NFL Draft With Todd McShay, NBA/NHL First Round Is Underway, Ryan Garcia May Save Boxing And Mr Pear Win A Single Pick Challenge

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Yeah, the Los Angeles Clippers are going to win the West.

Ooh.

Not, they're gonna compete, they're gonna compete. Hey, I said that mostly just to get Hank's hopes up, because Hank is grasping at all the straws. If you throw any team out there, any one individual player that you think can shut Jokic down, Hank's like, Yep, yep, because he just doesn't want to see the Nuggets.

Hank has gotten to the point where he admitted to us that he looked already at the N.B.A. finals schedule and was saying it's going to be a tough schedule for him. And he was like, Game four is on a Friday in Denver, going through it like that, where it's just set.

Well, he was looking at how it lined up with the show, so he'd have to record it.

Yeah, he wants to go in the wood.

He wants to, or he would have to record, I think, at least a couple pods right after games, right?

Yeah, on the wood.

Well, no, I don't want to. I would only try to go to the wood on non-recording nights. But Game one and two, which would be home games because Celtics have the best record in the N.BA, are on a Thursday and a Sunday.

Well, Hank, you did fire me the fuck up with your tweet being like this. Is it the two weeks? My favorite two weeks? I'm happy you took that because I feel like I am guilty of having way too many favorites.

Yeah, what are your favorite weeks? Conference Championship week is your favorite week. Feast week is your favorite week.

Wildcard Weekend Super Wildcard Weekend.

I like divisional weekend.

I also sneaky like Conference Championship Sunday.

Yeah.

I just like the variety because it's obviously it's also the, you know, the first two weeks of the year. I'm really getting into hockey, but it's every single, every single night.

This is the start of hockey. yeah, you get to have your one seed Celtics play, and also the start of hockey season at the same time.

And every hockey playoff game is just the best. The crowds are crazy, never over. Well, it's way different than the regular season.

We should do Mount Rushmore of weeks, yeah, for this Mount Rushmore, yes, there's a lot of meat on that.

Yeah, I just like the two different sports. That's where it's hard to beat this two weeks.

If you do have two teams in the playoffs in the NBA and the NHL, this is it's a great time. You really can't get anything done at work, yeah.

All right, well, so let's let's overreact some games. You want to just go chronological order in the Games this weekend and then we'll do hockey. Because, by the way, like you, you saying that every second is a heart attack.

No more than twice. The Bruins, the Maple Leafs are the 76ers of the NHL.

Oh, to your specific team.

Yeah, they're always, you know, regular season crazy fan base and then they played the Boston team and get smoked.

And their fans caused them to lose.

Without fail.

Yeah.

Okay, so they say it's because of matchup and it's like they haven't caught out of the first round.

Well, their matchup is is Sansonov against the hockey puck, and the puck's going to win that one, yeah.

All right, so let's let's go through some games, so let's talk some games. Uh, they are we game one, so let's not totally overreact, but let's overreact.

Yeah, not good, not not a good one to have. But I think this is going to be one of those series that, uh, the Cavs are going to win. I think they'll win both at home, then the Magic will win a couple at their home.

They do have to put the ball in the basket, though, because the Cavs, uh, the Cavs shot 27 from three and they won by 14.

Matched up perfectly with this game.

It was so nice.

Because it was like, you're, you're going back in time a little bit with the announcers. Sometimes this happens like once a year. It'll happen in a football game where you get usually like college football, maybe like some, like the third rate Big 10 game. The sound audio issues cut out for like 10 minutes, and you're like, it's kind of nice just hearing the sound, let the game talk.

We don't need anyone telling us.

In fact, some of the best things that we ever said to Joe Buck, like you nailed that call. Because you didn't talk, you let the moment breathe. Maybe they should just not talk all the time. I would love to hear Tony Romo not talk, I could listen to Tony Romo not talk for hours.

Jake Do you think there was like an emergency text message with like, Uh, Iron Eagle, like Kevin, Harlan, Jim, Nance, like they, they figured out that they don't need us. No, that'll never happen. People say that and they'll after 10 minutes, they'll be like, all right, it's nice to have. We just spent 10 minutes last week on this show talking about how much Vern Lundquist means to the game of golf.

I'll tell you what.

No, we literally, you just said. Vern LUNDQUIST No, I'm just saying like, the casual fan is just. They're only saying bad things about broadcasters.

Jake, Are you concerned at all that one day they'll just come up with AI, and they'll have AI Brent Musburger announcing a game, and we'll be like, This is awesome, yeah.

Maybe they'll give an alternate version.

Oh ai, John Madden would be great. I'm signing up right now.

Alternate version with Nat Sounds. But no, I think within sports media there will always be a need for a playback.

You know what it is, it's way more easy to tolerate if it's at a home game. Yeah, you get the crowd vibe. If this was in Orlando and the Magic was playing that poorly and get the shit kicked out of them, it would, it would feel awkward.

Yeah, and it was also the the way the game started, the the 90 seconds, that there was no announcer. I think it was Max Truese hit a three and then Donovan Mitchell hit a three, and it was like the place was just fucking going.

Nuts? Yeah, I don't know what it says about me, but every time I watch the heat play, I'm like, Max Truese is definitely still on that team somewhere.

I'm hoping Cleveland can win a series, cause, you know, fun fact, little fun fact, um, the Cleveland Cavaliers Dan Gilbert has never won a playoff series without LeBron James.

But he wrote that comic sans letter that told me that they were going to win a title before LeBron did, yeah.

He's never won a playoff series, so actually, maybe the playoffs haven't started for him.

They haven't started.

He's never won a playoff series.

Yeah, uh, I Cleveland's fun, and honestly, I think the magic are fun. They're a little bit young, they just can't score.

Point card Yeah, they 0 for 17 point cards. Tough, that's not great.

We go through this. It's like cyclical with a lot of teams where you you long for their throwbacks and then the they are the last team to change up their old uniforms. You're like, these look corny as hell and you desperately want to change. And then 10 years ago is by.

Right, because they're, I think they're regular ones, are just kind of like new age, you know, with the font like the blue and the the lime green kind of thing.

I just like Seahawks throwback, they're kind of like Seahawks vibes, the old ones with the like solid green, the green that's like Ninja Turtle green in your face.

Yeah, I like that this game. Uh, passing the torch.

Pat Anthony Edwards is is a legit superstar now.

That was so awesome, that was such a great moment, because if people missed it, uh, Anthony Edwards played great. The the the T Wolves were awesome. And he was talking so much shit to KD, and KD was kind of laughing about it.

He couldn't do anything about it. He was like, Yeah, you're right, you're kind of, you're kind of dunking on me right now.

And it wasn't KD's fault, KD played well. I think the Tim Timberwolves were basically like, let's just let KD play ISO ball and eliminate Booker, who was a no show. Uh, but it was. It was a cool moment. And, uh, here's my fun stat.

It's pretty bad.

They were. It was crazy, how much, how many second shots the T Wolves got, and just were so much more physical. And I. Why don't the sons get more shit?

Well, here's the thing about the sons they're missing, Chris Paul.

They are missing Chris Paul big time.

That's that's one. And then you've got a bunch of teams in the West that are now playing to determine who. The real problem? Who was the guy that that was responsible for fucking up the entire Nets experiment? Yeah, but it and KD he's, he's just not tough, but it doesn't it.

Feel well. He did play well, it's his teammates did not like. That's the point is like it was if you. If you go down the list, right? If the Bucks go out early, that's a big story. Giannis goes out early.

Years ago we had the sons and four guy. Yeah, Suns were looking good. Remember him? Future look bright, yeah.

That guy on the show, yeah.

He came on the show, that's quite a moment.

Guy was awesome, he wasn't. the guy was awesome, yeah.

But yeah, there there were just they're punishing, punishing the nuggets, right? Yeah. And how quickly things have changed.

It's the same. They don't get in a lot of shit. I don't know, like if they get bounced in the first round, I don't know. Well, people, people just like, Oh well, Katie's kind of old.

They need, they need somebody that can light a fire on it. They would actually.

Timberwolves are the higher seed.

I understand, but the sons are. When they were constructed, everyone's like, they're a problem.

Yeah, they need to write, they need to get a psycho on that team.

Booker needs to go up a level. That's all you got to say. Yeah, whenever, whenever you have disappointments.

I guess Grayson Allen's kind of a psycho, though.

Grayson Allen's a good basketball. You got paid, he's got paid a lot of money. All he does is hit threes. And he still wears those weird forrest gump ankle braces, which always make me laugh. He turned his ankle in this game.

That'll go six or seven.

Yeah, I do, too, I know five as well. Uh, Booker can't, Booker has to play better. He I. What did he end up? I think he ended up with like 17 points, which you're the way they're built, the way 18, the way they're built, like KD Booker, Beal have to score 70 points at least.

Yeah, how many, how many points did he have?

I think he had three.

Like, three points, yeah.

It's in role, players do play better at home, yeah, so that's definitely part of it. Where, like Josh Hart scored more than he usually does, Josh Hart was made at down the end. At the end of the game, Josh Hart made every single shot.

I'm interested in, like, mentally, where you're at, when you're watching this game, when when Jalen Brunson does something awesome. Is there like a quarter of a second where you're pumped up? And then you have to be like, Oh, shit?

Well, Brunson kind of played like shit.

Yeah, but you know what I'm saying?

Like, he gave all the credit to Brunson.

When any of those nova guys, when they do something cool for a second, just a second, are you like, Oh, that was awesome.

JosH HART No. BRUNSON There's. There's just a special place in my heart for Jalen Brunson, so it's it's tough. But like, No, he's the enemy right now.

Dante Good Italian boy.

I know I love Dante too. Dante valet his car when I was parked when I was in college. Did you scratch it up?

So interesting.

Oh so, Jay, right, maybe paying the players off the books. How's he affording that? What kind of car? it was? the shittiest car.

What did it smell like?

Uh, I don't, I don't know. Probably smelled like a like a college kid's car.

What does that smell like? Weed smelled like weed. So Jay Wright had, uh, players getting free meals left and right and just hot boxing their cars.

Not true, yeah, uh, so where's your head at for this series? But embiid.

Made of glass.

Hank, I would like to get your take on Embiid. what do you mean? You came back in the game.

But like, again, I don't want to, I don't want to be a hater, but it's like.

This isn't even about you. Why? Like, I was going to ask the question? I asked for his thoughts.

Well, the playoffs, if you make it to the finals, it's a long run. Like, how many games do you think Embiid has in them?

Yeah, one game in, he's already.

Yeah, seven.

I don't think they're going to win the fucking finals, I'm just trying to take it one game at a time.

When he falls, see, that's the new max. Every single time he falls down and you're like, Oh, that's the end for Embiid. Yeah, eight months.

That's a problem. I have. A or, go ahead, Max, what do you think made the allegations in Embiid?

Cause everyone's like, he falls, he falls, but he was told to.

Fall because it's better for injury than trying to brace the impact. But he also gets injured more than anyone in the world. That's not true. Anthony. Anthony Davis gets injured all the time, yeah.

Max is stealing my tape back. Max was saying, like, Yeah, he gets injured, and then five minutes later, you know, he's going to be back in. I was like, Oh, it could be worse, could be Anthony Davis.

So I respect that you always, if you're in, if you're boxed in. As a fan, you got to just find someone else and be like, No, that guy he's.

Way worse, you're correct about that. Take Max.

Zion, too, always zion.

Good glass, point zion.

And Joe came back and had a good game. John T. Porter's not playing anymore. You could be gambling on, gambling on games, get a lifetime band.

Yeah, what about Hank? What about Giddy? How come we're not talking about Giddy? He's in the playoffs, too.

He shouldn't be playing.

Unprompted.

Yeah, it was all strictly on the court.

Yeah, yeah, he said. You know, he dealt with some stuff off on between the lines, yeah.

All right, so, uh, not made a glass? Okay, I have another question for you, Max buddy healed.

What are the fans and Philly going to chant? You can't chant MVP this year? Obviously? Um, when? when Maxie shooting free throws, are they going to chant for most improved player MIP?

MIP Yeah, MiP. He was awesome.

He was good.

Maxie Maxie is great. He was good last year, though. why does he win the MIP? Well, he was the number three.

Last year you said, Build around Maxie and I made fun of you for that. And I would like to rescind that take, he is very good, but actually, no, I don't rescind that take because he's very good. Now. He's the most improved player for a reason.

Credit to you. Yeah, huge credit to you.

Do you think that the Sixers coaching staff and players goes over end of game situations? And like, you know, if you're down five with 45 seconds left, the only way to win is to foul or.

Yeah, but teams don't foul in the NBA, it's crazy, they just don't.

It was mathematically impossible.

I agree with you, they don't.

They were playing defense to hope to get the ball back with like seven seconds left to then have to hit a three to then have to get the ball back.

Don't worry.

Don't do it.

Because Nick Nurse says that he has some tricks ready to go. Yeah, oh, he's got some tricks. I don't know what Nick Nurse's tricks are going to be, but reports are out there that he has established tricks and discuss some tricks.

Nick Patum hinting potential Tricky stuff, Tricky stuff for Game 2 Adjustments for Nick Nurse. Last night. We know what we did wrong and we found a way, I think this morning, to do something special with us.

I'd say, if you're funny, that's a panic move.

Yeah, right, yeah, like to have to go. Game 2. We need the tricks.

Yeah, you can't beat them straight up.

And we got to throw some sand in their eyes.

Okay, Joel, you're going to get on your hands and knees and bark like a dog. And then they'll look at you. And then Max will just drive to the hole and dunk you.

See if we had a ladder underneath the arena we can hit him with. He's got to get the tricks.

He's watching Globetrotters take tonight.

Tricks One game If it's early to go to the tricks, yeah, but like, what if the tricks are awesome? So where are you on your we won't say panic button? Where are you on the tricks meter?

This is a must trick, Sam.

Yeah, you must trick. Six are going to win the series, six are going to win plus, I think it's plus 250 Soul Patch.

No.

No, I'm already really invested, so I don't know, so I don't think that I have to do any bets. Okay, I do think I did want to commend you, though.

Now you want to talk about it.

I also have a one shit, it's kind of like Spider-man.

Yeah, Hank is just loving every second of this. Hank shouldn't be able to talk all day. Hank's literally scheduling his trips to Denver.

The New York Knicks are the absolute.

You're in the booth.

They're legendary, they're incredible, their fan base is awesome at winning a playoff game and then getting way ahead of themselves and I love it.

That's not even next round.

Yeah, rent free hank.

I mean, they shut down 7th Ave after they won one game against the Hawks, yeah, and lost the series in five.

Yeah.

Yeah, but it was sick, those videos, yeah.

Also a big ball.

That was their first playoff win in, like, 10 years.

Also, that was the crowning of future superstar Trey Young Yeah, in that series.

That's a fact, that's a fact. Um, okay, the night game, Lakers Nuggets.

Yeah, well, the first half, yeah, but that's what happens in every one of these games. The first half was really close. And then, if you're, if you know, ball at all, you load up on the Nuggets in the second half. Because it's not sustainable what they're doing in the Nuggets.

It's it's actually really nice that the Nuggets do this for the discourse. Because everyone just gets to go out on their shows and be like, Lakers are right there, which are so.

Close, which I like, I, I really know I love it actually. Because it allows us to then be very disappointed in LeBron when it doesn't happen. Yeah, I mean, like they, they trick you into thinking that they're good enough to compete and good enough to beat the Nuggets.

And it's, and it's, and look, we like Nick Ray, he's a friend of ours. But like he does his like first quarter, he's like, no one's ever going to see this again. With LeBron, James, LeBron. It's insane what LeBron is doing at 39. He does not have the stamina to do it for four quarters.

We just get hot, if we sit, we turn into like just one half. We just if we're up by any points, or if we're tied at halftime, let's just try to get to the second. And all we have to do is win one half and anyone can get hot for a half, so everyone just keeps shooting it.

It's, it's just I love, I love these two teams playing against each other because just it's it's the same game every single time. And it's. Did you see, I got to find it? Jamel Hill's tweet from last year has become a meme. That people were were, uh, were using and were copying, and everyone was like people were confused with. She said this, she said This last year, a win is a win. I think it was after game one, but if I'm Denver, I treat this like a loss.

Yeah, Hachimura is not sorry, Hank, he's not the jokic stopper. You have to keep looking for somebody else, cause it's not. It's not going to be anybody on this Lakers team.

Like, I don't know LeBron, Anthony Davis, a little magic, you know what I mean?

Like, if you look at the if you look at the box score, you're like Anthony Davis, he was very good and you're like, Oh, okay. He went toe for toe. He ended up with 32 14 and five, and Jokic was, uh, 32 12 and seven.

The series, frankly, was over when Jokic stepped out of his car wearing the outfit from Despicable Me Dude. He was dressed up as Gru before the game.

I love, I love him so much, the fact that he doesn't really do that much advertising. And then he was like, You know what? Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to be the the the main advertiser for Despicable Me 4..

Yeah, it was great.

But the Yeah, the Despicable Me promo was awesome and all the, uh, what do they call them?

Minions.

The Minions I've watched it, it's actually a very funny movie.

Trust me, I've never seen it.

I watched it with my kids and it's it's a great, massively, massively successful.

Yeah.

It's a. it's a. it's a perfect, uh.

I've never seen him.

Kids movie because the the minions like fall and like, they bump their heads and make the squeaky gibberish, so it's like a lot of like.

Michael Scott.

Kids laughs.

Yeah, would I, would I be totally lost if I just watched Minions without watching Despicable me? We know that.

No minions have their own movie. Oh, yeah.

I think I might've watched that dressed up, too.

They have their own round at Universal.

See, I just want to. Minions is the most recent one.

I think there's more, I think there's multiple minions. Which one did I watch?

You might've watched just the one everyone dressed up in, like tuxedos, too.

I think I just watched Minions.

Went to the movie.

I might just hop right in, just cold turkey right into minions, without any of the lore or the backstory.

I watched Minions.

Memes is raising his hand? Yes, memes, you may talk.

Minions is a prequel to Despicable Me. Oh yeah, because his Minions, the one where they they go, they show, like, the, uh, history of time with the Minions. Yeah, I saw Minions.

Filmed.

Well, they were. They were released out of order. It's based on a true story.

It's true. Yeah, yeah, it's documentary, the second one.

Yes, no, they did, they went through it all, yeah.

Yeah, like JFK, yes, a minion JfK.

There were many, there were many good minions.

On, yeah, yeah, on all sides.

Um, Larry Nance just scored his eighth point.

Uh, turns into Squidward.

I just love that, I love this Lakers Nuggets series. Do you think the Lakers can can do it, Hank?

I want to believe.

I mean, I look really stupid, but I just think that I think the nuggets, I think the nuggets are. We do it all the time in sports where a team won a title and then they maybe aren't as dominant the next year. And everyone's like trying to poke holes, and it's like nuggets when they, when it's they're all healthy, and it's those five guys, they're just really fucking good.

Yeah, they're a problem. Uh, I'll be just rooting best best case, or, you know, at the very least just for some six, seven game series.

You get tired. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you want to see?

You're already doing the rest like you want to wear down. We're two months away from the N.B.A. finals.

Yeah, hopefully it's two months of war.

Yeah, Hank, Hank wants, Hank wants Jokic after like three games to be talking about going back to his horses already.

Some are saying, you're, you're kind of scared, because why would it good? No, but if you're so good, why wouldn't you say, Hey, we're so good? We don't care. However we get there, whoever we play, however much rest they have, it doesn't matter, we're the best team.

No, I'm giving the nuggets the respect they deserve.

They're low key glazing them.

Yeah, they're, they're fucking good.

Yeah, they are, they're really good. And the thing about like we talked about this was Mike Michael Malone, excuse me, when we interviewed him last week. But there, I don't think they've reached the point where anybody really hates the Nuggets, right on a national level. No, we're still like this.

Definitely not.

This is beautiful basketball to watch. Unhated. They're fun. I think they got two more, they got two more chips in them before they become hateable.

I don't even know how you would hate. where would you start with Jokic to hate him?

The Jokic Brothers a little shady.

No, Michael Porter Jr.

A little shady family.

A little shady, great guy.

Shout out Michael Porter Jr. Because him having, like, I would not stand in front of the media and take that question where they were like, Hey, so one of your brother's going to jail and the other one just got the NBA. How are you feeling? And he answered it, like, very, very well, very eloquently.

I think he said, like, I have 12 brothers in this locker room.

Yeah, I think, he said. 15.

Yeah, the trainers, yeah, no, they're definitely. They're not even close to being hateable. The only way that Jokic will become hateable is in the Patrick Mahomes vein. Where you don't hate him because he's a bad guy, you hate him because he just prevents you from winning championships.

Hank True Serum Can I do a true serum Hank segment?

Also, quickly say before if the Lakers get blown on next game, LeBron will not finish the series. Oh, he'll pull an injury. He did it Saturday night. I think him and Anthony Davis missed like four layups in a row at the end of the game. And I said it out loud.

All right, true serum, hank. You have to answer this as truthfully as you can.

None, none.

That can't be zero.

No, I don't want to. You can't, you can't put that into the world, you truly can't.

You basically were just saying that you wanted Embiid to get hurt.

No, I was pointing out that that's like saying, sun will rise. Yeah, no, I'm not. I don't want Embiid to get hurt. I can just look at data and history and acknowledge that he is made of glass. Like the stats and the fact every playoff series he's, you know, out of gas hurt, whatever it may be.

Bring up those stats. Yeah, hank, all right, Hank. Wednesday give us a report. Wednesday he'll give us a report, the playoff injury stats.

Just to put a little a bow.

What about just when he was out of shape?

You said, injury out of shape isn't class.

Mental injury.

To put a bow on what Hank said earlier regarding the NHL. The Maple Leafs-Bruins Max sent this over. This is a very funny stat. So in the postseason, the Maple Leafs and the Bruins Toronto has won 40 series, or 40 games.

Wow, so domination.

Domination.

Spanking?

Yes.

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Okay, yeah, weekday still April, I like that.

35.

41.

Define meaningful.

Yes, it means get into the playoffs.

You think the plan that qualifies that checks the box off? For him is being a meaningful because essentially, you're playing a mini playoff series.

He does not care about winning titles, he cares about winning 41 games. Having some games down the stretch where people can tune in and be like, Will the Bulls make the playoffs? And the reason why he does that is because nine out of the last 10 years, not counting the Covid, the two Covid years the Chicago Bulls have led the N.B.A. in attendance. He does not give a fuck, he wants to build a team to never go over the luxury tax.

He's focusing all of his energy on the White Sox and building them up.

But he's a joke I just want people to realize because it does trick you when you think of the Bulls and you think of M.J. They are no different than the Pistons. Than the Magic, who are in the playoffs, who've actually built it, and actually those teams, the Pistons, the Magic, the Hornets, the Kings. They've actually at least been bad enough for stretches where they get top three picks. The Bulls only chance of getting a top three pick is getting a 1.7 lottery shot. Where they get Derrick Rose. And then they blame his injury on the next 10 years, and they are a joke of an organization.

That's what I respect about European soccer fans is. When the owners fuck with them like this, yeah, they riot. They'll show up with flares, they'll throw eggs at the guy's car on the street.

He's literally admitting that he does not care, he just wants to sell tickets and be just good enough to be average.

To a certain extent for him, playoff series kind of get in the way of his jet-setting lifestyle.

Yeah.

No, I mean, I'd rather not work.

Friday night, I was talking with a bunch of friends, like, Okay, I want them to win because I like some of these guys on the team. But also, Jerry Reinsdorf wants nothing more than to have two more ticket gates for playoff games. That he has no chance of winning that series like, that's a dream for him. So, all right, that was my c-red.

Hey, you know? What sucks, too, is like the fact that they sometimes occasionally will win a play-in game, right? Everybody gets like a momentary, like they get gassed up by that, right, and they're like, that was a really fun night of basketball.

It was nothing.

It was the most inconsequential. The stats don't even count. That stat will never show up in N.B.A. history. It was nothing, it was a fun night.

Yeah, it's nothing, and they're gonna do. they're probably gonna. Here's what they're gonna do. They're gonna probably re-sign. Demar DeRozan, who I like Demar DeRozan. Great guy, great player. He's 34 years old.

He'll be okay, that's what's gonna happen. Made out of glass.

Fix his shot.

And then they're gonna guess what they're gonna do. They're gonna win 38 games and lose in the play-in game. And it's gonna be like, and it's just. It is actually the worst place you can be as a franchise. What Jerry Reinsdorf has built. Where it's like, you're never actually competing, and you're also never tanking to the point where you can rebuild your roster.

Yeah, you want to have a plan, because if you.

There's no, well, the plan, his plan is.

He does have a plan.

He's working his plan perfectly.

But his plan doesn't make sense, right is the thing? If you have a crummy team, you want to be the worst, you want to be like with the Wizards.

And guess what, the Wizards? I'm going to try to find where I found all the stats. The Wizards have won more series. Yeah, because we had. We've been to the playoffs more times.

John Wall We had Paul Pierce, that was, that was a fun team then.

That's what that's. The whole point of this rant is that I want people to stop thinking of the Bulls. Maybe people already do, but I think if you ask like 100 people like the Bulls, they'd be like, Oh, they're not a bad franchise. No, they are.

Yeah.

They're a bad franchise.

Seeing green?

You don't have to worry about this series at all.

Yeah, unless they try and take out our best players.

What? yeah, oh, is that that?

They call the hit in Got it.

That's why I was talking about the injury. Got it? That's why he said, You're rooting for zero injuries. Got it, okay?

The Celtics were up 16 with like a minute and a half left. Heat called timeout, kind of weird move. And then like a play or two later, Caleb Martin came in super low on Tatum, getting a rebound.

Scared you?

Yeah, it was a scary fall, yeah, and then Jalen, it was Jalen that got in his face, right?

But yeah, weird, weird timing with the timeout. kind of a weird looking play.

Appropriate response by the Celtics.

Yeah, I mean.

You need enough, guys.

Mizzoula and Mizzoula after they asked him about it, and he was like, I was loving it.

Yeah.

Oh, he said that he's like, Yeah, he fucking Mizzoula. If you didn't listen to our interview with Mizzoula on Friday, go back and listen to it because he is the man.

I was excited for him to choke me out.

Yeah.

Yeah, we had a bunch of articles written where it's just, and this and this, the revolving door.

Yeah, but to Hank's point on that play, Jake, is this heat culture where you're sending in goons to try to tabletop somebody and get a neck injury, sounds like it?

Well, if it was intentional, obviously, I'd disavow, but if it wasn't intentional, then they're just pointing the finger for no reason, there's no proof.

What did you think when you saw the play?

Oh, it looked like a basketball play. Oh, he was looking at the hoop, looking for the rebound.

Under, and Jason's like leg gooch, his leg armpit.

Drew Holliday may have pushed him into him. That's what other people were saying, too. Hank, is it weird that you spent the whole season like, or at least the last two months of the season, being like? Get us to the playoffs because we already clinched the number one seed. We're the best team in the N.BA. It's this all fodder.

Yeah, I mean, again, I'm definitely thinking ahead. It does feel, you know, brings you back to the old Patriots days, not here anymore. But it is for a series formality. If, you know, even if you lose in the conference finals, it's a failure of a season. Just get me, get me to this, get me to the big one.

You can't say patriots when you haven't won yet.

No, I'm saying it Max, it feels like how it felt.

Max doesn't understand that.

As a Patriots fan, when every year they're the best team in the regular season. And you're just you're not thinking about. You're thinking about the Super Bowl, you're looking at the other conference, thinking about Super Bowl matchups, you just bypass the Eastern Conference.

I think that's completely fair, given the road that the Celtics will have to go through. You should just want to get through this more. I would actually say, like, what do you think? The over-under is for Celtics losses before the NBA finals six and a half, seven and a half.

They'll have some wonky losses.

I would hammer that on.

Five and a half, No.

Bucks might give them a couple games, yeah, before the finals.

All the Eastern Conference.

I'd set it at four and a half.

Four and a half.

Because I don't think they're going to lose a game here, maybe say one. I think I don't think they would lose more than one to the Cavs or the Magic.

I think the number is five and a half.

But if they lose, I think they'll lose one, maybe one here, one in the second round. And then they would just have to win in six. In the Eastern conference final, that'd be four.

I think they're going to lose one, they might lose two next round, I don't know.

I don't think so.

It's going to be easy for them, so I my point is no injuries. You're actually right to think this way.

I know.

Yeah, yeah.

But then all you have to worry about is certainly hope that no one else gets injured on the western side.

Yeah, no, we need fucking LeBron and AD, two top five players in the world.

He just wants them so bad.

Greatest player of all time.

I know it's not going to happen, but I would love to have the Lakers.

I will wear a LeBron-Lakers jersey on this show for a week.

If Chet Holmgren with just an all-time block there in a big moment. We're watching the end of this game while it's going on, we'll talk about it in a second hank. So to go back to my question. You are like, this is kind of like, I know you're getting up for these games, but you're also just. It's just like, get to the next round.

And don't get hurt, you're watching these games. I was ready for them to pull them when they got up 30, the heat came back a little bit. But seeing a fall like that with a minute left in a meaningless game is terrifying.

S.G.A. Just an incredible shot there.

Yeah, that was actually like a 30 second, 30 seconds of like the Thunder's future flashing before our eyes. And it looks fucking awesome. Yeah, Chet Holmgren with an enormous block and then SGA with an awesome man one.

Same could be the nuggets.

Yeah, he's already doing the he was hank was like, Chet Holmgren can lock down Jokic.

He needs to gain probably 60 pounds.

No one can lock down Jokic, that's the thing about Jokic, but if you, if you say Jokic you can't score. He's gonna be like, Okay, I'll have 25 assists and they'd be like, Jokic, you can score. It's like, Okay, then I'll score 30 points.

I think there's like, arena shit.

Yeah, um, sorry that the Bulls suck, cause I know you wanted to go to. I would have gone to that game with you on Saturday, yeah.

Choked out?