There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
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episode 35: Hot Streaks and All Things Orlando w/Khobi Price
Miles was joined by Producer Jabari this week and the duo was pleased to talk to Orlando Sentinel beat writer Khobi Price on the latest episode. The trio discussed the exciting, young core in Orlando and the latest stories from around the league.
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Speaker 1
Welcome back, y'all. The Celtics remain one of the hottest
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teams in the league, it turns out, and the Kings
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might be right there with him. And we'll be checking
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in with the state of all things in Orlando with
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Orlando Sentinel Beat writer Kobe Price. On today's episode, I'm
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Miles Gray with Davis. Oh look at that. We got
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a guest host and this is Miles. Then Jack Barry
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gotten Man nailed it so much. Jack is out this
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having a little break for the Thanksgiving so he'll be
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back next week. Worry not. So it would just be
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Miles and Jabari today, but we are thrilled to be
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joined by Like I said, Orlando Sentinel beat writer Kobe Price, Phobe,
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thank you, thank you so much for coming on this show.
00:43
That's what I'm meant to see before. You know, it's
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my pleasure. Appreciate having me. Gonna be fun, like the
00:50
energy like already, Oh yeah, we're a vesting anything you
00:54
have seen anything else yet. This is the least serious
00:57
basketball podcast you've ever heard or been apart part of um. Okay,
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so I know you right for the Orlando Center. You're
01:03
covering the Magic. Are the Magic Your team. Who's your team?
01:06
Who'd you grew up with? I grew up a Bulls fan,
01:08
So I grew up in Chicago, Chrocotland area, so like
01:10
the Bulls, you know, throughout my childhood where my team
01:13
specifically like those baby Bulls like Blue all Day, Kirk Heinrich,
01:18
Ben Gordon, Christ John kind of transfer that over to
01:21
de Row joking, noah, yeah, all though those guys like
01:25
those those were marbles and my bad. I officially just
01:28
turned into that gift of Matt Damon from Saving Private
01:31
Ryan where just cages like I just became the oldest
01:34
person ever because he said his childhood and I was
01:37
definitely late twenties during that. So here we are. I
01:40
was outside, but okay, how are you feeling about him? Now? Hey?
01:45
Look you do you still you still catch up with
01:47
are you? One of these journalists that we have all
01:49
the time, was like, I mean, look, I'm professional, like
01:50
I love is you love the Bulls, but I'm not
01:52
getting too emotionally caught up in it. Do you still
01:54
get caught up swept up in it like a fan? No, yeah,
01:57
I'm gonna be I'm still all those journalist who was like, yeah,
01:59
that's the fall of just different. Like honestly, when you're
02:01
in this like this job, you just don't you don't
02:04
see like the team you may have growth watching like that,
02:06
Like you don't see them as much unless you cover
02:08
them right right, Like like honestly, like they just played
02:13
the Magic. Just put the Bulls that would have been
02:15
on Friday, and I can count on what they've played.
02:19
What are they? They're seven and ten the seventeen games
02:21
I can count on one hand, Like how many entire
02:23
Bulls games I've watched this season? And that's counted one
02:26
I just watched. I was physically at one, right, so
02:30
it oncet you like once that happens, like you kind
02:32
of like emotionally distanced yourself from the situation just because
02:36
you know he's like your priority change. Yeah, it's part
02:39
of this because you're a professional at that point rather
02:42
than like a hostile fan like I am with a podcast,
02:45
like I'd imagine right, one part is your professional because
02:48
obviously you're not gonna have your like Bulls fandom bleed
02:50
into your coverage of like the Magic. But also I'm
02:53
sure being around like once the veil is lifted and
02:56
you're actually up in it, every day, it probably does
02:58
take on a completely different text your hunh. Yeah, you're
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right by that, and honestly, yeah, so both those things.
03:04
But also like more man, it just to come over
03:06
like a fan of the game period, just like you,
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Like I appreciate broader, bigger like basketball, then probably I
03:13
did as a fan of the Bulls growing up. That
03:16
makes sense. Yeah, so everything you're hitting, yes, correct, but
03:21
there's also like a greater deeper appreciation for the actual sport.
03:24
Even I sort of like fandom like you become more
03:26
at least for me, I've become over a fan of
03:28
the sport or the game than the Actually I want
03:31
to I want to get zen like y'all. Yeah, I'm
03:34
telling you, man, it's like it's like a I mean,
03:37
I can't. I think I'm just like it seems far healthier.
03:41
It takes far healthier, you know. Standpoint, Yeah, you don't
03:45
want to cry holding a grown man's jersey in your hands,
03:47
not from the press box or the or the Crypto
03:51
dot Com parking lot because I asked you to leave
03:53
in the second quarter. But anyway, look, look here's another
03:57
way I put it. My fandom is in my checks.
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So as long as my check cash. Then that's when
04:02
that's when I started crying. That's when I started crying
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in a parking lot and they usually from there there
04:06
you the best ability, availability said, booked them, blessed. But yeah,
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I mean, Kobe, we gotta talk about the magic mant
04:16
got a really nice team over there. I got admit,
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I was telling Jabari earlier. You know, small market team.
04:24
I like in the shadows. I feel like I have
04:27
just been getting better and better, but like without the
04:30
attention of everybody, and man, my man, Franz Wagner over here,
04:35
we're just talking about Michigan basketball shorts. Shout out the uniforms.
04:38
Um like he's improving every single year in a way
04:41
that I think is really underrated. Yeah, I know France
04:43
has really so I think some of his h his
04:46
rookie season last year was when underrated or just maybe overlooked.
04:50
If you ask people, and I think I guess he
04:52
made the first seam all rookie, so I think at
04:55
least among media, he was respective for what you did.
04:57
But if you ask like most people most publicly, you
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asked for the five best rookies from last season, I
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don't know how many would have chosen Frands as as
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in the top five, and honestly, like, even if you
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would give me your top five players from class Frances class,
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you know, I do wonder how many people would list
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Fronds in the top three because at least to me,
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I mean basically, just if you look based off of
05:24
last year and this season, like there's a better there's
05:27
a great argument that he has been, at the worst
05:29
the third best player in that draft class. And that's
05:32
a class that includes Jalen Green, Scottie Barnes, Evan mobile
05:35
k Cunningham till this goes on. I mean, what he's
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doing as a driver is a sensational The passings there,
05:42
the defense is there. We spoke, but I asked for
05:45
Carlisle about him, and he said, like, this is a
05:46
two way wing that you just don't know. They don't
05:50
grow on trees, man Like, players like this are not
05:53
easy to find. So Franz to me, and I've said
05:57
this on other podcasts other platforms, all start to potential easily. Yeah,
06:02
It's it's interesting that you say that, because that's actually
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where I was gonna go with it. You know, you know,
06:06
two miles point, you guys have a ton of young
06:08
talent there obviously with Ben Carroll who will come to
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go here shortly. Uh, you know, Jalen Suggs, you know,
06:14
Franz Frans are already at a point where he's averaging
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over nineteen points. He's getting you four and a half
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and you know, just about four and a half. You know,
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that's not far from all star level. Do you think
06:24
that you know, do you think that he has that
06:25
potential like over the next couple of seasons while developing
06:28
alongside those big guys. I mean, you look at this
06:32
season long numbers nineteen four and four. He's shooting, you know,
06:36
but almost fifty percent from the field, the three balls
06:38
coming along like he's a good comment. That just didn't
06:40
start off the season well. But you just want to
06:42
look at November like once you know, got the five
06:45
really just four shooting games happens every player, or get
06:48
the seven shooting games like it's what twenty two four
06:53
and a half and four shooting from the field on
06:57
threes like this is I guess said, that's just the offense,
07:02
Like you added the defensive ability to switch ability like this,
07:05
it's not it's not something you just take for granted.
07:07
So he definitely has to be all stark potential, a
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guy who's gonna be a cornerstone for the magic, you know,
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and what they're building, you know, with the next level,
07:15
alongside Hollow and alongside the other guys. They have them
07:17
the team, but all starts to meet. If if you
07:20
don't see all star potential with Franz, I don't. I
07:24
don't know if Mutch enough of film, because he's just
07:26
been that good. And it's not just it's the driving,
07:29
is the cutting when he's able to get off ball,
07:31
he's really he's shown a lot. Yeah, and he's and
07:34
he's creating for himself too. Yeah, there's I mean, like
07:37
it's like one of those things he was like, I
07:38
mean what he was drafted was the eighth pick, so
07:42
he's like, yeah, he's gonna be good. It's like one
07:44
of those things. It is wild how even like reflexively
07:47
I wouldn't immediately look to him, but in like just
07:51
you know, watching more and more of this season and
07:52
then you know, after doing a little bit of research
07:55
to prepare to like really talk about the magic, I'm like,
07:57
I'm like, wow, I was full you asleep, uh, you know,
08:02
to like what he was really doing um, But yeah,
08:05
it is. It is wild to watch that all come
08:06
together because I think, yeah, it's it's always nice to
08:09
see those those talents developed. Um. Speaking of talents, Paolo
08:14
Mr ban Caro, you know right now he's got a
08:17
little bit of injury. How long has been out? Almost
08:19
two weeks? Yeah, what's that been like for you? Because
08:22
we watched highlights over here and we're like, whoa, Okay,
08:27
he looks very confident. He looks very confident in his abilities,
08:30
very secure in his has a good sense of self
08:32
already as a rookie. What is that? I mean, give me,
08:36
what's it like up close on the daily basis you're there? What?
08:39
What like? Are we missing something or it's yeah, is
08:41
it's that good? No? Is that good? I don't know
08:44
if anything. I mean it's whether you see it from
08:46
afar where you see from up close. It's pretty obvious
08:49
the kids got it right. I mean, you hit me honestly,
08:54
like a summer league. It's not just like it's not
08:56
just the scoring, it's not just the past, it's just
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the way he was. You're just kind of like, whoa, wait,
09:01
how the are you again? I'm sure you're rookie like
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you're playing like your twenty five year old five year
09:06
NBA vet. It's just the maturity about his game, the
09:09
fluidity which he moves. You just kind of like, you're
09:13
this good already, but you can get better. So it's
09:17
it's super. I I knew he was. There was an
09:22
assistant coach from dude told me that when you see
09:25
him in person, he's gonna be bigger than you think.
09:27
I'm like, come on, man, Like I think I did
09:29
just say this about come on man, like he's listened
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to six non six then, like, I don't know if
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you toft Like, I know he's gonna be big, But
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when I saw him in person, I was like, all right,
09:38
grown man, grown just cure grown man at whatever. He
09:42
he just turned twenty but twenty years old. And the size, strength,
09:46
the fluidity, the touch, the ability to just get to
09:49
the line over and over game like put reps in
09:51
that position. The passing, You're just like, uh, yeah, this
09:55
is a cornerstone. This is this is everything that you
09:58
know you kind of want to build. Like an off
10:00
it's a full come around on offensive hub Like he
10:02
has the skills, they're already, it's not just about building
10:05
upon those skills and if you have a tandem like
10:08
Franz and Pollo and build out from there, Like I
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don't like you can mess up so much around that,
10:14
but you have those two, you're gonna get somewhere good. Yeah, seriously,
10:18
but I mean it's I mean, once like Franz gets
10:21
those those those three point numbers up, I saw him
10:23
getting nice with the step back recently, I was like, oh, right,
10:28
this all comes together. Yeah, it's it will be trouble. Guys.
10:31
We haven't even talked about one of the more exciting
10:33
stories from this season, at least from the outside looking in.
10:36
What about bull Bull Bull? Like, Okay, so there were
10:40
some and you know, I'm sure that you know Kobe
10:42
being tapped in with the Orlando fan base, there were
10:45
some that were I don't want to say questioning. They
10:47
were absolutely full on, wholeheartedly poop poo in that signing.
10:51
And if I'm not mistaken, you broke that news and
10:53
just this past summer. But over his last five games,
10:57
he's at eighteen points, eleven and a half rebounds, you know,
11:00
just under two blocks. He's shooting the ball from the
11:03
field from deep and eighty two percent from the free
11:06
throw line and you talk about his development and just
11:08
what you know, what type of player they have there. Yeah,
11:11
honestly when you asked me that, I'm still trying to
11:13
figure it out myself because it just seems like, you know,
11:17
he's a guy who he knew he was super talented.
11:19
You know, he was on the top one of the
11:21
top players. I think, what in the eighteen high school
11:24
recruiting class, and you know seven two guys who has
11:27
that handle? Who has you know, to score like that?
11:30
Like you see that immediately. But it seems like I
11:33
just wrote about this. Every few games she started to
11:37
show off a little bit more Like the first few games,
11:39
there's lots rebounding, you know, being the right position to
11:43
you know, putbacks or you know, dumball passes all like
11:46
all these little like simple things that you just be like, dude,
11:49
you're seven too, you can do all this like in
11:51
your sleep. Now, Like especially what said the past five
11:55
six seven games, like we're seeing some pull up, some
11:59
step backs, you know, even through all of this, we've
12:02
seen the coast to coast euro steps and just finishes
12:06
like he had to dump the other night against the Pacers,
12:09
where he like moved around a guy, he just like
12:12
extended his arms out and dunce, I'm like, how do
12:15
you do that? How are your arms at the basket already?
12:18
When the guys like fully, like not fully but like
12:20
partially still in front of you. So he and you
12:24
can tell like some things are like coming along for him.
12:27
He hasn't played a lot of Like before this season,
12:29
he had not played a lot of basketball. Um didn't
12:32
play a lot in Denver injuries. You know, this is
12:35
the most consistent basketball he's played since high school. So
12:38
you can see, which is a crazy thing to say, allowed,
12:40
but you can kind of see the game coming to him,
12:43
you know, day in and day out, you know from us,
12:45
not just from a score perspective, but understanding like all right,
12:47
I need to make a pass here. I don't need
12:49
to like it as to be full you know, full
12:51
force to score. So you can kind of see it,
12:53
you know, after what was that four or five years
12:56
and not consisting playing basketball things trying to you know,
13:00
put be put together for him. Yeah, it's I mean,
13:04
he's it's nice to see him him improving constantly. I
13:08
know some like a lot of magic fans like, man,
13:10
it's just most improved, right, here, but I mean there's
13:13
there's some competition there, but I do, like I said,
13:15
I'm not gonna get in that man's way. I like,
13:16
I just love I love watching bo play. Like I
13:19
didn't really actually consider how little he's played in that sense,
13:23
and then it come out like this, Yeah it's something. Yeah, no,
13:26
it's I mean when you really I spoke with him
13:28
in the locker room about this, maybe before one of
13:30
the Indiana games. I forget which one, and like we
13:34
were just chatting up. I was like, yeah, this is
13:36
most in basketball you've probably played in a few years.
13:38
He's like not realized only played nine games in Oregon,
13:41
you know. Before in Orlando, I think he only played
13:44
like fifty three games. Fo so like every single like
13:50
the first four games he played of the season, like
13:53
the first it was the first time he played like
13:55
ten minutes to night in a row for connective games,
13:57
which is like a low benchmark. But then you think about, like,
14:00
wait a second, you haven't played at least ten minutes
14:03
in a game four secutive times. There's so much more
14:06
that you need, like so many more bitchmarks you need
14:08
to clear. Um. So he's kind of just scratching the
14:10
surface on what he can be, which is almost like
14:12
terrifying because he's already doing yeah, yeah, so doing some
14:19
the same stuff. When you're that tall, the ceiling must
14:21
be higher than you, so that's I think that's good news.
14:24
Like that the ceiling must be higher than seven too,
14:26
with a suddenly wingspan exactly at the at a bare minimum,
14:29
and that's yeah, that's a big room for sure. I mean,
14:33
quickly this. The Celtics also been doing quite well. You know,
14:36
as a people know my allegiances live on the West
14:39
coast with a story basketball. But man, they look real,
14:48
real good. I cannot deny it. I mean, it's jabar.
14:53
What are these stats we're looking at here? Well, what's
14:56
interesting to me? And I I'm intrigued to get Kobe's
14:58
opinion about it, because you know, last year they were
15:01
incredible defensively. This year they're just twenty three overall in
15:04
terms of the you know, team defensive efficiency, you know,
15:06
in the middle of the pack when it comes to rebounding.
15:09
But they're doing it really on the other end of
15:10
the court. You know, their second overall, you know, second
15:12
overall and team effective field goal percentage. You know, they've
15:15
got a great assistance to the turnover ratio their second
15:18
overall in the league, and that shoot the three ball well,
15:20
and they basically just take care of the ball. What
15:22
are your thoughts about the job that Joe, you know,
15:24
coach Joe Mazola has been doing. Yeah, I think he's
15:27
been I think he's not as good of a job
15:29
as you know, as you would hope for, um, considering
15:32
all the circumstances that he had coming into the season. Sure,
15:36
you know, kind of taking on this job what like
15:39
what two weeks before the people started, I want to say,
15:43
and maybe even less. I know it's in September, um,
15:46
but yeah, just to the you see, you know this,
15:49
the roster was never really a question, I think. You
15:51
know obviously you know they're they've been rout that uh
15:54
without Tom Lord for through the start of the season.
15:57
But you know, you saw the talent, you know, especially
15:59
at you know, they pick up a guy like'm not
16:01
from Brogden, Like the talent is there, so you just wanted, like,
16:04
how is he gonna be able to keep these guys together,
16:06
you know, keep the lock and room buying after the
16:09
the really strange off season they had, especially more so
16:12
in the August September part of it when you go
16:14
through what you know, what you went through with Dannylogan,
16:16
how are you getting injured? And obviously the whole email
16:19
you dog a situation and then Missoula like he's handled
16:23
it as well as you can. And I'm you know,
16:26
I think some of it there's been maybe a tabita slippage,
16:29
but I think some a lot of the defensive issues
16:31
will be fixed once they get you know, Rob Williams back,
16:35
just because he is just that kind of level of
16:37
defensive player. But I've been super I've been super impressed
16:41
by what they've done. It's super impressed by the Celtics.
16:44
And you know, before the season, I had them as
16:47
a team where I thought, you know, things break right,
16:48
they should be in that upper tier of Eastern Conference.
16:51
Continuous are just contenderous period throughout the league. And everything
16:55
I've seen so far has you know, backed that up? Yeah?
16:59
And I guess from another team that you know, the
17:02
Lakers have a bit of history with got to talk
17:04
about another team history, the Sacramento Kings, because my goodness,
17:11
they look really good in a way that like I
17:14
can't even front. I'm like, whoa they we were talking
17:21
about this before Jabari, it's hard to really see like
17:24
the gaps in here because they look deep. They got shooters.
17:29
I love to see that. And heard her is also, man,
17:32
I heard Kevin Durant bigging up. Heard her and he's like, man,
17:36
if you're not watching the way this man is shooting
17:38
the ball right now, He's like, you're not really a fan,
17:40
like you need to appreciate what he's doing right now.
17:42
I immediately got online. I was like, Okay, you know
17:45
what Katie told me. I'm again I'm gonna sleep on
17:48
something I need to watch. And yeah, he's He's right.
17:50
They look they look like something. Darren Fox too is
17:54
also it's a lot of a lot of a lot
17:56
of sweat, beads of sweat that are created palm my
17:59
forehead when I look at how they're playing. And to
18:02
that point, Kobe, is this in your opinion? It is
18:04
just a matter of like they were terrible for a
18:06
lot of a lot of years. And believe me, Kings fans,
18:08
I'm not piling on. I'm just being honest. And they
18:11
kept on, stop piling talent and finally found the right
18:14
mix with the right head coach. Yeah, I think that's
18:17
a good way to look at it. I mean, you know,
18:20
herders and then shooting likes out. I think it kind
18:22
of to me it kind of stulls with Fox like
18:24
he's been because he just he's coming off a Player
18:27
of the Week. He's been sensational, Like I just got
18:29
to see him. He's the guy I got to see
18:31
how close when you know, he had that buzzer beater
18:33
over the Magic and he was you know just in
18:37
certain parts of the game, he was just clinical, like
18:39
complete control of what he was when he wanted to
18:41
do what he was trying to do. So to me,
18:44
it kind of starts with him because the bones has
18:46
been effective. It's it's you know, Mike Brown, he's you know,
18:51
what he's doing is working. You know, there's the space
18:53
that there's scored that they've been scoring at is ridiculous.
18:56
But I think I think, yeah, say, I think they
19:00
just overtook the Celtics for the top offense in the league,
19:03
which I mean, you can see the talent, but the
19:06
fact that you know they put it all together in
19:08
this way is like credit. That's the kudos to Mike
19:12
Brown his staff and just also like it's a box
19:14
of bonus hurder you know month, you know it's down
19:18
the line just the it's not it's not because you
19:22
could just read the whole roster basic. Yeah. Yeah, it's
19:25
like it's like six different guys. You're just kind of like,
19:28
well this they're performing. You know, I didn't even say
19:31
Murray who. I think some people before the season thought,
19:34
you know, if it wasn't gonna be Polo, I think
19:35
some people would have had Murray as a as a
19:38
Rookie of the Year contender. So they're a fun team.
19:41
They're they're just a fun team too. Like it's not
19:43
just there. They've been good. They've been super fun to watch.
19:45
Of the of the teams like you know, like say
19:48
the Kings or like you know, the surprise teams. Uh,
19:51
you know out there, whether it's Portland or you know,
19:55
um you talk, are all of them real or do
19:59
you expect you know, any of them to you know,
20:01
kind of separate themselves from from the pack. I'm trying
20:05
to think of, Like so Portland's Utah, Indiana mm hmmm, uh,
20:12
good point on Indiana. We didn't even mention them. There
20:14
were six and two over the last eight. They're like
20:15
one of them, you know, hottest teams in the league
20:17
as well. Yeah six and two, shoot eight and two
20:21
over their last ten and then on the season, Um,
20:25
I'm trying to think. I think, you know what, Utah,
20:29
I don't know if they're gonna end up being the
20:31
number one seed for when the season is all said
20:32
and done. But my thing, what you saw before the
20:36
season was like there was it was clear that there
20:38
was a lot of talent there. And I think this
20:39
is the case with most of the things we were
20:41
talking about. It was clear that they had talent. You
20:44
just didn't think that the teams themselves would stick together
20:46
this long after This way by Indiana too, Like I
20:48
didn't think Uta is gonna keep all these guys around,
20:50
you know what, twenty games into the season, I didn't
20:53
think Turner and Heeld was still be on, you know,
20:55
in Indiana. But sixteen games to the season, you know,
21:00
maybe Sacramento you look at them just because you thought,
21:02
all right, yeah, this team is gonna be there. But
21:05
like a lot of the surprise teams, I guess a
21:06
couple of the surprise teams, um more so in Utah
21:10
and Indiana, it's just been like we thought these situations
21:12
gonna be different, but the fact that they're not, I
21:14
guess you tall you look at it's like, all right,
21:15
number one and did West? What's really going on over there?
21:19
Brian wentforse But yeah, I mean, I don't have no
21:23
reason to believe that what Indiana is doing or what
21:28
I guess Portland slipped a little bit, but you know, Dames,
21:30
I think with Dames out now, like I don't believe
21:32
that they were real. So I think of all the
21:34
teams who have played, I think Utah is probably the
21:36
most likely to slip down, just because the West is
21:39
so volatile and you still think you know something, You
21:43
still feel like something's gonna shape over there, even with
21:45
the right all right, well, let's take a quick break
21:50
and we'll come back to talk about some some outstanding
21:52
performances from the last week. We'll be right back. And
22:05
we're back, and so is Ben sim I just want
22:12
to say it, like I want to just I just
22:15
want to give it the space, you know, because the
22:18
man has had a lot of pressure on him. But
22:20
it would be remiss of me, uh to not point
22:23
out that he does seem to be on an upward trajectory. Again,
22:27
I know, if it seemed a little like if he's
22:29
here and there and we were laughing, and like started
22:31
early on in the seasons. But now it does feel
22:33
like the mind body connection is returning. Right for me
22:38
watching him of late, what I appreciate is he's getting
22:41
downhill again. It was because it was one thing that
22:44
you to not really shoot all all that much. And
22:46
I don't I'll be honest with you, I don't care
22:47
if he if he never shoots the three pointer, you know,
22:49
like at any point in his career. But it was
22:51
a whole other thing when he was it looked as
22:53
though he was afraid to get down hill. Uh, he
22:55
was avoiding contact and thinks and and things of that nature. Uh.
22:59
He he looks far more natural, or or as close
23:03
to natural as I've seen him what in three years. Honestly,
23:06
I think some of us would forget, like he not forgive.
23:09
But we overlooked the fact that no, he has not
23:11
played basketball, and you know, he missed the entire season.
23:15
You know that he missed the entire season. But he
23:17
walked into a completely different situation after that. So I
23:20
think some of it is the mind body connection, but
23:21
also you know, figuring out new teammates and figuring out,
23:25
like you know, new guys to play around. Yes, it
23:26
seems so easy to be like, oh yeah, just throw
23:28
missa Katie and throwings of Kyrie and all these guys
23:31
and all these shooters will work out. But when you
23:33
get into a new team and new system and then
23:35
you have all the this is called a mess that
23:39
Brooklyn has brought since whenever, since uh July nineteen and
23:46
just happens to go into it. It takes a minute
23:48
to find your rhythm, especially when you're dealing with stuff
23:50
like back and those kind of injuries, um or those
23:53
kind of ailments. He is, you know, printing upward, and
23:56
I think there's plenty reasons to believe they'll continue. Yeah,
23:59
I mean he as he even said, he said quote
24:01
my mind is telling me go be you, but then
24:05
my body is trying to catch up. So it feels
24:07
like I'm just progressing each day, each game, just building up.
24:10
I'm still trying to get a rhythm and find my pace.
24:12
Sounds like he has a good attitude to you know
24:15
what I mean, Like I feel like that's I feel
24:17
like so many times athletes will put themselves in like
24:19
absurd pressure situations that like you can't climb out of
24:22
and it seems like he's at least giving himself the
24:24
environment to do that. But yeah, I know Jack was
24:28
very very excited to see Him's like wow, like he was.
24:31
I remember when he saw that. He was like he
24:32
didn't shy away from the contact, and you know that's
24:38
brings it tier and eye brings it tier to your eye. Yeah,
24:40
he went and five over that win against the Grizzlies.
24:44
Clay Thompson is another one, and last week we were
24:48
a little bit like, yo, what is going on with
24:53
Clay Thompson. But then it's like he's heard the podcast
24:58
because I know he listens and he oh, you think
25:00
I just like boats now wearing captain's hats and looking
25:03
off into the sunset. Wrong forty one temperate thirteen from three. Wow, Okay,
25:11
I was telling you Jabar. I said, well I was wrong,
25:15
and I was like, that's egg on my face and
25:16
he said, well, let's allow some consistency to build, which
25:20
is true. Which is true. But it was wild to
25:22
watch that performance against the Rockets where it truly was
25:24
like oh it' it's it's doing that thing where it's
25:27
not hitting any part of the rim anymore. Yeah, that
25:29
was vintage Clay. And and I'm not sure if you
25:31
if you saw if you were able to catch that one, Kobe,
25:33
I'm sure you saw at least the highlights of it.
25:35
It was the first time this season where he looked
25:37
like Clay Thompson. And I'll admit it, I'll acknowledge. On
25:40
last week I was in the background saying, yeah, he
25:42
needs to come off the bench. They need to stop
25:44
playing games with this stuff, you know, like you know that,
25:47
why are they ruining the situation with Jordan's pool? And
25:49
I'll still stand by I think that probably is ultimately
25:53
their best option, um, you know, moving forward. But you
25:56
know I won't. I can't poopoo that. That was absolutely
26:00
I wasn't able to watch the entire game, but I did.
26:02
I was able to see highlights and it didn't just
26:04
look like I had to say, because you know, he's
26:07
not old, but like the old Clay that we're kind
26:09
of play that we you know, there were a custom
26:11
to him even against the game against I think they
26:13
played the I think the Knicks before that game, I
26:18
think like or two days before. I think he actually
26:20
had a good game against the Knicks too, and for him,
26:22
like again similar to been similar situation, but even like
26:27
I guess, even more dramatic, like he missed with two
26:30
seasons and like he admitted, like he didn't play pick
26:34
up this all season just because of like the I
26:37
guess you can call it maybe the anxieties that come
26:39
with you know, or the worries that come with him
26:40
and maybe reinjure himself. So I think it's more than
26:43
just like the actual physical stuff. Sometimes it's truly is
26:46
the mental stuff that you know, it takes a while
26:49
to get like have these breakthroughs where you just feel comfortable.
26:52
And I think for him, having more of those moments
26:54
like we saw against the Rockets will help him mentally
26:57
just to get feel comfortable back on the floor because
26:59
it musty as comfortable. Then that's when we starts seeing,
27:02
you know, games like that, or you know, he starts
27:04
playing with a little bit more consistency. But I just
27:06
don't think we've seen a comfortable play Thompson. But we've
27:08
seen a lot. Is that Clay Thompson that's pressing and
27:11
that's not the Clay that you want to see, right, Yeah,
27:14
I mean, yeah, the performance was definitely like I got
27:16
my back to the wall, and I kind of didn
27:18
remember like what I'm capable of, and definitely he reconnected
27:23
with that. I was. There was one shot in that
27:26
game where like, I feel like Amost pumped baked and
27:29
then he realized no one was on him. He's and
27:31
he was just like, you know what, I'm gonna just
27:33
I'll just shoot it from here, like barely any like
27:36
he didn't get the full motion into it. And I
27:37
was like, oh, you just threw that in okay? Uh
27:43
and quickly I do. I do want to shout out
27:45
my son, Kyle Kuzma turning into a cus Man over
27:49
at Washington. I love to see a young man, you know,
27:52
I see you posting stuff about man. These Lakers were like, yeah,
27:55
they work. I'll they were I missed you baby, Uh yeah,
27:59
man and five against the Hornets, and man, there he is.
28:04
He's part of their success. He's part of the formula.
28:06
Can I just say it. I think he's their best player.
28:08
I recognized Bradley bill Is, you know obviously, you know,
28:10
you know he's the big name there. Porzingis is there, uh,
28:13
top to bottom, both sides of the court, you know, interchangeability, Uh,
28:18
you know, the capability to guard you know, some big twos,
28:21
but definitely threes and some fours. I think he's there.
28:23
I think he's actually their best player, you know. As ablazeing,
28:27
I would say, I might have a different opinion on
28:29
who the best player is on the Washington Wizards, but
28:32
that don't lie in this case. So I will agree
28:36
it's my son, Kyle kuz Man. I mean, yeah, it's
28:39
it is. It's it's wonderful to see. And I know
28:42
there's like there's so much like handwringing over on the
28:44
Lakers side about him, like what happen? What is? Yeah?
28:49
And while we're on the on the subjective Lakers fans, jabbar,
28:53
you're also a Laker fan from what I can gather,
28:56
I am both from the one eight, you know, faithfully,
28:58
Anthony David. We were saying last week too, if he
29:03
is able to come into his own and really just
29:06
I don't know, like find that next level mentally and
29:08
just be consistent with his performances and that same intensity,
29:11
we will we will begin to see some progress. And
29:14
it looks like we are doing that um with the
29:16
lebron less Lakers and nothing but a d Lakers. I'm
29:19
interested in getting Kobe's opinion on this, But I think
29:22
and and believe me, I'm not making excuses for him,
29:24
you know, for whatever his reasons were, they you know
29:27
they were. But it almost feels like you're on a
29:30
team with Lebron. You start you come up watching Lebron
29:33
and appreciating this game. You know, you know, whether he's
29:35
your you know, the greatest or one of the greats,
29:37
you know what I mean. You know he's still in
29:39
that level you're in. You're on the team with him,
29:41
and he's still performing at an incredible level. I wonder
29:44
if it really was a matter of yeah, they can
29:47
you know, they can say, you know, a d is
29:48
the guy. You know, they can say we want to
29:50
run things through him. But it was do you think
29:53
it was a matter of him like getting over that
29:55
mental block? And I don't, and I maybe mental block
29:57
isn't the right term, but you know what I mean,
29:59
like we'll just get and pass it mentally. I think
30:02
for him, part is just recognizing that in order for
30:04
the Lakers too, like this is a part of the
30:06
quote unquote planning from the game, in order for the
30:08
Lakers continues to be our guests to get back to
30:11
being like a true contender. They had to be some
30:14
kind of passing of the torch from Lebron to a D.
30:16
Like a D, I maybe forget who the best player is,
30:20
like Lebron on you know, if you're talking about top
30:24
in like only your absolute best day, who's the best player?
30:27
It still maybe him? But Lebrons thirty eight years old, right, like,
30:30
he can't be the best player every single night for
30:32
the Lakers. That's not what you want from a thirty
30:34
ye rule. A D, you are twenty nine, You're in
30:37
the prime of your career. Night to night. You need
30:39
to be the guy. I can still be like the
30:41
bron Is still be the guy in the moments for
30:42
in certain moments, but a D, you are the lone
30:45
star on this team who's in the prime their prime age.
30:49
You need to be that guy day to day. And
30:51
you if you're a Lakers fan, like like Jabar, you
30:53
can at least hope that this is the start of
30:56
the or continuation the process of a D. Excepting like
31:00
forgeting the best player is next to night, I'm the guy,
31:03
and then everything that's kind of falls down from me,
31:05
and that's gonna be you know, that's the process because
31:07
Lebron for what since maybe like those early heat days,
31:13
has been the guy um and you do wonder what
31:17
it's gonna look like once Lebron comes back and how
31:19
the office runs, but at loose for now, like this
31:21
is important process of a d getting back to being
31:24
the guy like he was when you know he was
31:27
in New Orlands. Yeah, I mean it is. It's a
31:29
double edged sword to have a player like Lebron James
31:32
like on your team, you know, because on one hand,
31:35
he can inspire a lot of the players around you
31:37
because they're like, man, I gotta get together and playing
31:39
with Lebron. And then on the other there is like
31:41
a psychological sort of shadow that you're just in inherently
31:45
because you're on the same team with him. And I think,
31:49
I don't think it's not to say that Lebron is
31:51
the read like him not playing is the reason the
31:53
Lakers are doing better, But I think that it's allowing
31:56
these players to have an identity that isn't exclusively tied
31:59
to him, and they're stepping into that. I mean, like
32:02
Austin Reeves, he is he is really like he's also
32:06
it looks he just looks more comfortable and like we
32:09
saw flashes of like what he's capable of, but it
32:11
feels like a lot of like I don't know, there's
32:13
just there's a little bit of breathing room and there
32:15
are certain players that now feel that it's there, like
32:18
I guess more comfortable stepping up. And yes, I needed
32:22
that because we were in a bit of a hole there.
32:24
I mean, there's still five and ten and to that point,
32:27
I know. But look, it was bad. It was bad.
32:30
Taking like three wins on the bounce. You're like, yeah, all,
32:33
let's yes, please something because you know, we were talking
32:37
about how bad it could have got really could have been.
32:40
Uh and it luckily wasn't as bad. But yeah, it's
32:44
still again, like I said, I'm trying to be very
32:46
level headed here, and I was like, knowledge progress when
32:49
I see it, and I don't need to be like
32:50
talks and be like, man, this whole thing is trying
32:51
to blow it up. Man, we're trying to get a
32:53
t um well to that point one point, you know,
32:58
But but I'm interested. You know, we know how we
33:01
feel about it. Let's get it. You know, the outside
33:03
opinion yourself, someone that you know knows a thing or
33:06
two about this about this league completely ill emotionally from
33:10
having to look at it like we do Cobe. No pressure,
33:13
you know, no pressure whatsoever. But no, Um, what do
33:16
you think the ultimate answer is for the Lakers. Is
33:18
it a matter of like, just try to get healthy
33:20
and stay healthy and see how that goes. Or do
33:21
you think they ultimately do make a move? I think
33:25
for them, just get healthy where you go from there?
33:27
I don't you know even what they have made progress now.
33:30
I do want to also add, in the context that
33:33
some of this progress has come, you only play where
33:35
you can play, right, Yeah, yeah, I got schedules ahead
33:38
of you. Wow. Can't even let me have that. Wow.
33:42
But in Traelian's fact, okay, you did be the Brooklyn team.
33:45
That's also like trying to figure themselves out as well. Detroit,
33:48
who I think as of mean unless I checked, they
33:52
were at the bottom of these maybe one of the
33:53
Bombos teams, and they were either one or two for
33:55
the worst in the league, and I know they're at
33:57
the bottom of the East. And San Antonio, who have
33:59
take can like then they after their hot start, they
34:02
were a team that if we were this you had
34:04
me on like two weeks earlier I've been like, yeah,
34:06
and they're not passing my smell test in terms of
34:08
like this is real and I think they've shown that.
34:11
But even with that, you look at this team and
34:13
I asked myself, like, what's the ultimate? Like it was
34:17
even if you can make like the this big move,
34:19
I don't know if they can make that move, and
34:21
if it's out like a big move, I don't know
34:24
how they can get to what they were expected to be. Um,
34:27
but I think this is a year just the like
34:31
I don't think you. I don't think you really have
34:33
the opportunity to like mortgage a bunch of your future
34:35
in terms of this, Like I think I just play
34:37
it out with the guys that you have, and just
34:40
hope the guys you have turned around, Like you still
34:42
have a team with Anthony Davis and whatever the Blebro
34:44
would be once he comes back, Like that is at
34:47
least a team that should be competitive on the night
34:49
now basis six oh yeah and six man yeah yeah yeah,
34:53
yeah yeah. Now they put themselves into it. What a
34:56
two intent hole. So yeah, like that's what so hard
35:00
to overcome them at her of course, but yeah, you
35:04
know from here you just want to say just see
35:06
how we can compete. And from there, I mean we
35:10
went from being like oh what is happening to like
35:14
at least been like oh right yeah Anthony tap yeah, yeah,
35:16
I remember him. We went from like during the games
35:21
texting each other like hey, maybe to not text each
35:23
other at all. Anthony Davis. Yeah, they've they've they've pulled
35:29
us back. Yeah, yeah, no, I and I look, there's
35:33
there's always promise on the horizon. I'd say, also got
35:37
a shout out Bones Island scoring twenty nine off the bench. Uh.
35:40
Just he's like I'm trying to like, I'm trying to
35:46
figure out who he reminds me of. I'm gonna say
35:51
a name. Yeah, you can do you can clown me
35:54
if you want, go ahead. A lanky er Nick van Exel.
35:58
He's herky, jerky in the same type of got the flash,
36:02
get you get, you can put the ball on the floor,
36:05
you can do you do some things out there. It's
36:08
maybe not the jerky that You're right, that's what it was,
36:12
that quick little yeah. Yeah. Although like it's like it's
36:16
like he was playing like in a like a Kirkland
36:19
signature John Morant costume. You know you had to call
36:23
him the great value. I'm just saying. I'm just it's
36:26
just a look. It has nothing to do with his game,
36:27
you know what I mean. But that's just that's my
36:29
comedic assessment of what I saw from a thousand feet
36:33
away on my TV screen. Okay, no shots of bones.
36:36
I think he's fantastic. Uh yeah. And also we got
36:39
just really quickly to all these women yama clips. I'm
36:43
tired of this guy tired. Well, it was worth my brain,
36:52
my brain. Yeah, he picked up his dribble Likett man.
37:01
He's girls, I know, honestly, the way he plays. We
37:07
always use this comparison of like when you're the uncle
37:10
playing against your nephew. We're like you're just bigger, and
37:12
you're like, yeah, you're gonna be in my way, but like,
37:15
watch me get this bucket. Like and also like you
37:17
still try to block me, but I'll just I'll just
37:19
put it up higher on the glass in the place
37:21
you can't get to. And I feel like you're some huh.
37:24
It's that with a dunkball court, and it's playing against
37:29
little kids on an eight ft on a foot rim.
37:31
I'm like, okay, guess what they might as well put
37:33
your faces on milk cartons because you're gonna go missing
37:35
after this performance, I'll put in, uh yeah, but it is,
37:39
I mean like there's something about just his like I
37:41
don't know every time I look at him, like, is
37:43
it that he's a man among boys? Is it that
37:46
he's a mutant among humans? What is it? It's just
37:50
that he's that big with all those skills, right, there's
37:52
nothing else I'm missing. I was I was gonna defer
37:56
to Kobe, but for b it's as simple as he's
37:59
not a big man that you has handles for a
38:01
big man. No, he has big handless, absolute duard skills
38:05
at seven foot whatever. And that's just ridiculous. Yeah. A
38:09
lot of times with like guys like this, we think,
38:12
oh yeah, these guys are so skilled for big man. No,
38:15
like Victor would be if he was like six seven
38:18
six eight, he would still be like ridiculous. The fact
38:22
that he's seven four is just kind of like, oh,
38:23
you're just cheating now. This doesn't feel like you're you
38:28
don't need this. You just happen to have it, right,
38:31
Like a lot of like these other unicorns like them
38:34
being whatever seven but whatever, it's just kind of like,
38:38
oh yeah, you kind of need this to like help
38:40
your other skills, because no, this is where you're like,
38:43
oh yeah, this is just dude with the six seven
38:45
skills that he just hasn't be seven four. He picked
38:48
up his dribble like a little bit behind the three
38:51
point arc. He started to make his move like to
38:54
the basket. Yes, he and it's so fluid, like he
39:00
moves so fluently, like it's not it's not stiff, it's
39:03
very it's grace control. Yeah, he has grace for being
39:09
a seven plus. But look, they called a da unicorn
39:12
and he is. They called he gets the unicorn. That's fine.
39:16
You can call those guys unicorns. This guy's a dragon.
39:18
Yeah that's what if those guys are unicorns. This guy
39:21
this is a dragon coming Yeah, with with handles, it's
39:24
a new thing. Like I say, he's your two K
39:27
creative player with max now stats it just like I
39:29
don't know, yeah, make him seven five yeah yeah, it
39:33
makes like sure, I'm like, I've never seen anything like this,
39:36
but it is fun to watch. Let's take another quick
39:39
break and we'll come back and close this episode out
39:43
with the rapid fire round of questioning. I hope you're
39:46
ready Kobe, because this goes lightning quick, will be right
39:49
back and where back? And guess what, Kobe Price of
40:03
the Orlando Sentinel. But you've wandered into the rapid fire
40:07
round of questioning. This is the most high pace question
40:12
segment in all of sports history. Yeah, I said it.
40:16
Prove me wrong. Show me the receipts because I cannot
40:20
find any anyway. What we're gonna do is we're gonna
40:22
ask you question. You just give us an answer, just quick,
40:25
like I'm chest passing you chest pass right back. Don't
40:28
think about it. Just give me the answer and do
40:30
not take a long time because we have to keep
40:32
the record in mind that this goes lightning quick and
40:36
please keep us on pace. Jabari, thank you so much
40:38
for joining me. Because you are the guests, I will
40:42
allow you to ask the first question. No debate, yes, Jabari,
40:46
of course, come on, man, all right, this is all right.
40:49
You're gonna get Yeah. Well, actually, let me look, maybe
40:51
I want to go first. Want to think about it.
40:54
I didn't start the clock yet, so doesn't this can
40:56
this park can be? I mean you can't go. It's
40:58
it's you know, I respected Let me um, your name
41:03
is on the Mark, let me, let me, let me
41:04
go get a couple of water real quick. Kobe. Look,
41:06
this is what we're talking about here, this is what
41:08
we need you to keep us in line for. Yeah right, sorry, no, no, no, Jabari,
41:12
You're gonna go first, start the clock, all right, Kobe,
41:15
let's go. You can pick any three dunkers from history
41:18
or a contest, but you also get to pick any
41:21
defender from history that gets to go up and challenge
41:24
each dunk. Give me your dunkers and give me your
41:28
defender clarification in game or just straight up just like
41:31
this is like a dunk concept. It's a contest conscience.
41:34
Just attack the rim. Okay, my dunkers are MJ Vince
41:39
Carter and who are they dunk get on or who
41:46
are they trying to dunk? Are they trying to dunk on?
41:48
They are trying to dunk on Matumbo okay, Matumbobert and
41:59
Patrick you Okay, so we got some George town flare
42:03
and you know, the pride of France. Okay, I'm not
42:06
mad at that, Miles. Would you have anybody else? No?
42:10
I mean, as long as Vince Carter was said, that's
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all I was. I'm like I'll buy a ticket to
42:15
that show. Doesn't matter who ever anybody else is like,
42:17
as long as Vince Carter's there, Yes, please please, alright,
42:20
I'll be old, so good, I'll be old man Kobe,
42:23
what do we say about this? Man? You gotta keep
42:24
us going. Next question, you have the chance to win
42:28
ten thousand dollars to make a layup with each hand,
42:31
twenty five thousand dollars to make at least four or
42:34
five free throws, or a hundred thousand dollars to make
42:37
at least three of five from d Which challenge are
42:41
you taking? You know, Mike and Drill for the easy money? No, No,
42:46
I'm going for the free throws? Are you? Are you
42:49
nice with it at the line? Yeah? No, I mean
42:51
it's free throws, man, like the free Wow. I've heard
42:55
a lot of people say that before. Yeah, you know
42:59
you just gotta be like, look, you just say you
43:01
just say five for five? You said four or five? Right?
43:03
Four or five? Yeah? So I missed the first one
43:06
and now I getting rhythm. Hey, fan, duel, fan, duel,
43:09
Can y'all give us twenty five sacks to make this happen?
43:14
I want to see this happen. I get a little bit,
43:16
I get a cushion, Like if you said five or five,
43:18
be like, yeah, now let me get my mic con
43:19
drol on. But if I get one, if I get
43:22
the cushion of one, then like I'm going for it.
43:24
If I missed, all right, bet at least I went
43:26
for something. Could you do five out of six? Yeah?
43:32
That's that's the one. Feeling like Mark Price anymore? Are
43:37
you okay? I'm going to lay ups on that one. Yeah,
43:43
that was liked well again that but again, the question
43:47
was about the four out of five, So I don't
43:48
mean to switch any one like you will take the
43:50
four for five challenge for twenty five thou dollars. If
43:53
you do not make it, you owe us twenty five
43:55
tho dollars. I believe we agreed on that. Fans, please
43:57
put up the money. Okay, I'm sorry you Who got
43:59
Who's going next? It's oh yeah, all right, Kobe. You
44:03
can travel back in time and tanty any debut from
44:06
any player in history, which you choose. Michael Jordan's okay,
44:12
just as simple. Just Mike doesn't matter, just Michael Jordan's.
44:17
I want to see what it looks like in person
44:20
when he's out here making layups using the air for
44:22
like ten seconds at a time. Now, Kobe Price from
44:25
the Orlando Sentinel, tell me what is it about Michael
44:28
Jordan's you know that makes Kobe wait, hold on, wait,
44:32
we're not supposed to be elaborating to keep us task
44:37
right here. Next question, Next question? Okay, next question? Thank you.
44:42
I mean, I'll ask questions here and I will right now,
44:45
Kobe Price, what is a new rule you'd like to
44:48
see implemented or altered effective immediately in the NBA. In
44:52
the n b A. I think they do this in
44:54
the g lee. Uh, it's the free rule. I'm forgetting
44:58
how to drive right now. But they've been doing they've
45:00
done in the league for a while, and it's not
45:02
just the take foul. I think they do something else
45:04
with the free throw and how they do it. Wait,
45:06
he says, under the new experimental NBA League rule, one
45:09
free throw worth one, two or three points will be
45:11
awards for the event of any foul that would typically
45:14
result in one, two or three free throws being shot
45:17
under standard NBA rule. Yes, I want to see Yeah, yeah,
45:20
I think it's supposed to. Uh, that's a perfect I'm
45:23
glad you found it. You're supposed to like help to
45:25
speed the game up. I just want to see it.
45:27
I just want to see it. It's super gimmicky, I know,
45:30
but I just want to see it. Is Yeah, that's okay,
45:33
this is your rule. I'm I'd be perfectly fine if
45:37
they did it like one year, They're like, all right,
45:39
we're taking it out. I was like, all right, I
45:40
just want to see it. Just getting rid of it,
45:42
right right, Yeah, you just want I'm all here for
45:44
just trying things out. Okay, fair enough. Don't you try
45:47
this next question out? Kobe? Okay, sorry, sorry I wasn't
45:53
read that, young man. All right, Kobe, you know it's
46:01
this time of year. As a matter of fact, this
46:02
episode will be released on Thanksgiving. What are your top
46:05
three Thanksgiving dishes? Uh? Dressing? Any potato dish? We are
46:12
without marshmallows? M hmm, it doesn't matter. Okay, you happy
46:16
with marshmallows tomorrow? Oh? Mac and cheese? Okay, you know,
46:24
I don't know, but that's what makes it a tough choice.
46:26
Oh wow, Okay, so you're dang it. I slept on
46:30
mac and cheese. Yeah you know, yeah, this this is
46:34
this is rapid fire. I'm living with the mistake. Go ahead, no, no, no,
46:37
you can. You can revise your answer because this will
46:39
be recorded for all of history, so you might get
46:41
right with you know, mac and cheese, potato dish and
46:47
ham alright, dressing got dropped. Oh hey, you know what
46:52
somebody had, somebody had to make it cut. Yeah. I
46:55
think I would pay gravy as one, just the gravy
46:58
boat like grave you like to get in trouble man.
47:02
My grandmother yelled at me because I was I was
47:05
flooding that dish with gravy. She's like, are you out
47:08
your mind? I'm like, I don't know, it's turkey dry?
47:11
What do you want me to do? Different conversation and
47:14
then and that that kicked off the second phase of
47:16
my thanksga piece of my grandparents. I missed you all
47:19
every day. Uh. And finally gotta ask you, Kobe Price,
47:24
what's a better name? Jack or Miles? Miles? All right?
47:29
We heard the Sentinel has done it. He is a
47:33
fantastic man with the plan and please follow his coverage
47:37
on the Orlando Sentinel where he follows the Orlando Magic.
47:40
Kobe Price, thank you so much again for having us
47:43
man Where can people follow you on the internet and
47:45
read you and all that good stuff? Where can they
47:47
find you? Yeah, as long as Twitter is working, you
47:49
can find me at Kobe Underscore price Cage over the
47:52
I Underscore pr I ce on Twitter. Uh, hit me
47:56
up there, Orlando Centinel dot com to reline the magic
48:00
page to find all my work. Even got a little
48:03
you know, dot, a little profile on there. It's my
48:05
picture see my mother. Yeah, yeah, that's that's the next.
48:11
As long as it as working, you can find me
48:13
on there. It's fine. My name is pretty unique, so yeah, okay, perfect.
48:19
What about you, Jabari? Thanks again, man for for hopping
48:22
on today. Man, where the the people find you and
48:27
to learn more about you? I don't I don't mean
48:29
to do the most long winded segue, but I have to.
48:31
That's the only thing I know to do. Yeah, it's okay.
48:33
It's almost like I've never done this before, so I'm
48:35
just stepping all over the entire time. That's okay, though.
48:39
Thank you for this opportunity, you know, Jack, It's it's
48:41
been a it's been an honor. Even though I still
48:43
couldn't get your name chosen at the end, we try.
48:45
I'm easy Bari Davis NBA, like like Kobe said, as
48:48
long as Twitter stor all right and you can find
48:51
us at mad boost these b O O S T
48:54
I E. S. Did That's about that right? Yes? I did?
48:57
Uh and shout out to this week's Boost He's listener
48:59
of the week. At hoop Realist, we were asking people,
49:02
what you know, what games do you want to travel
49:04
back in time to experience? Uh? And hoop Realist said,
49:07
I already had the list, just locked the loaded, Jordan's
49:10
sixty three versus Celtics in the playoffs, Kobe's eighty one
49:15
uh two thousand one game one for AI's classic Okay
49:19
the Blue Game, and Triple O t Pistons verse Nuggets
49:22
game that ended in four in December of eighty three.
49:25
That's a pull, yes, Like, first of all, I don't
49:29
think he's old enough to even have seen that game.
49:32
So wow, that's that makes people. I'm sure would you
49:36
saw that, Javar, You probably sen it because you've seen that, man,
49:39
I know. But you do like you do finals file
49:42
like you always you have some you look at the
49:43
historical record, you have access to the clips. Is that
49:48
one of the highest scoring games? Like what it has
49:52
especially combined love to see it, you'd love to see it,
49:55
all right, Well, you already know where to find us.
49:57
Make sure you check back with us next week because
49:59
we will be back with more mad boostiness. Uh. And
50:02
enjoy your holiday and all that, and don't eat too
50:05
much and rest up all right, see you later, Bye
50:07
bye peace. Appreciate y'all