The Drop | Steph Curry's Hard Fall, Celtics Sold For $6.1 Billion, Thaddeus Young On Toronto

2025/3/21

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Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast on the Athletic Network. It's Friday, March 21st, 2025. This is The Drop. I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, Tass Mellis. Happy Mulch Madness. This one's for you. Next to him, it's the bearded one with Top Shot Hot Boy, Go Blue, Trey Kirby. And over yonder, making the magic happen.

Super producer JD. Hello. There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hello to the podcast listeners. On today's pod, we're going to get into the Celtics' record-breaking sale. 6.1 billion with a B. Tass has some worst of the week nominees. We got rapid fire fun. But first, I got some good news and bad news when it comes to our No Dunks March Madness bracket. The good news...

We're currently tied for second place in our pool. Oh, yeah. Okay. That's good. We correctly picked 14 of 16 games on day one. We had both big upsets in McNeese and Drake. Nice. Our Razorbacks came through for Woo from Deadwood. Woof, woof.

And our final four bound, excuse me, our championship game bound, Texas Tech Red Raiders. They won by 10 last night. Let's go. And they set a new school record for most threes attempted in one game with 46. They didn't hit a ton, but they attempted a ton. Gotta get them up. Gotta get them up. Bad news, you see it here if you're on YouTube.

We took the 11th-seeded VCU to make a Cinderella run to the Elite Eight, and they unfortunately lost there to BYU in a battle of the U's in the opening round. So, you know, Tass, pretty good. A lot of green. A lot of teams advancing, but, you know, you get that one that you got going deep like we had with VCU, and it just hurts. It sure does. Yeah, that VCU matchup, even when we got to the Elite Eight and Trey was evaluating, he said, oh...

We've got VCU versus Duke. This isn't going to end up well. Yeah, bad start. Bad start. I don't regret picking them over BYU, though. No, I didn't either. Maybe we had them going too far. Too far, sure. But otherwise, hey, look, we'll take 14-16. That's great. Yeah, and I like that, you know, with all the ways that this gets scored, we're in second place. We're tied, yeah. We're also in sixth place.

But we're really in 35th place. Right. From a correct plus maximum standpoint. But the leaders have 15 out of 16 correct right now. 191 as the max. So we only missed on VCU. That one is killing us. And then Texas A&M and Yale. But we had Yale losing in the next one.

What can you do? VCU just, it was looking bad at the end of the first half. It was tight through 15 minutes and then they just could not score anymore after that. The eager demon was out there. Oh yeah, that's right. Any other day one tourney takeaways on how much you watched? I watched some chunkers. Not the sexiest win, but they got it done. They got it done. Four of my guys have played. Four of my top

10 NBA draft prospects who are around. Trey Johnson played in the first four games. They ended up losing, but he had 23 points, hit four threes, looked pretty smooth with it. I was the most impressed with him so far of the guys that I mentioned. Agor Damon, not Eager Demon, unfortunately, but Agor Damon, he played really well, 15 points, but he hit three threes, which isn't really his strength. He did have four turnovers, so I thought he played well, but not in the way I was expecting and not in the way he probably would play in the NBA. Danny Wolfe,

played last night didn't look great nine points 11 rebounds uh and he's got like a face that looks like he is working really hard out there this dude is like red-nosed sweaty he looks a little sloppy four for 11 from the field three turnovers like

It looks interesting to see a 7-foot, 250-pound dude handling the ball out there. You're like, you're going to make it to the NBA and stick around for a while because of the ball skills. But also, these were smaller players for UC San Diego, and they were giving him trouble getting into his offense. What about when he plays against a real athlete? Yeah. Not a guy with a mustache. McGee was the dude guarding him for a long time in the Naysa Newell.

Or Azenual, sorry. They lost. Georgia did. And I didn't see a lot of this when he had 20 points, 8 rebounds. But they had like 9 points through the first 15 minutes. I was like, eh, I don't know. Yeah, there was a couple games where just teams could not score. Like Clemson against McNeese, they were down 31-13 at the half. It's 13 points at the half. That's a 20-minute half. And they did make it close. They got back into it. McNeese did that thing where it's like they're up huge.

And you're like, oh, let's just kill clock. Let's just kill clock. And you're like, no, keep playing basketball. That's been really good for you. But man, that happens to so many teams when you watch these games. Like, no, no, just keep playing. But anyway, they won. The Aura guy, our general manager, Amir, he's through. He's doing interviews on SportsCenter. This guy's a goddamn star. That's why we took him. That's phenomenal. Yeah. But any other takeaways, Des? No, I just love Amir Khan. Their student manager being interviewed after.

through the game in the locker room and how much his team just loves him. So he's being interviewed. It's a very generic, basic interview. But all of his players are coming in. They're showing the t-shirts. They're given the entire menu of Buffalo Wild Wings. I mean, basically...

Yeah, he was asked about the endorsement they've got. They're all banking in this NIL money. It's not just Buffalo Wild Wings. It's Tick Pick, Insomnia Cookies. And he's being asked about that. And then somebody comes in and says, Caribbean jerk, Thai curry, garlic parm, spicy garlic. Basically every wing at Buffalo Wild Wings. That was hilarious. He breaks down their whole menu. You get mozzarella sticks. They're just milking it.

They're milking it. They know that they're not going to go to the NBA like a 7-foot, 250-pound man. A lot of them. And they're just milking every single penny. And it's great how much they love this guy. Did you see the cheerleader socks, too? Oh, I didn't. They have custom-made socks of his face all over them. This is so funny. Because they show those in the locker room as well. I didn't see them on anybody, but I saw them being endorsed. Good stuff.

And we have here a fun second round matchup between coaches. Because coaches, I always forget, they're the big deal. They are a big deal. In college basketball. It's all about the coaches. We got Rick Pitino versus John Calipari in the second round. Wow. In Providence. Yeah. Two and two against each other in NCAA tournament play. So this one's for the bragging rights.

And these guys like to brag. So this is a big game. I'm excited. That's St. John's and our Razorbacks. Wow, Hogs versus Storm. Yeah. Cool. Very cool. We'll see how we do on day two here. Yeah, let's go. I am going to be singing the St. John's theme song, watching them go, Soon may the redstone come to rock the rim and make a run. That's fun. That's a fun song. It got off to a rough start.

It was a sluggish start, but then they kicked it up a gear. Yeah, that's scary. That usually happens, too. What were you going to say? I did see before that game, they were playing Omaha, I think, right? And apparently they had a thing going where they would just destroy a garbage can before every game. Is it before or after a game? Okay, maybe it was after, because it looked like they were celebrating. At one point, they brought in professional wrestlers. Yeah, I saw that. That was so weird. I was like...

to be in college again, man. This is what it's all about in college. You're like, oh, we've got a weird guy that we like. We're going to make him our best friend and blow him up and make him a million dollars. We are just hanging around all the time. What can we do for fun? Let's beat up a garbage can. That's what it's all about, man. Professional wrestlers are like, what level are these guys? I didn't see it.

It's not cute. It wasn't Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. They may have been AEW wrestlers, though. Maybe. Maybe not. I didn't recognize them, but I don't really watch that program. But it was really strange because, like...

It's their thing, beating up a garbage can. So they bring in the wrestlers, but everybody else is just standing there like, what are these guys going to do? They're doing leg kicks on it, knocking it around. It's like, okay. The reporter did it. Before they gave me Dr. Dover, he did an elbow drop on it.

He's like, I got to do it. And all I saw was on the captions because we were out last night on the captions. It said, not a hair out of place. The guy had the Gordon Hayward going on. He was looking nice. Well, I guess a question is what wrestling move would you do to punish a garbage can? Like, would you go with the Macho Man Elbow? Would you do a Piledriver of some sort? Maybe a Frog Splash? I think that's what I would do. Frog Splash? Yeah.

Like, you know, do a real good Eddie Guerrero type frog splash on it. That's pretty fun. I feel like it would really flatten it. I would bounce off of it. I'm doing a senton bomb. That's a flip. Sick. I'd do a Jeff bomb. You said the flip. A Jeff bomb. That's your finishing move. You go to do a backflip, you just land with your head. That's a good place to land on your head. It's a garbage can rather than a ground. Yeah, bounce it a little bit. All right.

Yeah, okay, let's get into some NBA games. Now the big takeaway from last night's games was Steph Curry, unfortunately, exiting last night's win over the Raptors because of a pelvic contusion. That's what the team's calling it. He's driving in the paint during the third quarter, goes up in the air, and collides with two Raptors while passing the ball to Kaminga in the corner, and he fell hard to the court on his back.

You could hear the whack that his tailbone made on that court. He stayed on the floor in pain for several seconds before eventually hobbling down the tunnel to the team's locker room holding his tailbone. He's been taken for MRIs. We don't know the results of those yet. I guess he wanted to come back in the game. I'm like, we're not doing that, man. We're not rushing you back here. But a pretty scary fall, and we'll see the severity of this MRI.

I guess that's a good sign if he wanted to come back in the game because he stayed on the floor for a long period of time and then was hobbling into the locker room. I guess it's a bad sign that they had to go do MRIs. A good sign that it's called a pelvic contusion, that it's just a deep tissue bruise possibly and hopefully not like what Chet Holmgren suffered earlier this year when he had a pelvic fracture. But this was, yeah, Jonathan Mobo sort of coming out of nowhere.

I guess Steph saw him because Steph can see everything on the floor. But I don't know. He tried to go straight up, Moe, but he's much bigger than Curry, obviously. But yeah, I mean, he just like, there was no bracing of himself as he's kicking it to the corner to Kaminga. Yeah, scary part is Steph was already out last game because of back problems. So hopefully this all just doesn't

compile here about an older player. This guy is a guy who lasts every single game, every single season. But I guess this stuff does add up. He's 37. He is. He's one of these weird guys you just don't remember or think of as an old guy. Baby face. I think it's a part of it, the way he plays. I mean, he's obviously missed an entire season basically before. But yeah, he is 37. We'll see how long they keep him out here. Now they have a six-game road trip coming up. Yeah. It's not that difficult. Yeah.

Dare I say? I mean, it's Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, San Antonio, Memphis, and then Los Angeles. That's a lot of winnable games with or without Curry. And also for all NBA accolades, I think he's got to play five more to hit that if that's if they cares at all about trying to make an all NBA team. But yeah, TK, any super concern here? I mean, obviously the Warriors just pulled out the victory too against the Raps. Nice play by Jimmy Butler. Huge block at the end. Yeah, he was great. Nice defensive play. But what do you think? Well,

Well, I mean, we'll see how long Steph is out. It's probably going to be a pain tolerance thing, right? Like that looked like it hurt a ton. And he was trying to tough it out. Who knows? Does it hurt more today? Does it feel better today? We'll see. We'll get a report. But like you're saying, they're going on a road trip. The competition is easy enough. These are some games that they can win if they play as well as they did last night. Jimmy was awesome. The team was really connected. 30 assists on 38 makes. Quentin Post went insane from three. Draymond Green went insane from three. He took 14 of them. That's crazy.

a wild number. He's actually been playing really well offensively since Jimmy came as well. The ball is moving. So I think they can win some of these games. Hawks are a beatable team for this edition of the Warriors. Heat, Pelican, Spurs, I think those are

All our four games they can win. Do they win all of them? I don't know. They're not back-to-backs, any of them. That's advantageous as well. Grizzlies and Lakers might be a little bit tougher when they start ending things up, but who knows? Maybe Curry is back by then. They're just going to have to play as a team and do it by committee, which is how they did it last night. And if they're able to shoot

threes the way they did against the Raptors, they should be able to survive this, I think. But it's still going to be tough. Clippers are playing well. It's only a game and a half gap between six and seven right now. So poorly timed for sure. Yeah, it helps the Warriors that the Timberwolves went on that two game losing streak. It was that OB top and monstrous back to back threes that hurt them against the Pacers. But then they beat themselves against the Pelicans. So that hurts them because the Wolves could be holding this six seed and

a lot more closely now. They are, yeah, one of those two teams, as you mentioned, Trey, that are a game and a half back along with the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers playing well, but yeah, the Warriors can hold them off. It's just the, hey, can Steph keep doing it? It was something that Steve Kerr was already talking about.

Yeah.

The Raptors taking it in the paint against an undersized Warriors team, that I think is the biggest problem with them. 58-30, the Raptors won inside the paint. They also shot 56%. They shot freaking great. The Raptors tried to win this game too last night. They played their star guys down the stretch. They didn't sit them like normal. But they kept on giving the ball away and the Warriors are so good at playing those passing lanes.

So there's 23 turnovers. I watched them again. To me, it was like half stinky, half great defense. Half just giving the ball away. But you saw Scotty Barnes go up and take Jimmy Butler into the paint over and over, 11 of 16. So they looked...

looked good. That's probably the last time we can say the Raptors look good. They did look good in this loss. I got to say that being said, the Warriors should be able to, to deal with this. Yeah. I think he gets a couple of days off here. You obviously see what the, uh, the MRI says, hopefully nothing serious. You give him some rest. They have 15 games left. Like I said, he does need to play five more if he wants to hit 65 games. So maybe he comes back at some point on this road trip. Maybe he doesn't come back at all until the road trip ends. Um,

He had a tailbone injury in March of 2021, and he missed five games back then. So maybe that's something that's similar that happens here. Last night's games, only four NBA games on. Matherin scored 28, led the Pacers to another wild win. They got the victory in overtime over the Nets. LaMelo Ball scored 25. Hornets beat the Knicks 115-98. Kobe White, 35 points. They were awesome in the second half. The Bulls beat the Kings 128-116, and then Giannis and the Bucs 128.

pulled away from the shorthanded lakers i mean nobody playing for the lakers except brawny james uh double digits what do you get 17 that's right you got season high man and minutes and points and all that stuff uh but the bucks won handedly 118 to 89 any takeaways from those four games mathren is saving the day for the pacers right now he did it against dallas and then last night uh

Down five with 44 seconds left. Hits a little floater after a drive, which was nice. The Pacers get a stop, and then he draws a three-point foul on, I think it was, Keon Johnson. Made all three free throws. Clutch free throw shooter. 28 points for Matherin. 16 rebounds for this guy. Pretty impressive. Had 11 points in the fourth quarter. Six points in overtime. Miles Turner, I thought, was awesome defensively as well. He had five blocks. Had a massive one in overtime. And the only other thing I would say about this game, I think

Zaire Williams has had a pretty solid season for the Brooklyn Nets. He's a rotation guy now. 22 points, five rebounds, two steals, five threes. Memphis basically gave up on him over the summer and he's had a better year for Brooklyn. Career high and scoring, rebounding, three point percentage. He's going to be a restricted free agent. He's not going to get a huge deal.

But I think it would be a question of, is he going to stick around the NBA coming into this season? And he's solidified himself as like a guy who can stick around for at least the rebuilding nets. Yeah, he is in my fantasy rotation too. Just insert, plug and play. He is a good player.

In that game, though, Benedict Mathurin, he's really, really grown. He's a guy who wasn't in the postseason last year because he was injured for the Indiana Pacers. He's at 28-16, a career high for boards, coming off a 23-point game where he had 16 in the fourth quarter, 22 the game before that. So he is streaking. What can he do in the playoffs for the Indiana Pacers?

have a hope of finishing third in the Eastern Conference? I would say after they win and the Knicks lose to the Charlotte Hornets by 17 points, they're struggling a little bit without Jalen Brunson. The loss of the Spurs and Hornets in consecutive games. Now the Pacers...

it's going to be tough for them to catch him for third. It's three games plus a tiebreaker that belongs to the New York Knicks. I will say, though, if they get there, without Jalen Brunson not being around for probably a couple more weeks at least. They're saying they're hopeful he can return for a few games in the regular season before the postseason. That's the latest. They've tried. They're three and four since he went down. They've all been on the road as far as the losses go. So that's a problem. That being said, if the Knicks do fall down, your

You're probably playing a good Milwaukee Bucks team. I think that's a tough matchup for them. And then I started looking at the Indiana Pacers being able to get to the three seed and them going up potentially a second round series against the Boston Celtics, who they got swept by last year. But I think they're way better. I think that's a tougher matchup for the Boston Celtics in the second round. Those were three close games that they got swept by. So that's fun. Sorry, these Pacers. Yeah.

I mean, as we went through the last game. They just keep pulling out insane victories. That's crazy, yeah. March 11th was the football play, the Halliburton three. 17th was two OB top and threes of his life. I mean, the banker and then the corner. Then the Siakam steal and set up of Nembhard. I call him Nembhard, just like the referee did. Nembhard, that three on the 19th. And then yesterday,

On the 20th, Benedict Mathurin, three free throws to send it to overtime. They're streaking, man. And three straight wins without Halliburton, which is nice for them. It is interesting. Standings are still very, very interesting. I wonder how a Knicks-Bucks series would go because neither of them can beat good teams. And they've both been pretty poor, I think, since the All-Star break. The Knicks are 3-7 in their last 10 tasks mentioned. They've lost to the Spurs and Hornets. They just don't have a good offense right now. I think, I mean...

Honestly, both sides of the ball were a problem against Charlotte, but this is the ninth time this season the Hornets have held an opponent under 100 points. First time they've done it in a month. We just watched them play the Hawks, and the Hawks took batting practice threes the entire game. They took easy layups the entire game, and the Knicks aren't getting anything easy right now. In 15 games since the All-Star break, they're 28th in offense. Now Brunson's only played eight points.

eight of those games, but you're seeing how much he matters to this team because they don't have anything they can fall back on and rely on. Like, we've seen good Mikael Bridges games where he's going crazy in the mid-range, but that wasn't happening last night. Carl Anthony Towns, he had a good scoring night, but like, every shot he took was contested and tough. Mark Williams, good defense, but this is a Hornets team that doesn't defend at all, and they locked the Knicks down. So...

I don't know. I think they have had a disappointing second half of the season. I'm kind of the same with the Bucs. They were great after the trade deadline, a little boost of athleticism. But if these two teams go against each other, like, I don't know which way it would go because neither of them are that consistent right now. Yeah, the scary part for the Knicks is, sure, Brunson may come back right at the end of the regular season, but what kind of flow is he going to be in for a first-round series against Giannis and Dame, who...

Who want to avenge their loss last year in the playoffs in the first round to the Indiana Pacers without Giannis, with a bum Damian Lillard in that one as well. So that's going to be very different. And the Kuzma experiment is improving. He didn't shoot double-digit threes last night, which is a bonus for them. Just four threes, and he shot 75% from two. It looked good.

I mean, they're playing nobody, but yeah. They were playing Brawny. They were playing Brawny. That's all I can say. You see, the Brawny pass to Markeith Morris, that was nice. It was like an end-to-end pass. It made the top five plays of the night. It was solid. Yeah.

I mean, we didn't have a lot of plays to pick from last night. I think it got the brawny boost, no doubt. But it was fine. It was a good pass. Looking like dad, no doubt. Five assists. The kick ahead. He played well. He played well. Obviously a complete blowout, but he did get some action there. I wanted to show Kobe White some love, who scored 35. I was thinking, man, this guy's on a heater right now.

This guy's putting up, he must be putting up like 22, 23 a game here in March. No, it's way better than that. He's on fire in March. 10 games. He's averaging 28.4 points per game with a true shooting percentage of nearly 61%. His usage percentage is through the roof. It's at nearly 30%.

Chipping in five boards, four assists. Like, he has been amazing. I know he's had, like, really good stretches earlier in the season as well. Then he had sort of a cool February and is on fire here in March. I don't know if it's a Mickey Mouse March for Kobe White. I would like to see him pull his hair into buttons on the top of his head because it is a little bit. You go back and look at the stats from last year. It's like, okay, he made his most improved run when the season was over, but he was awesome last night. 35-31 came in the second half.

Yeah. He made two threes in the second half. Everything else was drives. Yeah. Guy looked like Isaiah Pacheco out there. Oh, my God. Smallest dude on the court running people over. He had three and ones in the second half. 11 for 12 at the free throw line, and he outscored Levine and DeRozan combined in the fourth quarter.

Pretty great. I mean, a classic Kings loss, too, after a really good Kings win. I mean, it's just unbelievable, this team. But, yeah, he is on fire. Yeah, whether it's Mickey Mouse March or it's just Kobe White season, maybe. It's Kobe White season. It's Kobe White season. He's your Eastern Conference Jalen Green. And he just won Eastern Conference Player of the Week. Yeah, he had his career high not too long ago as well. He's been cooking. And the Bulls are winning a decent amount of games here for them. Yeah, when Giddy doesn't play there, they can win. Yeah, why not?

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All right, let's get to the Celtics sale here. According to reports, a group led by Bill Chisholm, who is the managing director and co-founder of a California-based private equity firm, has agreed to purchase the Boston Celtics for a valuation of $6.1 billion.

That price would surpass the $6.05 billion price a group led by Josh Harris paid for the NFL's Washington Commanders in 2023 as the most paid for a franchise in North American sports history. And it easily surpasses the record number for a control stake of an NBA team, which was two years ago when Matt Ishbia bought the Suns for $4 billion. I should add that

Matt Ishby purchased. That included the WNBA team and included the arena. This one does not. There's no arena involved in the Celtics sale. That is for the team, $6.1 billion. But this has a lot of people talking about who this guy is, who this team is, and, you know, the way Grousbeck moving off of it and his role, though, still with the team. There's a lot to unpack here. What were your initial takeaways? Well,

Well, my initial takeaway is we're reading the sort of worries that maybe this guy isn't going to be willing to pay the highest paid team in the history of the NBA in terms of payroll.

which I said, well, if you're willing to pay that much for a team and you have these roots in Boston as the lead owner there that you mentioned, Chisholm. Yeah, he grew up a Celtics fan in Massachusetts. You don't buy a team for the most money ever and say, oh, we've got to reduce the payroll on this team. I find that hard to believe. I find that worry...

To me, nah, you just bought a team that won the championship. I think you roll with it if you just paid $6 billion. What if you don't win the championship this year? Yeah, that's a slight worry. I think the worries are Drew Holiday has dropped off a little bit this year, and he's still paid for three more years. That's a long time. Chris Epps has been hurt a lot over the last 12 months.

And his contract, I guess, if I'm worrying about him, is only through next season. So there's that. And repeating is hard. I think that's the biggest worry, is winning again. But...

They're still going forward with the Jays. They're still going to have a winning type of team, just like they have the entire time with Jalen Brown and Jason Tame. So they're still making conference finals, even if they don't hoist Larry O'Brien. I don't know. I'm just not that concerned for them looking at the possible payroll and it costing around $400 million because of taxes and the repeat tax. So that's...

That's the worry out there, but this guy loves them. Chisholm loves the Celtics, I guess. Bill Chisholm. Bill Chisholm. What did you think about all this, TK? He's going to have to prove to me that he wants to pay these guys when it comes down to it because this is an expensive team. They're getting more and more expensive, and it's like, Sam Hauser, you're gone. But you can be replaced, I think. But a guy on that kind of a contract...

who is making $10 million a year, but it costs you $80 million a year to keep him around. Not long for this team. Baylor, Shireman, come on up is kind of the thing. Like Horford is a question mark. Derek White is a question mark. Eventually, if they don't get to the top of the mountain once again, do they start looking at Jalen Brown as the next guy to go out? You just got to prove that you're going to pay for it. Because when you look at all of the new owners have come in, it was like,

The Mavericks owner traded Luka Doncic because they were afraid to pay him. The Timberwolves traded Karl-Anthony Towns because they didn't want to pay him. The Suns just want to pay everybody. So you don't know what's going to happen when a new owner comes in. And I just wonder how much of this is similar to—it's different scenarios, but like when Bob Myers left the Warriors, he basically left because he didn't want to say, we're not paying you, Klay Thompson. Right. Is that the same thing that's happening with the Celtics ownership right now, saying, we've reached the pinnacle here. We've got an awesome team. Yeah.

And somebody's going to have to tear him down eventually. Do you want to be the team to break... The group that breaks him up? Probably not. Yeah, what's interesting about that, though, is Wick Grosbeck, who is the governor of the team and has been for, what, 23 years now, by all accounts, he's going to remain on as the CEO and as the governor for the next three seasons. And that's fascinating because...

Is that like guaranteed in the contract? Or is this another Mark Cuban sort of scenario where we were told time and time again, oh, Mark Cuban's still in control. Mark Cuban has sold the team, but he's still calling the shots. He's still in control. And then suddenly he was not, and you never heard from him until they made the Luka deal. And then he suddenly was like, it wasn't me. So it was like, what one is it here? What's actually in the contract? I think that's fascinating. And like, I guess his father, who's the real owner of the Celtics, let's be honest, Irv Grosbeck,

Irv. Got a good old rich name, Irv Groesbeck. He's like 90. Witt Groesbeck didn't even want to sell his, like, obviously family share, really, but his dad does because he wants to, like, I'm dying here soon, and it's a lot easier to divide my money and my estate than in an ownership of a team. Like, this is seriously why he wanted to sell it. So...

It's fascinating. I know Simmons and Chris Mannix had a good podcast on it. Those guys are obviously, they really know the Celtics and maybe the rich guy lifestyle in Bill's case. Yeah, he seemed shocked that he didn't know this rich guy. Yeah, he did. He's like, I know all the other rich guys. Yeah, he was. Like, where does this guy come from? And this team. And, you know, some people are like, uh-oh.

Private equity group. 20% of the team. Private equity does not care about the Celtics. They care about making money. And I think that's a worry for sure. Yep, yep, for sure. And then this sale could have an impact on the potential timeline for NBA expansion. This is the other takeaway from this. Because for months, sources have said that the process for that expansion wouldn't move forward until there was clarity on this Boston situation.

where they wanted that sale price and they wanted it big and they got it big at 6.1 billion. So now that almost sets some sort of marker here for a potential new team in Las Vegas, potential new team in Seattle. And by the way, when that happens and all those billions are paid for those teams or for those new teams, that's all split then to all the other owners in the league. And they're just given a nice fat check of what will it be. It'll be like each guy will get like 300, 400 million or something like that. So...

They're going to be pretty happy about it. You don't have to share that, by the way. That's not BRI. That's to the owners because another franchise coming in. So there's this part of the equation as well. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see whether Chisholm is more of a Matt Ishpia or more of a Patrick Dumont and the Adelson family that took over the Dallas Mavericks. That's the question.

That's the one. We should have bought the Warriors way back when, man. We should have bought the Celtics in 2002 if we could have for $360 million. Not a bad turnaround. Not a bad turnaround there from the Grouseback family. My God. Won two titles, I guess, over that span too. It's fun. It's fun looking back. Yeah, the dot-com bubble, the Dallas Mavericks win.

Mark Cuban bought them. Pennies. In comparison to right now. I mean, it's like a bajillion times that he sold them for. Yeah. Always fun to look back. Let's get to Worst of the Week. Ladies and gentlemen, the Worst of the Week.

First nominee, it's Thaddeus Young. You remember Thaddeus Young, NBA vet? Well, he joined Zach Randolph and Tony Allen on their podcast, and he basically told them why he wasn't in love with playing in Toronto, why it was difficult for him. You'll hear, when you hear this clip, all of them. It's Thaddeus Young first, then Zach Randolph will jump in. I'll give you a little play-by-play as we go along. Thaddeus Young talks first, and then Tony Allen is the hilarious guy. All right? That's my...

pre-ramble. Here it is. I ain't gonna lie. Being in Toronto is kind of tough. I told you, man. Family can't come there. It's cool to visit. Be there for like four or five days. That's cool. But to live there? Yeah, it's tough. It was tough on my family. You can see my son behind me. Kid was ready to come home, man.

You gotta go through customs all the time, man. Almost like you had a disadvantage. Like, we have to go through the airport every single time. Like, you gotta go through the airport is the customs part of it. Like, you need to tell me I just paid for the package and I gotta pay you more money to get my package from you? Come on, man.

Yeah, it's another country. Just send it through the mail. Just lie what's in the package. I got stuck at the border for three, four hours. Every time I come with the team, I come to Toronto with the team, they pulling me and T.A. to the back every time. They ain't want to let us through that motherfucker. They have a hundred questions for us. They're exactly right now. Hold on, man. One year they told me don't even come. Look, man, it's cold as hell while they read your name. You and that motherfucker shaking.

God damn, man. I ain't found my shit. I was trying to. I like kicking it at your nightclub. I couldn't see myself playing that, man. Listen, at gunpoint. Yeah, I was there for two years. That was tough. I ain't going to lie. And I had re-signed back there. Yeah, they paid you. Yeah, that was tough. My kids was hurting. My wife was like, look.

She said, you come back here. She said, you might come back by yourself. We're going to stay at the crib. Yeah.

We're going to stay in the house. This part here. She told me that about Minnesota too, though. Yeah. Very funny. Thaddeus Young explaining why Toronto was tough for him. The Out the Mud podcast sounds like a good time. The Tony Allen impression of it. I didn't even know this was a podcast. You find out that NBA players have podcasts all the time. The Tony Allen impression of somebody who works at the NBA. Okay.

Being cold. That was awesome. They do have heaters in Toronto. They have central heating in the airport, but that was very, very funny. Yeah, Thad, the complete... He talked about his wife not wanting to go back, also not wanting to go to Minnesota, I guess because the crib is in Philadelphia or something. I don't know, wherever it is. He's a southern guy, right? Yeah, he played at Georgia Tech. He played at Tech. I think he was born in Louisiana, but yeah. Anyway, she wanted to be there. It wasn't that...

I mean, Toronto, I guess going through the airport was a bit of a pain. Sure. Every time. Every time. This is nothing new. We've heard so many guys make that complaint, that play for the Raptors, that it's like, it sucks. You know, it's a late flight. You got to go through customs every time when you come back. That would suck. It would. I hate filling out that form. Yeah.

Now it's all an app, so it doesn't matter. It's got much quicker. Yeah. And I mean, I think I would personally suck it up if I was getting paid $14 million a year. I think I'd be okay with it, especially flying private back too. Yeah. But he did resign, like you said. Yeah. Yeah. You hated it so much you stayed. Yeah.

I didn't hate it. $14 million. Yeah. It also sounds like he's a good family man. Yeah. His wife and kids were not on board. No. Sure. And that's a major strike against the city right there.

And they also weren't in board for Minnesota. They wanted to be wherever they were from. And it's cold in the north. There's no part of Minnesota even more north than Toronto. So he didn't like the airplanes and going through customs. Okay, fair. The customs paperwork that you got to fill out, he could have got around that. He was complaining about not the customs paperwork specifically for getting...

Into the country. It was just for getting packages. That's what I was talking about. I was a little confused by that. I guess one time he had a package...

come along with him on the airplane and they went through the customs bill when he got off it and looked at the package and said, you got to pay again instead of just shipping it to the house, which you would have got around things. You can claim it to be a freaking, I don't know, a monstrous toothbrush or something. It's a $5 fee. Like it's why I said toothbrushes are weird, but like, like just my huge toothbrush. I think we're going to check that immediately. Yeah.

Don't worry about it. Keep them clean. That sounds actually expensive. A big toothbrush. Maybe a box of towels. How about that? Or something stupid. You can just claim it and say it ain't worth that much. And you can get it. Okay, so there's that complaint, really. That's the biggest complaint.

That was the biggest complaint. I won't say, it sounds like streaming has been good for the Toronto sports team. No complaints about the weird cable like Chris Bosh was making back in the day. I think Lou Williams complained about that too. Yeah, he got all the channels now. Yeah, yeah. I remember him saying something about, you know, we don't get all the channels up here. And there's good shows out there. Lou Williams on FanDuel. He's doing that. Yeah, he is.

This one, Out the Mud. It's a great name for these guys. It's awesome. It is a really good name. I thought all the good podcast names were gone. But they come up with one. Good stuff. Second nominee, it's the Timberwolves Broadcasts because they got NBA Santeld. Oh, no. Yeah. They spread some information that they read on the internet about JB Bickerstaff when he had that tirade postgame. Here it is.

Before that, they had a victory over Detroit, and you saw the David Bickerstaff post-game question. That was epic. $100,000 by the NBA today. I'm sure he's not paying that. Yeah, he's not paying it because it didn't happen. NBA Centel sent out the tweet, Jamie Bickerstaff, find $100,000 for the post-game tirade. He didn't get fined a thing.

We all wondered, would he get fined? He didn't get fined at all, though. No. Yeah, and the great Michael Grady and Jim Peterson, they got sent out. It happens to the best of us, man. It unfortunately does. It unfortunately does. What's weird is that the NBA, I guess, requested them to take down NBA Centel from Twitter, and they did for like 24 hours. It was gone. Now it's back. Yeah, didn't they? They wanted them...

Did they want them to put something in their bio about it being basically a parody account? Oh, did they? I think that was a part of it, I think. Yeah. That was definitely what the rumor was at the time. But then NBA Centaur came back and just was, like, giving out gambling lines. And, like, not even... These aren't even jokes. I know. Right? This is just a straight-up lie about a fact. It's just...

Yeah, it's just weird. Like if they're like, oh, they fined J.B. Bickerson a hundred thousand dollars for sweating on the court. Yeah. And somebody slipped. That's parody.

They just made up something. And, you know, it looks legit because they've also got their web of fake sources as well, right? Yeah. Chris Behan. Yeah. Charms Charanga. Like, they just changed the name barely. It can be frustrating for sure. But, and then we're not helped out that there's an account NBA Central. Yes. Which...

is not like is telling real news you know is just sharing the real agonizers so it makes it even more confusing because you see both of them is it Central is it Centel it's oh my god just don't trust anything on X I guess at this point it is a little surprising that he didn't get fined that J.B. Bickerstaff didn't get some of it yeah a little bit yeah but at the same time

He's a good coach who wants his team to fight, really. Did he call an official out by name, though? Physically fight. He mentioned one official's first name. I think it was Mark. He didn't say his last name. He said, I'm pretty sure it was Mark, and I'm not going to say his last name. I'm not going to say anything else. I'm just going to say his name once in that game, which was a fun, fun game. It was a blast against OKC.

Final nominee. Well, it's me speaking of the, of that OKC Detroit game on Monday's show, Monday, March 17th. I mentioned that one of the Pistons broadcasters, Greg Kelser, when he saw Isaiah Joe hit a three,

He said, quote, ooh, ooh, Isaiah and Joe would salute that. Okay. Now I'm worst of the week. I'm worst of the week because I mentioned it on Monday's show. And I said, what is that? Why would you say Isaiah and Joe would salute that? I think it was Trey who said, well, maybe it's just the two names or maybe it was you. His name is Isaiah and Joe.

Maybe it's just saluting both names. But I should have put two and two together. Isaiah Thomas and Joe Dumars, the Pistons legends. That's what he was saying. All right. That's on me. That's on me. That's all I'm here to say. I'll take a little too, man. None of us got it. Until you just said it again right here and you paused. You said Isaiah and Joe. I'm like, oh, yeah, of course. Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumars. All right. So, yeah, to make up for that, let's go through Joe Dumars' story.

at McNeese State. I was going to say you went to McNeese. I found that out last night. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh damn. Great career. Definitely the best player that's ever played at McNeese State. All the fame. I would assume so. Outside of Amir Khan, of course. Yeah. Great career. Amir is the second most famous basketball associated person from McNeese ever, I would have to say. I totally agree. I think it has to be. I agree. That's it. Okay. I wanted to throw a third in there as well.

Yeah, otherwise, you know, the Miami Heat, yeah, they stink. That's terrible. But, you know, there's some concerns about players not playing in March. Gosh, gosh, you're right. But the NBA just got an 11-year deal. Everyone's being paid. Everything's okay. Although it would be nice to see everybody play a little more often. So thank you for the worst of the week suggestions out there, including those. I'll take a tiny worst of the week, too. I guess it was Josh Hart.

the Knicks record for triple doubles in a season with Walt Frazier. I said it was, right? I was like, wow, back in the late 60s, Walt Frazier did that. Now Josh Hart has tied him for a franchise record. I said, man, that's surprising. I thought Anthony Mason would have had a pretty good year or two. Obviously played for the Knicks. Somebody came at me. He didn't have a single triple double at the Knicks. I'm like, damn. I went and checked. He didn't.

He had a couple with the Hornets a couple years. I think the highest he got was four triple-doubles one season. I mean, they weren't as common back then, but he had three one season, he had four one season. Hey, look, okay, I thought it was with the Knicks. I thought he at least had one or two triple-doubles with the Knicks. Everybody coming clean right now. Yeah, man. I mentioned earlier it's supposed to be pronounced Yak-a-chonus, not Jack-a-chonus. We've all had our poor moments this week. How do you say Wick-a-chonus?

Do you say Grousebeck or do you say Grousebeck? I think it is Grousebeck, but it sure looks like Grousebeck. I thought I heard Grousebeck today. Oh, okay, or that. I don't know. There's a third option. I don't know. Wick? I just say Wick. And what about the other guy that we didn't even mention? No, Steve. Oh. Steve. Pagliuccia. Yeah. Is there a G in it, though? I don't know. They were calling them Pags. Yeah, they call them Pags. That's how you do it. Pagliuccia? Yeah, yeah. I don't know. It's a tough Italian name. What?

What do you got? Yeah, he's a chairperson of Bain Capital. What a name. We forgot to mention him because he was pissed. He wanted to buy the Celtics. Oh, wow. And maybe him and Wick sort of butted heads a little bit. Wick versus Bain. Oh, he had a statement. Did you read his statement? I did not. He dropped a statement right away when it got sold to Bill Chisholm. Yeah. A couple shots at them. He's like, I don't have private equity money in my bid. Yeah, yeah. No debt here. Yeah, yeah.

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Pick them tonight. Tass, where are we going? There's obviously March Madness. The women's bracket starts tonight. But we do have a lot of basketball on this weekend, too, in the NBA. We're going to L.A. for the Clippers hosting the Memphis Grizzlies. I thought this was an interesting game. The line, it's juicy. It's a little big, considering the Clippers are hosting a good Memphis Grizzlies team. Six and a half points that they have to win by, seven or more, is probably because John Moran is not playing in this game, unfortunately. So...

Trey is the one taking Memphis to lose by six or less, while the three of us are taking the Clippers. I thought this was a good game. It's impossible to pick a pick-em game where all superstars are playing. Like, look at last night. I mean, I took the Lakers thinking...

Well, not knowing that basically their entire roster was not going to play. So that sucked. But yeah, so no Ja Morant. But, you know, you could keep it close here. The Grizzlies are struggling a little bit. They're reeling. Lost two in a row. Yeah. They need a little bounce back game here. No Ja hurts. No Ja hurts for sure. Yeah. Bouncing back like Ash needs as well. Ash struggling here at 4-10 could be the first loss for him this season. First loss.

pick a month loss for him. He hasn't picked a game correct all week, I don't think. He's on a real slide right now. So he needs the Clips to win by seven, and I would be happy with that. Gio Wattas, that's who we're backing. All right, it is the drop, so before we go, let's have some rapid fire fun. Our guy GD's got the questions this week. We got the answers. Yes, I have the questions. Oh, the lower third's still up.

Goddamn, rough day over here. Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Mikael Bridges, Dante DiVincenzo, a.k.a. The Nova Knicks, reunited this month for a March Madness commercial. Guys, who else would you love to see reunited? Skeets? I'm sticking in the basketball world. Give me Tobias Harris and Boban Marjanovic. Get those bros back together.

Either on a team or just more commercials, which we've seen them do as well. Just two hilarious guys that really like each other. Like their friendship. And Boban, you know, not in the league anymore. Sort of interesting. Yeah, but I thought we would see him pop up doing a joke or something. You know? He seems like a guy who would have a strong internet presence after leaving the NBA. He's been quiet. It's hard for a guy like that to

to disappear. But he did it. He somehow did it. How do you do it? But get Toby and Bobi back together. Toby and Bobi. Boban's playing in China? Is that a thing? That sounds right.

Yeah. Yeah, he's not in the league. I know that. Maybe he doesn't have good internet access. Or they're blocking him. Yeah, can't do it. Yeah. All of his great tweets are taken down. Playing for the Xinjiang Lions, I guess. Okay. That's what it says. I assume he's putting up 45 and 30.

Okay, my weird reunion would be my high school class. I know this is getting extremely personal here, but I want a high school class reunion where I don't have to attend. I want to be in virtually. I don't really want to go. But I do want to see, laugh at some people, enjoy some other people. We're doing everything virtually. Please give me a cam. Throw it on one of the old...

so I could see. We're in the gym here, I imagine. Sorry, I'm envisioning where we're going. Everybody goes to a gym. They're like, yeah, he does basketball for a living. He's being zoomed in on the backboard. A little on the nose. Yeah, no one would know. I actually, yeah, I don't necessarily, I don't want to be on camera. Oh, you're off camera all the time.

You just want to pee. Everybody else. It's not just for me. It's for everybody else who doesn't want to attend. That would be everybody. You'd be looking at an empty gym. There are people who've got nothing to do. They would embrace this. Do you guys have legit reunions? We do. You've never gone? No.

I want them to reunite and I can watch them. And you want to see everybody. Find out what everybody's doing. It's a real weirdo situation, but I'm giving you the honest truth. Who would you love to see reunite? Tessa's answer is my high school class, but not me there. The teachers can all come back. That'd be cool to see them again.

But for them not to see you. Yeah, you're right. JD, you're right. We're getting probably at the most a 20% rate. That's high. I mean, I can confidently say that you, of anybody in your high school, you should be going...

to the reunion because you're the one that you got your shit together. You got out of the SOG, man. You're out of the SOG, man. You're on national television for six years in the U.S. You got all your hair. You look great, man. I guess, yeah. Yeah, that's true. You know what happened to our high school? Our high school shut down. Our high school doesn't exist anymore. Same with me. It's not going to happen. Same with me. Wow. What? Gone.

Not enough kids? Well, we had three high schools in a pretty 25,000 population. That seems to be a lot to me. But anyway, they merged two of them, and then there's another one. Catholic school. Right. But it's gone. You're right. Well, I guess that's a shame. It's not gone. It's been turned into a middle school. It's not a high school anymore. So there's students. I believe there's still students, yeah.

All right, Trey, who would you like to see reunited? Michael Cera and Jonah Hill. Oh, yeah. Stars of Superbad. All-time great movie. You don't see much of these guys either anymore. I think Michael Cera is in a movie. He's in the new Wes Anderson movie. Ooh, that's fun. He seems like the perfect kind of guy to be in a Wes Anderson movie. He's never been in one, I don't think. Has he? Unless he has a bit part in one I'm not remembering, but seems like the perfect kind of quirky dude to be in one of those. And Jonah Hill, I know he's taking some...

shots over the years. People didn't like the way he treated his partner for a while, so I don't know if that's why he's keeping a low profile, but I don't want them to remake Superbad, but I would like to see them in a movie again together. We can even bring McLovin. I'm sure he's free. How old's that movie now?

15 years, something like that? At least. At least 15 years. 2007. Oh, good. Okay. So it's coming up on 20 years. Wow. Crazy. All right. Sorry. Go ahead. No, I was going to say, do you think they'd do a reunion? Emma Stone invited? Yeah. Wow. She really blew up since then. She really has. Quite a glow up. Okay, guys. Speaking of movies, on Tuesday's show, we were talking about movies that we've purchased.

That are just sitting in our libraries gathering dust. What's the weirdest piece of media you own? Because, Keith, I know you've never bought a movie. That's right. I have never purchased a movie to own on any streaming platform ever. That is a flex. What a flex. That's a flex. Put that on a resume. The first thing I would say at a reunion...

How many movies did you buy on a streaming platform? Show me your receipts. Me, zero. But I was, after I said that, and I said it off the air, I said, oh, I did buy one thing, like on iTunes or whatever, that Apple store or whatever, like way back in the day. I bought an entire season of Survivor.

Through the iTunes. Also very on the nose for you. Yes, yes, yes. It was before we moved even down here to Atlanta, and I was ripping through some seasons that I had never watched. It was tough to find them back in... This was over 13 years... Or whatever, over 10 years ago. And so I think I bought Token Jeans.

So I think I have that on an old computer. Rob and Fishback on that? It's Fishback and Tyson. Oh, Tyson. So I believe I have that. Classic. Probably in the cloud, I guess, too. Nice. You can always... And it was well worth it. Yeah. Yeah.

How much was it? It was probably 20 bucks, I bet. Okay. Yeah. It's not bad. But you got the whole season. Yeah. Worth it. I watched it all on a treadmill, I remember. Yeah. I remember you seeing you in the Turner gym. That's right. Watching it online. Yep. How can you concentrate? That's my question. Tassie.

My answer is I bought a record recently. Vinyl? Vinyl. I don't have a record player, though. Oh. That's the thing. But I had to buy the record for my man John Legend. It's a 20-year anniversary of his first album coming up. It's got three LPs. I got nowhere to play it. It'll happen, though.

Take it over to Trace. Yeah, listening party. Let's do it. That's what LP stands for. Literally never been played, I guess, right? No, no, no, no. They're new vinyl releases. I know, I know. So you have something, a piece of media that's never been played. It has never been played. You're going to frame it? Put it up on your wall? That's a great question. Some people do that. Some people do. There's multiple vinyls in there.

Or you're saying the actual cover. I kind of want to see the disc. Take it out. Put it up too. Want to rub your fingers over the grooves. Giant slate. I know people are throwing them. Give me the green light.

I'm searching the streets right now. If you see a record player thrown on somebody's curb, let me know. I'll pick it up. Go to a garage sale. You get one easy. Yeah. You're going to have to fix the needle probably. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. That'd be stupid. That'd be expensive. How much was this LP? 60 bucks or something. They're so expensive. Wow. 60 bucks? Records are expensive. Wow. Yeah.

But man, they're great. It's awesome to have... No, it's awesome. It's awesome when you aren't moving places. Yeah. I bought most of my records like in the 2004 era when it was like...

$4 for a used record. Yeah. That's a move. Yeah, and now it's like $60 to get a new one. It's crazy. That's insane. Okay, Trey, what's the weirdest piece of media you own? I do have Survivor Season 1 on DVD. Whoa! Back in my mom's house in the closet somewhere, and I think I have a PlayStation Survivor game as well, but my answer right now is like, I've got a CD...

in my car filled with all of my CDs from college. Actually, I've been listening to CDs again. Wow. And a lot of them are burned. Yeah. So I don't know what's on them. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, exactly. And they all have... For whatever reason, when we were in college, we named all of our...

Our mix CD is like either a totally brutal volume, X through X, or after a San Francisco 49ers quarterback. So there's like Jim Druckenmiller, Elvis Gerbach, and you have no idea what's going to be on there. That's really radical. And then the other thing is, is like a 20-year-old burn CD, how many songs are going to work on it? You're like listening to the first eight, you're like, nice, nice. I did like this way back when. And then the next one. Not ideal.

But CDs, man. It's cool to have. Yeah. It is cool. Not as cool as vinyl, I would assume.

But you can play a CD in your car. You can't do that. Exactly, yeah. I have a six-disc CD changer. Wow. Look at you. No big deal. Things are good in the Kirby house. In my car. Holy. 2012. So it's right in the era. It's got Bluetooth and CD player. Oh, wow. Best of both worlds. Cutting edge. Okay, last one. Our old friend and colleague, Jackie Redmond, has taken a pickleball, guys. Yeah, I saw this. Yeah.

She good? Yeah. I've examined the tape and I'm happy to report she's very good. Okay. At least she seems to know what she's doing. Anyways, it was a very, very short clip.

This got me thinking we got to get a media tournament happening. Guys, who are you picking to be your pickleball partner? Just in all media? In all media. Okay. Well, I mean, if it's all media, I will take Tyson Apostle. Yeah. From the Pod Has Spoken podcast on The Ring or another Survivor podcast. This guy legit. I think I learned a pickleball through him.

He's been in the pickleball game for years. Forever, yeah. And he looks like he's really good. He's a sicko. He looks cool. I think we might pair well. He's tall and lengthy. Oh, yeah. You guys would be great. He's got the reach. I'll maybe break some speed. But if I can't pick him, one other person I would consider is Rachel Doyle from the Is This Good pod. Oh, fuck. That's a fucking great pick. Because she's a killer, and I've played with her, played against her. She is pretty amazing. Yeah. Pretty amazing. I'll go with one of those two. Tassie.

I'm not really well-versed in the pickleball world. I would like somebody who can do a live play-by-play as we play. Like somebody who's good enough at that, who can see every single corner. Because sometimes my problem with pickleball is, I don't know if a ball is in or out. I can't see the opposite, the kitty corner. Is it in or out? So I want somebody who can just call everything. Line up.

What's that? I don't know. You want like an official. Yeah. A lines person. Yeah. Are there lines people in these like official pickleball games? Usually not. They call their own. They call their own, but they will do a video replay. In this tournament, we are having lines people and video replays because it's ridiculous. That is crazy. Yeah. Make it official. Maybe Ben Johns is cheating all the time. It could be. Who's up? Could be. Anyways, I should have said who my partner would be. It would be Nate Duncan. My basketball...

compatriot here. He would be good at calling play-by-plays. Yes. He's got a great voice. Yeah, he does. It'd be fun. He just likes telling you like it is. And so I want to know exactly... First of all, all the frickin' rules, sometimes I do forget. Yeah, I gotta be playing up here. Yeah, forgot about that. I think he would say that. Whoa, rare situation here for Mellis not playing up. You know, something like that.

So while you're playing with him as your partner, he's critiquing you in real time. Critiquing? I mean, he'd be calling what he sees, J.D. That's the way I would put it. Tass Mellis standing in the wrong spot again. He'd be quite the presence at the net. He'd be like, he's a monster. He's a big guy. Danny LaRue would be working the books for you guys. I wonder if those guys play pickleball.

God, I'd love to see it. Exactly. That's why this has to happen. I just pictured Nate Duncan yelling at Danny LaRue now the whole time. Danny, you're in the wrong spot!

Grab a milk, Danny. The amount of money I would pay to watch Janie and Tass play Nate Duncan and Danny LaRue at Big Amol. All-star weekend event. That's what they should put on Friday night. That's what I've been saying it for years. All right, Trey, who would be your pickleball partner? I actually heard Nate started a pickleball podcast. Oh, God. Here we go. Dinked on. Oh, God.

Too easy. Too easy. JD, are you up for grabs in this tournament? Of course. I'm taking JD. All right. Awesome. Yeah. Thank you. I got rituals. Yeah. See you in the finals. Mind games. All right. That's Rapid Fire. Not so rapid, but hopefully helped make a classic. You tell us. We were talking NCAA. We're talking NBA. We're talking...

We're talking worst of the week. We did it all here on this drop podcast. And if you want to see more of that, come join us live in Atlanta next week, Thursday night.

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So come on out. Because they can't stay here any longer. Yeah. No, no. We got a lot.

We have a lot of boxes of Tabasco up in this joint right now. So come on out, get yourself a slice, get yourself some Tabasco and come watch us do a live podcast. It'll be a lot of fun. So that's next week. I did eat Tabasco sauce on pizza last night. Wanted to give it a test run. And? I'm feeling confident about Tabasco's chances here. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We're going to have like a little much madness bracket fun at the live show. Okay. Yeah.

I had other hot sauces open and I opened a new Tabasco. Wow. Company man. Which one did you go with? I went with the OG red. Just straight red. They mailed us four sauces this week. I've already used two of them. I'll try to get the other two in this weekend. I don't want to lie to the people.

- That's good. - I do like the smoky one. I haven't had the jalapeno in quite some time. - Mm-hmm. - Dang. - Oh, jeez. - Look at this free advertisement. - Okay, you're gonna put the picante sauce on your tacos, people. You're gonna put the hot sauce, the red one, on your pizza. I would recommend the Chipotle one on your Chipotle burritos. I don't know if they developed them in tandem, but they're made to go together. The green one, I'm still experimenting.

Come on Thursday and I'll tell you what to put the green one on. Tell me which one I should use for eggs.

Oh, okay. I would say go with the smoky one. You're going to want to taste that smokiness. That's nice. All right. That's what I know what I'm doing this week. All right. Until Monday when we're back with NBA weekend winners and losers, Clepper Bros. You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys. Awesome. Thanks for joining us. And remember, Tabasco's good on pizza. I had the smoky one.

On a beef taco. Straight on the beef. It works well. The smokiness. I'm sure it'll be good on eggs. And pizza. It is tasty. Embrace the weekend, people.

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