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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Wednesday, May 24th, and the Boston Celtics are off the floor, they're off the mat. They have won a game in the Eastern Conference finals, it is 3-1. And also just a heads up to all awls. Our wonderful producer Henry Lockwood has not slept in two days and he is borderline drunk on the lack of sleep. And we're loving it.
Hank, I'll let you go first because you're on Cloud Nine.
Yeah, I feel good, I feel excited, you know, I was obviously procrastinating my packing, so I was doing all that last night because the movers were coming. This morning was finished at three, but I just couldn't fall asleep. And then I was worried about falling asleep at like five or six and missing. Like, just falling asleep to the alarm and having, you know, people knocking down my door haven't slept.
I was really tired, I was really like, going through the motions and then the adrenaline of that win. I'm just, I'm buzzing, I'm absolutely buzzing. Max is jealous, PFT's mad for no reason.
Well, I mean, I'm not mad for no reason, PFT has a reason, I've got a reason to be mad.
Because you're the biggest sucker in the history of gambling, like I can't feel bad for you for making those bets and losing like you deserve to lose that bet.
No, no, listen, you should not feel bad about me losing. I agree with that 100%.
People should relish in not feeling bad for me.
PFT Bet $12,000.
What was it? $12,000 to win, like $106,000??
No, no, all right. Hank. Math has never been your strong suit. You're not a world-renowned educated person. $10,000 to win $1,100. It's 11 investors.
Panthers and heat to win their.
Both up 3-0.
Both up 3-0.
I'm not, they were at the time at the time. Now they're up 3-1, I'm not worried.
In fact, Hank, I'm glad this happened.
Because what we're getting right now with Hank is pure, 100 uncut delirium from Hank. Yes, we're getting uncut gems. We're getting Hank at his most cocky because he won one game.
You're down 3-1 in the series and now you have hope, not only hope that your Celtics will win, you have hope that you'll be able to golf. And there's nothing I would like more, and the listeners would like more than to see that hope. Get absolutely fucking crushed out of your body on Thursday night.
He does have hope.
I love that you've got hope right now. Hank. Look at those eyes. I love those eyes because they're full of hope, wonder.
Infinite possibilities, infinite amounts of golf in the month of June. And it's about to be taken away from you on Thursday. I'm so glad that you're happy right now.
And deep down.
But, you know, that's not true deep down....
You're going to have to sweat that bet.
You want to have a whisper off?
Deep down, Hank, it's fucking true, you piece of shit. Deep down, Hank does think. Just because you're playing Boston doesn't mean that you're a fucking winner at everything. The Celtics are significantly better than the heat.
They're the more talented team. Game three was a complete fluke. But again, water always finds its level. Someone's going to have to win a 3-0 series in the N.BA eventually. It was exactly reminiscent of the Yankees and Red Sox Game Three.
They lost like 19 to 8. Got absolutely blown out. I was at that game, I actually....
Are you just doing a Dave Portnoy recap video?
Was he there, too?
He's just been saying this nonstop the last three days.
It's true, I was thinking about it. I remember going to that game and we had like, our seats were back and we stayed and we were like, I remember. Deke Metz said. We had home run and we were standing like behind home plate because everyone left.
And it was like, the season's over. So much promise, so much hope, so much talent. They're blowing it, they're choking it, they came back.
They won, they shocked the world first team to ever do it. Why not us?
It is fitting that this started right in A-Rod's face, too.
And jeter.
And jeter.
Yeah, both of them courtside.
Jake almost creamed his dockers when they showed Jeter.
Yeah, that's true, that's a fact Jake did come.
So Hank, in terms of the game, credit to the Celtics because halftime it looked like it was going to go the same way. It would look like. The heat were, you know, the game started, the Celtics came out to a lead, then the heat started playing well, they had like a 10 point lead at one point.
It felt like the heat were going to just make the Celtics quit, and the absolute reverse happened in the third quarter. They killed.
Tatum got caught fire. And yeah, I mean, listen back to Boston Game five. Are you saying that? that one's a guaranteed win?
You gotta win game five.
Yeah, okay, so that's a must win.
It's, yeah.
You know, if you lose, you're out, right?
The fact that you paused on that, it really shows the Lex.
Well, no, I'm just trying to. I was trying to think I'm only focused on myself.
Hank honestly feels like this.
But then he asked you a question about the Celtics.
I was thinking about myself and it's like, don't think about yourself, think about the team.
You would think that Hank just won the series tonight. The way that he's acting right now, you're down 3-1..
Who's up 3-1?
It's perfectly set up for a gentleman's sweep, the real, the true gentleman's sweep. Three games, you let the other team win one and then you knock them out.
I'm going to do something I don't really do. Sorry, Billy. Billy was rooting for the fucking heat tonight.
Well, Billy was rooting for less work, he found out halfway through the first quarter. He's like, Wait, if the heat win this game, we don't have to record late on Thursday, and we're like, Yeah.
We're going nuts.
I'm going to do something that I don't often do, and I'm going to thank you PFT.
You're welcome.
I appreciate you because you were the one that made the golf bet. And when the Celtics were down 3-0, instead of doom and gloom, we're down 3-0. There's no way to win this series. I had to will myself to convince I had to....
Did you listen back to Monday's show?
I had to convince myself, right? Monday's show ended, and then the wheels started turning. Yeah, and I was looking at not golfing for a month and I had to convince myself that they could win two games.
And once I did that, I realized they can win four games and that's where I'm at right now. I don't think it wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the bet. Because it's like, winning four games is a it's a fighting way out of the hole.
It's a big thing to overcome. And it's like, they just need to win two, and if they win two, they're winning four. And everyone in this room knows that.
I actually agree with Hank, this is a must win for the heat Game five. You can't let them win. Because not only will Hank get off the golf bet, which nobody wants except for Hank. And maybe some groundskeepers in the greater Chicagoland area, that would make a fortune off Hank this summer.
But also, I know for a fact that if it's 3-2, they're going to win four and I'm going to lose my bet.
Well, the pressure goes back on the heat.
Hank's going to doink me, we're going to get doinked again.
Hank and I agreed. The Celtics are going to be heavily favoring Game Five. They should take care of business at home. On paper, and then, in my eyes, game six becomes game seven. Because if it's 3-3 going back to Boston, the Celtics should win the game.
Again, I'm wrong a lot. I've been wrong plenty of times before on the show, making picks, but logistically, that's where my head's at.
Why are you pointing?
If you were five and a half, you were.
I said, six and a half or six.
I said, seven and a half, it's eight, yeah, oh, wow.
Yeah, so the Celtics should take care of business.
I don't like you pointing at me.
In my mind, Game six could be game seven.
Game five, game six.
Yeah, so that means game four must win for the heat.
Well, not necessarily. Game six is the must win, which is game five.
We also have Max, who's very upset that Hank found his mojo.
Yeah, Max is a scumbag, though, because he likes to be like, I'm rooting for you, Hank, I'm rooting for you Hank, and then you hear him be like,....
I was at no point where any of my I'm rooting for you, Hank's genuine like zero.
At no point.
It's not like I was pretending, obviously I'm not rooting for the Celtics. why the fuck would I be rooting for the Celtics?
Did you pet him in the last game? Did I? Oh, I did. yeah, I did pet him in the last game.
All right, all right.
Yeah, that's true. This is what I love. I love how cocky Hank is right now. This is perfect. I'm just asking questions.
That was a good impression of Max that you just did sound like a dying alien in a movie.
No, we're getting pure, unfiltered, straight from the source, Henry Lockwood. Right now, there's no restrictor plate on his brain.
It goes back to my packing. You can do it ahead of time, you can be proactive and get it done at a normal time, or you can wait to the last minute. We have no time left.
No room for error, backs against the wall, you get it done.
Hank is a professional crastinator.
Celtics were like, we're not going to win a game until we absolutely have to.
Yep, right.
And now they will.
Which would be I'm not going to pack a box.
Jake?
Until nine o'clock the night before.
Hank, what did you say before the game? You said? Missoula went down to Miami and he put two suits in the ceiling.
Yeah, he left the suit in the ceiling. So we'll come back and pick this up. Game six.
Yeah, yeah, and he doesn't wear a suit.
But Hank, it would have to be seven games.
And also he doesn't wear a suit.
Nope, we'll come back up game six.
So he's going to put the suit on game six.
Which he doesn't wear.
Again, he does not wear a suit.
And then wear it again. Game seven.
No, he's going to leave a suit in Miami so that he can have it after they win game six on the way back home.
So he's going to wear a shirt on the sidelines and then a suit on the plane.
There might be a number of listeners who are lost in this entire conversation. Well, so are we. But what Hank was getting? He combined two great coach stories, one of which Pat Riley. He left. He said We're only packing one suit for the strip because we're not going to need two. We're closing it out in one game.
And then there was another instance, a couple of years ago, where a coach left like a thousand bucks in the ceiling.
That was the Celtics.
Because we're going to come back here and we're going to get our thousand bucks back. But Mizzou has taken it to the next level. He's leaving a suit behind in the ceiling.
And again, does not wear a suit. We should just keep reminding Hank that.
Jake There are reports that Tyler Hero has been cleared. For all. Basketball related activities. First of all, I don't know what basketball related activities means. Secondly, is there any chance that he plays in this series?
Probably not. It was always NBA finals. Should they get there? So I would say no.
How the fuck do you not play in this game? If you're healthy? Because he's not cleared to play in the basketball game, he's cleared for basketball activities, that means, like, fucking play.
Well, I don't think he hasn't played in three weeks. And I know you think that you could just like, roll out and play in an NBA game, but I think that probably has something to do.
Really good, I just don't like the attitude, yeah.
So Billy did not care about the series two hours ago.
No.
And then a 15 minute Zoom postgame Thursday changes this whole thing.
Which he doesn't have to be there for.
I thought we were going to live stream it and record really late. Billy was upset that he was going to have to work four days this week. No, no, I just wanted to beat some traffic, got it?
So you wanted to leave for Memorial Day traffic?
You can still do that.
I know I'm very happy, all right. Hank Well, congratulations, thank you.
It's good to see some fire from you, yeah.
I mean, you're, you are temporarily back because you were the saddest sack the last few shows.
And it's going to be so great when you, which again, when you're down through nothing. I do truly, fundamentally at all.
It was when you were down one don't understand, and when you're down three, when you're down three, two, you just never need to sleep again. This hank is the best.
Also, I think if the Celtics win game five but the Heat win game six, Hank won't be as mad.
That's not true. I think that's a big part of it. Nope, nope, nope.
Well, then why don't we extend the bet? Make it, make it. Uh, if it's three to two, then you don't golf.
And what am I getting in return for that?
I don't know you, tell me.
I'm going to think about that deal, but, uh, I'll get back to you on on, if I think that makes sense.
It's not a bad strategy by PFT, cause you're not thinking straight about anything.
But I think I think the straightest one, I'm not thinking straight.
That's true.
No, I play a draw for some reason. Left comes right.
When you, when you fall asleep at night, that's when the enemy takes over, yeah.
Sleep You get dumb when you sleep.
Yeah.
You ever think about that?
I mean, I've always wondered why I'm dumb in that. I mean, I sleep a lot, I like to sleep, I love, I do love to sleep.
I always wondered why.
It's an all time quote. Just that's the best. Because you're basically trapped in your own brain, where you're thinking about why you're dumb, but you can't figure it out cause you're dumb.
Yeah, it's cause you turn your brain off every night for too long. It takes a while to reboot again, yeah.
Stop sleeping hank with no sleep, you haven't even yawned, which means you, like, broke through the wall.
No, I, yeah, that's the it's the adrenaline.
Yeah, yeah, you're like Brooks at the Panthers game. Yeah, all right.
Congratulations, Hank.
You can't say series is on, but it is on.
Oh, it's on, it's on, it's on. Oh, it's on.
It's on.
Max.
Like, we've just forgotten everything that has happened in this series because of one quarter of basketball like no the like. The Celtics played well in the third quarter and then the heat were like, all right, we'll go win game five.
I mean, the Celtics had, like the heat, the Celtics had leads in the fourth quarter before this.
Yeah.
No, but like, we keep everyone. Everything that has been said about this series are the is that the heat are a different team, the heater are resilient.
They are like, for talking quarters, Mac, fact or fiction of the Celtics won the fourth quarter in games one and two. They'd be up three one.
Yes.
But that is like the difference between the heat, you can, you can play, but that's both sides.
Now we got a true battle of the brains and watch these the heat are going to win.
Spolster needs to bring one suit, yeah.
Boston One suit, one suit, one polo and pants.
Okay, other series.
The Los Angeles Pat Riley needs to go to Boston with one suit, yeah.
The Los Angeles Lakers got swept. LeBron James first half throwback performance put it late as late at all on the line. 31 points ran out of gas and the Nuggets were just better, they were the better team.
They are going to the finals for the first time in franchise history. They went to the finals. The ABA team, uh, first sweep in franchise history, 44 playoff series. First time they swept someone, uh. And Jokic is now he's averaging a triple double and he has eight triple doubles in these playoffs. I'm very happy for the Nuggets.
They're just fucking really good.
Is that the all time record, too? For triple doubles? I think he tied Wilt.
Yeah.
Every, I mean, every record is will might've passed him, but the fact that he did it only playing four games a series is kind of crazy. Yep.
As far as sweeps go, that was kind of a fun series.
Yeah.
Every game was pretty close and fun.
The Lakers were not bad, right? Nuggets are just they're a wagon right now. And I would, I would like to admit that I was wrong. Nugs and six is what I kept saying.
I was wrong about not being right enough about the nuggets. Yeah, so hand up. I didn't realize just how great they were, I knew they were great.
Didn't know they were great, great like that.
And Jokic is just. He's a story that everyone should be rooting for. He's a guy who drafted in the second round. A case of Rito, took his draft moment. Uh, was overweight, worked himself into an MVP shape. You know, like, playoff, playoff, uh, you know, bad playoffs the last couple of years. I'll let you go the Western Conference final in the bubble, which we don't count, but getting through that wall, getting to the N.B.A. finals. The Nuggets look like the best team in the playoffs, they've looked like the best team for long stretches of this season.
I'm happy for him. Hank. Have we made any progress, point, man at Taco Bell? Any progress on them? Bringing back the case of Rito? If Jokic wins NBA finals, MVP, I'll circle back.
Okay, get it for us. Yeah, put a pin in that one link back with me.
Uh, I would like to see that. It's a delicious menu item, but yeah, I'm I'm very impressed with the nuggets I I've. I grow more and more fond of them each and every day. They're fun, they're so fun to watch. Jamal Murray, by the way, he, he might've had a better series than Jokic did.
He was, he was phenomenal and he's getting to the point now where he's getting so good in the playoffs that people will forget that. He videotaped himself getting his dick sucked.
I did forget that. Yeah, I tried very, very hard to forget.
So he W he's getting to that point, though.
That's it, you have to do a lot in America to make people forget a second.
Yeah, he's doing it, he's getting to that point.
Yeah, good for him, yeah.
I'm happy.
I'm happy to see him overcome that, yeah.
Aaron Gordon was like, you know, uh, Orlando, or Aaron Gordon, he found something shooting threes.
KCP played well.
KCP is a very good play.
Like, Jeff, Green's still in the league.
Yeah, Jeff, Uh, KCP is one of those guys like, Hey, maybe the Lakers probably should. He won a title with the Lakers half title.
Yeah.
I'm also a real title.
I'm also addicted to Jokic horse content. It's the best watching, watching Jokic do the the chariot behind the horse, which I almost feel worse for the horse. When they're dragging Jokic's big ass behind them, then when Jokic is riding them. But there's so many awesome pictures of Jokic standing next to a horse and you're like, That's a miniature horse. Oh, no, wait.
Yeah, Jokic just an absolute monster.
He's just the biggest dude ever.
That's like what he does every off season, he goes back to Serbia and just hangs out with horses. It sounds like a pretty cool brothers, yeah.
We're bad-ass.
His brothers throwing Michael Malone up in the air after the game, That was amazing.
Also Jokic getting. I don't know if you saw this moment, but, uh, when they were. It's always great whenever a team wins on the road and they get the emptied out arena. It feels like they've conquered like territory, where it's like, it's just them in there.
Yeah.
Uh, but Jokic was handed a shirt, he started to put it on and he immediately was like, this is like a large and I'm a triple XL. And the clip of him like, they're handing the trophy and he's trying to put it over his head and he just bailed on it.
He's like, No, not gonna work. I like, Uh, we always talk about the silent arena after, like, a Steph Curry three on the road. Yes. There was a great moment right after the game was over when the Lakers announcer had to just won the Western Conference finals and it was the saddest thing ever.
It was like, congratulations to the Denver Nuggets, yes, Western Conference champions.
He did the the voice where it's like, Uh, please, please, stop throwing objects on the court.
Yep, yeah.
Very serious. Oh, hank, hank has woken back up.
Uh, the Blake's, we forgot about that, Oh yeah.
Yeah, we had a meeting at the Blake's tonight down in Miami.
I was thinking about that when I was talking. We're talking to Nuggets, Lakers.
Good call back, Hank.
We saw, we saw Brooks, he was, he was sitting courtside. Brooks looks tired.
He looks like he's ready to go to sleep.
Him and hank handshake.
And then he was also at the P's game.
He was at the P's game. We'll talk about that a little bit later. And, uh, and Blake Griffin was also there. So we had to know, did they say hi to each other? They did.
In fact, they did tap each other up before the game started. And since Jenna was there, too, we might've had three Blake's in about like two square feet, yeah.
Like, someone's got to have that, like a picture or video of it happening. What does that have to do with curb their enthusiasm, like, solve the murder or something?
It's hard to decipher what you're saying, but we get it eventually.
Yeah, that's, I mean, that's. I feel like that was a big. Everyone knew that.
Well, Connie, you were talking about a guy who got acquitted of a murder and and wanting a footage of a Dapa.
I thought he was talking about the music plan.
Yeah, me too. That's exactly what I thought.
But no, we get it, we follow you.
We're one team, one heartbeat.
Um, hank, this will get you excited. Talk about LeBron James getting swept. That's incredible. Uh, Jordan. never Jordan. When he got swept, he didn't three games, yeah.
It took LeBron four.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I don't have much to say about that. Uh, we can't lose four, one, and I can't really be danced on his grave. He's old, uh, he's washed up.
So it's, it's not, it's not the way it was. He's just, you know, he's going to retire.
Well, he's not going to retire. That was classic LeBron to basically be like, Oh, I got swept.
So that the story then becomes LeBron might walk away instead of Lebron got swept.
Uh, I thought, I thought it was a little classless, uh. Distasteful for LeBron to tease his retirement on the day of his best friend Carmelo. Anthony's actual retirement, which I have to admit, I thought he retired like a year ago.
Well, at least, I don't know if you know this, but LeBron knew about that.
He did.
Yeah.
He did the video when they made the video, yeah.
That was, uh, but yeah, LeBron is 0.
0 chance he doesn't play at least another game of basketball in the NBA.
Did he miss? Has he missed like a hundred threes in the fourth quarter this playoffs?
It was a hundred, yes, it was exactly a hundred. That's actually how they decided the series first to miss a hundred threes. Um, yeah, he's not retiring.
No, he's not.
There's no way he's retiring, LeBron. there's a couple of things that make it so he is not retiring.
One.
Could you ever, in a million years, see LeBron James not doing a retirement?
No, he's going to require a gift from every, every team that he visits on the road there. Ask that they retire his jersey number.
Yeah.
He's going to pull out all the stops, it's going to be, it's going to be a big thing.
It's going to be a big thing. Two, Bronny is playing at USC, he still wants to play with Bronny, he can't retire if he wants to play with Bronny.
Three retirement Tour PFt. Guess where the All-star game is? The N.B.A. All-star Game is in 2025..
LeBron James is from, I forget where he went to college. He is from Cleveland, Akron. He's from Akron. Is it in Cleveland, Ohio?
It's in Los Angeles.
Oh, okay.
So LeBron James, the 2025 All-star game? I'm assuming they'll rename a trophy after him, something like that, that will be the LeBron Fest. That's what's going to happen, he's going to play two more years, there's no chance.
He, this is ridiculous, that he would even say.
Well, let's also say that LeBron played this game injured, an injury that many people thought nobody could even walk on. So the after, you can set your watch, uh, if it's Chris Paul, or if it's LeBron James losing in the playoffs. Within about 18 hours, you'll get a story about how injured they were now. LeBron was hurt. I mean, he's, he's old, he's played a full season.
He's probably banged up a little bit, but the story started to come out right afterwards. He's going to take some time off, he's going to tease retirement. He's going to say, you know, I don't know if I want to go through this rehab process. Playing another season especially grueling, and then he's going to be like, You know what?
I'm going to lace it up for another year, yeah, and then he'll be back.
Look, I, I know that we're not the most pro LeBron podcast.
I hate it when stars do that.
What?
Just tease retirement and then come back at the end, Oh yeah.
Uh, we're not the most pro LeBron podcast, but what he did at the first half last night was special. He's 38 years old, he's not the LeBron like he played, I think. All but four seconds on a Monday night.
Like, it was pretty insane that he was able to throw it back for that. He did run out of gas, but he's 38 years old. The Lakers, like, found something very special in Austin Reeves. Uh, Rory Hutchinmore played great.
All these playoffs, the big question is, Anthony Davis, like you needed Anthony Davis to be the Alpha? Because LeBron is 38 years old and he wasn't that guy on both ends. I also have something funny for you PFD that I just I I like. I was having a debate with, uh, our friend Kirk Minahan about, uh, top 10 players of all time.
It's take that I'm brewing for later on, some other, some other day, I'll. We'll do like our worst takes or takes, it will get us in the most trouble.
But anyway, I think LeBron's in there.
Yeah, no, he is, he is. That wasn't the take. Uh, I went and I looked at the top 75 all time the list they made. The other, uh, like, whatever. It was two years ago when it was seven 50th anniversary.
Where's Anthony Davis on the top 75?
He is, he can't be that high up, right?
Yeah, yeah, I'm or he's like 76..
Thanks Bft.
I'm going to say, yeah, turn your mic off, bitch.
71, 53.
That's crazy, that's crazy, that's insane. So when they put him on that list, that's that's people in a room just thinking of themselves, like, imagine Anthony Davis, like trying to get down to the bottom of the list.
Deed up by a pistol, Pete and dunking on his head. That's why they put him that high on the list.
Imagine how far Anthony Davis would rock one of Bob Cousy's layups.
Yeah, exactly this is, this is, this is. Just looking at Anthony Davis, the freak athlete, and then comparing him to old players that were, by any objective stretch, much, much greater NB.A. players than Anthony Davis was 53..
And like, Yeah, I mean, he had moments in these playoffs, he had some games, he had a 40 point game. He played great defense at times. But like, he was not what the Lakers, the Lakers needed him to be special, they needed him to be the the guy.
And he wasn't, he wasn't 53.
He wasn't, he was healthy, though he wasn't. That was nice to see. What about? What about the rest of the supporting cast?
Schroeder You like Schroeder? Yeah, I actually think, what the what the Lakers should do? The key to their season this year was getting rid of Westbrook. They need to resign Westbrook and then trade them away again.
Vibes just skyrocket. They should maybe try to do that. Chris Chris ball too, yes.
We also had at the Lakers game. We're already starting the rumor mill because LeBron said he was going to retire, but we also had a player there who LeBron might play with again. So Kyrie Irving was at the Lakers and that will start the rumor mill. I look, I don't want, I'm not a LeBron fan, but I don't want him to retire because he's fun, it's fun.
And in that, and like, from a pure basketball standpoint. Watching him put in 31 in the first half and being like, I'm going to, like, empty the tank. Trying to will my team to not get swept was special and it's fun to watch.
For all, the LeBron stands out there, and also LeBron haters. So I guess in this threesome I'm thinking about right now, I'd say Shannon Sharp as a lover and then Nick Wright as a lover and Skip Bayless as a hater. When LeBron James retires, they're still going to do like two years of content. About what LeBron would have done on that night if he had been on that team. You can't quit LeBron. Cold turkey.
You have to wean yourself off him.
He will, they will have tweet alerts on, and if LeBron tweets about any game, that will be the lead story.
Yeah, that'll be their take on it. It was there were some people saying it was disrespectful to the Nuggets. How much attention was being paid to the Lakers? Guess what?
The Lakers, it's LeBron.
It's also like, you talk about the losers when the winners go on, that's I've never understood. When people get upset about that. You have more time to talk about. The Nuggets, they're playing in the N.B.A. finals, they have another series.
Like, if the Celtics had gotten swept tonight, we would have talked about the Celtics. That's how it works. You talk about the dead corpse and the team that's living and goes on, you have another day to talk about that.
Yeah, like Jon Jon wasn't saluting Jackie Onassis as she walked down the street, she was saying bye to her dad.
I just hate that shit. I hate when people like, Oh, you don't talk about the yeah, the winners get to keep playing. Yep, we're going to talk about them. The Nuggets have two full weeks where, and we are we led with the Nuggets here.
We talked about the Nuggets before the Lakers, but the Nuggets have two full weeks where they their fucking special team. Uh, I did also, uh, now I'm starting to, I'm, I'm ditching, I'm getting into the like, saying way too many nice things about LeBron. Uh, he. He gave a quote that was anti-Yannis, which I appreciated cause I liked him saying this. I don't think he was like subtweeting Yannis or anything, but it was interesting seeing it.
He said, Uh, when asked about it, about the season, he says, I think it was okay. I don't like to say it's a successful year because I don't play for anything besides winning championships. At this point in my career, you know, I don't get a kick out of making a conference finals appearance. I've done it a lot, yep.
Nice Brag Fair. And it's not fun to me to not be able to be part of getting to the finals, but we'll see, we'll see, we'll see.
Then he talks about his retirement. But I appreciate that LeBron was being honest when he's like, I'm not fucking playing basketball at 38 years old. To be in a conference finals.
Yeah, no, I think that's he's a hundred percent right about that. He's not going to be going out there and putting his body through all that shit, right, just to to lose again, right?
He wants to win, I respect that about LeBron. say what you want about him, He's always wanted to win.
He's never there have been maybe one or two games where, uh, he's come up and just laid.
A complete egg in the playoffs, but for three against Dallas, or was it game four?
Yeah, eight points, but. But for the most part, like LeBron James, he competes when he's out there and when he's not flopping. But it was, uh, I'm going to miss talking about him when he's gone, but he's not gone, he's not gone yet, he's. Everybody out there is getting faked out by the LeBron retirement thing.
If LeBron James retires from the NBA, I will also retire from the NBA, okay?
I actually, let's go one further. If LeBron James retire, if LeBron James doesn't play a single more a single, uh, more basketball game, that's a bad sentence. Hank, help me.
If he quits.
No, no, no.
Hank, go ahead, you got it.
If LeBron James doesn't record a stat in an N.B.A. game ever again.
Okay, nice pft. I think you and I should have to wear LeBron jerseys for an entire month.
Make it a year.
Oh, fine, it's a year.
A year, I'll wear a LeBron jersey for a year.
Let's do a month, a month, we'll do a month. No, then why don't you get a cat you fucking pussy?
What?
Yeah, you heard what I said.
I put, I risked a cat a month, a month.
I will also, No, you don't.
We'll get cats, fuck it.
I will read the Godfather.
I will read The Godfather and I will get a cat.
I will not get a cat, I will wear a LeBron James jersey for every NFL Sunday next year.
Oh, that's easy, no, like, you gotta do more. I'm getting a cat.
I'll wear it for all NFL season.
Every day.
Every day.
And get cornrows for a month.
Why Cornrows?
LeBron James Has he ever had Cornrows?
There's nothing to LeBron, I will go bald.
I will go bald.
What does that mean? You are going bald?
No, but my hair's growing back.
Oh nice.
Congrats who's back of the week? I know I will, no, I'll wear a LeBron James jersey.
For the entire NBA season, for the entire N.BA season, there you go.
And I'll get a cat.
Yep.
So he, but I also will not get a cat if he sits out next year.
Yeah.
Because I think he would, he could sit out next year and then play with Bronny.
Maybe come back play for the Wizards.
We also could just say he'll always come back.
Yeah, that's true. BARRY SANDERSON Yeah, I keep pushing that off.
Okay, yeah, so that's. Those are the stakes.
Bronny's mom's hot, by the way.
LeBron's wife?
Yeah, Bronny's mom, yeah.
Savannah is her name, Can you say her name? She has a name.
She's Bronny's mom, that's her most, that's her most important job.
She's Savannah.
Yeah, Savannah, good looking girl.
Woman, woman.
With all due respect, knocked out the park.
What?
No.
Oh my god, it's so funny. What do you mean? Why, Mark Jackson?
I don't know, I don't know the context, but he literally says, I knocked it out the park, all due respect.
Is that about LeBron's wife? Yes.
It's I'm going to play it, it's, it's.
I would not knock it out, I would I would hit a sack fly.
I, I, I have a take, too. You had it ready to go.
Out of all of that talk was that his wife, Savannah, had a sinker ball and a fastball.
Softball pitcher I'll tell you what.
And you know what? I was thinking, Mike? We've had this running debate. Wait whether Mark could put into play against an average.
All right.
Wait, they're actually talking about softball.
Yeah, yeah hey.
Well, I didn't, I never heard this part of it.
We'll cut this.
Hey, I don't think Mark could put into play.
I've only heard this part ready.
Cause of her sinker? Thompson's for three, We'll go Devin love the rebound.
I'm shocked you downplay Savannah, he said. She was all city, James, again from downtown, and I hit out the park.
No question, with all due respect.
So I miss context matters, context matters.
Wait, that just ruined it. You just been living in a world where Mark Jackson said on national TV I will fuck LeBron James wife.
He would have been killed.
I've only heard the culprit goes. I think you're downplaying Savannah and I don't knock it out the park with all due respect. Which the softball context is the funniest quote of all time. And now I just ruined it for myself and probably other Aws.
But I guess that's makes more sense.
Would you hit Savannah out of the park? Would you knock her out of the park?
You admit it makes sense.
Now I'd hit a dribbler to the mound.
Hank.
We've lost him again. Okay, uh, I would say, by the way, Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, I don't know if they like basketball anymore. They complain nonstop.
Sometimes it's it's good because they're saying things that the NBA doesn't want to be said and all that, but like, they really don't like. There's times where I'm like, Do these guys even want to be here?
They just get frustrated with the officiating, with everything, though.
With the load management, with the officiating, with fouls, with with like everything you.
Get old fast, it's you get old fast watching sports, everybody becomes a boomer.
Yeah.
I just I used to love those guys and now I'm like, they're just they feel angry.
I love how Mark Jackson always calls Jeff Van Gundy coach. Yeah, that's, I do, like that part of life, coach for life.
Um, okay, uh, our knights are one away, and our panthers peas are one away, and that's talking hockey. Yup, uh, okay.
Let's do hot seat, cool throne, don't you dare? anyone tweets saying you didn't talk about hockey, we did.
Yeah, we just talked to knights.
Hurricane just talked.
We said them.
I've been watching all the series there, it's fun to watch playoff hockeys, but it's hard when it's three. Nothing.
Yeah.
And the Panther, like the Hurricanes, put the. They played a very good game the other night and they just won nothing, yeah.
Bob was can't score five on five wall.
Bob He, what'd he say? He was like, 67 straight, uh, saves, so he's, he's been on fire.
I think it might've been our friend Paul Bissonnette, it might've been somebody else on that desk when it went to overtime. The other night. They said it was Stars Knights, and they said, you can't have, you can't have a night with no stars. And they were saying the Stars were going to win. That's just not true.
You can have a night with no stars easily, but you can't have we have. You live in a city with with air pollution. Yeah, but you can, you can. They meant the other thing, which is you can't have stars with no night. Well, technically, the sun, the sun's a star.
Fuck yeah.
Hank is Hank has made us all a little bit hot.
Yeah, I got contact hot in here.
Yeah, it is hot.
Takes her hot.
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Oh, this is bad, because so Hank, we, we, we. We recorded FAQs at uh, noon, and Hank said to us. He was like, Are we doing hot seat, cool throne right now? Cause I don't have anything. And in the back of my head, I was like, we're going to flash forward 12 hours and he'll still.
Okay.
Uh, do you have anything? Yes, pants.
Oh, okay.
Good.
It's getting hot out.
Short season, um.
Well, they're hot, I guess, yeah.
And then I guess I'll, I'll say it this way, my cool throne is is me. Uh, because I'm a mature looking gentleman. I tweeted and said, I'm wrapping up my twenties, couple of weeks, I'll be 30..
So this Celtics money line tonight was the game of my twenties, put a decade on the line. Borderline overwhelming response to people saying.
Oh, you're distinguished.
Some could look at it as an insult, I look at it as a compliment because I'm a mature, older gentleman.
That's also internet age like people have known you for 11 years now.
It's 10 years as well.
Yet, yeah, and it's. But I'm saying, like, they've known you, watched you for like, 10 years this week.
Yeah.
That's a really long time.
Uh, yeah, so cool, throw me.
All right.
Is this our 10 year anniversary? Me and you? Yeah, wow.
Jake, Can you look that up? The traditional one?
I mean, I tried, I was hoping big, I was going to, you know, ride with them. Hey, I've explained this time and time again, it doesn't matter, I just want to, like you've written about it.
You've talked about it. I fucked up.
Tin or aluminum gifts?
Oh, get them.
Some, of course, symbolize strength and longevity.
Hank, I actually just got this for you. It's the part of my take, Koozie.
There's things are actually I know.
So what'd you get me?
I got you a 10.
He's pulling it out of his pocket. I lost it.
Jake, you got one extra one.
Not on me.
Okay, so good hot sequel thrown hank.
Thank you, great job Hank.
I really don't want you to ever sleep again, like I don't want to look, you know what this is like.
I'm fading.
This is like, this is like the Dwight Schrute when he gets concussed episode.
Yeah, he's so nice.
And Pam's like, I don't want you to go back to just regular Dwight, I love this hank.
Yeah.
Did you drive today?
No.
Oh, I was gonna say, you're gonna fall asleep behind the wheel.
No, thank God. Okay, we got an early day tomorrow.
We do.
You're not going to make it.
Yeah.
What are you doing tomorrow morning?
Uh, we got to shoot.
Shoot, what?
A video.
We got to shoot. What kind of video is it?
At a golf course, and hank, hank. So I'll just say it, it's got. It's going to come out soon, it's for a giveaway, and, uh, we're going to shoot at a golf course.
No teasers.
We're going to shoot one shot PFT, and Hank keeps in in planning this. He's like, Yeah, we'll play like three or four holes. I'm like, No, no, I need to take one shot.
I'm going to take one shot and then we're getting in the car and going to work.
Yeah, but like, you know, show business, it's like, you gotta take multiple takes.
You've been doing this the whole time. Where he's like, we'll do like three or four holes. I'm like, No, no, no one shot is all I need. Hank needs to take zero shots.
Hank himself needs zero shots.
He's going to take shots.
You're going to, you're going to play a full nine.
No.
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