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I like that one. Yeah, it was good to have one of those guys at the auction that kind of do the auction bids.

Zazz made a face like he smelled a fart.

Yeah, I'm sure everyone's going to enjoy that. Hey, but Chris, you have some observations from the local hour?

Yes.

You referenced in there out of nowhere, you were like my 17-year-old son called me and I was just like, How do you— how do you— first of all, before we get to just how you and your son— how do you guys answer the phone depending on who's calling you? Because I have a different— I have a lot of ways. If it's like a number I don't know, it's hello, because I don't want them to like know in case I need to pretend I'm not me. I need a hello.

This is a good question because a lot, you know, now that you have everyone's number stored in your phone and you see the name pop up, it's kind of weird if you just say, you know, the regular Hello, as if you don't know who's on the other line.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that you greet them the same way you would in person because it's as if you're seeing their face because you know who they are. I think the interesting thing that you brought up is you answer numbers you don't know, and I do too sometimes. But the question is, what are the ones— how do you answer? How do you decide which ones you're going to answer?

When the scam is unlikely.

Does it say that for you?

I have a scam likely and a scam unlikely.

Really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Scam Unlikely?

Yeah, unlikely.

That means it could be.

No, no, I know what it means. That wasn't the part. That, that was not the part I was confused about.

You got an update?

My phone don't do that.

I know what the word unlikely means.

So if it doesn't say scam likely, I assume it means not likely. But you have a setting that actually says, you know what, real unlikely to scam.

Sometimes I get scam likely, sometimes I get potential spam.

You know what, that's another one I'm looking at right here.

You know what, likely potential scam.

I think you got a case on your hands. Apple out here telling you it's not a scam. What if you get scammed? You need to get a— you need to call up a lawyer and get Apple. They got money.

Do you get spam risk?

No, I get potential spam, and then I get scam likely and scam unlikely.

Scam unlikely is absurd. I've never had scam unlikely.

I got spam risk.

Spam risk? Yeah, we all get spam risk.

Yeah.

So yeah, if I happen to—

hello?

Because just in case they're like Is this Chris? You owe us $1 million.

Nope.

Because I remember I didn't answer like me.

I feel like— and this is maybe just a weird thing about me— is I feel like based on the number, if it doesn't say scam likely or it doesn't say spam risk, it doesn't say unlikely. For me, I feel like I can look at the number and know whether it's a real person calling or a real business calling or it's a scam based on the numbers, which I don't really know what I'm looking for. I think it's like a local area code. If I have a local area code, yeah, you get my interest. And if the final numbers aren't like some good combination, it's a good combination of numbers. It looks too clean.

What's a good combination? 1, 2, 3, 4?

No, not 1, 2, 3, 4. Like if there's two zeros in it or something, you know where it looks like it's 2200, right?

Yeah.

It's like, hey, it's the right area code. So I live in D.C., so it's 202, then it's three numbers and then it's like 2020. Nah. Even if it don't say scam likely, I like Yeah, I know what you're up to.

So for professional phone calls, you know, got a meeting with somebody, someone calls, hey, name, whatever their name is.

Yeah.

Hey, Bob.

Right.

Hey, Dan. That's pretty—

if it's people I know, like my son. Hey.

Just a hey.

Yeah.

My dad goes, hey, boy.

I hit him with a what up. It's always what up. Or like if it's family, if it's like immediate family, kids or my wife, I know that they're only calling for a reason.

So it's—

we got to get right to it.

So you say what?

Nah, that sounds rude.

A friend that calls too much?

Yo.

Yeah, we're—

yeah.

Oh yeah, if, if I get— if I'm instantly like, this person hates me, if they answer the phone, yeah, that's— they hate me.

They're bothered by you. That's what that means. Yeah.

But what— why are they calling? Send the text. I, I know that I'm wrong in that, like, that's the wrong way to feel, but generally I'm gotten better at this. Like my, my producer and co-host Charlie, he calls me a lot and he don't have a reason.

Like a caller.

He don't have a reason for call. He just wants to talk. And I've come to really appreciate it. But every time the phone rings, I'm surprised because he don't— it's just like, hey, how you doing? And I like lose touch with friends because I don't call them. So like, I recognize it. I appreciate it. I try to do this more and I do it in the worst way possible where I'll put in my calendar, call my homie Brandon.

Oh, really?

And I, and I call my homie Brandon and I'm like, hey, what's up? How you been?

You know, it's like a meeting.

I know. I hate it about myself.

Myself, but otherwise men really suck at that.

It's funny, Sebastian Maniscalco does a good bit on this where, remember when we were growing up— okay, you and I, Dominique, are close to the same age, but probably you guys over there as well, same experience. If you're home, yeah, and, and someone knocks on your door when you're growing up, and someone knocks on your door, rings doorbell, this is a very exciting thing that's taking place.

Now I'm hiding.

And now if someone rings that doorbell or knocks on the door I mean, everyone looks around and go, what the hell is going on, dude?

If I see it's a salesperson, I am like tiptoeing around. If my daughter—

shh—

she's like, Daddy, you're gonna—

shh— yep, yep, he can hear us.

Daddy, the TV's on. It doesn't matter.

Yep. You got any other observations from the local hour?

Uh, I did actually. I, I, I want to ask this question here, and don't take offense to it. Are you too good of a father, Zazz? Because you are constantly referencing, I did this with my son, I called my son, It's just like, it's— if it's possible, you might be too good of a father.

Here's the thing, I'm totally self-aware.

Or you need friends.

I'm totally self-aware when it comes to stuff like this. You could say that I'm a really good father, I do all these things, I take my boys this, you know, we do all that. But there's also a huge element to all these things that I do where I'm doing the things that I want to do. And I'm lucky that either both my boys or especially my younger son is really into the things that I like to do. So it's kind of childish.

Wrestling.

Yeah, right, right. It's somewhat childish behavior on my part.

Do you recognize specific things in either of your sons that's like, this is definitely me or this is definitely their mother? Or is there one of the sons that you're like, yeah, that one's me. This one isn't necessarily me? Like, do you see yourself in them in behaviors and actions in the way that they carry themselves?

Yes, sir.

Yes.

Oh my God, the older one for sure. The older one, uh, is, is super moody. You know, he's at that age course, so he's super moody around the house, but he's also the kid who outside the house, all the parents, the mothers, they love him. And so we get the whole, oh, your son was at our house the other day, he's so great, like Really?

That kid?

You know, like, like that, that was me growing up. I was, I was so moody around my parents, and when they would get compliments from the other parents about me and my personality, and they're like, are you talking about our son? You know, so yeah, I get that.

We have it pretty easy in my house because my wife and I are like so very different. Like, my wife is very smart, like books and all that stuff comes very easily to her, and I was a good athlete. She didn't play sports, so it's pretty obvious. It's like when the kid like stumbles and instead of falls down does like a pirouette and lays, it's like, that's my girl. And then when she brings home straight A's, I'm like, all right, I see you. All right, there you go. You contributed. Good play, good play, mom.

Good play.

That's on you.

So I'm totally self-aware where it looks like I'm a really good father, but I'm, I'm just doing shit that I want to do and I have someone to do it with who also enjoys it.

That's good advice though.

I'm gonna try to do that, you know. I mean, you, you started taking your daughter to wrestling, right?

And my daughter, she's like into watching sports with me and stuff. Every sporting event she's like, who are we rooting for? And most of the time I'm like, we don't care about this one, but she needs a rooting interest. Well, so you got it.

Every—

you got to teach her how to gamble.

I'm like, we're rooting for Algeria.

We got some money on the game here. That's what we root for.

Well, that— she's also— is that your— when I am complaining about— is that your bet? I'm like, thank you, baby.

You're, you're running— you're playing a riskier game than Zazz with two sons. It's like if you raise a girl version of an adult Cody, like, I mean, it's like, no one needs that. It's a different life choice. That's all I'm saying. A little different life choice. That's all.

So I want to talk about Giannis here, but specifically I want to talk about Giannis and some of the reaction out there. And what I mean by that is people are very quick. This trade only happened 48 hours ago and you got a lot of commentary out there. Where people are very quick to know exactly how this is going to play out. And so it brings us to our very first edition of Fast Take.

Fast Take. Fast Take. Fast Take.

Fast Take!

That's right, Dominique, you've been on First Take before, right?

I have been, and the music is not nearly this good.

Okay, well, this isn't First Take, this is Fast Take, where you can't let any time go by. There is no waiting. It doesn't matter if you're right or if you're wrong. The thing happens and you gotta get out there immediately. Not even first, like First Take. You gotta get out there with the fast take. And so our very first host of Fast Take is the one and only Nick Wright.

Teams that right now I expect to be better in next year's regular season than Miami, just in the Eastern Conference: the Knicks, the Celtics— more on them in a minute— the Pistons, and the Cavs. That's 4 teams I expect to be better than them in the regular season. Now the Pistons and the Cavs, I don't have a lot of faith for them in the postseason as— and we'll see what moves they make. But that does not— teams that should be eye to eye with the Heat, the Hawks, who were awesome post-Trey Young trade, the Pacers, assuming Halliburton comes back as anything like the Halliburton we're used to. And while they're bummed they don't have their draft pick, they do have Zubac.

Well, I mean, how are you supposed to compete with that? They do have Zubots. But we, we are less than 2 days removed from the Miami Heat acquiring a superstar, all right? Top 3, 4 player in the league, however you want to put it. Free agency hasn't even begun. Literally, free agency has not even started. Nick Wright already knows, he's already mapped out because he gave, he gave the top 4— Boston, New York, Cleveland, Detroit— and then gave us the other teams that are on the level of Miami, including Atlanta and Indiana. So within 2 days of the trade happening, free agency hasn't even started yet, Nick Wright knows the top 7 seeds in the Eastern Conference next year.

And he also gave room for those teams to get better. So implicit in that is that the Heat might also get better.

Well, I didn't get that impression from it. Others, it seems like other teams can improve, you know, remember, because free since he hasn't started yet. Other teams can improve, but the Heat, they're locked.

Yeah, the Heat are going to stay with 7 people on the roster. They're not going to get any better whatsoever. So I, on Monday when we were talking about the situation prior to the actual trade happening, there was already a lot of chatter with Nick Wright. And on Monday I said he's this close from being banned from the program.

Yo, hit it again, Roy.

He's—

I think he might be banned from the program.

Fast tag.

Oh.

Fast Take. Fast Take.

Fast Take!

Ah, yes. Once again, today's host of Fast Take, Nick Wright.

Not writing them off. We'll wait and see version teams. I don't expect to be as good as the Heat, but I, I can't flatly say have no shot at it. Toronto, Orlando, and Philly. So where do I expect the Heat to be next year? No better than 5th and no worse than 7th in the East. Winning a round, certainly possible. Winning 2 rounds Very unlikely. Winning 3 rounds, I would be utterly stunned. And winning 4 rounds, not possible.

Fast take, fast take.

The trade just happened. Nick has the Heat either the 5th, 6th, or 7th seed in the Eastern Conference. He has all 7 of the seeds laid out and is already predicting what the first, second, and third round of the playoffs look like, even though the Finals from this past season just ended. He's—

Fast Take. Fast Take. Fast Take. Fast Take.

Fast Take!

See, First Take thought they were on to something, Dominique. 'Cause they're first. But you got another one.

Fast take. Fast take.

Well, we don't let any time go by. We don't let any other transactions happen. Really don't let any other— we let nothing else happen. When the thing takes place, when the big trade happens, you gotta map out the entire future, Tony. All of it.

That's fast take.

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Correct me if I'm wrong here, but we played a Jalen Brunson parade of gas bags a couple of weeks ago when the Knicks won the title, and whose voice was all over the parade of gasbags talking about how he was opining and pontificating into the future on the Knicks and what they were doing. Oh, Nick Wright, who said that Jalen Brunson wasn't that good, that good of a player.

Are you, are you considering banning him? I wouldn't ban him. I mean, he's fine, but I would ban him.

Spoken ill of the Heat on plenty, plenty, plenty of occasions.

Okay, but Nick Wright, he's got that lev.

Yeah, well, no, he's got that lev.

Oh, all right, let's look at Nick Wright. Put Nick back on the screen here. Okay, Dominique, is this a guy— look, Nick Wright, you look him straight in the face. All right, okay, okay. Is, is Nick Wright the kind of guy— he got that love?

Absolutely.

I think Giannis still has at least 2 and maybe 3 awesome years left in him, and I miss seeing Giannis deep into postseasons.

Flatly.

And because of that, I'm really bummed he now has working for him a great coach, a good organization, and Bam Adebayo, and that's about it. They don't know if they're going to be able to bring back Norman Powell. They're not certain, even though I would imagine they will be able to bring back Andrew Wiggins. Davion Mitchell is a nice defensive point guard. And all of a sudden Giannis went from a team who the last couple years in Milwaukee, the ceiling, the absolute ceiling was round 1 of the playoffs, and now Giannis is on a team where the ceiling, the absolute ceiling is round 2 of the playoffs.

Yeah, pretty sure he's got that left.

Yeah, definitely.

Really?

Look, I'm looking at a lot of left.

When you can wire 100 racks to the Aria, you got left.

Fast take.

I mean, I don't—

can you, can you wire 100 racks right now?

I don't want to get in my man's wallet like that.

Yeah, why you pocket watching?

Playing poker?

You do that? I would never. That's, that's what I like to hear. Could you? Maybe, but I would never. But I'm not a poker guy. To each their own. But I feel bad. I know that you said the streets are upset at me. The streets might continue to be disappointed in me because I don't really understand, like, aren't we supposed to analyze the moves? And how else are you supposed to analyze the move without analyzing the things as they currently stand? I, I think that they're probably— I didn't listen to Nick's whole show, but I'm guessing that there's probably some nuance in there about we know that they can do other things, but as things stand now, it's Essentially, maybe I'm being defensive because it feels like essentially what I was saying, it's the same thing as I was saying yesterday. Maybe I was wrong. I think Amin made an awesome point, is that none of these big trades are like done on day one. And yes, they're in better position now than they were before. And I think that's what we should be doing. That'll make everyone happy. It's like they made a move, they're in the right direction.

The next step is like, so are they going to win a championship? And that's kind of the culture of sports. And analysis now is like, are they going to win the championship? And the answer to that, even the most ardent Heat fan, if you ask Spo right now, can this team win a championship, he would say no.

It is fair to ask Zazz the question, if would we have created Fast Take if he said the Heat were going to win it all?

We'll never know.

We'll never know. But that's not what took place today.

Fast Take.

Speaking of creating, I did witness Fast Take being created. Yeah, this morning I walked in.

Oh, you let them in behind door?

You saw Rick Rubin sandwich in action.

I was gonna go with Red Rubin. I like Red Rubin.

Red Rubin.

Red Rubin.

He was in there and he was locked in, one earphone in, playing songs and yelling it. Or not yelling in the lab.

Yeah, him with the stiff arm. I'm like, not now, hold on.

Today he's working. Red Rubin's working.

And then he hit him with a Fast take.

Don't you dare play the raw versions of that, Roy.

And then he was like, you're looking at right, that's the one, that's the one.

Fast take.

You got raw? I, I got it, but I'm not gonna do that. Oh no, no, dude, come on, come on, you got it, you got it, you got it. I mean, okay, you want me to do it, I'll do it. Play some raw.

Fast take, fast take, fast take, fast take.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

That was take 1. Let's do take 2.

Fast take. Fast take. Fast take.

Fast take.

And then there's a 3rd one where I tried whispering. We did not go with this one.

Fast take. Fast take. Fast take. Fast take.

I'm cooking, man.

Hey, that's good effort.

Nice job.

The back end of it kind of sounds like MVP of the Day a little bit.

Biggest game in 20 years.

I only have so many things. You did an awesome job, man. Congratulations.

Faster.

So there you go. The debut edition of the new hit show Faster.

Can I get your— your analysis of it? Because, like, I—

of what Nick was saying?

No, not of what Nick was saying. Just the raw analysis of the Heat transaction.

It's— it's incredibly exciting if you're a Miami Heat fan, of course. This team has an— has actual proof of concept. They have actual evidence that whenever they have traded for these or acquired in free agency the superstar player, they've either won the whole thing or at least gotten to the championship round. So yeah, I have the faith that this organization knows how to put pieces around them in order to compete at a very high level. And in today's NBA, where for the first time in league history you have real parity, 8 consecutive unique champions in this league, and the Heat now have a top 3 or 4 player in the world. So how can you say that they don't have a chance based on what we've seen this decade?

I think he's talking about the— a lot of that he's talking about the regular season. I don't think it's crazy to say that the 4 teams of Boston, the Knicks, Detroit, and Cleveland—

that makes you feel bad. You feel bad that he was traded to Miami. Nick Wright feels bad that he was traded to Miami. No, that's ridiculous, because he's not going to get to see him play in big games.

What is that supposed to mean? All they do is play big games. Even when they're bad, they play big games.

I mean, I think that particular take right there— I mean, sometimes you get up in the air, you start talking, because he said all they have is a great coach. I was like, that's a lot.

And a great player.

Yeah, he's all— they have another good player. All they have So it's a good starting point, but I think it's, it's fair to think that it's going to be an uphill battle. I think they went from having him saying there's no chance is probably just a little bit of Nick Wright hyperbole for performance effect. But I think they went from having like a 1% chance of winning the championship to like a 30%.

They're in the game.

It's a massive upgrade.

I know.

I think in the game, 30 is high.

I'm making the point that they made a big leap. 30 is probably high. They made a big leap. But they certainly aren't like one of the real favorites. If we—

totally—

if we put—

I think having the 5th shortest odds to win the championship right now, that was surprising to me.

Right. So I'm saying that the, the final point that Nick landed on is the reason why I asked you for your analysis is the same place we all are. We're all in the same place. It's just Nick came in through the back door. You came in through the front door. You're like, I'm so excited. We got a chance. We're like the 6th or 7th best team. Nick's like, hey, this trade didn't make them good. They're like the 6th or 7th best team. Like, we're all at the same spot.

They're in the game. They're in the game. And in today's NBA, that's all you can ask for. And if the Heat get to a playoff series and you have to go up against Giannis and Bam Adebayo and Erik Spoelstra in a 7-game series, my team's got a chance now. My team got a chance.

The scariest part, I think, is the point I was trying to make yesterday is they have to be able to find someone to close games. And in my mind, I always imagine a super talented, top-of-the-league type of player to do that. They're not going to be able to get one of those guys. So the question is, and we see again proof of concept, proof of concept, because Milwaukee's done it before.

Yeah.

Where they had that wing perimeter player who wasn't like top of the league type of talent. It's finding someone that can do that. That's the hard part. When that gets— when that part happens and then you have the discount rate of the injury stuff for an aging guy. But when that happens, it changes. Everything changes about this team, the perspective and the like. The trajectory of this team changes if they can do that.

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I want to talk about the draft last night. So every year I get suckered into believing that there's gonna be just a million transactions. And I don't mean transacts like trading the picks where you're putting on the wrong hat. The NFL gets it right. The NFL, they trade picks every, every few picks. A pick is being traded, they manage to put the right hat on the player. The NBA can't get it right. I, I don't get— I don't get it. The NFL, why do they know how to do it? Why can you make a trade in the NFL and everybody agrees to the trade and they do the right hat. And the NBA can't do it.

I mean, I think this is— a lot of people point to the NBA and make the joke that they are a league run by lawyers. It's, uh, it's not just a joke, but it's factual. But I think that that's part of it, is like, no, he's not actually on that team yet. But I think most of us are like, well, what's most likely going to happen? He's going to be on that team. In the off chance, the 3% chance that he ends up not— the trade not going through, then that's the one time they'll be in the wrong hat. Now we go about it in a way that 98.9% of the time we put them in the wrong hat knowing it's going to be the wrong hat. It's very confusing. It's not a huge deal, but it's just weird because we all know the truth. Why are we pretending?

I—

there were— overall, I was kind of bored with the draft last night and maybe because like there weren't any big trades with current players and it was kind of chalky the first, you know, 4 or 5 picks or whatever.

But you should have played the drinking game I was playing, which was take a drink every time Lisa Salters has to tell a parent to lift the mic up to their mouth.

Oh, hammer.

Who was it? Which, which player was it?

Hammered.

I, I think it was Darren Peterson. Darren Peterson, who after his father was— and his father, his father's holding the microphone, I think, at his ankles. Yeah, right.

And then you just— I love the three-shot because you see Lisa, she doesn't realize she's on the shot. She's like—

but, but the— but Darren Peterson, after his father got done talking, again, microphones at his ankles, Darren Peterson goes, speaking of Mike, and then his dad picks up the mic to his mouth.

But that's what we're doing every week with my dad, by the way. Just like Greg.

I—

that, that though is my favorite part of the draft is, is the families. And I love when they cry. Now the interviews—

I love when they get nervous and don't make sense.

I love when they cry. Now the interviews can be hit or miss, okay? Because, you know, look, you're talking to the parents. Parents probably never had a microphone in front of their face. So some of them, it's like they don't really have anything to say. But when it's good and they're showing the emotion, I love that shit so much. Like, like when Jaxo Landerberg was up there with his mother, who apparently is battling cancer right now. When Jaxo Landerberg is up there, he is hysterical, crying, sitting on that couch there. I love it so much. I love when they get emotional.

The triumph like that particular moment for those guys reaching a dream along with their parents is very good. I think they do that, that living room set. With everyone and it's the same questions. And most of the time you're getting like, yeah, I work really hard, happy to be here.

It's—

I guess it's good. It's good.

It's worth it for the risk. But for the most part, I think I'm like, so is he going to be good on this team? Somebody tell me how this is going to work out. I don't really care unless it's a great story that they already know about. But they also do the thing where I saw towards the end of the draft, they bring the parents to the couch, they give them microphones, and then they don't ask them any questions. And I'm—

I always felt bad for like the mother or the sister who didn't get to talk and she was just holding the mic the whole time, right?

Just holding it flat.

Yeah.

And there were a few times where the mother and father were sitting there and Lisa was like, you said that this is a good moment between you and your father, like you two, this is our moment. And the mom is just sitting there, it's like, can it just— it should be all of our moments.

Don't worry.

I'm feeling bad for the mom now because you're positioning it like it's their moment.

And most of the time the parents like echo the question. So Lisa's like, I heard that this was a really important moment. You work really hard together. They give the microphone. We've been working for this moment for a really long time. It's a really good moment for us. Like, yeah, okay, thanks.

Well, and there was one where the father explained everything about his son and what makes him great. And then Lisa Salters asked the mother and she goes, everything he said.

I feel the same exact way.

Right. I would not like to talk all of those words. That's from me.

They should, they should practice these like they should have like a walkthrough of that the whole night. We're going to say, this is where you stand, this is where you walk through. Lisa's going to bring you on the stage. This is the question she's going to ask you. Be ready. Hit us with something different. Or is there something you would like to talk about? Because I think that most of those things I honestly think are like a kind of a waste.

I was assuming when they sit down, she's like, who would like me to go first? Is there one that's more confident here? Something like, that's what I would be doing. Like, who's more prepared to talk?

I do like all the family stuff. I dig it when they're emotional. I mean, I forget whose mother was crying. One of the mothers, she didn't get up to the couch. She stayed back at the table because I think maybe he went with his siblings and she was so emotional. She's hysterical, crying back at the table. I love that shit. That's my favorite part.

You mentioned the Yaxel pic. Did you guys see the little Joe Lacob, Mike Dunleavy, the internet?

Like, are they upset?

Are they fighting over who they're taking? Now they're claiming that in this little, like, interaction that got caught by the internet, that they were just— it was a time thing. Joe Lacob's like, make the pick now. And Mike Dunleavy's like, we got 5 minutes. And but a lot of the internet was thinking that they were arguing over who to pick. They have since, you know, put those flames out. But Joe, like, come on. I just feel like it's a bad look for the owner. If you got to at least be sitting down, you got to know the optics. You got to know there's a camera there.

Like, yeah, I mean, they know it's a camera there and you got to be the one making the call. It feels like whoever's making the call, it's the power player, even though we know it's not true.

I will say, because they're saying— they're claiming it was just a timing thing. Dunleavy's like walking away, like on the phone, like, sorry, you can't hear what's happening here.

You're very excited though about the— you're a DC guy, you live there. Like, this gets you to go to Wizards games now?

Absolutely. I mean, I've gone to Wizards games when they weren't good. Like, I will be so excited to go to these games. I met AJ at the— at Game 4 of the, uh, Knicks game. Which was an awesome experience. And AJ seems like a really—

you were at Game 4?

Yeah, I was at Game 4.

Wow, where were you sitting?

What you know about that Game 4?

I mean, I, I know it was really good.

I mean, I was sitting in the 100s, like I didn't get down low, I wasn't up super high. It was great. I, I did not pay actual, like, the, the aftermarket prices is— I couldn't figure that out. My, my man Charlie, we mentioned earlier, got us to connect to get us into that arena. It was an incredible experience. AJ though Really cool guy, smart kid. He's going to be awesome. That team has never really had a player like that, that high, um, super high talent, super high value prospect on the wing, like the most important player on the floor. It feels like there's some optimism. And we also got Trae.

I like Trae, man.

Trae's a good pass.

I like Trae Young too, but there's— they gave him $250 million, or $212 million, uh, 4 years, $212 million. So we're talking what, $53 million a season? I did that quick math, didn't even have my abacus with me, I did it in my head. Uh, that's $53 million a season for Trae Young. And like, I get it, like you're saying how, all right, at least we got someone to watch now. You got— you got like, Trae Young's an exciting player, but I just—

they—

I mean, they have to get over the minimum. Like, that matters too. 90% of the cap, and they have a team that's full of young, um, first-contract players and Trae. I think you probably, of course, it wasn't a huge market for it, but I am never going to argue against a guy getting paid, especially a guy who I think could be valuable in the right situation. They have like long wings that can help him out defensively, and I think his passing ability— the one question mark is like he's— he gives off great shooter, but his great shooting numbers have never quite shown up. I think the ball dominance could be a concern. AJ is gonna need the ball a little bit more, but I, I mean, I think it's interesting, exciting. And you got to take into account Miami or Washington isn't Miami. Like, we haven't been in it all the time. This feels like something like we—

I'm excited.

You're not spoiled.

Yeah, I'm the opposite where it's like I'm finding anyone. We got someone and we got a guy. We got, we got a couple of guys and Trae Young. I mean, Trae Young hit game winners in the playoffs. That's more than what we got.

The Knicks fans hate Trae Young because of what he did.

Exactly.

We got a guy that people care enough about to hate or love. We got a guy that he could use a Trae Young. You wouldn't be dying for Trey.

Not for that money.

But no, but it's fair. Like, you got a fan base who has never had— who has not had anything in so long. At least you can, you can get a little bit excited on game day. We got some exciting players to watch.

You have to—

the most exciting people were probably the, like, sales team because they, like, work for commission. And for the last 20 years, that Wizards sales team, they've been working their ass off, man. They're like, hey, We got a special after the game. There's a concert.

It's a—

don't worry, we got something happening. We give free t-shirts if you come. Like, they are now— they could be like, hey, got some young guys, man. We got some guys in my line. Get on, get in on the ground floor. I'm fielding calls. I call you back when I can. That's what they are. Busy. And you know what? It's not saying spam likely when they call anymore. That number was unlikely. Oh, The banter makes us spam unlikely, baby.

So tonight is round 2. The Heat do have a pick tonight in round 2. This is the 3rd consecutive year where round 2— there's only 2 rounds in the NBA draft, and round 2 is on a second night. It used to all just be one night, round 1 and round 2, and this is the 3rd year they're doing this. If you remember the first year they did round 2, which, look, it's, it's not like the NFL. You, you pick a player in round 2 You want— that guy's gonna be a starter on your team if you made a good pick. In the NBA, round 2, half those guys aren't even gonna be in the league, alright? And 3 years ago, the very first time they did a separate day for round 2, why was that? Because Bronny was about to be drafted. So they had its own day because— they'll never admit it, but no, it was because Bronny is going to be drafted. So round 2 is gonna get its own day. I feel like after this year, we could pull the plug on that. Like, you want to do a couple more years so you can kind of feign the idea that, "No, no, nothing to do with Bronny.

You see, we're still doing it. Round 2's got its own day." I feel like after this year, it's like, "All right, we've seen enough.

Draft's one day." I mean, to be fair, the guys that work in— guys and girls that work in the NBA and the NBA media, um, that's a really long night. When you got the first round and the second round on the same night, that's brutal.

The NFL Draft used to only be 2 days. Yeah, you would have 4 rounds the first day and the final 3 rounds the next day. And the first round was 15 minutes between picks.

As a show that often livestreams these first rounds, let's stick to 1 round, please and thank you.

I get to tell people that I was a day 1 pick. I'm old enough to be when the first 3 rounds were on day 1. So hey, were you—

were you telling someone out like, holy shit, you were awesome?

The day one pick, y'all. Yeah, that was me. Day one pick. Yeah, I, um, got a spam likely call while we're on the show, and it just reminded me that my dad, who's retired now, has taken it upon himself to answer these calls and spam emails and give them the runaround. He's a, he's a freedom fighter.

Oh, you want to try to mess with my dad? I'm gonna mess with your dad.

He's like, I got time. I got nothing but— yeah, speak to your supervisor. Yeah, you gonna send me— you gonna send me some money? Cool. I'm gonna talk to you for an hour about how you gonna send me this money and never actually give you any account information. We gonna mess around for as long as you want to mess around. I'm gonna make you quit. I'll make you hang up.

Well, I got the left. It's easy to do that now with like— because you'll get the spam texts now.

Yeah, yeah.

So it's real easy to mess around with these people on the text.

It's so dangerous though, man. Like, I feel like I could fall into one of those traps. I'm getting older and it's like I've noticed myself where I don't completely dismiss the spam text, the calls, emails, huh? Smell them right off the bat. Oh, spam. I get a spam text. I read the whole thing. I'm like, are we sure? Before I'm like, oh, it's definitely spam. I think I'm getting old. There are a lot of people who want to fix my roof.

That's crazy.

That's actually a great— what about the people that come to your door?

The windows?

I know. Obviously we don't. Obviously the first option is you don't answer, right? But if you find— if you just happen to answer it, Are you the right away, I'm going to be a little rude here, not interested, and then I'm just shutting the door because I'm a sucker. I need my wife to come save me. I'll stand out there for 20 minutes. That's how I'm never going to— I'm never going to actually purchase anything, but I'll take your number down. I'll make an appointment.

I have a hard time being rude. I'm a generally nice person. I have a hard time being rude to someone, especially face to face. And one time I was doing these, I'm standing out on my porch, I'm listening to this person yapping.

We're going to be in your neighborhood later this week.

Well, no, it's one of those people like it's like the magazine subscription thing, you know? And then after like 10 minutes, my wife— she doesn't know what's happening, but she knows what's happening— she opens the door and all she does, she goes, it's enough of this, let's go.

We're the same, dude.

I said the exact same thing's happened to me.

My neighborhood, they've been running this great scam where you got that nice neighborhood too. Yeah, I'm in a nice neighborhood and they bring in that cul-de-sac and they bring— nope, no cul-de-sac. They bring in guys who have been recently released from prison And they're like, we're in this prison release program. We need you to buy these magazines in order to like fund our like recovery. And so in the background, I assume that all my neighbors are like, hold up, you got out of jail? If I don't buy these magazines, what's really gonna happen?

Ah, ah, sure, I'll give you some money, magazines, take 'em.

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