The Drop | Joel Embiid Back To Trolling, Draymond's Temper & Surprising Records

Summary

No Dunks – The Drop | Joel Embiid Back To Trolling, Draymond's Temper & Surprising Records (January 23, 2026)

Podcast Hosts:

• Jay Skeets
• Tas Melas
• Trey Kirby
• JD (Producer)

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Episode Overview

In this spirited Friday "Drop" episode, the No Dunks crew dives into contentious NBA headlines and quirky storylines from the night before. The team debates the worst performance between spotty referee decisions and Draymond Green's meltdown, celebrates Joel Embiid's return to dominance (and trolling), and spotlights surprising team records. Rapid-fire listener questions, signature playful banter, and a few wild tangents round out a classic episode.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Worst Performance of the Night: Referees or Draymond Green?

[02:54–10:44]

• Sixers vs. Rockets Recap:

  • Overtime thriller with a controversial non-call: Tyrese Maxey's layup was clearly goaltended by Kevin Durant, but the refs inexplicably didn't call it (and couldn't review), causing chaos at the end of regulation.
  • Jay Skeets: "Why do they always call that a goaltend so they can go and look at it?...And suddenly they decide...nah, we didn’t think it was a goaltend. So play on" [05:45]

• Warriors vs. Mavericks Recap:

  • Draymond Green's meltdown: flagrant foul, quick succession of fouls, fouled out, triggered an 11-0 Mavericks run that buried the Warriors.
  • Tas: "He's just unable to keep up with the foot speed...so he's hitting people. And you could see it in Steph’s face. I am sad." [04:39]
  • Trey: "He's kinda become a negative player...From all accounts, they’ll never trade him...but he’s holding them back." [08:40]

• Roundtable Verdict:

  • Tas blames Draymond as the bigger negative, citing Warriors' struggles and Draymond's inability to rise to the occasion with team injuries.
  • Trey blames the refs for the missed call, highlighting Draymond's remaining value in playoff scenarios, but acknowledges his decline.
  • Skeets zooms out: "Has there ever been a guy in NBA history who has won his team more games, but maybe also lost his team more games than Draymond Green?" [08:58]

Memorable Moments:

• The gang riffs on whether refs are tuning out Draymond with noise-canceling headsets: "John Goble's telling the other ref, 'Hey, turn up my Spotify playlist, man. I don’t want to hear this guy yell at me.'" — Skeets [10:40]
• Deep-dive on Draymond's "long leash" and the Warriors' inability to rely on him as the roster thins from injury.

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2. Jonathan Kuminga's Injury and Warriors Rumor Mill

[12:31–15:52]

• Kuminga left the game after an awkward landing, causing concern but appears less serious (ankle turn vs. knee).
• Skeets turns to spicy gossip: "Jake Fischer slop—Warriors plan to target LeBron James and Giannis in the offseason."
• Trey: "LeBron is even more realistic than Giannis going to Golden State." [14:27]
• Tas assesses contract and trade feasibility, declaring LeBron is "the guy" the Warriors might chase, but likely only possible because he’ll be a free agent.

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3. Joel Embiid’s Return to Form & Online Trolling

[16:33–23:31]

• Embiid's Monster Night:

  • The group praises Embiid’s game and recent run, noting his shift from MVP-level dominance ("point a minute") to being a more balanced contributor.
  • Trey: "He is sick…the Sixers are 6 points per 100 possessions better when he’s on the court." [16:59]
  • Embiid is banging inside more and playing with greater defensive engagement.

• Team Chemistry:

  • Maxi (now the clear #1 guy) and rookie Edgecombe earn big mentions. Paul George is likened to a "cooler Nick Batum" for his Martian dirty work.
  • Tas: "There is no better sign that Joel Embiid is feeling like Joel Embiid than when he starts trolling online." [18:44]

• Korkmaz Beef & Embiid’s IG Post:

  • Recaps an off-season quote from Furkan Korkmaz, saying Alperen Sengun was now the best center he’d played with.
  • Embiid quietly waited and, after outdueling Sengun, posted a photo staring him down with the IG caption "Ferk."
  • "That’s a good sign—when Embiid is doing this." — Trey [19:45]
  • Panel agrees: Embiid is healthiest when he’s also at his pettiest.

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4. Surprising Team Records: Clippers’ & Blazers’ Revival

[26:31–34:55]

• Clippers (now 24–20) after a rough, distracted start:

  • Trey: "Surprising good and bad for the Clippers. They shouldn't have been this bad to start the season."
  • Tas: "No more Chris Paul, no more Chris problems...that’s not a saying." [29:46]
  • Kawhi Leonard: career-best run of consecutive 20+ pt games.
  • Ty Lue’s coaching/culture praised; Clippers bench and Zubac’s return highlighted.

• Blazers (now 23–22) after coaching drama and injuries:

  • Skeets: "It's funny...the Blazers literally lost their coach right at the start of the season for a whole other scandal."
  • Shaden Sharpe’s recent scoring tear, contribution from new faces (Caleb Love, Kamara, rookie Klingon).
  • Trey: "I think the Blazers are a pretty solid team...It wouldn't be surprising if they passed the Warriors." [33:53]

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5. Worst Loss Debate: Magic or Wolves?

[35:34–39:12]

• Magic got blown out by Hornets; Wolves squandered late vs. Bulls.
• Tas: "It’s just difficult to know what [the Magic] are...They got blown out, simple as that."
• Both teams are inconsistent—Wolves' poor clutch performances noted.
• Trey: "Magic and Wolves are both pretty inconsistent...But a 50–36 points in the paint advantage for Charlotte?" [37:42]

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6. Trade Rumor: Matherin for Missi?

[39:32–43:29]

• Jake Fischer reports the Pacers & Pelicans are discussing a Benedict Matherin for Yves Missi swap.
• Trey: "This is a great trade because Indiana is set on the perimeter…They definitely need something else on the interior. This is a good use of the Matherin asset."
• Skeets: "These are two young guys...fan bases and organizations can talk themselves into bigger things still to come."

Chatroom User "Donut Eyes": "That’s a poop fart trade."
Skeets: "That's not a poop fart trade...come on!" [43:15–43:29]

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7. Other Notable Segments

• "Worst of the Week"

  • Nominee 1: Sixers rookie Vijay Edgecombe flatly refusing to enter the dunk contest — "He shook it off so fast. Question wasn't even over." [48:52]
  • Nominee 2: Naji Marshall’s mid-game Chipotle-induced bathroom break, proudly retweeted.
  • Nominee 3: Dwight Powell and Karl-Anthony Towns exchange groin kicks — "Three groin kicks, really, in that instance." [56:34]

• "Whoa Boy of the Night": Peyton Watson, Nuggets — Career-high 35 pts, 8 reb, 3 ast, 4 blk, 2 stl.

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8. Rapid Fire & Fun

[63:29–75:45]

• Which relatives should start a podcast?

  • Skeets: Justin & Julian Champagnie — "Two Cents Sham Penny" [63:56]
  • Trey: "Say Less" with Skip & Rick Bayless.

• Endorsements that took too long:

  • Skeets: Still waiting for a big, flashy million-dollar sponsor to revive the Dunk Contest, "Save us, Mr. Beast!"
  • Trey: Naji Marshall should get a "Dude Wipes" endorsement for his Chipotle “incident.”

• Silly Instagram take: Is this woman’s "Marcus Smart year" doomed?

  • Skeets: "Yes, it will be as bad and as ugly, uninspired, and weird as this question." [71:12]
  • JD: "You’re as hot as you’re going to be right now...this is as good as it gets for you." [72:20]
  • Trey: "I think she’s going to have a better year than the last two years, just like Marcus Smart."

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Memorable Quotes & Timestamps

• Draymond’s decline:
  "He's just become a negative player for the Warriors...He's holding them back." — Trey Kirby [08:40]

• Ref’s musical taste detour:
  "He likes Hall & Oates or something...wait, favorite musician: John Goble enjoys hip hop, salsa, and reggaeton." — Trey and Skeets [10:47–11:09]

• On Embiid trolling online:
  "There is no better sign that Joel Embiid is feeling like Joel Embiid than when he starts trolling online." — Tas Melas [18:44]

• Blazers’ surprise run:
  "They did a great job of recovering...the Blazers are a pretty solid team...wouldn't be surprising if they passed the Warriors." — Trey Kirby [33:53]

• Trade rumor reaction:
  "That's not a poop fart trade. These are two young guys...fan bases and organizations, you can talk yourself into bigger things." — Jay Skeets [43:29]

• Dunk contest apathy:
  "He shakes it off so fast. Question wasn't even over. Nope." — Trey Kirby [48:52]

• Naji Marshall’s bathroom break:
  "Naji Marshall ate some Chipotle and had to go to the bathroom. It happens." — Tas Melas [53:48]

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Episode Highlights by Timestamp

• [02:54–10:44] Worst performance: Refereeing or Draymond?
• [16:33–23:31] Embiid’s resurgence, trolling, and Sixers team growth.
• [26:31–34:55] Most surprising team records: Clippers & Blazers.
• [39:32–43:29] Matherin for Missi? Rumor reaction.
• [47:37–57:20] “Worst of the Week” nominees and jokey riffs.
• [63:29–75:45] Rapid Fire: hypothetical podcasts, endorsements, weird Instagram numbers.

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Tone & Vibe

As always, the No Dunks crew mixes deep NBA insight with loose laughs and relatable garbled tangents. Their conversational chemistry—anchored by wisecracking, honest takes and nerdlore digressions (from app favorites to poutine debates)—make the show not only informative but thoroughly entertaining for die-hard and casual NBA fans alike.

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Takeaway

This episode delivers a quintessential No Dunks experience: sharp analysis of league drama (Draymond, Embiid, bad refs), genuine excitement about genuine basketball surprises (Clippers, Blazers), and a healthy amount of light-hearted, sometimes silly, sports-culture banter. If you missed the games or just want the pulse of NBA conversation, this episode brings you up to speed—with a smile.

Transcript

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[Jay Skeets]

Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the no Dunks podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Friday, January 23, 2026. This is the Drop. I'm Jay Skeets here in the classic factory and alongside me, as always, Tas Melas.

[Tas Melas]

Podcast listeners, this is for you.

[Jay Skeets]

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

[Tas Melas]

Ayo.

[Jay Skeets]

Ayo. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer JD Hello. There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody joining us on YouTube. Hit the like button. Subscribe podcast listeners. Five star ratings and reviews. Fun drop. Today, some worst of the week nominees. Oh yeah, we got.

[Trey Kirby]

Woah.

[Jay Skeets]

We got pick em. We got Rapid Fire. But we start with what you got. What you got? Oh, man, I twisted myself into a pretzel to make these. What you gots this morning for the guys. These are pretty wild. Oh, I got creative with these ones. Boys, let's start with this. The Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Rockets 128, 122 in overtime last night. But we probably should have never seen the extra period. JD if you've got it, go ahead and roll it because in the final seconds of regulation, Maxi attempted a layup that's gonna get swatted here off the backboard by Durant. But the ball hit the glass before KD touched it, which should have resulted in a goaltending call, of course, because goaltending was not called on the play. I don't know why it could not be reviewed. And then the refs like immediately followed this up with another botched, you know, inadvertent whistle. It was a mess at the end of this game. So just sit on that for one second because we also had the Mavericks beating the warriors, winning their fourth consecutive game. Good stuff from them. But the Dubs were up one midway through the fourth quarter when Draymond Green, he went crazy. He was called for a flagrant foul. Less than a minute later, another foul by Green that was reviewed. It wasn't called a flagrant, but he sort of just went crazy, got a lot of fouls, fouled out of the game. He had four points, three turnovers. And what was a close game suddenly, you know, ballooned into the Mavericks going on an 11 run and the warriors lose. So what was the worst performance from last night? The Rockets 76ers refereeing or Draymond Green? Tasmanis, what you got?

[Tas Melas]

I got Draymond Green. I'm not going to start by defending the referees. I'll do that in a few minutes. Cause I don't want to start with that. Let's just talk about Draymond Green hitting people because he's too slow now. I mean, that's what came down to. He was. He's. He's literally just unable to keep up with the foot speed of anybody around him. So he's hitting people. And you could see it in Steph's face. I am sad. He's literally. He's literally not feeling good. Maybe it's because of the brown Town jerseys they're wearing. No, it's just because there's no Jimmy Butler. They're trying to start printing Brandon Bijemski in Jimmy's place since he went down. And Brandon Bijemski. I mean, you could be sad about that. He missed so many layups. I think it's three little literal layups. Just put D. Anthony Melton into that starting lineup already. That guy is king. He is so good right now. And then we'll get to a Jonathan Kaminga injury. So I just think that whole thing. That whole thing is far worse than what the referees did or didn't do by not calling that goaltend.

[Jay Skeets]

That may be true. The Sixers went on to win, like I said. So there was that.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes. Karmic justice.

[Jay Skeets]

Weird, because they always call that a goaltense so they can go and look at it.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes.

[Jay Skeets]

And suddenly the decide John Goble and his team, like, nah, we didn't think it was a goaltend. So play on.

[Tas Melas]

Let me defend it. Let me defend it. One sec. Okay? Because Tyrese, Max. And Max, he takes it to the glass, and you know that he is literally trying to get it to the glass as fast as possible. Or. Or for sure, he doesn't let go of the ball. It's one of those. I'm getting it to the glass. Literally, his hand hits the glass and to defend the referees. I don't know how they don't call it, but. But you don't see him release the ball. Is that part of it where it's literally doesn't come out of his hand? Is literally his hand hits the glass and then. But it is quick. They should just call it.

[JD (Super Producer)]

They just.

[Jay Skeets]

They always call it.

[Tas Melas]

They change the rule for this. They always call it. Yeah, they change. They change it so they could take it back. Right.

[Trey Kirby]

So they. So they can look at it.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, exactly.

[Trey Kirby]

This was like an obvious goaltend in real time.

[Jay Skeets]

It wasn't even close.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, for sure.

[Trey Kirby]

There's a guy standing behind. He's videotaping it. I'm sure he saw that it was clearly a goal 10, so they blew it. And like you're saying sk. They usually just call it so that they can go and take a look at it. So weird that they didn't. But like we said, good stuff for the 76ers to come out and play really well in overtime and say, hey, we had the momentum anyways. We carried it over. So you could easily get derailed in a scenario like that they didn't. That was nice.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, it was nice. It was so funny because the end of it was hilarious. I mean, I watched it live. And then they go and they allow a jump ball. They made a jump ball. And then The Sixers had 0.1 seconds after the jump ball. They get. They stopped the clock to say you get 0.1 seconds because the buzzer went off. Anyways, I can't explain it because it's so fricking complicated. It was odd. It was odd. The whole thing was odd.

[Jay Skeets]

Right.

[Tas Melas]

But the warriors thing is. That's tough, man. It's tough. Everything going on around that and a sad season. Yeah. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

So which one would you pick here?

[Trey Kirby]

I would pick the refs. I hate the ref. If they got it right, I'd kind of be mad at him. Why'd you stop the game? But Draymond, like, I don't know. I think Draymond's fall off. He's still a great, at the very least, playoff defender. Like, put him in a postseason scenario where you're game planning against whoever. He can frustrate people and can still be a really effective guy. But, like, over the course of an 82 game season, he's hurting you on offense. At this point, the re. The warriors almost have to build their offense around Draymond's weaknesses, more so than Steph Curry. And that's before even Jimmy got hurt. Now they're going to need even more from him. Three turnovers last night. They were brutal. Not even close to, like, being completed. He did get five assists, but it really should have been three. Cause Steph did all the work on a couple of these. He's not going to shoot. Like, he took three shots maybe in the first three minutes. And I was like, okay, I didn't make any of them, so I'm tapped out. From here on out, he's just kind of become a negative player for the warriors. And from all accounts, like, they will never trade him. Understandably. Like, he's a franchise legend. He put four titles up in the.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Up in the rafters. So I get it. But. But, like, he's holding them back.

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[Jay Skeets]

As a team.

[Trey Kirby]

And they need even more from him now. Now that Jimmy went down, now that Kaminga even got hurt. And he's just not reliable. Somehow the warriors are better on offense and on defense when Draymond sits this year.

[Jay Skeets]

That's bad. Yeah. Has there ever been a guy in NBA history who has won his team more games, but maybe also lost his team more games than Draymond Green. I'm going back, obviously, to some previous playoff runs, too, where he really hurt his team because of his antics here, but this one where he's, like, tagging Dwight Powell, like, on his rim run, but Pops, I'm like, he throws an elbow. He throws a little chicken wing. Powell took a shot to the gut. Did he sell it? Maybe a little bit, but he sold it because it's Draymond. Like, they, of course, are going to go look at it. That was the flagrant then. He obviously had a harder foul right after that. Now he's trying to prevent a basket. I don't think it was anything malicious, but.

[Tas Melas]

But then he.

[Jay Skeets]

But he just, like, it spirals. He just cannot stop and let it go. And I think at times like this is not the first time we've talked about this with Draymond. Like, it affects his team negatively. And it did in this game.

[Tas Melas]

It did. So it did.

[Jay Skeets]

You know, I don't know if it was the main only reason they lost, but he sure didn't help their chances down the stretch.

[Tas Melas]

He needs to be consistently good now with Jimmy Butler out, and that ain't going to happen. That's the problem. And he does have games where those threes go down. He even had a reverse layup. I thought, whoa, last night, that might be pretty. But he missed. And, yeah, it does spiral. I don't think he deserved a flagrant foul for the tagging. Dwight Powell sold really well, and I don't think there was a flagrant on the other one either. Underneath because he held the player after he hit him. But it spirals. Then he starts getting in fights with everybody.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, God, it's amazing. He isn't tossed from these games half the time, too. We've talked about this.

[Trey Kirby]

He's got a long leash.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, my God. And maybe now they can't even hear them because I got a Britney Spears headpiece on. Hear him out of one ear. Maybe that's why they're wearing them. They're just, like, cranking up the Danny thing.

[Trey Kirby]

Just noise canceling.

[Jay Skeets]

John Goble's telling the other ref, hey, turn up my Spotify playlist, man. I don't want to hear this guy yell at me.

[Trey Kirby]

What do you think John Goble listens to?

[Jay Skeets]

Well, we could find out.

[Trey Kirby]

Look it up really quick, see what his favorite.

[Jay Skeets]

What does Goble listen to? He like hall and Oates or something like that, I think.

[Tas Melas]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

This is actually a bit of a surprise to me.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh.

[Trey Kirby]

Favorite movie? The Godfather. I Mean, Okay.

[Tas Melas]

Classic.

[Trey Kirby]

Classic. Favorite app, Amazon, but favorite musician says John Goble enjoys hip hop, salsa, and reggaeton.

[Tas Melas]

I love John Goble.

[Jay Skeets]

I cannot picture him listening to that. All right. Respect John Goble.

[Tas Melas]

It's so hilarious when they. There was the. The in arena interviews of players that they do, you know, constantly they hear these videos. They did it with Cam Whitmore for the Wizards last night. What's the first app you check in the morning? Imessage. That sounds weird.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, we get it. It's an app. It's just that the app. The app question's a weird question.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, it is. Retirement is your favorite app.

[Tas Melas]

Mail. I'm one of those who checks mail every second. But my favorite real app is a really good question. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

What is your favorite real app or the one you use the most often?

[Trey Kirby]

Favorite spin off app. Not a. Not a Built into your phone app.

[Tas Melas]

Oh, not a native app.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, maybe my any do list.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, you do love any.decl Cross loyalty. Tony Parker's loyal to his sandwich. You're loyal to any new.

[Jay Skeets]

What do I have to do today still? Oh, I didn't take my pills this morning.

[Tas Melas]

Come on, man.

[Jay Skeets]

I need to drink 32 ounces of water. And I need to look into Valentine's Day decorations for the studio.

[Trey Kirby]

At least you can get two of those done at the same time. Pills in the water.

[Jay Skeets]

I usually do.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yep.

[Jay Skeets]

Take a pill, chug a bunch of water. That's the only way I drink water anyway.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Anyway, Jonathan Kaminga, you did allude to it. You pointed it out. Okay, that's all right. Okay. Jonathan Kaminga left the game early after he injured his ankle, maybe, I guess part of the knee as well, on a fast break there and stepped on somebody and then like, went to the baseline, told a little girl to get out of her seat.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. Did he tell her to get out of her seat? He was sitting in her seat, that's for sure.

[Jay Skeets]

And he told her. Did he either used words or basically like move.

[Tas Melas]

But she may have got up because she didn't want to get hit because.

[Jay Skeets]

No, no. He went over pretty slow, and then he's like, oh, something's wrong.

[Tas Melas]

His parents were taking photos of it. Yeah. This is cool.

[Jay Skeets]

Maybe. Oh, so maybe a mother or father said, candy, get out of your seat. Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't know why.

[Tas Melas]

You're right. He probably requested it. He probably.

[Jay Skeets]

Anyway, not good.

[Tas Melas]

No, no. The fact that he left the game now he did get up and walk, and he looked fine, and it was an ankle turn. The Replay showed, yeah, he turned his ankle, but they called it a knee injury. I guess they're just being cautious. I think it's as simple as that.

[Jay Skeets]

The team is or he is, or both.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, it's probably all combined just like the injury because it was a turned ankle. But his knee bends weird too. So just unstable when he landed and then. Yeah, just got to sit in the stands for a little bit. They were loving it though. Candy and her mom, Sandy.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that would be cool. What's up, John? You think they come and towel it down after he leaves and hobbles off?

[Trey Kirby]

I would want it toweled down, I think.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Pretty gross otherwise. Just related, warriors news here. Got some Jake Fisher slop yesterday. He says the warriors plan to target LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo in the off season. Like, wow, good idea.

[Tas Melas]

Good idea.

[Jay Skeets]

Holy crap. Good idea. Strong idea by the Warriors. Any chance at all you think this happens here?

[Trey Kirby]

Maybe one or the other, but both, it's. It's pretty far fetched.

[Jay Skeets]

I think.

[Trey Kirby]

Golden State, it feels like, has been chasing Giannis for seven years. We know that they had at least discussions, maybe not at last trade deadline, but at 2024 deadline for a LeBron to Golden State trade. And it was kind of like, what does LeBron and Rich Paul think? Because we'll let them decide. At that time they said no, but a lot of reporting is coming out, like kind of included in this bus family stuff that it's seeming like this is going to be LeBron's last year in Los Angeles. There's not a lot of places you can imagine him playing out the last season, maybe 2 of his career. Like LA is one of them, Cleveland is one of them. I think New York has to be in the mix just because he's always been linked to there. Back when he was like holding up the hat. Remember those days? Remember those days when he came out with like a New York Knicks colored chew and they're like, he's gone. He's leaving in 2010, he's going to New York. Never happened, but you could see LeBron playing there and I think you could see him playing with Steph Curry on the Warriors. It would require LeBron taking like a massive pay cut, which maybe he would do since he's this far into his career. I think maybe LeBron is even more realistic than Giannis going to Golden State.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melas]

I think LeBron is more realistic because the Yanis one would take a trade, right? And that's a lot of money to get together to accumulate for Giannis's 58. I think he's making next year.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, well, not if. I mean, if it's a Jimmy contract. Jimmy Butler send him home to Mole to Wisconsin. Yeah, but a bunch of draft picks.

[Tas Melas]

But if you believe in any of the slop and any of these rumors, I think they do want to keep Jimmy Butler for one more year because they're trying to get Steph to the top, to the championship now. It would sort of make sense. I think LeBron would want to play with anybody in the NBA. If it, if it is anybody, it's Steph. I mean it is the, the guy. The two guys that have been the players of this era, he played with them in the Olympics. Doesn't have to go too far to Golden State, you know, instead of flying across the country, flying to another city. And he's a free agent so he can sign for what he wants. You know, usually he signs for the max. So that is a problem here. That being said, I think that one makes more most sense.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, let's go back to Embiid before we move on to our next. What you got? Because he did a monster game. Yeah, incredible game in that overtime win against the Rockets. Maxi great as well. Kelly Uber had a good game, but is dwelling bead back baby. Like he's putting together a string here in January over the last 15 games or so. Or so scoring at a pretty decent clip. He rebounded a lot last night. Defense a little more engaged. What do you think about Embiid, how he's played recently?

[Trey Kirby]

He's having an impact, I think. And is he fully back? No, I don't think he'll ever be like point a minute Embiid like he was right before he suffered these last few injuries that really kind of put him in another phase of his career. But he's played more games already than last season. He is sick. The Sixers are 6 points per 100 possessions better when he's on the court. I think he really helps Maxi. You saw a lot of two man game from those two last night and beat is like bought into setting screens. Not that he wasn't a screener during his MVP years. That was a huge part of how he got into his offense. But I like to see him inside banging like he's throwing down dunks and near dunks out of the post. And early in the season it was like all they could do with him is get in the ball at the free throw line and see him do a couple of jab Steps and knock down a mid range jumper. He's a good shooter from there, so that was an easy way for him to score. But you can tell he's feeling better about his body. If he's going to be banging with these big dudes like a Clint Capella down inside, he's also not dragging down their defense anymore. I think that's the bigger issue for him because it does not look like he can move very well side to side. But at least he's massive at at least he rebounds. So they've done a really good job, the Sixers have, of figuring out how to play with Maxi as their number one guy. Edgecombe coming along. Paul George has just become a dirty work guy. Like I hate to say it, but I'm starting to like Paul George right now.

[Jay Skeets]

Is he like to me, cool now he's turning into like a cooler, maybe better still. Like Nick Batum. Sure, right. Like saying dude, all the dirty little work and defense and can hit threes at times of. Yeah, I'm with you on that.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Starting the year, it felt like there was the team when Embiid was on the court and they had to figure out a way to fit him in and there was a team when Embiid was off the court and they would play faster and everything was more perimeter oriented. Now they feel like a full team together. So I'm impressed with Embiid and what.

[Jay Skeets]

The Sixers have done and Tass. There is no better sign that Joel Embiid is feeling like Joel Embiid than when he starts trolling online. And that's what he did in this game because I got to tell everyone the story here. Back at Eurobasket over the summer, former Sixer Furkan Korkmaz said that Dwell Embiid was no longer the best center he'd ever played with. That honor now went to his countrymen in El Princengun. I don't think it was like an impede diss as much as it was like I'm playing with El Princengun. He's really awesome right now. He's helping Turkey here. So that's what he said. Of course Embiid filed that one away, took it as a slight to some extent, let it simmer for months and then battles Alperen. Shengun has this monster triple double game, gets the victory. And J.D. you have the photo here. After the game, posted this Instagram photo of him staring back at Chengun. Had it stumbled and he was falling down and he just wrote Ferk. So again, that's a good sign when Embiid is doing this.

[Trey Kirby]

Exactly.

[Tas Melas]

Right.

[Jay Skeets]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

He was playing it pretty cool at the beginning of the season as he was trying to get his legs underneath him. He was not a trash talker at all. He was just trying to fit in. And as he's gotten more comfortable this season, he's gotten more comfortable online as well. Do you think Furkan Cork Maz follows Joel Embiid on Instagra?

[Tas Melas]

I don't know.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, he. He might have maybe. Yeah. If he stuck it out.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

When did he find out about this? Yeah. Was he tagged in it or did somebody send it to him? I don't even know where Fur Kang Quirk Maz is right now.

[Tas Melas]

He's playing abroad. Okay. All right. But he did request multiple trades from the Philadelphia 76ers. He wanted out.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

He played there for seven years.

[Trey Kirby]

That's crazy.

[Tas Melas]

That's the only part of his NBA career. Seven years. It flew by. Wow. Like, I just don't remember him playing 328 games all with the Sixers, all with Joel Embiid being around. That's a great point. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

So they were linked.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. I wonder if that was just a straight up diss when he started playing with Alper and Shangu and he said he's better than that guy. I mean, there's something there probably.

[Jay Skeets]

I really don't think I was doing all that. But like saying Embiid sucks when he said that comment. You're just saying Albert J. Is a young, talented, really good center. He's really good. You know, it means stewing. Oh my God. How dare you.

[Tas Melas]

I think it's.

[Jay Skeets]

I think it's perfect and beat. It's like a little funny. Maybe there's a little bit of like, no, I'm still the best. That's what makes him hilarious.

[Tas Melas]

But listen, I hope we see Joel Embiid play for the next few months. I'm not.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes.

[Tas Melas]

I'm holding my. I'm holding my breath just a little bit. They played it differently this year and that they played it super slow from the beginning of the season. Medically, I don't know if Brian Suter can really weigh his opinion on this, but they've played it well and he is playing more often now. He's not playing in back to backs, but he is playing on just one day's rest. As he said earlier this season, he wanted to get off that plan. I want to play more often than just two days rest. And so he's playing a lot.

[Jay Skeets]

He played 46 minutes last night. I glossed over that. I mean, it was an overtime game, so more minutes were to be played. But, but he played the most minutes. Like he played more than Maxi, more than a rookie in Edgecombe, more than Kelly Oubre who played a ton. Like, that's pretty crazy. And that's a good sign. Yeah, very good sign.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, honestly, that's pretty crazy. I mean, when's the last time embiid played over 40 minutes?

[Jay Skeets]

Maybe it happened this year, I don't know. But no, I don't think, I don't think in the regular season. Probably last was a playoff matchup or something.

[Tas Melas]

He played 40 minutes and three seconds a couple weeks ago.

[Trey Kirby]

Excuse me. Actually, that's crazy that he's doing that.

[Tas Melas]

I'm on a game log here. But he's, he's, he's. It has increased the best sign.

[Jay Skeets]

I think Liberty Ballers put it like this. Embiid is able to drive some winning basketball right now without having to be the franchise's sun and moon and stars. He doesn't have to be at all. Right? He is, because it's sort of become Maxi's team. Edgecombe is obviously incredible rookie. These other guys, like Dominic Barlow is one of their better players. There's a two way guy.

[Tas Melas]

He's been starting until yesterday.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

When Kelly Oubre sat, who came into the starting lineup and was awesome and he was great.

[Jay Skeets]

So I think that's really, that's the key part here. It's not all on Joel Embiid's shoulders because you've got Maxi playing at an MVP level.

[Tas Melas]

Not all on Maxi's shoulders either. No. Last year it was all on his shoulders, but now Edgecombe changed that because he's been really good. And I can't believe the Paul George Nikola Batum comparison. Well, I mean, I mean, he's different. He's, he's. I just think immediately when you watch him, you think, wow, he makes a lot of money. But then you watch the basketball play.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, just forget about that part.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, he's contributing.

[Jay Skeets]

That block on Shen Goon, Was that in overtime? That one?

[Trey Kirby]

It was definitely late.

[Jay Skeets]

I think so. I think it was an overtime. It was a hell of a block at the rim.

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[Jay Skeets]

All right, moving on. Holy moly. Next. What you got here? We'll go a little faster here. I think Kawhi Leonard scored 24 points. Clippers survived a tight fourth quarter to beat the Lakers last night. 112, 104. Clippers have now won seven of eight and 14 of 17 as they continued their upward climb here in the Western Conference. Also out West, Shaden Sharp scored 27 points as the Blazers extended their winning streak to four games with a solid victory over the Heat. Portland 23 and 22. First time the Trailblazers are over.500 through 45 games since 2020-21 season. So a while ago, more surprising record. TK, you get us started. The Clippers at 20 and 24 because of that very slow start or the blazers at 23 and 22? Yeah, I don't.

[Trey Kirby]

I wasn't really sure because. Are you saying Clippers surprising good or surprising bad?

[Jay Skeets]

I'm saying surprising good. Seeing that they started six and that's.

[Trey Kirby]

That's whatever with 21. Exactly. They were last year. They were 25 and 19 through 44 games. So much better last season. So I think it would still be a surprise that they're under.500, but they've been good for basically two months at this point. Quiet. Only played 31 of their 44 games. He's 49 when he doesn't play. Did play last night, had a good game, but I think Harden's been looking pretty solid. The three ball isn't really falling for him. He did make a big one late in the game yesterday, but he's really doing a great job of getting to the rim, finishing inside. And that's something that's like come and gone for Harden as he's gotten older in his career. And right now, he's been able to penetrate, set up teammates, and more importantly, get to the rim and actually finish. So I've been impressed with the Clippers. Like I've said, I think they're gonna finish in the play in tournament, if not get out of the play in tournament. We'll see who they end up matched up with, but they've been really good for quite some time. And that's bad news for Twitter user Rich homie flan on December 20th. Oh, yeah, this man tweeted, if the Clippers go 15 and 3 in any stretch this season, I'll print and eat this Tweet. They are 14 and 3 in their last 17 games, and they play the Nets at home. On Sunday.

[Jay Skeets]

So if they win, he's got to eat a tweet. He's eating a tweet. Eat that tweet. That tweet. Eat that tweet.

[Tas Melas]

Wow. Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

So I think. Surprising good and bad for the Clippers. They shouldn't have been this bad to start the season.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, it was weird.

[Trey Kirby]

They've really come around. And it's been a matter of Ty Lu figuring out the right combinations. Cause the Clippers had a bunch of turnover. They brought in a bunch of role guys around Harden and around Kawhi Leonard. They also were probably distracted at the beginning of the season with the Kawhi investigation, which we're just going to worry about in March, I suppose.

[Jay Skeets]

I guess.

[Trey Kirby]

So nobody say anything until after the All Star Game.

[Jay Skeets]

But.

[Trey Kirby]

But they've turned it around. Ty Lue is just a good coach. He figures out how to get the best out of his team. It's just a problem that they started so, so poorly that they're behind the eight ball trying to catch everybody else.

[Tas Melas]

Rich Homie Flan. It's gonna have to pull off a Matt Austin with the Lynn sanity shake because there was. What was it?

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[Tas Melas]

A degree? A piece of paper?

[Jay Skeets]

Diploma is what he said it was. The Harvard diploma.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Cause it was a Jeremy Lynn shake.

[Tas Melas]

So it was blended into the shake. So Rich Homie Flan can do that.

[Trey Kirby]

Sure.

[Tas Melas]

We'll send the link to the video if it exists. I don't know.

[Jay Skeets]

It does.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. Okay.

[Jay Skeets]

Certified classic, actually on YouTube. Oh, nice. Nice.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, Nice.

[Tas Melas]

The Clippers are more surprising because as the old saying goes, no more Chris Paul, no more Chris problems. That's not a saying. That's why this is surprising. That all of a sudden, after just letting Chris Paul go, they turn into this team. They become this team that they weren't in the first couple months of the season. So it's shocking that Kawhi has had 23 straight games of 20 points or more. That's the most he's ever had consecutively in his career. And he's doing it now. You know, he had three games off that he took on the road, or he took three games off at the end of their road trip. Said, I'm going home. All of a sudden I'm back to playing well. I beats the Zubots. Also came back early from his injury that they said he's going to be out several weeks. Came back two weeks. And then he had 10 big offensive rebounds against the Lakers that was very, very big to go grab second chance points. That they outdid the Lakers. There's no doubt he's a big reason.

[Jay Skeets]

Why they have turn it around here too. Zubots. Yeah, rough, rough start to start the.

[Tas Melas]

Season really rough and it looked bleak. Oh he's going to be out several weeks. Just out two. He's playing literally 14 days later. So that's part of it. But also Chris Dunn back into the starting lineup. I mean they are like last year's starting lineup exactly the same but John Collins has replaced Norman Powell and so that all is gone. They're just back to who they were with Kawhi playing a decent amount of basketball. John Collins, I don't know his last 12 games he's shooting nearly 70% from the floor and 62% from three. Their bench, Kobe Sanders and Jordan Miller are balling now. It's not surprising that the Lakers can't hold on a lead. They that's not surprising. They can't play for 48 minutes. They either blow out a team or they lose their lead. Like at the end of the second quarter when there was that run by the Clippers. I think they scored like nine straight. 17, nine, 10, second quarter. It's not surprising but yeah the effort level the boards is concerning. I mean and there's prayers that Austin Reaves comes back. All that to be said. The Blazers are surprising too.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I'm going with the Blazers for my pick here in this. What you got because it is funny you said like the Clippers starting poorly maybe or slow because of the whole cap circumvention scandal surrounding them. Let's not forget the Blazers literally lost their coach right at the start of the season.

[Trey Kirby]

That's very true.

[Jay Skeets]

For a whole other scandal to do with gambling. John C. Billups and Thiago Splitters steps in there and they're 23 and 22 and I like this team man. They're fun because well they did get Denny Avdia back. Drew Holiday was back, Jeremy Grant was back. Now Avdia left last night's game with a, you know, a flare up of his back issue. Don't love that. But Shaden Sharp, he's averaging 26 points. Sharp is averaging 26 points per game and seven boards over Portland's four game win streak. He's hitting the three ball right now with some consistency. Caleb Love that guy can flat out score. Kamara is a perfect sort of like modern wing guy. Defense can score as well. We know or you know how much we love Donovan Klingon here on this show. He impacts winning basketball. They have One of the second or they have the second easiest remaining schedule. The Blazers do too. So I think this is a really interesting team to watch here in the second half and positive that they're above.500 here in the mix. So I'll go with that.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, they did a great job of recovering. They were 12 and 19 to start the season. You know, they were good after the All Star break last year. Even a little prior to the All Star break. Basically since January. But since December 26th, the Blazers are 11 and 4. But only like 11th in offense, 10th in defense, 10th in net rating. Like that's just an okay team realistically. But they're 6 and 1 in clutch games and I think that's super impressive because yeah, Drew Holiday has been back, but he missed a huge chunk of time and it was like Caleb Love stepping up and getting contributions from guys that they weren't expecting. So I think it's pretty. I think the Blazers are a pretty solid team. Like they are a top nine locked in team. It wouldn't be surprising if they passed the Warriors. They are looks. Looks like two games, two and a half games back or maybe a game and a half. I guess I could click on the actual standings. No, I'm just gonna completely guess here out 2.5 games.

[Jay Skeets]

You were right the first time.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, exactly. Trust yourself. But I think they could catch the warriors because the warriors feel like they are struggling right now. Might continue to be a struggle without Jimmy. Whereas the Blazers are ascending.

[Tas Melas]

Yes, it is surprising how they put all these pieces of the puzzle together because I think that's what we're all thinking coming into this season. They don't really have offensive players. They don't. But Drew Holiday came in, made sure they played defense. I think that's a big part of it. Then you see guys like Robert Williams is playing good basketball for them. That guy's always injured and Drew Holiday's been injured and Scoot Henderson hasn't played a minute this season. And then yeah, the guys like Caleb Love, I wouldn't check the stats. It feels like every box scorer, he's just ripping off points. He's had 20 games of 10 points or more. He's a two way guy.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, he is good.

[Tas Melas]

So that's pretty cool. And then. And yeah, to all those pieces just. It's led by Denny Abdia because he's their offense. He literally is sometimes. But you know, other guys like Shane Sharp have been helping.

[Jay Skeets]

So that's why last night's win was quality because he leaves the game and you're like, oh, here we go. They might fall apart. And they went on to sort of dominate in the second half. Sharpie over the Heat. All right, next one. Lamello ball returned to Charlotte's starting lineup as the Hornets beat the Magic 124.97 last night. Orlando scored 41 points in the first half. They were down by a lot and never got back into it. Meanwhile in Minneapolis, Kobe White scored 22. Josh Giddey, he's back. He had a 21 off the bench to lift the Bulls to the 12115 win over the Timberwolves. Minnesota committed a pair of costly turnovers in the final couple minutes or final minute, I guess I should say. So what was the worst loss? Tass, you get us started here? Magic or Wolves? What you got?

[Tas Melas]

Oof. This is. This is good. I think these last two questions have been good because it's difficult to know what these Orlando Magic, what this Orlando Magic team is with the Wolves. You know that they are going to buckle at times. I mean, we always talk about it. They kind of play down to their. Their competition. And The Chicago Bulls, they're 500 here. They are back at 500.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Let's go.

[Tas Melas]

It is weird even there. It's a weird team. Like Montes Brazilis. You're sitting in the fourth quarter. They continue to do that. But they came through against the Wolves, who again, kind of just let things go, let the rope go a little bit. We went into last night thinking that Anthony Edwards was going to have a big game against Chicago Bulls. That did not happen. He did not have any offensive help. I mean, he had a bad game where it was Randall and Nas Reed and that's it. The rest of their bench, no one scored more than three points. Your. Your bones Highland, your Mike Conley's guys, you're just waiting for somebody to score. So that's not surprising. I get the Magic. It's just difficult to know what they are at this point. You think with everybody sort of coming back, they're. They're looking like themselves. But this, that was. They got blown out, simple as that, from the get go. And they didn't do their classic Desmond Banes getting us back into this game to fight back. So they're more surprising to me.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

What you think?

[Trey Kirby]

It's kind of a tough call. On which is most surprising because I think the Magic and the Wolves are both pretty inconsistent. Like you're saying, especially the Wolves play to the level of their competition. Just one day ago I was saying Anthony Edwards, you're the clutch player of the year. Maybe I should have looked at the Wolves as a team in the clutch. 18th in clutch rating and that came up clutch net rating. Sorry. That came back to bite him last night. Naz Reed had that huge dunk, put the Timberwolves up 110, 104. Minnesota scored five points in the last five minutes of this game. That has been a weird thing with the Bulls. They have been a good clutch defense the last couple of seasons. They just, you know, get blown out for the first 43 minutes a lot of the time. But if it's in the clut, they got a chance and the Wolves offense can just get very. Anthony, can you save us?

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And last night he was not able to. I'm not. I don't know. I don't know if I'm super surprised though by the magic just because when the Hornets have their guys playing, they're good on offense and they looked great on offense last night. But a 50 to 36 points in the paint advantage for Charlotte, I think part of that is no Suggs and Anthony Black kind of had a dud. But it seemed like the Hornets did a really good job getting into the paint basically anytime they wanted moving the ball. They can be an explosive offensive team. We just saw Lamelo have a terrible game off the bench. He got the start, had a great game in this one. So I think both bad losses. Both bad losses.

[Jay Skeets]

That's why I asked the question.

[Tas Melas]

They rely on Franz and no Franz last night. I mean, that's part of it. Of course. That being said, I mean, they were getting destroyed. Colin Sexton was taking it to them in the first half. Colin Sexton and Lamello ball playing back to back. Playing more minutes in the second half and back to back. That's a good sign. Going from the bench to the starting lineup, also a good sign. But spanking. A spanking for the Magic, you know, without Suggs, as you mentioned, and Franz, I mean, that's a part of it. But still.

[Jay Skeets]

My one note from the Bulls Wolves game was which one of these point guards are the Wolves going to try and trade? Trade for? From the Chicago Bulls. You know, Kobe, White, Trey Jones. I owe to Sumo, you know, not really. Maybe a point guard, but you get my point here. I got three that are in trade rumors and the Wolves could use one. I think they're to help out Anthony Edwards in the backcourt, but we'll see.

[Trey Kirby]

I guess Trey Jones is probably the easiest to get since he's a bench guy. But he's been really good for the Bulls and he has a Minnesota connection.

[Tas Melas]

Could happen.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, right. Didn't think of that Apple Valley guy.

[Trey Kirby]

Beautiful.

[Jay Skeets]

Really?

[Tas Melas]

I think so.

[JD (Super Producer)]

That's where he's from.

[Jay Skeets]

I didn't know that was a place.

[Tas Melas]

Billy likes playing Trey Jones. That's for.

[Jay Skeets]

He's fast.

[Trey Kirby]

Very fast.

[Jay Skeets]

Final one NBA insider Jake Fisher Back to Fisher here. He reported yesterday that the Pacers and Pelicans have explored various trade scenarios that would send fourth year guard Benedict Matheran to New Orleans and second year center Yves Missy to Indiana. Fisher classified the possibility as an incomplete deal framework, so maybe they're talking this one out. Potential Mathrin Missy trade. That's not easy to say. Yay or nay? What you got T.K.

[Trey Kirby]

I love it. This is a great trade because this might be the kind of trades we're talking about on trade deadline day. Hopefully we get some bigger names than Ben Matheran and Eve Mesey, but Indiana to me is pretty much set on the perimeter, at least for their top three or four. Guys like Halliburton will be back next year. They got Nemhard locked up. Aaron Neesmith will be around. Ben Shepard, not a great season, but like he's a solid enough role player. They definitely need something else on the interior. Misi I think can play fast, which would be good for playing on in this Pacer system. I would say him and Jay Huff, neither of them are like true starter level. But this is a good use of the Matheran asset because to me I really wouldn't want to pay his next contract. He's a bit of a Kaminga to me where if he's scoring he looks good and if he's not scoring, there's not really much else he can bring to you. So I think this will be a good way for the Pacers to figure out a way to kind of like balance the depth of their team.

[Jay Skeets]

The Pelicans would need to add more salary to make any sort of deal work between the two because Mathurin does make more than me. Sim but what are your thoughts on this?

[Tas Melas]

It does make sense. Unfortunately. It is about the dolla dollar bills. I mean this isn't baseball like the Los Angeles Dodgers where they can sign absolutely everybody. But the Indiana Pacers don't have as much money as other teams. They just let Miles Turner go go for that reason. To give Benedict Matheran while they have a lot of money, while they have all these guards doesn't really make a ton of sense. He is a little limited. There's no doubt they tried to get him to be more of a playmaker, to be a defender. It happens at times, but not enough to give this guy a lot of money. And in a restricted free agency, even though it's not a thing as much, I think somebody will say, we can pay that guy. So to get a center, which they desperately need after letting Miles Turner go, Eve me see has not been incredible this year at all. But because Derek Queen is the. Their future, it sort of makes sense. But I mean, they're the Pacers. Isaiah Jackson, Jay Huff, and I don't know if you. If you occasionally play big with Jairus Walker at center, that ain't enough. So they have to get somebody. It may. They may be trying to get more than just emc. As the. As the what's coming back for Benedict Matheran? I think. I think they're willing to. To dabble somewhere else.

[Jay Skeets]

But you think this makes sense? I mean, because the Pacers want a center. Maybe it's him. He did have a promising rookie season. I mean, he averaged like 9 and 8 as a rook in. In a lot of games. It wasn't a small sample size.

[Tas Melas]

It was a starter, too.

[Jay Skeets]

But you said, yeah, a lot of the games started. Right. But now he's buried because they're like, well, we're going with the Blizzard. We're going with dq. That's sort of our guy. That's what you should do. He looks promising. So. So yeah, this sort of swap where Matheran at times has looked really good. I think a lot of people expected bigger things this year heading into the season. He was on a lot of people's lists for like, oh, he might be a most improved candidate. With Haliburton out a lot of shot opportunities, no doubt. And yeah, it's really just the amount of money that the Pacers, I think they have like 177 million in guaranteed money on the books. So to then give this guy a bigger deal, that's putting you in a very difficult spot. So maybe there's something here and maybe it happens. Would we do an emergency podcast for.

[Trey Kirby]

Mather and I don't think so because Donut eyes here in the Stream team called it a poop fart trade.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, yeah.

[Amazon One Medical Announcer]

Come on.

[Jay Skeets]

That's not a. That's not a poop fart trade. These are two young guys still that fan bases and organizations, you can talk yourself into bigger things still to come on. It's not a poop fart.

[Trey Kirby]

It's not a poop fart.

[Tas Melas]

It's not a poop fart. When you said. I thought maybe it was a poutine for Benedict Matheran. Being Canadian, being from Montreal.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Second day in a row we've talked about poutine. No, no, no. Second time in three days.

[Tas Melas]

Second time.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, but it was brought up twice on that one show, so that's. I'm gonna count.

[Trey Kirby]

How about poutine for waffles?

[Tas Melas]

Trade.

[Trey Kirby]

Ibmisi was born in Belgium.

[Tas Melas]

Bang. Yeah, yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

What would you.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, it's all time of day dependent, of course.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, let me.

[Trey Kirby]

Overall, I'm taking.

[Jay Skeets]

You've never made poutine. I'll tell you that.

[Trey Kirby]

That I've never made poutine.

[Jay Skeets]

Same here. That's crazy. What are we doing?

[Trey Kirby]

Great point. Nobody home makes poutine. You make a homemaker waffle all the time.

[Velo Plus Voice Actor]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Chicken and waffles.

[Jay Skeets]

Delicious. Delicious. All right, let's hear from you guys.

[Trey Kirby]

That poutine is more popular in Indiana. Just guessing.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't know about that. I don't know. I can't get on.

[Tas Melas]

More popular in Indiana than where?

[Trey Kirby]

Not the waffles.

[Jay Skeets]

Who knows? See, I don't think so because I just don't know. A lot of people making poutine.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Waffles are being made.

[Tas Melas]

You're right.

[Jay Skeets]

Every weekend across this great nation.

[Tas Melas]

So all you really have to do is make the gravy. You throw the fries in the oven.

[Jay Skeets]

You never do it, though.

[Tas Melas]

No, I know. You got to buy cheese curds.

[Jay Skeets]

Big problem.

[Tas Melas]

But you don't got to make curds. You just come bagged. Here you go.

[Jay Skeets]

Let's hear your answers for what you got. Everybody let us know where you fall with those ones. Those were tough questions, but man, we got there in the end. That was a fun a block, guys. We'll take a break and we'll come back with the worst of the week nominees.

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[Jay Skeets]

Wow.

[Tas Melas]

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[Jay Skeets]

JD have you ever made poutine?

[JD (Super Producer)]

No, I have not.

[Tas Melas]

Making a poutine would be easier than what you just had to do.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Well, I was getting ready for worst of the week.

[Tas Melas]

Switch. Switch. That's harder than.

[Jay Skeets]

But you haven't. The answer was you haven't.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah, like, it's very labor intensive. It sounds simple, but you gotta fry up the. The. The fries, which is gonna stink up your whole house.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes.

[JD (Super Producer)]

You gotta make the gravy. So you need a stock. You need all that, you know, not that it's hard, it's just time consuming.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

I don't know. You don't gotta make potatoes, really.

[Jay Skeets]

You gotta make fries.

[Tas Melas]

Put them in the oven. It's frozen.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Put them in the oven. You gotta deep fry the fries test. In fact, you gotta blanch them first. So. Yes. Put them on the island in the oven and then you gotta.

[Tas Melas]

Golden, girl.

[JD (Super Producer)]

You want to make them or you don't? You want to make them?

[Tas Melas]

You're right.

[Jay Skeets]

Just.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I'm not putting McCain fries.

[Tas Melas]

You're right for poutine.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Sorry.

[Tas Melas]

No, no shakes.

[Jay Skeets]

This guy thinks poutine is like one potato, one curd on top. And here's some water gravy. Come on, man.

[Tas Melas]

Water gravy.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Jeez.

[Jay Skeets]

Ain't nobody. Not enough people are making poutine. I think for good reason is what we're getting at.

[Tas Melas]

It's hard work.

[Jay Skeets]

It's a lot of work. Let's get to worst of the week. J.D. come on, J.D. stop talking. Let's go to worst of the week. Of the week.

[Tas Melas]

Three Worst of the week nominees. The first one is Sixers rookie Vijay Edgecombe because he doesn't want to go into the slam dunk contest. Now, it's not just about him declining this question from the reporter as to if he's going to go in, but how quickly he said no. He shakes his head so fast. If you're on a podcast, you might not. Or listening to this on a podcast, you might not see Vijay Edgam's face as we play this clip, but he shakes it off so fast. Here's the clip, including the reporter asking the question. If somebody asked you if you wanted to be in the dunk contest, what would your response be? Wow, no, Yeah, I ain't doing it there. Was there a particular reason why you wouldn't want to participate?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

I'm good.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm good.

[Tas Melas]

That's hilarious. He kisses. He kind of kisses his teeth when he thinks about it. There's a quick, a quick head shake. No, no, no, no. This guy's a rookie. We've kind of come to accept like a third year player saying, rookie. Nah. First two year players are sort of obliged to kind of do it. But this guy's a rookie saying, no, no, no, no, no. Not, not even thinking about it.

[Velo Plus Voice Actor]

He didn't.

[Tas Melas]

He shook it off so fast.

[Trey Kirby]

Question wasn't even over. Nope.

[Tas Melas]

Exactly. That being said, he then posted on Instagram. Yeah, I, I, I, apparently this is real. It's a VJ Edgecom on Instagram. He's Then he wall.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. What am I looking at?

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, it's, it looks like maybe a ceiling.

[Jay Skeets]

Ceiling?

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, there's a light fixture, sort of. But then he puts the caption in there. Like, actually, me and at Tyrese Maxey, he added him might do the dunk contest with a shrug emoji all this week.

[Jay Skeets]

So he called himself out VJ Max.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, get him in there. Very interesting stuff. So.

[Jay Skeets]

So we're holding out hope now is what we're doing.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Maybe he just like you said, Trey. I mean, the guy didn't even finish his question. He was already shaking it off. So maybe he's just kind of like, I don't know, in this press sort of routine, we're like, I'm not, I don't want to talk to you.

[Jay Skeets]

I think what more likely is he said no because he doesn't want to do it. And then Maxi or Embiid or somebody in the Sixers, like, come on, young kid. Come on, man. Go put on a show.

[Trey Kirby]

They might ask you.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, but why do you say me and Maxi?

[Jay Skeets]

Because Maxi. Oops. Yeah, probably Maxi's not going in the dunk contest. I don't think.

[Tas Melas]

No.

[Jay Skeets]

So he'll help him out.

[Trey Kirby]

Wasn't it him and Scotty Barnes that were like, laughing and hugging each other during Stars Rising Stars.

[Tas Melas]

Would be so good.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, I know.

[Tas Melas]

I don't know if there's many more like players, I think, I mean, Shaden Sharp would be awesome. And there's other guys, obviously, but, like, a rookie, because the age is important when it comes to the dunk on deaths. No vets going in it. Because now we're seeing that rookies don't even want to go in, which is odd.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, well, I mean, when was the last great dunk contest moment? In 2016. Zach versus Aaron Gordon.

[Jay Skeets]

I mean. Well, that's legendary. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

BJ Come was 11 years old. Like, the dunk contest hasn't been cool for the majority of his life, unfortunately.

[Tas Melas]

But those were his formative years. If he. If he saw it, I agree. If he saw it, I don't know. Maybe it's just not a thing. Was he born in the Bahamas? Maybe it's not a thing there where he was. Okay. I don't know.

[JD (Super Producer)]

How could it not be a thing?

[Jay Skeets]

That is a place. What are we talking about?

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, I mean, the dunk contest on a Saturday.

[Jay Skeets]

Dunking's been a thing for a while.

[Tas Melas]

The dunk contest is still cool.

[Jay Skeets]

It's still awesome. And the biggest thing is go in, put on a show, win the thing. Maybe. Heaven forbid. And watch your money pile up. You can use the dunk contest as a catapult. I believe, still, to brand deals, more publicity, you know, whatever. Like, you can't. I believe you still can. But look, they don't want to be embarrassed or they don't want to. Or they want to take a break, whatever. Like, I don't know. But it's still sad.

[Tas Melas]

It is.

[Jay Skeets]

But I actually, when we get to rapid fire, we're going to come back to the dunk contest.

[Tas Melas]

All right? Don't you worry.

[JD (Super Producer)]

This is the reaction of somebody who thinks it's cringe, right?

[Jay Skeets]

Yes.

[JD (Super Producer)]

He thinks that the contest itself is cringe. I've lived with two teenagers for the last eight years. This is me asking them to do something that they simply don't want to do because they think. Think it's. It's stupid.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Like they don't care about winning it. It doesn't even matter. It's just embarrassing to even be in it.

[Tas Melas]

Right.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Right.

[JD (Super Producer)]

And that's a problem.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Yep.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. If they're sh. If he's shaking his head while the guy's asking the question. Yeah, He's. I'm not even thinking about it. I don't want anything.

[Jay Skeets]

And he's asked the question because he threw down an insane dunk in that game. That was like, one of the plays of the night. One of the plays, probably of the, you know, 2026, that huge dunk. So that's why you're being asked about it. You are an incredible dunker. You just threw down an incredible dunk. Dunk. Would you ever go in the dunk contest? And yeah, it's not a good sign that he's like, oh, good. I'm good, I'm good.

[Tas Melas]

All said, good stuff. So he might win worse of the week. But we got some other nominees. The second nominee was also very good here. The Mavs. Naji Marshall had some tummy troubles because. Here's the report. Reporter sends out a tweet. Quote, naji Marshall went to the Dallas Mavericks locker room. All right, simple, simple, Naji Marshall, after the game, he retweeted that tweet and said, quote, bathroom break. Y' all know I don't bend or break. We got poop emoji to do. Great win, fellas. Okay. And so somebody wanted some clarification. Somebody asked him, what you eat? Goat. Now, I don't know if he actually meant what did you eat goat?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Or.

[Jay Skeets]

Or greatest of all time or what do you eat?

[Tas Melas]

Go. You're the goat. Probably. Probably the latter, because it is Dallas Sports talk sending that tweet to Naji Marshall, who said, Chipotle crying emoji. So there we are. Naji Marshall ate some Chipotle and had to go to the bathroom. So it happens.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Great stuff, great stuff.

[Jay Skeets]

Feeling better now? He had a massive game last night.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And he's got one of the best floaters in the league, so not surprising he would have to go back.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, you hit two threes last night.

[Trey Kirby]

How many twos?

[Jay Skeets]

10. No, eight.

[Tas Melas]

And 10 assists. Nine assists.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, nine assists.

[Tas Melas]

Thank you to assist for. From Grant Afseth for setting that up from Dallas Hoops.

[Jay Skeets]

He had an incredible game. He shot 10 to 12, 30 points. He's going to be in the. Woah, boy. Running nine assists, seven boards, and no dumps last night during the game at halftime. Well, maybe. You never know. They counted. They added it to Basketball Reference.

[Trey Kirby]

Cool.

[Jay Skeets]

Who leads the league?

[Trey Kirby]

Game score.

[Jay Skeets]

Who leads the league in dumps this year? Take a guess.

[Trey Kirby]

Andre Drummond.

[Jay Skeets]

That's right.

[Trey Kirby]

I was between him and Gershon Yabuzeli for me, but it's hard to tell. Eating Chipotle before a game. That's a risky move, obviously. Yeah. Happened to Paul Pierce once.

[Tas Melas]

Jimmy Butler last year, too. Yep.

[Jay Skeets]

Was that last year?

[Tas Melas]

Jimmy Butler, The Jim Butler incident? Yep, yep, yep, yep. We made a short about it.

[Jay Skeets]

A shart.

[Tas Melas]

Yes. They call Nigga Marshall the knife in Dallas.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Tas Melas]

It's pretty good. I like it.

[Trey Kirby]

That is a cool nickname.

[Tas Melas]

All right, final nominee here. Two players exchanged nut kicks because the one making the headline was Carl Anthony Towns. But. But it was preceded by Dwight Powell kicking Carl Anthony Towns in the nuts. Dwight Howell playing a little defense, going back his leg goes up directly into the carriage of Carl Anthony Towns. Carl Anthony Towns hits the deck and then Carl Anthony Towns shooting a three and definitely kicking the guy who kicked him on purpose because he throws it out there. It's like three minutes later.

[Jay Skeets]

Looked like he was in rewind, doesn't it, like. Cause he's going. He's going back.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

So, yeah, that's a few minutes later. You could tell Crowny Towns wants to get Dwight Powell back.

[Trey Kirby]

And he did like crossbody kick to get to Dwight Powell. He got a flagrant for that.

[Jay Skeets]

Is that right?

[Tas Melas]

He did, yeah, yeah, because it is. To his left. He went right leg to his left. Nice kick.

[Jay Skeets]

Draymond's like, whoa. Taking notes. Interesting. That's an interesting way to do it.

[Trey Kirby]

At the three point line.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Good stuff.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. All right, That's a flagrant. That's. That's worth the whistle because that was. That was too.

[Jay Skeets]

You said Powell kicked Cat, which he did, but he also took like. Looked like he took a knee from Cat too, on the exact same play. Like, I think he took a little bit of Cat's knee to his groin. Cuz he goes down holding his junk. And then Cat obviously got sort of kicked on the Dwight Powell flare too.

[Tas Melas]

I didn't realize. He was definitely not. Not happy. Yeah. It could have been because he got a knee to the groin while he was defending. So we could have had. Had three kicks to the groin, really, in that instance.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, so. Wow, we got some. These are good nominees.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, this is a great batch.

[Jay Skeets]

Great batch, man.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah. BJC groins and Naji Marshall eating Chipotle. What do you think he ate at Chipotle? What gave him the. The runs?

[Jay Skeets]

Bad.

[Trey Kirby]

Sour cream, Maybe the hot salsa. Pretty spicy.

[Tas Melas]

Not poutine. They don't have poutine there. Yeah, one of the salsas. I mean, there's not a lot on the.

[Jay Skeets]

No, I was gonna say. I think the answer is just Chipotle. Yeah. Went right through. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

All jumbled up in there.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, let's hear your. Your actual pick for worst of the week from those three nominees of the night, sponsored by Diz cup here on YouTube. The other day wanted to sponsor whatever next segment he could. Thanks. So here you Go. Here's your Whoa boy. And you got a good one. I'm going with Peyton Watson for Whoa boy of the night. Yeah, it was a game we didn't talk about, but Peyton Watson scored A career high 35 points to lead the Nuggets to a win in Washington. Peyton Washington shot 10, 16 from the field, 6 of 8 from deep nine, 10 at the line. This guy added eight boards, three dimes, four blocks and two steals in 40 minutes of action. What a game from Peyton Watts. This guy is hooping right now.

[Tas Melas]

He is absolutely hooping. It's a fair question to ask. Let's say Christian Brown and Cam Johnson get back healthy at some point because they're both still unhealthy, both coming back soonish. Does Peyton Watson lose his starting role? He's been playing so good. Does one of those guys go to the bench? And I would probably pick Christian Brown just because Christian Brown did come back for a few games and just wasn't right. So maybe if he's not right. But I don't know. I say that all to say Peyton Watson has been incredible. 3 handling just looks like another player. This is a new version of Peyton Watson. It looks great.

[Jay Skeets]

The 9 to 10 at the line. That's awesome for him to get there and obviously capitalize on them. So Peyton Watson. Whoa boy. There you go. Disco. Yep.

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[Tas Melas]

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[Jay Skeets]

Pick em tonight. Tas where are we going in this very close race in the month of January?

[Tas Melas]

Well, geographically we ain't going nowhere. Cause the Phoenix Suns are coming to to visit the Atlanta hawks. They're a 2 1/2 point favorite coming to ATL. I'm taking ATL because they've lost two straight home games. This is the last game of Phoenix's road trip. Was that good? Is that bad? Good team say oh, it's our, it's our last game on the road trip. We got to go home strong. Well, the Atlanta Hawks, they did go to Phoenix earlier this season. It was the last game of their road trip and they won that one. I think they kind of match up well. So I'm taking the Hawks box shake Elders. Alexander's got to bounce back.

[Jay Skeets]

Shay.

[Tas Melas]

It's Shay Gilgis. Alexander. Yeah, I love him. I don't know why I think when not when, I think he's Got three initials, so. And I think Nikhil Alexander Walker sometimes. I say also wearing the same shoes out there. They're both wearing their Converse shoes. Nikki. Alexander Walker's got to bounce back. You guys are taking Phoenix, though.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. I believe them to be the better basketball team. Yeah, I agree.

[Trey Kirby]

Have you ever seen a license. License plate in Atlanta that says Naw? It could literally be Nikhil Alexander Walker?

[Jay Skeets]

I haven't.

[Velo Plus Voice Actor]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Keep your eyes peeled. I will. Dylan Brooks celebrated his birthday yesterday here in Atlanta.

[Tas Melas]

That's why I took.

[Jay Skeets]

I think he had a little fun. Maybe.

[Tas Melas]

Probably they're out partying.

[Jay Skeets]

Maybe. We'll see. All right, so Tas has the Hawks got some points to play with as a home dog. Trey and I have Phoenix to win by three or more. Trey's nine and six, I'm eight and seven. Tass is seven and eight. So very, very close here in our pick em battle. Okay, let's go to some rapid fire fun tasks. You got the questions this week.

[Tas Melas]

Here we go. Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady are starting a new podcast called Cousins. What other relatives should start a podcast together? And what should it be called?

[Jay Skeets]

Skeets, give me Julian and Justin Champagne. All right. The twin brothers from Staten Island, I think is where they're from. They play for the spurs and the Wizards, respectively. They should have a podcast called Two Cents Sham Penny. Two pennies. Two pennies, Two Cents.

[Trey Kirby]

That's not bad at all.

[Tas Melas]

It's pretty good.

[Jay Skeets]

Thanks.

[JD (Super Producer)]

That's.

[Jay Skeets]

I was proud of that one.

[Tas Melas]

I think it's better than Cousins.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, don't love Cousins as a podcast. Pretty straightforward, but it is what it is.

[Tas Melas]

It's not bad.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Trey, how about Skip Bayless and Rick Bayless do a podcast.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

They're brothers. How weird is that?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that's good point.

[Trey Kirby]

It would be called say Less. I want to hear less from Skip and more from Rick.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, I like that.

[Trey Kirby]

Tell me about your tortillas. Tell me about your salsas. Tell me what's going wrong with Naji Marshall's chipotle order.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. For those that don't know. Yeah, of course.

[Trey Kirby]

Of many delicious Mexican inspired restaurants, primarily in Chicago.

[Jay Skeets]

Loves Oaxacan cheese.

[Trey Kirby]

And so do I. Yeah, me too.

[Jay Skeets]

But he's the brother of Skip Bayless.

[Trey Kirby]

He's the brother of Skip Bayless. Really weird.

[Tas Melas]

You could put that cheese on your poutine, man. Wow. I don't know.

[Jay Skeets]

She could.

[Tas Melas]

It's melty though, I guess, right?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Frontera Grills poutine from Rick Bayless.

[Jay Skeets]

Sounds Good.

[Tas Melas]

All right. J.D. what's your podcast called?

[JD (Super Producer)]

I would like the Coen brothers to start a podcast. I'm still working on the name. This podcast really ties the room together. Number one choice.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[JD (Super Producer)]

You know, but they're older guys. So. No podcast for young men or a podcast for old men? Hey, one or the other.

[Jay Skeets]

Anyway, they all work.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

No podcast for young men. Yeah, yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

No podcast for young man. Just a couple of old guys talking about movies.

[Tas Melas]

Great. All right, second one. Tyrese Maxey is getting his first signature shoe. Seems a little late. New Balance. He's been great for a while, and it's coming later in 2026. That's too late. What's an endorsement that's taking too long to happen, Skeets.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, I said I was going to go back to the dunk contests. What's taken so long for somebody. I've said Drake before.

[Tas Melas]

I don't know.

[Jay Skeets]

It could be some Saudi prince for all I care to put up a bunch of money to the dunk contest winner. Let's go $10 billion. Whatever. Somebody do it. Save it. We'll save it. I convince if somebody put up a million or whatever that we'd get some bigger names. Some maybe young stars that want to make a million bucks. I can't believe it hasn't happened. I really thought Drake was gonna do it at one point, but I feel like, I don't know, maybe that ship has sailed at this point.

[Trey Kirby]

Maybe we need to rely on Mr. Beast.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes. Yeah, maybe. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Save us.

[Jay Skeets]

So somebody putting up a million dollars plus to the Dunk contest winner makes sense.

[Tas Melas]

I mean, Drake has his gambling app, right?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Whatever it is. Why doesn't FanDuel or DraftKings or somebody say, hey, I don't know, let's. So let's go hand in hand here and offer somebody a million dollars. It makes sense.

[Jay Skeets]

I mean, maybe a problem is the dunk contest is sponsored by one of these companies. Like, everything is sponsored here. I don't know who's doing it this year, but, like, maybe there's a conflict of interest there. Like, whoever's doing it, I guess. Like AT&T, let's say whatever. Or Verizon or whoever. And they're like, oh, no, no, no. We don't want another company then coming over top. But they should anyway.

[Tas Melas]

Okay.

[Jay Skeets]

And the NBA should only allow it.

[Trey Kirby]

It was the AT&T slam dunk recently.

[Jay Skeets]

Which always pissed me off because that worked so much better when it was the AT&T three point shootout.

[Trey Kirby]

Calling long distance.

[Jay Skeets]

Right?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

And then Obviously. Well, what happened? Sprite got involved.

[Trey Kirby]

Starry.

[Jay Skeets]

Sorry. Starry.

[Trey Kirby]

Starry Range.

[Jay Skeets]

They should flip them. Should be the Starry Slam dunk. And the at. At&t. 3 point contest. Calling long distance.

[Tas Melas]

Oh, Sprite. Kids don't like Starry in comparison to Sprite.

[Amazon One Medical Announcer]

How do you know?

[Tas Melas]

I got kids. We sent. I sent a photo of myself with the lime and lemon mascot.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

And they always remember that photo. And they. And then we go. We're in a soda fridge and they see, no, that's not Sprite. I ain't having that. You know they got Sprite on the brain. Well, lime and lemon. Hold on. Were those guys Starry Lime and lemon?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, but Sprite's better.

[Trey Kirby]

That's crazy.

[Jay Skeets]

I've never seen somebody drink a Starry in real life.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I drink wine every day.

[Jay Skeets]

Here.

[Trey Kirby]

Do you like it?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Fucking love Starry.

[Jay Skeets]

I've never seen you drink one ever. Okay.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Look in that fridge right now.

[Jay Skeets]

All right.

[Trey Kirby]

You go check the fridge while I talk about this answer.

[Jay Skeets]

How a Starry box.

[Trey Kirby]

Exactly. Yeah, there's a full on box of Starry here.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Exactly.

[Tas Melas]

These. Zero sugar ones.

[Jay Skeets]

Holy crap.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Zero sugar.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

But I'm every day seeing you drink one.

[JD (Super Producer)]

That's because I always put it in my little. My little mug. My mug, my tumbler.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Who can forget Salt Lake City All Star? These just sitting outside our doors.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

God, it changed my life.

[Jay Skeets]

Changed my life. It literally worked on you.

[JD (Super Producer)]

100 worked.

[Jay Skeets]

All you had to do is drink. Drink 12 of them over an All Star weekend. You're a starry guy.

[Trey Kirby]

Maybe I just haven't had enough. It's like olives, where you got to eat however many of them before you like them.

[Jay Skeets]

Crack life stories. Chuck a couple stories here.

[Tas Melas]

Trey. What's an endorsement that's taking too long to happen?

[Trey Kirby]

How recently did you say this Naji Marshall thing happened?

[Tas Melas]

It was this week.

[Trey Kirby]

It was this week?

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

What's up with dude wipes? They're usually all over anything poop related.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Right?

[Trey Kirby]

Anything that happens, they're like. Like, we'll sponsor that. We'll somehow give you money. They sponsored the Cleveland Browns just because of their name?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

So they got to get in touch with each other. I'm sure Naji would say yes.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Trey Kirby]

Wipe it up. Dude wipes.

[Tas Melas]

Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, Mark Cuban invested. I know he's no longer, like, the technical owner of the Dallas Mavericks, but there's got to be a relationship there. He can easily put my Guy. Megan in touch with Naji Marshall. Send him a package of wipes, no doubt.

[Tas Melas]

Sure. J.D. what's. What's the endorsement you're looking at?

[JD (Super Producer)]

I'm waiting for my star.

[Tas Melas]

Yep. Yeah, at this point it's taking too long.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Not an ad, but yeah, me. How many times have I drank a Guinness on this show?

[Trey Kirby]

Many times.

[JD (Super Producer)]

At least 25 times. Guys, where's my Guinness endorsement deal?

[Jay Skeets]

We should have like a keg here and stuff.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah, yeah, like a. Just a tap?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Is that what you're going to request though? Not a canned?

[JD (Super Producer)]

No, no, I want to tap. The cans are fine, but you know, you want to draft Guinness, you know. Anyway, that's it. It's just a complaint. Not really makes sense though.

[Tas Melas]

All right, this last one's a weird one. This is an Instagram post. Okay, I'll read it. Quote, word for word. Some girl turned 36 today. She posted my Marcus Smart year. Smh. I don't think think it work like that. Can't just name any player, man. This is going to be a terrible year for her. If it's her Marcus Smart year. Nig post. All right, that's. That's what it was. That's what it was. Some guy, I believe he was a man, calling out a girl for saying, this is going to be my Marcus Smart year. So what do you think? Will she have a terrible year like this person does?

[Jay Skeets]

Yes, it will be as bad and as ugly, uninspired and weird. Is this question. Because I love the concept of this rapid fire question, but yes, she will have a terrible year.

[Tas Melas]

Why do you say that?

[Jay Skeets]

Just because I need to say yes or no.

[Tas Melas]

Fair answer. Trey, do you have another. Another answer?

[Trey Kirby]

I think she's gonna have a better year than the last two years. Okay. Just like Marcus Smart.

[Tas Melas]

Good one.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Okay.

[Tas Melas]

Okay.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Jding, huh? You know, this girl's gonna have a good year. I think she's gonna have a fine year. Here's the thing though, is this is as good as it's gonna get for her cuz she's 36. I mean.

[Jay Skeets]

No, it's over. You said's over. You didn't find Star until you were in your 40s. That's true.

[JD (Super Producer)]

But it didn't make my year. Oh, so you know, I don't know. As an. As a older guy, I'm just like looking back. Look, you're as hot as you're gonna be right now. This is as good as it gets for you.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, that's.

[Trey Kirby]

That's today.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Today you look the best you're gonna ever.

[Amazon One Medical Announcer]

Look.

[JD (Super Producer)]

This is for everybody across the board.

[Jay Skeets]

That's not. That's not true. And I'll tell you why. Did you see this guy? I'm pointing at Tasmos. We've been sharing a lot of like. We've been sharing a lot of like.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Older clips because we're celebrating.

[Jay Skeets]

Celebrating 20 years. So there's a lot of older clips of tasks from 20 or 10 or 15 years ago. Yeah, I'm sorry. Tesmelos looks way hotter than he did 15 years ago.

[Tas Melas]

JD are you getting.

[JD (Super Producer)]

That was before 36 though. Look at 36.

[Jay Skeets]

Look at 36.

[Trey Kirby]

Specifically 36.

[Jay Skeets]

You're 45.

[Tas Melas]

44.

[Jay Skeets]

44. Okay, so we gotta go eight years ago. Exactly years ago.

[Tas Melas]

I'm David. I'm David Lee. Age.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Look again. The man is a. He's a great looking guy.

[Tas Melas]

Well, why are you going gender specific with this Instagram poster? No, because it sounds like you're getting. Okay, can we also note why she called it the Marcus Smart year? Marcus Smart does wear the number 36.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

This. It feels like this guy doesn't take that into account at all. Cuz he like, he just says you can't just say.

[Trey Kirby]

You can't just pick random.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that's layers.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

But like, I mean there's not a lot of great 36s. It's like Rasheed Wallace is probably the best. NBA 36.

[Jay Skeets]

Shaq were 36 once.

[Tas Melas]

Oh yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Shaq Celtics 36. I'll take a mark of smart over Shaq. 36.

[Jay Skeets]

What's your year?

[Tas Melas]

You said 44.

[Trey Kirby]

44. Hank Aaron here. That's a good one.

[Tas Melas]

Hank Aaron. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Drone Bettis.

[Trey Kirby]

Drone Bettis. Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

The boss.

[Trey Kirby]

Great running back. What's your year?

[Jay Skeets]

I'm 40. Well, how old am I? 45 right now I'm 45.

[Tas Melas]

Year.

[Trey Kirby]

And you're a Jordan return year. Donovan Mitchell year.

[Jay Skeets]

That's a good one.

[Tas Melas]

Oh, Don Mitchell. Yeah. Spiderman. I said David Lee, as in my former teammate David Lee. Not the. That David Lee. But anyway, just because he was a 44.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melas]

I always remember David Lee. You know, Humbers for me really is.

[Jay Skeets]

Not a lot of guys in NBA history to wear number 36.

[Trey Kirby]

There's not. It's a weird basketball number.

[Jay Skeets]

I mean we said Shaq. Who wore it with the Celtics? Dave Cowan's I guess is. Is he wore it with the Bucks one year. Oh, Paul Silas wore it with the Sonics. Rashid, you said that's one of the best players here. Kavon Looney for the warriors, but. Yeah. Royal Ivy.

[Trey Kirby]

Tough year.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. We're getting into some names here. Mike Price. Not Mark Price. Mike Price.

[Trey Kirby]

I didn't know that was a guy.

[Jay Skeets]

I didn't know that was a guy either.

[Trey Kirby]

Thought that was cool.

[Jay Skeets]

No one.

[Tas Melas]

What's your year, JD Podcast 55.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, that's a cool number. Lance Briggs, you ask me.

[Jay Skeets]

55. J.D.

[Tas Melas]

Oh.

[Trey Kirby]

Jason Williams. White chocolate year.

[Jay Skeets]

Good one.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Okay, sure.

[Jay Skeets]

Lots of guys in the NBA have won 55. Yep.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I'm going to take back what I said because I'm better looking now than I was last year and the every year before that, so. Oh, you know what?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

For this Marcus Smart. It's only getting better for her.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melas]

With the way people are aging these days. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I agree.

[Trey Kirby]

I agree.

[Tas Melas]

All right, so that's the end of a great effort by everybody to answer an odd question. To end. Rapid fire.

[Jay Skeets]

Good.

[Tas Melas]

Great effort.

[Jay Skeets]

Trying to see if there's ever been. Oh, yeah, I'm an idiot. I was trying to see if there's ever been a Hall of Famer to wear number 55. I forgot one. Dikembe Mutombo.

[Tas Melas]

Great one.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

Mutombo Year.

[Jay Skeets]

The late, great Dikembe Mutombo. Okay, that's rapid fire. Not so rapid, but, man, it was fire. There a couple founding member shows.

[JD (Super Producer)]

No, no, no.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. What?

[Trey Kirby]

I don't have them next week.

[JD (Super Producer)]

We do next week. Let's push them to next.

[Jay Skeets]

What happened? Just like, I forgot to look at the dog go to the bottom of the dock.

[JD (Super Producer)]

It was literally on the next page. And I was like, you know, rapid fire. It's like, oh, okay, that's the end of this.

[Jay Skeets]

It's because we didn't do it last week with Lily here.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah, Right. So that's my bad.

[Jay Skeets]

That's all right.

[JD (Super Producer)]

There are founding members.

[Jay Skeets]

There's only two right now. We're almost caught up.

[Tas Melas]

Up.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, but we're never going to get to these two names at the pace we're going.

[JD (Super Producer)]

No, no, we're getting to them next week, regardless. Regardless.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, Hang tight. Does that mean no. No Bus Traders promo.

[JD (Super Producer)]

That is what that means.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow, you really just stopped reading the doc at some point.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Okay, Burgundy over here.

[Jay Skeets]

Like, that's enough. I've seen enough.

[Trey Kirby]

Come on, F Block. That looks crazy.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, if you are a fan of Traders, and no buffs in particular, we do have a podcast today. We usually have been doing it on the weekends with Traders because they drop so many episodes on Thursday night, but we're down to One episode a night, so it's a lot more manageable. And Trey Kirby joins us in the turret today.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I can't wait to say mere dear.

[Jay Skeets]

So we're going to Hear all of TK's thoughts on not only last night's episode, episode six, but first five episodes of the season. And Nora will be here and obviously JD and myself. So yeah. Join us at 1pm Eastern over on the no Buffs YouTube account or obviously subscribe to no Buffs on Apple or Spotify, wherever you listen to the podcast. Just one to break down, but got a little spicy because the traitors may have started to turn on each other. That's always a fun element of this game. So anyway, one o' clock today. Otherwise we'll see you here in no Dunks Land on Monday at 10am Eastern. Hopefully we'll be here. Some crazy weather hitting the States, especially Southern US this weekend. Expecting like an ice storm here. So everybody stay safe and stay off the roads if we do hit this ice. And maybe we'll have to do it from the yard if we can't drive on Monday. But who knows? Who knows? We'll play it by ear.

[Amazon One Medical Announcer]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Not a meteorologist. I don't know.

[Tas Melas]

No one knows.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm not Ella Dorsey. Is that her name?

[Tas Melas]

Yeah, pretty sure.

[Jay Skeets]

I took a stab at it. I think I was like, her name's Dorsey. Is it Ella. She's a meteorologist here in Atlanta. Anyway, we'll see you guys either later today on no bus or on Monday here in no Dunks Till then. Clipper Bros. You heard it here first.

[Trey Kirby]

Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome.

[Tas Melas]

Thanks for joining us. And remember, we will see him Monday no matter what. Ella Dorsy says we will see you in some way, shape or form on Monday.

[Jay Skeets]

What if the power goes out? What if we lose power? You know, you got ice on these branches. They take down power lines. We're out without power.

[Tas Melas]

Charge your phones and charge your power supplies. Your, your, your battery powers.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melas]

Your blocks.

[Jay Skeets]

I got, I got a real problem with that though. My phone, I can't charge like with a cable. I have to put it on a thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I need a new phone is what I'm getting at. Yeah, it won't charge with the cable. Yeah. So you guys left to do the show. Yeah, Hopefully. Hopefully we get a show.

[Trey Kirby]

You know, the ice. Unless I got a new worried about branches.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm totally. Of course. I hate those branches. Yeah, man.

[Tas Melas]

Still charge it to 100p before we start well.

[Jay Skeets]

But not if the power goes in on Saturday by the time Monday. You don't want me to look at my phone all weekend?

[Tas Melas]

No, that's the best part about losing power.

[Jay Skeets]

Read a book by candlelight.

[Tas Melas]

Candlelight.

[Trey Kirby]

Laura was just. She's just bragging how many taper candles she has said don't worry.

[Jay Skeets]

Be safe with those too. Yeah, don't worry. You can read.

[Trey Kirby]

It's like, well, good thing I got four books from the library.

[Jay Skeets]

Nice. Good.

[Trey Kirby]

We don't actually have that combative of a relationship when we're just talking about things.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I will read. Okay. Do you think we're gonna get any exploding trees?

[Trey Kirby]

I hope not. Yeah, sounds bad, but looks cool. Bad for nature, Bad for nature.

[Tas Melas]

Cool for eyes.

[Jay Skeets]

Brace the weekend people.

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