Speaker 1: Here comes the one.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Clippers Talk.
Speaker 1: I'm at a maslin.
Speaker 2: It is a new week. Last week, can hear some
Speaker 2: of the shows we had Murray on from the Athletic
Speaker 2: That was a live, a two hour edition. I don't
Speaker 2: know if this one will go as long. Our guests
Speaker 2: may be a little too busy for that. They have
Speaker 2: real lives going on right now.
Speaker 1: And just one of us, just one of us.
Speaker 2: What do you mean you got the Kawhi jersey on?
Speaker 2: That's real right there.
Speaker 1: I might get injured half Chris, This is serious, Chris,
Speaker 1: this is serious. This is Adam show, not our show.
Speaker 1: Not let's let him intro his show. This is serious.
Speaker 2: Get the two two going in just a second.
Speaker 1: I just want to intro you.
Speaker 2: Joining the show today are the guys from the longest
Speaker 2: running Clippers podcast, and they'll let you know it. It's
Speaker 2: Chris k Henry managing my expectations.
Speaker 1: Clippers. We are such big fans of your show man
Speaker 1: and of you as a person. Thanks for having us on,
Speaker 1: Adam like real talk, Like I listened to Clipper Talk
Speaker 1: on the way out of the building, like almost every game,
Speaker 1: and the worst is the worst is this.
Speaker 3: Is why I don't like Kawhi Leonard postgame because he
Speaker 3: takes so long and.
Speaker 1: You're waiting and waiting and waiting.
Speaker 3: And then by the time he goes on, you get
Speaker 3: in the car to drive home, you turn on the show.
Speaker 1: The show is like in its last bit, You're like, no,
Speaker 1: he's wrapping it up. Yeah, curse you, curse you, claw,
Speaker 1: curse you. But he hasn't been that.
Speaker 3: Bad these past few seasons, with like taking forty five
Speaker 3: minutes whatever to go to the postgame press conference.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Whatever. His postgame workout routine was the first couple
Speaker 2: of years with the Clippers, seems different than it is now.
Speaker 2: But I aint and.
Speaker 1: None of them are working. Oh.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say his workout routine postgame smelled a
Speaker 3: lot like a skunk.
Speaker 2: Guys, it's too early in this show for this.
Speaker 1: The whole locker room smelled like Auto's jacket, easy Simpson's reference.
Speaker 2: I'm cutting all of this out, Okay, I want to
Speaker 2: start with this before we get to the Clippers, before
Speaker 2: we get to Kawhi, and I brought it up, was
Speaker 2: my fault. Great, but when I mentioned you guys have
Speaker 2: the longest running Clippers podcast, and I just told you
Speaker 2: this off air. I found an old tweet from twenty thirteen. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was trying to help promote you guys, because you're
Speaker 2: interested in getting on the station with AM five seventy.
Speaker 2: You're like, how can we get on? I'm like, you
Speaker 2: might have to be an employee here, But I tried
Speaker 2: to show some glove to the podcast. So how long
Speaker 2: has it been going? Because that was twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: It was that we started in twenty twelve. This is
Speaker 1: our thirteenth season.
Speaker 3: Hank and I started together being season ticket holders in
Speaker 3: two thousand and two. We became Clipper Nation because of
Speaker 3: the knuckleheads. It was hit to clip back in two
Speaker 3: thousand and one, you know, like the diplomats like Cameron
Speaker 3: and Will's Anna and those guys were wearing Clippers jerseys
Speaker 3: in their music videos.
Speaker 1: It used to be cool to be a Clipper fan. Man.
Speaker 3: Now it's epic to be a Clipper fan because we
Speaker 3: got the new shiny toy that landed from outer space
Speaker 3: next to so far that thing is like, it looks
Speaker 3: like the borg may have battled our new.
Speaker 1: Dome at some point on Star Trek And if you
Speaker 1: don't if you don't know about Star Trek I'll translate
Speaker 1: that nerd nerd nerd, nerd nerd.
Speaker 2: Oh, that was cling on for Nerd in the end.
Speaker 2: Why did you guys gravitate towards the Clippers, Henry, you
Speaker 2: can start. You just counter culture guys like me. You
Speaker 2: can't like the most popular team in the city.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I well, that's not exactly how it
Speaker 1: happened for me. We got season tickets. Oh, I'll go
Speaker 1: back a step. I did want to move. I never
Speaker 1: lived in a sports city. I'm a military kid. I'd
Speaker 1: never lived in a sports city. I was raised a
Speaker 1: Cowboys fan, but never lived in a city that had
Speaker 1: a team. And yeah, when I got here, I think
Speaker 1: that I wanted to go to a game, and a
Speaker 1: bunch of obnoxious Rockets fans were like, we got an
Speaker 1: extra ticket for the Clippers, you want to watch them
Speaker 1: get destroyed by our Rockets, and and I just couldn't
Speaker 1: stand their arrogance. And so I rooted for the Clippers,
Speaker 1: and the Clippers won. Hey, and then the next year,
Speaker 1: and by this time Chris and I had become immediate
Speaker 1: best friends. Like we met at an audition for a
Speaker 1: Shakespeare play. We were in the show together. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: met and so I went to a tire store in
Speaker 1: Hollywood where if you bought as many tires as you bought,
Speaker 1: you got a Clippers ticket in Yeah, and so Chris
Speaker 1: and I went and brought our dates with us, uh,
Speaker 1: and the dates didn't work out, but we've been in
Speaker 1: a lifelong relationship ever since, really with the Clippers. With
Speaker 1: the Clippers, that's what I met.
Speaker 2: Did you get four new tires for each date as well?
Speaker 2: Like I thought, that's what we brought them to the
Speaker 2: tires shop, so many spare tires.
Speaker 1: They drove vespas, so they got two new tires each.
Speaker 1: But then but then the next year, maybe the very
Speaker 1: next year, I heard on the radio, Uh, it's the
Speaker 1: cheapest ticket in the NBA and you could get by
Speaker 1: one get one free Clippers season tickets. We were in
Speaker 1: in the two hundred sections for like six hundred dollars
Speaker 1: apiece for the season. That's crazy, And I think I
Speaker 1: think it finally escalated the nine hundred each because it
Speaker 1: was by one get one free. And then that that's
Speaker 1: when that went away. What year two two was our
Speaker 1: first year of that. It was when they.
Speaker 3: Trade traded Clan Yeah, foolishly. Miller's worst season in his career,
Speaker 3: and he'll.
Speaker 1: Tell you that that's right. Was our first season, the
Speaker 1: OLAA Candy season Candies last year, and so we we
Speaker 1: we would we were in the seat, we were in.
Speaker 1: That's we were in the stands as people were booing him,
Speaker 1: screaming please, he needs your support now more than ever.
Speaker 1: We were always we were always the positive guys.
Speaker 3: Those were still actors, and we're so used to constant
Speaker 3: rejection and continuing to go. We also like, we also
Speaker 3: love to like things, and we like absolutely.
Speaker 2: Is it ever hard and difficult to be the self
Speaker 2: proclaimed homers of Clipper Nation with this team, because you
Speaker 2: guys admit to it all the time. I heard eighty
Speaker 2: two and oh is what they're going this season on
Speaker 2: your most.
Speaker 1: I'm more pessimistic. I think they're gonna be eighty one
Speaker 1: and one. Oh stop fair about you didn't even think
Speaker 1: they were gonna get sixty wins, I want to say
Speaker 1: in our scheduled Daycat, No, we did. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: they'll get fifty, but we're we'll get to that, are
Speaker 1: you devil? I'm positive I'm still gonna have a great
Speaker 1: time though, Oh how did uh you know what? Adam?
Speaker 1: It's it isn't. Oh, it was far easier when we
Speaker 1: went twelve seasons or whatever insane number it was without
Speaker 1: ever hitting five hundred basketball to just have fun. And
Speaker 1: then when we got Blake Griffin, which to me was
Speaker 1: the turning point of the team becoming relevant and players
Speaker 1: wanting to come in play with us, expectations started to rise.
Speaker 1: And it just as you know, the history of the
Speaker 1: Warriors getting good at the same time, just behind us
Speaker 1: getting good, and injuries really stopping what was our first
Speaker 1: great shot at a championship run was disappointing, but also
Speaker 1: we'd never been there before. The Kawhi Leonard Paul George
Speaker 1: two to one three era coming together didn't ever have
Speaker 1: for me the same feeling of, oh my gosh, here
Speaker 1: we go. But it was a harder punch in the
Speaker 1: stomach when injury also stopped that. And I don't believe
Speaker 1: in Clipper curses and all that kind of stuff, but
Speaker 1: those moments of making it all the way through the
Speaker 1: season and then getting to the postseason and not having
Speaker 1: full strength and still almost making it through those definitely
Speaker 1: were hard to stay positive. I still had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. I still believe in the Clippers I'll tell
Speaker 1: you something.
Speaker 3: The first ten seasons we were there, we've been going
Speaker 3: to basically every home game for the past twenty two years.
Speaker 3: The first ten seasons was one winning season I believe
Speaker 3: it was in two thousand and six, and that was
Speaker 3: radical with Sam Cassell cap mobiley so great.
Speaker 2: They would have beaten the Lakers in the second round
Speaker 2: the l word Sorry.
Speaker 1: I forgot that right. And that's the season we laid
Speaker 1: up to try to get a better favorable postseason, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: We beat the juicy moist Nugs, We beat the moistest ugs.
Speaker 1: We smoked those those nugs in the first round.
Speaker 3: And and then and then you know, la la la
Speaker 3: the Hallway Series, which by the way, can never happen.
Speaker 1: No more Hallway Series. God well, god, I.
Speaker 2: Say the Hallway Series was won by the Clippers. Is
Speaker 2: they won more of those battles at Staples Center now
Speaker 2: Crypto dot Com Arena and they head to head matchups
Speaker 2: from what season on? Wow, we have the winning record
Speaker 2: against the Lakers in that building in the Hallway Series,
Speaker 2: the all time winning record by two games.
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, I knew we owned.
Speaker 3: Him for like ten plus years, but they were the
Speaker 3: Clippers started behind, like they we were down twenty five
Speaker 3: games or something by a lot.
Speaker 2: But I think it's something to the effect of, I
Speaker 2: don't know, twenty seven of the last thirty five games
Speaker 2: they've won against the Lakers.
Speaker 3: So and then you know this better than I believe
Speaker 3: this is we've had twelve or thirteen winning regular seasons
Speaker 3: in a row.
Speaker 1: I believe that's like, what is it twelve or thirteen,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: At thirteen, which is the current longest streak in the NBA.
Speaker 2: The Spurs had it, of course forever. Yeah, then when
Speaker 2: they finally missed the playoffs a few years back, the
Speaker 2: Clippers became the longest run team with a winning record.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm glad we got out of Crypto when we
Speaker 1: did then while we were ahead, because Lebron is just
Speaker 1: getting younger. You told me, what do I feel like
Speaker 1: being the Clipper Homer?
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest, Like, I think it's pretty radical,
Speaker 3: Adam that, like, when the Clippers win it all, and
Speaker 3: it could be in a year, it could be in
Speaker 3: ten years, it could be in twenty five years, there
Speaker 3: will be hundreds of people that think of the three
Speaker 3: of us, you know, like and You're not as big
Speaker 3: of a homer as us Adam, But I do love
Speaker 3: the fact that you're this new school journalist, clipper reporter,
Speaker 3: Clipper commentator, what have you that is not a hater.
Speaker 3: And so same with Farabad, same with Tomayr, same with
Speaker 3: Joey Lynn. Like I love all these newer guys that
Speaker 3: don't hate on the Clippers, because the old school guys
Speaker 3: when I started the Dan Wykey who I love, the Brad.
Speaker 1: Turner, who I love, they like hated the Clips.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like Dan Wykey asked me after a playoff game
Speaker 3: during Diamond Don the fiasco, when like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: it was like we beat the Warriors in seven, but
Speaker 3: it was some home game that we lost. And he
Speaker 3: looked at me and he goes, how do you even
Speaker 3: like these guys?
Speaker 1: How do you like these guys? Our team are guys?
Speaker 1: There are guys are guys. The take I hate the
Speaker 1: most to that end is when something bad does happen
Speaker 1: to the Clippers or they get a lost and people say, see, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Like, come on, basketball teams twenty nine out of thirty
Speaker 3: teams don't win it all every year.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 1: Playing winning basketball, but just the injury bug.
Speaker 2: What I like to say about Clippers fans is, you
Speaker 2: know how the best fans in sports because they're still
Speaker 2: here and they still exist after everything they have been through, Well,
Speaker 2: it is insane.
Speaker 1: That was always my pushback. There was a I love
Speaker 1: my favorite Clipper of all time has been and probably
Speaker 1: will continue for a long time to be Blake Griffin.
Speaker 1: And there was one game in the postseason like where
Speaker 1: he'd gotten interviewed and then he got on a microphone
Speaker 1: and was like, Hey, we just need you guy, We
Speaker 1: need these guys. You all to be louder. You're not louder,
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, you would be fair to be fair.
Speaker 1: Clippers fans have twenty plus years, some of them of
Speaker 1: watching this team have leads and then collapse. And that
Speaker 1: wasn't true of the Lob City era. But there there
Speaker 1: is a in the real old heads. Wow, in the
Speaker 1: real one lead for the real old heads. You like,
Speaker 1: you go to some of these stadiums and watch basketball
Speaker 1: games and your team is winning and then they go
Speaker 1: down ten and they're like that's all right, and the
Speaker 1: Clippers they go down ten and the people have been
Speaker 1: watching for a long time ago, oh nuts.
Speaker 2: But we also were waiting for the other shoe to
Speaker 2: drop all the time.
Speaker 1: But we also turned a game because we wouldn't allow
Speaker 1: that to happen. Chris, what was the game where we
Speaker 1: were behind the Clippers bench and I was screaming where
Speaker 1: I made everyone put their shirts? It was Game seven
Speaker 1: versus the Spurs with Chris Paul doing the layup over
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan's fingertips, and we were down, and Chris and
Speaker 1: I moved down to about ten rows behind the bench.
Speaker 1: I started yelling at people to put their free T
Speaker 1: shirts on. First, you kept and you kept yelling we
Speaker 1: will win, we will win to win, and then other
Speaker 1: people started screaming it. I think because they were terrified,
Speaker 1: and also we're such egomaniacs that we think that that
Speaker 1: made a difference.
Speaker 2: It did.
Speaker 1: When the whole shadium starts screaming we are going to win,
Speaker 1: and then suddenly everyone starts hitting their shots. You think
Speaker 1: that's unrelated, Well, sure, I guess not. Moments that's a
Speaker 1: funny thing.
Speaker 2: What was on those T shirts was that all hands
Speaker 2: in it takes everyone give no cord or.
Speaker 1: What was the motto that year? I think it was
Speaker 1: just yr Yeah. The worst one is playoffs Our way.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was like, so squeak out in round
Speaker 1: one or two, like, let's not do playoffs our way,
Speaker 1: a new way, Let's do a new way. Street lights
Speaker 1: not spotlights.
Speaker 2: Look, there were some understandably regrettable slogans along the way,
Speaker 2: But all right.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Adam, I don't mean to interrupt here, but
Speaker 3: usually on our show, I do some Clippers trivia and
Speaker 3: I asked Hank trivia question.
Speaker 1: It's not questions, just just just you shush, bro.
Speaker 2: I'm just hanging it out, guys.
Speaker 1: So, Adam Osland, I have a question for you. And
Speaker 1: this is not Clippers trivia.
Speaker 3: This is chris Co Wild Clippers trivia, chris Co Wild
Speaker 3: Centric trivia.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask Adam. I'm gonna ask Hank this question google.
Speaker 2: A bowl because it's chris Co wiled.
Speaker 3: I mean, you could you guys can feel free to
Speaker 3: cheat you guys, can you It's an open book.
Speaker 1: It never, I would never, It's an open book. Test.
Speaker 3: Now I'm on the official Clippers talk show, Clippers Talk
Speaker 3: with Adam Ausland, host of Clipper Talk as well as
Speaker 3: host of Clips and Dip, a fabulous Clippers podcast. What
Speaker 3: do you think that I got for dinner tonight knowing
Speaker 3: I was going on Clipper Talk.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Adam Ausland. What do you think I
Speaker 1: ordered for dinner tonight knowing I was going on clipper Talk?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 2: Ooh, so this is testing my knowledge of your Guys
Speaker 2: show basically right now, or.
Speaker 3: Your knowledge of Clippers, or your knowledge of talking about clippers,
Speaker 3: your Clipper Talk knowledge, your Chris Kwild.
Speaker 2: So it's not related to the Clippers. It's related to
Speaker 2: you personally in your stomach.
Speaker 1: I mean, no spoilers, bro, no spoilers.
Speaker 2: Can I call a friend, my god, Henry pick up
Speaker 2: the phone.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can guess. I think you got Los Angeles
Speaker 1: fish and clippers. So fish and clips? Yeah, fishing clips.
Speaker 2: You got dip?
Speaker 1: You got some dip. That has to be it right,
Speaker 1: So hold on a second.
Speaker 3: They're probably so there probably is some dip in here.
Speaker 3: There is, and it's going to be a dead giveaway.
Speaker 1: Oh you got a free Chick fil A. Okay, I
Speaker 1: got ship fil A. What I'm gonna go to Long
Speaker 1: John Silvers and get fishing clips? You would if they
Speaker 1: had a clippers name, fish and chips.
Speaker 3: Oh dude, if Mom John Silvers was this was the
Speaker 3: sponsor exclusively.
Speaker 1: I get type two diabetes. I'd be one hundred pounds
Speaker 1: heavier if it still existed.
Speaker 2: But okay, uh yeah, I missed that one fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Should have known it was Clippers relay. You missed two
Speaker 2: as the road team, everybody gets Chick fil a sandwich here.
Speaker 3: I think one of my highlights of the last season
Speaker 3: was Boban intentionally missing both free throws in the in
Speaker 3: the Clipper fan appreciation game and gave the entire building
Speaker 3: free chicken.
Speaker 1: That was classic Bobon. I love that. I would love
Speaker 1: to circle back and answer your question, which is I think,
Speaker 1: which is what's it like being the positive home Clipper homer?
Speaker 1: And I think that reality can be a bummer, and
Speaker 1: it's not very difficult to look at and find the
Speaker 1: things that are wrong when a team loses or when
Speaker 1: things fall apart and stuff like that. And I think
Speaker 1: that the people who there aren't a lot of fair
Speaker 1: weather Clippers fans in my life. They're an old school
Speaker 1: they've been around, all in, and they're all in, and
Speaker 1: we're excited to be a voice for them because we
Speaker 1: get a lot of messages from people who're like, hey man, thanks,
Speaker 1: the last thing we want is to like hear how
Speaker 1: bad it is when it's when we lose a game,
Speaker 1: especially because a lot of times we're having these terrible conversations,
Speaker 1: but the Clippers when they're still winning.
Speaker 3: There was a time when we would only do shows
Speaker 3: after playoff wins and not after playoff losses, like hoping.
Speaker 1: That would like it didn't help into a championship, and
Speaker 1: it did not help you. No, it did not help.
Speaker 1: We eventually had to clip cast after as people were like,
Speaker 1: how come you quit doing the show.
Speaker 2: I just remember listening to your playoff preview against Dallas
Speaker 2: and Chris calling my ass out forgiven the Mavericks credit
Speaker 2: for bringing in Gafford and who else did they get? PJ? Washington?
Speaker 3: Yeah, does Adam osin love these guys? And you were
Speaker 3: right way the Western Conference champions So you call right, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think I understood exactly where you were coming from
Speaker 2: because when you said clips and four in that series,
Speaker 2: it's because it's part of the show. It's part of
Speaker 2: your character on the show. And I was like, is
Speaker 2: this guy crazy here? What's going on with.
Speaker 3: My wildest take that like literally pissed people off, like
Speaker 3: like Lucas Hans still to this day won't talk to me.
Speaker 3: I was like, Terrence Man greater than s g A,
Speaker 3: and it literally like it broke people's brain.
Speaker 1: You couldn't handle it.
Speaker 3: And I was like, because Terrence Man Game six, round two,
Speaker 3: like SGA didn't do that for us, Like, yes, SGA
Speaker 3: is MVP caliber.
Speaker 2: Did you meant greater Clipper?
Speaker 1: Of course, of course I meant greater Clipper. But also
Speaker 1: it's on brand SG. It's on brand for me to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying to say something completely outlandish
Speaker 3: and not based in any sort of sport fact. It's
Speaker 3: all sport fan fiction coming from my mouth to the
Speaker 3: Clipper Nation's ears. But someday it will be true.
Speaker 1: And maybe we won't go eighty two and Ozero, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna win that damn chip one year. We're gonna
Speaker 1: win that chip, and they're gonna think about us when
Speaker 1: they win it. We'll be at that parade, all three
Speaker 1: of us. Is wild.
Speaker 2: Your real last name or a stage name is my.
Speaker 3: True like my birth my government name is Ralph Lawler,
Speaker 3: but that was already taken.
Speaker 1: Then go oh me, oh my Adam.
Speaker 2: I will be by the way visiting with Ralph Lawler
Speaker 2: and doing an interview up in Oregon in Bend this weekend,
Speaker 2: So it might take a love se Joe Sweet Joe
Speaker 2: will be there. I got a cameraman. It's gonna look good,
Speaker 2: it's gonna look professional. I probably won't be, but Ralph
Speaker 2: Lawler will be. I just revisited his book again and
Speaker 2: read it again this past weekend, so I'm prepared. But
Speaker 2: if you guys have questions with the comments section, put
Speaker 2: him in, or if you guys have anything you want
Speaker 2: to know from Ralph Lawler, what he's been doing in
Speaker 2: retirement or whatnot. I'm sure you got some creative fun
Speaker 2: stuff you'd like to ask him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Like, first of all, I know he doesn't really
Speaker 3: I know he doesn't really care. But what I mean,
Speaker 3: if he could pick, would he rather have a statue
Speaker 3: at the new stadium, okay? Or would he rather they
Speaker 3: retire his number and the number be one hundred for
Speaker 3: Lawler's So that asks my question for you to ask
Speaker 3: Ralph when you see him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if had to pick, because it's also possible both, and.
Speaker 2: It's also possible neither be too far, too modest to
Speaker 2: want to answer. But it is a good question that
Speaker 2: would be the jersey number for sure, they do so.
Speaker 3: Not like one hundred, not a microphone, like one hundred
Speaker 3: Lawler in the rafters?
Speaker 1: What if the one is a microphone? Okay, there you go,
Speaker 1: there you go. I'll take it with. Who do you think.
Speaker 3: Should be the first retired jersey hanging from the rafters
Speaker 3: and win Blake next year?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Hard agree? I agree.
Speaker 2: As Henry said earlier, that was the turning point. Brian
Speaker 2: Seeman says it all the time, but he helped put
Speaker 2: the Clippers on the map because all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: every night they were on Sports Center, whether or not
Speaker 2: they were winning his initial rookie year after hurting his
Speaker 2: knee the first year in preseason, they were exciting, They
Speaker 2: were fun to watch, and Lob City was just getting started.
Speaker 2: Then you bring in CP three and uh, the air
Speaker 2: was truly born.
Speaker 1: But I mean also Will Ferrell smart enough in the
Speaker 1: very early days of Funnier Die to bring Blake Griffin
Speaker 1: into do sketches. No one had really come straight out
Speaker 1: of straight into the NBA or any sport immediately looking
Speaker 1: to tackle the entertainment industry like Blake did.
Speaker 2: He was in every key of commercial going on he
Speaker 2: was everywhere. He jumped over the car with the pass
Speaker 2: from Baron Davis in the All Star Game, and.
Speaker 1: Then he punched a guy.
Speaker 2: But they were like best friends too.
Speaker 1: Damn Andre was his best friend.
Speaker 2: Well it was of the equipment manager.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that guy was a third.
Speaker 2: Wheel man, Okay, and maybe he was third wheeling a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: I just follow up question.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you're better friends for it, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Do you think they should retire Deandre's number. He's got
Speaker 3: a lot of records, a lot of Clipper records.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with him. I think they should blake
Speaker 1: and deandret I think that, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say L word. Fans do not like
Speaker 2: hearing stuff like this. Other fan bases wouldn't understand it.
Speaker 2: But if you take from where the Clippers were with
Speaker 2: all that losing for so long, and we just talked
Speaker 2: about thirteen straight winning seasons, this is progress. Ten years
Speaker 2: with Steve Baumer, ten years with a great owner, after
Speaker 2: having an owner who was actively working against them for
Speaker 2: forty years, almost.
Speaker 1: About and against people in general, working against the people
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: If ownership is the greatest advantage in sports, the Clippers
Speaker 2: were at a disadvantage for almost forty seasons.
Speaker 3: Did you guys watch Clipped, the soapcom with Laurence Fishburne
Speaker 3: with as dude?
Speaker 1: The last scene was the best scene in the whole series.
Speaker 1: I'd love to tell you I'll go back and watch it,
Speaker 1: but I just just fast forward to the very end.
Speaker 1: Just trust me. The last scene is the did you
Speaker 1: watch it? Adham? Did you finish it? I did.
Speaker 2: I felt like it improved after it went along, once
Speaker 2: it got into the meat of the issue. By episode three,
Speaker 2: I don't remember the very last scene, but I did
Speaker 2: feel like it'sressed.
Speaker 3: So it's it's Doc River played by Morpheus from the Matrix,
Speaker 3: and I believe it was Elgin Baylor played by like
Speaker 3: some minister guy from Amen. If you ever watched the
Speaker 3: sitcom Amen with Sherman Helmsley, I'm pretty sure the minister.
Speaker 1: Was Elgin Baylor. Anyway.
Speaker 3: So it's Elgin Baylor and Doc Rivers in the Clippers
Speaker 3: training facility or in Staple Center and there and Elgin
Speaker 3: is shooting free throws and Doc Rivers and him have
Speaker 3: this little talk about like basically recapping what we just saw,
Speaker 3: and Shelley Sterling is kind of the bad guy.
Speaker 1: So Elgin is shooting free throws and he goes and
Speaker 1: and Doc was like, you're on a roll or something
Speaker 1: I don't know, and he goes, no, wait. He's like, wait,
Speaker 1: it's got a sound, right, and he shoots it and
Speaker 1: it goes black and you just hear the swish. I'm
Speaker 1: getting goosebumps talking about it. I had goosebumps all up
Speaker 1: and down my body. Now.
Speaker 3: Granted I watched every episode naked in a in a
Speaker 3: bathtup filled with ice, but other than that, I thought.
Speaker 2: You were gonna say uh with uh.
Speaker 1: With with v Stepiano. Okay, can I get back on.
Speaker 2: The spoilers are over?
Speaker 1: I think, oh my god, you didn't listen. I don't
Speaker 1: want to spoiler. You told me to watch it.
Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna see one of you guys
Speaker 2: in it. Honestly, I was waiting for an appearance Clipper.
Speaker 1: Daryl Clipper, I mean Clipper Darrel wasn't in it, but
Speaker 1: there was an actor portraying Clipper Darrel. If that was cool,
Speaker 1: I would have wanted to I would have wanted to
Speaker 1: have played Brad j No one gets that a long
Speaker 1: time in games. He was not long time three seasons,
Speaker 1: like Tracy was way longer than he called. He called
Speaker 1: the X Games.
Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, shout out to DJ Dents and
Speaker 3: Hannah who are so good they've been. And then also,
Speaker 3: uh r, I p rest in peace to the fallen
Speaker 3: hero of Fat Voice Move, who was the one was
Speaker 3: such a wonderful hype man when like DJ Dents knew
Speaker 3: exactly how to utilize fat Voice Move like that everything
Speaker 3: about that that was great and and and again hats
Speaker 3: off to Hannah and Dents.
Speaker 1: They run such a great show. People.
Speaker 3: People will go to Clippers games and and I don't know,
Speaker 3: I just talked to strangers, man, so like people will
Speaker 3: talk to me. This is my first Clipper game ever.
Speaker 3: I've been to a ton of stupid L word games.
Speaker 3: This is way more fun.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I know. Because we don't hate ourselves.
Speaker 1: We don't have the lights out where you can't see
Speaker 1: your neighbor. We don't show up late, We're not just
Speaker 1: staring at our phones the whole time, we don't leave
Speaker 1: early like these that those fans are so spoiled. I
Speaker 1: think they've been in half the NBA finals.
Speaker 2: Like literally, they're entitled because of their titles exactly.
Speaker 1: But they've lost more than they've won when they got there,
Speaker 1: which I absolutely love there.
Speaker 2: I think they're under the Celtics and the sixth thanks
Speaker 2: to the Celtics, who you know, we kind of we
Speaker 2: kind of see eye to eye with them once in
Speaker 2: a while. When it comes to the L word, why
Speaker 2: do you, guys? I want to ask you just lay
Speaker 2: out all the reasons of why you hate the L
Speaker 2: words so much, and I can jump into being from Sacramento.
Speaker 2: I like Magic Johnson as a kid. He was my
Speaker 2: favorite player ever. And I like the eighties Lakers and
Speaker 2: Showtime Lakers.
Speaker 1: I like the Colors.
Speaker 2: I was so young that was enough to appeal to me.
Speaker 2: But the Kobe Shaq era completely turned me off. And
Speaker 2: then the series against the Kings in two thousand and
Speaker 2: two where they got twenty twenty seven free throws in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter of that game six. Whenever somebody says, oh,
Speaker 2: I hope we played the Lakers this year in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: I go, guys, I don't know if you want that.
Speaker 2: I know how that a series like that can go.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have every advantage possible.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's because of their style of play
Speaker 3: that they get to the free throw line so much
Speaker 3: more than everyone else, or do you think the league
Speaker 3: that the tables waited.
Speaker 2: All I know is I think they ended up taking
Speaker 2: over the last two seasons something like three hundred to
Speaker 2: four hundred more free throws on the next closest team
Speaker 2: to them, while being last in drives per game. That
Speaker 2: doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Wow, iow
Speaker 2: is far to rational.
Speaker 1: The whole that's the whole argument. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: another reason why Burbank Hank hates the L word. And
Speaker 1: by the way, he didn't used to. He used to
Speaker 1: be a big L word fan.
Speaker 3: He liked all LA teams when he moved to LA
Speaker 3: in the late nineties, and who can blame him. LA
Speaker 3: Kings were great, the L word was great, The Coppers weren't.
Speaker 3: Dodgers were not great during that time, but whatever, they
Speaker 3: were fun. And I think that, by the way, is
Speaker 3: the team that has the most love throughout the city
Speaker 3: is the Dodgers one hundred percent. Second is the l
Speaker 3: It's a Dodgers town, Yeah, one hundred percent of Dodger Town.
Speaker 3: But burbankank one of the reasons that he's grown to
Speaker 3: hate the L word is because of their fans and
Speaker 3: the way they treated us at Staples Center.
Speaker 1: And I'm doing something that Hank hates. I am wearing
Speaker 1: a jersey with no undershirt. I hate it as if
Speaker 1: I'm a player about to go into the you're a
Speaker 1: fan at a state, you're at the beach, or you're
Speaker 1: a professional basketball player. You could wear a jersey with
Speaker 1: no teach shirt. I'm at the beach, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're at a stadium watching a game put on. I
Speaker 1: would rather you wear your dress shirt from work with
Speaker 1: a jersey over it, which I prefer as a look
Speaker 1: to a civilian wearing no undershirt beare shoulders and a
Speaker 1: night out in lawsuit. And you guys like, look at
Speaker 1: this Farmers stand. This is one of my great Farmers fans.
Speaker 1: Time wet suit tan line.
Speaker 2: I look, if there's a day to do, it is today, right, Henry.
Speaker 1: There's a day when I still not, I still don't
Speaker 1: like it. When when I when I so that the
Speaker 1: after story. The story that happened prior was that before
Speaker 1: we got the season tickets, I got here, wanted to
Speaker 1: become a Clippers fan. They didn't really have a TV deal,
Speaker 1: so you couldn't really watch Clippers, not every game. And
Speaker 1: at the same time, I was living with a Lakers fan,
Speaker 1: and we became Lakers fans, uh, And that was because
Speaker 1: every game was on TV, and then we got the
Speaker 1: season tickets. I was still watching both teams, cheering for
Speaker 1: both teams. And then what Chris just said, we when
Speaker 1: the Clippers were terrible, we would lose to the Lakers
Speaker 1: by twenty something points at our home game, and Lakers
Speaker 1: fans would cuss us out and call us homes legitimately,
Speaker 1: call us homophobic slurs. Walking out of the game, We're like,
Speaker 1: we we we're we We're the worst and you're the best.
Speaker 1: Like it was such a punching down, so it was
Speaker 1: really hard to take and we that was you and
Speaker 1: I are perfect, gentleman.
Speaker 3: That's so nice, especially especially twenty years ago when Chris
Speaker 3: Wilde was in his twenties, so temperant.
Speaker 1: So we we would lose games by not at all
Speaker 1: as soon we wore games.
Speaker 3: Yes, we would, we wear dress shirts from work and
Speaker 3: put a jersey over it.
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 2: We would win.
Speaker 1: We'd lose games by ten and turn around and heckle
Speaker 1: fans and say, oh, you're only beating us by ten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's like, that's why I loved the knuckleheads. They
Speaker 1: he would rejoice and lose games.
Speaker 3: They were celebrating because they couldn't believe they were nineteen
Speaker 3: years old in the league, the youngest team in the NBA,
Speaker 3: having the time of their lives. Like, how do you
Speaker 3: not get swept away in all of that? And truth
Speaker 3: be told, I am the son of a Cubs fan,
Speaker 3: long suffering Cubs fan. I saw what it meant to
Speaker 3: this man to see his team win a championship in
Speaker 3: his lifetime, after going sixty plus years of his lifetime
Speaker 3: without a title. And he would say, Reverend doctor, and
Speaker 3: he would say like, oh, you know Clippers this and that.
Speaker 1: I go, oh, shut up, old man, you just won
Speaker 1: one one hundred years ago. We haven't won one a
Speaker 1: hundred years ago. So like one hundred and whatever years later,
Speaker 1: they win another one and it meant the world to
Speaker 1: him and meant the world to me.
Speaker 3: I remember they announced that at a Clipper game. I
Speaker 3: was at a Clipper game when the Cubby Bears beat
Speaker 3: the Cleveland not Guardians, and it was an amazing moment.
Speaker 3: It was a radical moment, and everybody was rejoicing. So anyway,
Speaker 3: a son of a Cubs fan, the Clippers just made
Speaker 3: all the sense in the world.
Speaker 1: And again, when we win it all, it will mean
Speaker 1: so much more to us than the L word fans stupid,
Speaker 1: twentieth whatever, nineteenth whatever it is. A couple of them
Speaker 1: are in Minneapolis where they actually have lakes, like, get
Speaker 1: out of here.
Speaker 2: I still hear these sarcastic remarks right now. I think
Speaker 2: Snoop Dog had one on the podcasts recently.
Speaker 1: Someone brought it over him and I was over it all.
Speaker 2: The Smoke podcasts with Matt Barnes, he brought up the
Speaker 2: wall situation and he made a crack about how are
Speaker 2: they going to be able to fill it with Clippers fans?
Speaker 2: Don't you guys feel like a lot of people are
Speaker 2: going to turn heads finally and realize, oh, this Clippers
Speaker 2: fan base is much bigger than we thought now that
Speaker 2: they have the end to it.
Speaker 3: Don't It's not shocking to me that popular rappers from
Speaker 3: the nineties are still living in the nineties.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the dust Rushes, Native Tongues.
Speaker 2: Bro Biggie was a huge underground Clippers fans.
Speaker 1: People don't realize this that's right, Christopher Wallace man, he
Speaker 1: works for the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sure appreciate it is. This is the Clippers
Speaker 2: fans time, though to you know, if people thought they
Speaker 2: were hiding in the shadows or anything like that, or
Speaker 2: in the woodwork and weren't coming out. I know they've
Speaker 2: had a successful run over the last decade plus, but
Speaker 2: they have their own home and they have the fans
Speaker 2: to fill it now they do.
Speaker 1: This is not such a grassroots thing. No, they do,
Speaker 1: They absolutely do.
Speaker 3: I was sexing with Seamen and he said he was
Speaker 3: at some dry run maybe you were there at him
Speaker 3: where like Balmer invited like six thousand fans or something,
Speaker 3: and it wasn't capacity, but there was six thousand loud
Speaker 3: fans at that wall.
Speaker 1: And he was like, Chris, it was unbelievable. It'll blow
Speaker 1: your mind, it'll blow your ear drums. The advantage is real,
Speaker 1: the advantage that we're about to have starting October such
Speaker 1: and such versus the hated Phoenix Suns. The advantage is
Speaker 1: real and I can't wait, man, like especially thirteen winning seasons,
Speaker 1: thirteen winning seasons bringing that with you, so keep that cooking,
Speaker 1: like we may not have a losing season in that
Speaker 1: building in the next decade, like why not go another thirteen?
Speaker 1: Like let's see, man, let's see what happened. And we've never, ever, never, nerver,
Speaker 1: ever had any kind of a home court advantage. We've
Speaker 1: never had that.
Speaker 3: No, I mean in the postseason we did, man, our
Speaker 3: fans got good at the end of twenty one was
Speaker 3: real yea, yeah, we were down twenty plus and our
Speaker 3: fans willed us back into that game. Now, yes, I
Speaker 3: don't disagree with that, but there also was pretty much
Speaker 3: you could you could. You wouldn't be surprised if any
Speaker 3: game of the season suddenly you were out numbered by
Speaker 3: loud fans. There's never been a season where you'd be
Speaker 3: surprised if there was a contingent that was louder than you.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was the usual suspects, though.
Speaker 3: It was like Boston and obviously a Word and Warriors
Speaker 3: and Knicks fans and Labs.
Speaker 1: And then now but only briefly, the Suns.
Speaker 2: Who are your five most hated teams? I know the
Speaker 2: Sun might be number two.
Speaker 3: So definitely l Word, Warriors, Sons like yeah, but I'm
Speaker 3: I would flip it just one who's more relevant?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: What I mean, like, it's always gonna be l word
Speaker 3: number one for me, and then depending on who's more relevant,
Speaker 3: it's Warriors or Sons.
Speaker 1: If I had sons for me, who would you choose?
Speaker 1: If you had to choose, I would choose I would
Speaker 1: choose Dubs and then Sons. But I would choose Sons
Speaker 1: because they ain't number one nothing. They never won, man,
Speaker 1: they never won. With the Warriors. It's like, okay, you
Speaker 1: won it, you won four times and however many see okay,
Speaker 1: but the Sons suddenly started clucking around like they were
Speaker 1: the champs and they never won anything.
Speaker 2: Sons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So I think, is that is your top three?
Speaker 3: It seems the same as mine. L word, Warriors, Sons,
Speaker 3: reverse order, whatever.
Speaker 1: Okay, who would be four and five? Hank? It's always
Speaker 1: sly Western Conference. Well, I got a real loud mouth
Speaker 1: Knicks fan friend who won't shut.
Speaker 2: Up, and they have won a long time, a long time.
Speaker 1: And he went, he went, He went and sat in
Speaker 1: the three hundred section for Knicks Clippers on a Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: and when he stopt texting everyone he knew. But like
Speaker 1: a Knick's home game, but like a Knick's home game.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure Clippers won that game. But that's personal,
Speaker 1: that's not about the team. I really can't think of
Speaker 1: another team I hate as much as the three of them. Oz,
Speaker 1: do you have more?
Speaker 3: I hate the cos the Pelicans because they beat us,
Speaker 3: because I hate them.
Speaker 2: That's brutal. Uh. The Rockets I didn't like only because
Speaker 2: when CP three went there and the first game back
Speaker 2: at Staples Center was the little dust up he and
Speaker 2: Blake got into, and then the tunnel thing. There was
Speaker 2: some hatred there if you want to go players now
Speaker 2: that we don't like. And I still always appreciate CP three,
Speaker 2: but a lot of people don't like him.
Speaker 3: Aymore, no, no, no, he's he's got such a huge
Speaker 3: chip on his shoulder, like he like, it's not our
Speaker 3: fault you're short, dude, Like it's not our fault that
Speaker 3: you were born five foot ten and you list yourself
Speaker 3: six foot or six foot one. That guy sees eye
Speaker 3: to eye when we are we're face to face, we're
Speaker 3: looking at each other dead in the eyes. That dude
Speaker 3: is five foot ten tops.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3: Okay, see Thunder, by the way makes my top five
Speaker 3: those people, because what they did to Seattle, unless you're
Speaker 3: from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: That way, they didn't do it.
Speaker 3: But any one of those Starbucks fans are front runners
Speaker 3: for a team that hasn't won, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Like I don't.
Speaker 1: Was my first nam was the Seattle SuperSonics. Was my
Speaker 1: first team I rooted for in best.
Speaker 2: I like Seattle.
Speaker 1: I have a soft smart they're gonna have They're gonna
Speaker 1: have a team any minute.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hashtag Sonics gate. Yeah, them in Vegas are
Speaker 2: getting the next two teams.
Speaker 3: So my buddy is a diehard Seattle SuperSonics fan. Diehard
Speaker 3: Seattle guy, diehard Seattle Seahawks fan. He was doing business
Speaker 3: in Oklahoma City right before the stadium was about to open,
Speaker 3: similar to our stadium.
Speaker 1: It's just about to open. They're getting ready the hoopla.
Speaker 1: It's like a few weeks away. He said. There was
Speaker 1: a tree planter outside the stadium with like a sapling
Speaker 1: growing like ever so delicately in the tree planter outside
Speaker 1: the brand new stadium. He said he took a dump
Speaker 1: in that tree stand and said, I said, well, but
Speaker 1: that's gonna help fertilize that tree. And he told me
Speaker 1: that is a hate tree that's growing.
Speaker 3: Outside that stadium, a cursed hate tree. So the thunder
Speaker 3: could never win because of that hate tree that's growing outside.
Speaker 1: And by the way, have you ever been to okcee
Speaker 1: do you know anything about the haunted hotel that the
Speaker 1: players have to stay?
Speaker 2: Thank you for changing this subject, but I've only heard
Speaker 2: you guys talk about the haunted hotel.
Speaker 3: To be honest, Okay, we gotta go a deep dive
Speaker 3: because I think my friend took a dump at that
Speaker 3: hotel and it's been haunted ever since.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm probably an unholy shit, Like let me know
Speaker 2: of the demonic came out? Maybe what other players outside
Speaker 2: of CP three, who again, I also think is a
Speaker 2: guy in these Avage Jersey retired at some point into it.
Speaker 1: Tell but right now possibly, yeah, I would wound.
Speaker 2: You know, it hasn't exactly closed yet, but if he
Speaker 2: came back this season, if they made that trade with
Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors, I think very quickly people would
Speaker 2: get back on board with Chris Paul Well, that's like.
Speaker 3: That's like James Harden, right, that's like Russell Westbrook. It's like,
Speaker 3: you don't I didn't like those guys. I didn't like
Speaker 3: necessarily hate on those guys, but I certainly didn't like them.
Speaker 3: And then when they joined our team, I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, it is so fun rooting for James Harden. Like,
Speaker 3: holy cow, this guy is amazing and he's our quarterback.
Speaker 3: That's why, by the way, people are sleeping on us.
Speaker 1: Let him sleep. James Harden, knock On Wood, doesn't get
Speaker 1: injured a lot. He's gonna give you seventy games this season.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the average is, but it's a
Speaker 1: lot of games. He plays a slow paced game. He's
Speaker 1: got a big but he's a he's a great quarterback.
Speaker 1: He like leans into guys. He takes his damn time.
Speaker 3: He's not getting injured. So I like that he's our
Speaker 3: quarterback and we don't have to do the will they
Speaker 3: won't they with Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: So it's James Harden's team. It's not Kawi's team. It's
Speaker 1: James Harden's team. I think we're in good shape. Guys
Speaker 1: that I hate, obviously, I hate Anthony Davis. I hate
Speaker 1: Lebron Clay Thompson, Clay, you guys hate Clay. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: the worst. He's the worst. He had no chill when
Speaker 1: they were good and Dad wouldn't shut up on the radio.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, click click click, Clay. And he got
Speaker 1: interviewed and they said they he made up basically a question.
Speaker 1: They were asking him, kind of question about the season.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, are we the best team ever? And
Speaker 1: it's like, no one asks you that, Clay. No one
Speaker 1: asks if you're the best team ever. I know, and
Speaker 1: by the way, they did actually ask him, but it's
Speaker 1: just like, I just try to really back up my hate.
Speaker 1: I can't stand him. And then it went on and
Speaker 1: on about the Clippers and their fans and all this again.
Speaker 1: Stand up. I'm glad he's in Dallas, and I hope
Speaker 1: nothing good happens for him.
Speaker 2: Do you guys hate Luca for now? Until the Clippers
Speaker 2: could try to make a fish at him in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six.
Speaker 1: Completely can't stand Luca. He's he's by the way everything
Speaker 1: along with our league. He's from the very first tip
Speaker 1: of the very first minute of the very first game
Speaker 1: of the season, he's running around crying about every play.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying that as a Clippers fan from during
Speaker 1: the Love City era where maybe we cried a little
Speaker 1: too much. My nickname refs. My nickname for Luka don't
Speaker 1: Cic is Luca. Don't you just hate Luka? Don't cic?
Speaker 1: That's what I call him, call the stand. I can't
Speaker 1: stand Luca. He's the worst. Just history on it. Especially
Speaker 1: Dirk Noovinsky was the best. Dirk was the best. Here's
Speaker 1: a social experiment, Chris, you've said you hate Luka, don't cic. Chris,
Speaker 1: the Clippers just got Luca. Don't favorite player. He's good, just.
Speaker 2: Him face with passion. You remember Brian Steeman what he
Speaker 2: would always say for Chris, Paul the King of clever.
Speaker 2: As Chris was up to his antics, then you just
Speaker 2: have to spin it that way.
Speaker 1: He hit a lot of guys in the in the beans,
Speaker 1: king of clever guys. How did it make you guys?
Speaker 1: How did it make you guys feel when you found
Speaker 1: out JJ Reddick coaching the l Word? How did it
Speaker 1: make you feel? Because I got nothing but love for
Speaker 1: JJ up until.
Speaker 2: Obviously I don't want the Lakers to succeed. Succeed, but
Speaker 2: I have a hard time rudy against JJ Reddick. I
Speaker 2: agree with a lot of his opinions. I think he
Speaker 2: has a great basketball mind. I don't think it's a
Speaker 2: bad higher. I do think Darvin Ham lost them five
Speaker 2: to seven games last year. I think he was really bad.
Speaker 2: It's concerning to me, honestly, because I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: make them better.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know if he's a coach. He's got
Speaker 1: no coaching experience in they need a coach.
Speaker 2: I he has a coaching staff with Lebron James, one
Speaker 2: of the other greatest minds in NBA history. Like, what
Speaker 2: they didn't do right last year was simply play the
Speaker 2: roster in the lineup that got them to the Western
Speaker 2: Conference Finals the year before.
Speaker 1: Hard or just call it time out. Was tyleru a
Speaker 1: head coach before he was? Excuse me? Was Tyler an
Speaker 1: assistant coach before he was a head coach? Yes? Right,
Speaker 1: he was.
Speaker 2: Docs was the assistant with Cleveland and he was an
Speaker 2: assistant Yeah, with Doc before.
Speaker 1: That, Okay, and then he became a coach. He got
Speaker 1: bumped up. He didn't get bumped up because the coach
Speaker 1: got fired. Right, he became head coach.
Speaker 2: He won the championship with Cleveland twenty sixteen. They came
Speaker 2: back down three to one. He was playing Richard Jefferson
Speaker 2: in that game. Seven Old Ash Richard Jefferson, and it worked.
Speaker 2: It was brilliant.
Speaker 1: Not only.
Speaker 3: Not only do we have a better building, we got
Speaker 3: a better coach, a lot better. Tyler is a lot
Speaker 3: better head coach than JJ Bedick, of.
Speaker 2: Course, no doubt. I just think JJ, already having not
Speaker 2: coached at all, better than Darvin Ham.
Speaker 1: That's true with that, But being a great player does
Speaker 1: it make you a great coach. No took Jason Kiddy
Speaker 1: a very long time to get any good at coaching.
Speaker 2: I mean, Isaiah Thomas wasn't a good head coach. The
Speaker 2: one guy, Magic Johnson. The one guy who was pretty
Speaker 2: good and then just stepped down was Larry Bird with Indiana.
Speaker 2: Larry Bird was a good head coach who was an
Speaker 2: all time great player. But JJ is kind of in between,
Speaker 2: like when you have become managers. Yeah, he's he was
Speaker 2: a good player. He's not a Hall of famer, even
Speaker 2: though he does have some three points stuff going in
Speaker 2: his favor. He's not a Hall of famer. He's probably
Speaker 2: right in that range of relatability, but still being able
Speaker 2: to get the most out of guys and be tough
Speaker 2: on them when he needs to. Yeah, I think they're
Speaker 2: better with him, Whether or not. That means, you know,
Speaker 2: we have to be too concerned about the L word.
Speaker 2: I just know in the standings, the stuff coming season.
Speaker 2: I know you guys just went over the schedule for
Speaker 2: the Clippers. It feels like play in to sixty sixth.
Speaker 1: Seed being that was what I walked away with from
Speaker 1: our schedule party episode, was that we I thought the
Speaker 1: number we'd land I can't remember the actual number of
Speaker 1: wins would leave us in that sixth I was thinking
Speaker 1: six to eight exactly. But I'm an optimates but that
Speaker 1: is but that's also as constructed, and I don't think
Speaker 1: we're gonna be this team all season. Well again, we
Speaker 1: don't have a we don't have a second stream power forward,
Speaker 1: and our power forward can't finish the season. We gotta
Speaker 1: get more guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you tell me Kawhi is playing sixty plus games,
Speaker 2: I could say, Okay, they have a real shot the
Speaker 2: sixth spot, maybe even the five spot if things broke
Speaker 2: their way or if they still made another move.
Speaker 1: But we have a backup to him, PJ. Tucker, who's
Speaker 1: our other power forward.
Speaker 2: I don't know if PJ. Tucker's going to be on
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying they're literally was.
Speaker 2: The backup, and he is somebody who's gonna play twenty
Speaker 2: minutes a night at most, So that's not a great situation.
Speaker 2: Kobe Brown will get minutes there. You know, if you
Speaker 2: want to play Jordan Miller, if he could guard up
Speaker 2: a little bit more, I don't know if he can
Speaker 2: though a mere coffee, same thing.
Speaker 1: We have a Kobe, we have a Jordan. We have
Speaker 1: a Kobe and a Jordan.
Speaker 3: Adam, while I'm on your show, can you please talk
Speaker 3: to me about our juniors. I know everything that there
Speaker 3: is to know about Brandon Boston Junior, but we got
Speaker 3: three juniors on the squad.
Speaker 1: We got a Porter junior, we got a Jones junior's
Speaker 1: I don't know about Derek Jones. Sorry, I don't know
Speaker 1: these guys. I don't know. James Junior will be our
Speaker 1: starting small forward, so but I don't know much about him.
Speaker 2: You think he's gonna start, He's gonna play the three.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna start. James Harden next to Terrence Man,
Speaker 2: next to Derek Jones Junior, next to Kawhi, next to
Speaker 2: eat Is Zubost. The only other guy could see.
Speaker 1: Being in there too.
Speaker 2: No I think Powell possibly for Terrence Man, but I
Speaker 2: don't want that because I want them to be more
Speaker 2: defensive oriented. And with that starting up outside of James Harden,
Speaker 2: you got four great defenders on the floor. They're gonna
Speaker 2: lean into defense, which they need to remember. They came
Speaker 2: into last season saying they want to be a top
Speaker 2: five defense to get back to playing defense. They finished seventeenth,
Speaker 2: and they were worse than that the last seventy games
Speaker 2: they were missing.
Speaker 1: So by wait a second, that was the thing, right,
Speaker 1: was that we brought in James Harden and everyone said,
Speaker 1: get ready, he doesn't play any defense, And for about
Speaker 1: six weeks he was the best defender the Clippers had
Speaker 1: and one of the best defenders in the league. He
Speaker 1: suddenly was playing defense, and then he was getting steals.
Speaker 1: He was getting stopped. All right, now we're gonna start
Speaker 1: calling each other on being hyperbolic. Now we're gonna do
Speaker 1: you guys ever do that? He definitely he was greatst
Speaker 1: covering guys, he was getting steals, and literally on sports
Speaker 1: radio everyone was like, wow, James Harden's playing defense. This
Speaker 1: is great, and then he just stopped.
Speaker 2: I think his effort was where it needed to be
Speaker 2: while still being one of the worst defenders on the team.
Speaker 2: But for him, for his standard, sure he still was
Speaker 2: doing enough and guys didn't have to cover for him enough.
Speaker 2: And he's where he's bad is off ball.
Speaker 1: He gets caught watching steels during that December.
Speaker 2: Well he's always gotten like he's led the league in
Speaker 2: steals before, like al and Iverson led the league and
Speaker 2: steels before. It doesn't necessarily mean he was a great defender.
Speaker 2: Like those guys crashed passing lanes. They take risks and
Speaker 2: therefore they give up a lot of plays.
Speaker 1: And he's got busy hands, which I know you love, Hank,
Speaker 1: busy hands. That's what you guys have seen skilled a
Speaker 1: lot of complaints from you, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Justin Rousseau put together something fly by Night on Wait
Speaker 2: a second, wait a second, is it Rousseau?
Speaker 1: It's not I just you. I've been calling on Justin
Speaker 1: rust like that's white and.
Speaker 2: He's not French.
Speaker 4: He's likelier day he put together a mix and called
Speaker 4: it Speaking to the Heels with James Harden, the James Harden.
Speaker 2: Strip Club Mix. All his highlights of all his heels,
Speaker 2: and there were plenty of them. So when they went
Speaker 2: twenty six and five during that thirty one game run.
Speaker 2: To your point, Henry, he was more than doing his part.
Speaker 2: I think it was not a complete siber liability.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Thank their offense was so damn good defensively, even when
Speaker 2: they weren't great, it didn't matter. But still they were
Speaker 2: good enough on that and for a section of the
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 3: Were you guys don't think we could do a twenty
Speaker 3: six and five out of thirty one run with this
Speaker 3: current lineup.
Speaker 1: I'm getting that vibe. I don't know that. I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I really don't know enough about Derek Jones Junior, right,
Speaker 1: I don't really know about Derek Jones Junior. And it
Speaker 1: feels like some of these guys people are excited about
Speaker 1: that we've gotten. I just don't know enough about him yet.
Speaker 3: I still don't know if it's Michael Porter Junior or
Speaker 3: Kevin Porter Junior.
Speaker 1: I still don't know.
Speaker 2: I know Kevin Porters junior, and he's not related to Michael,
Speaker 2: and Michael is better. Michael is uh proven and a
Speaker 2: two hundred million dollar player and was a top four
Speaker 2: player on Championship.
Speaker 1: Could have had him.
Speaker 5: You could have just said, yeah, they could have. They
Speaker 5: could have had him, They could have had him, they
Speaker 5: already had s g A. Instead they went Jerome Robinson.
Speaker 5: To be fair, a lot of teams passed on Michael
Speaker 5: Porter Jr. Because of the back issues, and I think
Speaker 5: he missed his first season because of that too.
Speaker 1: Also to fair, Terrence Man greater than SGA.
Speaker 2: So to be fair, some say one one person the
Speaker 2: last day of the wild.
Speaker 3: And maybe maybe Terrence Man's mom also says that, Like
Speaker 3: I think two people.
Speaker 1: Say that, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Uh, Kevin Porter Jr. Is very talented though, guys, just
Speaker 2: the off the court stuff that is obviously.
Speaker 1: We got a fair We got a fair amount of
Speaker 1: off the court stuff coming that just came our way.
Speaker 1: That is also yeah, we'll see. Uh, he's not our
Speaker 1: only guy who's problems.
Speaker 2: Kai Jones had some mental health issues and looks to
Speaker 2: be healthy now in multiple ways. There is he had
Speaker 2: an ankle injury in play in the summer League. Has
Speaker 2: tremendous upside. I think he just turned twenty three, but
Speaker 2: can jump out of the gym. Could be a rim
Speaker 2: runner type of big that would be a great danum
Speaker 2: with James Harden at times. Kevin Porter Junior, you put
Speaker 2: up fifty on Drew Holiday in a game for the
Speaker 2: Houston Rockets. Like, yeah, average almost twenty points per game
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: You like that.
Speaker 2: The issue is off the court, and he is on
Speaker 2: a two year deal, so it seems like the Clippers
Speaker 2: are believing in investing in him.
Speaker 3: Comback clips, man, come back clips. These guys have comebacks
Speaker 3: when they come here, like Reggie Jackson, Nicholas. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of guys where they get a second shot with
Speaker 3: the clips and you're flying under the radar and you're
Speaker 3: living in this beautiful West Coast with the gorgeous weather,
Speaker 3: and it's not all the pressure that the other guys get,
Speaker 3: so you can really shine.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. It could be a redemption story. Adam,
Speaker 1: Are you sick of talking about Paul George?
Speaker 2: No, if you guys, I want to talk well with
Speaker 2: you guys a bit.
Speaker 1: Well, Well, I could cover ground that's been covered and
Speaker 1: I'm happy to do it. But I am curious what
Speaker 1: your feeling is about how what his season is like
Speaker 1: at Philly. We all know what he we all know
Speaker 1: what he did here. He underperformed here. He said he
Speaker 1: didn't want to be the number one option. He shirked
Speaker 1: his responsibility, he didn't put forth full effort, and then
Speaker 1: complained that he didn't get number one money and then
Speaker 1: aired the laundry all out like that's the long and
Speaker 1: short of it, and I love it.
Speaker 2: I love left burning bridges like this on the way
Speaker 2: out when I think it would have been close to
Speaker 2: like maybe sixty forty booze to cheers when he came
Speaker 2: back on November sixth. Now it's going to be like
Speaker 2: ninety ten boost to cheers. And that's all self inflicted.
Speaker 2: It's his own doing. It's we know how it is
Speaker 2: having a podcast and having to talk a lot, and
Speaker 2: sometimes you get yourself into trouble. But as Paul's here
Speaker 2: brought up, you can also edit that stuff out afterwards.
Speaker 2: I think he has.
Speaker 1: Took out.
Speaker 2: Could somebody get in his ear and say, maybe calling
Speaker 2: your former team, the B team that you said you
Speaker 2: grew up rooting for, so therefore you should have known
Speaker 2: where their place was in Los Angeles, So why were
Speaker 2: you actually surprised all of a sudden when you realized, oh,
Speaker 2: it's not the same as the Lakers. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the Clippers are on their way we'll see who has
Speaker 2: the funeral.
Speaker 1: Why'd you say no, thank you to the responsibility of
Speaker 1: being the leader and then complain you didn't get matching money?
Speaker 1: Literally said in multiple interviews, I just want to be Robin.
Speaker 1: I just want to be the number two. I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm a number one.
Speaker 2: Then what's the problem, and then said, just give me
Speaker 2: what Kawai got, and then two sentences later said, so
Speaker 2: they offered the one fifty and I'm like, we're in
Speaker 2: the ballpark. Now. Wait, you just said just give me
Speaker 2: what Kawai got. They offer it and you don't take it.
Speaker 1: Still now, so do you think it'd be the same
Speaker 1: So then that's my question. Do you think it's going
Speaker 1: to be the same thing in Philly? Do you think
Speaker 1: that Embiid's gonna be injured, Paul George is gonna it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be another exciting start that goes nowhere.
Speaker 2: I think there's a high likelihood of that just because
Speaker 2: of MBA's Yeah, you know, his lack of availability in
Speaker 2: the playoffs has been very similar, and even when he
Speaker 2: has been available, there's been a dirty little secret around
Speaker 2: Embi that he really hasn't performed to his capabilities. And
Speaker 2: big spots in the playoffs. Healthy or not, he has
Speaker 2: not been the guy. Obviously. They lost in the second
Speaker 2: round last year to the New York Knicks, but I
Speaker 2: have question marks. Now he has a young guy in
Speaker 2: Maxi and Tyrese Max who's only twenty three. That's very
Speaker 2: different than playing next to an older Kawhi and older
Speaker 2: James Harden. You do have a young buck that you
Speaker 2: can rely on as an innings eater. That was brilliant
Speaker 2: for them and really better I think than MBID in
Speaker 2: that playoff run for them last season. But I don't
Speaker 2: trust the health of the team, including Paul George. I
Speaker 2: know he's coming off a season where I think he
Speaker 2: played seventy eight games for the Clippers. I think some
Speaker 2: of that he pushed it to the max because he
Speaker 2: wont to make sure to get that max contract. I
Speaker 2: don't blame him for doing that season Absolutely in February
Speaker 2: when he was averaging eighteen points per game and shooting
Speaker 2: under forty percent or whatever it was, he didn't look right.
Speaker 2: He didn't look healthy to me, but he just felt
Speaker 2: like maybe he had to play through that. Now also
Speaker 2: said maybe it was the contract issue, Maybe it was
Speaker 2: that getting into his head. I don't know, but him
Speaker 2: has a third option. It's a good spot for him.
Speaker 2: There is the third option. I just don't know if
Speaker 2: they're gonna have all the pieces available when they need
Speaker 2: to in a playoff run.
Speaker 1: So you think he's the third option, he's the second option.
Speaker 1: And do you think he knows that and he wants
Speaker 1: to be three?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I think he's strilled. I think he's in for a hard, hard,
Speaker 1: rude awakening. When they said what are you most on
Speaker 1: his own podcast, what are you most excited about playing
Speaker 1: in Philly? And he said, the fan.
Speaker 2: So screwed.
Speaker 1: It's screwed. Philadelphia is the worst. Philadelphia is the worst
Speaker 1: part of your worst kind of person. Philadelphia is the worst.
Speaker 1: Fanta clause like Clipper fans are sweethearts. Were sweethearts. They're
Speaker 1: gonna thrill him. They're gonna kill him. He's dead the
Speaker 1: one hundred points in a game. They're gonna kill him.
Speaker 1: Dead on the water. He's dead on the.
Speaker 2: I'll predict with you, guys, tell me if I'm onto
Speaker 2: something here. At some point during the season, whether regular
Speaker 2: season of the playoffs, he's gonna have to have a
Speaker 2: podcast pee blackout where he goes off the air because
Speaker 2: he feels like if he doesn't, he's gonna be highly
Speaker 2: criticized by his play even more because they're gonna say
Speaker 2: all he cares about is the podcast that happens.
Speaker 1: If he does that, well you have us on immediately
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Or he has a podcast p
Speaker 1: Blackout where he gets blackout drunk and says what he
Speaker 1: really feels about the Philadelphia fans. They are terrible. There's
Speaker 1: a reason that George Washington across to Delaware to New
Speaker 1: Jersey and put Pennsylvania in the rear view. That place
Speaker 1: is horrible. That place is horrible. I would never want
Speaker 1: to mess with those fans.
Speaker 2: And here, when was it Troy Aikman who LeVar Arrington
Speaker 2: like broke his neck and he never played again. I
Speaker 2: can't remember. That wasn't Philly, It was yeah, booing Santa.
Speaker 2: It is the toughest place to play in the sports.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's most legendary sports icon is a fictional character named Rocky.
Speaker 1: It's not even a real guy. It's not a real guy.
Speaker 1: That is not that's the worst city. That is the
Speaker 1: worst city. Hold on, hold that it is a great
Speaker 1: sports city. Now, hold on, that's one of this horrible
Speaker 1: top five sports city, get sports, top sports bull bull
Speaker 1: crap to crap. That's that's that's that's that's outrageous that
Speaker 1: you're saying that the Eagles have won the championship multiple times,
Speaker 1: they're a great sports city. Get out of here. That's
Speaker 1: like called Cleveland a great sports city. It's like calling
Speaker 1: Cleveland a great sports city. If you're a horrible city,
Speaker 1: you're not a good sports city. You're a horrible city.
Speaker 1: And that's just what you are. Like Boston's a cool city,
Speaker 1: Like so it's not a really cool city. So they
Speaker 1: could be a good sports down New York City, great
Speaker 1: city in the world, that could be a good sports
Speaker 1: time obviously, l a coolest cit Icago. Chicago got a
Speaker 1: of course, the original five NHL cities sports.
Speaker 2: I heard something awful about Chicago sports over the last year,
Speaker 2: over the last calendar years, someone somebody said this on
Speaker 2: sports radio that if you combined all of their sports
Speaker 2: and added up their win percentage, it was the worst
Speaker 2: of any city in the history of sports. Like every
Speaker 2: team was so bad at once wofetime. And they've been
Speaker 2: through a lot already.
Speaker 1: Right now you're talking about just right now, last calendar year, they.
Speaker 2: Put together the worst win percentage combined of all their
Speaker 2: sporting teams. I don't know what it ended up being,
Speaker 2: like they won thirty percent of their games with all
Speaker 2: their teams something like that. Okay, I want to ask
Speaker 2: you guys. Did I listened to the last podcast.
Speaker 1: Smart very smart schedule.
Speaker 2: Reveal podcasts, and you guys went through the entire hour.
Speaker 1: We're tired again.
Speaker 2: You did the work, You did the work, no day game.
Speaker 2: But but you brought up an issue I had when
Speaker 2: I saw the schedule sixteen back to backs?
Speaker 1: Do you think what is happening? Why do we get
Speaker 1: a new stadium if we're gonna have sixteen back to backs?
Speaker 1: I thought that was an immediate fix would be that
Speaker 1: we would at least at least have the same amount
Speaker 1: of back to backs, not a record number. We've never
Speaker 1: had sixteen back to backs.
Speaker 2: We'll take fifteen, damn it, but one more, not sixteen.
Speaker 1: Over more over more. We would have taken the under
Speaker 1: we wanted, the under star Spurs. We would have taken
Speaker 1: any amount of over.
Speaker 3: That's the thing, though, You gotta win, like you gotta
Speaker 3: win to get a good schedule, and and you gotta
Speaker 3: win a lot.
Speaker 1: So it's like the Warriors were not that great until
Speaker 1: they became great. You know, so they were get in favor.
Speaker 1: They did it in the draft. Bro, they did it
Speaker 1: in the draft.
Speaker 2: I know, Jen straight winning seasons over here?
Speaker 3: What do you mean you gotta win, you gotta win chips,
Speaker 3: you gotta win multiple chips or you think that's it
Speaker 3: under you think that's the reason one hundred Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 3: don't have as many back to backs because they want
Speaker 3: to chip three years ago?
Speaker 1: Where the hell it is? I guarantee you, I guarantee
Speaker 1: you take the last four champions and none of them
Speaker 1: have as many back to backs. I mean, obviously, I
Speaker 1: think we have the most back to backs in the league.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that in front of me,
Speaker 1: but I guarantee you Milwaukee Bucks won one. Right who else? Like, like,
Speaker 1: who's a random team that won in Toronto Raptors? Like,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you they don't have as many. I win something.
Speaker 2: I'll say this. I think there are eleven teams that
Speaker 2: had sixteen back to backs, and the Clippers were one
Speaker 2: of them. Oh wow, Now how many of them though
Speaker 2: had their own arena? Have their own arena? Just built
Speaker 2: their new arenas. Getting the All Star Game, is getting
Speaker 2: the Olympics, is doing all this good for the NBA,
Speaker 2: and they still have to deal with that.
Speaker 1: I hate us They not to mention a team that
Speaker 1: it feels to me like the league would like to
Speaker 1: be relevant, like they were. They've been a marquee story.
Speaker 1: Why why put them in a situation when the backs
Speaker 1: at all? Why does it any back to backs? It
Speaker 1: really is bad?
Speaker 2: Why Adam will take it into July? No back to
Speaker 2: backs for any team? More superstars play every night.
Speaker 1: Therefore, and by the way, in the playoffs, not a
Speaker 1: single team in the in the conference finals, those last
Speaker 1: four teams, not a single team featured a recognizable star
Speaker 1: veteran that had been around. You know, there was no Lebron,
Speaker 1: there was no kd there was no Steph Curry. These guys,
Speaker 1: these there were stars in it. But like our guys
Speaker 1: that are older, that have been in the league for
Speaker 1: ten years and are still the face of the league,
Speaker 1: we're all hobbled. There's so many injuries at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. Why do there need to be any
Speaker 1: back to backs? Especially then the complaint is, but I
Speaker 1: bought a ticket, I didn't get to see every player play. Well,
Speaker 1: then do less games. Well, they're never going to do
Speaker 1: less games, sadly, because that one I know answered all
Speaker 1: your questions is money. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the one truncated season where I think we had
Speaker 3: seventy five, it was like it was a seventies.
Speaker 1: It wasn't eighty two. It was in the seventies. But
Speaker 1: the math worked out perfectly that we played everyone in
Speaker 1: the East twice, we played everyone in the West three times,
Speaker 1: so there were no tie breakers. It was the math
Speaker 1: worked so perfectly. Why aren't you doing this every season?
Speaker 1: But I get why they're not doing it whatever, And
Speaker 1: to your point about the old Heads not being there
Speaker 1: in the final four, I loved it. I loved all
Speaker 1: the I love you too, But I'm saying that if
Speaker 1: your teams are injured, what's the point.
Speaker 3: But look at the Celtics. Look what the Celtics were
Speaker 3: able to do. They didn't have any serious injuries really
Speaker 3: all season long.
Speaker 1: Their stars stayed healthy.
Speaker 2: Gave they lost Chris STAPs and still won the damn championship.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 2: But I don't think they had a top five player
Speaker 2: on that team in the end. Stato or Dalen Brown
Speaker 2: are one.
Speaker 1: But we are several seasons in a row where the
Speaker 1: download at the end of the Western Conference, at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, as Wow, whoever made it to
Speaker 1: the finals face nothing but injured teams. That has been
Speaker 1: a story for several seasons and it happens because they're
Speaker 1: playing too much. Yeah, I mean, I'm a big oh
Speaker 1: if the Stuns made it but everyone was injured like
Speaker 1: that keeps being the story as we're going into the
Speaker 1: finals here and here's the thing.
Speaker 3: Just like to go back to what you guys were saying,
Speaker 3: where Adam has the guys in a six to ten window,
Speaker 3: Hank has the guys in a six to eight window.
Speaker 1: You gotta be one, two or three if you want
Speaker 1: to win it all. You just have to. You said
Speaker 1: that HARDBA.
Speaker 2: Only two teams ever have won that were not there and.
Speaker 3: They were returning champions. Both of the teams were returning
Speaker 3: You have to be one, two or three, and it
Speaker 3: really helps to be one. Boston Celtics were the best
Speaker 3: team in the NBA and they won it all. They
Speaker 3: only lost like three times at home or something. They
Speaker 3: only lost like three playoff games or whatever it was.
Speaker 3: They had an incredible run, and I think they're for real.
Speaker 3: And I'm very glad that we're not in the Eastern
Speaker 3: Conference because Boston scares the crap at me.
Speaker 2: Is the championship window closed for this ara of Clippers basketball?
Speaker 1: Oh? Hell no, you can't go eighty two and oh
Speaker 1: and not win it.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Kawhi can still get one. I
Speaker 1: think we got to build.
Speaker 3: I think James Harden can lead us to the Promised Land.
Speaker 3: This team, like Hank said, is not going to look
Speaker 3: the same by year's end. We always make moves by
Speaker 3: the trade deadline. We've never really sat pat like ever.
Speaker 3: It's been a long time since sat pat.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, we can. Kawhi can win one. He
Speaker 1: may not.
Speaker 3: He may not be the first option when we win,
Speaker 3: but we could. Kawhi can be suited up and we
Speaker 3: can win it all. And I like, I just want
Speaker 3: baby steps, man, like I wanted that first Final four
Speaker 3: and we got it. You know, I want to be
Speaker 3: the Western Conference champs like I want that. I want
Speaker 3: to win the NBA Cup, the end season tournament won
Speaker 3: there too.
Speaker 1: I take it. Well, I I think it's I think
Speaker 1: a lot. It's funny. We don't talk about him because
Speaker 1: he's one of my favorite Clippers, and I'm glad he
Speaker 1: got his bag. But Georgia, I'm very curious to see
Speaker 1: what I'm very I'm very curious to see if Zeus's
Speaker 1: game has changed in the postseason. I'm very curious to
Speaker 1: see what much better every year.
Speaker 2: But he.
Speaker 1: And he and he, he has so definitely improved his athleticism.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see what kind of fire he brings
Speaker 1: this season. And I wonder if he's ready to climb
Speaker 1: in and take the spot that Paul George left. Obviously
Speaker 1: not the position spot, but I mean as far as
Speaker 1: being a high options getting better and better. But he
Speaker 1: needs to explode this season, and then I still think
Speaker 1: we need another piece.
Speaker 2: And I agree it feels like they're a piece away
Speaker 2: right now having lost Paul George. But they're in a
Speaker 2: decent position with more flexibility now. Also, so could happen.
Speaker 1: And the West doesn't scare me like it scares everybody else.
Speaker 1: I'm not scared of the West. Also, we've made it.
Speaker 1: We've made this is We got James Harden in season
Speaker 1: and never had chance to a chance to implement him.
Speaker 1: So I am also curious to see what happens, like
Speaker 1: these guys, guys are going place. That's something the Clippers
Speaker 1: do beautifully, has traveled together and bond and all of that.
Speaker 1: And you have to know that James Harden and Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard know whatever the question is about championship windows or
Speaker 1: bay windows or French doors, they really they they do
Speaker 1: need to put up.
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 3: I have a Kawhi Leonard question for both of you guys.
Speaker 3: Now mine is so dumb and not at all sports related.
Speaker 3: There was footage, now, there was footage of Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 3: and Paul George playing golf, hanging out in Hawaii. Do
Speaker 3: you know what Kawhi Leonard was drinking in this video?
Speaker 1: It happens to be my favorite drink. I know, I
Speaker 1: know what he called it.
Speaker 2: I know what he called it.
Speaker 1: What do you call it?
Speaker 2: Goat juice?
Speaker 1: Goat juice?
Speaker 2: They asked what is that? And he said, like, this
Speaker 2: is goat juice. We met like greatest of all times.
Speaker 1: Arnold Palmer. It was an Arnold Palmer. Now, follow up question,
Speaker 1: follow up question. What was on the bottom of that
Speaker 1: Arnold Palmer? Was it lemonade on the bottom or was
Speaker 1: it iced tea?
Speaker 2: You have to link this episod.
Speaker 1: Think about when I had Arnold Palmer at your house
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago at the Tiki Hut.
Speaker 2: I would say lemonade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lemonade, That's what I was gonna say. Oh wait, no, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. It was iced tea on the bottom
Speaker 1: and lemonade on the top. Who drinks it? Arnold Palmer
Speaker 1: like that? It's insanity. Everyone knows you put lemonade on
Speaker 1: the bottom and then iced tea on the top. But anyway,
Speaker 1: what's your real what's your goat juice with iced tea
Speaker 1: on the bottom and lemonade on the top. I've never
Speaker 1: in my life seen anything that's crazy.
Speaker 2: Good enough for Kauhi? Good enough?
Speaker 1: Okay, what's your Kawhi question?
Speaker 2: I heard you guys talk about the little management stuff
Speaker 2: coming into this season and how they could treat him.
Speaker 2: In fact, we started off this podcast bringing it up.
Speaker 2: I don't know at this point. I'm open to a
Speaker 2: lot when it comes to Kawhi. I used to shun
Speaker 2: and dismiss people who say, just wait to the playoffs
Speaker 2: and bring him back in March or late April. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't think you could do that. I don't think
Speaker 2: you could do that either, because you just won't make
Speaker 2: the playoffs. He has to play some to at least
Speaker 2: stay afloat and be in the hunt. But I don't
Speaker 2: know if he's playing a back to back all season long,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if he shouldn't be.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't.
Speaker 2: There's sixteen of them. I think that's sixteen games right
Speaker 2: off the top. That means the most games he could
Speaker 2: play is then sixty six if he's available all the
Speaker 2: other onehoa and we.
Speaker 1: Don't have a backup forward that can play. But here's
Speaker 1: this k We've got nothing else. Here's the thing, boys,
Speaker 1: this new stupid rule. He's gonna play the participation he's
Speaker 1: back to back. I don't play them he played.
Speaker 2: I think you can get an exception from those if
Speaker 2: there's the right medical report, because that's what he got
Speaker 2: when he first came over to the Clippers. The NBA
Speaker 2: doctors had to look at it, sign off and say, okay,
Speaker 2: it's fair for him not to play back to backs.
Speaker 2: I think it could happen again.
Speaker 1: I hope it happens.
Speaker 2: If there's any guy that should get a pass when
Speaker 2: it comes to this. At this point, it has to
Speaker 2: be Kawhi. Obviously he's injury prone. Obviously, try to get
Speaker 2: him in a playoff series is also good for the
Speaker 2: NBA and their ratings. So anything you can do to
Speaker 2: make that happen.
Speaker 1: Please, sixteen back to backs, so that means he would
Speaker 1: be available for eight and not available for.
Speaker 2: Eight basically, Uh no, no, no, that means he's available.
Speaker 2: There's sixteen back to backs.
Speaker 1: So that's thirty two games.
Speaker 3: Ah, okay, okay, so sixteen games available for sixteen available available,
Speaker 3: unavailable for sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as we all know, eighty two minus sixteen
Speaker 1: is sixty six and that's his sweet spot. So by god,
Speaker 1: do it. I just don't think they will sadly ad him.
Speaker 2: I just don't think well, the Clippers, ABA.
Speaker 1: The NBA, the NBA.
Speaker 3: I don't think the NBA signs off on it because
Speaker 3: they hate us because we have sixteen back to backs
Speaker 3: because they don't like us. So I and then last
Speaker 3: season he played in back to backs and then he
Speaker 3: got like when you know the guy cann Why that's
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You know he can give you sixty Just pay the
Speaker 1: damn fine or whatever it is. Deal with the ramifications
Speaker 1: and the repercus.
Speaker 2: It's not like Balmer would be opposed to just paying
Speaker 2: the fine if it came down to something like that,
Speaker 2: and they truly felt like this is what's best for Kawhi.
Speaker 2: NBA be damned.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how they go about that, but I
Speaker 2: think we've tried everything at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So if he can only play sixty games in the season,
Speaker 2: and you set that number going in, I'd be fine
Speaker 2: with managing him that.
Speaker 1: West what Toronto did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they could. They had a plan with their doctors,
Speaker 2: and it worked out. Even though he was kind of
Speaker 2: limping at the end of that playoff run, he did.
Speaker 1: Make it through. But it is always there's no good
Speaker 1: answers here, my friends. Yeah, I mean the good the
Speaker 1: good answer is if he takes off back to backs, honestly, like.
Speaker 2: The guy that's one, that's number one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I just unfortunately, because of the silly new rule
Speaker 3: and they call it the Kawhi rule, I just don't
Speaker 3: think the league goes along with it, sadly, and so
Speaker 3: I want desperately for him to only play sixty regular
Speaker 3: season games, sit out these sixteens and play sixty six honestly,
Speaker 3: play sixty like sit out another six, pick another six
Speaker 3: to sit out.
Speaker 1: Give me sixty and be available in the postseason. Man.
Speaker 2: As you guys mentioned though on the clip cast, we're
Speaker 2: gonna find out immediately because they have two back to
Speaker 2: backs on the first sixty games.
Speaker 1: It is ridiculous, man, It's like and how it's how
Speaker 1: it's one of the toughest angles and we have our
Speaker 1: own seventeen at all. It didn't get better at all. Honestly,
Speaker 1: no day games is better. Yeah, okay is better.
Speaker 2: I didn't like. I know it had some effect, but
Speaker 2: at some point if you have so many of those
Speaker 2: day games, and that was the complaint, right, we have
Speaker 2: too many of these matinee games. Yeah, well, if you
Speaker 2: have so many of them, how did you never get
Speaker 2: used to them? If you had so many, How did
Speaker 2: you never find a rhythm with them? If you had
Speaker 2: so many of them?
Speaker 1: I bet I've been games. You don't do the game.
Speaker 1: I think if you looked at the.
Speaker 3: Win loss ratio of day games, it wouldn't be as
Speaker 3: bad as everyone makes it out to be.
Speaker 1: All these winning seasons in a row.
Speaker 3: You can't tank every day game and still come out
Speaker 3: on top with as many day games as we had,
Speaker 3: So I bet you, yeah, sure we probably won more
Speaker 3: at night, but I bet you we were over five hundred.
Speaker 3: I bet you we were a winning ball club during
Speaker 3: the day, not by a lot, but I bet you
Speaker 3: we were a winning.
Speaker 1: Team still and now we don't have to worry about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is not that bad a stat until you realize
Speaker 1: that we're talking about being around five hundred on a
Speaker 1: certain type of home game, right, So I mean, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we were close to five hundred, but that those are
Speaker 1: your games. Were you like to think you go higher
Speaker 1: than five hundred at home?
Speaker 2: And they might have lost to under five hundred teams
Speaker 2: more frequently in those matinee games too, but way to know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a couple more for you guys.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: How much do your emotions from a Clippers game affect
Speaker 2: you throughout the week, depending on the win or a loss.
Speaker 3: I once took a friend of mine to a Clipper
Speaker 3: game and we lost kind of brutally. Maybe we had
Speaker 3: to lead in whatever, it doesn't matter. I was walking
Speaker 3: back to my car. I used to always park on Twelfth.
Speaker 1: And Hope because you gotta have hope, and Twelfth led
Speaker 1: right to my entrance and So anyway, after the Clipper loss,
Speaker 1: I was crossing the train tracks there on twelfth and
Speaker 1: something Figureoa maybe or just past whatever that is. And
Speaker 1: I literally laid down on the train tracks after the game,
Speaker 1: and my friend was like, no, Chris, no, Chris, and
Speaker 1: he picked me up. Now, obviously I wasn't gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna do.
Speaker 2: Damsel distress tie down on the train tracks.
Speaker 1: But I laid down on the tracks after that game.
Speaker 1: And Hank has been with me when I literally have
Speaker 1: torn How many jerseys did you throw away at the
Speaker 1: autograph game of a season autograph jersey candy autograph autograph otem?
Speaker 1: I bet, I mean, I don't think I know. I
Speaker 1: would have never done that. I did throw an odom away.
Speaker 1: Don't you dare say that that's that can't be true?
Speaker 1: Was that after a second stint with the Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was at the end of a regular season heartbreak loss,
Speaker 1: and then you were like suddenly you didn't have a
Speaker 1: jersey on and you were gone. By the way, you
Speaker 1: didn't say good night either, No, I were gone done.
Speaker 1: I got to go to Hooters by myself. I agree
Speaker 1: with that, but I I dis I disagree that it
Speaker 1: is a long time at him. I disagree that it
Speaker 1: was an Odem jersey because Okay, most jerseys that I
Speaker 1: own of any player in any sport is lamar Odem
Speaker 1: Clippers jerseys, and second is Blake. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably threw out of Richardson jersey for like, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I threw out some jersey. I
Speaker 1: threw out multiple jerseys out of disgust and and ripped
Speaker 1: T shirts. And yes, it's ruined my It's ruined my
Speaker 1: next day, and it's ruined my weekend. However, it has
Speaker 1: also made my month getting one win. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, It's made my year beating the championship Celtics
Speaker 1: on a Baron Davis buzzer beater. So it's like, for
Speaker 1: all the negatives, it didn't give me a wife and kid,
Speaker 1: so it's like the positives, it gave me a best
Speaker 1: friend for God's sake. Like the positives vastly outweigh the cons.
Speaker 1: And we still haven't won a damn chip. So when
Speaker 1: we win the championship, I'll be the happiest man on
Speaker 1: planet Earth. I will cry tears of joy every single day.
Speaker 1: And now we don't have to have that stupid parade
Speaker 1: on Figueroa. It's Inglewood, Baby, We're gonna be parading around Inglewood,
Speaker 1: led by Mayor Butts, Henry Dittman's favorite. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I let it go immediately. Really yeah the next morning.
Speaker 1: The next morning, I'm bummed that night, and then usually
Speaker 1: I wake up and go, okay, here we go when
Speaker 1: but I don't, oh no, no, no devastates me. That
Speaker 1: devastates me. But I also don't like the podcast after
Speaker 1: a loss. I hate it. I gotta be honest. I
Speaker 1: hate it. Now that I'm older, I'm like, it doesn't room.
Speaker 1: It doesn't room me anymore, like the little numb we're calloused. Exactly.
Speaker 1: They've numbed me to it. They've me Yeah, my family
Speaker 1: is healthy, my friends are healthy. I can I can
Speaker 1: usually get past it. But to to your point, those
Speaker 1: bigger losses they hurt also show show business in Hollywood
Speaker 1: have chewed me up and oh yeah, way more times
Speaker 1: than the Clippers ever.
Speaker 2: Did you guys have uh have weathered the storm or
Speaker 2: failure for some time?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Okay? Uh?
Speaker 2: Are we going to have more fun next season with
Speaker 2: lowered expectations?
Speaker 3: Oh oh are you asking Henry manage your expectations for
Speaker 3: Prank Dittman.
Speaker 2: Every game means so much more because just to stay afloat,
Speaker 2: they need to win like they're gonna be on a
Speaker 2: razor's edge all the time.
Speaker 1: No, I think it's I think that with Paul George
Speaker 1: gone well by the way last year, I felt like
Speaker 1: we had less expectations at the end of the day
Speaker 1: even with James until James Harden came in, people were like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, they couldn't stay healthy. I think it'll
Speaker 1: be super fun in the new stadium. I think we
Speaker 1: have We have lots of young guys and guys with
Speaker 1: who we haven't seen their ceiling yet in the league
Speaker 1: who have joined the team that are gonna be really fun.
Speaker 1: The only thing that could make it heartbreaking and disappointing, frankly,
Speaker 1: is gonna be if Kawhi Leonard can't finish the season.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing that's gonna make the season not
Speaker 1: fun for me is if we get another season where
Speaker 1: it looks like we're in the right place and then
Speaker 1: suddenly without ever seeing his leg turnaround sideways or any
Speaker 1: the other dramatic things we've seen with Star players going down,
Speaker 1: he just seems to be injured. We hear after the
Speaker 1: game after playing a quarter that that somehow makes it
Speaker 1: worse for me. Like we were in the building and
Speaker 1: Sean Livingston went down, we were watching the game when
Speaker 1: Paul George went down. These things are devastating, but at
Speaker 1: least that game, at least you're saying something and so
Speaker 1: to instead be just playing a game and he plays great,
Speaker 1: and then the next night you're like he what he he?
Speaker 1: Why Wyland, Like it's like he's just not gonna he's
Speaker 1: just hurt. That somehow makes it worse because you're not
Speaker 1: just watching for an injury. You just don't know when
Speaker 1: he walks off the court. If that was it for
Speaker 1: the season, I mean after thirteen winning seasons, like Balmer's
Speaker 1: never owned the team and had a losing season. So
Speaker 1: it's like, I just don't it doesn't equate to me
Speaker 1: that will be a forty win or less team. So
Speaker 1: if that were to happen, that would absolutely devastate me,
Speaker 1: especially that I would be crushed. I would be absolutely crushed. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be that. We're not gonna be that. No, No,
Speaker 1: not at all. Why would we be. I mean, like
Speaker 1: Balmer will buy his way to a winning season. I
Speaker 1: promise you that. But I also think we have great
Speaker 1: pieces that we haven't They just haven't been implemented. We're
Speaker 1: gonna learn a lot real fast. I mean, I've never
Speaker 1: been more interested. I've been more excited about a preseason,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I've ever been more interested in
Speaker 1: seeing how the pieces fit than I am this season.
Speaker 1: I wonder, like, are we going to miss and long
Speaker 1: for Paul George? I just I just don't think so.
Speaker 1: But like I loved him, We're going to day. I
Speaker 1: love this play. He was my favorite Clipper during the
Speaker 1: time he was here. As far as his style of play,
Speaker 1: I loved him. I just wanted more forehead. His forehead
Speaker 1: was way too short, like that was very distracting to me.
Speaker 1: I need this. Hairlines so good, Yes, Haroline was so
Speaker 1: low and so good, Like it was very distracting to me.
Speaker 1: I like, get him gone, get put a headband on,
Speaker 1: or get out of here, go to Philly. But let's
Speaker 1: see what happens. Let's see what happens. Boys.
Speaker 2: Speaking of haircuts, bad ones, good ones, David Ones, hairlines.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize this till I did a little bit
Speaker 2: of research before this episode. Chris Wilde is in a
Speaker 2: series that made up some of my fondest memories when
Speaker 2: it came into basketball commercials. Ever, and I was in
Speaker 2: northern California at the time. I had no idea who
Speaker 2: this guy was.
Speaker 1: Grace.
Speaker 2: I've been thinking about.
Speaker 1: Was it Morris and Jerome? What were their names? Alan
Speaker 1: and Jerome? I don't know if I was Allen. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I was Jerome. We never knew, we don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know to this day if I was Alan
Speaker 1: or Jerome.
Speaker 2: Next to the original Mike's Hard Lemonade commercials that were
Speaker 2: fantastically creative. These were my favorite commercials as a kid
Speaker 2: growing up, and I found a couple of them online
Speaker 2: on YouTube, and I just would like to play one
Speaker 2: and revisit things here because who, as last year should
Speaker 2: have been you, Yop, I can't believe this is Chris,
Speaker 2: this is a this is a.
Speaker 1: Dragon shack attack. I would really showing up my magic
Speaker 1: much over High Team.
Speaker 2: Okay, a oldka, but they ain't got the Allen iverson Grace.
Speaker 2: You know, if I was playing them, I'd be punishing them,
Speaker 2: pushing them.
Speaker 1: They gonna they can stop this, You cannot stop this.
Speaker 1: I'm like Cake and I'm deeper than John Take in
Speaker 1: this circle. The hell? Wow?
Speaker 2: How hell do those commercials like? Honestly, I thought they
Speaker 2: would look worse with the super posed stuff, given that
Speaker 2: it's twenty whatever years later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we made him in two thousand years claim.
Speaker 2: I was like, how the f did they do this?
Speaker 2: This looks really good and it still looks decent enough
Speaker 2: and fun enough.
Speaker 1: Where did you? How did this happen? So they auditioned
Speaker 1: in New York and La. Okay. So the other actors
Speaker 1: name is Dragon aka Eric Weiner, and he was living
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: They cast him out of New York. They cast me
Speaker 3: out of Los Angeles. They had me go to the
Speaker 3: Hollywood y to see if I could actually been like
Speaker 3: kind of hoop and or at least look funny while hooping.
Speaker 3: So they cast me, they cast Eric Okay, they fly
Speaker 3: me to New York. We shot all these in New York,
Speaker 3: like we're on the stoop, We're at the playground where
Speaker 3: at the pizza polla don't we bought it?
Speaker 1: So we do like a Knicks commercial.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz commercial. I believe Malone Stockton. We do a Spurs.
Speaker 3: Commercial and we do an L word commercial, And we
Speaker 3: actually did two versions of the L word commercial where
Speaker 3: I'm an anti L word fan in one version and
Speaker 3: then I'm actually a fan in the other version.
Speaker 1: That took some acting. So they fly me.
Speaker 3: This is my first ever road gig in show business,
Speaker 3: where like it's a union job, Screen Actors Guild. They're
Speaker 3: flying me three thousand miles to set whatever. This first
Speaker 3: time I was ever flown first class in my life.
Speaker 3: It was the first time I was ever in first class.
Speaker 1: No one thought I belong there. They check my ticket
Speaker 1: like sixty seven times. I got free drinks, I got
Speaker 1: free everything. Is this real silver? Put it in your purse.
Speaker 1: Put it in your purse anyway. So I fly to
Speaker 1: New York City and I stay at the Sherry Netherland,
Speaker 1: which is like one of the nicest hotels by like
Speaker 1: the Fao Schwartz where like Tom Hanks played chopsticks with
Speaker 1: the piano on the floor, like it was epic and
Speaker 1: the first day was the easiest day of shooting in
Speaker 1: my life. It's just me and Eric ad libbing, riffing
Speaker 1: as like homeboys who just talk smack like New York
Speaker 1: style about basketball. It was the best, and so I thought, man,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the easiest gig of my life.
Speaker 1: Day one was the best, Day two whatever. Day one.
Speaker 1: That night I go out and party with all my
Speaker 1: homies from New Jersey. All the bridge and tunnelers come
Speaker 1: to New York City. We go big.
Speaker 3: They crash in the Sherry Netherland Hotel room. I go
Speaker 3: to sleep at like four am. I have a call
Speaker 3: time at six am. The cars coming to get me
Speaker 3: at five thirty. I get ninety minutes to sleep. I
Speaker 3: was like, whatever, I don't need sleep. I'm just doing
Speaker 3: funny talk.
Speaker 1: I get there. Day two and Day three are all
Speaker 1: in a giant sound stage that's all green, green basket,
Speaker 1: green floor, green walks, two green hoops, two days of basketball.
Speaker 1: We're the only thing that's not green is me and
Speaker 1: the basketball and Eric and they're like, okay, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna take Nick van Exel out and we're gonna put
Speaker 1: you in. And he gets from point A to point
Speaker 1: B in six seconds and it's like fifty feet and
Speaker 1: he's dribbling, and I'm like, oh my god, I got
Speaker 1: ninety minutes to sleep.
Speaker 2: I do just had to be well choreographed and you're
Speaker 2: sweating gin.
Speaker 1: You are just sweating gin and with.
Speaker 2: All the lingo and all the trash talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like like literally like none of that was on
Speaker 1: the page, like none of it, Like we just were
Speaker 1: in character that that one day, like the one day
Speaker 1: is all the setups and then it was two days
Speaker 1: of special effects stuff and that one day we were
Speaker 1: just we never we never broke character. We were in
Speaker 1: those characters. And the directors like it was almost like
Speaker 1: they were like they had a lot to do.
Speaker 3: But like every now and again they'd be like what
Speaker 3: did you just say? Oh yeah that, Oh what did
Speaker 3: you Oh we got to do that? You know like
Speaker 3: nick Obaca please, like that.
Speaker 1: You can't write that. You can't write Nikobocka please.
Speaker 3: You know, so that that was an ad lib. All
Speaker 3: of it was ad lib, Like I think, like like
Speaker 3: it was so funny. They like they won all these awards,
Speaker 3: they won like best Writing, and I was like they
Speaker 3: didn't write.
Speaker 1: That, Like that's an amazing concept. It's an amazing concept,
Speaker 1: but they didn't. Like calling your best friend boo, that
Speaker 1: was not in the script.
Speaker 2: They should bring it back, like they's.
Speaker 3: Really almost gave us a movie like Bill and Ted's
Speaker 3: excellent adventure style, but it just it didn't happen almost. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they played those three years three seasons great like three
Speaker 3: year run incredible, made a lot of dough re me.
Speaker 3: I was very happy with that, uh, and it kind
Speaker 3: of endeared me to a bunch of guys in the league.
Speaker 3: And when I tell like, you know, like a certain
Speaker 3: generation Hooper, Oh you remember.
Speaker 1: Alan and Jerome guest us creep on in Creeping Look
Speaker 1: or creep On like they know it, like they know
Speaker 1: the lines, so like it's it definitely endeared me to
Speaker 1: a lot of basketball heads. So it's cool. Man. That
Speaker 1: was like one of my favorite gigs of all time
Speaker 1: for sure. It's awesome.
Speaker 2: Where can people see you right now? Because I know
Speaker 2: I see you guys in commercials.
Speaker 1: All the time. I see you. I think I tweeted
Speaker 1: as you.
Speaker 2: Cris back when you were on there the Babysitter two
Speaker 2: was out, I tweeted as you Henry. I've seen you
Speaker 2: in mad Men, and I know you guys are working
Speaker 2: all the time. I don't want to embarrass you, but
Speaker 2: where can people when they recognize your face on here
Speaker 2: and they're like, I knew that I've seen that guy.
Speaker 2: Where would that be right now?
Speaker 1: Well, you can always see what I've got going on
Speaker 1: on my Instagram handle and my don't bother go into X.
Speaker 1: I don't post anything on X. I just hold my name.
Speaker 2: So I sold out.
Speaker 1: It's the worst.
Speaker 3: Yeah, follows, But like Illo Henry Dittman on IG on
Speaker 3: X and at LA clip Cast and La Clipcast, he
Speaker 3: always tells you what he's up to, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: definitely watch Hank's Prank Show on Netflix.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 3: Prank Encounter. It's a great show. And then watch my
Speaker 3: movies on Netflix. If you say them in order, it
Speaker 3: kind of sounds dirty when we first met the Babysitter,
Speaker 3: Rim of the World, The Babysitter Killer, Queen tall Girl too.
Speaker 1: So if you watch those five movies on Netflix.
Speaker 3: And then if you're a real Chris Wild fan and
Speaker 3: you got prime video, watch All's Fair in Love. But
Speaker 3: you got to skip a minute, fourteen and twenty seconds, okay, don't.
Speaker 1: You don't need the exposition of why he's at the
Speaker 1: ren Fair.
Speaker 3: Just go fourteen minutes in fun He's great, and and
Speaker 3: Margaret's great. Christina Ricci is the princess and I'm the
Speaker 3: Prince and just go fourteen minutes into All's fair in
Speaker 3: love is.
Speaker 1: One of the great Chris Wilder. Wait, but where we
Speaker 1: would most like for you to check up what we're
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Speaker 1: oslin Am for you guys.
Speaker 2: And this is the song changing now that they're into
Speaker 2: it domes in.
Speaker 3: So that song is Oh, I didn't think of that's
Speaker 3: it's so tough because Adam. That song was given to
Speaker 3: us by the Clippers because Eddie Money recorded a song,
Speaker 3: gave it to the Clippers, and at the time we
Speaker 3: were the official unofficial Clippers podcast, so they gave us
Speaker 3: the song.
Speaker 2: That's the late great Eddie Money on that song.
Speaker 1: Dude, that's Eddie Money. It's like the real Eddie Money.
Speaker 2: Oh, you can't change it.
Speaker 1: I can't change it, you know what I mean? I know?
Speaker 3: And it just and then it just goes and proves,
Speaker 3: like how long we've been at this. That freaking Eddie
Speaker 3: Money who's dead is singing me about the Staples Center
Speaker 3: which is now called Crypto dot Com Arena, and the team.
Speaker 1: Doesn't even play there. I won't be calling it that.
Speaker 3: Now, what do you call it again? Dad lost all
Speaker 3: his money on the crypto game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dad made some bad choices in an investment with
Speaker 1: his four oh one K funds. Dot Com Arena, No,
Speaker 1: I just call it Staples. It's Staples Arena.
Speaker 3: And I call it the Hockey ship Box because it's
Speaker 3: a hockey arena built for hockey. And if you want
Speaker 3: to see basketball in Los Angeles, go to the basketball
Speaker 3: arena built for basketball, the Intoit Dome on Prairie.
Speaker 1: And I don't know the crushery yet, but I will
Speaker 1: learn it. Oh we will. We'll know it.
Speaker 2: We'll learn it to him, Sam Bakman, Freid Arena or whatever.
Speaker 2: You guys are all over it. I love the show.
Speaker 2: I've been a long time listener. I have proof now.
Speaker 2: I found the old tweet from twenty thirteen. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put it somewhere in here. It might be here right
Speaker 2: now when I go into post and edit this thing
Speaker 2: later on. But h I appreciate you guys doing this
Speaker 2: was a long time coming. Let's let's not take too
Speaker 2: long to unite on the show.
Speaker 1: And I'm somewhat confused. Yah, bro, we're proding at each
Speaker 1: other we're making we're doing big. We're pointing at the.
Speaker 2: Tweet, Adam, adam, dude, it's off the screen by now.
Speaker 1: My god, Bro, it meant it meant so much to
Speaker 1: me personally to get the invite to come beyond your show. Bro,
Speaker 1: ask again what the answer will always.
Speaker 3: Be, yes, yes, and and yes, and we'll find you
Speaker 3: in the dome with our portable microphone and get you
Speaker 3: on our show from the dome, from the dome so
Speaker 3: very good acoustics.
Speaker 2: And get me on my road trip mix game because
Speaker 2: it's stronger than you think.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta.
Speaker 2: I heard the questions with clips and dip.
Speaker 1: Who do you want to go on a road I'll
Speaker 1: have you. I'll have you know.
Speaker 2: I just went on a road trip across the country.
Speaker 1: I thought I picked you. I thought I picked you.
Speaker 1: I thought I picked everybody. Everybody. Oh, I would have
Speaker 1: picked because I'm a nineties hip hop Yeah, bro, like
Speaker 1: like the same kind of hip hop that I listen
Speaker 1: to your show, and you're the one picking the music.
Speaker 1: Clearly I know that, and we know you're definitely the
Speaker 1: guy picked a great I do pick it, I know,
Speaker 1: we know. Thanks to you guys for doing this one
Speaker 1: so our pleasure man, Go clips.
Speaker 2: This has been another edition of clippers Talk for Chris
Speaker 2: Kwil for Burdbank Hank, I'm out of Oslin. We will
Speaker 2: talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: Go Clupp