]

I think Brody was wild.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. No, I'm saying. But you gotta think, like, I put.

[Lester Holt]

Him a little higher.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, he got his 24 All Stars, right? It's one of them.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, yeah, he's one of them.

[Mook]

So he gotta be.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Did he make the All Star team this year?

[Tom Brokaw]

Not this year.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay, so it's 24 all stars.

[Mook]

He should have been.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm saying he next six best.

[Tom Brokaw]

He all NBA, though. So if he all NBA in my eyes, he gotta be top niggas.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, but that's a. You gotta have a good team to be all NBA. I'm saying it's some sad. It's some niggas down there that sat on some sad teams. Like, if I'm just hooping, I'm taking CJ McCullum before I take Tyrese Halberton.

[Mook]

If I'm just hooping, I don't know what you're saying. I am, too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. I'm just hoping.

[Tom Brokaw]

And if you give Tyrese that Pelicans roster with all the people we just named, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They still gonna be bad.

[Tom Brokaw]

You give Tyrese and Zion the pick and roll with bi.

[Mook]

I'm not judging Tyrese better than K.

[Lester Holt]

Cuddy him right now.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah.

[Mook]

If you line them up, just play one on one. No, no, but I'm not judging it like that, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I am.

[Mook]

I. That's what he going with it. I am like de' Aaron Fox if they play one on one.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, Torch. But when time goes to.

[Ryan Seacrest]

The basketball is a five on five game, so. I get what y' all saying.

[Tom Brokaw]

They be saying that about Brian, so he better.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You taking. If you starting again, you taking Pablo, you taking him over.

[Tom Brokaw]

P5, Paul Bankero, he's starting.

[Lester Holt]

We get energy. We gotta go.

[Mook]

Mike, I really. Nah, I really like.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay.

[Ryan Seacrest]

This is people.

[Tom Brokaw]

Y' all not thinking in the top 20.

[Mook]

I like him, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I'm just saying. But niggas not thinking about him.

[Mook]

He's cold as fuck. I didn't say. I just said.

[Lester Holt]

What is the delay?

[Tom Brokaw]

All right, we gotta move on from this. Cause we gotta get the rest of the show. Who has the coaching advantage in the series? Y' all taking Rick. He's taking coach Mark D. Rick, man.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He a champion.

[Lester Holt]

I think Rick got the coaching event.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, he won a chip already.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay, Respect.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We've been here before.

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[Tom Brokaw]

Back in the super chat for a second hwtc Jeff Burner account said, Tyrese game just ugly. I feel you, T. I didn't say I passed.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I didn't say his game was ugly.

[Lester Holt]

Shot ugly. That nigga cold, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, he can play. He's a good player, but he just. I'm saying, when I'm talking about hooping, I'm saying you throw somebody out there and you just be like, hey, hoop. You're not gonna say him. He's not gonna be the first one, to be honest.

[Mook]

I'm not, but that's not how I'm.

[Tom Brokaw]

Judging it for sure. All right, kiddo Jones, the super chat said, do y' all think if the Lakers kept the core of Zo Bi, Julius, Randle, Cool Zubak and Caruso, they would have made a deep playoff run or win it all?

[Ryan Seacrest]

No.

[Tom Brokaw]

Nah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's what I'm saying. It's all scenarios, bro. Like, all them dudes right there can hoop. They all can hoop. But they all was trying to get money. Like, that's why Tyrese team is perfect. Cause he was put in a situation where everybody had to adapt to him. Like, I'm the money.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Everybody else. The way y' all gonna get money is if y' all adapt to me.

[Mook]

Shay too.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, but like, if you go. If he would've went to a team where it's a bunch of dudes that already got the money.

[Mook]

Oh, yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

They don't give a fuck.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, they. They wouldn't adapt to it.

[Lester Holt]

Look different.

[Mook]

Yeah, it's gonna look different.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like, PG was still on this team with Tyrese Halliburton when PG was still pg. Tyrese Halliburton have been me. Like, get the ball to him. Like, you gotta do this, you gotta do that. But they built a team where it was around him. Like, are we gonna find piece that fit him? You know what I'm saying?

[Mook]

I mean, that's what happened when you. The guy.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, but if he got to a team where it was like, hey, like, if Lonzo would have went to the Lakers and they didn't have Kobe and all them dudes, and they was like, we gonna build a team around Zo. He probably been Tyrese Hallelberg if he didn't get hurt. But he went there. They got Julius Randle bi all them dudes, like you just said, and it's like, hey, I was here first. N. You gonna have to adjust to us.

[Tom Brokaw]

Then they got bra.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's like he was blessed that Indiana went through what they went through and had to trade and do all that stuff.

[Mook]

That's fair.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And he got to put the team around him. Like, when Siakam came, they, like, he gonna run the lane. He gonna look perfect with Tyrese Halliburton. But if they would have traded for Jalen Brown, it would have been like, yeah, what the is you doing? Bring that over here. You know what I'm saying? Might have looked a little different.

[Mook]

The new Wave, bro. All that throw me the rock is over with, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Let's play the right way.

[Ryan Seacrest]

They the new Wave because they had to get. You got to get a team that everybody actually like each other.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, that's true.

[Ryan Seacrest]

And that's not normal in the NBA. It's usually like the complete opposite. Nobody like each other. Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

Gotta lock in for sure.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's why a lot of teams, a lot of players that you think be like, damn, why he ain't. Because they teammates don't like him or they don't. They hating on him a little bit. They don't got that in the Pacers for sure.

[Tom Brokaw]

All right, man, let's get to the super chat before we get out of here. A1Digg said 55. Got to be a sorry Celtic jersey Ever shout out to Jeff Bad take Teague, though. All right, well, you real simple about here. T dot says, love y' all, man. Love from Chicago be here. You worked for Pepsi back in the day. I worked for Dr. Pepper and I.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, how you know that?

[Tom Brokaw]

Every morning. Patience.

[Lester Holt]

Family.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah, I forgot about the Pepsi days. Yeah, the trenches, for sure. King of Judah, said Jeff. He was one of my favorite pgs, especially on 2k. But you talk like you was ass or something.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All right.

[Tom Brokaw]

Shout out to you, bro. Italian twine watch company said, holly is the menace the finals need. What do you think the whistle is going to be like and which team benefits from? Well, excuse me. Which team benefits most from a physical series? The Pacers benefit okc. Think so, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Luke Dork about to foul. He gonna foul Tyrese Halliburton so much, bro. Like, he gonna be so physical with.

[Tom Brokaw]

Him, like he a bowling ball.

[Mook]

And we gonna be able to touch sga, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Well, that's why I said, if they let it be physical, then I think we benefit, because then we get some of those touchpads that normally would be called an sga, but, you know, his whistle's about to be phenomenal.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But if y' all, if they let them play, this goes. This is perfectly fit for okc. That mean Lou Dork get the touch. Halliburton pause the whole game and get physical.

[Mook]

They be hurting boys. Yeah, but they do.

[Tom Brokaw]

And Caruso, too. You get to. You know what I'm saying, Get to push people in the post. He gonna take full advantage. All right, man. Jordan the superset said, do y' all watch UFC side note, take thunder under. Oh, moot. Taking that 9.5. Is that good money?

[Mook]

No, no.

[Tom Brokaw]

He said not using draft. You promo on that.

[Lester Holt]

That is. That's too high of a risk. It is. Is.

[Tom Brokaw]

All right. Marco said, black Henny, I'm from Atlanta. How can I try your food? And I remember 2015 Hogs Bucks.

[Lester Holt]

I'm glad you asked that, bro, and appreciate you, but we are not from Atlanta, y' all. We live in Indianapolis. This is crazy. This just play and loves Atlanta.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Indianapolis, Atlanta, my second home. Matter of fact, Atlanta fuck with us the most, though.

[Lester Holt]

That's what I'm saying. Like that right there shows like so much.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's our. What? Most viewed place.

[Tom Brokaw]

Yeah.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah, for sure. So shout out to everybody in Atlanta.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I love Atlanta, man. I got nothing but love for that.

[Tom Brokaw]

It's always loving the city. We love the city, but Atlanta from day one has been our highest, best market. We appreciate y' all. ATL's always love for show. EMD said this is the most pressure of the moment combo. Y' all have had Putting highly higher than top 30. It's the easiest way to lose credibility. Talking about basketball. Shout out to Jeff for having since emd. Fuck you. He is in the finals. So you can't say that when they took their team to the finals. That does.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But like individual basketball player. I'm let it move on. But like individual basketball player. That's crazy.

[Tom Brokaw]

He's in the finals. Tell them other things. Get there, Jamel.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Like y' all said. Oh, Donovan Mitchell, bro.

[Lester Holt]

I was a little nervous with that one, y' all.

[Tom Brokaw]

I'm not first team.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All NBA, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

He sent you home and went to the oh, y' all watch Donovan Mitchell.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Get 40 deer 50 points.

[Tom Brokaw]

That's a fat and large, boss. I love Dalvin Mitchell, but always do that, bro.

[Lester Holt]

Utah in the playoffs.

[Mook]

Yes, playoffs every year, bro. But he always loses.

[Tom Brokaw]

So.

[Ryan Seacrest]

So, so Tracy McGrady. What were the top players that he lost? So what we talking about?

[Mook]

Because he didn't win, bro.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You can't help but you.

[Lester Holt]

Some people got pull them though, bro. And the dress all, bro.

[Tom Brokaw]

Saying we acknowledge that conversation team around them.

[Lester Holt]

Any team y' all going off what they did in their career put the.

[Mook]

Team around coach of a team. What's. What's the goal of the game?

[Ryan Seacrest]

To win, bro. But you know who a better player than who.

[Mook]

Yeah, I didn't say they wasn't.

[Lester Holt]

If you play, they're going to pick different too.

[Mook]

They playing one on one. Yes.

[Lester Holt]

You're not pick. You're not picking Tyrese Halberton over. No tmac if they just sitting right there.

[Ryan Seacrest]

No, I'm not verified.

[Tom Brokaw]

Bucket verify. Bucket no.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Verify. Bucket no. Cause you second guessed it.

[Tom Brokaw]

He wilding.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Verify now.

[Tom Brokaw]

Now.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Tyrese Halliburg better than T Max. I done heard.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hey, we a see T Max in the fall to a Spurs jersey. Tyrese got there at 26. Let's go. Oh, verified bucket. My boy Mook. Let's go USA Days. Pull up the clips.

[Lester Holt]

Oh, my God.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, that jersey is crazy.

[Ryan Seacrest]

My boy Bet. Look at my OG.

[Tom Brokaw]

Okay. Oh, there we go. That's Jersey at 3x and a 12. Hey, what you hooping in?

[Ryan Seacrest]

What are you hooping in?

[Lester Holt]

Good cherries, Good feet.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, yeah. Hey, okay. Excuse me.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Travel man. You don't got that, bro.

[Lester Holt]

When did that leave you? You when did that windmill leave you?

[Ryan Seacrest]

At 25.

[Mook]

I still got it.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, okay. Boom. Not me already. So he hit it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, I still got it.

[Mook]

Come here, Jeff. You know that play.

[Lester Holt]

We trying to run the back door.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, the back door.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hey, colors. Hey.

[Ryan Seacrest]

This why I dun Justin Anderson.

[Lester Holt]

Oh, he called out.

[Tom Brokaw]

There we go.

[Mook]

About to see it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Look at D. Okay, DeShawn Thomas out there getting a highlight.

[Tom Brokaw]

Real buckets. Okay, so I step.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He still shoot that shot. You don't got that one no more though. The float. No more floats. No more floats.

[Lester Holt]

I'm ready.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, Hesy. Oh, play something. Oh, damn. Two hesis. Wow.

[Lester Holt]

You really used to pass back in the day.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah, I do not remember.

[Tom Brokaw]

That's a different deal. I do not remember these highlights.

[Lester Holt]

That's who Cal thought he recruited.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He's a pass. First guard.

[Lester Holt]

Is out there dropping dizzies. That's who Cat thought he recruited. I'm sorry, C, play. In your face, bro. That's crazy.

[Ryan Seacrest]

This dropping dog for real.

[Lester Holt]

You look like a.

[Tom Brokaw]

A pure point. That ain't the Max preps, though. We going to have to get the max preps in here one day. Hey, got a body?

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think so.

[Lester Holt]

Dusty. Them jerseys is big as 3x. You had Jeff in them jerseys. Look at that neck on that.

[Tom Brokaw]

Damn verified bucket. Verified bucket.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Boo, dog. Come on.

[Tom Brokaw]

For Jeff all day. What happened?

[Ryan Seacrest]

Get well soon.

[Tom Brokaw]

You gotta get well soon for Jeff.

[Lester Holt]

Nah.

[Tom Brokaw]

That nigga had a verified bucket.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Of get well, too.

[Lester Holt]

That's the game.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, man, look at his feet.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Oh, my God.

[Tom Brokaw]

That right.

[Mook]

Oh, I knew what was about to happen. The week crosses coming.

[Lester Holt]

Yeah.

[Tom Brokaw]

Hey, look at Joe.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Joe was crowd serving. Oh, my God.

[Tom Brokaw]

Oh, man, y' all are crazy.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Y' all funny as hell.

[Tom Brokaw]

Shout out to boost mobile, man. Tap in 25 unlimited 5G nationwide. How many for the first three?

[Lester Holt]

15 months. I mean. Nah, not 15 months. That's cricket. $15 for three months. The volume.

[Tom Brokaw]

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[Jeff Teague]

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[Marcus]

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[Marcus]

The Made for this Mountain podcast exists to empower list listeners to rise above their inner struggles and face the mountain in front of them. So during Mental Health Awareness Month, tune into the podcast, focus on your emotional well being and then climb that mountain.

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You will never be able to change or grow through the thing that you refuse to identify. The thing that you refuse to say. Hey, this is my mountain. This is the struggle.

[Marcus]

Listen to Made for this mountain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Ryan Seacrest]

This is an iHeart podcast.