 Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, our last break of the night is going to be a nice one, 2023, 24, Daenerys basketball, hobby edition, half case breaks, second half of the case, pick your team four, and if you follow the instructions and you bought two teams, you got a chance at the spurs, so we did not sell the spurs, so you got to buy at least two teams. First off, thanks everybody here for getting in on the action, congrats to the people who won the teams in that filler. Now let's sort by your first names, so Andrew bought two teams, that's one entry, Brian bought six teams, that's three entries, Jamie ended up with four teams, that's two entries, Jonathan two teams, that's an entry, Kevin two teams, that's an entry, Matt with three teams for the purpose of the promo, two count, that's still an entry, and Robert only got one team, and Tristan with eight teams, that's four entries. So let me just kind of spot check this here, so Andrew only got two, there's one, Brian got four, check that, Brian got six, so that's three, Jamie with four teams, that's one, Jonathan's in, Justin only got one team, Kevin is in, Matt is in, Robert only got one team, and Tristan's eight, four entries are here, excellent. So it's a total of 13 entries, nope, nope, those are from old breaks, sorry, here's New Dice, New List, there we go, name on top, after seven we'll get the spurs, four to three, one, two, three, four, five, six, and fingers crossed, seventh and final time, Kevin, after seven spurs going your way, all right, so now let's re-alphabetize by team, and you know the old saying, print and rip, all right friends here we go, so here's the, here we are on the 31st, it printed out a little weird on an angle, pick your team four, even numbers are generally the second halves of half case breaks, I don't know who ended up with last spot and mojo before I pulled all these teams out for the filler, stand by, this is very very important, was it you Matt? I think it was Matt, okc and the pelicans, all right so there's that double last spot mojo, what they say around these parts, 70% of the time last spot mojo hits 100% of the time, so we'll see if that holds true here as well, folks whether you like it or not the NFL season is over, it's only the Super Bowl left and now we've got to start shifting our brains towards football or to basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, so hopefully this will kind of get us into that basketball mood and mode, let's check out the score board for Wednesday, January 31st, 2024, Bulls beat the Hornets and Charlotte 117 to 110, Bulls playing some, some better basketball lately, they thought that they were going to be a selling team but now they might not be so eager to sell, Pistons fell to the calves in Cleveland 128 to 121, Pistons are playing better, the calves are 29 and 16, Clippers beat the Wizards in Washington 125 to 109, Heat beat the Kings in Miami 115 to 106, snapping a seven game losing streak for the Heat, Pelicans beat the Rockets 110 to 99 in Houston, no Luca, no Kyrie, Timbrel sick care business against the Mavs 121 to 87, Magic beat the Spurs 108 to 98, Thunder beat the Nuggets 105 to 100, Sons beat the Nets 136 to 120 and the Bucks fell to the Portland Trailblazers in Dames return to Portland by three, Portland beating the Bucks 119 to 116. All right, so we're going to flip through these, these are common but everything ships, all right, but we're going to slow down where the rated rookies come around because we want to try to grab some of the, some of the upper tier players in the league, all card ship or upper tier rookies, but let's breeze through these commons, again all card ship, but he's having a nice season too. So as Jaime Háquez, I think he's like third or fourth in scoring, there's AJ Griffin that is to 49 and here's our first Wembanyama, that's a hardwood masters insert Wembanyama that will go to the Spurs, going to go to Kevin and the AJ Griffin goes to Atlanta, that goes to Jaime and the Hawks, also since all card ship, as long as you see it, if I missed like a variation or something like that don't worry about it, you'll get it. So obviously the key player we're looking for is Victor Wembanyama, that's the key rated rookie. Chet Holmgren is second in MVP, rookie of the year, voting or whatever you want to call it, odds, but his rookie card was last year, there's Miles Turner to 199, so Wembys leading it and there's a Wembys number, not numbered actually, but that's in the, I guess that Argyle pattern if you want to call it that, that's nice, it's clearly a variation, a parallel of that, I don't know what those go for but I'm sure a crazy amount, crazy for a card like that because of the Wembys factor. Brandon Miller's having a nice season too and there's Jalen Pickett, rated rookie auto for the Nuggets, that's gonna be for Brian, I'm not sure how he's doing. We had those numbers up, I'm kind of curious to pull that up, NBA.com stats, season leaders, see all player stats, advanced filters and we want to get rookies and then I don't want to get halftime or I want to get NBA, the ad, get stats, so just going by, where are my, I want, I want averages, I want per game. There we go, so yeah, Wen Minyama it has 20.6 points, that's what he's averaging per game, only over only 28 minutes a game, Chet Holmgren second, 16.7 points a game, over 30 minutes a game and then there's Brandon Miller, 15.3 points a game. So there's some, some rookies including Scoot, here's John Collins die cut to 25, so there's some rookies doing pretty well contributing significantly to their teams, so Hakes is averaging 13, Scoot's averaging 12 a night but playing over 20, 25 minutes a night, so all good signs making strong contributions to their teams, that's what we want to see and there's our first Wen Minyama, rated rookie base for Kevin and the Spurs and now it's Caruso for the Bulls to 149, we'd love to see him back with the Lakers but I don't think the Bulls are going to part with him, I don't think the Lakers have anything the Bulls want. Tristan with the Bulls, keep it on Cam Whitmore and Amen Thompson, there's some upside for those guys as well, for the Rockets that'll be for, it's gonna be for Tristan calling Castleton to 25, Quinton Grimes to 99, I know it's February, yeah I mean it's gonna be February 1st for me by the time I get home, I've got about another 30-40 minutes after this break. Colin Castleton has showed some upside in Summer League, I'd like to see, I'd like to see him get a few more minutes to see what happens with him. Lakers, that's gonna be for Jonathan, Derek Lively looking lively for Dallas, that's gonna be for Matt. Box one, here's box two, this break's gonna take me about half an hour past the hour, you get a little overtime from Joe, but yeah the month went by really really quickly, that's right Duncan, six hours off the second. What's my take on grumpy LeBron today? What did he tweet out? Just an hourglass? Is that it? Just an hourglass emoji? What does that mean? What does hourglass emoji mean Duncan? Time is ticking, time is running out, no feedback for his teammates, I mean it's running out, it is running out, and he doesn't think, I'm sure he knows, I'm sure Rob Blinka, GM for the Lakers knows that, you don't think his teammates know that? Everyone knows it, probably at the Lakers, I think that's kind of what he does. I think he did something similar last year, you know, some sort of passive-aggressive tweet and then the Lakers made some big traits, although they've been a little quiet so far this season, I'm not sure what's going on. Oh there's Powell Basall speaking of basketball talking with some of the guys on the golf channel. Pebble Beach this week in the pro-am. Brandon Miller's are going to go to Brian and the Hornets, here's a Chris Duarte to 199. Yeah I'm not sure what the Lakers can do this year, I feel like last year there were assets that they could move, I don't know how many people actually want to give up anything significant for D'Angelo Russell, he would be the main part of the trade, and I don't think the Lakers want to give up, I don't think the Lakers want to give up Austin Reeves unless it's going to be for somebody significant, like unless it's a significant move, you know, and like Dehunta Murray is not, or Dejunta Murray is not significant enough, I can spit that out. Jordan Clarkson goes to Jamie in the jazz, Cude Henderson, all of those are going to Portland, it's for Andrew. I don't buy the chat about it. Yeah I mean that's awfully, it's an awfully risky way to go about it, right, to do the play-in and then take, have the risk of just being knocked out after one game, or putting yourself in a seating situation where you're facing a team that's, that's been, you know, on top for the bulk of the season, there's another one, Benyama. Maybe LeBron can flip a switch, I can believe that, I don't know if a team can flip a switch, you know, LeBron's just like a different kind of talent, you know what I mean, here's Danny Avizia to 49 for Andrew in the Wizards. There's Aesor Thompson, nice retro series. I mean, yeah, well the team is not good. There's an old NFL coach that said, you are what your record is, you know, who cares about what you could do, what your numbers could produce, what you have produced, you know, the Lakers as constructed are a 500 teams. So I don't know what they're gonna do, I mean, he hasn't really, I mean, he was always gonna be a work in progress. I mean, I think the, I think the Lakers and their fans, we did expect a little bit more out of the group that we brought back from Austin Reeves and for Hachimura. There has been some injuries here and there, but every team deals with injuries. You know, I think, I think whenever one plays at their averages, this is the team we have. When the team plays above average, I mean, they could, they could get to a Western Conference final like they did last year. Your Taylor Hendricks press proof to 199. It's for the Jazz, that'll be for Jamie. So it'll be interesting to see what happens. Trade deadlines, what, in about a week? Week in a couple days, something like that? The eighth maybe? February the eighth? There's Jaime Hakez. Yeah, then good team, you're right, good teams find a way to win. But I think the frustrating thing, and this is where, and there's Phillip Petrasov to 75 for Philadelphia. It's for Kevin and the Sixers. There's Luka Donchich to 149. Here's the problem, Duncan, is like, is like, I feel like the Lakers are will play down to competition. I think that's the other thing. So you know they're good because they can beat good teams. So they're, why aren't they beating bad teams? You know, why are they falling short to not as good teams? You know, the other thing is like, games or Anthony Davis is, you know, close to healthy, whatever his injury status is. And when LeBron's on around, and they're also not playing well, it doesn't bode well for the future as well. So I think that's part of the issue. So now, is that a coaching thing? Is that a player motivation thing? You know, so like, that's kind of the, that's sort of the issue. Even when mostly healthy, I just feel like, sometimes they're, I mean, sorry, Duncan's got me on this, on this now. I'm just going to take a quick look at the schedule. I mean, let's skip, let's skip like a month. Let's go from like December. Right? You beat Houston. You beat Phoenix. You beat the Pelicans. These are good teams here. You lose by only by a couple points of Dallas. You beat San Antonio, then you lose to San Antonio, lose to New York, lose to Chicago, lose to Minnesota. These are good teams, I guess, but, you know, it's sort of inconsistent. And you beat OKC, who's been playing great this season. You beat them by nine. Then you lose to Boston by, you know, seven, eight points here. Almost nine points. Then you beat Charlotte, you're like you're supposed to do. Then you lose to Minnesota by two. You lose to New Orleans by 20. You lose to Miami by nine. You lose to Memphis by almost double-digit points. Then you beat the Clippers 106 to 103. You beat Toronto, barely, by a point. Right? So you think like you're kind of turning things around. And then you lose to Phoenix by over 20 points. You lose to the Jazz by nine points. Then you beat OKC, who are a good team. So they get up for OKC, they beat Dallas 127 to 110. Then they lose to Brooklyn by 15 points. You beat Portland by 20 points. And they lose to the Clippers by a handful of points. They beat Chicago 141-132, beat the Golden State Warriors in overtime. Then you lose to the Rockets. You lose to Atlanta. You know, and then you beat the Pacers, I guess, who are a good team. That was in December. Oh, December. Oh, that was a backup game. And then here we are in February all of a sudden. So it's tough. Rex was asking, my Raiders, which ones trust you out more? Yeah, Dodgers, obviously. Because they have the most to lose. Here's Shaden Sharp. Nice. 28 out of 99 for Portland. That's gonna be for Andrews. Yeah, I mean, the Dodgers are actually expected to win. None of my other teams are. There's Max Strauss to 99. I guess Liverpool Football Club has been cruising as well. So I'm not too stressed about them. I just want Jurgen Klopp to go out with a Premier League title. Maybe that's the better way to put it. Maybe there's actually stealing wins against good teams. And then just taking the foot off the gas against better or lesser competition. Lakers are expected to win for the most part. I guess that's what the national media would have you believe. But in the end, you know, the sort of delusional Lakers fans, which there are many amongst my brethren. They're not a very good team. Here's KCP to 49. That's for Denver. That's for Brian. Lakers could be a good team. But my expectations, we knew that this could be the other side of what the Lakers season could look like. Just a 500 ball club. What are you gonna do? You know, a lot of people like to, LeBron James is a blessing and occurs. There's Caleb Martin to 199. You get LeBron James. You're almost assuredly mortgaging your future so you can win now with LeBron James. That's what LeBron James expects you to do because that's how he's done it in his career. And the results have been trips to the finals and some rings. Now on the tail end of his career, although it doesn't look like he's at the tail end of his career, but this is the tail end of his career. How do you balance trying to win now and still be in a decent position of not doing it? I mean, Lakers are F'd anyway. Once LeBron leaves, you're stuck with Anthony Davis and his giant contract. And in the games where Anthony Davis is playing without LeBron James, he's not taken over the way that he should. Doesn't lead me to believe that suddenly he will once LeBron retires. Mike Conley, press crew for the Timberwolves. That's gonna be for Brian. I don't know what the future will hold. Scotty Barnes to $199. But that's what you sign up for when you get LeBron. I think I think everyone should know that. Another Wemby. That might be a little different. Yeah, that's a press-proof Wemby, Kevin. You can see right there a little bit different. That was in the sort of parallel spot. And kind of see a pattern in this Donner's basketball. All right, two more to go. Yeah, Lakers upcoming schedule. I mean I was telling one of my colleagues here who's a Lakers fan. I was like, man, all these games in January are gonna be really important. And they did not perform very well in January. But they've got a rough couple games ahead of them to finish off the Grammys trip. They're at Boston tomorrow and at New York. Those two teams are pretty tough. I'd be happy if they split it. I mean they should beat Charlotte, but you never know. Then they host Denver. They host New Orleans. A couple playoff bounties. They should beat Detroit. And they're at Utah at Golden State versus San Antonio at Phoenix and quote-unquote at Clippers at Wizards or host Wizards. And then that's February right there. But there are three games before the trade deadline which I think is like the 8th Thursday the 8th or Friday the 9th. So February 1st, Boston, February 3rd, New York, February 5th, Charlotte and then trade deadline should be right around there. So if the Lakers look good against the Celtics and the Knicks maybe they stand pat. They don't look good. Maybe maybe they'll make a move. I don't think it's the everyone wants to blame Darwin Ham. I don't know. I mean he might be part of it but I don't know if he's really the main reason why the Lakers are struggling. I think a lot of it's... I think the GM doesn't get enough criticism. Another Victor Wimbenyama, another one coming up. I mean he's the one that brought Russell Lesbrug on to the pretty much waste of the year and a half of everybody's time. You know he did recover nicely with the Hachimura trade and all that stuff last year and then he got to the Western Conference final and I feel like that. Here's a Belel Colabi, $79 out of $99 for Andrew in the Wizards. I feel like that bought him some time but I feel like he got a little lucky there. I think some roster construction, some free agency moves, some contract signing has not been as stellar as it could be, which is funny because he's a former agent and you think you'd be better at those deals. There's another Wimbenyama Retro series. You got Gigi Jackson to $99. That's for the Gris. That's for Jamie and Memphis. There's Malcolm Brogdon to $199. Yeah, the Knicks, I mean Knicks have made some nice moves. They made a couple trades. Well they added Jalen Brunson last year, which is a good fit for that team. There's Carnalty in the Townsville, $149 and then they made that deal. They made that trade with the Raptors for OG, right? OG and Ogre. I mean, you know, basketball is all about spacing, right? I think they've found some nice spacing there and it's clicking. It's working. Yeah, I think he's just on a team where it's some good spacing. Spacing is everything in basketball. People forget about that. You can't just add a bunch of, you know, just all stars together and you think all of a sudden it's going to work, you know, but if they're blocking each other in the same positions, if they're occupying similar spaces, it just doesn't work. Which seems obvious, but I think when people are like constructing rosters or, you know, doing like trying to speculate on trades, sometimes it doesn't always work out that way, but if Julius Randall could come back healthy, that could be a dangerous team. Clippers, I mean, I'm Nick Smith Jr. die cut for the Hornets. Clippers, as a Lakers fan, I'm terrified that they're going to win the championship. And it's going to be, who knows how long Clippers fans lording it over L.A. fans throughout the, there's Crunchtime, Cade Cunningham, nice, Detroit, Justin. I'm just going to lord it over the Lakers. I guess the Lakers can always come back with a total number of chips, but that argument always seems to fall flat on the interwebs. So what have you done for me lately? Like, what have you won for me lately? Is this what it's coming to? Watching women's amateur golf? Leave any other live sports on? Actually, the LPGA is going to they are doing their Asia Swing in February. It's Don Davion Mitchell, the one for him, which I kind of like because it gives me some life sports to watch when I get home. By the time I get home, I've, you know, especially the ladies Asia Swing, I think is after the Super Bowl, maybe they kind of a weird schedule. They start off and then they take a break for a long time and they start up again. All right, final box. But yeah, I think when in February rolls around and there's no more NFL, baseball hasn't really gotten underway, just kind of midseason basketball games, you know, then it gets by the end of any given night of group breaking. You know, I've watched all the national games. I've probably seen all sports center at least twice. You've seen like basketball highlights at least twice through gone through the scoreboards by then and then I kind of look at then I'm just like, then I get home, probably midnight my time and I was like, what am I going to watch? No Australian open tennis to watch? Well, where could I watch that? Do you think ESPN plus has that? I don't mind watching the ladies golf. Oh, Nick just messaged me and said, Michael will be doing YouTube tomorrow instead of fanatics live. So programming alert. I don't know if I don't know if Michael knows that. I think he was expected to do fanatics live tomorrow. Stay tuned tomorrow. We'll figure it out. But as for now, Michael will be on YouTube tomorrow. And there's Keontae George. Nice on card autograph. Jazz. Jamie with the jazz got the jazz in the filler. I want to say Keontae George has been playing fairly well. Yeah, he's seventh in average points per game at with 11 points per game. But he kicks in with a few rebounds game for assist the game, which I might might be close to leading the rookies. Yeah, he's second amongst rookies in assists. So Jazz are playing some good some good hoops as well. Here's a Jalen Wilson die cut to 25 for the Spurs. That's for Kevin, who won the Spurs in this break. Spurs could be Spurs. I mean, Spurs are getting they get a lot of national games just because of Wimbanyama. So I've seen probably Victor Wimbanyama, more Victor Wimbanyama games than any other player. I was actually in Vegas for the summer league. And I saw Victor live to and Derek Lively. And it's one of the Thompson twins and Brandon Miller and school Henderson. I saw a lot of players a lot of fun. But not that I'm a basketball scout or anything like that. But I've watched the game for a long time. It'll be interesting to see how quickly it takes before he's like, kind of taking over the league. Is that crazy to say? It was D'Angelo Russell to 99. I mean, he may, he may have Greg Popovich stretch out his stretch out his coaching career for a little bit longer. Wimbanyama might make pop through that. He's pretty raw, obviously. But I mean, he's just naturally getting three blocks a night without doing much. You know, once he starts learning offenses and NBA offenses and defenses and really positions himself well on the floor instead of just reacting to things. How scary is that going to be? And think about these young players like how long it takes for them to how long did it take Kevin Durant to really get it? I mean, we knew he was good. But how long if we was like, you know, legit good, I guess, in a way, you know what I mean? Like, it's kind of scary to think like, I guess Luca kind of hit the ground running. But Luca can still learn things from his game, which is which is also scary to think about. But here's another one by Yama. But if we get this this guy, plus, you know, plus like guys like Jeremy, so a lot of guys on like rookie contracts and stuff, a lot of young players they've accumulated. If they could have another good because they're going to get a decent pick this year, they're not doing their record wise are not looking very good. So they may be in position, right? They're they only have 10 wins. They probably pick third at this point. If it you know, with the classic of the season ended today. So they're going to get a really nice pick. Oh, here's a no autograph card, which apparently are kind of rare. Jordan Hawkins, that's for the pelicans. It's going to go to Matt. So kind of weird, but there it is. So if they try to finish my thought here, there's Nikola Jogic. Another draft, another free agency window, maybe Popovich and the the charisma of when mania can lure some players there. I mean, they could get good really fast. They can get good real fast. Fastball is fun to collect folks. I'll be honest with you. The secondary market prices are pretty good. If you don't get like top tier rookies and like football or baseball, the second or third tier rookies they drop off. I mean, you can still sell them for a decent price. If that's your main focus here, but they don't go as well as the second or but like just if you took relatively speaking, they don't go as well as sell as well as the second or third tier NBA guys. Think about how global of a sport NBA is compared to baseball and American football. All right, another women Yama wish there was like a cool numbered card, Kevin, but we racked up a few base cards and a press proof and some inserts. I guess there's still time. There's still some cards left. We're getting pretty much close to the end. There's a Hawkeyes. Yeah, I think not only because NBA careers can go longer, think about a small roster is on. Right? There's only what? Here's no one more women Yama retro series. There's only what 1517 players on a on an NBA team with only maybe like 10 guys getting regular minutes. So the guys that get drafted usually end up playing. So there's immediate playing time and exposure to the public. You know, in the baseball draft, there's a whole minor league system. You have to wait for them to get called up to the minors from the minor to the big league team. The NFL, they have, you know, they have like 50 some odd players on the team plus practice squad, etc, etc, etc, etc. So there's just so many layers there. But you get more immediate satisfaction because this guy gets drafted. You're you're seeing him, you know, a few months later in the fall. So here's a quick little recap as well. And the global audience it's supply and demand, right? The demand is a global audience. Europe, Australia, United States, Asia, China, Japan, Korea, and Europe. So it's a huge it's a huge thing. So that's why secondary market values can be pretty surprising for even second or third tier rookies, especially if you get like a low numbered card or something like that. Pretty crazy stuff. But we'll get into more basketball this year, ladies and gentlemen, trust me. I'm Joe for jasmizcasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. And I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye bye.