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Good morning, sweet world! And welcome to the No Dunks Podcast on The Athletic Network. It's Friday, March 14th, 2025. This is The Drop. I'm Jay Eskeets, here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, Tass Mellis. Podcast listeners!

This is for you. Next to him. It's the bearded one, my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Hey-o. Hey-o. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer, JD. Hello. There he is. Felt like those were two cold opens in one. I didn't see the relation. Well, it was a statue that she was asking, if you're not having a shower after you go to the club, what are you doing? That guy was having chips. And he's going, and this guy's saying he's going to the chippy to get some, you know, fill up on...

Chips and whatnot. That was a hilariously time cold open. The first part about showering after the club, because the conversation happened last night at the restaurant we all went to after our basketball run of like, everybody showers when they go home after this, right?

And there was one or two guys like, no, I just go right to bed. After playing basketball and hanging out at a bar. Yeah. We were like, what? You're going to go to bed? Your wife lets you sleep in bed? It was fascinating. Yeah. So anyway. He's clean now. Yeah, he did. Probably. I mean, it's 10. I don't know. I don't know his schedule. Who knows? Probably clean. Did he have chippies? No. He did. He did have sweet potato chips and they were a little overcooked last night. Too brown. Should have been a little oranger in my estimation. Yeah.

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Hit the link in the show notes and come on out to the live podcast pizza party with Tabasco and your boys, No Dunks. Can't wait. Tickets are going fast here, so get them before they're gone. Before we get into last night's action, we had another wedgie. We love to see that. Keegan Murray with, I guess you can call it a bit of a chase down block on Buddy Heald going for the, I think, dunk attempt. He could have been landing in, but anyway, Keegan got it, stuck it. 36 wedgies on the season.

Good stuff. We like it. We are on today's Drop Podcast going to revisit our Eastern Conference over-unders and those predictions we did. We did the West last week. We'll do the East today. Tass, you're going to hit us with the best of the week.

Why the switch up? There was such a worthy moment of best of the week. Had to do it. Okay, I love it. And we'll end with some rapid fire fun. But let's briefly talk about some of those games last night. The big story last night was Steph Curry reaching 4,000 career three-pointers made as the Warriors held off the Kings. Steph hit a wide open three pretty early in the first quarter. That was 3,999 points.

And then he reached the milestone with about 820 left in the third quarter, hitting a pump fake, hitting a little sidestep three, and that got him 4,000. But it took a little while, a little bit longer than normal to get there. But obviously the celebrations after that ensued.

That has happened to Steph before when he tries to pass Reggie, right? Yeah, in Madison Square Garden, yeah. There's a little bit of a glut. But anyway, I don't really get super excited for these total stats, but with this guy, with this guy, it's impossible not to get excited. For 4,000, yeah, I'm doing the math. Will he get to 5,000? I liked in the moment, Kevin Harlan...

The great Kevin Harlan. A shot for the ages, for the player of the ages. Truly the portrait of an artist. It was, man. He had that chambered, man. He's a Stefski fan, huh? They did give him a little tribute. They played that on the big screen during the next time out. I thought a cool part of that was they had a message from Warriors big man Andre Biedrans, who dished out the first assist.

to Curry's first three. That's sort of cool. Yeah, I watched that clip of the first three, and Steph Curry's release has changed so much since he's been in the NBA. Obviously, he's gotten a lot stronger as he's gotten older, and his release has just gotten quicker, but he had a kind of standard release, it looked like, in his first one off the Biedrin's pass, which is pretty weird, getting two mentions this week, Andres Biedrin's.

Good stuff. Talked about him yesterday because he was there for the We Believe Warriors as well. But now, you know, he's got almost a push shot. Steph Curry does. But that's why he can shoot it from half court. And I'm sorry. I should have said James Joyce was a portrait of an artist. It's okay. Oh, that's all right. Is 5,000 in play? I think so. I know it sounds crazy because today is his 37th birthday. Right. Happy birthday, Steph. And maybe he's too old.

But it's less than 4,000. I mean, sorry, less than four seasons for his last 1,000 threes. So does he have another four seasons in him to get to that extra 1,000? It's possible. He has two years left on this contract, which ends in the summer of 2027. And he has expressed some interest in playing past that current deal. So, you know, he finishes that one, maybe signs another two-year deal.

You're getting up into the 40s there, and like you said, it took him, what, three years and three months to hit that last 1,000. I mean, now you have to assume there's games missed as he gets older. Maybe the number of three-point attempts and makes per game diminishes a little bit. Maybe not with this guy.

I think it's in play. I'm not sure I would bet on him hitting 5K. This is only regular season here, too, by the way. I know it gets very confusing because we just did LeBron's 50,000 points, which included the playoffs. But yeah, you're right. Probably four years to hit 5K.

5,000 threes. If anybody could do it, it could be this guy. Yeah, does he want to? That's really the only question. That is the question. Because he'll still be a good shooter when he's 80 years old. Yeah. I love that he did it right now, though, too, because he just passed 25,000 career points. And math is pretty simple here. 4,000 times 3, that's 12,000. That's almost exactly half of 25,000. Cool. Yeah, I saw Statitudes had a fun stat that said Curry, it took him nearly 600 games to make his first 2,000 threes.

and then just 416 games to hit the next 2,000 triples. So he sped up here as he's gotten older and older. And then this is fun from Crazy Stats. Every time Steph Curry has reached 1,000 three-pointers made milestone, the Warriors have won the championship. 14-15, 1,000 threes made, 2015 champs. 17-18, he got to 2,000, 2018 champs. 21-22, 3,000, 22 champs.

and that was at 4 000 can the warriors do it here because they look pretty damn good here still

with Jimmy Butler in the mix. We want to talk a little bit about the game. Oh, definitely. I think 11 straight with Jimmy Butler in the lineup. The Warriors scored 130 last night. Obviously, the Kings aren't a sterling defensive team, but still 130 points. They got 17 combined points from Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler in this one, but 22 threes, 44 points in the paint. They had 35 assists on their 45 makes. The ball was just popping the entire night. Draymond, Buddy Heald, Moses Moody, they all hit four threes tonight.

Quentin Post, Gary Payton, they hit three threes apiece. The Warriors are just cooking right now offensively. They didn't even need a good Curry game. They didn't even need Jimmy Butler to be looking for his offense. They're playing a system that seems to make a little bit of sense for everybody involved, and that includes Jonathan Kaminga, who I thought was pretty solid in his return from injury. 18 points, three boards, an assist, a steal, 7 for 10 from the field at 1.2.

He had a dribble drive and scored in the lane, and Kevin Harlan yells, chopping his way down low, machetes his way in.

That's a great description of the way Jonathan Kaminga plays. Very hacking, getting in there. But he gives them a little something different. You know, Jimmy's a driver, so that's going to help for the free throws, which it has so far. But Kaminga's a guy that can put the ball on the floor, scores as well. The concern, I think, will be Jimmy's been talking during all this winning streak. We're all making the right plays. You're taking the best shots.

You move the ball to the open guy. Not always Kaminga's strength, but the team has changed, so maybe he buys in a little bit more because he looked good last night, and it's going to be tough for him to get minutes because Santos is playing really well. Moses Moody is playing really well as a starter. There was no Pajemski last night, so it's kind of easy to find 20 minutes for Kaminga, but he's going to have to be a part of the team if he wants to be a part of the team. Yeah, it is a different team. With Draymond Green leading your team in scoring, it's a little scary how they have eight guys in double digits,

and a super quiet Steph Curry night. And Green's buckets were assisted by everybody, primarily by Jimmy Butler. Eight buckets, half were assisted by Jimmy Butler, who had a super quiet night scoring the ball as well. Ten points, but seven assists. And I've just been watching the Golden State Warriors passing the ball since they got Jimmy Butler.

And the passes have increased. And the Warriors lead the NBA in passes per game since they got Jimmy Butler. They've increased by 15 passes per game since Jimmy's first with the team. That's 344 passes per game, 15 more than the second place Pacers, 100 more than the Grizzlies. Jimmy loves the beautiful game. He wears 10 on his back because that's dedicated to Neymar.

They look like they're playing the beautiful game out there. The tic-a-tac-a style. Yeah, the way they move it and the way they look. A super quiet game for all these. Seth, Jimmy, doesn't matter. They're doing the right thing. They're moving it. And Draymond's having his own push shot party. Floaters from the mid-range, which is weird.

It was funny on a night where we're waiting for Steph Curry to hit the 4,000 three-pointers main milestone that Draymond Green is suddenly splashing threes. Like, it was like, what the hell is going on here? He was on fire. He was feeling it, for sure. So, Warriors, keep that win streak alive. That's six straight.

They're obviously right there with the Wolves. They're right behind them. They've won six straight. The Rockets ahead of them. They've won four straight. So they're trying to... Those two teams, the Warriors and the Wolves, I mean, they're really trying to catch that sort of second tier above them when you get into your Rockets and your Lakers and your so-ons like that. Now, it's a bit of a gap, but...

there's still a lot of basketball still to be played. I just want to get the heck out of that play-in because they're also close to the play. Yeah, right. That is a crazy court they had going last night. The one with like the Golden Gate Bridge plus clouds everywhere. It's got a red three-point line. You can barely see, I feel like, the markings of the court because it's just

clouds. They're playing in Cloud City. It's insane, man. It reminds me a little bit, and it's because, I know it's because I'm a very casual college basketball fan, but now we got the tournaments on, we got Marsh Madness right around the corner, so I'm starting to watch a lot more games or highlights, and I'm always like, holy crap, what

what the hell's going on on this floor? Like I saw one last night when we were at the bar. I'm like, what the hell? It's like, I don't know how to describe the pattern on the one floor of the one game we were watching, but that's, it's got that feel to it. It's very busy is my point. Yes, it is very, very busy, but the Warriors went, uh, let's keep it moving. Uh, the box with standing Lucas 45, uh,

We almost called it. We said Luka was going to get the 50. He had 45, but it didn't matter because the balanced Bucks beat the top-heavy Lake show, and they ended a little three-game skid, and they got the 126-106 victory over the Lakers. What are your takeaways from this one? The third quarter, Yanni's party was fun for me because he just started barreling through guys, hit two of those, and then when the barreling guys—

Took a step back and said, all right, shoot the mid-range. Hit a couple of those. Then he went to the free throw line. Took his time at the free throw line. So much so that Brian Anderson on the call was saying, he's taking a lot of time. But in Milwaukee, they're not going to count you down to 10 seconds. Fans were not doing that. But 12 points in the quarter for him. Brooke Lopez was awesome as well. Two monstrous blocks in that quarter. He had four overall. Size does matter in the NBA, especially against the Milwaukee Bucks, because Brooke is playing...

his level that we thought so. Giannis is obviously playing great, especially with no Jackson Hayes in this game for the Lakers. Yes, it definitely matters when there's no Jackson Hayes, LeBron James, or Rui Hachimura. Yeah. All their size. Yes, especially, yeah. The center spot is a worry for the Lakers no matter what.

And then Alex Len was thrown in. Christian Coloco as their backups. And it was tough for them against the Bucs bigs. It just wasn't going to happen. But Bucs got so much production. I mentioned Yannis. I mentioned Brooke and Lillard. 22 or more points in this game. You throw in a Kevin Porter as well off the bench. Another 22. Yeah.

That's fantastic. So 22 points on just 17 minutes for him. So 45-20 for the Bucs from the bench, throwing a Gary Trent 16. Obviously, no LeBron, no Rui, no Jackson Hayes matters, but who's going to step up?

Not a lot of people. It was Doncic and Reeves, and that's it. They're a top-heavy team. That's the way it is. Yeah, I think encouraging that Austin Reeves had 28 shot a good percentage. He hasn't played all that great since coming back from injury, so they need him to play well because they're going to have to be an offense first team. The Bucs look humongous in this game. 38 to 38 points in the paint, that's not too bad.

Milwaukee, 7-5 offensive rebounding. That's not too bad either. The blocks were certainly there for the Bucs, but that doesn't tell the whole story, I think, because they had so many possessions where they would just collapse the paint and kick it out for a wide-open three. 30 assists on the night for Milwaukee. 90% of their threes were assisted as well. It was just getting two feet in the paint. They're way too big. You've got to have four guys on. Even Kuzma. Even Kuzma looked humongous compared to what the Lakers were throwing out there. Kick it out.

Easy shots. I thought this was an incredible Damian Lillard game. 22 points, only 6 of 14 from the field, but 10 assists, 0 turnovers. He was just a right play machine, especially when Giannis was going to the bench. Him and Jericho Sims seemed to have pretty good chemistry in the pick and roll. He found him for a couple of different alley-oops, 11 rebounds for Jericho Sims. Lopez was awesome last night.

but Sims is a nice curveball, right? It's like, yeah, Lopez is going to be outside. He's a slow guy. He's taking up space. And then you bring in the super athlete and Jericho Sims. It's a nice one, two combo. I do think that was Brooke Lopez's best game this season, at least since like November. I mean, he sort of started the season strong at a couple,

good games in November. And then we hadn't talked a whole lot about Brooke Lopez. This was awesome. Eight and nine from the field, hit all those four, three pointers, excuse me, got to the line a little bit. And then the game high four blocks as well. Just awesome. Brooke Lopez game. And I liked that note you made about the, the different type of style that Sims gets to play when he comes in and man, the Lakers, they just need these big guys back. They are struggling defensively. These guys were wide open and they hit 17 threes and they got to the free throw line and Milwaukee shot, you know, 48% from the floor and,

But there, the Milwaukee Bucks are locking in defensively as the season's gone on. It's getting a little better and a little better and a little better. And the Lakers, and a big part of it being the injuries, it's not there. And, you know, it was Luka trying to keep them in the game. And he was. And Austin Reeves. But outside of those two guys, what? Dalton Connect scored 10. And then nobody else did anything. So it was that balanced Bucks team versus this top-heavy team in the Lakers. Yeah.

And the schedule is hard, as I talked about over and over again last week. They got the Denver Nuggets tonight. And then they got a couple sort of easier ones in a back-to-back. Phoenix and San Antonio. But then you get Denver and Milwaukee again. So at the end of that is when LeBron will come back. But you can't push that guy back. Do you think they should, like...

potentially rest Luka here in some of these games, in these back-to-back situations, like sort of play the long game a little maybe. And like, yeah, you might, you might follow us a seed or two. But maybe that's better if he's obviously, I mean, the whole point is to have Luka and LeBron healthy come playoff series. Or is that far-fetched? I don't know. That's a good question. There's still three games up on the sixth seed. Yeah. Yeah.

You don't want to go lower than six, though. No. And all those teams underneath are playing really, really well. True, true. And, you know, like, Luka didn't have the...

hottest start when he came to the Lakers. He's obviously rounding into form and looked great last night. He was not complaining. I mean, he did go for 45. Hair was dry. This guy was locked in for the game. They just don't have anything outside of him and Reeves going on. So I think he's going to play quite a bit. He also sat for how long? Two straight months? Yeah. I'm more concerned about LeBron's physical performance

stature when he comes back it's a groin injury we know those linger and it has been reported that it ain't the same one in his first year with the Lakers that he had when he had to sit out for such a long time that being said it's still a groin injury he's still 40 I think those games matter even more just sit out extra games probably don't rush them yeah there's no need

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Other takeaways from last night's action. We had three games. I'll just give them to you quickly. Kobe White scored 31. Bulls rallied to beat the Nets. Alex Scar scored 19 points. Make big plays for the Wizards. They beat the Pistons 129-125 despite Cade Cunningham going 20 for 21 at the free throw line. He had a monster game. And then Paolo. Ben Caro had 34 points. He had a really good game for the Magic as they crushed the Pelicans. And

Any takeaways from any of those three? The Bulls can't help themselves, man. Four straight wins. First time all season they've won four straight games. Wow. Guess what? Still in 10th place. 72 straight days they've been in 10th place. Wow. We're getting nearly two and a half months almost. Yeah. Holy crap. Yeah. But the good part now is that all these wins, they're now 10th in lottery odds instead of being 8th.

So they're having a way worse chance of getting a decent draft pick, which means seeing the 10th seed once again. Kobe White, though, I think he's the Fantasia of Mickey Mouse March. 31-7, four assists, three threes, 60% true shooting. He has seven straight 20-plus point games. That's the best run of his career. In his six games in March, he's got 29 a game, five rebounds, three assists, 62% true shooting. He had his...

career high earlier 44 I liked Fantasia back in the day and I do like seeing Kobe White play well also a guy proposed at the United Center wearing a full Michael Jordan jersey shorts and ones wow and she obviously said yes yeah yeah but he had to give her six rings once oh hey go Bulls man

Just watch. Just watch. They're going to get out of the play-in tournament, and then they're not literally, they won't even be part of the lottery. If they make it to the top eight, they're not part of the lottery. That's what's going to happen. Oh, boy. They're playing the best of the four teams that are in the play-in tournament right now. Yeah. It was promising to see Paolo Bancaro and even Franz have a good game, at least, last night. In a win for the Magic. But I wouldn't disagree with you that the Bulls, of all those teams there. I guess the Hawks. Yeah, Hawks. Yeah.

What do you think? Any of those you want to talk about? Well, I thought the Bulls would be the worst team ever to make the play in, which was going to be like 32 or 33 wins. Oh, yeah. You were saying that for a while. But now they're projected to win 35 games. Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!

Yeah, the previous low was 34 for the San Antonio Spurs in 2021, was it? Yeah, I think so. And now I just did the math that it would be a projected 35 wins. 35 out of 82 games is pie, apparently. Like, everything after the decimal is the pie numbers. It's so... Why did the pie come up? I don't get this. Where's the 3.1? Why is pie on there? That don't make sense at all. Weird!

I don't really-- 3.14. Yeah, but the pi starts flashing here on Google. What is going on? Interesting. I don't know. I will just say about-- Well, it is pi day. It's pi day. That's why. Oh, it's pi day. It's everything. Everything. It had me going, because after the decimal was 426, maybe it had to mean something. But I guess not. It's just pi day. Speaking of numbers--

Today, 3.14. Yesterday, 3.13 was Detroit's area code day. It was 3.13 day, and they're celebrating all that stuff in their arena. Like, who knows what city has what area code anymore? 404, baby. Yeah, but we don't know. With phones, we don't even know anymore. Wait, so 3.12, what's that? Must have been Chicago day? Yeah.

I don't know. I guess. Well, I guess, yeah. Detroit does a big thing in their arena, in Little Caesars Arena, and then they stunk. And they didn't play defense. You'd think they were distracted by the celebration. Yeah, maybe. Party. And the Wizards were on fire. It was a weird game. They couldn't miss. I wanted to show you the nut dust standings, though, because your Wizards did get a victory. Yeah. And I say your Wizards because, remember, you did swap out the Hornets for the Wizards, but...

You know, the Horns are only two games better than Washington. I still think it's going to pay off for you here because you're battling Trey, who has the Jazz. They're only one game better than Washington. Right. And I have the Pelicans, who, you know, after a nice little stretch, have lost a couple. But I'm probably in the clear. It's between you guys, I think, between Washington and Utah here. So it's going to be spicy. I'm convinced I'm sucking dust this year. The Wizards, man, they're scrapper laughing. Chris Middleton, this guy helps. He had an assist to Alex Saar, who might have just won Rookie of the Year last night. Dunk...

for Saar with 55 seconds left. Blocked Cade Cunningham at the rim with 40 seconds left. And then Chris Middleton grabbed an offensive rebound after a missed three with 15 seconds left. The Wizards are in every game, basically. Yep. They do seem better than a lot of those teams in the tank-a-thon race there. So we'll keep our eye on it. But let's now talk about some of our

Season preview podcast and our over under picks. I recapped our Western Conference picks on last Friday's drop. You can go check that out, listen or watch that. Today I got the East guys. Of the 15 East teams though, we only agreed on five over under win totals. We agreed on seven in the Western Conference, only five here in the East.

We're going to again tackle them in order of... Whoops. Our bad. Not my bad. Our bad. To Cha-Ching. All right? To cash in it. So we start with the Miami Heat. Trey, you weren't alone in your heat over. We all backed and took the heat over. It was 44 and a half wins. Currently, the Miami Heat are 29 and 36. All right.

So it's still possible. Time to get hot. 17 games left to win 16 to hit the over. But not happening. And we all had the over. Trey, you locked it in. This is one of your locks. So that sucks. Tass, you said a lot of chaos with this team. You called it in the preseason. Didn't see the Jimmy chaos. But...

you thought chaos, they flourish in that. Spolstra flourishes in that. So that, you know, I thought it was interesting. Didn't work. Yeah. Uh, Trey, you, uh, you were bringing up a couple of times the contract year, Jimmy Butler and how that would be good. That would be a positive. They would try hard. He would try hard. Yeah.

Well, I mean, it's true, but it turned out for the Warriors. Yes. That's true. Yes. And then I just went with you guys. I didn't have a lot of insight on the Heat, but I was like, I think you guys are right. I think they're just going to be over. So anyway, we got this one wrong. Did anybody mention Bam out of bio? He shoots threes now. I remember that was a preseason talking point. Yeah, I don't think we talked about it too much. But we talked about Bam, Jimmy, and Hero being a pretty damn good three, and...

how that felt like, at least in the Eastern Conference, a 45-win team. I mean, if you would have told me Tyler Hero's going to average 24 a game and make his first All-Star team, I would have been like, over 55. But we wouldn't have told you what Bam was going to do this year. And have a down year for him. All right, so that one, you know, we're not winning. That's a loss for us. Okay, next one here. The rest of them, I don't think we officially have a victory yet, but some are looking okay. Some better than others. Celtics.

58 and a half. All of us took the over. Now they're currently 47 and 19. So that's 16 games left to win 12. That's a pretty good winning clip there to maybe hit the over. They got to win 59 for us to hit the over. So I don't feel that confident about this one. I think they'll come a little short, especially when you get into like the end of the season and it's like they're going to be in their position. Like they're going to be in the two seat probably.

They're going to arrest some guys. Anyway, Tassie had the over. I mean, we all had the over. You were not overly concerned about lack of motivation. You brought that up a couple times. That's fine. Trey, this was another lock for you. Most disrespected champions in a while, you said, coming into the season. Okay, that's not true. Yeah. And I took the over with you guys. So, I don't know. Do you guys think we can eek this one out? 12 of the final 16 or no? It's not Jover. It's not Jover? No. No.

It doesn't look good, though. Doesn't look good. Nah. Nah. If we had 20 games left to win 12, I'd feel better about it. For sure. They're projected to win pi number of games. I see that. I didn't notice the first time, and then I saw it the second time, and I thought, whoa, that thing is sparkling.

But it's unlikely. I'm not going through the Celtics schedule. I'm not doing it. You're right about them just taking a couple games off. That's going to happen. Yeah. They've got the number two locked in. What do they have to play for, really? Essentially, they have it locked in. Exactly. And they did have that malaise during the middle of the season. That really sort of tanked our chances of them hitting, or at least maybe hitting, 59 wins or over. So we're probably losing that one. All right, let's get to a couple I think we're potentially going to win. Pacers. Pacers.

46 and a half. We all took the under. This one's going to be close. They're 36 and 28, 18 games left to win 11. So that would, for them to hit the over. So we need them to obviously, you know, sort of split their games, the remaining games, sort of 500. So this will be close. They could get to 47 wins, of course. We want one less than that.

Tass, you're thinking... You just thought teams would be a little bit more ready for indie style of play. You talked about that. Trey, you had them slotted in the 4-7 range. So, you know, you're going to be right about that. And that was the thinking. We thought they were going to be damn near identical to the season prior. But, like, just...

just hitting that under. So I don't know. This one, maybe. Yeah, maybe. I think they'll probably go over. Pacers have been pretty good for like two straight months. They had a real tough start to the season where it kind of seemed like they were trying to figure themselves out rather than being figured out. But since Halliburton's gotten healthy, Nemhard and Neesmith came back kind of like mid-season. Siakam was an all-star this year. They've figured out how to play and they've been really, really good lately. Like our chances or no? Yeah.

You think they're more likely to hit the over, it feels like. I think so. Yeah. It'll be very close. It'll be close. It'll be close. All right. The Wizards. 20 and a half was their line. They're now 14 and 51 after last night's victory. Big win. So that, if my math is correct, that's 17 games left to win seven to hit the over. Now, we want the under. We all had the under. Trey, this was another one of your locks. You said, quote, this is the worst team in the league.

So it's in play. Okay. But you already said it when we were talking about last night's game. They're playing better. I'm a little worried now that they're going to backdoor their way into hitting an over here. Five and six since the All-Star break. We would be looking good if they would have kept Kuzma. Well, it's funny you say that. That's honestly the change. Yeah. We talked a lot about, well, they're going to trade Kuzma. They're probably going to trade JV. Check and check. And then Brockton was the third name, which they have not. So...

Yeah, we'll see here. But you had the under as well. Yeah, just a bunch of guys who play extremely hard for Brian Keefe. That's what they do out there. They have a bunch of guys with an attitude as well. They kind of fight. Keyshawn George is a fighter. They've got a bunch of fighters. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Will we get the under? It's going to be close. They're going to win 20. They're probably going to win 20, 21, or 22 games, right?

So two of those, not great for us. One, the 20 were good. Final one here, the Hawks. 35 and a half was their line. Quite low. They're currently 32 and 34. So a lot of games left to win just four. Yeah. They're going to win this. We're good here. I know it's the Hawks and anything can happen, but we all took the over. So we're looking pretty good. This one's a cha-ching. Yeah.

You can't fool us on the Hawks. We know the Hawks. No, no, no. That line should have been set at 40 and a half. That's like, are they going to win 41 or are they going to win 40? It's going to be one of the two every season. Well, in the preseason, Trey, you said, quote, they're going to win 36 games exactly. Still could. Probably we're going to win more, though. And I was pleading for them, pleading for them. Just play. Just average defense. No.

Not elite, just middle of the pack defense and you're going to be pretty good. And I think they're sort of doing that this season. I believe they're, last I checked, maybe 17th, 18th defensive rating on basketball reference, I thought. But it's better than they had been. Yeah, it's been better than seasons prior. So that's going to get them the over. And that one we hit. Let me give you the other locks that guys made. The bucks, Tass. You had the over. That was one of your locks.

It's going to be close, but unlikely. You need them to go on a crazy run here. The line was 50 and a half. What are they, 37 and 28? Yeah. After last night. So that's 17 games left. They've got to win 14. 14 and 7. It's possible, baby. 14 and 7. 14 and 3. They'd have to go. Oh, there's only 17 games left. Yeah. My incorrect math. You're not probably hitting this one. Oh, yeah. No, that doesn't look good. Unless they're...

run the table here. Yeah, they've got some weird waves. They've got a bunch of new parts as we were just talking about with Kevin Porter Jr. Then you throw in a Jericho Simms. Then you throw in a Kuzma. They're working all these parts in. But they're working them in well.

It's an interesting team for the playoffs. So Trey and I are looking good. We're going to hit the under on the Bucs. You had soured on them a little bit. You didn't think Middleton had what it take to be an all-star guy anymore. So you were right there. You had a lot of confidence in a Lillard bounce-back season, though. Which has been solid. Which he has been. I mean, I even ask you on the show. I'm like, all-star? All-NBA? And you're like, yeah, I think so. I don't know if he'll make all-NBA. Probably not. I don't know.

He'll be in the mix. Yeah, but anyway. And I was worried that they will be bounced from the top tier in the Eastern Conference. So that's looking, at least in the regular season, correct. So anyway, another locked task. You had the Hornets over. Oh, that didn't go well. No, it didn't. 29 and a half the Hornets line was. And they are 16 and 49. You gave up on them.

in the nut dust. So yeah, 17 games left to win 14, just like the bucks for you to hit the over. There's still a lot. I believed in Lamello balls, ankles for the first time. You talked so much about him wearing ankle braces. Yeah.

You were like hell bent on that having a positive impact. Yeah. Also doing squats, focusing on his core. I thought his ankles would be a different guy. He's wearing ankle braces for the first time. Would that help? Obviously not. I mean, he's played 42 games at this point, so he'll play 50-ish. Still the most games he's played in

Four years? Yeah. That's what your big concern was, Trey. How many games will Lomelo play? Now, we didn't know Brandon Miller was going to miss the majority of Season 2. I took the under. I had no faith in them. So that was Tass's other lock. And then your final one, Tass. Oh, a great one. Yeah, this is going to be fun. Raptors. Tass locked in the over. 30 and a half was their over-under win total. They're 23 and 43 right now.

16 games left to win half of them. If they go 500, Tass hits the over. Trey and I had just... Actually, I went with you, Tass. I took just the over. So I'm rooting for a 500 here. Trey, you went just under. You thought they'd win 30 exactly and be the 10th seed in the East. That's what you said. They're trying, man. They're trying to go under. Yeah.

They're trying their best. So weird. What a weird lineup every single night. Oh, we're not trying, but we win. Oh, we're trying, but we lost. It's a very, very odd stretch. We'll see the Raptors later in this show when we get to pick them because look, they have the easiest part of their schedule here. They're racking up wins because they're playing teams that want to out-tank them or are worse than them.

So this is in play. It's in play for you and I to hit this over. My favorite part of this whole conversation was Trey set the pizza party over underline at one and a half. Now the Darko pizza party for Raptors, for those that don't know, is when you win three games in a row, Darko throws you a pizza party. So Trey, you set the line at one and a half. Tass and I, we both took the over, and I'm happy to say we already cashed that ticket. And they can make it three pizza parties with a win tonight.

because they've had two winning streaks of three games or more already. This would be a third tonight if they can do it. I heard they'll change the name of the restaurant to Pizza Pizza Pizza. We made the Pizza Pizza joke in the podcast. We are nothing if not consistent. Oh, I love it. All right. Some other locks. So that was all of Tass's. Trey, your final one here.

Because I think I only gave you two. You said I was a Celtics lock, and I definitely was a Heat lock. That's right. Your third lock was the Bulls.

Took the old... No, I'm sorry. You cashed the Bulls is what I meant to say. Yeah, they went over last night. They went over last night. That's what I meant to say. I had locked in the under for the Bulls. And I said... I did have a couple things where I was like, Giddy's going to rack up a bunch of triple-doubles. Levine's going to ball out and increase his trade value. It's true. So I got a couple things right, but obviously I thought they would stay under... Just 27.5 was their line. They hit it last night. They're over. So that's a cash. Your other lock...

Let me just find it here. Cause I got too many things here. Uh, and I can't find- Uh... *laughs* Where the hell is it? Oh, who cares. I'll give you the other lines. I had the Knicks under lock. Okay? 54 and a half. They're 42 and 23?

17 games left to win 13. So it's probably going to be an under. I'm probably going to cash that one. You guys just took the over. But you were really talking about it. It's all dependent on the playoffs. Like, who really cares? I thought there'd be some growing pains with the cat edition. I thought too many people were taking the over on the Knicks, having that awesome looking lineup. So I think I'm going to hit that one. I had the under on the Bulls I already talked about. I took the magic over as a lock. Hmm.

I was very excited about the Magic. 47.5 was their line. They're 31-36, so they can't even hit the over. Not enough games left for these guys. That sucks. Uncashed. They started the season 20-14. That was a winning clip of like 59%, which would get you right to 48 or 49 wins if you maintain that all season, but...

Got sort of derailed by a bunch of injuries. Especially the Suggs one, if we're being honest. Of course. But Trey, you took the under on that one, so good job by you. I can't find what your other third lock was. Maybe Cleveland? Cleveland?

It was Cleveland. I forgot to talk about Cleveland. Where the hell is it? I think I took it out of my notes by accident. We all had that one. That makes sense. They were a 48 and a half. They're obviously way over. We all had it. I deleted it by accident. Good job by us. Nailed it. There we go. Kenny Atkinson was my coach of the year pick. Had to stay consistent. There you go. Anyway, there's a bunch of other ones. There it is. Now I'm looking at it right now.

No, Tash took the under. That's why. What an idiot. You said they're going to win between 47 and 50 games. What an idiot. But that was your luck. What an idiot. Why would I say that? Don't be so hard on yourself. I'm always a Cavs over person. But this year I took a step back, huh? So there it is. Again, not bad, but at the end of the season, like once we know...

We'll see how each one of us did, how we did on our consensus picks and our locks and all that, and we'll break it all down for you. But that's looking ahead to the future for now. Let's get to best of the week.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the best of the week. Had to go with best of the week because this week there was a full moment circle.

We had a full circle of a memorable moment. Happened in 2003. So let's just flashback here for a sec. April 25th, 2003. Game three of the Western Conference first round playoffs. Blazers hosting the Mavs. 13-year-old Natalie Gilbert grabbed the mic to sing the national anthem. She started well, but then she stumbled a little bit. That's when Blazers head coach Mo Cheeks ran over, put his arm around her, and got her to sing it. And things went well. So let's relive that anthem. We got the clip.

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight

She got there. She got there. She got all the way there. Mo Cheeks. Best of the week for that. That's my classic SportsCenter moment. What year did you say that was? 2003? Yep. Holy moly. That's before LeBron James was in the NBA. You said it was the playoffs, right? It was the playoffs. Yeah.

Things did happen before the NBA. That's a good call. It was a long series, too. It was a weird series where the Mavs were up 3-0 after that game, and then the Blazers won the next three, but then the Mavs won game seven. One of the rares to take it to seven games. Anyways, this week...

Natalie Nowzito. She came back to sing the national anthem in Portland with Knicks assistant coach Mo Cheeks in the building. How'd she do? Let's have a listen. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed

I love the national anthem that Natalie was able to sing, but I also love that Mo Cheeks pulled his gum out. Literally pulled it into his hand. And now that lightsaber sort of sound, I didn't warn everybody.

That was just the graphic that came up with Natalie's name on the bottom. We got the Blazers broadcast. They didn't send us the back haul, the actual video that they took in the building. So I had to grab that. So that was Natalie Zito. Worst of the week for me right there. Why?

What are you going to do? It's the national anthem. Come on. What broadcast was this? This was the Blazers broadcast. Yeah. You got to take that sound effect off. Oh, that's what you're saying. Come on now. Yeah. No swooshers. No swooshers. You think Danny Boy back in the starters days would put up with that? I don't think so. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. You could put her name up without the swoosh. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. Do you think she could have committed to the bit though?

Just mess it up. 22 years later. Yeah, it'd be very funny. You're a wonderful. Mochi starts running. Yeah, that's what I mean. Just relive it. Yeah.

It'll be great. They'll be like, ah, gotcha. I do like when she gets through the part that she had messed up before. He's like, yeah, she remembered. Yeah. I noticed. I coached her. She still knows it. Yeah, they shared a moment in the afternoon. They met again and had some photos. So it is cool. It is cool.

It's cool, but holy crap, nothing like that to make you feel old. Right? Yeah. Like just watching that going, oh yeah, I remember that.

And now this is 22 years later. It's like, whoa. Oh, my God. We're still doing this? I know we weren't even podcasting when that first one happened. Yeah, Mo Cheeks looked very young back then. I mean, now he looks old. Yeah, he's very gray. Very gray. I think we should see more of this. People who have, like, notable public failures come and redeem themselves. But, like, years later, we had that guy in Weekend Whoopsies, Jeff, who tried to do a pack of this.

Trying to do a backflip. Trying to do a backflip and just land on his head. Just land on his shoulder. Let's see if we can do it. Wow. It's like the tic-tac-toe guys who like max out the X's and O's. Can they finish a game? These are all great ideas. Bring them back. Let's see what Jeff's up to. Jeff. Hey, Jeff.

Yeah, but like, it's one thing to sing an anthem when you're older, but to like do a backflip as you get older becomes more difficult. You couldn't do it 15 years ago, but how about now when you're out of your athletic prime? Oh, that clip is amazing. And his name being Jeff for some reason makes it 100 times funnier to me. Just landing on his head. All right, best of the week. Nice switch up there, Tass. Very, very nice. All right, let's get to our pick-em for tonight. We teased it.

It's the Raps in Utah. Had to go to Raps in Utah. Now, there's other good games out there. There's the Lakers Nuggets. Why don't you go with that? I couldn't believe the Nuggets were 14.5 point favorites over the Lakers. 14.5? That is juicy. Is Luka not going to play that maybe? I guess that's a possibility. It has to be. It's got to be. Why would Luka be sitting out just against the back-to-back? I just told you. They're just running him into the ground possibly here. What's the point?

Come on, what are you, Nico Harrison? The guy can play back-to-back nights. Anyway, King's Sons, there's some other good ones, so this wraps Jaz when it doesn't seem like a very good game. But it's one of the closer lines, and I had to do it because it is a factor here. Yep. And our nut dust standings are not these bad, bad teams, so...

Three of us, though, going with the raps. And I do like that Esh, because we have a rule that all four of us can't take the same team, was sort of forced to take Utah because the three of us took Toronto, had no faith in the Utah Jazz. So Esh had to take it. It would be great to see Esh finally lose a month this year. Yeah, true. It would be great. Yeah, we've had five months, two losses by me, two by Skeets, one by Trey. It's time for Esh to lose. And, yeah, we'll be tied up after tonight, I'm sure.

Utah is just favored by two and a half. I don't even think I said that. That's just an essential pick-em. It is tough to play in Utah, but they're not playing their best guys. They should just not be favored in any game. I don't think. Well, right, they are here. That's crazy. How many points does Jared Roden go for tonight? Or Lawson? Oh, man. Call the high scorer in this game if you can.

Put me down for a Lawson. Okay. Spinballing. Yeah. I'll go Filipowski. Okay. Good. I'm taking quickly because the Raps will sit. They're good players for a game, and then they come back, and then they get rest again. So I think he's playing. Okay. Who knows? All right. So that's the game to watch tonight. Raps Jazz, Utah. Somehow favorite at home by two and a half points, but a lot of us taking the Raps. Okay. Before we go, rapid fire fun. Trey, you got the questions this week. We got the answers. Here we go. Over.

Over at ESPN, Jeff Weiss revealed that Baron Davis is now rapping under the name Bart Oatmeal. Bart, funny name. Yeah. Oatmeal, funny name. That's a perfect fake name. Guys, what's your favorite fake name?

Skeets. Yeah. J.E. Skeets, obviously. But if I had to pick something else, maybe I'm inspired by Bart Oatmeal. I love some classic Simpsons gags where Bart calls Moe at the tavern. My three favorites, I think they're some of the three first ones he ever did. Seymour Butts. Yeah. So good. Ivana Tinkle and Amanda Hug and Kiss. I like all three of those. There are three classics to me. So I'll go with those.

My favorite fake name when I go to Starbucks to order food, it's Peter. I just, I lock that in. I don't want to say Tassos or Tass. That ain't my thing. But I will just tell this quick story of when I was in the hospital, had my brain injury. It was suffering. So nurses would come in and ask me my name.

I would say Peter because that is my fake name. And then they would have to refer to Danielle who happened to be there. She would say, why is he saying that? That's the name he always gives. Now you have to bring him a coffee, unfortunately. Peter. Peter. That's a good one. Sometimes I like Derek.

Oh, you switch it up? Yeah, occasionally. I've said Peter so many times. It just gets a little boring. I like a Derek. See how they spell it. A lot of spellings, yeah. Peter, there's one. There's one. Yeah. Really? Didn't you used to also be like Barry Foster on Facebook? Oh, yeah. Barry Fisher, yeah. Barry Fisher. Barry Fisher. That was weird. That was weird.

They're like, is that Tass? Yeah, that's Tass. That's Barry. That's Barry Fisher. That's when we were starting our profiles for the show. Yep, yep. And you have to have your manager had to, manager of the page had to be the profile name, and I didn't want to use my name. For what reason? I don't know. Just say my name a thousand times. I guess I didn't want to use my Facebook profile. So I went with Barry Fisher, somewhat related to Derek Fisher. That's where it started. I guess.

Very weird. I had a fake name on Facebook. Yeah, Gaylord Menendez. Gaylord Menendez. I'm so happy to remember that. It's still my name when I comment on YouTube. It comes up as Gaylord Menendez. I don't know why. Is that your favorite fake name? No, no, no, no, no. I wouldn't go there. My fake... I've got a couple. Farouk Balsara, otherwise known as Freddie Mercury.

Nice. Great name. Yeah. Great name. Daniel Handler. He's the author known as Lemony Snicket. It's fun to say. Series of unfortunate events. Manfred von Richtofen. That's the Red Baron. Great fake name. And of course, I mean, our favorite here, Mark Sinclair, Vin Diesel.

It's a great rebrand. I love Vin Diesel as a name. Diesel, Vin, it's just great. His real name's Mark. Mark Sinclair. I'm Mark. Mark Sinclair. Oh, yeah. Shawn Michaels' real name, the wrestler. You know Shawn Michaels' real name? I don't think so. It's Michael Shawn Hickenbottom. Hickenbottom. Not at all.

Next one. First time I have seen this in arena bit where the Kings bring out a fan to half court and they have this fan try and stop the gas pump at exactly $25 and zero cents.

It's pretty fun to watch, you know. Here's Tom. Tom pulls up. He's filling up his car. He wants to get it to exactly $25. Then he squeezes the pump and walks away. Are you going to do it, Tom? Of course Tom's going to do it. Very casual two-hand fist pump in the Peja jersey. It's a great feeling if you've ever done this in real life. The perfect pump. So, guys, what's an everyday thing that brings you great joy? Skeet's.

This was tough. I just went with that first morning coffee. Just a nice morning coffee. Wake you up. I'm not a coffee snob, but I like a coffee pretty quickly when I wake up. Okay. And so I'm an espresso machine guy and just hits, man. I get excited. Like I get excited to jump out of bed and go get that coffee. Exactly right. My sort of system is I get out of bed. Luna jumps out of bed too. So then I make the coffee while I take her outside. By the time she's done her business, we're right back in.

Coffee. Crank it through my sis. That's beautiful, man. Yeah, thank you. I thought you were going to say you love how the rain goes through your freshly cleaned gutters. I was going to say that, but I don't do that every day. Yeah, that's a good point. But I am excited after today's show to go home, clean my gutters, because we've got a big storm coming this weekend. And I told you guys, I love the feeling of when it's really storming here in Atlanta. And I know I've just cleaned my gutters. It's like, I know that water's rushing through there right now. Oh, yeah.

Nothing in the way. Not a single obstacle. I love it. That's a great feeling. Can't wait for that rainstorm just to hear it. Because the opposite I hate.

Can't stand when some leaky ass shit going on with my e-straws. Huddling beside my house. Waterman. Homeowners out there, that's the number one thing you gotta be worried about. You gotta watch out for water. Waterman's got vitamins on. Take care of business. But no, I want coffee. Excellent. Both great. Tess. Well, when I'm driving and I drive by a cop and I say, Oh!

I've got to be over the speed limit, but I check it, and I'm under the speed limit, and I feel great. I say, wow. I say, if I can, I'll say a quick hello to the police officer. Way to play it cool. Did you see this? A quick hello. Check me. In your face. Very funny. He's shaking the machine. Yeah. He's like, that guy must have been speeding. Yeah. This doesn't work.

Which happens a lot in Atlanta just because there's hills everywhere. So you know where they're sitting? At the bottom of the hill where we're all speeding. Yeah. You know? Sure. Anyway. They're trying to get you. They're trying to get you. JD? Mine's coffee and espresso related as well. Oh.

But it's different because we have a two-tier system here. We have our company coffee, which no one is allowed to touch except for, you know, basically us. And I only touch it when we're doing a show. But we have our personal family stash back here. And it's in a big box. Oh, wow. And I put all of them in here, like, just willy-nilly. Yeah.

Like going through it with my hands, you know? Oh, it's like poker chips. Yeah. It's so tactile and it's great. And it's like a mystery, right? Like I'll pull out whatever I get. You will just randomly pick one. Surprise me. Yeah. That's good. Great sound too. Do you have a favorite one to pull out? Like is there one that you're most excited about? Blue.

I'm like, "Yes!" That's why you just picked up blue just now.

I'm a Melosio man myself. I'm a Melosio man. Let's Melosio on over to our final rapid fire question. Rookie pranks abound. The Cavs' Jalen Tyson had his car popcorned this week, while the Spurs' Stefan Castle had his wheels removed on his car. That seems way worse. That was rough. That's crazy. Yeah.

He was mad. I would be mad! He was like, "Hey, come on, man!" That's insane! Give me my wheels back! That rim was on the ground too, right? Of the back one? Like the front, when they moved the camera, when Devin Vassell moved the camera to the front one, it looked like, okay, it was jacked up or whatever. It looked normal, but if a rim is on the ground,

You're doing some damage to that ribbage. Yeah. They got to buy a new car. You got to watch your rims. How would you haze a rookie no dunks member, Skeets? I think because we're no dunks and we celebrate them whenever they happen, I think it's got to be a classic give the guy a wedgie. Get a wedgie. That's a great one. Simple. Pull their underwear. And we'd count it, too.

We'd have to count. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll film it. We'll film it and then count it. Count it, send it to Wedgie Tracker. Yeah, exactly. So straight up Wedgie. Watch it back. I don't think you're supposed to be doing that anymore. That was back in our days, right? Yeah, you're not supposed to do it. I mean like bullying, hazing, that kind of thing. It's frowned upon. Sure. Not in our day.

Oh, man. That was pro-hazing back then. Oh, man. Those bus rides when you were, you know, when you were, what do you guys call it? I can never remember what you call it. Freshman. Freshman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We call it grade nine or whatever where we are in Canada. But those bus rides with the seniors will call you to the back of the bus.

You got teachers, coaches at the front of the bus. They know what's going on. Oh, yeah, they do. They're just, like, stripping guys down, taping them to the back of the bus. Like, just pandemonium going on back there, man. The seniors would each get a seat on the bus, their own seat. And the freshmen would be four to a seat. We would have our entire freshman team in, like, three seats on the bus.

But it was just, you know, part of life. And then when you were a senior, or in grade 12. But I swear to God, we were like on the precipice of like, by the time we were seniors, we

it wasn't like you could beat up kids anymore. Right, right, right. We gotta go back. So you got hazed, but you couldn't do... Sort of, yeah. Like, I think our hazing was very light compared to what was going on, where guys were, again, taped upside down in the back of the bus and, like, Bengay down your pants. It's, like, crazy stuff. You're talking my day. Yeah. Yeah.

It's not good. I don't encourage it either, but when you have it happen to you, you do want to dole it out a little bit. How about you, Tess? Well, we get fan mail here on No Dunks and then we read it while on camera we record it. And I would write one and get that new person to read it. Just fake it out. Just like, esh, for

for instance. You know, we'd all do our readings and then I'd pass one to Esh. I'd get Esh to read this. Hey, NoDunks. I'm a baseball fan. My true love is the Tetas Rangers, but you got me into basketball. What's a team besides your team that you, you know, your true love team that you still cheer for? Mine is the Los Angeles Anals. Thanks. Esh would love it, I think.

You feel awkward. That's awesome. Make him read an awkward letter. That's great. That's a good one. Yeah, he'd be blushing. He'd be blushing. Yeah, thanks to the MLB for those new hats.

that literally say "anals" and "tetas" That one's for angels, right? Yeah, they throw the "a" in there. It's kind of like "a-n-a-e-l-s" sort of. There's sort of an "e" but it's too good.

That one you can still buy, right? Yeah, only the tetas are gone. I think. I think so, too. Weird. I know. Why one, not the other? It's like Tess said. It's a bit of a stretch to say just anals. That means just anals. Yeah, the E is kind of... Anals. Yeah. And it's still a word. It's like...

- Ankle's a word. I mean. - That is true. - That's a word. - God, I would love to give you a wedgie while you're wearing an ankle hat. - That'd be great. - Here, put this hat on before I give you a wedgie. - I'm not doing it, not in my head. - Put it on. - JD, how you hazing? - Yeah, back in the day,

I would have, and I think the three original me, Skeets, Tass, and Matt, when we were in college, I would basically make them go toe-to-toe with me, unofficially, with drinking Guinness. Like, we would, you know, it would be like, I would sort of set the tone, and I would keep going and going, and just see if you guys could keep up. And you did. You passed the test. You passed the test. Yeah.

That one's still allowed. What's that? That's still allowed. Yeah, I suppose. I can't do it with you, Drake, because you don't drink. And I haven't done it with Ash yet. And I didn't do it with Jerome. So that's kind of fallen off. And I probably shouldn't. At my age, I shouldn't do it anymore. Yeah, it's going to hurt you more. It's going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you.

For real. I do have a photo of we went out to a bar once. I think it was me, you, and Matt. I don't think Tessa's there. I could be wrong. But anyway, the entire receipt is all Guinness. It's like 40 Guinness. And then there's like one fish trout dip. Yeah. I remember that night. Yeah.

And I was like, I guarantee Matt ordered that. Oh, 100%. And it's just very funny. I'll try and find a photo of it and share it. Where was that place? That was King Street. I can't remember the name of it. But anyways, nowadays it would be pickleball related. Just get... I want us to grow to a team of eight so we have two... We can go out, get two quarts, mix it up, and you gotta beat me. What a ace. You are a god beat. What a ace. You are...

You want our NoDogs team to grow to a team of eight so we can go and play a mini pickleball tournament. Yeah. Like every Friday after the drop. Oh, I see. It's the perfect time to do it. Yeah. It is. We also could do it right now with the four of us. That's true. That's true. And go play too. I'm only a tournament player. I know. Get Esha out here. He wants to play. Yeah. Okay.

Anyway, that's it. Rapid fire. Not so rapid. Hopefully this was a classic. You tell us by hitting the like button, by subscribing, by leaving us a five-star rating and review. Next week, we're back on Monday with NBA weekend winners and losers. Tons of NBA games on. I guess it's Sunday, Selection Sunday this weekend in March Madness. So you know at some point next week we've got to fill out our brackets. Oh, yeah. We've always done that.

Very funny to hear why we take certain teams. We're big Jackrabbits fans. Are they in it? I don't know. Automatic bid? SDSU? I mean, I was going to say I doubt it, but why would I ever know that? Yeah, I mean, they seem to do pretty good in their conference, whatever it may be. I think we're going to be, have you seen this coach? I don't know if he's a manager or coach for McNeese. Have you seen this guy? He's got a great vibe to him.

He just seems like a fun personality, this guy that's rallying his troops. I think they won. Yeah, yeah, McNeese. So maybe we've got to back them for the Final Four. Sounds good to me. I'm changing up our strategy this year.

And my personal strategy. Because I don't really know anything about college basketball, so I always end up picking the teams that have the most NBA prospects. Yeah. And that seems to be the complete wrong thing to do. Right. Because all the NBA prospects are like 19 years old, and the best teams are 25 years old. Okay. Let's just go old teams. Exactly. Know how to run their stuff. Right? Like Auburn, I think, has an older starting lineup than the Oklahoma City Thunder. Jesus. And they're like one of the best. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Turns out the grown men are helpful. All right, that's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. Really? When we're filling out...

I thought I would have heard about them. I know somebody who goes to Auburn. It's close by. Yeah. No, they're hot. They did just lose, but yeah, they fell a little bit. Didn't see one of their hooping games this year. And then Cooper Flagg hurt his ankle. Going to be out for their tournament, I guess. We'll see when he comes back for March Madness. Yeah, they look bad. A little rough. Anyway, we will fill out a bracket at some point next week. We might just make that its own show a little bit later in the week, but hopefully we'll see you then. Until then, Clipper Bros. You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love

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