Ranking Each NBA Playoff Series, 1999 Trivia & R.I.P. Rick Adelman

Summary

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No Dunks Podcast – June 2, 2026

Episode Title: Ranking Each NBA Playoff Series, 1999 Trivia & R.I.P. Rick Adelman
Hosts: J. Skeets, Tas Melis, Trey Kirby, JD (Super Producer)

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Episode Overview

This episode of No Dunks is a lively blend of tribute, NBA nostalgia, and playoff analysis. The crew starts with a heartfelt remembrance of Hall of Fame coach Rick Adelman, then shifts into a spirited round of 1999-themed trivia—riffing on the Finals matchup between the Knicks and Spurs—before the main course: methodically ranking every 2026 NBA Playoff series so far. Plus, classic No Dunks banter about basketball, bounce houses, bullying for good, and cult memories of the 1999 Finals.

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Sections

1. Remembering Rick Adelman (03:14 – 05:09)

• Theme: Tribute to legendary NBA head coach Rick Adelman, who passed away at 79.
• Key Points:
  • Adelman won over 1,000 games in a career spanning almost 30 years, ranking 10th in all-time NBA coaching wins (1,042).
  • He coached the Blazers, Warriors, Kings, Rockets, Timberwolves.
  • Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2021.
  • Known for innovative, entertaining basketball, especially with the early '90s Blazers, early '00s Kings (“everybody’s second favorite team,” per Trey), and the Yao/McGrady Rockets.
  • Players and peers (Kyle Lowry, Clyde Drexler, Erik Spoelstra) lauded him as a mentor, gentleman, and a huge influence.
• Notable Quotes:
  • "Rick Adelman coached cool teams, beloved, and was around for basically my entire basketball life." — Trey Kirby (04:34)
  • "When he was coaching [the Kings], they made the playoffs every single season… his style was very fun, basically known as the greatest show on the court." — J. Skeets (05:09)
• Memorable Moment: The suggestion by The Kings Herald for a permanent Sacramento tribute to Adelman.

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2. 1999 Trivia Showdown (06:18 – 30:44)

• Theme: Jeopardy-style 1999 trivia to celebrate the Knicks-Spurs Finals rematch.
• Game Format: Five categories—1999 Movies, 1999 Sports, 1999 World Events, 1999 Pop Culture, and "1999 Skeets" (personal anecdotes)—with escalating difficulty. Trey vs. Tas, name-buzzers.
• Notable Questions & Highlights:
  • 1999 Sports:
    • Q: Who led the NBA in points per game in the 1998-99 lockout-shortened season?
      A: Allen Iverson. (09:08)
    • 1999 World Series MVP?
      A: Mariano Rivera. (14:02)
    • American male tennis player who finished '99 #1 ATP?
      A: Andre Agassi. (16:33)
  • Pop Culture:
    • Smash hit Nintendo fighting franchise debut?
      A: Super Smash Bros. (10:34)
    • Best New Artist Grammy 1999? Hint: “Education.”
      A: Lauryn Hill. (23:31)
  • Movies:
    • Highest grossing film 1999?
      A: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. (21:00)
    • Cult documentary: American Pie, American Beauty, and…?
      A: American Movie. (25:47)
    • Blair Witch Project—mountain state?
      A: Maryland. (28:18)
  • Skeets Personal History:
    • Ken’s basement party nickname?
      A: Ken’s Pen. (13:28)
    • New Year’s Eve party title?
      A: Filennium. (24:32)
    • Car part Skeets serial-numbered?
      A: Pedals (brake/clutch). (29:40)
• Score: Trey wins, 8–3.
• Audience Note: 82% of the live audience was alive in 1999 (30:52).
• Memorable Banter:
  • “You gotta be [in] control over Ken Jennings and the producers running the board! Eat your heart out, Reese from NBA. Nobody does the board like J.E. Skeets.” — Trey Kirby (09:30)
  • “That was a good new artist [category],” says Trey after nailing Lauryn Hill (23:33).

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3. Ranking Every 2026 NBA Playoff Series (Beach Steppin’ Mailbag) (32:53 – 44:52)

Listener Prompt:

“Rank every playoff series so far and tell us which conference was more compelling.” — Robert

Method:

Tas and Trey discussed, with Skeets moderating, a full 14-series ranked list (from least to most compelling/fun).

14. Oklahoma City Thunder sweep Suns (R1)

• Injury-plagued, lopsided, no drama (33:21)

13. Thunder sweep Lakers (R2)

• “Seemed too easy. Plus 64 in four games.” (34:09)

12. Knicks sweep Sixers (R2)

• “Biggest storyline: Knicks fans traveling to Philly.” (34:10)

11. Spurs vs. Blazers (R1, 5 games)

• Concussion drama with Wemby, great Scoot Henderson, Drew Holiday performances. (34:38)

10. Knicks sweep Cavs (ECF)

• Despite comeback in Game 1, mostly a dud. (35:05)

9. Lakers vs. Rockets (6 games, R1)

• Rockets clawed back from 0–3; Game 3 “Lakers crazy comeback.” (35:54)

8. Pistons vs. Magic (7 games, R1)

• Magic up late, lose series. Franz Wagner injury pivotal. (36:51)

7. Raptors vs. Cavs (7 games, R1)

• “RJ Barrett shot…went to seven, though lots of low-scoring games.” (37:41)

6. Nuggets vs. Wolves (R1)

• “Jokic wasn’t himself,” Gobert dominant. “Good, not great–midcarder.” (38:44)

5. Spurs vs. Timberwolves (6 games, R2)

• Wolves won opener without Gobert finishing, Ant’s criticized handshake after lopsided finish. (39:32)

4. Pistons vs. Cavs (7 games, R2)

• “Fun series, not a lot of memories, but Mitchell averaged 39.5.” (40:47)

3. Celtics vs. Sixers (7 games, R1)

• Embiid dramatic return, Joe Mazzulla lineup chaos, Jalen Brown post-game soundbites. (41:45)

2. Knicks vs. Hawks (6 games, R1)

• Birth of “Karl-Anthony Towns hub as passer,” Bridges’ emergence, McCollum game-winners, OG’s star turn. (43:01)

1. Thunder vs. Spurs (WCF, 7 games)

• Double-OT Wemby 41 pts in G1, classic G7, drama with Chet, “possibly the start of a legendary rivalry” (43:43)

Notable Quotes:

• "There’s a clear number one, and then everything else." — Trey Kirby (44:34)
• “The Jalen Brown drama of Celtics-Sixers is too good, man. It’s too good.” — Tas (44:52)
• "If they keep these cores together... hopefully a couple more times in the Western Conference Finals." — Skeets (43:48)

Notes:

• Debate around placement of some mid-tier series, but consensus clear atop and bottom.
• Side mentions: Jalen Brown’s Twitch stream (“favorite season because he was the number one guy... right after losing game seven!”), Ant’s sportsmanship drama, wild comebacks.

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4. 1999 NBA Finals & Memories (47:42 – 53:35)

Listener Question:

“What’s your biggest memory from the 1999 Finals, or from 1999 in general?” — John in Bakersfield

Hosts’ Memories:

• Tas:
  • Visual memory: Duncan and Robinson’s iconic image in MSG.
  • Play memory: Sprewell’s dunk on Jaren Jackson Sr.
  • “Jackson, Sr. — always remembered for being dunked on.”
• Trey:
  • “Knicks as first 8-seed Finals team and the rise of Simmons’ ‘Ewing Theory.’”
  • Avery Johnson’s wide-open game-winner.
  • Reflects how formidable Duncan looked, even in his 2nd season.
• Skeets:
  • Larry Johnson’s “Gramma Ma with the beard,” notorious for his four-point play.
• Banter:
  • Chipper Jones MVP + Braves–Mets–Yankees arc.
  • Trey broke his wrist at 16 in a bounce house. “Too old for a bounce house.”

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5. Constructive Bullying Stories (Beach Steppin’ Segment) (54:52 – 58:44)

Listener Prompt:

“Share a time you (constructively) bullied or peer-pressured a friend into a positive outcome.” — Nick S.

Stories & Laughs:

• Trey: Got daughter Ada to play basketball with Skittles as bribery—she loves it now.
• Skeets: Friend “Big Game James” was home-run motivated by bags of chips—possibly didn’t even like baseball!
• Tas (first version): Persuaded a reluctant friend to go to Medieval Times by swordplay at home.
• Tas (true bullying): Coworker always late; friends shaved off one eyebrow. “He tried to draw one on, he had really thick eyebrows, and we only did one... he was never late again!”
• Banter:
  • “Is this really bullying?”
  • “That’s positive reinforcement… or bribery.”
  • “Walking around with a bunch of bags of chips to the car, just pumped.”

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Notable Quotes & Fun Banter

• "He coached, like, so many cool teams... it was around basically my entire basketball life." — Trey Kirby (04:34)
• "I suggest there should probably be a tribute to Coach Adelman in Golden 1 Center because few people have meant as much to Kings basketball." — J. Skeets (05:09)
• "Nobody does the board like J.E. Skeets." — Trey (09:30)
• "82% of our stream teamers were alive in 1999." — Trey (30:52)
• "There's a clear number one, and then everything else that's happened." — Trey (44:34)
• "A perfectly timed ding-dong-ditch while watching the Blair Witch Project... One of the most scared I've ever been." — Trey (28:47)
• “We told him we’d shave his eyebrow off if he kept being late… we finally snapped and shaved his eyebrow off. He was never late again.” — Tas (58:14)
• "Lesson learned. Too old for a bounce house!" — Trey (53:34)
• "Sometimes you win your championship in the conference finals." — Trey on Braves-Yankees (52:57)

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Episode Timestamps

• R.I.P. Rick Adelman & Tribute: 03:14 – 05:09
• 1999 Jeopardy-Style Trivia: 06:18 – 30:44
• Listener Question: Series Ranking: 32:53 – 44:52
• Listener Question: ‘99 Finals Memories: 47:42 – 53:35
• Listener Question: Constructive Bullying: 54:52 – 58:44

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Memorable Moments

• Trey’s exasperated real-time narration of Air Corgi’s Finals prediction (60:28–61:25).
• The group reminiscing about ‘90s childhood/teen rituals, perks, snacks, and growing up in/around 1999.
• Spirited, good-natured ribbing and trivia stumbles (“Take Off Your Pants and Jacket” as a wrong answer).
• Celebratory, community-focused sign-off: “Embrace the day, people.”

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TL;DR – Why Listen?

This episode weaves NBA history, 1999 nostalgia, and sharp playoff takes into an episode that both honors the league’s past and makes space for some classic No Dunks absurdity and warmth. Whether you want basketball analysis, ‘90s references, or simply clever banter, it’s a perfect showcase of the show’s style and camaraderie.

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Transcript

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It's those in between moments. That's where the ideas hit.

[Trey Kirby]

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[J. Skeets]

Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the no Dunks podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Tuesday, June 2, 2026. I'm J. Skeets here in the Classic Factory, aka NBA podcast row. And alongside me as always, Tas Melis.

[Tas Melis]

Podcast listeners, this is for you.

[J. Skeets]

Next to him, it's my top shot, hot boy Trey Kirby Ayo. Hey yo. And over yonder, making the magic happen. Super producer jd.

[Tas Melis]

Hello.

[J. Skeets]

There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hit the like button. Subscribe podcast listeners, five star ratings and reviews. I should say hello to everyone on X as well. I think we're simulcasting now to the old Twitter platform. So hello and good morning to you as well. We had a fun show I think here today. But we start with some sad news from yesterday. Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Adelman has died. He was 79 years old. Adelman won more than 1,000 games over the course of a nearly 30 year career basketball lifer here. He served as the head coach for the Blazers, Warriors, Kings, Rockets and Timberwolves. Coach was inducted into the hall of fame in 2021 and again 1042 wins tasks the 10th most in NBA history.

[Tas Melis]

He was admired by a lot of people. Listening to all the quotes yesterday players of his like Kyle Lowry who said how much Adelman poured into him and Lowry said it was if it wasn't for him I don't know what career I would have. Guys like Clyde Drexler called him an absolute gentleman, a pr, A prince of a guy. Kind words for Adelman all around. Even Eric Spolstra saying that he admired him and a big reason to why he became the coach that he is. So lots of love for Rick Adam.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, you mentioned one of only 11 coaches ever with a thousand or more WINS. And the first time I knew about Rick Adelman was like 1992 finals when he was coaching the Blazers and the dude coached like so many cool teams. The early 90s Blazers were very cool. The early 2000s Kings were like everybody's second favorite team and a lot of people's first favorite team. And then even coached the Tracy McGrady Yao Ming Rockets who went on that 22 game winning streak in 2008. Not to mention the Timberwolves after that. The warriors in the mix as well. But yeah, Rick Adelman coached cool teams beloved and was around for like basically my entire basketball life.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, definitely hold a special place in Kings fans. Eight seasons there as head coach they made the playoffs in every single season. That's not something we say a lot with the Sacramento Kings, but when he was coaching they did. And yeah, his style of basketball was very fun. You know, basically known as the greatest show on the court. So I saw King's Herald writing yesterday this idea that there should be probably a tribute to Coach Adelman there in the Golden One center, because few people have meant as much to Sacramento Kings basketball as Coach did. So our condolences to the Adelman family. He's got 12 grandchildren and all his former players and family and friends. So tough news there yesterday in the NBA world. We will pivot, though, to something a lot more fun as we get ready for the NBA Finals. We did our huge mega preview yesterday, so you can go check that out. Link is in the show notes. Talking an hour about all the X's and O's and X factors and things to watch, all that. But today, guys, stop me if you've heard this already. It's time to party like it's 1999. Because the new York Knicks and San Antonio spurs have advanced to these Finals. The Knicks first appearance in the finals since 99 when they lost to the spurs in five games. So it's 1999 this, it's 1999 that. So I figured, hey, bit of a down day here. Yep. Let's do some 1999 trivia. Yeah, that's right. We are going to do this trivia a little differently than we normally do. Yeah, baby. Making you honey. Steve Austin.

[Trey Kirby]

Steve Austin. Danger Powers. What a great costume that would be.

[J. Skeets]

Wow. Think anybody was doing that back in 99?

[Trey Kirby]

I would hope so.

[Tas Melis]

Probably.

[J. Skeets]

Probably. If you did that, send in a photo. Okay, so we're doing this trivia a little bit more Jeopardy style, if you want to call it that. Maybe I was inspired by Mina Kimes and her big win there on Celebrity Jeopardy. The two of you are gonna battle it out. Okay? But instead of a buzzer, it's gonna be your name. Okay? So if you know the answer, you say Trey, you say Tess.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, we both got one syllable.

[J. Skeets]

Nice. Well, hey, look, this was JD's idea. I consulted with him. I gotta say their name. I'm like, yeah, that works. You know, quick name. Both start with a T. I like it. So that's your buzzer. I have three questions across five different categories. Now, the questions generally get a little harder as we go on in each category. We're not going to worry about dollar values, though, because that's just going to be too hard to keep track of. But I will keep a tally of how many you get correct. I'm going to show you guys right now and the audience our five distinct categories that you'll be able to pick from. Okay? They are 1999 movies.

[Trey Kirby]

This is Jeopardy.

[J. Skeets]

1999 sports.

[Tas Melis]

Awesome.

[J. Skeets]

1999 world events. 1999, pop culture. And the final category. 1999 Je. Skets. All right, great. Excellent task.

[Tas Melis]

Nobody knew you in 1999. That's a tough, tough category.

[J. Skeets]

I've done 20 years of podcasting, though. I've shared everything there is to absolutely know about me. Probably 10 times over in terms of ripping myself.

[Tas Melis]

We have secrets. We all have secrets.

[J. Skeets]

We all have secrets. You are definitely an enigma. Me, not so much. But I'm just going to start with you. You're going to have the first crack at the category. You're closest to me. So pick whatever category you want, Tess. And then it's open ended. You guys will be buzzing in with your name. Okay.

[Tas Melis]

All right, let's sports it up.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. All right, so I'm just going to always go 1, 2, 3. So they'll sort of get harder, I guess. First one here.

[Tas Melis]

We don't have to answer like a question though.

[J. Skeets]

No, no, we don't have to do that either. Now there's more. That's more generic. Okay, here we go. First one in sports. Due to a lockout, the 9899 NBA regular season was just 50 games long. Who led the league in scoring that year? And I'm looking for the points per game leader. Okay, so 9899 points per game leader.

[Tas Melis]

Trey.

[J. Skeets]

Goal.

[Trey Kirby]

Allen Iverson.

[J. Skeets]

Ding. Allen Iverson is correct. I had to clarify points per game because Shaq actually scored more total points. Just. Oh, wow. Yeah, nice. Just. But Iverson, 26.8 points per game. All right, little tick there for Trey. Now got to make sure I cross off the list. Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

You gotta be control over Ken Jennings and the producers running the board. Eat your heart out, Reese from NBA. Nobody does the board like je skates. Give me 99. Pop culture.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, yeah, that's probably a strong suit here for Trey, usually. Okay, what 1999 Nintendo game. Featured characters from across multiple video game franchises.

[Trey Kirby]

1999.

[J. Skeets]

Yes. Multiple video game franchises. I'm going to give a hint right here too. A fighting game. Trey, go ahead.

[Trey Kirby]

Street Fighter versus Marvel.

[J. Skeets]

Tess, we can have a crack at it.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, do we tough?

[Tas Melis]

Do we deduct a point for. For incorrect answers? No. You thought.

[J. Skeets]

No. No, we don't.

[Tas Melis]

So just take a multiple franchises, as in non fighting plus a fighting.

[J. Skeets]

I said fighting. It's a fighting game.

[Tas Melis]

Okay, we'll just go Street Fighter versus Mortal Kombat.

[J. Skeets]

Trey, how about, you know, it's Super Smash Brothers. Super Smash Brothers. The Multiple. You know, your Marios. And yours. Your Zelda people.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't even know.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. There's a lot of games. I never played that.

[J. Skeets]

But of course you know the game. Come on. All right. That's all right.

[Trey Kirby]

It's like GameCube.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Okay. I'm going to stick with you, Trey. You have control the board stuff.

[Trey Kirby]

Let's stick with pop culture.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, next one here. What was the puntastic Name of Blink 182 smash hit album released in 1999?

[Trey Kirby]

Trash. Take off your pants and jacket.

[J. Skeets]

Incorrect. Oh, no. Oh, my God. He got too cocky. Tasks.

[Tas Melis]

I don't remember it, quite honestly. I even looked at it mere months ago when a Blink 281 was performing here in. In Georgia.

[J. Skeets]

What's Blink 2 cover band.

[Tas Melis]

The Blink 182.

[Trey Kirby]

That's a good one.

[Tas Melis]

No, I honestly don't.

[J. Skeets]

Trey, do you want to.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't.

[J. Skeets]

It's the. It's the COVID with the nurse.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So that's a bit of a giveaway, man.

[Trey Kirby]

Hello, nurse.

[J. Skeets]

That's Animaniacs Enema of the State on Enemy of this Dude Ranch.

[Trey Kirby]

Is that a Blink 182 record?

[J. Skeets]

Maybe. Yeah, that's before, I think. Yeah, that's before they sort of really got popular. Okay. That's all right.

[Trey Kirby]

TRL at the top of trl.

[J. Skeets]

I didn't say these are easy, Trey. Still control.

[Trey Kirby]

We gotta change it up. Let's go to Je. Skeets. 1999. Skeets.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, here we go. Did a lot of partying in 1999. Gotta be honest. I became a legal drinking age. Not that I wasn't doing it before, but we partied a lot at our friend Ken's house. What did we call? Ken's basement.

[Tas Melis]

I know it has something. I do not know. Oh, I thought there's something to do with a cardboard house or something in there. You guys.

[J. Skeets]

You got.

[Tas Melis]

Somebody slept in a cardboard house.

[J. Skeets]

Hold on. We're in Stratford still. We're still in Stratford. Ken's basement. You're thinking cardboard house? That's Toronto. That was Paul's house.

[Tas Melis]

That's when people moved. Yeah, we moved up in the world. We got a cardboard house. We slept in the basement of Ken Angeles.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

In the city of Stratford, Ontario.

[J. Skeets]

Does anybody want to take a crack at it? Trey. Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Dude ranch.

[J. Skeets]

I mean, a lot of the times it was.

[Trey Kirby]

I gotta guess.

[J. Skeets]

A lot of video games. No. Can I. I'm gonna give you a hint. Like there's some. Some rhyme work at play. Here, I guess.

[Tas Melis]

Late night fight. I mean, I don't know.

[Trey Kirby]

Ken's pen.

[J. Skeets]

That's correct.

[Trey Kirby]

What?

[J. Skeets]

Yes. Come on, you've heard it called Ken's pen a million times. Of course. Why would you remember that? Okay, but he doesn't get that. He doesn't get the points. This is tough. All right, Trey, board is still yours.

[Trey Kirby]

We've got one right so far. All right, let's go back to sports. We got a chance here.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah. In your wheelhouse. All right, here we go. Sports. 1999, the New York Yankees swept the Atlanta Braves to win the World Series. In 1999, which pitcher was named MVP of the Fall Classic? Trey, go ahead.

[Trey Kirby]

Andy Pettit

[J. Skeets]

Tass. There you go. You take your time.

[Tas Melis]

Starting pitcher for the Yanks. Oh, it was a bullpen.

[J. Skeets]

Hold on. Which pitcher was named MVP of the Fall Classic?

[Tas Melis]

Oh, not a Braves. Not a praise pitcher.

[J. Skeets]

I'm trying.

[Trey Kirby]

He's telling you. He's telling you the answer.

[J. Skeets]

Task. I need an answer in why. Five seconds.

[Trey Kirby]

They got the greatest closer in the history of closing games.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, Mariano Rivera. You don't need to. You didn't need to do that.

[J. Skeets]

I caught you because you said starting pitcher. But I didn't.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I still would have gotten there.

[J. Skeets]

I don't know. We'll give it to task. You got control. Let me give you some stats.

[Tas Melis]

You're a team lost and you don't remember that's your team.

[Trey Kirby]

No, I remember them losing. I absolutely do. I. I would have guessed Petit, also a Hall of Famer, was the. The MVP. Maybe he has another MVP.

[J. Skeets]

He might actually. But Mariano River Rivera. One win, two saves with a 0.00 ERA over three appearances, pitched 4.2 scoreless innings. And I think it was important cuz it was a sweep. But it was a close sweep, if that makes sense. Like they were a lot of competitive games. Very, very tight. So okay, one, one test, very tight. You got control the board. Every category still has an answer.

[Tas Melis]

How many questions do we have per category?

[J. Skeets]

Three times. Five.

[Tas Melis]

Okay. Yeah, we'll finish off sports.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, Sports. Final one in this category. There's no daily doubles. By the way, that's. It just gets too video.

[Trey Kirby]

Daily double. Matt Bonner reading a question.

[J. Skeets]

That would have been cool. I just thought of this yesterday, so I didn't have a lot of time. Okay, this is your final question in sports. This American men's tennis player finished 1999 ranked number one by the ATP. It would be his only year end number one title despite winning eight majors in his career, eight major tests.

[Tas Melis]

Go ahead, Andy Roddick. That's too many.

[J. Skeets]

Correct. That's not a bad guess though. 99 though. I think you're. I think Andy Roddick's a little later,

[Trey Kirby]

but yeah, I guess he's not much later. I just had a conversation at the pool about men's tennis and Andy Roddick is still the most recent American to win any of the four majors. That's in 25 years ago.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, so it was soon after this then.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, so not too bad. Who else Was good in 1999?

[J. Skeets]

American men's tennis player.

[Trey Kirby]

American men's tennis player. Agassi.

[J. Skeets]

Correct. Way to talk it out. Way to get there. Yes, that's right.

[Trey Kirby]

Sampras always had him.

[J. Skeets]

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[J. Skeets]

All right, sports are done, guys.

[Trey Kirby]

Sports are done.

[J. Skeets]

Which is the only category we've gotten, correct? Is that right?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Two for three. So now it's movies. You at world events. You got one. Pop culture left.

[Trey Kirby]

And World event.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, yeah, good idea. Good idea. All right. Who was President of the United States of America in 1999?

[Tas Melis]

Simple as that.

[J. Skeets]

I wish they said that on Jeopardy. Before they busted. Simple as that. Ken. Buzz. Is that your butt? No. You haven't said your name yet.

[Tas Melis]

I mean, Trey.

[J. Skeets]

Go ahead.

[Tas Melis]

This is your country.

[Trey Kirby]

Bill Clinton.

[J. Skeets]

It's correct.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. You know, it sounds simple, but then you start going, is. Was he? Yeah. Yes.

[Tas Melis]

Who else would you say? I mean, George won it a year later.

[J. Skeets]

He won it a year later. That's right. Why didn't you say that?

[Trey Kirby]

Did he win it a year later?

[Tas Melis]

Really?

[J. Skeets]

Makes sense.

[Tas Melis]

Florida says yes.

[Trey Kirby]

Florida says they did.

[J. Skeets]

All right, three. One for Trey right now. And you have control of the board.

[Trey Kirby]

Movies.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Sure.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, back to movies. Our first movies. All right. Again, they start easy and get a little harder. What was the highest grossing film of 1999? Trey. Have a go.

[Trey Kirby]

Phantom Menace.

[J. Skeets]

Correct. Star Wars. Episode one. The Phantom Menace.

[Tas Melis]

Nice.

[J. Skeets]

You want to guess this is not a bonus point or anything, but what do you think it grossed worldwide in 99.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, people would have been very excited, very excited that it was coming back? 2.8 billion.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. A little too High. But that's an insane number. That's a crazy number. 924 million.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, wow. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

And 200 million. Clear a second place. It opened to 64 million the first weekend, grossed over 1 million domestically for 61 consecutive days. So, yeah, people were hyped about this. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Long time, no Star Wars. Longest Star wars break, I would imagine. Is that right, JD From Jedi to Phantom Menace.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, Trey has taken a commanding lead here.

[Trey Kirby]

How about.

[J. Skeets]

There are questions to go. Go ahead.

[Trey Kirby]

World events.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, back to world events. Woodstock 99, held at an Air Force base in Rome, New York, did not have a single designated headliner that said what Spicy Band closed the festival on Sunday night.

[Tas Melis]

Tas.

[J. Skeets]

Go ahead.

[Tas Melis]

Spicy Band. I'll just go very literal. Spice Girls.

[J. Skeets]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

No one.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, damn it.

[Trey Kirby]

Red Hot Chili.

[J. Skeets]

That's correct.

[Trey Kirby]

Good hint.

[J. Skeets]

I also consulted. I consulted with JD On. Should I put a clue in this one? That's pretty tough. Yeah, I threw Spicy in.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

He knew it was coming. That damn pepper.

[J. Skeets]

Obviously. Woodstock 99. Lots of documentaries on that. It's the Limp Bizkit.

[Trey Kirby]

And if you wouldn't have put spicy and I'm guessing Biscuit.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, That's Saturday. I think that's the night before. Yeah. All right, Trey, 5, 1 lead.

[Trey Kirby]

How about pop culture?

[J. Skeets]

All right, back to pop culture. Our final one in pop culture.

[Trey Kirby]

That's what we just did. I'm trying to jump around.

[J. Skeets]

You just did world events. I know. It could have been whatever his name is.

[Trey Kirby]

James.

[J. Skeets]

Okay? It's all about jumping pop culture. Final question. Who won the Grammy Award for best new artists in 1999? Wow. Okay, I'm gonna throw on the hint. I was gonna throw on, like they would do in Jeopardy. Uh, let me educate you guys. Who won the Grammy Award for best new artists in 1999? That's the hint.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, man. 19.

[J. Skeets]

So a lot of great artists, too. This is why it's a stacked category in 99.

[Tas Melis]

So is the education a hint?

[J. Skeets]

It's a hint, Trey. Go ahead.

[Trey Kirby]

Lauryn Hill.

[J. Skeets]

That's correct.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, that's education.

[J. Skeets]

Correct.

[Trey Kirby]

That's a good new artist.

[J. Skeets]

That's. Yeah. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, I guess maybe that's when her solo record came out.

[J. Skeets]

That's exactly right. But there's, like. I think the category is, like, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera. There's a couple other big, big names that came out in 99. So I think it was, like, a. Maybe a little weird. Like a surprise with that album.

[Tas Melis]

Feels late for Britney Spears.

[J. Skeets]

Maybe one more time. 98, 99. It's got to be.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, Yeah, I guess so.

[J. Skeets]

All right, pop culture is done. How many questions are left? Can Task even do this? I guess he technically could. Okay, so. But, Trey, your pick here. You got movies, you got world events still. And Je. Skeets, of course we're going.

[Trey Kirby]

Skeets.

[J. Skeets]

Wow. All right, now, I know I've said this on the show before, so listen up. What was the name of my 1999 New Year's Eve house party? Trey, go ahead.

[Trey Kirby]

Filennium.

[J. Skeets]

That's correct.

[Trey Kirby]

Gotta be.

[J. Skeets]

That's correct. An infamous party shut down before midnight.

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[J. Skeets]

Before the filennium. Before the filennium. The cops shut it down. Yep. Our friend at the time. I was still friend to the day at the time. Corey. Well, I was really good friends with him in school, but obviously. Stay in touch. Cory Smith.

[Trey Kirby]

Smith.

[J. Skeets]

He got a ticket at exactly 12 o' clock for. He had an open beverage out on the street after the party, got kicked out. Pretty incredible. So he's like. He's convinced he got the first ever ticket, probably of the millennium. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

That's good.

[J. Skeets]

That great little fact for you. Yep. Millennium. Okay, well, commanding lead. Go ahead, let's go. Movies. Okay. Movies. Back to movies. This is our second question of movies. It was a tough one. 1999 has a reputation for being one of the best years for movies. And three of them started with the word American. American Pie, American Beauty, and this cult favorite documentary. Tough.

[Trey Kirby]

Which ones did you say again?

[J. Skeets]

American Pie, American Beauty. And then this culture. Favorite documentary.

[Trey Kirby]

Trey. American movie.

[J. Skeets]

Correct. Wow, that's impressive. Remember the movie?

[Trey Kirby]

I do remember it.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I haven't seen it for maybe not even during the millennium.

[J. Skeets]

Wow. Going back to 99. Okay. Yeah. Very good work. Now, I thought this was one of the tougher questions I had. All right.

[Tas Melis]

Do you remember the name of the movie? That American movie?

[Trey Kirby]

No way. No.

[Tas Melis]

Well, I think I do. I just thought of it.

[J. Skeets]

I'll look it up. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Is it coven?

[J. Skeets]

Oh, I think you're right. Yes, yes, yes. That's what they're making in the movie. I believe you're right. Coven.

[Tas Melis]

Nice.

[J. Skeets]

Coven. What a call. J.D. very nice. Positive reviews it received at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, but it's definitely become a cult film favorite. All right. Movies, World events. And J. Skeets is left.

[Trey Kirby]

World events it is.

[J. Skeets]

All right, this one's for the Canadians out there. So task. Come on, man. Here we go. What Canadian territory was established in 1999?

[Tas Melis]

Test.

[J. Skeets]

Yep.

[Tas Melis]

I will have none of it.

[J. Skeets]

Yes, that's right. Do you know what it means? Do you know what it means in. How do you spell in their language? What is it? Inukatut? Is that how you say it? Anyway. What? Did you know what it means? None of it.

[Tas Melis]

I don't, actually.

[J. Skeets]

I didn't either. Of course. Our land is what it means.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, There you go. There we go. None of it.

[Trey Kirby]

None of it.

[J. Skeets]

I will have none of it. Hold on, Tess. You know what? You should get a bonus point. All right, Task.

[Tas Melis]

I gave the Bill Clinton one to Trey, so I got that one.

[J. Skeets]

That's a great point. Okay, there's movies and. And Skeets left.

[Tas Melis]

Movies and Skeets movies.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, these are. These are very tough questions as we round this out, so you've saved the. Probably the toughest for last. In 1999's the Blair Witch Movie, three young students hike into the Appalachian Mountains near which state? Tess, go ahead.

[Tas Melis]

Near which state?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

What a damn question. Near North Carolina? No.

[J. Skeets]

No. There's a lot of states.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, a lot of states.

[J. Skeets]

You basically have to know where it's located.

[Trey Kirby]

New York?

[J. Skeets]

No.

[Tas Melis]

New Hampshire?

[J. Skeets]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

South Carolina.

[J. Skeets]

Georgia? No.

[Tas Melis]

Kentucky?

[J. Skeets]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

Tennessee?

[J. Skeets]

No. Virginia? No. But you're getting closer. Nope. Maryland. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

I knew it was Mary's Land. Damn it.

[J. Skeets]

One of my favorite moments ever on the podcast, just naming mountains or naming states that maybe the Appalachian Mountains are in. Okay. Maryland. Yeah. Maryland. I think it was like. What was it? They had a weird name. Burkettsville or something like that. That's where it was located. Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Somebody Ding Dong ditched my house when I was watching the Blair Witch Project at home. That was, like, one of the most scared I've ever been in my life.

[J. Skeets]

That's terrifying.

[Trey Kirby]

A perfectly timed Ding Dong Ditch.

[J. Skeets]

Did you and figure out who it was?

[Trey Kirby]

No. And I ended up having to go stand and watch in the corner all by myself, looking at nothing.

[J. Skeets]

Damn. All right, well, the final question, guys. In 1990, trivia is under the category J. Skeets. And it goes like this. What car component did I stamp serial numbers into while working the graveyard shift in Stratford, Ontario, to save money for my trip to Australia? What car component? I was working at? Dynamic Factory. Yeah. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Is that a hint? Like we should know. What dynamic.

[Trey Kirby]

What do they make?

[Tas Melis]

It's got to be TAS.

[J. Skeets]

Go ahead.

[Tas Melis]

An exhaust.

[J. Skeets]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

Trey.

[J. Skeets]

Go ahead.

[Trey Kirby]

Catalytic converter.

[Tas Melis]

Guys, it was a radiator.

[J. Skeets]

Pedals. Oh, pedals. I did do some radiator work, but it was pedals. Yeah, it was like. It was like brake pedals and clutch pedals. Yeah. And it was like I would take one out, I put in this machine, I press two buttons, and it would just put this, you know, serial number onto it. I just did that all night. All night. This is pre podcast, man. Just me and my thoughts.

[Trey Kirby]

Just me and my thoughts. This is pre podcasts.

[J. Skeets]

That's 1999 trivia. I was like, dude, I was working in a factory.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, but did they, like, music blaring?

[J. Skeets]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

Parts flying down the conveyor?

[J. Skeets]

It was.

[Tas Melis]

That's not allowed.

[J. Skeets]

No, no, it was. No, it was silent. You just. You.

[Trey Kirby]

Silent stamping.

[J. Skeets]

I mean, I especially the graveyard shift was weird because it was actually. It wasn't even an operating plant at night. We were in there to clean the plant and then sort of do some work like this crap, you know? But then I got eventually on the day shift, that's when we were building, like, actual cars.

[Trey Kirby]

That's nice.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, that was more exciting. At least some. Well, some tack welding involved. No big deal. Whatever. No big deal. All right, Trey, you win. 1999 trivia. Eight to. We'll call it eight to three.

[Trey Kirby]

Great.

[J. Skeets]

Tess had a very funny pun. Good game, guys.

[Trey Kirby]

Very good game. And also, according to the stream team, 82% of our stream teamers here were alive in 1999.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, nice.

[Tas Melis]

Good to know.

[J. Skeets]

It's very good to know, actually. More than I would have thought. All right, we're going to take a break, and when we come back, a little beach step in where we're going to rank some playoff series this year.

[Tas Melis]

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[J. Skeets]

All right, thanks, everybody for joining us here this morning. Again, hit the like button. Subscribe five Star ratings and reviews. Let's hit the beach. You got the buzz, I got the rockets. You got the nuts, I got the chocolates. We got that chit shot down pat. Blah, blah, blah. You got that certain special genesis. Let's go to the beach, baby. Yes. From the factory to the beach. That's what we're doing here. Thanks, everybody. Sending questions over the last couple of days. No Dunks, Inc. Mail.com. that's Inc. On the end of that bad boy. No dunks inc.gmail.com. leave them in the YouTube comments or hit us up on social media. All right, I got a couple here for you. First one. Hey boys. Been listening since the starter days on NBA TV when I was in middle school. Been a big fan ever since middle school starters days. Was this person born after 1999? Probably not. Probably born in the, in the 90s, right?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. I bet it's probably close though. Probably close late 90s.

[J. Skeets]

I think it would be cool if you guys ranked all the playoff series from the playoffs so far in the lead up to the finals. There's a pretty clear number one, imo. But I'm curious where you guys would position the others and if one conference on average had more compelling matchups. Keep up the awesome work. Best. That's from Robert. Fun question. Robert and Tass, you're gonna lead the way on this one. Doing your best ability here to sort of rank them all.

[Tas Melis]

How many series in total we've had 14 series. Let's start from the worst and we'll make our way to the top of the 14 series we've seen so far. Plenty of sweeps and that's where we start. Thunder sweeping the Suns round one. That's, that's the worst we've seen, I would say. Unfortunately, I didn't get my man Colin Gillespie at his full form, but these sons had plenty of injuries. Sticking at 13 more thunder. I'd say the Thunder Lakers was number 13. It just seemed too, too easy for the Thunder. They're plus 64 over those four games in that sweep and it is around two. We're putting here at 13. So you can say, well you should, you should have that higher. But either way, that's where I got them. Number 12. I got a round two sweep. I think the Knicks Sixers not so fun.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, agree.

[Tas Melis]

Plus 81 for the Knicks. Absolute crush. I think the biggest storyline is the Knicks having their fans in Philadelphia game three and game four. I mean, what else do you remember from that series? Yep, not much. Number 11. Finally something that's not a sweep. Spurs Blazers of round one five games.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, so this is the Wemby ejection.

[Tas Melis]

Wemby ejection. Well the concussion. Concussion.

[J. Skeets]

Excuse me. Concussion. Yes.

[Tas Melis]

I'm thinking we're still waiting.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melis]

On Wembanyama's feelings and how upset he was about how post concussion was handled. So we should still get that after the season is done.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

He did say he is a man of his word. I think we are going to get that at some point. But otherwise. Otherwise we saw some, you know an incredible Scoot Henderson game right in that series or saw some great Drew Holiday. So there was some drama there. I felt this could have been a little higher.

[J. Skeets]

Maybe a little higher.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, maybe. But at 10 I. I went with the final of the sweeps that we've seen so far from the first 14 series here. The Knicks Cavs just cuz it was a conference finals but it was plus 77 for the Knicks and we had the game one comeback. Yes, the comeback but still just kind of dudsville. So I can understand why you'd want to put spurs over. Spurs Blazers over that particular series.

[Trey Kirby]

These are my same bottom five.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah. All right. Moving into number nine. A lot of talk about this series as it happened. But Lakers Rockets as it went to six games kind of low here on. On the rankings. It started off three zip. And then the Rockets winning game four and game five to make this a series. But we got better series than this.

[Trey Kirby]

Remember when we were talking about Luke Canard so much he was starting that was this series. I think he had 27 and 23 in games one and two. Game three was the one with the Rockets. They blew it six point lead in 30 seconds or whatever. But yeah, this is low.

[Tas Melis]

Oh yeah.

[J. Skeets]

And there was a market smart game too, right?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. That the comeback part. Well, big part of that. What Trey was just mentioning the six points down for the Lakers that they came back.

[Trey Kirby]

Right.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Game three. It was game three. Right?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, it was.

[Tas Melis]

Next we're getting into more seven game series because we had so many seven game series. So this is the first one I've. I've ranked at number eight. Pistons Magic Round 1 where Magic were up in game six at home fourth quarter it looked like they could win this series. They lose that game and then they lose game seven to the Pistons in Detroit Pistons look like they were on the ropes here in a 18 battle.

[J. Skeets]

Franz Wagner injury too in the series. Maybe the Magic win.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, he's playing.

[J. Skeets]

They probably do Having the lead in the series. But yeah, I think you got it in the right spot here. You can maybe debate like Lakers Rockets. Like I, I think I liked Lakers Rockets more because I was watching with like our buddy John John and friends that game three, that crazy sort of like, what the hell just happened here? How did the Lakers get this to overtime? That was entertaining. So maybe I, I switched those two. But it's definitely not high this series.

[Trey Kirby]

No, I had it right in the middle too.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Seventh for me. Three, one lead getting blown. That's exciting. Had that monster dunk on Jalen Duran. There was a game when Cade and Paolo both had 45 against each other. Like there was some cool stuff that happened.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, good spot.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, you probably had it higher than my number seven trade because this is me being a homer. Raptors calves round one, seven games.

[J. Skeets]

We had the RJ Barrett shot.

[Tas Melis]

Had the RJ Barrett shot.

[J. Skeets]

That was insane.

[Tas Melis]

Yes. I have play on a mug in on my mug shelf. I didn't bring it in. It doesn't really. It doesn't really read on camera. So I didn't really bring it in. The, the whole it. You got to see it up close and personal.

[J. Skeets]

You gotta sip.

[Tas Melis]

You gotta sip it.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

But it went to seven games. Although, you know, plenty of low scoring games in that series. There are some ugly ones. Yeah, there's some battles. But anyways, Cav's pulling it out in round one. Number six of our 14 series so far. I went Nuggets Wolves in round one. A fun battle between Rudy and Jokic. Jokic just wasn't himself. And so yeah, this could have been. Could have been higher for some, I think.

[Trey Kirby]

But yeah, it's in the. Like I had a fifth, sixth. Isn't that much different? Like I liked IO's 43 point game. You know, there was some like dramatic moments between like Jokic and Nas Reed I think.

[Tas Melis]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

Like they gotten a little bit of a beef together. McDaniels had that monster game six. Yeah, some cool stuff happened, but this is like a. A mid carder.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, it's a decent one. Let's get into it.

[J. Skeets]

The big takeaway was Go Bear containing, shutting down whatever we're calling on Yogic. Doing a really good job on him.

[Tas Melis]

Yes.

[J. Skeets]

The Wolves defense. The Wolves just sort of having the Nuggets sort of number, I guess in a. In the rubber match.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Is this the series that you will remember Rudy Gobert by the most in playoffs history or is it the game seven after the Nuggets won the championship and the following year, they're at home against the Minnesota timberwolves in game seven. They have a 20 point lead and they give up that lead.

[Trey Kirby]

That's when Gobert hits like that. Fade away, right?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, that's more memorable.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. That's a weird one.

[Tas Melis]

That's a weird one. Top five here from these first three rounds. More Timberwolves, Spurs, Timberwolves. Round two went six games. Mini one. Game one in San Antonio with Rudy Gobert on the bench in the fourth quarter because they went to Nas Reed, they decided, all right, we're spreading it out, trying to get Wemby out of the paint. And it worked. In San Antonio, you know, the rest of the series went a little differently. Anthony Edwards leaving the floor at the end of game six. I shouldn't say at the end of game six. Eight minutes left. In the end of the end of game six. Was it eight, nine minutes left. As soon as there was a timeout, Anthony Edwards goes all the way over to the spurs bench to shake hands, which was very. People criticizing that, obviously, because he didn't hang out. But that was a good series. A really, really good series.

[J. Skeets]

You got in the right spot here, I think.

[Tas Melis]

I think so.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

But I think people could have it higher than my fourth pick of the 14 series. Pistons, Cavs. Round two did go seven games.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

So either way. Either way, it's a seven. It was a, you know, a fun. I don't know if there's a lot of. A lot of memories from that particular series,

[J. Skeets]

but.

[Trey Kirby]

Mitchell 39.5.

[Tas Melis]

That was. Yeah, that's a good one. That was a good one. Yep.

[Trey Kirby]

Road Team 1, 5, 6 and 7.

[Tas Melis]

That's weird. That was weird. Yeah. The home team winning the first four. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

It's probably lower. Just like now looking back at it, it's like. Or maybe even in the moment, we were like, no one was really all that impressed with either of those teams or convinced they could do anything moving on in the playoffs. Someone was going to win by default. You know what I mean? And it was like. Yeah. So I think now that you say I'm in order. Wolves, spurs, probably I have. Ahead of this one.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I got it.

[J. Skeets]

Even though it went seven. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

At number three, I've got another seven game series which people may drop because it was a round one battle between the Celtics and 76ers, but a nice upset for the Philadelphia 76. There's so much drama at the end of this series with Joe Mazula starting some weird stuff and Ron Harper Jr. Baylor Shireman out there and Luca Garza

[J. Skeets]

out there and Embiid coming back was huge.

[Tas Melis]

And be coming back and he looked

[J. Skeets]

amazing for a couple of games.

[Trey Kirby]

That was ridiculous. Immediately back and played what game 4. 4. And he looked so bad. And we're like, they maybe should not even play this guy going forward. Then he dominated for three games and it turned out he had three good games.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Ready for the playoffs. But the Sixers won all three of them. That was a crazy series.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. To come back and win that thing. Very cool. And then you get the. This is post series, but the whole Jalen Brown hitting the twitch to talk about how this was his favorite season because he was the number one guy literally 24 hours after losing game seven. So weird stuff. But Yep. Part of.

[Trey Kirby]

You can factor it in.

[Tas Melis]

Part of the aura, no doubt. Number two, this maybe may be high, but I've got Knicks Hawks Round 1 games. Only six games. Only six games. But the making of the New York Knicks. It sure feels like after they were down 2:1 in this series and people wondering if the New York Knicks are going to win at all, that's when Carl Anthony Towns up top as the passer was born. It didn't happen in the first three games, but then it happened in game four. Mikhail Bridges as a result, started playing well. This was the OG Anunoby series. It was awesome. So all in all, I mean, we saw C.J. mcCollum, game winner.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

In this series winners, basically. So yeah, this was. This was good. Number two for me.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. And then number one is obvious.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Seven games, Western Conference finals. You get a Thunder Spurs. It was bookended by two great games in game one and game seven.

[J. Skeets]

Yep.

[Tas Melis]

Died a little bit. Two through six. There's the whole chat drama. There was the spurs playing Shea extremely well. He only got up to 40 shooting for an MVP who was doing 55 throughout the entire season. Surprising. But a lot of. A lot of stories born in this. Obviously Wemby in game number one with the 41 plus 41 points in two overtimes. That was some fancy stuff.

[J. Skeets]

So great series and hopefully the start of like a legendary rivalry between these two teams.

[Tas Melis]

Yep.

[J. Skeets]

If they keep these cores together, why wouldn't they? They're all fairly young and hopefully a couple more times in the Western Conference finals or obviously in a. In a round before if it happens. So.

[Tas Melis]

So any dumb ones? Any dumb ones.

[J. Skeets]

That's good. I mean, I think like you said, you could move around the odd one up a slot or two or down a slot or two but otherwise that's pretty solid.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, the only one that I had that was more than like one or two spots off was I thought Spurs Timberwolves was my number two. But when you running through the way it transpired, it did end with a dud. Like it was a 30 point blowout for the spurs in the end. But like I like the 1B 12 block game. I like the spiciness of him elbowing Nas Reed in the throat. Like there was some drama early in the series, but I think it just shows that like there's a clear number one and and then everything else that's happened.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah. And may may be pushed up a little bit more because Wemby won in the conference finals after, so it kind of gets attached to that a little bit. And yeah, I can understand why it's over. Pistons Caskist that was a bit, bit dirty but I like the Jalen Brown drama of Celtic Sixers. It's too good man. It's too good.

[J. Skeets]

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[J. Skeets]

Good stuff. All right, next question here from John in Bakersfield. Hi, Bill. Yeah, we started something here. Longtime listener on the subject of memories. The biggest memory of the 1999 Finals matchup between the Knicks and Spurs is a Conan O' Brien skit that aired June 24, 1999, called Pubes. Me, being nine years old at the time, didn't know what the pubes joke was in reference to, as I had none at the time. In fact, I thought he was saying fubes for years. It took me until I had pubes to realize he was saying pubes. How many times can you say pubes in this email? I love it. Anywho, what's the. What's the first or biggest memory you have from the 99 finals? Or any memory from 1999 that sticks out to you turn up? Thanks for the merms. Fall Out Boyz. Awesome. That's. Thanks for the memories. I did not know they stylized the name of that song that way. That was news to me. I'm like, what the hell does that mean? Okay, no vowels. Thanks for the memories. Thanks for the memories. Okay. Great stuff, John. Really, we're just. Excuse me. Looking for your first or biggest memory from the 99 finals or anything from 99photo.

[Tas Melis]

The still image of Duncan and Robinson together. That's what I always will remember. Just visually, that's what I'll Remember, but play wise. I'll remember there. There's the photo of, of Tim Duncan and David Robinson. Just those two guys.

[J. Skeets]

I love it too because they're in Madison Square Garden. So you got those panels at the top with the lights. I just think it looks badass. Yeah, I'm with you. That, that definitely one of the first like images that pop into my head.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, my. No doubt. And then play wise on the break, Latrell Sprewell giving it to Jaren Jackson, senior. A two hander. Right on. Jared Jackson, senior. Poor guy. Poor guy. Jaren Jackson, senior. I mean he had game or 17 points in game one out of the finals. He was really good. But the plays that you'll always remember. Jaren Jackson four were getting dunked on there by Sprewell, but also getting dunked on by Kobe Bryant on Christmas Day. Later that year in 1999, he got dunked on Kobe. We've talked about this before recently when I, I made that short of players whose dads played in the league. And Jaren Jackson and Kobe Bryant kind of had a glove on. It was like a brace glove that he used to dunk on Jiren Jackson.

[J. Skeets]

So the 99, 2000 season.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, Christmas Day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's. That was the opening day of that season. Right. Did they start on Christmas?

[J. Skeets]

No, this wasn't. This was the.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, this was. Yeah, but this got pushed back.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Right.

[Tas Melis]

So when did they start?

[Trey Kirby]

Maybe I think they started on Christmas in 2011.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Maybe they played fewer games during the 98, 99 season. Right. So I think they might have started after the new year. Like did they even start in 1998? It might have been full 99. They only played 50 games, I think.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, they did play.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

I don't know.

[Tas Melis]

But anyways, Jaren Jackson, he was good. He won a championship.

[J. Skeets]

He did.

[Trey Kirby]

I wasn't afraid to challenge a dunk is what it sounds like.

[Tas Melis]

That's right.

[J. Skeets]

So I guess that's where his son got it from. It was a lot bigger. Aaron Jackson Sr. Was not Jaren Jackson Jr. Size.

[Tas Melis]

No.

[J. Skeets]

He was like a guard. Wing guy. Yeah. Like. Yeah, probably six, five, six, four. All right. What do you got from the finals or obviously anything else?

[Trey Kirby]

It was the Knicks became the first 80s to make the finals and that's what I think of first when it comes to the 99 finals. I think this was also the birth of Bill Simmons Ewing theory, which is why this is a perfect high bill question.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah. It's sort of it's at least the best example of the Ewing theory for sure.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, right. Because he was like all banged up this entire year. He went down like he officially had to shut it down. During the playoffs they started playing Marcus Camby. More went to the finals as well. I have watched back game two and game five. Avery John Avery Johnson hits a game winner at the end of game five, maybe like 30 or 40 seconds left and this dude is wide open like Chris Childs, Latrell Sprewell. They're guarding nobody. They were just completely freaked out because basically Tim Duncan gets the ball in the post and they just had to do anything to get the ball out of his hands because this guy dominated in the finals. Watching back game two and Doug Collins is calling him the best player in the league.

[J. Skeets]

Yes, I saw that.

[Trey Kirby]

He's two seasons in.

[J. Skeets]

Yep, that's what he says.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

This guy's in his second year. He's the best player in the league. Yeah, at that time he was. Those are great stuff. The only thing I'll add is a vivid memory is just Larry Johnson in the finals and he's rocking the huge beard. Grandma Ma with the beard at that point. Oh, it looked awesome on it. It was like sort of a raggedy beard, but it looked cool. And he had the infamous four point play leading into the NBA finals. So that's just like pops into my head. Larry Johnson, let's hear your memories from 99. Were you alive in 1999?

[Trey Kirby]

Were you alive?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Were you alive?

[Trey Kirby]

Chipper Jones won the MVP that year. I also think of that.

[J. Skeets]

Did he?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

He literally dominated the New York Mets and I think that's what the problem was. Smoked the Mets like the last season of this or the last series of the season. I think he hit maybe four home runs. They won the MVP off that because the Braves were behind the Mets going into this. They ended up having to play again in the playoffs, beat the Mets again and then they had to play the other New York team and got completely smoked. Sometimes you win your championship in the conference finals.

[J. Skeets]

That was one of the rare instances in MLB history where they were the two number one seeds I think too in their. In their leagues. Yep. I'm pretty sure both of them, the Yankees and the Braves in that finals.

[Trey Kirby]

Broke my wrist in 1999.

[J. Skeets]

Did you?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Our team went to the state tournament in high school. Is our best basketball team ever. Big shout out to Brad. You corn taking us to number four. But I was playing in the bounce house and Ryan Romey fell On me. Broke my wrist. Not great for the start of the baseball season.

[Tas Melis]

Wow.

[J. Skeets]

You were in a bounce house and you were 16 years old. 17 years old. Guys were just being hooligans. We're just being hooligans.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, exactly.

[J. Skeets]

Right. That's what I mean. Like, too old for a bounce house.

[Trey Kirby]

Absolutely. As it turns out, yes.

[Tas Melis]

Yes.

[J. Skeets]

Lesson learned. All right, final one here, but. Well, hold on. Jd, are you all right over there? You okay?

[Tas Melis]

Yes.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, good. I am choking. Yeah. No. Okay, you're choking, but I'm fine. Okay. All right, final one. Classic Factory. On this Monday's finals preview, Skeets. Skeets was hitting on some storylines and was discussing the Larry o' Brien trophy at center court. Quipping, bullying works sometimes. I found it hilarious because not even 72 hours ago, I said the same thing in my college friends group chat. The reason being our one friend, Adam, would notoriously never dive and hit the floor for a loose ball. Back in our prime hooping days at the University of Pittsburgh H2P, we bullied him for months. And finally, after all the harassment, he started playing grittier and diving for loose balls. This memory brings me to my question. How? When did you constructively bully your friend into a positive outcome? Thanks for all Yin's due. That's from Nick. S. Look, from where he's from, from Southern Maryland. He would have known the answer to that Blair Witch Project question. All right, Nick wants to know how or when you basically bullied your friends into a positive outcome. Tough question to answer, but maybe somebody's got something here.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, just before we start answering this stuff, I looked it up. The Liz app commercials started in 1999. Was this on purpose? I don't know.

[J. Skeets]

It's all coming together.

[Trey Kirby]

Great commercial.

[J. Skeets]

That was 99.

[Trey Kirby]

I just did a quick Google of WhatsApp to see what it said, and somebody said this was the 67 of the 90s and early 2000s. People were saying was up. Yeah, non stop.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Constructively bullying. I don't know, but it's similar to, like, parenting your children's. And sometimes peer pressure is good where you're like, oh, every kid's going off the diving board. You better go off the diving board. For my example, we made our younger daughter Ada play basketball this year. And we're like, we will give you a big bag of Skittles if you go. She went. And guess what? She likes basketball. Now that's fun. Once you start playing, you just gotta get out there.

[J. Skeets]

That's. I've said this story before, but there used to be a guy when I was in high. Well, I guess it was like before high school, but playing sports. Growing up, we called him Big Game James. He was an awesome softball player, baseball player, and his parents would give him a bag of chips for every home run he hit. And this kid would just go out and hit diggers non stop because all. I swear, he didn't even like baseball. He just loved chips that much. I can picture it. And he could crush the ball, man. He was like, a really good baseball player, but I don't think he liked it anyway. Very, very similar. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Hardball or softball?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I remember him playing softball, but I think he played hardball, too. I just can always picture him, like, at the end of a game, walking with a bunch of, like. Like, you know, chips you would hand out. Like Halloween or something.

[Trey Kirby]

Like the little bags?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah. But maybe a little bit bigger than little bags. I feel like back in the 90s, we had, like, the more, you know, an individual bag of chips.

[Tas Melis]

Sure.

[J. Skeets]

But they were bigger probably than they were now. Now there's like eight chips in a bag.

[Trey Kirby]

You're saying Big Game James, if he had a multiple home run game, he's getting multiple bags.

[J. Skeets]

Absolutely. I'm telling you, he would always have three or four, like, bags of chips. So you'd be walking to the car. He's so just pumped. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

He grew up to be Jim Laris, the New York Yankees.

[J. Skeets]

What do you got here, Tas? Again, sort of a tough question.

[Tas Melis]

It is tough. Yeah. I didn't have a really good answer, but I kind of bullied my friend. Current friend. After I had been to Medieval Times, I wanted to go back, and he didn't want to go, but I said, listen, we could have some fun. So I pulled out my. My kids swords that we got in the first time. They're kind of like a lightsaber. They light up. And I said, come on, we could do this. And I gave him a sword and I bullied him into a little sword fighting. And we ended up going because he loved that little sword fight.

[J. Skeets]

I was like, wow, this is fun. I'd like to watch this fight.

[Tas Melis]

Super fun in person.

[Trey Kirby]

Gotta pick up some tips.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. It was so fun. Do you guys know the definition of bullying? Because this is. None of this is bullying.

[J. Skeets]

This is all positive reinforcement. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Bribery. Yeah. Sort of.

[J. Skeets]

True. What do you got?

[Tas Melis]

We had a guy that was always late for work, and we told him we'd shave his eyebrow off if he was continually late for work. And He. He finally. We finally snapped and shaved his eyebrow off. And he walked around. This was in Greece. And he was never late again.

[J. Skeets]

That's good. I got bad news for you, buddy.

[Trey Kirby]

It was weeks. Weeks of.

[Tas Melis]

No. Like, he tried to draw one on. He had really thick eyebrows and we only did one. Right. So. Oh, God.

[J. Skeets]

So you had to pin him down.

[Tas Melis]

No, he was sleeping. He just passed out. He woke up and he was. He showed up late that day, but he walked in and it was hilarious because he only had one eye.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow, that's very good.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, now that's. That's the definition of bully.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes, that's very good.

[J. Skeets]

Good stuff. Great questions, guys. We got there in the end. Thank you so much for the beach stepping cues. All right, we'll call it there. Bit of a quicker show again. We had a huge, long NBA finals preview show yesterday, so if you didn't listen or watch that, go check it out. Really happy with how that one turned out. Going through again. Everything from this series gets ready to tip on Wednesday night. Our predictions, we'll show them to you here in case you don't feel like listening to why we're picking our teams. I'm the only one taking the Knicks. Knicks in seven, hopefully a classic. And Tassin Trey going Spurs. Tassin five, Trey in six for the San Antonio Spurs. But highly encourage you to go check it out.

[Trey Kirby]

I just saw in the stream team. I haven't checked to make sure, but the corgi picked the Spurs.

[J. Skeets]

It just dropped at 10 o'. Clock. Yeah. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

That's what I'm seeing 59 minutes ago. The prediction we've all been waiting for.

[J. Skeets]

What a shock. I mean, he's become like a cult hero to San Antonio spurs fan. Yeah. Imagine he actually, you know, the ball bounced the Knicks way. There's. They hold on. Redo it for sure.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow, you're. You're casting aspersions against air corgi.

[J. Skeets]

It ain't live, is it? The corgi doesn't have the guts to do it live. No, it's not. So, yes, I am. And that's fine. Do what you got to do. Play to your strengths. Play to your fan base.

[Tas Melis]

Definitely. I thought each one of those could be aied to whatever they want to do.

[Trey Kirby]

They show the myth Mrs. They're showing Mrs. You know?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, that's. That's just smart editing.

[Trey Kirby]

That's true.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, if it goes like this,

[J. Skeets]

though, it'll be a classic. So. Sorry, did you. What did. How many games did the Corgi pick seven games. Oh, okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Yep.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Dog's back in my good graces. As long as it's seven. I mean, that's fantastic. Well, how does he have it going? I mean, you know, do we have a huge lead? Is it a big company?

[Trey Kirby]

Let me narrate here.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, here we go.

[Trey Kirby]

Let me narrate as I load it.

[Tas Melis]

There we go.

[Trey Kirby]

It's taking a ticket.

[J. Skeets]

He also has, like, a deal with like, Yahoo Sports. This.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, interesting. It isn't on Yahoo page. Game one, bang Spurs. Game two, off the Knicks rim. We're starting over. Okay, Game one, Spurs bang. Game two, off the rim. No, Game two. Are we doing it again? Knicks win in San Antonio.

[J. Skeets]

Game 3.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, off both rims. Game 3, Knicks take the 21 lead in Madison Square Garden. Huge spurs even it up in game four. Game five, oh, off the Knicks basket. Into the spurs basket. Game 6, Knicks win, defend home court in seven. Off the rim, off the floor, off the wall. Spurs in seven.

[J. Skeets]

Wow. Jeez. If it's like that, we got a classic on our hands.

[Trey Kirby]

And that's a man narrating a dog

[J. Skeets]

hitting a ball into two hoops. Well done, sir. Well done.

[Trey Kirby]

That would be an exciting way. You should have seen the way it bounced from the Knicks to the.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, I can picture it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. So, all right, well, The Corgi says 7. Love that.

[Tas Melis]

Corgi have a name?

[J. Skeets]

I don't know.

[Trey Kirby]

We just call him Air Corgi, known as Air Corgi. Is that its real name or are they protecting its privacy, like calling it Airport?

[J. Skeets]

What's his real name? We got a fun show lined up tomorrow. Hopefully this one was a fun one, but tomorrow. Oh, my God. The man, the myth, the legend, R I Z g O D RizzGod joins us here live at 10:00am Eastern. Trey and I and JD are going to talk to him about the Knicks, about his fandom, about the Finals. We'll talk hoops, don't you worry. We're told Rizzo can talk basketball. And we'll probably do that as the first part and we'll take a break. The second part will be all Survivor talk.

[Trey Kirby]

That's right.

[J. Skeets]

That's the plan. So I'm very excited for this. Rizzo joining us Tomorrow live at 10am Eastern. Hit the like button. Subscribe five star ratings and reviews.

[Trey Kirby]

I was gonna say there's no way he's born in 1999. He was born in 1999. Whoa.

[J. Skeets]

I didn't know that. Wow. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, so he's 2626, November 99.

[J. Skeets]

All right. Can't wait to talk to him. Yeah. Otherwise, we'll see you tomorrow. Club of Rose. You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys.

[Trey Kirby]

Awesome.

[Tas Melis]

Thanks for joining us. And remember, you can swallow your pride occasionally. Originally. It's not fattening.

[J. Skeets]

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