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Do you know what happens when this man starts to be like winning MVP?

Andy comes to play here.

We haven't seen that since Mike.

That's like when he's hurt called K. G. Omega in Germany.

I know he did.

Yeah, Goga allegedly told Guga he would fuck his whole family.

Damn.

The second round will be tough.

I think it's very much reliant on those other guys and awesome reels.

Awesome reels.

This has to be his coming out party for the playoffs.

I'm just showing proof.

I'm upset.

I'm tight.

I'm tight.

I'm tight.

Mad aggressive.

Yeah, he was like, yo, chill.

Kind of like.

Andy, put your hands on him.

Yeah.

Like, get your hands on me.

He touched him first and then boom.

You're not going to win that championship without a table.

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Man, big weekend in the bean, man, for both me and Paul Pierce.

Yeah.

Me and y'all in the bean.

Brandon to Paul, but Paul's there because you had a special night that had Paul Pierce,

Bobblehead night.

Wow.

Overtiti Garden.

And you cleared the rack of a three racks at a three point contest.

Yeah.

We had a three point contest during the day for the fans.

You know, I was like me, Scala Braini, who else, Leon Poe, and-

Boy, still guy, boy.

And Evan Turner.

Okay.

O-E-T was out there.

Yeah, it was like work.

I was like, you know what I was saying.

But, man, you know what I noticed though?

So, I shot the corner rack the first one.

I missed all of them.

And I went back and I was like, I wasn't a corner three shooter.

I was always-

Because you were scored.

You were the top of the ball.

Yeah.

And like, I go to these other racks because that's where I shot my whole career.

But that corner looked for her in the middle.

I shoot.

Everybody says that's the easiest shot, but you should not use to take them.

I'm just not used to taking that shot.

I just started taking corner threes until I got to Washington.

Yeah.

It was like, all right, run to the corner, Pete.

And I was like, everything in practice, I would do sprints to the corner, catch a shoot.

And that's how I got better.

But I was like, yeah.

But most scores ain't-

If you see even Luca, it looks far like in the corner.

That's not-

He ain't never in the corner.

Scores are above the break.

Yeah.

Yeah, he's really just standing there ready to catch a shoot.

Like this is-

That's a role player shot, bro.

I mean, realistically, who would be creating that corner three shot for Luca anyway, right?

Right.

I mean, you got Brian Austin, you know what I'm saying?

Kind of.

He's not standing over there.

He's not standing over there.

That's pedestrian.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which makes sense.

Also, was that the first time you had your own bobblehead?

No, I've had like about three or four different bobblehead artists.

Okay.

So this was just the most recent one.

Yeah, yeah.

I've probably been-

Got you.

It's been a while, though, because I got something in my house, in my trophies.

So, uh, yeah, it was cool.

It was the best looking one.

No, I should have brought one.

Damn.

I had the other ones-

The other ones they made-

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The new technology.

It was going back here.

Back in the day they had a technology.

I didn't have the technology.

It was nice that way.

Technology.

That's what's up, man.

Glad you went back to Boston and had a good time.

Yeah, it was fine.

Can you give us any inside information about what's going on with the Celtics right now?

What's going on?

It's the school.

I mean, like, what's the mindset with how they looking, how they feeling for playoffs, you know,

Joe Mizzula, any, you know, trying to match up, so they're trying to get-

Yeah, well, right now, as you can see, you know, Tatum's trying to get in his rhythm.

You know, some games are better than others.

You can see that.

You can see how a lot of times that some-

They defer to him.

I mean, rightfully so.

Yeah.

You know, you want to get them going because I say this, you're not going to win a championship

without Tatum.

Like, yes, they're good regular season team.

As Brown has been doing this thing look like an MVP, but to win it with this team as constructed,

you need Tatum.

Of course.

Because you're going to have nights where Brown might-

Shots might not fall, you know, some Maker Miss Lee.

You might not have a shot.

You need that other guy to pick you up sometimes.

So-

I think it's positive, you know, you know, it's all on rumbling and saying, is he disrupting the rhythm?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

But you ain't going to win nothing without him.

So it's fine.

Do you think they're playing a different brand of basketball now that he's back?

Well, you've got to implement him.

You have to.

Yes, you are playing it.

You're not deferring and depending on Jay Brown to carry you.

And you don't have to.

And that's fine.

Just like we said, you know, Jay and Williams came back for the Thunder.

Yeah.

You know, he has to-

Yeah, Jay does.

He has to find his way too.

You know, so they'll be fine.

I said before he came back.

If he can get 20 games under his belt, he'll get into a nice rhythm.

And then we find the guys he's only playing seven games.

So here's the thing too with that.

When LeBron first came back from his sciatica and it just wasn't looking great.

And it took him a while to get his rhythm and sort of find his place.

And then of course, I think people forget that throughout the season, Luca Miss Time, Austin Miss Time.

Right.

He never had an extended period where the three of them were playing together

and could slot into their roles perfectly.

So now the leg is going to, you know, whatever, nine game winning streak or whatever it was.

They end up losing the Detroit.

And everybody's like, wow, LeBron has figured out his role.

Well, it's like, you know, it takes time to develop what your plan of attack is.

And, you know, I think Joe Missoula and, man, Jason Tatum.

Come on, man, these are some of the smartest guys about basketball that we have.

We're going to be league eventually.

They're going to get it right.

But I'm not, I'm honestly not that worried about it, Danny.

I'm not, I'm not concerned either.

I mean, they're in the East.

And I think they have home court.

They're in a very good position.

And the teams have been watching before we started this pod.

But I have the match on one of those teams.

If I'm in the, I'm very comfortable like, you know,

there's questions every day.

Like, is there somebody in the middle of the East or the pack that you would be concerned

if you were the Knicks or Boston or Detroit?

And I'm looking, I'm like, Raptor's decent without more concern of Cleveland.

So, decent, not concerned.

I'm like, Orlando, Atlanta?

I mean, the thing moving on up.

Yeah, Atlanta's been playing really good.

I mean, some, you know, again, this time of year with all the shenanigans

that people doing with their roster.

It's not all the wins have been like against World beaters.

But again, you got to beat the teams that's put in front of you.

And, you know, I've heard some stuff that maybe Cleveland

is not thirsty to get into the two or the three

to end up having a face of Boston or New York in the second round, right?

That they would much rather play Detroit, which, you know,

Cade collapsed long, all of that.

Just stupid, man.

I think that's crazy, but whatever.

You're trying to make up for the second round?

Like, you're trying to, you don't have to play them at some point anyway.

If you want to win a championship, right?

So, like, is it just the goal just to get to the third round?

I think so.

I don't know.

But, I don't think Boston has that issue.

They're not, they won't be afraid to play anybody.

When you do shit like that, you messing with the game and the basketball guy

is going to put you in a route that's, you might end up losing the first round now.

You can play in somebody like Cleveland.

I think Cleveland should be concentrated on playing that best ball.

And I think that's what Boston is clearly doing.

Like, well, if it comes down to like the last couple of games of the season,

and you can figure it out.

You know, like, I will rest today and take the other one.

I mean, okay.

But, like, right now it's too early to think about that.

Those type of decisions, because we've, I've been on the team like that.

We was trying to maneuver.

You know, maybe we already will sit the last nine games.

We're fine.

We're right.

Right.

We don't need to move up or down.

You know, they're talking about that type of stuff, especially those last games.

But it is a little bit too early to get there.

They concentrate on getting it.

You might mess around and end up playing a team that you don't,

like, at Atlanta or Toronto, like, in the first round can give you everything you asked for,

or you didn't want to see.

Yeah.

So, again, I'm, I don't buy, yes, just to reiterate what we were asking Paul.

I don't buy this sense that Tatum is disrupting the team.

They're working the guy in.

And he's like.

It's still the same brand of basketball to me though.

Yeah.

It's still playing Celtics basketball.

It's a different, like, you know, it's in different pieces.

Let me look at some of the small different styles, but it's still there.

Like, they have an identity.

They have a brand.

I'm saying they drive, kick, swing, they shoot through it.

It's for sure.

Like, it's still to me the same type of basketball.

And it's chasing Tatum.

Yeah.

Right?

Like, you're not breaking the disruption for, like, some scrub.

Like, he's one of your best players.

You want him to slot in and have a role that he can identify.

He comes into the game every night knowing what's expected of him.

I think, you know, you guys can tell me if I'm wrong.

That's like what players want.

They want to know what is expected of them on a game, the game basis.

Absolutely.

All the difficult part is, like, think about this.

You implement, Jason Tatum, and you say, all right, he's our number two guy right now, based on the way.

So adjustment got to come from the other guys who were number two, three, and four to slide down the slot.

Yeah.

They got to make the biggest adjustment.

Sure.

So where they not getting as many shots, not the same minutes, and just readjust their minds today.

All right.

Let's walk them down with Cam Thomas and stay right in the east.

The Bucks waved Cam Thomas on Monday night.

Less than two months after signing him to convert the two-way contract, a forward Pete Nance, into a standard NBA contract.

Doc Rivers said in a statement.

And again, guys, look, Doc's not uniqueness, but he's one of the biggest culpers.

Doc Rivers is going to say some bullshit.

We get it.

He wants to be political and like, there's a reason why he's doing it.

It's part of his job to do it.

But Doc Rivers is going to say some bullshit.

So just take this statement with a grain of salt.

He said, quote, I thought Cam was really good overall.

And he made me somebody we revisit.

Just where we're at right now, you know, not really in the hunt.

As when we signed them, we thought it was the right thing to do for the rest of the guys right now.

End quote.

Just so people know, he can't join a playoff team.

Yes, too late now.

He's done.

There's a March 15th day.

Like he's done.

He can play.

Wait, he can join another team that's, but not a team in the playoff.

He's not going to be allowed to be in the playoffs.

Is the rule, can he join the team, but not playing the playoffs if he's a playoff team?

So he just, he just won't be on the playoff roster.

He just won't be allowed to be part of the playoff roster.

Like a team that might need a point guard right now or somebody that can score.

Like if you're looking at who might need a point guard outside of Houston.

I mean, a lot of teams need a scoring punch to be honest.

Like you talk about Detroit.

Detroit just went down with Kay.

Dennis Jenkins is hoping, but yeah, Houston Detroit.

Like those two teams that are playoff teams could use a steady body for the rest of the regular season.

And this is the, the kind of part of the quote unquote business of the league.

That I don't think fans think about on a day to day, but this is just complete and utter bullshit.

To be honest, because, you know, Cam Thomas, he had a difficult contract situation with Brooklyn over the summer.

You know, he, I think he was a, yeah, he was a restricted guy.

He wanted to bet on himself.

So he takes the qualifying offer, goes back to Brooklyn to bet on himself, doesn't work out with Brooklyn.

He gets on with a Milwaukee team that allegedly is talking about their playing for something.

And so he's like, all right, I'm going to get to show what I can do on a team that's trying to accomplish something.

Milwaukee now, you see Yannis with his statements like, like it's, it's being leaked to the press.

Oh, Yannis is fighting with ownership about playing the rest of the year, because they're clearly like, all right, Yannis is probably moving on.

We want to improve our draft positioning.

So Yannis is out.

And then it's not, it's not bad enough that Yannis is out, which means y'all not going to be good.

You're not going to win.

Yeah.

But we have to double down and now Cam Thomas is a good player to stay.

No, no, he's just a casual team.

No, no, no, no, that was a business move.

Yeah.

Why can't we wonder though?

Because I thought he's looked at Cam as a talented guard.

He is.

This made him look bad by doing this.

I'm telling you, I think the bucks are just like, he's too good for our rotation.

It was a bad fit because you already have Ryan Rounds, you have Kevin Porter, like those guys, they do similar things.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a bad pick up.

And ultimately, at the end of the day, you make him look worse as if he's like a locker room.

But he's a bad player.

But you elevated too way, guys.

He's a big man, right?

Yeah, I guess, man.

Like, so you, I guess you didn't need, like, didn't need the guards, but.

But you can't say that these guys are better player and contribute to more than Cam.

No, not so.

Again, it's just fit.

No one should be getting cut at this point of the season, actually.

Unless it's like a buy out or somebody wants to want out.

It's like less than a month.

Yeah.

You already see guys get cut right now.

You really don't.

Like, at this point, you might as well just finish off the season, go home in a month.

But it's just, it's just bad.

It's just terrible because of Cam looking at the history of it.

Yeah, it looks bad.

It looks bad on him, but he also said that he turned down the two-year $30 million deal with Brooklyn to take the qualifying offer.

Too bad on himself.

And ultimately, things didn't go right.

They didn't handle well in Brooklyn.

Now, the second time, now just tarnishes and damages your name and your brand to where it's even harder to get picked up now.

I don't even know how he gets anything more than a minimum kind of, you got to show something deal, a show me deal this summer.

After all of this stuff, like, which I think just sucks for him.

Yeah.

And you know, and you guys know better than anybody.

A lot of guys get trapped into that sort of minimum life.

Yeah.

Once you're in there, once you're in there.

30 million on the table.

Yeah.

30 million.

Yeah.

And he, man, again, I wonder who his agent is.

Because like, does he not have a good enough reputation with the team to be like, guys, come on.

Don't do my guy like this.

I just could at least sit on them.

They could have kept them and just sat on it.

Yeah.

That's what I'm saying.

That ruins like kind of like your leverage on a contract when you get constantly getting moved and cut.

It's like, now you're not even sure if that offer is going to be on the table for him ever again.

Especially after things like this happen.

So you just got to hope, you know, he stay strong, continue to work.

Because I think his NBA player.

Yeah.

For sure.

It's just a man.

Because, you know, and then there's this counter examples of this, like, because I'm always like, look, when the teams are jerking you around, I feel like you should bet on yourself.

Yeah.

I think Quentin Grimes was another guy.

I think he was trying to get closer to like a hundred mill.

Yeah.

And I get like 20 something a year or 20 years and like, Philly was like, bro, we got 40 at best.

And he was like, you know what?

I'm going to sign a qualifying offer and.

That on myself.

And I think he's had a pretty strong season.

For sure.

And I think he's.

Last year and this year, more last year than this year, but he's hoped enough to get paid.

And now he's going to go into the summer unrestricted.

And I think he's going to get garnered a pretty good deal.

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Alright folks, it's time to stand on business, man.

And your boy, when me, I'm a Danny, this guy.

He's not afraid to stand on it.

Okay.

When he's kind of been having obviously the best season of his career,

coming off a dominant performance against the heat.

I think his line, 26, 15 and 5, doesn't really do a justice.

What he was doing on defense in that game was just crazy.

They smoked the heat by 25 points, 136, 111.

And Wendy was asked about his MVP case.

As the conversation evolved, his campaign took shape against three pillars.

Okay.

This is Wendy, quote, first.

My first one would be that defense is 50% of the game,

and that it's undervalued so far in the MVP race.

I believe I'm the most impactful defensive player in the league.

Second argument would be that we almost swept, okay, see in the season.

And we dominated them three times.

Yeah.

With their real team, and four times with, you know, more rotation players.

My third argument would be that offense impact is not just points.

What do you think about Wendy's argument for MVP, Danny?

It's a very good one.

It's a damn good one.

And honestly, again, I mean, if record didn't matter, like,

obviously the number one seed and record matters.

But we're looking at a guy should, could be and should be the young,

like, taking over the Derek Rose title of the youngest MVP.

You think he's someone MVP this year?

He has a good debate.

What is he, European?

As of right now, I'm still a SGA.

But this argument makes me very much reevaluate.

And it depends on what they end up finishing, you know,

what the records are at the end of it, right?

How close are the games?

But again, like defense matters.

The reason why he brings up Jalen Brown puts him in conversation.

Because he's not only scoring, but he's also one of the better two-way players

and taking his team to a number two seed.

Why do we not have the same conversation for this?

He impacts not only defense.

There's no doubt about his defense.

And offense, when he's not scoring, is what he's saying.

I impact both ends of the floor, even when I'm not scoring.

So does Shay, but his impact is more when he's got the ball on his head.

When be his gravitational pull.

He don't need the ball on his head.

Yeah.

When he's rolling down the middle to half.

They have to.

They ran two picking roles.

Two guys set screens on them.

Two guys, they had two backdoor roles to guards for layers.

The defense is reacting to him so crazy.

And again, five blocks, 15 rounds.

This stat line, I think, he's done it four times this year.

Last person that had done it was Tim Duncan.

And he did it in his MVP seasons.

Man, are you going to think about the case, Paul?

Yeah, that's a great argument because I mean, he's just...

He's right.

His impact on winning as compared to the other guys.

I mean, it's tough to deny.

I mean, it's defensively, offensively.

And this is what I go by.

Like, what are your...

What was our expectations for OKC coming to season?

Oh, they'll probably have the best record, Shay, whatever's 30.

Yeah.

Like before, we saw the playlist here.

That's what we were going to say.

I didn't see Santa Tonya being a second seed.

Yeah, same.

I probably had him being a play-in team.

Yeah, or like a six.

Six, five, six.

In the West.

In the West.

Yeah.

Like, so their room to just like...

The floor to the ceiling.

The floor to the ceiling was a lot steeper than with...

Yeah.

OKC's what.

So I think you've got to put that into play.

And I put that into play with Purjele and Brown also

because we probably had the Celtics based on what they lost a year ago.

Yeah.

Probably being in a play-in somewhere around six or seven, eight.

Well, I probably had them both around five or six.

Yeah.

I think they both would be around...

But they're both exceeded expectations for both...

Both sides, East and West.

So, yeah.

So in saying that, I do think he should be, you know, probably the...

If not one of the two fans...

Definitely number two.

He's definitely number two.

Yeah, because...

Like I said, I mean...

OKC is expected to do this.

You know it's crazy, Pee.

And they have done this in a long time.

And I think...

I used to think...

And I still do think like...

They don't want to give players more than one award.

Yeah.

Do you know what happens when this man wins...

He starts to be like winning MVP?

Andy comes to play a year.

We haven't seen that since Mike.

You know how long ago that was?

I lost you on.

Like a while ago, bro.

Long ago.

We talked about 30 something.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Damn they're 40 years at this point.

Yeah.

That's...

Yeah, I lost you on was the last one, I believe.

Yeah.

I think for me...

When was that, 96?

Around here.

For me in terms of his...

30 years.

Like the case that he's making for himself.

I tend to not...

I want to say I discounted it, but I tend to look at defense less for MVP.

Because traditionally, we've given it to the guys that have been the most impactful on offense.

That's just basically what we've done.

We kind of be adjusting it.

But I think when it's like a...

It's not that he's playing good defense every day.

He's dominating.

I'm telling you, I want people...

If they have a chance to go check some of the highlights from the Miami game,

where these guys are just straight up.

They're not looking at the paint.

His fucking force field.

It's crazy.

Like he don't even have to...

Yeah, he doesn't have to.

He doesn't have to.

It's crazy.

Like, how many hackers do you prolong?

He can be 8 to 10 feet away from you and have an effect on you.

And have an effect on you.

And you like...

Shit, you never look at the rim.

Dude!

Like, he gets close.

I'm a jail.

He's guarding the strong side corner on the drive.

He leaves the guy.

And could get back.

Bro is like...

Bro, he's guarding strong side corner.

Like, these guys...

You know, guys have to hug that guy.

You know, you can't...

You have to stay home.

It's a sin if you leave the strong side corner.

I feel like more teams do that now.

Which is not a smart idea.

But the spurs in OKC can do it because they got the athletes.

To get back.

Yeah.

Most teams, y'all don't got the athletes.

When we can guard the ball and get back.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And block it.

Still, I don't see you on the station.

Guys are thinking they got an open run.

And he's just making these...

He made just some crazy blocks.

I see two, three, all one breaks with him.

And they bring it back out.

So...

They're like, oh, shit.

This isn't...

This isn't normal defensive impact is what I'm saying.

So, like, I do have sympathy for his case.

Because, you know, I remember when y'all could shouldn't be

were in the MVP.

And people were like, well, it means a better defense.

Like, yeah.

But, y'all can't just...

He's just a way more well-rounded offensive player.

Offensive.

You know what I mean?

And B was playing good defense.

He wasn't doing this.

No.

And...

He wasn't dominating teams.

And rebound.

And I think, y'all could probably better rebounder too.

Oh, yeah.

Rebounder-wide.

You're sure.

Rebounding passing.

Yeah.

And so, it's going to be in any knock sound of three at a high clip now.

40%.

Like...

Another thing that I like.

I like him calling out his direct competition.

Shay Gilges, Alexander's the head, the front runner.

Yeah, he...

They're allegedly the best team in the West.

He ain't right now.

We need y'all asses a bunch of times.

Yeah, he ain't right now from the smoke.

I love that.

I love that.

I love calling them out directly.

Like, we beat A-assists.

They supposed to be better than us.

Shay supposed to be the MVP.

I love that.

Right.

And what was his last point?

Offensive.

Not just about points.

Oh, him.

He does have it.

He does impact the game.

Yeah.

And he's now scoring.

We know he gets a lot of attention.

Some people say it's agreed to do the self-campaign, Paul.

I think that they asked him, though.

Like, they always ask these people.

Like, yo, if you were to go for MVP, what would you call him?

Oh, my god, Jerry Weiss, too.

He's the athletic spurs.

So I think he was just like, yo, here.

I'm in a campaign for myself.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, you know, some other people.

Joelle was in a campaign for himself.

There's a couple of guys that have done it.

Even for, like, defensive player of the year type thing.

Back in the days.

All NBA defensive teams.

It would be management.

You know what I mean?

I mean, years more recampaign for James Hardin.

He will go on every single show.

And he would have his little grabs and talking points about why Hardin was the MVP.

A lot of people don't like what guys stuff for themselves.

But I'm, I'm fine with it again.

I like it because he's calling out the people that everybody's saying is supposed to be the best team and the best player.

And he's not doing it in a bragging.

Especially, it's true.

Yeah.

It's not like he's delusional.

Yeah.

It's like it's factual things.

Yeah.

So.

So if I'm okay, see I'm there.

Get your mom right.

And he boys want.

Spoken.

But you like.

Yeah, he's happy.

Look, there's, there's, there's things what you give the MVP.

You like, there's like certain game.

You have to have signature games.

He's had that.

He's had that verse the best team.

He's had so many of them.

He's a lot of them.

But you know, Shay on it.

So his credit.

He's had signature games.

Like, we just talked about the game where he put up 40 game.

And then he did it all year without a second best player.

Yeah.

That's where that's where he probably is getting the edge.

And then they, I don't, this is the first time I've probably seen.

Oh, okay.

He's been winning games without most of his lineup.

Without a crazy winning streak as well.

Yeah.

Like, Hardenstein, Caruso's been out.

And they've even had a lot of guys out in Shade.

He's pretty much carrying that group.

Yeah.

That's it by himself.

But he's doing a lot of.

Yeah.

Always.

All right, guys.

Let's get into our favorite part of every single show.

That's our draft Kings picks at a night segment Wednesday night hoops on decking Tim.

We got the aforementioned O.K.C. and Boston.

Number one team in the West.

Number two team in the East.

First of all, guys, who do you guys think wins this game and why?

Boston just took a tough out of Minnesota.

I feel like they're going to bounce back.

But O.K.C., the way they look.

I mean, it's against Phil.

It was against Philly.

Philly doesn't have anybody right now.

They took care of business.

They took care of business.

But Jaydub came back.

He looked in decent rhythm.

This is going to be a battle, man.

And O.K.C.

What's he started?

What's their streak right now?

Is O.K.C. on the winning streak right now?

12 games in a row, bro.

I think they snapped.

I think Boston snapped it.

That's the street.

I think they snapped it.

What about you, Paul?

Yeah, I think, you know, you have a bad loss.

You have to add words less than a soda.

I don't know.

Joe was always not happy about that.

He's gonna let them know.

So I think this is gonna be a signature game.

This is the type of game that you can carry.

But you've had a rest of the year.

And to the playoffs to just give your team confidence boost.

Because we know O.K.C. has been playing the best in the game.

They're defending champs.

They're coming into your build them.

The game a couple of weeks ago was a close game.

Tainem didn't play.

So this is like them games that you serve on a tournament.

This is like a playoff game.

This is like the closest simulation to what you're going to feel in a playoff,

from the crowd to energy, when you play any type of games.

And there's only a few of those throughout the season.

And this is one of them for Boston.

Yeah.

Yeah, I tend to agree with you guys.

I think Boston is the only thing to step up.

I just like, they got the championship medal.

They got a bunch of insanely competitive guys.

And it's going to mean a lot for them to snap this streak for sure.

You know, OK, he plays hard every single game.

So this is going to be a tough one.

I'm going to Boston.

Don't match up.

SGA is coming in averaging 31 and a half points per game.

Does he go over under 31, folks?

I think I feel like the last couple of games he's been like at the 20s.

I feel like this is one of those games he's going to ball out.

He's going to have his 30 plus.

It's going to be a close game.

But I think he's going to get, he's probably going to get like 32, 33.

Book it.

Yeah.

Book it.

Book it.

I mean, we got to stop him from getting all 40.

That's when we didn't work.

We don't let them get 40, but he can book him for 30 because they just find ways to get

them match up like they diverse the Celtics a couple of weeks ago to where he could take

advantage of his beer.

And Boston is a stay home team.

They don't like sending extra help at times, even when it's MVP.

Like, god, they like to stay disciplined and be like, look, man, they don't want the

ball movement.

I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, you know, I don't think he gets it.

Am I?

Because J. Dub is back now.

Got you.

I think he's gonna defer a little to J. Dub just because they

gonna try to get him a little rhythm.

I think he, I'm not, I don't give him the 31, he doesn't get it.

Give me the over on it and take it under.

And then Brown is averaging 28 and a half.

Does he get over under 28?

Ooh, this is a good one.

I think he gets over.

I think he gets over to 28.

I'm gonna go under for the same reason I'm going under for SGA

because, you know, Tatum is back out there.

Got you.

Got many lifts.

Trying to incorporate him.

I like the underarmist as well.

Yeah.

Jason Tatum has a comeback with the vengeance over under 21 points, guys.

I'm gonna say under.

It's still early.

I think he'll be around like 16, 18.

Got you.

I'm gonna go to under.

I'm gonna go under as well.

I think this is a defensive matchup.

He hasn't seen yet.

Got you.

So I'll go over.

And it's only because OKC be hacking the hell out of people.

And he might get to the line and might get some respect from the reps

with the home crowd.

You know, reps be scared to call the whack files when they're on the road.

And so, give me the over on Tatum.

Chat over under one and a half blocks.

Under.

Damn.

Damn.

Under.

Yeah, they going at his chest.

I'm going chance going to get a couple blocks.

I got the over.

Yeah, I got the over too.

Because this version of Boston actually likes to drive a lot.

And so we're going to have opportunities to get blocks.

What about rebounds over under seven and a half?

I'll go over for rebounds.

I'll go over as well.

I think there'll be enough possessions to go around in seven and a half.

That's, man, he should be able to get that right.

Should be able to grab eight boys.

Shots to chat over him.

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There was a scrap, son.

Yeah, man, just a load, just a little action, man.

Can we go get into the foul and no,

we ain't got into it.

It's crazy.

Thunderguard AJ Mitchell and Wizards Forward Brooklyn's own Justin

Shampenny.

There you go.

The one game suspension, stemming from the first half of OKC's 132,

111 win at Washington on Saturday night.

Still, OKC got their 12th win in a row despite AJ Mitchell getting sent home early.

In addition to the suspension, Thunder Forward,

Jalen Williams was fine 50k and Thunderguard Kason Wallace

and Wizards Forward Anthony Gilbert each fine $35,000

for their roles in the altercation.

Let's look at a clip.

Let me see this.

I didn't really.

I looked at it, but it had a sharp penny on it.

Give it to him.

OK.

All right.

What you doing?

All right, bro.

Yo, don't put your hands on me, fan.

Yeah, don't put your hands on me.

Oh, come on, bro.

You getting much, bro.

Who was that?

Who was that, sir?

That's AJ Mitchell.

That's AJ Mitchell.

Oh, you got one more.

You got one more.

But who?

Shep Penny.

Oh, that's Shep Penny right there.

Yeah, Shep Penny.

What you want?

Wait, hold on, rewind it.

Stop the minutes.

Oh, he did get up in his face.

Give him a little mercy, bro.

You don't get your hand.

Oh, did you fail?

I did you fail.

Damn.

No, he was tight.

But you were supposed to be ready, man.

You coming up there, actually ran up.

You can't run up on another grown man.

He just ran over there.

Yeah, dude.

You ran over there.

He's pointing, he's screaming, he's shouting.

Man, he ain't feeling that.

He's pissed.

No, you can't run up.

I love that this is just a one game suspension.

He didn't understand his arm distance.

You got to, like, come on.

So who else got suspended?

Get off me.

Shep Penny.

Then you run up on me and, oh, get your hands on me.

Mitchell, you got suspended for that?

Brahm of set.

I'm tight.

I'm tight.

Bro, because you can't.

Bro, because you can't.

Matt aggressive.

Yeah, he was like, yo, chill.

You kind of like, man, you put your hands on him.

Yeah.

Like, get your hands on him.

He touched him first and then boom.

You don't even know what to do.

Your hand on his torso.

To get suspended, begin pushing the face as crazy.

Yeah, come on, man, you're ready.

Hold on to Jamie, he was gonna gain.

Now, he just got 50k.

And 35, for smile, but damn.

50k.

Bro, he's pushing the face and suspended as crazy.

Man, suspended.

Yeah.

I'm high.

I'm high.

I'm tight.

I'm tight.

I'm high.

That's a game check.

That's a game check.

That's a game check.

You gotta get your money's worth next time.

Yeah, that's why I'm high.

I ain't really do shit.

That was gonna suspend me.

I ain't really do shit.

It wasn't like I was J.R.

Out there.

For the torso, when she had many sayings.

Maybe one thing, if he was like J.R.

I'm fucking, you say?

I'm like, Nate Rye.

He's saying it stands.

It wasn't Nate Rye, and J.R.

It stands.

He said, get your hands on him.

Yeah.

He was so humble.

Man.

Yeah, AJ Mitchell is high.

I know he was Staman in the locker room, right?

And, yeah.

I think the one game is good.

One game we outta here, man.

Yeah.

We got to overdo it.

Yeah.

And I say, we don't wanna discourage too much of this.

Yeah.

We actually got a double dose of foul.

No foul.

Obviously, we thought the suspense was no foul.

Not big.

But we've got a double dose, in case you missed it,

at the Orlando Magic game this past Saturday.

Saturday, Luca received a tech because he told Goga Badatze that he would fuck him up

quote after Goga allegedly told Luca he would fuck his whole family.

Damn!

Luca was supposed to serve in one game suspension with that being his 16th tech of the season

but to leave you sitting in the tech because Luca explained what Goga said to him.

Yeah.

They both have pretty different recollections about what happened.

Let's take a look at somebody reactions.

Yeah.

Luca can't get him.

Right.

I mean, I have 16 to 15.

I mean, I want you to get the technical old Chris.

I want you to get the suspension.

It goes back.

I guess you get two or whatever.

I'm definitely hoping.

You know, obviously, I let my team down.

I'm not getting the last tag by myself.

I'm trying to, you know.

He said if we told him my whole family and at some point, you know, it's his best record.

At some point, I just can't stand.

I gotta stand up for myself.

But I know I got the better.

I'm not getting it.

Some of them have my bags, so I let them down today.

But I hopefully can give it a send.

Well, the rest in here, what language do you say?

It was a serve.

It was a serve.

Damn!

It all seems like a nice guy and everything.

He's like, this is a second largest crowd we've ever had.

You think he trained a ball to hold on to chicken nuggets here?

Golgobitatse told ESPN.

This is from my god, Dave McMahon from ESPN.

He told ESPN and he Orlando Sentinel, quote,

I have all the respect for Luca and what he has done.

I really respect everybody's family where I come from.

It's really sacred, and we really respect each other's family.

I would never directly say that.

And then, this is from Jason Beade,

Patatse further clarified what exactly Luca said to him

and what he said in response.

Can't he clarify exactly what he said?

This is the question.

Here comes Golgob.

Well, he said something about my mother,

which is really inappropriate.

We don't say that stuff during the game.

So I don't know if he knew that I understood his language or not.

So I just said whatever he told me or about my mother

and said it back.

That was pretty much what he was talking in that language.

Yeah, Luca thought he was just getting it off,

just muttering like, fuck this guy and his mom.

Right.

Or I'm peace comatre.

Yeah.

They say over there, bro.

It's like fucking mother type.

Yeah.

That's like when Dirk called KG Amiga in German.

No, he didn't.

Yeah, that's what he said.

He did not.

He did not.

He called me.

Yeah.

He called me.

He said.

According to him.

He called me.

He called me.

He called me.

He called me.

He called me.

He called me.

He called me.

There's no way.

Dirk is a gentleman in number two.

This guy is crazy.

Dirk Lai Alguns is called me Blackorschuhnn.

I mean, you know I'm gonna put it past him.

I'll leave you.

Dirk, you called me.

I was seeing him say it.

It's something like Cove Black.

It's couple of characterization.

I mean, KG just assuming that it was a racial epith retrial.

Oh yeah, that's what he says.

Tiki KG said that.

I don't know Paul KG might know some какая.

He might know some job.

He might.

He might.

I wouldn't put it fast to take it.

What do you guys think of this in terms of, do you think this went too far?

Are we glad this is better?

Why the reference?

How, like, when I looked at it, it didn't look like it was loud, right?

Why the referees all of a sudden, they, I don't know, it just seemed like it was just-

It's part of the game.

Guys, we talking shit sometimes.

Right.

Yeah.

You know why?

We got to do it.

It didn't.

Like, when I looked at the video, it looked like they were kind of just murdering, too.

It wasn't like, stop the game and each other talking a little bit of shit.

And then they language, different words, cuss words are very different than over here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

To me, if it's not interrupted in the flow of play, who can't I guess?

Yeah.

Luke was walking on back in defense.

I was going back to you guys.

I saw him say something in the referee.

He was like, what the fuck?

Yeah, don't escalate.

You're not taking longer.

We can't embound the ball all of this stuff because guys are drawing.

If it's not, if the flow of play is not interrupted, I don't see why we should-

Right.

He might as well get that technical now, though.

They play Washington, Indiana, Brooklyn.

Yeah, just get it out the way, bro.

Let's get it out the way, bro.

And you just kind of reset for, you know, to get it, you got two, you got a two way, two,

two for leeway for the next one, right?

You get two of them.

What do you guys think about Luca and Goga sharing with the media, what was said on the court?

You think that's in bounds?

Out of bounds?

Should you not share with the public what it said before us?

He only shared because he was getting a 16 technical.

If he wasn't getting a 16, you got to justify it to the fans, why are you going to miss

about it?

He had to say right away, so it gets rescinded.

Got you.

If he wasn't getting suspended, he wasn't going to say, there's plenty of times they ask

him what was said.

I'm not going to say what he said, you know what I'm saying?

Right.

Luca's normally not that type of person.

Also, sometimes you don't want to really admit to what you said, you know?

For sure.

That too.

Because it might just be too hot for TV.

Yeah, too hot.

Yeah.

I'm like, I was just seeing the highest family was doing it.

Yeah.

Just checking up on his ass.

That was good.

Yeah.

I think crazy.

Crazy.

Anyway, speaking of the Lakers, though, they ended up losing to Detroit at Detroit.

Yeah, it was tough.

Luca played on Monday.

The Lakers still lost 111-10, thanks to a heroic 30-point Dennis Jenkins performance.

That was his career high with this win.

Little background on Jenkins.

He's a Pista's guard who rose from undrafted status in 2024 to become a key NBA contributor

via the G-League, securing a two-year deal this year.

Two-way deal, right?

In 2026.

He was a two-way before that two-year deal.

Scoring a passer.

He's a Johnny.

There you go.

Just to St. John's, by the way, getting to the sweet 16th at the buzzer against the J-hawks.

They better get the dookies next, though.

Yeah, they better get the dookies.

I thought you were going to St. John's going to the Final Four for sure.

Listen, man, dookies look like...

I got lead-eight.

Dookies look weak, but shouts to, and man, the boozer kid hasn't lived up to the hype

so far in two games.

He's polished, though.

He's polished, though.

He's polished, but, you know, team's tanking their asses off to sign kids like this.

I don't, you know, I don't get it.

We now talk about the next Kevin Durant or something, you know what I mean?

Not even the next AD.

I mean, AJ DeBonza, Jeremy Peel, like those guys are from...

They're pretty good.

I'm saying so.

You're going to AJ.

Yeah.

Those guys look good.

Yeah.

The Lakers have been playing really good basketball as of late.

Do you have more faith, Paul, and this team have to see him go on a 10-game win streak

for the first time since Danny was a Laker?

Well, that's like I said.

Like I said throughout the course of the year, that the Lakers won't make it out the first

round.

Because I wasn't sure if LeBron can play the role that he was playing right now.

Now that he's morphed into this guy, it's where I'll be our third best player on some

night's second or first.

But he's embracing that now and the chemistry looks a lot better.

And now they're playing their best basketball in the year.

Do I think they get up to second round?

I think that's their selling.

Sure.

You know, I'd be four first round, but second round is their selling.

They still can't guard.

You know, they rely a lot on offense.

But they've been guarding better late.

They have.

We late.

I just, you know, when they're going against each other, out leads in the prayer, play

off setting.

It's going to be tough.

I can't disagree.

I said I thought they had a really good chance to get out of that first round, depending

on the matchups, but I think they can beat, you know, they shown improve the last week

or so.

They can beat teams above 500.

They'd be Houston twice.

Yeah.

You know, they beat Denver, they beat the Nick.

They play quality ball.

They beat, they beat some really good groups, you know what I'm saying?

So I think they can get out of first round.

Second round will be tough.

I think it's very much reliant on like those other guys.

And Austin Reeves, like Austin Reeves has to be his coming out party for the playoffs,

like the show improve.

That's kind of the chatter on the internet.

Austin's never done anything in the playoffs.

That's the last reason why they lost to Denver and Minnesota last year, more so because

of rebounding.

But it's pretty good in that one Memphis series.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

He was good against Golden State.

He gave Clay Thompson some work.

For sure.

They had a, they had a better team than, like you understand, like that's when they had

a, didn't have AD at that time.

Yeah.

It was more open for him and the scouting port wasn't out on him yet.

Yeah.

Right.

So heavy, like I said, with less of those guys around, he's more of a load for him to carry

offense.

Like he's one of the guys now.

So it's like you got a, you're not just an X factor guy to swing a series.

Now you're the guy.

Yeah.

You have to come in.

Sure.

It's way different.

Which are different.

You constructs on.

Mm-hmm.

So obviously, and also the Andre and Marcus Smart, like those other X factors, Rui, are going

to play a role.

So can they get that second round?

I think they can.

So depending on, actually, I'm tripping, they don't have to play San Antonio or who else

in the second round?

They don't have to play San Antonio.

Right now it's slotted as the third seed.

Yeah.

So San Antonio, if things go chalk, if San Antonio doesn't get upset, you know, uh, things

go chalky.

And the first round, they did so like, well, they, they have to, even they dropped the

fourth.

They got a boy.

This is the only way to sell.

I mean, the Lakers don't get out.

They got a boy, Denver Nuggets in the first round by all means.

Mm-hmm.

If they get Houston, they get out the first round, but if they get Denver, I think they

can get Denver.

I don't know, bro.

Denver hasn't been healthy all year.

They've been very up and down.

They played Denver very well most of the year.

Yeah.

I think the only team that said, don't really get a second round, they have to avoid one

of the, they can't, which they can't do, avoid OK, San Antonio in the second round.

No.

They, yes.

So that's the reason why they can't get a second round.

If they play a Denver in the second round, then yeah, but they're not going to, they

have to go.

No, there's no way for them to get out of that bracket.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is what it is.

They can't move to the east.

Yeah.

And so we'll see what's happening, man.

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One of the hottest teams in the NBA are at Atlanta Hawks.

The Hawks have fought their way into the playoff picture.

They're not the sixth seed out of the plan, which is crazy.

I feel like the plan is just basically, they might as well just name it after the Hawks,

the Bulls and the Heat.

Honestly, at this time.

So for those guys, the Bulls are Atlanta tournament.

Hold your horses.

Man, that's a finished line.

Yeah, we're not there yet.

Right, but they're now 40 and 32.

Yeah.

They beat the Grizzlies by 40 on Monday.

What do you think about this run, man?

I mean, it's a press.

I mean, obviously, the strength of the schedule is not the greatest,

but it's still impressive.

You still got to beat the teams that are in front of you.

They're showing some maturity.

And again, when I looked at the East,

there's not many teams that, if I'm one of those other top dogs that I'd fear,

I'm not saying you should fear them either,

but they're one of the teams that I feel like could surprise you.

And it's like, that's the team that I'll be more concerned about than the other ones

if I'm those top teams in the East.

Yeah, you got to, like, Boston and the York got to find a way to avoid them in the first round.

And not to say that they can beat them in a series, but like,

your path to the finals matters sometimes.

Yeah, it does.

You know, like, if you're getting, if you're playing these

same things in the first round.

Yeah, you taking these haymakers and you getting beat up.

You just toughened up for the rest of the...

Yeah, but you're also worn down.

Always worn down.

It's tough first round when you got one in the championship.

Yeah, we did, and thank goodness.

Wasn't Chicago, you guys played?

In the first round?

Yeah, we had a tough round, tough with Chicago.

And the year we won it, we won seven games in Atlanta.

Okay, that's what it was.

And then you went seven games with Cleveland.

Seven games with Cleveland.

Which was a tough game seven in.

Tough, tough.

We didn't get our rhythm until we got to the conference finals.

I just felt like it was kind of like...

Yeah, but Chicago in the conference finals, was that seven?

No, no, no.

I think Chicago was in the next year.

Chicago was the next year.

So the year you won was Atlanta, Cleveland, and Detroit.

How many games was that?

How many?

2007.

2007, 2006.

Damn.

Yeah, we almost played all the games.

Bruh.

Damn.

It's just 2024.

2007, 2006.

Bruh.

Yeah.

That was a lot of games.

But it was like blowing teams out at home, and then losing.

So it was like going back and forth.

Damn, like, look at this.

We always beat, oh no, that's that's the...

But we beat Atlanta by like 20 and then next game,

we beat them by 20.

So we feel like go to the road.

We can at least beat them by 5-6.

Right.

Yeah, but what's going on?

Yeah.

But it was a complete mismatch in our building.

But not saying you're going to have any easy series,

but definitely a series that's going to challenge you,

prepare for the next one.

But you don't want to go six and seven games everywhere.

Like, that's going to wear you to...

No, that, yeah.

Short or breaks in between.

That's going to wear you to hell down, man.

Yeah, well...

I think I'm looking forward to see what the Hawks

have to give in the playoffs this year.

It's just because it's a young group.

It's a bunch of guys that haven't really been tested

in, you know, playoff settings.

Yeah, man.

Outside a guy like Alexander Walker, you know.

Even...

Even a...

Kaminga is not like he's had an extensive...

When Golden State went on their run,

he wasn't like a huge contributor.

Right, right.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to see what these guys do.

Yeah, but they're just making the playoffs

as a successful season.

Yeah.

They just can't get swept.

Yeah, like if you go six games...

They got to win, they got to win the one or two games.

You got to push it to six games, you look and like,

all right, we got to great year.

Let's build on that, I'm not sure.

Yeah, let's watch this...

Just to encourage you to think commercially...

I saw it, bro.

I didn't think we can, man.

Scotty Pippin just continues a run of just...

Interesting media messaging is what I'll say.

Um...

Can we just play the clip?

Let's set the record straight about Pippin.

When you think about Pippin, you think of what?

Second best?

Fact checkin, Pippin.

When something has been considered second best for so long,

we just blindly accept it as gospel.

A decades-long plot built on marketing, social media.

Multi-part documentaries?

Pipp took that personally.

Okay.

Yeah, I said it.

Pipp is a goat.

It's Pipp, bro.

Don't correct me.

First of all, I want to give a shout out to my guy, uh,

Van Lathen, who is actually the voice.

He's doing the voice of Mr. Pipp there.

Shout out to Van, um, keep getting them checks.

Scotty?

Scotty, keep getting them checks too.

Being on this marathon, um,

I was actually amazing and people underwriting my conscience.

I mean, you know, you have to fill hating on...

He was good, but if you have to fill, Phil said he was probably the most talented guy.

Okay, sure.

But like, nobody actually thinks he was as good as Mike.

Which is okay.

Yeah.

Well, he's just insisting.

I don't know something about that documentary really got on his nerves.

I mean, I'm not, I'm not bad at the commercial.

You didn't get enough respect or something.

I don't think he wrote the commercial, but like, I'm not bad at the commercial.

I think the couple things could be the same.

What about this as a guy?

Like, you keep pushing this message about you being second-fiddle and keep reminding people of it.

Yeah, I don't know.

It's not about how the goat is crazy though.

Yeah, it's not the wrong way being second-fiddle to the goat.

You're right.

Yeah, I, look, I, I agree.

But it's Scotty Pipp who's constantly making it a thing.

They had a little tour, didn't they?

Somebody was like, well, actually, LeBron is actually better than Mike.

And actually, you know, Kobe might be better than Mike.

Wasn't there a bull tour, like a tour, like on some bullshit, like it's called,

there's a tour, like him, Weddington, CooCoach.

No, I think it was like a, what's one of the twins?

Horse grant, maybe?

That was a while ago though.

I just, I don't, I don't understand this as a way to manage a public image poem.

Yeah, no bullshit tour, no bull tour.

Scotty Horace and Luke Lonely.

There you go.

Oh, people who weren't fans of their side,

because people were dying near Luke Lonely's side of the last day.

Well, he's Australian, right?

So there's no Australia when they did it.

Australia's one of here, bro.

Man, I'm saying, put some respect on Luke's name.

Who want to hear about Luke Lonely?

Well, the people in Melbourne just like,

that dance was cool, but not enough Luke Lonely in it.

Yeah.

Too much Michael Jordan.

Too much Jordan.

Not enough Luke Lonely in it.

All right, come on.

Jesus.

I ain't got no problems with the commercial, man.

Just, we, I get pipped out of the breeds.

Pipped out the braids.

I didn't notice.

Got the braids.

We got the braids.

And that little ass can.

That's my man.

We could have gave him a better can.

You know what I'm saying?

That little ass can just looked crazy.

That did look like a little can or just his hands.

His hands are big, but that's still a little ass can't,

like they could have got.

That wasn't a regular size.

That wasn't a regular size.

He'll put it with the cup next to it or something.

Yeah.

And just look like he's drinking a baby drink.

Yeah.

What the hell are you doing?

Yeah.

Pipped is a crazy man.

He had a braids, man.

I said, if the hair was lower thicker,

so it just looks coolio-ish.

I, my thing, another thing with Pipped is just been

difficult is the actions of his baby mom.

He can't control that, bro.

I know, but like,

every time it's in the news,

they're calling her by his last name.

Yeah, because I think she kept it right?

That just kills me.

Yeah, I would give her to my last name.

Like, stop going by.

I can do it, bro.

But it's not like you do what she got the last name is.

Every time.

Yeah, it's such a, let's not forget the

dating mics.

They have kids that are playing college and the league, too.

So like those, you'm saying,

future, let's not.

Let's not just say Pipped Jr.

Beatsley.

Yeah, and you're saying it's still very much around.

The kids still hooping.

One of my favorite plays in the league, honestly.

Yeah, he's hot, man.

He hoops.

Skype.

Pipped Jr.

Where is he Memphis?

He's in Memphis.

His name is Ashley Hoop.

Bro, he's such a good all-around play.

He's not in his cake.

But yes, if I'm Pipped, let go of my light.

Please drop my last name.

Please, for the love of God.

Call yourself something else.

Let's bring honor back to the Pipped name.

There's money to ask.

Money on that man, though.

Get rid of that.

Can't get rid of that man.

Can't get rid of that man.

Can't sue it?

I'm suing it.

You got to be making money with that man.

I'm suing it.

You got to give my last name.

We just, we're not together anymore.

You cannot have my last name.

You need my name, man.

Damn.

Lord.

He could sue anybody for anything these days.

Let alone my final name.

That's the chain.

Give me the chain, man.

Give my shit back.

Ah, that's the new new chain.

Oh my God.

Yeah, we need something like that.

But yeah, Pipped, man, man, get paid.

Enjoy yourself.

But Lord, leave Mike alone.

He didn't write the script, man.

Do you think, Pipped, we get some dollars, bro?

You don't think he had any editorial say or anything like that?

I think they came to him.

He was like, all right, cool.

I'm with it.

Yeah, let's go.

This is this would be catching this will go viral.

People want to do this doing his job.

Everybody's looking at the shit.

By the way, if I see, if I go to the gas station

and I see a Mr. Pipped, you're going to think of, I'm,

I'm, I haven't tried it before.

I'm definitely not number two.

It's like, you think it's a fellow?

I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Definitely going to try it next time.

I'm definitely going to go to the gas station.

Yeah.

Yo, great promo, bro.

Shout to them for that promo.

Great marketing.

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