 Is there trouble brewing for Trey Young in Atlanta? Uh-oh, we've got all the tea. Are the kids still saying tea? Great. Run it back. Starts now. Good Monday morning. This is the illustrious panel of Run It Back. I'll introduce them right now. As always, stadium insider, Sean Charania. He's got some news for us today. He is continuing his tour of America, Chandler Parsons, sitting there in the three spot. And Eddie G. Just looking cool as always. Love it. Love it. Love it, guys. There was a lot of basketball played over the weekend. Some good, some bad. Some great. And we're going to start with one guy that's been just great. This is a man named Anthony Davis. I'm going to give you his numbers the last two games, all right? 55.17 rebounds, three blocks. 44.10 rebounds and three blocks. He's the first Laker with back-to-back 40-point game since the one and only Kobe Bryant. Shams, can you enlighten us? What is the biggest reason for what I would call a turnaround of sorts for Mr. Davis? When you look at AD's numbers, he's averaging a career high really across every offensive category. When you think of his offensive rating, his rebound percentage, his efficiency, his effective field goal percentage, like it's career highs for his numbers all across the board. And he's even down in terms of usage than he was a couple of years ago, his first year in LA, which a lot of people believe was his best season. So the one change that we've seen this year in Anthony Davis is him playing center. He's really embraced that position. It's been something that I think he's been openly weary about. He has said in the past that he prefers not to play center. He has to bang with other big men. And that's something that he has preferred not to do. But we've also seen, relatively, he's played better when he's at the five. And now that this is the first time in his career, he's playing full-time at the five. When in the past, he's been really protected by the Dwight Howard, Javelin, McGee's of the world. And this year, it's by necessity because they went out and signed Thomas Bryant, signed Damian Jones, and both of those guys are really on the outskirts of the rotation on a nightly basis. So that's really thrust Anthony Davis in this position where he's got to be the guy. And the way he keeps going off of this position, it makes me wonder, do they even need a Miles Turner or anyone like that? Because where you want to see Anthony Davis and this Lakers team is exactly where he's now, where he's the five, and they have a lot of shooting and spread offense around him. Yeah, and like Sean said, yeah, I mean, I think they were protecting him through the most of his career, not letting him bang, not letting him play center. But man, it's working now. And this, to me, is such a feel-good story these last couple of weeks because most people didn't know if they were going to ever see this version again of AD. And so he is just absolutely dominant. He's putting up god-eat numbers. Magic Johnson usually stays pretty generic. And he's toeing zangers out on Twitter that he's the MVP favorite. Oh, we'll get to that. Yeah, this guy, I'm happy for him. I hope he can sustain it. We all know his injury history. It's a little very early, but man, he is absolutely dominating. And it was good to see him and LeBron and like Lonnie Walker had 20. It was a balanced attack with AD dominating, which I think is a huge sign for the Lakers. Yeah, I want to give credit to the Brooklynettes. They absolutely woke him up a few weeks ago. He dropped 40 and 20 on them and basically never looked back. But it's nice to know that his ceiling is still the best player in the world. He's that dominant right now. But like some said, he's embracing the center role. It's something that people have been asking for from him, basically his entire career. And he looks like a monster right now. He won the match up with Yannis a few nights ago. He hops it somehow. In Washington, he's on a tear and it's absolutely changed what the Lakers can and maybe will be this season. I don't think they're contenders by any means, but this is looking like a sure playoff team now, a team that maybe can win around because if he's going to be the best player in the world, you can ride that. You can ride that further than what they were going to do before where they might have been given the Pelicans a generational talent for free. Yeah, that five-spot thing always seemed like such a mental block for him. But you touched on it, Chandler. Magic Johnson, who we are used to over the years getting some beautiful, beautiful hot-take tweets. But this one, with his 55-point and 17-rebound performance tonight, Anthony Davis leads the NBA MVP race exclamation point fire. Chandler, look, there's a lot going on in this MVP race right now early in the season, but should he be the frontrunner for this award? No, this is a bad take. This team is 10 and 12. And listen, he's been on an absolute tear like we're talking about. But even when we lost Suarez on a 500 team in 17 and one MVP, it didn't feel right. And listen, still early, these guys could catch fire with him and LeBron James on the same team. Anything can happen with these guys. But no, you look forward. I like the book. I like Giannis. I like Tatum. There's still so many guys in my opinion are ahead of him that are actually winning. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Magic knows he's being hyperbolic here. But you know, I'll do credit to AD. And I think that's one thing that I would love to see him win in his career as an MVP. It should really put the feather in his cap. But yeah, it's just too big a hole right now. They're 10 and 12. For as great as this is going, they're the 12 seed right now. They're still not even in the play-in. So let's relax a little bit. Let the young bucks have their moment right now. Jason and Devin Booker and let them enjoy that. But great run. He's on an absolute tear. You're right, Magic. He's amazing. But you know, he's got to be top three, top five. But let's just be great. Let's just be great. Maybe, yeah. I'm just a virgin of them. Yeah, no, I agree with Chandler. Like this is what we waited for forever, forever. But look, they are losing right now, 12th in the West. But they're 8 and 2 in their last 10. Three of those against the Spurs, asterisk. But Chandler, is it a blip, or is it a trend? I don't think it's a blip because you can see the potential with them. And like this game that we're talking about, LeBron went off. Lonnie Walker went off. And they do, their bench guys are starting to play a little bit better with Reeves and Schroeder as helping their depth a little bit at Beverly's back. He's doing his thing. Thomas Bryant's going to play some of these back up five minutes. But I don't think it's a blip. I don't think they've figured it out. And I think they're going to go with his hair. And we talked about it last week, their schedule. It'll be interesting where they stand after the next two weeks, because their schedule is getting real. There's no real easy games. The Wizards have been having some success, but we all know they're not that team. So I mean, I would give it some time. But yeah, they're playing well. And they figured out the rust off the bench thing. Now they figured out the AD thing. This is definitely positive steps forward. But I wouldn't call it a trend, or I wouldn't call it a blip. I don't know what to call it, but they're playing really good. It's time to wake up. Yeah, I think it's just kind of a recalculation of what they are. We talked before about they need to resuffle their hierarchy as a team and what they were doing and how they were situating things. They were waiting for Dennis Schroeder. They were waiting for Thomas Bryant. That's going to be great. They're waiting for AD to be healthy. They're waiting for LeBron to be healthy. And now they're kind of there, and they can recalibrate. And this is kind of the team they are. A lower tier playoff team full of veterans that's going to, they know how they're going to play. They're going to be active. They're going to be physical. And we've seen that over the last two weeks. And LeBron has inserted himself in well and hasn't hijacked the situation, like some people thought he might have. And there's a path here with point guard LeBron, with six man Russ, who's their favorite right now on Fandal to win the award. And rightfully so, he's been killing it in that role. But yeah, I think they just recalibrated exactly what they were and made this team make way more sense. On paper and they've shown that. Yeah, the West is, it's a crazy conference right now. But we're going to the East for a second because we had some drama. Some good drama, I think. Trey Young and his coach, Nate McMillan, had a bit of an exchange, apparently, that resulted in Trey just not going to Friday's game. Did not play, was not a part of it. It's kind of a crazy situation, Shams. Like, what can you tell us about what exactly went down here? So Nate McMillan has a policy, which, you know, as Chandler probably knows, it's a common one for coaches. It can be common, where he wants players that play to be present at shoot around. And Trey Young was dealing with a shoulder injury. He decided that he wanted to essentially not participate in shoot around, decided not to participate. And he wanted to focus on treatment. And as the day went on, he was given two options to either play and come off the field. To either play and come off the bench, I'm told, or just not show up to the arena at all. And as the day went on, this is a Hawks team that's ravaged with injuries. John Collins, Deandre Hunter, they have a few guys out. I believe Trey Young actually wanted to play. But when he was faced with these options, he chose not to show up to the arena. And this is really a microcosm of the tension that's existed that I've heard throughout this Hawks team, when you look at from the coaching staff and Nate McMillan, they're starring Trey Young and really the locker room at large. And right now, this is a unique situation because you have a star player who did not play in a game and did not show up to the game, show up to the arena due to an exchange with his head coach. And so it's going to be on Nate McMillan and Trey Young to ride the ship. Because from what I'm told, Nate McMillan's job is safe. He's not going anywhere. So Trey Young, his strained relationship with Lloyd Pierce has something to do with him being out. I don't think the same liberty is going to be given right now with Nate McMillan. He is good, but I'm curious. Chandler was there in Atlanta. He played with Trey Young. He was around a lot of the characters that are there now. What do you make of it? Like how unique, how rare is this in the NBA? Yeah. Well, first of all, nobody likes to shoot around. Nobody likes to go to shoot around. Shoot around has kind of become useless, in my opinion. But it's more of like a walkthrough. It's more of kind of going over offensive sets, going over coverages. How are we going to guard Luka tonight? Things like that. You're not actually grinding. It's like Tibodeau back in the day used to have teams going like tape for shoot around. That doesn't happen anymore. But this is interesting. Like Trey, he can't do this. He's my guy. They've invested way too much in him. They've given him the keys from Rip. This is his fifth season. You can't do this. You can't let your teammates down. You got to be bigger than this in the moment. I also don't like the idea of McMillan saying like you can come off the bench or don't show up to the arena. Like giving your star player these days and ultimately probably is not the best idea either. But Trey, Trey's got to, he's got to mature a little bit. He's already been through issues and got Lloyd Pierce pretty much fired. This is now the next coach. He's way cooler than Lloyd Pierce and a great guy and a good coach. I think he's got to be bigger in this situation. Shoot around suck. They're annoying. But you're the star player. Everyone's going. Everyone's got to go. But I see where he's coming from though. Like you're not going to give a star player an ultimatum like that. And the fact that he just didn't show up to the arena, you know, respect, not the best idea. Ultimatums just in my own personal looks. They don't work. They don't work in any capacity, any relationship. He did have a tweet though. This was on Sunday night. Waking up to public statements about my private life. By the way, good for you for waking up at 7.30 on a Sunday. That is fantastic. Naps are cool. I would argue this. I'd argue the privacy aspect of this. You guys know I'm not going to know that. Give me a break. Unless it's from the 80s. I don't know it. But that being said, we talked a little bit about this Hawks team and Dejante Murray and the Bupin and the Boppin. And then they end up losing games. They probably should have won. And the leadership situation, Eddie. Do you see this as a mark against Trey and his leadership qualities? Yeah, and there's been a few already. There's been players there who have won it out almost the moment they've got there. There've been players there who, you know, John Collins pretty much publicly said, yo, I won out. And it all, there's one common denominator there throughout this entire tenure. And we've mentioned it before. This style of play is tough. And for a guy like him who might be the worst defender in the league, who takes some of the worst shots in the league, who isn't shooting well this year, it's even worse. And so I think it just piles up. I do like that ownership in the front office is basically saying, look, you guys are just going to have to be adults. We're not firing our coach. We're not trading Trey Young. Work it out. But yeah, like a no call, no show is bad in every job. It's really bad in the job where they're supposed to be following your lead in like, you know, a physically demanding thing. It's a terrible look. And, you know, whether Trey realizes it or not and what is dismissive tweet, maybe he doesn't, he's building a little bit of a reputation as a coach killer, as a guy who is just tough to play with, tough to be around. And, you know, Trey's a nice guy. Trey, his family, he comes from a good family. He means well. But yeah, I mean, a little bit of Chris Paul to him in this sense. Chris Paul did a lot of this early in his career. But Chris Paul would not sit out a game out of spite. That's one thing he would not do. Yeah, you know what I'm thinking? I think about the Pippin situation where he didn't sub back in the game after Phil Jackson didn't draw up the last play with Coach and he got shit on for that. And this is one sub in a game. This is missing an entire game. Obviously, that was their playoffs regular season. But yeah, listen, like I said, they've given you the keys. They've given you contracts. They have moved coaches. They have moved players. This is your team. This is the type of situation and distraction that you not bring on to the organization. You cannot have, you've got to be bigger than this. You've got to be better than this. I wasn't there. I don't know all the details. But Shoms does and this is unacceptable. No call, no show. Never ever a good idea where you were. We got to talk a little Celtics nets. This was a big one. This was the game. The Celtics snapping that four game win streak that Brooklyn was on. They had six turnovers. They forced six turnovers in the fourth quarter. Katie with 31. But he had seven of those TOs by himself. It's also the eighth straight win for Celtics over Brooklyn. I just have their number, Eddie. And no mark is smart, by the way. So I'm going to have to go to you first. Tell me what you saw. Was it sloppiness? Is it just they cannot beat this team? What is it? I mean, it was just six turnovers. It felt like way more in the fourth quarter. I was upset in the moment with the game. But we walked away thinking that, hey, it could have been way worse. The nets actually hung tight. All things considered. No mark is smart, but also no Ben Simmons. So it was just a rugged game. At the end of the day, the Celtics are a better team right now. They're the best team in the league. They're sharper. They know exactly what they're trying to do out there. And they have more talent than the nets. And the nets hung tight and blew it kind of late in the end. I think it was 82-84. And then it just went haywire from there. Tough game. Bit of a humbling for the debts who had just won four straight, who had won six straight at Barclays. But they got an eye schedule coming up here. They've moved up in the standings and things continue to trend upward for them. That's definitely my optimist class half-fool. My best friends on the team view of it. Chandler, by all means, tell me how terrible the nets are. I love it. No, listen, this was a situation where the nets were feeling themselves. They were feeling good. They had their winning streak going. But the Celtics also had theirs that was just broke by Miami. So you know they wanted to get back in the win column. And they kind of just showed the nets that they still have a long way to go. And they're going to have to go through this team if they think they're a contender. And this duo with Tatum and Brown played unbelievable. And this just shows you how good they are because the other guys like Derek White and Brogdon and Al Horford, they didn't play well and the stars let them. And then there's Gantt where the stars, one of them, don't play well and one of those guys step up. So they're so balanced. They play so hard. They're tough. They really have it all. So this just kind of showed them that it's not going to be too easy going through us. Look, we love superlatives. And we've asked us about a few other duos. But as far as Tatum and Brown go, it feels right when putting the award of best duo in the league right now. Is there an argument to be made for anyone else or they head and shoulders above, Chandler? No, I think they're the best. I think both sides of the ball, they're the best. They can do it all. They score multiple different ways. They rise to the challenge. They're winning. They kind of go back and forth, but they get everyone else involved. They are really special, really, really fun to watch. And they kind of are showing what Kawhi and Paul George, these two big wings that can switch defensively, that can post up, that can mismatch nightmare. These guys are doing it. And I think, I don't even think it's close. I think they're the best duo in the league so far. I agree with Chandler. And also it's crazy how far they've come from just a year ago, around this time, where everyone was asking the question, are they going to be able to stay together? Does Boston need to trade Jalen Brown? What happens with these two guys? Because they're not able to figure it out. And then just like that, you've got to give credit to Eme Yudoka. You have to give credit to them too. But now it's like, they've got the template and they're just riding it. And they know exactly how each other play. They know the style that they have to play to win. They're really playing on selfish basketball right now. There's nights like last night where Jason Tatum struggled. Jalen Brown steps up. It was like that in the Miami game on Friday as well. So they're able to play off each other with ease now, which is surprising given just a year ago. Yeah, I talked to Jason Tatum before the game. I said, yo, I have you as my MVP right now. Please don't bring none of that MVP crap on the court today. He listened for about 12 game minutes and then snapped in the second quarter, in the second half. But he did it on top of that. Jalen Brown scored 20 in the first quarter. Like, they're an insane duo. I think they're clearly the best duo in the league. And what they told me, what Jason told me was, look, we lost yesterday. So tough shit, basically. Look, you're going to get the worst of it today. And then left. And I'm like, all right, here we go. So they look great. They look like the best team in the league. And I'm happy that we don't have to see them for a while now, again. Yeah, no kidding. Well, he did show you respect by holding off for a few minutes. I think that's nice. We have a fun staff. Nine turnovers. Yeah, see? Thanks, Jason. Kyrie now, 0-6 against the Celtics. Since then, let's take it. Ooh, somebody's keeping track. Alex with the green shamrock after your name. Fantastic. We have an ejection notice, Rudy Gaubert. Look, some people have a reputation in this league. Some have earned it. You guys can decide with this next one. But Rudy Gaubert was ejected for this moment. Not that moment, but probably that moment. The tripping of Kendrick Williams. Kendrick Williams, do you look? If you just watch that video and you don't finish it, you think, oh, it's just a play, yeah? No, no. But I'm going to give it to Chandler. Do you give him a pass or is this a legit ejection situation? This seems just like frustration built up. I don't know if he's listening. If he's listening to Eddie too much to shit on him, you know, one day to give in. If he's getting sick of hearing that this is an awful trade, it's not working out. This, I mean, listen, this wasn't like a violently dirty elbow to the face. This is how like fights start. This is this was weird. This was put him in a body bag. I mean, it wasn't like really like the enforcer type of move for it to get ejected. But yeah, this is just kind of I think him getting upset and frustrated and just said he had a boiling point. And I mean, he was talking a little bit. Yeah, this would look at him. He wanted the smoke. Yes, just limbs everywhere. Look, I don't care what Kendrick Perkins says. Rudy's lucky that he didn't get decked right there because he was just cleared away in a position to get hit right in his face. Yeah, I don't know what this is about. Like I don't I didn't see the play before. I don't they weren't all too tangled, but he definitely stripped them. Like that's a penalty in football and then failed to kick them but tried. Like what's going on here? Like I don't know. He deserved the ejection, by the way. Like, you know, for ruining my parlay that one day. That's a great point. Figure it out, Rudy. Like I don't know what this is all about, but the thunder, three game winning streak. Like I think that's the story here. Rudy's never the story. There's some there's some vulnerable moments. He really is. But look, there were eight technical fouls given in that game. These are definitely two teams who play in the NBA. So I don't know. Could there be a rivalry? Is there is there something? Can we make something out of this? Let's we're looking for stories, guys. Is there a rivalry here? The only thing I took out of this was Nasreed started hooping when Rudy Gobert got out. The guy went for like 13 and 18. The minute he went out, Townes is out. This is going to be his chance to get a real opportunity here and show that he's a real player in this league. This is one of those situations where Townes go out, Rudy gets ejected. There's going to be roles for the guys and Nasreed took advantage of that. I love it. That video is so good. Just confusion. We're going to take a quick break here. Coming up next, is it possible? Is an in-season tournament coming to the NBA? Plus all the best dunks from the weekend when Run It Back returns. Yep, Lakers waving Matt Ryan. He was impressive. He also had that game-winning shot back in November. It moves a spot. There's a spot now open for the Lakers ahead of the December 15th trade date. That, of course, from our very own shams with the scoop. I, of course, was sad. Everyone loves to feel a good story, which Matt Ryan, Dordash delivery driver, was, of course. Shout out Dordash. Shout out Dordash. How does this impact the Lakers, though, as they move forward? Yeah, so, I mean, on one hand, Matt Ryan is gone. He was probably their best straight-up shooter on this team. He was shooting about 38% from 3-point range. But in a larger, bigger picture, look at this. This opens up a roster spot for the Lakers, moving as we get closer to the December 15th. Trade date, that's when free agents can now be traded. And the Lakers do have a spot open that they can now use potentially in a two-for-one deal where they get back multiple players. And I think that was very important for them. They could also look to potentially add a player. There are multiple free agents out there. They looked at Mohawkless already in a workout. There are different free agents that they could take a look at now that they have a spot open. I think this is about flexibility as we get closer to trade season and everything starting to heat up. And you know what? He's still tweeting nice things about the Lakers. He has just built differently than I think most of us. Also a lot of talk lately about in-season tournament possibilities. So I cannot wait to hear everybody's take on this, Shams. What's the latest on that? So it was interesting. The League last week actually gave teams a heads up of the start date of the season for next year, October 24th, 2023, the end date to next season, April 14th, 2024. But even more interestingly, they told teams that if and when an in-season tournament is approved, you all will get 80 games initially for your regular season schedule. And then the remaining two games will be scheduled after the eight teams advance to the in-season tournament. This is a tournament that's going to take place between November and December, most likely. And the fascinating thing about this is it's going to be counted as regular season games. So players aren't going to be playing and teams aren't going to be playing any additional games. It's all going to be a part of the NBA's regular season schedule, which will make interesting for the coordinators, not for us, but for the coordinators to be able to figure out which games count where. But it's really to try to elevate the stakes of these regular season games. What's, but like, what will you win? What is the point exactly, other than something new? So they've discussed a couple of different things. There's been a million-dollar prize per player for the winning team. But overall, I think it's the total BRI. It's incentivizing players, the League, because this could generate more money. Could the League give the in-season tournament games or some of the games to a streaming partner? I think those are all things that have been discussed with the League. And also that the fact that these are all within regular season games makes it so that players, it's not like you're being incentivized to play additional games. It's really getting potential earnings and benefit for current games. So those are all the facts. But I'm curious, Chandler, from a player perspective, like, would you even want to do something like this for your player today? Yeah, it's interesting. I think if it all counts as the same season, and nothing really changes on my mindset of going into camp and playing an 82-game season playoffs and to win a championship, I don't think it changes much for me. It really depends what the incentive is. Like, yeah, like, if I'm a Max Guy, the million-dollar bonus, the 10-day guy or the guys on the rookie deal, that's a huge bonus incentive for them, more so than the guys now making $40, $50 million a year. Also, if it's like picks for a team, I don't think that's very incentive at all for the players because I might not even be on this team next year, so I really can care less with the team, guys. I can get traded. So there's too many unknowns for me to, I think it's interesting. But I mean, if it's bonus is money-wise, or maybe from your endorsement deal to add, you know, something to it, that could be cool. But yeah, I mean, don't fix what's not broken. I like this. I like the playoffs championship. I think that's plenty. Interesting. Yeah, like, I wonder what this is supposed to mean, like, for a fan. When they start giving out conference finals, MVP's, I'm like, okay, I guess, but let's give these guys a smaller trophy. But when you're trying to market these games as more than what they are, Hawks-nicks on Tuesday, I don't know what I was supposed to get out of that as a fan. It's meaningless besides this trophy that is also meaningless. I'm not sure what we're going here for. And I know the argument is, yo, they do some soccer. You'll get used to it. You'll come to like it and blah, blah, blah. Cool. Like, give me to the real playoffs. I don't care about the tournament that has the thunder and the magic. It's like, save me, please. Save? Wow. Okay, look, if we're going to steal from international soccer, why don't we steal the relegation, guys? Is that not the whole point? We relegate to different leagues. That's what we're supposed to be doing, not this in-season tournament bogusness. But I don't know. I don't know, Shoms. Keep us on it. Keep us on it. I want to know what the prizes are. I think that's going to make it important or not important. But I do appreciate that they're trying something new, I guess, maybe. We'll see you tomorrow. Happy Monday to our best friend, Shoms. Also, happy birthday to our guy, Eddie G. I got to say that before we leave. Happy birthday to Eddie. Happy belated birthday to Eddie. Yeah, Eddie. She's not getting away with it. I'm running back. Not happening. You know, you're not. How about you trying to get away with it last week? We didn't even know. Sneaky, sneaky. I think technically I did. And yeah, I'm paying for it now. You are. And we should do it every day for the next six months. All right, we're going to do a little. That man has a family. So there were some moments from Donch. Some happiness. So we'll start with the young Sabonis over the also young McHale Bridges. I don't hate this one, guys. Roll it. Yeah, here we go. Sabonis is crazy. How many steps? Yeah, Sabonis is nuts because a lot of these NBA guys are strong. They work out. They're on the same nutritional program. And this guy is just so much stronger than everybody else. It's really crazy. He's just so straight up and down. Like, you know, I just watched. I watched McHale Bridges light up 803s last night and then do his little three finger hand salute. So I like this one today, guys. This makes me feel better a little bit. Shading sharp little monster foot. Okay, okay. I hit the group chat on this one. This one, I got this one. This kid needs to be in the dunk contest. He's got like this Gerald knee type bounce. I want to see him in a dunk contest because this was me. You know what? You might get the winch. Just look like a video game. I get bounce so perfect for him to have this ridiculous. I get hit right in his hand. This is like the dunk you wish you could do on the eight foot rim when you're a kid. This is insane. So much had to go into this. When you're a kid. I honestly, I think if it bounced the other way, I think he just grabs it with the left anyways. This kid's a freak. Yeah, that's a good one. That is a good one. We got two young stars of the game. Anthony Edwards with the block on John Morant. Oh my. This is cool for the names, but like, you know, John's getting the bump. It's a double pump. But it's all right. But I like that. Put it out there like that. Then went and told his dad later, you know who the man is. I love, I love Anthony Edwards with my whole heart. Yeah, this is a good block, but nothing. This ain't making like sports in our town. How dare you? They might even have to fill 10 spots. Yonis. Okay, wait. This is a block, by the way. I don't want you to accept. This is one obviously because of who it is. And LeBron kind of invented this chase down block. So the fact that like that's fair. The new LeBron did this on LeBron is this awesome. Yeah, that was a point of justice. LeBron, LeBron eating the chase down, but like, come on. He sidestepping around a guy. He's wrong foot, wrong hand. Like, you know, Yonis is in his prime. I'm going to shoot Bron some bail here. And they won the game. Like, yeah, you know, I'll shoot him a little bit of bail here. He, you know, he hit Yonis with that nasty tween behind the back earlier in the game, by the way, that maybe should have been to play here instead. No, it's not ready. This is a great, great one. It's not part of this segment. Okay, fine. We got a couple here. Gaffer dunk and then it's a twofer, basically. That's fair. Okay. Imagine that in that arena. Like, that must have felt insane watching that happen. That's not. I feel like LeBron's always part of these like consecutive plays where he clapped back real quick. The dunk. But this was, I think you're right. They always say, yeah, the best Dallyeups are the worst passes and that is the depth. That is the horrible pass that he made. Like, this is an awful pass and he made this work. He caught that clear behind his head. Like, he could not see the ball when he caught it. And he just got it. Backbent. And smart business on the other end, just to get out of the way with Bron coming. Yeah, in slow-mo, it makes no sense. Yeah, the slow-mo of that looks ridiculous. Like, it shouldn't have happened. Daniel Gaffer needs to be playing on Sundays. Like, that's, what is this? I don't know, but I like that one. And I think Chandler is right. It's like LeBron gets real mad real quick and then there's a, right away. They don't even have time to celebrate what was an amazing dunk. We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, should Clippers fans start to panic? Probably. And would an Eddie scenario work in the league? Not our Eddie, the other Eddie. We'll be back. I mean, Jose Alvarado had a career-high 38 points yesterday and a win over Denver. The New Orleans Pelicans looking pretty, pretty good in the Western Conference right now. This guy in particular is the biggest pest and maybe one of my favorite players right now, Chandler. And undrafted dude. And he's doing all right for himself in the league. How cool is it to see that? I love it. I love it. I love this kid's energy. I love his story. I love, I love the way he plays. He's tough. He's gritty, but he's also a really good basketball player. Like he, he handles the ball and pick and roll very, very good. He's got a nice floater game. He can shoot the ball. Like I had eight for 11 threes and 38 points. That's no joke. That is a hell of a game. I mean, I think they're two right now on the West and he's a huge part of that. He basically invented the stupid thing, coming behind and get it. But like really green. It works. He's like a, he's a more offensive, better shooting. Patrick Beverly type guard that all 30 teams would love to have this dude on the roster. He's a pest, a good pest. Yeah. A great story. I mean, he, he battled the point God last year and really got under his, under his skin. You love to see a guy like this make the league and find a way in the league and, and to have an explosive performance like this. You know, there's that viral clip where I forget who was on the court. They're going, can he shoot? And then he hits a three and he says, yes, I can. It's just dope to see him make his way in this league. He's probably got a big contract on the way pretty soon. So it's, it's, it's, it's fun. This is what it's really about most nights. Oh, his energy. I've never like, I'd love to know what he eats and how much he sleeps and everything because his energy is ridiculous. And I remember last year that TNT guys had him in studio and I, I kid you not. Nobody really knew who it was when he walked in and onto the set. And we had like khaki pants on and a white button down and everyone's just like, who's this dude? You would never, and then he comes out here with 38 points. I've seen him at Barclays and he was just like excited that people were there to watch him play. Like he, you know, the friends and family section or he just blown away at it. Like, you know, you actually came to see me. I'm going to play eight minutes tonight. But he was just so elated. And I honestly, I didn't buy it last year. I thought it was, you know, it was cute. It works a couple of games. But now this kid is becoming like a real player. Like Eddie said, like this, he's going to get paid. Yeah. When Chris Paul tried to diss him by not saying his name correctly. That's when I was like, oh, okay. This is going to be good. I'm here for this dude. That's how you know he did something right. Uh-huh. That's when I was like, I'm on this guy's side. Okay. So moving on. We've got Sons at Mavs. This is another one. Sons is on that back to back second game. But which team has more to prove tonight, Eddie? Dallas or Phoenix? The Mavs. The Sons are the best team in the conference. They, you know, I know that they lost to these guys last year. I know. But this is, they're humming right now as a team. They're, they're, they're finding their stride. They, it's without Chris Paul out there. The Mavs are like doom and gloom right now. They're trying to figure out if they need to make big trades that they need to add to this roster. But they need to do these lost little pistons. Like, yeah, it's the Mavs. Like, come on now. Come on now. Yeah, I agree that the Sons, they have nothing to prove. They're missing two starters and they've proved already that they're a top contender in the West. And the Mavs have been a huge disappointment. They're coming off a nice one in New York. Or they actually played solid and they were losing early and they were able to fight through it and play. But this has turned into a fun rivalry game. They have two of the big, like biggest stars in the league. I will be at this game tonight. I am in Dallas right now. And it's going to be a crazy environment. It's going to feel like a playoff atmosphere. But yeah, I think it's on the Mavs. I mean, with the season they had last year, everyone wants to talk about the game seven. They against the Sons already beat them once this year. And the Mavs kind of took a step back and the Sons are still continuing to get better without Cam Johnson and CP. So this is a huge step tonight for the Mavs. By the way, this is a topic of conversation. I feel like we'll come up as long as CP is right in the bench. And I had this argument last night with Sean Elliott. Is there something to be said from the fact that the Sons right now are having so much fun and even just on the road in pre-gave. They're the dancingest team I've ever seen. They've got total routines that they've made up along the way. Like I feel like, and this isn't me being just a Chris Paul hater, I feel like there's value in him not playing right now. And that when he does come back, it's going to mess up the apple cart a little bit. Am I crazy or are we just so brainwashed to think stars have to be a part of it? It's both. I think for CP, I think he still has some laps. And I think he, even when he's not playing, he is what Trey Young needs to become with that leadership and locker room. And during and shoot around, Chris Paul is still there kind of showing campaign this and that still has a role with this team, even though he's not playing. And like we always talk about too, like when guys go down, it kind of gives those other guys opportunity. And this is big for them to get those other guys to get the confidence and to keep that confidence when Chris Paul does come back. But they've done a great job. The book has been unbelievable. Bridges is unbelievable. Aten's playing solid all the drama. That's kind of in the past. Now I feel like with him, this team's rolling and they're only going to get better when their guys come. Yeah, it felt like they knew what they were doing yesterday. Time for a little panic button hitting time. Or maybe not. And we'll start with the Miami Heat, a team that I think a lot of us are going, what is the deal with Miami right now? Because they're 11 and 12. They're sitting ninth in the East, five and five over their last 10. Are we hitting the panic button, Chandler, on this team? I'm not hitting the panic button because this is kind of where I thought they would be. The six or the box, the calves, the bucks, all these teams improve their rosters. And Miami didn't really make a move and kind of throw the same team out there. But they are talented. They do have really, really good players. They do have great championship defensive DNA. This is a team that's going to make the playoffs and I wouldn't be surprised if they advanced and went to the Eastern Conference Finals. But they just haven't showed that progress this year. And all these other teams in the East got substantially better. So I'm not hitting the panic button, but they do need to pick it up. And then you need to get going because the teams around them got better and they really haven't. I'm just going to trust Eric Spolster. I don't know why or how he's going to figure it out. But I'm just going to trust Eric Spolster. He almost fought Jimmy Butler last year and then they almost went to the finals off of that. So he'll figure something out. That's fair. That's a trust. We got to do some clippers because don't look now. The injury list just continues to grow out in Los Angeles. Norman Powell now on it. They've got four road games this week. This is a team that I know I had great expectations for Eddie. So panic button. I'm going to say no just because every time I say yes, somebody steps up and makes it work. It's just a team full of veterans. Maybe Terrence Mann starts starting these games and getting buckets. Maybe Brandon Boston finds a role. Who knows with this team? And Tyler just keeps figuring out ways to make it work to make them thrive. You obviously do not want this many guys injured, especially your two best players. But they've trudged along either way. They've made it work. The West is such a jumble right now. Their whole thing is just treading water until like the all-star break. I don't know. They don't seem to be all too bothered. So because every time I say yes, I get egg on my face, I'm going to say no. No panic just yet. Now I'm with you. I don't, this team for whatever reason is I just know the potential. And I know when it's all health with them. And when even when they get 75% of their guys healthy, they can win games and they can advance in the playoff. They're that talented. They can shoot the ball. They have a very good switching defensive lineup. And obviously we all talk about Kawhi and Paul George. This team can be very good, but they're only going to go as far as their health. And that's been very up and down this year. So I'm not ready to hit the panic button. Tyron Lewis, great coach. Like I said, they're deep, but it would be fun to see them at full strength. Given y'all's track record, I think they're going to go 0-4 this week because you both agreed not to hit the panic button. So we'll see. We'll see. Maybe things are going to turn for everybody. We got individual panic buttons now for Fred Bandleed. Guy that we haven't really talked about much at all this season. Over his last five, he's averaging just under 13 points a game. 31% 27 from three panicking on him, Chandler. No, I'm not panicking. Maybe I'm on Xanax or something this morning because I am not panicking. Amen, sister. He's got a player option this year. So it's obviously in his best interest to pick it up. But I love the Raptors and he's a huge part of their team. I wouldn't be surprised if they made a run in the playoffs. And he's just so solid. He's not someone you worry about. He controls the offense. He can shoot the ball to his story as well. Just come, you know, he's been there before. I'm not worried about him. Obviously, we'd love to see him pick it up. But yeah, no, I'm not. I'm not worried about Bandleed. Yeah, I mean, I'm not worried about him here. He's a pro's pro. He's not shooting great this year. But, you know, he's kind of like the peak Alvarado story of a few years back. Undrafted, same thing. We've all seen the video of him not getting drafted and just betting on himself. I'm not I'm not worried. That's a well coached team that they fight. They're, you know, they're doing about as well as can be expected with all the injuries they've had over there. So it'll be all right. Fred has a hold on it. Eddie, I want you to get your serious hat on because we're at the part of the show that I love most. It's convinced me. And as always, Eddie gets the first weirdest one, I think. Convince me that in any scenario would work in the NBA. And if you don't know what that is, this is the movie. It's a fan from the stands gets to be the coach in this case of the Knicks. Eddie, go. Yeah, I mean, this is the greatest Knicks season in 50 years now, 45 or so. So yeah, I mean, these fans, they got synergy. They got basketball reference. They got running back. They feel like they're just as knowledgeable every coach in the building and can do it. I would love these type of stupid things to happen in the actual sports leagues. Like I would I would be amazed by that. Like put a pro in a college game, like do all kinds of stupid things to keep me entertained. Would it work? I mean, work is relative. I would absolutely buy a ticket to go watch, you know, the screaming Knicks guy in front of the stadium, coach the Knicks. Like I just want to see what happens. If it was like Celtics or the Bucks. Yeah, this roster of the Knicks. I don't want that job as a fan. But if it was another team, maybe, but this Knicks roster doesn't do it for me. I don't think any fans are going to have success doing this. Okay. But Chandler, you show up to shoot around because you love it so much. And Eddie's the coach. You're like, who are you? I'm Eddie. I'm your new coach. Are you listening at all? I mean, I'm probably not listening, but I still know. I know the plays don't know what we have to do as players to get it done. But yeah, I'm not necessarily like, if you're honest, Eddie, Chandler sees me. He's he's ordering 42 shots right there. Yeah. Chandler, your term teams should have the option to not shoot free throws if fouled convince me. Yeah, this is exciting. This is like, like in football, they have the option to go for a two point conversion instead of the extra point. I think this can kind of make the end of games more interesting. It makes it more fair. It would eliminate the kind of foul on contact to not allow it should have three. This would be a lot of fun. Obviously with, you know, they would just not accept the foul if they're down three and just continue to keep doing that, I guess, until they got an open look. But I think this is interesting. I think they should kind of throw this in there. I love the two point conversion in football. So why not do this in the NBA? All right, fair enough. That one works. We'll take a quick break coming up next. This is the day, guys. This is the day. But we, once again, we do not hit four like Parley. But you know what? Bet against us. You might win something. We'll be back. Well, why not take a trip down memory lane? There you have it. Three of the four are wrong. The only one that was right was Eddie's shade filled contribution. We're with right, ready to go bare in the under. Okay. We can only get better, right, guys? Where was the Halliburton smoke for the Kings, bro? Like nine points. Like, come on, Hallie. What are we doing? First game of the season. This is you guys. You guys are the ones that did that. So take credit. All right. But you know what? We'll try again. Eddie, you're first. Okay. I have Yanis over 30 points against the Magic. Yanis is nothing if not a bully. So he's going to, you know, feast on these young fellas. But hey, we might see Bobo give him a run for his money out of here just to ruin the Parley. That's fair. I got the lock, Eddie. I like the lock. I got Thunder plus six against the Hawks. Give me the points against this team that clearly hates each other and their superstar. And it's in the middle of a mutiny that ownership says they're going to have to work out whether they like it or not. Okay. I'll take the points. Oh, brother. Chandler. I hate that one, by the way, Eddie. I like that one. Yeah. We all know what that means. Tonight, I like the Mavs. I like the Mavs. I like the Mavs at home. Sons are on a back to back. And I'm going to be sitting there with cubes, getting the energy. Oh, here we go. Homer. What a whore. What a jerk you are. And unfortunately, I was with Devin Booker last night, so I'm taking the under on 30 points tonight. Hey, if Booker's with you, I'm taking the under too. Right. There's no way I was going 30 after we kicked it. Hammer with the Mavs and Hammer Devin Booker under. Chandler said, yo, let's go to this lounge. Let's go to this lounge and we end up at a club, flaring music in two bottles of 42. Put the other bar. Two bottles. You guys are just doing too much. No, if you, Devin Booker, you watch him come out and have a career night. I swear if that happens, Chandler. No chance. I'm done with both of you. Done with both. All right. So there it is. That's the, that's the big old four leg Marley. 20 bucks to win 187. We're trying to make it easier and easier, but it's just impossible. It eludes us. Okay. We got some pretty pictures. We got to, we got to make some comments on. These are some of the best fits of the month of November, because obviously we've moved on to the great month of December, and we want to get these before it's too late. Kyle Kuzma, who is nothing if not a fashionista. Oh, wow. It's very Michael Jackson thriller. Okay. Is that genuine leather? Is that something else? I, that has to be hot. Like he, calsy, not sweating buckets. It's like Eddie Murphy delirious or raw. Can't really show it. Yes. This cannot be comfortable. I'm picturing him taking a hot shower after the game and putting this back on. Just puddles of sweat in all the wrong places, not feeling it. Ben Simmons, what do you have for us? Okay. Okay. Yeah. This is fire. This is festive. It's a great puffer. Supreme beanie, tarot, Jordan fives. I'm with it. Any guy that size they can find in them, he gets to me. Oh, Malik Beasley, apparently sponsored by Versace now. That's nice. I don't know. That's, that's a lot of a lot. This is like Floyd Mayweather. Two, two, two, two. Who would they believe it would be? He's wearing the mannequin outfit. I'm not with this. Oh, there you go, Donovan Mitchell. I mean, this is like, this is basic. This is simple. Love it. I like mixing the greys. Yeah, I love that one. I like mixing the greys up. All right, the Nasus. Okay. There's a lot going on here. Is that Balor? Is that Velvet? Giannis. Giannis can't even pull that off. Brother Dan. No, the Angelo with a sweater with a, it looks like I made it in home ec. What's up with that one? Is that a orca? Why is it so much longer? And, oh, I need one of these hats. Yeah, we got to get some of these hats. I'm wearing one of these hats on the show next week. Oh, I can't wait. Oh, I can't. We'll do it this week. Why not? Why save it for later? That's going to do it for us. Tomorrow is Tuesday, which means we're back. Enjoy the rest of your Monday. Chandler, be careful tonight.