Dikembe Mutombondo. Macumba mutumba. Jean Jacques wa matumbo. I bet you didn't know that was his full name either.

Dikembe.

Dikembe Matumbo. Maplanda Macumbay. Jean Jacques Juan Matumbo.

You go get that man a whole new name. That ain't that man name.

I swear to God, it's his name. What do you mean a whole new name? Why do you think I'm saying it the same way every time, dick, in front of a comeback. Jean Jacques Wamatumbo. That's his whole name.

I know, but the way you said it, man, like you missed a couple vows on it, man.

I'm hitting it perfect every time. Dikembe Matumbo. Maplanda. Makumba. Jean Jacques Watumbo.

I'm saying it right every time.

The pap f pod with Rome.

Rome. What up, though?

Welcome to white boy summer. It's another white boy.

Well, I see you got them knees out today, don't you, boy? Look at them motherfucking knees. Them knees look good. Look at them thighs.

They're not on camera, bro. Only you could see them. I had them purposely take out the knees off the. Because they're so knobby. People would confuse them with my elbows. Honestly. They honestly look like, for real.

Bonus elbows.

My knees are insane. They're the naviest knees on. On this side of the Mississippi. But I'm not going to let that stop white boy summer from commencing. Did you hear that they. The groundhog came and said, another year of white boy Summer?

No, I didn't hear that. And please inform me.

Chet. Chet Hanks. He took to Instagram and he said, it's white boy summer again. I just wanted to know what the culture thought about him kind of putting his flag into summer like that.

Anytime it's hot outside, it's definitely got something to do with blacks. Yeah.

Yeah. So you're claiming that shit back?

Yeah, for sure. Always a black summer.

He tried to put the white flag in it, but the white flag usually means surrender. You know what I mean?

Yeah, throw the white flag up.

Yeah, exactly. So, chet, you're on notice, bro. Pat Bev is claiming it as. That it's not white boy summer, that it actually is a different flavor of summer. But regardless whether it's chocolate or vanilla, that's your flavor. Please subscribe to the pod. There's something here for everybody. Why don't you do it on Spotify this week? I feel like Spotify. Really? We could run the numbers up on Spotify.

Yeah, check us out on Spotify. Shit is getting crazy. You got some, got some crazy guests lined up for the next couple of weeks, so we're super excited about that. Subscribe to the motherfucking pod. And if you're kidding, subscribe to the mother freaking pod. Mother's age is past kids. Kiss your mothers. Listen to your parents. It's very important.

And what I like to do is I'll put on the audio from Apple or Spotify, but I'll put the video on from YouTube. So I'm kind of double supporting the pod. That's kind of what I recommend.

Okay, cool. Somebody else told me they did it. I know you actually did that, though.

That's fire the unsubscribe and the resubscribe, too. Kind of boosts the numbers. So, you know, anything that you could do to help us, because we, we want to give back is the summer of love. It's the summer of, of charity. And we're, we're truly intent on giving back. But let's not get, let's not get clouded. It's the NBA playoffs. We have our final four right now. The Indiana Pacers, the Boston Celtics, the Dallas Mavericks and the Minnesota Timberwolves. America's team. I'm calling them America's team right now. Does that sound fair? Don't you think? They're America's team. Everybody's rooting for them.

I mean, yeah, I mean, a super underdogs. They've been losing for, have been losing for a ton of years. I had him beating Denver.

Of course.

They've been the best team all year. They had the best defense all year. It's anchored by Rudy Gobert, their guards, they ball pressure. Jade McDaniels, you know, I went on paper saying in my book, I believe he's the, the Scottie Pippen of that team. The Scottie Pippen type. Scottie Pippen type of build.

People got on your ass for that take, though.

Yeah, it's all right. But I really believe that if he, you know, and I'm, and I'm not saying, like, you know, when, when I make comparisons, they are. Everyone thinks, I'm thinking the prime of the person.

We're saying Scotty Pippen now.

No, I'm saying what the player can get into. Like, what they can, you know, merge their game into. Yeah. You know, so Mike Conley is steady. Carl has been, has been fucking killing. Shout out to Carl, hey, tell me this.

Why do people hate on Carl?

Because they, you know. Cause he's not really you know, he shoot a lot of jump shots. He really don't. You know, he's really not like a, you know, a big bruiser. I'm a back you down, dunk on you. His game is one leg phase. He shoot floats. He shoot right hand hooks. He shoots trade balls. He come off curl screens. I mean, you know, one of the best shooting bigs in the league, to me, probably the best shooting big in the league and regards, if people like it or not. He get her done. He get it done. You understand me? It done.

Of course. But what about his. I feel like people feel a certain way about his voice. Like they like to make fun of him because of his voice.

No, you know, cat voice is cat voice. It goes. Sometimes it's a high pitch motherfucker, sometimes. Come on, man. Don't be like that. You know, so. Yeah, but, yeah, that still don't stop with the boy doing on the court. He giving motherfuckers the blues. You hear me? He is giving folks the blues. They can't guard him. Literally cannot guard him. They switch a guard on him. He post them up. You put a big on him. He gonna pay off the catch. You close out short. He gonna hit Tracy on you. Not Tracy, but Tracy everywhere. Tracy in the corner, Tracy on the wings. Tracy on top of the key. And he don't miss free throws. And.

And.

And he guarded Jokic well. Better than the deport him.

Yeah. Wow.

Yokich did not guard him. They put Aaron Gordon on him. So, I mean, to me, MVP, that series, cat. Cat held it down. They double team and. And make the right decisions. Cat, his shots, he was steady offensively. He was steady defensively against. Against Jokic. I mean, that was a hell of a team effort, man. I text the guys out to the game. Text the guys right out the game. Cat, text me back. Appreciate the tweet pad. You know, I'm locked in. I know you are. Hit the coach. I'm proud of the guys. You know, when you play for a team, you kind of feel like, you know, you know, you rooting for him, you know, like, I'm heavy rooting for Minnesota. So I'm happy they was able to get that done. That shit. That shit looked lit. That shit was fire.

Is there any part of you that you're like, man, wouldn't it be fun to be going on the ride with these guys?

I mean, obviously, but, you know, I'm still a big part of me saying, like, okay, cool. I helped build a culture there, too, you know? Like, I helped start some there, too. So, you know, it just comes with it, you know, I just want to see everybody be successful. I spent a ton of time there, you know, and within that year, you know, getting the coach right, getting the attitude right of the players. You know how. You know, how we go, you know, what type of team we go be? We go compete. We go, you go. We go practice. We go have a, you know, we go catch vibes. We go, you know, compete. Really compete each and every day. And, you know, you can see. You can see they still carrying that mass, that along now. So you got to give them a lot of credit. They're well coached. Well, coach, they're. They're healthy. They're real healthy this year. I think they would have did it last year if they were healthy, honestly, you know, I think Rudy gets suspended. I think Jaden breaks hand. You know, so, like, they had a lot. They, you know, they had a lot going, you know, last year, you know, so.

But they got a lot of success this year. I'm happy for them.

Now, I look at Anthony Edwards and the way that he kind of acts after the game. He says that he had Jamal Murray in handcuffs. He's on the podium kind of talking his shit, joking around sideways. Yeah, true. Atlanta across the front of the hat, and there's this sentiment that people are like, you better enjoy. And Edwards and this personality now before some kind of pr firm gets on him, and they say that Edwards can't be this guy anymore. You know, is there a thought that Aunt Edwards, that they could extinguish his light a little bit or make a little bit more of a corporate friendly version of Aunt Edwards going forward?

I mean, I don't. I don't see what's wrong with him. He's a young kid focused on basketball. That's it. You don't hear anything else about him. You don't hear anything else. You know, you might hit a couple things, you know, you know, stuff that life throws at you, but other than that, kids just playing basketball, you're not here to, you know, he here to compete. He talking shit as part of the game. He backing it up. You know, he wearing his Adidas. He listen, he shot now three stripes everywhere he go. He got on Adidas flip flops. I'm here in the playoffs. I'm not here to play dress up. I'm not here to make league fits. I'm not here to do any of that shit. I'm here to play basketball.

And he doing it sideways. Hat, though, kind of reminds me of a thug.

No, no, you ain't gonna put that on my boy. There you go. Put that on my boy. Don't put that on my boy. Don't put that on my boy.

But I think that there's like, that. I mean, people will be like, he wore his hat backwards. He's a thug. Like, I think that there's this old media kind of sentiment about everything, so, obviously, I'm joking about that. It's a shame that on this podcast, sometimes I have to tell the world that I'm joking when I'm making a joke, but. But I think that they're the most likable team, because then you look at the other three teams, for whatever reason, for. For. For better or worse, I think that Kyrie has some people who don't love him. I don't necessarily think that that's fair. I think the Celtics, just by their nature, as one of the top teams, they have some people that kind of don't like them as the Celtics. And I think that the Pacers have a upset, some fan bases in this post season where they're not coming across as the most likable team right now. Do you agree with that assessment that the Timberwolves are truly America's team? And how would you rank the other teams as far as their likability?

Man, you know, it's just a new team that people haven't saw, right? I mean, they seen them throughout the year. They sent him a little bit, you know, you know, Anthony Edwards, but, you know, okay, you really don't start taking the same show. Okay? They play Denver. They might lose, you know, whatever. Okay, cool. They played well, but then they beat Denver. It's like, hold on. Okay, let's jump on the Minnesota Timberwolves bandwagon, you know, but the success has been there. I don't know, last year, the year before, it's been success. There has been games one there. The defense has been there for the last, I don't know, three years since I was there, really. We was, like, the number one offense, number one defense for most of the year. So, like, the writing has been on the wall. It's just, you know, time and an opportunity. You get Rudy Goldberg, you make a massive trade like that. You get a lot of bull. You know, you get a lot of bad shit from the media. Oh, man, why would you? That was the awful trade. But then you look back on it. Trade is definitely paying off.

That same was built to beat Denver, nothing else.

Speaking of trades that were ranked badly, the Kyrie trade to Dallas was given a d by some outlets. They kind of brought this up at the press conference that people thought that Kyrie going to Dallas wouldn't have worked out. Meanwhile, he's been vindicated in some of his opinions about vaccines. And then at the same time, you know, they're playing well together. Nothing can beat when the two, two players are playing well. I said that they're the best one two punch. I mean, maybe you could give it to Tatum and Brown, but I think that they're the one two best one two punch left in the playoffs.

I'm going Anthony. I was Carl.

Carl. Not even Scottie Pippen?

No. I mean, they just got a lot going on with that team. They got, you know, they got a lot going on. They got a big man. He got fucking seven footer, who's elite rim protector, the defensive player of the year.

I'm just talking about one two punches, though.

I mean, but I said, I'm going Anthony. I was Carl, and you said, not Scottie. I'm. I can go Scottie and Rudy. Defensively, on that team, they got two sets of motherfuckers.

They have multiple. I could go Mike Conley, Nasree.

They got. They got a whole bunch of duos on one team. On that team. That team is man a. That team is. That team was solid. They're 7678 guys are really, really good. Really, really, really good.

So you predict them to beat the Dallas Mavericks?

I predict them to win NBA championship.

What do you think the series score against the mat against the Mavericks will be if you had to make a guess for.

Two? And I'm being like, I don't want to give that. Yeah, I'm getting generous. I don't want to do Dallas, the four one motherfucker DeGeneres sweep because they got guys that's, you know, been in a western conference, you know, two out of three years, and Kyrie is wanted, but I got Minnesota taking it.

Let's give a eulogy to the Denver Nuggets, though. Great championship run.

Great. Perfect.

Let's go to the other side of the bracket, then the Indiana Pacers against the Boston Celtics. Who do you have winning that series? And what do you have the series score being?

I got the. I got Boston. I got Boston. I think they can kind of switch a lot. They can post a lot. They can post a lot against that team. When I mean post. And that gives. It gives you opportunity to get easy baskets without dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble. Dribble, dribble. I think Boston can switch a lot, respectively. Again, 42. It's, you know, it's the championship final, so, you know, the conference final, so you got it. Respectfully, four two, respectfully.

And let's give a eulogy to the. To the New York.

And they got Drew Holiday, too. So now, howford, they got guys that can guard all NBA second team switch one through five. Yeah, I like it. I like it. And that's. We don't know if Brazilians is coming back. We don't know, you know, how that looks. But I like Boston.

Okay, shout out to Boston then. And can we give a eulogy to the Knicks then?

Knicks injuries.

No, a lot of injuries.

A lot of injuries. I mean. But it was great seeing the Knicks make the run, right? It was great seeing the guard and lit up, you know, the celeb, bro, lit up, like, the energy from the Knicks after the games, the crowd, the stuff you see on twitter. So, like, anytime the Knicks are playing, postseason basketball is always a good thing. Like, you love that. It's great for basketball, for show.

What the fuck is up with that hill that they have to walk up to? Getting into the game, though, that's stupid, man.

I ain't gonna lie. That motherfucker is steep. You understand me? Steep. I say steep. For real. You be having them nice size clothes on and your shoes might be a little tight on the sides. You gotta put a little extra quads in it. Yeah. Getting up that motherfucker. Steep ass, motherfucker. Heel before the game. Yeah. Pre workout. Before the workout, if you know what I mean.

You have to. You really can't. Even if you look forward, you can't even see who's coming up the hill. Their head, like, emerges like they're summiting Mount Everest.

Yeah. Now, for real. That's. That motherfucker steep. It's. It's long stride, heavy quad. When you're going up that thing, can.

We get an escalator? Can we get one of those ski lifts that you have to hold on to and it kind of guides you up toward the top?

Yeah. So, yeah, shout out to the Knicks, man. They. That's good coaching, too, man. Shout out to Tibbs, Jalen Brunson, man, like, I'm gonna tell you who. Who. I really enjoyed doing that whole playoff series. Josh Hart.

Oh, really? I thought you were gonna give it to my paisan brother, Dante Devangenzo.

You know, I can give to any one of them, but I gotta give to Josh Hart to be able to, you know, play damn near every minute to play down there, every game, you know, like, for. For a long time, he went unappreciated, you know, like he was just with Portland, you know, like he's with the Pelicans. I believe he just really couldn't find a home somewhere, a team that appreciates, and they really appreciate him there. And I'm happy. I'm happy for him, and I'm also happy for my culture brother, Harlstein Hartenstein. Yeah, yeah, I heard what I said. My culture brother.

A proud black brother.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm proud of him.

He's going to get it back.

Yeah. He didn't come in thinking he's going to be starting and playing a ton of minutes. You know, obviously, Julius Randall's behind, and you got the big kid, Mitch Robinson. So you really don't know. You know, you kind of coming in thinking you're, you know, worst case scenario, you just a backup, you know, and come in, change the game. Great in the pocket. Floaters have great screener, great offensive rebounder. He just gave my. You know, he just put himself in position to make a ton of money. I'm happy for him, too.

Yeah. He's going to get paid for sure. I think that Josh Hart took a circle back to him. I think that he really found the right coach for his style of play, too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The coach that lings on playing hard, high energy, you know, blue collar workers, you got to give credit to the tips. He tips. He. Those type of players, he's able to showcase them a lot, but they thrive in that role. Thriving that rope, playing under tips.

I want to get to more basketball, but I have a question first before we get into more basketball.

Cause I got some questions, too.

Oh, shit. Well, I got questions, too, so lock in, okay?

Okay.

Do black bros celebrate bachelor parties the same way that white bros do?

Okay. How do white bros celebrate basketball?

You can say white boys, dude. I'll give you the pass.

No, no, I'm cool. I just say bros. White bros. White.

Bros. You know, I have a bachelor party coming up this weekend. That's why I ask. It's gonna be.

I don't think so. Y'all celebrate different, but y'all. Is cocaine involved? Black folks? No cocaine.

You're saying the white boys like the white girl?

No, I mean. I mean. Or the white horse. Anything white y'all like. So, you know, we cool.

I don't know. I heard all about Rick James, bro.

I mean, yeah, that was.

I heard about Lawrence Taylor. Bro, I heard about Darryl Strawberry, bro. I heard about Michael Irvin, bro.

Listen, we can literally name every white person, if that's the case, if we want to go down, you know, if we literally bring your names up, we could literally just point out. I mean, you can point at any white motherfucker. Hey, have you tried this? Yeah, man, tried a time. A time or two ago, you know, so, yeah, we can. We can bring up anybody, but, you know, we're not going to do that on this show. We're definitely not going to do that. But, I mean, I just always look at the movie hangover. You feel me? That's like. That's prime right there, you know, like, that's prime right there. That's prime right there. So I gotta get that award to you guys.

But what's a black bro bachelor party? Like? What's the vibe? Is it like several days? Is it like a one night thing? Is it right before the wedding? Are you going away? Are you keeping it local?

It's really hard to plan. Cause, you know, some guys don't know how to really plan shit. You know, just the local. You feel me? Go to the little striptease joint and throw up a little money and. Damn, bro, you doing this, bro. You ready, bro? You feel me? You know, like, it ain't really, like, you know, maybe play some cars, you know? You know, drink a little bit. I don't even really indulge in the smoke, but maybe that's what you do. You roll up, too, you know, so, like, it's not, you know, with y'all. Y'all going crazy. Y'all raved out. Y'all got a motherfucker with a. I seen a motherf. A group of white motherfuckers in Vegas. They had one of the homies legs tied up to, like, a fake boulder. Walking through all Vegas, just dragging that motherfucker, you know, like, y'all creative with y'all shit? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Y'all creative with y'all shit. Then I seen another motherfucker with a chain with a sign that said, it's over. He's getting married in a couple of hours, you know. So y'all creative with y'all shit, I like y'all shit.

What do you think about when dudes throw guys up at the hot seat at the strip club?

What's the hot seat?

Put me on hot seats, like, where they have you on the stage, but then it kind of gets violent. They'll put you on the seat and then, like, it'll be kind of like they'll come and smack you around. They might rip your shirt open or take the belt off. Kind of give you some.

Yeah. I mean, yeah. I mean, again, that's, you know, y'all like that type of shit. We just go upstairs, you feel me? Probably drink a couple beers, be low key. You feel me? Probably a little private dance. And that's it. Get, you know, get ready to get back locked in. Cause you can't be late for tomorrow. Oh, so you do the night before, two nights before. Right.

So we're. I mean, we're doing it months before for this next one that's coming, the one we have this weekend. His wedding's not till November.

Oh, okay. Well, you know, the culture. Like to do things a little later than usual. So a couple nights before. You understand me? You feel me? Get right back to it. Come on, come on. We ain't got time to dodge on that. You don't need to be in. Indulge in that type of behavior. Come on, jump broom.

We're doing Denver. We're going to comedy show, concert, baseball game. Sick, you know, good standard baseball fans, you know?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, cool little white guy time, I guess. Yeah.

Yes, I guess.

Caucasian time. And what was the questions we had? We had on black sounding white names and white sounding black names? Like Patrick Beverly.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

That is a. What was the first one I said? That is definitely a white sounding black name.

Yeah, no shit, dude. That sounds like my butler, bro.

Hey, chill, chill, chill.

Patrick Beverly, not my butler, but like, you know what I mean? Tuxedo waistcoat, you know, the tails, penguin. Patrick Beverly.

But I also know a white man named Mike Wallace. Black name. You understand what I'm saying? You feel what I'm saying?

Holy shit.

You feel me? Then I got a black homie named Jordan Petway. White man, if you want to. You understand what I'm saying? So it's, you know, Adam Ferrone, Italian. You feel me? Italian. But if you go wrong, black, possibly black man. You understand what I'm saying?

Sounds like Tyrone. You know what I mean?

Right, right. You know what I'm saying? You don't know what's wrong. You get. You feel me? So then you get Jake.

Paul could go either way. That could be a black name.

Okay. You feel me?

Like, but how about this one? How about Donovan McNabb? That sounds like an irish bro.

That is an irish man.

Sounds like he is.

That's a black man.

Red hair, freckles and shit like that.

Frank the tank.

That sounds like he could hit 400 home runs.

Right. You know what I'm saying? That sounds definitely like a bigger. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, like. Yeah, it's a good conversation to have. So if you was to pick, I don't know, four or five names in the NBA of white sounding black names.

White sounding black names. Carl Anthony towns, kind of white sounding black name. White pair. Actually, the hyphenated name kind of has been claimed by the black community.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, hyphenated. Let's go, let's go another one. I don't like that one.

Okay. Don't like that one.

Brandon Miller. Brandon Miller is a very good one.

Brandon Miller does sound damn good.

Yeah. Let me see who else we got.

Kevin Durant.

Kevin.

Kevin.

No. George Hill.

Clay Thompson.

Oh, no.

Why are you shooting down all my names, Clay?

Yours on sound that you got. You can do better. You can do better. You can do. You can do better.

Well, you sprung this one on me, dude. I would have done some research.

Jason Tatum. Derek White is definitely. Yeah.

Derek White's middle management in the name Chris Middleton. Well, when you start throwing a little English on the spelling. K h r I s. No, bro. Hey, our black brothers, sisters, they'll throw a little. A little stank on the names.

The black sounded names. The black was the black sounding white names.

Peyton Pritchard. I mean, that's kind of. You know what I mean? That has a little bit of something on it.

Okay. Isaiah Harlein. This might go on to original.

That's white. That sounds white.

Okay.

John Stockton. John Stockton sounds black.

You know what? That is a great one.

John Stockton.

Jay Wheel, Rick. I know a white jay will and a black j wheel.

Yeah, both ones. A white.

Yeah. A white one and a black one. Both of them was nice.

Rick Barry.

Jalen Rose.

Sounds white, but.

But it's a black name.

No, but Jalen is a name that exclusively exists for the black man. It was created for the black man. There's no white. Jalen's out there, dude.

That's fubu.

That's for us. By us. By you guys.

Okay. You right. I give you that. I give you that. That's a good one.

Jerry west. Uh oh. Kevin Love.

K love is a black name.

Yeah.

Nigga named Kay love. Yeah.

Kay love.

I know a black man named Kay love. That's the crazy part. Y'all feel me? Big love. What up, gang? You cool?

I'm cool.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah, I like that. Oh, we gotta listen, give us names so we can, we can, we can keep this thing going for the next pod man. Give us some good names.

Yeah, you have to, you have to sprinkle some in the comments.

And I got, I got you. Okay, your turn. You got any questions? I got some. I got one more question.

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What's better for NBA team right now? Superstar trios slash big three. Verse role players compliment stars.

I swear to God, I asked this last week. I swear I asked you that question last week. It's not big three. And you know who killed the big three? The Phoenix Suns, dude.

But that just one time. Well, what.

What's the last big three that won a championship? Bucks big three. Not really. When the Bucks won, they weren't a big three. Honest. And Middleton?

Drew Middleton?

You're calling Drew part of a big three?

He's literally been the best defensive guard the last decade.

Yeah, but defense, I mean, it's like part salary, it's part, like points per game. It's part league perception. Like, was Drew okay making all star games? Do you agree with that or no? Am I wrong? I don't mind being wrong.

I think he's part of a big three.

So is he still in Boston then? I think that. I mean, I guess because if I was playing Devil's advocate, backing up your point, then I would say that you look at the Golden State warriors when it was Clay, Steph and Draymond. Draymond kind of fits into the same archetype of player as Drew Holiday.

Right?

So he's kind of a defensive player, kind of fills out the stat sheet. So, I mean, if you wanted to make that, that argument. But I think that the big three is an antiquated way of at least spending your money.

Right, though. You're right. I don't I don't remember a big three. The last big three that won a championship. What it was, obviously was the spurs, the heat.

Was it the Cavs, maybe with Kevin love, Kyrie and.

I don't think that's a big three, though.

You don't put k love in there, right?

No, I just go.

I mean, it's got to be the. It has to be warriors to be.

Last time was the warriors. Right. When they beat Boston, though.

And then if you don't. Yeah, yeah. With Durant. No, those Thompson, Steph Curry and Durant. That's even more big for almost.

Yeah.

Like classic victory is.

I think. I think it's two. I think it's two superstars, elite role players. I think that's the route to go to be successful. I think that that big three three motherfuckers. It gives you a lot of confusion. If you need time with that, you need time to get that right. You need time to practice with that. Like, you need time. You just throw that out on paper, try to get it right. First year, I don't think you. It's a lot of success because it's what guy needs the ball and, you know, ball here, ball there. Complimentary guys. How do they look? Okay. It's only three of those guys. I mean, there's no one else we could put on the court because we don't have any money left, like.

So it is hard to develop younger players because the usage of those three guys.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Especially if they're all offensive players, you know, especially.

That's a good call.

So that, that kind of leads me to my next point. I saw a very interesting tweet from sport track saying that only one of the top 15 paid NBA players from the 2023 24 season have made the final four. You know who that is?

That's Rudy, right?

Rudy Gobert.

Rudy.

So that means Steph Curry at 52 million. Embiid at 47.6. Lebron at 47 six. Jokic at 47 six. Beal at 47. 6001 giannis. All these guys didn't make it. Kawhi Paul George, Jimmy Butler, Clay Thompson, Fred Van Fleet, Anthony Davis. All of them are paid more than $40 million a year. But only one of the highest paid players made it.

No.

Does paying a guy a max contract hurt your team building going forward?

It can. In certain circumstance it can. It can put you in a position where it's hard for you to attain other pieces that you might want to, you know, attain going forward. Trade you kind of limited unless you have a ton of picks. But that's the chance you take when you go and win now mode, right? Those are the chances you take when you go in. Okay, I want to win now. Win now means superstar, superstar, superstar. Let's win now. You know, when you get net mode, win now mode. That's when stuff like that happens. But again, that's general manager. That general managers, that's presidents, that's, you know, gas, you know, who. Who are above the players. You know, that's when they. That's how you see how good they come in. How can they crunch numbers in with role players to make team really good? Okay. Okay. Dallas Mavericks, they got two, two fucking superstar guys who have the ball all the time, right? What other guards can we get to compliment them? Not only the bigs, but what other guards can we get to compliment them? You know, the Dante Axums, the Tim Hardaway, you know, juniors, the young guys they drafted.

Okay, cool. Okay. We like it, but we don't like it. Let's make trade. Let's get a little bit more size. Let's get wings, let's get, let's get a little taller. Let's, let's. Let's help our rebound and let's, you know, so, depending on. Depending on your team, man, it just depends on your team. It really depends on your team. It really depends on your team. So it can hurt you in some cases. It can help you in some cases, if it's done correctly.

Also, I think that once you get a superstar and you pay him that much money, then it's the kind of onus is on the general manager to be like, okay, who are we going to pair him with? Because when you look at this top 15 list, almost all the guys are paired with somebody else who's on the same top 15 lift. Kurt. Steph Curry is paired with Clay Thompson. They're both getting paid a lot. Lebron is paired with Anthony Davis. They're both getting paid a lot. Durant and Bradley Beale are both getting paid a lot. Damien Lillard and Yanis are both getting paid a lot. Kawhi and Paul George, both getting paid a lot. I mean, these are all. That's five pairings of the list. So that means only five of the guys on the list don't have somebody that's making that much. And guess what, Tyrese Max is about to get a bag. You know, these max contracts are about to come rolling in.

Yeah. So I just thought it's this tough way. It's just, you know, it's team makeup. It's location of team. You know, it's young guys mixed with older guys mixed with some vets, some picks that you might have, might not have. You know, that's when you get into the business savvy of the business. So I'm always a fan of. I like to do o the role players around. Yeah, I think it helps the role players. I think it helps the, you know, the super, super duper stars. Unless you have that, that third guy who's like, in some cases, right. In unique cases, you get that third guy that's, I don't know, a fucking Chris Middleton, like, who's really a second guy. But, you know, obviously, when Daniel comes, you know, you got to be, you know, your roles change, but he could be your number one, number two option on any fucking team at any given time. You understand what I'm saying? Like, you know, there's certain circumstances like that, you know, when you have, I don't know. You have Clay Thompson, you have Steph Curry, but no, you got Draymond Green, too. You know what I'm saying?

Like, you got. You had Jordan Poole, too, who can go to another team and start. So, like, each team is kind of different. Like, each team is different. You have a car, Anthony Town. I mean, Carl Anthony Town to Anthony Edwards, but you also have Rudy Gobert, you have McDaniels. You have Mike Conley, Nas Reid. He's a 6th man, you know? So, like, every team is. Every team is different. Every team, I believe, is real different. You have the Jason Tatums and a Jalen Brown, but you got Drew holiday, you got Derrick White, and you got Porzenhus. Well, Al Horford, like. No, you got a lot. You got a lot. So it's just. It's just how the team is built.

I think that we saw something interesting contract wise coming up this week with Jalen Brunson, because there were some indications that Jalen Brunson might be willing to sign a four year, 156 million contract extension this year as opposed to waiting one year and signing a five year, $270 million contract. So he's leaving $114 million on the table by signing early. Would that be a smart move by Jalen Brunson?

Listen, I told Jared Vanderbilt the weight he was hurt for the whole year, so maybe I'm not the one to listen to what smart move and what's not smart move, but the money's available now.

You take now, but it's $114 million in difference of him being a max player on the New York Knicks. Those New York taxes are crazy, dude. They'll take all of it.

I know, but still, I'm. I didn't do well with this last time.

If you just stay on the same take, though, and you're right this time, then you're kind of justified. I think you got a spot on the take.

So you're going to flip. I'm not flip flopping. I just don't want to be a part of it.

You're just going to abstain from the conversation?

Yeah, I'm cool. I just don't want to be a part of that. Last time I told Jared van to be able to wait, he weighed. I mean, he.

He didn't wait.

The right thing. He didn't wait, did the right thing. Got that money on. He was hurt all year.

He got paid, made in the shade all year.

All year.

Am I hating for saying it's kind of a weak, all rookie team. Top heavy, I'll call it.

Okay. Why?

Because the guys do, you know, the people who are on the second team, all rookie.

What was it? The guard from Utah, the kid from, um. Memphis? Yeah. I mean, I know. I know.

So you said two people and you didn't even say their names, but yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah. Like the back of your head.

Like, literally the back of my hand. I know.

I mean, it's top heavy. Webignana homegrim.

I'm looking up the list right here.

Brandon Miller. I know I have it in front of me. Jaime Hawkes, junior. And the dude from Gold estate, Podsky. Brandon pun. Podzymski, who really is just getting credit because he has cool looking hair. He looks like.

No, no, he got.

And then secondly, second team was Derek Lively. Amen. Thompson. Keonte George. Casen. Wallace and Gigi Jackson.

Case and Wallace from OKC. Right.

Casey Wallace from the Thunder. Yes. Is he deserving of that? I mean, he wasn't. He wasn't even that big of a part of their playoff rotation.

I know, but still, he was. He started some games, they won some games. They won a lot of games. Now you gotta give them their credit.

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna give them their credit there, bro. How about the off defensive team? You feel like you got snubbed or what, bro?

You know me. Anytime I don't make a defensive team, I feel like I got snubbed. But, you know, comes with it. But I qualified, though. I played over my 65 games.

I hope they get rid of that rule. That rule sucks.

Definitely qualify. I like the defensive team. They put all the bigs on first team. Put all the guards on the second team.

Yeah, that was interesting. I don't know why they voted for it like that, but I like Herb.

Jones on the first team.

Herb Jones.

Yeah. I'm happy Jay McDaniel got. Got some love. It literally put all bigs on the first team and put all smalls on the second team.

Why does that holiday voting happen?

So Giannis didn't make a defensive team, huh?

Yeah, they snubbed Giannis. Why is that?

I don't know. So on the second team, what was it? Caruso, Jaden McDaniels, Drew Holiday, Derek White, Jalen Suggs Jalen. Oh, yeah. Solid. I mean, yeah. You couldn't go wrong with that. That ain't. You know, I don't think it's. I don't think it's awful.

It seems like you're not enthused about it.

I mean, I just don't like the all big. I don't like the all bigs on one team, all guards on us, you know? Cause, like, they count defensive rebounds. Like, you know, you seven foot, you should have all the defensive rebounds, and they count that as, you know. And that goes into a big factor in defensive, you know, points and all that going forward, rank. And so, you know, it ain't really fair to guards, especially if you. You know, you're guarding a guy and making him miss for the big to get rebound, then the bigs look like it's a defensive rebound, so they get credit for that. You know what I'm saying? So it's a lot. I just don't like all. All big men on the team. Like, I don't like all big men on first team. All guards on the second team, I.

Think, doesn't make sense.

Everyone. Yeah. Everyone's job was equally important, you know?

Yeah. People just, like, block shots. Like, I feel like that's the only thing that they can really quantify is rim protection and, like, defensive gravity in the lane.

No, so. But, no, it's a. It's a cool list. It ain't. It ain't a snub list. It's a cool. I just don't. I think you could have mixed it up. I think it's some guards that should have been first and some bigs that should have been second, depending on how.

You want to say. Who you want to say. Pat bezel, defensive team.

No, of course I'm gonna say that every year. Right? I'm. I'm gonna say that every year, but.

No, but I'm saying you want to pick your team of the people who were selected, like, who should be on first.

So 1st first to me is Rudy Rubena. That's my. That's my first for show. That's my first two for show. I'm going Drew holiday. I'm going. I'm going drew holiday. I'm going j. McDaniels. And I'm going, um, either bam or. Or ad. So that's what I can have both. So I'm gonna go bam.

That's three bigs.

Yeah. So I'm gonna go. So, basically, kind of small for type, but whatever.

Rudy, you're calling the seven five, dude.

A small forward smell for guard everybody, man. You guard everybody. I want to hear it. I don't want to hear. When it comes to him. Yeah, I don't want to hear it. I don't. I have no. Would you say what people talk bad about Drake? I don't have any patience of what would you say?

But I'm not talking bad about him. I'm just saying he's not a small forward.

He's everything. He everything. He point, shoot. Small power center muffin. He everything. He everything. Alien.

Alien. Predator.

Alien. Good alien.

Good. Yeah, positive alien. Like the lizards and men in black who kind of sit around drinking coffee like, good alien.

Great alien. Great alien.

Great a alien. Great alien.

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That's right. All right, hit me. What's our starting? Ready?

I got one for you. Starting five of the people who changed the NBA rules. Ooh.

Okay, I'm with you, Allen Iverson. Okay, Allen Iverson.

This week. I'm gonna. Damn. Look at the boaty ass legs, boy.

Bro. Let's see your legs, bro. Fuck outta here, bro. Let's see your little fucking twigs. Hey.

Hey, you put them all fuckers up on sideways. I thought so.

I thought it looked like I was rubbing two matches together.

That motherfucker look like this motherfucker thing that's holding his mic up.

Two white ones, man.

I ain't never seen legs look like that, man. You a motherfucker, bro. You better hide them motherfuckers, man.

It's called rickets, bro. It's a disease. Let's see your knees, dude. I know your knees are touching each other, bro. I know you're sitting straightforward on the couch and your shits are touching each other, bro.

Now, look, we gonna get back to the Amsterdam starting fight. But why in practice, right, the NASA ta, he go, he made me talking about, yeah, this pape, you know, I always start practicing with this blue band on, but they say the band be pushing my legs in. So it looks like I got the Kenny Smiths. But they put my hands in my pocket like, yeah. What's up, gang? What's up, gang? I was God awful. It was God awful. But now, go ahead, fold your legs again, bro. Don't be insecure.

I feel good about my legs, bro. You won't even show your legs, bro. Probably looks like you just dipped them in Mount Vesuvius, bro.

Hey, man, listen, man, don't get mad. Don't get mad.

We can't bust balls.

No, we can bust balls, but you can't get mad. Cause I'm not mad at all.

You see those ashy legs, bro?

No ass, buddy. No ass. Good leg, good leg. Good leg. Good calf. Okay, fold. Fold them up. Arms up again. No, your legs look like arms.

Oh, my God.

We go. I'm done. We're done, we're done, we're done, we're done. Starting five.

I'm gonna do the path. Hit that, Oprah, fold that. You do.

Five people who changed NBA rules? Okay, bubba Chuck. Allen Iverson. One for what rule?

You say one from your list, I'll say one from my list. We'll go back and forth.

I ain't saying any rules. I'm just saying. Just people rules, period. I think different people did different things.

You're not gonna say which rule he changed?

I'm not gonna say that.

I got the rules that they changed on mine.

I know, but. Cause I wanna put James Harden there. He changed, like, three rules, you know, so, like.

Well, you could pick. You close your eyes and pick with him. So say your Allen Iverson rule.

No hand checking.

No, that's. He was. Kobe was hand checking.

No, no, no. Steve Nash. Steve Nash changed the rule of hand checking. So Steve Nash is in there also. Allen Nash and the Carrie rule.

Okay, I'm going Allen Iverson. Dress code rule. Because Allen Iverson would come in and tall tee flowing, and then they were like, no, you have to wear a suit.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. We go different rules like that. Then I'm going James Harden.

Oh, the pull through.

Yeah.

Okay. Then I guess I'll go James Harden. No, I'm going to go. I'm going to go Kobe, hand checking. I want Kobe, hand checking.

Okay, I'm gonna go, um. Shaquille O'Neal rule.

What's that rule?

It's just a couple. That's what I'm saying. That's. I don't think it's fair. Okay, the breakaway rims.

Breakaway rims solid, because he'll pull that thing down.

I'm talking about right on down. Right on your head, too. On his head, too.

All right. Wilt Chamberlain, uh, jumping from the free throw line on a free throw. Will Chamberlain used to just fuck it. He would go run and start fucking seven foot tall. He could jump out of the gym, and then he would just finger roll or whatever. He would just get to the rim. So will Chamberlain, you can't jump past the free throw line.

Okay. Love that. Well, that's three, right?

Three each. I got two more.

I got a good one, but I don't know how to, like, how to say it. Gary Payton.

Which rules? Which rule was he?

The glove. The hand checking. You can't hand check.

Oh, so here we're giving hand check to him, too. A lot of people changed the hand checking, but he was hand checking.

Yeah, he was. Well, he was. Him and magic, they was hand checking like a motherfucker for sure.

Okay, well, since you said mine, my next one is the magic Johnson. The blood on the court rule. If you get blood, if you're. If you're bleeding, they have to take you out of there. And that was because they were scared of magic Johnson. Cause of HIV.

This man here, man.

That's. What are you talking about? It's in. It's well documented in the history books. This isn't how I felt. If you're mad at me about this, take. Imagine how mad you should be at the people from 1996.

Okay, I got one that no one knows about. Then. We doing that. The doc Rivers rule.

What's that?

So, back in the day, doc used to play for Pat Riley. And before the playoffs started, you had to have your roster in before the playoffs started and couldn't make any changes. Doc river, he was the starting guard. I think he was the all star of the year, too. But he was hurt, so they didn't know if he can come back and play or whatever. So he was like the guy on the cusp. He end up being hurt. He end up not. They, they not knowing if he'd be ready, ready for the playoffs. So they took him off roster, added someone else in, and they had to stick with that, that roster for the whole playoffs. And he couldn't play. And now it's changed.

You can, you could shuffle it around Doc Rivers. That's a good rule. I just learned something. I didn't even know about that rule.

Yeah, yeah.

But then I'm also going to tell. I'm going to hit you with my last one. George Mikan changed a ton of rules, but specifically the. The lane used to be 6ft wide. George Mikan was so dominant that they moved that lane to 12ft wide. And this is in the fifties, bro.

Hey, I ain't gonna lie, those were some great ones. I like this one. I like the second top five of those. I like that.

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Have you watched any today?

Did you watch any of Caitlyn Clark's? Her first couple games?

Are you kidding me?

People are picking apart everything she does, man.

Listen, they sold $2 million in ticket revenue.

She's changing the game.

Change the game. Zust. And I think she only played four of them. She went down ankle. Andrea. Come on, Kayla. Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up.

I cried when she went down. Then she came back.

I'm calling her Cece, like I know her, not Cece. Come on, Cece. Get up, girl. Come on. Come on. Get up, get up. Come down. Hit logo. Trey ball. Man, this woman is. Man, I'm talking about women's basketball is so entertaining, bro. It's been entertaining.

Yeah. They have me put on, like, Liberty games. I'm watching, like, regular Liberty games on my. Whatever, cw 17. Like, I'm watching off brand channels. I love it, junkie.

I love it. I love what the WNBA is head. And I love it. I love, I fucking love it.

The w shout out, catch me.

I gotta catch me. Again. We gotta get some dub. WNBA. Women on the pod, man. Shout out to the WNBA. We gotta go to games. Wrong.

Yeah, we got to.

We gotta show them more love. We gotta go to some games.

But those tickets are probably so expensive now. Dude, we can't even get in the door unless we have game time.

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To win it on multiple teams.

Trivia. Yeah.

Bro.

I've been killing it at jeopardy. Recently. You don't want to see me on ABC at 07:00 because I'm putting on a clinic. Seems like Pat doesn't go. Who do you got?

Defensive player of the year. Two different teams.

It was actually three different teams, if that's helpful at all to you.

Is he a big or small?

Big.

Wow.

Should I tell you one of the teams that he won it with?

No.

You feel like you could get this?

No.

Really. Think about it. Three different teams, and it was within your lifetime, so you don't have to reach back to the George Mikan days.

Yeah.

The Lenny Wilkin days. The George Girvin days. The Wes unsell days. The Willis reed days.

I don't know. Tell me.

Dikembe Macumba. Mutumba. Jean Jacques wa matumbo. I bet you didn't know that was his full name, either.

Dikembe.

Dikembe Mutumbo. Maplanda Macumba. Jean Jacques wa matumbo.

Give that man a whole new name. That ain't that man name.

I swear to God. It's his name. What do you mean, a whole new name? Why do you think I'm saying it the same way every time they came in? Mutumbo in front of mucomba. Jean Jacques Juan Matumbo. That's his whole name.

I know, but the way you said it, man, like you missed a couple vows on it, man.

I'm hitting it perfect every time. Dikembe mutumbo. Maplanda. Macumba. Jean Jacques wa matumbo.

I'm saying it right every time. No, I want to hear Siri say it.

Full name.

Mine's not working. My siri?

Yeah.

Wow.

That's convenient. Wow. When you try and debunk me, it stops working. Dikembe Mutumbo. Mutlando. Mukumba. Jean Jacques Watumbo. I'm getting it right every fucking time. Dude. If I was making it up, I'd be saying it wrong. I would be, like, switching it up every time.

Okay, I'll give you that one down.

But it had me wondering who would be on your all time starting five defensive team?

All five starting all time starting five.

Yeah. And we could do. You could either just pick five for yourself, or we could draft back and forth.

I got mine. Gary Payton.

Okay.

Scottie Pippen.

Okay.

Dikembe Mutombo.

Jean Jacques Juan Mutumbo.

Ben Wallace.

Okay.

Dennis Robin.

Wow. That's yours? So, no current players are good enough?

No.

Should I say mine?

Say yours.

Whole different team them. And we could go head to head with the comments aside. Bill Russell.

Great one.

Ron artest.

Good one.

Bruce Bowen.

Good one.

Michael Jordan.

Great one.

And I don't know if I should go go Burr Draymond or Avery Bradley.

Good ones.

You win. You win.

I win. I win. Win, win, win, win.

Well, you got to pick all of yours. First I thought we were going to do a back and forth, and you got to pick. You had the pick of the litter. And then I got to go ahead and take the scraps. I'm eating the scraps off the floor.

Say to you, no, back and forth, back and forth, back and back.

Did you see what happened when the. At this golf tournament over the weekend, this dude, Scotty Scheffler, a golfer, tried to drive into the golf course. They arrested, bro.

Yeah, man. Free to guys.

He's free already.

Free the guys, man.

He didn't even have time to stretch in his jail cell. They got him out so fast.

Yeah, free the guys.

He didn't even get his one hot in the cot, much less three hots in a cot. Do you think that would ever happen in an NBA game where somebody's trying to drive into the arena and there's cops outside? And then they would pull them out of the car and arrest them? And if so, what would be the commensurate response?

You gotta get through. You gotta get through a lot of layers of security to be able to do that. You know, they stopped the team bus down there at the tunnel. Check for, you know, they checked the team bus. Turn the team bus off. Had dogs go walk around it. Had your car turn your car off. How car? You know, so, like, you gotta go through a lot of layers to get into a basketball arena.

It should be the same way for golf, no?

Yeah, it should be. I don't know the whole details of that, but he can hoop, though. He can fucking play.

Scotty Scheffler.

I've never seen nobody get the ball close to the hole every shot like that. That man ever in my life.

He does remind me of one of the all time greats. World number one coming into this weekend.

I think we go. Go hit some golf balls after this.

Who's that?

Me and my white friend with a black name. Mike Wallace.

Mike Wallace.

Tyler. What's your last name? Miller. That's what I'm saying. That's a.

You surround yourself with the white men with black names.

Yeah, that's a black name. Tyler Miller. I call him name Ty. Ty. We call him Ty. Ty.

Ty. Ty.

Yeah.

Damn. You guys gotta get it on the vlog. Please. I need to see that on the.

Next vlog for show. We go put on next vlog. We got you.

I want to see it on the next vlog. I want to see all the. Everything that you guys are doing out there. I miss you guys. Referee Bill Spooner. Chris Paul was one of the biggest assholes he ever worked with.

No, no, no.

Is that fair of him to say about a player?

No, no, no. Chris Paul beef, we done with Chris Paul?

No, but I'm saying this referee said it. Is it fair for the referee to say that?

Listen, I had a referee. I ain't gonna say the name. Asked him about his family. Ask him about his son. I think he, with his daughter, walking in on the power, introduced to my daughter. Yeah, nice to meet you. Yeah. He the thug. They be giving me a hard time all the time. Damn. I just go from. I just go from that to a motherfucking thug. You don't even know me. That's crazy. Like, that's how you gonna introduce me to your daughter? The first person I'm meeting in your family? That's how you.

He was just joking around a little.

Bit or, you know, he probably was just joking around, but, I mean, I wouldn't joke around.

Every good joke has a shred of perceived truth in it. Charles Barkley said that everybody's scared to death over at TNT.

You said, you say what?

Charles Barkley said everybody's scared to death over at TNT because they're about to lose their contract.

I mean, what happens now? Like, you know, like, is this a new brand that's about to start up or is.

I'll tell you what's about to happen.

NBA basketball.

It's coming back to NBC. The best.

And then the camera comes right here. The guy turns around. Welcome to NBC.

That shit's coming back, bro.

That shit gonna be fire.

As much as you're gonna miss the desk show that happens on TNT, it's almost as good having that good old John Williams tune back. Penny Hardaway said that microfacture surgery was the worst decision of his life.

Say what? Say that again.

Penny Hardaway said microfracture surgery was the worst decision of his life.

I mean, I got micro fracture surgery.

Well, yeah, that's why I brought it up to you.

I thought it saved my career. I mean, it's different surgery. It's not like the same one. Yeah, the technology's gotten way better now. Yeah, but early on, it might, you know, you drill three holes in your knee and hell, yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be God awful.

What even is a micro fracture?

Hey, man, listen, my shit was so. My shit was bad. I didn't even ask. Didn't even want to see picture. I just asked, can I come back? And when I come back, can I stay back? My doctors told me, yes, if you do this, and yes, if you do this. I did that. I'm still doing that. I've just played. I just played the most games I ever played in my NBA career this past season.

Right? Cause you have those bones that if you put a string on him, you can fucking pull back an arrow and shoot an elk with it, bro. You got those fucking.

Don't get mad. Cause I'm all fucking talking about your arms and your knees as being the same motherfucking instruments.

Wait a second.

Don't get back. Don't get mad.

Wait a second. I can't talk.

This boy got those drama boy legs. He got them motherfuckers. Yeah, you got them. What they say? This little wooden boy who talks. You got them all fucking legs. You got them wooden legs. I'm a real boy. I'm a real boy. You got them motherfucking legs. Pinocchio sticks.

Oh, my God. What's the best court to play at? Is it Madison Square Garden? The loudest court to play.

I love playing in Boston. You know me, I love playing me some basketball games in Boston.

Yeah. Loudest court.

The guard, they're louder. Oh, no, they just. They more. They just more rowdy.

Yeah. They're not.

What's a Philly, but Philly show love for me now. So it's a different Philly vibe. But I like playing in Boston, so.

It'S all positivity up there. No, and, dude, how about. How about freaking that asshole? Did he. Dude.

Awful, nasty work. Awful, nasty.

Bad person. Probably can't do that and be considered a good person.

It's nasty work. Nasty work.

Yeah.

Prayers out for Cassie. Her and her family. Straight up.

Real shit, for sure. You're definitely not a man if you hit a woman.

Yeah, sure. Prayers up for her family. Prayers up for her facts and shout out to the women. That's like. Like, it's hard to be a man. It's hard to be a. It's hard to be a white man in this world. It's hard to be a black man, but it's hard to be a woman regardless of what color you are. Hard to be a woman in this world. So just the women that's standing up, the women that's like, showing support, but the women that's doing it the right way. Right. Like, not even shining light on the thing. It's just giving support. Like, yeah, I'm here for you. Like, I think that's appreciated more than anything. Just a support system, you know? Totally nasty work.

Well said. My last thing I was in the Bahamas this past weekend, and who did I run into at my hotel but Mo Bamba?

No way.

Yes.

What did he say?

I went up to him. I was like, what's up, mo? And he was like, what's up? Looking good. I don't think he. I don't think he knew it was me. I don't think he, like, put two and two together.

Slapped your ass.

No. But then I saw him, and he was daggering with six bahamanian women. Dude, some of the blackest stuff I'd ever seen.

No, no, no. Don't do that, man. No, don't do that. Don't put that man business out in the streets.

Like, he wasn't actually doing that, but I was just thinking that. I was like, what if I saw him after you put him on the whitest black eye list? What if I saw him doing, like, the blackest, most bahamanian behavior that I could have imagined? But, yeah. Saw the bro Mobama down in. Down in the Bahamas. Said, what's up? To him.

Kept pushing to subscribe.

I should have. He tried to answer. I was like, what's up? Tried to answer. I was like, you know who need.

To get on here mobile? Subscribe deuce McBride.

Deuce McBride. Ooh, that'd be good.

Subscribe deuce McBride. I like Deuce. I like him. I like him a lot. If anybody know Deuce, see if we get him on the pot. I want him to be a guest this summer. I know people are real busy during the summertime, but I want him. I want to get him on here. I like. I like. I like everything about Deuce McBride. I like his game.

What about Halliburton giving him a too small behind his back?

And then, I mean. I mean, listen, I gave. I gave motherfuckers. I gave motherfuckers a two small all year. I gave motherfucker the hand. No hip sashiness. Too small. So, yeah, it's the playoffs. I ain't trying to hear my fuck too little.

Yeah. But when Deuce McBride turned around, Halliburton acted like he was scratching his chin. He didn't. Tyrese, there's a quote about. All right, have. Have a good time this summer, brother. Wherever you're going to.