Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: WVUA FM, Tuscaloosa.
[00:00:09] Speaker B: Hello, everybody.
This is WVUA 90.7 FM, the Capstone. And welcome to episode 60 of the full court press podcast. My name is Jamie Martinez and I'm joined by Nick Atkinson and Kaden Johnson to stay up to date. Make sure to follow us on Instagram at podcast Underscore UA. With that being said, let's get into it with the news.
The news trade deadline was this week and so we have a whole lot to talk about. With the trade deadline. A whole lot of trades went down. We're not going to talk about all of them because there were some minor trades. Know, who cares? But we got the big ones here. No superstar trades, unfortunately, but a lot of big role player trades. A lot of teams got better. So let's start with PJ Washington getting sent to the Dallas Mavericks. Per Adrian Wojanrowski, the Charlote Hornets are finalizing a trade to send PJ Washington to the Mavericks for Grant Williams, Seth Curry and a first round draft pick. Sources tell ESPN Washington already made his debut alongside Daniel Gafford, who we'll get into later. How are we feeling about this move for the Dallas Mavericks?
[00:01:16] Speaker A: For the Dallas Mavericks side, it looked really good whenever they played. Luca was making both of them look really good, especially PJ Washington, though. He finished like, I think, 18. And then on the Hornet side of things, Seth Curry and Gritt Williams have both had, I think, 18 points over the last two games. They've both scored almost 20 both games and they've also won. So I guess it looks better for.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: Both of both teams.
[00:01:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I think this is a great trade for both of them. That's kind of a haul for PJ Washington and that's a piece that Charlote was looking to move for a while before the deadline. As for Dallas, I think it just makes them better. They basically replace Grant Williams with a better version of Grant Williams, and PJ Washington can create his own shot as well, which I think the Mavs needed more of. So good move for both teams.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: Yeah, there was some controversy surrounding Grant Williams and the Dallas Mavericks. He had some beef with Luka Doncic because at some point he switched from Luka Doncic's shoes to Jason Tatum's shoes in the middle of the season. So I'm pretty sure that's why Grant Williams was traded. And they said, the Mavericks said that it was a priority to get Williams off the team at some point. They made it happen and looks like it's working for both sides. Williams seems to be enjoying his time in Charlote. Next up, we have Daniel Gafford, who was also sent to the Dallas Mavericks. The Wizards were returned with Rashaun Holmes and draft compensation. Gafford might have had a better game than PJ Washington in his debut. So let's get into Daniel Gafford, Jamie.
[00:02:45] Speaker C: Okay, so, like three, two, three years ago, imagine if I told you that Rashaun Holmes would eventually be traded for Daniel.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. I would have called you an idiot because Rashawn Holmes in Sacramento was a baller. So I would have called you a.
[00:02:59] Speaker C: That's. That's like a crazy fall off. And I don't even really know. I mean, you've watched this guy play a lot more than obviously, what holes does he have in his game that would cause a fall off?
[00:03:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, Rashad Holmes was a hooper in Sacramento, but his downfall was he's six foot nine and really not a great rim protector. He's kind of a liability on defense. He's good offensively. He doesn't really stretch the floor much, but he can get it on the inside. But that's not what you're looking for when you're paired with Luka Doncic. You kind of need the know everything if you're going to play with Luca. And that's what Daniel Gafford brings to the table. He's bigger, stronger, better defensively. Daniel Gafford's just much better than Rashawn Holmes, in my opinion. Nick, you got anything to add? I know you're a big Gafford guy.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: I just wish that the Clippers would have gotten him, but it is what it is.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: Exactly. And the Mavericks look really good right now. Next up, the 76 ers are trading Patrick Beverly to the Bucks. The Bucks are a 2027 2nd round pick to the Sixers in the deal.
This one is a little controversial because Patrick Beverly was told by the Sixers he was not going to be traded under any circumstances, and he was. So how are we feeling about Pat Bev?
[00:04:06] Speaker A: Darryl Maury's a liar.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:07] Speaker C: Darryl Maury strikes again.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: Yeah, again. It's always happened with this dude.
[00:04:12] Speaker C: I don't know what Pat Bev necessarily brings to the though. Honestly, I don't know. I think campaign and Pat Bev are pretty equal. And offensively, I think campaign's probably better than Pat Bev. So I think they're kind of just.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: More looking for because they have Crowder and Bobby Portis. So I guess they're trying to round out the bench with three guys like yeah.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:34] Speaker C: And as for the I, you get younger, I guess. I guess. Yeah. And they need a little bit more offense with Embiid being out for the rest of the year. I think that was kind of the mindset.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: Yeah. They ended up trading for Buddy healed, which we'll get into later. But another deal that happened, which is one of the earlier ones. At the trade deadline, the Oklahoma City Thunder are finalizing a trade to send guard Trey Mann and Davis Bertons to the Charlote Hornets for Gordon Hayward, sources tell ESPN, per Adrian Wojnerowski. How are we feeling about Gordon Hayward? Pretty big trade. But is Hayward still the guy he used to be?
[00:05:08] Speaker C: I don't really think he's still the guy. I think a lot of OKC fans kind of overhyped this trade a little bit.
It wasn't like one of the premier trades of the deadline. Honestly, it's already slipped my mind a little bit. And something to add, too, is that the Thunder included Vasile Miechik, and he's already had some really good minutes in Charlote, which obviously is Charlote, but they've won a couple of games now and he had 18 and five assists the other day. He's a great playmaker. Trey Mann has had some solid minutes as well and then know kind of just expiring contract that's going to free up some cap space for Charlote going into next year for me.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: I agree.
I think OKC fans are overrating it a little bit. I think it is a good move, but it kind of just is kind of on the level of like, I mean, he's not really good. It's kind of on the level of like when OKC a long time ago got so, you know, it's just kind of that same type of thing for me.
[00:06:11] Speaker B: I like that comparison. Two older guys, they're going to bring some little bit of oomph to the team.
[00:06:15] Speaker C: Yeah, it's always good to add veteran leadership, especially when they're a team that has as many young guys as they do.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Yeah, they have a lot they can definitely use.
[00:06:22] Speaker C: I mean, no offense to Gordon Hayward. I love Gordon Hayward, but it's not like he brings a bunch of playoff experience with know. And that's kind of the goal for the thunder this year is to make a run.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: All right, next up, the Toronto Raptors are trading Dennis Schroeder to the nets for Spencer Denwoody, sources tell ESPN.
I'm not even sure what happened with this trade. Schroeder had a very good debut, though, with the Nets. I do know that he led him to a win. I'm pretty sure he had like 19 and seven or something. Great debut. Spencer. Dinwiddie, on the other hand, he didn't even go to the Raptors. He's a Laker now.
He's a Laker, and he has a $1 bonus if the Lakers win the finals. So how are we feeling about this whole Dinwiddie Dennis Schroeder situation?
[00:07:02] Speaker A: Well, Schroeder, I think is a lot better than Dinwiddie.
[00:07:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:05] Speaker A: As a playmaker, as a scorer, as a defender. Also a guy that's got to the second round with the Lakers two years ago and then got to the conference finals last year with the, I mean, you know, kind of just bringing a little bit more experience than what he did then what he is. I think he's only ever gotten out of the first round because he wasn't on that team with Dallas that went to the conference finals a couple years ago. But, oh, I guess he did go to the second round with Katie and Kyrie. But anyways, yeah, I think it's really good for Dennis Schroeder to go there. I think know they're trying to get out of the plan, get more into the 6th seed, stuff like that, which I don't think will happen, but it's just a better trade makes the Nets look a little bit better.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: Yeah, they've been a little bit underwhelming this year, but I think getting a guy like Dennis Schroeder, that brings a lot of energy to a team. And he's kind of a spark plug, especially when he gets to play off the bench. I think it can motivate guys like Cam Johnson and McAu Bridges, who have underperformed slightly this season, to kind of step up their game and make a serious push in the back half this season.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure.
Next up, we're going to go to the Knicks and Pistons. The Knicks look dangerous after this deadline. The full trade details include the Pistons acquiring Quentin Grimes, Malachi Flynn, Evan Fournier, Ryan Archidiakano and two second round picks. The Knicks get Bojan Bogdanovich and Alec Burks. The Knicks have already looked disgusting after acquiring OGN and Obi. They've looked very, very good, and now they're adding even more to this team. How are we feeling about the Knicks and Pistons trade? Go ahead.
[00:08:36] Speaker C: I think this is the trade of the deadline. Honestly, I think it makes the Knicks, it helps the Knicks go know, maybe like second round with a chance of being in the ECF to honestly my pick to be in the Eastern Conference finals alongside Boston. Right.
I think they honestly fleeced the Pistons as well. I'm really surprised that they didn't have to include a first for both Alec Burks and you know, they finally got rid of Evan fournier. He's wanted out for as long as he's been there.
Losing Quentin Grimes is a solid piece, but other than that, they just traded a lot of mediocrity for guys that are seriously going to contribute.
[00:09:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. I think that this makes them the other ECF team.
Another thing to remember, or not remember. But note, I guess Ryan Arch and Diakino was another one of the Villanova guys that they've traded. So I guess, what is it, three Nova guys now?
[00:09:36] Speaker C: Yeah, it's just even Chinzo Hart and.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: Brunson, he was averaging 0.5.
[00:09:43] Speaker C: I was just thinking about that. I wonder if any of them are upset about that at all.
[00:09:48] Speaker A: They did trade Quentin Grimes, though.
I feel like he's been really good, but I mean, I don't know. Yeah, it's still a good trade, I think.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: But just from a chemistry standpoint, them losing.
[00:10:04] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure.
There's a whole lot of trades that went on. We got like two more. So next up, the Utah Jazz are finalizing a trade to send Kelly Olynick and guard Ochai Agbaji to the Toronto Raptors for Kyra Lewis, Oto Porter and a 2024 1st round pick. A lot of young guys exchanging in this deal. Agbaji was just drafted maybe two years ago at most. Olinick has been a solid guy his entire career. To the Raptors for Kyrie Lewis. Roll tide. Oto Porter and a 2024 1st round pick. Not the most substantial trade, but I mean, how are we feeling about it?
[00:10:37] Speaker A: So, for me, I think that.
I think Abaji going to the Raptors is really big because now you've got the other two young guys. It's a lottery pick.
He was really good last year. You've got him and you've got Scotty Barnes and you've got.
They've definitely got a good future for sure, I think.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: Yeah, I just think for a team that's trying to tank like this, I don't get why they're trading a first round pick away, especially a first round pick for next year. I also don't get.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: Really bad.
[00:11:15] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:17] Speaker C: A team that's trying to tank, trading away a first round pick. I don't think either of Valenic or Agbaji are worth a first round pick, especially when they're paired alongside Kyra Lewis, who was also a lottery pick back in his day as well.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: So with Colin Sexton and him on Utah now.
[00:11:33] Speaker C: Yeah, right.
Hopefully they keep Kyra Lewis. He's kind of been passed around this season. The Pelicans gave up on him and then the Raptors moved him right away. But yeah, it just doesn't make a lot of sense to tank like they have been. Some of their trades have made it obvious that they're tanking and then you bring in more of win now players like Kelly Olenick and Ochayag Baji and trade future pieces away for like the trade makes the Raptors better this year, which isn't a good thing, if that makes sense.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: Yeah, Masai Ujiri is an interesting mind. And lastly, we have possibly the biggest trade of the deadline. The Indiana Pacers are trading buddy healed to the 76 ers for Marcus Morris, for Khan Cork Maz and three second round picks. This is one of the first deals that was announced over the deadline and a lot of people assumed Buddy healed will be moved, but we didn't know to what team. There was a lot of rumors floating around. It could have been the Lakers. The Lakers think they're getting everybody, but a lot of teams were tied to buddy healed and he ends up on the 76 ers alongside Tyrese Maxi and an injured Joel and bead. How are we feeling about buddy buckets, former Sacramento King on the 76 ers?
[00:12:44] Speaker A: I think it's really good, especially when everybody healed. Joel comes back because we got a little bit of a look at that when JJ Reddick was on the Sixers and they made it to the second round and we're one shot away from potentially winning the finals.
I think it's really big. And then you only give up the two worst players on the team, two shot chuckers that will be out of the league next year. I mean, the three second round picks hurt but healed.
[00:13:09] Speaker C: And Ferc on Corgmas has been pretty vocal about not wanting to be in Philadelphia for years. I mean, years, it's been like four or five years where he's requested a trade and they just haven't moved him, which is kind of funny. And then as for Marcus Morris, you said it perfectly. Just kind of a shot chucker. Not a bad player, not a bad piece. He's still good enough in the NBA to get rotational minutes, but yeah, I think he's just not clutch. He tries to do a little too much.
[00:13:42] Speaker B: He also just got a key to the city of Philadelphia.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: That's because he's from there. He does a lot for the community.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: I'm fortunate to see him go.
[00:13:48] Speaker C: Well, he can do a lot in Indianapolis, though.
[00:13:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right.
[00:13:52] Speaker B: So that's all I have here. Are there any other deals that went down that you guys would like to talk about? I know the Celtics made a couple moves.
Anything else?
[00:14:00] Speaker C: Yeah, Xavier Tillman and Jaden Springer both bringing in. I think, honestly, I'm a little more excited to see if Springer can get any minutes. He's a pretty good on ball defender. As for Xavier Tillman, I think a lot of Celtics fans have kind of overhyped it a little bit. I don't think an undersized big is necessarily what we needed, but in the past we've loved to have undersized bigs for whatever reason.
But I do think we traded essentially nothing to bring those guys in. So they're not bad moves by any means.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Well, Lamar Stevens is gone now, isn't he?
[00:14:34] Speaker C: Yeah, Lamar Stevens.
[00:14:36] Speaker B: I heard many Celtics fans are happy Lamar Stevens is gone. Yeah.
[00:14:39] Speaker C: He's probably the worst player on the roster.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: Okay. For sure.
[00:14:43] Speaker C: He was just like Xavier Tillman if you put him at like, small forward.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Okay, Nick, anything else you want to talk?
[00:14:49] Speaker A: I have three teams I'm extremely disappointed.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: In, actually, I have that here. Biggest winners and biggest losers. Who do you want to talk about?
[00:14:56] Speaker A: So the three teams are the Sacramento Kings, the Los Angeles Clippers, and I'll just talk about the Kings. I'll talk about the other teams, the Clippers and the warriors. So I'll talk about the warriors first.
They were actually involved in getting Olenic and Alex Caruso. They were going to get both of them, but then they pulled out of the trade. That's just, I mean, kind of stupid to me, especially whenever they would.
[00:15:22] Speaker C: Paul Myers wouldn't have done that.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Yeah, right.
[00:15:24] Speaker A: I mean, that trade right there probably gets them into like the top five of the playoff in the west at some point, like over Alex Caruso and Olenic, they finally get a backup center. I mean, that's nasty. That would be huge for them. And then the Clippers wise, I don't think it's the biggest deal. I just wish that we could have gotten somebody or done something.
It is what it is, though. I still think that we're the favorite to come out of the.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: So, yeah. As for Sacramento, I do believe they are the biggest losers of the trade deadline. This is two straight seasons where the Kings did not make a move on the deadline. Technically they did. They traded for Robin Lopez and money.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: Didn't you cut them?
[00:16:04] Speaker B: They cut Robin Lopez. So basically they didn't. Whole lot of nothing.
[00:16:07] Speaker C: Washing machine.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Two years ago. Two years ago, Monty McNair was hired to be the GM, and his first big move was to trade for Demonte Sabonis, and that turned the Kings into a playoff team for the first time in like 18 years. So big time move. The next year, he doesn't do anything. The Kings are still a first round team. Everything works well. But they were eliminated in the first round, and the team is just horrid defensively. Offensively, a lot of guys can't get things going. There's tradable pieces. Monty McNary does nothing at the trade deadline. He doesn't trade for an Alex Caruso to help defensively, an Andre Drummond.
Really anything. A Bruce Brown. He does nothing. And the Kings are still stuck in the exact same roster in a very loaded western conference where I don't believe they will make it past the second round, if lucky.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: You're on the plan right now.
[00:16:59] Speaker B: Yeah, we're a playing team right now.
[00:17:00] Speaker C: And the seven.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: Yeah, the Mavericks just got loaded up. The Nuggets are still disgusting. We just lost to the Pistons. The Pelicans have our number. There's just so many teams like the Clippers would wipe us in four. So as a Kings fan, this was hard to see because last year I was yelling to the moon, trade for OG an Obi. OG Anubi will be a difference maker on the Sacramento Kings, and now look what he's doing to the Knicks. He turned the Knicks into like a 15 straight wins as soon as he gets there. So the Kings, to me, are the biggest losers of the deadline. Hopefully we could see Malik Monk turn up and Keegan Murray turn up, but I'm not seeing it. Yeah.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: Would you say that you were, like, really vocal about wanting OG Anovi last year?
[00:17:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I made a whole instagram video for it. I wanted OJ anovi really bad.
Unfortunately, it didn't happen. Kate, anybody you want to talk about for biggest winners or biggest losers?
[00:17:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I touched on it earlier, but I think the Knicks are the biggest winners of the trade deadline, and I think that the Raptors are probably the biggest losers just because I really don't like them trading them, doing a trade that makes them slightly better this year and gets rid of one of their first round picks for this coming draft. I know it's not a stacked draft class, but you can use that in a piece for a younger guy than Kelly Olenick or a better player than Ochai Agbaji if you really want to trade that pick.
But as for the Knicks, though, like I said, I confidently believe that they'll be in the ECF. It's between them and the Cavs. Honestly, I wouldn't even say the Bucks. I wouldn't have the Bucks over either of those two teams right now.
I would put them over the Heat.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: The rosier trade is just top.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:40] Speaker C: I don't know. But yeah, I do like the Knicks a lot. I think that they got more bucket getters and Alec Burks, especially off the bench. He can give you like 25, 30 on any given night that he gets hot.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah. So a whole lot went down on that trade deadline. Some great stuff. Great stuff. But before we finish with the news, I do want to talk about one performance that just happened last night. A legendary night for the rookie Victor Wemignyama. What a game against the Toronto Raptors. He had 27 points, 14 rebounds, five assists and ten blocks in 29 minutes of play. Once again versus the Raptors. One of the greatest performances in rookie history. I feel like you got to say that. Any of you guys want to take a guess? For the last rookie to get a triple double, David Robinson. David Robinson of the San Antonio spurs. So Victor Avanyama in legendary company, do we think he has. I'm seeing a lot of talks about it. Do we think he's a first team all defensive guy?
[00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah, he should be three.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: Do we think as a rookie he could be a defensive player of the year? Can he should be. I think he should be probably top three.
[00:19:48] Speaker A: It should be him. And go bear. Those should be the only two.
[00:19:51] Speaker B: I mean, he has more steals than the last five defensive player of the years and more blocks than the last ten defensive player of the years. And we're only halfway through the season.
[00:19:59] Speaker C: He also just doesn't really play.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Only 29 minutes. This was 29 minutes. Yeah. He had 27 points, 14 boards, five assists and ten blocks. Five assists short of a quadruple double that. I don't even know if that's ever happened.
[00:20:11] Speaker C: And I mean, he plays 38 minutes instead of 29. He could get that.
[00:20:17] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, if he got another 10 minutes, he could definitely hit that five assist.
[00:20:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:22] Speaker B: So Webanyama has all the potential in the world, too. It could be crazy to say now, but he could be the greatest of all time when it's all said and done at the end of his career. So a whole lot to look forward to for the rookie. But with that, let's dive into our main segment, our all star weekend preview. I'm going to keep tally of our picks. So we're going to go through all star weekend. I have all of the activities and we're going to go through and talk about them. We're going to have our picks, we're going to go through who will win MVP, our favorite matchups, all of this and that. So let's start with the first event of all star weekend, the celebrity game. So the celebrity game, it's something that used to be really looked forward to, but I'm not so sure if it's as looked forward to Justin Bieber back in it. Yeah, Justin Bieber. I mean, Kevin Hart is like a four time mvp. They used to get some big time, big time names. This year it's team Shannon versus team Stephen A. Team Shannon. The coaches are Shannon Sharp and 50 cent. Go Kings. He's a big Kings fan. The team consists of. Okay, I'm not a lot of these people are kind of irrelevant, but annual AA Kaisenapp, Connor Daly, Walker Hayes, Quincy Isaiah Jewel, Lloyd, Michael Parsons, you know, for the Cowboys, Lily Singh, sir or S-I-R and Dylan Wang.
[00:21:34] Speaker C: Lily Singh.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Team Stephen A.
Team Stephen A. Smith is the coach. Lil Wayne and Asia Wilson. Those are all the coaches. The players consist of Adam Blackstone, Natasha Cloud, who is a WNBA player, Jennifer Hudson, Tristan Jass, AJ McLean, Kwame. I'm not even going to try that. Meta world peace, Ron artest, Jack Ryan, CJ Stroud of the Houston Texans and Gion Marco Tambury.
So how are we feeling about these teams? Who are our picks to win between team Shannon and team Stephen A? Just looking at the teams, we don't know much about the basketball ability.
[00:22:10] Speaker C: Team Stephen A. Stephen A is getting the dub.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: They have Tjaz and Meta world peace. So I mean, I feel like that outweighs.
[00:22:18] Speaker C: I feel like CJ Stroud's a hooper.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: CJ Stroud. His basketball highlights just came out. 61662 or six three, but he's also a three point shooter. His high school highlights came out. That dude has a metal world piece.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: Will be the MVP. I feel like he's just going to have like six.
[00:22:34] Speaker C: I'm going to go Tjaz.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: Tjaz is a good thing.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: I can see that, too.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: Yeah, I can see Tjaz being the MVP. So I think we're all going team Stephen A. For sure.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: Unless you want to be different.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not going to be different. Michael Parsons is on team Shannon. He ain't going to do nothing. That's the cowboy.
[00:22:49] Speaker C: I don't think Debo in celebrity.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: Was he too busy being in the Super bowl?
[00:22:54] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what it was. He was too busy with a hurt hamstring in the Super bowl.
Who's our pick to be mvp? Is it both? Ron? Our test Tjas. I'll go. CJ Stroud. I'll try and be different. And what's our favorite matchup between the teams?
[00:23:08] Speaker A: CJ Stroud and Michael Parsons.
[00:23:10] Speaker C: Yeah, that's got to be mean. I just think the coaching concept of Shannon versus Stephen A in general is pretty funny.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I think my favorite matchup is Kai Sanav versus Meta world peace.
I'm excited to see that. Next up, let's move on to the Panini rising stars games. The whole format has been completely switched as of a couple years ago. It's four teams coached by different players, past players. And these teams look really interesting. We have team Jalen. Who? I'm not sure. Jalen. Jalen Rose. I'm going to guess team Jalen Rose. Team Palgasal, team Tamika. Probably a WFA player. And team. Yeah, a team deadlift strength. So let's get into the teams. Team Jalen rose is going to consist of Jordan Hawkins. That's Nick's boy. Chet holmgren, walker kessler, derek lively, benedict, matheran shaden Sharp and Jalen williams. That's a pretty stacked team.
[00:24:02] Speaker C: That's my pick to win.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: Team palgasal is bilal Kulabali, jaime hakez. Rep in Mexico, Brandon Miller. Roll tide. Brandon Pazzemski, jabari Smith Jr. Casey Wallace and victor wembanyama. Team tamika is paolo Boncaro, Dyson daniels, Jalen duran, keonte George scoot Henderson, jaden ivy, keegan murray and team detlif. Shrimp is all G league guys, so this will be an interesting team.
Okay, kate, why don't you go and pronounce these.
[00:24:30] Speaker C: Eisen almanza, matas, boozelis, ron Holland, Mac McClung, Tyler Smith, Oscar Shebway and alondez williams.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's the four teams.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: So what is this? Mac McClung's fifth time being a rising star?
[00:24:43] Speaker B: Yeah, Mac McClung, he's an all star. Nick, you got to get used to.
[00:24:47] Speaker C: The G league team is really good.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Matt Bozellas is going to be like a top five.
[00:24:51] Speaker C: Londez williams is really good. Bozellas and Ron Holland are both really good. And then I don't know how she way has been in the G league this year, but he was an absolute stud in college.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: Yeah. So just looking at these teams, who's the picks?
[00:25:05] Speaker A: Well, I'm just going to go based off of bias.
Team tamika is who.
[00:25:11] Speaker B: I'm going to go team tamika.
[00:25:12] Speaker A: I think paolo, they gave him the worst team because they expect him to.
[00:25:15] Speaker C: And dyson daniels is hurt.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: Yeah, Dyson daniels.
[00:25:18] Speaker A: So we'll see who gets subbed in for that. But I do think that paolo will have a great couple of games.
[00:25:25] Speaker C: Like this has got to be like Jalen Duran's like third rising star.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: Yeah, probably him and that team jalen team is huge. There's some big.
[00:25:33] Speaker C: That's my pick to win.
Team jalen rose wins. But team detli and team powell could cause some trouble.
I think I'm between jalen or detliffe, but I'll go team jalen.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: I just feel like paolo shouldn't even be in this. He's an all star.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:50] Speaker C: That is weird.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: They usually reserve it for like 1st, second and third year guys. So he is a second year.
I'm going to go team Powell.
[00:25:57] Speaker C: So is Mac McConaughey.
[00:25:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Right. Yeah. Mac McCong. I'm going to go team Powell. I think Wemby Yama and Brandon Miller is kind of nasty. Jabari Smith, he has not improved. Jame Hawkez. I think this is a really good team. I'm going to go Webby because he's the future goat. Jaime Hawkez because we have the same name to Brandon Miller because roll tide. So all of us are going a different way. You said Tamika, right? All right, team Tamika.
[00:26:19] Speaker C: Nobody's picking lift and I'm like actually worried, I think that they might win it.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:23] Speaker C: This is Jalen.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: Yeah. These are really evenly matched teams. I'm really liking this. All right, so we have our picks. Who's going to be the MVP?
[00:26:32] Speaker A: Paula Paolo.
[00:26:34] Speaker C: All right, you all ready for this? I think JDub wins MVP. I think Jalen Williams wins MVP.
[00:26:39] Speaker B: That would be a travesty. I mean, Jose Alvarado did win an MVP of it a couple of years.
[00:26:44] Speaker A: I guess you're right.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: Yeah. I think my MVP pick will be Brandon Miller. No, I'm going to go Brandon Miller because he has turned up in these last 1015 games. He's averaging. He had like a 30 point a game stretch as of late. So I'm going to go Brandon Miller. University of Alabama. Roll tide. So next, let's move on to the skills challenge, something that has been recently added of the last couple of years. We have three teams. Team top picks, team pacers and team all stars. Team top picks is Paolo Boncaro, Anthony Edwards and Victor Webbigna. All follows and everything. Team pacers. Team pacers. Tyrese Halliburton, Benedict Matheran and Miles Turner. And team all stars as Scotty Barnes, tyrese Maxey and Trey Young. Who's the pick for the skills challenge?
[00:27:31] Speaker A: Team top picks. I mean, for me, that's two of my three favorite players in the league.
[00:27:35] Speaker C: Okay.
Just because I think that it always feels like the teams, that it's just their team playing in it.
[00:27:45] Speaker B: They got chemistry.
[00:27:46] Speaker C: They have that chemistry. I'm going pacers.
[00:27:48] Speaker B: I think that, okay, that's not a bad pick. And then from my standpoint, I feel like the skills challenge, you need somebody who can pass, you need a good shooter, you need somebody who can dribble, and you need some fun. I'm going to go team all stars. Trey Young. Because you have to do that little challenge where you throw the ball through the hoop. Trey Young.
[00:28:05] Speaker C: I was thinking about that, and that's why I didn't pick the top picks, because I was like, who's about to make those passes?
[00:28:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:12] Speaker C: I'm more confident in Halliburton.
[00:28:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
And I think Tyrese, Maxi and Trey young are more equipped to hit a three on their first shot than anybody else here, maybe other than Anthony Edwards and Halliburton. But you got to dribble the ball through the things. I think Maxi is going to do that. So I'm going to go team all stars.
[00:28:28] Speaker C: Derek White not being in this, it's a joke. It's a travesty. It invalidates.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: He should be on the team all stars.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: Right.
[00:28:36] Speaker A: Instead of Scotty.
[00:28:38] Speaker B: One of the best porzingis should be poor zingis. No.
[00:28:42] Speaker A: Let's get down to the worst pick to no.
I mean, I don't like the contestants for this.
[00:28:48] Speaker B: The three point contest. Go ahead. All right, let's go into the three point contest for 2024. A lot of controversy surrounding it. Our participants include Tyrese Halliburton, Donovan Mitchell, Damien Lillard, Jalen Brunson, Carl Anthony Towns, Lori Markinen, Malik Beasley and Trey Young. Malik Beasley is included in all star activities. And your boys are not Derek White.
[00:29:09] Speaker C: Neither Derek White or Porzingis.
[00:29:11] Speaker B: No, but Malik Beasley is. So who's our pick for the three point contest? The winner.
[00:29:16] Speaker A: Okay. For me, it's going to be either Jalen Brunson or Halliburton.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:29:22] Speaker C: I like either Donovan Mitchell or Dame. I'm going to go dame. This is a dame thing to win. You know it is. You know this is a thing shooting 40%. This is a dame thing to win.
[00:29:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess it is.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: Mickey Mouse fake you.
[00:29:34] Speaker B: Yeah, he's going to go like, purpose on this.
[00:29:36] Speaker C: Dame is trying harder than anyone else in this event other than maybe like cat, because Cat is obsessed with trying to be like the big man shooter.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: I just want to see Brunson win it.
[00:29:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm going to go dame. But I could see Don or cat winning it, too.
[00:29:53] Speaker B: I could see Dame shooting absolutely perfect in this and winning. And then in his first actual game back, he goes like one for twelve from three and the bucks lose. So I'm going to go with Tyrese Halliburton being the winner. Tyres Halliburton performed last year and he shot the lights out. He shot the lights out. So Halliburton, even with that funky jumper, he gets it done. He's improved so much from last year as a shooter and as a passer. So I'm going to go with Halliburton as my winner. Who do we think has the single round highest score, though?
[00:30:19] Speaker A: Brunson or Donovan Mitchell? Maybe Trey Young.
[00:30:22] Speaker B: Because even having the single round highest score doesn't mean much. You could score 30 in one round and five in the next and completely screw yourself.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: I'll say Trey Young, because of how Trey Young.
I'll say he does like a 34 and five type of thing.
[00:30:35] Speaker C: I'm going to go, oh, that's actually tough. Yeah, I'll go Donovan Mitchell, I think I'll give. Donovan Mitchell gets the highest round and then Dame wins the whole thing.
[00:30:45] Speaker B: I'm going to go Malik Beasley. I think he's going to have like.
[00:30:48] Speaker C: A 45%, three point shoot.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: Yeah, he's great.
She's going to shoot really well and then he's going to hit his little signature dance where he shakes his hips after he shoots, like, he hits like 31 points in one round. The next round, he's going to be in the finals and hit like twelve points. Yeah. So that's a very Malik Beasley thing to happen. So I think Malik Beasley will be the single highest score next. What? Everybody's looking forward to the dunk contest with the most anticipated performances and participants of all time. We have Mac McClung. Last year's winner, Jalen Brown, the 6th best shooting guard in the league, Jaime Hawkez and Jacob Toppin. Not Obi Toppin. Jacob Toppin.
Man what a group.
Okay. These are some masters right here.
[00:31:36] Speaker A: So for me, I think that we need to stop having G league players in it at that point. We need to have just have professional dunkers do it. And then Jacob Toppin doesn't make any sense to me. The all star game is in Indiana. You know who plays in Indiana?
[00:31:48] Speaker B: Obi Toppin. Yeah.
[00:31:49] Speaker A: Why is he not just.
[00:31:50] Speaker C: I don't know if this is still the case, but Cassius Stanley used to play for the.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Yeah, he's not there anymore.
[00:31:58] Speaker C: Yeah, I was about to say that would have been perfect, too.
[00:32:00] Speaker B: I thought he was going to win the dunk contest. A couple years ago he was in it.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: And then I think Jalen Brown being in it is, like, huge for the NBA because now you're going to start seeing stars. Want to be in it. Like, maybe next year we get, like, maybe Donovan Mitchell comes back and that'd be so. Stuff like that. Jaime, hockey, that's pretty good. I don't really see him do anything, like 360, all that stuff, but I know that he can dunk on people and stuff like that.
[00:32:24] Speaker B: All right, so who's the picks?
[00:32:26] Speaker A: I'm going to say Jalen Brown.
[00:32:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm going JB, too. I think he brings glory back to.
[00:32:31] Speaker A: I agree. Yeah, seriously.
[00:32:33] Speaker C: But I do think it'll be a good.
I think that all of these guys could win it except Jaime, which means he'll probably end up winning.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: Um.
[00:32:42] Speaker C: Cause last year I picked Jericho Sims.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: I did, too. I did, too.
[00:32:46] Speaker C: But yeah, like Jacob Toppin, he can jump just like his brother, who probably could have been in it. I don't understand that he's doing East Bay's in game. OB is, but he can't be in the dunk contest.
[00:32:56] Speaker B: Ob just missed that. East Bay in the game. He hit ram. That was unfortunate. Hopefully it's not what Jacob Toppin'is going to do.
[00:33:02] Speaker C: It could be any of Mac Toppin or JB, but I'm going to go Jalen Brown.
[00:33:07] Speaker B: All right.
I'm going to say we have voter bias. And I think Mac McClung goes back to back because he said he has stuff in the bank. And I think with the way voters were last year, they were just freaking out over Mac McClung the whole time. I think the same thing will happen again and Mac McClung wins. But before we move on to the next one, we had a conversation about this before. What is our dream dunk contest between. Because we know we usually do. It's four guys, but I'm going to say we expand and go with six players. So if you were to pick six players to perform in a dunk contest, but current, no. Anytime, ever. How about we do this? We do three all time, three current.
[00:33:43] Speaker C: Okay, that's cool.
[00:33:44] Speaker B: To make it a little better. So three all time, three current.
What is your dream six man dunk contest? All right.
[00:33:53] Speaker C: Currently, yeah.
Give me, honestly, Obi Toppin, can I say Zach Levine and Aaron Gordon?
[00:34:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay.
[00:34:04] Speaker C: Zach Levine and Aaron Gordon.
[00:34:06] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. There we go.
[00:34:07] Speaker C: Even though Aaron Gordon especially is not dunking like he used to be, but he still gets like four dunks a. I'm going. I'm going both of them, though. That's my three.
[00:34:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: For me, my three guys are Paul, George, Donovan, Mitchell and Zach Levine.
[00:34:25] Speaker B: I think my three current guys would probably be Zach Levine because I'm sure he still has some crazy bounce shaden sharp because he has the highest vertical in the NBA and I know he can slam him one crazy. And my last current guy, I probably have to go Aaron Gordon because seeing him and Zach Levingo at it one more time would be insane.
[00:34:44] Speaker C: I'm going to take Obi toppin out and replace him with.
[00:34:49] Speaker B: Ooh, you could throw a jaw morant in there, too. Dang.
[00:34:52] Speaker A: Yeah, well, jaw is kind of like westbrook and ant.
[00:34:55] Speaker B: I feel like if ja really tried, he definitely could do something crazy.
[00:34:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:59] Speaker B: And then our three all time, we'll go in the same order we just did. Kaden, who's your three all time?
[00:35:03] Speaker C: Give me Jordan, Dominique and basic, but Jordan, Dominique and VC.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: Oh, okay. Wow.
[00:35:10] Speaker A: I thought you were going to say Dr. J. All right, give me Michael Jordan.
Give me Jordan. Jason Richardson and.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: Hmm.
[00:35:25] Speaker C: Jason Richardson's a good pick.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: I was about to say that. Jason Richardson's a really good Jordan.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: Jason Richardson.
[00:35:30] Speaker C: I was close to going Kobe, and.
[00:35:32] Speaker A: He did win in his rookie year.
And Sergey Baca. No, he was in it.
[00:35:38] Speaker B: He was in the dunk contest.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: He was in the dunk contest. I swear he dug from the free throw line.
[00:35:44] Speaker C: That's just not where I thought we were going.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm trying to think of all time guys who were like, I'm not trying to go with like, a Michael Jordan.
[00:35:52] Speaker A: Blake Griffin's a good one.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not going to go with, like, the MJ. Vince Carter. Right.
I'm going to go Blake Griffin. I'm going to go Nate Robinson. And I'm going to go spud. I was about to say spud Webb. I don't know if I'll go Dwight Howard. So I'll go Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin and Nate Robinson. I think that'd be an entertaining dunk contest. So out of all of your picks, if you can remember who you just picked, who do you think would win between all those six guys in that dunk contest?
[00:36:20] Speaker C: I think Zion might.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: Zion?
[00:36:23] Speaker A: For me, I was going to say Paul George, but he's not beating Jordan realistically. So Jordan's going to be the one or Vince Carter.
[00:36:32] Speaker B: I didn't have Vince Carter. Okay. And then I think in mine, the way they were given Nate Robinson points back in the day, I could definitely see Nate Robinson winning a dunk contest between all six of those guys. I'll go Nate Robinson.
[00:36:44] Speaker C: Nate Robinson, the greatest dunker of all time.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And you know what? Let's do this for the three point contest, too. We'll go back to the three point contest. Okay, we have eight slots here, so four current, four all time. Who would you put in your dream three point contest? Go ahead.
[00:36:57] Speaker C: Oh, man.
[00:36:57] Speaker B: All right.
[00:36:58] Speaker C: On the spot.
Clay Steph, for sure.
Who else currently would I like to see Buddy heel?
[00:37:09] Speaker A: He wanted CJ McCollum.
[00:37:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:37:13] Speaker B: Give me dame.
[00:37:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm going to go dame three. And then with my last pick, just to make it a little fun, throw a rookie in there. I want to see Jordan Hawkins.
[00:37:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
All right.
[00:37:27] Speaker A: For me.
So we do like the same players. I'm not saying this exact same, but yeah. Okay, so, Steph, Clay, Katie.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: Forgot about katie and.
[00:37:43] Speaker A: I'll say, buddy heel. No. CJ McCollum.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: Okay, I'm going to go with javail McGee. I'm going to go. No, I was really thinking about going like the stupid route, but I think I'm going to go. Steph, Clay, buddy healed. Because I remember when Buddy healed won the three point contest. No, I'm not going. Kevin Herder. He was so bad. He was so bad. When Budy healed won that three point contest, I was watching in my living room and I started screaming because that was the first good thing to happen to the Kings in 15 years.
So I'll go, Budy healed Steph Clay and, oh, man, probably KD. I'm pretty sure I just copied exactly what Nick said.
[00:38:22] Speaker A: Budy healed. And you want to say budy.
[00:38:24] Speaker B: Okay, so that's what I'll go. And then all time, I would like.
[00:38:29] Speaker C: To remove Jordan Hawkins already and replace Cat because I want to see cat versus Dirk. So for all time, let me go. Dirk.
Finally settle that debate. Who's the best big man? Shooter of all time.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: Who else?
[00:38:46] Speaker C: Let's say I'm going to go TMAc.
[00:38:49] Speaker B: I like that.
[00:38:51] Speaker C: Del Curry because it'd be cool to see him go against Steph and then.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: Michael Thompson, Larry Burr.
[00:38:58] Speaker A: Okay, so my classic guys. I'm going to go Anthony Morrow.
I'm going to go Anthony Morrow.
No.
[00:39:09] Speaker B: All right.
[00:39:09] Speaker A: Anthony Morrow. Kyle Corver, Mike Miller and Reggie Miller. No, no, not Reggie Miller. Ray Allen.
[00:39:17] Speaker B: That's basically what I was going to go. I was thinking Kyle Corver, too.
If I were to go all time, I'd probably go. Ray Allen. I would go. Kyle Corver. I would go.
Who's the all time great three point shooter? Bird. I want to think of like a white dude who would just hit threes and that's really all he would do. Who was that dude? And guess the NBA player who could only hit threes. Daquan cook. I'll throw Daquan cook in there, dude.
We've got to find a way to mention Daquan Cook in every podcast. Daquan Cook and Samaj Christian couldn't even shoot.
[00:39:52] Speaker A: He made like eight threes the whole season. One of them was the last one. Westbrook didn't get to get the triple double. He was so bad at shooting.
[00:39:58] Speaker B: Dude, not Samaj Christian. I'll throw in Paige. Still Yakovic. All right, cool. All right, so out of those guys, who you think would win out of.
[00:40:04] Speaker C: Your pick in mine, I'm tempted to go Larry Bird, but I think Steph would win it.
[00:40:11] Speaker B: Probably.
[00:40:12] Speaker A: Give me Corv.
[00:40:13] Speaker B: Kyle Corvette. Oh, no.
[00:40:15] Speaker A: Anthony Morrow. Anthony Morrow.
[00:40:16] Speaker B: Yeah. For sure. Yeah.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: Anthony Morrow.
[00:40:19] Speaker B: I'll go with KD. I think he'd win that three point.
[00:40:22] Speaker A: Contest over Stefan Curry.
[00:40:23] Speaker B: Yes, because Katie is awesome and he's my king and he's better than Dr. J, either him or Taquan cook.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: Let's get onto this negative joke of a.
[00:40:32] Speaker B: All right, the next competition before the all star game, we have the Stephen Curry versus Sabrina Insu three point challenge.
[00:40:38] Speaker C: Huge.
[00:40:39] Speaker B: A whole lot of controversy surrounding this because who's going to win? Oh, I don't know. Who's a pick.
[00:40:45] Speaker C: My official pick is Sabrina Ines.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: Unironically, I agree.
[00:40:49] Speaker C: And she's definitely going to win. There's no way she doesn't.
[00:40:52] Speaker A: For undisclosed reasons.
[00:40:53] Speaker B: You know what?
[00:40:53] Speaker C: She's definitely going to win.
[00:40:55] Speaker B: Since I'm different, I'm going to go Steph Curry and say it's not rigged.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: And if Steph does win, it'll be by one point.
[00:41:01] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be like, by half a point.
[00:41:03] Speaker C: There's no way they'll let Steph just go out there and just.
[00:41:07] Speaker A: And if he does only win by one, the new narrative will be, oh, she only shot on NBA three point, whatever. But if Curry was doing it on WNBA.
[00:41:15] Speaker C: I mean, this shot, dude, I believe that. I don't even think it's crazy to think that Steph could probably do a three point competition and make every shot. It wouldn't be that crazy.
[00:41:27] Speaker A: I mean, he's the greatest shooter of.
[00:41:29] Speaker B: All time by far.
[00:41:30] Speaker A: I think this is kind of. I'm not going to say that, but I think it's like a little.
He just is so good at shooting. I feel like it's kind of crazy to do this.
Reggie Miller wouldn't do this. Ray Allen wouldn't do this.
[00:41:46] Speaker B: Who do you think would win a three point contest between Kevin Herder and Caitlin Clark?
[00:41:51] Speaker A: Caitlin Clark, she's different.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: I think I go, Caitlin Clark, too. Kevin Herder makes me really mad. Yeah, Kevin Herder makes me. Clark.
[00:41:59] Speaker C: Caitlin Clark is a demon.
[00:42:03] Speaker A: She could be like a role player in the.
[00:42:05] Speaker C: If Caitlin Clark played in the NBA, how many points would she have?
[00:42:08] Speaker A: Like seven.
[00:42:09] Speaker C: Oh, that's really high.
[00:42:10] Speaker A: Like maybe six.
[00:42:11] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:42:12] Speaker C: She can shoot, obviously, with the physicality and stuff, but I think she could make a three a game. I would give her like four a game.
[00:42:18] Speaker A: She'd be like Chris Paul, but with a better jump.
[00:42:21] Speaker B: Mean. Yeah, she can't drive inside or else. I mean, that ball's getting sent.
[00:42:24] Speaker C: She can't dribble the ball. She's got to just move without the ball.
[00:42:27] Speaker B: It's got to be.
[00:42:29] Speaker C: But she may, like, someone can set, like, an off ball screen and she can end up in the corner, like a couple times a game, knocking it down.
[00:42:35] Speaker B: Yeah. PJ Tucker. But PJ Tucker thinks he's the best player in the NBA.
Yeah.
[00:42:40] Speaker C: Do they have, like, pretty J Tucker and Kayling?
[00:42:46] Speaker B: It's like Caden and Powell. They do play.
Last but not least, we have the all star game. The west versus the east.
It is team LeBron versus team Yanis. The West is Luka Doncic, Kevin Durant, Shay Gils Alexander, LeBron James, and Jokic. As the starters, the reserves are Devin Booker, Steph Curry, Anthony Davis, Anthony Edwards, Paul George, Kawhi Leonard, and Carl Anthony Towns. As for the east, it is Yanis, Joel Embiid who was injured. Tyrese Halliburton, Damien Lillard, and Jason Tatum as a starter.
[00:43:20] Speaker C: Who's replacing Embiid as a starter.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: They'll probably just move up.
[00:43:23] Speaker B: Bam.
[00:43:24] Speaker A: Maybe Scotty probably.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: And then reserves is bam. Out of Paolo Boncero, Scotty Barnes, Jalen Brown, Jalen Brunson, Tyrese Maxey, Donovan Mitchell, Julius Randall who was injured and Trey Young.
[00:43:38] Speaker C: I'm disgusted.
[00:43:39] Speaker B: East and west, who's winning?
[00:43:43] Speaker A: Well, I mean, on a pure talent standpoint, I think the west is kind of. I mean, if Joel was here, it's probably a different story, but west is kind of. They're going to dominate the west.
[00:43:54] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: But I do want to say one thing. There's a 20 year old on the east that's only in his second year and Jason Tatum is know the third best power forward in the Palo.
[00:44:07] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, it's not Scotty. Scotty shouldn't be an all star. Speed poor Zingis. But in the west, nobody is going to be trying harder in this game than Shay or Devin Booker.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: Yeah, try really hard.
[00:44:21] Speaker C: But I could see Halliburton winning MVP.
[00:44:25] Speaker A: That'd be cool because it's in Andy, maybe Paul George since it's in Indiana.
[00:44:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm going to go play a lot, but I'm going to go with the Western Conference taking this. I'll say they win by like 20. They would have won by 30 if they had demonstrate savanis, but no, guess not.
[00:44:38] Speaker A: It'll be cool to see Katie and LeBron play together.
Yeah, that is going to be crazy.
[00:44:44] Speaker B: Are there any matchups y'all are looking forward to when you look at the teams?
[00:44:48] Speaker A: Just basic, just Luca versus, I think Luca and Halka versus.
Not like they're going to match up on each other, but just like in my opinion in their conference as the two best players in their conference.
[00:45:01] Speaker C: Yeah, I always like seeing Tatum go against Katie and LeBron. Yeah.
And then Jokic versus Giannis is cool, too.
[00:45:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Luca and Tyrese Halliburton, guard matchup for the starters. Just see who is the best passing guard in the NBA. Who's going to score? I think Luka Doncic has a real chance at MVP and with that, who's going to win the MVP in this game? I'm going to go Luca Donchic.
[00:45:25] Speaker A: Give me Kevin Durant.
[00:45:26] Speaker B: I like that. Steph. All great picks. It's going to be a great all star weekend. That starts on Friday. And with all that, that's all we got for you this week. Thank you all for tuning in to WBUA 90.7 FM and the full court press podcast to stay up to date. Follow us on Instagram at ftvpodcast. Underscore UA. See you all next week. Peace.
