In the latest episode of The Cedric Maxwell Podcast, Max and Josue Pavon are joined by A. Sherrod Blakely from Bleacher Report. The episode kicks off with an introduction before diving into an analysis of the Bulls vs. Heat matchup. The conversation then shifts to the current state of the Golden State Warriors, pondering whether their dominant era might be concluding. The hosts also cover the Kings vs. Pelicans game and discuss the Lakers vs. Nuggets matchup. The episode wraps up with a discussion on how the Celtics have a wide-open path to the NBA Finals this season, evaluating their chances and potential challenges ahead.
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00:00I'm Joseph Bobone alongside Cedric Maxwell and a special guest in this episode getting
00:25you guys ready for the playoffs.
00:26Man, we got A. Sherrod Blakely on the Big 3 NBA podcast, CLNS Media Zone.
00:32And fellas, Chicago Bulls.
00:35Don't forget about the guard report.
00:36Oh, Cole's the guard report too.
00:37Oh, look at you with the fresh tee.
00:38Let me get one of those, Sherrod.
00:39It's playoff time, man.
00:40You gotta bring out the fresh tees in playoff time.
00:41You know that.
00:42Man, Nick came through with the fresh tees.
00:43Wow.
00:44With the merch.
00:45Oh, you didn't know about the merch?
00:46Yeah, we got some merch.
00:47I ain't seen that.
00:48You know, we haven't had the hearts yet, have we, Joseph?
00:59We haven't.
01:00We gotta figure that out.
01:04But we gotta also get everyone ready for the NBA playoffs, man.
01:07You got the Chicago Bulls or the Miami Heat up against the Southerners in the first round.
01:11Also, the rest of the Eastern Conference as well, when you look at what's going on.
01:15I mean, out West, we will talk about it at the end, but let's start right there between
01:19— let's keep it in the East Coast, man — between the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat.
01:23I should say a shorthanded Miami Heat, and Jimmy Butler's been ruled out for this matchup
01:27against the Bulls.
01:28Sherrod, let's start with you, man.
01:30How are you feeling about this game going into Friday night and the Southlakes matchup
01:36in the first round?
01:37I mean, the Chicago Bulls, if they don't win this game, they need to be slapped.
01:45There is no rational thought to why they should not win this game.
01:49When you don't have Jimmy Butler, he's not going to play.
01:51Terry Rozier, he ain't going to play.
01:54And right there, that's basically two of the top three scores right there.
01:58Two of their top three impact players are going to be doing the same thing that you
02:01and I are going to be doing, watching the game.
02:04So the Bulls, they got some players that people don't really know that much about this season
02:10because they've been so bad.
02:11No one's really paid attention.
02:13Kobe White has had one of the best seasons of guys that don't just jump off the radar.
02:19And they always got DeMar DeRozan, a baller.
02:22Vooch, in the front court, always gets you buckets.
02:25They've got some players, and they should be able to get past a very, very beaten down
02:32Miami Heat team, and that should be the team the Southlakes will see in the first round.
02:36I think that's a fair assessment.
02:40But at the end of the day, I just think the Bulls just haven't played up to par.
02:48You look at the way they've played so far this year, they've played down to the level
02:51of the competition.
02:53They do have some exceptional players over there.
02:58But I believe that if you say the Heat in one game, going into Chicago, going down to
03:05Miami, I think the Heat can win it.
03:10But then the Heat are just like the Lakers, they jump out of the frying pan into the fire,
03:15and they have to play the Southlakes shorthanded.
03:18And as much fear as people have had about Miami Heat, if they don't have Rozier, if
03:25they don't have that guy Jimmy Butler, that series should be a very quick series for the
03:31Boston Southlakes.
03:32Let's just think of the way it should be played.
03:35Miami, they're heady, they're smart.
03:40Look what they did against Philly, shorthanded, they took Philly down to the wire.
03:44What does it say about Philadelphia?
03:47But I think it says more about Heat and what they always talk about, Heat culture, and
03:51how they play in these big games.
03:53Well, when I look at Friday night's matchup, I'm looking at DeMar DeRozan.
03:57This is the opportunity that you have to not only win this game and go into the first round,
04:01but get the guys rallied up, get them ready for this matchup, knowing that, hey, their
04:06best guys are out, they have weapons that aren't there.
04:08They're not the same scary Miami Heat team they were a year ago.
04:11I mean, let's face it, this Chicago Bulls team, they should be motivated to win this
04:15game.
04:16I think that should be enough.
04:17I don't know.
04:18I mean, I could be wrong.
04:19Who knows?
04:20Miami Heat culture, maybe it takes over, and they can squeeze out an incredible win.
04:23But I got to give the odds to not only the Chicago Bulls to win this, but to look even
04:31better against the Celtics.
04:32Yeah, the odds are.
04:33I think you guys, again, are right.
04:35But Chicago has played down to the level of the competition.
04:38They've been up and down all year round.
04:41You know, this thing that they've been going through with their best player not playing,
04:47wanting to be traded, and all these other things kind of go along with them, Zach Levine,
04:54I just don't believe in who they are right now.
04:57I happened to talk to Maurice Cheeks, who's their assistant coach.
05:00He talked about the Celtics and said, just, man, this is a great team.
05:04You guys have a great squad.
05:06And for a guy I played against during the 80s, in the 76ers, to say anything positive
05:12about the Celtics, that's said a lot to me.
05:15Man, I hope you got that on tape, because nobody going to believe you if you ain't got
05:21video these days.
05:23I don't think I'd have to kill his ass to say that again.
05:27So I just took it as we were walking out.
05:31Sometimes, you know, A'sharai guys just try to be friendly.
05:34But I thought for a minute he was very sincere about it.
05:38But yeah, this is a golden opportunity right now for Chicago.
05:42But it seems like more of a golden opportunity right now for the Boston Celtics.
05:47Yeah.
05:48Absolutely.
05:49The one thing, Max, you touched on.
05:51And I think this is really important to kind of give people a sense of why, when you start
05:55looking at the names on this Chicago Bulls roster, and then you look at that record,
05:59something don't add up.
06:01There's more talent on this team than wins and losses will reflect.
06:06And I think a lot of it comes down to just mental toughness.
06:09They just seem like a very soft team from the neck up.
06:13They don't play hard.
06:14They don't play focused when they have teams in position to win.
06:16They find a way to fold, like a July folding chair in a park.
06:21They are that team that you're looking at and saying, why?
06:27Why is this team so mentally weak?
06:29Billy Donovan, great guy.
06:31And good drumming in the mix too.
06:35Right.
06:36Who's been a huge rebounder and a pain in the Celtics' ass for the last, you know, 10,
06:4112 years.
06:42Yeah.
06:43I mean, if they're going to play Chicago, essentially they've owned Chicago.
06:47They're going to have to do something.
06:48This Zach LaVine thing is still, I think, hanging over their head when Zach LaVine didn't
06:52want to be traded.
06:54They didn't move him.
06:55Chicago made no moves.
06:57But yeah, Kobe White can be dangerous.
06:59I mean, they have some guys who are very, very skilled players.
07:04Yeah.
07:05You know, you think that they're beyond Lonzo Ball at this point.
07:08And I don't mean that in the sense of like, man, this team can't succeed without him.
07:11But you would think that there would be guys that would step up more or more consistently.
07:15That's a good point.
07:16Look, I wouldn't take a ball man for nothing in the world right now.
07:21Alonzo, Theo, whatever ball head guy.
07:24Romello.
07:25Romello.
07:26Creole.
07:27Whatever ball.
07:28Their daddy.
07:29I wouldn't take any of those guys right now.
07:32Max said even the kid in eighth grade, nah, I don't want him.
07:35No potential.
07:37And they're exceptional, let me make sure I say, exceptionally talented players when
07:42they play.
07:43But right now, they've been off the ninja.
07:45They talk about Romello Ball down in Charlotte saying, you know, he doesn't even come to
07:50the games.
07:51I talked to one of their players and said, look, it would be nice if he came to the game
07:56with us.
07:57But he doesn't even follow the team now.
07:59He played about 55 games.
08:01He has some Lamborghini down in Charlotte.
08:06So yeah, I didn't mean to jump off base, but when you brought up the ball's man name,
08:11I'm like, that's just not a pretty picture.
08:13Max, you are not the first to be triggered by the ball name.
08:17You are not the first.
08:18Facts.
08:19I had no idea.
08:20All right, now I know.
08:21Now I know.
08:22All right.
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09:23Let's move things to the Western Conference.
09:27The Golden State Warriors officially eliminated after losing to the Sacramento Kings.
09:31This one wasn't even close, guys.
09:32118-94 is your final score.
09:34Sherrod, giving out some tears, you got Max ready to go to sleep.
09:40Is this it, guys?
09:41Is this it for the Warriors?
09:42And if so, what's next coming up this summer, this offseason?
09:46Sherrod, I'll start with you.
09:47Rap.
09:48That's where we're at.
09:49It's a rap.
09:50It's a rap, right?
09:51They're done.
09:52They're done.
09:53This is it.
09:54To me, the smart play right now is when you own a company and you got assets that aren't
10:00quite up to par, you're trying to get as much as you can for them while you can.
10:07Klay Thompson, you need to move Klay Thompson this summer.
10:11You absolutely need to move him.
10:12It might be too late, Sherrod.
10:13I don't know, man.
10:14What are you going to get out there for this summer?
10:17They messed up.
10:19He's like that milk in the fridge where it's like, this is best due by this date.
10:23We at that date.
10:25It still could be good.
10:27It still could be good or it could be bad.
10:29But all of a sudden, that day is like two, three, four months old now, Sherrod, so you're
10:3490.
10:35You're 90.
10:36He's right on the cusp.
10:38It could be good.
10:39Get one last drink out of this or you need to throw it away.
10:43But you need to get something for him now because to me, he's the one piece in your
10:47core group that actually has, I think, some value.
10:53Mexico, let me check my milk.
10:56Those days fly by, man.
11:00I still think Clay's a good player.
11:02I just don't think Clay is going to do anything to help them move the needle anywhere close
11:06to being a title contender and for Clay, you know, to go somewhere and have maybe one last
11:11shot at winning a championship or be part of another team's rebuild and have a prominent
11:15role in that.
11:16I like that for him, Steph.
11:19Still Steph.
11:20He's still one of the best in the game.
11:21Draymond actually, here's the crazy Draymond actually had one of his best years this year
11:26shooting for three point range.
11:27People don't talk about that because obviously there's other things that Draymond brings
11:31to the game that we find ourselves talking about.
11:33Bottom line is they need to move at least one core piece to somewhere to have any shot
11:38of rebuilding because that really needs to be the mindset now.
11:41Rebuild.
11:42Well, I mean, that's what Danny Ainge talked one time.
11:45He was talking about Larry Bird and Kevin McHale at the end of their career.
11:50They had an opportunity at that time, Red Auerbach, to move them for Sam Perkins and
11:54Deadlift Shrimp.
11:55Was Chuck Pershing part of that deal too?
11:58That something was in there.
11:59I heard Chuck Pershing's name in that, so yeah, with the Pacers.
12:03And Red Auerbach had already said never, ever fall in love with the product.
12:08Well, he fell in love with the product and kept those two guys beyond their shelf life.
12:16And I totally agree.
12:18I think that if you listen to Steph, if you listen to Draymond, if you listen to anybody
12:25with the Warriors, they're like, yeah, we want to keep, we want to make sure we keep
12:29him and we got to make sure Thompson, you know, is coming back.
12:35They're thinking right now with their hearts and not with their heads.
12:42And I think if you are Klay Thompson, I think I'm in agreement with you, A'Sharod, is the
12:48fact that it's time now to make that move.
12:52If you are him as the player, looking to elevate and elongate your career, prime example
13:00would be Ray Allen.
13:02Ray Allen was a guy at the end of his career with the Celtics, was on the bench.
13:08His production and productivity was going to go down and he decided to make that move
13:13to Miami, which was absolutely the best.
13:16Looking back on it, it was the best business move that he had made.
13:20Go down there and win another championship and hit one of the biggest shots ever.
13:24Klay Thompson could be in that same mix.
13:27If you think about him as a player, going to a good team, a really good team and being
13:33one of those spot up shooters coming off the bench.
13:35But that's a hard thing for a star, a future Hall of Famer to take that step back and saying.
13:44And then the Warriors also at the same time, they're going, hey, I got to, we need to,
13:49we need to cut the cord right now.
13:51A'Sharod, you have a son, you have a daughter, and just the way you're a son, you're not
13:58a father yet.
13:59But as a father, there's a time when you kick that kid's ass out the house, all right, time
14:04for you to go.
14:05My father shook my hand at the very end and said, good luck.
14:09When I got off to college, he said, and last words he said, don't come back.
14:15Those are facts.
14:21And A'Sharod has a son, he has a daughter.
14:24There's a point where you just have to cut.
14:27That's why you're so successful.
14:28Well, daughters are going to hang on a little bit longer because daughters always have you
14:32perstrate.
14:33But boys, you know, there's a certain time with them, you got to kick the bastard's out
14:39and say, goodbye son, you know, go ahead and go out in the world.
14:44Make daddy proud.
14:48Exactly.
14:49Exactly.
14:50And I think, you know, Clay, he's lived a charmed life.
14:54If you really think about it, he got drafted by the right team, got the right role, has
14:58won multiple championships.
15:00And when I look at the NBA landscape, if I'm Golden State and I'm going to move him, I'm
15:06going to move him, perfect place would be out east.
15:09But if you don't do that, send him somewhere where you can get the most in return.
15:14Like an Oklahoma City.
15:15You could get a decent player and a bunch of draft picks for Clay Thompson and Oklahoma
15:20City.
15:21They wouldn't even be tripping about the picks because they got so many.
15:23Yeah.
15:24That speeds up your rebuild.
15:26Plus you'll probably get a decent player that that Oklahoma City is would deem expendable.
15:30They got about seven or eight guys that can ball.
15:32So it's not like it's not like you don't have some options.
15:35So you shake your head, Alexander, you know, that's off the table.
15:38But other than that, pretty much everyone is available.
15:41So Golden State, they can't they can't do what Red did.
15:47They got to do the anti-red thing.
15:48You can't fall in love with these cats to the point where you can't let them go when
15:52you got good deals on the table or potentially to be on the table for them.
15:57And especially when you look at what's been going on across the NBA, I mean, look, look
16:01at the Boston Southers.
16:02Look, look what they did.
16:03Right.
16:04I mean, it was bittersweet at the time with trading KG, trading Paul Pierce.
16:07What are those picks turned into?
16:09Brown, Jason Tatum, those are some Hall of Fame hustles.
16:12If we had like a Hustler Hall of Fame for NBA GMs, Danny Ainge will be a first ballot
16:17entry.
16:18When you look at that, you look at the Brooklyn deal.
16:20You look at I mean, look what they did with San Antonio.
16:22I mean, basically, Romeo Langford and a couple of stuff.
16:25And you can't like Derrick White return.
16:27Oh, my God.
16:28Right.
16:29Well, let me ask you guys this.
16:30Let me ask you guys this, then.
16:31How badly does Steph Curry want to win another championship?
16:33Because let's face it, guys.
16:34If he's that guy, if he's that dude, I'm going to front office and say, look, man,
16:38what are we going to do here?
16:39We got to figure this thing out because I want to squeeze that championship out.
16:41I mean, that's what Kobe would do.
16:42That's what LeBron would do.
16:43You know what I mean?
16:44Well, LeBron probably would just try to go somewhere else.
16:46But anyways, my point is something about Steph when he talks about these guys makes me wonder
16:52if he's OK with riding off into the sunset with those four rings.
16:55I mean, I think that you're right in that way, what he would do.
17:00I think that he but he's put his foot in his mouth already saying we want to play back.
17:06I can't imagine not.
17:07I can't go back on that now without clay.
17:10And that is tough to do when they do what happens in like love it or not.
17:18They come to you as one of the bigger players.
17:20They come that star player and they ask him a question.
17:24What would you like to do here?
17:27And he might not want to be the bad guy, but if he wants to elongate the opportunity for
17:34him to win another championship and most teams, what they do, they maximize that skill
17:39set that they have to try to elevate that player to play as well as he can during that
17:45time.
17:46I think you have to make this particular move.
17:48Yeah.
17:49Because I mean, you bring this corporate group back the way it is.
17:52You basically got like the Jackson 5 tour three years after the Jackson 5 tour.
17:58Women know after after Michael left the group and and after Michael Jackson died and then
18:04all of a sudden the Jackson you got a hologram up in that movie.
18:07Yeah.
18:08Oh, man.
18:09Going on tour right now.
18:11We're next year.
18:13We're going on tour.
18:14I mean, you know, they they had a couple of tour dates that was set up and spin moves
18:19not going the same.
18:22Someone dropped the mic.
18:23Yeah, we good.
18:24Exactly.
18:25I mean, and again, you will people will come see you play because they're going to be thinking
18:30about, man, I remember when they used to be that when in fact, the reality is they ain't
18:35that no more.
18:36We just.
18:37I used to hear that story.
18:38Yeah.
18:39Sorry to cut you off.
18:40I used to hear that story about the OGs talking about the Celtics, man.
18:42Like the people who, you know, much older than me saying like, man, it's my last chance.
18:46Larry's going to hang up soon.
18:47You know, these guys are going to play forever.
18:49It was like a like a I don't want to say a museum or whatever, but it's like a last tour,
18:53if you will.
18:55And that's what this is going to turn into.
18:56And I just again, man, like I just wonder if it's one of those things with step is with
19:01or without you guys.
19:02Like if not, then I'm cool right off with four championship rings, even though I'm still
19:06that dude.
19:07I'm still a top five player in this league.
19:09You know, we got to do we got to make sure you always keep these props so we can do this.
19:13No, no, no, it's that thing.
19:17No, I think it's good.
19:18I think it's good.
19:19Okay.
19:20When this when this are curling up in your damn cereal, you go, well, I think we I think
19:26I'm good here now.
19:28That's where they're at right now.
19:30We're done.
19:31Exactly.
19:32All right.
19:33Finally, guys, the Kings versus the Pelicans Friday night, which will complete the bracket
19:39going into the first round.
19:40First round matchup.
19:41Something starts on Sunday.
19:42But what do you guys got for for our West?
19:46I'm gonna go Kings.
19:47I'm gonna go Kings.
19:48I'm gonna go Kings.
19:49The Zion factor just makes me nervous whether he plays or not.
19:54At this point, even if he does play, he's probably not going to finish the game if he
19:58did play because that's not what he do.
20:01He's just not a finisher like that.
20:02He's a great player, but he's just not that guy yet.
20:06So and, you know, the Kings, they've got the experience.
20:08They got good coach Mike Brown.
20:10They've got good players.
20:12They should win that game.
20:13They should win that game handily, I believe.
20:15I totally agree.
20:17I think that the way Sybolis is playing, the way the Kings, Keegan, I don't know how many
20:23times I heard them.
20:24Keegan Murray.
20:25I heard that all day with him knocking down shots.
20:30That game was crazy.
20:31I mean, if they get back one of their best players, obviously, Malik Monk, they're going
20:35to make some noise.
20:37But I'd be damned if you and I going to leave this this podcast without talking about them
20:42fakers going to see Denver.
20:44I know just the way.
20:47I ain't going out.
20:48We ain't going out like that.
20:50I'm going to get a Shiraz opinion about what he thinks about the, you know, the Lakers
20:55in this.
20:56And there are a lot of people out there.
20:57Oh, they have a fighting chance right now against, uh, well, they forgot Max and that's
21:04the difference.
21:05They got a fighting chance.
21:06They dropped the word.
21:07They dropped the word.
21:08No, they have no fighting chance.
21:10Listen, that game plus for the record, Max, I would have led with that if they lost, but
21:15they won.
21:16I don't want to talk about it.
21:17Go ahead.
21:18Sure.
21:19I think they'll get swept.
21:20I think they're good.
21:21I honestly think they will get swept in their first round series, but something about it
21:25tells me that they have enough pride that they won't get swept, but it'd be critical
21:31in those first two games.
21:33But if Denver goes in and rolls them in the first two games and they have to play the
21:38third, that's what, you know what?
21:39That is what I have to give as much as much shit as people want to talk about the Boston
21:44Celtics.
21:45Them dudes had the chance last year to get swept, to get swept by Miami and came back
21:52and within, uh, Jason Tatum ankle injury could have won, completed one of the greatest comebacks
22:00in the history of the NBA.
22:01So that's why I have so much more respect for, for Joe and his players and what they
22:08did last year, intestinal fortitude because, and, and, and, you know, one of the dudes
22:14who were, you know, you had was Marcus Mark.
22:17People don't talk a lot of junk about it, but Marcus smart was a catalyst to you winning
22:22game four game.
22:23I mean, game five, game six, you know, he was a catalyst to winning that.
22:29Uh, so we hope the Celtics won't be in that position, but man, if the Lakers get in that
22:33position, I can easily see them folding, folding camp or, but because I think that, uh, Joker
22:41has put a lot of pressure right now, uh, on Anthony Davis.
22:45And I think they've won the last six games that they played against the Lakers swept
22:50them.
22:51And then this year they beat them again.
22:52So, so yeah, I, I just went, there's no way I'd have, I'd have stabbed you if I'd been,
22:57if I'd been close to you saying we've had the guy here without talking about them down
23:01fakers going out West.
23:02I mean, now if you want to talk about the Boston Celtics, what they did, but yeah, we,
23:09we know there's a certainty to that.
23:11We don't know what team and we're going to get back and talk about Chicago boys is going
23:16to be Miami.
23:17But man, uh, what we do know is the Lakers are right now.
23:21They are going to play, um, Denver and, uh, Ooh, all my friends who are Laker fans, good
23:29luck.
23:30They get down one, two, three, that's strange because one, two, three, Cancun, one, two,
23:37three, Cancun.
23:38Yeah.
23:39T-shirt ride, man.
23:40Like Max likes to get in front of the state, right?
23:45So he wants to be able to play the team.
23:47Oh no, I called this.
23:48All right.
23:49They're like, he's going to have a shot.
23:50So I, I got you now, Max, because I'm going to say, you know, we're going to do an episode
23:53in the middle of the first round series, but by that point, maybe they're down three Oh,
23:56maybe it's three, uh, two, one who knows, but we'll, we'll see what happens with the,
24:01what that first round matchup, because it's, uh, easily the most daunting matchup I would
24:05say in the Western conference for sure.
24:07And that's, uh, that's for your Los Angeles Lakers, uh, Lakers fans out there, man.
24:11We'll see what happens, but yeah, it's going to be a, it's going to be a tough, it's going
24:14to be a big challenge for this team before I, before I let you guys go, I have to ask
24:20you also about the landscape out here, Janice being hurt, maybe possibly not coming back
24:26New York right now, no Julius and, and, and, and, and, you know, Max has played well.
24:35I mean, there are a lot of good series out there on paper that you look at and go, Ooh,
24:40this is interesting.
24:41A lot of interest, but this Celtic thing, what comes up, if they, you know, they get
24:45in, I just think that if the Celtics are who we think they are, I've said this over and
24:50over again on TV, radio, whatever, if they are who they think they are, this is a, a,
24:57a small wide open than ever right now, the door is wide open for the Boston Celtics,
25:03their health, everything Joe Missoula has played this thing to a T Brad Stevens has
25:09rested guys.
25:11This is a rested team.
25:13The only thing that would bother you at the end is they did not have anything to play
25:17for.
25:18And they did not seem like they played with a sense of urgency, which, you know, I would
25:23love them to do at the end of the day, especially at the end of the season, Peyton Pritchard
25:29played like his life depended on it.
25:31But everybody else kind of just, yeah, we, but, and I understand we're 11, 12 games ahead,
25:37but Peyton Pritchard is the only guy that I thought just went to the next level in these
25:42last two weeks or so that he was, he was balling like nobody's, he was balling.
25:47Like he was trying to get another damn contract.
25:49For real.
25:50That's exactly, I mean, Peyton had that knife day on a 10 day contract game going this last
25:56month.
25:57For weeks and weeks.
25:59Every damn near every dribble down the court, looking up the clock.
26:01You think you're looking at the shot clock?
26:02No, he's just looking at the date, making sure, okay, I got another day.
26:05Okay.
26:06Let's go.
26:07I love that about him.
26:08I love that.
26:09Yep.
26:10Yeah.
26:11Absolutely.
26:12All right, man.
26:13He was spot on.
26:14Hey, Sherrod.
26:15Appreciate you, man.
26:16Appreciate you coming on.
26:17Where can people find your work, man?
26:18Uh, anywhere and everywhere.
26:20Uh, nah.
26:21Uh, mostly on Silliness, uh, media network with the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, big three
26:26NBA podcasts.
26:27I also like the Ebony.
26:28Man, put that damn merch, put that damn merch up again.
26:31That's what I want.
26:32Man.
26:33I also do stuff in the Garden Report.
26:34Oh, that thing look fresh.
26:35Hold on.
26:36Hold on.
26:37No, hold on.
26:38We're the best looking ones on there, Sherrod.
26:39Let's keep it 100.
26:40We are.
26:41Is Joe Sway in there?
26:42Yeah.
26:43Is Joe Sway in there?
26:44Where is he?
26:45Which one is he?
26:46Oh.
26:47Who'd you mean?
26:48Where's Bobby Manning at?
26:49The leader of the back.
26:50He's, uh, way to the left, I think.
26:51Or right.
26:52Bobby Manning.
26:53Yeah, he's.
26:54Okay.
26:56Yeah, he's.
26:57It's a black and white t-shirt, so Bobby kind of blended in too much with the t-shirt.
27:00Oh, okay.
27:01Bobby's so white, he'd just go into, yeah, yeah.
27:02Okay.
27:03I knew there was a joke in there somewhere.
27:04I knew it.
27:05All right.
27:06That's going to do it for this episode of the Cedric Mansfield podcast.
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27:08He's A. Sherrod Blakely.
27:09Cedric Mansfield.
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