 What's the word y'all? Special announcement. I, Kenny Beecham, will be tanking this season. Because I need a shot at Victor Wabayama or school Henderson, boy. Them dudes was really out there giving us a show. If for some reason you was watching NBA preseason over this, you missed out on one of the greatest matchups you could imagine from a number one prospect and a number two prospect. They even put together this graphic of number one and number two going against each other. It was like Palo vs. Chat last season. It was this player and this player. None of them compared to this because Wabayama ended with 37 points on 11 from 20, seven made threes and school Henderson ended with 28 points, five rebounds, nine assists. Now I've been very open with y'all when it comes to talking about prospects and stuff. I'm not a dude that watches college basketball and that's double when we talk international prospects and that's triple when we talk a G League ignite. Like of course I've heard these names. Like you'd have to be living on the rock to not have heard these names but I've never watched any film but I was so excited to watch this game because the boys gave up 40 points in the first quarter of their preseason game and I was over it. But I knew that people considered Victor Wabayama the best draft prospect since LeBron James and that is saying a lot because I was here for the Anthony Davis hype. It was real and he delivered top 75 play of all time even if you disagree. I was here for the Zion Williamson height. I was here and people are saying that Victor Wabayama is a better prospect than both of those guys and based on what I saw today. Again, it's a one game sample size but I completely understand. I can't call you crazy. And it works double when he's dropping bars like this. He's really a great player. If I was never born, I think he would deserve the first spot. He's talking about a school of course who just went against him who also had a very amazing game but that's a bar. Hypothetically, if he is exactly who we think he could be he turns out to be a generation of talent. He's one of the greatest of all time. This quote right here, especially if Scoot ends up being that guy as well. This quote, they're gonna be talking about this in his 30 for 30. Now, people are saying that this guy messed up a translation because he said it in French. Either way, it was real. And you know what? Scoot held his own. This man, Scoot had a lot of question marks. Okay, not a lot. But one of the biggest question marks was like his jump shot. That's the only thing I keep hearing about him. Oh, he's prime, prime John Wall potential with prime John Wall's jump shot. You're like, oh, okay. Of course, that's a great player still but like you want to be able to hit the jump shot especially in 2023, right? First play of the game takes a mid-range jump shot, hit one and he's very efficient out there. But I was so impressed with his playmaking ability. I mean, of course, if you compare him to prime John Wall that yeah, of course, he's gotta be a very good playmaker though. But like it was a couple really, really, really tough passes he made. And some of them then turned into assists. I don't know what the level of talent is around them. Like I don't know, is it G League Ignite and elite level players from player two through 15? I don't know. Or the team, what team did Victor Wabiyama play for? The 92, 92ers, Metro politics in 92. Do they have NBA plays? I don't know, but Scoop made a lot of amazing passes. If I'm not mistaken, he only ended with one turnover and the degree of difficulty on a lot of the pass he was making was out of this world. But to see this team or to see Victor Wabiyama at one point is team down by 20 points. You know, we are still watching. We are still watching because I want to see these dudes compete. But to see him bring his team back specifically in the third and fourth quarter to see him end up with seven May threes is insane. I saw a tweet that seven May threes in five blocks has only happened one time in NBA history. Of course, you know, as different as G League Ignite, it's not NBA. It's only happened one time in NBA history where somebody has hit seven threes and blocked five shots. And you will never guess who it was. It was goddamn Danny Green. Yeah, you were sticking up. Did Dirk have a real good blocking game one day? Or, you know, a big that could stretch the floor. It was Danny Green. Hey, Danny Green, one of the best transition defensive players of all time for show. But we ain't seen this before. So I can completely understand. Now I've watched some videos. I'll be honest with you. Jimmy Hyrola dropped the video a little while ago about Victor Wabiyama. Shout out to Jimmy, 3.1 M's on this video. You see, I watched it this entirety. And in the video, you know, he puts some very good points about the fact that Victor Wabiyama 7374 and typically in NBA history, 7374 players don't succeed. And it's not normally due to their ability. Well, I mean, in some cases it is for show, but it's mostly because he's 7374 and them needs be given out the feet, all of those things. And now of course we not wish that on nobody, but it's a real thing. But if I had the first overall pick, I don't give a damn about that. I'm gonna be honest with you. Give me Victor Wabiyama. I am thinking. But if I had the second overall pick, I'm not too mad either. And the crazy thing about this draft class, of course we talk at one and two, but from all accounts, like three through eight, three through nine are really solid too. You got the Thompson twins. Those are pretty much the only guys that know in this draft so far. So as we get close and close to the draft, I will learn more names. But people are saying, yeah, number one and number two might be generational. But if you get three, you're probably mad that you need one or two, but you can still walk out of there with a player that might end up all NBA once upon a time. But I'm watching this game and I'm just thinking about the context of the NBA. When Victor Wabiyama gets drafted, what team do I think he would fit best with? And the same thing with school Henderson. And I was trying to be relatively realistic when I put together my list of teams. I would like to see these players get drafted too. I'm not gonna add the golden state warriors because obviously the golden state warriors, you add it. And James Wise, we gotta ring a hand even play. You know what I'm saying? Like Victor Wabiyama added to that team would be solid. But I'm like teams that we believe have the opportunity to potentially get that pick because that's to be real. I know a lot of NBA executives are watching the same stuff we is. They're like, oh snap, maybe we should take a little bit harder this season. Like we got the teams that we know 100% are gonna take. We're talking about the Utahs of the world. We're talking about the Spurs of the war. We know that those teams are taking. But there's like these younger teams, these younger Frisky teams like the Houston Rockets. They got a decent amount of young talent on their roster but it's gonna be hard to tell Jaylen Green let's not win some extra basketball games. You know what I'm saying? With the Detroit Pistols, it's gonna be hard to tell Kay Cunningham not to take a leap because we want to get the first overall pick. So like it's gonna be rough. The first team when I watched Victor Wabaniyama and this is kind of a shot in the dark because this team has people on their roster that like this is not a necessarily young team. They have a young star but like we got 30 year old second highest paid player. This is a team that has been in the playing in the last couple of seasons. So they haven't been bad enough to potentially get the first overall pick. It's the Charlotte Hornets y'all. Lamello Ball and Victor Wabaniyama will be crazy. I'm just imagining the craziness there because let's be real. Lamello Ball deserves to have another weapon or two on the roster and that's kind of disrespectful to the people that they got because they have a solid roster don't get me wrong. But like if you told me that the Charlotte Hornets halfway through the season was sub 500 I wouldn't call you crazy. And if I'm sub 500 halfway through the season I'm buying into the tank especially when I have Lamello Ball who's only well 21, 22 years old at this point. I will buy into the tank because what do we even plan for at this point? Especially if this draft class is as stacked as it could be. I'm gonna do alternating things. I'm gonna do alternating things. Scoot the team that I looked at and I'm like, man they could use a primary ball handler because they got some people on their roster that are intriguing. Some of them haven't been able to really stay healthy and some of them more of like shot creators for themselves and not really others. It's the Orlando Magic. But the Orlando Magic are another one of those frisky teams are like I look at their roster and I've talked about this on the show before. I feel really good about their chances of like scaring some teams this year. Not saying that they gonna make the play in or make the playoffs. But like I think they're over under. Well, actually I can tell you what they're over under is. They're over under is 26 and a half right now according to this one betting source. And I wouldn't be like, oh my God if they hit 27 plus wins. Like they have competent young talented players on their roster. The best thing about this is that they do have these flatten odds. So even if a team like the San Antonio Spurs decide to win 10 games this season that ain't even no guarantee that they will get one or two. You know, so maybe you could convince your team like, hey we gonna be good enough to win 25 games. That might be the fourth worst record but like we still have a eight, 9% chance to get Invicta Wabanyama and we like those odds. Cause you still do want to develop your talent. You know what I'm saying? You don't want this to be a team like, hey we gotta get that first or second pick or the future of our organization is trash. But I think school Henderson, the passes I saw him make today to people that weren't really hitting shots. And I look at some of the people on that roster that I know can his shots. I'm like, oh bro we'll go out there now with just smooth seven and a half assists is rookie season. Maybe I don't know. I'm getting, I'm really referencing one game. They play again on Thursday though, which is going to be solid. I don't, I wouldn't be surprised if both of them had a struggle game because they just did so much in this one. But we could still go out tweeted this the day of media day. And it's, it's Victor Wabanyama with the Spurs. And though they don't have like crazy, crazy talent already built into the roster. I think this will be smooth. I don't know how many years of coaching Pop has left in his career, but I think this will be smooth. I can't say they just started their rebuild, but it kind of feels like they did because they traded their all star player this off season. Like they got some intriguing people for sure. I think Devon Vasil is going to be really solid. His first pre-season game, he was out there shooting. I like a guy that realized, ain't nobody going to prevent me from shooting. So let me do my thing. You know, Kelton Johnson's got the contract extension and all of that stuff. But like Victor Wabanyama with the Spurs, it feels right for some reason. I can't explain it. I cannot explain it, but it feels right. Maybe because it's an international talent. International talents and the Spurs go hand to hand. It's like peanut butter and jelly. This next one is a Houston Rock for school Henderson. I mean, maybe I don't love it too much because of the size of what their future backcourt would be, 6-4, Jalen Green and six, whatever, school Henderson. They would be a small backcourt. But like Kevin Porter Jr. has to show me a little bit more of this off season for me to say, or this regular season for me to say, hey, he's the point guard of the future. He's only 22 years old. So it's crazy to say I would give up on him. But like I wouldn't prevent drafting school Henderson because Kevin Porter Jr. is on the rocks. You know what I'm saying? And they already got some stuff over there I really love, especially Tar-Eason. So he would be another guy. It's hard to find places for a point guard because it seems like every organization has their own point guard. But were you really that nice? Who'll give a damn? I have to find this tweet that somebody sent me because I think it fits exactly what I want to say about this next one. Actually, the Houston Rockets get fit for Wabanyama as well because even though we love Sengun and all that stuff, Wabanyama, again, based on one game, he seemed like the type of dude that would be able to play with another big and be successful considering he's hit seven threes today. And when he was switched on onto guards, he was basically reaching through them to pick the ball loose. Like that's how long his wingspan is. Like it feel like he can hold his own against some good people out there. Here's a tweet of a young Tim Duncan and an old David Robinson playing against each other in practice and it said, chat in Wabanyama next season. I mean, if there's gonna be a team that's gonna end up with a top two pick, again, it's gonna be OKC, right? It's gonna be OKC. Chat is out for the season. I'm not saying I don't like it, obviously, but the amount of pounds in that front court will be like 206 combined between a seven foot one guy and a seven foot four guy. They would weigh the same as me and don't get me started with Pokus also in the court with them. So it would fit, I guess, again, I don't know, but sure, add them to the list. This actually made me want to watch more international or like draft prospects. Like I know the Thompson Twins are on the overtime elite. So I might watch them overtime elite this season and stuff like that. Cause if the people are saying of what they're saying is true and that the rest of this draft class is solid too, I need to lock in, bro. I need to lock in, especially if my bulls, nevermind. We don't even have our pick this year. It's top four protected. Actually, beautiful. The bulls knew exactly what they were doing sending a top four protective pick this season because Victor Wabanyama and School Henderson are going one and two and the bulls would have one of those picks. Yeah, that's what we hope at least. Realistically, there are not a lot of teams that both of these guys could go and fit into because when you have talent, everything around you will go into place. And Victor Wabanyama got drafted to a team that we like, ah, we don't want him there. If he is as talented as he is, it won't really matter. And I'm specifically talking about the Utah Jazz. Legit, I'm being honest with you. I wouldn't want to see him in the Utah Jazz uniform realistically, but if he is there, you'll figure it out. You know, he'll figure it out as great players do. Either way, that's a wrap. We will be talking about some more pre-season. We got some games tomorrow that I wanted to wait for. Like I wanted to see the Cavs and I don't even know if like Donovan Mitchell and them are gonna play, but they play tomorrow, so I'm excited about that. And then we'll officially overreact because I'm not mistaken. After tomorrow, every team has played at least one pre-season game. And then we can just talk trash. You know, that's what we do. JK, we enjoy basketball around here.