 Good morning. It's our special time this week. This week only. We're coming at you an hour later. It's post all-star weekend. We have lots to say about that. The festivities. And of course, Shamsherania joining us already made it back to Chicago. He was in Indianapolis for the entire weekend. The show that was, we're going to get to all that Shams. You look well rested. Did you go to parties? Did you do the whole schmooze thing? I did everything, but you know, it's running back week, so we're ready. He did it all. Usually after a weekend festivities, I don't look rested, Shams. No. We do things differently, clearly. Yeah, clearly. You still hear me? This is still from Vegas. This is still what I got going on. This is still happening. A week ago, for God's sake. All-star stuff for a second, but we do have breaking news, little scoops action happening. Nothing like a firing on a Monday morning, Shams. What's going on? Jack Bond, fired by the Brooklyn Nets. He just signed a multi-year contract extension last February, but he is now fired. They lost by 50 points right before the all-star break to the Celtics. We know this team has been pretty dreadful ever since, really, the new year. They just have not been able to win games on a consistent level. And, yes, I think the play right before the all-star break contributed, but multiple players, including Spencer Dewity, who is now departed, McKill Bridges, already there, they were pretty vocal behind the scenes for months now about how the offense was running. They felt like a lot of what Jack Bond was running was being run improperly without structure. Jack Bond came into the year and said, we're going to run a free-for-all offense. And the team from what I gather has been pretty bonded on the fact that developing a hierarchy was important. And when they went into the training camp, a lot of their offense was built around Ben Simmons and him playing at the one and him playing at a high level for them. But throughout the season, he has been unavailable. And so this is now the third coach under Sean Marks since 2016. Kenny Atkinson, Steve Nash, Jack Bond. You had a Jack Bond interim appearance multiple times during that stint as well. And so the Nets have a lot of questions. Who's going to be the interim? Who's going to be the long-term head coach? They have McKill Bridges there. You clearly build around McKill Bridges, but out of Cam Thomas, Cam Johnson, Ben Simmons, who are you building around on this roster? I think Jack Bond's firing is just the tip of the iceberg for all the questions the Nets have. Shams, the unprofessionalism was just. Because when you said Ben Simmons, that got a reaction here. Well, hold on, Shams. That's been a real thing that they were going to build this offense in Brooklyn around Ben Simmons. The offense in Brooklyn going into training camp was clearly built around the availability of Ben Simmons. When you watched the game, the ball was in his hands. He was tasked to make the plays. Surprise, you made it out of training camp. I don't know if that was a great plan, especially with him just being unhealthy. You don't know if it was a great plan? Yeah, I mean, this is the first time hearing of this. That's why I think we've reacted like this. That threw me for a little bit of something. He's had this, he's with the back, his mental health, so this was confusing to me. Especially the guy, Michael Burgess, was clearly their guy going forward. Obviously they have some pieces that they should be competing more. What are they? They're 21 and 33, and the East is kind of wide open. So it could have been a team that could have made some noise. I think they almost rewarded Jack Bond last year for just kind of getting through the whole debacle with the Kyrie and Katie thing. And now I think that's going to go a different route. Hire a Mark Dagnant type. Someone like that where it's young. Not a lot of pressure to win right away to develop these guys. But it's a tough city to develop. Brooklyn, New York, it's a city you want to win now. You can get free agents. It's a great market. Right? It's tough, but the idea of building the offense around Ben Simmons. I could do that. A 50 point loss to probably didn't help something. Is the timing weird? Why now? Is it because of the 50 point loss? Why not before the weekend? Like what? How's that work? I think the 50 point loss plays a part. I think just how the Nets have looked ever since really January 1. This team just has not been able to win consistently. And this has been brewing in a lot of ways behind the scenes. The Nets just they just didn't act until now after the all star break after trade deadline. But like Shannon said, I think we should give Jack Bond credit when they had Kevin Durant last year. Kyrie Irving. This team was competing for the top seed in the East from everything I'm told. And Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving both enjoyed playing for Jack Bond and thought he did do a good job last year. He did earn what he got, which is the full-time job. He got an extension out of it. But this year with this group just was not able to have the same level of suit. So he saw this. It's not like he's just in Turks right now all star weekend. Just got shit canned. He knew this was kind of coming. There's conversations. I'm assuming, right? This isn't just out of the blue. 21 and 33. I think we're on a multi-year deal though. It's tough to get fired like this. And this is half a year after you just get your extension. And my point is too, like when an organization hires someone like this and you have that team, what are your realistic expectations? I agree. What do you think is going to happen when you have this been a similar situation glooming over your head? When your best player is McKell Bridges and you have some pieces around that, you can't really expect. That's not fair to expect. They probably thought they had enough. I mean, McKell Bridges is one of those guys. And they finished six last year. You bring in Spencer Denwitte last year who had a hell of a season down in Dallas. You thought maybe you were going to get that version of him. And you got Cam Thomas. You know, you got the other Cam Johnson. Nick Claxton is playing really well, protecting the rim for them. They had some pieces. They probably felt like that was enough to be competitive in the East and it just didn't get done. All right. So if they're 11th right now, they're two and a half games back of being in a play-in. Is there a shot? I mean, there's a shot just because of the teams above them. Atlanta, Chicago, Toronto is kind of right there in the mix. No, Atlanta gets in. I mean, I think there's a shot though. I think they have enough talent here to win game. That's the problem. They're kind of in that gray area where they're not really tanking and rebuilding. Well, now you just reset the table. You get rid of your coach. So now your players are unsure what the direction of the organization is going to be at this point. And you create some confusion. So I think this puts them in a tailspin. Yeah. Who do they bring in? Do they just keep someone that's on the staff now? Do they hire someone immediately? It's a tough situation. Yeah. What's the long play there? What is the long play? You don't know. Do you just try and shut down like your guys for the rest of the season? The next 30 games and kind of try and get the highest possible draft pick? Who knows? But it's a sticky situation. Joc Van again. At least he's getting his money. I was going to say I'm always happy when someone gets paid not to work. American dream. I love that so much. Sean's all right. We're going to talk a little All-Star right now to recap the weekend. At least the game anyways. 39 points for Mr. Jamie and Lillard. 11 to 23 from three-point range. And we'll get to that by the way. He got MVP honors, led the East over the West. This is the first time a team scored over 200 points in an All-Star game. Jalen Brown had 36, Tyrese Halliburton 32 on the West Side. Carly Anthony Towns had 50. You know, very serious. Okay. We're going to get to what it looked like on TV because we were watching. But Shams, you were in the arena. What did it feel like? How did it look to you? I mean, all the players said it after the game. Something needs to change. Something needs to be done. They just didn't bring that level of defensive intensity, competitiveness. Just was not there. I didn't say it. All the players said it after the game. Just watching. I think there needs to be some level of incentive on the game. And I don't know if you go with the baseball model is, you know, East versus West. Do you give whichever side wins home court advantage? I think guys would play hard for home court advantage in the NBA. Especially guys that have a chance to compete, which every year there seems to be more parity. Right. You look at this playoff run that we're going to have here. There's probably eight teams, nine teams that think they have a chance to win a championship. Right. Like some realistic, some not, but they feel like they can do it. So those players at least would play hard and it would make this salvageable. But on the other end, Damian Lillard, I will say, despite the lack of defense, his shooting, his dominance, I don't think it was predicated off the lack of defense. He was just shooting absolute heaves from, I don't, from Chicago. Like his shots were from half court. You know, all kudos to him for making those shots. And I know for him, he's hopeful that this sets him up for the second half of the season. There's a lot that him and Gianna still need to work through. But I think him having that performance sets him up nicely for the second half. By the way, there were 169 threes taken in this game. 169 threes. That should tell you everything you need to know about the game. That's insane. So I think the incentive should be all of the young kids that are coming to All-Star Weekend and that's possibly their first time seeing their superheroes up close in person. You try to put on the best show you can as competitive as you can. Being formal players, we understand All-Star Weekend is a time for you to have fun. Also a time for you to rest your body. You know, the rigors of the schedule, 50 plus games and all of that. But for two and a half hours, we should get some sort of competitiveness out of this. 168 threes partners is insane. A 200 point game, we've longed to have a 200 point game, but in the right way. And we're just missing the mark with this All-Star game. And like the player said, something needs to change. I think it's mentality. I think it starts with them. But how? I mean, even if the young guys are like... Somebody got to walk in the locker room and light the fire. It's tough because even the home court advantage and the playoffs, it's like a lot of those guys, this year it is kind of balanced where a lot of teams think they can win, but most of them don't care because they're not going to be there. So are they really going to play hard in the game in February when it's supposed to be your vacation? When it's supposed to matter then in June when there's a good chance you're not even there. Usually there's only, let's be honest, two to four teams that can actually win a championship. This year it's a little more spaced out, but it's tough. Like I love offense, I love dunk, I love three-pointer. But two-eleven to win 86. We didn't even get any dunks really, we got a hundred and sixty-eight. At the end we got Carl-Anthony Towns doing some fun little reverse dunks. But like it's pretty dreadful, man. It's pretty dreadful. It was bad. And it's not even fun to watch. The crowd, it can't be fun to be there. Thank you, Fandal, for not making us have to go. Wow. But it sucks, man. It's not fun at all to watch. Because those are the best players in the world, but they're not playing against the best players in the world. They're just playing good, they're in the gym by themselves. They're just shooting heaves and dunk. Like cardio. But you also don't want to be the guy to get someone hurt by trying to meet them at the rim. So it's like with all the load management and all the different rules now and implications of guys playing and now playing and resting, a game right in the middle of the season to expect high competitiveness is kind of crazy. I think one of the- Do it after like the Pro Bowl and football maybe. I think one of the positives we can take away is we've reached a breaking point. We've always heard that the game needs to be more competitive. The fans are complaining. Now we've reached a place where it's like, okay, something needs to happen. And now that that conversation is getting louder and louder, I'm hoping that we get a different product. Where have they did it after? Like the Pro Bowl? After the season? Yeah, like before the finals. Like before the finals. So like, okay. Because everyone's gone by now, right? Jalen Brown and Tatum can't play if they're in. That'd be even worse. That's even worse because everyone's like, I'm on vacation now. Yeah, Jalen they're really not going to care. I mean, look, Larry Bird earlier in that day, like he said before the game that he would like to see the best players actually compete. That's what he was asking for. You have the best players, so that's half the equation. It's the competition part, which clearly is not happening. I used to think, oh, I wanted to spend hours trying to figure out how to fix the All-Star game in the weekend. But now I'm getting to that really negative point where I'm just like, is this just it? I mean, is there a fit? It's never going to be like the full game is going to be competitive. Remember last year when Jalen Brown and Tatum, they kind of had some possessions going at it. If there was more of that, there would have been more some rivalries. But now with West and East, it's like the Anthony Edwards, SGA, like they can't even really go at it. Like teammates, they can't even go at it. So like Luca and Devin Booker, that's the big rivalry right there on the same team. There was nothing, there was no matchup that I was looking forward to watch because number one, no one plays defense and no care. So it's tough. I would just like to see somebody say, I'm the best player in the world and set themselves apart. And tonight I'm going to prove it. And I think once you have somebody say that, competitive nature is kicking in and somebody is going to take that personal. And I think you get a more competitive game. I think that's what we've seen in the old times in the 90s, early 2000s where you had Kobe trying to... Kobe Bryant was one of the best players in the world. LeBron James coming into the league trying to establish himself as one of the best players in the world. Michael Jordan's last All-Star Game in 2003. Kobe wanted those moments. Those are moments. So I think some of these young guys and getting the fresh blood in there, they're only following the example of some of the veterans. But once they become the guys that are in position to be in control, you know, the SGA's, the Ant-Mans, and all of these young guys, the Halliburns, I think they have an opportunity to make this competitive again. I don't know because there, you know, a lot of those guys talked after the game and there was one, you know, I think SGA was like money talks and Anthony Edwards was like, oh, this is All-Star. It's just supposed to be fun. Like there wasn't... No one had the attitude of, yeah, this sucked and I really wish it was more competitive. So now I'm wondering, I don't know if the young guys are going to be the ones. The problem is, but when I left the NBA, it used to be such an honor, a prestigious thing to get selected to the All-Star team and to go and play. Now it's like you almost just want to get picked, but do like the Ju-L&B, do the Ju-L&B, and not even have to go. It's almost just a drag to go. It's a drag to go. I'm going to be honest with you. I've been a finalist twice to be an All-Star. Yeah. And I had made up my mind I was going to play hard as hell. If you got enough. If I had got in. Yeah. And see what guys that are 8, 9, 10, 20 time All-Star Lord Braun James, they're not going to give it to us. They know that they are judged off their play in the regular season, and especially the postseason and the finals and so forth. No one's going to put their resume. Oh, you know what? SGA busted Anthony Edwards. He gave them 40 in the All-Star game. It doesn't matter. There's no weight to it. So definitely the kids aren't going to care. Until they make it have some weight. Until they put it in a position for it to hold weight. And I think, again, you know how competitive we are. If one guy comes out and says, I am the best player in the world, Sunday I'm going to prove it. I'm busting somebody's ass. You need a heel. You need a heel. But you know also the problem is, the best player in the world is Jokic, right? We can all agree on that. And he's not going to look good in this type of game. So does it really show? He did have that sweet sort of dunk at the end. But you know what I mean? Does it really show who's the best player in the game in the All-Star game? Because Jokic is the best player in the world. What if the league doesn't know? But he's never going to look like the best player in the All-Star game. Why not? That's just not his thing. He's not going to shoot. He can have 20 assists. What if the league said, and I know this is extreme and it won't happen because of the money and everything. But what if the league was like, you know what? You guys don't care, clearly. We're just shutting it down. No All-Star game for the next three years. I don't think anybody would care. That kills the NBA. So no one would care. As long as you get the vote and you get to put that on the resume and the Hall of Fame. No, we're not doing anything. No, that would never happen. You can't do that. I can see them being like, hey listen, you get voted in. You can do it, whatever. But there's no game or no actual festivities. That would make sense to still have the honor of being an All-Star player. But then you're getting exactly what you're saying people want. Basically then you're just all NBA. It's the same thing. It's getting an award. I'm not doing it. What about your sponsors? It's more for the fans. It's more for the fans. It's more for the sponsors. But now I think the fans are even getting over it. Yeah, I mean it was, look, to watch on TV, it was not enjoyable. Let's make the All-Star game great again. And let's put it in markets that are nice. Here we go. San Francisco next year. That's the start. We got warm weather, I think. Was the start. Warm weather every time. Because it was 17, I believe, on Friday. It was freezing. There was a moment though. Trey Young did have a really good little highlight moment in the middle of this one on KD. That's fun. More of that. I like that. And this is what I want to see more of. I'd like to actually see Kevin Durant. He looks like he's actually trying to defend him too. He's sitting down a little bit and then he kind of gave up there obviously after the nutmeg. But this is what it's all about. Trey Young's a young guy. He's got pictures of KD when he was a kid going to games in Oklahoma and now he's got a chance to play against his hero growing up. There should be more intense battles of one-on-one like this. But yeah. I really don't know. It's just a start. I thought it was competitive with the Elamindi. We got some good basketball out of that. I understand it's not an NBA thing. It came from the TVT and they adopted it. But I think they could implement that. Well, we're done crapping on the game. Now we're going to crap on the Slam.com. So here we go. Matt McClomb, fifth player in history to win back-to-back. This was dope. This was real. I wish you made it the first time. That's all right. They were all insane. It shouldn't count against him which I think the judges were not told about, by the way. The only 50-point dunk of the night he beats Jalen Brown in the final. Yup. That is Shaq. Boom. We'll push off and do nothing. Look, the text thread, Twitter, everything. Everyone was very active on this. We'll just start with, what did you think? Well, he said, I'm a professional hitter. I was like, hey, when I say I can win the dunk, that doesn't make sense. It's bad. It's really bad. And I watched and I was actually stoked because I actually wanted to see what Jalen Brown was going to do. For sure. Maybe he had some tricks. I can do two of the dunks he did right now. And that's not a joke. I believe you. It's crazy that he did the dunk contest with that as his plan. You know what I mean? And bravo, kudos to going there. Hopefully this kind of kick starts. Other all starts now because it'd be like, oh man, I can definitely do better than Jalen. Hopefully that's like the effect. Hopefully doesn't go the other way. I don't know if that's what he wants, but yeah. But man, this is lackluster. The judges were awful. They were way off with their score. I know. The Mack McClung had some serious dunks. Again, he missed the first one, but that one where he bobbled it and dropped it and did, that's insane. I don't know that the judges even saw that from there. The fourth guy was the same. Tarnel Hillman. Tarnel Hillman gave, I may hunk as a higher score on his dunk where he pushed off Shaq, then Mack McClung where he literally bobbled a ball on purpose which I don't think he saw. It was a joke. It was silly. Jalen Brown, again, no offense. He shouldn't have been in the finals. It should have been someone else against Mack McClung. It should have been Jacob Toppin. It should have been Jacob Toppin in the final. Give him credit. He was doing some incredible dunks. And we saw your star power go to work for Jalen Brown. Fair. He was in the final. I don't think he should have been there. I'm sure Jalen, you know, he's a very realistic person. I don't think he knew that he should have been there. I respected the fact that he paid homage to his little brother. I respected the fact that he paid homage to Michael Jackson. The dunks. What about Deep Brown? What about Deep Brown when he was on the ground? Yeah, he dabbed after. He dabbed. He literally dabbed after. He did not deep brown. Listen, I'm going to go a different direction. We have to give Matt McClung all of his credit. Yeah. We complain about we've seen every single dunk. No, we have not. He was creating things off the fly. He jumped over a seven-foot Shaquille O'Neal with no help, no push-off, no nothing through the ball in the air. These are things that I've never seen before. He had his friend on his other friends' shoulders. These are innovative things. But because it's Matt McClung, instead of a Jalen Brown or a household name, we're kind of putting a cut on it and saying, ah, it could be better. I thought this was extremely, extremely entertaining coming from Matt McClung. So give him credit and give Jacob Toppin credit as well. And you know what may be a good thing that came out of this is Matt McClung now he's known as the guy, right? He really is. Hopefully he does it again. Although did you notice when they asked him afterwards he was like, ah, I got to think about it. What depends? What if he's in Real Madrid next year? Are they going to bring him over to play? Stop, man. No, I'm just saying seriously, what do they do? If he doesn't get promoted up to the NBA, do they let him come back to 3P? But my point is, maybe now Zion, you know, John Morant, they're watching and maybe they want to be the guy to like take him down because it's such a thing. So like maybe that helps, but like besides that, it's tough. It was tough. Matt did great. Toppin should have been in the finals. I mean, Hawkeyes was even solid even though it was whatever. It was pretty lackluster. It was pretty lackluster and that was the TV version, Shoms, because you were, I don't know, probably saved from hearing the TV version like we had to do, but what was your takeaway from not just Max Dunks, but just the overall contest in the building? Well, like, like, like, Chandler said, I want to see who's going to come out and say I want to take Matt McClung down next year. I mean, we'll see where Matt will be playing, will be in the NBA, will be in the G League. He's turned down so many overseas offers, like worth millions of dollars. I mean, we're going to hopefully get to ask him at some point this week about what he views his future and things like that. But if he's going to be here and he's going to be able to be in the dunk contest, like, who's going to take him down? We've seen for the second straight year, he's come up with Dunks that no one's done. This year he actually did miss his first dunk or two, but still he finished them and that first dunk he had through the ball in the air to himself twice. The, you know, the windmill reverse, that dunk we've never seen before. He's invented it. You know, he's claimed to invent it and he calls it the whoop whoop. Hopefully we'll get to ask him about it this week. The whoop whoop. But this is something Matt McClung obviously puts a lot of effort in and he also plays the G League, one of the best players in the G League, but who's going to come and if he's going to do it again, who's going to come and challenge him and who's going to come and try to dethrone him? You know, you would hope that it could be a big name. I think that's what the NBA would want, but who could that guy be? I will say, watching the Rising Stars game too, he's got game too. So hopefully by the time next year comes around, he's actually on an NBA roster. Right. Why can't we get him on a roster? It would be nice. I'm writing this down. I'm going to manifest this. I want to see a healthy Zach Levine back in it. Okay. I would like to see Aaron Gordon come back. Gotcha. John Morant. Love that. Zion Williamson. Yes. And Matt McClung. Those should be the five guys to do the... Do not hate it. What are you drinking? What? What's wrong? What's wrong? I think it's a realistic list. It's none of that whatever happened. Why? Do you see this? I think there's a better all chance that they canceled Don't Cause Us overall. It was pretty bad. Why don't we just get Jalen Brown to come back? Why? I thought it was entertaining. I thought it was the most person... I mean, look, Jalen Brown's not known for showing a lot of personality. I'd rather Matt just do eight dunks and have anyone do the shit I saw this weekend. See, now this is what I'm worried about. You, this laughing that you're doing to Jalen Brown. All we want are for stars to come forward. And now if we just laugh at him... I think it was bad enough to where other guys will want to do it because they know they can do better than this. The guy, he took a 5'3 YouTuber and sat him down after a dude jumped over Shaq. Think about it. Someone jumped over Shaq and they took a 5'3 YouTuber and put him in a chair. But did you see Jason Tatum's coat? It was really bad. Sure. But like, you can't jump over Shaq and then jump over YouTubers. But here's the thing. If you have three to four other all stars out there... Why are you showing this? Now you guys are trying to click. Well, we do it. This is calling it out. Listen, if you have three or four all stars... This is not okay. I'm trying to... All right. If you have three to four other guys of this caliber in a dunk contest, I think the fans... I can't... Camera guys are laughing. I will say this. It was a great move for him to do it and to put himself in the situation. Did it pan out? I think how he thought it would. Maybe because if that's what he rehearsed in practice, there's no way he thought he was going to go and win this. Was he doing interviews before this? He was doing a lot of interviews. Was he saying like, this is winning this? No, he actually was... I will say this. Every interview I saw him do, he was very much like, I want to come out here and have fun. And I thought it was important that one of us comes out and does this. At least he did it. Yeah, that's the point. At least he did it. He did it. He did it for sure. Hopefully that kick starts. But these are lay-up line dunks. These are lay-up line dunks. This is nothing impressive. Better lay-up. You know what I mean? But he did it. But he did it. We should give Jaylen Brown credit for doing it. All NBA, all-star player. Like, first guy since 2017. At least he did it. And hopefully that kick starts other guys. He tried to put forth an effort. Hopefully a kick start. I'm canceling the entire weekend, so that's my whole fix. I'm done trying to fix it. You know what didn't need to be fixed though? The Steph Sabrina 3-point pot. For me, that was actually very compelling television. I was on the edge of my seat. Too bad it was only like seven minutes long. But Steph did hit his final four shots. Got 29 points. Defeating Sabrina in the SQ by three. She hit her first seven, which is what made it just, like, must watch. She also had 26 points, which PS tied the highest score by any NBA player in the actual three-point shootout. Did you love it? Loved it. This is probably my favorite part of the entire weekend. And I think when I was watching her the first rack, I was like, oh, no. I sat down and got real. He's going to lose. We were literally... He's going to lose. I was like, all right, he's in trouble. Yeah. And that was about as best as it could go for Sabrina, honestly. She was lights out. She made 26 points. She was what won it for Dame Lillard. And Steph Curry, he proved why he's the greatest shooter to ever touch a basketball. So I think this was highly competitive. I think it was fun. I think it was great for the women's WNBA. I love that she shot from the men's line, but would it have been different if she shot from the women's line if she had made 30 plus? She did. I mean, she did well with where she shot. But she couldn't do that. You would have all the mouth breathers like, yeah, but you could also argue the other side, like, oh, of course she lost. She's shooting from where she doesn't use a shoot from there. It's like, I'd almost rather her shoot from her line and then beat him. No, I love that she shot from his line. Yes, I think she did an incredible job. Forget the line, forget the ball, forget everything. She's one of the best shooters in the world. She showed it. But I think the NBA has something to build on off of this. You've got an opportunity to have Katelyn Clark and the WNBA next year implement her, bring her in. You bring Sabrina back and you just allow some of the top women shooters to be part of the three-point contest with the best shooters on the men's side as well. Throw Britton Griner in the dunk contest from what I saw. She was too loud. I saw that. I would watch that. I would totally watch that. Shoms, have you heard anything? Did they love how this particular contest went? And is there hope for more? I believe they did. To me, being there, this event probably had the most excitement, the most buzz. Even afterward, being around fans, being in that arena, Saturday night, Sunday, that event had the most excitement to me. And I spoke to Steph Curry late Saturday night and he said when he saw Sabrina UNESCO shooting, obviously she got the 26 points. That was like the lucky number of the night, even in the NBA three-point contest. Like 26 was the number to beat. She gets there and Steph Curry told me with everyone, everyone's shot that she made, he was just like, I could just feel my confidence getting lower and lower. And then he gets, goes out there and like Chandler said, he's the best, greatest shooter of all time and he does what he does best. I think he would want this contest to keep going, this event, this special event. I think Sabrina UNESCO would want it to keep going as well. And just hear me out on this. Next year, it's in the Bay. Steph Curry, star of the Bay. Sabrina UNESCO is from the Bay. You get Caitlin Clark in it. And if Clay Thompson, if he's with the Warriors or not, maybe you get Clay Thompson in there, but both guys, you know, I think would be great competitors to Sabrina UNESCO. If you told me that next year, Caitlin and Sabrina were shooting against Clay and Steph, I would watch, I would watch, I'd be more excited for that than the game, than the skills challenge, than anything. They should book that in advance right now. Just let the women come in and fix this whole weekend. Seriously. Don't worry about it, guys. I mean, it would be awesome. It'd be awesome. If Caitlin Clark comes out, because let's be honest, she's making more money in college. I mean, he's going to follow her now. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. It's going to be good. We did have a three-point contest as well. Did anyone have, who had Lillard winning? The guy that had every single pick correct. Oh, my bad. So, Chandler. He did win second straight year, scored 26 as we mentioned in the opening round. He had a tiebreaker before putting up an identical 26 points in the final round, beating Trey Young and Carl Anthony Towns. He was just, he's almost like, hear me out. When Dame Lillard was named a starter in this All-Star game, everyone was like, ah, he's great, but he shouldn't be a starter this particular season. It's like he heard that and he took the entire weekend seriously. Yeah, I think this is great, too. Just, I mean, obviously everyone knows how casual this weekend was and stuff, but this is great for his confidence moving forward for the season, for Doc Rivers, for Giannis, for the Bucks. I think this is a great weekend for Milwaukee. And again, I think it was not very competitive. I think it was, you know, obviously an All-Star weekend that's supposed to be fun and playful, but this was a big weekend for him. First ever start, back to back. Now he's got a chance to go back to back to back in the three-point contest. And I knew he was going to win this. Oh, God, settle that. It was that easy. He's the best shooter that was in it. Why wasn't Stefan, just because if he would have lost to like Dame, then it would have kind of took away from him shooting against Sabrina or something. Or maybe just the sheer of the fact that it was right after, I don't know. I mean, not that he couldn't do it. Yeah, I was going to say. 23s. It probably would have taken a little shine. If he would have lost to like Malik Beasley and then had to go shoot against Sabrina, it would have been like, ah, why is he doing it? Yeah, what happened to Malik Beasley? That's who we had. It didn't work out. It did not work out. It did not. Did anyone surprise you? Good, bad. I'll give Jaylen Brown his credit. He played really well in the actual All-Star game. Really? Yeah, 36 off the bench was efficient. I only missed eight shots. It is the All-Star game and not a lot of defense being played. Oh, you're going for it. But he made six three-pointers. And I'm a six minute a year type of guy. I like bench players when they do their thing. So 36 off the bench. And the three-point contest. I like talent. I like towns. Towns. He's got like the perfect little form. It's quick. You know, maybe he is the best big man shooter of all time. He's a center, basically. Invincing you. I mean, outside of Dirk, he's got a real argument. Yeah. But he was impressive. He was impressive in the three-point contest. He was impressive that last five minutes of the actual game where he at least was given some excitement and dunking and getting to the rim. So kudos to Kat, too. Oh, we're doing that? Yeah. All right. Out of boy, Kat. I'm going to get jiggy with that one. Yeah. I think we're giving Klops everyone shams. We appreciate you. I hope you had a great weekend. We will see you tomorrow. Thank you for all your hard work. And we will take a quick break when we come back some more about everything, including All-Star. We'll run it back. Return. We'll run it back. Yeah. Run it all. Run it back. Training wreck today. Oh, man. This show is something else. Rising stars game did happen. Benedict Matherin won the MVP honors in that one. He had 18 of his teams 40, including the game winner, winning the first game for Team Jalen. Then they defeated the G-leaders in the championship game after they upset Wemby and Team Pow in the semifinal. That's a lot of words, guys. But he's, look, Matherin's sophomore season has not been probably his favorite. Do you think something like this helps the confidence as we come back? No, but I think he's a good player. All right, then. I mean, I don't think he's going back to Andy. Well, I guess he's in Andy, but I don't think he's like, all right, I'm ready for the second half of the season. I think this kid's a hooper. I think he's got a game. I think he's a huge piece of their team this year and obviously the future. And I love the little rivalry with him and Jade and Ivy, and I love the chip in this and the shit talking. That's what it's fun. I want to see if my two favorite players go at it. And I saw it a little bit more in this game, still not much, because they were still not trying to hurt each other and they weren't playing very hard. But yeah, I love Benedict Matherin. He's got game. He's versatile. He scores in an array of ways. So I don't think it's given him any more confidence than he already has. He's a confident guy. He's a confident man. There was a moment where a little money was, well, he was trying anyways. He offered Paolo Bencaro a $25,000 bet in real time to make two free throws. And then he missed both. Now Bencaro did not take the bet. My question is, does this happen? Is this a real thing? Yeah, see, like if he said bet and he accepted it, like he owes me $25,000 if you like. A thousand percent. Like that's not, this isn't like a joke. Yeah. Like you're saying, if you say $25,000 bet and I say like bet or confirmed, that's a bet. Does that happen though? Like you guys make bets like that in real time? And you pay. And you pay. And you pay. That's the number one thing. We call it no-ass betting. No-ass betting? Yeah, don't bet out your ass. If you say it and I say bet, it paid me my money. I will not do that then. Fair enough. It's true. That's a real thing. That's a real thing. You're saying that you're standing on your biz. You're standing on business. I feel like this whole game is basically about Benedict Mathern. And by the way, we started by saying he did win the MVP, but he also missed two dunks on Friday night. Oh, yeah. Airbold won and both Tyler Burton and Obi-Toppin are just laughing at it. Oh, my God. Wait, it looked like you made it. You made it. It looked like you made this. Where's Waldo? Wee! Oh, wow. It's like he changed his mind at the last second or something. So that's one. I've never seen it in my life. Oh, now we're just showing Miss Dunxton during the season? Yes, we are. Boy, rubbing his nose. Obi-T got MVP, so now we can make fun. Honestly, for Miss Dunxton, they're both kind of cool Miss Dunks. It's not like you got hung and like fell back and broke his collarbone. He nearly air-balled it up. Yeah, but it looked like he made it. It looked pretty cool. It looked like he made it. I thought he made it when I first saw the clip. It's not a thing. It's because you're probably still in Vegas. Yeah, I was going to say, like, are you okay? I don't think these are bad things. All right, let's talk about there's a Walker Kessler moment. Oscar Sheebway had a dunk on Mr. Kessler. And by the way, I will say this, Walker Kessler is trying to play a little bit of defense. Yeah. See, and see what happens when you try? Yeah, well. Ay-ay-ay. He is very tall. I will say, I like this format, too, with the Geely guys playing the Wimbies. The Wimbies team, yeah. That was the best team by far. That was probably the biggest shock of the week is that this squad here beat them. But again, it's like the East first. They're only going to 25. Oh, and it's like the East versus West. When I saw the East versus West, obviously that West team, when you saw the pictures before the game, that's one of the best, they're talking about nine, 10 Hall of Famers on that team. Yeah. That's when I knew the East was going to win. They were going to play harder. They were going to care more. That's when I knew right there, I was like, okay, this team is clearly better. So give me the other team, because they're going to actually want it more. Wow, that's some good psychology that you put in place on that one. And I also got that one. Yeah, I did get East. And I had Halliburton, and technically Halliburton should have been the MVP. Well, also, I took Giannis as the MVP, which never again, because you have to take someone that makes threes and shoots 25 threes to an MVP from here on out. Exactly. Because it's all it's going to be. It's going to be half court, 35 footer. It's going to be Trey Young's, the Steph Currys. It's going to be Dame. Halliburton. Exactly. Thank you. There was a celebrity game, believe it or not. I can honestly tell you, I watch none of, but I can tell you about it. This is all this. I know this. Michael Parsons. This is probably the best event of the weekend. What? Shout out to that. I got puka. Did we see puka duck? Yeah, but did he have 37 points and 16 rebounds? Like old. I mean, that's what cowboys do. We go get MVPs. This is the only way a cowboy gets famous. And when? We'll take it. Really? You'll take this? Absolutely. You got to start somewhere. The cowboy finally won. You know what? You got to start somewhere. You got to start somewhere. You finally did something. I will say this. Why are you clapping? Michael Parsons. He was just the biggest, strongest guy out there. His beast. Yeah, I don't. It's funny. Now, after our interviews during the Super Bowl, these guys say, and they're going to say, I'll give you 15, 12. No chance in the hell. Oh, okay. Even puka. Like puka had some highlights and he's a friend of the show. He's a friend of the show. I was excited for puka when he dug. I was like, hey. The dunk was nice. The dunk was nice, but like, my God. Like this was nice. Let me see. Fun. What are you talking about? But just the way they move and the way they play, it's just there's no way they would score anywhere close to 12 to 16 points. See, I think puka looks smooth though. I think his actually looks like. Yeah. Against influencers. Yeah, sure. Yeah. I think this is great for our whole argument in Vegas because there's no chance in hell that they would score that many points. And now they were so bad in this game. Now I don't think I can score in touchdown either. That's what happened. If that's what they look like in this, then I don't want to see what I would look like in that. So I think we were both wrong. They can't score 15, and I don't think we can score, even though I did moss, Joe Hidden. I really, yeah, I did see that actually. I really did think that would change him because I thought puka nakuha looked pretty smooth out there. He had 16 points in the celebrity. He said he's going to have 16 in the NBA. He gets like quite littered. Okay. Well, he's let him have a chance. There's no chance. There's no, he scored 16 against YouTubers, against Tik Tokers. Tik Tokers. Yeah, okay, fine. But I still thought it looked pretty good, at least from what I've seen. All right, we're taking a quick break right here when we come back. Wemby says he wants to participate in the dunk contest. Please. Will he? We'll talk about it. And right back returns. I took your boy out one night. Here we go. You buying that first up? You know it. Victor Wimben-Yama says he wants to participate in the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest at some point. Are you buying? I'm buying. Three-point, sure. Why not? You can shoot. It's fun to see. Dunk contest. I'd be interested to see what he can do. He's so tall and so long. Right. But again, after seeing this last weekend. What's he doing? After seeing this last weekend. I don't think he's buying it. Oh, Lou. Lou's supposed to answer that one. Oh, shit. Shit. After seeing it this weekend. I only sit here for the whole commercial break. He was thinking about his hole. Just for us to open it. Lou. Lou. You looked at me. Well, that's your fault. That's cool. That's cool. I'll take his question. Let's go. Really? Anybody. Anybody do it. We need big names. We need stars. He's going to be the face of the NBA. It would be fun. And even if, again, I say this now, even if he's bad, like I still would want to see what he's got. You know what I mean? Same. What about you, Lou? What's your take on that? It's your question. Did you do the same? Okay. There you go. Lou Chet Holmgren has an idea. And I like that he's thinking, trying to figure out fixed things as well. The four highest verticals in the league should have to participate in the dunk contest. Okay. No, I'm not buying that. What is this? Training camp, Chet? Oh, that's fun. What is this? The NBA come by? He's trying to fix it. This is not it. He need new tools. Well, I mean, at this point, we're just throwing ideas out. I'm not buying that. It's a four highest vertical. You get job for sure. Dude, would you just not jump as high and not have the fourth highest vertical? That's wrong. There's too many. There's gray area here too. They just wouldn't do it. No, this is I'm not. I'm not buying this. And by the way, remember like Shane Larkin, Austin Rivers, these guys, Pat Connaughton, these guys have the crazy 48, 49 inch birds. Pat Connaughton? He had the craziest bird point out. Really? But they're not like dunkers. So I don't even know if that like translates. It probably doesn't. It's just you get high. Shane Larkin dunking the NBA game. I think he had a 50 inch bird coming out from my hand. What? It's insane. That doesn't even make sense. I mean, he never got to the rim. Exactly. Austin Rivers, remember how bouncy he was in high school? I don't know if that would even. Okay. So maybe we'd have to team that with actual hand-eye coordination top. Yeah. Okay. Fine. We're trying. Steph Curry Lou or Chandler, how are we doing this? I don't care. It says Luca, Shane, Anthony Edwards as the faces of the league when he, KD and LeBron retired. Are we good with those three choices? Yeah. I really like this. But I also throw I throw the rookies in there as well. Chad and Wimby. I think that the league is in a great place with these young guys. So I'm definitely buying this take up. I'm a grandwin. What are you? What? Thank you. What? I just want to make sure he gets his recognition. Yeah. I mean those three are, you can't go wrong with those. SGA is really taking the step this year. For real. But I got to go Wimby. He's going to be something like two or three years. Yeah. You can't miss him anyways. Anthony Edwards was asked who the best player in the league is right now. His answer, me. You buying that? I believe him. I don't buy that he's the best player, but I believe that he thinks he's the best player in the league. I think he's confident. He's borderline arrogant. And that's what makes him him. He's exciting. He's funny. He's pure entertainment. And the guy can hoop. He's one of the few two-way players that can defend, score the basketball. So yeah, I truly think he thinks he's the best player in the league. I kind of love that. I'm buying that. I'm buying that. Lou Donovan Mitchell recently said quote, I'm happy as hell where I'm at. You buying it? I'm buying it. He's playing really good basketball right now. He's creeping into that MVP conversation. Wouldn't be being out. But as we know in the NBA, things change about a minute. But right now I feel like this is a genuine statement. So I'm buying it. I like that. Yeah. Why wouldn't you be doing well? I'm not buying that. He's so gone from there. He's out. He is out. But not to New York. I don't like that. Maybe. I don't like the idea. And listen, they go on this run and they make it to the Eastern Conference finals. Sure. But he's gone. I mean it could happen, by the way. Pat Bebs says the biggest difference between the Sixers and the Bucks is that in Milwaukee quote everybody wants to win and it's not about stats. Hmm. You buying that? Some shade? I'm not buying it. No. I think people on Philly want to win. I know Joellen Bied wants to win. I know that that organization wants to win. The way they move pieces, the way they've kind of gotten off all the contracts they've had, the trades, the Ben Simmons, thinking about how far they want to win. This just seemed like a little personal, a little shot from Pat. I'm not sure in that locker room that he doesn't like, that he's just kind of giving a little jab to. But no, I mean listen, everybody wants to win. I would hope. I would think. Certain levels, there are certain levels to that, but no, I'm not buying this. This seems like a, this seems like a disgruntled edge. A dig, he does. Just saying mean stuff for the sake of it. Lou McKell Bridges says the Suns underestimated the Bucks in the 21 NBA Finals after going up to nothing. He said especially since the East wasn't that good. Are you buying that? The Suns didn't respect the Bucks? No, I'm not buying it. When you're in the NBA Finals, there's no such thing as underestimating your opponent. Even if you go up to, even if you go up too well. So I'm not buying this and we see what the results of that mentality was. So maybe that's what they believed. I think that was kind of silly of them, but I'm not buying it. Yeah, comments like this make me, that makes them look bad. Like this makes McKell Bridges look like he wasn't prepared. I don't love it. His coaching staff didn't get them ready to play. Comments like this always worry me. You try to be honest. There's nothing good that comes out of this. You basically said you weren't prepared. It is a weird comment. I mean, yeah, I think it's both. I think you're trying to be honest and it sounds like honesty, but maybe not that one. I think you're shooting yourself. Too honest. Yeah, it's stupid. Yes, it's too honest. Chandler, Kevin Durant's go-to line when sliding into the DMs is apparently high. I don't hate it. I don't hate it. You marry, bro. I got it. Thank you, Lou. I'm buying this. Yes. Is that all it takes? Yeah, because it leaves the door open for you just to make a proper introduction. It's lazy. And also not play yourself. It's lazy. You just throw the feeler out there to hide it. It's not lazy because if you're Kevin Durant and you slide into a DM and you're like, hey, what's up? What's going on? Look how thirsty Kevin Durant is in my DM. You can't open this. This one's told me that all he does is just the eyeballs, the eyeball emojis. That's creepier That's creepier? That's more creepier than a high. That's a little creepy. Is it really? I wonder if that's generational. I like high. High sets the table. High just to forget you can't. It's solely. Your business is looking for a response. What would you prefer? So then if she just writes back, hello, now what? How are you doing today? Oh, we're doing just basic. Absolutely not. You can't put anything out there you can get turned down on. So high is just a simple. What happened to all the confidence you just talked about? No screenshot material. Just high. So can I take you to dinner as screenshot material? Yes, absolutely. Because then the girl asked me to go to dinner tonight. And I turned him down. And I said no. OK, but do we all here think we're stupid? Why else is he saying high in the DM? Because he wants to have sex with that woman. Oh, so then just say that. You know, well, it's a fine line these days, Michelle. Today is going to go out in history. Oh, my God. And for that reason, we need a better all-star weekend. Can someone make sure Annie is getting a little joining to do it? We need a better all-star weekend so we can have something to actually. We're going to go to break. I'm going to leave you in the hands of these two. How about that? I'm going with you. Where are we headed? Where are we headed, beautiful? We're going to come back and wrap this up. We alluded to wrap the show. Welcome back to. Welcome back to Run It Back. Channel of Vince Carter, Chauncey Billups, two of 16 finalists for the Hall of Fame this year. Do both of these guys get in? I, yes. First of all, both of them are for sure locks. Looking at Chauncey Billups' career here, it's insane. NBA champion, NBA finals, MVP, five-time all-star, two-time all-NBA defensive team, all-NBA third team. Guys got a resume. Both of them highly-deserving. Vince Carter to me, he was one of my favorite players going up outside the dumps. Is that a standard foot of dunk contest? Best dunker of all time. I'm excited that he's coming on tomorrow, I believe. Absolutely. But yeah, I think they both come in. I think both of these guys get in. I watched Vince Carter growing up. Used to take the train down to Phillips Arena to watch him play when I was a young boy. Had an opportunity to work with Chauncey Billups in a professional manner. Shout out to Big Shot, was one of my ex-coaches. So I'm a really big fan of both of these guys. I hope they both get in. Well, tomorrow, Lou, we got Vince Carter and we got Mack McClung. Absolutely. One of the greatest dunkers of all time. New school dunkers? I want to know what Vince is going to ask him. Like, what does he want? I want to know both of those guys' perspective on what the dunk contest looks like. So tune in tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow. 8 AM LA time, baby. Yes, indeed. They run it back, run it back, run it up. They run it back, y'all, y'all.