Blake Griffin, NBA Play In Games, Caps Make The Playoffs, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And The Debut Of Mr Pear
2024-04-17 02:00:44
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We're going to talk about the N.B.A. play-in games, we're going to talk about PFT's capitals getting into the playoffs and the NHL playoffs coming up. We've got Hot Seat, Cool Throne, and we also have the debut of our turtle, Mr. Pear, Mr.
Pear makes his first pick for Wednesday night's play-in game. We have him pick the Sixers-heat game. So make sure you're watching for that. Great, great show, great, pardon my take show, it's all brought to you by our friends at DraftKings.
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Today is Wednesday, April 17th and PFT I got a question for you pop quiz Hot shot I got an answer for you, Okay. Is it better to be up three at the end of a game with three seconds left, or be up four? This is a tough analytics question that is hotly debated in the math community.
Reggie Miller asked this.
Question tonight. And I said to myself, Thank God, because I've been saying this for years, I'd almost rather be up three points than four points. Big Cat The best part about Reggie Miller asking this Do you want to know why? why? tell me?
Yeah, I don't know, because I've got a.
Brain injury? The best part about Reggie Miller asking this question? It was the Lakers Pelicans game, which we'll get to both games, playing games. But the best part about him asking this question. The situation was the Lakers were up two with 2.7 seconds left. They get fouled and he says out loud, and you could hear his brain turning on out loud. He was like, if you make the first one, you're up three. Do you try to purposefully miss the second one?
Because they don't have any timeouts, so they have to go coast to coast. Then he finished it with saying, Or do you just make them both go up four and game over? At the end he was like, Wait, shit, four points, yeah, that would be game over. He tied it together nicely at the end.
Which was good. But for a second I was with you, I was like, Wait, don't get me wrong, I'm a big, you don't need a three here guy. That's my favorite thing to say at the end of a game.
If there's one second left, if there's half a second left, if you're down four points. I will be the guy that says, don't need a three here. Just remind people that I know ball. But yeah, in that instance, I was just like, what can Reggie even be talking about? But I think he just mixed up, having a two versus three point lead and having a three.
Versus four point lead. Yeah, I don't know what he mixed up, but it was the Lakers survive. They win another plan, they've won three plans.
They've gotten into the playoffs three times via the plan. Uh, we had an all time, all time Zion Williamson, uh performance, 40 points. He was so, so good. It was like everything that you wanted Zion to be. He was it tonight.
And then he got hurt, where we don't really know what he got hurt with. He threw his, uh, you know, a towel down, went to the locker room. We even had the weird moment where Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller were like, we're going to go to Allie LaForce. She has an update on Zion.
And she's like, Guys, I don't know shit, like, I don't know what you're talking about, no one knows. And then afterwards, he left, uh, without a limp, and didn't talk to reporters. So we're left just wondering what the hell happened. Because I think the Pelicans win that game of Zion stays in the game.
They had Brandon Ingram wasn't good, he was he. He's been coming back from injury, he just looked bad.
And Zion was like, I'm putting the whole team on my back and he almost beat the Lakers by himself.
Yeah, the entire game was just a microcosm of his entire career, really. He's like, Oh, he's awesome, he's awesome.
He's awesome, fuck, he's hurt. That's kind of how it goes. And after the play was over, I was trying to figure out what was wrong.
Like, I was trying to diagnose it via the video and it was really strange. Because he, he does that little drive through the hole, makes the shot and then he like, pumps his fist and turns around. And then he after like, two steps. Then he realizes, Oh, I need to start walking slower and it may be the only thing I could think of.
And they said they're doing like an MRI on his leg is, he might've felt whatever pain he was in, might be familiar to him. Like, he knows exactly what it is, and he knows exactly what it means. Because he's had it before, and he knows how long it's going to take to recover from it.
Cause it wasn't like it didn't look to be catastrophic, like, Oh, fuck, my Achilles is torn, or ACL or anything like that. It was just like a realization of, God damn it. This sucks because I know exactly what it is, that's hurt.
And it sucks that, it's hurt, but I can't do anything about it. It sucked, it sucked cause he was having.
An incredible, incredible performance and we're stuck just being like, Fuck, that was going to be awesome. But the Lakers do advance. Should we start? The narrative? Is this Lakers team dangerous PFT?
They now play the Nuggets. I like, you know, this is going to be the story that's everyone talking about. Like, look at the Lakers, I think they finished the season like 24 and 10, so they've they've played well.
A lot of guys who won a bubble championship, which we have count, except for Caruso, that's a full championship for him. Um, are we going to? are we going to do the watch out for the Lakers? They could beat the Nuggets? Oh, I think we have to, I think we have to say that.
Well, hank.
Are you in that they're going to beat the nuggets? are you in that we have to talk them up?
Hank's muted, Probably for the best. Yeah, Hank is muted, but, but, but, but. But I think they could beat the Nuggets. I think they'd be, they could be the Nuggets.
Yeah, how? yeah.
Championship experience, you know, Championship DNA, they've got the DNA players of all time, Anthony Davis, All Stars, all N.BA players. Why not, yeah?
Uh, well, I don't think they're nearly as good as the Nuggets is the thing. Anthony Davis does look healthy. We, I think that's how we started last year's playoffs. Anthony Davis looks really, really healthy right now and he's.
An absolute beast when he is healthy. Um, let me ask you a question, Hank, Uh, this series? how many games is this series?
It's a seven game series, it's a seven game series, okay, so if it were a 15 game series, the I would give you. The Lakers, I would say, because the Lakers have beaten the Nuggets four times over the last 15 times they've played.
So I would give you that. If they played 15 games and all the Lakers had to do is get to four, I would say, yes, that can.
Happen best of 15, but it's only four. When is the Lakers? 15 times in the last three years, they.
Played and the Lakers have won four times. I just, I think we're going to all. Everyone's going to talk themselves into it, and I I mean, the Lakers are not. I don't think the Nuggets wanted to see the Lakers. I would, I would guess that, because they obviously, I mean, anytime you have to play LeBron in the playoffs, it's scary. But last year they did sweep them.
People said it was the closest sweep that's ever happened. In a seven game series, I think the Nuggets are better.
Yeah, I mean, we all remember Game Four, one of the all time best games in the history of the N.B.A. that nobody will remember. Yeah, Hank, what are you doing to yourself right now? because?
Like, PFT and I are putting ourselves in a very open situation where if the Lakers somehow win this series, this will look terrible for us. But it also would mean LeBron beat the Champs and they would be like, Okay, now, who else do they have there? They, you know, they could get to the.
Final So what are you doing? I just want someone to beat the Nuggets. I like seven games, drag out battle, really.
Just really big cat early. But here's the thing I think I think we. We might have to just go along with Hank, cause Hank he knows ball, I think I think Hank's right. And the Lakers can do it, and the Lakers can actually go all the way to the NB.A. finals.
And I think the Lakers could beat the Celtics in the NB.A. finals and LeBron could get a title over.
Hank I would be, that would be awesome. So this scenes the start of the Championship. DVD was Zion throwing the towel and going in and huffing and puffing into the locker room. That was the start of the Celtics, yeah.
The Lakers Western Conference Finals. DVD Yeah, well, uh, the so the Pelicans. I don't know what's going to happen with Zion if he's going to play on Friday. I don't. I mean, without a limp, I would say no.
Cause it looked like he was like he looked like he had a non-count contact injury, and he knew right away that he was. Yeah, you know that.
Look, that he had it was, it was either he knew immediately it was really, really bad, or he knew immediately because he's had that same injury before and he re-aggravated it. Right? So they're.
Going to play the pelicans are going to play the Kings, like the beam, the kings take down the warriors. Um, is this the end? Is this the end for the warriors? Because they, uh, went out pretty sad.
It felt like they never, they got, like, what to four points at halftime? It was like, Okay, here come the warriors. They were never like Steph was never able to get open shots. Clay is washed. I I so stupidly was like, what if Clay just has a throwback game?
Cause I love, I love clay, but he's, he's washed. And uh, now you have like a bunch of questions of are the warriors? is that it is that? like, is this finally it? It was probably it last year.
But is this finally it? I think we said last year that that should have been it. At the end of their run, they needed to do something like drastic to to retool themselves. But uh, they. There's no more frustrating team to watch when they stink than the Warriors. When they're good, it looks like they broke basketball, and when they stink, it looks like basketball broke them.
They were, they're just so frustrated, you just want to like, yell at the TV, like, quit being.
Pussies, you just want to scream at them, make some shots, they couldn't make any shots, and they're, you know, they're. They're trusting on guys that are not playing in the right positions with Trace, Jackson, Davis. And, you know, there was a moment where, uh, Moses Moody hit a couple threes and you're like, Oh, here come the warriors.
And there's just no, that's, it's, it's over. I'm actually disappointed that, uh, Draymond didn't get ejected. that felt like an ejection game.
I was very upset about that. I think he wanted to go, Um, yeah, what does this mean for Chris?
Paul's legacy Oh, another playoff loss, we should probably get Rosillo on. Yeah, we need to talk about this.
Chris Paul blew it. I'm going to text him right now and we'll just see if he can respond.
In in in quick enough time. Yeah, just just a comment really is all that we need actually.
Hank, you text him cause he doesn't respond to your texts, so just ask, ask, is this another? is this another Chris Paul playoff loss? Just ask him that, just that, yeah.
And then maybe ask if you can get the video for your brother's bachelor party.
Yeah, actually know what big cat this is?
You should facetime him because he facetimed you when the badges lost, this is his equivalent.
Yeah, yeah, although I mean, Chris Paul, this doesn't he. He was not, he was a non-factor. Um, I have a question for you, PFT. So the Kings, uh, they kind of like sputter down the stretch.
This is a big win for them. Obviously the warriors, like, have been there, you know, they've had some great wars with them in the last few years. Uh, so Bonus is so much fun to watch, so bonus does. Does he just have a has? He just had a black eye for five years, I feel like he's.
Had a black eye constantly, I think he, he like, does the, uh, the smoky eye to himself before every game for intimidation reasons, yeah.
But he looks, he looks intimidating. You don't want to fuck with a guy like that. It's like you see a guy with a black eye, you see a guy with a missing tooth, or you see a guy with cauliflower. You're used to your clear. But I just, is this another? Was this another? Chris, Chris Paul loss? He's asking us for the playoff loss.
Yeah, asking for comment doesn't count as the playoffs, right? Isn't playing. Oh, true.
Shit, so how should we phrase this? Well, let's let Ryan arrive at that conclusion on his own. I don't want to, I don't want to give him excuses ahead of time, the fact that Hank's sending this.
Text is great, uh, and also shout out Keegan Murray. Iowa basketball is is on fire right now. Um, we talk a little bit about the WNBA draft during hot sequel thrown. He was awesome, he had everything.
So yeah, maybe let's light the beam, let's just keep lighting the beam. I do. I want the Kings to be good, yeah.
Yeah, I do, too. I don't think that they have a chance against the Thunder, but I want them to be good. Um, I also would like them to maybe lengthen their nets because I just I can't stand watching a game. This is a very sad old guy.
Take. But whenever the nets are really short, it just bothers me. Yeah, I want to see swishes, I want to see cool swishes, I want to see the I want to see the net really swish.
I would like them to do the the Uh, in-season tournament with chain nets, so you get the swish sound with the chain like playground sound that would.
I would like that as well. Um, all right, so you send the tax hank, where's? No way he's going to respond in time for, Yeah, I mean, it was, Yeah, no problem.
Yeah, we should have Hank, just be the designated. We're still a texter. Cause, you know that he's just not going to respond. And we can be like, well, chalk it up to it being Hank. Uh, pft. Other things we've got to talk about.
Oh, they're lighting the beam right now. It's a bonus with his, with his uh, black eyes, lighting the beam. They fucking killed the warriors, they killed the warriors. There's the beam.
It's lit, the beam is very cool. BFt. Congratulations. Your Capitol's clinching the spot in, Um, the NHL playoffs, Stanley Cup playoffs.
That was a crazy like 10 minutes of hockey. I was actually watching the Red Wings game, so I was kind of wanting Patrick King to get in the playoffs. The Red Wings scored with three seconds left and then the the Flyers, knowing that they needed to win in regulation, pulled their goalie and then lost in regulation.
And people are big mad at you PFT in the capitals, that's fine, that's fine I.
Understand why they're mad, they should be mad at Torts, they should be mad at the coach, the flyers. Because what happened was, you're right. The Flyers needed to win in regulation to have any shot at it. And nobody told Torts that the Red Wings had scored to tie it up at the end of regulation.
So Torts was operating under the assumption that they could still get into the playoffs with a regular, a regular time when. So, they pulled their goalie and nobody told them that. The goal happened until after the Capitals went down and scored, which is about a minute and a half of real time. Like after the goal happened in the Detroit game to win, the Capitol scored. It was about one minute, 20 seconds, and in that time, nobody let Torts know. Okay, you can put the goalie back out there, but I don't know like if that was the plan. Along. To have some guy on the bench with, like an iPad, checking the scores every 30 seconds and and keeping them informed. But for whatever reason, he didn't do it, it ended up working out pretty good for me.
So I'm not going to complain, this is this Caps team is the weirdest fucking team ever. Nobody thought they were going to make the playoffs. Their gold differential is unbelievably bad. Last time I checked, I don't know what it is now.
I think it was like 36 and a minus 36 on the season, I think. In gold differential, the last team to make the playoffs with the gold differential of minus 30 or worse was the 1994 1995 San Jose Sharks. So yeah, we've had for you guys, because there's.
Nothing better than when a team makes the playoffs and everyone's like, no one wanted to see this. Fuck this, this is bullshit. That's the team you got to worry about, cause everyone was so mad and was like, Fuck this.
The Capitals are boring. They're going to get killed by the Rangers. I'm going to have to bet them against the Rangers. Fuck it.
Well, here's the good news is the Caps made the playoffs. Bad news is they have to play the Rangers, who won the President's Trophy, which is basically impossible to lose in the playoffs. If you're that good of a team, that you win the President's trophy. So there's like no chance that we can beat the Rangers. But I'm just glad to be there, it's very happy to be there.
We got a hot goalie too, don't forget about that, our goalie standing on his head. I think the last two months he might be. I think he's first in goals or goals against average, he's got a bunch of shutouts.
He's playing really, really well. Um, the thing about the caps is they, they get the shit kicked out of them all the time. That's why it's been such a frustrating season. They've lost 13 games by four or more goals this year, 13 games, but they're tied. I think they're top five for most one goal wins this season.
So they they can win the close ones. So I mean, really, all I wanted. I said this to you guys before we left for the day is all my teams stink right now? I just I want to have one team that I can root for in a playoff situation. And the capitals of that team and actually tip of the cap to the Capitals. Cause every, everything else in D.C. by and large, has sucked. For the last, like 20, 25 years. The Nats had that one World Series run, which was incredible.
But the capitals are just. They're always there for me, they're my main bitch, I love them. Yeah, um, whoa.
Oh, you got a response, so that's mean, oh, no, he can't.
Actually care about the Chris Paul at this point, like it's, he's not even he's playing off the bench. That wasn't a Chris Paul loss, I'm going to say, right now, we're still. That wasn't a Chris Paul loss.
That was a Clay Thompson loss.
I'm excited, I think it's partially Chris Paul, too. Yeah, partially I'm excited for you about the Capitals.
I, I, I really do. I do love whenever a team makes the playoffs and it's like you, you like everyone. That was all I saw. Everyone's like, Fuck this. We'd rather see this team or that team. Nah, Capitals got in and they did it in the last, like three seconds or two minutes of the season.
Yeah, I asked, Um, I asked Vikings.
Fans, how I can prepare to respond to all the haters out there? That'll be like, but the gold differential is so bad. You know, they had their team that made the playoffs, not this past season, but but two seasons ago. And, uh, the majority of responses were just like, it'll be fine. Just try not to lose to a team from New York and humiliating fashion in the first round.
So I'm going to try to take that to heart. And then, uh, they also told me, just like any anytime, somebody.
Just tell them to suck my dick, so that's what I'm going to do. Um, I have also one last advanced analytics I'd like to share with you guys. Um, so I'm going to read, I'm going to read something, and then I'm going to tell you the advanced analytics behind it. So this is from March 26th.
Um, about to tune into my first flyers game of the year. Apologies in advance, all the diehards out there at this point. The the Uh. Philadelphia Flyers had 36 wins on the season. This is March 26th. They finished with 38 wins. They went to an eight after that tweet, and they missed the playoffs by a point.
They went to an eight and that was from our very own Max. I can't believe that. I. I remember when you said you were going to watch your first flyers game. And then I just went and looked at the schedule. And it's just L's just everywhere. How did you do that?
He was.
Fliered up big cat. I don't know, I don't know if you heard the news, l's everywhere.
Two and eight to finish the season after Max decided to tune in. That's actually one point, what one single point I think they lost.
I think they ended up losing by. There was a bunch of tiebreakers, uh, for the last spot, but yeah, the Flyers ended up with, uh, 87 points, Capitals ended up with 91. But uh, that was also including tonight's game, where they lost in regulation. Uh, that's even for you, Max, that's impressive.
I don't give a fuck.
It's all, but there's. There's definitely a bunch of people from Philly that are listening to this and they're pissed off at you. What do you say to them?
I'm so I am. I do apologize to them, but that was also that was the only game I watched. And you drive by, stunk them. Here's my stink, I'm going to, Um, I'm out of here guys, I guess.
I don't know, I don't think this counts, I don't care like I. I. I know like two players on the flyers I would have if they made the playoffs, though I would have got fired up.
You would have been, you would have been in the fucking flyer zone.
Yeah, sorry, sorry to Philly. Yeah, I was. I was going to be really mad at you. If you had beaten the Capital tonight and you would have gone into your like little flyer zone in the playoffs.
And then I would just be sitting here, sad about everything.
I'm very happy that you made it over over me.
Thanks Max. It means a lot we got. I just need one, I don't, I don't ask for a lot in sports, I just I want to. I want to have one team that I can put my heart and soul into for at least a week during the playoffs. Over the course of the calendar year.
I don't think that's too much to.
Ask from the sports gods. We're just we're right in the. I mean, I expect the Bulls to maybe win on Wednesday night but then lose to the heat of the Sixers. And so we're back in the spot where Hank's just sitting with two teams. Everyone's else just, you know, you're you, you got in at the last game.
I'm going to play in, Max is in a plan, trying, trying, trying to get in.
You've had, you've had, like, a banner year in drafts, though. That's true. It's true. Your draft success this year has been worth like one playoff series for.
Sure, in terms of enjoyment, that's true. We we also. I completely forgot. And we'll get to it later with Mr. Pear, who's owned by a one and only. Memes, but we get crazy memes coming up soon with the Islanders, cause they have been on a historic run to get into the playoffs. And Means is a.
Fucking psycho with the Islanders, and you know what he's, he might hate the Rangers more than I do right now. Like, I've got him on my side, I've got a very powerful force behind me.
Yes.
He absolutely does. Okay, let's kick it to ourselves. We have a hot seat, cool throne, we have a great Blake Griffin interview.
And then we have Mr. Pear, Awesome show, awesome, awesome show. Let's kick it back to ourselves in studio.
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Great food, by the way. Uh, the wings were were phenomenal, the flatbread, pepperoni, honey pizza. so good, incredible.
And the golf was.
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I got a couple of wins, it was great. Yeah, it was a fun time for the whole squad to order a second round of appetizers, yeah.
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Cool Throne, did you follow your taxes? My hot seat is a CBS. Oh, okay. Did they not follow their taxes?
I don't know about that, uh, but they did air a live televised concert of Billy Joel at MSG. Yes, and they cut it off with two minutes ago in the middle of Piano, man.
But basically, before it started, the Masters ran too long. Also not great, not great ratings for the Masters. Oh really, so we didn't like it, didn't like it.
It doesn't help that Scotty had won by the by 10 or 11.
Is Caitlin Clark bad for men's golf? I would say so everyone was gearing up, they're saving.
They're watching for the WNBA draft. Um, so CBS did pay.
Their taxes, CBS probably did pay their taxes, although, you know, networks, corporations. It's a little, they get a little shady with that stuff, so they cut off after Friday.
Or Saturday? When is when is the Uh, the Billy Joel song? When does it take place? Uh, Saturday? Saturday? It's five o'clock on a Saturday, yeah.
Nine o'clock on a Saturday, yeah.
People were pissed, there were a lot of commercials, they're re airing the entire thing. Damn cause people are so mad.
Billy Joel lives the best life. He just takes a helicopter from his house. I think that's court mandated. Yeah, that's true, he can't fly the helicopter.
Can't drive, Uh, he takes a helicopter from his house, goes to MSG, sells it out 20 minutes.
He's home. Yeah, Glennie balls in the front row every time. Yeah, great life.
It's incredible. Yeah, I feel like we should've. I should've gone to one of those at one point. Yeah, I feel the same way.
Cause you go to MSG and you see the big band invited me no less than five, I know I think he invited me to the one on Sunday. The banner They have a dedicated banner.
Next time I think it's bigger than the Ranger Stanley Cup banners, actually, all right, so next time we have.
To go to New York City, let's just say we can't go unless Billy Joel's playing, yep, and we'll do that. Is this a good? He just has hits after hits after hits, you forget all of them.
Yeah, top.
Three Billy Joel songs Uh, Vienna, okay, um Italian restaurant, yep.
That's a good one.
Yeah, and I will go, Uh, who? Downeaster Alexa, Rocket man, those are Rocket Man's a great song.
Yep, goodbye Yellowbrook Road. The one they did for Princess Diana. I thought it was really touching.
Yeah, candle in the wind, Candle in the wind is number one. um, number two. I'm going to say, Uh, the bitch is back, yup.
Bitches, back, Rocks, and then Saturday night, so right for fighting, yeah, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday.
Billy Joel rocks cool.
Okay, did she do her taxes? I don't know why you keep bringing up taxes, my cool throne, you did your tax, though.
Of course, I'm an American, that's all it takes. Uh, my cool throne is the WNBA cause Ratings Talk The UH ratings came in for the WNBA draft. Stunning, stunning, stunning numbers.
2.
4 million viewers with WNBA draft last year was 572,000.
The NBA draft did 3.7 million on ABC, the MLB draft had 744,000, NHL 681,000. I didn't even know that MLB draft was televised.
Yeah, no idea. MLB Network. They do it in studio 42 with the baseball field. Where do you guys took BP?
That should be, that should be a punishment. At some point. Somebody should have to sit and watch the entire M.L.B. draft. Do you think we could talk?
Uh, MLB GM like, I don't know if we know any, but like, if we, if we actively started being like, all right, what? Front offices? Listen to? Part of my take, there are so many rounds, I think we could maybe get drafted.
Just kind of throw away those last picks, like they'll drop someone who's.
Playing college football, being like, maybe maybe if he says yes to us, right? Yeah, yeah, somebody awesome.
You're right, somebody always takes a pic, they use it on, like Russell Wilson, Yeah.
Let's get Max drafted, because he actually has. You could be like, Well, he, he. We have tape. I have a baseball reference. we have a baseball reference, so let's get Max drafted. I don't know who we can do.
Like, someone, please listening, who works in some organization, please reach out. Just all we're asking for is 40th, you know what? We'll even we'll pay you, we'll give you a signing to have a rookie wage scale.
No, I mean, Max, what if you got drafted, then you refused to sign? I'm actually just heard the word scale and shook his head, That's all right, come on now.
I'm getting too many straight. Come on guys, I haven't taken one stray shot at you and the top call wasn't even a stray. That was just an obstacle.
I mean, that was also, I mean, you were getting made fun of, so you were just like, Oh yeah, let me deflect one camera. One handed 17 pieces. Well, I mean, you're acting like you started to lose, and you're just like, Max just won't eat it and just turn the vacuum button on.
And he's like, Kirby, Yeah, they cut the draft in half, there's only 20 rounds, oh, 19..
There was.
40 or 40 rounds? Oh no, we might not be able to get Max drafted and 14 picks last year.
Speaking of baseball, uh, Larry Lukino and John Henry, all time scumbags. I mean, John Henry and Tom Werner. Yes, yes, all the time scumbags are not attending Larry Lukino's funeral.
Oh, it was two days after opening day, which they were at. That is crazy. All time scumbags, all time scumbags, all time scumbags.
Probably sent some nice flowers. All time. Scumbags definitely don't pay their taxes, lock them up, yeah.
You would all the time right, right, right?
Right, right, we don't want to do the tax, isn't it? They turn around, lock them up.
Lock them up for what, for what reason, not paying their tax, being all time scumbags.
Okay, but not for the tax thing. Yeah, that should be part of it, but not. You can't judge a book by just someone that doesn't pay their taxes. But I'm not one of those people.
Um Kate, don't stop.
This is a satire podcast. The WNBA draft, the the all the rookie wages getting tweeted out and everyone's like, what the fuck it's like? Well, this is what Caitlin Clark might be able.
To fix, she might be able to improve things a little bit, like if people watch and then.
Starts making more money, then they get to pay more. But it was funny for people to be like, Oh, that you can't even live in New York City on that. Well, her number one, she was number one.
Like, they got excited because her Iowa teammate got drafted later on to the same team. What is she making? Yeah, probably like 50 unrelated I. I'm a big Indiana fever fan.
Always have been.
Yeah, well, unrelated. Uh, we should probably get the boys some Chicago Sky season tickets, cause we're bringing back bully ball. What do they play?
Uh, wind Trust Angel races, she's really angel. Recent Cardoza. Uh, my friend Ricky O'Donnell. Uh. Throughout a tweet. Cause he, he covers all Chicago basketball, I think. He said that in the last year, the two of them have shot five total three pointers.
Yeah, bully ball, we're going just bully ball, everyone's shooting the three. We're just going to fucking pack the paint and just have some beast down there.
Rebounds all.
Day Do you think I could get a rebound over Cardoza? Nope, yeah, she would dominate me in.
Hopefully, I would love to have both of them come in and we'll have a we'll have them on the show. Yeah, we'd love it. Uh, but yeah, the the, the, the the. The contracts getting treated out were tough to look at. But it will get changed. Also endorsements.
I mean, Caitlin Clark, that's the thing Ravel keeps talking about, how she's. She's took a pay cut from Iowa, but now she get a shoe deal, I would imagine her shoe deal is going to be huge 10 million.
$15 million, it's going to be massive, she's going to get a ton of endorsements. She couldn't do a.
Deal at Iowa? Cause they're a Nike school. Yeah, she'll make a ton of money, yeah.
Okay, good job, hot seat, cool thrown hank.
Nothing to do with taxes, nothing. Okay, I don't know why I keep.
Bringing it up. But other than the tax I just passed, uh, my, my hot seat is hank, cause he didn't do his taxes.
Well, I didn't say it was you, I didn't say it was you. Hank. yeah, any hank yet.
Let me finish yet, um, my hot seat is Trump, who's on New York tax issue for that one year, but I would've got money back, but, uh, no, my hot seat is Gordon Ramsey, Gordon Ramsey. Because his restaurant got taken over, he had a pub in central London. And it's up for sale for 13 million quid, which I think is their way of saying dollars.
Okay, uh, and then six people squatters have taken over the building and they're occupying it and saying, we own this place now. And so now he can't sell it, cause he got squatters just living in there. Who? I mean not to get political, but the squatting thing is, it blows my mind.
I set it up. How is that political? Why can't they just arrest him? So squatting one in politics, it's someone in politics fault, which was crazy. This is in London.
So I don't know what their law is over there. True, but um, remember back in like 2008 2009, when the housing market crashed, there were a ton of people that were just moving into foreclosed homes. And putting up these like legal notices. They're, they're like the same people that would go to court and then complain to the judge about it not being the proper type of court. Because the tassels on the flag weren't right, yeah.
Like those they they know, like the letter of the law. And nowadays there's a bunch of people that are doing it, that are taking advantage of, like renters rights in New York, that are doing it. But this just squatting has gone back, I think back since, like the 1800s.
You can't like, kick someone out, it's crazy. The thing is it whenever I see these videos of like guys like. I just started living in this house and nothing anyone could do and nothing happened.
Because I'm like, Wait, how I don't do it? Like, what would you do? You just go home and you fucking lose my mind? Yeah, if somebody was in my house when I went home, I would be like, Dude, you probably don't pay taxes.
Yeah.
Yeah, they definitely don't. Yeah, I would just get bad bad group to be in, yeah.
Like, Cool, I guess you're paying rent, I would just charge them rent. Probably file a mean extension, yeah.
Mean, extension? I'm dealing with some issues. What's?
A mean, what's the difference between an extension and a meeting? That's just a really good one.
Yeah, maybe after the date. No, no, no.
My cool throne is the American judicial system, so I alluded to it a second ago. But the Trump trial is starting in Manhattan right now, and they're doing jury selection for it, and in the jury selection. One of the questions they're asking the prospective jurors is, Do you listen to podcasts? and then they're asking them, What podcasts do you listen to? So, juror number B, Three, five, four from Nomad was in seat.
Number 10 and the podcast question Do you listen to podcasts? He says. Yeah, if I get bored every once in a while, I'll listen to Barstool Sports. Yes, might be in the Trump jury pool. Later on, there was an Upper East Side resident, a native New Yorker and investment banker at KPMG.
Lives with his fiance, works at a nonprofit. He's another sports podcast guy. He listens to Pardon My Take, which got a nice from a reporter that was sitting in the courtroom. Holy shit, we might. We might get some some fellas installed on the Trump jury right now.
That rocks. Yeah, they just basically were asking this question for anyone who answers the Daily.
Yeah, the daily you're out of here, you're gone. see ya, you're gone.
See ya, that's awesome, yeah, so shout out those guys that are in the pool. I hope you guys get selected.
Really scary thing to think of anyone who's listening to this right now.
Deciding anyone's fate in a juror? Yeah, well, will the former president go to jail? Well, his fate is in the hands of a guy that listens to us. Pretend to know what we're talking about. And just bought a turtle to gamble on sports. A guy who basically was like, clear my schedule.
Mr. Pear's about to be unveiled. Yeah, I can't, I can't make jury this morning.
I got to see who he's got in the in the play in game. Oh, I love it. Yeah, so we might, we might have some friends in very high places right now, yes.
Like it all right, my hot seat is.
The Chicago White socks. So we have a strategy of betting against the A's. It's been mixed reviews. They did lose by two runs the other night, Monday night. I am a fucking idiot because.
This weekend I tried to bet on the bet against the athletics. I put the bed in for the next day's game, for the following day's game, which was also listed on the odds that I could put down on. They ended up losing that game by a lot. That would have been a rare win for us in the past week.
I missed out on that money. And then yesterday. I don't want to blame Stephen Chey. Yes, we can. I don't want to blame Stephen. he's in charge of telling, but it's Stephen Chey's fault.
Yeah, and he didn't tell us to bet against the Athletics and I didn't get the bed in, and the Athletics ended up losing by two runs. Yes, that's another. I guess. It's a total of um units that you need back, yeah.
Units that I need, that's the exact way it's, it's multiple units that I need back. And so I'm over two on the last games that we should have won. The system.
So the the thing is with the uh, betting against the A's, it was because of that fuck face John Fisher, fuck him, uh. And also we thought they'd be really bad. We should have picked the white socks, the white socks are so, so bad. And Jerry Reinsdorf also. A fuck face. Is going to be, uh, if if the Bulls win on Wednesday night, going to be like, look, see, we got to the second level of the playing game and another year in a row.
Uh, but the white Socks? I have some stats from you. This is from uh, Jay Kuta, who's great Twitter follower. Uh, he also is a White Socks fan. Number of times the Braves have been shut out in the last 430 days to number of times the White Socks have been shut out in the last 430 hours. Six. In baseball history, two teams have been shut out at least six times in their first 16 games the 1907 Brooklyn Super Baz.
Huh, they were the dud before the Dodgers and the 2024 Chicago White Socks. Uh, we also have this stat that, um, hold on, uh, games one since opening day. Yukon Men's huskies for Chicago white socks, too. Uh, it's. It's just bad, it just keeps getting worse and worse, and worse and worse.
Uh, they are on pace for the uh, 2003 uh Tigers that ended up winning 43 games. And here's the last one, uh, number of days. Pedro Griffo has been manager of the White Socks. If you remember, we talked about it last week. Jerry Reinsdorf didn't want to fire him because he wanted to let his contract run out a little more.
So, number of days he has been the manager of the White Socks? 531 Number of days he has had a winning record, one opening day last year. Yeah, it's bad, things are bad on the south side.
They.
Don't know where they're going to play in the future, too, right? They're looking for a new.
Stadium doing the John Fisher thing. He's just being a fucking dickhead, somehow, and this is.
The the story of the lady that snuck a gun into the guaranteed rate field and accidentally shot herself in the stomach because she was too fat to be holding a gun in her belly. Yeah, that's not the saddest, weirdest story to happen with the white socks in the last two years, yeah, and.
Listen, I, I'm not. I'm not a White Socks fan, but I have a lot of friends, people in my life that root for the white socks. And I feel bad for them. I'm going to do something for them, uh, that will hurt me, but I'm going to do it. I always say, honestly, the Chicago White Socks, and, uh, where they play. Guaranteed rate. Field has some of the best food in all of sports Major League baseball. Everything food, beverage, everything beers, everything s'mores, milkshake. Way better than Wrigley, like World's better than Wrigley.
So whenever I tell people like, Oh, go to white, something like, dude, it is, they just do a top class job of it. I'm no longer going to say that because that's what Jerry Reinsworth wants you to say.
That is great beer, it's great atmosphere. I can no longer say that I'm going to stand with White Socks fans. I will no longer plug the fact that going to a game there is actually fun and a great experience. So no more they get dog shit food.
They get nothing out of you, nothing. Cause I would, I would, people would ask. I'd be like, dude, I do want that. Not have even close to the.
Same food as the white side, that milkshake, though, I would let that milkshake do unspeakable.
Things to me, yeah, it's so good looking. Yeah, so uh, white socks are really down bad.
Uh, then my cool throne is golf because golf. They did have a bad master's ratings, but it was fun to watch the masters and nonetheless, uh, golf. Uh, has Rory maybe going to the lift? so way to go golf? He denied it. Yeah, I know he it was. It was such a classic golf like live being like, Oh, the masters just happened.
This is cool, everyone's talking about the masters. Let's just float out the Rory's thing about $850 million. Didn't we talk? Was it with Whitney or was it?
With a riggs, I forget one of those guys. We said, How much would it rock if if Rory just decided to go to the lift after after, like, talking all that shit? But it's just impossible. He was Mr. PGA Tour for it seemed like forever.
He was the spokesperson. But this is all lives.
Entire strategies. This now, where it's like, Oh, some big PGA event happens, let's just say, oh. Tiger Woods thinking about taking $1.5 billion? Also, did you read the story about?
Greg Norman at the Masters Yeah, his hand, dude, his hand is sore because he shook too many hands.
So he got denied credentials, which there's every time this happens, people are like, we don't even know if he actually tried to get credentials. He bought a ticket from, Uh, he just bought a ticket online, showed up, Uh, said that. There were so many people that came up to him and said, Thank you so much for what you're doing for golf. And then he also. He like, tried to stare down Rory for a couple holes, like, basically tried to get in his eyesight, and Rory just never acknowledged him. But weird, weird, dude, I did hear some people saying like, you can.
The microphones picked up and said, Thank you for everything you do online, thanks for all the.
Content. Now we do stand with Brooks and his live team Smash. We can separate the art from the artist. Uh, also golf's back because Scotty Shuffler went to a hole in the Wall dive bar when he landed in Dallas, that was cool.
That was cool, yeah, just like us. And people are like, well, he wanted to be with his wife, his wife's probably sleeping.
Yeah, also, oh, they, they.
Also, they clowned Tony O'Brown them to PGA Tour. Did they like, Yeah? He woke up in the morning because obviously his wife's pregnant, she's sleeping in. And he made himself his own breakfast. And the Instagram caption was Chef Sheffler, Ooh, big time clown Tony O'Brown, Nice, nice.
It's.
Literally in his last name, he was wearing the same outfit that he won the Masters in at this bar, which was very cool. I also was looking back and I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to retract something with Scotty. Uh, I was like, I need this baby to come soon. So that he doesn't get all this credit for being, you know, this awesome dude that I'm going to leave. I think that he was forced into saying that he was going to leave.
He just said his wife was pregnant, and then media members asked if he would leave if she went into labor. He never was like, she's imminent for later. He didn't have that plan, right? He wasn't like, Oh, she could have a baby at any time.
Yeah, the reporters kept on saying, if hypothetically, she had a baby, so Scotty's off the hook. Great dude, all right good, yeah.
I stand with Scotty, we like Scotty, like he. You know how that can happen, where he gets duped, where people are like, well, like, his wife could be three months pregnant, and reporters would say that, like, what if she has a baby? And he's got to answer it one way.
He didn't have that discussion with his wife before talking about it, right? He was boxed.
Into a corner where it's like, she's probably not going to have the baby. Why are you bringing this up? Okay, if you asked me this question directly, I guess I have to say I'd leave, yeah.
By the way.
I did just look it up. Charlotte, the pregnant stingray by the Pregnant Air Quotes in North Carolina, still has not given birth. Now they're doing a bait and switch news story. Now, the story is she's regrowing her drop tail barb that she lost. Isn't she crazy?
So now it's just, oh, we're supposed to forget about the pregnancy because she's apparently re sprouting limbs. This, this stinks to high heaven. I don't think, I don't think this bitch is pregnant.
Okay, and and guy who's listening, who's about to walk back into the Trump trial, you can now.
Go now that you have this Charlotte, Yeah, the Charlotte, that bitch ain't pregnant.
I just love the idea of that guy just sitting there. Oh, this high stakes moment. And we're just updating on Charlotte and Scotty Sheffler to dive. Scotty Sheffler drank beers, drink beers. News News story. That looked actually like a lot of fun.
Like, imagine being at that dive bar and just sitting there on a Sunday night and the master's champ walks in. Yeah, I mean.
If I was Scotty, I would I would just live in dive bars for the rest of my life. So awesome, I would just wear the green jacket everywhere. But you'd probably get a phone call from Augusta if you're wearing it in like an establishment they don't approve of, you only get to keep it for a year, yeah.
You only get to keep it for a year and then they keep it at.
AUGUSTA Yeah, surgery. Or? John Rahm talked about that, how he had it in his closet. And he was saying he kind of wishes he wore it more because he has to give it back. Yeah, yeah.
But Scotty off the hook. Hopefully we get Scotty on sometime, we stay in with Scotty. That was a he was duped by the media. My apologies for falling for their tricks.
No, my apologies as a member of the media.
Yeah, the media will. The media makes us look bad as members of the media, like the media right now.
Has been saying that Hank didn't do his taxes. Bullshit, it's fake bullshit, bullshit.
They're saying, Max stuffed his face with food, bullshit. That did happen. Did Tom Fornelli do his taxes?
Hank Probably, probably, probably okay.
Jury Rest All right, Uh, Jake.
My hot seat is international basketball teams. We talked about it with Blake Griffin coming up, but the USA announced its Olympic roster for 2024 in Paris. And it is stacked. Yeah, they're looking to win every game by 50. I am predicting that the United States will win a gold medal in basketball this year.
Steph, I ran all the analytics. Tatum Embiid Booker.
Halliburton Edwards Holiday Autobio a.d.
And one open spot, there's just one ball, maybe for a guy.
Like, Blake Griffin, who's coming up, yeah, I. We have squashed the beef with, uh, Zach Eady, cause he didn't make any nil money, and, uh, he was an all time college basketball player. I really want to play Canada.
Just fucking, just dunk on them, just yam on them. Canada's got a good team. Is Zach Eady? Is he on Canada? yeah.
Okay, it's like, Shea, Shea Gilgis, uh, Andrew Wiggins, uh, Lou R.J. Barrett, Lou Dort. Maybe. What do you say, Max? We? We were eady? No, I just felt bad.
We're eady positive, but Embiid I'm trying to guard, Embiid is going to be tough.
Oh yeah, yeah, when you say like, we're eady positive, it sounds like we've got to. you can't get it up. Yeah, we're, we're a positive. Speak for yourself.
I think positive Eady doesn't really help. We have Eady, we have Eady, that's what I would say if I was Canadian. Canadians have Eady.
Yes, correct. Wait is, uh, where is Embiid playing?
The Olympics, Yeah, he's on the list for the U S, which is weird, but really, yes.
Ring Chaser Cause he knows he's never going to win one medal in the NBA. Uh, yeah, here we go, it's actually.
A pretty good team. Uh, SGA Jamal Murray, R.J. Barrett, Dylan Brooks, Lou Dort, Kelly Olenek, Uh, Zach Eady. decent team, yeah, and then a guy named Thomas, uh, Thomas Scrub.
That sucks, yeah, that's awful. that sucks to be the last listed. That's brutal, dude.
Old Tom scrub, Old Tom scrub, I'm going to throw him, yeah. So they've kind of put themselves in a position.
Where? If they don't blow every team out, so why do we have an open spot? Uh, I don't know. Oh man, who could it be?
Yeah, who are they? Who are they saving it for? So, the potential lists I'm looking at from Riggs's blog is Jared Allen, Paolo Desmond Baines, Scotty Barnes Bridges, Jalen Brown Brunson, Jimmy Butler, Alex Caruso. Ah, Caruso.
It's gotta be Caruso.
Gotta be Caruso, Darren Fox, Paul George needs to be Caruso, for sure, we gotta get Caruso on this team, Brunson snubbed.
Oh, Brunson snubbed, you can't, you can't be doing pro Brunson stuff until we find out who you're playing in the first round. It sucks. Mac's having to, Mac's having to go against the New York Wildcats. I hate that they all play for the Knicks.
If they were any other team, they'd be my second favorite team in the NBA. But just brutal. Uh, Jake, your cool.
Thrones, one of them, quickly plug God first responders. We have a huge event this weekend on Long Island FDNY NYPD 50th Annual Hockey Game on Barstool.tv Saturday. Uh, I believe. Our cover charts at 4 p.m. Eastern can't wait for that.
Plus, rough and rowdy Friday night. So who's going to be on the call with you? So unfortunately, Biz isn't able to make it because we have a NHL playoff conflict. So it'll be me and Colby Armstrong, who does great things on spit and chicklets, he calls games for the Penguins.
So he's great. Uh, Wit will be in between the benches, I believe, and then Jeff, I think Dave will be there. Uh, part of the pregame and intermission, because you did that last year, it's an awesome, awesome event.
Always fights in that game too, which is great. Oh yeah, I can't wait to call him. It's going to be awesome, yeah.
Any rumors to the truth that that biz was afraid because he can't spell NYPD? I believe that's false. Okay, all right, I read that online, but that's the media.
Any truth to the rumor that Biz is missing because, uh, will Compton scheduled this form? I don't think that's true either. Okay, no, Biz has. The hockey playoffs are starting.
Yeah, it's understandable. Yeah, TNC, yes.
Uh, so that is a cool throne with rough and rowdy big cat. I'll be there, and then my other cool throne is John Sterling. Yeah, retired, retired out of the blue.
It's a weird time to retire, right? I think he just like, was like, All right, I got it one more time and then two weeks and he's like, I guess not.
He said I read, I read a UM interview he did with Jimmy Tran of where he was basically. Like, I really wanted to retire to start the season, I kind of convinced myself I could keep doing it and I can't. Um, goes out on top. Yeah, no, on his own terms.
No, Jake, he's, I mean, he did this for 64 years, legend, but it might, I mean, the Stantonian.
He had a great career, he said. Like, that's way out of here, yeah, and that has gone.
The Stanton. And then he just said, Wait, what happened? What did I do wrong? He is a legend, though, I mean, the legend, Radio, Base, baseball, and radio is just the best.
So whenever you lose a baseball, uh, announcer for radio, it does hurt. Yeah, those voices become part of your childhood.
Growing up and it's the summer that the boys, the summer, right? I've seen a lot of guys say it, and and girls. The big reason why you get into the business is because you like what you see from the guys and girls you listen to. So what is he doing? One last game.
No, that's it. He pulled the plug. They're honoring him Saturday. Oh, wow. His last home run was a Stantonian Grand Slam.
Oh, wow, it's fitting at the stadium. Susan Waldman Staying. She's around, yeah.
Okay, good, that's about all the dramatic thing. Have you ever seen anything in all my years?
Jake, what voice really spoke to you? What voice was like? I need to, I need to have that voice. I mean, in terms of like people or their actual no, just a voice, huh, hmm.
Kevin Harlan's got a great voice, but he's got like an all time, but you can't try to fake a Kevin Harlan voice. It would sound very.
Fake Yeah, it's gotta be yourself. Uh, we're going to say, Hank, do you have something to say?
You had something to say, you want to say something, I want to say something, yeah.
Hank, Were you falling asleep during hot seat cool throne? No, did a couple of times, No.
They seen that off. Do you have a sleep problem? You did just sleep? I think you've been working.
Out too early? Yeah, so you get sleep addiction I was trying to get, I was trying to get Max's attention to put the camera on you during hot seat, cool throne. He, No, he didn't see me.
Yeah, I wasn't asleep. Are these things recording even when it's not on them? Do you know, getting up they are?
So we can review the tape. Yeah, okay, yeah, we'll review.
Yes, please make a a brief clip of Hank falling asleep during hot seat cool throne. Why are you guys coming at me so hard? I just had a question, What is it?
If you fell asleep.
No, I heard the whole.
Thing Hank has been coming in early since the time he was up till 1130. That's a fact. I've seen you here very early. He's training to dunk.
You have a sleep problem, you did just sleep.
No, I haven't been getting any sleep. Yeah, cause you've been thinking about dunking and getting up early. Hank did put a camera in my face about five seconds ago and he was like, Do you think I'll be able to dunk by the end of the year? yeah.
For the dunkumentary coming out.
Soon, Oh, fuck, yes, that I mean, you have to watch a dunkumentary uh, okay.
Let's get to speaking of dunkumentaries, let's get to Blake Griffin. He retired from the N.B.A. today. He's been a big part of our show and we have an awesome interview, very, very Blake Griffin interview.
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Okay, here he is, Blake Griffin.
Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest, one of our oldest, dearest friends. On part of my take, he is a six time All-star rookie of the year. But bigger than all of that.
He's a two time Blake of the year, three time, right? three time Blake of the Year. It is Blake Griffin who has announced his retirement from the game of basketball. Uh, let's start there.
You retired. did you want to throw in a mention to us in the retirement?
Uh, no, I did, I actually, you know, in like a week, I'm going to start putting out my previous drafts that didn't make the cut. Um, so just be on the lookout for those there'll be probably in.
The form of a video or something. So were we ever like, were you ever like, Oh, let me sneak in right right after my parents and brother? Like, Hey, if we're talking about people, that mean the.
Most to me and my career, it was like it was like, you guys are my agent and I've had the same agent the whole time. And then he'd like he was in a he was in a mess about it, so I was like.
You know what the guys will understand? Yeah, yeah, we don't.
Yeah, we don't, definitely don't.
Like, we're like, I don't know you guys, I guess apparently sorry next time I retire from.
Something you're in there. I'd like to. I'd like to retire from my career, potentially being in the NBA right now. I'd like to thank Blake Griffin for showing me that I could play in the NBA.
Even though I can't dunk, I too would like. I would also actually like to announce that I'm retiring from not dunking. I will be dunking. Men's leagues. Um, smaller hoops, um, on my, you know, friends, whoever it is, so I'm on retire, I'm retiring from not dunking.
Okay, wait, and I.
Would like to thank PFT and Big Cat. Yes, okay, I like that. So wait, are you actually going to play men's League?
Because that is I, I all. Whenever I talk to someone who retires, it's like, the coolest thing you could do is just show up to, like, pick up games or men's league games and just.
Fucking dominate, I don't know. I mean, you never say never, you know? Justin Bieber? Uh, uh, probably. uh. There's a chance I slip into a men's League game here or there. Yes, yes.
All right, maybe I come to the Chicago, the New, the New Dome, and play a little, we play a little pickup basketball. It would be awesome to see you do one of those videos.
I always love it when athletes pretend to go undercover, for, you know, some sort of like marketing stunt, and they're like, Oh shit, that was Kyrie Irving. I had no idea if you did it, you're like six, 10 going undercover. You could act like you were like an old man on crutches, and then you just go out there and start yamming on people.
That would rock. Yeah, it doesn't work.
As well, when you're playing the sport that you are playing professionally undercover, yeah, but.
You know, but you had, you had a great career, obviously, a lot of highs. Um, you've done a lot of cool shit, a lot of cool shit, so congratulations. I think we truly mean that that, like, you know, this is a good moment for you. And I hope that a lot of people are telling you all the you know, good memories they have and thanking you for whatever you've done for them.
I want to know what your favorite part of your N.B.A. career is, cause I have one.
And I'm just curious if we had the same one. Um, I, I, I can almost guarantee it's probably.
Not going to be the same one. uh, mine might be the same one. mine might be the same one as yours.
Man, favorite, favorite part um, probably the probably the um the the tunnel debacle. Oh, okay, yeah.
Yeah, with the rockets, you know, they, they buried they, they dug deep. They came, they popped up into our locker room, like the looney tunes, like a Looney Tunes uh situation. Um, popped up. And you know, we were there to, we were there to meet him.
We held our ground, I appreciate it. What's your favorite? cause? I have a favorite as well.
Mine.
Was going to be when you? When you dumped that glass of water on the fan and you were pretending to, like, say, Oh, what's going on in the video board? And he just doused them with water. That rock, what do you mean pretending when you were pretending to be like, Oh, what's going on?
And.
Unfortunately, the fan he was having to be a Warriors fan, but I actually, I actually know him, he's a nice guy. And we've, uh, we've, we've reminisced about it. Yeah, my favorite.
Uh, moment from your NBA career is when you made $258 million, Oh man.
That's a pretty cool moment.
Right, uh, yeah, that's pretty cool, I guess, you know, growing up, I didn't ever imagine that was that would be a possibility, so that was pretty cool, yeah.
So all right, so what's?
It like, though, because it is we were talking before. I mean, I'm sure you're just getting texts from everyone. And it probably was like, Oh, uh, I didn't want to get this many text messages today. But is it like, have you had a moment to be like? This is pretty cool that this many people are reaching out and like, Uh, care about me and and appreciate my career. Um, yeah, I mean.
Definitely, I, you know, it's been three hours. I kind of just like I responded to some people that I know, but um, it's been pretty cool, man. It's cool to see teammates, older, old teammates, guys that are still playing, uh, all my friends and family. I mean, you know, when you, when you play this long and like it's been a been a career. Like. A lot of people are affected by that. You know your friends, your family, you can't go to stuff.
I've missed weddings, I've missed, you know, a whole bunch of stuff. So, um, it's cool to, like, sort of put that, put that in the past, you know, actually, you know, I didn't know how it was going to feel, but it is nice, man.
It's, um, I was, I was ready to be done. Yeah, so wait. So there was there any cause? When we had Peyton Pritchard and Derek White in here, they said they begged you to come back. Was there any part of you this year where you were like, maybe I can just get on a team for the playoffs? Be, you know, give some, give a couple minutes here.
Like, or were you? Just I'm done.
Uh, I, I kind of left it open, uh, for a while. I, I did did have sort of a, I guess, a standing offer to go back to Boston. And I remember, like, December, like in the December hit, and I called, Uh, Brad Stevens, and I was like, man, I really appreciate it. I'd had communication with him the whole time and I just, I wasn't, I wasn't there, man.
I got, I just, I don't know, something changed, and I knew, like, when something changed like that, like, it was time to be done. And I told him, you know, like, I think it was like, into December, um, and then I kind of, like, waited around. I honestly just kind of was enjoying life a little bit.
And and uh, you know, but yeah, I mean, if I had gone, if I, if I had gone anywhere, I would have gone back to Boston. I love those guys and I'm pulling for them and they got a great shot, but it was just time for me to be done. I don't think that I would have been like, I wouldn't have been able to give what I should give to a team. You know, if my heart, like, truly wasn't in it, you know, that's got.
To be awesome, though, to know that you retired while someone was still wanting you to be on the.
Team like that's a good way to go. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's nice to sort of retire someone on your own terms, you know, and and not, uh, you know. Not like the begging the whole season, but um, super appreciative of Boston and those guys, Brad and all those guys. But it was time.
Yeah, so what is actually next for you? Because you we we have a feeling that you're coming.
After our job, in some shape or form, well, you're coming after our job in podcasting, you're probably coming after Hank's job in golfing. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm pretty serious.
About my golf game Uh, hopefully big strides this summer. Uh, I think I'm going to be, I'm going to play in that Tahoe tournament. So, you know, didn't get a championship in basketball, so hopefully I get a get a get a meaningless championship at a celebrity golf tournament.
That counts. Yeah, yeah, it does count. Um, I don't know, man, you know, podcasting, maybe only fans, maybe. uh, you know, maybe maybe. Start coaching a G League team, get into a fight, get fired, try to become a GM, get fired.
I like that, start a podcast, get fired. Yeah, I don't know that sounds like.
But Blake Griffin gets fired would be a great reality. Oh, see, how many jobs you can get canned.
From Yeah, wait, wait. does wake up Menzi? Yeah, fired.
What's your? uh, what's your?
What's your handicap right now? Uh, it's about 10 something right now, 11 11 one, I think right now. But you know, we're working on it. You still suck, yeah.
I'm not good at all. It's been like two, you know, almost three years now. And I was like, I think it was a 15 and beginning of last summer and I've just been grinding. I don't want to admit how how much I practice golf now, but um, I love it.
It's like, it's a it's a huge like stress reliever.
Yeah, but that's actually good that you're a 10 handicap. Cause if you were tired and you were a scratch, it's like, What do you? What do you have to do now?
Yeah, I mean, like, I feel like all the scratch golf, most of the scratch golfers I know, are miserable. Because they're just like, unless you shoot under par, you're, you're not. You didn't do well, I can go out there and I can shoot. 95 still had a great day.
Yeah, yeah, if you see.
Somebody that that tells you that they're scratch, and you're right. If they don't shoot par, then you're like, that guy's bullshitting me, he's not really scratched. They don't understand how like the the system works. Also, we've been saying, I think we said this to Brooks Koepke when he was on the show one time. I think we have more fun playing golf than Brooks Koepke or somebody at that level does. Because when you hit a good shot out of nowhere, you're like, Holy shit.
Golf is awesome. That was great and for them, they hit one bad shot around and they're like, I fucking suck. So we're actually we're doing it the right way, I mean.
You saw guys like, come every, every tournament, the guys are coming down the stretch and they like, put one in the water. Danny McCarthy, the other day, or the two tournaments ago, had an unbelievable bag nine, record-breaking bag nine. Sorry, don't mean to pile on here, but he. And then puts one in the water and everybody's like, Oh, that sucked, I put one in the water.
I'm like, I've got one in my pocket, you're like, I didn't see that go in.
Yeah, didn't that bounce? Yeah, yeah, Oberg.
When, when Oberg was playing so well, and yeah, Scotty beats a shit out of him and then he's like, Damn it, I just lost a master's. Potentially, it's like, Dude, you played you. You hit like a hundred great shots this week and that would be enough for my entire lifetime.
Yeah, yeah, can't wait to hit a hundred good ones have you?
Played Augusta No. Oh, you got to play it before. Hank shouldn't be hard.
All right, that's my new.
Goal Yeah, yeah, do you have a do you have, like, a list of things you want to do? I feel like when everybody retires, they're like, Okay, here's five goals that I have for myself.
Yeah, it's mostly.
Like travel stuff, like, there's just like a lot, not a lot of places I've been able to go, you know, just cause our off season was so short. I want to do Australia, but in their summer, you know, all the places that are summer during our winter. Yeah, I forgot to go to. I checked the box off on skiing, skied first time.
That's that had to look weird. Yeah, I mean, also, you know, I don't know if you guys know this, but my knee history hasn't been great. So huge concern. I was like, literally I took a lesson and I'm just, I get on the bunny slope and they're legitimately like six five-year-olds getting lessons.
And it's just me, just like, just going so much slower than them. But we got to hang on, we got the tallest man on skis, what?
About, uh, visiting beautiful Chicago and hanging out with us here, that's gotta be on the list.
Yeah, that's on the list as well. You know, I hear it's beautiful this time time of year, or maybe in a month or two. Um, so, you know, I'll let you guys know when I pop by, it'll be fun. I want you to dunk on Max so bad.
Yeah, yeah, there's, um, there's, uh, there's a few things I want to do. uh, that's, that's one of them. That's close to the top of the list.
Sorry Matt. No, you have to dunk on him. Yes, yeah, like just any Philly fan.
Yeah, right, you might.
Not be able to jump over a Kia anymore. But Max, how tall are you? Six foot, six foot? We'll say six, one, six flat. He's six feet tall. Could you jump over, Max?
Yeah, I think so. It's like a midsize, uh, midsize sedan. Yeah, yeah, that works.
Yeah, just come to Chicago teabag, max.
Yeah, that'd be perfect.
Um, all right, so your retirement? Uh letter? Yeah, well, no, not. it wasn't a letter. well, it was kind of a letter.
It was a non-letter, it was a non-letter letter, it was a non-letter letter. What part of it are you going to look back in, like two days and be like, Man, I wish I hadn't written that?
Uh, I mean, hopefully none of it. I don't know was it bad? No, it was good, but you? It felt like you didn't want to write it, and you were forced to write it. Because it's like, that's what guys got to do.
They got to write it like, you're, you know you, you even said it in it, You're like, I never envisioned myself as the guy who.
Had to write one of these. Yeah, well, I just. I just felt like I would do it a different way. I don't, I don't. I don't think I'll regret any part of it. I think I my message that I just wanted to get across.
It was like, I am thankful even for, like, the shitty moment. That's like what makes the ups and downs of, like the season, the ups and downs of a career, the ups and downs of life? That's like, what makes it all worth it? You know what I mean? And I was trying, trying to be sincere, um, with like, a little bit of, a little bit of levity, but um, I don't know.
I, I felt pretty good about it, I honestly, I just wanted to just get it out there and be done with it.
Yeah, I mean, the correct answer was the part that you didn't mention us, but um.
Oh yeah, but I remember I said, I was gonna, I was gonna, there's, there's like a part two to.
The retirement that would have started into a letter, being part two of a letter is actually.
Cooler than being part one of a letter. Yeah, yeah, because it's like the PS part is like the.
Part that everybody remembers, because it's just like the last thing they read. So, you know, true, I'll put something together. Real nice for you guys. Have you? Have you spent any time online?
Today looking what people are saying about you? No, I have not, you should do that. I I, I sincerely mean that, because, like all the things that people are saying. I searched for Blake Griffin on Twitter and I just get to watch highlight reels of your best dunks. You should do that.
You should treat yourself and just be like, Yeah, I was pretty fucking awesome at dunking.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, maybe I will. It's fun to fun to relive it from a different perspective.
I guess, who's, who's, who are you teabagging in this Knicks dunk? Oh man, oh, Timothy Moskov.
Oh.
Man, that was bad. Do you have? Do you have a favorite dunk over the entire course of your career?
Um, that was one of them. I remember, like the Knicks, that Knicks game, I had like three dunks that I felt like were were. Like, I don't know after that game, I've said this before, but like, after that game, like, I think. I went home and I woke up the next morning and I feel like my life, like, never changed after that game. So like, it holds like a, like, a special moment, you know to me that it was just like everything, just kind of just like, just took off, yeah, are you gonna?
Are you going to be an actor? cause I feel like you'd be an awesome actor. Um, I've got a couple.
Things, uh, lined up, I can't really talk about yet, but um, not, not like, not as maybe a little bit. Um, I got a couple of things that I'm I'm pretty excited about. Um, kind of at the intersection of sports and comedy, I guess a little bit. So well, I mean, like we, we've known.
You for a long time. I think like there are athlete funny where a guy can, like, do a quote and it's like, Oh, he's funny, cause we don't see an athlete do those quotes. You're legitimately funny and I would love to see you.
I haven't saw you in that commercial. you fucking crushed that commercial. It was a super old commercial. Uh, I don't know. It's the ones where you were.
Doing a bunch of stuff in the kitchen, oh, the uh uh, daily harvest one, yeah, I was like.
This is this was great, like I want to watch more Blake, I only like when I started doing.
Endorsement deals and like, had to do commercials? I asked, like, early on, I was like, I only want to do something fun, I only want to do like a comedy commercial, you know, like something that's funny. And then, over the course of time, like, it just worked out. Because, you know, I think brands and people like, enjoyed that a little bit more than like the typical like, you know. Every day I wake up and train and you know what I put into the game, like, get out of the game and nothing wrong with those. But like, I just like, never wanted to do.
That there's. It's so fun to like, try to think of funny things and execute, so, um, that's kind of what I'll be.
Doing I don't know. It would rock at a teaser. It would also rock if you ended up like Shaq, where your face is on. Every product known to man, like you're selling printers and best buy.
Yeah, that'd be fun, but just like everything Shaq does, but just like the competitor, like, been gay, whatever the competitive general insurance is, yeah. Hewlett Packard Printers.
Yeah, go one-on-one with Shaq. Yeah, what? Uh, who's your favorite teammate? That we wouldn't know either.
You can maybe don't do like us. Like, uh, someone that's like a perennial all-star, someone famous, but like someone, some guy that's like, give him his flowers. Like, Yeah, no one knows this guy was the best I love, like I've said, I mean.
I mean, Jamal Crawford's the name knows that name, right? But he's the best, yeah.
One of my young boys, I love Bruce Brown man, awesome dude. Yep, um.
Love Uh, Lamar Odom was awesome, like an awesome dude, awesome teammate, just like so caring, so kind.
Uh, I could, I could name so many guys I've had. I've had some awesome teammates. I don't want to leave anybody off the list, but those guys are great. Yeah, and then what, Uh, are you?
Going to miss Are you? going to miss the guys in the locker room? You got to say that, Yeah, you.
Know what I think I'm going to miss the most is those little times in the locker room, the bus rides, the camaraderie. No, I really will, I mean everybody, like every, every teammate. I remember like, you know, guys would retire and I talked to them and I bet everybody mentioned like, that's what they miss. I will miss, like playing basketball a little bit.
You know, sometimes I'll watch games and I'll be like, I mean, it'd be fun to be out there. But also, like, you know, end of my career? I was only out there half the time, not that many minutes. So you know, it's when, when. Like, your favorite thing to do is play basketball, and like, you're, you're not doing that all the time, you're not doing it at a level you're used to. It's like, God, it's probably time.
Yeah, you know, yeah, but I will miss, I will miss. Like those. Those conversations, like the I told some of the guys on Boston, too, is like, I'm not just going to sign before the playoffs.
Cause, like part of like growing together as a team, like through a season is like you go through all, like training camp. You go through all that shit of like road trips that are miserable, losing streaks, like bad games, whatever it is. And you sort of, like, grow together and you have that kindred spirit. So, like, for me, it was like, I don't want to just jump on a roster and like at the end of the season, try to win a championship. Like, part of the joy is like being there from the beginning, yeah.
That makes sense.
You could get that same kind of locker room environment if you were to do like the NBA show on TNT. Have they talked to you about that? I feel like you would, you would be the one guy that I feel like would fit in with Shaq, Kenny Charles, the whole crew, I don't know, man, I've.
Had some conversations about doing some, some, uh, what's in studio stuff, some broadcasting stuff. It's just like, I don't know, talking basketball is fun and it's something I know, but like, I don't know. I just kind of want to do something a little bit more broad than that. Um, so never say never again. But you know, those guys are great. I think they have a good formula and I think I want to try to try to forge my own path a little bit.
All right, yeah, I respect that.
Um, I noticed, actually, let me ask you to this way. Um, who is your favorite owner that you've?
Played for who had to sell the team? Oh man, favorite owner that had to sell the team. Gotta be d stir. I mean, got a bad rap, got a really bad rap. But Jesus, was he a sweetheart?
Once you got past the racism and the bigotry, and you know, dude, I mean, talk about misunderstood.
Yeah, I noticed, I noticed. He wasn't included in the thank you, yeah, part three, whatever you do if you, if you do a part two. We, we don't want to be on the same thank you as Donald Sterling.
Yeah, why not? actually, you know, we can, you can throw us in. Did have the best, uh, testimony of all time. Yeah, yeah.
Sorry, I asked if that was your handwriting.
Magic Johnson Man, Miss Miss, Miss D Stir Man, All right. So who was your favorite owner that made all his money in a software company? Oh man, I think, um, yeah, there was a minority owner for the U.M. Pistons who had a tech startup. Um, yeah, he was great.
I don't want to say his name.
But he was great, that's huge, I know who you're talking about, that guy rocks, yeah.
Yeah, that.
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