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Excitement for the New NBA Season
00:00:26
Speaker
Yo, what up, what up, what up? This is Friends versus Friends. You know, we got your boy JT, we got KB to left me, and we got Statman to the right of me. What's good with y'all? It's good to be back. Man, that NBA season is in full effect. I know y'all missed us. We notorious. We out here. It all started.
00:00:44
Speaker
It's been good. It's been jumping. How y'all feel so far?
Re-evaluating the NBA Play-in Tournament
00:00:49
Speaker
Aren't we getting ready to start this playing tournament that we all said we would not care about? Yeah, man. I just put something up there that bro was talking about. He's like, yo, I don't even know what's going on. I don't think anybody knows what's going on. It starts today, right? Tonight? 7 PM. So it started. And the Knicks were the first game.
00:01:05
Speaker
Wow, guess who? The Bucks. The Bucks, oh. With the dame dollar, bruh. So, we gonna beat him. That'll be crazy after we lost to Cali. So, what cocaine is these players doing for us to beat them?
00:01:19
Speaker
Stay off the wheel. Every day you wake up with a chance and a choice. What chance do we have? Julia's guarding him, right? Julia's just trash. Yeah, man. He's terrible right now. I heard Jay Prince say that and it sounded good. It don't work for us. That was a good game. Come on, y'all. We won a playoff series last year. We did. Yeah, again. We were in the playoffs. Donovan Mitchell. And you know he's soon gonna want to leave. He didn't sign an extension.
00:01:46
Speaker
Joe Ingalls, which was his teammate in Utah, was like, yo, he's coming to the Knicks when the time comes. Oh, that's what you said. You know what that means? When he's trash, like how TMac went there. Yeah. When he's like, yeah, when the time comes. Well, how many dudes have done that? Everybody that we wanted to be in the Knicks at their prime has been in the Knicks. Well, just for the two years, this contract is up, so. In two years.
00:02:09
Speaker
Two years. Two years. Yo, in two years, we might not even have Jalen Brunson no more. In two years, every guard has to be at least six, five or six, eight. Point guard by that point. Yeah, we'll see. Yo, it's going to be, it doesn't. I don't want Mitchell. If we would have had him, we would have had him, but not this point. No, I'm good. It don't make no sense with him. And Brunson. And Brunson. It don't. Because Mitch, to me, is a point guard. Just a scoring point guard. Yeah, to be G, honestly.
00:02:39
Speaker
Cause him with Garland's out? Yeah. What's he doing? You know what I'm saying? Like he's doing everything he needs to do. I don't need that. And RJ, except he just needs a better jump shot. We'd have to deal with it. He's still scoring 22 points a game. That's what he's averaging this season. So far. Yeah. He's leading the squad on the squad.
00:02:59
Speaker
Better than Randall, which I keep telling you his Uber is outside. It is. I see it now. I agree with you at this point, Stat. I agree with you. I'm like, yeah, he need to go. He's going to pull up. No. He can have an interview with us, but I'm going to be like, look, you can go to the Lakers. I want to talk to the one they call Stat. Yeah, that's cool. Well, here's my lawyer. And my lawyer is going to tell you you're going to sign this release. And there we go. We'll have that interview, no problem.
00:03:24
Speaker
But now let's jump into the overall NBA news and rumors. What we got going on with that. Sadness.
Dwight Howard's Controversial Situation
00:03:32
Speaker
Dwight Howard. Yo, I ain't gonna lie. Don't do this. Start with that joke. Start with that joke. That was actually my first thing. You just gonna do that. So let me tell you how Dwight has blacklisted himself. He has blacklisted himself permanently. He's worse than Colin Kaepernick. He can't even get a workout.
00:03:50
Speaker
What my thing is, first of all, we don't discriminate against the LGBTQ, whatever, T+, whatever. Now you're going to get suspended because you can't even say that thing properly. I really didn't say anything. Now we really get suspended without pay.
00:04:18
Speaker
He's doing whatever at this point we know he's mr. C
00:04:23
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? Because after a while, it was like, all right, yeah, Mr. C. Mr. C. Accidentally, always. OK. We know you'll get down. OK. And look, you haven't heard nothing from him, so he's tearing up whatever we did. Dwight Howard is overseas. God knows he's overseas. He was in Taiwan, wasn't he? Yeah. But he was tearing up butt in Atlanta.
00:04:51
Speaker
I mean But isn't it crazy like it kind of got overlooked now It's like Pete but Pete this is the issue that everyone got mad at what? Weird stuff he was supposed to sign will go to state. Yeah, that was the last second. They said hold up now
00:05:17
Speaker
Look does the dude not have any normal interactions You go that way and I'm a lock the pet, you know the penthouse door downstairs everybody just go to sleep Yeah, I'd even know that
00:05:36
Speaker
His one baby mama was on basketball wise. Yeah, I remember that. That was his first baby mama. She was blowing him up. I know he had eight kids. And I feel bad for all eight, because they're going to be like, yo, your daddy is, yeah. It ain't normal by that time. Yeah, but you know what? Finally, because you know every time he used to say, that's not true. He was like, yo, it was consensual. I was like,
00:05:58
Speaker
But now it's like he's still trying to cover it up. He's like yo like what I do isn't with anybody doesn't need to care I'm like you're the white Howard of course people are gonna make something of it like no matter what and he trying to say it's like you know like I was just asking a question like You trying to get down with this and then with me like I
00:06:22
Speaker
Nah, he was trying to cover it up. I was like, yo, you're trying too hard to cover it up. But Peep, I also think, remember, he said in an interview, he said, yo, I did my job well in the bubble. We won the championship. He was like, yo, I don't know why the Lakers didn't want me back.
00:06:42
Speaker
Didn't he have a certain injury around that time? The first time it was actually when he was playing for Washington the glue
00:06:57
Speaker
Ladies and gentlemen Dwight Howard, what is the next You brought it up I'm just saying we have covered all bases both cheeks We are good Shout out to Joel and be doing his WWE
00:07:22
Speaker
Oh, the DX. He got me cussed out at work, yo. He got fine 35,000 for doing what he did. The DX, baby. It's worth it. We used to go through it in sixth grade, fifth grade. Did the ISS be like, yeah, he was doing a sucky tune. Remember? No, look, this is what we used to do. Somebody, you see somebody in a class. I'm really gonna get us messed up tonight.
00:07:41
Speaker
Everybody knows, this is a 90s thing. Everybody who doesn't know this life, close your ears. Look, you go past a classroom, your homeboy's in there. You're just not looking to come back in the doorway. You jump as high as you can and you make an X.
00:08:02
Speaker
Covering your loins. And when you land, you take off. The teacher's like, what was that? When you get out of here, somebody used to yell at you. Yo, yeah, definitely. Definitely, yeah. Driving past somebody on a bus. You know what you can do. And a kiss.
00:08:24
Speaker
Great times, great times. Too bad that can't happen anymore. I will. So you want to get canceled. Someone try to say you're canceled at my job. You know what? Nobody cares about me. And that is my advantage. That's why I can live my life. You're a popular guy.
00:08:41
Speaker
How much he get fined for that? $35,000. Tryin' to pay that. Triple H should pay for it. Him or Shawn Michaels should just pay for that joint. The way they lookin' at you right now, they're like, he gettin' ready to get a T-shirt. Hey, they got it! A signed T-shirt. They be showin' up to the home games. Like, when he gonna play off? He's about to get to the Sixers games? Yes! He's about to get to the Sixers games? Yes! He does the intro with Joel and he does the sign and everything.
00:09:04
Speaker
Yeah, like he does it. I didn't. Did I know that? Yeah. You should just pull up and pay for it. Somebody should try to wrestle. It won't be me. It probably will be there next. That'll be the next move. Actually, WrestleMania.
Early-Season Injuries in the NBA
00:09:21
Speaker
You already know I'll be on the WrestleMania in Philadelphia, so might as well. You might see him be there. Your boy that you were hyped about as a rookie.
00:09:31
Speaker
He's out with an injury. Good old Scoot Henderson. He trashed. Out for how long, though? They don't know. It's his ankles. Every player is getting hurt this season. Right off the guard. Very early, very early, very early. It's ankles and knees. Everyone is out. And it's not even low management. These players are actually getting hurt this year. Yeah. And it's scary. Scoot Henderson, who else?
00:09:53
Speaker
RJ was out the game now just as this happened. Oh, I was watching the game Orlando Mike Wendell Carter. He just messed up his hand. He just fractured his hand later Well, the report probably came out talking about how long he'll be out Paul Pierce
00:10:13
Speaker
He's not playing. He's smoking. I told you that he's out indefinitely, yo. Go tell him where he'll be back. Gary Harris, also, he injured his groin in the game. He old. Markel Fulls, he had a sore knee.
00:10:28
Speaker
Look, he's got a miracle career. Booker has not played. No, my man's back got blown out. Maybe Paul right here. Dwight Howard did something. Yeah. I'm supposed to say stuff like that. You took my shine. I got to take your time. But yeah, like look at that. Everyone in this was the first. This is the first five, six games. Yeah, that's out. That's why. That's why.
00:10:56
Speaker
But that, and then, you know what, it was funny with Chet, Nicola, the Joker, as he likes to be called, made fun of Chet, he was like, yo, you gotta gain some weight. He said, brother, some weight in gain. Gain weight. That he'd probably say, yeah. He was like, you gotta gain some weight, because he's still real. Drinks some coke every day like he did before he hit the NBA. Yeah, he was doing three, oh yeah, you saw the post. My man was drinking three liters of coke a day.
00:11:24
Speaker
That was something to make your heart explode, bro. I don't know if that's the move. Well, as you said. Your boy don't look like he enjoy his job, but he be working. Everybody's like, oh, that his motor's different. Like, he's having fun. I'm like, that boy look like he's just trying to chill. He looks so upset when that season started. And guess what? Maybe that's his job. He will. He will. Like, I got a job. You know what I'm saying? I have a job that I go to. I'm nice to people while I'm there. Yeah, that's how he looks. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. How you doing? Then I come home. He just be wanting to go home.
00:11:51
Speaker
That's exactly how he feels. After the season, he wants to go to his country, like, yeah, I'd rather be there. My last rumor before we get into our topic, I had to do this because he's just a jerk. Draymond Green has said, yo, the chemistry last year sucked. Yeah? Yeah. Did it? Yeah, did it. You would think something happened, yo, someone was like, LOA. Punch somebody in the face. He got rocked. He had Draymond beat up Jordan Poole, like, yeah, of course.
00:12:23
Speaker
But the rumor is, I'm guessing, is like they're saying that what Jordan Poole said was worse than
Draymond Green and Team Chemistry Issues
00:12:29
Speaker
what you would think with, you know what I'm saying? Like, what did he say? He said it was disrespectful. Like, he said, like, something like... Tag him. Yeah. You gotta ask him. You gotta ask, bro. He's messing up in the Wizards, too. Trying to think he back in the splash, bro. It's like, nah, bro. I think I saw him try to do something. You on the East now. Someone tried to tell him to pass the ball. He wasn't doing it. He's gonna be really annoying, yo. Just don't come to the Knicks.
00:12:53
Speaker
That would be crazy. This was the last day, but CP3 for the first time in his whole career came off the bench and he said he enjoys, he'll do whatever he needs to do to win that championship. The knees is talking to him.
00:13:10
Speaker
The rotation is straight for over there. Him off the bench is probably just keeping the momentum and pushing. Yeah, until he blows out of hamstring. Well, now he won't because he's coming off the bench. Okay, so he won't blow his hamstring in like December. He'll blow it out in March. He'll be back. He usually doesn't.
00:13:31
Speaker
depends on the type of day of the week. He gotta be strategic about it. Okay, so we'll just do that. So you might as well slip on a banana peel next month. So we gonna do Mario Kart like that? Yeah. All right, that's fine. Rainbow Road, come on back. But speaking about old vets, how do you all feel about, and I don't like it, I'll just say this in advance, LeBron's minute restrictions. Honestly,
00:13:57
Speaker
watching bronze first couple of games. I don't think he need those restrictions. He's straight. He fine. I didn't like him. He's outrunning the young bros like he's out hustling everybody. I don't like it. And it's weird how ham because they all talked about before the season started like, yo, we're going to put you 30 minutes or under. But the game I was watching.
00:14:18
Speaker
The first game I saw, I was like, yo, he played like the first six minutes and then he pulled them out for the rest of the first quarter. He played the first like seven, eight minutes, pulled them out until halftime. I was like, yo, and then he played like maybe one or two minutes before halftime.
00:14:33
Speaker
start and began but I was like yo you're messing up his flow and it's like and LeBron was mainly playing the point guard when he needed to score more it's like yo the flow and consistency that Bron was getting was not helping them against Denver
00:14:48
Speaker
But when they finally took the restrictions a little bit off, when they won their game, you started seeing LeBron doing what he do best. That was probably just the first, because that was their first game. Yeah. So yeah. But he still was trying to do 30 minutes. And I was like, don't do that. They had an overtime game too, and he had to be out there. I think Mr. Ham is going to get himself fired if they don't do what they did last year, get to the Western Conference Finals.
00:15:15
Speaker
Well, first of all, you playing, first of all, he doesn't have a rotation fully. The rotation is all up in the air. You're trying to do a minute restriction on Bron. The whole low management game is going to cost him. I don't think, because Bron's excluded from it, but I don't think he's going to be strategic enough to pull Bron from certain games.
00:15:37
Speaker
Like, they got barely lucky, they barely beat Orlando by three. Yeah. And it was just like, yo. That was the OT, right? That was the overtime? No, that was at the end. That was at the very end. Because I was watching that, then I fell asleep. And then Orlando got destroyed by good old the Clippers. But my issue is the whole minute restriction. And how long do you think it's going to last, LeBron?
00:16:04
Speaker
as soon as they start losing it's gonna be he's gonna basically say I need to actually play more obviously I believe that's probably gonna happen but it shouldn't even be like that for him right now brother like he is out hustling players running down the court still dunking brother is old and he's moving like he's just like a couple of seasons us years in the league like he's nice he's good he can do it
00:16:28
Speaker
I think Vince Carter. He got four more years, bro. I think Vince Carter got the record of 23 this season. Yeah, yeah, he does. Bron gone break that. So what do you think he's going to get 24 or 25? 25. 25. He'll go out with 25. He can do it. He can do 25. We'd be lucky. That's crazy. He can do 25. To be on top the whole time. And then that's surpassing the points. It's going to take years for that to happen. I don't even know. You probably had to average 40 for him. You know who probably could average 40?
00:16:58
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, but everyone is so on this jock is like, you know what?
00:17:05
Speaker
He's averaging like almost 20 points, but that 38 that he scored yesterday. That 38 was impressive. Boosted him up with the average, because he's leading all rookies right now with points. Second is Brandon Miller. He's getting rookie of the year. Brandon Miller's actually playing nice, though. He's actually impressive. He's doing good. I just hope that. Compared to his summer league, when he was like, oh, we were like, oh. Yeah, it was just like, all right, my man. Like, what are we talking about? Yeah, but he's getting there. He's getting there. He's getting there. Yeah, so I think.
00:17:34
Speaker
I think the Lakers are in trouble. Just at the moment, if they keep that rotation going on with him, with minute restrictions. We said that last year. Yeah. And again, they always expect them to go to the finals. They just sent AD to a contract extension for four years. They've got to step up. Their team
Anthony Davis' Health Concerns
00:17:52
Speaker
is better. AD is good. Yeah. The team is better. He can't step up too far. He going to hurt his back. Yo, I was actually waiting for him to get hurt in the first game because that happened to him last year with the back.
00:18:04
Speaker
He literally dunked and that's when he held his back down. I was like, yo, my man. His theatrics when he gets her are kind of funny. I'm not gonna lie. They are. He can get an Emmy? Can he get an Emmy? An Emmy or Oscar? It's the Freddies that we got out here.
00:18:27
Speaker
Yeah, the state theater. Yeah, they do Freddy's. The high schools out here, the schools, they get their performance awards to be the Freddy Awards. He gets to Freddy's. On another disgusting topic. I know you're gonna bring it up. Let me hear it.
00:18:46
Speaker
I know Philly loves when I talk about them. Bruh.
James Harden's Trade to the Clippers
00:18:49
Speaker
Mr. James Harden. Our Philly fans hate us. We hate you too. Shout out to Lou. Lou likes listening to our conversation. Lou loves when I talk about the city of Philadelphia. Mr. Harden finally got his wish to go to the state that he is from, California. And underperform thereto. And now he gets to be a clipper.
00:19:13
Speaker
Bruh, on 2K, they lit. Yeah, on 2K, but on reality. You know what I'm saying? Pause, you know what I'm saying? You been hanging out with Dwight too much, I see. I been hanging out with Cam. Cam and Mase too much, just keep saying pause, but yeah.
00:19:29
Speaker
Nah, they nice on paper and 2K. Like they crazy, but in real life, nah, it's not gon' work. It's not gon' work. You trying to shake hands in the locker room? That was so fake. Oh, that was awkward. That was so fake because remember when Russ got traded to Houston.
00:19:46
Speaker
Hard and liked it for two seconds and went and went back to OKC, got homeboy shipped out. So again, you saw Russ look like, do I gotta get up? Like someone probably whispered like when James gets here, get up, shake his hand. James is weird too, he was like looking around.
00:20:05
Speaker
like he's never been to the locker room before. And you know the only person that's gonna tell him this is my team is Kawhi. He's gonna be like, look, this is my team. Kawhi ain't gonna say nothing. I'm not gonna say, well, he went to the Colorado game. He was, he was doing a little talking. So there's a possibility that he might tell him this is my team. Robin is called Paul George. He'll just take the ball from him. Like when they both reach for it and Kawhi's hand is like, it takes it away from him.
00:20:30
Speaker
Yeah, it's Paul, it's Kawhi first. Next is Robin. Robin AKA Paul George. He's the Robin. The Russ is actually...
00:20:48
Speaker
Russ is not even in the conference. Yes, he is. Russ is in Red Hood. I'm going to say he's actually like... I mean, the whole squad is going down since Hardin is there. I was going to say Batoon, bruh, but nah. Batoon got traded. No, I'm sorry. I know. I'm just saying like... He's trying to get the comic reference. Yeah, he's the commissioner. He's Gordon. And I'll stand by this.
00:21:11
Speaker
Alfred is James Harden. He's the butler. He's the butler. Alfred was cool though. Alfred got hands though. He's the third person. Alfred used to be out there with it. He's the third important person. So he has to call Kawhi Master Bruce. Yes he does because that's his team.
00:21:29
Speaker
He got to rely on whatever Kawhi wants and then Paul. Why do these teams do this stuff? Why do they really do it? You know what I'm saying? Why do they really go through those things? But it's Boomer Bus. There's two teams in the West. It's Boomer Bus. It's Phoenix. They got to win. And it's the Clippers. It's Boomer Bus. They got to leave me in the Western Conference. And then they all got to go worry about Denver. I think I saw a 2K simulation where they made it there and they were actually pretty nice.
00:21:57
Speaker
Hard as numbers was up, but Westbrook was like, you know, just there. He could still get double-double. He could get 10 points, 10 rebounds. Hell, he can still get a triple-double. He could get 10 rebounds, 10 assists. He really could. He don't got a score. That interview he had was funny, though. The interview, I was like, oh, he was on a leash? That's how you feel, cuz? He was on a leash.
00:22:20
Speaker
Yeah, you know, if I'm not on the leash, you know, I could do whatever I want. But then Embiid told him, he was like, yo, we let you do what you want to do. Yeah, we let you do whatever you want. Like, that wasn't even the case. What are you talking about? And guess who got messed up because of that? Doc. Doc. Made him see like that. But Doc does have a system. You've always said Doc does have a little system. This is what we need to be ran. And he didn't want to do it. That was Embiid's team. And that's Philly's fault.
00:22:49
Speaker
because you should've got someone that's gonna be like, yo, I need someone that's gonna be like, yo, I'm down. This is what I can run by that system. So like I told you, they didn't win that deal. They didn't, they didn't. I told you, the Nets won that deal. And Ben Zimmes has been ballin'. Low key. Low key, low key. The whole dream. I ain't gonna admit it, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Brooklyn's still good.
00:23:19
Speaker
What the Sixers got was trash. They got role players. They got Nick Patu who said he's retiring at the end of the year. Done for.
00:23:31
Speaker
They got KJ Martin, which is Kenyon Martin's, yeah, who's nice. Yeah, he's interesting. He's a lottery ticket. He could be good if he's played a lot. If he gets the right coaching, Nick Nurse is good, because look, no one thought about,
00:23:51
Speaker
Pascal being good. Same thing like OG. He knows how to coach young forwards. Can he do it with him? We don't know. Marcus Morris, he's from Philly. He went to Kansas with him and his brother. He gets to come home. It's a homecoming for him. But you still got role players. You didn't get anything real. You got draft picks.
00:24:11
Speaker
But those draft picks, you better hope and pray you get the next. It's all a part of the process. That process is dead done and gone. When Jerome requests that trade and he goes to the next, the heat.
00:24:26
Speaker
Laker. The Heat would be the next spot for him. Jesus, Phoenix, he goes somewhere. Yeah, keep being known. Then you will officially say the process is dead and gone and the process never, it never worked. Yeah. It was in ways. That's true. But. Harden's done. We're going to see how that works out. I'm actually, I'm excited to see him play. I did hit you up. I was like, oh, I want to see him play. I want to see him play. You know what I'm saying? So I think it'd be a good look. I think Harden and Westbrook are going to fight.
00:24:56
Speaker
I hope they do on the court. Finally. And you know who's going to lose that fight? Hard. Hard. Who wins? Hardin's going to get punched several times. No. Kyrie called out Westboro and be like, yo, this is what you got to do. You're going to have to jet out of mind. Sure it comes. It's easy.
00:25:11
Speaker
My final topic when I could not stand is the tournament. Now, this tournament is a waste. The tournament starts tonight.
Skepticism About the New NBA Tournament Format
00:25:20
Speaker
Yeah. Do you believe this tournament is actually going to last forever? Or just like how we changed from the All-Star from Team Bronze to Yannes or Team Captains, it's going to go back to the East versus West.
00:25:34
Speaker
They're gonna try it. They're gonna do it this year. You know they got to do it next year. I think it's only the last five years. We're not like the Europeans where they actually get excited for it. Like, people have been saying like, yo, this is like... They're gonna be doing market research and all that. You could blame Adam Silver for that. I do. I do heavily. You should write a letter. I don't want to. See, that's the thing. I don't be interested. You could write a letter and we can get some tickets.
00:26:05
Speaker
They were like, I don't think tickets is what we'll get for this letter. But my thing is this, I like how they changed the court up. Every court is all fancy. Every jersey is all fancy. The players really don't know what it's about when most of the players don't. They're like, well, oh, there's money involved?
00:26:23
Speaker
Alright cool, but I think something else needs to be added to it like you get like a higher percentage in a lottery pick or something or like No, cuz that's BS cuz guess what? It's gonna always be like a Denver's gonna be like a Lakers. It's gonna be like the Phoenix something has to happen trophy The fans fight outside the parking lot for home field advantage or home
00:26:48
Speaker
But what should happen besides money to make the team like, all right, cool, this seems important. What idea do you have on top of the rip? Y'all didn't like my IDIC. Nah. I mean, they fighting, you know what I'm saying? They're going to sue you because of that idea. I'm not even going to be in the building. The only thing that really works, now, I'm going to go use part of it. You're right. You could say a draft pick, but you can get another draft pick.
00:27:15
Speaker
Like after the lottery, because the lottery is the first 15, the first 14, then that one pick after the lottery is done, you get right there, right dead in the middle. So you get that. So you get that. So you get that no matter what. Yeah, no matter what, you get an extra first round pick.
00:27:30
Speaker
I like that. That sounds cool. But you can't do you get the top three pick because I didn't say top three. I just a little advantage of getting there. You never know. Let's draw it all up. But still, I like that. That's more guaranteed. Yeah, you can go right guaranteed in the net. They get a trophy. They get rings, too. They get this. It's like in the season. So it's going to be interesting. They get to go to Vegas. I like the Agro Crag. But the thing is, they did this because they wanted views. Bruh, they're worried about the World Series in football.
00:28:00
Speaker
Honestly to be gene a hundred percent once Philly was out of it once no New York team was in it I forgot about baseball in the series But nobody cares. I don't but I just found out that the Rangers won. I was like the Rangers already I Thought they were still doing something. Oh, it's over. I was like, yo I'm in football season
00:28:26
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Well, football, they're worried about football season, too. I'm in football season. Exactly. And it's starting to get good right now. It is starting to get good. So that's why they're doing the tournament. Same record as the 49ers. But they're going to see about the ratings. They said the NBA ratings skyrocketed compared to last year.
Victor Wembanyama's Impact on NBA Ratings
00:28:41
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I'm like, all right, cool. It could be a lies, whatever. No, it's all because of Victor. It's all because of Wembley. Yeah, I ain't going to lie. I stayed up.
00:28:49
Speaker
I saw his first game. Yeah. I went to sleep after that. I saw the game and he dropped 38. That was knocked out. He's a 2K player, bro. No, I saw highlights of the 38.8. He is 2K. I'm like, bruh. It's just like I just put my dude on stats all the way up, all the way up, just playing. All 99s. They have a player there just like, fuck it. Let's just throw it to him. He's down there somewhere. A monster. And they catch it. He catches it. And he just, oh yeah, right here. Monster. He's nice.
00:29:17
Speaker
comes up the court and drops threes. He does everything you want. The only thing that he sucks is he admits that he can't stay the same motor through the whole game. He just knows he has to fix that.
00:29:30
Speaker
He admitted that. He was like, yo, I got to get better throughout the game. All right, like having this savage in him, like, you know, he can't just like dip down and then some will come up. He got to he got to be consistent. He got to stay. I just hope he stays healthy. Yeah, because he's just too skinny. He needs he needs to he needs to be stronger. He don't need to gain weight. He needs to be stronger.
00:29:56
Speaker
You won't put him that Shaq dialing brother 300 300 pounds Shaq admitted he was 400 300 I think he admitted he said he was 300 pounds. He's 340. Yeah something like that. 320 or something. He was killing. That was a year he won back to back. I think they said what was it his 28th birthday? He had 61.
00:30:18
Speaker
Something like that. I don't know when it's. And then he would say, he was like, and then when I went to Miami, Pat got me on that diet, traded that body fat, and I went right back down. I was like, yo, that's crazy. Well, think about it. When he was a lad, he was skinny. He didn't look too much smaller than them. No, but he looked different.
00:30:34
Speaker
He was old, but he did look different when he went to Miami. Maybe a little bit more definition in the arms or something, but he still wasn't big. He looked bad when he was with the Celtics. No, Celtics and Phoenix, I was like, dang. Remember Detroit? He didn't play in Detroit. You sure he didn't? No, he played with Cleveland. No one of them dudes was running from Detroit. No, Detroit. Remember? Positive. Remember when there was an out of bounds? Or no, there was a loose ball. And everybody was like, oh! I was like, yeah!
00:31:05
Speaker
This guy's checking. He ain't never played for Detroit. No, that never happened. I'm not saying that he did that. He played for like eight teams. I'm looking. That's one of the teams he did not play for. That would have been hilarious. That would have been sad because that's when Detroit was. All right. It says it here. There's an answer. What? Okay. Since you don't want to give us the answer, send us home.
00:31:33
Speaker
Aight, yo, this is friends versus friends. We are out. We see you next episode. Peace.