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Welcome to episode 145 of the A List Podcast with A. Sherrod Blakely, Gary Washburn, and Kwani A. Lunis. In this episode, Sherrod, Gary and Kwani discuss Team USA's needed changes for the 2024 Olympics in Paris after failing in the FIBA World Cup, and LeBron James making a call to bring in The A Team for Paris!  0:00 Teaser 0:41 Intro 2:42 How will Team USA reshape themselves before Paris Olympics after embarrassing FIBA exit? 5:02 LeBron James trying to get current NBA stars back on the squad for Paris games 10:46 FanDuel Sportsbook 11:28 FIBA/Olympics cont'd 12:47 Many countries will be stocked up with international NBA talents for Paris Olympics 16:02 Kwani is worried about Paris 22:02 Daniel Theis and Dennis Schroeder showed out for Germany 23:35 OddsR 24:07 NBA 2K24 Ratings 30:37 Celtics sign Taylor Funk to Exhibit 10 Deal 35:26 Outro  This episode of the A List Podcast is brought to you by Fanduel Sportsbook, the exclusive wagering partner of the CLNS Media Network. NEW customers can bet $5  and get $200 in BONUS BETS – GUARANTEED. Plus, all customers who bet $5 will get $100 OFF NFL SUNDAY TICKET from YouTube and YouTube TV. Now is the best time to join FanDuel! The app is easy to use and you can be on everything from spreads to player props and more! So, visit  https://FanDuel.com/BOSTON and kick off the NFL season with an offer you won’t wanna miss.  21+ and present in MA. First online real money wager only. $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets that expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at fanduel.com/sportsbook. Hope is here. GamblingHelpLineMa.org or call (800)-327-5050 for 24/7 support. Play it smart from the start! GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234. NFL Sunday Ticket Offer ends 9/18/23. No refunds. Terms and embargoes apply. $100 off NFL Sunday Ticket, not YouTube TV. YouTube TV base plan required to watch YouTube TV. Redemption requires a Google account and current form of payment. Commercial Use Excluded. Subscription renews; cancel anytime.  ODDS-R! Ever wished you could navigate the betting field with the confidence of a pro? Enter OddsR. They're not a sportsbook, but they're the sports betting advisor you've always needed. It's like having a playbook for smarter bets right in your pocket. I've been absolutely loving the experience, and I think you will too. Especially since Pats Interference listeners get a 30-day free trial! Elevate your game day and join the smart betting revolution! Go get it at https://oddsr.com/celtics

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00:00 played teams that I think they underestimated guys who were

00:04 not NBA players. They respected them, the NBA players, but the

00:07 ones who aren't in the NBA, they didn't know about so that kid

00:12 the dude forty-two from Germany went off on him at that big

00:15 three. I didn't get a chance to watch the Canada game, but you

00:18 let Dylan Brooks go for thirty-nine like it's a pride

00:22 thing and I think once and then I watched the Lithuania game

00:27 and Lithuania hit a lot of big shots and it's just like that

00:31 was these teams are game planning. They're not afraid

00:34 of the United States anymore, especially they're not afraid

00:36 of Austin Reeves and Brandon Ingram. They're not afraid of

00:40 those guys. The A-List Podcast is brought to you by FanDuel,

00:44 the exclusive wedger partner of the CLNS Media Network. Hello

00:48 everyone. Welcome to another episode of the A-List Podcast.

00:51 I am Kwanye Lunas, A-Trod Blakely, Gary Washburn. They're

00:55 all here. I want to talk about Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum

00:59 being respectively Haitian and Cape Verdean, but we will not

01:04 derail. Gary's face is so confused. I am maybe why is she

01:09 throwing that bomb out there and just walking away? No, don't

01:11 do that. I'm chronically on the internet. So okay, I am going

01:15 only reason I'm going on this little rant is because some

01:17 people that listen are actually millennials like myself that

01:21 understand this, but why is she going to put a thing into it

01:24 Gary? Why can't she just speak? She's like, I know like what's

01:26 up with that, but go ahead like there are some people in black

01:31 Boston Twitter that have adopted Jaylen Brown into the

01:35 Haitian community and respectively Jason Tatum has

01:39 also been adopted by the Cape Verdeans. Very big populations

01:42 here in Massachusetts. I think it actually plays very well. So

01:46 I just needed to use my platform to make sure that I

01:49 wanted to say I see you guys and I agree with you. I do think

01:53 that this should be a thing. I don't even know what this being

01:57 a thing means. I don't know. It's just them being adopted by

02:00 the community. I mean for the record, so like we'll take Jaylen

02:03 Brown into the community. Does that get them some like

02:05 discounts or something like that? No, it's just like you

02:08 know, you know, there's always a connection like someone that

02:10 you can like you Gary love being from California. Now

02:14 you're in the ACC. You're Cal Berkeley. Sherrod, you love

02:17 being from Syracuse, even though it's a terrible school like

02:19 everyone takes pride in the little things that make you get

02:22 a connection. So I think for the people that yeah, and you

02:25 connect with BC because where exactly is BC? Yikes. I really

02:31 just threw myself under the bus with that one. You did. I

02:34 wanted to address the internet because the internet and your

02:37 friends on a record. Yes, very much my friends. But on a

02:42 serious note, now that I got that off my chest, we can talk

02:45 about some basketball. First of all, as you both know, the

02:49 Paris Olympics are slowly creeping up. But before we get

02:53 to the context of that Team USA embarrassed than us in front on

03:01 a world stage at FIBA, Germany ends up winning two former

03:03 Celtics on that team, which apparently prompted LeBron

03:08 James to call the Avengers and unite the team now. One of the

03:12 twin powers. Exactly to go to Paris and there is a whole I

03:17 don't know if you guys want to get into the commentary of

03:19 whether or not the NBA players are the best in the world. I

03:22 know you guys saw the trolling behind that. But first of all,

03:27 just FIBA itself. What do you make of the fact that the Team

03:30 USA obviously didn't send the best of the best from the US

03:34 for that game for that. Sorry for that whole entire series,

03:37 but now Germany is the winner and we're kind of playing

03:41 catch-up when you think about the way USA basketball is being

03:44 portrayed. Well, it's consistent with what we do and

03:49 what we've been doing for a number of years. We treat the

03:53 FIBA World Cup as if it's like, you know, the constellation JV

03:57 game and the Olympics is a varsity and we bring out the

03:59 varsity players. You look at the players playing for Canada

04:04 playing for Germany. Those players are not just really

04:08 good. They're like the best that country has to offer like

04:11 if you start going down the Rolodex of players in Germany

04:14 and you look at Dennis Schroeder, he's probably at or

04:16 near the top of that list. Certainly in top three top

04:19 four. You look at the Team USA. I don't know if there's a

04:23 single player that was on that fight that that Team USA team

04:26 that just got smoked that you put in your top ten. Nope and

04:30 and that and to me, that's the difference you are facing the

04:33 world's best players in their respective countries against

04:36 your B team. Maybe your B minus team if you're keeping it 100.

04:41 I mean on that Team USA, I think Anthony Edwards might be

04:44 the only guy maybe Austin Reeves might be the only guys

04:48 that you could see making the top twelve because Anthony

04:51 will probably be in a rotation coming off the bench. Reeves

04:53 probably wouldn't play and he can play. Yeah, he can

04:56 absolutely ball. So to me, it's not surprising that they go out

04:58 there and get smoked because they're not bringing in their

05:00 guys. You can bring the heat but LeBron as only LeBron will

05:04 do. We'll just like fellas fellas. Let's do our country a

05:07 service. Let's do our let's do our thing. I really don't want

05:11 to see him in the next Olympics. I don't. I he is it's

05:15 like thank you for your service. We are appreciative.

05:19 Now to to paraphrase what he told his mama back in the day,

05:23 sit your ass down. That's what I feel about LeBron right now in

05:26 the Olympics. Sit your let these other cats ball. To that

05:29 point though that has been the commentary even with the W

05:32 players when you think about the opportunity that it's a

05:35 once in a lifetime for some obviously a player like LeBron

05:39 or KD, they'll get maybe two or three opportunities in their

05:42 lifetime but the only do you think the onus is on him to to

05:46 kind of buy out what you wouldn't do to bow out and say

05:49 let me you know let the next man up take the opportunity.

05:53 Well, he doesn't let him but that's all the league wouldn't

05:56 let him know his ego wouldn't let him just bow. Yeah. If when

06:00 he sees how they struggle, you know LeBron, he low key has a

06:04 super superman complex. Of course. Uh wants to come and

06:07 save the day. Our poor. The humble. We were. You're poor.

06:12 You're humble. You're humble. Austin look Austin listen you

06:16 try young fella you try good try good try. Let let big daddy

06:20 handle this. I got this. Hey Tatum you you you are super

06:26 friends. Let's go. We got this. We'll we'll be back by dinner

06:29 time with the gold medal. So don't so you know you don't

06:31 wait up. We'll be back though. We'll be back. It's it's it's

06:35 such a it's it's a LeBron production waiting to be

06:38 produced uh and I'm curious what Gary's thoughts are though

06:42 on your boy LeBron. Well, I think that LeBron wants to play

06:46 kind of a Kobe role that Kobe had in the 08 redeem team. I

06:51 think he's he's uh I don't see LeBron out there playing. you

06:55 know it's a 40 minute game out there playing 33 minutes a

06:58 night against you know Montenegro. I think he'll play

07:03 kind of a old man sit on it. Just chill like remember Jason

07:07 kid played uh and it's I think the twelve team like uh and and

07:14 and Kobe in the 018 just being like the old head emeritus and

07:19 and and him saying because let's be honest. you're not

07:23 going to get Curry Durant um Tatum Chris Paul without the

07:29 other guys right. So I think LeBron takes the role of hey.

07:34 I'm just going to get these guys together. We're going to

07:37 put our best team out there smoke these fools and then come

07:40 back with the gold medal because I think unfortunately

07:43 for this team, it wasn't put together. Well, they expected a

07:48 lot out of a particular players who did not perform. Jaron

07:51 Jackson Junior couldn't stay out of foul trouble. Brandon

07:54 Ingram was useless. Um Jay Jaylen Brunson is not a point

07:59 guard. He's a two guard and the USA Threw him in as a

08:02 starting point guard where they probably should have started um

08:06 Halliburton from Indiana and then like they they were

08:13 refused to play a big lineup. So they got constantly pounded

08:16 it out rebounded and then they played teams that I think they

08:21 underestimated guys who were not NBA players. They respected

08:25 them the NBA players, but the ones who aren't in the NBA,

08:28 they didn't know about so that kid the dude forty-two from

08:32 Germany went off on him at that big three. Um I didn't get a

08:36 chance to watch the Canada game, but you let Dylan Brooks

08:39 go for thirty-nine like it's a pride thing and I think once and

08:44 then I watched the Lithuania game and Lithuania hit a lot

08:47 of big shots and it's just like that was these teams are game

08:52 playing. They're not afraid of the United States anymore,

08:54 especially they're not afraid of Austin Reeves and Brandon

08:58 Ingram. They're not afraid of those guys. They might be a

09:00 little afraid of Tatum and Brown and Durant and Curry and

09:05 all. Yeah, that's going to cause some some issues right,

09:10 but this team they weren't afraid of them and I think they

09:13 were poorly coached and despite the fact that the coaching

09:16 staff was Steve Kerr Tyron Lou Eric Sposer Mark Few. I mean

09:20 it's staggering the amount of great coaches in that staff and

09:24 they weren't well coached. I mean they inbounds plays they

09:29 like didn't even defend two two games two plays against

09:32 Germany. One uh they threw it in the 3 seconds left in the

09:38 clock. They threw it in the Wagner one on one hits a

09:40 fifteen-footer a few minutes later in the key stretch.

09:43 Daniel Tice our friend uh catches my dude. Yeah catches

09:48 up gets an open fifteen-footer and Daniel Tice look like you

09:52 know, Daniel Tice that he's like Dirk Nowitzki and the damn

09:57 game. It was like we ain't seen that Tice ever, but he he he

10:01 hits a pull up fifteen-footer with 4 seconds up. No one

10:04 guarded him like it was giving him. Yeah. Big plays. Yeah. Big

10:09 plays and just like defense terrible defense. So they need

10:16 do they need their best players and then I just think

10:19 there was guys who weren't on that team. John Moran. Now, do

10:22 you invite him given all the trouble he's been in Trey Young

10:25 still and I ain't playing like there's dudes who are probably

10:27 like I would have played but y'all didn't holler at me. You

10:31 know why not Trey Young you know um some of those guys you

10:36 know Brandon Engel just doesn't seem like he was into it. It

10:38 was just like he just he wasn't starting Anthony Edwards great

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11:27 Took a lot of hero ball shots cuz he was just like I'm the

11:30 man on this team. He was a hero. Yeah. Yeah. I'm about to

11:33 be Kobe. I'm just you know three three three D you know

11:37 it's like they never got a knock down three point shoot. I

11:39 guess Cameron Johnson never really developed into that guy

11:42 so it was a really not Grant Hill's best job. Hopefully

11:47 he'll do better compiling a team and I get it. It's 3 weeks

11:51 or a month commitment. You gotta go to the Philippines.

11:55 You're missing you know good chunk of your summer. So you

11:59 it's some guys just gonna be nah man I wanna be my kids. I

12:02 wanna travel. I got a trip planned here. I am not

12:05 committing that for no World Cup like nah it takes us

12:10 getting embarrassed for some of these guys be like alright

12:12 remember the nineteen team with Kimba and Marcus Martin? That

12:16 team finished seventh. Yeah. Right? So I mean this is this

12:20 is nothing new and in those teams other teams played

12:23 harder but for LeBron I don't blame him for doing this. I

12:27 think everybody knows okay we're gonna have to bring our

12:31 best guys are y'all down? Then it's Paris. It's a great city.

12:36 You know Japan was hard sell for some post cuz it was right

12:40 during right after the pandemic. There was a lot of

12:42 limitations. There'll be no limitations. It's Paris and

12:47 then let's be honest. The French are gonna be loaded with

12:49 probably Wimbayama. They're gonna be you know axe grind.

12:53 Canada's gonna be there. 48 on that French team. Yeah.

12:57 Germany's Germany, Serbia like you know there's gonna be

13:01 some teams that are like looking to to get at the United

13:04 States. So it's gonna be a competitive tournament. So if

13:07 I'm LeBron, I ain't no problem with him trying to get the guys

13:11 together but I don't think it's like okay I'm a star and all

13:14 y'all go like I think he might play that kinda like advisory

13:19 like old man role like I'll come in and help when it counts.

13:23 Um like Kobe did in 08. Yeah. I just think that the big one of

13:28 the big concerns I have is that Grant Hill, LeBron James,

13:32 whoever you think is putting the next team together is gonna

13:36 take this fantasy league mentality and putting together

13:39 taking like he's a really good player cuz I think this this

13:42 fiber team from a fantasy league standpoint, they should've

13:45 smoked the competition. Uh you got scores, you got guys who

13:51 are athletic but to your point, Gary, you got you got some

13:54 players that have the kind of flaws that get exposed in these

13:57 in these type of international competitions. Like Jaren

14:00 Jackson, the defensive player of the year. He's a foul

14:03 magnet. He he's one of the NBA's leaders in fouls

14:07 prevented play. You can't he's a good player when he's on the

14:10 floor but the problem is he doesn't keep himself on the

14:13 floor and you look at a lot of the fouls he commits to stupid

14:15 fouls. They're just being out of position, being lazy, trying

14:19 to make plays when all you need to do is make your presence

14:22 felt. You don't need to make the play. He's horrible at that.

14:26 Uh and that's a guy that this team was counting on which

14:29 again, that's a little scary. The other thing too and and

14:33 and this is this is just me but I'm not a big fan of Steve

14:37 Kerr as a coach of this team. I'm not at all. I would rather

14:40 see Spelstrom coaching his team. I'd rather see a guy who

14:44 has a track record of team building on the fly at the

14:49 highest levels. He's way better at that than Steve Kerr. Steve

14:52 Kerr got handed what? Three, four Hall of Famers in like a

14:55 four-peer period. It's kinda hard to screw that up. I give

14:58 Steve credit for not screwing it up but it's not that hard to

15:03 win when it's a game that's played with ten players at a

15:07 time and four of the top six are on your team. That you

15:12 gonna win more than you than you're not. Uh you look at the

15:15 teams that Eric Spelstrom has been put together. Um he's won

15:19 with some pretty mediocre teams. The Celtics know that

15:21 firsthand. You look at that roster that sent them home.

15:24 There's no way to hell you should lose a series of the

15:27 the Fools. But they played better and a lot of the the

15:30 the keys to their their success lie in Spelstrom. So that to

15:36 me their team their their they were flawed on two fronts.

15:39 Coach their leadership and the way they're they're put

15:43 together. They just it's just too fantasy league friendly.

15:45 Uh you need guys who can play. Not guys who put up stats. But

15:50 all of that to say now that the way everything has played out

15:54 no allows calling out NBA players saying that you know

15:58 the champs are the best in the world and then FIBA they move

16:00 it losing the FIFA tournament. I just now I'm just kind of

16:04 concerned about Paris. I know that sounds dramatic because

16:07 they are gonna still send the best players in the world but I

16:10 think that being said these other countries we already know

16:13 that people think the US were pretentious and you know

16:16 there's all these stereotypes about who Americans are but I

16:20 feel like the other teams are gonna come hungrier than they

16:23 probably have ever come before just in light of the I think

16:26 the events of the past few weeks. I could be wrong but

16:28 what do you two think? I think I think it's gonna be uh

16:34 totally um a tough tournament. France is gonna have something

16:40 to say. Germany feels like they can beat them. Canada is gonna

16:44 be there and then Serbia is always tricky team. Always a

16:49 good quality club and then you know you gotta I mean

16:52 Australia has had their star power. We'll see what they do.

16:57 Don't forget about Canada. You know, there's gonna be four and

17:01 there's four more open spots for the qualifying. So, who

17:04 knows what it'll be might be Italy or um Montenegro or

17:09 Lithuania. One of those teams are probably gonna qualify.

17:13 It'll be another tough out, right? Cuz you got four more

17:15 spots open. I think you gotta go a South American cuz we

17:19 don't we have not heard anything from Argentina. What

17:22 kind of team they're gonna feel? They've always been, you

17:24 know, they beat the United States almost 20 years ago.

17:26 What are you doing? Yeah. Australia's in there. You know,

17:29 so there's four more spots open for qualifying over over into

17:33 next year. So, I think yeah like these teams are not afraid of

17:38 United States but also the United States isn't respecting

17:42 the World Cup. I know Jerry Colangelo really tried to get

17:46 the get teams and then you know you get young hungry players

17:50 who wanna invest the time like Jalen Bresson postponed or got

17:53 married 2 months early so he could play like some of these

17:56 guys brought their families, newborn kids, and things like

17:59 that because they cuz you're asking these guys very knocking

18:05 on the door of the NBA season to commit three to 4 weeks and

18:08 be you're not gonna be in the United States. You're gonna be

18:11 in Philippines. That's not attractive to some of these

18:13 guys, right? But there is a load of NBA players that you

18:18 could have probably brought. You could have brought John.

18:21 You could've and you gotta figure out do you bring good

18:25 shoes you have asked Zion Williamson if he was healthy

18:27 like there's a bunch of guys who will play on this team. I

18:32 I don't know like and I just think that this is another

18:34 thing where it becomes an opportunity and some of these

18:38 guys aren't ready. You know, Paolo Banchero was should he

18:42 have been on that team? Walker Kessler should he had been on

18:45 that team? Uh and as as much as I as much as I like Austin

18:50 Reeves, he was a defensive liability, you know, but he,

18:54 you know, I'm saying Cameron Cam Johnson like some of these

18:57 guys are good NBA players but they're not stars. Some of them

19:04 will never be all stars. Yeah. So, you're throwing them out

19:07 there against teams who have played together for 15 years

19:11 since they were since they were in youth leagues. The

19:14 Germany. Germany, those are all these guys all know each

19:17 other. Like they've played together for it's it's

19:20 insulting if they don't play for their national team. Mm

19:24 hmm. So, they play, you know, and then who knows what

19:28 happened with Dominican Republic almost qualified. They

19:30 got Carr and he played this **** like they got there's

19:33 gonna be players like this is a big deal. So, they need to

19:37 organize a team now. They need to start getting commitments.

19:40 It's less than a year away. It's in late July. You know, so

19:44 they gotta make they gotta make some stuff happen and is you

19:48 know, I would assume Jason will be interested in going. He I

19:52 think he loved the experience of winning a gold medal. He's a

19:55 second best player in that team in Japan. Jalen didn't get a

19:58 chance to go because of his wrist surgery. He didn't. So,

20:01 and and somebody tweeted, I think it was Rudy Gay like, hey

20:05 man, y'all need to start having tryouts again. Y'all need to

20:08 go at it. Yeah, I believe it. He was like, y'all gotta y'all

20:11 gotta quit handing out certificates to this thing.

20:13 Y'all gotta start. Y'all gotta start going, bringing in thirty

20:16 guys for twelve. And going at each other and maybe that's the

20:21 maybe that's the the solution to the problem. I think it is

20:25 Gary because I mean, you think back to almost every Olympic

20:28 team from like basically 8092 going backwards. There was a

20:34 competition where someone emerged that we had never heard

20:36 of. Like some dude named Dan Marley from freaking Central

20:40 Michigan back in the day. No one knew who the hell he was

20:42 until he started dunking on fools left and right at the

20:45 Olympic trials. The next thing you know, he's an Olympian and

20:48 he's an NBA player who if it wasn't for an opportunity to

20:51 try out and compete against the best, we don't know how good he

20:54 would have been. US needs to get back to that. You need to

20:57 create competition and and and stop in this good try, good

21:01 effort. You're on the team. So I don't care what you did in the

21:05 eighty-two game season on that team that was twenty-four and

21:08 fifty-eight. It don't matter. What can you do when you are in

21:12 a you gotta go the way you do AAU. When you when you go

21:15 against the best players all day, multiple days, and

21:20 typically that's where the top five, top ten stand out. The

21:24 next top ten, top ten come out. And so then you get a clear

21:27 indicator of what type of talent you're dealing with. How

21:31 that that talent works with each other and basically you

21:34 get a better understanding of what you need to do to put

21:36 together a team that can win. Cuz you can put together good

21:38 players easily. Anyone can do that. Well, can you put

21:40 together a team? Can you put together ten, fifteen cats who

21:44 can ball out as a team and not just ball out and get their

21:47 stats. That's what they need to get back to doing cuz it ain't

21:50 happening now. Guys just showed up and they just said, I want a

21:54 team. Yup. Okay. Yeah. Boom. I mean, come on. Nowhere else in

21:58 life does that work that way. So, I hope you too. Oh. But we

22:03 were talking about Germany, two of, we said, two of our former

22:06 friends of the city, Tyson Schroeder, showed out for their

22:10 team. Would you wanna see either of them back here in

22:14 Boston? I'm so, Gary, Gary's like, hell no. That's what I

22:20 look at. He was like, Schroeder was not his friend. Gary, Gary

22:26 went all Bobby Portis on us right there. You see that? Not

22:29 Bobby Portis. That's it. That's it. Listen. Yo, not Bobby

22:35 catching straight. I love you too. And Bobby was balling out

22:39 by the way. True. He was balling out a little bit. No, I I I

22:43 don't think either one of those guys would be a good fit now.

22:46 Ty, I just don't think has anything to offer that you

22:49 could really benefit from over any extended period of time.

22:52 Uh and Schroeder, I just think that should have sailed. Um I

22:56 just think that when a cat leaves the kind of dough on the

23:00 table that he did, you sign him from basically like a just a

23:04 sliver of that and you still trade him in midseason, there's

23:09 there's something not quite right. There's a fit that you

23:11 don't see happening there and the fact that you know, his

23:15 coach at the time, Brad Stevens, is now the GM. He would

23:19 easily have made that call. Yeah. You ain't coming back. So

23:22 and and and you know, Dennis is a good player. Um I think he

23:28 showed a lot of people that he's not just a good basketball

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24:07 on, the NBA 2K ratings are officially out. I don't know

24:12 how much stock you two take into them. They just seem like

24:15 social media conversation starters but for those who

24:18 didn't get a chance to look at them, Tatum is a ninety-five.

24:22 Brown is a eighty-nine. Porzingis a few points behind

24:25 him with eighty-six. Brogdon's pretty high up there with

24:28 eighty-three and Warford, White, and Williams all have

24:32 eighty-two scores in NBA 2K. What are your reactions? What

24:38 does this mean for the eighteenth banner? I got my

24:41 thoughts but I really wanna be here with Gary. That's what I

24:46 wanna know. Uh I don't know man. I don't like I don't know

24:51 man. I don't know. Come on man. Who judges these things? Um I

24:58 I guess the players get into that like I know the the NFL

25:00 players really get into their rating and they're being

25:02 insulted or be you know that's too low. Um but I just wanna

25:07 see what this team does on the court. Um you know, let's see

25:11 what happens with Malcolm Brogdon. Whether he's healthy.

25:14 Uh you know, it's a couple of weeks before media day. Before

25:17 camp kicks off, right? And we there's still a lot of things

25:21 we don't know about this team that is being kept quiet or

25:23 we'll see what happens if anything gets done before uh

25:26 you know, the the whole training camp thing kicks off.

25:30 You know, there's a couple free ages out there, things like

25:33 that but um I'm not bowled over. Obviously, Tatum's our

25:37 best player. He should be a ninety-five. I'm sure he's

25:39 trying like why am I not a ninety-nine? I don't know who

25:41 is a ninety-nine. You know, is it Giannis? Is it Gokic? So,

25:45 I'm sure I'll be intrigued to see their scores, their

25:48 ratings. Uh what is LeBron? You know, but I think it's a good

25:52 start and in Brown, yeah, B plus eighty-nine. A lot of

25:57 things he can work on to become that A plus player. Um so, I'm

26:02 I'm not insulted. I think the ratings are fine. Uh sounds

26:04 sounds okay. We'll see if they can live up to those ratings.

26:08 Luca, Gokic, and LeBron are all ninety-sevens. That's the

26:12 highest. Wow. From last. Oh, that's earlier in April though.

26:16 This year, Giannis is ninety-seven at the highest.

26:21 Steph ninety-six, Gokic ninety-six, Durant ninety-six

26:25 as well. That was such a PR answer though. That's why I was

26:27 laughing the whole time. You really just was like, I'm

26:30 focused on the season. Yeah, like I was. I'm just doing

26:33 that. Right. I'm not into this two K phase. I thought that you

26:40 went to high school with Nia and I know you went to you went

26:42 to school with Marshawn so you just. I didn't gotta go to

26:46 school with Marshawn. I went to college. No, no, you you go

26:48 from the same neighborhood or. Yeah, I went to I went to

26:51 college with Snarlathan. Yes. And high school would be along.

26:56 I thought. Every two seconds, I learned. Everybody knew this.

27:00 Anybody else? Not the scoop. You went to law school with

27:04 Barack Obama. What about Brenda? Huh? Oh, Brenda. Oh,

27:08 yeah. Regina King also went to high school. Yes. Are you

27:11 serious? Yes. You're done. I'm you know what? I have trust

27:16 issues now. Regina King ran track at Westchester High

27:21 School. Yes. So. Wow. I wish I went to Westchester High

27:27 School just for a lot of people do it cuz it was it was

27:30 Westchester had a lot going on. I was not privy to those

27:35 things. I was not a you know. Yeah, I was not a popular kid

27:42 in high school. I was kind of in the middle but yeah. It's

27:44 okay. You're popular now. Yeah, we had we had actors,

27:48 actresses, Tim Story who who directed the first Barbershop

27:53 went to Westchester like there's a lot of people that

27:57 yeah a lot of a lot of very stars people have done great

28:01 things. So I have one degree of separation to all of these

28:04 stars now and obviously obviously Berkeley, you know,

28:08 but I had an Afro Afro American Studies class with

28:11 Sonali then during my final year of school. So yeah, we

28:15 all friends. We talk. We were like classmates. It wasn't

28:19 like we was homies. No. Yeah. So I got I got so much to say

28:25 Quani that we just don't got enough time for me to say all

28:27 I gotta say. We don't have time. You had all you had Tay

28:29 Diggs, right? That was it. Tay Diggs. I went to college with

28:33 Tay Diggs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's all I do. I have no one.

28:36 I don't think I have. I got Tay Diggs. I got got dude named

28:40 Dorsey Leves was all pro running back at Green Bay

28:42 Packers. Come on now. I have Luke Teekley. Does that count?

28:47 I got me. Luke Teekley. Oh yeah. The linebacker. Yeah.

28:53 Yeah. That's very good. I thought you were going to say

28:55 Bill Curley. No. A little before me. Reggie Jackson.

29:02 Reggie Jackson. Reggie I miss Reggie by like a few lot of

29:05 years. Yeah. BC doesn't seem that you know. We don't have

29:09 that much going on. We had Justin Simmons who plays for

29:12 the Broncos now. These are all like defensive players. Yeah.

29:16 That we don't have famous people is that well that I

29:19 went to school with at least one day. They got you. One day

29:23 I'll be the famous person. Yeah. That's you. There you go.

29:26 They got you, Kwanee. Little famous person I know. That's so

29:30 sad. Anyway, thanks for sharing that, Gary. Wow, he's opening

29:33 up to us. He likes us. I think that was like I've told people

29:37 that before. I don't like it's not broadcast it. Yeah, it's

29:40 not a conversation starter but yeah like it's a long time ago

29:44 but yeah like if you look at my look at my yearbook Nia's in

29:48 it. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So, yeah, that's a long time ago

29:51 but yeah, we all Los Angeles produced a lot of pretty

29:55 amazing people. So, I'm trying to see a yearbook. I can't

30:01 wait. I'd have to find my yearbook. Maybe I'll bring it.

30:04 It's a it's a it's around here somewhere. Let me know when

30:07 you're ready to start looking for Gary. I'll help. Yeah, I

30:09 don't look for it. I don't look to my yearbook very often. So,

30:12 I'd have to come. It might even be my mama's house. I don't

30:15 know. It might be here. I think it's I think it's somewhere

30:18 here. Let me I I let me call her up and see. I can I can

30:21 check. Call my mama up and see. This is what happens when you

30:26 share stuff like that. I get it. I get why you don't share it

30:28 often. Understood. But. Understood. Yeah, that's the

30:32 that's the story and I'm sticking to it. Yeah. Well,

30:35 good idea. That's all I got. I mean, we our guy Bobby Manning,

30:40 he reported the Celtics signed Taylor Funk from Utah on a 10

30:44 day. That's not really exhibit ten. Yeah. Oh, sorry.

30:47 Exhibit ten. Oh, you're right. You're right. This is a training

30:50 camp in right. Which I mean, I got one too. So, I'm also

30:55 going to be exhibiting my skills. I'm kidding. Sorry. No

30:59 offense to Taylor Funk but that's not really breaking

31:02 news. It's just more of a little nugget for y'all to take

31:04 home and chew on. Yeah, they got I think twenty-one players

31:08 can come to camp. So, they'll have, you know, they'll have

31:11 guys that they'll share guys in there. Our friend Jay Scrub

31:15 and JD Davidson, you know, they'll they'll have those guys

31:19 in there. So, it should be an interesting camp. I do think.

31:22 Yeah, I do think they need one more player but they need to

31:27 get add somebody but we'll see what happens over the next few

31:30 weeks but it's their year I think. I mean, honestly, people

31:36 keep asking me, what do you think? If there's a year for

31:39 them to do it, this is it. The window. Yeah. I mean, the

31:41 window is here and it's going to be hard. I mean, the Lakers

31:45 are loaded and but the east, Philadelphia got problems.

31:51 Brooklyn's not quite there. Milwaukee, Giannis just said,

31:55 he don't know if he going to extend. He wants to see the

31:57 future of the team and they got a first year coach. Miami has

32:01 done nothing this offseason. They lost Gabe Vincent. They

32:04 lost Max Struess. You know, I think they brought in like

32:07 Thomas Robinson, brought in a couple of smaller guys but if

32:12 the Celtics. Charlotte is a hot mess. Yeah. Oh. What can you

32:18 explain that, Juani? Can you explain that whole thing with

32:22 Kai Jones? What he was saying? Oh, so that one, okay. So, I

32:26 I knew he was Bahamian but he Bahamian as people from

32:29 Bahamas but when I saw the video, it looked like he was

32:33 on something but again, this is not, I don't want to just like,

32:36 I'm, I don't like assumptions. He could have just been really

32:39 excited but he basically went on live and was like, yeah, I

32:42 just talked to management and it sounds like I'm not going to

32:44 get cut, blah, blah, blah but it was a lot of excitement on

32:47 top of an accent. People in the comments thought he was like on

32:51 Perkins said, like, that's what the comments were saying. So,

32:53 it was just a lot going on and I just think that there needs

32:56 to be a more streamlined way to help them realize that you

32:59 just don't need to tell everyone everything on social

33:02 media. I get it. He's Gen Z so like now I feel like O head

33:06 where it's like, you know, you don't have to put everything on

33:09 the internet. Some conversations that you have, I

33:11 get it. He was excited but he's just a little too active online

33:16 and as you know, the entire roster, I just feel like they're

33:19 they have their own personal issues at this point. That's

33:23 for sure. A lot going on in the off season. We're happy for

33:29 him. We do. We are very happy. Terry Rose here. My boy T

33:33 Rose. Yeah, that's interesting team but yeah, I I said before,

33:39 Celtics, this is the year if they're going to do it. I mean,

33:43 it's, you know, it's there for them. I don't see another team

33:47 in the east that's as good. I say it with Philadelphia

33:49 Avenue issues, Milwaukee. We don't know what's going to

33:53 happen with them or are they going to start kicking in. So,

33:58 we'll see but I think I think it's going to be an exciting

34:02 season and I think over the next couple of weeks, you know,

34:04 they'll do the kind of folks will start reporting to Boston

34:07 and they'll start playing a little bit together and start

34:11 getting some runs in and guys will start showing up from

34:15 vacations and. It sounds like they've been doing already

34:18 which is cool. Yeah, they used to be those pictures of

34:21 Horford working out already. It's back in, you know, working

34:24 out in Boston and obviously, we all know the Taylor and

34:27 Pierce workouts and Jalen's been working out doing so. I

34:32 mean, if there's a year, this is it. First full year for

34:35 Missoula in terms of having, you know, this would be

34:38 interesting but full of timeouts. He's he's good.

34:44 But that's that's you know, I'm sorry, Gary. I didn't mean to

34:49 talk about your boy like that. My bad. My bad. I apologize.

34:54 You ain't gonna say nothing but a word. I'm good. I'm good

34:58 with Joe. Me and Joe are good. It should be a good we'll get

35:02 a golf to a fresh start and we'll see if there's any

35:06 changes to his philosophy. Timeouts, three-point

35:10 philosophy, we'll see. Yeah. We'll see the impact that

35:12 Charles Lee and Sam Cassell will have on him. I think that'll

35:15 be interesting to watch. Well said, Gary. Well said.

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