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