 What's the word y'all welcome back man clay day in my opinion was everything I could have expected and Warman I think him his teammates a social media team bodied everything with this comeback And I'm so very very excited to talk about that and all things basketball Somebody sent this shirt to my peel box like a year and a half two years ago And I never put it on but with it being clay day the first thing I did when I woke up this morning Other than shower and do my hygiene stuff was finding sure because this was clay's date man So I went to Home Depot today. It was one degree in Chicago So I had my coat on but I had it on zip right and I'm in Home Depot. I'm buying boxes Oh, I bought a new house. So we've been in this room for like two and a half three years In the next month, I will be somewhere else which is exciting Yeah, it's a good moment, but I'm buying boxes from Home Depot And we're getting checked out and the guy at the register checking us out sees my shirt and he says He's coming back today Who knew that Home Depot had hoop heads in there? I might show up again tomorrow to see what bro on see if he wanted to have a conversation about Clay Day You feel me Home Depot with the good customer service seeing what I was doing and relating to me You know, yeah, he did come back today and it was great, man It was great. Um bro came out guns blazing, which is great I knew for sure that the first play that they ran was going to be for clay times I thought they was gonna throw some pin down some some something to get him open three Nope, the man were right to the basket got an easy buck and I was so excited and and there's a poll on Twitter yesterday when it was a fishery that he was coming back today asking who the most likable player in the NBA is and majority of people voted for clay Thompson now that could be just because he is coming back today, you know what I'm saying But I do believe that clay Thompson is the most likable player one of the most likable players in the entire NBA And that is saying something considering there is a three-year span where everybody in the league hated his team Everybody hated KD. Everybody hated Steph Curry clay Thompson They just like hey, he's cool. They hated drink my green clay Thompson He's cool And I think a lot of that has to do with him just being such a likable do right even in the 941 days, which is wild by the way 941 days since we last on play basketball other than a day and his 941 days. He's found a way to still entertain us whether it be his boat rides to the practice facility or Just just a bunch of different stuff like he is a mean like even right now He's wearing that that big old hair band because it's a meme You know then like I always think about the pictures of him with his head out the window in Mexico I think about the picture of the all-star game where everybody's facing one direction and clay Thompson just standing at the other direction He's such a likable do and I think that everybody that is in tune with NBA fandom really really enjoyed this I mean not everybody because there was a tweet a couple tweets across the timeline Somebody had a thread of every clay Thompson mistake. I Got to remind y'all to enjoy basketball again, I'm gonna remind you every episode Legitimately somebody watch this game and instead of enjoying the good game that it was Was it a good game? I don't know instead of enjoying the game that it was somebody's like yeah every time clay Thompson mr. Three I'm a tweet brick three. I'm gonna do this and somebody else talked about clay Thompson's return from his injury tonight You'll guess he's a first person ever do it He's arguably had the easiest career for a star player media give some zero blame just a bunch of like shut up Enjoy basketball. Who cares? Who cares? Imagine watching this man have to sit out for almost a thousand days of the thing that he loves the most in the world and come back and say His career has been super easy Nobody nobody gives him any blame bro shut up and watch basketball enjoy that thing and me and the homies watch this game together Virtually, and we just had a conversation about How much you must love something to to be forced to be away from it from? 941 days and how That moment the moment gave me goosebumps by the way when they did the introduction of all the players And clay Thompson's very the very last one and he's sitting on the bench and it gave me goosebumps A thousand miles away, so I couldn't imagine being in the rain I couldn't imagine his feeling to finally be back on the floor like I couldn't imagine someone telling me Hey Kenny, you cannot make another YouTube video for 941 days I would go insane and not just because it's my job It's just something that I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I'm 25 now It's all I really know so to have it taken away and then eventually giving back to has to be the most satisfying moment I just know that he doesn't take basketball or anything that he has achieved for granted You know and he gave us a show right? He knew it was clay day and he was like, yeah, I'm gonna take every open look I get I'm gonna take that thing He ended up hitting like three threes He called a body the man and what an ACL injury and an Achilles injury like that is wild He called a body out there. Um, so it's just an overall great day The lead up to it whether it be Dreymont's Twitter and Instagram or Steph Curry or just the Warriors in general They I think they did an amazing job getting the fans hyped about this and I know again It's clay times who super like and it's been such a long time, but a lot of organizations don't do something like this Rui Hachimura came back today, and I found out 30 minutes before tip-off that he was coming back I know it's a lot different, but I'm just saying it was somebody's coming back from an injury It's not this big of a Festivity Kairi just came back from whatever he was dealing with against the Pacers and yeah Majority of NBA fans that are in tune wanting to watch that game, but it wasn't as expectable Maybe that's because he can't play at home. Maybe Barclay Center would have done something super crazy But they can't because obvious reasons But it's just cool to see Clay Thompson back on the court It's cool to see Steph Curry get out of that slump because Steph Curry had been a guy that's been like top 3 and AVP Voting the entire season, but over the last X amount of weeks or yeah having weeks at this point He has been in this slump this crazy historically bad slump for Steph Curry And he I checked the MVP tracker on beat basketball reference kind of often I don't agree with it all the time But I think it's a super interesting to see how the numbers try to do it because it's it's not like a person on Basketball references doing that. It's like them incorporating advanced stats and all of that Steph Curry I've been a guy that was like one two three the entire season But the last time I checked he was all the way down to like eight and that has a lot to do with him being in that Slump today. He was hitting some wild shots He ended up with 28 five and five and it's unfortunate though. I wanted this game to be better on the Cavaliers I've mentioned before one of my favorite teams to watch this season and I know that they don't they don't get a lot of Nasty televised games so some people who may not be so in tune the Cavaliers see this game We're like Kenny. This is this is the team that you enjoy watching Yeah, it was just a bad day and maybe it maybe this is about to be a turn low key For the Cavaliers because right now in the last 10 there four and six They went on a nice little streak and now that Ricky Rubio is out kind of second this out These are guys who's playing such big minutes and such big roles for them And though Rhonda wasn't bad today as a replacement It just feels like they're getting thinner and thinner by the day and because of that They were sitting there like the 4c for a good portion of the season and now they're at the 8c with like one game difference between that or the 6c with a one game difference between that and the 8c so still still have a lot of hope for the Cleveland Cavaliers But not a great not the greatest performance for them as a whole let's talk about some of these other games I want to go quickly down to the Lakers versus Grizzly. It was the last game in a day and well, this was very very interesting The Lakers won like a four game once you're going into this and I looked at that for a game once you know I was like it's always important to win games obviously But they were really going against high-level competition and the myth is Grizzly So I want to focus more on the Grizzly than the Lakers lost by the way But I wouldn't I do want to say this they ran into a very good team and they struggled mightily There's a period of time and I know that the final box score says horn Tucker had 13 and also Reeve says 16 and Wayne Ellington had 16 when LeBron James checked out at his game finally in the fourth quarter The only person other than LeBron to have double digits was was Horton Tucker He had 11 at that point so don't let this fake comeback fool you to think that this game was closer than what it was Or that LeBron had any help today because he literally did not the man had thirty five point seven assists nine rebounds And at one point in the third quarter nobody had ten points Again you're going against a good team It's a little bit different than beating up on like the Kings or beating up on one of the work The bad teams they have to figure out a way to win against good teams. That's all I'm saying That's all I'm saying Let's talk about the Grizzlies though because that's why I'm gonna shine my light because they have been I'm a surprise for this season now I know a lot of people heavily criticized the trade with Jonas Valentunis and Stephen Adams And I imparted that group. I mean I didn't heavily criticize it But in my mind it didn't make a lot of sense because I think we can all agree that Valentunis is the better player of the two But this allowed The progression of some of the other people and I wasn't really thinking big brain when I saw that trade I saw the Stephen Adams in his last stint with the Pelicans He looked like a shell of his former self and he's been a lot better I know he didn't play today But he's been a lot better as far as an anchor to the defense a team that at one point in the season Was literally the worst defense in the league by far in the last two weeks have been one of the top five defenses We go we go and get back today The Stephen Adams trade didn't make a lot of sense in the moment But now I understand it when it comes to the team building how it allows more shots for Desmond Bay who they saw as A dude that after his first season was good and they weren't even running plays for him He was just hitting spot-up shots and then he got to Summer League and they were letting him dribble the ball and do this stuff They like hey, we don't need Grayson Allen. We don't have we don't want to pay him We don't need Jonas Valentunis who was like second in shot attempts or maybe even first in shot attempts last season We don't need those guys Let's get more glue guys that gets his coming to play the role and Stephen Adams He'll go again without zero with zero shot attempts if you if you really wanted to you know I'm saying he is getting force-feeded a little bit from Josh. So it doesn't happen often But the trade in itself looked very questionable and now that they're sitting at the force He currently on a nine game win streak You don't give a damn about Jonas Valentunis Whatever he's doing over there with the pellets. He had a good game today, but you don't really care about that But you love to see the progression of the younger dudes This was a team that the first month maybe two months of the season. They were dead last and defense Last season they were like number seven They were top seven and then they came out this year and we're buns And now if I go to my clean in the glass and the last hold on hold on in the last Two weeks there are seventh and defense fifth and offense and they went from a team that was again dead last by a big margin And that's in a lot because you do have like the trailblazers the Kings in a league They were dead last in the last month or so since they basically do not lose They went from the worst defense in the entire league to 13th on the season John Moran is a special kind of player I've said that before on my brief before the season started I say he's my pick for most approved player because I thought he was gonna go from like a guy that might be an all-star conversation to super stardom I Might be missing on every other word. I predicted but that one is good I mean even if he don't win the award I predicted the super stardom jump in year three whatever I mean That wasn't like a crazy mind-blowing thing because John's John right but still this team has so many pieces that like on paper I would if I went to a 100 people on the street that claim that they're a basketball fans to say what team is Xavier Tillman play for What team is the Anthony Melton John? Conchar or even a Zyre Williams who's been really okay has ups and downs the rookie if I asked them What team is those players play for a majority of them will not get it right They've been able to do all of this They had the 8 and 2 streak when John Moran was out and since he has been back other than that first game with the fan got In his feelings they have been incredible and they just beat the Lakers and John Moran didn't have to do anything This was a low management game from John Moran legitimately He didn't have to do anything because Desmond Bay found himself open a lot this game Jaren Jackson Jr. Starting at the five showed really really good glimpses in that and I know he's been playing some small ball five here and there But they've always kept a traditional five alongside him for the most part because they didn't trust the fact that he might get A lot of foul trouble and him being able to body up with the other Senors in the league now This is a good match up because the the Lakers don't even have a center of Slebron right now But him and it was six blocks and one of them was very late in the game where the Lakers are trying to have that fake little push They've been really really good Shout to John Conchar the homie set out to Kenny for all star the Anthony Melton didn't have a great game today But he's a Kenny for all star that was a really fun game And I'm happy to say that I am watching the Grizzlies more than a lot of teams this season like the way I talk about the Cavaliers is my most most watch team in the East other than the Bulls That's how I feel about the Memphis Grizzlies this season I mean like if they are on it is must-see TV and it's not just shot It's like this team thing and they got it. Let's get to some of the other games of the day The Bulls were on a nine game win streak and they lost man I hated that but this is why it's very weird for me for fandom purposes Because obviously I don't like to see Luka Donchich pick apart my team, but as the basketball fan of me watching Luka Donch's pick apart my team was enjoyable You know what I'm saying? It's hard to even put in words, but again, I'm team enjoy basketball and though Luka shot 8 for 23 and some people tweeted at me talking about a field goal presents That shit did not matter. He was the best player on the court today. I don't care what this percentage is say we saw some of the big glaring issues with the Chicago Bulls in this game and It had to do with the way we defend the pick and rolls if we have a Stretch five if they're willing to hit their shots, which maxically but did he's hit six of nine threes We're going to struggle as our defensive scheme if you have a center that is a rim roll a high flyer We're going to struggle and today we saw a lot of that It was the white power on a lobs and it was maxically ball on the pop And we also let Josh Green drop 18 was not a great game for the Chicago Bulls And a lot of that again our defense wasn't amazing boost of its head one of his stinkers one of his worst games It's like the first month of the season Zach Levine and the Mardin I have great games those things happen. We are nine game win streak I'm not looking too much into it our next game. We do want to talk about first of all And also weekend NBA stop giving me games to start at noon. I'm not watching I would I would have loved to watch the full game of nets versus first I saw was close in the last couple minutes I tuned in for that and overtime but like Josh Pimo hit the shot hit a shot and then Cam Johnson or Cam Thomas at a shot. I don't have anything to say about that game I've been that so I'm starting games that early and that's the reason why I don't get around to watching many Clippers games Because that game ended in like an hour later the Clippers are playing and I feel like every weekend the Clippers are playing at least one game at 2 o'clock Central time and I'm doing other stuff in be I got a life outside of basketball What are you doing? I did not watch the Wizards beat the magic But I did see that cools man had a 27 and 20 game, which is incredible He's been he's been really good They were making a joke around a locker room that back stuff be always different and I guess the back stuff Cools is different too I'm just kind of zoom in that he has the vaccine now because DC is also putting in similar things to what New York has We're like if you don't have the vaccine I think it's the 15th of this month, which is in a couple days I'm that you wouldn't be able to participate in home games And I'm assuming if Bradley Beal got it the cool He probably has it too and I'm saying he's back stuff cools and he's crazy on the glass Next Pascal Siakam and Fred Van Vleet close out a game against the Pelicans Pascal Siakam is an all-star. He has all-star talent obviously But Pascal Siakam goes through the stretches where he cannot hit threes, right? And I think what unlocks Pascal for him to be an all-psychologist player is when he is hitting the threes now I'm gonna quickly go to Pascal Siakam's Page right here Pascal Siakam's game lock sure that works Pascal Siakam on the seasons only shooting 32% from three That's basically what his league average or his career averages But the year that he made the all-star game He was shooting 36% and that just elevated his game crazy and he's shooting six attempts that year That was a crazy season But now he right now he is currently on his stretch where he looks unstoppable at the fourth position man Let's look for this calendar month while they are on a six-game win streak He's averaging 22 on 50% shooting 50% from the three. That's great. He's rebounding hack out of the ball Today, he made some great playmaking plays Fred Van Vleet pulled from like the logo on on like what third You know, it's like a minute left in the game and then with 30 seconds left in the game He was on a fast break that could have led to a layup He said no Let me pull out for three and take one of the most ballsy shots of the season all-star Fred Van Vleet is a Real thing. He was in my all-star battle. I completely agree. They deserve to be there And the Raptors are turning up a little bit a team that we didn't know what direction they were gonna go in They are currently on a six-game streak They're three games over 500 and we'll see if that continues shout out to them. It is still very We are to watch them when they're at home because there's nobody Oh, it's a couple people in the crowd, but you can't really tell I think they have a friends and family thing We're like you get X amount of tickets if you're playing that game But they're so spread apart that it looks like it's just an empty arena. I'm cathead 40 I did not watch this game. I will go back and watch cats highlights. I did not watch the nuggets game. I Wanted do I want to talk about the Kings or is it too depressing? How about I talk about Anthony signs because he's been really really good since day was been out today He ended up with 31 6 and 3 they were killing them on a pick-and-roll Alex Lynn didn't know what to do He was dropping on everything and Anthony Simon is pulling up He's been he's been not sneaky good Maybe sneaky good because I'm gonna assume that a lot of people are watching the trailblazers right now because they Suck and they don't have name right now But another 30-piece game from 7 3 porn is he doesn't miss free throws his playmaking is a lot more developed And I thought it would be at this point in his career because he was drafted out of IMG He was like six years old So he here he is playing very well and the fact that the Kings lost his game without Lillard CJ and norm pal It's depressing. They just need to blow it up. Do whatever you got to do dog There's not a lot of fight and they are Fox had had a couple like good individual games But for the most part team is super disappointed for a team that I have you know DR Fox again, one of my favorite players Reese is the homie Chamezi Matz who was a guy really mess with there are a lot of players Oh and Davion Mitchell was the homie There are a lot of players in this team that I'm invested in but I can't get invested in the team Because it just doesn't work together That's why I just want players to get freed up so they can spread their wings to get the best version of themselves Because a collective this ain't great man. I even saw some Kings to Kings fans tweet at me I swear to you Kings fans tweet at me saying Kenny This is the worst Kings basketball I've ever experienced No, they made the playoffs in 16 this years and they're saying this season even though the record might not see it It's not the worst record. They've ever experienced But maybe it's the vibes 16 and 26, maybe it's the vibes y'all currently on a four game went losing streak and again a team without game CJ and norm that's a game that you win Out of you the Kings. I don't know man. All right. Let me know what you think about these games all these all things Clay Thompson's come back everything basketball leader. I'm looking at common six as always do I'm remind y'all again to enjoy basketball