Paul Bissonnette Talking Stanley Cup Playoffs, Sixers Get Swept By The Knicks, NBA Draft Lottery, Aliens Are Back And More

Summary

Pardon My Take: Paul Bissonnette Talking Stanley Cup Playoffs, Sixers Get Swept By The Knicks, NBA Draft Lottery, Aliens Are Back and More

Date: May 11, 2026
Hosts: Big Cat & PFT Commenter, with Max, Memes, Zach, Paul Bissonnette

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Episode Overview

This jam-packed episode covers the latest in the NBA and NHL playoffs, focusing heavily on the Knicks sweeping the Sixers and a deep dive into NHL drama with guest Paul Bissonnette. The hosts riff on the NBA Draft Lottery, the sad state (or not) of Philly sports, legendary ownership missteps, and—because it’s PMT—aliens and strip club guy James Harden.

Guest Paul Bissonnette brings both hockey analysis and wild NHL inside stories, including his beef with the Maple Leafs’ new GM and a hilarious exchange involving Rob Gronkowski. The show also delivers PMT’s signature running gags, good-natured roast battles, and off-the-wall hypotheticals.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Knicks Sweep Sixers (03:26–20:00)

• Celebrating the Knicks’ Dominance:

  • Memes, a Knicks fan, basks in New York’s absolute destruction of the Sixers. The hosts marvel at Philly’s home crowd being overtaken by Knicks fans.
  • “You walked into their trap. You took over their trap. To quote Kirk Cousins. It was so loud.” – Big Cat (03:26)

• Jalen Brunson & Team Praise:

  • Knicks’ Jalen Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns are highlighted for their dominance and improved teamwork. OG Anunoby’s injury is noted but rests as a benefit with the sweep.
  • “Jalen Brunson is just a God at basketball.” – Memes (04:54)
  • Attention given to Deuce McBride’s lights-out 7/9 from three (07:41).

• Sixers Autopsy & Civic Soul-Searching:

  • Max, die-hard Sixers fan, wallows in self-loathing, calls this season not a success, and acknowledges the team “is not a good basketball team” (11:12).
  • Tyrese Maxey’s playoff collapse is dissected.
  • Philly’s status as a “sports town” is hotly debated. “There can't be 70 Knicks fans in the building, and you say that we're a basketball town.” – Max (15:46)

• Notable Quote:

  • “It just sucks. That's really all I can say about it, man.” – (Tyrese) Maxey on home-court Knicks invasion (16:02)

• Arguments over semantics and semantics-as-humor:

  • Max and Big Cat argue about just how fast the sweep happened, culminating in a meta, sarcastic “agreement” (10:10–10:26).

Timestamps:

• 03:26 – Postgame reactions/Max gets wet
• 05:53 – Worries about Knicks peaking
• 07:41 – Deuce McBride’s performance
• 11:12 – Sixers season post-mortem

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NBA Draft Lottery, NBA Playoff Chaos (45:10–52:49)

• Wizards Hope, Bulls Optimism:
  PFT hypes the Washington Wizards winning #1 pick:

  • “We've been the worst team, maybe in sports, in the last 50 years.”
  • Draft debate ensues: would you trade the #1? Is Caleb Wilson a lock? Bulls fans relieved to jump into the top 4 after “half-tanking” a lost season.

• Philosophical GMing:

  • “I talked to some league executives, and being the third or fourth pick actually is where everyone wants to be because you get the decision taken out of your hands.” – Big Cat quoting NBA pundits, then mocking them (50:57).

• Notable Quote:

  • “If being bad equals success, then the Process worked.” – PFT (46:56)

Timestamps:

• 45:10 – Wizards win lottery (PFT monologue)
• 47:56 – AJ DeBancer hype
• 50:57 – GM/lottery blame games

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LeBron’s Future and Lakers’ Demise (39:55–42:44)

• Thunder-Lakers Breakdown:

  • Thunder’s depth and dominance renders the Lakers “old, slow, and tired.” Question raised: Is this LeBron’s last game?
  • “He is 41, but he is a guy that's going to—when he retires, he's going to let people know he's retired.” – Max (40:54)

• West vs. East Outlook:

  • “The problem is those two teams [Thunder, Spurs] are so much better than anyone in the East.” – Big Cat (42:54)

Timestamps:

• 39:55 – Thunder-Lakers diagnosis
• 40:48 – LeBron speculation

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James Harden, Cavs/Pistons, and NBA Playoff Oddities (32:58–38:51)

• James Harden—Strip Club Guy Redeemed:

  • Harden’s late-game heroics to clinch Game 3 for Cavs is praised. Declaration: “We're officially again as strip club guys that we found out. Zach, you got to become the biggest James Harden guy.” – Big Cat (33:39)

• Donovan Mitchell’s Upside Down Stats:

  • “Donovan Mitchell just stopped growing…He’s 6’1, with a 6’10 wingspan, size 17 shoes.” – Big Cat (35:10)
  • Series predictions: Pistons favored but hosts want more games, more chaos.

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“Who’s Back of the Week”: Aliens, FIFA Greed & More (57:16–66:41)

• Aliens Are Back:

  • The hosts lampoon recent U.S. government “alien proof” leaks, arriving at the usual PMT tone—wanting aliens but also suspecting it’s all government misdirection.
  • “I think aliens exist, but I don't think they're coming here. The universe is so huge. You think they're like, ‘Oh, we gotta go get those guys’? They don't give a fuck about us.” – Big Cat (59:36)

• FIFA Greed Returns:

  • FIFA’s $400 city-jerseys for World Cup mocked as “running up the score” and pure American-style commercialization (63:15–65:41).

Timestamps:

• 57:16 – Hank on “Aliens are back”
• 63:13 – FIFA jersey rants

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Special Guest: Paul Bissonnette on NHL Drama (76:07–134:04)

Gronk Throws Biz Under the Bus

• Gronk goes on TV and outs Biz for sliding into Buffalo women’s DMs; Biz is good-natured but points out Gronk’s “high school” phrasing sounded Epstein-ish.
  • “If there was one guy who knew bro code, it would be Rob Gronkowski… But then he goes and says that on live TV!” – Biz (77:02)

Maple Leafs GM Saga & Shane Doan Loyalty

• Biz walks the listeners through why he’s anti-Leafs after they hired John Chayka (“snake oil salesman” per league insiders) as GM—because Chayka backstabbed Shane Doan (Mr. Coyote), a close friend and mentor to Biz.

  • “I have no ill will towards John Chayka other than the fact that he stabbed my buddy in the back… If it wasn’t for [Doan], I don’t have the most enjoyable five years of my hockey career.” – Biz (94:30)

• Chayka's checkered past:

  • Appointed the youngest GM ever (26), fired Shane Doan callously over breakfast, cheated at the NHL combine, and was ostracized by the “boys club” of NHL GMs. Fired by Arizona, now runs the richest franchise.

• The Leafs luck into the #1 pick immediately after Biz cuts ties, causing Whit to “fall off his chair laughing” at Biz’s expense (96:54).

NHL Playoff Round-Up/Philosophy

• Hurricanes praised for analytics-based, relentless forecheck style and coach Rod Brind'Amour’s culture. “Everything they did this year to turn around their organization… kudos to Philadelphia and my boy Rick Tocchet,” – Biz (112:19)
• Montreal’s playoff atmosphere called best in hockey—“like a British Premier League soccer game.” (118:42)
• Personal story: Biz discusses being suspended by the Coyotes for talking openly about weed use (102:12).

Notable Moments:

• Biz drops tales about exes, Edmonton trip, and “small rope” rumors with trademark self-deprecation (129:41–130:33).
• “If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at yourself, but that shit's funny.” – Biz (130:29)

Timestamps:

• 76:07 – Biz intro, Gronk story
• 81:42 – Chayka/Doan saga
• 108:21 – Hurricanes’ analytic revolution
• 112:17 – Flyers/Hurricanes compliment
• 118:43 – Canadiens playoff environment
• 129:41 – Final segments/rapid-fire

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Timberwolves-Spurs, Lakers, NBA Finals Scenarios (135:59–142:49)

• Anthony Edwards' heroic performance with a bad leg highlighted as emblematic of the Timberwolves’ “dog” mentality.
• “This is what the Timberwolves are. They're just absolute dogs.” – Big Cat (137:02)
• Wemby ejection drama debated—no one thinks it warrants a suspension. “He also should learn the rules; he had no idea what the flagrant was.” – Big Cat (140:25)
• Finals prophecy: “The best case scenario for the finals is Spurs, Knicks, 99 throwback.” – Hank (138:51)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I don't think it could be faster that this [the Sixers were swept]… factual. It could not have gone any faster.” – Max (09:46)
• “Philly was never a sports town. We can have that conversation.” – Big Cat (14:15)
• “If being bad equals success, then the Process worked.” – PFT Commenter (46:56)
• “He stabbed my buddy in the back. I would take a bullet for Shane Doan.” – Paul Bissonnette (94:30)
• “If you can't laugh at yourself… that shit's funny.” – Biz (130:29)
• “I think aliens exist, but I don’t think they’re coming here.” – Big Cat (59:36)

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Segment Timestamps (MM:SS)

• 03:26 – Knicks sweep reaction
• 05:53 – Knicks’ prospects and rest vs. rust
• 11:12 – Sixers season eulogy
• 15:46 – Philly as a basketball town
• 39:55 – Thunder-Lakers and LeBron future
• 45:10 – NBA Draft Lottery/winners & losers
• 57:16 – Aliens discussion
• 63:13 – FIFA jersey rants
• 76:07 – Paul Bissonnette segment begins
• 81:42 – Leafs GM, Chayka/Doan saga
• 108:21 – Analytics in hockey/Hurricanes
• 112:19 – Flyers, Tocchet, culture change
• 118:42 – Montreal playoff vibes
• 135:59 – Timberwolves-Spurs/NBA Finals talk

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PMT Signature Bits

• “Get wet” punishment continues for fans of losing teams.
• Long-running roast battles, e.g., Max vs. the rest after Sixers loss.
• “Who’s Back of the Week” covers aliens, FIFA, and random sports memorabilia.

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Episode Tone & Takeaways

This episode is an unfiltered, rapid-fire blend of sports takes and locker-room banter, turbo-charged by Biz’s hockey chaos and two of the NBA’s biggest markets in postmortem/crowning mode. The hosts never take themselves too seriously, veering between fan agony, media clowning, and genuine fan passion in a style only PMT can pull off.

Useful for listeners:

• Recaps and deep analysis for Knicks/Sixers, NHL playoffs, and NBA draft.
• Rich inside stories—especially the NHL GM drama.
• A pulse on where PMT stands: all aboard the Process clowning, all in for chaos, and eternal hope for aliens.
• PMT’s unique language and wit: self-deprecating, irreverent, but also loyal and insightful beneath the goof.

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Transcript

[Big Cat]

Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Prime. Members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. Okay, guys, it's grit week. This is the part of the football calendar where nobody's watching, but everything gets built. Early mornings, pads back on conditioning, film reps. Spring training in football is all about putting in the work when nobody's cheering yet. And and honestly, that's the same mindset behind the Chevy Silverado. This is a truck that is the definition of grit. Long days, dirty work, and showing up day after day no matter the conditions. Strong, dependable, and built for the grind. Because grit isn't about being flashy. It's about being ready when it's time to go. Check out the current offers and build your [e-mail] that's Silverado. All grit, no quit. And you can build your [e-mail] today. Today's part of my take presented by DraftKings. We have our good friend Paul Bissonette on to talk some hockey. NHL playoffs. Also, what's going on with the Maple Leafs because he is out on them and then they immediately got the first

[PFT Commenter]

pick right after Mark of a great franchise.

[Big Cat]

He's also getting trashed by Gronk live on air. We'll get to the bottom of that as well. We have NBA playoffs. The Knicks sweep the Sixers, the Lakers are on life support. We're going to talk Spurs Timberls after biz because the game's going on right now. We got NBA draft lottery. We have who's Back of the Week a pack show for you. And it's all brought to you by our friends at Microsoft. Before we get into more chaos, we got to tell you about something that helps people focus on what's most important. Microsoft 365 copilot what if you could add an AI assistant to your work without leaving your workflow built into Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook? Copilot works where you work, helping you do more in the apps you already use. In Word, Copilot helps turn scatter notes into a first draft. In Excel, it generates insights from your data. And in Outlook, it cuts through the noise to get you up to speed faster. The apps you know go further with Copilot. Learn [e-mail] Work okay, let's go. Hey, football guy.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Martin M. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Part of my take.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, part of my take.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, part of my take. Welcome to Part of My take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Monday, May 11th max. Oh, he's getting up. He's getting up.

[PFT Commenter]

Max, sit down.

[Big Cat]

Sit down, dude. Sit down.

[Max]

Get wet.

[Big Cat]

Sit down. Sit down. Sit down.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait a second. Water's not going anywhere. Sit down, Max.

[Big Cat]

Listen, sonny, stars can wait.

[PFT Commenter]

Max, why are you dry? Max.

[Paul Bissonette]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Max. Max, stay. Stay, Max.

[Big Cat]

He's gone. Max.

[Paul Bissonette]

Gone.

[Big Cat]

Oh, man.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, he's gonna come back. He's gonna be wet.

[Big Cat]

Let's talk about memes. Zach. Where'd Zach go? Zach, you don't have to go.

[Memes]

I think Zach's filming it.

[Big Cat]

Zach's filming him. Memes. Congratulations. Incredible sweep. That was an absolute destruction of the Philadelphia 76ers. You walked into their trap. You took over their trap. To quote Kirk Cousins. It was so loud. It was so loud. I had the game on. And, you know, the. The Knicks were up by 20 almost instantly, and it felt like. Like if you weren't looking at the screen when something was happening. You thought maybe the Sixers were coming back. No, it was the Knicks just hitting more and more threes because that's how many Knicks fans were in Philadelphia over the weekend completely dominating.

[PFT Commenter]

They have money, means they got jobs, means.

[Big Cat]

Congratulations. Your team is absolutely rolling.

[Memes]

Thank you very much. This is probably the best New York team I've ever seen in my entire life.

[Big Cat]

Yankees won a World Series.

[PFT Commenter]

Sorry.

[Memes]

Of my teams.

[Hank]

Giants won a couple.

[Big Cat]

Giants won a couple of them.

[Memes]

Jalen brought.

[PFT Commenter]

The Mets. Were really good until, like, mid September for a couple years.

[Zach]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Memes]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Didn't the. What's the name of the line? What's the name of the analysis?

[PFT Commenter]

The Red Bulls. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Did the Red Bulls win one?

[Memes]

No, the other. The other one did.

[Hank]

The one.

[Paul Bissonette]

You don't.

[Big Cat]

Oh, you.

[PFT Commenter]

But what about New York? Liberty. You love the Liberty.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah. Liberty.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So maybe. Maybe second pass.

[Big Cat]

All right.

[PFT Commenter]

So.

[Big Cat]

So. So keep going. Sorry.

[Memes]

No, it's okay. I mean, the Knicks are so good. Jalen Brunson is just a God at basketball. The 76ers are also terrible at basketball. That was a big part of this. But they got the job done, and the team's just clicking right now.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. No. Are you a little bit worried that you guys have played your best basketball because you're just dominant and. And it's kind of a compliment that I'm even asking that, because right now I would say. I would say that the Knicks are a. A threat to win the NBA championship. But do you. Are you worried that it can't get any better?

[Memes]

No, I'm gonna. I'm gonna say no because that that was a storyline last series against the Hawks, that they peaked too early, but they just keep on peaking.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, they are. I mean that was. Today was. It was just never even close. It was over like at the jump. Jalen Brunson has been phenomenal. Jalen Brunson only had to play. What do you end up playing, like 30 minutes? Even less. I think he, he didn't even have to play 28 minutes. Carl Anthony Towns was incredible this series. I saw the stat about like if you're someone you know, Tibbs is a very good coach. But it does feel like the Knicks have finally figured out a way to unlock Cat in terms of being a guy who can facilitate offense, the high post. You know, his assist numbers been off the charts. The stat was from Friday night. After Friday night's game, he had more than double the assists than he had in the entire playoff run last year. 52 to 24 in half as many games and 14 less turnovers. And I think today he had another 10 assist game. So 64 assists. He's been awesome. The, the whole team. I mean, you, you also had OG get hurt and then not need him and he gets full rest, which is huge. It's just. Everything's going well for you right now. Memes and Zach, congratulations. Zach, you went up to film Max. But we want to say congrats to you as well.

[Zach]

Thank you, sir.

[PFT Commenter]

You guys were 100 correct, right? Like from the, from the second that the Celtics lost and we're celebrating the Philadelphia Super Bowl. You guys just under your breath immediately were like, we're gonna kick the dog out of this team.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And you guys are right. So you called it. You guys know ball. Now we're gonna get into the rest versus rust debate too, because it, it feels like the other series is mid off. You know, you guys are going to have maximum rest time. I think like Big Cat said, for OG that's going to be good. That's going to be good for him to recover. But you guys are going to have a lot of time to recover. So are you. You're in favor of rest?

[Memes]

I'm in favor of rest. Just because the difference between last year's team and this year's team, Last year's team, we had five guys in the top 20 minutes played, and now we only have one guy in the top 20 minutes played last of this regular season. So they benefit off of resting and they just look fast and when they're fully rested, they just go nuclear from three.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I mean, we also should mention Deuce McBride. What a performance from him. Seven for nine for three. He just couldn't miss. He absolutely couldn't miss. And yeah, it was the. The most competitive game in this entire series was game two when Embiid didn't play. Yeah, that was it.

[PFT Commenter]

That's kind of crazy.

[Big Cat]

Feels like that was the series right there.

[Memes]

Mitchell Robson also didn't play that.

[Big Cat]

Yes, that's true.

[Memes]

And he really is a true X factor because when they are missing threes, he just gets every single offensive rebound and he just get. Dishes it back out.

[Big Cat]

Shout out. Mitchell Robinson too. I just love that hack. A shack is like still alive and well. It's just great. I. I don't know. I. There's something about it. I know that some people be like, that's not basketball. This is lame. I like that, like at some point in the third quarter we're just going to do some free throws, but we're just going to fucking get to the free throw line and we're just going to watch the. A big man shoots some free throws,

[PFT Commenter]

but when he goes like 50, 50 from the line, if he hits like the first half of it, the crowd goes nuts. Yeah, it's like, okay, this is a good trip. The. The strategy didn't work this time. Yeah. Max, you came back in. You look to be pretty wet.

[Max]

Wet. Wet as fuck.

[Big Cat]

Very wet.

[PFT Commenter]

Very wet. Tell me, tell me about how wet you are.

[Max]

I mean, I tried to make sure that most of my body got wet under there because it, it. That. That was a. Losing. That deserved to be as wet as wet could be.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Max, have you had. Because I think everyone does this where if they go on a great trip, they think about like on Friday night, I was. I was laying in bed and I was like. I was at the. I was at the Sphere a week ago right now, like just so much, so much mushrooms in my skull. Just having the time. My life. And then like Saturday I was out to dinner with my wife. I was like. We were sitting in a hotel suite just getting twisted, teed up and having a great time. And then right now we would have been recording the podcast in Vegas and different pod.

[Max]

It was a different pod.

[Big Cat]

I don't think. I don't think it could be faster that this you went through.

[Max]

Well, no, because it couldn't. Correct. It couldn't have been.

[Big Cat]

No, I know, but I just like how fast and how severe it was. Yeah, it was from last weekend to right now.

[Max]

So, yes, factual. It could not have gone any faster.

[Big Cat]

Well, no, you guys could have.

[Max]

There were four games scheduled in between, and they lost.

[Big Cat]

I see the tenor of this. Okay, wait, but they were close games.

[Paul Bissonette]

Stupid for you.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. It wouldn't have felt as fast. It didn't. No, it would have been the. It would have been.

[Paul Bissonette]

No, no.

[Big Cat]

Today's game, like, five minutes. No, it would have been ju.

[Max]

We would be doing the same thing right now. Today's game felt like we would have been doing it.

[PFT Commenter]

It did seem like Big Cat was just. You're agreeing with Big Cat, but you're doing it angry.

[Big Cat]

He's mad about semantic.

[Max]

Yeah, it's not semantic.

[PFT Commenter]

It almost felt.

[Max]

Couldn't have gone faster. And that is correct. You could not have gone.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, so you're. So in conclusion, Max, you're agreeing with Big Cat, correct?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

Correct. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

This has all been agreeing.

[Max]

Correct. Agreed. We all agree.

[PFT Commenter]

I agree with you. Correct.

[Big Cat]

Max. Correct.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you. Do you think back to last. Last weekend and be like, I kind of regret spiking the football in Hank's face last weekend.

[Max]

We won the game this weekend. We lost the games.

[Big Cat]

And it was. It feels like last weekend was like two seconds ago. How fast it was.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, it was an ask.

[Max]

I actually feel like. It feels like forever ago.

[PFT Commenter]

That's incorrect. It actually.

[Big Cat]

It was.

[PFT Commenter]

Actually could have been any less.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah. Forever is a lot longer than seven days. Correct.

[Hank]

Yeah, I'm sure, like, after, you know, on Monday or Sunday, like, the Delente brothers group chat was firing. Like, was there anything going on in the. This weekend?

[Max]

Oh, yeah. I was in a fight with my brother on.

[Big Cat]

Damn.

[Max]

On Friday night because he. I just kept saying this. This Sixers team that we saw this week is what we expected go in the last year.

[Big Cat]

They pulled you.

[Max]

I just kept saying that. I was like, this isn't a good team. They're not a good basketball team. I don't know what happened in the Celtics series, but this is who we thought they were.

[Paul Bissonette]

Right.

[Max]

Going in. Going into the playoffs, I didn't want to make the playoffs because I didn't want to watch this iteration of the Sixers. This team is bad. The only thing that surprised me in this series is Tyrese Maxey was horrendous. Like, I expected everything else of. Like, everything of, you know, Joel and B. Doing, like, Friday. Joel was a joke. Like, I'm. I am willing to. To admit he was a joke on. He was playing the game of basketball Friday.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Pft.

[Max]

But then. I mean, then. Pft. Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Max. Pft. Commenter. I had a question for you regarding this. This season as a whole, would you consider this season to be a success?

[Max]

No, it was not a success.

[Big Cat]

Why do you.

[Max]

People are.

[PFT Commenter]

People are.

[Max]

People are pulling that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Why do you ask that?

[PFT Commenter]

Because they asked Joel and be that after the game. Here's his quote.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah, I mean, you know, I said it, and I'm gonna say it again. I know we lost, you know, and I know that's not the right mentality to have, but, you know, for me, this was a success. I came into this year not knowing where I was gonna be, you know, how long I was gonna play, if I was even gonna play, based on how the knee was the last, you

[Big Cat]

know, the last few years. And, you know, I came in, it's

[PFT Commenter]

his kid that's up on his left.

[Paul Bissonette]

And I feel like we're in a

[PFT Commenter]

position that's the please don't ask me mean questions kid.

[Paul Bissonette]

Hasn't been an issue.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Interesting.

[Max]

To be fair, he said game one. You asked me a question I would like to answer.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

You.

[Max]

You.

[Big Cat]

You.

[Max]

You ask the question. And then you were like, to be fair, in game one, the entire Internet said that Joel Embiid will never play basketball again. Like, wait, ever play competitive. Like, competitive basketball again in game one. In game one of the regular season. If you. If you go back and watch that game, he could not move. He could not move. And everyone said that we'll never see any competitive version of Joel Embiid again. And to his defense, he did get back to a sense of. He was like a difference maker in a playoff series.

[Big Cat]

He was.

[Max]

So to him, like, I get what he is saying, that when going into this season, he thought that he'll never be a competitive basketball player again. And then he got to a point that now he is. I understand, as a. As a team. As a team. I don't think that he would say that this. This was a success. Because he said, for me, which means for me personally, this season was a success. For his health. I am okay with that answer. Big cat. Josh. Art. You want me to. You want to get into that one? It's Philadelphia.

[Big Cat]

That's not what I was gonna ask.

[PFT Commenter]

I was gonna ask that.

[Big Cat]

That was not what I was gonna ask.

[PFT Commenter]

We can have.

[Big Cat]

I was gonna ask. Can you please comment on the quote? I used to think Philly was a sports town. I don't know if it is anymore. Okay. So, yeah, that is.

[Max]

I can just run your guys playbook. I, like, know what we're doing here. I can just run your playbook.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

It isn't a playbook. We're just talking about the game and talking about the Phillies broke.

[PFT Commenter]

What? Philly doesn't have money.

[Max]

Oh, yes.

[Big Cat]

By the way, I have a question

[Max]

for Hank, because I thought you said the Phillies.

[Big Cat]

Max, I think you need a little time out with how hot you came in this.

[Max]

I just know.

[Big Cat]

Hank. Hank, it was a nice day today. Why are you wearing such a heavy garment? It was a little chilly.

[Max]

That's fair. That's fair. That's a. Respect. I. I can tip my cap to play.

[Big Cat]

That's podcast.

[Max]

I can tip my cap to that point. Hank.

[Big Cat]

Hank is wearing his death sweatshirt. She wears every time Philly loses in anything.

[PFT Commenter]

This is hater sweatshirt.

[Max]

Did you bring that sweatshirt to Vegas?

[Hank]

No, no, no. I genuinely just, you know, I was. I was gone. I literally dropped my stuff off today and, like, didn't have a lot of clean clothes. I just threw this on.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Had to happen.

[Max]

I didn't. I should. I should have picked up on that.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah.

[Max]

Okay. All right, all right. I thought I knew all the plays. Didn't know that play.

[Big Cat]

There you go.

[Max]

Tip my cap to hang.

[Big Cat]

I should have known that play.

[Max]

Yeah, I should have known that play. That's on me.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Josh Hart.

[Max]

I think it's fair to say that after today, it's.

[PFT Commenter]

It's.

[Max]

You can question whether Philadelphia is a basketball town.

[Big Cat]

Whoa.

[Max]

You can't. You can't.

[Big Cat]

Wow.

[Max]

There can't be 70 Knicks fans in the building, and you say that we're a basketball town.

[Big Cat]

It was loud.

[Max]

It was a Knicks home game.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And the players have every right to

[Big Cat]

be angry that Tyrese Maxey said that. He's like, it. It. His exact quote was like, it just sucks.

[Max]

It does.

[Big Cat]

He's like, it sucks. Hold on. I'll get his actual quote, but it pretty much was that. Yeah. He said it absolutely sucks, if I'm being honest. It just sucks. That's really all I can say about it, man. It's hard. It's definitely difficult. It's only way. One way to put a stop to it, and it's. We have to go out there and win these games. Yeah. I mean, I don't even know if they play in the playoffs. Anytime it's just, like, you just give up.

[Max]

It's just the nick. But, yeah, Northern Jersey is basically a Philly suburb, and Northern Jersey has a population that is bigger than, like, the Philadelphia. The Philadelphia area. And Northern Jersey has more money than the Philadelphia area. Like, it is halfway in between Philadelphia and New York City. So those people are going to buy those tickets. Especially when it's a Knicks team that every Knicks fan has, like, real championship hopes. And right now, the Sixers were down 3, 0. Everyone in Phil, everyone in the world knew that the Sixers weren't going to win this series. Everyone who's a Knicks fan is like, this could be an all no go going into today. Oh, I'm saying today. I'm saying today down 3. Because Friday was bad, but it wasn't that bad. Like, today was really. Today was really, really.

[Big Cat]

Today was really bad.

[PFT Commenter]

It's over.

[Big Cat]

I mean, again, it was.

[Max]

No, I'm saying as, like, I'm. I'm saying as. Oh, yeah, like a fan. A fan base thing.

[PFT Commenter]

What about South Jersey? Why doesn't South Jersey get their act together?

[Max]

South jerseys.

[Big Cat]

Where's Cherry Hill?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I know, but they got to buy more tickets.

[Max]

South Jersey is a suburb of Philly, not a suburb of New York City.

[PFT Commenter]

I know. So they need to buy the tickets. Money, you guys.

[Max]

New York City has more money. Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

New York City. Shocking. Yes. Yes. Big cat.

[Big Cat]

Okay, do you. You know what I'm gonna say?

[Max]

Go. Go.

[Big Cat]

You know what I'm gonna say? Do you know what I'm gonna say? You don't know what I'm gonna say?

[Max]

Sure.

[Big Cat]

You said you know my whole playbook. You say you know a whole playbook on this side of the booth.

[Max]

Okay, Congrats.

[Big Cat]

Okay, Zach, do you have any stats for us?

[Zach]

I've got a couple of quotes that were said in this series and I was curious thoughts on the quotes and some information regarding my quotes. This is a member of this.

[Big Cat]

Doing some research.

[Zach]

Member of this.

[Max]

You didn't. Did.

[Zach]

Member of this podcast did say who's going to guard Tyrese Maxi Regarding the Knick Sixers.

[Max]

I already addressed Tyrese Max. He was really bad.

[Big Cat]

But you're just a quote aggressive quote.

[Max]

I've already.

[Big Cat]

Who's going to guard him?

[Max]

Mikal Bridges was very good against Tyrese Maxi.

[Zach]

The first three games of this series. He averaged close personal friend of mine points. That's 10 fewer than his regular season average. And also he did show a lot of heart in game two. Played 47 minutes. He also turned over the ball roughly every seven minutes of those minutes. Okay, I've got another quote from member of this podcast also.

[Max]

I was wasted during this podcast and memes even said himself that he doesn't hold me accountable for anything I said during that show.

[Memes]

I'm not. Jack is.

[Big Cat]

But yeah, me up to this. I didn't put memes you said that.

[Max]

You said. You said that. You don't hold me account for anything I text. There's going to be quotes here. I have. This is going to be the first I'm hearing of these.

[Big Cat]

I texted memes at like 3 o' clock today, and I was like, hey, make sure you got, like, you're ready with the quotes that Max said to you before. He's like, oh, I already put Zach onto it.

[Memes]

I. I had Zach do it because I. I didn't want to do it

[PFT Commenter]

because memes isn't holding.

[Big Cat]

Hey, credit. Good job, memes. Good guy, good guy memes.

[PFT Commenter]

That's just good producing.

[Big Cat]

Way to go, Connor.

[Max]

Memes also, I don't think you've continue.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Max]

I don't think you've done more memes ever than you. Than you have today. No, it was a onslaught of memes.

[Big Cat]

There were some really good ones.

[Max]

There were.

[Memes]

There were.

[Max]

They were good one. I mean, some of them were last year.

[Memes]

Celtics. Sorry.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

All right.

[Memes]

I put his face on Bonnie Blue.

[PFT Commenter]

All right. Memes. I mean, Zach.

[Big Cat]

Zach, answer.

[Zach]

That would be.

[Max]

How many Can I just. How many do we got? Okay, just so I can prepare myself, I would like to know the end.

[PFT Commenter]

Does it matter?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it could be infinity.

[Paul Bissonette]

No, no, no, that's.

[Big Cat]

Don't take that from. Okay, Zach, take it back. Come on.

[Zach]

Loose grip, sweaty hands.

[Big Cat]

Come on, Zach.

[Zach]

All right. Another member of this podcast did say a different member.

[Max]

You said another member, so there must be somebody else, I guess.

[Big Cat]

Crammer you're doing. This is bad. Come on, Max.

[Max]

All right, dude. Like, I'll just. Yes.

[Big Cat]

Let's keep.

[Max]

Just keep dunking on me.

[PFT Commenter]

That's fine.

[Zach]

I believe a member of this podcast said, oh, Knicks couldn't play Cat this series total through four games, which would be the fastest they could have won the series. 61 points, 28 rebounds, 27 assists, and seven blocks.

[Max]

He was very good. I was wrong. I'll just keep saying I was wrong, but we can. We can continue.

[Hank]

You were dead, so when you said that.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you weren't dead, so when you said that.

[Max]

No

[Big Cat]

series.

[Max]

I said that to him when we were out at a club.

[Big Cat]

No, you said this. You said that before game seven. We were.

[Hank]

Before we left for Vegas.

[Big Cat]

You were like, before we left for Vegas.

[Max]

Oh, yeah.

[Big Cat]

You're like, there's no way you could play Cat in this series.

[Max]

Well, that.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

And then he took a shot to his appendix in game one. But yes, okay, that did happen.

[Big Cat]

Wait, he doesn't.

[Paul Bissonette]

Who.

[Big Cat]

Who took a shot to their appendix.

[Max]

Joel Embiid took a shot.

[Big Cat]

He doesn't have an appendix.

[PFT Commenter]

Impossible.

[Big Cat]

He's the only one that said. If we're doing semantics, he does not happen.

[Max]

He took a shot to his midsection in game one.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah. To where his appendix used to be.

[Hank]

Correct.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Which you can't hurt him.

[PFT Commenter]

You can't get hurt. Which you can't hurt something you don't have. True or false.

[Max]

Okay, if. Okay, if you get surgery, I'm gonna punch you in. It's so hard. I'm gonna just. You said. I mean, if you said it doesn't. It doesn't hurt, then.

[PFT Commenter]

I didn't say that. I said.

[Max]

No, you said, you can't hurt what you don't have.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

You can't hurt what you don't have. Fact.

[Max]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Max]

So, yes, I hope. I hope to God you have to get surgery.

[Hank]

He wants you to get a testicle removed so I can just punch you in the ball.

[PFT Commenter]

There's a reason Oscar Pastorius has never torn an acl.

[Big Cat]

Okay, Max, you started the semantics battle. You said he took a shot to the appendix. He does not have an appendix.

[Zach]

That.

[Max]

No, that is used.

[Big Cat]

What?

[Max]

That is you starting the semantics battle.

[Big Cat]

You started semantics battle when I said it couldn't have. Could have happened faster. And you're like, yeah, technically, yeah.

[Max]

Well, that was just dumb because it couldn't have happened.

[Big Cat]

Almost as dumb as saying he took a shot to the appendix when he doesn't have one.

[Max]

No, because mine was inferred what I was talking about. Yours just didn't make any sense.

[Big Cat]

I think if anyone was listening and didn't know if someone woke up from a coma, they're like, oh,

[Max]

this is the stupidest thing ever. That. Continue.

[Zach]

Another member of this podcast also said Sixers starting lineup is the best in the East.

[Max]

I already took that one back. That means. Memes brought that up. And I was. I already. I already said. I didn't even remember saying it.

[PFT Commenter]

Y.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Zach]

Which cannot be true because the Knicks did win four games. The Sixers did win zero games.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

All right.

[Zach]

And lastly, listen, we're. We're three and one when the starters are healthy. Quick update to that stat is they are now three and four when the stars are healthy.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's true.

[Big Cat]

Doing the math, he thought he might have been able to semantic Zach there because I counted the Joan B. Yeah.

[Max]

Yeah. No, he did. There was a chance I was gonna get it.

[PFT Commenter]

You're gonna get anti Semitic.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Max, I got a question for You. Max, when it comes to the future of the process and the future of the 76ers, where do you go from here?

[Big Cat]

Good question.

[Max]

Thank you. Yeah. We have two. We have two young guys. Vijay Edgecombe is 19 years old.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

He didn't have a great series this. This series, but he's 19. Tyrese Maxey's still 25 years old. We're getting off of two contracts this year. We'll see what. What we can do.

[PFT Commenter]

Or just gonna say the ages of our players.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, what do you think the path forward, is it. Because it feels like for a lot of the guys that are. That have been part of this iteration of the Sixers, I. I don't know if it's going to get any better. This might be the end of the line.

[Big Cat]

Pft. Just. Just. But in here, Andre Drummond, actually younger than you think.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, good point. Good point. So he's a piece.

[Max]

No, I mean, my point was that we have two. Two guys that are still young, and not one of them is in their prime, and one of them isn't even. You can't even say he's close to his prime. He's 19 years old.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I remember hearing about Jason Tatum being 19 years old for 20 years. We got one of those guys.

[Big Cat]

He's 39 now.

[Max]

Yep. So, yes, this was a.

[Hank]

What do you need to do to take the next step?

[Big Cat]

What is the next.

[Hank]

We'll see.

[Max]

We'll see. I mean, I'm not. I don't run this organization, so.

[PFT Commenter]

I actually have a question for Hank.

[Hank]

Yes. Hey, great hat, by the way.

[PFT Commenter]

I appreciate it. Love the league.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

The association. What.

[Hank]

What is.

[Paul Bissonette]

What

[Max]

you look like a security guard for.

[PFT Commenter]

I wear NBA hats all the time. What are you talking about?

[Big Cat]

He's got the little bedazzled basketball on the side.

[PFT Commenter]

Basketball on the side.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

This is what I do. I like to respect the NBA.

[Big Cat]

You know, me, guys can't get a

[PFT Commenter]

fit off it came on the show. We appreciate everything the NBA does. Everything around this time of year. They seem to be on the up and up. Like, I just want to support them. It's a good product. Everyone's talking about is, like, the NHL playoffs this, hockey that. Let's have some respect for the NBA. Hank, I have a question for you. So, like, just pretend that you're, you know, in charge of taking over a franchise. Let's call it, like you're a gm. A floating gm.

[Paul Bissonette]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Who would you rather be? Who would you rather be? Right now, the 76ers or the Washington Wizards? Gotta be the Wizards. Like the future.

[Hank]

Yeah, without a doubt. The Wizards.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

I mean, you have. You have an all NBA first teamer, Anthony Davis. Trey Young has proven he can. He can be a clutch player, win big playoff games in hostile environments like Philadelphia. And then you have the number one pick like you. You got a lot of. A lot of room to build.

[PFT Commenter]

Don't forget about sar.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And you got Trey Johnson. He's a sniper. Yeah. All right, that's it.

[Max]

I have a question. I have a question for you. Pfd.

[PFT Commenter]

No, the question.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

Would you rather. Where would you rather be a fan of? The Washington Wizards or the Boston Celtics, the team that lost to the Philadelphia 76 just a week ago?

[PFT Commenter]

That's a good question.

[Big Cat]

Good question.

[PFT Commenter]

So, I mean, if you lost.

[Big Cat]

Good question.

[PFT Commenter]

If you lost the Sixers team, you suck. Because this Sixers team is not very good. They're old. So. Yeah, I think I. I think I'd say the Washington Wizards. I think I'd rather be a Wizards fan.

[Max]

All right, good answer.

[PFT Commenter]

Thank you, Hank.

[Hank]

It's a wrong answer, but that, that, that's fine. Obviously, you should be a Wizards fan.

[Memes]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, I mean. I mean, the Southern stars don't hate each other.

[Hank]

Our star player. No, actually, Jason Tatum. I don't know if you saw the Instagram story. Very much had Jaylen Brown's back. Per usual, the media's trying to break him up. But again, yeah, I mean, nothing to

[Big Cat]

do with the Twitch stream 24 hours after a loss.

[Hank]

If you have a. If you have a players, just the fact that he comes back.

[Big Cat]

Who could have started this narrative for Jalen Brown?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it was actually.

[Big Cat]

We're all looking for the guy.

[Max]

You literally just did the exact same thing I did with Joel Embiid of that. It was a successful season from game one to now. What do you mean that he got it. Was able to be healthy enough to compete?

[Hank]

He wasn't even. I mean, game seven, if he plays, probably goes differently, but that's. That's just.

[Max]

That's.

[Hank]

That's basketball. That's.

[Paul Bissonette]

I know.

[Hank]

That's.

[PFT Commenter]

That's.

[Hank]

You can't. Can't use those excuses.

[Max]

You just did. I'm just saying, you literally.

[Hank]

We're talking about the future. We're talking about the future. I'm not looking at the fact that we lost to the Sixers this year.

[Big Cat]

It's only.

[Hank]

We are a fully healthy team. Again, fair and square. I'm saying for the future. This team has proven they can win a championship.

[Max]

The Sixers have. Has this team proven that they can win a champion. Okay.

[Hank]

Two best players and coach. Yes. Two best players in coach.

[Max]

For the sisters.

[Hank]

Nothing. This team has won. They've made finals. They made multiple conference finals and they've won an NBA championship. Hasn't got out of the second round.

[Big Cat]

The star players have.

[Hank]

The star players and the coach.

[Max]

Yeah, star players are great when you have seven other stars on the team.

[Hank]

The core.

[Big Cat]

So we all agree. The Wizards.

[Hank]

Every team has star players and a core. That's how teams are built. Max.

[Max]

Yeah. Your core was awesome. Hell of a core. Unfortunately, that core is no longer there.

[Hank]

But the.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, no. The core is there. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

The court. The court.

[PFT Commenter]

We all agree.

[Max]

Is it the star players or is it the core?

[Hank]

We have both.

[Max]

You said every team has star players.

[Hank]

Role players are no longer there. So the role players.

[Big Cat]

Every team.

[Hank]

Role players go in and out. The problem, though, is our star players and our core.

[PFT Commenter]

One of your. Together, you're like a. You're like bad apple. You might have a rotten core.

[Big Cat]

Right?

[Hank]

That. Yeah, that's something you got to deal with internally.

[Big Cat]

I'm.

[Hank]

I'm going to keep that.

[Big Cat]

There are worms wiggling around.

[Hank]

Yeah. You never know that. That. That's for Brad Stevens aside.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Hey, Memes, has Max anything nice to you? Has he congratulated you? Was he good sport?

[Memes]

Oh, Max has been extremely nice.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

He knew also.

[Max]

Yes. I said. I said it going into the first round. I said it during that series and I didn't believe it. It wasn't until game seven that I said a single positive thing about the six. True. And I was fucking wasted. And I was going off of like an all time high of an all time weekend and where it's my bachelor party of like.

[Big Cat]

Explain the high.

[PFT Commenter]

Huh?

[Big Cat]

Explain the high.

[PFT Commenter]

He was going off and all the high.

[Max]

Feel like it was. It was a great weekend. So I was. Yeah, I was.

[PFT Commenter]

I was amped up. Max was like, yeah, ready to go.

[Big Cat]

You're ready all time high.

[PFT Commenter]

He's ready to absorb any punch. He had that tight.

[Max]

You guys are such losers. It's like actually laughable. It's actually laughable. The two guys on that desk are literally the. The two biggest losers of all time.

[Big Cat]

Sorry. Top four picks. Yeah.

[Max]

Yeah. I remember doing that a billion times.

[Big Cat]

Where is the process right now?

[Max]

Vijay Edge comes 19 years old, so that's still.

[Big Cat]

The process is still alive.

[Max]

The process is the process. Until the process has been processed, I get another question.

[PFT Commenter]

Max.

[Max]

Wow.

[PFT Commenter]

You really you and I share somebody in our lives.

[Max]

Josh Harris.

[PFT Commenter]

Josh Harris. The city of Philadelphia seems to have turned on. On Josh Harris and. And I think they believe that he's. He can.

[Max]

He did a good job with the Commanders last year. Right.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, he doesn't play. He doesn't play the sport.

[Hank]

Star players injured.

[PFT Commenter]

We got. We. We got a brand new stadium.

[Max]

That's sick. Yeah, that's.

[PFT Commenter]

That's the best thing that he's done. Yeah, he's.

[Max]

That's a huge accomplishment.

[Big Cat]

Listen, it's.

[Max]

You should hang a. Hang a banner for a new friend.

[PFT Commenter]

I will.

[Big Cat]

I will not belittle getting new stadiums. It's harder.

[Max]

You're also a loser.

[Big Cat]

It's a hard thing to do. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

But Max, a lot of what I'm saying is like, I'm hearing a lot of Sixers fans that. That hate Josh Harris now and because they think that he cares only about the Commanders, not about the Sixers anymore. Do you feel that same way?

[Max]

I just think he's a bad owner who doesn't know how to build an organization.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Max]

So I'm happy.

[Big Cat]

I'm happy that he's agree or disagree with what.

[Hank]

He's a bad backside. He's a bad owner that doesn't know how to build organizations.

[PFT Commenter]

I think Max hit the nail. He's not a basketball guy.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Always know. He says a bad owner that doesn't

[PFT Commenter]

know to build a bad basketball owner.

[Hank]

He just said bad owner.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I'll let. Pft. Think whatever he wants to think.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Bad.

[PFT Commenter]

Bad basketball owner. I agree.

[Hank]

That's not what he said.

[Max]

Anything else?

[PFT Commenter]

You have any questions?

[Big Cat]

Hank? Yeah, Hank, how are you feeling? Because this was. I know that I don't want to talk about the exact time that this happening because I don't want to get back into it, you know, time debate. But it did happen quickly.

[Hank]

That it happened. It couldn't have happened quicker, honestly. Like, I was. We were. We were in LA and then I was in San Diego and I was at a wedding. Like, I didn't. I was excited for the memes and Max little back and forth. If it was gonna go to Game 7, that would have been to start to great week. Would have been great for the show. So like back in my. Wearing my producer hat, I'm like, oh, this is good. Good for us, good for the show.

[Big Cat]

Nothing.

[PFT Commenter]

Nothing.

[Hank]

But I missed one show and I missed one show and the series was over.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

I didn't get a chance to talk about the series once it just ended. Didn't get to see them, you know, going back and forth in the office, it was just. It was just over. And that. That sucks for me. It sucks for the fans. It sucks for everyone.

[Big Cat]

I think that sucks for him. Why don't we. Zach, let's just pretend that game five is Tuesday night, and we'll just recap that.

[Hank]

Yeah, I'm down.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Because you did get robbed.

[Hank]

But it is.

[Big Cat]

It is.

[Hank]

Zach and Memes. It's exciting for them that it's. They look like the best team in the NBA. They look unstoppable.

[Max]

I mean, today, no one was beating them.

[Hank]

I don't think it was.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't think.

[Hank]

Like, I. I would. I would be shocked if this team

[Big Cat]

doesn't know if they have an answer.

[Max]

Now. Hank is just going on to. He's just. He's. He's the grim reaper going through. Going through doors, and he's like, the Sixers are dead. Let me just go try and kill the Knicks.

[Hank]

No, dude, that way, no one's killing the Knicks.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, no one.

[Hank]

No one is killing.

[PFT Commenter]

That's.

[Hank]

What do you think?

[Big Cat]

Do you agree with what Hank is saying right now?

[Memes]

I. I know what he's doing, but I love the sound of it.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

So you're going to fall for it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Memes]

And if ever. If everybody here wants to say more nice things about the Knicks, I will listen.

[PFT Commenter]

Memes, who do you want to. Do you want the Pistons or the Cavs?

[Memes]

The Pistons won the series.

[PFT Commenter]

The Pistons won.

[Memes]

The Cavs game went on the road.

[Big Cat]

All right, so let's talk about that game real quick. That was Saturday was Cavs Pistons, game three. And we had essentially a freaky Friday episode at the end of the game where Cade Cunningham, I think he had three straight turnovers, and James Harden had three straight ISO ball. Everyone get out of the way. Buckets. He went floater, another two, and then a three to seal the game. And I'm happy for James Harden. He actually was asked after. He's like, how do you deal with all the chatter? He's like, what chatter? And I believe him. I don't think James Harden listens to anything now. Why.

[PFT Commenter]

Why would you. Yeah, what would be the point if you're James Harden? Like, they. No one's saying anything good about you. No, you don't have it. There's not too many James Harden defenders out there.

[Big Cat]

We are. We're officially again as strip club guys that we found out. Zach, you got to become the biggest James Harden guy.

[Zach]

Confirmed already.

[Big Cat]

James Harden guy.

[Max]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

So, yeah, we're gonna defend James Harden.

[PFT Commenter]

The guy seems like he knows how to have a great time.

[Big Cat]

Right. So I'm.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm gonna be in that guy's corner.

[Big Cat]

And he was great down the end,

[PFT Commenter]

but at the end of the game, I mean, he was. He was bad for most of the game, but he's really, really bad. But then at the end, yeah, he. He kind of figured it out for the last few possessions. I'm happy for the Cavs. I don't. I don't necessarily agree with memes that it's over, though. I don't think that this series is over at all. Memes, games.

[Memes]

The Cavs can't win on the road until now.

[Big Cat]

That's true. No, they. They have.

[Memes]

No, they haven't. They lost every game in turn.

[PFT Commenter]

But until now, I'm saying, like, they could win on the road. Factually. They could.

[Big Cat]

Technically.

[Memes]

Technically, Yeah.

[Max]

I mean, you would just want the Cavs because of home court.

[Memes]

Yes. And I just want. I mainly just want this series to go seven. Just kill each other.

[Big Cat]

Did you. I. I saw a very funny fan theory. I don't know if it's a theory or just. I just never put it together, but there was like a. Someone was tweeting about Donovan Mitchell, and they. They basically said Donovan Mitchell, like, should be way taller than he is, and he just stopped growing because I don't know if you. So he's. He's six one.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

What do you think his wingspan is?

[PFT Commenter]

Seven feet?

[Big Cat]

He's six ten wingspan. What do you think his shoe size is?

[PFT Commenter]

No idea.

[Big Cat]

17.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. That's pretty crazy.

[Big Cat]

He just stopped growing. Yeah, he should have. He should be taller.

[PFT Commenter]

His spine. Yeah, yeah, his spine.

[Memes]

He.

[Big Cat]

He, like, six one.

[PFT Commenter]

Seven left upside down.

[Big Cat]

Yes. 17 size. 17 shoes. Six one is pretty crazy.

[PFT Commenter]

That is nuts.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

And six, 10 wingspan. I just like this theory that's like. It's not his fault if he has a bad game. It's not his fault. He should have just been taller.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Maybe there's still time.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, there could be still time. Yeah. I don't know. I. I was happy for James Harden. I do think this is, like. I think this series probably is gonna go.

[Paul Bissonette]

I don't know.

[Big Cat]

I mean, like, they're both not. They both had their flaw. Kate Cunningham's the best player in this series, and that was the difference in that game, is that he. For the. For the first time in a few games, he had, like, a. A poor ending to a game where that's. That's usually when Kate Cunningham Just kicks everyone's ass. He's like, oh yeah, I'm better than everyone in this series. He still had a triple double, but it was those last few possessions, which, that's not the whole game. But if Kate Cunningham is just the best player at the end of a game, then the Pistons should win. But I, I don't know, I just want more basketball at this point because we lost, you know, the Sixers. The Lakers Thunder series is the most non competitive series.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's trash.

[Big Cat]

Except for the second halves.

[PFT Commenter]

I would like, I, I, I was still a little bit blown away. Every time Tobias Harris goes out there and has a good game in the

[Big Cat]

playoffs, he, dude, he's been playing well.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

And Dungan Robinson has been like hitting threes, which is, you know, it changes everything for the Pistons when he's, when he's doing that. I just, yeah, I mean I, I would take the Pistons in this series, but I, I'm, I'm down for James Harden. Maybe get into a game six or seven.

[PFT Commenter]

I want to see game seven James. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Oh, Max spin zone Joan beat one and oh. In game sevens this year.

[Max]

Great.

[Hank]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

But Max, that was nice if you

[Big Cat]

were to, if it was a nice thing I just said about you.

[PFT Commenter]

If you were to rank the, the best second round losses over the course of Joel Embiid's career, where would this one go? I think this one would probably be number one.

[Big Cat]

Right. Because of the hangover of the, well,

[PFT Commenter]

because of the, yeah, it was a successful season.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

And also because, I mean, he did

[Max]

have 24 points on perfect shootings midway

[PFT Commenter]

through the third quarter. Right. Everyone knows that.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

And it also because you beat the, the Celtics in the first round. That's what I'm saying. I feel like this playoff second round loss from Joel Embiid is probably the best one of his career.

[Big Cat]

I'd agree.

[Max]

I disagree.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, what's better, he was very good

[Max]

in that rat in that the, the playoffs where they lost to the Raptors.

[Big Cat]

Okay. So that's why we get a ranking. Maybe.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's one. This is the answer to that.

[Max]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank, can you fill out the rest

[Big Cat]

of the fair answer?

[PFT Commenter]

Hank will do it.

[Big Cat]

Hank's gonna get the rankings. But yeah, I, I, I, I do want to see James Harden in like a big time game six elimination game. That would just be fun.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we want to see game seven James if possible.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Big game James. Yeah. So the Lakers Thunder series. I, I mean we've talked about it, but it's just the Thunder are just so much better. And I know that there's been complaining about the refs and all this stuff. It doesn't matter. There's none of it matters here. No. Oh, you got the rank off the top of your head. What would you rank?

[Hank]

So the worst, I mean the at the bottom is probably 2022 against the Heat. He didn't play in two games to the games he played in they won and two they lost. So that's kind of a nothing.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Hank]

And then I mean it's, it's tough. There's so many good ones. I think I would have to put this. 20, 23 against the Celtics. I was Game 7. Then I would go this year against the Knicks, then the Hawks. The one who could forget that that was, that was the Benson and Trey Young.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Can't. I can't imagine blowing a 31 lead then.

[Hank]

I know but the way that one

[Max]

imagine blowing a three one.

[PFT Commenter]

But his, his superstar was hurt.

[Max]

Can't imagine.

[Hank]

And you're a superstar just pass up

[Max]

a layup to win the game.

[Hank]

Then we'll have to go with 2019 Raptors. Kawhi. Who could forget that iconic game seven in Joel Embiid's eye. The ball just hit off the rim, went up. Can't imagine game seven and then it gotta be number one 2017 against the Celtics. Confetti.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, the confetti game. Yeah. That was crazy.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, that was tough.

[Paul Bissonette]

That was tough.

[Big Cat]

Good rankings.

[Max]

Great rankings.

[Hank]

Some classics.

[Max]

Really good. Oh yeah.

[Big Cat]

Great rankings. Yeah. The, the, the Lakers Thunder. I mean that. What are we doing? It's over. It was over before they even tipped the the Lakers yet again had a halftime lead. Good job. They've been very competitive in the first halves and then they just get smoked

[PFT Commenter]

in the second and they're just old. They're just old and slow and tired

[Big Cat]

and, and like the Thunder just have dudes for days. They AJ Mitchell has been insane. He's getting paid nothing. And it's just the Thunder like the perfectly constructed roster and I know people are upset about it and I, I, I'm, I've chosen to just be like I'm gonna enjoy the fact that they're just better at basketball than everyone do.

[PFT Commenter]

The, the Thunder also have like two lottery picks that don't play. Yeah, it's pretty, it's crazy topic and

[Big Cat]

I can't remember who the other one is but yeah, they, they. It's. It's nuts.

[PFT Commenter]

It's nuts how deep they are. And yeah, they're going to steamroll the Lakers, four games. And then, I don't know. They. The playoffs don't start for the Thunder until the conference finals. Yeah, that's what we've said from the get go. Now the question is going to be, we're going to have this. This talk on Monday night. Is this LeBron James last game?

[Big Cat]

I don't think so.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't think so.

[Big Cat]

I don't think so.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it might be.

[Max]

No, no.

[PFT Commenter]

You don't think so. Max, he's.

[Max]

He's 41, but he is a guy that's going to. When he retires, he's going to let people know he's retired.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. I. I thought so, too, until he started playing golf all the time. And now I think he's going to be like, you know what? This is kind of awesome. I'm just going to play golf. I think. I think the golfing, the golf bug might have convinced LeBron James to. To forego another full year in the NBA.

[Max]

Steph Curry's been playing golf for years. Yeah.

[Hank]

He gets to spend time with his son. He can golf when he's on the road. He can. He's still got another year where he can be one foot in, one foot out.

[PFT Commenter]

At least.

[Memes]

This is his last game for the Lakers.

[Big Cat]

Oh, I like that.

[Memes]

He was just on the bench while everybody was talking. He was just staring at him.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Memes]

When they were down. When they were down. 20s.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. They don't really. I mean, the Lakers are kind of in a weird spot too, because, like, Austin is another one where they're gonna have to pay him a lot of money. I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, Hank's right.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Lucas out.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. You gotta say the star player.

[PFT Commenter]

Would you rather be the Lakers or the Wizards?

[Hank]

Probably the Wizards.

[Big Cat]

The problem with the Lakers are they're. They're a good team because Luke is obviously a superstar, but they're. Whatever you want to say. The third, fourth, fifth. You know, if you want to throw the Timberlaws in there. So let's say they're the fourth best team in the West. The difference between the spurs and the Thunder and the Lakers is so vast, it's crazy. It doesn't matter. It's like you could make the argument, like, oh, yeah, we're competitive in the West. No, you aren't.

[PFT Commenter]

And you go into the playoffs. I think you would have said, like, the, The Nuggets might be in that conversation. But, yeah, you can't say that anymore. No, you can't say that after what happened. So.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I Think you know what? The west, the west might be gettable now. We were just talking about how, like the west has been the dominant conference for the last, what, 25 years in the NBA. They're, they've got two really good teams at the top and outside of that, I. I just don't know.

[Big Cat]

So gettable you mean by, what do

[PFT Commenter]

you mean by gettable? By the east in the future? Like, if I'm the East, I'm thinking to myself, like, in the next five years, we could take over the West. Like we, we're going to be the dominant.

[Big Cat]

The problem is those two teams are so much better than anyone in the East. Currently constructed.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Big Cat]

I don't understand Thunder just like they're just so perfectly constructed. It's just. There's nothing you can do about it.

[PFT Commenter]

They're an all around great team.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, they're, they're incredible. And we're going to talk about the Timberwolves spurs, game after biz, because it's going on right now. Wemby ejected in the second quarter for a flagrant two, which he had no idea what it was. He said, what does that mean? They're like, dude, you're out. All right, before we talk about some more stuff real quick from our friends at Jose Cuervo. When Cuervo enters, every moment just gets better. You find yourself in the center of the dance floor. You can't help but stand up and high five those around you at the game. The room reacts like it just got the same text at the same time. You stop checking the time. Suddenly small talk escalates to laughing so hard you can barely catch your breath. That's the Cuervo effect. A signal everybody understands. A moment that anyone can join and a good time that just grows. All you have to do is keep it Cuervo. We're also brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. The NBA playoffs are here in DraftKings Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner. The NBA brings excitement to every game day, the whole postseason. When the lights get brightest, the best players in the world show you exactly who they are. Playoff stars turn it up round by round, and DraftKings turns it up with them. From the first round all the way to the finals. Bet, player. Props bet live. From the opening tip to the final possession, every bucket, every dime, every clutch takeover matters. And only DraftKings sportsbook keeps you in on the action. All the way through. New DraftKings customers bet just $5. You'll get $100 in bonus bets instantly. Download the DraftKings sportsbook app. Use code TAKE so you're ready for the moment. That's code take. Turn five bucks into 100 in bonus bets instantly. In partnership with DraftKings. The crown is yours.

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[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Nice work.

[Big Cat]

So I think we got another one coming Wednesday. Good job, boys. We had Knicks brunson points, Wemby rebounds. Easy work, but next story, NBA draft lottery happened. Pft. Congratulations. The Washington Wizards are officially on the clock.

[PFT Commenter]

The wizard back. We're so back. And that also means the wizard open for business. Because I'm seeing a lot of fan fiction about trading for the number one overall pick, mostly centered around the idea that that Utah needs AJ to stay in the state, that there's so many powerful people that love him in Utah that are like, we're going to do whatever it takes to keep him in. So I did. I. I have some ideas. I will be listening to some offers for that, but I'm, I'm just pumped. I'm pumped for the Wizards. We've been the worst team, maybe in sports in the last 50 years. I believe it's been. Was it 1978 was the last time we made a conference finals. That's the longest in any, any team in any sport. We've been really, really bad for, like, the last 30 years.

[Big Cat]

It's really funny to say that out loud after the first 25 minutes of this show.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah. Really bad. Like, we've been a dog team.

[Big Cat]

Kind of puts it all.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, the Wizards have been, objectively speaking, funny. Not a. Not a team. They haven't been a team. I, I say it all the time, that they're the least consequential franchise in professional sports. I think now that the Buffalo Sabers are doing some work in the playoffs, it's probably just 100. The Washington Wizards. Until now. The process worked. I'm a big process guy. We did the process. We got two top four picks in the span of about three years. I want AJ Tobance well, if that

[Max]

dictates a process working, yeah. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, what's your question?

[Max]

Had plenty of top three picks.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, the process worked.

[Paul Bissonette]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's a success.

[Max]

Agreed.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. We're in agreement then?

[Max]

Agreed. Yep. We're on the same page.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, me. So I. I'm. I'm very. I'm optimistic. I can't wait to get excited about a basketball team for what feels like the first time in my adult life. So there have been, like, a couple years where the Wizards have been good here and there. They've been objectively awful for the last, like, I'd say seven seasons. But the thing is, they, like, wasted four of those really shitty seasons because they weren't, like, trying to be really bad. They weren't, like, doing the actual process. They weren't making the. The personnel moves behind the scenes to stockpile assets and to get pieces in place. And now we got the guy from Oklahoma City running the show. It's been cool to see a guy put a plan into place three years ago and then see it actually start to work and get results from it. So have no idea what's going to happen with this team, but very excited. I think AJ Debanza has to be the pick. I think that's got to be the pick I've seen.

[Big Cat]

You want to tip your hand, dude?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's probably going to be A.J. i'm just. Got to be honest with you. Probably A.J. and I'm. I'm just pumped. I'm excited for. For the Wizards to be somewhat relevant again. And I. I said it before the, the draft lottery. I'll say it now. I think that play in or bust next year.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

And if Anthony Davis stays healthy, I think we might be like the six seed. If he stays healthy, yeah, we might be like the six seed, maybe the fifth seed next year. I do have one tweak to the draft lottery, though. It would be nice if you had to do the draft like, 10 minutes after the lottery. So, like, the GMs show up. You get the order? Yeah. Okay, everyone go to your back room. We're calling you back out in 10 minutes. All the players are here. All right, go for it. Now you have to pick the rock.

[Big Cat]

The. The good job by Adam Silver last year with the Dallas situation. Everyone's, like, rigged. This is the last year that we're gonna have the, like, true tanking because they're flattening the odds and all that stuff. Good job, because he basically rewarded outside of the Nets and the Pacers, he Rewarded the worst teams. So. Got everyone back on, like, oh, that worked. Because the Wizards, the Jazz and Grizzlies were. Were truly tanking pretty much the entire year. I'm part. The Bulls. Getting the fourth pick was so huge because that was. They were. They were slotted in the ninth. I think they had a 20 chance to go up to the fourth. It's a loaded draft. They tanked. They did the dumb thing of only taking for half the year, and it ended up working out because this is going to be awesome. I want Caleb Wilson so bad.

[PFT Commenter]

He's kind of the forgotten guy in this draft.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Because he got hurt so good. And even if it's not that, maybe Darius Akoff. I would just love that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Loser.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't think. I don't think Boozer's gonna be.

[Big Cat]

Booze's gotta go. He's gotta go to the Grizzlies.

[Hank]

He's gotta go to his dad played here.

[Max]

Boozer looks like a Grizzly, though.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he does.

[Max]

He looks like a Grizzly.

[Big Cat]

I'll say this. I don't. I wouldn't be thinking about the pictures

[Hank]

they have upset about, like, courtside as a kid.

[Big Cat]

I won't be upset about Boozer dad

[Hank]

in the Bulls jersey. Now he's in a Bulls jersey.

[Big Cat]

I do think Boozer has the highest floor, lowest ceiling.

[PFT Commenter]

That's what I've been saying.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. He's bust proof.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

I don't think he's gonna be like some of these. Like Kale Wilson could be a superstar. AJ DeBancer could be a superstar. Darren Peterson, if he just stops taking creatine, could be a superstar.

[PFT Commenter]

If Boozer has a career like his dad, objectively speaking, that's gonna be an awesome career.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

But I think that that's kind of his ceiling.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Of what he's going to be. He's a super smart player. I just don't think he's. He's like, exceptionally explosive.

[Big Cat]

Either way, it's awesome for the Bulls because the Bulls had like. There were. It's been just absolute and. And nothing to look forward to. And now we'll get at least a guy that I'm gonna be very excited about. And I did see the take. I. I love whenever this take comes out, I think it was Jeff Goodman, who's a king of bad takes, who's like. I talked to some league executives and being the third or fourth pick actually is where everyone wants to be because you get the decision taken out of your hands. I still think you'd want to have number one.

[PFT Commenter]

You'd rather have the first pick.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, but.

[PFT Commenter]

But then if you're like.

[Big Cat]

Like some GMs gonna. They're gonna have to figure out if they want to take AJ Or Darren Peterson. If you're the third or fourth pick, you just take the other guy and it's good.

[PFT Commenter]

It's. It's a loser take. And it' actually agree with it. If I was a gm. But that's why you don't want me as a GM running your team.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

It's like I can blame everybody else but myself for help.

[Big Cat]

I would want the 1 number 1 pick, because then I take Cale Wilson.

[PFT Commenter]

There you go. And you dictate the terms on it.

[Big Cat]

Big losers, though. Pacers. Yeah, that was brutal. They had to stay in the top four. They. They have the.

[Paul Bissonette]

The.

[Big Cat]

The season, obviously. Going to the NBA Finals, having Tyrese Halberton get hurt in Game 7. A season where they were tanking, but it's also injury, so it was like, hey, we'll have a bad season. And then they make that trade for Zubak and they lose their pick at slotted at five. The Clippers get the fifth pick. Crazy, crazy spin of events. And also the Nets. The Nets kind of. They. They were a tank commander. They were just tanking so hard. Yeah, I did end up with the 6 pick.

[PFT Commenter]

I did like how the Pacers GM was like, I took a shot.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

He was like, I'm sorry. I knew it was gonna be a 50, 50 gamble, but we got a good center. I. I had to take a gamble on it, and it almost paid off.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So, like, I. I appreciate the honesty from. I think Pacers fans have to agree. But again, the Pacers, they're the only team in the NBA that's never had the number one overall pick and never had a number one overall pick ever play for them in the history of the franchise, which is kind of crazy. They've never had the number one pick and traded it. They've never traded for it, then traded again. They've just never touched a number one pick the entire franchise. Fun fact, the Wizards. Can you guess the last time The Wizards had 50 wins?

[Hank]

2007.

[PFT Commenter]

No, Max.

[Max]

2008.

[PFT Commenter]

No, it was 1978. 1978.

[Big Cat]

You're a loser, Max.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you're a loser, dude.

[Big Cat]

But also, I'm pumped.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm. I can't. I can't stress enough how excited I. I got to see some fun basketball in the John Wall era that got cut short because he, like, fell down in his House and towards Achilles. I got to see some fun basketball in the Gilbert Arenas era. They got cut short because they tried to shoot each other. And I got to see some fun basketball in the Michael Jordan era that got cut short because Michael Jordan was old and washed. But I've never had, like, this much optimism with, like, a young core that's getting built up together. I'm pumped.

[Big Cat]

Davis isn't very young.

[PFT Commenter]

True. But if healthy. Yeah, if, if healthy, the amount of games that he's missed, he's played a relatively low amount of games.

[Big Cat]

That's true. He's young.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

He also just has the number one pick written all over him because he was the number one pick. Right. And then he. The Pelicans traded him. Got the number one pick. The Mavericks traded for him, Got the number one pick. The Wizards traded for him. Got the number one pick. Wherever he goes, number one picks just follow.

[PFT Commenter]

I do have a trade offer for the, For Utah. For the state of Utah. I will trade you the number one pick, which I'm assuming you'll use to take AJ DeBancer.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

In exchange, I would like the second pick. I would like Ace Bailey, I would like the Zamith, the Zamboni that your hockey team has, and then I will

[Big Cat]

give you my ride. Better go with that.

[PFT Commenter]

You get the Zameth. Yeah. It conveys. And then DC will send Mitt Romney back to Utah. So you'll take on that contract.

[Paul Bissonette]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

And that's my offer. Let me know if you accept the terms. You talk.

[Big Cat]

You have 24 hours. We expect.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it's fair.

[Big Cat]

Danny A know where we are. You've been in this office. Danny A.

[PFT Commenter]

You know, Danny A. He probably would try to get the first pick, even if it wasn't a guy from Utah that was there. He just loves to make deals.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Danny, you found. I'm simpatico. We like, we both like to make deals.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Give me a call.

[Big Cat]

Give him a call. Okay. Anything else before we do? Who's back of the week? Did you guys see, Hank, your UFC evaluation?

[Hank]

Yeah, I watched the first two fights before I went to bed.

[Big Cat]

Oh, you did? Yeah. You are a UFC expert.

[Hank]

And then I woke up and saw that's.

[PFT Commenter]

That's Strickland one.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

What do you think about Strickland?

[Hank]

I don't know. I, I,

[PFT Commenter]

he's very love. He's very violent.

[Hank]

The Dagestan wrestling. I like it when someone else wins.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

It's better for the sport of ufc.

[Big Cat]

Hamza was just riding him in the first Round.

[Hank]

I mean, we saw. That was, like, the fight that we saw where it's, like, it's not as fun to watch, so I think it's more exciting when. But I. I saw a lot of the. It's kind of crazy that Strickland basically was like, yeah, we were just doing a work. Like, we're actually cool.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. They touched gloves before, and they were a couple times.

[Hank]

So much before. And then. And he's, like, known for being, you know, super abrasive talker. And then afterwards, he's like, yeah, no, I love him. Like, we're boys.

[PFT Commenter]

Good.

[Big Cat]

Sell fights.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Easy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

He said he's like, no one knows who's in the UFC right now. I have to sell fights. I like when. When. When boxers and UFC fighters do that. Like, my job is to sell fights. I got you to care.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

His face looked up after. Good fight, though.

[PFT Commenter]

It's fun.

[Big Cat]

I think it was controversial. I don't know.

[Hank]

It's hard to judge the. The wrestling.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. People thought maybe it was controversial. I don't. I know that Sean Strickland is just. He. I think two. I think he's got two of, like, the biggest underdog wins possibly. He was. He was a massive underdog in this fight, so good for him. Okay, let's do who's Back of the Week. Who's Back of the Week is brought to you by our friends at Twisted T. We love twisted Tea. Just think about those big moments like in Vegas, the Sixers beating the Celtics game seven. We were having some twisted tea. Having. Having a great time.

[PFT Commenter]

That's an amazing moment for the Sixers.

[Big Cat]

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[Hank]

That's breaking. To me. That's amazing.

[Big Cat]

That's huge.

[Hank]

That's amazing. For summer, Twisted lemonade sounds.

[Big Cat]

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[Hank]

Who's back of the week? I. I apologize if you guys talked about this Thursday, but aliens.

[Big Cat]

No, we didn't.

[PFT Commenter]

Didn't really talk about it. Yeah. Aliens are back. Yeah. Wimy.

[Max]

I don't.

[Hank]

I don't. This is like the 10th time this has happened where it's like, oh, kind of like the epine files. Where it's like, oh, the epine files are finally getting released. And then like a little crumb comes out here, a crumb comes out there. They released 150 pages of documents the government did about aliens proving their existence. A couple videos, a couple pictures, but still no aliens.

[PFT Commenter]

No. Yes yet.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

They just know that they can do the. We're releasing alien files. And people would be like, oh, that's interesting. I'm gonna listen to that because we want to know. I did see I want aliens. Yeah. What? I. I saw one thing. You wait your team. You do want aliens.

[Big Cat]

I think aliens are.

[PFT Commenter]

I disagree. They're probably listening right now.

[Big Cat]

I got no problem saying it's something

[PFT Commenter]

about it they can't win on the road.

[Max]

No, they just like to just call these things out that. Could you.

[PFT Commenter]

You do. Getting by an alien would be kind of cool.

[Big Cat]

But wait, like what? All we do is talk about aliens. Like, oh, they're gonna come blow up our Earth. Do with that. Enough talk.

[Hank]

You don't mean that though.

[Big Cat]

Enough talk.

[Hank]

What if they do?

[Big Cat]

Well, then I'll say hand up. I. That I. That one up, guys.

[Max]

Covid.

[Big Cat]

I messed that one up.

[Max]

Covid.

[Big Cat]

Hantavirus.

[PFT Commenter]

They were talking to the. The religious leaders and they were like, hey, just so you know, you might want to prepare everybody that. That goes to your services because aliens just invented us and that's going to come out soon.

[Big Cat]

Huh?

[PFT Commenter]

Which would be. I don't think said that that was a rumor that was going around.

[Big Cat]

I.

[PFT Commenter]

To be clear, I don't think that aliens exist in the way that we think about them. Like little green men or like flying saucers or anything like that.

[Hank]

Well, the saucers. Do you see the jet?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, but I. I don't look like a saucer. I don't think that it's aliens, though.

[Big Cat]

No little boys.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it's our technology and. And we like to act.

[Hank]

You don't think that they found the technology in the 50s and they've been slowly rolling out?

[Big Cat]

I think that we do something.

[PFT Commenter]

I think that we have our own technology and then we talk about it being aliens and. Because then other countries are like, oh, damn, they've got. They've got alien technology. We better spend a lot of money trying to find our own alien technology.

[Big Cat]

I. All right, here's my real take on Aliens. I think they exist. I think it's tremendously egotistical of us to think that they're coming here. The universe is so huge. You think they're like, oh, yeah, we got to go get those guys. They don't give a fuck about us.

[Hank]

They've been here.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Where's the actual proof? Every. These teases.

[PFT Commenter]

We go to LA for one day, and Hank's a Scientologist already.

[Big Cat]

I do think aliens exist because the universe is so big that it just has to. But I don't think they're coming here.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't think it's little green men that are, like, getting into their spaceship with their death ray. I think they might already.

[Big Cat]

They want to be boys about it and, like, come and hang and, you know, like, play, like, 18 with Nicky smokes. I'm cool with that.

[Paul Bissonette]

That.

[Big Cat]

But I. I don't really care. Like, we just freak out about these things.

[Paul Bissonette]

Where's the proof?

[PFT Commenter]

I think they're in the ocean.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Antarctica.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Underneath Dante, I think. I think they're underneath the ocean.

[Big Cat]

I heard Dante killed his set on Saturday night.

[PFT Commenter]

Absolutely.

[Big Cat]

Obviously. No, that was per Dante.

[Hank]

Yeah, but no, duh.

[Big Cat]

He said I crushed it. I. I knew he would.

[Hank]

He did a set.

[Big Cat]

The.

[Hank]

It was crushed.

[PFT Commenter]

So, wait, what was the most explosive thing in the alien thing that happened? Happen?

[Hank]

The one that I saw that was. It was, like, the picture of, like, it looked like the jet, but it was, like, alien spacecraft. And there was a bunch of which. I don't know if that's like, the 50s or whatever, where it's like, there was, you know, confirmed reports and, like, people. A group of people back in the day that saw aliens.

[PFT Commenter]

They.

[Hank]

They took all their reports and then just, like, kept it hidden.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. All right. I just. I.

[PFT Commenter]

There's also a story about an alien getting invited to the White House to, like, hang out with Dwight Eisenhower.

[Hank]

Are.

[Big Cat]

I'm just sick. It's kind of like the Epstein file, where people just keep talking about it, like, just give us all. Everything, just tell us everything.

[Hank]

It's like, I think the government is still just, like, they're slow playing it. And there probably is more stuff that would freak people out that they're intentionally not showing us.

[Big Cat]

It's true. We'd probably be freaked out.

[PFT Commenter]

I can handle it.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I think I'd be the calmest dude ever.

[Big Cat]

I think they exist. I mean, I'm. I. I'm. I'm being honest when I say they. There's other life forms somewhere out there. What.

[Zach]

What's that we got to respect aliens, though.

[Hank]

Yes.

[Zach]

We gotta. We gotta mend like this.

[Big Cat]

You think they're gonna be against us right now?

[Zach]

I feel like they pick up all sorts of airwaves.

[PFT Commenter]

I think they listen to everything, dude.

[Big Cat]

Imagine if we had just a shitload of alien downloads. That would be sick. They like twisted tea. Gotta get them on.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Twee up.

[Big Cat]

Imagine if aliens showed up and we showed them, like, a. A twisted tea, an alcoholic beverage, and they're like, holy, this is awesome. Yeah. And then they just forgot what they were gonna do.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't want to.

[Big Cat]

I don't got him wasted.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I don't want to fight anymore.

[Big Cat]

Got him. Got him to a frat party.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Let's grill out. We.

[Big Cat]

We would haze the. Out of aliens. They would not have a dude throw aliens in. In a. In a. Like a shitty Iowa City basement that's wet with a. With a handle of. Of cheap vodka. They would know what to do. No, they would have no fucking idea what to do.

[PFT Commenter]

If they landed and they're like, I want to talk to your leader. Who are we sending?

[Big Cat]

Mincy.

[Hank]

Speed.

[Big Cat]

Mincy.

[PFT Commenter]

They would turn right around, he pulls up his pants. You can't. You can't probe a man who's always keeping his pants up.

[Big Cat]

Mincy just starts talking about the World Series of Poker. They're like, sorry, we're out of here. We're out. Widespread panic. We're out. Okay, good, good. Who's back? But I want more.

[Hank]

Same.

[Big Cat]

It's really more my frustration. I want more.

[Hank]

I want to see an alien.

[Big Cat]

I want to see pnv Alien.

[Hank]

Yeah,

[Big Cat]

I do clip that. Okay. Pft. My.

[PFT Commenter]

Who's back is the FIFA World Cup.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[PFT Commenter]

Because everybody was saying a couple weeks ago that FIFA is a corrupt organization, blah, blah, blah. They're going to charge people so much money, that's 200 to take the train. You're so greedy. Blah, blah, blah, blah. A bunch of haters. And then FIFA was like, fine, we'll give you some real. We'll give you some civic pride and some. Some city spirit. So they released a bunch of jerseys for the individual cities that are going to be hosting World cup games this summer. For 400 each, you can buy a Boston World FIFA World Cup 2026 official uniform, limited edition.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

FIFA does not give a. They are just. They're running up the score right now. They don't care how corrupt you say they are. They don't care how greedy you say. They're even openly saying, like, yeah, we want to learn from Americans in terms of how to commercialize every sport to its maximum potential. Because soccer has not yet begun to do that. And so basically what they're saying is we're fully comfortable making this the worst World cup that you've ever seen.

[Big Cat]

Listen, if they do some memorabilia, I've. I've recently become a little bit of a memorabilia guy. So if it's big enough, I'll buy it. I bought the Boise, the Boise State Blue turf. I bought a piece of that. I bought a get charged up 43 foot long banner from Qualcomm. I got the Bills trough. I'm in the market.

[PFT Commenter]

Have you seen these jerseys, though?

[Hank]

These are kind of hot.

[Big Cat]

And the jerseys, I. I don't want jersey. I. But like if they want to sell me like a giant soccer ball that's outside of one of the stadiums I'm in.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you like the. The Massachusetts one, Hank?

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

The lobster one is probably the best. If you had to pick one.

[Hank]

The Seattle one's cool too.

[Big Cat]

Jerseys for the cities.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. For the Kansas City is just nothing.

[Big Cat]

They actually pft those. Something you'd wear.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. You're 100 FIFA.

[Big Cat]

You know what? Get the whole.

[PFT Commenter]

Send these my way. I'm gonna have to get the whole set. The Boston one is the best. That you're right. The Seattle one. The Kansas City is just like people playing soccer. I don't understand what about Kansas City? That one is. But yeah, FIFA's greed is 100 back. And then also Skip and Stephen A. Are back because they had. Oh yeah, they did first take on Friday morning and it was. It's like they never stopped doing it. It was like it took me right back to 2016 playing the hits. There was a little Tebow discussion just as a treat for. For those of us that are die hard Skip fans. They had Skip do his top 10 NBA players of all time. He had LeBron at number nine.

[Big Cat]

Genius.

[PFT Commenter]

Which was just perfect.

[Big Cat]

Genius. Like to put him at nine.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

That's just why he's so good at it. Because you could easily just keep him off the list.

[PFT Commenter]

But nine, nine, no, he respects.

[Big Cat]

Just insane. It's the dak Prescott at 17. Like nine. Such a funny place. Like if he had him at 3, it's a non topic. There's some people who have LeBron at 3. He had him at 9. He made sure that he was ranked. Yeah. But it was nine.

[PFT Commenter]

Do we have his official top 10 list?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it's right there. Jordan, Magic, Shaq, Kareem, Tim Duncan, Bill Russell, Kobe, Larry Bird, LeBron at nine wilt attempts.

[PFT Commenter]

It's great. Such a good Larry bird at number eight is, is awesome.

[Big Cat]

The and he said the eight players above him are all cold blooded killers. LeBron James over many years has proven to be the most mentally fragile superstar I've ever closely observed. Still got it. Still got it.

[PFT Commenter]

It was, it was great television. Still got. I'm gonna watch every time they put those two together.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I mean it was nine. I laughed so hard at nine. It's just the perfect, perfect ranking to just piss enough people off off. Okay, by who's back of the week is grit week because we're going on Monday is the first day of grit week. This next Monday we're doing old school like we did the first two years week leading up to Memorial Day. But I bring this up because I need the awl's help. Where are we sending submissions?

[Max]

Pmtbacherparty gmail.com Love that.

[Big Cat]

Pmtbacherparty gmail dot com here's what we need and I'm not going to give too many details. We could probably assume what this is going to be. We are trying to find a, ideally a construction site that would allow us to work for free labor for an hour or so in the greater Jacksonville area. If we can't find a construction site, an awl who maybe has like a swing set they want built or something like a little, little shed in there.

[Hank]

I think we got to do more than that. We got to do a full day.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. But like, again, I'm not going to give away who we might be doing this with. But let's just say the boys want to get on construction site, smoke some cigs, hang out. But I think, I think there's probably some legalities into just letting us on an actual construction site. So it's most likely going to be an awl in the Jacksonville area. Who would potentially, who would be willing to take Monday off and let us come to your backyard and build something for you? And when I say build something for you, I mean we're gonna try to start building it. No promises that we get it built.

[PFT Commenter]

And you should probably have the thing that we're gonna build.

[Big Cat]

Correct.

[PFT Commenter]

Otherwise we're gonna show up with something to build and you might not like.

[Big Cat]

But someday you could say, hey, you see that swing set? You see that shed? You see that table? PMT and Blake Bortles built it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Big Cat]

Not naming names.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe a barn. Do some Amish barn raising.

[Big Cat]

Again, we're not. We are not. We're not agreeing to completing it. We're agreeing to hanging out and trying to complete it.

[PFT Commenter]

To doing it.

[Big Cat]

We're doing.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we're gonna do it.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. And you also need to have the tools. We're gonna do a build, and you also need to. How do you know how to use the tools? But we're gonna be there again. If there's a. If there's a foreman or a general contractor, listening is like, hey, I can get these guys. They can just get the brooms going a little bit. You know, maybe dig a little bit of a hole or something. Something easy. We're. We're down to go to a real construction site. I just know that there might be some issues with that. What are you laughing about, Zachary?

[Max]

I made him laugh. I'm looking at the. At the Gmail right now. The PMT boucher party. And I just said, how did the Washington Post get this email? Because the Washington Post, I feel like, is in every Gmail account, just spamming. But this. This. This email hasn't been submitted to anything. How did this end up on a subscribe list?

[PFT Commenter]

I'm sure somebody out there has. Has entered it.

[Max]

Oh, that makes sense.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah, you got the mystery solved.

[Big Cat]

Either way, we need. We need the AWS help. I think it's gonna be a very funny video. That's Monday. May someone help me? 18th. Yep, May 18th. Jacksonville area. Let us know. We'll bring the beer, we'll bring the

[PFT Commenter]

twisted tea, and we'll bring the six.

[Big Cat]

And we're just gonna. We're gonna try to build some shit. What are you looking at now, Max?

[Max]

This is a girl that wants to date Zach. Oh, I'm looking at the emails.

[Big Cat]

Would like to apply to be Zach's future fiance. And your ticket to another bachelor party in Vegas is. I'm in the Chicago area. Soon to be nine Time awl. Okay. She's the perfect. I feel I am the perfect candidate for this role.

[PFT Commenter]

How old is she?

[Big Cat]

29.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, Zach.

[Big Cat]

28. 28.

[Zach]

She jumps straight to fiance, though. I feel like we're missing some steps there.

[Big Cat]

Well, she's trying to just get us a bachelor party. Yeah, yeah, Good on her. Great move.

[Zach]

Love that move.

[Big Cat]

What if Zach just started getting engaged every year and then breaking it off? We just kept on buying them bachelor parties.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you can't. Yeah, my boy is not gonna get checked up for life. My boy needs to keep his options open.

[Big Cat]

But, yeah, someone please hit us up. We need that. And it's gonna be very fun and grit week get excited for grit week early Grit week this year. It's gonna be awesome. We. We're changing it up because we did last year. The last couple years we've been doing the Tahoe trip, which we're still doing, but doing Tahoe and then Grit week, like two weeks apart was not manageable. So grit week. And Vanny Woodhead, number two, will be making his debut.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Big Cat]

Official debut. Knock on wood.

[Paul Bissonette]

Big week.

[Big Cat]

Huge week. Huge week.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm excited.

[Big Cat]

Very excited.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm very excited for the first interview.

[Big Cat]

So we need. We need. Yeah, we need. We need someone to help us out. Okay, Zach, my.

[Zach]

Who's back of the week this week is going to be Barcelona because we had. We had El Clasico today and bars made a light work of Madrid.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, okay.

[Zach]

Two.

[Memes]

Oh.

[Zach]

It's pretty impressive.

[Big Cat]

Hey, what's up with Tottenham?

[Zach]

Tottenham.

[Big Cat]

They did.

[Zach]

Tottenham is now 17th on the table.

[PFT Commenter]

They're clear.

[Zach]

They did win against Aston Villa. Two one on the third.

[PFT Commenter]

And then West Ham lost. Oh, so Arsenal.

[Big Cat]

Right, so it's over.

[Zach]

So they're.

[PFT Commenter]

It's not over.

[Zach]

They're not. Not completely over. But their relegation zone from earlier is not the same as now. Okay, so good one for them as well.

[Big Cat]

Did you watch El Clasco?

[Zach]

I watch clips from it because there's an all time free kick in there to get the day started.

[Big Cat]

Oh, really?

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah.

[Zach]

All time. Marcus Rashford just hits an absolute be.

[Big Cat]

Are you sneaky a soccer fan?

[Zach]

I'm like. I dabble, you know, I don't want to.

[Big Cat]

Is it mostly because of ishow speed? No, my.

[Zach]

My brother Nick got me into it.

[Big Cat]

Oh, that's right. That's right. You're your brother's keeper.

[Zach]

Also, they got the Olivia Rodrigo bump. They're wearing the Olivia Rodrigo jerseys in there, so, like, that's a good bump for them as well.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, what does that mean?

[Zach]

Olivia Rodrigo in the building might catch a win.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, they're wearing, like, special jerseys for her Each.

[Zach]

They got the or up front? Yeah, it's a collaboration jersey.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, are they?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Zach]

I didn't know that they dropped them here recently.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Max]

I didn't know Olivia Rodrigo had it like that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I mean, that's like she has her own.

[Max]

That's crazy.

[PFT Commenter]

Big dub for Olivia Rodrigo. Kind of looking sideways at Barca. Like, Barker, you should. I don't know that you would just like, put a random person's initials on your jersey.

[Zach]

They just respect her game. She obviously respects Barca.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Wow. Okay. Good job, Zach. Anything else in the booth? Any other who's backs, Max? Any other who's backs?

[Max]

I don't do this segment.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you don't, but I'm just wondering if you did. Maybe today.

[Max]

I'm wet.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you are. Yeah, you are. Okay.

[Memes]

Breeze hall back.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah. Congrats. Memes.

[PFT Commenter]

There we go. Memes.

[Big Cat]

Also, NFL schedule coming out on Thursday, so that means we'll get it probably tomorrow. I'm so sick of the NFL schedule. They. They did ruin something that was fun.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't even think it was ever fun.

[Big Cat]

It was fun for, like, a minute because when we, like, didn't. Not when it wasn't fully released before

[Max]

now, it's just, it's not, you know who you're playing.

[Big Cat]

I know, but it's cool to, like, look at it and be like, win, loss, win, loss. But now they've just made it where they're going to release, like, two games. I, I, the Bears and Seahawks are playing week, week, the, the opening kickoff. They're going to release that on, like, Tuesday morning. I got like, Good Morning America and be like, whoo. Tease.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I, I don't know. I don't think I ever actually sat and watched an entire video from any team doing this. The schedule release. No, I think I would, like, skim through it, listen to about, like, 30 seconds. It's never. It's not that great.

[Big Cat]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Just tell us the games.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I miss football.

[Paul Bissonette]

I miss football, too.

[Big Cat]

I'm excited for football. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Football.

[Zach]

So much.

[Big Cat]

Let's talk some hockey with Paul Bissonette.

[PFT Commenter]

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Lot.

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[Big Cat]

Okay. We now welcome on a very very guest one of our favorite guys in the whole world.

[Paul Bissonette]

Why do you say it? Why you say very so many times every time I'm on? Or do you say that for everybody?

[PFT Commenter]

Just you.

[Paul Bissonette]

Just you dude, you say very like five or six times.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Cuz you are. You're very, very, very, very special guest. It's Paul Bis.

[Paul Bissonette]

I needed that. Thank you for making me feel special.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. TNT biz, we couldn't have had you on at a better time. I feel like everything is. The whole hockey world is, is, is zoned in on biz. You're the story for a lot of different things. Which one do you want to start with? Do you want to start with Gronk?

[Paul Bissonette]

You guys go wherever you want.

[Big Cat]

All right, let's start with.

[Paul Bissonette]

I kind of figured that was coming.

[Big Cat]

Well, you got, you got railroaded.

[Paul Bissonette]

I mean is that all time like, like you'd think if there was one guy on the planet who knew bro code it would be. It would be Rob Gronkowski, right?

[Big Cat]

Yes.

[Paul Bissonette]

Like can we all just agree on that?

[Big Cat]

Yes.

[Paul Bissonette]

I'm sitting there in, in like the back room and Sabres are going on a power play and all of a sudden Gronk comes on the Screen. I'm like, oh, this is awesome. In game hit from Gronk. Well, it's basically, he's the main focus. We're not even really watching the power play as dog as Buffalo's power play has been all playoffs and even the end of the regular season. And then they ask him about Whit Saber chug, and all of a sudden I get thrown under the bus. Yeah, that was crazy. I'm. Although when it happened, I. I mean, I was busting out laughing because it was so random, but. But, I mean, what did you guys think?

[Big Cat]

Well, the. The only thing I think it was funny.

[Paul Bissonette]

It was funny.

[Big Cat]

The only issue I had with it was Gronk saying the word high school.

[Paul Bissonette]

Oh, dude.

[Big Cat]

Like, Gronk, what he was saying was his high school friends in the fact that he is 36 and you're a single man hitting up other single people who are 36 in the Buffalo area.

[Paul Bissonette]

Correct. Now I'm on the Epstein file, not high school.

[Big Cat]

Right, right, right. Because, like, if you. If you just listen to it, you're like, wait, what the. Did he just say.

[Paul Bissonette]

So also, I. Oldie sentence for biz. Yeah, tough sentence.

[Big Cat]

Oldie was in the box with him. Oh, yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

Okay. So, yeah, maybe. I'm sure Oldie was just doing the splits and getting the morale going and trying to get Buffalo's power play back on track.

[Big Cat]

He literally was. Yeah, yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

I mean, we're getting them on spit and checkouts tomorrow, so we'll see what he has to say about it. But obviously I was more of, like, laughter, and then, like, why would like. Of anything to say on national television vision? Why would that be? Like, what did I like. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe it's because, like, he had a thing for that high school girl. I don't know. What. What's going on there?

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. He might just be jealous. That's what I'm thinking.

[Paul Bissonette]

I don't think that's the case. Guys, come on. This guy's a man. Missile. How many Super Bowls did Gronk win? Two or three or four. You got four. One with Tampa too, right?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did it help at all with the prospects? Because, like, that's the way to speak.

[Paul Bissonette]

I got a few messages.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. So Gronk might have done you a solid. That's how I saw. I was like, hey, he's just doing business. Solid. He's getting him. He's getting his name out there being like, hey, business on the profiles. Hit him up. He's. When he's in the Buffalo area. Let's get it going. Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

I like. I. I'm good though. I just didn't need that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

Like, I would. I would just rather have not have had that. But once again, it's funny. We're going to get him on. We'll joke about it and then who knows, Maybe we can chisel him into a sandbagger.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

I mean, because I was a sandbagger.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes. Memes.

[Paul Bissonette]

He would kill me in a rough and rowdy. But like that play like that deserves like. Like. What the Are you doing?

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Right. Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, you would expect that he. He would be better with a bro code. I will give you that. That was kind of. It was a shock. Overreach by. By Gronk on that one.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

And his fellow Eskimo brothers. I thought that we had. Were in. We're the trust tree.

[PFT Commenter]

You know, you're an Eskimo brother.

[Paul Bissonette]

We're gonna stop it there.

[PFT Commenter]

You just said. You just said it.

[Paul Bissonette]

You. You know, but I said I'm. I. I agree, but I've said I'm stopping it there.

[Big Cat]

Oh, is it the. The. The what's her name from Arizona who might have done.

[Paul Bissonette]

I'll stop it there.

[Big Cat]

Some film.

[Paul Bissonette]

I'll stop it there.

[PFT Commenter]

Is she an actress, you guys? The same actress.

[Big Cat]

Actor.

[Paul Bissonette]

We'll stop it there.

[Big Cat]

All right. So the next.

[PFT Commenter]

Next.

[Big Cat]

Next order business. You in the most.

[Paul Bissonette]

You guys would have had some funnier stuff that you guys would have brought up.

[Big Cat]

What do you mean? We're biz guys.

[Paul Bissonette]

Okay. All right. Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Big Cat]

I defend you. Like, if you want. Hey, if you want. If you tell us we gotta fight Gronk, we'll do it. We'll get our ass kicked, but we'll

[Paul Bissonette]

do it one way. We should do a rough and rowdy where it's us three versus him handicap match.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Cat]

Just. Just.

[Paul Bissonette]

That would be a lot more fair.

[PFT Commenter]

Like a pack of lions jumping on him. Yeah.

[Hank]

Biz.

[PFT Commenter]

We are biz guys.

[Paul Bissonette]

Hyenas.

[PFT Commenter]

You can be on Grindr for all I care. I won't say a word about it. Wait, is he hypothetically like somebody had

[Paul Bissonette]

put his wits convinced. I'm gonna get so bored eventually. I'm gonna turn on the turn over the other side of the menu. That's wit's line. Word for word. I'm gonna eventually turn. Turn over the other side of the menu.

[PFT Commenter]

That's what happened.

[Paul Bissonette]

I said I'll do it. But it's going to be at a breakfast joint. Just giving a waitress a complicated order again, like I did with wonton and the peak.

[PFT Commenter]

And it's like, I think David Bowie and Mick Jagger are probably the same way. It's like we've seen every vagina.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

What else is out there?

[Big Cat]

Just try something else still. Yeah. All right. So the other business biz is the most biz story ever. You. The. The. The Maple Leafs hire a new GM who we like. Who we like. He's a nerd.

[PFT Commenter]

He's a genius.

[Big Cat]

Genius nerd. And then like 24 hours later, they get the number one pick. Where are you at right now with the Maple Leafs?

[Paul Bissonette]

So let's give the backstory. So out of nowhere, like, so Brad Tree living, who was the. The former Leafs gm, they just got rid of him with like a month left in the season. They. They cut ties. I had him in Arizona. He was our assistant GM there. Loved him. Like, great guy. Like one of the boys, right? Worked under Don Maloney, who was an incredible gm. And we had a really good family in Arizona. And Shane Doane was our captain there, Mr. Coyote. He was with the organization for 21 years. Got his jersey, retired. Like, if you think of the Arizona Coyotes, you think of Shane Doane, the player first and then no one else, right?

[PFT Commenter]

He.

[Paul Bissonette]

He was the guy. He stuck through the team through very difficult times. When it was being sold, when the league owned it, when every, you know, six weeks, there was rumors of the team moving out of the desert. Like he would be kind of putting out fires and keeping the group. Group focused. And, and when I was there, we ended up making playoffs three years in a row and went to the conference finals, like. And this is all. When the league owned the. The team, we didn't have much money. So then donor after he retired, and I'll get more into this, was kind of blackballed and, and, and stabbed in the back by the organization. When TRICA and new ownership took over, Traiko ended up becoming the youngest GM in all the four major sports in the history at 26 years old. But fast forward to the le. Shane D. Was one of like the assistant GMs. They have a lot of them in a lot of different roles. They give him the assistant GM label. So my assumption he's hired till July 1st is he's no longer going to be with the Leafs. So when out of nowhere. And I expected Tree Living, the former gm, to get let go because things didn't go well in Toronto, they missed playoffs. And there's a lot of question marks thought maybe he would get another stab at it, but whatever. So out of nowhere they go through this GM search and up, up pops up this John Traika guy's name where he's basically going to be the, the first guy in line. Like that's the guy they're considering. And tons of people in the hockey world are shocked based on how it all turned out in Arizona when he was there. Not like he did a great job by any means to begin with, but it was the way that he left things. So when they eventually named him as general manager, me being a Leafs fan, I was like, no, my loyalty lies with Shane Doane. I want nothing to do with this guy and the fact that he got hired out of nowhere to be the Toronto Maple Lease gm. Like listen, maybe he ends up going on to have success, but to get the one of the biggest, if not the biggest jobs in hockey as far as a general manager with the track record he has is laughable.

[PFT Commenter]

Can you tell us more about that track record? Because we talked a little bit about it, but I'm sure we didn't scratch the stuff surface. We know that he like hosts his own combine which seem like big brain, genius move.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah. And listen, like I'm just going to give you the facts, right? And, and keep in mind like I couldn't imagine getting the reigns to an NHL team as a general manager at 26 years old. Like I didn't. My maturity level at that age nowhere near close enough to be the GM. So nor do I think any 26 year old should be. Should be given the reigns as general manager of any professional sports team team. Like come on here, what are we talking about? Right? There's a reason that it was the, the record at time. So when he was GM there the. I think the reason that he ended up becoming GM is because he befriended one of the owners. At that time there was a large ownership group that had purchased the team from the league. So there was like 12 guys hanging around. I think he got, they got in one of them's ears where they thought it was going to be a good idea because analytics was this bright shiny new toy. It was just kind of coming into league where people were talking about it was like it this revolutionary thing and he just so happened to had already started a company doing it. Okay. Analytics are, are great and all and every team in the NHL uses analytics, but it is a department that the gm, who delegates a lot of stuff uses as a tool to check some boxes and, and end up making a decision. It's not the end all be all. It's 10 to 15% of the pie graph type of thing right along with what's his character like, you know what else can he group, you know what's his, what's his character like what did like how does he gel with teammates? Like can he maybe play multiple positions? So there's so much more that goes into decision making than just like pulling up a pie graph based on like what your, your, your, your technology tracked when this guy was on the ice and how efficient he is. So they end up hiring him. And his first year there was Shane Doane's eventual last year as an Arizona Coyote. Mind you, the year prior to that Donor had scored I think over 30 goals with the team. And then the year where John Chaika first year is GM I think donor might have had like under 10 goals in the 10 goal range, maybe 30, 35 points. But like at that point he was obviously on the back nine. But you still have a great leader who's going to teach these young players you're bringing in how to act off the ice. And he was still undecided after that season whether he was going to play the next year. From speaking to him it was like no, I probably wasn't going to play and even if I wasn't going to play like and they didn't want me playing like that wasn't the big deal deal. So this at that point I believe the GM was now 27 year old. 27 years old. He called, he texts or calls Shane don't hey, meet me at this breakfast place in Scottsdale. Sits down with Shane Doane 21 years of service Mr. Coyote Most 1 of the most beloved people in the valley. Him, Larry Fitzgerald, Kirk Warner, a very few people in the mix there. And he says hey, no long not only are you not going to play for us, like we have no need for you in the organization anymore. Keep in mind the year prior he had signed a deal where Shane don't took deals his whole time in Arizona because the league owned them. They didn't have any money. And then now on his last that last year where yeah his offensive numbers weren't there. But keep in mind boys, that's not the reason he's around. He's around for his leadership being a veteran and just teaching these young guys how to be professionals. He ended up taking deferred payments on his contract just to help the team out. So this guy who did everything imaginable to help this team win, stay in the desert as loyal as they come Bl the list goes. Man of faith community guy. Unreal family man. Helped out all of his teammates along the way. He gets called to a breakfast place to let him know that he's no longer wanted with the organization.

[Big Cat]

And Shane D. Is now with the Leafs.

[Paul Bissonette]

He. Because Brad Tree living.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. So check is just following him around.

[Paul Bissonette]

Timeout. Chica was not even involved with the Leafs. Brad Treeler, who was the assistant gm got the head GM job in Toronto. He had been in Calgary prior. We're fast forwarding like whatever like 10, 15 years here to where now Tree livings with the Leafs is head gm. He brings in Donor because of all of his experience and knowledge and it's just a good guy to have at the round table. Like Donor would go watch AHL team games and. And see the prospects and like bring back like you know, he's really good at this. He's really good at that. What's his character like? He's. He's a round table guy.

[Max]

Right.

[Paul Bissonette]

That's what you need when you want to be a successful general managers. If you look at the top five guys in the league, not only are they well respected, if you look around at their table, they have guys who might tell them when they come up with an opinion, you're a idiot. Idiot like you. We're not doing that. That's what you want. You want people combating what you. You want people with strong opinions who might call you out on something they disagree with you on.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[Paul Bissonette]

So that was number one on the list. So then as these GM for the team, the NHL does a combine and you have to. Any team only gets access to these players during these windows of times for obvious reasons like nobody gets an advantage edge. So what happened was is he hired a third party who was a former trainer with the Coyotes to go test. Let's say let's start here with one kid. So this is the original one that ends up coming up as like the. Oh they. He tested a guy and like he wasn't at the combine. Like what was this? So then the excuse that was used was well this guy wasn't a part of the top prospects game and they. We were never going to get an opportunity to. To test him. Therefore that's why we did it. Well they dug into it a little more. I guess they tested the guy third party in October. The top prospects team or whatever it was haven't even. Hadn't even been announced by them.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[Paul Bissonette]

So it was a. So then they look more into it and sure enough they'd done it with dozens of guys or let's like a number of guys. So they cheated. So what happened was, is boom. They lost a first round draft pick, a second round draft pick pick, a third round draft pick. Now to say that the, the NHL gms are a boys club would be an understatement. Steve Iserman, Doug Armstrong, there's a bunch of guys at the top where they're well respected, they've been around a while, Ken Holland, and they've done it so long and they do it with integrity that they all respect one another. So Lou lamarillo, could you imagine these guys when they find out that this young punk who stabbed Shane Doan in the back is now testing these guys behind the scenes to get an advantage on them? Okay, all right, listen, let's swipe that one under the rug. Who gives a so because he's such a genius GM at that time and it was covet time. So they shut down the league and they figured out, okay, we're going to reboot things in this bubble and we're going to do like a play in because it's unfair to some teams who are on the outside looking in that we're maybe trending in the right direction. Let's do a play in because it's cover and it's different and all these teams are going to go into the bubble that were within striking distance, I believe 12 from each conference. Well, right before that,

[Big Cat]

earlier in the

[Paul Bissonette]

season they had signed, signed John Cha to a four year extension. They gave him a four year deal. Now all of a sudden you get you hired as a young gm, you haven't really done much. Here's four years of security for you after you've really proven nothing. Hey, good for him, that's great. He goes to the owners. But the, the, the new ownership group, I'm drawing a Brent, the Marillos, they purchased a team off of all those guys in the midst of all this and they were now the majority owners of the team. So they're the ones who extended him. He goes to them and he says I'm going to go meet with the New Jersey Devils and, and I'm going to go talk to them about something unrelated than being hired there to work for the New Jersey Devil Devils. They say, oh, okay, well as long as you're going to meet with the Devils to not take a job and it's something unrelated to that. He goes to New Jersey, comes back how many ever days later and he tells him I'm leaving the team. And I'm gonna go work with the New Jersey Devils. And they're like no you're not. We sign you to a four year extension with a non compete. And he's like well I'm going to be doing other things for them then you guys need to fire me and I'm gonna go work for them. And they're like no, no, you're gonna keep working for us and you're gonna go to the bubble where the team's going right now because we've kind of made playoffs for the first time in a while and we just gave you a four year extension. He says nope, not going to the bubble. So refuses the league eventually looks into everything and then he is relieved of his duties and fired. That was the last time he was a GM in the National Hockey League. So the biggest richest organization in the NHL after that that layover is now going to just after doing an extensive shirts for general managers is going to name him to the head of position. Now listen, I have no ill will towards it. Go on and go have sex. Sex. Jesus. Success with the Leafs. Go go. I want nothing to do with it.

[Big Cat]

I actually think that's fair.

[Paul Bissonette]

I want nothing to do with it, buddy. All this has to do with the fact that my buddy Shane Doane who went to bat for me and in times where maybe I was on the bubble on a cusp buy with the Coyotes he was the guy in the room saying no, we want biz for the morale in the locker room because the guys like them. So if it wasn't for him, I might not even get the five years in the NHL if it wasn't for him. I don't have the most enjoyable five years of my my professional hockey career. And for and and he was the catalyst and the captain the leader when I was going through tough spots who, who could I go talk to do. He had a family at home with four kids and he was the guy that any guy in that locker room could Leon lean on. I would take a bullet for that guy. So the fact that all that went down the now the team's gone because of the show and and all. All these little things have part to do with why the Coyotes left among the ownership group and decision making along the way. And that was my decision as to why I'm no longer with them now. The funny, the funny part of it is does is I announced that Yep. And then they got the. The Steve Simmons who's a reporter obviously did some research and at the press conference asks an absolute Bomb of a question. I thought it was a little offside. I don't think the guy deserved to get hammered on the way that he did. Regardless of what he did to my friend, I thought it was a bit much. And the fact that the Steve Simmons guy could have asked him, instead of asking Pelly about the question, he had John Chaika to the left of him. Have the balls to ask Chaika about it.

[Big Cat]

What was the question?

[Paul Bissonette]

It was basically like to Pelly, it goes, you told me that you've done extensive research and have done your due diligence. When I've talked to 20 people around the league and 19 of them have told me that this guy has no credibility. He's a snake. Snake oil salesman. He's full of. And just basically like, like question. Completely question the guy's character. Where once again, if you're going to ask the question, just ask it to. To John Cha. But that's regardless of that. With the fact that they named him that. With the fact that that's the press conference, obviously Leafs land and the whole hockey world's going into an absolute meltdown, right? And then sure enough, the next day on ESPN is the lottery draft. And because of the job and the tank job that Leafs did towards the end of the season after Olympics, even though they were probably trying to win, they ended up being top 5 worst teams therefore eligible to get the first overall pick. Like huge bounce. Because if you finish, if you finish like 6 to like 11th, your odds dropped way worse, right? And if they were able to stay in the top five picks, they wouldn't have to given up their pick to the Boston Bruins. So there was so much at stake where maybe they wouldn't have had a first round pick for the next two years. Teams in shambles. And then more than likely Auston Matthews, their captain and franchise player, is like, like, all right, this is a show. I'm out of here. I want to go win. And then boom, it's automatic rebuild. They end up getting the lottery ball number 12. My number with the Coyotes.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, wow.

[Paul Bissonette]

Which Whit just was like when it went, when it popped up and it was number 12 and the Leafs got the first overall pick. And I had just quit the team the day prior. Whit was on his knees at home laughing his dick off in front of the tv, like at the fact that this had happened to us. Like, we're like the. The Sabers chug. Like we're taking. So L's on our podcast right now. It's crazy. And. And they end up getting the first overall pick, who I said in the prior podcast, assuming that it was going to be them. Gavin McKenna.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

Who? A kid I want to follow. He's going to be. I think he's going to be a phenom. I'm going to follow wherever he goes. Well, now I don't get to follow him because I'm sure the Leafs are going to draft him. So I just got to re. Re emphasize here. I have no ill will towards this John Chica other than the fact that he stabbed my buddy in the back. I believe that and mature and get older. And I think that he was put in a situation that was. He was in way over his head. And even if he was just getting word from the ownership group or management or, or whoever else was involved, I'm pretty sure he had his hand in it. And the fact that he didn't want anybody threatening his integrity or, or, or, or his questioning or whatever he wanted to do with the team at the round table and that's why he was. He got his throat at the table.

[Big Cat]

But I love that you are a ride or die friend. I actually want to apologize because PFG and I did on Tuesday night when we joined your Chiclets live stream, which I think we had technical difficulties. We couldn't even hear what you guys were saying. Grinnelli hit me up was like, hey, you want to troll biz? I had none, I had none of the backstory.

[Paul Bissonette]

Boys, I love you.

[Big Cat]

I'm with you now. I. You know what? Biz, as of right this second, until you tell us we can do it, we will never again utter the words, this is a Leafs year.

[Paul Bissonette]

Wow. That is such a. Because we ride with you and obviously I ride with you guys and I love you boys. And even if you didn't and you wanted to keep trolling me like hockey is in such an amazing place right now. Like the gameplay, playoffs, the parody and the fact that you have like these Bravo types type, bachelorette type like chaotic things, drama wise happening off the ice. There's nothing better than the NHL right now. Top dogs. The top dogs right now. And it's so cool to see because the players reciprocate the energies, the, the energy of the fans and vice versa. And that's the passion of hockey fans. And I still love Leaf Nation and the people involved, the ones who are coming at me where they're like, it's all about the, the crowd crest. I don't give a. About the front of the crest rather than my, my good Friend. And that's the end of that.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

So. So hopefully they can see where I'm coming from. And I. I'm glad you guys got the backstory, but. But at the end of the day, this is complete theater. Yeah, it's theater. And I'm interested to see what they're able to do, the Leafs, because I think that with their roster right now, I think that they'll be in playoffs next year.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. The fact that they got the number one overall pick after all this happened was just the most chaotic scene possible.

[Paul Bissonette]

Insane.

[PFT Commenter]

It. It was nuts. I read a story that this guy, when he was in. In Phoenix, he had, like, a bunch of computer screens that would be on in his office, and they had, like, charts and graphs on it, but the charts and graphs weren't actually monitoring anything. It was just, like, to show that he was an analytics guy and he's got numbers on all the screens. Have you heard that?

[Paul Bissonette]

So I. I did hear that story, and I don't know if that's true or not. I feel like that might be one. Just trying to kind of pile on. And. And I do think that this guy. Guy, he does have an analytics company, and he is big into analytics. There is one other story where, like, I. I don't have any personal vendetta about this. I actually, like, would probably shake his hand for it. So I was approached by a guy, Craig Morgan, at the time when I, When I retired, I was working. When all that was going down, I was working for the Coyotes because I went back to do radio. So I got to hang around with Tyson Nash, Bob Heathouse, all the Rich Nairn who hired me, who was our PR guy while I was playing there, and who, like, allowed me to have I reboot my Twitter account. All people I loved and had my back while I was there. So I was traveling with the team doing radio at the time, and I, I was drinking. Like, I, I don't drink anymore, but I was drinking them. But I was more into weed, and I. I felt like the weed would help with my anxiety, and it was just, to me, a better high than being drunk. So I got approached by this Craig Morgan who was working with the team and the Athletic as a. A, A writer. And he approached me, he's like, hey, I want to talk to you about, like, your cannabis use and, like, how it helps you and stuff like that. And. And I was like, oh, sure. Just assuming that he had already asked the team. And. And so we talked about this article. Oh, you know, why do you do it.

[Max]

Why?

[Paul Bissonette]

How does it help with your anxiety? Like, I'm like, oh, I. You know, I obviously had a lot of concussions throughout my days, and I feel like doing that is a higher buzz than boozing, and I like doing it, and it makes me happier.

[Max]

Blah, blah, blah.

[Paul Bissonette]

The article comes out and the team is, like, furious at me, and they end up kicking me off the road. I never travel with the team anymore after that, and they suspended me for five games. So I did work for weed buddy. For weed. For weed.

[Big Cat]

Ridiculous.

[Paul Bissonette]

And, like, buddy. I was trying to bring attention to the team. I was. I was doing, like, video content for him. But that was the moment where I realized, like, I'm. I'll just do whatever it is I want to do. As far, like. Like that I. I believe at the end of that season is when I ended up joining the podcast. And I said it like, I'm just gonna do any other side hustle, because why am I gonna put all my eggs in one basket for people who are gonna shun me and kick me off the road for smoking a little weed?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And are you thinking. Yeah. And now it's like a mandated part of your job, which is wonderful.

[Paul Bissonette]

I just. I just like that I like the herb. Like, I. I do. I will try to, you know, I mean, do you guys. You. You smoke?

[Big Cat]

You smoke?

[PFT Commenter]

I enjoy.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Not a drug guy, but, yeah, like, yes, I do drugs.

[Paul Bissonette]

I like weed, and I don't. I don't. I don't drink at all anymore. I actually, like, prefer smoking weed way more than boozing now. So that was another thing, like, other than the computer thing. Like, that's why I was like, whatever, I'm good. And.

[Big Cat]

And.

[Paul Bissonette]

And also my understanding is that that came from him and. And worked its way down.

[Big Cat]

Okay. All right. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Now you're presenting a good, pretty, pretty compelling case. Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

What I'm telling you is, like, I have no personal ill will.

[Big Cat]

We do, though. We'll take it. We thought the personal ill will.

[PFT Commenter]

We thought it might have been cool that he had, like, fake stats that he would have on random screen in his office. Sounded like a real mover to shaker. And now what you're telling us is maybe not a great guy to you.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, we.

[PFT Commenter]

We hate him and we have your back.

[Big Cat]

We'll do it. You just tell us Texas stuff you want us to say, and we'll just say it.

[Paul Bissonette]

I think we just let him be.

[Big Cat]

Okay. All right, all right.

[PFT Commenter]

Let's.

[Big Cat]

Let's talk hockey right now. Now it's Been awesome. Playoffs. Let's start with the series that ended. Hurricanes Flyers. Sweep by the Hurricanes. Zach, were you going to say something?

[Zach]

I was curious. We did come to the conclusion earlier that a sweep may have deemed a city not a basketball city. Does a Flyers hurricane sweep deem Philadelphia not a hockey city?

[Paul Bissonette]

No, no, no, no. Philadelphia Flyers.

[Max]

We didn't come to that. We didn't say the sweep was.

[Big Cat]

What else did you have, Zach, though? Oh. Oh.

[Zach]

The sweep wasn't the reason for the.

[Max]

It was that it was 73rd. There wasn't 70 Carolina hurricanes.

[Big Cat]

Got it. Got it.

[Zach]

Oh, this.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[Zach]

So was the sweep the reason for the wet?

[PFT Commenter]

That's why Matthew got wet earlier.

[Big Cat]

You got wet earlier for Sixers?

[Paul Bissonette]

Are you referencing the fact that Knicks fans kind of took over?

[Big Cat]

But what are you asking, Zach?

[Zach]

So would that be double wet wet?

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah. He does have to get soggy again.

[Max]

All right, I'll get soggy if Hank gets soggy twice for the. For the Bruins.

[Big Cat]

He did.

[PFT Commenter]

He got one.

[Big Cat]

He got wet for the Bruins.

[Max]

Yeah, I got wet for both.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he got wet for the. The Celtics, too.

[Max]

Yeah, no, he got wet once for both of those games.

[Big Cat]

He didn't get wet for the Bruins.

[Max]

No, you did not get wet twice. Yeah, sorry, B.

[Big Cat]

One second. We got to deal with some of this. All right, so then Hank has to get wet right now, too?

[Max]

No, we. It was one wet. We got one wet for Brian. Both. Both losses.

[PFT Commenter]

Memes. What do you think about this?

[Max]

I literally.

[Big Cat]

We got some internal stuff we got to deal with here.

[Memes]

I don't want to get yelled at.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, let's ask Biz. Biz, we have a rule on the show that when your team gets eliminated from the playoffs, you have to. You have to get wet. You got to go to the shower. So wetly, the Sixers, they got eliminated, so he got wet. But then we're wondering, is it double wet because the Flyers also got swept?

[Max]

But also, Biz, the same thing happened to Hank last week, and he just got wet once.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah. So, I mean, I think that you. You. You. It starts at the top, and Hank's a leader, and if he only got wet once, then you should.

[Max]

Great ruling, Biz.

[Big Cat]

Great ruling, by the way. We put Zach up to that, so that. That's not. Yeah, you make.

[Paul Bissonette]

Zach.

[Big Cat]

Zach. What the. Was that? Zach, you're okay, dude. All right, I. So I have a real question about this series. Max, don't get too.

[Paul Bissonette]

Oh, Max. We're good here, buddy. Let's hug it out, boys. Let's Hug it out.

[Big Cat]

Come on, Max. You're not wet, you're dry.

[Paul Bissonette]

If I, I could forgive John Cha, you could forgive Max.

[Big Cat]

Max, are we good?

[Max]

Yeah, whatever. Continue.

[Big Cat]

Okay, freaking out now. Zach, you're good. All right, let's talk about this actual series though, because I do have a question. Everyone kind of dogs on the Hurricanes in their, in their style of play, you know, the dump and chase and everything. Is that wrong? Because they also are just insanely good at forechecking. And, and they seem like, like, is it because they don't have a superstar? What is it? Why are people, why, why do people like, get annoyed with the Hurricanes when they've just started the playoffs with eight straight wins? They look awesome. What is it? What, what, what pisses people off about the Hurricanes?

[Paul Bissonette]

I don't know. I, I, you know, I, I, I, I can understand why some, some people might think that their system is boring. And maybe in the past, I will definitely say that so far this playoff, like, they have not been, they've been electric, like they've scored some amazing goals off the rush. They do like so many amazing things well. And in fact, like, they don't, like, they're the opposite of boring. They don't just sit back, they constantly attack you, even when they're playing defense, like they'll be up in your face. Like if they have forwards on a, on a control breakout, swinging like inside their own blue line, like they're going to have D man up in their face. So I think that it's a bad narrative now.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Paul Bissonette]

I could understand why maybe in years past, like, people didn't take them seriously because they knew once they got out of the Metro and they met a team like Florida who was just bigger, stronger, did have those superstars that they would get worked well, because people thought their system was a little bit boring. They didn't take them seriously and they knew that they would get worked by a team like Florida who had all those things that they didn't. Well, when Florida ended up working them, like, they got to say, haha, I told you so. I don't think that they have in the east, any team like Florida remaining. And I think that they're out to prove a lot of people wrong and they have a massive, massive chip on their shoulder and they deserve any bit of credit that they've, they're getting. And if anyone has doubted them or said negative things at this point, at least they should be getting on their hands and knees begging for forgiveness.

[Big Cat]

Okay? Because I, I like that because I Like I've, I've watched some of these Hurricanes. No, they're not like they're the way they fortune. They just basically say we're going to put pressure on you the entire game and it's going to suck beyond belief for you because you can't get the puck out of your own zone. And it's like fun to watch that style of play. I get it. No, no superstars but they just constantly keep like going at them and you, there's nothing you could do about it.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't think they're, they're, they've been that boring as much as what you kind of alluded to that it just sucks to play against them. You hate playing against them because it's boring. Like from, from my point of view, if I was rooting for the Capitals against the, the Hurricanes in the playoffs, it sucked. It was like nothing good would happen.

[Paul Bissonette]

They're not giving you any time and space.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[Paul Bissonette]

If anything that if you're a Carolina Hurricanes fan they are the type of team that makes you so proud to root for them because they're not like I think that they're still even at, at in, in today. They're still under the cap app. Now to go back to analytics, I believe that if you took all the teams in league they would probably base the most of their decision making on analytics and making sure they're getting the best bang for buck on their players and, and that's how they based a lot of their decisions over, over the years. And this Tulski guy who's like kind of he would be considered like a nerdy analytics GM but, but hey all the credit to him and the moves that he's made. He tried to make a big play last year where he came off of Naches, moved him to Colorado, got Rotten in without having him agree to sign a contract rotten and ended up saying no, I don't really want to be here. And that fizzled through. But on the goal line coming towards the deadline last year he made a trade to get Rotten and so rotten and this unreal elite player goes from getting, getting poached from Colorado where he'd won a Cup, doesn't want to sign in Carolina and he moves him at the deadline to Dallas for Stankhoven and then somehow works out a three way trade to get Taylor hall well along with a guy they, they've drafted and developed in Jackson Blake a former player, Jason Blake Song Son. They've formed the the second line on that team and they're the hottest Line in playoffs right now.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

So they have two of these guys locked in, moving, moving forward between Stank Hoven and Jackson. Blake Lake at just over 11 million bucks for the next eight years and they're dominating playoffs rotten and cost Dallas 12 million. So smart, smart moves, very efficient players. And then they got a guy, Taylor hall, who won a heart trophy with the New Jersey Devils, former first overall pick. They get got him off of Buffalo or excuse me, Chicago for cents on the dollar. And then they signed him to a deal where I think he's making 4 million. So you have the hottest line in the league, man, making 3 million than you paid the one superstar that you got rid of at the deadline last year that's making moves, baby.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Paul Bissonette]

And aside from that, the, the last compliment and stroke off I'll give him, I think it has to do with the culture setter, a guy who won a Stanley cup there and Rod Brindemore, he's their head coach. He was a maniac when he played. He would be the guy. First guy to the rink, in the gym, workout before practice, hardest working guy in practice, last guy on the ice, place after practice, go to the gym. Last guy to leave the rink, working out after games. This guy retired. He should be in the hall of Fame as a player isn't. And now he's led the Carolina Hurricanes since he's been head coach to I believe eight or nine now playoff appearances. And this is his third trip to the conference finals, I believe in the last four years where the last two times they've been, they've been swept. But man, this guy, he gets the most out of his players. An absolute culture setter. He's on a hometown discount as head coach there. And it is honestly, if you are a fan of sport, you, you have to be in love with the Carolina Hurricanes in their story.

[Big Cat]

Okay, I like this and I like this.

[Paul Bissonette]

You have to. And credit to Philly because everything they did this year to turn around their organization with Rick Talkett and management and despite all the noise and on the outside to get to the second round when they had a 3.8 chance with a lot of young guys in that lineup following the Olympics, to even make playoffs to beat Pittsburgh in the battle Battle of Pennsylvania with three, four hall of Famers on the other side, kudos to Philadelphia and my boy Rick Talker for doing what they did this year.

[PFT Commenter]

So with the Olympics, it's interesting you brought that up because I was going to ask you if, if there's been any noticeable trend of like, any of the guys that played on the Olympic team have. Have they bounced? But like, when they came back to. To their teams, have they been playing better? Have they been playing worse? Like, they're tired out. Has there been any, Any, any, like, noticeable thread that you've seen between all the Olympians?

[Paul Bissonette]

I think that for the majority of them, I think that they have like, like, exceeded my expectations and, and outperformed expectations based on how much hockey they've played this year. These guys are going. The. Hockey is such a brutal sport, boys. Like, I. Look, football is obviously very difficult, but they got a week between games. These guys are lacing them up like, like Brock Faber and Quinn Hughes from Minnesota played 30 minutes the other. Other night. They've been playing hockey every other day in games, battling for. For what, eight, nine months now and then going to play best on best. They each lugged 30 minutes the other night. They had five points combined. I would say 75 of them are still playing to elite status. And then there's some guys who are just dealing with probably sore groins and, you know, just hips are up, shoulders, whatever they're trying to play through. But I, I think that that more than. Than not have outperformed my expectations and people and still playing at an elite level.

[PFT Commenter]

LeBron played 37 last night. Just so you know, like, yeah, it's cool that they're playing 30. Yeah, he's 41. 37 minutes.

[Paul Bissonette]

Okay, let me ask you this. How many games. How many games in the regular seasons did he. Did he take off?

[Big Cat]

A couple maybe.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe a few here, there.

[Paul Bissonette]

To compare NBA and NHL, where any NBA had to make a rule where if you don't at least dress for 65 games that you can't play in playoffs. Boys, boys, we're not. We're. We're talking apples and oranges here.

[Big Cat]

40 minutes tonight and his knee went, like, sideways two weeks ago.

[Paul Bissonette]

Well, good for him. He's making 40 fucking million dollars.

[Big Cat]

He should be all right. Other gate, the abs. Is anyone. Anyone taking out the Aves? Also, do you have any thoughts on Nathan McKinnon going full scuba gear in the pool? I loved it. Like, guys can't play mermaids. What the fuck are we doing? I used to do that when I was a little kid. I'd get. I get the scuba mask. I just die. Five at the bottom of the pool for like five hours.

[Paul Bissonette]

What?

[Big Cat]

We can't do that anymore. We're getting shunned. Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

It was obviously a silly video for people who are unaware of. Of how Nathan McKinnon operates. So for you non hockey fans, this guy is an absolute dog. He's a, he's the, the. I think he's the biggest superstar in the league that will like go and like quote unquote handle his own business. I'm not talking about like fighting per se, but if there's a loose puck in a corner, he's going to try to take your head off to get it. And that's not what you see from skilled high end players all the time. They try to preserve themselves. But he'll go reverse hits, he'll go shoulder to shoulder with you heading into the wall to get the advantage. He also handles his off ice as more intense probably than anyone in the league as far as diet preparation. He has a mental coach physically like hyperbaric chambers, like anything to get the edge. He will do it. And one thing that Tyson Berry, his good friend who played with him in Colorado brought to our knowledge was in order to like recover, he gets to Zone 2 cardio on his off days and he does it through low impact exercise in the swimming pool. So he does that. He'll go in there with the snorkeler and the, and the goggles and with the like the, the, the footsy things and he just kind of gets his heart rate going and he go and does loser laps with, with the scuba gear on. And obviously it's, it's a little bizarre because like I, I bet you there's not one other guy in the NHL that does it, but he has some unauthentic, you know, things that he does as far as his preparation and, and who am I to, to judge him based on what he's bringing to the ice? He's all in. Every, every second of his day seems to be accounted for and how he's going to be ready to go and fire on all cylinders the next game. So no fascinating human.

[Big Cat]

All right, so we got no problem with the, with, with the swimming, with the scuba gear. Is anyone. What, what, what is stopping the abs? I know it's only two. One, so like the Wild, you know, answer.

[Paul Bissonette]

Well, the Wild can, yeah, play like they did last game. They, they'll, they could beat them like they, like the. It was the first time in these playoffs they, well won that Colorado's lost. Lost and two, they've looked human. And I think that the two guys I mentioned, Quinn Hughes and Brock Faber, can be a problem because they're so dynamic offensively from the back end, but they also have some superstar wingers and kirill Capri soft. Who's the Russian? He just signed the biggest deal in NHL history. Just over $17 million per year on an eight year deal. And then they have a guy on an absolute bargain deal in Boldy. Matt Boldy Goldie, who played for Team USA at the Olympics. Had the stellar. I think he scored the first goal in that gold medal game or at least made the play. I remember he was. I think he scored. He went and dangled through Cale McCarr and Taves, which is like unheard of. So they, they are dealing with a couple significant injuries right now, but they, I believe they have the edge in goaltending. They're D, they have a couple dynamic D and then those very skilled wingers. Now. Now I believe that Colorado will bounce back in game four, but I also believe in Minnesota and the culture that they've built with Bill Guerin, who is the GM of Team USA for the Olympics. They're dogs. Like they're at home. They're down two one. And game four is going to tell me everything I need to know about both teams.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, like that. What about, what about the Canadiens? Did Montreal figure out Buffalo?

[Big Cat]

What a crowd.

[Paul Bissonette]

So what? First of all, if, if, if you're just like a sports fan, if you ever have the ability to go to Montreal to watch a playoff game, do it.

[PFT Commenter]

It's unreal.

[Paul Bissonette]

The, the, the. They. They usually bring out a legend. He brings out the torch. He brings it out. They like ignite the ice and the ice is in flames. And then cold plays, playing. And they're coming on the ice. Every Canadiens fan is in a red jersey waving the towels as they come on the ice. They know it's like going to watch a British Premier League soccer game. Game where even a little subtle poke check defensively, they'll cheer for it. Yeah, like Bravo, Great job. So the, the knowledge of the fan base and the crowd is just so fun to be there and be a part of. Outside. They have 25, 000 people outside the building going crazy with the monitors out there too. So you see that a lot with sports now, but they like lead the way in that regard. And they're the New York Yankees of, of like the players, the way they're treated. They got paparazzi. It's just insane. And Martin St. Louis, a French Canadian player who was, you know, as a Hall of Famer, I don't know if he is yet, but he might be, but he should be one Stanley Cup. I believe he won an mvp. He's now their head Coach and has taken this young group to the next level and they, yeah they, they have a great, well built team. Like they just. They have a really good team. Top four lines. Their, their D are very good. They got good contracts. They have a superstar defenseman, Lane Hudson. Cole Caufield was 50 goal this year. He was a Wisconsin Badger. Nick Suzuki is going to win the Selkie trophy. But I would say that right now Buffalo's America's team.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[Paul Bissonette]

So it kind of sucks that they're. They. The last two games they've been laid. Laid a big in the. A bit of an egg but five on five they don't look great. Their power play's been killing them a little bit and they're getting worked in the face off circle so they're not even starting with the puck. Like I don't know the last time I've seen a team get dominated this bad in this face off circle in a playoff series where I've taken notice to it. They're like 60 to 65% they're starting with the puck. So for five on five that's just killing them and they're just, they're just good. They, they know they feed off the crowd and Buffalo is a little bit inexperienced and you, you can see it right now. They look a little bit shook. So I'm interested to see just like I said up about knowing and finding out everything we need to know about those two teams in game four. If Montreal takes a 31 series lead there's I, I think they're going to close that thing out and they're going to move on to care play Carolina. So Buffalo's on the hot seat and then the one thing with them is the question mark and net. Do you go back to Alex Lyon or are you going to Upa Pekka Lukan the finish kid?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, the. I just looked.

[PFT Commenter]

They.

[Big Cat]

They won 62% of their face offs tonight.

[Paul Bissonette]

That's not a recipe for success.

[Big Cat]

No. And.

[Paul Bissonette]

And they were. Buffalo fans are bitching about the refs but I thought they, they. They didn't play a very smart game. They need to get, they need to get back to playing more physical and, and more on. More with an edge especially at the, at the fact that they have the size. Size advantage.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

There was a big, there was a big moment for me in this series and was with Greenway and Anderson. Montreal. Anderson's with Montreal and at the end of last game Montreal was I believe up 4:1 and Greenway is like 6:4, 6, 5. He's even bigger than Anderson. And he was going up and cross checking him, punching him back of the head and basically bullying him and calling him a little like you. You little. We just worked you in your building and you're a little. You're my. And Greenway just took it and didn't do anything. And he's a fourth liner. And I'm like, bud, drop the gloves and pound that guy's face in and show your team that you're not backing down. And you, we'll see you in Montreal. You didn't do all. Then they went to Montreal and got absolutely ragged all tonight. And he didn't go after Anderson. He didn't do anything. I thought that that was a very pivotal moment where hockey has a lot to do with intimidation. And I'm a. If I was the coach or one of the guys on the team, I would go up and tap him and say, day, go grab that guy and pump his eyes shut. I don't even care if you're.

[Max]

You're.

[Paul Bissonette]

It's not in you. You gotta fake it till you make it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

Grab onto him and wrestle them and then go to the ground. At least I like that.

[Big Cat]

Don't pump his eyes shut.

[PFT Commenter]

As a Canadian, are. Are you. Are you rooting for Montreal?

[Paul Bissonette]

I'm so. Well, keep in mind, I'm from southern Ontario. Like, I used to go watch more Buffalo Sabers game than Leafs games growing up because the ticket they would give us tickets at park car and I would go to the. The old odd Buffalo auditorium. So I'm kind of 50 50. But if Montreal wins, I. I would love to see a Canadian team go the distance and win. It would be awesome. And my Paul Bissamette. My family's from Montreal. Well, I'm French Canadian.

[Big Cat]

You also like, there's. You can't have another southern team. We've had the Panthers win and then now you have the abs looking like the best team. You can't have a southern team win the cup again.

[PFT Commenter]

That you Minnesota? A lot of southern teams since that.

[Paul Bissonette]

We talked about that. Calling Colorado south like Southern United States. Yeah, I've had a few people back me. Like, it's. We're on the cusp. We're on the cusp here. It's more west than south and I get that. But we're on the cusp there.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. All right. So like if you had to repick it. Right now we're watching the Knife Ducks series right now, which. This will be a pivotal game.

[Paul Bissonette]

What's the score now?

[Big Cat]

It's 2. 2.

[Paul Bissonette]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

But if you had to pick, is it ABS or is it like, have you seen something like Hurricanes? I mean the Hurricanes have not lost in the playoffs.

[Paul Bissonette]

I mean if you, if you held a gun to my head, I would say Avalanche just because I, I just, I look at their roster and right now they're other than Josh Manson who might, who's coming back any game now. He, they look healthy. Healthy. I would lean towards them. But if Minnesota wins next game, like that's a coin flip. And then if Vegas wins this game, they're going to be up 3:1 in that series. And Vegas is good, man. They got a strong team, they got good goaltending. And the other funny element of the Lee all the Leafs chatter is Mitch Marner who is, is having an unbelievable playoff. Probably one of the top guys like for like the Con Smythe Trophy right now. He's got half the amount of goals in one playoff than he had for the Leafs his entire career. And you could say that Leafs fans kind of ran him out of town. And I was, I was ragging on a little bit in, in like 18 games in playoffs. That and maybe it's 21 games that he played for the Leafs from Games 5 to 7. So in very important closeout games where you were deciding series, he had zero goals and six assists. Well, this is a guy who wanted top dollar coming out of his entry level contract, wanted to be paid like a superstar. And in crunch time, I mean I'm not just putting it all on him, but he didn't deliver. So I was kind of like, ah, I'm like enough. He can, he can, he can leave. We don't need him anymore. Let's try to solve our problems without him. Regardless of how good he was in the regular season. Well, now he's gone off to Vegas and onto bigger and brighter things. So it just throws more salt in the wound how crazy that the, the 12 month turnaround for the Toronto Maple Leafs has been. And I do feel bad because I ragged on it probably too hard. But he deserves all the praise that he's getting now and how he's rebounded and performed so far in these playoffs. And like I said, probably the front runner in the west, if not top three for who I would give the Con Smythe to as of right now.

[Big Cat]

Now. Okay, and go.

[Paul Bissonette]

Go ahead.

[PFT Commenter]

I, I was going to ask you about like you're, you're moving on from the Leaf. So I wanted to know, you mentioned that your, your fandom is kind of up for Auction or you're searching, you're trying to figure out who it's going to be. Like what. What are we thinking about? Do you have like a handful of teams that, that you're going to pick from?

[Paul Bissonette]

So there is a possibility that, that the Leafs do pick Stenberg as the first overall pick. People say that right now he might be a little bit more NHL ready and ready to step in. In. This is a very deep draft, I think for the first three to five picks. So who knows? Maybe it's one of those things where McKenna ends up dropping. I don't think that's going to be the case. If McKenna drops to two, San Jose ended up getting the second overall pick. Right now I'm rocking a San Jose Sharks Macklin Celebrini jersey. This kid Stud is a stud. He is a freak. He's the next Sydney Cross Crosby. He didn't get nominated for the Hart Trophy this year because his team didn't make the playoffs. He finished with more than 50 points, more than the next guy in his team and dragged them to like the end of the season. Almost making playoffs, putting the team on his back as a 20 year old. Just dominate. He dominated the Olympics, like best on best. He was the, like. He was like arguably the best player for Canada. Maybe just as good, if not better than McDavid who got the MVP. But I digress. They got second overall and got lucky with the lottery ball too, to bump up. If McKenna drops to 2, I think it's going to be automatic. I'm jumping on San Jose Sharks train.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay?

[Paul Bissonette]

If not, there are a lot of options I have as far as who I may go to. But as you can see, my. The hat I'm wearing, I might keep it neutral and not root for a team for like a year. Like, I might just wait, hang in the weeds, not be a biased donkey like my boy Whit and like I been in the past.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, look at you got.

[Hank]

We got.

[Big Cat]

We got a league off right here.

[Hank]

The league.

[Paul Bissonette]

I think our logo is so much cooler than yours.

[PFT Commenter]

No, my. This is the best. I've always said the, the Jerry West. You got no respect for Jerry West.

[Big Cat]

The logo.

[Paul Bissonette]

I got respect for Jerry.

[Big Cat]

Good.

[PFT Commenter]

Good respect.

[Big Cat]

All right, I got one last question for you, Biz. You're the best. Roback question. R B ak.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q, zips, polos, hoodies.

[Paul Bissonette]

One more crazy thing about Vegas. Yeah, they fought. They're known as one of the most cutthroat organizations in the League with the decisions they make. They fired their head coach, who they won a Stanley cup with a few years back. Four day, four games before playoff start.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

And hired John Torello. So you talk about all the craziness and drama and that's been going on with the NHL like it kept getting crazier and crazier and crazier. Oh, sorry. It was like maybe 11 games. There was another team that fired their coach four games before trying to make playoffs. Fired Islanders. Yeah. Yeah, Islanders Patrick Wall, hall of fame goalie. He went and convinced the guy to move his wave, his no move clause in St. Louis to come to them. And then four games of four playoffs, they fire him and hire Pete DeBoer, who was a. A coach waiting in the weeds. So the NHL is.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

It's unreal.

[Big Cat]

All right, promo code, take roback.com promo code, take Q. Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com promo code, take. Zach, do you have a final question for biz? Oh, by the way, the name popped in my head. B.B. jones. That's who we were talking about earlier.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yep. Yep. She went. So. So we had intercourse. And she went on a local radio show the next morning because I wouldn't post a picture with her. And she told the whole valley I had a small wiener and I didn't last long in bed.

[PFT Commenter]

That's mean. You've probably lasted, what, three minutes?

[Paul Bissonette]

Well, it went longer than that because her boyfriend kept calling. I found out because I found out was her boyfriend through that interview she was on the next morning for. So I'm going. I'm. I'm heading to the rink. The next day, we have a game against. Against the Chicago Blackhawks fighting for a playoff position. And I'm listening to the whole valley find out I have a small wiener and I'm horrible on the side. So, I mean, if you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at yourself, but that shit's funny.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. All right, Zach, finish.

[Paul Bissonette]

I don't think I got a small one. I would say it's like.

[Big Cat]

No, I've seen it.

[Paul Bissonette]

Average.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it's decent.

[Paul Bissonette]

You've seen my rope.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. You've been.

[PFT Commenter]

You're not shy.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. You take helicopter cock? Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

You're not shy, but I mean, yeah, if you. If you clipped it, then you'd lose, you know, half inch. So smart move not doing that.

[Paul Bissonette]

That's the thing. I must have rolled it back when she saw it. Anyway, roll back. Last question.

[Zach]

Yeah, B. Congratulations on having an Absolute piece. I was curious. Is Matthew Schaefer the Grace?

[Paul Bissonette]

You're the best. No future is what is Matthew.

[Zach]

Is Matthew Schaefer the future face of this league? And if so, will it cement him as the grace Canadian of all time?

[Paul Bissonette]

No, I would say that it would. You can't beat Wayne Gretzky when it comes to hockey players. And the greatest like Canadian of all time shout out like all the other great Canadians like Michael Myers, Alexander Graham Bell, Justin Bieber, John Candy, like the list goes on. We Jim, Atlantis, Morrison. A little ironic, don't you think?

[Big Cat]

A little too ironic.

[Paul Bissonette]

Yeah. Really do thing.

[Big Cat]

It's like rain. Yep.

[Paul Bissonette]

On your wedding day Sing with me.

[Big Cat]

It's a free ride when you're ready. It's good

[PFT Commenter]

that you just didn't take. Who would know.

[Paul Bissonette]

Jam. Matthew Schaer is going to win the Calder for rookie of the year year. He had probably the greatest rookie season for a defenseman in the history of the NHL this year and he is on his way to becoming one of the greats and I, I hope that he's able to follow it up next year. And he's such an amazing kid. And sure as we're doing this interview on Mother's Day and he unfortunately lost his mother to a battle with cancer. And this kid who has been through and dealt with all that, got drafted last year, obviously not having his mother there and had the, the cancer ribbon on his jersey when he was drafted. He was in tears. Obviously wanted his mother, who he adored to be there. He battles through all that adversity, comes in his first year in the league and does what he does with, with, with, with all, all the circumstances. So. What a kid. What a special kid and a special player. And we're, we're blessed. The NHL has them all right.

[Big Cat]

The NHL's in great hands.

[Paul Bissonette]

Shout out to all the moms out there, the amazing mothers.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Bibi, what's up?

[Paul Bissonette]

You're a idiot. She is a mother. She's a mother now. She doesn't work in the industry.

[Big Cat]

Not yours.

[Paul Bissonette]

Not my. No, no.

[Big Cat]

Not yours. Not yours.

[Hank]

All right.

[Big Cat]

Biz, you're the best. We love you. And we'll. We'll talk maybe before the Stanley Cup Final, boys.

[Paul Bissonette]

Great. I love talking puck with you guys and I know I rambled a lot, but I hope I gave you guys a lot of background back information and, and what's going on with our amazing league. So anybody who listen, thank you guys. Love you and you guys are the best. I love you all.

[Big Cat]

And John Cha. Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Big Cat]

No, no, no, no.

[PFT Commenter]

We say not you. Not you.

[Big Cat]

No, no. We're biz guys. We don't like the guy. You can, you could take the high road. We're taking the low road.

[Paul Bissonette]

How about, how about we put our energy to just.

[Big Cat]

Let's.

[Paul Bissonette]

Why don't we show love for Shane Doan right now? One of the biggest. He's the N NHL has ever seen. Over 1500 games played, over a thousand points and. And he's a hall of fam. A donor.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

Donor human being.

[PFT Commenter]

Lots of respect for donor.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[Paul Bissonette]

You guys are the best.

[Big Cat]

John Ch.

[PFT Commenter]

We're donor party on this podcast.

[Big Cat]

All right. Thanks biz.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big Cat]

Okay, let's wrap up the show. The Timberwolves have tied the series. Anthony Edwards, dude, that guy had his leg went backwards 10 days ago and he came out tonight. I think he was taking oxygen during the game. Absolute dog. What a performance. I know Wemby's out because he. He elbowed a little oopsie. A little oopsie flagrant, too. Dylan Harper's face, by the way, was so funny in that. Yeah, Chat thought he was so funny.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, it was clearly just like. It was a right call. Yeah, it should have been a flagrant.

[Big Cat]

No, he. He went after him, smashed him. But. But Anthony Edwards, this is why the Timberwolves, like, you know when Friday night happens and Wemby just has a historic night where he just completely. He's an alien and dominated that game to a level that they were throwing out, like, the stats where the only other guys who did what he did were Kareem, Hakeem, Shaq, and Wemby. Like, that's. Those are. Those are the best centers of all time. And Wemby is in his first playoffs doing like this. And then Sunday night happens and again Wemby's out. But still, this is what the Timber rules are. They're just absolute dogs. And Anthony Edwards, like, on one leg drops 36 and just will not let the Timber rules lose this game. And they've like, Julius Randle has not been great, great. And they. They still like Anthony Edwards. Like, I gotta just do this. And he did it. And it's. He's. He's the man. He's just absolutely awesome to watch and awesome to like, see. He just. He just. He has that, like, killer instinct that even when is going bad, he's like, I'm going to just will myself to a victory here. And now we have a series which if you look like big picture, the Timberwolves and Spurs are just gonna kick the out of each other and then the Thunder are gonna kill whoever's like, battered, because the Thunder are gonna be. Have a whole entire week off. But I don't care because this has been a fun series to watch, I

[PFT Commenter]

think, no matter who. So here. Here's where I've ended up because I. I picked the Nuggets in six against the Timberwolves in the first round. I felt pretty confident about that. And then I Learned my lesson. I was like, I think that the Timberwolves can beat the Spurs. I don't know that they will, but I think that they can because I'm done, done. I'm done doubting the Timberwolves after everything they've done in. It feels like the last three playoffs,

[Big Cat]

you know, every year, every sing, they.

[PFT Commenter]

They crush somebody.

[Memes]

And.

[PFT Commenter]

And I feel like the Timberwolves might be the team that would give the Thunder the best push in these playoffs just because I feel I've seen them do it again and again and again against supposedly, you know, outmatched opponents. So I feel like, deter. If they can beat the Spurs. Spurs, I think that might be our best recipe for the. To have like a close Western Conference finals. Yes.

[Hank]

Hank, you're wearing the NBA hat.

[Big Cat]

You're.

[Hank]

You're a league guy.

[PFT Commenter]

League.

[Hank]

Would you say that the best case scenario for the finals is Spurs, Knicks, 99 throwback? No.

[PFT Commenter]

Are you talking about ratings? Yeah, no, I think it'd be Lakers, Knicks.

[Big Cat]

Well, yeah, okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Technically still alive, so.

[Big Cat]

Gotcha. He's right on that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he's a hot 100. You're counting LeBron out.

[Hank]

Yeah, I am.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

That was just my thought as a sports junkie. Regardless, my own sport, I play.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. No, but it would be realistically the best ratings.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes, the realistic scenario of, of the, the spurs with Wimy against the New York Knicks. Yeah, I think that's it.

[Big Cat]

Also, Dylan Harper was awesome when he had to step in and just. He, he was great. I mean, the spurs are really good. It's just.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Wemby's got to not elbow people's heads. Heads off. I don't. There's no way he gets suspended, right?

[PFT Commenter]

No, I don't think so.

[Big Cat]

But there has been precedent for this type of runner test. Remember, Ron, our test, like, almost took James Harden's like, head clear. It was regular season different.

[Hank]

But his elbow up at people's heads, it's different.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Ron Artest also did have, you know, a history at that point to where it was like, all right, we're gonna, we're gonna get him anyway. I, it was, it was a weird play because it was. They. They didn't call the foul beforehand, but then Wemby still. You can't, you can't do that.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I mean, he got, he got pushed a little bit. He did kind of snap. I don't know what the monks have been teaching him. I feel like monks are non violent by nature. Right. So, like, that he should figure out, as a Frenchman his first instinct should be to not fight back.

[Big Cat]

He also should learn the rules because he had no idea what the flagrant.

[PFT Commenter]

He's a kiska safe flagrant too.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. What is this? What do you mean I'm not playing anymore. I. I would expect a incredible wy. Game five coming up.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I. I think so. Memes. I saw. I saw. I think you tweeted out about this. Is it true that shimpag that he's on the spurs because the Sixers cut him?

[Max]

Well, maybe you come like a little bit close to pronouncing his name right.

[Big Cat]

And that would work better.

[Max]

Just like a little bit close.

[Big Cat]

All right, go. Go ahead.

[PFT Commenter]

Champagne?

[Max]

Nope.

[PFT Commenter]

Champagne?

[Max]

Nope.

[PFT Commenter]

Champagne?

[Max]

Nope.

[PFT Commenter]

Champagne?

[Max]

Nope.

[PFT Commenter]

Champagne?

[Big Cat]

Answer the question. Meme. Sl.

[PFT Commenter]

Max, I have no idea what you're talking about. What do you mean you have no idea? You tweeted it up out.

[Memes]

I don't think so.

[PFT Commenter]

I thought it was you. Wasn't me.

[Big Cat]

I get. I get up sometimes from PMT stats. It might have been that same same that will get me every.

[PFT Commenter]

Now let me. Let me look this up.

[Max]

Yes. And you know why he's not a sixer.

[Big Cat]

BFT.

[Max]

Your guy, Mac McClung. Yeah, they dropped him to add Mac McClung to active roster so that he could compete in the Duncon contest.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, that's kind of crazy.

[Big Cat]

And your guy, Josh Harris.

[Max]

Yeah,

[Big Cat]

you're right.

[PFT Commenter]

It was PMT stats. Good job. PMT stats. That's a fun PMT stat.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he does get me sometimes. He's a good dude. But. Yeah, this is. This is kind of. This is the series we have to cling on to when it comes to the NBA playoffs.

[Paul Bissonette]

Right now.

[Big Cat]

It's been great Tuesday night. So we. What. What's a What did they bump up the time for this game because of no other game? Hopefully so. Oh, seven o'. Clock. There we go. Get excited, Wemb. Yeah, Wemby's gonna. You know, I mean, getting a li. Also take it out of this game. He's gotta. He's gotta. He's gonna be fresh.

[PFT Commenter]

Shout out to Nas Reed for just like. For taking that like a champ, too.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah. Dogs are just dogs. They. Everyone on the Timberwolves is a dog.

[PFT Commenter]

So Jade McDaniels is dog.

[Big Cat]

Oh, my God.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, I. Oh, my God. The Nuggets suck at defense. Jokic sucks at defense. Murray sucks at defense. Every.

[Big Cat]

He just backed it up.

[PFT Commenter]

He called them all out by name.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And then, yeah, he proved that the

[Big Cat]

Edwards leg went backwards. There was the realistic timeline was for him to not play in this series. Yeah, he's played every game. He's basically like, yeah, I'll just rehash on the fly. Okay. Good show, boys. PGA Championship.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

This week, Shane Bacon on Wednesday.

[Hank]

Major.

[PFT Commenter]

Is that in major?

[Big Cat]

Philly.

[Hank]

Philly.

[PFT Commenter]

Philly.

[Hank]

Max took his prom pictures there.

[Paul Bissonette]

It's true.

[PFT Commenter]

This is a golf town, Philly, not, not a basketball town.

[Big Cat]

That'd be funny if there's just a bunch of Bing bongs going off. By the way, I asked Jerry o' Connor if he wanted to, if he had a statement. He said. I said Nixon for eight days ago. I'm on to OKC was last week. Nothing to say. Okay, so he's, yeah, he called the shot. Jerry was very right. Yeah, he said it almost immediately. He's right, Mr. Bing Bong. He's right. Hey, Shane. Shane. You ready to get charged up?

[PFT Commenter]

I'm always charged up.

[Big Cat]

Are you ready? Are you ready? Where's it gonna go? I mean, probably in the rafters. 43. I bought a four 43 foot long get charged up banner. Wherever it is, I'll be there. I'm ready for the unveiling. Yeah, I think you got to do the unveiling. Me? Yeah. What do you mean?

[PFT Commenter]

I can do that? That'd be, that'd be the honor of a lifetime.

[Big Cat]

There we go. Get charged up, bro.

[PFT Commenter]

The whole office get charged up. Charged up.

[Big Cat]

Oh, we're all getting bolted. That's what I'm talking about. Every day you're gonna walk in, you're gonna be like, oh, I forgot to get charged up.

[Paul Bissonette]

Facts.

[Big Cat]

Right, Right.

[PFT Commenter]

Bolt up, let's go.

[Max]

Hell yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

If anybody from the, from the Washington Mystics knows where to get our hands on the WNBA attendance champion, I will purchase them. I would love to have.

[Big Cat]

They have six of them.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe three. I, I, I will buy up to three of them.

[Big Cat]

Dude, I've been trying to get those. I want the Florida State Covid one. I want the St. Joe's one. Just bad banners. Give let us know we're we're in the market for. I want this whole office to just become a, basically a sports museum where everyone's like, oh, I guess that's cool.

[Max]

Like you watch out of space.

[Big Cat]

You're like, oh, okay. I get. Yeah, I guess the bills trough's cool. A lot of that reaction. Nothing, nothing. To be like, oh my God, you have that? No.

[PFT Commenter]

No. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Oh, all right. Yeah. Yeah. How much did you pay for that? A lot of that. I want that. I want the whole museum to be like that maybe that's the name of the museum.

[Max]

The.

[Big Cat]

How much did you pay for that? Ooh.

[Hank]

So also shout out to four Aces if they have a, a championship ban or live Virginia team win.

[Big Cat]

They won.

[PFT Commenter]

Why would they get rid of that, Hank?

[Hank]

I don't know if they're, maybe they make double when they make one. Make two.

[Paul Bissonette]

Okay. All right.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And I think that the Bills, I think that they have had OJ Simpson's jersey retired for like 40 years.

[Big Cat]

We'll take it.

[PFT Commenter]

But then they unretired it. But at some point they had to have a banner saying it was retired. Right. Yeah, we would take that.

[Big Cat]

We'll take it. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Numbers 4, 15, 14.

[Big Cat]

Why'd you say 4?

[Max]

4 is 6.

[Zach]

18.

[Hank]

Double sweep.

[PFT Commenter]

What about a statue?

[Memes]

Can we get a statue like giving away?

[Big Cat]

I actually, boys, I, I would.

[PFT Commenter]

100.

[Big Cat]

Buy the Joe Pa statue. I think it would be a great statement piece, I think. All right. Hey, listen, I'm not, I know there's controversy around it, but imagine you walk in and the Joe Pa statue right there. Holy. That's a, that. You don't have to do small talk when you got the Joppa statue. You're, bam, you're in the conversation. You're, you're, you're putting, you're, you're, you're doing the John Taffer stress test on guess instantly. What do you think about that? Oh, man. All right. 77. How sick would that be, though?

[Hank]

11.

[Big Cat]

We just had it. When you walk in the front door.

[PFT Commenter]

I, I, I think they're bringing it back. I don't think they're selling it. They're waiting, they're waiting a couple.

[Big Cat]

You want to see what I am trying to buy?

[PFT Commenter]

Like another 20 years and they're going to be like, yeah, we're going to Bring this back.

[Big Cat]

63. 63 max. Can you, can you pull up the, it's called the Nails Tails statue. It's from Madison, from Wisconsin. We had this statue up for like 10 years and then they took it down and it hasn't been seen. They said they were putting it somewhere else. Pft. Look at this. It's a penis shaped statue, 43ft tall of footballs.

[PFT Commenter]

That's all football.

[Big Cat]

That's footballs, dude.

[PFT Commenter]

Where would you, what was it for?

[Big Cat]

We'll just find a place.

[PFT Commenter]

Where was it made?

[Max]

43ft it was just made.

[Big Cat]

It was put in front of Camp Randle. It's there for a while. It's been taken down. Look at that. Look at all the footballs. Pft.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, but why did they. I don't understand why they one built it in the first place. But why would they take it down?

[Big Cat]

Supply, like, the art of, like the. The struggle of football. I don't know why they took it down, but I'm trying to find it. Could you imagine if we had this?

[PFT Commenter]

It looks kind of like a. A football butt plug.

[Big Cat]

How sick would that be? Yeah, imagine if we had this. 43, 4.

[Max]

Where would this go?

[Big Cat]

We could figure it out.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, there's one other statue I was thinking about the other day. Why can we try to track down the subway statue that they made of Robert Griffin out of. Out of deli meat?

[Big Cat]

I don't think.

[Memes]

Isn't it just deli meat?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, look it up. Look it up.

[Max]

I don't.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know what it's actually made out of of.

[Big Cat]

I think it's deli meat.

[Memes]

It's a subway.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Paul Bissonette]

Where would it.

[PFT Commenter]

Look at that thing?

[Big Cat]

It's deli meat.

[PFT Commenter]

Where can we get that? Does that still exist?

[Big Cat]

I don't think it exists anymore. It's deli meat.

[PFT Commenter]

You can't destroy that, though.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Pft. It doesn't.

[PFT Commenter]

It's.

[Big Cat]

It's eyes are olives.

[PFT Commenter]

You make that in its art, and I don't think anyone in good conscience could destroy that.

[Big Cat]

You're like asking for like an ice statue. Yeah. You're asking for like, hey, does anyone got that sandwich I was eating 10 years ago? Go. You're like, leave it.

[PFT Commenter]

You can't. You can't put that sandwich outdoors because birds will eat it.

[Big Cat]

I had a chicken parm. Where. Where'd it go? Yeah, yeah, No, I. I don't think we can. I mean, maybe. Who knows?

[PFT Commenter]

Robert, Let us know.

[Zach]

Nail.

[Big Cat]

All right, one more.

[PFT Commenter]

15, 11.

[Big Cat]

Same number. 77.

[PFT Commenter]

Also pre. A Pre. Happy birthday coming up on Thursday. Thursday's Max Homa's birthday. Oh, happy.

[Big Cat]

Hell yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

On a major Thursday. Happy birthday, max. In advance. 81.

[Big Cat]

81. Anyone?

[PFT Commenter]

Anyone?

[Big Cat]

Also, can we do a, a, a happy birthday because they literally were born, I think, two days ago. Lean.

[PFT Commenter]

Lean.

[Paul Bissonette]

La.

[Big Cat]

You didn't see L1?

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Which one?

[Big Cat]

Lamello Son. Oh, no. You named him Le1.

[PFT Commenter]

Le1 is his name.

[Big Cat]

I had to look at this shut up so many times thinking that I was getting sentled.

[PFT Commenter]

Pop the champagne.

[Big Cat]

LA one. How is that?

[PFT Commenter]

Little one is an incredible name. So his name is LA1Ball.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

That's awesome.

[Paul Bissonette]

Ball.

[Big Cat]

It can't be real. Real. That's no way. But then the real. I just. I stared at it like I. It was. I saw the NBA Central tweeted it and I stared at the Twitter account for 10 minutes being like, am I miss? It's Sento, right? It's got to be Sento. Leone. Happy birthday, Lewan.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, my God. Every birthday, Sabrina Carper. Happy birthday to Cam Newton and Matt Leiner and Billy Bean. Moneyball ball. And also Tuesday is Steve Smith. Noted. And Mo Ba and Jonah Lomo. Maybe the best rugby player ever, ever to play. Love you guys.