Sweeter than you.

Sweeter than you. That's what it was.

And I will never find another lover more precious than you. More precious than you.

Girl, you are. Closer to me like my father, close to me like my sister, close to me like my brother. You are the only one by everything. And for you at all in all my life. Baby, baby. A baby, something unlike you. And I thank God that I finally found you. Yeah, that's it.

That's incredible, bro.

You got to think 11, 12-year-olds motherfuckers in a minivan, everybody just eyes closed.

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It's the playoffs. This is what you've all been waiting for. We grinded 82 games just for this. The trials, the tribulations, the early mornings, the workouts, the injuries, the rehab, everything was for this. And now we've made it here as a unit. The second season of the PatBev pod And here we are, going for a fucking championship. How do you feel?

Light.

That's how it should be. The Bucks, three seed in the Eastern Conference, about to embark on a playoff series against the Indiana Pacers. The question that's on everybody's mind is what is going on with Yannis Antentecumpo.

We're going to be ready.

Whole squad? Yeah, that's the only way to be. You have to be ready. They're a good squad. They score a lot of points.

A ton of points.

Track meet.

Lace up the shoes. Lace up the shoes. 6% of the points come from the pain. 30% comes from above the art. They get 16 points from the free throw line. 10% of their points come from mid-range.

They scored 156 points in their regular season finale.

Track me. What we've been preparing for, we've been preparing for Doc Rivers and his coaching staff. We've been fucking preparing for it. Let's just say these last couple of days, we're tired, boss.

Brother, your practice went like eight hours today.

Yeah, and yesterday.

What's the practice like?

We're practicing against all young guys, all young legs out there. They're flying around. They got a drill where we fucking out there practicing. Young guys, if we score, they don't even take out the ball. That's how fast they're playing. So we're locked in. It's fun. It's competitive. It's a lot of shit talking, getting your game on. It's fun. I can't wait.

I think there's a perception That's the reason that Doc Rivers doesn't use the younger guys that much, but it seems like he has a plan for them.

No, they locked in. Everybody locked in this way. Doc Rivers locked in. I mean, that goes without question, obviously. He's a legendary coach right on the field, Jackson. So He's the key to all this, and he set the tone from day one. Him and his coach, Dave Yeager, him and them and Rex, from day one, set the tone. Set the tone of practice, how this shit go go, what we go do. It's up to us to go out there and execute. I'm excited.

You starting?

I am.

I mean, that's what we wanted.

God is good.

All the time. There's something that happens when the playoffs happen, and you basically cut the NBA in half. You cut the field in half, and that means that the noise- Pretty dope for the pod, too. Oh, it's incredible for the pod. The field is cut in half, and that means the noise is doubled. That means that the extracurricular is doubled. And luckily, we're part of the media now, and so we get to be part of that noise. But at the same time, you get to hear the bullshit. You get to hear Stephen A.

Smith. You got to think I'm so locked into Barstool. If it didn't come from Barstool, I'm really not even listening to that shit. That's how you feel? I mean, That's literally how I operate my life. I really don't even listen to other media. If it ain't Barstool coming from a Barstool vessel, it ain't entertaining to me. It's just the old media to me. I watch a couple of guys' podcast, obviously, to Paul George, to Draymond, Bron, and JJ Reddick stuff for what I can get better at. But I'm not watching that shit. I'm watching my shit. No, I'm just watching my shit. I'm just trying to see what we can be better at, how much we can keep getting better. And that's really when I'm watching all Barstoo shit.

Why do you think they're putting out rumors that Dame Lillard is unhappy? Where is that even coming from?

I mean, you got to find something to talk about.

But where is it coming from? It's not like this information is new.

You never know, right? You never know. It's just they're trying to build the story up. That's how the playouts are. That's how the media is.

You try to build the story up, and that's just the story going around, I guess, right now.

And then they have the same story about Yannis. They're like, Well, if something happens, Yannis, you never know what's going to happen with Yannis. And this is coming from, like we said, Stephen A. Smith, Brian Windhorse, trusted media guys.

Well, but you have to talk about something. If you don't know, you have to talk about something. So that's a lot of time of speculation, but we're going to let them speculate, and we're going to go out there and just play basketball.

On the flight out this morning, I watched first take on Mute. I could just guess what they're talking about. They're just screaming, What is Mad Dog mad about?

I don't give a fuck. It's becoming like... And it's no discredit or disrespect to anyone out there who does media, but coming watered down a little bit. I expect you know what you go hear every morning.

Manufactured outrage.

You hear our shit, you don't know what you're going to hear. You know what I'm saying? And you appreciate that more. You listen Listen to Steven A. Smith, and I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan. I study the shit out of him. I study the shit out of him. But it's going to be the same voice. It's going to be the same over-talking. It's going to be the same Halfway facts. You don't know if you're really inside the NBA locker room. So I got to be fortunate to be an NBA player while doing this. God is good.

All the time. One of the new things that everybody responds to every Every single clip is either you know ball or you don't know ball. Every single fucking clip, it's like, Kendrick Perkins, you know ball. Kendrick Perkins, you don't watch basketball. People just come to these conclusions. But they were saying that because Kendrick Perkins didn't include Giannis in his All-MBA first team.

I mean.

A pair of lips will say anything.

Somebody told me, right? Probably Giannis' best year, average 30, student 60%.

Unprecedent. I mean, literally, it has never been done before.

So like, okay, you just take it with a grain of salt. Everything now. Everything is for right click bait. Everything's for this. Nothing is organic. Everything is force. You force is not right. That's why our shit is so good. Everything is organic and it's always great.

Give me your all-MBA team, first team.

I don't know how many guys qualify, but I'm going to go Shay, Jokich, Giannis, Shay, Luca. I always go by winning teams.

So Tatum.

So Tatum, yeah.

I think that's pretty solid. Ant Edwards on the outside, looking in. Jalen Brunson on the inside, looking in. But I think that this discourse comes from the fact that so many guys had such great seasons this year.

Hoops were up this year. Hoops were really up. I'm not talking about motherfuckers in a bag. Ones were definitely been handed out.

Ones have been handed out.

Tell them about our day yesterday. Fuck that.

Our day was incredible.

After my eight-hour practice.

Eight-hour practice, Pat.

Had to drive to Chicago.

Drive down to Chicago.

Get to Chicago. Got to go to Snipes.

Go to Snipes. Sign autographs.

No, fuck that. Snipes is in the neighborhood that I used to drive past every day, coming from the airport, going to work out for teams. We have our own merch in stores now.

Check Cashing Place, Popeyes, Dollar Tree.

Our stuff, Snipes. If you guys are outside, Please go to a local Snipes. Get the love gang gear. Love gang.

Also, you're not going to say this because you're not that type of guy who be self-aggrandizing.

I love that word.

Self-aggrandizing. Oh, my goodness.Beautiful word.

You're a beautiful man.

It really dances off the tongue. But self-aggrandizing isn't really your speed, your flavor of the week. But in that Snipes store, you were basically like, to anybody, Hey, go grab a hoodie. It's on us. On us. Go grab some shirts. It's on us. On us. People were loving it. They were like, he's- Surprise. People coming up to me being like, Pat just said this, dude, I don't mind paying, but is it cool? I was like, Yeah, dude, if he said it, he's not. I thought that that was such a nice thing that he did.

Investing in the investment. But now they don't know that it's Chicago. I come from those streets. I used to play ball 10 minutes from there.

Latin American neighborhood.

My school is 15 minutes from there. You know what I'm saying?

People coming up to you being like, I coach at Shamanad?

Tip of the Dawn was there. He showed up, suit on.

Tip of the Dawn was doing backflips with his son in a suit.

And his son was doing backflips.

His son's five years old and has a mustache, dude. It made me feel unmanly. I couldn't believe it, dude.

Tip of the Dawn was in the building taking photos and everything.

I said there's bleachers and Snipes, and I sat next to Tip of the Dawn's son, and I was like, Who's your favorite player in the NBA? I hadn't heard his voice. He was like, My uncle. He's pointing to you. I was like, Yeah, who else do you like? He's like, Probably LeBron or Steph Curry. I was like, Damn, he's five. He has a mustache. He's doing backflips, and his voice is two octaves deeper than mine.

He locked in. Shout out to Tip of the Dawn, way from sliding through, man.

Tip of the Dawn, the man.

The man.

Don't just do it.

Do it now.

Do it now.

And he finished the sentence when you told him it, too.

Yeah. He was so positive, and he was so nice.

I mean, so Snipes was a great event. That was great. Then we had to come back to Barstool.

Shoot commercial.

Shoot a New Amsterdam commercial. New Amsterdam, coming soon. So we had to shoot that commercial, right? Body that. Your part took the longest, though. You had to kept like, rejoined.

Because I'm a perfectionist.

No, no, no.

Because I'm a craftsman.

You didn't get lost in it. You got lost in it when I told you to get lost in it. Yeah, I just had to lose myself in the music. Well, yeah, we just did a fucking commercial.

Did a commercial, recording pod about the stream game. I mean, you had a whole day, and then you had another whole day. And if there was more hours, you'd probably have another whole day.

So we got to give a shout out, right? We did the NCAA bracket. We did the NCAA bracket. And the winner got a chance to come to Chicago, mirror us around a little bit. Got to re-operate.

The winners are here. Give them a round of applause, please.

Come on over here. Pop your shit on the mic real quick.

Yeah, please. We'll pop your shit, bro. Please. Please. Please. Please. Andy got a nice shot on them, too. Cop of squad. Is it right here? All right.

Introduce yourself.

All right, man. My name is Chris. I watch you guys pod every day or whenever you guys post. Yeah, man, I just filled out the bracket. I'm from Wisconsin. Wisconsin screwed me over, but I ended up putting Yukon, NC State, and Purdue, and I won with Yukon.

That's fired.

Yeah, just want to shout out Pat Bev and their podcast for having me out here. Thank you so much.

Super dope experience. We hope you had a good time, for real. We know we've been crazy busy, but you've been a part of a little bit of everything today.

Hell, yeah, bro. We were shooting around and shit. That was a great moment, man.

We got ESPN following us around the whole fucking time. Yeah. Yeah, it was fired.

Pat Bev bought me some merch at the store at Snipes.

And now we just sitting here getting drunk. Cheers. I'm drinking. Love, guy. Cheers. Thank you, man. Thank you for coming, man. Thank you so much. Let me just ask real quick.

For a viewer, how does it compare to what you see on camera versus what happens behind the scenes?

I wasn't expecting all this right here, all these lights. But obviously in person, in person is a lot better. But I wasn't expecting all these lights and all this. I would set up with the basketball court. I'm a big hooper, so I love playing basketball. It's awesome just playing basketball out there. Coming in here right to the studio.

That's fire. That's so fire.

Is it same on camera as off camera?

Oh, same guy. Yeah.

Same.

Well, dude-Off camera and on camera? Yeah. Oh, same thing. There's no edits or anything. I didn't even expect them to start the podcast. They just started. Yeah, same thing. It's what you see on YouTube.

Love that.

Awesome experience, man.

Love that.

Good shit, bro. Congratulations. And that's the perk of being a real one.

No, that's the perk of being a motherfucking real one.

No, that's the perk of being a real one.

If you're a kid, a motherfucking real one. All the subscribers who subscribe, tell the friend to subscribe, subscribe to the motherfucking pod.

Well, that's the point of the playoffs. I mean, we're going to be ramping stuff up in the playoffs. Game one is on Sunday, so we're going to record right after the game on Sunday, and then we're going to have the pod out as soon as it's done being edited, whether it be that night, the next morning. We're trying to be newsworthy. We're trying to be part of the news cycle. We're trying to give you an unprecedented behind the scenes look every single game as much as possible, as much as we can offer to the people. We had the conversation where it's like, We worked all year. Let's ramp it up.It's the motherfucking play-off.It's.

The motherfucking play-off.

It's the motherfucking play-off.

So let's get into this play-off preview, and we can- I got to start with the player.

You got to start with the motherfucking player. Golden State, they're going fishing.

Sad. Is it the end of a dynasty?

Yes. Fuck it.

I think so.

Yeah, It's tough.

I think you could say all you want about Clay being there, but does Clay want to be there?

Do you know what I mean? Well, do they want to pay Clay if he's scoring zero points?

Or does Clay want to say no from another team who's going to offer him the mac. A lot goes into that, especially from a guy who's... I've dealt with injuries. Coming from a guy who's dealt with injuries, it's a different mindset. Because before everyone looked at you like this, you get hurt. Even if you come back and had the same numbers, they still put that hurt on the back of your name, no matter what. And that's hard to shake. So he has a bad game.

Oh, is it because of the injury?

They're going to use it against him all the time. So is it up to him to stay and be loyal? Or is it, let me go get the max from somebody else? Those are tough ass decisions. Why are you sitting in that kitchen at your home?

You think he's going to get a max contract?

I hope he does. Why wouldn't he?

Of course, I hope everybody gets paid. I hope unlimited money happens in a rainbow.

In the right situation, I think you can give Clay a ton of money, yes. Detroit Pistols will give Clay a ton of money.

But would he want to to the Detroit Pistols? I don't know. And is it a full max contract for a guy that just scored zero points in his last game?

Still, he's Clay Thompson.

I agree. But are you paying for yesterday?

He paying for Clay Thompson. I don't know what that means. I don't know what that is, but he is still Clay Thompson.

Draymond made the point that he still got 160 million from the organization after he got hurt. So a lot of people will say, Hey, he won you four championships, and you're going to let him walk. Maybe that's disloyal, but even his own teammate is making the point that he was given a ton of money coming off of an injury, showing both appreciation and trust.

And he came back and played and won another championship. Pay that man expeditiously.

And at the same time, I think the Warriors have set up for the future. They have two rookies that could be on second team, all-rookie, and they're building something with Kaminga. He's on his way.

You don't know what they're going to do with Wig. They got a lot of decisions to make.

If they had made a better pick with James Wiseman- And Bob Myers is not around anymore.

Remember that.

So that's a bad thing.

I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I don't know if that's a, we go trade, we want more, we invest in pick, we invest in future. We trade this guy. We continue to build around Steph and Draymond. It can be anything with a new guy making trades. It can be anything. You don't know.

At the same time, the Lakers beat the Belt to ass. Four-point win.

Belt to ass. A win is a win. Belt to ass.

Do you think that there's any merits?

Oh, that was a good fucking game. Incredible game.

That was a good fucking game.

Incredible game.

Zion was great.

Alvarado was fucking elite. Did you see that tech? Dilo was great.

Did you see that tech that Alvarado had?

He's seeing everything, him and Dilo. Strain both ankles, got back up, limp, hip tray. I love it. I love the NBA.

Do you think that should have been a tech?

On Dilo.

Obviously, Alvarado's in his face.

No, it's not supposed to be a take.

So Alvarado should have got one, but not Dilo. Do you think that NBA teams try to avoid certain seeds or certain teams?

No.

A lot of people were calling on the Lakers to try to... Why are you laughing?

Because that's not true.

Are you talking as a three seed playing against the Pacers? No.

A couple of years ago, it was...

A thing? But with who? You're part of the media now, dude. You can't dance around it.

I said three years ago, do the math.

So people do it?

I don't know.

It seems like the Lakers-We didn't do it.

Doc was like, Hey, now we playing. All That's my motherfuckers playing. I'll say that.

At the end of the season, anything could have happened with this evening. Were you guys watching the other games? Like the Bulls mix game?

After our game, Coach didn't even finish the meeting. Tv's on, we all watching. It was about to happen.

Who are you rooting for in the game?

I forget.

You were rooting for the Knicks. Interesting because it's tough to play against these certain teams.

Playouts are all about matchups.

Yeah, playouts are all about matchups. But at the same time, that would be the worst thing to try and pick your matchup and then lose to that team. Yeah, that would be Devastating. But also by that same logic, then the Lakers would have logically tried to avoid the Nuggets, but they went belt to ass. You can't because Sacramento is a motherfucker.

They are here.

And the hoop gods will find you.

Next thing, you'd be missing all types of layups and all free throws. You play the game that's in front of you.

No duck smoke.

Win the game that's in front of you.

Yeah, you can't duck any smoke.

No duck smoke.

So the matchups are getting pretty interesting. We're recording it in the middle of the Sixers game. Sixers won? Sixers just won. So Sixers are going to be playing against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Sixers playing against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Talk to me about that matchup between those two teams. How does it look? Joel Embiid wasn't fully back tonight. Tell me about the matchup, Sixers-Nicks.

It's going to be a good one, right?

Knicks, they play hard, man. The offensive rebound, they play hard. Sixers, they've been on the roll. This might be nine to 10 games in a row that they won. Might be in the 10th game in a row, they won. They're on a 10-game win streak.

These are two hot teams. This is not going to be a four-game suite. It'll be a good one. This is going to be an absolute war between two teams that play really hard. Obviously, the talent's there with the Sixers. When we were just streaming, they said a very interesting fact that if you play on a team for part of a season, you still get a ring.

Yeah.

That is interesting. That is interesting. So multiple irons in the fire, as it were. But Joel Embiid, what percentage do you think he's at watching him play?

Oh, no.

Oh, no. He looks good to me.

Yeah? I mean, he looks good to me.

If he out there, he'll be dominant. No one's 100% right now. In the NBA, everyone's banged up a little bit.

Is that true?

Look at me. I got an ankle. I got a little wrist. So you banged up a little bit.

What about guys like Dante DiVincenzo who are playing 53 minutes in a game?

That's Tib So tears goes, Why are they running? Why is everyone running? Is it an earthquake?

Because the Sixers won?

That's right.

What was that run? It was a funny-ass run. So the The Sixers and the Knicks, who do you have in that series? I don't know.

That's a tough one. That's a tough one. That's tough.

What do the Sixers have to do to win the series? What do the Knicks have to do to win the series then, if you're not going to give a prediction.

Control Joel L. B. Knicks, offensive rebound, 76.

It'll be interesting to see if they can control Joel Embiid with Isaiah Hartenstein.

It was interesting to see if they can control Brunson, too. That's going to be a good one, too.

Yeah. What do you think Brunson brings to the table? And while we're at it, who would you give most improved player to this season?

Most improved, I'm going with Tyrese Maxi.

Tyrese Maxi over Kobe White.

Yes.

Kobe White.

Number two.

Had nine points a game last year, now 19 points a game this year.

Tyrese Max was All-Star.

Tyrese Maxi bumped from 20 points to 26 points a game this year. And all-star. And all-star, and probably career highs in every category. So you got Give it to Tyrese Maxi.

I have to give it to Tyrese. Sixth man, I'm going Bobby Portis.

Sixth man, Bobby Portis. Wow. Bobby Portis, maybe the second most points off the bench this year. Only started five games. Why do you think he doesn't start more games? Why does he do so well in the six-man role?

I think you have so much power in that first year that you want to, let me save a little bit for the second.

He's the-He's the Nas button.

You know what I'm saying? You could throw a time in the post. He could pick a pop, he could hit the three.

He's so damn confident.

He's so great. He's so skilled. Very underrated skill, man. Because you hear all the... But this skill set, you get lost and you forget. That's double pivot, fade away. That's skill. Left-hand hook, that's skill. Pop four, three, that's skill. Off the catch to a float, that's skill. He has a ton of skill.

And he's almost automatic, and he shoots with no hesitation. He just is unconscious in the most healthy way.

Shout out to the homie, BP.

How about Defensive Player of the Year while we're giving out awards? I got my answer.

Rudy or Wemby.

Well, you can't say.

You can't go either or. I'm going to go Wemby.

Yeah, I got to go Wemby as well. Wemby, unprecedented amount of blocks, ton of skill.

I agree.

And then let's go Rooky of the Year if we're just giving out awards. Wemby. Wemby. Wemby? Yes. Even though Chet played 82 games. Wemby. Yeah, I think you got to give it to Wemby. Yeah. Would you bless us with an all-rooky first-team?

Wemby.

Okay.

Chet.

Okay.

The guy from Miami.

Jaime Jaques.

Love his game. Brandon Miller.

Brandon Miller.

And No. No. What am I missing?

Thompson. Thompson.

No, I said no to both of them.

Anderson, the white dude from Golden State.

Golden State.

Golden State. Yeah. White guy from Golden State. How do you say his name? Pod Kulzinski?

His Polish name, right?

Yeah. Kulzinski.

Yeah. Mvp?

Should we go to it already?

Come on, we're doing all awards. Okay, what's your other award?

Coach of the Year.

Okay, see. Okay, see, Coach. Yeah.

So do you give more credit to Shay or the coaching staff over there?

Both.

You give more credit to both. That's not how more You both can't have more.

Shay.

Shay?

Shay.

Coach the ear to Shay then. And then finally, give me your top five for MVP.

Shay, Jokuj, Yannis, Luka, Tatum. My NBA All-5.

And who's your MVP? Shay?

Shay.

Really?

Yes.

Why?

10 to number one. Average 30. 10 to number one. You're valuable.

Yeah. It's about time for them. What about Luka, though? I feel like Luke has forgotten about in this conversation. He's not forgotten about.

I literally gave him number three on an All-Star vote, and I put him on an All-MBA first team. He's not forgotten about. It's just Shade literally went for 10 and one in the West. That's impressive. It's really impressive.

That is pretty impressive. Really impressive. Yeah, that's really impressive. Really impressive. No, that's really impressive. Now that I think about it.

Like, better than the champs. Impressive.

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Four or five in the West?

Barn, barn, buddy.

That one's going to be incredible.

I think they got to start Russ on that series. If Kawhi is not playing, you got to start Russ.

Really?

I think so.

At some point, you're going to need Russ to really step things up. Are you starting him? And also, are you closing games with him?

I don't know. I actually got to see how the game goes, but starting him, I like his size. I like his spirit to start of the game.

What do you think about their closing lineups? They have guys like Amir Coffee, Norman Powell in their closing unit.

Every game presents something different. Maybe they do Amir Koffie for space. He's been hitting the three-wheel. Obviously, Norman Powell has been spacing the four-wheel, so that's probably why those guys are in there, space to four hits and big threes. So I think every game is different, though.

How about on the other side of the ball?

They're solid. They're not in cones.

They're not cone. So who wins the series?

That's going to be a tough one. No Kawhi. It's going to be tough for the That's what I'm thinking. I always think no Kawhi is going to be tough.

Who's 3-6 in the West?

You know who's 3-6? The motherfucking Minnesota Tim West's Finneçons. Burn the burner. It's going to be a great one. I don't know who to go with. Because you go say like, Okay, Jay McDaniels on Katie, Anthony Ari's on Book, who the fuck is Garvin Bradley still? He literally just had 36 last time he played. They beat him a ton of times this year, too. It's going to be a great one.

The fact that they're rounding into form.

And then you got Rudy Gobernan dropping three guys like the mid-range. You know what I'm saying? And what did they put Katie at the five? You keep Rudy at the five? You know what I'm saying?

I think that's what I think is the knock on Rudy as far as him winning the defensive player of the year. He can't play in some situations. If you go small ball against him, do you think that he's really that viable of a threat? Is he going to be able to switch Can he switch on to a guard?

I think he's a threat everywhere.

Can he switch on to guards?

What's really switching on guard? So like, stopped him from scoring. This is a lot of tough guards in the NBA. You know what I'm saying? It's a lot. And if it's It's not even one guard. They got three of them motherfuckers.

And Grayson Allen, who's shooting 50 from the three.

So it's just tough. And they all play the right way. They play off the catch. That's going to be a good-ass series.. And then 2-7 in the West.

Against the Lakers against the Denver Nuggets. Everything is so good. All the basketball is so fucking interesting.

My thing is just about the Denver Nuggets, and I said this to one of my teammates. If there's a time to beat the Denver Nuggets, it is the first round. Because once they get that machine all oiled up and ready to go, it's no stopping.

Didn't Golden State beat them in the first round a couple of years ago, but it was because they didn't have Jamal Murray in.

And then Minnesota, they were with them first round, too. If you get a chance to play to Denver, and it's going to be hard to beat the champ, right? We talked about in the last one of the episodes, it's hard to kill that dog. But if there's a perfect time for them to catch them, it's the first round. But when you get to second, third round, they're going to be moving fast. They're going to be back throwing lobs. They're going to be in a groove of it. So if there's a time to beat Denver, it's the first round.

You just got to get them right away. And then it will be the- That's going to be a good one. It's going to be the Thunder against either the Pelicans or the Sacramento Kings.

Yeah, either one of them is going to be a good one. I think the King's got that one, though.

Between those two teams.

Because I think Zion's not playing. Alvarado's out. That's a ton of energy. But Biaz, he set out last game. Maybe he go for 30 next.

You know what I'm saying? So like- CJ McColl has been playing well ever since people started talking about him. He really got a fire lit under his ass. I was going to say his this ass or that ass, just his ass. I think that the Thunder are going to take care of business in that series. To be honest, no matter which team they play, I think that the Thunder are going to roll.

Well, NBA is going to be good as playouts.

The Western Conference looks sick. And so then in the Eastern Conference, it's going to be the either Miami Heat or the winner of this Bulls Hawks game against the Boston Celtics. Do any of those teams have a shot in hell against the Boston Celtics?

You can't count out Heat.

You can't count out Heat.

Can't count on heat.

Atlanta. I don't know. Certainly for Trey Young, I don't know if he's in and out. I don't know how that looks.

Right.

Seven-game series is going to be tough on Atlanta.

Atlanta has no chance. Let's be honest with ourselves.

Bulls, though.

They play tough. They're going to be prepared.

You know what I'm saying? They're going to be prepared. I don't know if they go to distance. I don't know if they... Obviously, they have some injuries, too. So I don't know if they're... They can go to distance, but they're going to be tough. That's going to be a tough out. They're going to be like a sweep. So first round will be tough on these.

Cleveland Cavaliers versus the Orlando Magic, maybe the most boring magic.

Shout out to the Magic, too. Okay. Shout out to the Magic, too. I go down, we playing the magic. They beating the shit out of us. I broke down In the corner, look at they benching. One of the coaches, he's literally one of the first coaches I've ever worked with since I've been in the NBA. His name is Jesse. I go, Jesse, by the time you all start playing the right way. He look at me. He We've been playing like this all year. No, fuck that. By the time, it shouldn't take you getting hit in the mouth or back against the wall for you guys to play like this. You all got it in, you all. You all should be playing like this every night. You all got it in, you all. It shouldn't take you to get the game seven for you to play hard as fuck. It shouldn't take you to get down 2-0 for you to play hard as fuck. It shouldn't take it 3-1 for you to, Okay, now I'm woke now. It shouldn't take you to get hit in the mouth. Motherfuck, do the hitting first. You know what I'm saying?

So that was my message. So I'm happy. Shout out to Atlanta Magic. Got to get credit with Credit, dude. You all did that shit.

They did well. I mean, Franz Wagner was getting whatever shot he wanted.

Yeah, he did too small. I like that. I told him, too. I love it. I love that shit. Yeah.

That's what I think people have a misconception, that you can dish it and can't take it. It's like, yeah, we're having fun out here talking shit to one another.

I could fucking take it.

I wasn't fucking mad.

I'm a man. I can buy all the plastic cups. So, yeah, shout out to our Land of Magic. Motherfucker.

It's like the outcome of that game also didn't matter, even though they went belt to ass on you guys. Oh, my goodness.

I'm talking about left cheek, right cheek. They took time with it.

Left cheek, right cheek.

It was red light, green light.

Belt to the ass. Belt to the ass.

You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, shout out to Orlando Magic. They did that shit.

Shout out to Orlando Magic. I think that they could and should take care of business against the Cleveland Cavaliers who are going in the wrong direction.

Yeah, but play-offs wakes people up. So you got to see how game one, game two goes. We'll know from there.

Let's go a little bit more in-depth on the Indiana Pacers.

Okay. Halliburton.

Has been hurt recently.

I know, but still tough cover. Can't think like that. You got to think like guys, we got a week and healing up from anything, so they're going to be fresh. Indiana will be good, especially if we don't have Giannis to start. It's going to be It's going to be a good series.

Early on in the season, they were shooting a lot of threes, but now they don't have some of the guys that they had earlier in the season, Brown, Matherin, Buddy Heel.

They got that one for T. J. Mcdonald, though. You got to watch out for that little sneaky motherfucker. He'll give you 20.

He'll give you 20 and run Oh, God, for Senate.

For real, he'll give your ass a 15.5 assist, 5 rebound motherfucker, plus 17. We got to find a way to count them.

No, you got to find... That's your assignment, bro. I'm giving you that assignment, bro.

You need to neutralize.

The addition of Pascal Siakam, I think, is a welcome one to them. It changed their playing style.

He's a winner, two proven winner. He's been in distance. He's been there. He's wanted So great pick for him. Great pick.

How do you think he and Miles Turner fit as far as spacing, and how are they to guard? Spacing?

I mean, what? Miles Turner shoot four threes a game at 36. Siakam shoots two or three at 36. Most people forget. I said the number in the beginning, 6% of your points come from the paint, though.

So we talk about space. So Lopez has to... You know what I mean?

No, not Lopez.

Everybody, we got to move them bunies. To the left now, you all. To the right now, you all. You know what I'm saying? We got to move them shit. We got to sit down, we got to play deep, we got to rebound. Have to. You got to be ready for that pace, and we will. Yeah. It's going to be a good one.

Have to be ready. I think that- And then Coach Carlyle.

Carlyle is great, right? Historically, he's great offensively.

Jim Carry?

No, he's a good one.

Doesn't he look like Jim Carry? He does.

Oh, God. He's picking on high usage rates. He had some of the best offense when he was with... Dallas has some of the best offense now, so he's always good in the playouts.

Yeah, it's going to be very interesting for you guys. I want to see play off Dame badly. What are you doing to unlock that?

He's been waiting on this moment. He hasn't been in the play house in a while. He's going to take advantage of the opportunity. I'm excited. I'm so excited. I'm excited What's the X factor for our team.

What's the X factor for the Bucks?

Who or what?

You tell me.

I don't think it's the X factor. I just think we need to continue to approach the game with joy. Right? Let's keep having fun with it, regardless if it's going our way, regardless if we're going, they're going on a 11:00 run. Continue to have joy, even through it when it's stressed. We have joy. We're a really hard team to beat.

Who's the the governor of that who can lead the charge with the joy? Bobby.

Obviously, he's been there. He has some real estate in there. For sure, Bobby.

Maybe you should bring a little bit of joy.

No, I got nothing but joy.

Bring joy to the boys.

That's all I got is joy. But I'm just saying, guys who, obviously, he's been in the locker room. He's that dog. He's one of the leaders of the team, guy who's been there, won a championship.

Dude, one of the most important things for a team to go on a big playoff run is having a theme song. You got to have a theme song. It's so important to have a good theme song. The Philly's had two straight incredible playoff runs.

I'm going to bring that up. Say less.

Get a theme song.

I'm bringing it up. Say less. We got a theme song. We hit out my phone, the radio is going to make us who. Say less. Exactly. Say less. I heard you.

When the Chiefs, they're like, There's a clip of Philly gay. I heard you. We're getting the theme song. All right, get a theme song. All right, get a theme song. I can't wait to find out what the theme song is.

I know it's going to be a good one.

I know. Yeah, Glo.

Stop a bitch out on some shell, toes. It might be motherfucking, I'm too sexy for my shirts. Too sexy, it hurts.

Too sexy for my lawn.

Listen, we had a motherfucking theme song. I was playing for this local neighborhood Travel Squad. Our theme song was like a K-C and Jojo, but singing. We all was 11, 12, and they'd be singing that motherfucker. Heart's Out.

What's the classic K-C and Jojo song?

Oh, my goodness. Hold on.

Let me see if I can Sweeter than you.

Sweeter than you. That's what it was.

And I will never find another lover more precious than you. More precious than you.

Girl, you are. Like my mother Closer to me like my father, close to me like my sister, close to me like my brother. You are the only one by everything. And for you at all. In all my life. A baby, baby. A baby, something unlike you. And I thank God that I finally found you. Yeah, that's it.

That's incredible, bro.

You You got to think 11, 12-year-olds motherfuckers in a minivan, everybody just eyes curled.

They put their arms around each other, sway.

In the morning. You get out, kick ass. Yeah, Ely. Belt ass, 11, 12. You're heading it out.

Bro, try that in the Bucks locker room. Just play it on and just sit in the corner, look.

I'd be able to turn the shit off. I like it.

Shout out to KC and Jojo. People are just singing to themselves.

You all don't even know KC and Jojo. You all got basketball music, too. Yeah. Love, guy. Love, love, love.

Close to me, I like my sister. Close to me, I like my brother.

You knew that one.

Oh, my God, bro. I'd be at the skating rink.

You're skating?

Yeah, bro. Showing all. I'd be in a V formation with my boys.

Fuck. Lead singer, you go up front. I'll get down to Neil. Mighty duck.

I go through Mike's legs. We'll be skating. We'll play some arcade games. Listen to Casey and Jojo. Go boss. Watch the Hot Kids slow dance.

I played a ton of games this season. I had a Hell of a season.

Hell of a season. You got to feel good about it.

I do.

Because a lot of your class that you came into the NBA with, guys younger than you retiring.

Wow.

And you're growing strong.

Stronger.

Stronger.

Stronger than I ever went.

Honestly, in some ways, you really are.

I have a really good year this year.

You had great defensive performances, great energy performances, some great scoring performances. You would rebound, you'd have high assist numbers.

Then on national TV, everybody saw it. While working pod, while working pod.

While pushing pod.

While pushing and working pod. Stewarding pod.

Stewarding. I love that word. I love you. Pause, bro. I love you, too. I'm sorry, bro. I love you, too.Secret handshake, bro.Shout out to Rome.

Everybody needs a secret handshake. Mike's angry because he doesn't have the secret handshake. Look at him Why are you?

Mike's secret handshake Mike is jealous of either me or you for either liking each other.

Is that true? It is true. Look at him.

He's green with jealous rage.

Yeah, he has. He looks like a rage child.

He hates when people are happy.

He really does.

He just flipped the camera off camera. So, yeah, playoff preview. We're going to have a lot more for the people. A lot more for the people. In these coming days, you're going to get behind the scenes looks. But we need to do a starting five. New Amsterdam. It's time for our New Amsterdam starting five.

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Yeah, women are gangsters. Get that dirt off your shoulders, ladies, and have some New Amsterdam vodka. Enjoy yourselves. But let's get into this starting five. I want you to hit me with your starting five of the best postseason shots of all time.

First, Michael Jordan.

Michael Jordan, '98.

Second, Kobe Bryant.

Which one?

Just a ton of them.

Okay, so not even a specific shot?

No, I'm going like, Guys, you remember hitting shots in playoff?

Okay, guys who hit shots.

Third, I'm going LeBron James.

Lebron James had that one against the Orlando Magic in '09. It was like, Oh, shit.

What about all the fade aways he put on Toronto ass that year? I'm going Steph Curry.

Steph Curry. Okay. Steph Curry hit some big ones, buzzer beaters.

And I'm going Steph Got to go Larry.

The Birdman?

Got to go Larry Bird.

See, I would go Dame Lillard.

I know, but Bird, he done got... I'll go Jerry West. He'd go anywhere. You know what I'm saying? But I'm going with guys who's actually been deep, deep run, one champion. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, true. Deep, deep run. Larry, great shot maker in the play-offs, NBA Finals. I mean, that guy won a championship.

He won a championship, so you got to You know, you got to give him credit.

With a bad back. He was laying on his stomach sciatica.

I'm talking about an awful back.

His sciatic nerve was jumbled, tied in a knot.

Shout out to Larry Bird. He's way bigger in person, though.

Like left to right or up and down.

Up and down.

Tall man.

Yeah?

Handsome, beautiful man. Has an aunt vibe.

Born Indiana.

Yeah. He was made for Indiana.

I'm talking about elite basketball.

Yeah, the fact that he went back to Indiana.

I'm a white guy. Don't put no white guys on me. I'm going to kill them.

The fact that he said that?

I only want the Blacks. Respect. I respect a nigga like that.

I respect that. You don't think that Caruso would clamp up Larry Bird? Come on, bro.

No.

What?

I think he'll make it hard for him, but not clamp up not Larry Bird.

Caruso couldn't clamp up Larry Bird because he's white?

No, it has nothing to do with color.

So nobody can clamp Larry Bird is what you're saying?

I can clamp Larry Bird.

But Caruso can't.

We're two different defenders.

How would you How do you defend Larry Bird?

Front him, getting that handle a little bit. He weren't really dribbling that, motherfucker. I'm in that handle. I just do that handle time, but you got to pick up. But it's a different guy. He might have tried to post me up. So he tried to post me up. I wouldn't stand a chance, obviously. But he tried to play me straight up. No, I'm getting in that handle. You got to pass that, motherfucker. Getting the post, come off the down screen. Getting that handle. Yeah. But if you come off down screen, I'm top-blocking you. I'm sending you the other way. But you're going to try to post me up.

Honestly, my move against Larry Bird would be grab, rebound, high kick, nut shot. He's out two weeks.

You're a dirty player. They got a place for people like you. Speaking of places for people, what about the Porter Junior kid? They got a place for him, too. I'm about to find out playing that basketball again.

Yeah.

Not an NBA, at least.

Yeah, Because he's unethical. Cooked him.

A deserve cook.

Over $21,000.

You got to think, Hoopers is like, Well, we wonder how we know it's going to be bad, but let's see how bad it is.

Set an example.

Belt to ass.

They put him under the jail. Belt to ass. They said he's never coming back.

Belt to ass.

No, no, no. Belt to ass.

Belt to ass for Porter Jr.

$21,000 of winnings, and now he can't make a cent playing in the NBA again. Maybe they're giving out jerseys in China.

Listen, man, that hurts. That hurts.

Yeah, being that dumb, having a rock for a brain.

I mean, Imagine what was going through his mind.

Nothing. Literally, it was just like the barren tundra with a cricket riding on a tumbleweed. That dude's brain is empty. That was the worst decision I've ever made. I've ever seen made.

Yeah, I agree with that.

That was such a bad decision.

That was an awful decision. And it brings turmoil to your family's name.

And it's also not an impulse decision.

No, you literally have to think about it.

It's premeditated.

You know what?

He should have robbed a bank. At least you make more money robbing a bank. True.

But kids, don't rob banks. Listen to your parents.

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My motherfucking dog.

Spider-man.

Spider-man.

What do you like about Spider?

His energy.

He really has that infectious- He does.

He makes you...

Emotional intelligence.

You want to roll out with him, go to the hood with him, I'm going to drink beer with him, go to club with him, shoot hoops with him. I'm not a smoke, but if I did smoke, I'd smoke with him.

When this is over, I'm going to tell you a story about Spider that you're going to like, but I can't tell it on the air. Say less. But you're going to love it. He's just the realest. He's great. There's just layers to him.

He set up with me 3:00 in the morning while we do a party here. He's great.

What's up, my G?

That's how my G.

That's his whole vibe. He calls people Nathaniel, too.

Yeah, he said it was a white man's name. Why does my mom keep calling me that?

I don't know.

I do know. I don't know if I can say it on air.

What is it?

It's a slave name.

Yeah, you're right. I wish you didn't say that.

Bartholomew Nathaniel. What? Mississippi, burn her name.

What?

Yeah. I think that's where she got it from. I'm just using the joke. Maybe I'm a... I don't know. I look like, I don't know. Beats me with parents nowadays.

You can't say beats me when you're talking about slave.

What do you mean? I'm talking about my mom when it comes to...

Oh, got it.

Beats me. I don't know why she chose that name. Don't know why.

All right, that's the pod. See you guys next week.

Appreciate it. I had a teammate named Bartholomew.

Bartholomew?

His middle name was Bartholomew. His name was- Are you talking about the Homer Simpson son? No, I'm talking about an actual basketball teammate of mine. Tarek Bartholomew, Black. He was from Memphis.

So they tried to dress up his middle name because his last name was Borent.

I'm just listening. I'm the weatherman. I'm just letting you know if it's raining, it's not wrong. I don't want any trouble.

That's all I got for you. Shout out to Tarek Bartholomew Black. Yeah. He's got to come on the bus.

He's a sick name. We learned his name on the bus. What's your name, bro? Fuck, we go to Google. Bartholomew, Pat. What?

His name, his middle name is Bartholomew.

Bartholomew. Look at my boy, Niggero, your birthday. Yeah, you could say that. If you know, you know type five. Shout out to Niggero, your birthday.

You.

Come and say what's up real quick. No, I'm not going to say what's up. No, come and say what's up real quick. I can't appear like this.

What do you mean? You just came through the door like Kramer.

Come and say what up real quick.

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