NBA Playoff Matchups Set, Play-In Previews & Doc Rivers Out As Bucks Coach

Summary

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No Dunks – “NBA Playoff Matchups Set, Play-In Previews & Doc Rivers Out As Bucks Coach”

Date: April 13, 2026
Hosts: J. Skeets, Tas Melas, Trey Kirby, JD Hello

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Episode Overview

The No Dunks crew returns fully assembled to tackle a jam-packed episode focused on the chaotic final day of the NBA regular season, the newly-set playoff bracket, play-in tournament previews, and breaking news on Doc Rivers’ ouster as Bucks coach. The hosts also do a post-mortem on their preseason win total picks and riff on some of the NBA’s quirkiest end-of-season stats and moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. NBA Regular Season Chaos & Standings Fallout (06:30–15:38)

• Wild Final Day: All 30 teams played, setting up a “crazy” last day with playoff seeds up for grabs. Notable was the decision-making by the Hawks, Magic, and others affecting the matchups.
• Bracket Breakdown: The 4/5 and 3/6 series are set (West: Lakers/Rockets, Nuggets/Wolves; East: Cavs/Raptors, Knicks/Hawks). Top seeds await play-in winners (07:13).
  • JD Hello: “Raptors always one o’clock on a Saturday. Not on NBA TV anymore though. No, no, we’re on prime, baby.” (07:14)
• Biggest Takeaways:
  • Tas Melas highlights Atlanta “deciding they’re fine playing the Knicks,” resting players and falling into a coin-toss matchup with New York (07:45).
  • Trey Kirby surprised Hawks seemingly preferred 6th over 5th, theorizing Trae Young’s excellent MSG record factored in (09:47).
• Magic Collapse: Orlando’s inability to beat Boston's C-team leads to play-in disappointment—“It’s just so embarrassing that they lost. Nobody has any faith in them … they’ve seemed to have quit.” – J. Skeets (13:31)
• Spurs Odd Choices: The Spurs’ lineup and resting decisions versus Denver judged as “perplexing” given matchup implications (13:52).

Notable Quote:

• Tas Melas (on gamesmanship): “Boston comes out and gives it to them. What a fun game that was to see three guys get their career high in that game...Those three guys combined to score 84 points. So they win and the Hawks are fine playing the Knicks.” (08:43)

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2. End-of-Season Performances & Records (11:22–15:07)

• Wedgie Watch: Celebrating a record-breaking season (73 regular season wedgies, potential to reach 80 including playoffs), evoking Dennis Rodman’s Lakers jersey number 73 (05:12–06:30).
• Meaningless, But Fun Stats:
  • Wild individual stat lines from “Mickey Mouse March/April” games (Oscar Sheewe, Joe Ingles, Baylor Baggins, etc.).
  • Clint Capela hits his career’s first three-pointer in his 739th game (12:14).
• Timberwolves welcome back Kevin Garnett: Ant daps him up, signifying a thaw in prior ownership tensions (15:07).

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3. League & Awards Update (19:46–25:48)

• Eligibility Locked: Both Wembanyama and Jokic reach required games to be on all-NBA and MVP ballots (Wemby also secures DPOY candidacy) (20:06).
  • J. Skeets: “Wemby winning a defensive player of the year, we all know that. I wonder, does that hurt his MVP chances just a little bit?” (20:22)
• Ballot Delays: Media can’t vote yet due to pending Luka Doncic games eligibility arbitration (21:23).
• Rookie of the Year Race: Koenig Canipple could sway voters with play-in performance, despite votes not supposed to count play-in (22:20).
  • Trey Kirby on Canipple: “He gets one last chance to prove he’s rookie of the year. I think it’s kind of interesting.”

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4. NBA Quirks: Streaks & Stats (25:53–30:45)

• Mikal Bridges’ Ironman “Streak” Extended: Bridges plays 23 seconds to keep games-played streak alive; the hosts debate if it’s “shammy” (25:53).
  • Tas Melas: “I'm sham free...That's an accomplishment.”
  • Trey Kirby: “If you play 81 games in today’s NBA, you should be allowed one silly one at the end.” (26:54)
• Other Quirks:
  • A.J. Green surpasses Ray Allen’s Bucks 3PT season record.
  • Wizards set new standard for futility: first NBA team ever to lose 64 games in three straight seasons (30:45).
    • JD Hello: “That’s a Tank dynasty.” (30:47)

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5. Breaking News: Doc Rivers Out as Bucks Coach (32:45–38:15)

• Doc Gone: Rivers ousted after a disappointing 97–103 record and consecutive playoff losses to the Pacers. He’ll get paid out the remaining contract year (~$40M) (32:45).
• Trey Kirby on Rivers’ infamous quotes:
  • “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.”
  • “It’s been harder than I thought.”
  • “Everybody seems happy except for me.”
• Future of Bucks & Giannis:
  • Hosts discuss whether Giannis stays or gets traded (36:45).
  • Tas Melas: “His trade value did get diminished just a little bit.”

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6. NBA Play-In Tournament Preview (41:37–56:34)

East Play-In

• 10 Heat vs. 9 Hornets:

  • “Place should be bumping in Charlotte,” with canipple slumping adding intrigue (43:46).
  • All hosts favor the Hornets, but Trey predicts the Heat: “I would rather see the Hornets win, but unfortunately they're the only team...better road record than home record.” (45:10)
  • J. Skeets: “Somebody scoring 140 points…feels like every Heat game goes wild.” (44:58)

• 7 Sixers vs. 8 Magic:

  • Sixers favored, all agree Tyrese Maxey is the “most reliable player in the game” (52:28).
  • Magic “look like a team that doesn’t want to be around anymore” (53:14).

West Play-In

• 8 Blazers vs. 7 Suns:

  • Suns favored for experience (Booker, Brooks, Mark Williams’ defensive return). “Portland is 30th in turnovers post–All Star” (47:39).
  • Trey Kirby: “Jrue Holiday could be the X factor on Portland’s side.”
  • J. Skeets picks Blazers as contrarian, citing late-season momentum (50:58).

• 10 Warriors vs. 9 Clippers:

  • Clippers favored, but Steph Curry’s minute cap (32 min) considered a major blow to GSW’s chances (54:45).
  • “I wonder how many shots Steph Curry will take in this game. Let him rip…just do it, Steph.” (54:06)
  • All hosts pick Clippers to advance.

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7. Over/Under Win Total Results & Accountability (58:43–64:39)

• All three hosts underperform against last year’s records:
  • Trey Kirby: 11–19 this year, after 20–10 last year (“I look at it as over .500 across two years.” – 59:54)
  • Tas Melas: 12–18; 0–6 on locks.
  • J. Skeets: 13–17 (“Bad news: my record was 13–17.” – 63:03)
• J. Skeets compares to other pods: “Not even one guy here went .500. Tough.” (64:10)

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8. Woah Boy of the Night & Closing Bits (64:47–66:39)

• Woah Boy Award sponsored by a listener: Gave it to Pistons’ Paul Reed for a flawless 26-point, 11–11 FG, 6-rebound, 3-steal, 3-block, 3-assist game (66:10).
• Hosts recap the story behind the sponsor’s connection—a proposal under DC cherry blossoms after a Magic-Wizards game.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Raptors always one o’clock on a Saturday. Not on NBA TV anymore though. No, no, we’re on prime, baby.” – JD Hello (07:14)
• "If you play 81 games in today’s NBA, you should be allowed one silly one at the end." – Trey Kirby (26:54)
• “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.” – Doc Rivers, as quoted by the hosts (35:14)
• “Somebody scoring 140 points. I don’t know which team it is, but someone is...” – J. Skeets (44:58)
• “I look at it as over .500 across a long two-year span.” – Trey Kirby (59:54)
• “We're gonna be better in the playoffs...when we make our predictions!” – J. Skeets (64:10)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:20 – Full crew return, playoff bracket intro
• 06:30 – Weekend and last-day chaos, major seeding decisions
• 19:46 – Wembanyama & Jokic awards eligibility
• 25:53 – Mikal Bridges streak extension debate
• 32:45 – Doc Rivers out in Milwaukee
• 41:37 – Play-In Tournament preview: all four matchups and predictions
• 58:43 – Hosts’ over/under win total results & accountability
• 64:47 – Woah Boy award and closing sponsorships

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Tone & Style

Energetic, irreverent, and packed with inside jokes, the No Dunks crew blends sharp NBA analysis with playful banter. Listeners are treated to both pointed commentary (“Magic have quit!”), fun debates (the legitimacy of streaks), and self-deprecating humor over their failed gambling picks.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Show

This episode is a brisk but thorough rundown of the tumultuous NBA regular season finish and the start of “season two.” The hosts dissect the most consequential (and absurd) seeding decisions, preview the pivotal play-in games with true fan perspective, break the news on Milwaukee’s coaching change, and lend much-needed context (and comic relief) to the quirks that make NBA spring so unpredictable.

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Transcript

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[J. Skeets]

Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the no Dunks podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Monday, April 13, 2026. I'm J. Skeets here in the classic factory and alongside me, as always, Tas Melas.

[Tas Melas]

Podcast listeners, this is for you.

[J. Skeets]

Next to him, back from the beach, it's my top show, hot boy Trey Kirby.

[Trey Kirby]

Ao ao.

[J. Skeets]

And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer JD Hello. There he is. Here we are. Hashtag full squad boys, back together for the second season of the NBA. Great to have you back, man.

[Trey Kirby]

Hey, great to be back.

[J. Skeets]

How are the waves?

[Trey Kirby]

The waves were good.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

The crystal clear seas of the Gulf of Mexico.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Hell yeah, the Gulf of Mexico. Thank you very much. Some of the most beautiful beaches in the United States of America. Great weather, reading books, doing puzzles, watching movies, fun times.

[J. Skeets]

Barbecuing, I assume. Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

Stove cooking as well.

[JD Hello]

You must know.

[Trey Kirby]

Was it just heating it on the fire? I was using multiple techniques.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, late night fires at all?

[Trey Kirby]

No late night fires. Oh, no late night fires. Sorry, sorry. No fires.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. That's okay. Well, it's great to have you back.

[Trey Kirby]

It's great to have everybody here on

[J. Skeets]

a Monday morning, especially if you're joining us live on YouTube right now. Hit the like button. Subscribe podcast listeners. Five star ratings and reviews. We got lots to get to. We're going to discuss the crazy final day of the NBA regular season. We're going to do some mini play in tournament previews because we now know those matchups. And later we're going to recap how we did on this year's over under win total predictions.

[Trey Kirby]

Very good.

[J. Skeets]

Not great, Bob.

[JD Hello]

Rough year for your boys. We'll break it down a little bit later, but we had two more wedgies

[J. Skeets]

in a record breaking wedgie season. What a way to end the regular season. First, on Friday night, wedgie number 72 at first you think, okay, that's Kelly Oubre Jr's wedgie. I mean, he's the one that shot it. Look at the hair, look at that two face hair on him, Harvey Dent style. But then we get the replay here from the broadcast and you're really going to see Pacer's big man, Micah Potter stick it there. Probably interfered with it if we're being honest.

[JD Hello]

But that's his wedgie.

[J. Skeets]

And then on Sunday, Hawks rookie Asa Newell, a little easy sort of layup attempt. Got it. So 73 wedgies, Barry Bond, slow style.

[JD Hello]

Can we get to 80?

[J. Skeets]

That's the real question. Now we count the play in games here and we obviously have the playoffs. And you've done it before, you said like on average, what is it, like four or five?

[Tas Melas]

That's high.

[J. Skeets]

That's high.

[Tas Melas]

Oh yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So three maybe?

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, two to three. It's only about 80 plus games in a playoffs. We usually get one every 28, 30 games. So okay, yeah, 73 wedges is a lot though. That is just simply a lot. Whenever I think 73, I think Dennis Rodman, Lakers jersey, the only guy to ever wear 73. Now I'm going to think of wedgies the most in the modern day of wedgie history.

[J. Skeets]

Great stuff. Okay, let's get into the wild final weekend of the NBA regular season. The playoff picture is complete following yesterday's 15 games, all 30 teams in action. Let's show you the bracket here on YouTube because again we know the 4, 5 and the 3, 6 matchups. In the west it's Lakers, Rockets and Nuggets, Wolves. And in the east it's Cavs, Raptors and Knicks, Hawks. And then obviously our number one and number two seeds, they're waiting to see who they play. And we'll get to the play in matchups a little bit later. We even know the games schedule of this weekend coming up for the playoffs. Yeah, we got the Raptors kicking it off against the Cats, game one.

[Trey Kirby]

That's right.

[JD Hello]

Raptors always one o' clock on a Saturday. Not on NBA TV anymore though. No, no, no, we're on prime, baby.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, come on, man. Yeah, that's a big app.

[JD Hello]

So it goes.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, that game, Raps, Cavs, then it's Wolves, Nuggets and then Hawks, Knicks and then Rockets, Lakers. That's the Saturday and the Sunday you see there with the higher seeds waiting for their teams. But that's the breakdown. So I want to know though, what was the biggest takeaway for you from the final day there or final weekend of The NBA regular season.

[Tas Melas]

Well, the Hawks deciding they're fine playing the Knicks, essentially, they decide we're not going to play our guys against the Heat, even though they could have controlled getting up to the five seed if they want. They also may have decided, you know what, it works two ways for us to get to the five seed. If we win, you know, we don't necessarily care about that because the Orlando Magic, all they have to do is beat the C team of the Boston Celtics and we'll also get the five seed. Yeah, seemed that way easy.

[JD Hello]

Because just for those that don't know,

[J. Skeets]

we would have, in theory, maybe had a three way tie between the Hawks, the Raptors and the Magic. And in that scenario, the Hawks would get the five seed because they are the division leaders of the Southeast.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. And they spanked the Magic when they played them this year so they would win the seed over them and they jump up to five. So they thought, you know, Orlando playing against the Boston team, not playing against Tatum. Jalen Brown. No. No. Derek White. No. Payton, Bridget.

[JD Hello]

They're top eight guys.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. So lots of guys. And then Boston comes out and gives it to them. What a fun game that was to see three guys get their career high in that game. In Charman, Luca Garza and Ron Harper Jr. Those three guys combined to score 84 points. A 30, 27 and 27. So they win and the Hawks are fine playing the Knicks. And now I know it is, it's kind of a coin toss for the Hawks and who they would have played better. I know it's the Cavs or the Knicks, but at the same time, I think you'd rather play the Cavs. And I think the Raptors got to be super excited to be going in game one. Yeah, Raptors definitely did not want to play the New York Knicks who dominate them.

[J. Skeets]

They haven't beaten them in like 13 games or something. The Knicks own the wraps. Bit more of a chance maybe against the Cavs.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. So, yeah, we'll get into the preview of Hawks next. Either way. That was my biggest takeaway. Just seating wise.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. That was kind of surprising, I thought, because I. I don't know, I just think it's better to be in the four or five.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, yeah. In general.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. For, for this, I mean, second round, you're playing the Celtics, most likely, so.

[Tas Melas]

Right, right, right.

[Trey Kirby]

That's surprising to me that the Hawks decided to do that. But you know, Trey Young has owned the Knicks and Madison Square Garden. Wait a second, wait a second.

[J. Skeets]

Do you think he'll show up.

[Trey Kirby]

Interesting. Wow, that's a great question.

[J. Skeets]

Courtside seats for Trae Young to watch the Hawks take on the Knicks.

[Trey Kirby]

Great place to watch a game.

[J. Skeets]

It's amazing.

[Trey Kirby]

He's had some of his best career moments there.

[Tas Melas]

No way he doesn't want to show up.

[Trey Kirby]

He shows up, he's like you.

[JD Hello]

Like me.

[Trey Kirby]

Now I'm cheering for the Knicks. That would be wow, what a heel turn for Trey Young. A heel, heel turn. I don't know what that is actually called, but yeah, that would be pretty interesting, I thought. Also interesting, the Nuggets tried to do their seeding thing. They tried to get out of the three seed. I believe they rested their guys against the Thunder on Friday night. Then they did rest most of their guys on Sunday against the spurs as well. Jokic did have to play, which we'll get into for awards qualifications, but they just couldn't do it. Also tried to beat the Nuggets. It really felt like yesterday they were playing pretty hard. De' Aaron Fox had three wide open looks from the corner under a minute that would have made it a closer game. I think it was like an eight point game at the time. And it kind of came down to can Fox make one of these three? He could not do it. San Antonio went 30 and four to end the season. Oh, and three against Denver included in those 34 games. It was also Mark Jones's final broadcast from ESPN, but he said he's taking his seasoning with him. So he said, I'm taking my seasoning with me. You'll see me again. It's always spicy, that salute to that spicy man. So that was the interesting eating stuff. And that was the only thing that was interesting.

[Tas Melas]

There wasn't much.

[Trey Kirby]

These games are meaningless on the last day of the season. But all NBA players are good. Oscar Sheepway give him a real game ball, 29.17 boards. Ryan Nemhardt had 23 assists most of the season. Eight of them went to John Pulakita. Hit eight threes. Who? Baylor Baggins. We talked about 37 and seven looked insane. He was wearing a black undershirt and black leggings with white jerseys. Yes, like he had to go rob a bank afterwards. Yon Barringer 24 and 13 and 7 blocks. Buddy healed hadn't played double digit minutes since being traded to the Hawks. He went for 31 points and seven threes in their big time loss. Joe Ingles played 32 minutes, 15 points and 10 assists.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, it seems like there's Mickey Mouse March happening. But then it really picks up a notch on the last day.

[J. Skeets]

Asinine.

[JD Hello]

April.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, April Clint capella hit his first career three pointer. Yeah, that was awesome.

[Tas Melas]

So 739 games for that guy.

[Trey Kirby]

Does Deandre Ayton have a three pointer in his career? He has to. He's always half court shots underhanded for warm ups. So you know he's more comfortable out there. But yeah, if you're in the NBA, you're one of the best basketball players on earth. But unfortunately there's a lot more guys who are in the NBA who are ahead of these guys. But they're like well friggin dust off Joe Ingles. That's unbelievable to me that he had a double double in an NBA game in 2026.

[J. Skeets]

It's wild to go back to the Magic though. Man, what a perfect summation of their season, right? Just, you know, just needed to win to guarantee a home playing game too this. I mean we sort of glossed over that a little bit. You know, maybe had a chance to get into the actual playoffs, needed some help. But at the very least they win that game against Boston. They at least have a home playing game and two really chances to then get in. But now they're on the road and have to go to Philadelphia in the 87 matchup and they're playing nobody on Boston and they are trying to win sort of because they played Desmond Bain. They start him so he can have the achievement of all 82 games started. Okay, cool.

[JD Hello]

Then they take him out because they're like I will win this, that's all problem.

[J. Skeets]

And then at some point like ah, crap, you better start stretching man, we gotta get you back in there. It's like, it's just so embarrassing that they lost. Like nobody has any faith in them I think to advance, maybe even get in just because they've seemed to have quit and it's been pretty brutal. And then the spurs, that is an odd decision to go back to that resting their guys here, you know, versus the Nuggets, resting some of them a little bit, at least a Wemby factor and not trying to bump Denver out of their side of the bracket. That's just, that's just a perplexing decision I think on their part. Maybe they're just like whatever, not afraid of anybody. But they're likely playing them in the second round now. I don't think that's all that smart for a team that's sort of got your number right now. And Dylan Harper got hurt too. I mean there's that, but I don't think it's too severe. The thumb injury, not a good weekend. I don't think good decisions there by them.

[Tas Melas]

No. Thunder are extremely happy though, considering those two guys are playing in the second round. Those two teams are playing in the second round. So the first time that they'll see him is in the conference final. Now their playoffs starts a little bit tougher than last year, I will say. I mean, not much. They destroyed Memphis in the first round last year before going on to beat Denver and then Minnesota. This year it's a little.

[J. Skeets]

You think Phoenix or Portland and gives.

[Tas Melas]

It's better.

[J. Skeets]

Or I mean, I mean, could be the other team.

[Trey Kirby]

It's better than Memphis. Could be any of them.

[Tas Melas]

It's better than Memphis. But then the second round of either the Lakers or the Rockets, you know, it's. It probably equals out to what happened last year against the Nuggets. Either way, it starts a little tougher. But still they get to go wait until the conference finals against one of those teams so they win.

[J. Skeets]

Another fun thing. Yesterday, the Timberwolves welcomed back Kevin Garnett to the Target Center.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, that was.

[J. Skeets]

Been there in like eight years. Obviously had some friction with the previous ownership. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. And he was dapping it up with Ant. They had to like pause the game for a second so Ant could get back to the bench. That was cool.

[JD Hello]

In a otherwise meaningless game.

[Trey Kirby]

Good. Yeah. They need to have a relationship with the best player they've ever.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

That should be a given.

[Tas Melas]

And that's definitely happening with a Rod and Mark Laurie. That's happening.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. The actual playoff matchups. We know about the 4, 5 and 3, 6 in both conferences. We will do our playoff previews starting tomorrow. So we'll space those out over the week here in terms of breaking those down, looking at the X factors, making our predictions and all that stuff. Just so you know.

[Trey Kirby]

X factors.

[J. Skeets]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Trey Kirby]

That was a crazy looking bracket.

[JD Hello]

You think so?

[Trey Kirby]

Yes, because it has the, the, like the play in tournament in it as well.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

So you've got like. It's more of a flowchart than a bracket because you got the W's, you got the L's. If you lose the 910 game, you don't even get thrown off the screen. You're just like, you know what's going on. So it's sort of a bracket. It's also like a roadmap.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, you're right.

[Trey Kirby]

Roadmap to the next three months of our lives.

[J. Skeets]

That's exactly right. Buckle up.

[Julian Edelman]

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[J. Skeets]

Why?

[Jack]

What's wrong?

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Okay, yeah, I'm tired, kind of cranky, and very thirsty.

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[J. Skeets]

Okay, we had some other, like, sort of news here. I mean, you slipped it in here. Wembanyama and Jokic clinched eligibility for postseason awards, so they will be on MVP ballots. They will be, you know, in Wemby's case, winning defensive player of the year. And of course, both guys, all NBA, I assume, first team. So that's good. I guess. It did count that NBA cup final

[JD Hello]

did count for Wen Minyard. They just, they just decide whatever they want with this. But anyway, he got there 65 games played if you count the NBA cup final.

[J. Skeets]

And then Jokic played enough minutes in the finale Sunday to also hit the requirement. Thank God. Tas.

[Tas Melas]

Well, it's good for Jokic considering he's going to make another all NBA team. He's made one since every year for a long time, since 1819. So he should make another one. I like that factor because just to have him there, Wemby winning a defensive player of the year, we all know that. I wonder, does that hurt his MVP chances just a little bit? Everybody who's got the ballot saying, okay, defensive player of the year, check. But you shall wait another year to win mvp, my friend. I wonder just because he wins another award. But it still makes for a very fun MVP discussion for everybody who's got their spreadsheets, their ledgers, their trackers of everything that's going on in the NBA and how you got to decide between your Wemby or your Shea, obviously, or your Jokic. So that's fun.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, it feels like Shea's gonna win it, but I'm sort of fascinated to see who does finish second here? Is it. Is it Jokic or Wembanyama? I think right now, I think it is going to be Jokic with the way he ended the season.

[Trey Kirby]

It's true.

[JD Hello]

I mean on a 12 game win streak he was putting up insane numbers.

[J. Skeets]

Leads the league and rebounds and assists per game. Spurs. Yeah. But we'll see. And they don't even have their ballots yet. They're not coming out till Friday. They're gonna get them because they're waiting on this whole Luca protest or whatever. The arbitration dispensation. Yes. Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Cool.

[J. Skeets]

So it's going to be a lot longer here until they even have their ballots to fill up the 100 media members.

[Tas Melas]

So yeah, they're waiting just to see if Luca is going to be on the ballot to make him an all NBA player, which he'll get.

[J. Skeets]

And where you put him on where

[Tas Melas]

Just to have him in the mvp. Just to see where he finishes. Because he's not winning it.

[J. Skeets]

No, no.

[Tas Melas]

Either way.

[J. Skeets]

Just whether he'll be on the list.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, exactly. Will his name be eligible to be clicked? I thought a nice point by our good buddy. Good times. Tim Bontemps on the hoop collective this morning saying that because these ballots don't come out until Friday, now con canipple has the play in lights to prove his rookie of the year case.

[J. Skeets]

It's such a great point.

[Trey Kirby]

It's an advantage for sure.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean Cooper was awesome the last month of the season. You know, I think Khan was definitely winning it in the middle of March. But maybe Cooper is the guy now. But Khan gets one last chance to prove that he is the rookie of the year. So I think it's kind of interesting.

[J. Skeets]

Of course you're not.

[JD Hello]

You're not supposed to consider it.

[Trey Kirby]

You cannot watch it.

[JD Hello]

But bunch ups is right. If he goes for 35 against the Heat to. Yeah, like the people of course are

[J. Skeets]

going to count it in their consideration for the rookie of the year.

[Tas Melas]

So he's played 81 games on the ballot. Is it going to say 82 because he had a play in game? That's another. Another check.

[J. Skeets]

Nope.

[Tas Melas]

No, it should not, obviously.

[J. Skeets]

In fact, if you are a media

[Trey Kirby]

member, get to 84.

[J. Skeets]

If you're a media member and you

[Trey Kirby]

have a vote 910. You have to play twice.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Twice. Yeah. Yeah. 83. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[J. Skeets]

If you're a media member, you should be able to watch that game. Blackout.

[Trey Kirby]

I agree.

[J. Skeets]

Blackout for anyone voting on rookie of the year.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, that's weird, this whole arbitration thing. Is taking multiple days. Why isn't it just done now? Why does it take so long? What's the arbitration all about?

[Trey Kirby]

Literally, Adam, just decide. Say yes or no. You're gonna say yes.

[J. Skeets]

So Luke and his agent are filing an extraordinary circumstance grievance to appeal the 65 game threshold required for all NBA eligibility. And this is why the ballots are not going to be out till Friday. Because his wife gave birth and he missed two games because of that.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, I know that.

[J. Skeets]

Saying that.

[Tas Melas]

Well, it doesn't.

[J. Skeets]

Thought you were asking.

[Tas Melas]

No, I'm not asking that. I'm asking why it takes so long.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, I don't.

[Tas Melas]

Why couldn't it be done?

[J. Skeets]

Because everything takes forever with this freaking league, man.

[Tas Melas]

It's pretty easy. I mean, there's. There's no games going on. You could just arbitrate and just get it over with. How long does the arbitration take?

[Trey Kirby]

They should be able to figure it out now.

[J. Skeets]

I don't know.

[JD Hello]

Maybe. I have to go. I gotta see the baby.

[J. Skeets]

Adam's gotta see the baby.

[JD Hello]

That's why. Let me get a look at it. Is it real? We don't know. His wife doesn't live here. It'd be all a lie for all we know.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, that's such a great point because

[Tas Melas]

this was filed even days ago.

[Trey Kirby]

It doesn't make any sense.

[J. Skeets]

No, it doesn't make any sense.

[Trey Kirby]

I did.

[J. Skeets]

Like they're going to.

[Trey Kirby]

They're gonna say yes.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, exactly.

[Tas Melas]

No, we're keeping out one of the names because.

[Trey Kirby]

Because his partner had a child. A former partner, I guess. I also did like to say, maybe that'll factor into. Yeah, we got to keep the nuclear family strong. Victor Wembanyama wearing a headband for like a quarter and a half on the bench last night. I thought that was pretty funny to see. That's another fun thing about the last game of the season. People will go nuts with their looks. So a bunch of the spurs who don't wear headbands decided, hey, we're trying a headband tonight, Wemby included. I didn't really clock at first that he was wearing street clothes. I thought it was just like in spurs warm up gear. He had on like a gray sweatshirt, but then like zoomed out. He's wearing khakis. So he just wore like a casual bench headband for, I don't know, 45 minutes probably.

[JD Hello]

Did you see him try.

[J. Skeets]

Pulled way back. Did you see him try the smelling salts?

[Trey Kirby]

No. He did.

[J. Skeets]

He did. No, Wendy did.

[JD Hello]

It was like a real, like somebody

[J. Skeets]

from the Crowd was filming him and he tried it on the bench and whoa. He had a crazy reaction. Yeah. And he had the headband on. That's what I saw it.

[Trey Kirby]

Funny.

[Tas Melas]

That's surprising. I wouldn't think he would just wouldn't think that Wemmy's that type of person.

[Trey Kirby]

Not good for the body.

[Tas Melas]

He's just. Maybe he's a cerebral guy. I wouldn't think he would factor that in ever.

[J. Skeets]

Then again, the counter is. He seems like the type of guy is like, I'll try anything once, I'll experience it. Sure. So maybe he's like, yeah, give it a go.

[JD Hello]

Maybe he does it all the time. For all we know.

[Trey Kirby]

Jacob Toby, Mikhail Bridges.

[J. Skeets]

Consecutive games played streak reached 638Sunday season finale against the Hornets after the Knicks wing played all of 23 seconds before leaving. Yeah, that's right. Bridges fouled out, or he fouled purposely on the first defensive possession, subbed himself out, but the streak is extended. Hilariously, we debated whether this streak is a, you know, a sham or not last year, because he did it last year too.

[JD Hello]

In fact, this is the third time

[J. Skeets]

in last four seasons he's done this where he's just played a couple seconds and then left the final game. But the streak is still intact.

[Tas Melas]

I'm sham free in my, my valuation. It's not a shame to play over 600 games. That's all I think about is it doesn't matter how many he's played, like if it's 640, 650. But when you get to these big round numbers of hundreds of games, that's an accomplishment.

[J. Skeets]

So you're fine with like the final one doing this?

[Tas Melas]

You don't care in this. Yeah, in this particular situation, I don't think it matters.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I'm actually okay with it too. If you play 81 games in today's NBA, you should be allowed one silly one at the end.

[J. Skeets]

Okay? That's.

[Trey Kirby]

We're begging guys to play 65 games,

[Tas Melas]

and it definitely seems like there are fewer guys who played 82 games than they actually play. This year there are 18 guys who played 82 games. After all, the ridiculing of nobody playing 18 guys is a decent amount.

[JD Hello]

Decent amount.

[Tas Melas]

It's more than last year.

[Trey Kirby]

It's almost one per team. Yeah, well, I mean, it's almost one per two thirds.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, last year was. It was. There was less. So there's something, you know, there's only 11 last year in comparison.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, look, he.

[JD Hello]

He is very invested in this streak.

[J. Skeets]

He loves streak in The Ironman streak. He was the only active starter in the game. That meant nothing to the Knicks because their playoff seed was determined. And like I said, this is the third time in the last four years that Bridges has played, you know, less than 30 seconds in a game. Last season it was six seconds. Geez. This year he went 23 seconds. I hope he's not tired. Three years ago at the Nets, he lasted four seconds.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, that's a short one.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

So it all comes down to who wins the tip.

[J. Skeets]

Exactly, exactly.

[Trey Kirby]

He should have got a shot up. He should have demanded the ball. If we win the tip, I want the ball right away. Chuck it up and then foul.

[J. Skeets]

And this is my favorite part. We talked about Wemby, the NBA cup that counted. He doesn't get to count his NBA cup final. Bridges, who actually played in 83 games.

[Trey Kirby]

That's awesome.

[JD Hello]

It's so.

[Trey Kirby]

That's actually awesome.

[JD Hello]

Absolutely. They do not care. They just. Whatever they want.

[J. Skeets]

They just change their mind with these. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Also last or when he was traded, right. He played 83, but he also sat out a game because it was like the day of the trade.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

Whoever. It was a weird thing. But yeah, that is a. That's just literal nonsense. But look, AC Green did it too. He got popped in the face at one point and just played like a minute per game wearing a mask. So this is fine. It's. It's literally a guy who wants to play so much that one game a season he just subs in, runs around and then laughs as he leaves. Yeah, I like it.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. And. And he's got a long way to go to still catch AC Green.

[Tas Melas]

It's like.

[J. Skeets]

I don't know, it's like what is six seasons or six or seven seasons? I think so it's an eternity.

[Tas Melas]

A.C. green related. A.J. green. This was surprising to me.

[J. Skeets]

There we go.

[Tas Melas]

Most. Most threes in a season in Milwaukee Bucks history. Surprised by that.

[J. Skeets]

And. And even more surprised. Ray Allen held the record still from 0102.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, that's a long.

[J. Skeets]

That's a long time in today's NBA. The three pointers, the way they shoot him.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, yeah. He had 11 on Friday to get him close 11 threes great in one game and then passed them on Sunday.

[J. Skeets]

And Con Caniple did keep the most three pointers made record in the season here for this season over Lamelo ball. I think by one they went one two there for the Hornets for total three points made. So he's a rookie. First rookie to ever do that. Was the point of that. The Washington Wizards clinched the worst record in the NBA on Friday night with a 140 to 117 loss to the Heat. So Washington ended up finishing 17 and 65, losing their last 10 in a row and 26 of their last 27 to tumble to the bottom of the standings. So the league's bottom three finishers by record, it's Washington, Indiana and Brooklyn. They're each going to have a 14% chance at the number one overall pick. All three of those franchises will have a 52.1% chance at a top four pick. That's especially meaningful to the Pacers, who could lose their pick to the Clippers if it drops to five to nine range. So the Wizards three years in a row, man, first NBA team to lose 64 games in three consecutive seasons.

[Trey Kirby]

Dynasty.

[J. Skeets]

The worst.

[JD Hello]

That's a Tank dynasty.

[J. Skeets]

That really is. The Vancouver Grizzlies lost at least 63 games in each of their first three seasons. 95, 96 to 97, 98. And then the Process era 76ers. They match that futility from 1314 to 1516. But the Wizards now have it hope

[Tas Melas]

we all took the under. We shall see.

[JD Hello]

Not sure we all did, but no, there was.

[Tas Melas]

I think somebody took the over, but there were some guy did. Oh, yeah, Yeah, I think so. I think we'll find out in mere minutes. The Pacers story is interesting. Yes, they could lose their pick, but the fact that they got this pick back after they initially traded it for Pascal Siakam, part of the Pascal Siakam trade that got traded to the Pelicans for Brandon Ingram. And then the Pacers said, hey Pelicans, let's make a little swap. Trading their pick in the 2025 draft for this pick in the 2026 draft. And then they end up crappy and could have the number one pick or. Or whatever happens. The Pacer story is. Is a great story.

[J. Skeets]

And you know, Hawks are happy here. The Pelicans, obviously, they're seventh right now in the tank a thon standings. So they have what, 6.8% chance at the number one pick. That would go to Atlanta. And the Thunder are going to get another lottery pick. In case you were curious, the Clippers, who are currently 12th where they are in terms of the seating, yes, they're in the play in, but they're 12th overall at 42 and 40. They have a 1.5% chance of the number one pick. So Thunder could win the draft or

[JD Hello]

7.1% chance of the top four which

[J. Skeets]

obviously, these guys are pretty good in this year's draft, which is why for the first season in NBA history, we had eight teams with 55 plus losses.

[Trey Kirby]

55 burgers, 55 fries.

[JD Hello]

Yeah. 55 losses, 55 tater tots. Yeah, man, that's a lot of teams.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow.

[JD Hello]

I think that impacted our over under predictions.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, that's pretty wild.

[JD Hello]

We'll get to those later. And then, final piece of news. Let's get to this.

[J. Skeets]

Doc Rivers is departing as head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. So Rivers, who signed a deal worth approximately $40 million when he was hired in January 2024, he's got another season remaining on his contract, but per team sources, he will be paid out on that final season. Though there was some talk about him maybe just moving to another role within the organization, I'm thinking that's not happening. Rivers released a statement. Doesn't sound like he's hanging around. He's going to go golf.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, first, he's got grandparents day. He's got two grandparents days that he has to get to. He said one. The 21st one. The 21st.

[J. Skeets]

Seven grandchildren. He's old. Yeah, forever, man.

[Trey Kirby]

Been in the NBA 47 years. He said.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I know. Holy crap. Anyway, not. Not a surprise here, Tas, but he's gone after two and a half seasons where they compiled a 97 and 103 regular season record and lost two series to the Pacers in the playoffs.

[Trey Kirby]

Both of the Pacers, huh? Yeah, they did have a great rivalry with the Pacers.

[Tas Melas]

They did, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

I mean, there were some injuries, obviously. Giannis the first year and then arguably dame the second.

[Tas Melas]

So 40 mil, huh? It's not like Monty Williams type of contract with the Detroit Pistons and moving on. But that's a lot of coin to get compensated at the end of it. I thought when you said that, I didn't hear this part. I thought maybe he gave up that last year of his contract. Here you go. But no, no, no.

[JD Hello]

He's got to spoil seven grandchildren.

[Tas Melas]

Oh, my gosh. Spoil him. I can buy a house for each of them. Each one of them. Great for him. He's going to go chill or do tv. He's not going to hang out with the. He's not going to be part of the front office. I don't see why.

[Trey Kirby]

You know, back to the podcast game from Doc Rivers.

[Tas Melas]

Doc and Austin. The Daddy Daddy Austin Podcast. Don't call it that. Put a pod with Austin.

[Trey Kirby]

He was podcasting with Bill Simmons, but I guess they're all employed by the Same guy.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. He probably should have never went back to coaching.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, probably not. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. This is the hardest thing anyone's ever done.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Those were the first things I thought of when I saw that Doc was officially going to be gone, was, I wouldn't wish this on anyone. Just the long lastedness of that infographic meme. And the second thing I thought of was the Bucks just throwing a party and dancing after they fired Adrian Griffin. He was 30 and 13 at the time. And Doc Rivers leaves the Bucks under.500 as a coach with zero playoff wins.

[J. Skeets]

Crazy. But he did deliver. Like you said, a lot of awesome quote boards. Graphic.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes, he did.

[J. Skeets]

Molly Morrison had a nice roundup. He had the. It's been harder than I thought.

[JD Hello]

Doc Rivers, he had the. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. That's gold.

[J. Skeets]

He had the.

[JD Hello]

We had some guys here, some guys

[J. Skeets]

in Cabo

[JD Hello]

and everybody seems happy except for me. Over his 2 1/2 seasons, there's probably another 10 of them.

[Tas Melas]

He's quotable. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

The players were chomping up and down in game 82, like during play. So the players are happy.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD Hello]

They're dogs.

[Tas Melas]

Not so much. Yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

But like, it's like the last day of school, man.

[Trey Kirby]

There's a Eric name, has a great write up at the Athletic. The season from hell for the Milwaukee Bucks. And it's like mid March is when like one veteran's like, yeah, that's when I checked out. Doc was blasting the veterans for not giving enough effort this season. It's like, okay, yeah, maybe they definitely checked out at some point during the season. It was at the trade deadline when they thought Giannis was gone and the season was over. But then he came back and they just never gave an effort. But come on, man, it's like you're talking about Kuzma and Miles Turner here.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

So I don't think it's 100% on DOC, but it's also, he's been good in the past when there's not talent around the team getting more out of him. He didn't get more out of them this season. So the next thing for the Bucks to figure out, has Giannis played his last game in Milwaukee?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, he never ended up playing at the end.

[Trey Kirby]

Never played.

[J. Skeets]

That was a debate we had and he didn't. And I'll be honest, to go back to our good friend Tim Bontemps, he has an article on ESPN this morning. Giannis vents about Bucks Won't Rule out return Tons of Giannis quotes in it. I was like, no, I'm not reading this. I do not care what this guy says right now.

[Trey Kirby]

It's not up to him. He says, it's not. I could have put on myself to read it.

[J. Skeets]

He's.

[Trey Kirby]

He's quoting.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. That is the weird part is the extension can't be offered until October 1st.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Tas Melas]

So he can't accept it. And if he was going to accept it, if you do believe the yanacide, which many people don't. Most people don't, he would have to look at it and say, well, those are some good trades that you made in June and July, and just hang out until October 1st before he signs that extension, which has. That's very unlikely also, you know, can

[J. Skeets]

they get lucky in the draft, too? Is going to.

[Tas Melas]

Oh, it's part of it.

[J. Skeets]

Part in this.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. And what they could get. Yeah. It sure feels like Janice's trade value did get diminished just a little bit. But anyway, besides that, I'm surprised some of the quote boards weren't Doc Rivers calling out shams. Yeah, calling out. Just throwing Cam Thomas's name out there, essentially, without saying that Cam Thomas was. Was saying stuff. I mean, he was just throwing out stuff.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, he had a lot of fun things. I think those ones I gave you from Molly, though, those are more, like, great generic ones, right? You can use in any situation.

[Julian Edelman]

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[J. Skeets]

Why?

[Jack]

What's wrong?

[Julian Edelman]

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[Jack]

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[Julian Edelman]

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[Jack]

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[J. Skeets]

Okay, let's get to the Play in tournament that's running Tuesday through Friday this week affording the top six teams in both conferences plenty of rest here before the first round tips on the weekend. We can show you the play in tournament schedule here. The teams that finished seventh and eighth in the standings face off for the number seven seed. Teams that finish ninth and 10th, they go head to head and then the winner of the 910 game faces the loser of the 78 game on Friday night with the number 8 seed on the line. We've been doing this for a while now, 2021. But this is funny, the schedule. We've got a 910 game on a Tuesday. What in the world? Well, that's because the 76ers are hosting that 87 game against the Magic. Even though no one thought that was

[JD Hello]

going to be a real possibility.

[J. Skeets]

And there's a Flyers game already booked in Philly on Tuesday night. So they got to swap them there.

[Tas Melas]

Is that a playoff Flyers game They

[J. Skeets]

started playing at the same time?

[Tas Melas]

I would assume so, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So anyway, it's Heat, Hornets and then Blazers Suns on Tuesday night and then it's Magic, Sixers and Warriors Clippers. So let's just go through these quickly. You can make some predictions if you want. Let's start with the number 10 Heat versus the number 9 Hornets. Again, loser eliminated. How do you feel about this one? Are you excited and who do you got absolutely excited?

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

I mean the place should be bumping in Charlotte.

[Tas Melas]

Let's go. It's a mere four. Four? Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Wow.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. Four hours away.

[Trey Kirby]

Screws just a mere four.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. I'm super excited. I think fans should be super excited to watch a Charlotte horn team that plays a little different. They got so many different things in that guard set up picks. You see a pick and flare coming from con canipple. Then you'll see a lamello ball hanging on one leg shooting balls. I am super excited for that. I. I'm puzzled on the Heat side. They just have not been together for a month. Yeah, five weeks. Six weeks. So yeah, I'm just super excited to watch Charlotte and see if they can take them down and get into the next round of the diagram, slash, whatever you call the playoff bracket.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, the roadmap.

[Tas Melas]

The playoff roadmap. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I think it kind of sucks that this is a 910 game. I would much rather this be 78 and give both these teams a chance to advance to the real playoffs. Because everybody wants to see the Hornets play in the actual playoffs. They're pretty much everybody's second favorite team right now. Meanwhile, the Heat are playing experts. They've gone to the finals through the play in tournament. They Got a lot of postseason experience. You look at the seven, eight teams, it's Orlando who we've talked about feels just completely demoralized, ready for the season to be over. Philadelphia doesn't have embiid right now, so they're going to be starting Bona probably in a playoff series. It feels like the Heat and Hornets would have a better chance of making some noise in a first round series than either of those teams will. So this to me is the the choice Eastern Conference play in game.

[J. Skeets]

I agree. Do you think purple shirt guy will be in attendance?

[Trey Kirby]

Oh wow.

[J. Skeets]

That's a callback for those OGs out there when they play pack off in a heat.

[JD Hello]

That's right. That's right. A guy in a purple dress shirt

[J. Skeets]

with a backpack on heckling away against Wade in the Heat. I don't know. Will he be there? Yeah, I'm with you though. I'm excited about this one. I'll tell you what, here's my prediction. Somebody scoring 140 points.

[JD Hello]

Okay. I don't know which team it is, but someone is because it feels like

[J. Skeets]

every game that he play they either score 140 plus or they give up 140 plus one or the other. I hope the Hornets win.

[Trey Kirby]

Yep.

[J. Skeets]

I hope they have a chance to get in like you guys said with the eight seed and take on the Pistons. But who knows? I mean like he'd have experience in these like one and done situations, had had some success. They're a weird team, haven't looked great, but anything can happen in one night. Shots don't fall and you're in trouble. But I have a feeling somebody's gonna score a whole bunch of points on one side of the other and I think it's going to be a blowout.

[Trey Kirby]

I think Bam will go for 84. It doesn't count. Yeah, would not count. Big matchup to me will be Andrew Wiggins vs. Brandon Miller. That kind of feels like the X factor.

[J. Skeets]

Sure.

[Trey Kirby]

Mostly on Wiggins part. Like he can shut down Brandon Miller. I would think if he's energized and given his all this game and he can also be a pretty good scorer as well. So that's a huge matchup to me and also kind of notable. I think that Concan nipple is slumping right now. Under 40% from the field, under 35% from three in six games in April. He's not playing his absolute best right now and it's just one game. So who knows? Whoever's hitting I think is winning this game. I'm I'm going to go with the Heat. I would rather see the Hornets win, but unfortunately the Hornets are the only team in the league this season who have a better road record than home record. And they're playing at home.

[J. Skeets]

Interesting. I was gonna say it feels like the Heat because that place is going to be buzzing. Pun intended. They got to sort of strike first in this one, sort of take the crowd out of it, you know, build like a double digit lead. Have to have Charlotte sort of try and get back into it. But the Hornets are favored by five and a half on fantuel in this game. I'm going to go Hornets though. I'm going to go Hornets because the Heat maybe yeah, they've just been not a great team over the last little bit where the Hornets have been one of the better teams at least over this second half of the season.

[Tas Melas]

I'm taking the Hornets too though. Wiggins, Brandon Miller matchup is totally true. Brandon Miller is such an X factor for that team. We'll see what Wiggy can do. But Norm Powell has some experience too. I mean he could come and drop. He could be your leading scorer easily. So there's guys, there's guys on the heat too.

[J. Skeets]

The second game on Tuesday night at 10pm Eastern is the number eight seated Trailblazers versus the number seven seeded Phoenix Sun. For what it's worth, the Suns won the season series versus Portland 2 1. But a lot of those games were missing big guys. Dylan Brooks, Devin Booker, Avdia, Drew Holiday. So I don't think you're going to take too much from the season series. Phoenix hosting tk Start with you here. What are you watching for? And then ultimately who you got in this one?

[Trey Kirby]

I think these are two very similar teams actually. The Trailblazers and the Suns. They both force a lot of turnovers. They both offensive rebound quite a bit. Possession game will be big. Both of them I think are vulnerable to offensive rebounding as well. But Portland is 30th in turnovers post all star so that makes me a little nervous for a team that hasn't played in any big games. Not that this, this version of the Suns has played in big games together, but they got some big game experience with Booker, Brooks, these guys that have been around. Neither team scores a ton in the paint. So to me this is probably going to be a jump shooting game and Phoenix has been a better jump shooting team than Portland has. I also don't really know what to make of Phoenix right now because they really struggled in March and April. They were Also missing Brooks for a huge amount of time. Booker was in and out of the lineup. We talked about Mark Williams absence quite a bit as well. So I don't really know how good Phoenix can be. They were a better team at their peak, I think, this season than Portland was. So I'm probably going with the Suns here. Unless, you know, Jrue Holiday could have a big game. He's like probably the X factor to me on the Portland side.

[J. Skeets]

The other thing with the Suns too, at least over the last couple weeks, it feels like they've just been locked into the seventh seed, like on both sides of them, like no movement or no worry or concern that they would be going up or down. So it's like sort of going through the motions maybe a little bit. But this is a tough one to pick. I'm struggling with this one. Tass Shayden Sharp is back for the Blazers. Played over the last two games, 15 minutes, I think, on Friday night and then on Sunday. So he's going to play, I assume, in this game on Tuesday night. But where are you going?

[Tas Melas]

I'm taking the Suns. I think the, both the. The Shane Sharp and Denny Avdia factor is, you know, kind of squashed by Mark Williams playing again several games and he's. Those guys are gonna have to go to the free throw line. I think Mark Williams defense improves the sun side on that end. On the other end. Yeah, they're. They're top guys. The Phoenix Suns having lots of experience in Den Booker and Dylan Brooks in these sort of situations helps. You know, obviously Jrue Holiday has done that plenty on the Portland side, but he's not their top guy. You know, Denny is their. Their top guy. So I think that factors into things. And Phoenix has been extremely consistent. Yes, they've been in the seventh seed forever, even despite Dylan Brooks coming in and out of the lineup and Mark Williams coming in and out of the lineup. I think they've been extremely steady. So it feels like going into Phoenix, Portland will be the underdog and deservedly so. I like Phoenix.

[J. Skeets]

What I like about this one is, I mean, it almost. I know, like the loser this game gets another crack at it. But it's like I don't like their chances against a more veteran warriors team or even Clippers team led by Kawhi.

[JD Hello]

So it feels like you gotta win

[J. Skeets]

this one to maybe get into the playoffs. That's how I'm interpreting it. To get that seven seed and then no concern, obviously, just to be the eight seed who wants to play the Thunder anyway. But you guys are going Suns. I'll go Blazers. I'll go Blazers. They've been pretty solid over the last couple weeks, and those wins over the Clippers down the stretch were big quality wins in games that were going to decide sort of their seating too. So I'll go with them. And I like sharp back. Takes a little pressure off of the. And Clegan could eat inside against Mark Donovan versus Mark.

[JD Hello]

That's right. So I'll go Blazers.

[J. Skeets]

Just to switch it up Wednesday night,

[JD Hello]

a game I can't imagine a lot

[J. Skeets]

of people are excited about, but it's The Magic Sixers 8, 7. There's winner earns a seventh seed task.

[Tas Melas]

Hey, I'm excited. I'm excited.

[J. Skeets]

I'm excited about this. Wow. All right.

[Tas Melas]

I think from the Philadelphia side is where all the excitement is. I think it's easy to get excited to watch Tyrese Maxey take over for a quarter or two like he did yesterday on Sunday when he had that monstrous third quarter. I think you could see that happening. Paulie George is looking like Paulie George. He looks really good. The way he's his handle and getting into his shot is. It's not quite enough. The 1516 Paul George. But there's great possessions out of them combined with Fiji Edge coming. Yes. Unfortunately, they got to throw an Adam Bona at center. I think this team altogether quite easily is going to win this game because they just feel like a team out there. And yeah, there's. The guys are peaking at the right time. That's unfortunate. They don't have Joel Embiid, but I think this is a far more exciting obviously team than the Orlando Magic. But I mean, it's. It's a team I'd love to see in the playoffs, too.

[J. Skeets]

The Orlando Magic don't feel like a team.

[JD Hello]

This is the problem.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. But this is a close line. FanDuel has it as the Sixers are favorites by one. So basically a coin toss.

[Tas Melas]

People don't believe in a Sixers team without Joel Embiid. Just, you know, as far as like league wide. So that's understandable. That line. That line's not huge, but they should be the favorite.

[J. Skeets]

Where are you going, T.K.

[Trey Kirby]

yeah, I guess they should be the favorite. I'm going Philly just because I think of all the guys playing in this game, Tyrese Maxey is the most reliable.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And that puts them over the top. I don't like that. They basically have a brand new starting lineup that they. I guess they may be like the last three games they've started the same lineup, but these guys have barely played together. There's no depth behind Bona anyway, so they don't really have any other choices. Like, the Magic definitely have more talent on their team, but it's impossible to have any sort of confidence if you watch last night. Even Doris Burke was disgusted by this Magic team. They gave up that layup to. I don't know. Suggs was the last guy back. I don't even know who got the layup. That's how anonymous the Celtics were. And Doris Burke was just this kind of effort in a game that means a lot, that has stakes, and it just feels like the Magic don't want

[J. Skeets]

to be around anymore.

[Trey Kirby]

So I don't know. I'm not super excited about this game.

[J. Skeets]

No.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

No, not at all. If Embiid was around, you can at least talk yourself into, oh, here's a. Here's a team nobody wants to see in the first round of the playoffs. I think teams would be excited to see either of these teams in the first round of the playoffs, but I'm a maxi fan, so I'm going with the Sixers.

[J. Skeets]

I'm also going Philly. This one.

[Tas Melas]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Just because the Magic of quit, they got. They're like, God damn it. We got two more games with Jamal Mosley. All right. Just playing out the string. Okay. Final game Wednesday at 10. Warriors. Clippers. Spicy, spicy. Little play in game here. Clippers falling all the way down to nine. Warriors have been stuck at 10th for a while. It's pissed off Draymond Green. He's all frustrated by it. Loser eliminated this line. We got the Clippers favorites at home with the wall there, minus four and a half.

[Tas Melas]

Well, they just beat the Warriors. They played yesterday. So without Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers still handled them. So it's a huge favorite. I'm surprised it's not a little bit bigger. Did Draymond Green sit this one out just so he could get ready for Kawhi in game number 83 here? Maybe. But the Clippers are clearly the favorite. I wonder how many shots Steph Curry will take in this game. Let him rip. Many, many, many shots. 30 plus. Just do it, Steph. Let it go.

[Trey Kirby]

I wonder how many minutes he can play.

[J. Skeets]

They've already said he's not playing over 32 minutes.

[JD Hello]

They said.

[J. Skeets]

I think they're, like, capping a lot of. This is what they're coming in saying. Like they're capping their guys in a must win play in game.

[Tas Melas]

That's so well, that's unfortunate. That's a shot per minute. Good luck.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, I wouldn't feel bad if I was Steph Curry shooting the ball every time. It's his last game of the season, so give it all you got. But he's played like 25 to 29 minutes in the four games since he's coming back. And if they're saying he's only going to play 32, then I don't give the warriors very much of a chance here. The Clippers do have better depth. It doesn't matter all that much in a one game series here. I do think it's kind of tough having to play game 82 against the team you face in the play in, but I'm gonna go with the Clippers. I don't really know who's gonna guard Kawhi. I can't imagine it'll be Draymond.

[Tas Melas]

No, it'll be Mountain Possession probably. Yeah, it sounds small against Guai. He's gonna eat whoever.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, exactly. They don't have a matchup for him is kind of what I'm saying.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, so you'll see some Dre just to bang him around.

[Trey Kirby]

Sure.

[Tas Melas]

But Kawhi sad on Sunday, but he had his own personal record of 57 straight games of 20 or more points going into that game. The guy is going to cook in game 83. He's gonna have to do it for two games to get him to the playoffs. Unfortunately for them, I think they would have rather been in the 27 lineup to play the spurs than play the Thunder. Because I think in that locker room they say we can do this. You know, the young guys have never done it before us old ass guys. We can try and give it to them while if they play. Okay. See, I mean they are the under a key under. They're the underdog in either one of those series. But I'm sure they're going to take out the warriors in this game.

[J. Skeets]

I'm with you guys. I got the Clippers winning that game and getting one more crack at whoever loses between the Blazers and the Suns, which could also be a pretty entertaining game. I think would be a close sort of coin flip and they would have home court advantage over lac. All right, that's the play in and again we'll start doing the playoff matchup previews a little bit later this week. Let's take a break and then we'll recap how we did on our over under win totals.

[Trey Kirby]

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[Tas Melas]

Minus 9.

[Trey Kirby]

Minus 9,000 to get 5 or more.

[Tas Melas]

Are there any other lines with Wiggins, like 10 or more?

[J. Skeets]

I bet there are.

[Trey Kirby]

Weird 10 or more. He's minus 500.

[Tas Melas]

Okay, okay. Do people look at that and say, I'm gonna bet on Wigan scoring 5 or more or they just minus 108

[J. Skeets]

for 15 or more. Okay, now we know we're talking. Okay, okay. Do you think Wiggins is going to

[JD Hello]

have a good game?

[J. Skeets]

That's what we're getting at.

[Trey Kirby]

Plus 320 or more.

[Tas Melas]

So is there a plus number for under five?

[Trey Kirby]

I'm just looking.

[J. Skeets]

Highly doubt it.

[Trey Kirby]

I could, I could.

[Tas Melas]

It's just people saying I could delve. I'm going to bet $9,000 to win 100.

[J. Skeets]

It's a lot of people adding it to a same game parlay.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, that's probably it.

[J. Skeets]

If to sort of.

[Trey Kirby]

If you're in the parlay section here.

[Tas Melas]

Okay. Good luck to Andrew.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know if it's one of the most popular bets.

[Tas Melas]

No, no, no.

[Trey Kirby]

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[J. Skeets]

That's right.

[Trey Kirby]

FanDuel player game. Don't do your dance. Player game.

[Tas Melas]

That's right.

[J. Skeets]

Dancing's over. It's time to play. All seriousness, though, all right, it's time to hold ourselves accountable here. I got the final results for how well we did in our NBA preseason. Over under win total picks. We'll go through each guy and I'm not going to go through team by team and win total by win total. But I'll give you the recap here. Now, Trey Kirby. I'm starting with you because last season, Trey Kirby was hot. He was cooking. Last season with the over unders, you hit 66% of your over under picks. He finished 20 and 10 last season.

[Tas Melas]

That's incredible.

[J. Skeets]

That's very good record. Four and two on locks too.

[Tas Melas]

People are writing about that.

[J. Skeets]

Oh yeah, people were talking about it this season.

[Trey Kirby]

Let's go.

[J. Skeets]

Fell back to earth like you were Artemis 2, baby.

[Trey Kirby]

Splashdown.

[J. Skeets]

Trey got just 11 over under predictions correct. 11. And so from basically flipped it all. Almost flipped it 20 to 10 to 11 and 19 this season.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean that's one way to look at it. I look at it as over 500 across a long two year span.

[J. Skeets]

That's right.

[JD Hello]

That's good.

[J. Skeets]

Massage it like that. You only hit one lock. You had the warriors under nice 46 and a half. Well under what they win with like 37 games.

[JD Hello]

37.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. So that was a nice one.

[JD Hello]

You were wrong on a lot of locks.

[J. Skeets]

Obviously. The Magic over 50 and a half.

[Trey Kirby]

Not my fault.

[J. Skeets]

The Knicks over 53 and a half. They could have done it on Sunday if they gave a damn and wanted to try and get that victory. So they finish at 53 wins. You took Philadelphia under under 43 and a half. So you know, they just got over a couple of games.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, I'll take that.

[J. Skeets]

You took the Clippers over 47 and a half. They were more like a 500 squad. And you took.

[JD Hello]

And we talked about it all season long. You locked in the Sacramento Kings at 34 and a half wins and it was over by week three.

[Trey Kirby]

That one's on me. I'll take that one. Tough one.

[J. Skeets]

So again, you were fantastic two years ago this year. 11 and 19. Okay, let's go to money mill us here. Last NBA season.

[Tas Melas]

Lack of money.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Last season was very rough for you.

[Tas Melas]

Oh yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Your scorecard. You had only 11 or 12 correct.

[JD Hello]

There was this weird thing where you didn't make a Bulls prediction on the podcast.

[J. Skeets]

So whatever. You got 11 or 12.

[JD Hello]

Right.

[Tas Melas]

It was a Chicago. I bet the Chicago anyways. Go on.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Okay.

[J. Skeets]

It doesn't matter. This season was about the same. Oh, 12 correct picks.

[Tas Melas]

That's too bad.

[J. Skeets]

12 and 18 overall. One better than Trey.

[Tas Melas]

The line makers are on point this year. I mean, they're good.

[JD Hello]

Unfortunately. Des, you were 0 and 6 on your locks.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Your Eastern Conference locks. This was a wild one. You took the Hornets under 26 and a half. You locked that one in very wrong.

[Tas Melas]

Conquel did it.

[JD Hello]

Yeah. You went.

[J. Skeets]

You had some confidence in the Chicago Bulls over 32 and a half.

[Tas Melas]

Six zero. I could see it happening.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, you're right. You're right.

[Trey Kirby]

They got to 32 wins, right?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, they were just under. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And barely lost.

[J. Skeets]

And then and then another. Barely lost the Knicks 53 and a half. You went over. So they finish with 53 wins in the West. You took Dallas over 41 and a half.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. AD didn't play. I thought that was happening. I thought Anthony Davis was playing basketball. That was a factor at the beginning of the season.

[J. Skeets]

You took the Nuggets over 54 and a half.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

I don't feel bad with that short on that one.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Yep. And then you took the pelicans over 31 and a half.

[Tas Melas]

Zion. Zion lied to me every year, man. They started 06 and they had lost three of those games by 30 or more points to start the season. Zion lied to me.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, so not, not, not a great year, but one better than Trey this year. As for myself, last season, I did lose two over under picks on the final day. I fell to 14 and 16 overall. So it was like, on that final day, I could have had a winning record, but I ended up with a losing record. I finished 3. 3 on my locks. That was last year. This year, good news, bad news. Good news. I finished with the best record out of the three of us. Bad news. My record was 13 and 17.

[JD Hello]

So you got 11 right. You got 12 right. I got 13 right.

[J. Skeets]

And like Trey, I only got one lock. Correct. I had Miami over 37 and a half. So I got that one. Otherwise wrong on Milwaukee over 42 and a half. Wrong on the magic. Like you, Trey, 50 and a half. I had Minnesota over 49 and a half. They fell one short of that. I think I swerved and took the under on OKC, under 62 and a half. They cleared it by a few games. That one was funny because it was like they started 24 and 1, so it looked like the dumbest bet of all time. Then it got real, got a little interesting. I was like, oh, I actually might hit this. They hit the over. And like, Tas, I blame you, actually talking about Scion's body and all this shit. I took the Pelicans over 31 and a half.

[Tas Melas]

A lot to expect a team to go 32 and 50. I know they couldn't win 32 games. They went 26 and 56. So, look, it's a lot to ask.

[J. Skeets]

That's a bad year for your boys here. But we hold ourselves accountable. We'll be better. We'll be better. We're going to be better in the playoffs. Okay. When we make our predictions.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow.

[J. Skeets]

But that was rough. And I saw Simmons and Zach Lowe and House when they did theirs. It was a Lot like this wasn't. It wasn't good. Yeah, the, you know, ball guys, I know they had a bad year for them as well, so we weren't alone in this. But man, it still sucks. Not even one guy here went 500. Yeah, yeah. Tough.

[JD Hello]

It's tough, man.

[Trey Kirby]

Good thing we didn't like partner with a gambling company.

[JD Hello]

That's why I thought that too. Driving in the one year to really be bad. All right, well, bite of the night

[J. Skeets]

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[Tas Melas]

You point because I need you to give me that. Yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

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[Trey Kirby]

Wow.

[J. Skeets]

He had this line in half a game. So he could have, you know, he may have had the triple double, he

[JD Hello]

may have had a quadruple double for all we know if he had played.

[J. Skeets]

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[JD Hello]

Woah boy.

[J. Skeets]

The regular season, there's lots of talk. Are we going to do this during the postseason or not?

[Tas Melas]

You know what?

[J. Skeets]

We're doing it.

[Trey Kirby]

We're doing it.

[J. Skeets]

We're doing it. We're doing it. I love getting these sponsorships. Not for the money. I don't do it for the money. I do it for the stories, the

[Trey Kirby]

love of the game.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. So these are nice looking candles. Like I've learned a lot of new Things? Yeah, from the Woah Boy sponsorships, books, records, candles. I didn't know there was a puzzle competition. Now I know that. So it's been a additive for sure.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Okay. We're going to continue during the postseason. If you want to sponsor Woah Boy, email us. No dunks inc.mail.com. that's the best way to get the Whoa Boy sponsorship program going. All right, that's it. We'll call it there. Tomorrow we'll start our NBA playoff previews and predictions, things to watch in each series, the X factors and so much more. So I hope you'll join us at 10am Eastern. What do you guys want to start with? You want to start with the east or the west tomorrow with the 3, 6, 4, 5 matchups?

[Trey Kirby]

3, 6, 4, 5.

[J. Skeets]

I have it already in, in my notes that we were gonna go east, but I don't care. Doesn't matter to me. Like, what's. What's your preference?

[Trey Kirby]

You don't, you don't.

[Tas Melas]

I think, I think. Yeah. We always do the East.

[J. Skeets]

I know.

[Tas Melas]

So we should change it up. I mean, the Nuggets playing the Minnesota Timberwolves for the third time in four years. That's cool. Or is it cooler to say Knicks, Hawks or Raptors, Cavs?

[J. Skeets]

There's more. Yeah, there's. Is there more intrigue in the Western Conference? Yes, there is. There is.

[Tas Melas]

There is.

[J. Skeets]

You want to do west tomorrow?

[Tas Melas]

We should.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, sure. We're doing west tomorrow.

[Trey Kirby]

Nuggets Wolves is the. The sexiest match. Four or five. LeBron versus KD.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, my God. Okay, we're doing that. We're doing that. We'll do the west tomorrow. We'll do the east that we know on Wednesday. We will do two, seven matchups once we know those, we'll do those on Thursday. And then we got the drop podcast. Oh, I'm doing the pick and payoff on Friday too.

[Trey Kirby]

What now?

[J. Skeets]

The audio listener have no idea what I just did. You have to check out YouTube to see what I just did because that made no sound.

[Trey Kirby]

No, even the licking of the fingers didn't make a sound. And people are probably thinking, why was

[JD Hello]

he licking the finger? Also, also, it didn't really make any sense.

[Tas Melas]

Is that a thing? Licking your paintbrush, Is that a thing?

[JD Hello]

Oh, nice.

[J. Skeets]

Nice giveaway there, Tess. Nice giveaway. Yeah. So I'll pay it off on Friday. So we got an action packed week. We hope you join us all week. Hit the like button. Subscribe five star ratings and reviews.

[JD Hello]

Clipper Bros. You heard it here first,

[Trey Kirby]

have a great time. Turn up.

[JD Hello]

Love you guys.

[Trey Kirby]

Awesome.

[Tas Melas]

Thanks for joining us. And remember the Maurice Poladov award. Portal off. I always mess up letters that goes to the team with the most wins of the season. I'm surprised that that's not a bigger award. Just a little something. Give it to the Thunder in a ceremony. They get it. They get the potal off the mopo. The mopo. That's not a big thing. I think the President's trophy in the NHL is a bigger thing, you know?

[J. Skeets]

Did you see the clip of Jared McCain dancing at the OKC airport when they return?

[Tas Melas]

So funny looking how his teammates were filming it.

[JD Hello]

Oh, my God. So funny. There's like a stage doing his weird things.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. And people ridiculing it. I love how former NBA player Michael Redd defended. He said nothing worse. Not. Not worse. Not better than former players.

[JD Hello]

Just different. Yeah, this is different, man.

[Trey Kirby]

Just different.

[JD Hello]

Remember, imagine Darvin Ham doing that, touching down in Milwaukee airport. Hey, Darvin, get up there. Do your dance for everybody. We'll film it.

[J. Skeets]

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