The Drop | Steph Curry's Greatness & The NBA Oscars
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Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast on The Athletic Network. It's Friday, February 28th, 2025. I'm Jay Skeets, here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, Tass Mellis. Podcast listeners, good morning.

This is for you. Next to him, it's the bearded one, my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Heyo! Heyo! And over yonder, making the magic happen, playing that bop, super producer JD. Bit of a jam, that one. Oh, yeah. We were bobbing along here in the factory. Hello to everybody joining us live on YouTube. Hit the like button, subscribe, podcast listeners, five-star ratings and reviews. Survivor fans!

Survivor 48 premiered on Wednesday night. That meant No Buffs is back with our recaps. And we did that yesterday. We had a blast.

So many laughs, so many hot takes already. It's a classic right from the jump. Perfect time to get in episode one of No Buffs, recapping that premiere episode with Nora, TK, and JD. So go check that out. Link is in the show notes. Did you watch episode one of Survivor 48? I did, yeah. And I watched episode one of the Hollywood Squares. Oh, yes, right, right. They're back to back. A full CBS suite of Wednesday programming. I didn't get through all of Hollywood Squares, I guess.

I don't know who won. The cliffhanger. Two X's in a row. What's next? Don't spoil it. Don't spoil it. On today's show, we're going to hand out some NBA Oscars. The Oscars are this weekend. So we'll do a little NBA twist to ours. Tass, you got a new batch of Worst of the Week nominees. And we'll end with some rapid fire questions. But first...

Steph Curry scored a season-high 56 points, making 12 three-pointers and outscoring Orlando by himself in the third quarter, leading the Warriors to a 121-115 victory over the Magic. This guy, man.

This guy, pretty special. Also on a night where LeBron at 40 years old puts up a monster line in a victory too. The old guy still got it, TK. But let's focus here on Steph, 12 and 19 from deep. His NBA record 26th career game with 10 or more three-pointers. I guess it's true what they say about senior citizens. Though slow and dangerous behind the wheel, they still serve their place in society. And it's hitting three-pointers like crazy.

Steph Curry talked early in the season. He said this year has been a series of one-man plays, and that's kind of what it was like for Curry last night, even though Jimmy Butler is around now. Things have changed. They needed all 56 of these points from Steph Curry. Things kind of turned for him after he hit a half-court heave

at the end of the second half, or at the end of the second quarter. Then, like you said, went crazy in the third. And man, when Curry is rolling, there's nobody more exciting to watch because it's just incredible shot making and watching to figure out how's this guy going to get a sliver of space to get open. There was a lot of jolting.

giant slivers of space. I'll say on some of these Contavious Caldwell Pope, just running around out there. Paolo Boncaro got lost on one on a pump fake as well. They tried everybody. Franz Wagner got a chance. He only got a two in his face. So yeah, well done, I suppose, but great stuff from Steph.

Jimmy didn't play all that well, but you know what he does is he draws fouls. He drew five fouls in the second half. Steph is the beneficiary. He got the free throws. I think he went, what, 12 for 12 at the line? Curry has played eight games with Jimmy Butler so far. He's taken eight or more free throws in four of those eight games. In the 42 games he played prior to Jimmy showing up, three times. Getting in the bonus helps, man. Easy points. The guy's shooting 93% at the line.

He's better at the line than he is from the three-point line. Yeah, something special. What did you think of this one? That was a strange game because the Magic were just huge in comparison to the Warriors. When you're starting Jimmy Butler at 6'7 and Draymond Green as your 4'5, you can get beat. And this Warriors team, despite Steph Curry's 21 in the first half, they were down double digits at half because Steph didn't really have any help.

scoring the ball. They needed somebody. I mean, they lost the minutes when he's sat in that first half by 12. And even when he was on there, he was a minus two third quarter. What does Steve Kerr do?

He brings out Quentin Post to start the second half. We just need a seven-foot guy to come out and help that guy. Basically, as he came out of the tunnel, I mean, he scored after a couple possessions. He scored four straight buckets, four straight possessions where he helped out. And that was monstrous. That gave Steph just another sliver of space. It helped him out tremendously. So Steph had 21 in the first half, but then, yeah, that space helped get him 22 points. I mean, helped tremendously.

is an odd word here because it was all Steph, really. I mean, he just... Some big picks. Yeah, the picks helped. He's a big dude. Another guy who could score. They literally had nobody who could really help him out. Jimmy had a bad night shooting the ball. He wasn't comfortable against these giants, either did Draymond. Brandon Pojemski couldn't score against these giants either. I mean, this is just such a different starting lineup against this Magic team, and that's what we'll see going forward with the Warriors. Can you play...

and Dre to start at the four and five. But yeah, that second half was monstrous with Quinn post out there and Curry just to help them out. And that, as you said, he's probably the most exciting guy. He's just the most dramatic guy when he starts hitting the threes.

And that Orlando Arena was so loud. It was so buzzed. Every shot he took, they were having so much fun. That's part of the fun when the Curry flurry starts to happen or like he hit all those threes at the end. It's like even the opposition arena starts like swelling and the energy starts to build and that buzz. And it's like, oh my God, you really feel like you're witnessing something special because you are.

He's going to be the player 30, 40, 50 years from now, knock on wood, if we're still here, that you are going to tell people that we're not born during this time. Like, oh yeah, like it was something different. Like, yeah, you can watch the highlights, but seeing it in person or seeing it, you know, for 15 plus years, it's sort of next level. Comes to Orlando once.

Put on a great show. Like, you would be very happy if you bought tickets for last night. There was a ton of Curry jerseys. He's celebrating. Like, he was making up celebrations. I thought he was like... At one point, he just kind of like walked like an old man back. He was doing like hand...

kind of claps, encouraging more applause from the crowd, and they're giving it to him. You see a game like that, even if you're a Magic fan, you're like, a tip of the cap to Steph Curry. This was literal Magic to watch this guy play. Yeah, 56 points with a true shooting percentage of 92.5% last night. I saw by way of Ziller's newsletter that it was the 8th most efficient 50-point game in history.

And it was the most efficient 55-point game ever when you're looking at the straight-up metric of effective field goal percentage, true shooting percentage, stuff like that. It's just nuts. And yeah, they needed all of it. That's the other part. You're right. In the final four minutes, he hit three consecutive threes that closed the door. Some other insane stats. The 22 points in the third quarter. That's the 42nd 20-point quarter of his career. That's the most in NBA history. So there's that. And then...

It was his 45th game with nine or more three-pointers made. And that's obviously the most in NBA history. Number two on that list is Damian Lillard with 14. That's the gap. 45 games of nine or more three-pointers and Lillard's second with 14. That is huge. Yeah, I saw that. 45 games at nine or more. And I

Those numbers still don't register, really. It doesn't make sense. But then you drop the second place guy, and that helps out. Yeah, he's a million threes back. It is amazing. And then for whatever reason, February 27th, it's like the Warriors themselves were proclaiming it Steph Curry Day.

This guy has some iconic games on February 27th. We're showing them to you here on YouTube. But, you know, he's got a 54-point game. He's got the 46-point game. He's got now the 56-point game. It was like the, what was it, the nine-year anniversary of the double bang versus the Thunder, that regular season game. Yeah, or, you know, pulled from half court, basically. And one of the most, maybe one of the best regular season games of all time.

in terms of entertainment value. Easily. Yeah. February 27th. Happy birthday, Mom. Hey! Wow, he's doing it for her. Yeah, my mom's a big Steph Curry fan. Wow. Obviously, because he's been very kind to us throughout the years, honestly. Like, Steph Curry has been great to us as a show. So my mom is a fan of him and...

He always does awesome stuff. Was that his first 50-point game in Madison Square Garden? Was that his first 50-point on 2013, way back when? Probably. Prior to the MVPs? I think it was. So yeah, I mean, three iconic games for Steph Curry on the same day. Also interesting, he's almost played 1,000 career NBA games, but Jimmy Butler never had a teammate score 50 points while he was also on the floor.

I guess Derek Rose did it once for the Wolves, but he wasn't out there. He wasn't playing that game. For the Wolves. Yeah. He did for the Wolves. I thought you were going to say for the Bulls. No, I think it was for the Wolves, but Pau Gasol had 46 points when Jimmy was with the Chicago Bulls in 2015. That was the previous high, obviously now Curry with the 56 with Jimmy out there playing along. I guess some B didn't do it. Yeah, I know. Yeah.

I mean, for him to do it on February 27th, I just start looking at that and I say, that's a guy who keeps going throughout the season, obviously, to keep pumping these things out late season. That's what I was thinking watching him run around KCP yesterday. I mean, he was just losing KCP because he just doesn't stop. Every freaking second, that's his motor. He just keeps going and keeps getting open. That's what you got to do. And he has the ability, you sort of slipped it in there, TK, he's so dangerous with the pump fake.

And so KCP, how many times did you just fly right by him? But then it's funny. And Banderro too. Yeah. But then it pays off for him because he does a couple of those and then guys know that's a potential thing where he's going to pump fake you so you don't want to scream at him and go flying by him. So like they come at him a little more reserved. He just lets it rip from there. So it's like, I mean, what are you going to do? He's not going to pump fake you and you're going to fly by or he's just going to shoot right away because you're coming at him not as aggressively to try and block his shot. Yeah. Good luck.

Just incredible stuff here. And yeah, they are rolling since they've added Jimmy Butler. I mean, he didn't have a good game last night. But man, there's no doubt, just like LeBron with Luka, these two guys, the two old guys, you know, they're re-energized. Like they believe now that maybe they have another chance to maybe win another championship and to add to their accolades. And the trickle-down effect of Jimmy Butler coming is Brandon Pujemski looks like another player. He is their secondary player.

right now. I mean, he's their guy. But Jimmy is... Came up with huge offensive rebounds in this game, even though it wasn't pretty scoring. He didn't feel comfortable. It was one of those Jimmy games where he just wasn't ready to shoot. He's like, these guys are too big. Now we're passing. And he kept going, but he came up with some monstrous offensive rebounds to get Quinton Post going. I mean, Quinton Post was...

Big, again, those 18 points, second leading scorer on this team. It helped out. I mean, they just needed somebody. And it was Quinton Post. I see no screen assists for Quinton Post. We need to go back into the tape. Damn. Because the guy was screening. Quinton Post be screening. Don't say he's not. I had him over two and a half screen assists. I lost so much money last night. Five straight wins for the Golden State Warriors. Like you said, they've been great since Jimmy Butler came over. They're only a half game out of the sixth seed.

I think this team is going to make the actual playoffs. I think you're right. I think you're right. Yeah, Curry's averaging 31 points per game on 51% shooting and 43% from deep since Jimmy Butler has arrived.

a little jolt of energy. Maybe Jimmy gave him some big face coffee for all we know. I don't know. Something's clicking. But there is that extra defensive attention that has to focus on Jimmy a little bit. And maybe that gives Curry a little more room to operate. There's the minutes where Curry does... I know last night's game is not a great example of it, but those games where Curry has sat and Jimmy can sort of run the second unit.

It's helping out. And as Steve Kerr said, as great a player and shooter as Steph Curry is, his competitiveness is probably his most underrated quality. He was dying to be back in the mix. Now we're back in the mix. He's energized by that. That's why you made the Jimmy Butler trade, for sure. Any other notes on Warriors Magic? Let's get to some Oscars there, baby. Yeah. The 97th Academy Awards are this weekend.

Sunday night on ABC if you want to watch. Who's the host? Conan O'Brien. Conan O'Brien, yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. So we have decided once again to hold our own award show. It's the NBA Oscars. I got a few categories to present to you guys. We can talk through any of your nominees and pick a winner, play along in the stream team, or podcast listeners tweet at us at NoDunksInc. Your picks. First one, let's start with...

With the granddaddy of them all, Best Picture. And for Best Picture, we are looking for Best Game of the Season. TK, do you have some nominees or did you go right to one that jumped out to you? One jumped out to me, but I'll give you some nominees. Okay. The first Thunder versus Cavs game, Thunder Cavs won, the people are calling it. January 8th, Cleveland won that one, 129 to 122. OKC came in on a 15-game win streak. Cleveland came in on a 10-game win streak.

That was the one I thought of immediately. That one is the game of the year for me, but other candidates, do you want them in chronological order? Sure, why not? Clay Thompson's return game to Golden State, November 12th, kicking off the NBA Cup. Golden State won that one 120 to 117. That's all the captain hats everywhere. Clay Thompson had 22. Hit, ah,

Maybe back-to-back threes in the fourth quarter. Definitely hit two threes in the fourth quarter. Even the chase center was like, oh, this is awesome, even though you're doing it against us. And then guess who took over and won the game for the Warriors? Steph Curry. He's yelling in the camera, I'm still here. I'm staying here. That was awesome. Uh,

Following down Spurs Knicks on Christmas. Yes. Knicks 117 Spurs 114. This is Victor Wemba. Yama's first Christmas game. He had 42 points, 18 rebounds, four assists, a steal and a block. But the hero of the game was Mikhail Bridges, AKA Donald Duck going for 15 in the fourth quarter, 41 overall Josh Hart offensively.

often was Mickey Mouse. He had 12 and 12. That was a great game. And then another Knicks game makes the list of candidates for me here. February 12th against the Atlanta Hawks. Knicks win 149 to 148 in overtime. This is the game where the Knicks were up six with 18 seconds left, but then George Niang hits a three. Carl Anthony Towns, brutal turnover. Dyson Daniels,

gets the steal, makes one free throw, misses on purpose. They get the offensive rebound. Trey Young makes two free throws, but then Jalen Brunson went crazy in overtime to win the game for the Knicks. So those were the four for me that stuck out. Good nominees. Great nominees. I'm going one with that was a little bit more just different acts, just different types of film.

You mentioned the Minnesota Timberwolves. They're hosting Carl Anthony Towns for the first time as he came back as a member of the New York Knicks. It started off just cute. Oh, we love this guy. It was all cheering. Oh, here's our guy coming back. First quarter, though, Julius Randle, who? A guy who's traded for Carl Anthony Towns, comes out and does it against his old team, the Knicks, who are coming into town. And he starts talking trash with the Knicks bench. He had 15 points in the first quarter. First possession, he had a beautiful step back.

Okay, so there's that. But then the second quarter, here comes Carl Anthony Towns to stick it to his old team. He was monstrous in that second quarter. 19 points in the second quarter. He finished with 32 and 20. His first 30-20 game since 2019. One of the best revenge games ever as we went over the other day. Yeah, it was wonderful. There's...

The Timberwolves. The Timberwolves were basically getting booed off their floor. So that was kind of fun in a way to watch that. They were down 22 going into the half. And this is a game that they had been playing well before. They had won 6-7. Their defense was great. But then Rudy Gobert in this game was getting bombed by Carl Anthony Towns. He was a minus 29 in this game. He just wasn't...

Wasn't Rudy Gobert. So it was a great drama there, I thought. And yeah, Mikael Bridges, as you said, Donald Duck, he was great in that game. 29-6. And that was the first game of the Christmas Day slate, too. Yeah, it was that game in Madison Square Garden. It was good. Yeah. I remember it. Yeah, and Anthony Edwards came off the floor, and that was the game where he said...

I mean, quote, they're not going to like what I just have to say, so I'm just going to keep it to myself. There's all this drama. He just wanted to talk some trash about his teammates, but he didn't want to talk trash about his teammates. So, fun one there. I ultimately went with the one you led with there, the best game of the season. To me, is that Cavs beating the Thunder 129-122. So, you look at the final score and you're like, well, there's no game winner or something like that. But...

It was intense. It had like a little finals vibe to it because of the winning streaks. And maybe we see it come June, Cavs versus Dunder. 30 lead changes. And I love a game where neither team leads by like a huge amount. Like, I mean, it's the NBA. You can come back from any lead and we see it every single night.

No lead more than nine points, though. So it was like, you know, the window stayed tight. It was always a back and forth affair. I love those games sort of more than a giant comeback in some weird way. So it's a great game. That's a good one. All right, next one. Tass, you get to start it here. Best actor who gets the award. I guess best player this season is probably how you'll approach it. I'm going with Nikol Jokic. Best player this season. Best version of himself, surprisingly. How he's gotten better this year.

It's amazing when you think about that. And just the plays that he's hit, like that three-quarter bomb he hit against Sacramento Kings. It was a baseball bomb. He threw it like he was throwing a baseball. He chucked it in. It was three-quarters of the court, and he just wanted to walk off the court. He wasn't excited. Not at all. Every single guy on his team wanted to cheer with him and get excited. That's why Jokic, maybe he's not the best actor because he doesn't have a lot of different –

Yeah. He only does one thing. He's like Tom Cruise. Same guy. Same guy always. True. Sometimes his name is Jack Reacher. Sometimes his name is Ethan Hunt. Right, right. There was a time when he hit the game winner against the Lakers in the playoffs, the step back. Oh, yeah. He did react to that a little bit, but he doesn't. You're totally right. He's not that emotive. But the passing as well. I mean, he is the best passer in the game.

What he's doing every single time. So he's the best actor to me. He's the best passer of all time. He's the best passer of all time? Yes. Yeah. I feel confident saying that. Yep. A lot for Magic Johnson, huh? I mean, Magic Johnson was great. That doesn't mean I'm dissing him. I think Jokic has had better passes and I think sees the floor a little differently than everyone else for the most part. And has the balls to throw them, too. He was just brought up like this guy likes to work when there's like eight guys in the way. It's incredible. But yeah, Jokic's numbers are insane.

29.2 points per game, 12.6 boards, 10.4 assists, nearly two steals, almost a block, and he's shooting 57% from the floor and still 44.5% from deep. On the most threes he's ever taken. Yeah, that's the thing. The three-point shooting. If we're looking at a modern-day actor, modern-day game, how he's gotten better from the three-point line. Because he's just an average three-point shooter throughout his career. 36%. That's average. And how he's taken it to another level way after his MVP season's.

Okay, it's tough to argue. Jokic, best actor, but do you give it to him or do you go SGA or somebody else? I think Jokic is clearly the best player in the league. He's having his best season and he's not going to win MVP, but he's third in scoring, third in rebounding, and second in assists, and then obviously leads every advanced category that's out there. And it just comes down to me, the Nuggets are second in offense and 28th in three-point shooting. That doesn't seem to add up in 2025 basketball, but they've got Nikola Jokic and nobody else does.

Right now, the MVP tracker on Basketball Reference does have Jokic at 71%, you know, as the leader. But I'm sort of with you, TK, because of OKC's pretty dominant record in the Western Conference. And as great as SGA has played and been a runner-up, and he might win this thing, and that'll be cool. He has 22.3%. And then it's like Giannis, Karl-Anthony Towns, Tatum...

And then like four Cavaliers. And Sabonis is in there as well because of the rebounding. But Mobley, Jared Allen, Darius Garland, and Donovan Mitchell are all on the top 10 MVP tracker. Wins help, huh? Yeah, definitely.

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All right, let's go to the next one here. Best supporting actor. I think there's two ways you can look at this. Either the best secondary player on a team,

Right? So, you know, if Jokic is the best player on the Nuggets, then you're going to like maybe look at Jamal Murray or something like that. Or is it like the best never all-star, right? Someone that's never really gotten any sort of big role or big accolade. So however you want to approach it, TK, who's your best supporting actor in the NBA? I don't know if this guy fits in either of those categories, but a men Thompson?

Okay. He's everybody's second favorite player. You probably have a favorite player, but Alman Thompson is number two. Didn't make an all-star team this year. Didn't make a rising stars. They kind of made the all-star team as well. So I don't know. But yeah, he's obviously had an explosive season. He went, he was a,

on the bench to start the year Jabari Smith went down and he went into the starting lineup and there ain't no way he's ever coming out. Even when Fred Van Vliet comes back, we'll see what they end up doing. But I do like Amin Thompson as one of the choices here. I'll also throw a nominee vibe to Avica Zubats, one of the most underrated players in the game. Like, he could make an all-defense team. You know, he's...

like near 20 and 10, just feasting off James, James Harden bounce passes. I also like maybe throwing Jimmy Butler some love here as a number two guy, kind of being a number two guy for the first time in his career alongside Steph Curry, or at least the first time since way back when. And then I think who my ultimate choice would be for best supporting actor is Josh Hart. Josh Hart has seven triple doubles this season. He'll never make an all-star team.

No chance. No, no chance. Come on. But he's fifth in the league in triple doubles. And the guy's just all heart out there, even though that one has an E and just has a straight up H. But he plays a ton of minutes and he does a ton of stuff out there. And he does all the little things that the Knicks need. So he's literally supporting their team.

It's good. He's the rare supporting actor that's in the film for 90% of it, though. Yeah, that's true. It's not a cameo role. No, no, it's not at all. But I like all those nominees. Yeah, they're good. Anyone else to add, or do you go with one of them? I went with a second guy on a team. I went with Darius Garland because he's kind of a guy who was an all-star a couple years ago, and people were wondering, oh, maybe he's got to go to a different production house.

play with a different director or he can shine a little bit more and somehow he's become an all-star. He's become amazing. Some people will say he's the best Cleveland Cavalier over Donovan Mitchell. That's wrong. But anyway, he is having his best season. 62.6% true shooting because he's awesome. And he had a 40-point game against the Raptors where they came off the floor and Kenny Atkinson said, oh, that wasn't a good game for us. It was a clunker. Oh,

That was a game where we all weren't working together, and this guy operated as if he was the best actor, and they needed him desperately, 40-9 that game. So I'm just excited to see him in the playoffs, see what he can do. I'm going to go with Norman Powell for my best supporting actor. Zubats was a nice call, but man, what a season. Guy is still averaging over 24 points per game, and he's shooting 50% from the field, 42%.

from three and over 80% from the line. So this guy's putting up like a 50-40-80 season and scoring a ton and on a good Clippers team and it's like this sort of came didn't come out of nowhere because you know he had shown glimpses of this even when he got to LAC and we saw like again way back in his Raptors days but for him to consistently like that's the most that's the toughest thing to do in this league.

Almost every guy in this league can do it for a week or two. Seriously, like can catch fire and hit a bunch of threes and score a bunch. He's done this now for the entirety of the season. So I'll give him my best supporting actor. Yeah, you said best player to not make an all-star team. This guy had his year here to make the all-star team. It didn't happen. Unlikely he ever makes one. Can he have a better year than this? That would be amazing. You said Jamal Murray is sort of a secondary guy. He's probably, I think, the best guy to not make an all-star team.

If he doesn't ever make it, he'll be that guy. I think he'll be that guy. You know, passing Derek Harpers or your Rod Strickland. You know, those types of guys. Because he's getting older and he hasn't made it and he won a title. I still think he's going to make one.

You're right. He's getting older. He's still young. He's still young enough for sure. All right. Let's go to best original screenplay. Okay. Favorite storyline of the season. Tass, you get started. I'm just going with OKC and Shea in general because finally the NBA is deciding we've got to push this guy. We've got to push this guy. They flexed their schedule to get that game on.

Good call. That OKC and Cavs game, they never flex their schedule like that. I mean, they do occasionally, but that was like, okay, we got to get this guy on TV. They did it twice, and he came through. His team came through. I mean, they started putting him on those opening graphics where he's standing there looking cool. His shoes were untied. This is a different thing. And, yeah, he's followed through, obviously. So OKC, that tiny little market thing.

has become such a big team this year so yeah that's my thing okay that's my thing this year original screenplay going with that favorite storyline what do you got uh i got some nominees uh luca to the lakers is a huge one yeah yeah that's trade deadline trade deadline in general it's like a lord of the rings situation where there are several pieces to it and you got to take in all of them so maybe it's not until uh return of the king that they actually win best pictures but uh

Yeah, Luka to the Lakers. The entire Jimmy Butler trade saga, I think, carried us content-wise for way too long, if we're being honest. Like a month and a half when it should have been like two weeks. But that was awesome. The Pistons being good, I think, gets a nomination here. How about the Cavs starting the season 15-0? Yeah. Nobody expected the Cavs to be this good, but they've been good since the beginning, and they've kept it up since then. So I feel like their explosion this year is kind of

Been forgotten because it happened right at the beginning of the season. They blocked in the one seed and they've been able to hold onto it the entire time. And for me, this might act, it might be like a short film, but Paul George waiting until the season was over to give up podcasting and focusing on basketball for

Best comedy of the year, for sure. Too funny. It's very funny. And also, let's, like, to go back to your, like, flexing in Thunder games, can we flex out Sixers games at this point? There are so many nationally televised games. I think there's another one this weekend. I mean, I get it. I feel for the schedule makers. We all thought the Sixers would be one of the best teams in the East, so it would make sense to put them in a lot of marquee games, but...

Let's get them off. I think they're on the main game on Saturday night this weekend. Not a doubt. That's a surprise. We've got to get in the office and help them out. Why weren't the Lakers flexed in yesterday? We talked about why it wasn't on national TV. Why it wasn't on TNT? TNT only had the one game on national TV. What's that? The Bucs-Nuggets and then the Lakers-Wolves. It was just there. Luka's just there. If it's just flipping a switch, I know it's not flipping a switch, but...

You don't even need your production team out there. Just let, just let Stu do it. Right. I mean, just, just, just get the Lakers broadcast on. Sure, sure. Just let Stu do it. Yeah. Who cares? Bucks Nuggets was pretty good though. Yeah, it was good. Bucks Nuggets was good. Great stuff from Damon Yonest. Uh,

But I'm not saying take them off. You started earlier. Yeah, I started a little earlier. Yeah, I've seen those Lakers. What was airing on TNT after the Bucks-Nuggets game? Probably Bones. Bones? Yeah, probably. Burn Notice? Is that back in reruns? I don't know. Star Wars movie or something like that? I don't know. Those always do well, I'm sure. Weird. Strange. Strange, strange, strange. I'm going to go with, I know it's recency bias. I know. But favorite storyline is the Pistons right now. This is really, really fun. You said that. I mean, the win streak.

obviously beating the Celtics. They're having a lot of fun. It's cool. Like if you kept believing in Cade Cunningham when everyone was crapping on him, it's nice to see him getting some shine here now. So I'll give the Pistons again. They were the worst team arguably ever with that losing streak last year. And for them to be in a playoff race and to be maybe in the playoffs, that's awesome. All right, final one here. Best visual effects ever.

We're looking for the best play or highlight or whatever you got, really, but something specific. Where are you going? You want nominees? Yeah. All right. Ja Morant dunking on Victor Wembyn-Yama.

It didn't count. We all saw it. And it was awesome. And I'll never forget it. Shaden Sharks dunk. Gets a mention. Absolutely. Trey Young hit a 50-foot buzzer-beating game winner against the Utah Jazz. That was pretty sweet. John Morant sat on his butt and threw an alley-oop to Santi Aldama. That was a good one. Yeah, that was one I'd forgotten about until I went back and watched all these random plays. I saw a guy named Todd make a 90-foot shot.

at pickup basketball on Thursday night. Longest shot I've ever seen in my life. 90 footer. - Why'd he shoot that? - Time was running out. He just chucked it. - Time was running out. - Yeah, we play seven minutes. He just chucked it. Slightly different celebration than the Nikola Jokic one. People went crazy. I can't believe it, man. It was insane. But my choice for best visual effect has an actual effect on it. It's when Karl-Anthony Towns dunked

Nearby on Victor Wimbonyama. This was on Christmas day during the Disney game. Oh yeah. Cat was literally goofy. And then they showed him running back down the court and he looks exactly like goofy. He's built too much. The celebrations are perfect. So, uh,

I gotta go with my man, Goof. Carl Anthony Towns. He is goofy to me from now on. That was an incredible broadcast. We were so into that. Like we already talked about, yeah, the Mikael Bridges, Donald Duck, three-point celebration, all the other plays. But man, that three-pointer that Goofy fires up as cat, like it's...

They nailed it. It's all, yeah. It's like, that's literally how Kat shoots and sort of walks. So funny. So good. They've got the arms perfect. I mean, that looks like them. It just looks like them. Oh, it's so good. So good. Do you have any other nominees or winners? Well, the trade game winner was the one for me. Just because it was, that was 94 feet of fun. Because Utah wanted to tie the game. They're down three. They inbound it. Dyson Daniels, the Hawks, gets his hand on it. Goes to Collin Sexton, who ties the game.

And then the Hawks don't have a timeout. So they go the other direction. Just...

They have no time. 2.8 seconds. Trey, bang. Bang. And he didn't even expect it, man. He was smiling after. Usually he's just like, okay, I'm going to bow for you. But he was just like, wow, that's awesome. That was awesome. Other nominees, you brought it up the other day because we were talking about the sharp dunk. That John Morant, whatever, double pump reverse against the Celtics, it is pretty sick. And I did see Vince Carter saying, that was awesome.

Yeah. I thought that was one of the best dunks of the year. Ant on ant crime when we had Edwards cramming on Anthony Black. It's good. It's good. Despite Anthony Black cowering, it almost makes it funnier. Like in midair, he's crouching. Keontae George on Jalen Duren. Big ass dunk. And that's a small guy on a big dude in Duren. That one was powerful. And it was from very early in the season, maybe the first week or two. Christian Brown had like that...

two-hand slam on Rudy Gobert in that Nuggets-Wolves game. So that was a good one too, but I'm with you. I'm going goofy. Yeah.

Cat is goofy. The visual effects, I mean, that's what the award is. So, so good. We've almost had a lot of things happen from the butt this year. The alley-oop that you said, I wish Anthony Edwards was ejected while he was on his butt yesterday because he started complaining. He got up and started complaining. He almost got ejected from the butt. From his butt. Yeah, so most things have happened from the butt this year in NBA history, I think. Okay. Yeah, that Jimmy Butler moment, of course. All right.

All right. So those are our NBA Oscars. Will you guys watch any of the Oscars on Sunday night? No. I'm not an award show watcher. No. Have you watched any of the best pictures? I've watched three of them. Okay. What have you watched? I've seen Dune 2, Conclave, and Wicked. Okay. I've seen two of them. I haven't seen Wicked yet. I would pick Dune 2 over Conclave.

Yeah, okay. D2 is sweet. People are saying, I guess, Anora is the favorite to win. Seems like it. I'll watch that for sure. People are saying maybe Conclave, though. Brutalist, I guess. I haven't seen it. Same. Yeah, we need some of these to come to streaming. Nickel Boys as well, I would love to see. A Complete Unknown, I'll watch it. The Substance, I'll watch it. The other two, I'm not that interested in. Best movie I saw in 2024 was maybe, or 2024 movie, Flow. It's nominated for Best Animated Picture. Basically a silent movie. Yeah.

about a cat who is stranded in a flooded earth. How does this cat survive?

Wow. It's friendship that does it. Okay, it's very good though, eh? Oh, it's beautiful. Okay, hopefully it wins. Wow, spoiler alert. Jeez. Well, we know the cat survives, I guess. And friendship is the key. Come on, Jay. You think he's going to do it alone out there? It would be a weird movie. Especially if it's already silent. Yeah. All right, I'll have to watch that. Let's get to Worst of the Week. Ladies and gentlemen, the Worst of the Week. Woo!

Three nominees for you, and the first nominee is So Sixers. This is David Roddy missing a three-point shot so badly it takes out his own teammate. It just knocks down Adam Bonick because it hits him right in the head. And Adam Bonick literally hits the ground, and that's just So Sixers, period. Now...

It looks awesome. Yeah, it does look great. Adam Boda's grappling underneath the hoop. It's just perfect timing. He's kind of getting yanked down at the same time the ball hits him in the face. It's the Sixers season. You know what? Don't flex the Sixers off of national television. We need more of that. Some hijinks.

They lost that game by 50 as well. That's a good call, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That was the game they definitely stopped playing basketball and quit. Second nominee, it's the Spurs' Jeremy Sohan for a very odd thing that happened. He kind of just runs into the front row and he basically knocks food out of this man's

And then he reaches down and picks up the chicken tender with his hand. He puts his hand on food and gives it back to him. So just strange that you kind of fondled this chicken and gave it back to him. Now, some people don't like that. Sean Elliott on the broadcast said five second rule. That's cool. Five second rule, I agree. But why don't you give the guy who's eating it

the opportunity to pick it up instead of you as a basketball player well it was so much behind that little barrier right yeah they're playing the alamo dome yeah right so it's a different seating there's a barrier it wasn't just yeah but i don't know you just you just fondled the guy's tender i think i think the fault here for jeremy is maybe you pick up the tender five second rule i do agree with that and you give it to the guy

Because did he not put it right back in the basket? It's like, give the guy the option of, do I want to now eat this? Not only was it on the floor, but now your sweaty hands have touched it. Give it to him in his hand.

Yes. Or put it on the barrier. Like, don't put it back in the basket. It just looks so weird. He fondled that man's tender. Yeah. He should have fed him. Yeah. Or take a bite. I love any time an NBA player or athlete eats food. Yeah. Totally. Always funny. Or drinks a drink. Give me a little popcorn. Whatever. Why doesn't that guy contact us? I would like to interview him.

about that situation the fan and what happened I just want to know what he thinks think he got sick maybe maybe I don't know I guess it's possible a lot of things going around last nominee here it's it's phenomenal it's an addition of Family Feud being played during a timeout of a Cavs game so you can just listen to it here it is name a place where you often find an elevator a hotel name a popular New Year's Eve tradition

Oh, try again, I'm sorry. Dating. The whole, try the elevator question again. Hotel. Try it again. Uh, fuck. Uh, apartment. All right, and, uh, toast and champagne. All right, name a New Year's Eve tradition. Sex.

So many things happened there. That's the second round of the family feud, so that's why he couldn't repeat that answer. So you have to go back on that, but there's so many things. It's a tough in-arena game to play. There's a lot of moving parts. There's many moving parts. I'm glad JD didn't bleep out

the fuck that we heard there because it was just fitting everybody everybody at the same time saying oh oh should have sworn uh so good well and then let's not overlook the uh what was the question new year's celebration tradition sex sex drop some straight sex all right

All right. We're done. You lose. But happy new year. What was the first question where the answer showed eggs? Yeah, so we didn't hear the question. Yeah, I was curious. What's the most common breakfast food? Yeah, maybe. What's super expensive right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What can't you afford right now? What does Skeets love? Eggs. Eggs. Great nominees. Very good. Very good. What's your winner if you had to pick?

That Cavs thing was painful to watch. I guess...

know I love the Cavs thing but I do love Jeremy Sohan picking up that chicken tender just give it to the guy that was pretty funny hey man dropped your tender we might have to add one more nominee to worst of the week let's hear your opinion on it at least Anthony Edwards is facing an automatic one game suspension after picking up two technical fouls last night in that loss to the Lakers he's got 16 now total for the season and

And he will have to sit out tonight's road game against the Jazz unless one of those techs against LA is rescinded upon review by the league office. It's possible, but he didn't do himself any favors when he did eventually get tossed on the second technical and held onto the ball, chucked it up into the stands, whatever.

I think it's unlikely they get rescinded. Yeah, that was the problem. I was like, I think Tim McMahon said it recently on the Hoop Collective podcast because he obviously covered Luka Doncic for a long time and Luka was always flirting with 16 technicals on a season and a suspension. And he mentioned that for the superstars, when they get to 15, 16 technicals, it's not surprising that they get called on the court and then they often get rescinded afterwards because we want to see these guys on the field.

Right. Yeah. But you throw the ball into the crowd. They're probably not going to look too favorably on what happened preceding that. Who knows what Ant said while he was on the ground, but apparently enough to get a second tech and get tossed and just disappointing. Honestly, like they need Anthony Edwards out there. I think this has been kind of a trying season for him.

The Timberwolves have been really streaky, and I think a lot of that is because Edwards has been sort of up and down, particularly in the clutch. Like, he's having to assume a leadership role this season now that Karl-Anthony Towns has been traded. Julius Randle hasn't been healthy. Mike Conley's taken a step back, so maybe he doesn't have quite the same voice. And I just don't think it's gone perfectly for Edwards, considering everybody expected him to take over and become the face of the league this year. It hasn't happened. Yeah, and then he responded at All-Star saying, I don't want to be face of the league.

I don't want to do that. And then he goes out and has this moment. I don't think there's any way they rescinded. There's too much. I don't think so. I think you could literally make a better case that he should be suspended an additional game for throwing the ball into the crowd. You can't do that. He won't. He went underhand, didn't he? Yeah, he did. It was a gentle throw. A gentle toss. It was like, I'm not giving you the ball back because I'm still frustrated, so I'm just going to throw it over here. I wouldn't suspend him. Yeah.

Yeah, I agree. I wouldn't suspend him, but it's a great point by Tim McMahon where he said you kind of just see referees, if they give them a tech, it gets rescinded because they want to see everybody on the floor. And so even the referee, I think,

I think that he gets talked to by Monty McCutcheon in the referee's office and says, don't give guys technical fouls for nothing. Well, the first tech was a classic. Both of you were getting it, right? Was it Vanderbilt? Yeah, he shoved Jared Vanderbilt at the end of the first, or it was during a timeout. He shoved him. So they both got a tech there, and then he gets a second with the complaining that he thought he got fouled. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But no, he's been a bit of a temper boy, if we're being honest. Just like Luka. Gotta get him a t-shirt. According to ESPN Research, Edwards, first player to receive 16 technical fouls before March since... Rasheed Wallace? No. Good guess. Raymond? That's the guess. No. 16-17. DeMarcus Cousins? Yay! Nice pull. Very nice pull. So he's already there. And I think I also read he has four technical fouls in four games since the All-Star break. Yeah, it does. So again...

Coming in hot here. But going to miss a game. He's likely going to miss this game. Now they're playing the Jazz. Maybe they get the victory without him. But still not good here moving forward. Because what is it? Every now two you get another game? Every two. Right. So when he gets 18, he would get another game suspension. When he gets 20, he would get another one. So see if he can get rid of that.

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All right, pick them.

Last night, I don't even remember what happened. I lost. No, I won. I won. Lakers. Lakers won. We're still doing this. We're still doing it. We're still doing it. And they start mattering again on Monday. That's right. That's right. Monday, eventually March, and we will do it all over again. We'll all be 0-0 come Monday. And you'll be paying off your pick and loss for the month of February. But...

Why not see the month out? Yes, why not see the month out with a game that matters? Let's go. Not so much for our pick-em, but for the actual game. The Cavs going to Boston. Hell yeah. Match number three for these two.

And Boston favored by two and a half. They've split the first two. That's basically a pick-em. Who do you think is going to win is really what we're getting at. It doesn't matter. Boston wins by three either. Although, they ended up being both close games. You know, injuries. Could be a one or two point victory for Boston in the cast cover, but you're right. Yeah, so a couple of us, Trey and I, think Boston will win. Okay. Yeah, I think they're just going to bounce back.

After what happened to the Pistons. Yeah, they were on a win streak too. It would have been awesome to see them both coming into this game on win streaks. But, you know, Pistons played incredible in their win over the Celtics. Beat them by 20. I just feel like the Celtics are ramping up right now and they'll probably take this game very seriously. Yeah, that one's on ESPN tonight. 7.30 Cavs-Celtics. 25 games on this weekend. I was going to say the Celtics will very likely be a winner of the weekend on Monday or potentially a loser of the weekend because they play the Cavs tonight and they play the Nuggets.

on Sunday at 1 o'clock on ABC. So two huge games for the Celtics against two really good teams, but in their own barn. So we will see. All right, me and Ash have the Cavs. And like I said, Tass will start his February pick-em payoff on Monday. It's going to be good. Looking forward to it. I am. All right. Before we go, some rapid-fire fun.

I got the questions. You guys got the answers. First one, it already won an NBA Oscar here, according to Trey. But amid a long losing streak, Paul George announced this week that he was taking a hiatus from Podcast P to focus more on improving his physical and his mental conditioning as the 76ers try and salvage their season. What's something you need to take a break from, Tess?

Well, I will go into my garbage, just throwing something in the trash, and I will see something which I deem capable of being recycled. And I will literally go through the garbage to grab stuff. Right. I'm a raccoon. I'm literally going through garbage because Danielle, my wife, threw something in the garbage, which she deemed to be garbage. She has made a compromise with me in marriage to recycle things

that she didn't use to recycle. She cares about it now, like I do. So when she throws something in the garbage, she really doesn't think that it's recyclable. But I still, still am wondering.

even though we've made this beautiful compromise that I think, well, maybe. And then I end up looking at two, three things. I literally have my hands in trash and that stuff doesn't matter. Don't ever hand me a chicken tender. Right. Yeah. Disgusting. And it doesn't really matter. So you're going to try and take a break from this is what you're saying? Yeah, I'm not going to put my hands in trash anymore. That's basically what it comes down to. Good idea. Do you know what all the symbols mean? Like the number, like, you know, they got like the three arrows with a two inside of it or something. Do you actually know what they mean? No.

No. I know that we can recycle two through seven. Okay, yeah. Guaranteed. Two, three, four, five, six, seven can be recycled. One is different. Have you really looked into recycling here in Georgia, though? What do you mean, looked into recycling? Like, looked into random trash cans? Whether they're doing it. Hey, he's trying to take a break, man. I know, I know. I don't want to go down this path. Most depressing podcast ever was The Planet Money about...

Yes. Yes. Yeah. Well, have you been in a recycling center? Oh. Like, you actually see what they get, how they do it. I know, I know. That's what matters. It makes me depressed. Sort of. Oh, yeah, it's depressing, yeah. Two through seven is good, though, huh? Those things are like hieroglyphics to me. They could mean anything. Yeah. That and, like, washing instructions on a tag. I hate that. Like, schools. Oh, yeah, the symbols. A basin with an X through it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. Yeah.

I have no idea what these means. They have some sort of universal meaning. Somebody out there can decipher the cuneiform. Wouldn't it be so much better if they all had a little QR code on them? And we just go, boom. And it tells you exactly what you need to know. How you can recycle it, what you can. You can return it. I kind of do. But I'm literally taking photos of tags.

In a piece of clothing to see. I'm doing the same thing. Should I wash this? I just pictured Tass in his kitchen, maybe a sheet down, and he's pulled out every piece of garbage. It's like a crime scene or something, trying to catch somebody. Don't give me ideas. All right. Now you're taking a break. What about you, TK? Girl Scout cookies. My daughter is a Girl Scout, and she sold a bunch of cookies. They got delivered to our house. I don't know.

three weeks ago and I've just been eating Girl Scout cookies non-stop. Like, to the point where I'm excited now to look on top of the fridge and we only have three boxes left. Half a box of Dozy Do's, half a box of Thin Mints, and a full box of Adventure Fools. Oh, bring those Adventure Fools in! You like them? Those are the boss!

They're new to the game. I love those. I don't know what they are. They're like a dark chocolate with a little peanut butter puddle on top. Yeah, it's good. That's my favorite. I'll bring you one. Oh, jeez. I only got three boxes left. It's funny you brought this up. I bought a bunch of boxes from my goddaughter and I went through them all. I only got adventure bowls because it's my go-to. But they're diabolical. They have made the size of that box, I think, the perfect size and the amount of cookies in it. And what I mean is like,

You know, like, because they have those little rows, right? But they're pretty spaced out. So, like, you eat a row, no problem. You're taking down four or five cookies, no problem. They're pretty tiny. But then you're like, oh, there's not many left.

You know, like you get into this thing where it's like, well, I might as well just finish it. Might as well get recycling. Why save it? Yeah. Like, why save it? They're preying on your OCD. Yeah. Exactly. I can't leave one cookie in just that one row, so I got to eat that one now. And now that maybe the box is, you know, a little uneven, well, I might as well take down another row.

They're so good. Yeah. Yeah, I always feel bad when I don't buy girl guide cookies from somebody. I saw someone outside Target. I text Danielle, hey, should I buy these? She said, no. We're already buying some. From us. Exactly. Oh, yeah. People take that very seriously down here, like your supply chain. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Definitely. Yeah, I guess. Some drama in

in the administration. Drama with the deliveries. Just wait, people. They'll get to you, okay? Damn. They had their prom last year, too. Hey, supply chain. This was the fastest I've ever gotten mine, though. Yeah, it came quick. Wow, look. I don't want to get into it. I can't throw anybody under the bus with regards to our supply chains. But it seems to be local problems. JD, what's something you need to take a break from?

I'm with Podcast P. I could use a break from this podcast. You know what's killing me? It's the Is This Bad podcast. It's not this podcast. Oh. Is This Bad is killing me. You got to do quite a bit of research for that. There's research, which I don't mind. I just have to watch movies that I don't like. Like, I already know I don't like it. The whole concept is to see if maybe I was wrong.

You're never wrong. God damn it. It's just such a slog. I have to watch a movie this weekend. What's on the docket here? We got Bohemian Rhapsody. Two hours and ten minutes. That movie sucks. I know. Okay. What? Who?

Whose idea was that? Mattio threw it out. I was like, I guess. Because it won Best Picture. Oh, yeah. Anyways. It wasn't that bad. It's bad. It's not good. It's bad. It's not good. And Rachel's all pissed because she loves Rocketman, which is the Elton John one, which is an actual musical. And I actually like that one, too. So, I don't know. Anyways, I got to watch Bohemian Rhapsody this weekend. It's just like, oh, God. It's

Anyway. He's just a poor boy. Nobody loves him. All right. Next one. Sticking with podcasts here on Wednesday's Draymond Green podcast, Kevin Durant explained why he wasn't interested in being traded to the Warriors at the deadline. It wasn't due to any animosity with Green or backlash he might receive from going to the Bay again like he did in 2016. No, for Durant,

His desire to stay in Phoenix had far more to do with pedestrian matters, such as the pain of packing up and moving in the middle of the season. Quote, I didn't want to move. Ha ha.

End quote. Hey, moving sucks. Almost everybody agrees with that. But I want to know, do you have your worst moving story? Either yourself or helping someone, I guess. Well, moving does suck. So I'm piggybacking a story I had a couple weeks ago where I put a dresser out onto the curb. I lost...

of my ties that I forgot were in there. A couple flasks. My man Dave sent and gave me a flask when I was in his bridal park. We had a wedgie 50. I lost that wedge. I lost that flask. I never used it anyway. Anyways, it's gone. That move was just bad because I also was getting rid of those Ikea units. They're like, they're cubbies. I have a 5x5. I had one. Those big ones. They're mantras. It's so mantras. And I was trying to

Carry it out with a friend of mine and we have that front staircase at our old house. It's an L shape It's got like a 90 degree turn so when you're carrying a monster and I was on the bottom and it was frickin raining I was on the bottom like an idiot and so we got down I got down onto that that second part of the staircase, but when we tried to turn that corner it just hit the wood it hit the hit the the banister and I slept

And that thing was luckily, that thing's monstrous, luckily got held up by the banister. Oh, it got caught on one of the cubby holes or whatever. Well, no, just the ending, the bottom corner got caught on the banister. Not just the banister, there's two banisters, thankfully, somehow. I think that second part of the banister, because there's a big wide part that you use, and then there's a second part that's just more art that's just sort of added on. It doesn't do anything. But it got clipped to that and stayed on that, and if it didn't,

I mean, I might not be here today. I might be dead. I literally could have died that day because of that IKEA thing that I was taking down to the stairs when it was raining. So stupid. Trying to recycle it. I was giving it to somebody. I don't think they ever got it, though. I don't think they ever picked it up. That one guy that I pulled it down from was so stupid. All right, that's a classic moving story. What do you have, TK? Okay.

When I moved to Toronto from Lombard, it was quite the ordeal. It started like we...

We moved out of our house a month before we were going to be moving to Toronto. No problem. We lived with our best friend for a month, but then it turned into two months because there was a postal strike in Canada. So all my paperwork was delayed by literally a month. When we finally got the clearance to be able to go, we had to leave and come back to the same house three times because specifically I was forgetting stuff the entire time. Like, had to go take my Comcast DVR box and I left it at Adam's. Oh, yeah.

And then I forgot the paperwork that had to go with that, so we had to go back to Adam's. I don't know what the third time was, but we've been trying to leave for 60 days, and then it took us three hours to actually leave when we did. It was just a long time. How long did you end up living in Canada for? Like 20 months. 20 months or something like that. Okay, I thought it was even less than that, so that sounds not too bad. What about you, JD? What's your worst moving story?

I have many. But the worst was hired a sort of fly-by-night moving company. They were supposed to get there at 12 p.m. They arrived at 8 p.m. So we're literally moving in the middle of the night, basically. It was brutal. After sitting there, you guys coming? They had booked back-to-back-to-back-to-back moves. And by the time they got to my place...

It was just two guys. And they were just like, these two Russian guys, they're just like... Finally, they were like, do you actually want to... You do want to move today? Like, kind of thing. I'm like, yeah. Yeah, yeah. They were like, yeah, you know what? Actually, we're good. We're actually going to stay. We're staying, guys. Don't worry about it. The move's off. They're like...

Okay, fine. And then they moved us, but, oh, God. They were, like, from 8 to midnight, and then it's midnight, and you're full. Like, we're in our new apartment, and it's just, like, just boxes everywhere. Have to build the bed. Have to, like, just get all the basics. Yeah. Anyway, it was brutal. And I had to work the next day, so...

Damn. Not good. No, not good. I would just add to that, the worst moving story is always anytime you go to help a friend move and they haven't boxed anything up yet. Oh, my God. That drives me insane. Too old for that. I just like literally just walk in and just walk right back in. I mean, now at this point, yeah. But when you were younger and you obviously helped friends move and you're like, yeah, I'll help you move. And then you show up and you're like, oh, my God. That's...

That's not the moving is actually my body moving, picking up things. It's not putting your spatula in a box or watching you do it. Right. Yeah. That's the worst. All right. Final one here. Hall of fame coach, Greg Popovich held an emotional in-person meeting Thursday with Spurs players who were all able to see him for the first time since he had the stroke in November. After the meeting, Pop issued a statement saying he officially will not return as coach this season, but he hopes to return in the future. So that is promising. That's something we all want to see. I,

I want to know, what else would you like to see return in the future? I'm going to say what I said yesterday, unfortunately. Winking. I want to see winking back. More winking on the floor. I know, Skeets, you pull out the emoji, the winking emoji quite often. Yeah, time to time. Yeah. But it's not around.

The winking is not around. It's around via emoji, but I don't see it a lot. I don't see it a lot in person, ever. What's the scenario? Give me an example of how you would want to see it. Like, playing basketball? Somebody throws you a good pass, and I give you a little...

That could be fine. It would have to end in a good score. Right, right. Good basket. But yeah, you go back on the other end of the floor and you just give a little wink. I mean, it's just, it's a, it's communication. You're talking. It is. Via eyes. That's all I want. That's all I want. Okay. More of. Careful what you wish for, man, because winking can be pretty fucking creepy. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's a good point. You're looking at somebody across the bar and they suddenly just... Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. I don't like that at all. You have to know the person. Or like, even if you sort of know somebody and they're like, they say a joke and then they wink at you, it's just, it's off-putting. Yeah. You gotta know somebody to wink at them. I agree. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is risky. There is no doubt. Part of me absolutely hates winking. Maybe it's part of the fun. Maybe it's part of the fun. Yeah. It's just dangerous. Start doing it more. I gotta start doing it. I'm gonna try. I'll try it out.

Yeah, you guys are doing it on the show, for sure, after a nice little point you make. Oh, that's creepy. What about you, Trey Kirby? What would you like to see return? Well, you inspired me as well when you mentioned Dyson Daniels Fuzzy Dice. Like, Fuzzy Dice and car dash accessories in general, I think, should come back because right now Jeep owners have the monopoly on this. Yeah, they do. You drive by, they got a million ducks. Yeah. It looks fun. What happened to hula girls?

Yeah, why haven't a bobblehead? I love the little dogs. Yeah, I might get one of those Yeah, you could probably like customize them now like I could get one that looks like Luna Easily you could for sure. Yeah, cruising on down. I do like those Everybody's just mounting their iPhones. There's just too many screens and these screens so many screens put a dog up there Yeah, how do you feel about ones in the back window?

People put a lot of crap up there sometimes. It's always like a Kleenex box up there. My grandfather used to have like a collection of caps in the back. Like hats? Trucker hats. Oh, yeah. I do like that like in their crazy sun faded. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a bad idea. I don't hate it. I don't hate it. I'm going to go get it. Just throw some stuff in your car. Yeah. Put it in your car.

Put it on any surface you got. It does make cleaning your car more of a pain in the ass. Yeah, that's true. That's true. That's a good point. That's a good point. Okay. JD, take us home here. What else would you like to see? Hey, I was inspired by Trey Kerber the other day. Oh, man, look at this. Off the air, we were chatting, and he was talking about how his girls were out just going for a bike ride by themselves from house to house in the neighborhood. That's why I want to come back.

70s style, 80s style kids, you know? Free range kids. Let them grow. Free range kids. Free range kids, let them play. Let them play. Sure. Like, I went swimming every day from the age of seven by myself. Like, no parents. What pool?

Paper rec center. Oh, okay. Greenwood pool. Free community pools. There's a lifeguard there. That's all you need. Yeah. There's an 18-year-old kid sort of watching your kids. Yeah, sure. They're responsible. They're fine. We're fine. You know? Mm-hmm.

It was awesome, JD. They were just out riding all day, going from friend to friend's house. And, you know, like, I mean, it is 2025, so it ain't completely free range parenting. Right. Isla's got a watch, so if we ever need to get in touch with her, we can. But it felt cool to just be like, oh, our kids are out doing whatever they want. Yeah. It was nice. Yeah. And they're getting embroiled in their little dramas and stuff. I'm sure there's trouble. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But that's how you grow. That's how you get strong, man. It's so true. Like a...

of the time when you were a kid, I'm going to stop now, but when you were a kid, like how, how often were you just not reachable by your parents? Like my parents had no idea where I was from eight till eight. And you lived in a big city. Yeah. I lived in one of the biggest cities in North America. Yeah. I took the train, the subway to see cannonball run.

With a banana in my pocket. It was for a snack. It was for a snack. Did you use it as a phone? I did, actually. Did you talk to yourself on the phone? But I was like 10 by myself. That sounds cool. Yeah. Let's get back to that, guys. Let's get back to bikes. All right. At least start with riding your bikes in the neighborhood for sure. All right. Great stuff. Rapid fire. Not so rapid.

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But some big ones on national television. And we'll be here on Monday to do our NBA winners and losers of the weekend. So look forward to that. We'll see you at 10 a.m. Eastern on Monday. Until then, Clipper Bros. You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome. Thanks for joining us. And remember, Nuggets Celtics, you said on Sunday. Yeah, that's right. Looking forward to it. One o'clock. Remember that. Jokic has a Disney character. What would he look like? What would he...

Unfortunately, Gru is a Dreamworks property. He would be Gru. He would be. You saw that clip, too, just speaking of people that look like cartoon characters. Luca hit that dumb shot last night, that three on the side, and he showed his dad. It really is impossible to look at that man and not think of Mr. Incredible. He looks so much like the dad. It's amazing. Anyway, enjoy the games. Brace the weekend, people.

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