 only six more shopping days left till Christmas, which means that women yama jersey ain't gonna buy itself black and silver. You guys run it back starts now running up the running back running up the running back running back running back running back good happy Monday post world cup week and what a game that was. I just want to get it out of the way now. Best sporting event I've seen in a long time guys. I don't care if you agree or not. Shamsharanya stadium insider Chandler P Chandler P and Eddie G on the end right there. It was a heck of a game. I know we're a basketball show, but you don't get those events very often guys. I hope you guys were watching. Okay, good. That's I just wanted to make sure we're all the same page. All right. So we have a lot to get to it's so funny when we stop on Wednesday so much happens and with the Warriors. Yes, it's Steph Curry injury report Shams. Can you give us the latest? So Steph Curry as I reported last week, he's got damage to his labrum in his left shoulder. The good news for him. There's no surgery, but he's going to have a period of rest over the next couple weeks. And then he's going to have a really aggressive rehab because he's got to regain a lot of strength in that shoulder. So the Warriors, they're optimistic. It's going to be about a month where he's going to have to be off and then hopefully some type of return. But with these types of injuries, there's you're always susceptible to re-injury. If you come back too soon, that area can get re-agorated pretty easily if you kind of short circuit your return period. So I think this next month, obviously a big moment last night for the Warriors winning on the road, Jordan pool massive game. They're going to need more games like that. But this next month is going to be a massive kind of point for the Warriors in this season and just re-evaluating this team and seeing as we get closer to trade deadline, what moves could you make if the season does not go the way you expected to without Steph Curry? But I know Chandler Parsons has something similar to this. So I'm curious what his feedback is on this. Yeah. Listen to Labrum, like you said, you don't really mess around with it. This is something that lingers. This is something that also we haven't seen the scans, right? We haven't seen the MRI. We don't know the extent of the tear if it's a sprain, if it's a minor tear. Regardless, if they're just saying labrum injury, it's something that they're cautious about and it's something that they're, you know, they fear that could get worse, obviously. And to have them out for that amount of time and up for no surgery, they're basically putting him on a rehab program where they just kind of doing different exercises. He's strengthening all the muscles around the labrum and kind of just giving it time to heal because like we touched on, this is, you know, one strip away from kind of re-aggravating or tearing it very badly. And that's something that they can't afford. So I think obviously the idea here without seeing the scan is just to kind of be protective over their MVP and hope they can just stay afloat while he's out. But this is something that you never really know the extent of it. We haven't seen the scans, but this is definitely something that could be worse than they're leading on. And the best thing they can do as a team for their guy is to more than tread water, figure out who they are on the road, which is exactly what went down. Jordan Poole figured out who he is at least with a career high, 43 points. Big win over Toronto, 126-110. And this has been their Achilles heel. They couldn't figure out how to get wins on the road at all. Draymond calling it a blueprint for how successful they could be while Curry is out. Eddie, why don't we start with you on that? Do you agree that this showed them a little something about their at least near future? Draymond making three threes to start the game and Jordan Poole scoring 43 does not seem like a sustainable blueprint. He's writing that. Yeah, if they do that, they'll win a lot more games. But it's going to be a tough road for them. Steph is obviously so much of what they do. And we're talking about a month and beyond. They have a tough schedule coming up. A bunch of contenders they'll be playing, some road trips. I don't know about a blueprint, but they have a system there that can work. Jordan Poole can really step into this role and kind of tread water for them while they wait for what could have been the MVP would probably won't now that is in the midst 10, 12, 15 games. But yeah, I mean, I guess it's a recipe. JP goes off. He looks like Steph and everybody else looks like everybody else. But it's going to be tough to do this night in and night out. Yeah, look, I don't think Jordan Poole is going to have 40 every single night. But this is the kind of action that, that they need from him. And like I've said before, this, this is, he thinks he's Steph Curry when he's playing and now he has at least a month to go out there and play like he did last night. And they're going to need it. And this is going to be a collective effort. One person just can't replace Steph Curry with the value he adds with the attention he adds. They're going to need guys like Jamaica green and Ty Jerome, these guys that, you know, haven't played that many minutes, they're going to have a huge opportunity here. And these young guys with cominga and moody and wise men's got to start getting in the rotation here. It's going to take all of them. But yeah, this is the blueprint. I suppose like Dreymon 17, nine and five, Looney giving you a double double, you know, clay is going to have nights where he goes off. But I actually think the opposite to what Eddie said, I think their schedule is kind of like coming up. They got Charlotte, Detroit, Orlando, San Antonio, Chicago mixed in with some good teams. They have winnable games. So I think as long as they honestly, that the talent they have, as long as they stay in the play in, while Steph Curry's out, you don't want to play these guys fully healthy and loaded. So I just think their job is to kind of stay afloat with him out and obviously try and make some ground up. But this is a team when fully healthy, no one wants to see in that plan or first round. Yeah, Andrew Wiggins is also about to return in the coming games. And I think that's going to be a big boost, but they're going to need to be all hands on deck. Jordan fool needs to be exactly like he was last night. He's not going to have 40 points every night, but they need a better performance run. They paid him that 120 plus million dollar contract extension in the summer. They're expecting him to take that next step. And this is the perfect time to do so. We cannot leave. We will not leave this topic of the Warriors without one beautiful, beautiful moment on the same NFL Sunday. They gave us the pitch pitch what play from the Patriots. We get this. Dreyvon, what are you doing? Go right now, by the way, since we're mentioning that, go right. Basically that wasn't the last play of the game, you know, just like the Raiders, like I'm sure Eddie was going crazy. I'm sure he threw that his remote at the TV and excitement. So I'm sure he's going wild. It's funny because that's not even, that's not even there Vince to where like, you know, maybe he saw a flash of a white jersey or heard a voice, he knows, and it just flashed. Teams are used to having somebody that weeks and a quarter at all times, but come on, Drey, you got to give it a look. He thought Seth was there. He thought it was there. He heard a voice. It's awesome. I can watch that over and over again on a loop. Can't get anybody kicked out for that one, Dreyvon. That one was all you. Got shams. You're going to be busy because the injury stuff is, it's big and the names are big. And this is possibly one of the bigger names. And unfortunately one that a lot of fans have probably gotten used to expecting at some point in a season, but Anthony Davis, when that ticker went by this weekend, everyone just went, Oh no, what is the latest on Anthony Davis and that injury? I'm told Anthony Davis is going to be out at least four weeks. He's going to continue to undergo evaluations and whether it's, it's rest and really recovery that way or other treatment options. That's what he's evaluating right now. But from everything I'm told, the Lakers are bracing for this to potentially go over even the four week mark just so they can make sure that he has a full recovery. But of course this is, this is devastating. This is crushing. There was a big win last night for the Lakers as well as the Warriors. But I think in the long term, it's going to be really tough for them to navigate without Anthony Davis. He's been playing probably his most dominant basketball of his career. So far this year, you're going to see a lot of LeBron James at the five. You're going to see a lot more. Thomas, Brian who played really well, Damian Jones as well. But just, just a tough injury. It really happened on a free play. But clearly I think that this is something that might have been there initially and they found it in MRIs and more scans. So no, Anthony Davis for at least the next four weeks could be even longer than that. Yeah. This, this is tough just because he, he was playing so good. He was playing at an MVP level. And to be frank, the Lakers don't have the talent to really make up for him. The Warriors, I think with pool and with Wiggins coming back, they kind of have the pieces to maybe collectively fill in. Last night again, the Lakers did a great job when in that game. They tried smoking it at the end there. But this, this, this guy's hard to replace. And last night they did a better job. They had five starters and double figures. LeBron is going to continue to dominate and do what he does. Again, their schedule, they have winnable games coming up, but this is a scenario where this roster is not the deepest. Thomas Bryan's been great filling in for him. But this, this to me is a bigger situation than the Warriors just because the lack of talent and depth they have to kind of replace a guy like Anthony Davis. That makes sense. I mean, look, when you're trying to give LeBron rest, they've got a back to back. They play Phoenix tonight. It's a tough turnaround for a guy who would probably like to get a little bit of rest. But last night they did beat the Wizards. It was another win in which they could have just showed themselves as far as without Anthony Davis. It was a bizarre world ending. LeBron within your turnover gets it back finds Thomas Bryan. Go ahead, bucket. It's, it's a lot and granted they got to do a lot more of these if the dudes out for at least a month. But how do you manage Eddie? What do you think? I mean, LeBron would probably like to have some of these nights off, if not at least parts of, but he can't afford to do that now. Right? So what's the plan? I mean, you have to go all in with them. If you're not going to trade out of Russ and you're not going to break it down, you do LeBron's going to have to play these games. There's no way around it. It's going to be a tough month plus going ahead for them. And they have a big trip down south to start January. They have a, you know, they play Christmas game. Like they, they have a lot going on. And like you said, they don't have the talent that the Warriors have to overcome that they're going to be depending on Thomas, Brian, they're going to be paying on minutes for Max Christie, who has played well over the last week or so. But it's asking a lot for a team that just doesn't have enough bodies to compete with the better teams of the league. Good thing for them is there's 10 playoff spots and they're just out of one, but they're going to be competing with the Warriors for that spot. And it's going to be tough sledding for them. I think, you know, losing AD almost loses the season for them. And you hate to see that for him. And I know he's got this reputation as a guy who's always hurt. And that's such a freak spot. And I agree with Shams. There's probably something linger in there beforehand. You know, sometimes you're just one of those guys, your body can't handle all the stuff you're trying to do on the court. And that's unfortunate. But yeah, I don't know that there's much chances for success without AD. And again, this is a team that's struggling with AD. So like, I don't, I mean, it's going to obviously be a collective effort, but this is a whole different attitude if LeBron turns that ball over and Kuzma goes down and dunks that ball and they lose at home to the Wizards who haven't won this month. They were one play away from really being in disarray today. So again, it's going to take everybody and they showed signs last night and they're going to need Austin Reeves and Lonnie Walker. They're going to need Russ to continue to do what he's doing. They're going to need everybody up and they got to have that next man mentality. But I just, I don't, I don't see it. Chandler's not buying it at all shams. Look, this team for a season and a half, we've been talking, well, they won't they, are they going to make a trade? Are they going to get rid of someone? Then they show flashes of what they could be with AD. Now he's out. Is the pressure that much greater in LA to actually make some sort of a move now? You know what? My answer is probably going to surprise you guys. I actually think there's less pressure on the Lakers to make a move now because you just don't know when Anthony Davis will come back. There's an indefinite absence. It's going to be at least four weeks. Could be even longer than that. So it's tough to make a move without waiting out and seeing just exactly when Anthony Davis will be back. How will he be back? What kind of level of play he'll be back at? Because the last thing you want to do is burn one or both of your first run assets that you have just for the remainder of this decade on a player and not be able to push you over the top because Anthony Davis, whether he's not coming back at the same level, isn't coming back at all, et cetera. Like there's too many, to me, question marks with Anthony Davis in his return to really burn assets for the Lakers. So I think they're really going to take a patient approach and see exactly when they can get Anthony Davis back. Yeah. And if they haven't done anything yet, I don't know how they would do it now. I don't know, you know, AD's value was really high last week now as he heard. But this is, again, this is something that we've always got a factor in with AD. He's missed time historically. And now again, he's unfortunately out for a month. But this is just putting LeBron, who again is older and carrying a lot already. This is putting even more onus on him. You know, same thing as those warrior guys, just to kind of stay in the hunt some way, somehow, because again, this team fully healthy is a way different team. I still don't think they're very good. And I still don't think they'll win a series in the playoffs. But this is a team that has two of the best players in the NBA when healthy and could be scary. But this is a tough blow for them that I don't think they'll be able to overcome. Chandler's breakdown of the Lakers. It's like this. Yeah, no, they're super great when they're healthy. Oh, no, no, I still think they suck. But they could be a really fun design. I just sit here and listen to Lakers breakdowns all day. I honestly just think that the days of like the big two or the big three or whatever, I don't think it works anymore. I think you need depth. You need shooting and they have none of those things shooting. Shooting is big. We're going to talk a team that we don't often talk about the Nicks, the Nicks and the Pacers last night, seven straight win for the Nicks by Brunson's 30 Randall's 25 and 14. And after the game, this is the quote we want to focus on. Rick Carlisle said that the Nicks are as good as any team in the NBA right now. What now? Jailor, you want to go first? That's a heck of a word. Yeah. I mean, listen, right now they have the longest winning streak. So sure, they're playing just as good as anybody right now, but let's not be ridiculous overall. They're not. And they have a solid big three and Randall has really upped his game defensively lately. They've been great. And I've always loved the addition to Jalen Brunson. I think he's one of those just tough, heady point guards that, you know, pass first, but can score and the crunch can get to both left, get right. I think he's a great addition. I think he's worth every penny. But no, I think right now, there's six seed and if they'd play the Cavs in the first round as a three seed, I think there's a good chance they get swept. So that they're going on a good run right here, but they're and they're playing very well. But I don't think long term, obviously this team is a contender by any means. Who said that quote? Like, I know you think it'd be some rando, but it's Rick Carlyle. The team that just got beat by them, that's who said it. Rick and old pro, I get what he's doing. You got to, you know, gas up the opponents. They're not even the best team in New York. Like, what are we talking about? Here we go. Here we go. Shout out to the Knicks. It's nice to play the Bulls twice in a week. It's nice to play the Hornets. It's nice to stack up wins like that. I get it. Look, they're doing fine. They're doing better than they were. They're over 500. This is like the most exciting Knicks basketball since Jeremy Lin and Eddie. That's great. I'm excited for them, but come on. They're not the best team. I love Rick Carlyle. What a great guy. You know what? You know what? I'm going to go the other way. I'm going to give the Knicks some credit and I want to give Tom Thibodeau credit. I think early in the year he tried to play Derek Rose and Cam Reddish and Evan Fournier. And I think what we've seen the last two weeks is he's shrunk that rotation. It's now like eight guys that he's playing on a consistent basis. He's going, riding his starters like like like Tom Thibodeau usually does 35 plus minutes. He's got quickly miles of pride as a Hartenstein and you know, he Quinton Grimes. Like those guys are really the focal points of their rotation now along with RJ Bear, Julius Randall, Jaylen Brunson. So this is a team that's really relying on an eight man, nine man rotation right now. They're not really playing like 11, 12 deep like they were earlier. And I think that you have to point at that is why this team has been able to turn it around. I mean, we like we literally have Thibodeau on a hot seat every other day. Like what must it be like to be on any more of a life? I know it's it's like one day you're the best one. Okay, but then let's let's talk, you know, the NBA is a crazy place on any given day. Someone looks great. Someone looks awful. But as far as ceilings playoffs, I don't even want to use the word contender here. That just makes me feel foolish. But if we could give them a ceiling, realistically Chandler, what are you thinking the way they are constructed right now? Make the playoffs and maybe win a series, but I don't see that again. I just they play Cleveland right now. Do any of us think they have a chance in the series against the Cavs? You know, I again, I'm happy they're playing, but Philly's better. Boston's better. Milwaukee's better. Cleveland's better. Miami's better. I'm take I'm probably taking Indy to I'm taking a lot of teams over the next and and maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm sleeping on them and they have found a little groove right now. But listen, I think the playoffs is a good goal for them. And obviously the goal is to advance. But I just I don't see. I think the East is too deep this year. And I think the teams at the top are way too talented. I'm with Chandler like I could see them winning a series with the right match up. But what's the right match up? I think me saying they even have a chance is respect for tibetan as a coach and the strategist. Last time we saw Julius Randall in the playoffs. It was awful. Same R.J. Barrett. We've seen Jalen Brunson be well do well in the playoffs, but we're talking the smallest of the three. It's they'd have to get the right match up. And even then it's tough. What is the right match up for them? But good for the Knicks and their fans in the garden and all that good stuff. I'm happy for Spike Lee. Eddie's the work. You're like, Oh, good for you. That's so cute. It's a big brother right there. All right. We got to talk a little Nikola Jokic because all right, I just landed on the planet. I'm learning about basketball. He had 40 points, 27 rebounds, 10 assists Chandler. Tell me how impressive that really is. This was crazy. This is this is one of the best games I've ever seen. And you know what? It's how he does it. He's obviously a center, but he plays like a guard. He can do he can do everything. He plays the right way. If I'm a player now and there's one big guy that I'd want to play with, it's him. And he's not the most like dominant physical. I think that's the problem. People look at centers and they picture like lob threats, the Dwight Howard's, the DeAndre Jordan kind of effect. And he just doesn't play that way. But it's crazy what he does. It's beautiful to watch the guy is he's averaging 25, 11, and nine shooting 62% from the field. Like and by the way, I think they're like tied for the second record in the West right now. So he's just as much in the MVP again. I don't think they'll give it to him three years in a row, unless he continues to do things like this. But this was one of the most dominating performances I've ever seen. And it was really, really special to watch. Yeah. God bless Mason Plumley and Nick Richards. They got the 55 points from Joe B like last week and they get this. Yeah. No, it was, it was fascinating to watch. I don't think it's a little alarming that this game remained close even with that performance. And you know, Yoke, it's yeah, I think at 23 point 23 rebounds and three quarters. I felt like there was three more rebounds out there for him. Like I need the 40 30. I need to see that in my life. So pick up the slag next time, big fella. I think we're just running out of like words for Nicola Yoke like he does this on a nightly base. He makes it look so easy. He's not really a dominating presence like Chandler said. So I think it's like normal for him. And I know the way that they play in Denver, it's a free flowing game. It's team first. And I think Nicola Yoke embodies that. And when you talk to players who've left that organization in the past few years, they know it's night and day compared to what life was like in Denver. So we'll see if this can kind of turn this team around. But Yoke is playing like he's going to be part of the MVP conversation again this year. Like Chandler said, I don't know if he wins it three straight times, but he's definitely going to be in the conversation. This is a center with five triple doubles. That's crazy. Like that's unheard of, man. Almost averaging a triple double. That's nuts. Right. So let me ask you this. Then why do we, I don't know, I kind of put them in the same category as the Phoenix Suns. Like maybe we've been there, done that, we've seen what their ceiling is. Is that why we don't talk about him and his team the same way we talk about other teams? Are we just not as impressed? Like, I can't figure it out, Eddie. Why is it we don't talk about the nuggets in such high regards as others? I mean, we do understand there's a ceiling with that team. And honestly, it's because of him and what he can and cannot do on defense. No disrespect to him. But at the end of the day, he can only move so quickly on defense and that's going to be exploited every time. I think there's just this perception of the Warriors, the Grizzlies, the Suns. We just view them as a hierarchy in contendership in that sense. You know, whether that's fair or unfair is up to the user, but we've seen this movie before in the playoffs and we've seen him get exploited in those ways. So until he proves otherwise, I think you're right in being a little worrisome about what they can and can't do against those teams. Yeah, defensively is the issue for them. Obviously this guy can do it all. People that know basketball know how terrific this guy plays and how sublime it is to watch, but it comes on the other guys. They need Michael Porter healthy. They need Bones Highland getting buckets. They need Jamal Murray being, you know, being, yeah, being, you know, bubble Jamal Murray. But again, I just think it's not traditional. People aren't used to seeing it. People are seeing this finesse, European point guard slash center. And I don't think they fully comprehend how special it is. And Chandler said the right name Jamal Murray as well, because it's not even Yolk. It's that is going to get exploited on defense. It's Murray as well. He just cannot guard at the point of attack to that elite level. And we watch teams instead of even picking on Yolk. It's their finding Jamal Murray and they're going to take him off the dribble. They're not even bothered to bring another big guy out in the whole nine. So he's another name that like, yeah, we've seen them do it on the offense and in the floor, but they're going to have those defense limitations and they're going to need those two on the floor at all times. So until we see them do that, you're right to have a little bit concerned about whether they can or can't. And they can't they I like that tweet because it's our segue into our final topic here. Mr. Jha Morant ejected. This one's weird. I mean, that's really all I can start with. This one is a weird ejection ejection for profanity directed at officials, but he was talking to a fan when he said he got hit in his bleep and face. And then afterwards said, I didn't curse at the ref didn't do anything. Another situation where he's in my conversation. I get a tech for talking with a fan. I feel like when these fans came here, they went online to buy these tickets. They didn't say Ray Acosta's name to come watch. Totally fair. Shams, I assume that you're everywhere at all times and here at all. Do we know anything? Do we know what he said to the fan? I think the fan was kind of upset too. Like it was a mess. So from speaking to people around that were at the game in the crowd, I'm told Jha essentially told that fan that that he feels like the Grizzlies are also playing against the refs that night. So the ref I guess overheard it, you know, an integrity of the officiating, you know, that kind of was a shot at that. And so I don't know if Chandler's ever seen this on the basketball court where a ref overhears a conversation coming at the officiating and then tosses the player. I don't know if that's a first or not. Definitely, you know, very notable. I haven't seen this in years, if ever. Yeah, I've never seen it. But I mean, listen, this guy Ray Acosta, he's getting a little bit of a rep. He's got a quick trigger with with with text. But I see his point if Eddie's sitting courtside and I'm saying Eddie, this ref is terrible. He sucks. He's missing all these calls. That's kind of my passive aggressive way of talking to the ref. So there's really no difference in me saying it's the ref or me directly talking about him to a fan. So I get it. But again, this, this clearly there's no beef here. Clearly there's no issue like John Moran's dad was putting him on FaceTime with the lady because she felt so bad. Like it's just that the reps I think need to chill out a little bit. This is this is a player's league. This is more about the players. And now also you just you just kicked out the guy that most of these fans came to see play. Like you got to you got to kind of have thicker skin here, in my opinion, and Ray's had some issues this year with giving out a lot of text. But I've I've I've never seen, you know, something like that. Shamal Shamal and Chandler taking the ref, the ref side. We made a mistake when we let like Dick Bavetta and Charles Barkley race and like Jay Crawford think he was the show for so long. Like, bro, you got to let these guys play at some point. I know it's John. He already gets the Jordan whistle and it's like, all right, slow down, buddy. But like he's chirping with the not even chirping. The fan has a John Moran shirt on and is a super fan. But court sides to watch it play. And he's over there, you know, communicating with the fan. This is a lot like the first tech was a lot. This one's even worse. I hate it. If you want to see John play that game and that's the perfect for it. So like, what are we doing? We're not he's right. We're not here to see this rep 54 by all means. We don't even know your number. Like, but let's just watch the game, bro. So yeah, I'm with John here. I mean, we would pay tickets to see Zach Zarbha, right? Like, that's the only ref anyone's paying to see. Or am I the only one on that island? I wouldn't pay tickets to see Chandler referee like I go that is the problem. Like if I'm an Oklahoma City fan this year, I'm going to that game to see John Moran play. So you got it. You got to be better than that. And you kind of take it with a grain of salt. But listen, and paid a lot of money to see John Moran court. I don't care what market you're in. Courtside seats are still a lot of money. And secondly, does John's dad go to every game? Like you're in Oklahoma City. Dang, dude, there's some cities. I'm just skipping. I go to my life. Oklahoma City, right, Chandler? Yeah. Listen, if my if my son was John Moran, I'm going to every game. Just like that. Okay. Fair enough. Drink in my hand. I mean, he gets it. That dude's getting it. We're going to take a quick break coming up all the dunks and ankle breakers from what was a very, very busy weekend in the NBA. And there it is from our own shams. Max and Kleber will miss six to eight weeks. Oh, shum, shum, shum, shum, shum. That is not good news for the Dallas Mavericks. That's a long, long time. What can he expect? What can fans expect as far as what he's got ahead of him? Yeah. So there's an expectation that he's going to hopefully be able to return around the all-star break shortly thereafter. They all-star break, but he's got a knee sprain. He's got a hamstring tear that right now he's going to try to rehab through. And so that's a lot of time for them to be treading water without. He's a big figure for them when it comes to shooting, defending, rebounding. He's really a glue piece with Luke Adantige. And so the hope is, is that after the all-star break, they're going to be around the play-in, playoff spot, and be able to get him back in the lineup. But a lot more Christian would over the next couple of months. Chandler, you were just in Dallas. You know the importance of Maxi Kleber. How big of a loss is this? Yeah. He's important because besides Christian Wood, obviously, he's the one guy that can kind of stretch the floor. Luca loves playing with him. He's a great pick-and-pop guy. Defensively, he gives you effort and able to switch on pick and rolls. Dwight Powell's not really stretching the floor. Javel McGee's, for whatever reason, not really playing that much. Maxi is kind of an ideal glue guy for them. Like I said, that can kind of stretch the floor. He knocks down the corner threes. He picks and pops. He's made big shots for them his career. So it's definitely a blow to kind of an already thin team. Shoms, thank you. There's a lot going on right now. Staying on top of it. We'll talk to you in the morning. A lot of injuries. It's a busy part. It's kicking up Christmas around the corner. We will speak Mannyana and Javel McGee has played Chandler. And you know how I know? Because he kicks off our, that man has a family segment today, but not on the good end of such a moment. Oh, you don't like it when you do play for it to be like this. I don't like it. Portland has some bouncy, bouncy kids. That's a good way to put it. I don't know how you do that. And don't get a, don't get a check for just screaming at everybody. The worst part is Javel just kind of halfway jumped and realized like this is going to end super poorly and just trying to turn around. Right? Like there's no, you at that point you're too in it. There's nothing to do. Shout out Kimba Walker though for the last, this last game. My god. Just accepting it. All right. How about a little Al Horford ejected? Well, that happens. Right guys. You know how to hit there or what? Anything below the waist is kind of uncalled for. Is that a bad area? It looks like it was on purpose. Also this kid is very, this kid talks a lot and he's kind of obnoxious to play against, but yeah, you can't just straight up elbow someone in the nuts like that. Yo, giving a guy a cheap shot. Well, his brother is also on the court. That's pretty bossy. Like that's pretty, you're a real tough guy. You know this, you're fighting two people. I get it. And that cost him 25 grand. His brother is a hooper, by the way. His brother is nice. His brother is dead nice. I don't know if hitting someone in the dong dong is enough, is $25,000 worth of fun. I got to read about that. How bad is it that you got hit nuts and we're talking about how good your brother is? It's not good. It's not a good moment. This is like a double whammy. Luca Donchich. Okay. We got another moment. Let me see if we like it better. This was way better. This was way better. The fake with the off hand is getting a lot of gas on the internet. I'm not impressed with this dunk as much. And there we go, Luca. That's what I like to see from the big killer. Eddie likes it better. Have you seen, I don't think I've ever seen the off hand fake pass. I have not. And it was like, I've seen a lot of tweets just really excited about that. I don't know what was going through his mind. By the way, I don't know why it worked. Shadon still do. That shouldn't have worked on you, my guy. Well, he'll have a moment. I mean, he's so impressed by himself. He's like, there's a lot going on with his emotions afterward. Luca reacts to his great plays in the ways I would. Like, I want the whole gym to know I just did that. He does. He makes sure they know. He acts like he watched him. This is kind of the only thing he could do that would surprise me too. The no looks, the passes, the step backs I get when he goes up two feet and kind of goes at a center like this. This, I love this. Yo, he had a little true banks. He had a no look through traffic into it. It's one of the best passes I've ever seen. Okay. That was, that was insane. But this dunk is, yeah, congrats, Luca. You got me. Yeah, that was fun. We don't hate it. All right. Here you go. Eddie will like this one more. This one Kyrie. Hard to believe his first career buzzer beating game winner. Is that right? That can't be right. That's crazy. I mean, this doesn't count. This is just to break you off. Like, he dropped somebody off like that. He sent that man to the free throw line. That's a water, the eight, nine feet. And then he's the shot. I was, I was, I was slightly upset. I wanted Kevin to get the shot. I was very happy with the result. That's, that's how you send them off. I love that. Eddie, do you like those uniforms? Where are you on those? I love the Unis. I hate the red accents. Like just wear the white tight. It's fine. That's all. Gotcha. It's a little too much. But I love it. Yeah, but I love the Unis. Mr. Shop. Is this, ah, he's high. Do that again. Listen, my Parley picture, my Parley picture pretty bad. This kid will win the dunk contest. He is so bouncy. This kid has crazy hops. That's an early guarantee from one Chandler Parsons on the All Star. I didn't think we were going to have that today. Yeah, that's right. His head is above. Wow. When you, when you have to get your head out of the way of the backboard, you're doing something. Chandler, you've never seen the rim from up there. You ever look down at the rim? That's never. What must that be like? This kid was such a mystery. He didn't even play in college. And this kid is a real hooper. Like I love this kid's game. Beautiful. Yeah, I feel like people are happy so far. Seem to be all positives. And Mr. Jalen Brunson. That was Caruso. All right, to Caruso's credit, he popped up fast. I'll give him that. Doesn't matter at that point. No push either. Just drop. Just slide safe and third. Good job. And Caruso locks up too. And this is a huge play in the game too. This was nasty. Yeah, that was, yeah. I've seen, I've seen his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend like the post on Instagram if you watch the challenge. Wait, hold on. His girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Hold on. Who's ex-girlfriend? Reality TV people, if you watch the challenge on MTV, you'll know who they are. Who's ex-girlfriend? No, I'm not going to commercial until I get the answer out of this one. Alex's girlfriend, her ex liked and reposted that. So it's doubly embarrassing to have. I mean, I would kind of understand even if my girlfriend liked that. That was a really good play. I'm going to have so much to look up during this next commercial break. If I cross you out of bounds, yeah, everybody can like it. It's fine. Yeah, free for all. Okay. We have so much to go look up. Oh, my God. It's so good. Okay. We take a quick break so I can look up a bunch of gossip and should the Thunderstrade SGA and did the Knicks do the right thing? Not getting down to Mitchell when we come back. Oh, okay. Well, Devin Booker with the arena scoring record in three different buildings in the league. He dropped an NBA season high 58 points on the Pelicans on Friday, just the 10th player all time to have three 55 point games. That's that's impressive. Chandler, let me ask you your reaction to that kind of a play against the Pelicans team that's quite good. Yeah, this was just impressive. Just the rivalry that this has become the chippiness, the kind of game that before when when Devin has it going, nobody can stop them. I mean, they were throwing double teams out in the half court and he's just kind of fast dribble into the corner, fading away, knocking down threes. I'm gonna be honest with you, he could have had 70. Like he missed a couple bunnies at the end there. He started forcing a little bit, but when he gets going like this, there's there's no one in the world that can stop him and he gets to his pull ups. He goes left. He goes right. He's getting to it's crazy. He missed a lot of free throws too. He missed he missed five free throws. And he doesn't do that. So yeah, this was just this was a fun game to watch it when he gets going. There's nothing like it. Yeah, they needed every point. Come back when it was huge when they need to show those guys they could beat them. If you make 21 field goals in a game, like you're smoking. So he might be the best scorer in basketball right now. He's amazing. I love books game. My favorite part about all of this is that these teams are now evenly split two and two, each one a game at home. So I am okay with this being the Western Conference finals. Yes. Yes. We all vote yes. Make it happen. Silver time for a little. By the way, do you have any gossip for me on Devin Booker? Because now I'm going to eat for everything. I saw him practice this summer and he looked amazing. So I'm not surprised. I don't think that counts as gossip, but yeah. No, it didn't. Okay, let's get to it. You buy that. What? I don't know. I love what he did at the end of the game. I was hoping he got a run out dunk and didn't kind of gave him back a little dose of their own medicine or if he made that three, but I'm petty. So I loved him taking that shot at the end of the game. No, we love petty. Petty will always win out over everything else. You buy that Russell Westbrook. We haven't talked about Russell Westbrook in a minute. All positive. Nothing negative to say about that here averaging 15, 8 and 6 coming off the bench. Of course. Chandler, are you buying that he is the sixth man of the year? He's up there. I like Ben Mather and I think what he's doing as a rookie averaging, you know, 18, 4, shooting, you know, 36 from 3. I love him, but I do, I will say this, it takes a level of maturity to what Russell Westbrook is doing from going to an absolute star, multi all star Olympian MVP. Like this guy, we've seen it with Carmelo. We've seen it with other guys. It's hard to kind of accept that role and it took him a while and you could tell he was aggravated, but he has embraced it. Their team is playing better for it. He looks more comfortable. He's going against second strings. He's the focal point on the offense. He still has the athleticism and the open court. Super, super happy for him and proud of him. And you know what? He's made that team, you know, a lot better by accepting that role and doing what he's doing off the bench. He's right there for sixth man of the year. Yeah. I don't know if he's the favorite. It's kind of a murky race. I do like Mather in there as well. You know, we watched Russ get benched yesterday for a second round G-leaguer in Max Christie because they need spacing and they need to be a little more settled on offense. So I don't know that this season is going to continue to trend up for him. We might be headed towards, especially with AD out, kind of like the reset to the mean for Russ and some more bad Russ to kind of back his way out of this race. He's a fan dual favor right now. So who knows? We got a lot, a lot more season to go. Christian Wood talked a little bit about him earlier, had 26 and 14 as a starter on Saturday. So the question is pretty logical up Chandler. You buying that he should maybe be a starter. Yeah. He's got the talent. His issue is always defensively. You know, I think Dinwood was the ideal second option for going into the season. But yeah, Christian Wood has played very, very well. He can stretch out. He can shoot threes. He can create. He kind of does that off the block post up with Cleaver out now too. And the Mavs kind of in no man's land. Why not? Why not start him? Make the guy happy. You can obviously kind of change up the rotation towards the end of the games anyways, but it's just tough when you have him and Luca both in the starting lineup. It's not a great defensive team. But offensively, yeah, he's, he's, he should be playing more and he's playing efficient. So I think the Mavs are kind of, it doesn't hurt. And now with Cleaver going out Orlando magic, I know, I know we're looking at all these teams going, what is happening? But the magic have won six in a row. Eddie, are you buying that of all the teams that are not currently in these playoff races? They have the most upside? Yeah, absolutely. I think they have the best young player and Paolo Bencero. And you know, what they have a bull bull as well who is continuing to develop and become the player we thought he was going to be when we were watching him on Instagram three years ago, four years ago. On top of that, we already mentioned Franz Wagner. And then they have Quentany, they have Jaylen Suggs. There's a lot of talent out there, a lot to like out there in Orlando. I'm happy to see them winning games. I like what Detroit's doing as well. I know they don't look as great, especially without Cade, but you got to remember they have former number one overall pick out there. They have Jayden Ivy, who looks amazing. They have Jim Durand, who also looks great as a second round pick. So there's a lot of young talent in the league and there's kind of floundering on these bad teams right now. But yeah, there is some upside and the torch will eventually be passed to some of these guys. Yeah, I agree. I love what the magic's doing. I love Jamal Moseley. The value they got for bull bull is insane, the things he's doing, and they have the odds on favorite for rookie of the year. Markel Foltz is kind of playing solid again. They have a lot of pieces being from there. You know, it's been really a roller coaster to be a magic fan growing up, but there's still ways away, but I love that they're going on this little stretch. Like we always say, tanking is never good for the growth of these players. You don't want them to develop bad habits, losing habits. And to go through a stretch like this to get a taste of how it is to succeed in the league is huge for the growth of these kids. And there's a little petty in them as well, which I like as well. I mean, I'm going to root for that. Oh, I know, right? First of all, I hadn't even said that name in so long. Here's a weird head scratching stat that over the past two seasons, when Shade Gill just Alexander scores 30 or more, his team is 12 and 27. So I ask you, Chandler, should maybe this be the time to consider trading him at his highest value? I don't think so. I think this kid's an absolute stud. He's 24 years old. He's averaging 31, 6 and 5. It's going to be hard to get someone that young and that talented back. I don't care if it's picks, I don't care whatever. I think instead of trading a guy like him, you build around him or you build with him and you keep guys like Giddy and hopefully Chet comes back and is the player they thought and they get a high draft pick. But no, in my eyes, you got a real gym here and you keep him for as long as you can. It's not like we're talking about 29 and 30-year-old. This kid's 24 years old and only going to get better. I agree with Chandler, but I will say if they get the number one overall pick and they have Chet and they have Wimbanyama or even if they get two and they have Scoot, who can be a similar player on a much, much easier contract to digest. Maybe you think about it. Maybe you see what's out there. Maybe you see if you can progress what you have with the quick move, but he's not the reason they have the bad record when he score all these points. They just don't have a lot of talent. They're learning how to play basketball. But yeah, if things break right, I think he's the guy you would look to try to move because I think you can get the most for him at this point. Let me ask you this. If you're him, what would you want, Chandler? I'm not an Oklahoma City guy. I'd want to get the hell out of their ASAP. And he went from LA to Oklahoma. That alone is a tough adjustment. But look, this kid is a stud. He's an all star this year. Even though their team is not good. And again, this is one of those stats like a plus minus stat. I can't stand when guy's like, oh, he's minus 18 when the guy had like a triple double and shot 60% from the field. I'm like, to a certain point, these numbers are just numbers and they don't really matter the impact of the game. This is a stat that I think is completely irrelevant to like, you know, his talent and the way he impacts the game. Yeah, throw it away. I hate it. Yeah, I hate it. I have yet to meet someone who's like, associated with the game, played the game, what have you that loves it? It's a very interesting polarizing stat. All right, fair enough. We should do a whole show tomorrow on plus minus goo. That's, that'll win us some awards. Take a quick break. When we come back, these two have one more shot to get this parley thing right. And then we're coming in and cleaning it all up when it back returns. Santa Barclay is coming to town and he's delivering 20 million bucks and gifts this holiday season to all Fanduil customers. It doesn't matter if you've been naughty or nice. Thanks. Chuck has something for everyone. Just check your Fanduil app from today through Christmas Day for no sweat, same game parlays, casino bonuses, and all sorts of stuff that'll fill you with holiday cheer. You know who's not on that graphic. These two. You want to know why? Here's why. Let's just take a quick, a quick gander back at what we managed to put together for last Wednesday's big parley just so we can get an idea of how we're starting the week. Uh huh. Uh huh. Okay. Three big red X's. That's fine. But Eddie, you've got bragging right so far. So today begins a whole fresh new start, a fresh new week going into Christmas. Eddie, I need to hear your two legs of your four leg parley. I'm doubling down on Donnie. Out of a metro over 28 and a half points against his former team to Utah Jazz. I'm just riding with him till you guys come and save us. Go with Donnie. I like the revenge game. I'm also going with the magical. We just talked up a ton to continue their win streak. Are they at six now? They're going for seven. They've got plus seven and a half points. I think they're going to win outright. So I don't know whatever that counts for, but I'm not a big Hawks fan. Go Apollo and the gang. I think those are two good legs, Chandler. I really, I'm not even being sarcastic. No, me neither. Unfortunately, I really like those. Michelle, you got to like this one. Listen, both these teams aren't very good. I think again, I think the spurs should win this game outright. Like, so I like the spurs plus four at Houston. Honestly, I think it should be a pick them. So getting four points seems like a gift and Lakers versus sons. They played last night at the Lakers. They're banged up. They can't score. They can't shoot. I really like all four of these legs. I don't know what to do if they don't all hit. Oh, well, I'll tell you. And by the way, we can light my pop candle when we're all done. If you do hit this for 20 bucks, you would win 230. But if you two do not get at least three of the four tonight, we're changing things up a little bit. Now I realize I'm jinxing that by deciding to do it this way. But I feel good for you guys. I think you're going to get three or four. Exactly. I'll be honest with you. I really do. Yeah, it looks good. It looks good. I've got the pop candle here. We'll light it just for the sake of the car. Why don't you have this thing is probably the better question. I wish you guys like, Oh, God, what? What? Throw that one away. You don't need that in your house. Never. Never. This thing is what keeps me alive. That's gonna do it for us today. Tomorrow's a brand new one. Enjoy all of the games tonight. Fingers crossed these dudes hit just 75% of their picks. We'll see y'all in the morning.