J.E. Skeets (3:56)

Do you agree with that statement? Do you think it's sort of a wrap here that Wembanyama is going to win rookie of the year over Chet?

JD (4:02)

Yeah, I don't think it'll be unanimous, but I think he's going to win rookie of the Year. I think honestly, he won it when he had a 38 point game in the first month of the season because you knew it was just going to eventually snowball to the fact where he's doing it every single night. And as it turns out, as soon as the spurs started playing normal lineups. Victor Wembanyama is awesome. Guess what? He's a center. Duh. Guess what? He needs a point guard. Duh. And now he's awesome. 12 for 26 from three in six February games. He's finding out how to shoot three pointers now from NBA range as well. I saw the box score, said that Jakob Pearl made five shots last night. I don't believe it.

Tass Melis (4:34)

I know.

JD (4:35)

He got blocked four times and he seemed to have zero plan going against Wembanyama because he tried to put him in the basket and it wasn't working. So I'm guessing the five shots he made must have been wide open.

J.E. Skeets (4:45)

Yeah, he got a couple for sure.

Tass Melis (4:46)

Against his old team. Yeah, he wanted to show his old team, I'm going to score on you.

JD (4:51)

They're probably like, good thing we traded this guy. We got bad and got the number one pick.

Tass Melis (4:55)

Oh, my goodness.

JD (4:56)

And we're getting a pick from the Raptors.

J.E. Skeets (4:57)

Yeah, probably. Probably the rookie in Wembanyama. Fifth player in NBA history with 25 points, 10 boards, 10 blocks and five assists in a game since blocks became an official statistic in 7374. So he joins Akeem Olajuwon, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, David Robinson and Ralph Sampson. Also this one caught me by surprise. First Rookie to have 10 blocks in a game since Josh Smith in 2004. I was. Holy moly. I would not remember that game. But yeah, you know what I love about the blocks too. This is going to sound silly maybe, but like, you know, sometimes blocks, well, you're putting them into the third row, you're knocking them out of bounds, you're actually giving the team another chance. I, I believe by my count, in watching this game, eight of Wemby's blocks were collected by himself or the Spurs. And the other ones I think were those ones where it was like the double block. So it was like it was blocked. Went back to, let's say Barnes and just got blocked again. That's pretty incredible. Like he's not, he's not only is deterring guys at the rim and blocking it, but it's going the other way because he's usually coming up with it because he just gobbles it up. And you're, you're example of it. Looks like Trey Kirby, honestly, playing against his, you know, five year old in the driveway. That's what it looks like. That Grady Dick. A couple other ones.

Tass Melis (6:09)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (6:10)

Hey, look, I had a, I had a practice last night with our YMCA team. I was out there. We were short a guy. I'm blocking guys left and right. I'm flying Wemby. Yeah. So it's, it's nuts. And he's only going to get better. And here's the crazy part, the block's awesome. The three pointer is great. You see some of the dimes this guy was throwing at 7 4, no look, passes nice little like, you know, pick and roll action off with his offhand to guys in motion like, like every skill. He's just getting better and better here and adding to it. So it's pretty special.

JD (6:39)

He's going to have a quadruple double at some point in his career. Yeah, only four guys have ever done it, but Wemby's absolutely going to do it at some point.

Tass Melis (6:46)

It sure feels that way, especially when they're running the offense through him more now because they weren't at the beginning of the season. But now that they give him the ball at the elbow and he is taller than everybody, so he's got the sight lines to pass to all these guys and all these guys are running cuts. So it feels like he's just going to be able to find guys to get to 10 assists, no problem.

JD (7:05)

How about when he just starts playing 35 minutes ago?

J.E. Skeets (7:06)

Yeah, I was gonna say he played under 30 last.

JD (7:08)

That's crazy.

Tass Melis (7:09)

Yeah. Yeah. That's why the minutes are have been on restriction. So that's a big part of it. And now he's playing center and obviously getting stronger as season goes on. He's gonna get stronger into year two as he's only turned 20. So. Yeah, Raps fans again in that arena. It sucked for them, but also.

J.E. Skeets (7:24)

No, no, it doesn't. Yeah, it's something at least to like get excited about.

Tass Melis (7:28)

Yeah. Wow.

J.E. Skeets (7:28)

This guy might have a five by five. This guy might have a quadruple double.

Tass Melis (7:31)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (7:32)

Our team's garbage. So like.

Tass Melis (7:33)

Well, that hurt. That hurt too. That hurt because Radovich had to pull the pop and say timeout. After they go down 8 0. They have to keep on calling timeouts and timeouts because their stars weren't acting like stars because when Yama looked phenomenal, even the offensive moves, even when he went, he pulled that mid range fake one way, go the other way and then dunk it. That was awesome. Getting by Purtl and then being able to pass it through everywhere. It was cool. It was cool. This was Wembanyama's only game in a foreign country this year. Maybe he was in Canada hearing announcements in French as well. He thought, whoa, this is cool. I'm in a different country where you speak French.

J.E. Skeets (8:12)

What do you think is more likely now that you said it, will he get a five by five game first or the quadruple double game first?

JD (8:19)

Because first five by five, I guess.

J.E. Skeets (8:23)

Yeah, I mean he had, I think he was short a couple steals and blocks at the Half?

JD (8:27)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (8:28)

Last night, the steals, you know, sometimes tough to acquire because he had two early ones and then I think he finished with two stills. But yeah, filled up the rest of the box score. You're going to go five by five, man. I don't know. Maybe quadruple double is more likely because.

JD (8:42)

The 10 blocks, there's only been five of them in history.

J.E. Skeets (8:45)

I know, but like he's obviously gonna have those incidents where he gets like three blocks in one sort of play. You know what I mean? Like, and that happens once or twice and you're almost basically there or you're more than halfway there. Sis won't be an issue. I'm with you. When he starts playing more and you know you have a hot shooter that night and he gets a couple cheap ones like that handing it off. Hmm. I guess. Put me down. Put me down. This is an insane thing that he's gonna have. More likely to have a quadruple double before a 5x5. What? You're the, you're the final vote here. Which one you going?

Tass Melis (9:12)

Yeah, I think it'll be five by five.

J.E. Skeets (9:13)

Okay.

Tass Melis (9:13)

Okay. The spurs have had two quad doubles before. They'll have a third if that happens. If and when it happens. But as for RAPS fans, come on. The Scotty Barnes effort was a little puzzling in this one. We can talk about getting Kelly Olenek and getting Ochai Abaji, but really it comes down to Barnes and quickly growing. And that's what this 30 game span is here. It's just a trial period to see what the heck we're going to build in the summer because those guys have to grow a little bit. Unfortunately, that's.

J.E. Skeets (9:43)

There won't be a lot of victories to go with that growing. But you're right.

Tass Melis (9:45)

Well, I mean they, they, they hope that there are. They have an all star. They just traded both OG and an Obi and Precious. Precious? Yeah. OG and Anobi for a guy in manual quickley that they want to pay a lot to. For RJ Barrett and him. There's hopes, there's, there's. There was a lot of comments here. People getting mad at me for saying the acquisition of Kelly Olenek and Ochai Baji, it's fine, but it really all depends on the other two guys growing. And just to see Scotty Barnes who's so damn talented, but the effort wasn't there on either end, really. In a weird, weird game. In a game where the spurs are on this rodeo trip, this was their first win where they keep Losing on this rodeo trip. So it's like, what are you doing?

J.E. Skeets (10:31)

And they got hammered. They got hammered.

Trey Kirby (10:33)

Yeah.

JD (10:33)

One last Vic question.

J.E. Skeets (10:34)

Sure.

JD (10:35)

You think he can finish top three in Defensive player of the year this year?

J.E. Skeets (10:38)

Yeah.

JD (10:38)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (10:38)

Yes, I do.

JD (10:39)

He's leading the league in blocks. He blocks almost 10% of shots when he's out there.

J.E. Skeets (10:43)

Wow.

JD (10:43)

The spurs are obviously not good defensively as a whole, but Wembanyama is like maybe the best shot blocker in the league already.

J.E. Skeets (10:50)

Yeah, I think he can because I don't, I don't think he's going to win it. I think it is going to go to more likely a Gobert because of the team's defensive record. But there will be a lot of, you know, people putting him on their ballots in the third, fourth, fifth spot. So that might accumulate. Yeah, I think so.

JD (11:04)

I mean, I'm scared, man.

J.E. Skeets (11:06)

Yeah. Oh, people are shook. I mean, you know, we could get into how many Defensive Player of the Year's trophies will he win moving forward when, you know, when there's a better team around him and stuff like that.

Tass Melis (11:16)

They gotta keep a tally of how many blocks he has on his feet without jumping because he leads the league in block shots per game. But he probably leaves the league in just standing blocks too. There's a lot of those when he plays well.

J.E. Skeets (11:30)

Even you said the dunk where he goes around purl and goes go go Gadget arms like sort of looking like Giannis. Like if you watch it, he's almost, it almost feels like he's on the ground when he's dunking it. You know, he explodes by reaches and he's so long that it's like, it feels like his feet are like just an inch off the ground as he sort of posterizes the guy which is just really trippy to see. So great game from him. Let's move on to some controversial play calling here from the officials, I should say. The Knicks, they are stunned after a late foul sets up a Rockets winning free throws. Holliday gets to go to the line. Brunson called for the foul after, you know, a block there from precious. Achua finds his way to Holiday and wow, it was so bad that after the game the officials like looked at it again, like, whoops, we screwed that one up. And Malloy saying that who was the crew chief, that they thought there was lower body contact which was illegal contact. But their opinion just changed after the game quote after seeing it during the post game review. The, the offensive player was able to return to a normal Playing position on the floor. The contact which occurred after the release of the ball, therefore is incidental and marginal to the shot attempt and should not have been called. What do you think? Immediately saying our bad on that one.

Tass Melis (12:44)

The odd thing about video reviews that referees do is that they can't take a call back because Edmolloy reviewed it on the floor to see when the shot was released.

JD (12:55)

He got three seconds back, right?

Tass Melis (12:56)

Yeah. To put 0.3 seconds back. He got there, he reviewed the clock and he. He knew that the illegal contact content contact happened with point three. But. But he knew that it wasn't illegal. And so. And so there was no challenge for him to be able to take it back. The Knicks didn't have one or else they would have used one. And so he knew. And then, yeah, when he met with our Fred Katz of the Athletic after it, the buzzer. I don't think he even need to go check it again. That's the weird thing. Like, why can't you just take a call back when you know that Jalen Brunson was jumping by to put his hands up and Aaron Holiday just threw his left arm out. He said it should not have been called.

J.E. Skeets (13:38)

And this was like a sort of. It was like a he variety too. I mean, he's way back. It was a Chuck.

Tass Melis (13:44)

It was a one arm Chuck. It was a baseball Chuck.

J.E. Skeets (13:46)

Yeah, exactly. Do you think? I mean, you're right. It's weird. It's a weird situation that he knows, damn, it's wrong in reviewing it there to get the timing right.

JD (13:55)

Look right away.

J.E. Skeets (13:56)

But I can't change it. And maybe this is something they should consider being. Allowing them to. Yeah, right, sure. Otherwise we just get this right after the game. He's like, well, I screwed up. I mean, we're wrong. But I can't change it there because of the rules. It's weird.

JD (14:08)

That was weird.

Tass Melis (14:09)

Totally. And then the Rockets reviewed one in the first half. At the end of the first half, basically the same thing. The Rocket said, I want to challenge this Dante Divincenzo shot. And it was reversed because it was another Chuck and he kicked his leg out. And so the call was reversed, but that one was able to be challenged. Anyways. It was very strange. And Malloy knows. He is the crew chief. He knew. He knew.

J.E. Skeets (14:36)

Yeah. Brunson was asked about what he thought of the foul call three different times after the game. And three different times Brunson answered with the same four words. Great call. Next question. Again, he was asked about three different times. About the, you know, the unfortunate call. And he always said, great call, next question. Great call, next question. But I mean, let's look. They should have had a chance to play in overtime. Brunson hit two huge shots to even give them a chance. I mean, they came back, they scrambled back and we should have had five more minutes of basketball in this one. And Ed Malloy knows that.

JD (15:10)

Ed Malloy knows that. And he had to answer all the questions. It wasn't even him who called the foul.

J.E. Skeets (15:14)

Yeah, yeah, the bald guy.

JD (15:17)

That bald guy was. Made the call. Couple of nice defensive plays though by the Knicks. Down the stretch, getting the stop on Shengoon, leading to the wedgie there. And then the defense, I guess it was on Jalen Green. Drove to the hoop, trying to get to the hoop and then had to kick it out to Aaron Holiday. Just a dumb call. But I don't know. Until they changed the review rules to. When the review window is open, anything is okay, I guess. But that just means longer, longer fourth quarters. So I don't know.

J.E. Skeets (15:46)

Yeah.

Tass Melis (15:46)

Yes.

J.E. Skeets (15:47)

It's a slippery slope.

JD (15:48)

Or just get rid of review, you know.

J.E. Skeets (15:49)

Sure.

JD (15:51)

We didn't need those 0.3 seconds.

J.E. Skeets (15:53)

I mean, they screw it up anyway when there is reviews.

JD (15:56)

Exactly.

J.E. Skeets (15:56)

So let's just continue to have them screw it up without review. The games are faster. So Rockets get the. The need to win there. You know, Holiday had to hit. You got. Got a chance to hit three, hit the first two and then purposely missed the last one and they win.

Tass Melis (16:08)

That was cool to see. Amin Thompson, we're talking about five by fives. He had a four by five starting for the Houston Rockets. Eight points, 13 boards, five assists and five steals. Just like his brother. I mean, he just works extremely hard on the defensive end and he's so athletic. So it is cool to see that up against the Knicks team that obviously is rolling a little thin. No OG, no Randle. Noah's a Hartenstein. So the 3, 4, 5 are just replacements as well as the backup 5, Mitchell Robinson not playing. So that kind of stinks. But they have. I think they're playing a tomorrow. They get a back to back situation for whoever they're playing is on a back to back. Is it the Wolves? It's somebody good. Yeah. But they have already won three in a. Or sorry, lost three in a row here. So that kind of stinks going into the Ulster game. But that would be their last game before the All Star game. So they need some. Some rest to chill it out here.

J.E. Skeets (17:05)

Still very confused why these Thompson Bros are not in the rising stars. Game over All Star weekend.

JD (17:09)

Put one of them in.

J.E. Skeets (17:11)

That's Wait, one guy named no put.

JD (17:14)

I mean, I guess you kind of got to have both of them. They both could have made it, I think.

J.E. Skeets (17:18)

I know. I mean it's not like we're going off the team's records and stuff like that. And the Rockets are actually even good. It's like, it's just weird. And yeah, I kept. Wait, maybe they kept thinking, ah, there'll be some injury replacements and there was one. Yeah, there was.

Tass Melis (17:30)

Yeah, there was one. And it wasn't one of them.

J.E. Skeets (17:32)

It was Sohan. Right?

JD (17:33)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (17:34)

Because they may wanted to do the whole get another sophomore. But anyway, strange. All right, let's move on. Buddy Hild scored 24 as the 76ers ended the Cavs nine game win streak with the 123, 121 victory. Buddy getting buckets in this one. I thought he was cooking Max Struster as this game went down the stretch and he was just like on an island out there. And Buddy was feeling it, either blowing by it or step, you know, creating room and hitting the three. He looked great.

JD (18:03)

Buddy was in takeover mode. It was like a complete Buddy game. He was obviously hitting threes, but then driving to the hoop, finishing inside in the passing eight assists. You don't see that from Buddy healed all that often. I was feeling crazy because I was wanting to see Isaac Coro out there. He would have helped defensively to be able to stay in front of Buddy because Buddy was the go to guy for the Sixers. They got a definitely a weird look to them right now. Yeah, they're so much smaller and faster than when Embiid is cooking. So they play a different style right now. No Tobias Harris last night as well. Another guy who can at his worst be a ball stopper and take his time with decisions. They were just flowing into offense in transition all night. Paul Reed made a great play to block Donovan Mitchell's layup right at the end of the game. So an impressive win for the 76ers and you know, a tough loss for the Cavs, but they've won quite a few games. So they'll take a take one here.

Tass Melis (18:53)

Yeah, yeah, some. Some duds happening in the NBA a little bit. I think that happened to the Cavs. Just weren't ready. Dallas almost lost to Washington last night, but just watching this Philadelphia 76ers team, their rotation going into this game, that was running it down the throat of the Cavs. Listen to this rotation they started KJ Martin, Paul Reed, Buddy Heald, Kelly Oubre and Tyrese Maxey off the bench campaign. Ricky Counsel, the fourth, Mo Bamba and Turquavian Smith, that's who was playing. And they were able to beat the Cavs because they were continuously running it down their throats. And it was Buddy Heald and Kelly Oubre that were huge. Kelly Oubre, 10 of 14 for 24 points for himself to go along with Buddy's 24 points. Great effort from them. They were playing like a team. And the Mu Bamba spark here, will he be their backup center or will it be Paul?

JD (19:47)

No, Bamba.

Tass Melis (19:49)

It's interesting.

J.E. Skeets (19:49)

Well, last year Buddy was playing really well with the two bigs, both Bomba and Paul Reed. That's a nice actions going where you're like, oh, I can like to see this with Embiid, but he's such a different player than those guys because of his size and. And the other things that he can do. But yeah, Buddy Hilda's has been a great addition. Great start to this team at the deadline in the, what, three games he's played looked really strong.

JD (20:11)

And they need him right now with him beat out. They absolutely need his offense because it takes a little pressure off Maxie to be a ball handler. And then when Maxi's a ball handler, there's so much more space with Buddy Heald because he's a dangerous, dangerous shooter. Five for eight from three last night and eight threes is the fewest he's taken in a game for the Sixers so far.

J.E. Skeets (20:28)

Yeah, another game of note. Carl Anthony Towns, Anthony Edwards helping the Wolves rally in the second half for the 121, 100 victory over the Clippers. I thought this one was important because the Timberwolves remain atop the West. That's their third win in their last four games. And the Clippers had been rolling. And this was a bit of a, you know, statement win here, I thought from Minnesota, taking care of business. But anything else jump out to you?

Tass Melis (20:53)

I'm always worried for the Los Angeles Clippers when I see a big team on the other side, just their 3, 4, 5, because they're playing Kawhi at the 3, Paul George at the 4 and Vubac at the 5. So when you go up against a Giant team with Gobert towns and Jaden McDaniels, same with the Nuggets, I think with Jokic and Aaron Gordon and Michael Porter Jr. There could be a problem. And I think that was the issue here. Even though they tried to Go small. It was fun to see Russell Westbrook playing the five for a big chunk of the second quarter and they went on the run and took care of business. 20 to 7 run with Westbrook at the 5. But in the third quarter, Timberwolves woke up and were able to just stop the Clippers. And we said a lot about guys getting into Wemby's space and being a little scared that he was going to block the snot of them. That happened in this game. Rudy Gobert, he freaked out the Clippers a little bit just because how good he was defensively. Clippers just shot just 35% in the third quarter when they took over. And the Wolves scored 64 points in the paint to just 42 for the Clippers. It's just a size size. Thing is the Clippers worry, I think that they're going to be looking at for the next couple months, but a.

J.E. Skeets (21:59)

Really like elite defensive game from Minnesota when the Clippers are like the third best team offensively in the NBA and then the Minnesota like they hold them to an offensive rating of 104, which is dreadful in today's league. So good stuff and their whole thing. I saw Ziller point this out. Minnesota like their whole, their whole scheme prevent quarter threes. The Clippers took 1, 1 corner 3 all game. So mission accomplished there. Especially in the second half when they got back into it and then didn't let the Clippers shoot all that well in the restricted area. So you pair those together and a 21 point victory. TK Anything else to add?

JD (22:31)

Yeah. Minnesota shot 68 from two in this game. It was completely big boy basketball. You guys mentioned all the points in the paint, but I actually think it'll be different for the Clippers when they play in the playoffs because they won't play their big guys. Like Daniel Tice was an absolute cone out there. He got the run for Mason Plumlee after Plumlee played in the first half. I think they will go completely small ball and try and stretch out a team like the Wolves and say, hey, play a game like that every single night. Because you know there are times when Karl Anthony Towns is aggressive driving to the hoop and there are times when he wants to take 16 three pointers in a game. So maybe the math works out for the Clippers long run, something like that. But I thought they looked their best when they were playing small.

Tass Melis (23:10)

I want to see a series because it was fun in the second quarter to see, hey, we're going small. Literally it was Terrence Mann at the Point PG Kawhi and James Harden and then Russ Westbrook at the 5 up against the Timberwolves team and they were able to score 27. So it'll be fun to see if they go teeny tiny like they did in this one and they were able to handle it. But the Wolves have beat the Clippers the last two times now. They feel good against the Clippers.

J.E. Skeets (23:34)

Yeah. Did you see Norman Powell who came back after taking a shot to his forehead? And the stitches that he had like right down the middle. It looked crazy. Yeah. But good to see him back. But oh my God, you don't see stitches in that spot. He looks like a football. Right laced up. Wild stuff.

JD (23:51)

Gave him the Frankenstein stitches.

J.E. Skeets (23:52)

Yeah, yeah. Just a bunch of other games on. I'll chuck them at you. Touch on any that you want to. Luka, his 10th triple double of the season. Mavs sort of squeaked by the Wizards there. 112, 104. Klay Thompson with 26. Warriors. They're hot. They crushed the Jazz without Steve Kerr. The Bucs flexed their defensive muscle in a dominant victory over the Denver Nuggets. So two of the better teams in each conference. Pelicans held on, beat the Grizzlies 96, 87. That's low scoring. Hornets got past the Pacers. That's a big one in the Nut Dust bowl standings for TK. That's their second straight win. 111, 102. And then you were in attendance down at the fortress for IO scoring a career high 29 as the Bulls posted a season high in points, 136 to 126. I mean, you're playing Atlanta, you're going to get some points. But yeah, what are any scenes from the Fortress?

JD (24:43)

I mean, beautiful play in preview. The 910 seed is going to be lit. I watched the highlights back this morning and I was laughing because in the second quarter, bulls at 45 points with about three minutes left. And Bob Rathman says, boy, these boy Bulls sure struggle to score, don't they? And then they finished with 136, like you said, their season high this season. Four starters scored over 20 points in this one. Everybody except for Tory Craig who made a big shot down the stretch as well. But IO Desumu was kind of the story of the night. I was going to make an MIP case for him, but he's like the second most improved player on the polls, so he makes the second team, I think 29 points, seven assists, five for seven from three. He had the favorable matchup because the Hawks were putting their lengthy defenders on either DeRozan or Kobe White. So it's basically Trey Young versus IO Dasumu. And IO just plays really well against Trey Young. The speed he has and a little bit of a size advantage as well. IO's at 41% from three, a career high. He takes like three a game. But in the since January 1st, the year of our Lord 20, 24, 14 per game, three rebounds, three assists, a steal, a block, 55, 49 and 81. This guy's a really, really solid player. And he looked good last night, but I knew this game was over in the third quarter. Dale and Terry made a three pointer.

J.E. Skeets (25:57)

Oh, that's like, oh, that's a good sign.

JD (25:59)

Terry's hitting threes. It's done.

J.E. Skeets (26:01)

That's a wrap. Yeah, I did look it up because I'm with you. I feel like Iowa always plays well against the Hawks. And I'll check the career splits. It sort of checks out. You know, some of his better stats overall are against the Hawks. He's had some other good, you know, series, I guess, when you look at other teams he's played, but it does check out a little bit. Plays well and he does a good job. Obviously, defensively, he does good on Trey. On sort of to bottle up Trey. Any other games you wanted to touch on there?

Tass Melis (26:24)

Well, I. I found this story on the Wizards and Mavericks that almost made a trade very interesting. Kyle Kuzma was almost traded to the Washington Wizards.

J.E. Skeets (26:35)

To the maps.

Tass Melis (26:36)

Yes, because he plays for the Washington Wizards. Kyle Kuzma was almost traded to the Dallas Mavericks. They made another trade for Daniel Gafford, who had an awesome night last night, 16 and 17 in his first start for Washington. But Kyle Kuzma was approached by the president, Michael Winger, who said to him, this is the trade on the paper here. You see this? Do you want to be traded for this? He was actually approached and Kuzma said, nah, I want to be here. And he brought up that according to our Josh Robinson of the Athletic, who wrote an article that someone was approached with a trade and he said, no, I don't want to be traded. You don't hear that very often that a guy comes out. He said, no, actually, there are only a few true contenders. I've won a title, and I know there's only a few true contenders, and I don't think our timelines fit. Basically saying the Mavs aren't going to win the title. That's basically what he said. And I'm getting a Little too old for that this year. I don't know what he's implying, but he's basically saying, like, I want to stay in Washington. The trade wasn't all that good, apparently. We don't know the exact names, but Michael Winger literally approached Kyle Kuzman and said, do you want to be traded to the Dallas.

J.E. Skeets (27:48)

All of this is very weird.

Tass Melis (27:49)

Yeah. It's an incredible article from the Athletics.

J.E. Skeets (27:52)

I haven't checked this out.

Tass Melis (27:53)

Josh Robbins.

J.E. Skeets (27:54)

Yeah.

Tass Melis (27:54)

Basically said that Michael Winger said, okay, we can make this trade. And he doesn't have a no trade clause or anything. It basically just came down to Kuzma wanting to leave Washington. He said, no, I don't. Which is strange.

J.E. Skeets (28:08)

And a part of the equation, apparently, is because he didn't want to go to Dallas. He's like, they're not a real.

Tass Melis (28:13)

I guess they're not. Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (28:14)

That won't make that much of a difference.

JD (28:18)

I am absolutely not the missing piece. And they might spend. Sign Spencer Dinwiddie.

J.E. Skeets (28:23)

And then there's going to be pressure on me, though. It's not going to be fair. Yeah. No. I'd rather just play here in Washington where no one cares.

Tass Melis (28:30)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (28:30)

Score 21 a game.

JD (28:31)

That's awesome.

Tass Melis (28:32)

Yeah. Maybe he was insulted by the package coming back and he said, I want to be traded for more than that because the Mavs don't have huge names to trade.

J.E. Skeets (28:40)

Right. Which is also hilarious. If he actually wanted to go play for a better team, Kyle Kuzma should want the Dallas Mavericks to trade as little as possible for a player like him because that means his team would be better. His new team.

Tass Melis (28:53)

Yeah. He said, we're not on the same timeline. That's a. That's an odd thing to say. I guess.

J.E. Skeets (29:00)

I guess he's got his ring. I'd forgotten about that a little bit, but you're right.

Tass Melis (29:04)

But maybe he likes to shoot because he wouldn't shoot as much in Dallas. That's for sure.

JD (29:08)

I want to play with Daniel Gafford anymore.

J.E. Skeets (29:10)

Interesting.

JD (29:11)

Don't like the pairing. What happened in this Bucks Nuggets game? I was consuming a game down at the Fortress, but I see that the Bucks blew out the Nuggets. I saw a little bit of that. The Nuggets sat both Jamal Murray and Kentavious Caldwell Pope in the second half with, like, little minor injuries, but they were getting blown out at the time. But near five by five for Giannis, I guess 36 points, 18 rebounds, five assists, three steals and two blocks. A stat sheet was stuffed against the Big guy and Nikola Jokic there. I know, people. The Bucs fans are saying the agendas are running wild. We didn't even mention this. Oh, yeah, Sorry, man. I was watching a game with my eyes.

J.E. Skeets (29:44)

Everyone complains. Everyone just bitches and moans. It's all happens, you know? Where are all the. Come on, where are all the Hornets fans right now? Where. Why aren't they freaking out? They won two in a row here. 111, 102. What a win over the Pacers. Yeah. No, the Bucks looked like. Definitely more like the defensive juggernaut books that Bucks. Excuse me, that we've seen in the past. And that was a dominant victory, which is why no one really cared all that much to talk about it, because it was a little boring, if we're being honest.

Tass Melis (30:09)

Yeah. The strange part was that Jamal Murray only hit one shot in this game. He just was taken out of it and seemed a little bit out of it. And the Bucks are just. They're going home here. They've played a lot of games on the road since the. The moves happened, but since they've gotten back home, they feel a lot better. They feel a lot better. They look a lot better. That's for sure.

J.E. Skeets (30:28)

They've won their last two by a combined 53 points after losing five of their first six games under Doc River. So Doc is riding the ship here. As we get into the All Star break. We only got a few games left before everybody's taking a week off, basically, in the NBA, that's right around the corner. Speaking of breaks, let's take one, and when we come back, a little. Is this news? Let's get into. Is this news? Okay, look, I'll be honest. It wasn't the craziest news out there over the last 24 hours. We were having to rifle through the newspapers and the magazines and, you know, any little. Anything written down on a piece of paper.

JD (31:11)

First headline comes from Family Circus. Billy tore up the Garden again. Is this news?

J.E. Skeets (31:18)

Not with that cartoon. No. No. We got some unfortunate injury news. We'll start with that. First one comes by way of the AP Pelican's card. Dyson Daniels has a torn meniscus. No timeline for his return. Is this news?

Tass Melis (31:34)

Well, this is news. He was coming off their bench. So I guess a lot of people maybe don't know about Dyson Daniels, but he's just an incredible damn defender. He could be involved in the all defensive teams. I don't see why he wouldn't be on one. He's just been phenomenal. So, yeah, strictly that. I mean, he's up there in terms of deflections and steals. He's up in the top 10, playing a lot of minutes. Scoring is a little bit lacking, but it's nice to have that guy around. So, yes, the fact that is a no timeline for return, who knows when he comes back? This could be the end of his season.

J.E. Skeets (32:08)

Absolutely could be. Hopefully not. What do you think? Is this newsworthy?

JD (32:12)

Yeah, well, I mean, we'll see what they decide on the treatment for him. It's the exact same thing as the Embiid injury, except for they called it a torn meniscus and not a displaced flap.

J.E. Skeets (32:21)

Right.

JD (32:21)

Bad timing, I think mostly for Dice and Daniels because he had kind of just re established himself in the rotation for the Pelicans. Fell out in, you know, December and January, playing like 15 minutes a game. Now he's back up to 23. But I think they can survive this. They're losing their size option at point guard because obviously CJ McCollum is the starter. Alvarado comes in as a defensive Energizer guy, and Daniels would be the Ranger lengthier defender, but it just means more minutes for Jose Alvarado. Trey Murphy, the third, Jordan Hawkins probably returns to the lineup as well more often. And Najee Marshall. This is a really, really deep team. So losing a guy off the bench is not the biggest blow to a team like the Pelicans.

J.E. Skeets (33:01)

And they didn't trade someone like Herb Jones even at the deadline. They do have him and he's really instrumental to their defense. It just sucks.

JD (33:08)

It feels like.

J.E. Skeets (33:09)

Have the Pelicans ever gone more than like two months, three months without like a pretty significant injury to at least a key player? Because it like the last three, four years, it's always one or two guys. Like even Trey Murphy III in September, he had the torn meniscus or a similar injury there with the meniscus, and that was repaired through surgery and he was out for a while. He came back in like in late November. But it's always one of their guys that's just. They can never stay completely healthy, which sucks. But hopefully it's nothing too severe. But Daniels is an awesome defender. I'm with you, Taz. I think he would get some votes. I'm not sure he would make that sort of all defensive second team yet, but you could see one in his future because that's where he. That's where he's going to make his money in this league.

Tass Melis (33:53)

Yeah, he should get a contract. There's. There's some comparisons out there coming around for, for Matisse thible in that light, but this guy can score a little bit. He can't. You know, he does try and shoot the three, but yeah, he's just so damn good on the defensive end. He, him and the Pelicans. I mean, Trey went through the roster. They all play fricking hard. So Najee Marshall, who's been getting some limited minutes here and there, will play a lot more. There's lots. There's lots of guys to play.

J.E. Skeets (34:21)

Let's move over to NBC Sports. The headline is the Miami Heat's Terry Rozier week to week with sprained knee and Richardson out weeks with dislocated shoulder. Did the Heat maybe dodge a pair of bullets here with the MRIs that we got Monday or is this, you know, still bad news? Is this newsworthy to you?

JD (34:43)

Newsworthy, but definitely could have been worse. Specifically with Rosier, it looked like a really bad non contact injury. The Heat have one game left against the Bucks tonight or no, I guess they got the Milwaukee 76ers. Yeah, Tuesday and Wednesday. So maybe those are losses, but maybe those were losses anyway since they're both road games. Then it's the All Star break so they get a little bit of time for Rosier to rest up, knock off the rust. They need him to figure out the chemistry there and then since he's moved into the starting lineup, he's going to be obviously a big part of their team. Josh Richardson, I don't think they will miss quite as much though. He's had a pretty solid season. This to me is just an opportunity for Caleb Martin to step up and actually play as well as he did last year. He's made 42 threes this season. He made 44 in the playoffs last year, 23 games in the playoffs. He was hitting. So there will be minutes on the wing, I do believe for Caleb Martin. He's still been playing. He just needs to actually knock down some shots. Heaters still two and a half games up on the Bulls for eighth right now. Probably hold on to it.

Tass Melis (35:42)

Yeah, Caleb Martin made that awesome shot from over the backboard a couple days ago that was pretty cool. But he needs to play and play better in this instance. I do feel like the Heater just happy seeing the reports come back of Terry Rosier who's going to be week to week in terms of his evaluation. So as Trey brought up, there's some days off here at the All Star break and Josh Richardson, you know, to he. He has been coming off the bench behind Terry Rosier. He'll be reevaluated in two weeks. So it could have been a heck of a lot worse. But as the schedule says, as you broke down the schedule there, there's, there's days, there's what we got. You get Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. You can almost get a week. And as I was saying about if.

J.E. Skeets (36:32)

You'Re basically going to pick up an injury that's going to keep you out a week or two, now's the perfect time to do it is what you're saying.

Tass Melis (36:37)

There's no better time during the All Star.

J.E. Skeets (36:38)

Yeah, there's no better time. So this is good news with these MRIs not being too severe. Terry Rosier has struggled in Miami is the other part of this. He's averaging 12.6 points per game in the 10 games he's played, shooting 36% from the field and 23% from deep. This guy was lighting it up for Charlotte, like was scoring a lot more and had a better efficiency. So he just has struggled in Miami. And yeah, Richardson was, I think he was helping, but he's going to be out more than Rozier. Jimmy Butler obviously is missing games here because of a death in his family. He's listed out tonight. Duncan Robinson is questionable with a sprained left elbow and shoulder likely from the Jalen Brown sort of locking up there. So they are short guys. I know they're calling guys up from like their G league that are maybe gonna get a. Get a chance here tonight.

Tass Melis (37:25)

And you can always pull one off just like the Philadelphia 76ers did yesterday here. But before the break, I mean, it's heat culture, baby. Yeah.

JD (37:33)

I mean, whoever these random G League guys they pull up are gonna sign 20 million dollar contracts in the offseason.

J.E. Skeets (37:38)

This is a blessing in disguise for them. Next one here from si. Patrick Beverly says Marcus Morris leaning towards signing with wolves. Let me give you the whole tweet because this guy's the new Shums. He's the new Woosh. It's a pep bat bomb. The tweet ready. Seasoned forward and offensive threat Marcus Morris is leaning towards signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

JD (38:04)

Per sources.

J.E. Skeets (38:05)

His veteran presence will provide a winning culture to any team looking for a playoff boost. And then there's a pic there of Morris himself who played with Bev in Philadelphia. I guess I got to know TK Is this news Patrick Beverly an active player, you know, breaking news?

JD (38:23)

Yeah, I guess so. You don't see a sourced report from a player podcast all that often. I Wonder how he got the info.

J.E. Skeets (38:31)

From a text, probably.

JD (38:33)

Hey, man, who you signed up with? You mind if I tell people? Cool. I guess they'll help the Wolves if he decides to sign there. The Wolves are middle of the pack in threes made per game and if there's anything Marcus Morris is good at, it's shooting threes. He's 40% from the field, gives them a decent option outside of Kyle Anderson, who has seen his jumper, completely abandoned him this season.

Tass Melis (38:54)

Patrick Beverley, Breaking news via Twitter. But he ain't right in this. He did not write seasoned forward and offensive threat Marcus Morris is leaning towards signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves, per sources.

J.E. Skeets (39:06)

Made me laugh.

Tass Melis (39:06)

Why would he write that? His veteran presence will provide a winning culture to any team looking for a playoff boost. Okay, maybe he wrote.

J.E. Skeets (39:12)

I mean he could have wrote it because it's like in the mocking tone. I read it in as like some of the other newsbreakers, like the heavy hitters. Like, it's because they sometimes do that in their tweets where it's like, this is why so and so is leaning towards signing here and this is what he will bring to the table, per sources.

Tass Melis (39:27)

So you think Pat Bev is potentially just copying a newsbreaker A little in.

J.E. Skeets (39:32)

The way that I think he's mocking a little bit. Yeah, that's. That's my read into it. Whether he actually sent the tweet or told somebody in his team there at the Pat Bev podcast to do it, maybe it's more likely that. Yeah, yeah, it's a Magic Johnson situation is what I'm getting at here. Yeah, he's saying, hey, season vet, say this season forward.

JD (39:50)

I love seasoned.

Tass Melis (39:51)

Yes, seasoned.

J.E. Skeets (39:53)

Do you think Marcus Morris moves the needle at all for Minnesota or like, like Trey said, you know, some shooting. There you go. Hard nosed guy.

Tass Melis (40:01)

It's nice to have him in the locker room. That's. That's prime.

JD (40:04)

That's true.

Tass Melis (40:04)

That's the primary thing, I think, you know, he helps out teams. Just like Roan, I imagine is helping out the. The Twitter account. I'm just guessing.

J.E. Skeets (40:13)

Okay.

Tass Melis (40:13)

I'm just, just guessing. I listen all these tweets coming out there was the Family Circus comic talk earlier. To start this show, I gotta subscribe to an actual newspaper again. I want a newspaper. I want a hard copy of my door.

JD (40:26)

The Pap Times.

J.E. Skeets (40:28)

We're taking a flight soon to Indianapolis. Who's getting the crossword?

JD (40:32)

USA Today.

J.E. Skeets (40:33)

That's right. That's right. We gotta tackle it as a team. Trey does most of the work. All right, final, final headline here. It's from the Athletic, a real website. JJ Redick joining ESPN's NBA Finals broadcast team with Mike Breen and Doris Burke. Is this news? What do you think?

Tass Melis (40:53)

This is news. There's definitely both sides. People who dislike J.J. redick and people who love him. The fact is this guy loves the snot out of the game. He loves basketball so much. So I am totally good with this. He has been rumored to join a lot of coaching staffs. He got a frigging Raptor's head coaching interview. He rejected Joe Missoula's offer to be on the Celtics staff before this season. Actually, he was out golfing with Joe Missoula and Austin Ange, and he was asked, hey, when are you going to join? And apparently Joe Mazzulla said, well, you got to come be on the. Be on our staff in two days. And JJ Redick said, oh, no, I got. I got plans. He thought to himself, I got to go golfing in a couple of weeks.

J.E. Skeets (41:42)

Exactly.

Tass Melis (41:44)

Pablo Torre finds out. Great pod with JJ Redick. He coaches his son, Knox Redick. He coaches that team the heck out of that team. Knox Reddick beat Josh Hart in a three point contest. Oh, wow, there's a video of that.

J.E. Skeets (41:56)

You are coming with facts today, man.

Tass Melis (41:58)

Yeah, well, I listen to this podcast. I mean, JJ Redick a lot today. What's wrong. What's wrong with him being beside Doris Burke and Breen.

J.E. Skeets (42:07)

And Breen?

Tass Melis (42:08)

Nothing. Nothing. There was a lot of hate. There's a lot of. I hate JJ Reddick. I mean, the guy just likes playing.

JD (42:14)

He's been a long hated.

J.E. Skeets (42:15)

Hold on. Let's make this very clear. If you are a national broadcaster, there are people that love you and there are people that hate you no matter who you are. There are people that love Doris Burke and there are people that do dislike Doris Burke on the call. Same thing with Jeff Van Gundy and obviously Mark Jackson. So that's nothing new. But yeah, Redick is gonna, in theory slide into that spot vacated by Doc Rivers, who was there, what, three months into his.

JD (42:40)

His many weeks of service, three year contract.

J.E. Skeets (42:42)

Yeah. As he returned to the Bucks. And so we will see JJ go from, you know, the, The. The number two team. That's who Redick was with, with Ruko, Ryan Ruko and Richard Jefferson. And they're slotting him up now. It'll be interesting to see. Will it just stay Ruko and Jefferson? Will they find a third name in the, in the report here? Maybe Bob Myers is that Guy they want to get him on. On the call a lot more so possible. But what do you think of Redick on the finals call with. With Breen and with Doris?

JD (43:09)

A lot of the reason that was given for ESPN and ABC moving on from Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, was that they were too negative on that. Sometimes felt like they didn't like the sport that they were watching. I don't think that's the case at all with Doris Burke and JJ Redick. They both love the snot out of basketball, so I think it'll be fun to listen to. I think JJ is super well prepared. I listened to one of his podcasts today, and that was my other takeaway. Depending on which teams make it to the Finals, this will be the most podcasted NBA Finals we've ever seen. Imagine if either the Clips or the warriors makes it and then the Bucks makes it. From the Eastern Conference. You would have both sides having player podcasts and a broadcaster podcast. Geez, that's too much.

J.E. Skeets (43:49)

Wow.

Tass Melis (43:50)

That's a lot.

JD (43:51)

It's gonna be like when Lost was on television and you had to be in the forums and the message boards and know what was going on. You gotta listen to all these episodes to get the full view of the NBA Finals.

Tass Melis (44:01)

Yeah. Draymond is joining Charles Barkley for an alternate All Star Game podcast telecast. All Star Game telecast, I should say.

J.E. Skeets (44:08)

Okay.

Tass Melis (44:09)

I was gonna say podcast telecast because Draymond podcast. Maybe he's gonna podcast about his telecast. I don't know. But yeah, Charles are going to be doing the alternate telecast.

J.E. Skeets (44:18)

Okay. Yeah.

Tass Melis (44:20)

There's a lot of telecasts out there.

JD (44:22)

Sure, sure.

Tass Melis (44:23)

I wish I watched the SpongeBob Super Bowl. Yeah, that would have been fun. I heard it was good. Some of the clips are funny. They look super funny.

J.E. Skeets (44:32)

You're more of a spongebob fan than a Tony Romo fan.

Tass Melis (44:35)

Breaks down the game kinda. Are you?

J.E. Skeets (44:38)

Wow.

Tass Melis (44:38)

Yeah.

Trey Kirby (44:39)

Tom, Kenny and Patrick. Spongebob and Patrick were there live commenting on the game. It was great.

J.E. Skeets (44:45)

Did you. You really fired it up?

Trey Kirby (44:47)

Yeah, I went back and forth a little bit.

Tass Melis (44:48)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (44:49)

Nice.

Tass Melis (44:49)

It was fun. Yeah. So they're doing it with two broadcasters as well.

Trey Kirby (44:52)

There's two broadcast. I don't know who the other guys were. I think like actual broadcasters, but yeah, big name broadcasters.

J.E. Skeets (44:58)

Was Nate Burleson on it?

Tass Melis (45:00)

Oh, yeah. Nate Brolson. That's. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

JD (45:03)

That was like a third super bowl broadcast.

J.E. Skeets (45:05)

No, no, that was with SpongeBob.

Trey Kirby (45:06)

That was with SpongeBob, Patrick and the.

JD (45:08)

Other Sponge and Pat.

Tass Melis (45:09)

It was. It was two animated characters and. Well, no, two.

Trey Kirby (45:13)

They were animated. It wasn't great. It was like 3D animated, you know.

Tass Melis (45:17)

Yeah.

Trey Kirby (45:18)

There was once a time when they wanted to do that with one of you guys at Turner.

J.E. Skeets (45:23)

Excuse me.

Trey Kirby (45:24)

Yeah, an animated avatar. It was pitched to us.

J.E. Skeets (45:27)

You want. They wanted to cartoon us.

Trey Kirby (45:28)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (45:30)

Okay.

Trey Kirby (45:30)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (45:31)

Why don't they just give them beaker?

Trey Kirby (45:32)

Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I mean, it works for this. It's like Nickelodeon and there's like jellyfish flying by and, you know, hell yeah, it was cool.

Tass Melis (45:43)

Two people in the booth. Actual people beside two animated people. That's what was happening at the telecast, which is amazing. But this is, it is a different finals that we're gonna experience, obviously with no Van Gundy, no Doc river, no no Mark Jackson. So, yeah, they were gonna go Doc Doris and Breen, but J.J. redick is, he's, he's gonna be very good.

J.E. Skeets (46:07)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did see this popular comment on the Athletic. Why did they need to find a replacement for Doc Rivers? He'll still be available during the NBA Finals. Oh, hi. Ol.

Tass Melis (46:16)

I was good.

J.E. Skeets (46:16)

Had like 100 likes on the. In the Athletic there. Yeah. Are you a fan of Reddick? Joining Burke and Breen? Let us know. Are you a fan of JJ Redick on the call again, like you said, you know, Van Gundy, Mark Jackson, the biggest knock against him, no doubt. Do these guys even like basketball? They're always like just whining. But the opposite side of it is some people think it can get too lovey dovey and everything's too great and maybe not critical enough. I'm not saying JJ is that, but that's, that's where you're obviously trying to find the right line, I guess. But yeah, people have opinions on this stuff. Okay, let's get to Tweet of the Night.

Tass Melis (46:54)

Tweet of the Night.

J.E. Skeets (46:56)

Wow. Twitter.

JD (46:59)

Just a really quick results check here. Poll of the day. Which happens first for Victor Wembanyama? A five by five or a quadruple double? 52% of people say a five by five.

J.E. Skeets (47:09)

Okay. That's a close, close, close.

JD (47:11)

Very close.

J.E. Skeets (47:12)

Yeah. Nice.

JD (47:13)

I like that. We're just assuming he'll get either, as if they happen all the time, but.

J.E. Skeets (47:17)

It definitely feels like he's gonna get one of them. I, I'm very confident in that.

JD (47:21)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (47:21)

He's played 50 games and it's so close already.

Tass Melis (47:24)

Yeah. As you brought up, there's only five quadruple doubles in the history of the game. I was a little Surprised? I thought it was higher, but. But the Spurs. Yeah. Would have three of six. As soon as Wembanyama does it because of Alvin Robertson and David Robinson.

J.E. Skeets (47:39)

Yeah, the Robinson.

JD (47:39)

Yeah. The combo of assists and blocks is just rare.

J.E. Skeets (47:42)

Yeah.

JD (47:42)

You know, we needed a Josh McRoberts.

Tass Melis (47:44)

To be Josh Mc.

JD (47:47)

What a dumb reference for a guy who passes. Anyways, tweet of the night is more like story time because when Mark Gasol retired a couple of weeks back, I mentioned that there was this picture of him waiting in an anthropology that I could no longer find on the Internet.

J.E. Skeets (48:01)

It was scrubbed from the Internet.

JD (48:02)

I was looking everywhere. I tracked down the tweet from the woman who sent it originally, and it turns out she had deleted her Twitter profile, taking the photo along with it. I thought it was gone forever. Just something in my mind that maybe I made up. However. However, I said, if you can find this picture, send it to us. And the people came through in a big way because we got a message from Cassidy Cockrell is her name.

J.E. Skeets (48:29)

Okay.

JD (48:30)

On Instagram. She said, hi. I had a bunch of message requests today asking me for the picture I took with Mark Gasol in anthropologie back in 2015. And people told me that your podcast mentioned it. I wanted to share it with you guys in case y' all wanted it. Oh, Cassidy, have a look at this.

J.E. Skeets (48:46)

There it is.

JD (48:47)

Marcasol in an anthropology. I didn't remember he had his baby with him.

J.E. Skeets (48:51)

No.

JD (48:52)

That was a funny addition to me as well, but great to see. I know our guy Jerome was messaging with Cassidy. I know another one of our guys, graphic. Mark was messaging with Cassidy. I don't know how many other people were, but we found the picture. And she also sent in another photo of herself actually getting to meet Marcus.

J.E. Skeets (49:13)

Wow.

JD (49:14)

And, you know, looking at the decorations. That's still an anthropology.

J.E. Skeets (49:17)

Oh, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. What a great guy. A great guy. He'll play with a baby.

JD (49:22)

Well, you go do your shopping and then I'll take a picture with you. He's not ashamed.

Tass Melis (49:25)

Not at all. I remember that photo.

JD (49:30)

Just play with a baby.

J.E. Skeets (49:32)

Great stuff. Thank you, Cassidy.

JD (49:34)

Yeah, Big time.

J.E. Skeets (49:34)

Thank you for sending that in. And just before we go here to bring it back to the Nickelodeon broadcast, one of the things they did, J.D. you'll know this, is that they were showing fans.

Trey Kirby (49:44)

Yeah.

J.E. Skeets (49:45)

In the stands. I want to know what was the best pun here. Okay. Clam yell L. Jackson. It's not easy to say.

Trey Kirby (49:53)

Pretty good. It's pretty good. Out the gate. That's good.

J.E. Skeets (49:56)

Oprah Finfre. Okay. Billy Eilish.

Tass Melis (50:01)

Okay.

J.E. Skeets (50:02)

Okay. And then. And I saw TK Tweet about this. Sitting next side by side in the stands, LeBron James and Finn Diesel.

Trey Kirby (50:14)

I mean, that's it, right?

J.E. Skeets (50:16)

So I saw Trey tweet this. And didn't you say something like, why would these two sitting beside each other? When have they ever sat beside each other? And then somebody came back in your comments with a photo of Vin Diesel. Yeah, right. By LeBron James. Amazing. So, yeah. Which one do you like of those? Those are all pretty good.

Tass Melis (50:33)

I think you're. If you put a poll out there, you'd get like a 25, 25, 24, 26. That's a close race. I like LeBron James. I always like saying that word. I like saying the word pride.

J.E. Skeets (50:46)

I mean, there are photos of them too. Right. That's like Clamuel Jackson is very funny. He's got the Kangol hat on and the glasses and the goatee. They're all good.

JD (50:57)

That would have been the most fun part of doing that broadcast. Like the brainstorm session.

J.E. Skeets (51:02)

They should bring us in, consult for some of these. But maybe they don't need our help because they're knocking it out of the park here.

JD (51:07)

Scheduled for two hours, but it goes like six hours. Can't stop saying names.

J.E. Skeets (51:13)

Jerome tells us. By the way, thanks to Ash for sharing this. Those in the Slack Channel here. Noah Eagle and Nate. It was the other. It was the other bird.

Tass Melis (51:21)

It was the young bird. It was no Eagle. Damn it.

J.E. Skeets (51:23)

Yeah, we should. We should have known that.

Tass Melis (51:25)

Yeah, Yeah. I actually read an article about.

J.E. Skeets (51:28)

Right.

Tass Melis (51:29)

The telecast where no Eagle was asked about it, about broadcasting with a couple animated characters. Great stuff.

J.E. Skeets (51:35)

Yeah, we. We. I told Grish because we were having the super bowl party and he had. We were inside, but he's got the projector on the porch and all. There was a million kids. I told him at one point, I was like, put the. Put the Nickelodeon one on out there. They might eat that up. I think he was confused. I don't think he knew what I was talking about. But then he told us a great Nate Burleson story which saved his life.

JD (51:56)

We'll save it for another day.

J.E. Skeets (51:57)

I'll save it for another day.

JD (51:59)

Is Noah Eagle a pun for anything? Just kidding. Just kidding, man. It would be Noah Siegel.

Tass Melis (52:09)

Oh, he could have played in the Puppy Bowl. Noah Beagle.

J.E. Skeets (52:12)

Jesus. Well, I'll end it there. I can't do better than that. Hey, join us tonight. I'm at least jumping on. I don't know what these guys are doing but playback I'm gonna jump there around 8:30 we got the thunder magic on TNT I was like all right respect okay oh two teams you don't get to see broadcast all that much so I think it starts at 7:30 I'll jump on around halftime we'll catch the ending of that one and maybe some of the other earlier games so yeah join us on playback at around 8:30 that link I'll make sure to add it to the show notes and yeah hopefully see you over there in our playback room until tonight or tomorrow morning here from the classic factory Clipper.

JD (52:51)

Bros. You heard it here first have a great time turn up.

J.E. Skeets (52:55)

Love you guys awesome.

Tass Melis (52:56)

Oh thanks for joining us and remember I love circling back on the Knicks I talked about them playing a team that had a back to back it is that Magic team plays tonight then plays the Knicks tomorrow There we go.

J.E. Skeets (53:08)

Brace the day people.