The Drop | A Rookie Duel & Drafting The Most Interesting Teams At NBA Trade Deadline

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Title: The Drop | A Rookie Duel & Drafting The Most Interesting Teams At NBA Trade Deadline
Date: January 30, 2026
Hosts: JD Skeets, Tas Melis, Trey Kirby, JD
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A packed Drop episode diving into the sensational rookie duel between Cooper Flagg and Con Knipple, the latest NBA trade deadline intrigue, witty debates about worst of the week, and some classic No Dunks rapid-fire fun.

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Rookie Duel: Cooper Flagg vs. Con Knipple

The Main Event: Legendary Rookie Showdown

• Game Recap:
  Charlotte Hornets 123, Dallas Mavericks 121.
  Con Knipple hits two clutch free throws for a career-high 34 points, while Cooper Flagg, just 19, breaks the NBA record for most points in a game by a teenager with a 49-point masterpiece, including a game-tying three in the final moments.

  • Knipple sets a Hornets record with eight three-pointers.
  • Flagg’s ascension and Knipple’s well-rounded game were praised—we may be witnessing one of the greatest rookie duels ever.

  "This could have been the biggest duel of two rookies ever. I mean, it sure feels that way."
  — Tas Melis (03:55)

• Historical Context:
  The 83 points combined were the most by two rookies since Tiny Archibald and Pete Maravich in 1971 (05:10).

• Wedgie Watch:
  The battle featured a dramatic block-wedgie—a leading contender for “Wedgie of the Year”.

Signature Moments & Insight

• Cooper Flagg’s skill evolution:

  "The game has slowed down so much for him. He’s ready to slow it down in the mid range or take it to the hoop."
  — Tas Melis (04:32)

• Knipple’s unheralded versatility:

  "He can put it on the floor so much more...He’s so, so good at getting in the mid-range. He’s shooting 70% at the rim, 60% from short mid-range, 10 to 16 feet."
  — Tas Melis (04:46)

• Eric Collins’ (Hornets broadcaster) excited reaction to Flagg’s game-tying three was a broadcast highlight (07:30).

Charlotte Hornets On a Roll

• Current Status:
  Hornets have won 11 of their last 12 with a Lamelo Ball, Knipple, Brandon Miller, Miles Bridges, and Moussa Diabate starting five. Their offense has been "lights out" (08:33).

• Team Chemistry:
  Ball’s passing and Miller’s consistency have made Charlotte a must-watch League Pass team.

  "If you’re not watching the Hornets, add them to your league pass teams!"
  — JD Skeets (10:59)

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Other NBA Storylines (12:22–22:21)

• Tyrese Maxey hits a game-winning layup for Philly in a 40-point night; “big win for the Sixers.”
• Dylan Brooks drops 40 on T-shirt Night, carries the Booker-less Suns past the Pistons.
• Wolves torch the Thunder with 22 made threes.
• Heat & Bulls: The Heat continue their dominance in head-to-head matchups.
• Notes on injuries (Aaron Gordon, Jalen Johnson), trends (aged players thriving—“30 is the new 20”), and underappreciated role players (Grayson Allen, Bruce Brown).

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Draft: Most Interesting Teams at the NBA Trade Deadline (22:21–46:43)

1. Philadelphia 76ers

• Why Interesting:
  Fringe contender status with MVP-level Embiid and a surging Tyrese Maxey, but lack depth. Daryl Morey always tinkers.
• Needs:
  A big wing, shooting big, more reliable bench. Trade chips include Quentin Grimes, Jared McCain, Clippers picks.

  "They need to have a solid top five and then a bunch of dice rolls off the bench, which is kind of what they have now."
  — Trey Kirby (25:14)

2. Miami Heat

• Why Interesting:
  Always in search of stars (Giannis, Ja Morant, Jonathan Kuminga floated). Managed cap to keep Terry Rozier’s deal for trade flexibility.

  "The Miami Heat are a franchise that… believe if you come inside our locker room and organization, we can change you."
  — Tas Melis (28:31)

3. Detroit Pistons

• Why Interesting:
  Best team in the East but need shooting/scoring wing and might finally cash in on assets. MPJ or Trey Murphy III as potential targets.

  "They should see the opening right now and cash in some of these future draft picks and go for it a little bit."
  — JD Skeets (35:24)

4. Denver Nuggets

• Why Interesting:
  Jokic out, still thriving; Aaron Gordon’s timeline means continued minutes for Peyton Watson. Maybe add a backup big or guard, but mostly standing pat as favorites.

  "They’ve used this time period to just bring them closer together. They’re just more of a squad that’s ready to play in the playoffs."
  — Tas Melis (39:18)

5. New Orleans Pelicans

• Why Interesting:
  Deepest team, unclear if selling (draft picks for Trey Murphy? Overpay for Herb Jones?). Could do anything—stay conservative, sell, or buy.

  "They could go a billion different ways… They’re fun to look at because who will opposing teams pay for?"
  — Tas Melis (40:47)

6. Sacramento Kings

• Why Interesting:
  Most hopeless bad team, old/expensive core (Sabonis, DeRozan, Lavine, Monk, Schroder) that should be up for sale, but limited interest. Can they get anything of value?

  "Can Scotty convince anyone else to take anybody? That's really what it comes down to."
  — Tas Melis (47:31)

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Worst of the Week (52:19–59:14)

A strong batch of “worst” nominees delivered with classic No Dunks humor:

1. Contact Lens Debacle:
   Referee catches Christian Coloco’s dropped contact lens, player pops it right in.

   "Would you rather take it off the floor and put it in your eye? Well, I'd rather do that." — Brian Scalabrine (53:11)

2. Knocked-Out Teeth:
   Onyeka Okongwu loses two teeth to a Jalen Brown elbow, shoots free throws before getting dental surgery.

   "I don’t know how he handled it. He was just comfortable." — TAS (56:04)

3. Cavs Halftime Show:
   An Adele “Hello” halftime dance went viral; debate on choreography and originality.

4. Raised Floor in Cleveland:
   Luka Doncic rolls ankle on dangerous court, raising more safety concerns.

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Rapid Fire & Fun Segments (66:34–83:12)

Favorite Room in the House? (66:56)

• JD Skeets: Loves his giant main room and lately, his spooky attic.
• Tas Melis: Loves the quiet front room, good for watching the neighborhood.
• JD: Prefers his outdoor wicker chair for people-watching, technically not a room.

Things That Should Go Back To How They Were (72:27)

• Survivor’s 39-day format (JD Skeets)
• Less tipping prompts everywhere (Tas Melis)
• Buying software outright instead of monthly subscriptions (JD)

Notable Thank-Yous (77:00)

• John Pollock of Post Wrestling for epic Royal Rumble historical pods (JD Skeets)
• Brad Hartzell for music festival tip (Tas Melis)
• Whoever invented "skip intro" and auto-caption rewind features on streaming platforms (JD)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "If you’re not watching the Hornets, like add them to your League Pass teams!" (10:59)
• On Detroit’s possible upgrades: "I think they should trade Tobias Harris…You can do better as your second option." — Trey Kirby (32:52)
• On the Kings’ woes: "They’re trying to win this year. They came in trying to win. They’re 15th in league payroll and they’ve got the worst record in the league—and it’s all vets." — Trey Kirby (46:43)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Rookie Duel Breakdown: 02:30–12:04
• Other Big NBA Stories: 12:04–22:21
• Draft: Most Interesting Trade Deadline Teams: 22:21–46:43
• Worst of the Week: 52:19–59:14
• Rapid Fire & Fun: 66:34–83:12

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Tone & Vibe

High-energy, witty, nerdy, playful banter and deep hoops analysis. The crew brings together diehard stat-tracking with pop culture (wrestling facts, Survivor complaints), self-deprecating humor (attic/laundry sensors; JD’s lack of kitchen), and relentless wedgie tracking. The show is peppered with memorable quotes, inside jokes, and seamless riffing.

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Summary Takeaway

A classic No Dunks Drop episode, best experienced for its blend of basketball joy and group chemistry: a generational rookie duel, all the context and playoff speculation you need for the trade deadline, plus a heaping of laughs and everyday relatability—whether you care most about the Charlotte Hornets’ pick-and-roll, Dylan Brooks’ villain arc, or which home room to people-watch from.

Transcript

[JD Skeets]

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[TAS Melis]

Happy Friday, y'. All.

[JD Skeets]

Next to him is my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Ayo. Ayo. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer jd.

[JD]

Hello.

[JD Skeets]

There he is. Here we are. Hello everybody on YouTube. Hello podcast listeners. Let's hit the like button. Let's subscribe. Let's leave your boys five star ratings and reviews because we got a great drop today. On today's show, we're going to draft a few of the most interesting teams before the NBA trade deadline. We'll do a couple rounds of that. TAS has what I am calling now one of the best batches of worst of the week nominees in quite some time.

[TAS Melis]

Okay. One of the best. I like it.

[JD Skeets]

I like it. And we'll end with some rapid fire fun. But first, we had an amazing wedgie last night. Wedgie number 40 was a big one. Probably in play for wedgie of the year. It came in the clutch and it was our two rookies leading in rookie of the year race. Concanipple trying to get down there on the fast break ahead of Cooper Flag who does block it into a wedgie. But a foul was called as well. And we're gonna break down this game because Khan stepped to the line and he hit some free throws. But what a wedgie. Look at the pace we're on right now. Just a good, good year and thanks to everybody hitting us up on Twitter or Instagram or in the comments. Hey, make sure you got that wedge. You got that wedgie? Hell yeah, we got that wedgie. Yeah, we do. And let's talk about the game. Let's talk about it because it was a rookie showdown. It was a rookie duel. It was an epic duel.

[Trey Kirby]

It was.

[JD Skeets]

It's a good game. Con Knippel made those two free throws like I said with about four seconds left for a career high 34 points as the Charlotte Hornets stayed hot to beat the Dallas Mavericks 123, 121. Spoiling Cooper flags 49 point masterpiece. This guy just turned 19 years old and he broke the NBA record for points in a game by a teenage. And Knipple hit eight three pointers to set a record for the Hornets franchise. So our two guys here tas our two favorites for Roi living up to the hype. What a game.

[TAS Melis]

This could have been the biggest duel of two rookies ever. I mean it sure feels that way. It's hard to compare, right? Let's look back. It's hard to compare that. It's hard to compare. What are the best worst of the week nominees throughout the season. But this was spectacular to see Cooper flag's growth here. I wondered when he had a few bad games, huh? Maybe it was the more games than it was at Duke. Maybe he had a long summer. Maybe he would slow down. The ball is in his hands at all times now. Especially with Anthony Davis going down as well as Kyrie Irving. They have injuries. He took the most shots of his career on this night. It was all on his shoulders and he is absolutely spectacular. The game has slowed down so much for him. He's ready to slow it down in the mid range or take it to the hoop. While Conquer nipple I think is sort of overlooked as just a, you know, air quote three point shooting guy. He can put it on the floor so much more. He's so, so good at getting in the mid range. He's shooting 70% at the rim, he's shooting 60% from short mid range 10 to 16ft. So he stops, he pops, he can do whatever and he's a great playmaker. So this is. I don't, I don't know if it's the best rookie competition or rookie game ever, but it sure feels that way.

[JD Skeets]

It's gotta be on the short list. I did see According to ESPN research, their combined 83 points Cooper flag con canymple last night, the most by a pair of rookies in a game since Tiny Archibald and Pete Maravich. Tiny and Pete went for 91 in 1971 as rooks. So yeah, it's good, it's there, it's in the running here. It lived up to the hype. This was the fun, right? The anticipation of this game. A late January game between two teams who are still below 500 but they put on, on a show.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. This was just awesome to watch. My dad texted me at like 11 o' clock at night.

[TAS Melis]

Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

Keeping the old man up.

[JD Skeets]

Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

To watch Cooper vs. Khan. I can't believe we didn't mention either of these guys for superstar names because these are both incredible names from these two rookies and it was just so cool to watch them both attacking the way they do. You're right, Khan does a lot other than shooting. But it was shooting threes last night that was the thing for Khan. Caniple. I was seeing this and I was like, maybe Lee's right. Maybe he is going to break a Steph Curry record event someday since he came in, lighten the league on fire. Shooting threes immediately. Whereas you know, Steph took a little bit before he finally unleashed that on the NBA. But the other thing that Khan is great at is he's got an awesome nose for the ball. He's so good at getting 50, 50 balls. And that's what you saw on that last play where it was like maybe the first play of the game where Cooper was just a little bit nonchalant. Khan comes over to double team, gets his hand on the ball. Seon James, who also played with these guys at Duke.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Makes the save. Khan takes it to the other side. Yeah. And then the bledgy. It's the year of the block wedgie. So early leader in the clubhouse, I think for wedgie of the year. But this was just great to see. Cooper's craft has come so far. He started this year looked like a disaster because they had him playing point Guard went through the growing pains and guess what? Now he's playing point guard again. And he's awesome at it. He's got Khan on his back the entire time. Like, we'll come around a screen, stop, put him in jail, then get to his little floater. He's got a really strong left hand drive. That kind of came became a problem, I thought, on that last play where he drove basically into a double team to try and shoot over the top of it, but pulling that three to get the 49 points tie the game up, it was just awesome. Like, this is why we do podcasts. We don't do it to talk about trades. We do it because we love watching basketball games like this. So that was really special.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah. The Hornets broadcast with Eric Collins, of course, on the call was amazing on the Cooper Flag 3 to tie the game up. Because, you know, Cooper had at that point, obviously 46 points having a monster game. And Eric Collins is like, we'll live with the three. Give them the three. Just stay back. And then he bangs home the three. Oh, he drops Eric Holland. No, it just like so into it. And then Cooper flight got the ensuing defensive rebound. And then you went through that play where they wisely, I mean, it looked like Cooper was going to attack, right? And he sort of stopped and he pulled it back. And then it's like Hornets are like, are you going to double or not? And then, yeah, Khan came and he got the hand on the ball and was saved by James and that led to the, to the wedgie and the free throws and then one more chance for Cooper, but played well. And look, the Hornets here are one of the feel good stories right now. Tas now 11 and one with this starting lineup of Lamelo ball con Knippel. But who, by the way, those two run a lot of like guard, guard, pick and roll action with the ball in their hands. Brandon Miller and then Bridges and moussa diabate. So 11 and one here with this string lamp because the offense is just lights out.

[TAS Melis]

It is lights out. They could use just one big wing to be able to guard somebody like Cooper flag. That's one thing that they're lack attacking a little bit. Musa dibatte's doing everything he can defensively, offensively is where they, they are a marvel, really. Lamelo ball is. Is just so good right now. His, his lead passes where he's able to lead a guy, you know, six inches into where he's running to in every situation, whether it's, you know, flipping it across the court. For a skip pass or a lead pass on the break. He's just so good and he's so comfortable doing it right now. Hopefully it lasts. Hopefully Brandon Miller stays healthy. Cause he is, you know, he is an absolute terror when it comes to scoring. Just period. Just dunking and everything. And you go with throwing a concan nipple. Who can play make. They, they are just, they're stacked. And so it's fun to watch. And it's fun to watch an environment in Dallas where they retire Mark Aguirre's number as well. It was, it was just a beautiful night.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, the NBA, the hip riders were in their bag last night with Cooper going for 49 against a teammate of his in Concaniple, who they're battling for rookie of the year on the same night, like you said, where they retire Mark Aguirre's, you know, jersey. Only the fifth player in Mavericks history to have retired. I think I was a little shocked that it hadn't been retired playing way back in the day.

[TAS Melis]

But he was saying, I wish it happened earlier.

[JD Skeets]

I mean, it's. It is a little surprising. But anyway, that was cool. He was really emotional. And they did the halftime.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, they brought Isaiah Thomas back. Those guys are like best friends dating back to high school. You know, someday Cooper flags jersey will be hanging up there and they'll bring con canyipple.

[JD Skeets]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay. Remember when we had that game when they retired the jersey? I mean, I guess Dirk will get retired in between.

[JD Skeets]

It's his. No, his is retired. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay. So I guess Cooper's probably the next for the Mavericks to get retired. Calling it maybe a little early. He's 19 years old. He's played like four minutes in the NBA, but that's gonna happen. But I'm glad you mentioned Lamelo. He was awesome down the stretch in this one. We just talked recently how he does some dumb stuff in important moments. He didn't do anything dumb. I thought he hit that big three with two minutes left. I think that one put the Hornets up by three at the time. Next possession down, he drives into the lane, penetrates really far, finds Diabate underneath for a dunk. And then on that three pointer that Brandon Miller had in the corner, like Lamelo got double teamed, finds Diabatte for the short roll. And a great pass by Diabatte to like read the floor and find out. Miller's wide open in the corner. I will say, drives me crazy putting Musa Diabate into my notes because it's always going to autocorrect to diabetes yeah, it's okay. It's okay. I got to educate my computer here.

[JD Skeets]

I mean we're getting real close to him. Just Moose really has caught on. So the moose man. Maybe just go with that in your notes. But yeah, this team is fun as hell right now. They're. If you're like, if you're not watching the Hornets, like add them to your league past teams like, like they score a lot like we're talking about here. They're playing with great energy. Big part of that is diabate in the starting lineup. They've got shooting, you know, Brandon Miller, knock on wood. This is his best, most consistent run of, of his like short seat career. So things are clicking. Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

And Lamelo is totally. Lamelo trying to punt it up. But he doesn't have to be the guy every single night. He doesn't have to be the guy with his step back and lead the lead or lead the team in shots that particular night. Everybody doing it on this night. I mean it just makes Sense. LaMelo had 17 shots, Miles Bridges also had 17 shots, Knipple had 16 shots and Brandon Miller had 13 while getting to the, to the free throw line. Very, very important because he's, he's going hard. They're just so balanced and you wouldn't think about, think of the Charlotte Horns as that led by Lamello ball, but they are.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Just imagine Giannis on this team, man. Title contender.

[JD Skeets]

So that was a great game. Some other fun endings last night.

[TAS Melis]

Tyrese Maxey, the Charlotte Moose for the Milwaukee Moose. Straight up.

[Trey Kirby]

No, I don't know if it works.

[TAS Melis]

No, not a two way guide.

[JD Skeets]

Tyrese Maxey scored 40 points, hit a game winning layup to lead the 76ers over the Kings by two last night. Dylan Brooks scored a career high 40 on his own T shirt. Night Dylan, the villain as he helped lead the Suns past the Pistons in a really good game. 11496 Quality win there from Phoenix and the Wolves hit 22 three pointers as they coasted to the 123, 111 victory over the Thunder. A few other games as well, of course. Another close Bulls game in a loss to the Heat. But any of those you want to address?

[Trey Kirby]

How dare you say that, man?

[JD Skeets]

Well, I'm just saying they always play.

[Trey Kirby]

That's true. And then the Heat always wins. So first of three wins for the Heat in this three game series that they play against each other, right?

[JD Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Put up a sweet graphic. The Heat had beat the Bulls in the play in the last three years and now they got these three games. So it was like 1, 2, 3. LLL added an L last night, but it's tough to beat the same team six times in a row. That's what I always say.

[JD Skeets]

We'll see. We'll see what happens. But what are those, any of those other ones you want to address?

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, for sure. Well, I said Musa Bate just, you know, I just snuck it in that he's a two way guy. He's not a two way guy, but he's super close. I mean, it feels that way. Anyway, he's playing incredibly well. I was interested to see Jalen Johnson sitting against the Houston Rockets with calf tightness. Maybe he's in a package to be traded for the guy with the calf injury in Milwaukee. Probably not. But anyway, it's, it's the year of injured calves.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yes, definitely is.

[TAS Melis]

They're just being cautious. So it's, it's not a, it's not a Yanis situation where it's four to six weeks. It's hopefully just one game for him, but they sat him out. Also. Speaking of injuries, Aaron Gordon now out for four to six weeks for the Denver Nuggets with his hamstring injury. Hamstring is bothering him. It's the year of Cass. But Fran Goren, it's all about the hamstring. That's what bothered him last year in the playoffs when they went up against the Los Angeles Clippers in that seven game series or OKC in that seven game series. Excuse me. It was a great series. But in that game just. I know this is flying under the radar, but I think Bruce Brown is playing his best ball of the year. That could easily help them out in the playoffs. Tim Hardaway is having his best season of his career. That guy is awesome. He's freaking 33 or whatever he is. So they've got the. Exactly what they planned for in the offseason coming through for them right now. They should look good going into the playoffs. And obviously it's, it's the villain night. I mean, Dylan Brooks was great to me. I mean, that was, he was on fire.

[Trey Kirby]

He hit so many tough shots and they were all in Isaiah Stewart's face.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, that guy just turned 30 years old. It feels like he's having his best year. I think in basketball, 30 is the new 20 for people. For some people. I mean, I'm just being a positive speaker here that sometimes if it doesn't work out in your 20s, it can turn out really well in your 30s. This is Dylan Brooks so confident in a shot off the dribble as a leader, obviously as everything physically, his turnaround shot, everything. So it is wild to think about the Phoenix Suns where they are now. Devin Booker is hurt and Dylan Brooks just steps in. And as Colin Gillespie said as he interviewed or interrupted the interview for Dylan Brooks after the game, hey, we got two All Stars in Dylan Brooks and Devin Booker. You look at the standings and you look at the numbers, you can argue for that. For sure it's not going to happen. But Dylan Brooks has been spectacular. Just what he is all around on the villain night.

[JD Skeets]

I like Dylan Brooks response to that too. He's like, I feel like I'm playing at that level to be included in this conversation. But Devin Booker is our all star so you know, he was saying that as well. I don't think they're going to get both of them there. Dylan Brooks is Canadian so maybe gets a little international bump if needed, but we'll get there when we get there. But what a game from him and a good quality win against obviously the best team in the Eastern Conference in the Pistons.

[Trey Kirby]

Totally. Dillon Brooks has won people over. I had a positive conversation about Dillon Brooks and everyone's like, yeah, this guy's, he's good. I hate to say it, but he's good and he's fun to watch. And this was a big time win to beat the Pistons because when Booker went out against the Hawks, the Suns offense totally cratered in the fourth quarter. Like Phoenix was going to win that game. Brooks or Booker goes out, Suns didn't know what to do in that fourth quarter. The next game I think they played the Heat, looked pretty bad on offense, barely got over 100 points. They beat the Nets. Okay. That just happens. But to beat a Pistons team like this and cooked them pretty much, you know, and Brooks was playing really well. Grayson Allen, it's just a solid player. Yeah, I don't know if I can get there with Grayson Allen, but if he had a, if he had a different head and name, I would like his game. Cuz like he's got, he's got nice spin moves, he shoots threes, he gets to the basket. He took 10 free throws last night. I think he's a good player too. But they just have two despicable guys, one of which has won me over and one I just can't ever open my heart to. Sorry, Grayson.

[JD Skeets]

Do you need Grayson Allen to do like a Nicholas Cage, John Travolta face off? Yeah, like, like I do need that face. Yeah. That would help him.

[Trey Kirby]

If he was willing to do that, that would go a long way. But a great win for the Suns to get any wins without Devin Booker, I think is imp. Especially a quality team like the Pistons.

[TAS Melis]

So much Duke talk on this show.

[Trey Kirby]

A lot of Duke talk. That was a great comment early in the stream team who said this. UB said there was a time when this country properly hated Duke. Unfortunately, the worm has turned and Duke is cool now. Come on.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah. In some way Grayson Allen is turning people around on him for him too. I mean he's, he's balling out there and he's not just a guy who just looks for his shot too. He's even playmaking and pushing it. And so there's something, something special going on there with Dylan Brooks leading. Coming from Houston, that helped him. I, I give lots of credit to Fred Vanvle just being his bud. I think that was a big part of it. In their backcourt. He looks like a different player, period. He is a different player.

[JD Skeets]

Any other notes on Max Eagle?

[Trey Kirby]

He was for a 40 burger there. That was impressive. 77 combined points for Maxi and Embiid. They also had 16 combined assists. I don't know how many of their 77 points together were in the two man game, but it must have been like 70 because it was either Maxi getting a screen from Embiid and getting to the hoop or Maxi getting a screen from Embiid. Drawn to finding Embiid, he would pump fake 85 times and then finish over the top. They looked incredible together. And I also thought Maxi was making every right decision down the stretch. That's something where I think he has struggled at times this year. Like he's hit a lot of big shots but there are times I think when he has blinders on and can't really find the perfect balance between shooting and passing. But in this one it was if it was a one on one he was attacking, he would either get a layup or draw a foul like he did on Zach Lavigne. Quite late in this one. If there was a double team on the screen and roll but they didn't quite get to him, he's so fast he was just able to go around a card well or a Sabonis. But there are times when the double would get to him, cut him off from his driving lanes and that's when he would be able to find Embiid in the mid post with a little bit of an advantage. And if you give it Embiid an advantage right now, he's going to get a bucket. He had so many lefty layups as well. Great final play, I thought from the Sixers. That's a classic one. Get the one to the big guy at the top of the key. The super fast guys just sprinting down the court and like, how are you going to stop him? He had such a head of steam and then made a really, really tough shot in the lane as well. So nice win for the Sixers. The two of them together are tough to stop. It's equivalent to when Harden was there setting the table for Embiid. That was an MVP season for Embiid because it's a pick your poison with both of those guys. And that's what I'm seeing from Philadelphia right now.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, and that final play is a Nickner special. Sometimes the big will not hand it off and will fake the handoff to this guy. The guard screaming by and then the big will take it. We've seen that play before back in the Toronto days and even at his time with the Philadelphia Sixers. But this one, he hands it to Matt and what a finish too. Like, oh my God. Like, that was not an easy finish. That speed that he was ripping to the net. But yeah, good win.

[TAS Melis]

I watched it multiple times in slow mo. It looked like he's going regular speed. I mean, that's how fast he is. But yeah, that inbound play to give it to the guy at the elbow, just. Here you go. Whoever's flying. He was flying. He just had to make one dribble and that was really hard. And where he put it off the glass, he put it top left corner of the glass. Like that was probably 13ft up to show that touch. I do want to say about Philadelphia, this is a team that always just comes back in games. Like, they don't necessarily got to beat you for 48 minutes. They're down double digits in the fourth quarter and we're able to come back because they can. Because they can turn it on. It feels like a, you know, a draw and bead trait, but that's who they are. Interesting move by Tyrese Maxey to miss the free throw. Up to 1 second left. They decided him and Paul George essentially said, yeah, let's miss this. You know, they got to try and hit a three quarter bomb or whatever to beat us.

[JD Skeets]

Exactly. Got it right.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

And chopped it up. I think it was actually maybe late too.

[Trey Kirby]

It was on purpose that he missed it. I thought he accidentally missed it. It looked like he shot it normal to me.

[TAS Melis]

No, he said he did?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

He said. He said Paul George. Paul George told him, miss it.

[JD Skeets]

Miss it.

[TAS Melis]

Joel Embiid said, no, do not miss it. And apparently he said, don't ever do that again afterwards. But it worked out, right?

[JD Skeets]

But you are right, it wasn't one of these. It wasn't a weird one where it's like, yeah, he's trying to chuck it or be cute with it. He just shot it. You're right. If you didn't know, he was like, oh, he just missed it. It was like sort of off to the right. But they survived. And then I did just want to quickly before we get into the the real meat of this drop podcast, man. The Wolves were on fire from deep. 22 of their 47 from three point land, 47% against OKC. Jaden McDaniels 5 of 5 from deep. Anthony Edwards hit four. Nas Reed, four off the bench. Bones Highland was feeling himself last night. He hit three. Julius Randall hit a couple. Dante DiVincenzo, of course, hit a couple. So Jaden, Jaden Clark. Jalen Clark. Excuse me. Got one. So everybody was on fire as the Thunder fall to 38 and 11 and the Wolves get their 30th win.

[Trey Kirby]

Nice stuff.

[JD Skeets]

Was a good win.

[Trey Kirby]

They turned the ball over 20 times and still won in a blowout against OKC.

[JD Skeets]

In a bunch of threes.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, exactly. Plus 11 from the three point line. That's the difference right there.

[JD Skeets]

Okay, so the 2026 NBA trade deadline is less than a week away, and all 30 teams are going to have the opportunity here to show us where exactly they think they are sort of in the grand scheme of the league. So are you a contender? Looking to maybe add a little playoff piece to your puzzle? Maybe you're trying to take a big swing, change the direction of your franchise. Maybe you're playing the long game. You're just trying to get draft picks, young prospects. Maybe you're just like cutting your luxury tax bill and cleaning up the books. We talked a lot about Giannis trades on yesterday's show, so if you want to hear us do some hypothetical Giannis trades, go listen to Thursday's show. We'll leave Giannis in the bucks for now, but I thought it'd be fun to draft some other interesting teams as we get ready for the NBA trade deadline next Thursday. By the way, we're going to be doing a live show, in theory, all day on Thursday, February 5, starting around normal time here and going all the way through to the actual deadline, if not past around three. So it's going to get zany up in here.

[Trey Kirby]

We better have some trades.

[JD Skeets]

Look, we'll have to have a lot in our back pocket, but join us for that. But let's draft some interesting teams here again before the NBA trade deadline. Trey, you go first. We'll just go make our way around the table. Oh, didn't know we had the draft music sneaking it in there.

[Trey Kirby]

76Ers are interesting to me. They're my first pick. We talked about them just a ton right now, but from a holistic perspective. They're 26 and 21, only 6 in the Eastern Conference, but they're still in the mix and I think they at least have to consider themselves as having a little bit of a chance. The main X factor is going to be Cannon Bead continue the play that he's shown for the past month and a half here. Can he be healthy at playoff time? Because right now they got Maxi playing like a number five on the MVP ballot. You know, like he's, he's right on the edge of being first team all NBA. There's a few Jalens that are in the mix there as well. Embiid looks great. Paul George fits in perfectly. Vijay Edgecombe has been such an awesome find for them the way he contributes on both end of the courts. He's had a bunch of big shots this year. I was really impressed with the way he was scrapping on the defensive end down the stretch against Sacramento. Like out rebounding Sabonis who's a good rebounder but doesn't have the quickness and maybe not always the tenacity that a VJ edge come have has. But Philadelphia also I don't think has a ton of depth right now outside of their top four. Everybody else kind of is a question mark to me, but it also means they have pieces to move. Like I don't think Quentin Grimes is in their long term plan. They could move him. Jared McCain has had a down season and it's tough to see exactly how he fits in on this team long term with Maxi and Edgecombe locked in as your backcourt of the future. They've got the Clippers picks in 28 and 29 in addition to almost all their own picks. Like they do owe the Thunder their pick this year if it falls outside of the top four and I think that's going to happen. I think they have the same a little bit down the line as well. So to me they need another big wing. They could use a big guy who can shoot because their backup bigs are Drummond, who's actually kind of had a resurgent season and look, he's actually shooting a great percentage from 3. I don't think he's a scary 3 point shooter. However, Bona does his thing. He'll block some shots, but I have questions if he'll be able to play in the playoffs. Dominic Barlow has been really good for them as a starter, but you could upgrade there and they have the potential to upgrade there. So I wonder if they see how well this season is going. Look at the top of the Eastern Conference. It's like Detroit has had the best year by far. They've been the best team in the Eastern Conference, but they've never won a playoff series. They're still unproven when it comes down to it. We don't know what the Celtics are necessarily going to look like. I think the Knicks are beatable if you're Philadelphia, but they need something else, I think, because they can't just rely on their top four. They need to have a solid top five and then a bunch of dice rolls off the bench, which is kind of what they have now. And guys like Kelly Oubre as well. So I wonder what sort of move they'll make. Daryl Morey loves to make a trade. He's always active at the trade deadline. Sometimes it's just shedding salary, which is what they've had to do the past couple of years with Embiid not being the way he is. But there's still potential, I think, for Philadelphia to make a move and to make some noise in the East.

[JD Skeets]

I'm curious to see how many of our teams that we pick here are from the Eastern Conference, because it does feel so open and maybe there's a path for a lot of these teams. Like, oh, are we one piece away or are we this player away from actually going to the conference finals or going to the finals, so. So we'll see. Who do you have tasked after the Philadelphia 76ers are off the board?

[TAS Melis]

Well, I'll jump to another Eastern Conference team. The Miami Heat are really interesting to me for several reasons. They're always looking for a star and this could be the time that they pull a trigger. Maybe John Moran is cheaper than you would have expected a couple years ago. I suppose he's also injured. Right now it's just an elbow injury, so it doesn't seem like it's something that's long term. So maybe pull the trigger on that. Obviously there's the Giannis talk with the Milwaukee Bucks. Do they have enough to bid for that. That's a fair question. Or do they save it for the offseason when more becomes available for them and so maybe they don't pull the trigger on a star. I will say, though, they made the interesting move of keeping Terry Rozier around. Reading about that was interesting. They could have released him earlier this month, but they kept him around, cost them a couple million dollars. A guy who's not going to play for them, obviously, but he's got a salary, so he's tradable. Here's. Here comes a 26.6 million dollar contract to add up to a star again. It could be Ja. There is a possibility of that. Or there's another star out there. Oh, gosh, I shouldn't call him a star. Shouldn't call him a star. I should be back immediately. Yeah. I should not say.

[JD Skeets]

Okay, yeah, let's guess.

[Trey Kirby]

He's already talked about Giannis.

[JD Skeets]

He's already talked about there's another star out there, and then he caught himself right away. Not a star.

[TAS Melis]

It ain't a star.

[Trey Kirby]

Mpj.

[TAS Melis]

No, no. You. You'd probably call them star, but this player's worse. This. This is. Yes, He's. He's.

[Trey Kirby]

Kevin Love coming back.

[TAS Melis]

No, no, no. Okay, Like a player. They want Easter West. Sorry, Kev. West. I mean, this is. This is a guy. Well, I shouldn't say that. You know, like, there's Jeremy Grant. No, no, no, no.

[JD Skeets]

Okay.

[TAS Melis]

No, a young guy. A young guy who's been in trade rumors for ever, for every day of this year, basically.

[Trey Kirby]

Jonathan Kaminga.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah. Maybe they trade for Kaminga. There's the talk out there that they get rid of Andrew Wiggins. Maybe Golden State just needs to get something in their rotation and just go for it with Steph. If they can't get Yance, if they can't get a Trey Murphy, maybe it's Wiggins in return for Jonathan Kaminga. Because I think you mentioned it, Skeets, when we talked about John Morant. The Miami Heat are a franchise that. Believe you come inside our locker room and our organization, maybe we can change you. Maybe they can do that for Jonathan Kaminga, and then maybe he will be rightfully called a star by everyone out there. You know how like every online, every. Every website will say this former star or this star. Anyone's a star in the NBA for any website. Maybe Jonathan Kaminga will be that one day. I mean, I feel like they need to. They've just been so desperate for a guy. Maybe it is Jonathan Kamiga.

[JD Skeets]

Maybe we had the hypothetical Trade between the Heat and box. Yesterday, talking Giannis and we had on the, on the graphic Tyler Herro. We had Terry Rozier's expiring contract and we had Jaime Hawkez Jr. And then a bunch of multiple picks that they have and swaps and stuff like that. There was some pushback to us or like, hey, where is Khalil Ware in a potentially honest deal or a Yakutunas in a potential deal? Yeah. And we said that before we started it. Like this is a framework here. They have pieces that maybe would be more enticing to the Bucks. If they are moving off of Giannis and he wants to go to Miami.

[Trey Kirby]

Would you trade where? That's the only guy that I think is going to be interesting for other teams.

[JD Skeets]

For other teams, yeah. You don't think Tyler Hero is interesting?

[Trey Kirby]

I mean young guys.

[JD Skeets]

Young guys. I think I would if I'm Miami.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, totally.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

I do think he's good. Yeah. And that's like a type of player that Milwaukee should be looking to sort of get in return if you're moving off of Giannis here before the deadline. But yeah, I would. So we could have put them there. Let's go back and edit yesterday's show and put them on the graphic. All right, so 76ers in the heat as interesting teams. I'll stick in the east here. Give me the Detroit Pistons. I think they're fascinating because they could make a big splash this coming week or they could just stand pat because they're like, hey, we're the number one team in the Eastern Conference. We're likely going to have home court advantage throughout the east playoffs. But they can make a big splash because they have a ton of future assets. They have an intriguing young player I think in Jaden Ivey. They have full control of all their own first round picks. They even have some extra second round picks. And they have a glaring need to meet even though they're good. Of all these top teams in both conferences, only the Raptors have shot worse from deep than Detroit. The pistons shoot 34.7% from distance and they ranked 27th in three point attempt rate. They could use a dynamic scorer, a shooter, an off ball guy that sort of can keep the other defense a little more honest and open things up for Cade and Jalen Duran to still operate. So who fits that bill? Michael Porter Jr. Does for sure. I think the Pelicans. Trey Murphy III does as well. Though it sounds like the Pelicans want a hell of a return for him. And then there's some other guys, maybe not on those guys levels, but of the two, MPJ does seem the easier one to acquire because I just don't think the Nets, like unless the Nets are planning to compete immediately next season. He's more of a trade chip or he should be looked at more of a trade chip for the Brooklyn Nets. So what gets it done For Michael Porter Jr. Ivy Tobias Harris expiring contract and then a pick or two, I think like future pick or two and is that enough for Brooklyn? And I think that's a hell of a swing for the Pistons. I think they should really go for Trey Murphy III between those two. But again, I think it's just more draft capital. If you have to get there though, less money has to go out because he makes less than McBride.

[Trey Kirby]

He does make less.

[JD Skeets]

But do you have opinions on what the Pistons will do? What they should do? Is this a classic? Just don't do anything.

[Trey Kirby]

I think they should make a move. I think they should trade Tobias Harris. The basic reason they're keeping him around is because they love him. Like he's a good vibes guy, which that's important. But you can do better as your second option and he's kind of their second option. And that's why I do think the Pistons need to make a move. They have a chance to go to the finals here. They're a good enough team defensively, but I think they're going to have a rude awakening in the playoffs when teams are scheming against them. And we know you've got one guy who can do anything with the ball. It's Cade Cunningham. He takes every shot in the fourth quarter, turns the ball over through the first three quarters, trying to set up his teammates who are bricking away at threes. And then in the fourth quarter he's got to take over. That's not quite the way to do things in the playoffs, but I think that they could make a move if they're willing to part with Tobias Harris's good vibes. And I think they should. And I think they should also trade Ivy as well because he'll be enticing to another team. I just don't think it's going to happen for him on the Pistons this year as he's trying to work his way back from a couple of years of being banged up like he's just trying to find his spot. Maybe he explodes on another team, but that's a risk you have to be willing to take if you're the Pistons to improve your team here and now because they've got a shot like they. They could do it. They're good enough defensively, Kate is a good enough leader that he at least gives them a baseline level of confidence. I'm seeing people in the stream team here are saying the Pistons are a second round exit in the playoffs. That wouldn't surprise me.

[TAS Melis]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

But it also wouldn't surprise me if they go to the finals. They've got a much better chance if they upgrade their number two.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah. And they have a lot more versatility with their contracts than the Philadelphia 76ers do. They just have a big range. Yeah. It's the draft capital. Really. What it comes down to, though, you're not taking Tobias Harris because you're thinking about tobias Harris's late 30s. I said 30 is the new 20, but with Toby, I mean, you're 33 is not the optimal age. I'm guessing Toby's 33. Either way, it's about draft capital, really. If we're talking about a good player like Michael Porter Jr. Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

If they don't swing for the fences, if you want to call it that, for Michael Porter Jr. Or like I said, Trey Murphy III would be awesome. I think he would be the perfect guy to pair with Cade and Duran. If they don't do that level of sort of trade, maybe they look at like Kobe White on the Bulls. Right. As like a shooter that you could, you know, obviously get a guy to stretch the floor in a postseason or like this is even a lower level than Kobe White, like Gary Trent Jr. Or something like that. I think that's what they should seek out here at the deadline. Obviously a shooter. I think it could be a star. I think they should see the opening right now and cash in some of these future draft picks and go for it a little bit. But if they don't, maybe they go and level down, like I said.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, yeah. And it could get real tough to outbid other teams. For Trey Murphy, for instance, I mean, that is. He's the perfect player. He's the perfect salary for a long time. So it's. It's the potential of the Golden State warriors. If they're going for it, they've got a vault of all their picks and it looks promising. If you're trading for Golden State warriors picks in 2030 or 2032 when Steph's done, you know, most likely, I would say probably, yeah. There could be a big many teams bidding.

[Trey Kirby]

Trajan Langdon, former Pelicans front office guy, Joe Dumars, Pistons legend works in the Pelicans front office.

[JD Skeets]

They have each other's numbers.

[Trey Kirby]

They have each other's numbers and we have seen franchise legends do favors for their franchise. Shout out to Kevin McHale. Trading Kevin Garnett to the Boston Celtics to win them a championship. Okay, the fix is it.

[JD Skeets]

We're just throwing it out there.

[Trey Kirby]

Just saying.

[JD Skeets]

Let's do another quick round here of interesting teams.

[Trey Kirby]

The Denver Nuggets. They're pretty interesting to me. I don't think they're going to hardly do anything at the trade deadline because they are probably going to get the biggest trade deadline acquisition, which is Nikola Jokic eventually coming back from his injury, which will probably be as soon as he is able to be out of awards talks. This guy hates being in awards talk. So he's going to miss exactly 18 games, come back and dominate and everybody say he should be the MVP and he won't be eligible to win MVP. But right now they're 32 and 16, third in the Western Conference and everybody's looked good. With Jokic out, Jamal Murray will have a terrible game for three quarters and then dominate in the fourth in the clutch. Christian Brown will come back eventually. He's had a down season, but we've seen him be an effective player. Peyton Watson has really taken a step forward and the question for me is like where are his minutes going to come from once everybody's actually healthy for Denver? Silver lining to the Aaron Gordon News out at least four to six more weeks with a hamstring. He's only played 23 games so far this season. Major X factor, but it means there will be a spot for Peyton Watson to continue showing what he's been able to do, which is to be a creator. Score 20 points a night. That's probably not the best version of the Denver Nuggets, him scoring 20 a night, but it's nice to know that you've got yet another guy who can go out and get you 20. Tim Hardaway is a guy that can get you 20, can hit some big shots as well. So trade wise like they maybe would look at a quicker backup big. I think you know Valanchunas is a slow guy. He's had a really nice season for them. Zeke Najee has done all right I think with Jokic and when Valentunas has been out as well. But maybe they could look at like a precious Achua to add for Daron Holmes there. I guess he's. I don't know if he's a second year player or a rookie. I don't know what you want to consider him if you missed your whole rookie year, but they could trade him and bring in precious somebody that can play a little bit more of a switchy style or something like that. But this is a pretty interesting team to me, the way they've played, missing their best player and not missing much of a beat. Right. No, we all kind of expected them to be like, it would have been a nice run if they won a third of their games with yoga jot. And instead they've won two thirds of their games with Yoka jout. And we've seen the levels that these guys can reach when he's not handling every possession. So if he is able to come back, work his way into a lather and then be peaking by the time the playoffs come. Denver is a very scary team.

[JD Skeets]

The fact that they're still in third in the West.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Surprising. Yeah. Yeah. Really? Yeah, it's a good point. Like basically tied really, with the spurs in second. We thought they'd be like hanging on for a playoff spot if not back into the play. Now that said, there's like what, three or four games that separate like a team basically in the play in to the second seed. It's crowded, but I'm with you, TK we didn't see this with Yokecho. We're like, whoa, if they win a third, they'll be okay. They've like exceeded expectations. Jamal Murray, Bonafide all Star and all these other guys contribute.

[TAS Melis]

They've used this time period to just bring them closer together. They're just more of a squad that's ready to play in the playoffs. They're going to slow play Aaron Gordon, big time. You can take months off. Really. And you mentioned the backup center. Aaron Gordon is basically has been that a lot of the time in the postseason. You can just wait, wait for months with the way those guys are playing, with the way Peyton Watson is playing, with the way everybody's playing. Even Christian Brown, you know, hasn't been himself when he came back from injury. Cam Johnson kind of has to take what Peyton Watson has been doing right now when he comes back as Cam Johnson hasn't not had his perfect season. He just hasn't been great. He just hasn't been the same guy that he was with the Brooklyn Nets last year. So he can take on that. There's just plenty of opportunity on this team. Jokic should be back very, very soon. He's out there playing and practicing, and he looks like he's going to come back soon. So I'm not so concerned. It could be a backup center. It could be a backup guard. I've always hinted at, you know, one of those Chicago Bulls with an expiring contract because they have so many expiring contracts. Are they going to give Kobe white money or, you know, my pick would be IO Desumu. When they've got Trey Jones signed, they got Josh Giddey signed, and they've got so many. Those two guys are expiring deals. That's a. That's a fair question if they're going to get a backup guard, but they don't have a lot to trade. Yeah, either way, they could find a way, but I think they're happy with what they got. I mean, period. They're ready to go in the postseason just as long as they're healthy.

[JD]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

All right. What about you? Another interesting team?

[TAS Melis]

Well, I think Pelicans are super interesting because they could go a billion different ways. I mean, really, what are they going to do? They are so fun. They've got the worst record in the NBA, but they're fun to look at because who. Who will. Who will opposing teams pay for? Are they going to pay for Zion, or is there going to be an offer for Zion? Are they going to overpay for Trey Murphy at the same time, will the Pelicans be willing to offer Trey Murphy because he is so perfect? And it is such an interesting whole dynamic there with the New Orleans Pelicans because of what they've hired as their front office and all the moves that they made in the 2025 offseason. You've got Trimurphy. He's perfect. Is it. Is it just to go get those draft picks that you gave up in the 2025 off season? Maybe, but it seems like it'd be a mistake. Will there be an overpay for Herb Jones? That's. That's an interesting one because they are so deep. Herb has been injured this year. Zion, obviously, is always injured. Jordan Poole's injured. They have a guy named Dejounte Murray. Do they just stay the course and play conservative? Because you think about it like what they sold many people on last off season. Your backcourt can be fears, and Dejounte Murray, when he comes back, your wings can be Trey Murphy. And, you know, Zion is your big with their queen. And then your. Your backups are pool and Sadiq Bay and Herb Jones and that guy Carlo Matkovich and Eve Mecy and Jordan Hawkins doesn't play anymore. And Jose Alvarado. It's they could go both ways. They're probably just give away a couple of those guys I mentioned at the end there like Alvarado, somebody older, you know, if you want a backup guard. Here's Jose's expiring deal. Yeah, mostly.

[JD Skeets]

What would you number of Pelicans traded at the deadline at what's the line? What's the FanDuel line? Two and a half. Two and a half players?

[Trey Kirby]

I think. Two and a half.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[JD Skeets]

Because I'm with you on.

[TAS Melis]

I'd go hard a hard bet on the under there. I think it's more of a one and a half.

[JD Skeets]

Okay. You don't think ease Missy will be acquired by some team Bay maybe I mean pool like they do trading for the problem. They would trade them in a heartbeat.

[TAS Melis]

But yeah, they have the depth of those end of the rotation type of guys. Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Okay. We're setting the line at two and a half. You're taking the under. Can we get to three? Can you get to three? Pelicans being traded?

[Trey Kirby]

Me I think is gone. He's just been in too many rumors and he's so cheap that it's a easy acquisition. Like he's going to cost you a matching salary and a second round pick. So I think he will be gone. Jose Alvarado on an expiring deal. When they've got point guards ahead of him. You can see him being moved as well. We're to two already.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah. Who's the third? But it could be like some. Well, Herb Jones.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah. Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

I mean also these. Could these count. These count together, you know, like two or three players. If you get three players in one deal, you're hitting the over is my point here. So I'll take the over too. I think there's gonna be a little shake up. I. Yeah. Whether or not it's their main guys in Zion. Trey Murphy or Herb Jones if you want to include him. Tbd. I can't tell what the Pelicans, but I was thinking along the same lines as you. As we wrap this up here, I went with the Kings. That's sort of an interesting team. They are tied for the worst record in the league with the pelicans. They're 12 and 37.

[Trey Kirby]

That's honestly amazing.

[JD Skeets]

And I gotta say they're actually tied with a bunch of teams with only 12 wins. Now there's five teams with 12 wins. Kings are easily the most hopeless of the bunch. Right. Because like yeah, the Pelicans are bad, but at least they got Queen and they got fears. And if they keep Trey Murphy. Okay. There's something there. The Nets, they're bad. But Michael Porter junior's flirted as an all star. Jordy Fernandez I do think has put an identity or is trying to build an identity there. The Wizards got a promising young core and then who's that leave? The Pacers? All the Pacers are gonna be good again once Tyrese Halliburton plays. That leaves the Kings as just the saddest team right now. And they have the second worst offense in the league. They have the third worst defense. You know, Kings general manager Scotty Scott Perry. I was going to call him Scotty Scott Perry recently told ESPN that they need to get younger as a team. Yeah, definitely. And their five highest paid players on the roster are old. They're between 27 and 36. So that screams fire sale. Right. But what type of markets are there for Sabonis, for Zach Levine, for DeRozan, for Malik Monk and for Dennis Schroeder? Because all five of them should be available. It's just like, what can you get? And you know, the unfortunate part is they're all guaranteed money on the books next year. So a team is not even acquiring an expiring guy in any of those five. But they all have skills. Those guys, they do have skills. Our guy Dan Devine, he had a great post on this. He went through it. You want rebounding and some playmaking from your big. Sabonis can give you that. You want some high volume three point shooting. Zach Levine can still do that. DeRozan, obviously a guy that you would acquire for clutch situations. He can get his shot. He's still a mid range assassin. Monks, a sort of an instant offense guy off the bench at times. Or you can put him in a starting lineup. And then Dennis Schroeder is, you know, he's fallen off here, but obviously we've seen that he's a capable point guard. We've seen he's got some quickness. So there's skills, but there's fat contracts on a lot of these guys. And I just think they'll take anything though.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I mean, they would.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

But I don't think anybody wants any of these players.

[JD Skeets]

I think one of them will move, but who literally? Probably Monk, I would say, but he's been in trade rumors forever.

[Trey Kirby]

That's a great point. They've been trying to give him away.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And they can't find a taker. I think maybe Sabonis is most likely. And he's got, he's got a name and at least he's in rumors, but everybody else is like, literally. The King's like, please take him.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, I know, I know.

[Trey Kirby]

So they're trying to win this year. They came in trying to win their 15th in the league in payroll and they've got the worst record in the league. And it's all vets.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

That's unbelievable.

[JD Skeets]

Crazy part. Yeah, yeah. And like, look, like every team there's been injuries. Sure. But you know, I would say none more drastic than most of these other teams. You know, Sabonis did miss a chunk of of time, but like they now need to just obviously punt on this season. They need to get anything they can get back for any of these five guys. Anything. Late first round picks, multiple second round picks. If you can like somehow got a young prospect or two. Sure, sure, sure. And then obviously try and win the lottery here or try and get one of these like potential superstar changing guys. They desperately need a Boozer or a Peterson or Debancer or whoever. Like no team needs it more than this squad.

[Trey Kirby]

I think now they're rolling right now though. They got the best lottery odds and they're on a seven game losing.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

So things are good in Sacramento.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, yeah.

[JD Skeets]

So they're interesting. Can they get anything?

[TAS Melis]

Can they get anything? The fun part here, Ken, Scotty convince anyone else to take anybody. That's really what it comes down to. And maybe we'll be sitting here on Thursday after all the big trades happen and we'll see something coming in, you know, just at the line, like a 245 right before the trade deadline happens at Sat. 3 Eastern. Right. I think it is that Scotty convinces somebody. Come get him for anything. Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

[JD Skeets]

Not even convinces. It's probably not the right way to say it. It's like, God, we are so desperate. We thought we were going to get this, but we will take anything. Do you want the Raptors to trade for Sabonis?

[TAS Melis]

Nah.

[JD Skeets]

No. There you go. I'm with you. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Nobody wants their team to trade for sabotage.

[JD Skeets]

No, not really.

[Trey Kirby]

Do you agree with this? But he's not anymore. I don't think.

[JD Skeets]

Well, that's.

[Trey Kirby]

He can, he can rebound.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And he can pass the ball. But his days of being even a floor raiser, I think are over.

[TAS Melis]

It's hard to trade for a guy who's just injured and not looking like himself. Yeah. If you're the Toronto Raptors who are, you know, filled with. The last several years have been filled with that now we're going to get another one. I mean, he just. He doesn't look great.

[JD Skeets]

What were you going to say?

[Trey Kirby]

Do you agree with this? Still with the in the Stream team says all Scotties are Scotts, but not all Scotts are Scotties.

[JD Skeets]

All Scotties are Scott.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes.

[JD Skeets]

Not all Scots are Scotties.

[Trey Kirby]

Right.

[TAS Melis]

I don't agree. I agree with the former part. All Scotties are Scots, obviously.

[Trey Kirby]

Guaranteed.

[TAS Melis]

But every Scott you want to call a Scotty. That's the thing you just did. You just called a Scott Perry a Scotty. He's never been called Scotty.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, but he doesn't really. He doesn't work at all. Because then he's Scotty Perry. He's got the double Y or double I, E. That doesn't work.

[TAS Melis]

Oh, I like it.

[JD Skeets]

But who. What Scotty's doing Scotty Barnes. We got Scotty Scheffler.

[Trey Kirby]

Scottie Pippen.

[JD Skeets]

Scottie Pippen, of course. Who wasn't even supposed to be that or wasn't supposed to be spelled that way.

[Trey Kirby]

Scott Pippen at the draft.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah. Yep.

[TAS Melis]

Scotty too hottie.

[JD Skeets]

Scotty too hottie. Of course.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

One of the best Scotties. Scotty Skiles. Sounds good, actually. Actually, he was never.

[JD Skeets]

But he was a Scott.

[Trey Kirby]

He was a Scott.

[JD Skeets]

He was a Scotty Brooks is not a Scotty. He's a Scott Brooks.

[JD]

Brooks.

[JD Skeets]

Wait, hold on.

[TAS Melis]

He's definitely a Scotty. Is he 100% Scott Brooks. He wasn't a Scott. He wasn't a Scott.

[JD Skeets]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Trey Kirby]

Are you sure?

[TAS Melis]

Yes. How can you not be sure? Yeah, of course they never called him Scott.

[JD Skeets]

He's Scott Brooks.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, that's his name.

[JD Skeets]

But we don't call him Scotty Brooks, do we?

[TAS Melis]

Everybody call him Scotty Brooks.

[JD Skeets]

I don't think so. I don't think so.

[TAS Melis]

That's a weird one. Players in that called him that. What about last names? Byron, Scott, T. No, no.

[JD Skeets]

Now you're getting crazy.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[JD Skeets]

All right, those are our. Think about six most interesting teams here. Obviously put the Giannis and Bucks to the side for now that we obviously have heading into the deadline next week. We're gonna take a quick break, and when we come back, worst of the week nominees.

[Trey Kirby]

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[JD Skeets]

Oh, geez. Somebody. Somebody.

[Trey Kirby]

On the Seahawks, Sam Darnold is the favorite.

[TAS Melis]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

Plus 110. No. You like Jackson Smith in Jigba?

[JD Skeets]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's good.

[Trey Kirby]

He might be the best receiver in the league.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, I could see him winning it.

[Trey Kirby]

Kenneth Walker iii. Apparently he plays for the Seahawks. I only knew two Seahawks.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

I'm thinking Russell Wilson will do it. You can do it, man.

[JD Skeets]

I like Marshawn Lynch's chances.

[Trey Kirby]

Rashid Shahid, he's plus 5,000. That one would be a shocker, wouldn't it?

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Cooper cup plus 10,000. I think he does have a Super Bowl MVP. Did he. Did he get it when the Rams won it?

[JD Skeets]

Wait, who the hell is Cooper cup play for in these games?

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, he won it. He won it.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, he did. I didn't.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I think this is his first year with the Seahawks. The Rams said, you're washed. And then he went to the Seahawks and beat him in the regular season and they had a better record and he made plays in the playoffs, so that's cool for Cooper cup.

[JD Skeets]

Good for him.

[Trey Kirby]

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[JD Skeets]

That super bowl line has changed a little bit, eh? Didn't it open up Seahawks three and a half. See, it's moved to four and a half.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, people are on.

[TAS Melis]

The Seahawks sure did, eh. Y. It did.

[JD Skeets]

Yep. Yep. All right, it's time for worst of.

[TAS Melis]

The week, ladies and gentlemen, the worst of the week. Three worst of the week nominees. First one, a player was putting in his contact lens. He dropped it. A referee caught it and then gave it back to the player, and the player put it right back in. Christian Coloco just dropped it and referee Mark Lindsley caught it and gave it back to him, and he immediately put it back in. Now, there was some uproar on the broadcast. You shouldn't just put back something up. Another person just touched.

[JD Skeets]

Ew.

[TAS Melis]

Like, you know, maybe sanitize it a little saline or something. But Brian Scalabrine was on broadcast. He said just. Just let it drop. On the floor. And then the play by play guys said, Drew Carter said, well, would you rather take it off the floor and put it in your eye? He goes, yeah, I'd rather do that.

[JD Skeets]

No.

[TAS Melis]

So that's the discussion. Christian Colombo took it from someone's hand. He took it from the referee's hand and put it in his eye. Would you rather do that or, you know, you know, put some saline, I give it a little swirl somewhere.

[JD Skeets]

That would be the preference whether it fell floor or somebody hand. Yeah, clean it. But if not, I'll take. I'll take the referee's hand catching it over the dirt, over falling on the dirty floor.

[TAS Melis]

I'm gonna have to agree with that. Yeah, it's a weird one.

[Trey Kirby]

That's a weird one, but pretty good catch.

[TAS Melis]

Great.

[JD Skeets]

Very good catch.

[Trey Kirby]

Incredible reflexes.

[TAS Melis]

Mark Lindsay coming through. Yeah, Very, very good. Very good moment for Christian Coloco. I would say nominee two here. This one was wild. We're staying in that same game where Aneka Kongu was hammered by Jaylen Brown's elbow right in his face and it knocked out two of Ineka Kongwu's teeth. He went to the locker room, they said, no, no, you got to come back and shoot the free throw. Came back, shot the free throws. And then you have the photo here if you're watching on YouTube, where he had to have a dental procedure the next day. So he was out the following game. That was Thursday. And then Friday he couldn't play because he had to undergo a dental procedure. And you could see two teeth knocked out. And he took it so well. He wasn't complaining at all. I was surprised to see that. I did read. It's not the first time that teeth have been knocked out on an NBA court. I forgot about two of Carl Landry's teeth got stuck in Dirk nowitzki's elbow in 2009. That was the time. I don't know if they actually came out now that I say that. Like they were stuck in his arm. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, Derek White lost his fake front tooth after an elbow from Kelly Oubre only last year. I'd forgotten about that. Danny Granger lost two teeth against the Celtics in 08. That was the time. But like, those were two teeth that came out Danny Granger. And this was the same instant here where he lost two teeth. You don't see that very often. Yeah, Jalen Brown turned around and Jalen Brown was hit with a flagrant. I should mention that that's fair. That.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, not really a basketball play. I mean, I know it's accidental and just clearing space and all that. Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

But still, you know, doing his thing.

[JD Skeets]

God, that is dangerous.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, was. That was a good one.

[Trey Kirby]

I remember David Lee. David Lee was the Jaylen Brown in a situation like this, he elbowed a guy in the mouth and the ensuing cut that he got on his elbow like got dirty and like went septic and he had to like miss a huge chunk of time cuz he had like a big inflated elbow. So it's bad on both sides, but worse to be the receiver of the elbow to the face, cuz. Oh my goodness, that look nasty. Apparently he had like a four hour dental surgery yesterday. A lot of things to fix there.

[TAS Melis]

Oh, yeah. Here in Atlanta, I think. I think.

[JD Skeets]

I assume.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know where he goes.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, I'm just trying to feel bad for him because that happened on Boston's floor.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

To travel with that thing again, I don't know how he handled it. He was just comfortable. He had a free throw too.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

One of two though. Anyways, our last nominee here, it's not the worst of the week. It should be the best. But I had to include it because it is hilarious. The Cavs halftime show. You know, we're worried about copyright, so we didn't play Adele's hello. That the Cavs in arena host and the mascot are doing this routine too. So go watch it. We. We just played a short clip. Again, we're not copyrighting. So. It was amazing though. It's phenomenal. It's the Cav mascot and the in arena host with a huge ball in between them. You know, it's a workout ball. It's a workout ball that they use as part of their dance. That's amazing. It's amazing.

[JD Skeets]

And we had a debate here in the office or in the studio. How many days did they choreograph and plan that?

[Trey Kirby]

Was it? Multiple days.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah. You were leaning. You thought it was more of a one day planned performance. Like they put some work in. Everybody agrees that they planned it because they do moves like for sure they botched the final move, unfortunately. But that was a tough one. I mean, he's going under the legs. Okay, that was tough, but I think they did it more than one day.

[TAS Melis]

That's a great question.

[JD Skeets]

It's a two day at least affair of them planning it.

[Trey Kirby]

I'm with you. You got one day of planning and one day of mastery before the big performance. But I can't deny I was a little bit moved watching this. It was kind of like Poignant to me. These guys are really out there holding a ball between their bellies.

[JD]

Nice.

[TAS Melis]

It's the. Hello, Hello. The Adele. It's. The song definitely plays a huge part. And they. They are. They're kicking ass. I mean, that's good. I do think it was just a one day because if you watch the beginning of it, the. Actually, the mascot, he can't even go to a squat. He kind of falls over. I mean, he loses his balance immediately, but he hangs in. And the ball. I think it's smart that it's a huge workout ball, that it ain't going anywhere, really. So that's why I think it's easy. It's like a minute 20 performance. It's probably like six moves that they do.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

You could knock it out.

[JD Skeets]

It was smooth.

[TAS Melis]

It was smooth. It was well done.

[JD Skeets]

Okay, here's a question, though, off of this, in all honesty, like, is this something that's been done before? Like, is it a viral thing on Tick Tock that I don't know about? Or did they just come up with this Great question.

[TAS Melis]

Great question.

[JD Skeets]

Right?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Whose ideal is Right, Right.

[JD Skeets]

Are they, like. Are they copying something? Yeah, I don't know.

[Trey Kirby]

I forget his name.

[TAS Melis]

Boomer.

[JD Skeets]

No, not Boomer.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, Moondog is the.

[JD Skeets]

Oh, you're saying in arena.

[TAS Melis]

Oh, I got.

[JD Skeets]

I didn't even know that was the arena guy until you said. I was like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Ahmad Crump.

[TAS Melis]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Ahmad Crump.

[JD Skeets]

Crumpy.

[Trey Kirby]

His Instagram Crump style.

[JD Skeets]

Damn.

[Trey Kirby]

I love this.

[JD Skeets]

Probably gets a lot of followers. People seeking out the dance.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, yeah. Had to include it. But it's definitely not worst of the week. It's just not.

[JD Skeets]

Well, no, the worst of the week in Cleveland or in that arena should be the raised floor, should it not? That'd be a late addition. Worst of the week nominee, I'd say. I mean, we've talked about it before, but that thing is like 10 inches above this rubber mat covering their hockey rink in the Rocket Arena. And we just had Luca obviously roll his ankle hurt. His ankle, luckily, wasn't too severe, but now the NBA saying they're looking into it. They're going to talk with the arena and the Cavs and maybe try and fix this. Poor Drew Smith. Yeah, didn't do that. Don't remember those reports happening when he literally sprained a ligament in his left knee. I guess it was after he fell off the gap. There was out for the rest of.

[TAS Melis]

The season, I think, but Luke has the most floor problems in the NBA. He didn't like the NBA cup courts. He said it multiple times, multiple years. This one was. He didn't have to go that far.

[JD Skeets]

Oh, he bounces, bounces, bounces, bounces back.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

But it's still dangerous. I mean, it's incredible. From what I've read, this is only the second injury because of the race court in that arena. Luca and then Drew Smith, like, that's it in, like for. I don't know how many they've been playing their seasons and they've done this. Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

With this sort of drop off at a court. Just stinks. I was playing with my. My man Phil. He sprained an ankle. I was going after a block on him. He fell off. Like, it's like, I don't know, a foot beyond the baseline. Ankle done. Walking boot. Yeah, it's rough, man.

[JD Skeets]

And it felt because there was a drop on.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Where are you playing? The house. Yeah. Where were you playing?

[TAS Melis]

It's outdoor. One of those.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[TAS Melis]

Crappers.

[JD Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

All right.

[JD Skeets]

Some good worst of the week nominees and. Really? Yeah, really. What do you think about that cast halftime performance? Worst of the week or best of the week, though? I'll say, man. And I know a part of it was because of like crappy weather in the states here and probably like delayed or canceled, I should say halftime performances. But we've had some crazy things going on recently in the NBA. If you are a league pass viewer and you're watching some of these, like, there's not a lot happening. Sometimes there's like just a half court shooting contest. Some just people dancing. You know, this. I guess this was actually creative. This was something unique.

[TAS Melis]

This was so good. Yeah. We have to question whether or not it's a tick tock trend. That's how good it was.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

Did you guys do this on your own?

[JD Skeets]

Like, who thought it up and who choreographed it?

[Trey Kirby]

We'll see it again.

[TAS Melis]

I also, at some point, I'll probably include him. But it's not a halftime show. But in the Raptors arena, there's always somebody that they go to who's a fan. That crazy fan.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[TAS Melis]

Now he's got a shirt like, I guess it's his wife beside him now wears a. A shirt that says Scary Terry because he's a scary guy. Going in from the third to the fourth where they try and get you amped up. And Terry does a good job. He just got every single game.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

But now he's branded. It's not the same. It's not the same. He's not. He wasn't performing in game 43 as he was in game through one through 42. That's all I got to say about Scary Terry. But he's. He's funny.

[JD Skeets]

I like the cute Raptors kid more. Oh, like stylish. Cute little kid that they had just in the aisle.

[Trey Kirby]

Cute kid.

[JD Skeets]

And they would go to him and he like. He's like dancing sort of.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, like Scary Terry. He's in the upper bowl. He's with the real people.

[JD Skeets]

Die Hard. No doubt. No doubt. All right. We had some dunk contest news, guys. Reports from seam say Laker Center Jackson Hayes and Spurs rookie Carter Bryant. We were talking that through the other day. Hey, the dunk coach is in San Antonio. Who's he working with? Well, it's Carter Bryant because they've accepted invitations to the NBA dunk contest at All Star Weekend in la. So we got two of the names. We got a big guy, we got a rook in Hayes and Carter Bryant.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Jackson Hayes just did a East Bay against the Bulls. He can jump. Big guys don't have a great track record and not a big Jackson Hayes fan. But he is in the dunk contest, and Carter Bryant's gonna try and jump over Wemby.

[JD Skeets]

You think so?

[JD]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Damn. He's a big dude to do that.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, he is six.

[JD Skeets]

Six, isn't he? That would be. That'd be a sight. But I mean, you get.

[Trey Kirby]

If you're.

[TAS Melis]

Get.

[Trey Kirby]

If you're getting a spur in there, you gotta try and jump over one.

[JD Skeets]

I know.

[Trey Kirby]

There's no other. There's nothing else I want to see.

[JD Skeets]

I thought you didn't want it. I didn't. I didn't think you wanted any more jumping over things and people done with that.

[TAS Melis]

I don't.

[Trey Kirby]

But I'm telling you, it's gonna happen.

[JD Skeets]

All right. You're probably right.

[TAS Melis]

Is that why you called Carter Bryant? Just because you knew that?

[Trey Kirby]

Well, yeah, I knew Castle wouldn't do it again.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, that was the thing.

[Trey Kirby]

And Carter Bryant can join.

[TAS Melis]

Yes. I. I think that's a good thing that he's got Stefan Castle beside him, who had a good performance last year, just to give him a little confidence. Because that's what it comes down to with dunks. Dunk participants. A lot of the time you're gonna bring it your first one. Like, at least he's got a little coach who's not the professional coach.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah. So he's got him, too.

[TAS Melis]

You're right. So there's that. The Jackson Hayes. I'm not super excited about.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, no, he. He can do some pretty impressive things for a big guy. But. But Trey's right. I mean, go through the history of the dunk contest. There's a lot of Jackson Hayes like guys.

[TAS Melis]

Oh, we've been there. Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Some do better than others, but for the most part they're just there to fill it out. And that's okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Yep.

[TAS Melis]

Just to fill it out.

[Trey Kirby]

But got out of four.

[JD Skeets]

You know, you say Carter Bryant should jump over Wemby. That would be amazing. But what about Luke Cornett doing his weird prevent defense? He's a tall ass dude. Okay. Then he puts his hands up. You got to jump over that. I don't mind it. Okay.

[TAS Melis]

Work your way up.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, okay. Yeah, sure, sure.

[Trey Kirby]

Start with Luke Cornett. They got any other tall guys? Biombo still there? Who's taller, Luke Carnet or Biombo?

[TAS Melis]

The eclipse defense, which is an interesting one because it's not anywhere close to the rim. It's like out there, you know.

[JD Skeets]

Okay, so put Luke Cornett like. Yeah. In between the free throw line and the. And the rim. Have them do the eclipse defense and see if Carter Bryant could jump over him.

[TAS Melis]

Cool.

[Trey Kirby]

I'll get to do four dunks. So start by jumping over Biyombo, then Olenek, then Cornell and Wemby.

[JD Skeets]

Olenek in a backwards hat, of course. Naturally.

[TAS Melis]

All right.

[JD Skeets]

Work your way up the night. Sponsored by Ziggy Dunk. I guess that's Ziggy Dunk. He's here on the stream team. He's always early. I love that Ziggy's there generally first. Always saying ready generally first. Yeah. All he drops are ready there early in the morning. So Ziggy, thank you for sponsoring. Woah, boy. And man, you got a good one here. It's back to Cooper. Flag poured in a career high 49 points, the most in NBA history by a teenager. Finished 20 of 29 from the floor, becoming the first rookie with at least 20 made field goals since Brandon Jennings. My man.

[TAS Melis]

Wow.

[JD Skeets]

Brandon Jennings had 21 made field goals in his 55 point performance back in 2009. But Flag hit three threes. He made all six of his free throw attempts, grabbed 10 boards, blocked one shot in 38 minutes as he battled con canipple. What a game.

[Trey Kirby]

That was an awesome game. Did Brandon Jennings, you think, get the whoa boy when he had his 55.

[JD Skeets]

Was I doing Whoa Boy in 09? I don't know.

[Trey Kirby]

Probably right.

[JD Skeets]

Maybe.

[Trey Kirby]

I Bet he did 55. He also had five rebounds, five assists.

[JD Skeets]

If I Was doing it. He got it. Yes. Yes. For sure. All right, this is the drop, so we need to end with some rapid fire fun. Trey, you got the questions. Rest of us have the answers. New Hawk.

[Trey Kirby]

CJ McCollum was excited that the team's Monday game was moved to the afternoon due to inclement weather. It meant that CJ could go house shopping with his family later that day. So he's been living in a hotel since being traded here. Maybe the Lowe's?

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, that's where we stayed when we first moved here for a month.

[Trey Kirby]

It's a great hotel.

[JD Skeets]

Beautiful.

[Trey Kirby]

Give me a dog bowl. That's really nice.

[JD Skeets]

That's nice.

[Trey Kirby]

Fellers, what's your favorite room in your house and why?

[JD Skeets]

Okay, my real answer to this. Favorite room in the house. You guys know my house layout? Yeah, it's my main room. It's one big ass room.

[Trey Kirby]

It's a big room.

[JD Skeets]

My house is very open concept. You walk in the door, you are in the front room, which immediately goes into the dining room, which immediately goes into the kitchen, which immediately goes into the living room at the back.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

So that's a pretty good room because it's my whole house, basically.

[Trey Kirby]

You consider that all one room?

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, it is the main living space.

[JD Skeets]

Undeniably, it's one room. If I'm in it and you're in it on opposite ends, we're in the same room. I'm sorry. We are, but. But I guess that's true. My fun answer to this is I love my attic.

[TAS Melis]

Whoa.

[JD Skeets]

I love going up there now.

[TAS Melis]

Interesting.

[JD Skeets]

I used to be afraid of it. Now I'm like, I'd live up there if I could.

[Trey Kirby]

Had to break the seal.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, it's, you know, it's not a finished attic, so it's like. It is a spooky attic. Cool. That's fun as hell. Just looking at things up there, like, just looking at how things were built.

[Trey Kirby]

It has like a. Like a pull down ladder.

[JD Skeets]

I got a pull down ladder. Yeah. Laundry room. That's plumbing one. I love taking that ladder down. How it unfolds. You look at it, you're like, how is that going to get all the way down? How'd they do this? The engineering is incredible.

[Trey Kirby]

What do you got up there?

[JD Skeets]

Well, the H vac unit. I do have my water heater in my attic, which is very rare. Okay. It's always, always scares me.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Because, you know, don't worry. I've got. I got a sensor in case there's any sort of leak Good. So I can immediately get up there, turn the water off. But that's the fear, right? You ever have a broken water heater or a leak? Then I got a up. You know, I gotta fix a ceiling problem.

[TAS Melis]

If your sensor goes, you know.

[JD Skeets]

I know, Josh.

[TAS Melis]

I know, man.

[JD Skeets]

I can't sleep in.

[TAS Melis]

I don't.

[Trey Kirby]

This gives you another reason to go up there.

[JD Skeets]

Exactly. I'm always up there. I'm always checking.

[Trey Kirby]

How's the sensor? Okay.

[JD Skeets]

Good. Good.

[Trey Kirby]

Tas, what's your favorite room?

[TAS Melis]

My room right at the front of my house is kind of away from the main room, so that's where you go to just get away. It's quiet. People aren't around there. You know, it's super quiet.

[JD Skeets]

It.

[TAS Melis]

And you can watch what's going on in the neighborhood through the front windows. It's got some good afternoon light. You know, it's.

[JD Skeets]

That's.

[TAS Melis]

That's where the sun comes in.

[JD Skeets]

You're talking about the one to your right, Right? Like, when you go in.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

That is a nice room. It's like, sort of your bar, too. You have all your.

[TAS Melis]

It's got a building in there. That's nice.

[Trey Kirby]

Beautiful Lego display.

[TAS Melis]

Beautiful Lego. Kids love the big. The Legos.

[JD Skeets]

I take you as someone that likes to keep an eye on the neighborhood.

[TAS Melis]

Is that true?

[JD Skeets]

And that is not. That's not a diss, because I also am like that.

[Trey Kirby]

But you.

[JD Skeets]

I especially see that.

[TAS Melis]

Thankfully, I don't, but I. I hear you. I. I am sort of that person. Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah. I mean, I get it from my grandma. I mean, she used to do that. She used to live in a village where that's literally all they had to do. Oh, there's a car here.

[JD Skeets]

Yes.

[TAS Melis]

What a day. Yeah, you know, that kind of thing.

[JD Skeets]

Oh, my dad was. He lived at the front window. Just. He knew everything going on.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, everything.

[JD Skeets]

It's like, why don't you go outside? Nah, I'll just watch him here.

[Trey Kirby]

It's like being outside, but I'm inside.

[JD Skeets]

Ridiculous. I've done it. Sorry. I do it. I do it now, too, so.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

It's nice to see people walking by.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

Spy on them. Oh, did you see Joe's new shoes? You know.

[Trey Kirby]

We got a walking guy that's got, like, a big, long beard so long that has, like, probably, like, six hair things.

[TAS Melis]

Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

Like, to see that guy walk by. He's a. He's our number one walker. Jd what's your favorite room in your house?

[JD]

You know, I. I hate my house. You guys are sitting in the. Probably the nicest part of it. And it's cold as ice in here. I do enjoy. I like. Well, not like you, Tess, but at. I like sitting in the chair outside my house.

[TAS Melis]

Like, up front.

[JD]

I am a watcher. We have a. We're in a dead end street. So when people, you know, people walk down and then they turn around and.

[TAS Melis]

Come back, you're always like, fool, idiot.

[JD]

Well, I think it's part of their route, though, weirdly.

[JD Skeets]

I live on a dead end too. There's a lot of people that walk to the end and turn back.

[JD]

Yeah. And there's a farm down there, too.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

You know.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD]

I have a chair. So it's outside my house.

[JD Skeets]

The favorite room in your house is the chair outside your house. Close.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah. Whenever we have an online meeting, a zoom meeting or whatever you call it, that's where you are.

[JD]

That's right.

[JD Skeets]

That's true.

[JD]

But weirdly, the quietest spot, you know, because it's a. Cramped space in here, but anyways. Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

Outside.

[JD]

A wicker chair outside my house. My favorite room in the house.

[JD Skeets]

I love being outside too, man.

[TAS Melis]

Don't worry.

[JD Skeets]

You don't even have a front. It's great, though.

[JD]

Yeah, exactly. It's literally just sitting out outside my kitchen window. I don't have a kitchen. I forgot to say that.

[JD Skeets]

All right. Press the L. I don't know.

[JD]

We had the lighting. We had our lighting guy come in here and light this place. It's like, oh, I like the little kitchenette you have there. I'm like, God damn it. That's actually the kitchen, Tony. That's the. The full. The whole thing. It's like, what happened to the counter? Don't ask, man. Don't ask.

[Trey Kirby]

Anyway, well, I'll be heating up a lentil shepherd pie over. Hey, enjoy.

[JD Skeets]

Crap, I forgot my lunch.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, hungry boy, hungry boy. Benny the bull changed his number from 1 to 99 after the boss retired. One for Derrick Rose. We weren't the biggest fans of this. So, guys, what's something else that has changed that needs to go back to the way it was.

[JD Skeets]

Survivor needs to go Back to. To 39.

[JD]

Yes. Okay.

[JD Skeets]

Yes. Yes. Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Cool guy.

[JD Skeets]

Yes. Come on. Especially, I mean, I wish they were here for Survivor season 50 coming up. That would have been the perfect time. Yeah. To test these people, get them back out there living for a month and a half, but it will never happen. So this is just me moaning about it.

[Trey Kirby]

Moaning.

[JD Skeets]

And I don't mind the 26 days. Survivor's still great, but 39 days. That's something. That's when you really. Your family. Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

That's right.

[JD Skeets]

I don't miss my family after three weeks. I'm sorry.

[JD]

Like, we've done it. We've done it. It was easy.

[JD Skeets]

We've done it.

[JD]

It's easy. I had babies at home. I was like, it's already time to go home.

[JD Skeets]

39 days, though. Yeah.

[JD]

39 days. Yeah. I'm ready to go home.

[TAS Melis]

Do you want the shows to go back to 60 minutes too?

[JD Skeets]

Now that we do the show and cover it, Whatever.

[Trey Kirby]

Maybe, Yeah. I thought you meant our podcast, because that's never happened again. 60 minute shows, remember those?

[TAS Melis]

Oh, no.

[Trey Kirby]

Tas. What? Something else that's changed needs to go back.

[TAS Melis]

This sounds like a real get off my lawn type of argument, but I'm okay with it because I think people will agree. I want to be. I want to stop the asking for tips for everything. Like on every point. Come on. On every point of sale.

[JD Skeets]

It's kind out of hand.

[TAS Melis]

Oh, gosh. It's nuts. And I honestly, I care way too much about the person across the counter for me who's telling me, yeah, just say yes or no. Yeah. Say green or red or whatever. You know, they. They do what they got to do.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

I shouldn't care about them. They should have a high wage.

[JD Skeets]

Right.

[TAS Melis]

And they shouldn't give a poop. And I shouldn't give a poop. But, you know, it's in every. Every single different type of establishment. Establishment.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

It's everywhere.

[JD Skeets]

Every transaction now. You're right.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah. It really, really is like you, the person that I'm looking at, who I'm, you know, dealing with, may not do anything for me. Or they may, you know, bring the food over to a table or whatever, but I don't want to factor that in.

[Trey Kirby]

I just don't want. I don't.

[TAS Melis]

I don't want to do it. The whole thing. I don't want to deal with it too much.

[JD Skeets]

We don't give a poop.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Once they went to the iPad ads.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, right.

[Trey Kirby]

More like iTunes.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

JD, what's going back?

[JD]

Well, this is sort of dumb, but I miss buying software. Like where they. You get a box and a disc and now you don't buy the software, you rent it. Right. It's a subscription. So I'm forever paying for Premiere Pro. Forever.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, it's good point.

[JD]

You know what I mean?

[JD Skeets]

Yep.

[TAS Melis]

They're smart.

[Trey Kirby]

Not a one timer.

[JD]

It's better business model. I get it. And sure I get like, there's support, I guess, but like, I used to run a Pro Tools version into the ground. You know what I mean?

[JD Skeets]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

You master it.

[JD]

Yeah. And then. And then things get obsolete. Fine. And then you spend another 500 bucks to get the. The newest version and it's old man yelling at Cloud again. But I'm just tired of renting stuff. This is a plugin for that I use on Premiere pro. I pay $30 a month for it. That's forever.

[JD Skeets]

That is crazy.

[JD]

That's like. Wait. Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

And you got a tip on that?

[JD]

Yeah, I have a tip. I do tip. They don't do the flip, but I just add it on out of habit.

[TAS Melis]

It's true. It's annoying. What.

[Trey Kirby]

What's the plugin do?

[JD]

Cuts. Automatically cuts the show for. For when we do shorts. It's a. Jerome turned me onto it.

[JD Skeets]

Okay.

[JD]

And it. It is a. It saves literally hours a day.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[JD]

So it's worth it.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

But still.

[JD]

But also.

[JD Skeets]

But this sounds like something that's probably not updating all that often. No, no, not at all.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

So that's the. That's the part that's a bit of a scam.

[JD]

Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

I've got one app that I had a one time payment for. It feels amazing. You know, I've got in shot.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, it's great.

[TAS Melis]

I paid once for it. I got it forever. I don't have to pay monthly.

[JD Skeets]

You prefer that?

[TAS Melis]

Well, gosh, yeah. We all do. I'm like, whoa, that's weird. That's strange. It's rare.

[JD Skeets]

It is rare.

[TAS Melis]

Everything is.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah. Because they're like, yeah, you'll forget you even pay for it.

[Trey Kirby]

That.

[JD Skeets]

That's the other part.

[Trey Kirby]

That's part of the business model.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah. Don't worry, you won't remember. You'll probably delete it from your phone, but you'll be still paying for it.

[TAS Melis]

Oh yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Good question. Here in the stream team side question from Javante Music. Jd, you ever make any beats? Making beats?

[JD]

Making beats? Nah, my beats making days are over. I used to, but. But not anymore.

[Trey Kirby]

Drop one substack four by Friday. Coming back, something else that needs to come back.

[JD Skeets]

Four by Friday.

[Trey Kirby]

76Ers fans have been leaving positive reviews for Dr. Jonathan Glashow, the surgeon who's been working on Joelle and be's knees for the past year. Things like, I would just like to say I love you and what you've done for beating the 76ers and you're the goat. And I got my joy back. Now, guys, who is someone you would like to thank for an unusual reason?

[JD Skeets]

I have a weird answer. I think I would like to thank Post Wrestling's John Pollock for recording a nearly four hour long podcast where he breaks down the history of the Royal Rumble.

[TAS Melis]

Okay.

[JD Skeets]

It's fascinating to me and he does an incredible job. This guy talks for four hours by himself going through every Royal Rumble and more like sort of like what that led to. What else was on the card, not just the match itself. Where WrestleMania went. It is awesome. So 1988 all the way through to 2025. I'm almost done it. I've almost wrapped it up. So I'm just getting in the Royal Rumble mood is my point here.

[Trey Kirby]

But is it next week?

[JD Skeets]

No, it's this weekend.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh.

[JD Skeets]

It's on Saturday afternoon.

[TAS Melis]

Oh.

[JD Skeets]

So, hey there. Yeah, I'll see you there.

[Trey Kirby]

Is that why you had that Razor Ramon factoid? I did chambered?

[JD Skeets]

Razor Ramon never went in the Royal Rumble. That's crazy.

[Trey Kirby]

Why didn't he get an invite?

[JD Skeets]

Here's a trivia question for you guys. You guys, I think I've asked you this before, so you might get it. Who won the first ever official Royal Rumble in 88?

[Trey Kirby]

Andre the Giant.

[TAS Melis]

No, he's a big name guy.

[JD Skeets]

Well, that's the thing. I would say it's not a big, big name guy. It's a guy you all know. You maybe had the wrestling figure.

[TAS Melis]

Brutus the Barber.

[JD Skeets]

Beef. No, but that level, I would say sort of exactly that level of fame.

[TAS Melis]

Rowdy. Rowdy.

[JD Skeets]

No, he's probably too big.

[Trey Kirby]

Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

[JD Skeets]

Bingo. Hey.

[TAS Melis]

Oh.

[JD Skeets]

Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

[TAS Melis]

I think I remember that.

[JD Skeets]

Hamilton, Ontario.

[Trey Kirby]

Hammer Town.

[TAS Melis]

A man walking around with a 2x4 ready to hammer you down.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah. So anyway, it's great. And John Pollock. Good old Canadian boy. It's a great. This is the one podcast I listen to to recap. Monday night Raw or Smackdown. Because I am not watching those.

[TAS Melis]

He's a real Dan Carlin. Just doing it by himself. Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

This. It's amazing. He's like so many times like you can tell his mouth is getting dry though.

[TAS Melis]

He's like.

[JD Skeets]

And he just keeps. I know.

[Trey Kirby]

Four hour freestyle.

[JD Skeets]

I don't think so.

[TAS Melis]

What?

[JD Skeets]

I don't. I don't know for sure.

[TAS Melis]

Does it that good?

[Trey Kirby]

You got like musical tracks or anything? No, just a man talking.

[TAS Melis]

Wow.

[JD Skeets]

I think he's doing a video component. I'm only listening to the audio podcast. But like he talks about posters, so he must be showing the posters on the YouTube part put on. Anyway. Well, rumble this weekend. Here we go.

[Trey Kirby]

Honestly, drop the link. That sounds great.

[TAS Melis]

I'm thinking a Wool Boy sponsor of ours giving it away because he's sponsoring in a couple weeks. But Brad Hartzell, he put me on to a. A concert that's happening. It's this thing that happening. Happens in Tennessee slash Virginia because it crosses the state line. It's called Bristol Rhythm and Roots.

[JD Skeets]

Okay.

[TAS Melis]

Sounds like fun. That's all.

[JD Skeets]

Who we got on the card?

[TAS Melis]

Well, I don't know any of these. It's. It's country slash bluegrass.

[JD Skeets]

Oh.

[Trey Kirby]

Picking the banjo.

[TAS Melis]

A lot of. A lot of picking.

[JD Skeets]

So you think you're gonna go?

[TAS Melis]

I don't know about that. Oh, but I am excited. I'm excited. I'm excited about the possibility, just like.

[JD Skeets]

Knowing it's a thing. Okay.

[JD]

Appreciate the recommendation.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, yeah.

[JD Skeets]

It's nice. Recommendation.

[TAS Melis]

It's cool.

[JD Skeets]

That's cool. We'll have some recommendations.

[TAS Melis]

Am I going? I don't know. I mean, I would love to go across the state line. You know, that's where they host it. That's on. I think it's on State Road or State. Whatever it's called. It's called State something, which. Yeah, it's on the state line of Tennessee and Virginia.

[JD Skeets]

Who are you here to see perform? No, I'm just here for the state line. Thank you.

[TAS Melis]

I mean, you guys tell me if you've heard of any of these bands. Well, yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Okay, give us a couple.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah. No, it's gonna take me about 30 seconds to get them. Oh, so you don't want to hear that.

[Trey Kirby]

Bristol Rhythm and Roots. That's what it's called.

[JD Skeets]

That's the one.

[Trey Kirby]

See you there.

[JD Skeets]

The Birthplace.

[Trey Kirby]

That sounds good.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah. The birthplace. Country music.

[JD Skeets]

It's got to be a big name or two, then.

[TAS Melis]

Sierra Farrell.

[JD Skeets]

Okay.

[TAS Melis]

No, that's the number one. Okay. Mary Stewart and his fabulous superlative.

[JD Skeets]

Sorry, I can't say.

[TAS Melis]

The Del McCurry. Band. Braxton. Keith Monrovia.

[JD Skeets]

Nope. Nope.

[TAS Melis]

The Creekers. Maggie Antone. Hannah Dasher. Cruz Brothers. Daryl Scott String band featuring Rob Icus.

[JD Skeets]

Please say Sheepdogs. Please say Sheep Dogs. Please say Sheepdogs.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[TAS Melis]

Big Daddy Love.

[JD Skeets]

I don't know any of these. I might be going for the state line, too.

[Trey Kirby]

This looks like a big festival with a lot of names and haven't heard.

[JD Skeets]

Of a single one of them. If somebody's screaming in the Stream team right now, you don't know McCool and the flower Birds, like, maybe.

[JD]

Sorry, name for a band. What did I even say McCool and the flower birds.

[JD Skeets]

That's a cool name.

[Trey Kirby]

Jd take us home. Who you thanking?

[JD]

Oh, I forgot about this question, but real quick, I want to thank the person who invented the. The skip intro on Netflix. Yeah, skipping the intro. Actually, better than that. The guy or girl who invented bringing the captions in when you rewind 20 seconds. You know what I mean? Like, there are some apps like Apple TV or whatever, when you rewind.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD]

They bring up the captions for 20.

[JD Skeets]

Seconds even if you don't have the captions.

[JD]

Even if you don't have them on. Which is awesome because that 90% of the time it's like, what they.

[JD Skeets]

Guys, what did they say? Yeah.

[JD]

And then you go back and then they. They just pop on and they disappear after.

[JD Skeets]

Oh, that is a cool.

[TAS Melis]

Pretty cool feature. Yeah.

[JD]

I can't remember which. It's. Pretty sure Apple TV does it. Maybe. Maybe the.

[TAS Melis]

But literally, literally League Pass does that sometimes.

[JD]

Oh, really?

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, That's a good feature.

[JD]

It's very, very smart because I hate the captions in general. Like, I don't like having them on.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[JD]

But. But if I don't hear what they're saying and, you know, bring them up, it's great.

[JD Skeets]

All right, cool. Very cool. Way to thank some unusual people there.

[Trey Kirby]

Those are good thank yous.

[JD Skeets]

We would like to thank some people as well. How about that segue? Only two. We're talking founding members on our Substack page. Two names that we've been putting off for weeks now in thanking. But we get to them today and we salute them for being late arriving founding members. But founding members done the same. And that is Owen.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes.

[JD Skeets]

Thank you. And Adam James.

[Trey Kirby]

Thank you, Adam.

[JD Skeets]

So we are now all caught up on our founding members, but if you can still become one and obviously become a founding member on Substack and then you will get a shout out here on the Drop podcast. But thank you, thank you, thank you. And thank you to everybody that has subscribed. Paid subscribers, free subscribers. We love all the people, people that are checking out our fun on Substack. Still waiting on your Taco Bell.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, it's coming.

[JD Skeets]

Run down. Yeah.

[TAS Melis]

Okay, good, good.

[Trey Kirby]

The most highly anticipated post on our Substack. I know thus far.

[TAS Melis]

I know. Get out of here. We do great stuff on Substack. This is not going to be part of the elite posts that are happening on Substack. But it'll be there. It'll be there. It's still subscribed.

[JD Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to talk about what we like and our recommendations coming later today. So I think we're up to volume 16. I got a fun recommendation for everybody today. So, yeah, go check that out. Okay, that's it for us here on the drop. I will say Sunday night basketball premieres this weekend. Oh, NBC Sports marquee program of the week, I guess. With football now over, it begins this Sunday, February 1st. Doubleheader, Lakers, Knicks, Thunder, Nuggets. That's Sunday night. A lot of basketball on all weekend long. But yeah, something to watch for. You got the Royal Rumble. Of course, people tell me the Pro Bowl's on.

[Trey Kirby]

I'll probably skip that one. Okay. Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

So lots of stuff on this weekend and a lot of basketball and we'll talk about it on Monday. Also, last call for no Dunks 20th anniversary shirt. You got today and you got tomorrow and then it's gone forever. So go to nodunks.com and grab yourself a 20th anniversary no dunk shirt. Love this design from our [e-mail] so. So go grab it because once we hit February, it's out of here.

[Trey Kirby]

See you.

[JD Skeets]

Also, if you are a Traders fan or maybe just a no Buffs fan, we will be live today around 1pm Eastern to recap last night's banquet episode. That's what they're sitting at there. And we're going to debate whether or not it lived up to the hype because Alan Cumming was hyping up this episode. We'll talk that through with Nora here in the classic castle. We got Call the Factory when we do our no Bus Traders episode. What are you laughing at?

[TAS Melis]

Oh, I'm just wondering if the Black Banquet delivered as you said. Yeah, that's what you call it.

[JD Skeets]

It's called the Black Banquet.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah.

[JD Skeets]

Oh, man. And we'll talk about it on no Bus. But Nora had some true sicko shit leading into this episode. She looked up, I guess, because last episode Alan Cumming said something about his banquet and he mentioned like something about Scotland 1440. So Nora, of course, was looking up, well, what happened in Scotland 1440. And there's a very famous, like, banquet and killing and all that. And she was like throwing out this, like, you know, prediction, I guess earlier in the week. I'm like, you are. You're in the weeds, man. Like, what are you talking about, God damn it. She was sort of. She was sort of along the right line. So we'll talk about that and the episode and who I at home and we'll have some Fun later today, 1pm Eastern. No Buffs has its own YouTube feed and podcast feed. All right, Clipper Bros. You heard it here first.

[Trey Kirby]

Have a great time. Turn up.

[JD Skeets]

Love you guys.

[Trey Kirby]

Awesome.

[TAS Melis]

Thanks for joining us. And remember, you can kind of skip the intro for no dunks on YouTube because we trim it. And I mention that because JD just reminded me when he said he likes the skip intro option that yesterday's was not trimmed. That's my fault. But it's also YouTube's fault because it's.

[JD Skeets]

Like processing, processing, processing.

[TAS Melis]

Yeah, but thanks for the reminder, J.D.

[JD Skeets]

Embrace the weekend, people. This is an iHeart podcast.

[TAS Melis]

Guaranteed Human.