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TWIYpod: that text message and the motherfucker says sorry for your lost I can live with that that's livable like I get it hey cause maybe maybe your phone maybe Apple fucked you up or maybe Apple ducked you up you know what I'm saying cause Apple will be turning your fucking into ducking all the time you trying to get your swerve on with your queen you send that nasty text message and you gotta now you gotta now you gotta reread it
Wop: I see.
Wop: in
Wop: Damn. Told her I was ducking it. I'm ducking it tonight.
TWIYpod: i'm ducking I'm ducking all in there tonight.
Wop: Facts. My girl.
TWIYpod: to Till i tell it till it's sweat. And it's like, till it sweat. So she reading this shit. Now she feel dyslexic. I feel dyslexic reading it back. Just send the voice notes, gang.
Wop: x
TWIYpod: would be Hey, be careful you send the voice notes too. They will be used against you in court. right? Them voice notes will be used against you in court. L.O.
TWIYpod: My man Lamar Odom. I'm going to tell you this. Untold has a very good catalog of documentaries on Netflix. They got a very good catalog of documentaries. They got the the John Elway shit, the Brett Favre shit. I think they got two on Brett Favre.
TWIYpod: They got the
Wop: I think they might do. I think I've seen one of them for sure.
TWIYpod: one I know the the most recent one where Shorty is talking about how, you know, it's from her perspective, the one that got the dick pic, the Jets employee. It's from her perspective. she she So it's giving background on Shorty. Shorty's just sitting there like, hey, I'm just a small-town girl living in a lonely world. And Brett Favre, you know, somebody told me Brett Favre was interested. Next thing you know, I got his dick in my phone. It's like, yo, not the Wrangler, man.
TWIYpod: Not the gunslinger. a so That boy was.
Wop: Hey, talk your shit, man.
TWIYpod: That
Wop: You know, you're wild.
TWIYpod: nigga was slinging meat missiles in the text message thread to a stranger. Yo, shout out. Hey, shooters going shoot, bro.
Wop: talking shit man you know yeah well but
TWIYpod: But I watched the joint with Lamar Odom. I forgot to come in here and talk about it
TWIYpod: So I had a stroke, right? That's how the whole beginning of this podcast started. i know y'all tired of hearing about that. I got offended while watching the doc on Lamar Odom because I felt like he was trying to outstroke me.
TWIYpod: Why this nigga had 13 strokes in one sitting? Like who the fuck does Lamar Odom think he is? You can't outstroke me, Lamar Odom. He took what? 16 gas station dick pills?
Wop: Yeah, that was crazy work.
TWIYpod: Now, amna I'm not a gas station dick pill connoisseur myself.
Wop: That was crazy work.
TWIYpod: Don't trust him. Not no more. Not today.
Wop: The Walgreens type man.
TWIYpod: yeah
Wop: Oh, shit.
TWIYpod: You know you know where I'm going to get. I'm getting ashwagandha from GNC.
Wop: ah
TWIYpod: I'm getting a mackerel root in the ashwagandha from GNC.
Wop: type shit.
TWIYpod: And and i'm going I'm going herbal with my gas station dick medicine. You know what I'm saying? My man got 16 of the gas station variety joints.
TWIYpod: Last time I took one, I just had a headache.
TWIYpod: I don't know if it was because she went to sleep on me or or something went wrong with the medicine. I just knew I had a headache and I was like, it'll never again.
Wop: Man, look.
TWIYpod: Ginseng. All the shit that be in them joints. And my man took 13 of them at once.
Wop: That boy is dangerous dude, man.
TWIYpod: He took them shits like
Wop: Dangerous guy right there. Hello.
TWIYpod: But I understand, though. i like That might be the second part of the documentary where I understood where Lamar Odom was coming from.
Wop: It...
TWIYpod: Maybe the third time. The first time in the doc, he was with a prostitute.
Wop: it
TWIYpod: that's not where That's not where we share favor, but he was with a prostitute.
TWIYpod: And Shorty called Chloe like, yo, come get your man. He bugging.
Wop: Right.
TWIYpod: ah
Wop: I was deep.
TWIYpod: I felt that because if I'm bugging and you know you're not the number one, call number one. Like, call the boss, bro. Call my queen so she can come save me from from myself. Like, I appreciate that level of care.
TWIYpod: The second part where I felt Lamar Odom, when he won the championship, he was going to the parade, but he locked himself in the bathroom, and he was getting to it for some hours.
TWIYpod: And he told the kids, like, yo, we not even going to the parade. And the kids were sad. Oh, we wanted to go to the parade. And as soon as he canceled the plans with the kids, he ended up going to the parade. I'm all about substances keeping you from spending quality time with your family.
TWIYpod: And then going to catch a vibe, a kid free vibe. You know how much beautiful the championship parade is when your kids ain't there. And you ain't got to be like the father, the protector figure.
TWIYpod: Danny, Danny, Danny, come look at me. I want to do this. Like, bro, I'm catching a vibe. Lamar was in the bathroom smoking crack. When you're smoking crack, you don't have time to be a parent.
TWIYpod: You don't have time to be a parent smoking crack. So I felt Lamar on that. Not that not that I support crack smoking. ah Smoking crack this this deep into the new millennium is kind of crazy anyway. Like, they ain't made patches for crack yet?
TWIYpod: I'm giving away the IP. I'm giving away the IP. I'm away the IP. Hey, this is DJ World. Premiere, the world is yours. That's Boo Wap.
TWIYpod: Now,
TWIYpod: that's the next big idea, the crack patch. We get one of those. We get one of those pop and womp. We out of here.
Wop: Fuck this podcast and shit. We saving a hundred lives a day.
TWIYpod: and Let's just get with the Sacklers. Homeboy that did the opioids. Let's just get with him. And, hey, however they did those Nicorette patches, let's put crack in it. Slow release crack.
TWIYpod: And boom, we push that out to the community. You can't you can't arrest me for for dealing crack patches. So sell the patent to CVS or Pfizer. We good money.
TWIYpod: But back on the, oh, oh, oh. I heard this shit. I don't know why I be thinking about you in the most random moments of my day, but I heard about this shit, and I was just like, I feel like this is WAPS vibe.
TWIYpod: I just felt
Wop: go.
TWIYpod: Why don't you take that strap off? You're pretty up under that toughness, girl. Gonna take that hat off in them gym shorts.
TWIYpod: I see, ay, you can't hide it in that swagger. You're still a girl to me, so. Ma'am, you a pretty Bull Dagger, Bull Dagger They call you T-Dobby in the streets But your real name Tanya She got a haircut like me But got a booty like a mama Stand up with your pee Tryna dab me up in the club Your man look pretty ass here Give your homeboy a hug Sports bra and boxers She look good it
Wop: Bye.
TWIYpod: She a good stud, daddy on them keys She spend every penny Sneak dinkin' on the low, what you acting boning for? I got a question for ya When your girlfriend's sucking your strap, what the hell you moaning for?
TWIYpod: Man, you think this hell Why don't you take that strap off? You pretty up under that toughness, girl Don't fuck on and take that hat off I feel like WAP is the stud whisperer.
Wop: Yo,
TWIYpod: i feel like whop is the is though is the stud whisperer
Wop: fifty
TWIYpod: like Waps the Stud Whisperer of the Pot.
Wop: yo
TWIYpod: I feel like you're the only one qualified to let us know that you've taken down a few.
TWIYpod: A few of those, what is it, terrible tees. And her real name is Tiffany. Like, I feel like you took down a few of them with the basketball shirts on.
TWIYpod: Some and one moves.
Wop: I've hit the tomboy girl back in the day for sure. Yeah.
TWIYpod: I think we all hit the tomboy girl because she wasn't, she didn't know.
Wop: g closes right She didn't know what she really liked at the time.
TWIYpod: She didn't know she liked Dick because she never had none before.
Wop: She just knew she liked it to be with the boys and and hoop and shit and play football with us and shit like that.
TWIYpod: She liked the less complicated life.
Wop: Yeah.
TWIYpod: She liked comfortable clothing.
Wop: Yeah.
TWIYpod: baggy clothing she liked being able to spit and cuss and not think about oh what are they gonna think about me if i do this are they gonna think about me if i do that she liked a less complicated life but when you gave her some she the girl came out
Wop: Man, that motherfucking bushy. That motherfucker be overly bushy.
TWIYpod: The snappy nappy? The snappy nappy dugout? No, it do be unmanicured. I'm cool with a bush, even in 2026, but don't let it be a manicure.
Wop: They... you You know, it's like... You really,
Wop: man, you playing with fire. Like, cause um' umm I'm glad I wasn't shorty. She just wanted to get it out the way. I felt like, you know I'm saying? Like that's how it be a lot of times. They didn't want to get that shit out the way. Like, come on.
Wop: Like,
TWIYpod: I was down for it. Yeah, let's get to it.
Wop: i was, yeah, like, fuck it.
TWIYpod: Let's not play any games. like got Hey, it's a water bed here.
Wop: just
TWIYpod: case you didn't know, it's a water bed. hell This is advanced level skill. It's a bean but some bean bags right there. Yeah, we're going to get to it. But see, the stud whisperer, I feel like when you see a stud daddy, when you at a school function,
TWIYpod: And you see a stud daddy, think you be like, damn, she a good stud daddy. we should We should grab some drinks sometimes. maybe Maybe a tray five together. Let's grab a tray five and some drinks.
TWIYpod: And then the tray five and some drinks turn into neck in the car.
Wop: It's like type shit. The problem is, but the problem with that, I just, I can't see myself going these studs in 2026 and wearing them bitches on them for real.
TWIYpod: ha
Wop: They keep it on them.
TWIYpod: They do.
Wop: It's like, it's like, ain't no way I can just knowingly know you got that bitch on you. It'd be cool. It'd be like, yeah, go on, yeah.
TWIYpod: You know, go only the only the motherfucker in the trunk.
Wop: Go on.
TWIYpod: You got a locker here. You got a locker here or
Wop: I'll fuck up, man. I'm about to take that motherfucker off.
TWIYpod: something.
Wop: I'll fuck it up.
TWIYpod: You got to treat the studs like like like your criminal friends. Hey, before we get in the car, anybody riding dirty right now? Is anybody riding dirty? Hey, is anybody strapped right now? Hey, Ashley, that goes for you too.
Wop: I got them sick at the job right now because um I think I'm fucking ready to tell you. I'll tell you everybody. All 2026. Call all the studs handsome.
TWIYpod: Wait, why are we doing that?
Wop: They need a compliment. I don't want to call you petty because ah that might be offensive. You know what saying? I don't know. You know what I'm saying? like So I'm going to go the opposite route. You got the fade. Nice waves.
TWIYpod: Okay.
Wop: I'm going to say you handsome.
TWIYpod: I'm just going to say, yeah, I see what you did there. I see what you're trying to do. I see what you're trying to do.
Wop: Looking all handsome
TWIYpod: when you
TWIYpod: no
Wop: I want to take a selfie with a gang and be like, we all handsome.
Wop: sure
TWIYpod: Yo, I'm okay.
Wop: They gonna send that bitch up. I promise you. They gonna
TWIYpod: Yeah, that's it. Hey, when y'all on the gram taking taking ah selfies with studs, just tag the world as yours. Hashtag the world as yours because I need to be a part of this too.
TWIYpod: I'm going to find some studs. Now I'm on it now i'm on a hunt.
TWIYpod: Now I'm on a hunt. I'm on a hunt for handsome studs. All right? Tomorrow Friday, I'm going to to barbershop because I know there's going to be some handsome studs out there. We taking selfies with handsome some studs. We embracing our stud brethren.
TWIYpod: Little angry, little little Ashley from around the way, she deserves some love too. You know, shake shake his or her head. I don't know. I don't fuck with ah own focal pronouns, bro, but you know.
TWIYpod: Angry A from around the way, whatever. I knew he was ashy when he was growing up. Now you angry A from around the way, that's cool.
Wop: I'm Craig.
TWIYpod: But no, no. Me imagining WAP being the stuff finder of the pod, that's just like the tip of the iceberg of my diabolical thoughts.
TWIYpod: Like, throughout the week, like, I know WAP whopp is a busy guy. WAP got 17 podcasts. He got life and shit. He's not thinking about me until Thursday around 2 o'clock on Thursday.
TWIYpod: 2 p.m. Thursday. Your
Wop: He's lying.
TWIYpod: local time, 2 p.m., he hit me like, yo, we on tonight?
TWIYpod: Until the next pot, he's not thinking about me, but all week long, I'm thinking about why.
Wop: send this twelve foot parents through the week. sos
TWIYpod: He do send me videos. i don't know if they i don't know they all meant for me, but he do be sending me videos. But all week long, I'm thinking about a while. I think the other day i was just like, I seen some shit.
TWIYpod: Shorty was making some fucking veal palm.
TWIYpod: And I was like, yo. I wonder if WAP will call this the Italian Alfredo, like the Italian version of a hood boogers Alfredo. Like, niggas, it's fucking parm, bitch. Like, we had this shit every night for two weeks.
TWIYpod: Like, learn a new trick.
Wop: Baby, how about ragu? She pull that white ragu out. No time. Goddamn.
TWIYpod: Throw some basil on that.
Wop: um
TWIYpod: Throw some basil on it. Throw some nigga glitter. You know we love nigga glitter. I never seen a black person's plate that was made for to be plated for the internet that didn't have an excessive amount of nigga glitter on it.
Wop: Oh, I seen some. All these motherfuckers can't cook or decorate either. You know what saying? That's really just decorations.
TWIYpod: Well, I like it when it's not. i like it when the plate isn't to be. You're not supposed to take a picture of that plate. Like when niggas take the bowl of rice and they put that in the middle and then they put the food around it and everything is perfectly portioned.
Wop: Ooh. Ooh.
TWIYpod: I hate that because you not eating like that on a regular basis. Give me that. You took three spoonfuls of this shit from the stove. The shit ain't even the shit is touching. It ain't no space between your starches and your vegetables. Give me that plate.
Wop: That's the blackest shit you ever said.
TWIYpod: That plate that ain't nobody supposed to see.
Wop: It's like the blackest shit you know ever said. like that's That's really how I be going down like on Thanksgiving when people taking pictures and shit. It's already a little scoop missing of everything.
TWIYpod: Oh.
Wop: Everything. Ain't nothing. You be lucky you get that good full picture the mac and cheese. Somebody can't even got a little corner of that motherfucker.
TWIYpod: I got to i gotta pick the biscuit up off my plate because it's food under the biscuit.
Wop: Yeah. It's going down.
TWIYpod: It's food under the biscuit.
Wop: It's going down.
TWIYpod: I need those pictures. Those pictures don't make it to the internet because they just not really appealing. I get it. Everybody feel like they watch Hell's Kitchen a few times and now they chefs and they can plate some shit the way.
TWIYpod: Listen, take I'll take points off of your shit if it look too perfect on the plate. Because nah, that's not swaggy. Make that shit at the crib. You in a rush trying to feed three kids and your husband and your plate should look something different.
TWIYpod: Not picture perfect.
Wop: Hell, hell.
TWIYpod: Not picture perfect.
Wop: My shit picture perfect. Show me put some effort in that shit. I like that shit. That shit turned me on. That shit might make the food taste better. Just the etiquette of the plate, how just look. You know what saying? It just might make the food taste better.
Wop: You know what I'm saying?
TWIYpod: Wop runs a tight ship. He said...
Wop: do. I do. reward I reward that type of effort. That's thoughtful. You saying? You wanted my shit to look all cute and shit. like I fuck with that.
TWIYpod: What are you rewarding that effort with, Wop?
Wop: But...
Wop: what you mean
TWIYpod: What are you rewarding that effort with? Like, are you getting nails done because the plate looks nice consistently every every time she cooked? So now she can get her nails done? Are you just rewarding her with a mental gold star? Like, she gets that gold star today.
TWIYpod: Maybe I won't cheat because she got 32 gold stars in the last 64 days. So maybe I don't cheat.
Wop: I mean, I'm rewarding her, obviously, throughout the relationship, but that type of shit just be consistent, obviously. like I mean, unless it's a relationship. If she could do the cook for me, I'd reward her for that, too. like It's levels to it, but I'm just saying, like if I meet a female and tell me she want to cook for me,
Wop: like I ain't finna be like, in my mind, owe her, you know what saying, to get out in the hills, doing some shit like that. that a I ain't thinking like that.
Wop: I ain't gonna let you, like, if you just one randomly doing this shit for me though, like two, three times a week, you come get you a plate, then I might, you know what I'm saying?
TWIYpod: I like that. trans
Wop: Go get your nails done to do some random shit for you on that level. like To me, that ah plate a plate of food don't equate to getting your nails done.
TWIYpod: I like that.
TWIYpod: ah play A consistent plate of food will get you pretty far in my book.
Wop: Yeah.
TWIYpod: And and some of that is because i have i'm I'm fat, and i like I like to know that you can cook. I don't need you to cook, but I like to know that you can.
Wop: No, fucks.
TWIYpod: But also, to cook for me, you got to know me. I'm not just Joe Blow from around the way. You can't just put pig's feet on the plate with some cornbread and some black-eyed peas and be like, yo, I've been slaving all day for you because who the fuck is eating pig feet?
TWIYpod: pigfe
Wop: Man, I dare motherfucker put on a pot of pig feet for me.
TWIYpod: Why? Why would you do that? You don't love me?
Wop: Why did you buy Why they in the house?
TWIYpod: Like, if you cook, if you made the cornbread, why it's not jalapeno cornbread?
Wop: Why?
TWIYpod: Why you ain't make it in a cast iron skillet? So to cook for me, it means you know me, you've observed me, you listen to me talk, you watch me eat some shit, order some shit. You know you know more about me. So do you get you get some points for that.
Wop: That boy said jalapeno.
TWIYpod: Oh, man. Listen, jalapeno, cornbread, and the cast iron? Game changer.
Wop: some, that's some, that's some, I ain't never heard that. ain't gonna lie to you.
TWIYpod: you from You from Mississippi. I'm shocked.
Wop: Yeah, I done heard, I done heard hot water, hot hot water cornbread, you know.
TWIYpod: I'm really shocked. I'm little disappointed, too.
Wop: done heard, obviously, Jiffy and all that shit, but I'm, I really just like, Cornbread from scratch though, like regular cornbread.
TWIYpod: Throw that jalapeno in there, bitch.
Wop: I don't
TWIYpod: Throw some of the jalapeno juice in that, bitch. Jalapeno's all over. Put it in the cast iron. Go to work. We eating good.
Wop: know.
TWIYpod: We eating good at here,
Wop: I'm going to push that jalapeno. I'm crying.
TWIYpod: Another untold doc dropped this week. The Jailblazers.
Wop: Man, oh man.
TWIYpod: Now, I seen the name of this shit, and I thought it was a joke. I thought niggas was trolling. It's so much AI going on. I don't know what to believe when I see this shit on the internet. But right as rain, I turned on Netflix, and that shit was right there. The jailblazers, untold.
TWIYpod: And I'm like, well, this shit was pretty common. This shit was pretty told when this shit was happening. and We lived through this shit. You know what I'm saying? We're from that era.
Wop: No, for sure.
TWIYpod: But I'm like, I'm a watch it. As soon as that shit cut on, I think maybe 15 minutes in, i was I was all in. I kicked my feet up, cracked my beer.
TWIYpod: I'm in it. i'm in I'm in the house cussing at the TV, cussing at Rashid.
Wop: Why you cursing the right shit again?
TWIYpod: Because Rashid pissed me off through that through that process. Rashid was him. undeniably him his whole career. I love that about Rasheed Wallace.
TWIYpod: I feel like he got kind of drowned out in the latter part because of the antics. He's the first Draymond Green. Before we had Draymond, we had Rasheed Wallace with note with no social media handle.
TWIYpod: I think Rasheed was a little bit more unapologetic than than Draymond.
Wop: Man.
TWIYpod: Just a little, you know?
Wop: Rasheed Wallace is a one of them guys, though. Like, he always – he's obviously a great basketball player. Let me just say that, too. He's a great basketball player. But he oftentimes
Wop: is just a fan favorite when I think of him. Like, when I – especially in these debate rooms, like, He just seems to be got like a guy that's just a fan favorite, right?
Wop: Where you love and hate him. You know what I'm saying? it's It's either one, right? And the skill set that he had at that time frame was, you know, one that was kind of like
Wop: unseen, almost. Like, It wasn't a lot of fours doing what he was doing. He was a guy that can handle the ball a little bit, ah definitely shoot the three, which was at that time you only had like maybe him, Dirk, Sam Perkins from the four position shooting them type of shots.
Wop: And.
TWIYpod: It might have been seven niggas in the whole league from the four that could pop it consistently.
Wop: Yeah. Yeah.
TWIYpod: Consistently. We're not talking about what's his name from from Philly that shoot one and you worry. Drummond. We're not talking about Andre Drummond. We're talking about consistently popping that shit.
TWIYpod: Still agile. Still had a little bounce to him. Had a little wobble so he could get to the basket and he could yam it on you. He had good posts, decent posts, but he was he wasn't as big as other fours.
TWIYpod: So he wasn't beating niggas down in the post.
Wop: He again, great talent. Uh, Do I think ah based off the talent, this why I always point at that talent don't always mean just because you're more talented than someone doesn't mean you impacted, you know what I'm saying, your craft more than someone else. Because Rasheed Wallace is a case of that. Like, there's not a lot of guys that had his skill set and defensively what he was, too.
Wop: He was a real problem. Like, can get out there and guard. Fours and fives and change shots and block shots as well. Helps our defense. He was a good defender.
Wop: But again, if your talent don't don't lead up or measure up to
Wop: you know some type of impact, like real impact as the man, I don't feel it's right for us to be putting you in certain conversations. Like you got people that, um and I done heard it, man.
Wop: He was more talented than Kevin Garnett. Like what?
TWIYpod: Oh, no, they bugging. No, that now that's how that's egregious.
Wop: Like what?
Wop: Like what's going on? Like tell me what he couldn't do that Kevin Garnett could, like bro, are y'all okay, man? I get it. A bad boy.
TWIYpod: If they're talking in Brooklyn Nets, KG, then okay, you got it
Wop: Like,
Wop: But, like, I'm just saying, like, and I get it. Like, KG and Rasheed got, like, the same type of motors. Like, very feisty guys. Very in-your-face. Like, KG was known to get some tees, too. Like, but he was mostly on that with players. Rasheed Wallace is on that with everyone.
TWIYpod: Everyone.
Wop: Everyone.
TWIYpod: Especially the Rams.
Wop: Yeah. The refs can get it, too. That's he felt. So... When look back on that team, though, like, you know, it was crazy to see Scotty ass.
Wop: You know, he done got braids and shit. Like, they said they turped Scotty ass. don't want to cry. Like, goddamn. This nigga just.
TWIYpod: Niggas turned out Scott Pippen, bro.
Wop: Yeah.
TWIYpod: How you turn out Scott Pippen? Nigga was the poster child for fucking
Wop: wonder.
TWIYpod: good wingman, good basketball player. he had that little He had that little bullshit, you know, with cool coach or whatever, but he was still the poster child of what he represented. You know what I'm saying? Good, clean baller.
TWIYpod: Good, clean athleticism.
Wop: And when you a hoe, that's what happens.
TWIYpod: Turned him out.
Wop: You turnt out. You get influenced.
TWIYpod: Oof.
Wop: Got his ass influenced. You know what saying? And fell in line. He wanted to be cool. Shit, we never got to do this in L.A. Field on the sideline looking at him like, God damn, Scotty.
TWIYpod: ah We lost him. We lost him. Imagine. Imagine.
Wop: Have you seen him at the game? oh man.
TWIYpod: Imagine Scottie on the Lakers.
Wop: What happened, man?
Wop: Man.
TWIYpod: That would have been disgusting. I don't know. They they might have fucking they might have put an asterisk on some of those rings. I ain't going lie to you. They might have put asterisk on some of them rings. We we might not have ever got a Rick Fox or a Robert O'Reilly.
TWIYpod: shit up, fucking Mark Madsen. We might not have got some great talents. But I did like what the GM, I liked his early approach.
TWIYpod: It was a little racist, but it was really like, I'm looking at the talent that other people threw away because they got some shit on them.
Wop: He
TWIYpod: They do it in football all the time. Bill Belichick do that shit in football. Why do you think he drafted Hernandez? Why you think he...
Wop: was about 30. let's do
TWIYpod: Yeah, he's like, oh, shit. Hey, I'm going to get this motherfucker real low. And when it comes time to pay him a new contract, he can't get the same kind of Brad Gronk getting because he was drafted fifth round, sixth round.
TWIYpod: I'm going to get you real low. I'm a cut you loose a year before... It's too late, and I'm gonna get something back in return for you while I still can. That's all that GM was thinking. He was just thinking, it's some of these guys that nobody else would touch that I need to go get. The only problem is he got too many of them at once.
Wop: Too many.
TWIYpod: Too many. Hey, when you...
TWIYpod: I was just like, yeah, i see Jermaine O'Neal there. Jermaine O'Neal's not in the doc. he they You see him two or three times in the doc, and next thing you know, he got traded. And I think he was a part of the trade that brought Sean Kemp to the team.
TWIYpod: And this is Sean Kemp, gang.
Wop: Yeah.
Wop: That's Big Kemp, though. Not the little
TWIYpod: Fat Kemp. I ain't got ups no more, Kemp. This is below the rim, Sean Kemp. This ain't the rain, man.
Wop: Oh, God. No. This is the the goddamn mud man. You hear
TWIYpod: This is the weight man. i This is a snowman for real. My man, cocaine problem.
Wop: me?
TWIYpod: Cocaine camp. Love it.
Wop: You
TWIYpod: Love it. He was a two-gram-for-lunch type of guy.
Wop: hear me?
TWIYpod: It's my kind of partying, Sean. Uh... But you get Sean Kemp, then you go get the Kobe stopper.
Wop: The who?
TWIYpod: And this is the the the Kobe stopper.
Wop: The who?
Wop: don't know a such person named that. The guy that called himself that?
TWIYpod: I think somebody in media called him that first. And I think he heard it. He got carried away.
Wop: Type shit.
TWIYpod: And he got carried away because the i did as soon as they said, and he was known as the Kobe stopper. I was like, i was sitting here on the couch like he was known as the sex a sex offender.
TWIYpod: That's what he was known as. And then boom, that shit pops up.
Wop: What's happening?
TWIYpod: a
Wop: What's happening? What? What? Oh, damn. No,
TWIYpod: Randy Watson.
Wop: that's
TWIYpod: ah chapin
Wop: ah damn not
TWIYpod: The court said he beat down the babysitter Doonies. Hey, bro, the babysitter was 16. don't care if she was throwing it at you. You knew better.
Wop: Yes, sir.
TWIYpod: It's too close to home. She's underage. It's too close to home and you're a famous athlete. You can't even go play hoop in every city if you're a sex offender.
TWIYpod: You putting the job at risk for underage buns. They undercooked. They're undercooked. They still need some more time in the oven. You ever go, you yeah your mama's doing something, she said, go check on that in the kitchen.
TWIYpod: Go check on this. And then you just open the stove. How do I know if it's done? it It looked done.
TWIYpod: Shorty didn't look done. She looked 16. She watch your kids, bro. Like, you should know better than to ever beat down the babysitter your whole life. But he did it and had the nerve to still want to actively play basketball.
Wop: Chase
Wop: it. And it's all crazy.
TWIYpod: Oh, man.
Wop: It's all crazy.
TWIYpod: The craziest talk. and and And I know he was getting it. I know niggas was in his ear giving him the the most vicious fucking shots. But don't you come to the press conference talking shit either.
TWIYpod: But he did.
Wop: Definitely did.
TWIYpod: And the GM gets him. i think him I think he comes in after Sean Kemp quits basketball to go get his life clean. But
Wop: Something like that.
TWIYpod: Before Sean Kemp went to rehab for the cocaine problem, he had the gun issue.
TWIYpod: He had the gun issue where he went to court. He pled guilty, said he was wrong for the gun situation, and he had to do some community service, blah, blah, blah. These niggas have problems. Rasheed Wallace had problems. Damon Stoudemire had problems. Drug problems, drug problems, authority problems. These niggas had problems.
TWIYpod: Nobody else was taking these guys.
Wop: We calling weed a drug.
TWIYpod: ah Yeah, in the 90s we will. In the 90s we will. it was It was not acceptable to to have to have weed have a weed issue back then. it was not acceptable like it is today.
Wop: Facts. and in In a city of the pound. Let's throw that out there. night's
TWIYpod: oh yeah.
Wop: It's hiding. It's being concealed.
TWIYpod: you No, you don't have a pound for personal use. You got a pound to sell it.
Wop: then
TWIYpod: You bought drugs into our community, Damon.
Wop: Yeah.
Wop: Because anything that's hidden will appear that it's, you know, for distribution type deal. Like if it's hidden, it's one thing they walk in and see a couple of joints sitting on the table. Oh, he might just bought you some personal shit. They probably wouldn't get blown out of proportion, but that's a lot of weed to have in Portland in the 90s or early 2000s, whatever. it's It's a lot of weed.
TWIYpod: and look at And look at Oregon today.
Wop: Yeah. We capital.
TWIYpod: <unk> Decriminalized all drugs.
Wop: Yeah.
TWIYpod: All drugs are decriminalized and in in Oregon today.
Wop: Yeah. Yeah.
TWIYpod: You can buy crack out of vending machine Oregon. If that's how that's how you're feeling it, go on and hit E5.
Wop: ah you not
TWIYpod: Get you a B2. that's where That's where they got the Adderall at. So if you need something to bring you back to life. um Yeah, they got caught. Rashid and Damon got caught riding home from the game.
TWIYpod: Car smoked out. They had no weed in the car. So the cops is mad that there's no weed in your car. Because they wanted that fucking they wanted that moment. They they wanted to be able to say we busted NBA players.
TWIYpod: With drugs. And they couldn't do it. So the next day, they go in Damon Stoudemire's crib. And illegally. Oh, yeah, we were just responding because your security alarm was going off. We're checking for your safety. This is a wellness check.
Wop: Yeah.
TWIYpod: And we found weed. While we were looking to see if you were okay, we found weed.
TWIYpod: Mm. Mm.
Wop: etc
TWIYpod: Hey, he... He got one of them Jew lawyers like Levy off the wire. through that Got that shit out there quick.
Wop: Quick. Quick fast in the hurry. How did y'all win without a warrant?
TWIYpod: But I...
TWIYpod: Wellness, we probably caused the security alarm, you know? That don't cut it in court, but they thought it would. But I think a big part of the issue, it's a culture clash.
TWIYpod: So it's trouble, guys. going somewhere where they were loved when they were winning, they were loved. And even when they weren't winning, they were still loved.
TWIYpod: But, It's guys. It's rookie shit. It's guys having a problem with dealing with the media. It's guys having a problem dealing with fans that want fucking autographs at inopportune times.
TWIYpod: So I'm going to react to that. Hey, I'm not in the fucking mood to sign your kid's autograph right now. I'm in the airport and I'm having a bad fucking day. So Shorty says, oh, yeah, Rasheed Wallace wouldn't sign my son's autograph. We balled it up, and and he I threw it at him, and he picked it up and threw it at me and said, ha-ha.
TWIYpod: And they're going to put you on the news for that. Oh, my God, look how athletes are treating fans, hurting the bottom dollar. And now nobody's fucking with you. So he does more articles. He gets more press and says, fuck the fans. I'm not here for the fans. I'm here to hoop, blah, blah, blah.
TWIYpod: So how are fans supposed to react to that? They not supposed to like that. Today, they'll heckle the shit out of you like they did Westbrook and they'll get disrespectful and they'll get booted out the stadium. You understand? Like them niggas in Utah get when they see Westbrook and they start hollering that racist shit.
TWIYpod: Get him out of here. Hey, get him. LeBron don't play that. LeBron will drop 40 right in your face and then ask for you to be escorted out. You did this.
Wop: my
TWIYpod: You the reason why I dropped 40 in Toronto.
Wop: teeth
TWIYpod: In a blue shirt.
TWIYpod: In a blue shirt. So I think i think it's a, I just think it was a bad chemistry project. I think all parties are at fault. I think the GM is at fault. and I think the players are at fault for not acquiescing to the professionalism that it takes to be a professional athlete.
TWIYpod: You got to understand that that takes a certain level of professionalism and you can't have a bad day and not want to sign an autograph. Because niggas ain't going to understand that you're not having a good day. They're just going to be like you're a dick.
Wop: I mean, true. At the same time, though, I think um
Wop: I get you pay your money. I get this. Sit courtside and get the experience to, you know, because I guess, you know, that's part of being a fan, right? You get the cheer, you get the boo.
Wop: You know, that's your right. Now,
Wop: certain things can be just too offensive, bro. Like certain things can be crossing the line. And I, I just feel, i do think sometimes we get carried away. Like, I don't know if everybody is going to keep that same energy when a motherfucker is right up on your ass now. Like,
Wop: Like that's the problem. And that's, I think that's the problem people be having like, cause they humans. Like, like bro, you talking crazy right now. Like crazy.
Wop: Coming from my family, you're just saying anything. Just keep it, keep it on me. Like I can tell you, like, if you want to keep it on me, come on. You suck. Cool.
Wop: But it,
TWIYpod: they a they take too much They take too much in... They think because they bought the ticket that they brought access to you. They think because I bought your jersey, I have access to you and your time, so when I see you, you you kind of owe me an autograph, bro. I'm wearing your jersey.
TWIYpod: Nah, you bought the jersey, not the nigga that wears it. You know what I'm saying? Like... you you You bought access to the stadium, not the nigga that plays inside of it. So I think that that part of fandom is never going to go away.
TWIYpod: Seeing it happen back in the early 2000s with Portland Trailblazers, that all people let you know. It's 10 times worse for Michael Jordans. It's 10 times worse for Kobe and Shaxx or whoever the fuck else because those are bigger players, championships, so it's everywhere.
TWIYpod: These niggas were just getting that mainly at home.
Wop: No, for sure. And they, but again, the way they was moving, that that's not the town, the place to be moving like that. And I don't know, especially around that time, it it just wasn't the place to be moving like that.
Wop: And Shaq obviously he can get away with some of the partying he was doing. He live in La La Land. That's what they do out there. They party, they kick it. You can get away with that. you know
TWIYpod: Niggas want to hide your dirt in different areas. Niggas want to hide your dirt.
Wop: Yeah. But... in Yeah.
TWIYpod: Niggas out in Portland was trying to make careers off of busting you with some weed.
Wop: We caught two NBA players. Got them. You know?
TWIYpod: And their chains and jewelry.
Wop: And that's...
TWIYpod: Yeah.
Wop: it And that's the only professional team in Oregon.
Wop: The only other major, you know what I'm saying, ah sports town...
TWIYpod: Yeah.
Wop: I mean, sports team would be the the Ducks.
Wop: Football, you know?
TWIYpod: yeah and then And then the nigga bought the football team in the middle of the dock. He buys the fucking Seahawks. And then then the then the shit really turns into back burner.
Wop: Are you...
TWIYpod: I'm not really pressed about this shit. Got the GM out of there. Got a new GM. Roscoe's gone. Rasheed's out of here. I felt bad, but then I remembered. Rasheed left Portland and immediately won a ring.
TWIYpod: Don't feel bad for bro.
Wop: He got traded to Atlanta first, and then Atlanta traded him to Detroit.
TWIYpod: Yeah, he was Atlanta for one game, six hours, and then he was in Detroit. he He went right to a championship, and that was exactly what Detroit needed to win that ring. Nat and Tayshaun Prince and a little bit of fucking up from Reggie and them boys, you know, and a whole lot of fucking up from the Lakers because why the fuck is Carl Malone on the Lakers?
Wop: They was chasing it.
TWIYpod: Man, it was chasing the dragon.
Wop: They was chasing but that was
TWIYpod: Who else is over there? Gary Payton was over there.
Wop: it. But that was i was respectable back then to chase like that. Malone, that was his last year in the league. So like he was just trying to get him a ring out the, out the you know.
TWIYpod: Also.
TWIYpod: Jason was acceptable at one point in the NBA.
Wop: It's cool if going to chase it in year 19. He didn't do everything he could do.
Wop: The man done played about 1,000-some motherfucking 1,300, 1,400-some games consecutively. He don't be missing no games for real. The nigga was durable, but, you know, just didn't come up with no ring. But I think that's acceptable because he wasn't going there to be no man, and du to be the man.
Wop: Nobody was going to look at his career like and be like, well, Karl Malone got a ring at the end of the day unless he was prolific. He wasn't going to be prolific. At best, he was going to be solid.
TWIYpod: Carl could have got three rings. We would not talk about those three rings today.
Wop: Why? Oh,
TWIYpod: You know why.
Wop: i
TWIYpod: car carls Carl Malone is the boogeyman. He's the R. Kelly of the NBA.
Wop: my God. I don't. Listen, man.
Wop: I will talk about it because he just was at the motherfucking all-star game. The NBA clearly don't get no fucks. Why would I care?
TWIYpod: Because it was in Utah.
Wop: so So what?
TWIYpod: Anywhere else, you'll never see. That's the last time you're going to see Karl Malone at any NBA function, I promise you.
Wop: It don't matter. He was there. They shouldn't even want to be associated with him. He the boogeyman.
TWIYpod: Nah, he's the boogeyman.
Wop: He's not the boogeyman.
TWIYpod: He's the boogeyman. Hey, chat.
Wop: it's
TWIYpod: Karl Malone's not the boogeyman. Tell me why.
Wop: He's saying, he's saying, how you feel about Michael Jordan here, man? I'm a man. He put his pants on like i put my pants
TWIYpod: you feel about Magic Johnson, Carl Malone?
Wop: on. Silence.
TWIYpod: and he said I don't want to play with that shit.
Wop: Silence.
TWIYpod: he He sounded so ignorant. and I know we didn't have the internet back then, so some of that is passable. But a large part of me feels like Carl Malone still feel like that today with access to the internet.
Wop: Probably do.
TWIYpod: I think he don't have the internet in his little truck on his little farm. he only He don't even know his kid was a fucking all-star in the WNBA. He don't even know Shorty.
Wop: But you know why niggas was saying that because you like at that time, the only way people believe you can catch it was what? Right.
TWIYpod: Breathing the same air as somebody gay?
Wop: they worry
TWIYpod: Yeah. Yeah.
Wop: So like niggas just really did play the home that like I was one of them niggas didn't play that back then G like Karl Malone strike me as a nigga that's just like not on that like really not on that type of time at all.
TWIYpod: Oh, Southern boy.
Wop: Like, like.
TWIYpod: I want y'all to know for the for the folks that are young that just don't understand, HIV and AIDS was like COVID in the 80s. That's how they was treating it.
Wop: Yeah,
TWIYpod: That's how they was treating HIV and AIDS. They was like, yo, pssh. You seen somebody gay? Did you touch the same thing as him? You could have it now.
TWIYpod: Like niggas thought like it just transferred like that. And if they suspected you to be gay, like they was firing niggas at work because they thought they was gay. And hey, yo, none that shit over here, bro.
TWIYpod: We don't want AIDS. i don't want AIDS with my burger, bro. Like the fuck is you talking about? I'm wearing gloves.
Wop: Let me get a cheeseburger. Whole days.
TWIYpod: Hold the age, brother.
Wop: Matter of fact, let me see the manager. Like, damn! You got him over there making my food. I don't appreciate that.
TWIYpod: And speaking of the NBA, Adam Silver, you're a genius, bro.
TWIYpod: You're a genius.
Wop: You be chasing this so hard. What what do do, bro?
TWIYpod: you would You a genius, Adam Silver. That's all I know. I just know he a genius. Is he as good as David Stern? Fuck no. He's not as good as David Stern.
Wop: what white means What are you doing now?
TWIYpod: But it's the play-in, bro.
Wop: don't know.
TWIYpod: How long the play-in been around? Four years?
Wop: Like five.
TWIYpod: Five years? I think the first couple years I was just like, bro, if niggas didn't earn a playoff spot, let's just get this shit over with. And that's usually how it went. it went exactly ah as predicted. Nothing really changed.
TWIYpod: But the last couple years, these ninth seeds, these 10th seeds. Oh, man, WAP, they've been battling. That little motherfucking midseason tournament, niggas are battling in the middle of fucking December on a random Wednesday.
TWIYpod: Adam Silver got to get props for that because how the fuck can the NBA commissioner make you care about NBA when football is still on TV? It's very difficult.
TWIYpod: End season tournament, that's how. How he making you care about the playoffs in the first round ah you ain't even started yet.
TWIYpod: Playing tournament is going to feed families.
Wop: Bro, no.
Wop: That shit was created to keep teams to want to be competitive throughout the season.
TWIYpod: on God.
Wop: Play for something. The problem, though, and
TWIYpod: Anti-thinking.
Wop: it the problem, yeah, it's supposed to be anti-tanking, but we had eight teams lose 50-plus games this year. It's the most in NBA history.
TWIYpod: Never happened before, by the way.
Wop: Yeah, bro. like And then we got the whole 65-game rule exception where you must play 65 games in order to be qualified for league honors and league awards.
TWIYpod: Hitting you niggas in the pocket.
Wop: But
Wop: my whole problem with that is you know you you just can't win because it's like
Wop: create a rule in the standard where basically it's not even clear black and white. You know what I'm saying? It's some catches to that shit.
Wop: They just announced Luke and Kay will qualify for the awards even though they didn't meet the 65 game rule.
TWIYpod: Yeah, I didn't like that. I don't like that. I like it because, i mean, the spirit of the rule is amazing because it's it's to prevent load management.
TWIYpod: i think I think that rule is what gave Popovich a stroke.
TWIYpod: Shout out to Pop.
Wop: You bogus is here. It's true.
TWIYpod: But I think like that rule is crazy because it's going to stop load management. It's going to make motherfuckers play more games, which is going to make that random game and went on a Wednesday in February matter a little bit more because, you know, you can't miss the games.
Wop: But it's really not. If you're seeing in this, if you're seeing Luka be able, he may play 64. He missed the game, not because he was injured, because he wanted to see his daughter.
TWIYpod: Yeah.
Wop: Like, bro, like, what when is it going to stop then? Like, if I...
TWIYpod: But he got more minutes played than Kawhi, who played more than 65 games. He got way more minutes than Kawhi.
Wop: that's That's fine.
TWIYpod: If Luka wasn't number one in so many statistical categories this year, I would say, why are we giving this nigga the exception?
Wop: And then...
TWIYpod: But I think we're giving him the exception because he... I think he's a front runner for MVP.
Wop: He's not finna win it.
TWIYpod: Nah, nah. We know who's going to The bear wrestler is going to win it.
Wop: To who?
TWIYpod: The bear wrestler. Zangief from Denver.
Wop: No, he's not winning.
TWIYpod: ah That young man from Denver is going win this shit again.
Wop: if
TWIYpod: Well,
Wop: Nah, Shea's gonna win it.
TWIYpod: the shit actually might get it. don't know.
Wop: He's going to get
TWIYpod: I think there'll be some, I think there'll be a lot of conversation if he wins it.
Wop: it. It is already there already. He's already answering conversations. Is he better than Steph? Is he better than Kobe? Is he better than like, he's already in these conversations. Like he had an amazing year too.
Wop: think he averaged 32 on like 55% from the field. Some,
TWIYpod: Kobe though.
Wop: Man, gang, he in these type of conversations. And understandably so, though, because I'm of that same mindset, bro. Like, I'm not saying that he is better than those guys in particular.
Wop: But I do think based off what I've seen already, he's in the top 30 conversations for sure right now. For sure. I've seen enough.
TWIYpod: I don't know. I don't know, bro. He's a good, he can hoop.
Wop: What more you need to be
TWIYpod: He has an extremely talented pool of people playing basketball around him.
Wop: to see? Most championship teams do.
TWIYpod: And that's why I don't know if it's really all him.
Wop: It's never really all nobody. Everybody has had help.
TWIYpod: You've seen Kobe play with a nigga named Smush Parker.
Wop: Yeah, but when he won, he had help. That's what i'm saying.
TWIYpod: Pow, that was it.
Wop: Yeah, Powell's a very good player.
TWIYpod: a The best hope he ever had.
Wop: Powell is like a...
TWIYpod: That's the best hope he ever had.
Wop: Yeah, as the man, that's the best number two you can ask for, though. like I'm going to say like for Kobe Bryant. He don't want nobody even remotely on this level as a number two where it's confusing, where it's Kobe really... He wanted to show you, like, I just need some help.
Wop: A solid player, which Powell Gasol was, a very good player, too. Some could argue Powell Gasol deserved to be top 75. He's that good. But at the end of the day, he was never what you would call like what we watching the Lakers in the playoffs. Like, don't know. Is it Powell's team?
Wop: No. Niggas try to do it, though. Like, niggas be nasty nowadays. I promise you. Like, when you talk to some of these niggas, they be, man. And I think D-Wade said that shit.
TWIYpod: um no
Wop: 2010, everybody was thinking, shit, man.
TWIYpod: his His European style of play, his European style of play, his IQ was high. So I could understand why D-Wade makes the comments. I don't agree with him.
TWIYpod: But I will say, Powell is the player that Kobe needed to play with because Powell wasn't trying to be the number one.
Wop: Thanks.
TWIYpod: Powell was the number one to Memphis. He saw how that shit went. Sweep out the first round. Sweep out the first round. Sweep out the first round. The nigga never won a playoff game until he went to LA.
Wop: x
TWIYpod: So that's what number one gets you. You know what? I'm a little bit more humble now. I'm a different. It's only niggas. It's only niggas that want to be. Niggas want to be the king. Niggas want to be the number one. Niggas want to be the big man on the hill.
TWIYpod: And team sports. It's only niggas. It's only niggas that want to be the this the the brightest shining star out the batch on a group project. It's all it's only black people.
Wop: But basketball is, that's just the one sport where you, it's like that. It's just like that. It starts, like, I tell everybody the same thing, bro. It's like, it's levels to this shit, bro. When you, when you start hooping, know what I'm saying? You come to the court.
Wop: It's, let me establish myself amongst these people that's on this court. It's like, it's basketball. Basketball. I was arguing with a guy the other day because he was like, basketball is, you know, at ah at the heart of it, it's one-on-one.
Wop: To some degree, you're right. To some degree. But like playing an actual 1v1 is not basketball. But yes, in basketball, it does, most of the time, come down to me having advantage on the person that's guarding me.
Wop: Am I going to score on him or is he going to stop me? like That's what it does, especially if I'm the best player on this team. My job is to get buckets, more than likely.
Wop: and But that's not all the game consists of, obviously, just the one-on-one matchups. We love it for the, you know what I'm saying, for the content.
TWIYpod: It looks good.
Wop: It's great. It's great basketball.
TWIYpod: Looks good on the highlight reel.
Wop: We love it. The mono-e-mono matchups, we love that shit. But at the end of the day, we understand that it is a team sport. But I think basketball is just that one sport where if I have one of them dudes, like for real, for real, like he one them dudes in the league, and he got a decent cast around him,
Wop: It's like guaranteed we probably finna win this motherfucker. Like, if I have a top three player and he got a good cast around
Wop: we probably finna win.
TWIYpod: It depends on the personalities, and I think that's where OKC did it right because they got a good mix of young guys, hungry guys, foreign dudes, mad foreign dudes. They got that skinny ball out there that I really hate. I still hate him.
Wop: You think? 30-8.
TWIYpod: Man, I hate him. And it it is a different type of hate than what I have for KD because I felt like KD wasn't he wasn't really applying himself to become, to have a pro-athletic build.
TWIYpod: i Today, i just feel like genetically, it ain't in the niggas' genetics.
Wop: yeah think
TWIYpod: I mean, I came to that conclusion some time ago, but like once I came to that conclusion, I'm like, oh shit, this this ain't in that nigga's genetics.
Wop: thirty
TWIYpod: But you see it so much from other places. I saw Stoudemire came out skinny as shit. And first season, that nigga was brolic as a motherfucker. I
Wop: But you can see it in no them no type of players, though, early on. I can see it in Giannis. Like, they don't have what you call squatting shoulders. They had broad shoulders. You can see it. Like, all they did had to really do was start lifting weight, fill out a little bit more.
Wop: With Kevin Durant, I've never seen it. he He looked like he was going to always be slim. He just looked like that coming in. Like, he ain't going never really. what What he is now is what you call grown man strength.
Wop: He got grown man strength now. Being in the league over 17 years, you're going to develop that.
TWIYpod: yeah
Wop: where you just ain't, and Steph got that. Steph got that now. Like, you not finna just bully Steph no more. Steph ain't no other. That shit over with.
TWIYpod: Nah, he had to go through the bad boy treatment, trying to run off them screens, and they was bullying his ass.
Wop: Yeah.
TWIYpod: And Mokko hit the gym.
Wop: Nah. Yeah. And... in
TWIYpod: Shout out to Steph, by the way. The Warriors had a great game last night.
Wop: Oh, yeah. Steph.
TWIYpod: Oh, man. Prize picks.
Wop: Vintage.
TWIYpod: Do you hear me?
Wop: Vintage. Vintage.
TWIYpod: Prize picks. Do you hear me?
Wop: Mm-hmm.
TWIYpod: Do you hear me? Hey, Kawhi Leonard. I want y'all to go revisit a part I did with King. I did this shit. I can't remember when I did it. It's in the early 50s, 60s. I want smoke with Kawhi Leonard.
TWIYpod: I still want your wobble, gang. It's up for you, pussy. First round exit every season since that chip. It looks like play-in exits.
Wop: That's not true.
TWIYpod: No, no. But what is it? Two, three years back-to-back first round exit?
Wop: Yeah, for sure.
TWIYpod: And a play-in exit this year. Kawhi, it's a wrap for you, brother. You've journeymaned your way. Out of the the great talk. Yes, you play some decent defense. Last night, Draymond put a fucking... i thought Draymond had a hot tub time machine.
TWIYpod: The way that Draymond... And I said this shit too early. Draymond kept a nigga from scoring the whole fourth quarter. And then he scored some punk-ass dunk last minute. Didn't didn't matter. But the whole fourth quarter when your team needs you, you didn't score.
TWIYpod: The Clippers look like they missed Paul George and or Harden so much in that fourth quarter.
TWIYpod: Because nobody else could do it. Y'all niggas let Al Horford shoot a 24-footer. Tito's little boy. From around the way, Tito Horford's little boy.
Wop: I'm talking about
Wop: Tito. You're fucking fool.
TWIYpod: Y'all let Tito's little boy hit a 24-foot three-point shot in crunch time. Not on no bullshit. Not on a heat check. Y'all just let him come down the court and do whatever.
TWIYpod: The refs did not cape for Steph last night.
Wop: Nah.
TWIYpod: And I was waiting for it to happen so niggas could invalidate the win. I was waiting for it to happen. And when it didn't happen, I got more amped.
TWIYpod: Now you'd have made my nigga angry. Now you'd have made the fluorescent beige floor general angry. And you don't want to see him when he's angry.
TWIYpod: Now Draymond's angry. Draymond face guarding Kawhi Leonard on the inbound pass. Swash the shit out the way. Wham! Where Pod's at? Right where you need to be.
TWIYpod: White boy Pod's. Maybe he's Jewish. I don't know.
TWIYpod: Classic Warriors game.
Wop: Man, that was a ah great game. watched the whole game. lot of back and forth. Clips clip started out hot. Darius Garland was on fire early.
Wop: Steph started out slow.
Wop: And in my mind, I'm thinking like, know, I'm thinking the Clippers are going to win this game, obviously. It's trending that way, seeming like even though Kawhi is not playing bad, he's not playing good in there. You know, Darius Garland's cooking. I'm like, eh.
Wop: But then I keep seeing like like this vintage Golden State where they just keep clawing at you. They keep staying around. They keeping it close. Y'all go up 13, we cut it to six.
Wop: Y'all go back up 12, we cut it to four. You know what I'm like?
TWIYpod: You go on a run, we go on a run.
Wop: I'm seeing it. I'm like, yeah. don't know. I don't know.
TWIYpod: Walk you down slowly.
Wop: wa Why ain't he heating up yet? I'm just looking like that. I don't know. Damn, Bear's got four fouls. Oh, man.
Wop: I don't know. Oh, then they playing smart basketball. They catch this little fool under the basket guarding big people. oh Let's bully him. What going to Foul somebody? No. Hey, wait.
Wop: Lay up. lay up. Get him. Get him. So it's like, damn. Fourth quarter come.
Wop: This man, Al Horford. Lord Jesus.
TWIYpod: Tito's little boy.
Wop: And that boy Chris Stapps. Chris Stapps was balling too.
TWIYpod: White unicorn.
Wop: Balling.
TWIYpod: i will I like him. I i i hate him less. I'm not going to say I like him. I hate him less.
Wop: He's a perfect type of player for that Warriors offense.
TWIYpod: Yeah. Yeah.
Wop: He's a spacer. And then defensively, he can change shots at the rim.
TWIYpod: i would I would still i would still ah i would like him more if Jimmy was there because I do feel like defensively he's not he not everything I need him to be defensively.
TWIYpod: I feel like Porzingis.
Wop: Who?
Wop: He enough. What you want him to do? He's not Jimmy Butler.
TWIYpod: i feel like I feel like when it's time to lock some shit down, take Porzingis out and bring in Al Horford. But then i lose then I lose a better shooter.
Wop: But you still want him
TWIYpod: So it's like I got to pick my poison. If I want to shut these niggas down in certain places, it's Al and Draymond. if If I want to fucking be able to still score dynamically, maybe Al can, you know, live up to the challenge. But if he can't, you got Porzingis, who still got a little wobble to him. Porzingis still got a little. He showed me a little hesitation, little uh, and went around the nigga, and I was just like, get the fuck out here.
TWIYpod: Where you learn that? I ain't seen him do that since he had the racist haircut when he was with the Knicks. That state trooper high and tight shit.
TWIYpod: Before the case, by the way. Before that case that he caught in Dallas. Yeah, we remember about that case, Porzingis. We didn't forget.
Wop: I just don't I don't know what to say about this i mean I do I'm a straight shooter this was this is nasty for Kawhi's legacy I'm not gonna lie it's nasty
TWIYpod: nasty. ah it's nasty
Wop: it's nasty It's nasty. The l LA experiment is a failure by all means. ah And you can't keep seeing it's coaching and it's, you know, they try the Doc Rivers thing. All right, cool.
Wop: know I'm saying? And we get it. Doc ain't. i would say this. Doc gonna take some the blame for sure. But I'm always going to put the blame on the players.
Wop: Always. Because they're going get all the glory, too. The coaches rarely get the – it's only certain coaches that get glory. And they only get glory because people – they're in these conversations. it's It's coaches like Pat Riley that never really get glory, even though he got multiple rings.
Wop: The two coaches that get the glory is Phil Jackson and Greg Popovich. I think true.
TWIYpod: That's it. Spoh got some glory, but not not with the Heedles. he He got glory for fucking maintaining those personalities during the Heedles era, but he got glory post-Heedles by getting there.
Wop: Yeah, the aftermath.
TWIYpod: Yeah, the pandemic the pandemic run.
Wop: Yeah.
TWIYpod: Then it was like, oh, shit, did y'all know Coach Spoh was a great coach? Yeah, nigga.
Wop: Ben Nutt, though. he was a good He was a great coach, though, in Miami. Even with the heaters, he's just not going to get a credit for because was doing LeBron.
TWIYpod: Because it looks like it looks like it was just automatic.
Wop: He weighed.
TWIYpod: Like, you didn't have to do shit.
Wop: Right.
TWIYpod: Kind of like Steve Kerr in the beginning of, in the height of the Warriors run.
Wop: Exactly.
Wop: Right.
TWIYpod: And when Steve Kerr was down bad for like 45 games and Luke Walton went out there and won, that was that kind of sealed the deal.
Wop: Same shit.
TWIYpod: Because we've seen what Luke did in Sacramento.
Wop: But we we treat, the thing about it, they treat Phil Jackson just, to me, different than they treat all of these guys. Because I can still look at the Greg Popovich Spurs and say that he helped mold that team still from scratch. Like, he may have not drafted David david Robinson, but he damn sure drafted Tim Duncan.
TWIYpod: He drafted everybody else, the supporting cast.
Wop: Yes. Everybody else that you come to love.
TWIYpod: And the next generation, not even just the supporting cast.
Wop: The Monty, the Tony, means yes.
TWIYpod: That's a little disrespectful.
Wop: He's drafted all these players. Phil Jackson
Wop: did not create the triangle. he implemented to try and did not create but
TWIYpod: I was about to say, but he he implemented it He stuck with it. And he moved pieces around so that it worked.
Wop: he didn't even move around what did he move around
TWIYpod: So i he moved around niggas and out the lineup where it was Kerr or BJ Armstrong or... Yeah.
Wop: We call rotational players. Every team has them.
TWIYpod: Yeah.
Wop: He's been a coach like, yeah, let me get this guy a spell. Get in here. Don't get me wrong. He's a master at managing egos for sure because he was a player. So he knows what makes players tick.
Wop: He knows these things.
TWIYpod: It's that Zen Montana shit that does it for Phil with everybody. And that's why Pat Riley don't get that same treatment because his shit is big, flashy, slick back hair, nice suit.
TWIYpod: And Phil is just like, oh yeah, when I was in Montana at the lake at Brokeback Mountain, like he Brokeback Mountain nigga.
Wop: Man, that motherfucking fool, y'all. Because once the ring, once he got to LA, he wasn't on that shit like how he was on the sidelines with the Bulls early years and winning the speech with the mics.
TWIYpod: Nah, he had the big chair. He had the big chair with with the extra padding because he had bad hips.
Wop: Yes, he was talking about it. What?
TWIYpod: He had bad hips. His mama had bad hips too.
Wop: Once he started collecting rings, though, once he got the, after the first repeat, even like the second repeat, the swag, the swag was different.
TWIYpod: Jeannie
Wop: The swag different.
TWIYpod: Buss was changing that nigga diaper too much. She had that nigga legs akimbo. His hips was bad after.
Wop: can't wait.
TWIYpod: You know what I'm saying?
Wop: That motherfucker. Phil used to be. Scottie.
Wop: Michael.
Wop: Like, hey. Rings. LaJourie. Phil, Phil, bro. He just got the mystique, bro, because he got the 11 rings, bro.
TWIYpod: But he got he got a little bit of that stink on him when he went to New York. Even though he was not coaching, he was a GM. When he went to New York and Melo was there, he got a little bit of stink on him.
TWIYpod: And niggas forget about that era because it was over so quick. But you got to add that to a nigga. You got to wear that on your jacket.
Wop: I mean,
TWIYpod: You got to wear that on your jacket, Phil.
Wop: yeah he got to win on that jacket, but it's just a testament to, bro, the triangle just don't work for everybody, bro.
TWIYpod: You had a great lineup with the Knicks. That's
Wop: That's what people will never, you know, realized.
TWIYpod: the fact. Yeah.
Wop: One, like you need players with high IQ. You need a player that can like have some type of low post presence that is a decent passer and can make decent reads.
Wop: Carmelo Anthony, is is not that guy for that. Carmelo Anthony, once he get that thing in the low post, it's go-to-work time. It's try to go get Baha.
Wop: That's just what it is.
TWIYpod: Thank you.
Wop: That's who he's been, and that's that's okay. But you posed it as a coach. What I love about ah Greg Popovich is no Spurs team outside of those like first two or three teams won the same.
Wop: like The ninety man oh o three Spurs, they played a lot of light. And maybe even the o five Spurs to some degree. But the 0-7 and the the other teams, that like it showed the growth and the the willingness to change and adjust what you have to do to remain a good coach and in this era of basketball and and just going forward in basketball, period. You can't be in the men coaching in the 90s and don't think you won't have to evolve your coaching style in the twenty teen s
TWIYpod: And some of the players evolved too. You know, Tony Parker, he got that nigga Tony Parker off a soccer field. So the first couple rings, it wasn't a large contributor because of Tony. Tony just didn't go out there and fuck it up.
TWIYpod: But in the latter part, once Timmy's a little bit older, now it's the Tony and Manu show.
Wop: mixed with the Kawhi Show.
TWIYpod: Mixed with Kawhi versus the the Heedles. And now you're getting a bigger bag because Tim can do less. He got to do less because he old as fuck. And you got Kawhi showing up out of nowhere except for at the free throw line. But you had Tony Parker showing the fuck up against the Mario Chalmers, against the D-Wade. Like, hey, I'm going put you niggas to the test. You forgot I used to play soccer.
TWIYpod: You ain't got no cartilage in your knees, boy.
TWIYpod: I'm doing laps around y'all. And I still don't speak good English.
Wop: teach And I'll speak good.
TWIYpod: But I think, I think, ah yeah, I think those two coaches get the most, get the most love, but it's some, it's some other dudes out there.
Wop: Yeah, but they they get the love again because they did it with one franchise. But then these same people will tell you that's why Jordan one in X, and Z. He had the greatest coach of all time.
Wop: But and and he didn't have a great, you know, GM and this and that. And I and and again, with Jerry Cross, like
Wop: Did he draft some good pieces and bring some good players in? For sure. Not going say he didn't. But he definitely missed a lot. And people don't talk about it. Because why would you talk about it when, the end of day, he's going to be accredited as a GM who won six rings?
TWIYpod: much success. It's too much success to talk about the the the couple niggas that didn't hit.
Wop: Exactly.
TWIYpod: Yeah, course he didn't hit. You know who did hit? Michael Jeffrey. Big hit over there.
Wop: But he didn't draft Jordan.
TWIYpod: Krause?
Wop: No, he got there in 85 the year after Jordan was drafted.
TWIYpod: No. No, he came in
Wop: and in And he could have got Karl Malone that draft, but he hes he passed he passed on Malone and got, I forgot.
TWIYpod: Smart move.
Wop: That's a terrible wo fucking move.
TWIYpod: Smart move. Smart move.
Wop: Starting out the job, terrible move through the devil.
TWIYpod: Smart move.
Wop: rep you could it could ah Could have a ring by around.
TWIYpod: I would have passed on him too.
TWIYpod: i didn't like his little cocky dunk he used to do with his hand behind his head. I didn't like the little cocky shit.
Wop: You know, but it's cool, man.
TWIYpod: Call himself a mailman.
Wop: Like, that's why I say, like, it's hard to talk about people lowlights again, but Pat Riley then won as a coach, as a GM. Multiple rings, right? ah People, like I said, like, Phil Jackson, before he ever coached Jordan, who was he?
Wop: He was a nobody. Like, essentially. Not, like,
TWIYpod: player ring with the jufro
Wop: eat Two of them, ah if I'm not mistaken. but we have to But he also got a ah CBA championship. That's where he was coaching at, in the CBA.
Wop: And the CBA is not the G League. I know people might think it's the G League.
TWIYpod: hmm
Wop: or it it it is It's close, I would say that. it's not it was It probably is the version of the G League back then, like
TWIYpod: at that years that That era's version was the G league
Wop: yeah Yeah, but... Not...
TWIYpod: League. They probably got more talent from there than niggas is getting from the G League today because they're not getting talent from the G League today.
Wop: Not here.
TWIYpod: Not a lot. It's not a lot.
Wop: right it's not It's still, even back then, it was the same ah shit going on. lot of them guys are not making it to the league in the CBA game. like You're in the CBA for a reason. like It's just what it is. You know what saying? But...
TWIYpod: Because you can't go left, Jalen Green.
Wop: right
TWIYpod: Jalen Green, you can't go left, gang.
Wop: So I'm just saying, with his bull down to it, man, Pat Riley, to me, had a a very interesting career. When you think of everywhere he's went, they had success.
Wop: Outside of the Knicks, he's won everywhere. And granted, everybody's to say the same shit. Well, he had great players. and Everybody has great players.
Wop: He's still in one with different cast, different personalities. That's coaching.
Wop: Being able to find players' strengths and do what, you know saying, get them to buy in. Like, that's coaching. I've never seen Phil Jackson do it.
TWIYpod: Pop the goat.
Wop: Never.
TWIYpod: Pop goat.
Wop: um and I say pop the goat.
TWIYpod: Pop the goat.
Wop: Say pop the goat.
TWIYpod: ah Celtics, y'all might be out of here the first round.
Wop: Oh, my God.
TWIYpod: Celtics, y'all might be out of here the first round. Speed, I ah um um'm just got to warn y'all. i really like vja I really like VJ. like VJ, Tyrese Maxey, Paul George off them roids.
TWIYpod: The young boy got appendicitis per usual because the playoffs is around. What the fuck you supposed to do about that? But Celtics, 76ers first round, love it.
TWIYpod: Rockets, Lakers first round, don't quite love it. we We'll see more brawny, way more brawny than what we were originally expecting. um who else? Nuggets, Timberwolves first round, love that.
TWIYpod: and And after outside of that, I'm just waiting for the second round. But the first round is going to be some good prize picks. If you've got some money, put all your money on on on the Timberwolves versus the Nuggets series.
TWIYpod: Overs for everybody, especially especially the Bear wrestler, especially that young boy from Atlanta who doesn't use protection. It's going to be yeah listen i it's gonna be a very good playoff series.
Wop: Yeah.
TWIYpod: And LaMelo Ball, I forgot forgot to even get into LaMelo Ball.
