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If he chips, He Chips
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We open the pod talking about Cam newton and his guest history. First Saucy Santana and now Daphne? That's a strange line up. Dj has to walk back a wild take about that mileage. Can you outlive that stank on you? Who's on your CGI list? Dj and Wop talk about Pam Grier and walk down memory lane. Is the 80's a worthy memory? Dj requests a strange item of nostalgia from Pam. We transition to the Knicks Chip since we haven't podded for some time. We break down the chip run and the celebration. 9Is the Casual impact to a chip more impactful than a fanatic? Is it worth losing your gig? We talk about a young lady that put the 401k at risk for a knicks trash can. We talk about draft day and all the NBA trades that's have been happening.
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Transcript
Building Platforms and Wild Takes
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TWIYpod
a take That's a take that I hate having to retract because I think I built our platform on
00:00:12
Wop
Wild, wild.
00:00:12
TWIYpod
mileage mileage of that yank.
00:00:13
Wop
Yeah, wild ass things for sure.
00:00:17
TWIYpod
I built our platform off of that. Like, hey, that yank got some miles on it. It's all right with me.
00:00:26
TWIYpod
But I'm sitting down in my home very comfortably. Nice house shoes on, comfortable sweats. Couldn't have been more comfortable, man.
Cam Newton's Podcast: Comfort and Skepticism
00:00:36
TWIYpod
If I could have had a butler in this bitch, I might not have been more comfortable.
00:00:40
TWIYpod
I'm watching watching Cam Newton pod on the big screen. This 65 John 4K, beautiful, crispy. And young Daphne was sitting across from Cameron Newton.
00:00:55
TWIYpod
Now, I said I was going to stop watching Cam Newton because I watched him interview Saucy Santana.
00:01:04
TWIYpod
And I was confused for like 42 minutes. I cut it off. I didn't watch the whole joint. But for 42 minutes, I was confused. Like, Cam, is you? Is you bored?
00:01:16
TWIYpod
you you You stuck? You trying to get some ratings, bro? What's going on with Cam? Cam?
00:01:22
Wop
He want to be innovative, I guess. I mean, that's the game, ain't it? Right? Like, it it does appear to people that's stepping outside of their comfort zones or, you know, like,
00:01:41
Wop
you gotta be, I guess, a polarizing in some sense, dare to be different, I guess, and in and all aspects of life, I guess. I don't know I just, I personally didn't fuck with Cam Show because I just think he's just a little too over the top for me, I
Critique of Cam Newton's Show
00:01:59
Wop
guess. Like, he seems a little bit excessive, you know?
00:02:03
Wop
I ain't trying to judge nobody either. Like, like,
00:02:10
Wop
personal problem with the man it's more so like it's just not in my cup of tea i guess like like he it's the way he delivered it's like don't know he'd be high pitched didn shit and then he'd be monotone and the dude
00:02:27
TWIYpod
Oh, he was reaching he was reaching for the stars with that one. He was reaching for the stars with that one. He's sitting there with Saucy Santana. Saucy Santana talking about he liked to go to the projects because they was walking around with no shoes on. They were smoking. They was fucking.
00:02:43
TWIYpod
And he had to break that information to his mama. And I was just sitting there like, huh.
00:02:49
Wop
Hmm.
00:02:50
TWIYpod
Hmm.
Rachel Dolezal's Controversial Past
00:02:52
TWIYpod
we we Who wrote the questions, Cam? Like, whoever wrote Shannon Sharp questions need to go fuck with Cam. Because I knew there was some very good questions Cam could have asked in a respectful manner that would have gave all of us some insight on that situation. But he sat down with Daphne.
00:03:12
TWIYpod
Shorty's on a world tour. Pretty young lady. Pretty young lady. I don't want to i want y'all to get this twisted. That's a pretty young lady.
00:03:26
TWIYpod
And we've seen some of her work. We have. You can't avoid it.
00:03:30
Wop
I can though.
00:03:31
TWIYpod
If you got the internet on your phone, you can't avoid it.
00:03:35
Wop
I can.
00:03:37
TWIYpod
What you mean? So you ain't seen the
Admiration for Pam Grier
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TWIYpod
drum?
00:03:41
Wop
Gang, motherfuckers just showed me quite naturally. I'm not going to this shit. I don't want to see Diddy in the corner like haven't seen him. Like that shit just, it's like, I want to say,
00:03:57
Wop
You know what saying? Like, Diddy shouldn't be in jail and like like, for the shit that he in jail for in my opinion. But then, my nigga.
00:04:09
Wop
When you see Diddy ass in the corner full machismo with the nipples, for like just, oh my God, gang. It's like, brother, you need to be somewhere.
00:04:24
TWIYpod
He deserves it. Hey, whatever they said he did, he did that shit.
00:04:28
Wop
You did that shit, my nigga. You wild as hell. To be gang, for one, to be this famous, knowing that in the world y'all living, this to be different if 90s.
00:04:42
Wop
Technology ain't, social media ain't, you what I mean? Cool.
The Knicks' Celebration and Wild Events
00:04:48
Wop
Diddy gang at 2020, you still filming shit like this gang.
00:04:57
TWIYpod
Yeah, from the bad angle, too. Filming it from the bad angle.
00:05:01
Wop
man
00:05:03
TWIYpod
A not flat a non-flattering angle, Sean.
00:05:07
Wop
You doing drive-bys with the oil,
00:05:12
TWIYpod
You fucking up the rhythm to put more oil on the joint. But I'm not even talking about that work. I'm not even talking about that work. I'm talking about her other work because I have access to the internet and I'm i'm curious. I have an inquisitive mind.
00:05:29
TWIYpod
If I hear something's out there on the internet, I have to go find it. Rachel Dolezal, I seen you too.
00:05:37
TWIYpod
And Rachel Dolezal got asked too.
00:05:37
Wop
Who the fuck is that?
00:05:40
TWIYpod
For a white lady?
00:05:42
Wop
who do fuck that
00:05:43
TWIYpod
You don't remember Rachel Dolezal? She was the white lady who had braids. And she was like the head of some black organization. And everybody found out one day on a humble that shorty wasn't black.
00:06:00
TWIYpod
She was cosplaying black. So as soon as they found out shorty was really white in her real life and she wasn't black, like that was the big deal. Like, oh shit, shorty, not even black.
00:06:14
Wop
you
00:06:14
TWIYpod
Well, times got hard and you know She started OnlyFans because she realized that she had some body. And she realized that niggas was on her body. Niggas was like, I'll smoke her white boots.
00:06:30
TWIYpod
So she put that thing on the internet. And that yank was out there. And
Daphne's Career Choices
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TWIYpod
i may have admit the files may have come across my table. Look at the files.
00:06:42
TWIYpod
They may have come across my table. I don't know. I'm not judging. Shout out to Rachel, though. Come home. The kids miss you. um
00:06:53
TWIYpod
But for Daphne, I'm just looking at the joy. i'm looking at her body of work and I'm just like, you know what? This shit, you went too far into the danger zone, Daphne.
00:07:08
TWIYpod
And doing all these interviews, doing all these podcasts, sitting down in front of everybody with a microphone isn't going to fix this. You got that stink on you that WAP talked about that nobody's going like. Once you got that stink on you, nobody's going like it. And I understand that thought process today.
00:07:29
TWIYpod
Now, when Keisha from on the way got that stink on her, hey, the game is the game.
00:07:29
Wop
Oh.
00:07:36
TWIYpod
But Daphne, you got that stink on you. You are officially off the CGI list.
Pam Grier's Experiences and Nostalgia
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TWIYpod
You off the CGI list. You can no longer get it. You're off the list.
00:07:48
TWIYpod
ah Pam Grier, you still number one on the list. Pam Grier did an article the other day. She like 76 years old. She was talking about having 72 hour orgasm.
00:08:01
TWIYpod
Vibes. Top tier vibes.
00:08:02
Wop
I peeped that. peeped that.
00:08:06
TWIYpod
I need that in my life. That old thing, that that old thing she talking about coming through on Memorial Day weekend, Labor Day weekend, and orgasming from Friday till she leave on Monday.
00:08:19
Wop
I wonder if it stinks.
00:08:21
TWIYpod
I hope it do.
00:08:25
TWIYpod
Like, not stink like bad stink, but like i
Knicks Roster and Dolan's Comments
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TWIYpod
hope it I hope it gives me like a reminiscent vibe. I hope it has like i hope when she i hope her walk-by air smells like the 80s.
00:08:39
TWIYpod
You know what I'm saying? I want that sit-down air to smell like the 80s. I just want to be taken back to a moment when she sit down on the couch, on the leather couch.
00:08:51
Wop
WAP only accounted the 80s for like six months. i know I don't know what you're referring to. I don't want nothing that smelled like the 80s though.
00:09:01
TWIYpod
I want it to just smell like the 80s.
00:09:01
Wop
order
00:09:03
TWIYpod
Pam Greer. If Pam Greer is listening to the pod, I know she's a fan. ah Just send a mason jar of your walk-by air. Send that to the pod. We need that. We're going to open that and do a review on the pod. Your twerk air, your sit-down air, whatever you want.
00:09:21
TWIYpod
Put it in the mason jar. We're going to review it on the pod.
00:09:25
Wop
Pam Gryll was a bad woman, though. Like, definitely, like...
00:09:29
TWIYpod
Fucking Foxy Brown, bro.
00:09:29
Wop
If I was... I was in the 70s, like, yeah. She probably, like... Like...
Pam Grier's Impact and the 1980s
00:09:37
Wop
And that's why I say, like, with social media and and how everything is in society, like, Pam Gryll was, like, must see.
00:09:44
Wop
Like, you know what I'm saying? In the 70s. Like, she, like, the baddest black woman on the planet. Like, no bullshit. And...
00:09:57
Wop
Like to to say you hit Pam Grier, like, you know like what type of nigga you is?
00:10:02
TWIYpod
I'm calling my uncle. I'm rolling over and I'm calling my uncle. Pause if applicable. I'm calling my uncle Robert and I'm letting him know. Yo, you want to know who i I laid? I just laid it down right now, unk. You want know who I laid down right now?
00:10:17
TWIYpod
I laid down Pam. And he going say, what you talking about nephew? What you talking about nephew? You lying. You lying. And I'm FaceTime I'm going be like, smell my finger.
00:10:25
Wop
So,
00:10:28
TWIYpod
Smell my finger, unk. My Uncle Robert would go crazy. That nigga's Jerry Curl would turn into a fucking blowout if he knew I had Pam Grier in that manner.
00:10:33
Wop
Hello, Mike.
00:10:41
TWIYpod
Disrespectfully, of course.
00:10:45
TWIYpod
It's been a while since we recorded. We had to take a hiatus. I ain't going front, though. I'm not going front. We might be the best pod out because we predicted exactly how the finals would go.
00:11:01
TWIYpod
WAP, WAP the Prophet, talked about the Knicks being the most expensive starting five. We
NBA Free Agency and Team Strategies
00:11:09
TWIYpod
know them niggas ain't going to be assembling. Dolan came out before and during the fucking parade, which is fire, by the way. A lot of niggas was mad at this. I loved it.
00:11:23
TWIYpod
Coming out during the parade just to say, ah yo, I'm not hitting that second apron. Hey, hey, we're having a great time today.
00:11:34
TWIYpod
I want y'all to remember this moment. Embrace this moment. Rejoice, ladies and gentlemen.
00:11:44
TWIYpod
But I'm not finna hit that second apron, all right? Just in case y'all was wondering. Look at all these young men on the stage right now, on the float. Look at all these young men on the float right now.
00:11:57
TWIYpod
You might not never see them in a Knicks jersey ever again.
00:12:04
TWIYpod
Mitchell Robinson, learn how to speak Chinese, brother.
00:12:11
TWIYpod
Get a bulletproof vest. You're going to Chicago.
00:12:17
TWIYpod
He's got a bull written all over him. He's got bulls written all over him.
00:12:26
TWIYpod
Who else can go?
00:12:28
Wop
I don't... Mitchell Robinson ain't really, like, a major part of their core, though. That's the thing. Like, so... Like, their core is their core. They're starting five. Brunson, Bridges.
00:12:39
Wop
People that's been on the the world. They've been on their little world tour, too. You know what saying? They're starting five. And rightfully lis so. Because, again... Like I said, I'm holding motherfuckers accountable.
00:12:52
Wop
Y'all making this kind of money. Y'all put this team together for a reason. And and if it was even if it was just to beat the Celtics, right? Well, they were the defending champions when y'all put this team together. So, y'all was planning on beating the team that, by all means, barring the injury,
00:13:13
Wop
think he was going potentially repeat. I think if the Celtics was healthy last year and showed up to the and NBA finals against the OKC Thunder, they would want. Because they're just a a little bit better than them. Just like I think the Knicks as a collective is a little bit better than Thunder.
00:13:32
Wop
As they are currently.
00:13:41
Wop
Yeah, I mean... I just don't see the Knicks making no real serious moves either because typically teams that won the title have not made drastic moves.
00:13:54
Wop
But in the East, it really because you won.
00:13:55
TWIYpod
And it's hard to.
00:13:59
Wop
Why would you change? You know, least give this team a chance to run it back. Maybe you add role players, know what saying, like off the bench players because they still do need that. I think they do need to address somebody Jordan Clarkson just ain't it right now.
00:14:15
TWIYpod
Go get D. Vincenzo back. Go get D.
00:14:18
Wop
I don't.
00:14:19
TWIYpod
Vincenzo back from Minnesota if you can.
00:14:22
Wop
I don't.
00:14:22
TWIYpod
i think I think he's the missing piece for their future. he's he's a good He'll be a good bench guy. He's also a good tandem guy just in case Bridges is having an off night. You can put him at the two or you can put Jalen at the two and put him at the one. i like that little tandem.
00:14:42
TWIYpod
And it also brings the Villanova boys back. ah But Jalen's not taking another pay cut. And we know this. We know Jalen's not taking another pay cut. So that's why this team, as assembled, isn't going to be the same.
00:14:59
TWIYpod
Cat.
00:15:03
Wop
Big cat in the
00:15:06
TWIYpod
Cat gone, bro. You gone, brother. Sorry.
00:15:13
TWIYpod
Dolan ain't sorry and I ain't sorry. You're gone, brother. They're going to swap you out for fucking Zack Eady. They're going to trade you to fucking Memphis for Zack Eady or some shit.
00:15:24
Wop
house. can't see them doing it
00:15:26
TWIYpod
He's out of here. He's out of here. He's paid. He's paid too much. You can't get rid of OG. He does a lot of shit that you can't find another NBA players. And they didn't break the bank with OG, but Cat is going to break the bank.
00:15:41
TWIYpod
So you got to get rid of Cat and find several niggas to replace Cat. Motherfuckers getting carried away at the parade.
00:15:52
TWIYpod
I enjoyed watching the parade. i love when the small market teams don't win. Because I remember that OKC parade. It was sad, bro.
00:16:04
TWIYpod
It was sad. It was real sad. That Milwaukee parade was sad.
00:16:13
Wop
What you mean you're sad, bro?
00:16:16
TWIYpod
It was just sad. Like when these small market teams win a championship, it just be, it's a lot of lights and and fucking special effects, but it's no, it's no hard in it.
00:16:32
TWIYpod
When Boston won, what they had, a million people out there in Boston? And you know how Boston give it up. Little racist, little fanatic. Like, you know how Boston give it up. I felt the love when Boston won the chip.
00:16:46
TWIYpod
When the Warriors won, I felt the love. When the Lakers won, it was a big deal. When these small market teams win, it's just like, damn, that's the best y'all could do.
00:17:01
TWIYpod
It just feels disappointing. It feels like a letdown. And that's why some of those championships feel like they really came and went. Because they from small market teams. So it just feel like it came and went. But the New York joint, they showed out.
00:17:17
TWIYpod
I see Shorty twerking on the fucking traffic light. She was twerking on the traffic light. And some white girl wouldn't let her get down off the track of traffic light.
00:17:28
TWIYpod
So she threw the white girl off the traffic light. Wham! She threw her off the joint. Then she started twerking. And the white girl came through, pulled her pants down. All you seen was an orange thong.
00:17:41
TWIYpod
And the white girl punching her shit. so She gets down. Ass out. And she beat the white lady up. That felt really good to see.
00:17:52
TWIYpod
That's the shit that I want to see at a celebration event. Because just like a cookout. A cookout at a or a function at the crib or at the park. It don't start until somebody has an altercation.
00:18:07
TWIYpod
We need that. There was a Latin young lady. who took one of the trash cans, one of those New York themed trash cans, blue and orange.
00:18:18
TWIYpod
She took it. She dumped all the trash out on the sidewalk. but i had And then she walked off. This is a big girl too. And I was like, why would you do that? Why would you steal a trash can? Well, news came out yesterday, day before.
00:18:33
TWIYpod
Shorty was a exec with JP Morgan Chase. And they cut her loose. They fired her. The same JPMorgan Chase that had the Coke boat said, we can't have an employee here that's still in trash cans.
00:18:52
TWIYpod
And they had the Coke boat. The one from The Wire that Mundopolis was trying to get the Coke off of. You feel me?
00:19:03
TWIYpod
Crazy times we living in.
00:19:03
Wop
No.
00:19:04
TWIYpod
it
00:19:06
Wop
Man, look. The Knicks fan base is just crazy. They whooped on them Spurs fans like they did, bro. That shit was like part part of you in seeing that, ain't going lie, it's like it just show you, and I ain't going to say I didn't want the Knicks to win because I don't have no dog in the fight, but it just show you how casual people are when it comes to sports.
00:19:33
Wop
Like, in my opinion, people would call that passion. I call that casual. Why are you... Go whoop Carl Anthony Towns' ass for losing. Why are y'all mad at these people for being a fan of a team like you're a fan of a team?
00:19:49
Wop
Like, that's too too much for me. That's what I hate about sports. That's the one thing I hate about sports, the fanatics. Or the casuals. People who just
00:19:58
TWIYpod
But you it you need the fanatics, Rob.
00:20:02
Wop
I mean, the players do. I don't need them. The players do because they still spend money and buy merchandise. That's how they get the contracts, and we get it.
00:20:13
Wop
I get the the players need that. The teams, the owners, they need that. I don't need that. WAP don't need that. WAP don't need to have a conversation with a fanatic because a fanatic is super biased. The fanatic don't have no logic behind her. The fanatic is just...
00:20:30
Wop
a tear you I I would rather have, i would rather have Mikael Bridges than Giannis. He just won a ring with us. They'll tell you some casual shit like that. Giannis, they heard you, so you'll take the worst player.
00:20:48
Wop
Okay, cool. People say shit like that when they're overpassionate about their team. I hear what Chicago Bulls fans all the time. You know who's a bad boy?
00:20:59
Wop
with Randy Brown. Randy Brown was a bad boy. The nigga that bonded things. It's, it's,
00:21:10
TWIYpod
yeah I never heard nobody. But I can imagine the shit talk. Niggas is hype over Randy Brown. They buying brown jerseys. Getting crazy.
00:21:20
Wop
is is
00:21:20
TWIYpod
It's all year. It's all year. All the same niggas that had the Kobe White jerseys.
00:21:26
Wop
It's the casuals for me, bro. Like, I i get it. Like, most of the time, again, when you're talking to people, they're a fan of their hometown teams, right? Passionate. But I think that's a casual conversation that most people that live in in one city typically have.
00:21:43
Wop
How about them bears? How about them bulls? Like, you in Chicago, it's just a casual conversation. Then you talk to a motherfucker, you find out they don't really know what they're talking about.
00:21:54
Wop
Like real, real, talking about two questions in, you find out a motherfucker don't know what they talk
00:21:59
TWIYpod
It's just proximity. It's on TV the most. So you know the bare minimum because you can't run away from this shit. I can't run away from the fucking Redskins. I can't run away from the Redskins.
00:22:11
TWIYpod
Being in Virginia, I cannot run away from the Redskins.
00:22:15
Wop
Okay.
00:22:16
TWIYpod
right. And they love them out here. They still got the old logo out here. They didn't even transition. They're in disbelief.
00:22:27
TWIYpod
They don't call them the the the the Washington Generals, whatever the fuck their name is. They don't call them that. They call them the Redskins today. And it and it's no, ah oops, I'm sorry.
00:22:40
TWIYpod
I'm sorry. don're not the turn They're not the Redskins anymore. No, they're still the the Redskins to these folks, proudly. They got the old starter jackets.
00:22:52
TWIYpod
Which is tough because I don't know how you kept that starter jacket in a good condition and you've been wearing it every day for 20 some odd years. But shout out to you.
00:23:03
TWIYpod
The people that be wearing the Redskins jackets out here.
00:23:06
Wop
I do be seeing them off of the room to start. You ready to tweet them?
00:23:09
TWIYpod
Them starters is tough. Them starters is die hard. I'm mad at myself. don't know what I did with mine. I had the heat too. i had the heat joints. Um...
00:23:20
TWIYpod
The first year that the Jaguars and the Panthers was an expansion teams, my people's got a deal. So we was Panther and Jaguar down.
00:23:33
TWIYpod
All starter material. I had like three different starter jackets for each team. That's how swaggy I was. But them shits was cheap because there was an expansion team. So I was like, $20. We just want somebody wearing this shit.
00:23:53
TWIYpod
But yeah, ah you know, don't lose your job over a little celebration.
00:23:53
Wop
Thank you.
00:23:58
TWIYpod
New York had a time, Juneteenth weekend. It was ah it was a vibe out there. i just know it. I wish I could have been there this weekend. ah Reasonable Doubt 30th anniversary. Hov is doing a pop-up free concert right now as we speak.
00:24:14
TWIYpod
He did release the vinyl cassette 30 Rockefeller edition ah whatever he want to call it, $1,500. It comes in a little milk crate, and it's all the vinyls, all the whole vinyls and cassettes for $1,500. So if you got that bread, I'm going to get you one.
00:24:41
TWIYpod
You can get all the Hose vinyls and his cassettes for $1,500 and a collector's milk crate. And I'll put it right next to my Nas collection and my Spitta collection and box set.
00:24:56
TWIYpod
We'll air it on the pod when the shit gets delivered because, you know, that's me. ah The draft happened last night.
00:25:07
TWIYpod
I was excited watching the draft because i don't think the prospects are that good. Now, I don't think this is the Anthony Bennett draft. I don't think this is that draft. It's not that bad, but I don't think it's that great either.
00:25:23
TWIYpod
And a key sign that it's not that great of a draft, um all the OKC fans or fake fans or whatever, are cheering when OKC draft a young ball from Michigan.
00:25:40
TWIYpod
We got a Wimby stopper. We got a Wimby stopper. and I'm watching Sun Highlight Reels. This ain't nothing but an athletic Zach Eadie from Connecticut. That's all that is. Or whatever the fuck Zach was from. I think he was from Connecticut.
00:26:01
Wop
Nah, he was on one Connecticut. was, uh, damn, what's the name that team?
00:26:05
TWIYpod
It was one of them teams.
00:26:08
Wop
Fuck. But now, uh, you're tripping, um, per usual. Um,
00:26:15
TWIYpod
I don't think he'll win B-stopper.
00:26:18
Wop
it ain't even that. The draft was solid, bro. Draft was solid.
00:26:23
TWIYpod
The Warriors pick was solid. Warriors first round pick was good. I think he's going to be a great replacement for Jimmy. Once we get Jimmy off the books, I think he'll be great.
00:26:35
TWIYpod
good Good player, athletic, nice athletic. Can go above the rim if he need to. Can shoot if he need to. And he got a little bit of defense. ah He's just going to need some time.
00:26:46
TWIYpod
ah The rest of the draft, I like i like who the Bulls got. Everybody else,
00:26:56
TWIYpod
not not too excited over who the Clippers got because They about to give Kawhi away for a ham sandwich. is they they Matter of fact, they said that shit in all the trade rumors.
00:27:07
TWIYpod
As soon as he's cleared from the NBA investigation, these teams are interested in Kawhi Leonard.
00:27:16
Wop
But we know that though, because that's Kawato. Like, I got mean, the Clippers, and to be fair, I say it's a list thing on his career for sure. This this Clipper experiment was a failure, by all means.
00:27:39
Wop
It was failure.
00:27:40
TWIYpod
Yeah, duh. We knew that every Clipper experiment is a fail.
00:27:46
TWIYpod
Every single one of them. with the ah with the exception With the exception of Lob City.
00:27:54
Wop
That was a definite failure.
00:27:56
TWIYpod
I think Lob City failed because of the Donald Sterling drama that one season. that That last Donald Sterling season, I think they failed because of him.
00:28:08
TWIYpod
I think that was their best shot at it. They had hitters. They had Barnes. They had JJ. They had DeAndre. They had Blake. They had CP. I believe CP was healthy.
00:28:24
TWIYpod
But I think that Donald Sterling shit just took them out their game and they wasn't in the best position to win. And they went up against a buzzsaw called the Golden State Warriors.
00:28:35
TWIYpod
So that don't help either.
00:28:40
TWIYpod
And I think Golden State won that year.
00:28:44
Wop
It ain't about that, though. this You might be right still. I give you that. far as the Clippers was more poised, the Kawhi Clippers, in my opinion, to win than the Clippers with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.
00:29:02
Wop
I think for me, this is why I'm harsh on Paul George in a sense of Even though I will tell you personally, i do think he's better than Carmelo Anthony.
00:29:17
Wop
Fuck, you look at like that, though.
00:29:20
TWIYpod
Paul George?
00:29:22
Wop
Yeah, better.
00:29:25
TWIYpod
A better team player?
00:29:29
TWIYpod
i know you're not saying a better one-on-one.
00:29:32
Wop
Yeah, I see you on the wind.
00:29:33
TWIYpod
Go get me a bucket. Go get me a bucket. You going to pick Paul George over Melo?
00:29:39
Wop
No, I'm going to pick Melo for the go-get-me-a-bucket situation because, yes yes, Melo is better than Carmelo. I mean, Melo is better than Paul George in certain aspects of the game, for sure.
00:29:54
TWIYpod
Melo's a three-level scorer. I just don't see Paul being a consistent three-level scorer.
00:30:02
Wop
Kyrie Irving is a three-level scorer, and he's not better than Russell Westbrook.
00:30:17
TWIYpod
He's still got time, though.
00:30:18
Wop
To do what? To do what?
00:30:20
TWIYpod
He's still got time.
00:30:23
Wop
To do what? He can win another ring as a number two. That shit ain't going to make him better than Russell Westbrook. Because he's going to have to be a number two to a very great player.
00:30:32
TWIYpod
He already was.
00:30:33
Wop
Yeah, but he had to do it again for me to even like remotely consider it. And then at this stage in his career, he's not as good as he was when he was that prolific number two. So, no.
00:30:44
TWIYpod
Damn, WAP got the hot takes tonight. Y'all see this shit? WAP said...
00:30:48
Wop
I think Kyrie Irving is not a top 10 point guard ever. There's no disrespect to Kyrie Irving by saying that. He is a great player though. He's absolutely a great player. He just get put in conversations that he should not be in. Just like Carmelo Anthony at times can get put in conversations he should not be in.
00:31:05
Wop
And I'm not saying Paul George is just flat out better than Melo. I'm just saying he's slightly better than Carmelo Anthony due to largely the defensive gap. Like it's not even a question. He's a much better defender than Carmelo.
00:31:16
Wop
Like, clears him as a defender.
00:31:21
TWIYpod
I don't know, man. i've One thing I've stopped holding against players is defense.
00:31:28
Wop
No, I don't
00:31:29
TWIYpod
One thing now, you can't be a turnstile like Luka, like James Harden. You can't be that bad at defense. But I really stopped holding defense against some of these niggas because I don't think it's a part of the game overall.
00:31:47
Wop
Okay. hate that sound.
00:31:49
TWIYpod
I don't think it's a part of I don't think anybody is sitting down and saying, yo we need a defensive we need a defensive player. we need We need to have a defensive mindset as a team.
00:32:01
TWIYpod
i don't think any coach is sitting down and doing that. So I can't hold that against players for not being defensive in their skill set no more. I just can't.
00:32:13
Wop
Huh?
00:32:14
TWIYpod
It's crazy.
00:32:15
Wop
There's plenty of teams that still play great team defense.
00:32:19
TWIYpod
Who? All
00:32:21
Wop
The Minnesota Timberwolves, for one, they play extraordinary.
00:32:23
TWIYpod
right.
00:32:26
Wop
The San Antonio Spurs play great team defense. The
00:32:30
TWIYpod
We're going drive you to the nigga. We're going to drive you to his side. He's going play help defense.
00:32:36
Wop
The Fine Castle is one of the best perimeter defenders in the league.
00:32:42
TWIYpod
And if you get past him, we got seven six French Bowl, the Eiffel Tower.
00:32:46
Wop
That's still team defense. It does not matter. You're just fortunate to have that every team does not have a great perimeter defender and a great post defender.
00:32:57
Wop
They don't. So defense, what you're trying to say to me is defense is much harder to play today because everything's so ticky tacky. um All the rules favor the offensive players, but all in mind.
00:33:09
TWIYpod
And you got niggas that's running down the lane, throwing their head back like this before they even catch contact. You got actors. You got a nigga in Oklahoma that's Meryl Streep with the basketball.
00:33:23
Wop
No, you don't. I ain't saying
00:33:27
TWIYpod
that
00:33:27
Wop
you absolutely right. it's a lot of flopping going on for sure in this, this era, but it is still to me, bro. Like when they, when they all boils down to the defense is still much part of the game.
00:33:42
Wop
Typically.
00:33:47
Wop
when we're talking about like team concepts, no coaches is not sitting here telling guys to not be accountable on defense. Like of course you coming up with your offensive schemes because yes, and that's still historically, most players are offensively, uh,
00:34:10
Wop
Pursuit, right? Like they want to be good offensive players, of course. So that's just history.
00:34:19
Wop
But when I look at, again, when I when i look at like Carmelo Anthony, like I've seen times where he would be engaged in defense because most of the time defense is just effort.
00:34:34
Wop
It's commitment to, I want to shut you down, right? I want to I'm locked in on my guy. And that's just like the bare minimums, right, for defense. I'm locked in on whoever I'm guarding.
00:34:50
Wop
Now, it's levels to the defense. What typically makes the other defenders a little bit better than the guys that just lock in is obviously ability, right? and And then it will be IQ.
00:35:04
Wop
where now you know set. You see what these the guys are trying to do. And you might have been watching film and you might have seen like, they usually get a backdoor every time on this play when they run this set.
00:35:20
Wop
Like it's just always somebody just over commit to the whatever. Good defenders peep up on that. they They know that and they, like a LeBron. That's what made LeBron an exceptional roamer Because he knew what people were going to do.
00:35:38
Wop
And he would manipulate you and let you think he don't know what the fuck going on. But in reality, he calling out your whole play. He blowing it up on the spot. That's the difference between a Carmelo Anthony because Carmelo truly only cares about scoring 30.
00:35:56
Wop
And too many of his teammates have said that about him. Like, that's just, you know, Melo want to get that 30 ball.
00:36:05
Wop
that's That's not a bad mistake.
00:36:06
TWIYpod
And some rebounds. And he want to get some rebounds. He wants your rebounds, a matter of fact.
00:36:11
Wop
He wasn't a great rebounder to me, though. He was a good rebounder.
00:36:14
TWIYpod
Fuck out the air. He gets your rebound. Yo, the
00:36:17
Wop
He was an animated rebounder, but I wouldn't call him a good rebounder. He was just very animated and, you know?
00:36:26
TWIYpod
Nah, I was watching the joint. I was watching the joints yesterday because had to go back in the way back machine. My man Lovelace challenged me.
00:36:35
TWIYpod
He said that, ah what did he say? He said that Shaq won that Miami ring off of D-Wade's back.
00:36:46
Wop
Indeed. We
00:36:48
TWIYpod
And that I didn't agree with that.
00:36:51
Wop
know
00:36:52
TWIYpod
I didn't agree with that. I felt like it was very much... Peanut butter jelly. I felt like it was very much a tandem. I felt like Wade couldn't have done the shit that he was doing if niggas didn't have to pay attention to Shaq.
00:37:08
TWIYpod
Yes, Wade scored out his mind. Yes. But he passed a lot less in the finals. Passed a lot less. His assists went from like six something to three something.
00:37:21
TWIYpod
So he passed a lot less and he scored seven points more average. as a result but a lot of that is because niggas was bringing one and two defenders to shaq and shaq wasn't hogging the paint he was getting close to the paint but making sure that he was boxing niggers out so that way he could come down the lane and do the little what
00:37:49
TWIYpod
The shit don't happen without both pieces. I'm not saying Wade wasn't fucking ascending, but I'm also saying Shaq wasn't just out there.
00:38:00
TWIYpod
Shaq wasn't Udonis Haslam. That shit don't happen without Shaq.
00:38:06
Wop
Hmm. Okay. You know what killed niggas, right? This would kill me.
00:38:15
Wop
Out of every NBA player, we, like, we'll use context for for a lot of these players, depending on, unless it's like Will Chamberlain, anybody pre-merging.
00:38:27
Wop
But like everybody that's after pre-merging, we use a lot of context, right? Niggas be like, oh man, such and such, woo woo woo.
00:38:39
Wop
And one thing I know, it seems like this nigga Shat had all the all-time greats. Maybe not only him though, but definitely him though, for the most part.
00:38:52
Wop
Definitely him. He's the one player, because he was so dominant, that scathed away from these narratives. Like,
00:39:05
Wop
He can average 14 points in the fucking NBA finals and win. And people like you are saying, and say, well, you know, he was clogging the paint and he is still like he was done, even though a nigga averaged 22 more points than him.
00:39:23
Wop
But they would say when he did that at his apex, when a young Kobe Bryant Turned an ankle. Missed the game. Fucked up his averages.
00:39:36
Wop
Oh, you know. Hey, listen. Who cares about Kobe's context, you know? He averaged more points, though, than Shaq. But who cares? A young Kobe.
00:39:49
Wop
But polished veteran Shaq. Oh, he got four rings!
00:39:57
Wop
Why nobody say this nigga got carried, though? Like they say Kobe got carried.
00:40:02
TWIYpod
I never said Kobe got carried, though.
00:40:04
Wop
Oh, they see it though. You know they see it
00:40:05
TWIYpod
and I don't believe that Kobe got carried either because I think that three-peat, they needed both parts.
00:40:15
Wop
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:40:20
TWIYpod
Shaq can't get busy if Kobe ain't what Kobe was at that moment in his career. High-impact balling Kobe was a different Kobe.
00:40:32
TWIYpod
That's not the Kobe that played Boston in the championship. High-impact Kobe didn't play Boston in the championship. A smarter Kobe played Boston in the championship, and he played with his best tandem partner, Powell.
00:40:49
TWIYpod
That was his best tandem partner. I don't care if him and Shaq won 100 rings together. The best player that Kobe ever played with was Powell. Sorry.
00:41:00
TWIYpod
Sorry to break that news to y'all here on the pod. I think we've so i think I might have shared this with y'all before, but Kobe's best running mate and his best partner has always been Powell.
00:41:13
TWIYpod
And it will always be Powell.
00:41:15
Wop
Elaborate.
00:41:17
TWIYpod
Powell is the, and I'm not going to, this is going sound weird, but Powell is the big man equal to Kobe.
00:41:27
TWIYpod
He wasn't that when he got there, but he understood. he didn't have the ego. It wasn't about, this is my show, little fella. and and And when I'm done with it, it'll be your show. It wasn't that bullshit tug of war shit.
00:41:41
TWIYpod
Powell understood how Kobe played hoop. And he played similarly with the Spain team or whatever the fuck. So that wasn't a big adjustment for him. Powell could handle the rock. He could pass. He had vision. And he could shoot. And he was smart.
00:41:58
TWIYpod
He would make the smart basketball play. And Shaq didn't do that. Shaq made the Shaq basketball player because I got to go out there and kill these niggas because I told my father, George, who's sitting in there.
00:42:06
Wop
Thank you.
00:42:10
TWIYpod
i told the sergeant, George, that I was going to do this and I had to do it. He was pressured. Shaq was pressured and he did shit and he played outside of the the system or the game because he needed that for him. He needed that ego stroke.
00:42:27
TWIYpod
Powell didn't do that. Powell played hoop. He went out there and said, we're going to play winning fucking basketball. Shaq said, I'm going to be the reason why we're winning. Those are two different styles of hoop.
00:42:43
TWIYpod
I know you want to big up Shaq right now, but you can't. You can't.
00:42:49
Wop
it's hard to when I was just kind of like bagging the nigga but like when you're just blatantly saying the shit you're saying um yeah like what the fuck are you talking about right now like no Pau Gasol wish he could be the player that Shaquille was bro like that
00:43:11
Wop
don't get
00:43:11
TWIYpod
His dominance was different. His dominance was not a physical dominance. It was a brain dominance. He out IQed other teams.
00:43:18
Wop
Kobe just
00:43:20
TWIYpod
And him and Kobe fucking outplayed other teams and outcoached other teams. That was him and Kobe's bag. Shaq outdominated everybody because you don't have a nigga that can do what I can do.
00:43:34
TWIYpod
That's my size. That's not going to get in foul trouble.
00:43:38
Wop
koby ju
00:43:38
TWIYpod
Powell just did it with a different muscle.
00:43:41
Wop
Kobe was just more determined at that time than any player in the league to win another ring. So like part of that is what it is. no he did not carry Pau Gasol.
00:43:52
Wop
But the thing about it is what what I'm trying to get you to understand is like, You can say that Pau Gasol is a more complimentary player to a Kobe Bryant because especially if Kobe Bryant wants to be the alpha, wants to be the A guy on the team, Pau Gasol is a guy that's more willing to relinquish that to Kobe.
00:44:12
Wop
and play his role versus the Shaq. Cause we seen how that went. Shaq did not want to play second fiddle to Kobe. Shaq publicly said things like, see what happens when they don't get a big dog. You know, they lose a game and feed me enough. He, he's saying these things and Kobe, not to say that Kobe wasn't saying shit either. Of course, Kobe was saying shit, but no, like far as the,
00:44:37
Wop
the ego thing, like, yeah, that's that that just goes into to say, like, if if Shaq was so important to the Heat, and I'm not saying that he wasn't. I'm not saying that he wasn't still very, very valuable because he clearly was arguably the best center in the league still.
00:44:55
Wop
But what I'm saying is that you can do that for D-Wade, why couldn't you do it with Kobe? Why couldn't you just bow down to Kobe? Like, yeah, this young girl is sending. You said it multiple times. Yeah.
00:45:07
Wop
Kobe, what's up, Mr. Dominant, the most dominant? What's up, best player in the world? All type of dick riding shit these motherfuckers are doing. Shaq basically acknowledging that Kobe is the best player in the world. Now, some would be like, well, you were just trying to look out for his homie.
00:45:25
Wop
He didn't have to. He could just said he's the best player in the world. And Nobody would have been like, oh, Shaq, why are you saying he's the best player in the world in 2002? Nobody would have said nothing.
00:45:38
Wop
You're saying Kobe Bryant's the best player in the world in 2002.
00:45:45
TWIYpod
I think he needed to be traded to have the fucking understanding for that, though. I think that trade was what was needed because he says it today.
00:45:56
TWIYpod
When I got to Miami, I didn't want to make the same mistake I made in L.A. And I told Dwayne, this is his team, and I'm just here to help. Like, he says that shit all the time because he knew that how he was carrying that shit in l a was a mistake.
00:46:11
TWIYpod
But I think that takes maturity. I think that takes time, and I think that takes circumstance, like being fucking traded.
00:46:16
Wop
Why did he do it the first interview in Miami? ni hot what what What experience? What maturity? That was literally realizing that l LA valued Kobe more than you at that time.
00:46:30
Wop
That's all that was. They told Joe as they're not giving you that max. We're going give it to Kobe. That's what they told. One of y'all got to get this super max. It's not you.
00:46:42
Wop
You're 32 years old with bad feet. You're not getting it. Sorry.
00:46:46
TWIYpod
All kinds of injuries. Lingering injuries.
00:46:49
Wop
It's over with you. It's over with you.
00:46:51
TWIYpod
It's ugly.
00:46:52
Wop
And it's fucked.
00:46:52
TWIYpod
umm i I miss... I miss... um I low-key miss the contract wars. Because now I don't feel like it's a contract war. Now I just feel like... I feel like contracts is like jail. You just get time served and you get blessed. Austin Reeves.
00:47:16
TWIYpod
Crazy contract. Why they pay that man? Because Luka like him.
00:47:25
TWIYpod
Because Luka Doncic likes you. You got paid.
00:47:31
TWIYpod
We thinking about life post LeBron. And it's life with Luka and Austin Reeves. The young boy don't show up when it matters.
00:47:46
TWIYpod
Why pay him that much money? You could have shaved a little bit off the top. I wouldn't even have been mad if they shaved a little bit off the top. Take 20 off the deal.
00:47:58
TWIYpod
He earned that like a motherfucker. 20 or 30. Take it off the deal. He earned that like a motherfucker. Austin Reeves getting paid how much for five years? What?
00:48:10
Wop
180 yeah
00:48:12
TWIYpod
Five for 180 for Austin Reeves.
00:48:18
TWIYpod
Not even a third option. Not even a third option. We paying fourth and fifth options. A buck 80 for five years.
00:48:34
Wop
the team he could be i wouldn't i wouldn't I wouldn't necessarily want him as a two option. I would want him more as a three just based off of a
00:48:51
Wop
the defense part of it. like He's so atrocious defensively. And it seems to, like historically, players that got attacked defensively, offense tends to kind of fall off.
00:49:06
Wop
not Not all of them, but guys like this, like, yeah. Like, where we scheming, scheming against you. Like, you would have to be so, like, Austin Reeves would have to be so talented to the point where a team decides they want to build around him and then hide him like they would try to hide a Luka Doncic or Stephen Curry.
00:49:26
Wop
You would have to be the face of the team for them to hide you. The way the teams that he's on, you cannot get hidden, like, under no...
00:49:34
TWIYpod
i don't I don't even want to. You're saying that he gets hidden and he gets attacked. It's not that simple, bro. I want y'all to go back and watch some of these key games for the Lakers.
00:49:47
TWIYpod
They was calling multiple pick and rolls so that they could get matched up against Austin Reeves and then do whatever they want. I seen a team on four possessions straight run down 20 seconds of a 24 second shot clock just so that they could get Austin Reeves and they knew they could do whatever they fucking wanted in four seconds worth of time.
00:50:12
TWIYpod
The young boy couldn't hold water for four seconds. That's nasty work. You don't pay son 180 million.
00:50:19
Wop
Thank
00:50:24
TWIYpod
They was held hostage with him.
00:50:29
TWIYpod
He won that deal.
00:50:34
TWIYpod
Now, speaking of winning deals, I told y'all on the pod a long time ago. Charlotte wasn't going to pay LaMelo. I told y'all, Charlotte's not going to pay LaMelo.
00:50:46
TWIYpod
As soon as Luka got paid, I said, i bet y'all Charlotte don't pay LaMelo because it ain't in it. It don't make no sense to pay him. He don't play winning basketball.
00:50:58
TWIYpod
It don't make no sense to pay LaMelo to max him out.
00:50:58
Wop
I wish
00:51:02
TWIYpod
You got to realize you can't win with him before it's time to max him out and get him the fuck out of here. And what did Charlotte wake up and do this morning?
00:51:14
TWIYpod
They traded LaMelo Ball for Nas Reed and 17 ham sandwiches.
00:51:23
Wop
mission
00:51:24
TWIYpod
They traded him for a picnic.
00:51:28
TWIYpod
They built him around the white boy who can shoot threes like Steph, Brandon Miller, the weirdo.
00:51:38
Wop
Why you gotta be a winner?
00:51:38
TWIYpod
And now they just got some pick swaps.
00:51:42
Wop
you will
00:51:44
TWIYpod
Nah, because why he be dying his hair like that? don't like that. That's weird to me. You niggas that's dying your hair like that, y'all are weird, just like the young men that are painting their fingernails.
00:51:58
TWIYpod
Don't like it. Don't support It's never been part of my NBA, brother.
00:52:08
TWIYpod
But free choice. Paint your nails if you like. If that's that does something to you, paint your nails.
00:52:13
Wop
Charlotte should have blew their shit up, bro. They going nowhere right now, bro. They going nowhere. Eventually, you just going to have to pay Lamello. Might as well trade him, get something for him.
00:52:29
Wop
Don't let him just... Because he could just walk to at some point. and like I always say, like bro, like if you an owner, bro, the worst place to be is in...
00:52:43
Wop
No man's land. Like, LaMelo and them made the play-in this year. So now you fucking up the draft. This list shit, doing this. is This making the play-in this year. You fucking up the draft. We need to be bad. Like, that's the only way a small market can have any success. You have to be real bad and luck up on a generational franchise-type player.
00:53:08
Wop
And they thought they had that in Melo. I don't think Melo is that. I don't think Melo should be the best player on no team. So luckily he is going to play with Anthony Edwards and who's a better player than him. And he can thrive as a number two.
00:53:25
Wop
We'll see.
00:53:26
TWIYpod
when When Minnesota didn't get Giannis, I said that Minnesota was ruining Ant's career. I said he was going to die in a small market.
00:53:40
Wop
Cool, eh?
00:53:40
TWIYpod
I still believe. I said Ant was going to die in a small market. I still believe he don't see a championship with this team that they've assembled.
00:53:52
TWIYpod
I still believe that. They got do some more work. Something else got to happen. I got to see how him and LaMelo play together. I still believe he's not seeing a championship with that team, but I do think that it was a great attempt.
00:54:10
TWIYpod
You know what I'm saying? Like, your girl ever been bitching at you, telling you that you're not romantic, telling you that you don't do shit right, you're not a good guy, so you go to Walmart, you get some flowers,
00:54:17
Wop
Thank
00:54:25
TWIYpod
You take her out to eat. And then she bitching at you because you ain't present the flowers the right way. You didn't take the flowers out the plastic wrap and wrap them in the wax paper with the little with a little ribbon bow tied around it.
00:54:43
TWIYpod
Like, goddamn, bro. Like, I'm fucking trying. That's Minnesota. trying. I'm trying.
00:54:53
Wop
Minnesota, bro, Minnesota is doing more than just trying, bro. Minnesota is a team that for two straight years went to the Western Conference Finals.
00:55:05
Wop
The first year they went there, I think people were shocked that they kind of got there. Not entirely shocked, but just still somewhat shocked. They upset a Phoenix Suns team in the first round.
00:55:22
Wop
Then they went on to beat the defending champions. Right? Nuggets. Second round.
00:55:31
Wop
Tough seven game series.
00:55:34
Wop
Then you lose to Aluka. Right?
00:55:40
Wop
I can't hear you, my nigga. You talking? Okay.
00:55:44
TWIYpod
You good. I'm listening.
00:55:48
Wop
But, but, yeah. So, when we
00:55:54
Wop
Factor that in, him like I said, that year in particular. That was a, you know, a Anthony Edwards, I have a arrived moment, right? Like, you upset KD now.
00:56:09
Wop
Beat the shot on
00:56:12
Wop
Upset Denver.
00:56:14
Wop
Lose to Luke and them. Cool. Trey Cat.
00:56:22
Wop
What the fuck is the Tumble is doing? They going backwards. They get Julius Randle. Uh-uh. We get back to the Western Conference Rounds with Julius Randle.
00:56:33
TWIYpod
Buns, by the way.
00:56:34
Wop
He wasn't buzzed the first couple of rounds, though. He played decent, bro. Against the Lakers, Julius Randle was a problem against the Lakers. A problem.
00:56:44
TWIYpod
That was a revenge game, though. That was a revenge series.
00:56:47
Wop
don't give fuck what it was.
00:56:48
TWIYpod
That he was motivated by something different.
00:56:50
Wop
um I ain't gonna say I make my takes off of narratives. I just like to show people the truth about casual when I say casual shit. Because granted, don't get me wrong.
00:57:02
Wop
I didn't think Julius Randall was necessarily an upgrade from Kat. I've kind of felt like they was somewhat lateral. and And hear what I say this. Cat at that time with the Timberwolves, if he was worth it, they have just paid him They would have went over to say, they would have fuck it.
00:57:25
Wop
They didn't even believe him. That's just how feel. And maybe they not wrong because at that time, Cat was kind of somewhat lackadaisical in the playoffs.
00:57:38
Wop
Not to say he was bad as fuck, but he wasn't good either.
00:57:44
Wop
julian Julius was just like, okay, at least if we get a guy like that, at least we might be neutral.
00:57:44
TWIYpod
He wasn't worth maxing out. He wasn't worth taking that penalty.
00:57:56
Wop
We might not get better. Cool. Check it out. They were. Very next year, they still get to the West Conference Finals. This year, obviously, you lose to a Spurs team, second round.
00:58:13
Wop
and out there with one leg, all types shit. You know what I'm saying?
00:58:19
TWIYpod
D. Vincenzo out.
00:58:20
Wop
It's a lot going on.
00:58:21
TWIYpod
Mike Conley old.
00:58:24
TWIYpod
It was a lot. I think LaMelo fills that spot for Giving up Nas is a big deal a little bit because they don't have a big man. So I think you got to go out there. You got to go shopping.
00:58:37
TWIYpod
ah But I still don't see... them getting better than the rest of the West. And we still got some time because some more trades is going to happen. Free agency is going to happen.
00:58:50
TWIYpod
But when I say the best of the of the West, I'm mainly talking about the Spurs, OKC, because that's where it is. And and the Nuggets ain't going to have a year like they had this year every year.
00:59:09
Wop
You said the hoop.
00:59:11
TWIYpod
The Nuggets, they're not going to have a year like they had in the playoffs this year, every year. I think they're going to be better in the future. Not much better, not eons better, because I still hate Jamal Murray.
00:59:25
TWIYpod
But I don't see them being this lack of comp every year.
00:59:34
Wop
I mean, bro.
00:59:38
Wop
They a team, bro, like, at the end of the day, they a team that's kind of in no man's land, too, right now, because they just not a ah
00:59:50
Wop
a great destination as far as where people want to live, and that is, unfortunately, how people view shit, you know? Like, not even to say unfortunately, like,
01:00:04
Wop
It'd be, it'd be, I'd have to just get drafted to Denver just to like live in Denver. Right.
01:00:10
TWIYpod
Yeah, destination matters. And if I'm going to go somewhere, one of these weak-ass markets, it better be fucking Texas where I ain't got pay taxes. Better be Florida where them taxes hit different.
01:00:26
TWIYpod
It can't be no bullshit place like Denver where snow on the ground eight months a year. It can't be that.
01:00:33
Wop
right
01:00:34
TWIYpod
It can't be that.
01:00:36
Wop
Like, I could probably go to Phoenix because it's nice, the weather, cool. I ain't going to say I would choose Phoenix, but if you ask me to choose between Phoenix and Denver, give me Phoenix.
01:00:53
Wop
Give me Phoenix. The altitude.
01:00:55
TWIYpod
And their fans go crazy.
01:00:57
Wop
The altitude shit out there in Denver, high, all that. I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, because motherfuckers be trying to make seem like, yeah, it's just different out here when you train and I hear you. It seemed like like every year Denver teams would just be in the fucking finals or some shit, like the Super Bowl, but don't seem like that's the case. Niggas make it seem like it's the hyperbolic chamber over there and shit, like, no.
01:01:30
Wop
So, yeah. I just think Denver is a no man's win because again, you got an aging superstar and the difference between him and Giannis is Giannis is actually chasing his legacy.
01:01:45
Wop
Jokic, yeah. Jokic is like, I don't know.
01:01:49
TWIYpod
He liked to wrestle bears. real Yogis don't give a fuck about basketball.
01:01:52
Wop
I don't know.
01:01:53
TWIYpod
He want to wrestle bears and race horses.
01:01:55
Wop
Russian, Jokic is like the Russian of of Apollo. I mean, Rocky and shit like, He dies, he dies, man. I don't give a shit, man.
01:02:06
TWIYpod
If we chip, we chip. If we chip, we chip.
01:02:07
Wop
right if we
01:02:11
TWIYpod
If we chip, we chip.
01:02:15
Wop
All my life. It's simple, just like that. like And if, if
01:02:23
Wop
and oh, hey man, everybody ain't in it for the same reasons. We know that I think most players that play basketball today are in it for the lifestyle.
01:02:37
Wop
I think players stop being what I would call real life students of the game and like, you know, just for the love of the game.
01:02:51
Wop
And like, I don't really like to be nasty and like, when we talking about, like, GOAT shit, because I like to really just stick to the, like, you know what saying, the obvious shit, like the basketball portion of it.
01:03:07
Wop
But, like, to me, part of what makes Jordan the GOAT for me is the fact that he had a for the love of the game clause.
01:03:21
Wop
Like, players, players, wouldn't dare need that today. Because I don't think players like really just casually who like, I think everything is about protecting my brands, which is understandable.
01:03:44
Wop
The money is so at a, like it's at an all time. hat The money wasn't like that for Jordan. You really just had to like playing basketball. Like truly.
01:03:55
Wop
Like in the 70s and 80s, like basketball is a way out, like for people like where I can go to college, right?
01:04:07
Wop
Now basketball is a way, like all I need to do is get a scholarship, one and done.
01:04:14
TWIYpod
NIL and I can fucking.
01:04:17
Wop
Now I can make money in college now.
01:04:19
TWIYpod
Yeah, now I can make money in college. I don't even need to go pro. I could just fucking I can flame out once I go pro or once I attempt to go pro. And I still got the NIL money that I can fucking make a life on.
01:04:34
TWIYpod
If I'm smart, if I'm smart.
01:04:37
Wop
No, for sure. But that's what I'm saying.
01:04:39
TWIYpod
Now.
01:04:40
Wop
That's just the difference in in the game where I feel like if players felt like Jordan, right, where I'm driving down the road and I see Hank Willingham shooting that thing around, can just get out the car, park that thing,
01:05:09
Wop
Hoop, because I just love, but I'm just a fiend for the game. Like a hoop.
01:05:16
Wop
Break my motherfucking leg. Y'all still got to pay me.
01:05:23
Wop
Because I love a game. number I'm telling y'all right now, I can't help myself. ah see you basketball I and just want to play. I love the game.
01:05:36
Wop
That's what's missing from today's era of basketball. I don't think these players love the game. They just love the lifestyle.
01:05:45
TWIYpod
It's a good lifestyle. It's a good lifestyle.
01:05:47
Wop
What? We just seen Austin Reeves get $180 million. eighty million dollars
01:05:56
TWIYpod
Giannis about to get paid. And if you don't get paid in dollars or chicken nuggets, sponsorships with Chick-fil-A down in Miami, you're getting paid in pussy. All right.
01:06:11
TWIYpod
We know Giannis is horny. We seen him with the antics, with the bell.
01:06:15
Wop
Thank
01:06:16
TWIYpod
He done got that young lady knocked up. I think they own kid number five. He won't leave that woman alone. He got traded down to Miami for some bullshit.
01:06:31
TWIYpod
And i ain't going to say no bullshit because motherfuckers been wanting Tyler Hero for a very long time. And I don't know why.
01:06:42
TWIYpod
Because him and Duncan Robinson was the biggest catfish, NBA catfish I've seen in a long time. But whatever.
01:06:55
TWIYpod
They wanted they won a hero. They got hero. ah Pat Riley is no longer playing GM.
01:07:06
Wop
What are you doing?
01:07:07
TWIYpod
Pat Riley is now gambling man.
01:07:13
Wop
How you getting?
01:07:15
TWIYpod
That move was a gamble.
01:07:18
Wop
You sure?
01:07:19
TWIYpod
Yo, I'm a get, give honest. You can have whoever on the roster. That's not named Bam out of bio.
01:07:28
Wop
What do an owner pose do or GM, right? What do a GM supposed to do when you're trying to obtain a superstar, right?
01:07:36
TWIYpod
You can't gamble like that. gee
01:07:39
Wop
Yes, you do. you You historically have gambled like that. the lake is
01:07:45
TWIYpod
not that Not that tough. Not that tough.
01:07:47
Wop
a woman
01:07:47
TWIYpod
Pat.
01:07:48
Wop
The Lakers gave up everything to get AD. And they won first year. Historically, people do this.
01:07:57
TWIYpod
The Heat gave up draft picks going into 2030.
01:08:03
Wop
Fuck them.
01:08:06
TWIYpod
So if Giannis fuck around and get hurt and the Heat are bad, the Bucs are going to benefit like nobody else. This is like, this is how OKC set up the shit that they got going on now with fucking lottery draft picks and these niggas was damn near in the finals.
01:08:27
Wop
They would have still got all that shit even if the Clippers would have won the ring. So what I'm saying is that no matter what, as a organization, your job is to get better.
01:08:37
Wop
Are the Heat a better team than they were last year? Yes no?
01:08:40
TWIYpod
To only have $18 million dollars before Norman Powell signed out. To only have $18 million dollars and you got no fucking bodies. You got no shooters. You got nothing.
01:08:56
TWIYpod
It's just fucking Giannis and bam. And a defensive minded point guard, which basically looks like Milwaukee South.
01:09:05
Wop
So Wiggins ain't no shit.
01:09:11
TWIYpod
You know how i feel about Wiggins.
01:09:11
Wop
that
01:09:12
TWIYpod
You know how i feel about Wiggins.
01:09:14
Wop
Lighten me.
01:09:14
TWIYpod
Andy's Canadian. Shout out to Boxing Day. You know how i feel about Wiggins.
01:09:20
Wop
I'm just saying, bro, like you can could make some shit happen with that team no matter what. I'm looking at it from a standpoint, again, as a as a franchise, your job is to try to get better.
01:09:32
Wop
And they got better. That's it. You got to do whatever it takes sometimes, especially when you're trying to acquire a superstar. Because that one superstar we already know can change everything for your franchise.
01:09:47
Wop
Everything can just fall into place. Bam out of Iowa is not a number one option. Tyler Hero not number one option.
01:09:51
TWIYpod
No, no.
01:09:53
Wop
You're not going nowhere. The closest thing they had to a number one option is no longer there, and that was Jimmy Butler. And even phenomenal he was trying to play, still, you have a Giannis now.
01:10:05
TWIYpod
I just don't like three quarter Giannis, bro. I don't like three quarter Giannis.
01:10:12
TWIYpod
In the fourth, you can't rely on Giannis. I don't like three quarter Giannis. He not a closer. Bam is not a closer. Yeah, we saw him score 83, but Bam ain't no closer.
01:10:28
Wop
I mean, he's not, but about trying to get Russ.
01:10:31
TWIYpod
They're going to play a great defensive game. They're going to play an excellent defensive game.
01:10:39
Wop
I don't know if that's going to be like super ideal.
01:10:41
TWIYpod
The Brickarooski.
01:10:43
Wop
It's even about him being, though.
01:10:44
TWIYpod
Go ahead.
01:10:45
Wop
It's more just about they need a point guard, somebody that can run offense and wrestle.
01:10:49
TWIYpod
veteran Veteran field general.
01:10:52
Wop
He can still do that.
01:10:53
TWIYpod
Going to get CP3 while you at it. Call this nigga. Ask him to come out of retirement.
01:10:58
Wop
They need to get some vet shooting. I mean, not vet, but try to get some, you know, vet minimal shooting. Miami is Miami. That's the beauty of Miami. Like, it's a destination that people will say, you know what, like, uncompared to a situation like Denver.
01:11:13
Wop
If you had to take the veteran minimum in Denver or Miami, fuck it. Don't speech, man.
01:11:20
TWIYpod
Because if nothing else happens, going to have a good time. If don't shit else pop off, I'm going to have a good time. i'm go This is a lifestyle move.
01:11:30
Wop
Yeah.
01:11:31
TWIYpod
This ain't a professional move. Just like you was just talking about niggas not being committed to the game. Hey. going to Miami. I'm going to take that mid-level exception. I'm going to take that veterans minimum, whatever the fuck it's called. I'm going to do whatever I need to do because worst case scenario, I'm in Miami.
01:11:53
TWIYpod
And I like it. I just, I got to see what else they do in Miami for Giannis for Bam. Bam.
01:12:05
TWIYpod
Just like in Minnesota, I got to see how the rest of the story plays out. Everybody else is making some pretty decent moves. Brooklyn got Julius Randle.
01:12:16
TWIYpod
Who knows why? But they got Julius Randle. They did the Timberwolves a solid. They traded him for a bag of chips.
01:12:29
TWIYpod
Couple of the moves being made. We we just, it's going to be a good free agency. I'm looking forward to seeing what's going on in free agency this summer ah the NBA. I'm like, I'm like super pumped. Like now that the shit is over, July is approaching. Like I can't wait.
01:12:47
TWIYpod
Somebody where Katie gone, where Kawhi going once this investigation clears up. Who's going to take who? Because some surprising names are going to take some minimums.
01:12:58
TWIYpod
Somebody else is going to take some pay cuts so that they can put some shit together somewhere else. Hopefully, Kevin Durant's not involved with any of these other big three combinations because he's just bad luck. He's a bad luck bearer.
01:13:15
TWIYpod
I don't want to see him die in Houston, but damn it, I don't want to see him involved in no other big threes. ah The Thompson boys got to get paid. Detroit's got to make some shit happen because they told Cade Cunningham, we're going to get you, Hero, and they couldn't get him.
01:13:36
TWIYpod
They told Cade, we're going to get you, Giannis, and they couldn't get him. So now Cade out there, he angry. So you got to go make Cade happy. You got to go get him something. And you're not finna resign the big boy, Duran. You're not finna resign him because that ain't the answer.
01:13:56
Wop
They in no man's lane right now, man. They fucked up.
01:13:59
TWIYpod
They held hostage.
01:14:01
Wop
Sweaty, all NBA may qualify for the match.
01:14:06
TWIYpod
Shout out to Silver and their 65 game minimum rule.
01:14:09
Wop
don't think this boy Duran want that money?
01:14:13
TWIYpod
And he gonna get it.
01:14:14
Wop
No, he not.
01:14:15
TWIYpod
Well, he gonna get the max that he can get. he' not getting them bird rights.
01:14:20
Wop
He gonna get the max he can get. But I think D-Trey gonna do more. That's what I think gonna happen.
01:14:27
TWIYpod
If they smart, they would. I wouldn't sign that nigga. I mean, he yeah his playoff performance doesn't, you know, match what his regular season performance was. But his regular season performance wasn't max worthy either.
01:14:43
TWIYpod
He just got them accomplishments off of some context like we talked about earlier.
01:14:50
Wop
being the most the second most consistent pistol. That's why he got that money. He's the second most consistent pistol.
01:14:57
TWIYpod
He didn't have a collapsed lung. shout out Shout out to the non-collapsed lungs out there.
01:15:04
Wop
I mean, you could argue it's either him... A-Star pretty consistent too, like the Thompson brother. he He pretty consistent, but... I would say like his impact through the season, like, like again, like he just qualified for all, uh, Max, he all NBA player, bro.
01:15:21
Wop
That's tough. That's tough.
01:15:27
Wop
That's tough, bro. Not gonna lie to you.
01:15:34
TWIYpod
It's going to be ugly. It's going to be ugly, but I got my TV turned on. I'm ready. I'm ready for it. I got my ticker. I got my notifications set up. I'm ready to fucking argue with you niggas about NBA all summer.
01:15:48
TWIYpod
It's going to be a taco and tequila party at the crib. Might make some content out of it. That would be pretty fire. Show that shit on the YouTube page. Might make some content out of it.
01:16:02
TWIYpod
It's going to be a good joint. Four, three, four, three days this summer. WAP got a birthday coming up this weekend, y'all. Yo, and we don't do this because we're not young ladies, but I will say if you support your creators, support WAP on his birthday. That young man is turning 30 for the eighth time.
01:16:24
Wop
was seven.
01:16:32
TWIYpod
ah make Make sure you cash at my man so he can fucking take a trip back to the Cabrini Green where Cabrini Green used to be.
01:16:43
TWIYpod
Make sure you cash at my man so he can get some oxtail pizza. He's going to be outside all weekend. What's it looking like for you this weekend? Something crazy.
01:16:54
TWIYpod
Is it going to be a zoo?
01:16:57
Wop
it's going to be something like that, you know? But it's it's just typical WAP day shit, man, you know? but of bunch of Bunch of the gang showing some love, pretty much, you know?
01:17:09
Wop
good Good vibes, you know? You know? So, me personally, I ain't never been like, it's my birthday week and all that. I've been fake talking that shit, though, but I still ain't really on it. I'm chilling with the work.
01:17:27
Wop
Ain't nothing change like motherfuckers gonna basically be themselves for the most part. Like it's just a rather regular day for while, man.
01:17:37
Wop
Just people gonna show up, show up cause it's my day. That's it.
01:17:41
TWIYpod
I hate thinkers like that. Because I took the whole week off. My birthday on like a fucking Tuesday. my part ah my my birthday on my birthday on a Tuesday.
01:17:52
Wop
For the 40 bar, I might do that for sure.
01:17:57
TWIYpod
My party is the Saturday after the Tuesday.
01:18:01
Wop
So you got a part of it.
01:18:01
TWIYpod
Took the whole week off.
01:18:04
Wop
My B-Day been falling the last two years, yeah.
01:18:07
TWIYpod
Lovely. Lovely. Yeah, lovely, lovely.
01:18:09
Wop
Friday, Saturday.
01:18:10
TWIYpod
Shout out to Labor Day.
01:18:12
Wop
Yeah, yeah.
01:18:13
TWIYpod
ha
01:18:13
Wop
Friday, Saturday. I've been snacking their ass with me.
01:18:18
TWIYpod
Nope, mine's just on a Tuesday. I got the whole week off. I ain't even going nowhere. Fuck around staycation. But that's Saturday the 18th. That's when the party going to be. It's going to get real crazy.
01:18:32
TWIYpod
But y'all, if y'all know where to find WAP, then y'all know where to pay WAP. Hit WAP. Let him know you want a blessing for his birthday. You know what this is. We'll be back next week for the for Independence Day. Independent Creators.
01:18:49
TWIYpod
Creators up 10,000.