NBA Summer League Pitfalls, Knicks: Finals or Bust? Drake's London Lies | 7.18

Summary

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Podcast Summary: NBA Summer League Pitfalls, Knicks: Finals or Bust? Drake's London Lies

The Right Time with Bomani Jones | Host: Wave | Guest: The Kid Mero
Date: July 18, 2025

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Episode Overview

This high-energy live episode features Bomani Jones and The Kid Mero, riffing with sharp humor and insight on the experiences and oddities of NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, the evolving (and increasingly impatient) psyche of Knicks fans, and the absurdities of recent pop culture—most notably, Drake’s “London authenticity” claims. Throughout, the hosts highlight generational gaps, media hype, and shifting standards in both sports and music, all in the signature candid, playful style listeners love.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Vegas Summer League: Rituals, Pitfalls, and Personalities

• Navigating Vegas:

  • Crowd banter opens the show before the hosts note the perils of live, on-stage entrances and the universal comedy of falling in public (02:08).
  • "There's always wires and shit on the floor... and falling is always funny." —Bomani (02:08)

• Summer League Atmosphere:

  • Summer league as a “family reunion” for the basketball world—where retired legends, fringe prospects, and current stars mingle.
  • Spotting big names in mundane places becomes a game—Rudy Gay, Sleepy “Creepy” Floyd, Joel Anthony, etc. (05:24–06:28).
  • Fans and players alike try (unsuccessfully) to blend in, especially the notably tall.
  • Mero jokes about NBA dads and their peculiar pride (10:02–11:09).

• Young Players, Bad Decisions:

  • Bomani relates the classic rookie tale: blowing their full per diem in Vegas, sometimes within hours—highlighted by one player's last crumpled $25 bet on blackjack (07:37).
  • "He had $25 worth of fun in Las Vegas. And $25 worth of fun in Las Vegas is no fun." —Bomani (08:10)
  • Mero teases about atmosphere models and the many Vegas temptations faced by young NBAers (08:31–09:04).

• Heat and Deals:

  • Vegas in July is “the hottest place I've ever been,” but the oppressive heat actually makes it a discount destination for basketball diehards (09:36–09:57).

• Generational Gap & Aging in Sports:

  • Comparison of ages between hosts and incoming players underscores how rapidly the league cycles through generations (13:28–14:09).
  • The hosts reflect on being called “Unk” and how respect for elders (i.e., "sir") has faded (15:23).
  • "Perhaps it is affectionate, but it comes with no respect." —Bomani on being called “Unk” (15:21)

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2. Pop Culture, Social Commentary, & British Rap Debacles

• Celebrating “Mid” & Clipsmas:

  • The duo riff on how young folks mistakenly think “mid” means bad, not average, and how online culture forces everything to be “classic” or “trash” (18:19–19:19).
  • "Can we normalize saying things are good again? Because good has become an insult." —Bomani (19:13)
  • They praise Clips’s return and its fan culture—but bemoan the lack of nuance in internet hype cycles.

• Drake's "British Rappers" Gaffe:

  • The hosts mock Drake’s recent claim that British rappers are the best in the world, skewering both the accent and the inauthenticity (21:33–22:18).
  • "They don’t even believe that shit, bruv." —Mero (22:07)
  • They liken Drake’s fib to their fathers “dialing it up” for an audience—emphasizing how fame warps one’s relationship with the truth.

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3. NBA Narrative: LeBron, The Lakers, & The Knicks' Next Chapter

• LeBron’s Changing Status:

  • They joke about the Lakers politely telling LeBron, “No, we're good,” and envision the awkwardness that ensues when a legend isn’t the main piece anymore (24:00–25:28).
  • "Imagine being Braun and somebody being like... you don't have to. It's fine. Just leave it." —Mero (24:24)

• Knicks: Expectation Overdrive & Cultural Identity

  • Bomani presses Mero: Are Knicks fans now expecting a Finals run?
    • Mero’s answer: "Oh, 100%. 100%. Thousand percent. ...because of the way the human Achilles tendon is constructed." (25:40)
  • They joke about the Knicks’ optimism, larger-than-life personalities (esp. Jalen Brunson), and the abrupt transition from long-suffering fans to demanding championship seekers (26:42).
  • New York’s unique “outside” culture gets a shoutout—explained by cramped apartments and the city’s collective habits (28:05–28:27).
  • Bomani, as a former resident, underscores how much happier NYC feels when the Knicks are good—but is ready to “call up Knicks fans” should disappointment return (28:44).

• Knicks, Coaches & Circular Arguments:

  • Bomani predicts the pattern: Fire the coach after strong performance, demand more, and return to Summer League for déjà vu debates (29:04).
  • Hilarious closing image: Nitro nostalgia about spotting Popeye Jones and reflecting on his kids becoming NHL players (29:30–29:55).

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Memorable Moments & Notable Quotes

• Bomani, on the dangers of NBA Summer League Vegas:
  "You give a 20 year old... here's your per diem. Don't blow it all in one place." (08:10)

• Mero, on New York culture:
  "We invented we outside." (28:14)

• Bomani, on generational shifts:
  "Every time I see a young dude make a mistake, I'm much more... I want to start sentences with 'young man, come on.' I'm much more delicate, fam." (14:09)

• On Internet Hype:
  "Y'all want everything to be classic or garbage, bro. And that is an impossible fucking binary." —Mero (19:19)

• On Drake's London Lie:
  "They don't even believe that shit, bruv." —Mero (22:07)

• On modern Knicks fans:
  "Knicks fans went from Mets fans to Yankee fans overnight... all it took was Jalen Brunson's stud built ass." —Mero (26:42)

• On LeBron & The Lakers:
  "Imagine being Braun and somebody being like... you don't have to. It's fine. Just leave it." —Mero (24:24)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:08] – On the perils of live shows and physical comedy
• [03:46] – NBA Point Guards making poor decisions at the blackjack table
• [05:21] – Spotting ex-NBA players in Vegas; “Creepy Floyd” anecdote
• [07:44] – Summer League rookies blowing per diem
• [10:02] – The “NBA Dad” as a Vegas subculture
• [13:28] – Generational disconnects – getting older in the NBA
• [18:03] – What “mid” really means and the need for “good” to make a comeback
• [21:33] – Drake’s “London lie” and British rap banter
• [24:00] – LeBron’s potentially awkward twilight with the Lakers
• [25:40] – Knicks Finals-or-Bust expectations
• [26:42] – The abrupt transition in Knicks fan psychology
• [28:14] – “We outside” and the logic of New York street life
• [29:30] – Popeye Jones and the quirks of multi-sport NBA families

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Tone and Highlights

• The chemistry between Bomani and Mero is electric: banter is rapid-fire, laced with inside jokes, cultural shoutouts, and pointed social observations.
• NY-centric moments, generational musings, and sports/rap parallels keep the energy conversational, self-aware, and unfiltered—often poking fun at both themselves and their audiences.
• Humor aside, the hosts consistently ground their takes with subtle empathy for both fans and players—especially young ones navigating Vegas, money, and sudden fame.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a quintessential slice of Bomani Jones’s blend: sharp sports analysis, cultural awareness, and irreverent humor—perfect for fans who want insightful context behind NBA events, a reading of the pop-culture room, and enough laughs to feel like you’re at the afterparty, not just the game.

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Transcript

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[B]

Please make so much noise for the one and only host of the Right Time podcast, Bomani Jones. As always, as always. And of course, we can't have anything wave sports and entertainment related without one of the great content creators of our time. And when I say he's a legend, he's a legend in every sense of the word. The Bronx Zone. The living legend. You know him, you love him. Make some noise. Las Vegas for the one and only the Kid Mero.

[A]

What's going on, big dog?

[B]

What's up, baby? Vegas. What's good?

[A]

Wow, you handled that tight ass turn better than I did. Yo, fam, my only thing for this whole show, don't fall down all the way onto the stage.

[B]

That shit is treacherous, bro.

[A]

Dude, I did a show for a couple years that had a walk in in front of a crowd, and my whole thing, the whole way was just, don't fall.

[B]

Just don't bust your ass.

[A]

There's always wires and shit on the floor. There's always something tape. And falling is always funny.

[B]

Oh, it's gonna make motherfuckers laugh. Y' all know that Kelsey Grammer viral video, you know what I'm saying, where he just fell off the stage, he's like, fuck, oh, my God. You know what I'm saying? That lives with you forever.

[A]

Yeah, and I'm not that good at laughing at myself. Like, that's gonna be. You fall down and they catch it. That's you forever.

[B]

But you see what it is, you do it. It's like, oh, shit. Both fell down. I do it. They're like, yo, did he do that to get a laugh? Like he's trying to be funny. Like, this motherfucker just fall all over the place. No, I would never. I'm 40 years old, Br. I can't bust my ass for y' all to laugh, bro. Like, I'm not. I'm not down bad like that.

[A]

Cause it hurts too bad.

[B]

It hurts way too much.

[A]

There was a time when you would have done that, though.

[B]

100%. Put the check in front of me, bro. I'm doing a barrel roll in this motherfucker.

[A]

So how many times have you done summer league?

[B]

This is the third one. Second one. I smoke a lot, y'.

[A]

All.

[B]

You know what I'm saying? So there's gonna be a lot of questions that are like.

Can you help me answer this? You're like, I don't know you, fam. Like, why you cool? Why you phone in the front? We not friends yet. We got. Okay, good. So second and third, you know what I'm saying? But what I will say about Vegas, I love Vegas. Cause I'm a degenerate gambler. But yeah. Shout the Monday, yeah. Shout the degenerate gambler. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen. That's how I feel inside when I hit on 15 and it's like blackjack. I'm like, woo, yeah. You ever seen a dude that's getting a double sake in his mouth and his girl's looking at him questioningly? You know what I mean? That's me at the black. Yay. Blackjack.

[A]

No, I was playing blackjack today day with a current NBA point guard, and that was a poor decision maker. There's no way in the world that I would entrust my offense to the dude with the moves that he was making. There's none whatsoever. Like, the risk calculus was so bad at every turn. And then. Hold on. And then the best part was he was trying to act like he was not an NBA player. All right, so you're about 65. It's summer league. And look, there's a lot of dudes that are 65 walking around here this week that are not NBA players. They play in the NBA Summer league, which is not the same thing. Those dudes, however, do not have $100,000 shades.

[B]

No.

[A]

And so he's sitting there and he's playing, and I feel like he's trying to lay low, but I had something to say to him. So I try to say it in some sort of code, and somehow this was working. And the white people did not realize that he was an NBA basketball Player. But I'm the whole way. I'm like, can't possibly think you're fooling anybody right now.

[B]

Listen, bro, being that height, that's the thing about the NBA. Like if you're a basketball player, good luck blending in, bro.

[A]

Right?

[B]

Unless you're in the back court, right? You know what I'm saying? Like if you six, eight, you can't blend in. No wear well, you know what I'm saying?

[A]

Your hope is what happened with us when we were walking in earlier and Rudy Gay was walking out as we were walking in. And I did not realize it was Rudy Gabe because I wasn't looking up. It was like somebody had cut the camera off and it was just like, oh, what's up? Oh, damn.

[B]

What's up yo, what's up nipples?

[A]

And I had to apologize for it. Cause it felt like I was rude. But it's like when you walk down 34th street and you don't know you walked past the Empire State Building. Cause the motherfucker's right there.

[B]

Oh shit.

[A]

Oh yeah, right. Like unless you're doing that.

[B]

Oh shit, the Mets won.

[A]

Right? But this whole, this whole two week period is like basketball road trip bingo. You just see all these faces and all these names that you have forgotten about. I saw Sleepy Floyd walking through a casino today.

Every time I see a bathrobe and every time I see Sleepy Floyd. My brother has a friend who was a basketball player of his era and he has some dispute with Sleepy Floyd that has led to him calling him Creepy Floyd for the last 40 years. So creepy, creepy. Can't stand creepy. And it has nothing to do with how Sleepy Floyd looks. He just had some beef with Sleepy Floyd. And everything in me not to scream out, creepy, creepy.

[B]

Yo, creepy, creepy.

[A]

He would have whooped my ass.

[B]

What up?

[A]

Like, can you imagine some dude that doesn't know you, that's not actually your friend just calling you creepy in public thinking it's cute?

[B]

Fam. We, we. Listen, what's going to happen after that is going to end up on a lot of different blogs. Jason Lee is going to be talking about this.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

You know what I mean?

[A]

Yes. But like I saw Joel Anthony at the park MGM yesterday.

[B]

God damn right.

[A]

Who has thought of that? Who has like thought of Joel Anthony? But that's who you see at summer league. You just have a whole bunch of like, you try not to stare, but you're trying to figure out who this person is.

[B]

Oh, look.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, right, right. They're all like, this is basketball. Family, family. Reunion. It is like the best part of this weekend.

[B]

It's like, yeah. Not. It's because you see people like you said that are on the cusp of being an NBA player. Like, yo, I'm gonna. I'm a sub league. I'm on the practice squad.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And then you see motherfuckers that have commercials.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Trying to blend in, like with the common folk.

[A]

And number three, which is. And I've heard people talk about this many times that when the guys come in from for summer league, they give you, in many cases, the per diem up front. And the lecture is given to these very young men. This is your whole entire per diem. If you spend it all now, you're not gonna have any money to eat. Da da da da da. And of course, invariably there's somebody who messes up and blows the whole thing. But I was sitting at a table, man, this was a couple of years ago. And I watched this dude, he had to be no more than 22 years old. And he definitely put his literal last $25 on the table to play one single, solitary hand to blackjack. And it was not a crispy 20 that he pulled out.

[B]

It's the 21.

[A]

Like that thing had been through the laundry, it had made some moves. And I'm watching him as he puts this money down. And he asked for this chip. And I'm looking at the dealer like, come on, man, you can't do this, right? There's no way in the world. He was at the table for 15 seconds tops. But he just felt like, hey, man, I'm in, you know, I'm in Las Vegas. I'm an NBA player for a couple of days. And he had $25 worth of fun. And $25 worth of fun in Las Vegas is no fun.

[B]

It's not. This is not fun at all. Also, I'm. I'm over here ready to judge, but I'm like, yo, you give a 20 year old Mero talking about, yo, here's a couple, here's a couple GS, here's your per diem. Don't blow it all in one place, bro. You know how much Atmosphere Models days I hear? You know what I'm saying? Y' all are like, what, the atmosphere models? What is that? They. That's. That's prostitution, y'.

[A]

All.

[B]

They out here selling, you know what I'm saying, at an alarming rate, you know what I'm saying? It's crazy. God damn, bro. I just walking through the casino, like, I just want To. I just want to play three card poker, bro. Like, I don't want to. Yeah, I don't want you to feed me a cigarette.

[A]

Yeah, that's a whole nother Vegas game. Like the. The. The dudes who come to Vegas and think they just had the luckiest night of their lives, only. Only to be hit with an invoice.

[B]

Oh, you thought Shreddy was hanging around with you? No. Cause you was on a roll at the blackjack table, that's why. Stupid.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, you thought you was cute.

[B]

Oh, yeah, right? It's just a fantasy. Don't worry about it, papi. Like, yo, listen, man, let me not get myself in trouble.

[A]

Yeah, but. No, but this is. It is also the hottest place I've ever been in my life. Like, this is. I grew up in Houston, dog.

[B]

It's disgusting. Bo is disgusting. You're from Texas. You have, you know, experience with heat. Yes, I'm Dominican. I got experience with like he. Humidity and shit like that. But I'm like, fam, this is different. This is like open the oven and just put your head in that shit.

[A]

Right?

[B]

You know what I mean? Like, there's no air movement.

[A]

But. But see, I also think that that's part of why it becomes such basketball fan reunion. Because you can get a good deal on a hotel this week, right? Like, if you. If you are a basketball type and you need an excuse to come to Las Vegas and you would like to do it at a more affordable price, summer league is here for you.

[B]

Let's make it happen. Yo, you six? Yo, I'm six.

[A]

Five.

[B]

I could go left.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

You know what I'm saying? Let's go, baby.

[A]

Well, I will tell you, I don't know if you have peeped this, but another fascinating summer league demographic is. And this is becoming more. More and more of a thing in the last 10 or 15 years, which is the NBA dad.

[B]

Oh, shit.

[A]

The NBA dad is all over. I pulled up one year, me and Mike Smith, we were over there, Thomas and Mack. And I'm going to use like a. Just throw a name out here so as not to expose the dude. This dude comes up to me, he's probably. I want to say that he's like fairly like older, except all these guys dads are my age now, so I can't really say that anymore. It's like, man, he must have been like 47.

Feel as old as he used to. But he stopped and he says to me, he looks at me and he goes, I'm Jamal's Daddy.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Why. What is this supposed to mean to me? Like.

[B]

Like, which Jamal, first of all?

[A]

Well, no, this is a. There's a lot of. Jamal is a fictional. Jamal is not the actual. Like, we're not. It's not the actual Jamal.

[B]

But if he said this the first. I don't give a fuck what your name is.

[A]

Right, Right.

[B]

Unless your name is whatever Prince used to go by. There's a lot of those guys in this world.

[A]

But he said it to me, and I think he said it to me like I was going to be like, oh, hell yeah. That's what's up. Like, no, we're not talking about an all star, right? Like, this wasn't like when I met Zion's daddy. He said, I'm Zion's daddy. Oh, okay, okay. It was 2019, so that was a lot cooler back then than it was right now. Right? But that. That checked out like, oh, shit, Zion's daddy. Oh, oh, he's about to pull up. Sure, I would love to meet him.

[B]

Tell him to watch out for the atmosphere models. Yeah, tell him be careful.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Your head on a swivel, you know what I'm saying?

[A]

Yeah. Actually, the more I think about this, the idea of having Sub League here is really not. I'm like, yo, why here?

[B]

Stop, Wyoming. You want to keep niggas out of trouble, bro.

[A]

Like, is there anybody following the big Chinese gentleman for the trailblazers around? Have you seen him? The Chinese yoga?

[B]

Oh, man, I don't. I feel like you don't got to follow him around, cuz. He follows himself around. You know what I'm saying?

[A]

I'm just saying. I would watch the documentary of the.

[B]

My.

[A]

Like, my first.

[B]

I thought you meant like a handler. Like, he's going to wild out at the pool.

[A]

Yeah, no, but like, just. I just want to see him walking around here and how, like, how he takes all of this in. I was here when Victor had his first one, and in fact, I did not see it. But when he had the thing with Britney Spears where she rolled up all them and it got ugly. I was in the hotel, like right around the same time when that happened. And I'm so mad. I did not see that with my own eyes.

[B]

He probably turned around. And that's the thing. When you that tall.

Your eyeline is very different from everybody else's. Him and Britney Spears are different. She was looking at his foreskin, you know what I'm saying? She was like, yo, what's. Yo, what's up, Victor? And the Wembayama you know what I'm saying? That's different. And also, she might have been awesome, you know what I mean? Cause everybody in Vegas is awesome. You know what I'm saying? Not except me. I'm sober right now. I'm waiting till after the show. It's very consummate professionals.

[A]

I just did not understand how anybody as famous as she was thought to herself, I'm going to go run that dude down from behind.

This guy that is surrounded by security, right? Like, what's the worst thing. What's the worst thing that could possibly happen? Especially if you haven't been that famous in a long time? Like 1999, Britney Spears could probably get away with that, right? 20, 23, Britney Spears, you call the cops.

[B]

That's a different Britney.

[A]

It's a different animal.

[B]

Also, Victor was probably born when she was doing.

[A]

Yeah, I don't. I don't like to think about those sorts of things. I've been looking at these birth years for these gentlemen that are coming into the league.

[B]

Oh, you was born. Okay, Doug. I was smoking a blunt on my roof watching 9 11.

[A]

Well, yeah, I was being born, right? So it was one thing when it was like, you would say that or like, oh, I was in the eighth grade or oh, da da da. And this is what I looked at. And I'm like, I bought a house that, you know, like, the things become so much more complicated. Treat like. And I don't really. Every time I see, like, a young dude make a mistake, I'm much more. I want to start sentences with phrases like, young man, come on. Right? Like, I'm not in a position to be as judgmental as I used to be. I'm much more delicate, fam.

[B]

Having kids did that to me. Like, now I'm like, all right, bro, I can't.

[A]

All right, man.

[B]

If. Listen, bro, if you 14 now, like, I started smoking weed at 13, so if so facto, I'd be a hypocrite if I told you. I just try to make this look as uncool as possible because kids never think their dad is cool. So I'll just be like, yo, I smoke mad weed.

[A]

Ah.

[B]

Ah. In his face. He's just like, damn. Calm down, bro.

[A]

Facto. Yeah, no, this is. This is true NBA story. I went to Houston this year because Bun B. Does his night at the rodeo, right? And so I went and I got a room at the Post Oak. The owner of the Rockets, that's his hotel. So I am assuming that through that contact is why NBA teams, when they Come to Houston, stay at the Four Seasons, or they stay there. And so the Pelicans were playing a game that night, and they were staying there. I'm in the lobby. Trey Murphy walks in. I had done some TV with him before, so I stopped and I talked to him. Okay, cool. Fast forward a couple months. I see him somewhere else. He sees me and he does this, you know, does this shit. What's going on, Unk? And I'm like, hey, man. Hey, hey, hey. Cause my issue with Unk is very simple. Perhaps it is affectionate, but it comes with no respect. I feel like I've earned this respect at this point. Whatever happened to sir, you know, sir is good.

[B]

So come on. No, that's the Southern gentleman in you.

[A]

I put in. I put in the work. I should get some service, right? So he hits me with Unk and, you know, try to have a discussion about. He then tells me that that day somebody saw him, talked to me, and stopped and asked, and I quote, is that your dad?

The problem is I did the mathematics, and that was certainly on the board.

[B]

You're like, yeah.

I was. This was.

[A]

This was possible right at this.

[B]

In this area era of my life. I was.

[A]

It would not. But it would not have even required me to have made a life altering mistake. Like, it was. It was on board. Right, right.

[B]

It was organized.

[A]

It was. It was. It was. It was perfectly reasonable, casual that. That could have been the case. Right? He's like, that was Bomani. And I'm like, damn, man. This is where we are, bruh.

[B]

It's like Matthew McConaughey said, like in that movie. Like, you know.

They get. They stay 17, we get older. Yeah, everybody comes into the league.

[A]

Yeah, let's take that up a little higher to 17, buddy.

Let's. Let's get.

[B]

I'm not.

[A]

Let's get to something a little bit more comfortable.

[B]

25.

[A]

And hey, that's way better. That's way, way, way.

[B]

Depends how old you are. You know what I'm saying? Because we've seen, you know.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Some football guys.

[A]

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. No, we're. We're not. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to change the subject very quickly.

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That's it.

[A]

Right? Like, that's the sentence that would explain mid. That would justify that $38th that you purchased. It'll get you high, but there's nothing wrong with it. It's just fine. So I don't know if you have been celebrating Clipsmas with the rest of the Internet over the last seat. Couldn't even finish my goddamn sentence right. That's, like, could. Couldn't even get to it. Right.

[B]

Clips is crazy.

[A]

Oh, no, it's been clips. Yeah, it has been. There's a.

[B]

They loving it.

[A]

There's. But there's, like. There's certain groups and certain acts where the people who love them will just go up in a very, very particular way. And they're the loudest and nothing else will be a substitute for them. And clips is one of them. Right. Malice came back, you know, to get out there. They're very happy about these things. Okay, cool.

[B]

He don't curse a lot. No, I thought it was.

[A]

I thought it was good.

[B]

Yeah, it's very good.

[A]

Can we normalize saying things are good again? Because good is coming. Insult, please, y'. All.

[B]

Look, camera, please. America. Good means good. It was good. Very good means very good. Y' all want everything to be classic or garbage, bro. And that is an impossible fucking binary gang. Like, it was good on the spectrum. It was very fucking good. Okay? Like, y' all calling it Thriller.

[A]

Relax. This is what it was stacking with a basketball analogy. If you've ever watched a very good basketball player who can always get to their spots and make their shot every possession, they would wind up with the ball right there at the elbow. They know exactly what to do from the elbow and they make that elbow jumper. And the elbow jumper is effective, but I don't need to watch you make 12 elbow jumpers.

[B]

This game's almost 48 minutes.

[A]

But if you root for their team, you don't care how they made the shots. You're like, yo, 12 elbow jumpers in.

[B]

A row, Fuck it.

[A]

But if you don't. If you don't have the jersey on, it's just kind of like, ah, I might want a little more razzle dazzle.

[B]

Yo, take it to the rack.

[A]

Right, right. Could you dunk on a couple of people, please? That was how I felt about it.

[B]

They got two white guys on the team. Pick one.

[A]

But the whole week I have basically felt like, wait, what it has to be like if you don't celebrate Christmas, Right? But everybody else does over witnesses. They are excited. They are loving it. You are going to get chines.

[B]

I got the pan fried wontons ready.

[A]

That was where I was the whole week, fam.

[B]

And, yo, I feel you, man, cuz. It's like if you don't jump on a hype train of something immediately.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

It's like, oh, you hating on. This was whack, yo. You think it's whack? It's like the. It's like the pancakes. Waffle, twit, tweet.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Like, yo, dog, like, I enjoy this a lot. I love cocaine rap. You know what I'm saying? I'm from New York. Like, come on. I love cocaine rap. But like you said, bro, like, all right, bro, after the cocaine rap, let me get like some. Let me get like a little, I don't know, little misogyny in my rap some. You know what I'm saying? Something different. But that was maybe not misogyny, guys.

[A]

Okay, but that was the best part about introspection. But the best part about Drake falling off is we had one less person that we had to worry about when it comes to these things, right?

[B]

You. You think that motherfucker, he's right in Mexico right now learning corridos. He's about to come out with peso pluma.

It's gonna be a real hot August.

[A]

I'm trying to think. And I consider myself to be a fairly honest person, so I don't have that long a list of things that I can say. But I'm trying to think of any time in my life that I would have felt compelled to stand in front of thousands of people and tell a bigger lie than that dude did when he's tried to talk about how the British rappers were the best rappers in the world, bruv. They don't even believe that shit, bruv.

[B]

No, I can't do that, mate. Now can't rap, man. Bruv, no, I'm not better, mate. I'm not better. A rap sot in the Bronx, mate. I can't even spell Bronx.

[A]

I don't know why Mick Jagger is better at sounding like a black person than they are. Like, there are decades of British white people doing black cosplay far more convincingly, fam.

[B]

And the shit that kills me is that then they'll do the inter. And it's like, you know, an alleyway. Like, skepta an alleyway. Like. You know what I mean? Like, smack, DVD style. Like, Matt goons around. He's like, well, bro, the problem is that we have proper lyrics. We have proper lyrics and proper instrumentals in it, mate. And I'm like, bro, none of this is intimidating or scary at all. Like, I hit him. I listen to Migos talk, bro. And I'm like, like, you from Atlanta, I'm from the Bronx. I'm like, I. I understood half of that. And since I don't understand half of it, I'm frightened.

[A]

But. But my thing with the British dudes is we were talking about this upstairs, and I listened to y', all, and y' all were going back and forth with, I like this one. I don't like this one. I'm not getting far enough in this process to learn these names. They are all the same person to me. I remember. What was the one from back? Dizzy Rascal. I remember him.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

Dizzy Rascal is Slick Rick.

That's who I got. I don't know who any of these new people are. And Drake up their adult, like. So, like, I. I didn't go to church growing up, right? And one of the great joys I used to always get is if my dad had to speak at a funeral and he would, like, act like he was down, right? Like, he would dial it up and figure out how to do it. And I was like, it wasn't quite lying, but he definitely wasn't telling the truth. I felt like that was the kind of lie they drank. That man would need a friend so.

[B]

Bad, fam, that that's what happens. When everybody's telling you you're the man for a decade plus.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And you believe it.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

You know, I mean, you just say.

[A]

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

[B]

Tell me I'm the man again.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I should put berets on my. It's going to look fine.

[A]

So is that your way of saying that perhaps LeBron go turn up saying that the greatest. A very similar situation. Because I feel like he's going through the same thing right now.

[B]

Central C is the best MC ever. The best rap of all time.

[A]

Dude, The Lakers told LeBron no, we're good.

[B]

Imagine. Imagine that, bro. Imagine being Braun and somebody being like.

We'Re good. Like, not even using a lot of words, just being like, you don't have to. It's fine. Just leave it. Just leave it. Just leave it. Just leave it. You know, you, like, trying to help, like, yo, I'll clean. I hope you clean. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's okay.

[A]

You could just go hold up while he's still good.

[B]

Right?

[A]

Right. Like, it's not like he fell off and it's just like, okay, we gonna do this tour. We gonna get these gifts or whatever it was. They're just like, yeah, nah.

[B]

Yeah, we got Slovenian Braun, yo.

[A]

Like, we're good, yo.

[B]

Like, we don't need. You don't gotta.

[A]

He's going to show up and it's going to be so passive aggressive for. Because he can't say I want to leave.

[B]

Nope.

[A]

He can't show up and act a fool. All he can do is be snippy.

[B]

Listen, if anybody in the NBA could be snippy.

[A]

Yes, yes. Uh huh.

[B]

Yeah. He gonna be like, talking to reporters. Well, anyway, so they talking about, like, they want me to go, but, like, I'm like, yo, why do you. Why are you selling my cousin Yesenia, bro? Like, what the fuck? Being very sassy to these reporters, bro.

[A]

All right, so I have to ask you this before we get out of here, because you and I have not talked about the Knicks since the series ended.

So how certain are you that they're going to win the east next year?

[B]

Oh, 100%. 100%. 100%. Thousand percent. And I'm not even saying that because of the way the Knicks are constructed. I'm saying that because of the way the human Achilles tendon is constructed. You know what I'm saying? And there's a lot of Achilles that are going to be out of the NBA Eastern Conference next year. Jayson Tatum, Tyrese Halliburton, which are the dudes. That was the thorns in the Knicks side.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

So dames shout out to dame, you know what I'm saying? Like salad Achilles. That's not going to be on next year.

[A]

I can't wait for this. I lived in New York for eight years. The Knicks have only been good very recently. It is a much happier place to live. When the Knicks are good, people feel better. My first few, I mean, McAssers just pull up on me. So sad. Like you got any good news for me about the Knicks? None.

[B]

None.

[A]

None, Right?

[B]

Never.

[A]

And now you guys have skipped completely past appreciation, completely past gratitude and all ready to demanding. Demanding just in time for the black man to show up as the head coach.

[B]

We ready. Yo, listen, Knicks fans went from Mets fans to Yankee fans overnight. Overnight, you know what I'm saying? All it took was Jalen Brunson's stud built ass, you know what I'm saying? Skin in the paint, counter, counter, counter, counter, counter. You know what I'm saying? That's it. And they were like, yo, you know what we're gonna do? We're get a 7 foot tall Dominican dude that can shoot. Like, what is the best place to put that dude?

[A]

New York City.

[B]

Like, come on, dog, he's. He's got a fish fry on Dykeman right now. He's flying in. You know what I'm saying? It's incredible, dog. So like, yeah, I'm demanding of the Knicks now. Like before it's like, yo, we happy to be here. Now it's like, yo, y' all better win this shit.

[A]

I have come living in New York, I've come to appreciate you guys a lot more. As I've told you before, New York does not send its best representatives to the rest of the world. Right? Like the people that you send us in other cities really be doing y' all a disable. You have to understand, understand this. Like, you get to New York, you're like, yo, yeah, ain't really that bad, right?

[B]

But the one guy from New York in your town is always, yo, yo, this shit is whack, yo.

[A]

Yes, yes.

[B]

Oh, y' all gamble, yo, this is whack, yo. Y' all never been to Yonkers. Vegas is all right. Yonkers, Yonkers, yo. Nah, nah, nah. Y' all laughing. Yonkers got this shit, but it's digital, it's way more futuristic, bro. I don't gotta deal with these ladies, you know what I'm saying? Talking about, yo, I'm the pit bulls, fuck out of here.

[A]

But my Favorite thing in college with it was, is just like, why y' all just be outside all the time?

[B]

Outside.

[A]

Like, just inexplicably. It's 75 degrees outside. You have on a coat and you're outside for no reason.

[B]

We invented we outside.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

You know what I'm saying? Like, and it's. You know what it is? It get hot as fuck in those apartments, bro. It's 75 outside. In the apartment is 98,000 ass degrees.

[A]

Yes, yes.

[B]

Like, you know what I'm saying?

[A]

I understand it now.

[B]

So we all got to be outside.

[A]

But they was doing it when they wasn't in that apartment no more like all the weirdos you send out. But I've come to understand you guys are cooler in actual application comma. However, if the Knicks are not good, it's gonna be so funny. It's gonna be for you. It's gonna be hilarious for me, I'm gonna be calling Kaz up all the time just to talk about the Knicks. And when you call Kaz up and mess with him, he starts off, first of all, fuck you.

That is the beginning of this, like, call the Knicks fans. Going to be so great.

[B]

Bo, just text me. You know what I'm saying?

[A]

Y' all fired the coach after going to the conference finals.

[B]

Hey, hey, I can't answer for that.

[A]

I've just. You don't have to answer for it. I'm just telling you. I know what this means. It's going to be hilarious. And then next year, we going to come right back to summer league having the same exact conversation, me and you right here as we watch Popeye Jones walk past us at some casino.

[B]

Poppy, shut the Popeye Jones. God damn it.

[A]

I saw Popeye Jones 2 years ago walking through here, man.

[B]

Listen.

Papa Jones. Kids play lacrosse. That means something.

[A]

They play hockey. NHL. They are NHL players. And I would love to be the person to get in a time machine and go back and tell Popeye Jones 30 years ago that your sons are going to be hockey players.

[B]

You think they're going to play football? Basketball?

[A]

No.

[B]

Get some skates, motherfuckers.

[A]

Yes. All right, they're giving us the rap. Sign. Ken Merrow. Bomatti Jones. Check out the Right Time podcast, available all five podcasts giving away for free.

[B]

Appreciate, appreciate, y'.

[A]

All.

[B]

Appreciate you both. I'm saying good is good, y'.

[A]

All.

[B]

Good is very good.

[A]

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