NBA Weekend Winners & Losers | Wolves Jump Nuggets, Elite East Teams & Lu Dort's Dirty Play

Summary

No Dunks - NBA Weekend Winners & Losers

Episode: NBA Weekend Winners & Losers | Wolves Jump Nuggets, Elite East Teams & Lu Dort's Dirty Play
Date: March 2, 2026
Hosts: J. Skeets, Tas Melas, Trey Kirby, JD
Podcast: No Dunks (iHeartPodcasts)

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Overview

This episode of No Dunks dives into an action-packed NBA weekend, spotlighting key games, standout wins, tough losses, and headline-grabbing incidents. The crew discusses surging teams in both conferences, analyzes pivotal matchups (including Wolves-Nuggets and Knicks-Spurs), debates the impact of injuries, and weighs in on controversial moments like Lu Dort’s “dirty” trip of Nikola Jokic. As always, the show is laced with humor, basketball nerdery, and the irreverent camaraderie that defines the No Dunks pod.

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Key Points and Insights

1. Weekend Winners

Minnesota Timberwolves Upset the Denver Nuggets

• Main Takeaway: The Wolves earned one of their biggest wins of the season on the road in Denver (03:38-08:42).
• Team Win: Anthony Edwards (21 pts, 19 shots) had solid but unspectacular numbers; supporting cast was huge.
  • Jaden McDaniels: 20 pts, tough defense, hit what was called “the dagger” floater.
  • Dante DiVincenzo: “Incredible… two big steals when Denver was threatening” – Trey (05:38).
  • Bench: Outscored Denver’s, led in fast break points.
  • Bones Hyland: “He was awesome” – Trey (05:38), had 18 off the bench against his former team.
• Denver's Troubles:
  • “Non-Jokic minutes is a real story with this Denver Nuggets team right now…” – Tas (08:42).
  • Cam Johnson struggled (“scam Johnson” trending), starters devoid of production outside Jokic/Murray.
  • Nuggets need Aaron Gordon and Peyton Watson’s return from injury.
• Implications: Wolves leapfrog Denver in West standings; concern that they “raise their game against better opponents” but may slip versus weaker teams.

New York Knicks Snap Spurs’ Streak

• Main Takeaway: The Knicks delivered a “blue-collar, hard-work type of win” (14:10-17:18) by cutting San Antonio’s 11-game streak.
• Contributors:
  • Karl-Anthony Towns: “Really good game… beasting in every other way” – Tas (14:10).
  • Mikal Bridges: “Five big steals, one in open court in the fourth quarter to turn this game around” – Tas (14:10).
  • Mitchell Robinson: Bench minutes “really turned this game around.”
  • Mouhamadou Diawara: “Just letting it rip…” with threes off the bench.
• Defensive Dominance: Spurs held to 89 points, committed 22 turnovers.
• Notable Quote: “When Bridges is in passing lanes getting steals... when OG is playing and contributing, when Towns is playing tough... they look like they can be the best team in the Eastern Conference.” – Trey (17:37).

Pistons’ Dynamic Duo on Fire

• Cade Cunningham & Jalen Duren: Both “two All-Stars, this duo, man, they're awesome... Cade's a lock [for All-NBA], I assume Jalen Duren should and will make it.” – J. Skeets (27:41).
• Pistons beat Cavs (OT) and Magic: Notable for creative clock management in Cavs win (“fouling up three” debate after Jenkins draws a 3-shot foul from halfcourt, 28:50).
• Road Warriors: “Sixth straight road victory… a juggernaut on the road. They're 21-7 away…” – J. Skeets (29:30).
• Playoff Implications: “Quality wins” over teams they may face in early rounds.
• Tobias Harris: “Important for them this weekend…” – Trey (31:37).

Boston Celtics

• Dominating: “Destroyed the Nets on Friday... handled the 76ers last night without Joel Embiid.” – Trey (34:00).
• Baylor Shireman: “Thumbs up with his broken finger... that's a weird-looking guy to be a good NBA player, but the dude is starting and playing enough right now.” – Trey (35:21).
• Coach Joe Mazzulla: “Big weekend for buzz around [him] as coach of the year” (36:18).
• Depth & consistency: Bench praised, coach lauded for keeping team effort regardless of opponent.

Atlanta Hawks & Jonathan Kuminga

• Kuminga’s Resurgence: “He has been great and he's doing it within the system… monstrous windmill, posterizing dunks.” – Tas (39:37).
• Fans Chanted: “Thank you Warriors!” as Kuminga excelled against Portland.
• Caveat: Strong games came against weak or depleted teams (Wizards twice, Blazers).

Chicago Bulls (Non-basketball Mention + On-court)

• Wrestling Crossover: CM Punk entered a WWE event with classic Bulls intro music and announcer Ray Clay (42:57).
• On-Court: “Used a 27-0 run to blow out the Bucks… snapped their 11-game losing streak.” – J. Skeets (43:58).
• Josh Giddy & Leonard Miller: “March belongs to Mickey Mouse Giddy… Leonard Miller, what a game… best game of his young career” (43:57, 45:24).

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2. Losers of the Weekend

Golden State Warriors

• Struggling without Steph Curry: Out 10+ games with “runner’s knee,” team is 4-6 in Feb; “21st in offense, 23rd in net rating” – Trey (50:17).
• Porzingis Situation: Kerr miscommunicated about health; Porzingis “played in one of eight games since the trade.”
• Play-In Bound: “We know the Warriors are going to be playing in a play-in game or two… they’re not competing for a title here.” – Skeets (55:24).
• Kuminga's departure stings: Now performing in Atlanta.

Zach Edey & the Memphis Grizzlies

• Second Surgery: Giant center is out for the year after more ankle surgery – chronic injury risk for a “7’3”, 300-pound” player.
• Consequences: The team’s belief in him partly fueled Jaren Jackson Jr. trade; now leaves Memphis with questions at center (57:12-59:53).

Game Operations (Cavs Involved)

• Detroit: 18-minute delay from a perpetually blaring arena horn; solution = unplug scoreboard, manual air horns (59:53-62:08).
• Brooklyn: Shot clocks “weren’t in sync;” eventually unplugged and replugged.
• Notable moment: “You gotta try all the things. You gotta unplug it. You gotta try and hit it. If it was like a Nintendo cartridge, you gotta try and blow on it.” – Skeets (61:22).
• Both times: Cavs are the visiting team.

Lou Dort & the Thunder

• Flagrant 2 on Jokic: Lou Dort tripped Jokic off-ball; ejected for “unnecessary and excessive” play (68:51-72:40).
• Reputation: Dort “now along the lines of Draymond, Dylan Brooks… he’s gaining that” (69:51).
• Hosts’ View: “I love Lou Dort. I can’t defend this… it’s pretty apparent what he’s trying to do.” – J. Skeets (72:26).
• Jokic’s Reaction: “He was heated and Dort went out of his way to trip him for no reason. There was nothing happening on the play.” – Trey (69:22).
• Context: Tensions were high due to earlier scuffles in the OKC-DEN game.

Minor: Broadcasting Pet Peeve

• Trey and Skeets discuss their annoyance with broadcasters referring to afternoon games as “tonight/this evening” (72:41-75:05).

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On the Timberwolves’ bench: “DEO had a couple of steals that turned into layups… huge momentum plays” – Trey (05:38).
• Fan culture: “Atlanta loves a guy who can dunk like ‘Nique… perfect city for Kuminga.” – Skeets (41:30).
• On Lou Dort: “Just another one to add of Dort just always going up to the line and crossing it.” – Skeets (72:41).
• On the Knicks: “The Knicks made the Spurs feel them. Victor Wembanyama wasn't right out there…” – Tas (20:12).
• On Vitally Plugging in Electronics: “Just unplug it, count to 10, and then plug it back in…” – Skeets (61:13).

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Intro & Wedgie Debate: 03:25–05:21
• Timberwolves-Nuggets Recap: 05:38–13:07
• Knicks Snap Spurs’ Streak: 14:10–23:04
• Pistons Duo Weekend (Cade & Duren): 27:41–33:14
• Boston Celtics Love: 34:00–39:19
• Jonathan Kuminga & Hawks: 39:37–42:26
• Chicago Bulls/CM Punk Moment: 42:51–47:01
• Weekend Losers Segment Begins: 50:17
• Warriors Woes: 50:17–56:26
• Zach Edey Injury: 57:12–59:53
• Game Ops Fiascos: 59:53–63:10
• Lu Dort Tripping Jokic: 68:51–72:40

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Memorable & Funny Bits

• Skeets on dirty nicknames: “Careless pervert” for Caris LeVert and “Scam Johnson” for Cam Johnson (10:38, 32:52)
• On CM Punk’s WWE entrance: “They dusted off Ray Clay himself to do a Punk introduction.” – Skeets (43:11)
• On Leonard Miller: “Leonard Miller has a unique look. I think he looks like he’s garbage at basketball… He is. I'm telling you.” – Skeets (46:34)
• Broadcasting gripe: “When the game's on at 1:00 in the afternoon... stop saying this evening or tonight!” – Skeets (72:41)

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Tone & Style

• Analytical but conversational, frequently humorous and self-referential.
• Basketball slang and in-jokes ("wedgie", “playoff rotation”, "wedgie tracker", etc.)
• Frequent playful roasting of players, each other, and NBA culture.
• Deep basketball insight paired with irreverent asides about pop culture (e.g., WWE, hairlines, March as “Mickey Mouse Giddy” month).

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Summary Conclusion

This episode of No Dunks takes a thorough, sometimes playful look at the weekend’s NBA action and narratives. The show deftly moves between hard basketball analysis—assessing team performances, injury fallout, and playoff races—and off-court hilarity (unplugging malfunctioning horns, CM Punk’s Bulls homage, and the debate over “dirty” Lou Dort). For anyone who missed the weekend in the NBA, this episode provides a dense, deeply entertaining recap laced with both wisdom and laughs.

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[J. Skeets]

Next to him, it's my top shot, hot boy Trey Kirby Ayo.

[Tas Melas]

Hey.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, and over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer jd Hello. There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hit the like button. Subscribe, podcast listeners. We love you too. Five star ratings and reviews. It's Monday, so we do our NBA weekend, winners and losers. But we did have another wedgie. It was Friday night. It came off a Jarrett Allen missed free throw in the Cavs Pistons games. And we had a debate on Twitter and in our no Dunk Slack channel. Who gets credit for wedgie52. Is it Jln Tyson there on the Cavs, or is it Cade Cunningham with the Pistons? Look, you can make a case for either guy. And at first wedgie tracker said Tyson, but we put the poll up and the people said Cade. So wedgie tracker changed it. He said we're going with the people. Okay, so Kade officially gets credit for that wedgie, but it's a real half sack situation in the NFL in my mind. Right.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, okay. I thought you were talking like a John Crook sort of half sack situation.

[J. Skeets]

No.

[Tas Melas]

Or a manager Ginobly.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. No, no, no. Half sack. Where like two guys take down the quarterback and they're like half for you, half for me. Half for you, half for me. Yeah. So I guess we could do that with wedgies if we really wanted to.

[Tas Melas]

It's funny with free throw wedgies I will always remember it as a free throw wedgie. I won't care about the rebound part of it. Remember when we celebrated 50 wedgies when we were with the starters of 1617 season? We got Shaq in there doing his thing. We all think about it as a Marcus smart free throw wedgie, but really

[J. Skeets]

it was a reboundback rebound. Yeah, exactly. That's a good point. That is a good point.

[Tas Melas]

So I'll always forget because we have

[J. Skeets]

to differ between the two because there are legit free throw wedgies. Those are very rare where a guy actually shoots it and it sticks in there. But anyway, Kate gets it and still on a great pace. Hopefully we set the all time record. Okay, let's get into NBA weekend winners. Trey, you get us started where you want to go.

[Trey Kirby]

Gotta be the Minnesota Timberwolves. For me, I said on Friday, when we're talking about our contenders, they got a big series of prove it. Games coming up in the month of March proved it in a big way to me on Sunday with a win against the Nuggets in Denver. Gotta be one of their best wins of the season. And to me this was a Timberwolves team win more than anything. Cause Anthony Edwards was good, not great. 21 points on 19 shots, had six assists, was their main guy for sure. But a bunch of support players really came through for the Timberwolves. Dante DiVincenzo I thought was incredible in this one. 17 points, five threes, made two big steals when Denver was threatening in the fourth quarter. I think the Timberwolves did lead the entire second half after a huge second quarter. But Denver did a good job to get back in the game. And DEO had a couple of steals that turned into layups on the other side that I thought were just huge momentum plays for Minnesota. Jaden McDaniels was also good 20 points, tough defense, hit a baseline floater that was kind of the dagger for this one. The bench from Minnesota outscored Denver 38 to 31 and they only played three guys off the bench. The Timberwolves, you could tell they wanted this one. Nas had 11 points, I Odumu had nine points and Bones Highland had 18. He was awesome in particular in the first half. Got a couple of buckets in the second half, but he's had a decent season. I think for Minnesota at least made Rob Dillingham expendable, which is how they got IO who really helps their fast break. That was another Big thing for the Timberwolves. Outscored the Nuggets 30 to 6 on the fast break. Looked like the much quicker team turning defense into offense. Meanwhile, the Nuggets basically had two guys. Jokic was great, great. 35, 13 and 9. Jamal Murray was pretty good, 25 points on 22 shots. Had that big dunk on Rudy Gobert, but four assists, three turnovers, but a minus 13 when Nicola Jokic was sitting and just got nothing, literally from Cam Johnson. 0 points, 2 points from Julian Strother. Those guys started in this one. And the Nuggets just look completely shorthanded, even though you know they're just missing the two guys. They're always missing at this point. But three and oh, on this little road trip for the Timberwolves, they beat the Blazers, the Clippers and the Nuggets. Competition getting better, better, better. They jumped Denver for fourth in the Western Conference, currently sitting third, which is big because Denver does have the tiebreaker over Minnesota. So Denver, Minnesota needs to stay ahead of them. I think that's true. Maybe that's not true. I don't know because now I'm looking at my notes and it says Minnesota 1 and oh, but they play again March 25 and April 10. Whatever. Minnesota, the Timberwolves, they got the Grizzlies, Raptors and Magic at home. That to me is a little scary for Minnesota.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

They definitely raised their game against a better opponent like Denver. They might overlook these more winnable matchups, but if they're able to string together some wins like they've been doing here, 11 and 4 in their last 15, ride that momentum into the playoffs, I can start to believe, I want to believe in this Minnesota team. And that was a playoff like atmosphere yesterday. Playoff rotation for Chris Finch only going three deep off the bench. All guys who played well. But I thought this was a huge win for the Timberwolves.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, the Nuggies had beaten the Wolves three times this season, so this was their fourth game. Wolves come through. And it feels like it was a bit of a same old story with the Nuggets. Jokic sits. We don't score. But that was supposed to be corrected this season with all their pickups and it was to some degree. But those two guys that you mentioned, Aaron Gordon, extremely key and Peyton Watson as well, they needed somebody. They went to the bench with Cam Johnson leading that second unit in that second quarter and that's when the Timberwolves turned everything around. But the non Jokic minutes is a real story with this Denver Nuggets Team right now because that's what happened this weekend versus Minnesota, minus 13 when he sat. Versus OKC, minus 21 when he sat. They start both games really well. Just 22 points for Minnesota in the first quarter. Just 21 points for OKC in the first quarter. But Cam Johnson was the guy. They said, okay, you lead our second unit. And that just hasn't been part of Cam Johnson's game this year. He's been struggling. So they're waiting for Aaron Gordon who is supposed to come back pretty soon. He's supposed to be back this week. He last played January 23rd. Four to six weeks he was out. So here we are. Jamal Murray post game said, yeah, they're coming back soon, although he's definitely out for their next game against Utah Jazz on Tuesday. But he should be back soon. And that is the guy who leads their second unit because you know, Cam Johnson just had also going through some injury stuff this season. Just hasn't been able to do it. Peyton Watson also was supposed to come back. So we'll see how Aaron Gordon's hamstrings are. They've been. They've been hurting him for a long time since last year's playoffs. So that's the issue. Is Aaron Gordon just too old to be able to do that? Because they're lacking. They're lacking. They're trying, you know. Jonas Valturist coming off the bench, given Bones Island a nice little elbow to the face. That was great. Bones island playing against his old team. Really fun. Jamal Murray, a two handed dunk on Rudy.

[J. Skeets]

As you said, no two highlights in this game like whatever the little Hesi move for the big guy the one time. Then he hit the left handed hook shot.

[Tas Melas]

That was great.

[J. Skeets]

Going nuts. Yeah, he had a great game. You're right. Everybody off the bench. The short bench for Minnesota came through. I Learned of like 2 derogatory nicknames this weekend. The first one was from the, you know, ball guys. They tipped me off to the streets calling Caris Lavert, careless pervert. I didn't know that one. Made me laugh. And then after the abysmal performance on Sunday versus the Wolves, you guys are talking about Cam Johnson. I did see a lot of scam Johnson going around for him. Yeah, he was 0 for 6 and gave them nothing. Sort of like he has all season long. We a lot of, a lot of us wrong right now on that trade thinking it was a huge, huge win for the Nuggets. It helped them do other pieces. I get that. I'm talking about the Cam Johnson, Michael Porter Jr. Trade, but he has not been good. And whether Aaron Gordon's there, there or not, they're going to need a little bit more from this guy to obviously go far in the playoffs. But great stuff from the Wolves. Not to bury them here. Bury the lead.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, exactly. They, the Wolves just played great. Gobert has been really good. 15 boards last night kept Jokic off the offensive rebounding for the most part. You know, Jokic puts up monster stats. Rudy. But Denver, or, sorry, Minnesota has been really good on the defensive end. I think they're maybe six and one in their last seven. They've been playing like a top five defense during that time. It's a short stretch, but we've seen long stretches of the Timberwolves being able to be an elite defense. McDaniels has really kept up this strong season. Like he's putting the ball on the floor, getting to the hoop and getting to his shots. So I'm convinced that he will still be an effective player for them come playoff time. Randall didn't have the greatest game, but he was questionable coming in. I think he was maybe battling an illness as well. Maybe they're just smart. Maybe they just know how to peak at the right time. Because, I mean, I go through every season where I'm like, I don't. I don't really believe in this Timberwolves team at all. But then they're able to put things together. We know their defense will show up and Anthony Edwards at least has the confidence to make the plays. It'll be a matter of dealing with schemes against him. Matchups in the Western Conference playoffs. But they're still alive. They're still looking good.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, we didn't include Nugget, the Nuggets as a loser of the weekend when we do our losers a little later on. But you can look at them and say, oh, they just, they're just not themselves. That being said, you could still be optimistic about it. I mean, they're half game back in the Minnesota Timberwolves and you can say that the Nuggets were literally missing Nikola Jokic for five weeks. Whatever. It was a long period of this time and they still have a very similar record. They just got to get healthy.

[J. Skeets]

But it's backwards because we thought they'd have the record they're having now with Jokic back when Jokic wasn't there, but they actually were winning a lot of those games.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

And now he's back. They look a little more beatable here.

[Trey Kirby]

4 and 8 and then the 12 games, I mean, Edwards and IO were running past him. Yeah, it was just like a sprint to the rim on every fast break and that ain't going to change. He just, he's not going to give a defensive effort getting back in transition because more than likely it's going to end up a foul and they need him on the court at all times. So it's really weird. He's based. He's a DH for him for the most part, but it's also like having Barry Bonds is your.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. And it has worked obviously before. And the good thing about the Wolves like you brought up, like, yeah, a lot of times this season we don't really believe in them because they like drop these like games. They should kill teams. I guess. The good thing is there's only good teams in the playoffs. There's no reason to take your foot off the gas and not get up for those games. So see if they can make another run to the conference finals, maybe even a step further. Because you know right now. Yeah, they're clicking. Everybody contributing. Let's keep it going. Who you got for a winner?

[Tas Melas]

I got the New York Knicks. I think this was their best win of the season against the San Antonio spurs snapping their 11 game win streak because it was just a blue collar, hard work type of win. When you got guys like OG and Mikel Bridges and Josh Hart, this is the way you're supposed to win. And sometimes Carl Anthony Towns, let's get to that in a second. But you hold the spurs to 89 and you make them commit 22 turnovers, that's just a hard working win. And I know people will poke at Carl Anthony Towns at all times, but let's give the guy some love. I thought he had a really good game. He was just playing extremely big. He was just making sure the spurs felt him at every single point when he had a size advantage, whether it was rebounding or able to just score on them. He did that. He missed a shot and he dove to the floor for rebound. And I don't care about his scoring numbers. I think, I think he was just beasting in every other way. 12 points and 14 rebounds for him. Then you go to somebody else who's supposed to be a blue collar guy, Mikhail Bridges. And the way he was getting to the floor himself. Five big steals, one in open court in the fourth quarter to turn this game around. Also five threes for him. He could shoot it. I thought, oh geez, huge block three minutes into this game. Kind of set the tone a Nice help on Stefan Castle And Brunson didn't need to have a huge game. Sort of like Anthony Edwards when you got everybody else working, you don't need to score 40. He had 24 in this game, but you could keep on going. Mitchell Robinson came off the bench when he subbed in for Carl Anthony Towns to really turn this game around. I thought in the first quarter, Mohamed Diawara just let it rip. Oh my God, that was awesome. Yeah, he just no hesitation on his three point shot. Thirteen threes in 15 minutes. What? Just letting it rip. And getting rid of Gershon Yabucelle for this guy sort of makes sense now that you see the way he can rip threes and play defense. Jose Alvarado, Grand Theft Autos in there. It wasn't a traditional steal of the ball for him in the backcourt. It was more instead of poking it from the guy, it was a steal on the pass. So it's like, you know, not steal the car, but I'll steal your keys so I can steal your car. You know, that kind of thing. It was a good move.

[J. Skeets]

He's still doing his like hiding technique as he does.

[Tas Melas]

He hid behind somebody else so he could steal the pass. Yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Evolution.

[Tas Melas]

Give me those keys, man. And he just jumped in and grabbed those keys and grabbed the car because. Feels like the Knicks are back. I know it's just, you know, one game. But there was two games this weekend. I don't care about the Milwaukee Bucks that they won by 29. It's more so important that they won by 25 over the Spurs. But it feels like we've seen this before. They got their NBA cup win. Wasn't long after that they went two and nine and then an eight game win streak. After the All Star game they were just kind of meh. Now they've won two in a row. It's not exactly the same as the NBA cup comparison, but whatever. Feels like they're. It could. It feels like if they're playing this way on a streak, then this is the best the Knicks can be. So here we are, Eastern Conference standings. Just fun to look at every team. And this, this team is cooking.

[J. Skeets]

Do you agree with Tasks that that was one of the best wins maybe if not the best win from the Knicks this season?

[Trey Kirby]

Well, I mean the cup, true cup is the pressure packed environments of the cup. You gotta be there. But I mean every Knicks loss, it's. The sky is falling. Every Knicks win, they're a championship contender.

[Tas Melas]

But they are.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. And to me, when you see the, the ceiling version of the Knicks, which is what this was. Towns playing really tough. Like you're saying 14 boards. Most importantly, only one offensive rebound for Victor Wembanyama. We've seen him kill teams when he's not having the greatest game just by getting busy on the glass and getting extra possessions for the Spurs. But 13 steals for the Knicks, only nine threes for San Antonio. That's basically the game right there. The Knicks have played as a top five defense during February, even though they haven't always been great on the offensive end. When Bridges is in passing lanes getting steals, when his jumper is falling, when OG is playing and contributing, when Towns is playing tough and Brunson's hitting enough jumpers, they look like they can be the best team in the Eastern Conference. They're not super consistent. You know, I feel like they're 75% consistent, which is a good chunk of the season, good way to get there. But they're still figuring out how to play together, it feels like, because, like, we will see Bridges have these huge offensive games and then we'll see games where he takes eight shots. The same with Karl Anthony Towns. The only guy who I think is guaranteed to put up numbers every single night is Brunson because he's handling the ball so much. He's the lead guy out there. But I mean, it'll be matchups once again for all these teams come playoff time. But the Knicks have a little bit of a track record. We've seen them make a conference finals last year. They're going to be under some pressure this year to at least get back to the conference finals and try and advance a little bit further. But they're playing more guys, they have a lot of depth and versatility and it's just, how is Mike Brown gonna push the buttons come playoff time? But yeah, this was a great win for the Knicks to beat a Spurs team that was super, super hot.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, snapping that 11 game win streak. Bad, bad Deer and Fox game in this one. You know, he's getting a lot of the blame for that loss and some of their other guards as well. But Fox, a guy does make a, you know what, he's 220, $230 million guy, seven points on three, attend shooting. Sort of like disappearing in this game. Not great from maybe a guy. You want to step up there in a role where Wembanyama's at least getting bottled up a little bit, turning it over and then, yeah, Castle Harper, they struggle. These are young guys and this is where People go, this is like a type of game where people do. And I'm not showing it saying I agree with it, where they go, oh, this is why I can't be convinced the spurs are going to, like, march through the playoffs here, all the way to the conference finals or finals. It's a little different compost season time. And when you're game planning for a particular guy and then all these other guys got to step up in sort of these, you know, high intensity environments here, pressure packed environments. So they didn't. But, you know, look, they just had an 11 game. They didn't lose a game in February.

[Trey Kirby]

They're 11 for 12 in the playoffs. They'll be doing all right.

[J. Skeets]

They'll be okay.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the Knicks made the spurs feel them. There's no doubt. And you could see that Victor Wembanyama wasn't right out there. You get. He's listed at seven turnovers in this game. He was throwing the ball away. He was stepping out of bounds. He just wasn't right. And was it Carl Anthony Towns getting into him? You know, I did slip in there that Carl went to the bench. When they were down 17, nine, the spurs started up. And then here comes Mitchell Robinson to really set the tone. And that's the thing with. I always think of Carl Anthony Towns playing perfectly as the four beside Rudy Gobert. He definitely needs a five. And Mike Brown is figuring it out when to bring in Mitchell Robinson to figure out the pushing of the buttons, as you called it, Trey. And that's what it is. But Carl got into Victor. He even said you could hear him on the broadcast when Victor Wembanyama sold a flop, that Carl gave it to him in the, in the chest. And you can hear him say, he's 74260. You shouldn't be able to drop like that. Is he 260?

[Trey Kirby]

No chance.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Matt Rogers]

No way.

[Tas Melas]

He looks way thinner. I mean, I mean, it looks way

[J. Skeets]

thinner, but when you're 7 4, 7 5, you are going to have some weight on you.

[Trey Kirby]

He's got a lot of bones.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Listless, 235. No.

[J. Skeets]

Gee, not even close. Okay. Carl maybe had a couple books in his shorts or something like that, but

[Tas Melas]

he had to go to the bench to wake up a little bit because I think that was, that was important. Just Mitchell brought him back.

[J. Skeets]

And Mitchell Robinson coming in, obviously he's in there to like, vacuum up rebounds and stuff like that. Just clean up everything around the glass. But they brought it up on the broadcast. He Also unlocks things for Jalen Brunson a little bit when he goes out there and he sets those big ass picks. And Brunson was coming around a little more aggressive, I thought, on the three point shot. And he started getting it going there after that. Very slow start for the Knicks to get them right back in the game.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, the Carl doesn't set them as big a picks, but they did call a nice set the pick. Throw that pass to the elbow and then you roll, baby. And he got the pass for the dunk and he was just taking it to the spurs when he could. And he was fighting, there's no doubt. But he didn't have to score a lot in this game.

[J. Skeets]

We had a huge OG block early in the game. And then I guess the Spurs Wemby got him back. Wemby with the crazy poster on. Oh, gee, it's nice. It was huge. But it looks so funny still because when he finishes his poster dunk, he's standing on the ground and his like fingers are still on the rim. It feels like so. It's just like. It looks awesome, but it also looks sort of funny to me.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, exactly. It looks like a. You're playing on a nine foot hoop.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

There's nobody else that can do that. But I felt like Ogn and Obi was laughing after he was Victor dunked up. He's like, hey, I tried.

[J. Skeets]

I did my best. He gave it a go. But everybody contributing. Nick's a big winner there.

[Tas Melas]

I mean, we always have to watch when Victor does anything, whether it's a donk or a reverse layup. Like have his feet hit the ground before he releases it. Because you don't know. Right. So there's gonna be. There's gonna be more of that.

[J. Skeets]

Are you saying he's gonna get potentially called for a travel on a dunk?

[Trey Kirby]

That would be awesome.

[J. Skeets]

He'll somehow hit the ground before actually dunking it.

[Tas Melas]

That's why we need the zoom in on it. The Hawk camera. Whatever. Hawkeye. Yeah, just every camera. I mean, literally I'm watching. I'm rewinding where his feet. Where's little toesies on the ground? I guess they're not little big toes.

[Trey Kirby]

He's got long toes. Probably.

[Tas Melas]

Probably.

[J. Skeets]

Did you see the clip of the woman in like the ramp at Madison Square Garden seeing Wemby walk in? Yeah. And her reaction to him, it was so good. But he was sort of laughing at that one.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, look, I put up a photo or a video of him getting introduced in Austin with the starting lineups. And my sister even was like, look how short his pants are. Right? Like you can't help but notice how different he looks compared to everybody other human you've ever seen on earth.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, right.

[Trey Kirby]

Except for Olivier Ryu. I guess this guy looks similar as well. I don't know if we're gonna be talking about Olivier quite as much. I don't think we'll see.

[J. Skeets]

I don't think so.

[Trey Kirby]

We're not hearing as much about Bull bowl these days, huh? No, that's crazy to me. No, the original Wemby. Yeah, I mean, he's doing just the same stuff.

[Tas Melas]

We'll be talking about Zach Edie a little bit later. No, it's unfortunate.

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[J. Skeets]

All right, my winner of the weekend, first one at least is the Pistons. Two all Stars. This duo, man, they're awesome. They were all stars. They're going to be on the all NBA teams. I mean, Cade's a lock. I assume Jalen Dern should and will make it on Friday night. It was Duran leading the way. Pistons got the victory over the Cavs 122 to 119 in overtime. He had 33 points, a ton of rebounds. Yeah, a quieter game in the second one, but he was huge in this game. We had a wild ending to this game where Cleveland is up three. They should have won this game. There's like six and a half seconds to go after Mobley split a pair of free throws. No timeouts for Detroit. They got to bring it up. Got to go the length of the floor and then try and get a three up. So Kenny Atkinson, he's like, let's do the old foul game. We'll just. We'll just foul. Even though we're up three, don't let them get a three off. Danis Jenkins is too smart for you, Kenny. He knew it was coming, and he did the old. I'll just shoot it from half court. And while Jalen Tyson fouled them, and they're like, I guess he was shooting it. So they put him at the line, he hit all three free throws, sent it to overtime, and they got the victory. But, you know, a classic, maybe. This is the. This is the concern about fouling up three. But then on the other hand, it's like, how many times have you seen that particular play where the officials go, okay, we know you're just. We know you're not actually really, truly shooting it. So it's one of those. But you put it in the hands of the referees, and they were like, no, we'll let them shoot three free throws.

[Trey Kirby]

I'm surprised they gave him the foul.

[J. Skeets]

I know. Yeah, I know.

[Trey Kirby]

They never. If Chris Paul was watching that game, he would be furious. Yeah, he tried that all the time, and he never got that. But Dennis Jenkins just has a better rep than Chris Paul, I guess.

[Tas Melas]

He also let it go very early. Like, the contact was.

[J. Skeets]

He knew. He knew they were doing it.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

He obviously saw the call in from Kenny Atkinson. They didn't hide it very well, is my point. He 100% knew they're about to foul in there, and he's like, well, it's probably coming right here.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So that was on Friday night, and we'll have more on that game in a little bit. But then on Sunday, Kate Cunningham did his part. 29 points, 11 assists. Pistons beat the Magic for their sixth straight road victory, and they have been a juggernaut on the road. They're 217 away from the pizza box, Little Caesars Arena. So really good road team here. But I bring this up because those were two wins over the Cavs, over the Magic, that the Pistons beat that they could very likely see in the first and second round of the playoffs. Just the way it's, like, currently shaping up, Orlando is seventh, so they're going to likely be in the play in. They could easily lose their first game to, you know, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte. I mean, like, they don't give me a lot of confidence right now. The Magic is my point. So could they then be the eighth seed? Yeah. And they could play the Pistons, and then the Cavs are currently in fourth. Where they will probably in the end host a first round series against the Raptors or Sixers. I think a lot of people would have the Cavs to advance and maybe that would be a second round matchup. So for the Pistons to get these two wins, they're now five and a half games clear of second place Celtics. They've already played their four game set versus Boston, so they hold the tiebreaker there as well. So even more really if we call it, you know, call it six, basically they're looking good. You know, it's going to be interesting to see what they do down the stretch here. Do you try and buy some rest for some of the guys? You try and keep momentum going. Just something to watch with their staff. But good quality wins here.

[Trey Kirby]

They could have the number one seed throughout the entire board playoffs. Yeah, I mean they have fewer losses than OKC right now. OKC has more wins. But my guess is that Detroit will play it out and try and win as many games as they possibly can. They're a young team, they don't know any better.

[J. Skeets]

I think you're probably right. I think you're probably right.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, it's great to see Jalen Duran ball. And since the All Star Game because we all question who's going to be that second guy who steps up for the Pistons because it feels like it's going to have to come from everybody but Jalen Duran in the four games since the All Star game that he started with. 26, 25, 29, 33, an absolute monster in so many of those games. 13, 14, 15, 16 boards in those four games. He slowed down a little bit against Orlando, but absolutely killing it.

[Trey Kirby]

Tobias Harris, I thought was kind of important for them this weekend. Hit a big shot in overtime against the Cavs, then played defense on Evan Mobley. Put the clamps on him to win that game. Then 15 in the second half and the comeback against Orlando, like it or not, he's got to be like their number two offensive scorer. Duran puts up points, but these are mostly created for him by Cade or Tobias Harris or one of their other guards out there. But for go get a bucket, guys. Tobias Harris is like the second best shot for the Pistons, which, you know he'll give you 16 and eight no matter what. You need 25, he'll give you 16, you need nine, he'll give you 16. So we'll see what it is. But still they decided to keep him around at the trade deadline rather than making a move and maybe it'll pay off.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, it's Almost important. More important that he gets the shots up because he just needs to take shots because they're lacking. But I think Jalen Durant's creating a little bit more than he has in the past off, obviously, this season he has created more for himself and he's doing that a little bit more. But, yeah, it's still going to be a question as we get to the playoffs, and it's not going to be Keras. Pervert.

[J. Skeets]

Careless. Careless.

[Tas Melas]

Oh, he's careless.

[J. Skeets]

I laughed when I heard that.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow.

[J. Skeets]

How did that one slip by me, man? That is pretty funny. The idea, like, sometimes Pistons fans are like, what do we. We do? Why is Caris Lavert playing so much over, you know, sometimes Assar, sometimes Ron Holland, sometimes these other guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

He's a ball handler.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Tas Melas]

He's. But he can be careless. There are plenty of turnovers and that's that. That makes sense.

[J. Skeets]

Let's do another round of winners. Who you got?

[Trey Kirby]

I'll be honest, I'm not happy with my second winner.

[Matt Rogers]

I'm not.

[Trey Kirby]

I wanted to give it to the Pelicans, but they got smoked by the Clippers. And I think if the Pelicans would have won last night, I definitely would have went for them as winners. They're to me, like one of the most fascinating teams for the end of the season here because they want to win.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

They literally dejounte Murray's like, we're making a play in push and they're 10 games out of the play.

[J. Skeets]

That's not happening.

[Trey Kirby]

But they got to win. They won on Friday, I think. And then, you know, I think the Clippers beat him by 20. But if they would have beaten the Clippers.

[J. Skeets]

Come on, Zion streak. Unfortunately, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Sprained his ankle as well, but I was eyeing those Pelicans. The Thunder won a couple of games, the Lakers won a couple of games, but instead, this is just a show and love type of winner.

[J. Skeets]

Sure.

[Trey Kirby]

For the Boston Celtics. There are some people that say we don't give the Celtics enough love for how well they're playing.

[Tas Melas]

What are they talking.

[Trey Kirby]

Here you go. The Celtics destroyed the Nets on Friday. They shot 65% from the field. Brooklyn's pretty bad right now. Turns out 28 points each from Jalen Brown and Big Vucci, who also had 11 rebounds. Then the Celtics handled the 76ers last night without Joel Embiid. 27 and 8 for Jalen Brown, 27 and 17 for Namish Keita, who we'll talk about a little bit later. It felt like Every one of him. His baskets was just straight running to the hoop, whether on a pick and roll or on a fast break. He did have a big and one in the fourth quarter when Philadelphia was

[Matt Rogers]

getting back in the game.

[Trey Kirby]

I felt like the ball was just on the ground for 12 seconds in the middle of the lane. And it was like whoever the Sixers were, like scrapping at it. Kada gets it up, throws it down. Cool, cool, cool. Nice stuff. 59 to 37 on the glass for the Celtics. 19 offensive rebounds as well. They saw no one beat out there. Drummond. The guy's a good rebounder, but not good enough. But the Celtics backdoored the 4020. 40 wins, 20 losses. You've never heard more about this 40,

[J. Skeets]

20 rule in your life.

[Trey Kirby]

I know Matt Moore deserves a lot of credit. Nobody was talking about it before this guy. Now we're talking about it too much because this doesn't even count. If you get to 40 wins after 20, there's simply no way you can win the NBA championship.

[J. Skeets]

Well, that's not true. You have a 9%. No, no, no.

[Trey Kirby]

It doesn't happen. It doesn't count. And unless the 40 comes first. But 40 wins, 20 losses. Excellent stuff for the Celtics, showing them some love. My favorite thing to happen in this game. Baylor Shireman hit a three pointer from the corner at the end of the second quarter. He's playing through a thumb injury on his shooting hand. He made the buzzer beater at the end of the quarter. At the end of the half, thumbs up with his broken finger. Showing off his broken thumb. That was funny. That's a weird looking guy to be a good NBA player. But the dude is like starting and playing enough right now. We love him. He's a South Dakota State jackrabbit. Jackrabbit. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

But he's also a Creighton Blue Jay guy, played forever. Oh, he's a T shirt guy.

[J. Skeets]

Yes, he is. Big T shirt.

[Trey Kirby]

He's got floppy hair and a goatee. Looks like he should be driving a truck. But he's making threes from the corner and giving a thumbs up. And thumbs up to you, Celtics. We love you.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

We just love you.

[J. Skeets]

The Beantown Boys.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Showing love for the Beantown Boys.

[J. Skeets]

I thought it was a big weekend for the buzz around Joe Mo Missoula, winning coach of the year. Saw a lot of that on the timeline. This guy's going to win it, and rightfully so. And I'll say, like one. You know, to his credit, they don't have a Lot of games where like, like the Wolves or maybe even the Knicks in their lull where like they don't bring effort no matter who they're playing. So that, you know, that's, that is I think a really good sign of a coach, like gets his guys going and doesn't take anyone for granted on the other side of the floor, whether they're a good team or a bad team. So, yeah, he's going to be on the short list to win this thing. Obviously Bickerstaff should be in play there with the Pistons if they have the best record in the league. That's something. But anyway, yeah, Celtics winner.

[Tas Melas]

A good win on NBC Sunday Night Basketball. It was one of those hard working type of games. It was, it was a good Boston Celtics win. You mentioned Shireman, Hugo Gonzalez was big. Namishka having his biggest first half. The bench going nuts. It was just a good win for them. But yeah, I saw you were a little reluctant. You put Boston Celtics in the dock, then you deleted it. Right. Because you're going somewhere else.

[Trey Kirby]

No, no, no, I never wavered once I put it in there. But I did wait. I waited as long as I could. I, I even tuned in to see if the Pelicans could pull off a comeback against the Clippers. I was like, come on, come on.

[Tas Melas]

I want to talk about so bad. I thought maybe you wanted to mention the Celtics because in the intros for NBC Sunday Night Basketball on the other side, Kelly Oubre said. Kelly Oubrey, YouTube University yeah, I know. And since you just, you just let us know that he's got a rap song.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

I thought maybe you were gonna get us in there. Kelly. Kelly Oubre, YouTube University that's what he said. Great stuff, great stuff for the Celtics. I don't care what fans say, we've been giving them lots of love. But you wanted to mention Bill Simmons saying that Jason Hayden was going to play on March 1, right?

[J. Skeets]

Oh, well, I mean he did say that.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Speculated he was wrong.

[J. Skeets]

Now, now he's, he's already swerved. He said he's playing. I think he said he's playing this Friday. Simmons is now saying that he has a lot of confidence in Tatum returning on, I think against Dallas. I think it's Friday.

[Tas Melas]

Okay.

[J. Skeets]

But I'm still going with you guys. And I guess McMenamin is numerology too, that he's going to return on 314.

[Trey Kirby]

314.

[J. Skeets]

Because this guy just loves, you know, St. Louis loves numbers. Good one loves 314, obviously. So March 14th. I'm with you guys. I'm in on that one. Still buys them some time. They're winning games here still.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes.

[J. Skeets]

I mean, I know you like if you are going to make a real run here with Tatum, you got to get some reps in for him in addition to playing with the team. But also the less games, in a weird way he has to play and put on the body and the more time he has to still heal, then that's better as well, I guess. So there's a balance. I get that.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. You want to get him some vibes though. Just get into a flow. Yeah, the flow is more the word I was looking for. As I said, vibes.

[J. Skeets]

Sure, sure.

[Tas Melas]

He's the guy's to play. Six weeks left. I was surprising to see James Harden return for the Cleveland Cavaliers earlier than Jason Tatum in that thumb injury. We thought mid March or something.

[J. Skeets]

Well, they weren't trying to tell us they were going to play.

[Tas Melas]

He's gonna fight.

[J. Skeets]

It's the tip of his thumb on his non shooting hand.

[Tas Melas]

I know. And well, some, yeah, we talked about the thumb, whether it was the knuckle or the tip and I thought it was the tip and it was just the tip. And here he is, here's playing basketball again. So good for him.

[J. Skeets]

Who's your second winner?

[Tas Melas]

Jonathan Kaminga has been fantastic for the Atlanta Hawks and for Atlanta Hawks fans. The fan section in the Hawks arena yesterday as he was going off was chanting, thank you Warriors. Thank you Warriors. Because three games for Kaminga with the Atlanta Hawks. It's been fantastic, it's been amazing. He has been great and, and he's doing it within the system. It's not just Jonathan Kaminga basketball. Yesterday against Portland he was going hard at Donovan Clingan, but then when he did see a size advantage over Scoot Henderson, he did the classic. What really, really, really angered Steve Kerr in Golden State. Just a mid range move on him to score over him. And then came the things we all love about Jonathan Kaminga. Monstrous windmill. And then he posterized Jon Hansen with hanging in the air left hand punch. And Johansson kind of tried to get out of the way. It was a business decision, but still he's so big. He's in the photo. There's no you can't help, you can't help. So three games with Atlanta playing within the offense again, 27, 17 and 22 games off the bench, shoving a one as a starter in the middle there, which is, you know, the thing that he wants to do. But it sure Feels like the Atlanta Hawks want to do something opposite. But good for him.

[J. Skeets]

He played basically starters minutes yesterday in a blowout victory. So they could like reduce a lot of their starters minutes. He played 25 minutes. Starters played 25 to 30.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, but that's the tough thing with Kaminga. Are you going to start him? Because then it might just rely on him. The offense might just rely on him and he might try and take over the offense. So will he stay on the bench here as he's basically playing for a contract these next six weeks, but yeah, that's true. That's.

[J. Skeets]

Hey, look, the honeymoon phase is off to a glorious start here. They're loving their time at the resort right now. The, the. The Hawks in Kaminga. This is perfect. I mean, there's like. It actually is perfect that he went to the Hawks because like this city, more than some franchises, like, they love a guy, an athlete that puts on. Can dunk like meek, like they do. They just do this type of fan base and he's playing really well and they're winning some games. By the way, The Hawks were 31 and 31.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. They've scored exactly one more point than they've allowed this season.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. So we have gotten back to perfect balance with the Atlanta Hawks being exactly 500. And yeah, even down to the points scored and against. That is incredible.

[Tas Melas]

But it's great, great starting. They're in ninth. That's. That's the Hawk spot.

[J. Skeets]

I, I don't want to like pour water on this though. I just want to say he's played the Wizards twice and the Blazers, who are missing their star guys too, with no Avdi and no sharp.

[Tas Melas]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So there's that part of the. Let's see what happens when he plays

[Tas Melas]

a good team well.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, Great stuff.

[Trey Kirby]

I love it when unwritten rules don't matter because Kaminga had a dunk contest when the Hawks were up by 30 with like two minutes left in the fourth quarter and it was just cheese and basically calling him the next Dominique Wilkins. And nobody wanted to fight Blazers. Like, that's all good.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Let him have his moment.

[Trey Kirby]

The rest is just unwritten.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Okay. My final winner of the weekend here. I'm giving it to Chicago.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow.

[J. Skeets]

Trey Kirby. You heard me right. Why didn't I put Chicago Bulls. Let me explain.

[Trey Kirby]

Go on.

[J. Skeets]

Because the first part of my win of the weekend, the Chicago part, really. CM Punk honored Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls with a memorable entrance at the elimination chamber in Chicago on Saturday. Did you see this?

[Trey Kirby]

No.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Let me tell you, the champ made his way to the ring to Sirius by the Alan Parsons Project, the signature intro music of the dynasty bulls in the 90s. Not only that, they dusted off Ray Clay himself to do a Punk introduction. I'm talking about. And now, starting lineup. That guy, that Ray Clay, that guy, the public announcer that obviously did Jordan in the Bulls. He's no longer there with the Bulls, but the WWE paid him some money, I guess to do this.

[Trey Kirby]

Good.

[J. Skeets]

This is incredible.

[Trey Kirby]

And that's awesome. I'm happy for CM Punk. He's always been a Chicago sports backer.

[J. Skeets]

Absolutely. And you'll be happy to know he retained the belt versus Finn Baylor.

[Trey Kirby]

Let's go. Come on. You can't let Finn win in Chicago. That's ridiculous.

[J. Skeets]

So there you go.

[Bowen Yang]

Go.

[J. Skeets]

So as for the Bulls, though, Josh Giddy had 20 points, 14 boards, 10 assists. Bulls used a 27 to 0 run to blow out the Bucks on Sunday and they snapped their 11 game losing streak. The Bulls did not win in the month of February, but they get one here in early March. And my God, I love that Josh Giddy led the charge because he was ass in February. He was a little banged up. He only played in five games, but he averaged like 12 points per game. He had a brutal month. They didn't win. As I said, calendar flips to Mickey Mouse March. And Josh Giddy's like, let's go 20, 14 and 10. If February belongs to Black History Month's Jared Allen, March belongs to Mickey Mouse Giddy. And we got to figure out the other months. I was figuring we can talk about that later. I don't know who has November, who's got the other months, but these two belong to those two guys. But wow, it's so funny. And then the final cherry on top here for Chicago as a winner of the weekend. My told you so guy, Leonard Miller, what a game for him off the bench. Best game of his very young career. 15 points, career high, five boards, career high, four assists, career high, two blocks, career high, six for eight from the field, career high. Two of four from deep hitting, some corner threes, career high. Guy was a plus 38 career high. That might legit just remain his career high for the rest of his life.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, probably.

[J. Skeets]

And then 27 minutes, he got some burn there. Leonard Miller, I told you so. The triple double. Don't you worry, it's coming in a couple weeks here as the Bulls win. So there you go, Chicago.

[Tas Melas]

Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

And Ben Johnson was in the house

[J. Skeets]

and he didn't even Mention that he faked taking off his shirt.

[Trey Kirby]

Fake takeoff.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, that was good.

[Trey Kirby]

270 run. That was ridiculous. Huge oop for Big Nick Richards.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, how about the Buzzelous? Blake Griffin, like thrunk he chucked it in.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, he's doing some stuff right now. I do not like seeing Nick Richards out there wearing number 13. Ooh. I don't like that at all. But Leonard Miller was hooping.

[J. Skeets]

He's a funny guy. Kind of.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, kind of. I watched every Leonard Miller possession I possibly could. He didn't do anything in the 270 run. He was just running around out there. But helps out the old plus minus makes plays.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, he made.

[Bowen Yang]

He made.

[J. Skeets]

He had a career. Well, you were bringing up the other day. He's like, oh, how many assists does this guy have in his career? I mean, he did have four assists and those were like some of them were all right. Where ball got into him in the middle and he sprayed it out to a shooter.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, he did that.

[J. Skeets]

So they were yelling, troubleshoot the ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

He's left handed, apparently.

[J. Skeets]

He is. Yeah. He's Lamar Odom link. I'm telling you, just maybe stay away from the other things that got Lamar Odom in trouble. Very tall head. Yeah, yeah, real tall. Leonard Miller has a unique look. I think he looks like he's garbage at basketball. That's my theory. I just think you look at him, you're like, I don't care how tall you are, you do not look like you're good at basketball. He is. I'm telling you, he is. It's not a bit here. I'm. I legit believe in him and so good game and great game. Good weekend there for Chicago.

[Trey Kirby]

Will he make Team Canada for.

[J. Skeets]

He's never really. He hasn't. He's super young.

[Trey Kirby]

The Olympics or the World Cup.

[J. Skeets]

Truth is, we could use some size.

[Tas Melas]

That's a trivia. That's a question for his career or soon. Soon.

[J. Skeets]

No, he's saying will he moving forward?

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Potentially. He has not obviously here much before, but we need size.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. They need.

[J. Skeets]

So Keyshawn George.

[Tas Melas]

Sorry. Kelly Olenick.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

You're gone. My man.

[J. Skeets]

Zach. Edie can't even.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Stay healthy.

[Tas Melas]

He's got to fill in. But I saw a highlight. I was on the NBA app and I saw that Leonard Miller had a highlight. He didn't have a highlight. What was it, a dunk? Those are two handed.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I saw it.

[Tas Melas]

I can jump straight up.

[J. Skeets]

Did you see him spray his legs out?

[Trey Kirby]

Here from Ricardo in the Stream team. Leonard Miller looks like a really nice guy.

[J. Skeets]

I agree with that.

[Trey Kirby]

He has a great vibe about him.

[Tas Melas]

He does. You mentioned Lamar Odom. I thought he could have been a winner of the weekend. His interview on Cousins there was a high. Just a clip of him talking about Mark Cuban coming into the Dallas Mavericks locker room and trying to get them pumped up. I guess they were down at half and he kind of kicked. He put his. Cuban put his foot to Lamar Odom's shin, and Lamar Odom, you know, nearly decapitated. He wanted to go at Mark Cuban, but Vince Carter, who was also on the Dallas Mavericks at the time, got in the way. And so that was a great story. I thought he could have been a winner of the weekend. Great story from Lamar o'.

[J. Skeets]

Donnell.

[Tas Melas]

Great clip.

[J. Skeets]

I thought you were going to say it was for his great cocaine summers is what Lamar Odom said.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, no, I really love drugs.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, that's the clip that I saw. Much more viral than the one you were saying.

[Trey Kirby]

Didn't see the old shin kick.

[Tas Melas]

Way better story. I got a good algorithm. I guess. That was a good story.

[J. Skeets]

All right, those are our winners. We will do some losers in a second, but first, a quick break to hear from our sponsor.

[Tas Melas]

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How do you feel about tomorrow being trade day?

[Trey Kirby]

I actually feel like I've been missing an opportunity my entire life to be celebrating this.

[J. Skeets]

That's so funny you said that. We've done this show for 15 plus years together, and I'm like, I don't think we've ever brought up Trade Day. No be in March 3rd. And that's something like I feel like you would have brought up.

[Trey Kirby]

So, yeah, I've been really dropping the ball here until tomorrow. So I'm fanduel.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Big trade day coming up. All right, let's do NBA weekend losers here. I feel like we got some juicy ones, some juice to really dig into. Some Mondays it's like, I don't know, we're like, I don't know, they lost a couple of games, I guess they're a loser. But we got some good ones here and you get us started.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, Golden State warriors are a nice juicy loser. Suffering a blowout loss to the Lakers on Saturday, it really looked like LA was playing on easy mode, getting whatever shot they wanted. Went 19 of 41 from 3. Meanwhile, the warriors went 12 of 44. That includes some garbage time makes they just had zero offensive weapons against LA. We're talking about Al Horford, post ups GE, Santos isos in the year 2026 and unfortunately for them, it feels like that won't be changing anytime soon because Steph Curry has missed 10 straight games with runner's knee in his right knee. The team announced yesterday that he's going to be reevaluated in 10 days, which means he will miss at least the next five games for Golden State. Warriors went 4 and 6 in February with Steph missing all those games, 21st in offense, 23rd in net rating, their eighth in the Western Conference. About the only good thing you can say for their postseason chances is that the Blazers, the Clippers and the Suns are kind of all struggling right now at the same time. So this tough patch for the warriors hasn't totally doomed them, but they're going to be in the play in and depending on Steph's health, we'll see if they even get out. You also throw in this odd Steve Kerr Kristaps Porzingis situation. He said last week at the end of the week that after the trade for Kristaps, he called Ansysale, the GM for the Hawks, who used to work in the warriors front office and apparently was told that Kristaps Porzingis doesn't have pots. The syndrome that has that Kristaps said kept him off the court for the Celtics last year and a huge chunk of this season for the Hawks and for the Warriors. And then yesterday Kerr walked it all back. Basically like I'm not a doctor, I shouldn't have been trying to diagnose him. Fair enough, yeah. The upshot though is that Porzingis has played in one of the eight games since the trade that sent him to Golden State. Hasn't helped at all. And the Hawks were, or the sorry, the warriors were at least counting on him being healthy. They thought he was going to be able to play and he just hasn't been able to play due to whatever illness he may be suffering from. Which is exactly what we were saying about Porzingis this time last year. Why can't he play? We don't know, but he's not playing. So you throw in Kaminga looking.

[Tas Melas]

Okay.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

For the Hawks, I mean, perhaps it's just good timing for him, but he does look good. Porzingis isn't out there. Curry's not playing, he's not coming back, and the team just looks beat. But at least those other teams are losing too.

[J. Skeets]

Behind them. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I thought this was an easy loser, though.

[J. Skeets]

The Warriors. Look, we know the warriors are going to be playing in a play in game or two. We know that. We don't know what they're seeding, of course, but I don't think they're going up the standings. And because those teams are so far back, even though Dejounte Murray says they're going to make a run, they're not falling out of the play in either. So we'll see hopefully Curry for a game or two and if they can get the warriors into the actual playoffs.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, it feels like we're locked in again here, one through 10.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Again, the part, the team that you could say, you know, that Dejante Murray comment is crazy, but if there is a team that can keep losing, it's the Blazers if Denny stays out. That being said, it is too far. The Grizzlies are only four and a half games back and they're winning some games. But yes, this. This whole Curry thing, the Porzingis thing, also just odd in general. I mean, Ker said I called the front office of the Hawks. Auntie Saleh, my old bud, my good friend. Yeah. And that's what he told me. And then he walked it back. Not saying that Auntie didn't tell him that, just saying that I shouldn't diagnose him.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

So.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. Maybe. Who knows what happened here with. With Auntie Sally. But yeah, an odd scenario because the first game when Porzingis got to Golden State, he played and you know, he said it's been a tough season, yada, yada, yada, but I'm actually excited about being here now. Feeling good today and he looked good and then he's set every game since. So here we are, unfortunately, a scenario we've seen before, as you said. Maybe it's a good spot.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. It's like we know Jimmy's not coming back, he's out for the season, but it feels like they don't have any idea when poor Zingus is going to be healthy? And it really doesn't feel like they have any idea when Curry's going to be healthy because he was talking to Malika Andrews on the broadcast and he's basically like, this is taking a long time to heal. He seems kind of surprised that this injury has kept him out for. Out for so long. Definitely seems a little bit like an overuse type of injury. And the way he plays like the guy flies around the corner. Of all the guys in the NBA, you're not shocked at all that he would have runner's knee. He's running all the time. And when he comes back, how does he stay healthy? Do they get more than one or two chances in the play in tournament? I don't know. Just a disappointing season for the warriors on a disappointing way to see it go considering the trade for Jimmy Butler last season, like, supercharged their team. They were looking okay, or at least it was competitive in the first round with the Houston Rockets. And then Curry goes out right at the end there. They don't have enough against the Timberwolves, and this year they were just never able to get on track and stay healthy enough this season. And it's like sometimes Melton will have a good game. There was that awesome Al Horford shooting game. But you need these outlier games to score over 100 points, basically, is what it feels like.

[J. Skeets]

They feel like, and probably have been for a while now, but especially with the Curry injury, like a team you can just sort of cross off. Like, we don't like us what we do here with the show. We don't have to worry, so to speak, about the warriors really doing anything this year at all. Again, you may have felt that way six weeks ago, but even more so now with the Curry injury. It's like they're not competing for a title here. I mean, when Jimmy went down, they really weren't. But you know, you always talk yourself into, you got Curry, you got a chance. There's. There's still sort of average on both sides of the ball. Some of these guys step up. You know, you got a great coach in. Kerr's obviously been there, done that. But it's like, like, no, it's, it's not this year. They get in the play and they're going to lose in the first round is my point. Like, if they even make their way in, they just are.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, yeah, I'm a positive Pete. And so when I saw the Porzingis, hey, I feel good now. And he Playing really well. If he plays a, I, I mentioned if he plays one series, then there's a chance, but now he's not even playing anymore. So I'm not a positive Porzingis, but I am, I will remain a positive Peach. Okay, there's this. What's runner's knee question for you. We've never heard that.

[J. Skeets]

I'm not a doctor, man. Don't make me into Steve Kerr, okay?

[Tas Melas]

No, no, I'm not, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah, see the thing is nobody asked Steve Kerr to be a doctor. He was just reporting a story that he. Anyway, runner's knee.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

We have never heard that in the NBA since we started talking about this show. And in general, has it been a thing like, I, I, I know runners obviously get injured.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

It is a thing that people get injured. We've never heard it as a basketball injury until Steph Curry.

[J. Skeets]

I'm racking my brain. I can't think of one more of a jumper. What's, what's he got? What's Jeff got?

[Tas Melas]

I don't know, but patellofemoral. But I guess it's obviously just more for runners discomfort. Yeah, yeah, simple as that. All right.

[J. Skeets]

Anyway, who do you have for a loser the weekend?

[Tas Melas]

Well, more injury stuff. Zach Edie, second year player for the Memphis Grizzlies. That big, huge 7 foot 3 player is undergoing ankle surgery. He's gonna be done for the season. He hasn't played since early December. He's only played 11 games this year. And just to recap here, he played 66 games last year and he had to undergo ankle surgery on the same ankle that he's gonna undergo surgery for now. So that was last June 10th. That was to stabilize that ankle. He played 11 games early this season and then in December the Grizzlies said, oh, he's, he's got a stress reaction. Stress fracture. Stress fracture reaction I guess is what they called it. He's out four more weeks and then in January they said actually no, he's going to be at another six to eight weeks. So he's going to undergo that same or a surgery on that same ankle. This is more of a cleanup rather than a stabilize surgery as he had to undergo last year. So it's more of a caution type surgery. That being said, it's the second surgery on that same ankle. And here we are for Zach edie, unfortunately again, 66 games played that first season, now 11 in year two. And this is where we're at. So simple as that. Just to note a guy that, you know, we all watched, you know, again, play, you know, over three quarters of the season in his first year, there was some excitement, but not at this point, unfortunately.

[J. Skeets]

I don't want any NBA player having to go through a second surgery on the same ankle. I don't care who you are, but I especially don't want a guy that's 7 foot 3, 300 pounds to be having to do it. That's just.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, exactly.

[J. Skeets]

Not great for his, unfortunately, his future. Hopefully they get fixed up. Hopefully he can come back. But like, come on, man, we're talking about a huge, huge ass dude here. You need your ankles.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, exactly.

[Trey Kirby]

Foot and lower leg injuries for a guy that's over 300 pounds just feels like the kiss of death. Will he ever be healthy? I think that's a huge question. Edie has been a transformative presence, I think for the Grizzlies when he's been on the court, just by taking up so much space on the inside, he finishes inside, he can make free throws like he can be a good player. I thought the thing that would keep him off the court in the NBA is being a big, slow guy, but apparently as that's being banged up, which is another risk for a guy that is that size. And he was a really high draft pick for Memphis. And probably part of the reason that they felt okay moving off Jaren Jackson Jr. Is that they've got a big guy waiting in the wings who they can at least try and count on as a new part of a nucleus going forward. But if he's going to have this laxity in the ankle, can't be good.

[J. Skeets]

All right, let's get to my losers of the weekend. I got two. So I'll start with the silly one. On Friday night, the Pistons, actually, I should just say it here. Game ops involving the Cleveland Cavaliers. Big loser of the weekend. Let me explain. On Friday night, the Pistons and visiting Cavaliers, they were delayed for 18 minutes in the third quarter by a blaring horn after a power surge caused the overhead scoreboard to malfunction. Yeah, you heard me right. The horn was just going for 15 plus minutes straight. That horn you hear like to signal teams like to come on back to the floor. And that's what happened here. It was a timeout. It's like, come on back. It just wouldn't turn off. It just kept blasting. And you could see the panic in those workers at the Little Caesars Arena. What do we do here? Everybody's trying to figure it out. So after 10 plus minutes, the arena staff shut down the entire overhead scoreboard. And eventually the horn stopped to loud cheers. The crowd popped. Oh, yeah. And then the scoring crew had to use like a manual air horn when play resumed. But it was the classic just like, just unplug it, unplug it, count to 10. No one knows if that actually does anything, but just unplug it, count to 10, and then plug it back in and eventually it will reboot itself. So that was the first part involving the Cavs and game Ops.

[Tas Melas]

There was somebody working there who literally just took something and hit it. Right. There was like a literal video clip of somebody just going, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

You gotta try all the things. You gotta try to unplug it. You gotta try and hit it. If it was like a Nintendo cartridge, you gotta try and blow on it. And you just do those classic things. Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

There's people covering their ears.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, yeah. It was hitting themselves, like going insane. Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

They just started playing music over the top of it. Good way to address the issue, I guess. But also very funny that the way to fix it was just unplug it

[J. Skeets]

and plug it back.

[Trey Kirby]

It's fine.

[J. Skeets]

Of course. So that was. That was the first part. That was Friday with the Cavs again in Detroit. Then on Sunday, the Cavs are in Brooklyn at the Barclays center and the teams experienced another delay when the shot clocks weren't in sync. So this was a weird one. You'll see here a great split screen. Great just production.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow.

[J. Skeets]

From the yes. Net yes Network with the Nets, what they do, because they were just all over this story developing story here, but they just couldn't get these clocks to sync up. They were saying, I don't ever remember seeing this. It's like, like usually just the clock is wrong or doesn't work or won't turn on. Rare to have them, like just not matching up. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

What happened?

[J. Skeets]

So again, they took a little time to work on it. What did they do? They basically unplugged them, plugged them back in and those problems went bye, bye, bye. NSYNC joke. They were having some fun with that on the broadcast. So weird. The calves both times.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. And this is the year that. That the company Tissot has taken over the shot clock. Right.

[J. Skeets]

Well, I don't know about taken over, but it is a new design for sure. Yeah. Were they always involved?

[Tas Melas]

They were never the sponsor of the shot clock. Now it says Tissot on there.

[J. Skeets]

Well, our shot clock used to be square.

[Tas Melas]

Exactly.

[J. Skeets]

Now they're circular.

[Tas Melas]

Now it's a watch. Yeah, because we're in in sync. But I guess we're not.

[J. Skeets]

We're not. We're not until I got that Support

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So that's my first Loser of the weekend game ops involving the Cavs, but a real true loser of the weekend. I'm sure a lot of people have been waiting. When are you going to get to this? Lou Dort Lou Dort's pretty easy Loser of the Weekend. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on this. But let me explain because the Thunder picked up a good win over the Nuggets on Friday night. But the topic of conversation after the game was not about SGA returning, not about the great game we had, not about how these teams will maybe fare in a playoff series. Again, it was all about Lou Dort purposely tripping Jokic in the fourth quarter as he ran sort of back up the floor. And then the kerfuffle that happened after it, because the Joker was pissed. They went and looked at it. Dort assessed a Flagrant 2 foul. He was ejected. So officials deemed Dort's trip unnecessary and excessive with a high potential for injury, which is why that thing got elevated to a flagrant two. And you see the backboard camera here? That's the. That's the angle that really does show Dort's, I think, fair to say, intent to at least, like, slow up Jokic, trip him. Did Jokic sell it? Did he flop? Maybe all of the above. Probably all the above, but, yeah. What do you think here of the discourse around Dort? And there was a lot of, like, you know, the villains of OKC and his door to dirty player. Or. Or was Jokic and the Nuggets overreacting? What's your takeaway here on the door of it all?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, the two bigger takeaways were that Lou Dort is a dirty player and Jokic, his eyes were, like, all over the algorithm. It looks so awesome. But, I mean, I thought Jokic was exactly right when he said it was an unnecessary play and a necessary reaction because he was heated and Dort went out of his way to trip him for no reason. There was nothing happening on the play. They're both just jogging back to the other end of the court, and he goes out of his way to stick a foot in front of him and knock him over.

[J. Skeets]

Yep.

[Trey Kirby]

I understand him being upset.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I guess he, like, throws a shoulder at him as well, not just a trip.

[J. Skeets]

Do you think they got the call right task when they went and looked at it and upgraded to a flag or two? Because some people were reacting to that like, okay, hold on. Flagrant two. He's getting tossed for that. You know, that's what some people were saying.

[Tas Melas]

I totally understand that. The part of it where you get. You toss him for that, I think, is because it's Nikola Jokic.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, I thought you were gonna say also maybe because it's Lou Dort.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Who you could say has a reputation easily now along the lines of Draymond, Dylan Brooks. Like, he's gaining that, right.

[Tas Melas]

Yes.

[J. Skeets]

Yes.

[Tas Melas]

To stick out a butt and a foot and a little bit of A shoulder. Does it deem a flagrant tube in a vacuum? I don't. I don't think so, looking at it, but because it's Jokic who is coming from. Back from an injury. Yeah, I think that's part of it. Just toss a guy for that. There was definitely reckless, but it's not

[Trey Kirby]

like, you know, you sound like Mark Dagnalt. He's saying, would that have been. Would he have been ejected if J. Will gets tripped?

[Tas Melas]

Right, Right. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Either way, he's like, or you better do it.

[Trey Kirby]

Exactly.

[Tas Melas]

I mean, it's a combination of. Of it's Jokic and a little of, hey, we all see what Dor does every single game. So it's that part. But, yeah, the. The funnier part is Jokic getting furious. And, like, I just got thought of his brother. If you go back, Strahinia Jokic, who used to go at people in the audience, in the crowd, it felt like that was being transferred through Jokic's body, his brother. So, yeah, I'm fine tossing door just because of all the. All the stuff going around Lou Dort in general.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

And I get that.

[J. Skeets]

I'll add to that, too. Not the first incident involving even Jokic in this game. We had the weird thing where SGA and him got tangled up, and then sga, you know, hit him with the ball, popped him off the head or whatever. And that was, I guess, a technical foul for that one. But my point is, like, tensions were getting high because of these other multiple, smaller incidences. So then this happens. I think the refs are really just trying to take control of the game. That's it. Nip it in the bud. You're out of here. Dort. I mean, you could argue Dort getting tossed actually helped the Thunder and hurt the Nuggets because Dort wasn't playing. But I think they were just trying to keep this game from, like, spiraling out of control. And to their credit, it did after this. After he was tossed.

[Tas Melas]

That's a part of it. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. The solely crap. Lot of opinions, obviously, on loot, Dort. And always good to see the compilation clips that always come back. Just another one to add of Dortmund just always going up to the line and crossing it. Again, very similar to the Draymond Green, Dylan Brooks, where they are winning players, they help teams get better their edge, but they can cross lines and it can tire, especially if you're the opposition to the point where you feel like that's reckless, that's dangerous, and now, like, you're not even really playing basketball at that point. There you go.

[Trey Kirby]

And he wasn't.

[Tas Melas]

No, that was not a basketball play.

[J. Skeets]

I love Lou Dorrit. I can't defend this. I mean, it's pretty apparent what he's trying to do. Trying to. Luckily, nobody's hurt on the play. Sure. But, you know, I guess you could be. Especially. Bang a knee, whatever. So Lou Dort, loser of the weekend.

[Trey Kirby]

Good loser.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Can I add one small one, too? Broadcasters saying this evening or tonight, when the game's on at 1:00 clock in the afternoon. I don't know what it is. It drives me nuts. Michael Malone did it a couple times there on that first call on Sunday. I just can't. I just. I don't know why. Stop it. I think. I think I have such a strong reaction to it because I'm like, the day's not even close to being over, Michael. I have so many things I want to do after watching this game. Don't say this evening or tonight. But I get it. You're just used to it because 99% of the time or whatever. 95% of the time the game is

[Trey Kirby]

at night and you're indoors. You don't know. You don't know what the weather looks like out there. I get more upset when they correct themselves. I'm like, we know what you mean, man.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, okay.

[Trey Kirby]

We know.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

We know what time it is.

[J. Skeets]

Just don't say it.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Just let it slide. Just say today I.

[Tas Melas]

Let's give Michael Malone a little bit of a leash. How many games has he called?

[J. Skeets]

Not a lot.

[Trey Kirby]

Not a lot.

[Tas Melas]

This is early in his career of calling it.

[J. Skeets]

Why don't. Why doesn't t. So add to the shot clock like a little thing that says it's day. Midday, afternoon, evening, night, late night.

[Tas Melas]

So the broadcaster can look at it and say, it's right there.

[J. Skeets]

Help him out.

[Tas Melas]

Out today's game. Yeah. You mean a clock.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, but the actual clock.

[Tas Melas]

Not.

[J. Skeets]

Not the game clock.

[Tas Melas]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay. But the thing that tells you what

[J. Skeets]

time it is, that is in usually most arenas.

[Tas Melas]

Yes.

[J. Skeets]

You got to find it. But there's usually an actual. Just clock.

[Trey Kirby]

But that brings a. A question that I have a lot of concerns about. When does evening switch over? Tonight?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, Fish there. But this was 7 o'.

[Matt Rogers]

Clock.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Right.

[Tas Melas]

The switch.

[Trey Kirby]

7pm it's evening. Tonight from 4:30 to 6:59, it's evening.

[Bowen Yang]

Evening.

[Trey Kirby]

I know 4:30 sounds like late afternoon. Doesn't.

[Tas Melas]

No, I don't care about 4:30. 7:00 clock. Still feels like evening. It's not until 7:15 or it's night. I don't know what the switch is, but it's not 7. Maybe when the game's tip 8.

[J. Skeets]

When the games tip on the east coast goes. It's officially night 7o. What do they do? 7 11.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, summer 711 for sure.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, that. But that one at least I can debate. I wouldn't be so upset. But I'm sorry. When it's 1:00 o' clock in the afternoon, 1:30. You can't say this evening.

[Trey Kirby]

No, you can't.

[J. Skeets]

It's just not. It isn't. Sorry, Mike. Sorry, Michael. Jesus.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh yeah, you called him Jesus Old midday Mike

[Matt Rogers]

love.

[J. Skeets]

Little boy of the night going out to Rylan Fong. It's Rylan's 18th birthday. Robert Fong made this happen for his son. That's a good dad right there.

[Tas Melas]

Cool.

[J. Skeets]

Also, Robert suggested a Woah Boy sub segment. So let me just like go off on a little tangent here. This is Robert writing in quote, a few episodes ago, I was listening to the show and I was a bit zoned out, but my ears perked up when I thought I heard Tassie. I chuckled because that is what you do when you hear dickhead. I re listened and I realized that Tas had said Grady Dick had. Grady Dick had. Dickhead. Dickhead. My proposal is that the day after every Raptors game during the Woe Boy segment, you add on Grady Dick had and then list off Dick's stat line from the prior night's game. That's Robert Fung suggestion.

[Tas Melas]

So thank you, Robert.

[J. Skeets]

And I'm not sure we'll do that.

[Tas Melas]

We're gonna do it.

[J. Skeets]

They didn't play yesterday, did they? No, they didn't. They didn't Saturday. I can tell you, I don't think he did a lot great. Dick's not doing a whole lot this year. He's playing like a dickhead. But Rylan, happy birthday.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. You share a birthday with Brooks Barnheiser and Dylan Harper. What a. What a threesome, man.

[J. Skeets]

Did you. Did you see me catch myself on. On Rylan's name there? I was so close to saying Rya. I almost said it. Almost said it.

[Tas Melas]

You held the. You held the Ryland. I thought maybe you're just emphasizing.

[J. Skeets]

No, no, I just was about to say Ryan, it's a Ryland.

[Tas Melas]

It's a Ryland.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Well, boy, let's give it to Celtics big man Nimish Keita. Yeah, Celtics fans, I'm giving it to keita. Career high 27 points grab 17 rebounds. Led the Celtics to that victory over the Sixers there. Shot 10 of 14 from the field, 7 of 10 at the line. Blocked three shots. Had a steal, 27 turnover. Free minutes for this guy. What a game.

[Trey Kirby]

What a season he's been. Awesome. Really awesome.

[J. Skeets]

Bobby Marks wants him in the most improved player discussion. I saw him. He should be throwing it out there, man.

[Trey Kirby]

Definitely should be.

[J. Skeets]

Absolutely should be.

[Tas Melas]

Yes. Namir Kata also just a great name.

[J. Skeets]

Beautiful name, isn't it?

[Tas Melas]

It the only Portuguese player ever in the NBA, huh?

[J. Skeets]

Only one ever.

[Trey Kirby]

He was definitely the first. I don't think there's been any since.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, cool.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

I was just talking about someone with. About going back to Portugal, but going to Porto this time. Porto is supposed to be the bomb, man.

[Tas Melas]

I had friends go, they loved it.

[J. Skeets]

I know everyone that goes to Porto, they're like, Porto's the. And I loved all the other parts of Portugal I saw. So I believe it. We're going to Porto. Live show in Porto next week.

[Trey Kirby]

Bring your cater jerseys. I can't even remember another guy that like we watched Euro cup and he was good. It was good for Portugal. I don't know the other.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, me too.

[Tas Melas]

The other Portuguese players.

[J. Skeets]

I'm struggling. If you could pull up a list, I'd love to hear some though.

[Tas Melas]

Really good point.

[J. Skeets]

We can just use this. I'll vamp a little bit here. Porto, you know. Have you been to Portugal at all?

[Tas Melas]

I have not.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, God, no.

[Trey Kirby]

They got Diego Brito, Diego Ventura and Diego Gamero.

[Tas Melas]

Three Diagos.

[J. Skeets]

Triple D.

[Trey Kirby]

Triple D. I don't think guy ever went there.

[J. Skeets]

No. Fieda's never been to portrait. Pick him. February's done that front in a game with Dort tripping Jokic. That was a huge game because that was our final pick them game for February. These two guys were tied. So whoever won it avoided having to lose the month and pay it off here very shortly. And it went to overtime. Overtime nearly worked in your favor this time, Taz.

[Trey Kirby]

I thought about you.

[J. Skeets]

I thought about you. I was like, oh, God, which side is Tas line? This guy hates overtimes with pickups. But nearly worked for you. But they didn't cover. Point is Nuggets did. So Trey got the win. Taz finished 7 9. Trey like the Atlanta Hawks himself. Perfect. 508 and 8. I'm 10 and 6. So good month for me. And Tess is going to be paying it off. And it looks like the clubhouse leader for the payoff.

[Tas Melas]

Smelling salts, not Lamar Odom style.

[J. Skeets]

A little uphill skiing for Tasmela.

[Tas Melas]

Not gonna be able to do that. Yeah, we'll be doing that. It's supposed to be coming. Coming in today.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, you see, you bought them online.

[Tas Melas]

So weird to buy them online.

[J. Skeets]

Interesting. Oh, I just didn't know how you

[Tas Melas]

were even gonna get them wrong.

[J. Skeets]

I feel like they're illegal.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. I'm gonna go buy a second. A second one in the hand. Do you know? And then make a decision.

[J. Skeets]

Did you buy a pouch or did you buy a bottle? Like, I'm just. Or what else do they come in?

[Tas Melas]

Well, it's a little like a, you know, canister type of thing. Like. Like you're about to do some dip. That kind of. Oh.

[J. Skeets]

Oh.

[Tas Melas]

I didn't think it like that, but it. But it requires a little water mix.

[J. Skeets]

I don't know.

[Tas Melas]

I don't know.

[J. Skeets]

Got a whole concoction here.

[Tas Melas]

I don't know. That seems too elaborate, though. So I'm going to get a second one.

[J. Skeets]

Heisenberger, you're going to be a chemist on the show here cooking up stuff.

[Tas Melas]

You have to put in 5 ML of water, and that's fine.

[Trey Kirby]

5 ML. That's a small amount.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. And then it activates it. Oh, okay.

[Tas Melas]

But I don't know.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Anyway, so why don't we. So you got to get them, and then we'll do it. What? Maybe this week, Maybe Friday. I don't know.

[Tas Melas]

What do you say, jd, when is

[J. Skeets]

Task doing smelling salts?

[Tas Melas]

Well, you know, let's get them. But. Yeah, I mean, it's not complicated. Well, how's this working? You doing it before the show, in

[Trey Kirby]

the middle of the show?

[Tas Melas]

End of the show, like.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, it's a good question.

[Tas Melas]

Probably start of the show.

[J. Skeets]

I think start.

[Trey Kirby]

Start up.

[J. Skeets]

Task might feel like just going crazy. That.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, we're going to be lifting this table. I'm going to be pumped.

[Trey Kirby]

I was surprised to see when I was looking at them at various retailers, it does seem to be like a weightlifters thing.

[Tas Melas]

Like.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah, let's smell some salt and pump some iron.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, I didn't realize that either, but people definitely do it.

[J. Skeets]

This is a little bit of a Lamar situation.

[Trey Kirby]

It feels like sort of.

[Tas Melas]

Did it be NFL?

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know, man.

[J. Skeets]

It's gonna get you.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, I know. Reading about. Thought it sucks.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

I don't. I don't like the idea of doing it.

[J. Skeets]

Did the NFL ban it? Am I crazy? Like, they.

[Tas Melas]

I don't know. I don't know.

[J. Skeets]

There was something years ago.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Like trying to cut back on it or like. I don't know.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, because George Kittle was complaining about it once upon a time.

[Tas Melas]

Like it's an advantage.

[J. Skeets]

Well, no, it's like not healthy for you to do it a lot.

[Tas Melas]

No.

[J. Skeets]

Because I think NFL players are probably just doing it every.

[Trey Kirby]

Every down potential to mask concussion symptoms.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, okay.

[Bowen Yang]

Okay.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Yeah. Give me the small. I'm ready. What is it? Ammonia?

[Trey Kirby]

I think so.

[J. Skeets]

Is that what it is?

[Tas Melas]

And some of them for sure.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, t will be doing. Smelling.

[Tas Melas]

Talking about tonight's game.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. To kickoff March. At first I thought Raps Knicks are playing tonight. That's what I put in there. Well, listen, fanduel, I wouldn't have tomorrow's game games on the same slate as today's games.

[J. Skeets]

Or if you do like put like a. Like a line. Yeah, I'm with you.

[Tas Melas]

It looks like it's on, but it's betting. They just want you to go. They just want you to bet. Doesn't matter what day it is. Just bet either way. That's my fault. It's my. It did say Tuesday. Either way. The Clippers at Warriors tonight, national tv. I'm taking the Warriors. Feel like at home. They may take care of business. The Anthony Melton is gonna have a big game. He just blocked LeBron James in the post. What a block. You guys have the Clippers to take care of Golden State. They gotta win by two or more while the warriors can lose by one or win. All right.

[J. Skeets]

Darius Garland hopeful to make his Clippers debut. Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Cool.

[J. Skeets]

So there is that little storyline. Not a lot of games on tonight. I think there's only four games.

[Tas Melas]

Just four total.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. But yeah, this one could be interesting, especially if Garland plays. Love to see that as the Clips. Yeah. They're in the play and aren't they. They're not falling out. No.

[Trey Kirby]

This is a big game for seniors, I guess.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

This is the best game we got going tonight. Rockets at Wizards, Celtics at Bucks, Nuggets at Jazz.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, this is a rough night. Should we hit the beach tomorrow?

[Trey Kirby]

We might need to many of the beach. Send in your questions.

[J. Skeets]

Send in your questions. No dunks inc.gmail.com. if you want to email them in, you can leave them in the YouTube comments. You can hit us up on social media. Yeah, we. We should hit the beach either tomorrow or Wednesday Tuesday, one of these days. So let's do that because those are bad games. Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

There.

[Trey Kirby]

But we got a lot more bad games on Tuesday. But a good Chunk.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Nice chunky skin.

[J. Skeets]

All right. And Detroit.

[Podcast Host 2]

Cleveland.

[Bowen Yang]

Come on.

[J. Skeets]

That's nice.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. Nick's Raptors.

[Trey Kirby]

Real nice.

[Tas Melas]

First Sixers.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Not bad. Yeah, well, speaking of chunky, that was a chunky podcast. Hope you enjoyed it. Hit the like button. Subscribe five star ratings and reviews. Yeah, we see those comments sense on Spotify. I saw Tasmelis on Spotify in the comments section.

[Tas Melas]

I was, you know, defending my Giannis argument. People questioned, everybody questioned. That's when I get all sensitive.

[J. Skeets]

What's this guy coming back? What's going on with this guy? Is he playing tonight? Probably not.

[Trey Kirby]

Haven't heard any, any news.

[J. Skeets]

Dr. Yanis said four to six weeks. Has it not been that long?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, go on YouTube. Make a YouTube video video for us.

[J. Skeets]

Dr. Yanis YouTube University all right, we'll see you guys tomorrow and hopefully we'll be stepping on the beach if we get enough good questions. Till then, Clipper Bros, you heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys.

[Matt Rogers]

Awesome.

[Tas Melas]

Thanks for joining us. And remember, if you feel the need, you can shave your head like Jalen Suggs.

[J. Skeets]

I thought it looks good.

[Tas Melas]

Did look good, right?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, he pulls it off.

[Tas Melas]

Maybe tomorrow we go with the top five NBA players that could should shave their heads.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, number one and two, LeBron and Kevin Durant, whatever order you want to put them in.

[Tas Melas]

Jeff Green is involved. Trey Young is involved.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, come on. Trey's hair is coming in a little.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, no, that's disrespect. I think it's fine. I think it's fine too. And he's got a smaller head. I don't know how great it would look.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I see.

[Trey Kirby]

That would be a big change.

[J. Skeets]

Oh my God.

[Trey Kirby]

At least like LeBron, Jeff Green have short hair.

[J. Skeets]

Almost save it.

[Trey Kirby]

That would be weird to say.

[J. Skeets]

That would be very weird, but sucks.

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